Saturday, September 05, 2026

Check this out, real quick, don't know if everybody know (Part 5592).....

 Check This Out!


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I took the road less traveled by (Part 4176)....

 MAPS!

Today we have the floorplan of one of the floors from NYC's iconic Flatiron building.


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If I were a hero, I'd be Martin Luther (Part 4667)....

 Superhero Anydays

Today by Alan Davis we have Marvel's Canadian superhero team Alpha Flight!



Marrina, Sasquatch
Aurora, Northstar, Vindicator, Shaman, Snowbird
Puck
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And today we have a pair of Batman Boxers covered a bubble tooshie. 


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Check this out, real quick, don't know if everybody know (Part 5591)....

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Put your love to the test (Part 1866)......

 Where To Put It? 

So this fella in this professionally taken photo, where does he belong?  Fetching Faces?  Shirtless Mondays?  Tooshie Tuesdays?  Thursday Thighs?  Check This Out!? 


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Book me a room at the Casa de Loco (Part 100)....

 Reasons To Call In Sick And Just Spend The Day In Bed 

Ooooh, you better hurry up and get off the phone, he looks slightly pissed that you're taking so long!  You don't want him to roll over and refuse to play, now do you? 


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Dress you up in my love (Part 345)....

 Dudes In Dresses


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I need to be dazzling, I need to be rainbow high (Part 810)....

 Pride Prisms

Today we have a rainbow speedo covering the hot rear of a dude by the pool. 

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Check this out, real quick, don't know if everybody know (Part 5590)....

 Check This Out!


Ahhhh, the good old days...back when the biggest Presidential "scandal" is a tan colored suit. 

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Pink elephants and lemonade, dear Jessie (Part 723)...

 Real Men Wear Pink

Sometimes, Real Men, when they're going on a hike, put on their pink undies, strap on their backpack and hit the trails in the woods!


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I wish I knew the color of my hair (Part 34).....

 Hairthing Happenings


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Say your lines, but do you feel them (Part 65)...

 Quintessential Quotes


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Check this out, real quick, don't know if everybody know (Part 5589)..

 Check This Out!


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My birthday song, my happy world (Part 362)...

 Badass Birthday

Today, in 1638, in some long, fancy-schmancy, hyphenated place in France, King Louis XIV was born.



His full name was Louis-Dieudonne de France.  He became king in 1643 at the age of 5.  He reigned until 1715, 72 years, 110 days.   He is the longest reigning monarch in the history of the world. 

That's reason enough to make him a badass.   But also...

He was nickname The Sun King, because, as the universe revolved around the sun (or so it was thought at the time), the world, and especially France, was said to revolve around Louis XIV.  He built the Palace of Versailles, and having been there once myself, I can say it is truly breathtaking.  Just an enormous, opulent, decadent, over the top...well, Palace.  Rivals even Polt's Palace, it does. 

As an absolute monarch, he refused any ministers, ruling on his own due to the Divine Right Of Kings.  As a strict Catholic, he enacted the Edict of Nantes in 1685 which took rights away from French Protestants, forcing over 200,000 of them to flee the country.   He expanded the Eastern borders of France through war with the Hapsbourgs and took on a hostile European coalition in the War Of Spanish Succession to get his grandson on the Spanish Throne. 

He has six children with his wife, but on only, a son, lived to adulthood.  That son died before Louis XIV, but he had a son who would later become King Louis XV.   He had more than a dozen illegitimate children ro various woman. 

In addition to the above mentioned conflicts, he was nearly constantly at war: The War Of Devoltion 1667, The Dutch War (1672-1678), The War Of The Reunions (1683-1684), The Nine Years War (1688-1697), and as noted above The War of Spanish Succession (1701-1714).

He died of gangrene 4 days before his 77th birthday.   And he died a total badass, flaws and all.

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My baby's got a secret (Part 1009)...

 Secret Saturdays

These come each week from www.postsecret.com

This week, we have Secrets And Daughters!












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Friday, September 04, 2026

Check this out, real quick, don't know if everybody know (Part 5588)...

 Check This Out!


Yeah, this bothers me too.  And not strangers, but people I've known, worked with for years, been related to all my life, just laughing at how other human beings are hurting, and wishing more on people like them.  Saddens me to no end.

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If I were a hero, I'd be Martin Luther (Part 4666)....

 Superhero Anydays

This is a panel from Adventure Comics #340 from back in 1966 and drawn by Curt Swan.   In short, Brainiac 5 created Computo, and large computer monster.  He went rogue and attack the Legion, ending up killing one of Triplicate Girl's three bodies. 


Counter clockwise from the right is Chameleon Boy (with Proty on his shoulder), Mon-El, Colossal Boy, Brainiac 5, Matter-Eater Lad, Superboy, Shrinking Violet, Light Lass, a mis-colored Phantom Girl and Ultra Boy. 

The next to last person is colored like Triplicate Girl, but it's unlikely she'd just be standing there having had one third of herself just killed very recently, so I really can't be her.  We assume it's Phantom Girl because Ultra Boy is standing very close to her and leaning in to her, and Phantom Girl and Ultra Boy were a couple at this time. 
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And today we have a pretty awesome and unique chest tattoo of Spider-Man through ripped chest flesh. 


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I took the road less traveled by (Part 4175)....

 MAPS!

Today we have the D&D Map for the multi-level Briar Keep!


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Check this out, real quick, don't know if everybody know (Part 5587)...

 Check This Out!


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Put your love to the test (Part 1865)....

 Where To Put It? 

So this sadly over-tatted by still sexy fella, where does he belong?  Fetching Faces?  Luscious Licks?  Wifebeater Wednesdays?  Shirtless Mondays?  Check This Out!? 


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You're the devil in disguise, that's why I'm dancing (Part 488).....

 Cats Are Evil

Well of COURSE you are....you're a cat!


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I'm crazy for you, touch me once, and you'll know it's true (Part 208)...

 Comic Book Craziness

Teeth Mimicry.....yep, that's a unique power!  That Earth-2 World War II era Wonder Woman was really something!


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A people, a tongue, and a nation (Part 1047)...

 Luscious Licks



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Check this out, real quick, don't know if everybody know (Part 5586)....

 Check This Out!


Good point, John Cleese.  Undoubtedly true. 

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Now we're living separate lives (Part 73)....

 Separated At Birth?

So, on the left we have the proposed tRump Arch of Trash and on the right we have a proposed Nazi arch from 90 years ago.  Tell me, were they...

Separated At Birth? 



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It's so cool, to be uncool (Part 808)....

 What's Cool? 

You think you're cool?  Well you'll never be as cool as Allison Janney and Carol Burnett on the set of their TV show Palm Royale!


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Keeping it together, all in the family (Part 912)...

 Gemini Guys

I don't recall their names but here are these French twin fashion models, modeling some kind of fashion somewhere in France probably. 


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Check this out, real quick, don't know if everybody know (Part 5585).....

 Check This Out!

At some point, I made a donation to The Sesame Workshop (well I've made several donations there, but I'm sure this is the most recent time, after the asshole Republicans cut all funding for PBS), and a few weeks later, I received in the mail, this little thermos/mug thingee. 




Such a cute lil thing.  A nice lil thank you.

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My birthday song, my happy world (Part 361)...

 Badass Birthday

On this date, in 1942, in the Netherlands, Dr. Jan Pol was born. 


Dr. Jan Pol is a vet in Michigan, having run his own vet services since 1981.    Over 24 seasons across 14 years, he starred in the Nat Geo show "The Incredible Dr. Pol".   He, his wife and office manager Diane, bumbling son Charles and various other vets, served the animals of his area, from household pets to farm animals to exotic animals.  They've treated cats, dogs, birds, guinea pigs, hamsters, cows, horses, goats, chicken, ducks, llamas, alpacas, snakes, fish, iguanas, hedgehogs, and I'm sure other animals I can't recall. 

I've binged Dr. Pol seasons on Disney+ (no ads yet, thank GOD!), at least twice all the way through.  And even now, if I'm looking for background noise while I pay bills, or post to the Palace, or just putz around online, it's not unusual to pick and episode at random and just watch it.  It's like TV comfort food for me. 

But that's not why he's a badass.  He's a badass for still helping animals and their owners at the age of 84, with no signs of retirement anytime soon!

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Some boys kiss me, some boys hug me (Part 923)....

 Frenching Fridays

This week, we have Kisses With One Cap On!






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Thursday, September 03, 2026

Night arrives with her purple Legion (Part 22)....

 Legion Lore

Ferro Lad


Ferro Lad was Andrew Nolan, one half of a set of twins born on Earth.   Both twins were born with the ability to turn their bodies in iron.  But sadly both of them were also born with horribly disfigured faces.  So disfigured that even 30th Century medical technology couldn't fix it.  So the boys, from when they were young, wore metals mask, hoods and helmets covering their faces. 

As a teenager, Andrew tried out for the Legion and was admitted with three other members all at once, the largest group joining at one time, up until that point.  That was an ill fated group (including the spy and rogue member Nemesis Kid who was soon thereafter kicked out for trying to overthrow the Legion).

Shortly after joining, the Sun Eater was on it's was through space heading right towards Earth's sun.  There were only 5 Legionnaires available on Earth at that time and, despite bringing the galaxy's five worst but most powerful villains together (who later formed the Fatal Five), none of them could stop the Sun Eater's progress. 

A bomb had been made which would probably cause the Sun Eater to blow to pieces, but it would likely kill the person who delivered it to the Sun Eater's core as well.  Superboy volunteered to be the one to take it, but it was pointed out that since the Sun Eater had consumed red suns already, that would probably affect Superboy, render him powerless and prevent him from making it to the middle.

Ferro Lad grabbed the bomb and took off.  He turned himself into iron and headed into the Sun Eater before anyone could stop him.  And he did.  And when it blew up, it did in fact kill him.  The first Legionnaire to be killed in action (who remained dead...Lightning Lad had been brought back). 

He was the first of those four members to be killed, but he wouldn't be the last. 

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Check this out, real quick, don't know if everybody know (Part 5584)....

 Check This Out!


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I took the road less traveled by (Part 4174).....

 MAPS!

Today, again by the amazing DysonLogos, we have two floors and a basement of Metivier Manor.


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If I were a hero, I'd be Martin Luther (Part 4665)...

 Superhero Anydays

Today, by someone named Craig Hamilton, we have a photo of a bunch of Marvel's 'cosmic' super beings.


Clockwise from lower left: Adam Warlock, Silver Surfer, The Watcher, Galactus, Infinity, Dr. Strange, The High Evolutionary, Captain Marvel, Drax The Destroyer, Pip The Troll, Thanos, and in the middle: Gamora, Mantis and Moondragon
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And today we have a pretty damn good Joker cosplayer!


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