actually hey pull over there’s a gas station in this town where a guy named Tongue Eater will make you the best turkey sandwich you ever have had. he’s really nice and he loves to put turkey into the deli slicer and listen to milk rhythms.
you never heard of milk rhythms? milk rhythms is a type of music that’s supposed to make you lactate. it doesn’t work but that’s the idea behind it. Tongue Eater says he just likes how it sounds though.
he used to be in a band back when i knew him but i’m not sure if it’s still going on because i heard the bassist get turned vegan and couldn’t abide tongue eater’s powerful turkey stench. they were called “curd smack”. it wasnt exactly milk rhythms though but you could heard the influence.
but yeah Grackle (that the bassist) got turned vegan. kinda a bummer. nothing against vegans it’s just Grackle got turned against her will. she had been seeing a hypnotist for sleep reasons but it turned out she couldnt pay so the hypnotist turned her vegan as revenge. He knew it would drive a wedge between Grackle and Tongue Eater.
anyway if you want the sandwich i’m buying. Tongue Eater gives me a discount bc i helped him out once with a paper he was working on on symmetry groups. We were in the same crystallography program in grad school. did i not mention that? well that’s how I know him.
it’s a good sandwich. cranberry relish, mustard, the works. And i know what you’re thinking; don’t worry. He’s not gonna eat your tongue lol. He doesn’t do that anymore. Not without permission
i would like to go on the record and say that this post is set in rural vermont or maybe arkansas or newfoundland and definitely not seattle or portland or upstate new york or whatever.
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but the idea that you can make a little mistake while doing your taxes and then go to jail for it is mostly not a thing. If you make a mistake on your taxes you’ll get a letter in the mail that says ‘hey you made a mistake on your taxes’ and then you can fix it (source: I have made mistakes on my taxes, international tax treaties are complicated). The only time people typically go to jail for tax stuff is if they commit massive intentional (or negligent, like if they run a business and never consult any expert on how payroll taxes work) fraud over a long period of time.
There’s basically no way for a person new to doing taxes - and presumably not handling a lot of money - to accidentally fuck up those taxes in a way that’s going to end with that person in jail.
Starlight Brigade poster but with the Lost Light Crew.
The first time I saw the poster, I thought wow that would absolutely fit the Lost Light crew, I gotta draw that. (And I love the music and its animation too)
Based on this poster below: (Starlight Brigade by TWRP)
As I gaze at the structural column in Copley Station, cracked nearly in two and held together with zip ties that have been carefully painted over to match the column underneath, I feel my soul intertwined with that of a small Italian boy of days gone by, who also stopped to look up at a large, groaning, newly painted tank full of molasses
I feel that some non-Boston people think I may have been exaggerating this. While I did not snap a photo as I was on the train, someone else did several months ago. I do want to stress that this column is now freshly painted and therefore completely structurally sound and in absolutely no danger of causing the entire tunnel to collapse. And yes, it did in fact never cross my mind that the original post was nearly 105 years to the day of the Molassacre
This is so safe this is the safest I’ve ever felt good job mbta gold star
Happy Molassacre Day everybody I’m still alive
Because it’s been a while, I must share with you the important update that the column is now hidden behind plywood, because the mbta believes in peekaboo rules of engineering
@beggars-opera Meanwhile, from the folks down the street at Hynes:
To anyone interested there is now a ziptied column and multiple plywood-clad columns, and I can’t remember which was the original anymore. I would like to be clear that this train station is directly under the most expensive shopping street in the city.
Coincidentally the whole train line is about to be shut down for two weeks so that they can make “cosmetic repairs” and also replace the miles of wooden structure that hold up the wires in the ceiling. I have been reliably informed that these structures have never been replaced. This train line has been running since 1897.
January 15th, 1919, the brown paint did nothing to stop the molasses explosion.
January 15th, 2026, they have now painted the plywood on the column.
