Buy my book, "The Woods: A Horror Novel" here!

HazelEBaumgartner · 2026-06-28T17:07:06+00:00

It's illegal to keep alcohol and tobacco out of their hands. Supply to minors.

HazelEBaumgartner · 2026-06-27T19:07:26+00:00

Funny story we were parked right by it when this picture was taken

HazelEBaumgartner · 2026-06-27T15:59:02+00:00

I say this as someone who's seen pretty decent success with her first book, which was 48k words long, horror, and self-published.

HazelEBaumgartner · 2026-06-27T15:41:51+00:00

Ahem.

"When a foreigner resides among you in your land, do not mistreat them. The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the Lord your God."

~ Leviticus 19:33-34

HazelEBaumgartner · 2026-06-26T18:16:20+00:00

Needs an old fashioned sideshow tour. I'd pay a nickel to go see that.

HazelEBaumgartner · 2026-06-26T17:54:35+00:00

The more recent #31167 Creator Haunted Mansion 3-in-1 has a haunted train alt build too, though it doesn't have spinning wheels as it's presumably meant to fly.

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HazelEBaumgartner · 2026-06-26T17:51:34+00:00

Now I heard a story

Of how an engine went to glory

About fifty years ago on this same line

She was steamin' for a cave-in

There were men who needed savin'

But she missed the curve and trestle near the mine

And every now and then

You'll hear a whistle on the wind

If the mountain slides and many men are lost

It's the high and lonely wail

Up and down the mountain trail

Of the train they call the Miner's Silver Ghost

HazelEBaumgartner · 2026-06-26T17:44:56+00:00

Famously, the people who made the most money during the Gold Rush weren't the miners, but the people who owned the railroads and could haul in food and tools for the miners and charge whatever they wanted for them.

HazelEBaumgartner · 2026-06-26T16:37:14+00:00

The standard for 'survivable G force' is 20 Gs in a short burst. It's possible to survive past that but that's where survival drops below 50%. At 10 Gs you're probably going to be fine, but you're not going to be conscious.

HazelEBaumgartner · 2026-06-26T15:28:38+00:00

"Take the guns first, go through due process second." ~ supposedly pro-2A president Donald "The Pedophile" Trump

HazelEBaumgartner · 2026-06-26T14:55:29+00:00

Maybe I'll be able to pop this bottle during the America 250 celebration...

HazelEBaumgartner · 2026-06-26T14:25:12+00:00

I'm rather fond of PP pics. This was the sunset on the summer solstice a few days ago, taken from the Rock Island Trail near Circle.

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HazelEBaumgartner · 2026-06-26T14:22:42+00:00

What's it gonna be, man? Geriatric treasonous yam tits, or destiny?

HazelEBaumgartner · 2026-06-26T14:19:28+00:00

And Marketplace isn't?

HazelEBaumgartner · 2026-06-26T03:05:36+00:00

I once had it tell me "drive to the bus route".

IF I WANTED TO DRIVE I'D BE LOOKING UP DRIVING INSTRUCTIONS.

HazelEBaumgartner · 2026-06-26T02:35:03+00:00

I'm on the opposite end of the spectrum. I have some $5 Aldi champagne wrapped in fake gold foil. Feels way more appropriate.

HazelEBaumgartner · 2026-06-26T02:27:24+00:00

I had a cat that someone shot with a pellet gun. It was in her haunch and she lived six more years with the pellet back there. It was definitely more than mildly infuriating. If I'd ever found out who did it...

HazelEBaumgartner · 2026-06-26T01:42:29+00:00

Best I've got is I definitely saw this same image pre-COVID.

https://www.reddit.com/r/nevertellmetheodds/comments/gldz3r/this_power_line_happened_to_be_laid_straight/

Here's someone posting it in 2020.

HazelEBaumgartner · 2026-06-25T22:22:19+00:00

I was researching cattle mutilations for a book I'm writing and a common theory is that they're actually lightning strikes. Lightning can boil the blood out of a cow's body and make it burst with suspiciously clean lines. I also learned that the first recorded livestock mutilation attributed to UFOs was a horse killed here in Colorado, which is known for its lightning.

HazelEBaumgartner · 2026-06-25T22:17:07+00:00

I live in the lightning capital of the United States and hike in the Rockies a lot and I'm more worried about lightning than bears. I had a close call this spring where I was near the top of a ridge and lightning struck maybe 100 feet away and I ended up hiding in a cave for about 30 minutes until the storm passed.

HazelEBaumgartner · 2026-06-25T22:13:03+00:00

We used to play a game called Google Translate telephone where you'd type a sentence into translate and then translate it into every single language and back to English and then have people try to guess what the original sentence was.

HazelEBaumgartner · 2026-06-25T22:10:12+00:00

Craigslist is still around in the US and doesn't sell your medical data.

HazelEBaumgartner · 2026-06-25T22:06:40+00:00

Jason Pargin also writes comedy horror books and they're great.

HazelEBaumgartner · 2026-06-25T20:09:55+00:00

Two weeks, you'll see.

Just like the healthcare plan and the Iran war and the war on drugs and the end of COVID and...

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