Many myths surround the Birth of WLBOTT, going back to Mesozoic era. Many great works of art have tried to capture the mystical nature of our origins. Classical Renditions Modern Interpretations The Animated “Birth of WLBOTT” Disney+ [ed. note: if you sign up for Disney+, you forfeit your rights to sue WLBOTT] Film Noir WLBOTT […]
Category: Curated Absurdity
Two astronauts are stuck on the ISS. Their return vehicle, the Boeing Starliner, was determined to be non-space-worthy yesterday. The astronauts will have to wait until February to get a ride back to Earth. Expedition 71 Sunita Williams Barry Wilmore Mount Juliet High School – Barry Wilmore’s Alma Mater What’s Cookin’? Some highlights that caught […]
Prior to the digital era, mankind had to resort to various iffy techniques for divining God’s will: But now we live in the age of reason. Come on, people, this is the 20th 21st century! So…. in the past we were confined to reading tea leaves, chicken entrails (ewww), gazing at the stars…. to divine the […]
[ed. note: during the comprehensive peer review of today’s BLOTT, UC#2 pointed out that this topic has been covered by other great works of art, including Beetlejuice, Defending Your Life, Saturday Night Live, and possibly Eraserhead, Caged Heat: Parking Ticket Lockup III, and Rocky XXVII. However, at this point, we’d already invested more than 45 […]
Q: What is the bane of every parents’ life?A: The 7th grade science fair. WLBOTT has been selected to judge the annual science fair at Rufus T. Firefly Middle School in Bryan-College Station, Texas. The Scorpion Symphony: Can Scorpions Dance to Music? Aerodynamics of the Tortilla This turned out to be a popular area of […]
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Corn / Maize
When I was a Younger Elder, I thought I noticed an anachronism in the Bible. Jesus and his disciples were gleaning corn on a Sunday, and the local proto-MAGA trolls were criticizing Him for working on the Sabbath. Corn was a new world crop, and wouldn’t appear in Jerusalem for 1,500 years. So what gives? […]
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Texas Heat / Texas Corn
The same year that the Elders gathered in Snook, Texas to consume chicken fried bacon, a terrible wildfire scorched Bastrop State Park (September and October 2011). The Drought Jeff Goodell, in his book The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet, talks with a south Texas farmer about a drought-ravaged […]
A question we are often asked: “Just how high are the Elders?” Let’s explore. (Thanks to topigraphic-maps.com and UC#1) Edmonton Darwin, Minnesota (World’s Largest Ball of Twine) Santa Barbara, Ca. Maryland and D.C. HousTex CenTex Snook, Texas (Chicken Fried Bacon) Oslo, Norway Austin, Minnesota (Spam Museum) Greenland Oh, Grow Up! Phuket, Thailand Lake Titicaca, Peru […]
Yesterday, our Corporate HQ telecommunications system received a text alert from the credit card company. Weird charges on our credit card. The big, bad charge was for over $3,500, paid to a large corporate entity that collects rents and distributes the money to landlords. Then the crooks decided to celebrate and order $48 from a […]
Once upon a time, long ago but not too long ago, Elder UC#3, UC#4-SU, Sally T. Intern, UC#2 and I met up at Sodolak’s Original Country Inn in Snook, Texas. The quest: a pilgrimage to the origin of Chicken Fried Bacon. Our get-together was in August of 2011, during a serious Texas drought. We both […]