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Exonumia/Philately are not contagious Germany Music

Sonata Pathétique

I remember as a kid, sitting in our apartment on an Air Force base in Germany, listening to the radio. As I recall, we had one English language radio station, run by the military. There was a daily classical music program that I’d sometimes listen to, a refreshing window in an otherwise dark and empty […]

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Health, Beauty and Medicine

Can WLBOTT Improve your Heath?

We’ve hired the consulting firm of Ergot & Pigweed, LLC to measure the impact of WLBOTT on our user community’s health and well being. A focus group suggested we start with princesses, across space, time, dimension, boarders, and legal jurisdictions. Here are our results:

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California Scholarship/Erudition

Postilla: A Best Seller

LBOTT is visiting the Santa Bárbara Mission Archive-Library, located on the grounds of Old Mission Santa Barbara. But our WLBOTT tour group ran into a problem. We walked into this wonderful library, drinking our refreshing Slurpees and dressed in our Druid finest robes (except for Sister Magdalena, in her formal black habit), hoping to see […]

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Food

Waiting for our Veggie-Spam Sandwich

Why does life have to be so hard? I invited Sister Magdalena’s boss, Sister Contraria, to have lunch at the Ladle & Lube. I need to get on Sister Contraria’s good side; it seems she’s concerned about Sr. Magdalena spending so much time overseeing Fred’s penance (remember the whoopee cushion incident?) We ordered vegetarian spam […]

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Gods, Goddesses, and Mythical Heros Health, Beauty and Medicine Late Stage Capitalism Movies

Sweat

“The air has become soup, and the soup is angry.” Two days ago, the WLBOTT HQ experienced an extremely unpleasant weather situation. Note the “Feels Like” temp: This “Feels Like” Concept We need to extend this concept to other areas of life, not just the weather. For example, when your wife says, “Do you have […]

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Adventures of the Elders Meaning of Life Scholarship/Erudition

Heresy .V. Blasphemy

The battle lines have been drawn. Today we’re going to explore Team Heresy .vs. Team Blasphemy. My son, Elder DZ, and I both agree that Blasphemy is more fun, but tends to get you into more trouble. Heresy requires you to, like, be smart and know stuff, and who has the time? How did we […]

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Adventures of the Elders

The Elders Prepare for the Little People

Elder JA and Lady R are excited about the upcoming visit from their grandchildren! But they have a concern: they must childproof the house and safeguard their Fabergé egg collection. We are TEAM WLBOTT. We are offering some options to Elder JA and Lady R. Option 1: Inverted Petting Zoo We presented this suggestion to […]

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Adventures of the Elders Germany Music

Filie Regum

[Thanks to Elder JimZim for today’s exploration.] Elder G2 (Gemini) Analysis Currently on display in the home of Elder JimZim. Tours available for groups of 5 or more. Contact him directly for more information. And AI says this is Dominican monks singing this “exact chant”. – Elder JimZim. We Explore GregoBase GregoBase: a must for […]

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Musings Random Acts of WLBOTTness

Moody Prompts: Love and Sacrifice

So Elder G and I have been playing a little game. I’ll give her/him an intentionally vague and ambiguous image prompt, so see how AI is thinking about the world. Full disclosure – in addition to Elder G, we enlisted the help of Gemini, Perchance, and NightCafe. Today’s prompt is “Ah, the sacrifices we make […]

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Clementine DuCinema Food Movies Outer Space

2001: A Food Odyssey

Clementine DuCinema, WLBOTT film critic, here. I am constantly humbled. I thought it might be fun to explore the masterpiece 2001: A Space Odyssey through a culinary lens. Was I ever late to the party! There’s a lot of sites devoted to this topic. But hey, what’s one more? How This All Started My fellow […]