Four headed dragons

 Another book transcribed. This time its the intriguingly titled Four Headed Dragon

The boys have to deal with a mysterious mansion next door to Chet Morton's farmstead, where Chet himself, found a dazed and injured Sam Radley wandering. The mansion seems to be the hideout for a gang of crooks and an incoming hurricane forces the boys to shelter there when they rescue a girl out on the bay. There is also a subplot involving Fenton Hardy looking for a wanted criminal who attempted to sabotage the Alaskan oil pipeline. Gee, I wonder if they are connected in any way.

The mansion itself was owned by the Sayer family and is a riff on the Winchester mystery house with its many rooms dedicated to housing the souls of the restless dead. It comprises of a ruined west wing along with an extensive attic and clock tower. It is presided over by a caretaker called Emile Grubb. 

You can read the US version here and the UK version here.

Wee willy Hitler

Been watching part one of They Sequenced Hitler's genome on Channel 4. A documentary where they indeed sequenced Hitlers genome from a bloodstain taken from the infamous bunker where Der Fuhrer permanently ventilated his skull back in 1945. 

They indeed got his DNA from a bloodstain on a couch one American GI took home after what was left of his loyal guard burnt his body. 

The real meat is next week's episode where they find that he really did have one ball (the other being in the Albert Hall) but for this week it delves into the psychological side of Adolf.

Ranging from a crap childhood and an indifferent war effort. It seems that he lost himself in Opera and had few friends. Coupled with the fact that he himself had no offspring thanks to being of genetically inferior stock, it seems he would have put himself into his own death camp if he wasn't already leader. A classic case of projection, there. 

One of the most decisive things that stood with me is his entry into extreme politics in the early 20's. We all know how he sided with the National Socialist party but he also could have joined  the Bolsheviks as well. So somewhere  out there, there's a world war 2 that is entirely done on the axis of the west vs communism, rather than what really happened.

The last thing is the most interesting, the latter half of the show was devoted to his psychological make up, he scored in the upper reaches for ADHD and Psychopathic behaviour. And the top percentile for ASD / Autism. So canonically, Hitler is one of us, though with some caveats. Most of us have never wanted to genocide a whole race of people nor invade Poland. It's still miles more interesting than Greta bloody Thunberg, and will make the Autism is my superpower lot shut up, seeing as one of us lead a nation for years.

This is so cool, its like an old PC text adventure title screen.

EDIT.

This is a follow up seeing as I've seen the second half of this, now. No thanks to Sky who decided to unsync the sky box just when we were hoping to see the Kallman syndrome part. Which meant I had to set up the VM Box (my dad pays for SKY, I pay for internet via VM if you're wondering) just to see the final part.  It seems that not only is Hitler's autism score in the top percentile he also was a Bipolar bear and Schizophrenic too, though it seems he was spared any actual schizo behaviour. This means if he really did hear voices, and that couldn't have done half of the things he did do.  

The bipolar thing is interesting too, not only because the doctor he had prescribed him meth basically, and that is apparently the last thing you need when you are Manic.

Oh and if you're wondering he really did have only one ball and possibly a tiny cock. And there doesn't seem to be a proper version of that up on Youtube, either. I find their lack of his other bollock residing in the Albert Hall triggering. 

So in conclusion, when White Supremacists bang on about race and repopulation, Why not take a leaf out of der Fuhrer's book and never have kids.  

Uptown 2 Electric Boogaloo

 A few things brought us back uptown for the second week running. The first being a store of all things, a Nintendo pop-up shop in Westfield, Shepherds Bush. The second is a McFlurry recommendation from my boss. 

First of all I've been to Shepherd's Bush before once or twice, and these big malls have nothing there for me. The shop itself isn't all that so if you want plushies of Toad and some Amibo you'll most certainly be in luck, so long as you have a *ticket to enter, and there was quite a queue to get in. Like I say you ain't missing much. Its opposite the Lego store or just down from WHSmiths (now alas W G Jones) on the other side. Runs to the 16th of Nov, so get in quick if its your bag. 

The other thing isn't that bad, its also limited edition and is part of the McDonalds world range of snacks, its the weird pretzel McFlurry from Malaysia  My boss reckons its the best McFlurry there is and I'd have to say its close, but no cigar. That would be the apple McFlurry from their Minecraft promo back in the summer, but I will say that the caramel one isn't half bad. Weird but nice.

We finished off with a walk down to Hammersmith and found that they had nerfed their Crisis shop to being a drop shop, which means that they don't do CDs or records much, which is a shame as they normally have a great selection. 

*Only the first week, now its queue only.

uptown

 For the first time in ages, I'm uptown. Stopping off at Holborn and the beauty of getting lost in the back streets. 

The official  reason I'm visiting London proper is to get the "new" Squarepusher album, the unofficial reason is that I haven't visited the west end in absolutely ages, not properly any way.  

Used up the last of my McNopoly promotions in McDonalds and sat out in the square in Soho just off Oxford street. The best of all, walking round looking at all the mom and pop stores like pig and hen or that place near the British Museum with the bulldog statue outside. 

Heading past it all with a few CD's grabbed, saw a massive queue looking in at one of the Korean beauty shops and they had a meet and greet with some K pop idol. Can't remember the shop or who it was (Korea is just Temu Japan to me) but do remember going into Seoul plaza and picking up an Mogu Mogu drink*, before heading home.

*Incidentally this and Jones Soda are some of the best stuff I've had not in a can. Mogu mogu stuff can be had from the bigger corner shops and Japan / Asian supermarkets, Jones Soda never appears and to date have only had it from one shop opposite the commie bookshop on Bloomsbury St. Oh and before I forget there is a normal Oxfam books / record place almost opposite, where I found Christ. 

Mysterious Caravans and Mc Donalds

 Been burning through my McDonald's Monopoly wins and have reached the stage where I'm down to basically chips. I've an apple pie to redeem and some stuff that involves money off that I'll never pay enough to actually use. But chips I can do. So when I do redeem it all they had were "carrot sticks". Getting these for a laugh,  I find that its a small bag of baby carrots that you can get frozen and have had many times. Does anyone sane get these? I mean its you regular frozen baby carrots you can get in a big bag, raw, not cooked. and the worse, having to eat these within two hours of defrosting.

Anyway your scheduled book is the Mysterious Caravan or the Hardys in Morocco, a nice little mystery about them on holiday in Jamaica and them suffering in a storm which turns up a mysterious mask from a shipwreck. A nice sop to diversity is William, a Jamaican guy who likes his roots and culture and is learning Swahili. 

A few lines were changed in this for the UK but not much else. Like I say its not a bad story and whoever wrote it, definitely liked their big words. 

You can read the UK version here and the US original here. 

Pokemon Clover

 We now have this for MGBA on 3DS. After seeing comments on this about humour on Bluesky, thought it would be fun to run through this and see how it compares to a regular Pokemon game.

And, uh... Yeah this rules. 

Never really been to V/ and my only 4chan visit was to B/ which was like having a migraine, some 10 years back. But, god, I've been exposed to so much meme culture and green  texts over the years on twitter, I feel like I've some veteran by osmosis. 

You start out with getting your pokedex and starter from Professor Stump an old cunt with a pegleg. Choosing from Ejacsam, Grasshole or Arabomb. We of course chose Arabomb, and gradually assembled a team from there. Highlights so far:

Getting Goatse man from trading. Hilarious and of course entirely on point.

The Jews running the whole Pokemart enterprise when of course it should be just jeets. 

Darude Sandstorm playing through my first gym leader badge fight.

Oh and the names. Squirrap and Mennopaws have to be my favourites so far. But seeing as there is a Mount Moot and a nice reference to pool's closed there too, I wonder what else I'm gonna find.

Oh and if you want to know, my character is named Anon.  

A Fool

 Been musing over the line from Spam LS (Psalms) the fool says in his heart that there is no god. It makes me wonder who the fool actually is, here. Because isn't it the height of foolishness to believe in something that has no basis of existence, and continue to believe in its existence in the hope that when you die you will go to the good place and not the bad place. 

Looking on Wiki about the line it seems that the fool is someone who disagrees with god, and therefore can do no right. Maybe so, but I think it a trifle foolish that accepting at ones word of a good afterlife based on one mans sacrifice alone. No matter what you have done in life, blameless or evil. Accept Jesus and you're in, regardless of whether you're an axe murderer or paragon of virtue. 

When it comes to religion I would rather be a fool than a sheep.