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   The Bigly Illustrated Encyclopædia of Trumpworld Editor’s Note: All information verified by “many people,” all of them very smart, the best people, maybe the smartest ever. 🌍 Continents & Regions Biglyland — The largest continent in the history of the planet, possibly the universe. Its cities rise on gold-plated stilts, and every building boasts that it’s taller than the last one (often by just one golden brick). Maps must be printed in landscape orientation to fit it, and sometimes even then it doesn’t all fit — “because it’s so big, everyone says so.” Covfefestan — Permanently cloaked in typo mist, this region’s national motto is “???”. Scholars debate whether it’s a country, a mood, or an accidental tweet that became self-aware. Its national sport is confidently finishing other people’s sentences. Hamberderia — Known for its fast-food palaces and golden cheeseburger orchards. Here, ketchup flows from fountains and fries rain gently each afternoon. The curr...

  What the Hell is Red Meat – or Purple Meat, for that Matter? Scholz Journal, Rewritten and corrected by AI When people say red meat , they usually mean beef, lamb, or pork. But why “red”? The answer lies in myoglobin — a protein in muscle that stores oxygen for use during activity. More myoglobin means darker meat. My doctor told me to eat more red meat. Call me a philistine, but I had to admit — I wasn’t exactly sure what counted as red meat . On the plate, if my steak looked like a stoplight — bright and glowing red — I’d be worried, not reassured. Why do some animals have more myoglobin than others? It’s evolutionary biology. Myoglobin works like a tiny oxygen tank inside the muscle. Animals that use their muscles for long, steady effort need more oxygen on demand, so they pack those muscles with myoglobin. Cows and sheep spend much of their lives standing, walking, or chewing. Their muscles are built for endurance. High myoglobin lets them keep moving for hours witho...

  June 4, 2025 – Edwards Gardens, Toronto https://joe-average123.blogspot.com/2025/06/june-4-2025-edwards-gardens-toronto.html TITLE: Youth in Tuxedos (Business Edition) Suits crisp, futures loaded. Western. U of T. Capitalism meets corsage. Neon ties, quiet thunder. The garden blooms — so do they. #PopProm #ModernIconography #StreetArtVibes #CapitalYouth #EdwardsGardens #GreatguyTV #Scholx #Scholz https://joe-average123.blogspot.com/2025/06/june-4-2025-edwards-gardens-toronto.html June 4, 2025 – Toronto TITLE: Two in Bloom First warm day. Last of the flowers. Garden nearly empty — two don’t mind. Western. U of T. Dates waiting. Even the breeze is proud. Toronto prom trivia: 🎉 It’s “grad” not “prom.” 🚗 Party bus over limo. 💸 Average cost: $600 👞 Tux or Timbs — style is plural here. #NeoPop #PromPoem #WarmBloom #StreetIcons #EdwardsGardens #GreatguyTV #Scholx #Scholz Under the warm June sun at Edwards Gardens, the Western-bound grad steps forward, a bouqu...

  Not a TikTok Breakout: The Agony Behind Real Fame Scholx Thoughts and Reflections – May 21st, 2025 The Physical Risks of Fame: The Beatles in Hamburg, 1960–1962 “Fame is a furnace. If you come out unburnt, you probably weren’t in it.” I. In the Red-Light Laboratory of the Gods There’s something almost mythological about it now: five young men, half-cultured, half-feral, stumbling into a neon netherworld called Hamburg. August 1960. They were unpaid apprentices of the Dionysian arts, boys on the cusp of something terrible and transcendent. The Beatles didn’t arrive in Hamburg as legends. They arrived as hired noise. Their venue: the Indra Club—a dive with sticky floors, suspicious wiring, and the scent of last night’s regrets. Their task: play until the drunks forgot they were miserable. Or until the band did. And yet, this was the beginning . The grindhouse where greatness is born, but never guaranteed. Their world wasn’t studio-polished. It was viscous, physical, and in...

 Anjulie doesn’t chase fame. She licenses it. 🎤 Platinum hits. Ghostwriter to your faves. Drawing her own worlds while the rest post selfies. New album: Loveless Metropolis . No gimmicks. Just truth. 📹 YouTube Bio/About Section You’ve heard her songs in the background of your favorite shows. You’ve danced to her lyrics on someone else’s lips. She writes the hits, draws her own videos, and walks the line between pop star and anti-star. This is Anjulie. Juno-winning, platinum-certified, MySpace-schooled, social-media-ambivalent. New album Loveless Metropolis now streaming. No viral stunts. Just music that sticks.

  High-Density Canada? Or a Grim Future We Can Avoid? Ah, the dream of living in a high-rise where you can practically reach out and touch your neighbor’s cereal bowl. What a time to be alive! As we scramble to house the masses, we’re apparently taking notes from Japan—where the average apartment might be smaller than the average person’s ego. But hey, why not follow the forward-thinking approach of cramming people into boxes? After all, who doesn’t want to live in a glorified closet? Let’s explore this brilliant plan for our future! What We Have Now: A Vanishing Dream Canada is proud of its vast spaces. The kind where you can drive for miles without seeing another soul, or, heaven forbid, someone encroaching on your lawn. The dream of a detached house with a driveway, where children can play outside without being squashed into a concrete jungle, remains the heart of the Canadian ethos. Yet, as we all know, this idyllic existence is shrinking —both literally and metaphoricall...

  Six Months with Michelle: A Friendship Beyond the Screen For the past half-year, I had the rare privilege of developing an online friendship with Michelle Trachtenberg. It’s a strange thing, getting to know someone who has already lived in the public imagination for decades. To most, she was a familiar face—whether as Dawn Summers in Buffy the Vampire Slayer , Harriet in Harriet the Spy , or, perhaps most famously, Georgina Sparks in Gossip Girl . But to me, she became something else entirely: a presence beyond her roles, a person whose complexities couldn’t be captured in a script. The details of our conversations are private, but one thing was clear—Michelle was nothing like Georgina Sparks. And yet, she played that character with such conviction that it was easy to believe otherwise. Georgina was chaos incarnate, a woman who thrived on manipulation and disruption, always two steps ahead in a game only she knew she was playing. She wasn’t just an antagonist—she was the unpred...

 This site "VSCO was introduced to me by Alexis , a talented photographer in her own right and a full-time academic in psychology as a random link in her instagram bio . A chance encounter with street photography opened doors to an entirely new world—one that reshaped my perspective and deepened my appreciation for the art form. The Street Photography was my on going Temporal Photography, in this case my child hood elementary School, almost unchanged!  VSCO: History, Economic Model, and Cultural Impact History VSCO (Visual Supply Company) was founded in 2011 by Joel Flory (a photographer) and Greg Lutze (a designer) in Oakland, California. It began as a mobile photo-editing app offering high-quality filters and presets that mimicked the look of film photography. Over time, VSCO evolved into a social platform where users could share images in a curated, aesthetically pleasing environment without likes or public comments—differentiating it from Instagram. Key historical mome...