Follow Friday – Gun Mostly Optional

Today’s post features photos from a trip some friends and I took to Reno in order to visit Dave and Stef and cross some items off my life list, such as: stargaze in the desert, gamble inside a grocery store, and become so sick from the altitude we spent a weekend laying on the couch and having a great time in spite of it. Oh, and thrifting, of course. Lots and lots of thrifting. Have a great weekend!

What is Follow Friday? It’s a blog series I created a few years ago based on a Twitter meme. Learn more about it in my FAQ. See my nomination for a Shorty Award for Follow Friday here. You can read more Follow Friday goodness here. Would you like to be a guest photographer for Follow Friday? Email me!

Patheticist Netflix is the rabbit ear antenna with tinfoil on it of the internet.

forexposure_txt There is no pay for this position. You will received lunch

BillCorbett Free your mind from mind-prison, you mind-jailbirds! There’s no mind-parole for you, and the mind-warden this metaphor got away from me.

johnmoe “Please allow me to introduce myself / I’m the Devil” – 26-second version of Rolling Stones’ Sympathy for the Devil

morninggloria I wonder why the citizens of Banana Republic keep electing gingham.

theleanover Pretty sure it’s gravity that holds us down.

manspeaker 8 woke up first this morning. She got the coffee going. Not for herself. She’s 8 remember? For her parents. Someone’s doing something right.

kerihw -I’ve got you now, Joker! –Yeah, Batman. You got me. Like I got your mum! -… -Sorry man, I forgot. -S’cool. -No, seriously, shit man. Sorry.

abbytron People who think women aren’t funny must not spend time with many women. Probably because no women want to be around them.

introvertedwife I can’t feel my toes. More socks! “She cannae take anymore, Captain!” MORE! Damnit! MORE SOCKS!

fart i spent the better part of saturday night listening to hall & oates and writing a letter to the chef boyardee estate saying he owes me money

theleanover According to Malcolm Gladwell’s 10000 hour rule we’re all masters of masturbation, AM I RIGHT

slackmistress The Kosby Show (starring the Kardashians) #NBCReboots

josephesque If I was salsa, I would drive a tortilla chip with a license plate frame that reads “My other car is a burrito.”

cloudypianos I don’t purposefully do kegels I’m just horny a lot.

mocoddle Can you imagine the cleaning products they’d sell to us if we had cloacas?

Thndrdomesticty I misspelled a (now-deleted) tweet a few days ago. I feel like I’ve been walking around with my slip showing. TY for not pointing, laughing.

akadoor Somewhere in the future, I am dying. “Tell the children,” I say, grasping for my husband’s hand. “Tell them…always…source…content.”

rainbowrowell There’s no item of clothing so inherently cool that it can’t be ruined by a bunch of people who irritate you wearing it.

manspeaker I just wiped bird poop off my kids barefoot with my barehand without blinking or gagging because I have reached that level of fatherhood.

OlyKim Selecting cookbooks this morning, best title so far: “Wieners Gone Wild.” #collectiondevelopment

HyenaEars Would you rather be asleep or a sleep? I think being a sleep sounds incredible.

mitdasein Words I don’t say much: excellence, fair, superior, walrus.

donni The nervous system just needs to relax

quonky Saw a guy in Google Glass talking to a guy with his fly down. All the way down. Dying forever.

Mortimusgerbil Self hypnosis is not very good to dance to

torgospizza Insane in the p-brane

EvenMoreSarah I came in like a wrecking ball but then I got pretty tired, so fuck it.

trumpetcake There are so many people in this world! Sometimes I get totally confused about who I can and can’t kiss full on the mouth.

TheBosha Heard from their lawyers but I’m not in any trouble because it turns out they can’t prove I’m NOT in Arcade Fire.

slackmistress I’m glad the Girl Scouts support healthy self-esteem or else I’d feel pretty bad for polishing off that box of Thin Mints.

lackmistress Stop saying Los Angeles has no seasons! We have seasons: Awards Season, Pilot Season, Girl Scout Cookie Season & Swimsuit Season.

sbellelauren just saw my neighbor naked 10 points to Gryffindor

MmeLaCrooz Sometimes it seems like magic when someone turns nothing into anything but then I remember everybody poops.

annetdonahue Join me as we investigate why it took us so long to realize “Family Matters” has more than one meaning.

Jedimasterbator Wasting all my money on unessential oils.

JermHimselfish We all get diarrhea, but not all of us truly livarreah.

DamienFahey What a coincidence. The pause after someone says, “Wait for it…” is the perfect amount of time it would take to punch them in the face.

biorhythmist How many walnuts do I need to crack with my butt cheeks before I get featured on Vine?

99golems Gillette is proud to announce the latest in rapper technology: 3 Chainz

jerryRenek I was told there was a special place reserved for me. This just looks like regular Hell. Can I speak to your manager? Yes, I’ll hold.

markleggett Whenever I see someone struggling to parallel park, I think “I could do that.” Then I yell it out.

WilliamAder Day 6 of my 6-day weekend and the days don’t even have names anymore. I’m like a dog. I wake up, look around, eat, and poop.

theleanover As he began installing the spoiler on his Nissan Cube, he knew the part of his life where he occasionally saw boobs was ending.

luckyshirt Got a selfie right on the first try, and a Terminator jumped out of a lightning ball, smashed my phone, jumped back in, and vanished.

runawaycupcake THAT’S THE LAST STRAW because I ate all the straws because I like straws a lot. K, bye.

michaeljnelson Hey, competitive eaters: in my book you’re ALL winners. You ALL ate seventeen pounds of fried oysters in thirty-four minutes.

fart here is a joke i thought of while asleep. it is bad. q: where should u go if u aren’t ready to be a mummy a: planned pyramid

NASeason Olivia calls a “tutu” her “tattoo.” It took me several heart-stopping moments to figure that one out.

goodinthestacks a tag I just used on tumblr: a new national treasure movie starring nic cage but he’s trying to find tom hanks

SomeChrisTweets I made you a bouquet of bats but they flew away, so here’s a paper cone.

wordlust I believe in miracles, and I believe in leprechauns, but not leprechaun miracles. That would be crazy.

wordlust For a real fairy tale wedding, marry a dragon.

rstevens There should be a Grand Theft Auto game except you play the Old Testament

sgnp My child is going out for toys and ice cream and video games. I will be along as chauffeur and body guard.

Swineluv Just produced a short film called “127 Seconds”. It’s about my arm and a Pringles can.

WhirledRecord Nobody will tell me what IDK stands for.

marebytes My Guardian Angel has PTSD

torgospizza Does everyone’s dad actually say “burp” when they burp, or is it just my dad

bobtiki Filing a restraining order against my butt.

apelad My son just broke the piñata in Lego Marvel using only telekinesis and a stick.

kerihw Nutritional Information (per tweet): A: 3 E: 4 F: 2 I: 5 L: 2 M: 2 N: 4 O: 3 P: 2 R: 4 T: 6 U: 2 W: 2 (: 2 ): 2 :: 18

msthomas Dirty Needles: Knitting Gone Wrong. Someone write it.

HermsRN ”Abalone” should be defined as “the absence of baloney”.

sbellelauren just tried to delete someone else’s tweet

Sickayduh I told my alpaca your tweets and he said LLAMAO

rstevens I stand by my theory that a Princess Zelda / Princess Peach team-up adventure game could put Nintendo back on top.

Rockenden At our school, being on the debating team meant throwing stones at cars yelling ‘No, YOU’RE a dick!’ until the police were called.

asterios ”I could live completely on pie. Just give me some pies and forget I exist.” -My Dad, giving us his unsolicited pie opinions

Molly_Kats Eating a burrito in bed is a sport, dad!

DaveHolmes The internet has revolutionized the way we’re idiots.

wordlust Every Cleveland steamer begins with Kay.

SomeChrisTweets Fight fire with fire. Fight water with water. Fight hugs with hugs. Fight love with love. Fight fights with fights. With withs with withs.

wordlust My bad genes were grandfathered in.

wordlust I have faith in something bigger than me: your mom.

markleggett Ethel Merman was in fact a human female, and not a human/fish hybrid creature as her name may suggest. I hope this clears up any confusion.

steventsapelas I’m still waiting to find out if I won Nickelodeon’s 1989 Toys R Us shopping spree

annetdonahue Which Sex and the City character are you? I am Carrie’s inability to understand how email works.

robdelaney Peter Jackson just found a postcard JRR Tolkien wrote his nephew in 1938. He’s turning it into 22 nine-hour films.

wheatandsky My new pants are actually just fancy looking lint magnets.

theyearofelan Follow your heart. Follow it into your chest. Burrow in. Try hard to stop the bleeding. Die trying.

freezingsheep Good morning, tweeters. I am having a ‘moment’. It’s a Cadbury’s Moment and it’s delicious! Just kidding, it’s a breakdown. (Yum.)

snazzmania Super Mario 3D World is the most compelling argument for marijuana I have ever seen

markleggett A butterfly landed on my shoulder while I was mowing the lawn. I’M A MUTHAFUCKIN’ DISNEY PRINCESS.

fart 22 *hangs a poster on the wall featuring a car or motorcycle for some reason*

theleanover In grade 7 English class I wrote a brochure for a fictional all-inclusive resort for cannibals so I’m definitely well-adjusted.

cheriebeyond Sometimes I think the voices inside my head are going to make me crazy. Then I realize, no, it’s the voices outside my head that’ll do it.

JamieTheVWM People ask grammar questions because I’m a writer & I’m like, “Whoa, whoa, whoa! I just put the words together, I don’t know how they work.”

MrWordsWorth On this day in history, the Beatles did something or other.

biorhythmist “Righty Tighty/Lefty Loosey“ – Chapter 3 in my new book Second Base For Dummies

WhirledRecord My hobbies are taxidermy and ventriloquism. And now, your cat has some terrible news to tell you.

What is Follow Friday? It’s a blog series I created a few years ago based on a Twitter meme. Learn more about it in my FAQ. See my nomination for a Shorty Award for Follow Friday here. You can read more Follow Friday goodness here. Would you like to be a guest photographer for Follow Friday? Email me!