Rikibeth: ok friends & Bsky strangers, tell me your FRIVOLOUS Powerball-winning acquisition goal Mine: a Studebaker that I’d take to the body shop for an Electric Mayhem paint job Another person just mentioned a Linotype machine sure, housing security, debt payoff, but what’s your ridiculous niche desire?

ok friends & Bsky strangers, tell me your FRIVOLOUS Powerball-winning acquisition goal Mine: a Studebaker that I’d take to the body shop for an Electric Mayhem paint job Another person just mentioned a Linotype machine sure, housing security, debt payoff, but what’s your ridiculous niche desire?

One of Elise Matthesen's Necklace-Crowns. Or, hey, if I just won the Powerball, ALL of Elise Matthesen's currently available Necklace-Crowns. www.etsy.com/shop/lioness...

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Oh! Also! One of these! www.lego.com/en-us/produc...

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And one of the kinetic sand drawing tables from Sisyphus Industries. I have a friend who owns one of these and they're EXTREMELY COOL although there's a real risk that I'd just sit and watch my table all day. sisyphus-industries.com

Sisyphus Kinetic Art Table - Sisyphus Industriessisyphus-industries.com Kinetic art, technology and design, merged in stunning meditative beauty

I also have a friend who has one (hi @ceciliatan.bsky.social ) and really maximum staring time for me is about 20 minutes but they ARE lovely

@naomikritzer.bsky.social I love my Sisyphus table. When corwin bought it we were kinda broke. He confessed "ummm I may have just spent money we didn't have on a coffee table. are you angry?" I was not angry because it was art, and also I felt the 20 years we used milk crates had "saved up" for it.

It’s very, very cool!

We put Coffee Table #2 in my wife's waiting room (she delivers babies). So much easier to take care of than a fish tank and it keeps the littles absolutely mesmerized...

You may enjoy this site a friend sent me: sculpttheworld.smugmug.com #LandArt #sandStones #fractals

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niiiiice!

My partner is turning 40 this year and I want to get him a frivolous giant expensive Lego set and I’m torn between this and the Rivendell one

Oh YEAH. I have seen @matociquala.bsky.social ‘s in person (when we went goth bowling, many moons ago!) and they are just AMAZING.

I have one of those, silver with irregular pearls that look like apple blossom petals in a breeze. I highly approve of this goal, and finding out what she makes *next* with the windfall your purchases make possible

I have a giant labradorite one I need to wear more.

If I've won the Powerball I might also use some of the money to rent a spot and throw a big fancy ball once a year for everyone who wants to wear stuff like tiaras.

Oh hell yes. Of course Cecilia throws New Year’s Eve parties that are a great place to wear the one paste tiara I have!

Ooooh the green-blue one!

This is such an excellent answer. I’d buy for myself & then see about commissioning some for friends, perhaps. Throwing money at talented friends to have them make cool things would be so much fun.

I would have this room added to my neo-Brutalist seaside house

maybe different couches

Neo-Brutalist is “you do you” (my ideal seaside house is shingle-style) but that library is DROOL WORTHY

I love the architectural style, but i think Brutalist is a crap name. I like the clean lines & use of angles

The inside would be Bag End meets Star Trek 😃

A splendid aesthetic. I’m more like Bag End meets Addams Family myself. I reflexively recoil at Brutalist architecture because, well, I live in Boston.

our courthouse shares some similar brutalist lines and Google Photo insisted I was taking a "Boston to Bilbao" vacation b/c I had photos of the courthouse next to photos of our art gallery (which is not a Gehry)

Yeah, that makes sense. I want all my appliances to have ST:TNG interface panels, but the chairs & sofas are all comfy leather. The doorways are all round, & low ceilings, but the sound system is voice controlled from any room... I'm getting way to into this 😀

Greenhouse. Or several. Pay a botanist friend to breed coffee that'll grow in the Driftless hills. Or maybe vanilla...

(Said friend already wants to try that coffee experiment, so it's not like I'd be twisting his arm!)

Both! Both is good! (You’re clearly thinking apocalypse coffee)

And chocolate, yep! Necessities. 😁 And without an apocalypse, still something a lot of home gardeners would be ALL over.

I was gonna ASK if cacao was included in the project!

Chocolate is more my thing, gotta lure your scientist in with his dream project first & THEN add to it! Meanwhile I'll be out looking for neat rocks, which I do anyway, but with greater frequency.

Seriously, if you're building a greenhouse these days and NOT including cacao, you're not planning correctly.

*Squints* Vanilla bee project for wisconsin when? I love orchid bees. (Emotionally I am an orchid bee....)

I'll need to find an entomologist for that one, but presumably one ought to try convincing any local bees first? Though it sounds like one species of orchid bee is naturalized in Florida! www.fs.usda.gov/wildflowers/...

www.fs.usda.gov

All the yarn.

That’s not even ridiculous! That’s just how to spend your newfound leisure! I support this.

I'd resurrect a wool mill, and I'd pick an endangered sheep breed to sponsor every year, find folks taking good care of said sheep, and process their wool (or a blend) for free. Let them put all the profits back into the sheep

That is ambitious and worthwhile and glorious but I’m not sure supporting endangered sheep is frivolous! It is, however, pretty niche (I just happen to live within shouting distance of that niche)

Nothing is really frivolous if you squint at it enough, so I figured I'd go niche!

A personal couturier (or more than one) and a vintage Jaguar. Spouse would open a noir nightclub/bar.

ok but WHICH vintage Jaguar I would certainly commission some dresses from several alt-couture names

Tossup between the '54 XK and the '66 E-Type convertible. (Yes, I could get both, but I actually don't *want* more than one car.)

oh, the 1954 just SINGS to me. although my top choice for vintage English sports car is the Frogeye Sprite.

64 or 65 Corvette Stingray, in black I want to drive a car that ROARS, and looks like a sexy sea creature

mako shark: they stole my look

I want a 1953 Riley and get Moggy from Vintage Voltage to change it to electric drive

That’s GORGEOUS

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