DFO Radio: Literature

 

Greetings!  Since we had such a surplus of #content yesterday I held off on DFO Radio until this morning.  Last week, Amari Cooper showed us what Mark Twain* meant when he said “Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt” and introduced the week’s topic, “Literature”.  The Commentist Party, as usual, came through in fine fashion.

The big news this week in the NFL is confirmation of what many of us Raiders fans have expected all year: the move to Las Vegas will be happening.  I started out (in Connecticut) as a fan of the Los Angeles Raiders, so the news that they’re moving again doesn’t have the same impact for me as it does for many of the local fans who were so thrilled to get the franchise back, and have finally seen them turn the corner back into relevance after what felt like an infinity in the doldrums.  While I’m not convinced that the stadium won’t be overwhelmed by tourists every Sunday (God, can you imagine what the Steelers games are going to be like? Of course, by the time the stadium opens Roethlisberger will have retired and many Steelers fans will have “forgotten” about their “lifelong connection with their fanhood and the city of Pittsburgh”), the locals seem pretty thrilled to have them, and the stadium renderings look absolutely magnificent.

Anyhow, it seems a little ridiculous to be talking about the Raiders on a post that ostensibly about “Literature”, so let’s get to the music.  Here’s the Spotify list.

 

*Probably not actually Mark Twain, but FAKE NEWS is all the rage and we here at DFO are nothing if not shameless trend-followers.

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Law-abiding Raiders fan, pet owner, Los Angeles resident.
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ballsofsteelandfury

I was talking to one of my Raider fan buddies from work. His take is that Vegas doesn’t realize how badly it fucked up. He says that there are going to be SO MANY fights at the poker tables… At least in Oakland, everyone was contained as there is jack shit around the stadium. In Vegas, there will be fights everywhere on the Strip.

The overtime that will be earned by LVPD officers is going to be staggering.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

I liked my joke about stabbings on the other thread better; this is a little dry……

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Shogun Marcus

So it really will be a crock pot in the desert.

BrettFavresColonoscopy

There is a clear connection between the Raiders and literature in that man Raiders fans/players can’t read.

entropy

Jesus, the buildings surrounding the proposed stadium look like Warehouse City. How many shitty movies are gonna be set there from 2019 on?

ballsofsteelandfury

SOMEONE has been to Saphires!

Don T

Re: tag. The menu at Cheesecake Factory is the size of a tome. Shit, some Chekhov short stories have less words than “Appetizers”.

Shogun Marcus

True dis. Yet they can’t make one page worth of decent food.

JerBear50

Chekhov short story #1: Parking brakes are really, really fucking important.

blaxabbath