Ah yes, leaves. That was the whole point of the joke, and Biff messed it up for me. Oh well.
It might not feel like it (it was in the lower 90s here today, for example) but today is the first day of Autumn.
Autumn is a pretty neat time of year. I think so, at least.
Days begin to shorten. The heat of summer is mostly past and the nights become cooler. Leaves start changing colors (and also falling into the damned yard grumble grumble)….
/shakes fist at tree
//note to self: Remember to get a new blower
///note to self: Oooohh….well played
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPg63uxYwN0
But yes, this week I’m grabbing the low hanging fruit. So to speak. And we’re even doing it kinda wholesome(ish) this week. I’m just kinda in that sort of mood I guess.
Also, you’re gonna hate most of the music. Like a really, really lot.
Ask me if I care, LOL.
Yes, for some reason I do often entertain my Country Music tastes more during Autumn than the rest of the year. It’s often been the case over the years, but I have no idea why. Don’t you judge me!!!!!
Here, have another…
So yeah, this week it’s The Girls of Autumn…
But yep. Autumn, changing leaves, cooler weather. Fuck off, summer. Frankly, I’m happy to see 2017 finally entering into its death throes. Remember 9 months ago when we were all so sure 2017 was gonna be sooooooo much better than 2016? Hehehehe…how’s that going so far? Fuck this godforsaken year, sans lube. I’d pull the plug on it right now if there was a way.
Orrrrrrr….maybe something less sullen, less pessimistic and less offensive….
Seriously, when we get to the end of September can we go ahead and start January and just skip the rest of 2017?
What? I didn’t say EVERY song was gonna be Country.
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Something Random
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Something None Of You Knows About Me
Oh relax, it’s not about my sex life or any pending legal charges. Heh, fool me once…right?
No this is just a stupid little thing. But I often think about it this time of year for some reason.
Several years ago, more years than I’d like to count at this point quite frankly, I became very good friends with a cowboy…
NOOOOPPPPPEEEE!!!!!!!!
Not that there’s anything wrong with that…..but no. Not like that. In all seriousness….
He was a classmate of mine in Veterinary School. We became friends and he taught me now to rope steer and ride bulls. Shit, that doesn’t make it sound better, does it?
OK, fine then….kindergarten it is.
My cowboy friend (lol) taught be how to tend my rope, take down calves/steer, and ride a bull all day long.
Wow, it really DOESN’T sound better. Shit.
(OK tWBS, you can still save this….)
I coulda been a cowboy…
I actually got pretty good for a while. Not rodeo circuit good like he was…nooooo. I’d have gotten my arse killt trying that shit. It’s not as easy as it looks, and it doesn’t look terribly easy…
But I could show up onto a ranch (and did more than once) and out-cowboy all the wannabe cowboys who were employed there and who thought they were the shit. It was fun for a while until it got boring.
And in an interesting turn of events, it’s how I ended up coming together with a very special person in my life, many years ago. In fact, she’s the little surfer chick I mentioned last week here.
Ah, it comes full circle. I love it.
Cowboy Up!!!!!!!!
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Sports For The Melancholy
NFL
Week Three of TNF brought us the juggernaut that was the LA Rams at the San Francisco Giants. Errrrr, Forty-Niners….sorry. So we were all expecting it to be a really good game, AMIRITE???
(go ahead, I’ll wait ’til you’re done laughing)
But the thing is, this really did turn out to be a good damned game. Holy shit. Goff and Gurley did a lot of goods for Rammit; Hoyer managed to hang in there for the Giants… errrrr Niners and spread the ball around to the tune of 332 yards and 2 TDs. In all seriousness, for a TNF game, and considering the matchup? This was a very pleasant surprise, I must say.
The rest of the league gets going early Sunday morning, when the Jaguras and the Ratbirds face off in London. 9:30amEDT for that one, btw. I’ll need to be drunk early.
MLB
Meh. Cleveland’s streak is over, but they’ve started another one. They keep playing like this and they’ll steamroll the playoffs. The only real questions left to answer in the AL (before the playoffs, that is) is can the Yanks overtake the Bosox and can the Twinkies hang on to the 2nd wildcard slot? The likely answers are “no” and “yes”, respectively.
The Dodgers are limping to the finish line and will set no records, but will still take the division flag this weekend barring a miracle. Thus making the NL even more boring than the AL. Only thing really still in question in the NL is can either Milwaukee or St. Louis catch a little fire down the stretch and slide past Colorado for the 2nd wildcard slot there. I’m going to go out on a limb and say that St. Louis WILL slide past Colorado for that 2nd wildcard, btw. Given the way the schedule plays out (STL hosts MIL to close things out against one another next weekend, and COL closes things out at home vs LAD) I like the Cards’ chances.
We shall see.
Tonight:
- Cleveland at Seattle – 10:00pmEDT – TV: MLBN (regional split)
- Colorado at San Diego – 10:00pmEDT – TV: MLBN (regional split)
NCAA Football
Coupla games tonight for your amusement. Wayyyyyyyy Moar on tap for tomorrow.
Tonight:
- Virginia at Boise State – 8:00pmEDT – TV: ESPN2 (fuck you, blue field)
- (23)Utah at Arizona – 10:30pmEDT – TV: FS1
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Girls of Autumn
Because you can’t beat ’em…
…Don’t mean you should join ’em.
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Yeah, let’s do this.
Enjoy…
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What Else We Got?
See? Not ALL new Country is Bro Country. I give you Aaron Lewis, of Staind fame. He’s been doing a little Country thing of his own recently…
Anywhoooooo….
I hope you all enjoyed your Autumnal Equinox. It happened about four hours ago at 4:02pmEDT. So, raise your glasses to Autumn, everybody. ‘Tis here.
Next stop….Winter Solstice.
Enjoy your weekend, folks.
Love ya’s
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Do you have a “request” or an idea for a future TGISF theme? Drop me a line…
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No drinky-drink for me post-surgery, but I am in the possession of some pharmaceutical grade (literally) opiates. I’d actually rather drink, narcotics just don’t agree with me very well. Guess I should just flush the refills down the ol’ crapper.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
Your right, I shouldn’t do that. The garbage disposal would be safer.
LOL
Are you just trying to make Hippobrain go all ‘splodey or what?????
Pug Cola is also on opiates right now.
I am all giggly just imagining how silly a dope fiend pug must be.
Fuckin’ Puggie-druggies…
Pug life born
Pug life bred
So much for “Due Process” I guess.
Pretty much the same as every other day, but now with constricted pupils.
Yep, a little more sleepy, but goofy as hell when the wave of energy hits him. He certainly seems stoned, but I am stoned. Whoa.
Vengeance for what my Donks done to his Pokes!
NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
OK, we can split the drive to Dallas, pick up some bourbon for Romonobyl on the way.
Works for me.
Actually, make that some good tequila and all the margarita fixins’ and we might have a deal.
chuh chuh!!
It looks like the weather in New York is getting nipply.
It also apparently forgot to shower and brush its hair.
So Big Soap has gotten to you too?
As long as she doesn’t look like she smells badly, I don’t care how big the soap is. I’ll even bend over and pick it up if she’ll use it. Please.
Those clothes could use a laundering as well.
Hippo you better pop those Cherries tomorrow or you are in a big hole to start.
I went with nil-nil draw in Prediction League because I am in a foul mood (also will be at kid’s cross country meet and won’t see the lineups, etc to pick first scorer).
This pictorial only reinforces my campaign to limit yoga pants to a size 6.
This is good and this is right.
Hey, I’ll be fair. I once tried on a compression shirt to wear under my wetsuit, let’s just say I looked nothing like the guy on the label. My wife took one look at me, then locked herself in the bathroom and talked to her sister on the phone for two hours.
It’s funny you say that. My O’Neill rashguard t’s don’t fit like they used to.
I figured they shrunkeded.
“Talked to her sister on the phone” for two hours, if you know what I mean, nice.
I wish!
oh God, I love jogging wear for layabout/recluse clothing and have accidentally bought a compression shirt a few times. I know which is worse, looking or feeling like a sausage casing.
So evidently Trump referred to Kaepernick as a “son of a bitch” in his Alabama rally.
Yeah, gotta keep that sweet, sweet hate flowing.
He really is the vilest piece of scum that ever walked the earth, the only people who even come close are “left” apologists like Susan Sarandon.
Sarandon’s misguided, but not nearly as destructive. Neither she nor Trump can seem to admit when they’re wrong, however.
Yep just read that. He wants an owner to fire that son of a bitch if he kneels for the anthem. Nice.
Can you imagine if Obama used the word “bitch” in a public speech? He used far worse in his books, (or so I’m told, can’t read) so I guess that tells you all you need to know about that crowd.
Thanks foar the sexiness; in honor of autumn (the season, not the Hooters waitress), here’s an incredible version of Autumn Leaves, recorded at some club in NYC by the late angelic-voiced Eva Cassidy. Talk about gettin your melancholy on…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXBNlApwh0c
“Give it up for Autumn on the main stage gentlemen!”
Oh…not her either?
I’m hungry
Did you try making Zeke’s “feed me” motion?
purty good JV fixture in Boise
Kurt Benkert? If he changes his first name later he can be Jim Benkert, been Kurt.
I was gonna ask “What’s Showing?”
But….never mind.
She’s on a budget; underwear is expensive.
also inherently fascist ppl forget that
https://img.r7.com/images/2015/12/16/70xsbif978_6bmweosihp_file
Oh my. She is stunning.
Is Boise pretty cool? It puts off that vibe. Bet the rest of Idaho creepy as fuck.
It’s the coolest place in idaho, from what I’ve seen. The rest of idaho wants to enact sharia law
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-idaho-christian/republicans-propose-declaring-idaho-a-christian-state-idUSKBN0LS2Q020150224
Coeur D’Alene is great.
oh yeah, I always forget about that, where all the state’s Demmycrats from
The only thing I say when people ask about Idaho is, “Don’t go there.”
It seemed nice enough by virtue of it being a fairly large city, and the Basque neighborhood in downtown was cool, but … No. My guess is that if I spent more than a day there I’d hate it.
oh good GOD
The trans have their guns (in their pants), she needs hers.
well that’s just common cents when u think about it
This comes up as being from a fall fashion show or something, so I’m counting it.
I don’t especially care for Wahoowa, but I like seeing them competent enough to beat U*NC. Every bit counts in the Coastal.
Happy Friday, imaginary people. I’m fucking exhausted and barely worked four days this week.
me too. Billed 4 hours from home this am, had an hour or so of mind-numbingly depressing thought, then took a massive 2-5:30 nap.
she needs warming up
/raises hand
Hand?
Ugh. I hate this. It’s cold as balls, and the boiler hasn’t been turned on in the building yet. Luckily, my electric space heater works well, but that doesn’t change the fact that I hate the cold.
why don’t you trade locations with me? Don’t worry about the asshole teenagers, they have cars and ATM cards.
Oh, they have a card for ATM now?
you sir, have won teh Friday
A suburb west of Chicago today recorded a temperature of *100.* I’ll trade you.
Teyana Taylor seems like a good entertainer.
I would not be bored if she tutored me
Autumn is as wonderful as summer is suicide-inducingly shitty.
I mean, FFS it’s FRIDAY and we still gets Wahoowa on teh Smurf Turf and Team Secular Big Love v. Bear Down FOAR Midterms.
Plus genuinely arousing young ladies with sweater dresses. And yoga pants return. VIVA!!
That’s the sexiest thing I’ve seen all week.
I love me some Autumn Reeser.
SHOULDER GIRL HUZZAH!!!
Sweet Jesus, your taste in music is bad.
Yep, you keep saying that.
Yet I keep not caring.
Interesting, no?
😛
Fall wardrobe.