Hello there imaginary friendlings. Please excuse the brevity of tonight’s lead in. If you want to blame someone for it, blame Maria.
No shit. It’s easy to forget since the media is no longer interested, but Puerto Rico is still nowhere nearly back to normal. In this day and age on this planet, in a “US Territory”, allegedly?
No damned wonder they want their sovereignty back. We as a nation have failed these people. I won’t go all political here, but I could.
Incidentally…you can still donate for the greater good. Here too.
Hang in there Don_T . We love you, my friend.
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A Couple of Quick Items Which Caught My Eye
NBA Star Power Index: Harden, Paul game’s best 1-2 punch; Westbrook hurting OKC (CBSSports.com)
Julius Hodge agrees…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfKEBENB7tk
Shit, there’s that Sendek fella again. Now I need a drink.
Luc Robitaille’s wife tweets that Trump made ‘aggressive’ advances in elevator (CBSSports.com)
And just when you think things couldn’t get any more stupid….
The Saints are being sued by a season-ticket holder over national anthem protests (CBSSports.com)
A man in Louisiana has filed a lawsuit against the Saints seeking a refund of his season tickets because he’s mad at the team for protesting during the national anthem.
The man who filed the lawsuit, Lee Dragna, says that he would never have bought the tickets if he had know that Saints were going to use “football games as a platform for protests,” according to a copy of the lawsuit, which was obtained by ESPN.com.
Players have been protesting police brutality and racial injustice by kneeling for the national anthem.
Dragna is seeking to get a refund on his tickets and to have the Saints pay his attorney fees. The fan says he stopped attending Saints games after Week 2, when he claims to have witnessed several players stay in the locker room during the national anthem.
“They passed directly in front of where the petitioner and his guests were seated. Many of the fans in that area booed and cursed at the Saints players,” the lawsuit states, via the New Orleans Advocate.
Dragna might have a tough time winning the lawsuit because there has been no evidence to suggest that the Saints have protested the national anthem during a single home game this season, a fact that was pointed out by running back Mark Ingram on Twitter.
The one time we protested an anthem was an away game. After a team meeting we decided to kneel as one BEFORE the anthem was played and STAND united as one DURING the anthem! Good luck dude ✌? https://t.co/28huwGP0Pu
— Mark Ingram II (@MarkIngram22) December 13, 2017
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Things To Watch 2Nite
NHL
Of course, the best match up of the evening (Dallas @ NYI) is not the national game. This one is…
- Boston @ Detroit – 8:00pmEST – TV: NBCSN
NBA
A couple of national contests for your boredom….errrrrr viewing pleasure tonight.
- OKC @ Indiana – 7:00pmEST – TV: ESPN
- Charlotte @ Houston – 9:30pmEST – TV: ESPN
NCAA Basketball
Top 25…
- (1)Villanova @ Temple – 7:00pmEST – TV: ESPN2
- Savannah State @ (9)Tejas A&M – 8:00pmEST – TV: SECN+ (I think that means ESPN3)
- Kennesaw State @ (24)Tejas Tech – 9:00pmEST – TV: None apparently (try not to get too broken up)
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OK folks, looks like I’m out of time.
But here, have a song….
(you see, because this post is almost empty…I hate explaining my jokes)
Now, go…comment!!!! OR ELSE!!!!!
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Guess everyone went to bed early. Best to rest up for tomorrow’s game. ‘Night all.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXdNnw99-Ic
The lead singer of The Smithereens passed away today. I always loved this song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqML7WbOun8
I met him once when he came into the Barnes and Noble where I worked in Jersey.
A really nice, regular guy.
/RIP Pat
I watched Tintin on Netflix yesterday and I loved the series way back when on HBO. Excellent movie and animation.
Not pleased with myself for not posting this last night, but, in my defense, I was really drunk.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgmgVslPLxY&ab_channel=Vivacious400m
We take you live to Sandusky’s current dream.
The second night of Hanukah hasn’t had the same positive surprise level as last night.
Well, if you don’t like bald pussy; that is perfectly fine.
You magnificent bastard.
I shoulda seen that one coming.
It was an over-the-shoulder pun; not always the easiest to judge.
How much is THAT show at the Paramount?
If you have to ask……..
Discipline is important ppl forget that.
When’s Beerguy Ralph coming back? I went to a magical place on the weekend and am wondering/hoping he knows where I went, based on the events that unfolded.
The Number 5?
I don’t think so. This place had big spinning tables, where duos perform various acts on each other, including salad tossing to kissing. So, like dim sum, once you were finished with an act, you could spin the table to see the next exhibit.
A properly-tossed table-side salad is a delight!
Well, that then leaves Brandi’s or The Penthouse.
My buddy wrote a book all about The Penthouse
I’m getting this on Kindle…
He’s also written a very cool book about the Commodore Ballroom, one of Vancouver’s finest concert venues. I saw, amongst others, The Ramones and the Chili Peppers there in the early 90s.
Yeah, I saw that one too. The description compared it to LA’s Whisky A Go Go. Looks pretty cool!
I saw Frank Black at the Commodore, in the second-thickest haze of pot smoke I’ve ever been in.
Damn, even down in LA, I know what that is. Sad I missed it on my trip to Vancouver…
On a related note, our night mostly finished up after a 300 lbs Vietnamese guy took his shirt off and began to lactate. I never knew guys could lactate before.
/the more you know.
Where the fuck were you?
Are ya sure that was milk???
What. The. Actual. Fuck.
Jesus, now that sounds like the Paramount.
So, of course, I’m “researching” this Paramount and I read that they have a “unique situation” that allows them to have contact and hire 18 year old girls instead of 19 year olds. Is that a “grandfather” type of situation where they existed before laws were enacted?
That is where they get permission slips signed.
Last time I saw a former student at one of those places I left before she saw me & waited outside until she was finished. Why should I make her uncomfortable at work?
I don’t know; I am uncomfortable at work all the time, of course I’m not naked…….
Well, not after that one time.
Ha ha ha! I have a similar story although she wasn’t my student. It was someone I knew IRL but didn’t know she danced.
Yes, I got a lap dance.
As one does.
If memory serves, when they opened they didn’t have a liquor licence, so they could employ 18 year-olds while service $10 Cokes in 1990. They got to keep the age-change when they got their liquor licence in the 2000s.
Are you at the UPS drop-off downtown?
Oh, and I’ll be back in my regular time slots next Monday, in time for the…Falcons at Bucs?
Thanks Seamus. That NYT article is accurate. The vast majority of us are at day 84 without electricity. “Late February” is the benchmark now for most of PR having electricity. 200,000 confirmed have left for Florida. Can’t tell you how much I appreciated this post. Love ya, man.
I hadn’t seen the video. It’s great! That part where Tito Trinidad clocks Fernando Vargas followed by the 5 Miss Universes—well, consider me joyfully pandered to.
The Casa Pueblo folks in the second link are righteous folks that do great work. They are environmentalists who promote self-sustaining, community projects. They’ve given out thousands of solar lamps, plus food and supplies. I volunteered once there in October and also donated.
And yeah, we’re a colony. Always been one; ownership changed in 1898. Nevertheless, a nation has been forming for over 500 years. And, according to the Nature Boy Ric Flair himself, is the seat of a new religion. WARNING: if you like music, but don’t know Spanish, you might not like “Load. Pull. Cabrón you have no bullets left”.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=gpIBmED4oss
84 days? I remember going 5 days without power a couple of years ago and was ready to go on a murderous rage. 84 for days? Puerto Ricans should be declared saints and given money, lots of it. That’s insane.
Good lord. Stay strong Don!
Love you my friend.
Honestly wish I was able to do more.
And Don_T, regarding the video…
The first time I saw it, it honestly brought a tear to my eye. And still does. I can’t imagine.
Please email me the link you sent me previously for donations. Not to post necessarily. Just for my own use. I tried like hell to find it tonight and couldn’t.
I found a just and necessary cause. I’ll put the details on the Saturday post.
Some people say you’ve got some paper towel rolls and you should be happy.
Fuck those people.
Evening, really not looking forward to tomorrow night, that matchup is a big bag of flaming horse shit. I will watch, because I am addicted and it is all coming to an end.
Sending this one out to Rep. Dan Johnson. May it be the soundtrack on your elevator ride down to hell, you piece of shit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9mJ82x_l-E
At least Budd Dwyer was later proven innocent.
Which one? There’s like eleventy billion Dan Johnsons.
The one who was accused of sexually assaulting a seventeen year-old.
Ice Cowboys kicking the piss-water out of the Ice Brooklanders.
Welp, Brooklanders score …
Google Search Trends – Parental Christmas Edition:
1. Fidget spinner still cool?
2. Can you buy dabbing?
3. Is dabbing drugs?
4. Bottle flip stocking stuffer?
5. Yeezy
6. Cheaper Yeezy
7. White vans need to swear to wear them?
8. Nintendo Switch
9. Is Alexa my sons girlfriend?
That is a lot of quarters.
I don’t see fidget spinners in my classes, but apparently Beyblades are a thing again.
You know the holidays are here when you pass by 9 “entrepreneurs” on the street on the way to work…
Those presents aren’t buying themselves.
Did these “presents” fall off the back of a truck by any chance?
Ha ha! Not those kinds of entrepreneurs. These sell services, not goods.
@Senor…..
Google “Long Beach Blvd.”….I think is his point
Never mind…here ya go…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8e7Lhgk1Z4
You can tell that video is old because gas is $2.69 a gallon…
Funnily enough, they work between Long Beach Blvd and Compton Ave….
It scares me that I knew this.
It scares me even more that I now know….well, never mind.
Some mornings it’s like Hooker Zombie Land
No twinkies?
Nope.
I fucking hate Sno Balls.
Are these services potentially given in the back of a truck?
Define “potentially”.
Quite a few of the customers drive 18 wheelers, so…. yeah?
I thought you were talking about purveyors of “dry goods”.
I haven’t seen those….
Someone is drunk as fuck and willing to sleep it off. TO THE BED!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_n8FRILoYE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38k-qfy5Jk4
A Slow & boring wednesday is boring….
“BUZZ!”
-Trump’s Ears
Brenda Spencer wants to shoot the whole day down after she’s done with Monday.
Super Cold Weather Question: Has it ever been so cold that your tires froze in their parked position? When you first get out of ‘park’ you feel an obvious ‘clump clump’ until said tires regain their shape. Anyone?
Thank god no. And it was 46 this morning!
Yes. I’ve had this.
I know a guy that works for the US government in Siberia. He works at one of those crazy weather research stations that the US and Russia run as a joint scientific project.
They don’t have the necessary resources to have a heated garage where they are at. So its something like every 120 days or so, they take all the packing crates from their last batch of supplies, smash them up, and pile them under their truck. They then light it on fire to heat up the truck otherwise they will never be able to get the fucking thing to turn over.
I’ve never heard of him mentioning tires freezing out of position. I’ve worked up in really cold areas, like that fucking port they have on the world’s most dangerous catch in Alaska (I had to do a crab crane) and I don’t remember that ever happening (though I had to be up there when the weather wasn’t fucking completely crazy).
Here’s a moment of bipartisanship, humanity and feels.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/joe-biden-consoles-meghan-mccain-in-powerfully-emotional-tv-moment/ar-BBGHu0i?li=BBnbfcL&ocid=DELLDHP17
Meghan McCain is a Foxnews washout.
Good on ol’ Joe for using her as a political prop though.
Joe Biden is a genuinely nice man
Anita Hill would beg to differ.
My favorite Meghan McCain fact is that her now-husband wrote tons of articles shitting on her years ago. He ran the most successful long game of negging I’ve ever seen.
What is, how my ex described my attempts at foreplay?
I’ll take insults directed at nomonkey for $400, Alex.
If I’d known I was going to bring up such bad memories for you “minute men” I’d have chosen a different title.
LOL.
*Puts on PK hat*
Amtrak Wifi is shit!
*removes PK hat*
But seriously, its almost 2018. Unfuck your WIFI Amtrak.
You know, PK actually does make some valid…
They brought back passenger service to my city. So I can go from Roanoke to Washington DC…for about 3 times the price and double the travel time of going by car.
Fucking mass transit in the US is so staggeringly bad compared to the rest of the world.
Counterpoint: fancy hobos!
From Boston to New York, it beats flying or the bus. Barely.
I don’t know if I’ve ever seen a clean sweep on Wheel of Fortune before.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oy3redcrg7s
It’s gonna be -35 tomorrow morning where I live. That’s “I Can’t Start My Car!” kinda weather.
Shit. That is Harbin cold. And colder!
Almost into “Don’t even have to ask which temperature scale” weather.
My car made weird sounds when I drove it at -10. I can only imagine what it would make at -35.
I do not miss that 6:00AM, waking up “Did I plug in the block heater? FUCK!” feeling.
Its better than having to go out every two hours and start the car for 10 minutes to keep the oil from freezing.
“THIS!”
At one point in my work life I had to open up the warehouse for the drivers at 4am. I’d run my stupid Dodge Caravan for an hour between 9 and 10pm so that the engine would start at 3:30am.
I do not want to go to there.
Do I have to comment? Can’t I just remark?
Only if it’s snide.
Security at the White House just had a “Senate Voted to Convict Drill” today.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/report-omarosa-physically-dragged-from-white-house-grounds/ar-BBGHXiJ?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=DELLDHP17
This White House is like a Jerry Springer show…
Springer always paid his independent contractors (hookers). By check, true but they didn’t bounce.
“Agreed. I hate it when they bounce.”
— Roy Moore
Redshirt’s former mayor!
https://deadspin.com/amazing-online-hoax-welcomes-washington-redhawks-to-t-1821260116
Can we just start calling them the RedHawks?
Everyone talks about PR returning to complete independence but, seriously, what are they gonna do without Evita?
YOU’RE NOT MY SUPERVISOR!
Or else what?
I didn’t think this thru, obviously.
I’ll cry?