Good morning! The sun is finally out in Los Angeles after a couple more days of rain and I’m thinking it would be nice to drive out east and see how much snow there is on the mountains.
Are there sports? Probably! Let’s see what ESPN says:
Oh, the FA Cup is happening! My understanding is that it’s basically a giant open tournament in England where everyone can participate, from the biggest moneyed powerhouses like Arsenal and Chelsea down to the tiniest town club teams like Westonfieldshire and Derbylivingstonpool. Fun!
Hockey! There’s a bunch of stuff.
College Basketball! Some of that going on too!
NFL! Speculation season! Today’s topic: how much did the league pay Colin Kaepernick?
What are you watching? Fill us in!
https://granta.com/touch/
MEOW!
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/gallery/2019/feb/14/cat-ladders-a-creative-solution-for-felines-in-flats-in-pictures
So we went hiking up the Mt. Wilson trail. I didn’t get to see any snow, really (I was hoping to see it in the mountains; we could only see a little from the freeway) but it was still a pretty nice hike.
That’s not a very good place to score coke, man.
https://www.kunc.org/post/meet-colorado-man-who-killed-mountain-lion-his-bare-hands#stream/0
Between Hollywood/Vine and Hollywood/Highland:
Flyers blow a 4 goal lead, but win in OT so ?
Was Cam Talbot In net?
The most dangerous lead in hockey…
FOAR Ian – the My Emotions!! Derby is today.
Angers 2, Nice nil in the 57th
AHHHH!nd that’s a broken ankle.
Flames chase Penguins goalie 5 goals on 23 shots. Ouch.
Flamers/Ice Stillers is also on ESPN+ WOO
Regressing to the mean after they gave up 1 on 51 shots against Philly
Don’t judge people who enjoy masochism, man.
In #HAILGAMBLOR, we have eyeballs on AC Milan to come good (phrasing) and Eindhoven to complete a 7:1 comeback (or at least score twice on secondary bet).
fuck right off, Milan. To the PSV feed (also on ESPN+) instead.
Wings should give that arena money back to Detroit
apropos of nothing whatsoever-Streetheart doing Meanwhile Back In Paris
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-9h8wtZ0Rg
/totally unrelated to a recent dead dog
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEYwmfd65C8
Wings reeeeeeeeaaally suck now
They beat the Senators!
Vermont/Sunset Metro Station: The Good Luck Bar
I’ve been there! Had drinks before seeing Les Miserables at the Pantages. Very cool spot.
The Good Luck Bar or The Frolic Room? The Frolic Room is right next to the Pantages.
The Frolic Room.
Also at Vermont/Sunset: The Dresden Room
And holy shit but Marty & Elayne are still playing there every Saturday night. They must be 90 now:
They haven’t been the same since the fire.
I was there in the 90s! How the fuck are they still alive and playing?!?
They used to play there every night, now just on Saturdays. I think they’ve been there since the 1970s, and haven’t added any new songs since then. I first saw them in 1996 and it was like being in a time warp even then.
I just dumped a shitload of cash on ND ATS. No way UVa keeps it above 17.
And throwing another shitload on NCSU +17.
Just checked my bank account and BOOM bitches. State AND federal tax returns deposited on the same damn day.
Party time!
Same here. Unfortunately, I blacked out and by the time I came too, I was in front of my computer screen saying my tax refund was used to pay off my car.
Stupid, responsible subconscious.
I’ll celebrate the return of the sun by getting my 5 miles in. The only problem is sand and hillside erosion makes the footing on the beach access road a little dicey.
Fuck it! Let’s walk!
“Fuck it! Let’s walk!”
-Ryan Shazier, yelling at his wheelchair
Hehehehe
Goddamn, the Red Wings suck now. It serves them right.
You know after I’ve had a chance to sleep on it, I think we’re all overreacting about Trump declaring a National Emergency. All it does is enable him to act on building his wall.
An Enabling Act, if you will.
“Not feeling your positive take on this, tbh.”
-Kristall Nacht
/fave anecdote regarding folks that work for ‘the city’-meaning small communities
It was Xmas eve about 8 years ago. One of my uncles-in-law was drinking up a storm. And a snowstorm was brewing outside. It was very obvious that he’d be called into work to start plowing the roads. I said, ‘you’re gonna be at work in a bit…’ He understands what I’m getting at and replies, ‘it’s okay, I’ll be fine and my buddies are going to be okay too’.
He then goes on to tell me that he’s quite sure that the other snowplow driver and the sidewalk-cleaner guy are all in the bag at this point and they’ve all gone thru this several times before. “They can’t fire us all at the same time. They’d be completely fucked.’
This wasn’t a ‘the union has our back’ thing. It was a ‘no one here in this small town has the requisite licences to operate the machinery that we operate’ thingy.
/kudos to that guy
//I guess?
I had a six months where I was doing the job of three people in two locations. Thankfully, I’m a nice, trustworthy guy so I didn’t abuse my authority, but I had carte blanche to do what I wanted, how I wanted, so long as the job gets done.
I pretty much told my boss and their bosses, “I can this, but I need you guys to get out of my way and let me do my job.”
Every time I ride the LA Metro, I think of instituting a DFO Metro Crawl where we visit various bars adjacent to Metro stations. It would certainly eliminate the drinking/ driving element and the need for Uber.
Thoughts?
They should open Bars in the Metro Stations, that way people would stay in the bars without having to pay another fare.
Union Station has one. I’m going there tonight for a going away party.
I could handle that.
My last trip on the Metro was abruptly stopped since a train in front of ours killed a pedestrian which forced me to get an uber in the middle of Watts.
I’m amazed the driver took the call. We got in the car and said “Get me to El Segundo right now!”
The Frolic Room at the Hollywood & Vine stop:
I love that idea!
Meh
Shitty Wolves go to Cameron Indoor tonight. FUN FACT! In Mark Gottfried’s final season of poon chasing in West Raleigh, @ Dook was the only game the team won after the calendar flipped to February.
This was also the game where my namesake basically told the coaching staff to fuck off.
“Aedificare Murum! Aedificare Murum! Aedificare Murum!”
-Emperor Hadrian supporters yelling in unison, A.D. 122
“Yo Hadrian!”
-Rockus Maximus Balbous
“I had no idea that you could translate from Latino!”
-multiple timelines Snookie
Lucius Q. Cincinnatus: “Give me Dictator Power and I’ll stop the crisis.”
Donald J. Trump: “Hey, I like your thinking!”
Lucius Q. Cincinnatus: “Then when the crisis is done, I’ll quit and go back home.”
Donald J. Trump: “On second thought, I’ll build a wall.”
The recent plague of Blizzard Storms here have taxed the limits of the community’s snow removal squad-almost all side streets have been re-designated (by me) as ‘laneways’.
Same here ( just outside of Toronto)and we don’t have anywhere near the snow you have. And then let’s park our 27 vehicles on the street, what could be wrong with that
I get so angry with folks that do that but then I think, ‘wtf else can they do when trying to shovel out their driveway/waiting for their plow guy?’ Then I calm down a bit. Just a bit.
We be blizzarding today. Of course i took overtime in a rural town. Bad Idea Jeans.
I live in a old mining community (11,000 pop.) that is 40 years past its prime and work in a ‘never had a prime’ town (1,100 pop.) Services are a wee bit of a joke in both places.
hey do you guys think the Mars rover that just “died” actually faked its own death?
It went to Mars and gamboled about-why the hell was it not called “Red Rover”?
It couldn’t masturbate?
The things Exploratory Extraterrestrial Motor Vehicles do to hide from their bookies.
According to this FA Cup tilt, everything’s coming up Millwall.
“Build That Millwall!”
-Cheeky anti-Trump wankers in south-east London
found a funny:
woke up with “country roads, let’s a-go, it’s a me, mario” stuck in my head this morn
Whelp, that’s all I’m ever going to hear when that song is referenced. Joining Bob Seger classics like “Night Boobs” and “Buy a Truck” and Metallica’s “Planetarium”
RIP Roxy.
You were a good dog, even if you didn’t particularly like me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkFLeGBJ3LI
Oh, bullshit. I remember reading stories here about that damned dog. It was a pain in the ass and it’s in a better place now.
Nah, other neighbor. Roxy was good.
You’re thinking of neighbor on other side. Fuck that bitch.
Oh, ok. I’ll take that back.
You sure you couldn’t work a 2-fer-1 deal? ??
Every time I wake up after not having anything to drink the night before, I marvel at how good my body feels. I wish I could remember this feeling at night when I glance at the liquor cabinet and think of how someone should finish that last little bit of Limoncello so we could get that bottle out of there.
[slowly shakes its head at Rikki]
-the “Maintenance Phase” of Functional Alcoholism
/ drives over to RTD’s place
welcome to middle age hell!
#ItGetsWorse
/also, maybe try pills??
Not watching anything. Everyone here is still asleep so enjoying the few moments of silence.
Already went for a quick jog and had breakfast so just surfing and sipping on a coffee. Good start to a long weekend
I’ve declared today my cheat day after 10 straight of doing yoga and elliptical stuff. I hate the elliptical-the only way I get thru it is by watching an episode of The Ministry of Time. When that series is done I don’t know what I’ll do…
I hate running indoors, so run outside and then don’t need to worry about a show. I now need to watch for the unbelievably dumb drivers out there to keep safe. That’s my show.
I need to do more stretching but can never remember to do it. I’m also kinda scared of how much yoga is going to hurt for the first few weeks when I do it
And great work for that stretch.
It’s gonna hurt so bad. You won’t believe how hard it will actually be.
I’m watching Tima & Toma because my daughter only watches Russian cartoons and I’m not watching that greaseball Vinny Pooh who always sounds like he’s grifting the other animals in the Russian version of the Hundred Acre Woods.
Huh. I’ve always thought that Vinny Pooh was a wop…
Kinda makes sense if you think that Pooh is the mob boss. That also changes the tone of the stories but whatever it takes to get through the 3,000th viewing of the same episode
Are the Russian cartoons just as messed up as ours?
As far as the modern ones go, they’re better. They at least give half a shit about animation. The English language ones you’ll find on YouTube were clearly made for $12 in under half an hour. Also, I want to beat the shit out of whoever wrote The Finger Family song.
Jason Pierre Paul knows some of that song but not all of it.
You never invade the Hundred Acre Woods in winter, Christopher, you know that.
Funnily enough, no Christopher Robin in the Russian version. Vinny, Eeyore, Rabbit, Piglet and Owl. That’s the whole damn crew. I’m going to assume Christopher Robin vanished a long time ago.
Has Winnie the Pooh been an alternate timeline of Animal Farm this whole time and I never noticed?
“Some Pooh’s are more equal than others.”
-a slightly confused N. Davenport, reading to his kid
Why isn’t she watching Worker & Parasite?