Leaves have been falling here for a coupla months now. I’ve kept up with them, at least to a degree, up until now. But frankly it’s still been rather warm and I’ve come to dislike yardwork when I have to sweat to do it. This week it has turned considerably cooler outside and I’ve been catching up on my Autumn chores. Including blowing the leaves out and getting rid of them.
It’s a double edged sword. When I blow the leaves I usually have my earbuds in listening to music, and am just trying to get the job done. But it does give me time to think. Time for introspection, as it were.
Then, a day or so later, my arms are sore as hell. That sucks. But it is what it is. That leaf blower is heavy.
Anywhooooo….
With the cold weather finally kicking in this week, to me this is really the first of Autumn. Even got the fire going in the fireplace a coupla days ago. I even managed to remember to open the damper and avoid smoking up the house.
Nice and cozy.
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Sports To Fall For 2Nite
NHL
- Boston @ Detroit – 7:30pmEST – TV: NHLN
NBA
- Cleveland @ Washington – 7:00pmEST – TV: ESPN
- Miami @ LAL – 10:30pmEST – TV: NBATV
NCAAFB
- Central Florida @ Tulsa – 7:00pmEST – TV: ESPN2
- Washington @ Oregon State – 10:30pmEST – TV: FS1
NCAABB
- Davidson @ (24)Auburn – 6:00pmEST – TV: CBSSN
- Illinois-Chi**** @ (14)Memphis – 7:00pmEST – TV: ESPNU
- ColorAdo State @ (4)Duke – 7:00pmEST – TV: ACCN
- Eastern Kentucky @ (2)Kentucky – 7:00pmEST – TV SECN
- East Carolina @ Navy – 8:30pmEST – TV: CBSSN
- UNC-Greensboro @ (3)Kansas – 9:00pmEST – TV: ESPNU
- Mississippi Valley State @ Utah – 9:00pmEST – TV: PAC12N
- SIU-Edwardsville @ Iowa – 9:00pmEST – TV: B1GN
- (16)Baylor @ Washington – 9:30pmEST – TV: ESPN
- Arizona State @ ColorAdo – 10:30pmEST – TV: ESPN2
NCAA Hockey
- Ohio State @ Notre Dame – 8:00pmEST – TV: NBCSN
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Willing To Rake Her Yard
Enjoy…
Ah yes. A nice cozy walk in the woods. Maybe a slight chill in the air. Come back home and brew some coffee or cocoa. Then cuddle up close together in front of the fire and put on some nice soft music…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPg63uxYwN0
Now that’s a mood maker right there.
Have a nice weekend everyone.
Love ya’s.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRdklLoEvjw
The first comment begins “As a German…”
Buddy, as a fellow German, (25%ish), if you’re talking to pretty much any other European, if you start a sentence “As a German…” the next words out of your mouth better be “I’m really sorry about all that shit my great-grandparents and great great grandparents got up to last century.”
FTFY
Five?
Guess you’re right. Constantinople 1204 counts too, right?
Vikings have been fucking shit up since at least 793. And I’m guessing that pre-700 the neighbors were justifiably complaining about ‘whitey’/
Spoken like a true Cowboys fan.
In all honesty, I’ve been to many Scottish Irish fests out here and my origin-confused girl friend at the time who was very into the festivals took me to ALL of them.
There was a Scottish festival on the race track in Pomona, LA County fairgrounds.
I didn’t even have to guess my other family heritage because when the 8 separate pipe and drum corps marched around the infield?
Tears.
Whatever you do, don’t look up panniculectomy videos. I did and now I’m scared to death. But I can’t look like this anymore. Got a consult for it in two weeks.
Don’t let yourselves balloon up to a quarter ton kids, because if by some medical miracle you lose that weight, you’re gonna look like a war-crime naked!
Tried googling just the root word. This was also a mistake.
GUUUUUUNT!
Hang in there, you. You already did the hard part and lost the weight. Now leave it to the surgeons to do what they do best and get rid of the leftovers. If you did the first part you’ll cruise through the second part. You got this.
And if all else fails, tell Scotchy that you lost your house and he’ll do it for free!
It’s half the reason I’ve been going Schwarzenegger in the gym the last two months. Among other things. Colorado chick REALLY fucked with my head. But if they end up having to tighten the core muscles too, it significantly increases the risk for complications and recovery time. I’m lifting and running like six days a week now. I’ve gone full steakhead.
I watch things like this and I just want to sack York and pillage the surrounding countryside.
And I’m Irish/German for fuck’s sake!
/although it’s not like the Germans don’t have a fondness for pillaging to the east.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMtMmKJ30zM
Sounds like you might have a little Scandinavian in ya too.
For years we thought it was Danish but then my father went all “23 & Me” on us and not only do we turn out to be Norwegian, but now I can’t commit any crimes because my dumbass dad has entered the family DNA in the Illuminati database!
I didn’t even know there was a Norwegian branch of the Van Houtens!
For all the new peeps, that is the official [DFO] clubhouse toilet.
Better watch out with all this pro-Scotland talk, or DFO is gonna get shut down by the Crown faster than an Epstein investigation.
Also watching some Liga MX and man, it’s not quite Premier League, is it?
Scotland The Brave? Oh we’re here for the fucking duration, my good fellows!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnG1oUkWBa8
Let’s poke the bear shall we?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xgwRitTgU4&
Yessss! More bagpipes! I lived in Scotland for a few wonderful years. We used to have pipe bands parading past our house for no damn reason, it was great! And after the pubs closed, the Scottish drinking team would serenade us. They looove to sing, Frank Sinatra and Johnny Cash usually, but they were up for just about anything. I still have a bunch of pint glasses that I collected from my garden in the mornings, sometimes they still had a wee Scot still attached
Might want to take away my commenting privileges; I’m in the whiskey and down a bagpipes rabbit hole.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRVS4XxSn9Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZN3weW1udE
Saw them live once. They do a week around St. Patrick’s Day in Boston, (I know, shocking right?), and I think I caught the first of what was to be 7 shows.
It was disappointing, over by 11, but not without a fair amount of spilled blood.
Accurate.
They played a few years ago down here in San Antonio, in a converted slaughterhouse that had three tables and standing up for the rest of us, and my 57 year old legs numbed out, resulting in my heading out to sit in the truck for the last three songs, including Shipping Up, at least my amigo recorded it on his phone for me to watch. After the show that night, the band’s tour bus was heading up to Tulsa for the show next night, and someone in Austin committed suicide by jumping off a bridge on I-35 right in front of the bus. Blew the tour bus driver’s mind, as one might imagine, and the Tulsa show was cancelled.
Shipping Up blows.
Many popular songs blow. To wit, anything by a band called Boston. And a band called Journey. But that’s just my personal opinion….
I like one Journey song and I can’t even remember what it is. The rest suck, but are good for nostalgia.
No stalgia is good stalgia.
Finally got around to watching Blackkklansman, and regret dragging my feet on it. What a fucking movie. Was wondering if there’d be a soul crushing ending, and it didn’t disappoint, except in all the ways that it does just incredibly disappoint.
The American Negro cinema has produced some fine motion pictures over the years. These directors are truly credits to their race. I applaud their efforts.
Well, at least I know what ol’ Whatisname is gonna write about tomorrow.
So I was whining here earlier this week about possibly having to have one of my dogs put down because of a severe bout of arthritis she is going thru. I ended up getting some prescription drugs for her, so I hope they work out and she gets a stay of execution. I will be gutted when the inevitable has to happen. The weird thing is that this is the 10 year old chow mix, I always figured that her pal, the 15 year old spaniel mix, would be the first to go, but she is going along like gangbusters (lot of hearing loss, can’t see as good as when young, but still doing much better than the chow). I think I will be done with pets when these two shuffle off this mortal coil.
Good luck. I hope it buys you some more quality time together.
Thanks, that’s what I am after….
Take the time to say goodbye and appreciate the end of the journey. Hopefully, you’ll be rewarded with a few more dear memories. I’ve only had to put down two dogs, but they were unfairly young for it. The last one was 3 and fell awkwardly while playing with her mom (who lived another decade, but was our family dog and I’d already left at that point) and fell awkwardly, ultimately leading to a spinal embolism and paralyzing her. I got to make that decision from college, a thousand miles away, with the vet on the phone and her screaming in the background. Me and the wife had family members fall like dominoes in our 20’s and that still stands as the be-all end-all tragedy of my lifetime. Found out it happened while I was eating chorizo and eggs, and literally couldn’t even buy chorizo for like 5 years lol. Pretty fucking anxious about my 16- and 6-month old dogs since I know how this story ends. They will be the last dogs I own, just like I said about the others.
Man, that’s fucking brutal., makes me tear up like some kinda girly man. Your comment about the last dogs you will own really resonates, I’ve been hearing my now-82-yo father say that for the last 20 years, and he still has 2 rescue Scotties. I’m sure he’ll get more when they move on, he has had a dog continuously since about 1942 and I don’t see that changing.
Our current dog will be the last puppy we rescue, (in no small part because he’s a huge pain in the ass), but I will never not have dogs. After this little bastard goes to his eternal reward I’ll focus on adopting older dogs from shelters/foster homes and letting them cruise over the Rainbow Bridge in style.
Never, ever, ever, ever give up on dogs.
Ever.
Oh, I’m sure I will have more. But I will always get older shelter dogs. Only because I am too lazy to house train pups.
No nice start for Niiiiiiiiiicccccccce Beaver
Husky on Beaver action this hot is usually illegal.
Isn’t that called miscegenation, if you are south of the Mason Dixon Line?
Une Reguliere s’il vous plait.
I want to order “Pizzaghetti” just to see what the fuck it is.
Canada is weird
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizza-ghetti
That’s it???????
Pizzaghetti:
?itemid=12387112
moar like pizzaghazi
Back a year ago when I weighed 310 pounds, I’d have been on that like white on rice. Now after my gastric bypass and weighing 110 lbs less, all I can do is salivate and say “Damn I’d like some of That Action.” I have to get used to the reality that for the rest of my life fine or even not so fine dining is going to be a spectator sport for me. “Can I see the children’s menu?”
It’s the same for me after getting married, except in my case the “pizzaghetti” is “college co-eds that I’d never have had a chance with anyways.”
What the fuck?
I think my entire starting lineup this week in some flavor of DFO FF is entirely made up of undrafted scrubs. Pray for Hojo.
Right there with ya. One of my dfo leagues I’m starting a warm body or two or three and my whole bench is on bye
I’m not sure what praying for Howard Johnson’s is going to do for you, but OK.
Hippo, I know you joked about Use your infusion 2, but there most definitely will be a second infusion coming up. Now with 200% more Guns n’ Roses references.
It was actually a double meaning, really DID look good!
I’m glad someone started the GnR Pun chain
Dropping spaghetti into a beer is not infusing
But on a plate with half a pizza is a meal apparently!
hahahahahahahahahahahaha, fuck off Hitler Mice
/also OH NOES how on earth will tOSU beat mighty MARYLAND without Chase Young??
ppl forget Maryland beat Texas tho
….but then lost to IU
this may be the single greatest thing ever posted on DFO
I used to work at Disney Feature Animation, and at my orientation class CEO Michael Eisner came in and said hello to us. That’s like meeting Hitler.
Too bad I can’t get my first banner post with an image instead of a clever bon mot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=735dXdC7i9A
wait, was Tom Petty actually HITLER??
I think he was one of the Boys From Gainzville.
Comedy song that, I think, Gratliff put me on to, but go to 3:06 and tell me that doesn’t compare to any other song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JGMUAsv6js
This is clearly not from 1973, although whoever dubbed it might have been using ’73 technology
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZObv6QgRXc
Excellent song late at night when you’re trying to get to the end of a road trip.
Brenda Lee, comin’ on strong…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MEiVK4OATQ
For years I thought it was “Random leads, comin’ on strong” which of course makes no sense but I just assumed it did.
I think it was like 15 or 20 years after the song came out that I finally heard it correctly, because I read something that mentioned Brenda Lee, whom I did not know of. I knew her songs but not her name.
All those Golden Earring’s I got in Thailand I thought sunk my promising political career, but nowadays I’m not so sure…
Having them installed as cock rings improves your electability.
Bruins (about to) lose! It’s a Veteran’s Day Miracle!
Right up there with Inchon
That movie sucked.
My ship did a liberty call at Inchon/Seoul, and my main takeaways were as follows:
—little kid taking a shit right in the street as we walked from the ship to the train station where we caught the garlic-infused train to Seoul. The turd had a nice brown/cream colored marbling to it, though, like a well done sangria. Nice job, kid!
—the commuter train to Seoul stunk so badly of garlic that I almost presented my breakfast to the rest of the passengers for their examination. And this was in the morning, not later in the day. And I LIKE garlic.
—Inchon port did not have hookups for sewage, so during our visit we had to shit in plastic-bag-lined 5 gallon buckets that the Korean port people came on board to empty once or twice a day.
—the agricultural fields between Inchon and Seoul were fertilized with night soil (i.e. human shit), and the olfactory sensation of that and all the garlic made for quite an experience.
—I bedded the Epileptic Whore and man that was fucking crazy. I even went by her place on our last day in port, when I was completely broke. Turned out it was her day off; she invited me into her place and we drank her Ballantine’s and watched South Korean soap operas all day long. She said multiple sailors and soldiers had proposed marriage to her, but she turned them down because she enjoyed her job too much and would not be able to give it up.
—We were told not to drink the OB beer, because it contained opium and would make us pop on a piss test. Of course, we all went out and drank all the OB beer we could find.
I oughtta write a book about my sea stories from my time in Uncle Ronnie’s Canoe Club some day.
Senorita Weaselo and I looked at the rasslin on the TV at the place we went for dinner, and al we got was that King of the Douches and his douchebag crew beat Aquaman Impersonator.
How on the mark are we?
Pretty good.
Although aquaman impersonator was doing his schtick while aquaman was still on game of thrones
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yt381NteNZM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K13hH0pJx5s
I wonder if Manfred Mann ever wrote any songs. All the hits of his and/or of his Earth Band were written by Dylan or Springsteen, although I might be forgetting some that weren’t.
Those are all good doggies.
Man, Tulsa just putting their nuts right out on the fucking table tonight.
If I ever invent a time machine, I’d go back in time and convince Bernard Pollard to play hockey, so that one day he could end Brad Marchand’s career instead of just taking out qb’s.
I’d take out Jack Edwards before he left ESPN, just so I could watch Bruins games without wanting to drive a pick-up through my TV just to stop his goddamn yapping.
I’d go back in time and fuck the hell out one of my college girlfriends (the crazy one!) and then pick up some Microsoft stock real cheap.
If I could change the future, I would change the past instead.
I’ll high five on the way out of her roo
I mean, yeah, I’d buy Microsoft and Apple stock too!
The Block and Tackle feature over on AV Club today talked a bit about insurance ads during NFL broadcasts. I was kind of disappointed that they didn’t discuss the Mayhem ads. I haven’t got tired of those yet, and I’m pretty sure they’ve been doing them for a number of years. I just wish that the Mayhem dude had said something about John Wick spreading Mayhem in the first JW movie, when Mayhem dude was the consigliere to the Russian mob boss. Baba Yaga!
The shitty of my two replay-based baseball teams (different leagues) is now in the World Series. I was making trades all pre-season as a “seller” but I couldn’t sell enough to be terrible, and entropy happened.
All pitching and defense, so they have overperformed The Right Way obvs.
Hey, pennants fly forever.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEomFTVGxo4
Here’s one of my favorites by those guys.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gu-hzfhv10
I was never a big Beach Boys fan, but I do love me some ‘Sloop John B.’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HW5yLvoJMD4
Sloop John B edges out Good Vibrations as my numbah 2 BB tune. My dad was stationed at Norton AFB in San Bernardino CA when I was 9-11th grade in the mid 70s. I still love the hotrod tunes like 409 and I Get Around too. Used to love to slam the BB’s Endless Summer into the 8-track and make the one hour drive down to Huntington or Newport or any of the awesome SoCal beaches. San Berdoo/Redlands is such a perfect location, an hour from the beach, an hour from the mountains, and an hour from the desert (travel times as of 1975, probably longer now. Or maybe shorter, better highways?).
Probably longer. All the new, wider, highways do is add more traffic. Give people a vacuum on the highway and they’ll jam that sumbitch full of cars within 2 days.
Yeah, I read that somewhere in some study years ago—more highway lanes always lead to more traffic and congestion.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3B16JDVDgMc
Beat a bunch of 10-year olds at Fortnite this evening and am absurdly proud of myself.
I do the same with 10-year-olds but at Trivial Pursuit. I ALWAYS kick their ass. Makes me feel proud of myself, too, like I was Donald Trump. WINNING!
I’m the ringer on my son’s bar trivia team. We stopped going after the I got into it with the guy running the contest about whether or not Foxboro is part of the Greater Boston area.
THANK YOU! My wife makes like I’m the only one who points out when the trivia contest is Wrong.
I’m deja-vuing here, I think we discussed this previously and google maps told us that Providence is much closer. I’m from Mansfield, next town east from Foxboro, and ALWAYS fly into PVD when visiting the ancestral homeland.
Now that you mention it we did cover this, I think the night it happened.
It’s such Masshole bullshit.
Fuck that. If a nuclear bomb went off in Boston, Foxborough would be destroyed.
Aaaaand now I need a cigarette…
How many megatons are we talking here?
Oh yeah, and Kraft parks the Pats jet at PVD too. But probably because it’s cheaper, like a handjob in a strip center is cheaper than in a hi-falootin’ brothel in New Orleans.
How many times an hour are you called a nagger f-ggot? Or have they moved on to better insults?
I don’t play with headphones. Tinnitus is the main reason, (hi, I’m old!), but I don’t miss the conversations.
Speaking of cold weather, from ‘Cheers’, when Diane asks the guys why they’re drinking cold beer in the winter:
Cliff Clavin: When the British ruled the Punjab…..they drank steaming hot pots of tea on the hottest days of the year to balance out their inside and outside temperatures. See, conversely drinking an ice cold drink on a cold day actually results in a more comfortable body temperature.
Diane: ” Then why do you drink ice cold beer on a hot day?”
Cliff Clavin: “Eh, what else are you going to do with it?”
The ladies did not have these powers during the years that such powers would have entranced me. I hate getting old.
Folk .
barbacoa tacos rule
So good the beach boys wrote a song about em.
Jeez. I see UCF has fallen down to Earth.
UConn men’s basketball has started what is surely going to be an undefeated season, crushing always powerful Sacred Heart by 24.
Tangential to Redshirt’s OSU prognostication below:
When I was in the Navy over 35 years ago, the Navy had squadrons of training jets stationed at Naval Air Station Kingsville in South Texas. One of the ugliest jets ever put into production, at least in my opinion. I present to you the T-2 Buckeye:
I never gave any thought to what the hell was a Buckeye, aside from something that looked like a flying pregnant guppy.
Fast forward thirty years to 2012. I am working as a USAF engineering type, doing environmental cleanups. One of the sites in my portfolio is called Air Force Plant 85, an EPA Superfund site located on the south side of the runway at John Glenn International Airport in Columbus. At the time the old plant buildings were being used as national warehouses for the big shoe outfit DSW, maybe they still are for all I know.
When I was assigned to manage the cleanup at the site, I did a little research on the intertubes, and was interested to find out that 609 T-2 Buckeyes were built by North American Aviation at AFP 85 between 1958 and 1970. The plane served as a US Navy jet trainer for over 4 decades. Some were sold to Venezuela and some to Greece, and a quick check just now indicates that Greece still operates the plane.
So at that point I also learned that the “Buckeye” is the state tree of Ohio in addition to being the “mascot” of THE Ohio State University.
Still a fuck-ugly plane.
I would hate to be at the Superfund site where you learn what a Hoosier is…
I’m picturing a serviceman standing forlornly in a knee-deep bog of gravy.
As a “proud Hoosier”
That is accurate
I did environmental cleanup at Grissom Air Reserve Base (formerly Bunker HIll AFB, they flew B-58 Hustlers out of there in the 1960s) located between Kokomo and Peru Indiana for a while. The bootprint of Jesus lay heavily upon the neck of the land, is all I can say.
WVU hoops opens their season tonight…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCmBNuIZyUo
that;s just TWO SEXY!!111
Just downloaded to Kindle the new Arkady Renko release from Martin Cruz Smith, one of my favorite authors. I will probably be pretty scarce here tonight as a result. As if anyone gives a shit.
It would probably save me moneys to go Kindle. But I simply WILL NOT depart from ink and paper.
I am being overwhelmed by ink and paper, to which I have been faithful for years. But as I get older and have to start thinking about WHAT THE FUCK AM I GOING TO DO WITH ALL THIS SHIT THAT I HAVE ACCUMULATED OVER THE YEARS? I finally yielded to the inevitable and decided to start getting even my favorite authors in digital rather than physical form.
Wanna buy a complete set of Martin Cruz Smith, Alan Furst, George McDonald Fraser, Thiomas Pynchon, Hunter S Thompson, James Ellroy, Neal Stephenson, and others in hardbound? Yeah, probably not.
Only coffee table books with lots of photos/maps or those unavailable on kindle will be my ink and paper purchases going forward. Makes me sad, but having hit 60 years of age this year, my mortality is starting to throw at least a Plato’s Cave-ian shadow on my frontal lobes. With no heirs, I have to start looking at doing the big downsize and stop adding to the collection.
If it was not for the kindle, my house would look like the home of a crazed hoarding librarian. I still have lots of dead tree editions, but I also have almost 1500 kindle books, most of which I have read.
the home of a crazed hoarding librarian
You just described mi casa.
Mine too. Plus the stuff for the cats, what else does a crazy recluse need??
Also, I has heirs, but none of them really read. DAGGUM MILLENIALS (shaking fist)
We have books everywhere but are thinking of downsizing house wise when we retire. I have a feeling there is going to be a lot of arguing about which books we keep. Luckily the boy loves to read and will probably take a lot.
“Wanna buy a complete set of Martin Cruz Smith, Alan Furst, George McDonald Fraser, Thiomas Pynchon, Hunter S Thompson, James Ellroy, Neal Stephenson, and others in hardbound? Yeah, probably not.”
Yes. Yes I do.
Not completely complete, and not all hardbound, but we maybe could work something out. I’d rather sell them cheap or even free to someone that will appreciate them instead of getting insulted down at the Half Price Books offer. Let me think about it, if you are serious….
If you have hardbound Thompson, I will bid against that cornblowing bastard
My brother is a huge Thompson fan, so I’d be looking for a gift for him and could probably be outbid fairly easily.
Pynchon, though, while I might not win, I would make sure it hurt the winner.
I’ll take inventory of what I actually have and post. Probably when I am convalescing at home for three months after my foot surgery, scheduled for December 10.
Agree with unsurprised. Gotta get ready. This is a before and after, but its left to right
Added some ginger ale to the cocktail of the week. It does not disappoint
Going with the Cynar Manhattan: rye, sweet vermouth, Cynar
Sweater Weather
I wasn’t sure if that last one was okay even though it’s censored. I couldn’t not share it
Yes, you can.
Twist in plot: there is no censor box in this picture.
Then someone has an incredible ability to create topiary’s out of pubic hair.
There aren’t a lot of bushes around these days, but from my youthful geometry classes and my study of men’s magazines, I seem to recall that a bush was usually a triangle, not a square.
Nice box.
/rim shot
//wait what?
speaking of, Niiiiiiicccccce Beaver is on FS1 at 10:30 tonite!
Kids today don’t even know what the beaver insinuation means. It’s like how much “23-skidoo” means to the baby boomer gen.
I didn’t know SIU-Edwardsville had a team. I assume they must be fodder for Iowa’s stats.
Can you take running lawnmower over snow?
Its gonna be a few inches tonight, but I never take, and the leaves are just now falling.
First world problems
You know, the Buckeyes look pretty good. I’m thinking this might be their year to win the whole th-
NO! WAIT! I DIDN’T FINISH! A JINX DOESN’T COUNT IF I DON’T FINISH IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Idk, they only beat IU by 40. U never know
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7c28KhPEpo&feature=youtu.be