Look, it’s been a long week. I’ve got three teaching weeks left in the school term, and now the year-long skippers are coming out of the woodwork, with their parents, wanting to know why they aren’t going to graduate on time. Of course, with the schools being remotely run, each of these complaints involves the VP contacting me, sending her a copy of the attendance showing the last time the kid showed up (usually November), and my marks book, which shows how much of each course they still have left to complete (usually 75%). When asked what it would take to complete, my answer is always the same – “a time machine”.
So, since I’m slowly pickling my body this evening, let’s settle in with some Saturday night music.
Oh yeah – that’s the good stuff. One of the many unofficial [DFO] anthems. There are others, but there are few objections to Sam Cooke.
Of course, whenever I hear Sam Cooke, I always think, “Animal House”.
So now I’ve decided on a movie to watch. And who can forget the band every fraternity wanted to hire?
Otis Day. FYI – in 1989, their going rate was $15,000 USD, or at least that’s what it was going to take to get them to come play the party I was helping organize at UBC.
One band I did get to play at UBC? The Odds.
They were always a good time. We got them to play four times, and each time we had them out they played fewer covers & more original music, which wasn’t a problem. I like the fact that I got to see their evolution as a band from the lazyboy in my dorm room.
Thirty years later, the memories of those shows are as current as the liver damage I caused enjoying them.
Tonight’s … entertainment?:
Before I look at the TV Guide, I will point out that the Black Crowes are having a ‘Budweiser Stage At Home’ Series on Live Nation’s website at 5:00 PM. I saw them live on their inaugural tour at Vancouver’s QE Theatre, and what I could see through the pot smoke was quite enjoyable.
- UFC Fight Night: Woodley vs. Burns, from Las Vegas
- Prelims – 6:00PM | ESPN / TSN
- Main Card = 8:00PM | ESPN / TSN
- Korea Baseball Organization:
- Lotte Giants at Doosan Bears – 12:55 AM | ESPN
Well, we are in the depths of the lockdown now, in terms of TV entertainment. Look upon my works, ye mighty, and despair.
I feel like we are in that space in time between the events of the first Mad Max movie and Road Warrior. It’s obvious that some serious shit went down, but at least now we’ll be able to live through the details.
i call the biggest cod piece
[squares up, thinking you are talking about the fish]
– Andy Reid
Garcetti just said he asked the governor to call out the National Guard. Fuck, tonight is gonna be bad.
Some guy got out of his car in Salt Lake City & started shooting arrows at people.
His car was set ablaze moments later.
https://twitter.com/Gingersonfire/status/1266884385854255104?s=20
Poor car. Should have been him.
A big…… Archer fan?
Based on his physique, he’s obviously not watching Arrow.
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He was then on the local news completely lying about it, and claiming that he had $1,000 worth of ‘stuff’ in his now destroyed car.
His insurance company is going to have a ball with that claim.
The first time I’m on the insurer’s side
some real looting took place with the last few tax cuts for the wealthy
fucking ay.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jB4t4-4xHPA
LA is going to be on fire tonight. I hope at least 1 police station gets lit up with the other stores.
The candle shop?
The anal candling shop
oh no some cops got hit with urine!!!
thoughts and prayers
BeerBrother says it’s all white people in downtown Seattle, and that Jay Inslee called out the National Guard.
so only thoughts and prayers aimed at the patriots asking for answers
I haven’t watched TV since October, so I really have no idea what’s going on. Oh, I check the NY Times and the WSJ on-line front page occasionally, but I don’t see any of the shit that gets you boys all excited (especially Twitter).
But my phone just beeped that there’s a curfew in L.A. tonight at 8 PM! Shit’s on!
You got my Ham Radio message though, right?
My communications center received it, yes.
Lucky! Our curfew was 1700.
Cheesecakes are being looted!
Not even the looters are interested in the KMart in Minneapolis.
They are throwing TVs into the store and running away.
I laughed
You’d think they would, due to their longtime hashtag #BlueLightsMatter
Brand loyalty is strong in the heartland
My brother lives close enough to the protest that he stepped outside to gawk after I told him not to and a cop immediately shot him near the dick with a rubber bullet.
He learned to listen to you and has a great story to tell his kids. Win win
The nearest store is a local expensive one but fuck it. I got a good spicy hot bar burrito and mac some new beer and the first apricots I’ve eaten that I have noticed are actually good
Carolina Reaper Molotovs. Fuck, that sounds like it’s against the Geneva Convention.
She’d get a lot more attention and money if she:
1) replaced that mic with a camera
2) replaced that top with nothing.
But if she did 2), then Moose wouldn’t be able to post the gif.
Plus it is 30 year old radio, later in the movie you can see them……. maybe.
I don’t have a time machine, dammit.
Today’s theme on DFO Request Line….
WKRP; the day shift.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqsmOqDBRt4&feature=youtu.be
The protests have reached Cleveland but with the current condition of the city it’ll be social unrest’s first ever beautification riot.
Should we make the “They are burning down the river!” joke or no?
Oh no someone set the Cleveland Browns on fire!
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Again? Seems like a yearly ritual at this point.
They’d have to put the existing one out before they set the new one.
Free agency is still going on.
Doesn’t seem like “miniature American flags” are gonna get us outta this one.
It seems like the social distancing attempts of protestors are making them a lot harder to corral and control.
Man am I glad I am not hearing any helicopters right now.
That catapult launcher I mentioned earlier would probably also be pretty effective at sending teargas canisters back towards where they came from, too.
Ah, nothing like seeing the street you used to live on featured on the evening news because it’s a site of police deploying tear gas.
InfoWars truck at the LA protests. Wish someone had figured out to throw a bucket of paint on their windshield.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hh_Im9Mbd4c
A taste of their own medicine.
Look, I am just not a “protest culture” guy. I worry (and I think legitimately) that the paid/anarchist types just want to sow chaos and violence for their own ends. I fully acknowledge that the vast majority of folks are in good faith, and that everyone is fully justified in being pissed off.
We have to be better people, as individuals and a society (this is an admonition against all the fascism and racial profiling, NOT protest-shaming). I hope Diamond Joe is able to get the necessary and long healing/growth process off the ground immediately in 2021.
For funsies, here is Brandon Perna sharing news of his impending fatherhood and of Melvin Gordon (I didn’t like the signing but NEW FAVOURITE DONK after Chubb and Von) shitting on the Spanoi/Heretics/Clippers du Merde:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2StIiEwwOLQ
These vultures rob everything leave nothing but chains
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLomikF63fk
Nothing about MAGA night in DC. are news networks hiding whats going on in DC?
If I didn’t have kiddos, I’d be there with gallons of milk. Bless these protests.
Knightfall is open us
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjJxDzisFwI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wauzrPn0cfg
I’d like to extend a FUCK YOU to Gil Leyvas of NBC4 news in Los Angeles, who just got all weepy because some protestors set fire to an American flag. “This is really hard to watch.”
Oh, is THAT what has been disturbing to see recently?
Even in liberal Los Angeles, the “liberal mainstream media” knows that whipping up white outrage and fear gets ratings.
that’s what i loved what i saw in Louisville last night, they were burning a Confederate flags
Now the white anchorprick is practically jerking himself off on the air at the prospect of a “strong police presence” tonight.
Turn to channel 7, none of that bullshit going on.
I switched to KTLA, which has been better.
I’m only keeping the coverage on to monitor if shit is getting closer to me. Frankly I just want to put on a Jimmy Stewart movie and pretend everyone is good and decent.
I truly hate that this is happening. I have nothing to worry about here in Big Bear, but I worry about all of you in LA. Please stay safe, everyone.
As a Son of the South, I 100% endorse the burning/wiping one’s arse with the stars n’ bars.
Dunstan; here is an image you can use…. at least in your head for this fucking shit:
One day there will be nothing left for the poor to eat but the rich.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2flANhkdZs
A bright spot after an incredibly shitty week. Tonight on Svengoolie: Dinosaurus!
Favorite dino?
I love to dream about seeing a Brontosaurus.
I like the big guys, like brachoisaurus
The demographics of America has changed in the last 20 years. this unrest is the new demographics fight against the old demographic for authority . the death throes of the old guard in 4k for all to see.
There will be blood.
Rioters always lose.
the goal is to leave a mark
that’s what the cops do. the rioters will be worse off tomorrow, they’ll be worse off six months from now, they’ll be worse off next year. read a history book.
rioters are amateurs.
revolutionaries are professionals.
true but it took hong kong rioters about ten days to organize. This people have no jobs and nothing but time.
hong kong rioters lost
They should have had better allies than the CIA
Sun goes down in 30 mins on the east coast. A reckoning is coming tonight. AmeriKKKa is going to give its blood to the tree of liberty tonight.
This is the dorkiest thing ever:
Pizza makers is a job. A job is a job at this time.
It’s even worse than this:
Geek bondage porn is such a weird fetish.
Those two found a way off this crazy ride for a while. Lucky bastards.
It’ll still be here when they get back. If they get back; they could be incinerated on reentry. But they have to wear those ridiculous “suits” that look like some bad cosplay.
Glad to see they got off the ground safely, at least.
Gordo wouldn’t be caught dead in that.
I went on a bike ride with Lady Maestro today. Ate some fries. Drank some homemade cider. Weather was beautiful. And I sit here, in my house, thinking about what a day I had, and how frustrated and guilty I feel about the whole thing. It’s fucked. These protestors are heroes. They’re out here risking their lives, in so many ways. And I’m sitting here like a fucking schmuck. I gave some money to the case happening with the young black woman pushed off a building by Toronto cops, and I don’t really know what else I can do.
But fuck, y’all. Something’s gotta change. I don’t know what, but it feels like shit is about ready to boil over. I hope we see actual, positive change.
There’s a protest in Bridgeport, CT today, and apparently protestors closed some roads and white MAGA chuds are complaining that they can’t get through, as if they’d ever set foot in Bridgeport for any reason at all.
The only time they go to Bridgeport is to get on the Ferry to Port Jeff
These cops have no idea the hate they cultivated. they just dont get it and never will.
I think some of them may be getting a vague idea lately. Seeing a precinct burned down has to make some impression and…hold on, I’m getting something in my earpiece…
Oh. Never mind
So the hits keep on coming. My co-worker/co-manager passed away on Friday. Scott was Big picture Ops, am d2d Ops. He was sicker then he let on. the worst thing. i yelled at him the last time we spoke. i yelled at him to take the time off he need to get better, if we cant depend on him he needed to be off.
We fought but we did it to improve on work. at the end of day our hatred of everyone bonded us.
The funny thing, never met him face to face. All 4 years we worked remote.
Cowboys fan too and Tejano. I think a shared ethnic background was our link
Sorry about your loss.
Folks
It is a really bad economy when the Nosferatu have to peruse the help wanted ads.
#monsterdotcom
Nothing but winners.
Damn it, CNN. Don’t say “Protest erupt following death of George Floyd”, call it the alleged murder of George Floyd (only alleged because Innocent Until Proven Guilty). If CNN was around they would’ve said “Nation in Shock Due to Death of President Lincoln”.
That’s a rocking dog.
And car.
I aspire to be half as cool as that guy.
Um…. not a guy, and she has PLENTY of peanut-butter.
Well, that makes this boner a little less awkward.
Since you use almondbutter you are cool.
Forget Scooby-Doo; I want to watch these two driving around solving mysteries.
Just got back from the march in midtown L.A.
This may have been my first protest march. I’m struggling to remember a previous one. I’m not really big on protesting — and honestly, nothing today really changed my mind, my two hours out there did fuck-all to change the world — but it was nearby, so it was almost literally the least I could do. It was an interesting experience.
It was fairly cohesive, in the sense that it was almost entirely about police violence — no “liberate Palestine” or other unrelated signs like you see at a lot of protests. I can’t say I agreed with every slogan that was shouted; I don’t want to defund the police and have us all protect ourselves. But I do think there’s some value in people showing their anger in a peaceful way.
Social distancing was respected to an extent — certainly there weren’t always six feet between everyone, but there was an effort to spread out, and almost everyone was wearing masks. A few people would take theirs off to shout something, and I made sure to stay the fuck away from them. There were really just a few minutes in the park on the way out, and at the intersection at the end of the march, where things were uncomfortably close, and the latter is when I chose to slip out and make my own way home.
On the way back, I saw the first police presence other than the helicopters. They had a barrier set up at another intersection. I noticed one cop who was 100 feet away from the barrier, with nobody near him, but he was still clutching his billy club like he couldn’t fucking wait to use it. I even commented on it to another bystander, who was thinking the same thing. Sure enough, less than a minute later, a cyclist was heading in that direction, and this same cop just shoved the guy off his bike and then stood over him threatening. Fortunately the cyclist was white and so not worthy of a beating I guess.
Everyone I was with was peaceful. I saw one guy climb on a lamppost, and a few on a billboard, but that cop was the only violent person I saw. Of course, when I got home, the only thing the local coverage mentions is that a few people had climbed on a bus somewhere and that there was a “tense standoff” between protesters and police.
Can still hear some shouting and occasional sirens from my apartment. Hope things don’t take a turn for the worse tonight.
The mob mentality which I brought up in the previous post is even more extensive in the police response to demonstrations, and you provide a perfect eye witness example of such. It is certainly interesting that the demonstration response in terms of armament and violence in in proportion to the color and right leaning of said protest. They show up to confront and engage rather than decelerate confrontations.
Personally, I hope there are body cams on the riot cops so their sergeants can see which ones where trying to keep the peace and which ones where head hunting. It won’t happen, but I’m still hoping.
Won’t happen with the blue line. There are undercover ones posing as violent protesters; that is not a well meaning activity.
From what I heard last night, it was two main groups of protesters, one group that came out to express anger at the police and then once they left another group came that wanted to destroy stuff.
I’m start to subscribe that the police just have a bad culture problem, like a rotten apple spoiling the whole barrel. Except instead of a rotten apple causing foul odor and food poisoning, this rotten cops are killing innocent people and fostering mistrust and hatred towards good cops.
Ultimately the only way this is going to end is for the police to be held to a higher standard and for the good cops to turn on the bad cops. The socio-economic issues and public trust in the police can’t be fixed until the police are fixed.
Yeah, but that won’t happen. Cops are more interested in sticking together.
I don’t buy your “two groups of protesters” theory. Everything was fine until the police showed up, parked a dozen cars along a street, and set up a line to close off the street. I would really love to hear what strategic objective the cops were trying to accomplish with that show of force. They didn’t help open up the street, they delayed its re-opening. The protest had been going for over two hours on a sunny afternoon; I know I was tired and thirsty and ready to call it a day.
But that show of force by the cops was a huge mistake, because there was a lot of anger towards cops in the crowd. For them to show up and start interfering in the protest was unnecessarily confrontational.
R
You are completely oversimplifying this; any protest is a fluid situation. The police confronted the protesters in a violent manner and it went on from there. I agree with the second part; it is systemic within the PD, violations and deaths of unarmed arrest subjects happen over and over, and taxpayers are paying for it.