Fifty-seven years ago today, John F. Kennedy visited San Antonio & Houston. He gave some speeches & was reported to have had a generally wonderful time. He retired for the evening in Fort Worth, Texas, and expected to give some more speeches after a comfortable ride in an open-air car with John Connolly & their respective wives. I believe Jackie intended to wear a pink suit.
Forty-five years ago today, Queen released “A Night At The Opera”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zs-TWAITkQc
Of course, we all know about “Bohemian Rhapsody”, but what most folks forget is that this album also has “You’re My Best Friend” and Brian May’s instrumental version of “God Save The Queen”. Plus, the album title was inspired by the Marx Brothers movie; it turns out Groucho was a fan, and he invited them to his house, where they performed songs from the album for him.
And fifty years ago this coming Friday, The Kinks released “Lola Versus The Powerman and the Moneygoround”.
Obviously famous for “Lola”, this album also has the underappreciated “Got To Be Free”, “Get Back In Line”, and “Apeman”. It did well enough that they were able to renegotiate their contract, getting funding to build their own studio – Konk – and the first album to come from that was “Muswell Hillbillies”. Plus, their unofficial four-year ban from touring the States had ended, so they were able to tour in support of the album, and spent part of the time with some kid from London that knew how to play the piano.
Music history is real history.
Sunday Broadcast Maps: (courtesy 506sports.com)
CBS SINGLE
█ Fairbanks
█ Honolulu
█ Tennessee @ Baltimore – Jim Nantz, Tony Romo
█ Pittsburgh @ Jacksonville – Ian Eagle, Charles Davis
█ New England @ Houston – Andrew Catalon, James Lofton
█ Cincinnati @ Washington – Spero Dedes, Adam Archuleta
█ Miami @ Denver (LATE) – Kevin Harlan, Trent Green
█ NY Jets @ LA Chargers (LATE) – Greg Gumbel, Rich Gannon
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FOX EARLY
█ Fairbanks
█ Honolulu
FOX LATE
█ Fairbanks
█ Honolulu
Tonight’s sports:
- NCAA:
- Tennessee at Auburn – 7:00PM | ESPN / TSN2
- Oklahoma State at Oklahoma – 7:30PM | ABC
- Arizona at Washington – 8:00PM | FOX
- Southern California at Utah – 10:30PM | ESPN / TSN2
- Washington State at Stanford – 10:30PM | FS1
- Fisticuffs:
- UFC 255 – Figueiredo vs. Perez: From Las Vegas
- Prelims – 6:30PM | ESPN2 / TSN5
- PBC Fight Night:
- Javier Fortuna vs. Antonio Lozada – 7:00PM | FS1
- UFC 255 – Figueiredo vs. Perez: From Las Vegas
Have yourselves a luverly evening. Maybe listen to a whole album instead of just the singles. You’ll be pleasantly rewarded.
Tennessee should draft that USC kicker. Kid’s got a hammer for a leg.
So you’re saying he would
/puts on Blair Walsh sunglasses
Nail it?
YEEEEEAAAAAHHH
last funny:
I tweet “more like Vladimir poopin” and turn up poisoned in London a week later
SC is rockin to a W
home games the rest of the way….
I think John F Kennedy was a pretty good President.
It’s shame that Johnson had him killed, but I guess he really had no choice. Would we have ever won the Vietnam War under JFK? No, we needed LBJ (and Nixon) for that. That’s what makes America great.
LBJ was a complete dick, but he got some shit done. Civil Rights, Voting Rights, Medicare, etc. Shot himself in the nuts over Viet Nam. Robert Caro’s biography shows both the hateful and useful sides of his personality. Also a brilliant history of the 20th century. My electric company (Pedernales Co-Op) is the first one he got going here in the TX Hill Country under FDR’s Rural Electrification Project when he was elected to Congress.
Caro’s book is a helluva lot more accurate than Doris Kearns Goodwin’s is, and he at least wrote it all himself.
You meant “he had a huge dick.”
After Arthur Miller & Joe DiMaggio he was Marilyn’s truest love.
Beaver all over the Golden Bears tonight, which is something I would say after mistakenly wandering into a Key West bar focusing on senior gay men.
“mistakenly.”
We honeymooned there 20+ years ago and literally joined a gay club so we didn’t have to pay the cover charge. Couldn’t have been nicer people.
Went back about 5 years ago and was sad to see the place had been replaced by another bar.
Me and my GF at the time went and visited my folks when they lived in the Keys 25 years ago. When we hung out in Key West we played a variation on the SNL skit “Jew/Not a Jew?”, but our version was “Homosexual/Not a Homosexual?” about the staff personnel at the various retail establishments we visited.
Golden Bears is other name for Lemon Party
Sure thing, “Buddy”.
USC has done a lot of good things, but none better than kicking Lori Loughlin’s horrible children the fuck out of school.
Ok, per BGR, new experiment–rye, punt e mes, creme de violette, splash of absinthe.
Pretty good.
Guess it needs a name. Purple fairy?
Sure, make me one while you’re at it.
Copyright that! You don’t want to end up poor like Jerry Wallbanger.
Is this the way Rutgers ends? Not with a bang but with a whimper
And getting drafted by Belichick.
“Lola” is a perfect song and a genius piece of art. I will pound the table* for that always.
* tap keypad
Pounding the table sounds like a euphemism for something described in that song.
After 50 years, I still can’t figure out what a “dark brown voice” sounds like.
I believe Mick Jagger nailed that in the song ‘Brown Sugar’, which is not at all problematic and would certainly be release to great acclaim in today’s world.
I really look forward to reading the reviews over on The Root.
I thought it was background voice, which doesn’t make any sense either!
There’s a lot of Kinks songs that qualify. For starters:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_MqfF0WBsU
Sunny Afternoon
I Go to Sleep
Celluloid Heroes
The list goes on and on
Ray Davies is a fucking genius. He singlehandedly out-wrote both of the songwriting duos of Lennon-McCartney and Jagger-Richards. That’s my opinion, at least.
Some bands made singles. The Kinks made albums.
It has come to my attention that this was a hit in 2010. I’d never heard it before tonight. Am I alone in that?
https://youtu.be/wWhtcU4-xAM
It’s in a lot of DJ mixes, so I have. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Also, this is the song that track sampled … heavily.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxggltjIVFI
Ambrosioni wide left, Rugters hasn’t won (or lost) yet.
OK, Arizona grabs 17 points in the next 33 seconds and they’re right back in this thing.
I just realized that all of us are part of The Singularity. By us just BSing here tonight we’re all going to achieve immortality.
Each iteration of our interactions ensures that we live forever!
Hand me that joint and I’ll explain.
Go on…
You’re sure Seamus only sent you peppers from his garden, right?
This week! On Peppers Or Poppers?
I don’t know about your conclusion.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gyF_5GBMj0
Rutgors needs a FG in overtime to win
Just made an aviation but swapped out the gin for rye. Still good.
Saturday is for alcoholic science experiments.
That’s a good point.
/busts out the absinthe
A friend of mine insisted we try absinthe once, and he did the whole ritual set up and when I finally got to drink it I found it tasted like shit and I wasn’t even remotely inclined to make out with my insanely hot twin sist…and I may be mixing this up with ‘Eurotrip’.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Vyj1C8ogtE
I guess Utah is more inclusive than I thought. The Utes have a Samoan kid named Nephi Sewell. I look forward to his eventual WWE career.
Apparently the Mormon church is big in the Samoas.
I have no idea why, but it doesn’t hurt the O-line.
Can’t be signing a bunch of Pago-Pagans.
They’re smart enough to prefer them to thin mints
Keep it up, pal, and I’ll start driving a car powered by coal.
Who hurt you with a Girl Scout cookie?
Couple kids from Provo discovered him while they were on their missionary tours and smuggled him into the USA.
You’re older than me, so you probably remember Doonesbury and Lava Lave Lenny, the Samoan lineman Duke discovers in Samoa.
He left Walden to sign with the LioUns. Whoops.
Just found out my daughter’s dating a Puerto Rican, and you know what that means…they’re bringing me back empanadas at midnight!
Fuck and yes.
Also I’m eventually going to murder him, but that’s because he’s dating my daughter, not for any ethnic reasons.
Empanadas no matter their iteration are always superb. Late night empanadas are heaven.
Everyone knows “empanadas” is a euphemism for “barnstorming statehood campaign” wake up sheeple!
I directly, yet indirectly paid massive homage to our dear departed tWBS today. The oil that i sauteed my green beans in was a ghost pepper infused oil that I made from this ridiculously huge box of peppers that Seamus sent me in the mail last year.
Loved that man and I miss him.
Just know that, when you’re sitting on the toilet in agony tomorrow, he’s going to be looking down at you and laughing.
“Down”?
I mean, 50/50 anyway.
Tomorrow?
Sorry, I’m on East Coast time
Rutgers down 2, going for the 2 point conversion with 30 seconds left in the 4th
Evening is getting better – USC vs Utah on one channel, rugby on another, and the six pack from the new cidery I found being cracked. Good evening me!
Why aren’t you watching OANN, or Rebel News (Canadia) so you can get learned?
Because I enjoy self-loathing on my terms! It’s why I gave up religion.
FS2 is purporting to show Liga MX play-offs, apparently featuring Montreal vs New England, so congratulations to the Mexican soccer federation on that recent expansion, I guess.
this is why we NEEDED WALL thanks Obama!!!!!1111
I for one accept my new SexiMexi overlords.
At least there’s no score yet.
Sounds like my prom
UW getting people’s hopes up before the inevitable defeat to Oregon.
UW up the gut for 30 yards. XP good. 43-6. Mighty Are The Men
8 hours til Hippo v Litre futbol. At least we will have a happy Hippo going in to the morning NFL slate!
MOAR LIEK unclenched than happy
UW starts half assing and Zona scores. Doinks the XP. 37-6
Computer couldn’t login for a half an hour. I m home, up alone, drunk, and stoned. I missed you.
I’ll take ‘Things I Say To My Wife After Stumbling Home At 4 AM From The Nudie Bar’ for $400, Alex’s Successor.
Other things that aren’t that friendly to the Trojans include Greeks, wooden horses, being kept unused in wallets for months, and being stored on top of radiators.
Pinholes are not looked kindly upon, either.
15-14….exhale
I haven’t watched a tweaker fixture in forever and I’m not gonna start now. Nighters!
https://giphy.com/gifs/talking-woman-out-6xE1AiFuQDTvq
Papadilla?
Don’t preach, I’m in trouble deep
Papadilla don’t preach, I’ve been losing sleep
Dear Diarrhea:
Game over!
UA got 51 yards through three quarters.
Also their defense is not carrying them
UW kicker Henry continues to audition for Blair Walsh status and pushes a 40 yarder wide. 37-0 Washington
https://www.doorfliesopen.com/2017/12/30/2017-quotables-week-16-results/
4th and 5 for MSU
Touchdown Har Har’s as the Schiano Men slept on the slot receiver. 28-27 Michigan
Good lord Arizona has an atrocious football program.
It certainly isn’t a matter of Washington being good
PI on the Schiano Men in the end zone. But the Harbaughs also got flagged illegal man downfield.
Like we used to say in pickup games— DO OVER
found a funny:
doctor: im afraid u only have a few minutes left to live
me: [sobs] oh my god are u sure
doctor: [pulls out gun] im totally sure
MSU gonna get one last chance to tie things up.
Their QB is literally named Will Rodgers.
Morris over the middle to TE Otton. Touchdown Washington. 37-0
hey guys
What’s up dawg?
The men of troy. Whats up douchebags
Did Rensselaer play today?
Up 30-0 coach Lake decides to go for 2 and tries a swinging gate trick play. It fails.
Hope going unbeaten gets these Fightin’ Falwells a legit bowl opponent. They’d get their shit pushed in.
Unless the referees believe in praying the gay away
Conversion therapy is legal again in Florida.
Friend of my son’s played for them. Size of a pro wrestler. Lifted terrifying amounts of weight at the gym. Nicest kid you’d ever want to meet. His mother is an extremely religious nut.
Valentino Ambrosio, kicker for Rutgers as well as part time romance novel protagonist.
I was thinking he was a drink special on Ladies Night but that works as well.
He can be both; don’t you dare limit his dreams!
Georgia wr finally caught a ball in end zone on the 4th(?) try.
Touchdown Washington.
Wolverine Hawkins injures himself going in head first.
Don’t see staying up until 2:30-ish for Troi Boiz y Team Secular Big Love. Already dreading the 6:30 alarm so I can see me Toffees lose to fookin’ Fulham.
Hell yeah!
Just realized this is Harbaugh vs Schiano.
For someone in a coma, Schiano is doing one hell of a job tonight.
I know, I know, it’s seeeeeeeriousssss
Girlfriend in Tacoma
You wouldn’t know her.
Michigan remembers its sort of famous still, scores on Rutgers despite the world rooting against it for the lulz. 24-21 Rutgers
Schiano Men against Lesser Harbs. Talk about lesser of two evils…