Yes, the wrong team won the Super Bowl.
Yes, to paraphrase many, the Bucs faced Mahomes, Rodgers, and Brees in the playoffs, and yet the QB who came close to knocking them out was Taylor Heinicke.
Yes, it’s a fact that Tom Brady now has more rings than any individual franchise.
Now, let us speak no more about it.
I realize there are people who want to decompress about what happened on Sunday. I do not.
Much like Hippo, I tried to avoid watching the game, only to have the people I was with surrender to its inevitability.
As I tried to do literally anything else, each time I came in the room it seemed like Mahomes was being chased 15 yards behind the line, followed by a punt, a Chiefs penalty, and a Bucs touchdown.
I tapped out at halftime, right after the start of The Weeknd, because I wanted to see how the Canadian kid did.
As for the second half, after the neighbours went home, we switched to watching – and I’m not kidding – “Portrait Artist Of The Year”. It was oddly soothing watching terrible artists try to paint pictures of beautiful people.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6abKz2LlD_s
Dinner was a 6-oz tenderloin & kale salad with a Granville Island Pale Ale, the true highlight of the evening as far as I was concerned. After that, nothing else mattered.
Today is a new day,
and it’s on to the rest of the sports to keep us company until the draft.
Tonight’s sports:
- NHL: (all Canadian games are regional broadcasts only)
- Islanders at Rangers – 7:00PM | NBCSN / Sportsnet
- NBA:
- Raptors at Grizzlies – 8:00PM | TSN
- Thunder at Lakers – 10:00PM | Sportsnet1
- NCAA:
- Oklahoma State At Kansas – 8:00PM | ESPN
- Ohio State at Maryland – 9:00PM | FS1
- Gonzaga At BYU – 11:00PM | ESPN
- San Jose State at San Diego State – 11:00PM | FS1
- Wrasslin’:
- Monday Night Raw – 8:00PM | USA / Sportsnet360
There’s nothing to do now but move on. Join me, won’t you, as we navigate the offseason together.
Under any circumstance, the man pulls some serious action.
Also, Olivia Munn would have spilled beans if anything were true.
Olivia Munn seems like the most fun and the most nuts at the same time.
No filter, no problems.
So Aaron Rodgers is engaged to one of the worst actressses in Hollyboob.
Let’s do the math:
1) She’s a bad actress
2) She keeps getting jobs in a notoriously difficult industry to break into and maintain steady work.
1+2= She must be good at SOMETHING…
Also, rumored to enjoy the company of women.
MOAR BEARDS THAN ZZ TOP
I thought we were over the “Rodgers is a fag” thing, but maybe it was another site I participate in.
Maybe he’s her beard? It’s been known to happen. Would he then be her merkin?
I don’t wanna revel in the homophobic language, but the rumours about his preferences are alive and well.
What I’m saying is, this wasn’t making fun of him (ok, the beards thing is tacky) so much as acknowledging the elephants in this room.
I honestly thought it was a reference to him being a beard for her. Or maybe she’s bi and he’s into it. Who the fuck knows. More power to the both of them if they’re happy.
That’s just it, could be either, both, or neither, but as you say, all good if everyone’s happy. Still gonna make the ZZ Top joke.
We’re supposed to be.
I’m dying here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hd3BFzJhdGU
Seriously, has no one hit play on this video? It’s absolutely hilarious!
Tomorrow is the az tax lien sales. And I’m again not prepared.
I’m washing this John Bronco thing on Netflix. It has Doug Flutie.
Claudia Conway (daughter of Kelly Anne) is gonna be on American Idol (soon?), so what’s she gonna sing?
“Mother” by Danzig
“Parents Just Don’t Understand” Fresh Prince
The End by The Doors. Genders reversed, of course.
Edit: can’t find a postable image, but I think y’all know what I’m talking about…
Fun fact: This was not a plane dropping napalm, but the natural end result of a Boeing 737-MAX test flight.
So, you work for Airbus?
Long time Belgian spy.
The Crypt Keeper Kellyanne could sing “Beat on the Brat” Las Ramonas.
Something off the Sonic Youth album “Goo” would be my guess.
Super cheap flights between LAX and San Juan on AA right now. Available later in the year when things should be less Covidy. ~$400 RT in business
San Juan is in some wacky foreign land and we don’t know anyone there and they have an intimidating amount of paper towels. Hard pass.
DonT needs to resurrect the Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional Puertorriqueña in retaliation for the Paper Towel Insult.
Anyone else watch the Survivalists with Richard Hammond and Tori Belachi? It is not what I expected at all
Does the guy who always gets hurt get hurt?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5mZABuLbEs
Like to is putting it mildly
I never heard of this guy. Did he get his start on Jackass?
Worked at ILM, then was one of the second team on MythBusters with Kari and Grant.
(Also yes, the joke is they’re both the guys who always get hurt. But Hammond’s are the life-threatening kind.)
I hope it’s better than that Oh Cook show that James May put up on Amazon Prime, and the Grand Tour Madagascar show. Of course, maybe Oh Cook was great if you are a person that cooks rather than one that heats up shit in the microwave. I did like his Japan travel show, I think I have watched it 3 times in the last 13 months. The Madagascar show had some good moments, but it was mostly just suffering porn like the Seamen show.
I will give this a whirl. I really like these guys’ screen personas, even the Clarkson assholiness.
Japan was better than Oh Cook for me. I enjoyed Oh Cook, though. Then again, I like James May’s YouTube sandwiches of the 70s videos…
Salad Cream!
And of course… cheese.
I’ve watched his Cars of the People series three or four times. He is just so relaxing to listen to.
I did. It wasn’t what I expected either. It was ok, but I probably won’t rewatch it.
Saw ad for new show called Clarice about the FBI agent that caught Buffalo Bill.
That was thirty years ago; unless she really planned poorly, she should be just about ready to retire.
Speaking of Granville, there is this UK reality contest show where this medium hosts a contests of other psychics. British TV is awesome because it’s so low budget and there is no “Tinseltown” so they use rocky cliffs on a windy day under a grey sky. But then they add in these contestants as including a man named Granville — that I really think everyone should watch any one episode they want and decide if they want to watch it.
I don’t recall the title or the name of the host medium though he portrays himself as a bit of a celebrity overseas.
So I have run across an interesting series on Discovery and Science HD called Mysteries of the Abandoned, which documents a lot of interesting abandoned engineering works from all over the world. Presentation is a little overdramatic for my taste, but the subject matter is fascinating.
Speaking of classic rock, here’s one of the most astonishing motion pictures ever made: Todd Haynes’ Superstar-The Karen Carpenter Story (1988), starring an all Barbie and Ken doll cast. It is actually a serious look at anorexia and the exploitation of the music industry. It’s really good. Haynes did not have the rights to any of The Carpenters songs used throughout the film, so it exists only as bootleg copies:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmY5mTmrsVI
And yet, thanks to TWBS, all we do around here when we need new posts is make Karen Carpenter jokes.
Seamus and Karen are mingling in the afterlife.
On this earthly plane, watch this movie. It’s amazing.
And also fodder for one All-Timer by The Onion (YMMV)
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theonion.com/i-cant-believe-you-blew-my-perfect-feedback-rating-1819583800/amp
Ha ha that’s funny! I never saw that before! It’s so true though.
The quality of this bootleg is awful. But it’s still an amazing movie. I saw it in an arthouse theater in D.C. (back when there were such things) in 1987 and Haynes would collect the gate every night. It got shut down after a month by the Carpenter estate and the record company.
This was the first time I’ve seen it since 1987 and it is just as powerful even though here you can barely read the graphics. I downloaded it because it will disappear as soon as the record company finds out about it.
OH FUCK YEAH ONLY EIGHT DAYS LEFT UNTIL TEMPTATION ISLAND!
YEAH BABY!
To piggyback on rockindog’s point about classic rock stations, the thing I love about Sirius XM First Wave is that you don’t hear too many repeats and they play a LOT of songs you haven’t heard in decades.
The thing I love about my iPod is I have over 1,000 songs on it and I just put it on shuffle.
AND IT STILL PLAYS THE SAME FIVE FUCKING SONGS EVERY TIME!!!
The randomization algorithms used by music players really are epically bad
I listen in to Classic Rewind and Classic Vinyl on occasion and always get pissed off when they play a song from the 70s on the Rewind station (cassettes didn’t hit big till Walkmans hit big in the early 80s). 1980 should be the cut off date. They’ll also do the opposite (80s songs on Vinyl).
Just glad they don’t have a Classic Song Interruption station featuring 8-tracks. I had quite a few of those. Used to have to jam a matchbook under the tape to prevent double tracking (two songs playing at once, one in the foreground and the other in the background). God did 8 tracks suck.
I had an 8-track in my first car. What was the rationale for 8-tracks? They were weird, with those equally spaced breaks right in the middle of songs. I had some where the same song would start again after the break (I’m not stoned. You’re stoned), and I had others where it would just fade back in again as if nothing had ever happened. As if the full 5 seconds of dead air and the big clicking sound as the tape stumbled onto the next track, like a .38 being cocked somewhere in the back seat. WTactualF? I didn’t have that car too long… nothing lasted too long in 1978… and cassettes were so hip.
Then there were those cassette players that would play the tape in both directions, so if you didn’t know what side you were playing, fast forward might be reverse, and vice versa. But that is a story for another time.
8-track are one of the great mysteries of life.
Buddy of mine claimed he had a 4 track player in a late-60s Buick Electra 225 he bought 40 years ago or so. I called bullshit, but did the google and found it that was actually a thing. It must have been worse than an 8-track.
My dad brought me a Pioneer Supertuner III underdash cassette deck back from Japan for me to use in my first car in 1975. I was a real poseur prick with my cassette deck, though I had to make my own tapes on Ampex blanks from my LPs on my Lloyd’s stereo because there were virtually no pre-recorded popular albums available on cassette back in those days.
Shouldn’t have favorited “It’s Raining Men”
Wife: Why is your iPod playing ‘Relax’ again?
Me: (hums louder)
“Paul Schaffer made a lot of money with that song.” -Padre Weaselo, every time we hear it
Aaaaand adding that to my Sirius rotation
I miss not having XM on my car. The combination of The Pulse, Deep Tracks and the Classical stations got a lot of playtime.
I hear on First Wave a lot of stuff that either I never heard back in the day (I was on a ship in the middle of the Indian Ocean for the first half of the 80s and didn’t get exposed to a lot of fresh stuff) or have subsequently forgotten about. It’s my number two button, but in fact gets as much or more play as my number one button.
Today I shoveled the driveway, hit the gym, broke a trail for x-c skiing tomorrow, and took the dog snowshoeing.
I do believe I’ve earned a couple of these
I did…none of those things.
To be fair, I didn’t expect you to come over and shovel my driveway.
I have come to understand, via innuendo, that this gentleman is a bit of a tippler.
no es macho
I’m exhausted just reading all that.
found a funny:
Find it really interesting that classic rock radio stations have like 40 years of songs to choose from and they all still agreed to play the same 18 ones on a loop and also 5 of them are by AC/DC
“Ha ha, ain’t that the truth!”
[scrolls right past unfamiliar Led Zeppelin song]
Shut up and play Sweet Home Alabama because I haven’t heard that in a while, a while being 47 minutes
And 2 are by Steely Dan
Yeah, heard My Old School today.
Don’t forget Steve Miller Band.
Ok, but at least we still have the pro bowl. What’s that?
How the fuck ya doing?
I’m doin’.
rockin watchin this Dubs vs Spurs game
evenin rockin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEMy6wc-6iE
I missed the most important upshot of last night’s game:
“As Right Wing Watch documents, self-described QAnon “prophet” Johnny Enlow on Monday told his followers that the Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ victory of the Kansas City Chiefs in Sunday’s Super Bowl matchup was a divine sign of Trump’s impending return to power.Enlow’s evidence for this claim is that Buccaneers linebacker Devin White, who made a game-sealing fourth-quarter interception, wears the number 45 — and Trump was America’s 45th president.
“A snapshot that really gives the big picture revelation is what happened with just under two minutes left in the game and a player named Devin White — number 45 for the Tampa Bay Bucs — number 45 intercepts in the end zone a pass from the Kansas City Chiefs’ quarterback,” Enlow said in a Monday morning YouTube broadcast. “”This game is just… jam packed with revelation on the reality of where we are, where we’ve been, [and] where we’re going.”
How are we all the same species?
Who says we still are? The Morlocks and Eloi have to diverge *sometime*.
Crap, I don’t want to be either of those
If I had to choose, I probably know which I would choose.
I too have always wanted to eat the rich.
I have a weak stomach, so as long as I can buy the meat in the grocery store and not have to slaughter and dress it myself, I’m down.
How are chihuahuas and Great Danes the same species?
I have that same thought when I see teeny tiny spiders and then compare them to daddy long legs and then to tarantulas.
Apparently daddy long legs aren’t spiders, but are arachnids.
https://www.burkemuseum.org/collections-and-research/biology/arachnology-and-entomology/spider-myths/myth-daddy-longlegs-kind-spider#:~:text=Fact%3A%20This%20is%20a%20tricky,are%20ground%2Ddwelling%20outdoor%20creatures.
Just to make things more confusing.
Those spiders aren’t the same species, though. They can’t interbreed.
They’ll be happy to know that there are also 45 images that I uploaded for the upcoming Britt Reid joke compilation post.
It’s a good point except Biden won by 7 million and Trump’s going to state prison.
Are they sure? Even though Devin White is… is… y’know, like the sheriff from Blazing Saddles?
/Let’s be real, the Qrazies would never use that much tact. Or have liked Blazing Saddles.
They’d probably dig the prodigious use of the N-word. “Why can’t they make movies with realistic dialogue like that anymore?”
Yeah, but they wouldn’t dig the Klansmen getting ambushed and beaten up for their outfits.
Fake Screenwriting!!!
This guy!
I can’t wait for shitty quarterback carousel to start!
What about coaches?
One of these days the truth about Brady will come to light.
How’d you like to wake up and find that you’re naked and sleeping next to naked Tom Brady and you have your head on his shoulder and you turn away and suddenly you have naked Gronk’s balls in your face?
This happened to Julian Edelman all the time, but he has such brain damage that he’d never remember it and the scene would repeat over and over and over again. It happened last night, too. Tradition is tradition.
Brave of Jules to travel during Covid.