Which is to say, I left the lappy home to go to work today, because I also need to practice and then go to my gig. Five gigs and a rehearsal in six days, woo!
The important news is of course all the franchising and not-franchising. Like if you’re a RB, you’re officially fucked, as no RBs got the tag. And then came the easiest part of football, the cuts! Including:
MIA: LB Jerome Baker and CB Keion Crossen
SEA: S Jamal Adams, S Quandre Diggs, and TE Will Dissly
LAC: LB Eric Kendricks
CAR: TE Double H (Hayden Hurst)
Charmslinger Update: The Donks will let him talk to other teams before releasing him. GAMBLOR has him going to… the Steelers (-200).
In Monty Python news, an aggressive moose was shot and killed at the Iditarod after it kicked and injured sled dogs. Per rule, the moose had to be properly cleaned up and salvaged by the musher, five-time champion Dallas Seavey. And then others sledded over it. Yeah, not a chance in hell I’d do that. Best wishes to Faloo, the dog that took the brunt of the kick. (Seavey currently leads the group of 38 teams at Ophir, a little past a third of the distance from Anchorage to Nome. The next checkpoint, Cripple, is regarded as the halfway point and has a reward of $3,000 in gold nuggets to the first one there.)
Is there poorly formatted sports? (Yes!)
Doing that hockey:
The Billgonauts Memorial: (BUF vs. TOR, 7:00, TNT)
‘90s Warzone: (DET vs. COL, 9:30, TNT)
NBA Not-Street:
Rebrandable Clippers vs. Basketball Oilers (LAC vs. HOU, 7:30, ESPN)
Giannis and Pals vs. “We Can’t Lose by 50 Again…” (MIL vs. GSW, 10:00, ESPN)
Lousy Smarch Weather
Bubble Fight! Pre-Injured Knicks vs. New Jersey’s Existent (Villanova vs. Seton Hall, in progress, FS1)
Teabaggers vs. Censor Skirting (#4 Tennessee vs. #17 South Carolina, 7:00, ESPN2)
Everyone gets a top 4 seed! (#2 UConn vs. #8 Marquette, 8:30, FS1)
Wait, BYU’s in the Big 12? (#20 Stormin’ Mormons vs. #6 Iowa State, 9:00, ESPN2)
Hey, I did this on my phone at work, while chords were being plonked out. It’s a living.
CANADIA LAST SECOND TYING PK
We are going to a shootout
/puts hand to earpiece
I’m being told this will be a penalty kick shootout, not a 9mm Beretta shootout
Oh great, a skills competition to decide it.
USA USA USA USA USA
that means we won
Last Funny:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOYEYyTZMqw
Dune 2: The Joplin-ing
Doing my Oscar diligence and just watched Rustin. Colman Domingo is up for best actor and he is exceptional.
Definitely needs to be considered.
Iditarod update: Officials deemed it was an improper gutting, 2 hour time penalty, to be served after the 24-hour layover (mandatory at some point in the race)
https://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/id/39670290/iditarod-musher-gets-penalty-not-properly-gutting-moose-killed
Found a funny:
https://bsky.app/profile/merrittk.com/post/3kn32crcpms2f
Blue Sky is kinda Rocking now….
I signed up for Bluesky. Some imposter claims to be Gumbygirl. Don’t fall for it! I had to sign up as TheRealGumbygirl.
From the Warriors vs Bucks game,
to the USA vs Canada Women’s Gold Cup,
and Lakers vs Kings game,
tonight has been ROCKING!!!!!!
Ahem. You left out the Brier (Canadian men’s curling).
Nothing ROCKS more than curling. 160 rocks per game!
U S A! U S A! U S A!
Free footy!
“I’m listening.” — Rex Ryan
I’m so proud of my brother-in-law. He really put the work in for his campaign, and now he’s on his way to getting free motor coaches courtesy of a friendly billionaire sponsor that Leonard Leo will hook him up with.
I think the best way for me to show my appreciation for him is to drink some of the bourbon he bought me for Christmas.
I’m in Colorado Springs.
The more into the country I get, the more I know Hawaii is for me. And it’s nice (piece of land) here.
The only problem with Hawaii is how expensive food is. Never go to a restaurant or a fast food place. You need to buy your food and cook it.
And if you’re ex-military, you need to go to the bases and buy your food there.
Otherwise, it’s crazy expensive.
Ok. I’ll eat at home in Hawaii.
Found a Funny
This Gold Cup is a joke. They’re playing in a shallow lake.
You didn’t need the 2nd sentence.
You could also use ‘the’ instead of ‘this.’
Just saw a replay of the goal, and might I say, lol.
Are they showing pictures of me?
No, it appears their Spam filters are working
SO MANY women have that setup.
SPLOOOOSH!
You could drown a toddler in her…um…what kind of underwear do women wear while playing sports? Or is “panties” a catchall term?
Panties is catchall
That doesn’t seem rocking…
The US Team is wearing the “Smurf jizz splatter” jerseys.
Watching this makes me feel like Lance must have felt when he dropped acid at the Do Lung Bridge.
https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/comments/1b82lzm/video_from_the_russian_pov_of_the_attack_on_the/
UConn has been playing badly and is up 11 on the 8th-ranked team in the country.
Who is also playing badly and missing their best player to injury.
It’s not a great game.
https://twitter.com/TheEmoAncap/status/1765452520866926824
Evangelicals are fucking nuts.
And they’re running the country. So that’s great.
Liberal Democrats in the US need to get better at indoctrination, like Liberal Democrats in France
There Is No Reality But Footy Manager. And Bernard Gilkey is TIRED of everybody’s shit!
I have one question, which is why is the wait staff for this one dressed like the attendant from The Grand Budapest Hotel?
I need to watch that. I saw Asteroid City recently, I like a weird movie.
This is very much a product of recency bias, but Repo Man is my favorite weird movie.
It’s a classic, there is so much that is amazing about that film
That’s a good one.
Reports are that Joe Mixon is gonna be cut as well.
I think he’s got a puncher’s chance of hanging in there.
That’s what happens when you bring a fist to a knife fight
If any of y’all Californians got any friends upset about Sen. Schiff, remind them he only wants to ban HALF of the Bible smh
Which teste?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=_Y9Y1YBYk5Q
Y’all are going to be surprised how well Garvey will do. Schiff is not a sure thing.
If Garvey ends up getting elected Schiff is sure gonna look like an ass for running all those ads for him to make the November race less competitive
That was a really stupid strategy. He was better off running against Porter.
If Garvey ends up getting elected, that most likely means that Trump won too, so looking like an ass will be the least of the worries of a man who was the face of that stupid orange turd’s multiple impeachments.
I don’t think one is tied to the other. California is not as overwhelmingly Democrat as people think and there’s a lot of frustration about the Democratic incumbents’ failures to address the housing crisis and the increasing amount of regulations imposed on Californians.
I would bet large amounts of money against Garvey
I’m not saying he’ll win. I’m saying he will do better than people think.
THIS GUY BALLS I CALL HIM A VOLUNTEER AT A LIMBO CONTEST BECAUSE HE’S HOLDING UP A LOW BAR
Sometimes when I’m considering getting a new tattoo, I order one from a temporary tattoo service and paste it on to see if I’d like it. Currently waiting for an eclipse of roses to set on my right hand and I kinda dig it
If I get another tattoo I will get the Discworld Goddess Patina. https://wiki.lspace.org/Patina
Fantastic choice. I wonder what Vimes would think if I got a tattoo of his face
As long as he’s not wearing the Duke hat with the ceremonial plumes I think he’d be ok with it
Man, Small Gods is so goddamned good. I think I’d put it second only to Night Watch.
I don’t even try to rank them, I love them all
I was all set to get a new one, (had a list of three, actually), then my artist stopped returning calls, then his shop closed, then I heard he basically lost his mind.
Might have dodged a bullet there.
Never change Barrie, Ontario
Hey, that implies that he’s NOT masturbating while driving. Good on you, truck dude!
One hand on the wheel, the other on the stick
I’m going to assume you’re referring to a manual transmission and nothing else
Also surprised that there’s no spelling mistakes on the sign
Today’s shuffle find 🤩🥰
https://youtu.be/BIRsrjcEGUM?si=7UbxbplED98d8ykl
So my brother-in-law is running for judge, and with the votes about 3/4 counted, has a lead that could be described in football terms as approximately equivalent to 28-3.
Oh oh
Nah, I’m just messing around. He’s got it in the bag. There’s only 16k votes left and he’s up by 5800.
Is he a Demmycrat??
It’s nonpartisan. But politically he falls into the “sane” camp and he’ll be as fair of a judge as they come.
Well that’s no good.
/shoves bag of money back under chair.
Will Maker*: “So, say all four of you die in a plane crash, who should receive the proceeds from your estate?”
Wife: “Uhhh…”
Me: “Uhhh… first come, first served?”
*not his real name
Door Flies Open Inc. We can finally get our place in the woods.
Scotchy and I are practically* neighbours, I’ll open the place up for DFO
*only like 6ish hours and 600 km away
I was supposed to go to his town back when you and I had our 1st blind date. Only reason we met is because my work trips locale changed. Otherwise I would be dismembered in a rail yard.
The more you know.
Very glad to have met you in person and that you still have intact bowels
There’s no rail service in that town-you were going to be left on the outskirts of an industrial park, silly!
That is a shame because “Will Maker” would be a fantastic name for guy who does estate planning.
When I’m having gin, I’m just like the Iditarod: a Cripple after half the bottle
/bows, blows kiss
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MItEBZBxLs
Someone say gin?
Also, GAMBLOR is wrong. I wish I could short that Russell Wilson to the Steelers bet.
With Swag Kelly in legal trouble (I know!), Wilson would be a good Argo.
It wouldn’t shock me if he ends up in the hat.
Re: 90s Warzone
When did COLOMBIA get a team?
Or the Balkans, or Somalia, or Kuwait. I wonder how Kuwait is doing nowadays, I never hear about them which is probably a good thing
Kuwait is doing really well. Diversified their holdings beyond just oil and natural gas, hosting military bases, generally staying out of trouble in its sketchy neighborhood. While recovering from injury I’ve been learning about geopolitics and it’s been a trip
Guy who owned the hostel I stayed at in Aleppo was Kuwaiti and ended up in Syria after the Iraq invasion. Glad he had somewhere good to back to when the Syria stuff kicked off!
I’d have gone with LA in the first half of the decade.
There’s really a plethora of options
I also did not know that BYU was in the Big 12. Odd that.
Stupid Canuck sports networks are women’s hockey and curling, no jv hoops.
Family out, workout done, joint smoked, wine poured.
When I was in London, ON, it seemed like 5 of the hotel’s 9 channels had a hockey match on
Is true. Am watching Colo Colo v some club from Paraguay. If it isn’t my Ice Bombers, I ain’t watching.
You didn’t convert to the Flamers (no ofence)?
I did not. I did indeed have season tix when the Jets were in Phoenix.
I am from a cold, windy, crappy city and the only thing they have going for it in the winter is the Jets. Plus Flames fans are real annoying.
The name is kinda annoying too, I mean, yes, we get it, Calgary hosted a winter Olympics that one time. So have lots of other cities and they aren’t naming teams after the experience.
It was better name in Atlanta, because of Gen. Sherman
I can’t believe they didn’t riot over the name then!