In these Off-season Open Threads, I’ll sum up the week that was, provide you with TMI-style information, and throw some random spaghetti at the wall and see if it sticks.
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Fucking hell! How the fuck are we starting May next week?? Seriously, time fucking flies when you get older. I have a new project at work with a due date of December and I can already see that the rest of the year is going to fly by. I’ll try to smell the roses a bit, but I probably won’t take a deep breath until 2025.
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My favourite hockey team, the LA Kings, are going to try to capture their third Stanley Cup this year and are behind in the series 2 games to 1 with the next game in LA on Sunday. Win that and it becomes a three game series. They’ve already won in Edmonton once, so anything could happen.
I am still hoping for a decent performance this year. Losing in the opening series would not count.
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I still owe you a Balls Magazine post on my latest golf tourney. Spoiler Alert: I did not win, but I had fun. Also, I’m very surprised at how many Asian lady golfers are out there in SoCal. On a related story, Lady Balls has started looking for golf outfits. It’s all about the outfit…
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I’m sticking with Round 5 of my Iron Curtain workout program. Incorporating the HIIT cardio on my off days has been a bit more hit and miss but my cardio is improving.
As I mentioned before, I’m wearing less and less clothes on the weekends. Let’s just say my neighbors are lucky we have high fences…
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I greatly enjoyed your reactions to my list of Life Skills that I learned in High School that I don’t think are learned anymore by kids that age. I have thought about it and have come up with some more:
- How to play quarters
- How to change your car’s oil
- How to play poker
- How to work a barbecue grill
- How to cook a meal from scratch
- How to get a fake ID
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Speaking of Gen X rants, I truly do not understand how overprotective Gen X parents have become. My brother and I were allowed to “go out and play” with our friends with the only condition that we were home by a certain time. Sure, there was hell to pay if we were late and did not call to say we would be late. I think that’s where I honed my time estimating skills. To this day, I can give ETAs accurate to within two minutes.
However, there was no “tracking” of my whereabouts or constant monitoring. How did we get to this?? What happened? I mean, I know I got away with a LOT of shit, but nothing bad happened. And I learned a LOT. WHY WON’T GEN X PARENTS GIVE THAT SAME GIFT TO THEIR KIDS???
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One more topic for discussion: Who do you think did the best in the Draft? Who did the worst? I’m particularly happy with the Steelers’ picks. Let us know what you think of your team’s draft in the comments.
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Your weekly Psych gif:
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Your weekly hot girl pic:
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Your weekly music video:
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I’m assuming there are sports on tonight, but honestly I don’t care.
Goodnight my darling dears!
https://youtu.be/s-Mhvb-7mOw?si=uWAvyojppJmPz8jD
This is great!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uLpZXnXp8c
I realize I probably posted this same clip yesterday, but it’s awesome. I won’t post it again.
Tomorrow afternoon I will attend the funeral for a friend.
He passed away Thursday after battling a progressive, incurable nervous system condition.
Worked with him and was friends for 30 years.
Makes you think.
https://youtu.be/REfKNbNndzo?si=2IIK4I6_TIQfQTkL
Sorry to hear that. That’s tough.
While not unexpected it’s still always sad. He was a hoot, would have fit right in the Clubhouse.
Damn, RIP
Kids don’t run wild in neighborhoods anymore because of a few reasons.
Now for my important thoughts this evening:
I just watched Star Trek: Strange New Worlds S1E6 “Lift Us Where Suffering Cannot Reach”. A classic Trek title if you’ve ever seen one. It was a flat-out ripoff of LeGuin’s “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas”, with a sidebar of “Don’t stick your dick in crazy.” It’s still a perfectly okay show, though.
I read a description of Starfield as, “Eating 5 gallons of vanilla pudding.” That might not be too far off. I picked up Cyberpunk 2077, but I’d finished it twice already and got bored. Then I picked up Fallout 4, which I had bough for cheap a couple of years ago and never got more than a couple of hours into it. I got a little farther into it, but I was getting bored again. So right now I’ve restarted Horizon: Zero Dawn. I had made it about 2/3 of the way through last time, so I’m going to give it another shot. Those robot animals will seriously kick your ass if you’re not careful.
If anything, I thought it to be a refreshing change of past from the TOS formula.
Kirk nails an alien chick, completely derails a backwards society, and warps off telling his best friend and his work husband that the world’s better off but doesn’t return to see how he f—ed that world five parsecs to Sunday by suddenly changing the entire foundation of a civilization without preparing the people for the change, educating them or even getting their tacit consent.
But the real fun part is where you die in the first 5 minutes
Family Guy – Ensign Ricky (youtube.com)
Wow, I chose a poor time to take a nap
https://twitter.com/PuckReportNHL/status/1784403929029132376
The biggest insult to me is not returning a telephone call within 48 hours. You don’t have that many problems in your life to not return a call unless you’re in jail, and even then you can still make a phone call.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hng5GGLgFAg
My voicemail message is Email me or you won’t hear back.
Grinch Voicemail (youtube.com)
Watching end of White House Correspondents Dinner. Can’t tell if Colin Jost is bombing or if the crowd doesn’t want to laugh at jokes about Democrats.
Went to the movie theater tonight and saw Alien, they are doing screenings for the 45th anniversary of the movie, plus there is the new one coming out.
Looks promising
The Sisko works in mysterious ways.
Rick Nelson (1940-1985)
Probably second only to Elvis Presley
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSfdc5LKbzc
The only thing I’ll say about being a Gen X parent is that I let my kid fall and get up by herself they way I was raised and often the happiest tome of my day is realizing The Heiress is in her 20s and my child raisin’ days are OVER FOREVER!
And once when she was 8, we exploded bottle rockets from the parking lot of a judicial-like facility somewhere. I was told, by her mother.
Nice!
If naps were people they would be totally awesome and I would vote for them for public office
https://youtube.com/shorts/RJauCWJ4niI?si=QorT11BtCGP77p92
Here’s a photo of Bob Dylan and Muhammad Ali.
There is so much to unpack here . . .
https://ibb.co/vVcv6Ls
Bob has the best smoky eye this side of Derek Carr
I think it’s fascinating that Nixon and Hunter Thompson were actually able to have an actual discussion about football. It had to be the only thing they had in common.
Richard Nixon was not the worst man in the world and Hunter S. Thompson was not the best. Thompson really thought Pat Buchanan was a good guy.
Thompson ended his life by blowing his brains out in the kitchen of his home in Aspen Colorado. WTF? He could have walked out into the backyard fifteen feet away and done the deed. There’s probably brains still dripping from the ceiling in that kitchen to this day. I lost all respect for him.
That’s a good price on lardgerine
US government grade ” utility.” Sounds like the green meat they used to sell in the commissary in Scotland. It had stickers on it that said it was safe for human consumption, as certified by an army veterinarian. Always comforting to know. I went to the local grocery store, you won’t be surprised to know.
https://ibb.co/HdtY0TB
I’ll bet Jim Nabors could sing the SHIT out of Camelot.
Watching UFC. Guy coming in has the second shortest average fight time.
Me: “I could beat that.”
My son: “Bullish…Oh, because you’d get knocked out immediately.”
Me: “Exactly.”
I had like a 4-hour nap and am already pining to go back to sleep.
https://ibb.co/yp7QdpG
This woman is so beautiful I want to kill myself. That’s pretty dang beautiful..
Hey WCS that’s Primati’s in the Strip District!
Matzoh ball is a floater! Those are the best ones.
That looks great Brick.
Joe Buck & Troy Aikman:
My parents kicked my ass out the door by 9 every day during summer vacation.
I was allowed bathroom breaks and water sometimes.
They didn’t want to see my ass until dinner time.
Every day.
Man, you had some freaky parents!
I could tell you some shit, man.
Montreal
I swear to fuck I read that notebook cover as Rhodesia
My other foot (the good one):
The meaning of my life:
https://ibb.co/xDd0SN5
The way stupid people have become pacificed with being stupid — is more of a shock than a surprise, I guess.
My mother the retired (2nd and 3rd grade) public school teacher sums it up nicely – There have always been stupid and ignorant people, they just didn’t used to be fucking PROUD of it.
Regrettably I have to stay sober long enough to go pick up Mexican food, (they’re takin’ our food orders!), but on the plus side I did have them throw in a margarita to go.
If you ever find yourself in Los Angeles (pronounced “Loss Ang-Guh-Leez”) be sure to go to Zankou Chicken on Sunset at Normandie in Hollywood. You’ll thank me later.
I’ll Zankou now!
Do I order the spaghetti?
Newly renovated!
The garlic sauce (toum) is worth the trip by itself.
Quick! Shoot it in the face!!! – Kristi N., Pierre, SD
Roger is untrainable in many lovable ways.
please tell me you really did name your doggie after the Ginger Hammer!
He’s from Roswell.
So hes named after Roger the Alien on American Dad.
Good boy! (You and Roger)
ok, that’s even better. Y’all seem like cool Blax. Ones of the good ones, as it were!
BOOP!
Who’s a good doggie?!!
So far today I’ve assembled and removed the recyclables, gone to the gym, walked the dog a very debatable 3.8 miles, (really question the accuracy of the step monitor on the iPhone), (we did find a bottle dump in the woods, which will be explored in the future without an excitable canine running around broken glass), cleaned a section of the outside of the house that was developing a mold issue thanks to the tropical amounts of rain we’ve had over the last several months, cleaned the door frame of dirt and such because I was already out there, mowed the lawn, raked the lawn, cleared the lawn of dog shit, and removed several piles of branches that Mrs. Horatio had pruned from the lilacs and then left like they were some kind of Blair Witch warning cairns.
Folks, it’s Miller time!
I think it’s special treats time.
So far!
Imagine what else you can accomplish with this momentum?
Ooh, too bad it got dark and cold out! Nothing more to do.
/ignores pile of laundry that is close to gaining sentience.
I was a “go out and play” Gen X parent. You can’t – and shouldn’t TRY – to shelter your kids from the world. How else are they to understand how it works, and LEARN to sense/recognize dangers?
Good man!
We lived in too rural in area, on a busy road near a State park. “Go ride your bike over to Jimmy’s house” would have been a death sentence.
The whole point of golfing is to meet those Asian lady golfers.
https://doorfliesopen.com/2017/07/11/tina-dfoeff-6/
I miss that motherfucker…
Is that from Bible Black? Not that I know what that is, of course.
No idea. Moose posted it in the comments of TWBS’ post that Ayo linked.
Moooooooooooose, come home!!!
I e-mailed him, not once but TWICE.
Indeed. We miss you Moose.
“… while the Secret Service dragged the overweight Ohio native away after giving President Trump an atomic wedgie, the suspect was quoted as saying, ‘I did it for you, Moose. Please come home.’”
It’s from here. Don’t ask.
https://hentaidude.com/tsundere-inran-shoujo-sukumi-episode-1/
If there is an octopus, it’s pixelated and you cant really see it.
There is, but only a very small portion of it is pixelated. You’ll need to go to around 13:10 to see the octopus and the aforementioned screenshot.
[reminisces happily about hooking up with the drink cart girl, who I presume golfed and was…does Polynesian count as Asian?]
Of course