As an arctic blast envelops the portions of Murrika not currently on FUCKING FIRE, we sit patiently and await Wild Card action. I can sit patiently, because though the week started fairly shittily, it ended well. I got the LAST Friday slot for a new HVAC repair outfit, and finally got a good tech who knew what the fuck he was doing. Fixed me up in like 45 minutes.
Yes, I have been heatless since SUNDAY. Shuttled the one good electric space heater back and forth between floors to keep things at least in the low-to-mid 50s. FUCK ME, it was rough.
But of course, that is the cherry on the sundae after Walking Penis Dinosaur Sean Dyche finally got the sack. Club favoutire Leighton Baines, on 3 hours notice, led the Toffees to a comfortable 2-nil FA Cup win. 100% win rate, fookin’ legend!
Unfortunately…the full-time replacement is the return of David Moyes. Not great, Bob. But at least a bit better. I will take what I can get in this Timeline.
I suppose other rando FA Cup matches are on ESPN+ if you want background distraction.
ESPN News is doing The Echo today, and showing hot Wiffle Ball action right now.
I used to play in regional Wiffle tournaments, (we were OK, nothing more), and what these guys can make a Wiffle ball do is just insane.
Oh, wait a minute.
These guys are using the amped up black bats instead of the skinny yellow Wiffle originals.
This is heresy, and will not be tolerated.
I just found out what the Jags mascot is doing in the offseason. In totally unrelated news, Rex Ryan is now considering interviewing with the Jags.
Not sure I understand what would be bad about sleeping with my feet outside the covers.
They get cold.
Duh.
Especially with cat demon slobber all over them
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I love how his face reminds me of the joys of target shooting.
Damnit, am I ever going to get to deploy this sick “more like SUCK-eye, amirite?” burn I’ve been sitting on?
Was watching the Rose Bowl parade. Al Roker says, “Here’s Bucky Buckeye!” Shirt has ‘Brutus’ on the front.
You know, I am not sure LA’s answer to the homelessness was a such a good idea, since it just created a bunch of new homeless.
I mean, there’s a difference in value to the DOGE between “homeless” and “working homeless”.
I am glad they got those prisoner firefighters though.
Prison IS housing. The most expensive possible government provided housing even!
I was up way to late playing poker last night, but at least this time I managed to get past the bubble and make enough money to make it worthwhile, and yet still not enough to quit the practice of law, buy my own island, and hunt Mel Gibson for sport.
A mixed result, you might say.
Are you sure there is not at least a decent time share on an island somewhere?
There are some very affordable islands if you don’t mind them being terrible
Probably best to get your “mixed results” out of the way before the next set of rulings gets handed down by the Supreme Court.
Spent all day doing chores. I have earned my pizza.
At least sports betting isn’t as bad as crypto betting platforms
I’m sure the libertarians would champion its virtues as a hedge for the uninsured.
Nah, just capital-L Libertarians. The Libertarian party has the same relationship to the ideals of libertarianism as the Republican party has to the ideals of republicanism. That is none.
I used to work with a capital-L Libertarian. This guy was smart, but bought off on the whole Libertarian agenda. “Why would I want my food and drugs inspected? The Free Market will fix any problems, right?”
Has he heard the phrase “All regulations are written in blood”?
No, he can’t hear much of anything these days thanks to the permanent threshold shift he’s got courtesy of his defiance of that OSHA dickhead who tried to restrict his FREEDOM by mandating that he wear ear protection around heavy machinery.
No, he had not. “I guess I died from salmonella, but at least my wife can hire a lawyer!”
Potentially that’s true in a perfect market, but they always leave that part out. I actually have a lot of little-l in my political philosophy because I think the primary role of governments should be to correct market distortions, but the main ways to do that is taxes and regulation so…yeah
Everyone’s in favor of as little regulation as possible until their asshole neighbor lets his cattle roam all over the fucking neighborhood and refuse to do anything about it.
OK, that one might be a little personal.
I still don’t know why you didn’t just kill and eat his cattle
Because it turns out that was illegal.
Also it wasn’t the cows’ fault. They’re just big dumb animals. It was my neighbor’s fault, and he’s a big dumb asshole but shooting him turns out to be against a significant number of laws.
There is, however, a happy ending, (settle down, Mr. Kraft), to this story: last year Connecticut expanded the ‘roaming animals’ law to include cattle, so now if his cows get loose asshole neighbor has 24 hours to round them up, or it’s a fine of $92 per day, per cow.
He gets them back in right quick these days.
I think I have a mild chest cold, either that or ebola. We should know for sure in the next few days
If you start bleeding out of everything, it’s Ebola.
ETA: my daughter is working on her Masters of Public Health now. She read my copy of The Hot Zone, and she was hooked on disease! Ebola, Marburg, etc, etc.
It’s a good book! Still crazy to think all those monkies died in the innocuous and generic office parks of Reston, VA
Would you go so far to say that she’s…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdSTu0vrYsc
At first I read that as “heartless” and was like, hey wait, are you this guy?
Going to see Yo La Tengo at the Howard Theater in Washington D.C. on March 22nd. It’s amazing how having a concert ticket somehow makes everything in life before the day of the show easier to deal with.
I’m making plans to see them at Pappy & Harriet’s in May. Have you seen them before? Do they put on a good enough show to be worth the trek?
Saw them in New Jersey on New Year’s Eve 2008. They were full steam ahead right out of the gate then, with Ira doing those screeching solos (I think they opened with “Pass the Hatchet”). Just watched a vid of them from 2024 in Leeds on the YouTube and they still sound great. From what I’ve read, nowadays they try to construct setlists with shorter, more accessible songs at the front end, then progressively spacing out and growing more noisy. Personally, I need my face peeled off, so I’m hoping for a noisy, old-school set. They play about two hours and the tickets were $65 bucks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ngROr7CZ8c
Excellent information, thanks!
What… was Cheep Trick booked somewhere else ?
Woohoo! I got tix to see 2001: A Space etc. Etc. on Tuesday at bigly cinema screen. Thrilled to introduce Hal 9000 to The Heiress. Big parenting influence for me (ymmv).
My experience with it is that THC enhancement is not required, but if you can…
I’ll watch it once in a while. Maybe I’ll try to talk my daughter into it. My wife thinks it’s dumb, but I didn’t marry her for film criticism.
I saw it at the Uptown Theater in DC way back when. It had one of those Cinemascope/Cinerama/whatever curved screens that used three projectors. It’s closed now, which is a shame.
It’s second row seats, best of the choices available. (For movies, Imma middle rows aisle guy.) Enhanced… viewing is expected. Call me Gummo.
The Uptown closed?! How did I miss that bit of news? I saw Star Wars there when they rereleased it in theaters before ep 1
I know! Victim of covid. I found out today, when I went to look it up. I saw 2001, Apocalypse Now, Poltergeist, and Caligula there when I was stationed in the DC area.
I think Guccione and other porn sources were trying to legitimize porn back then. IIRC, Caligula has Peter O’Toole (great name!) as Tiberius, Malcom McDowell in the title role, Helen Mirren (smoking hot then and now), and a bunch of Penthouse Pets.
There’s an interesting documentary about nudity in film that talks about some of that, on Amazon prime but forget what it was called.
Man, such a bummer about the Uptown. We would always get food at the Japanese restaurant across the street or the Irish pub there.
To complete the circle of “when a door closes, God opens a window), my dishwasher finally gave up the ghost. A good reminder that I very much should stop eating.
#StruggleIsREEL
Get your new unit now before California starts hoovering up all the appliances!
oh yeah, I will be on BestBuy.com (Jeebus, I hope they are still a thing) by tomorrow at the latest.
Check out Costco if you’re a member. You get an extra year’s warranty, and while it’s a little more than BB, you get it back on the installation.
Mine went belly up last month, about a month after it went out of warranty. A pump went bad that was going to cost $250 to replace. Between that and the repair fees, we said fuck it and bought a new one.
Don’t stop eating, just stop using plates
Jeez man the busted is strong with you this year.
I’m so ready for playoff fitbaw it’s hard to concentrate on anything else. Get fucked, chores and fresh air.
You get that taste once and Playoff Viewing becomes an addiction.
One bright spot for these playoffs is zero TEN games. Tony Pollard excepted, Tits were a hard watch 😖
I don’t mean to be all JEWISH SPACE LAZERS or anything, but these after pics of LA show a lot of structures burned — but the trees in their yards did not.
And a lot of historically stupid people will follow my line of thinking so, yeah, give me a podcast.
Insurance fraud?
I’m flying back and forth between two areas of the country that are actually having decent weather. Chicago is somehow too far north to be getting the deep freeze, which is odd, but it’s only been around freezing with some light snow yesterday, and like 82F in my condo even with the window open. I really ought to email the association and see if they can turn down the heat a bit. Then it’s been mid-60s in the Bay Area.
It’s been balmy 9-20 degrees all week here. To be honest, the drive home just now was the scariest it’s been in a while. It finally started to snow, and it’s getting heavier.
We dealt with a lot of fender-benders all night. The disconcerting part to me were the three-out-of-five heart attack calls I had of people younger than me. One dude I for sure was going to lose consciousness before responders got there, but thankfully didn’t.
The Stillers getting prison-raped later may not be the biggest news around Yinzerville this weekend.
Stay safe, Dok. Well, everyone, just do whatever to stay safe. This isn’t a great weekend anywhere.
There’s a reason we call those other states flyover country.
What I don’t understand is why the airplanes don’t dump the lavatory tanks while over them.
That lavatory waste gonna be precious resources in LA2.0
Paging Harry King…
https://discworld.fandom.com/wiki/Harry_King