I hope everyone is not feeling too bloated from the feast of basketball games this past weekend and may all your brackets be winners (somehow). I myself was able to only enjoy a few games due to my HOA. And my role as HOA President. And a resident member of the HOA who was trying to stack the deck in such a way as to change the bylaws and spring the surprise on us. You know, I only know of about 5 lawyers in the HOA, but by Zeus’ left nut, anything about the bylaws and everyone in the HOA is suddenly arguing to me like they are presenting a case before SCOTUS. The hulla balloo is about the rooves and the material with which to shingle. There is a fairly high standard for the neighborhood but, this neighborhood, the homes are in the upper 6 figures, and it is made extremely apparent when you buy what you have to do for your roof. A resident bought a house in the neighborhood, spent a quarter million on the yard, then did renovations, and lastly then had the roof work done. Guess what, ran out of money and are now trying to change to a cheaper alternative. Nope, not going to happen. Between texts, emails, phone calls, and the occasional in-person discussion, I have met more people in the neighborhood in the last 5 days than my previous 20 years living here. Hippo, I hope you never have to serve on an HOA, because it is hell for us hermit types. So, I have not been around much for the last week, nor have I had the time to review anything to write about Trench Crusade.
However some recommendations: Dark Winds on AMC+, Solo Leveling on Crunchy Roll, and the Original Kojak episodes on Prime, and a new one for us from Brit Box – Ludwig, police procedural with a puzzle solving master, sounds cheesy, but is actually good.
So, this is what you get tonight
4 NHL Games, and you will like it.
I may live in the middle of nowhere, and I may have had an issue with a neighbor letting his cattle roam through my yard, and it’s quite possible that they just plowed up the field across the street and are likely about to douse it with manure and reek the area out for 3-5 days but I will never, ever, ever have to deal with an HOA, and that’s a fair trade.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/P2LaL9sZoAw
Spectrum, I pay you way too much fucking money for you to start lying and telling me I don’t have that Max subscription I pay for right in the middle of an episode.
Pittsburgh PA
07.29.23
The name “Strip District” is a dirty lie.
https://ibb.co/B2WkxTK9
There are no HOAs here but city hall picks up the slack. When we built our home we wanted a classic red brick fence. All the other homes have painted stucco over brick. So we got a hard time over that but eventually won out by pointing out that we were simply not putting stucco… over our brick. I get it Italy doesn’t want the trailer park looks for excellent reasons. But they did allow the gaudy Chinese restaurant on the road to work so much is negotiable.
Pictured: pretty lady unrelated to my fence.
Italian HOAs have real bylaw enforcement. They “know people.”
Italian HOA president:
https://ibb.co/bMh6bLDv
“be a shame if anything happened to that brick fence…”
I gotta tell you, Percocet is a pretty sublime drug. I’m enjoying the ride tonight.
I’m listening to old Ted Nugent albums, even going back to the Amboy Dukes.
I separate the artist’s works from their personal life. Phil Spector was a genius record producer, and Woody Allen’s early movies are funny as hell (and he didn’t do anything illegal and I don’t hear his wife complaining stop clutching yer pearls) but his later films tend to a little pompous but are still better than most other filmmakers but Take The Money and Run and Bananas! are terrific. Ted Nugent was always an asshole but his early work is pretty good. Fun Fact: Ted Nugent is not the vocalist on a lot of his big songs. He is the lead guitarist though. Derek St. Holmes and Meat Loaf were often the vocalists.
David St. Hubbins was inspired by St. Holmes
Litre brought his Canadian temper, as Phoenix, again, broke a heat record today.
The comments section of local conservative news reads that, “the monsoons will be more active this year.”
The fucking monsoons haven’t been active since I was 12. There is just not one thing these people can’t look the other way on for another few months. I guess it’ll be good news the economic pain will be over by then because the fucking heat is going to make us all pay.
Me not as much because I got my ticket for Hawaii booked for the Monday after the boy gets out of school session (the bathrooms are gonna be remodeled by then!). But for people who don’t like experiencing a THIRD record-breaking-like-crazy summer — it’s gonna be hot.
Heatwaves are just WOKE weather that libs use with trans to keep TRrump from tarriffing Rusha and stopping fentnal from coming from Canada and Ucrane
THIS WOMENS USC TROJANS BASKETBALL GAME LEMME TELL YA I CALL IT THE BATTLE OF THERMOPYLAE BECAUSE THEIR LEADER IS DEAD AND NOTHING ENDS WELL WHEN YOU EMBRACE ANY GREEK CONCEPTS ANYMORE, SUCH AS DEMOCRACY, AM I RIGHT
Balls seems content embracing Greek concepts, just saying.
I bought some nice presents for three DFOers, to be presented in person.
I got a present for Balls, who I see in person often here in L.A. (or more often than most of you). Balls, your gift is coming from England and arrives around April 10 (to me), so mark your calendar and we’ll meet up. You’ll like it.
I also have a present for Mr Ayo, who I have never met but there’s no reason not to. The Pacific Coast is a small place, what with airplanes and such.
And also one for WCS, who I almost met once but we can again. You’d be surprised how easy it is for me to get to Pittsburgh, which is a town I love to visit.
They are pretty cool gifts, each under $25 but some thought involved. You’ll each like them.
Do the English make butt pillows too?
Complete opposite.
A face rock?
sorta
Aww, thank you.
(scrambles to find mutual gift)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbK3xQ6ry2A
Naw, wait until I see what I got you.
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Is this because we got a Randy’s Donut?
Blax I’ll get you a dozen (13) Randy’s donuts and/or pastries. It’s right down the street from me and they’re pretty good. But, you know, there are at least four (4) other giant donuts in Greater Los Angeles? Yes it’s true.
https://ibb.co/JR2vKYC2
Ooh! Can’t wait!
Lemme know when you and Balls meet up. I’ve never seen a Brittplug.
Yay!! Looking forward to it!
Redshirt already has VIP tix!
https://lifesurge.com/columbus/
I did not realize that one would need financial resources when the Rapture occurs.
“Coach, big fan of all your work. Tell me, as a fellow Christian, what was your trick to getting other gullible idiots to give you their money in exchange for a bland talk about vague issues of religion and politics, all the while you yourself goes against most of the actual values Jesus spoke about? Could you explain your success on cheating on your spouse, while bilking foreign billionaires out of their money, too?”
Who did they defeat to become champions? ‘m just asking questions.
Tebow beat an abortion attempt, so that’s something.
Unlike Rikki’s flooring, Tebow knows how to dodge a vacuum.
-Tebow beat. yes yes we know he was virgin until he got married.
Tebow’s so far in the closet, he’s finding stuff three previous tenants ago left behind.
So far in the closet he’s on a first name basis with Aslan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnDw8pirze0
And Annyong.
I wake up in post-op, and this is what I see.
https://ibb.co/tMydcjFX
let’s see if juju watkins becomes the player that paige bueckers is
noooooooo not like that!!!!!
Dear Penthouse
LettersBasketball DiariesLast step in pre-op. The assistant anesthesia nurse signs my death warrant while her hench-woman leers at me. They gave me shot here to “relax me” but things I think they gave me a mickey. Then they pushed me through the complex to the OR yet I barely remember arriving there (except that they the banged into every obstacle along the way I remember that), and then I woke up in post-op.
https://ibb.co/xqNnzftY
Self portrait #2, 03.24.25
I’m safely home now, after a lunch at Versailles Cuban restaurant on Venice Blvd. This evening I’m enjoying a medley of Tramadols, Roxycodones, and Percocets, all washed down with shots of Jim Beam with a tiny splash of Fiji water to seem real sophisticated-like.
https://ibb.co/9Ht7RQqY
what did you go and do to yinzself this time??
It was his first attempt at transitioning, and it didn’t take.
(Not gender reassignment; he was trying to become an Army veteran.)
It was just a routine teeth cleaning.
That’s Kaiser for you.
Kaiser SoCal is awesome, and I transferred over from a Blue Shield PPO with UCLA Group/Saint John’s Hospital Santa Monica. Kaiser SoCal was better in every way. But Kaiser Permanente has several regions and it seems they only share a name. Kaiser Mid-Atlantic (which I go to when I’m on the east coast) doesn’t even compare to KP SoCal, and they can’t even see all the records from each.
That’s kinda weird (them not sharing data), but I guess each region is its own thing. People’s opinion about Kaiser vary WIDELY, but I think I’ve heard more good than bad. I’ve always been on a PPO.
They can see the records between them if they know how to do it, but apparently it’s not intuitive.
Kaiser is dominant in California, I think they invest more here than out East. I was with them up here in the Bay area for a few months and it wasn’t bad, although I was on a high deductible bronze plan. Better than the Cigna crap I have now anyway
It was started by industrialist Henry Kaiser for his employees at Kaiser Shipyards during WWII. They were mass-producing Liberty ships in California, Oregon, and Washington State.
Nice flight risk bracelet!
I don’t know why I’m in such a pissy mood after tennis tonight. I didn’t play particularly badly, I won both my service games, and we were up 4-2 when our hour was up. Maybe that beesting is getting to me after all and this is like the beginning of The Fly and eventually I’m going to turn into a hornet.
You had to tap out up a service break? That would piss me off, too!
Only thing whiter than Rikki’s comment was your reply.
Nah, it was a good stopping point, and the next crew was waiting.
One of our opponents was kind of a pusher – not by intention, but because he was novice-ish but a good enough athlete to run everything down and get it back, but not skilled enough (yet) to hit winners of his own. So it’s a bit weird because you have to end points yourself, but you feel a little guilty when you hit it with more pace than they can handle.
@Dunstan can relate, I’m sure.
Somewhere in my archives I have a photo of my racket and my friend’s, both broken (the rackets, that is) mounted on the clubhouse wall with the caption “to all the pushers in the world”
Fuck pushers. Beat their asses and feel no guilt. They’re delighted when their 50th weak-ass shot elicits an unforced error from you. They are evil people and thieves of joy.
100%, but I should emphasize that this guy wasn’t a pusher – he’s just a relatively inexperienced tennis player. He was just doing his best to keep it in play.
Sure, but that doesn’t obligate you to play paddycake with him. I mean, if you’re so much better that you can win 90% of the points just by pushing it back to him, fine, but if your advantage is that you can generate and handle pace and spin and he can’t, then that’s the card you play.
Sounds like you just need a big heaping bowl of seaweed soup.
https://bsky.app/profile/whetmoser.com/post/3ll63bkian22q
everybody that ive ever hated is somehow related to each other. every one.
I’m positive some of princess’s ancestors stated that more than once.
I guess one advantage to the federal gvt being even cheaper than usual right now, my upgrade on IAD-SFO cleared like a week ago. Preordered the cheese plate, yeah, cheese!
Why would you be an HOA president?
His raw animal magnetism. The ladies of the neighboUrhood DEMANDED it.
Clinton and Trump definitely are. And it’s spelled WHORE.
culmination of decades of guerrilla warfare from hedges to the sidewalk paving, carefully matching uniforms to blend into the regulated house paint codes leading one day to the glorious seizure of the gatehouse?
The neighborhood is just life-size Warhammer figures now
warhammer and HOAs do share the love of arguing about arcane rule enforcement
It involves pot, a crying old woman, and a lot more pot.
In my case it was a naked thirst for power.
Hey, let’s all start a signal chat where we pretend to be couches so we can catfish Vance and get some of that sweet, sweet intel
Is this a good profile pic or do you think he goes for something younger?
Too stodgy. His eyeliner suggests he wants eclectic danger.
Do you think he uses the same brand as Derek Carr?
Based on the above revelation, he probably has a connection to Scott Stapp’s supplier.
fitting, since vance already gonna leak the next bombing that he knows is coming:
ohio st again playing michigan this fall
not worth it when he sends us the pics of something else leaking
I mean, we could sell those and get enough to renovate the clubhouse, and that’s even before photoshopping them into a memecoin
Believe it or not, I actually DID serve on the HOA (old neighboUrhood), specifically the architectural review committee.
If you suspected that I voted to approve anything and everything submitted? urite!!
if you ever wonder why fate is so terrible to tiger woods sometimes, always wait a little bit and it will reveal itself why
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tiger-woods-relationship-donald-trump-jr-s-ex-wife-vanessa-trump/
yea, he had those two car accidents (tho one was with an assist with a 7 iron to the face) but dude played a non-contact sport yet has always made life decisions like hes got herschel walker turbo cte
He’s a horrible human being and deserves worse.
and despite his stanford education, wants to stupidly find new ways to explode a body part training for…fucking golf
and now, he cannot even TRAIN to play fucking golf without nuking a tendon
almost like going around with everyone kissing your ass for multiple decades is bad for human development!
you know what else is usually bad for human development? military parents
(lone exception: ann and nancy wilson of heart)
.https://youtube.com/shorts/nRst7mXYMA4?si=B5rFYa8jSY1hvlON
The UCONN Huskyettes are
ironingpressing out of the gate.if you know someone with an old italian infantry rifle, i feel like you should look the other way in the coming months, and if they wanna hide it, tell them to go somewhere else
wait wait wait how will I know which boner pills to take omg this is terrible
Just imagine all the snake oil and propaganda ads they’ll flood the airwaves with!
all all the extra boner ads and excuse to go ad premium tier only on streaming services
or the even more obvious funnel more money into X the Everypill app
Awesome, more ads with the screaming pig!
/I’m talking about the Geico ones, not the He Gets Us ones that feature Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
the 2OT maryland/bama wimmins tourney game was better than the entire first weekend of the mens
That was a great tilt.
Lawyers… is there anything they can’t do?
one of major purchasing considerations was finding a neighborhood that doesnt involve HOAs. only horror stories and annoyances
I read about a guy who became head of his HOA and immediately disbanded it. He is a true hero
Same, one of my sister’s owned a townhome that had a HOA. The old people in charge would complain about every little thing.
Because they’re old, bored, and old and bored. Bad combo.
My Dad just got into Ludwig and digs it!
David Mitchell is the star and he is a pretty funny guy. He’s written a cheeky book about the “best” kings and queens of England as well.
I mean, the ded ones can’t do much MOAR harm. and thankfully that’s most of ’em
Old Liza just handed the country to the kid, and he is not doing that great.