Yeah, no Wumbo tonight. Barely a thread tonight. Who knows how long we have before we’re shut down for *checks notes* Sexy Friday?
Fortunately I got out of my gig early enough to avoid the news from last night’s event, but tonight might not be fun. Just three of us, keep the head down.
Here’s what’s been playing in my brain all morning:
Question of the night: What adverb do we put before “fucked”?
I could go on a diatribe about extended family members or family friends who voted, but I’m more worried and scared for people I know.
For my friend from high school, a Black trans woman living in Texas. From an Internet friend, a trans woman in Illinois. For some of our students. For Hermana Weaselo, who’s bi. For Senorita Weaselo, who’s Asian-American.
For the children that I’m less and less likely to want to have because of *points at world* all this shit.
It doesn’t help that the bill will come due for the reneging of student loan forgiveness, but at the end of the day I’m actually not up to my eyeballs there specifically like others—I’m about $12K left in the hole there. It doesn’t help that the price of groceries will skyrocket if millions of people will be deported, but I don’t eat in my apartment these days because I don’t actually live there, I live on the road and only sleep at Apartment Weaselo. Or at Senorita Weaselo’s. Tech would be an issue, I may want to update my phone for my birthday, and hopefully the lappy can last another four years (I got it March 2020, so… maybe?)
And that doesn’t even get into the foreign policy portion of things. People talking about wanting to end the wars, but my guess is only one war will end (the Ukraine-Russia one) on a silver platter, and/or it crashes all of Europe with it. Peace in our time…
Yeah, because peace in our time worked out so well the last time.
We’ve all talked about things earlier this morning, so I’m not gonna harp on too much. What’s on tonight? Who the fuck knows? Do we care?
Be good to each other. Try to be better to each other. Lord knows we should have people trying to be better.
The nice thing about having a commute and working in an office is that it was a useful reminder that for most people, today is just another Wednesday.
Looks like Italy is taking another back seat on next year’s travel plans.
Youngest right said “Japan” and were all in.
That’s next fall. Toronto is still happening in April.
Japan is great, you’re gonna love it
Be sure to eat ALL the Yakitori.
“Goddamn it that was great fucking sex baby. Can you believe it — the last time the Boss won of these things, you were only 7 years old.
Boy if we had met back then though…..”
-M Gaetz
Parking Lot, Los Angeles (Number 6)
Photographed on a Hasselblad 500CM camera with a Carl Zeiss 50mm Planar f/2.8 lens using Kodak Portra 400 color negative film through a Hoya 81A filter, which is actually an iPhone 15 pointed out my car window.
https://ibb.co/dMFJrcN
The Versailles parking lot. Beautiful
Here’s another view this time on Fuji Provia 400X color reversal film on a Nikon F2 with a 50mm f/1.8D lens, which coincidentally is also an iPhone 15.
https://ibb.co/m8M0x6K
Here’s Joe Strummer’s ghost walking down Venice Boulevard.
This was shot with the actual Hasselblad 500EL camera and 250mm lens used by Neil Armstrong on the Apollo 11 moon landing, which I borrowed from the Smithsonian, using special “moon film” I got from NASA. It looks surprisingly like an iPhone15.
https://ibb.co/zZ0T8j5
Geez… Do those lights ever turn green?
No, they don’t….
Not in LA they don’t.
Good evening folks
I got some goal support (ish) and we had a 3-3 tie. Avoids a straight o-fer season. I really need someone to count shots, because I’d be 0-6 but with like a .988 save percentage.
Also turbo. Turbo is the adjective I used last night before fucked.
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Right proper fucked innit?
In addition to last night’s results, it appears that London Breed is going to lose too, which means my sister might be out of a job. This week can fuck off and die.
I didn’t realize you had a sister working in SF government. I guess I should check the Oakland/Alameda recalls but I don’t wanna
It was an important enough job that they announced it in the paper and she was the mayor’s best buddy for like a solid two weeks.
Probably because the mayor’s media account got more views with a Madam Deadly leading the homelessness cleanup operation.
That sucks. Sorry, dude.
The promised celebrity exodus has begun!
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/richard-gere-connecticut-home-sale-spain-b2641803.html?utm_source=taboola&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=embed1
At least American Gerbils are protected. All Hail President Skroob/Trump!
I believe he has a wonderful estate just outside the small village of Pilates that he can move to. No idea why but that’s a core memory of mine.
A big part of my reason for moving on the hawaii place this year was because, in the event of another major RE inflation run, I’d very well be priced out of there completed (I mean, of what I’d get. I’m not buying some Hawaii family’s old Hana shack — i got my whitey land pre-laundered through some gay guy*). Now I’m like, there’s gonna be another run of RE inflation and I’m so glad to not be shopping. I’m not touching any new dirt purchasing for a decade. Count it. There’s never gonna be another pop like 2008 — there will be a major institutionalized distressed-buying industry that will feast though.
The restaurant that sells the cheetos bag with all the stuff dumped in there — $8.65 each. There isn’t at one level where the fundamentals work.
The Frank Sobotka experience/paradigm seems to have a place right now.
*May not be gay.
Smart man. Lady Balls has a place in Hawaii. Looking for a second before prices go up.
If you’re military, you can buy at the Exchange and you’re set. Otherwise, yeah $40 Starbucks.
So many to choose from…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sz8jbEk2Lto
I’m really going through it today. My Uncle passed away this morning. He lived in Florida and has been battling cancer. He came out here a few months ago, and at least the Lower Commanders were able to meet him before his health declined. He was able to pass peacefully in his sleep, surrounded by his kids and family, after living a very full life, which is all we can really hope for. At least he didn’t have to see this fucking shit happen either.
Oh, no. Sincere condolences to you and yours.
So very sorry, LC. We’re here for you. Hang in there.
Condolences, cancer is really the worst.
So sorry man. Stay strong, and vent to us.
Condolences Buddy
Fuck cancer, always and forever
Condolences.
I’m very sorry. My condolences.
Have you ever laughed so hard that your stomach becomes sore?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVn4LwIw9dc
My coping strategy/ KITH sketch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8C4TGGtPzBU
“Daddy drank for the government” kills me every time.
I’d never seen that. Super funny.
/watching the NBA
One time,
atbandcamp, playing rec league basketball, on a two on one break I stopped at the three point line and let it fly because I was on a roll. Little did I know I was predicting what the NBA would become. I apologize.Gordie Stern on the phone with his cousin: “David, you’re gonna wanna see this! A three point line!”
After further consideration, Gordie Bettman would have been a better joke
Better? Joke? These Red Wings fans living in their bubble…smh
Here’s another one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHRUbWGRYqU
Trump just got elected and already our country is blocking Canadian content!
I’ve been going over things that make me laugh. (go figure)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vq6p4wX88Z0&ab_channel=AmalgamatedSoul
https://youtu.be/0-Lvv1f5Qu4
Wtf?? From someone I knew as a kid who participates in MLM crap nowadays:
“Kamala needs to give a real concession speech in order to unite the country like she said she would. Apparently she was going to unite the country only if she won. Her “concession” speech is proof of my suspicions that her saying that she would unite the country & that she would reach across the aisle & put the people before the politics was bullcrap. What a disgrace.”
Those “suspicions” were probably the foundation of their vote against her. “Sure, every other thing Trump says is an easily disproven lie, but I just don’t trust that Kamala character…”
The logic behind that is: it is better to deal with a wolf right in front of you rather than a wolf in sheep’s clothing.
My mother went to sleep afraid that Trump was going to lose because Harris was going to destroy the country.
If she wasn’t caretaking Dad, she wouldn’t have gotten programmed by Fox News.
Dad on the other hand is still glad he won’t have to live long to see either screw up the country. He hated both but voted Trump for voting history. He did get a sick smile about Hollywood Celebrities freaking out and, I must confess. in the darkest depths of my black heart, so do I.
I mean — what if the dude does just come in, murder major members of the media complex, and then just be a W with the house and senate?
The same ones who’ve been moving their permanent homes to Texas since 2020.
I mean if he believes that he can post Trump’s concession speech from 2020
Oh look less than 24 hours after a new President is elected and America already on fire. I thought he promised to fix this stuff!
https://youtu.be/eaQQYVaaRKI?si=ZfPABe90bHIP-FMt
Forget the power of technology and science, for so much has been “disproven” by histrionic youtube videos, never to be trusted again. Forget the promise of progress and understanding, for in the grim dark future there is only obstinance. There is no justice amongst the populace, only an eternity of misdeeds and corruption, and the laughter of online trolls.
One Nation.
Pirate Blax is best Blax
This sketch is as timeless as the Black Jeopardy skit with Tom Hanks:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHG0ezLiVGc
#7a: Bistec de Pollo topped with garlic sauce & onions, w/ white rice, black beans, and fried plantains; also black bean soup and Owens River water.
Versailles Comida Cubana, Los Angeles 11/06/24
https://ibb.co/H2z5L1m
Venice location?
But of course . . .
Best one!
Next time we get together, we should go there to eat
Anytime!
You getting honored for Veterans Day?
Too early, but I will! Oh, I will!!!
Okay, let me what works for you.
I’m always free. Tell me when you’re nearby.
For a bunch of Kennedy-Killing Commies, these Cubans sure can grill a chicken.
Allen Dulles killed JFK
It was the Freemasons. Everybody knows that.
NY Cheesecake & Drip Coffee ala Havana
Just like Meyer Lansky ordered it
https://ibb.co/KLhx66g
As for Ukraine, I do think that Trump will stop providing aid to the Ukrainians. Which will lead to Putin retaining Crimea and acquiring a new puppet state independent of Ukraine called DonbASS Republic or something like that.
He’ll likely stop there to make sure there’s no more serious opposition and to give Trump time to threaten to leave NATO. If that halts NATO expansion, he’ll leave it be. If not, then we’re in for another “intervention”.
Ah yes, just like Nazi Germany was content with the Sudetenland
I said he would wait for a reaction….
Britain is a mess. The only opposition would, ironically, come from a French/German collaboration. A Vichy Alliance, if you will…
I’m actually optimistic on Ukraine. It’s US defense contractors who get the money when we send aid and I’m betting they’ll be able to talk their way into the budget. Unless he gives all those contracts to Musk who just sends a bunch of cybertrucks over there. So yeah, nevermind, Ukraine is screwed.
As for the current situation, I think both Republicans and Democrats are thrilled that North Korea is sending troops over there. They will take massive losses and another enemy will be weakened.
I was actually thinking about that earlier in the day.
Which is pretty fucking weird.
Anyhoo, I think Zymm’s right, and that Ukraine’s best chance of getting continued weapons support from the US is a bunch of US military industrial complex guys pointing out to Donald that if they’re not making billions on Ukraine shipments they can’t backchannel millions in “campaign donations” to him.
Trump will try to get the Europeans to pay for the weapons.
He was impeached the first time for pushing too hard on his end of this exact scam.
Honest-to-God Conversation I Just Had:
Coworker: “Redshirt, the machine broke an hour ago so I waited for you to return.”
Me: “Sorry, I was at… An hour ago? Did you tell anyone else?”
Coworker: “I told the new person, who gave me your number.”
Me: (checks phone) “I got no call or text.”
Coworker: “…”
Me: “Did you tell the experienced person who knows what to do?”
Coworker: “No, I figured you knew how to fix it.”
Me: “So your plan was to wait and do nothing, on the off chance I stopped by to fix it?”
Coworker: “Yes.”
At this point, my brain shut off its higher brain functions due to conniption and not wanting to get myself fired or arrested.
Does he file his taxes by just hoping someone from the IRS stops by and hands him a refund check?
Do you not?
To be fair, the ice cream machines are always broken at Mickey D’s…
Not for much longer.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/01/us/mcdonalds-ice-cream-machine-fix-exemption.html
Did he try plugging it in?
Oh, we’re not losing Sexy Friday any time soon. If there is one thing that Republicans like is bottle blondes wearing skimpy outfits.
Someone didn’t read project 2025 (it’s okay, I didn’t either)
https://www.newsweek.com/project-2025-porn-ban-trump-presidency-1981587
It’s okay. Neither did Trump or his voters.
Yeah, but they threw that in to get the Evangelicals. No way that gets implemented. Trump will buy Pornhub first.
Me either!
— Lea Michele