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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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