Good morning!
In our haste to get to the weekend, we here at DFO forgot there was a “Thursday” and thus didn’t plan any content. We regret the error, and the fact that the weekend is still many hours away.
In order to get the discussion flowing, here are some topics for your intellectual arousal:
a) It’s cold. I mean, for most of the country. Southern California will see 80 degree highs today, and I assume Florida is warm and humid and stupid. But everyone in between is wearing extra layers of thongs or whatever it is you people (RIP Fuzzy Zoeller) do.
2) The federal government is run by stupid fascists. I hate it. You hate it. Let’s drink about it.
III) The Super Bowl is 10 days away. I think the C-Hox win and cover. HOT TAKE ALERT. Sam D’arnold is the first USC quarterback to play in the Super Bowl. Guys named “Drake” are 0-1 in the Super Bowl thanks to Kendrick Lamar.
Fore) Europa League will have the last of the stage matches today. The top of the table features Lyon and Aston Villa. I would very much like to move to Lyon. Can someone give me a lot of money please?
Ok, that should be enough to get things started. Feel free to talk about other things, like boobs and music and musical boobs. Or religion. Everyone likes that topic. Except Presbyterians. What’s up with those people and their ritual human sacrifices? Or am I thinking of Anglicans? Dammit, we need one true religion that everyone can agree on. I think Judaism might be the one. L’Chaim!
Night thread is finally up.
Interesting article out from the NYT about ex-FBI agent Peanut Tillman (yup, that Peanut, from Da Bears)
Free archived article link: https://archive.ph/XksPS
Does the Hall of Fame have a minimum of seasons one has to play for eligibility?
Did Gronk play long enough to be eligible?
Gronk (11 seasons) played longer than Barry Sanders (10), Megatron/Jim Brown (9) and Gale Sayers (7).
I misplaced my wallet on Saturday. No weird charges on anything. No cash. Pretty minimal card damage — debit, license, 2 company cards.
I’ve looked plenty. Beyond that, there’s a non-zero chance that, as I was tossing all this stuff that had been traveling in my truck that my wallet may have gone out with that.
How much longer until I just call it gone?
And this is funny bc I was looking at airpod(like) wallets a couple weeks back and I thought, “nah – I’m not gonna jinx it.”
I’d say it’s definitely time to write it off.
Just got back from an “ice cream social” sponsored by Bridgerton, where we got to interact with beautiful people in Regency costumes, ate free Jeni’s ice cream, and watched the Vitamin String Quartet perform. And they even sent us home with flowers.
Nice Thursday. This is why I didn’t get too upset when the wildfires were tearing through town.
Were there bewigged people having bawdy adventures?
Wait, are bewigged people known as “wiggers” or is that something else?
Those fuckers?
/We thank them for their transcriptions who have saved many a wedding contractor from having to do their own arrangements
My brother got me a vinyl of Appetite for Destruction. He told me it’s a first pressing or whatever. What am I looking for on the record or cover to confirm this?
Axl’s blood?
Fuck no! Don’t touch any of that!
Heroin residue
The cover won’t look like what the Appetite CD looked like with the cross and skulls. It’ll have like a tentacled UFO thing and a strung out gal with her undergarments under her ankles laying against a wall. Kinda problematic.
It had that image on the cover. But the front is the big cross with skulls for the band members.
Media: “The Trump Administration softening of ICE policy in Minneapolis surprising, many questioned why.”
Me: “ICE committing an Act of War against Ecuador may have something to do with it.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/28/ice-ecuador-consulate-minneapolis
Why aren’t we at war with Ecuador? Did Trump let Larry Elison buy it?
Someone probably told them that Ecuador is español for “equality” and they wanted nothing to do with it.
Oh that’s nice. I don’t have many dinner-party appropriate barbs like that.
I’m not keen on my cut living in the imperial core, either, but I’m not about to man the ramparts even if/when ICE invades this shithole next.
I saw Man the Ramparts at the county fair, I like their old stuff better.
Lindsey Graham also loves Ram the Manparts.
Word is Ohio is next. If I get swept up in a raid, send bail money.
Fire up the protest song again
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9INnMMwvnk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GL0eVK7ZJ94&pp=ygUQQnVybnMgdGFuayBtdXNpYw%3D%3D
Does not OH run red? Why go there?
https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/local/2026/01/29/ice-in-ohio-agents-must-be-accountable-say-politicians-joyce-beatty-andrew-ginther-immigration/88412509007/#
Haitians lose their protections this week. Springfield returns to the headlines.
Yeah well that’ll teach them to refuse to eat all the dogs and make Trump look like (more of) a liar.
I love the “we will just…..REMOVE PROTECTIONS FROM THE NWORDS AND THEN IMMEDIATELY GO HAM ON THIS ADMINISTRATIVE STUNT because we ain’t looking for anyone who’s an actual threat but still must be racists.”
I mean — how’s there even money for this? Haitian immigrants don’t have oil or real estate to steal.
For-profit prisons?
I thought they were going to Philly? I guess they chickened out. Or cheesesteaked out.
Not sure how many of you are also Defector readers for Big Daddy Drew or the others, but good dude and write Dan McQuade died from cancer at 43, leaving a wife and young son.
https://defector.com/dan-mcquade-1983-2026
Go hug your family and friends.
Fuck cancer with all the rusty pitchforks.
/grabbing cancer by the scruff of the neck and pointing at the White House
THERE!! GO RIGHT THERE!! NO ONE’S GONNA COMPLAIN!!!!
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Do the laundry, too.
I’m doing exactly what I do at home.
supposed to be -32 with the windchill tonight. Might need to find a jacket.
Ehh…a scarf maybe.
-35 with the windchill here. This is where the
dickweather-measuring contest is, right?/Sorry, lucky shorts-I won’t be wearing you tomorrow
Honestly, willing to lose at the “you’re colder than me” contest every time
-9 here tonight, (allegedly; personally I suspect some scare tactics), and that’s Fahrenheit, not that metric bullshit.
I was out in the woods with dog earlier, (not very long; as soon as he somehow managed to find the one patch of running water and get his paws wet we were the fuck out of there), and it’s so cold not even the ice-fishing psychos are out on the ice, and those people have antifreeze* for blood.
*vodka. let’s face it, no one ice fishes sober
It has been a little cold here too. Had to zip up the hoodie one morning. Gonna head to the hale next month. I’ve not been in Hawaii this late in the whale season so I’m pretty excited to see some deep MAJESTIC MAMMAL* action. I spoke to the business sale guy this morning and it sounds like 6mo – 12mo is a minimum time frame for this to roll. So I guess I’ll be YeahRight-style short timing it here for 2026+.
*Not named Melania, of course.
Did someone request musical boobs?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBxtqo05ovI
Followed several years later by (wish she would have done a video… but album covers worked back in the ’70’s too) …
Three can play this game!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfGQ_pNz428&list=RDIfGQ_pNz428&start_radio=1
Next off season we need to do a request line boobs edition.
Not sure how that will work but I’ll add it to the list.
https://youtu.be/T_APJS–CSs?si=AOmFBFi8n0jHK29Q
Mock draft idea noted and approved.
On the radio yesterday they announced the new Archbishop of Canterbury, only they misspoke and said Archbitchup. Was even funnier when they said it was the first ever woman in the role. Archbitchup indeed!
Smack my archbitchup?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZPECFQ4NhE&list=RDhZPECFQ4NhE&start_radio=1&pp=ygUVcHJvZGlneSBzbWFjayBteSBiIHVwoAcB
Radio announcer, your Freudian slip is showing! Now there’s something that’s going the way of the dodo. None of the youngsters even know what a ” slip” is. Was. And the dodo thing, for that matter. I read recently that they are going to recreate dodos with DNA and chickens.
Messing with Mother Nature will probably get us Tyrannosaurus.
Yup, it’s that could we/should we thing.
Maybe the announcer just has a funny accent.
Probably wouldn’t have cleared her throat and resaid it correctly in that case