Kayak update: Saturday was a much better day, weather wise.
It also paid to go out in the evening, as the tide was high & the breeze was calm.
Which now has me at the usual loggerhead of every summer I’ve spent as a teacher – the part of summer vacation where I’m having to decide where the rest of the time will go. Sure, I can be a grown-up & begin planning for the upcoming school year: improve lessons, redesign courses, take teenaged emotions into account. It also makes sense from a “It’s hot for Vancouver” standpoint, where it’s going to hit 30 degrees Celsius this coming week, and will likely stay that way from now until late-August. Best to stay inside, drink my tea, and plan to make my life easier when the school year resumes.
But with no baseball season to provide me with enjoyment, there’s also the desire to just say “Fuck it!” and not do anything until Labour Day in terms of preparation. The school district has no idea what “opening” will look like yet, so I’m not sure I want to devote a great amount of time planning for an eventuality I may have to change because of an intense lack of planning on other peoples’ part. Plus, I’ve enjoyed making day trips to local breweries & cideries – all under the guise of “supporting local business”, which is an excuse for getting out but apparently not for my BAC. Well, excuse me, officer!
Anyway, this is what I ponder when my brain has five minutes alone from the tinnitus. It also might explain the drinking issues, but that’s for the coroner to eventually declare.
Tonight’s … entertainment?:
- MLB Baseball: Exhibition:
- Chicago White Sox at Chicago Cubs – 8:00PM | ESPN / TSN2
- MLS is Back Tournament:
- Chicago Fire vs. San Jose Earthquakes – 8:00PM | FS1 / TSN
- Seattle Sounders vs. Vancouver Whitecaps – 10:30PM | FS1 / TSN
- America: Our Defining Hours – 9:00PM | History
- Episode 3: “Nothing to Fear But Fear Itself”
- As the 20th century continues, America faces perhaps its most daunting challenges yet:
- The 1930s brings the greatest economic crisis in its history;
- Pearl Harbor is a lightning bolt to the American soul;
- the U.S. elects its youngest commander-in-chief, 46-year-old John F. Kennedy; and
- on a bridge over the Alabama river, Martin Luther King’s fight for equal rights will face its fiercest test.
- Then, on a September morning in 2001, America faces a new crisis.
- As the 20th century continues, America faces perhaps its most daunting challenges yet:
- Episode 3: “Nothing to Fear But Fear Itself”
And it’s been perfect ever since!
Poor Desi. She deserved better than to die in Johnny’s arms, choking on her own blood after suffering multiple stab wounds, saying “It’s OK, because I got to have you”, before being consigned to an unmarked grave.
But enough about my prom, let’s go back to my live-tweeting of ‘Starship Troopers’ while hammered.
I should’ve gone to the liquor store. I want to drink myself numb and live post this movie with you and fuck off from work tomorrow.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYDfwUJzYQg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1grjzBHgmY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pz2hXI7Ny9I
It was about 96 here all day and I had a bunh of yardwork to do so I did it in shifts and avoided heatstroke aso to reward myself I had a magraita that invovles 5 shot and now I’m having a second Ballast Port w Grapefruit and tit’s sort of starting to hit pretty hard.
Also I am watching ‘Srarship Troopers’ for reasons I don;t really understabd.
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Starship Troopers is a pretty good comedy….. more so than intended.
Not sure how funny ‘Srarship Troopers’ is
I just watched Hollow Man to see if there was anything to learn about what Veerhoeven might have been saying that in retrospect is more clear in what he did say about Robocop and Starship Troopers and even Basic Instinct. But it just reminded me of all of the crap thrillers of 1997-2001
It’s Paul Verhoeven, so I’m pretty sure all the subversive/comedic components are intentional.
I don’t think he’s quite that smart. He makes things very campy, but a lot of his stuff is not there on the intellect.
Ed Neumeier doesn’t get enough credit as the screenwriter for Robocop and Starship Troopers and almost all of the subversive and comedic material in them.
Too bad he messed this up; it has a lot going on.
I guess it could be finished and she’s just letting go of a uuuuuuge whiskey fart.
Jogging along the wharf on a hot day is nothing new.
Lost me a”Dwarfs.” DWARVES!!!!
1. I don’t give a shit. 2. Probably fine for 1950s pulp editors.
1. Nor should you
2. certainly good enough for modern day standards, anyway.
Isn’t that the plural used for the Tolkien race? I’m sure I’ve seen it used intentionally in SFF before.
1950s.
Some of the shit that’s starting to come out of Texas hospitals from desperate staff reminds me of what was coming out of Detroit at the heart of it, with the additional wrinkle that hospitals are learning how to keep elective surgeries going, and it’s by shoving people off to die outside their main facilities. Not a single fucking lesson was learned from Spring except how to keep pumping cash into large hospitals.
Well, that is completely fucking pessimistic and….. true.
Comal County, my domicile, had less than 100 confirmed cases and less than 20 confirmed deaths from it at the end of May. Last time I checked earlier today, 1300 cases and almost 40 confirmed deaths. I expect to die from this shit. So, if I stop posting here, there may be a reason besides loss of interest.
Lots of moose subject matter gets posted here; does anybody wonder about this guy’s feelings?
Who’s sister is in the room?
Natasha Fatale?
Not the joke, but whatever. The way she act, maybe Bullwinkle accidentally bit her…. he would not do that on purpose.
He’s a modest, self effacing squirrel guy who is happy running the show and not getting chased by big dumb golden retrievers.
It was interesting getting this through TSA in Seattle. Several lines were stopped when the guy called people over to look at his screen saying “Guess what this is?”
“Portrait of the Artist As a Calf”
It amazes me when people cannot recognize Moosagesus.
I just figured it was symbolic of the freedom you felt as a young ungulate….
I didn’t feel very free until I got rid of MooseWarts.
Fuck me, just heard the audio clip of Bush talking about rumors of the draft on the Internets. His inability to speak like an adult was a national embarrassment, but seems goddamn quaint at this point.
Hearing all these clips again brings about this weird mix of PTSD and nostalgia. So many evil motherfuckers. It’s just astounding to me that not a single one of these pricks has died during a pandemic.
Dick Cheney was more evil than Trump. Because he actually put thought into it.
Cheney’s probably the consensus worst living scumfuck of the last 50 years.
Current White House resident says WHAT? I’VE GIVEN IT MY ALL!
I’m more concerned with that ghoulish fuck Miller and the fact that he’s younger than me and could do this shit for another 50 years.
That is an absolutely justifiable concern.
Actually stupid and damaged though. Not an excuse, but I think he’s less evil than Cheney because he’s less capable. Pure id and dumb as a bag of hammers.
His idiotic unschooled self interest is his personal driving force, the resultant is chaotic evil because of his staff/ right wing opportunists in congress and at the state level. While I guess Cheney is more evil he had internal and external restraint, being what they were.
I can see that point of view. Smart and evil is worse than dumb and ignorant. Although Cheney at least seemed to observe the tenets of sanity, even if he was/continues to be evil as fuck.
Henry Kissinger would like a word. That word is genocide.
I wonder if Curt Jurgens was the hero or the villain in that film.
last funny:
detective: where were you in the last 24 hours
me: i’ve been workin on the railroad
detective: for how long
me: ur not gonna believe this
just saw that the dude Hazard won a laliga title w/ real madrid
Hey Beerguy, have you ever thought about writing a Monday Night Raw or NXT summary/report? Your reviews for the Walking Dead were good and maybe the reviews would get us more traffic?
Possibly, but I can’t get through the whole show these days because they are such dog shit.
That will make for short posts.
True.
More on “Captain Portland.” Dude may end up as the “Chinese guy staring down tanks in Tienanmen Square” of this whole evolution. Or it may end up being the naked lady running off the brownshirts. Or maybe both. Maybe there is still hope.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/portland-protests-trump-veteran-christopher-david-federal-officers-oregon-a9627466.html
Civil Disobedient Friday
Hope they used rubber bullets to be safe.
It’s the PNW. Hairy bush probably scared them off.
More of these and much less Karens, please.
A while back, I shared an audio clip of James Adomian and H Jon Benjamin having a conversation as George W Bush and Saddam Hussein (insofar as Benjamin does impressions) that served as a trailer for a new podcast series: Blowback, a 10 episode podcast walking through America’s relationship with Iraq since the 50’s, full of snark and disdain. Now, the main series is being made available for free, so if you want to take a break at being appalled at what our government does to its own citizens, you can be appalled at what it does to foreign countries instead.
https://omny.fm/shows/blowback
An interesting/depressing part for someone my age (mid-30’s) is how much of the stuff from the 90’s I don’t even remember. Madeleine Albright being heckled by the entire crowd at a CNN town hall over Clinton’s bombing campaign is one I had no memory of. Even though I was 14 and going through my own hell at the time, you’d think I’d have some memory of that, but it does speak to why they’re all so fucking afraid of being held accountable in public these days. Fucking cowards.
We have fucked over the Middle East so hard and so consistently. Every possible wrong move, we’ve done it. Ok, Carter got Israel and Egypt to sign a peace treaty but that was a stupid fluke.
The Brits and French are the ones that really fucked the ME over, post WWI. We just went in and picked up the bat when they said Fuck It.
The Ottoman Empire fucked over the Middle East for 500 years until they collapsed and Britain and France got the dregs. Read about the the competing ruling powers of what became Iraq and Iran and you’ll find some real fuck ups. The Saudis are positively psychopathic. The U.S. took over because Britain and everyone else self-destructed and a nation of isolationist hillbillies inherited the world except for the part that the equally-dysfunctional Soviets got which just so happened to meet at the oil-rich Middle East. There’s a lot of dirty hands over there.
You are right, although I think the problems we are currently witnessing can be directly linked to the Sykes-Picot agreement and a lot of the bullshit treaties that were imposed over there in the aftermath of the Great War. The Ottoman Empire is an obvious scapegoat going back to 1453 (conquest of Constantinople), but you could take it even further and lay the blame on the rise of the Christian and Muslim religions during the first Millenium.
I met James after a Groundlings show like, maybe fifteen years ago. He’s been doing the GWB impression for a long time – he had done a show with an old roommate of mine so I said hi to him. Unremarkable interaction, but I’ve always remembered his name.
It’s a shame that Seb Gorka has largely disappeared because his Gorka impression is gold. Alas, his moneymaker is just a decent Bernie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1wcwarP5vg
Sebastian is not gone yet.
https://www.newsweek.com/ex-trump-adviser-seb-gorka-appointed-national-security-education-board-1517799
I’ve always preferred Crunchy over Puffs, but in her case I’ll make an exception, because I’ve always favored brunettes.
Missed the last couple hours of the previous post, and was late to respond to RTD’s comment talking about the badass Navy dude in Portland. So, here:
Dude’s an Annapolis graduate. Wrestled heavyweight for the USNA. Symbology on this sweatshirt indicates SEAL, but of course you can get anything on the internet. However, I think he’s legit. They broke bones in his hand with their truncheons, but he was still able to give them the double bird as he walked away after the tear gas got to be too much. Anchors aweigh!
Reports say he was a Seabee
I’m sure accurate bio will come out over the next few days.
I drilled with the Seabees in the reserves when I got out of college. THEY did their two weeks active duty drilling with the USMC. One cycle was all it took for my lazy ass to say sayonara.
I prefer to refer to him as Captain Portland. He probably carries a wallet that says “badass motherfucker”.
ESPN is now airing the special about Steve Bartman, “Catching Hell” which is more appropriately named title than it working title “The Assassination of the 2003 Chicago Cubs by the Coward Steve Bartman”.
Good stuff. And he has such a great real-but-fake-sounding name.
I’ve been horseback riding 4x/week for the past few months and it’s been awesome. Had a lovely ride today, a nice breeze cut the heat, then stopped at the grocery store on the way home. Now settling in with a caprese salad, some good bread and a glass of Cabernet to watch the 1st season of Get Smart. It’s $20 a season, but seasons back then had 30 episodes so WORTH IT
Probably my favorite show ever. Incredible writers. Just great stuff.
I used to watch it on Nick at Nite, it was one of my favorites and it 100% holds up (although there are a handful of mildly racist jokes they couldn’t get away with today, like The Claw). Someone reminded me of it the other day and it’s my new binge watch!
Mel Brooks AND Buck Henry!
I missed it by that much.
Since we share the same last name, Siegfried was always my favorite Get Smart villain.
“Ve don’t ‘shoosh’ around here, Shmart!”
He’s right though, it’s rude to shoosh!
He was even more polite when he was captain of The Love Boat.
That’s the second time this week!
Don’t touch THIS button……
I took the neighborhood walk. More storefronts are closed. The crowds have thinned from last time. No crowd of delivery gig workers outside the hot spots. It’s also fitting that there is a 4 1/2- 5 tent homeless encampment on the sidewalk in front of what was the Restoration Hardware Kids + Teen store. This is the closest I’ve seen one to me. Time to move. Speaking of the homeless, at least half of them are wearing masks. The only people not wearing them are old assholes and young jacked assholes. I know a lawyer on the vacationing on the beaches of Florida now and I sincerely hope she gets sick.
Anyway, time for (store bought) enchiladas and beer.
There was such a thing as a Restoration Hardware Kids and Teen store?!
Haven’t seen a homeless surge here, but the whole area has extended the eviction ban and in places like Oakland and SF there’s a good chance they’ll do even more to keep people in houses. We already had a housing crisis, so it’s not a stretch to pass that stuff.
It’s probably seasonal drifters. It finally got warm here.
Evictions are coming soon, though I don’t know how bad it’s going to be in Norcal. Gonna be a renter’s market for apartments in a lot of parts of the country, though.
I haven’t seen any data on it, but it seems like being outdoors so much has helped much of the homeless population avoid being hit too hard by COVID.
Yep. That’s why I am trying to do walks and go outside for lunch and taking megadoses of vitamin D.
That and no one keeps records/ cares for, or investigates causes of death.
No dear. I promise to leave intact the collagen budget.