Death to Our Smurf Overlords: A Larry King Not Live Tuesday Open Thread

Hello, friends. It's another High Drama Tuesday in the National Football League, and yours truly has some thoughts.   Yes, I am still dead, but my head's cryogenic storage pod only gets NFL Network and the Oprah Winfrey Network, so watching Urban Meyer threaten his handpicked staff with death for

Pole Assassin Monkey Attack II: When Nature Calls! Tuesday Open Thread

"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity." -Wm. Butler Yeats Yes, the Bills lost a heartbreaker to the Accursed Patriots /spits. But all is

Pole Assassin Monkey Attack! Tuesday Open Thread

"Ladidahdahdah, just a normal Tuesday. Maybe I'll check in on DoorFliesOpen..." BOOM! STEALTH CRIMEBEAT! Oh bitches, you didn't realize what you were walking into, didja? Don't worry. It'll all be over soon. Just lie back and think of England. *Well, the lead story as of this morning involved a stripper, her monkey, Halloween and

Tuesday Night Open Thread and 2021 GLORIOUS BUFFALO BILLS Bye Week Update

So, apparently they played football last weekend? The Big Bye (wherein nearly 20% of the league was idle) hit especially hard this year, because it included the guaranteed AFC Champion Buffalo Bills. Did I go there? Yes I did, you craven weirdos. GUARANTEED. AFC. CHAMPIONS. That noise you hear from Orchard Park?

Tuesday Night Open Thread and 2021 San Francisco 49ers Bye Week Update

So I missed the traditional Bye Week Update window for the Santa Clara 49ers (2-3, third in the NFC West by virtue of not having played) largely because I didn't realize until Sunday night that they were on a bye. And that is somewhat telling about the team so far: mediocre,

Drugs are Good, Mr. MacElroy! Drugs are Our Mates! Tuesday Open Thread

Whelp, for those of us on Uncle Sam's payroll, prepare your anus for another Republican Shutdownapalooza.  Yes, in the increasingly likely event that the GOP refuses to agree to a continuing resolution to keep government "discretionary" funding flowing, we're shutting back down at the stroke of Midnight Thursday evening, and