Instant Hippo Thoughts – Week 4, 2023 Season

Don't you just love the MANDATORY 14-hour marathon watches?  I sure does.  But shiiiiiit fahr, is it difficult to remember enough about it all for recap purposes. Execpt that Denver won, thanks to some remarkably dumb Q4 play from the otherwise career-day-throwing Strawberry Fields.  That really was...a game that happened.  A

Instant Hippo Thoughts – Week 3, 2023 Season

DonT sent the banner pic earlier this week.  You can't read the caption because it's that kind of timeline - but it sagely reads: When you're dead inside and sick of life but at least there are cats. As you may have noticed, despite a very good overall performance from the much-shat-upon Charmslinger...the

Your “Boots on the Ground 2: Australian Boogaloo” Tuesday Night Open Thread

Rev is off tonight. I'm sure it's completely unrelated to last night's tilt featuring his wooly mammals and their LOLjob. That was worth any monkey paw tomfoolery, though. As you may have heard, A-A-Ron's achilles is indeed torn, meaning he is out for the whole season. I'll try and limit my

Instant Hippo Thoughts – Week 1, 2023 Season

Did you enjoy the FITBAW?  I know you ain't a Donks supporter, then.  Nah, I still was content to watch the highest of all human endeavoUrs, for 10+ hours.  Beats a kick in the head, that's for sure. Maybe we make too much of Purdy Mouth's health scare and/or arm strength. 

Sunday Gravy with yeah right: Season Finale! Drew’s Chili!

Hey, hey everybody! Good morning and welcome back to Sunday Gravy! Well holy fucking goddamn hell everyone. We made it! It's a wrap, motherfuckers! Season goddamn 9 is officially on permanent record now. Every year right after the Owl I have this mixed sense of dread and excitement because I know I've got some serious

Sunday Gravy with yeah right: Porcini mushrooms Part 2. Pork Tenderloin. Oh yeah.

Good morning folks. Welcome back to part 2 of our experimentation with porcini mushrooms. You'll remember last week - when we weren't dodging hurricanes and earthquakes and shit- we discussed the earthy, woodsy, dank gloriousness of the porcini which we featured in a ragu. That shit was amazing too. Thought I would head in

Sunday Gravy with yeah right: Porcini Ragu! Simple and Sensational.

Good morning Ballers! How is your team's pre-season going? It's week two and we may get up to a full half of some teams starters, so that's kind of a real goddamn thing. I've got that regular season jonesing going on, I can tell you that. We're close now. Real close.   On a local

Saturday Late Night Open Thread – Tropical Storm! Edition

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It's all the Democrats' fault, of course. Los Ángeles has been cruising along for over 80 years with nothing more than an atmospheric river every once in a while and then HILARY comes along and ruins everything. Wake up, sheeple! As of Saturday morning, Hurricane HILARY is a category 3 hurricane off

Sunday Gravy with yeah right: One more vegetarian soup recipe. AKA yeah right makes his work lunch

Morning everyone. Good to have you back. Thanks to Brother TAJ for stepping in last week. Always appreciated. We're in August for shits sake and despite fairly mild temps it's been a humid motherfucker. Very strange weather patterns this year. It just feels wrong. Like acknowledging it will make it better. The goddamn end

Saturday Night Open Thread – Preseason Football Starts! Edition

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Scotchy kills hobos for our amusement on the football open threads. What would you like for me to do and relate to you? Because preseason football has started and we need something! I have some stories to tell but I know Hippo will judge me very very WASPily. See, the funny thing

Sunday Gravy with DJ TAJ: A Swing and a Miss

As the scene opens we see an old man who can’t say no sitting naked on a couch watching a 90 year old Joan Crawford movie, giggling like a loon and screaming to the sky about filling all dreams with electricity. When suddenly, there comes a knock upon the door. The