Wumbo Wednesday With Weaselo: Meanwhile at the Office…

Senor Weaselo - February 28, 2024February 28, 2024

Tonight's post is live from the office, because I have to be there for rehearsal during post time, and am spending my time otherwise doing jazz band arrangements for… definitely not enough per page. Like most teaching things, I should be making like double for this. Life of a musician… Okay,

Wichita, O Wichita! or No Fun With Peter King: Tuesday Open Thread

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The Right Reverend Electric Mayhem - February 27, 2024February 27, 2024

So Peter King is stepping back from his primary(?) gig writing 11,000 words per week as a columnist for NBC Sports. This is indeed the end of an era, and you will see a thousand fauning tributes to the football equivalent of everyone's favorite sells-insurance-but-really-wanted-to-be-a-standup-comic uncle. Not here, obviously. Even our deeply-felt

Wumbo Wednesday With Weaselo: They Can’t All Be Winners

Senor Weaselo - February 21, 2024February 21, 2024

Both regarding this being a bit of a Carpenter-job and my Monday night. Some gigs are nice. Easy amount of time, little work, get paid okay. Others are less so. Like playing in a heated tent, but the top's been cut out (in February), and then being under a vent

Is It Underwear Olympics Time?: Tuesday Open Thread

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The Right Reverend Electric Mayhem - February 20, 2024February 20, 2024

Short answer: no. The NFL's annual meat market doesn't begin until Leap Day, the most unholy day of the calendar (other than January 2). Somehow fitting. So instead we are in The Other Desert of the year for football. The UFL, bastard child of the forced marriage between the New USFL

A Thursday Afternoon Carpenter Existential Experience!

WCS - February 15, 2024February 15, 2024

Greetings, hola, guten tag, ni how, and yadda yadda. I swear the month of February exists only to mess with people's sense of time, space, and perception. 2024 is already six weeks old, we never really had winter in Yinzburgh, and I can't tell if the days are getting longer (sort

Wumbo Wednesday With Weaselo: Welcome to the Nadir

Senor Weaselo - February 14, 2024February 14, 2024

Believe it or not, we at [Door Flies Open] haven't officially welcomed you to the offseason yet. So, uh, welcome to the offseason! We've got a veritable smorgasbord of things in the horizon, such as: -Better Know a Smarch Smadness region (not including St. John's as they continue their annual 21st

Wumbo Wednesday With Weaselo: Mind on the Road

Senor Weaselo - January 31, 2024January 31, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abdAMwgMWPo&themeRefresh=1 I do a lot of driving. Like, a lot. Like, due for a 5,000 mile oil change, and I got the car at the end of October. Like, over 1800 miles in January. Such is the life of a freelance musician, who is also in a medium-distance relationship, and is

Football in the Time of Brainworms: Tuesday Open Thread

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The Right Reverend Electric Mayhem - January 30, 2024January 30, 2024

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Taylor Swift is not a CIA wokeness android. Nancy Pelosi did not threaten the league at halftime if the 49ers didn't win. The NFL is controlled by Lizard People, but they are the same Old Rich White Lizard People as have openly controlled American wealth since Cornelius Vanderbilt emerged from the caves

Wumbo Wednesday With Weaselo: The Things We Do For Friends

Senor Weaselo - January 24, 2024January 24, 2024

So, one of my good friends from where I did my Master's is originally from the Buffalo area, so naturally, is a giant Bills fan. So, in the spirit of cheering her up after Sunday night, here are some of the better jokes from everyone's favorite moment Sunday night! (I

Wide Right: Tuesday Wide Right Thread

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The Right Reverend Electric Mayhem - January 23, 2024January 23, 2024

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Wide right. Wide right wide right wide right; wide right wide right! Wide Right wide right, wide right Wide Right. Wide right wide right- wide RIGHT. Wide. Right. Seriously though- it's a fair cop, guv. A flawed and beat-up team got Got by another flawed and beat-up team with a better coach. It sucks that

Wumbo Wednesday With Weaselo: “Caution: Arranger at Work”

Senor Weaselo - January 17, 2024January 17, 2024

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No crazy stories today, I'm simultaneously working on this and some Great American Songbook scouring (Hey, "Yiddishe Momme" counts… dammit, my cutoff is 1924 and it was written in '25). Y'know, that sort of shit of being the contractor/arranger where if I were getting paid better maybe I'd take an

Satisfaction: Tuesday Open Thread

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The Right Reverend Electric Mayhem - January 16, 2024January 16, 2024

Oh that's the stuff. That...that's what Daddy needed. Ok, that got weird, but stay with me, gang. Not every game was what you might call a Barn Burner. And I'm sorry to my Iggles brethren and sistren. The Universe had to balance the scales after giving us the gift of three quarters of