Glibs Pumpkin
I think I am going to skip armoring up and going to the studio tonight. I am simply going to do this by Zoom… let me ping the Cryptids.
“STEVE? STEVE are you on?”
ZOOM SMITH!
STEVE SMITH ON FUNNY SCREEN! HIM WANT TELL GLIBERTARIAN PEOPLE WHAT HIM WEAR FOR HALLOWEEN!
“Yes STEVE, we will. Just want to make sure everyone is on first, please.”
“ZARDOZ, are you on?”
Please hold for Mr. ZARDOZ.
“OK, Zed. We’ll check in with SEA SMITH next.”
“SEA, can you hear us?”
SEA SMITH CALL FROM LAND OFFICE!
“OK…thanks SEA.”
So, our Cryptids wanted to share their costumes, and then hear from all of you, the Glibertariat. Take it away, STEVE.
STEVE SMITH LIKE SUGARFREE CHOOSE OWN ADENTURE SO MUCH! NOW HIM WANT GO AS “ATOMIC HOBO”! COSTUME ALSO BIG ENOUGH FOR STEVE SMITH!
HOW STEVE SMITH LOOK?
“… I…I’ve got nothing here…lets move on to ZARDOZ. What do you have in store, ZARDOZ?”
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONES. ZARDOZ WANTS TO GO FORTH, COSTUMED IN A CLASSIC MANNER.
RIDE ‘EM COWDOZ!
ZARDOZ IS SURE TO GET VERITABLE TONS OF CANDY!
“…if anyone answers the door when you go trick or treating, big Z.”
“Sea, what will you be going as this year?”
SEA SMITH GO META COSTUME….FAKE SWORDFISH!
THAT NOT REAL HORN! IT SOMETHING ELSE…
SEA SMITH LOOK NICE HARMLESS. HEE HEE…
“I see that. Well, um….thanks, SEA.”
I think that about wraps this up – what are the Glibs going as this year?
I’m going as First of Firsters this Halloween. Just like every other day of the year.
Whatever you go as, take a plate of eyeball cookies with you.
https://www.wfmz.com/features/mrfood/
They just need little top hats.
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I could pull off the Steve
BannonSmith costume if I did a gut pillow and shaved with the electric. Maybe need some gray tinting in the beard. Second look, ya I could have pulled that off back when I had lockdown hair. Now I have to go search for an ugly plaid shirt for Happy hour.I still haven’t gotten a haircut. Some days I wake up with a bad case of Ed Grimly hair.
I cut my own hair.
Ted S sock confirmed.
I shave my own pubes.
Wait, what were we talking about?
I found a surgeon to do that for me.
Did you get a second date?
Yeah, but it was a little weird that he asked to see me at his office.
Playing Doctor really is not that wierd.
You must have good insurance.
I pay for that service.
Mr Baldnutz?
Is it really necessary? Too European for that. Not that I’m unaware of the sentiment: bisexuals are to blame.
I ,personally, blame the trisexuals.
Me too! Oh, I’ve been doing it for a couple decades.
I broke down. Mainly being called Gary Busey every morning by my wife.
Pre or post crash?
Neither would be as awesome as during.
And I get grief for posting Hunter links. Sheesh.
Stepfanie Kramer Is always ok.
I want to see his Atomic Hobo getup.
Some old guy with a toddler trying to glean some candy off of rubes.
Now to convince my wife to watch a scary movie with me.
Nancy laying down the truth
“Speaker Pelosi: I feel very confident that Joe Biden will be elected president on Tuesday whatever the end count is. But on the election that occurs on Tuesday he will be elected on January 20th. He will be inaugurated president of the United States. ”
How is that for Halloween scare!
There was a Halloween special recipe that used to be posted on alt.folklore.urban.
Start with a plastic pan about the size used for kitty litter pans.
Liberally spread Grape Nuts. Mix in some brown sugar to make it look right.
Heat Tootsie Rolls to a temp where you can mold them as required. It helps to make some of them molten plops. For the rest use your fingers to taper them at each end.
First time I did this my friend showed his disgust when walking into the room. He nearly vomited when I picked one out and ate it.
Bonus is that you get to eat Grape Nuts with brown sugar for the next week.
“Bonus”?
Well, that or Tootsie Rolls.
I guess I could choke down a couple of those after shaking off the Grape Nuts dust.
Why do you want diabeetus?
I don’t. But if somebody feeds me a litter box full of Grape Nuts and Tootsie Rolls I’m going to work with it the best I can.
I read this whole thread in reverse. Definitely better that way.
I am 63. I recall hearing in my 20s that no one who ate Grape Nuts every morning ever contracted colon cancer. I’ve always wondered if that’s true.
I know I was sorely disappointed by the misnomer as a kid.
I’ve heard that the original cereal titans like Kellogg and Post were no better than snake-oil salesmen.
At least Kellogg wasn’t a wanker!
But I like spicy food, Mr. Kellogg.
I like that weird little movie.
“At least Kellogg wasn’t a wanker!”
I bet he was. He was probably the wankiest of wankers. Three or four times a day, at least.
It is always the the most vociferous zealots that are the kinkiest.
see Larry Craig and a certain Minneapolis airport bathroom
Something happened to the Grapenuts recipe. The last couple of boxes I got tasted like cardboard.
Probably “improved” like everything else.
What they did to it is mentioned in the wikipedia article. I haven’t tried it in forty years so I probably wouldn’t be able to tell the difference.
Thank you. That answers my puzzlement.
No, no, no.
The recipe is done with a yellow cake mix, a devil’s food cake mix, vanilla and chocolate puddings.
Kitty litter cake.
Made it for a Halloween carnival cake walk one year.
And by the way, it was very bland.
I’m morally opposed to eating anything that looks like fecal matter.
The only Tootsie Rolls I eat are the fruity ones.
That’s the joke.
Thank you for explaining the joke to. It was all a bit too much for me to comprehend until you spelled it out for me.
The SDPS is a nice touch.
I thought the SEA SMITH costume was a Kochtopus costume
Get your 5 minute fix.
https://s2.washingtonpost.com/camp-rw/?trackId=596990999bbc0f6d71c39944&s=5f9b35019d2fda0efb5775fa&linknum=4&linktot=55
3. There could be a surprise: Like, maybe all the polls are off. (There’s no reason to believe that, but we have to mention it.) I’ll talk more about how the polls compare from 2016 to 2020 in Friday’s newsletter.
Maybe I’ll go as a bent poll (pole) this Halloween.
“Maybe I’ll go as a bent pole”
Bill Clinton?
The moon tonight is insane! Just gorgeous as it clears the mountains on the horizon.
That’s no moon.
That’s no space station, it’s a moon!
That’s no moon, it’s alone
Aaaaaalone
aaaalone
You fell for the long con!
Alone.
The days and nights are killing me
the light and dark are still in me
but there’s an anchor on the beach
and some other somesuch
“Alone” again?
I think we just found Gilbert O’Sullivan. Naturally.
Or.
Yep. Very ominous.
https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/ZesImJTNTqufMPZh5-c-2A.j-e3TXpCD4mdZH8sND4bbF
Bright.
As our dear straffinrun would say:
月が綺麗ですね
Huh. Never heard that one. My favorite traditional pick up line is ”Would you like to have morning coffee with me?” Ask her that at night and it’s the perfect subtle line.
Nice.
I learned the Souseki reference a few years ago. Seems to be a popular trope in recent anime.
The whole Japanese clear confesion thing is also an interesting twist.
Some more forward music, featuring your favorite clothing brand 😉
https://youtu.be/_BVIife3-fg
Just like Linus’s pumpkin patch (cute avatar, Stinky, if you’re reading this).
(the full moon, that is)
My wife and I are going as Tucker & Dale. We even have the half corpse to drag around.
Excellent!
My wife would just take me, wouldn’t need any props.
STEVE SMITH PRO MASK BY MASK MEAN…
Does this smell like chloroform to you?
STEVE SMITH PRO MASK NOT LIKE ARMY PRO MASK.
LOL
Bobby Orr endorses Trump
FTA:
CWAA
Canadian Internet implodes.
This is the most tired argument. Biden dominates the upper middle class voting bloc. If you make over $100,000 and have a college education, odds are you’re voting for Biden. Part of that is that Biden dominates in urban centers with higher costs of living, but when we look at the ultra wealthy they aren’t for Trump, either. Trump’s support comes largely from blue collar workers and the true middle class.
So much to unpack once you get past the racism and sexism.
OFFS
Inorite?
Obvs Gretzky was the greatest hockey player ever.
From his piece:
There’s a saying that politics and sports shouldn’t mix
Sure. Now do sports and BLM, blatherskite.
Media does a victory lap after smothering the Hunter Biden story in its crib:
It’s hard to find Hunter Biden stories even on right wing media. It’s not spreading on social media as a result. You have a media that’s refused to do their jobs, and then they laugh at Trump voters who only kind of know the details of the stories they’ve suppressed.
The WSJ editorial page has brought it up but their news section has been completely silent about it. Not a peep. Instead the main page has been running stories instead about divisive race issues (which are really all dressed up anti-capitalism Marxist claptrap). Another institution skinsuited by the left.
Many of the commenters agree with you. Lots of “I’m considering canceling my subscription.”
New Glibs incoming.
“Will work for raclette.”
I made a salmon, raclette, and spinach omelette for lunch today. It was very tasty. I might have another for lunch tomorrow.
El Paso police won’t enforce judge’s shutdown order
https://www.foxnews.com/us/el-paso-police-enforce-coronavirus-shutdown
Does this make sense to anyone? The coronavirus is now setting up hotels in El Paso?
I’m several bourbons in so maybe am misunderstanding but even the charitable correction of a 44% hospitalization rate is beyond absurd.
This is why we need a national shut down order. Biden 2020.
A 44% hospitalization rate sounds absurdly high.
When I read about this story a few days ago I wondered where a judge would have the authority to do this in the first place. How does a judge issue an executive order?
In Texas there’s a class of “judge” that is basically just a county commissioner. Most of the shutdown orders in Texas have come from these judges.
FYI, Texas is weird about some of its terms used for government positions. The most glaring one is that the Texas Railroad Commissioner’s primary duties involve regulating the oil and gas industries.
People crossing the border for medical care.
That makes sense although the border influx must be overwhelming compared against non-hospitalized positive cases for El Paso residents to spike the rate so high. I’m going to take a wild guess that the judge’s order doesn’t extend to shutting down the border.
That would be racist.
No.
How about this? Send Texas Rangers to apprehend him if he refuses to immediately rescind the order.
@Toxteth, I answered you in the last thread. We seem to be missing each other.
Saw that; thanks and my apologies for not saying so.
No apologies! I’m glad you didn’t think I was ignoring you. 🙂
Kinnath’s story got me thinking of favorite Dracula movies. The original Nosferatu was awesome of course, but I have some deep love for the Klaus Kinski Nosferatu as he is one of my favorite actors. So creepy. May have to throw it on tonite after I get the kids to bed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jweLDWGtRXs
https://www.foxnews.com/auto/gm-army-chevy-colorado-zr2-infantry-squad-vehicle
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GM Defense, a General Motors division launched in 2017, has won a $214.3 million contract from the U.S. Army to build Infantry Squad Vehicles based on the high-performance Chevrolet Colorado ZR2 pickup.
The troop-toting truck features seating for nine and a protective roll cage that has mounts for gear and attachment points where it can be strapped to a UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter for rapid deployment, but is low enough so that the vehicle loaded into a CH-47 Chinook.
U.S. Army has awarded GM Defense LLC, $214.3M production contract to build, field, and sustain the Army’s new Infantry Squad Vehicle (ISV). GM Defense’s solution to the Army’s next-generation transportation needs is based off the award-winning 2020 Chevrolet Colorado ZR2 midsize truck architecture and leverages 70 percent commercial-off-the-shelf parts.
U.S. Army has awarded GM Defense LLC, $214.3M production contract to build, field, and sustain the Army’s new Infantry Squad Vehicle (ISV). GM Defense’s solution to the Army’s next-generation transportation needs is based off the award-winning 2020 Chevrolet Colorado ZR2 midsize truck architecture and leverages 70 percent commercial-off-the-shelf parts.
The ISV uses 90 percent off-the-shelf parts, including the Colorado’s 186 hp 2.8-liter turbodiesel four-cylinder and six-speed automatic transmission. It also carries over the consumer model’s precision-tuned Multimatic DSSV spool-valve dampers, which allow it to drive and jump over rough terrain at high speeds.
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The roll cage is good, as is using an existing design. I don’t really see how it’s much better than a jeep.
That part about driving over rough terrain at high speeds? Yeah, that’s where the roll cage comes in.
“$214.3M production contract to build, field, and sustain the Army’s new Infantry Squad Vehicle (ISV)”
So, a couple dozen vehicles?
0% chance primary cab AC compressor is built in US (probably Mexico)
4% change auxiliary AC system compressor is built in US (probably PRC)
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/10/election-violence-risk-polarization.html
This year’s election is making many Americans nervous for reasons that go beyond the possibility that their favored candidate might lose. If the result of the election is disputed—or even just unclear for a period of time—the risk of political violence is significant. A number of researchers are warning that the level of inequality and polarization in the U.S. today puts it at particular risk for political violence. Recent events, ranging from minor clashes at protests, to the disturbing trend of drivers plowing into rallies around the country, to the uncovered right-wing militia plot to kidnap the governor of Michigan, do not exactly inspire confidence. This week, Walmart announced it is removing guns and ammunition from store displays, citing the risk of “civil unrest” and stores in downtown Washington have been boarding up their windows.
It’s all about the violent Trump supporters.
Those damn drivers plowing into peaceful protests.
If they believed half of what they wrote about political violence, they wouldn’t be writing it for fear of being targeted.
Oh please do define this.
Oh my! So in addition to the left-wing plot from a couple weeks ago, there was a second, right-wing plot?
Downtown Washington is probably chocked full of racist crackers. I’m sure.
the only plant cryptid I know of
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Vampire pumpkins and watermelons are a folk legend from the Balkans, in southeastern Europe, described by ethnologist Tatomir Vukanović. The story is associated with the Romani people of the region, from whom much of traditional vampire folklore originated.[citation needed]
The belief in vampire fruit is similar to the belief that any inanimate object left outside during the night of a full moon will become a vampire. One of the main indications that a pumpkin or melon is about to undergo a vampiric transformation (or has just completed one) is said to be the appearance of a drop of blood on its skin.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampire_pumpkins_and_watermelons
Oh, drat. I promised myself I’d stop linking to wiki.
STAMEN SMITH SHOW YOU CANOLA MEAN RAPE!
[sensible chuckle]
the series of tubes says
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The term “rape” derives from the Latin word for turnip, rapa or rapum, cognate with the Greek word rhapys.
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I started writing a vampire novel back in the late 80s. I never finished it. I’m glad.
That reminds me, I have a half finished vampire story I was writing for here,
You just need to throw a few songs in.
I see disco and vampires as a happy combination.
A disco vampire.
That’s a very bizarre combo, but I could probably make it work.
I’m still working on my middle-aged hausfrau vampire who works graves at QuikTrip.
So what’s the plot that goes with that character?
Don’t really have one yet. I’m sitting here thinking, she can’t go travel the world and see it in the daytime. She has a moral problem with killing people to eat. Lots of theology is going to come into play because…vampires. Do what? Lord, WHY did you do this?!
This is what I have worked out (after having worked a palliative care account for a year as a medical transcriptionist) (those people do God’s work).
1. She works at QT to keep herself busy, not because she needs the money. She sure as hell doesn’t need health insurance.
2. She volunteers at nursing homes and dines on people who want to be released from this mortal coil.
3. Her bestie is a woman who was a teenager working at QT when she met her–like, 50 years ago–and she was so goth she figured out she was a vampire and was THRILLED there was such a thing after all. They have a good friendship and they both wanted to continue it.
4. She runs into a 50-60ish dude who is dying, but doesn’t want to. He figures out what she is (because he’s dying) (all the dying people know what she is) and has to make a decision as to whether or not he wants to go quickly so his wife and kids can have his life insurance or be turned and have to work out the logistics while still supporting his family.
I am trying to keep to the most mundane and restrictive interpretation of vampire lore, e.g., no day-walking. Introducing extraneous things into the tale to make her life more glamorous is cheating. At least for me, because I always set myself a challenge with a book to do something I’ve never done before.
I see.
Can I assume you’ve read “Bloodsucking Fiends: A Love Story” by Christopher Moore?
Perhaps my favorite vampire story.
I could see that working.
A disco vampire.
Saturday Night Fever crossed with Interview with the Vampire
That is EXACTLY what came to my mind.
Pffft, everybody knows vampires dance to techno:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHBhKbF2xMA
I’d think the nightclub scene in any era would be a perfect stalking ground for a vampire. Life after dark, anonymous hookups, drunk and unwary victims.
She doesn’t stop being a middle-aged hausfrau just because she can’t go out in sunlight anymore and has a special diet, yanno. Her personality doesn’t change.
Unfortunately, neither does anything else about her, so she’s stuck looking like a middle-aged hausfrau for the rest of eternity. Makeover? Sure, no problem. Vanishes when she wakes up the next night. And that little pooch in her belly is never going to go away.
#protip: The hungrier she gets, the prettier she is beheld.
I was talking about the disco vampire. Yours potentially sounds more interesting, you could go comedic or more toward pathos with it. I think the disco vampire is one of those combos that sounds novel but really is just the same old thing with different clothes on. (which sums up 99% of vampire books since Dracula honestly)
Oh, I see.
I actually got the idea from Fat Vampire: Tastes Like Chicken, which was hilarious.
But mine doesn’t have a counsel of vampires to report to. She doesn’t even know any other vampires. She just got attacked one night and left to not die.
Dark Shadows was close enough and a bomb.
for Mojeaux
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanny_Campbell,_the_Female_Pirate_Captain
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Fanny Campbell, the Female Pirate Captain: A Tale of the Revolution is an 1844 American novel by Maturin Murray Ballou, about a woman who goes to sea to rescue her fiancé and becomes commander of a pirate ship. The popularity of its heroine continued long after the book was published, with some writers publishing accounts of Fanny Campbell as if she were real.
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Pretty wild for its time
FUN!
Aaaaaand it’s on Gutenberg.
They, too, do God’s work.
The welsh have vampiric chairs, especially in Glamorgan, vampiric fruits don’t seem that odd in comparison.
IKEA is actually the front for a placement service for vampiric furniture. They ship dorment, and are revived by the blood you spill assembling them.
For the Swiss one
https://youtu.be/cxA82MrOAZc
I lost my shit at ‘Ride ’em Cowdoz’.
I’m thinking about going around as the monster Gnarly Bottompincher.
Tiptree orange marmalade is the best marmalade. Fight me.
I’ve never had marmalade, I eat Jelly. I ain’t no Paddington Bitch!
I’m not much up on any recent hip hop, and I’m sure I have heard a few of his songs but I couldn’t for the life of me name one. But I like this Lil Wayne fella. This is hilarious. I’m wondering if T Dog might gain a huge jump in the black vote this time round. That would be a seismic shift in the political world.
https://twitter.com/ArtValley818_/status/1322041225009135617?s=20
Trump probably won’t but there is a shift coming. On the cultural front, significant black voices are jumping ship or at least saying so.
Many are looking and saying why? Why does this party demand our vote?
Only those that have fallen for the devious tricknology to fool them into returning to bondage!
And while Lil Wayne and Kanye may be bellweathers for a coming change, these indulgences treating them like thought leaders because they stumbled to ‘the other side’ through convoluted insanity aren’t doing any favors to put any kind of image in my mind other than ‘He’s one of the good ones’ racism trope. With that said…
Kanye 2020, if I’m voting crazy, I’m voting CRAZY!
I haven’t heard Kanye’s reason8ng. Lil Wayne makes sense to me.
If you can make sense out of that gibberish and call it reasoning (like in an actual if you met a person and they spoke like that and you would consider them thoughtful, not just because they are Black and saying things you agree with, but because you thought it actually sounded intelligent, then power to you)
He may even get mentioned again positively in rap songs like it was before he was a politician.
WSJ has been reporting rising black and Hispanic support for Trump with decline among whites.
A buddy of mine, not actually black but adopted and raised by his stepfather who is black (giving him an extended black family which he’s close to) tell me that he’s heard a lot of black males see Trump as a successful, almost thug-like male which they respect. He’s preferable to Biden’s obvious pandering to a lot of people. Anecdotal? Sure, but an interesting way of seeing it.
Jey CPRM…was thinking of joining forces to create simple 80s style games with your content. Leisure Suit Larry style Hat and Hair. What you think? Im just learning Unity and need ideas.
I’m cool with it. I’d even do voice work (though, as a freebee the cost would come at me probably not being timely with deadlines). But SF ‘owns’ the characters, so you’d need his blessing as well.
Hell, even when I’m paid that’s a built-in cost.
Intelectual property is unlibertarian
Constitutional Property Rights Minarchist. Our constitution has IP in. Gotta deal with reality. Also, I don’t want SF unleashing the vengeance of the The Elder Gods on me.
The Romanian is right.
Hey y’all.
Good morning!
TALL (breakfast(beer)) CANS!
Im about to feast on fried spam w/bacon, 2 runny fried AIGS, on fake keto-toast, with ‘murican cheese, mayo & mustard.
Envy me.
I had some chorizo and a handful of cashews.
#lazycook
Blueberry muffin and a strawberry/banana smoothie. There are 2 sausage mcmuffins sitting in my lunch box… But I think those’ll be lunch.