Celebrate winter!
The stars are pretty content to lest us be for a while. Yes, Venus is still retrograde, but it’s not aligning with anything so it’s not nearly as bad as it could be. Likewise, there aren’t any heavenly signs of devastation for the new year. Here’s what’s in store for 2022:
Mars and the Moon are in Sagittarius: Military conflicts will be open, but indecisive.
Mercury and Venus retrograde in Capricorn: Capricorn is the sign of the Tao, and the virtues/wisdom of passivity. However, being passive in 2022 will wreck your love life, so don’t do that.
Saturn in Aquarius: Depletion of a resource. Literally, lead in the water. infrastructure?
Jupiter transiting into Pisces. This is kind of an interesting one, since it’s leaving Aquarius. By basic math, Jupiter + Aquarius = Ganymede, so this indicates leaving a state of subservience. There’s also waaaay to much homoerotic subtext with regard to Ganymede to go into here, so if you’re really into that, 2022 is going to be a disappointment. But the forward looking aspect to this is that this is an excellent sign for fishing both in terms of yield, safety, and time spent (there is an absurd amount of astrological interpretation on the books about fishing. It’s possible this is just the economics of the times, but I suspect that more than one Vizier was a frustrated angler). But overall, Pisces is one of the better water signs and having Jupiter make a home there is also generally good.
So. Many. Bernese.
You may notice that all the cups drawn this week are reversed. Beverages will be spilled.
Capricorn: 2 of Wands reversed – Surprise, wonder, enchantment, emotion.
Aquarius: Page of Cups reversed – Taste, inclination, attachment, seduction, deception, artifice.
Pisces: 8 of Coins reversed – The ingenious mind turned to cunning and intrigue.
Aries: Page of Coins – Application, study, scholarship, reflection
Taurus: 9 of Cups reversed – Truth, loyalty, liberty, mistakes, imperfections.
Gemini: 7 of Cups reversed – Desire, will, determination, project.
Cancer: King of Wands reversed – Good, but severe; austere, yet tolerant.
Leo: 4 of Coins – The surety of possessions, cleaving to that which one has, gift, legacy, inheritance.
Virgo: 5 of Cups reversed – News, alliances, affinity, consanguinity, ancestry, return.
Libra: Death – End, mortality, destruction, corruption, the loss of a benefactor, many contrarieties, failure of marriage projects.
Scorpio: The Star – Hope and bright prospects
Sagittarius: 2 of Cups reversed – Love, passion, friendship, affinity, union, concord, sympathy, the interrelation of the sexes, that desire which is not in Nature, but by which Nature is sanctified.
Lily pins Duncan. Again.
Update: Christmas Eve in my back yard.
The way Christmas should be
The surety of possessions, cleaving to that which one has, gift, legacy, inheritance.
On the surface, this doesn’t sound shitty, but it has the potential to be quite shitty.
Dags!
I have that album! On vinyl – for some reason, even after exchanging it at the records store, it was full of skips. Good one, though.
Yazoo are better.
No, they’re n… Hey! Wait a minute!
Sorry your album was made on a Friday afternoon. 😉
Dag Nasty (likely the best band to come out of the D.C. scene).
More things that make no sense
That is a really good video and the song takes me back to the NCO club at Ord. Let’s all y’all Bust A Move
Fun Fact – An early sample in that song is from this beautiful Frankie Smith work that is right at the transition of disco to hip-hop (and taught Snoop Dog how to talk) – https://youtu.be/fK9hK82r-AM
That Frankie Smith video is OMWC-worthy.
“failure of marriage projects”
Does this mean our ill-conceived forays into pegging will soon fall apart?
Just make sure there’s a good flare on the end in case it detaches unexpectedly.
Ouch!
That’s a fluffy dog.
I’ve never had a dog with a coat this luxurious. Moreso than fox.
If blurry dogs persist for more than four hours, visit an optomitrist.
Mason has no respect for photography.
Does the shithead reporter who created the propaganda get shunned?
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/nascar-brandon-brown-lets-go-brandon-corporations-marketability-tough
Fuck corporate wokeness.
That’s some bullshit.
Hmmm….you reckon if we passed the hat here, we could get on his hood?
Uh, it’s a little too rich for my blood:
Is that for Xfinity or the Cup series?
Wow! I would rather give the $10 million to Randy Quaid – https://twitter.com/RandyRRQuaid/status/1471882152853876744
That seems like a ridiculously poor ROI. The sponsors’ marketing departments must have so much money to burn that 20 million isn’t even a blip.
BUT MUH WOAK
I watched the new Matrix movie last night. It was terrible.
Critical Drinker explains why this movie sucks.
Note that he Drinker’s thought piece came out before Matrix, but it explains everything wrong with the movie.
The effects look worse than 20 years ago. Besides the bad writing of the story itself, it does nothing to refresh the viewers memory on who anyone is except Neo and Smith who isn’t Smith.
Are you saying that you don’t believe in the power of love?
Sous vide has profoundly changed the world of roast beef. Between it and probe thermometers roast beef has switched from being a usually-screwed-up rarity to an every-time superentree.
It also creates corned beef perfection.
Indeed. Finish in the smoker. Slice thick, layer on sour kraut and top with mustard. I smashed one of those some weeks ago.
I make a glaze from rum, brown sugar, vinegar, ketchup, butter, and spices, then finish it in the oven. If I had a smoker, I would certainly give it a try; that sounds yummy.
I0b0t: thanks, sort of, for the link to the early 2000s football hooligan video. I’ve spent the last two days going down hooligan video rabbit holes on youtube.
You are most welcome. I care nothing for football, but I am absolutely entranced by the culture of football violence. I just can’t picture it happening in the USA as the police would just shoot them.
L0bOt, check out the book Among The Thugs, by Bill Buford. It’s all about the Ultra-Violence.
Second RN on this; I’d thought it was only a few clubs (e.g., Millwall) that had ‘firms’. Finding out that they pretty much all did was a surprise.
I also wondered why the cops simply didn’t block off an area and then let them go after each other. Probably would’ve stopped the goons from going after innocent fans.
I also wondered why the cops simply didn’t block off an area and then let them go after each other.
I remember thinking the same thing when I heard a story 20-plus years ago about Ajax and Feyenoord fans going after each other in a melee that resulted in a couple of deaths, a fight that had apparently been planned.
Speaking of football…
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/26/sports/soccer/daniel-sturridge-dog.html
I hate everyone here.
Temperature control has always been the name of the game.
I got this in my stocking. I am confused by how it can list no chocolate or cocoa in the ingredients and yet claim minimum 40% cocoa solids.
If it’s just white chocolate darkened with charcoal… well, I guess this is a culture that eats fermented shark and lichen.
Blech. It sounds like the Postum of chocolate. ?
Yup. There is no chocolate in this chocolate.
With all due respect to whoever gave it to you, just how naughty WERE you this past year??
Eh, I blame whoever put together the gift box here. Oddly enough, gift boxes don’t seem to be an option, though the package arrived with their return address and their coffee (which is excellent) inside.
My Icelandic buddy once brought some hakarl in a tub over to our house after a trip home. His wife refused to let him open it inside our house so we went out to the porch. I am a try any food at least once type guy, but once I got a whiff of that rotting ammonia smell I could not bring myself to sample it. My wife tried a bit and said it tasted like eating old people’s feet, but worse.
This is an Icelandic product worth sampling: https://www.brennivin.com/
Hmm, that looks pretty interesting. Fun fact is Iceland only legalized beer in 1989 (or not such a fun fact if you grew up in Iceland before then). My buddy said that moonshiners were quite prolific over there to deal with the super high booze taxes.
Your wife tastes old people’s feet?
$20 is $20.
Heheh.
That is hilarious.
Yay Lilly! The horoscope sounds suspect.
S6e3 of The Expanse is excellent. It’s amazing how good the writers are on everything other than economics.
My relatives are so sweet, they didn’t disguise their jealousy when I sent them that pic of my back yard on Christmas Eve.
So, they want snow?
Meh. I’m ambivalent about it.
Anybody get a bike for Christmas?
Sigh… amongst my many, many poor choices in life, not doing that while still young enough to not die is right up there.
Those people are crazy
The real fun is further back in the pack.
https://youtu.be/BlcAFVO_Kyo
Like a flowers petals unfolding in the sun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymi1OFgLlBs&t=499s
The Corkscrew:
The Corkscrew is amazing. My dad has been watching the MotoGP there every year since the early 1970s. When I lived in the area, I went with him to watch the race a couple of times. The turn at the bottom is a bit over 90 degrees and the riders are accelerating going into it. Watching, and hearing, those bikes is amazing.
I get motion sickness watching those videos.
Hah! I have no love life to wreck! Passivity here I
cumcome!Eh, meh.
When you come down with carpal tunnel syndrome, don’t say I didn’t warn you.
Dave Barry looks back at 2021. I don’t think he wanted to, but it’s in his contract.
https://www.miamiherald.com/living/liv-columns-blogs/dave-barry/article256603076.html
Boxing Day is the anniversary of the last European big ship gun battle.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUnoAqD2a0o
Analog computers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgF3OX8nT0w
Brought to mind by dbleagle’s link, since these were used on battleships even after the adoption of electronic fire control computers. The mechanical ones were resistant to the 16″ guns’ recoil.
I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Seconder ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched Third-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like… tears in rain. Time to First.
https://www.cleveland19.com/2021/12/24/100-year-old-man-has-eaten-wheaties-breakfast-every-morning-decades-now-hes-box/
Winter puppies are the best!
Lily must be in heaven with that amazing coat!
Leo: 4 of Coins – The surety of possessions, cleaving to that which one has, gift, legacy, inheritance.
No clue what that means, but I’ll pretend that it’s positive!
Not bad.
I’m not sure what is coming off the shop first. The deck, the fence, the big roll up door or the roof on the wood shed. The wind is getting ridiculous.
Summing up NYC neatly.
https://jalopnik.com/two-mta-employees-wreck-the-mtas-only-boat-1848261064
I love the photos of dogs wrestling in snow. It’s unadulterated joy.
Fake news. @CapricornsRpeople2.
Let’s Go Brandon
Huh, when I say it I totally mean disrespect, in the strongest possible terms.
I love the caption that reporters said Biden seemed “unphased.” He seemed like a man who had no idea what was happening.
He’s probably unaware of it.
He’s unaware of pretty much everything at this point.
Did he take out his wooden teeth in that photo? He looks like grumpa gumby.
unfazed?
Remember when Kim Jong-il died and the televised funeral procession had many shots of effusively weeping mourners? Lots of Westerners laughed it off as obviously insincere, since who would weep for a despot? And yet, in the enlightened West, a bunch of people expended the effort to dox a man for saying something stupid to a senile figurehead.
Pretty much on point analogy.
Also all the doxing and shaming. As was pointed out earlier the bicyclist giving the Trump motorcade the finger was stunning and brave.
It’s the same thing, to be fair. He who weeps at Dear Leader’s untimely demise must also denounce Great Enemy’s treachery and malfeasance.
Though, my point was more about the absurdity of going to such lengths over such powerless people. The President has barely more formal power than the Emperor of Japan.