Diani and Devine visit Texas.
Diani and Devine Meet the Apocalypse
Short Subject: Mr Moocher
Some of you may remember a wonderful film called The Selling which I posted a while back. This is subsequent film effort from the comedy team of Etta Devine and Gabriel Diani. And it is great. I am very happy it is out where everyone can here see it. In case you didn’t see the post for The Selling, here is a direct link to my post, as opposed to just the movie link above.
In this film, Etta Devine and Gabriel Diani play themselves experiencing the apocalypse. It’s a pretty good view of the apocalypse, I must say. I shall tell you nothing else of the plot! I will say that this film wrinkled the feathers of some film critics, as it was “too brutal” and Diani and Devine’s comedy is not sensitive to the needs of snowflakes. Good! This means their film goes in Glibflicks!
Enjoy this comedy, and maybe find some new ideas to prep for the upcoming apocalypse.
Also included, a nice short subject about mooching neighbors. I apologize in advance for the prison camera timer. I don’t know what is up with that. Other copies seemed to be short about 20 seconds and were hence suspect – so the prison timer version won.
So watch! Or don’t! Everything is voluntary! Next week, will be… Something. I don’t know what yet.
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I’m diving into the short and then I’ll start the movie.
*hits play*
The next two should be horror movies.
It is Halloween. Also the short subject should be scary. Perhaps Gary Busey, Pet Judge? I think there was only one episode.
There has to be thousands of horror movies on Tubi.
Aaah! Zombies!! aka Wasting Away was on there, last time I checked.
Gary Busey: Motorcycle Crash Victim. That’s a horror movie.
a nice short subject about mooching neighbors.
That guy is beyond mooching.
Movie time.
Yeah, that was extreme. May be the last Columbia short subject for a while. I am switching gears.
I like how the movie is starting.
Oh fuck. The Chris Pappas ad where he says he’s writing legislation to truly “Drain the Swamp”.
Nothing but Medicare ads here. Makes me feel 100 years old.
Get your abortions now before Republicans take over.
I see a guy with a tray, like somebody selling beers at a ballgame.
“‘Bortions! Get your ’bortions here! $20! Nice quick ‘bortions!”
I had that job. Except I sold hot dogs.
And… him again. Same ad even.
I am amused at how clueless and unprepared these two folks are.
It’s well played.
Vegan doomsday food. Heh.
I gotta go. I’ll finish this tomorrow. Thanks RJ!
Thanks!
Something crazier than this movie
https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/01/03/there-is-absolutely-no-reason-in-the-world-to-believe-that-bill-clinton-is-a-cia-asset-except-for-all-the-evidence/
That’s quite the rabbit hole.
Yeah my eyes glazed over just skimming it.
BILL CLINTON BAD!
We all know that. CIA certainly explains the low survival rate of his acquaintances.
And it started* way back in the 60’s when his college roommate committed suicide.
*I swear, I have absolutely no proof of it being anything other than suicide.
Just before I got overwhelmed with it all, I ran across this paragraph:
Mission accomplished, professor.
Yep. I think it all started under Bush 1. Then has continued ad infinitum to the present day.
Honestly, we probably have a bigger contrast between the two parties today than at any point in our lifetimes. There is still a strong squishy GOP element who only disagree with Dems on the hows and whys, but the right has hardened on issues like gun rights while the left has gone full batshit on the socialism ( or “progressivism,” which used to be a dirty word in American politics).
They don’t differ much in spending. In practice, you may not feel there is much difference in how they behave. But at least in the ideologies, there was definitely more of a Cold War consensus on how government should operate and both parties stuck far closer to the middle.
Noam Chomsky wrote that a long time ago.
I used to read him and it was hard to sift through the crazy to find the real.
[real]
I think you lit the Michael Moynihan signal.
Who?
Former Reasonoid. Co-host of The Fifth Column podcast.
OK, never listened to it.
I … can’t even.
Man, this is some bad football. Maybe even worse than last week.
*R.J. Holds up movie links
*Music swells
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kU8OJAOMbPg
I’ve got hawkey and two tennis matches going.
Suck it, Amazon.
Its gotten better in the 3rd. Not great, but better.
Good grief. How did the Niners lose to the Bears? They’re horrible.
The monsoon helped the Bears against the 49ers
Just think – Amazon spent over $58 billion to have the rights to this game.
Stop supporting this hustle. Don’t even watch. The NFL’s product is becoming a joke in general, Thursday night football is even worse than average, and fuck Amazon.
TNF still isn’t as bad as Rings Of Power, though, so I guess there’s that…
Week 3 was a good game.
Amazon has freed me of the need to think about Thursday Night Football.
Amen to that.
Greetings from hot and muggy Alabammy!
The CMP facility is just all class. Race Gun staff shoot is over, I placed in the lower half of Limited, which was going to happen anyway, but using a Production rig didn’t help anything. I did however beat the guy who was shooting in Open with a CO gun. However, I had more than a couple of stages where I laced in the top half, even with the extra mag changes, so that was nice. What absolutely killed me was one particular stage: Virginia count, all hard covered targets, bagged, shot while in a downpour. My first 0.000 HF! The stages were better than the Nats I attended in 2019, though not as awesome as the NYS championship ones. Don’t know if I’ll get a Limited classification out of this.
Paying competitors start tomorrow!
Trip booked to Greenville and Asheville at the end of October. More land/house searching and area exploration.
KK? You gonna still be in area?
I’m headed downstate Nov 1 unless something opens up at one of the places where I’m on the waitlist. What day do you arrive?
We land the 28th in the AM and drive over to Ashville first I think
I thought The Selling was way better. Anyway…
Thanks, RJ 🙂
Welcome! I shall grab some horror films through Halloween.
I was channel surfing earlier this evening and AMC was showing Halloween III.
I am confident that anything you throw out there will be better than Halloween III.
Bethannica recommended a movie called “Tethered” which I an going to scan quickly. Straight up horror film.
Bethannica?
Yes. She used to comment here. Old friend.
Would?
Sorry, must have missed that.
I watched “Book of Monsters.” It was so close – but just not there for posting. It just didn’t work. Granted this movie’s ending didn’t work either, so maybe I am being too picky.
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NSFW.
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NSFW.
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NSFW.
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NSFW.
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NSFW.
I’d share the apocalypse with her.
Sometimes, I grow tired of people wanting me to First on them, or in their mouths. I am all about The Firsting, as you know. I am, after all, The First Of All Firsters. But there are other parts of me besides The First. It is a bit degrading how much people want some Firsts.
You still charging $20?
I would never put a price on a First. It goes completely against The Way Of The First.
I First for Firsting’s sake. I First for you, the Glibertariat. For humanity. I First to save you from your sins.
I’m getting a weird feeling in my special area for some reason.
hawt
I have not been following the Alex Jones case closely, about to listen to his Crowder interview, but did they pretty much just determine that expressing batshit crazy opinions is not allowed, under penalty of having your entire life destroyed?
Something tells me they definitely did not prove that he knew what he was saying was false.
It’s been discussed. Try to keep up.
Judge ordered Jones to produce documents. Jones said they did not exist. Judge issued a verdict without a trial. Penalty phase resulted a nearly 1 billion dollar award.
Bonkers.
And now I see they made Troy Aikman apologize for saying that the NFL should take the dresses off players. Because it implies that women aren’t just as tough and strong as men!
They are so fierce that the merest slight requires a groveling apology.
Stop it, you’re gonna hurt their feeeelings!
I get to wear a corset for three days because a 7 year old kid with Down syndrome decided to do a blast double leg take down on the 52 year old man walking through the school’s front door at 8:30 am. The chiropractor’s office handed me a sheet of paper and asked me to write down where it hurts and how the injury happened. “I’d rather not.” They looked confused.
It’s not all bad if your wife digs the look.
O.I
Wut?
O.o
Dumb autocorrect…
The day is saved.
https://twitter.com/jackaloperider1/status/1579914662984155137?s=42&t=2WCVPURUeR5HQq6MKhdz0Q
I still like Badger Badger Badger, and I was 30something when I found it.
Hey, how about going to Kenya?! https://youtu.be/FbYtASAakAI
That’s a good one. I don’t understand what’s happening and I like it.
Mornin Glibs!
Good morning, Sean, Stinky, and RoaT! It’s Friday and payday! Can’t think of much I have to do at work today, so I’ll manage my vast financial empire (i.e. pay bills and transfer money between/among accounts) and set up a spreadsheet counting down the hours until time to go home. Oh – and pester our PEO about why they can’t seem to fix the updating of vacation balances in the timekeeping system. 🙄
https://www.fox29.com/news/wawa-announces-closure-of-2-center-city-stores-citing-safety-and-security-challenges
Philadelphia is a shit hole.
I didn’t realize there were Wawas that don’t sell gas.
I can think of few places I’d rather not work than a convenience store in a bad area. I’d rather be on a chain gang, it’d be so much safer.
Happy world egg day.
https://nationaltoday.com/world-egg-day/
Can I offer you a nice egg in this trying time?
This world had better not be an egg. If it hatches we’re all in trouble.
DC may delay COVID-19 vaccination deadline for students again
Too many anti-vax Republicans living in the city.
https://ktla.com/news/california-becomes-first-state-to-ban-plastic-produce-bags/
Dumb.
Who can afford produce anyway?
My gin needs limes.
Put them in an old sock.
The plastic ones aren’t necessarily “single-use” – I use them when I scoop the cat litter if they aren’t shoddily made and full of holes. 😾
California already banned check out bags. These are the smaller bags for fresh produce.
I get it. Another reason to be glad I’m in Ohio and not California.
The sanity must be driving you crazy.
One of our local stores, the Acme in Ramsey, NJ, voluntarily decided to remove the produce bags. I will not be shopping there again, I can get the same sales in Montvale where they are slightly less woke.
Pepperidge Farm remembers the promise they weren’t banning produce bags when they banned plastic shopping bags.
“JP Morgan Cuts Ties With Kanye West’s Business After Controversial Tweets: Report”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/jp-morgan-cuts-ties-kanye-wests-business-after-controversial-tweets-report
Wouldn’t the idea that Jewish people control the banking system take more of a hit if people that bring up the idea didn’t get debanked?
Buena Park’s Medieval Times is a castle divided by union disillusion
Why won’t the union follow labor law?
There’s the reason.
Thou shouldst refrainest from yon union noncery and getteth the fuck back to work!
A cute armadillo? What’s the world coming to?
https://youtu.be/po2qSnjrvJQ
Seems like a nice guy, hope he didn’t end up with leprosy.
Anyone want a late season trip to the beach?
You can join the jamboree.
If Biden & co. keep it up, we’ll all be dancing on this beach.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Beach_(1959_film)
Morning, Glibs.
Watch, it’ll stop raining so I have to lower the shade on my window so the sun doesn’t blot out my computer screen. (My one office status symbol is that I have a window cube. I really want an office with a door, but this building doesn’t have any)
I only rate an interior desk but I haven’t used it since 2020. I enjoyed watching GS employees fighting over seating charts when I was a sergeant that got to choose among the crumbs.
What I value most about a cube location is low foot traffic and a swnse that no one is looking over my shoulder. Having a high foot traffic location literally made me sick from the added stress. Getting shunted into a windowless interior corner improved my health dramatically. My current cube is still off the beaten path. No one will walk by randomly, since I’m at the end of the row away from the aisle.
There have been a few particularly bad locations over the years that I fortunately did not get.
Near the door so there is an expectation to answer for deliveries and guests.
In a classified environment near the shared unclassified phone so there is an expectation to answer when it rings.
Near the door to the server room that sounded like every device was running at 100%.
I liked my cube that was next to the server room door.
Admittedly, the sound didn’t make it out of the server room and there were white noise machines there. I can tell you that a Dell 1850 booting up does a great impression of a jet engine though.
How do they keep out thieves and such?
Theft-free zone signs?
We can’t. The political appointees come and go as they please.
So…wishing you a nice…cloudy day? (Would partly cloudy do?)
I actually like rainy office days. It’s soothing to turn around and watch the water run down the window.
::gets up out of chair, does clumsy, awkward rain dance::
You want a rain dance?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Kn_i-8BZy8Q
::dancing suddenly improves immensely, complete with swinging hips::
You can have all the rain you want, as long as it doesn’t rain her on 10/19 and 10/20. I have to shoot those days and cleaning up after the last storm rined ore than one hotel towel.
Mornin’, reprobates!
Stayed up until 4AM Wednesday night to monitor a process fix.
Good news: I did not break anything new.
Bad news: I did not fix the issue.
This is turning into my white whale.
It will get a stealth fix at some point leaving you uncertain what happened.
Either someone is already performing a manual fix overnight or the retry mechanism succeeds after multiple retries. One of these days the support team will respond to my inquiries – just let me know if you did something, guys, is that too much to ask?
Good morning, ‘patzie! Sorry it’s not getting better, but glad it’s not getting worse!
‘patzie’s gots da white whale blues!
Nice, hadn’t heard that one.
Now that you’ve heard the “Cliff Notes,” you don’t have to bother with that overlong, tedious book! 😃
I read it in high school. The sections on whaling and how the industry worked were fascinating. The subplot about Ahab wasn’t all that interesting.
I tried reading it as an (alleged) adult and just couldn’t plow my way through. The most unlikely book I actually enjoyed reading in high school was Silas Marner.
I liked Silas Marner. I also liked Tale of Two Cities.
I’ve Never heard of that one.
I’m trying to think of the most unlikely book I’ve enjoyed reading. As a baseline, I’m the kind of guy who reads stuff like De Re Metallica for fun. (As an aside, Herbert Hoover should have stayed an engineer) I’m drawing a blank, probably because I do so much pre-emptive filtering of materials the outliers don’t make it through.
Which is why it is the second worst novel of all time*
*Yes, yes, there are thousands and thousands of mostly or entirely forgotten novels that are worse but I’m only counting ones that are supposed to be ‘good’
There are libraries full of shittier supposedly good books. You’re being needlessly harsh.
My mom had the Jaws paperback.
Name seven.
Happy Friday my friends, it should be particularly nice because we have no boss today, so the smoking lamp is lit and the kids are in charge.
Well, this explains yesterday. Way too much celebrating.
https://nationaltoday.com/international-day-for-failure/
Welp. I am up bright and early so I can finally end this torment known as colonoscopy prep. I only wanted an EGD. They said, “How long has it been since you had a colonoscopy?” “Um, I had one when my daughter was 9 months old.” “Aaaaaaand how old is your daughter?” “Ummmmm, 19.” *dead stare*
Sorry. Sounds like you had a shitty day.
Which is liable to get probitive.
It was, indeed, shitty.
The good news about getting older is that the medical profession has less interest in some aspects of my internal workings.
In early 2020, I was scheduled for a routine colonoscopy, a mammogram, and a dental checkup. Guess which was the only one that DIDN’T get cancelled when everything got shut down. 😒
I’m avoiding mammography as assiduously as I was avoiding colonoscopy, so that’s a trick question. LOL
Yeah, dental visits are not much fun
Oh noes, sorry. I had to do it twice in 2020.
Have the guidelines changed? I thought you start getting them annually after 50.
My colon remains untouched.
IIRC, every 5 years starting at 40. I don’t remember why they insisted I do it after XX was born.
Ah, so you are a little behind.
(hey-o)
Yeah, I would nope right the hell out of doing it every year.
But how are the proctologists supposed to pad their billing if they don’t cycle patients faster?!
Ground is white this morning. It’s only the beginning (remembers last April)
I’ve never interacted with so many Southerners before. This is a perfect example of how Texas is NOT in “The South.” I swear, these people must spend time working on their accents and courtly mein.
You don’t need to work on something that’s been ingrained in your upbringing. It just comes naturally.
You say that, but surely being bombarded by “standard USian” speech and behavior in all your entertainment media has a homogenizing effect that you’d have to actively resist.
I can see why it can freak outsiders out. I get a definite vibe of “I am demonstrating precisely correct courteous behavior. Please respond with behavior that matches it in politeness.” Like if Dame Judy was crossed with Foghorn Leghorn and a heldentenor .
The effect of media is overstated. Especially when the social norms of your day to day meatspace interactions reinforce the upbringing.
Uh oh. Scheduling malfunction?
Anarchy! Anarchy!
Who knows.
I’m hoping it’s quaaludes.
With “Florida Links of Florida Man”… yeah, it could be Brett L. 😉 See y’all on the other side (thread).
Well, while we wait…
CWAA.
I understand some amount of autonomy is needed for judges — but there has to be ways to rein in petty dictator crap like this beyond “Wait for their next election” or “Hope a higher court bothers to look” (because like all things legal, the last thing judges want to do is set a precedent of limiting judicial power).
I am aware of sure-fire ways to get rid of such behaviours.
I’m afraid that it is frowned upon by people who believe in the rule of law.
CWABOA (That’s a bunch of, if you were wondering).
Given the VA Legislature and Gov, I doubt any of it would pass — but that they think they can put it out there speaks volumes (and I’m sure it will be coming to CA if that moron who wants to lower consent to 2 in the Bay Area has anything to say about it). Talk about “there have been revolutions for much, much less” and “unconstitutional as hell”.
Losing elections is supposed to restore some level of sanity to the vanquished, particularly when you lost the election for…exactly these sorts of policies, telling parents their kids don’t really belong to them, but to the state.
I’d imagine it’s very hard for the Dems to do that because they have so many of the right people with the right platforms cheering them on at all times. They have no sense of self-awareness or ability to admit they fucked up on anything.
Jaws is a good read.
Yes, there was a scheduling problem with the morning links. Fixed.
I am going to take this First, and I am going to ram it into your stomach!