So I was chatting with a nice lady over FaceTime. We had several very long calls, much interesting discussion. She’s moderately (((religious))) and was fascinated by the idea that I had done some writing about Judaism.
“Can you give me a link?”
“Mmmm, probably not. I write under a nom de plume and honestly, you’d probably find most of it offensive.”
“Look, I’m very open-minded, I accept all sorts of points of view.”
I thought that maybe I’ll just grab one of my milder pieces and do a cut and paste, then email it to her. So I chose the Chanukkah piece I wrote about 5 years ago, cut and pasted, then emailed it.
Ten minutes later, I got a response: “I’m open-minded, but not that open-minded. Please don’t contact me again.”
Birthdays today include several auspicious ones, including a guy who was always first in his class; my true personal hero; a guy who, if I said “Ferenc,” you’d have no idea; not the one who did that great movie with Robert deNiro and Jerry Lewis; everyone’s favorite travel agent; a guy that Warhol could only wish he could be; a mountain of a (((man))); a quack and fraud of the first water, who did us the service of showing how gullible people are; Riven’s deepest sexual fantasy; and the star of two of my all-time favorite TV shows.
Let’s Link
The culinary options are interesting.
One hopes there was no White Claw involved.
Enjoy the ten minutes until this is overturned.
More grant money research is needed.
I want to bring one of these dogs to the next Glibs meet-up.
How can anyone say that our government is arrogantly overreaching? It’s a mystery.
Yes, I know some of you peasants bag on the Beatles. Hope those paint chips tasted good. This is an amazing cover. I mean, amazing.
“Look, I’m very open-minded, I accept all sorts of points of view.”
I listen to country AND western.
Reminds me of when I try to get acquainted with people and ask what kind of music they listen to. “oh I listen to everything.”
I almost always follow up with “oh cool, who’s your favorite Tibetan throat singer?”
Kongar Ol.
Gesundheit.
My boss thinks he has “eclectic” musical tastes because he likes Genesis with Peter Gabriel AND with Phil Collins.
“Enjoy the ten minutes until this is overturned.”
The whole emergency thing doesn’t even pass the smell test.
Given that the Constitution is at its heart a contract between the States to form the Federal Government, any State Government should have automatic standing to sue if they believe the Fed is in breach of contract, imho. Since obviously the Fed courts (shock! wow!) don’t agree, seems like an explicit amendment spelling that out would be in the States’ interest.
Yeah, yeah… then we can get back direct election of Senators and I can get a pony. I know, I know.
Dammit… I shouldn’t sleep in on Saturdays — get rid of direct election of Senators. You knew what I meant.
“Semen-sniffing dog used by British cops to help bust sex offenders ”
I like how the video frame is Joe Biden.
“The perv-busting pooch can pinpoint as little as 0.016ml of semen deposited even years ago, Cheshire Police Chief Dean Allen told the BBC.”
Nest month’s headline:
Police Dog Has Mental Breakdown at Home of Teenage Boy
I was thinking “K9 units always loitering around cheap hotel”, but that covers it as well.
This sounds like the bite mark bullshit.
“I thought that maybe I’ll just grab one of my milder pieces and do a cut and paste, then email it to her. So I chose the Chanukkah piece I wrote about 5 years ago, cut and pasted, then emailed it.
Ten minutes later, I got a response: “I’m open-minded, but not that open-minded. Please don’t contact me again.””
And you’re not gonna link it here?
I’m assuming 5 years == 2017 and given the content, this?
Yes, exactly.
So you didn’t link to the posted article, which would have brought her here, nor include your nom de ‘Net (I assume), and she still couldn’t handle it.
I’d say you dodged a bullet.
No argument here — I always enjoy the Jewish history/insight pieces, and re-reading that one was no different. If she couldn’t handle that one, she’d doubtless damn us all for Epicureans.
You reckon it was the clip-on foreskins or the Maccabees as Taliban historical parallel that put her off?
I’d assume the historical parallel… the clip on foreskins just got her hot.
That’s bothered her?
Yeah, you’re better off.
Do you introduce yourself as “Old Man with Candy” . . . That could be hurting your prospects too. It’s best the kid’s just hear “free candy” and don’t see you until the sliding door opens and you throw them in.
Nice. Bullet, dodged, WRT that nice tolerant lady. I’m sure she is equally tolerant about current affairs.
Good morning, ‘patzie! (You get individual greetings today because you’re recuperating and I display blatant favoritism.) How are you feeling today?
Not too bad, thanks. There are still some… issues, but nothing I can’t handle. Details below (probably TMI).
I’m not Jewish but that seemed pretty tame, even by non-glibbie standards. Did she wade into the comments? That may have done it.
Thanks for linking that; it was in no way extreme or beyond the bounds of good taste. You dodged a bullet OMWC.. Seeing comments from SP and Mr. Lizard make me melancholy and wistful.
Well, this one was sort of being developed as a spare and we hadn’t met in meat-space, so no big loss. The Buffalo Girl is still very active.
I still can’t read SP’s comments. Maybe in another year.
Does she dance by the light of the moon?
No rollerskating
But you can have fun if you’re of a mind to.
She is neither owl nor pussycat.
“I’m open-minded, but not that open-minded. Please don’t contact me again.”
Next time send the person a Sugarfree article.
I would eventually like to have sex again.
Oh, you’ll get over that too. It’s transitory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJKythlXAIY
I larfed.
Like inflation?
STEVE SMITH and Winston’s Mom are available.
You can have sex after a Sugarfree article. You just won’t remember it. But don’t worry, the fog as the drugs leave your system will do nothing to ease the pain.
But sex withe the cryptids would probably be less traumatic.
“I would eventually like to have sex again.”
#metoo. Had laser surgery yesterday to break up a kidney stone lodged in my left ureter for over a month. Now have a stent which is quite uncomfortable and it burns when… you know. So of course I woke up today with morning wood for the first time in recent memory. Yahweh hates me.
Sorry.
I hope you heal up soon.
Musk’s plans to purchase Twitter for $44 billion with the help of foreign investors, including Saudi Arabia’s Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund, and Binance Holdings — which was founded by a Chinese businessman — have concerned Biden administration officials, the people told Bloomberg.
Almost as much as his expressed intent to give Trump his account back concerns them.
Yeah if there’s anybody Biden has reservations about getting into bed with it’s the Chinese and the House of Saud.
They just don’t want to say the quiet part: “It is a national security concern if our IC masters can no longer control the narrative.” out loud.
Insert my usual rant about disbanding the entire too-big-for-its-britches IC in this country that has decided they run things.
Bom dia,
Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend. Work picked up because its turnaround season, so I’m not around much last week and this week. This is a shame, because glibs is where I get all of my
opinionsnews.I shall OT early cause why not. OMWC if you are around and have a few minutes to kill I am curious about something. I occasionally watch on the yutubz the UK quiz show University challenge and they have music questions. I remember when I used to go to pub quiz nights with friends I never gt the music. So…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FtdXRlHYVE
They play some snippets of jazz and the contestants should name the band leaders. I got 0 off course. I was wondering if solely based om the snippets you could guess / know the band leader
the first at the 13:20 minute mark, the starter, and the bonus are at the 14:30 minute mark
Seems that would be prohibitively difficult with jazz, because there’s a lot of standards that are played by innumerable ensembles and you’d have to identify not just the composition, but the band leader of the particular recording the TV producers chose. Easier in cases where the band leader is also the composer, obviously. This is why I’ve never gotten deeply into jazz despite enjoying it immensely.
Those kids are ignorami. They hear a saxophone and both guesses were trumpet players. I immediately knew it was Coltrane and I’m not exactly a musicologist.
“The Cherokee County Board of Education in North Carolina voted last month to forfeit girls volleyball games against a rival school after a transgender athlete reportedly injured a player with a spike.
The board voted 5-1 Sept. 21 for Hiwassee Dam High School to forfeit all girls volleyball matches against Highlands School after a Hiwassee Dam player reportedly suffered head and neck injuries from a spike from the Highlands transgender athlete.
“The county will not participate in any volleyball games, varsity or junior varsity, against Highlands due to safety concerns,” the board said.
David Payne, Hiwassee Dam’s athletic director, supported the decision, and Vice Chair Jeff Martin felt that “there is a competitive advantage and a safety concern for certain teams — it’s not the same for all teams.”
https://nypost.com/2022/10/22/north-carolina-school-district-votes-to-forfeit-games-against-rival-after-transgender-athlete-injures-player/
“Neither player has been identified.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11342755/Female-high-school-volleyball-player-suffers-head-injury-transgender-girl-lobbed-ball.html
It’s not whether or how they are identified, it’s how they “identify.” 🙄
tHeRe iS nO dIfFeReNcE!
Did the players get a vote?
Haven’t read the article, but I like the idea. Women just quit sports. That way they can get back in Home Ec and prepare for a life in the kitchen
I played volleyball as a lad in a southern state where it was exclusively a women’s sport in high schools (I played on a travel team). I remember asking the AD of my school if I would be allowed to try out for the girls team because of Title 9. She was very uncomfortable. Fortunately for her, I had no intention of actually playing but I wanted to make a point.
The Hiwassee Dam player could learn a thing or two from Scott Sterling. He’s the face of modern volleyball defense.
After initially offering to buy Twitter in April, Musk tried to back out of the deal, claiming the social-media platform had failed to comply with its obligation to disclose the number of bots on the platform.
Did he “back out” completely, or just try to renegotiate the price based on the plunge in share price? (Based on what people saw when he pulled back the curtain)
French Croissant vs Italian Cornetto with Michael Bartocetti and Rocco Cannavino
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Z34Oe6N7MQ
Had a sudden sense-memory of eating a coronetto and drinking a cappuccino in Florence, from a few years back.
I imagine prices would be in my favor right now but the airfare would be brutal.
For one of the birthday boys.
Caught a bit of a PBS program on MAPS, and the therapeutic use of psychedelics, and learned something. Ken Kesey learned about acid because he was one of the CIA’s volunteers for MK ULTRA. Leary drew the ire of Nixon, but Kesey was the real pioneer.
If you haven’t already, you might want to check out Hamilton’s Pharmacopeia. Lots of interesting tidbits about clandestine chemists back in that era.
Is that still on? I used to enjoy watching it but haven’t seen it recently.
They did a third season last year, which is actually when I discovered it, but I don’t know if they are planning any more. I’m perpetually out of the loop as I 100% legally stream all of my content and would never even think of engaging in piracy…
I still have cable (among other stuff), and it used to be on TruTV.
Actually, I discovered TruTV with America’s Dumbest Criminals, which was pretty hilarious, especially with commentary by Tanya Harding and Danny Bonaducci.
Originally it aired on Vice TV, but apparently it’s available for streaming on Amazon and Hulu as well. Whatever you do though, don’t go to some shady torrent site like RarBG or 1337x and download the entire series for free. Not only is piracy morally and ethically wrong, but you will get a nasty computer virus and your dick will fall off.
John Perry Barlow relates some interesting tales of Leary in Mother American Night.
I’ve spent a lifetime looking for intelligent life on this planet. Then I found the Glibs. Then I just gave up.
Thanks, Old Man, for the Sat morn links.
“CBP records highest EVER annual number of migrants crossing southern border illegally – 2.37m – and that doesn’t include the ones that got away!”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11342809/CBP-records-highest-number-migrants-crossing-southern-border-illegally-2-37m.html
That like four times the population of Vermont.
And yet the number of illegal immigrants in the country according to all the very serious people who think about this issue very seriously has remained at 11 million since ~2006 when I was writing on the topic for college.
Give the Brandon administration some credit — their long term plan for the border may well work.
When the Western economies are completely defunct and there’s no reliable energy and too many regulations on gig work to have any real work going on, Central America will start to look really good again.
CFIUS motto “everything within the national security state, nothing outside the national security state, nothing against the national security state”.
I watched Deadpool last night, for the first time.
I laughed.
I don’t care much for superhero or comic movies. But Deadpool was funny. Once Upon A Deadpool was a funny for the first few minutes, then just too redundant for me to continue.
The Christmas version is better.
Good morning (most) Glibs. Good afternoon, Pie.
Good morning, Sean, Brooksie, JI…
Screw it. It’s Saturday, and I’m finally back out at Tranquility Base after several weeks when it’s been too cold to come out here. No “reverse Waltons” this morning.
Hope all is well and happy with you, Sean. Have you preserved your pepper plants from the coming cold?
Boy the euphemisms around this place get more and more off the wall… 😉
I am always fascinated by flowers which grow in cracks in concrete… Life finds a way
https://photos.app.goo.gl/3x73vQqpWhfBqgHp7
This is called in romanian lion mouth flower, i think you have one smilar you might call snapdragon
I do believe it is a snapdragon, so I’d be willing to bet they’re one and the same! You go, snapper! (::awaits inevitable jokes::)
A little weeping, lamenting, worrying, fearing for those who don’t know Ferenc.
I thought he meant Fricsay.
A Beatles song about a dog (more or less)
I used that for Old Guy Music once. Great and obscure tune.
Obscure?
I’d never heard it.
Love that song.
‘Orning ‘Ordles OF DOOM! (Well, not really… just felt like being more dramatic about it). Preliminary round went very well (for me… nowhere near Hype as usual), which probably made me overconfident for the main event where I made one stupid guess (letters in places I already knew was wrong) and hurt my overall score. Frankly, I’m just pleased I pulled LL out given I had little to go on:
Daily Duotrigordle #234
Guesses: 34/37
Time: 05:07.79
https://duotrigordle.com/
Daily Quordle 271
6️⃣5️⃣
8️⃣7️⃣
quordle.com
Daily Quordle 271
9️⃣3️⃣
8️⃣4️⃣
Yuck.
Daily Quordle 271
6️⃣3️⃣
7️⃣4️⃣
quordle.com
Daily Duotrigordle #234
Guesses: 35/37
Time: 05:11.57
Pitiful
Daily Quordle 271
3️⃣6️⃣
5️⃣8️⃣
TL the hard way
Oof. Rough one.
Daily Quordle 271
7️⃣3️⃣
6️⃣8️⃣
Daily Quordle 271
4️⃣5️⃣
7️⃣6️⃣
Found the line again. Finally.
Daily Quordle 271
5️⃣3️⃣
8️⃣6️⃣
Great and obscure tune.
Those kids could actually play, when they weren’t too busy being famous musicians, I guess.
Since no one else is going to, I’ll take the bait. The Beatles are not that great unless you were alive to experience the cultural zeitgeist that accompanied their music. Which isn’t to say they were bad, just that without that historical context nothing they did is meaningfully differentiable from what a thousand other 4 piece pop acts were doing at the time. It’s like when I tried to introduce some of my young zoomer gaming friends to Seinfeld. They don’t get it, and really, they shouldn’t. The world’s changed. Without having had that cultural experience the jokes don’t land.
Also, obligatory The fact that…
Also also, all other considerations aside, there has probably never in the entire history of commercial music been a songwriter as far up his own asshole as John Lennon. He’s like a pee wee football coach dumping gatorade over his own head after winning the East Bumblefuck Regional Championships. At least McCartney didn’t have pretentious to high art.
*pretension, obviously.
The Beatles are also in many ways Boomerporn.
Seinfeld was originally conceived not as a show about nothing, but a show about how a stand-up comedian gets his material. Some of the stuff still holds up well, as we’ve all known people who are close talkers, or low talkers or high talkers to give a couple of examples.
There is definitely some timeless material there, but it’s all embedded in a cultural context they just don’t get, and that’s understandable. The Chinese restaurant episode, for example, which is one of my personal all-time favorites, landed with a thud. Pay phones, waiting for a table, not being able to reach someone, eagerly anticipating going to a movie theatre to screen a rare flick… none of it resonates with them, because those are experiences they’ve never had.
38 yrs old. Loved early Beatles as a child. Liked later Beatles as I got older (teens, 20’s). Now . . . don’t enjoy that much of it at all. Since I wasn’t around for cultural side. I wonder if I’ve moved on because of increased maturity. They wrote so many of those songs in their 20’s. So 25 year old me liked it. 38 year old me is past it. No gospel, just a theory as to why some younger people have moved on.
(There”s a host of other reasons I can name too, but that is my biggest theory. It’s a theory I know is true for many bands I listened to in high school. I liked them because I was immature, mostly emotionally immature, and so were they. Now I go back and listen and other than some nostalgia, they suck.)
Well, for me Beatles One came out right when I got my first car, so that CD was constantly in rotation. Cant stand them, now.
As for the other music from high school, music at the turn of the century was mostly sucked, a lot of nu-metal crap. The hip-hop and R&B still mostly holds up. Fortunately for me, I hung out with the rave kiddies. All that house and trance and happyhardcore will never get old.
I like the Beatle’s mid albums the best. Early stuff is fun, but a little to formulaic for full time rotation. Later stuff sounds too studio, produced and heavily tracked. The Rubber Soul albums still have that live feel with increased song writing talents.
Agree on all counts.
Also, the later stuff is too “out there” for my simple pop-song tastes.
Outkast.
Hey-ya!!
So fresh, so clean.
We often get our musical tastes listening to our older siblings stuff on the AM station(s). Our own tastes are developed in our teen years and looking back I still enjoy the ’50s-’60’s stuff that really is lightweight but it’s what I grew up with and danced at the sock hops.
I understand that the white paint chips taste the sweetest. Is that your experience?
Yellow are pretty good too.
Hang on, I’ll check. BRB
The yellow and white in a mix are IMO the best. Sweet but not cloying, with vanilla notes and a smooth finish.
You probably like marble cake too. Take a stand. Chocolate or Vanilla, not both. White or yellow, not both!
I like Rocky Road ice cream. You’re probably one of those who slices up neapolitan so you only get one flavor at a time.
I like a lot of ice cream flavors, but Neapolitan sucks. Those three flavors are not a good mix to me. But yes, If I have to have it, one flavor at a time
It’s not the cake, but the frosting. Buttercream can turn a blah cake into a genuine treat, but that whipped shit, you can keep that shit.
The real question is: semi-gloss or eggshell?
Search your feelings, you know it to be true. (On that note, Star Wars is the Beatles of movies)
In all seriousness though, if anybody other than The Beatles had released Love Me Do, it would have been forgotten 50 years ago. It’s a boring, formulaic, 3 chord number with lyrics that sound like they were written by a 12 year old. There’s songs like that from my youth that I still enjoy, but I’m not going to pretend they’re anything other than what they are.
Back In The USSR, Tax Man, The End, Revolution, the whole Sgt. Pepper album… that’s great stuff.
Too tracked for me. Sgt Pepper sounds too layered. Let It Be Naked was good. The original Let it be is also too produced.
But on a similar note. George emerging as a songwriter was the best part of later Beatles.
Credit where it is due, their songwriting improved immeasurably in a relatively short 8 year span between that first single and their breakup. Had they released 3 or 4 more Please Please Mes and called it quits they certainly wouldn’t have the legacy they do now.
I’ve never been a big science fiction guy either. And being out of the age group, Star Wars has never appealed to me. I watched the original 3 once, many years ago. They were ok as I remember. I watched Episode 1 with friends when it came out. It was awful. I have not watched any Star Wars related stuff since. Maybe I’d enjoy some it more now than when I was younger. But My contrarian side also wants to hate it. I hate a lot of the people my age that are really into it. And I hate Disney and don’t like supporting them whenever I can. So, I just avoid the Star Wars stuff.
Disney has nothing to do with my Star Wars, thank God.
So yeah, I like the originals but I am not “into” them – or any movies, really – in that way.
I love sci-fi, and loved the original Star Wars trilogy when I was a kid, which is when you’re supposed to love them. My dad recorded them on VHS so I could see what that neato Star Tours ride we went on at Disneyland was all about. But do I need to rewatch them? Nah. Cruel irony that I’d outgrown it by the time the prequels came out and Star Wars fever started back up again.
That and fucking Harry Potter. I was never into it when I was a kid. Read one of the books that I received as a gift from my grandma. Never read any more of them, nor watched any of the movies. But damned if there aren’t millions of Millennials pushing fucking 40 and running around with broomsticks betwixt their legs playing quiddich in the park on weekends.
Agree, except I really just never liked the Beatles at all, so … Agree with John Lennon opinion also.
In Living Color, Animaniacs, Arsenio Hall also don’t hold up. The pop culture references are way too specific and time-limited.
The Beatles are fine, or we’re the first thousand times I heard all the songs. Familiarity hasn’t bred contempt in my case but I’m not champing at the bit to hear them again.
Being born and bred in South Florida (even living in the Keys in the ’70s), I feel the same way about Jimmy Buffet.
This you?
If you weren’t alive to see them on Ed Sullivan, then yeah, you’re not going to understand why the Beatles were such a bid deal.
The fact that they were a big deal 60 years ago does not mean they are one of the greatest bands ever. Nirvana was also a real big deal when they broke. Does that automatically put them in the same league as The Beatles? In both cases, I acknowledge that the bands were very culturally important, and I also think they are both overrated.
^ [Stones fan]
I don’t like The Beatles. I don’t like The Rolling Stones. I don’t like Nirvana. I was in high school when Nirvana got big.
Guilty
The day The Beatles held the top 5 spots on Billboard’s Hot 100
This wasn’t deep into their career. This is how they started.
And you can’t judge those five songs just on their own.
Tell what other songs on the top 40 on that day you’ve even heard of.
7,8,10,11,12,13,15,16,17,21,25,27,30,31
And? If you’re argument is they were the most popular band ever, sure, I’ll concede that. Were they an extremely successful pop band? Obviously, yes. Does that make them the best rock band ever? I don’t think so. Not by itself, anyway.
I’m not even necessarily saying they aren’t the best ever. They check an awful lot of boxes on that criteria list. I’m saying the number of teenage girls that went into hysterics when seeing them shouldn’t be a factor in the argument.
1/”the West should abandon globalization. Instead…the West should revert to trade blocs, in this case created between the nations sharing certain political values & geopolitical interests”
Can US radically end 1899-2022 “Open Door” policy?
https://mobile.twitter.com/70sBachchan/status/1583655349696856064
We can’t stop now when we’re right on the brink of turning China and Saudi Arabia into thriving liberal democracies with feminism and ass sex, at last.
I think Europe is officially part of the US’s Eastern Bloc now.
Madison rolls over in his grave
Menace to society
Nichols said that Bannon had failed to show responsibility for his conduct, a factor that ultimately led the judge to a heavier punishment. “He has expressed no remorse for his actions,” Nichols said during the proceedings, and the judge stressed that Bannon had not demonstrated that he would comply with the subpoenas.
Other factors cut in favor of a substantial penalty as well, the judge said. There were “problems,” the judge said, with Bannon’s position that Trump made an assertion of executive privilege that prevented Bannon testifying or turning over any documents.
Bannon was also a private citizen, having been out of government for years, Nichols said. He said it was possible that some of the requested information was covered by privilege, the judge noted, but Bannon was less likely to have privileged documents than others. Bannon’s failure to turn over any documents to the committee, or even put together a privilege log, weighed against him as well, the judge said, and Nichols pressed his lawyers on this point several times during the hearing.
The judge also concluded that “Mr. Bannon appears to be of perhaps some very small risk of recidivism,” at least when it comes to subpoenas.
His depraved indifference to Congressional butthurt cannot be allowed to go unpunished. Examples will be made.
How many months did Eric Holder get again? I seem to remember all of the very serious legal minds who spend serious amounts of time very seriously contemplating these very serious issues stating unequivocally that congress had no enforcement powers and couldn’t put people in jail.
That’s different. In that case, a Noble Social Leveller was being unjustly hounded by a pack of racist ideologues, and so their subpoenas were illegitimate.
In fairness Eric Holder’s punishment is that he’s Eric Holder, the guy who looks like he’s married to Oprah without all of the sweet benefits that go along with it (and I’m talking $$$, not the other stuff you sickos).
Like you wouldn’t want to hit Oprah from behind, staring down at the fat ass!
It would have cost you absolutely nothing to not draw that mental picture…
I would eventually like to have sex again.
Buy a chopper. Get a neck tattoo. Chicks dig that.
I still think copious amount of flannel and growing out his beard. Either way he needs to attract a different (non-PBS) kind of girl.
Need to figure out where all the chicks with daddy issues hang out
There are chicks that DON’T have daddy issues??
Yes, but almost all of them are married, to men close to their age.
He’s old. He’s probably still using salt water taffy, licorice, and necco wafers to attract the girls to van. He needs to move on to newer candies like skittles, snickers, and chewable melatonin tabs.
Just to further impugn my taste, I like Necco wafers. Except the chocolate ones.
Oh, Liverpool. SMDH.
I watched and couldn’t remember who here was suffering through it.
I’m OK with it since I am also a fan of Forest.
Not a Beatles fan either, eh?
Gerry and the Pacemakers?
A Flock of Seagulls?
I thought that maybe I’ll just grab one of my milder pieces and do a cut and paste, then email it to her. So I chose the Chanukkah piece I wrote about 5 years ago, cut and pasted, then emailed it.
Ten minutes later, I got a response: “I’m open-minded, but not that open-minded. Please don’t contact me again.”
I don’t remember that piece but I’m going to guess you’re better off.
“Let’s turn these mills into a thriving home for an entire new industry, and I think this grant is going to help make that happen,” said Dean Kamen, of the Advanced Regenerative Manufacturing Institute.
Oh. Him again. I see another Segway.
The 1-year-old yellow Labrador, April, was trained to detect even tiny amounts of seminal fluid at crime scenes — and is better than traditional kits at extracting DNA, according to the Cheshire Police Department in England.
Why do I smell bullshit?
She is also being trained in bite mark analysis.
The 1-year-old yellow Labrador, April, was trained to detect even tiny amounts of seminal fluid at crime scenes — and is better than traditional kits at extracting DNA, according to the Cheshire Police Department in England.
Waitaminnit…how, exactly, does the dog extract DNA?
@robodruid from last thread:
Actually, no. I really never have.
As in that’s something I would never do or I never really thought of the possibility?
Reason I ask is that there is not a lot of difference between “space pirates” vs. “pirates” or European kingdoms vs. planetary royalty.
I never thought about it. I don’t read those genres so the possibility never made it into my brain.
I am at the moment fiddling with a series of paranormals in the same universe: Krampus is a woman and works WITH Santa, not against him (they’ve actually never met, though). Cinderella’s fairy godmother is also an “evil” stepmother (I’ve got plenty of practice with recalcitrant children, never mind a stepchild—that may be too painful to write just yet) who acquires a human business partner who may be open to the idea of who she really is (her helper and confidante, before human male walks into her space, is Rumpelstiltskin). A human wizard who is a lawyer by day (the joke is because he can conjure billable hours out of thin air) who crushes on a human judge he went to law school with, but she’s not at all open to finding out what his sideline is.
You got skills, for sure.
Would translate well i think.
Wish i had them.
Thank you. I’ll consider it because with scifi/space opera I can do anydamnthing I want without regard to verisimilitude.
Of course, as Hype would have it, I could plop time travel into my Prohibition novel out of context and out of nowhere because it’s all fiction, so why bother with verisimilitude?
See some of S.M. Stirlings alt history for an interesting example.
Island in the sea of time.
Or another novel 1632.
Then you can have your verisimilitude and break it how you want.
I think jwz has it right:
https://www.jwz.org/blog/2009/05/i-have-a-theory-about-time-travel/
“ If your story is not about time travel, but it has time travel in it, then your story sucks.”
there is not a lot of difference between “space pirates” vs. “pirates”
See, also: space westerns.
For example- Outland; aka High Noon in Space
Ice Pirates
+1 Space herpes.
The conveyer belt castration machine still makes me chuckle.
Is Outland the movie with Sean Connery playing a cop “in space!!!!”
Yes, and Peter Boyle, great stuff.
Space western – https://youtu.be/wUfJuOp7Dck
I believe Star Wars‘s elevator pitch was “a western in space.”
And Star Trek was Wagon Train in space.
Star Trek, Firefly, Cowboy Bebop….
Waitaminnit…how, exactly, does the dog extract DNA?
First, get some peanut butter…
Kind of the opposite. But I had to express my dog’s anal glands this morning. It’s never comforting to stick a finger up your dog’s ass.
How does your dog feel about it?
Surprisingly is ok once my finger is in there, but hates the preparation of me holding her still.
Huh…so it was never about their dead kids…
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-21/sandy-hook-families-seek-2-75-trillion-from-alex-jones#xj4y7vzkg
should impose “the highest possible punitive damages” for Alex Jones, suggesting by one calculation that could be as high as $2.75 trillion
I said this the day his punishment was given….
Ownbestenemy
500 trillion dollars awarded to the parents of Sandy Hook
what is a trillion these days
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimbabwean_dollar#Hyperinflation
That sounds reasonable. Publicly stating a ridiculous belief should require you to pay restitution on the same order of magnitude as the entire US economy.
Given the massive overactive response, I’m starting to think it was less ridiculous.
I want a bazillion dollars, the moon, and the sky for restitution. It’s just so damn stupid.
Payable in platinum coin?
Each of those kids must have had about 20,000 Gerber Grow-Up policies, I guess.
Muh dominoes!
President Biden said he “does not understand” Republicans’ threat to cut off funding for Ukraine if they win the House. President Biden is responding to House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s comments that if the Republican Party won control of the house, they would resist giving a “blank check” to Ukraine. President Biden has continued to support the Ukrainians since the wrongful invasion of their country by Russia in February and he and the Democratic Congress have approved billions of dollars in aid to be sent to help Ukraine fight the war.
REPORTER: “You heard the Republicans, you have the means and the will to continue supporting Ukraine?”
BIDEN: “Yes. Because if we support Ukraine we’re supporting all of Europe. We’re supporting NATO. Do you think that Mr. Putin decides, he’s just going to deal with Ukraine and that’s the end of it? This, no, I don’t understand the threat that they’re saying, they may have to stop funding the Ukrainians and they’re, they’re war against his brutal dictator.”
We can’t end the war. There’s too much money in it. If the Republicans are too dumb to figure out how to get a cut, that’s their problem.
He doesn’t seriously believe that Russia has the means to wrap up Ukraine and march into the rest of Europe…?
Zelensky’s no better than Vlad and is in some respects worse. At least Putin doesn’t expect others to foot the bill.
Is Outland the movie with Sean Connery playing a cop “in space!!!!”
Yep. And nobody will help him.
Well in fairness, anyone who did got themselves killed.
so lunch today was chicken in brine… which is different than americans probably do it when you brine the chicken before grilling it. here the brine is like a sauce so you brine it after.
Basically you add like 30 grams of salt for 500 ml of water. You first add a tomato a bell pepper and chilly pepper to taste on the grill and grill them till slightly charred, remove the skins and seeds, chop finely, add together with the salt to a dish, add sliced garlic, and then pour the hot water and mix. Grill the chicken on a high flame till somewhat charred in the outside and take from the gril and put directly in the brine. Worked well with a nice italian pinot grigio.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/z55LUtKo93rpiYzu7
Wut?? So you made soup.
That looks delicious.
That looks good, I’d eat that.
What are the turds in the bowl at the top?
oh haha… those are mici skinless sausage
Good morning, Old Man. Sorry about the broad.
Hope those paint chips tasted good.
Lol. Fun cover, and perfect for taming the lynx.
It is a chilly wet blustery day. It’s time to get my crockpot out of storage.
Looks like one more day of spectacular here.
Yep, splendid fall day in these parts.
As Hayek mentioned we are getting heavy winds this weekend here in Nevada.
I just realized I know a widower who is a retired chemist, works at a winery for fun, and is a vegetarian.
I got a steroid injection in my knee yesterday for a strained quadriceps tendon. Still have the headache to prove it, but the fever and sinus-infection-type symptoms went away. My knee was WLRSE yesterday after the injection, but feeling much better today. Those shots get harder and harder as I get older.
Those work for you OK Moj? My doc’s leaning towards using using a steroid injection for a tendon problem with my elbow. How long does the relief last?
So, I lived on steroid injections with my shoulder for approximately 6 years. One shot lasted about 2 years each—until they didn’t.
The injection to my knee yesterday was my second in 2 years. I don’t anticipiate another one for another 2 years.
Thing is, they could repair my rotator cuff. I just kept putting it off until my ortho got pissed.
There is nothing to be fixed in my knee. It’s just a quadriceps tendon strain. I have a teensy weensy bit of arthritis, but it’ll be years before I’m bone-on-bone, and with my level of activity, I’m not likely to tear my ACL or MCL, unless something freakish happens (like it did with my shoulder). No surgery available for a strain.
Thanks, I need to get busy on the obsessive research I tend to do when things like this come up I suppose.
Glad you are feeling better. Mrs. Patzer will be getting one in her left knee this week. Fingers crossed.
Yes, good luck to her!
Glad to hear you’re on the mend also.
Hopefully it works for her.
The steroid worked for me with my disc herniation. It got the pain and inflammation down enough that I could do more stuff, which got me on track with recovery.
I received a series of three shots. I think they were spaced out about a month. After the third, the docs told me I could get another round, but only after waiting about 90 days. I didn’t need a second round of three. I went back to physical therapy at about the second shot. It was a huge help in getting me able to do more stuff.
I decided on the shots after a round of corticosteroid pills to bring down inflammation and a round of physical therapy did nothing. I saw an ortho doc that wanted to operated, but I wanted to try the shots to see if that would work. You can’t unring the bell of surgery, and the ortho doc told me he’d need to take a little of my spine out in order to get into the herniation. I made a decision that if I went back for a second round of shots, and that second round didn’t work, then I’d get the surgery.
The first round plus a return to physical therapy sorted things out for me. My disc will always be herniated, and I get reminded if I move wrong, but I’m in good enough shape that I’m not going back for further treatment.
I never got a headache or any fever and sinus-infection-type symptoms from medrol.
Well, I had a big ol’ response typed up but the internal server didn’t like something I said.
Side effects like mine are common. https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/steroid-injections/
I wasn’t doubting you.
I’m off to perform my favorite supply run for the cafe… waltzing into Walmart and purchasing 20+ gallons of milk. The stares and whispers from other shoppers make the chore worthwhile.
There is a wholesaler that delivers?
Fauci in trouble?
It’s almost too much to hope for
Link to the order
Popcorn?
I really really really love Eric Schmitt. He’s running for senate now.
I’ll believe it when I see it.
Read the article. The court has already gone further than I would have ever imagined.
But yeah, me too.
It won’t matter. He’ll get the same punishment all of them get. I mean look at all the jail time Eric Holder, Tim Geitner, James Comey, and others got for all their crimes. I won’t hold my breath that the gnome is any different than them in that regard.
Only the “right” people get truly punished comrade
If the evidence against the vaccine makes it into the mainstream, he’ll be the sacrificial goat.
“New evidence has emerged, that the covid vaccine, developed in the Trump administration, has serious side effects. Anthony Fauci, who was the TRUMP ADMINISTRATION’S lead official during the pandemic crisis has come under scrutiny. Senator Charles Schumer (Shameless-NY) has suggested that Fauci’s public statements during the pandemic may have been misleading. ‘It’s time for an honest administration, the Biden administration, to thoroughly investigate the medical errors made by Fauci as Trump’s mouthpiece,’ said Schumer.”
They’re willing to inject your kids with poison, I’ll be surprised if they submit to a court order on this. The Biden administration is going to fight tooth and nail.
But yes, good news.
Am I misremembering or has he not already lied under oath a few times?
Technically yes
Just before Congress, so not like it really matters as we all well know.
We should have encouraged him to take the 5th or ignore the request to testify… apparently that is where the real punishments are dealt out.
Speaking of chicks (with or without daddy issues)…
She might be Ukrainian
It’s expansion day for the business. Sounds crazy given inflation and potential rule changes to independent contractors but we are going to be leasing out another trailer to a groomer and take a percentage of their revenue.
Congrats!
I think it’s a good move. People will spend money on their dogs right up until the time they are forced to eat them.
End goal is to sell the client list if and when we move too.
Dude, I remember when you floated the idea of starting it. So exciting! And now, wow!
Thanks! The person has been working part time with my wife for a few weeks and in two days she makes more than she does working for someone in a shop. So today we go and price out a smaller trailer and hammer the details of the agreement.
🤔🤨
With “free candy” red-painted on the side.
Those school districts and their temporary classrooms to try to get the next bond measure passed….
We prefer the term CAPs. Canine attracted persons thank you very much. Rheeeeee!
If you have to announce that you are smart, you are not. If you have to announce that you are funny, you are not. If you have to announce that you are virtuous, you are not. If someone announces that they are open minded…..well, you get it.
Philosophy al Fredo?
That’s why I come here.
Deer season in 2 weeks, I’ll be out, all dressed up in my orange attire.
I advertise that I’m both tolerant and judgmental. So I’m not really?
“45 Days As PM Qualifies Truss For $129,000 A Year For Life”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/45-days-pm-qualifies-truss-129000-year-life
Now I want the job. I guarantee you I’d do a better job then the last three or four scatterbrained idiots they’ve had in charge.
I didn’t run to make money but in servitude of my nation is the biggest lie all politicians say
Yeah but imagine all the graft she’s losing out on. Poor thing.
This. No way she makes any real bank now.
Hey, if you’e a lobbiyst for the chicago teacher’s union, you only need ONE DAY to get 35k a year for life.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-met-union-lobbyist-pension-ruling-piccioli-20190404-story.html
Am I misremembering or has he not already lied under oath a few times?
Lying to Congress doesn’t count.
Seems odd they don’t make you take an oath. Why bother hauling anyone in front of those clowns?
dammit
Happy days are here again
Still, addressing the upcoming midterm elections on Friday, Biden predicted that Democrats will be boosted by the recent economic news.
“I think that we’re going to see one more shift back to our side in the closing days because we’re seeing the good news on the economy,” Biden said. “Gas is down sharply in 46 of the 50 states because of what I’ve been doing, we’re moving in the right direction, there’s more to come.”
I have cut back the floggings from six days a week to five. Be grateful.
“Gas is down sharply in 46 of the 50 states because of what I’ve been doing, we’re moving in the right direction, there’s more to come.”
I can’t keep it straight now. Is his policies and actions causing or not causing fluctuations in the market?
“The election is not a referendum,” Biden added. “It’s a choice. It’s a choice. And the Republican criticized my economic record, but look at what I’ve inherited and what I’ve done.”
Okay, Gramps.
We’ve seen what you’ve done. Just open your YTD statement from your financial advisor.
I used to look at the quarterly statements when they came in the mail, but now I just toss them.
Fortunately I’m 20+ years away from needing the money. Sucks for people about to retire or new retirees.
I was idly contemplating an early retirement a few years back.
Now 20+ years is probably more realistic.
12 years away LOL right