Pup had a good day.
Not a bad week here at the Spud household. We are currently experiencing the greatest month on planet earth. Adler and I got out into the forest to hunt grouse this week for the first time in several years. It was sublime.
Links, anybody?
Get your hot sheet here! The ten most dangerous cities in the country! Not what you think…
No thanks. They’re not near close enough yet for me to pull the trigger.
Internal hemorrhaging is never a good thing.
Nowadays, he’d probably want to stay blind.
This is a two way street. Many of them don’t understand words like “work”, “job”, “responsibility”…
Okay, that’s enough for me. Time to go do fun fall stuff.
‘Living rent-free’
“Living rent-free means imposing on your friends, being a squatter,” Bill said.
“Living rent-free means to live your life without fear,” Yann said.
Decoded: When you can’t stop thinking about someone.
TDS is a hell of a drug.
I think that one and “salty” have been around a lot longer than the author of that article does.
Yeah. And add “W” to the list of not Gen-Z slang
Been listening to western yodeling music so…
Spudaloooeeeoooeeoeooooeoooeoeeeeooooeoooeeeo ahooo!
You’re ready to take out the aliens.
In small doses, it’s like a bong hit.
Yoda from Stars Wars has a last name:
.
.
.
LaaaayHeeewhooo
MikeS I found your beer! Also, bringing along some Raspberry Tart from them as well, and Point Cookies and Cream Stout.
YAAAAAAS!!!!!!!11
I’ve had the Raspberry Tart. It’s also very good.
The stout sounds interesting.
This is a two way street. Many of them don’t understand words like “work”, “job”, “responsibility”…
Relevant
Liberty Safe is now officially fucked.
How a Company That Makes Gun Safes Angered Gun Owners
NYT Paywall. Nothing new, but it’s jumped from the Alt Right Media over to the MSM which means it will now get picked up for the many regional outlets that also report NYT stories.
It’s owned by a company and run by a person who are leftists.
To me that’s a bit of red herring. The company sold out to private equity, The firm theys sold to, unsurprisingly, is full of leftists as is often the case in PE.
Yes the CEO is a lefty, but that doesn’t mean the whole thing was some intentional lefty plot. He was just blind enough not to think who the hell he sells to and what he was selling.
It didn’t make this any less funny however: Weird: Liberty Safe Dials Revealed To Only Turn Left
If you want to be deeply, deeply cynical and go with a Baptists and Bootleggers conspiracy he supported the libs in order to sell more safes.
Hey. Baptists and Bootleggers Are some of my best friends. Of course I believe the conspiracy theories.
Baptists and Bootleggers was the name of my failed table-top RPG back in the 80s.
None of these idiots are thinking. It’s been that way ever since CEOs, or rather their idiot young staffers, thought taking sides in cultural and political fights was a smart move. Screw the whole, we don’t take sides, we just provide a service or sell a product philosophy.
+1 Republicans buy shoes, too.
MJ knew his stuff.
This makes the most sense. They really didn’t understand their customers. I’m going to enjoy watching what happens just like the Bud Light fiasco.
Regarding electric vehicles:
‘Porsche’
I think I’ve found the issue. 😛
Dude got like the least efficient EV made and now bitches about the range.
He is correct that many EV owners are sanctimonious assholes. Of corse, no sanctimonious asshole would ever drive an ICE Porsche…
“Some 182 rescuers are on site working to get Dickey out, said Recep Salci of AFAD, including 32 people who are working inside the cave.”
Do you really need 200 people to rescue one guy from a cave? Are they trying to make a human chain to pull him up?
Is Musk’s “pedo diver” on scene yet?
Nope. Only 182.
We finished gathering all the honey, production way down. I’m blaming the summer long drought aka climate change. OTOH the garden is the best I can remember even as I had to use irrigation. I learned a lot today, talking to some neighbors. Wait’ll next year.
HH is scheduled for Sep 17th, long range forecast is promising, bring a light jacket nonetheless. Bees have been moved several miles away and should be minimal.
Wait, you already harvested all the honey?
What happens during honey harvest then?
Right now it’s in a freezer, next Sat we’ll thaw it out and spin it through the centrifuge on Sunday. The Glib multitudes will gather around and “Ewww” and “Ahhh”. Then the breaking of bread, of course, with the ladies sharing their favorite recipes and Kinnath supplying the liquid refreshments. Of course there will be some hi-jink the evening before, with MikeS, NoDakMatt and CPRM and perhaps others, involved.
This year NoDakMat will be making it a day trip with MrsMat and MiniMat. So, the trouble making will be just me and CPRM unless GT or Kinnath or anyone else wants to join in.
Yeah, I always pictured everyone standing around in in bee-suits and picking out stingers later after a long evening of stumbling around drinking.
Unfortunately/fortunately it’s nowhere near that exciting.
But there’s drinking right? At least there is that?
Well, there may be but since I’ve never witnessed it myself I really have no idea buttttttttttttttt seeing MikeS/NoDakMat on a Sunday morning they avoid bright lights and loud noises, for some reason.
Yessir
Faith in humanity restored.
🙂
W
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1. Bessemer, Alabama
Bessemer topped the 2023 rankings with 33.18 violent crimes per 1,000 population.
Residents of America’s most volatile town have a one in 30 chance of becoming a victim of violent crime, according to Security Gauge.
With a population size of around 27,000, Bessemer’s crime rate is much higher than other towns with a similar demographic.
I think they mean towns of a similar size. Looking at the demographics, I’m not particularly surprised.
Inconvenient data.
https://stownpodcast.org/
Shit Town is what our antagonist calls his home about 20 miles from Bessemer. This American Life stumbles into a Southern Gothic scene complete with self-loathing lead, a cornucopia of bigotries, all served up with a lovely roux of equal parts poverty and rural stupidity. But the story isn’t plot….as no Southern story ever is….it’s theme and setting.
Will our reporter solve the murder? Will his journo-lib instincts stink up the telling? Will he realize in a world that will never change, the only progress will be in his own head: reflection, comprehension, and finally emotional capitulation? Will you be able to listen to six hours of this without killing yourself by eating truckstop jerky until your head explodes?
Quickly off the top of my head I can think of song titles about four of those 10 worst cities.
Coincidence? Almost certainly.
Memphis:
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/03/5f/c6/035fc6df2f288ba2b7f730456fdba84c.jpg
Memphis
https://youtu.be/PuMOWrRZ0HA
https://youtu.be/udvpVJqy7iw
https://youtu.be/1qDkZnpOiS8
https://youtu.be/naXPoz1Du34
1. Rarely mentioned is that in these high-crime cities the crime is usually restricted to certain neighborhoods and that those neighborhoods have commonalities that make them nearly indistinguishable from each other.
2. Electric cars: dumbest idea since the square wheel. I have been wasting my breath saying that for several years.
3. Dumb dude crawled down in the sinkhole all on his own. Now other people have to put their own lives at risk to save his ass from a cheap thrill? Fuck that. Leave him down there.
4. An old swimming pool. Cool.
Was the ferry already at capacity and they put him off to keep from going over? He was intoxicated and unruly?
Those are the only half-assed reasonable justifications I can think of.
5. Every generation thinks changing the common usage of words or inventing new ones is some ikind of cutting-edge innovation. They are all going to change the world…until they meet it.
23 Skidoo
The cat’s pajamas
The bee’s knees
Real gone cat
Swingin’ on the flippity-flop
Lamestain
Wack slacks
Electric cars aren’t necessarily a dumb idea. They are a perfectly good choice for some people. Forcing everyone into an electric vehicle is a dumb idea.
I liked the electric bumper cars at the arcade when I was a kid.
Yikes.
“Energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be changed from one form to another.” – more Einstein to live by.
Every time you change forms you do so at less than 100% efficiency. All the way down the line in the Rube Goldberg path of potential energy from fossil fuels to the kinetic energy driving the car, you lose. It is a dumb idea. Dumb. dumb. dumb. Just put the damned potential energy directly into the car and you only lose once. Unless you have unlimited money to throw to the wind.
Making a wildly inefficient machine that we cannot support with our limited energy infrastructure is nothing more than a direct assault on the autonomy that gasoline vehicles gives us. The left, as they always have in the past and now, want to destroy your autonomy. It is comical to me how obvious that is. CA mandating electric cars and then asking you not to charge them….Jesus. I will keep my gasoline car that gets about 500 miles per tank and I can refuel in 5 mins.
Electric cars are a bad idea on an epic scale.
Back in the old days of electric streetcars they were sometimes overcrowded/standing room only (strap hangers), sometimes only have a couple people on it. We lived near Ft Snelling and the often the street cars would go there with only 1-2 riders. The system was privately owned with city oversight, I’m sure. Took a lot of electrical power.
Zoom link thingie. I’ve been working for 4 hours. I’ll see yez in a bit
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87821224358?pwd=eW55MTRDbDNtQkh2aHd3M1Nmenlzdz09
The trial balloon just popped.
I think the conspiracy angle on this stuff is grossly overplayed. There are a lot of true believers out there who will do shit like this on their own with little if any prodding.
Yeah, every bog-standard Dem in the country would pull this if they could.
+1
That would be popular in the Twin Cities with the George Floyd crowd, wouldn’t have to worry about the competition protecting themselves.
Are those Lieu and Hogg tweets legit? I’m not familiar with Lieu, but I can’t see Hogg giving enough shits about the Constitution to make a statement like that.
I had the same thought. And the lingo is too similar to be believable.
They’re getting talking points and using focus-tested phrases. Why do you think everybody switched from “gun control” to “gun safety”?
I get that talking point but since when did the left ever give a shit about violating – as opposed to rewriting – the U.S. Constitution? That is a strange talking point for them to be highlighting.
☝🏻
They are getting the reputation among normies as being the party of lawlessness, and when you combine that with crime, not a good look. I would bet they are looking to bolster their law and order cred.
Yep:
https://twitter.com/davidhogg111/status/1700601787605266779
He plans on running for an office someday, and is tempering his rhetoric ?
Yep – I done saw the originals
You’re about three and a half years late on that one, pal.
Seriously. WTF?
They could have just quietly let the whole thing disappear but instead came up with this talking point?!
Yeah. This is too fucking weird. I’m confused.
It’s definitely weird. I have to believe they realized this was unpopular.
More like 118 years too late
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobson_v._Massachusetts
Progressives suck.
Dude got like the least efficient EV made and now bitches about the range.
Presumably, he left his shitbox sitting in the summer sun at the airport, and it ran its battery down keeping itself from self immolating.
Wiki sez:
On August 30, 2023, Liberty Safe faced backlash from conservatives over backdoor access provided to law enforcement agencies, including the FBI.[18] The controversy arose when it was revealed that the company had granted access codes to the FBI upon receiving valid warrants to search the property of an Arkansas resident involved in the January 6 United States Capitol attack.[19] In a statement released on the company’s official social media accounts, Liberty Safe stated that they had no prior knowledge of the specifics of the investigations when providing the access codes.[20] This incident sparked online backlash and threats of boycotts from conservatives about Liberty Safe’s ability and willingness to provide law enforcement backdoor access to their safes, with comparisons being made to the Bud Light boycott that happened a few months prior to this.[18][21][22][23]
Those thin skinned conservatives, always freaking out about the weirdest shit.
It’s so weird to think my safe company wouldn’t let other people into my safe.
Looking at Mysa thermostats and trying to figure out if it would work. What a garbage piece of shit website. No actual pdf instructions, but instead a sluggish click every step, wait for dynamic page to load, no navigation, no scrolling. What kid of retards think that’s an acceptable way to display information? Fucking dipshit kids.
The Canon printer website is the same way. And like everything now, it comes with no printed documentation.
And you’re never even sure if the documentation you’re looking at is for the same model you have.
“On some models” ← fuuuuuuuuuuuuckkk youuuuuuuuu
That’s a pet peeve of mine.
A printer without printing. Oh, the irony.
Hey, at least it’s a website, instead of “scan this QR code to download and install this phone app (which wants to track your location and needs access to your contact list) in order to watch a video showing you how to set up our product.”
That sounds like the voice of experience.
Yay, us?
https://www.mentalfloss.com/posts/cia-philippines-vampire-attack
A real American hero…or something.
I sent the following to the Rep and Senator who “represent” my district:
They are both D in a solid blue state. Will see what happens, other than my being put on another list.
Circular file and eventually announce that their constituents overwhelmingly support the governor.
I’ve never seen a black dude on Naked and Afraid until now. And the guy just tapped. 🤷♂️
For those who want to try a bit of history with their cocktail. Fleet Admiral Nimitz had his own version of the Old Fashion that he liked to make for guests.
In an appropriate glass:
1 Sugar cube
add 1 drop Angostura bitters
Add just enough hot water to dissolve the sugar
Add cracked ice
Add 2 oz bourbon
finally add 1 oz rum
He called it a “CinCPac”
I’d drink that. Not sure what the acronym means but I am military history ignorant.
Comander in Cheif Pacific
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commander_in_Chief_Pacific_Fleet_Headquarters_(World_War_II)
“Sink-pack”, I assume.
Yass I have some Bulleit pre-mixed Old Fashioned that I need to polish off before I move. I need to do this tonight.
We have faith in you.
Aye.
Oh come on. At least give us a Star Trek gif.
Technically, it’s a jpeg
*pours into glass*
LOL it’s like 1/4 inch of delicious booze.
But I do like their pre-mixes. Quality.
Smoothie + rum mini was sure good last week. I should have used Coconut Rumchata.
Eight pounds of tomatillos picked this morning. I charred them under the broiler this afternoon (along with some onions, some garlic, some poblanos, and a whole lot of jalapenos). Salsa verde is cooling on the counter overnight. I’ll can it tomorrow. I expect I’ll eat it with tortilla chips and make Colorado Green Chili with it.
We also made 2 pounds of Roma tomatoes from the garden into red salsa. It is very good.
The garden is winding down. The leaves are changing color. The sunsets are happening earlier. The snow will fly soon.
Same here, garden slowing but still lots to eat. Watermelons and squash need a little more time but weather is looking OK, cool but no frost. Tomatoes this year have been spectacular, still more coming.
I saw good looking big box tomatoes, 3.49 a lb. I weighed one, just over a lb, a $4. tomato. Mine were bigger and really good eating, still more coming. Gave buckets full away. Had about 20 honey crisp apples for the first time, next year should be bountiful.
My tomatoes are amazing this year too.
I am not sure if the first time I heard ‘Dont worry be happy” in 1988 was in a water side bar on the North side of Grand Cayman, but that was the most memorable.
The Bro 2024.
A First in every pocket.
Lady Pies on Fox Sports 2.
Lady pies?
You have to tune in to find out.
Happy.
I hope y’all had a great day.
LOL you’ve posted that so many times & it’s just what I needed right now. Soooooooo good.
I’ll never stop.
I’ve shared that song with so many people and the response is always the same. My daughter wants her band to cover it.
God Fodder is pretty much a perfect album.
Enjoy.
Truth.
I’m still finding new-ish stuff that I throw on when I want to be happy.
TW: unz unz unz
That’s not that new!
But thanks, another band to deep dive!
Heh new to me last year. But that track led me to an album which is IMHO a masterpiece of the genre, and then later last year a new album appeared out of nowhere after 12 years. I love when that happens.
No kidding. So rare.
Thanks for this!
we had to give away last night’s tickets to Cheap Trick
today the recipient came by and bought our table’s lunch
Great band. Sorry you missed them.
I saw Cheap Trick open for Ratt circa 1986. 15 or 16 year old me was like, “Who are these old guys? They suck.”
I guess they’re actually relatively old now.
I know you aren’t high, but what the fuck?
Old, maybe, but come on!
LOL they were the cool band all the older kids listened to.
I knew zero about them until many years later.
The cool band all the older kids listened to.
One of my uncles is only 8 years older than me. The late 70’s and early 80’s were a fantastic time for me!
The late 70s didn’t register for me. I became fully self-aware in the mid-80s.
Cut me some slack, Jack. I was just a 15-16 year old metal head at the time. That said, I don’t think Cheap Trick sucks any more.
I still listen to Ratt.
No ragrets.
Cheap Trick >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> RATT
CT opened for Ratt?!
Yep, at the old Mecca in Milwaukee.
Around the same time
https://youtu.be/tUiP5eyx3NM
Yass so good
I love the whole Pixies/Breeders/Throwing Muses/Belly constellation.
https://youtu.be/eGELjc66kFs
Fuck yes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQJjUbMrt8w&ab_channel=WarnerRecordsVault
Yass!
They’re all so nineties hawt too.
Fuck my life. I had a chance to see the Pixies in a small club around ’89. Was all like “nah, not into them”
Fuck my life.
Ooof.
Here’s an oldie for you, Tunda: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_FcaoXk9Z0
The vid was filmed at the Madonna Inn in my hometown, and four of my fiends are in the vid. The two hipsters at the bar are Winn and Nate, wile the couple getting undressed are Aly and I can’t remember her boyfiends name. But, she was only 15 at the time.
I love the Dragons.
Because of stuff like this.
So cool that your pals are in a video!
I’m somewhere in this mess.
They filmed this one at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis. So funny how we didn’t even give a fuck then.
LOL Soup Dragons were too hippie for me.
You’re in a Church video?!?!?!?!? To be fair, dude was probably high as a fucking kite the whole time.
I’m in the crowd. I’ve never been able to find myself (or the hottie I brought!)
Freaks me out that it was 35 years ago!
😄
https://babylonbee.com/news/wife-catches-conservative-husband-hiding-in-closet-eating-avocado-toast
I’ll admit it, it’s delicious. Although I prefer just good white bread (or shokupan) for the toast.
Also, we did test drive a Toyota recently and my wife makes her own granola.
I can tolerate avocado in pureed form with Mexican spices or whatever crap they use to make it edible but slices of that shit? Disgusting.
I mash it. Not much difference in texture from a nut butter.
I love avocado on my hamburgers. Fuck the haters.
Knits her own yogurt?
Thank you CPRM. Been enjoying CWA. Now I’m hungry for a grilled brat.
Since we’re rocking 90s.
Such a great tune.
Hum always leads me to https://youtu.be/FreSXHG4AEg for some reason. And I saw them open for this one-hit wonder https://youtu.be/PCsGRCf8T9Y, which we have definitely discussed at length.
That is some fuckin’ memories! Space Hog! HUM completely passed me by, though. I will have to check it out.
I love that one from Spacehog.
Here’s another to check out.
Oooh, that’s a jam.
mmmm…Katie Holmes
Hey, what are you guys doing the Saturday before Honey Harvest? I’m playing it by ear, but there’s a slight chance I might drive up Saturday afternoon and get there early evening.
That would be real cool. No plans other than CPRM and I are visiting a local model railroad museum in the afternoon. After that we’ll be drinking beer to un-nerd a little bit.
Cool. I’ll email you if I decide to go. I have your email from the Tundra Honey Harvest list.
Nice. I hope you can make it!
I bought the CD on the strength of the song Tundra linked.
Nothing else comes to mind, but that’s a great tune.
90’s perfection.
I completely missed these dudes. I like it.
They came and went pretty fast.
Anyone who can make a living making art is my fucking hero.
That’s a great song. I may have made this comment before, but you can tell Hum was HEAVILY influenced by the Smashing Pumpkins albums Gish and Siamese Dream.
Gish is so underrated and Siamese Dream is still one of the coolest records ever made.
I was hearing some Marcy Playground in there.
…I don’t know timelines of these bands, maybe it’s a reverse
I agree. MP’s big hit came out later, I believe.
I’m on my fourth listen to this song. It’s more than a little MP. If I’d heard it blind I would have sworn it was Marcy Playground on too much caffeine. And yeah, MP’s first album came out two years after HUM. I guess there’s a third band who HUM ad MP were heavily influenced by?
I gotta check out more from HUM. Super cool tune. Thanks, man
I usually went Brit in the 90s.
This album, I remember buying at the cool record store in Buffalo with my buddy. We saw Johnny Goo Goo there.
Holy shit! What a great memory!
Also Noel Gallagher was a roadie for those guys.
They were our answering machine message at one point too.
“Daddy, what’s an answering machine?”
Nice.
What a great decade.
Some days I hate the internet but some other days I love how I can find anything there now. There’s music that I thought was lost forever that is now an easy search away.
And Ricky Gervais managed Suede?!
Woah, people still here? I have officially started Day 5 of (booze) sobriety. I also got my pain meds.
Woohoo, indeed.
🤷♀️👍?
Congrats on the needed Rx.
They were indeed necessary! I’m gonna treat tomorrow/today like a full day off. Monday I’ve got outpatient and don’t-burn-bridges with Kroger errand to run.
Kinda as homework for outpatient on Tuesday, I’m trying to think of something I can write about, that is NOT what I normally would. So no non-fiction about me. I doubt I’m up for fiction, as that is not at all where my writing heart is.
Trying to get something concise, about 1000 words max. I was gonna do Miracle on Ice and kinda segue that into how sports is the only to-the-bone tribalism I feel. I’m not sure how American I feel. I think that’s a legit privilege that I can’t see outside of. I’ve lived in other places, but they were wealthy. I’ve traveled to poverty but never *lived* it.
I figure that’s been done too much, especially the hockey part. The rest was me just typing too much, methinks. Gonna write something fun and engaging. Maybe a comedy bit. That’s actually getting me thinking now…
Hrm. I’ll sleep on it, likely.
“So no non-fiction about me”
“segue that into how sports is the only to-the-bone tribalism I feel”
Err. . . .
I’m starting to freak out that I’m leaving NYC after 25 years. T-minus eight days holy crap I’m freaking out.
Two glibs moving in conjuction in time and space cannot be good. God speed on your move. I’m getting jitters now too
Yah I heard you’re moving too.
I’m only moving a couple hundred miles but it seems like light years.
My one visit to Manhatten, I was thinking it was a great place to visit, but a terrible place to live year round. My revealed preference is a big yard and house in a place with maybe 2% of Manhatten’s population density.
LOL so problematic.
White China
How about 90’s covers?
https://youtu.be/w3tqX3v2GSs?si=9jZenTznVDA_WF_r
Love the Tintin inspired album artwork.
Good morning all!
As I promised GT yesterday, 2 more tunes from the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band
First, the almost prophetic Look Out, There’s a Monster Coming.
Then, with what may be my favorite line in all of pop music, Rhinocratic Oaths.
Share and enjoy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKIJ9ekfAZY
Marvelous! Thank you!!
Have you seen Saving Grace, the movie CF wrote & had a part in? Quite fun. The countdown scene is most excellent 😉
Perhaps a lonnng time ago. 🤔
Good morning Glibbies (and our .gov lurkers)!
🌞😉🍳
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0Sjz-kmhTkQ
Concert 🎶🎶
So good.
https://www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia/news/escaped-chester-county-inmate-danelo-cavalcante-possibly-sighted-in-upper-province-township-police-say/
Hide & seek master level.
Oooh, and the cops say he’s apparently driving some type of white vehicle. That’ll narrow it down to, what, a third of all the cars on the road?
White vehicle privilege will allow him to escape.
Local news just said it’s a 2020 Ford Transit with a refrigerator unit and gave tag #s. Stolen from a dairy.
Yodelling for RJ:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxSqD79TU_Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3wMesI8aiw