I make no secret of my fandom for the Ravens, the only NFL team named after a poem. And after a very satisfying game last week, this is the last real obstacle before the playoffs, against a team named after a fish. The Ravens are minus their top two running backs and their top tight end, but this hasn’t seemed to have slowed them down. So I am spending the afternoon paying great heed to the television.
Oh, it’s New Year’s Eve? Shit, guess that means I’m going to have to cook something or WebDom and Tomb Raider will be quite huffy. After the game. I think I could manage something classic like PBJ or tortilla chips and jarred salsa.
Birthdays today include the first guy to go to Washington; a guy who always sat in the Colored section; someone who made up her biography; a guy who’s the reason that to this day we still spend billions on protecting Germany; a guy famous for doing a camp tour; a guy who impressed Jodie Foster; a guy guilty of police abuse; a guy who was a remarkably shitty pilot; a brilliant musician that, guess, who should be better known; a woman who is easy to blame for one of the shittiest musical movements in history; a biker famous for taking a knee; the most hated guy in New Mexico; and a real life Fredo.
Now my last links for 2023…
If this had been near Tripoli, it would have been perfect.
“I ain’t gettin’ hit but I’m still gettin’ paid.”
Those wacky kids, what’ll they do next?
“If we keep saying it, eventually those rubes will have to listen.”
I understand that Jerusalem is nice this time of year.
The Old Man was in a country mood this morning, which seems appropriate for my drive back to the boonies and my day ahead with America’s Sport.
to this day we still spend billions on protecting Germany
Happy Birthday Lord Ismay – ‘the purpose of NATO was “to keep the Soviet Union out, the Americans in, and the Germans down”‘!
Speaking of birthdays, today is Mrs. Imprudent’s! Yes, she was daddy’s little tax deduction.
Well happy bday to the Mrs!
Congrats to Mrs. I!
Double the celebratory champagne
She requested a breakfast of bacon & pancakes, which I obligingly prepared. Might get out for a ride today, then when the sun has set, we’ll stay in for the evening [thankyouverymuch].
Expert? Peter Simi, a professor of sociology at Chapman University
Self-proclaimed of course.
“Watson is returning to L.A. to continue his rehab on his shoulder”
I wonder if he’ll be happy with how the”rehab” ends?
You’d think a big time NFL player would get a happy ending.
The only NFL team named after.a poem. Hmm. Never thought of it that way. Fortunately it’s a bad-ass poem!
I studied a lot of poetry in college, but I cannot for the life of me remember a poem called “Colts”.
I’d do a search for “Packers” but I suspect it would end up under Rule 34.
Welcome, fellow Glibbies, to the last day of 2023!
After a few months of 2024, are there going to be billboards of 2023 waving and saying “Miss me yet?”
2023 had many pluses for me
-marriage probably at its best (after our nadir at the end of 2020 into 2021)
-good bit of traveling including getting to take the family (kids, wife, and in-laws) on a sea plane to dry tortugas and in the summer a relatively long RV trip (just wife and kids)
-end of mask mandates in NC hospitals (threw away all the masks we had in the house and cars this spring too)
-after travel nursing for a time I returned to the unit where I started my nursing career and found the pace and functioning MUCH improved
-decision to homeschool the kids starting with the 2023 academic year (so far so good)
Certainly there were negatives that I don’t care to list, but overall I feel better at least in my bubble
2024 should see me finally escape the shit hole city I live in. While 2024 will certainly suck politically and have lots of shrieking and REEEIng hopefully I can have a good time despite that kind of stuff.
Best wishes to y’all in 2024
a sea plane to dry tortugas
Jelly.
That’s a pretty good list – I hope the minus list was much shorter.
Bonne année.
I do recommend to anyone going to dry tortugas to splurge on it.
Cherry on top my 7 year old got to sit in the copilot seat on the ride back
Shake your head and laugh moment: my 5 year old couldn’t see out the window and fell asleep on the ride out. A very expensive nap 😂
Congratulations!
2023 was ok but better than 2022 by a country mile. .
2023 HAS SUCKED SO BAD.
GOODBUY.
My second son was born this year, otherwise it would have sucked. Same for 2020. My first was born October 2020. Without him, it would have been the worst year of my life, not even close.
2023 was the best year of my professional life by miles:
I had more power over my firm than ever
I got more done than ever
I made much much more money than ever
I had more fun at work than ever
some days I’d way up at 4 and just jump in the truck and rush in to see what I could sell or design or build or teach
if I could sign up for 2024 to be only half as good, even half the salary, I would
lolWTF
Grifting or trafficking?
Embrace the power of “and”.
Speaking of trafficking, this came to my attention yesterday.
How is that unpleasant blast from the past still alive even.
In case none of you other borderline autists noticed, Happy 123123 😉
Oh, yeah.
I read somewhere there’s going to be a bunch of Las Vegas weddings today for that reason.
123123 – this makes no sense. unless one subscribes to the stupid mm/dd/yy wy of timekeeping
You mean ISO 8601.
that is yyyyy/mm/dd
ahem
yyyy-mm-dd
well i added the slash or readability it dont matter
Your standard is “whatevz”.
well, yyyy-mm-dd
which is better because it doesn’t import and infer the implications of other formats
and which can be used in a file name (whereas the / slash can’t)
It can also be sorted chronologically.
Ding ding ding.
*looks through highly organized-by-date file tree*
Waltzing into the New Year?
Only an idiot would have that be the combination on their luggage!
I am going to pull an @oldtakesexposed
” Don escaped Texas on December 30, 2023 at 11:30 am
Sure, we’ll do some beer reviews.
This is my review of Lane Kiffin.
Taurus enjoys silky underthings and laying around the oasis, NTTAWWI. Penn State will bring a jockstrap full, plays real football with a real O-line, so that TX HS BS Lane runs ain’t gonna work. Nittany tows the lion, Rebels lose by 9.”
How did that turn out?
At least he didn’t call Georgia-FSU a nail-biter.
against a team named after a fish – raised eyebrow emoji
are minus their top two running backs and their top tight end – there was a bikini runway show called tight ends at some point
What a bitter clinger deplorable.
Like he did during his first term? Yawn. Trump is known goods at this point. Outside of a good LP candidate, I’ll hope for Vivek to make it.
“overtourism”
I mean people spending money in your town like drunken sailors is so hateful I can’t even.
Might as well Phuket
Oh, I had the bad luck of passing through a few of the places in the Catskills more people than the trails/roads could handle. I can understand why the locals don’t like it. In some ways, it’s another form of Californication.
I did a DDG search of one of those places (the Peekamoose Blue Hole), and one of the first hits was for an influencer blog where the writer thought she was one of the goodthinkful influencers who gets to keep going to such places; all the other people visiting should do things her way; and fuck what the locals think.
I remain completely (and blissfully) ignorant of what all these vapid influencers have to say.
ThikTok, as Daily Mail commenters call them.
A friend of mine moved to New Orleans about a decade ago and constantly rails against the tourist crowd. She’s a bartender in the French Quarter.
lol
Ask her if she would rather be unemployed.
Or see nothing but the same old drunks week in, week out.
Or the same old tiddies every Mardi gras
are minus their top two running backs and their top tight end – been to 6 f those
shit this should have been the overtourism link bad copy paste
Birthday boy music.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AL0xci_rGXs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0NXKy8wlGg
hooks
fills
progressions that include chords I have never heard before and certainly would have never thought together
all with an accuracy unknown in rock: clean, on the tone, to the exact fraction
if I could play like only one other guitarist, I could do much worse than Summers
beeple
@beeple
THE CABAL
https://twitter.com/beeple/status/1740231644559429839
TW beeple so nsfw eww etc
New year plans for thousands have been thrown into chaos after Eurostar cancelled all its services to and from London St Pancras due to flooding in a tunnel under the River Thames.
Many frustrated passengers are now stranded in London and Paris, scrambling to rearrange New Year’s Eve plans and find other travel routes.
Glibb poll: where would you rather be stranded for new years, london or paris? neither is not an option
London. At least I could mostly understand what people are saying.
Ditto
I’ve never been to London but I’ve been mugged in Paris so, um, London.
Well, Doctor Who taught me never to spend Christmas in London, so it might still be a bit dodgy for New Year’s Eve/Day. Therefore, Paris?
Doctor Who taught me that a girl-boss like yourself could handle whatever the universe throws at her, so long as those men get out of the way.
You didn’t stop watching soon enough.
I suffered through a recent “holiday special” where he re-unites with Donna Nobel.
Thankfully I was too drunk to remember much of if.
I hope they had to pay Tennant and Tate a LOT of money to take part in that fiasco,
I must have missed this. I will continue to have done so.
hating both towns, Paris: spending the day eating quietly by myself
but only because it’s NYE and too cold for stupidity; change this to fall or spring when the AC is turned off in Paris hotels and I’m back to London
Dammit, I hate Paris, but London for a Jew right now is unsafe.
wear a turban and no one will notice
I was there a couple weeks ago and was somewhat concerned for the (((wife))).
Not a whiff of an issue. It’s a big city. The only protest we saw was an anti-Brexit one (they’re still doing those, apparently).
That said, had we been a couple weeks earlier there would have been a giant anti
JewishZionist demonstration right across from the hotel.Surprised they haven’t joined forces with the pro-Hamas folks – if you subtract recent guests from the latter agitations it’s largely the same crowd.
Paris. At least I have never been their, so amateur night wouldn’t be too onerous, as I would be something of one.
London. Paris smells like urine.
Because people piss out windows?
BREAKING: Ape hangs domesticated wolf between its legs and films itself flying through the sky; domesticated wolf takes it all in its stride.
https://twitter.com/SteveStuWill/status/1741223403749818442
That’s a chill-ass doggo
“This is SO much better than the car window!”
That main page classic photo… I was watching the Arizona bowl yesterday. The Wyoming QB ran the ball about 15 yards down the field like a running back before a linebacker took him down with a hard clean tackle. They called targeting the QB and ejected the LB. I immediately turned off the game. Not watching that crap.
Classic photo – the last play of Frank Giffords’ career.
And not a penalty. The leagues had to real in some of that stuff, but now they’re way too far the other way.
The NFL now protects the QB excessively and because of the economics of the position. But I won’t fault college level ball for trying to keep players from permanent damage. Sure, some calls are bad – like that has never been the case anyway?
I more with Don about college ball – what was charming about it is rapidly bleeding out.
I am [he says]
In later interviews Bednarik stated he was celebrating that the play effectively ended the game with an Eagles victory and that he wasn’t aware of Giffords. Given Bednarik’s “feisty” nature even in retirement I believe him.
Incredible serve, incredible reply
https://twitter.com/NeilDotObrien/status/1741394623329653131
some puns should lead to jail time.
Absolutely peak Telegraph content, no notes
https://twitter.com/rcolvile/status/1741448943211278577
article no paywall
https://www.pressreader.com/uk/the-sunday-telegraph/20231231/282003267247334
Stranded for new years: London
Beer, language, fish and chips
“…cup o’ tea, bad food, worse weather, Mary fucking Poppins… LONDON.”
Try to catch the fireworks.
Well, Mary Fucking Poppins is soooooo much better than Amanda Fucking Palmer.
🙄 Not short on self-belief.
Now I have to drive home and start cooking.
or go to a hotel bar alone
for some dumb reason YouTube recommended me something off a Romanian religious channel and i will pass it forward
The most beautiful love hymn – Heavenly Romanian Voice, Maria Coman (I Cor. 13, 1-8)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wjeburhcvww
stupid title take it down a notch
Chaos breaks out on London streets as Eritrean protesters attack Met police vans with sticks outside theatre after demo turns ugly – with officers moving in to arrest troublemakers
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12912543/Met-Police-sends-extra-officers-Eritrean-protesters-attack-riot-vans-sticks-outside-south-London-theatre.html
probably zionism again…
Data backed
In a statement following Carney’s ruling, the governor said the locations where concealed carry would be banned under the new law are spaces “which should be safe for all.”
“This ruling outrageously calls California’s data-backed gun safety efforts ‘repugnant,’” Newsom previously told CNN. “What is repugnant is this ruling, which greenlights the proliferation of guns in our hospitals, libraries, and children’s playgrounds — spaces, which should be safe for all.”
Non sequitur.
data-backed
rights are not based on data because they are not earned in the first place
I’m calling him out on the stolen base – left before the pitch.
of course
I just always flinch over data-driven arguments in the rights world: the very point is the right to be wrong, to be on the wrong side of the data: we don’t need rights to enjoy being correct or popular
99% of publishing protected by 1A are garbage, but I don’t care about that data
Data are useful for negotiating a compromise or for driving a consensus. Data are not useful* as a cudgel to bash over an opponent’s head.
*logically. Rhetorically, the tactic is very effective.
absolutely
but it’s a trap, a bill that comes due on those days when the data does not support which randomly must occur
so this is a road best not taken at all
appeals to principle either sell or they don’t; if they do, they stick; everything else is shifting sand
+1 Mary Rosh
They must have excluded Michigan State from that analysis.
Did someone mention overtourism?
Venice has announced it will limit tourist walking groups to 25 people and ban the use of loudspeakers in its latest effort to combat mass tourism.
Groups will also be prohibited from stopping in narrow streets, on bridges or in passageways.
The new regulations, which further restrict tourist activities in the overcrowded city, will come into effect in the historic center as well as the islands of Murano, Burano and Torcello in June 2024, a statement on the city of Venice’s website said.
“Groups cannot exceed 25 people, i.e. half the passengers on a tourist coach. The use of loudspeakers that may cause confusion and disturbance will also be prohibited,” the statement says.
Eoo many tourists is why Venice is sinking.
Venice is dull anyway, veramente.
I much preferred Florence
George Jefferson didn’t.
Certamente si. 🤌
or Sienna
16 Cutthroat Trout Place | Big Sky, MT | Outlaw Realty
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uKtm3ZKo4o
Experience the epitome of mountain living in this meticulously renovated Big Sky home at 19 Cutthroat Trout. From the modern kitchen to the lavish primary bathroom with heated floors, every detail exudes contemporary elegance. With 4 bedrooms, two living rooms, an office, and a bonus room above the garage, this home provides ample space for comfortable living. Nestled on a serene ½-acre corner lot in a cul-de-sac, it’s the perfect South Fork retreat. Book your tour today and step into the charm of this beautifully designed haven
$2,800,000
half an acre is not that much land
As Jack Lambert said, nearly fifty(!) years ago, on the topic of protecting the quarterback:
“Put a dress on ’em.”
Ewwwwww…
https://www.foxnews.com/us/alabama-gas-station-worker-makes-gruesome-discovery-parking-lot
Experience the epitome of mountain living in this meticulously renovated Big Sky home at 19 Cutthroat Trout.
Spoiler alert- Big Sky is not the “epitome of mountain living”.
ever been to big sky?
I just got back from a week in Billings, MT and northern Wyoming.
Id consider moving out that way. I think Helena is more to my liking tho.
can you swing 2.8 mil for a house?
https://www.zillow.com/home-values/37427/billings-mt/
Id likely be happier doing the Ted Kaczynski and living in a shed in the middle of nowhere.
ever been in a Big Country ?
Band, album, and song name.
The journalist who wrote an article literally using the word “Nazi” in describing Trump’s rhetoric thinks that being described as “vermin” is beyond the pale.
I’m guessing that same journalist was OK with “deplorables” and “bitter clingers”, and is shocked … SHOCKED … that a Republican would use divisive rhetoric, unlike a uniter like Biden.
In other news, Mrs. Prole yesterday was puzzled by the phrase “fortified elections”. Her media feed has not, even once, mentioned that phrase. She does not know what it refers to. Talk about living in a media bubble.
Mrs. Prole yesterday was puzzled by the phrase “fortified elections”.
Tell her it means extra vitamins and minerals.
Most hated man in NM? Really?
“…against a team named after a fish ”
Point of order- the dolphin is a mammal
i too have commented upon that fact
I thought he was talking about the Lesbos Tuna from the European Women’s Football League.
“The red card smells fishy!”
Kultur war
A federal judge has temporarily blocked Iowa from enforcing a law that bans library books that depict sex acts and bars public school teachers from discussing gender identity or sexual orientation.
U.S. District Judge Stephen Locher granted a preliminary injunction on Friday, writing that portions of the law are overly broad and “unlikely to satisfy the First Amendment under any standard of scrutiny.”
Did he also throw out age limits on strip clubs? Age restrictions on alcohol and tobacco?
ever been to big sky?
Yes.
I played https://squaredle.com/xp 12/31:
*21/21 words
⏱️ In the top 5% by speed
I played https://squaredle.com 12/31:
62/62 words (+24 bonus words)
📖 In the top 17% by bonus words
🔥 Solve streak: 98
Locher, however, wrote that the law essentially deems all books (except religious texts) that depict sex as having no educational or literary value.
“The underlying message is that there is no redeeming value to any such book even if it is a work of history, self-help guide, award-winning novel, or other piece of serious literature,” he wrote. “In effect, the Legislature has imposed a puritanical ‘pall of orthodoxy’ over school libraries.”
Every grade school should have a subscription to Hustler; for the political articles.
I always liked Flynt’s “Asshole of the Month” column.
“In effect, the Legislature has imposed a puritanical ‘pall of orthodoxy’ over school libraries.”
OK groomer.
In seriousness, I don’t doubt that the law goes too far. Also in seriousness, I don’t doubt that there’s a ton of deviant trash that will swept out by the law. Remember when it was controversial to teach sex ed in school? I miss those days.
As I said before, the law is way too broad. There are many of Heinlein’s books that I read in high school that would be banned under the law.
The problem they are trying to address is real.
The solution they picked is bad.
I’m OK with the court blocking the law and telling Iowa to do it over again.
“Now you’re just being ridiculous.”
And every high school, Playboy, for the fashion section
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!
“What’s New Year time to you but a time for paying bills without money; a time for finding yourself a year older, but not an hour richer; a time for balancing your books and having every item in ’em through a round dozen of months presented dead against you? New Year ? Humbug” – Ebenezer Pie
Clean and green
A large cargo ship with a fire in its hold is being kept 2 miles offshore of an Alaska port as a precaution while efforts are undertaken to extinguish the flames, the U.S. Coast Guard said Saturday.
There were no injuries to the 19 crew members aboard the Genius Star XI, which was carrying a load of lithium-ion batteries across the Pacific Ocean, from Vietnam to San Diego, the guard’s Alaska district said in a release.
The fire started on Christmas Day in cargo hold No. 1, a spokesperson for ship owner Wisdom Marine Group said in a statement. The crew released carbon dioxide into the hold and sealed it over concerns of an explosion.
Ship’s personnel alerted the Coast Guard early Thursday morning about the fire. The Coast Guard said it diverted the 410-foot cargo ship to Dutch Harbor, one of the nation’s busiest fishing ports located in Unalaska, an Aleutian Islands community about 800 miles southwest of Anchorage.
Maybe we should just convert our coal fired electric generation facilities to burn batteries.
“This is not the first time Libs of TikTok was banned from Facebook. Raichik’s account was removed from Facebook last year after Boston Children’s Hospital said they were threatened after Libs of TikTok made a post alleging that minors were being given hysterectomies as a form of transgender surgery, according to the outlet.”
https://dailycaller.com/2023/12/31/libs-of-tiktok-facebook-suspends-violating-community-standards-chaya-raichik/
https://nypost.com/2023/12/31/news/facebook-suspends-libs-of-tiktok-for-violating-community-standards/
Which Boston Children’s Hospital was doing.
Id likely be happier doing the Ted Kaczynski and living in a shed in the middle of nowhere.
Yurts are where it’s at.
One of the guys from our Left Coast office claims to live in a yurt. When I asked about it, he has a poured concrete floors, running water, and electric
Which to me kinda defeats the purpose. But what do I know?
My brother lives in a yurt.
on purpose?
Yes, but with Tres’s caveat that it has plumbing, lights, and HVAC.
In a nutshell
The expansion of Medi-Cal, which was approved in legislation in May, comes at a time of great friction between Republicans who want to push for more border security to stop what they see as a crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border and Democrats who want to ensure that America is a place of refuge for immigrants fleeing their home countries for better opportunities.
Democrats good. Republicans bad.
CA will continue to export productive wealthy people and import low skill refugees. Their collapse will continue to be an entertaining tragedy right up until the point the feds bail them out.
this
but, of course,
the fedsyou, I, and our children bail them outYeah, federalize state debt!
“Ohio man nearly dies after eating FOUR poisonous mushrooms he foraged from his backyard with his Italian pasta – and claims smartphone app Plant Identifier told him fungi was EDIBLE
The 55-year-old only recovered after receiving an experimental antidote, an extract from a milk thistle plant called silibinin”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12914349/Ohio-man-nearly-dies-eating-FOUR-poisonous-mushrooms-foraged-backyard-Italian-pasta-claims-smartphone-app-Plant-Identifier-told-fungi-EDIBLE.html
Use stupid app win stupid prizes.
Also, not sure how silymarin is “experimental”.
Well, I didn’t think I was that bad.
Three and a half score today. It was a tough milestone to push through.
I’m still cancer-free after 18 months and in good shape (if I can manage to lose this spare tire.)
Ready for the next round!
Double congrats! May the future be kind.
Go you!
Sunday, Slutty Sunday…
https://archive.is/ZSMKC
California Governor Gavin Newsom’s office told ABC News about the Medi-Cal expansion, “In California, we believe everyone deserves access to quality, affordable health care coverage – regardless of income or immigration status. Through this expansion, we’re making sure families and communities across California are healthier, stronger, and able to get the care they need when they need it.”
Gavin Newsom, health care fairy, then waved his magic wand and fluttered off.
“The Maine Democrat who moved to boot former President Donald Trump from the state’s Republican primary ballot visited the White House twice in the past year — meeting President Joe Biden during one jaunt — and reportedly once referred to the Electoral College as a “relic of white supremacy.”
In June 2021, Bellows, a former state Senator in Maine, wrote an op-ed piece for the lefty platform Democracy Docket claiming she decided to run for secretary of state because she “was truly frightened for our democracy” following the 2020 presidential election.”
https://nypost.com/2023/12/30/news/maine-dem-who-kicked-trump-off-ballot-called-electoral-college-white-supremacy/
No agenda there. Totally unbiased.
Happy birthday to my mom, who is 80 today.
I’mma clean the house and put up Christmas shit today.
2023 was reasonably good to us, or at least treated us a whole lot better than the past 5 years have. Money in the bank, nice house I don’t have to fix, kids out of minor-dom and working, reasonably working cars, got Dude’s shoulder surgery in under the wire, I got another big formatting job I’m enjoying/hating, a solid transcription gig, a good therapist, good health insurance, and pretty much all our needs are met.
My mom and her sisters she lives with have ongoing health issues because they are old, but one aunt refuse to leave their homestead out in the boonies, so they don’t move, so that’s frustrating.
Now, I wouldn’t turn down fuck-you money if Dude won some, but we’re in a good place. Hopefully 2024 willbe more of the same or better.
And may 2024 treat all the rest of you well.
HBD to your mom 🙂