Captain’s Log. It is now 37 days since my wife was last paid to do whatever it is she does. She’s taking early retirement well. Due to the new season of Stranger Things coming out, she decided to binge watch previous seasons in an attempt to catch up on the plot lines when the next season premiers. Winona Ryder’s attempt at a midwest accent along with a few shrill, vapid screams echo throughout my house during the day. Last night she paid $5 to Sling to watch Monday Night Football. I was worried the Cardinals were going to throw it away, but Dak Prescott had other plans.
I thought for sure the food stamp thing would trigger congress to renegotiate, but I suppose not. Meanwhile, my floors have never been cleaner since she rediscovered the wet/dry vac she bought 9 months ago that will clean up pet stains.
¡Enlaces!
This one is a bit close to home, but I’ve never been to Hermosillo.
As a Mexican, there is absolutely nothing wrong with this as long as she remains attractive.
And nothing of value was lost?
Serious question, if we were going to do a Pershing style expedition into Mexico, would they actually tell El Presidenté Mujer?
Jamaica is in the news, so I will post this video to weird you out.
¡Tequila!
These motherfuckers need Franco.
I guess Aerosmith is back? Did they ever go away?
The congresswoman was dressed in a traditional Mexican dress and wore a sombrero while Pearcy wore an ICE vest over fatigues.
On further thought, I think that costume got some bedroom use.
“Deport me, baby! Use my back channel processes!”
“Oh yeah! Right up my Rio grande!”
The safe word is “asylum”.
I’m guessing any costume of theirs was going to get some bedroom use. NTTAWWT.
She can now work to better herself with her more evolved sensibility. Hopefully she won’t be breaking any of your little ships.
With Duffy (I think that’s SecTransportation right now) saying if we don’t pay Air Traffic soon, air travel will be shut down over Thanksgiving… I fully expect them to “find a reasonable compromise” now that the elections are processed and before that happens. SNAP zombie looters and pissed off holiday travelers? That would be too much for DC…
Hmmm… “pet” stains… that’s the story you’re going with, MS? Well… if she’s pretending to buy it, I suppose don’t knock it…
Bodily fluids is bodily fluids. Just ask ServPro.
What?
That’s right, agave fans: The 40th release is an ultra-rare extra añejo, set to retail for $2,300.
I guess I shouldn’t say anything as I spent $100-something on a whiskey from Utah and $80-something on a bottle from Ireland.
Does it come with an ultra-rare extra hangover beyond the one I would get from any other tequila?
Everybody’s metabolism is different, but I don’t really get hangovers from tequila. Now, if you’re drinking really cheap crap, sure. Which is where tequila got its rep for hangovers – college idiots guzzling really cheap crap. Decent 100% blue agave, though? Shouldn’t be a problem.
To be fair, I have probably only had cheap shit. I don’t like the flavor so it’s not something I go out of my way to order.
I’ve never dropped four digits for a bottle, I’ve got several that were three digits. I don’t regret the purchases.
37$ for a bottle of beer, thats quite enough IMO
Real good beer, ask Kinnath
$300 for a bottle is about my limit, and that’s rare. I’ve gotten great enjoyment from $50 bourbon, $40 brandy and gin, and $19.99 (on sale!) rum.
Ohio has state run liquor, it’s generally well run, with a decent ability to check stock in stores in areas. A couple times a year, they do a Last Call clearance on items they’ve decided the state will not stock anymore. Those are usually bottles at 50% off their usual prices. I’ve gotten several deals on that, which has always been bittersweet when it’s something good, as it’ll no longer be available in the state.
Same here, Sheldon. Except I’ve never gone over $150 bottle (and that’s damn rare).
The most I ever spent was $250 or so for Papa Seal Rum from Goslings. It’s good, but it hurt spending that much.
Midwinter Night’s Dram is close to $200 these days.
I dunno about ID/NY prices, but here it’s $135. Some aficionados say it’s not as good now but I like it. Looking forward to another bottle this year.
If it is that much out your way, it might be cheaper for you if I buy it and ship it to you.
Spain’s foreign minister has expressed “regret” over the “pain and suffering” caused by its colonisation of Mexico.
Oh.
Musk is a retard
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1985692613010502114
1. Obviously doesn’t live in New York State.
2. Kwame got the D, not Cuomo. Them’s the breaks.
https://nypost.com/2025/11/04/us-news/zohran-mamdani-casts-ballot-in-nyc-mayoral-election-while-stressing-the-need-for-more-housing/
I don’t know if I can survive listening to that smug prick for the next four years without tossing myself off a bridge.
Be happy you aren’t in the city. I’m dreading coming in.
My timing was impeccable.
His mentor Linda Sarsour used to direct mass hate events on my corner in Brooklyn, basically the center of Arab life in NYC. The nabe was already becoming a bit less friendly over the years – finally I decided I’d had enough of the city entirely.
Three weeks after I left for good, 10/7 happened.
Damn… I can’t imagine that big of a transformer within the store proper — but maybe that’s more common than I’d expect. Sympathies for the victims — no one would expect it to be life threatening to go to a grocery store (except maybe Lola on the second and subsequent runs, but that’s more to do with Manni’s stupidity).
That’s a hell of a deep cut, been years since I thought of that movie.
Maybe in my top 10 favorites. Endlessly rewatchable.
Rewatchable.
The thing with time loop
Movies is you get to rewatch them in one sitting.
That is some impressive geekdom right there. If I wore a hat, it would be off to you, sir.
Depends on who “they” is… her own military? One would hope. The cartels who supposedly pull her strings? Yeah, if it is having any success. DC? Hell no… unless we wanted to give targets advance warning, I don’t see the point.
Of course — since I also assume the cartels are smart enough to have infiltrated / influenced people on this side of the border to have people in our military who would report to them… doesn’t hugely matter.
You know who they is.
They is I.
Why the cartels would want an asset roaming the aisles at Walmart, I can’t imagine.
How many times have the Mexican federalalies been in the U.S.?
A belated Halloween music
More Halloween music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWLQg3SubyQ&list=RDvWLQg3SubyQ&start_radio=1
Not because you Jamaican me crazy?
I guess the embalming fluid is working to keep them preserved… impressive.
It’s just the audio. If there was video, we would see that they are all brains in jars now.
Keef says hi!
“I will post this video to weird you out.”
Not a surprise, really. Some cultures/religions have limited acceptance of sodomites like me. But I’d rather live in USA during a Great Awakening period than pretty much any majority Muslim nation.
My first act as President will be to deport all the Queers for Palestine to Palestine.
You have my vote!
Seconded!
Fire up the C130s.
Yeah… Jamaica was not a friendly place for gay people.
No idea if accurate but FWIW I have never had even the slightest desire to visit that place so there is that.
Savages gonna savage. *shrugs*
That’s a side or ray-gay I did not know.
I think in the intellectual abstract the Christian ideal of a man and a woman in marriage for life is probably the best pattern for societal stability and raising children. Where the more rabid proponents of that idea lose me is when they are fine with people like me, hetero but never been married, no kids and live alone, with next to zero contact with my neighbors, but up in arms about a couple of guys or gals pairing off in a same sex couple. From a social stability point of view I am the problem. I just don’t give anything like enough of a damn to change my ways.
Is anyone else getting a little bit sick of ‘ultra-premium luxury spirits’ bullshit?
Maybe I’m just jealous that I can’t afford it myself, but that shit is really getting silly. I’ve been unimpressed with Pappy, Weller 12 is okay, I once had some 30-year-old Highland Park that was really good, but it wasn’t $150/glass better than 18-year-old Glendronnach that I usually drink when I’m flush.
Very much so.
Of course, the highest end bottle in my house (to my knowledge at least) is Middleton Very Rare. One of the reasons I got into beer back when I was in my 20s was that I looked and saw that the best wine in the world cost multiples of thousands of dollars for a bottle, the best beer in the world was $35 (grey market, ~$3 retail). I went the path that I could afford and at least have reasonable aspirations to trying the best of a category. Now, I’ve paid more than $35/bottle for beer since, but most of those were one off/special releases.
Jose Cuervo Gold is still under $20
So is Kleen-Strip brand paint thinner…
Barfman to the white courtesy phone. Paging Barfman.
I was just chatting with someone last week about how “they don’t like tequila” but I pointed out that we grew up when “good tequila” was Cuervo Gold. No wonder they think they don’t like tequila.
Wait, is this a high school party?
Hey Nineteen
I had mezcal for the first time on Halloween thanks to an insistent neighbor who said it’s better than tequila. First time I’ve puked since 2007.
I had The Macallan 25 a few times, many years ago, before prices got totally insane.
It was lovely but I don’t know that it was worth the jump from the price of the 18 even then. Now, forget about it. I can’t even afford the 18.
I don’t know if The Macallan has changed their recipe, but the last time I has a glass of 18 I was hugely disappointed. Very plain on the tongue.
If you like port-finished highland malts, I recommend the Glendronnach to your attention.
I’ve moved away from port finished. I don’t even drink as much scotch anymore though I still like Oban when I do.
I even find this a bit cloying – don’t want more than one.
My brother loves it, but he’s got more of a sweet tooth than I do.
The Macallan has always been somewhat plain to my tastes. For whisky, I’m partial to the big punch in the face ones like Laphroig. Bourbon, my day to days are various expressions of Bulleit, Irish, I lean towards Tullamore as a daily drinker.
I’ve found I need to stop buying as many one off cask strength releases as they build up, and drink slow. I will soon (I think it’s next year actually) be coming into what may be the most unique bottles I ever will. A local distillery needed to raise money, they decided to crowd fund it, but since this was for a specific purpose (building out a new facility), they decided to issue a bond. They backed the bond, with barrels of whiskey that have been maturing along with the bond. They were offering 5% annually on the bond, and you can take your payout at the end in either cash, or convert a portion (principal and interest) into bottles of the whiskey. I went with rye, and will likely be converting my entire investment into bottles. If nothing else, I’ll have holiday gifts covered that year.
Bourbon more expensive than Makers is wasted on me, and in scotch I am a fan of Glenmorangie, but find anything past the 12 is wasted money. Rye, I like Michter’s 10 or Bulleit. I tend not to like either the really pricey bottles or the really cheap ones.
All alcohol tastes like shit to me and when I drank it was solely to get fucked up. I threw up too many times on rum to the point where I had to stop with that early on.
Yeah, the ROI on booze runs out for me probably around 12 years for scotch. I mean, I’ll happily guzzle your 18 year old scotch, but I’m not paying for it myself.
I’m more sick of the ultra-tatered pricing. Secondaries are still insane. And so are the museum stores.
Lots of good value to be had in the mid to low range. I still like Old Forester and Teacher’s Highland Cream. Jack Daniel makes some great barrels as long as it’s not old no 7. So does Wild Turkey.
Although I can appreciate Captain Kirk’s green women, this green, white, and red woman will do just fine.
The Federation never did say what it will do with space mexicans.
I did, MS13 in space ‘member?
That’s Salvadorans.
Did they ever go away?
They took a piece?
The number of people killed in Jamaica as a result of Hurricane Melissa has risen to 28, the Caribbean nation’s prime minister has announced.
Helps to get several days’ warning and to be a mountainous country (’cause you can just go uphill to avoid the surge).
At least 31 people have been killed in Haiti as a result of Melissa
Well, if you’re not a complete third world basket case.
The impact of climate change on the frequency of storms is still unclear, but increased sea surface temperatures warm the air above and make more energy available to drive hurricanes, cyclones and typhoons. As a result, they are likely to be more intense with more extreme rainfall.
Have to work the required shibboleths in there somewhere.
” Due to the new season of Stranger Things coming out, she decided to binge watch previous seasons in an attempt to catch up on the plot lines when the next season premiers. ”
I don’t remember very much about the last season. I was told it was 3.5 years ago. Yeesh.
“supermarket blast”
I used to watch that on Nickelodeon.
“Spain ‘regrets pain and injustice’ caused by colonisation of Mexico”
Sorry if you thought this meant reparations.
I don’t remember very much about the last season. I was told it was 3.5 years ago. Yeesh.
Spoiler alert: the government fucked up.
“Sorry we ended the psychopathic death cult piling up skulls by the hundreds of thousands.”
England arrests a man for having the recipe for gunpowder.
https://bearingarms.com/tomknighton/2025/11/04/uk-man-arrested-for-possessing-gunpowder-recipe-n1230487
Was he getting ready for Guy Fawkes Day?
So Wikipedia is unavailable in the UK?
Apparently neither is the Gorn episode of Star Trek TOS
Or Blood Meridian.
Charcoal, saltpeter, and sulfur?
Arrest this man, guv’nuh!
I know. It’s even in a Star Trek episode, Kirk makes gunpowder to kill the Gorn. Is that banned?
And Richard Hammond showed how to make saltpeter out of bird crap for gunpowder and fireworks on his series where he was marooned on a desert island. Shall they go arrest Richard Hammond?
How would you arrest Hammond? You’d have to find him first and he is very small.
You mean 75g. of powdered potassium nitrate (available at most home and garden stores as Green Light stump remover), 15g. powdered charcoal, and 10g. powdered sulfur, mixed and corned while damp, then dried over low heat? That recipe for gunpowder?
Fuck Britain.
Ancient Chinese secret, huh?
That was from memory. Fond, fond memories of my younger pyromaniac years…
Now I imagine a young EvilSheldon with soot all over his face, and smoldering hair standing on end.
That would have been after I accidentally set off a model rocket engine in my basement when I was eleven…
*clinks glass with EvilSheldon*
This man knows how to party, and he plays hard.
The whole aircraft parachutes in our airplanes are extracted from the fuselage using a rocket. The fuel for the rockets is pretty much what Evil Sheldon recited above. When the Chinese bought our company, US ITAR restrictions forbid us from sharing the recipe with our new owners -a recipe that the Chinese invented around the 9th century CE.
Nick, it doesn’t matter if they already know the recipe, they can’t know that that is the particular one being used in this particular application.
Don’t you spy stuff?
TIL where PO’d Nick works 😛
A FOAF had one of your planes – big fan.
(I think she got rid of it when they moved to Switzerland).
I visited Nick at his place of work and we had a brief wander about.
Funnily enough it looks a lot like a factory.
Explosives, take me away!
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgd4nx7588o
A bit more detail. Convicted previously for terrorism and refused to explain and plead guilty.
They charged he plead.
FTA,
Police also discovered about 39000 indecent images of children including film and photographs.
Way to bury the lead.
Hang him.
Even with saltpeter?
Gunpowder recipe? Not a big deal. The other stuff….kinda is. Yeah, hang the bastard.
At least 31 people have been killed in Haiti as a result of Melissa
How many murders in the same time period?
Ha! Fantastic question. There’s a reason there ain’t no Haitian MLB players. When your neighbor’s fucked, and he thinks you’re waaaaaay more fucked, fucked up enough to divide a whole, not un-big island over it, uh. Try to be positive! Maybe Melissa cleaned some Clinton of ya.
MS, I have to ask: still have a surplus of fudge? Or has the wife moved on to other fattening yet tasty treats?
No. The brownies were a way to occupy our kids that were home due to fall break. There are no tasty treats.
Want me to send some leftover Halloween candy?
MS, that makes me sad.
Maybe you should make some picket signs and hold a protest?
I have candy, I’m just not into it. Candy is for closers.
I had to look up YUNGBLUD. No clue who he is. Mixed him up with Yung Gravy. That track is okay.
Back to OVERKILL. It’s a Bitter Pill.
Hey, guess who’s the Birthday Boy today?
(Yes… he’s 64. Feel old yet?)
Who?
/62
I’m having a hard time figuring out who that is.
Not the aussie breakdancing fraud, but her fifteen minutes are over. When were his?
https://m.imdb.com/name/nm0001494
The eighties.
Stay gold, pony boy!
I was born in the 80s.
UCS simply has an old soul.
Yup, but it’s because I’m 74
He looks like a trans soccer Mom in that photo.
Well, I’m glad I had Red Flags of my own ‘n checked here, then with bro about scamsters tryin’ to scam me. *My* money is safe, my credit frozen, and they seem to have stop pestering after ghosting commenced. New bank account. Meh. Lesson lived, hopefully learned.
Neurologist appt went well, I suppose, upping my meds a touch. Most importantly, and kinda amazingly, I got an MRI scheduled for Friday. It’s been a while since I’ve had one, but to answer UCS’ question, there’s no issue with titanium in MRIs. (Nor metal detectors! GOD that was fucking annoying, ‘specially at airports.)
Odd bits of combined stress, I s’pose, led to something rather alarming. Uh, I’ve dropped ~25lb in maybe two weeks. Normally ~135.
140+ –? Eat less!
Eat more!
Uh. Scale was flickering between 110 and 111. DAMN. So now.. I’m just going to keep eating.
That’s damn skinny, even for us wee Glibs.
Eat a sammich!
Ha! Got an Italian (and chili) from Panera. 1250 calories. PLUG IT INTO MY VEINS!!
They do good work. That most certainly is a Carmel, IN thing. Everywhere here is remarkably good, even cheap fast food. Nearby Applebee’s delivers legit, fantastic steaks.
People who eat at Applebees deserve the death penalty after being sodomized with a rusty pipe.
My midwestern heart weeps at this.
I have never gotten a restaurant steak better than what I can cook at home with a decent cut from the butcher. And they charge more!
Have you ever been to a legitimate steakhouse? They age the beef and essentially carve off the outside as waste. They also go to the wholesaler and purchase beef whole.
You can’t get that quality at most butchers as that level of beef all goes to top restaurants. Further it is very difficult to dry age at home.
OTH, I only go to a NYC steakhouse when somebody else is generally paying.
Glibbies, it’s Carmel, IN. And we live in the heart of the foodie area. Affluent customers expect good food. This ain’t Evansville nor Englewood, where all your complaints, observations, are truth.
On that front, We’re quite, quite comfortable, but not rich. M̵y̵ ̵p̵a̵r̵e̵n̵t̵s̵ Mom was good w our money. Dad worked for the Evansville Courier, but Mom (eventually) made more than him as a govt school teacher. We only spent money on travel, and now they own a condo right off the Monon Trail. I’m glad I learned their fiscal prudence.
Define “Legitimate Steakhouse” so that we don’t stumble into a true scotsman type situation where our definitions differ.
A non-chain that is focused on steak, who butcher and age their own steaks Usually just a la carte sides and an extensive wine and whiskey list. White table cloth (usually). Stupid expensive (usually).
I can’t quite manage their results – as Sensei says, they have access to product I do not.
In Boston, I’d send you here:
https://www.grill23.com/
(hopefully someone else is paying)
I don’t mean it to be pedantic.
Restaurant focused on various cuts of high quality dry aged beef.
They may have a seafood dish or two and lamb, but most of the menu will be beef.
If it’s not a kosher place usually shellfish is available as an appetizer only.
Sides are usually potatoes, creamed spinach and seasonal vegetables.
Salad choice usually limited.
No, I have never found such a place.
You need to go at least once!
Try and get somebody else to pay if you can, however.
I’ve been to ONE steakhouse that was as good as what is made at home.
The wife dry ages, salts, picks the fattiest cuts.
I didn’t have much invested into that gig, thankfully having some(!) wisdom to detect neferity. *shrug* Woulda been nice. I’ll continue work search on that front tomorrow onward, but today is now devoted to food and Distraction Dust. Clarkson’s Farm again for now before TNT delivers a lovingly-timed NHL back-to -backer. In a not-big list, Clarkson’s one of my favorite people.
A previous goal was to finish my next piece, so I’ll do my best to keep it.
Clarkson’s Farm is a delight.
Yes. Look! Two Glibs agree!
At least three! Was thinking about it for some reason, and Clarkson, the Seinfeld Four + Larry David crew, are celebs I’ll be legit upset when they pass. I can’t think of too many more on the list, but there I’m sure are manymany. Greg Maddux.
I can’t think of a single celebrity that I was, or will be, legitimately upset when they die. “Oh, thats too bad”, sure. But that’s about it.