We’re a little skinny on snow this year. And although the osprey haven’t returned to their nest along the river, Spring is speeding towards us. Farmers are going to have an issue with water.
Links?
I am dumber for having read this.
That’s just good product placement, right there.
How about you go fuck yourself, Ron?
Chris Van Hollen has to be one of the dumbest mfer’s in the Senate.
Long knives out for Kristi. And her husband’s a cuck.
So much for the vaunted “British Empire”.
Okay, that’s it for me. Time for some Mexican food and a beer. Peace out, Glibbies.
The IndyCar boys put on a pretty good show in Phoenix today.
This was fucking awesome. That’s not luck, that’s driving.
That’s phenomenal.
People all over the world enjoy eating watermelon.
Showing a black person eating watermelon is problematic.
Right.
Chris Thomas King wrote a song that I’m sure the author of that piece has never heard even once.
https://youtu.be/U_I27GHCRlE?si=i89IMhrLqeikBDiD
Tracy Byrd did one as well. Nice scenery.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFPdX2TFiIE&list=RDBFPdX2TFiIE&start_radio=1
Tennessee Ernie Ford’s rendition
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3VSMqVIRXA
Herbie Hancock
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrmFJjmRIi4
That is so amazing from start to finish I don’t even know which sentence(s) to make fun of.
But in truth, none of us ever know the inner workings of anyone else’s marriage. That’s their business and nobody else’s.
But you won’t let that stop you.
Ah, so the climate chapter is a pack of lies. Imagine my surprise.
“the osprey haven’t returned to their nest along the river”
May you soon be graced by their presence. We have a year-round osprey population here.
Very cool. I look at their arrival as the arrival of Spring, and when they leave the arrival of Winter.
Great scene, Spud, from your house?
We use Swans for Spring Bringing. First migrators to return, as soon as there’s a little open water around the mouth of a creek or river. I don’t know if there is any back yet but I don’t spend a lot of time outside looking.
No. That’s at the base of the Sawtooth’s at 6,000’. I spend plenty of time in that area during the summer, though.
The world is okay. Its always on fire, there is always some asshat doing asshat things.
In that note. Skirt steak marinaded in chipolte adobo and spices, then dried and seared over aji amarillo black beans and cumin/corriander rice. A nice crema, avacado and pickled radish bowls for myslef and the missus tonight
A more boring dinner here: couple of fillets in the grill pan & finished in the oven, with roasted broccoli plus some mashed sweet potato for the missus, with a nice cab.
Sometimes the basics are great, given good product.
*looks at frozen taquitos*
*sighs*
We’re eating a lot more of the prepared frozen meals. Some things get tougher and tougher. Marie Callendar is my friend.
Frozen meals are great while I break in some new teeth.
Two very acceptable meals. I had chicken, onions and peppers braised in a chipotle sauce at a local Mexican place for lunch. I have leftover pasta with sausage, mushrooms and broccoli rabe for dinner.
As someone who enjoys food…i would never turn down some frozen taquitos.
Ditto.
Making homemade pizza and wings. It’s Saturday night.
I made my lamb with green beans in Georgian* spices last night, so, not sure what the wife is making tonight for date night.
*country
Ground beef tacos with a variety of white people toppings (cheese, sour cream, avocado, tomato), beans rice and homemade chips on the side, and margaritas.
Then sitting down to see which other F1 teams (besides Red Bull) vibe coded their power unit software.
Chicken bracciole will be on the menu here.
I love white trash tacos. I even use store bought shells.
The new Young Sherlock has a Guy Ritchie problem. Entertaining but wtf is it?
The Guy Ritchie movies, especially the first one, were the most canon-accurate Sherlock Holmes story ever put to film. Fight me.
Sigh. Kids these days.
The truth hurts sometimes.
I believe it’s based on a series of books, by someone I don’t remember, not Spielberg s 80’s movie.
It does depart from canon, but the actors are quite good.
I’m only four episodes in, I like the actor playing Moriarty as well as the lady playing the Chinese princess.
So far, very little wokeness detected.
Holy Kow, that Kristi No’am article is dumber than the watermelon article.
I know nothing about anything about war or Iran or whateverthefuckisgoingonOverThere, but… I’mma say, IF it is necessary, definitive and utterly destructive one-time strikes are better than piddling around in an area for fifteen years and/or rattling sabers for forty.
This view may be a consequence of watching my mother do everything with seven more steps than is necessary. No, Mother, you do not need to have a bra on to go to the ER when you can’t move your arm. Do you know. I had to have an actual yelling argument with her about that and basically told her if she wanted her bra on, she could put it on herself because I wasn’t going to help her. FURTHERMORE. I said, “Do you think everybody is looking at your boobs to check and make sure you’re wearing a bra?” SHE SAID YES. omg.
Anyway.
That is all.
And yes, I did compare bombing Iran Because Reasons to fighting my mother over wearing a bra to the ER.
I’ll allow it.
Some of Iran’s propaganda videos are comically bad, but MSM are posting them uncritically. WTF?! I don’t expect John or Jane Couchsurfer to be able look at them and go “BS!” but I do expect professional defense journalists to be able to analyze what governments put out during a war.
That goes for coverage of US videos as well. Honest coverage of a complex situation is not too much to ask. (Yeah, I started day drinking before writing this.)
LOL @ ‘professional defense journalists.’
Forgive me for laughing.
It’s funny, yes, until I have to deal with it in real time.
This is more of a point of contention than it should ever have been in the first place. When I go to the hospital for a procedure, I put on a house-hoodie and Birks. I also do this for the ER if I can.
My MOTHER has to GET DRESSED, which is a procedure. Magic underwear (that’s its own fight), regular underwear which includes a complicated bra, nice outfit. THE FUCK. It DOES NOT MATTER how bad she feels, she will do this. When she was so sick last year, she GOT DRESSED FIRST like she was going to a ladies’ lunch even though she was on death’s door, but she did that before we got to her house.
So I say, “Why do you think people are looking at you? Do you think you’re that interesting?” Well, I don’t know. “They aren’t. They are not looking at you.” I look at people. “Do you look to see if they’re wearing a bra?” Yes. “Why are you looking at people’s boobs?” To see if they’re wearing a bra. “WHY DO YOU CARE????” I don’t know.
Well, I know. Because HER mother cared and would judge and would gossip in that viciously delicate/delicately vicious way Southern women do, to say, “MY daughter better never do this because it’s trashy.”
BUT YOU’RE GOING TO THE HOSPITAL AND STOP LOOKING AT OTHER PEOPLE’S BOOBS.
So my sorcerer-lawyer story. Now, I hang lanterns in my stories because to me, that’s showing respect for the reader and also sharing an inside joke with them. I know the trope about the “chosen one,” and I’m trying to distance my sorcerer from “chosen one” status, but I’ve written myself into a corner (mostly because he IS chosen because he’s afforded immortality if he chooses to renew it).
If your magic is based on physics and math, could you be considered a “chosen one” because it’s high-level abstract thinking that you can do? Everybody has something they’re good at. Is somebody a CHOSEN ONE because he can write symphonies (e.g., John Williams)? Does that make you chosen because you landed where your interests lie and you were able to exploit them to best effect?
I missed the earlier postings, but did you come across https://maxgladstone.com/series/the-craft-sequence/ ?
Wizard-lawyers. Very well done.
Oh, that’s neat! Thanks. I’ll read it.
So, my timeframe for this is about 2040, I think. Far enough in the future I can speculate without prophesying the future and close enough that tech and pop culture references may wear well in the future of the book.
MY sorcerer-lawyer is the stop-gap between “the Offs” (the magical demographic, because they’re a bit “off,” like the weird IT guy, but people don’t know what’s wrong with them so they’re kind of unemployable) and modern bureaucracy, law enforcement, and the IRS. However, the Offs see him as a plumber. Mortal (with mechanical longevity and vitality), so he’s beneath them but they depend on him for protection and employment. He’s at once the “patriarch” of the Off community and its doormat. He’s also far more powerful than they are but they don’t know that because they don’t pay attention to him until they need him.
He set up shop in the 30s in Kansas City because he came here for a shot of decent whiskey, got roped into law school and practicing law about the time health insurance and social security numbers became a thing, so he got stuck here. So KC is a locus for magical beings, myths, legends, fairy tales, because he’s here and he’s stuck with the responsibility.
Yes, he could leave. But he’s not an asshole.
That sounds excellent. Will read.
This is intriguing.
This sounds very interesting.
Now I want to go back and re-read The Boat of a Million Years a zillion years after the last time I read it.
As an aside, it’s a good example of how cover art matters.
I thought the sequel was a YA novel
https://maxgladstone.com/writing/wicked-problems/
He is also part of an interconnecting world with Krampus (also the Alpine goddess Perchta) (and thus, Santa), the queen of the godfae who became mortal to marry a man and is now a widow with two daughters from him and an irascible stepdaughter from her husband’s first marriage who thinks she’s Cinderella, and possibly a middle-aged post-menopausal hausfrau vampire.
But, no, straight up sequel.
That’s supposed to be the same character as this:
https://maxgladstone.com/writing/three-parts-dead/
Badass Tara, reduced to a cartoon…
And oh, his practice is named Warre & Locke, PC. He thought it was funny.
And every once in a while, when he’s feeling particularly abused and taken for granted, he calls a meeting and presents — in POWERPOINT — why they need to quit treating him like an ATM.
Now you’ve got me thinking about covers. Maybe put all four stories on the cover, with that book’s story characters as the main focus. And I don’t do cartoon covers.
I look forward to reading it, Mojeaux!
Ok I lol’d at this:
https://x.com/BunkiePerkins/status/2029996051738886560
It feels like that clip is LOL worthy even if you disagree with the tweet. “Choke him! Choke him!”. Classic Heenan.
Long live the weasel suit!
weasel!!!
LMAO!
I’ll continue to be that guy who dregs this shit back up the surface I guess. You aren’t holding two views simultaneously. You are just blatantly hypocritical here. Gaddaffi was a shitty bad guy who had killed Americans along with brutalizing his own people. Somehow I don’t expect too many defenses of Hillary and Barrack on that one particularly with the hindsight of the absolute chaos it led to. But here we are waging a rather similar war against a far more bureaucratic state with far less chance of success whatever success actually looks like to any one of you. Where even if we win and overthrow the Iranian government, we have no fucking idea what takes its place. As of now they are rumored to be trying to replace Supreme Leader with, well, his hardline son who is basically the same. Only now he’ll have all this to back up his anti-American and anti-Western views.
This all stinks to me of I supported Trump. I support Israel. So I can’t just back down and admit that this entire second reign of Orange Man has been pretty much a categorical disaster on nearly every front. He’s been more Neocon Bush 2.0 with crazy tariff bullshit thrown in. I mean, where are the wins? His immigration crack down which he himself is now repudiating?
Regardless, I fail to see where Iran has really done much to threaten America unless we take plots to assassinate Trump at face value. The most serious transgressions were in Iraq and they were never really held to account for that. They assisted in the deaths of American military but we seem to take it more personally when they fund shit in Israel than against us in Iraq. Dead Jews > dead white Nasty Girls from Iowa, I guess. Like Hegseth said before getting the gig – Israel’s interests trump America and yet are somehow also America First or some such bullshit.
We supposedly destroyed their nuclear program back in that smashing success in, what, June? Yet we still get it trotted out as mealy mouthed explanations for what’s going on now.
Iran isn’t a great threat to America. This has been the case for decades. There’s really not and never has been any imminent threat of them getting nukes and it’s really pretty comical to play back the DECADES of fucking predictions from Netanyahu saying they’re weeks to months away.
So yea…Iran – bad guys. There are fucking bad guys everywhere across the globe. Not our fucking fight. Little Marco isn’t even pretending it’s really our fight and I was told earlier today I should listen to him and his justifications and not Trump’s.
Iran’s clear ability to send massive quantities of highly-precise, targeted missiles to US regional bases, Israel, and beyond, plus control the Strait of Hormuz suggest they are/were a great threat.