Everyone is going to restaurants on one of the two very worst days to go to a restaurant (the other being Valentine’s Day) Kitchens are slammed, lines are long, the food is rubberized from sitting under heat lamps. Coincidentally these are both Hallmark holidays. Well, we told WebDom, who is our principal line cook, to just stay home and drink. We’ll be open, but only for drinks, I’ll be pouring wine and mimosas, and if there was ever a day when you need a drink…
Birthdays today include a focused individual; an actor who was big in the #Resist movement; one of my favorite historians; a guy whose face smelled like ginger; a woman with a really shitty sense of direction; a guy who told tales of a lost continent; someone who got stuck in traffic; a secret crush of Jodie Foster; a statesman with a legendary name; and a mediocrity who was the butt of my all-time favorite joke (“Well, stop fookin’ doin’ that!”).
I will not fookin’ stop doing Links, though.
Total shock that the anti-democratic plan went off the rails. And a non-paywall version.
“This is fine,” British style.
I’ll believe this excuse when HR jobs are getting cut “due to AI.”
They’re getting ready to do it again.
Pure geekiness but fascinating. I actually used one of those about 40 years ago.
The Old Guy has few heroes but Junior Brown is one of them. How can someone be a stunningly excellent picker AND the best steel guitarist on the planet? All at once?
a woman with a really shitty sense of direction
Happy birthday Chantal Akerman!
Elaine May?
a woman with a really shitty sense of direction
Happy birthday Amelia Earhart?
I’ll believe this excuse when HR jobs are getting cut “due to AI.”
“I have people skills!”
That’s just crazy talk.
was the original guit-steel ever recovered?
I’ll believe this excuse when HR jobs are getting cut “due to AI.”
The idea that the Independent is only “leaning left” is risible.
Then I KNOW you’ll be having old lady fights before the day is over.
That’s the point.
They’re going to make a killing posting this stuff to social media. 🙂
We can’t hang all of those politicians from lampposts – we need to keep re-electing them! With much love, /America
What if we form competitive lamppost decorating teams, with colors and mascots, and turned politician improving into a tribal sport?
Probably easier, and certainly more productive, to start electing lampposts.
This is at least the fourth try at recapturing that COVID-19 magic. Monkeypox, the tripledemic, bird flu, probably others. I think we’re in a weird place where nobody trusts these assholes, even though somehow none of them have been fired.
This time around there’s an anti-Trump hook, so it’s getting more cycles. My question remains: what exactly can the public health establishment do to actually, meaningfully mitigate the impact of a real pandemic?
Who in government ever gets fired for being wrong – even spectacularly wrong?
I don’t trust the public health establishment because that establishment is rarely concerned with actual public health.
I can’t imagine how you could possibly come to such a conclusion.
Old semi cognizant people are constantly scanning their friends/relatives for decline indicators. Every 2 weeks a group of classmates meet for coffee and evaluate one another discreetly. We discuss any other information that we’ve picked up about other classmates .
Biden’s decline was obvious. His searching for words, stumbling around, not knowing where he was, the blank look of his eyes. Old people know and see these things.
All of us complain about the physical challenges, we live them. We don’t recognize the mental slippages, other than the word searching. Politicians are not immune and making decisions that effect thousands of other people is too big of a risk. 60 and out, time to spend with the family.
On Thursday night, Dan Helmer received a shipment of boxes with 1,000 yard signs that read: “Dan Helmer for Congress.”
By late Friday morning, Mr. Helmer no longer had a seat to run for.
Will those signs show up in Africa?
With the Rolling Stones Tour “76” t-shirts….
So, the guy who tried to fraudulently make an end-run around the state constitution by appealing directly to all those new voters in NOVA got slapped down in a “shock decision”.
I have to tap out. JFC this is pathetic even by NYC standards.
er, NYT
The machines were so hot that years later they were used to heat a Cray facility during a cold Minnesota winter.
Efficient.
In Minnesota there is no such thing as waste heat.
I love America
I’m happy just knowing there is an event called the “Redneck Brawl”
I went to a local place for brunch-ish for their salmon benedict, which was suboptimal. They have Sunday mimosa brunches. That is all.
If they have mimosas, non-LDS patrons (especially the matrons) don’t care about the food.
I have a pitcher of orange juice and an open bottle of a good Prosecco at the ready. Weirdly, in NY, we are not allowed to pre-mix the two, they must only be mixed at the point of purchase, i.e., glass by glass.