It’s… beautiful!
Yeah, it would be better if the Stillers and Bengals were flipped, but that can happen this weekend. Yes, the feeling is different here in Cleveland this season. It’s a mix of confused optimism. All of us expected this season to be a wash, setting us up for a prime draft pick next year. Instead, our young team (2nd youngest roster, 2nd most snaps played by players drafted in 25/26) keeps finding improbable ways to win. Deshaun is looking like a mediocre QB (and a garbage person, but I’m not going to be shamed for cheering for Watson by people who cheered for Vick), and even the newly acquired players grasp the rivalry. We’ve beaten the Stillers already, they’re coming off international travel, and Browns fans are traveling for this one. I’ve gotten several offers for group bus rides (round trip) to Pittsburgh to watch the game. The Browns have not swept the Stillers since the 80s, and lost won in the regular season back in 2003.
The last time we won in Pittsburgh was not in the regular season though…
But you care not for my sportsball fandom, and worry not, it’s likely that the Browns will play down to expectations at some point, but damn it, we’re going to ride with the Kardiac Kids 2.0 for a while and enjoy it.
Fuck off Tim. Steam’s most arm twisting action was requiring it be installed and used for Half Life 2 and the Orange Box. That was a LONG time ago, they’ve built up trust by not being douches like you.
Prepare for potential salt shortages this winter (again).
In things I never thought I would need to explain, some people don’t even know what a Walking Taco is.
I am not opposed to this.
Whenever there’s work to replicate a recipe like this, I wonder about ingredient shift over time. Not just sizes, but quality of ingredients and the like.
I feel like being the head of a foreign state SHOULD require you to renounce your citizenship.
In local news… potentially to go national.
Interesting that this is coming from NPR.
Maybe they can relocate to Gaza?
He will free the devil and put you back in CHAINS!
What could possibly go wrong?
I’m sure some of you have noticed this.
Alright, that’s enough for bad news, let’s get going with a cocktail. Bringing it over from this week’s Alchemist post:
Monkey Gland
- 1 part (1.5 oz) dry gin
- 1 part (1.5 oz) orange juice
- 1 tablespoon grenadine
- 1 tablespoon absinthe
Orange juice is an ingredient that was popular in the pre-prohibition era up until the disco era (where it lingered on in Screwdrivers, Harvey Wallbangers, and Tequila Sunrises). If you’re not at a craft cocktail bar, it’s possible that they won’t have orange juice. It can be finicky as well, as the sweetness level can vary wildly, and in most of these drinks, the orange juice is there as a sweetener as well.
The name of this drink comes from the Prohibition era, named after medical experimentation in which grafting some very specific glands from monkeys onto old men would make them feel younger and more virile. Thankfully, we’ve moved past crazy experiments for longevity and have decided to make better drinks.
This drink is built in a shaker, shaken and strained into a chilled coupe glass. I’ve seen some recipes move the absinthe to a rinse of the glass (which I am not a fan of, there’s no reason to waste booze), or swap out the absinthe for another herbal liquor (such as Fernet Branca or Benedictine).
And with that, I’ll let you get to your weekend. Let’s go Browns! Let’s go Bills!
“I’ve gotten several offers for group bus rides (round trip) to Pittsburgh to watch the game.”
My brother went to Pittsburgh for an AFC championship game. Visiting fans were not well received.
Oh, nor would I expect to be. They, like their players, are dirty.
To encourage more of these beneficial donations, the Brewers Association supports an excise tax credit tied to the dry weight of spent grain donated. The proposal is simple: when brewers give their byproducts to farmers and ranchers, they would earn a credit against their federal and state excise tax bill(s).
My local microbrewery sends its spent grain to a hog farm. The farm gets a premium price for pigs finished on the grains.
This is a policy proposal that has some chops.
Sure but the taxpayers end up in hock for excise relief.
And if both are prosperous enough, they will both end up living high on the hog.
Why would I want to do that?!
In local news… potentially to go national.
More Indiana guns?
Do you have agitators at your lake demanding to shut down the salt mines? They were doing that when I lived on Cayuga Lake.
Nope. There’s still other active salt mines under the Lake. But there’s quite a bit of concern about the one that got shut down, as it was from water intrusion. If that’s from the Lake, that could get very bad, very quick.
They’re Very Concerned™️ about salt leaking into the water. Who knows.
Also interesting as it is literally the only reason an occasional train still passes through town. The line north of the salt mine was abandoned long ago, along with several others that used to serve long-gone industry.
See Lake Peigneur.
Crazy people doing crazy people things.
Electrical brain stimulation? Kinky.
Dude, it’s Chicagoland. He’ll still be voting in IL after he’s ascended into heaven and been canonized as St. Leo.
When I was a kid half the trucks during a snowstorm were spreading sand. Now they all are rock salt.
“Is sexual objectification hard‑wired?”
Does the Pope vote from The Vatican?
Several times!
Until the smoke is white?
So Illinois voting is not to be trusted at all. Got it.
Some things never change.
Simonoff said police have been in contact with Jones’ mother in Oregon, who told them her son is psychotic and needs to be put down like rabid dog..
Fixed. Send him straight to oblivion.
Cue another Summer of Love….
Our friends at the blue leaning Daily News.
Gun regulation activist arrested for graffitiing his web site on 9/11 Memorial
He’s not a gun control person, he just wants common sense regulation.
https://www.nydailynews.com/2026/10/27/gun-regulation-activist-arrested-for-graffitiing-his-web-site-on-9-11-memorial/
When I first moved to NYC in the late 90s the Daily News was my go-to – I wasn’t a wingnut yet but I never cared for the NYT or the NYP.
Now it’s trash.
And I checked here is the NYP.
It’s just more overt in its bias.
And honest, at least in this case.
Aren’t those “walking nachos” instead of tacos?
NM Pedant
I had no idea you could get N2O in “jumbo” sizes. He had no idea that abusing it may cause problems. It’s CA so I can’t understand why there wasn’t a warning sticker…
California man shocked daily nitrous oxide habit wrecked his nerves, spine — now he’s suing distributors
https://nypost.com/2026/10/30/us-news/man-sues-laughing-gas-distributors-after-sufferening-nerve-damage-from-daily-habit/
Holy cow, Pervical annihilated that 60 Minutes interviewer.
Monsters live among us. – smell deez nuts biatch
I used to drink copious quantities of absinthe, so much that I saw God and founded a new religion.
This caused some issues at my job, since they weren’t on board with my absinthe-theism.
I’ve never heard of a walking taco.
That being said, wood eat.
From the earlier thread, it was noted that Rand Paul or Thomas Massie could get the GOP nod in 2028 and the media would still label them as Trump supporters. Well, don’t any of you find it curious that Thomas Massie and Adolph Hitler have the exact same number of letters in their first and last names?!!!
They both enjoy living in remote hilly hideouts. The similarities are too disturbing.
The TV at the gym has the local news on. Just saw 5 minutes straight of alternating Darlene Graham and Annie Andrews commercials. I hate them both more than ever now.