Spent another weekend in NY state, this time it was for a family obligation. Nice town, nice weather blah blah blah,
So my brother and I are driving and find this hotel that looks about ready to fall over. I will admit this being in NY automatically eliminates about half my desire to purchase such a property as an investment. Between the view from the valley below, the attached restaurant, and okay fine there’s 14 acres attached. There’s no way the state is going to let me renovate the way I want to, which is to knock down walls and turn it into suites. Walk in showers, hot tubs, stripper poles, etc. One of these rooms will become a gym, probably add a sauna and staff it with Asian women. Turn the restaurant into a fine dining establishment and invite that Somebody Feed Phil guy on Netflix to act like a moron for a week—maybe even Guy Fieri. Totally milk the IG travel influencer crowd to get a return in as short a time as possible.
Okay its 14 acres. I’ll just build a 20’ berm around the property and live in a dilapidated hotel overlooking a valley below like a medieval lord. Call me mexican earle, I guess.
¡enlaces!
The big news over the weekend was a president that finally put a bounty on a foreign leader rathe than attempting to invade the country and run C://regime change.exe like Bill Kristol. Let the Soldier of Fortune crowd have a go.
On that note, El Presidenté Mujer Mexico says it has no evidence Maduro is connected to drug cartels. I choose to accept this as evidence he does have connections to Mexican drug cartels.
More proof he’s connected to drug cartels.
El Presidenté Mujer though, is on a roll…Chicharito is BASED.
Holy shit what is wrong with this broad? Who cares, the shoes are hideous!
I’m calling it now: Bernie Moreno is a CIA backed PsyOp, to take over the MAGA base.
Its an Edgar Winter type of day, yes I picked it for that freaky ass thumbnail.
When small First for man, when giant First for mankind.
Figure it out.
Retards can’t first. Go eat some cake.
I don’t get it.
Looks like you were so busy firsting that tag you forgot to last it.
LOL I was about to fix it and then you made a funny.
$200k property tax? Or is that just the “taxable value’/
Ratable.
That would be Conde Waverly-O’Brien.
El Duque de Conde. [sfx: Beavis and Butthead voices “huh, huh-huh, he said ‘dookie.'”]
The Conde is in France, it would be Le Duc de Condé, but It’s too small to be a duchy. 🙂
Shit, Jarflax, you keep preempting me.
Conde is Spanish. Comte is French.
I’m fully aware of the irony of being a Mexican asking this but—speak English!
I went funny rather than trying to remember the actual distinctions between the Frankish derived rank of Count and the older Germanic and Scandinavian via Saxon derived rank of Earl. The modern peerage has them as equivalent, but they originally had different privileges and duties.
Count/Compte/etc comes from the Latin for companion, they were the companions of either a Dux or Rex.
Earl derives from the same root as Jarl, but the meaning is disputed.
You know why English counts are called “earls”?
Because they didn’t want to be Cuntes
EXACTLY! I think it’s funny they could appreciate how that would sound and/or be dunked on endlessly.
“I’m fully aware of the irony of being a Mexican asking this but—speak English!”
Hwæt?
The Conde is in France, it would be Le Duc de Condé, but It’s too small to be a duchy.
Pass the duchy on the left hand side.
*passes to (((Jarflax on the left hand side
Dammit, TedS.
*makes a note in the calendar about Teds’ referencing some good music*
I reference music that’s lyrically appropriate. Granted, if it gives you an earworm you’d rather not have, so much the better, but being appropriate to subject at hand is the big thing.
I like it. But New York is a hard hard no.
True
Every time I drive through upstate NY: “This is really nice, too bad it’s in New York.”
You’d be surprised, or maybe not, how many upstate New Yorkers come here, Illinois, to go deer hunting. I mean if your state is so bad you have to go to Illinois, of all places, to hunt …
My little county and the one just north, Pike, are usually 1 and 2 in the state for highest deer harvest so we gt a lot of out of state hunters but they’re usually from places where there’s not many whitetails.
Soldier of Fortune went out of print only 9 years ago?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soldier_of_Fortune_(magazine)
I thought the SOF types would all be over 80 at this point.
suggested music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3zBl1R6TWA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GeDZkfHqJc
May I suggest this entry
https://youtu.be/VJhoLZlNVJE
Have to go with this one:
https://youtu.be/3pESK87BCn0
The best mercenary song, ever. Change my mind.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRWCK9zGynA
This is the correct answer.
Although I might go with this version: https://youtu.be/giTi8KWSZl4?si=3DdA3t7Tb49_d6uK&t=1101
I thought the SOF types would all be over 80 at this point.
What are private contractors like Academi, if not soldiers of fortune?
That’s the difference between a private worker and an NGO. All the mercs are doing government contracting now. It’s been that way since the 90s.
Aside – I used to shoot 3-gun at Blackwater. Nice facility, if nothing else.
My uncle wrote for SoF back in the 80’s. Sadly, he is too old and feeble to go after drug kingpins now days.
Music?
Real mercenaries don’t have retirement plans! Damn corporatist managerial efficiency bullshit even ruins mercenaries! Proper mercenaries work out of filthy bars/brothels in 3rd world countries not office parks!
I’d rather be called a caudillo than a Mexican earle. It has a classier ring to it.
Mi nombre es Earl?
I actually liked that show.
I loved that show.
The video reveals how the ending of the series was supposed to go.
Caudillo sounds like some kind of medical condition.
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Don’t forget the anal leakage.
Let me guess? You have been sitting in a waiting room during the day recently forced to watch daytime tv.
Not recently, I was recycling an old joke from the morning pre-links crowd.
“If we insist on meddling in Venezuela, won’t we just get blamed indefinitely for whatever bad outcomes happen there?”, he asked rhetorically.
Soviet film on US imperialism in South and Latin America – I did not notice any lies or errors in the film, but did notice many facts not widely known or taught in the US
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GH09AddWIA
A few hours after the president’s remarks, Hernandez was fined by the by the Gender and Diversity Commission of the Mexican Soccer Federation and by Chivas.
“A few days ago, on the social platform Javier Chicharito Hernández made statements that promote sexist stereotypes that are considered media violence and go against gender equality in the sport,” a statement from the federation said.
OBEY
I am so sorry.
Thank you
I just assume El Presidenté Mujer is beholden to the cartels. Every one of her actions can be explained by that.
“The purpose of the trip is to understand all the dynamics before any decision is made,” said Moreno, who will meet with both Petro and Uribe, as well as business leaders and local officials. “But there’s nothing that’s taken off the table at this point and there’s nothing that’s directly being contemplated.”
Nothing taken off the table? Including cocaine?
Ha my grandma lived in that town and mom was born just acrost the state line.
“Dilapidated” pretty much describes the entire region.
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
Haha, I crack myself up.
From dedthred @Jarflax
Dickens was, indeed, a hack. That’s okay. Even hacks get to be immortalized.
Re dictionaries: I didn’t use a dictionary and I was reading way above my grade level. I was usually too into the flow and just took it from context, so my deliberation of “Lord Chancellor” as “some kind of ruler” would have been to say, “Here’s how to take it from context and keep going without looking it up in a dictionary.”
Yeah, that ain’t happenin’. Not in any generation in any time period in any way whatsoever by anybody whether they do or do not understand the underlying social themes.
Watching A Christmas Carol might give the odd businessman pause here and there, but it’s not going to effect societal change.
I was weird – I read the dictionary and encyclopedia for the sake of it. I will reference a dictionary – when I want to be sure I’m using the right term.
Oh, it will happen one way or the other. It always does. The only hope of it happening in a good way is for people to have a sense of historical continuity so they don’t just fix today’s problem by going back to the problem today’s problem was intended to fix. But yes, unfortunately that is usually what we do.
Also I think you are mistaking my meaning a bit. Dickens is the Godfather of a lot of the problems of today. His tear jerkers and activism fueled a lot of the progressive push for various welfare programs and regulatory regimes. My point is not we should listen to Dickens. It is that we should, at least as educated people, value a sense of different eras which you only get reading things from those eras. Basically I am saying literature is part of remembering history so as not to repeat it.
For me, it’s more that it provides a window into the standards and norms of a different culture. Things like understanding that Beowulf was not being a braggart when he listed off his accomplishments, but giving the equivalent of a long form introduction.
I remember getting a B on a paper in my college English class because I dared to suggest DIckens was kind of a propagandist hack who made caricatures of real people and problems to push his agenda.
To be fair, we [authors] [scriptwriters] [playwrights] ALL do that. Even stories without an agenda have an agenda.
Characters are superlatives because that’s what readers like/want. If your character is a down-and-out hobo, he needs to be the mostest bestest awfullest down-and-out hobo evar. They’re always going to be somewhere on the caricature spectrum.
Real people and problems are boring. That’s why God made training montages.
“To be fair, we [authors] [scriptwriters] [playwrights] ALL do that. Even stories without an agenda have an agenda.”
And that is why we study literature. To find out the hidden messages and meanings that the author put in either knowingly, or unknowingly.
/former lit major.
THE CURTAINS ARE JUST FUCKING BLUE!!!11!!ONE
Picasso’s Blue Period looks back and laughs.
I’ll take Picasso over Barnett Newman.
Mondrian did it better.
I more or less resent the notion that I couldn’t question Dickens because he was famous. I received no other feedback of any kind. Just a note on how it was bold to question a classic.
I like that Newman, thanks for the intro!
Oh, I agree with you. It is ridiculous. As if you can’t actually criticize a “classic” author. I’m surprised you got as high as a B.
Well, I mean, every cat his rat. You’re welcome!
Anyone remember back when (1970?) a libertarian magazine satirized “Carol?” Was from a Randian viewpoint and ended with Tiny Tim declaring “I’ll buy my own damn crutches?”
Mmm… Carol is about chicks doing it.
(heh,-heh, heh-heh, he said doing it.)
I’ve hated that loathsome twat for a long time so IDGAF if he drops a truth-bomb or two.
BASED
Anyone who runs around with a cutsie little nickname on their jersey is still a loathsome twat, I don’t care how BASED.
rhywun:
/hides the girlfriend’s jersey with CHOMPS (one of the Browns mascots) on the back.
OK, CHOMPS gets a pass.
OK, CHOMPS gets a pass.
Which is more than the Brown’s receiving core gets.
corps. I actually am literate; I swear. I just am illtyperate.
The apostrophe s was deliberate.
Grammar doesn’t apply to Firsts.
It’s one of the first things they teach you in First camp.
Corpse would probably work here as well.
(((Jarflax:
This season is going to be a dumpster fire. I’m shopping for masks to wear during games.
On the other hand, I’m entirely looking forward to taking my nephew to the opener against the Bengals for his first real game.
A dumpster fire with a heaping side of racial QB controversy because you took Sanders.
(((Jarflax:
Look, our QB room is as diverse as it comes. We’re up to 6 QBs, I don’t think anyone can claim we’re being discriminatory.
I’ll admit that there’s a fairly large part of me that hopes Sanders flops in his next preseason showing, just to shut the fanboys up.
I don’t think anyone can claim we’re being discriminatory.
You know better. Every day since day one of the draft there have been articles about how Sanders dropping in the draft is proof positive that the NFL is the Nazi Football League. Never mind that Ward went number one. He doesn’t count, because he actually played well instead of swaggering around on his Daddy coached team proving something or other about some nonsense we’re supposed to believe it is racist to not celebrate. Shallow, stupid and unprepared, with an entourage of reporters following his every move. He’s Manziel revisited!
Anyone who runs around with a cutsie little nickname on their jersey is still a loathsome twat, I don’t care how BASED.
…I’m calling you BASED, not Chicharito
That’s more like it.
Watching A Christmas Carol might give the odd businessman pause here and there, but it’s not going to effect societal change.
And the workhouses? Are they still in operation?
*Foxconn has entered the chat*
No, unfortunately. But I suspect Trump is trying to bring back work houses, or at least poor houses. Those were effective institutions in that they got the people off the streets for both their own safety and the good of society. The problem is that we now have to go through the motions of providing treatment. There is, and always will be, a portion of the homeless population who won’t benefit from treatment.
In this area there are still echoes of those institutions – Poor Farm Park, Poorhouse Road, etc.
I can get behind Section 8 covering boarding houses.
I would like penalties for Section 8 recipients so that they are not allowed to be tenants from hell and get away with it.
You’re using my tax dollars for housing? Behave yourself!
Nor from “supportive housing”.
/gazes across the street at a couple windows that blew out last night, unsure if it was a meth lab or just another arson
I would like penalties for Section 8 recipients so that they are not allowed to be tenants from hell and get away with it.
You’re using my tax dollars for housing? Behave yourself!
You probably want a unicorn too.
“I can get behind Section 8 covering boarding houses.”
Me, too. But first we have to bring back the boarding houses, which the hotel industry is against. The do-gooders will insist that instead of boarding houses that we must have supervised group homes with credentialed staff, commercial kitchen license, etc.
We must house the homeless!
Ok, let’s bring back transient hotels and flophouses.
You vile bigot, each unit must have kitchen facilities, a private bath, electricity, internet access, decoration, and adequate closet space!
They are literally sleeping in their own filth on a steam grate now, a warm safe room with a shared bath down the hall is an improvement
You want to force them to live in subhuman conditions. You have no compassion!
Tonio/(((Jarflax:
I’m pretty sure it’s no surprise to anyone here that I’m fully in favor of boarding houses and flophouses making a comeback. It covers lots of the current complaints about housing prices, allows a path from the streets to a stable address, allows stability, and can have some rules/restrictions for the house that will be enforced.
It would suck to live next door to one, but I’d prefer to live next to either than a homeless encampment.
Let’s make some of them sex-segregated boarding houses. It used to be that boarding houses were safe and respectable places for single women to live. They were often professionals, teachers and nurses. Maybe journalists. Rose Wilder Lane was a telegraph operator. Many women’s boarding houses came equipped with a dude who could keep them safe.
@ Mojeaux: I remember being vaguely fascinated by the living arrangements in movies like The Day the Earth Stood Still.
Speaking of loathsome twats.
It’s a shakedown, rhywun. The question is what will it cost Adidas to shut these ppl up?
These Are the Voters Who Should Scare Democrats Most
TLDR. Working “working class” workers of all races and two distinct sexes. Surprise it’s in the NYT.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/us/politics/democrats-working-class-voters.html
Wow, who’d have thought that endlessly lecturing people and telling them their problems aren’t important wouldn’t be a winning strategy?
“You’re all evil racist bigots who need to vote for us, or else!” is not a winning message.
On the other hand, I’m enjoying the lamentations of the worst of the woke progs losing their halo of protection in public. Seems a lot more people are willing to tell them the STFU.
I would add, “It doesn’t matter that you can’t afford to pay your bills, your neighborhood is overrun with illegals who are sucking up all the resources, and crime is out of control. It is your duty to vote for us.” To me that was the story of the election.
Paperwork mistake. Things happen.
She has been accused of breaking the law over an incident in which she wore a luxury Van Cleef pendant reportedly worth more than 60 million won ($43,000) while attending a NATO summit with her husband in 2022.
The item was not listed in the couple’s financial disclosure as required by law, according to the charge.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/12/south-korea-awaits-ruling-on-bid-to-arrest-former-first-lady
So the new black guy previously with the NAACP:
.
Sierra Club staff says boss’s ouster is ‘a relief’
If you have a problem with a foreign leader trafficking drugs, and no one else can help, and you can find them, maybe you can hire… The G Team.
Anyone down for a takedown of a Venezuelan dictator? I got access to a chopper pilot and a gang load of mini-14s.
I don’t want to expand my sexual horizons as a fat gringo in a Venezuelan prison. But good luck!
Damn you Ruger for your gooey magazine.
Got a summons today for Federal jury duty. Yay.
Usually I end up at some satellite county courthouse, and if there’s a case mentioned it’s usually some sort of DUI case which I’m confident I can get out of being selected for as I was once hit by a drunk driver* and was lucky to walk away with just minor injuries and a totaled car, and also had a close friend who died driving drunk**.
This time I get to leave my house at like 6:30am to go to the main county courthouse on the corner of Homeless Street and Gangbanger Ave. and if I don’t get shanked in the parking garage I’ll probably get my name on a list if I’m honest during voir dire.
Fun fun fun.
* don’t drink and drive, kids.
** seriously don’t do it.
I do my drinking at home, so I’m not going to have incentive to drive it off.
When you get there – remember, the Jury is the arbiter of Fact and can override the law in the name of justice. They’re not allowed to second guess your findings.
Didn’t know you lived in Indiana, sounds like you’re going to Gary.
Nope, Santa Ana
I wouldn’t advise anyone to drink and drive for a multitude of reasons. That said….
What grinds my gears it he massive level of hypocrisy surrounding the issue. It’s something that half the population admits to doing. Just admits to. In reality you are talking about a very large majority that has done it. Yet there’s never a shortage of people to get on their high horses and demand ever-stiffer punishments for those caught.
Some NFL player got 3 games for a standard garden variety DUI and there were no shortage of clowns to scoff that it was only 3 games. That’s more than the NFL gave Ray Rice for punching his wife before that tape came out. And 3 games means the loss of hundreds of thousands of dollars right off the bat.
And they’ll extend this down through all walks of life. Losing your job and shunning people etc.
There are some people who legitimately have never done it, sure. But that’s not most of us.
And I’m not even going to get into the question of whether something should really be a crime if there isn’t any actual damage done in that specific case.
I’m generally opposed to the arbitrary “if you’re over this line, you’re going to jail” bullshit. Stop people driving who are demonstrably impaired.
If I have two drinks in 30 minutes I shouldn’t be behind the wheel. OTOH, I have several friends who could drink enough to put me to sleep that I’ve let drive me home without concerns.
So now you’re a jew-hating drunk that drives around sloshed ?
I got out of jury duty over a case where a guy was caught selling drugs and had a gun, it was his third strike, and he was going away for a long time. I told them I thought drugs should be legalized, yes all of them, and… juror dismissed.
Meanwhile Mrs. TOK was on a jury for an assault/rape case, and enjoyed the experience. Except she wasn’t supposed to notice the cops had been to the house several times before, they discussed that in the jury room, and it became a mistrial.
It was folks here (or maybe TOS) who convinced me that libertarians, especially, should be willing to get on juries.
That said, I’d be kicked off a death penalty case since I wouldn’t vote to convict.
A jury comprises 12 people who aren’t smart enough to figure out how to get out of jury duty.
(Mrs. TOK excluded)
This is my defence if ever on trial:
“Your honour, these are not my ‘peers'”.
https://clip.cafe/from-hell-2001/you-stand-your-peers/
I never get called.
Now that I don’t have social media I expect to be picked for jury duty.
I have been on three juries, and I enjoyed the experience each time.
Relevant.
Relevant.
Huh.
RC Dean from the dead thread:
When the free college crowd starts talking about Europe, I love to point out how much more selective European universities are about who gets in. It’s almost as if when the government provides a service, it gets rationed!
But beyond that, this is one area where the profit motive and government intervention have combined to create a toxic shitfest.
You don’t get the best and brightest when you turn universities into money laundering operations, high schools push everyone to college whether they’re suited for it or not, and no child is EVER left behind.
My daughter is absolutely not suited for college and she knew herself well enough to know that. I didn’t push. I see no particular value in college anymore.
My son is intellectually suited for college, but not temperamentally, same as me, but he’s trying anyway. It took me nine years to get a degree. Maybe it will take him eight.
I’m fairly bright.
Took me 12+ years and no degree.
So the new black guy previously with the NAACP:
There is a truly impressive lack of information in that article.
Discovery will be fun.
Oddly enough, my mother’s cousin was president of the Sierra Club for a spell.
I can’t remember if it was the Sierra Club or the Audubon Society, but my husband won a Prius in a sweepstakes one of those put on.
My condolences to your husband.
Oh, no. He sold the car back to the dealership AND we didn’t have to pay income taxes because it was one of the cars you got a tax credit on if you bought one. Well, I mean, we didn’t BUY it, but it qualified.
Report the 1099.
Take the credit for the car.
Ø
Let’s make some of them sex-segregated boarding houses. It used to be that boarding houses were safe and respectable places for single women to live. They were often professionals, teachers and nurses. Maybe journalists. Rose Wilder Lane was a telegraph operator. Many women’s boarding houses came equipped with a dude who could keep them safe.
Like husband/wife proprietors?
Of course, you would have to have enforceable rules. That’s going to be problematic.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes, not least of which would be men-in-dresses wanting to crash the place.
Yes, not least of which would be men-in-dresses wanting to crash the place.
Bosom Buddies haz a sad.
That’s why these should be privately owned and operated. Let them refuse service all they want for any reason.
Calling a shithole a shithole
Black civil rights leaders and the mayors of several cities on Tuesday denounced the deployment of the National Guard to the nation’s capital to combat crime, calling it “fundamentally grandstanding” and “a federal coup.”
And by suggesting that other cities, also run by Black mayors, may be next, President Donald Trump was “playing the worst game of racially divisive politics,” one rights leader said.
Trump announced Monday that he would deploy 800 guard members to Washington, D.C., suggesting that the same could happen in New York City, Baltimore, Chicago and Oakland, California.
I thought President Cartoon Villain didn’t care about black folx.
Federal coup? It’s literally the Federal district. The one place the Feds are sole sovereign of in the actual United States.
And President Cartoon Villian should come back at them and say “you want to run it? it can be part of Maryland or Virginia and you can do it. otherwise, I am the law, literally.”
Get that shit off the books.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_of_Columbia_retrocession
Marc Morial, president of the National Urban League, said the president’s actions and words were racially polarizing, considering crime rates in these cities are largely declining.
“This is a distraction at a time when these cities deserve credit because crime and violence are down in most American cities right now, and this is trying to distract from that success, and in effect, create a de facto police state in these cities,” Morial told NBC News.
“He’s playing the worst game of racially divisive politics, and that’s all it is,” Morial said.
And you’re talking to a man who knows a thing or two about racially divisive politics, by golly.
“More proof he’s connected to drug cartels.”
Something doesn’t add up.
“Pérez, in fact, owes about $5,000 because she and her family never made it to the United States,”
Why does she owe $5K for that reason? Did she lose a bet? Or did she borrow $5K to pay traffickers to get her to the US, in which case she would owe it even she made it into the US? If so, who did she borrow it from? Who did she pay, and for what services?
“When I decided to leave in August, I sold everything: house, belongings, car, everything from my factory — molds, sand. I was left with nothing,”
OK, she raised (some of?) the money by selling stuff. Doesn’t explain why she owes $5K now.
It’s a news story. Of course it doesn’t add up. You want coherence from a tale told by an idiot? You get sound and fury signifying nothing.
I know it doesn’t make Maduro connected to drug cartels. I’m just stirring shit.
Bounty on a foreign leader.
The black brush stroke never goes out of style.
À propos of nothing, I MUST learn how to make chicken-fried steak because I can’t keep shelling out a bunch of money for my favorite comfort food.
If you’re looking for something that may work as a substitute, Aldi’s (on occasion) will have beef schnitzel.
Prepare two dishes – one of beaten egg and one of seasoned flour. (Seasonings vary to taste, salt, pepper are a must, add others as needed)
Heat oil/fat in pan on stove. You can pan fry or deep fry depending on comfort level.
Hammer the cut of beef thin between two sheets of saran wrap to avoid it sticking to the mallet.
Dust the beef in flour.
Dredge beef in egg wash lay onto seasoned flour dish.
With non-eggy hand, heap seasoned flour on top of beef to cover.
With eggy hand, fish beef out of flour and let excess fall off.
Re-dredge beef in egg and lay in seasoned flour.
With non-eggy hand, heap flour over beef to cover.
Fish beef out of flour and let excess fall off.
Lay beef in now-hot oil. Cook on both sides until breading is golden brown. If hammered thin enough, beef will be done at the same time.
Gravy… I’m not so good with that one.
Gravy is simple, equal parts of fat and flour to make a roux. Whisk constantly until incorporated and cooked through. You can cook it until it starts to change color for additional flavor (but less thickening power).
Once you have the roux cooked, add 1 cup of liquid per tablespoon of flour used. Whisk it for several minutes, and slowly heat to a simmer. Add flavorings as you see fit.
So for a sausage gravy, Cook out your crumbled sausage and render the fat. Dust the sausage and pan with the flour, whisk and mix it until combined and the rendered fat is all absorbed. Add in a cup of milk per tablespoon of flour and season with salt and lots of freshly ground pepper. Get it to a simmer, cook, stirring occasionally until thickened to your tastes.
Get a part time job at a truck stop?
That is an excellent suggestion, since I do, in fact, need a job.
Rip Dan Hartman. Free Ride, Living in America, and I Can Dream About You.
Living With a Hernia
Hurts me bad
In a tender location