Just a week before Halloween, and then to fight for Thanksgiving in the face of Christmas being everywhere.
*sigh* Why? At this point, who is it for? And I’ll even defend the most recent reboot as not terrible (unnecessary, but not terrible).
If you had any interest as to why the internet broke earlier this week, this should help.
Is there anything it can’t do?
I didn’t know providing theme music was an arrestable offense.
I have questions…
What fresh new hell is this?
It’s like regular disappointment, just smaller!
At long last, Trump defeats Carter.
Won’t someone think of the *checks notes* hotel owners? Really? Well, partial credit for it being private enterprise.
You’ll get NOTHING! And like it!
For the drink this week, you’ll need to have some apple brandy on hand, which I recommend regardless. It’s entirely possible I’ve shared this before, as the name alone should pique your interest.
Applejack Rabbit
- 8 parts (2 oz) Apple Brandy/Applejack
- 3 parts (0.75 oz) lemon juice
- 3 parts (0.75 oz) orange juice
- 2 parts (0.5 oz) maple syrup
Simple drink to make, grab your shaker, fill it with ice, and add the ingredients. Shake until it’s chilled and combined, and strain into a chilled cocktail/coupe glass. If you want to be fancy, garnish with a lemon twist.
No idea other than “To bring in a new generation of fans” according to some schmuck in the boardroom, I expect… Like most reboots / reimaginings, I’ll just ignore it. Not that Nightmare really has any head canon for me (I don’t think I’ve watched anything past Dream Warriors and that only in passing)… but that’s the general policy, and I’ve long ago made up my mind that what hired hacks do to characters doesn’t change the plotlines they deserve in my head.
So let them do it — I suppose their money (like Freddy himself) is primed to burn.
Afternoon all.
I’m a horror movie fan, I admit it, and am a fan of the Nightmare on Elm Street movies in general. However, the second one is hot garbage (even with the more modern push to try to claim it was just ahead of its time), and outside of the first, third, and the New Nightmare, are not ones that I can easily recommend. I’m trying to wrap my head around a reboot, can I at least get a copy of Freddy’s Nightmares instead of it being out of print?
(Pleasant surprise, in verifying that last statement, I’ve learned that I can at least stream Freddy’s Nightmares on Plex.)
fan of the Nightmare on Elm Street movies
If for no other reason that some quintessential 80s hair metal
Heh… glad you linked it… I was tempted to. The Old Vulture still does some decent stories — even if the comment section is almost as much of a sewer as Reddit these days. Wouldn’t dare see what /. is like anymore…
I left /. quite a while ago (right before the big post CmdrTaco refresh and changes to the moderation system), it was already getting bad there.
Even deadlier than fentanyl! What is it? fentanyl…. also
While none has been reported in Northeast Ohio, law enforcement says it’s just a matter of time.
Be scared proactively not reactively people! If you don’t panic in advance how will you survive?
It is no floor wax and dessert topping….
Did anyone not know that losing weight make you snore less?
Sleepy because he never paid Doc any attention.
I am holding out for mauve or even buff fentanyl. Purple? Meh.
You can take fentanyl in the buff already. Hell if you find the right dealer it may get you a discount.
It compliments the purple drank.
Yet another repeat airing from DeLuLu Studios… Wake me when they sign off with Bobaloo…
Oh Carlsberg, how can you not understand at this late date?
If you promote moderation and responsibility, the progressive scolds will see that as weakness and capitulation and will continue to escalate their demands. E.g., “The only healthy course is complete abstention from alcohol.”
Whereas if you just tell them to go lick a dog’s asshole until it bleeds, they’re usually too shocked to respond.
Because they tend to be cat ladies… where would they even locate a dog on such short notice?
Trust me on this, there are plenty of bitches among the cat ladies.
If you promote moderation and responsibility, the progressive scolds will see that as weakness and capitulation and will continue to escalate their demands.
Correct, and this can’t be said enough.
Whereas if you just tell them to go lick a dog’s asshole until it bleeds
Eeew. And why do you hate dogs so much.
IF (and these days this is a big fat whopping if) the story is reported accurately… yeah, that seems like a slam dunk 1st Amendment violation. Be better, National Guard. This is right up there with cops harassing people for filming them or just being nearby and not respecting their authoritah.
Pull my finger. I’ll make a difference too.
“And last but not least, in Beckley, West Virginia, Kendra Sullivan staged a one-woman ‘No Kings’ action. Y’all didn’t hear me. I’m gonna say it one more time: In Beckley, West Virginia, Kendra Sullivan — shout out to Kendra Sullivan! — staged a one-woman ‘No Kings’ action. People confronted her. They called the cops on her. They physically threatened her, but she stayed, and she stood up for what she believed in. Kendra, we are with you,” Henderson said.
No dogs? No firehoses? What a gyp.
I’m surprised that tongue bath didn’t end with “And yet… she persisted”.
More likely “They ignored the lunatic and got on with their productive lives, unlike her”, I expect.
Beckley is where all the WV hippies live.
They have a terrific bluegrass dive bar, though.
Something to make me once again glad my personal machines lack an NPU, gpedit.msc disabled any sign of Copilot anyway and that my work machine continues to chug along despite being almost a year overdue for a refresh according to IT (as long as they’ll let me keep using it, I plan on it).
See also: What happens when you have no real competition in your marketspace and turn instead to mining your supposed customers for AI training / data in order to aid your real customers…
“Copilot will certainly have a kind of permanent identity, a presence, and it will have a room that it lives in, and it will age,”
poorly, it will age poorly.
𝒜𝓁𝓂𝑜𝓈𝓉 𝓉𝒾𝓂𝑒 𝓉𝑜 𝓈𝓉𝒶𝓇𝓉 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓌𝑒𝑒𝓀𝑒𝓃𝒹…
And I forgot to pick up gin.
*sigh*
Oooh… look at the (Time) Lord there… downright posh, ‘e is! Just comin’ round… lording his fancy HTML and font skills over us gutter snipes!
𝕯𝖆𝖒𝖓 𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙.
You have a bathtub right? Make your own.
Don’t be foolish. That’s for making crank.
/PA resident
I thought he had to get it from a rummy.
I wanted to make an aviation joke, about the bomb bay being empty, but the Tower guards showed up asking if I had seen anyone trying to sell French sapphires.
Even deadlier than fentanyl!!!!11!!
Sounds like a self-regulating phenomenon.
Sounds like the end result of this will be cyanide dealers pushing one time highs.
From the look of that I suspect the end result will be some enterprising young entrepreneur selling sweettarts for $20 each
Finally, an end to the drug war.
Winston’s Mom may be $20… but she’s not that sweet (((Jarflax…
I don’t drink much (really not at all)… but the very very rare times I used to…. it would be some sort of mixed cocktail. I have no idea where I could find applejack brandy (not being one to look), but have to admit… that sounds like something I’d actually be willing to try. Thanks for the recipe, Neph… someday I may find the brandy and give it a shot.
Your choice would be either applejack (Laird’s was the only national distiller making it last time I checked) or apple brandy. You can also make your own applejack if you live in a winter environment. Get apple cider, ferment apple cider, remove from yeast, and place somewhere between below 30 degrees F (preferably below 0 degrees F or lower) and pour off your jacked cider. Repeat as frequently as you want to remove water.
I’m in the state of Georgia… winter is a relative rarity. 😉 But I’ll keep my eyes open at the grocery store… you never know.
SDF-7:
Well, you could have a small chest freezer that is large enough for a 3-6 gallon jug and do it with temperature controls too. If you wanted to be some kind of fancy city boy.
We’ll see, Neph… again — I think my last sip of alcohol was during the HW Bush administration, so there’s definitely a “Why would I do all this?” aspect to going that far.
And I’m a computer geek… “fancy city boy” doesn’t do justice to how non-country I feel in NE GA some days… no truck, no current dog, like polka, disco and reading… I had a really fun junior high experience in these parts needless to say.
Horror movies are dumb.
“Don’t go in there. That monster will rip your head off.”
*goes in, gets head ripped off*
“Sucks to be you.”
This might amuse you. It did me… but some days I’m likely easily amused.
Horror doesn’t have to be dumb.
I grew up with Night Gallery and Kolchak: The Night Stalker which were generally pretty well done.
But, the teenager/slasher flicks of the past were remarkably dumb and existed only for shock value.
Slasher movies are the descendants of the old True Detective quasiporn. Lots of sex, immediately ‘punished’ by the sinners being murdered, and the one pure girls surviving.
Horror movies are the morality plays of old, with more blood, tits, and gore.
Don’t break the rules, and you’ll survive. Most of them involve the majority of the cast breaking rules (knowing or unknowingly) and getting punished for it. Quite a few of the modern ones play with the rules (such as Zombeavers) to subvert the standard expectations, others illustrate the rules (Cabin in the Woods, Scream) to bring new audiences up to speed. It’s a genre that’s received several good modern movies as well.
Horror movies can be great fun. Watch Dead Sushi.
John Carpenter’s The Thing is far from dumb, and no one survives.
One of the best movies of all time.
+1
Scared the shit out of li’l Rhywun.
Sounds like the end result of this will be cyanide dealers pushing one time highs.
Go into the light, man.
I have to say — I just don’t give enough of a shit about what Venezuela might be doing to justify Yet Another F’ing War. C’mon OMB… you were supposed to knock this shit off already. Sigh.
Yeah, this is my first real disappointment in him.
My RealID got sent back to Jeff City for being “undeliverable,” dafuq, and I need it Tuesday, so here I am, in Jeff City picking it up.
En route, there were 2 interesting things: a hole-in-the-wall small-town diner, at which we will stop on the way home, and a wooden carving of Steve Smith, of which I will take a picture on the way home.
STEVE SMITH NOT CARVING… JUST ALWAYS HAVE WOOD. SORRY ABOUT HOLE IN WALL — CAMPER WAS INSIDE DINER ON OTHER SIDE.
I did not drive 3 hours in the rain in vain. RealID acquired.
Congrats solely because you doubtless need it. Boo to the stupid Patriot Act crap that pushed it upon us and makes us jump through the hoops.
And you know I’m picturing you like Mojojojo in the grocery store looking for the eggs… on the aisle he’s already on now… “Currrses.” (I’d link it… but CN must be aggressive with their copyright strikes apparently… only real link is a “Buy this now!” one)
Next time mail order a RealID CDL from California.
Or NYS.
The sight was staggering in Prince George’s County, Md., home to more than 60,000 federal workers: middle-class professionals lined up for boxes of pasta, protein and produce to feed their families.
Oh, please; I’m supposed to weep for these so called middle class professionals who are apparently worse at managing their money than crack junkies?
The moral of the story is that we should hire more Mormons for FedGov so they can properly weather the shutdowns.
And send FEMA folks back out to learn from the preppers instead of avoiding them.
William J. Casey says, “Hello!” (from whatever pit of hell that asshole is currently inhabiting…)
Are you fucking kidding me? There may be actual people down on their luck in those lines and these motherfuckers have to put on this dog and pony show in front of them?
Fucking disgraceful. Fire the lot of them.
Also the MSM purposely conflates workers and employees.
You may have some third party contracted janitorial staff currently not working.
For example a company my wife does contract work with lost a job doing work for the DoD. She arguably lost her professional job because of the shutdown.
There was a time when people in PG county kept cash in their freezers.
I caught diabetes from that recipe.
#metoo
Applejack Rabbit looks good.
“You can see it, it reacts as you speak to it, and if you talk about something sad you’ll see its facial expressions react almost immediately,” explains Andreou. “All the technology fades into the background, and you just start talking to this cute orb and build this connection with it.”
BUTLERIAN JIHAD NOW!
Or… maybe a drink.
*fingers tap in anticipation… another hour or two…*
I didn’t wait.
Untapped – have friends who use that ‘religiously’. I always wondered why I’d want to create a subpoenable record of exactly what I drank and at what times…
Shhh……
you don’t need an account to look up a beer.
Back to the rose-colored glasses. It’s all light tint, no dark. They look stupid as hell clipped on my glasses (I mean, if I set out to deliberately make myself as ugly as possible, I couldn’t have done a better job). I can wear them inside, and I am because…
I flip these fuckers up and suddenly it’s like I got ripped out of a sound sleep in the dead of night by a cop flashlight shoved in my eyeballs.
Tucker and Dale was pretty good. Also Anna and the Apocalypse.
Bodies, Bodies, Bodies was a pleasant surprise, as was Megan, Smile, Candyman, Freaky, Final Destination Bloodlines, and the Menu.
Huh, I was not aware of this. Like the series.
Ginger snaps.
STEVE SMITH
Nice selfie.
No, I’m way uglier.
Exquisite
Coming soon to your new GM product.
Audi Infotainment Screens Were Bricked for Months by a Bad SiriusXM Update
On “purple fentanyl:” “Reports of agencies seizing the drug have begun popping up all across the Midwest and users are being misled into believing that purple means pure… [Major Heath] Tester says dealers are cutting this new form of fentanyl with a local anesthetic.
“They’re mixing it with lidocaine, the fentanyl with the lidocaine,” said Tester… However, lidocaine is also transforming fentanyl, an already deadly drug, into a much more potent killer.”
1. Heath. Tester. Um. I’d add an ‘l’ and turn it into an ‘Federal Breast Inspector’ -type title. “C’mon. I gotta test ya. I test health! All good things, baby.”
2. Listen, fuckfaces. Fentanyl isn’t out there as a ‘deadly drug.’ It has an actual purpose. (I don’t think I’m alone, here:) I got Medical Grade- fentanyl’d a few mini-surgeries. You’re *out* for 15min and that’s it. Really is remarkable. (I’m remarking upon it now!)
3. Coca Cola had .1g of cocaine per serving in its first run. (Likely 6-8oz drink, and obv the purest of pure snow.) “Heroin” is a goddamn brand name. Everyone else recall the brutal turf wars back then on every corner? and every sort of illicit trafficking to fuel the illicit (and forever, continually) profitable trade? Oh, right. I musta been hallucinating from that second-rate, highly-cut fentanyl snort I rocked a few hours ago.
4. Fuckfaces, Pt. II: STEVE SMITH, notable Health Inspector, would like a few words with you behind that dumpster. And by words, mean….
“…misled into believing that purple means pure…”
Humans are such bright creatures! They watch a couple episodes of Breaking Bad and *know* quality’s in the color.
Wow. Trump is going to piss off that huge Republican food stamp voting block.
Trump administration won’t use contingency fund to pay November food stamp benefits
42 million people. Over 12% of the population. JFC.
It’s bonkers. Make America Not Dependent on Uncle Sugar Again.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Wellthatsucks/s/G2q4UuMUU9
Oopsie.
MSM is still really trying to get ATC to call in sick.
Air Traffic Controllers Are Bargaining Chips in Government Shutdown – Business Insider https://share.google/bL43aSlIO4JaLclWM
Yup. Read headline of a few of those stories.
Air Traffic Controllers should call on these people to stop spending money while we’re in grotesque amounts of debt. No money for illegals, or foreign countries.
Privatize ATC,
Like Canada did.
Keep the shutdown going for at least another month.
The longer it goes on the more normies realize they don’t need the federal government.