“HOPE!” the hat moaned, misery rampant through his stitched structure and fabric frame. He was drunk and dark of spirit; amber beads of thick rare bourbon dripped from his bill to the floor of The Oval Office, the fine carpet around foul with his sick and sweat and other hatly excretions.
“She’s gone,” the hair said gravely, clinging to the side of the desk where Donald had left him. He was trying to pry a piece of dried cheese food from an old burger wrapper with a wispy blond tendril. Donald hadn’t fed him in weeks. “She testified. We had to get rid of her. No rats in the White House. No stool pigeons. No leakers, wiki or otherwise. We have to run a tight ship.”
“But it was Hope. I love her. She is so pretty and mean and thin and shaved,” the hat said forlornly. “Like a supermodel sea lion.” He vomited loudly, a torrent of assorted buttons spraying out before him. No two buttons were alike and many trailed thread.
“What the fuck is all that?” the hair asked, dropping down beside him.
“I don’t judge what you eat,” the hat said. The office flashed bright white from a bolt of lightning outside.
“Of course you do. You judge everything and everyone and all the damn time.” The hair backed away under the President’s desk and drew himself in tight, a quivering bun. He longed for a half-remembered scrunchie where he once had felt secure.
“Oh, God, when she used to snatch me off of Donald’s head and wear me, just me and nothing else.” The hat shivered with recalled pleasure and began to drag himself backward from the pool of button sick.
“It’s over. She’s not coming back,” the hair said in small voice.
“But, I loved her, man,” the hat said, his rank concupiscence hanging about him as a sexual miasma. “You remember when she peed on the floor right here? Yeah, you remember. I swear I can still taste it. Like ashes and the sea.”
The hair sat silent in his hunger.
“Guh. Enh. Uh, uh, uh,” the hat said, his tongue hanging out, his eyes bugging out, his headband elastic coming out.
“What are you doing?” the hair asked from where he distractedly chewed on a shoal of dust and skin built around a forgotten of dollop contraceptive lube on the underside of the desk.
“Shut up,” the hat grunted and then grunted and let out a grunt.
“Oh, man, ah no, man, I don’t want to see that, aw shit.”
“Don’t distract me; the carpet is perfect right through here.”
The hair ran from side to side under the desk in disgust and terror.
The hat ground himself into the carpet. “HOPE!” finally came his strangled cry.
Fuck
Fantastic tits to kick off your weekend.
http://archive.is/ccGcJ
1, 5, 8, 9, 10, 15, 19, 20, 27, 35.
Very nice. Some bonus cameltoe action.
1,6,9,20
Just in case anybody wanted to meet Steve Smith…. http://do317.com/events/2017/2/11/live-music-from-steve-smith
AND BY MEET STEVE SMITH…
Perfect combo of lynx and H&H BTW.
Amazeballs
Awesomesauce
No Hope Hicks pics? I am disappoint
Right? How do they expect me to touch myself at night?
I said it before, SugarFree has gone Hollywood. He’s conforming to that family friendly certification.
SugarFree has gone Hollywood
SugarFree’s casting couch would make Harvey Weinstein blush.
I think SugarFree has a casting oatmeal paddling pool or something like that. A simple ‘couch’ would be far too quotidian.
I read that as Harvey Weinstein bush and drifted off into my own fantasy world for a while.
http://www.elcaribe.news/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/hope-hicks.jpg
Just an FYI- Corey Lewendowski and that guy who beat his wife from the administration have both had a piece of this
She fucked Corey Lewandowski? That guy is a weasel; it actually lowers my respect for her.
That just means she’s desperate, Q. Now’s your chance!
I don’t think she’d ever be desperate enough to go for me.
Maybe after a serious bout of Necrotizing Fasciitis resulting in double amputation, but I can’t count on that.
Meaning amputation for her.
Unless she’s an acrotomophiliac.
Well not with that attitude. Chicks dig smart guys. As long as you’re also a jerk
That’s right. Q, you are a jerk, aren’t you?
Fuck you guys.
Does that count?
Double amputees are awesome girlfriends. They never want to go dancing and they don’t spend a lot of money on shoes.
Hats however, are a constant source of controversy.
Why would a woman with no arms not like shoes?
No kidding. Nothing less attractive or sexy than a beautiful chick putting out like that.
Apparently so.
http://people.com/politics/hope-hicks-dating-rob-porter-corey-lewandowski/
“The reported pairing prompted Trump to tell Hicks on one occasion that she was ‘the best piece of tail’ Lewandowski will ever have”
I mean, the president is probably right there
Lewandowski looks like the mug shot of a guy who got arrested fucking a bag of potting soil at Home Depot.
“Oh yeah, well that bag of potting soil didn’t have any complaints”
– Lewandowski
Hope seems to like them physically abusive. nttiatwwt
It explains her preference for heavy eye shadow.
“Hope seems to like them physically abusive. nttiatwwt”
I mean there is most definitely a lot of things wrong with that
She likes her men like she likes her diarrhea; unpredictable and violent.
I’m just saying is that you might yourself in one relationship with a known abuser at no fault of your own, but two of them (that we know of) before you are 30 might just be a preference.
When you’re rich and famous, they just let you.
I would have thought that he made enough that he could have afforded store-bought fertilizer for his potting soil.
That’s Hillary Rhoda.
https://www.si.com/swimsuit-2011/photos/2011/02/12/hilary-rhoda-model-2011-sports-illustrated-swimsuit-edition-si-com#25
Shush, let them have their illusions.
Snopes had to fact check a satire website? What’s next, fact checking duffleblog?
It was meta, because Snopes is actually the parody site at this point
Are you implying that this might not actually be true?
I can’t even.
You would be surprised.
My mother FREAKED out because I’d given my little brother the Harry Potter books. When I pointed out the email she had received from a firehose-of-conservative-conspiracy-theory-emails of a friend was based on an article from The Onion and that The Onion was a satire site she responded with “That doesn’t mean it isn’t true.”
People are weird and will believe anything that makes them feel like they’re smart for having been right all along.
Ok, but the Babylon Bee article discussed CNN buying a big washing machine to ‘spin stories’. Come on- no one is that stupid and even if they are that’s their problem
I think that you’re viewing this story through the lens that people care about the content of the article rather than the implied agreement with their existing biases.
Say I go to some website that pulls together articles, we’ll call it klibertarians.co.nl and a giant stone head, we’ll call him MOAI curates a bunch of links, and I read those links. Like really read them in depth, and then I go into the comments. What–in this thought experiment that is totally not based on our experiences here–is the likelihood that I will find comments where people have glanced briefly at the headline and then started arguing vociferously about something that is entirely absent or directly contradicted by the actual content of the article?
What can I say to such a purely hypothetical situation that has most definitely never occurred?
Also, did you hear about this: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/amp/news/gold-harvey-weinstein-casting-couch-appears-oscars-venue-1089878
I don’t think this is fake
“People are weird and will believe anything that makes them feel like they’re smart for having been right all along.”
Ain’t that the truth.
The Onion is more truthful than a lot of other media.
Okay, now I want to know what this Harry Potter conspiracy theory was.
The original The Onion article
It’s actually excellent, back when The Onion was good.
RE: Millennial paradise.
I was in Berlin for the 2006 World Cup. My friends and I went to a live sex show one night after about 3L of beer each. It was not arousing.
3 liters of beer will have that effect.
“kinda felt bad for the donkey too”
This one only featured people. It probably would have been more interesting if there were a donkey involved.
How I picture Q preparing for 3L of beer…
Shit. This is a better clip.
Montreal at #2 is not surprising. It’s a city that panders to granolas.
Huzzah! Huzzah!
Free speech for me but not for thee.
https://hotair.com/archives/2018/03/02/justice-alito-highlights-liberal-double-standard/
Rogan got reamed.
The sad part is when Justice Breyer seemed to take the side of the lawyer.
Rogan reamed himself.
Damn, that was awesome.
I like this experimental, avante garde links format. It’s this type of work that keeps us so far ahead of all the other TOS spinoff sites.
*blinks rapidly…stands slowly…begins prolonged ovation*
What sites are these pray tell?
Shh! I’m basking in my first prolonged ovation.
For ovations lasting longer than 4 hours, look at a photo of Linda Tripp.
Most of the First Wave (Jennifer, Thoureu) just retreated to personal blogs, but URKOBOLD was a group blog (largely defunct) and the Second Wavers that left during The Rather Wars and The White Indian Uprising are on an invite-only forum that I won’t name out of deference to their desire for privacy.
I was there for White Indian, but I don’t remember the Rather Uprising.
Wasn’t that with regards to the reporting on the Dan Rather memo during Bush’s term?
Rather/Rather Crazy Than Libertarian/rctl/Mary Stack was a handle-hopping troll for a couple of years before White Indian hit.
Ahhh, ok
“The Rather Wars”…”White Indian Uprising”….Us young’uns need a GOT style, character point of view epic narrative of the before times!!!!
My Glibening stories deal with that, but my output is pretty small. I should do something with WI.
I’m about halfway through the fourth installment.
Excellent.
Thanks. I’m having fun with it. Two people we love to hate make appearances.
Oooh! Moar plz, Tonio!
I haven heard Jennifer’s name in a long time. Must ave been the 00’s still. Do you know if she still writes.
I need to start a “what ever happened to Joe thread.”
The only resident Democrat that stuck around there for a long time.
Her blog is still active: http://feralgenius.blogspot.com/
I just googled her and found it. Thanks.
I got into it with Jennifer a few years back on some other site, her libertarianism is shallow when it comes to “women’s issues”.
Like ENB shallow or the opposite end of ENB shallow?
I think the two would get along fine.
Unfortunately that sometimes happens with people.
Vox?
I agree, the format is impressive
I…oh, man. If I weaken in my Glibfit Challenge, I can just think of the Hat doing…that. Welp, there goes dinner.
Overheard in the Oval Office:
Trump: Hot girl- get in here
*Sarah Huckabee Sanders walks in*
Trump: Ugh, Christ- what happened to you Hope?
Sarah: It’s me, Mr. President, Sarah Sanders
Trump: I called for Hot Girl
Sarah: Mr. President, she resigned, remember?
Trump: Damn it, that’s right. That’s the last time I listen to Other Hot Girl
Sarah: You mean your daughter, Ivanka?
Trump: Listen, Fat Girl, can you get me a diet coke?
Sarah: That’s incredibly offensive, Mr. President
Trump: Fat girls are always so touchy
*Sarah Sanders storms out of the room*
Trump: Aw, shit. No Dick- get in here
*Mike Pence walks into the room*
Pence: Yes, Mr. President? You called me?
Love that casting couch.
#wedidn’tknow!
Jackson Township boy intended to carry out school shooting before killing self, police say
Strange I don’t recall the media reporting on this when it happened?
~~~Edit Faerie AWAAAAAAAAY!~~~
The link killed itself too.
Did the FBI know and decide it was more prudent to let the problem take care of itself?
Thanks edit faerie! Need to stop posting from my phone!
Hmm, must just be the gun taking over his brain and making him talk crazy.
to steal a phrase I read at the old place:
For progs, guns are like the one ring- no one can possess one without being corrupted by its evil power.
So that’s why I go crazy when someone touches my precious! *Pausing for innuendo comments*
Did you look at the article below the shooting. Some dude tried to rob the wrong guys at gunpoint and got his everloving ass kicked.
Wow those red eyes.
Why [sic]? Maybe he was calling his young classmates “little britches”.
And in the story below:
WTF? ‘I know you may have thought you saw a gun, but he wasn’t convicted, so therefore he didn’t have one.’ SMH.
Counting down the minutes. Ran out at lunch and grabbed some Founder’s Solid Gold. We’ll see how it goes tonight.
I loved that show as a kid.
Damn your nimble fingers!
(Then again, I actually provided a link.)
And this would have been more appropriate for my comment.
Heh.
There’s a beer that’s unreeling, to fit the way that you’re feeling?
Yeah baby, yeah!
“Shut up,” the hat grunted and then grunted and let out a grunt.
Sug, Did you mean to use grunt/ed three times?
I’m pretty sure that was intensional.
I’m betting that most of you don’t know that in some Midwestern farming towns, especially those with a heavy German-descended folk, that a common polite term for taking a dump is saying that you are “going grunts” or, for grandmothers, “going grunties”.
I really do learn something new on here everyday.
Damn it.
Yes, I’m trying out Euphuism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euphuism
Jalopnik wants you to know it cares about alien planets being corrupted by our human privilege.
https://jalopnik.com/the-space-tesla-could-really-mess-up-a-planet-if-it-eve-1823423706
3 hours and change to go before vacation starts. Work motivation is dropping quickly.
Destination?
Unknown (Mildly NSFW)
Strike that. Let’s just make it NSFW…
All college marching bands should aspire to that.
I think it’d dramatically improve their funding.
I would absolutely donate to my alma mater for that.
In my case, NSFSpouse – “what the &%#$ are you watching?”
Oh, like he hasn’t met some of us!
Dear Lord have Mercy
Running video only it looks like a Robert Palmer video with classier chicks.
I approve.
Palmer! That’s the guy that came unbidden to my mind as I watched that!
Needed some $7,000.00 Italian silk business suits, though . . .
Who needs a guy in a wrinkled gray suit when your eyes are on the chicks!
A couple days each in Austria & the Netherlands, followed by multiple weeks in the dog house.
If you are going to be in Amsterdam, this place was quite good. Seating was all overstuffed couches and easy chairs with the food being served on giant cutting boards in your lap. Yummy pork chops and good whiskey.
https://www.castellamsterdam.nl/en/
Added to the list. Thanks! Not a whole lot of time so might not make it.
This place has some tasty stuff, too.
Link no worky. Edit fairy?
There’s no broken HTML there. I don’t know what the link is to.
GL, I was just being a smartass: https://www.thebulldog.com/
Keep a low profile!
Who was it that made the video with the hat and the hair using Frylock and Mastershake for the voices. I can no longer read the comic without hearing thier voices in my head.
CPRM is your man.
Thanks.
Like ashes and the sea.
Beautiful. Hope and Islay would be quite good, actually.
The police department in Panama, AR has the most Brilliant ideas
Because we couldn’t get enough of this story.
She went with the full .50
Nice work.
Don’t they know the .223 has 3 times the velocity of a text book!
“Burn Notice” already did it, only with phone-books to quasi-armor a car.
They also did it for shiv protection in a prison.
Hang on, why would they do that? I mean, this is a Gun Free Zone, right?
Why take precautions like these against something that is not permitted?
Power is apparently out at my house following the wind storm. Landline not answering. Glad I bought that propane heater a few years ago.
Goddammit, Vancouver is #6 on that list of Millenial scumhives.
I’ll take comfort in that Montreal and Toronto are above, and in the fact that #6 is not a number, he’s a free man.
Yes.
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/enemies-of-the-people/
The left spent a decade or more mocking Christians for seeing themselves as persecuted. Now, they turn around and make that persecution real. By the standards of a liberal society, we are seeing a loss of tolerance on an alarming scale.
Good article.
Hey even Brooks made some sense for once.
https://vimeo.com/257802760
Fast forward to about 7 minutes into that video. It’s body cam video from a police shooting.
They were (apparently) trying to arrest someone in an RV. You hear two shots, presumably coming from the RV. At that point, the police start blind firing into the RV. 65 shots, or that’s what was claimed. The officers are tripping, falling all over each other. It’s a miracle they didn’t all shoot each other. They also didn’t manage to hit anyone inside the RV, or in the apartments behind it.
Really, it’s comedic more than anything.
Heroes!
These are the only people who should be allowed to have guns!
The jobs go to the people who show up for them, not the people who are best for them.
Speaking of fiction writers (tangentially, okay): Looks like the pendulum is swinging back the other way.
140-character epistolary novel sounds just delightful:
Choi, a culture correspondent for HBO’s Vice News, inserts timely issues like sexual assault, cultural appropriation and even DACA into her characters’ intimate conversations
They could blurb it: “Just as exciting as any string of text messages!”
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/venezuela/article202725689.html#navlink=SecList
Technically, under the Venezuelan constitution, Ortega is still the Attorney General. The constitution doesn’t mean anything right now, but still.
Glorious people’s leader reclaims money stolen from the proletariat!
In other news, Jlaw’s publicist hasn’t slept in two weeks.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-5455455/Jennifer-Lawrence-opens-nipples-Red-Sparrow.html
Given that it’s getting a 54 on Metacritic and 51% on RT, I’ll just wait for the screencaps, thanks.
I’ve heard comparisons to the movie Showgirls.
That is not promising.
At least Jessie Spano managed to graduate high school.
She’s fucking crazy. I have heard of cold causing shrinkage for men, or making nipples hard. But heat making nipples look big? What the fuck?
Give her a break. She dropped out of middle school. I’m going to go out on a limb and say she wasn’t on the gifted track either.
I think she means spread areolae out as opposed to semi- or fully- hard nipples.
/nipple physics
SugarFree. The guy really knows his puffies.
She’s probably just self-conscious because she has oval areolae instead of round. Which for most people interested in seeing her nude (and haven’t already sought out her leaked shot) is just not a huge concern. She has a perfectly fine areolae to breast area ratio given the overall size of her breasts. And even if she didn’t, get over it, Jen. Embrace the nipple diversity the world has to offer.
Yeah! Like nipples with hair on them! There’s nothing wrong with that. Not a stitch of hair anywhere else on the chest but sounds the nipples. It’s fine! Embrace diversity!
Nipple + diversity. Two words only SF can make work in a sentence.
On, and I forgot to mention, but top-notch job on the H&H, SugarFree. I could feel the pathos and suffering as if I were feeling it myself.
I just wish Hope Hicks wore me and nothing else at least once…
#istandwiththehat
So apparently the co-leader of the Women’s March that *isn’t* Linda Sarsour is a Farakkhan-supporting anti-Semite.
https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/969698963094999040
And this is a surprise because….?
It’s not.
And CNN, outside of Tapper, will continue to whitewash it and give the Women’s March fawning coverage.
*shocked face*
But more jubilantly, I can’t wait to drop this one on my female Jewish proggie acquaintance who is all about the pussyhats.
Vomiting buttons?
The hair drew itself into a bun?
“Concupiscence” used in a sentence with miasma?
I read on in slack-jawed amazement, only to see the story reach it’s climax as the Hat dry-humped the Oval Office carpet.
Author! Author!
amusing
In Russia, Trump inauguration euphoria leaves lasting hangover
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia/in-russia-trump-inauguration-euphoria-leaves-lasting-hangover-idUSKBN1F821E
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A year ago on Saturday, Russian nationalists partied in central Moscow to celebrate Donald Trump’s inauguration as the 45th president of the United States.
Euphoria has given way to dismay as the man they expected to end U.S. sanctions against Russia reluctantly reinforced the penalties and allegations of Russian interference in the U.S. election, denied by Moscow, eroded political ties.
Some Russians even say it might have been better if Hillary Clinton, long portrayed here as rabidly anti-Russian, had won the presidency.
“Under a Clinton administration … we could have maintained some kind of contacts and dialogue, at least in the arms control sphere. Now, that’s all gone,” said Valery Garbuzov, director of the Institute for U.S. and Canadian Studies in Moscow, which advises the government on foreign policy.
…
Putin has put a brave face on worsening U.S.-Russia relations, using his annual news conference in December to say he thought ties would eventually recover, while praising Trump for his economic achievements.
But though Russian officials say they believe Trump’s stated desire to improve ties with Moscow is sincere, they portray him as a lame duck president when it comes to making Russia policy, neutered by his domestic political opponents.
The result, they complain, is that U.S.-Russia ties are actually worse in some ways than under Obama and that high-level contacts are virtually non-existent.
…
The Trump administration has also upped pressure on Russia over Ukraine, going further than Obama by authorizing the supply of new weapons to Kiev, which is locked in a war with pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine.
It has also described Russia as a revisionist state seeking to challenge U.S. power.
Andrey Kortunov, head of RIAC, said Moscow had been blinded by its desire for“anyone but Clinton”, a view that the Republicans were easier to work with than the Democrats, and a belief that Trump’s world view overlapped with Russia’s.
“We warned them,” he said.
Garbuzov, whose institute also advises the government, said the elite wrongly assumed the U.S. political system was like Russia’s where the president has few checks on his authority, and can now only try to limit the damage by cooperating where possible.
***
[Nelson laugh]
I googled “russia wishes clinton won” and had to click through 4 or 5 pages of “oh noes! collusion!” to find that one.
Some Russians even say it might have been better if Hillary Clinton, long portrayed here as rabidly anti-Russian
She’s about as anti-Russian as Sen. Iselin and even less effective.
Keep hitting that reset button.
Every incoming U.S. President in the last 30 years proposed to improve relations with Russia: Obama and his reset button, GWB who saw Putin’s soul, etc. It was appropriate for Russia to expect that the relations with the U.S. would improve with a new U.S. President. What Putin & co. didn’t expect is that the U.S. ruling class would use Russia as an excuse to spy on the outsider Presidential candidate and his campaign. The U.S. ruling class needed a foreign power connection to justify rigging the Presidential election; in principle, any foreign power could play the role of “Russia”.
Well next time Russian Oligarchs need to stop buying so much real estate and so many media properties in the UK, and spend some cash in the States. Worked for China!
Weird how this tweet didn’t get much play in the news cycle. Does he literally just go with the suggestion of the last person who talked nicely to him?
Regardless I still stimulated the economy this week picking up a couple of scary weapons of war that I’d been meaning to purchase. Just in case. And they’re pretty.
More Donald tweets:
What an utter moron. And the 71K likes to go along with it.
Any one have an Illustrated Classics version of Economics in One Lesson?
Few have the patience for a treatise of that length.
How much would it cost to fund a dumbed down video explanation that uses the Big Short technique?
There may be 5 people in Washington who have read it. Sad.
Cable and internet down. WTF, world?
Lemme guess- you need the UCLA score?
I was wondering how Lou Reed was doing.
Playing Chess with Bowie…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_T._Whisner_Jr.
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William Thomas Whisner Jr. (October 17, 1923 – July 21, 1989) was a career officer and pilot in the United States Air Force, retiring as a colonel with 30 years of military service. He was a fighter ace with Army Air Forces over Europe in World War II and a jet fighter ace with the Air Force in the Korean War. He is one of the two airmen to ever receive three Distinguished Service Crosses, two in World War II and one in Korean War.
…
After retiring as a colonel, he lived quietly in his home state of Louisiana with his wife.[14] He died at his home in Alexandria, Louisiana on July 21, 1989, from complications following being stung by a yellow jacket.
***
what a lame way to die for such an awesome guy
One of my fave stories of 2017: The Cuban Sonic Death Ray – Possibly Decoded!
I have not read article. I am skeptical of its worth, as the Daily Beast kinda blows. but… still, i like anything keeping the story alive. communists shooting “shit yourself” sonic-beams at US diplomats gives me fond memories of my cold-war childhood.
You mean the Brown Noise?
i don’t know if what the diplomats were exposed to was the fabled “brown noise” or not; the symptoms claimed were: ” dizziness, cognitive difficulties, headaches, and hearing loss, among other medical issues”
*(I read “other medical issues” as, “spontaneous diaper-filling”)
infrasound waves theoretically can be used to cause the shit-yourself effect. But ultrasonic waves can be used to potentially cause other kinds of physiological disruption. some more serious than others. i don’t think either have ever been ‘perfected and weaponized’ effectively by anyone, but in lab environments, surprising stuff is possible.
Sort of like the infrasonic sounds that have been blamed for ghosts?
Yes, exactly. if you encounter strong-energy signals at resonant frequencies sympathetic with say, the human eye, or inner ear, you can fuck vision up, or make someone extremely dizzy (or cause extreme pain) the problem tends to be that you can only generate those sorts of effects in very near-field environments, where you’d have to have the subject right up close to the source of the energy, and it would have to be completely-tailored to the individual in question (or you’d have to have equipment powerful and accurate enough to sweep until they found the correct effect, then perpetuate it long enough to create a physiological response.
outside of lab environments, where you’ve got a perfectly still subject, who is helping the experimenters by saying, “ow now it hurts”, its almost impossible to do on some rando person.
Another band from Minneapolis I’m digging right now; The Real Numbers https://youtu.be/YIPX8HeB4vM
Nice!! Reminds me of Ne-Hi. Was that you who mentioned them?
Yes.
So as some of you might know, I have hunting for a new job, the advice y’all dispensed was invaluable. I have now been through two(!) rounds of phone interviews and am preparing for a panel interview that includes me delivering a short presentation. I’m both nervous and excited as this could be a pivotal moment in my career momentum. Any good thoughts, prayers, etc would be appreciated.
As a form of thanks I will give you the gift of derp
Good luck!
I start my new job a week from Monday. That was three rounds of phone interviews, no in person interviews.
Thanks Neph, and congrats! This has been one of the odder interview processes for me, I was more worried about the phone interviews than anything, in person I can be a charming bastard but I’ve never had to put together a presentation from scratch before for the purpose of an interview. I’m excited but the usual interview jitters are still persistent.
I’ve been looking for over a year, so I had more then my share of interviews leading up to the ones that got me the job. After the technical interview the recruiter called me and asked me what I thought of it, and I figured that I had messed up. The recruiter told me that I had impressed the technical team and they were pushing for me to get hired. I’ve got to say that boosted my confidence a bit.
Nice. And man, that’s some good persistence, kudos. Always nice when you get compliments like that.
Good luck! Picture the audience naked. Wait, picture yourself naked. I think that’s how you get through it.
Thanks.
I mean I was just gonna show up naked. That’s what business formal means…Right?
Birthday suit is always formal.
+1 getting the wrinkles out
Congratulations Rick. What’s your presentation going to be about?
I’m not sure yet. It has to be 7-8 minutes and I can use whatever visual aids I want (powerpoint, etc.) I would do a review of SF literature, but i don’t want to blind my bosses. I think I’ll probably do a presentation on Captain America or Jules Verne. Something inoffensive that I know. The real point it not eh content but how well I can actually teach.
If you really want to dazzle them, do something that incorporates the Splorch!
I was so excited you’re not dead that I Gilmore’d my excitement.
(Waves at mythical from the beyond)
BTW, SF, fantastic and sublime as always. We’ll need to set up a Bluegrass meetup soon.
Hogs 4 – Trojans 0
Woo Pig Soooie.
Thus is gonna be a good year for us.
Huh
“That history has been spun in such a way as to overlook the many horrific acts committed by white people since the founding of this country.”
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Look Lach: As a cishet yt man you have nothing of value to offer the conversation. You are dripping with the privilege of your pale skin and unexamined gender bias. Truthfully you are everything wrong with 45’s amerikka. Check yourself and maybe you can improve, but not with that attitude.
How ungrateful, Howard Zinn died for these people!
27. Black patrons denied entry into ReBar, a promising new gay club in NYC.
Rupaul Refused ReBar.
Dayton, Ohio- OUR sirens detect severe weather!
Another gem from CoxNews. And Dayton’s motto? “Hell, we’re not Cleveland.”
I was quite pleased to run into an interview with Christopher Priest, legendary Black Panther writer, youngest Spider-Man editor in history and overall cool dude. While basically left Democrat, his comics aren’t political screeds, and he knows how to make characters people first. Shit, there’s a proto-SJW character in BP run, but she’s awesome instead of (merely) annoying because he gave her depth, and had the insight to make her 14, which explains a lot of her blather. There’s quite a lot of his world-building in the BP movie, even if some wasn’t well implemented (Martin Freeman’s character was a State Department flunky originally, which made a lot more sense of why T’Chall tolerates having him around than a spy).
Plus, he’s a Christian who sometimes puts religious stuff into the comic without making it agitprop, and I appreciate that. I’m an atheist, but it’s too much when 99% of the stuff taking place in US is as well.
And he’s back from comic-writing hiatus of about 10 years, because he was finally asked to write a non-black character.
I like this guy already. He probably won’t last.
Well, he burned out and took a 10-year hiatus after being in the industry for 30 years once already, so he already outlasted a lot of people.
Plus, he’s old enough to give zero fucks, and a black Democrat of good standing so somewhat hard to mob…
Yeah you say that, but…the mob eats it own.
In all seriousness I do hope he is successful in that he brings some freakin sanity back to the comic world. I would enjoy going back to my local shop and not spend all my time looking at TPB of old runs instead of buying new issues.
Honestly, when it doesn’t crash, Marvel Unlimited is awesome. $70 a year gets you access to a huge library of comics, including stuff that 6 months old. That’s where I read his BP run, which was awesome, and the Deadpool 90s run he contributed to. Way cheaper than getting trades, and you rarely run into the gaps.
Also, I can confirm his Deathstroke is awesome. I recommend that and Tom King’s Mr Miracle unreservedly. Totally worth not waiting for TPB.
RICK, YOU’RE ALIVE
I was starting to worry
Hey Mythical! I’ve been meaning to post a comment for a minute about it. My phone went fubar, logic board crapped out on me. So I was bouncing back and forth tween att and apple. FInally got a new phone, but i can’t recover my account (no trusted device beside the broken phone stuck in a reboot cycle) so I’m having to do a manual account recovery, ugh.
TL:DR: My phone got fucked up and I can’t get to discord until it’s fixed.
Has Titor been mocking my kentuck internet? Tell that gorby fuck I’ll torch his jack frost ass as soon as get a working phone again.
We’ve all been @-ing you like crazy and speculating about your demise. And Titor is moving forward with SJW DUNE. You have a lot to look forward to.
Ooh, sounds like a good time. I just got the email for reset instructions from apple so hopefully by this weekend I’ll be back. I would have given y’all more notice but I was in the apple store expecting another excuse when they went ahead ran a diagnostic, wiped my phone in hopes that it would fix the problem then when it got stuck in bootloop told me it was truly fucked. And that I head the option of buying a new phone outright or getting one from att. Fortunately I had bought insurance on the damn thing so att sent me a new one, but that’s when the account recovery thing went all sideways. I have been more impressed with att customer service then I have been with apple (which was honestly surprising).
It’s also made the phone interview process quite interesting, to say the least.
Just do good stories, well-told, and you’ll see the return on it.
I don’t know about comics, but that certainly isn’t true for most movies.
Comics is much more story driven than movies (for various reasons), but the big thing that has been killing these companies is that they bend to the winds of twitter, isolating traditional fans (like myself) while appeasing a market that has no interest in actually purchasing their product but will gladly virtue signal the wokeness of the product and take some sort of collective credit for having a flatline ‘story arc’ that features a genderqueer protagonist and not much else.
If they started writing compelling characterizations again, and were willing to not take every opportunity to virtue signal sales would improve as old fans would return.
One of my brothers is a die hard comic fan. 1000’s of old comics in boxes at his house. He says the same thing you’re saying and after watching Wonder Woman the other day, I can’t disagree at all.
Sam Adams Winter Ale
but we need his-and-hers TiVos: she’s listening to the formerly funny Colbert while I could be watching Cardinals spring training. I’m just going to sit here and drink until Q posts some hottie links (no headless babes!)
I like me some Sam Adams, I’ll pretty much drink anything they brew. Also, why is your baby factory out of the kitchen, and handling technology, did she escape her chains? That’s no way to Glib.
The baby factory will always be in Fort Worth; good for her: all my exes live in Texas.
New wife breaded up some chicken for a worthy supper. Glibbing is indeed a curious business, but I’m coping; as an accomplished bachelor, I found (and continue to find) that leftist chicks are just better in bed…..it’s not even close….no exceptions.
And now I know the origin of the handle, nice.
That’s an interesting observation, but crazy usually does translate into fun, given the proper circumstances. Although I have known some preacher’s daughters, whew lad.
Abogada One, as I like to recall her, taught me many lessons. Unprepped, she announced that Atlas Shrugged was her favorite book, which is okay (I find it silly and poorly written, but philosophy isn’t always elegant and it was probably better in the original Russian), but A1 gave fellatio a bad name….all time worst. SMU girls suck at sucking.
Eventually she would teach me the ultimate Texas lesson: never ever fall in love with a girl’s horses and parents before she falls in love with you.
That is texan AF.
Had one of these Spiced Porters last night. Very good. One of those that grows on you quickly.
https://untappd.comb/multiple-brewing-zero-kelvin-winter-porter/1889334
Followed by a couple of these Hefeweizens that had a nice wheat beer consistency that I like.
https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/694/18305/
One more try on the Zero Kelvin Winter Porter link.
https://untappd.comb/multiple-brewing-zero-kelvin-winter-porter/1889334
I don’t know why it wont work. Guess I’m not going to download their app.
Yeah, you remember. I swear I can still taste it. Like ashes and the sea.
I’d drink a glass of urine that tasted like that.
Honestly sounds like a good Islay scotch. Or this
You have to be at least 21 to enter a site that sells bourbon?
jazz hands
Merica!
Well those tags failed. But yeah.
A local bit of hilarity.
http://kdvr.com/2018/03/02/expelled-house-rep-lebsock-changed-party-affiliation-prior-to-vote/
Let it never be said that politicians are not spiteful motherfuckers.
Watching Valerian with the kids. Movie sucks, but i can’t decide if Cara Delavigne is hot or not. Leaning towards hot, but I’m on 3rd bourbon after four beers.