Below the thunders of the upper deep;
Far far beneath in the abysmal sea,
His ancient, dreamless, uninvaded sleep
Sea Smith sleepeth: faintest sunlights flee
About his shadowy sides; above him swell
Huge sponges of millennial growth and height;
And far away into the sickly light,
From many a wondrous grot and secret cell
Unnumber’d and enormous polypi
Winnow with giant arms the slumbering green.
There hath he lain for ages, and will lie
Battening upon huge seaworms in his sleep,
Until the latter fire shall heat the deep;
Then once by man and angels to be seen,
In roaring he shall rise and on the surface die.
SEA SMITH READ THIS WHEN SAD AND LONELY. GET SADDER AND LONELIER. MISS STEVE AND WORRY. AND BY WORRY, MEAN “FIND SAILORS AND RAPE.”
“HEEEERE’S SEAAAA!”
SEA SMITH NOW OFFICIALLY WORRIED. SOMETHING GOING ON WITH STEVE SMITH AND BY SOMETHING, NOT MEAN RAPE, THIS TIME.
THIS WASTE OF GOOD EATIN’ FOR SEA SMITH! AND BY EATIN’, SEA SMITH MEAN… YES, THAT. WITH FROWNS AND TEARS. ON BOTH SIDES.
THIS ALMOST MAKE SEA SMITH SMILE. ALMOST.
OK, SEA SMITH ACTUALLY SMILE AT THIS. MIGHT CHEER UP TO FIND CRUSE SHIP.
AUTOMATION HAPPEN WHEN LABOR COST FORCED HIGH. SEEM OBVIOUS EVEN TO SEMI-HUMAN. SEA SMITH LAUGH AND LAUGH, AND HOPE ROBOTS NEVER REPLACE SAILORS.
SEA SMITH FEEL MUCH BETTER NOW.
So ronery?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEaKX9YYHiQ
Nice poem
Tennyson was a herring!
Not enough.
*roots for the bulls*
*Pulls #23 hi-tops out of closet*
They havent been the same team after they lost Jordan.
“Why are these oysters so small?”
“Sometimes senor. The bull, he wins.”
On the menu tonight: margherita and our signature pizza. Trying to decide wine. Maybe L’Enfant Terrible zinfandel.
I’m not a wine guy, but my family made a fortune making Zinfandel.
I vote for that.
Phone it in grilling here. Flat iron steak, asparagus and leftover pilaf from last night. And a cream ale from Pelican Brewing.
I hope that’s real zinfandel and not white zinfandel.
Arguably the best Zinfandel made in California.
And or sold in a box.
Confirmed.
I’m going to make kofta (a Middle Eastern meatball grilled on a skewer) with fresh pita breads, lettuce, tomatoes, onions, goat cheese, and olives. Oh yea, and a bunch of beer.
Yum. I could eat that way at every meal. Seriously, I should move to Israel or Lebanon or Syria.
I think the most expedient way to experience that trifecta is to move to Syria and then you can evacuate and be a refugee in Lebanon and be fed by Israel.
That’s genius, actually.
I get that a lot. *Uuurp
Cauliflower brie risotto, 2 jumbo eggs over easy, bacon. Smirnoff on ice, Perrier, squeeze of lime. The best part? I don’t have to cook; the wife has it covered.
I still have to wash the dishes afterwards, though.
https://youtu.be/Eh01luJ4VdU
Definitely rooting for the bulls. The bullfights are cruel. As for every runner in the running of the bills, play stupid games win stupid prizes.
The running of the bills happened last week when I took some time off and it all went to beer, beef and a bit of pork. It is expensive to have so much free time on ones hands.
Umm, ok…
Thry should give them all rifles (and the appropriate training) with a selector switch that goes from “safe” to “panic”.
Im not sure how seriously i could take a job refered to as “working at the D”
But “dining at the Y” is something I take very seriously.
That’s what she said.
Michael Douglas would like a word…..
You know, if he’s nervous, they make these things that have a kind of switch on them. Apparently, you point them at things that make you nervous and then pull the switch to get rid of them.
Also, a 58-year-old bellhop?
Classic union job-for-life.
““Negotiating with North Korea is always difficult, but President Trump made it immeasurably harder with his euphoric tweets about how the North is no longer a nuclear threat,” said Wendy Sherman, a top Obama administration diplomat who helped negotiate the Iran nuclear deal and has negotiated with the North Koreans as well.”
Really, its like at this point Kim hasn’t read “The Art Of The Deal”?
Funny, I don’t remember Obama even trying to negotiate with NK.
I fucking hate the cycle of admin official to pundit to news host.
Well, if by ‘negotiate’ you mean ‘appeasement’…..then sure.
said Wendy Sherman, a top Obama administration diplomat who helped negotiate the Iran nuclear deal and has negotiated with the North Koreans
So advice from a failed fuckup? Tell me more.
RE Iran executing ISIS douche bags story. I like the Republican Guard photo with the guys all kitted out in full battle gear with helmets, vests and scary guns and the one dude who just got out of the shower.
“..just got out of the shower”
What you just did there- I saw that. And chuckled sensibly.
BIGOOOOOOOOOTTTTTTTT
*screeching intensifies*
For what it is worth, I have one of those scarves (?) shawls (?) whatever they are called (too lazy to refresh my memory) he has around his shoulders around here somewhere. No I was not in uniform when I acquired it. I was never in uniform over there, I went to that region for a good paycheck with a tolerable amount of life threatening.
Somethin’s happen’n here…
We live in a small town (<2k folks – county <5k) in central Montana. Farming, ranching and mining with some folks commuting to Helena ( 30 mi) or Bozeman (60 mi) for their “town” jobs. Like most small, rural towns in the West it has seen better days. I’m guessing it’s peak was maybe 1959. There are a number of empty/abandoned businesses and store fronts. Many have not been used in decades. If you’ve done any traveling off the Interstates in the West, you can visualize the place. We moved here a couple years ago because the place seemed to be holding its own. Not growing, but the shrinking had stopped.
Yesterday I’m driving down main street and damn, someone’s opening up a new business in Zip’s Tires! Zip hasn’t sold a tire in over twenty years. And before that the building was a car or farm equipment dealer. But here was someone starting a small engine power equipment business (lawn tractors, chain saws and stuff like that).
I though about it and realized that since last summer a dozen businesses have either opened or are expanding in town. The new ones are occupying real estate that has been vacant for decades. Other than the Dollar General, they’re individual ventures people risking their own money (and probably some of a bank’s). Some (like the guy that’s moved into Zips) are obviously doing all the work themselves. In the twenty years I’ve known this town I can think of only three or four new businesses opening.
Not sure this “means” anything, but if a free market is millions of people making billions of decisions about what to do with their money a dozen, or so, folks have chosen to risk a substantial portion of their net worth in this little out-of-the-way place.
Love it. I will eventually move to that kind of town.
I walk out on the deck tonight to check on the grill and I can see the evening clouds piling up over the mountains and I think “Fuck, I actually live here!”
I’m seeing something similar happening in our small town with the housing market. When we bought our house 5 years ago, it had sat empty for 2 years before we made an offer.
A nice house went up for sale across the street. We figured it would sit for awhile since they were asking about the same as we paid, but with a 1/4 acre yard instead of our 30 acres. I thought about waiting a year and then making a low offer with the intention of renting it out.
It sold in about 3 weeks. One of my fears with purchasing any local real estate was that there would not be any demand for either rental or eventual resale. It seems like the economy is starting to get back on its feet here too.
That is good news.
I’m impressed anywhere that happens. In my Brooklyn neighborhood it’s Third and Fifth Avenues lined with hundreds and hundreds of independent shops up and down 40 blocks or so. I don’t know if I could take that plunge myself. A lot of them fail or change hands once in a while but there’s rarely a vacancy even in this hugely anti-business environment.
Similar thing going on in a small town across the river from me in far NW Minnesota. Hallock, town of about 900; About one year ago, a brewery opened up there, and they have done very well. Since then, a coffee shop, a B&B, a floral shop have all opened. There’s at least probably a half dozen more that have opened or expanded, but I can’t remember for sure since I don’t get there too often. (And when I do it’s only for the beer!) It’s cool to see small town businesses have success.
After reading Rhy’s comment above, let me rephrase; it’s cool to see small businesses have success!
It’s cool to see small town businesses have success.
Unpossible. Major knowledgeable people on TV and op-eds said that Wal-Mart and Amazon have made small businesses extinct.
Why is it happening now? 10-15 years ago the county’s population was the same and the store fronts sat deserted.
I think it would be interesting to go and ask all these folks starting these businesses “Why now? Why not five years ago?”
Do it and write an article! Its be a fascinating read!
That’s a really good question. I wish I knew the answer. Maybe a new generation of entrepreneurs that look at things differently and don’t buy into the “fact” that big box stores are the future…or lots of customers ready and willing to go back to the small businesses after seeing so many of them disappear…?
I’m gonna go with someone seeing a potential opportunity to keep people from having to drive to Helena or Bozemen to deal with tires or lawn-mowers.
But that opportunity has been there for 10-20 years. Why now?
I’ve seen a lot of Dollar Generals going into small towns or shitty sections of town around here. Several of those towns have been in the lingering death mode (the McDonalds & regional tire chain closed within the last year or two in one on a main highway & truck route), but now have brand new Dollar Generals. I’m wondering how they’re doing with that rapid of growth. Seems like the classic over expansion story.
When they opened our store the local rag interviewed a DG person. He said their plan is to open in places that are basically marginal – too small to attract the attention of other chains but big enough to support one of their stores. They claim to have the metrics to back up their choices. They said they’ve had their eye on our town for awhile, but it only recently passed their tests.
Wife and I are millennials and we aren’t looking near big cities to create a home. I’m doing some research on franchises. I know we aren’t alone amongst our generation in seeing what’s going on in the cities and thinking “no thank you.” Too expensive, figuring out that happiness doesn’t come from a bachelor’s degree and a six figure income, wanting to be left alone…I am on the extreme end of this type of thinking but it is there and we discuss it with our friends quite often. Could be what’s happening in the places you’re describing. It’d be happening faster everywhere if there was policy reform reducing the costs of living, but I don’t think they’ve made the connection just yet.
You and I would be good neighbors. The only things keeping us from picking up 100 acres in the middle of nowhere are commute times and my wife’s want to live in a neighborhood.
Basically this, though I don’t think the wife would mind being able to shoot deer from the back porch without hitting the neighbors.
It’s funny how the commute times can work out, especially with no traffic to worry about it.
My wife used to commute between 30-60 minutes each way when we lived in the city. Occasionally a couple hours if there was a bad accident with traffic backed up for miles. Now her middle of nowhere commute is 12 minutes for a job that pays significantly more doing the same thing.
My commute went from the same to working from home with a occasional trip into the office.
“…my wife’s want to live in a neighborhood.”
That’s what I like about city living. I live in Long Beach, California in a fairly densely populated part of town. It is a very nice, upscale neighborhood. Lots of bars and restaurants and shops and stuff. I value being able to walk to the dry cleaner, drop off some laundry, walk to the drugstore and get a birthday card and some booze. Then get noodles for dinner and walk to a punk rock show afterwards.
Of course, I could always move to small town Montana, and open some restaurants and bars. Not a bad idea actually…
Same here. And I can already see myself as one of those shrunken old dudes – one of the few who didn’t retire to Florida – pushing my shopping basket around the streets of Brooklyn. My neighborhood actually has a reputation for that, being one of the rare NYC neighborhoods that is convenient to live in, relatively affordable, and has very low crime.
Rhywun in 40 years; pushing a cart full of old Reason magazines and Britpop CD’s down Flatbush Ave., screaming about communism.
Uh, yeah… “40 years from now”. That’s it.
I live in Iowa about 20 minutes from where I work. I am out in the county, so not in any city. I have a bit over an acre. There is nothing but corn out behind my lot.
Yet, I am not remote. There are small towns all around me.
It’s a great place to live as long as you like miserable summers and brutal winters. But it’s not a bad as Minnesota. 😉
Uffda.
Oh, and she grew up in Dillon, MT. Family still lives there.
doing some research on franchises
My thought on franchises is they are cons. Some pay off and you can live on them but why pay the fee for a good idea. Have your own idea or a rip off of a successful franchise. Subway is a ripoff of a gajillion sandwich shops around the country. The town next door still has an original sandwich shop in business in the same location as when I lived in the trailer park down the street when I was 5. (you thought I was just kidding about being white trash) That is getting close to five decades of business for a mom and pop (surely ran by grand kids now) sandwich shop and ya, a subway and a Jimmy Johns opened up in the town. Mom and pop makes better sandwiches and they are packed at lunch.
My cat could make better sandwiches than Subway. Fortunately not all franchises serve garbage good.
And yet Subway is hugely successful. Go figure.
I don’t get the Subway hate from everyone. Are they gourmet? No. Are they authentic New York deli? No. Do they make a decent sandwich for a decent price? Yes.
Exactly
I don’t get the hate for any fastfood restaraunt. If it’s not your thing and you can afford to eat better, fine, but people who would never eat at McDonald’s complaining about McDonald’s food and thus leading the McDonald’s marketing team to change things to try to lure customers who wouldn’t eat at McDonald’s even if it were their only source of food by outpricing the poor people who actually eat and enjoy and survive on McDonald’s food, that’s pisses me off! Give me back my beef tallow fries!!
This is a new one and veteran-owned. They’ve not yet started opening shops, they’re gauging interest, so I think it’d be a good way to start. I definitely get what you’re saying, I’m just not very…creative. That’s not to say I can’t come up with something, just looking at options. I’ve got some time right now.
I trust whatever you decide will work out. Good luck!
Hope so, thanks!
I’ve worked with tons of franchise owners in a past life when I was building IoT apps for QSR (quick serve retaurants).
They can be a great investment for the right person. The ones I worked with that did well owned about 10-15 locations. They would hire some young guy who was ambitious as hell to do the day to day shit. They would then meet their buddies for coffee every so often at each of their locations and pretend that they are actually concerned about the place.
Their goal was to make a few grand each month of clear profit without doing much at all. That isn’t too hard of a thing to do. The only downside is you can’t retire and be completely checked out of things. You have to keep your eye on things and be ready to respond to any major crisis. So if you are a type A workoholic it is a great retirement.
I think it would be tough to scrape a living out of one location. It can be done, but then it is real work.
Meanwhile, at almost any mall in America…..
That is awesome.
I think that some of the smaller towns are in for a renaissance. Older folks will retire and move out to some of these places as well as younger folks who have jobs that can be done via telecommuting.
My father says that my old home town has lots and lots of retirees who grew up there, moved to the big city to make money and are now moving back to enjoy their final years.
I have agitated for years to move out into central Minnesoda. The only reason I haven’t is because my wife thinks we life too far out in the boonies already. I think of how much further my salary would go in a small rural community than it does in a suburb. I think that a lot of people are going to be like me and move where they want to live and bring their jobs with them.
Lastly, I think a lot of these small town business owners have learned how to co-exist with the big box stores. You will never beat them on price so they have to have a niche, or better customer service or something. They aren’t going to get blind sided by the new paradigms like the last generation of business owners did.
“I hate Illinois Nazis”
Its Indiana’s fault somehow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulCw7RJ5eE8
https://twitter.com/LibertarianWing/status/1015638974797352960
Truth.
Since Q is on vacation:
https://www.reddit.com/r/BigBoobsCosplay/
This is the quality content that I come here for.
You get to link to the Big Boobs Cosplay reddit (thank you by the way, I like it!) but my attempts to link to the dirndl subreddit go into the spam folder?
/kicks pebble
This outfit is new to me. It might require new research as I have never heard of that.
Heh. Watched it with my ex. That was a fun series.
Watched it with my ex.
We need to discuss your skills at the end of a relationship. You are obviously not dysfunctional enough.
My future ex.
That series put her in the mood, though.
Kill La Kill ?
I believe that healthy young lady is Helly von Valentine (well-known healthy cosplayer from, uh, Germany, IIRC).
Thanks for pitching in.
I’m going with Leanne Crowe.
In that case, I’m sorry for the residents and visitors to Las Vegas.
No one fucks with the United Hookers & Coke Dealers Union.
The problem with the United Hookers union is you always end up fucking some old granny because of seniority rules.
Yeah, the only places you get unions now are the gov’t and places based on a gov’t enforced monopoly
I wish that were the case, but it’s not. The big hotel chains are fully unionized in a lot of places. Supermarket chains, too. And lots and lots of manufacturing jobs.
Linda Hunt, a 57-year-old food server at El Cortez Hotel & Casino downtown, said she was worried about the technology.
“We want to make sure we’re not lost to the robots,” Hunt said.
One of these things doesn’t belong.
I like how she demands they train her in something else. Like they owe her a job or something.
Ideally, she has a kid named “Mike”.
And he cleans the white courtesy phones at the same hotel?
Have you seen Mike Hunt?
“Bob Hunt’s wife Helen is running the lost and found this year so if you lose something…..”
“I’m a lumberjack, and I’m ok eh!”
Those guys have that Canadian look down, especially mustache guy.
He didn’t clear two escape routes. Former QHSE westernsloper rates him a fail.
They use metric escape routes up there.
When I pretended to be a safety guy it was in a metric system using area of the planet. Awhile after that gig ended I heard the subcontractor we used on the job I was on had three guys crushed by trees while felling. Most of the guys were very on their game but, damn, sometimes a tree kills you. One of these days I will dig up some stump pics since you seem to have a chainsaw fetish.
Wood
Damn. I’m strictly amateur & small stuff but used to be big time logging around here (and still is quite a bit). Lots of injuries and occasional deaths. Dangerous work. Mills are the same way. Like what police think their job is.
Thanks for posting. I was thinking of chopping some giant trees down. I assume these techniques work for palm trees?
The guy in the 2nd segment had sloppy eye-shield control.
I kind of went down the rabbit hole with this video (and the rest of the series). Thanks for posting.
Episode 1 of the series shows some history of logging. Guys cutting down 4′ diameter trees with hand tools. Pretty interesting.
I wish my chain stayed that sharp.
/Stihl041AV
Speaking of trees, here’s a tune by an outfit called Thigh Master. The song is Treehouse A.P. https://youtu.be/-2OLB4YJYGI
These are my kind of lumberjack videos
My favorite part of them is that I can never spot what might happen bad in them before it happens. Which is exactly why I always contract out that sort of stuff.
I’m no pro, but right off in that first one, it happened because the guy did the back cut at an angle instead of horizontal. Slides down through whatever hinge was in place and onto the fence in the wrong direction.
2007 in the Feather River Canyon on a campaign fire, “hey Jack, don’t do a face cut on that snag. With that lean it will bind the saw.”.
Jack who just went through a sawyers class, “I need to do a face cut first.”
“Don’t do a face cut, you’ll bind the saw.”
Face cut, saw bound.
“We’ll see you back at the engine when you get the saw unstuck.”
Cooper’s makes good beer.
It’s nice to see the entire Smith family posting articles tonight. The family that talks about rape together stays together, I guess.
Isnt that why we still have t̶h̶e̶ ̶K̶e̶n̶n̶e̶d̶y̶s̶ asylum seekers ?
Found this on Reddit. I laughed so hard beer came out of my nose. I thought you guys would enjoy this:
“Fuck white men. When I wake up in the morning, those are the first words out of my mouth. It’s like a prayer to me. A prayer to who? Doesn’t matter. Obama, Black Panther, the bull who fucks my wife. They are beautiful black men. They are basically my gods. So its to them. To let them know I stand with them. I stand against racism. Throughout the day I utter the words again. “Fuck white men.” It turns me on thinking about my gods one day hearing me. I say it when my soy latte burns my tongue, even though the disgusting white man told me it should be okay to drink now. He was wrong. I have a sensitive mouth and that fucking white piece of trash should have assumed that. So I say the words. My incantation. “Fuck white men.” They’re delicious. Just like my soy. Sometimes Jamal, my black bull, reminds me that I myself am a white man. I place my finger gently over his mouth to hush him. I am not like the others. Because I recognize the racism. I am special. Jamal nods in understanding, and gives me my glass of soy milk from beside the bed, where my wife lies while Jamal fucks her. But honestly, Sometimes I worry. I worry my wife may think I’m like the others. So I say to her, every day before she leaves, “I’m a disgrace. I am white garbage.” She says I will get to touch her body again soon. It’s been four months, but I don’t complain. I never will. She is a perfect woman in every way, and knows best. Fucking white men don’t get her. They’re cruel to her. They call her names on her blog, “fuckwhitementheyareracist.org”. They don’t deserve her. Jamal is bringing a new friend tonight. He says his friend is the biggest white man hater in the world. I’m so excited to meet this bastion of hope against the racist white man. Maybe he’ll fuck me.. I can only hope.
Fuck white men.”
It’s hard to tell any more if that’s even satire.
“the bull who fucks my wife”?
Hey….Im WHITE!
Swarthy complexion, maybe?
Im really tan, if that helps.
Yeah I’m with you Rhywun. I think it is but I can’t be sure.
No lefty admits to being a soy boy. Cuckold, sure. They’re weirdly taken by that sort of thing. But not the soy stuff.
Too many soy references. It HAS to be satire.
It is. But still believable.
Is that Justin Trudeau?
I’m watching a fascinating documentary on ABC about Waco. Pretty neutral so far, but haven’t got to the standoff yet.
Did they get to the part where the sheriff told ATF he knew Koresh, and would be happy to bring him in with no trouble, and the FedGov said, “Nah…we got this” ?
Gotta redeem the fuckup of Ruby Ridge with.. the even bigger fuckup of Waco!
“fuckup”
They purposefully murdered those people. Even dumb as fuck government stooges know that when you machine gun a wooden building, break the walls down with tanks, and then light it on fire, that you are going to kill everyone inside.
Anyone who voted for Bill Clinton in 1996 doesn’t get to ever shriek about FASCISM ever again. Fascism is government thugs incinerating religious minorities alive in their homes.
While we’re at it, can we take all the self-described pacifists who voted for Obama and strap them down Clockwork Orange-style and make them watch slideshows of Middle Eastern children who were blown to a bloody pulp by his drones?
“can we take all the self-described pacifists who voted for Obama”
I will only add “in 2012” to that.
I remember vividly the day after election day in 2008 thinking:
“Welp, we’re about to get a ton of bullshit socialism, taxes are going up, but at least we will get legal weed and we will be out of Iraq.”
Fuck that guy seriously….did he do a single thing anywhere to advance liberty in even the smallest way?
The Clinton Admin has definately had the greatest impact on my political views and disdain for government. Of course that was follow up by George “Its not Americas job to be the World police, oh wait I lied it is” Bush to reinforce it.
Ruby Ridge was almost as premeditated. And the amount of criminal wrongdoing & mistakes made by DOJ, USMS, ATF, and the FBI is astounding. Charges against Weaver should have been dismissed with prejudice, and a bunch of fed should have been warming jail cells, with a couple stretching a rope for their actions.
I wonder what would happen today if such a situation were to arise. I get the sense that folks would rally around the sieged people like they did Bundy.
Probably. Federal land use has been a sticky issue for a long time for ranchers, but ultimately people armed up for Bundy because of the memories of Waco were still in their minds.
Today as I lay on my pizza float in the palatial pool I had the radio on. I had given up on NPR as I can only take that a few hours in the am so it was the talk radio station. It was a Rush repeat show and he was going on and on about a book about how corrupt the DOJ is. Enron overturns and prosecutorial illegality and hiding evidence and telling witnesses to lie……… Stuff you ilk have known for years but a new revelation to Rush. I am not sure how much his audience, being the cop suckers they are will embrace this new found knowledge, but like I said before, it is good to see the likes of him waking up. The whole “Russia Probe/Mueller investigation” in the end may do more to expose how full of shit/corrupt the DOJ/legal system is than ever harm Trump.
Huh. I’ve never listened to one second of talk radio, whether NPR or Rush but I’ve gathered that Rush has a lot of listeners. If he goes skeptical that could be big.
Really? I guess it is believable since what I gathered of your viewing habits I can relate. I have never watched one second of soccer unless by accident and the same applies to tennis. I have watched a bit of golf though. I also tried to get into Nascar but that was unsuccessful. I need to listen to more podcasts but I can’t help but listen to what the enemy, NPR, spews and the ‘right wing’ guys sometimes almost get it. As to the topic of liberty, Mark Levin nails it until he doesn’t. Dude knows the constitution though. He is just a bit of a warboner. Probably cuz he is jewish and we all know they want to take over the world.
watch yourself out there
Jesus. That is horrible. I have no worry of that since we have no public transit here unless you are disabled or a senior in a home or house bound and call that little bus to come get you.
We should measure “there should be a law” crises in units of Waco to put them in perspective. “Oh, that was a 0.12 Waco school shooting” draws a very different mental picture when discussing actions the fedgov should take.
The weather is finally cool enough to have the widows open, but assholes are still setting off fireworks.
Thankfully my neighborhood all gets together for a party on Independence Day. Besides a couple neighbor kids lighting off some surplus firecrackers, nobody has shot anything off within annoyance range since the party.
I live far enough away from anyone else to have to deal with shit like that.
I see it as a glorious display if civil disobedience. I’m only discouraged that it only happens once a year. As I mentioned Wednesday I was disappointed in my neighbors, I only saw four illegal firework displays this year, the fact that I can year some scofflaws tonight is a bit of redemption for all my fellow rednecks.
I have a nice view south over my neighborhood and I see probably a couple dozen displays every year – some pretty damn sophisticated and all illegal. *sheds tear*
Last night on the Fargo, ND news they ran a story about illegal fireworks displays in the city limits. They mentioned that police had 143 complaints (the metro area is close to 200,000 people) but only wrote one ticket.
The coolest part was at one point in the story they showed footage from their “weather cam” that is on their antennae tower, high above town. It looked like a war zone. Fireworks exploding in the air everywhere. Glorious.
Then there’s this pile of shit story trying its damndest to conflate one incident of one crazy chick with every other instance of “illegal” fireworks in the city. Fuuuuuck! This kind of shit is why I hate the media so fucking much.
1) weren’t Roman candle fights a teenage rite of passage 30 or 40 years ago?
2) that article is absolute shit
3) how did this even make the local news?
1. Yes.
2. Yes.
3. People Suck.
I can’t speak to (1) – I haven’t seen that before which probably makes me the perfect target for their scare-mongering. I mean, it *looks* scary.
But yeah the story is such a transparent attempt at pushing the state’s agenda it’s nauseating. And the MSM pull this shit all. the. time.
“There aught to be a law!” he was heard mumbling as he walked away.
“They do it every other day,” said a woman. “People have fun, then they start having too much fun, then everything gets out of hand.
Commander Cody has a sad. Also, the Commander’s last name is Frayne and his band are the Lost Planet Airmen, his first album was Into the Vortex, coincidence? you decide.
I have not heard one firecracker here. I think the town may have had a show on the 4th but I was asleep by then. It is so dry here nobody shot anything off this year. It is nice to know I live in an area where people are sensible and don’t go to the range and shoot off tracer rounds. I trust Raven’s wife and in laws house made it through that mess.
From the shit-that-never-happened files:
I wonder if the Post will have the grace to print the retraction.
Sure, but it’ll get 1/1000th the play as the original article
And the Post is supposed to be the not-stupid paper in NY but I’m seeing a noticeable increase in the number of woke-bait stuff like this.
Bet that wouldn’t have happened in a Trump hotel.
Wow. Lame. Thats the best false flag idea he could come up with?
It’s a total coincidence that his job is basically the diversity racket. Christ I just read the article again and the whole thing is such transparent bullshit I can’t believe the Post went with it.
Not just the NYPost. Both the hotel property itself and now Marriott are bending over backwards to try & appease that guy. Good luck with that.
Yeah, the mandatory diversity training is the next step. I wonder who will be running it.
“You’re a nigger”.
Alright, I laughed. Either the black guy (aI’m assuming the ‘consultant’ son) is really lazy, or that is one lazy racist.
Woah, woah, woah.
Assuming someone really did leave the note, that still isn’t a crime. Christ.
Yeah, someone from out of state thinks Sarasota is a hotbed of racial animus? It’s basically a suburb of the Tampa / St. Pete metro area.
And yeah, that was a real low-effort message. Matt Christiansen has a segment on his Beauty and the Beta video/podcast called “hoax hate of the week” that has crap like this all the time.
“This year’s campaign comes in response above all to the incident that sparked national outrage two years ago when five men calling themselves “The Pack” filmed themselves having sex with an 18-year-old woman.”
STEVE SMITH ALWAYS RECRUITING
Way to ruin THIS.
I freaking love the Shangri-La’s. Listen to them daily. My fave https://youtu.be/o-NhojnwMh8
OT: I went to the liquor store for a bottle of Bulleit Rye, but I was shocked to see that they had a bottle of Suntory “Toki” whisky. I’ve never seen it around here (southwest Ohio) before, and I don’t even recall seeing it among the vastly superior selection of the Kentucky liquor stores when I was down there.
I’m no good at those fancy-pants analyses of alcohol where they talk about notes of this and undertones of that, so all I can really say is that I’m drinking it neat and lovin’ it, and I look forward to seeing how it turns out in some classic whiskey/whisky cocktails.
I pick up a fifth of that stuff every once in a while. Good stuff.
I finally picked up one recently. Makes good highballs!
+1 Lost in Translation
Fiancee came back from Ireland the other week, she brought a bottle of the Jameson that you can supposedly only get at the distillery. Quite nice.
When I took the tour of the Maker’s Mark distillery, they gave us four samples of whiskey – one that was unaged, one that was not aged quite enough, one that was aged to the point where they would bottle and sell it, and one that was over-aged.
The unaged whiskey was interesting, but I see a lot of “white whiskey” on the shelves these days.
I just picked up a bottle of Redemption Rye and was sipping that on ice last weekend. Very smooth. I definitely recommend.
I’m sipping on some Rittenhouse Rye right now. Very nice.
I still haven’t taken the Suntory plunge. Too many bad memories from drinking their late ’80s swill in Okinawa. I keep hearing good things about their stuff though.
Just read the poem. Is Sea Smith getting killed off?
BAM! KAPOW! ZOWIE!
Just stumbled across the Batman TV series on cable.
Still entertaining after all these years. Just for different reasons.
It’s the underwear outside the pants isn’t it? I do that sometimes. BAM!
What channel? Fuck the movies, that will always be my Batman and Robin.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sq8OU-7JDFA
Is there a better band named after a fictional dildo?
King Missile?
So it has been fun for me today watching the screeching about the Trump administration not getting the kids re-united with their parents before some arbitrary deadline. All the while wondering why the media isn’t as worried about the FBI missing a deadline to turn over subpoenaed documents to three Congressional committees.
Huh. I don’t get it. Why aren’t they double screeching?
Remember when the Left didn’t trust the FBI and CIA?
Watching Sicario again, because. There’s this really gnarly scene early in the movie, the cops find a bunch of corpses wrapped in plastic, hidden in the walls of a home in the suburbs. Which really bothers me, not because they’re steel studs (which is odd enough, but whatever), but because someone went and mitered the gypsum off the walls hiding those bodies, left the drywall screws in the studs, but there’s no drywall remnants in place. There’s drywall screws in the studs, but no drywall detritus. You don’t tear drywall off studs without leaving plugs of drywall in every goddamn screw. What is this? You’re telling me there’s magic goddamn drywall hiding those bodies? They tear off clean?
Next on ‘This Old House’. Poorly constructed houses in the movies!
I thought you were going to talk about the scene towards the end where del Toro wipes out the cartel family.
Excited about the Miocic/DC fight about to start. DC came in looking like a Macy’s balloon. I expect Stipe to win, but could go either way. Great fight.
Wow.
Great recap?
No spoiler, but unexpected.
I kind of have a micro movie review no one will see. I watched Black Panther when it came out in theaters and as a comic book movie junkie I thought it was meh. But it was being reviewed as the greatest ever. At the time I thought it was mostly race-baiting related as it was was being billed as the ‘First Black lead Comic Book Movie ever!11!’ Ignoring Blade, Steel, Blank Man, Meteor Man and Catwoman (listed in descending order of quality).
But in re watching I realized why it hit so well with the left. Killmonger, the bad guy, won the seat of government fair and square over the anointed T’Chala; by the rules of the political game he won. But before he even did anything policy wise the supporters of T’Chala disagreed with (he was the villain after all) they were all ready planning to overthrow the duly won head of state (how that head of state is chosen, given where the country is, is actually a very racist portrayal, but don’t peek behind the curtain). Somehow this sounds familiar to the way the left has behaved since 2016.
Re: Meteor Man, the world needs more Robert Townsend. In front of, as well as behind the camera. Underrated.
Underappreciated.
Um…
tries to think of a counterpoint
Holy shit, now I can’t unsee it.
Good think I wasn’t planning on rewatching BP, I enjoyed it OK in the theatre but was mostly sad about missed opportunities to make it better. Hopefully Christopher Priest at least got some money because they used Everett Ross.
Yeah, and with production time of these movies that must have just been happenstance, but in my second watching (besides seeing even more soft racism than the first time) this part of they story jumped out at me.
I saw it just the other night. It was fine but why there is so much hoopla escapes me.
This mini-review shows why (besides the race politics) there was the hoopla. I didn’t get it either till this rewatch and noticed these similarities to what the left has done the last couple years.
Interesting – I watched it when it came out (my son and I catch all the MCU movies ASAP) and it was fun, but not great. Interesting points you make that I totally overlooked while watching.
I enjoyed it as much as I’ve enjoyed any other Marvel movie, which is to say, quite a bit. It served its purpose of keeping me entertained, though I did briefly wonder how many people in real life preferred Killmonger’s rhetoric. I decided that that line of thought leads to madness and just went along for the ride.
Wasn’t the greatest movie of all time. Both Guardians are still my favorite for the humor.
“Mantis, look out!” gets me rolling every time.
Having said all that, if you play a game of “Replace the Race” you’d basically have a white nationalist’s wet dream on screen. From beginning to the end, where there are apparently no disenfranchised white children in the inner city for T’Chala to help.
You can reverse races to test if something is racist. I dunno why, but something about structural institutions or other.
Can’t.
Crap. Where’s the reeducation center around these parts? I’ll report there tomorrow.
Look for something like 洋鬼子学園?
*Googles…*
Ah, there it is. I think. Could be a ramen shop.
Western Demon Child School.
Almost paid for it the other day. Maybe wait until it’s free on cable?
Yeah.
Stuck at the mall on a Sunday with the wife and kid. Kill me.
Get chili cheese fries with a side of cinnabuns a beer and a saki and your wife will roll her eyes so hard her head will explode.
Oh shit read that wrong. Kill you not the wife. Ok get chili cheese fries with a side of cinnabuns ten beers and four bottles of saki.
Every Japanese mall has what appears to be the same five stores over and over again.
Baskin Robbins, Cheap Jewelry shop, Mister Donuts, Women’s Shoes, SoftBank/AU/Docomo?
That about sums it up.
A few of my relatives were in charge of fireworks for a club. We had maybe $1500 worth of fireworks to set off and I helped to reload the mortars. The show lasted about 30 minutes.
Don’t any of you work? You sleep all day? Everyone is a Russian bot? Wake up, Hillary just announced her run for 2020, it’s exciting times.
Wait for real?
Not really, yet, but I’m sure it’s coming. They’re going to drag her bloated corpse across the finish line, one day.
I’M BACK!
I hope she does run again. A blow-out would be fantastic.
On the other hand…what if she wins? That’s actually a terrifying thought…
Good joke?