River Days: You knew I would write this

by | May 27, 2020 | Fun, Outdoors | 259 comments

No. 1 Grandson

Living on the Colorado River is very nice. During the week it’s uncrowded, and that’s when the Locals play… My Boy Casey bought a 2 man kayak, and I said, “must have,” so I bought a 1 man kayak, and off we went. We live in the Riviera section of BhC, right at the Big Bend, so we put in 5 minutes north of my house, and put out about 5 minutes west from my house, but the trip takes at least 2-3 hours, very convenient. 

Part of the fleet

Casey’s Mom

River Fun, I guess,

Casey on the Island

our Hookups, cool local ladies

Yusef S Thompson

Casey finds a Redhead

I caught a pretty fish!

Nice day at the beach

I was visiting with my daughter at the beach one afternoon, and she told me of Floating Islands and large rafting parties, and it sounded like fun, so we went shopping and found a nice 4-6 man island, and a few other floaties, also many PFDs, water shoes and waterproof boxes, ready to play. The first trip was just 2 kayaks with Casey’s Mom along for the ride, I had never driven a kayak before and it was,  instructive, but we landed at the Little island without incident, and made our way back to the Park.

The second trip Casey and I decided to run the Island raft and see how she drove, and as we were prepping here come two good looking women of appropriate age, getting ready to float, we said “Hi, let’s hookup,” (literally hookup with lines you pervs) and about 10 minutes downstream we did, cruising to Little Isle. Every floater takes a break there, and so we did as well. We talked them into riding with us the rest of the way, and had great fun. After dropping them off at their car we parked off the beach at the park, and got smashed. Everybody thought we were the cool cats, we just laughed, good days.

DIL Twerking on the Beach

Duck!

Waiting for McDonald’s

I have been a few other times since, my son and his wife, and my oldest grandson on different occasions; both performed unscheduled aquatic excursions, the only loss being a bottle of MD 20/20.

I now have enough floaties for at least 10 people and gear, ice chests, etc. It’s going to be a good Summer. This is a lot of fun, peaceful, mostly safe and it’s cheap, if ever you are nearby, let’s play!

Link to photos

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Yusef drives a Kia

Yusef drives a Kia

Punctually illiterate But never late

259 Comments

  1. juris imprudent

    a bottle of MD 20/20

    In other words, no real loss.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      I laughed

    • UnCivilServant

      So, Mad Dog isn’t running this year?

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        they were in 6 feet of water, I would have dived for it, if it was me, but I carry my ice chest with lines attached

  2. kinnath

    There are times that I miss Arizona.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      today isn’t one of them, 110, down from 113, yikes!

      • kinnath

        I was in Phoenix when it hit 122.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        It’s only May, give it some time….
        I do love the place, lots to explore if your a Psycho geology guy, and a playground in the middle of Hell

  3. Sean

    Looks like fun, Yusef.

  4. KibbledKristen

    What time should I be there?

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      9 am, Monday through Friday,

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      We are 2 hours south of Vegas, do have Commercial flights, Come by if your ever in the area, I’ll take you, it’s a lot of fun!

      • Bobarian LMD

        How far from Laughlin?

      • blackjack

        Bullhead is directly across the river from Laughlin.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Yes! Because of heat…schedule is cleared. River waters I need you

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Say when, or call me, We were going to square away the Mirthmobile tomorrow, but….
        Lemme know

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        look down and parse my phone number

  5. commodious spittoon

    I floated… somewhere in Texas and… somewhere in Arizona, and in Pagosa Springs. The last was best, because I was old enough to drink and hanging out with chicks.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Notice the Blonde? Yusef happy and very buzzed at that point, Beer is good

      • Crusty Juggler

        I noticed.

    • Digby recommends Crelm toothpaste

      somewhere in Texas

      The Guadalupe? Around the New Braunfels area?

      • DenverJ

        I was rude to you the other night, Sir Digsby, and I’m very sorry. Please accept my apology.

      • Digby recommends Crelm toothpaste

        Ummm…you were*?? I mean, yeah-no, not necessary, but accepted nonetheless.

        *I’ve slept since then

      • DenverJ

        Yeah. We discussed prison guards, and I told you to fuck off, which is very rude. So, I’m sorry.

      • Digby recommends Crelm toothpaste

        Oh, I didn’t take it quite that way, so, I’m OK wit’cha. Saul Goodman, and all that, chap.

      • DenverJ

        Great show

      • Digby recommends Crelm toothpaste

        It damn well is!

  6. Yusef drives a Kia

    I hope Y’allins notice my alt text

  7. Crusty Juggler

    REVEALED: Governor Cuomo quietly gave legal immunity to nursing home executives from coronavirus lawsuits after raking in $2.3 million in campaign cash from the industry

    New York Governor Andrew Cuomo took in $2.3 million in campaign cash from the hospital and nursing home industry before signing legislation to provide legal immunity to healthcare executives in the coronavirus pandemic, according to a new report.

    Cuomo quietly signed legislation last month shielding hospital and nursing home executives from the threat of lawsuits stemming from the pandemic, in a provision inserted into the annual budget, the Guardian reported.

    It comes as Cuomo faces mounting criticism over the state’s staggering coronavirus death toll in nursing homes, which at more than 5,800 fatalities make up nearly a fifth of the state’s deaths.

    The Greater New York Hospital Association (GNYHA), a lobbying group for hospital systems including some that own nursing homes, bragged in a press release that it ‘drafted and aggressively advocated for’ the immunity provision

    Just like Big Ern McCrakin they above the law.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      I AM THE LAW!!!!

    • Tres Cool

      Also Big Ern…..”I can buy my way out of anything!”

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Freckles and Copper hair, Yum……..

    • DenverJ

      I love redheads. My only spawn was caused by carnal relations with a soulless ginger. I love redheads.

    • R C Dean

      An excellent collection, but . . .

      One and done.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      done and done, we have contact info yes?

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        parse this, IX ? IX III V IV I IX I III
        call me,
        Rome had no concept of Zero

      • Q Continuum

        I’ll have TPTB shoot you my email.

      • Q Continuum

        In the meantime, do you have a local gun shop or FFL holder I can ship to?

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        not without an AZ drivers license….
        /always a snag…

      • Q Continuum

        Oh crap! Darn it. Well, the offer stands whenever you get your license.

      • Q Continuum

        You’ll have my email from TPTB so just drop me a line.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Good incentive, i’ll work it tomorrow, the deal stands from my end, Thanks Q!

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        I figured it would work like my other weapons, see I’m a SCUBA diver and find guns at the bottom of lakes….

    • Gustave Lytton

      You’re a good man, Mr Q.

  8. Crusty Juggler

    Remember when we thought a global pandemic had made social media lynch mobs seem ridiculous?

    lol us

  9. DEG

    Looks like fun. How did things work out with the blonde?

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      probably a one off, but I’m always around, I’ll see her again

      • DEG

        Excellent. Best wishes!

  10. commodious spittoon

    The local political ads extolling a candidate’s loyalty to Trump are unseemly. Not to mention unwise. We’re a purple state going blue, like apparently every other purple state, and you’re running ads about how your underdog candidate cleaves so tight to this terribly divisive man that no sunlight finds its way betwixt?

    • Winston

      We’re a purple state going blue, like apparently every other purple state

      Um isn’t that what purple state always meant?

      terribly divisive man

      One thing I know about libertarians is how divisive they are..

      • Florida Man

        Can libertarians be divisive when they have literally no influence in US politics?

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        you mean the Emmanuel Goldstein of politics?

      • Heroic Mulatto

        Yusuf gets it.

      • Winston

        Well “fiscal conservatism”, “limited government” and “deregulation” are policies associated with Republicans that the Democrats deeply loathe. And the main libertarian complaint about the Republicans are that they aren’t actually doing this.

        And I also find the notion of “non-divisive” politics rather odd. Are we going to create some world were everyone agrees on everything and agrees with us specifically? Sounds rather collectivist.

      • commodious spittoon

        Purple states are up for grabs. Does it mean they’re just trending blue? Is there a similar word for blue states trending red? Of course not, don’t be ridiculous. That’s like a salamander sprouting gills.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        EASY! I identify as a Salamander, for now………….

    • Heroic Mulatto

      SHUT THE FUCK UP, LIBTARD!

  11. Mojeaux

    That looks lovely and utterly fun!

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      We want to Road trip to Michigan to see my Sister, we will bring our kayaks at least, Golf, friends, Karaoke, all fueled by Trump Bucks

      • Fourscore

        Lots of water here, Yusef, if you are passing through Fargo-Duluth we’re right on the way. You’re welcome to stay for a day or two or three or longer.

  12. Crusty Juggler

    Foot fetishist arrested after stealing, having sex with 100 pairs of flip-flops

    A Thai man with an unhealthy obsession with shoes has been arrested for stealing more than 100 pairs of flip-flops, which he admitted to having sex with.

    Now the last line in this next paragraph is just perfect…

    The alleged footwear fetishist described how he would wear the sandals, which spanned every make and size, around the house to arouse himself a la shoe-coveting serial killer Jerry Brudos.

    And that was just foreplay. Theerapat would reportedly then caress and kiss the well-worn flip-flops, strip down and rub them all over his naked body, and then, eventually, make love to them. Once he was done ravaging his sole mates, he’d toss them aside and look for a new pair.

    • Chafed

      I got nothing.

      • Digby recommends Crelm toothpaste

        And, he got nuttin’.

  13. Crusty Juggler

    The United States of Karens

    So yes, she was a Karen, almost by definition. But so was he, and even worse, if you were one of the hundreds of online private keyboard detectives who tracked down her identity, her employer, where she adopted her dog from, even her personal address — which, let’s be honest, potentially endangers her safety as well in this day and age — you are also a Karen. Every single one of you. Whether you are a Twitter warrior or a journalist piling on or an activist parked outside her apartment: Karens, one and all.

    And if everyone is a Karen, then no one is.

    So, congrats everyone! You created a careening karalanche of karenception and in turn killed your new favorite meme. This was the moment when Karendom reached the Karen singularity of intergalactic Karen warp speed. The situation escalated and rapidly spread like a Karenavirus from one person, then two people, then to 50 and 100 and then thousands, trending to the top Twitter. The truth is you’re all Karens, and you enjoy it. You get off on Karen Culture. You’ve become the most hated subject of your favorite meme so time to find a new one I guess.

    How about … Becky?

    How about Meryls?

  14. Yusef drives a Kia

    I must live in a different world, there are no Karens here, as well as no Rules for Karens to scream about, odd that

    • Crusty Juggler

      “I must live in a different world”

      With Denise and Whitley and Dwayne Wayne?

      Hillman rocked!

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Small town with great gun laws, Karens can fuck right off! I’m starting to sound like Suthenboy….

  15. Gustave Lytton

    Wife is watching the Epstein series on Netflix. Trying to figure out what the angle is. Hit piece against Clinton/Clinton allies by the Obama camp? That’s my first assumption since it’s Netflix. Definitely highlighting over and over Trump’s association with Epstein.

    • Hyperion

      A good starting point is ‘Epstein didn’t kill himself’. Going from there, a Clinton was involved is the most sure bet.

      • Gustave Lytton

        I mean the angle of why Netflix did the series.

      • hayeksplosives

        Netflix and Obama camp are allied, no secret. Obamas and Clintons have a chilly relationship at best.

        So many roads lead to Chicago.

      • hayeksplosives

        But how is Netflix involved? Is it a driving force? A whole gaggle of them?

        It would be instructive to see who bought into media when it became clear that social media and TV will be the means of control.

        Especially would want to see who got involved when cancel culture emerged as a weapon.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        I’m fairly certain Obama got his $65M sweetheart deal from Netflix as direct compensation for trying to push thru Net Numbskullery.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      I don’t understand why we haven’t heard interviews from his employees, his relatives, his other acquaintances….

      Somebody knows what’s up, but is probably scared shitless.

      • Hyperion

        “Somebody knows what’s up, but is probably scared shitless.”

        Really? I can’t understand why. I mean it’s not like people involved with the Clintons have been getting mysteriously dead for decades.

    • straffinrun

      Had a similar feeling with Wild, Wild Country. I get trying to tell both sides of the story, but by the end of the movie it sure seemed like they were trying to paint the cult leader in a soft light. Netflix.

  16. westernsloper

    A bad day on the water is better than a good day on land, (unless someone drowns) has always been my motto. Looks like a good time Yusef.

    • creech

      A bad day on the golf course is better than a good day at work, too.

  17. Heroic Mulatto

    music is divided in 2 macrogenres: normal music and cum music, normal music is normal music, cum music is music that makes you cum and the opening theme to M.A.S.K. is absolutely cum music

    • Mojeaux

      I was hoping for another Vulfpeck-ish pick, but noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.

      • Heroic Mulatto

        I can’t control what makes me come.

      • Bobarian LMD

        That sounds messy.

    • DEG

      Huh. I watched M.A.S.K. when I was a kid. Maybe that explains me.

  18. Scruffy Nerfherder

    Looks like fun Yusef.

    OT: The Fed has pretty obviously seized control of the stock markets, at least temporarily. I’ve lost some money betting against them this past week. The indices are are almost completely disconnected from reality. I don’t even know what to make of it anymore. 18 million probably without jobs to return to and bankruptcies galore, but the markets are climbing like everything is golden. It’s bonkers.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      it won’t last, I tell everyone, spend the Trumpbucks before they are worthless,
      We are so fucked….

    • westernsloper

      It’s bonkers.

      You can say that about most things in these trying times.

    • commodious spittoon

      I don’t want your secret investor advice, just tell me when to put the gun in my mouth. I’m not living out the end-times with you jokers. I got no kids, nobody depends on me. I’m checking out as soon as chicken hits pork butt prices.

      • The Bearded Hobbit

        Ah, dude, you’ve got options. Shoot me an email. You’ve got the addy, jemezhobbit the the evilmail.

    • Fourscore

      I’m making up some of the downturn of a month ago but its only paper at this point. While I’m happy to see the improvement I wonder what the inflation is gonna look like. As Hank Williams says in one of his songs, “We’ve been down that road before”

      I want to see some production, not deficit spending.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        That’s the thing.

        Production is in the toilet.

      • Chafed

        You’re right but it is damn difficult to buck the Fed. This summer will be interesting. Most restrictions in most states should be lifted. If production doesn’t make a major comeback then I’m not sure the Fed will be able to paper over those losses.

  19. UnCivilServant

    It’s more viscerally satisfying to stomp another fleet as the Imperium, but tactically, the Necron options just seem to suit my playstyle better.

    *sigh*

    I also wish the battle would not end just because all surviving enemy ships are fleeing in terror. I want to destroy them.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Kill them, it makes you look good…..

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      I never took slaves, never exacted tribute, I just wiped them out and took their shit…

      • UnCivilServant

        It’s just a video game, the pixels don’t have stuff to take.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        no way, all those meant…. nevermind

  20. RAHeinlein

    Watching live MSP protests on Fox – holy crap, the looting of Target, Cub Foods, and other stores near the Po-Po station.

    • Winston

      Damn rioting and the Great Suppression. Recovery will be awesome…

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        What recovery? I hope I’m wrong,

    • LemonGrenade

      Been watching livestreams like Unicorn Riot on youtube of the same thing. It’s crazy town.

    • DEG

      The Reopen folks never did any of that.

      • LemonGrenade

        I’m starting to think we should take a hint and follow suit. But I’m generally non-violent, so my solution is searching for an escape from this state.

      • DEG

        I think if there was no violence after cops arrested protestors in New Jersey and North Carolina plus broke up protests in Chicago, I don’t think we’ll see it all.

        Those arrests were the most provocative actions the government has taken towards the Reopen protestors and I don’t see the government escalating beyond arrests.

      • DEG

        Of course, as soon as I hit submit, I remembered that the husband of one of the ReOpen NC organizers said he is “willing to kill”, but it is a bit of a leap between saying that and acting on it.

      • LemonGrenade

        I must have read too much patriot porn in the past, because I fully expected someone with nothing else to lose to have assassinated Coonman by now, but not one attempt. I really do think I may just have to get used to the cold and relocate to South Dakota. We’ll be swinging through over the 4th of July, so I’ll get a chance to check it out in advance.

      • DEG

        I read “Unintended Consequences”. I liked it and I still have my copy.

        I did some thinking about moving to a different state, one that didn’t go as crazy as New Hampshire did. For reasons related to family I’ll need to stay on the East Coast for a little while longer, which doesn’t provide many options. ‘Course, an election can change everything.

      • LemonGrenade

        I was thinking of even cheesier fare, like Enemies Foreign and Domestic which I read along with Schlitcher’s books. That shit made me way too hopeful.

      • Gustave Lytton

        I am surprised also that given the large numbers of utterly fucked people, that someone hasn’t decided to seek justice themselves.

    • Tres Cool

      Riot?

      Why it’s a Lootin’ Annie!

      Nothing says ‘justice’ like emptying a retail store, and getting a TV. However, I saw some people tore some of the precinct stuff up…..I cant say that’s right, but I understand

      • straffinrun

        Two wrongs making it right. Ugh. This just sucks.

    • Urthona

      Some of the protesters weren’t even wearing masks and therefore are evil.

  21. Winston

    https://www.aier.org/article/freedom-requires-resisting-coronavirus-pessimism/

    Friends of freedom concerned with an increased “drift,” in the direction of far more government regulation and redistribution due to the policy responses to the coronavirus, need to realize that that trend had been picking up speed for a long time in the United States. The current health crisis is merely accelerating that movement.

    Back in 1938, the classical liberal essayist and author, Garet Garrett (1878-1954), pointed out to people that “The Revolution Was.” The theme of his monograph was that those concerned about a collectivist and paternalist shift coming in the United States missed the reality that that shift had already been going on ideologically and politically for many decades in the United States. Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal response to the Great Depression merely brought out through more direct and comprehensive government controls and plans the political-philosophical “revolution” that already had happened in America by that time.

    The seemingly loud clamor today for more government spending and increased redistributions to “save” people drowning in the tidal wave of failing businesses and rising unemployment really is merely an intensification of the same ideas and trends that have been at work during the decades preceding the arrival of the coronavirus.

    But…but…the Libertarian Moment? I mean how could we have forseen that those leftist SJW professors and the environmentalists would implement the policies they have always said they wanted to implement? Or that leftist Democrats want to implement policies they want to implement?

    If there is a chance to not only pull society away from the social and economic abyss towards which it is moving, but return it to a path more in the direction of personal liberty, economic freedom, and equal individual rights under partial rule of law and constitutionally limited government, it requires resisting the pessimism that all is lost and irreversible, and having the courage and willingness to try to restore the free society.

    Well there goes me…

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      There’s about two small government politicians in federal office. The GOP has no intention of rolling anything back, not even FISA after all of the Russia shenanigans.

      I’d say we’re fucked.

      • Winston

        The GOP has no intention of rolling anything back

        Well they shouldn’t be so divisive…

        two small government politicians in federal office

        Paul and Massie?

      • Heroic Mulatto

        The GOP has no intention of rolling anything back, not even FISA after all of the Russia shenanigans.

        Trump did announce on Twitter that he intends on vetoing the latest FISA bill, after also posting in all caps that warrantless searches are wrong. It was his one moment of libertarian lucidity that he gets every six months.

    • Heroic Mulatto

      I mean how could we have forseen that those leftist SJW professors and the environmentalists would implement the policies they have always said they wanted to implement? Or that leftist Democrats want to implement policies they want to implement?

      That sounds as antiquated as the Libertarian Moment.

      It’s Right-Wing Nationalist Populist-town now, Jake. And we’re getting Gemeinschaft-ed good and hard.

      • Winston

        It’s Right-Wing Nationalist Populist-town now, Jake

        Until January 20.

        Also this are Cuomo, Whitmer, etc and Pelosi engaged in Right-Wing Nationalist Populism at this moment?

      • Heroic Mulatto

        I think Trump will still win in a landslide. The man has his own religion – there are more QAnons than Mormons or Seventh Day Adventists in the United States.

        Also this are Cuomo, Whitmer, etc and Pelosi engaged in Right-Wing Nationalist Populism at this moment?

        The series features comic fights between an iconic pair of adversaries, a house cat (Tom) and a mouse (Jerry). The plots of each short usually center on Tom and Jerry’s numerous attempts to have the best of each other and the mayhem and destruction that follows. Despite Tom’s clever strategies (whether they work or not), determined and energetic mindset, large size, and exceptional overall intelligence, he rarely succeeds in getting the best of Jerry, mainly because of Jerry’s cunning abilities, luck, and his lack of tendencies in being a bit too reckless. However, on several occasions, they have displayed genuine friendship and concern for each other’s well-being. At other times, the pair set aside their rivalry in order to pursue a common goal, such as when a baby escapes the watch of a negligent babysitter, causing Tom and Jerry to pursue the baby and keep it away from danger, in the shorts Busy Buddies and Tot Watchers respectively. Despite their endless attacks on one another, they have saved each other’s lives every time they were truly in danger.

      • Winston

        think Trump will still win in a landslide.

        We shall see. I didn’t think Trump would win in 2016 so what do I know…

        Anyone what I find interesting is that Ebeling points out how trends were heading this way for a long time. Classical liberalism was pretty dead in the Edwardian Era and didn’t make much of a comeback in the 1920s.

        Republicans since about 1952 have always been about “Big Government is bad but expedient to do anything about it so let us grow government is a sensible way.” Trump is in many ways part of the same trend. And any future GOP POTUS will not roll anything back a future Democrat president will do. Can’t be so divisive you know.

        And it’s not like the Sensible Republicans or the neocons are some libertarianish faction when compared to the NatPops.

      • Winston

        Interestingly I have read some pieces suggesting that classical liberalism was in serious trouble as early as 1873 thanks to the Depression of that year. In the US this led to the rise of the Greenback Party and labor unrest. In Britain this caused the Liberals to shift into statism, a fact bemoaned by Spencer. Then came the Panic of 1893 which a rise in socialism and the defeat of the Cleveland Democrats in the US.

      • Heroic Mulatto

        I would buy that argument, adding that in the US context, the Civil War a decade prior, cemented Federal power in a way that created a communitarian nationalism different than how the country envisioned itself before.

      • DEG

        Civil War a decade prior, cemented Federal power in a way that created a communitarian nationalism different than how the country envisioned itself before.

        I agree. I am reminded of folks that point out before the Civil War, the USA was “these United States” and afterwards “The United States”.

        Lincoln is asshole.

        /ducks

      • Winston

        The panic of 1873 also caused the rise of One Nation Conservatism in the UK which emphasised the plight of the urban working class and how classical liberalism was supposedly unable to deal with the problems faced by modern urban society. New Liberals like T. H. Green also made similar arguments.

        In case you are wondering this is a major reason why I harp on about modernity, cosmopolitanism and urbanism and whatnot. Statists have been saying for the last 150 years or so that only the state can deal with modern urban life which turned the classical liberals main arguments against them and they have not done a good job in refuting them I think.

        the Civil War a decade prior, cemented Federal power in a way that created a communitarian nationalism different than how the country envisioned itself before.

        Neoconfederate!

        In fairness Lysander Spooner would agree I think. And Walt Whitman is a perfect example of what you are saying. Whitman was an abolitionist Locofoco turned nationalist Republican. I posted an article a while bacl from Ebeling where he points out the problems with Whitman’s nationalism.

        And there was Edward Bellamy whose politics became so popular because it harkened back to Civil War nationalism.

  22. Yusef drives a Kia

    Politicians suck,
    across the spectrum,
    and all deserve,
    a torn up rectum,

  23. BakedPenguin

    So anyone – Frank’s, Crystal, or Rooster hot sauce?

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Tapatio

    • Gustave Lytton

      Crystal.

      What’s the question?

    • Heroic Mulatto

      Matouk’s or get the fuck out.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Louisiana, not too hot and not too not hot.

      • BakedPenguin

        Thx, guys. I’ll try ’em if I can find em.

    • Rhywun

      Usually Frank’s. Current bottle is Texas Pete, also good. Rooster is too hot for my taste.

      • egould310

        Frank’s and Texas Pete, yeah. Crystal is delicious. So is Rooster. Hell, I’ve got em all in my fridge. Along with Tapatio, Tabasco, and Sriracha. I need to make fried chicken tomorrow.

    • Sean

      Trader Joe’s habanero or Nando’s hot Peri Peri.

  24. commodious spittoon

    Ignorant opinion from someone half-listening to the newish Joker movie…

    Youth is no longer sufficiently appealing for our loathsome culture. We don’t immediately approbate the young like we used to. Too many of them end up being closet shitlords. No, mental illness is the new hotness. We used to adore the insipid thoughts of the young, now we love the feral.

    Doesn’t quite line up chronologically with the Greta syndrome, but that’s all I get out of this movie.

    • Winston

      You know who else thought our culture is loathsome?

      mental illness is the new hotness

      Where is my trigger warning! Don’t be so violent!

    • straffinrun

      There was a cautionary tale we should’ve listened to: Hikikomori.

      • straffinrun

        Just to be clear. Hikikomori is a condition where socially withdrawn youths aged 12–30 years isolated at home for 3–6 months or more, may experience distress, impaired daily functioning, or psychiatric comorbidity.

        And for many of these people, the effects last a lifetime. I’ve actually met a few guys who used to be hikikomori and they were socially awkward to say the least and they were the ones that “overcame” the problem. We’re going to see a lot of this stuff in the West thanks to the lock downs and fear mongering.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        It’s not everywhere, it’s what the media tells you, in real America, life goes on,
        except for Cali, Mich, and Ny

      • straffinrun

        I’m just saying that it’s not hard to break people who are already weak to start with. Telling coddled kids that death is waiting for them outside is going to have serious psychological consequences.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        true

      • egould310

        That’s why they should listen to music like Nick Cave/Gun Club/Scratch Acid. Who gives a fuck about dying? It’s all boring and pointless and stupid, anyway. https://youtu.be/drvhfJIrM88

  25. straffinrun

    Thanks for the pix, Yusef. Hoping to be able to get out camping a few times this summer.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Thank You Straff, the outdoors is always a good place to be, go enjoy some!

      • straffinrun

        Definitely. We have a nice wooded bicycle trail near our house. About 10 miles round trip. I took my kid on a bike ride every day in the afternoon while school was shut down. You can instantly see the difference in attitude when she got out of the house.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Cool,
        plants and birds and rocks and things,

      • C. Anacreon

        there was sand and hills and rings
        The ocean is a desert with it’s life underground
        And a perfect disguise above

    • Tres Cool
    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Fuck Shit Up! not even Antifa!
      Tall Cans in the Air!
      Riot the unbeatable High!

    • straffinrun

      Maybe. Wondering how the empire will strike back.

    • RAHeinlein

      I honestly understand hitting the precinct. Burning an Autozone, looting a Target I don’t get – and it wasn’t just a few individuals.

      • RAHeinlein

        Thank you!

      • Gustave Lytton

        Ditto!

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        I don’t want to go Tits up…

      • Digby recommends Crelm toothpaste

        Beware the chickenshit brigade!
        Riley Vent
        @RileyVent
        Face with tears of joy They’re too scared to go “stand guard” in front of Target.

        So, this candy-ass is either OK with what’s going on at Target, et al, or, too scared to take action himself. By his various replies, he sure is a fan of crying.

        Something tells me that he eschews pornhub in favor of episodes of Oz.

      • straffinrun

        I’ve seen this movie before.

      • Digby recommends Crelm toothpaste

        “DIE, cop-pumper!”

      • Viking1865

        Fucking awesome. Best part was, if you go in the comments, theres like four or five people going YEAH BUT IMAGINE IF THEY WERE BLACK GUYS WITH RIFLES.

        There are two black guys with rifles literally in the fucking video. Peak NPC.

      • Digby recommends Crelm toothpaste

        Twitter’s motto: People are fucking idiots.

    • slumbrew

      Can’t argue with that mountain of evidence.

    • LJW

      You bastards!

    • LemonGrenade

      lol. love it.

    • Digby recommends Crelm toothpaste

      /What did he say?

      • Gustave Lytton

        Couldn’t hear it.

    • salted earth

      Speech is violence.
      With the magic of science, it has finally been proven.

    • Brochettaward

      Trump’s attacks on Cruz were probably the most entertaining in US history.

    • C. Anacreon

      I’m impressed in the replies how many English majors are now experts in microbiology and epidemiology. Wear a mask! 25% of those infected are asymptomatic! (Actually it’s probably much higher than that).

      Here’s a great way to live: just do what the mainstream media tells you to do. Never question, even if the message has changed 180 degrees overnight. Roundly denounce anyone with the slightest difference of opinion as an idiot. You are now part of our nation’s intelligentsia!

      • Chafed

        Finally someone who gets it.

    • straffinrun

      That mug shot. Yeesh.

      • Digby recommends Crelm toothpaste

        That was some party! Not one that I would ever want to attend, mind you.

      • Chafed

        How dare you talk that way of our fine upstanding citizen.

      • Digby recommends Crelm toothpaste

        upstanding citizen

        Uh, well….not exactly standing up any more.

    • Digby recommends Crelm toothpaste

      The Leatherface of Justice!

    • Mojeaux

      You win the internet today.

      • straffinrun

        You’ve been on Twitter since 2008? And you got ton of followers. I’m not catching you ever. Pretty sure I’m ending my experiment on there tomorrow.

    • Gustave Lytton

      *looks at garage*

      I guess I’m doing it wrong.

  26. SUPREME OVERLORD trshmnstr

    After living in the boonies for the last 7ish years, spending a few days in a suburban townhome neighborhood has been eye opening. Constant noise from one neighbor or another. People aimlessly walking around. I already witnessed the HOA gestapo yell at some lady because her kid was carrying a nerf gun around the neighborhood “menacingly”. Thankfully we don’t have to stay here, specifically, but I don’t know how I’m gonna survive the next couple years in a subdivision.

    • Digby recommends Crelm toothpaste

      I just gotta know where in the ‘plex this is.

      • Digby recommends Crelm toothpaste

        Ah! Sad, that. Of course, it could be anywhere assholes with a modicum of $ congregate. But, the McKinney I’m used to was much more mind-your-business than that.

        Also, you ain’t so far away from a few of us in that area–will you be up for glib-ups at some point?

      • SUPREME OVERLORD trshmnstr

        We just signed a lease for a place in Frisco, and we move in next week. I’m all for a Glib meet up!

      • Digby recommends Crelm toothpaste

        Hell, you’re next door to me! I’m in The Colony.

    • straffinrun

      *Ploink* off her forehead. What I’d have done as a kid.

      • SUPREME OVERLORD trshmnstr

        It’s an old masshole guy who is the perfect stereotype of an overbearing neighbor. The kind of person who shows up at your party uninvited and stays after everybody leaves because they want to talk to you about something. The exact type of asshole attracted to the HOA

      • straffinrun

        Kids used to fuck with old man Wozniak because he’d yell at us from his porch. His car would be pounded with snowballs from up on the hill as he pulled into the driveway at night. Vigilantism in a kinder time.

      • Digby recommends Crelm toothpaste

        “And, that boy grew up to be….straffinrun! And, now you know.”

      • Gustave Lytton

        Poor Woz. Forever overshadowed by Jobs and now harassed by neighborhood kids.

      • Digby recommends Crelm toothpaste

        ^This!

    • Tejicano

      Anybody who can be “menaced” by a Nerf gun is too soft to live in this world.

      • Digby recommends Crelm toothpaste

        LOOK OUT–HE’S GOT A BRIGHTLY-COLORED, VAGUELY GUN-SHAPED OBJECT IN HIS PRE-TEEN HANDS!!!

        On second thought, even in Texas, the kids kinda lucky to still be alive.

    • LJW

      A Nerf gun? I must be lucky ,our HOA is lax. A few months ago I was doing yard work looked over and my neighbor was on his deck adjusting the scope on his new AR. Didn’t cross my mind that in most other neighborhoods the police would be storming his house.

    • R C Dean

      Yeah, there’s a reason I live at the end of road.

      • dbleagle

        Hopefully your back line is the Tonto NF as well.

      • R C Dean

        Not quite. As the crow flies, we’re probably 400 yards from the national forest.

    • Digby recommends Crelm toothpaste

      Oooh…stupid games, stupid prizes!

    • Digby recommends Crelm toothpaste

      It would be really interesting if the cops revived the guy, and made sure he got on an ambulance and transported safely.

      A black guy saved by the local cops… Of course, they are trying to revive him in the video. But, I doubt they get any credit for the attempt.

  27. Sean

    Fuck these local reporters doing their on air bits wearing face masks. They are not standing near anyone. They look like fucking clowns and sound ridiculous.

    • Festus

      Outstanding work, Diggy!

  28. Festus

    Mornin, Mornin Glibs! Superhappyfuntime at work last night as we had a “white powder incident” on the parcel line about five minutes after I showed up. Everyone banished to the lunch room for two hours whilst the Authorateez investigated. Two fire trucks, cops and an ambulance on standby. At least nobody got decontaminated this time. Everyone maintaining social distance up there but never on the floor. I had my phone but forgot my readers in the truck so that sucked. One bright spot – Xehi told us about receiving a mysterious used condom in the mail from England yesterday. The message simply stated, “Hope you enjoy!” It was sent to her location but her name was not on it. There was no return address on the package but British postmarks. She just recently bought the house so maybe the former owners were kinky? I dunno. She took it to the cops and was told that they would just throw it away so for some reason she brought it into work and showed it to the supervisor. It was a pretty funny story when told by a tiny Asian girl with a pronounced accent. I told her she should mount it in a shadowbox frame and hang it over the fireplace mantle.

    • Gender Traitor

      So did the white powder turn out to be black market bread flour?

      • Gender Traitor

        Ooh! The hard stuff!

      • Festus

        It’s invariably flour. Stupid 2001 Anthrax scare… WHO THE FUCK MAILS FLOUR? The FD and PD have had quite enough of the Canada Post Karens. Jesus, with the amount of weed being shipped now the warehouse smells like Tommy Chong’s greenhouse.

    • Sean

      Mornin’

      • Gender Traitor

        Mornin’, Sean.

  29. UnCivilServant

    I need a vacation.

    Hell I’m supposed to be on vacation.

    By now I’m supposed to be around Flagstaff visiting Meteor Crater and the Grand Canyon.

    • Gender Traitor

      That sucks. Will you be able to hit the same itinerary in November? (That IS when you’ve rescheduled, is it not?)

      • UnCivilServant

        I’ll be on a different one since I’ll be driving it alone, so I can visit Glibs, and leave a few spots for next spring when the official rescheduling has been set.

      • UnCivilServant

        The current draft itenery for November is:
        Home – Mid Ohio Sunday Nov 15
        Visit Monday 16th
        Ohio-Memphis Tues 17.
        Memphis Grapvine Tx Wednesday 18
        Visit Dalla-Waco area Thu 19
        Grapevine – Roswell Friday 20
        Visit Roswell Saturday 21
        Roswell-Williams by way of Pie Town Sunday 22
        Visit Grand Canyon Monday 23
        Williams – Vegas Tues 24
        Loiter around Vegas a few days
        Vegas – Phoenix Saturday 28
        Visit Glibs Sunday 29
        Phoenix – Santa Fe Mon 30
        Santa Fe – Dodge City Tues Dec 1
        Dodge City – Joplin Wed 2
        Joplin – Indianapolis Thu 3
        Indianapolis – Erie Friday 4
        Erie – My Mother’s House Sat 5
        Then on to my house.

      • Festus

        That’s a hell of a stretch! One time Wifey and I set out on an adventure through the southern end of our Province and took the long way around. B.C. is bigger in person than on the maps. Those nice lines on the maps are just an approximation when you drive two thousand miles through the mountains. Exhausting but worth it.

      • UnCivilServant

        If I don’t burn several weeks of vacation (three or four) this year I’ll be risking losing some at the start of the next fiscal year.

      • Festus

        *sniffs* Government worker!

      • Fourscore

        We drove around the Great Lakes one fall. No time constraints, New England was absolutely gorgeous in the northern parts.

      • Fourscore

        You are certainly well organized, UCS. Not too much time in between to visit Pioneer museums along the way. A lot of driving and a short time to get there.

        Be flexible. Probably not a good idea to visit Mpls for a few days right now.

        All TC Glibs: Stay safe

      • UnCivilServant

        I make so many stops because I have a cap on daily driving time.

    • Festus

      Sorry. I thought that was later in the year. Park shut-downs?

      • UnCivilServant

        And state shut downs. It’s a little hard to stay at a hotel that is closed by dictatorial fiat.

      • Festus

        Understood. I’m flirting with the idea of RV life in a few years.

    • Nephilium

      I know the feeling.

      The part that’s pissing me off now is that I don’t know when things are going to re-open, so I can’t really plan any replacement vacations yet. As Europe and Vegas were both cancelled, right now the preliminary planning is either for a road trip up through New England, a trip to Japan (flights are cheap there right now), or finally biking the GAP. Of course, I’ve got enough vacation time to burn through this year, I may be able to get two of them in.

      • Tejicano

        日本へいらっしゃい!

      • UnCivilServant

        If you do wander if my way, stop by and say Hi. I’ll try to find someplace worth recommending.

      • Festus

        They’ve stolen your future! HOW DARE THEY!?!?!? In all seriousness, that sucks, Friend.

      • Nephilium

        This year the company I work for also changed the vacation policy. Previously, we accrued hours, and could roll over 1.5x our annual accrual to the next year. Now, they’ve gone to a guideline for annual vacations, no rollover, and any accrued hours must be used (or lost) by the end of the year. Since I had been accruing hours for the trip to Europe, I’ve got ~6 weeks of vacation that need to get burned this year.

      • Festus

        Like they say in the restaurant biz, “Timing is everything!”

  30. UnCivilServant

    Sometimes I’m sickened by the official communications I get.

    This one is looking for volunteers to be contact tracers.

    • Festus

      I’ll bet you get a cool decoder ring and badge, though.

    • Gender Traitor

      Only if you could somehow subvert the process by making stuff up…and avoid risking your day job.

      • Fourscore

        Stealth census taker. Phone book and a pen and some refreshments

      • Festus

        I.P. Nightly, Votey McVoterface?

    • Festus

      When “volunteer” becomes “voluntold” is where we cross the Rubicon.