Well, this week actually has a couple of things going on. To begin with, the week begins under the construction of Mercury – Sol – Luna with Mars in opposition. Now since both the moon and Mercury are supreme sources of instability, when they’re lined up together and empowered by the sun, there should be chaos aplenty. Mars in opposition shows that such chaos is a reaction to/against or a consequence of, brute force. Picture Kevin Bacon shouting “All is Well!” or various Python sketches. Now that is my first reading of the sign, and the one you should conisder primary since I have a highly developed confirmation bias sensitivity to the astral vibrations but honesty forces me to admit that there is a slight chance that this indicates the horrific situation of an army invading a city but failing to secure it. But that’s probably not what’s going to happen. That arrangement could also be indicative of a “battle of the sexes” comedy in which the distaff half comes out on top.
Saturday is a much less ambiguous sign — The Sun aligned with both Mercury and Venus indicates that it’s the perfect time for a date night
Aries begins to come down off of its high this week, losing Venus to Taurus. Said Taurus indicates that this week patience is counseled when dealing with lovers. The moon is in Cancer, so you should probably get that spot checked out. And in good news/bad news, Friday should see a sharp dropoff in the amount of backstabbery you have to deal with though any opposition you face will be much more difficult to discern as Mars moved from Gemini to Cancer.
The cards are saying that this is going to be a big week, with some very bad decisions made.
Aries: Blank – No guidance for you!
Taurus: 6 of Wands – Victory, great news, hope
Gemini: 2 of Coins – Gaiety, recreation and its connections, as news and messages in writing, as obstacles, agitation, trouble, embroilment
Cancer: Judgement reversed – Weakness, pusillanimity, simplicity, deliberation, decision, sentence.
Leo: Ace of Swords reversed – Excess in everything with disastrous results
Virgo: The Empress reversed – Light, truth, the unravelling of involved matters, public rejoicings, vacillation.
Libra: The Devil reversed – Evil, fatality, weakness, pettiness, blindness.
Scorpio: King of Cups – Fair man, man of business, law, or divinity; responsible, equity, art and science, including those who profess science, law and art; creative intelligence
Sagittarius: The Wheel of Fortune – Destiny, fortune, success, elevation, luck, felicity
Capricorn: Justice reversed – Law in all its departments, legal complications, bigotry, bias, excessive severity.
Aquarius: 7 of Coins – Money, business, barter, altercation, quarrels, innocence, ingenuity, purgation
Pisces: 5 of Cups – Loss but something remains , inheritance, patrimony, transmission, but not corresponding to expectations
I don’t get it.
Trigger warning: stale joke incoming
You’d stand a better chance of getting it if you were wearing your Firsting Gloves.
I don’t get it.
I don’t own any such apparel.
“The Devil reversed – Evil, fatality, weakness, pettiness, blindness.”
Wow. I wonder who’s dying?
Sounds more like a long game of Mortal Kombat.
Not me, I hope.
Well, it looks as if I may finally meet Tres, so…
Ummm…never mind…
Sagittarius: The Wheel of Fortune – Destiny, fortune, success, elevation, luck, felicity
Huh.
I’ll believe it when I see it.
The cards are saying that this is going to be a big week, with some very bad decisions made.
Yesss!
Eh, you know.
This is a badass cover. But, I don’t support the cause. If you’re a rock star and concerned for the livelihood of roadies, either pay them out of pocket or go on tour, don’t beg me to pay them to do nothing.
This.
Agreed. And shouldn’t this be the cover song?
https://youtu.be/8y7105u0-94
That’s what I thought it’d be.
Apropos of nothing, Lemmy was a roadie for Psychedelic hard rock band Hawkwind in the early 70’s.
My favorite cover by Motorhead. It has became a weekend tradition to listen to it.
Flashback to ’91
Is the great news that my fucked up feet are MS or that they’re not?
What would you like the reason to be? You need not answer.
I’d prefer that it’s something that is my fault.
And reversible. I wish upon you a nutrient deficiency.
Meh, if it’s something I’ve done, I’ll deal with the consequences. I know the choices I made and why I made them.
Relevant:
https://youtu.be/DW4xBditb8A
Lol
WTF?! Corey Taylor talking about Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Ma brain is sploded.
Virgo: The Empress reversed – Light, truth, the unravelling of involved matters, public rejoicings, vacillation”
Sounds portentous. I’ll settle for vacillation.
https://twitter.com/MickeyBlowtorch/status/1383562882865000448
That looks horrible.
When I went to see Black and Blue in 1981, well it’s a long story. My stepdad stole all my money and my mom made him give me back exactly enough to buy two tickets. I promised my brother that I’d buy him a ticket. As I was walking to buy them, I ran into the hottest chick from my elementary school. I told her where I was going and she said, ” That’s so cool! I want to go so bad, but I don’t have anyone to take me. I wish I was your brother” etc, etc. I kept my promise and tried to get her to hang out some other time. Anyway, the deal was that I come up with tickets and he supplies the drugs/booze. When the day comes, he shows up with two crosstops and about 10 bucks for booze. I was pissed, but whatever. SO we hitchhike to Ventura and he goes into the liqour store where they would sell to us minors. I waited outside. After a while he comes out with a vodka bottle that was white like milk! He had a hangover so he bought vodka and filled it half way with fucking milk. Now I was really pissed. I got even more pissed the next day. The concert was violent and chaotic and I lost track of my brother before it even started. The next morning, we got a collect call from my brother asking to get picked up at the jail. On the way up the radio had a news blurb that the concert was a raging success, with only ONE ARREST! In my brother’s property bag was a fucking unused ticket. He didn’t even make it in, the bastard.
Anyway, the tie in is the fucking vodka/milk. I tried to cut it down and left out much, but it still seems like.
Damn, you gots more anecdotes than Peter Ustinov. I hope you write them down or dictate them.
Re above: a Dom drinker drinks that??
Dom is pretty industrial. You’re paying for the name.
Most is far and away my least favorite major producer
Goddammit spell check, MOET!
Vodka and milk = throat punch
That aint right.
Along with motherfuckers in airports who don’t understand the concept of personal space bubbles.
So you have flown out of the lower levels of Dubai. Fed confirmed.
Excess in everything with disastrous results
I’m still going to the Pig Roast.
How long does the pig get cooked?
I’m not cooking it.
I know the people running the roast. I doubt they would undercook or overcook it.
I used to go to a pig roast every year and they put it on an electric spit and cook it low and slow until the skin spit, usually 36 hours. Which meant 36 hours of guys sitting around the bed of coals drinking beer.
Very nice.
These folks raised the pigs themselves. They also have a shooting range on their property. I have not shot at their property.
Hey, Suthern. Do you have a side gig writting for Tucker Carlson? Saw his gun conrol rant the other day and, I swear, he cribbed most of it from your posts.
He can be a bit much sometimes, but this rant was spot on.
Interesting podcast with him and Carolla the other day. He sounds a bit eccentric, and I’m not sure the laugh is phony. I knew a professional straight guy who had an Amadeus laugh.
I often wonder if I have some huge tick like this and no one will ever tell you. I know my voice can get somewhat off when I’m excited about something. I also think I can sing. Society can be way too polite.
I laugh too much, in varying volumes, for myriad reasons. Or so I’ve been told.
Whatever Kamala.
I did notice that Mikey. I may have mentioned that the day after. Yes, it was a good rant. I was a bit suspicious as he used the same language I do nearly word for word. I was very pleased. Those things need to be said to a wider audience than I have access to.
I suspect commenters like him have research teams scouring the internet for material. It wouldn’t surprise me to find out they steal material all of the time and it wouldn’t surprise me to find out they look here.
I dunno. What media professional could bear to wade through the morass of pizza debates?
and STEVE SMITH jokes.
If Tucker ends his monologue with “Also, fried chicken”, I’m sold.
What was the origin of that?
TOS, but I forgot the context.
Despite perceptions, those make up a smaller amount of comment matter than people appear to believe.
LOL
I think he is saying that he believes Lincoln was a raging racist.
This has been my horoscope for the last 55 years. Imma just start calling them “Hopelessoscpoes.”
What’s my blood type? TYPO.
I’m doing my bit to quell thirst for a hot war with Russia. So I got that going for me. Which is nice.
Otherwise the “no guidance” guidance for Aries is as useful as ever, so I’ll be charting my own course.
/salutes HS ??
Yeah, what the hell. I want my money back.
There will be a $25 processing fee for your refund of $0.
It must be paid in gold or silver.
Ugh.
The late night zoom put a serious hurtin’ on me.
I wanted to join but was so physically exhausted that I couldn’t.
Hope you had fun!
Thank you for keeping me company last night and for the sparkling, erudite conversations about first principles that in no way whatsoever would devolve into dog-rape debates.
+1 red rocket
I too am grateful that we have the courage and maturity to address these difficult subjects.
Much courage. Many strengths.
It’s our pleasure l0b0t. No man need stack shelves without the benefit of dog-rape debates. That’s just cruel.
Who was your dog raping?
Some government drone. He likes gov’t workers, go figure.
And if, after work some day, you see a Yorkie with love in his eyes and a raging hard-on, make sure you can run faster than your colleagues
I had to depart as I was cross eyed. I hope I didn’t make too big an ass of myself. My left upper glute is sore so I think I fell down at some point later when I was making mac and cheese because when you are blind drunk Kraft is your friend. All TV’s accounted for and in good shape.
You fuckin’ Neph’d and we didn’t get to see it?
What the fuuuuuuuuuck?!?!?
He didn’t BrettL, so he’s got that goin’ for him.
When I have trouble structuring a spoken word I leave. And I was bummed because as I hit the leave button I saw Straff signed in. I wanted to discuss the fact that after binge listening to Woods, Malice, and Pete R Q I am coming around to the anarchist side of the coin. but I couldn’t hold a conversation so I saved you people from that blathering nonsense.
Your blathering nonsense probably would have elevated the conversation a bit.
Three drinks and I’m done any more. I have to pack it in when my head starts to hurt. OK, last night I had a beer first but I couldn’t finish the 3rd mixed drink.
My left upper glute is sore
STEVE SMITH SORRY. HE DRUNK, TOO
Gemini: 2 of Coins – Gaiety, recreation and its connections, as news and messages in writing, as obstacles, agitation, trouble, embroilment
I just can’t even with these horoscopes.
Geminis will read a book.
For all:
First Kayaderosseras match of the season is next Sunday if anyone happens to be in the area. Unfortunately, the couple that designs the stages has decided they’re done with NY and will move to FL full time, so this will be the last season they’re running it. The guy they’re leaving the event to is a first class safety Nazi who tried to have me DQ’d for manually lowering the hammer on my Shadow 2 and told me that there HAD to be a decocker on it somewhere and I just hadn’t read the manual.
Upside: new personal best string and overall time at SCSA this morning.
So what you’re saying is, take the cannolis?
I’m actually very sad. Bill’s stages were my favorite. Most USPSA stages are just shooting locations with a target array or two at each and barriers used to separate them. Bill had a great 3D sense so that the shooters movement through the stage opened up various opportunities. And to make life easy, he always included one target that had to be shot from a single place so you could use that as a starting point to plan out how you were going to approach the stage.
During her potty breaks, Lily managed to flush a rabbit and two pairs of doves. Maybe she’s a hunting dog after all.
I’m surprised they didn’t clog your toilet.
New construction. Modern plumbing is the shit.
And for pedantry’s sake, around here they tend to be snowshoe hares rather than ‘true’ rabbits.
I’m pretty sure it was an Eastern Cottontail, but I am not a lagomorph taxonomist.
Hares are from the old world. Rabbits from the Americas. The common domestic ‘rabbit’ is actually a hare.
East of the rockies the rabbits are all cotton tails genetically. Their changing coat colors with seasons are determined not by temperature but by length of daylight hours. You can take a cotton tail from the gulf coast and cause it to change to white by manipulating the hours of light it receives.
Dont get me started on rats, mice and bats. After a dozen hours of. mammalogy one gets sick of rats, mice and bats.
Main pic is from Clockwise, isn’t it? I haven’t seen that in ages.
Old but amusing: at home with John Cleese. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_U_sba-bjhc
Cooked up diced corned beef and rice this morning. Is it fried rice or corned beef hash?
Was the rice leftover rice, and did you fry it before adding the corned beef?
Did you use a wok and MSG?
If not, why not?
Yes, slightly, no, not straight.
I think of corned beef hash as having potatoes, so I’m going with fried rice.
And it sounds tasty.
But if he didn’t make fried rice, it might not be that either.
It doesn’t sound like he made either dish.
It’s Corned Beef Gustave! A new taste sensation!
I was never a big Metallica fan. That is changing. That is some awesome.
An hour or so ago, somebody shot and killed three people, across the freeway from where I was shopping in north Austin.
Mrs Prole was freaked out that there was someone with a gun nearby.
Me: “You’re surrounded by people carrying guns. It ‘s the one person using their gun inappropriately that is the issue.”
At the Arboretum? Meh, disgruntled coder.
Grilling of meats and Vit D saturation complete. Now to finish my ramen broth. I have to
takecut up a leek and fry some mushrooms. The store had no fresh bean sprouts outside of alfalfa. Lame. Alfalfa is what you feed food.