“My boy, my beautiful boy,” Joe said, mashed bananas dribbling from his mouth.
“What, Grandpa?” Finnegan asked.
“Hi, Daddy,” Finnegan heard a voice say from behind her. She turned to see her father. “What are you doing here?” she asked coldly.
“I’m here to see my Daddy,” Hunter said.
“My boy!” Joe said and stood up slowly, wobbling, holding the desk for support. Finnegan backed away as her father rushed forward to hug the frail figure.
“You aren’t supposed to be here,” Finnegan said, taking off her apron and dropping it on the floor. She looked at the Secret Service alarm on the wall.
“He can visit anytime he wants,” Joe said, pale yellow tears forming in his eyes.
“No one saw me come in,” Hunter said to Finnegan. “I used the tunnels.”
“What tunnels?” Finnegan asked.
Joe clung to Hunter and covered him in wet, long kisses.
“The tunnels, the tunnels,” Hunter said. “There are miles of them under the White House.” He smiled and showed his crooked and rotting teeth. “That’s how I used to get in here to smoke Barry out on his bad days.”
“My boy,” Joe said again.
“Tunnels,” Finnegan said slowly, sliding toward the alarm.
“Once you get past the spider, they are pretty easy to get around in,” Hunter said. He smoothed Joe’s thin hair against his scalp and kissed his dusty head.
“The spider,” Finnegan said dourly.
“Yes, the giant spider,” Hunter said. “You answer his riddles three and you can pass.” Hunter propped Joe against the Resolute desk and caught his daughter’s hand as she slapped at the button.
“No, no,” he said, holding her against the wall, his breath thick with the sweet burning plastic smell of crack. “I’ll be going soon. I just wanted to remind Daddy about my art sale. I didn’t want him to forget to make bids and remind all his friends to do the same.”
“Launder money for you, you mean,” Finnegan said.
“So, you’re not going to take your cut?” Hunter asked. “I’ve been the bagman for this family for years now. You’re just his wetnurse.”
“You bastard,” Finnegan said hoarsely.
“We both do the dirty work,” Hunter said, kissing his daughter on her lips. “I just accept it.”
More real than reality.
Direct feed from the bugs SF planted in the White House.
Great! I needed that to distract me from two days of requirements gathering meetings.
Most powerful man in the world.
In
the
world.
Are we not going to talk about Hunter’s belt in that picture? That is some appropriation right there.
Also, I’m interested to find out what the Hat and Hair are up to in this universe.
Also, I’m pretty sure that picture was taken at a Sears photo gallery as a Going Out Of Business sale.
After that picture, Hunter put on his sombrero and strode back into the sun. I can assume that based on the belt.
He got it off Tom Laughlin’s corpse?
Those last lines gave me the sensation of a small but heavy stone landing in my stomach. Such is the hyperreality of the times we live.
Huh. I didn’t know SF had connections in the White House.
You would think the national security ops would’ve swept up his bugs, wouldn’t you?
Prolly thought they were CCP bugs, which are off-limits.
No doubt the markings from the Ancient Ones look like Chinese.
That was clever of SF to mark them “Property of CCP”.
Vice President Joe Biden, granddaughter Finnegan Biden, Dylan Locke, U.S. Ambassador Gary Locke, Mona Locke, and Hunter Biden sample tea during a traditional tea tasting ceremony, at Liu Xian Guan Teahouse in the Dongcheng District of Beijing, China, December 5, 2013. (Official White House Photo by David Lienemann)
Great look of confusion on Joe’s face here. ‘Do I d-d-d-drink the tea, or is it sexy nub-nub time?’
That’s sort of story is the thing that depresses me. Institutionalized and accepted corruption of flying your family with you on an overseas “official” trip. It’s a fucking vacation.
Meanwhile in chumpland, my boss questions a hotel receipt that shows double occupancy (because my wife came with me) even though there was no additional charge for a second person and cost to the company really was zero.
Oh, you know how the private sector is, expecting results and such.
TO’G!!!!! Haven’t seen you in a while, girl! Nice to see you back.
Hey lass! Phone has been intermittently* uncooperative for the last week or so. New one is coming. I’ve missed most of you. 😉
*repairmen’s favorite word
Damned gadgets. *mumblemumblemumble*
Heh. In iPhone’s absence my teenaged iPod fired up like the VW in Sleeper. (Déja Vu is a great album; thanks to Festus for reminding me.)
I have an iPod, but my husband won it. My first mp3 player was a Rio Karma.
oops: déjà
And to think. I was worried about losing Donny and Friends. SF continues to amaze.
You’re just his wetnurse
Lol, now I need to order a new keyboard. I wonder if any of the ladies in Q’s lynx moonlight in that profession.
ANR. Adult Nursing Relationship. And yes, women who are not pregnant or recently so can be induced through regular… stimulation.
Why am I not surprised that you know this?
Tonio – the encyclopedia prurientanica!
“Encyclopedia Prurientanica” is excellent. *doffs cap*
It truly does take different strokes to move the world…
How wicked you are to tease us with an intriguing character who is offstage. I hope you will write about him in the future.
In my mind it’s just a rip-off of Willie Nelson from Aqua Teen Hunger Force.
The white house tunnrl spider seems downright pleasant compared to the Derry tunnel spider.
I was figuring it may be something like Better Off Ted’s Octochicken.
You never know what you will find in the Kennedy Sex tunnels or the Lincoln slave arena.
“He didn’t free them all.”
You got me pretty good with that one. Now I’m smiling at work and it’s just not right.
Dude – don’t you know a macguffin when one is thrown at you?
Apparently not. [pouts]
You can’t deny Hunter’s artistic genius! (It is better than I expected, but that’s not saying much)
A lawyer by profession
Well, you can’t expect art marketing to be truthful, I guess. Technically, I guess he’s license, but he ain’t practicing.
From wiki:
I’m sure MBNA had just tons of 28 year old executive vice presidents.
A lawyer by profession
So many bad lawyer jokes just hanging there, tottering on the brink.
“Biden accepted a position at the bank holding company MBNA, a major contributor to his father’s political campaigns.”
Someone at the Wiki is slacking.
Akshually, before working in Healthcare IT, worked for a company that did internet banking software and hosting. It wasn’t like this in all the banks we did business with, but in some of them everyone was a freaking VP of some flavor. I’m talking everyone.
It is a requirement of the banking regulations. Everyone who holds a position with a fiduciary duty to the bank, is a VP (or higher).. so at the financial firm I consult for, there are at least 4 different levels of VP, and then you go to “director” level (2-3 of those) .. and so on.
Entry level IT techs are Associate VP (AVP)… as far as I can tell, only tellers and custodial level don’t have titles… everyone else starts at AVP.
I’m sure the history was to have Legal, and loan officers seem “higher” as a customer relationship move, but over time the rules were set that required everyone who could affect or look at financials, PII etc needed to be VP.
Can confirm. I of all people was a VP at various financial institutions for decades (as a developer, sysadmin, tester…). In a different business now, reduced to a humble software engineer (as if I have any actual engineering skills). People seem to like titles, I don’t care as long as they pay me.
LOL that’s hilarious.
My industry is financial and I see all kinds of PII. I am a few levels below “VP”, though. I think I have to blow through “Manager” and “Director” before I hit “AVP”.
Must be specifically a bank thing.
It’s not complete garbage, but I’ve commissioned much better original work off Instagram for a few hundred bucks.
I’ve seen worse but there’s plenty better over at Deviant Art available and it’s free.
Fewer Furries and Sonic the Hedgehog fetishist in the Biden studio, a far as I know.
It looks like he paints what he sees when he’s drugged up.
Heard an art expert on the radio a while back. He put it into perspective. Said something along the lines of “Someone found a lost Picasso in a garage sale a while back and it only sold for $250k”
I don’t buy the assumption he actually painted that stuff – rather than paid an art-school kid a few hundred bucks so he could “sell” (launder) them.
Shit, you’re talking about the guy who couldn’t remember to pay the computer shop for fixing his laptop.
He’s going to pay the artist through EXPOSURE!
The art-school kid:
A Portrait Of The Artist as a Young Man
I like some of them, but not at money-laundering/influence-peddling prices.
You know who else dabbled in art?
Churchill?
Davinci?
Sloopy’s daughters?
John Wayne Gacy ?
A bunch of female extras from the series Happy Days?
Mrs. Treacher?
So that’s what a crack buzz looks like?
“You answer his riddles three and you can pass.”
What is your favorite color?
+1 Holy Grail
RGB or CMYK?
LOL
#FFEA00 or #D70040 depending on the day.
I don’t actually have a favorite color (or a favorite of just about anything) it’s all very mood dependant.
Yellow makes me happy, like “Eastbound and Down” does.
Which gamut? BT.2100?
K figured that pic was a photoshop. Not the end of the world I guess but it’d be much more normal if Hunter was a kid. Strange infantalization of adult children in that family.
I’m not what’s more disturbing, the prose or the photo.
There is a look of numb horror in his eyes. The acceptance of the role into which he was born and can never escape.
Hence all of the drugs.
Something seemed off with that expression, and I think you’ve described it perfectly.
That’s just the way they do things down in Scranton.
Can not confirm. Whatever Joe does he owns it. Scranton has enough problems without being known for weird father and son embracing.
Scranton does have a nearby Hobby Lobby. Sadly, no cunieform there. In fact, nothing I’d consider buying. The brouhaha over their lack of wokeness probably helped them immensely.
I love Hobby Lobby. I wish they’d get rid of some of their home dec sections and expand their fabric department but they have a more comprehensive inventory than Michael’s.
And while I appreciate and admire their Christian stance, I do wish they’d stop playing Muzak/soft jazz/faux pop hymns for their store music.
It’s probably better when you are not accompanied by a bored 19 year old boy.
Likely so.
My daughter wears plain tee shirts exclusively, in 3 colors: maroon, navy, and black. We buy them at Hobby Lobby. Good quality Gildan, not a lot of money, ample stock.
Mojo – That’s almost like a riff on Einstein having 7 identical suits so he’d never have to give his wardrobe any thought. Except your daughter wants some variety.
Well, she works full time and we haven’t been back to church since the lockdowns started (not that she would go), so as long as she can stock up on her favorite jeans and tee shirts, she’s happy.
If I had anywhere to go, my wardrobe would be all boho and hippie chic, nothing ever matching, swirly skirts and floaty blouses. It’d be so outrageous, I’d never be expected to match.
Yes.
“He can visit anytime he wants,” Joe said, pale yellow tears forming in his eyes.
Pale Yellow Tears? Racist!
Made me a bit queasy.
More chumpland news
https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2021/07/state-of-oregon-employees-required-to-work-in-person-during-pandemic-will-get-hazard-pay-of-up-to-1550.html
Extra money of top of already excessive pay and benefits. For doing their fucking jobs.
we got a free $500, from Covid funds, and I stated I thought we shouldn’t get it. But I still took it. What can I do? It was direct deposit.
You don’t make the rules. You don’t have to like the rules. You’re just playing the game, like all those suckers in the AL with designated hitters.
I apparently earned too much to get paid.
Don’t hate the player, hate the game.
So about $3 an hour for a minimum 480 hours? That’s crap. Is that the best the employee unions can do?
Also screw them.
In a just world, $0 an hour COVID “hazard pay” would be the best the employee unions could do.
According to my model…
“Do no harm is a core ethic for all those who care for the sick and injured. I think that physicians and, frankly, all those working in the health care system, have a fundamental obligation to patients by getting vaccinated for preventable diseases such as COVID 19,” said Audiey Kao, MD, PhD, the AMA’s vice president of ethics. Dr. Kao discussed the ethical considerations of vaccine mandates for health care workers in an episode of the “AMA COVID-19 Update” that was published last week.
COVID-19 vaccines have prevented nearly 280,000 deaths and 1.25 million hospitalizations in the U.S. according to estimates from researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.
KNEEL BEFORE SCIENCE!
I note that the big wave from last winter peaked and was receding, in normal pandemic fashion, before any meaningful number of people had been vaccinated. How they distinguish between the downslope from the natural course of a pandemic, and the steeper downslope from vaccination, is a mystery.
Looking at the UK their spike started around June 1st and peaked July 20th. US started July 1st, so maybe it peaks mid to late August?
The same way you can distinguish between natural downslope and a downslope by NPIs. Use your feelz to know what the cause is. Evidence is not needed.
They’ve got a model!
Assume the result, make the model, declare it science. It’s very technical.
“COVID-19 vaccines have prevented nearly 280,000 deaths and 1.25 million hospitalizations in the U.S. according to estimates from researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.”
How the hell do you calculate that? Some bullshit model?
Assume that the peak numbers in the pandemic would continue without the vaccine, but ignore the strong downward trends just prior and just after vaccine availability.
Just like how you separate out the natural climate variability from man-made climate change.
Assume worst case outcome without based on worst day of pandemic then calculate to best day outcome.
So easy a moron could do it.
And they do. Pretty much exclusively.
It appears a moron wrote that sentence.
“COVID-19 vaccines have prevented nearly 280,000 deaths”
The “vaccines” make you immortal? Thats… going to have some major
effects on… well… everything.
Can’t prove a negative, you say? Watch me!
Anything is possible when you pull numbers out of your ass.
+1 Miracle Day
Torchwood was crap but at least it was fun.
The plots always involved the government screwing over the people are were always resolved by trusting the government and doing wha it said.
I never could get into Torchwood.
For being someone who appears to be on the Branch Covidian side, there is still humor to be had at XKCD.
I do wonder if the author ever feels any cognitive dissonance for being a card-carrying member of the blue tribe, yet being completely aware that most of what they are told to believe is bullshit.
Richard Pryor weighs in on immortality and other tangentially related subjects (NSFW).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQqGFVONBTM
“So far, don’t nobody we know have passed the ultimate test”
In a world where Hitler won: Killing the Jews saved 90 million lives, thus killing the Slavs will save even more! #Science!
The goddamned AMA is one of the most unethical and immoral entities in our country today.
They’ve completely politicized medicine and we are all going to suffer for it.
Seems like an appropriate thread for this: Thief gets beat with a Dildo for trying to rob a sexy toy shop
Harry the Hatchet?
I believe it was a double-ended dildo, the sex toy equivalent of nunchucks.
Who comes up with those crap numbers? How would you even know what the vaccine prevented?
+ 1,000,000 jobs created or saved by X
Take the number of lives saved by feed-bags and extrapolate from there.
Gus likely didn’t panic and blow his hatch prematurely.
We conclude that electrostatic discharge is a plausible explanation for what happened at the end of Gus Grissom’s suborbital flight. Sixty years later, our findings exonerate Grissom for the loss of his spacecraft, at last putting an end to what the veteran astronaut referred to as the “hatch crap.”
https://astronomy.com/news/2021/07/did-static-electricity-blow-the-hatch-of-liberty-bell-7
So difficult to tell anything at this point, but this makes more sense than a trained test pilot panicking.
Our chief test pilot has nerves of steel. I’ve watched in-cabin video. During a potentially dangerous test he is calm and calculating. After he lands, though, he lets fly a string of curse words.
Static electricity is nothing to fuck with.
Prolly thought they were CCP bugs, which are off-limits.
“Hecho in China”
Do no harm is a core ethic for all those who care for the sick and injured.
That’s why they refused to treat all those people last year.
Somebody needs to tell the nurses unions about this core ethic. So they don’t go on strike ever again.
Hrmm… Why is the shareholder meeting in-person only? In this day and age, I should be able to attend remotely.
Wait, it’s scheduled for the day I’m supposed to be driving from Cripple Creek to Dodge city? I should get my proxy vote in then.
Why is the shareholder meeting in-person only?
It’s a trap!!
I own ten shares of the company. Unless there’s a revolt by the minor shareholders, there’s not going to be much of an impact from those votes.
To make it harder for crackpots and activists to attend, would be my guess.
Also, so that the company has and controls any recordings.
Forget the Delta COVID variant. Coming soon: prion variants
Don’t you have to eat brains to get infected?
*checks grocery list*
Whew, safe.
Unless the geniuses are doing gain of function research on prions, allowing them to propagate via different vectors such as inhalation.
The French eat some weird shit. So, I wouldn’t rule out them snacking on some research samples.
That would be terrifying. Prions are no joke, basically untreatable and 100% fatality rate with a long gestation.
Our chief test pilot has nerves of steel. I’ve watched in-cabin video. During a potentially dangerous test he is calm and calculating.
This reminds me of the thing I saw somewhere (Slate, Salon, Teen Vogue? Who gives a shit?) about “How to Know if You’re Dating a SOCIOPATH”.
The big tell? Does he remain inhumanly calm and under control in tense or dangerous situations?
What self-respecting modern woman doesn’t want a man that turns into blubbering pants-shitting incoherence in a tense or dangerous situation? Don’t you understand toxic masculinity at all?
Krybaby Kinsinger approves.
I have always had the ability to remain calm in emergencies and dangerous situations. I always thought it was a good thing because it allows me think rationally in order to reasonably address such situations. Now I guess I’m a sociopath.
I’m much the same way, but I’ve found in more recent years I get choked up during stupid movies and athletic events. It’s really weird.
My wife complains that I move too slowly in emergencies. I tell her that I’m being very deliberate in those situations and that if you see me running, you better haul ass because something is really going to shit.
Exactly how many emergencies are the two of you in that she’s been able to form that opinion?
Her definition and mine are quite different.
Tornadoes, wildfires, earthquakes, and hurricanes. Done at least one of each.
You ever listen to the cockpit radio traffic from that 777(?) that landed in the Hudson some years ago?
The pilot was dead-sticking a jumbo jet into a water landing, and his voice had all the emotional intensity you’d expect from ordering an Egg McMuffin at the drive-thru. Just amazing.
Yeah, I’ve heard it.
Tower: “Can you make to Teterboro?”
Pilot (deadpan): “Nope, we’re going to be in the Hudson.”
A320.
https://youtu.be/pWpSAfF6elI
The dialog in Sully is almost word for word the actual dialog. Museum outside of CLT has the plane as a main exhibit. It’s numbing to see the damage and realize no one died that day.
https://youtu.be/_1B_gZcZScI
Both pilots were cooler than ice. Below 400AGL and dropping and still trying to relight the engines. Right up there with BA Capt Eric Moody and his crew, and many others.
I just read the Speedbird 9 article on Wikipedia. That was some nice work.
Im the same. I go into a fix-it/stop-it/get help mindset. Then when the crisis is over, I melt down.
Same here. My wife gets all pissed off when I tell her to calm down. As if that’s ever bad advice.
Calm Down !
* “Urban” lyrics likely NSFW. Unless you work for Def Jam.
Back in college, I was an expediter at a restaurant and later ended up doing logistics for around a decade. I am fine under pressure. It’s when there isn’t any that I will fuck up rather severely.
And, why yes, I am a procrastinator.
That picture is more fucked up than the prose.
…his breath thick with the sweet burning plastic smell of crack.
Great line.
Why not both?
Hunter’s face in that picture screams HELP ME
I happen to know what crack smoke smells like—and that description is just about perfect.
*opens RFP response to evaluate by monday*
*sees 1300+ pages*
*weeps softly*
Pssst – your bosses already know who is supposed to win. Find out and then pick out some highlights to help justify it. You will have done your part.
No, I have to put together answers to questions the stakeholder representatives have put together and make it good enough that I can keep moving up (since the technical tract ends at my title grade.)
So… I’m gonna guess that this must be racist, right?
It’s definitely funny.
You can’t be racist against Lebron James, he has privilege and power.
Only wypipo have privilege and power.
Don’t you even CRT brah?
I’ve excerpted the article but this is absolutely worth reading. The short summary is the narrow immunity to the S-protein provided by the vaccines is driving the evolutionary selection cycle of the COVID virus now. Each new variant will therefore be more resistant to the vaccines in current usage. It is not the non-vaccinated that are providing the pool of virus that is mutating. This is directly opposed to the current political messaging which blames the non-vaccinated for the delta variant.
https://www.geertvandenbossche.org/post/the-chicken-and-egg-problem-which-came-first
So obviously the solution is an actual hard lockdown with zero contact with other people and forcibly vaccinate everyone before additional variants can arise in unvaccinated Petri dishes and spread unchecked.
It would seem that the CDC is recognizing this as they’re calling for masks among the vaccinated. Their problem is that they cannot admit that they’ve created the variant storm with their vaccination policy, so they’re going to shift blame to the unvaccinated in an explicitly evil propaganda campaign.
Forcing the vaccinated into masks is also a way to get the vaccinated to make unreasonable demands against against the unvaccinated and the government will be only too happy to oblige.
Whoops, which is sort of what you said. Nevermind…
Fuck Edward Jenner.
No necrophilia man, not cool.
So it’s Trump’s fault. Or it would have been if the current administration hadn’t plotted to take full credit for the vaccine rollout.
It’s that evil little man Fauci’s fault. He’s supposed to be the expert, him and Francis Collins.
Customer waited a month to get an appointment with my wife. Wife confirms last night the time today. Lady isnt home so wife snapped a photo that she was there and moved on.
Now customer is begging her to ‘squeeze her in’ sorry lady.
You’re Winston’s dad?
Aw, don’t let the dog suffer just because owner is an eejit. Signed, a groomer client (er, my mom is, anyway).
Mrs. Dean is keeping one of her in-home personal training clients mostly because she feels bad for their dog. She’s the only normal interaction the dog gets, and the only one who has any clue how to train it.
I was musing recently about how many dogs must live in quiet desperation. Gee, don’t I liven up the place.
Is the customer offering monetary incentive for special treatment / compensation for wasted time, or is she just asking for a favor?
As already mentioned on multiple occasions, molecular epidemiologist have shown that population-level S protein-directed immune pressure is now driving the propagation of variants that are increasingly evolving mutations enabling resistance to S-specific antibodies (as now massively induced by the ongoing vaccination campaigns). As more infectious variants bind to the cellular Ace-2 receptor with enhanced binding strength, the Ace-2 receptor more readily outcompetes S-specific antibodies for binding to these variants. Consequently, these variants gain a competitive advantage when replicating in individuals who exert strong S-directed immune pressure on the virus (i.e., in vaccinees!), especially upon incorporating additional mutations (within the RBD) that prevent direct binding of S-specific vaccinal antibodies.
This is the sort of thing you’d expect them to know from gain-of-function research.
We should throw some money at that. I know a lab that’s set up perfectly for that sort of thing.
They know it, it’s just not politically useful.
Hunter’s eyes are definitely saying “I fucked Jill too.”
He tried, but he couldn’t keep it up once he found out it wasn’t actually incest.
https://youtu.be/POdiyhIgZuc
Nice! I have not even thought about that album in eons.
It’s the sort of album title that would make a lasting impression on a yute.
NHL free agency is as busy as I’ve ever seen it. After 2 hours:
2020
Contracts: 22
Contract Years: 41
Cap Hit: $40M
Contract Dollars: $94M
2021
Contracts: 60
Contract Years: 136
Cap Hit: $140M
Contract Dollars: $405M
And yet all the Rangers are doing is signing a couple of back-of-the-roster goonish defensemen. Between that and giving Buchnevich away to the Blues for next to nothing, I am more than underwhelmed.
They fired JD and Gorton so Drury could do this?
something something “rebuilding”
I wonder how many more years they can get away with milking that excuse ?
Surprised the Blackhawks have been so active.
Me too. They’ve made some improvements, and if that doesn’t work, I predict a change in coaches.
Well, the city just added a weekly test option to avoid getting the shot. I expect they will also allow the vaxxed to ditch the mask and force me to wear one as a sorta badge of defiance. Literally last week they were merely requesting that we inform them of our vaccine status. The news story says there was an uptick from 34 to 110 new cases of covid among city workers. There’s about 50,000 city employees in L.A. I expect to be punished in every way they can come up with. Still not getting any shots. And, I’m not lying to anyone about it.
To continue from last thread… I’m lucky that I work for myself, but my husband is not so lucky and he will be going on site at least 2 days a week. He works for a big bank. They haven’t said a word about masks or vax or tests yet, so we will see.
Well, the stench of bipartisanship is in the air again.
The Dems still have one reconciliation bill they can put through this session. The Repubs caving on this deal clears the way for them to ram through the $3.5TT “infrastructure” bill, which will look like a Christmas tree covered in Leftist ornaments, without a single Republican vote. Nobody plays Loyal Opposition better than the Repubs. I just wish they were loyal to Americans, rather than the Democrat Party.
Fuck.
A bipartisan group of senators
Any time I see those words, I get a sharp stabbing pain in my ass.
So Mr. Mojeaux and I were going to go to ZZTop/Willie Nelson. I didn’t want to go because I don’t like ZZTop and I despise Willie Nelson, but it was on a Sunday and none of his dudebropals would go.
Probably don’t have to worry about it now. Rusty Hill died.
I don’t like ZZTop and I despise Willie Nelson
*recoils in shock*
Rusty Hill died.
Well, damn.
Dusty, not rusty
Crap!
Aw, heck. 🙁 ?
That sucks, I’m a fan. You probably dodged a bullet though, if you don’t like them. They are very, very loud in person.
Well, they were lawn seats, which I would have been okay with if we were allowed to bring lawn chairs, but you could bring nothing bigger than a beach towel. No tarps or blankets.
That sounds like a fun concert to me. But I get it, not everybody is a fan. Good on Moje for agreeing to go anyway.
He was looking forward to it and I didn’t want him to go alone because that’s just sad.
I once sat through a 10,000 maniacs concert for the same reason.
No? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VQ_Wqtnlv4U
OK with me if not.
Yeah, that’s her.
Sorry to hear that. No particular dog on my end.
(Had never seen the video until just now. Late ’90s NY–!)
I have that album, and I like it.
Thanks.
I miss a lot about the 90s, but grunge is one aspect I don’t (Nirvana is cool, mostly cuz of the cellos).
Bummer. I’m a Texas and although I wasn’t a big fan I still had a lot of respect for them. Just watched the Nextflix documentary on them a few weeks ago, it was interesting and made me think Frank Beard would die first (dude loves his drugs.)
Texan. I’m not a state. shit
Your ass is so fat it’s got multiple zip codes.
*Makes sure web cam is off…
Nu-uh.
Fun fact- Frank Beard was the one that didnt have a….beard.
RIP Dusty
/questionably racist but likely factually accurate
Good Call!
Whoops. Don’t they know that the crime is supposed to be confined to certain areas where the tourists aren’t in?
https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2021/07/out-of-town-visitor-chased-stabbed-in-portlands-old-town-neighborhood.html
Just days after trying to get people to think downtown is safe. (Although Old Town/Chinatown has been a dangerous bum filled cesspool ever since I can remember. I’d never stay at a “hotel” there.)
Critics Pounce on Naomi Osaka After Loss, Denting Japan’s Claim to Diversity
1. It would appear that both Republicans and now Japanese can “pounce”.
2. I speak more Japanese than Osaka. And I’d lay down big bucks that our own straff is more culturally integrated.
3. The NYT, bastion of policing the English language for any slight use the word “hafu” in the article repeatedly without ever explaining its meaning. More properly it’s “haafu” and it’s derived from the English for “half”. It’s used fairly widely in Japan for people of mixed race, but it most certainly doesn’t have universal acceptance there by people of mixed race.
I’m sure they’ll get absolutely zero shit for any of this.
She didn’t withdraw this time?
No, but the Japanese who value mental toughness gave her a bunch of shit for that and were naturally castigated by the NYT in the above article.
I get that mental health stigma is an issue both there and here, but if you’re an athlete that’s part of what you get paid and sponsored to overcome.
It didn’t help that she handled it really badly. If she had withdrawn before the start of the French Open, it would be a lot easier to have sympathy for her, but saying she wasn’t going to do the press conferences for vague “mental health” reasons smacked of being self-serving.
And I don’t think I heard any of the commentators ask how much the press themselves contributed to Osaka’s parlous mental health.
Lost to the 2019 French Open runner-up.
Ash Barty’s loss was more surprising, but the sports commentators can’t pounce on that.
This poor delicate wallflower female athlete narrative is driving me bonkers. Whether or not Biles made the right decision to pull out, she’s not a fucking hero… It was not an “admirable” decision. Whether or not Osaka’s meltdown was understandable given her mental challenges doesn’t make her some hero or brave person deserving of lighting the Olympic torch.
Mental toughness. Battle through the fucking fee-fees. If you’re not feeling it, own up to the fact that you’re not prepared and stay at home.
On the one hand, Biles is a Nassar victim, her brother (?) was on trial for (?) murder, she’s got the pressure of doing the biggest tricks, the GOAT stuff. It’s a little more than most athletes face. On the other hand, there are photos of her relaxing at home, and ooh look at the dress she chose, or she swears by this makeup/water bottle/etc. All that exposure, yeah that’s from a paid publicist.
So, I don’t see this as brave, but I also don’t think she’s a selfish sociopath. It’s sports, a game. I’m just not that invested.
There is a soccer goalie who played for NYC a few years back who claimed the nationality of “Puerto Rico”. He had never been there, had no relatives there, no relation whatsoever. It was just some loophole he figured out in order to get more exposure than he would have otherwise.
That stuff is rampant in soccer but usually there’s a grandparent or something you can use to claim a nationality.
I actually don’t begrudge Osaka playing for Japan. She’s going to get way more sponsorship money there than playing as a US citizen.
Where it got interesting was that Japan doesn’t allow dual citizenship. She has to renounce her US citizenship. Naturally this was problematic at the time and the problem was the US…. Of course.
Half of all Americans seem to be renouncing their citizenship without even leaving.
The overwhelming favorite in the pole vault, Armand Duplantis, was born in Louisiana, but because his mom is a Swedish citizen, he had a choice of which country to represent. He openly chose Sweden because their qualification isn’t based solely on one event the way the US Olympic Trials are.
The Gold Cup (North America’s Champions League) is funny because most of the teams from those little countries in the Caribbean (plus a few that aren’t even countries) are staffed with Americans. At what point does the team from, say, Antigua cease to be representing Antigua when none of them live or work there.
https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/pennsylvania/no-mask-mandate-but-pennsylvania-urged-to-follow-guidance/article_5c87831a-efa1-11eb-9311-3f919438d995.html
So gracious of him. 🙄
If you want more good behavior you should reward it. He’s a prick but that’s a good thing.
Didn’t we vote on a resolution to severely curtail the governor’s emergency powers?
Is he not considering a mandate because he doesn’t have the authority to order it? Does his administration still have the authority to order masking in schools?
Or is this just empty PR, somebody saying they won’t do something they can’t do anyway?
Yes, yes we did.
Good. Hopefully Ralphie Blackface will follow suit.
Our Austin and Santa Clara offices are masking again.
Hopefully Andy can fudge the numbers low enough so we don’t have to.
JFC!!!!