Maybe a nap
Eating smoke for weeks on end inflames the entire body and just makes you tired. On the plus side, I can see the mountains today.
I guess a snap tsunami is just too much to ask for?
I think all of here at Glibs should apply. NASA wouldn’t know what hit ’em.
I can think of a few people that may be developmentally delayed…
This is just the first and the state is run by imbeciles.
Okey doke, that’s it for me. I’m just going to ramble on into the evening.
An all Glib NASA “Mars” mission? Make way for “Monocle One”. But our mine orphans would get awfully hungry locked up underground for a year.
My guns would miss me. Probably the gf would too.
Guns would be standard cargo. We are good
You could pack the gf in there too
Blowout or fleshlight gf sure. A real doll would be too heavy.
Blow up. @&$” autocorrect
“Blowout…gf”
He’s not shooting blanks, THAT’S for sure!
You seen this one TedS? https://trailersfromhell.com/f-p-1-doesnt-answer/
Looks like one I’ll need to get in the next order.
No I haven’t, but I see Sybille Schmitz is in the cast. She was one of the stars of the Nazi version of Titanic/.
Fascinating. The director of Nazi Titanic was killed for complaining about the soldiers he used as extras. The lady actress you mention was shunned because she worked with the Nazis and became a drug addict who killed herself at 45 y/o. It’s a wonder how such an evil group came to power in a western nation. How did so many people just stand back and watch as they ramped up the evil actions? It’s a mystery.
I’m sure they would have been cheering mandatory medical experimentation, too.
Eric Hoffer has your answer.
Climate induced drought? Tautology much?
Yes. Droughts are a new phenomenon. Never seen one until people started driving those SUVs around. Must have been what caused it, right?
Do better, humans.
I don’t think we will ever satisfy The Lightbringer ™️
Yup. Completely foreign experience for California. We’ve had centuries of steady rainfall.
/sarcasm off
The loss of power could fuel even more rolling blackouts this summer as the state grapples with a historic drought and record-breaking heat waves.
This will help Newsom’s chances.
I have no idea how much of the bay area would have to burn for the faithful to abandon him.
Mood:
https://twitter.com/the_ironsheik/status/1424070803801395210
OMG they’re using a New Order song in a Volvo commercial. #old
I remember the first time I heard a Led Zeppelin played by an orchestra as elevator music. I thought then I should probably change my floor to the basement where the hospital had their morgue.
I remember when Caddilac made a commercial with a Zep song. That was shocking.
Department store “Light My Fire”.
WTF?
My childhood piano teacher is also the organist/choir director at our church. He used to play a game with several of the priests, wherein during the meditative music following Communion, he would improvise on the theme of a popular song–usually classic rock, and the priest would have to guess what it was after the Mass. Black Dog was particularly entertaining.
Tom T’s piano teacher similarly taught TT that during communion, you could play any damn thing you wanted as long as you did so at a much slower tempo and in a minor key. TT would crack up during Mass when he figured out his teacher was playing old pop standards like “Misty.”
A friend of mind went to a (LDS) congregation whose organist would quietly play the Washington Redskins fight song during football season.
Now known as the Skins of Color.
Hey Moj, I found a drawing of your pirate queen!
https://reh.world/wp-content/gallery/stephen-fabian/cache/Agnes-de-la-Fere.jpg-nggid0270-ngg0dyn-869x1200x100-00f0w010c011r110f110r010t010.jpg
Not naked enough from the waist up.
Otherwise, quite good.
Stephen Fabian, the artist, was the go-to guy for small press SciFi and fantasy for decades. He is self-taught and while fairly prolific always seems original. He won the world fantasy award in ’08, I think.
https://www.stephenfabian.com/
She’s lovely but she’s in the wrong time period. She’s about 80-100 years too early.
Ah, gotcha. I saw that last night and immediately thought of your heroin.
Obligatory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulDC1w1ydLI
That sounds like rock and/or roll music!
I was supposed to see them with Steppenwolf, in the seventh grade, but I got arrested and they stole my tickets. Bastards.
My first concert. Buffalo Springfield was the warm-up band
You used to think that the day would never come, didn’t you?
Based on this being a TedS post, I was able to deduce this was a song lyric. I am becoming sentient!!
Since you mentioned New Order I figured you’d recognize the lyric.
I’m not a huge New Order fan. The song in the commercial was probably in their top-3 most recognizable: Blue Monday
I think True Faith is another of their most recognizable songs.
I used to dance to that song a The Library in Georgetown (DC) in 1990, I just never paid much attention to the lyrics other than “I get down on my knees and pray…”
They could have picked a better one. ?
But I guess it beats hearing the insufferable John “Legend” every other fucking commercial.
Be grateful for small favors.
Got a copy of The Federalist Papers today. Flipped to a random page and found these gems:
***
The steady operations of war against a regular and disciplined army can only be successfully conducted by a force of the same kind.
…
War, like most other things, is a science to be acquired and perfected by diligence, by perseverance, by time, and by practice.
***
Get a copy of the Anti-Federalist while you are at it. That is when reasoned people debated.
The Glenn Show is also a good source.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vy5wNDiBZCo
Sports!
Gym…beer…chorin done. Only blight on my day is a work peer of 10 years passed. Been in hospital with three VID, fully vax’d with I believe diabetes.
It’s a crap shoot, just like life but humans want something to blame I guess.
Sorry about your colleague, OBE
Sorry.
Damn. Sorry dude.
Sorry to hear that. Sometimes I get so wrapped up in fighting the evil they are doing in the name of the ‘vid, I forget that it’s real and people suffer from it too. Which is one of the many wrongs they are doing, making us all fight over bullshit while real stuff is happening.
yup
Thanks all. Yeah it was a nut punch to all of us.
My condolences, OBE.
Oh go fuck yourself. The sheds can go, I don’t give a shit – but literally the entire point of them was to let the cooties waft away on the breeze. Not to build enclosed buildings on the sidewalk.
I like outdoor dining and the city can use more of it. But not like this.
I like outdoor dining too. It only works for about four months a year here, though.
There are always shitheads that live to dream up new ways to tell everyone else what to do or how to live. We are stuck with them.
ZARDOZ has something for this.
There’s a limited temperature range where I find it enjoyable.
Indoor for me usually.
Yeah, it has to be just right for me. It does often get too hot or too cold here.
Heh, back when I worked for an NYC based company I was at a conference in Scottsdale AZ, and the organizer for the conference, from corp HQ, had the opening lunch outside. In 100* heat.
I assume it was a dry heat…..
100 in NYC is pretty much unbearable.
100 in PX is not much much fun, dry or not. It doesn’t really cool down at night at all, and wind just feels like a hair dryer. I don’t mind it out here because those two things aren’t the case. Plus, you can always go to the beach and it drops about 10 degrees.
Scottsdale is probably 5-10* cooler than Phoenix, but yeah, that would be miserable in NYC. By the way, my son lives somewhere near you, I think. Bed Stuey? maybe, I am not exactly sure.
Bedford-Stuyvesant is a few miles and a world away, yes.
https://mobile.twitter.com/Julio_Rosas11/status/1424146621038829572
Why aren’t they shooting back?
Because they weren’t able to get guns from Indiana?
https://pix11.com/news/local-news/new-jersey/hoboken-considers-proposal-to-incentivize-restaurants-bars-to-require-vaccines-for-customers/
Fuck
A handy reminder to go along with my “outdoor sheds” link above… with Blas’ decision to kill the restaurant industry, the issue of outdoor dining will become moot anyway.
What’s the prognosis under your new mayor?
I haven’t heard him say anything about this stuff. He’s mostly pushing a law’n’order message but I am pretty sure he will be a bog-standard NE Democrat when it comes to the economy and the destruction of it.
For anyone with a still-functioning liver after last night, I will guest host the Saturday Night “Live from the Web, It’s GlibZoom” starting at 20:00 Eastern.
My liver wasn’t my issue last night. The big salad I had for dinner was a YOOG mistake.
Lettuce hear about it. You get the shits?
Yeah, “big salad” sounds pretty innocuous to me.
Was your salad … tossed?
On the plus side, I can see the mountains today.
I can’t. You people need to keep your smoke to yourselves.
My brain is non-functioning, so here’s a volcano erupting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWXWqbEmWXE
(if you scroll back an hour and 1/2 or two hours, you can see the start of the eruption)
Or, just click this.
I figured drugs were erupting from the volcano’s caldera.
I’m more in this mood tonight.
What was the lawsuit over that one? And how did it turn out?
https://www.npr.org/2019/05/23/726227555/not-bitter-just-sweet-the-rolling-stones-give-royalties-to-the-verve
After more than 20 years, the Rolling Stones and The Verve have resolved a sour dispute over the authorship of the song “Bitter Sweet Symphony.” The Verve’s frontman and co-founder, Richard Ashcroft, announced on Wednesday that the situation has finally been laid to rest.
Ashcroft explained the change as he received a lifetime achievement honor — an Ivor Novello Award, a British prize for songwriting and composition. “As of last month,” Ashcroft said in comments reported by the BBC, “Mick Jagger and Keith Richards signed over all their publishing for ‘Bitter Sweet Symphony,’ which was a truly kind and magnanimous thing for them to do.” A rep for the Rolling Stones confirmed the change to NPR.
Last November, however, Ashcroft struck a clangingly different chord about the financial dispute in an interview for the Consequence of Sound podcast Kyle Meredith With…. At the time he said, “I’m coming for that money. Someone stole God-knows-how-many million dollars off me in 1997, and they’ve still got it.”
Huh……..I had no knowledge of all that.
I’m in the mood…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Si0teRtHY8o
with Bunny Raitt
Excellent!
That’s great! I saw her around 1979 or so and again after she sold out and got popular.
I’m trying to like this song, but, really, I think it’s a near miss.
This one is pretty cool.
The angel in your arms this morning,
Is gonna be the devil in someone else’s arms tonight
Alternatively, try the Barbara Mandrell country version.
Nice hair, too.
I remember the first one from when I was a kid, now that I hear it. Babs wins this round, even though mid eighties country was already pretty diluted.
That’s really cool. Love that part at the beginning where you can see the outgassing come out first and then it turns a bit pink, but it’s hard to tell if it’s just sunlight reflecting or… nope, definitely not sunlight. Then more recently where the lava flow is ripping apart that rock on the right hand side.
Mother Nature can kick our asses.
satire idea
Feminists Declare End of Major Combat Operations in War on Marriage
Feminists are pissed that trannies are uglier and less funny than even they are.
[raucous wheezing laughter]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uSTOHa4Im4
Adventures in Online Dating
Met a gal who was a former Arabic linguist in the Navy. Hell yeah!, I thought. We had plenty in common.
She gave me her number right away and told me where she’d be that weekend. When I showed up uninvited, she said “this isn’t normal”. I said “sorry, I got impatient”.
Then she calls me and I explained my ordeal in the insane asylum. She says: come back and bring cheeseburgers. I said: from where? I couldn’t get the cheeseburgers because it was late, but I came back anyway. When I got to the campground, I parked some distance away, approached slowly, and shouted ‘I come in peace!’. I did that because she and her friend said that if I tried anything funny, they’d chop me with axes.
I pitched my tent and camped with her and her friend. We drank a lot of wine. I gathered firewood and built a good fire for them. They thanked me for that.
Never heard from her again.
“I pitched my tent…”
Say no more!
Fuck ’em. There is someone else better out there for you, Derp.
As Moje demonstrated last night, a woman with an axe in her hand is probably someone you don’t wanna screw around with.
Online dating is a terrifying netherworld of crazy people, no offense.
New Wife: nine years
although that might actually prove your point?
Derpetologist is Werner Brandes.
At first, I was insulted by this remark. Then I thought that insults always hurt in proportion to their truth,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JxEG7QpCOg
That’s a bunch of mixed signals. Best to walk away.
Poor dears!. Those Republicans are such meanies.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/rebeccadowns/2021/08/07/texas-democrats-are-suing-gov-abbott-for-damaging-their-reputations-and-causing-anxiety-discomfort-and-distress-n2593768
Man, that one slow, easy pitch right over the plate.
“Texas Democrats Whine of Anxiety, Emotional Distress for Having to do Their Jobs”
I get “Internal Error” when I try to click on this link.
Meanwhile, Abbott should slam all of their asses in prison. I recommend leg-irons. After a good, stiff, high-pressure de-lousing, of course.
It works for me.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/rebeccadowns/2021/08/07/texas-democrats-are-suing-gov-abbott-for-damaging-their-reputations-and-causing-anxiety-discomfort-and-distress-n2593768
I give up. URL sez it all anyway.
Like this?
still broken
It worked for me. Perhaps the edit fairies fixed it?
#metoo
I believe a certain regular curator of links would sum it up as “The Dems are still batshit insane” or something to that effect.
is there a zoom chat? I can’t find it.
How closely did you look?
I don’t see it, looked on both pages 4 times. looked at every link that leads me to god knows where.
I tried searching the page for “zoom”.
what is search in page
Ctrl + F on your keyboard
See Comment #33 by Tonio in the previous post for the link.
Back from a neighborhood potluck. Great food, no masks or any other indicators. Friendly country folk, watching TV and living reality are totally different. I’m sure some were vaxxed, some un vaxxed and none cared about the other. About 50 people, lotsa beer and other refreshments.
Mrs F brought her fried rice, which disappeared quickly. Homemade ice cream was the finale. We were amongst the first to leave but I kind of doubt that it got any livelier than the corn hole players and the teeny practicing her baton twirling after we left. So far removed from the political fomentation we see and read every day.
I’m glad you’re getting out a bit. I actually envy you, that sounds like fun.
That sounds excellent ?
We need more of these kinds of reports to counteract the ever-flowing river of doom and gloom. Life is for living, not for bitching about the ways we can’t live it.
Absolutely
Yes, enjoy life while we can. What I worry about is will the grandkids be able to do things like this in 50 years?
Huzzah!
Nice
That’s perfect, FS.
I wish I was there.
She loves every man with pants on!
Life is better with your pants OFF!
Mrs F brought her fried rice, which disappeared quickly. Homemade ice cream was the finale. We were amongst the first to leave but I kind of doubt that it got any livelier than the corn hole players and the teeny practicing her baton twirling after we left. So far removed from the political fomentation we see and read every day.
Life as it should be lived.
My love for you is like a truck, berserker!
Hiya, Spud!
If you feel a disturbance in the Force, it’s probably me.
Blue sky, clouds and a sunset over the mountains. It’s been a couple of weeks since we’ve seen any of those.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/M8xYufrfGHXY2DRt8
Sweet.
Here’s mine
Very nice! you Too Mikey!
Seems like the smoke has dissipated here as well. Cloudy, humid, a bit of breeze from the north. Still no rain, went to southern MN instead.
We’re getting T storms off and on tonight, and maybe early morning, kinda nice for a change,
Anyone still here?
The time-zone/work difference makes it impossible to comment. I am still here! I am well (within reason) and wanted to share that. I have so many things to say to so many of you, but for now, even at this bizarre hour, I’d just like to let you guys know that I’m still alive and kicking. I’d love to get on a zoom but the time just doesn’t make sense for me. I gotta start my commute for my morning gig before 9am and then I work 3-6pm at my second gig and have to be in bed before midnight. I should have just hit ‘post’ much earlier as I know have typed out much more than is necessary.
Thank you all.
glad you’re well
I’m starting to sag on Central Time
Mostly well. Still having lots of troubles, almost all of them self-inflicted. But recovery wise, I am independent and living on my own, working two jobs, and having started from scratch, I’ve got a few thousand to my name and nothing in debt. Pretty big milestones. But I’m an idiot about a lot of it.
Want to start a band, but my big project of the day is to put out some work for an article about Cambodia, which hopefully will be interesting to folk. Been thinking about it for a while and just typing it out gives me more incentive. However, I do have a date today so….I should also keep that in mind.
You’re going to have to do better than the Dead Kennedys.
Well, the Living Evanaties doesn’t have the same ring to it…
Happy to see you’re still kickin’ it, Evan!
I’m only a time zone or two off from the average, but I still feel like I have nothing to contribute, so don’t feel bad.
Oh, and there’s *always* someone here. 😉
There always is! I hang out here reading for roughly 6 hours a day. It keeps me sane. I do not even want to write about how insane the mask mandate/culture is in Korea. And I’ve been scheduled for a vaccine! That I have no way of getting out of! That’s always great for an epileptic. Surrounded by insanity and I come here for relief, knowledge, rapport, and general good will.
It is hard to find. But I do have a date today with an old friend/perhaps more that I should attend to. How come I always end up with non-whites? I actually find it semi-curious. Indian-Canadian, South African, Indian-German….seems strange. I loved/liked all of them, but I also think it’s a distinct reality of ‘humans seeking out the Other to make their children stronger’ thingy.
Anjali. She’d like it here. I’ll see what I can do.
Go on your date! No use hanging around here with us old farts. 😉
(Plus I need my beauty sleep…)
Yes! And have fun! I’d say something about not getting younger, but you’ll always be exactly 1 Evan.
Shall!
And I love: 1 Evan>1 Alexander the Great.
Go have fun Evan! Us old farts will keep the home fires burning.
EVAN!! woot woot!
Glad to see you.
Is there an active Zoom? Apparently there is a need for glibs/human contact now…
I have a Judi that keeps feeding me THC chocolate. I think the intent is backfiring. Now I just want go golfing or split wood for about 8 hours.
I don’t think that I’ve been this body-stoned since I was about 13. I’m not too sure of this new regimen. I did put pen to paper for the first time in two decades. I felt kinda creative…
That ought to be good for some hilarity tomorrow.
is Tonio’s zoom meeting going on? I’m in the airlock apparently…
Juleigh Perona is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: Sgt Glibbers Lonely Hearts Club Band
Time: Aug 8, 2021 12:00 AM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us05web.zoom.us/j/87152612473?pwd=RnRqUEMyMmpaa25OaVhBM2x2WGgvdz09
Meeting ID: 871 5261 2473
Passcode: cxi6AT
nevermind.
Going to bed instead.
Aw. I tried.
Thank you, sweetheart.
I gave up. I’m low on the energy reserves it takes to fight for my best interests.
:[
These special chocolates have rendered me as dumb as a stick but they do speed the time awaaaaay! Now I remember why I used to smoke pot everyday in school.
I don’t think it was the chocolates that did it. :-p
Went in early, got home early. So that means- x-tra early Tall Sabbath Cans™ !
suh’ fam ?
Sup Tres! Yusef got a case of food poisoning Friday night, and I have been feeling like Deaths door for the last two days. I almost went to the ER, but was able to rest and get past it. And i’r raining like a big dog up here,
Covfefe!
limey on August 7, 2021 at 8:14 pm
Online dating is a terrifying netherworld of crazy people, no offense.
Explains why Im still with Jugsy after….nearly 8 years? To be fair, it wasnt ‘dating’. She was CL hookup and we were only going to be a 1-night stand for each other.
G_d, I miss CL personals.
TT & I concluded that the basis of our marriage – now 25 years strong – is that dating sucks.
So you & the Jugster are the world’s longest 1-night stand?
And, of course, good morning, homey and Yu and Sean and Fes (if you haven’t passed out) and whoever else may be lurking!
Howdy GT, how’s the weather? We have lot’s of thunder and rain up here, hope it ends later, I wanna play.
We had some pretty good storms come through yesterday afternoon & evening, but it’s beautiful this morning. Only 67 degrees at the moment, so we’ll see if it steams up later.
Oh it will, 83 today and after all this rain? it’s going to be a swamp later on, sticky golf anyone?
☕?
I can’t find an iced coffee emoji. ?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=X2LTL8KgKv8
?
https://www.fox29.com/news/sax-player-dennis-thomas-of-kool-the-gang-dies-at-70
Here he is,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGKiC2suCHQ
Get down, get down with your bad self, Yusef.
Love the funk!
https://www.wgal.com/article/us-postal-service-looks-into-reports-of-mail-found-in-dumpster-near-cornwall-lebanon-county/37245892
Newman!
https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2021/08/05/liberals-hate-that-you-have-rights-n2593564
Good stuff.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OiPiRKbNCWY
One more ?
Great song.
Good one for the Mornin’
Nice,
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/07/world/europe/greece-turkey-fires-ferry.html
Euro news.
So, a very good friend got me a Lumbar support for my wrecked back, when I opened it up I’m like, wut?
I RTFM to figure it out, it’s an exoskeleton! There are nylon plates in it, and the Abdominal plate is integrated, so I look like a Ninja turtle.
The test will be golf later today, and I could insert steel plates in it if I needed too, Just Say’n.
Mecha-Yusef!
Starship Trooper,
The only good disc is a ???
Got a hummingbird turf war going on at Tranq Base, so much so that I went out yesterday and bought a second feeder. It didn’t have as much color as the one I already had, so I took a red Solo cup, cut slices up the sides so I could spread it out into four “petals,” and put it over the top of the new feeder. One of the little hummers JUST figured out that it has yummy stuff in it, too. Then he came over and checked me out. No, sorry! The red hair is NOT another flower, little guy! ??
Was he related to Biden?
I keep a feeder on the front porch; the cats watch them through the window.
Yesterday I saw a green one in a cypress tree . . . new one on me.
The one I’ve seen most often – that seems to be a bit more aggressive – is gray, so maybe female. Yesterday started noticing a ruby-throated one. The new feeder has four holes, so we’ll see if others start coming out of the woodwork.
When I first saw hummingbirds it was unreal.
Are they not so common on your side of the pond?
We don’t have ’em. Only seen them on your side.