Hooray!
Happy Friday Christmas Eve to each and every one of you. The links will be abbreviated today to only upbeat news articles I find from my usual milk run of sites. Sorry, it’s how I felt this morning.
But before that, I want to let you all know how much I, and I’m sure everybody else who works (harder than me, generally) to put this place together for your enjoyment, appreciate the community of friends and associates we have here. It truly has been a blessing for almost five years to see the twists and turns that have brought us to this point. Especially seeing the creativity so many people had inside them being brought to the surface and published for us all to enjoy. I’ve laughed. I’ve cried. I’ve cringed. And I’ve woken up in a cold sweat. And that’s just from the SugarFree stuff! Seriously, though, I’m about the least eloquent of the regular writers here, so I’m in awe of the amazing content that I get to see published under the Glibs masthead. It’s one of the coolest things I could have imagined being associated with five years ago, yet here I am. The people who put this place together are an amazing gift I continue receiving every year. Thank you guys and gals who have done such amazing work.
Yes it is.
And thanks to all of you. You’re the gift that keeps on giving all year long. Like a jelly of the month club, I suppose. Your thought-provoking debate and commentary in every piece published is full of insight, humor, and generally an amazing amount of technical knowledge on the subject at hand. It’s a very eclectic group, and I smile all the time when an obscure, to me, subject is brought up and more than one person here regales us with expert knowledge on the subject at hand. I’m fortunate to be around such a well-rounded and intelligent group of people every day. And I can honestly say I learn something new pretty much every time I read the comments.
To all of you.
Also, I want to give thanks for the wonderful year I’ve had both professionally and personally. It wasn’t always pretty, but at the end of the day it’s been absolutely amazing. I’d have never been here if it weren’t for the love and support of Banjos, who helped keep us afloat as the company was getting off the ground. She had the confidence in my abilities and helped push me to persevere even when things weren’t always trending up. Without that, I’m not sure where I’d be right now professionally. And personally, I doubt there are many who have been as blessed as I’ve been to have such a great group of kids and such a loving, forgiving, appreciative, happy, supportive, and organized wife. My life is in the best place it’s ever been, and it wouldn’t be nearly as joyful without the family I’m blessed enough to have.
Here are the handful of links I could find:
Tennessee battled back from 10 points down to beat the 49ers. They needed a bounce back and I didn’t see it coming at halftime.
Good for her! I only wished she didn’t get taxed on the winnings.
Go get yourself some cheap sunglasses.
To the nut house. Which is where he belongs more than in a supermax prison.
Wait, there was water in Nevada? Sounds like the climate sure has changed since the dawn of time.
LOLOLOLOLOLOL! That’s good stuff.
OK, maybe not “upbeat”, but I wanted to post it for the sheer comedy value. This dude’s lawyer needs to get him a muzzle for Christmas.
This counts as upbeat though. Because they need the snow. Hopefully they’ll be better stewards of it than in years past.
You go, girls! I might find a reason to go there today. They’ll be open. All Chinese places are open on Christmas Eve and Christmas. It’s like a law or something.
And before I post a song, I want to wish each and every one of you a very Merry Christmas. May the blessings of the Lord be with you and your loved ones through these most festive of days.
One of my favorites! Just a classic. Also, here’s an underappreciated one. Enjoy them both.
And enjoy this lovely Christmas Eve, dear friends. And thanks for humoring me and my rambling missive today.
Large ocean fossil discovered in Nevada
George Clooney, again? Enough of these sequels.
Long after that ocean, there was a great inland sea. But no whales.
I seem to remember in the early times, contestants had to spell out the phrase on Wheel Of Fortune. Even if they got the phrase correct on the board, if they misspoke during the spelling aloud, they lost.
I think it was the other Chuck Woolery show, Scrabble, where they had to spell out the answer.
Unfortunately, I couldn’t find the clip where the contestants had difficulty spelling the word “mosquito”.
Yeah, I don’t remember that on WoF either.
I also don’t remember that you can’t hesitate between words.
I think you are correct. They all run together in a jumble in my mind. I do miss Debt though, a great concept and Wink Martindale as host.
Don’t remember that one.
A couple years back Game Show Network briefly aired Alex Trebek’s pre-Jeopardy joint and I don’t even remember what it was called but it was really neat.
Speaking of Wink I would totally watch Tic Tac Dough if they showed it. Come on GSN.
Which one? I’m assuming Double Dare, but he did a bunch.
That’s the one.
Pitfall, the show that stiffed Alex.
We watched Jeopardy season one and the game was much more intelligent and quicker.
Yeah, I haven’t watched it in a couple decades at least; it got unwatchable.
I’ve given up, Don Pardo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvUZijEuNDQ
I used to really dig Beat The Clock when we finally got two channels in 1972 or so.
All Chinese places are open on Christmas Eve and Christmas. It’s like a (((law))) or something.
Of course it is.
Alec really needs to shut up,
Covfefe! kids and merry Kringle to all!
Merry Christmas, Yusef!. Today’s covfefe is French Roast. Heavenly.
I have a few hours of work today, then more Baking of the Yum Yums,
Y’all have a Merry one Ghosty!
Whew, I read that as French TOAST coffee and was horrified. But, a second reading brought it clear. And, in a follow-up, as my wife did NOT get French Roast, she is relieved from coffee duty, and given a dishonorable discharge.
Merry Happy, Bob! I’m glad that you are my friend!
On vacation until January 2. Yay!
Sick as a dog. Boo! Hope this passes before Monday, or there will be no vacation trip for me. Also, I am relegated to sleeping in the guest room ATTM. Fuck.
Get better, damn it.
Lots of fluids, and if your stomach isn’t up to solids, plenty of soup.
I don’t know if you have access to the home King Flu test, but the ones I took were on the money.
I don’t know if you have access to the home King Flu test
Supposedly will arrive today. Merry Christmas!
Why bother spending money on a test? Do you get prize for testing positive?
/Fucking sad Joke
In my case I wanted to know if I was Coof + to go out of my way to limit exposing anyone else in particular 82 year old Tres Sr.
The test the VA was more comprehensive with screening for Flu and RSV.
YMMV
#CoVID_Survivor
Just would like to know. Might come in handy one day if natural immunity is acknowledged.
But your home test still won’t count. Only the ones administered and “read” by a member in good standing of the Amalamated Guild of Healing Professions.
Instead of “amalgamated” you should have gone with “annointed”.
https://everything2.com/title/Pointy+Birds
Would DOCTOR Jill Biden qualify?
Slightly sick here. I dunno if it’s zOMGicron but the symptoms traveled south this morning and stayed there for the last few hours. Now I just want to sleep the rest of the day away.
Mild cold here, acquired from my gf, who tested negative (twice) last week.
I’m not worried. I thought it already went away, but the sniffles came back. ?
The SSD household has something too. All the kids are coughing and oozing snot. The wife and I have sniffles. No fevers and no covid tests.
Stop & Shop has their biannual sale on prime rib – $4.99 per lb.; I’m gonna make Sauce Béarnaise, a 3 bone roast, some sort of tater dish, and some sort of Brussels sprouts dish. Then I will drink Bourbon, eat, and not leave the house for two days.
Cooking for oneself can be cathartic and then you have to wrap up the left-overs which makes you feel sad. I wish you the very best!
Right back at you sir. I hope you and Judi have a wonderful Christmas weekend. Get some sleep, you deserve it.
Great minds and all. That was going to be part of dinner tomorrow night, but plans changed. So tonight will be the prime rib, tomorrow will be the brisket.
That this sort of thing is considered newsworthy, is more evidence in favor of getting off this planet as quickly as possible.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-10340567/Pete-Davidson-gets-turned-away-weed-store-LA-Kim-Kardashians-Rolls-Royce.html
Pete was also caught peeing by girlfriend Kim Kardashian’s Rolls-Royce as he drove back from the dispensary.
Even the cars are watching you now. Be very careful.
I always feel like the cars are watching me,
And I have no privacy….
Oh oh oh oh.
Kim went from Yeezy to that thing?
Crazy.
Those two have been on the “front page” of the Post for what seems like weeks. It’s getting tedious scrolling past all the celebrity garbage that has recently taken over there in the search for actual news.
Pete Davidson is dating Kim Kardashian’s Rolls Royce?
Jugsy made it home last night (this morning) so I got what I need for Christmas.
I think I already threw my hip out.
Congrats! A song for you:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mk_GmhD053E
Industrial Society And Its Future (the Unabomber’s manifesto) was an interesting read; quite cogent in some parts, absolutely crazypants in others.
Thanks Sloopy, to you and all the others that make an old guy laugh, cringe and cry and that’s before I even get to the links. It’s gonna be a long winter for a shut-in but I’ll have my Glib friends.
I did the shut in thing last winter, this winter it’s play Disc, snow, rain, wind, we don’t care, we just want to throw. I’m not doing this depressing winter mind fuck again
Cheers!
Yay for you! I just wish I had some outside interests to keep the black dog at bay.
Just a song at Christmas.
Never heard this before. Very nice, thanks.
You’re quite welcome! It’s a favorite. It’s also a Greg Lake original; seeing it with Ian was a treat I had to share.
Lurve lurve lurve that song!
Wonderful. Thanks, SK!
Hungarian .50 caliber bullpup. Please Santa, pretty please?
https://youtu.be/iRMIosCF4kQ
For your nut-punch (sorry), Austrian doctors sign open letter saying that covid is no more dangerous for under-65s with no underlying conditions than the vaccine, and that this is especially true for the under-18s. Now they’re getting fired for their thoughtcrime.
This (in German) is the earliest piece I could find about the open letter, and unsurprisingly is full of propaganda right from the get-go which says “Questionable ‘experts'”. Needless to say, I couldn’t find the actual open letter, since the media doesn’t want me to think for myself.
She had finally learned to love Big Bruder.
The spirit of Christmas cheer
https://www.nj.com/coronavirus/2021/12/newark-will-require-proof-of-vaccination-to-enter-restaurants-theaters-prudential-center.html
Newark gets on with its vaccine passport.
Newark is a shithole.
It just doesn’t want to be left out of the progressive utopia its bigger brothers are building.
Newark is a shithole.
Redundant sentence is redundant.
Pie might not know that.
Even the Sentinelese know that.
🙁
Its bad enough I have to sit through a video for this training on paperwork for a process we’ve just finished (I was supposed to have done it before we did the process…) but the damn learning management session times out and I don’t get credit for it.
It’s not even a so bad its funny training video. It’s literally a recorded webex where people walk through the paperwork.
So bad it’s boring.
It’s not Father Christmas, but it’s the kinks
Yesterday I watched the 2006 BBC production of Hogfather:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0765458/
It’s even better than I remembered. The characterizations are spot-on. Sir Tony Robinson and Sir Terry Pratchett himself have small roles.
It’s packaged as two 90 minute parts.
Baldrick was knighted? Hm.
Wasn’t he made a lord during the Regency?
Or, if you’re asking about the actor, In 2013
The Turnip Knight.
Unprecedented
Meanwhile, snow could pile up as high as 10 feet in the central Sierra Nevadas.
Most residents in the Sierra Nevadas are expected to get 5 to 8 feet of snow. People are urged to avoid travel over the coming days because driving conditions could be hazardous.
“A series of Pacific storms will bring periods of heavy low elevation rain and heavy mountain snow to the Western U.S. through the Christmas weekend,” the National Weather Service tweeted Wednesday.
It also warned that flash floods and debris flows were possible near recently burned areas.
Always look on the sunny side of life.
Always look on the sunny side of life.
Good news doesn’t sell near as well as bad/foreboding. There is a perversity of human nature (exploited by the capitalist press).
Thanks to all of the big-wigs for putting up with our random shite! You are more appreciated than you know. I think that for many of us this place is a lifeline and we appreciate everything that you do to keep this tiny bit of wonderful afloat in the sea of bullshit that we are marooned upon. I just re-bagged some beer cans and guess what? I have a mountain of 2700. I haven’t hit the recycler for awhile but holy shit that’s a lot of beer. Eleven beers a day X fingers and lopped off toes… Yeah, it’s quite a few. I’m fucking Superman.
What’s that weigh, two pounds?
Hugs to Festy.
A very merry one to you too, Miss O’Grady!
I have met the most awesome people here.
Toxteth, I think its 28 cans (12 ounce ones) to a pound.
We get flat rate 10cent per can, but we pay up front anyway, so it evens out
I know, just being facetious.
You know how to reach me, I think, if things are dire or get direr.
(uh, @ F, but same applies)
Lois? Lois? Is that you, Lois?
I saw that and appreciated it. Merry Xmas, Dad!
And a Mary Metric Christmas to you, Son. We’ve rounded the corner, today will be 11 seconds longer than yesterday. It’s gonna be a better year for both of us.
https://virginiaviews.com/10-men-arrested-in-fairfax-county-for-trying-to-encourage-minors-to-have-sex/
With mug shots.
Vijay Maharajan, 32, of Fairfax, charged with using a communication system to solicit minors and attempting indecent freedoms
Amrit Shrestha, 26, from Chantilly, charged with suggesting computer sex to a minor and attempting indecent liberties
Freedoms and Liberties are different things? No matter, they are both indecent.
A shining example of DEI.
They seemed to be a bit short on white males, and not a single hispanic!
How do you have sex with a mug shot?
Hey lobot. Sorry to hear about your situation. Sounds like you’ve got some great dinner plans though.
Thanks. Prime rib takes away a great deal of pain. Have a very merry Christmas.
Same to you.
Widespread reports of pharmacies selling out of COVID-19 rapid home tests, and limiting quantities. The Karens are in a panic and are asking around on social media if anyone has “extra” tests.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/philadelphia-ends-rapid-covid-19-test-giveaway-after-supplies-run-out/ar-AAS67Xs
https://frinkiac.com/caption/S04E21/392374
Yup
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/booster-shots-protect-against-symptomatic-omicron-infection-for-about-10-weeks-study-finds-%e2%80%94-which-could-mean-more-doses-for-some-in-2022/ar-AAS7m2P?li=BBnb7Kz
ROFL. We’re down to ten weeks.
Sorry for two msn links in a row.
This is going to become a daily shot isn’t it? 2022, the year dystopian novels are no longer fiction.
Not a shot, a pill. Soma, if you will.
Do we get our orgy porgy?
Merry Happy, OBE!
You too and your lovely wife, you Canadian scoundrels.
Symptomatic omicron – which is projected to be 10% of all ‘infections’. At this rate they won’t be able to squeeze a single death out of it.
Deep thought
In the past two decades, the idea of a “red pill” has taken on a life of its own in American culture, most prominently at first in an infamous misogynist subreddit, and then more broadly as a symbol of any kind of political awakening, almost always on the right. The idea has proliferated wildly throughout politics, and especially the darkest ideological corners of the internet, in which to be “red-pilled” means to realize that American society has been hopelessly debased by liberals, requiring a total rethink of its premises. The neo-reactionary blogger Curtis Yarvin, a Tucker Carlson guest and favorite of Steve Bannon’s, deployed it influentially on his blog; Conservative YouTube star Candace Owens called her own conservative awakening the “Black Red Pill.”
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To say this wasn’t the movie’s intention would be an understatement. The Wachowskis, the sibling auteurs who created the franchise, both underwent a gender transition in the years after its release, and one half of the duo recently confirmed a long-standing fan theory that the films were partially intended as a metaphor for gender identity. Hugo Weaving, who memorably portrayed the original films’ villain, lamented in a 2020 interview how people “will take something that they think is cool and they will repurpose it to fit themselves when the original intention or meaning of that thing was quite the opposite.” When Elon Musk and Ivanka Trump tweeted about the “red pill” last year, co-director Lilly Wachowski instantly (and profanely) slapped them down.
Beyond that, though, the Wachowskis have been largely silent about the “meaning” of their creation — a movie franchise that not only became a ubiquitous cultural phenomenon, but predicted the cultural tenor of politics in the digital age with an eerie, oracular accuracy. We know they got it right, but what did they think about it?
Crazy right wing nutjobs, deluding themselves into believing liberals have some sort of stranglehold on media and culture when progressives are desperately struggling to escape from white Christian gender slavery and the grotesque culture of thievery and oppression embodied in capitalism.
“amented in a 2020 interview how people ‘will take something that they think is cool and they will repurpose it to fit themselves when the original intention or meaning of that thing was quite the opposite.'”
HOW DARE people interpret art in their own way! THE AUDACITY!
It reminds me of the “But George Orwell was a socialist!” stuff.
And? He articulated the flaws without making the connection that his utopian idealized version was impossible if it involved human beings.
Orwell was not a utopian. He believed the state should prioritize the interests of the working class, and the working class should retain the power, including personal possession of firearms, to keep the state in check.
If he thought that would be a stable or even metastable state, he was utopian.
That’s not very lady-like.
I have no idea what to make of this gibberish and I don’t think they do either. Red-pill means the opposite of reality now? Such as “I am a female”…?
We judge the suitability of ideas by how quickly and profanely they can be slapped down.
Death of the Author, bitchez!
Tw best holiday songs ever (because I can only putin two links) (and Surly Knott already linked a killer one):
https://youtu.be/-ydnLENUd6o
https://youtu.be/XMEFH96WDh4 (I like Percy Faith, shut up.)
These two may or may not be related to my fondness for 1970s in-store Christmas music.
Both remind me of a better and simpler time when people actually enjoyed the holiday.
Yep, same. I didn’t appreciate those two when I was a kid as much as I do now. When I was a kid, in downtown KC, in a department store window, there were all kinds of animatronic Christmas displays. And my babysitter had one of those aluminum trees with the color wheel and she had a whole vignette set up. I wish I could capture that again.
When my kids are gone, my husband and I are going to take a Christmas cruise to the Bahamas.
+1 Higbee’s store window of mechanized joy
My two favorite Christmas songs are the Whos’ Christmas song from the animated Grinch and a staple of my high school choir, “The Christmas Polka,” which I’ve never been able to find anywhere on the Internet. ☹️ (NOT “The Merry Christmas Polka.”) I have to sing it to myself in the car, which is tricky because it changes keys at least once (maybe twice?)
I love you Mojo but this is the only Xmas song that I can stomach after weeks of “Last Christmas” https://youtu.be/w3woM079L_4?list=RDw3woM079L_4
Here you go Mo.
https://somafm.com/player/#/now-playing/specials
Yep! Got it playing on my most excellent sounding bluetooth speaker.
ROFL. We’re down to ten weeks.
Diminishing returns is a big fat lie, just like slippery slope.
Twas the day before Glibmas and all through the house, Friday Funbags were heaving to make you aroused.
https://archive.md/g3auf
You’re a good egg, Q. A man that WAS breast-fed! Happy Holidays!
Was never breastfed. My mom said she only liked me as a friend.
As a movie, it’s everything its predecessors was, an impressive feat of visual-effects artistry, action choreography and original sci-fi worldbuilding. But even more, it’s a two hour and 27-minute-long piece of cultural criticism. The film interrogates, to a jarringly specific degree, not just its own iconography, but how American culture has evolved around and bastardized it over the past two decades.
Sign me up.
Gimme $16 and I’ll give you a comfy chair in which you may contemplate your own navel.
Merry Christmas, O Deplorable Ones.
Mr Mojeaux is out and about fetching things. XY is at Walmart working (his 3rd day) (“I don’t like or dislike it; I’m earning money.”). XX is sleeping, as per usual when she is not driving a forklift. There is no real Xmas Eve as we usually do it because my mom and her sisters are old and tired and didn’t feel like doing anything, so I set out noshes for everyone for all day long. I have to work tonight anyway. I didn’t bake Christmas cookies for the evening. Instead, I’m making buttercream to dip vanilla wafers in. Easy (albeit it not cheap). We don’t have a Christmas tree because we have no place to put it here in our new digs, but we do have a fireplace with stocking hooks. I put up a huge wreath with 300 lights on it and made a mantel display of a melted snowman. He’s adorable.
I want to thank you for being here, contributing so much, and putting up with me.
And a Merry Christmas to you too Mojeaux.
We did a live Christmas tree this year, some humble lights but no ornaments. Presents are scarce but thoughtful (wife got me some Pappy VanWinkle I think and I got her a new foot bath). My teens and oldest all blessed me with larger insurance premiums by obtaining their licenses this year.
My favorite Christmas song.
Meh… formatting shmormatting.
Has someone told George Clinton about this?
Churchill’s fears came true.
These are the same people who want to ban Huckleberry Finn because it contains the word “nigger” while completely, willfully, ignoring the context and meaning of the story.
I trust their judgement.
*rolls eyes*
That’s exactly why I bought a definitive edition hardback copy. While not necessarily my favorite, it would be my nominee for The Great American Novel.
I just got a shitty Christmas present, I guess I’ll live, but it sure hurts.
Sorry to hear sir. We’ll come out stronger on the other side. 2022 has to be better, right?
Not this time, things just went to shit, ’22 won’t be any better,
It can always get worse! 😉
I would invite myself over for your Bearnaise and such if I were local.
Yes. It will.
At least you’re doing the world a favor by not procreating.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/17114947/ugly-veins-on-my-penis/
*carefully selects poking-stick from quiver, sharpens it*
I kind of like the early Beatles stuff; before they devolved into a self-absorbed pretentious circle-jerk.
Like Alan Alda?
When does early Beatles stop, to you?
I covet Paul’s sunny disposish.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTqE-MhNfnQ
Paperback Writer rocks!
I think Rhywun commented yesterday that his faves were Revolver and Rubber Soul. I think those are the two best and serve pretty well as the demarcation between bubble gum and pretentious studio fuckery.
Yeah, Sgt. Pepper’s has a few good tracks but I can’t listen to it – or anything that came later – straight through.
I think Help! (esp. tracks 2-5) is very underrated. Haven’t seen the film in ages. TCM airs AHDN often.
Merry Christmas to you Sloop and all the Good Glibs! I can’t believe it’s been 5 years. I don’t know what I’d do without this place.
When does early Beatles stop, to you?
I’m not sufficiently into them to say with specificity. Definitely at some point prior to Sgt Pepper and the fad psychodelia.
I think we can convert him…
NSFW, language
https://twitter.com/Martyupnorth_/status/1471694954002980866
An oddly specific number.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/love-sex/woman-refuses-date-men-penis-25756019
Mid-size queen
Hmmm. Plugs in 6 inches into ye olde penis calculator.
Looks like over 76 percent of the world’s men can just ignore her existence.
You people are so kind, and so dysthymic.
Not wrong.
So why don’t you join the thousands of happy peppy people…? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dGmM3TktRE
less fuzzy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KY3eOtJwOhE
“Spoon your way to health”. Does this work for the Wuflu? Asking for a friend.
An oddly specific number.
I can’t help wondering what she used as a depth gauge.
HOW DARE people interpret art in their own way! THE AUDACITY!
“You losers can’t even get what I’m trying to learn you.”
“allosexual people – the term for people who do experience sexual attraction for others”
Great. Another made up word that unnecessarily replaces “normal”.
https://metro.co.uk/2021/12/18/11-asexuality-myths-and-misconceptions-debunked-by-an-asexual-15789022/
Further:
“Asexual people can have sex drives and have sex, or have kinks.”
Words have no meaning!
Consistent meaning is wrong-think!
Uh, wankers?
I thought an Allosexual was a café owner who was trying to surreptitiously cheat on his wife with his waitresses while undermining the German occupation – https://youtu.be/ywpt8g0lCXo
Allo, Allo
lol
Merry Christmas, Sloop!
And Merry Christmas to all of You People!
I feel very blessed to know you all.
Even Jimbo.
Did someone say polka?
Happy Christmas Eve to you all, and best wishes.
Working a rare morning, instead of my usual swing shift. Sure was a pretty drive in to work. Lots of frost-cicles on the trees.
Got a pic this morning of why I love living here. I’ll have to add it to Sundays IFLA.
Have a Merry Christmas everyone.
I’ve got cocktail shrimp, smoked salmon, cheese and crackers, Bisquick sausage balls, peanut brittle, and pigs in blankets all made for tonight. We are getting together (including all my kids-yes!) at my mom’s place tonight to open presents and eat appetizers.
Sounds lovely. And delicious!
It’s been rainy here for a couple of days and we weren’t in the mood to make a big meal, so I think I’ll look for an open restaurant and have a meal there.
Or maybe go to the store and get a rotisserie chicken.
https://www.wgal.com/article/flight-cancellations-christmas-eve-2021/38606476
Thousands of cancelled flights.
Thanks for all of you, the ones who keep the website up and the ones who entertain me with your comments.
I’ve learned a lot and have got so many recommendations for books and websites, that I need to take three months off and just read (not happening though, have to eat and I enjoy running water and electricity)
Merry Christmas ya liberty loving reprobates!!!!
Merry Christmas to all of you oddballs who hang out here on the Island of Misfit Toys.
And a Happy New Year of course, even though I dread the financial reckoning that I believe is coming this year as a consequence of the Covidian destruction of the economy and the near-unbelievable further undermining of the American way of life by the Biden/Harris/Whoever’s-Really-in-Charge administration.
Let’s ride out this shitstorm together.
Riding the Storm Out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVFgEBq0EKM
Riders on the Storm.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iv8GW1GaoIc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mynzbmrtp9I
Or in the sky,
Look on the bright side… one year down, only three more to go!
Say it ain’t so, Shirley
Cuomo’s spokesperson Rich Azzopardi didn’t directly address Smith’s decision in a statement released Thursday afternoon.
“With each passing day, it becomes more and more clear that the attorney general’s report was the intersection of gross prosecutorial misconduct and an abuse of government power for political purposes,” Azzopardi said.
Beanball politics.
Christmas spirit is alive and well. SyFy channel is showing a DieHard marathon, watching DieHard 2. Ooh, a commercial. What’s this? Murphy just harangued me to get a booster. Fuck you, you fascist POS.
I certainly hope there is a day in the not too distant future when the Covid alarmism and vaccine fraud is looked back on as an aberration, a blip of temporary insanity.
And a Merry Christmas to you, ‘splosives! We can dream of better days to come.
And if that happy day ever happens, a few years later every Branch Covidian will proudly proclaim themselves part of the Resistance. We have to roll our lives at their tales of bravely riding in their car alone, sans mask.
Merry Christmas to all the Glibs. Great thanks to those that work to keep this place going strong, it’s truly a gem. I’m gonna take the day off work today and do some last minute shopping as I’ve been too busy lately with work to get much anything else done. I’m a huge fan of classic soul, and my favorite internet radio station has become the classic Xmas soul one. Here is a great and fun one…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7T-3FtRFsxw
Jukeboxes and libraries.
mp3s and ebooks are truly a dream come true for me.
Good stuff. I love both having a digital or streaming format and having the tactile fun of playing a physical medium like vinyl or CD. Merry Christmas!
Hooo-Wheee! Early Xmas present! Harman Bluetooth speaker! Woot! That tiny thing sounds like a mid-range stereo from from the 80’s.
So far only compatible with my phone but this will be remedied.
How about some hot blues to play through it? Hound Dog Taylor & The House Rockers from 1973 – Give Me Back My Wig
I have one that gets a ton of use and got another last week as a present from one of my wholesalers. They are indeed amazing little things. Truly one of the blessings of living in these modern times, along with the fact that it has never been a better time to be a music lover. Merry Christmas Festus.
Since my last offering was so well received, here’s more Ian Christmas music.
With sincere gratitude to TPTB behind the site, the writers, and commenters.
I’ve avoided getting called into work today, so I’m going to call it a Christmas Eve miracle. Merry Christmas to all of you glorious bastards and mythical creatures.
This site is the only thing keeping me sane at this point.
Thanks so much for being here.
I wonder if upper management is really so blind as to how they look in these ‘morale meetings’.
“We accomplish so much more when we don’t worry about who gets the credit”
Meaning they take credit for the “good” and dump blame for the “bad”.
Thanks to this group for being who you all are. This site is a bit of sanity for me. May your next trip around the sun be better than the last two have been for all of us.
Five years? Where has the time flown?
My family is not Irish, but I can relate to this song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTx-sdR6Yzk