Most of my dresses are longer than this.
“Just don’t expect DiCaprio to return.”
“Amazon’s First Internet Satellites Will Launch on an Unproven Rocket”
“Is Link wearing pajamas in A Link to the Past? An investigation”
“Even the tyrant never rules by force alone,” wrote G. K. Chesterton, “but mostly by fairy tales.”
How about a little something to ramp up that Halloween spirit?
I’d like to dedicate this first to the real Firster- MikeS
Mike S. Firster, Esquire.
STEVE SMITH TRUE FIRSTER — NEVER DEAL WITH SLOPPY SECONDS.
Speaking of fisting:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiR_Y77q88w
Oof. That’s going to leave a mark.
Which episode of the Mod Squad was that?
Suuuuure it will
Probably before SLS/Orion, but that’s not saying much.
I just hope they don’t lose the Peregrine lander and its CMU rover payload.
These are the sins most likely to earn you eternal damnation.
Ah, Catholics. It is actually easy.
There’s always Purgatory, as long as you stay away from the really big infractions. A few thousand years in the Purg, I can do that standing on my head.
Purgatory is only for Catholics until they figure out there is no need for purgatory.
Purgatory sounds alright https://youtu.be/EeDTKH9AU3U
Of course… apostasy is one of those big infractions.
Did they even mention purgatory? That’s kind of important.
what about limbo?
How low can you go?
They rather leave out the important part — the Sacrament of Confession is meaningless without true contrition in your heart and in your soul. You can’t just do a deathbed confession and go “Psyche!” to God, after all.
And personally, the longer I live the more convinced we’re already in Purgatory and we just keep going through it until we get it right.
Well, they already have degrees of sin so they are already off track.
Buddhists believe we keep getting reincarnated and have to live here over and over until we get it right. That’s not so different.
So we will live forever.
Yeah, OK, but who decides when we have it “right,” and by what standard? Because I think I’m doing pretty good.
Karma must be some kind of AI since there’s no particular god doing the judging.
Wouldn’t that be Yama?
In hindsight, Vatican II was a serious lapse in judgement.
Tundra revealed to be Marcel Lefebvre.
Lol. Dude was sure right a lot, though.
Yep. And his opposition wasn’t just as an outsider reacting to the final public announcement but as someone who was a part of and saw the sausage making up close and personal.
Whoever wrote that doesn’t seem to have the firmest handle on Catholic soteriology. Despite its schizophrenic understanding of the Pauline theology of free grace, even prior to the reformation the Catholic church has never practiced the works-based salvation the author describes. Ephesians 2:4-10 is still in the Catholic canon.
I was expecting this song, TBH
I was expecting This is Halloween from Nightmare Before Christmas myself — but I rather liked what she did link. Will have to see what else the singer has done, reminded me a good deal of Scott Bradlee;s Postmodern Jukebox, and I like a lot of their stuff.
Not this song?
Or this one?
The second link was the correct one.
Hey slum, speaking of music have you ever heard of the 70’s experimental/Krautrock band called Can? A friend of mine just turned me on to them and I’m digging their stuff a lot. I can see they were a big punk/electronic music influence. Way ahead of their time. I think Tundra would probably dig them as well if he doesn’t know them.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9a1NhRbNJ_Y
That’s giving me 4chan /mu/ circa 2010 flashbacks.
I Heard that song in the movie Inherent Vice and had to look it up on IMDB to see who performed it. I really liked it. Now I’m going to have to rewatch that.
If you liked that tune by them Doc, this long form one is really great. Super band, love their drummer.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2dZbAFmnRVA
CAN has been coming up a lot with the, for lack of a better term, uneasy listening music that has been my go to for a while. Lots of Einsterzende Nuebauten, The Birthday Party, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, that sort of thing.
Ever dabbled in Black Dice, Cardiacs or The Lounge Lizards? If not, you may enjoy.
I have been a Lounge Lizard and John Lurie fan since the late eighties, when there were no Tom Waits albums for a while. Also got into Nick Cave at that point. I will check out the other two, I love hearing new music.
I’ve found some cool music on this site that I’d never have heard of otherwise on this site.
https://endlesscrate.com/
I love that!
No, never heard of them. Thanks, KS!
Influential band.
Really late, but thanks! Not familiar with them but that’s great.
I’m not one of those people for whom Halloween is a major event, but I plan to listen to Hellbilly Deluxe, as is my annual tradition, and watch the new Rob Zombie Munsters flick to see if my mom would have hated it or not.
I can save you the trouble. She would have hated it.
A friend of mine went out of his way to tell me how bad it was.
I too, have had people come up to me and just start talking about it, unbidden. It’s an absolute sh*t show. I can usually find something redeeming in a film, and I can focus on that. I cannot here. I don’t like the colors, the film techniques used, the script, the costumes. I cannot blame the actors for taking a job. But there was nothing that could be done with that script. Everyone with common sense will deny having anything to do with that film as soon as possible.
I saw the reviews were looking pretty bad, but I figured that might be misaligned audience expectations. Too bad. He’s done some OK horror throwbacks, and I figured he of all people might pull it off considering his admiration for the source material. At least we still have Dragula.
Can it be worse than the lemon stealing whores ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ijihli14Wk
Yes. At least that was short.
Ray of sunshine
WHEN STEVE SMITH ASKED FOR SCANDINAVIAN TWINS, THIS NOT QUITE WHAT HE HAD IN MIND. STILL, WHEN IN ICELAND… AND BY “IN” MEAN….
Fact check: True!
Iowahawk never disappoints.
No he does not. That’s great.
For Not Adahn
Lily would probably catch it, though.
I once saw someone set up a greyhound race in a park. Looked a lot like that.
Given the way the bureaucrats in DC think they should lord over the rest of the country, I find the name Washington Commanders to be far more offensive than the Redskins. It was enough to make me root for the Bears in last night’s game.
As a long time Bears fan, I hope you learned your lesson.
If I followed football I would root against the Commies.
Commies is the only way I refer to them.
Commissars.
I rooted for the Redskins. Fuck this name change bullshit, and whatever the owner is doing to piss people off, good.
I know too much.
Sorry to hear about your impending suicide.
Do you have to kill us now?
About the Clintons? 😳
“Gruesome video shows elderly woman having 23 CONTACT LENSES removed from her eyeball with a Q-tip after forgetting to replace them for TWO YEARS”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11315633/Painful-oversight-Gruesome-video-shows-woman-having-23-CONTACT-LENSES-removed-two-YEARS.html
Yikes!
As a contact wearer, I ain’t clicking that.
Ick.
As a long-ago contact wearer (I can’t be bothered with that shit anymore), ditto.
I once put both in same eye.
Once.
“Marriage on ice: Shirtless man is BRUTALLY shut down by his girlfriend at Islanders’ NHL game as marriage proposal falls flat – live on Kiss Cam in front of sold-out crowd of 17,255 in New York”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/sportsnews/article-11316951/Shirtless-man-BRUTALLY-shut-girlfriend-Islanders-NHL-game-proposal-goes-wrong.html
Also, yikes.
*sad trombone*
I love the crowd chanting “just say no”.
#FailedFirstDates
Public proposals are not wise.
I’ve always thought they were highly manipulative.
Reason #340553 I love my wife. She laid out all the no go for proposal ideas and public proposal was #1 on that list
One of my buddies from college bought some waterfront property a few years ago and has been pestering me ever since to bring my boat to his place so we could go fishing. I finally did today, only to find out that he never bothered to put in that dock that he said he would.
Still, I consider him a friend without pier.
Sunk cost?
For shore.
Well played
You can take that to the bank.
Maybe if you float him a few bucks he can embark on a new mission to build a jetty.
You might want to look into a new boat, I hear there is a sale.
Did you at least get to motorboat?
My dentist will sedate you with a gas or a boat paddle.
Its ether oar.
“Well she IS Sporty Spice! Mel C flaunts her impressive abs in a sports bra as she mimics Victoria Beckham’s iconic leg pose for Attitude magazine”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11316577/Mel-C-flaunts-impressive-abs-white-sports-bra-poses-storm-Attitude-magazine.html
Definitely, not yikes.
She looks like one of those bodybuilder chicks on YouTube that splits watermelons with her thighs. It’s a borderline yikes from me.
🌈 GAY 🦄
Last night I watched the Netflix short series about swear words hosted by Nic Cage. For some reason I like Nic Cage. And I always feel like I’m doing him a very small favor by watching his stuff on demand, like maybe he’ll get another quarter in his royalty check which will help him with his troubles. Anyway…
It was mildly entertaining (TW; Sarah Silverman is in it). My biggest takeaway is an old South African curse:
May your fingers turn into fishhooks, and your balls start to itch.
Oh, and a euphemism for vagina that I’ve never heard; bum trinket. I like it.
I still prefer “pink sink”
A friend of mine knows all the best old yiddish curses and has a knack for dropping them at the perfect moment with expert comedic timing. But the one that always stuck with me was, I believe, an original he created from scratch: May you be struck by a dirigible and buried upside down in a faulty casket!
Big news around here is that a 5th grade teacher a few towns over told a kid they were on the teacher’s kill list. And there actually was a kill list, with other teachers and kids on it. Then they waited a whole day before the cops talked to her.
Any word on who made the “fuck” and “marry” lists?
Hopefully none of the 5th graders.
Today, I went to the local Asian grocery store. Saw a cutting board I liked and bought it. It was made in Vietnam, so I figured it was the least that I could do given our history and all.
At home, upon closer inspection, I read the following in super-tiny writing:
__________________________________
Cancer and Reproductive Harm
http://www.P65warnings.ca.gov
__________________________________
Went to the website. Worthless.
Looked elsewhere and found this:
Do all wood products have Prop 65 warning?
Established in 1987, the list of chemicals must be updated each year and now includes approximately 800 substances. Wood dust was added to the list in 2010, and therefore, all wood products sold in California must bear the Prop 65 warning.
A cutting board. WTF?
They’ll be tattooing babies. Warning life causes cancer.
There was a Prop 65 warning at the check in desk of a hotel near SFO. For the hotel. I’ve seen those statements on food items.
It’s become ubiquitous to be useless. There’s no reason not to include one just in case no matter how far fetched because of liability.
Movie post nights now must have a Prop 65 warning. Thankfully I am not in California so the governor can fuck right off.
Yes, that sign is in every hotel. I worked at one in SF.
Oh, and I had to explain it to hundreds of midwestern tourists who looked at me like I had three heads. “I not from around here; I don’t get it either.”
CA causes cancer.
CA is cancer, politically.
Every thing sold in CA has one. They all mean the same thing; this product can be sold in CA.
Nothing more, nothing less.
It is on almost every single product sold in California. It is purely there for manufacturers to cover their ass against any potential lawsuit. It is on every restaurant and store in the state as well. Thanks Chevy Chase and the other Hollywood ejits who promotes that idiotic law on the voters back in the 80’s.
Chevy was one? I knew about Rob Lowe and/or Michael J. Fox.
If Chevy had an opportunity to be an ass, he took it. He no doubt saw Prop. 65 as a way to irritate current and future generations with minimal effort on his part.
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-09-25-me-9681-story.html
Wow. I had no idea it was that old
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1986_California_Proposition_65
Fuck Hayden and Fonda. And fuck Bradley still having his name on the LAX international terminal.
The blue stuff I put in my RV’s tank says it “contains chemicals known to the State of California to cause cancer”
I LOLed at that
RIP Robbie Coltrane. No chance of another Cracker now. I blame the sight of Baldrick’s posing pouch for causing his (delayed) death.
Nevar 4get
He was also in a really good Bob Hoskins movie, Mona Lisa. Michael Cain is in it too.
Apropos for the Lifehacker article:
A hapless greaseball dies horribly and immediately finds himself confronted by Satan at the Threshold of Hell.
Much to the greaseball’s surprise, he’s given the opportunity to “preview” various eternal torments awaiting him, and he can choose which one he’ll finally be consigned to forever. The whole thing is reminiscent of Monty Hall’s “Let’s Make A Deal,” and after being shown Door #1 (people standing up to their waists in dogshit) and Door #2 (people standing up to their necks in dogshit) he’s finally shown what’s inside Door #3:
Satan: “How does this appeal to you?”
Greaseball: “Well . . . I mean, it’s not so bad; everybody here’s only up to their knees in dogshit. And they’re all drinking coffee! I’ll stay here!”
Satan looks him up and down and says “Are you sure?”
“Yeah!” the greaseball says enthusiastically.
“Very well!” Satan says. ”So long, hapless greaseball!”
Door #3 slams shut with an awe-inspiring finality, and the hapless greaseball wanders over to say hello to his new companions. Just at this moment, a demon walks back into sight and yells at the crowd “Okay you guys, coffee break’s over! BACK ON YOUR HEADS!”
Zoomeister Neph has been waylaid by miscreants, so the onus of hosting Glibs Friday Night Zoom falls upon me. Tune in at 8:00 PM Eastern for the usual writer wrangling, editor rattling, STFU Sloper, pinniped appreciation, bonhomie, and poo-flinging.
***Stocks up on poo and makes sure the STFU Sloper sign is handy***
Do we have a designated poo-flinger? Like a talking stick we can pass around?
Back in 2008, the Church was like “Yo, new sins dropping,” and made it clear to everyone that the following are sins:
polluting the environment
engaging in “manipulative” genetic science
social injustices that cause poverty
the excessive accumulation of wealth by a few
paedophilia
Only one out of five is a sin. OK. I’m happy I moved on from the Catholic Church.
The fairy tale side of Lukashenko is legendary. He boasts a fondness for the old Soviet Union, whose collapse he labeled “a disaster.”
Not surprising. He’s an old school Communist who was a politician during Soviet days.
The Truth About Guns interviews Kyle Rittenhouse
I met Kyle in Fort Collins, Colorado. The National Association for Gun Rights and the Rocky Mountain Gun Owners had issued an open-ended invitation to him after the not guilty verdict, offering to bring him to the Centennial State to shoot some guns, hang out, and be among friends and supporters.
Those aren’t easy things to do when the majority of the population knows your face and has very strong opinions about you, both good and bad.
NAGR and RMGO had helped to support Rittenhouse and his family financially during his trial and with that all now well and truly in his rear-view mirror, Kyle flew to Colorado with his girlfriend and his advisor to be among people who saw what he did that night as a case of armed self-defense — if an extraordinarily high profile one — against multiple attackers after a number of attempts on his part to get away from them.
US District Court rules Federal law prohibiting removing a gun’s serial number is unconstitutional
Now another shoe has dropped. In United States v. Price, a district court in West Virginia considered whether bans on firearm possession by felons and possession of firearms with obliterated serial numbers were constitutional. While finding that the law barring convicted felons from possessing guns was justified under Bruen, the court found that the laws against removing the serial number on a firearm, or possessing a firearm with an obliterated serial number were not.
Now go all the way…
Now go all the way
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah now go all the way.
Pfizer Board Member behind Alex Berenson being banned from Twitter
On August 24, 2021, Dr. Scott Gottlieb sent an urgent email about my reporting to a contact at Twitter.
Gottlieb is the former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, a close colleague of many federal officials – and a senior board member of Pfizer, which has made $70 billion selling mRNA vaccines.
In his email, Gottlieb forwarded an article I had written about Dr. Anthony Fauci on this Substack and complained, “This is whats promoted on Twitter. This is why Tony needs a security detail.”
So I woke up from my conscious sedation anesthesia today aware of the passage of time, whereas general anesthesia is like a blink and you’re waking up.
I’ve used the “conscious” stuff four or five times now for various procedures, and unlike you, I was completely unaware of the passage of time.
Twilight is a no go for me. I’ve never been under but if I do put me to sleep
I don’t know, I just didn’t like the sparkly vampires.
It’s sorta necessary for some of the procedures docs do (they need to be able to give you simple commands involving movement etc.). The “twilight” stuff prevents short-term memory from transferring to long-term memory, and therefore (many people would argue) there’s no suffering involved, because you need episodic memory to suffer.
Yeah, I know. First time I heard what they were planning for me, the hairs on the back of my neck stood up. But I haven’t yet had any bad memories. It’d be fascinating (and probably embarrassing) to have a video of my reactions whilst under sedation, though…
Also, I’ve had anesthesiologists tell me deep sedation is basically keeping you on the edge of death, without letting you slip over. Probably.
Michael Malice on Dr. Drew’s show: (part 1) https://drdrew.com/2022/michael-malice-episode-554/
How about a little something to ramp up that Halloween spirit?
Looks like the show-stealing bass player is there.
I don’t worry about going to hell for my sins, because I know a Guy.
Hell isn’t really mentioned in Moses and the Prophets. There is talk about “Sheol”, or the shadowlands, but no detail about the place, that I can remember. Daniel (chapter 12) talks about some people being raised to shame and everlasting contempt. Isaiah 14 demonstrates this with the dead king of Babylon (who may possibly be the antichrist and/or Satan) being mocked by other dead kings.
The Christian scriptures is where the fire and brimstone nature of hell is given. The Book of Revelation speaks of a “Lake of Fire”, where the unredeemed are sent. Death and Hell are also consigned to this lake. People who take the mark of the beast seem to get extra punishment.
Jesus tells the tale of a rich man who dies and goes to hell, while the poor beggar, Lazarus, goes to “Abraham’s bosom”, which is probably more comfortable than it sounds.
“Dives”, the rich man, complains about being in torment (“anguish”) in the flames, but what I find astonishing is that his first request isn’t to leave. He, instead, asks Abraham to send Lazarus with a bucket of ice water—no, that isn’t quite right. “Have Lazarus dip his finger in water and touch my tongue.” Dude, are you thirsty, or not?
When Abraham denies his request, he asks that Lazarus be sent to his still-living brothers. Again, seems like a good time to ask to leave, himself, to warn his brothers. I conclude that he really doesn’t want to leave hell, even though he doesn’t want his brothers there. Also, he behaves as if he is more agitated at seeing Lazarus partying with Father Abraham than he is at his own pitiful circumstances.
“The D and the A and the M and the N and the A and the T…I-O-N
Lose your face
Lose your name
Then get fitted for a suit of flame.”
https://youtu.be/yS2IBMQIjDo