Another week, another story about Bud Light tucking its corporate testicles into furry, rainbow colored panties. This time they are now offering a $15 rebate on a 15 pack, which makes it effectively free after the rebate. They also appear to have gotten Harley Davidson in the mix as well. I will say one thing with certainty: if Rob Halford of Judas Priest doesn’t figure out a way to cash in on the Bud Light – Harley Davidson fiasco, nobody will.
This is my review of Grand Canyon Dead Hanger Pale Ale:
Team Obama gave us plenty of reasons to hate on Team Obama, but one that was particularly irritating was the concept of “food deserts”. That is parts of the country that lack access to food determined by the government to be healthy. Never mind the presence of a Wal-Mart within walking distance of these areas, or their commitment to build new Wal-Marts in the areas identified. Nobody could possibly buy something as nutritious as fresh produce at the local Wal-Mart out of their own free will.
Well, they’re pulling the same stunt with playgrounds:
About 10% of the country is designated a food desert. But the new research shows a similar percentage of the U.S. lacks playgrounds, parks and other areas for kids to run around.
Many of the counties lacking access to play areas were clustered in the Southeast and Southwest. Additionally, pockets of play deserts were most common in rural and suburban areas throughout the country. But in the South, even urban areas lacked adequate play space.
“Parents often consider a park the first place to go for their children to get some exercise and to play,” said Jue Yang, lead author of the study and a doctoral geography student in UGA’s Franklin College of Arts and Sciences.
“But even if you have the park near where you live, if the environment is not safe or it’s very difficult to access, then people will not use it,” said Lan Mu, corresponding author of the study and a professor of geography.
This actually makes a lot of sense to me, a lifetime resident of the Southwest. My favorite park to play at growing up had a deteriorating fighter jet sitting in the sand where we would play king of the hill on the wing that was still attached. The winner got to burn their ass on the metal chair bolted in the cockpit. It was freaking awesome.
Capitalism failed because there aren’t enough man made lagoons to go around
Anyways, of the four public playgrounds within walking distance to my house—in the Southwest, only 2 of them have multiple baseball fields open to the public. Only two have multiple fields where one could play soccer or football. All of them however, have playground equipment under an overhang but only one of them sadly contains a manmade lake. The other two it would never occur to me to use because they are located at public schools and are shared with the public schools which close down in the summer because they’re goddamn public schools that close down in the summer.
Its not like I live in this bourgeois neighborhood, either. Even assuming I did live in a shitty part of town, there’s a 72 acre public park in a part of Phoenix I don’t want to be at after dark—unless I want to buy meth. Maybe the reason normal people hate academia is it’s primarily written by people writing authoritatively about places they never been, in the relentless pursuit of publishing “studies” that only identify problems that don’t actually exist, to be solved solely by people in government to justify their meaningless existence.
Do you like Dead Guy Ale? Its really good, and chances are pretty good even if you are not a fan of American Pale Ale, you DO like Dead Guy Ale. Now….do you like PAYING for Dead Guy Ale? Yeah, it can be hard to justify in these trying times where we lament these old videos of Hulk Hogan slonking $80 worth of eggs per day. Yeah brudder! Its dead ringer for Dead Guy Ale at a price I am not wincing at. Hopefully they don’t get sued. Grand Canyon Dead Hanger Pale Ale: 3.8/5 ≈6-7% ABV
“I will say one thing with certainty: if Rob Halford of Judas Priest doesn’t figure out a way to cash in on the Bud Light – Harley Davidson fiasco, nobody will.”
????
Let me help. Here he is with Judas Priest.
https://youtu.be/IyEGGoWaxOc
Rob Halford is the gayest man young white men love. Ask me how I know. (OK I’m no longer young but I was when I first heard and loved Judas Priest.)
If Rob Halford was on stage drinking Bud Light, it would open a wormhole caused by the entire gender spectrum agreeing on something and having a good time.
And here he is solo.
https://youtu.be/1ajpXI5ribE
Fun facts, that is Scott Travis on drums who went on to become Priest’s drummer. Russ Parrish is playing lead guitar. He went on to co-found Steel Panther.
Thank you
🤘🤘
Huh, I had heard that Judas Priest got their spiky leather look from Halford’s experiences in the gay BDSM scene, but apparently that’s not true.
I don’t care if it’s not strictly true. Rob Halford is still the greatest twink wrangler ever to live.
“Do you like Dead Guy Ale?”
Not particularly, and I’ve had it on tap.
I’m not a big fan either, nor am I a fan of Rogue releasing the exact same beer under dozens of different names. At one point Dead Guy had a list of over 50 aliases it had been released under.
They also need to use a different yeast every once in a while other than their PacMan yeast.
Yes, but you hate everything. You’re a potato.
I’m a potato.
Remind me never to watch that while I’m high
pockets of play deserts were most common in rural
Where all of the wide open spaces were my playground in childhood. But I suppose that isn’t designed by someone with a M.A. in urban planning, with a subspecialty in parks.
That is so funny. We live in the south Florida urban subburb megalopolis. The only places to play are public parks. We lament the lack of natural area to run wild and unsupervised.
Even as the kids get bigger and can venture to the park or beach on their own, there still is no ability to just go off and really do your won thing.
We built forts, dams, treehouses, raced motorcycles, dug holes for no apparent reason, launched rockets, built fires, even chopped down trees … All without any adult witnesses or even knowledge of what we were doing.
Going to a park with playground equipment was a rare treat… But I sure would not have traded big swings and a big slide for our muscadine Vines swings and jumping bikes over stuff.
I had the best playground as a kid. It was called Allamakee County, Iowa.
^This. Thank you.
Luton Town are halfway there…
Can’t believe Dortmund blew it. But Reyna proved his worth coming on – assist on both goals.
That was a colossal choke job.
LUTON!!!!!!!
Ah, fuck. Handball.
They did it!!!
Now I just need Everton to lose tomorrow.
Fuck off.
Interesting piece here on what Luton have to do to get their ground ready for PL football: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KE0mmU75oUA
But will USMNT use Reyna properly?
I grew up in a very poor side of town. I really wasn’t allowed to roam the sidewalks, much less far and wide. I was to go to a destination some blocks away for a specific purpose, then come straight home. I sometimes didn’t come straight home. I only got in trouble once, when a larger, older boy I didn’t know cornered me and tried to do things I didn’t understand. Suddenly the older boy from two doors up from my house appeared and chased the boy off and walked me home. He tried to explain I shouldn’t be walking around on my own, but was kind of clumsy about it. I said, “But my mom sent me to the store.” “Oh.” I never told my mom.
Occasionally, my mom would take us to a city park. One of them had a swimming pool. Concrete, rough. We learned to swim there. One of my favorite things to do, though, was swing on the swingset as fast and high as I could without falling off the back. Then I would let go and hang in the air for a split second, almost as if the air had caught me and was holding me up, then I would land on my feet with a jarring thud some distance away from the swing.
If only their were some other breweries actually in the state of Wisconsin that Harley could have partnered with. Naw, Wisconsin is a beer desert.
Food deserts, local news was doing stories about a mobile pantry going to local ‘food deserts’. An odd thing I noticed was each of these places had a store that sold fresh fruit, vegetables and meat. huh.
My town of 500 has 2 parks, one with a baseball field, one with a softball field. Plus the playground at the school. Not to mention all the other places kids can play. But we’re probably a playground desert as well.
I grew up in a half-developed suburb. Most of it was forest, and land owned by the railroad. I spent time shooting cans floating in lakes, fishing, chasing venomous snakes and climbing cliffs. I would often see fellow schoolmates doing the same, we’d compare pellet guns and hold sink the can competitions. As I got older, video arcades sprung up. I could walk down the railroad track to one a few miles away.
Go ahead… try and tell me there’s any park/play desert in Cleveland. That’s just the big park system.
Living in SE Asia – particularly boarding school in Malaysia as a kid. Elementary school in the Cameron Highlands. The school property was already pretty large and ringed with jungle with a few streams running through it – every Saturday the dorm would go on a trip – hike up the creek, hit other parts of the mountain, etc etc – tons of familiar trails that could get you back and forth to different locations. One of my favorites was visiting the tea plantations. Amazingly steep hills but you could get down them by lying on top of the bushes and just rolling on your side. Plus the erosion meant you could climb through the roots in a lot of places too – great times.
It seems to me a lot of municipal parks are more focused on providing places for grownups to play adult league sports like soccer and softball.
With the weather forecast being what it is this weekend. Mixing things up from my initial plans – relaxing at Ice House brewery today. Will get Gourmeltz lunch tomorrow and chill at home on Mon.
“Play deserts.” The government would handle that as well as government cheese. Imagine the wretched cement Brutalist nightmare playgrounds Joe would make. Each one would have the face of a leftist martyr painted on it.
“The George Floyd Memorial Playground.”
Ahem.
https://www.fox26houston.com/news/new-park-in-third-ward-dedicated-to-george-floyd-nearly-one-year-after-his-death
AAAAAAAH!
That part of the city is already a meth and crack den. Unsurprising they’d name it after such an advocate for their use.
Of course it’s also represented by Sheila Jackson Lee, who is functionally retarded.
For my money (I didnt throw in) and entertainment value, it truly is tough to beat Hank Johnson. The breadth and depth of his retardation never ceases to amuse me.
Do a deep dive into his speeches. Guam is only one highlight of that slack-jawed mongoloid.
Are you sure it isn’t brain damage from crack?
Where all of the wide open spaces were my playground in childhood. But I suppose that isn’t designed by someone with a M.A. in urban planning, with a subspecialty in parks.
If there isn’t a supervisor with a clipboard and a sociology degree, on the municipal payroll, it doesn’t count.
I had the best parks as a kid. The first was the town dump, where we’d get trash can lids and other junk and beat each other senseless. Then we’d head down to the creek and do stupid things all day. Later on we moved and my park was the trails from our home to the Roman ruins at Ala Fucens. None of these, as you might guess, would have been considered “parks” by these jackinapes.
*Alba
Forecast: heavy rain this afternoon (again)
Swell.
Send some to PA, we’re parched and nothing in the forecast for the next week.
Not enough outdoor playgrounds in Houston? Hmmm, I wonder why?
Zoning laws.
Picked up 4 porterhouses.
8+ lbs.
😋
Ugh play… I just did a back-breaking two hour bike ride. Literally. I fell on my ass two minutes in and for a moment i thought it might be a LifeAlert moment. Nap and hopefully repair time.
Liberally apply some vodka.
In the cards later.
Just installed a Big Flippin’ Bag on the roof of the Jeep. It holds a plastic Home Depot tub and three large suitcases. An absolute beast. I just gave it a dry run and tested with panic stops and hard acceleration. So far, so good. Long road trip with The Spaniard and his family next week. Loading empty suitcases is easy – I shall see how difficult that is when they are full.
It holds a plastic Home Depot tub and three large suitcases.
What’s that in bodies? Asking for a friend.
*Walter White has entered the chat*
I’d say four, if they are properly deconstructed. Beyond that might cause integrity problems with the roof.
Weekly beer run to the brewpub. Opted for the dunked, even though it’s hot. Women’s college softball on la tele. The pitching is savage, and I don’t recall that their uniforms were tights, and I seem to recall the players were more, err, butch and, umm, substantial. Can recommend.
Depends on the team, some of them are exactly what you remember.
This was Clemson v Oklahoma. For future reference.
I have two NY strips and some fresh asparagus for the grill. However, I also have cube steak that needs to be used.
Jugsy will not be dining on steak & shrimp tonight. Instead Ill turn to totally fap-able babe Ree Drummond.
Anne Burrell is another Id spill my seed into
What? She’s straight now. Married a dude and everything.
https://heygrillhey.com/bacon-wrapped-asparagus/
I’ve done that. Baking at 425, or grilling in an iron skillet prevents unholy flare ups.
Maybe the reason normal people hate academia is it’s primarily written by people writing authoritatively about places they never been, in the relentless pursuit of publishing “studies” that only identify problems that don’t actually exist, to be solved solely by people in government to justify their meaningless existence.
Yes.
Yeah brudder! Its dead ringer for Dead Guy Ale at a price I am not wincing at. Hopefully they don’t get sued. Grand Canyon Dead Hanger Pale Ale: 3.8/5 ≈6-7% ABV
Sounds intriguing.
It does. I’ll have to file this away, because I do like Dead Guy Ale, and Grand Canyon beer is actually available in Tucson.
As if counties were the same size nationwide.
When the authoritarians talk about more park space, they aren’t wanting more playgrounds or strolling through gardens. They want “natural” open space free of humans (except for bums and authorized personnel to cultivate the desired plant species).
Like the kind that burned down everything between Ashland and Medford because unirrigated greenspace becomes brownspace in summer.
Loss of farmland has been the bugaboo in this state for 60 years. In truth, the acreage under cultivation is the same as it was post WWII despite the growth. Land for housing and residential hasn’t budged much either. What has grown a clip is parkland, separate from publicly owned land (USFS, BLM, etc).
Not historical but easier to use map
https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/major-land-uses/maps-and-state-rankings-of-major-land-uses/
Not to sound like a Little Rascal, but don’t these kids have an old factory, vacant lot, strip mine I r you know a yard to play in?
Kids will play anywhere they can if you give them some independence.
https://interactive.wttw.com/urbannature/intricate-ecology-vacant-lots#!/
Don’t know if this was discussed in the morning links. . . . .
AOC shouted down during chaotic NYC town hall: ‘You’re a piece of s–t!’
A Queens town hall hosted by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez descended into chaos, with some of her constituents calling the congresswoman a “piece of s–it.’
“American citizens before migrants,” a man holding small American flags yelled as he approached the congresswoman, according to footage recorded by Freedom News TV.
“Where are you on the migrant issue? You’re a piece of s–t,” he continued shouting during the Friday forum.
At the end of the day, she will still be re-elected.
Immigrants for some, miniature American flags for others.
He just wants to date her.