I mean, for almost $1800, it better be a nice coat…
Japanese history as anime? Sure, alright. Maybe I’ll learn some history for once.
“Aqua Teen Hunger Force’s First New Episode in Eight Years Gets November Release Date”
“I had more fun with Ubisoft’s Captain Laserhawk than most Ubisoft games”
“Elden Ring Luxury Streetwear Is Here To Save The Maidenless”
Japanese history as anime? Sure, alright. Maybe I’ll learn some history for once.
I can’t imagine they’ll make a Unit 731 anime.
Akira
Dancing is Forbidden!
Just go across the boarder.
Number one in the hood, G!
I like Aqua Teen Hunger Force. I just don’t like revivals. They rarely work. I am especially wary of anything reviving in the past few years.
I was going to say the same thing. Whether you loved or hated the show, you have to respect that Seinfeld ended it while it was still at the height of its popularity, the writing hadn’t gone completely to shit, and he’s never come back to fuck the corpse.
You set me up to link this, didn’t you?
https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/ustv/a45537189/jerry-seinfeld-possible-revival/
OFFS…
Also, I have absolutely no idea how you could have been a fan of the show for those 9 years and hated the ending. One of my all-time favorite comedy finales. Then again, I thought Cheers and The Office were probably the two most dog shit finales ever put to tape, and they’re the most critically and commercially leg-humped sitcom endings in TV history.
Newhart or go home!
It was a good show but it’s past its sell by date and it’ll probably be awful to mediocre-even the humor seems a little dated. I’d watch a Carl spinoff though (that was the neighbor’s name wasn’t it?).
Carl Brutananadilewski
I was surprised at how much I enjoyed the newest season of Futurama.
Kundun is available on DVD, packaged with In Search of Kundun. I only know of it because of the Philip Glass soundtrack, which I quite like.
If this interests you I highly recommend
Hekei Moogatari
In this case the animation style of wood block prints fits the story perfectly.
Riven,
Thanks for the fun Friday links.
I’m glad ATHF is back. Stupid fun. Everyone knows a Carl if you ever lived on the East Coast.
The CCP and its affect on Hollywood is awful. Some blatant and some subtle.
There was a blatant CCP nod to one of the Transformers movies, the US was an evil and greedy villain even more despicable than the Decepticons. The Chinese government was honorable, strong, and only wanted to protect its people.
There was a subtle nod in the time travel movie Looper. The protagonist wants to spend his money and move away from the US to France and his boss from the future ominously tells him to stay away from Europe. Instead he goes to a futuristic and rich Shanghai.
And then you had the Red Dawn remake, where they just said fuck it, we’ll CGI out the China references, replace them with North Korea, and visibly overdub all of the dialog that references China.
Yes, a film extolling the spirit of human resistance against tyranny, specifically the Chinese government, succumbing to a tyrannical government. In this case the Chinese government. Talk about ironic. Lenin was right. We sold them the rope to hang us with. They didn’t have to fire a shot.
That’s just cosplay with extra
stepsmoney.Also, I have no principled objection to fur, but I do have an aesthetic objection. It just looks bad.
If you have not done so this week, check your email.
Oh shit, to be honest, I’ve forgotten to check that account in about 2 months. I see I missed several emails from you. Sorry about that.
How about clothes that are just inspired by franchises?
I’ve yet to pull the trigger on any of their items, but I’ve been sorely tempted by several.
That Kundun article was very sad on many levels. I like the Dalai Lama, I’ve read some of his books and he talks about the Chinese takeover and how he can never go back to Tibet (as shown in the last scene of the trailer). I’ve also read a bio of Walt Disney, and the current company is nothing like what he built. Plus you know there are so many people in China suffering, but nobody can or will do a damn thing about it.
China has too much money. Their culture is shit. They throw their financial weight around to advance their authoritarianism. The people selling their souls to the Chinese, this will not end well for anyone.
“Lets let China modernize! Let them see the error of their communist ways! It will all be fine, you’ll see!”
Now we see.
I watched a documentary, “One Child Nation” about the effects of one child policy all these years on. It was made by a Chinese woman who had moved to the US and married an American (European descent).
When she went back to China to do her interviews, the focus was of course on the one child policy.
But what I couldn’t help noticing was what a shithole the place was. The streets, the houses most people live in. No way. And I’ll never be fooled by fancy hotels in Shanghai.
Heh, been to one of those. And one in Beijing, and one in Xi’an. My buddies and I got off the beaten path – for all I know it’s still mostly package tours even now – just enough to get a slight taste of the real China.
I’m glad I did it – it was 20 years ago – but I won’t be going back.
CCed my Glock 43 for the first time today. Not uncomfortable but I’m wearing sweat pants and they kept wanting to get pulled down by the weight.
what’s the weight on: tactical belt?
*snicker*
Have you considered a belly band style holster for those situations?
I think bandoliers are quite stylish and need to make a comeback in exciting new colors.
Like red?
Yes!
Just noticed…bandolier is nearly empty save a few rounds of 303 but he is armed with a Webley in 455.
Well, when you throw guns out of a giant stone mouth all kinds of things get picked up…
I think this is considered Glibs sexy talk.
I’m definitely going to have to come up with another way to CC, not just because of the pants on the ground, but also it telegraphs pretty clearly through almost all my clothes. I don’t always want to wear thick baggy sweats and hoodies.
Sig P938 or a J frame SW in your choice of caliber. Those are my go-tos. They have served me well for the last 10 years or so.
Hello fellow J-frame fan. I too, am a J-frame fan.
Yes Sir. One of the finest pistol designs of all time.
I am missing from my collection a 6 shot chambered in 32. I would love to have one in 32 HR Mag.
I like the gun itself – it’s the only subcompact I’ve found that fits my giant man hands. I think I need to go to the gun store and look around the accessories department a bit.
Back in the day I had a S&W model 38 J frame. 5 shots, but in .38 so easy to carry but still packed a good punch. A police detective from East Chicago, IN that I met in college recommended it.
I love my P938. I have the extended mag that supports the pinky finger.
Same here on both counts. I loaded up some 147gr. conical flat noses I cast from a Redding mold and put….uh….shit, let me look it up.
I am pretty sure they are loaded with Red Dot. Those fuckers shoot very hard even out of a barrel that short.
Nope…Accurate #7, 5.9 grains. They are pushing nearly 1000fps.
Drop the bullets (wheel weights) out of the mold into a 5gal bucket of water and they will punch through car doors, walls, heavy coats, bones, you name it….
My friends Jon and Sarah have a solution for you: https://www.phlsterholsters.com/phlster-enigma/
Looks interesting! Do they sell them in retail shops? Was gonna try to get to the range with the retail area this weekend.
Sadly, I’ve never seen an Enigma in a retail shop. Most of the gun stores around here don’t stock anything I’d consider a ‘good’ holster.
I have two Enigma systems myself, though, and I can give them the official EvilSheldon seal of approval.
no great answers for summer
there are some super thin field shirts (hiking, fishing) that are more sunscreen than insulation that are so light you can wear them most months, say, unbuttoned over the real thing you’re wearing that day; get one that’s too large or in men’s sizes for that loose, cutesy look so that it fairly billows, drapes over your CC
https://www.exofficio.com/sale/women/tops/womens-lightscape-long-sleeve-shirt/AFS_195116022098.html
lighter than but worn in the style of old-flannel-shirt-I-grabbed
If you carried two guns, one over each breast… And then came up with a way for them to rotate into position…
Oh wait. I invented pasties again, didn’t I?
Just tuck it in the waistband but Don’t go full Plaxico.
Don’t worry. I vowed never to watch another Scorcese movie after I that masturbatory extravaganza Gangs of New York.
How about Dario Argento? I saw Dracula last night. That was a forehead slapper at a few points. I still think if someone had the fortitude to go back and fix those awful CGI graphics the movie would be much better. That giant bug… Those fake flames…
I should have mentioned this during Glib Flick:
https://acidemic.blogspot.com
Acid-head guy writes oddly but intelligently about horror and otherwise weird films.
They really can’t just go silent and pay their distribution and run trade promotions. I love marketing departments.
Bud Light tries to distance itself from culture wars after Dylan Mulvaney fiasco as it announces $3 million in scholarships for families of America’s fallen
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12651677/Bud-Light-scholarship-culture-wars-Dylan-Mulvaney.html
Every time they run some big marketing push the media immediately reminds everyone of what happened. The concept of not marketing here seems to not have occurred to either the marketing department or the C- Suite.
It looks like they’re spreading some money to the media as well. I had a piece in my feed basically saying, “Bud Light had some trouble, but check out these craft beer bankruptcies. They’re the ones in real trouble!”
The Mulvaney thing probably would have been forgotten long ago if it weren’t for that marketing lady Heinersheiding all over their customers at the same time.
She did that before the Mulvaney fiasco in a trade rag.
It was the perfect storm that everybody picked it up that comment she made AFTER the Mulvaney twitter post blowback.
The revival of Aqua Teen Hunger Force will premiere on Nov. 26, Adult Swim announced today.
Will the Mooninites be involved?
Boy I would have loved to snag one of those before the cops confiscated them.
Oh, so that’s what those are.
Every time they run some big marketing push the media immediately reminds everyone of what happened. The concept of not marketing here seems to not have occurred to either the marketing department or the C- Suite.
Bring back two-fer Tuesdays.
Reminder that big corporations are also evil. They at least can be liable and more successfully litigated against, but it can take years.
https://nypost.com/2023/10/20/how-a-pregnant-airbnb-host-lost-her-home-and-300k-literal-s-tstorm/
Reminder 1,001 why I’d never be a landlord with Airbnb.
It’s not much fun being a landlord, period.
Yup… I would never, ever do it.
I am a renter. I know what other renters are like.
My landlord: “I don’t do 2-year leases.”
My landlord after 2 years of renting to us: “Here’s a 2-year lease.”
If you can find a good renter, it’s worth holding on to them.
Close to lease time, I’mma start angling for a 5-year.
I’m sure you’d never flood the bathroom and flee.
Ha, I noticed water leaking out of an electrical outlet (?!) the other day so I called the emergency number. (They did tell us to call for ANY water leak at any time.)
Some dude shows up 10 or 15 minutes later and expresses approval that I followed the correct procedure. “Most people would have just ignored it.”
Yeah. I had one experience with a spare property.
One and done.
My buddy and I bought, rehabbed and sold a bunch of houses during the last downturn. We briefly considered leasing them, but realized we didn’t have the knowledge or personalities to deal with it.
Words of wisdom TT heard in a continuing education class for real estate appraisal: “A certificate of deposit will never call you in the middle of the night to tell you that the furnace is dead.”
She wasn’t insured for that?
She fucked up she trusted Airbnb apparently.
Yes, she was insured. They are investigating at a snail’s pace. I’d argue bad faith as well.
So in roughly 2 years she can talk to a judge and jury about it. Or right before it goes to trial the shit stains will pay what the obviously owe. But they will have made their point.
I don’t get why she doesn’t go through her homeowner’s first, who will probably drop her afterwards.
You need to be careful what HO you buy.
Pure Personal won’t cover tenants. You need to make sure you get a form that covers rental use.
Air Shit Stain gives you the commercial coverage. It’s up to you if you don’t get your own, but people don’t realize that.
I figured as much. Ditto the lack of lawyer.
I dont get why she doesn’t have a lawyer.
I jumped on her Twitter.
Fuck me Air Asshole has forced arbitration.
I should have guessed. No idea if you can opt out and still participate.
Also, I have no principled objection to fur, but I do have an aesthetic objection. It just looks bad.
Are you sure?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZfIzs0SEIw
How about now?
Relevant?
Q apparently doesn’t care all that much for fur either. (No link to go with that because I’m still at work.)
Hmmm. I’m not gonna say she looks bad in the fur, I’m just saying she’d look just as good if she took it off.
I think there are some people here who use Brave. I’ve just given up and been assimilated by the Borg aka Google.
Brave browser installs a VPN service on Windows whether you want it or not
https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/20/23925192/brave-browser-vpn-windows-11
It appears it’s inactive.
Well yes, it bundles a VPN you can pay to turn on with the browser. I use Brave and Firefox, depending on the situation. I would rather debloat and not have it, but that seems fairly innocuous. And it was not just windows. Linux had it for a while, it is gone. Pretty sure Apple did too.
Speaking of fucked up movies-
I watched The Sex of Angels the other night. Pay no attention whatsoever to any descriptions or plot summaries you might see. If you like preternaturally beautiful sociopaths doing weird pointless shit with lots and lots of wardrobe changes (on a yacht), watch it immediately.
This morning I learned it’s QUILTBAG History Month and my town is hosting a pride event. Because one month wasn’t enough.
Nephilium! We miss you! When are you going to become a boring old fart and stay in on weekends?
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87821224358?pwd=eW55MTRDbDNtQkh2aHd3M1Nmenlzdz09
The weather has changed where I’m booking spin classes again instead of street riding. But I have a really good excuse next week. The girlfriend and I are going to see John Cleese.
Cool! I saw him in 2010. Wished I’d bought the “I Saw John Cleese Before He Died” t-shirt.
I saw Eric Idle several years back on the Eric Idle exploits Monty Python tour. Too bad I won’t be able to complete the whole set.
Well, Palin and Gilliam don’t tour.
Tit for tat
China has unveiled plans to restrict exports of graphite — a mineral crucial to the manufacture of batteries for electric vehicles (EVs) — on national security grounds, the Ministry of Commerce and the General Administration of Customs said Friday.
The announcement comes just days after the United States imposed additional limits on the kinds of semiconductors that American companies can sell to Chinese firms.
“At the moment both China and Western countries are engaged in a tit for tat, highlighting how protectionist measures often spread. Newton’s third law that every action causes a reaction applies here, too,” said Stefan Legge, head of tax and trade policy research at the University of St Gallen in Switzerland.
“At the same time, both sides of the dispute also realize how costly it is if geopolitics trumps economics,” he added.
China, which dominates the world’s production and processing of graphite, says export permits will be needed, starting in December, for synthetic graphite material — including high-purity, high-strength and high-density versions — as well as for natural flake graphite.
Where will we get our pencils?
Where will we get our pencils?
Tennessee!
Graphite, like most carbons, is downright common.
I spent 2 1/2 years working at a plant that makes graphite electrodes. They are made from carbon, yes, but it takes a shit load of energy to turn carbon into graphite. And if we continue down the road we are on, shit loads of energy isn’t going to be something readily available here.
Did they use a train to move the electrodes to the telephone pole signed rods buried under a pile of very specific dirt.
Where will we get our pencils?
Also, you have to have graphite electrodes to make steel. After scrap, labor, and electricity, graphite electrodes are our 4th highest expenditure at the mill.
https://imgur.com/gallery/xcpbQxl
Some graphite
When I worked for the mill I remember watching you guys change those out in the EAF.
Impressive.
She did that before the Mulvaney fiasco in a trade rag.
Signalling her desire and intent to “fix” Bud Light’s customer base.
It seems to me that upper mngmt in large companies is populated by people who have little knowledge of any given special industries. Professional CEO’s that are completely out of touch with and thoroughly despise common people and especially the customer bases of the companies they manage.
Fixing a customer base is right up their alley, reality and financial viability be damned.
Depends on the industry.
It’s unlikely someone from an oil services background will run a financial.
However, consumer goods is broad. So conceivably somebody who worked at something global like Uniqlo could run a global beverage conglomerate.
Finally started watching Mythic Quest. Starts out a little slow, but it’s getting better. But it’s worth watching just for F. Murray Abraham’s Nebula award winning character C.W. Longbottom, and his fabulous office.
Sadly I hear he was kicked off the show after the second season for some off-color jokes. 😢
Never heard of it and it sounds like the creators don’t give a shit about it either.
Last call for Texas Glibs:
Trashy will be in the DFW area this weekend. We are meeting up at Whiskey Cake in Plano, today, after 5:00.
Address: 3601 Dallas Pkwy, Plano Tx, 75093
Menu: https://whiskeycake.com/menu/tx/plano-tx/
Ask for RJ’s table when you get here.
Not all of us live close enough to Plano for that trip! Hell, there’s places in OK closer to Plano than I am.
Unrelated to the Texas people (as I’m most of the country away), have you seen Benny Loves You?
Comedy horror with a demon possessed
muppet“doll”.Awesome. Added to the list.
Plano
so many divorced chicks
so little time
Heh. Let me guess- you are 1,000 miles away.
500 miles
I already had my day with the ladies of Collin County
all the best to Trashy
If you are half-way decent looking, have a little money and lots of time you could get laid 5x per day, a different woman every time.
It is crazy there, so I am told.
have a little money
the toll I repeatedly paid was mounting wide screen TVs
if there’s a TV in Frisco I didn’t put up, it was because I wasn’t asked nicely
Now that is funny.
No shit.
The phone call I was waiting on finally came (they hired me; no congratulations in order, it’s one of those jobs you need but don’t want), but it looks like I’m close to a 4 hour drive away, so I’m afraid I still have to skip this one. Perhaps another time when I haven’t been a dumbass and forgotten to check my Proton account for months…
If I do ever make it out to that venue though, the Bourbon Flight is calling to me. If they’d swap out Knob Creek 12 Year for the Old Forester and add Four Roses Single Barrel to the mix they’d hit all my favorites in one go.
Welp, it’s definitely stink bug season
You’re among friends. You can admit you farted.
My farts definitely don’t smell like cilantro and dish soap
Carbon Monoxide?
Not only do they stink, they look creepy as fuck too.
From above they came from China.
They are called turtle bugs in Japanese.
Lady bugs, fortunately they seem to dissipate in the cool of the evening but the nice fall days brings them right back. They’re trying to survive by hiding under the siding or inside with me. They bite as well.
I’ve got a couple living on my indoor plants. They like to hang out on the sunroom windows too.
support you local sheriff
odds and ends
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Biden’s “liaison” claim is vague, but experts on the Yom Kippur War say it is also clearly inaccurate. While Biden did visit Egypt in 1973 just before he visited Israel, and told Meir what Egyptian officials had told him, there is zero indication that Meir wanted to use a 30-year-old American who had had never previously been to Israel and who had been a senator for only nine months as an intermediary in a complicated and critical conflict. In fact, an Israeli government official’s written summary of the meeting said Biden had seemed inexperienced and that Meir had vehemently rejected his proposal for Israel to unilaterally withdraw from certain territory as a step toward peace.
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Yesterday, I learned that the author of Gone With the Wind did not learn that the South lost the war until she was 10. The Confederate veterans she spent so much time with neglected to mention that part.
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Mitchell learned the gritty details of specific battles from these visits with aging Confederate soldiers. But she didn’t learn that the South had actually lost the war until she was 10 years of age: “I heard everything in the world except that the Confederates lost the war. When I was ten years old, it was a violent shock to learn that General Lee had been defeated. I didn’t believe it when I first heard it and I was indignant. I still find it hard to believe, so strong are childhood impressions.”
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This quote from Josef Brodsky seems relevant:
“By failing to read or listen to poets, society dooms itself to inferior modes of articulation, those of the politician, the salesman or the charlatan.”
Of course, one of his last poems was about how Ukraine shouldn’t be a country. Go figure.
A satire idea: Israel to Replace Star of David on Flag With Bullseye
I’m thinking a blue version of the Target logo.
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Amazon Removes Products Featuring Bloodstained Israeli Flag After Outcry
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An Israeli Gadsden flag
Meir was obviously unaware of the way he dealt with Corn Pop.
I mean, certainly there were signs, if only she’d looked for them.
6 of one, half a dozen of the other. Of the 4, at least the salesman and the charlatan don’t have pretensions of nobility.
Hayek, regarding your China comment upthread: Advisors; “Comrade Lenin, things are really getting bad out there. The people are suffering.”
Lenin; “The worse, the better.”
The kind of shithole you describe serves the ends of tyrants very well. If it doesn’t exist already they will go about creating it.
I spent 2 2-week job stints in Beijing in 2009. A lot of what you see isn’t planned, it’s more organic than that. What happens when the building boom takes off and the only labor is peasants from out in the country, poor as dirt, with *no clue* how anything works or what any of the newer social conventions are?
Kiddy corner from my hotel was a building, 2 story, that served as “laborers”s apartments.” Every evening, cheap nasty bicycles piled high on every inch of allotted space. Come morning, hordes of laborers biking away to jobs they barely knew how to perform. At hundreds of times what a peasant would make in the countryside. The culture shock between the peasants and the longer term Beijing residents was all but cataclysmic. I’m quite sure that shack is now the site of a hotel or office building. Most of my staff there had 2+ hour commutes, each way. When a society tries lifting itself up by its bootstraps, well, sometimes the straps break. Add in a hierarchical stratified top-down-for-millennia culture…
Tangentially, let’s not overlook how appallingly bad fire control was. Every day at least one significant building had a major fire. Getting fire trucks through Beijing traffic was all but impossible. Getting anywhere by motorized vehicle was nightmarish.
I’m so glad I quit that company after the 2nd trip.
Yeah, traffic was a nightmare even in 2001. Worse if you weren’t in an automobile.
And yes, every square inch in the center of every city was busily being demolished and replaced with shitty high-rises. It was sad to see it in action.
Creative destruction ;-\
Insane population densities where “everyone” wants to be at, or as close as possible to, the center of the action.
There is also the, to me peculiar, Chinese idiom I learned in Taipei for “a great place to eat or drink [at least], “hot and noisy.” The Chinese are acculturated to densely packed spaces even more than Americans are acculturated to “wide open spaces.” They’ve been at it considerably longer 😉
Nah, they don’t want to be there any more than Americans, it’s just that’s what the CCP has dictated gets built.
Beg to differ, based on pre-“unification” Taipei. One day my host had to park *2 hours* from the Acer office. The pace of the creative destruction was less intense, because they were further up the curve, without the vast, immense, pressure of the peasantry looking for a better life.
It is easy to create shitholery organically by simply tweaking key points. We are watching the Dems do it here in the US right now.
Make energy expensive and in short supply then a million dominoes get knocked down.
Marketers
San Franciscans don’t like outsiders bashing their city, but they’re also cleareyed about its biggest problems: homelessness, rampant drug use and leaders who can’t seem to fix those issues.
So how does San Francisco turn its lackluster image around?
Some wealthy locals say the way forward is a brand refresh, and they are throwing their support behind a new $4 million ad campaign that will promote San Francisco as a hub of innovation and creativity.
The slogan? “It All Starts Here.”
It’s meant to remind San Franciscans — and everyone else — that the city of cable cars, Levi’s jeans, the Summer of Love, Gap Inc., Uber, Harvey Milk and the Golden State Warriors still has an exciting future ahead of it.
I can see it now.
Also- Harvey Milk? They need to throw the Hell’s Angels and the Black Panthers in there, too.
Jim Jones.
+1 Jim Jones
Here’s a stupid idea… I know it’s crazy, but… how’s about stop encouraging the homelessness, the rampant drug use, and the leaders who promote those things?
Mulvaney is looking for sponsorships I’ve read.
Harvey Fucking Milk. That shitbird commie got better than he deserved.
It is too bad that all of the other pols Jim Jones put in office didn’t get the same.
I spent 2 1/2 years working at a plant that makes graphite electrodes. They are made from carbon, yes, but it takes a shit load of energy to turn carbon into graphite. And if we continue down the road we are on, shit loads of energy isn’t going to be something readily available here.
One more thing the geniuses who are so desperate to “re-invent” the economy know nothing about.