I had so much fun with the idea of Cultural Appropriation Thursday that I decided to keep it going one more week. I also really enjoyed showing a Western film. It’s been a while. This time, I am really taking a poke at a sacred cow with Quick Gun Murugun. It’s a film about an Indian cowboy (like a Hindi Indian cowboy) defending the rights of vegetarians against evil meat eaters.
Yep, you heard that right. A vegetarian cowboy. And this movie is a hoot. It is so deeply Indian – poking fun at the culture, and yet so incredibly American in the sense of humor. Here’s a quick plot summary, because IMDB just did not do a good job this time. Raycists! They must hate Hindi movies!
A vegetarian cowboy defends the countryside from a beef – eating villain who wants to eliminate all vegetarian restaurants. He gets shot dead by the beefeaters, taken to the afterlife in a Tuk Tuk, and there he petitions to return to earth and set things right for veggie – eaters everywhere.
Got that? As I mentioned before, IMDB doesn’t know what to do with this film, so the trivia is a little light. My personal trivia is that the bad guys had noticeable wooden fake guns painted black in a few scenes. And Quick Gun never changes his clothes. It’s the same outfit, the whole movie. I think. I’m about 2/3 the way through and he’s in the same crazy outfit so it’s a good bet.
So watch! Or don’t! Everything is voluntary until some Telly Savalas-looking asshat shoots you dead and you have to return to earth for vengeance!
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slumbrew on June 13, 2024 at 6:49 pm
Wine club delivery today, so some arneis to go with the cedar planked salmon and sous vide asparagus
Hahaha!
I had TV dinner salmon and HEB asparagus and potatoes.
With my box white wine.
You can tell it’s good wine if the corners are straight.
I still maintain it’s the same menu.
Pretty much. Tasted great. The wife bought a weeks’ worth of HEB pre-made meals. It’s been great. We have both been so busy at work we can’t prep, just need stuff we can pop in the oven.
I had to look up “HEB”.
Wegmans here has something similar – lots of meals you can pop in the oven.
Despite the bougie description, mine wasn’t much work.
Asparagus gets rinsed, trimmed and vacusealed. Then just toss in the sous vide bath (180 degrees) for anything from 20 minutes to an hour.
Salmon was just patted dry, olive oiled, salt, pepper, a little butter, lemon zest then a couple thin slices of that same lemon. Pop on the plank (pre-soaked, kept in the freezer) and onto the grill.
Asparagus gets pulled whenever the salmon is ready (12 minutes? I use a probe thermometer but that’s optional).
Much less fancy than it sounds.
HEB stands for “Hurst, Euless, Bedford.” The three cities where the grocery chain started. Or so says the Legend of the Texas Grocery Stores.
Do you grill asparagus? I dig grilled asparagus. I just toss it with a little oil and some salt/pepper and throw it on a hot grill. Fantastic.
Yep, grilled asparagus is great!
Sous vide asparagus is nice because you really get the asparagus flavor and, more importantly tonight, you don’t have to watch it. 15 minutes, an hour – it’s all good.
I wanted to leave the lid down on the grill for the salmon so the sous vide made everything easier.
I steam asparagus in the microwave. Comes out perfect every time.
I don’t have a microwave but I’d worry about it making the asparagus a bit soggy
“Sous vide asparagus”
How many pride flags in your yard?
Third-pound Foreman burger with my favorite “Wickle” pickles and A1.
*drool*
How many pride flags in your yard?
Hurtful.
The asparagus gets some salted butter on them when they come out of the bag.
“I don’t have a microwave but I’d worry about it making the asparagus a bit soggy”
Oh, never soggy at all.
Asparagus, washed and dried, cut ends snapped off. If the spears don’t snap, toss.
Drizzle olive oil and sprinkle salt. In 350F oven for 20-22 minutes, ~25min if like crunchy.
WA crop is ending, transitioning ID before MX crop takes over.
Yeah, asparagus is just about done here. This was some stupid-expensive farmers market asparagus my wife insisted on.
Ribeye on the pellet grill, gorton’s halibut in the toaster oven, garlic rosemary mashed potatoes, and some leftover peas for us tonight.
The girls are back from a week in Arkansas and wife got a positive indication when she peed on a stick, so there was cause for celebration.
Congrats!
Mazel tov!
The world can use more trash monsters.
おめでとうございます！
Congratulations!
😃👶
(You’re not messing with us and really just anticipating a litter of puppies, are you?)
Congrats!
You’re not messing with us and really just anticipating a litter of puppies, are you?
I hope not. The dog is only 5 months old, the cats are spayed and the chickens arent laying yet, so the only reproduction capable person on this particular farm is my wife.
Nah, we have been talking about it for a while and want to try to sneak two more kids in before she gets too far past 40.
“the only reproduction capable person on this particular farm is my wife”
Unless you married a lizard, there are at least two persons 🙂
Huzzah!
In keeping with the theme from the links, that’s some nice front hole work!
Great news! Congrats Trashy!
Congratulations!
Congratulations!
Nine minutes of passion for you, nine months of work for her.
Congrats!
I’m fucking exhausted.
Sorry to hear it! What have you been up to? I know you’ve been dealing with some issues.
I’ve been spending all day at the hospital since Friday. My mom came home yesterday. Which is good. So today I had a ton of shit to do.
I am glad to hear your mom is home. I hope everything keeps working out and she continues to improve.
Glad she’s home, Tater.
Thanks 🙂
Ditto!
“BY ASSIST MEAN….”
I ain’t clicking that.
It’s pretty silly this week. Somebody put digital coasters on the glass in every scene where James Bond was drinking.
There are loons in India?
I acquired an old Mossberg 183t, .410 GA. and damn if I can’t get shot for it in Cali, whatever should I do?
/smart-ass smirk
Use .45 Long Colt?
.41? I dunno
A .410 shot shell is a .45 long colt case loaded with shot. They fit in the same chambers. You don’t want to use .410 in a well-rifled barrel since it messes up the rifling, but the other way you get an inaccurate single slug.
See below. .45 Colt is even more expensive. Maybe not as rare, but expensive.
Also old shotgun barrels may not be rated for that pressure, 45 Long Colt makes more pressure than a simple .410 shotgun shell.
Oh, and it could be choked and you wouldn’t know it until you passed a solid slug or a .45 down the barrel. No bueno.
Go for the low velocity cowboy shooting load?
Those are the ones that cost $60 a box. I had a friend that likes to go to the range and every time he pulled the trigger, he’d go:
“Three Dolla! Three Dolla! Three Dolla!”
I was recommending them for the lower pressure to reduce the risk with the shotgun barrel.
I notice we ran off Yusef.
Well, since we ran everyone off with vintage gun nerdery, shall we discuss flintlock vs. percussion?
I suppose Cali doesn’t allow mail order ammo? That’s how I get .410. It’s hard to get .410 in shops this past year.
No, Cali has unconstitutional bans on ammo, but MI doesnt….
And .410 pdx costs a buck thirty a pop, yikes
Oh man. You should see .45 Long Colt prices. Brutal.
I own a Henry repeater in .45 Long Colt.
Finding boxes at any price was difficult. I haven’t looked in a while, but I doubt it’s gotten cheaper.
I see why people go for .38 now. Even .44 is easier to find and cheaper.
Yusef, good luck on .410. Maybe get somebody to buy some and ship it to you.
I have boxes of .38 special… and nothing in that caliber.
Bastards were sold out.
Ooof. I have a Smith and Wesson 38 +p revolver, J frame. It’s my favorite. Can recommend, should you find one.
I’m still stuck in New York.
Yusef, drive to Phoenix, stop by Cabela’s.
In stock:
https://www.targetsportsusa.com/federal-champion-45-long-colt-ammo-225-grain-semi-wadcutter-hollow-point-c45lca-p-761.aspx
Can’t find it in the southern state I live in either. For whatever reason .410’s unfuckinggettable.
Yeah. Mail order only for me, and I have to stay on notification lists. And I have three-story sporting goods stores nearby. Crazy.
It’s a bummer, they’re great for squirrels and general pest control. It’s been hard to get for quite a while now.
If you’re coming to HH pick some ammo up in MN. Or, get a bigger gauge gun that has available ammo, a 12 or a 20, avoid 16 or 28.
What are the details on HH this year?
My itenery has it as Sunday Sept 15th (third sunday of the month). I hope I’m not wrong
Alternatively, win the lottery and hire a personal hand-loader for all of your ammo needs.
OK. I am really going to try and make it. I will get all the details hopefully from Tonio, or something. Somebody who talks to me via email.
R.J., there’s a semi-official email list, and I believe Tundra usually sends out the annual announcement with all the gory details of where, when, etc. If you can connect with him to get you added to the list, that should tell you all you need to know. Or I’m sure 4(20) could pass along your e-dress if you’re willing to share it.
Last year’s HH was a delightful time, and there are nice places to stay nearby. (I can personally vouch for the Good Ol’ Days Family Resort in charming Nisswa, MN.)
Third Sunday in Sep, the 15th, this year. Get on Tundra’s list or ask me as we get closer.
.410 is a pain to reload as well.
Yeah. But it is so much FUN! It used to be the super-cheap, go blast some tin cans and stuff ammo. One step up from .22 and pellet guns. Wa happen?
I was under the impression we were supposed to be saving up to buy some F-15s, no?
This is fantastic. I also had to dumb it down, but damn: “The film revolves around the adventures of Murugun along with his love-to-be Mango Dolly and Locket Lover. Murugun is a typical vegetarian cowboy who made himself into Quick Gun Murugan. He has to do something good for the world, so he believes that vegetarianism is the need of the hour.[3] Murugun enters into a battle that spans time and space, from a small south Indian village to Heaven and then finally to cosmopolitan Mumbai across 25 years.”
That makes. Well. Sense, in its own roundabout way. I proudly accept. I took a shit which waved to me afterwards. Life…finds a way.
You’ll like it. I work with so many people from India I get a special kick out of it. Even if you don’t it works as a comedy.
Found one of my corkscrews. Finally opened the last bottle I have of Kinnath’s blood orange mead.
Even if it’s psychosmoatic, it’s taken the edge off my mood.
I’m going to say that’s not psychosmoatic. Alcohol has been taking the edge off of moods for thousands of years.
I expect that is after there was time to absorb it.
Yama has viking horns?
I’m not going to tell the Indians how to portray their own deities.
I love twilight at this time of year when all the lightning bugs (which some of you may know by the more prosaic name of “fireflies”) are out and about, hovering and blinking their little taillights. 🥰
Obligatory: The Pride of Piqua, Ohio.
Each one has a teensy little Summer Glau.
Nice – I did not know about them (just the tune).
I missed the lightning bugs when we were in TX and DC. It was really rare to see even one.
On the opposite extreme, I could probably navigate my property in the dark using the light given off by the lightning bugs here. It’s a welcome change.
We had them in my back yard in Queens (NYC). But I rarely saw them growing up in less urban areas of upstate NY.
I’m guessing the suburban lawn treatments and mosquito fogging and the like is pretty hard on them.
At least they’re not being called glowworms.
::narrows gaze at UCS suspiciously::
They were always fireflies growing up, and they lived along the fence line growing up – where the bushes gave them cover from predators. So we would sit and watch them light up the edge of the back yard.
The last time I saw fireflies in any great number was in pennsylvania by the delaware gap next to the border with new jersery. It was the edge of the motel parking lot, and accompanied by the ribbits of frogs.
That sounds like an idyllic scene, even if it was just a motel parking lot. 🙂
They used to be thick around here but they come out a lot less often for some reason and when they do there aren’t many of them.
Fireflies are carnivores.
Did not know that. I have handled many in my life (they’re the only insect I really like,) and they graciously refrained from eating me.
We are omnivores, and get along well with smaller carnivores. Maybe they are like tiny glowing cats?
Found that out yesterday.
Reddit IS good for something!
Back in the (937) for the weekend. Made the obligatory beer stop @ Meijer. Waved at GT on the way past.
Started watching. What the….?
Yeaaaaaah. Enjoy. It’s weird.
The bollywood cowboy getup is worth the price of admission.
Fuck the Panthers, but ooof.
Yeah I flipped away after 3:1.
…
OFFS.
We can probably call this series.
That better be a hockey reference.
I don’t have any strong thoughts about Bryce Young.
Y’all seen the Biden at the G7 clip by any chance? I actually feel bad for the guy, he is gone:
https://x.com/thevivafrei/status/1801347846974661062
Good lord.
I steer clear of that stuff.
I guess it’s newsworthyish but I find the attention kind of… unseemly.
It’s tough to watch to be honest. It’s the worst one I’ve seen and, yeah, unseemly is a good way to put it.
It’s hard to blame Biden, it comes with the territory at his age. I do, however, blame his family and his friends, for making the whole thing such a sham. Jill should be publicly shamed for putting her husband through this embarrassment.
4×20: Agreed on both counts.
Why blame his family? If you think they told a prime Joe Biden (never much to begin with. never much of a prime thinker there) that he would be president one day, but he’d be going senile that he wouldn’t gladly take that for his life? The guy was a power hungry sack of shit his entire existence. He has only existed to gain power and wealth at the expense of the US taxpayer.
His family is just doing what he would have wanted them to do.
Agreed, he’s been a horrible person his entire adult life. I’m not feeling bad for him now.
He is a useless, power-grubbing ass who has allowed and administrative state to run over us, and now because of that administrative state’s endless escalations in Ukraine, we have four Russian warships in Cuba. He has no regrets over his path and I have no sympathy for him.
Very ablist of you to make fun of his childhood stutter like that.
Is there a state he travels to where Dr. Jill could be charged with Elder Abuse or something?
As awful as that is, I’ll raise you Biden freezing in place for 30 seconds.
https://x.com/ByronYork/status/1800503010759782564
Rick Beato on AI music (again).
As a writer, I see my sun setting. As a never-artist, I want to see my stuff/characters/houses visually, and maybe with the right prompts I can do that. Or maybe I shouldn’t. I don’t know. It’s all so ethically jumbled.
I can’t quite put my finger on it but that guy has always been a bit off putting to me. I wouldn’t be surprised if he had a crawl space full of dead hobos. Makes it hard for me listen to him even of he’s making great points.
Should be a reply to Mojo about Rick Beato, but on reflection it covers most of the shit you people link to.
I feel flattered.
That’s just what someone with a crawl space full of dead hobos would say.
TBF, you always struck me as more of a crawl space full of dead hookers kinda guy.
(“When they’re dead they’re called hookers, Cyril!”)
My house is on a slab, I have to bury my dead hoboes and whores in the woods out back.
Lime pit, i assume.
I appreciate the classics.
“a crawlspace full of dead hobos and whores”
vivid
Marvin Heemeyer of the so-called Killdozer speaks:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23fL90JnJb4
Killdozer is a misnomer. Heemeyer was the only fatality by suicide, and no one was injured by his rampage.
Reminds me of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41J1nbFABgk
***
On Friday, June 4, 2004, Heemeyer used the bulldozer to demolish the Granby town hall, the house of a former mayor, and several other buildings. He killed himself after the bulldozer became stuck in a hardware store he was destroying. No one else was injured or killed,[1] in part due to timely evacuation orders.[2]
***
for pedants: Heemeyer was the only fatality (by suicide), and no one was injured by his rampage.
I’ve been seeing some less salubrious reasons for his rampage… something about putting in a septic system?
I won’t defend his actions. Such an intelligent, hardworking man could easily have made an ethical and comfortable living some way else, somewhere else.
You never know what might push a man too far, so it’s best not to push unnecessarily. It’s human nature to fight back when attacked.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9eKwFOxdMA
I love your movie synopsis. I’ll take a look over the weekend.
My God was Flashman for Freedom! a joyride for George Macdonald typing the word nigger.
Aside from that, it’s a pleasing novel. I really was disquieted with the use of the word, but he wasn’t niggardly in using it, and several similar terms, for his various African (and yellow?) characters.
Were the yellow whores supposed to be Asian?
It’s a great novel, even if it makes you sick to your stomach about the racism, and then the amazing final chapter about maritime law, and also the rest of it which is super entertaining.
I’m going to scrub myself with holystone and beg forgiveness from whatever god Flashman doesn’t believe in.
The Flashman books on Audible are great. The reader is awesome, and the books are written to read well. I’ve listened to every one at least once.
Hey, happy Friday everyone!!
🌞🍖🐓😋
Gonna be a warm one today.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=F9kXstb9FF4
🎶🎶
It’s supposed to rain all day and then over the weekend the cooler weather we’ve been having will evaporate.
More a possibility of thunderstorms in the afternoon, especially down these parts.
I’m off today and Monday and was going to go out today, but decided to put it off until tomorrow since the weather is going to be so nice.
Good morning, Sean, U, Stinky, and (somewhere upthread) Ted’S.!
We got a little bit of rain overnight, but it’s just cloudy now – and plenty warm. It’s already 71 degrees!
How goes it?
So far so good, but I hope I remember everything I now have to do to help my boss get ready for next week’s Board meeting, like get a headcount of likely attendees and make reservations at a nearby restaurant for the obligatory dinner afterward. 🙄
I’m kinda hoping we end up not having a quorum.
How about you?
I am sorely in need of a vacation – or at least a deep clean of the living room.
While there is objectively less on my desk in this role as opposed to the one I left two years ago now, a lot of it is the “dealing with other people in other groups” stuff that is stressful for an introvert. A lot of people demand everything yesterday but don’t respond when I request necessary information to complete the request.
Two different people are trying to sabotage the onboarding of their work to different parts of the application, both blaming the application when both have been unwilling to even try to use it.
I wrote up procedures for a bunch of tasks, but the guy I’d assign them to is still off with the National Guard.
I still don’t have a solution for the Space Planning team’s assholery that cost us space for the two people we’re trying to onboard.
I need to get HR to tell me where we stand with those onboardings, but HR never answers me for anything.
… I need a vacation, but I’ve lost a lot of my initial anticipation of the road trip. I suppose I might try to get it back by looking for more things to do along the route.
🙁
Oh, and I almost forgot about the issue I’ve been dealing with: Our payroll processor and our 401(k) provider (big international company with orange origami critter mascots) have been in some sort of technological standoff re: how to transmit our 401(k) contributions (and for some employees, 401(k) loan payments!) from the payroll processor (who already got the money from us) to the 401(k) company. The 401(k) company changed something about how they wanted contributions transmitted, and the two sides can’t seem to get their shit together to get ours done. They haven’t yet processed our contributions from our 5/24 pay, and they now also need to process the ones from our 6/7 pay. 😒 I’ve started sending emails requesting progress reports EVERY DAY.
I’m sorry I reminded you. Doesn’t sound like a fun problem to have to deal with.
All I can say is that if the IRS or some other three- or four-letter agency comes after us for not making the contributions in a timely manner, we ain’t takin’ the blame.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/news/man-driving-atv-dies-in-crash-in-north-philadelphia-on-broad-street-after-striking-car-police-say/ar-BB1oci62
I feel bad for the lesbian, not the asshole.
So Philly’s one of the cities where they’ll let you cruise around on dirtbikes and fourwheelers without a care but they’ll nail you for driving your car ten mph over the speed limit? Good to know.
Army Birthday, Flag Day, and National Bourbon Day. Today is a great day.
🎂 🇺🇸 🥃
🫡
When I was in school, Flag Day was a sign that summer vacation was close at hand. It was not too long afterwards that the school year would be over. The exact day depended on how many snow days we’d had over the winter.
Re: Derpy’s rotation problem, it’s not a paradox, but a problem of definition/reference frame.
Yes, an object rotating around a closed curved path makes one additional rotation as seen from a third-person perspective as is does when seen from the perspective of an observer on a rotating body.
A couple of ways of explaining this:
1. The path itself makes one rotation, so the rotating body also makes this rotation
2. The definition of what a “complete rotation” is. This is why a solar day is different than a sidereal day. By the time a point on the earth has rotated to the point when a particular star would be overhead, it’s progressed along its orbit, so it has to rotate for an additional 3 minutes and 54 seconds to being the sun to the place it was the last time that start was overhead.
You can trust me, I’m an astrologer.
Musical accompaniment
https://youtu.be/llCslaFlwVw
https://youtu.be/ET1Ow5DOZt0
AM links are forthcoming. Please stand by.
There isn’t much going on today, it seems. It’s Trump’s birthday.
There’s a much more important birthday today.
150 comments. Things are getting better around here. I hope people are adjusting to the new site.