There’s something to be said for low humidity. I’ll leave it at that.
Links?
Where else are you going to go to crank the hog?
Her fun bags aren’t so fun right now.
Not exactly a nut punch. More like a constant flicking.
The bottom line here is, his demons finally won.
The headline is complete bullshit. The fact is, Yellowstone has abandoned us just like SMOD.
Okay, that’s it for today. It appears that we all survived New Years and are ready to move forward into this one. Peace out, Glibbies.
One of the positive things that I think came out of the pandemic was global compilation songs. To wit, I give you John Paul Jones and company with When the Levee Breaks. This is worth cranking the volume to 11.
“China is stalking the US with advanced drones in an unhinged suicide note”
Does the Daily Mail have Alzheimer’s such that they’ve already forgotten about, what was it, last week? Seems more implausible than unhinged, the suicide notwithstanding.
Maybe it’s more hinged than we care to admit…
FBI told them to use “unhinged”.
At this point…I don’t see it as unhinged. We are due for the next leap in propulsion anyway
Real flying cars?
Taco Bell?
That is a damn good rendition of When the Levee Breaks.
Next week is “The Weight” with Ringo.
That will be interesting.
Ima pass on that one, Dog.
This is one of the few Led Zep songs I haven’t burned out on listening too (college room mate was a die hard LZ fan)
I listen to plenty of Zeppelin, but I get you. This song I can put on a loop.
I was feeling a little ambivalent until halfway through when the women took over the vocals. They delivered the soul that the song needs. Even the music got better at that point.
The Kiwi’s got serious pipes and Tedeschi always brings it.
The guy “rockin’ out” on the pan flute looks like a SNL skit.
I was impressed by the Tedeschi chick – don’t know her other than “Tedeschi” is Italian for “Germans”.
Her husband Daryl Trucks was playing in the video as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaCgScbULso
Definitely worth checking out.
Derek, not Daryl.
As soon as I saw Susan Tedeschi I recognized her name, but I’ll be damned if I can figure out why. I skimmed her wikipedia page and that didn’t shed any light. I’ll have to check out youtube. Hey, Slum, you apparently know of her. Why would her name ring a bell for me?
She’s a Boston legend:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Tedeschi
and, as kinnath pointed out, that was her husband earlier in the video.
‘Tedeschi Trucks’, their combined band, still tours constantly. They kick ass (although I’ve not seen them live).
Hmm. Thanks, Slum and Kinnath. I don’t recognize any of that, but for some reason I know her name. Whatevs. Anyhow, the Kiwi is incredible. There’s a touch of Janice Joplin deep in that voice.
Nosebleeds and cracked hands.
Despite the presence of a couple of small humidifiers – mainly for the sake of the guitar collection (🙄) – my skin’s gotten dry & itchy enough to switch from regular bath soap to a supposedly moisturizing body wash…except for the bottoms of my feet, as the tub has only shallow molded ridges and nothing with any real grip. (I can still sing in the shower, but gotta cut down on the dancing.)
I remember that from Buffalo winters.
Nothing like that in NYC, or even Ithaca. All the locals here complain about winter as if it has anything on Rochester or Syracuse.
Giant fucking boogers.
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY medal?
In Re Yellowstone – An entertaining Geologist’s analysis.
“crack hosting magma” made me think of Hunter Biden for some reason.
Good episode, mahalo.
This is from a junior year geology class and goes into the history of the calderas that now manifest as Yellowstone- as were briefly discussed in your video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8uybLf-5q0
The same geologist (Nick Zentner) has a series of public lectures on the geology of central Washington and the PNW that are very entertaining.
Pro-tip. Start at the 20th minute of the video since that is when the class starts.
Tres, I saw the post on the dedthread about your cousin. Sorry.
Yep, when resurgent calderas burp, everybody notices. The Yellowstone plume has been blowtorching the bottom of western North America for at least 10-15 million years. The Snake River Valley traces much of its route. And as the video mentions the Toba, Sumatra eruption made the 2.1 MY Yellowstone eruption look small. What life was like when the Columbia basalts erupted, much less the Deccan Traps or the Siberian Traps, I can’t imagine.
Denise needs to lay off the cosmetic surgery.
Yup. She’s already gone too far.
Come on, one more and she will look perfect.
Courtney Cox enters the chat.
Pre-gaming the giant snow peen
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87821224358?pwd=eW55MTRDbDNtQkh2aHd3M1Nmenlzdz09
Nobody on zoomie? 😢
I don’t believe that Tesla bomber story in the least bit.
We’re settling in at the hospital, as the streets have iced over and a blizzard warning has been issued. There are multiple cars off the road on our route from here to home, which is apx 2 miles. The ER waiting room is packed. I’m sure mom will be admitted.
XX is tucked in at home with strict instructions not to go anywhere, but she’s free, white, and 21. That said, she hates driving in the best of conditions, so I don’t think she’ll venture out.
XY is stuck at his store 25 miles away, with a jackknifed semi between him and the highway he needs to get home. He does have a 4WD with new tires, BUT Chipotle has refused to close the store tonight or tomorrow, so he’s going to sleep at the store tonight. I asked him if there was a hotel near his store. He said the store has heat and food so he’s set. HOWEVER, he can’t get a vendor out to scrape and salt his parking lot and sidewalks.
I like not having school-age children, but the worry doesn’t stop when they grow up and is sometimes worse.
Apparently the Chefs can’t get out of KC either.
I believe they took their butcher knives and took off just a bit ago.
Best of luck to y’all. No snow peens pointing at upstate NY 😐
I’m trying to fit the first sentence in with the updates.
On the updates, I’m glad the kids are safe. I assume you don’t plan to leave the hospital after your mom is admitted until the conditions improve (medical and/or weather).
Pretreatment of salting done. Walkway, around the cars, and deck are all salted.
Should make late afternoon pre-digout a bit better. Predictions at worst are 8 inches. My wife said ‘I can handle that’ giggity.
Hope all is well with your mom, you (done my share of hospital overnights – hope you have somewhere to lie down comfortably,) and the kids (especially XY. At least the weather may make for a quiet night. If some idiot craving guac slips and falls on store property and sues, at least he can tell corporate “Told you so” – ideally, not in his exit interview.)
Hope all is well and everyone is safe
Not gonna be zooming today. Kidney infection. She’s being admitted.
Other than that, it’s slicker than snot out there, so we’d be staying anyway.
Godspeed, Mo.
Fingers crossed.
Good luck Mo.
You could zoom all the crazies in the ER. It’s not as if you’re subject to HIPAA here. 😉
We’ll be thinking about y’all
You are correct. However you could leave out the ‘Tesla bomber’ and be more correct.
I couldn’t remember the guy’s name while I was thumbing all these letters into my phone.
Best wishes.
Anna Wintour is a renowned fashion icon who has led Vogue as editor-in-chief since 1988.
I wonder if she wore Prada to the awards ceremony?
The regular devaluation of the various civilian awards is dispiriting.
Absolutely.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Presidential_Medal_of_Freedom_recipients
Both parties are guilty of badly diluting the quality, but the rate of decline started slowly and is approaching logarithmic.
Be afraid
The state funeral for former President Jimmy Carter is an attractive target “for violent extremists to attack,” especially after the vehicle ramming in New Orleans that killed 14 people, though there are no known threats to the funeral, according to a new security assessment obtained by ABC News.
“State funerals are considered no-notice events that significantly reduce planning timelines for potential hostile actors,” the document said. “However, state funerals still present attractive targets due to the large gathering of senior US government officials, foreign dignitaries, and heads of state, as well as the symbolic nature of the venues and media attention expected.”
I think we all know who poses the real threat.
Ummm who do they think will actually attend the JC funeral in DC? I’m sorry but the Assistant Deputy Assistant Minister of Agriculture from various nations isn’t a “high power” target. Also, various aged members of his cabinet and blue haired men and women isn’t fraught with symbolism.
Hey, Ag minister(-2) is a target of Big Insect!
Billy Carter’s ghost?
Man who is a member of a fanatic terrorist group kills several people and wounds many more on the same day that some guy offs himself in a spectacular method killing no one but himself.
Guess which one is all over the news 4 days later?
Powerline had a meme on that subject today.
An interesting detail was left out of the reporting on this incident when it appeared in the same paper yesterday.
Knife-wielding transgender woman accused of killing NYC postal worker smiles, rolls eyes in creepy video
Can you guess what it is?
I saw him being led out by police in another news story and told my wife, “that isn’t a women’s ass”.
All I noticed was “that chick is tall”; my first thought was “huh, you don’t see a lot of cold-blooded female killers”.
The height was my second comment to her.
I thought the same thing.
Barronesque.
Goodness, the latest Latino generation got some extra growth hormones
A fire that broke out at a shopping center in Dallas on Friday morning killed more than 500 animals, most of which were small birds, authorities said.
Damn. We were hoping the damage would by myna.
It’s hard to raptor your arms around it.
the hookers on Harry Hines are so thick you can’t drive
Oh c’mon you were so close. The last two…it could have been the first full links with dick references in every link.
If the end of the world ever does appear it is going to put an awful lot of people out of work.
I realized that too late.
This is worth cranking the volume to 11.
I’m pretty cynical about stuff like this, but that’s a perfect 10. Will watch a bunch of times.
Glad you are home safe, Spud. I’m down with low humidity.
this
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OK, I gave in. Just fantastic stuff.
Thanks! Me too. Dispatches from WebDom today have not been pleasant.
The weather outside is absolutely shitty.
Prime: I really can’t stay,
OMWC: But baby it’s shitty outside.
Prime: I’ve got to get away.
OMWC: But baby it’s shitty outside.
It doesn’t hurt when they started with one of Zeppelin’s best songs.
“There’s something to be said for low humidity.”
It’s basically a gating issue for Mrs. Dean and me now. Now that we’ve both retired, we’ve played around with “We can live anywhere, really. Where would we consider moving?” And most of the US east of the Rockies is out.
Honestly, if we could find just the right thing in Oracle, AZ, that would be our sweet spot. Enough elevation to avoid the punishing heat of Tucson (and Phoenix), but still not really cold. Close enough to both for access to Big City Stuff when we need it/feel like it. Basically the northern foothills of the Catalinas, with nice topography and native vegetation. But it’s small, selection is limited, and Casa Dean is pretty sweet and hard to beat.
I have live my whole life west of the Rockies and my time in the East changes my opinion not at all.
Every time I play around with that question, I end up in Pittsburg.
I too have lived my whole life on the west coast, but my son moving to NYC changed a lot of things in my mind.
Oracle is a great town. I worked a couple of years as an AZ State Park Ranger there.
You are correct that it has(d) a bunch going for it.*
*I haven’t been there in over 15 years so…..
We like it, but just nothing worth trading in what we have, yet. The “front” side (to the west) is kind of flat and meh. On the “back” side, though, it gets more hilly, more elevation, more vegetation (including trees!), and it backs up to a national park. Runs about 10 degrees cooler than Tucson, 15 cooler than Phoenix. An hour or so to Phoenix, half an hour to Tucson.
For us, a sweet spot all around. Just need the right thing.
“An hour or so to Phoenix, half an hour to Tucson.”
Are you near any wineries? I stopped at a winery in that general area maybe 25 years ago just to say I tasted an Arizona wine. It turned out to be pretty good. Wonder if they are still around.
We don’t live in Oracle, but I don’t think there are any wineries there. I think they are more to the east and south(?) of Tucson.
Here I sit in Iowa with no place better to go.
To wit, I give you John Paul Jones and company with When the Levee Breaks.
It’s a good rendition.
I get wanting to save money on your hobbies, but c’mon man!
Hal David Walsh, 20, of Alachua, was arrested yesterday after allegedly printing barcode stickers and using them to change the prices of nine Lego sets at Target.
A thief is a thief.
Party in the back!
This is fantastic, I hope it makes to to the links at some point.
https://x.com/JackPosobiec/status/1875285867394478501
The new fat Soundgarden singer tried to crowd surf with… predictable results.
I saw that. WTF is with that crowd? At least wave her off when she let’s you know she is coming.
A totally disinterested crowd, that did not want to deal with it. The show must have been horrible.
Soundgarden fans are in their 50s now – waif models might want to reconsider crowd surfing with that crowd.
An actual laugh on that. “Waif” is not a term I would associate with that person.
It did kinda remind me of this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qrv9c-udCrg
Zooey Deschanel.
I’ve seen pits part like Moses was there when some assholes kept trying to dive or get lifted.
Wait a sec. s this really the old Soundgarden (Kimm Thally or how ever you spell it and the rest) or is it like one guy who played with them for a few years trying to cash in on the name?.
Yeah, wikipedia says they are an ex-band.
I wouldn’t trust Wikipedia.
The Cybertruck bomb story keeps getting weirder. SF guys are all over the inconsistencies. Even weirder – the guy won a History Channel best soldier competition 10 years ago.
https://x.com/MJTruthUltra/status/1875365820970471505
The whole Cybertruck at Trump Tower thing is a little too pat.
The amateur bomb from somebody who absolutely should have known better (and had access to the good stuff) is just, what?
The “body is unrecognizable burned, but his wallet was completely intact!)” is maybe plausible, but in context? I struggle.
Looks like the default rule (“your government did it and is lying to you about it”) hasn’t been displaced, in my book.
So an “amateur” bomb? If some nefarious government types were behind it, why wasn’t it an effective, professional bomb? And what would be the purpose behind framing some stooge with an amateur bomb that didn’t do much damage at all?
It’s such a screwy story it might just be true. He was a total nutjob who blew himself up with fireworks after his wife couldn’t take his B.S. anymore.
About the only thing missing from his manifesto would be a statement regarding his desire to live life as a woman. I have no doubt something along those lines will pop up in the coming weeks.
His intention wasn’t to blow up Trump Tower. It was to get attention. And from my professional perspective, I can absolutely see why his wallet would be intact if it was in his back pocket, or even on the floorboard, for the same reason they could identify the tattoos. The incendiary device vented upwards, as did the flash fire that engulfed the cabin of the vehicle. The burn damage would decrease as you go farther down the body, plus the protection of the seat behind him.
Like I said, based on his history, his demons finally won. I’m going with Occam’s Razor and leaving the tinfoil in the drawer on this one.
Unless his demons were telling the truth. 🥴
Demons lie, but a good like has a shard of truth.
*lie
Fair points, Spud.
Doom, the gallery experience.
I want to shoot the barrels and blow up some art!
Only the glass of wine? Where are the real weapons?
Good on Vikings for doing this.
https://dnyuz.com/2025/01/04/vikings-buy-2m-in-tickets-at-lions-stadium-for-division-title-game-then-sell-to-own-fans-at-discount/
I am looking forward to watching that Sunday Afternoon (Night for most) game.
My desires for the Super Bowl? Bills against Vikings or Lions so a new champ can be crowned.
“With the game at Detroit’s Ford Field, the Vikings are throwing their money around, trying to offset the Lions’ home-field advantage. The Vikings spent $2 million on about 1,900 tickets for seats located behind the visitor sideline at Ford Field Sunday and are now reselling those tickets to fans at a heavy discount, according to Sports Illustrated. ”
Crafty, good Gamesmanship. (And PR, business +.)
Semi-extraneous: Am I somehow wrong when I assume every team, or city, has a relationship with a top-end escort service? Think Amsterdam. Seems a
‘simple’ NDA and Safe Buttons would greatly assist. Seems good business -and legal- sense. *Costanza voice* Am I wrong, here?
While I’m kind of pulling for the Lions, I still would rather their first Superbowl be against the Browns, for the lovely symmetry of two original teams (depending on how you count the Browns) who would be going to their first Superbowl.
And play it in Buffalo so only the pierogi belt would care.
If it is the Lions, and they win, you will have an OG Detroit Brown Out.
Will any of us live long enough to see the Browns make it to the Super Bowl?
Chafed:
I hope to. I was joking with an older guy at the bar that I was old enough to remember when we were good in the 80’s, but had never seen a championship team. He admitted being old enough to remember the last championship (1964). The girlfriend thought this might mean that season ticket prices would go down in price next year. Such an innocent new sports fan…
My absolute preference would be to watch Bills and Vikings in the Super Bowl.
Two teams with 0-4 SB records who were dominant in their SB days. Imagine the NFL Films voice, “Two 0-4 teams enter the field. One will be crowned, and one will tie the records for the most Super losses.”
I’m kind of afraid to be rooting for the Bills in a Super Bowl.
‘time to wake up, we are are being led by weak and feckless leadership who only serve to enrich themselves’
I can’t really argue with that…
Not that blowing yourself up is really a good solution.
— Wesley Yang https://x.com/wesyang/status/1873645413120528511
We only had two. But we practiced benign neglect from early ages. Fix your own breakfast. Make your own bed. They were doing their own wash by the time they were teens. They were shitty with their work, but it got done. Both seem to be responsible adults now.
My kids knew how to forage from a young age. We made sure they had plenty of forageable foods.
ha I was the youngest of four and the benign neglect continued long after all the older brothers were gone.
Anecdotal: The Birth Order Theory plays out perfectly with 6 years older bro. He was a kinda half-parent, and it assuredly had a lot to do with his brain. However, it’s been confirmed he had his friends march around the block/house as their commander of sorts before I came along. We have ~the same intelligence and athletic abilities, with completely different personalities and interests. I think there may be a legit biological semi-inkling of an idea behind the ‘heir and a spare’ medieval phrase. With child mortality a huge problem, it would play well to invest all the best genes in the first one ya conceive. The backup is insurance.
Bro is very calculating. His control and planning would be quite freaky, but his business, family, etc plans seem to more or less always work out, are moral and well-meaning. He would love to be the Philosopher King he thinks himself to be. Natch, he’s in lockstep with the new priestly caste. I’m quite curious what the rest of the family is thinking, post Trump-elect 2.0, but they’re being politely silent. I do wonder.
Okay, so mom’s been admitted for IV antibiotics.
Husband and I can’t get home even if we wanted to because of icepocalypse.
That means hospital cafeteria food in the morning! /bright side
Sorry.
Best to hunker down where you are in an ice storm.
Best wishes.
So sepsis? At least you have food and a blanket. Stay safe.
Kidney infection. No mention of sepsis, but it did cross my mind.
Okay, they caught it in time. Good news.
I had lunch at the hospital cafeteria a couple weeks ago (“Peruvian chicken” and asparagus) and it was damn good. I wonder if the patients get anything like that.
I’m sorry to hear that, but glad she’s where she needs to be. Hopefully a swift recovery. Hospital food, oh dearie me, how I strongly approve. I’m eternally thankful it’s improved in my lifetime, well-beyond the sit-com shit show I’d feared. Patients who are well-fed, comfortable and semi-distracted/entertained tend to feel better, mentally and physically. Kinda priceless. Whoddathunk?
Hospital food you get in bed is entirely different from hospital cafeteria food, especially bfast.
(That’s the food you smuggle in for your patient! *taps nose* )
Don’t piss off an OpenAI chatbot, even when it lies about you:
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/ghosted-chatgpt-how-jonathan-turley-was-first-defamed-then-deleted-ai#google_vignette
Meh, it’s the company putting your name on a stop list, not the LLM making some sort of decision (because they can’t; they don’t think).
I remain an “AI” skeptic.
Me too. I’m not qualified to evaluate the underlying technology but it appears to have significant problems.. It’s got lots of promise but it’s not going to take to Utopia.
It’s 70% party trick, 30% useful at this point.
Feels like we’re still pretty far from AGI (think Jarvis in Iron Man)
It’s great at providing a correct answer to a well-worded technical question and when a simple web search just returns junk – I had a good example of that earlier today.
But anything not technical, you’re just getting lefty internet consensus.
Slumbrew, I agree with your assessment. But getting your name off the shit list seems to be a kafkaesque process.
I also agree with the other assessments. AI is just punchcards multiple generations removed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_funerals_in_the_United_States#List_of_lying_in_state_and_honor_recipients
Taft was the first ex-president to lie in state who didn’t die in office. Every ex-president since, except for Coolidge, FDR, and Nixon, has been displayed as such. The imperial presidency.
Yet another point in Silent Cal’s favor.
We’ll never see his like again.
We lose.
*pours out bottle*
Didn’t FDR die in office?
More like in bed with his mistress.
Yes.
Have I told you all how much I loath Mike Tomlin lately? I know at least not this year.
More presidential thoughts:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/map-where-every-us-president-was-born-120535059.html
Reminds of the statement earlier that the Ivies have a lock on institutions.
Ohio is overrepresented and needs to redistribute its presidents.
Vance was born in OH…
And?
I still don’t know him from Adam. He might not be worth supporting.
The locations of presidential gravesites are a bit more spread out — yet strangely concentrated at times.
For instance, three different locales are the final resting place for two presidents, and one of those — Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, VA, also contains the grave of CSA President Jeff Davis.
Good morning everybody!
🌄🍖☕🙇
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aqP4-dUMkMc
🎶🎶
https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2025/01/04/seattle-restaurant-owner-cries-after-minimum-wage-hike-forces-her-close/
The real minimum wage is $0.