Saturday evening links from the Gulch

by | Nov 11, 2023 | Daily Links | 107 comments

We sell coffee and food.

It’s been a worthwhile and productive trip to Glibs Gulch. I’m here for a few more days, but the time has been going fast. A group of ancient Lions Club members enjoyed pulled pork and bbq beans that I whipped up Thursday night, with house made pumpkin pie for dessert. We picked a pretty shitty time to buy a coffee house, but we’re still here and about to thrive.

 

Links anyone?

 

Lucy got some ‘splainin to do.

 

That’s a lot of work just to get laid.

 

Maybe knock of the virtue signalling and just try to make a good movie for a change?

 

We experiment with puberty blockers on children, why not Ketamine on the depressed?

 

Iceland is in pre-ejaculation mode.

 

“We are young! We are dumb! But we know how to chant!” Looks like Linda Sarsour dropped by Joe’s place.

 

Okay, I’m good for today. Peace out, Glibbies. Time to prepare for Boise losing to New Mexico.

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Spudalicious

Spudalicious

Survey says I’m a Paleolibertarian bitches. That means I eat β€œL”ibertarians for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Soave tastes a little fruity. Wait a minute, that doesn’t sound quite right…

107 Comments

    • dbleagle

      Mahalo. A good rift eruption is always a fun sight. This area is well onto the European Plate.

  1. Raven Nation

    Thanks Spud.

    Does I0bot still hang in GG?

    • Spudalicious

      Yes he does. He was here for a whiskey Thursday night.

      • Raven Nation

        Thanks! Glad to hear it.

  2. The Bearded Hobbit

    Time to prepare for Boise losing to New Mexico

    The Low-Blows will figure a way to choke.

    • groat scotum

      Didn’t even know this rivalry is a thing but I am instantly on team New Mexico.

      WE CAN’T HAVE NOTHING BUT JODIE FOSTER AT THE VLA

      Granted, that’s a lot. Love the gal.

      • Pat

        Driving through Albuquerque on my way to Texas was lovely. Beautiful topography. I could see myself living there. Clovis, on the other hand, is the sketchiest place I’ve ever set foot in my life, and that includes the Indian reservations surrounding Spokane.

        Also, next to The Shins, Beirut and Los Alamos, Jodie Foster ain’t shit.

      • groat scotum

        Don’t get me started on Beirut, don’t do it, I love Zach Condon like a man shouldn’t love another man.

      • groat scotum

        May as well ask me if OK GO had any good hits. WELL LET ME TELL YOU

      • Pat

        If chronic disease gives me sufficient time to prepare for the eventuality, I wouldn’t mind nodding out to this after a nice glass of secobarbital-infused Four Roses Single Barrel.

      • groat scotum

        Tremenbdous.

      • Pat

        I find his voice very soothing, in an almost paternal way, which is strange since we share a birth year. I wish he’d put out another Balkan gypsy circus record like Gulag Orkestar.

      • Chafed

        When I moved to California I drove through Texas into New Mexico. About half an hour into the state the landscape changed dramatically. It is incredibly beautiful.

  3. Ted S.

    The young men, mostly in their early 20s, hail from across the South: Tenessee, Missouri, Texas, Arkansas, and Montana.

    LOL!

    • R.J.

      Journalist missed geography day at college.

      • Ted S.

        I presume the journalist is Israeli and shouldn’t be expected to be as knowledgeable about US geography as Americans, but it still highlights misconceptions much of the rest of the world has about the size of America.

      • rhywun

        Montana is just outside NYC, right?

      • Mojeaux

        Just east, over the river.

    • DrOtto

      Flyover country, the South, it’s all the same.

  4. The Late P Brooks

    Good tune, Joe.

  5. DEG

    Good song

  6. The Late P Brooks

    Chervinsky’s lawyer reacted to the report by saying, “All speculations about my involvement in the attack on Nord Stream are being spread by Russian propaganda without any basis.”

    These scurrilous allegations have no basis in fact. but if I did it, you should thank me.

    • Ted S.

      To be fair, there’s a difference between Ukraine destroying something they think is helping the country attacking them, and an allegedly neutral third country like the US doing it.

      • Chafed

        So much this.

    • R.J.

      Oh my!

    • pistoffnick

      What’s allepo?

    • Ted S.

      What’s a leper?

      — Gary Johnson

      • groat scotum

        Oh come on, he was high.

  7. The Late P Brooks

    Speaking of celebrity endorsements

    Mia Khalifa has shared a claim that all Democrats who joined Republicans to censure Representative Rashida Tlaib this week have received substantive donations from a pro-Israel political action committee.

    ——-

    Nearly two dozen Democrats joined Republicans in the vote to censure Tlaib over her comments, while just four Republicans voted against the measure.

    Weighing in on this, former adult film actress Khalifa shared a claim that all of the Democrats who voted to censure Tlaib had taken sizable donations from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), a bipartisan, pro-Israel political action committee.

    Okay.

    • rhywun

      “News”

    • Chafed

      Which STD turns you into an antisemite?

      • DrOtto

        Guessing crabs, because of Jewish dietary restrictions or something?

      • DrOtto

        Although crabs aren’t really an STD, more of a condition.

      • Chafed

        Close enough.

  8. Shpip

    A barrage of hundreds of earthquakes, including two exceeding a magnitude of 5.0 and at least seven topping 4.5, rattled Iceland’s Reykjanes Peninsula on Friday. The seismic swarm suggests the eruption of an area volcano in the hours or day ahead and has prompted the Icelandic Meteorological Office to declare a Civil Protection Emergency Level.</em

    Sounds like Iceland is a Huffjnanda puffin and-a ready to blow.

  9. rhywun

    Lucy got some β€˜splainin to do.

    I feel less informed coming out of that article than I thought I was going in.

    I have a feeling whoever “wins” whatever the hell all this chaos is leading up to will write the history and we’ll never know who really did it.

  10. rhywun

    Fifteen American Christian cowboys with their wide-brimmed hats, denim shirts, tight Wrangler jeans, leather belts with large buckles, and well-worn boots

    *fans self*

    • Pat

      The Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads is one of the best concept albums ever recorded, but I think these lads may have taken it too seriously.

      • rhywun

        “blend[ing] My Bloody Valentine’s sonic feedback with Kitchens of Distinction’s swirling atmosphere and the grace of Jeff Buckley”

        How have I not heard of this?!

      • Pat

        Well worth a listen, but it’s lengthy, and ideally heard front to back in order. Not really a singles record.

      • rhywun

        Cool. Will check out.

    • KK, Non-Man

      Right?

    • Mojeaux

      I LOLd your “I’d hit it” re Trey. I would have agreed with you, but he is the grandfather of the core characters of my universe, so, um, ew. It was hard enough to write what sex scenes there are because of that.

      • Ted S.

        I imagine Laura Ingalls in the loft of that little house listening to the bumping and grinding and moaning from Charles and Caroline that produced Laura’s younger siblings.

      • R C Dean

        Go on . . . .

      • slumbrew

        Heh, I have a vague memory of that being alluded to in the books.

      • Mojeaux

        Call for references, because I don’t remember that at all.

      • Ted S.

        Spare a thought for Rose having to write the sex scenes between Laura and Almanzo.

      • Mojeaux

        I haven’t read anything of Rose’s, but I doubt she did.

      • Mojeaux

        Oh wait. I think you’re about to tell me Rose wrote the Little House books.

      • Pat

        I think you’re about to tell me Rose wrote the Little House books.

        There’s no way to know for certain how the process was undertaken, but

        Have to finish my mother’s goddam juvenile, which has stopped me flat.

        seems to imply more than an incidental collaboration.

      • Mojeaux

        Oh we all know it was more than an incidental collaboration, but exactly how much red ink she spilled is what is at question.

      • slumbrew

        It’s a vague memory from decades ago, of Laura hearing some noises from up in the loft.

        Perhaps I’m conflating it with something else, as I do. I’ll happily defer to you.

      • Mojeaux

        I will re-read. Not a hardship. πŸ˜‰

  11. Pat

    We experiment with puberty blockers on children, why not Ketamine on the depressed?

    There’s substantial clinical research indicating breakthrough results using ketamine on patients with long term treatment-resistant depression, which is in large part why its use has been opened up slightly in recent years. That article reads like the same reefer madness fearmongering bullshit that’s been peddled since the war on drugs was declared.

    • Spudalicious

      I would prefer some more clinical research before making it a standard practice. This isn’t a bag of weed.

      • Pat

        The salacious reporting aside, it’s hardly a standard practice. Most mainstream physicians won’t touch it. In any case though, it’s already locked up behind a prescription pad. Civil liability and informed consent are sufficient.

      • DrOtto

        Consult your local vet. It’s very loosely regulated on the veterinary side.

    • Mojeaux

      My brother has refractory depression and not even ketamine could touch it.

      • Pat

        Yeah, unfortunately, sometimes there’s just not enough pharmaceuticals can do to help. There’s also a remaining question of how permanent the changes after treatment are even in successful patients. But as with most over-scheduled drugs, job 1 was just getting past the regulatory hurdles to even begin exploring it clinically.

  12. westernsloper

    I’ve never partaken, but I thought the whole point of ketamine was hallucinations?

    • Pat

      More OBE – it’s a dissociative, and was originally used as for anesthesia.

    • DrOtto

      Recreationally yes. You have to be careful though, it’ll put you out like a light for hours if you aren’t careful. Easy to over do.

    • Pat

      Considering the source, I was expecting the carnivorous plant to bring the entire family to a gory conclusion.

  13. Fourscore

    If the “Ink Spots” and the “Kinks” merged what they chose for a band name?

    • Spudalicious

      Ink Spinks.

      • slumbrew

        Kink Spots, obvs

      • Spudalicious

        A running gag.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      Skink Pots.

  14. rhywun

    I just paid for an Amazon order with c.c. points. WTF? They have never offered this before. I have thousands of reward dollars. πŸ€ͺ

    • Chafed

      Please don’t become a hoarder.

      • rhywun

        Heh. I just moved so I’m needing a bunch of stuff. It will slow down.

        Also, ask Mo. I am the opposite of a hoarder.

        But the idea that I have basically $2K+ of free shit waiting for me from Amazon is kind of blowing my mind. I had no idea what to do with those points – all the offers were “deals” I had no interest in.

      • Pat

        $2K+ of free shit waiting for me from Amazon is kind of blowing my mind. I had no idea what to do with those points – all the

        It’s happening!

      • Mojeaux

        Legit LOL

      • rhywun

        Enh, I’m still working though the last one.

      • Chafed

        Lol! Glad to see it’s back in stock. Let’s hope for more hysterical reviews.

    • slumbrew

      It’s been an option with Amex for a long while.

      AFAIK, airline miles are still the best use of points, per The Points Guy and the like.

      • rhywun

        Maybe, but I’ve been using Amex on Amazon for years and this is the first time they’ve ever offered to take my reward dollars. Β―\_(ツ)_/Β―

    • Sean

      Amex and Discover integrate very well with Amazon for their reward points. I get a lot of “free” stuff.

  15. Brochettaward

    You know what a shark has never done?

    Been First. Fuck you it’s fucking First week.

    Also, you are welcome for my service.

  16. UnCivilServant

    LCDR_Fish – I just saw the pogress pcitures you posted.

    For a zenetal, I’ve not yet really successfully implemented the technique, but as I understand it, you would have a base of dark gray for the shadows instead of pure black, and apply the white from a bit of a circle above, so that it’s still largely near the direct 90 degrees, but catches less of a hard edge on the shadows for some of the smaller geometries. And that speckling is not going to help it look right. When you do start trying an airbrush, a few passed of thin white from above with time to dry in between will get a cleaner coverage. I assume you’re using a spray can at the moment, and whatever $0.0025 nozzle is on it doesn’t get you the even spread of droplets you need.

  17. DrOtto

    I had a terrible day. A mechanic friend/mentor of mine passed away in October after a 2nd bout of colon cancer. Today was the day I helped go through his stuff to help determine what was valuable/what was garbage. Task completed, I needed a break and decided to watch Step Brothers. What a dumb movie, thank God for low brow humor when we need it most. I haven’t laughed that hard in awhile. Say what you will about Will Ferrell (or John C. Reilly), but if you need a good cheap laugh, he delivers.

    • Sean

      Sorry for your loss.

  18. Beau Knott

    Good morning all!
    Only a single link today as it’s to a whole album. Another of my semi-obscure prog loves, no vocals, Camel with The Snow Goose.

    Share and enjoy!