What a baseball game last night. Big Christmas getting a two run homer in the bottom of the 9th with two outs to tie it up. Fry coming up in the bottom of the 10th, runner on third, two outs, one ball, two strikes, to hit a walk off two run home run himself.
Just a couple weeks away from Halloween, and I still need to pick up full size candy bars to hand out. Because of my poor planning, it’s looking like that’ll be done the day before the holiday, as I’m heading out of town tomorrow morning.
I don’t entirely hate this list.
Pretty sure the marketing group knew exactly what they were doing.
AI-bots versus NPC bots. Either way, we all lose.
This intersects several of my interests and I’ll be looking into it.
We will only allow all natural froot.
Would banning car insurance stop car accidents?
I have an opinion on this. I can walk to the new stadium location.
Keep up things like this indie devs. It’s one of the reasons I like you guys. And try looking into it yourselves big devs.
These will be the next plague vector, I’m sure.
Still going to stick with the fall/Halloween theme for the cocktails, but I’m not going to offer you something as terrible as this. I feel that more flips need to be out and about.
Great Pumpkin
- 4 parts pumpkin beer (2 ounces)
- 2 parts apple brandy/applejack (1 ounce)
- 2 parts rye (1 ounce)
- 1 part maple syrup (0.5 ounce, strongly flavored)
- 1 whole egg (pasteurized if you’re concerned, aquafaba if you want to go vegetarian)
This one can make a mess, as you start by adding everything into a shaker (with no ice) and dry-shaking it (yes, there’s liquid in there, but no ice). Yes, this includes the beer, keep in mind what happens when you shake up a carbonated beverage. After this, add ice to the shaker, and shake again until chilled. Then strain (double strain to be fancy), into a chilled fizz glass or coupe, and garnish with some freshly grated nutmeg.
Well, that’s all I’ve got, I’m sure y’all got something to say in the comments though.
Same — I’m justifying it as “limiting the time they sit around in storage” though… 😉
Do they sell full-size bars anymore? Or are they all two-packs?
I certainly thought so! I usually do Wallyworld and get boxes which have like 4 different types of full bars, 5 each or so (I think). My goal is to put together baggies with at least 2 full bars (typically chocolate and Skittles or Starburst), a couple fruit snack / small granola (for the health nut kids to trade) and mini / “fun size” things. Honestly it turns into a “see what catches my eye” once I get there — but at least 2 per bag is the definite goal.
Re: Halloween — y’all do love the Misfits this month! Alternate / obligatory. Still a really good album, as far as I’m concerned.
I’ve been trying to stick with a band or theme for the music links sprinkled throughout.
Others are following your lead, which has been fun.
TOK:
I don’t believe I was the first, I believe Tonio was the one who started slipping things in.
He’s a goer!?!? {wink, wink, nudge, nudge}
Free public restrooms are great, but you gotta keep them clean and junkie free.
Of all the things my taxes pay for, I am least bothered by the rest areas along the roads.
Easiest way to do this is to charge a buck to use them.
Fuck no.
Quarter, and you get it back when you leave. This is what they did with shopping carts for a little while, and it kept them from “wandering” off.
When my wife and I visited Paris, they had these automated public restrooms that allowed one person at a time*, with internal sensors to verify, and they ran a sanitation cycle between users. In a turn of events that will shock you, it was the most disgusting restroom I have ever used. The toilet was hopelessly clogged and the whole thing stank of excrement.
*no sexy time, I guess
Were they outdoors?
Terrible to be in Paris and have no where to oui, oui….
Were they outdoors?
Yes, it was in a molded plastic enclosure maybe the size of four porta-pots together. It was located near a popular tourist destination, maybe Arc de Triomphe?
Terrible to be in Paris and have no where to oui, oui….
The multitudinous homeless felt no such limitations. Much of the city smelt of urine.
Dio has never even been nominated? Holy crap.
I was going to bitch about J. Geils not making the list, but Dio – seriously?
Also – it was rotten that Bob Welch wasn’t inducted with Fleetwood Mac.
I’ve listened to White Flag a couple times today… guess who I misread that as? 😉
Humble Pie.
‘Umble Pie was originally made from the internal organs of deer. It was served to more humble members of the castle staff.
The Rock-n-Roll Hall of Fame is a crock of shit, and entry is governed by a pissy minded pack of fart sniffing gatekeepers who are entirely driven by their own preferences and prejudices.
Carolla has an ongoing rant about this – re: Joan Jett, and other “not” rockers in the HoF while so many other artists are ignored.
Cherry Poppin Daddies
Don Quixote, with their real ska roots, is better.
I love their swing album, though. Every song. Drunk Daddy is also a rad song, and predictably, as lyrically sad as you’d think. The swing is an interesting way of ‘hiding’ the darkness.
Bro is also a drummer ‘n played jazz in HS, getting involved on his own in several ska/rock bands in the late 90s. Whatever anyone thinks, Cherry Poppin’ Daddies’ full swing album combines spectacular musicianship with a fun, easy entry into music outside of rock. Catchy as fuck.
They quasi-hated being known as a Swing Band, but hey, ya got rent to pay and production costs. *shrug*
A last caress before they go Code Blue?
/nsfw
Re: KFC — I’m surprised they didn’t go here.. I mean come on — if you’re going to trot out Warrant, you might as well.
I have an opinion on this. I can walk to the new stadium location.
Do you really want to be inundated by swarms of football fans?
Considering I willing go to the games… yes? There have already been jokes among my friends asking for parking space in my driveway for games.
Neph’s Game Day Parking
$80
Shit. I pay $50 to park next the arena for Avs games. Neph could easily get $150.
I was unaware, Mr. Brooks – that 12 Cleveland fans constitutes a swarm.
it’s like a murder of crows or a parliment of owls, a ‘swarm of fans’ is just a term for a group of them.
A murder of Raiders fans
Please, its a Retard of Raiders.
Oooh… dozens! Well, that will out show all the kids who like the bright colors and that the marketing is geared towards.
See also: Fuck off, California driven hippies. (I don’t think CA needed to ban all these fucking dyes and I certainly don’t think it needs to spread… don’t like it? Don’t buy the fucking cereal, you fucking Karens!)
I’m probably extra grouchy on this as Froot Loops were my non-healthy cereal of choice growing up. Hands off, you bastards!
How much is the public on the hook for the new Browns stadium?
I don’t know but I wager it’s measured in Billions.
That’s still being discussed. The county has said they weren’t going to support any stadium if it was outside the city proper. The city (Brook Park) itself is salivating at being able to use a bunch of dead industrial property. The state hasn’t signed on for anything.
They’ll be playing in the current stadium until 2028 as it currently stands.
I was checking the score online just in time to catch the tying runs and was gratified to see the Grauniads pull out the win. It’s always a good day when the Yankees lose under any circumstances. Go Grauniads! Way to represent Flyover Country!
I figured you would. Delighted to see it’s a great convenience for you!
I’d root for the Indians. Not sure I can root for the Guardians even against the Yankees.
Does anyone pay attention to the R&RHOF anymore? Those exclusions excepting Mariah Carey and the other whose name I already forgot indicate the answer should be a solid “no.”
It tooks me several minutes to deacrnymize your message, so I can safely say, no, I do not pay attention to the Ringling and Ringling Half Ocean Flotilla.
They’re doing a big event this weekend. There’s the MLB playoffs, the Bengals/Browns game, and the HoF induction. For the first time, there’s planned events between the HoF and the Browns game (they’re on the same street, with the Science Center between them).
At least among me and my friend group, none of us are impressed by the Rock Hall. I’ve never paid for admission, and only gone when there was another event. On the other hand, I’ve gone to several free concerts outside there, as they hold them through the warmer months.
It’s another silly listicle that could be argued endlessly by folks with unique opinions. Best avoid the whole mess.
So, have you ever been to a bar or in a chat room, rhywun?
Not really. I love the Yes performance of “Roundabout” with Geddy Lee on bass.
I was singularly unimpressed when Dolly was inducted because … rock and roll? … but she noted that, then said, “I figured I needed to write a rock song” and performed … a country song on an electric guitar. 🙄
https://youtu.be/t1-NsnlPc54?si=lH2cAdst6XzC9h7K
Well, R&R is just the fusion of Country and Blues, so, she fits.
There have already been jokes among my friends asking for parking space in my driveway for games.
People in the neighborhoods around the Indianapolis Motor speedway used to cash in on the busy days, like qualifying weekends and especially race day.
I don’t think the crowds are as big as they used to be.
The people who live near the training camp sell parking, drinks, and merch. At least before the sessions that are open to the public.
How are the crowds for the Brickyard 400?
Large and expansive. Scores of thousands? Corner parking for $20 if you’re lucky, seen up to $40.
The IN State Fair also draws a fairly (Midwestern) tremendous crowd. Easily 100k mulling about last time I went. (I bet other folk are envious of our ‘low’ parking spots (if ya can find ’em).
Then she blasted practices that make the problem even worse. “Some insurance company policies – for example covering reimbursement of ransomware payments – incentivize payment of ransoms that fuel cybercrime ecosystems,” Neuberger wrote. “This is a troubling practice that must end.”
Don’t pay the Danegeld.
Good lord….
Trump gets off plane in Michigan and a reporter asks him “Kamala Harris says you’re exhausted and that’s why you are canceling events”
Now, who would ask such a stupid question.
And how would you handle it?
Answers here:
https://x.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1847362851234861341?s=19
Excellent answer. I doubt the retard was expecting it.
It’s cute how all these people have suddenly discovered the word “Fascist”. Was it on the word of the day calendar?
Yesterday the word was “testy”.
It wasn’t “contentious?”
I guess “weird” is word of the year.
Good luck to the Indians. I just want to see the Yankees and Dodgers not get to the World Series.
Never forget. The Yankees killed one of ours.
There’s a reason for the rivalry.
Didn’t know that story. Thanks!
KSuellington:
Not a problem at all. It’s a little nugget of trivia a lot of Cleveland fans get to use to show that we are truly the ones who hate the Yankees. I was more surprised that this year was the first year in history that the Tigers and the Indians played against each other in the postseason.
Yeah you guys got more reason to hate them. I’d just always had a slight dislike of them due to their popularity and New York Cityness. As they played in the AL I didn’t have the hate for them that I did the Dodgers. But the whole Aaron judge thing with SF rubbed me very wrong and I especially want to see him never make a WS win as a Yankee.
Moreover, the Yankees are the team of “elite” fans in NYC. If I liked baseball, I would be a Mets fan.
My boss (from Cleveland) gets mad at me when I call them the Indians.
*blink*
Fuck him.
If you must compromise, call them the Tribe.
No compromise, I think it’s hilarious.
I’d go with “Savages”.
I intentionally call them the Guardians around my “They’ll always be the Indians” friends just to piss them off.
Probably not a big surprise to you people.
“I intentionally call them the Guardians around my “They’ll always be the Indians” friends just to piss them off.”
I will still call them the Indians, but I approve of this message.
As a Californian, from Californian parents, Californian grand fathers, and Californian great grand mothers, I will be rooting for the Yankees.
Unless the Indians get in.
Depraved indifference
“If there are people who just don’t work well in that environment and don’t want to, that’s OK, there are other companies around,” Garman said, according to a transcript viewed by CNBC. “At Amazon, we want to be in an environment where we are working together, and we feel that collaborative environment is incredibly important for our innovation and for our culture.”
Amazon has observed that working in-office helps teams be more collaborative and effective, a company spokesperson told CNBC.
Go work somewhere else? What a heartless bastard.
Challenge accepted.
How are the crowds for the Brickyard 400?
Big, I guess. I haven’t been back there for years.
Lightening the load
Automaker Stellantis plans to shutter and sell its large vehicle proving grounds in Arizona at the end of this year, CNBC has learned.
The decision is the latest cost-cutting measure by the trans-Atlantic automaker under CEO Carlos Tavares, who has been increasingly under pressure from Wall Street, dealers and the United Auto Workers union amid the company’s lagging financial performance, layoffs and overall business decisions.
The Arizona Proving Grounds covers 4,000 acres between Phoenix and Las Vegas in Yucca, Arizona. It has been used for vehicle testing and development for the automaker since then-Chrysler purchased the property for $35 million from Ford Motor
in 2007.
Who needs a test facility when you can do it all on the simulator?
Stellantis: Where quality is job none.
That’s Kwality with a K.
Sometimes helping out folks in the back woods of southern Appalachia can get extra exciting.
https://x.com/pnwguerrilla/status/1847031582118285722
Great Pumpkin
It was never that great.
Pretty sure the marketing group knew exactly what they were doing.
Maybe it was their first time.
Opera clap.
Government efficiency.
I’m glad it takes 20 guys to do what two guys can do with one of them using a chainsaw and the other a wheelbarrow.
At first I thought they were helping out people in the mountains with firewood. It’s getting cold at night. Nope. Just a dozen government enforcers doing the work of one man with a wheelbarrow.
LOL
It’s perilously close to Election Day. Gotta get as many Customs & Border Patrol agents as possible away from the border.
WTF?
I am not sure what to take away from that. Are they giving us the finger?
Screams “We need a photo op! Quick… look busy!”
Holy fuck.
😲😂
They’ve already got the guy with the chainsaw. They could buy a wheelbarrow down at Home Depot for, what, $49.97? Then replace 18 of these MFers who are no doubt making 6 figures and getting overtime for doing this. FFS.
This was about as good of an idea as eating a Hot Pocket.
NEW: Kamala Harris releases her pre-recorded video for the Al Smith dinner in New York that she didn’t show up for.
Comedian Jim Gaffigan made fun of the Vice President after the crowd gave a dismal applause once it ended.
I saw it. It is…unbeleivable. It was written by a retard? To me it came off as an underhanded insult, a genuine insult, not the roast kind. Also, imbecilic.
“It’s a very important dinner…”
So important that she didn’t show up, sent a video that was less than 4 minutes long (does that even qualify as a “speech”?) and had someone else do most of the talking during that video.
I would love to know who thought/suggested that not showing up was OK and wouldn’t really be a big deal. What a motherfucking ridiculous blunder.
‘I’ve got more important things to do than speak at a dinner honoring the memory of the first Presidential candidate from a marginalized demographic in the history of the US”
I’m exceedingly busy packing for a little thing called GlibsCruise, but I’m still here with your weekly reminder. Thant’s how much I care about you shitheels
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87821224358?pwd=eW55MTRDbDNtQkh2aHd3M1Nmenlzdz09
Vox gonna Vox.
Republicans enjoy an advantage in the Electoral College. Just how much is up for debate, but that advantage does mean that even if the American people hand Vice President Kamala Harris a modest victory in the popular vote this November, Donald Trump could still become president. He’d then get to nominate loyal Republican judges eager to implement his party’s agenda from the bench, much as he did during his first term.
You clearly do not understand the Constitution, it’s intention and/or you do understand that it is intended to divide power and limit government and that doesn’t allow the tyranny you so clearly desire.
(never mind that the EC is a mechanism that ensures that the states, being separate political entities, elect the president of the states. Additionally, the house is the house of the people and the senate is the house of the states…)
If you change the rules of the election, you change the way the candidates campaign, and you change the way voters in lopsided states like California vote.
Yeah, I still think eliminating the EC isn’t the win the Dems think. They’re delusional if they think the parties will keep showing up to the polls in the same percentages as they do now.
Oh, they understand it, they just hate it and it’s implications.
Re: The push to get rid of the electoral college
Wife – “I dont want those fucking people in San Francisco telling me how to live!”
I would say that ditching the electoral college would be the single most unamaerican thing one can do.
As someone who was born and lives in San Francisco I agree with your wife.
I don’t entirely hate this list.
A lot of those bands have no fucks to give. The only reason to go is to possibly get a sales bump and a small tour.
Also, why don’t they call it the Popular Music Hall of Fame or something. A lot of “not rock n’ roll” artists in it already.
We will only allow all natural froot.
Protests? Lol. There’s an easy way to solve this, stupid people. Just stop fucking buying it.
Don’t leave us in suspense – how was the class? Was it a fancy enough place to have to wear pants?
Pants, bowling shirt and fez were the dress I showed up in. They went over two cocktails in the class, the Penicillin (which I’m already a fan of) and the Southern Charm (which was an orange infused old fashioned with pecan and magnolia bitters). I enjoyed both cocktails and finished with one of their standards (a French 75), the girlfriend enjoyed the Penicillin, which I was not expecting.
The tickets were (to me), reasonable priced ($50/person, includes two drinks that you mix yourself). Considering most of their standard cocktails start around $15, and this place can be a bit difficult to get into at times, we’ll likely go again. They have two holiday themed ones coming up that the girlfriend is interested in.
Sounds amazing! I think it’s cool that you two do so much interesting stuff. Does she go to Browns games too?
I mocked the French 75 until I had one (and learned where the name came from).
Tundra:
I put her in charge of handing out the tickets among the friend group (with a couple kept in reserve for things like OMWC and the Ravens game). This was my way of dealing with her offering a ticket to ALL of my friends. She’s actually a bit upset that we’ll be out of town for the game Sunday, because of the Rock & Roll Collaboration. One of her favorite pre-game activities is watching the Dawg Pound Captain smash a guitar. They’re setting up an area for photo shots with an Ozzy guitar to replicate it. Right now, the guess is either Ozzy or Chubb as the secret captain who’s going to smash the guitar.
You could always branch out to either the French 95 or the Champagne cocktail to round out some other options for fancy sparkling cocktails.
Thanks, Neph!
While not my usual genre of cocktails, the 95 will be a fun one to toss to a bartender!
While I’m enjoying the Vikings 5-0 start as much as you are hating the shit going on there, I predict that things will look wildly different in a few months.
Among the acts in the movie Rock Around the Clock is the decidedly non-rock The Platters.
Exactly.
How many movies do you think you’ve seen, Ted’S?
I have no idea.
I really have to catalog how many movies I’ve done blog posts on, in part so that I don’t do a duplicate post on a movie. Every now and then I start to watch a movie that looks familiar and discover I blogged about it years ago.
Looking at how Kammy’s Fox interview ended it seems she was doing so poorly that her team couldn’t Baier it.
https://www.nj.com/education/2024/10/huge-budgeting-error-forced-nj-school-district-to-cut-93-staff-including-teachers.html
Oopsie.
Huge budgeting error forced N.J. school district to cut 93 staff, including teachers
Sounds like a good start.
Well, math is hard.
“the 2D roguelite metroidvania”
Speak English, dammit!
The 2D “game with a form of permadeath, procedurally generated maps, with per run progression, that includes items and skills to unlock to be able to get to new areas” gets a bit too wordy for gaming press.
“Everything I hate about rogue(lites) and not enough of what I love about Metroidvanias” is also too wordy.
rhywun:
Rouge Legacy was a fun little game. Difficulty wasn’t as high as most roguelikes, and you could store some progression between runs, you’d also have a choice of which of the next “children” you wanted to take on your next run. Pretty sure I got it on the cheap in some bundle back in the day.
I jest (a bit).
I did put several hours into it. But only enough to learn that I hate some of the tropes of that genre, particularly the “procedurally generated” and the “permadeath”.
rhywun:
No need to apologize at all. I’ve got a soft spot for them going all the way back to playing nethack back in the day. I’ll generally stick with them until I either get a successful run or start seeing that there’s a skill gate that I’m not likely going to get past without more work than I’m interested in putting in (“Hi Spelunky!”).
Hating myself right now. I could have been walking to this brewery off base Little Creek (Pleasure House Brewing) for years if I had actually looked at a map.
Hopefully flying Mon. Still need approval from Med or it might be another 2.weeks….
Man, I got a good buzz now. 2x Fest bier, 1 x rhubarb gose, 1 x spice stout – how did I miss this place for 4+ yrs???
A rhubarb gose sounds like an interesting one. Did they do anything for sweetness, or did they double up on tartness for it?
Yay. Another closet organizer collapse.
Baby, you can’t put that much shit on them. 🙄
What system are you using? The drywall mounted shit?
Nope. Supports screwed to joists.
https://www.easyclosets.com
The closets that will sleep with anybody?
I see your girlfriend has met my wife.
😉
This is why God made 1x4s.
Don’t recall flavor being really noticeable. The festbier was the best of the 3 I tried.
Ron…you gotta try this place – kicking myself for taking so long to see it on the map.
Coulda walked here on any drill weekend…. got a t-shirt and pint glass to remind me.
*glances over to make sure door is open. calculates flight path*
Ever notice those videos of third worlders loading trucks that flip over on the road? They think the limiting factor is space, not weight. “No, I am not going to stop loading, I can still put more on there. It’s a non-technical mind thing. I am not saying it is a woman thing.
Once driving on the interstate we pass a flatbed tractor trailer rig with a single bit of round steel stock chained on it. It was probably 18 feet long and maybe 12″ to 16″ in diameter. Wife wanted to know why they would send a whole truck with just that one little piece of steel on it and what do they use that for anyway?”
“Well, if you notice they have it double chained down every 4 feet with half inch probably grade 8 chain…..it’s kinda heavy.”
*Thinks of shoe rack hanging on the closet door and having to rehang the door every few months.
Silly me. I thought you were talking about a closeted ‘social organizer/influence’ collapsing. Hopefully, the burden, mass, of moral failure became too much to bear. Poor hearts, rupturing in collective understanding of their lost cause.
I hope your ACTUAL closet organizer collapse didn’t damage much. That shit is fickle and I understand your pain.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/10/never-again-never-again-whoa-kamala-harris-goes/
Just like angry Joe. No creepy whispering, yet.
It does look like a style borrowed from some mid-20th century upstanding statesmen.
https://cdn.images.dailystar.co.uk/dynamic/1/photos/769000/371769.jpg
https://allthatsinteresting.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/mussolini-raising-his-fist.jpg
She was a hair’s breadth from doing that in the Fox interview. She almost lost it.
I like Elon’s point: Biden was just a puppet. They weren’t going to kill Biden. They just replaced him with another puppet, Kamala. They wont shoot her either, what would be the point? They would just replace her with another puppet.
I’m still scoping the Harris v Fox interview. It’s maddening to listen to. Max maybe 3-4 min at a time. Politicians, as a career, need to be good presenters. Good performers. Able to clearly parse and boil thoughts out. She’s a junior in HS doing a presentation on a book she looked up on wiki for two min.
Yikesy pikesy, it’s dreadful to wonder how likely it is for her to “Rule the Free World.”
Ya got me fascinated for sure. Didn’t know about this. Vonnegut still seems underrated, even by me. Slaughterhouse is spectacular in every aspect. Cat’s Cradle as well, and I loved his memoir, but I haven’t thoughtfully gone through his canon. His writing style influenced me in many ways I’m thankful for.
I gotta scout out and see how HIS version of wartime artillery, tactics, etc play out. A POW in being-firebombed- Dresden has interesting insights…
Designing a good game isn’t easy. It will be interesting to see if this one gets good reviews.
Just never been a Vonnegut fan, but haven’t looked at him in decades, either.