TPTB.
I completely shot my wad providing top quality afternoon links, so you’ll have to fill in the blanks yourselves.
Appropriate.
He’s baaaaccckkk
About The Author
Spudalicious
Survey says I’m a Paleolibertarian bitches. That means I eat “L”ibertarians for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Soave tastes a little fruity. Wait a minute, that doesn’t sound quite right…
Epstein didn’t kill himself.
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To answer JD’s question in the other thread, the guy behind Liberty Hangout is a Gary North/R. J. Rushdoony “Christian reconstructionist” type who defines liberty as the liberty to enact Biblical law to kill homos, unbelieving Jews, and infidel Mahometans. He also seems sincerely baffled when libertarians call him an authoritarian.
I knew a guy that didn’t like to be called “high handed”.
I reckon so
I tried making a keto gravy for the first time today and the results were……not terrible. Two weeks into the new regime and I’ve lost about 8 pounds. Which is nice. Only 90 more to go!
Bah…..
Obviously, that was not supposed to be a reply.
It was a perfect reply, however.
It gets easier. And it’s sustainable.
Good luck.
https://www.amazon.com/Keto-Comfort-Foods-Favorite-Low-Carb/dp/1628602570
Maria’s books are pretty good and there’s a ton of websites with good recipes.
Well if he insisted that we must kill all the Catholics then he would fit in with the classical liberals.
Eh. “Catholic” was just totum pro parte for “Irish”.
Living this close to Boston, I find myself agreeing on more days than I like to admit.
Except the Continental Liberals felt the same way with the Catholics. See Revolutionary France, Spanish Civil War, Kulturkampf, etc.
It was a joke.
*insert that internet meme*
Thanks HM. He sounds like fun. One more reason I’m glad I’m not on the twatter.
Lately I’ve been seeing more paper straws around in restaurants and movie theaters. Fucking Turdeau. So much for Big Business and Science saving us from being who want to ban stuff and not restrict our choices.
Paper straws infiltrated a few places near me. They’re craptastic. Thing is, it wouldn’t be difficult to make a paper straw that worked. You’d just need to coat the whole thing in wax and make it a shade sturdier. That’s assuming you’re trying to provide something of value to the end user, though, and not just virtue-signal your environmentalism through forcing your Luddite preferences on others.
Tell them you have an allergy. The ADA demands they provide you with plastic.
Businesses can no longer hand out straws nor can they leave them out in a dispenser for you to take as you wish. You have to request one from an employee.
Asshole signallers can never just let people make their own decisions and leave it so that those who don’t want a straw should be the ones to make the request.
Throw the paper straw in their face and pull out an empty toilet paper roll center and yell, “I re-purpose bitch! You know how many trees had to die to make that one purpose one use straw you inconsiderate planet hating Fuckwit!!!! WE ONLY HAVE TEN YEARS!!!!!!! Maybe less!!1
Plus, you can drink a large drink in two draws. Sans the lid of course.
These things piss me off. I’m a slow drinker. I take my beverages to-go and sip on them for an hour or more. With paper, they cave in and fail before I’m half way through. I have a goatee, so I gotta use a straw. I now have to take extra plastic straws when they are around and use them to replace the paper ones. I have like three straws in my console right now. Fucking retarded Eco freaks. I don’t even like turtles.
I have a goatee, so I gotta use a straw.
Huh?
Have you ever tried to teach a goat to drink from a glass? It’s harder than you’d think!
I just carry my own thick-walled reusable plastic assault straws.
I can just point it at the Pacific Ocean and soon a dozen dead sea turtles float to the surface.
That’s not a straw; that’s sorcerer’s wand…
SHE’S A WITCH!!!
I never knew you were Canadian, this explains so much.
I played 18 today, Muscles I haven’t used in years… ouch,
Good ouch.
Golf golf or disc golf*?
*Does the disc variety have more “holes”?
Disc, and no, the format is identical,
the discs are quite specialized, ain’t no Frisbee,
That’s what I was wondering. I suck at Frisbee.
Here,
https://photos.app.goo.gl/BbQirX9tzgqdMaub8
Ooo I like the clear one.
It was an indulgence, I love it, Grass only, no dirt
I haven’t formatted a disc in like ten years or so.
That’s the level of IT humor I understand. On a libertarian website I feel like I am in a minority of people who don’t work in IT.
Here’s my arsenal, mostly 5 years old, except for my Purple indulgence Driver,
Uhhh,
https://photos.app.goo.gl/BbQirX9tzgqdMaub8
Very smart. Have you considered getting customized discs made?
My nickname in Jr. High…
Huh. Small world.
….Not that damn small!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZhVGsh2KZ8
Interesting how China is using its wealth and technology to create the Social Credit Score and how Big Business is in league with the Chicoms and they will be using it to pressure foreign businesses. I thought Chinese businessmen were supposed to be anti-Commie?
I thought our business were too – we were both wrong.
Anti-Commie doesn’t necessarily mean anti-crony.
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
This is true but the assumption was that these Chinese businessmen would be opponents of the old regime because…well that is what happened in 19th Century England!
I was just discussing this with Fd’A the other day. We have to take into account that we’re talking about a generation that saw their grandparents live in utter 3rd world poverty to their children now growing up in a mostly-developed economy (on the coast, of course), from being the “sick man of Asia” to getting away with thumbing their nose to the Americans in the Sea of China. Now you’re going to tell these people that “socialism with Chinese characteristics” doesn’t work? If cutting the organs out of religious minorities is what gets you from squat toilets to sex robots, then why are we surprised that rendering Uighurs in mass abattoirs barely registers a shrug from the Chinese populace?
So you are saying that all the assumptions about Trade with China were very Eurocentric and Victorian? Oh the irony.
Also I thought trade with China was supposed to end nationalism?
I do think something people seriously overlooked is that these urban businesses are connected to the regime so why would they use this wealth to undermine the regime? And since China is still a one-party state its not like these businesses are free to openly oppose the regime.
And it was assumed that these businesses being dependent on foreign trade would be therefore not be dependent on the regime and willing to oppose it and that the Chicoms would be unwilling to suppress them since this would alienate foreign investment.
Then you got the whole fear of the urban and rural underclass outvoting them if democracy occurred.
Damn. That is well and succinctly put.
Also I recall one of the arguments for why wealth and trade create liberty is that those things are needed for a middle class and a middle class is needed for liberty. My reply was that this assumes that the Chinese Middle Class opposes the Chicoms. Is that actually true though?
Would you say HM that the Chinese Middle Class supports the regime?
In my experience, for the most part, yes. As long as the government provides stability.
This is pretty universal. If your living conditions are not unbearable and your society provides stability you tend to support the system you believe is responsible. And if you read any history of truly unstable times, 30 years war, Taiping rebellion, any civil war or revolution, it makes a great deal of sense. Instability is very bad while it lasts and rarely leads to improvements over the prior system.
So why did European liberalism happen? Living conditions in 1688 England and 1789 France, 1848 Germany, etc. weren’t exactly unbearable.
1847-48 across Europe was largely a reaction to upheaval resulting from rapid industrialization, hardly stability, 1789 France largely grew out of the Monarchy being bankrupt and repeatedly raising taxes on the merchants and peasants, who had grown in power and wealth under the prior Monarchs as those Monarchs undercut the aristocracy, again not stability but an attempt to take away wealth and political power that had been shifted to those groups. 1688 England was a reaction to an attempt to restore Catholicism in England by James. Your examples are proving my point, which is that stability is what people most desire.
The Chinese middle class in HK have made themselves very clear.
They don’t experience the current situation as stability and improvement. For them, coming from a situation of tremendous liberty and opportunity under the British and for the recent past of mainland China having a hands off policy the current situation is a radical destabilization.
“The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.”
― Vladimir Ilich Lenin
This week’s Ass Wednesday wraps up by imploring you to eat only wild caught albatross.
http://archive.li/LmkaR
Albatross?
Looks like Coonman is hoping for some dead bodies on Monday. Could even get Tuccille, the LP and Jeff Tucker to call for gun bans.
Not 2 Chili! Tucker’s soft, the LP’s a joke, but Tuccille always seemed like he was the real deal.
Yeah, if you’ve read any Tucille including his novel – no. Not at all.
Northam declares state of emergency, Capitol weapon ban ahead of gun rights rally
Why go for half measures? Just declare their political opponents enemies of the state and forfeiting all rights, including life.
Also declare all political opposition to be racist white supremacy and most “libertarians” would willingly go to the gulags.
I speak of the Cosmotarians that are terrified of being labelled unwoke.
Gosh labels are just the worst, aren’t they?
Labels are for soup cans.
Names is for Tombstones baby!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pMWa33uVVE
But if they are going to kill him, don’t they need his name for the tombstone?
Uh oh.
Why bother protesting? Anything they do will be spun by the media.
Never vote Democrat
“Deadly violence that engulfed Charlottesville ”
One person got hit by a car. One. Person.
It had a lower body count than a Chicago picnic.
Too soon!
Whew! No guns on Capitol grounds.
It’s a good thing no one will have anything that can harm others at range…
We really don’t deserve this man.
I couldn’t agree more.
Which afternoon was that?
Since you didn’t show up, I’m assuming you’re not being sarcastic. It was this afternoon. They were the best links, bigly.
Rufus and I were working!
(not together)
You were working Rufus? Pervert. He’s a puppet.
A gift from the Glibs founders to all of you.
Worst asian porn ever.
Well, now, hold on….
Let’s not get hasty.
Is this a revival of your fetish series?
I’ve learned to click on every single link Heroic Mulatto generously shares with us. My life is fuller because of it.
Just like the front of my slacks.
Yup. They’re far safer than most other links.
^This guy knows what’s up^
The front of my slacks?
Yes.
That album cover kind of reminds me of this album cover.
Some days, I love/hate my job. I am doing a quote. A QUOTE, mind you, and it’s taken me 2 hours thus far and I’m not even near done. Yes, it’s that complicated. I’ll spare you the details.
Anyway, this is going to be a very expensive job and I’m sitting here getting it half done (it’s the only way I can do the quote, again, details), and he’s gonna have a heart attack when he gets the quote.
“Why no, I’m not going to negotiate. Details. Parameters. Specifications.”
That said, I hope he takes the quote because I love doing complicated projects like this. He doesn’t have to know that, though.
Exactly the way I approach doing the dishes and negotiating with the wife. She doesn’t need to know I like do them.
When I was a kid, I liked doing the dishes in the winter because our house was drafty and cold. The kitchen was warm and bright and the hot soapy water felt good.
I will never not hate doing the dishes. Only thing worse is cat-box duty.
I enjoy doing dishes. It’s mindless and I can think and at the end I feel like I’ve accomplished something.
Yep. Something to be said for the beauty of a dishrack full of clean dishes
There’s a reason I spent Sunday fixing the dishwasher.
My wife tries to gaslight me with the floors.
Wife: “you hate vacuuming, so I’ll let you mop.”
Me: “ I never said I hate vacuuming.”
Wife: “…I’ll let you mop”
I shared an office with a Korean guy in grad school. He did the vacuuming because American vacuums were just too big and heavy for his wife. Man, she was good.
I don’t mind mopping, but say “husband, I don’t like mopping, so I’ll vacuum.” I’m a reasonable man.
https://youtu.be/yby7Giaa48s
Quote an hourly rate, do the job, double the hours work and let them negotiate it down to somewhere above the hours you think it will take, let them feel like they won, when still paying you above.
I think leftists are starting to play the same word association game they always do. This time it is “constitutional” used in the way they use “common sense” to describe “duly passed constitutional laws that will be enforced”.
i.e. “I said the words therefore it is!”
Passing legislation through the legal process does not make said legislation constitutionally permissible.
Sure it does –
John Adams
Or how Pelosi says Trump “endangered national security” by his Ukraine action. Conveniently forgetting Obama sending $150 billion to Iran. Oh wait, that was for medicine and kindly generals and unicorns and rainbows.
And nobody really want;s to know how the vice president sold government favors for a lucrative “job” for his son, amirite? The lefties I know all respond with ” they all do that.” It’s like the patent answer for any provable malfeasance by a dem. Orange Don however, is very dangerous and must be stopped. They apparently think we are really dumb.
Moar Ms. Swan video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQy8EvDCbbw
One of the best characters ever…
He looka lika mon.
Man hospitalized with ‘3-day erection’ after taking bull sex stimulant
That can ruin your junk.
Sure am glad that Mexican hospital allowed the camera…
Maximum something
The Evolving Libertarianism of Neil Peart
It ain’t easy bein’ cheesey.
DEvolve. One of the last interviews with him that I read had him firmly on the hand-outs train.
I don’t like to think about that part.
Liberty, twisted by the flaws of humanity? It’s a good thing that statism is exempt from that glaring flaw, now, ididnit. Guy made cool music and I gotta say, he might of planted a tiny seed in my thinking before I had things sussed out. I don’t care what he said to avoid the wrath of the scold class. He knew what having wrong think in your past costs a rock star and he wasn’t about to pay for it. What ever he really believed in the second act.
I’m still left wondering where the hell he saw ‘Randian libertarianism’ in play. Seriously–Canada may have some islands of liberty, but it ain’t no Randian utopia.
Windsor Ontario had casinos, a 19 yr drinking age, and legal or decriminalized prostitution. That’s about as Libertarian as some ass sexing mexican stoners.
But, hardly a Randian utopia.
Plus, “had”? As in, they gave it all up?
It’s still possible to have empathy for those less fortunate but strongly believe that government (especially a strong federal one) is not the best facilitator of solutions.
But of course, I am a Super Shitlord so what do I know.
Man hospitalized after wife puts ‘chastity nut’ on his penis while he slept
Never fall asleep around a woman!
Fuck that shit. Damn.
Just divorce him.
Right?!
But he loves her, baby!
He slept through the process of having hardware bolted to his junk? How many women did he bang that day?
*applause*
I’m glad he got his nut off.
Oh come on, people. That was funny.
I smiled.
Sorry. Stuck on “removed with a saw”.
^
@Rhywun.
If you ever decide to visit your old hometown let me know. I’m probably not the best tour guide but I’d be willing to let you crash and could show you the best pace for Indian food in town.
Cool! Actually Rochester is my hometown but I went to college in Buffalo.
I can’t say I miss anything about Rochester.
Uhhhh garbage plates.
Loads and oodles of trash people.
A lot of once-great run-down architecture?\
Toronto is a boat ride away?
Rats and Birds, come to invade, some peace is had at the expense of others,
Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of Men…..
-1 boat
It went bankrupt
Count me in for the Rhywun Buffalo Glib Con. We’ll break some tables, grab a steak sandwich at the Pink and kill our livers.
Huh….I would have thought it would be roast beef.
So, the Pink is the best dive bar in the world….and I’ve been to most. It’s dingy. The patrons are sketchy. It’s dark.
Thing is, it serves an incredible steak sandwich…more amazing, because the bartender has to make it in near complete darkness. Have people gotten bits of broken bottle in their sandwich…well, yes. Doesn’t matter. It’s fucking amazing, and will allow you to keep drinking until the sensible closing time of 4 AM in Buffalo.
Oh right, I’ve been there.
How ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’ Production Design Explored a Bygone Era
Call me a fagola but I am nostalgic for the time of many murals.
Fagola!
https://youtu.be/pc1am3KyYgA
Tuff as far as the eye can see, overlaying Volcanic intrusions, descending to an ancient, silt filled seabed,
Descending down the magma pile toward ShiPa AZ, the entire valley opens below, Mobile homes as far as the eye can see,( I said that already)
First its Wisconsin, then come the Canadians, Alberta, BC, Ontario, they all think the road is frozen and drive 25 in a 45, Yay!
Tomorrow I travel back in time and visit my Cybor… my Wife, and maybe stop by a ghost town, is it haunted?
“the danger of religious warfare can return in secular form when people no longer agree on the basic principles of republican government and regard each other as political heretics rather than fellow citizens”
https://americanmind.org/post/our-elites-are-steering-us-towards-civil-war/
Pretty much what I was saying yesterday.
OUR elites. Pffftt.
This time period is the first time where “cultural issues” seem to be actually relevant to me, personally.
My Libertarian beliefs fit in nicely with culture. Some people win, some people lose. In the end it tended to work out. That scrappy kid could start shinning shoes, open a shoe store, and corner the market on shoes. In the modern world, one can hardly open a small business in a city without begging for permission from the state. I suspect that this may be a unique time in history where those who rail against imaginary “privilege” may have a point. The poor are kept contained, thanks to subsidized housing and food, the middle class, as long as they don’t violate any social norms, are able to maintain their status as long as they make sure their children attend a state subsidized university, and the rich are still in flux where, within three generations, they’ll be poor again.
To maintain that level of status quo, we’ve created a system that keeps people from working their way out of poverty. Want to cut hair? Be sure that you go through the right training. Want to open a bar? Good luck with that.
Glib world, of course, would have no status quo.
As a result of all that, we’ve become a Victorian like society. Cancel culture is the extension of custom and manners. It’s Puritanical. Elitist. Dour. Humorless.
The bright side is two fold. The first is that money always wins in the end. It’s real. Tangible. It’s not about our wants, desire or fate. It simply is. The next reason to be hopeful is human nature. We like to laugh. We want Groucho to make a fool of Margret Dumont. Combine the two, and the anarchy at the heart of the American experiment will always win out in the end.
That was a bunch of navel gazing. Damn booze.
Money is a bitch.
10 minutes until puck drop and cute bartender gives me a 36oz mug of two hearted. Going to be a sluggish first period.
“a 36oz mug of two hearted”
Euphemism?
Bigger than 23mm, or 1 1/4″?
*Nods*
That does sound s bit chesty. I like. Okay. Time to put gear on.
Pucks in deep.
Better than that Founders swill.
Senate Asks Pelosi If She Can Send Over Copy Of Impeachment Articles Without Wine Stains All Over It.
https://babylonbee.com/news/senate-asks-pelosi-if-she-can-send-over-copy-of-impeachment-articles-not-covered-in-wine-stains
It looks like the newest conspiracy theory on twitter is that Trump tried to hire a hitman to takeout the US ambasador to Ukraine.
They find new ways to embarrass themselves everyday.
I saw that. It’s amazing what people will believe based on the flimsiest evidence.
I’ve been really busy at work today making up for the Monday I had to stay home puking.
So imagine my surprise when I read that the ENTIRE Russian government (except Putin and Medvedev, natch) resigned en masse today.
Medvedev’s phrasing was the creepiest part:
And no Reichstag fire required!
Just a strongly worded letter from Pootie-Poot with a postscript reading “Epstein didn’t kill himself.”
Are we pretending that wasn’t the way things already worked?
I actually considered that to be a “too local” story. I think in the end, nothing will change globally. And when Putin finally cashes in, the next President won’t be able to reverse his bullshit.
Depressing. I was hoping that after the cold war Russia would find a way to defy it’s own history and become something better.
Me too.i think Russians are so used to being screwed by their “leadership” that they are too cynical to imagine anything else.
In Tobert Massie’s brilliant book on Peter the great, he related a Beitish ambassador’s reaction to a mass execution. The part that stuck with me was a description of how resigned the prisoners to their death.
Culture matters. Cant i.agine hundreds of Americans waiting patiently in line to be killed for treason.
Well we are an impatient people on the whole.
“This way to the egress”
Yeltsin was exactly like Putin. He just let Westerners in on the looting.
I think we really need to consider that the West did not win the Cold War. At best it was a negotiated transition.
Yeltsin was an inept drunken buffoon. Putin is good at PR, looks good, and has made Russia look ‘strong’ again to the people by the same actions that make him hated in the west. He is more popular than Yeltsin was except in Yeltsin’s brief shining moment. Popularity with us and popularity with the Russian populace are related inversely if at all.
I agree. I think Yeltsin’s heart was in the right place, but he was too naive and drunk to keep the oligarchs from taking over.
Russia is like China now, but without the significant economy, death camps, and fawning American companies.
It’s weird that Putin is still popular in Russia. The Russians love them some strong man (that looks exactly like the bad guy in every action movie ever made).
Well, W looked into his eyes and saw a man with whom he could deal, and we know how good W’s judgement was…
And then W wanted to fight a war with him in Georgia. And back when there was still some semblance of sanity in foreign policy discussions people thought that was unnecessary. But, I have confidence that we will get embroiled in a stupid war in Ukraine
I bet Ukraine splits into East and West (East being Orthodox and Russian-leaning, West being Roman Catholic and Western-oriented) whether we get involved or not. So let’s not.
We did install a few Aegis Ashore units in Poland, so at least those freedom-loving Slavs should be OK.
Ahem, Ukrainian Greek Catholic
/Eddie
Revival of the Tsar. There *was* a lot less genocide under the Tsars than the Bolsheviks though…
I don’t own a rice cooker, or eat rice often because it is an inferior grain, but.
I heard they were good for nails.
I saw an article addressing the perils of marketing wares to a culture you don’t understand.
A US company decided to develop a cake mix that would work well in a Japanese rice cooker, spent good money perfecting it. They launched it in Japan and it flopped terribly.
When they dug into why, they learned that Japanese are so persnickety about their rice cookers that they didn’t want to defile them with non-rice items.
Good evening from the Aleutians. It’s a bit warmer here than home, so life is good.
Jelly.
Watching the sun rise over the mountains and ocean this morning was incredible. Makes the days I’m stuck in the office in town worth it,.
Also, does anyone here have a rec on a good book for people who know little about electricity but need to learn the basics about it? Mostly amperage, voltage, ac, dc, circuits and parallel v. series?
Like this?
Hey, I already know not to piss on the electric fence!
Here is a great place to start and it’s free.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=F_vLWkkOETI
Kahn academy
Thank you.
I’m on 512k internet, but I book marked it for when I’m back in town.
Much appreciated.
Here is a free PDF book from Newark Electronics.
https://www.newark.com/wcsstore/ExtendedSitesCatalogAssetStore/cms/asset/images/americas/common/storefront/eaton_cutler_hammer/101-Elec-Basics.pdf
Here’s a slow internet friendly one. Probably too basic but it will give you a framework to recognize and build out when you watch the Khaaaan video.
I agree that the Khan academy stuff is top-notch. Helping people all over the world learn to innovate without having access to formal education/higher education.
I’ll probably use it a bit if I ever go back for my PhD.
https://www.instructables.com/id/Basic-Electronics/
Oh yeah, the link.
Khan Academy is one of my goto charities. When I started tutoring my niece in Algebra I went back and relearned it all and was amazed at how much I enjoyed it. The teachers actually enjoy teaching, they explain how various concepts relate and what is actually going on with various formulae as opposed to school where it was all rote do step a then step b and don’t bug me about why that works!
I love that site and use it myself when I wanted to brush up on math a few years ago.
I think the education system is going to have a massive breakdown and subsequent rebirth when everyone realizes that you can get a pretty good education online for free from KA and other sites. Personally, I’m looking forward to it. Fuck these anachronistic universities and fuck student loan debt.
With a free market in higher education, I think we would end up with the majority of it done online with lab sessions for fields of study where hands-on instruction is necessary (auto mechanics, surgical medicine, etc).
I’m at SLC airport on my way home.I’ll look at my books and see if any fit that bill.
Try Schaums outlines. https://www.amazon.com/Schaums-Outline-Electricity-Second-Outlines/dp/0071635289
Thanks all. I’ve bookedmarked all and will look at closely this weekend.
I’m supposed to give my formal written pitch to the publisher today. “Write anything” was his only instruction. I never even agreed to do it in the first place, but he’s just moving forward like I agreed. It’ll be a couple grand and my guess is it’ll take a couple months writing it in my free time. Do I really want my name on some half assed product for a little coin? I’ve edited enough work for him that I basically know what he wants. Still seems odd to me.
Use a nom de plume.
Unless part of his point is to showcase your talent and associate himself with your real name success…you could ask.
They always want to put the author’s bio on the jacket. The way they juice up ordinary bios is amusing to say the least.
Imagine what they could do with a fake name
You mean like changing the place of birth from Hawaii to exotic Kenya?
Ha!! Then changing back when you want to run for US prez.
Book is in the English language acquisition realm, so I’m hoping for some HM feedback.
Watch her twerk then eat her ass.
Not that HM. The other one.
There’s more than one? That doubles our diversity!
BTW, how’d your interview go?
Not for another week.
Graded reader type?
You could always hire a ghost writer.
How much should a doctor charge to make a house call in the middle of the night? Enough that he doesn’t mind.
Throw out a number and see if he bites? Not a bad idea.
Lost in Translation.
I ordered a number of vinyl albums this week. My goal was to fill out my AOR section. Jazz and blues are solid. Punk is waaaay over represented. My lovely better half seems to be obsessed with prog rock or Springsteen. One should be centered, so hence the AOR kick. Here’s the thing. Styx, I’ve determined, is the Nicholas Cage of bands. Are they brilliant? Terrible? Crazy? Delightful? All of the above? It’s driving me to madness. Like Cage, in any of his movies, they can be both brilliant and stupid at the same time. Do I hate their work? Do I love their work? Fuck. I think I listen to their albums just to try to figure it all out.
Feel the same way about Air Supply.
“On board, I’m the captain, so climb aboard” – talk about cringe-worthy lyrics.
I once won a bet in college for knowing all the words to that song.
“I thought they were angels, but much to my surprise
They climbed aboard their starship and headed for the skies
Singing ‘come sail away, come sail away, come sail away with me’…”
The torture of Cartman.
Styx is not that bad. Paradise Theater or whatever is a pretty good album.
Not sure what jazz you got, but I’ve been on a Thelonious Monk and Sun House kick recently. Needs to be heard on vinyl, in my opinion
I’m convinced that anything recorded on analog should be heard of vinyl. God, I sound like a hipster, but damn it, there’s a difference. I have great bose speakers throughout the house. I have lots of great digital tracks. Why does that Bowie album feel so much better when it’s on the record player through the tube amps? Am I fooling myself? No idea. I do know that I can listen to an album on the turntable, close my eyes, and just let it go. Digital, and it’s just background noise. Is it nostalgia? Some weird stubborn streak? Fuck if I know.
OK hipster
Right! Is killing oneself out of shame a hipster thing? If not, I’m in!
Charles Cooke explained that the recording is/was made with the idea it would be played on the prominent medium of the day. So go vinyl for the older stuff, but it’s not better for the more modern recording that was made in the cd or streaming era.
You may enjoy streaming this free internet radio station, they have a number of others that are awesome as well.
https://somafm.com/player/#/now-playing/seventies
Tommy Shaw or De Young songs?
See, they’re both awful and wonderful in their own ways.
They really feel like a band where every member thought they were in a different band.
“I think we’re a metal band”
“I think we’re a prog rock band”
“Don’t we do yacht rock?”
“I thought we were new wave?”
“We’re not an arena band?”
“Are we doing romantic ballads now?”
Yacht rock #FTW!
*runs and hides from MikeS.*
You can take shelter over here, if need be.
/SXM Channel 70
*hides under Diggy’s wing*
Yeah! Mike can feck off!
/it’s OK, Mike–we still loves ya
Nikki Sixx just disowned you.
What, Nikki doesn’t own watercraft??
The Personnel Comittee has reviewed your request. Your pay shall increase from practically nothing to virtually nothing.
You’re welcome.
How accurate is the urbandictionary defenition for us
Smug, facile and solipsistic.
Checks out.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAH!
I’m just happy we have our own Emoji ?
One of these things/is not like the other…
Yeah, I can do without the drugs
::fist bump::
See you out on the battlefield…
The Psychic Battlefield?
::pffft: No!
Love…
endless wars?
https://tinyurl.com/sx9hm4u
NSFW.
http://archive.li/tTluC
NSFW.
http://archive.li/2UC0d
NSFW.
there ya go!
I wonder what the kanji mean?
Peace/harmony on the left and love on the right.
Damn I was hoping the tattoo guy had had some fun, that sounds like something she requested.
Three great pics tonight Q.
Nope. No need after the first.
Hello!
I miss the earth so much, I miss my wife,
It’s lonely out in space,
I’m glad we can “be here” for you a bit while you can’t be with her ??✨
“Wife”
I’m working on a banoffee pie inspired cake recipe. I’m thinking of using dulce de leche in the cake, and banana jam between the layers. Then, ermine frosting, plus pecans and a chocolate drip. Any suggestions?
How do you get the ermines to sit still while you spread the frosting on them?
Boiled frosting you plebe 😉
Sounds good. My wife makes banoffee pie fairly often for dessert as my fam loves it. She makes a pretty standard take with crumbled graham cracker base, dulce de leche and home whipped heavy whipping cream. I’m usually avoid sweets but I dig that simple recipe.
Binging with Babish?
https://www.zerohedge.com/health/burning-sensation-gwyneth-paltrows-75-vagina-scented-candle-already-sold-out
Vagina scented candles. How can this be real?
She’s just the most vapid actress ever.
or Vaporous?
But will she answer that burning question? What’s in the box!?
“You opened the box, She Came”
or something like that…
That was the worst piece of acting I’ve ever seen out of Brad Pitt. I don’t know if it was his own crappy interpretation or something the director demanded.
Now, Inglorious Basterds on the other hand is a fine piece of work. Probably the only Pitt-centered movie I’ve seen more than once.
Interview with a Vampire, Fury, I like his acting,
No doubt he’s talented, and a fellow Okie.
That’s why the “what’s in the box?!?” Scene was so surprisingly awful.
He wasnt in that movie, PinCushion said “You Opened the Box, We Came”;
You’re not wrong.
But I don’t know if it was his acting or the way it was written.
Fight club and arguably Pitt centric12 monkeys for me.
12 Monkeys! yep.
Well, those arguably the two of the best movies ever, no need to pile with adding Pitt’s performance.
I’m sure his recent movies have been worse, and also (though I like the movie) there is The Devil’s Own.
Yep. This was terrible. Or genius. Or pretentious artsy fartsy.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nxi6rtBtBM0
Yeah, as much as he played to ‘sexy guy’ thing up 95-05, he at at least tried did a good job of becoming a character (successful or not), now every character is just Brad Pitt.
THAT was the Irish Brad Pitt movie you went with???
That was the one to show sometimes he really can’t act, even if the movie was good.
The lesson is Brad Pitt can’t do accents
I’ve never met a gypo, so I dunno if he got that right, but it’s better than his Devil’s Own accent.
Larry’s Sconsin accent is nice.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GsXBvzy6qiI
To tell the truth, I only ever hear that kind of Sconnie accent from people over 60 or people making fun of a Sconnie accent.
Also, if you’ve not seen Kalifornia, you have no right to comment on Brad Pitt’s acting ability.
She’s the ultimate troll and no one is giving her any credit for it.
My cocktail of the night. The “Robert Spencer’s White Nationalist Punch”
2 parts corn based vodka.
1 part Hawaiian Punch White Water flavor
Splash of bitters.
It’s an easy drink for the young, that one can get drunk on, and make terrible mistakes.
Well, I drink Four Loko Apple, so whatever works…
I’m Loco for those Loko!
Glenn Miller Brings it,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CI-0E_jses&list=RDMMeszZfu_1JM0&index=12
There ya go.
Heck yea, man.
“Traditional” and swing jazz are my favorite kinds of music.
The stuff you find under a couch…eew. New sofa delivery in an hour, so thought I’d pull the old one out and put it by the door so the guys can take it more easily. Wife asks, “Why are you doing that? It’s why we paid for delivery?!”
I honestly don’t get it when people think that just because they paid for a service that they can’t make it go a little easier for the guy.
I was blown away when my wife showed me valet service, like 3 years ago,,
Ha. Same as people without baggage standing on escalators. I know the magical stairs move, but do that fat ass some good and walk at the same time.
I have Handicapped tags for the Kia, for the wife, and i never use them for me, just walk,
/Living forever!
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/18/national/jr-east-asks-passengers-stand-sides-escalators-block-runners-safety-campaign/#.XiAGcsqIahA
I can’t believe I now have a paid gardener, and a guy who will come out, wash and detail my car inside and out for $100.
He even trucks his own water up. And I’m outside city limits!
We always offer water bottles, particularly when it’s hot out. So yeah, I’m not going to get pouty about having paid them.
George, for you,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izGwDsrQ1eQ&list=RDMMeszZfu_1JM0&index=18
and David for me,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyMm4rJemtI&list=RDMMeszZfu_1JM0&index=19
That’s the way it should work. You offer to help out a bit and they refuse. It shows respect from both sides.
I always have bottles of water in fridge for the dog walker and the landscaper in the summer
Look at Ms. Richy Rich.
Me and Hayekexplosives
Down by the schoolyard?
I’m on my way….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_RKCP9XvzQ
High five for the Officer.
I’m always struck by how much of the California lifestyle is predicated on having readily-available, low-cost (illegal) labor.
Every time I hear the “illegals do jobs Americans won’t!” trope, it seems to end up being those sorts of things.
Not pointing fingers at you, Ms. Splosives – just a reoccurring theme. I have no doubt I’d take advantage of those services, too, if I lived there.
There are Brazilians in Massachusetts. Just saying…
I’m friends with a bunch – they’re too busy kicking ass in the restaurants.
Incidentally, may (finally) be free for a meet up next week, if you’re around.
Yes, I’m here next week. Shoot me an email with the day(s) that work for you.
Sent.
Some of that is what you’re used to. I never really had cable growing up, and never thought to call up and order it when I got my own place. Second roommate was used to it and that was one of the first things he did when moving in.
Some good news (apparently) for a change.
Youtube still sucks, though.
Art Blakely, Moanin’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsJ3JjpZyoA&list=RDMMeszZfu_1JM0&index=20
Close your eyes and you’re at the bar nursing a martini and Mr Lucky or Peter Gunn walk in.
Like this perhaps…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIKSQT-oXfc
Glenn Miller and Art Blakey? I like the cut of your jib.
Via AOSHQ, a potential glibs theme song?
It gets my vote.
#Tight
He’s hilarious / awesome
My contender,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=An4uDegHB8s&list=RDMMeszZfu_1JM0&index=22
Fantastic, as ever, but insufficiently weird to be a glibs theme song.
OK, how about this,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kemivUKb4f4&list=RDMMeszZfu_1JM0&index=23
The greatest ear-worm of all time, IMO. But still not weird enough.
This is it….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7tEQLH25wA
You may have hit the nail on the head with this one.
I have now fallen down a Marc Rebillet hole. That’s a funky white boy.
This may be of interest to some people here.
This may also be of interest to some people here.
I saw the picture on the first link and imediately thought “Libertarian Part convention.”
Huh, playing my current town and hometown on back to back nights.
I was more of a ‘With Sympathy’ guy, but they might still be fun.
Thanks Frank. I like me some Ministry.
MInistry at Lollapalooza 1992 was the best set I have seen live.
This is truly the Glib anthem! enjoy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7tEQLH25wA
To be a perfect fit, the chorus a “that’s why”.
Also a contender.
FUCK YOU!!
Yes!
I wish I liked Cee Lo Green.
How I feel right now,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fqXcKFg08w
Dominate me please,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeMFqkcPYcg&list=RDMMqeMFqkcPYcg&start_radio=1
Here’s you some music.
I’m there, thanks..
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/index.php/2020/01/15/communist-china-has-arrived-in-england/
I thought those redbrick universities from those industrial cities were supposed to make us free?
Being a ‘champion’ is lucrative work!
https://www.thenation.com/article/berlin-wall-history/
Apparently the collapse of the USSR and the continuance of the warfare state is distracting us from the necessity of authoritarian environmentalism and government enforced “self-restraint”.
https://mises.org/power-market/how-us-wages-war-prop-dollar
Here Ryan McMacken at Mises approvingly quotes Counterpunch on US petrodollar foreign policy put tuts on how the author’s “solution” to the warfare state is high taxes, trade barriers and mass economic regimentation.
*But tut tuts*
It’ss really back! Yay!
*withdrawl tremors*
Damn your nimble fingers!
“Nice website you got here. Be a real shame of something were to happen to it. By the way, how are those donations coming?”
Ooh, is the site finally back up?
Look what you did Spud!
Agreed, this has to be Spud’s fault.
Is this thing one?
Is this thing one what?
testing 1 2 3 testing
1, 2… 3?
the first recommended video for that was this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Frmyag-u5AA
I am calling it now: this was a ploy so the don’t have to do the links
…i believe you.
*Shakes*
I was so desperate I went to Discord… but couldn’t find the glibs server there.
I had to actually work!!!
It was awful
I’m at work… at home… in a webex where I’m listening to a vendor stumble through configuring the ethernet interface on a linux box and trying not to jump in because supposedly the other folks have got this and I’m only here for when the application is ready to test.
I’m also medicated for a cold that’s clogged up my sinuses and got be coughing like a bad presidential candidate.
Anybody got the Cal score? My internet is down.
Commies have the scorekeepers at gunpoint and are declaring themselves the winners by redistributing goals.
earthquake everyone sunk in the ocean
Damn splitters and wreckers.
/commie scorekeeper
IIRC, they beat tOSU. I can’t remember if they covered the spread.
Cal Thomas is losing.
I’m glad the site is back. That Pink Floyd song is good.
And I approve of the wine drinking woman.