Recently in a thread discussing old-timey radio I made what I believed to be a rather uncontroversial observation-
Now one can imagine my surprise to find out that this obviously indisputable assertion was indeed disputed (Well, the last bit anyway). A few Glibs made the well thought out rebuttal thusly-
Argue that.
Faced with such compelling counter arguments I decided to give the Marshall another chance and vowed that the next time my insomnia and an episode of Gunsmoke coincided I would turn a fresh ear and reevaluate my opinion of the man. As luck would have it, just last night while tossing and turning and listening to Radio Classics I got my chance. First aired way back on September 20, 1952 and written by Les Crutchfield “Drop Dead” proved a perfect case study for the question at hand. But will it prove Marshal Dillon to be ‘The Man’ or an authoritative bully who bends the law to his own will?
Lets find out!
“Drop Dead”
(SPOILERS AHEAD! Here’s a link to the show if you want to listen to it before reading my synopsis)
The story begins with a Mr. Jackson driving his cattle to Dodge City. A drought has fell upon the region and he is upset to find that Cottonwood Pond, apparently the only water source available, has been fenced off by Old Man Howard the rancher who owns the land. Old Man Howard wants what Mr Jackson believes to be an exorbitant price to water his cattle and a stand off ensues, one that could lead to big trouble if a resolution is not reached.
Meanwhile, Marshal Matt Dillon is hanging out with his buddy Doc whinging that it’s been ‘too quiet’ and that if the drought doesn’t break there will be trouble as everyone’s on edge. Doc who admits that he ‘Steals ’em blind’ when he gets patients, hopes maybe he will get a few fees out of any such trouble at least, which generates a chuckle out of Matt, ‘good old Doc, haha.’ Just then, Chester ass-kisses his way up and informs Matt of the impending fight at Cottonwood Pond and off they go.
On the way, we learn that Chester and Matt don’t much care for Old Man Howard. He’s a ‘skinflint’and no decent man would do what he’s doing, trying to squeeze two dollars where one should be sufficient. Once at the pond, Old Man Howard asserts his property rights and commands Matt to protect him from the trespassing cattle and cowboys. Matt begrudgingly admits that Howard is in the right and has the law on his side. Mr Jackson isn’t happy about it but concedes that Matt has a tough job and promises to give him until 9 pm to talk sense into Old Man Howard, but after that he’s taking his cattle to the pond, law or no law.
Matt and Chester return to town. Chester, who mentions that he thinks a storm is coming, goes off to try and round up deputies. Matt goes crying to Kitty at the Long Branch about how the damn law has tied his hands and he hates it, but he has to side with Old Man Howard. Chester can’t find anybody willing to help and Fenton, Old Man Howard’s foreman, comes by to see if Matt will deputize him and the other ranchers so they can fight off the cowboys should they trespass. This angers Matt and he orders Fenton to leave the Long Branch. Fenton refuses and Matt gets even angrier and more vocal shouting for Fenton to “Get out. Go on, get out! MOVE!!”
After Fenton leaves, Kitty comments that it’s too bad they don’t have a lawyer in Dodge who might find a way around the law for Matt. At first Matt scoffs at the idea of a lawyer -“Heaven forbid”-, but then remembers the law books left behind when some passing lawyer died while in town a while ago. He, Chester and Doc scour the books and find what amounts to old west eminent domain, complete with wordings such as ‘acute emergency’ and ‘general welfare’ and ‘public good.’
Thunder can be heard in the distance as Matt returns to Cottonwood Pond where he first meets Fenton, guarding the fence. Matt calls him a bushwhacker and says he usually greets bushwhackers with his six shooter. He then calls together Old Man Howard and Mr Jackson, pronounces himself the ‘Duly Constituted Authority’ and declares an ‘Acute State of Emergency” and takes the pond in the name of the US government and cedes watering rights to Mr Jackson. Then he gives Old Man Howard five minutes to make a deal with Mr. Jackson who was just told that he was getting the water for free.
Old Man Howard refuses to accept Matt’s authority so Matt deputizes Mr. Jackson’s men, cuts the fence and instigates a shootout between the two factions. Losing the battle, Old Man Howard’s men start a brush fire which gets out of control and threatens to burn down all of Dodge. Right when all hope is lost, the rain storm that Chester thought was on it’s way breaks.
Fenton, whose men have been shot and possibly killed,has lost his job because the fire did burn down Old Man Howard’s Place. He tries to ambush Matt and Chester, but Matt out guns him. Next Old Man Howard takes his shot at Matt and Chester. He has them dead to rights but is standing under a tree and is taken out by a lightning strike. Everyone else lives happily ever after.
Verdict
I believe it’s pretty clear where Marshall Dillon falls on the Asshole-Hero spectrum; he’s fine with his friend Doc gouging people, not so much Old Man Howard. He scoffs at Lawyers and the way the law is confusingly written but then takes full advantage of that ambiguity. He menaces a private citizen and tosses him out of a public establishment just because he doesn’t like the guy. He later impugns the same guy who is simply doing his job. Matt then lets him know he’d rather just shoot him. He goes out of his way to avoid doing his duty when he doesn’t like it but jumps at the chance when his duties benefit Mr Jackson, not even waiting to see if the approaching storm will bring crisis ending rain or not.
Asshole with a capital A.
Lest one thinks I cherry picked an episode here you will see that this episode did indeed air on 1/19/2020 at 2:30 am, Also to show that I am accurate with my description of the show you can listen to it in it’s entirety here, it’s episode 18. Lastly if one imagines this is just a one off story, ill representing the true character of Mr Dillon, the scriptwriter of this episode is credited with writing a total of 138 radio and television stories and scripts for Gunsmoke, I’d say he knows the score.
And lastly whether you accept my conclusions on Marshal Dillon or not (have at it in the comments [natch]) I think we can all agree that Chester is a sniveling toady with his head so far up “Mr Dillon Sir’s” ass that his feet can’t reach the ground.
I can’t believe you got SugarFree booted to Thursday.
I thoroughly enjoyed this.
Ben Cartwright- libertarian hero defending his land in an immoral Western frontier. And the only decent and honest man in Virginia City raising three upstanding boys adhering to the same moral principles while rightly skeptical of corrupt authority.
You can piss on Gunsmoke, but don’t you dare come for the Cartwrights
Phrasing?
I think it was a dare.
Lucas McCain, serial killer.
And best dad evah!
Little Joe always did that “I’m going to walk away now but then quick turn and sucker punch” thing. I always thought that was rather dickish.
He only did that when provoked. The Cartwrights never started trouble. They finished it.
If you have a problem with Bonanza then just come out and admit that you hate America and you wish we were more like Europe
I’m more of a Big Valley guy. IYKWIMAITTYD.
Bonanza had a better theme song, Frenchy
?We got a right to pick a little fight…Bonanza!?
Watching as a kid, I never much liked Little Joe.
He was the pretty boy. Hoss was the lovable giant. Adam the dark and brooding son. Hop Sing was there for some racially offensive comic relief.
Hey Boy > Hop Sing
Wasn’t Little Joe about to run off and join the Confederate Army in one episode? Didn’t seem to understand the slavery issue like Ben and his brothers did.
Fuck the po-lice?
Sure, if you’re wearing a black hoodie.
https://youtu.be/a_0xYamFYYI
Sure he’s an asshole, but he’s our asshole.
Also, was Doc just joking? Even if he wasn’t, surge pricing FTW, amirite?
Slowly I turn….
Wintston’s Mom after a receiving an awkard wink?
…I put on my robe and wizard hat…
I thought Joe from “a fist full of dollars” was the most libertarian. Playing 2 sides to maximize profits over any moral code.
Chester is a good bureaucrat. Good jobs are hard to find, ass kissing keeps him tight with his boss. Chester is not stupid, usually its a safe job, right behind the Marshall. On occasion he might make a good shoot if a dog wanders by (not sure about that part but he is an LEO). Doc is hooked on the cheap sauce and knows that Matt can keep him in business as long as there’s Medicare for All in Dodge he’ll be getting his paycheck. Kitty keeps the payola going with the cheap/free drinks, gets protection. Matt, the star (and star wearer) is a bully that makes the rules up as he goes, typical cop.
5 stars
Nice summary.
This episode of Tom Woods confirms his domestic terrorist status.
https://tomwoods.com/ep-1576-when-all-else-fails-the-ethics-of-resistance-to-state-injustice/
Seriously, don’t miss this one. It’s not even OT.
From an experience when the well pump quit while 35 stock cows, 31 calves, 11 head of horses and 20-some brood sows were getting thirstier by the minute, I can testify tate drover was in one hell of a fix.
Then he should have paid the fee.
Chester Goode > Matt Dillon fwiw
David Mann > Sam McCloud > Chester Goode
Who the fuck is Chester Goode? MotherF**ker’s name was Proudfoot.
Hyperbole has won this debate. We like to bitch about how proggie Media is today, but oft times overlooked in people’s disdain for Joe McCarthy is that he wasn’t wrong about the degree of Stalinist influence in Hollywood. The propaganda was subtler then, but property owners were generally greedy villains, and using the law or personal violence to help the ‘underdog’ was a common trope. The subtler hues of red in 20th century media paved the way for the bloody crimson of today.
“Shut your dirty whore mouth!” doesn’t necessarily mean Spud disagreed.
I disagree. I believe my erudite response settled the issue.
*Throws up hands* This lawyer thing isn’t easy.
Never let your client testify if you don’t know what he is going to say.
That’s what I find curious about all the calling for witnesses. Do the Dems really have any idea what they’ll say? Then again, the witnesses they did call didn’t exactly help them much.
Perhaps, but it was the era of trust in Big Institutions.
The 80’s, however, were libertopia for TV. Almost every show featured a private detective/fugitive/hillbilly with a lead foot and the government was either incapable, co-opted by the bad guys, or unwilling to help the victim of the week.
Lamont Cranston. Rich dude who has a somewhat…unusual….relationship with a young woman named Margot. Libertarian hero.
somewhat…unusual
They aren’t banging?
Bret Maverick < Josh Randall < Al Swearingen
I did not car for the deadwood “movie”.
It was like a lost episode and it needed more virile Al.
It didn’t track with history, but I thought it was okay.
The thing I thought was cool was they got everyone (above ground) back to do it. If nothing else I liked it as a reunion show.
So, as to say, you don’t truck with it?
straffinrun > Crusty
Maybe in Dumb Opposite Wrong Land!
Fecal leakage > Crusty
straffinrun
Crusty
straffinrun
Crusty
Heh. That Bruce Lee scene from Once Upon a Time in Hollywood also got a big lol.
Bart was the best Maverick.
This is great Hyp.
Reading it was like listening to with the family on the radio again (I’m that old). We followed it onto the TV. As a lad I thought they were great but somewhere on I began thinking Dillon was just a full-of-himself prick. I think that was about the time I started gaining an appreciation of Miss Kitty.
Thanks mikey, I’ve only listen to the satellite radio re-runs and he’s always struck me as a jerk, even when he’s right he has a way of bossing and bulling that brings out the ‘Am I being detained?’ brand of libertarianism in me.
I really enjoyed the series Justified but U.S. Marshall Raylan Givens was a non-stop civil rights violation.
No question, but they gave some lip service to that fact, his boss at least pretended to reprimand him occasionally, Marshal Dillon on the other hand is held up as a paragon of virtue and righteousness when in fact he’s a giant Asshat.
Raylan was beating racists. So they had no civil rights to violate. I liked the show for a couple seasons but if you watch cop shows and actually pay attention to what they are doing it is terrifying.
If you pull on him he will put you down – it’s called self-defense.
Same goes for Presidential worship fests like the West Wing.
I won’t watch those. In the proper circumstances a cop can be a hero, those circumstances are admittedly rare, but when acop goes face to face with an armed serial killer or rapist on a cop show I can root for the cop. Politicians not so much, and the closest they can come is to do the opposite of what they do on those shows.
Today in taxpayer-funded racist and sexist propaganda for tots.
It’s never too young to start your kids on a diet of Marxist claptrap.
Pre-Kindergarten. Wow. In a sane world, they would all be arrested for child abuse. That’s some heavy shit to be laying down on 4 year olds. How about we focus on coloring within the lines.
I wonder if she’ll be discussing the destruction of the family in favor of the collective – another major bullet-point of “Black Lives Matter” after it got skin-suited by the usual suspects.
I hope they rebel as teenagers. They’ll all be Alex Keaton.
Fuck off, slaver!
*Nods in agreement*
How to Have Good Sex, According to a Neuroscientist
Hmmm…
She could have saved a lot of time by just giving me a hollah. I’d have hooked her up. Sex is art, not math.
I see it more like shop class. Ya know, with power tools and stuff.
You could lose a finger.
Hey! Stop screwing around back there!
What we didn’t know:
Kitty’s 16 year old daughter Gretchen, who has been in the East going to boarding school, arrives on the stage, as things begin to heat up. She quickly analyzes the situation and calls for a town hall meeting. She recognizes that the grassland is a fragile environment and to attempt cattle ranching is just not working. In a humane gesture she sees the cattle are desperate for water and orders Old Man Howard to tear down this wall, err, fence so Jackson’s cattle can drink. Howard realizes that when he loses control of his water all the freeloaders in the world will be there and destroy his resource but Matt taps his Colt to get Howard’s attention. Matt leaves Chester at the water hole, as a guard, to prevent any violence. As the water level goes down Chester finds a shiny rock, takes it to town and shows Matt. Matt realizes what it is, telegraphs his brother Peter to buy all the mineral rights in Dodge County. Jackson’s cows are shipped, Chester hires Jackson’s cowboys and they begin digging and finding gold by the buckets full. Matt buys up the town, loans Kitty cash to build a casino and bring in entertainment. Matt fires Chester, hires Gretchen to run the casino, Doc dies from cirrhosis, Jackson is head of security and Old Man Howard gets declared an Alzheimer case and wanders off in the desert and dies. Almost the end…
*edit fairy please insert standing ovation gif here thank you*
The Eldest One just wrote the teleplay for Deadwood. If it’s any consolation 4×20, sorry about your sister-in-law. I know it wasn’t a shock but still…
Do little house next. Make Nellie’s death extry painful.
Nooo! We liked her and the blind sister! Mmmm! The blind sister… Hated that middle daughter.
A defense a Nellie. Even Hype would have a problem with that one.
I caught up on Degrassi Junior High when I’d aged out of it by about twenty years.
The TV series was an abomination. PA INGALLS HAD A BEARD, DAMMIT!
::practices deep breathing exercises::
…but yeah – ditto on Nellie’s death. Prissy bitch.
My mother refused to have that show on in our house. That show, for her, was on the level of taking the Lord’s name in vain.
To this day, I don’t believe I’ve ever watched an entire dramatization of Little Women.
Nope. Never finished the book, either. That’s saying something because OCD and what-not.
Oh, I read Little Women repeatedly, as well as the other Alcott “juveniles.” I’ve just always been wary of TV or film adaptations of my favorite books.
(I wouldn’t have expected you to find LW your cup of tea. It’s totes a chick thing.)
Fun fact: Nellie Olsen was an amalgamation of about 3 different girls Laura knew growing up.
Death would not be fun for Nellie.
What would be BEST would be if she were to be married to a very poor farmer, had a crappy wedding dress, then got jilted at the altar for not being good enough for him.
Revenge vs rehabilitation. I’d take it if she stopped being a cunte and left it at that.
Uh, guess I’m not very consistent.
Mean girls gonna mean.
Little House – Albert’s opioid addiction played like something ripped straight from the headlines.
I always think of Laura up in that loft, listening to the bumping and grinding from her parents that produced her kid siblings.
That’s….that’s kinda disturbing, Ted. You don’t think about the stories presented–just a child exposed to the sounds of parental sex?
The important thing here is that Marshall Dillon got home safely.
Marshall Dillon is a kind man! As decent a feller as ever drew a breath! Why I oughtta…
Chester? That gimpedy gum-drop no good ki-yote? He was plumb bad. He went away from Dodge fer a spell and good riddance to bad flap jacks. No sirree. Don’t think we’ll be seeing his like in Dodge fer a mighty long time… Hee hee hee hee!
Stumpy > Festus
To think that I had kind words and wishes for you in the last post…
Walter Brennan’s voice work was an inspiration to me.
The relevant bit starts at about 15 min, sorry, this was a different video the one I was going to link that was only his part.
Too late. The wishes are gone but the kind words remain. The internet is forever.
I wonder what Mark McCain grew up to do? There were more than 150 episodes of the Rifleman, and Lucas averaged at least one killing per episode. How does one turn out when he sees his Paw end 150 lives?
Have Gun. Will Travel. Is of course the best TV western. Just as Silverado is the movie western. Since you didn’t besmirch either of those (tonight), I’ll agree with you.
The second best TV western is of course The Adventures of Brisco County Jr.
That show was fun even if I saw the writing on the wall and didn’t stick it out to the end.
I was going to re-watch it this last fall, but my DVDs vanished.
What? I mean Oh… That happened. Shitty.
Have Gun. Will Travel. was awesome.
I always enjoyed the Guns of Will Sonnett.
I found Bonanza boring for the mot part.
I’m a bit younger and we had one and then much later two channels growing up. I still remember one episode each of Rat Patrol, Scooby-Doo and Combat from visiting relatives. Mom kiboshed The Brady Bunch so we had to watch stuff like That Girl.
lolwut
Have to admit I never could tell The Brady Bunch from The Partridge Family.
YOU SHUT YOUR DIRTY WHORE MOUTH!!!
Same with Good Times and The Jefferson’s.
So, you’re simply saying that they all look alike?
/you’re invited to the next
rallymeetingMom was the original third-waver. Must have sucked pretty hard to miss all that 60’s fun to stay home with brats. We’ve talked about this before, Rhywun. She would have been 19 in the “Summer of Love”.
I still want to know what happened to the Brady family in Hawaii.
Tragic helicopter crash on Leper Island.
Trivia: did you know that leprosy is extremely non-contagious?
Well sure! Otherwise Mother Theresa’s smug would have fallen off about fifty years ago.
Jan met George Glass.
(Spoiler: both the Bradys going to Hawaii and Jan meeting George Glass there happen in A Very Brady Sequel.)
I loved the Rat Patrol.
Those poor stunt guys standing in the back of the jeeps… I watched about ten minutes of that show not two months ago.
Bad effects, bargain basement AFV’s, bad acting… It was delicious!
Partridge Family > Brady Bunch
Fight me.
Never saw the former, but for some reason the Brady bunch was on syndication on one of the three channels my house had and saw many episodes of that dumb ass show, at least in the background.
Your grew up post Brisco County Jr and still only had 3 channels?
Not truly. But that had stuff for kids post-school. I don’t count PBS and the news block.
You just had a nib-on for David Cassidy. I was a “Jan” man from a very young age. My huge crush in elementary and middle school actually wore those octogonal frames for a time.
It’s a fair cop.
But Laurie Partridge > Jan Brady
Sure, aesthetically. Laurie Partridge was my baby-sitter but Jan Brady was in my cohort. Plus. octogal glasses…
My sister also had those octagonal glasses. The thought of you perving on my sister, however….
I never besmirched Silverado, I only pointed out the obvious – that Once Upon a Time in the West is the greatest western ever.
I hate changing timezones. Been awake since 4 a.m. and I don’t care about old timer tv/radio (what’s that? ).
As a kid I didn’t watch much Gunsmoke specifically because I thought Marshall Dillon was a dick. I liked CHIPs because I liked motorcycles, but Jon was intolerable. Ponch seemed to be able to see the grey in a situation better. Rockford, now there was a show. The cops were often treated with the same disdain as the crooks.
The Rockford Files was great. Wonderful theme music as well.
I have nothing to add except to observe that this is some White people shit.
Well, as soon as The Outlaw Johnny Black comes out I’m gonna watch it. Will that stop your race riot?!
Yeah….”soon“
Shaft was a dick too.
I larfed.
Tony Jaa can’t act.
You’re saying it wasn’t half bad?
Double post and my response gets stuck up like I misthreaded. Abuse of edit power, I tells ya.
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Eyes are all wrong. Should be slantier.
I think I grew up past the Western phase of television.
The only Western I really miss is Firefly.
^!^!^!
Outgrew that stuff but that Canadian guy is charming.
Re Brady Bunch:
Midcentury modern house #FTW. I really really really liked that show…for the house.
I never got tired of the zany hijinks of Alice.
She was def boning Sam the butcher.
I still remember the “very special” episode where he drives her to the clinic.
I’m like Sam the Butcher always bringing Alice the Meat.
Ground round and round?
Ground round, lean and mean
I want their lawn. And the slave.
Dude, it was astroturf.
This is known, Khaleesi!
News repost for the late nighters — I TERK YER JERB!…er I got a job.
See! This is why we can never have nice things…
Shitlord
That’s awesome!!! By the authority vested in me by my own damn self, I declare today to be an Official Frabjous Day!
What can you tell us about it?
I’ll say this much, I no longer live in Las Vegas.
Thank God. My knees were killing me.
Congratulations.
Congratulations!
I didn’t actually Reach for the stars, but better pay and more hours than my last job, that at my age was making me feel like a guy who still thinks his garage band will hit it big one day.
You deserve to be fired for that link.
It was meant for Gustave, not you! A link like this would be for you!
Some “Stars”
Mo should I know the lead singer in Sixx A.M. from some other band? He seems vaguely familiar but I can’t place him.
Naw. His name’s James Michael. He’s actually a producer by trade and just did Sixx:A.M. on a lark, thinking it was only going to be the one album (Heroin Diaries). When he was younger (he’s my age), he tried to be on stage, guitar and singer, I think, but it just didn’t work for him, so he went behind the soundboard instead.
Sixx:A.M. never planned on doing anything else, but then 4 albums later and he became an accidental rock star.
He’s also done backing vocals for a lot of people.
Interesting. Who or what albums in the rock/metal world has he produced?
Off the top of my head, he produced Saints of Los Angeles and Bat Out of Hell. Also, Papa Roach. Other than that, I can’t remember.
He produces a lot of pop, I think. Sixx:A.M.’s Modern Vintage sounds a bit pop-py.
Yeah, yeah…OK. Congrats, and all that. What is the
jobpositiontask?Security. Watching over some obscure websites. Nothing that he can’t handle.
I left a pretty plain clue in response to GT above, and and in the earlier thread that I’ll be playing Big Brother.
Look, I only have two questions: How much does it pay, and, give it to me.
If you’re interested, later I can give you actual details over e-mail. Tonight I’m drinking in celebration and getting ready to record audio for a new cartoon.
Hells yeah; write that shit up, holmes!!
I think I just sent it to your current e-mail. Or it might be your old one. I’m drunk.
Got it and replied.
Saw the reply, about to pass out. I’ll keep you updated. No matter what my job commitments the
SpiceCartoons will flow.Congrats! It always feels good to have a paycheck coming in.
Congratulations on the new job.
Doraemon is the best at explaining moral hazard.
Help a gaijin out. Who is that?
Orthodox Herbertarian, the Dune font
Orthodox Herbertarian was created in 2009, painstakingly traced from scans of the typeface that was used on the American Ace Editions (Published by The Berkley Publishing Group) of Dune and many other Frank Herbert books (Such as Whipping Star and The Jesus Incident) for around a decade, from the early 70s through to the early 80s.
Ok Brick.
I will cop to being Brickalicious about fonts.
Is Brick the new cunte or what?
I hope not!
In a few episodes [The Middle], Brick [Heck] was known to have an obscure interest in fonts and he has even created a blog based on fonts in one episode.
“Brick-cunte”?
Hmmm…..I’ll allow it.
Ha I recall that font from my paperbacks of all of those books.
Utterly hideous, but memorable.
Gah! I made it through the first book and believe you me, I read ALL the sci-fi back then.
Dune? I’ve only read the first Dune book myself.
I find myself re-reading his non-Dune stuff from that era much more often. They’re mostly fantastic.
There was more than one Dune? I remember being aware of Dune, both the book and the movie, and spotting a copy at my grandparent’s house. They were super churchy Lutherans and both read voraciously. I never really pieced together who was reading it until just now, and my realization after my dad died that despite him being a knife carrying ex Air Force member who was on his HS football team, he was a nerd who convinced his wife to let him hang a Star Trek The Motion Picture poster in their bedroom; now I can see my grandpa in that same light, even though he was a farmer/trucker who got run over by a bull in his 70s and made a joke. NERDS ARE EVER WHERE!
I never realized what a huge nerd my mom was except in hindsight. You mean it wasn’t normal to take your four sons to watch ST:TMP on the midnight movie premiere?
You have/had a cool mom.
Gone almost 12 years now 🙁
But not forgotten.
For me reading has become nearly automatic. I think half of it is just trying to make my brain go to bed. Back/forth a few hundred times like an old-timey typewriter and fade away. I’m old enough that a book hasn’t really blown me away in decades.
I haven’t been able to read for pleasure for years now. I miss it, but I can barely concentrate on a tweet, much less a whole book.
I was a voracious reader up until I was ~ 16/17. 2019, it came back with a vengeance and continues unabated.
?♂️
I am FINALLY finished for the day. Spent an hour on the ohone with XY’s middle school (that sick feeling in your stomach when you see it on your caller ID) that pretty much wiped me out for a couple of hours, but got a project done I didn’t think I’d get done till tomorrow. Mixed bag of a day.
Tomorrow will be worse. Tuesdays always are.
But I will be going to bed happy with my accomplishment. Now, I need to find the cat’s toy and hide it so he doesn’t bounce all over me at 3:00 a.m. wanting to play fetch.
I didn’t know you’re a dispatcher at this college, too!
For years, I thought I was the only one whose Tuesdays were always hellacious, then when I said aomething, other people started noticing that their Tuesdays sucked more than their Mondays.
So, I guess it’s a thing?
Well, to be fair, C’s observation that Thursdays are hell WAS correct for me at my last job.
Now, it has been more Tuesdays. Still, any and all days ending in “y” can be bitchez.
Mondays are for dragging one’s ass across the carpet, bitching and moaning about what a terrible day it is. Tuesdays are for closers.
Shit, if only we closed…
I refuse to believe that you didn’t feature that reference, Diggy.
I….what?
Must be Thursday, never quite got the hang of Thursday.
Thursday?! Why, that’s today!!
John Paul Jones has you covered https://youtu.be/0jrJf4iYf38
She’s kinda ugly….
From your old gig
https://youtu.be/zwC5xfh4nfE
Better
https://youtu.be/0thnAQKadpo
Oh, that one put in the playlist on our automated ‘Classic Rock’ station of my own volition.
I believe I played that at least once. It made me feel like a fraud to play music I didn’t like.
BTW–This was NOT me, as I hate buses.
Anytime people try to tell me I should take public transport I remember that time when the ugly woman on the bus in Vegas was fingering herself and said something to the effect of, ‘What?! This is how I pay the bills!’ Yeah, I like having my own car.
Having your own auto allows you to be able to pay your bills.
So, be sure to finger your Buick when yo get a moment.
Owning your own Car is essential, no doubt.in the West you are dead without one….
So you got to experience dirty Vegas?…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLCduDJVksc
Relevant.
Heh https://youtu.be/657TZDHZqj4 everything is so spread out here that I can actually understand food deserts.
Because of course. All that’s missing is the white women and jazz music.
Well, that’s not all that’s missing…
Police did later find some wimminz hiding beneath the piano.
Me thinks thou doth protest too much.
BOOM–caught that eye!!
God dammit Farva!
Whoa….why you gotta be so cruel??
I am NOT covered in powdered sugar!
Yet.
Multi-talented and pretty elderly now. He could dress up like John Wayne Gacy and I’d still nearly suck him off for the way he arranged “In The Light”. He was the glue that held Zep together.
So, what say you to all the haterz out there that say he is a thief of “Black music”?
Personally, I’m a Bonzo fan.
Peart>Bonzo
Peart=technician. Bonzo=heart. Need both.
Peart=Heart and mind, Winner!
Both dead….
They’re kinda equal now…
/was just keeping it in the LZ family
What a horrible Mix,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPYH4s7_e34
They had a tune or two.
yes but their mix was horrible, Guitar heavy, and a good band,
Real good mix,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQPHsONF_tE
My Bro bought the “red vinyl” version of that album back in 1978 or so. Pretty sure the grooves got worn out.
as they should, a great album..
“Circumstances” is still on my work playlist forty-two years later.
+1000
and since we are here,YYZ,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdpMpfp-J_I
YYZ, is the Toronta air call sign, and the first 3 tones in the song are morse code for YYZ, true story,
and let’s not forget, 2112,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtdKhwhAcd4
2121
^ I like
Which should be the Glib Anthem BTW,
found knowledge that was withheld……
My bro earned some bucks somehow after he recovered from his near fatal bout with encephalitis at 13. The first four albums that he bought were Deep Purple Machine Head, Rush 2112, Pink Floyd Animals and Led Zeppelin Presence. I’ll not forget that day until I shuffle off this mortal coil.
perfect young guy selection, it was for me….
I bought “Permanent Waves” before any of my provincial friends did. Saw the concert. Freewill is another one on my rotation.
I don’t get the Geddy hate, what a voice….
I don’t either. But I’m a big Priest fan so piercing shrieks are A-OK with me.
Rob is a Hero of mine,
Big Rock!,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhvzMGDzt70
The title song on that album contains the best shrieks in rock history.
Hell to the yeah.
up the Volume!
Winston’s Mom’s entrance music. Also for CPRM’s fellow bus rider in Vegas.
I saw a homelees guy attack a car in Vegas today, never seen it in Cali…
Was totally expecting this.
Ass, cash, or grass. She doesn’t work for free.
OTOH,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47YAcpCa5dM
or,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxHyliIspkA&list=RD47YAcpCa5dM&start_radio=1
Weezer!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kemivUKb4f4&list=RD47YAcpCa5dM&index=9
try the fish…
They have many better songs.
I think I told this story a few weeks ago, but I’ll tell it again. One of my lady friends in college wanted to go see Wheezer when they were coming to out college. I got tickets because she asked. the opening band played, then they turned on the lights. They announced Wheezer wasn’t going to appear because their flight had been grounded in Chicago. I never wanted to see Wheezer, but that a damper on the whole night, and I never got any points with her for going to that lame concert either.
I listen, but would never pay to see Weezer, the Stones, the Who, yes, Weezer, no;….
I never would have paid either, except my little head got in the way.
What an utter shit night.
And the boys never swam again…
Not because Rivers was drunk and locked himself in the tour bus/hotel room?
It was the plane bathroom, duh.
That makes sense.
God! I hate those stupid beards the kids are wearing, clean it up! look decent if your going to sport a Beard FFS they can be Magnificent if you try…
I had a lux one that turned calico. I remain shaven except for the porn stache and imperiale.
http://archive.li/vQRPY/14e25178df01ae29ceebf21f4bc6c351afe5096d.jpg
NSFW.
http://archive.li/z1vSK/78e3a6363ee1a7818d039f65f2bc05e6ce391413.jpg
NSFW.
http://archive.li/B6PT8/3367decca0653b9a038f5a807571219024458c35.jpg
NSFW.
http://archive.li/6XtmX/606ad83afdde56e84c026d4c2e26950e7cdb2196.jpg
NSFW.
http://archive.li/kONAk/910a0a8a0d47eee026453c32b7cff7f4613bc4f1.jpg
NSFW.
http://archive.li/XpgZZ/3d34ff199ddc863af06357cb5cde98f14d552902.jpg
NSFW.
Have landing strips gone out of style?
I prefer the first one because she resembles real life, personal experience.
Did you say Weezer or Ween? https://youtu.be/wNzdzqksyiQ this song makes me smile.
That is delightful!
They are the definition of “acquired taste”.
I did not acquire it.
I know one “Ween” song.
I just cued up their most popular song on Youtube and had nightmares at how awful it is.
Then my work here is done. You’re welcome!
Ditto.
I’m outtie people. Going to bed early tonight.
Yay for good intentions! Boo for the bad! Sleep well little Mojo…
I think i have finally broken through to my son in guitar lessons…little bastard spends 20 .minutes listening to a song and then turns around plays it.
Told him some lessons will only strengthen his natural abilities.
Bringing this over from the Glibs Discord: https://twitter.com/SheriffAlert/status/1221881862244749315
Please, take the time to read the comments–proof that Twitter can be platinum sometimes.
Ok. That was gold.
Utterly fantastic stuff:
Patrick Alexander
Replying to @JoshuaRush @SheriffAlert
This is how I want to be described in my obituary.
“Boulder McBoulderface”?
As mentioned above, Lucas McCain; Serial Killer or Libertarian?
The Rifleman Kill Count
Lucas McCain can Keeeeel….
Gettin’ them hat tricks!
This seems a bit desperate.
https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2020/01/27/there-it-is-elizabeth-warren-admits-theres-no-evidence-of-a-trump-crime-but-if-elected-president-she-will-find-it/
Man, she’s got a busy “day one”. How many things has she promised to do on “day one”?
She could add “Die of Ebola” and I would be very happy with her first day.
Those elbows need a staff of their own.
Pathological liar lies, news at eleven.
” I can’t believe it’s not Beeutter!”
It’s not smart business to gouge at such an immense markup. Sure you can charge what you like, but it’s not like it’s covering overheads like schlepping the water/diesel generator/canned food all the way down to New Orleans via treacherous roads before making a modest profit. He has the water right there, and at no cost to him, the cattle could be watered. I think it’s smart business to negotiate for sustainable business. The simple “fuck you, pay me” is of course your right, but it’s not without consequences. In the market, no man is an island. Leverage wisely, and you will profit above and beyond any short-sighted competition. Oh I see we’re all done with this. In conclusion, this is all irrelevant – Dillon is a jerk.
Thank you, that is the kind of insightful discussion I was hoping to generate with this post, of course the rest of the idiots here would rather parse whether Hopalong and California were a little too buddy buddy, NTTAWWT.
Hey, Teh Hype – just wondered if you have access to any of the late TV episodes (late ’60s/early ’70s) to compare with the ’50s radio episodes. It might be interesting to see if Dillon changed with the times.
It doesn’t appear to be streaming anywhere, looks like it’s on TV Land but I don’t even own a TV. I have heard that even the radio show lightened up/ became more family friendly as it went along, Kitty in particular going from obvious prostitute to saloon owner, Doc became more likable and such.
Marshal Dillon remains an asshole throughout however, I also recently heard one of the later radio episodes and he’s still yelling at people and bossing them around when he has no official reason to do so. In this case some widow is trying to steal another woman’s husband, the wife shoots at the widows feet to warn her off, Matt is tasked with arresting the wife but instead goes to the widow’s and forces her and the husband to go back to the the wife’s place to ‘settle this thing once and for all’
Sounds kinky
Amen. I might even suggest a cut rate price (or even free) on water access, then gouge them all on trinkets and sundries – “Well boys, while y’all are here, how ’bout some whiskey and rubber tommy-hawks?!?”
Don’t they even roadside, brah?
Left my phone at work overnight.
No missed calls.
I feel so wanted.
🙁
My boss butt dialed me last night. That was it.
*shrug*
I don’t know how that’s still a thing.
Voice activation.
*in argument* “You’re not who I call asshole.”
Phone: “Calling ‘Asshole’.”
“Uhh, sorry, I ‘must have ‘butt-dialed’.”
I guess he could have been arguing with Siri.
You know I insult only for the purposes of humor.
LOL. That’s not even an insult to me. ?
I’ll have to try harder next time :p
Your adoring public is online, eagerly awaiting more of your writing.
No phone calls is a win in my book.
I have an eye exam this afternoon. A new perscription might ease the eye strain and help me to focus.
A new monocle can make all the difference.
I had a phone call once. Telemarketer but he said it was the wrong number when I answered.
It’s real easy to recognize my phone among the touch screen monstrosities foating around these days.
Man!! What rotten sleep. I keep having nightmares.
It’s the pits. Wish me luck on my upcoming attempt to get a few more hours in….
Oh right, it’s about 4am there.
Good luck. I assume you don’t get up around Ted’S wake-up time.
I have some welding to do that I’ve been putting off for a long time because it’s a rocker (sills) repair on a car and it means lying on cold gravel and lots of grinding, getting dirty, and cold. I loathe doing that. If I had a nice big garage with a lift, and plenty of lighting and space to work, I’d be all over it, but I’m a fairweather mechanic/welder. I resent dragging all my gear out. Last time I did that I ran out of welding wire, and the time before I ran out of gas. I refuse to pay anyone to do that kind of work. Ugh. Ain’t nothin’ to it but to do it.
New Cat has finally set me free by getting down off my lap. Thanks goodness – I don’t have to call in “trapped.”