On Tuesday morning I was in for a bit of a surprise. Like any other, I woke up, urinated, and stumbled over to the kitchen to make myself a cup of coffee.
“What the Hell are you doing here?”
”HI BROWN MAN. BROWN MAN HAVE GOOD COFFEE.”
“Why are you here drinking my Hawaiian coffee?”
I looked around and surmised STEVE SMITH raped a 2 lbs bag of whole bean coffee and got coffee beans all over the place. I watched the tiny dog crunching on a few in her bowl.
”TINY DOG LOOK TIRED. STEVE SMITH GIVE TINY DOG COFFEE“
“Thanks. Asshole.”
In the living room I heard Tony Horton shouting it was now time for crunchy frog. I walked over and found Sugarfree finishing Ab RipperX in my living room. An entire house with tile and he picks the one room with carpet to roll around the floor doing ab exercises while naked.
”Hey…mex…how…you doing?” Sugarfree asked in between reps.
”You all have to be shitting me.”
“No…that happens…after…air squats.”
Then the tiny dog ran up to me. She circled six or seven times then stopped. Shivering furiously, she squatted awkwardly and let loose a liquid shit on my carpet.
———
“This is Prathiba, from Swiss Corps International Industries, why are you calling Mr. Swiss this time?”
“The Indian government finally let you out of quarantine?” I asked.
”You one to talk. Last I check Mexicans running through desert with upper respiratory infections and taking up space in hospitals.”
”That has what to do with me?”
”I survive diphtheria, bubonic plague, and dengue fever outbreak in India. I no need whatever greasy plague you have spreading around town.”
”We don’t live in the same city…”
”Keep it that way. MAGA BITCH.”
“Look, there’s a Sasquatch in my house.” I explained.
”Ok. Is STEVE SMITH doing anything else?”
“At the moment? He’s sitting on my roof shouting at MAGA trucks.”
STEVE SMITH SAY LIME GREEN TRUCK WITH LIFT LOOK TERRIBLE.
“I afraid Mr. Swiss say he no longer interested in STEVE SMITH causing ruckus in your house. He say your own damn fault you shot him in New Mexico, and fire-bombed Trump’s car—“
”I didn’t fire-bomb his car, Sugarfree did that.”
“—if he not do anythIng illegal, he say hang up.”
”What the Hell am I supposed to do with STEVE SMITH and Sugarfree in my house?”
”Sugarfree there? Let me patch you through.”
——-
“Mex. I’m glad you called!” Swiss said.
”You are?”
“Yes, we’ve been looking for Sugarfree for the past couple days. Guy says he’s hungry and goes on a buffalo hunt and then disappears…”
“Why is there a Sasquatch in my house?”
STEVE SMITH HONK BACK AT YOU. BY HONK, MEAN RAPE
”I don’t know…have you considered…and I’m just spittballing here…asking him?”
”He’s on my roof, shouting at cars.”
“Yeah he does that. See to it Sugarfree gets home.”
”Will I be reimbursed for the plane ticket given he lives in Kentucky?”
”Tell me about it. This call is over.”
——-
“So what brings you to my house?”
“MAX REPS always makes me hungry.” Sugarfree had set up a small rotisserie on my grill and was getting ready to put a family of quail over it. Each seemed to have its head smashed in with a small rock. Seeing he repurposed a workout band into a makeshift slingshot, I wasn’t too worried it would tip off the neighbors.
”STEVE said he’s seen a lot of impostors at protests.” Sugarfree took a juvenile quail, its head off coming off with a loud -snap-, and removed its skin in one swift motion.
”Impostors?”
STEVE SMITH SEE WANT TO KNOW DIFFERENCE BETWEEN BMW DRIVER AND PORCUPINE
”People dressing up like him and calling themselves bigfoot.” Sugarfree looked up at STEVE. “The pricks on a porcupine are on the outside, STEVE.”
AH HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Sugarfree looked back at me. “He just wants to make sure people don’t get the wrong idea about him.”
”How bad can it be?”
”Well for one thing, his feet aren’t big. They’re actually proportional in size, considering his seven foot frame.“
STEVE SMITH FEET BIG ENOUGH
”STEVE is also strictly against placing him on a binary spectrum of political thought. His pastime of rape is highly nuanced.” Sugarfree set seven quail on a skewer, set it upon the spit, and closed the lid. “We’re here to make sure nobody co-opts his image.”
——-
The houses in my neighborhood began to prepare for the Trump rally. Some put up stupid signs on their front yards, others put up their Trump flags. An enterprising individual even began selling MAGA gear.
Sugarfree and I walked over to the church and made our way into the crowd.
“Reminds me of our trip to our nations capital.” Sugarfree said.
”Please don’t remind me.” I replied.
The cops set up some sort of Spartan line at the intersection. The BLM crowd was wrapping itself around three sides. Some wore masks in accordance with the city and county mandate to wear masks in public. Then for no apparent reason the line began to march slowly towards the protest.
”We are here to enforce the city’s mask mandate. Half of you are not abiding by the city mandate, which was made in accordance of the best understanding of safety measures by health experts…” A man said through the bullhorn.
”They can’t really be saying that?” I asked.
”…the intent of the mandate is first to educate the public on the severity of the virus, not necessarily to ‘enforce’ it.”
”They’re going there.” Sugarfree chuckled.
”…We assume all of you have drugs, child pornography, and weapons on your person.”
“This guy has a gun!” Sugarfree shouted, trying to grab my 1911 from it’s IWB holster.
”What are you doing?”
”Listen…whatever happens today, STEVE wants to know he thanks you for your hospitality, and left a gift on your roof.” Sugarfree said ominously.
”He took a dump on my roof?”
Sugarfree shrugged and looked at the oncoming cops behind their line of shields. “Hey. Its STEVE!”
STEVE SMITH for some reason walked into the intersection between the cops and BLM.
The cops began to fire pepper balls on the crowd. Its been a long time since I’ve been around tear gas.
”Spicy balls.” Sugarfree put a few in his pocket.
STEVE SMITH NOT HAPPY WITH COPS. STEVE SMITH HAVE A CONVERSATION WITH COP.
STEVE ran up to the line of shields and grabbed the cop with the bullhorn and ran off with him into the nearby mountain preserve.
”That guy’s screwed.” I said.
”GO STEVE, GO!” Sugarfree shouted.
——-
The neighborhood had an uneasy feeling for the rest of the day. Between the sirens and the news helicopters, that tiny dog kept yapping all damn night.
I don’t really know what happened to Sugarfree, but he was right about that present STEVE SMITH left on my roof.
Thanks. Not bad STEVE.
Hawaiian Shirt Moral Panic!
but he was right about that present STEVE SMITH left on my roof.
Luckily he didn’t leave a present at your back door…
Rioting slows down.. and now it’s back to The Virus | Republicans are still useless
The crisis is only useful while it yields scalps.
Fed driven inflation at work. 15 minutes doesn’t go as far these days either.
I’m prepared for, and encouraging, the oncoming virus riots
So that’s what happens in Phoenix
Well, those are pictures from my neighborhood.
Finally, Libertopia.
https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2020/06/27/course-minneapolis-city-council-votes-disband-police-pays-4500-day-private-securty/
Minneapolis City Council Votes To Disband Police — But Pays $4500 A Day For Private Security
And you,
subjectcitizen, are not allowed to carry a gun for protection.Well, there won’t be any cops to stop me:), nor force me to pay local taxes, which begs the question, how will they keep paying for their security detail?
“Taxpayers pay $4,500 a day… ” would be more accurate.
Huh. All it took was to import a bunch of somalis. Look out roadz, you’re next!
Question for the locals. So what are the cops doing? Are they still working? Still giving out tickets and investigating crimes and shit? Or just chilling and collecting their paychecks? Are they still getting paid?
Rhywun on June 27, 2020 at 8:03 am
Quantico to see a sudden rise in Hawaiian shirt deliveries.
I laughed.
(BTW where is everyone?)
We all got drunk while playing strip poker on Zoom.
I drank way too much last night. Mrs. T is displeased.
Likewise for me and my situation with my lady. But, you know, wake up at ten, go out to eat and then do it again. (which was was way easier when I was actually in college…)
“Shit, if this is gonna be that kind of party, I’m gonna stick my dick in the mashed potatoes”
Reminds me of a joke re a come as you party where the punchline is “I’m fucking dis custard “
Steve Smith is small-time compared to the mass-rape in CT.
50,000 state employees getting a $350 million pay raise next week (on July 1st) while almost 600,000 private sector workers in Connecticut have lost their jobs.
Possible headline for the Bee: Connecticut Government Seeks Darwin Award
Yeah, I know it’ll never happen, but we can dream.
“Fascist Freebooters Rub Feces in Folks’ Faces”
Unless I’m forgetting a 0 in my calculations, that’s a $7,000 average raise. That seems fucking insane to me. That’s more of an increase I would see taking a promotion
leon on June 27, 2020 at 8:27 am
America has spent the last 20 years fighting non conventional wars. The military is unpracticed at such a thing, and I think the Russians could give us a run for our money.
I contend that there is no possibility that the Ruskies could defeat the US in a conventional war as things currently stand. We, for better or worse, spend the most and have the most persons, equipment and tech at our disposal that I believe it inconceivable that any country or group of countries on the planet could possibly win a war against us. A conventional war, that is. Nuclear weapons introduce an entirely different situation. So I agree with Stinky: war with a nuclear superpower who would have lost the conventional war fairly quickly is not a good course of action.
America has spent the last
2065 years fighting non conventional wars.Lots of prepping and training for conventional wars, but I’d argue no actual doing.
Desert Storm was a conventional force on force fight. The enemy was nowhere near as skilled with Soviet equipment as the NTC OPFOR. Except for remote chance of an Iraqi hitting you it much easier than any Ft Irwin rotation.
The initial weeks of Iraqi Freedom was force on force with the totally unexpected addition of FS fighters. I hold one of the great strategic mistakes of the invasion (besides the decision to invade) was to not force the Iraqi Army to do battle before we reached Baghdad. Then we could have decisivily destroyed it and had that in the Iraqi mindset. As it was all too many Iraqi officers (later to join the insurgency ) felt, “You never beat us. We just went home.”
Conventional battles really, not wars. And against an opponent that didn’t represent much of a threat at real defeat.
Bravo! Bravo!
That was fun. ?
And complete with illustrations for the hard of reading.
????
Would read again.
You are all too kind…or drunk.
That bottle is not nearly as empty as I expected after reading this.
Thats the before picture.
I just found this out this morning, although it happened on Monday. Slate Star Codex taken offline by author due to New York Times’ stated policy of insisting on publishing his real name in an article about the site.
https://www.dontdoxscottalexander.com/ There are links to other good articles about the situation here, don’t want to post too many links in one post.
stated policy of insisting on publishing his real name
Except if you’re “a senior administration official”, or any number of other exceptions.
Or a host of other specific situations documented in the links available above, and on the r/slatestarcodex subreddit
The Chapo Traphouse thing was the most egregious example I saw, since it was completely analogous (no “protecting sources” argument).
Sources familiar with the NYT’s thinking agree.
Or a source familiar with the President’s thinking.. .
a) That would have led to your comment being in moderation limbo;
b) Drugs would have fallen out of your ass. :-p
Yeah, my previous post about this on the morning thread got stuck in limbo.
So I assume “Scott Alexander” is a pseudonym…?
It’s his real first and middle names, but he has tried to keep his real identity hidden, for reasons he elucidates in his (now only) post on slatestarcodex.com
IMO, Scott might be making a mistake by taking down the blog, because if NYT goes through with publishing the article, the Internet Archive still has all of his posts. Unless he can force them to hide the archives, the info is still available, and then his patients might be able directly to find his personal information.
Scott likely understands this, and had probably thoroughly game-theorized his response with friends and other members of his community before pulling the blog. I can’t tell if the NYT article was to have been a hit job (although SA himself stated it probably wasn’t) but now there is a good chance they will edit the article unfavorably.
Others in the SSC community have had direct or indirect dealings with the particular people responsible for the article (both editor and author) and have expressed their opinons that these people most likely had a hit piece in mind from the beginning. This will be impossible to determine now.
You can request the Wayback Machine remove your snapshots – I _think_ just adding an exclude to robots.txt can retroactively exclude it.
WTF is “real name”? Is it the full name on a birth certificate, the one on a driver’s license, or what someone is known as and presents themselves as? Because Scott Alexander is the closest to a real name as far as the context of that article.
Well, he’s a practicing psychiatrist, presumably licensed by the State of California; he presumably pays bills, executes contracts and officially is known by that name, and that name, once connected to his blog, will be in serious jeopardy.
I understand your point; the Times has no really legitimate argument in favor of using his “official-to-the-State” name. But they insist on publishing it anyway. Seems very threatening in this day and age.
I’ve become very skeptical of the name = identity thinking. First was after getting married and the DMV clerk balked at the arrangement of my wife’s new name, but relented, and based essentially on assertion, changed the name and reissued the license that didn’t match either the existing name or the marriage license (ID’s only shows the premarital names) exactly.
Second was a buddy found out after 50+ years of existence that his birth certificate name wasn’t the one that his parents had used (or had a drivers license, registered to vote, and owned property under). Discovered when he had to request his birth certificate for real ID requirements. Yet another DMV clerk accepted the document and renewed his drivers license, despite not matching.
My last name has been spelled three different ways on passports and visas. The first name has only two spellings. For several years I felt it was wise to check how my name was spelled in then valid passport before filling out a customs/immigration form before landing in the US.
I go by my middle name. Some forms of ID have first initial/middle name; others have first name/middle initial. I’ve wound up with multiple entries in the juror system as a result and have twice had to call to tell them the mistake, as the erroneous entry that was removed the first time got put back in and I got a jury duty pre-questionnaire despite being in the exempt period from having served.
Me too, S. Ted.
I just had a fight with the health insurance people because I gave my middle name to the ER a while back instead of my first name.
You’re stories are all better but at my last hotel stay they had me under Jr. It took some time to figure this out.
Your
Okay, you might be skeptical, but people use names to refer to items, concepts, and people. So unless you have absolutely nothing to fear by having your name associated with your published opinions, I guess your position is reasonable. Most people don’t have that luxury.
My critique is against the NYT’s “policy” of printing real names in their article. And using outside sources to determine that name rather than using the interviewee’s preferred name.
Specifically, what is a real name. My position is that his asserted name in connection with SSC is more his “real name” for the purported purpose of the article.
Why would anyone talk to that Commie fishwrap anyway? Unless you’re part of the Nomenklatura, you know they don’t have your best interests in mind.
For Rhywun, etc – my region free bluray player was purchased from 220-electronics.com. recommended to a few other folks on twitter and haven’t heard negative reviews yet (bought mine in…2014?) – haven’t checked the site in a couple years though and I’m still working from my phone at home.
Mine is a 3D capable LG (BP335W). They recommend no firmware updates, but I normally never connect any hardware to the internet beyond my game consoles). Normal players are so cheap now that it wouldnt be tough to get a second one for Prime/Netflix/etc if you wanted to go that route and your tv already doesnt support.
Did know this was a request, but thanks! Have a Sony BDP-1500 from 220 sitting in my cart right now.
Cool, I’ll keep them in mind. I don’t have any out-of-region BluRays but it’s nice to have the option some day.
Well as I noted before the play all my non-region 1 dvds as well.
Yup. I have a lot of those. I only own 3 bluray discs so far… 🙂
Woodrow Wilson is canceled.
Princeton University will remove President Woodrow Wilson’s name from its public policy school and a residential college, the school’s president announced.
Christopher Eisgruber announced the institution’s decision in a statement published on the school’s website. He cited Wilson’s “racist views and policies” as the main factor in the decision.
“The trustees conclude that Woodrow Wilson’s racist thinking and policies make him an inappropriate namesake for a school or college whose scholars, students, and alumni must firmly stand against racism in all its forms,” the statement read.
The trustees voted on Friday to remove the name. The school will be known as “The Princeton School of Public and International Affairs,” while the college will simply be called “First College.”
“Muh racism” is the least bad thing about Wilson.
Easily the biggest piece of shit to occupy the White House, and there’s a pretty high level of competition.
Long overdue
Trying to act quickly before anyone starts examining the racist intertwinings with progressivism.
Yeah, this. They want to cauterize the wound and set up barriers that logic cannot traverse.
Cool, do FDR now.
I’m looking forward to popcorn when “woke” inevitably collides with “endowment”.
This is going to be so wonderful for so many universities. How many departments, professorships, libraries, buildings, scholarships are now languishing away under the burden of the name of an unfavored dead man, forever to be limited in finance?
This is the moneymaking opportunity of the millenium! The opportunity to re-sell all the naming rights for everthing once again to new deep-pocketed sponsors.
1. Declare old benefactor an unperson
2. Delete their name from the dedication
3. Make it quietly known in alumni and philanthropic circles that these naming rights are back up for sale
4. Wait a respectful 2 years or so
5. Accept Big Money contributions from the politically favored new donors
Who’s this “Princeton” fellow? Sounds old and white. Very problematic.
Yale is the actual slaveowners someone was trolling to cancel last week. Don’t recall who. Odd silence…
The retardation of the maoists
https://www.wweek.com/news/state/2020/06/25/is-the-oregon-state-song-racist/
It was written in the 1920’s when Oregon was completely racist, so the song must be as well. As part of the damning of the period, the build up is Oregon was always racist with evidence such as
Wait a sec… if the period was so incredibly racist, why would those laws be repealed?
And lots of KKK references, such as the support for Walter Pierce to be elected governor. Conveniently missing, Pierce was a progressive Democrat. And the 1920’s KKK in Oregon wasn’t primarily a racist org, although they probably felt that way as well. No, it was anti Irish and anti Catholic, culminating in a mandatory public schools law that was eventually struck down (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierce_v._Society_of_Sisters). But let’s gloss over all of that and say racism.
This action will solve all of Oregon’s problems. How dare you belittle it.
Whenever i sarcastically say that, i get “You don’t get it!”
“Oh, I get it.”
More from youngrippa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUxd49XnJYk
https://mobile.twitter.com/stillgray/status/1276864695878602755
Good. Fuck those commies.
That was much less than they deserve.
Local rag is finally starting to shift against the thugs terrorizing Portland for the last month
https://www.oregonlive.com/business/2020/06/downtown-retailers-wonder-about-police-reaction-to-rioting-thieves-where-was-the-mayor.html
But it’s all about how the police failed. Not about the criminals. Not about business owners failing to go Korean on the criminals.
Jesus that girl’s voice. The dude wasn’t even hit as far as I can tell. Just a raised baton.
Great Nevada day to smoke some ribs and drink some beer and play safety theater to run in a convenience store for a 67 cent bag of M&Ms.
Upgraded our generator for moar powa! Fashioned a shelter for it on hot days so it doesnt sit in the beating sun and overheat.
For the first time since late Winter I was able to purchase a twelve pack of TP.
A great day indeed!
But then you get Pence, whom I assume you will also want to resign…for some reason.
Hayes began by saying, “This moment, we are in the midst of one of the worst governing failures in American history. When all is said and done, it may end up being the worst since the Civil War. There is no country on earth this far into this pandemic that has bungled it this badly. And we need leadership and a leader to get us out of this. But we do not have that leader, we have Donald Trump. And from the very first day, this has been a terrible presidency. From the first moment, the first speech, it has been terrible throughout.” …
Hayes concluded, “The problem is not his tone. There is not going to be some course correction. Donald Trump does not learn. He is not going to get good at this. He is not going to change. He has failed, definitively. And it is an urgent matter of public health, of public safety, at this moment, for the President, Donald Trump, to resign.”
Yeah, sure. *goes about normal Saturday business*
You know who else didn’t learn, didn’t change, and didn’t get godo at being President?
William Henry Harrison?
The prick on student council in my high school ?
lolwhatever. Take a chill pill, dude.
Murdered American Citizens?
Threw Journalists in jail?
Spied on his political opponents?
Traded pardons for cash money?
Sold out the country to China?
Started illegal wars?
Funded terrorism by sending billions in cash to Iran?
The penaltax?
The Patriot Act?
What has the current thug in charge that’s worse than any one of those?
Thats it. Now he’s done for. Rachel Maddow in drag wants Trump to resign.
Rachel Maddow in drag
Isn’t that just Rachel Maddow?
“The trustees conclude that Woodrow Wilson’s racist thinking and policies make him an inappropriate namesake for a school or college whose scholars, students, and alumni must firmly stand against racism in all its forms,” the statement read.
P Brooks’ college history and polisci professors hazes teh sadz.
Wilson was the greatest thing since sliced bread, according to those guys and gals. It was a mob of isolationist hillbillies who thwarted him and kept him from his rightful place as God-king of Earth.
Sounds like they’re trying to offload their racism onto students and alumni. Classy.
isolationist hillbillies
“Isolationist” because I’d prefer to trade with people rather than shoot them or get involved in their disputes with others.
I am named for one of thiose isolationist hillbillies! (sort of, he was from Missouri) His speech against the last attempt to ratify the League treaty ended:
I hope we are as wise at least as the old farmer who had just returned from the great city of New York. His friends, observing a package under his arm, securely wrapped up in paper, said to him, “Uncle Dan, where have you been?”
He replied, “I have been to New York.”
They said, “Well, we hope you did not buy another gold brick?”
He answered, “Well, yes I did. But I told the fellow I bought it from that if it did not turn out better than the one I bought from him before, I would not patronize him any more.”
Upgraded our generator for moar powa! Fashioned a shelter for it on hot days so it doesnt sit in the beating sun and overheat.
So heat and vapor lock were the issue?
He finally checked the thermostat.
And we need leadership and a leader to get us out of this. But we do not have that leader, we have Donald Trump. And from the very first day, this has been a terrible presidency. From the first moment, the first speech, it has been terrible throughout.” …
No substantiation required.
I love how they excrete these categorical claims as definitively as if they are reading Holy Writ.
Pot, meet kettle.
Tapper said, “The coronavirus crisis is surge surging in two-thirds of the United States. You might not know that if you listen to the Trump White House, which today minimized the fact that there is a looming disaster in several states. The president and vice president continue to feed the American people lies about the state of this pandemic and their administration’s failures to rise to the moment. This map tells the story. Thirty-two states are battling an increase in cases. Eleven states are flat. Only seven states are showing a decline. With Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert warning today that the United States is at a crossroads and Americans can choose to be part of the problem or part of the solution. Unfortunately, President Trump and Vice President Pence seem to be opting to be part of the problem. Trump is refusing to set an example and wear a mask in public. He continues to hold rallies with no social distancing. Rallies that are veritable Petri dishes. Today at the first coronavirus task force briefing in two months, the vice president made statements to the American people that simply do not square with the facts. Pence insisted that states are opening safely and responsibly when the fact is very few states adhered to the White House’s own guidelines for reopening. Medical data clearly proves that it was a mistake. Then Mr. Pence said this.”
So tedious.
The left is going to absolutely fuck the country up the ass if Biden wins. They have lost their cotton pickin’ minds.
This is so predictable that I predicted it. I knew that as testing increased cases would increase and they would use that to lock us down until November. Then you will never hear about this again
You can tell by the new emphasis on number of “cases” rather than lethality that they are now having to milk it in order to justify further lockdown.
Thirty-two states are battling an increase in cases.
Ok, now do hospitalizations and deaths. The fatality rate of this thing is dropping like acid at Woodstock. Which happened during another pandemic btw.
Tapper said, “The coronavirus crisis is surge surging in two-thirds of the United States. You might not know that if you listen to the Trump White House, which today minimized the fact that there is a looming disaster in several states.
The White House also didn’t release the weather forecast for my house and it looks like it might rain tomorrow. Damn you Trump!
Trump is refusing to set an example and wear a mask in public.
Top.Men. of all stripes have exhibited poor behavior from the beginning starting with close proximity. Lead by example is dead. Do as I say, not as I do is the watchword in modern media and politics.
He continues to hold rallies with no social distancing. Rallies that are veritable Petri dishes.
But enough about the month of daily, or rather nightly, BLM protests and riots.
the fact is very few states adhered to the White House’s own guidelines for reopening
Continuing Top.Men. fallacy that the plebes must be instructed in what to do. People cut back on their contacts with others well before edicts were issued. And they’ll ignore such idicts when they feel it no longer applies as well. Good luck trying to plug those multimillion holes, Dutch boy. You don’t have enough fingers.
How not to get your ass kicked by the police — By Chris Rock.
Should be common sense but I guess not.
I love that bit. Is he going to have to apologize for the racial stereotyping ?
At the dentist the other day they made me use mouthwash before doing anything else. I guess that is the big corona-cure, never mind that I was still salivating like normal after rinsing (so if I had it, it would still be there.).
maybe yo’ bref was just stank….
Actually I asked the cute, milfy tech if it was my coffee breath. She said no, so…
‘Cause she’s got stinky breath.
My next appt isn’t till Aug, but the last few times they’ve always given mouthwash before they start digging.
This map tells the story. Thirty-two states are battling an increase in cases. Eleven states are flat. Only seven states are showing a decline.
Let me guess. If they were to actually provide a graph based on clean numbers, it would show a reversion (approach) to the mean.
A rise from low starting points, and a fall from high starting points. ?
“Then Trump commanded his legion of stormtroopers to stop performing so many tests just to make his numbers look good.”
Oh, wait, they already twisted his words – what seemed an obvious joke to me – on this.
Wait a minute. I happened to hear him joke about stopping the tests so the number of cases stops going up.
Are you telling me people took that seriously?
Of course. They do it every time he unloads another brain-fart.
Nice work MS! I wish STEVE SMITH would leave a present on my roof.
Thank you,
What cult classic movies would you pay to see in a theater again?
whose cult?
I couldn’t care less about sweet transvestites or heavy metal or whether the kids are alright, but I never belonged to any of those cults. I do belong to a cult of old fuddy-duddies who love film . . . good old celluloid . . . that is framed, shot, developed, and cut in an intriguing way to tell a story, but few of the cool kids would get all gothed out and rain-suited to come out to such showings.
Is this one of those chicken-and-egg cultural questions?
No. It is a question of commerce.
best stuff on top
My cult
* Lawrence of Arabia
* Schindler’s List
* Doctor Zhivago
* El Laberinto del Fauno
* Apocalypse Now
* A Face in the Crowd
* North by Northwest
Guilty pleasures that don’t necessarily need the big screen but it couldn’t hurt to see once every decade or so
* Cool Hand Luke
* Gallipoli
* Forrest Gump
* Magnificent Seven
* American Graffiti
* The Man Who would be King
* Belle de Jour
* The Natural
* Jason Bourne series
I’m addicted to Godfather 1 & 2, but there’s nothing special about seeing those on the big screen.
Blade Runner, Flash Gordon, The Thing, The Road Warrior, Brazil, Dark City, 2001, and maybe surprisingly, Forbidden Planet
Outside of science fiction it’s a little more iffy. I consider Event Horizon to be horror.
And since Don reminded me, Heavy Metal.
2001
excellent call
I’ve paid to see Dr Strangelive several times over the years.
Damn phone
I have no intention of EVER setting foot in a movie theater again. Anything I want to see, I find a digital copy and put it on an ever expanding collection of hard drives. While I did, very much, enjoy the participatory aspects of The Rocky Horror Picture Show as a teen, my home provides a much better viewing experience for me. YMMV.
There’s a visceral experience to be had by going to see New Jack City in the Baltimore hood or Mississippi Burning in a Durham ghetto.
Yes! Saw Shin Godzilla in Ikebukuro.
Come to think of it, that’s the last time I’ve to a theater.
Most movies are going to be woke pieces of shit, or reboots, or just suck. I don’t know if I’ll ever be back in a movie theater.
I have a decent home setup to watch media. I could use a slightly bigger tv, but my plasma Panasonic does have excellent picture quality.
To add, I know that wasn’t the question…but I don’t want to support that industry with ticket sales.
Tenet and the new Dune will be movie theater experiences for me. Most stuff it doesn’t matter but for those, the big screen is going to matter.
Damn right. Last movie I saw in the theater was True Grit (Jeff Bridges one)
‘…the participatory aspects of The Rocky Horror Picture Show as a teen…”
Oh My God! that night was magical. Manic Pixie Dream Girl and friends in my car for a trip to the big city. Running around the theater, throwing toast, dancing…
I haven’t seen her since, though I have met both her kids.
Sigh.
I will explain the question when I get home.
Not “cult,” AFAIK, but classic – This may sound silly, but I’ve never seen The Wizard of Oz on the big screen, so that would be a bucket list in-theater movie for me.
Some years back, Singing in the Rain was remastered (just the sound? Don’t remember for sure.) It landed at the local “art house,” so I dragged Tom T. to see it, since he said he never had before. Glad we had the chance. Also saw GWTW on a truly big screen as a kid, which was definitely the way to see it.
Saw Singing in the Rain at the theater too and was completely different than watching at home, and the theater wasn’t that great. Building itself is fantastic, restored from years of managed decline, but the sound system was smallish and the screen was a portable setup rather than the stage filling one previous.
Gone with the Wind?
* Locally owned movie theater is struggling to put butts in their seats. They were doing fantastically, enough to build a brand new building with bells and whistles, and then…this.
* Normally, I wouldn’t give it a second thought, but a good friend of ours is the PR director for the theater and I see him pimping like crazy.
* They’re showing re-runs of older movies, but most of them not very old. For instance, today Mr. Mojeaux and I went to see The Greatest Showman, which I have seen before. One movie they are re-running is Back to the Future (and I think I saw Top Gun), so that’s covered. Their other selections are … uninspired (like…Twister). Jaws is running at other theaters in town, not my local one.
All these things converged and I got to thinking about what would put butts in seats and I immediately thought of Labyrinth. Every woman in the metro from 60 to 16 would pack that place out for that movie.
I got to wondering what others I would pay to see on the big screen again (or for the first time). Big Trouble in Little China, Real Genius, Valley Girl, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Pretty in Pink, Breakfast Club, Romancing the Stone, Weird Science, Princess Bride, stuff like that. I would pay to see every single one of those in the movie theater.
Anyway, I am going to email this idea to my friend and I wanted to get a list going from you guys as well as my teenage girl favorites.
I would pay to see all the Lord of the Rings films on the big screen again even though we have them all on DVD. And Blu-Ray. (We really liked those movies.)
In that case, I’ve enjoyed the cheap tickets paired with food and beverage service model far more than the movieplex standard. Full bar & good food can be a draw regardless of the film offering. Maybe a spaghetti western night, Italian food and wines paired with the Sabata trilogy and I’ll be there to eat my weight in calamari, mozzarella en carroza, eggplant rollatini, and chicken scarp.
The old theater downtown here (built in 1928) holds film series, when I was a kid I saw a bunch of Hitchcock and classic Sci-fi and those old cowboy serials. At the time it had one of, if not the largest screens in the state so it was pretty cool. I just checked and they made a makeshift drive-in on the back lot and they are showing Labyrinth, Grease, Airplane and Muppets Treasure Island. Other than Airplane they should go back to the Hitchcock.
I used to go to a bar near Houston St that showed old classics – The Bicycle Thief and Five Easy Pieces are two I remember. That was pretty cool, more so than a regular theater with mostly crap I don’t want to see. I think it closed around 15 years ago. Jesus, where has the time gone.
Yes to Labyrinth! Princess Bride is another good one. Fast Times with Phoebe Cates’ boobies, yes,
Godfather marathon? Maybe with period costumes and prizes?
The first Indiana Jones Movie.
Casablanca
Saving Private Ryan
Rocky
Saturday Night Fever
The Warriors
Most important appeal would be bigger seats, further apart. It’s nice to be able to stretch ones legs.
Oh, yes. They’re all recliners now–WITH SEAT WARMERS!
The theater has a bar and grille (upscale jazz place) in one giant corner of the complex, too. It’s its own destination.
Rock & Rule!
Trump is refusing to set an example and wear a mask in public.
If Hillary or Obama did that, the newsdupes would be falling all over themselves to express their slobbery admiration for the noble bravery and stoicism on display, and the Washington Post would have “We Have Nothing to Fear But Fear Itself” as a banner on the top of their front page.
What cult classic movies would you pay to see in a theater again?
“The Loved One”
Galaxy Quest
^^^
Never give, never surrender
Galaxy Quest is one of the 3 BluRay discs I own 🙂
(The others are Arrival and The Expanse Season 3 – where is Season 4, Amazon? *cough, cough*)
Chapelle show marathon on VH1 all day.
VH1.
I don’t know if I can stream that…
Well, this should improve racial tensions!
Will probably be required watching at my job
I see that we are still pretending that black people are not and have never been oppressors. I mean, it is not like there is still a vibrant slave trade and tribal wars in Africa or anything.
I cook, but I don’t do much for desserts—key lime pie, chocolate cake with buttercream frosting, etc. is about as fancy as I go.
I’ve never done pastry. I watched a friend’s mom make doughnuts at a slumber party, but that’s it.
Now I have too many apples, and some weren’t ideal ripeness. So I’m going to peel, dice, cook them into a pie filling (added sugar and cinnamon). That will buy me some time.
What do you think? Turnovers made with store bought pastry dough? Pie shell? Home made pastry dough?
Any advice or recipes welcome.
Make your own alcohol
https://howtomakehardcider.com/
How soon they forget.
https://www.glibertarians.com/2018/12/making-cider/
Oh shit! I forgot about that!
I had to knock off the sauce for health reasons, so alcoholic cider is out.
Depending on the variety of apple, my inclination would be to make applesauce and freeze it. I tend to think tarter cooking apples are best – my mother made hers from the “transparent” variety, often ones we’d picked ourselves at a local orchard. You could let it remain “chunky” or run it through a food mill to get it really smooth. (Supposedly you can skip peeling if you use a mill, but in my experience, the peel clogs up the mill pretty quickly, so I’m not convinced you save time.) Sweeten to taste and freeze. On a hot day, hacking off a big chunk of frozen applesauce and eating it half-thawed is a real treat.
RIP Mumma’s
Yup. That was the one.
In recent years, I’ve once or twice been able to snag some transparents (possibly by getting on a wait list) from the fruit farm in Darke County (NW of Dayton) that came to our neighborhood farmers’ market. But so far this year there’s been no farmers’ market. : (
The farmer’s market in the church parking lot?
Yessir. I can easily walk there if I’m not feeling like a lazy butt.
We’ve probably walked past each other a dozen times.
Apple bread with a layer of apple pie filling. Tremendously good, and a great way to burn through excess apples. (Which is why I did it.)
My mom would always remove the cores but retain a tiny bit at the bottom. That hole would be packed with butter, brown sugar, raisins, and cinnamon. They would be baked until the peels became all crinkly. They were very yummy.
That sounds good indeed.
I didn’t see any mention of this on the news this morning.
https://mobile.twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1276445895962161152
Hmmm. The biggest Olde Brit Car meet is in North Portland every Sept. I’d set my sights on having the Healey ready for it this year. Maybe next year. The Honey Harvest will have to do.
That’s at PIR, right? No where near where this rioting is happening.
That isn’t Bugaloo, Ag Barr, you disingenuous fat fuck.
Moj-
REPO MAN
Thanks all! I have gleaned a good list from this post and past posts. Now I will send it to my friend and nothing else will happen.
Alexi Lalas is getting dragged for tweeting: “Now it takes courage to actually stand for the national anthem.”
Stop making me agree with Alexi Lalas.
BLM made a mistake (thanks to Kaepernick) in conflating patriotism and love of country (US flag), so that one cannot defend the importance of the symbolism of the flag without being called racist.
The actual race issues are nuanced and as unique as the individuals experiencing them, but the press and Statists have managed to cast it is black vs white.
A recipe for the hate and fear that they need to control of the masses.
Divide and conquer.
The great irony is that while they are pretending that there are white-supremacists everywhere they might actually create some (though perhaps more likely just general bigots who would not otherwise have been.). If you draw lines by skin pigment don’t be surprised when people adhere to said lines.
everything is flaky and squirmy: an appeal to first principles only confuses most Americans, so don’t do that
throw some identity politics crap on the wall, ratchet hysterically, and several someones will project the satisfaction of their insecurities onto whatever posture you’re rocking
I also pooped on your roof.