Sunday Evening Open Post

by | Nov 22, 2020 | Open Post | 220 comments

I hope you’ve all had a nice weekend. You already know all about mine.

In other news, last week I started working on an archive solution to reduce the database size here on our main server. All posts and comments will be retained. Details will be forthcoming.

Now I’m off to make calzones for dinner. We have many delicious toppings leftover from pizza Friday night, so infinite possibilities await.

Have a great evening, Glibs!

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SP

SP

I've got an idea! How about we just stick to the Constitution as written and then the government can leave me the fuck alone.

220 Comments

  1. UnCivilServant

    It may be a pet peeve, but I can’t stand lunar rover replicas with rubber tires.

    It had woven basket tires.

    • Urthona

      How do you know? Were you in the Burbank studio with the original?

      • UnCivilServant

        Don’t be silly, Burbank was not used for filming. That was the decoy set. Thanks to tech from the Roswell landing, we faked it on the moon.

      • The Hyperbole

        Got to hand it to that denier, he took that punch pretty well.

      • Fourscore

        Several times but he did take it quite well.

      • rhywun

        Wow, far out.

      • blackjack

        No, there was a secret film studio in Laurel Canyon. AND, a huge chunk of 60’s rock stars are offspring of various military intelligence agencies. Laurel Canyon is sort of a weird vortex where crazy assed shit happened regularly. If I hadda pick a spot for a faked moon landing, it’d be that one.

      • Sean

        *insert the more you know gif*

      • blackjack

        It’s a wild place.

  2. DEG

    In other news, last week I started working on an archive solution to reduce the database size here on our main server. All posts and comments will be retained. Details will be forthcoming.

    Excellent!

    • Surly Knott

      +1

    • straffinrun

      Am I being retained?

      • Not Adahn

        *applause*

  3. Count Potato

    “Have a great evening, Glibs!”

    I’ll try, but for some reason I’ve been very depressed the last few days. I’ve been feeling down for a while now with the whole covid and shutdown thing. The short days don’t help either. Then it got worse around Thursday or Friday. I don’t know what to do to break out of it.

    • DEG

      Sorry.

    • westernsloper

      I’ve been feeling down for a while now with the whole covid and shutdown thing.

      I hear ya. I have been off kilter for months with this BS. I hope you feel better soon. I find when I talk to friends, even drunk ass Glibs on Zoom happy hours, my mood is improved. Didn’t even mind the hangover this morning.

      • l0b0t

        I really can’t stress enough how much talking to y’all on the Zoom thingies have helped me from spiraling into very self-destructive behavior as this annus horribilis continues to grind me into paste.

      • westernsloper

        #metoo

        But I normally thrive on self destructive behavior. Or at least I always thought I did.

      • DEG

        #methree

        Another thing that helped is that New Hampshire hasn’t been as badly fucked as some other places. But then some Karen bitches or some new edict comes from the Clown Prince, and I slide down a bit.

      • Gdragon

        I’m going to have to return to them soon for exactly this reason. Hopefully next weekend.

    • Fourscore

      We need real live interface, especially in the short and dark days. Just being outside seems to help, regardless of the weather. I have some bee equipment at a friend’s house, I’ll stop and pick some up and work on that in the garage. My friend has been shut down for 7-8 months but he may not come out to talk to me anyway. Too early for cabin fever, CP, but these aren’t ordinary times. Hope you are feeling better and the sun shines for you tomorrow.

      I shoveled a little fresh snow this morning, even that was welcome, something physical.

    • Tulip

      Go for a walk? Getting outside and getting a little exercise helps me. Definitely not a cure all, but combined with it stuff may help. Also, get enough sleep.

      • Count Potato

        Getting outside and walking around might help.

        Oddly, I’ve been sleeping too much lately. Normally, I have chronic insomnia, but it’s like my brain chemistry changed.

      • rhywun

        I don’t have insomnia but for the life of me I can’t sleep past 6am any more. In the before times when I worked from home I’d get up at 8:45 and start work at 9. Now I crawl out of bed at 6am and start work whenever I run out of morning ablutions and other stuff to do and get bored. Same on weekends.

      • The Bearded Hobbit

        Also, get enough sleep

        Well, I’m up to about 8 hours per week.

      • Fourscore

        I like about 8 a night but lately moving more towards 9. No naps though. Often I’m awake in the middle of the night for an hour, solving world problems but drift back. I like to get up early so I go to bed early.

      • Count Potato

        I’ve seen the band. I never read the book.

      • TARDis

        The Phantom Tollbooth.

        We had a male teacher read this this to us when I was I fifth grade. I loved it and have read it several times. I tried to read it to my son when he was a 4th grader, but he wasn’t interested. Maybe I’m just not a good orator, but it made me sad.

    • Urthona

      Whenever I’m feeling down I usually like to solve every single problem in my life in a frenetic flurry of activity.

      That usually helps .

      • Fourscore

        I look around and see those with serious problems and realize mine are trivial. Mine are problems of annoyance or discomfort. Worry about things I have no control over and just laugh at myself.

    • SP

      This sounds a lot like actual clinical depression, when you add in the change in sleep pattern. Keep an eye on this, please.

      • Count Potato

        Yes, I definitely feel a sort of sickness. It’s not just that I feel sad and worried about things.

    • straffinrun

      As others have said, change of scenery may help. If it’s clinical, nothing wrong with talking to professional about it.

  4. Hyperion

    Anarchy, anarchy! I totally don’t know that that means, but I love it!

  5. The Late P Brooks

    It had woven basket tires.

    According to well placed sources, It had a Rathmann Cadillac sticker on it. Jim Rathmann, Indy 500 winner, had a dealership in Melbourne, Florida and sold cars to many astronauts. Somebody stuck one of his stickers on the moon rover.

    • Yusef Von Gomez The Blind

      My kind of trivia, Bravo!

    • blackjack

      Yes, but did Smokey Yunick help “interpret” the rules for that project?

    • Shpip

      I had a friend who worked at KSC during the Apollo – early Shuttle days, and he told me, “I heard of a story that the astronauts put a pan of sand under one of the rovers in the O&C Building, taped a bumper sticker on the rover and took a photo of it and then took the sticker off. I have heard that Mr. Rathmann did have a photo of a lunar rover with one of his bumper stickers on it hanging over his desk.”

      On the other hand, you can see something indistinct on the front left bumper of the Apollo 15 lunar rover. Rathmann sticker, maybe?

  6. Hyperion

    I’ve spent the past few hours troubleshooting wifey’s TV issues. Seems to be her Firestick. It just works for a while then there’s only sound and no picture. So I switched to local TV and was on for an hour and no issue. Switched back to Fire TV and no picture again in 10 minutes.

    Anyone else seen this?

    • Fatty Bolger

      Did you try turning it off and on again?

      • Hyperion

        OFFS! Are you just fucking with me?

      • UnCivilServant

        Did you check the thermostat?

      • Hyperion

        Yeah, and I also checked to see if the vacuum filter is clogged.

      • Yusef Von Gomez The Blind

        it’s the Heisenburg Compensator, guaranteed…..

      • UnCivilServant

        Do you have an alternate TV to see if the stick’s video output will work there?

        Not sure if it uses a cable or plugs directly into the TV, but if there is a cable, testing with a different one might be probitive. Re-seating the connection is also something quick and easy to test.

      • Fatty Bolger

        They’re just HDMI.

      • Hyperion

        It’s like a USB stick/drive plugged directly into a port on the TV. I switched the ports. Didn’t make a difference, in about 10 minutes, there’s no video and only sound.

        I’ve had it on local TV now for about an hour with no issues. It’s the Firestick, need to get another one.

        Hopefully. I promised wifey a new 70″ 4K Samsung if it doesn’t work, but I think I’m good. I don’t watch TV, but the TV is 5 years old, she deserves a new one if she wants it.

      • rhywun

        My TV and my iPhone are both maybe on their last legs – TV is ~8 years old and takes a good 15 minutes to “warm up” when I turn it on, phone at ~4 years old has a bulging warped screen and who knows when it will crap out.

        I want to replace the TV first but I have to replace the phone if it dies because I can’t get into my VPN without it 🙁

      • Hyperion

        I’m just not hung up on phones like most people seem to be. I have a Samsung A50. A $300 phone, and the screen is better and the camera too than my wife’s $700 Galaxy 9.

        I only want a phone to make phone calls and log into my servers because of the shit duo security fuckshit shitfuck.

        I don’t watch TV, but I game and I get it that my wife watches her TV. My PC monitor costs more than her TV. So I’ll just buy her whatever TV she wants and let it be at that.

      • Fatty Bolger

        I promised wifey a new 70″ 4K Samsung if it doesn’t work

        Hmm… maybe she’s unplugging the video after you leave the room.

      • Hyperion

        “Fatty Bolger”

        Has struck out once again.

      • Fatty Bolger

        Maybe.

        Did you?

    • zwak

      I bet it’s the differential.

      Those always go out.

    • Fatty Bolger

      Is it always exactly 10 minutes? Could mean it’s some kind of screen saver or other time out happening.

      • Fatty Bolger

        Also, if you aren’t already, plug it into a wall outlet and not the TV’s USB port. TV might not produce enough juice, or goes into low power output after 10 minutes of inactivity.

    • straffinrun

      Swear profusely and blow on it.

    • J. Frank Parnell

      What are you playing on the firestick?

      I had a similar issue using it to play music via Plex, it would shut off both sound and picture after a certain amount of time, turned out to be some sort of screensaver/sleep mode issue, but I can’t remember the details off the top of my head.

  7. westernsloper

    Now I’m off to make calzones for dinner.

    Sounds good. I made a cheesy cornbread topped baked chili dish. I added candied jalapenos to the cornbread topping.

    • Hyperion

      Calgon is ancient Chinese secret!

      • l0b0t

        My husband, some hotshot!

    • SP

      I love your candied jalapeños recipe. I’m getting enough peppers to make that tomorrow.

      • westernsloper

        I did a double batch today. 20 freakishly giant jalapenos #Monsanto. Enough to fill a pickle jar. I highly recommend throwing some in some corn bread biscuit mix with sharp cheddar. If you do a corn bread stuffing on T-giving that would knock some socks off.

      • westernsloper

        biscuit = muffin. The jiffy corn muffin mix. I used 1/2&1/2 because I don’t ever buy milk, and ya, the stuff is good.

        H/T Chef John (on the muffin mix)

      • Tulip

        Jiffy mixes are good and a real bargain.

    • juris imprudent

      We had a bountiful late harvest of jalapenos and I pickled a bunch to keep them from going to waste.

    • Q Continuum

      26 needs to reach for the sky.

    • DEG

      Good gallery.

  8. Gustave Lytton

    Made chili today, using frozen Hatch chiles. Delish and perfect for this cold damp weather.

    • DEG

      Good gallery.

  9. Derpetologist

    Animaniacs Mock Russia for 3 minutes straight
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaCiNLvNUQU

    Huh. So the Russians are all dirty, ugly, and dumb…but are also secretly running the world?

    Now do it to China, you spineless vermin.

    • Q Continuum

      To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize

      • Fourscore

        Married men already know

      • Derpetologist

        According to the new theme song, they are “gender balanced, pronoun neutral, and ethnically diverse.”

        a faint ray of hope?

      • UnCivilServant

        So, no one rules over me because no one listens to a word I say?

      • Fourscore

        ..and you don’t listen to anyone else so yes, you are ruler-free…

      • UnCivilServant

        I’m sorry, I didn’t hear what you just said.

    • rhywun

      Well, they stole the election for Donald so yes?

      • commodious spittoon

        That’s President Non-Elect The Donald, thank you

      • J. Frank Parnell

        Umm hello the elections are the most securest thing ever, it’s impossible for anyone to “steal” the election, and anyone who says otherwise is a lunatic conspiracy nut.

  10. DEG

    Protest at the Clown Prince’s house

    At least 100 protesters expressed their displeasure with Republican Gov. Chris Sununu’s new statewide mask mandate Sunday, holding a protest outside his private residence.

    The group gathered on a grassy area near the end of a cul-de-sac where Sununu’s home is located, at about 2 p.m., without masks.

    Protesters chanted “Breathe free or die” and “We will not comply.” People gathered were invited to take a turn at the bullhorn, shouting messages at Sununu’s house and urging him to come out and talk with him though there was no way for them to know if he was inside.

    • rhywun

      If I’m reading a linked article right, they are requiring you to mask up outdoors, period?

      No.

      • DEG

        The Clown isn’t.

        Here’s the text of the order. It’s full of holes.

        Tomorrow I’ll find out if my gym has changed how they are about masks. The Clown Prince announced the order Thursday with it taking effect the next day. It wasn’t easily available from the web until later in the day Friday. Friday morning the day it took effect folks were asking the staff about the Clown Prince’s order, and the staff responded with, “We haven’t seen the order yet and our management has said nothing to us about it, so we’re not changing how we do business.”

        Before Edict #74, my gym required members to wear masks, under previous edicts from the Clown Prince, in the lobby area only. The city has an ordinance requiring masks unless actively working out, but the gym ignored it. We’ll see what happens tomorrow when I go to work out.

        I fired off some e-mails to my state representatives and my state senator. So far, only two representatives have responded. One a newly elected representative and one who was re-elected. The woman whose state representative campaign I helped out with knows what I think about the situation, so I didn’t write her. One of the two responses opened with, ” We’re all pissed at the Governor’s latest edicts.”

      • UnCivilServant

        Did it go on to say anything about what they’re going to do? Or was it a response of platitudes?

      • DEG

        When asked, the Clown Prince claims “education” is the goal and there is no enforcement mechanism.

        Which is laughable.

        An earlier emergency order lays out that police, fire department, and health officials can enter businesses (not sure if residences were included) to enforce any emergency order. Violations of any emergency order can result in a fine.

        There is an RSA (Revised Statutes, Annotated – the name for NH’s law code) whose number I cannot recall that makes it a misdemeanor to violate one of the governor’s emergency orders.

      • UnCivilServant

        I meant the responses you got from the representatives.

      • DEG

        Oh.

        Summary: Nothing will get done until after the new legislature sits as the Democrats are in control. Legislators-elect and re-elected legislators are currently submitting bills for consideration once the new legislature sits. There are some which will rein in the Governor.

        The responses so far don’t surprise me. The Democrats in the legislature, with few exceptions, have approved of the Clown Prince’s actions except for quibbles about how relief money was spent. Those Democrat exceptions have all thought the Clown Prince should have locked down earlier, more extensively, longer, and issued a mask mandate months ago.

        Tomorrow all the newly submitted bills are made public.

        The Governor swears in the new legislature the first week of December. They then pick officers, elect the Secretary of State, elect the State Treasurer, and vote on rules for the next legislative session. Then they adjourn until early January when the legislative session begins.

      • DEG

        Isn’t that the official governor’s mansion?

        This protest against the Clown Prince was at his private home. I discovered that there is an actual NH Governor’s Mansion in Concord, but I’m not sure the Clown Prince uses it.

      • pistoffnick

        Yes, I believe Tim Walz uses the Governor’s mansion. His normal home is in Mankato, which is about 95 miles from St. Paul.

        He is a wanna-be tyrant, shit-stain of a human being. He claims to be guided by science, but will not produce any science related to the shutdown of restaurant, bars, and gyms.

      • Fourscore

        What a nice surprise!. Maybe MNsodans aren’t so NICE. The best part was that there were many older folks there. Walz must be in collusion with the mask makers.

        I understand that he is a man of science ’cause it says so here: ” bachelor of science degree in social science education”. He’s a carpet bagger school teacher, not much more that one needs to know about him, other than he retired from the National Guard rather than go to Iraq with his troops..

  11. DEG

    German anti-lockdown protests growing more radical

    Around 9:30 on a quiet Sunday morning late last month, a crudely made explosive device went off with a small bang and a flash in central Berlin near the building of an association of German scientific institutes.

    A note found nearby demanded the end to coronavirus restrictions.

    Just a few hours earlier, molotov cocktails had been tossed at the front of the Robert Koch Institute, the German federal agency responsible for controlling the virus.

    The incidents come against the backdrop of a growing violent undercurrent at large-scale street demonstrations against coronavirus restrictions, including one attended by 20,000 people Saturday in Leipzig. The developments point to an increasingly radicalized movement of virus skeptics in Germany, embraced by the country’s far-right extremist groups and energized by global conspiracy theories, notably those put forth by the U.S.-born QAnon movement.

    • kinnath

      It’s so strange to be rooting for the Germans.

      • Sean

        Jawohl.

      • TARDis

        ^^^See Sean’s avatar^^^

    • rhywun

      notably those put forth by the U.S.-born QAnon movement

      OFFS.

    • LJW

      “The developments point to an increasingly radicalized movement of virus skeptics in Germany, embraced by the country’s far-right extremist groups and energized by global conspiracy theories, notably those put forth by the U.S.-born QAnon movement.”

      I doubt 20k people are Qanon followers.

      • LJW

        *20K Germans

      • blackjack

        Dafuq, exactly is Q anon? Do they have meetings, rules, officers? How many members are there?

        I’ve seen a few (like two) pics of people with “Q” signs and/ or shirts. I still have no idea what this even is. I assume the news is obsessed with it because they think it makes antifa seem sane…r. I can’t really denounce it, because I doubt it even exists.

      • Q Continuum

        No comment.

      • LemonGrenade

        I think there are probably more anons than there are actual white supremacists, but the group ranges from right-wing housewives who believe there’s a global sex-trafficking conspiracy going on and Trump was recruited to expose it and end it, to apocalyptic christians who think America is the focal point for the end of the world, to a range of conservatives who believe ‘deep state’ operatives within the FBI, DOJ and CIA cooperated in a plot to both spy on a presidential campaign, but also subvert the presidency in coup attempt. COVID was also unleashed by the Chinese in cooperation with the democrat party and world leaders world-wide to usher in a new world order. Not everything they say is crazy, but there’s a whole lot of nutty content mixed in, both in posts by ‘Q’ themself, and the other anonymous posters on 8kun. My husband is one of them, unfortunately, which has led to some fights, but at least he’s still got some level of hope whereas I’m just barely maintaining a day to day routine and praying we can get the hell out of the this state and somewhere more rural.

      • grrizzly

        to a range of conservatives who believe ‘deep state’ operatives within the FBI, DOJ and CIA cooperated in a plot to both spy on a presidential campaign, but also subvert the presidency in coup attempt.

        That this happened is indisputable. What distinguishes Qanon followers is that they believe there are “white hats” within the system trying to prosecute the coup participants. That part is nuts.

      • LemonGrenade

        YES!! It’s what I’ve been trying to convince my husband of. What makes him think that *this time* these assholes will finally be served justice? It hasn’t happened before. But it’s also what tends to be most alluring about the movement; the recognition that for years a group of administrative level assholes have really been running things, and in really shady ways, but Trump was recruited by ‘white hats’ to step in and and save us and expose the whole thing. It’s why I could never jump on board. Government is self-perpetuating; it’s not going to take itself down. It’d be lovely if it did happen, but it’d be lovely if I won powerball, too.

      • Mostly Peaceful JaimeRoberto

        It’s just an idea.

      • Chafed

        And I doubt QAnon is the reason the Germans are up in arms.

  12. Sensei

    SP – thanks for working on the archive issue!

    This just popped up on my YouTube feed:

    Shinjuku Isetan Food Floor (Depachika) Walking Tour – Tokyo Japan

    This is quite the ritzy area of of Tokyo, but you can go to the basement of just about any major department store in large cities and see almost the same thing. These kind of things used to exist but even in NYC are pretty much done. For decades as far as I’m aware.

    For Glibs in other parts of the country does the “full service” department store exist anymore? Essentially a place where you could get things from homegoods, baked goods and each lunch at a restaurant too.

    • rhywun

      Macy’s and Bloomingdale’s are about the only ones left in NYC and AFAIK only tourists shop there.

      • Sensei

        That’s all I could think of as well.

      • l0b0t

        The Plaza Hotel has a decent food emporium in their basement; a couple dozen vendors with common area seating.

        Ugh… I just looked them up, the whole hotel has been closed since March.

    • westernsloper

      Do they have a parking lot Straff can drink his lunch in?

      • straffinrun

        You can drink while walking through it. Done it.

    • Fourscore

      A lot of the big stores are in malls with a food court, restaurants and small specialty stores that may have food products so I guess the answer in no.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Music for the walkthrough! https://youtu.be/gBwzxydX3rY

      Breaks my heart, particularly around 11:35 of the walk through when they walk by the wine and liquor department. Many happy memories from there and the rest of the food floor. In fact, there’s an envelope of postcards my wife picked up from there about two feet behind me at the moment.

      I’d say sister brand Mitsukoshi is a little higher end, but Isetan is definitely a giant. The department stores are hurting now. They’ve basically been propped up foreign shoppers for the past several years according to the folks I’ve read. That’s totally cratered now.

      As for department store around here, not really since Meier & Frank went away 15-20 years ago. Nordstrom and Macy’s but it’s not like it was.

    • Fourscore

      I remember the big nut carousels in the stores, everything smelled so good. As kids we never had money to buy anything from them and wouldn’t have known what cashews were anyway. Peanuts in the shell though, I was familiar with them. At Xmas time we’d get nuts in the shell and I always liked cracking them open, I’ll get some more bulk nuts next time I’m in town.

    • grrizzly

      Even in the second half of February 2020, many Japanese were not wearing face masks indoors.

    • straffinrun

      Because I dress like a hobo, I always feel like a dirtbag when I cut through that Isetan. I’m not paying 100$ for a T Shirt. We did use a shop in that food floor to cater our Christmas parties.

      • Sensei

        Just look how well all the shoppers in that video are dressed.

        You don’t get that in NYC to that degree even in the most expensive places on 5th Ave.

      • straffinrun

        They look even better undressed.

      • Sensei

        もちろんだよ。

      • straffinrun

        Pearl before swine joke yesterday on Twitter: Random dude “Does anyone understand Zen?” Me: “ぜんぜん”

      • Sensei

        寒い。。。

      • straffinrun

        For some reason, you can take a Japanese porn actress, put her in a recruit suit and she looks the part. You can’t do that with a white porn actress.

      • Sensei

        It’s the tats.

  13. UnCivilServant

    I’ve failed to get much done in writing, so I figured I’d turn to my plastic crack for some relaxation…

    I just finished cutting finicky little pieces of green painter’s tape so that I can spray prime the upper turret without the clear panel installed, then paint the interior and assemble the whole thing.

    I mean I paid $106 for the kit, I’m going to make it look as good as I can, and keep all the movable parts moving after painting. (spray primer tends to gum up the works)

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      I miss my Crack, Scenery is Da shit! something to put your plastic on…

      • UnCivilServant

        I was trying forever to figure out how to paint the interior and not prime over the key structural glue lines.

        Apparently the answer is painters tape and paper around the part where I waint to paint details, prime only that part, paint it, then tape over it, assemble the chassis, prime again, peel off the tape with tweezers to reveal the interior details that are otherwise impossible to paint.

        Thankfully I figured it out myself without asking the internet, because I’d feel silly.

      • UnCivilServant

        These Hurricane Bolters are proving to be a real pain.

        Luckily I’m not bleeding.

        I’m convinced whoever designed this model hated the customers.

      • l0b0t

        Liquid Misket, it’s a liquid masking tape used in airbrushing. Brushes on as an orange liquid, dries white and easily peels off when finished.

    • UnCivilServant

      I took a break from the stormraven to do some painting. I’ve never used this bottle of tesseract glow, and it took a few tries to figure out how to make it work as advertised,

  14. TARDis

    So now we are waiting for Commie Cough test results for my XX. Multiple co-workers of hers have tested positive. My wife is supposed to drive to IN to bring MIL to our house for T-day. I have had many, many T-days with in laws. This will be the first time ever she visits us for Thanksgiving. We always visited them. FIL passed in January. I don’t want her to be alone for T-day, but she is vulnerable; life long smoker, COPD, emphysema, etc.

  15. Nephilium

    l0b0t:

    I maid my way through the third wave documentary. I’m mildly disturbed that I knew most of the band membes,

  16. westernsloper
    • blackjack

      I used to go about 5 times a year to various concerts. Now, I just wave my lit lighter at some guy’s roof where he spelled out, ” Newsom sucks!” It’s almost as good.

      • westernsloper

        ?

      • Timeloose

        The wife and I were lamenting about all of the concerts we missed this year. We had 5 shows and one festival that was canceled.

        I was didn’t get refunded by one, but the others were paid back.

      • straffinrun

        BTW, it’s kind of funny that the Isetan link Sensei posted is right in front of where we met.

      • Timeloose

        Where I got lost you mean.

      • J. Frank Parnell

        Yeah, when all this crap started I had tickets to see:
        * Berlin
        * Ministry / KMFDM / Frontline Assembly
        * Front 242
        * Einsturzende Neubauten

        I think they’ve all been either refunded or postponed indefinietely.

      • Timeloose

        I was going to see 2 of those shows.

        I had it lined up to see 242 in Belgium while I was going to a work trip.

      • rhywun

        I can’t believe bands I’ve listened to for 35 years are still touring.

    • pistoffnick

      The “Cuban sandwich” was a revelation when I first tried it. Salty, vinegary, meaty.

      Almost as good as a reuben.

      • Mojeaux

        Roooooooooobiiiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnn

        ❤️❤️❤️

    • PudPaisley

      Dan Auerbach did a nice acoustic session with Marcus King, my favorite young blues player to come along in quite some time. I really dig this song.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8f00jZKdJA

    • straffinrun

      Never liked concerts, but denying the youth their right to live is a hemlock worthy offense.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Some privates are getting smoked harder than a brisket at Franklin.

  17. slumbrew

    This KC/LV game is quite entertaining.

    • hayeksplosives

      Yup! Good game. Close the whole time.

      • slumbrew

        Waiting for Andy Reid to fuck up the clock, somehow

      • hayeksplosives

        Mahomes put on his cape and saved the day. Again.

      • hayeksplosives

        Welp, that’s the game.

      • slumbrew

        That was dumb, Carr. They had a good chance to at least tie it.

  18. CatchTheCarp

    Watched The Gentlemen tonight, a Guy Ritchie flick in the same vein as Snatch. Which means I had to turn on closed captions to decipher the thick Brit dialog chock full of slang. I would wager this movie sets the bar on the usage of cunt, Great cast, it sucked me in and I enjoyed the ride. I always watch or record Noir Alley on TCM on Saturday and last night they showed Kiss Me Deadly which I hadn’t seen before. Pretty good flick which featured lots of old cool cars. Which led me to this discovery – ICMDB – Internet Car Movie Data Base. Check out the Jag XK 120 and ’54 Corvette used in the film in the link below.

    • J. Frank Parnell

      Did I do everything I could to keep my community safe?

      I don’t know if I’ve done “everything”, but as far as I can remember I didn’t send covid patients into nursing homes, so I got that going for me.

    • Chafed

      If the tweet doesn’t do it then then responses will. NY deserves him.

      • rhywun

        Meh. The Luv Guv may be the only thing holding back Progressive Utopia. His replacement will likely be much worse.

        He and some budget analysts have claimed that raising taxes too high on wealthy New Yorkers could prompt many to flee with their tax dollars.

  19. Ownbestenemy

    Nevada felt left out ao our Guv instituted his ‘pause’ but worry not! He said it wasnt a shutdown…just a severely limiting order on all manners of personal lives and businesses.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Oh and the richest comment from a governor that also didn’t want to sacrafice anyone thats why we shutdown…

      “We have seen more deaths by suicide among students this fall than in years prior, and it breaks my heart to share that victims have included students as young as 8 years old,” Sisolak said.

      Fucking prick

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        An eight year old?

        What eight year old commits suicide?

      • hayeksplosives

        One of my friends has a ten year old that googled “easy ways to kill yourself” from his laptop during virtual school.

        Turns out he hasn’t been handling the lockdown and virtual school well. He didn’t just have the burden of social media; his ONLY social life was virtual. He didn’t see an end to the lockdown in the future.

        His parents intervened and it looks like he’ll be alright.

        But I know they won’t ALL be alright.

  20. Scruffy Nerfherder

    And I think the other kidney stone just broke loose. Dammit

    I’m supposed to drive to Carolina to pick up my son from school on Tuesday.

    This year just won’t quit.

    On the plus side, I just popped a Percocet.

    • Don escaped Two Corinthians

      * rubs hands together waiting for even more excellent Glibbing *

    • hayeksplosives

      Owner. If you gave any option other than committing to a long car ride, you should seriously consider taking it.

      If your Stone are stones decide to move during the drive, you’ll be debilitated.

    • hayeksplosives

      I am so ready for this to end.

      But if there was massive, results-altering fraud, then having the story “go away” is a terrible lesson to teach party operatives.

  21. UnCivilServant

    How many of you have gotten a gift where the first unspoken reaction was one of “what was this person thinking?” but it turned out to be more useful than expected?

    In my case, last christmas my oldest sister got me a set of magnifying lenses. While their focal length is shorter than I’d like, it has improved my accuracy in fine detail work when painting. Even assembly line painting basic troops is going better.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      post a pic when you get some painted, I miss toys……..

      • UnCivilServant

        I will.

        Right now I’ve gotten a couple of undercoats down (certain surface details work better with an intermediate color)

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        UCS, I know how to paint, just glad to hear you working on toys again, Enjoy!

      • UnCivilServant

        If you listen to the experts, I don’t know how to paint, because I do everything wrong.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Let them talk, We know better,
        I like your work, you build

      • UnCivilServant

        Thank you

        Even if I am regretting deciding to do a two layer technique on these eye lenses (translucent blue on white)

      • Gender Traitor

        When all this COVID nonsense is over, if you ever make it out to SW OH, you should check out this comics/gaming/etc. megastore near Dayton. A pic at the bottom of the “gaming” page gives some idea of just the paint selection. For geographical reference, it’s a ten-minute drive from the AF Museum.

      • UnCivilServant

        I only have so much money…

      • Gender Traitor

        This place would take care of that for you.

      • UnCivilServant

        I got the glowy bits on the plasma guns, the leather on the belts, the eye lenses and the gold pattern on the breastplate done, with undercoats for the helmet stripes and pauldrons. I need to do the kneepads and the non-glowy bits of the plasma guns.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      That’s funny

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      That’s foul.

      Completely driven by the narcissism of the parents.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      That shit’s fucked, yo.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      “Now, you see this scar?”