Another story that might be considered too local? Nah, there is nothing too local for this site.
This is my review of 13 Brewing Bazooka Jane:
Baseball is fun. Baseball however, can be unbelievably boring from time to time, and the TV announcers are well aware of this fact. The banter between the announcer and color analyst sometimes is the only part of the game that is entertaining.
Bob Brenly made headlines earlier this week for his remarks that were taken as racist by NY Mets pitcher(TW: ESPN) Marcus Stroman.
I know what you are thinking, “what did Bob say?”
“pretty sure that’s the same du-rag that Tom Seaver used to wear when he pitched for the Mets.”
Clearly, this man is literally David Duke.
No do-rag.
Since I consider myself a reasonable human being, I did the reasonable thing and look up Tom Seaver because why the hell would a guy my age know who was Tom Seaver? As far as I aware, Tom Seaver did not wear a do-rag.
Apparently only black people wear these things. Which means next time you see Hulk Hogan, a biker gang, a pirate, or a kid with cancer you can inform them they are appropriating black culture. Cancer boy will leave you alone but be careful with the bikers.
…or maybe this is the reaction from a guy that had words with Josh 
Rojas (you don’t need to know who this guy is) and wound up being on the losing end of a game to a bunch of AAA players and decided to apply a wet wipe to his butthurt on a guy that made a joke that fell flat. A joke that yes, Bob has already apologized.
ETA: Bob suspended himself.
Do you like beer that is so sour you long for the warm, gentle embrace of a rancid lemon being squeezed into your eye sockets while trapped in a room with Dr. Oz giving a soliloquy on raspberry ketones? This beer is for you. While light an effervescent, it is a fruity raspberry on the nose but followed by the incomprehensible bitterness of a NY Mets fan. Sorry, its not my fault they are not the Yankees, even after spending $91 million on Mike Piazza. 13 Brewing Bazooka Jane: 2.1/5
I took my son to see Tom S pitch, for my son’s 9th birthday. Tom wasn’t wearing a do-rag. That was 50 years ago, this August.
I got see him pitch at Shea Stadium when I was around 7. It’s nice think there was a time some ballplayers were admirable.
“Do you like beer that is so sour you long for the warm, gentle embrace of a rancid lemon being squeezed into your eye sockets while trapped in a room with Dr. Oz giving a soliloquy on raspberry ketones?”
*hurk*
I assumed, judging by the color, it was some sort of reference to Bazooka bubble gum.
Still wouldn’t.
I figured the same, especially as a local place did two flavors of Icey slushie sours (mildly sour, heavily fruited, nearly opaque). The flavors were red and blue.
Fuck the Yankees.
/getting ready to not even care that much as the Indians decide between over 1,000 new names.
In beer news, a friend and I got together last week and discussed that with all of the local beers available, we’ve let some of the fantastic Belgian beers fall out of rotation, and have taken up steps to remedy that. So I’ve got some Duvel in the fridge. In local beer news, a brewery that hasn’t even opened yet has already stepped on their own dicks by replacing the head brewer the week before the initial brew sessions were set to begin. As the former head brewer was a woman, it’s an obvious sign of the misogyny that has taken over the craft beer world (which has had several high profile brewers/owner identified as creeps recently).
I have only vaguely followed that. Was Sam Caglione hit, because I have heard rumors?
Nothing I’ve seen about Sam yet. Mostly middle tier breweries at this point. A quick search shows that the biggest hit so far was Modern Times (which has a lot of beers I really enjoy) and Tired Hands (which has some solid beers, but is partially responsible for popularizing the milkshake IPA). Quick searches show a bunch of the complaints are about CA Bay area brewers.
I’m sure all of those brewers were ALLIES!
All of this is correct.
Why do they keep taking yummy flavors and render them evil by making them sour?
Beer is becoming like art. Ignore whether it’s actually palatable and focus on amplifying some aspect that is good in moderation, but horrible when overdone.
It depends on the brewery. There are some fantastic beers of every style out there (even those I don’t care for, I can tell they’re on point style wise at least). There’s also a lot of terrible beers out there, because pushing to extremes also allows for easier hiding of most beer flaws.
My definition of craft ( which relates to craft beer, but isnt specific to it): the synthesis of art and engineering.
Budweiser is pure engineering. Some breweries ( Fantome.. cough.. cough) focus too much on the art.
I tried having an evening beer outdoors in the park but the fuckin mosquitoes are starting to come in force
Bloodsuckers are pretty common in Romania, yes?
as the Indians decide between over 1,000 new names.
Pushovers.
I’m not even exaggerating. Off to get some lunch, and a fancy glass that I made the mistake of showing the girlfriend was the glass of the month at a local chain.
Holy crap. I thought you were joking.
Every local group has their own name they’re pushing for, then there’s the “fan” suggestions, and the suggestions from the “allies”. I’d guess the first group may have actually been to or watched a full game.
I ain’t falling for that shit again.
“The Pushovers.”
I like it.
Best beer review ever. But does it at least pour well?
I’ll be 100% ignored or disagreed with, but Eric Nadel is the best. I like the Eric/Matt/Jared team for Rangers games. If I ever tune in to other MLB games the commentary is awfully dry, but I really enjoy the oddball running jokes, tangents, etc on Rangers broadcasts. It is usually better than the game itself, although the Rangers actually won a game yesterday, somehow.
That’s America’s Passtime! Quit culturally appropriating!
But that would leave him with cricket. Have a shred of human decency and leave him this one pleasure!
Cricket is an insect. Standing around way overdressed for the weather, and calling everything silly names, well, that’s just being British.
I will identify as an American when listening to or attending a baseball game, although it is more fun to yell British trash talk at the opposing team.
Bob Ueker. I’m not even a Brewers fan.
Hell of a voice. Good shout. I hardly ever catch a Brewers game.
Harry Caray drunk by the bottom of the fourth with Steve Stone trying to keep him talking about the game FTW!
The Brewers Suck Ass, but no way will Bob Ueker ever go to Sensitivity Training.
Wisconsin folks are cutting edge too
https://www.whiskeyriff.com/2019/04/13/woman-does-karate-in-walmart-parking-lot-kicks-out-police-car-window-while-son-strips-naked-inside-dog-steal-cornbread/
This ain’t the Daisy Duke family
Minnie Soda has done a lot of dumb shit since then my friend.
LOL that’s quite a headline.
PS. Gah! That is a rough 46. She looks like she could be my mom and I’m older than her.
How are you older than your mom?
?
It’s all the time travel. It’s hard on a body.
Happiness is TX in my rear view mirror
https://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/1500-austin-homes-sold-for-100k-over-asking-price-since-jan-1/?ipid=related-recirc&utm_campaign=custom%20navigation&utm_source=promo%20link&utm_medium=desktop
Inflation? Scarcity?
At least we know zoning isn’t to blame.
Our Colorado house went on the market yesterday. Asking price is $50k higher than our realtor estimated last March. He expects it may well go for $50k more than that.
Good time to be selling. Lousy time to be buying.
AK prices rising along with everywhere else?
They are, but they seem to be rising a little slower. Bear in mind that I’ve done no systemic analysis, these are just my general impressions. Anchorage is pretty pricey, Girdwood is just nuts, and the Kenai Peninsula is expensive if you’re anywhere near water. Wasilla isn’t so bad. Out here in the sticks prices are going up but not dramatically so.
We’ve mostly been watching land prices. There are vacant lots bordering us on the north and south that I’d like to add to our holdings, and there’s a one acre lot bordering us on the east with a small summer cabin on it, which is actually for sale; we’re going to take a good look at that once the Colorado place is sold.
We got nearly 100k more than I expected. We’re moving out to your old town, but no way am I buying anything for awhile.
Good luck with the sale!
We’re in a position where we can rent until it’s advantageous to buy. Assuming, of course, that the landlord doesn’t kick us out to sell the place or try to jack the prices way up on us.
Minimum of probably 18 months until we’re able to take advantage of a housing crash, but we can go another 2-3 years here, no problem.
Of course, I’m sure homeowners are gonna be bailed out when their 0% down, 2.5% loans are 125% of the home’s value and they need out immediately, but I’m gonna be waiting there to turn the screws on some poor lout who overbought and underplanned.
‘Bear in mind’
lolz
Zillow shows insane valuations for us. Based on sales data, I don’t think they’re wrong either. This isn’t good.
They estimate our house at 25% higher than we paid at the top of the market before The Crash. For our area (NOT the fashionable side of town) I’d bet good money they’re being wildly generous and optimistic (to be charitable to them.)
Maybe, but with the runup in lumber prices, that wood inside our houses is worth a bit more in replacement cost and relative to a newly built home.
Don’t be so sure. Our house wasn’t a great find and wasn’t in a great neighborhood, and we gained $70k in 3 years when we sold March 2020. Supposedly it has gained another $50k if the new buyer wants to flip it for profit.
Zillow shows that my house has appreciated ~75% since I bought it. So I suppose I should borrow against that and invest it all in crypto and precious metals, right?
Zillow often overestimates, but its the same here. Soon my 1968 built house will be worth $750k on Zillow.
Comparing the actual sale price of the house across the road to the zestimate of that house to the zestimate of my house, I can agree, they way overestimate. Comparing my house to the one across the road, my house is smaller, with fewer floors, and no lawn, but zillow estimated it would sell for more than that house did at the time it sold.
I found the Zillow estimate for my home and some recent sales in my neighborhood. Based on those sales, Zillow is high by about $50K.
Zillow has been actually low for what has moved around us. Two houses went about 25% above Zillow EST. And were cash buys if the local busybody is to be believed. Both houses went before the realtor could get the signs up also
Wow.
I have been seriously considering paying off my mortgage off early to be free of my mortgage company. I escrowed property taxes and insurance during the refinance, and they’ve fucked up the property tax payment every time. It looks like they’re going to fuck up the payment that is due soon. We’ll see what happens. I doubt I could refinance again and beat the rate I have even with rates being as low as they are right now.
Almost anyone who lived through the lockdowns in a tiny apartment or condo wants a house with a yard before the inevitable next time people are restricted to their homes. It’s a helluva lot easier to get through a pandemic if you can sit outside or toss a ball in your backyard with no cops coming after you for not wearing a mask. This is driving the seller’s market and is easy to understand. What isn’t easy to understand around here is that politicians are still mandating laws to create new apartment complexes and outlaw single family house zoning, because they still believe that everyone wants to live in high density housing near transit. For that commute to downtown people no longer are making, because companies are giving up most of their financial district office space and finding it cheaper and easier to let people mostly work from home. The BART trains continue to be deserted, but let’s build more apartment towers above the suburban BART stations, that’s the future!
because they still believe that everyone wants to live in high density housing near transit
If they actually believed that, they wouldn’t have to mandate. They know the average person doesn’t want it and doesn’t want it in their neighborhood (unless there are trade offs like easier commute, dining/recreation, or no practical alternative) despite stated preferences.
“If they actually believed this, they wouldn’t have to mandate”
This is so friggin obvious.
Socialism/Central Planning: ideas so good they have to be mandatory.
Stick all the government-sector workers in those apartment towers. Let regular people have houses.
“Inflation? Scarcity?”
Yes.
Feds create huge masses of fiat currency, combined with tons of Californians fleeing that clusterfuck who are flush with cash from selling their old homes = 40% increase in median price in one year.
My favorite bit of this whole thing is that the only people that are going to be left in CA are the folks that are too poor to move and those that are so rich that they can absorb the absurd costs. That is how it seems to be trending now, I can only imagine that the trend will continue.
Hence the phrase barbell economy.
“It’ll make you totally swole.”
The banter between the announcer and color analyst sometimes is the only part of the game that is entertaining.
If you missed it a few weeks back, this is just great:
https://www.mlb.com/news/the-fenway-park-pizza-throw-story
I was watching live – it’s worth watching the original clip just for Jerry Remy practically keeling over laughing (he is/was a heavy smoker).
Grocery store mask wearing is now about 50%, not counting employees. Slowly getting better.
Glad to know Philly hasn’t changed since my time visiting when I was younger and going to school there.
Philadelphia boy, 16, dies after being shot 13 times: report
1. I didn’t realize Market St. was this bad. 2. “Boy” means 16 years old. Never change MSM.
Pluto has local news channels in its lineup. Very interesting what makes local news. It’s quite different from region to region. The Philly station seems to be wall to wall crime every time I turn it on.
When I was a kid, I remember the Philly news shows covering a new shooting every day. True, not all were in Philly, some were in the suburbs.
13+ times. Guess it wasn’t a cop…
If the had guns laws like Ny/NJ he only would have been shot 10 times.
Yeah. I found a used condom in the parking lot the other day, rather than a half disintegrated mask.
Bar I stopped at to get a specialty glass for the girlfriend has 1 mask wearer (someone picking up takeout). No partitions, no masks (even for staff), people talking to strangers, and patio doors open. Beer store I stopped at had staff and two
shopperssheepers wearing masks. Met someone who was from a Cinci brewery who realized he didn’t know much about the Cleveland beer scene, so I gave him a rundown on what was available.There are still people wearing masks at my gym.
I put together a lunch outing for a maskless group (we shared information about places that don’t require masks and lobbied against mask ordinances/orders/etc.). We had lunch at a place in Manchester. Manchester has always been relaxed about masks. The owner of the place we ate at has been a huge supporter of Reopen NH and refuses to make customers wear masks. There were still people walking through the patio area of this bar wearing masks.
Yes, they really are watching you.
The FBI is trying to get IP addresses and phone numbers of people who read a USA Today article
*tin foil hat on*
Their reasoning is the only people who would be interested in this story are either kiddie porn possessors or people who want to kill federal agents, so having established that the next step is to use the list to generate further “warrants” to crawl up those people’s backsides. Add in a dose of parallel reconstruction of illegal NSA data mining.
My theory (repost from AM Linx)
I’m not a nerd tech savvy, but I do read lot of thrillers and watch spy/cop movies so my guess is that the FBI is on a case where they know someone is trafficking kiddie porn but don’t know who. They somehow* get an image of the bad guys secret hideout, and they “enhance” the image until they can make out a reflection of a laptop in a window or some other shiny object in the background and see that the unsub had that USA Today article opened at about 8:20pm.
*the bad guy is probably fucking with them and sending them shit to prove he’s smarter than they are.
The issue is that “enhancing” really doesn’t work well on letters or numbers (look at any OCR software, even with a clean sample). Not to mention, there’s no link between an IP address and a phone number (unless you’re using an ISP provided VOIP phone).
Look Neph, TV and Movies employ people know as technical advisors and you expect me to trust some beer nerd over them?
I’m a geek in several areas, not just beer!
Frankly I don’t see how comic books, video games, and horrible sub-genres of punk are relevant either.
Like this?
Alternative
The original
Thanks for taking one for the team, Señor!
That was a legit LOL review.
You’re too kind.
My parents are coming to visit today.
So the gf has been cleaning and decluttering. I have a functional dining table now!
I was all happy until I went upstairs. It’s all a lie. She just moved the clutter to the MBR. Which was the tidiest room in the house.
?
My natural inclination is to try to defend the clutter-blind, but… I got nuthin’.
Sorry. 🙁
My MIL, before she passed was notorious for coming into my house and ‘reorganizing’ (a.k.a. making it so I could not find anything in my house) everything. I actually loved the woman but it was frustrating, to say the least.
A local station is playing reruns of Police Squad for the next couple hours.
Nice
Made it to Maine, was able to check in early. Did my inspection of the room. It meets the expectations of cleanliness. I am annoyed that they decided to put a big mirror such that when seated at the desk/table to use my laptop, I am facing it. I don’t want to look up and see myself. And of course, the motion in the periferal vision keeps distracting me.
Anyway, I have to figure out lunch and maybe dinner.
How’re glibs?
How was traffic?
NJ seashore is hopping. Seems people have had enough of sitting out one vacation season.
Traffic was fraily light, actually.
This Glibbroad is wonderful.
Hang towels over the mirror?
I’m just going to ignore it. I found a place to get some food, so I’ll be back.
What town are you near?
Biddeford, in between Kinnebunk and Portland.
I see several breweries and distilleries in town. Maybe a tasting tour is in order Looks like a fun place to visit. Good choice
There was a Slovenian food stall at the farmer’s market. It was pretty good. I have no idea what authentic Slovenian food is, but this was a mix of central European and Mediterranean. There were some things I hadn’t seen before – minced vegetables spread with mayonnaise and rolled up like a pinwheel, but I didn’t try those.
*taosts wil lobster roll*
They are at a crossroads region, so I wouldn’t be surprised if that was authentic.
Do Taoists eat lobster?
Yes, but not too much.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JT07AjHCId4
So very hungover from last night’s zoomy, I forced myself out to Ft. Tilden for son’s soccer game. It was wonderful, nice breeze, bright sun (HUZZAH for vitamin D!) and not a mask to be seen on anyone. Topped off with visit to the Breezy Dogs truck for a milkshake and a gyro; it has been a fine day.
Very glad you’re having one of those (take your pick – the shake, the gyro, or the fine day – you deserve all of them.)
I have spotted a few masks in the wild here, but most people seem to have just ditched them.
Hardware store, brewpub this morning – one mask on a customer.
Mexican restaurant last night – a couple of masks on staff, including, sadly, the adorably cute bartender.
Was she at least scantily clad in other areas?
Hardware store was about 80/20 unmasked to masked here. No weird looks. No awkward avoidance. Felt almost like the before times.
I’ve noticed that feminine stores around here (target, Tj Maxx, etc.) are much more masked than masculine stores (autozone, Lowes, etc.)… ’tis interesting.
It’s basically a Team thing in some areas. Maybe everywhere.
Not here. Still mostly with the governor’s backdoor mask mandate in place. She promises if the statewide vaccination rate hits 70%, she’ll kindly remove it for reals. But looking at the slowing vax rates, I’m not sure that target will be met.
Meanwhile, more and more are just ignoring it. Semirural grocery store was 25% maskless, city grocery was just 1 person but staff ignored other than standard pleasantries. Saw a girl wait until the door to reluctantly put a mask on, then saw me walking out and smiled at her. Maybe might plant the seeds in her own mind…
Did get kicked out of a liquor store in the city. The state liquor agency is a terminator on enforcement, but fuck em, they’ve been making hand over fist since the start even on top of the state structured printing press. I wouldn’t have bothered but they put a new sign saying their mask mandate was for the health and safety of their employees. Meanwhile, four blocks away the county is throwing away perfectly good doses because not enough people are coming in. If their employees are so concerned, they’ve had plenty of opportunity to get vaccinated. What do they think will change between now and two weeks when supposed the mask mandate will be repealed? There is no difference.
a couple of masks on staff, including, sadly, the adorably cute bartender.
Sad.
Most of the Zoomers seemed to be decidedly on the tipsy side when I left.
I’ve cut way back on my imbibing of late. I need to lose some weight, and if I drink too much, hangovers seem to hit harder and last longer than they did a few years ago.
I passed out at 11:30. I don’t like it but apparently I’m a morning person now.
I just joined at 3:30. thanks to being awakened by an impromptu street race/teen dance party here at the beach. I FEEL YOUR PAIN, RHYWUN!
Adulthood gets tougher
I was sober as a church mouse.
This church mouse doesn’t strike me as particularly sober.
https://youtu.be/coMPdvrLDuw
There are some deeply damaged people posting stuff on the ‘Tube.
I used to love listening to Harry Caray do the Cubs games. Here’s one of my favorite clips with Ron Santo and Thom Brennaman. For background, Ron Santo wore a toupee.
https://youtu.be/tOsg9p4MR9Q
And did you know that Harry Caray was 68 years old when he started broadcast games for the Cubs?
He was in his 90’s when he died, wasn’t he?
Actually he was 83 when he died in 1998. Just missed the Sosa vs McGwire home run race.
Another Harry Caray fun fact. Early in his career he worked at a station in Kalamazoo with Paul Harvey.
OT: I got a flyer in the mail from Amazon offering a $1000 signing bonus to work in their
Phoenix Distribution Centerslave factory.How long to you have to work there to have it actually be yours?
Play it right and that’s possibly not a bad per-hour rate.
Apparently only black people wear these things. Which means next time you see Hulk Hogan, a biker gang, a pirate, or a kid with cancer you can inform them they are appropriating black culture. Cancer boy will leave you alone but be careful with the bikers.
Muscled-Americans wear them too.
Do you like beer that is so sour you long for the warm, gentle embrace of a rancid lemon being squeezed into your eye sockets while trapped in a room with Dr. Oz giving a soliloquy on raspberry ketones?
YUCK
The gym he ended up at.
Well, my day just turned to a mess. Went to grab something out of the beer fridge to chill down, and learned that one of the shelves had given out. A rush of bottles of rare and vintage beer fell out. Thankfully, it was only a Great Lakes Barrel Aged Christmas Ale from 2020 that was lost.
Testing the shelves now, it appears that either they’ve shrunk, or the walls of the beer fridge have moved enough that they start giving out under low pressure. Most of the glass from the broken bottle has been picked up (I’m sure I’ll be finding shards for the next couple of months) and it’s industrial carpeting so once it dries, it should be relatively simple to clean.
Oh no.
Sorry.
It could have been much worse. The Fantome, Cantillon, or one of the bottles I’ve got saved for my nephews’ 21st birthdays could have broken.
Yeah, that would be disastrous.
Oh no! At least the damage is minimal and you can now get to reinforcing the shelving.
Yeah. The problem is that the only real way to reinforce it is going to be to measure out the size and get plywood (or something similar) to replace the shelf. I’ve rinsed the residual beer of most of the bottles and cans, and they were already stashed in the basement (which stays fairly cool regardless).
That sucks.
If it makes you feel better, our datacenter lost water from the city.
Intake temps for some servers were around 168 degrees F – is that bad?
Water is back on and temps are coming down, but this is going to consume way too much of my time.
Sorry.
Sounds like the time we had a datacenter that sprung a leaky roof in the middle of the night. People were running tarps over the servers to direct water into buckets as a pump was set up to get the water somewhere else.
Ouch.
Funny thing is degrees F are what I need to know if I’m going to be comfy. I have to convert if somebody tells me C.
OTH, for electronics I have no idea with F and convert everything to C as that’s what the specs are written.
Yikes:
Ooooof.
Yikes!
Eric Peters Autos on the 2021 Genesis G80. It’s sad that Hyundai has dropped the V8 thanks to government regulation. I don’t like the dial shifter. I don’t like the car’s looks all that much. But, I like the Hyundai is keeping going. Hopefully they have found a better electronics vendor.
The big V8 is going to be rarer and rarer thanks to regulation.
Also direct injection and carboned up valves. Toyota runs direct and port to prevent this, but more complexity and cost.
My prediction is Mustang and Corvette will be the last V8s in the US sometime within a decade.
I kind of miss my 2000 Ford Expedition sometimes. Big V8, 5.4 liter. First new car I ever owned.
Terrible gas mileage but cheap to repair. Finally parted ways with it in 2018, and the new owner still loves it, rust and all.
I felt ill the first time I filled up its 25 gallon gas tank in California, and I knew I needed something more practical for my daily commute. My “practical” car is still in the shop for another week and a half.
The government should step back and let the market work; some folks won’t care about mileage and some will. That will show up in prices, and all parties will read the signals and adjust appropriately.
#enviromental[sic]justice I guess
Een my contry the V8 has only ever been something for high end stuff, sports cars, GTs, high end executive sedans and SUVs, etc. There are still people who think a 2.0 4 cylinder is “big”.
I suppose it has something to do with scale. The idea of driving 1000 miles to go home for Christmas is not a big deal in America, but that would cross several European countries.
Well, Honda made one that put out 240HP, so…
Sadly, yes.
I had my Mustang (convertible with a V8) out earlier today when I went to the gym. I had the top down for the drive back. Probably a good thing I took it out with the top down earlier today. Some ugly storm clouds are rolling in right now.
Even my new truck has a V6. I think it produces more
power than the V8 option did. They’re doing amazing work in
fewer cylinders now. It can certainly tow a lot. Or at
least that’s what the specs say. I haven’t actually towed
anything with it.
The Lexus RX I bought used has a V6 with 300 HP. Test drove a bunch of non-luxury brand SUVs with underpowered 4 cylinders first, then floored the Lexus V6 and I knew right then I wanted this car. Scared my wife and the salesman in the process.
Turbo V6 makes plenty of power for ordinary use including light duty pickup trucks.
They just don’t have much soul, unfortunately. But in your application it makes perfect sense. You want good power and low NVH. It will work very well there.
Re-posting this from smalldeadanimals.com; a delightful video where a UK interviewer is taking the UK Secretary of State, MP Robert Jenrick, out to the woodshed over the ever-shifting goalposts of the British government over when, precisely (and in the light of a never-ending parade of new “variants of concern”) are the British people going to be allowed their “freedoms” again?:
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2021/06/05/the-never-ending-covid-quagmire/
I wish any of our TMITE denizens would have the simple cojones to do the same to any of our politicians.
I heard that Toronto is completely locked down. Any better out west?
Alberta’s got what has been described as an “ambitious” open-back-up plan in place, but increasingly, people seem fed up. Supposedly if we meet all Alberta Health’s targets, we could be completely open by the end of June.
I’ll believe it when I see it, natch.
I’m all for dumping boxes of masks in the harbor, Boston-style.
Who’s with me?!?
A (somewhat local – near Youngstown) brewery in Ohio did do a mask burning party on June 2nd, when the health orders expired here.
None of the commentators at the French Open are asking why people in the stands suddenly, magically become more dangerous at 9:00 PM.
Everyone becomes more dangerous at 9:00pm. It’s just reality.
Except of at BLM riots. Those are always safe w/o social distancing, masks, or curfews.
SCIENCE!!!
Masks on ball boys, no masks on players or umpires. One player got chided yesterday for not muzzling up when returning from a bathroom break. And everyone is acting like any of this makes sense.
I went to fill the gaps around where the new thermostat was installed, and found that the leftover spackle was moldy. I had no idea it couldn’t even get moldy.
I learn more things as I get older.
Like who knew squirrels eat the hoses on a gas grill?
Like who knew squirrels eat the hoses on a gas grill?
Me, unfortunately.
I need to find stainless steel covered hoses, but I couldn’t find any that would work the last time I looked.
Hot pepper oil will also help if you need to drive small rodents away.
I buy the HOOGE bags of cayenne (or Indian) ground chile from Superstore for a couple of bucks and spread that stuff around; works a treat and seems to attract lots of bees, too.
I’ve seen steel wraps like this but haven’t used them.
Get a Red Tailed Hawk and keep it on your porch.
Then the hawk flies off with my steak.
Yep. I always spray a light coating of Virex on top of the wall compound after I’ve finished using it to help prevent that, but most compound’s got glue in it, and the mould will feast on the glue.
Funny, it’s never happened to me before.
Heh. Just went to check on my mostly-empty plastic tub of wall compound from the latest wall repairs.
Sure enough, mould — even though I sprayed it down before I sealed it. ”The mould shall inherit the Earth.”
Is “mould” some kind of Canadian mold?
In other news, Blaire White is in a rap video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCMwlorNEZk
Bazooka Jane
*flashes back to one particular Thailand vacation*
Did this story end with a massive infusion of penicillin or getting hit with a ping pong ball followed by a massive dose of penicillin?
This charming colonial could be yours if you can drive out the drug-dealing pimps currently squatting there.
“Once a person has “squatted,” or lived in a home without permission for more than 30 days, the situation becomes a civil matter, even if the occupant has no lease or legal authority to be there, legal experts say.
“If somebody’s been there more than 30 days the police cannot remove them,” leaving a landlord no choice but to go to housing court, veteran Bronx attorney Frank Loverro told The Post.
But with an historic backlog of cases clogging courts after a months-long pandemic shutdown, and new rules from Albany making evictions much harder to secure, squatters are enjoying unprecedented freedom to do as they please, knowing it could take years to be ousted. ”
Great. I bet it’s also illegal to turn off their electricity and water.
But if they up and disappear with no trace one night, who’s to say?
It does make such options seem attractive.
Even having Vinny and Guido drop by on a “welfare” check might be enough to encourage would-be squatters to move on.
Ah, glad to see New York’s starting to emulate the Europeans (like in Amsterdam) more.
**Insert it’s happening GIF.**
Put some Trump flags on it and call Antifa.
Oh, no! Not misuse of a vaccination card! What did he do? Wipe his ass with it?
https://pamplinmedia.com/pt/9-news/511214-408703-multnomah-jail-deputy-investigated-over-alleged-misuse-of-vaccination-cards?wallit_nosession=1
Why is fucking up parking so HBO can do a location shoot “a good cause”?
Because the people that owned the parking lots decided it was?
Municipal parking lots and street closures. Nice try, troll.
He’s still not wrong.
Welcome to NYC pre-pandemic.
To film 3 minutes of TV takes a crew of 20 people, a catering truck and dressing trailers. Oh, and let’s not forget the diesel generators.
But they are saving the planet.
My street used to have shoots every few weeks during good weather. I dunno what is so attractive about my corner of Bay Ridge.
“Atmosphere.”
My office is close to a park where movies and TV shoot.
I was watching of a rerun of 30 Rock and laughed when they shot an exterior scene of Liz and Jenna talking at a hot dog vendor which was supposed to be on 5th Ave in midtown at the park all the way down by me in the Flatiron District.
My ex-office keeps appearing in background shots of The Outer Banks. Wrong Carolina, fuckheads.
Several of the MCU films were filmed here in Cleveland (and Spider-Man 3 and Double Dragon, but we’re not proud about those). It’s funny watching a local landmark stand in for “Germany”.
Then there’s also A Christmas Story, where we have the house, and is full of local landmarks.
Back in the Before Times™, when I still lived in the Lower Rainland™, we had TV and movie shoots coming out the wazoo all over the place. Fucking infuriating. Can’t say I miss ’em.
The Spousal Unit likes to ID all of the places she can on the Hallmark Mystery and/or Romance movies; a surprising number of shots were within a couple of kilometres of the house in Pitt Meadows.
When my office was downtown, they filmed something egarding MLK at the state ed building because it’s all neoclassical columns. They replaced the traffic with 60s cars, and covered up the parking kiosks with fake phone booths.
Part of Tootsie was filmed up here. My uncle owned one of the local movie theaters at the time and claimed to have been invited to a meet-and-greet.
When he told everyone in the family about it, Grandma had the best reaction: “Who’s Jessica Lange?”
“Nobody, grandma. Just the usual Hollyweird flash-in-the-pan.”
Prove me wrong.
Legit cool story! I know that movie backwards and forwards. “It’s for my dog. He likes fruit.”
What kind of mother would I be if I didn’t give my girls tits…tips?
Paging l0b0t. l0b0t to the white courtesy phone.
You don’t want the truth because deep down in places you talk about parties; you want me on that
wallcatering truck, you need me on thatwallcatering truck!LOL, local TV newsreader just called Worcester MA “Warchester”.
I put a dash in everything.
“Local”.
Same as the Cleveland area has shibboleths to tell which side of town (or even area) you’re from.
-1 Wooster
Correction: Woostah
Woo ses ter shire
Yeah; my sister and her husband lived in the area for a good 25 years. First for a couple of years in Westboro Ugh, and then when she got pregnant with their first child they got a starter house in Liechester. 😉
So if I have my Masshole speak correctly that is pronounced, “LEE-stah,” no?
No; it’s spelled Leicester and not pronounced “Lie-chester”. And obviously, the last three letters of Westborough are silent.
For some reason, when you’re traveling on Rt. 2, you don’t see signs that say, “You’re in Athol”.
Now have them do Conshohocken on the Schuylkill.
Admit it, all of those places are named in Gaelic, aren’t they?
Here in New York, it’s places with Dutch names, like Schaghticoke or Valatie.
Fair amount of Native American downstate too.
For example, I’d never know how the hell to pronounce Hauppauge if I’d never heard it.
“Happy purge”?
Hop ogg
“Hopped eggs”?
Ewwwww.
True – my brother’s gf from college was flummoxed by ‘Hauppauge’.
“HAW-pawg” but you have Long-Island the vowels into diphthongs.
Said sister I mentioned above lived there before her husband got a better job in Massachusetts.
“Shag the cock, valiantly”?
SCAT-a-coke, and va-LAY-sha.
I like mine better.
Pennsylvania? Nah.
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch is a proper Gaelic town name.
Say it fast and it sounds like “Springfield.”
John Rahm had a six shot lead going into tomorrow’s final round of this weeks PGA tournament. He now has been forced to withdraw due to a positive COVID test.
A real antibody test, or one of those fake PRC tests?
Woo Hoo!
*guy who doesn’t have John Rahm on his fantasy golf team*
I would love to see him sue the PGA and win.
Seriously. What a load of horseshit.
For what? They set rules, he agreed to them when he joined the tour. If testing positive for some imaginary diseases is grounds for disqualification under those rules so be it. If you want to earn millions of dollars hitting a ball with a stick you have to follow the rules that the organization that enables that dictate.
He earned his Tour Card years before they imposed this rule on everybody.
So what? Organizations can’t change their bylaws?
The tour apparently has a rule where if you’re vaccinated you don’t have to be tested, but if you’re not you do. I wonder howthat one would shake out in a court of law.
My guess is that the vaccines would likely set off a series of positive tests at the cycle threshholds they’re testing at.
Again why would a court of law have anything to say about the rules of a private organization, If they want to disqualify you for wearing a green belt on Thursday and also disqualify you if you don’t wear a green belt on Friday, it ain’t none of the courts business without irregardlessness of how asinine or contradictory those rules may be.
Seeing how great he was playing today, I bet lots of hackers will be running out trying to catch Covid.
/checks the post calendar
So it looks like no evening post tonight, for those who haven’t saved it yet here’s the link to the Zoom/Happy Hour/Bitching about shelves falling. I’ll kick it off at 20:00 Eastern.
That was quite an impressive thunderstorm that just blew through.
Looks like quite a bit of T storm activity throughout much of the US today.
It’s clear and mid eighties in (slightly) inland SoCal.
The 12ft pool is filling up right now. Not for swimming laps at anything but good for lounging and doing some joint strengthening exercises.
Is your new avatar the new cat? The cat is adorable.
Yes, that is Fredo. He is indeed adorbs. Such a lovey lap kitty.
Thank you.
I spent some time in my round 8′ white trash (H/T Yusef) pool today. I floated in the chair but am in need of a new float. My pizza float had too many slow leaks so it got the knife and into the trash. It was low 90’s today so I cooled off after working on the POS Murano. I got the alternator off and had time for a soak so I count it as a great day.
Sounds like a good way to relax.
I’m going to order a couple of those “pool hammocks” that are two inflatable cylinders with a mesh “seat” in between. They don’t take up much room and they’re nice for floating around catching a few rays.
This Pizza Chain’s Decline Is Due to “Bad” Food, Customers Say
While current management plans to focus on an expansion into the niche category of “impulse pizza occasions”,
I think that’s tonight’s winner for consultant buzzword bingo.
The article is about Sbarro’s which is neatly summed up by this quote within the article – “Sbarro: Everyone’s favorite pizza to eat when you’re at a rest stop 50 miles from the nearest pizza,”
Or stuck on the “secure international” side of any airport in North America.
Which, other than the Sbarro’s, sounds pretty good right about now.
I only had it once and it was near Times Square, not in some mall. I thought it was perfectly acceptable. Of course it was around 15 years ago.
My understanding is that was their preeminent location. It closed when they couldn’t get the rate they wanted on its lease renewal.
We used to like them at the mall food court when I was a teen.
Either they were better then (80s) or we had lower standards, which, considering 80s fashion and hair, is a distinct possibility.
It was acceptable mall pizza as a teen. But we in the northeast can be a bit snobby with pizza.
Anytime I’ve been forced to eat Sbarro’s recently I’ve been unimpressed.
Always relevant
https://youtu.be/TRgEeDR98X8
I like Bob Brenly. He played for the Giants when I was a kid and gave me his autograph one day pregame. Reading that story I wondered what was “racist” about the joke. It is called a du-rag if I’m not mistaken. I guess just any comment from a white guy about a black person’s clothing or appearance is automatically racist these days. America needs some frigging desensitivity training.
“ America needs some frigging desensitivity training”
The training might come in the form of a crash course in fighting off a hostile invasion on US soil.
At this point I think China just takes over without any much resistance. I imagine that getting away with causing a pandemic will only further increase their boldness.
Oh fucking hell… the airwaves are overflowing with
electionprimary commercials for NYC mayor now. Everyone knows Yang is an idiot. The current frontrunner sounds like a moron when he opens his mouth. Everyone else is a lunatic radical. We are so doomed.Can anyone be worse than DeBlasio?
Yes.
Of course, I only see the commercials when I’m fast-forwarding through my DVR recordings of Jeopardy!.
“I’ll take Giant Retards for $100”
DeBlasio’s saving grace is that he’s lazy AF.
I don’t want to answer for fear I find out.
I think NY has been doomed for a couple decades.
Now that it has come to light that various US groups, including taxpayer-funded ones, helped finance “gain-of-function” virus research in China, the focus seems to be on whether or not that research led to the COVID-19 outbreak.
But shouldn’t the other big issue needing thoughtful debate be about whether such research should continue at all? And if so, who should fund it, and to whom are the researchers accountable?
Nice pussy.
Thanks.
I keep trying to get a good photo of his orange eyes, but when he sits still enough for a photo shoot, he’s too relaxed to open them up and look head on at the camera.
“Now that it has come to light that various US groups, including taxpayer-funded ones, helped finance “gain-of-function” virus research in China”
That’s been known for a long time. I think I read about it in January 2020, but didn’t think much of it at the time, because I thought it would turn out to be a big nothing like bird flu.
Government is just a word for crimes we all commit together!
LOL
China is going to do that research regardless of anyone’s say-so. Probably the US too, even if it has to be on the down-low.
What’s up everyone! Having a fun day of imbibing and eating. Started with the Irish coffees, now drinking beers on the deck while dry aged steaks reverse sear on the grill. 90 DEG with no humidity.
Having a great day with the wife and great friend.
So three way?
Sure, see it whatever way it makes you happier.