They made more than just coffee table books and brutalist architecture, they also made furniture, and no place better exemplifies this than Ikea.  Its the Scandinavian house of form follows function CRAP.  And yetâŠI am typing this currently on an Ikea desk.
This is my review of Tired Hands Brewing Migrating Eyes Saison:
Ikea apparently offended people with their Juneteenth menu at the Atlanta location.  Iâve been to that location, as it is where I picked up the Ikea kitchen island/stand/thing to compliment my Ikea desk.  It also compliments my Ikea wrap around bookshelves, and Ikea nightstandâŠat any rate their lunch menu included fried chicken and watermelon.
âYou cannot say serving watermelon on Juneteenth is a soul food menu when you donât even know the history. They used to feed slaves watermelon,â an anonymous employee told Atlantaâs CBS 46. âIt caused a lot of people to be upset. People actually wanted to quit. People werenât coming back to work.â
But where would they get the idea this is in any way proper? Â Lets consult THE INTERNET.
Pies such as sweet potato, peach and blackberry and watermelon, easily available to former slaves in Texas, also continue to remain popular.
Youâll find watermelon as a part of almost any spread, whether cubed, sliced, or even pickled. A watermelon, feta, and mint salad is a sweet and salty way to incorporate the ingredient into your menu
From care.com (one of those âhow to explain to kidsâ sites):
Abariâs household incorporates the aesthetic and flavors of freedom through treats like symbolic red foods and drinks like hibiscus tea, watermelon and strawberry crisp and adds the sentiment through reading activities.
Strawberry Soda WaterâŠwait thatâs just Agua Fresca!  Iâm playing the race card!
Not really. Â The issue at hand here is it does have a historical role, but not exactly in the way the person quoted in the NY Post seems to believe. Â Like anything with history, its complicated.
Indigenous to North Africa and the Middle East, melons were considered a delicacy in antiquity. Â Why? Â Consider the region. Â Its a fruit that doubles as a natural receptacle for water. Â This was a actually a crop brought to the Americas on slave ships. Â It grows nearly everywhere with relative ease and quite frankly theyâre delicious. Â Seeds were even given out to freed slaves during Reconstruction by the Freedmenâs Bureau. Â The reason being its easy to cultivate but more importantly it was a delicacy during that time. Â This allowed Black farmers a cash crop from which they could find economic independence, that could avoid the rent seeking from other economic interests in the South at the time (i.e. cotton or tobacco).
Success unfortunately led to envy, and the stereotype began to take its familiar form. Â When it fell out of favor with âhigher classes,â watermelon became associated with Black farmers growing and subsequently eating it. Â Note the story at this link about the âPoor Arabâs Feastâ and how it aligns with the stereotypes of Blacks.
The watermelon, noted a British officer stationed in Egypt in 1801, was âa poor Arabâs feast,â a meagre substitute for a proper meal. In the port city of Rosetta, he saw the locals eating watermelons âravenously ⊠as if afraid the passer-by was going to snatch them away,â and watermelon rinds littered the streets. There, the fruit symbolized many of the same qualities as it would in post-emancipation America: uncleanliness because eating watermelon is so messy. Laziness, because growing watermelons is so easy, and itâs hard to eat watermelon and keep workingâitâs a fruit you have to sit down and eat. Childishness, because watermelons are sweet, colourful, and devoid of much nutritional value. And unwanted public presence, because itâs hard to eat a watermelon by yourself.  These tropes made their way to America, but the watermelon did not yet have a racial meaning.
UmâŠIâm pretty sure Arabs are a race.  But hey, its not me who decides if Ikea is racist.  I canât wait until eating tacos on Cinco de Mayo is frowned upon.
I personally do not care for watermelon. Â I donât care for the grainy texture, and I grew up with braces so picking seeds out of my teeth was less than pleasant. Â I always liked peaches so this Saison from Alaska piqued my interest in that it incorporated peaches and apricots. Â The base is more sour than usual but is counteracted by the scent of fresh peaches. Â Nice attempt to be different. Tired Hands Brewing Migrating Eyes Saison: Â 3.5/5
Being First is what I do.
I should apologize for pissing in your cheerios.
But you werenât first for the links, soâŠ.
I’m going to lose points as a Southerner for admitting this, but I don’t care for watermelon. That said, it is a staple summer food in The South, black or white or any other color. Esp. among those from working poor stock.
Works great in a fruit salad chunked up with some feta cheese sprinkled on top.âSurprisingly yum.
Otherwise, I’m with you, CA.âNever liked watermelon by itself.
Me neither. And it was a staple summer food of poor white people in the north, too.
Approximately 0.0% of summertime gatherings of any sort (family, church, neighborhood, scouts) were watermelon-free growing up. My parents referred “Black Diamond.”
So is fried chicken. Or so I’ve learned from the numerous black (and white) folks I’ve seen cooking “their grandma’s recipe” on cooking shows.
All of this just strikes me as another instance of “damned if you do”, so… don’t. Completely ignoring Biden’s new holiday is the only safe way to navigate through June now.
This goes for romance. “People” (of indeterminate race) cry that there are not enough romances with POC, and not enough POC authors. Well, okay, then. Random white author goes for a POC romance. She is decried as appropriating culture and/or not portraying it with authenticity and summarily canceled. POC write romances with white characters because “that’s what sells.” (#protip romances with white men and black women sell like hotcakes.) But the romances with POC characters are hard to find and/or don’t come up on searches. Anyway, there’s this round robin of people who can and can’t write POC romances, but not enough white people reading them to make them profitable as a genre, but not enough publishers publishing them for white people to read so they can’t get any market traction, and so on and so forth. I’m not going to deny that there’s a problem. There is. But white authors choose not to write POC romances because they don’t want to get in trouble for writing them “wrong”, and then get screamed at for not doing so.
I wrote an interracial romance (Indian [dot] dude and white chick) and my POC readers were not amused. Except…the Indian dude was based on a real person and his real experiences so any claim of “not authentic” (and what would black women know about it anyway?), I just ignored. I didn’t even bother to ask, “Are you questioning someone’s lived experience?”
Actually, I’ve written two (the other was a white dude and a Korean chick). I forget both of them are interracial romances (even when I’m asked to define a genre) because to me, they are people.
So my Taiwanese friend beta read the white dude with the Korean chick, and she said that while she cringed at my stereotypical rendering of the Korean mother, it WAS true, and it made her reflect on her Asian culture and parenting, and didn’t like what she saw.
Yeah, all these minefields… Congratulations, Marxists. You’ve turned the country to shit.
Those masks are there for a reason, my Friend.
The exact same debate was running around in fandom wars back in the 90s, except now those teens are in charge of HarperCollins so it got immeasurably worse for all writers everywhere.
That’s why I laugh when people say this is new. No, it’s not, it’s just nobody was paying attention, or at least nobody thought it would metastasize.
I think the effort to cancel romance and various authors is futile, actually. I’m on FB in several reader groups and the older white women are still buying the same stuff we bought in the 70s, 80s, and 90s, and the POC stuff is still not selling very well. I have my theories about that:
1. POC just don’t read much romance.
2. The 20somethings and younger, regardless of race, aren’t reading much at all. (As my son says, “We’re stupider now.” “Well, okay then.”) Their attention spans are shot. There comes along the occasional Twilight or Hunger Games or some other Young Adult love-triangle that will blow up, but those aren’t predictable.
3. There are tastes for the now-taboo (questionable consent, for example) that are not going to go away. It gets self-published, bought, and read, but it’s like Nickelback–the authors make oodles of money, but “nobody’s reading it”.
The traditional romance genre will die out when the women my age and ~10-15 years younger start dying, not because SJWs lobby against it.
Growing up in Wisconsin, I never heard most of these racist tropes until I moved to Vegas. Watermelon, Cool-Aid and Fried Chicken were all apparently reserved for blacks. Curious that I grew up consuming all of those things all the time. Almost like the ‘Black’ tropes are more about class than race…
I grew up mostly in Texas and we all ate those things pretty much all the time.
*nods vociferously*
Had all of that stuff on the regular. Fried chicken was the only one that wasn’t necessarily a summer staple when we were kids.
Tired Hands Brewing Migrating Eyes Saison:
These beer names are verging into performance art territory.
Like some sort of crypto-dadaism in which the artist scrounges up a random piece of crap and puts a pretentious name on it, like “The Elephantine Nature of Time”.
As time goes on, it becomes harder to find a name that hasn’t been used by someone else already.
As long as they don’t start making stupid commercials with an idiot kangaroo, I’ll just ignore it.
When the kangaroo comes out, I am done and will be going back to a party ball.
I love watermelon, particularly those that I grow and ripen on the vine. Red ones, orange ones, yellow ones. I grew some white ones but they lacked the color necessary to make them look tasty.
Last year I had about 60, average 10 lbs each. Easy to give them away but we ate at least 20. Those store bought early ones would turn anyone off. Bland, the seedless melons are not a flavorful as those with seeds.
Few of my neighbors grow melons, they tend to ripen all at once. I like honey dew and cantaloupe but the growing season is a little too short
Unfortunately this year was lost, garden wise. Wait’ll next year…
Thanks MS, for the article and the history.
Watermelon is fine, just don’t put it in beer ffs! And what is this made up word Juneteenth? is this Newspeak? sure sounds like gibberish to me.
First time I heard it was when I moved to Houston in ’95. It’s been a TX holiday as long as I’ve been here. The rest of the country is appropriating TX culture!11!ELEVENTY
It was big in “urban” areas of upstate NY when I was little, too.
I’ve “noted” Juneteenth for at least 20-25 years. I thought it was actually an important thing to signify in the nation’s history.
I attended an HBCU in Florida, in the mid-90s. The holiday was obscure enough outside of Texas that it was used as a sort of shibboleth to judge the depth of a young person’s knowledge of black history.
Apropos
Migrating Eyes is a collaboration between Anchorage Brewing and Tired Hands Brewing. Anchorage Brewing is in Alaska, Tired Hands is in Ardmore, PA. I’ve been to Tired Hands’ taproom in Ardmore. They have some good stuff, though the taproom is a hipster/trust-fund kid hangout.
Hey! My eyes are up here!
“Tired Hands” continues the fiction that their brew pub is in an old trolley barn, even though historians have told them otherwise. If they can’t tell their history correctly, what else are they lying about?
OK Mexican Sharpshooter watch fan and Bauhaus fan – you need a Lange. My personal favorite is the original Lange 1.
And to go off topic – you can’t beat the race to IoT everything.
Western Digital Confirms ‘My Book Live’ Drives Are Being Deleted RemotelyUnplug your drives from the internet right now to keep any data safe.
Oooh, Lange & Söhn, shiny!
I don’t need another watch, I don’t need another watch, I don’t need another watch…
(I recently got a Laco as a birthday present to myself)
(checks prices of Lange & Söhn)
I definitely don’t need another watch.
Old boss had one in platinum along with deployant clasp. Bought it based on my recommendation.
Amazingly heavy. Well outside my means. Happy with my Omega and Zenith and collection of about 30 vintage American watches.
And people keep asking me why I don’t have any cloud-based apps or devices.
Exception: the security system put in by our local telco.âIt’s okay, but it is a set of devices that could be used to “re-construct” most of our daily movements…
Those are choice, but Iâd rather not liquidate part of my 401K or sell a kidney to get one.
You may as well liquidate part of your 401k. At least youâll have a watch at the end of the transaction. A watch wonât just go *poof* and disappear because the stock market had a bad day. That cash in that 401k? *Poof!*
How big are the faces on those bad boys? Same as my dinner plates?
Thanks, but I will stick to my military Hamilton and vintage Illinois. Mechanicals FTW.
I’m partial to Skagen watches.
Their Danish sensibilities remind me a lot of the Michelsen watches from Iceland.
I’ve been considering one of the latter’s Arctic Explorer models with the blue face (despite living nowhere near the Arctic) for a while, as an outdoor / tool watch.
So much of what has become “soul food”, I grew up eating as “comfort food”. With fried chicken being at the top of the list. Race didn’t play into it.
Yeah, thatâs what I saw in all of these articles on what to serve to celebrate Juneteenth: southern barbecue. Who doesnât eat it?
“Black culture” is basically “southern culture” brought north to cities where it was alien. And mostly still is.
It’s all poor people food. Black, white, it don’t matter.
Who gets offended by fried chicken and watermelon? Fried chicken and watermelon is good. I want fried chicken and watermelon. I whipped up some pimento cheese last night. Okay I want a pimento cheese omelette for breakfast. And one of the donuts I just bought. And some bourbon, maple syrup, and heavy cream in my coffee. And bacon. Maybe those sausages in the freezer. Iâm hungry. And sober. Iâve got to roust my wife from bed and get her in the kitchen.
Speaking of fried chicken, if youâre in the Puget Sound and want some good fried chicken, booze, and genial company go to Bobâs Tavern. https://yelp.to/Nw7V5xfmphb
Itâs in the background of my avatar photo.
The kids and I made ersatz donuts (tubed biscuit dough, formed and tossed in the deep fryer) this morning. They were delicious.
I want a pimento cheese omelette for breakfast.
This is the way.
I want a pimento cheese omelette for breakfast.
You can have mine.
*pantomime retching*
I for one think that is a handsome watch, Mexy. Does it keep time though? I’ve a Seiko self-winder that seems to have a mind of its own. Good enough for an evening out but starts lagging or sprinting after a day or two. *Cues masturbation joke thread*
No idea, I donât own one. I cross shopped it before buying the watch displayed near my middle finger.
Mine needs a couple minute adjustment occasionally. Not measurable in days, more like months.
That’s what Daylight Saving Time is for.
Got my coffee Irished up. Well, technically Kentuckyâed up. With maple syrup and heavy cream.
Good man!
I just made some boozy coffee.
I do have to mow the lawn later.
Also, fried chicken.
I like pocket watches. I can’t stand a watch on my wrist, or rings.
https://www.glibertarians2018.link/2018/09/20/when-timepieces-were-made-to-last/
I like pocket watches in theory, but donât like stuff in my pockets.
You need to start wearing a white suit with a vest.
“I’m just a poor, country lawyer…”
Tom Wolfe?
*swoon*
“Obstreperous Gazebo Light”
âIt looks like the clock you see outside a fucking courtroom.â
What’s wrong with that? What I miss is the smooth sweep seconds hand of AC clocks. Can’t stand quartz clicking. Sadly Telechron is long gone and the numbers are aging and dwindling.
I have a wall clock in my living room that looks like a school clock with the plain white face and big chunky digits. I love the design.
I like those. Reminds me not just of school but any clock in a public place when I was younger and before digit display became common.
I found a battery powered sweep hand for my storeroom at work. It makes me happy when I look at it for the time.
Is a Telechron one of the clocks that stop when the electricity goes off, after which you have to spin up the motor to start because it’s a synchronous motor without a starter coil?
The virus is no longer an issue when temperatures are in triple digits.
https://www.oregonlive.com/weather/2021/06/health-authority-suspends-capacity-limits-at-pools-theaters-malls-ahead-of-heat-wave.html
But somehow doesn’t extend to restaurants, non mall stores, gyms, or churches, all of which usually have AC….
Portland predicted to be 113°F Sunday and Monday. Stay hydrated.
What’s the temperature in neighborhoods without arson?
*applause*
Pretty sure I’ll be under that. NWS forecast discussion was saying that due to the heat island effect, inner Portland may not drop below 80 overnight for up to 3 days. Ouch.
Welcome to my summers. Well, not yet, but it’s inevitable.
Introduced the pup to Saratoga Lake. She was deeply suspicious about the waves, but after a few minutes romping in the water commenced. She doesn’t seem thrilled with swimming as much as jumping around where she can touch the bottom.
Ikea: Their Billy/Oxberg bookcase is something that I really like that nobody else makes a knockoff of. And there are none near me to get any from.
My favorite watch company. I love the use of ceramics and very hard materials. IB will buy one before I retire as they are not crazy expensive.
https://www.rado.com/en_us/collections/true/true-automatic/R27100912
Nice. I like the price range, too.
What I just got: https://www.laco-watches.com/media/images/product/1200px/laco-fliegeruhr-typ-c-frankfurt-gmt-grau-862121.png
Nice style used with the numbers and graduations.
I really love how legible it is – all of the flieger watches are, by design I suppose.
I actually use the 2nd timezone feature, too – all of our servers are set to GMT (UTC, really), so it’s handy to have mine set to GMT.
Oh nice. I was expecting a 50mm Luftwaffe monstrosity.
Nice, Sensei.
THANK YOU!!!! I am sitting firmly on the “hate watermelon” bench.
Like everyone else in the entire us I had watermelon all the time in the summer. Grandpa would wield a big knife a cut each grand kid a big wedge. Spitting seeds was then a sport. Hit the Dixie cup with the most seeds wins.
Huh. Our sport was breaking the rind into golf ball size pieces and throwing them to knock the shit out of each other. But then we were little savages.
Introduced the pup to Saratoga Lake. She was deeply suspicious about the waves, but after a few minutes romping in the water commenced. She doesnât seem thrilled with swimming as much as jumping around where she can touch the bottom.
Does she fetch sticks. Ex-girlfriend’s lab would fetch sticks out of the river all day, if your arm would hold up.
Her instinct to chase is solid. Her instinct to retrieve is intermittent.
I am sitting firmly on the âhate watermelonâ bench.
Too messy. Even as a kid I hated getting watermelon juice all over me.
I don’t like the flavor, either. Don’t like watermelon-flavored anything. Also, bananas and banana-flavored.
I don’t like watermelon either, but not liking bananas?
?
The common banana flavoring is horrible. Actual bananas? I have them almost every day.
Likewise, the common watermelon flavoring is garbage, but I’ll eat the heck out of (good, ripe) watermelons.
IMO, seeded watermelons taste better than seedless.
I can’t stand watermelon candy, freeze pops, etc. But I do love me some real watermelon. Those seedless watermelons are not even a pale imitation of a real watermelon. I should get 8 from the two vines I planted.
A close relative(worse kind of useful idiot) had an experience lately. A black man that was her neighbor had been helping her with her yard and repairs around the house so she wanted to cook him dinner as a thank you. She cooked turnip greens with fat back and ….uh…I dont remember what else but it was some stereotypical racist trope. You know…he is a nigger so she cooked him nigger food. When he showed up to eat he took one look at what she had cooked, did not say a word then walked out and never spoke to her again.
She called me and told me what had happened. She was apoplectic. She had no idea what she did wrong. So was I. My jaw hit the floor and I didnt know what to say for a minute. “You did what?”
JFC.
“He is a man. What is wrong with steak, mashed potatoes with brown gravy and maybe some asparagus wrapped in bacon? What the hell is wrong with you? If you cant figure out why he was insulted my explaining it to you would be a waste of breath.”
A month or so later I told her that white flight was occurring in Alexandria, LA. Her response…”I am just trying to figure out how racist you are.”
A typical progressive. She still thinks Jimmy Carter is a good man.
Only in his heart has he sinned.
She should have given him a gift certificate and sidestepped that minefield entirely.
That would work…or just cooked something good for him. Good God, that is some epic lack of self awareness.
From the sound of it, she’d probably get him a Church’s Chicken gift card and think she’s being totes culturally sensitive.
She’d better just go with an Amazon or a Visa cash gift card.
To be fair, Church’s biscuits >> KFC’s
To be even more fair, stale vending machine pretzels >> KFC’s biscuits.
Popeyeâs is objectively superior across the board.
Mostly.
Hardee’s biscuits are better than everybody else’s.
Coleslaw says no.
Red Lobster cole slaw #FTW
I forgot to add that before I said “Tell everyone I said hello” I asked her ” Why didnt you just paint yourself in blackface, flap your elbows and do a little jig across the kitchen?”
I grew up in the old south so I know how stupid the old timey racism is. Those people are so tiresome but I have to add that I have never seen it as bad as it is today.
Is serving tacos on Cinco de Drinko, corned beef on St Paddy’s, turkey on thanksgiving, and hamburgers and hotdogs in Memorial Day/4th of July/Labor Day still ok?
Your Cinco de Mayo tacos are cultural appropriation and that’s Not OK!
The Irish are (now) white, so are always wrong, so you can do whatever you like.
The other two are celebrations of Amerikka’s racist/imperialist/genocidal past, so are canceled.
Am I doing this right?
Barf. Federal import marking restrictions strike again on this ex-Dragoon 91/30.
I remember when they were a hundred bucks and you could get ammo for next to nothing.
I paid $90 for my 91/30, and I only paid that much because it was a former sniper rifle and in very good shape. Regular 91/30 rifles were about $70 at that shop at the time.
âI am just trying to figure out how racist you are.â
Racism meter pegged: eleven.
It is projection all the time with those people. I dont even know how to respond to that so I just said “Tell everyone I said hello” and hung up the phone. No doubt she had no idea what I was saying.
So your close relative is/was my late Mother? Small world.
The only watermelon I like.
Looks like a party drug
Heh. It’s purty. I love oddball gemstones like that.
I spent the morning with a bunch of guys hacking a path to where a retaining wall blew out into a small ravine. We were only told that there had been some “structural concerns” with the wall. Nope, a 100 foot run of the wall was gone, as was a substantial portion of the hillside. I should’ve snapped a picture, it reminded me of what you see when earthen levies fail.
The failure cause was obvious as we hacked through the woods. It gets increasingly steep the closer you get to the failure. Not enough backfill and not enough of the wall was structural concrete.
“not enough of the wall was structural concrete.”
What was the rest of it?
Twigs and berries.
Stone
Two rabbits in the back yard. I guess in a few weeks I’ll have lots of rabbits in the back yard.
We have so, so many rabbits here.
I know they’re destructive, but the little pocket-sized bunnies are adorbs.
We have coyotes and foxes and just enough snowshoe hares.
My neighbor to the east has a small garden she’s surrounded with chicken wire. She says she several bunnies gather around it trying to find a way in each morning.
Though maybe not depending on how soon the fence is finished. Is it odd that I just bought more T posts to demarcate the border between my woods and my neighbors’? It was the free shipping with a $45 order that did it. Plus T posts shipped direct are in much nicer shape than the ones you get from the store.
Good on you! High fences make for polite neighbors.
Mr. McGregor?
Nah, once the fence is complete, the pup will have free rein and be sleeping outside. I imagine she’ll keep the place free of anything catchable and edible.
Direct shipping means much less handling ergo damaged goods.
Yup. The ones shipped direct are pristine. The ones from the store have obviously been stored in a big pile leaving them bent, chipped ad rusty.
They get moved around the warehouse because everything is a commodity and space is essential. Don’t ask me how I know (laxed warehouse foreman)
Two? The woods here were thinned some years ago so the underbrush has grown up very thickly. That means more than two rabbits. It also means those rabbits go around at night tossing ticks around like confetti.
DEET is my good friend.
I have two words for you:
Rabbit.
Stew.
I do love me some rabbit… And I’m so glad I live in the era of Youtube videos that show you how to take the backstraps off without leaving any meat attached to the spine.
Someday I’ll spend way too many hours taking apart rabbits and have “rabbit tenders” and gravy.
Up here we have snowshoe hares, and I’ve seen enough of them on my daily walkabouts to know that they’ll be showing up on the table pretty regular. They’re enough bigger than cottontails that I think the backstraps and back legs from one hare should make a decent meal for two – plus Mrs. Animal is expecting some white winter pelts for some yet-to-be-determined purpose.
I usually cook storebought rabbit. My go-to dish is cassoulet style with beans and sausage.
I imagine the pelts would make excellent slippers.
Wild rabbit, like most wild game, is generally much drier than domestic versions. Wild bunnies are best in a stew or casserole, where they can be very tasty.
And slippers, yes, I bet they’d be warm. I’m informed I’m also expected to bring her four or five prime winter wolf pelts, so she can make herself a knee-length winter coat. Fortunately I did bring my long-unused string of traps up here with me.
You donât have a .22 lying around?
Two words; Airgun and hosenphefer.
I’ll not send you my worthless fox. He keeps crapping in a corner of my patio. Scat today was about 100% berries, no fur or mouse tails. Lots of squirrels and rabbits around but he can’t seem to catch them before they destroy my plants.
For the (other) watch nerds here, yet another thing to spend money on:
https://www.combat-straps.com/gallery
Bespoke straps.
I just had one made as a 50th birthday gift for my oldest friend (he wanted to spruce up his Grand Seiko). It came out beautifully.
Similar to this:
https://www.combat-straps.com/beaver-dollar210 but with green stitching to compliment the green face of his watch.
I have a very narrow wrist. Finding straps is always a real PITA. But I have too many watches to consider custom straps so I make do with the few short bands I can find.
So for this guy I was really happy to find something in pigskin and roughly period correct for not a lot of money.
Grand Seiko isn’t a watch you see here very often. Given the pricing and the lack of cachet I’m not surprised. That said they are wonderfully well made.
After the Big Dumb One killed a Gila Monster, I thought about having a few watch straps made. No dice. Protected species, nobody would touch it to cure the skin or make a strap.
It would have made some awesome straps. Went into the ditch instead.
Wait, really? Its not like you brought in a box of them.
Let me tell you about possessing an eagle feather found lying the ground….
Unless you’re Killer Cuomo.
When I worked at the jail an eagle feather on an object meant the Native American possessing it was sacred and therefore I was not to touch it.
Guess where they hid their contraband?
We learned brain tanning in the Boy Scouts. I wonder if the rule “God gave every animal enough brains to tan its own hide” applies to reptiles? We only did mammals.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/06/crazy-biden-admin-issues-order-mandating-race-training-every-level-federal-government/
Not even surprised.
There’s some sort of backlash coming for this idiocy, right?
I’m not overly optimistic today.
I don’t know what scares me worse – that there won’t be any backlash, or that the backlash will come with a lot of shaved heads and red armbands.
Shaved heads is so 80’s. Go old school
https://youtu.be/TIzZkHQpCOU
I’m a little ahead in the line.
Jesus Christ! Gateway doesn’t employ an editor? What the fuck is a “baffoon”?
A baffled buffoon. Duh.
I think that’s a New Orleans term for someone who is 3/16 white.
^seen it
Yeah and I mentioned that when I am forced to hire based on race or anything other than merit and ability is when I leave.
Been plotting my exit from FedGov for a bit so this will accelerate my plans
Less shoppers wearing masks at the grocery store today. Cashiers still masked up 100%. I’ll assume next weekend they’ll be free of them.
Harbor Freight had almost no masks in sight, including the cashiers.
Still 100% up here. I doff mine when I’m not within 50 feet of the staff but minimal compliance is my middle name. This is fucked up. I don’t want to be 13 years old again, testing boundaries.
60 % unmasked 40% masked as a rough estimate. Pretty good as two weeks ago it was about 100%
The liquor store that use to have a sign saying “no mask, no service” now had one saying to follow all CDC guidelines.
There were two registers open. One of the cashiers was masked, the other (older) one wasn’t.
https://mobile.twitter.com/grandoldmemes/status/1408799838263721993
Heh.
I think it’s awesome that your acting President wears a shower curtain!
Oh dear. Temps are getting unruly. We’re well into the 80’s and not the cool, rad 80’s. Will be in the 90’s by nightfall and worse to come. Supposed to hit over 100 on Monday. Not good. My people are cold climate creatures. “I come from the land of the ice and snow…”
We are getting that heatwave also. 96* at 2:15, supposed to be around 110* tomorrow. As Gustov says, up in Portland it wont get below 80* on the overnight.
Did the Shiner Beer Brewery tour today. Nobody on the tour was masked. A lovely reminder of what non-progville is like.
Mrs Prole doesn’t drink, so on the second “free” token for beer, a peach flavored beer.
All of Las Vegas is wide open with a few stores that require it, which is fine by me.
The two breweries we hit up had no more of that spacing requirements and people were laughing and being joyous.
Little doggie went in to get a tooth pulled. She cracked it sometime ago. She made it through and will be home in an hour or so.
On a more shitty note my boys mother has reemerged not in person but virtually on FB supposedly. I thought she was dead, along with the youngest. Oldest is not taking it well.
It is going to be a rough few weeks and gave both them access to talk to someone about it.
âčïž So sorry! Best wishes navigating that mine field.
Thanks. They dont talk about their time living with her and I know they hold it against me that I didnt remove them earlier but she was good hiding her drug habit and other things she probably was doing.
Crap, sorry to hear that. Sounds like a real upheaval.
It’s good that they have someone to talk to though.
Sorry.
Sorry, dude.
Gah! Walk with care and know that you have friends here. Might be a scam?
Will do and only reason I would ever say that is cause ya’ll a good bunch.
Not sure about scam…but who knows.
I know you. You are a good Man, OBE. Best wishes, whatever transpires.
Despite all the grief I give you, Festus is right. You got friends here, bro.
Oh, geez. Best of luck to you and the spawns.
Best of luck man. They will need it.
Sitting in a German Baptist market north of Dayton picking up some pies and cheese and waiting for some fresh out of the oven pretzel bread.
This place is very dangerous.
Nice! People from big cities may say we live in “hick country”, but I like the all the small vendors of produce around here. I always pull over when I see an Amish wagon set up in a parking lot because they have the most amazing sweet corn, cucumbers, squash, tomatoes, and bell peppers.
It’s the prayers for your eternally damned soul that add the J’en sais quois.
You do have a fair number of Amish folks up your way, don’t you? I used to have to watch out for buggies heading from Covington down to Butler Township.
If you want all sorts of wonderful goodies and don’t see any Amish stands about, try the Covered Wagon Farm Market on 48 between West Milton and Union.
This sounds delicious.
This is a dangerous place – https://youtu.be/9Uje-HmeT6I
The pretzel bread steamed up the inside of its bag! đ
…got away with just three pies (two strawberry rhubarb – one of them sugar-free – and a “Burst O’Berry”,) four cheeses (mozzarella, cojack, smoked gouda, and smoked gruyere,) white & wheat buns in addition to the pretzel bread, and some “Amish-style” butter. If I’d more than just a handheld basket, I might have gotten a lot more.
Yummy
Fuck it. I’m not mowing the lawn today. I’m getting other work done.
I pruned my pepper plants. That was the only other thing on my list today other than shopping.
#Lazy
Drinking beer, hiding from Sol.
Like a true Norseman
I painted a dresser and did a faux distress job that came out pretty damn good. The nice thing about the faux distressed look is that it legitimizes all the little mistakes from the sanding and painting stages. When that’s good and dry, it just needs a coat or two of polyurethane and it’s ready to go.
Shabby chic irritates me. Why go out of your way to look like you can’t afford better furniture?
Yeah, I’m a take it down to the grain sorta feller.
Eh… I just thought it would look bland in that room if it were pure white.
PS: You know who else was irritated by things that weren’t pure white? đ
Shaq?
The makers of Clorox?
Yay! Capitalism!
https://palmettostatearmory.com/psa-ar-15-tyranny-15-stripped-lower-receiver-ships-in-approximately-12-weeks.html
The only way you could make this better is to make it a 80% lower so that it doesn’t have to go to a FFL.
I have to apologize for gendering my dog earlier.
https://redstate.com/mike_miller/2021/06/26/hot-takes-transfeminist-bioethicist-calls-gendering-animals-wrong-only-serves-to-normalize-gender-n402777
I am glad that they go this crazy
Twitter is a cancer. This would have been ignored in an earlier time. Now this woman and other mentally ill people can get their message out.
Conversely, Twitter is fun if you’re a troll.
Our cats have both been neutered, but they are most definitely boys. They tussle at the drop of a hat, even though they get along well, and they both want to hang out with the little female who comes flirting at the front door…even if they don’t understand why.
My two girls fought all the time and they did not like each other.
We got lucky. The big Norwegian Forest Cat (or possibly Maine Coon – he was a stray) is MUCH bigger than the little black cat, but the little black cat is sneakier and gives as good as he gets.
Yeah, in my anecdotal experience, 2 fixed male kitties get along much better than 2 fixed females.
The females develop a state of truce and avoidance at best. The males go on stupid adventures and sleep in a cuddly heap when they are tuckered out.
Lol @ avatar
âWhoâs a good gender neutral non-human animal companion? You are! You are!â
Since our friend Neph is on vacay, and having way too much fun, I’ll kick off a Glibs Zoom Happy Hour / Nerdfest / Snarkathon at 20:00 hours Eastern.
Cool kidz only!
Darn, Iâm not cool.
I have dinner commitments tonight, and will probably turn in early afterwards as I must do tomorrow what I did not do tonight.
Have fun and thanks for running the Zoom for Nephilium!
Dragging this over from the morning links:
More horseshit: Floyd killed himself with a drug overdose. Dead man walking before the cops arrived.
I agree. It is horseshit. If Floyd had been hit by a car instead, does anyone think the appropriate response from law enforcement would be to tell the driver “Well, turns out he had craploads of fentanyl in his system when you ran him over in the street, so you’re free to go get the blood and guts cleaned off of your car.”?
I’m betting on a successful appeal. He could be the biggest shithead on the force, but he got fucked over.
He’ll win his appeal thanks to Maxine Waters, not because he didn’t have anything to do with Floyds death..
Excellent piece by Institute for Justice at NRO: https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/06/how-to-hold-federal-law-enforcement-officers-accountable/
Good points in terms of the conservative cop love.
Narrow interpretations of previous cases is a huge problem in way more than just law enforcement issues.
The difficulty is this; the old saw that “Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely” is not quite correct. Power does not corrupt; no matter how great the power a man may hold, he will not become corrupt… if he is not also immune. It is immunity that corrupts; absolute immunity corrupts absolutely. I need very little power to be a force for unlimited destruction – if I am absolutely immune.
John w Campbell:
The whole essay is worth a read.
https://www.free-culture.ir/Analog_1961_May_Constitution_for_utopia.html
This lack of accountability allows bad cops to stay on the job and tarnishes the reputation of good cops, as one damning headline after another turns public opinion against law-enforcement officers as a group.
You don’t say.
https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/mOW7zG2jQtKmX7EQ26upUA.XX_b6k0UA5up1yrJLSi4Ak
Two big strips for dinner.
Did you shoot the steer with that pistol?
You’ll need to speak with my attorney.
Am I being detained?
Been watching Greatest American Hero today. Boy, they were down on the FBI on an organizational level.
Indeed. The television cultural zeitgest did a complete 180° in just a couple years; think The X-Files versus 24.
Been raining near constant this weekend. This afternoon a large branch fell from our elm tree into the neighbors backyard. Probably 10-12 inches diameter where it broke from the tree. Fell a good 30 feet to the ground and appears to have taken out the power wire to the house. Up until this weekend we have been very dry this spring.
Your power or the neighbors?
Neighbors
Ruh roh.
The owner is a young kid in his 20’s. He just moved out last month and started renting it out to some younger guys. But he seems like a sharp kid. I texted him to let him know and he said thanks for the heads up and asked how we have been.
Having eaten watermelon my whole life, I can attest that the melons bought from a couple of ol’ boys selling from the back of a pickup truck are superior to whatever you can get in a grocery store.
I’ll pick up one in the next few days, cube some of the meat to muddle into cocktails, and save the rind to try my hand at this.
Watch-wise, I’ve found one of these for a very reasonable (for some values of reason) price. I’ve been resisting its siren song so far. That might not last much longer.
Am I being detained?
You can go.
But I am going to have to confiscate those steaks, as evidence.
I pounded out a few chicken breasts and have them soaking in a buttermilk and cumin mix. Tomorrow, they get floured and fried.
Pounded out some cumin mix eh? Enjoy!
I love watermelon and I love fried chicken. Especially spicy fried chicken, like I normally get from Gus’s fried chicken which I’ll likely get tonight, assuming they have drivers to deliver it because of the fucking exorbitant unemployment benefits. Bastards!
I just got a federal jury duty summons. Whoo-Hoo! Maybe this time I get to serve instead of just being on call. I get paid full pop and certainly prefer hanging out at court and possibly helping to achieve real justice for at least one case. When I was self employed, I hated the very thought and worked diligently to avoid it.