This is a fun comedy, one of those not-so-rare films that people love and critics hate. Get ready for man (and dog) eating beavers! Nudity! And beaver – induced zombification!
It was a hard choice to make for the Halloween movie. I considered Deathgasm, but I decided to do that earlier (mostly to make up for Robo-Vampire). Then I wanted to do NetherBeast, Incorporated – a great film but just not exciting enough for Halloween. So Zombeavers it is!
This is yet another directorial first! These should really be celebrated. We live in a world where we have 10 Halloween sequels, for chrissakes. The world needs new stories, not high-budget remakes. This particular film was directed and co-written by Jordan Rubin, who has a ton of writing credits. He went on to be a major presence on Crank Yankers, writing more than 40 episodes. Prior to Zombeavers, he was a writer on The Man Show, with over 90 episodes under his belt. He also did the DotComBoom podcast, if you remember that. He directed a few TV episodes prior to this, but directing a movie is a different animal. Well done, and I hope to see some more! It’s been six years since Zombeavers which is actually about the time it takes to raise funding and gather momentum. This is especially true in today’s environment where risk-averse studios throw money at vapid sequels and remakes.
Zombeavers may not be the only film you want to see this weekend. If you have been enjoying the run of newer movies the past two weeks I shall include some more below for background during any Halloween parties. I grabbed a good assortment of films that most of you have not seen:
- Dead Snow: Red vs Dead: A Sequel! Undead Nazis continue their rampage across the countryside, killing communists. Yay! Nazis kill hipsters in the first film, simply entitled Dead Snow. It is not on TUBI but you can find it on Amazon. This is a fine film series.
- Dead Sushi: Sushi comes to life and eats people. Good clean fun for the whole family!
- Linnea Quigley’s Horror Workout: I found a Linnea Quigley film. I bet you haven’t seen it either! Finding a Linnea Quigley movie was a request about 6 posts ago. Sorry to say the shower scene was censored.
Back to Zombeavers. This is clearly an explicit film so I thought it would be fun to read the parental certifications on IMDB. I was right!
- A disappointed parent: “Some crude and juvenile sexual discussion throughout the film, about the size of a penis, vibrators, masturbation, cunnilingus etc. One character suggests a group orgy (this doesn’t happen). Nothing too graphic.”
- Clearly a lawyer: “A man has a cannabis leaf on his t-shirt, possibly indicating he smokes cannabis.”
- PETA hardest hit: “Beavers are shot, stabbed, kicked and struck with weapons throughout the film.”
- Finally – A penis degloving! “A man’s penis is bitten off by a human/beaver hybrid. It is seen as a very bloody, unrecognizable mess.” It was seven posts ago I promised I’d find a penis degloving. Win!
If those parent testimonials are not enough to get you to watch this, I don’t know what will get you going. Watch it or don’t – everything is voluntary! Happy Halloween!
Starting in November I will be covering different genres. I am planning on starting next week with The Ash Lad: In the Hall of the Mountain King.
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(h/t: The Hyperbole)
Not really in the Halloween mood anymore, it used to be my favorite Holiday,
Have fun with the flick
And beaver – induced zombification!
So like real life?
Very much so.
One character suggests a group orgy (this doesn’t happen).
Sad.
I’m diving in… to the movie.
#metoo
I like the opening music.
It’s nice to see independent movies getting good music. This one has a catchy theme, much like WolfCop. It’s a good thing.
I have seen this before because, reasons.
The opening credits, or titles, or whatever you film ppl call them are wonderful.
No reason required to watch a such a fine film.
Needs more Saul Bass.
(Or Maurice Binder if you prefer.)
It’s been the exact opposite all week as I started prepping for Kung Fu Christmas. Damn near every movie I watch has credits that look like a transparency laid over the camera lens. And except for one or two that oddly had music t from E.L.P.’s Tarkus album, they all have the same opening music.
Bill Burr?
His review of Hampton Beach, NH.
Ashwood. Huh. Huh-huh. Huh huh huh.
#1 Dad?
That kid must have started young.
The Ash Lad: In the Hall of the Mountain King.
Charlton Heston as Peer Gynt
Great link! My apologies, seems like Halloween festivities started a bit early here. Had to go find a quiet place for movie viewing.
Wierdness Ted, I like it, who is Alan Heston though….
And like Proto ZardoZ?
Masterful bat work at the 28 minute mark. I may be too far ahead.
I saw that knee coming.
It is wrong that the puppet zombeavers remind me of Caddyshack?
Why can’t you just let it be?
(Beaver dancing)
Something is fucked up in my browser with tubi and the ads. After the ads the movie freezes. I gotta refresh and find my spot again.
This is sadness.
An hour to recharge? When I was his age I recharged much much faster.
Yeah mere mention of ‘wanna go again’ would send the brain into overdrive to get the reset done
I wasn’t that fast….
#METOO
/Still does
Those are sad millennial men who don’t eat enough protein.
To my point – one of the guys states after he gets into his car:
“It’s a fucking hybrid! You have to finesse it.”
Heh. Yeah.
I’m surprised the one knew how to use a hammer.
Cabergoline.
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/23eulv/til_the_drug_cabergoline_allows_men_to_easily/
Somewhat on a tangential topic: Let’s say I’ve been accumulating DVDs of various movies I’d like to keep on hand for a time when we cut off streaming. Let’s also say I’d like a streaming experience using a media server. What’s the best way to get content from the DVDs to a hard drive in a playable format?
I have a few ideas of how to do it, but I’m not up on the state of the art for such things.
I can get some advice and pass it along. I have friends who do that regularly. I may not be able to get an answer tonight, but I will catch you somewhere in the posts.
Thanks, much appreciated!
I think Tonio has the more modern solution below. My resource said;
“I use ‘DVD Catalyst 4’ software to rip DVDs with the DVD drive in my Windows PC. Unfortunately that software isn’t available anymore because the guy who wrote had some family tragedy and stopped supporting it.”
Handbrake.
A friend used this to convert his extensive ʕ·͡ᴥ·ʔ media collection to a media server.
Thanks! That’s the first option that came to mind. I couldn’t remember if you could get around DRM with it, though.
Theoretically if you had a VPN and a bittorrent client you could just go to like pirate bay or something and download the digital versions of *cough cough* things that you own legally on DVD *cough* and use Handbrake to convert them to a format that works for you. Probably easier than trying to convert DVDs one at a time.
Shades of Creepshow?
Guess: the slut bites it first.
“Run for the graveyard!”
LOL I just had “Head for the cemetery!” go through my head.
Nice internal illo, BTW. Thanks for keeping it fresh, yo.
Thanks! Sooner or later I will run out of stuff. Right now my cheap cell phone art program is keepin’ it real.
That’s pretty nice for a phone, good Work RJ!
I gotta join a zoom. Movie paused, will finish tomorrow.
Enjoy your Zoom, always good to hear from you!
Thanks, and thanks for putting these together.
We all know there can only be one Final Girl. Who’s voting for Zoe?
Only if she uses the diæresis mark and calls herself Zoë.
Zo.
Zombeavers.
https://archive.md/DPqSt/46db75eb9bcbc62a8c008a7e69990a1477ed1ee4.jpg
NSFW.
https://archive.md/Of2Zp/e3ce450135966e67ce6cc04c49d6344114c80b92.jpg
NSFW.
https://archive.md/EzmOO/3f5a8f6313eecf16db3ee5bec1a50b821f473cc2.jpg
NSFW.
https://archive.md/x0FGi/58b94f1452bb72f45cd75f4d31a7a3456deefc51.jpg
NSFW.
I would watch her movie.
You’re not done until you riff on Dead Sushi.
https://archive.md/P0wVu/427ef0dba2a97417b41bed9325508a62e7b767ea.jpg
NSFW.
YES! Now that’s a delivery.
OK I just got back from Gun Night, starting ZomBeavers now!
Enjoy! I packed this post up with some other excellent films to play in the background during Halloween parties. If you enjoy ZomBeavers, you will like Dead Snow and Dead Sushi.
“you know, I dated a guy once.”
“Will you tell me all about it?”
WWI book recommendations?
A Peace to End All Peace
got the reco from KK and can confirm good
“The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914”
One of The New York Times Book Review’s 10 Best Books of the Year
Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize (History).
Thanks to both of you. I also ordered Now It Can Be Told and All Quiet On the Western Front.
HE’s recommendation is spot on.
For an introduction to the war in general: The First World War by Martin Gilbert
For an in depth account for America’s crucial contribution in the climatic Meuse-Argonne: To Conquer Hell by Edward Lengel
For the middle east and irregular warfare: The Seven Pillars of Wisdom by TE Lawrence
For the continued impact on the land and people today by a man who travels, by bike and walking, the Western Front from the sea to the Swiss border: Back to the Front by Stephen O’Shea
Storm of Steel
Movie: “They Shall Not Grow Old” it is amazing on so many levels.
Agreed.
If you have a lot of time to kill, The Great War channel on youtube is also good.
A Subaltern on the Somme.
The trenches on the Somme from the PoV a Brit 2Lt.
Guns of August is a classic. But I confess I haven’t read it.
It’s good, but it just covers the very beginning of the war.
Goodbye to All That is also supposed to be a classic, but I have not read it.
I second this. It does only cover the lead up and start of the war, but its fairly comprehensive. It really made me understand why my family wanted to leave Europe and made me despise Wilson even more for involving us in the petty squabbles of the nobility that he so desperately wanted to join.
Thanks, all.
I’m getting a little obsessed.
Goodbye to All That.
Oh, and 11th month, 11th day, 11th hour.
OMG hilarious
I’m watching ZomCardinals play the ZomPackers. I’d welcome a swarm of zombeavers swarming all over Aaron Rodgers and chewing that stupid ponytail off.
10 hour work days are brutal but having three day weekends for the rest of my career does not suck.
Sweet.
I’m working on one three-day weekend myself.
Hi five ✋
✋
Jelly – my old roommate worked 8-6 M-Th days during the summer when he was at the VA. Hell, I do 10 hours days, 5 days a week now with some regularity.
Throw in Saturday mornings a few times a month and that’s my schedule.
At least I’m paid for it.
The 8-6, Friday’s off or the often-10-hour-days 5-days-a-week?
Halloween/horror flick with some semi comedic moments:
He Never Died with Henry Rollins, of all people.
Available on Netflix.
That is a good one! Tonight’s film is downright slapstick in delivery. I could hear Adam Carolla delivering some of those lines.
Lol.
Apropos, given Rubin’s Man Show time.
“The dog’s supposed to be scared of them.” LOL
At the blooper reel, I see. It’s a good one. Enjoy the other movies this weekend, I am switching out to fantasy and sci fi for November, with a quick sub of ‘The Matador’ by special request. Then it’s on to Kung Fu Christmas, which is still a twinkle in my eye. I gotta get moving.
Yeah, I noticed they gave up on the puppets and added (crude) CGI beavers for the dog scene.
Silly but enjoyable film that did not overstay its welcome.
WOW. Thank you for this.
Glad to help.
In other news, I have an interview with Lowes on Tuesday, working the pro desk, if this comes through I’ll be alright, if not, Yikes! I’m running out of time.
Good luck, man.
Praying for you, brother!
?
Good luck!! Fingers crossed.
Thanks all!
Get ’em, Bob.
Give ‘er torque, d00d!
Kick ass, good sir!
Go get ’em, Yufus!
You’ll get it and you’ll be perfect.
I had chicken chunks marinading in my chili adobo sauce. Since it was in a vacuum bag and I wanted to make sure I didn’t leave the chicken in the fridge too long, I dropped it in the immersion circulator and cooked it soud vide. The chicken came out nice and tender, but there’s not a whole lot of flavor left in the sauce, just the lingering heat.
I am disappointed in myself.
I had a piece of off sharp cheddar cheese that made me sick. You still ate better.
My lunch was raiding the freezer – dried out old, freezer-burned chicken shish kebabs (these are pretty decent when they’re fresh) and the most disgusting mozzarella sticks with even more disgusting “marinara” (Friday’s® – what the hell was I thinking?). Choked it down and all of the remainder went in the trash.
I haven’t eaten the chicken yet. I was prepping for tomorrow. I was thinking about the best use for the chicken. I’m leaning towards soft tacos.
Soft tacos are good. Tomorrow I am going to make candied jalapeños from the ones I just pulled from the backyard this week. A mix of ripe red and green.
Always soft tacos, I use burrito sized tortillas and make Giant Tacos! one is all you need,
I *indulged* myself with a fourteen ounce sirloin steak cook on a skillet because it rained its ass off all day and had steamed broccoli with a bit of butter and black pepper.
I say indulge because the contents of that home cooked meal cost, meat and a side of a single vegetable, cost me nearly fifteen dollars. After spending nearly a hundred bucks on the cheap, lower shelf items on my food purchases(the sirloin was mid level at best), I still went home, unpacked my groceries, then said “fuck me, that’s all I bought?”
Geez, I got a nice ribeye that was 25% off because Dates, only 6$
Still 6$ a lb. fuck
$10la lb for freaking sirloin. Granted, it was black angus but still…what really threw me for a loop was the cost of vegetables.
Busy day today. Was pulling off vinyl wrap off a vehicle this morning and gave myself a nice blister from the adhesive pulling back skin. Can’t wait for tomorrow.
Truck traffic on the interstate is way up. Lots of distant states or trucking companies I’ve never seen before. Motor carrier enforcement is completely gone and those signs with numbers on the sides of the road might as well get taken down. Physics still works and those trucks doing 15 over, can’t maintain it up a grade. Saw one poor sap, or rather smelled the poor sap, who was smoking his brakes and he was only halfway down the current hill with a bunch more in his future. Downshift, fool, and use your jake.
Hotel is collaborating with Chafed on glibfit. Elevator is out of service. Cutbacks continue in small ways. One bar of soap for the sink and apparently to be used for the shower as well. Can’t wait till the big guys join IHG in using wall mounted dispensers like a gym shower. Marriott has already announced plans. Nothing says niceties like a security bar over the amenities in the tub.
I plan on getting a trailer to avoid hotels in the future. The beauty of a hotel is a good bathroom and room service. And a bar. None of those things exist anymore.
I’m not sure my boss would sign off on an airstream. And a tractor to pull it. I feel a little queasy just booking room rates near the exception limit. And that’s happening almost all the time this year since spring.
So far I like Imagine trailers. Seem reasonable quality. Much cheaper.
Hotels – can’t smoke, can’t open a window, uncomfortable foreign beds, blech. The whole experience sucks ass.
Motel 6 in Phelan Ca, third floor is smoking, sweet. Get room 311 if you end up there, Dual Queens! and the windows open!
One of my pictures from Niagara falls was me showing that I could, in fact, open the window on my 8th floor hotel room and there wasn’t even a screen.
What’s going to keep the mosquitos out?
Oh, I need a screen. Standard everywhere in NY I have lived.
Absent when I lived in California.
But yeah, next time I hotel, it’s gonna be some old dump where I can open a window. All my recent trips were business trips so I had little choice in the matter.
I had a company card when I was traveling so I was linited in hotel options, nice places, but all chain, Clarion, etc. so I learned to find a cool parking spot, and hang out by the van and smoke/drink/ hang out with Bella, it was kind of fun for a while.
it was kind of fun for a while.
A perfect summation of work travel.
We don’t have real windows in this country.
https://youtu.be/LT8eBjlcT8s
Don’t get me started on the push button hot water limit override…
I had those windows in my bedroom in Germany, 35 years ago. Even better was the Jalousie, which could be adjusted from total darkness to some light to lots of light.
OTOH, they didn’t have screens either so total philistines.
That’s a door.
From the last post
1. Real Ma-ku-do-na-ru-do
https://www.boredpanda.com/japan-mcdonalds-cups-unintentional-suggestive-design-fail/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=organic
https://soranews24.com/2020/01/16/we-taste-the-adult-cream-pie-from-mcdonalds-japan/
2. If there was Loudon school board has any sort of honor, they would terminate the superintendent immediately for cause for lying, and then resign en masse.
3. Strawberry Shortcut.
I am such a horrible person that the first thing I would have done with those cups was twist them into obscene positions. I love that other people have already done the heavy lifting for me.
Turning into a poorer country is fun, isn’t it?
The state park lodge we stayed in last week had the wall-mounted dispensers, which I wouldn’t have minded except the one with the body wash was empty. Took a couple of requests to the front desk, but they refilled it before it was TOO much of a personal hygiene crisis.
Oh – and the elevator between our room and the dining room was out of service. Definitely got our steps in.
Am I the only person who brings their own preferred hygene products on the road?
On the plus side, I never have supply issues.
I do bring my own overpriced shampoo and facial cleanser.
I always have my own toiletries, hell even own towel, but I travel by van so I have room for the extras, like BBQs for the parking lot, chairs etc.
I rocked that shit when I traveled for work,
I don’t because I made a habit of packing very light on the toiletries when I flew frequently. Now that I don’t fly anymore, it doesn’t really matter, but I havent changed the habit yet.
No, I bring my own. But I do use the bar soap for washing. I will use the toiletries if they’re nice, which they sometimes are. If it really makes an impression, I’ll order it later in larger sizes to use at home or my travel toiletries.
I also bring my own body towel. Muji had some good ones before their bankruptcy and covid took the wind out of their sails.
“It’s just those kids, scissorin’ themselves to Lady Gaga”
So far I like Imagine trailers. Seem reasonable quality. Much cheaper.
Just looked at the web site. Call me crazy, but I’d like to know what the exterior of the goddam thing looks like.
A brick, with shitty streamer graphics. Just like every other trailer except airstream.
Accurate.
Maybe they’ll pay mileage on this baby:
https://www.golectures.com/index.php?go=search&q=2021%20Showhauler%204×4%20Overland%20Coach%20Exclusively%20from%20Performance%20Motorcoaches
Great minds…
If you hit ‘RV Types’ at the top you get a drop-down; pretty standard:
https://www.granddesignrv.com/showroom/2022/travel-trailer/imagine-xls
Aaron Rodgers is a dirty hippie.
A Winning Dirty Hippie
Go Pack!
It’s amazing he’s 6 years younger than Brady. Looks 10 years older.
Brady has some deal with the devil. I can’t stand him.
Fuck those Cardinals, undefeated? we shall see…..
A brick, with shitty streamer graphics. Just like every other trailer except airstream.
Swell. I think I’d rather have one of these
Those are front wheel drive and powered by an anemic engine. Beautiful but absolutely horrible driving experience. And 1/2 MPG on the highway. I would live to see a modern take on that.
Wow, retro-future!
My folks loved them and had 4-5 of them over the years.
Many benefits:
Front wheel drive means no drivetrain so the whole coach is quite low to the ground.
Front-back rear wheels so they were easier to change out and easier to check the tire pressure.
The air suspension provided an automatic leveling system years before it became widespread.
Fiberglas body was lightweight, efficient design meant that they could be fairly short (24-28 ft).
Also the EM50 Urban Assault Vehicle
powered by an anemic engine.
Oh, come on. A 455 Olds? Even in mid-70s smog trim, I’m not sure “anemic” is the right term.
I have driven one of those and speak from experience. The 455 was struggling for its life beneath all that fiberglass and plaid. It has Loaded school bus acceleration that made you reach for the bible every time you had to get on a highway with a short on ramp.
I have driven one of those and speak from experience.
I defer to you. I have never driven one. We had a Toronado when I was in high school which would smoke the front tires pretty much at will.
Yes. In a Toronado that engine is awesome. Huge weight difference in the mobile home. Also that transaxle… It had bad gearing for the motor home application. The fact that it is a transaxle also means extreme difficulty in retrofitting. Modern transmissions start at 8 gears now, it seems. Back the you got 3. That means when you press the pedal on a GMC RV, get noise and fury, signifying nothing. Kinda the same problem with any vintage RV.
Zombeavers is a lot of fun. Nice effects.
Dead Sushi is a pretty weak/low energy entry as far as I’m concerned – although I should probably revisit. Picked it up used on blu-ray a few years back. Just doesn’t fit in the same echelon as a lot of other practical effect/low budget/weird splattercore Japanese flicks that came out around the same period.
True It was more humor focused than other efforts at the time. And the humor got silly.
Wow, Cards shit the bed.
That was kind of humorous and perplexing.
I’d be apoplectic if I had money on them and/or was a fan.
But, yes, an amusing fuck-up from my POV – the Cards player never even looked around for the ball. Great effort by the GB player to grab that.
I’m not sure Rodgers knows the name of the guy who made that pick.
“That guy there, who was with them before…”
(TBF, the offensive side barely knows the defensive side – it really is like two different teams)
Sweet:
Hey, pro athletes! Would you like to play in a state with great weather (most of the time), no state income tax, and 30 million potential fans / endorsement targets? The NAACP would like you to reconsider.
Waiting for Gropey Joe to declare “If you play in Texas, you ain’t black.”
abortions, voting rights and mask mandates
You could argue that one of those 3 would be of interest to *checks acronym* Colored People, but the other two assume they all think exactly the same. Which seems like the sort of thing a stone racist would claim.
I’ll note, too, that that one issue – voting rights – would be of interest if you think that having ID is acting white or something.
One of those things would be of interest to visitors in the state regardless of color or colour, and the other two would be irrelevant to a non resident.
The NAACP should have saved themselves some embarrassment and disbanded decades ago.
LOL WNBA but no MLS.
Shit, that’s cold.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-6mO6v3XXo
For the record: should the Revolution actually get it done this year, their Duck Boat parade will put that to shame. And Bostonians mostly don’t care about the Revs.
(we do like to skip work and day-drink in public though)
Haven’t seen them in action, since I only get to watch local teams. Not sure what kind of deal with the devil they made.
They’ve been wandering the desert for quite a while – they finally getting all together is not insane.
I can’t get enough of that video.
Having a fiddle in the band is also required, if I’m not mistaken.
It’s the 10th Anniversary of Mark Steyn’s book “After America”. He provides this excerpt:
More here: https://www.steynonline.com/11826/coming-apart
I think about Steyn fairly often, w.r.t. Montreal
Interesting take.
To be clear, the “I worry that I live in a “civilized decline” area.” is me.
I do have (low-key) worry that things around here could go south quickly – that’s certainly been the case in, say San Francisco.
Not in SF, but the other day after a heavy rain, I noticed that rather than having a fresh smell in the air as in the past, the local city smelled like manure and piss.
That’s funny slumbrew because I wasn’t sure if it was Steyn or you. Then I realized it works either way.
I’m as ready as i can get, small town, lots of ammo, but i wish it wasn’t coming ti this, i love my country, and I don’t want to lose it, so Fight!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Edward_Curdes#Pacific_Campaign_and_shooting_down_an_American_aircraft
Crazy story.
https://youtu.be/cjrEpeFfDGY
I’ll be in my bunk.
Very good, but they had to have a Black guy to make it authentic,
Totally not a cult.
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/att-employee-training-program-says-white-people-you-are-the-problem/
Another prospect, a school I have driven past many times, A private STEM school needs a facilities guy, 30$ an hour, I like it.
::tiptoes in, looks around, sighs, picks up broom, starts to sweep up popcorn, tosses empty beer cans in sink::
The beer cans are meant to be tossed off the porch and then you rent (or ask a buddy with one) a skid-steer to clear the mess. Mornin’ Little Red! My day is coming up shit-roses, hope yours is better!
Fucking Union sold us out. Mandates by January. Hope it’s enough time for the hysteria to be quelled. Was so pissed off that I sent an expletive-filled email or two. Now I feel like a big man! Maybe I should have snuck across the border and stayed back in 2005? $450,000 is $450,000, same as downtown… Fuck My Life.
I’m sorry, Fes. ?
Parent company and Union tried to block access. This will end well.
That 450K doesn’t apply o people with your skin tone bud. Maybe catch a plane to Sweden and never bother returning.
I could live with that but then I’d have to chase old Swedish women.
Oh, hell. Sorry for your troubles, there is still time, maybe things will work out. And fuck unions
suh’ fam
whats goody
Scroll up a couple of comments. That’s what’s Goody. Fuckity fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck! That Union has been soaking me for nearly a decade and this is thanks we get?
Hate to hear it, my friend. If its any consolation, I passed up on a free ride to NYC for Jugsy’s final trip for the simple reason I wasnt getting jabbed.
I’m so sorry. My union is similar; 4 1/2 years worth of weekly dues and their only option for a transfer? Not to the location that is, quite literally, 5 blocks from the house. Nope, I can transfer to Staten Island, where my 5 minute commute becomes 45 minutes on a good day and I have to pay $35 in tolls every day ($4.50 each way to leave the peninsula, and another $13 each way to cross the bridge over to the island). Job hunting sucks, particularly for a 49 year old college drop-out.
56 and everything is shuttered. 57 in December. Head in hands.
I’m still hiring.
You’d have to move to a free-er state though and pay less taxes.
I can’t cross the border but thanks all the same, Sean!
Related: Neighbor’s son married a gal from the great white north. Some time ago they came down for a visit, timed it perfectly – they were able to come here, but now cannot return, so neighbor has two new “tenants”.
I wonder what are people who are legally required to leave the country supposed to do when in order to do so they will be required to stab themselves.
Good morning, homey! It seems to have stopped raining for the moment, yes?
For the moment. It was kinda misting when I left work. I think they said on/off all day.
My heart feels like it is living in my throat right now. I haven’t been this angry for a very long time. Guess I’ll take it out on the ratchets and wrenches today.
Kick an orphan or two.
I’ll be kicking Judi’s Nissan because I need to replace the abs cable and put winters on it. Festus don’t kneel well no mo.
Sorry Festus. Truly, sorry.
It’s downright evil what the “elites” have been doing.
Morning all.
We have a new farce at work. Apparently dispite never throwing anything away they can’t find the background checks done on any of the people from my group who’ve been in the state for a while, despite some of these people having had 4,5, or 6 previous checks run when they changed agencies over the course of several decades. So they won’t process any access requests that even include these people, even if some of those for which the access is requested have not had their files lost.
We’ve been here how many fucking years?
Fuck it all
People that have already had Covid need vaccines and boosters. Not making this up.
Why are the people making these diktats not swinging by their entrails from lampposts?
“Maybe IT could help us locate the missing background check files.”
“One of them is missing a background check, so we can’t give any of them access.”
I had a thoroughly disappointing plate of Philly Cheese-Steak Fries for supper last night. On the menu it sounded yummy. What landed on my plate was ok, but for the love of Benjie NYC, Philly Cheese-Steak should never have bell peppers or eggplant anywhere near it you bloody heathens!
I thought bell peppers were standard on a Philly cheese steak. But yeah – NOT eggplant!
Not a big fan of the cheese either. A local New Brunswick joint, Greasy Tony’s, had a tomato steak with onions and peppers, no cheese. Yum. During Vietnam their slogan was “Grease for Peace”.
I’m sorry but how can you have a Cheesesteak without cheese? It’s right there in the name. It’s pretty much a required ingredient or you need a different name.
Just order a cheese steak, hold the cheese. Easy peasy. No different from women without vaginas. You need to get up to speed with modern lingo.
Jack Nicholson-approved.
There were no good people in that scene. He would have well deserved a pot of burnt coffee dumped on him.
I just can’t understand not liking cheese…
Of course, years ago when I worked in a sub & pizza place, we put provolone on our Phillies, not Cheez Whiz.
I love cheese, just not with meat. (((They))) are on to something.
Nah, just expect less.
*raises standards and expectation*
Be better.
I’m a bit of a purist, steak and Whiz only. One can usually order onions, peppers, etc., but it should be an optional ingredient. Eggplant, as much as I love it, doesn’t play well with steak, onions, peppers, and cheez.
I’ve never seen the Cheez Whiz employed in NYC, just American. But yes, I don’t like it with onions or peppers either.
Provolone belongs on a proper cheesesteak you savages.
I would prefer that over American or the spray cheez.
Citation: https://www.penn-station.com/menu_cheesesteak.php
Brown mustard? Mayo?
Fucking heathens.
Calm your tits. Its an option.
Naturally, when I ate such things, I got xtra mayo.
Mornin’, reprobates.
Good morning, ‘patzie!
Thursday morning about a half mile down the road…
https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2021/10/27/hackensack-river-flooding-river-vale-new-jersey-noreaster-storm-watch/
Yikes! Can you get to anywhere you need to go?
It’s fine, thanks. By the time I walked down that way around noon the water had receded. But I don’t know how people live in that part of town. There was similar flooding a few weeks ago (Ida), and a few years ago cars are floating around in that neighborhood.
Kroger has ‘Prime Rib + horseradish’ flavored potato chips. Since I dont eat such things, I got a sack for Jugsy. But I did try a few.
10/10 would recommend as an experiment. Not sure what combination of chemicals make the ‘essence of horseradish’ but they werent playing around. Opened my sinuses like the real thing.
“Natural and Artificial Flavors”
What brand is that? Sounds a bit like Lay’s’s (??) experimental flavors.
Before too long, that may be the only way you can “experience” prime rib.
Store brand.
Probably cures. Covid, too. “Horse” radish.
Industrial strength sinus cleaners: On the counter as of this morning.
I’m surprised I’m still picking peppers this late in the season.
For some reason Im hearing Johnny Cash singing ‘Ring of Fire’, imagining those making an exit.
“And it burns, burns, burns”. Lol.
Those are gorgeous.
Gotta give a little shout out to my tiny lil plant guardians.
https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/6EOCAqrtSBSZeEKi9m9cyQ.3v-jOTn3lOXtm7uiJTUvF5
GF released 1,000+ ladybugs over the summer. Some still linger to today.
My youngest is busy getting himself on more lists than I. Earlier this week one of his CS profs was unpersoned for refusing to disclose his vax status. Son is very upset and took it upon himself to compose a letter continuing detailed objections to the entire affair, emphasizing the fact that the administration was punishing the students as well as the Prof. He sent this to the dean of the College if Arts and Sciences, the provost, and the head of the CS department, and now has been in ited to a meeting with the dean. But why stop there? He showed this to a few classmates and today will be gathering signatures from several classes once taught by the unpersoned Prof, to be presented to the administration.
Not expecting that this will change anything, but I am liking the cut of his job.
Good on him.
This federal mandate to force private corporations is so blatantly wrong and they all know it. What a bunch of tyrants and cowards!
Blocked on the Union feed, blocked on the Government one. Muzzled. FWEEDOM!
I’m gonna eat some food and go to bed. They are bigger and stronger than me. Hope that you guys have a pleasant day.