So, since relocating to Phoenix, I’ve been focused on different weather events than previously while living in the Midwest. There it was tornadoes, and blizzards, and ice storms. Here? Heat and humidity (and lack thereof).
We’ve had many beautiful, perhaps even perfect, days and evenings. 75F, 15% RH, light breeze, big fluffy clouds floating around during the afternoon; 55F, 30% RH, still, dark nights with a zillion stars visible overhead.
If it were like this year round, I’d be a happy camper.*
That is completely subjective, of course.
WebDom and my MIL: “That’s so cold!”
OMWC and the Big White Dog: “It’s so hot!”
So, I’m curious to hear what weather conditions the Glibertariat prefer. How about it?
*But, sadly, it was 91F today (with air quality alerts) and expected to be 100F tomorrow.
The best weather I encountered was the year I lived in SF. I absolutely hate the heat/humidity combo. Extreme cold doesn’t bother me so much but I didn’t miss it, either.
That sounds nice. I like cool early winter/late fall but my skin, particularly my hands, have been getting excessively chapped and dried out. It’s been getting worse each year.
Yeah, that doesn’t happen in NYC. Happened every year I was growing up in Rochester and Buffalo. I don’t miss that, either.
I’m guessing you don’t mean Santa Fe? 😉
South Fargo, I think
Nope, San Fran. Really, perfect weather for me. Even when it reached the nineties (rarely), you barely noticed it. But mostly it was like sixties for months on end.
Imagine San Fran but 12 degrees warmer in the winter.
That’s where I live.
Try 25 degrees. I’m always shivering in SF. It’s funny to go there when the weather is in the 70s. The news has panicky bits about how to keep your pets alive, lol.
Somebody (Steinbeck?) said the coldest winter he ever spent was summer in SF.
Usually attributed to Mark Twain, but that appears to be apocryphal.
Twain _does_ have an awesome quote re: the weather in India:
Goddammit. Another cherished memory blown.
I think that was Mark Twain.
Yep, that’s one of the reason for the high property values here (aside from gubmint fuckery). Although, funny enough SF proper has some of the crappiest weather in the Bay Area. You want tons of 72 degree sunny days head fifteen miles down the Peninsula or three miles over the Golden Gate. We have some of the craziest microclimates in the world here. I live a few blocks from Ocean Beach where one day last summer it was barely 60 while 40 miles away it was over 100.
Oh, I’m aware. I like cool. 72 is OK but I actually prefer 60s (as long as the humidity is low). I lived in the Western Addition FWIW.
Yeah, SF is a cornucopia of 60’s. I love it for working cause I’m usually outdoors. I actually kind of love the fog, except for when it comes in the summer and stays for weeks on end.
I like the fog too. We don’t have a lot of microclimates in NYC but one of them is the huge banks of fog that sometimes push up the Hudson, complete with the foghorns and shit. Got an earful of that yesterday, living near the Atlantic now.
PS, I think your weather is also another reason why the homeless are out of control.
Yep. Weather, no big penalties for petty crime, plenty of handouts, legalized and decriminalized drugs.
Coastal Fog. We get the same thing from the Catalina eddy.
It’ll be 70 here, and 95 just 5 miles East.
One of the many reasons I like going to the desert. Get on the freeway, head east, and watch the thermometer on the car go up.
Monterey had the nicest weather of any place I’ve ever lived.
I don’t want to go back because the cost of living was nuts and so were the people.
I prefer seasonable.
I like having four seasons, but don’t want them to overstay their welcome.
I don’t mind snow, but hate freezing rain.
Yet again, Ted S. is correct.
Yeah, at the end of the day I like four seasons. NYC summers are a little intense for my taste, and winter can get trying – but spring and fall are glorious.
In years past, I’ve thoroughly disliked springs up here, since they haven’t really been a thing. It’s hard to tell when spring stops being shitty and it’s summer. Though this year, it’s not so bad at all.
When I lived in Oklahoma, they had magnificent springs — crocuses and daffodils so thick a squirrels could run along the tops of them.
Yeah, spring is definitely too short many years. The year I moved to NYC, in April, it was already in the 90s, and the dump I was staying at had no AC. This year is nice so far.
Whenever anyone says “glorious” I wonder if they are gay or went to Harvard.
So Rhywun went to Harvard?
It’s OK for the modern man to express his emotions, you know.
They played at a club I managed. They were pretty good, but nothing amazing.
Was a huge fan up to the late 90s or so. Everything since is mediocre at best and the lyrics are comical leftist drivel.
These days I kind of prefer the album they disowned.
Bobby Roode is not amused, Potato.
That sounded a bit like Queen, NTIAWWT.
Agreed. Good way to put it.
I like cool and overcast, and sometimes rain. Too much sun annoys me. Heat and humidity ruin me. Too cold and I stay inside.
Ditto.
This first year in San Diego (Well, hills north of Escondido) was my idea of perfect. Unfortunately everyone tells me the rainy winter was uncharacteristic—too bad because I enjoyed the rain and ocassional thunderstorms.
Now it’s getting warmer—95 ish today at peak but still nice breeze.
If I miss the snow I’ll drive to the mountains.
Can confirm the rain this winter was unusual. Sorry.
/Your neighbor 30 miles north
Howdy, neighbor!
Howdy!
I’d say San Diego is pretty damn close to the ideal of most people. I like it a bit cooler, but it’s hard to beat plenty of sunshine and those temps.
“Plenty of Sunshine”? No thanks.
San Diego is as good as it gets. L.A. is a close second. Today was about 70 with a cool sea breeze at the airport.
The coolest thing I’ve ever seen weather wise was monsoons in PX. It’s horribly and miserably hot. Like 110 or so and way off in the distance you see a mushroom looking storm. It winds it’s way across the desert like in a road runner cartoon, weaving back and forth. As it gets closer, the wind starts to pick up. Eventually, the wind gets strong enough that the temps start to drop. Then massive violent rain and lightning for about 20 minutes. Raindrops bigger than I’ve ever seen. The temps drop to maybe 75 and stay there for about an hour. The streets flood in minutes and then an hour later it’s all gone and you’re back to 110. It’s very dramatic.
The part of the winter that I was in Carlsbad/Escondido, it was ridiculously cold. And yet, the kids still wanted to go swimming.
I grew up in southern AZ and loved the warm to hot days and the cool nights. Plus every summer when the monsoon rolled I spent plenty of time watching the T-storms and lightning along the Santa Catalinas. When I moved to WY and later MT the cold winters were good as well.
Now I live in HI and I am spoiled. Winters run low 68 and highs 85, summers low 72 and high 90 with the glorious trade winds. The only downside is in summer for the few days when the Trades falter and we get a sickly, weak Kona wind from the south and the temps tic up to 95 and kinda sticky (but no where close to NC or GA sticky).
Who cares what kind of weather I like. You’re back! That’s what’s important.
The trains will run on time again!
We cancelled the trains. No train can run, and thus be at the wrong time!
Way to kiss ass.
Hey, some people like me!
What’s not to like?
At least I know to do it. What’s your excuse?
*Eyes collection or rusty can lids*
Or = of
Jealousy is such and ugly emotion. But then again, you’re ugly, so…
Your nutsack needs washing. I’m a thousand miles away and can still tell it smells like Harris Ranch.
Well, based on the last thread, you’re well acquainted with my nutsack, so you would know.
Fortunately, you’re far enough away that I don’t need the ten foot pole.
I thought it smelled like Dorothy Lynch?
Winston’s mom.
The Inn or the Slaughterhouse?
Depends on who’s checked in.
So a number of years ago, I flew down to Phoenix to help my oldest son to move back to the Bay Area. His car was a Honda Prelude with one of the rear side windows broken out. From ten miles south of Harris Ranch, to ten miles north of Harris Ranch, we had sweatshirts and bandanas wrapped around our heads.
The worst times of year for the smells are mid August, and, surprisingly, certain times during the winter when they get the Tule fog. It creates an inversion layer where the smell has nowhere to go. It just sits there, getting stronger and stronger.
I got light headed driving by one winter break, and the traffic was going 25mph on I5 due to visibility. The smell went on for at least an hour.
The beef is on the high end of mediocre, though, so there’s that.
I agree, the beef sucks.
I used to get my inside skirt steak from Brawley Beef before the series of mergers. I think I was paying around 5 bucks a pound for prime. Best steak I’ve ever had.
Those days are long gone.
Harris Ranch
Better than the Thousand Island.
Awwww. Thank you.
You guys have a sweet pool and hot tub. Can we all come over for a pool party?
Sure! What time will you be arriving?
Ha! Thanks. It might end up like this if you put out the invite to this crowd.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SYK1R_4Y-8w
I just wanted to know what time to tell my neighbors you’ll be crashing at their place. AZ has squatters rights.
No matter what climate you move to, it’s not going to be perfect. Because despite the green whores best efforts at propaganda, climate changes. It’s just what it does.
If I could chose, I’d say about 65 with about 25% rh. But not many places are like that, at least for very long. Anything above that is hot to me, though with low humidity I can tolerate up to 85 or so. I have noticed that as I get older the extreme cold we get here in winter is less tolerable. This year we got a lot of snow and there was a period of more than two months where it never got near freezing let alone above freezing. When it doesn’t get above zero for a couple weeks or more it gets tiresome. Life gets tedious and stuff breaks and doesn’t work right. On the other hand nobody lives here, so I have that going for me.
I have arthritis from all the wrecks and hard work I’ve done. Cold makes me hurt.
Is your yard on the west or the east of LAX?
There’s a 10 degree difference in summer.
And, if you’re near the LAXPD motor training area on the west side of Pershing, it’s like a god damn wind tunnel.
Yeah, we’re in the wind tunnel. It’s nice during heatwaves, but kinda chilly most of the time. We’re on World way west, about a mile from Pershing.
I’m pretty much on board with Stillhunter but since I don’t have to go out in the cold unless I chose I don’t mind the winter weather. I did get a little cabin fever this winter, about mid-Feb. In addition to the snow/bitter cold it seemed that there were many cloudy and overcast days, more than usual. Even now seems like a lot of darker days.
As Stillhunter said, not many people out and about. I think we went 3-4 weeks without anyone showing up for coffee even but we were out visiting and socializing so we had enough activity. I have to go out a couple times a day to feed the local critters and drag in firewood a couple times a week so even on the coldest days I’m outside a little. Summer temps to 80 are tolerable, above that I need to sit in the AC.
I left TX 35 years ago, the heat drove me away. Too much, too long. Seasons are better and now we’ll enjoy the rebirth of nature.
My dad just got back to Wisconsin from Mission, TX for the winter. It was 85 when he left and 45 when he arrived. No golfing yet!
You can get that on the northern California coast for about 10 months of the year. Bit pricey, though.
Yeah, California. No thanks. MN is progressive enough for me.
Agreed – I was born in California but I would never go back.
“Progressives” in my family act like it’s silly for me to take politics into consideration when choosing somewhere to live, yet they express disgust at the very idea of setting foot in the South. When I spent the night in Louisville and visited the Frazier Museum and Maker’s Mark distillery, some of them reacted as though I had visited that town from Deliverance.
I adore the south, except the heat and humidity…and the snakes.
SQUEAL!
You sure have a purty mouth
I wasn’t particularly “political” but looking back on the year I lived in San Fran a couple decades ago, it’s clear that politics played a big part in why I didn’t like the people. And I am a dyes-in-the-wool city mouse – I live in NYC for fuck’s sake. But it’s not (yet) as tiresome as nineties CA.
I can see that. It’s possible to live in NYC and just avoid politics, mostly. That’s not true of San Fran, by any measure. Of course, I was in Ny back in the early nineties for a year one week.
NYC, outside of a few districts, isn’t nearly as woke as people think. Yes, the Dems have a stranglehold on politics but that’s the machine for you. I forsee some pushback on some of the woker shit like bag-bans they’re pushing lately.
Louisville ain’t even ‘south’.
It is when you live above the 45th parallel. Anything south of Chicago is south to me. But yeah, not mush mouth Deep South.
I’m with Stillhunter. The wife and I just came in because the sun went behind some clouds. It had been sunny, 60 and almost no wind (VERY rare on the prairie) and it was divine. In a month 60 may seem a bit chilly, but that’s what makes having four seasons fun. Hell, we’ll sit outside in jeans and a winter coat if it’s sunny and 45 during the winter (assuming you’re out of the wind.)
The only thing that I don’t really like weather wise here in DC is the swampy humidity. It was 75* last week and uncomfortable to be outside because it was so stuffy.
I didn’t really care for the weather in the bay area the summer i lived out there, but it may have been better somewhere other than Palo Alto.
Dallas is just a smidge too hot and way too dry for me. I remember thinking that just one cloud in the sky would make my entire day. It’s not a question of if there will be a drought, but how severe it will be.
I really enjoyed the weather in Indianapolis and Columbus, where I spent most of my childhood. Hot but not oppressive in the summer, cold but not arctic in the winter, and the other seasons were awesome outdoor weather. I love thunderstorms, and we got our fair share. I remember watching a funnel cloud roll by from a lawn chair in the garage.
I like that it’s 5* or so warmer here in DC, it shaves just a bit off the winter without turning snow into a rarity like in TX. The mountains scrub off most of the severe weather, but we trade that for an insignificant but nonzero chance of a hurricane running up the Chesapeake.
“The only thing that I don’t really like weather wise here in DC is the swampy humidity. It was 75* last week”
You don’t want to live in NE Brazil then. It’s like that or more humidity year round with a much nigher temp. Seemed to me like avg day was 95 high 75 low and 78-80% humidity.
Anywhere even remotely tropical would be like hell to me. I honestly can’t understand how people live there.
The humidity gets to me, especially because we have a canopy over the house that kills any breeze in the summer. The humidity just builds up under the trees, and you feel like you’re melting to your chair on the back patio.
Doesn’t bother me. And the air seems to be supercharged with oxygen. Not sure how else to explain it.
We’re not all ice people.
I freckle.
It’s not so bad
“The only thing that I don’t really like weather wise here in DC is the swampy humidity”
Drain the swamp !
I typically now, walk for more than 5 miles a day. Tomorrow is a 100% chance of rain. Maybe I need to get some better rain gear. Just wondering how you Glibfit warriors handle this?
Wax your epidermis.
Goose grease.
I just get wet. Raincoats don’t breathe and I get too hot.
Phrasing?
Pretty much this. I wear wool in the woods since I can get wet and not lose much heat. Wear polypropylene underneath if you are sensitive, but quality wool isn’t really itchy.
Treadmill
If I could, but I am stuck tomorrow at client’s site all day.
Down to about 5-10 degrees, proper clothing can take care of everything.
I wear flip flops and trunks to walk in the rain.
The weather here in Kansas is bipolar. It can be 20 degrees one day then 70 the next. Tornado season can be interesting but we don’t see as much in Northeast Kansas, compared to the south central portion of the state.
“big fluffy clouds”
The skies in Arizona? Those are little fluffy clouds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHixChYgGRI
Nice – I was waiting for that to make an appearance some day.
In re: the last thread,
The acid is coming a bit later.
I did a test run with a neural brine: sugar, salt, msg, sodium tripolyphosphate, and lime zest. No question. It has to be brined. Especially since this is an open coal roast on high heat. If I don’t pump it up a lot, it’s going to be dry.
I’m probably going to have to starch the brine too; otherwise it won’t bind.
Suckling pigs are smaller, so they can be cooked at a relatively higher temperature, but they have less fat and thinner skin than porkers.
Imho, I’d avoid sugar, but if you are going to add sugar, it will let you add olive oil. You just have to whisk the bejesus out of it.
Brining doesn’t increase moisture, the salt simply allows it to exchange one aqueous solution for another. Without the salt, the flavorings won’t enter the meat.
The important thing is to seal that piggie up so the steam stays inside the skin.
Phosphate will increase moisture. You can increase yield by a surprising amount.
The order was for a 30 pounder, but was approximated.
As far as the pre-sauce, I’m going with the Goya Naranja Agria because it actually has orange juice. The other brand in the carniceria (I forget the brand name) is basically just water, citric acid, sugar, and flavor. I’m not going to ruin this piggy with orange drank.
Finishing sauce…. maybe Mojo Criollo. Or…. a cilantro recado added to fat (crema or mayo).
I’m not the primary on this, so if things go wrong, I’m ejecting and ordering pizza.
Well, mojo criollo would be my choice of marinade from the beginning, but most people either can’t get the right oranges or know how to brew it properly. (Protip: some Cuban caterers repurpose coffee urns because they are set at 190°F).
(I’ve never used phosphate, so I have no idea)
There’s basically 1 place in Southern CA that grows Seville Oranges, and it’s not close to here.
I have to go with the fake stuff.
If you haven’t looked into phosphates, it’s great for chicken. You’ll find it in most high roast (400+) rotisserie chickens.
ie Costco chicken ingredients:
“whole chicken, water and seasonings (salt, sodium phosphate, modified food starch, potato dextrin, carrageenan, sugar, dextrose, spice extractives).”
Phosphate is the pump, starches and seaweed are binders. You can keep it under a heat lamp for 6 hours without it drying out.
I messed around with a solution for Tri Tip, and I got an 18% increase in yield. It’s fun to mess round with, if nothing else.
I loved the weather in Montana when we lived there. Thin air, dry, sunny, and cold. My ideal under those conditions is 10-25 degrees F and cloudless.
Seriously? Yikes! That’s freezing. Doesn’t Montana also have a lot of wind? I don’t think I could deal with that.
Depends where. In western Montana, wind chills are rare and temps are around freezing in the winter.
Below freezing. When I’m out hiking in the mountains, the chill is refreshing.
Where we lived (Butte), the wind wasn’t bad at all.
We drove once through Butte in January. It was 15-20 degrees colder than in Great Falls or Idaho Falls. I was glad we didn’t have to overnight there.
I would say the weather that I enjoyed the most was what I experienced growing up in the Napa Valley. Lots of different microclimates, but where we lived, sunny and mid 70s were the norm. To this day, low to mid 70s is ideal for me.
Having moved to Southwest Idaho, I have also learned to appreciate true seasons. I can say that the only two months here I don’t enjoy are February and July. In February, I’m pretty damned tired of cold and dreary. I July, I’m pretty damned tired of the heat that makes the patio unusable in the afternoon. Other than that, I like all of it. 90 and 12% humidity in the summer is just fine with me. 25 and sunny with no wind in the winter is just fine as well.
I’m kind of the same way. I live in southwest Ohio, and it gets into the upper 90s in the summer and down to 12 below zero in the winter.
It’s really hard to explain: I’m not overjoyed when winter arrives, but it kind of gives a natural rhythm to life. I’m always excited when spring rolls around, but I get the feeling that I’d miss the cold and snow if I moved somewhere that doesn’t get it.
*nods appreciatively*
Something died inside of me when I moved to TX and summer became an indoor season and winter was an outdoor season.
But summer is always an indoor season, and winter is always an outdoor season.
After getting used to it our first winter here, I agree. I miss the snow when it goes away just as much as I look forward to warmer weather and being outdoors.
SCIENCE! tells us that the ideal conditions are:
22 degrees C, 50% RH
<1 particle of 0.5um or larger per cubic foot of air
<50pbb molecular acids, of which <0.3ppb are sulfate
<25ppb molecular bases, of which <5ppb are ammonia
<5000ppb non-condensible organic compounds
<100ppb condensible organic compounds and
<0.1ppb organic compounds containing any elements other than C,N,H or O.
You can take your 50% RH and stick it where the sun don’t shine.
Oh yeah, forgot about that — also need to block light wavelengths <532nm
Something, something, meaningless numbers, something.
You wanna generate photoacids willy-nilly then go ahead. I’d like to actually get some yield.
That sounds like pretty stupid science.
Celsius = Communist.
It’s some weird Canadian thing. I remember when I was a kid, they kept threatening to force us on to Canadian measurements. Thank the dogs that never happened.
We’ll do it once all the old people die.
Interestingly enough (for a certain value of interesting) all the cleanroom specs were developed in SAE and then later converted to metric when the eurofolx wanted to get into the business. Sometimes they just rounded to the nearest metric unit but sometimes (with the particle spec) going from cubic feet to cubic meters meant having the hang decimal points to the right (so you get a limit of x.3 particles/cubic meter)
PSA – Bosch season 5 is out.
I loathe cop shows. Bosch is special. ??
Yay! (I thought it was tomorrow).
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/you-can-make-10000-in-a-night-thieves-target-used-cooking-grease/2019/04/18/bab6d938-613f-11e9-9ff2-abc984dc9eec_story.html?utm_term=.51df48e141a7
Hit me with your favorite line.
Grease me up woman!
(Wrong episode I think)
Retirement grease.
There’s a great finance lesson in there somewhere that I reference in the presence of idiots.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bQMDFk4wyg
I love the books. The series less so, but it’s still pretty good.
Two unexpected advantages of Greater San Diego: no mosquitos ? and greatly improved asthma.
If it wasn’t for the mosquitoes all the Californians would want to live here in MN. I’ll take the skeeters over the average CAian. Because you have lived here you will always be Gopher/Viking/Twin.
When I worked for the feds the higher ups made us hire some outsiders for diversity to work temporary summer jobs doing timber work. Between the bugs and the brush, half quit in the first pay period. The Californian made it less than a week.
I assume it was the f’in biting flies that really scared them away? The skeets are one thing, but those horse flies are the real assholes.
Yes, the little biting black flies (we call them sand flies here) are worse than mosquitoes. They fly in your eyes, ears, nose and the bite is painful. Just hanging out in a paved parking lot is painful during June.
Encountered sand flies a few places in Oz. Worse than mosquitoes.
I didn’t know what a mosquito looked like until I was a teenager and went to a family reunion on the Gunflint Trail in Minnesota.
It’s remarkable how relatively bug-free NYC is even compared to Buffalo or Rochester where I was always battling skeeters and wasps even in the middle of the city.
Except for the roaches…
True dat.
Vegas has a window where the weather is perfect…mid 70s, light breeze, some high clouds.
Then the winds come or the heat comes and screws it all up.
I prefer colder weather…you can always put more on than take off without scaring the little children
I have a really good memory of my first trip to Vegas for spring break. We drove up to Mt Charleston(?) and got out to play in the snow. It was 3 feet deep but the air temperature was 60 or so.
Even in the city itself, the weather was a gorgeous 75 and sunny.
I’ve been looking at places in Henderson. Maybe not now, but sometime.
I live in South West Henderson…but that shit is exploding because of the damn Raiders and near the training facility.
You think you’re Garfield, huh? You think you’re Garfield the Cat? You have the guts, the fucking gall, to sit here right in front of me, and call yourself “Garfield the Cat”? You have the fucking audacity to say those words in front of me? To put anyone on the same level as Garfield? “I ate one lasagna, and now I’m just like Garfield”? You have the fucking nerve to call yourself “Garfield”, the iconic cat, just because you ate one lasagna?
Fuck you.
Odie-er
Peyote or mescalin?
Why not both?
I am large. I contain multitudes.
Apparently I posted too late on the last thread:
Assuming someone has posted Nerkish’s newest stuff here. https://youtu.be/_zUIPJ2cMOM
Still trying to get him to join up – he’d fit right in.
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but yeah, my preference is cool, overcast, a little damp or breezy. I really miss the mountain states and PAC NW. It got about 80 here in VA today and I’m already feeling miserable (reverse Seasonal Affective Disorder I think).
I love SP’s polls and am glad they (and her) are back!
Also, the pool/patio at Casa de OMWSP is beautiful!
I like having 4 seasons, but the cold is starting to get to me; I think I have Raynaud’s.
Even today (low 50’s), my fingers were flat-out numb after walking the dog for 45 minutes.
Plus, I am sick of shoveling snow – though I probably wouldn’t mind it as much if I had a snow-blower (no place to blow it to in the current place).
That sounds about perfect.
I love the four seasons.
Yes, it is cold in the mornings but it gets up to the 60’s during the day.
I’m living in what I consider the most ideal climate on earth. At 8000 feet in a “desert” state we have the best of all worlds.
Where I’m living we get ~120 inches of snow every year. When that melts we have a glorious spring that includes wildflowers and pine trees. Our summer is ~20 degrees less than then lower-elevation places like Albuquerque or Espanola. Fall is spectacular with aspen, oak and Virginia Creeper. Then we’re back to winter that is survivable but not life-threatening.
I spent a winter in Las Vegas. About as nice as I could imagine. Could even drive up to Mount Charleston and visit snow.
A nice autumn day in New Hampshire – cool and crisp while eating a cool crisp apple….
I saw ice one day when I lived in Vegas. It melted after the sun came out, but it was there!
This winter we actually had 2 days of snow in the valley. Stayed in my yard for 4 or 5 days…kids loved it
I’ve done that same move, SP. Went from living in Wisconsin to living in Phoenix. I preferred the cold winter in Wisconsin to the heat of a Phoenix summer. You can always put on more clothing if you’re cold, but you end up arrested when you take them off to beat the heat.
Oh, and watch out for the black widow spiders, guys. My old man spend a couple days in the hospital after getting bit by one.
And brown recluse, and scorpions, and…
HM isn’t that dangerous unless you click his links.
I think it was the beating the meat that led to the arrest.
Related: a one-time acquaintance (by coincidence in Phoenix) ate mushrooms, broke into his neighbor’s apartment thinking it was his own and started jacking off. He got caught and ended up getting a felony trespassing conviction.
Yikes!
You’re mixing up characters. I thought I was the lush and Q was the stroker.
Por que no los dos?
The taiga.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiga
I would love to live where there are seasons without the extreme heat in the summer. I can deal with bone chilling cold better than hot and humid summers.
Colorado? I’ve never been there in the winter. Maybe New Hampshire or Maine?
Denver’s weather is bizarre in the winter. One day you’re wearing a down jacket and wool hat and the next you’re fine with a tee shirt and jeans.
Depending on if you’re in the foothills it can also snow any month of the year.
That’s kind of how it is in Ohio in the transitional periods between summer and winter. Highly erratic.
Of course, it doesn’t help that my stupid workplace has an AC that is either on full blast or completely off. It alternates between being absolutely frigid and being hot and muggy. I have to take my winter coat to work no matter what season it is – not even kidding.
I’ve given serious thought to that. I would trade colder winters for cooler summers any day.
We’ve been hitting Maine for the last few summers – there’s really a lot to like, weather-wise, during the summer.
A friend grew up in Belfast, ME – we went there last year; he says it was great growing up, during the summer. During the winter, you had to be into winter sports and/or drinking.
Drinking; the favorite winter sport of millions of northern state residents.
I already shelter during much of summer and winter. It would be nice to drop the summer sheltering.
Western Colorado, esp. Roaring Fork Valley.
Also, I prefer the climate of Thot Thursday.
https://thechive.com/2019/04/18/naughty-night-time-cleavage-100-fun-photos/
Is there anywhere that stays 65 year round, and has snow but only on Christmas Day? I never used to mind the cold or the snow too much, but now the snow is too uneven for me to walk on without injuring myself and my fingers go numb after just a few minutes outside. I’m an old 36, that’s for sure.
Up country Maui.
Yeah, they even made a movie about that place.
Tomorrow’s NYT. Real or parody?
https://twitter.com/TomJolly/status/1119042493931241473
When Jesus doesn’t show up as scheduled, the last thing you do for your Millenarian cult is tell them to pack up and go home; you QUINTUPLE DOWN.
Relevant.
Question for Glibs with graphic arts talent; my dad is in the early stages of a retirement career doing woodworking. He’s been making a few sales by word-of-mouth. He thought maybe he should have a business card to hand out and asked me to design one for him. I could stumble around in MS Word and make something passable, but if anyone has a shortcut to a low-cost, high impact option, I’d appreciate a point in the right direction.
You could send me the info and I could print them off at this vending machine. I walk by it twice a week.
https://cdn.triplelights.com/uploads/2014-07/10japans-most-unusual-ven-post-297-600×450-20141218-7.jpg
That’s weird. I didn’t see any used underwear.
I’m intrigued…like when you’re watching a thriller and you see something from a distance that you can’t quite make out…it gets closer…closer…holy shit! WTF?!
I would go with a business card place – when I did some research on it I settled on moo.com although I haven’t actually purchased any yet. But there are tons of them out there with zillions of designs to choose from.
He needs a web site.
And a Youtube channel. And a media manager. He could be the American Chopper of woodworking.
So hours of him yelling at MikeS?
I just realized that Avenatti/Daniels is the American Chopper of woodworking.
This was filmed in my (then) shop.
My name is Earl
I’m actually in a few shots, the skinny guy with a beanie and goatee.
At what time?
Around 3:46
All in black and skate shoes?
yup. That was ten years ago or so.
That is what turned me (and I assume millions of others) off…all the fucking bickering. Same with Pawn Stars. Well, that and all those guys being such arrogant pricks.
He’s in this in-between place where he wants to make a little money off the hobby he enjoys, but also doesn’t want it to become “work”. So web-site is out. hell, I’m kinda surprised he wants business cards floating around out there.
I have to show off his current hot-seller…any wine drinkers around?
Gorgeous!
Don’t be ridiculous. Set up a site. He can put as much out there as he fells like making.
Of course you’re right…I’ll work on him. He’s a pretty humble guy and I think he’s still trying to wrap his head around the fact that he is creating something that people will gladly pay money for. (he does lots of other woodworking from bottle openers to furniture)
He spent dang near his entire employed life working for a rural water company (AKA a “ditch digger”) and I think he just needs a little more self confidence. The request for business cards is a step in the right direction.
Tundra is, of course, right. Those stoppers are really nice. Put up a site and he can do as much or little as he likes. Why limit himself to the local market? What other stuff does he do?
He’s made a “side board” for their dining room, a large, stand up jewelry cabinet for my daughter; but what he’s really been having fun with is just about anything he can make on his wood lathe.
Here is a couple things he’s had fun making. (sorry, not great pics)
I envy those of you that that have the skills and creativity to think and make the beautiful pieces of art. Some of us are better at admiring than making. Good on your dad, MikeS.
I get it. So many real artists are so damn humble!
People will buy his stuff.
I’m having a glass right now.
Those are handsome!
However, I have several stoppers that just sit in the drawer – all gifts; if the bottle survives the night, it’s getting a VacuVin.
Though the chirpy pourer makes everyone laugh.
He’s hoping those people who bought you those gift stoppers buy some more from him! 😉
Good point – who cares what they do with it once it’s purchased.
You, uh, probably shouldn’t ask HM what he did with his.
Hell, if he wants to work at his own pace and sell the produce, get on Etsy.
Yeah, that thought had crossed my mind. He doesn’t know what the hell “an Etsy” is, but I was thinking I’d give him a crash course on Sunday. Might be a real good avenue for him.
No. Etsy sucks nowadays. Unless your Dad wants to spend a lot of time (or you do) driving the traffic there he won’t make any money.
Put up a quick website, get some business cards with QR contact codes that take people over to the site. You can make PayPal Buy Now buttons and he can put stuff up when he feels like it, or he doesn’t have to. Set up an Instagram account, help him grow a following and he can have people click directly to the website from there and easily purchase.
And, as Rhywun mentioned above, moo.com is the only place I would bother getting cards. They are fantastic. They do all mine and my clients’, postcards, notecards etc.
Drop me a note if you want to talk about all this further. It’s what I do. (Websites/social media/art marketing.)
Thanks for the advice. I will check out moo.com (thank to Rhywun for that, also).
I just might drop you a line about a website. I’ll talk to him Sunday and see if I can talk him into it.
I don’t know if any of you will see this, but thanks to all who chimed in with advice. I’ll talk to him and see if he wants me to set-up a website.
Late fall / early winter. Hunting weather. Thanksgiving. Cold and dry. Dead bugs.
My favorite. I shot the deer in my avatar in early November last year. It was 40 degrees, very little wind and light rain (as I said, wool is the best). I was standing on a trail for an hour or so enjoying the autumn woods. Then he appeared on the trail walking right toward me. I never heard him and he never saw me. Well, until I raised my gun…
I miss you. Glad you are back.
I would miss the changes in seasons. This winter sucked. I spent most of it wondering why the fuck I live here.
But then it changed.
I spent the night tonight working in the garage. Completely comfortable. Warm enough for the frogs to start singing.
We’ll likely move in the next few years, but I definitely want the changes.
That’s why I don’t want to leave the North East. Seasons make you appreciate the cold when it’s hot and the heat when it’s cold.
I lived in south TX where seasons were hot and not so hot. There is no respite from the heat, and mid summer is miserable. Mid winter in the Northeast is nasty, but you can still work and enjoy the outdoors with the right clothing.
Thank you! I missed you, too.
Vistaprint
https://www.vistaprint.com
Business cards. Use a template.
Not 100f. That’s for sure.
25c. Perfect.
Sometimes, I do like me a -20c sub zero walk under a dark, arcticish sky. Very therapeutic.
One of my favorite times to jog is at night during heavy snow.
Bundle up with a noose and douse yourself in bleach?
+2 Nigerians in red hats
Literal lol.
If I see gay black people I go all Mofu Maga on them.
Don’t forget the foot-long.
Having grown up in SoCal, I now prefer a 4 season climate. If you can stand the repetition, San Diego is pretty ideal, and if it weren’t part of California, the vicinity west of Paso Robles would be really enticing.
But it isn’t really about where you go for the weather.
It was 38.6F this morning when I started my (8.9 mile rest day) run. Perfect shirtless weather. It got sunny briefly before a freak fog set in. The fog burned off and it was 44.6F at the end, which was still OK, although a bit warm.
Yeah, the heat caused me to crash and burn @ Boston. The temperature swing from low to high in Albuquerque is sufficiently large that I could train in higher temperatures, but I like to run in the morning and, all else equal, I’d rather train for handling cold than heat, since some of the ultras I run can get a bit … chilly.
You make me want to get my endurance shit together.
Damn you.
He’s a font of energy. Like, bristling.
(That could be the social awkwardness. :))
Yes. It’s fucking ridiculous.
I’ll go by dewpoint, because I think it matters more than temperature.
I’m happiest with the dewpoint up to about 63F.
When the dewpoint gets above 70 I just don’t go outside if I can avoid it.
Cold isn’t as much a bother so long as I don’t need to remove gloves to do any fine work.
One of the downsides of living in Iowa is that all the corn fields add quite a bit to the local RH.
So much so that the dewpoint around here can be several degrees higher than it would be with more native prairie grass.
Hm, I should look into that. I always go by temp+humidity (both displayed on my desktop at all times).
He’s right.
Dewpoint is how you tell how miserable you’ll be that day.
The closer the dewpoint is to ambient temp the more things will suck.
Yep. I tend to look at dewpoint more than temps in the summer. Anything above 70 as dorvinion says, is stuffy, in fact borders on tropical. You can usually tell what the low will be that night by what the dewpoint is. Generally, a few degrees above the dewpoint will be the low, sometimes right at the dewpoint, hence dew will form. Occasionally, a front comes through and throws it off though.
Dewpoint is based on temperature and humidity.
Early in the week here it was about 82F high, but we were able to go out and do some bike riding and really enjoy it without sweating a lot because the dewpoint was around 59F.
From late June to late July in particular around here, the corn is giving off a ton of moisture, and even if the temps are 82F the dewpoint is likely to be somewhere between 70-75 at times. Step outside and it will feel like you are breathing through a damp cloth, and you’ll probably sweat just standing around.
If my cold drink is sweating it’s too humid. I despise humidity in the summer. The Gulf coast in the summer was one of the few reasons I left TX.
My sisters are always trying to get us to rent a beach house in Destin or Gulf Shores every summer.
I just know if we went that we’d never leave the beach house on account of the miserable heat and humidity.
Any vacation we take from June to August is west of Nebraska and only as far south as Colorado, simply to avoid the mugginess.
OMG this. I bought an insulated cup for summers precisely because I got tired of wiping my glass off every ten minutes.
Buy a set of Yeti mugs. That’s my summer tumbler set.
Mine is called “Tervis”. Just something I found at Bed Bath etc. Mostly kitschy sportsball themes and shit but I found one that was a map of NYS with tourist spots that I thought was neat. I didn’t need any sort of s’phisticated travel mug.
I extol the virtues of Albuquerque. Our crime is high and our government sucks, our economy lags behind every upturn and precedes every downturn, but our summers are hot and dry and our winters are cold and dry.
What about other spots in NM?
I eventually want to move west. Where should I be looking there?
I really couldn’t say. I never considered staying here, let alone retiring here, till I discovered what a shithole everywhere else seems to be becoming. But I like Los Alamos, which is well off due to the labs. Taos is granola af but generally monied and touristy. Santa Fe is super progressive and I’m just not sure is worth the relatively higher cost of living. It’s cooler than Albuquerque, but I’ve never seen the point of being there. I guess it depends on what you want to do when you retire. There’s a lot of farming land out here. Grandmother rents out her land to a guy who seeds alfalfa every year. She gets the income from the bales and he gets to winter cows on the field. Doesn’t make much money, and our land is high and dry, but if mending fences is your idea of retirement, that’s an option.
I thought when you moved west it was going to be to North Dakota?
*has a sad*
*tears freeze to cheek*
Hey, you have fun in NM. I might see you there.
I’m curious what property you could find in some of the lake towns here. There are plenty of towns like Abiquiú I’d consider living in. Little forgotten pockets of civilization all over the state. Omega is one little trailer shanty hellhole I remember passing through on the way to Quemado lake a couple times as a kid. Population: like, 12. Mostly feral cats, I imagine.
Thanks, man.. Sounds like a trip or two is in order.
Mikey, I just want to try something different before they plant me. I would even consider western SoDak!!
Oh man…I would too. Every time I see the temp in Rapid City when it is -20 here…tempting.
I vote for just northeast of Santa Fe. I lived in a small town in the mountains up there, which I won’t name because I’ll doxx myself, it was that small. I lived there about half the decade and right in downtown Santa Fe the rest of the decade.
I would go back to Northern NM in a heartbeat and would stay there forever. I only left because OMWC stole my heart and it got old doing the long distance thing.
Email me if you want further discussion and details.
Plus, Gruet.
Out of my pay grade.
It’s about $15-$20 for the brut, which is great. That’s not out of anybody’s pay grade.
I’ve noticed the (((Jewpoint))) is pretty high on glibs. Wonder what the attraction is.
Lows of 16 highs of 24 with not to much humidity and sunny I would say…
Good morning glibs
good morning
Hi Pie! How’s 4/19 so far?
Uncomfortable due to renovation work
Fucking gypsies.
Good morning, Pie!
https://localreviews.knoji.com/10-alltime-hottest-weather-temperature-days-in-phoenix/
The all-time record hottest temperature ever recorded in Phoenix is 122 degrees, which occurred on June 26, 1990
I was there, I rode my bike home from work that day.
The greatest number of 100 degree days in a year in Phoenix history is 143, which occurred in 1989.
That’s only part of the story. 140 days above 100, 90 or so days above 105, 50 or so days above 110 degrees. Many, many days when I wonder what the fuck is this Iowa boy doing here in Phoenix.
Jesus. Hard pass.
Hard pass.
LOL true wisdom from Bobby and Peggy.
I was there ’93-’94 and I split the minute I was done at school. Bad things happened the whole fucking year. The weather was the least of it. It was, however over a hundred very often and hit 118 once. I overheated badly twice. Jacked by the cops about 5 times, Couple of friends shot, it just went on and on.
Fort Irwin – got above 125 probably a dozen times and 130 twice.
Once it breaks 110, being a dry heat stops mattering; it’s dry in my oven, too.
But the spring there was beautiful.
I think that is the year my dad was in Phoenix. He said his boots would stick to the asphalt at stoplights when on his motorcycle.
I got a good deal on a last minute spa resort weekend in Scottsdale for a long weekend back in June 2013. It was 118 degrees on Saturday. The wife and I had fun. Met some nice locals. Drank good drinks. Enjoyed the a/c. Man that was hot. I don’t think it dipped below 100 the entire time we were there.
Which resort? We stayed at the Montelucia in December, a bunch of years ago.
The locals were bundled up in down coats, we were in the pool 😀
I have also been in Singapore when the temperatures were in the upper 90s and it had just rained, so the effective humidity was approach 100% (completely saturated).
I have also experienced -32 with high winds here at home in Iowa (yes I know that’s nothing compared to Minnesota).
So, hell comes in a wide variety of conditions.
Ugh…those candy-asses don’t even know what wind-chill is.
I’m looking back on the Russian kalluzhun shitshow and trying to remember all the offramps the media missed as they sped straight of the unfinished freeway bridge yesterday. Sure, they had no interest in taking any of those offramps, but I’m curious about certain points where they could’ve said, “Well, this story is dead.”
A few off ramps would be the dossier being shown to be partisan hackery, the Bruce Ohr stuff etc. Hell, the media could’ve veered off their death plunge by simply accepting Barr’s summary weeks ago. Instead, they put the pedal to the metal and Thelma and Louise’d themselves.
So, what are some offramps that a sane person could’ve taken along the way? I’m sure I’m missing some.
There is no 24 hr news when you take the off ramp.
Nope. Obama built a nice foundation and the FBI was all in. They had the right fact pattern to fuel a long, long ride. Never mind they desperately wanted it to be so.
Certainly they had motive to continue the nonsense and that’s exactly what they did. I’m thinking about how an alcoholic would say, “You know, in retrospect, I should’ve realized I had a problem when I fucked my dog.”
Speaking of hot weather Straff, I happened to visit Japan last year during the hottest days in recorded history. Those street beers were welcome.
I was covered in sweat by the time I found you. It’s great right now and the street beers are just as good. Las Vegas was the only place in the US where I didn’t worry about walking around town with a frosty beverage in hand. Legal where you are?
Negative. We ignore the legal ramifications however, thus the brown bag or tumbler filled with the vile beverage.
New Orleans is another one.
And boobies!
In Memphis it’s legal as well.
I have picture in Gunma that week that I sent my wife. I’m visibly unhappy. The wife commented that I looked like someone killed my puppy. That’s how hot it was. I went to the Philippines the Monday after my visit with you and it was refreshing.
In New Orleans, not only may you walk around with a frosty beverage, they’ll stop you on the way out the door of the bar and give you a “go cup” for the remainder of your drink.
When we were in Charleston, this little shop put together an excellent picnic lunch for us, along with a bottle of rosé and a couple of mugs. I asked, “oh, it’s legal to drink in public here?” – “no, but nobody really cares as long as you’re not being a jerk”.
I very much liked that town.
Go to Savannah. Ten years ago we booked a flight to Savannah before we finished watching Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. And it’s totally legal to drink in public there as I found out when we visited it again last year.
Charleston was nice, too. Maybe I should spend more time there.
Savannah is on the list.
We were in Charleston in February, so it was lovely. I imagine it’s a bit of a swampy armpit come July (same for Savannah).
I was in Savannah in February and September. It was great in February, though most trees had no leaves. The September trip often seemed like it was in August or July. 🙁 But it was getting pleasant in the afternoon!
In NYC it’s fine if you’re in Central Park and look all sophisticated and shit. But if you look like a bum or other form of reprobate in the East Village, you will get a talking to.
OT: Um… how exactly is this not 1A protected?
https://nbc24.com/news/local/perrysburg-high-school-student-arrested-for-twitter-account-designed-to-degrade-females
I hope this kid wins a gazillion dollar settlement.
They don’t give a Tinker[ v. Des Moines]’s damn about it?
But I’m sure the current idiots in robes will cobble together something between FYTW, loco parentis, and need to preserve ORDER in schools.
OFFS.
My guess…he is 18 and they can make an example out of him.
Seems their law is broad…
Communicating to or about such other person any lewd, lascivious, threatening or obscene words, language, drawings or caricatures
Communicating repeatedly in an anonymous manner
I think you’re hot…you should do me like the dirty bitch you are…
??
????
?+? = ??
Is that last one “bloody stool is OK”? Because I don’t think it is.
As long as you ask for consent first, anything goes.
You have me laughing in my kitchen. Bloody stool is never OK.
+1 prolapsed rectum
+1 ass meat.
It’s ok if the blood is red, bad if the blood is black.
Or green
Vulcans live long lives, so green is ok.
What ever happened to Mr. Lizard?
If the blood is black it just means you’re late to the party.
That sounds racist and not at all medically accurate, so I’m sure it’s true.
Submit that rebus to Highlights magazine. Should make waiting at the dentist more interesting.
Damn, you really haven’t been back in the US since the 70s, have you?
You saying ‘Nam is over and I can leave this jungle?
The presidents have been draft dodgers, coke dealers and users, and pussy grabbers. Your good to come home.
Straff Upon returning to america.
Don’t do it Straff! It’s a trap!
I like four seasons but winter is my favorite. I guess that I’m odd in that I love snow. A snowstorm at night when it is dead quiet and everyone else is inside, driving my 4×4 while it is snowing and most of all ripping up a hillside on my snowmobile. My second favorite is fall when the off road trails are no longer dusty and those crisp sunny days with a cool morning and warm afternoon. I guess it is just as well that I have always lived north of I-90 except for my TDY to munitions maintenance tech school in Denver.
FFS.
https://taskandpurpose.com/dhs-fentanyl-wmd
The Department of Homeland Security is considering designating the painkiller drug fentanyl
Stop painkillering yourselves.
There is multiple things wrong with that opening sentence. I mean, 20 years ago it could be a line in a Mel Brooks movie.
Nah, it would have been left on the cutting room floor.
Inmates, asylum, etc. etc.
https://freebeacon.com/politics/rashida-tlaib-calls-for-hunger-strikes-to-shut-down-ice/
I’m not convinced she isn’t a Trump ’20 plant.
He just isn’t that smart. He is blessed with incredibly inept opponents just like Obama and Bush were.
no
stop
please don’t starve
I’ll bet she doesn’t even observe Ramadan. Maybe, maybe she skips lunch one day. No way she is going on a genuine hunger strike.
Well, if you don’t eat it can cause menstruation to stop, so maybe she’s observant.
I’m not clicking that link.
Right there with you buddy. That thing has HM written all over it.
The BBC in the link doesn’t stand for Big Black Cock.
Aw, rats 🙁
That’s what HM would say.
My nearest supermarket busted out their Ramadan shopping bags this week. Apparently, you have to be up at 4:23 to pray (the time changes each day). Fuck that.
I’d like to see an enterprising Detroit reporter shadow Tlaib during Ramadan. My guess is you and she both miss morning services.
I’ll have to see what my schedule for next week is, but I’ve heard some good soundbites today that I think I can match with some older ones for some rollicking fun.
That’s the best kind of fun!
So who is Dumber: Coulter for wanting to ally with Bernie Sanders to close the border or Gillespie for wanting to ally with the Jacobin over open borders?
Can’t they all be pieces of shit? That’s the approach I take.
Gillepsie. He’s supposed to be the thoughtful libertarian.
And CPRM is also correct; they are all pieces of shit.
Coulter. She has always pretended to be serious. Now the jig is up. Gillespie has long taken weird positions that make some sense if you read far enough in to get the nuance. It’s not always smart but then he never claimed to be.
He may have never verbally claimed to be smart, but that smug attitude screams “I am your superior!” every time he opens his mouth.
That and the way he talks over every single person he interviews. Still, if I have to choose, it’s Coulter.
Coulter is the scariest man I have ever scene, the way he was accepted by the conservative base should prove no ill intent on their part towards trans people.
Neither are relevant, so why would I care?
The Jacket sheds a tear.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opaLHZmF8gg
This video is a good example of what I don’t like about the anti-woke Hollywood youtubers. I’ve seen the “spoilers” in question and yes it does have the potential to be very stupid but I think he is overegging the anti-Trump symbolism in that “leak”.
And if even if it is as anti-Trump as he claims then why is everyone so shocked that Hollywood is left-wing and has anti-Republican messages in their films? This long predates Trump.
And Return of the Jedi had some blatant anti-Nixon sentiment. I mean the Ewoks were the Viet Cong and Lucas explicitly compared Palpatine to Nixon. But it is old and they don’t remember ‘Nam or Nixon so that leftist propaganda okay.
Sorry to say these guys at times come across as very ahistorical and reactionary.
That’s very unfair to the Viet Cong.
How so?
The Viet Cong were believable.
Really? That was ancient when I saw in the theater. Of course, I was 14 years old and DNGAF.
*ancient news
http://poliscijedi.blogspot.com/2014/04/nixon-in-star-wars.html?m=1
You do know, Lucas didn’t actually write Empire or Jedi.
Except he’s been credited as a writer of both films and executive produced and funded them.
Story by doesn’t equal written by. Kasdan wrote both the sequels, based on what George wanted, as well as writing Raiders of the Lost Ark. The Awesomeness of Lucas has become a bloated legacy built on the backs of people who ignored him in service of making a good movie. That was the failing of both the prequels and The Crystal Skull, it was forgotten that he was a visionary, yes, but he was shit at actually executing his vision.
First of all Lucas co-wrote the Screenplay for ROTJ. How the WGA decrees screen credits is a whole new kettle of fish. And Who Wrote What for Empire and ROTJ is yet another. What I am saying though is that Lucas had quite a bit of creative control over the Sequels (more for ROTJ than Empire) so I am skeptical that his “Nixon as Palpatine” vision was totally ignored. Hell Kasdan could very well have loved that idea too.
I’m not saying Lucas didn’t give that decree, but as a writer myself, I can tell you that you can base something on something else entirely and tell your boss you based on what they said without that being true, the boss will have no idea of the difference. Like I said, Milius was hovering around the production and even been rumored to do some script doctoring. We may never know, everyone believes their version of history. I’m just saying, the next time George Lucas had complete control, we got Howard the Duck.
Mmmm… Lea Thompson…
…so Lucas genius confirmed?
Gustave is gonna dream about mom tonight.
Whoa, totally problematic and not OK.
You honestly see no difference between the current woke-anti-Trumpers and the regular old left-wingers of the past?
The old left was unhinged (but sometimes right). The anti Trumpers have not only unhinged the door, they are beating each other over the head with it.
They are Pro-Communist Democrats still?
Also James Cromwell, Mark Hamill, Robert DeNiro are just some of the many old Hollywood lefties that also hate Trump and don’t speak out against the Woke brigade.
Has Jane Fonda come out against the woke brigade?
I think you’re missing a much more recent ‘Evil Empire’ VS ‘Stone Age People’ and the fact John Milius was hovering around the production of Jedi.
You don’t think the implicit comparison between the US and the “Evil Empire” is something that today would not raise eyebrows among these same youtubers?
As a youtuber, I don’t give a flying fuck what youtubers say if it is wrong.
As a old movie buff I can tell that using film to spread political messages, especially of the leftist kind, is nothing new. Sometimes it is pretty subtle, sometimes it isn’t.
For example Warner Bros. movies made after 1933 have some pretty blatant New Deal propaganda. Not at all subtle. See those Busby Berkeley musicals for a good example
Yes, the two most influential films ever are The Birth of a Nation and The Battleship Potemkin. Still doesn’t mean that every film you’ve heard a stupid story about REALLY MEANS THIS! You Won’t Believe Number 3!
Eh a lot of these “stupid stories” are the people themselves acknowledging it. “Nixon is Palpatine” is something Lucas has admitted, not some rightwinger looking to be triggered.
And script by one of the Hollywood Ten having communist propaganda in it is not some crazy conspiracy.
Also sometimes screenwriters, directors, producers and actors can have differing ideas of what the movie means and they can make it very political and sometimes the other doesn’t notice or care. And yes many of them have acknowledged it.
I know Lucas has admitted he had a very thin veil of conception behind the story, that’s how we got the prequels. I’m just say, because Lucas isn’t bright doesn’t mean the persons who actually wrote the Orig Trig were bots simply covering for Lucas’ supposed genius, I posit it’s the other way round.
This, BTW is how Disney loured me into watching Episode 7. It was supposedly written by Lawrence Kasdan, writer of Empire and Jedi, but from the final film I don’t think they actually used much of his script, or he has passed his prime.
Seeing the real story of the behind-the-scenes of the sequel trilogy will be very interesting…
Also Kasdan apparently never really liked Solo and Leia together…
We will never know the story. From my prospective, Lawrence saw this as a way to legitimize his son, so took on the job as long as his son got to co-write, then Abrams and Lucasfilm ignored everything. Just my feeling. When Lawrence got to helm his own project for the first time he made Sliverado, in collaboration with his brother to complete a childhood dream. I see the same thing happening with Episode 7, trying to bring his son’s dream true, but I also see Abrams and Lucasfilm fucking with that vision. I have an active imagination, but I try to base it in reality.
https://archive.li/Scyn0/7c08eb91acd2b2d7dd9a18c624eda65c021c8054.jpg
NSFW.
https://archive.li/66xB4/1624de7a44c97e02dd893c8197027f1a135ea747.jpg
NSFW.
https://archive.li/T7C8F/3b3fc2d17eaf18bb68eae8b809e372330456ca3c
NSFW.
Thicc.
I’m extending my
officedrinking hours a bit, because tomorrow I’m going to be working late.Go ?. I’m gonna start in an hour or so.
Wait, you call me peanut behind my back? That’s really fucking creepy der guy.
I don’t start any political conversation with customers (or almost anyone really, besides here). But once they really get into it I can’t help myself. Had one give me a Trump tirade after the report came out today. He was not happy about it, T Dog was still a corrupt criminal that was going down eventually. Dude wouldn’t lay money down on it though. I tried, but no dice. He told me that he wouldn’t hold it against me that I thought differently. Which wouldn’t be that weird, but he had to say it three times.
Trump might go down eventually for something stupid, which he does all the time, but first these people need to acknowledge they were lead by their fucking noses to drink from the trough of retardeness.
The late night Star Wars dissection discussion is always my cue to leave. CPRM, do me a favor and replace “anger” with “finger” in this clip.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bB7fgX6H9_M
I don’t want to know where you want me to put that finger, I don’t go that, sorry.
“I can feel your finger. It gives for focus. Makes you stronger.”
His expression makes it clear where the finger is.
sYou can’t even misquote right, lord knows how much you’ve misquoted.
I’m walk posting. Tsk, tsk.
O, I was hoping you were willing me a Ford Focus. Much better mileage than the Suburban I’m borrowing between cars.
I hate super hot and muggy. I sweat like a pig, so those conditions always make me look like a total slob. On the other hand, some of that type of weather is fantastic for a few days of just sitting around and doing nothing but drinking, reading and napping.
I also like variety. I love weather swings. Weather it is a huge temp drop/blizzard in the winter or a giant thunderstorm blowing in during the summer, it is pretty awe inspiring to see a front go through.
I like sitting on the porch watching a thunderstorm come in, but my house faces east, so that doesn’t happen often.
My Masterpiece no one will see because It’s so late.
Challenge accepted!!
Lolz. I am imagining Chris Matthews and Rachel Maddow running around Disney in deep cover as Belle and Gaston, respectively.
Nice work, by the way.
I want to live in a climate that is banana-republic free.
Mrs. Animal and I want to live in a place where the temp never rises above 75 degrees. Cold doesn’t bother us. Heat bothers us. That’s why we will seek our retirement home in Alaska.
Well, that and Alaska still being a mostly free state. Colorado isn’t, not so much, any more.
So… Pre Link chatter.
I know that everyone is spinning the report to support their views. But even gazing over a few WaPo tweets, it looks like nothing.
The big one is that they are saying that it says Congress needs to investigate obstruction. But then they highlighted the part where Mueller states he did not find evidence to state that obstruction had occurred.
Lastly i’m not sure I care enough, as it isn’t going to matter, I think fixating on this is only going to set the Dems up for failure as it will be one more opportunity for them to let their base down and everyone else knows that the whole point (Russian collusion) was fake.
They are trying to keep the focus on Trump instead of all the actual criminals with a D next to their names.
Maybe. I think they really just hate Trump that much. And it shows how much of a bubble the chattering class is in. The things that they have done and accepted (Assange’s arrest, for example) just because they hate him so much make it clear they think everyone hates him like they do.
I grew up in central florida–and I live in southwest floriduh now–so heat and humidity are fine with me. Temps below 50 are Arctic conditions as far as I’m concerned.
Late to the party, but chilly and raining is my favorite weather.
It’s the best weather for patrolling, so it’s the best weather possible.
Low humidity. Not too windy. I like the seasons but Columbus weather sucks. Rainy and windy. Summers get too humid, not like deep South but more than I want.