IT FOOTBALL TIME OF YEAR!
STEVE SMITH GLAD IT FRIDAY. HIM KICK BACK, RELAX. BY RELAX MEAN VISIT CAMPGROUND, RAPE CAMPERS, MAKE S’MORES. STEVE SMITH LIKE S’MORES. KNOW WHAT ELSE STEVE SMITH LIKE? LINKS. AND WHEN HIM GIVE ADVICE! SO STEVE SMITH DO BOTH FOR FUNNY GLIBERTARIAN PEOPLE.
START WITH ADVICE. GOOD ADVICE. FROM STEVE SMITH. BETTER THAN THIS HOOMAN GIVE.
Q: My Aunt Mildred has just passed. She was in her late 80s, it was in her sleep, we’re all at peace about it. Here’s the problem: In her will, she left my 14-year-old daughter her horrible bird. I am biased, because I grew up in New York and see all birds as rats with wings, but I never imagined one would wind up living and pooping in my house. It’s a monk parakeet, which the internet tells me can live from 15 to 20 years (“Hawk” is, as far as we can tell, about 5 years old.) I don’t want it in my house, and I really don’t want to inherit it when my daughter leaves for college. What do I do?
A: STEVE SMITH SHAKE HEAD AT SILLY HOOMAN. WHY YOU TURN GIFT AWAY? IT FREE FOOD! STEVE SMITH LOVE BIRD. IT BETTER THAN POSSUM OR RAT!
STEVE SMITH WISH HIM HAD BIRD INSTEAD.
YOU NO LIKE EAT PET BIRD? GO FIND HOBO. GIVE HOBO BIRD. HOBO EAT BIRD. ALL HAPPY – YOU NOT HAVE BIRD, HOBO GET EAT MEAL. YOU WELCOME FOR GOOD ADVICE! STEVE SMITH ASK ONE FAVOR. SEND FEATHERS FROM COLORY BIRD. STEVE SMITH ADD TO SAVINGS ACCOUNT.
FREE CASCADIA!
STEVE SMITH SEE WHY FRIEND ZARDOZ GIVE ADVICE…IT FUN! LINKS FUN TOO. SO GOOD LINKS. HERE GO.
- THIS NO STEVE SMITH. HIM NOT LIVE IN CITY! NEWSPAPER NOT RIGHT. STEVE SMITH HAVE STYLISH CAVE IN WOODS. HIM MORE COUNTRY MOUSE, NOT CITY MOUSE. BY MOUSE, MEAN RAPESQUATCH.
- IT LOOK LIKE CHOO-CHOO COST MORE MUNNIES. STEVE SMITH HOOT AND LAUGH WHEN READ In May, elected officials on the Sound Transit board advanced several alternatives for environmental review, including more expensive options that would require still-unidentified “third party funding.”
- LOOK LIKE SOMEONE FIGURE OUT BEST PLACE FOR CANDIDATE. JAIL.
STEVE SMITH HOPE FUNNY GLIBERTARIAN PEOPLE HAVE GOOD FRIDAY NIGHT!
FREEDOM!
Find somebody else who wants the bird, you idiot.
And break her child’s heart? Evil bastard.
Find someone who wants the child and the bird. OMWC?
14 is WAY too old for him.
The bird is only 5…
Perfect. The gender doesn’t matter to him.
The bird is the word.
Huh?
Word.
Bird IS the word.
Minneapolis strikes again!
She knows how to find Slate online, but not Craigslist?
Make the daughter take it with her. You’re going to buy her an apartment anyway
Did Granny not leave a cage for it in the will? Go to Petsmart, they’re not that expensive.
Even if they poop in the cage, they’re pooping in the house, unless you hang the cage outside.
I have a great uncle that hangs his parakeet outside on warm days. The damned thing has memorized and flawlessly mimics every species of bird native here. It alternates between crow, bluejay, cardinal….
Weird.
Makes me wonder what that mimicry is used for in the wild.
relevant video – the lyre bird
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjE0Kdfos4Y
The consensus of biologists is that bird songs are display to attract mates. Only a very healthy and secure male would decide in the clear and sing.
So basically it’s like owning a boat.
let me try that again in English:
The consensus of biologists is that bird songs are a display to attract mates. Only a very healthy and secure male would decide to stand in the clear and sing.
Man, I hate it when I skip over words.
Well I get that part. I was wondering what the utility of being able to sound like other birds is for the parakeet.
I do that all time.
It is explanations like that that make me wish I believed in a religion.
Birds sing either:
Biologist answer
1. to signal that they are strong enough to survive attracting predator attention
Religious answer
2. to make the world a more enjoyable place
‘It is explanations like that that make me wish I believed in a religion.
Birds sing either:
Biologist answer
1. to signal that they are strong enough to survive attracting predator attention
Religious answer
2. to make the world a more enjoyable place’
Obligatory:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6JaosRfPhEU
Get some strange!
Uncivil- my guess is that the mimicry of other species is not why the ability evolved, rather it’s a way that troops of parakeets could develope their own language, gaurding from outsiders trying to join.
I am not sure what you mean. The history of Celtic art is pretty complete. It started out just abstract patters….primitive people believe words and images are magic so ‘graven images’ were forbidden like they are today in some primitive cultures. Over time their imagery evolved from abstract patterns to abstractions of various critters and finally towards more realistic depictions.
I am not sure I follow what you mean. As for the images of dragons, dragons were thought to be real based on various fossils and over time they went the opposite direction…they went from real critters in people’s imaginations to an abstraction. The dragon became a symbol of the nature of the world – beautiful and terrible at the same time.
maybe I am just tired and missed the point of your question.
Or maybe I am stupid and completely missed which comment you were responding to.
I dunno what that mimicry is used for. First thing that popped in my head: One parakeet uses the call to lure a bird from it’s nest while its partner in crime robs the nest? I dunno.
You’re tired.
I was asking about the parakeets.
The question about the wood carving was whether you cut that piece.
Yes, he did.
We had a neighborhood mocking bird that would sit way up high in this huge eucalyptus tree and make frog noises. “Ribbit ribbit” from thirty feet in the air.
STEVE SMITH USE MIMIC CALLS FOR RAPE.
Winning American Idol?
Birds are almost as annoying as humans. I stayed all night once with my oldest brother and his wife has several birds. Those spawns of Satan started talking at like 5am and I had a massive hangover as me and my brother tend to drink a lot when we get together. Never fucking again. That’s the last time we have spent the night with anyone, a hotel is worth it.
The dawn chorus is something to behold… once.
I spent a few summers as camp staff living in a tent in the woods. Going to bed when the sun went down was good idea, not just because of lights attracting insects, but because ain’t nobody sleeping once every freaking bird in the forest decides it’s time to wake up.
We live in a forest, so we get anything from the owls, and ALWAYS, the dawn patrol in the early dawn morning, but at least we can have all the windows closed and typically sleep through it.
Never fucking again. That’s the last time we have spent the night with anyone
context matters 🙂
Car alarms, chainsaws, camera motors…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjE0Kdfos4Y
damn your nimble fingers!
We even posted the same video.
Gah. I hate that pretentious asshole. He is dead now, isn’t he? Good riddance. The show is phony as hell too. Standing whispering behind a tree while the tame bird walks by between mr. sneaky and the cameraman. Right.
Yeah, there is no way he can get that close to a wild bird.
Young me was quite sad when he learned all the animal fights on Wild America were staged.
Why Marty Stouffer? Why?
I loved that theme song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DYop-OFDzk
See also: the Nature Faker’s controversy
wiki sez
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The nature fakers controversy was an early 20th-century American literary debate highlighting the conflict between science and sentiment in popular nature writing. The debate involved important American literary, environmental and political figures. Dubbed the “War of the Naturalists” by The New York Times, it revealed seemingly irreconcilable contemporary views of the natural world: while some nature writers of the day argued as to the veracity of their examples of anthropomorphic wild animals, others questioned an animal’s ability to adapt, learn, teach, and reason.
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Marlin Perkins was worse. I will now sit here in my jeep while Jim gets eaten by a kodiak bear. the kodiak bear is very interesting. Notice how it tears Jim’s head off with one swipe of a paw. Now watch it lick the blood from Jim’s neck.
When I was in college, all my Biology professors without fail referred to him as “that idiot Marlin Perkins.”
People get reallllly attached to birds. A friend of a friend had an exotic for almost 20 years. Then she got another. Talking to her on the phone is like hearing a 2nd world country.
Communism is for the birds?
Oh, so that’s who the NYT’s target audience is.
Well, their front page seems designed for lining bird cages…
Did Granny not leave a cage for it in the will? Go to Petsmart, they’re not that expensive.
Petsmart!
The Woman is Smarter!
Seeing STEVE SMITH makes me think of a radio ad I heard in Oregon last month. The place was called Sasquatch Smoke Shop.
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RAWR! STEVE SMITH WANT WEIRD SKUNK CIGARETTE!
[inhales deeply]
AH….UH…MAN….That really takes the edge off.
Whoa, my hands are huge!
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” I am biased, because I grew up in New York and see all birds as rats with wings,”
My look at the wit on this one.
Those are bats. The day time ones are dinos. That’s what they said.
Pigeons exist only in NYC duh
So do the seagulls. I mean I never have to worry about running over them when they for some reason like to congregate on a local supermarket parking lot.
Well, if they go under the tires, that’s fine.
But catching one in the radiator or windshield is a problem.
I doan needz these shirbirds scratching up my car.
You probably have a nice car.
Well, I do, but my wife said it is HER car. So…I mean, pussy is important to me.
Then why did you get married?
Oh….update: I finished staining, finishing and hanging the dragon carved non-mantle facing. 5.5″x8′. The only spot was high on a partial wall separating the kitchen and living room.
https://postimg.cc/r06dwTwN
Very nice, Suthen!
Coool man.
Ooo, nice, did you do the original carving too? (Missed any previous remarks about this piece)
Yes. Don’t look too close. There are lots of mistakes.
It’s still much better than I’d manage.
One thing I know from having made things is that you always see more flaws in your own work than other people do.
Very nice.
Nice work Sir,
Really nice.
Very nice!
Should have beat it with a log chain or upended that tool box with your extra wrenches on to it, maybe sanded the edges a bit, Distressing is what I’m saying it needs distressing. Other than that nice work.
I am sure that around here it will get distressed soon enough on its own.
*Eyes pissy dog suspiciously
I couldn’t do that.
I finished staining, finishing and hanging the dragon carved non-mantle facing. 5.5″x8′.
Euphemism of the year.
Kick. Ass. Looks good, man.
SPACE NOT HAPPY WITH COUSIN. SPACE NEED MORE ATTENTION, RAPING ROUND THE MILKY WAY, RAPING THE BOREY ALICE.
Borey alice / + 1 lol
They got music in their solar system
They’ve rocked around the milky way
They dance around the borealice
They’re space truckin’ everyday
Come on
Any polls out yet showing who picked up (other than Trump) or lost support from the DemDumpster fire last night? I’m still thinking Michelle might turn out to be a dark horse candidate when the dust settles next year.
“dark horse candidate”
Racist.
And how would that work? Candidate x goes through the process, the debates, etc. Then, at some point in early 2020, the DNC says, “we’re gonna let somobody new stand for election, even though they haven’t gathered the signatures, haven’t declared according to the set time limits, didn’t participate in the debates, etc.?”
So candidate x files a lawsuit, which will take how long to settle? Yeah, great plan.
2024 after motions, and they’ll be blacklisted from all DNC services/events/donors
Sure, and the rift, the anger, the fury among the democratic party would be enough to loose the election for
OprahMichelle.Serously, Oprah could win.
We’re not accusing these people of being the smartest.
PSA: Boldly going where Glibs fear to tread(with good reason) I took a fellow Glibs advice and got this,
https://photos.app.goo.gl/kaShTc6MfHufZ2Sb
Damn if it doesn’t taste like liquid Jolly Rancher, to me this is alright, I hoped for at least tasty apple, this does not disappoint. You don’t notice the alcohol, overall a nice cold drink, would buy again,
4/5 only drawback is low fizz
I got a “Dynamic link not found”
Try this one,
https://photos.app.goo.gl/LGgMKFb1FXKF2SWMA
That one worked for me.
That is very green.
Ever had Jolly Rancher Candy? This the liquid version, which means it brings back wonderful child…. It’s really good
I have, just not in years. (Cutting back on empty calories made me give up a lot of things like that)
It looks like the green beer they give to kids in Germany.
NY v. NJ, as told by an Aspie:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ex74x_gqTU0
I’ve seen others from him and wondered “who talks like that?”
He makes some good videos.
If he doesn’t get a response from the historical society that was sending his email to spam, I will be surprised.
Wow. I can’t believe that I enjoyed that. But I did. Thanks.
some random thoughts
I’ve been reading the libertarian bible, AKA Atlas Shrugged. For a gal who was obsessed with rationality and ruthless efficiency, she sure liked purple prose. Maybe she got paid by the word.
At first glance, it’s odd that SJWs/feminists don’t like her or that book. She was a successful female author, which is rare by itself, and the heroine of her most famous novel is a woman who is a railroad executive. I thought they want more women in STEM.
I think the real reasons leftists hate that book is that she pulls no punches in describing how awful many lefty types are: cowardly, hypocritical, stupid.
***
There’s something really great about a WW2 jeep. It is the answer to the question of “what is the simplest off-road vehicle that can carry 4 people?” That kind of minimalism is what makes living things beautiful. There are no unnecessary parts on a tree.
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And for those of you suffering from dangerously low blood pressure, here’s some dumb punk yelling at Crenshaw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SENtZYL1Sus
Leaving aside the SEAL part, you’d hope a guy not old enough to rent a car would have more sense than to insult a bearded guy with an eye patch.
Good grief, it’s like that Marine Todd copy pasta come to life.
I love me some Dan Crenshaw.
” it’s odd that SJWs/feminists don’t like her or that book. She was a successful female author, which is rare by itself, and the heroine of her most famous novel is a woman who is a railroad executive. I thought they want more women in STEM.”
Not sure if this is the right link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jv0zTiv-i7s
In case not…too long to search through…what happened is that Rand got booed by the feminist audience and she stood up and scolded them to the effect that women needed to take responsibility for themselves and stop blaming men for keeping them down. She got booed harder.
Ayn Rand got me looking for what I found in libertarianism. She was not, herself a libertarian, but an objectivist, which is close to, but not actually, a libertarian.
I hate her books. Neat ideas expressed by long winded soliloques, which would then be repeated almost verbatim two pages later by the same character.
Ayn Rand, like Stephen King, would have profited from a good editor.
She was also, IRL, an unpleasant person, a cult leader without the charisma to grow her cult past a few people who wanted to sleep with her.
She was one of the villains in A Theory of Justice: The Musical!
Yes, there really is a musical based on the work of John Rawls:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9-fiYu0A-0
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The musical follows John Rawls on a journey through time to gain inspiration for A Theory of Justice from a chorus of singing and dancing political philosophers, including Plato, Locke, Hobbes, Rousseau, Mill, and Kant.[1] As he pursues his love interest, a beautiful student named Fairness, Rawls is menaced by villainous libertarian philosopher Robert Nozick and his lover Ayn Rand, who plot to stop Rawls writing his liberal theory of justice.
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[Kiff sigh]
And yet, despite all the evidence that the left are not sentient, we still let them vote.
That’s… really, really bad. I do like the Kiff sigh, though. It’s the details that make a post, right?
I run a pretty steady 55 hours a week, 5 full days and a half day on Saturday.
You just have to get in shape for it.
So this is week 2 of a 40 hour week. My word, how do people do this all the time ?
drink heavily
Yes, drank more, work at home more and drank more. That is all.
I did that. Plus some lovely green substances.
Well, I mean, I’m guessing that your ‘green’ substances will put most of your comrades in jail.
totally legal here.
Not in uber liberal Maryland. See how this liberal shit works?
we browse Glibs for 3-5 of the 8 every day?
It’s not that difficult.
I think EF is just not used to it.
Yes. That is totally it. Plus I drove a good bit this week too. Outlying courts. I am wiped. No glib time either.
What is this “40 hour work week”?
Something I as a solo actually look forward to (on the couple occasions it happens per year) because it means good money. Of course I look forward to it because the other 40 some odd weeks of the year I am not making any money when I have all that free time…
I’ve never worked the 9-5 schedule. I worked 24-96 hour shifts over the years, with days off in between. Getting up and going to work Monday-Friday would have made me homicidal.
I work 9/80s. Basically nine hour days with one monday off and the next an 8 hour day. Comes out to 80 hours in nine days a pay period. I would kill for 4/10s, but only the cops and fire get that.
AND, btw, no green substances for me. Randoms and dl51 testing.
It was hard going from WFH with ill-defined hours to my current 8-430 job where I have to be in the office all day except for lunch.
You people are spoiled. I am, too, now, with my new job, but daaamn, you people are spoiled.
I do 40 hours in 4 days, plus 2 hours drive time every day.
*refuses to do the math*
But, I don’t have to hang around lawyers all day. So I have that going for me. Which is nice.
That’s twelve hour days, pretty much what I do. Mine’s because of lunch hour plus two 15 minute breaks. Add in two hours drive time (40 minutes morning and an hour 15 after work) and it’s twelve.
Oh yeah, add 30 minutes X 4 for lunches.
The most Scottish thing that ever happened:
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On his twenty-first birthday, Seton’s father presented him with an invoice for all the expenses connected with his childhood and youth, including the fee charged by the doctor who delivered him. He paid the bill, but never spoke to his father again.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Thompson_Seton
“Mother’s retroactively charging me for the food I ate as a child.”
-Seymour Skinner
Shit. I think my wife is taking a bath in our big bathroom. I mean, probably taking a bath, not a shower. And that probably means sex. I’m a little, no, I mean a LOT drunk. What am I supposed to do? Anyone have any super … I mean top secret maneuvers?
Sam Kinnison said write the alphabet with your dick.
Tongue. That bit was about oral.
More capital T!
Light some candles and pray ? I mean, light some candles, get in the bathroom with her, and tell her how good she looks.
Popsicle sticks and rubber bands.
I’m too drunk to even put those things together, but…
Duct tape. Oh, wait. For you electrical tape will probably do.
Stapler or Fishhooks will work in a bind.
Dental floss and coffee stirrers.
Aren’t coffee stirrers a bit much? I was thinking toothpicks.
You want to give the poor woman splinters?
I heard OMWC uses spent pinfire casings as condoms?
The toothpicks are wrapped with electrical tape. No splinters.
Which makes electrical tape a better idea than dental floss. Besides, when you’re drunk, electrical tape is much easier to work with.
I’d start with no more drinks while she takes her bath. Try to sober up, man! You’re being sent in!
Call a buddy that she’s had a secret crush on?
TIL:
“Smoked basmati rice” tastes horrible. Can’t possibly make that work, in the garbage it goes.
I fail at every dish I try for the first time. Just happy if it’s edible.
Yeah, I ate a large helping with my chicken stir-fry but didn’t enjoy it one bit.
How is that even supposed to work?
I guess it might have an application in some Indian dish I don’t know how to make. They didn’t have Jasmine (my usual go-to) so I thought what the hell? I like basmati and “smoked” anything is great, right?
Wrong.
It smelled like ant spray or something, TBH.
I don’t know the variety of rice in my cabinet.
I have trouble cooking regular rice. I should find my little rice cooker. That thing made it easy to not fuck it up.
The stuff I usually buy is parboiled. Dead-simple to prepare.
At the rate I go through rice, I need it to last in storage for a while.
? It’s still dry. It stores forever.
Ah.
I’ve never seen it in the store, so I guessed it was refrigerated or somesuch.
Make it and freeze it. Lasts a long time and is ready quick.
parboiled = minute rice
*shrug*
Yep, or Uncle Ben’s.
I usually buy Carolina jasmine. Anything in a small size is parboiled, it seems.
The not parboiled stuff comes in those giant Goya bags.
You have an Asian woman lost in your house?
I hope not. There’s not that many rooms, so she’d have to have alzheimers, and I can’t deal with that right now.
It was something like This but not that brand/model
Really? Rice is easy, if it’s plain ole white rice: put 2 cups of water, one cup of rice, and one tablespoon of butter in a pot. Bring to a boil. Once it’s at a full boil, turn the heat down, cover it, and let it simmer for EXACTLY 20 minutes. Do not check it, use a glass lid or pot so you can see if it is simmering. DO NOT STIR the rice while it is simmering.
After 20 minutes, remove from heat, and fluff with a fork.
Viola
Yup, and I still mess it up.
Dude, you can’t mess up rice unless you open the pot during simmering, or otherwise don’t follow the directions. It’s like, if you mix chlorine and ammonia you will make a poisonous gas.
Try it again, using my method. The only possible outcome is perfect, fluffy, rice.
Sure there is – if you miss the timing on when it boils.
“It smelled like ant spray”
I am guessing the smoke is from some liquid smoke flavor the producer added. God only knows what the solvent they used is.
Get yourself one of these: https://www.walmart.com/ip/Microwave-Rice-Cooker/146535456
Cheap and incredibly easy to use. 1 cup basmati rice, 2 cups water, 1 to 1-1/2 tablespoons real butter, two chicken bullion cubes, a hefty dash of sweet basil. Microwave on high exactly 15 minutes. comes out perfect every time. It is so good you will be tempted to sit with the rice still in the cooker and a spoon and just eat rice.
Occasionally I use the same technique but use coconut milk and finely chopped pineapple instead of the chicken stock and basil. That is for sesame chicken or pork or various other notreallychinese Chinese dishes.
I just use a pot on the stove.
#metoo
Easy-peasy
Liquid smoke is just water that smoke from wood has been forced through. I use it a lot. It’s not a funny chemical or anything weird.
That sounds….uh…yeah, toss it.
I can’t imagine how that flavor/smell combo could work at all.
I don’t get adding strong flavors or scents to bread, rice, or pasta. The strong flavors and scents go in the sauce or toppings, the starch gives a smooth light, neutral base for the strong flavor to play against.
^^^^
Agreed. I’m not a fan of things flavored like other things. I like my ingredients to taste like themselves; if smokey flavor for rice is desired, throw in a hunk of tasso ham or sausage while cooking.
I’m halfway through a bottle of tequila and feeling great. I intend on finishing this bottle. If any one of you sonsabitches want to fight me for it, let’s do shots.
Can you be more specific about the type of tequila?
Cheap, cheap, Sauza gold. Lemme tell you about the provenance of this bottle. It was purchased from a Walmart up the street from where I lived. I also bought a number of perishables there. I’m surprised how plump and firm the squash is. And cheap. I bought a bag of brussels sprouts. All very consistently sized and fresh. I bought an onion. It’s reliably oniony. Seems like they’re robbing my Smith’s of all the good produce. I enjoy all of my purchases from Walmart, including my comparably cheap tequila. But the clientele looks like they mostly snack on cardboard. And that’s unfair, because they seem like nice people looking for a reliably good deal on merchandise, but God help me I am repulsed by the poverty incarnated in these poor souls. Not my sort of poverty. I’m the noble log cabin sort of poor. These are trashy methhead poor, who buy regular colas and their chips in oversized bags.
Cuervo isn’t actually tequila. And I learned my lesson about that stuff in my early 20’s. When I have to call a friend the next morning and ask if I owe anybody an apology, and do you know where these bruises came from, it’s not for you.
#metoo. I have gotten lit on tequila 4 times in my life.
1. punched out a totally innocent guy for stealing a girl’s coat (her friend had it)
2. got into a fight with my friends (none of whom had any idea what I was babbling about) and walked home 8 miles from the bar
3. may have involved indoor target practice in a bar (after closing) but I can neither confirm nor deny
4. Hooked up with a girl I had chased for years
Oddly 4 was the worst of those
Hell is having your dreams come true, buddy. Sad fact.
4. Okay, let’s hear it. 4 was worse for me, too… she told her husband.
I want that story.
It isn’t that interesting, let’s leave it at “never have feelings for an addict”, and I was sort of being funny about it being the worst. Hooking up with her wasn’t the mistake, caring about her before and after was. If it had just been a hook up it would have been fine.
You don’t have sex after drinking tequila. You have pants around the ankles genital mushing.
Man, tequila isn’t anything special. It’s the constitution to drink tequila. That’s what keeps your dick good and firm. Or the cheapness to see a deal of eleven bucks and take it. That’s pretty special.
So you want him to enact your labor? Shitlord.
“….let’s leave it at “never have feelings for an addict”
Oooooooo. Ouch. There is no good way out of that one.
Yeah. I’ve drank tequilla. Lots of tequila. Cheap tequila is not worth buying. Its made from mescal. Same plant that gives us mescaline. Cuervo claims, on the label, that it’s agave. It’s not. They put just enouh agave in there so that they can make the claim. Suaza isn’t that much worse than Cuervo.
The only way to not get hurt drinking tequila is to either not drink it, or to drink good agave tequila. I like Patron, but it’s not cheap. There are much better than Patron, but they are really not cheap. Lowest priced decent tequila in my humble opinion is 1800 Silver.
1800 silver is what I had tonight. It was also my tequila of choice in college. Good stuff.
I will be responding to you in all caps tomorrow.
I am minutes away from cracking open some Bulleit rye. Haven’t had a Manhattan in several weeks. Getting kind of excited about it.
Went out for drinks/eats with some former coworkers last night. Two are single, middle aged ladies (no, you wouldn’t), one a single, middle aged guy and the other a retired salary man. We meet up every year or two for drinks and I only go because of the business contacts I get. They chose some rustic looking Washoku joint downtown. Food was OK and had a couple beers. Fucking bill comes and it’s over $450. “Girls pay $70 each and boys pay $100” says the white knight guy. Dickhead. Dropping a C note for 3 beers and not much food sucks, so I slid him $90. “I didn’t choose the place.” He was pissed, but I don’t care. Don’t volunteer my money to impress the ladies, fucko.
Which one was white knight, the single guy or the retired salaryman?
Single guy. They’re all professionals, make more money than me and don’t have families to support. Even the salaryman’s kid is grown up and out of the house. Why would I pay more than the chicks who ordered top shelf wine while I drank Asahi drafts? Silly.
That sounds ridiculously expensive.
It’s a downtown restaurant, they’re always overpriced to cover overhead.
Japanese prices seem to all be on a par with New York or London prices. Of course the only prices I ever hear about seem to be Tokyo so perhaps it is a skewed sample. I just always wonder how normal mortals (ie not making 250k plus a year) can live in those cities. They all seem to spend most of my monthly net on rent.
I don’t know how anyone can afford to live in any of these cities with their silly costs of living.
You can live in Tokyo easily on 100K a year. Live more than 15 minutes from a station, eat at izakayas when you go out, don’t own a car.
What’s the point of making 100K if you can’t have a car?
Hot Asian wife?
We use ours only on weekends and vacations. If it were up to me I’d have only used rent a cars, but the wife wanted one. Renting the car would’ve been cheaper even if we did it once a month.
So you can’t eat out much, and going shopping means hauling bags on a train, and then walking a mile from the station to your apartment? No car, no house, no convenience, and that is on a salary most people think of as well to do.
So, basically live like you’re poor.
I make $92k, And even though Albany is not the cheapeast region to live in, I don’t have to like like I did when I was poor. It would take a lot more money to make me put up with a bigger city.
Market is probably on residence side of station so not hauling on the train. Depending on where, maybe a bus but really most people walk from what I’ve seen. Walking to/from station and home is probably the shortest walk of the day.
Ok Commodious you make a strong point. Totally worth it.
Your salary is well above the median for NYC. Congratulations.
That just makes me sad, Rhywun.
For day to day, a car in Tokyo sounds more inconvenient that not. The prevalence of public transportation is pretty much unlike most places in the US.
Yes, I eat out all the time and, as Gustave points out, at delicious restaurants. Safety, customer service and public manners. Tokyo destroys any place I’ve been on those 3 points.
Can I get an Uber from Tokyo to Kabul?
UberAir, maybe,
Yes, I eat out all the time and, as Gustave points out, at delicious restaurants. Safety, customer service and public manners. Tokyo destroys any place I’ve been on those 3 points.
Oh don’t get me wrong. My only issue with Tokyo is the cost of living. New York on the other hand…
People have different ways of living and different priorities – crazy!
Are you judging my life choices?
Tokyo is always on the expensive place list with HK, Singapore, NY, London. My first two years here I didn’t make shit. $40k? Still had more than enough for a single guy. Doubt that’s true in the other cities on the list.
As someone with life choices quite different from most here, why would I do that?
My point is simply a rebuttal of “What’s the point of making 100K if you can’t have a car?”
The “Muh Car!” culture thing is understandable in the US. People thinking they’re “free” only if they have wheels is provincial and tired at this point.
So when does that last train leave?
I never need to know.
I don’t like DUIs.
I don’t judge you for drinking, but that’s not a factor that comes into play for me. I only drink aw home when I have a whole night to sleep it off.
In vast swaths of North America a vehicle isn’t a nicety, it’s a necessity. Which, growing up in Wisconsin (right?), I would think you’d get. Maybe I’m misunderstood?
A car represents a degree of autonomy and liberty. I get wanting a car. I can fully understand not wanting one or needing one in a city with limited parking, massive traffic and good mass transit. My issue with those cities is the knife edge you seem to live on. If my entire income went away I could easily find various make shifts to earn enough to survive (and live if not well then at least in reasonable safety). Can you actually do that in the expensive cities? Tokyo probably doesn’t have the safety issue, but London and New York have a serious distinction between the safety of middle and upper class areas and others.
Well, mike, since we’ve bene talking about high cost of living cities, I don’t think that was a factor in anyone’s thinking for this discussion.
But the gas and tolls to visit family two to eight hours away is a lot cheaper than the train/plane tickets, since I have the car anyway. If I didn’t have the vehicle, my family would see me a lot less.
There is no “last train” in NYC.
I’d also add there’s the same element with owning a house (of which there are absolutely single family homes in Japan). From my casual research, the attitude towards housing maintenance is quite a bit different, how real estate value is calculated is different, and there’s a strong preference towards new vs used housing.
20 minute train ride from city center and you can buy a nice new house for 350-500K. Payments of 1.5-2K/mo. Is that crazy expensive? I don’t think so.
NYC is so “gentrified” lately that’s almost not a consideration anymore. Just use your average street smarts and there’s almost nowhere you can’t go.
I have friends who live in neighborhoods today that I would not have considered visiting at all 20 years ago.
The biggest issue I have with NYC is the same I have with California. You are giving up liberty and paying a premium to live there, and for me the trade is not worthwhile. If it is to you, then by all means live as you choose.
Yes, yes it is.
Subtract $500/mo for a car plus gas & insurance, add ticket/pass costs, and it’s pretty darn close to that $650/month (which itself is much lower than the $1400/month average housing cost in the US).
Straff made a statement that sounded to me like he equated people who think freedom means being able to get in a car you own and drive wherever you feel is “provincial and tired”. If he meant it in relation to cost of living in a city, I missed the point. Therefor, I asked for clarification.
I might reach $1k if you count the car costs, but he left out the cost of all those train passes and whatnot.
And that car cost drops to only about $200 after five years and stays that way for five to fifteen. Unless you’re accident prone.
Oh where to start? I grew up in Florida and have been driving since about 14 or 15 years old. However, from 1995 – 2006, I was a strictly a bicycle rider (New Orleans). I got a car after moving to NYC because I don’t really like the subway, I like to be able to carry lots stuff from the store, and it was almost quicker and less expensive to do most shopping out on Lawn Guyland. Also, now we have 2 kids. Wifey and I combined bring in a bit over that figure and it can be quite rough. If her job wasn’t tied to the city, we would be elsewhere. NYC gentrification – I have never encountered a neighborhood here in which I felt unsafe on foot (being a tattooed Beardo the Weirdo probably helps); New Orleans has neighborhoods in which white drivers will have bottles and rocks thrown at their cars. NYC is dirty, smelly, and expensive but pretty damn safe when it comes to physical harm, muggings, etc.. Petty larceny and vandalism on the other hand are quite rampant. And Coney Island has more junkies than I’ve seen in one geolocation.
Company pays commuting costs. No expense there, UCS.
That is not a common benefit. At least on thsi side of the Pacific.
Can you get a hot Asian wife in New York?
And where can I go for the full Miyazaki experience?
Prison, all those girls are like 11
I want the spirits trying to spirit me awaaaaaaaay
If you’re careful and plan ahead, Tokyo is surprisingly cheap as a tourist, with food quality (usually) punching above its weight. I imagine it’s the same as a resident. You just can’t eat at Michelin starred restaurants every day or every meal.
I get burned every once in a while going to places like that. Worst was in Hokkaido where the wife and I went to this quaint little sushi bar. No kid yet, so we just ate and drank as we would at any sushi bar. Over $600. Our fault because we didn’t check the prices first.
Jesus, i’m in the wrong line of work. 600 bucks would be a major expense, not a bar tab.
If I’m paying that for dinner for two, I expect at least one Michelin star.
OMWC has a Michelin ranking?
Normal night out for us is btw $50-100. That is an outlier.
Heads up for Rhywun and the other Carpenter Brut fans – final trailer for “Blood Machines” is out – looks dope. And apparently the festival version they’re screening right now isn’t even the full directors cut that will be released for backers. Cool.
Oh shit, right – I got an email about this this morning. Will check out later.
I noticed one of the festival appearances is in my town.
Fantastic Fest? Looks like fun. I’m trying to get them into Virginia Film Fest, but probably no luck.
“Brooklyn Horror Fest”. (Assuming NY – never heard of it.)
Just watched – sweeeet. I forget – the music is new, right?
Yep, they used some existing songs for earlier promos but this is all new – OST was/is available as an add-on if you backed and will probably be on itunes afterwards.
Right – I think I have digital album + BluRay. The music in that trailer does sound new.
Seriously though – if you’re stuck on I-95 or passing through the Fredericksburg area (or if you see his truck at Quantico or elsewhere), please do yourself a favor and check out my buddies’ sandwich joint Gourmeltz – his stuff keeps getting better. https://twitter.com/FishLikesFlicks/status/1172639059656814593
He has LOTS of vegetarian, non-sandwich options as well.
Twitter links don’t work at home, so I searched on the name.
Is this him?
Yep. His place was packed tonight – still running his Friday night car shows. Lots of alcohol options too – since he got permits for selling bottles, etc. He’s got self-serve taps, cheap cocktails, etc. Duck wings!
Good luck to him. The Food Truck scene is interesting.
OT: Day 11? Portland to Bar Harbor
Maine is a beautiful place. Hugged the coast as much as possible today. Maine drivers are ssslllooowwww. Or, it could be that the median age on the road today was about 78.
Bar Harbor has quite the foodie scene going on. Town gets real quiet about 9:00,though, as I suppose most of the tourists have turned off Matlock and gone to bed.
When he wasn’t making eyes at his girlfriend, our bartender got me onto this . An IPA that wasn’t offensively hoppy.
Going to blast through Acadia National Park tomorrow. I say blast because we’ll probably be in the 5th age percentile of the visitors.
No STEVE SMITH or SEA SMITH sightings.
Sounds like you’re having a great trip.
Couple tries to “break stigma” of going to countries that “get bad rap in the media,” imprisoned in Iran
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-49670973
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“Our biggest motivation… is to hopefully inspire anyone wanting to travel, and also try to break the stigma around travelling to countries which get a bad wrap [sic] in the media,” the pair wrote online.
Few details of the circumstances of their arrest have been made public, but the Australian Broadcasting Corporation said they had reportedly been flying a drone without a permit.
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[head desk]
Places get a bad reputation because of the bad things that happen there.
Nu uh! Its racism!
Derpetology must be a tough career since derp is so self-limiting.
Nonsense!
https://www.thecollegefix.com/this-professor-has-helped-guide-more-than-1000-youths-into-transgender-identities/
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At one point during the recording, Olson-Kennedy is heard relaying a story about a young patient who was struggling with gender confusion:
I said, “Do you ever eat pop tarts?” And the kid was like, oh, of course. And I said, “well you know how they come in that foil packet?” Yes. “Well, what if there was a strawberry pop tart in a foil packet, in a box that said ‘Cinnamon Pop Tarts.’? Is it a strawberry pop tart, or a cinnamon pop tart?”..
The kid’s like, “Duh! A strawberry pop tart.” And I was like, “so…”
And the kid turned to the mom and said, “I think I’m a boy and the girl’s covering me up.”
“It was an amazing experience,” Olson-Kennedy told her audience.
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At the Reuters link
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U.S. parents accept children’s transgender identity by age three
Daniel Trotta
8 Min Read
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Jodie Patterson’s 3-year-old, Penelope, was brooding and angry until one day she asked her child what was wrong.
Penelope, who was assigned female at birth, was upset “because everyone thinks I’m a girl,” but he said he was really a boy.
“I said, ‘However you feel inside is fine.’” Patterson recalled from their home in Brooklyn, New York. “And then Penelope looked at me and said, ‘No mama, I don’t feel like a boy. I am a boy.’”
Almost immediately, Patterson embraced the reality that Penelope was a transgender boy, and by age 5 he was going to school as a boy. Today, at age 9, Penelope is happy and healthy as a boy who loves karate and super heroes and decided to keep his birth name.
Increasingly across the United States, doctors and parents of transgender children are embracing their identity as soon it starts becoming obvious, sometimes around age 3. Many say they are finding much greater chances of happiness and well-being when children are nurtured in their new gender identity at such a young age.
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[anguished Zoidberg groan]
These child abusers need to be separated from children.
Don’t forget the tar and feathers! Same gal in this video:
Radical mastectomies (“top surgery”) for healthy 13 yr old girls in Los Angeles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TrNE8a53dI
KIds that age are still trying to figure out how to masturbate. Persuading them to have their bodies mutilated … How the hell did we get here?
I saw an obituary for common sense about 15 years ago. I laughed, but it seemed like old man yells at cloud stuff at the time.
Not sure what happened. It seems like fewer and fewer people will state the obvious for fear of being ostracized.
The Emperor’s New Clothes has come to life.
Any luck, we’ll be stringing these motherfuckers up by their necks. Not a proper hanging. Choke on it.
I hate to think what they’ve done in the meantime.
Our son insisted for awhile that he was a triceritops. He gave that over when I told him in that case he could only eat raw plants.
A sane society would do so. WTF is wrong with people? Emotionally and psychology ruin a human being whose well being is your responsibility, so that you can look cool and woke. Meanwhile, your abused child is still a mess at age 40. True evil.
I doubt most kids who transition in adolescence are alive at 40. Suicide rates are sky high for all transgendered, and that is with the decision being made as an adult.
I still have trouble with the “evil” label. I think the vast majority of these useful idiots are actually just idiots.
Maybe it’s my optimistic nature. I don’t know. I don’t want to believe that these people know the consequences of their actions. Do they? And I ask this in all sincerity; are there that many people who are truly, consciously evil?
I tend to see the “good” in people too.
Unless it’s politicians – they are almost without exception “evil”.
This reminds me of the time I heard someone ask if Hitler was truly evil if he thought he was doing the right thing.
A fool is not relieved of all responsibility merely because he is a fool. Kundera wrote that about the commies regarding the question of whether they truly thought they were doing the right thing.
They self select for evil. It is after all a job where you only get wealthy if you are corrupt and only get to do what you want by denying others the opportunity to do what they want.
That’s it, isn’t it. Derpy? But is it? I don’t know. Were all Germans who lived within “smelling” distance of the concentration camps “evil” for not speaking out (and likely dying)?
You don’t have a moral obligation to be a hero, that doesn’t mean you get a free pass to go along with everything, just that you don’t have the obligation to walk up and get shot down by the Gestapo. One of the things that scares me most about the things the left wants to do is not the idea of dying in a camp. It is finding myself forced to choose between going along with evil to survive and dying in a camp.
No, you certainly don’t get a free pass. But you also don’t automatically deserve an “evil” label.
I don’t have an answer; I just sympathize with idiots who honestly don’t know any better, and intelligent people who are afraid to die.
Evil is as evil does. Being stupid doesn’t make you not evil.
These poor kids. This era is as bad in its own way as the Thalidomide days.
At least with Thalidomide, the reaction wasn’t to cheer it on, and I’m sure a lot of those doctors would admit it was a mistake to prescribe it.
*taps out*
Christ. Children raising babies. God help us.
WTF is wrong with that kid? What’s so confusing? The adults are doing everything they can to help it be a valued member of the correct society.
Gotta score those woke points. Orange man bad!
I can’t help but notice that transgenderism is conspicuously absent from the vast majority of human history.
Perhaps this because in other times and places, the opinions of children were not held in high regard.
You’d change the label on the pop tart box not scrape the strawberry off.
LEAVE THE KIDS ALONE
Mrs Fourscore and 3 nieces and I went to an Indian Casino tonight for crab leg buffet. Legs were cooked to perfection and the meat came out in big long pieces. To my opposition the girls picked up the tab, saying that I had always picked up our past meals/dinner. Food was good, plentiful and being out with 4 ladies is a great experience for a duffer. Lotsa laughs, memories rehashed.
These were kids that came to the US as boat people years ago and have done wonders being successful. Great times
Sounds like a fun outing.
Sounds like a perfect night to me, old man!
Gotta be proud of those girls.
If I remember correctly, you played no small part in their success. Good for you, 4X20
Glad to hear systemic institutional patriarchal problematic racist sexism didn’t ruin the nieces.
Honey overcomes the patriarchy!
As is usually the case, I wait until half+ of the Glibs are offline to ask a question suited for as many eyes as possible:
Does anyone here use a WBS? An assignment in my Project Management class is to find a WBS template and fill it out for our project. There’s a ton out there, I’m just looking for recommendations if anyone has them.
I’ve never even heard of it…
*looks it up*
…by that name.
It’s something we’ve done in an unstructured manner.
Looks like a to-do list to me.
That is 50% of project management.
The other 80% is herding cats.
Sorry, That’s the part of my brain I did a CTRL A Delete on. Wish you hadn’t even brought it up.
Silly me, but how do you know who’s online?
I’m guessing it’s an estimate based upon current activity and past patterns.
Well, I’m not.
Yes. We’ve all done it, and it’s basically just to-do list on ‘roids.
I think the entire exercise is a waste of time, because it’s a group project, but the instructor has us each individually finding a WBS and filling in the blanks for our class project. Individually. I should probably just half-ass this one and be done with it.
Anyway, anyone have a favorite?
I should say; it’s the weekly assignment, not a semester long thing. I assume next week we will pick one and use it as a group from then on.
As usual, I am over-thinking this. I’ll find an Excel template, half ass fill it in, and be done for this week.
I suggest a Gantt chart- made famous from WW2 ship building.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gantt_chart
Well. That was the most engineering I’ve done in quite a while.
That’s got to be a different unit in the class.
Oopsy, WW1, not its more popular sequel.
Fun fact: Gantt charts were the basis for Soviet 5 year plans.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Polakov
Spoiler: you can’t plan an economy the way you can plan a ship.
Yeah, a lot of them do incorporate Gannt charts.
Sorry I hate those things. We have 7 people in our office and TPTB keep drawing up crap like that breaking down responsibility for tasks (ignoring the fact that basically everything in each section ends up assigned to the same person)
Building all of QA got assigned to me because there needed to be a name on the project plan.
I don’t think it will be done in November.
Yeah, I leave that crap for my boss to worry about. I HATE that shit with a passion. I recognize the need for it, but it’s not in my wheelhouse at all.
None of it ends up on my plate either. I only work for them part time, the rest I am doing my own practice and all I really deal with for them is drafting and reviewing docs, but I watch the idiocy that they inflict on their staff in the name of some magical efficiency with dismay.
They have an acronym for….”Hey shithead go do (fill in the blank)”?
I blame the Pentagon
Getting narrow columns upthread, so I’ll put it here: if you like where you live and aren’t living there to please someone else, good for fucking you. Enjoy your life and where you live. Silly to project your priorities onto someone else. Not trying to offend anyone. Just clarifying.
What’s the acronym for that?
Stffnrn.
TPS
FYTW
The fun’s in the debate. I’m sorry if I god overexcited and used judgemental language.
Does “provincial” and “tired” count as judgemental language?
Only when in response to being told life sucks if you don’t have a car. Just giving his shit back to him. In fun.
I remember not having a car.
Life sucked. It was fun having the bus rescheduled so I had to walk home after work. Sure it was only three miles, but it was winter, and there was no sidewalk.
When I was in my 20’s or so, yeah, I always wanted a nice car. Turn 50 this year and I adore walking.
10-4
While I like my provincial life, a small part of me is jealous for you guys that live in major metropolitan areas. I think I could live in a Tokyo or NYC type setting. Or, I could have had I made that choice years ago.
People back in my hometown think I think I’m better than them for leaving. Ooh, Mr worldly is back for a visit to look down on us! I’m thinking they feel like I rejected them or something. I try to make it clear that I’m glad they’re happy living there still. Of course, that too comes across as pandering and looking down my nose. Country bumps can be as big of fucksticks as metrosexuals.
^This is to explain why I get prickly at these conversations and not about what anyone here said.
People are people. Sometimes people do things like build amazing pyramids, the Colosseum, or The Tower of London.
Then they kill a bunch of other people in them.
Hoo-boy. Ain’t that the truth.
Some years back I went on a business trip to LA with a co-worker. We had some time to kill the day we got in and ended up at Venice Beach. I’m not exactly a cultured man, but I had to tell this country-bumpkin to stop staring at “weird” people more than once.
I actually still wear it as an “internal badge of honor” that I was more accepting of the colorful cast of Venice Beach than I was of the mouth-agape staring of this northern redneck.
How dare you deprive these attention seekers of the attention they’re craving!
I’m very much a country mouse, despite living in a suburban area. However, there was something nice about the season of life I spent walking to work and hopping on a train. Never again for me, but I can understand the enjoyment of that lifestyle.
Now that I think about it, that walk up and down Venice Beach that day laid a not-insignificant amount of the foundation of my move from conservative to libertarian.
Pfft, but who listens to some dude who doesn’t even have a car.
I have car, ya bastard.
Do you drift? Is it stored in one of those auto mat garages?
It’s a japanese car, he probably keeps it in his briefcase.
Smartcars don’t count. ?
That joke is dated to an era before you were born.
My next car if I just went by the name.
https://www.toyotarentacar.net/english/lineup/wagon/w3_03/
Dude… that IS the fun.
I’d give anything to be pleasant to someone who’d have me.
Well maybe not anything, but quite a lot.
Actually yes it would by anything, who am I kidding, have my child.
That right there should be on Craigs List. Hang it all out there.
Suicide note: nearly had to go to Craigs list.
But I don’t have a front hole. *Sobs*
Torn between jokes: Should I go with “ahh Asian wife keeps your penis locked away, including the hole huh?” or something really offensive and racist about the skin color you would end up with if you couldn’t pee?
I want jaundice so I can fit in.
https://www.amazon.com/Daiso-Japan-Beauty-White-counts/dp/B07Q28875F
Program note: Tejicano has requested an early morning time slot for his latest posts, so there will be no morning links tomorrow. Instead, one of Tejicano’s posts will run at the regularly scheduled OMWC links time.
Okay.
Now I’m curious why.
Because he’s in Japan and that’s after he gets his kids to bed so he can be online.
Sure, have a sensible reason ready.
But…what will OMWC do?
a toddler
LOL
Sleep in?
Bring me breakfast in bed?
Go for a hike?
Write a geeky audio thing?
Play with The Wonder Dog?
Answer his mother’s 84 iterations of “I’ve been here for HOW LONG?!” ?
The glibs afterparty is amazing. SP can you please reset me?
I have not good feelings about this.
Are you ok?
SP has a real life reset button for people? Ok, what do I have to do? Kill someone? Bribery? Stop making pedo jokes about OMWC?
Well, a sleep of no matter how short a duration re-sets my MIL.
Eh?
I’m guessing one of those things won’t happen.
Yeah, I don’t see him hiking in 104 degree weather.
Funny I was guessing only one would.
looking forward to it
Question for the writer glibs. I’ve been procrastinating on the next episode of the Lizzie Warren origin story series because I’m having a hard time getting a story arc to come together. I have a few scenes in my head, I have an end goal, but I’m trying to balance fidelity to her actual personal characteristics against historical plausibility and a coherent and compelling story arc. Any suggestions on how to balance all of that?
If the factors are contradictory, you have to decide which are more important.
I’d recomment coherent and compelling story. you can get away with a lot if you have that.
“Kill your darlings.”
I’m reminded of my brainstorming list for “On Unknown Shores”. At 29k words, I’m worried about pacing for all the items on the list and how much that might make the story drag.
Shouldn’t you be doing research for your next NC-17 chapter about now?
I tuckered out poor Mr. Mojeaux.
*puffs on fingernails*
*buffs fingernails on shirt*
Atta girl.
One problem I’m running into as I put this episode together is that she may become too sympathetic of a character. In the first two episodes I’ve been trying to straddle the line between Lizzie being a naive, childlike victim of manipulative handlers and Lizzie being this particularly noxious mix of sociopath, moral scold, and egotist. The greater good of the story arc may make for a relatively forgettable episode 3 of self discovery and groundwork laying.
This always sucks for every writer ever anywhere, including sitcoms and dramas and whatnot. At some point, you gotta step back and say, “Okay, so this is the thing you need to know for what’s coming.”
Find a short subplot you can interleave that has stuff happening so that you don’t just bog down in laying groundwork.
A subplot might too much for the scope of the work.
Sorry, I’m thinking in terms of overall storytelling and forgot the format.
Throw in some perky breasts. Worked for me.. People will wade through a bad plot for those things.
Uffda. Ain’t that the truth.
Right? Given Warren perfectly shaped breasts would be an unexpected twist.
You have no idea how close you are to the plot of ep 3 already.
as* already written*.
*stumbles off to get some coffee*
I would have to go caricature for her. Not a recommendation, just that I can’t write depth into characters unless there is some room for me to empathize and I would struggle to empathize with her. Probably more than with any other current candidate.
Biden is easy. The decaying faculties humanize him. Butigieg seems like he is at least personally likable. Sanders is a crazy old man yelling at clouds and is at least amusing. Harris is harder, but I see her as a woman desperate to prove herself and achieve her ambitions that she has sold every shred of her soul and dignity in the pursuit and left herself an empty miserable husk. there is tragedy there, buried under the evil.
But Warren is just a banal mummy with the personality of a tiered voicemail system.
Hold on a sec. I’m gong to get…a…um…a beer.
But Warren is just a banal mummy with the personality of a tiered voicemail system.
I don’t necessarily want to give everything away, but this is a huge part of how I want to develop the character. Give her a chance to embrace humanity, but ultimately have her reject it for a cold, calculating self interest.
Biden is basically Michael Scott with dementia – a dumb guy with a big ego desperate to be liked
As for Sanders, this made me laugh: ‘The View’ co-host derides Bernie Sanders’ debate showing: ‘Looked like he crawled out of a garbage can’
https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/view-abby-huntsman-bernie-sanders-garbage-can
Warren is grown-up Tracy Flick from the movie Election.
First set up your actual historical timeline. You MUST work around history, so that is your first concern.
Write that first.
What does she want? What has she done in the past to get what she wants? What will she do to get what she wants?
Power
Lie
Lie more
Yes, and that’s a great foundation to build on.
However, you (correct) characterization of her as “a banal mummy with the personality of a tiered voicemail system” will make fleshing out “power, lie, lie more” more difficult.
Yeah the more I consider trashy’s question the harder it seems to me. Clinton and Harris are just as evil as Warren, if not more evil, but they both have a spark of something interesting about them. Warren just seems like Oakland. There’s no there there.
Power
Corruption
Lies
Well, she was a Republican for 40 years before doing a U-turn. Maybe you can work with that?
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Political affiliation
Friends and colleagues of Warren’s from her high school days to the early part of her academic career in the 1980s have characterized her as a conservative with a belief in laissez-faire economics: Gary L. Francione, who had been a colleague of hers at the University of Pennsylvania, recalled in 2019 that when he heard her speak at the time she was becoming politically prominent he “almost fell off [his] chair… She’s definitely changed”.[25] Warren was registered as a Republican from 1991 to 1996.[1] She voted Republican for many years. “I was a Republican because I thought that those were the people who best supported markets”, she has said.[5] But she has also said that in the six presidential elections before 1996 she voted for the Republican nominee only once, in 1976, for Gerald Ford.[25] According to Warren, she began to vote Democratic in 1995 because she no longer believed that the Republicans were the party who best supported markets, but she has said she has voted for both parties because she believed that neither should dominate.[47] According to her, the Republican Party is no longer “principled in its conservative approach to economics and to markets” and is instead tilting the playing field in favor of big financial institutions and against “middle-class American families”.[48][49]
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I suspect she pretended to be a Republican for the same reason she pretended to be a Cherokee.
I’m thinking her origin parallels Young Frankenstein.
Hey–power corrupts
Also, if you let it kick around in your head for few days, it’ll come naturally to you. If we told you how to do it, it’s going to miss some of the elements you want in the story. Seriously, sleep on it a few days.
Random writing question. How much would it strain suspension of disbelief for a people to build on the ruins of previous structures without infilling the old structures, leaving passages under the city?
I thought that was fairly common practice.
I’ve been watching a lot of archeology shows of late, and demolition rubble infill to make a level surface is a fiarly frequent find in reused sites. I’d imagine it also gives more confidence in the foundations.
I believe both Chicago and Atlanta have such passages now.
+1 Lower Michigan Avenue
Allegory for the destruction of reason, apocalypse and USA 2.0?
No, features of a very old city in a fantasy book.
Plus, it’s where the narrator finds a hostile cult.
Then go for it. Even if infilling is common, rubble settles and a cult could easily do some clearing of areas they wanted to use.
Love seeing modern structures mixed in with ancient stuff. Ties the past, present and future together in a tangible sense.
Maybe the ruins are a spaceship.
/book I read
Is there a Thing in it?
No Things. Nothing… visible.
See: Paris and London
Sounds like Seattle, actually.
In keeping with the bird theme, Festus chickened out of bowling night. Forced merriment is not my bag, man and those people are nice enough but not so much that I’d want to spend three hours every Friday evening with them. Strike the first. The joint is licensed but they are all apparently tea-totalers. Strike the second. My haphazardly recurring and somewhat crippling case of social anxiety disorder means that I don’t enjoy structured play dates. Turkey!
If there are any hot chicks at the alley, you can always enjoy the bending over.
That’s part of the reason that I’m adding this to that ever-growing stack of failure that I keep in the back yard. Someday soon the city will become overwhelmed with complaints and I’ll either have to demolish or assume a different identity and start afresh..
Felicity Hoffman should’ve gotten 5 years in prison.
https://mobile.twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/1172663320169668609
So many convincing hot-takes!
It really is about making oppression equal and not lessening it.
Bucket of crabs or frogs in the warming pot, choose your own adventure!
She and the others are vapid twits but nobody should be doing time for these transgressions. The public shaming for the high profile ones plus a substantial fine would be better. This isn’t any different than rich kids getting to join travel teams for youth sports. It isn’t fair but nothing in life is fair.
And none of the students were expelled by the schools after they learned about the so-called fraud either.
For some reason, I want fried chicken.
No place that makes good chicken is open right now.
there are open places that make crappy chicken, but I don’t want that.
I guess I’ll stay here.
If you go out, could you get me some bleach and a subway?
With or without a noose and some red hats?
Length of rope and lawyer on speed-dial optional?
No idea what you guys talking about. I just want to fake a hate crime.
Well you are a Minority there. Should be easy, barely an inconvenience!
Quit smirking, racist!
Seriously though, the best fried chicken in our town is to be had at a gas station/convenience store. Beats the shit out of the Colonel.
Our gas station specialty is ice cream (the chain is owned by a dairy.)
Rice, cooked the way God intended it (this recipe originally given to me by Mrs. Betty Lumb, owner of the erstwhile Kwongchow Chinese restaurant in Toronto’s Chinatown in the early 1970s):
1 part rice
1.5 parts water (e.g., one cup of rice and 1 & 1/2 cups water)
Bring rice to a boil, then turn the heat down until the water is barely simmering. Cover and simmer for 20 minutes. Then turn off heat and let rice sit for 15 minutes. Serve.
Most North American recipes call for too much water, making the rice mushy. The above recipe makes “typical” Chinese “steamed” rice. NOTE: if using brown rice, do NOT alter the amount of water, but increase simmering time to 45 minutes, then proceed as above.
This recipe has been bullet-proof for me for the last 50 years. Thanks, Mrs. Lumb.
Rinsing the rice with cold water in a colander before cooking reduces the surface starch and helps keep the kernels from turning to mush.
If you’re gonna eat it with chopsticks or even some styles of forks, you’re gonna *want* the rice to clump. Individual grains are almost masochistic to eat.
This. I want my rice to clump.
Fair point. I like my rice dry and fluffy and eat it with a spoon as Christ intended.
I think you can cook brown rice much quicker than that if you bring it to a full boil. I boil mine for maybe 15 minutes, then turn the heat down to medium-low, put the lid on, and let it steam in there for another 8 minutes. Comes out great every time.
Perhaps it comes out softer if you cook it for longer, though.
For my late-nyterz: got my friend’s b-day tomorrow evening, so I will be late in getting on (this time tomorrow, at least). But, please–do talk amongst yaselves while I’m out.
Also, thank you, SP, for getting me approved.
Your input is always welcome my good Sir
Why, thank you, good madame!
Have You taken a good look at rhe crazy moon tonight??
No. I should do so!
Wow! First pleasant Texas night in months!
Overcast here. No harvest moon for Festus. Your late night shennannigins are really hurting my double shift Sunday productivity. Please keep it up!
Festus….are you hitting on me?
/intrigued, sure.
I did! Looks like a brilliant silver coin in the sky. I tried to take a picture of it with my phone, but it’s not made for that.
Mine kept trying to autofocus.
/dammit
Use a real camera.
so cruel….
Nope. Just a photographer.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/married-man-who-died-having-20016722
Do what you love and you’ll never work another day again.
I could stand to do what I love… ::sigh::
*Nelson laugh* Grandson #1 has pulled the old “I’m staying at so and so’s house and his buddy did the same”. Fifteen year- olds out on a tear and his Mother is worried sick. Thinks back just a few short years ago wherein said Daughter would leave marks on the siding from her Docs and little footy prints in the snow doing the exact same thing at the exact same age. It is to laugh.
Same trick I meant,since time immemorial…
Teens are crafty bastards, Thankfully, that tends to be inversed with experience.
The funniest part is watching Grandma commiserate while trying to keep a straight face and me guffawing in the background. Where have I seen this flick before? Musta been twenty years ago but there was an earlier version from before. Might have been in B/W… Something Festus sneaks out the window to go party something something.
Update – they found him and drug him home by the ear. He turned his phone off but his Step-dad went to the house and grabbed him. Jesus Christ, let a kid venture some you fucking nannies. He’s doing the same shit that I was doing at twelve. I weep for the future, I truly do.
Updated Don Escaped’s crossword post with the solution, and the whole shebang as a pdf, as well.
Thanks SP! You’re a gem!
OK, kids, time for my regular site updates. Hang tight.
And done.
Ciao. Don’t stay up too late!
I was told there would be cookies and nipple hugs! I wanna go home!
You ARE hitting on me!!!
I asked nicely but now I need to know where are my nipple hugs!
“lamby nipple chops with assy mint sauce”–got it!
Late night music. Haven’t heard this in a while. Love it.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CnVf1ZoCJSo
A man after my own heart! I hitchhiked to Vancouver to watch that tour with fifty bucks in my pocket and a knife in my boot. The Tubes, Peter Gabriel and David Bowie. Still have the ticket stub. Off topic, Grandma and Grandpa have been fighting over Grandson’s actions and his parents reaction. She’s not a libertarian.
Present for ya, Straff! https://youtu.be/QZ-bq4E2AKc
Nice.
who’s making more headway?
Dry theory and reason have no chance against maternal instincts. I’m afraid that all that I’ve done is kick a simmering hornet’s nest of discontent. I still think it’s weird for a mother to keep constant tabs on a fifteen year-old boy. Why do you think bedroom door locks were invented? Fuck. When I was fifteen i’d already visited my first strip club, bought liquor and been away from my family for months. A little while later I was taking care of my own shit. Working, commuting to school two hours both ways and keeping my grades up. Fifteen year old kids do dumb shit but turning your phone off shouldn’t be a capital offence. That being said, he has been raised as a spoiled little ne’er do-well.
You know what they say–It could be that the purpose of your life is simply to serve as a warning to others.
/I am joking
Wifey made the same argument and promptly felt bad about it. *shrugs*
I still remember getting knee-deep in shit and my Grandad just laughing and laughing. Grandma would bark at him “Charlie Ross!” and it would send him into even more paroxysms. The time that I got banned from camp for teepee creeping into the girl’s tent when I was 12 was the best example. I’d never seen Grandpa laugh like that and he was the one that picked me up at the school. Bought me an ice cream cone on the way home.
The monkeyshines that my grandfather and his brother got up to in 1920s Birmingham, Alabama would be felonies (at best) today.
Ah. Back when “mumble-d-peg” was a game that boys would play! I remember being both horrified and yet fascinated by the tales Grandpa would tell. One of my favorite aphorisms that I still use to this day is when I cut a ripper and exclaim, “A fartin’ horse is a workin’ horse!”
(Taps microphone) Is this thing on?
Right here, M’lady
Oh hi! I see there’s a new thread so I will migrate…
Hanging on by my fingernails. I’d salute but, well. You know…