Tues..day Aff…ternoon. Is that how the song goes? Somebody put AM gold in my head this morning and now its all a big ugly mess of shitty hair and soft-focus. How the Hell are you?
To move things forward about a decade, Aldi is selling 80s inspired cheeses. Its amazing to me how time condenses genres as long as they had sufficient radio airplay.
I want to thank our Glib contributor who pointed out that China is probably the reason the US is abandoning the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty. And now France is flexing? Bruh. Just… Don’t. Your embarrassing everyone.
I don’t know about saving me from suicidal ideation, but the only time I really felt like I understood Apocalypse Now was on a slide into the k hole. Who knew that all those years in my early 20s I was pursuing potentially effective medicinal cures? Certainly I did not.
US Army prepares to invade LA!
Can’t understand why Aldi didn’t pick this band. The very definition of trying too hard.
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They use GHB for suicide intervention in other countries.
George Herbert Bush?
A pair of fancy socks can really cheer someone up.
If you aren’t careful, GHB will really grab you by the ass.
Obvious joke: It’s a good fit, since hair metal was so cheesy.
That joke is no gouda.
This thread needs some bleu humor.
Can we get Swiss in here to poke a hole in this thread before it gets too far? You know you can use puns to have fun, dude.
He’s stuck in Monterrey, Jack.
Whey to light the Swiss signal!
We will be getting some sharp gazes.
That guy can be a real muenster!
Havarti you no decency?
Tread Caerphilly around Swiss.
Gruyere.
And yet nothing from Ratt. Hmmm.
*thrown out trying to steal first base*
I can’t imagine why.
Reminds me of an old friend’s “goth” character he used to crack us up with. “I’m so saaaaaaad. I’m going to wear frilly shirts and drink red wine while I write poetry by candlelight”
I think BakedPenguin is having a similar experience with Photoshop.
Yes, but I’m not suicidal. I’m homicidal, especially to anyone who works at Adobe.
Don Music feels his pain.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jfqc07-C4Vw
“A series of loud booms that rocked downtown Los Angeles on Monday night startled some people who complained on social media. But Los Angeles police said there’s no reason to be alarmed.
The noises were part of a U.S. Army training exercise involving aircraft and weapon simulations in urban settings. The training is set to run through Saturday in Los Angeles and Long Beach.”
I live about 15 Miles from Ft. Chaffee. That’s where the arkansas national guard does their artillery training. I know what it’s like to hear the military doing their thing. It can be pretty damn loud.
It can be a little hazardous too if the artillerymen get a little sloppy with their calculations.
https://5newsonline.com/2014/06/06/misfired-artillery-shell-damages-mans-home/
Must have been Sgt. Hulka’s platoon.
“I think we should thank our newest buddy and big toe.”
How’d those Hulkaburger franchises ever turn out?
“RIGHT 700, DROP 20000, OVER”
That’s a no fun day for a Lieutenant and the E-6 Gun Chief.
Related, though not with the Guard:
Avalanche Control
That was about 5 miles from my house. I never heard anything more from the army other than, “the situation will be dealt with,” but I figure whoever was responsible for that shell end up being put through a wringer.
Explanation of the last Battle of Los Angeles.
62 years ago I got my mail (but not very much though) at Ft Chaffee. I had never been out of MN before that fateful day. A real experience for a country boy.
God, Poison was the worst. True story – I was watching old videos on YouTube and my 8 year old daughter came by while the Cult was on. She tells me, “That guy looks like a girl”. I tell her, oh, wait, you haven’t seen anything yet, and put on Poison. She was rightfully appalled.
Who wants to watch a ROCKSLUSIVE DR ROCKSO music video?
I do c-c-c-c-c-c-coc-c-caine!
Left off the link!
If this isn’t posted by the time I’m done reading and posting it myself…I’m gonna be ashamed of y’all.
C-c-c-c-c-COCAINE!!!
I actually saw the Cult live. They suck live and Ian Astbury is a douche.
I was waiting for the drummer to explode a la Spinal Tap.
I don’t doubt that any of that is true – never seen them live. Love Removal Machine is still a great song.
Astbury was drunk, stoned, or both. Literally every other word that came out of his mouth was “Fuck”
Sounds like my dad’s experience seeing Neil Young.
I saw them too. Had horrible seats behind the stage. We could see partly under the stage platform and there was a dude down there with headphones on playing an electric guitar the whole time. Looked like he was playing the songs the band was playing. I guessed the audience was actually hearing him instead of the dude on stage.
You are correct about that dude. He was a friend of mine.
Bite your tongue. Puts on his Electric T-shirt and Buys some Sanctuary.
I saw The Cult live about two years ago. What a disappointment. I really love their music so I anticipated a good night.
Ian Astbury never, and I mean not once, belted out the really powerful parts of the songs. Instead he shook a tambourine like it owed him money. Thanks dude. I’ll go watch Stevie Nicks if I want to hear a tambourine.
I looked for some video of their other concerts. YouTube has plenty. I don’t think he has ever been able to belt it out in concert like he does on the records. I saw shows going back to the 80s in which he did the same sort of thing.
The rest of the band was great. Billy Duffy lit it up when he supposed too. The other band members looked like they were having a good night. But the show was a let down.
Once went to see The Cure. The person on the PA introduced them as The Cult.
https://youtu.be/_88L-CU7PD4
related – back in ’89 I saw White Lion open for AC/DC. Who thought that was a good idea? People were booing at White Lion, who played way too long. We wanted to see Angus Young, not these fuckers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwreM2fBvqE
We could play “who’s worse?” with hair bands all day.
Worse – White Lion or Warrant?
False, Zebra!
No, that’s who’s behind the door.
Did the referee. I saw Garbage when they opened for Alanis Morrisette
*reverse
Lol, I did that — Concrete Blonde opening for Sting.
I have you all beat — Nirvana opening for Mindfunk.
So, one’s only happy when it rains and the other is just never happy?
I think Ratt is a bit underrated.
Powerman 5000 opened for KISS when I saw KISS. I thought they were going to get boo-ed off stage. I went to the bathroom thinking I wouldn’t hear them as well, but no, either the venue bumped the music into the concourse or the acoustics in the arena were fucked up, but I could hear them just as well in the bathroom as in the arena.
Its amazing to me how time condenses genres as long as they had sufficient radio airplay.
The local “greatest hits of all time [sic]” station plays Def Leppard and Bon Jovi to death, but not GNR. And a ton of Eagles shit.
Why are you listening to that station? Is it some sort of G. Gordon Liddy mind training?
I usually only have it on during the classical station’s begathons.
We have something in common?
\Classical music junkie
“I was at a party once, and Liddy put his hand over a candle, and he kept it there. He kept it right in the flame until his flesh was burned. Somebody said,’What’s the trick?’ And Liddy said, ‘The trick is not minding.’”
Goddammit. Another brain worm to kill.
Just so I’m clear – a drug that’s been around forever works amazingly in small studies, but suicidal people aren’t free to give it a shot because it might kill them without more studies? Or something?
Even worse, a big chunk of the costs in getting old drugs approved for new uses is…the FDA! Instead of taking something that’s been proven safe (and effective for one purpose) and just saying “Hey, it’s safe, experiment if you want”, they require any new uses to go through the same expensive process.
You can re-use some of the tests (like the Phase 1 safety studies), but yeah. It’s fucking expensive. And the Phase 1 tests aren’t the expensive ones.
And then “they” (you know who they are) complain about drugs being expensive.
Just hire the next Amy Winehouse and you can do a study on the effects of Ketamine.
Good job snowflake. Way to live up to your cohort’s reputation.
Panic in the Year Zero
Tuesday Afternoon
Tuesday
Saturday
Sunday
Wednesday
Thursday
Now I haz a sad because the owner of that luscious voice died.
Yeah, he was pretty awesome.
Good choice on the Charles Mingus
Someone has to try and class this joint up a bit.
Better Sunday
What? No Monday.
https://youtu.be/1gDhR1R3S0s
Monday
Friday night
Monday Morning
Tuesday Morning
Moar Sunday
The best. The brightest.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Vermont independent Bernie Sanders said that Americans should be “outraged” at profitable American companies “laying off workers while spending billions of dollars to boost their stock’s value to further enrich the wealthy few.”
In a New York Times op-ed published February 4, the pair proposed a new bill that would require companies to put their employees ahead of stock buybacks.
“Our bill will prohibit a corporation from buying back its own stock unless it invests in workers and communities first, including things like paying all workers at least $15 an hour, providing seven days of paid sick leave, and offering decent pensions and more reliable health benefits,” the senators wrote, specifically citing Walmart and Harley-Davidson of being guilty of favoring shareholders over employees.
————
“Far too many workers have watched corporate executives cash in on corporate stock buybacks while they get handed a pink slip,” wrote Schumer and Sanders.
One more tragic example of billionaires who think they should be allowed to decide what happens to the money under their fiduciary stewardship. When will this kkkapitalist nightmare end?
Ok, no buybacks. Going to limit dividends next?
And after that, poor returns for pension and other retirement funds means the companies have to contribute more to them
Did they somehow think Atlas Shrugged was an instruction manual?
These clowns are economic illiterates. Where do they think all those public union pension plans invest their money. They must be intent on bankrupting all these companies by forcing them to have pension plans.
I’m looking forward to those Aldi cheeses. Some of the fancy cheeses they sell now are pretty good.
As probably everyone knows anyway, Germany’s Aldi Nord owns Trader Joe’s.
Are the US Aldis upscale, downscale or mid-range?
Slightly down from TJ’s, but not bad overall.
They started out downscale, then during this last recession they moved to more mid-range, which I think was a great move. They keep adding more name brands and better products. I buy everything I can there, then go to *gasp* Walmart for the rest.
^^ same here.
They are about the same as they are in Germany at least. I didn’t go to the ones over there (Germany) that much – preferred Edeka. Here I generally go to Publix…
Thanks to everyone who responded.
Oscars show to go hostless.
I read that as “go Hostess” and I thought… ya know Twinkee the Kid and FruitPie the Magician would be dope hosts for the Oscars.
I read it as “go topless”.
I did too. Unfortunately it would probably end up being only Gerard Depardieu. Speaking of which, thicc?
Yes but not in the way HM likes. *Cues Spudilicious to post a Demi Rose link*
Please, that’s Count Potato. Get your tubers straight.
Long long time ago he was thin.
Topless Twinkee the Kid? Pass.
Topless Twink, the Kid?
He’s already topless. That vest don’t cover much.
I’ll tune in once it turns into a Battle Royale survival scenario. My late-republic bloodlust demands to be sated.
7 Best Actors enter, one Best Actor leaves!
Means a lot of Duane Johnson movies in our future?
Adam Driver was a Marine and he’s younger, he can take the Rock.
Bring back the corpse of George Carlin to host.
Titty Tuesday presents busty Aryan beauties in celebration of Team KKK winning the Super Bowl.
https://thechive.com/2019/02/05/join-the-light-side-with-these-sexy-blondes-47-photos-2/
1, 3, 6, 21, 26, 39, 42, 46.
A lot of that blonde hair comes from bottles.
LOL. And that is the least of the fakery that is going on with many of those women. But like any good fantasy, just willingly suspend your disbelief.
UCS just wants to check the carpets.
Verification is important.
I suspect it’s almost all linoleum.
No archive link?
http://archive.is/ymzzC
Jeebus. Chive wins the day.
I guess 35. Or 40.
Blondes ain’t usually my thing.
Love doing the dishes… especially after procrastinating.
/sarc
Why do I own enough silverware to host a dinner party for more people than can even fit in my house?
So you don’t have to do the dishes as often of course
Aspergers?
“To move things forward about a decade, Aldi is selling 80s inspired cheeses. Its amazing to me how time condenses genres as long as they had sufficient radio airplay.”
Dude, that Iron Maiden beer looks awesome. Also, I heard “Run to the Hills” the other day and all I could think about was that noble native american….something Phillips…or Chief Lies A Lot- I don’t remember his name.
They need more heavy metal band-inspired beers
I might buy that Motörhead whisky just for the cool bottle.
Metallica is partnering up with Stone to make a pils. A light beer for a light band.
I drank the Metallica Pils. Easy drinking beer with good flavor. Makes me want to turn off my Bassist’s feed into the mixing board.
Link?
It’s in the same link. I’m a moron. I overlooked Motorhead booze just like I overlooked the band
Lemmy was the man though.
Yes he was.
Just scroll down the cheese article.
Just off the top of my head:
Real brewer/beer; Named after metal musicians / songs
Hammer heart Brewing
Burned at the Stake (OK, ZAO isn’t metal, they are hardcore)
Toxic Malt
Alive or Just Brewing
By metal musicians (with various levels of invovlement)
Bastards Lager
Sepultura Weizen
Razor hoof
Black Tongue (They have a few, and I’m not sure how involved they are in the brewing)
Kluskap O’ Kom
Both:
Todd the Axe Man
Soused (Sunn O))) )
Savor the Swill (Darkest hour)
I need to diversify my beer selections.
They need a Black Sabbath beer, but I fear it will be too dark for my liking
Lots of good beer out there. No reason not to always be experimenting.
I read Sharpshooter’s beer articles every week, but I’m trapped in this collegiate mind set of “as long as there’s alcohol in it, I’m cool”. But, yes, I need to be more cultured
Here, have some rectified spirits.
Don’t drink the whole bottle yourself, or you’ll be dead.
Find a good beer store that has samples. Preferably one that sells make-your-own six pack. Just make it a point to walk out with one thing you’ve never had before (and that costs at least the median price of beer in the store.)
Now I Beer.
Oh lord, how could I forget the greatest beer (name) of all time: Saison in the Abyss???!?
Okay, calling the thread.
Todd the Axe Body Spray Man?
No, but Todd is one of the primary drivers of the oversaturation of overly hoppy IPA in the US market (he drove the flavor train at Surly for a long time.) Not at all my thing, but lots of people love his beer.
Cigar City made an Oderus Ale for the GWAR-BQ one year
Trooper’s not bad, I’m not going to go out of my way to get it again, but it’s not bad.
I have to buy it now. I have no choice.
You drank my beer and I’ll drink yours, too,
Drained my taps until the keg is through,
So while you’re waiting for the next six pack,
You better wait, there’s no turning back
Nice!
Gwar has a line of vape juice.
Ok, no buybacks. Going to limit dividends next?
Of course not. They’ll just be taxed at 97%.
I assume all of this bullshit is a prelude to “compromising” with the right and only increasing taxes by 5% or so.
The business tax cuts were permanent, but the personal tax cuts were limited to ten years. The next step for the Pubs is to make the personal tax cuts permanent.
This is the Dems trying to change the goal to undoing some or all of the last round of tax cuts.
I posted this in the previous thread, but the responses really cracked me up, so let’s try again.
Here’s a poll. With Bill Weld leaving the LP, who is most likely to be their presidential nominee now?
(A) Jeff Flake, because despite the fact that he supports warrant less data collection and advocated for a carbon tax he also thinks Orange Man Bad
(B) McAfee, because the LP will finally realize that they should be offering a real alternative rather than just pretending like a failed Republican politician is an actual alternative
(C) Vermin Supreme, because every crazy old bastard deserves his fifteen minutes of fame
(D) The re-animated corpse of Murray Rothbard, because the Mises Caucus would accept nothing less
(E) Bill Kristol, because fuck it
F) Egg McMuffin
9/10 Men named Hihn prefer him.
Concur, but it’s GayJay/McMuffin. They finally take us seriously, at least 2 people will really believe that.
Elizabeth Warren or Sanders as they have the Niskanen endorsement.
(F) Cougar Killin’ Dude, because that make for awesome slogans.
See that would actually be a cool nominee, so I don’t see them going that route. I’m going to guess Sarwark’s mom
Why does Winston’s mum get no respect?
She’s done without it just fine so far.
(F) Tom Woods.
He would never do it, but he can communicate well and is unlikely to step on his dick when trying to make a point.
Since whoever runs is sure to lose, I would like the message to be on point and clearly spoken.
They will never let Tom be the nominee, even if he got the votes. All the cosmos (so most of the leadership) will resign and mutter something incoherent like “Nazi” and “dog whistle” and “muh…paleo”. Tom could actually build the party and that’s not the objective here
Despite the large number of sincere people in the LP, there are an equal number of people who are there for other reasons. Most prominent among those other reasons are to use the party as a vehicle for personal aggrandizement (principle be damned) and paid operatives from the major parties there to discredit libertariansm.
Yeah. And the latter group is largely in charge
Pfff, if only.
Tom Woods or Kmele Foster would be ideal, and they’re smart enough never to run—which is correlated with why they’d be ideal. Paradox.
“Since whoever runs is sure to lose, I would like the message to be on point and clearly spoken.”
Probably dozens of people in the LP like this. But the message has to be heard, too, so clearly the candidate should be somebody known to the general population.
Who dat? Really, some LP critics keep thinking there is a magic bullet candidate who could have quadrupled the Johnson/Weld total in 2016, but never seem to be able to name that candidate. John Stossel is perhaps the “best” the LP could nominate, but how could he be persuaded?
That ‘stache is too smart to want to jump into that cesspool.
Judge Nap? He’s pretty well known. Also unlikely to do it.
Stossel/Woods
Or Stossel with Lily Tang Williams
(G) Chepe, because Trump
G) AOC. Because True Libertarianism is woke and millennial.
Animal/STEVE SMITH 2020!
Pulling for the John McAfee/James Woods ticket.
Whalesex, drugs, and Rock &Roll!
That One-Eyed Dude SNL Made Fun Of.
RE: mourning lynx and the guy who took down the mountain lion bare-handed
I’m not sure why he’s being regarded as some sort of badass. Why, back in my younger days, I could take care of a cougar using only three fingers.
When I was a youngin’ we would kill 10 cougars every day with just our pinkies as we went to school while walking up a 20,000 ft. hill and kill another 10 the same way on the way home.
Goddamn clouds!
>10 cougars every day with just our pinkies
Really? Figured with that much experience they would need at least two fingers, minimum.
Hookers and blow gave them power.
You don’t understand. You use the pinkie to give em the shocker.
“When I was a youngin’ we would kill 10 cougars every day with just our pinkies as we went to school while walking up a 20,000 ft. hill and kill another 10 the same way on the way home.”
Pffft! We used to kill that many each day, but barefoot in the snow while fending off a grizzly with the other pinky!
That sounds….shocking.
[golf clap]
Someone tweeted “Learn to Code” at a journalist, so he reported him and got him banned from Twitter.
https://twitter.com/bpopken/status/1091374430561939456?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1091374430561939456&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Face.mu.nu%2F
““When you tear out a man’s tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you’re only telling the world that you fear what he might say.”
That’s some mighty fine free speeching there, Lou.
1. A journalist did that.
2. Not only did he do that, he openly said he did it.
3. Not only did he openly admit it, he’s proud of it.
They’re not liberals, they’re commie scum. They should be treated as the propagandists and enemies of freedom that they are. Fuckers like that would happily work for the Ministry of Truth saying whatever they are told to say.
Just like firefighters
Except they actually do useful and brave things sometimes.
It’s a tough call between firefighters and journalists. Journalists are definitely more arrogant, but they’re both pretty useless
Hey!
I’ve worked with firefighters. As far as people go, I’d say they are better than average.
Personal heroes for me right now. Probably saved my mum’s and sister’s houses.
Ash on the face? Problematic!
Way better than cops.
My only beef with firemen – They get paid very well and have lots of free time, the ones who moonlight in the trades are competing against the people who pay their salaries and because they have good bennies via their main gig can undercut the guys actually trying to make a living. In short, if you’re on the dole (even if you earn it) don’t fuck over the guys footing the bill.
Not that big of a deal anymore. When I hired on, many firefighters came from the trades and kept working on the side. In America, you can work as much as you want. And quite frankly, the biggest competition currently is coming from illegal immigrants. And there’s still a shortage of workers in almost all trades.
Now days, most of them come from college with degrees in Fire Science Technology, think they’re the smartest people in the room, and have zero life experience. I couldn’t work in the current environment.
Fair enough, my experience with that is twenty-thirty years old now, and I don’t know of many firefighters still doing that, just an old sore spot from my early days.
“Fuckers like that would happily work for the Ministry of Truth saying whatever they are told to say.”
Where you been? They already do.
They don’t actually work for them yet. Well, the NPR employees do.
But when President Ocasio Cortez nationalizes all the media because of Russian interference in her glorious victory, this fucker will be first in line for a job, talking about we now have democratic media, controlled by the people.
^This
That’s why I ignore them.
Unless it’s necessary for my job or the maintenance of my family, I don’t pay any attention to liars, because they really can’t teach me anything about the world.
Couldn’t just block him, had to get him banned.
Journalists are adult versions of the second grade class tattle-tales.
I know journalists have been shitty to you in the past, but people are reacting negatively to the “learn to code” thing because, whether or not it’s good advice, it’s a potential right-wing dog-whistle:
There you have it folks. All you Nazi programmers can GET OUT!
So, it’s a phrase that might be a secret code? Sounds like it’s good advice then.
It means they haven’t yet come up with a chain of reasoning that “proves” that phrase is somehow racist, sexist or homophobic (etc).
“Dog whistle” is an authoritarian dog whistle. When someone sincerely uses the phrase, or “gaslighting,” it’s a clue to tune them out. (I can get the mindless progressive talking points a million other places, tyvm.)
“If you can hear the whistle, you’re the dog.”
…James Taranto (maybe paraphrased)
What a pussy
This encapsulates why journalists have a low reputation: loose with the facts, thin-skinned, and power mad.
– – –
The “Learn to Code” crowd is just trying to start a dialogue about a very important issue. As we all know, even if something is offensive or incorrect, being used to start a dialogue sanctifies it as virtuous. #learntodialogue
“Someone tweeted “Learn to Code” at a journalist, so he reported him and got him banned from Twitter.”
Well, knowing how to code is toxic masculinity and a phenomenon of white privilege and the patriarchy. If not, girls could do it.
My favorite response is “Thoughts and prayers at this difficult time.”
Bill Weld announces transition to GOP, presidential ambitions in 2020.
Can you blame him? What Republican didn’t experiment With Libertarianism in his youth?
I didn’t.
OK I was wrong. I guess there is no ambassadorship in the offing in 2021.
Good luck Bill, you disingenuous hack.
Nuh nuh nuh nuh, nuh nuh nuh nuh, hey hey, goodbye.
Cato’s Most Libertarian State…
Florida!
(Assuming overall freedom ranking = most libertarian (page 59 of the PDF))
Ok Cato, whatever you say.
Not New Jersey?
It is Cato we’re talking about.
Clearly New York is the most Libertarian, look at the Pro-Woman law they just passed.
“Cato’s Most Libertarian State…
Florida!”
Well, I mean… where else are you free enough to fall through the ceiling of a restaurant, naked?
I had gone to bed before you replied to me about your near death experience. Sorry. I hope you get better.
I just got really sick and had difficulty breathing. I didn’t know what was wrong, so I made a Dr. appt. While I was waiting to go, sitting at home, I just kept falling asleep and my wife was having a hard time getting me to wake up. She told me ‘I’m calling the ambulance, something is wrong with you’. So then I was like ‘No, let’s just go to the emergency room’. So I managed to get to the car and she drove me over there. The next couple of days was sort of an unreal blur. To cut it short, I had heart failure and was pretty much dying. My lungs were half full of fluid, I was basically drowning. I’m much better now. Been off work for 3 weeks, but I’m expecting them to release me to return on Friday. Worst news is that my doctor said no alcohol for now, zero, pretend it doesn’t exist. I was like ‘OK, I hate my life, I’m going to jump off a bridge now’. My wife told him ‘He won’t and don’t take him seriously, he’s sarcastic like that all of the time’. Thanks for the good wishes, looks like I’ll live and even be OK.
That’s good news. I’m glad it was caught before catastrophe struck.
They’re telling me I was lucky. So, yeah.
I treated a lot of CHF in peoples homes. You are definitely a ?.
Sorry. Get well soon!
Hyperion! Goodness gracious. I’m so glad everything is looking up.
Thanks, Mojeaux .
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roma_(2018_film)
Anyone seen this? Apparently it will win the Oscars. Considering how the Academy wants higher ratings then this result will be pretty hilarious.
I didn’t think foreign language films could win Best Picture. If they can, they’ve sure missed out on a lot of good ones. (I mean, they have regardless.)
You made me curious, so according to wiki:
So a film just has to be released for general audiences in Los Angeles to not be considered foreign.
Ah, I see. Thanks.
“Take THAT, Trump!”
Alejandro González Iñárritu or Alfonso Cuarón?
Y Tu Mama Tambien was basically porn, so Cuaron.
Both that and Amorres Perros were excellent films.
WHAT MORE DOES PEDRO ALMODOVAR NEED TO DO?
Tie me up, tie me down.
In regards to the ketamine story; my buddy in the NL (who is now a doctor) brought home a huge bottle of the liquid version of it from Bolivia once and would cook it up into crystallized form. According to him it is a safe drug in the sense that it is very hard to overdose on, it doesn’t effect heart and breathing fuction so your keep ticking. Also if you are self administering you will fall into the K Hole before you can do too much (although I guess that means you did too much). They used to use it to knock people out for surgery, but stopped because of the K Hole thingy. Now it is mostly used in veterinary situations.
You have a buddy in the National League?
Nederland
It’s Joey Votto. His friend is Joey Votto.
No escaping Special K.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6FvsKo162U
Not for nothing, but I’m reminded of my favorite Reddit thread ever, the guy on /r/legaladvice who stole Ketamine from a veterinarian, got sick and wanted to sue.
https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/3xfw1s/vet_clinic_is_using_tainted_ketamine/
I somehow convinced myself that maybe I was having a bad reaction because I drank a beer before, so I tried again
LOL!
Uffda. Tom Cotton can go die in a fire.
Seriously, this tongue bath for DEA agents is fucking sickening. About the only thing he forgot to scream hysterically about is how MJ is going to make all the white wimmen start fucking negro jazz musicians.
I’m absolutely floored that people still think like that.
“Mass casualty attack”…..it is physically impossible for my eyes to roll any further than they are right now.
What possible profit motive would there be in killing over 10% of the US population. These things he’s saying aren’t just stupid, they don’t even make any sense.
Don’t you understand that if you’re within 10 miles of one gram of fentanyl, you will die?
Cotton is such a piece of shit. I mean, we already knew this, but still. MAYBE IF DRUGS WEREN’T ILLEGAL THIS SHIT WOULDN’T BE HAPPENING. YOU THINK?
The stark difference between libertarians and socons is again revealed.
The wife was watching TV this weekend when I just happened to walk by and sat down with her. She had it on some sort of show about CBP and the brilliant agents (I could tell how brilliant they were just by looking at them) were checking out some ‘suspicious’ packages. The one really brilliant looking one was opening someone’s package up and there was some white powder. Uh oh, it could be heroin! Of course it is, everything that is a white power must be heroin! He backs away and makes some remark about how he has to be careful because he might inhale some of this heroin! OH MUH GAWDS! He would surely die if he inhales some minute amount of this stuff. Maybe even turn to a zombie first! OK there, Opie, is this heroin or fucking anthrax? I love that the government employs all the otherwise unemployable retards. Great job, guys.
Projection? After all the statists run the FDA and they are absolutely fine with their customers dying.
That might be the most effective approach that the Feds could take in the Drug War. Legalize it all, but put the FDA in charge of the regulations.
Jesus Pope. Coke is expensive enough already.
Drink Pepsi then. Don’t cry to me.
I really wish that Tom Cotton would defect to North Korea or Cuba and thus ally himself with a country that more closely aligns with his ideological beliefs.
He also praised the heroic actions of the Houston Police in ridding us of those two evil marijuana users and their dog.
I thought you were kidding. But nope.
Yeah, Cotton is operating at a whole new level of copsucking when he can say that.
That’s fucking sickening.
Christ
What a dick.
Jesus. I’m sorry guys. That’s my senator.
I feel your pain.
Better than Warner and Kaine because of the 2A, but yeah, he’s just horrible
>> 57 million Americans
are using fentanyl?
Or are drug dealers just running from house to house injecting it in random strangers?
Cotton is a fucking proggie in a nice suit.
https://twitter.com/RandPaul/status/1092536024385888259
Rand Paul has a good thread on the monsters in the US Senate who just rebuked the president for his troop withdrawals in Syria and Afghanistan.
Orange Man is far less dangerous than these animals who want perpetual war for the sake of perpetual war.
Then they should get to work on that Declaration of War.
*sound of scurrying rats*
I hope Trump says fuck them all and pulls out anyway. He is the CIC. He can do that.
Fucking congress outsourced the starting of wars to the executive, they can duck off when the executive wants to end wars.
He should call them out in the State of the Union.
We might telegraph to our enemies that we’re, what, not committed to holding the hands of local authorities forever?
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/cory-booker-schooled-by-kavanaugh-replacement-pick-after-question-on-lgbtq-law-clerks
“Have you ever had any LGBTQ law clerks?” Booker asked.
Rao responded: “Senator, I’ve yet to be a judge. I don’t have law clerks.”
Booker didn’t miss a beat, and clarified that he meant “someone working for you.” Rao is currently the head of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, a position described as the Trump administration’s “deregulatory czar.”
“To be honest I don’t know the sexual orientation of my staff,” Rao responded. “I take people as they come, irrespective of their race, ethnicity, sexual orientation. I treat people as individuals.
Burn the witch!
Last month I listened to a speech wherein a man (probably white) talked about judging people by the content of their character instead of the color of their skin. Monster.
That’s denying their lived experience, or something. Whitewashing the past.
Ignoring intersectionality is pure hate with a liberal mask!
Oh damn, that is so beautiful.
But after hist tantrum about the phrase “shithole countries” his presidential ambitions are toast. Howard Dean moment.
Pfft, does this lady even English? It’s IRREGARDLESS. WHAT A MAROON!
Rao: I don’t get why everyone is so upset. I was just trying to get more diversity in my office!
HR: Dude, you told that guy interning for you to suck your dick or you’d fire him.
Rao: Exactly. How else am I going to know that I have genuine gays working for me
Ummm…Rao’s a woman. Which makes your hypothetical…problematic.
The Rao grilling is because there’s a seat on the big court currently occupied by a woman that could become available soon, so preemptive strikes are necessary to guard against the looming threat to leftist legal hegemony.
nOT AlL MEn haVe pENiSes
The only way you could know that is if you read the article like some big sissy.
Simultaneously the WaPo publishes this:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/02/05/bookers-grace/
One of the most evil aspects of the U.S. federal government is that it has an agency whose stated mission is to prevent and or delay potentially life saving medication from coming to the market.
That’s evil.
The federal government is a large killing machine that also operates a poorly run soup kitchen
I’ve said it before. A lot of my (corporate) practice has revolved around small pharma companies, so I’ve had to get a good hold around the FDA’s approval process. Had one company spend nearly 9 figures and more than 6 years on getting US approval for a drug that had been approved and in use for years in the EU. It’s horrible.
And yet we hear complaint after complaint that evil drug companies only pursue drugs that will be profitable.
We also hear complaint after complaint about how evil drug companies charge so much for their drugs.
All that the companies I’ve helped represent are developing or have developed are for so-called “orphan” indications, which are diseases or conditions with small populations. A lot of them I’ve seen worked on are for conditions that might only affect 1,000-10,000 people in the United States.
So you have regulations where a company spends a decade (average is about 10 years, which is slightly shorter than the regular drug development process) and in the 8-9 figure range to develop a drug that might only be used by, say, 5,000 people (or less), and the company only has 5-7 years in which to make its money before the drug goes generic. What do you think happens to the cost of those drugs?
Wait, nobody said math was involved here.
Couldn’t agree more. However, explaining hurdle rates to most people is pointless.
Also, fun to have the manufacturing cost thrown back at you. Why that drug only costs $0.25 per pill to make.
And the very same fucking “people” doing the complaining would smear you as a murderer if you advocated reducing the burdens of going to market. All to score a cheap political point. The bastards have blood on their hands.
And we are constantly told by progs how much better EU (and Brit, lol) healthcare is than our own.
That’s because they’ve never even been there and don’t know anyone there. Let alone lived there and used their healthcare system.
That’s why I had to leave the pharmaceutical industry. I had to shake hands and be nice to the murderers who came by to audit our operations with a mind to denying children our lifesaving drugs.
The FDA. it’s just the children we let die together.
Whenever we used to analyze pharma stocks it always blew my mind how long it took for a product to be taken to market. 15 years is retarded and that’s mostly – if not all – the fault of excessive and sometimes utterly BS regulations. I would love to see an impact study on how many lives that could cost.
http://www.ruwart.com/product/death-regulation
The 1962 Amendments to the Food & Drug Act have caused the premature death of about half of the Americans who have died since then. This “living law” continues to reshape our health care paradigm from prevention to treatment. Regulations can have side effects that are just as deadly as drugs.
There is a start.
Here is an interview tom woods did with the author. She goes over the material in her book pretty well.
https://tomwoods.com/ep-1124-death-by-regulation-the-truth-about-the-fda/
Shit – I lost a few bucks on a stock for a company that made dialysis filters – accepted in Europe, but eventually denied by the FDA.
I mean WTF?
If they’re not saying no, then someone might question their usefulness.
“One of the most evil aspects of the U.S. federal government is that it has an agency whose stated mission is to prevent and or delay potentially life saving medication from coming to the market.”
The FDA? Yep, that would be them.
https://youtu.be/LJiFQeQ6gyY
LP prebuttal of the SOTU from that Board of Supervisors guy.
That’s harsh, technically the UK has nuclear weapons as well.
They’re not part of Europe.
That’s where the semantics come in: which of the three European nuclear powers (France, UK, Russia) don’t count?
Well, the island monkeys aren’t actually part of Europe (spoken by a German that I met).
I was just listening to a Hardcore History podcast and Dan Carlin made the comment that before WWII started everyone though France was the mightiest land power in the world.
70 years later and they are the butt of all military jokes.
Napolean left a mark on the Europsyche.
Really, though, the Franco-Prussian War should’ve been the big tip-off. The Battle of France was just the Germans trying to beat their previous high score in the “Time to Paris” game.
““When you tear out a man’s tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you’re only telling the world that you fear what he might say.”
Or maybe you’re just tired of listening to him.
Can’t be. I don’t know a single tongueless woman.
100 Million men still hoping for a hummer
“REVEALED: Bombshell claims that James Brown AND his third wife Adrienne were MURDERED – as 13 people close to the Godfather of Soul demand criminal probe – including the doctor who signed death certificate”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6670545/Bombshell-new-claims-say-James-Brown-wife-Adrienne-MURDERED.html
Does Courtney Love have an alibi?
Maybe throw a cape over him and see if he recovers? He’s been known to fake that shit before.
“Frances Bean Cobain: My dad’s money feels like a loan
Frances Bean Cobain says the fortune she inherited from her late father Kurt Cobain feels like a “big giant loan [she’ll] never get rid of.”
The 26-year-old visual artist – who is the daughter of the late Nirvana frontman and Courtney Love – says she has a difficult relationship with the money she inherited from the ‘In Bloom’ hitmaker, because she barely knew her father when he passed away in 1994, when she was just 18 months old.
She said: “My relationship with money is different because I didn’t earn it. It’s almost like this big giant loan that I’ll never get rid of … It feels like money from somebody that I’ve never met, let alone earned myself.””
https://www.wahpetondailynews.com/national/entertainment/frances-bean-cobain-my-dad-s-money-feels-like-a/article_f3330f75-69a9-5a17-90a8-fc2132c8f4ef.html
Not enough tiny violins in Nirvana’s music for it to be apropos theme music.
Eh, I don’t know what it is like to have my dad kill himself when I am still a baby.
Because you’re more of an Oedipus?
I’m just saying I can sympathize. Her mother was Courtney Love for crying out loud, and the wealth she inherited is connected to why her dad offed himself in the first place (and again, her mom too).
We’re not talking about Paris Hilton feeling guilty about the wealth she inherited.
Also, her name is Frances Bean.
I was just being glib.
You know, whatever guilt you’re feeling for being born with a silver spoon, if you’re not willing to relinquish it, you could do the next best thing and just not talk about it.
This
If you feel that guilty about it, give it away. Otherwise shut up.
I’ll agree if she went searching a journalist out to tell them that. If she was asked during the course of an interview and gave an honest answer, I don’t see a problem.
I’m going to cut her a little slack here. It’s not like she’s pushing the whole “privileged” spiel. She’s giving credit for the money where it’s due – her father. And yeah, I guess it would be kind of weird – getting a fortune from some guy you never met.
More of the article:
“Popular Twitch streamer and game studio employee is among 21 men arrested in Super Bowl child sex sting after he tried to seduce an undercover agent he thought was a 14-year-old girl on the app Whisper”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6671065/Popular-Twitch-streamer-arrested-Super-Bowl-sex-sting.html
I have no idea if he’s guilty, but he sure looks like an asshole.
Was Bill Clinton’s name mentioned as an acquaintance of his? He always seems to be lurking in the background.
Thank God the Super Bowl is done so now I don’t have to think about the Child Sex Epidemic for another year.
Somebody’s an optimist. “Sex trafficking” is the cause du jour, so it ain’t leaving the headlines until the journos get tired of it and drop it for something new.
It’s also the excuse that politicians are using to give police and themselves more power as the drug war moves out of favor.
Purple hair. Anyone want to bet that, if you look, you’ll find a plethora of woke comments from him calling out “rampant misogyny”?
He looks like a giant infant, so I think the 14 year-old (were she real) would have had some splainin’ to do.
it is physically impossible for my eyes to roll any further than they are right now.
“So that’s what a brain stem looks like. Huh.”
My wife and have abbreviated this to “I just saw my brain” or just a brain emoji over text.
“Black Lives Matter launch petition to #Free21Savage after his ‘racist’ arrest as more than 115,000 back Atlanta rapper who was born and raised in London”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6668943/Black-Lives-Matter-launch-petition-Free21Savage-racist-arrest.html
“So that’s what a brain stem looks like. Huh.”
Dog bites man.
https://lidblog.com/northam-planned-parenthood/
What drives PP? Is it eugenics? Or just garden variety hatred of humanity?
If you consider the typical mental outcomes of having an abortion, can you imagine the mental outcomes of working in an abortion mill?
There’s got to be some emotional damage there.
Booya!
Here’s $2 million. Don’t interfere with our baby parts business.
All this story is missing is PP selling baby limbs to the mob for the baby limb black market.
Self loathing.
Dinner
http://imgur.com/gallery/yCPEE1R
WOULD!
I want to visit Japan but I don’t think I’d do well with certain aspects of the diet.
Not a fan of fish. My daughter would be in heaven but not me.
How do you feel about noodles and vegetables?
Cool with that.
My comment is more geared towards I can’t appreciate a part of the culture people enjoy.
Where muh TERIYAKI?!
Bah. There’s far more to Japanese cuisine than raw fish. Or fish period. Don’t let that stop you from visiting Japan. Now straff’s threat to take the next Glib to that place with the panty towels….
I’m with you there. That pic doesn’t do anything for me. I like (cooked!) fish, but I would rarely choose it over chicken or beef. Anything else crawling around the sea – yuck.
Technically, oysters and scallops don’t crawl.
Birds gotta fly, fish gotta swim.
“Anything else crawling around the sea – yuck.”
Okay, good, I’m not the only one. Friggen’ sea bugs eating garbage off the ocean floor do not make me hungry. Paying up to $25 for trash-eating sea bugs don’t increase my appetite.
Plenty of other things to eat. Don’t let it stop you.
I also don’t like sushi.
Funny enough neither do two of my Japanese friends.
I don’t recall eating sushi at all during my last (3rd) visit to Japan.
tonkatsu is your friend. So is Hibachi grilled anything.
I like fish but it has to be cooked.
The best fried rice I ever had in my life, by far, was in Japan. It was divine. Yakisoba was awesome too, and gyudon……
I make a sort of Americanized gyudon…
I fry the steak (rare), then fry some onions in the same pan, then pour in the broth and make it pretty much as normal from there. I slice the steak thin and toss it back in the pan immediately before dishing it out over the rice.
I just feel that you’re not getting the full deliciousness of steak if you didn’t put a good sear on it and leave it at least medium rare.
Excellent. I’m peanut butter and jealous.
Speaking of peanut butter, I was wracking my brain earlier re that bear eating the meth dude. Something something bear preferring junkie. Never enough time.
What’s the orange triangular things?
The yellow ones are tamago (egg), the reddish ones are kani (some kind of pressed crabmeat)
I would eat the hell out of that plate of food.
And then I would demand more. And a beer!
Or a bottle of sake!
That’ll be delicious once you cook it.
/scurries away
It is cooking right now… In my gut.
Delicious.
http://bostonreview.net/literature-culture/anthony-paletta-was-architecture-better-under-socialism
Pan?
Gee, an architectural article with no pictures. II wonder why?
The beauty was just too great for a camera to do it justice. Trust us.
You beat me to it.
Speaking of ugly architecture, Brutalist can go away and die.
Agreed. Yet, some part of the cultural elite is trying to pretend it’s anything but hideous.
The only thing it might have had going for it is it was cheap.
http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20180208-saving-brutalism-the-campaign-to-preserve-concrete-icons
Those people can wear concrete overshoes in a body of water.
I’m reminded of this charming confection on Buffalo’s main square.
These pictures don’t do justice to how awful the architecture is, especially next to a classically beautiful church.
https://archpaper.com/2010/08/boston-reflects-on-peis-brutalist-plaza/
Huh, Google Maps shows the whole thing under construction. Something’s afoot there.
Yeah, development to bring in more cash apparently.
Boo hoo. It’s not your property and never was.
I’ve mentioned before that I work at this monstrosity
Catesby Leigh demolishes brutalism: https://www.city-journal.org/html/plague-cities-and-poor-15838.html
“Brutalism summarily rejected that continuum [of the Victorian era], presuming to erect a radically dehumanized new architecture on the rubble of a demolished tradition. It had no interest in the visual logic of historic architectural idioms and no grasp of the functional and spatial logic of historic urbanism. For that reason, Brutalist nostalgia can only be regarded as a benighted, cult-like phenomenon.”
There is some connection between authoritarians and Brutalist architecture. I dated the City Planner for Austin and some of her favorite parts of our trip to D.C. were the subway stations.
” I dated the City Planner for Austin”
My condolences.
Architects are artists who by and large love to have daddy government implement their vision by force.
Huzzah.
Oh wait, I forgot.. FUCK YOU, WINSTON.
You know what made Soviet construction even better? It was littered with the bodies of starvation victims. That was just the finishing touch, I suppose.
The small details like that are what makes it true craftsmanship.
I went to Adobe.com this evening. I was not polite.
Let ’em have it, BP!
No problem, MS. I generally don’t like being a dick, but you select the paintbrush, it should fucking paint. It shouldn’t be that hard.
Can you imagine how stuffed their ‘Trash’ mailbox is with customer comments?
After trying to use it for a month (and failing badly), no, I can’t. I can imagine how stuffed with hate it deserves to be, but I’ve already littered this website with my own similar opinions, so I’ll STFU.
I’m going to learn to code now. It’ll take less time.
While you’re at it, ask them about the pricing for the standard PDF editor software. $300? Have they lost their fucking minds? $300 fucking dollars just to avoid their retarded subscription thing if you want to edit PDFs?
Have you used the new version? It’s much harder to use as they buried half of the functions inside app icons instead of pull down menus.
Oh, MS’ ribbon philosophy.
I don’t like the new version of the reader. Every time I use it, I have weird issues with print margins and other things that are annoying.
“Kamala Harris to give prebuttal to Trump’s State of the Union”
https://twitter.com/dcexaminer/status/1092860477800136709
Is that an anal sex video?
“.. and, just before *that*, AOC and Mazie Hirono will share a juice box, sing a funny song, and show us the pre-pre-rebuttal they made with construction paper and glitter glue.”
LOL
Horizontal Harris, lol.
Thanks, I needed that, Hyp.
No, that’s stretching things out before the anal.
Now we know she likes foreplay.
Maduro orders several arrests within Venezuelan military to squelch dissent
I know we’re going to get involved in the civil war to come. I really wish we wouldn’t, but we will, because it’s what we do.
The ghost of McCain smiles.
So, we’re going to arm the ‘good’ terrorists against the bad terrorists, or something?
At least the Green Berets. Here are some guns, here’s how you use them. Those are the people who are starving you. Now go.
Fear not, they and the CIA are already there.
+195 Monroe Doctrine
I know this is a pet peeves of mine but who is this “we”?
I really hope not. That would be monumentally stupid.
Never stopped them before.
FU… ah crap, you’re right. Never mind.
Trump: And we’ll take the oil!
Democrats: We’ll never let Trump invade Venezuela, it’s wrong!
*4 years from now*
Trump: We’ve won, we’re going to pull out.
Democrats: Trump wants to abandon Venezuela, we can’t let him!
“About 27 National Guard members were arrested in January after rebelling and posting videos on social media expressing their dissatisfaction with the hunger and economic difficulties that Venezuelan society is suffering under Maduro.”
Loyal soldiers express their satisfaction at that stuff.
National Guard are Venezuelans who also have families going without food and medicine.
Military is riddled with Cubans, especially the top brass.
I say let Bolsonaro handle it. Israeli military are in Brazil already to help deliver humanitarian aid at the Venezuelan border with Brazil. Let’s see what happens when Maduro’s soldiers fire a shot at them.
Oh FFS just off the guy already. They did it to Mussolini….eventually.
https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1092867139269218304
It’s hard out there for an honest behavioral science writer.
Damn, girl. Smoke a cigarette or something.
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/11/architecture-soviet-union-owen-hatherley
Bug, not feature.
Whee!
built environment for the many, not the few, could look like
Butt fucking ugly?
Good grief! I’m done. When people are actually trying to point to some of the most hideous creations with some of the shttiest construction ever to curse God’s green earth as something to aspire to, our culture is finished.
Believe it or not, I’m actually a pretty mild-mannered guy. I don’t actually curse a whole lot. But, this is just plain insanity.
It’s Jacobin-town. Their brains are already broken.
And that’s the triple truth, Ruth.
I just saw Bernie this morning waterskiing.
To really lock in that nomination, Bernie Bae needs to have them get him on camera buzzing past Beta on skateboard on his way to work. Oh yeah, I forgot, Beta’s not in DC as he couldn’t beat Lyin Ted.
I’m actually a little sad that I understood exactly what your seemingly (to many) cryptic comment meant.
BREAKING: Chris Murphy is an idiot.
https://twitter.com/HashtagGriswold/status/1092880511679246336
Bet that story doesn’t gain a lot of retraction.
*narrows gaze*
Even if not for the timing, it would be like he’s accusing Trump of doing the exact same thing that Obama did. But somehow it was OK when Obama did it, but now it’s bad since Trump is doing it. These people have no shame.
Satie: Gymnopedies.
Damn it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fuIMye31Gw
Assault Weapons Ban of 2019 Filed by Feinstein in the Senate
Apparently it is called S.B. 66. There’s a Palpatine/Feinstein “Order 66” Star Wars meme/joke in there somewhere.
The old bag just won’t be happy until she’s the only person who can own a firearm, will she? OK, she still won’t be happy, but maybe she’ll sprout another devil horn out of her head.
Oh, come on now. That’s nonsense. Diane Feinstein supports the rights of many people to own guns – security guards for herself and other Democrats, Antifa members, aspiring presidential assassins…
*lights the Suthen signal*
And it is now sitting comfortably in the bottom drawer of Mitch’s desk.
Is it just me, or do the progs seem to glorify the ugly? In architecture, it’s the hideous brutalism and Soviet design. In human aesthetics, it’s some obese cow with purple hair. In storytelling, it’s misery, viciousness and victimization.
They have to, because they hate everything beautiful.
Which is why they especially hate Glibs.
*stares smolderingly into the camera*
Sorry, but you’re still just an impeccably-dressed rat.
Interesting that John Ruskin argued that Capitalism did the opposite. Is this similar to Rand’s point about how Communists started attacking consumerism once they realized that Communism could not deliver more consumer goods?
My point wasn’t even a why. It was just an observation. Honestly, though, I don’t understand how capitalism would lead to a devaluing of beauty. Possibly it’s commodification. But, that’s always struck me as sort of a bit of snobbery.
Well Industrialism is often attacked as being ugly and destroying the natural beauty of the environment.
Kitsch.
see: Thomas Kinkade.
Kelly LeBrock is a Glib? Inconceivable.
The ugliness definitely eventually starts leaking out from the inside.
But, it’s worse that that. It’s as if ugliness defines their entire aesthetic.
They’re a death cult. That, to me, is the entire basis for their bizarre destructive behavior.
Maybe they’re contrarians and reject centralized standards of beauty; or they genuinely don’t see it as ugly.
I’m sure many people genuinely find Brutalism beautiful or at least pleasing to look at. I find it interesting to look at, but that doesn’t mean I like it and I don’t want to be surrounded by it. It’s cold and unforgiving.
…you didn’t live through the 1970s, did you?
I’d wager there’s not much overlap between people glorifying brutalism and people glorifying fat people.
I think it’s just another way in which postmodernists tear down anything that exhibits strong positive attributes that not everyone has. They think entrepreneurs are just greedy scammers rather than someone who identified an unmet desire and ameliorated it. They think a beautiful woman is not really beautiful but just glorified by racist and sexist beauty standards (and therefore, your obese purple-haired cow is just as beautiful). They think great artists of old are not really great, but just forced on the world by cis white male hegemony. There’s always a push from postmodernists to make every area of life “more inclusive”, which of course means eliminating any standards whatsoever.
It’s like they have some grotesque notion of equality that is poisoned and distorted. There needs to be a new word for this.
Modern poetry is where this is most striking to me. As one writer put it, today’s poetry is not poetry but “prose in a pointlessly vertical format”. I was in the bookstore one time and decided to be open-minded, so I picked up a random poetry book that was published recently. The page I opened to had a childish drawing of a woman’s body with handprints all over it and the text, “how can i verbalize consent if society never taught me how?” (no capitalization, as is apparently the style nowadays). I promptly went home and crawled back under my rock with a Coleridge volume.
A great read if you’re interested:
https://atlassociety.org/objectivism/students/students-blog/3671-why-art-became-ugly
I think there’s an impulse of questioning and challenges the structures (strictures) that build up around art forms that seem to have little solid basis other than inertia (because the reasons have become buried under tradition for tradition’s sake), and it’s a good thing, it’s liberating, but the impulse eventually leads to discarding the structures entirely, after which point one rediscovers the need for them—but it’s too late.
Marianne Moore’s poem “Poetry” describes the disillusioning contempt that rote-learning creates for art forms, while discarding the structures that people get lost in, and she makes good points about the former, but I dislike the poem overall because it’s too formless: it’s just vertical prose. (But it’s interesting in its self-reference, so idk.)
US Army prepares to invade LA!
I mean, we have to do something about the alien invasion.
My favorite part of that movie is when they’re supposed to be at the Santa Monica airport and they have to go east to hold Sepulveda Blvd as the line against the aliens — and they show some two lane road with no curbs. It must be some residential street in the north Valley trying to stand in for a major thoroughfare.Was there no stock footage of a more urban street? anyway, it cracked me up.
(I also enjoyed the concept of aliens near my old house. But then I enjoy all the movies where LA gets destroyed/attacked, so much more fun that when it happens to NY all the time).
I recall another relatively recent Aliens-attack-somewhere in CA movie that was entertaining, even if dumb. But, New York and DC are always fun.
Wait, did Suthenboy do something?
Oh, did you mean Los Angeles? Yeah, they can bomb the hell out of that town.
“Tues..day Aff…ternoon. Is that how the song goes?”
No. It’s Toooo-sday a-af-ter-noon.
So did anyone see any of the Fyre Festival docs? I saw the Netflix one. Did any of you hear about it before the mess occurred? I don’t think I heard about it until I saw that documentary.
Guys like Billy McFarland interest me as were they ever legitimate businessmen or just scammers the whole time?
Also I find it interesting how his earlier venture Magnises played on anxieties of young urbanites who want to belong.
At one point Woodstock is brought up: It was a disaster in which people died but today is regarded as a cultural Milestone. Oh and not to mention is the fact that Woodstock was created by Music promoters rather than a hippy love-in.
Oh and “Influencers” is the most annoying word ever and is the reason why I see youtube videos designated “Sponsored Content”.
https://amp.pastemagazine.com/articles/2017/04/the-hilarious-fyre-festival-galts-gulch-arrives-in.html
Fyre festival is proof that Libertarianism and Ayn Rand are wrong:
Oh, wait… FUCK YOU, WINSTON.
Dude…
Hulu’s official synopsis for their film:
“So that’s what a brain stem looks like. Huh.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5f56Ynb01E
History is just one big drama… that we’ve made up. But don’t even worry about the drama, just worry about the analysis of it—which we’ll conveniently feed to you, so you don’t even have to look at the slightly more substantive nonsense that underlies it.
Yeah not sure what “late-stage capitalism” and “morality in the post-truth era” is really unique to this tale since con-men have always been around.
Late-stage capitalism = people get conned into going to some stupid party where they’re put up in relief tents and fed cafeteria food from styrofoam trays
Late-stage socialism = forced labor, starvation, and no toilet paper
Yea, I’ll take my chances with the former ANY day of the week.
At least Maduro means well unlike McFarland..
“Late-stage capitalism” and “post-truth era” are progressivist memes like “dog whistling” and “gaslighting.” They’re not really referencing what they’re ostensibly referencing: they’re mostly just signals that, yes, I’m part of the in-group, I use the right jargon. Rich people bad, orange man bad, white people bad, men bad. (Except for the rich, white men on our side, and you know they’re on our side because they use the right jargon to disparage rich, white men. But of course.)
Which is why Hulu using them is very telling.
Add “whataboutism”, “credibly accused” “sources familiar with his thinking” and “without evidence” to that list.
Ooh, yeah. Blech.
I remember hearing about it while it was happening (while the people were stranded and tweeting about their struggles and thousand-dollar privations) and having a cruel laugh. People discussed it on this website.
I tried watching the Hulu doc and got quickly annoyed by the millennial-generation collectivizing (millennials think/do/want such-and-such) by the ‘expert’ journalist talking heads in order for the producers to manufacture some broader, more ‘meaningful’ narrative out of a pretty basic con story (just with a few elements changed to fit contemporary fashions).
We can thank Gertrude Stein and Ernest Hemingway for generation collectivization.
Yeah, this. I don’t understand the need for one, let alone two, documentaries about it. Sounds like they tried to turn it into propaganda – how utterly predictable.
I watched the Netflix documentary yesterday. With the exception of the local Bahamians, I found everyone to be disgustingly shallow, unsympathetic and deserving of all the crap they get. I guess that’s because I’m racist.
I thought the Netflix one was entertaining because it’s incredible how many people working on it knew what a disaster it was going to be and yet they plowed right along instead of pulling the plug. This guy McFarland was a straight up con man – why did so many supposedly intelligent people buy the shit he was selling? Didn’t watch the Hulu one for the reasons people have already said – I read that it was heavy with ponderous reflections of What It All Means.
I’ve known plenty of promoters like that.
I liked the Netflix one especially because of Chuck “Itty Bitty Titty Committee” Schumer’s chief of staff cameo toward the end.
Ah yes I remember that. Assisting him when he was scamming people while on bail while being knowingly filmed.
Hulu paid McFarland to appear…oh the irony of it all.
Netflix on the other hand was in part made by the people behind the social media campaign for Fyre Festival which raises questions as to how self-serving it might be,
Sunk-cost fallacy?
On the other hand he did want to hold the Festival, no matter how much he scammed and lied along the way, and he was present at the site when it started,
Positive thinking can convince a lot of people? “Libertarian Moment” anyone?
Man, 2019 just keeps on giving here in Chicago.
https://wgntv.com/2019/02/04/a-chicago-alderman-a-stolen-car-and-the-single-mother-he-claims-he-was-trying-to-help/
Be sure to watch the whole video, especially the (arguably) buried lede toward the end.
I didn’t understand any of that. Maybe I need another drink.
Local alderman loans his car to side chick. Side chick drives said car for few days. Local alderman reports car stolen. Side chick is arrested and story makes its way to the press. Local alderman attempts poorly advised DIY PR by claiming that he – oops! – forgot about loaning car to side chick and that side chick is really just single mother down on her luck and that he was just helping not-side-chick out because local alderman is a nice guy like that.
Also, local alderman’s voice heard on unrelated FBI wiretap.
It’s like watching your kid’s first bike ride without the training wheels.
I don’t see what one has to do with the other. Of course you need another drink.
I found this strangely funny.
I intend to be out before the State of the union tonight. I look forward to reading tomorrow’s snarky comments and hot takes. Cheers Glibs. ???
Who’s taking one for the team? I’m not watching that crap.
I have work to do, and I can’t concentrate with the TV on, so … not I.
I’m not watching it
Not for all the tea in China.
Not if I could sing like a bird.
Also tea/China: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DbTIKHYwog
Sigh…
Hell to the no, as the kid say.
/old-ish person
Not a chance in hell. I’ll tolerate the guy as an abstract proposition, for the lulz, but I’m not going to listen to him speak.
I only have 15 minutes and I’m completely sober!
OK, I’ve had two jiggers of rum.
Wait, is that racist? I means jegroes.
Fuck. Um, Ounce-Half-Americans.
As long as they’re not jigaboos of rum.
Is that 40 ounces?
It’s tonight? I’m watching Columbo nail Donald Pleasance instead.
Mick Jagger was at a party where Peter Falk got so drunk he tried to fuck Dennis Weaver. So he said, “Hey, hey, you, you, get off of McCloud!”
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That’s a good one. Donald Pleasance was such a good villain. He played the smug prick like not many can/could.
One of my favorites is An Exercise in Fatality. Mostly because I have a time-traveler crush on Gretchen Corbett and she shows the goods (for 70’s TV).
And, for those of you into that sort of thing; Robert Conrad keeps taking his shirt off.
Would.
Not Q quality.
Which is part of her appeal.
Columbo nail Donald Pleasance instead.
I believe the term you’re looking for is “pegging.”
Oh dear we now have prebuttals to SOTU. Did they start with Trump? And when did the Rebuttals start?
Next Year Trump needs to prebutt the prebuttal…
The Democrats remembered to wear white, but they forgot the hoods.
I have it on only because I hope to see Pelosi have a stroke, or AOC yell out something stupid.
Good Christ….I cant remember when I sat through a SoU address sober.
Good god, man. Why would you do that to yourself? I think I was 15 the last time that happened.
Take a wild guess what race Elizabeth Warren listed on her Texas bar card in 1986?
Aryan?
Schwarzenau Brethren ?
My people!
Oh… so close. What’s a “Dunkard”?
My corner of Ohio has a robust dunkard population. Went to school with quite a few.
I didn’t choose the Dunkard life… nor did the Dunkard life choose me.
I mentioned previously that Im happy Grandpa Tres was kicked out of the Mennonite church…..I cant grow a beard
I wouldn’t have served her.
Bolivarian?
Bull fucking shit. It was part and parcel of her multi decade successful attempt to gain privileges and benefits by falling claiming to be an Indian (SLD most of those benefits should not exist). Chief Big Gov make big heap lies.
Phawnee?
Apacheat?
Pelosi’s left eye looks kinda droopy. Im praying there’s a clot in her leg that breaks loose….
Trump saved her from a DVT stroke by cancelling her plane trip?
She could’ve gotten her exercise in.
America, fuck yeah!
Duck yeah, Buzz Aldrin!
“Fuck”.
Didnt he deck some guy that confronted him screaming that the moon landing was faked ?
Yep.
Found it. Yeah, he did.
Lowest minority unemployment ever? This guy sucks at being racist.
He’s also supposedly a rabid dictator who hates criticism, a free press, and the First Amendment, yet it seems like 90% of media outlets have transitioned into anti-Trump activism.
You mean we’re like Canada and Norway?
USA!
I just poured another glass of bourbon and watered it down with proggie tears.
He just verbally punched Schiff in the face. That was fun.
Everything is awesome! (yaaaayyyy!!!!) We must defeat all evil and triumph over all adversity! (RAHHH!!!! WOOO!!!) America is the best!
The SOTU (in general) would be creepy if it weren’t so campy and senseless.
Increase Mexican unemployment?
Please tell me one of the House freshmen chucks a shoe at him.
See my comment above about hoping for AOC to do something stupid.
GO SHOE OR GO HOME.
Still would.
Yeah, that dancing video just worked, you know?
I turned on the SOTU and couldn’t help notice Nancy blinking uncontrollably. I put on the stopwatch and counted 69 or 70 blinks in one minute.
Botox is a helluva drug.
WTF are those grey things Pelosi keeps reading?
Er, what
Troll Level: Over 9000!
“That’s great.”
Mnuchin should have to bring his wife.
“Tonight, we renew our resolve that America will never be a socialist country.”
AOC haz a sad.