My youngest has been coughing the last couple of nights like a seal barking. Now, rationally, I know there’s nothing dangerous about it — there’s no fluid or labored breathing — still I was up several times to check on him, give him cough medicine, and just generally lay awake in state of helpless alert. Stupid monkey brain.
I guess actions have consequences. And sometimes it takes a couple years for those consequences to be fully realized. But I doubt Baker Mayfield understands that. Dude needs to get his head out of his ass or he’s gonna be Johnny Football 2.0. And I don’t really have a dog in this fight. But he really needs to sharpen shit up, and so does the rest of his team.
Its winner-take-all now!
Meanwhile, the Yankees swept their way into the ALCS. Hopefully the Astros will join them today, after getting shelled by the Rays yesterday to extend the series. Meanwhile, both NLDS’s will go to a win-or-go-home game 5 tomorrow. That will be a lot more fun to watch if the Astros take care of business today. Meanwhile, the Blue Jackets topped the Sabres in OT and the Blues made Toronto sad in the Scotiabank Center.
Apparently this was based on a book.
My mom turns 70 today. Love you, mom! She shares it with: “Ace of aces” Eddie Rickenbacker, leftist strongman Juan Peron, the guy who wrote the book they based the “Dune” movie on Frank Herbert, legendary Aussie actor Paul Hogan, race-baiter Jesse Jackson, comedic genius Chevy Chase, punk legend Johnny Ramone, dwarf-person Dennis Kucinich, the lovely Sigourney Weaver, Awesome Bill From Dawsonville, other punk rock legend C.J. Ramone, MATT DAMON, and Bella Thorne.
That was a decent list. Mostly because it was headlined by my mom. Love you, mom! Now on to…the links!
So I realized, after I spent all day telling other people what I wanted them to do, that even though I still have plenty of actual do-the-work responsibilities, I’ve basically become management. Not sure whether this is going to end with a bender, and whether that bender is going to end with Drano, but… I’m definitely trying not to turn into a pointy-head. I really don’t love spending all day talking.
To my view, this (and Swissy’s link from earlier today) are just lesser forms of the same millenialist ideology that led the Taliban to blow up the giant stone carvings of Buddha. Lesser degree, because these toads lack imagination and ability compared to the Taliban, but it comes from the same place.
Sloopy had something come up this morning, so you get my rather terse style of linkings this morning. I am not sure exactly what was going on, perhaps the kids were executing a plot to take over the house. They do have sloopy and Banjos outnumbered…
Sports – not one team I have an interest in has won anything the past week. So sports can go hang. (Ohio State did win, and the Astros are going for a sweep – so sloopy has that going for him)
Birthdays – large numbers of humans have this particular day as their day of birth! …fine. Yo-Yo Ma and Vlad Putin were born today. Happy?!
Links!
Despite left leaning media being desperate for a theater shooting…this is the best anyone could scratch up. Sorry, no pile of bodies to climb on to denounce whitecishetpatriacrchynationalisms. Oh, and call for gun confiscation.
Well then – everyone should be safe now! Oh…what? We will have to keep an eye on this. I would laugh if Erdogan got handed the whole mess by Orange Man Bad.
Winning friends and influencing people…to hate you. You want to live like a forest elf? Go ahead. But you aren’t taking civilization away from the rest of us. OK, maybe in the UK or Germany they will.
BONUS HOBBYHORSE LINK. Catalans try to use EU as monkey wrench.
The antisemites at a certain airline screwed up everything about OMWC’s travel to Orlando yesterday, getting him to his hotel at sometime after o’dark-thirty, so he’s even more incoherent than usual this morning and asked me to fill in on links duty.
Because you all KNOW how sparkly I am in the morning!
1289: Wenceslaus III of Bohemia, King of Hungary (1301-05) and King of Bohemia and Poland (1305-06), born in Prague, Czech Republic (d. 1306)
1744: James McGill, Scottish-Canadian businessman and philanthropist, born in Glasgow, Scotland (d. 1813); later went on to fame as a .criminal.attorney. under a pseudonym.
1803: Heinrich Wilhelm Dove, Prussian physicist and climatologist, born in Legnica, Poland (d. 1879)
1846: George Westinghouse, American entrepreneur and engineer, born in Central Bridge, New York (d. 1914)
1955: Tony Dungy, American football coach
OK, and a bunch of other people. I’m tired of this section.
What can I say; I kvetched, and my fellow late-nighters stepped up and gave me a confidence boost. Well, you get more of what you reward. And you rewarded me—good and hard… I posted last week’s submission so early on, that I forgot what was even in it. I guess I shot my wad rather quickly on that one. (This is where you make me feel extra-special by reassuring me that it happens to everyone at some point or another) OK; time to jump into the brackish stock pond that is The Night Shift comments. Caution– this may get a little weird:
Artsy-fartsy weirdness. This is because of a comment I made a couple of weeks ago, and is based on an old inside joke that…you know, never mind.
Segue weirdness. Yeah, I coulda gone with just “city weirdness”, or, “Pac North West”. But, that IS a good segue.
Gee…other doktors doctors just went all in on cloning. That’s one hell of a grudge. I’ve no wish to start up the great Glibs Abortion Debate of 2019, pt.4XXXX. This, though…was pure vileness. Weirdness doesn’t do this story justice. Good riddance to bad rubbish.
I mentioned Moon Knight in the post’s blurb. (Yes, I know I mentioned someone from the Tick, too—just stick with me.) I was never a comic book reader. In my youth, I was curious about the ones that various friends were reading, so I got lots of info about various characters, and was somewhat up on who did what to whom. So, I am interested in hearing from glibs who did/do read them. Which Franchise(s)? Any particular characters you love, or, hate? Any good stories from comic book stores/fellow comic readers? What about your takes on franchises made into TV shows/Movies? Nerd it up, ya….ya….weirdos!
Weirdness confession: I am a fan of Fortean subjects. If you don’t know who he is, you should read up on him (weirdness alert: I’m not linking, just because). While I’m no devotee to these ideas, or, anything like that, there are various subjects that get lumped into “Fortean Phenomena” that have held my interest over the years. I used to get books on UFOs and cryptids when I was a kid. I even got a pen pal in fourth (?) grade, who lived in Inverness, just so I could ask him if he’d ever seen Nessie. The little smart-ass denied it, then turned it around and asked me if I’d ever seen Bigfoot! Peasant…Didn’t he know that the correct term is “Sasquatch”? Really, I’m more interested in what people find in investigating the claims that get made in these cases. Regale us with tales of your encounters with High Strangeness No, not “strange”. Well…maybe.
A bit of 80’s nighttime rock? If you don’t like the 80’s….I can’t think of a weird enough way to finish that sentence.
I have this weird quirk where I wake up every morning with a song playing in my head. There’s no rhyme, or reason as to which song. This is this mornings entry. Yesterday, it was the Star Spangled Banner.
I got a bit more than I bargained for with this new job. And part of that is that I’m flying out today for a week in one of my least favorite places, Orlando. Ironically, I’ll be wined and dined at the finest steakhouses in the city, a different one every night. Well, I can always get a pizza afterwards.
The single most wonderful thing: our biggest supplier of isocyanates is hosting a reception in a room called, I shit you not, “Courtyard Bhopal.” This will keep me smiling all week.
“Undisclosed,” of course. “He said something intelligent. We have no room for that in this campaign.” “He was squeezing the interns’ tits.” Which would y’all guess is more likely?
Old Guy Music is one of my favorite songs played by one of my favorite guitarists, and that always makes me think of my favorite human (despite her rusty tin can lids).
STEVE SMITH HAPPY IT FRIDAY. HIM WORK ON CASCADIA INDEPENDENCE LOBBYING ALL WEEK. BY LOBBYING, MEAN HOWL “FREE CASCADIA” WHILE VISIT CAMPGROUND. BY VISIT CAMPGROUND, MEAN… WELL, YOU KNOW WHAT STEVE SMITH MEAN!
STEVE SMITH KNOW FUNNY GLIBERTARIAN PEOPLE WANT LINKS. BUT ALSO LIKE SEE SILLY ADVICE. STEVE SMITH EXIST TO SERVE. HIM ALSO EXIST TO RAPE, BUT THAT DIFFERENT MATTER. SO STEVE SMITH GIVE LINKS. NOW.
STEVE SMITH SHAKE HIM HEAD WHEN READ DAILY MAIL… WHYCOME ENGLAND POLICE SO BAD AT JOBS? IT MAKE HIM LAUGH WHEN READ “institutional stupidity”.
THIS HOOMAN MAKE STEVE SMITH NERVOUS. HIM STAY AWAY NYC.
NOW STEVE SMITH GIVE ADVICE. ON MANNERS. GOOD ADVICE, NOT LIKE OLD HOOMAN GIVE.
Q: Is it proper etiquette always to use a euphemism for the word “toilet,” as in, “Excuse me, where is the bathroom (or restroom, etc.)?” Has the word “toilet” become vulgar?
A: STEVE SMITH PREFER SIMPLE ASK “WHERE TAKE DUMP?” OR IF REALLY WANT BE POLITE, SAY “WHERE STEVE SMITH GO SEE A HOOMAN ABOUT A CAMPER?” MAYBE FUNNY GLIBERTARIAN PEOPLE HAVE IDEA WHAT SAY. PUT IN COMMENT. STEVE SMITH LIKE COMMENTS.
Q: I paid in advance when I gave a dinner party for 30 people for a special occasion, and only 26 people attended. Would it have been all right to ask to take the four extra dinners home? Or is it not permissible? Just curious.
A: WHY YOU NO CALL STEVE SMITH?! HIM COME EAT 4 DINNERS. THEN MAKE EVENING MEMORABLE FOR PARTYGOER. BY MAKE MEMORABLE, MEAN RAPE ALL PARTYGOER. AND ADVICE ASKER! SOUND LIKE GREAT PARTY FOR STEVE SMITH. BUT IF IT TOO FAR STEVE SMITH MAKE PARTY, YOU SAY “I PAY, GIVE FOOD!!!” THEM MAKE DIFFICULT, HIT ON HEAD WITH BIG ROCK. THEN GO KITCHEN TAKE BUNCH FOOD.
Hi guys, I’m back from another business trip. What happened while I was gone? Did I get slut-shamed for liking to alter my conscience? Was it implied that I abuse and/or manufacture and/or distribute drugs? Because there’s no more truth to those rumors than to a SugarFree story.
Take that how you will.
Trump tells House, “I’ll take impeachment seriously right after you do.” Of course, this will be seen as obstruction. Much like telling the government you’ll wait for an actual warrant before allowing them to root through your effects for evidence.
This is true. Deserve’s got nothin’ to do with it. Its just a side-effect of a free market. Can’t have the free market without the rich people.
