This time, we can’t blame it on Brett going on a bender. It’s possible, mind you, but not necessarily so. I’ll fill in the breach, though, despite being in so much of a flustered rush, I haven’t been able to spend any time here for a couple days. Mostly good (other than the draining Mom-care)- I’m in my third round of interviews at two different companies. So maybe, just maybe, I might soon be employed again. That will call for a bottle of our finest Champagne, which is pretty fine Champagne. But we’re not there yet… And my apologies for breaking the Japanese string today.
Hoo-boy. What a good way to start the college football season. Unless you’re a Tennessee fan. Or Missouri fan. Or South Carolina fan. Or Ole Miss fan. Just kidding. They’ll just have to cheer for the whole conference a little stronger this year. Which won’t be hard for them, since they’re used to doing that every year. I do wonder, though: would Greg Schiano have been losing games to a Sun Belt team that went 2-10 last year? Congrats Vols, you get what you deserve.
This is how pathetic England has become.
The Buckeyes looked great for the first 8 minutes. Which is all that was needed. Oregon shit the bed against Auburn. Oklahoma isn’t missing a beat at QB. And Notre Dame will be playing tonight, the attention whores.
Congrats are in order to Justin Verlander, who threw his third career no-hitter yesterday. Dude was lights-out with 14 Ks and some untouchable action. And he got his usual run support of “hardly anything at all” with the Firstros finally putting a 2-spot on the board in the top of the ninth. The Yankees won to stay a game ahead in overall record. And everything else is about positioning now.
Joker’s shoulder injury caught up with him as he withdrew in the third set of his Round of 16 match. Serena is cruising now, so I’ll probably end up being half-right. Which sucks. Liverpool go into the international break with maximum points. Man City aren’t far behind them. The NLD was pretty entertaining and also resulted in the best way possible for everybody else in the league. And that’s pretty much it.
No birthdays update today except for one: Keanu Reeves. Plenty of other people, but I’m getting behind schedule. Way behind schedule, and I need to catch up so I can post these on time.
Sorry about that. But we all know you really came here for…the links!
Actress Debra Messing thinks blacklists are cool. Seriously, are these Hollywood “stars” so empty that they can’t even remember McCarthyism? Christ, what an asshole.
Well done San Francisco area cops. You stopped those dreaded kids and their crazy antics in parking lots. Just kidding, your streets are covered in human waste and heroin needles. Get your fucking priorities straight, assholes.
And the dickhead who went all Grand Theft Auto rampage mode in west Texas has been identified. Meanwhile, Beto is dropping f-bombs trying to shame people into giving up their rights and everybody else on the left is trying to politically capitalize on the series of senseless killings. Meanwhile, more people were shot and killed in Chicago over the weekend and nobody gives a fuck because they want the faces of those killers on tv to be as white as possible.
I guess since I’m out of the school season, and we don’t exactly have seasons here, my biorhythms are off. Well, maybe all my rhythms. It’s very confusing. New Years is only a couple weeks off, Yom Kippur right behind that. I don’t have my shul tickets, they don’t give senior discounts, so I guess I’ll continue my 51 year track record of disappointing Yahweh. But I’ll try not to disappoint you, the Glibertariant, eagerly awaiting my links and snarky comments.
Maybe if they didn’t make such shitty cars… Say, didn’t our pockets get picked a few years ago to subsidize this shitshow? Oh, wait, it’s not theft, it’s investment. Thanks, Obama!
So I went out to fill up my gas tank, because I was on empty and have been gone all week, and got to wait in line for the privilege of buying premium at the third gas station that I went to. My wife went to the grocery store because she always shops on Friday and got to experience bread and water rationing. Why? Why you crazy fucking Florida people? I also engaged in a little pre-storm deforestation of my yard, but only because I hated those trees anyways and I told my boss I needed to have some flex in my schedule today to storm prep. Now I have a picture to send him. At least there was plenty of beer at the store.
Seriously, though. Anyone on the East side who wants to come West instead of getting all the way out the state can contact me at: brett_bolt -at- yahoo
Apologies if any of these links are repeats, I’ve been away
I’m really enjoying the UAW talking about “a few bad apples” — by which they mean both of the most recent organizational presidents. I was in Detroit this week, so there was more news than I can find in this article. I especially liked the one with the neighbor texting his wife about there being “stacks of cash” being taken out of his garage by the Feds. Of course, this is all Trump’s fault.
This space hotel has to be spun up under gravity, or they’ll never be able to get the sheets clean.
Linklater is really taking this thing about filming over time too far.
You know what the VA hospitals don’t need? Serial killers.
Its Friday, and college football is almost here!!! Well, it actually started already but not really. Minnesoooooda almost rowed to boat into an iceberg but came back to avoid pulling a Michigan. Utah pounded BYU. Cincinnati beat UCLA. Arizona State, Clemson, aTm and a couple other teams won big. A few more games tonight and then we will finally be to the first full football Saturday of the year.
The Astros lost to the Rays in a wild game that took over 4 hours and included Rays pitchers walking three Astros home. Other winners were Cleveland, Oakland, the Minnesoda Twins, Chicago (NL), Miami, Seattle, Pittsburgh, Arizona, and San Diego.
Smona Halep got bounced and Coco Gauff won a very fun match on the ladies side. Nothing out of the ordinary happened on the mens side of the draw and we get closer to some very compelling matches and week 2 of the US Open.
See what I mean? You could drive a Mack truck through there!
Spanish king Peter The Cruel, who I’ve never heard of before, was born on this day. As were: author Mary Shelley, “The Kingfish” Huey Long, annoying actress Shirley Booth, prolific actor Fred MacMurray, the greatest hitter of all time Ted Williams, boxing trainer extraordinaire Angelo Dundee, billionaire Warren G Buffett, cartoonist Robert Crumb, idiot Molly Ivins, once-funny Lewis Black, NFL player STEVE SMITH, largemouthed actress Cameron Diaz, and musician Aaron Barrett.
That’s a pretty decent list. But the show must go on, so here are…the links!
What has two thumbs and is back on YouTube? Not this guy!
Just in case you needed to get your fix of crazy shit, InfoWars is back on YouTube!!!!!! Aaaaaaaaaaaaand, it’s gone.
Far-right outlet Infowars made a short-lived return to YouTube Thursday after its banishment last year, briefly illustrating social media’s struggle to remove rule-breaking content while still maintaining a forum for free expression.
If you’re banning shit left and right, you’re not maintaining a forum for free expression. You’re within your right as a business owner, but let’s not pretend you’re a forum for free expression, ok?
Yes, cocaine was involved. That’s our Brett. But at least he called in for a I’m All Fucked Up Day, and the Old Man, being unemployed and having nothing better to do, stepped in. And watch it, I have a blowgun concealed under my tallis and I know how to use it.
Shit, sloopy did all the birthdays. Well, OK, he saved me the effort. Yayy, sloop!
I had so much hope yesterday when Serena dropped that first set. But the girl she was playing got nervous and kinda choked a bit. But watching a female serve and volley that much was kinda fun. It also reminded me of this scene from possibly the greatest documentary of all time. I am hopeful that she won’t win the tournament now. Unfortunately, I am starting to feel the same about Joker. That shoulder doesn’t look good.
Just keep on winning!
College football is so close I can feel it. Until then, I’ll just have to watch my Firstros keep winning. They took their second in a row off the Rays and breathed a little life into Boston’s postseason hopes, who won to get back within 4 games of the second WC slot. Those chowderheads may sneak back into the race yet. Other winners were: Milwaukee, NY (AL), Philly, Washington, Atlanta, Chicago (NL), Cleveland, Cincinnati, Minnesooooooda, Kansas City, LA (NL), and Texas.
Arriba Arriba!
I love starting the birthday list off with a heavyweight like John Locke. It usually means there are a few other big names on the list today. Let’s see…we’ve got” actress Ingrid Bergman, actress Isabel Sanford, jazzman Charlie “Bird” Parker, actor Richard Attenborough, not-so-good fighter pilot John McCain, actor Elliott Gould, tv personality Robin Leach, cartoon character Speedy Gonzales, and pedophile-musician Michael Jackson. A few big names there.
Oh, sweet Mother of God. the TSA gets even more retarded. I have a question: what the fuck are the rape-scanners and X-ray machines for if you’re banning shit because it “looks too much like a bomb”? Wouldn’t the X-ray show that, you know, it isn’t one?
Ilhan Omar may be in deep shit. But she’s said she doesn’t want to talk about it. And the media are largely letting her get away with it. Hopefully this results in a deeper examination of campaigns paying family members or other “close friends” ridiculous amounts of money. I think America would be pretty fucking shocked what someone can get paid to stuff envelopes if they’re related to the right person.
“I said it was a cocksucking call, you can’t throw me for that!”
If you’re gonna be a big-league umpire, you need to not be a thin-skinned little bitch. At least that’s my assessment of what happened last night in Houston. No big deal, at the Firstros boat-raced Tampa anyway.But damn, a guy complaining 50 feet away with his back to you is hardly grounds to run him to the clubhouse. Other winners yesterday were: Baltimore,Pittsburgh, Toronto, Chicago (NL), Cleveland, Cincinnati, Minnesooooooda, St Louis, Oakland, Boston, Arizona, California/Anaheim/Los Angeles (AL), Los Angeles (NL), and New York (AL). And we watch to see who will falter and surge in the last month of the season, with the only interesting races the two central divisions and wild card races.
There were a handful of upsets at the US Open yesterday in both the mens and women’s draws. More to come as the week progresses and we get into the third round or so. Until then, there’s just too many matches going on at the same time to really pay attention. Sorry, my attention span just isn’t capable of sifting through this many matches. Maybe I’ll do better today as many of the big names are back on the court. But don’t count on it.
Uncanny, even!
Let’s get on the birthdays, shall we? If you were born on the 28th of August, you share it with the following people who made a name for themselves one way or another: philosopher Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, father of cinematography Louis Le Prince, cartoonist legend Jack Kirby, baseball player and manager Lou Piniella, rocker Hugh Cornwell, actor Luis Guzman, Chinese activist Ai Weiwei, singer Shania Twain, 90210 actor Jason Priestley, hockey star Pierre Turgeon, big sister Sheryl Sandberg, and Danish (and by extension Greenland’s for the time being) Prince Nikolai.
Well there you go. Now on with…the links!
That escalated quickly. Well, not quickly, but it is certainly an escalation. Such a shame many Brits hate democracy when it doesn’t go their way.
Ilhan Omar to be stoned to death for committing adultery. Just kidding. She’s not still in her county of origin. But her political future may be facing that metaphorical prospect if the releases of campaign expenditures are accurate. whew, that’s a lot of travel she was funding. And a lot of very convenient round numbers.
Deutsche Bank apparently has tax returns of Trump and family members. It will be interesting to see whether or not the court forces them to be handed over and whether it will withstand an appeal, seeing as a court cannot compel someone to hand over evidence without articulating a specific crime it is evidence of.
“I said it was a cocksucking call, you can’t throw me for that!”
