Ruin a movie by making it about Gary. The Gary Redemption.
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Ruin a movie by making it about Gary. The Gary Redemption.
I totally overlooked Deftones for years, because when I was a kid I just sorted them into the bin of “bands I don’t think I would like” and never tried to listen to them because I thought they were like…Korn or Slipknot, whom I don’t really care for. I was missing out big-time.
You know, I think, hmm. Well, I guess it’s time to call everybody who needs to know. Vance, the principals, and McConnell, and Johnson, and, well, I suppose we should get ready for the press. Someone draft a statement.
Random thought: November Rain is a rock suite like Bohemian Rhapsody, but because Axl Rose isn’t as incredible a vocalist as Freddie Mercury (who is?), Slash carries it.
We’re ready in Bucks country.
Coffee has been brewed and orders will continue
You could, be, just not a tremendous insufferable bore, guys. Take up a hobby and mow the damn lawn. Clean the bathroom. Start making hot sauce. It’s really easy.
We need an ad ban yesterday, like for cigarettes in 1971. It’s out of control.
Amtrak is nonexistent for me. It wouldn’t even occur to me to use it for any trip, ever. It’s cheaper to fly and it’s faster. That’s the abysmal state of passenger rail in the U.S.
Nice win! SEC champion USC and Big Ten champion Iowa meeting in the National Championship? I didn’t say that. Someone else did. But I heard it from a little birdie.
That’s a great question. I suspect the answer “we want to dominate and enslave you because we get sick pleasure from it, and also enable pedophiles, because that’s fine when you people and your children are the victims, since you are already our slaves and your lives are worthless.”
We do need absolutely scathing rhetoric on our side. The wishy-washy BS is weak. That’s individual liberty, the freedom to decide who you are at your very core. They stole the idea of freedom and they degraded it, twisted it for their repellent ends. Stand on principle and win.
This is really marketed toward people like me (better players, for sure) who simply get annoyed by touchscreens and love their physical knobs. In the vein of Universal Audio amp-in-a-box pedals.
I can write it for them, here’s their sound bite. “When they talk about trans people and sports, or ‘safety in bathrooms,’ they aren’t genuine. They’re lying to you to push an agenda. That agenda is government controlling every part of your life. Your most private decisions. We don’t go for that.”
I’m not worried in the slightest after watching yesterday’s game.
That is a heck of a lot of vinyl. I see Sinatra’s first album in 1946 really was an album; eight songs on four 78s.
Am I reading it right, that there are only 8 slots, and you can’t edit the pedal settings to change which models are in the slots without an active subscription to Roland Cloud?
And later that night when the lights went out of sight / Came the wreck of the Donald Trumpgerald
Let it be, let it be, let it be, let it be. Whisper words of wisdom, let it be.
Just stand on principle and see what happens. Ms. Drey gets it. I don’t think I could win if I ran out here, and I couldn’t serve in a part-time legislature on that salary. But I would do it.
I’ve sworn off going to Costco on Saturdays. I’ll probably be doing yard work though
Neon lights, Nobel Prize When a mirror speaks, the reflection lies You won’t have to follow me Only you can set me free
Oh, good Lord. I’m looking under the sink for the brain bleach.
It lacks the juice. It’s an OK imitation, but it’s not the real thing. Only Coca-Cola is The Real Thing.
The problem is the human heart, but not in the way Speaker Mike meant. It’s the stone hearts of the politicians of his party and their supporters.
It’s very shiny! Personally, I need to cut my hair, really, but I’ve committed to the singer in a 70s rock band look. I didn’t know what I was getting into when I grew it out. It’s so much work!
Milwaukee is cool and good and fun, from my experience of it. We try to get there twice a year. Every city has problems, and also amazing people doing great things, because that’s life in civilization.
No, don’t worry, it’s just the price of Nikes vs. the inexpensive options. Our house and car keep needing repairs and it’s draining our bank account. I would still get the Nikes.
That is a nice colorway. It’s hard for me to justify Nike right now, but I would love a pastel blue just like that
We’re in the “Bayer Heroin at the drug store as a cough suppressant” phase of consumer marketing of AI.
I’m no man of the law, but these statements seem to be aggressively tainting the jury pool. Statements by officers of the U.S. government.
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The system is fundamentally broken, I believe. Were I a trans person, I really don’t know if I could fill in that circle next to Newsom’s name with his pandering and cuddling up to fascists. I just don’t think I could do that. It’s not that hard to stand for what’s right and stand for liberation.
That’s the realest of flexes. I have to see The Boss before he hangs up his Telecaster.
Every crime has an appropriate punishment. Crimes against humanity have their appropriate punishments.
The sharpest GM in the NFL shares his trenchant insights on roster building. Trading Michael, er, Micah Parsons is just the best course of action with the facts he has.
Breaking: Buffalo Bulls Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Minnesota Golden Gophers.
Somebody will protect Caleb… Right? … Right?
Thanks, I hate it. Love, Bears fans
As a Not Medical Doctor I have diagnosed RFK Jr. with mitochondrial insufficiency and misaligned vibrations from job stress. My prescription for him is to resign immediately from his very stressful position in government, do a darkness retreat with Aaron Rodgers, and meditate in the wilderness.
The Book of Capt. Ramius
I’ll bite. Ruin any book by adding “Tom Clancy’s” to the title: Tom Clancy’s El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quixote de La Mancha
I’m not huge on capital punishment, but I’m wild about the idea of carceral punishment. Building a dozen new wings of ADX Florence, perhaps. And I’m quite taken with the proscription of anti-human political parties. Enjoy your hour in the yard, Hegseth, Noem, Kennedy etc.
I want Robert Francis Kennedy, Jr. in manacles, and that’s all I have to say about that.
Plotters, schemers, and people who say “mwahahahaha” are a protected class, really. Or they ought to be.
Good God man, we’re in trouble. Now, it’s not that I didn’t think we were in trouble before this latest fresh hell, but this really shakes me.
That’s the lobby of a coworking space, I’m afraid. There are no waffles to be found. Only fake smiles and inner despair.
He is the Platonic ideal of himbo. The apotheosis of himbo
I sure am real doggone sorry, but I ain’t got no choice. Your Ma done told ya to quit whinin’ about the Cracker Barrel logo, but I know it’s the sickness talkin’. Pa always said I’d have to be a man someday and use that rifle when things got real bad. I sure wish he was here.
Crappy, bland corporate rebranding is communism. Having to see gay couples existing in public is communism. The pitch clock and runner on second base in extra innings? It’s the Red Menace. His $1150/mo payment on an F-150 King Ranch? You guessed it.
This is the part where if we don’t take the control of the bus from the hijackers, we go off the cliff like we’re in a 1970s made-for-TV movie of the week. The GOP politicians who could do something and do not are cowards, amoral psychopaths like the would-be king and his court, or both at once.
I’m almost there, but I still need my 500 hours of solo gaming to get my private gamer’s license.
I could take it in a fight. Just let it charge at you and dodge, then press X to launch a spear. Huge early game boost if you have the right tech.
He knows what’s happening, but he does not intend to give up that cushy seat at HBO. Max. Whatever it’s called now.
Why are the purported “center-left” parties in the Anglophone countries so right-wing? Hmm. I have a hunch, but I ought not say.
“You see, they got rid of that real American man in the chair. And the peg game, and replaced it with Woke Peg Game where if you’re, you know, a DEI hire, they let you pull two pegs out for free, and do some crimes, and Mr. Trump will fix it.” -A Congressman, this Sunday on one of the Sunday shows
Surely it’s impossible those women are true believers devoted to upholding patriarchy…right? Alternatively, surely those women aren’t afraid to object and don’t just pretend to enjoy subservience, so as not to incur the wrath of a man and his beloved patriarchy? Right?
I always look to Billboard when I need to know what time I should tune in to see Iowa beat up on SUNY Albany in an awful college football opener
They keep using language that trivializes these putrid, abhorrent, unconscionable acts. Deliberately? I’m not sure. But it’s real. Of course it’s a major propaganda effort, too.
This is one the most galling things about the way things work in this rotten country. Whether a child gets a good, mediocre, or downright awful public education depends on your income and ZIP code. Specifically, it depends on your school district, and its tax base and property tax levies.
This should not be that hard when we have one party that runs on dismantling anything halfway decent the United States government has done since the end of the 19th century. The waffling on trans rights is weak morally, but it also looks weak, and it’s infuriating.
No Quarter has the Page guitar figure at the end that makes up for the rest of the song, in my book.
Certainly. In the sphere of politics and propaganda, though, I believe they intend to normalize this, so they can progress further toward arbitrary rule and consolidate the self-coup. We are in a situation wholly unfamiliar to some of us, but many have lived under arbitrary rule their whole lives.
I hope it’s a nice chunk of change. My choice, in light of the defunding of public broadcasting, is public radio station KSTK in Wrangell, AK. www.kstk.org/2025/07/22/k...
PCs can have a little salami as a treat, or so I heard. Macs are herbivores and prefer cruciferous vegetables
It’s cool. I made an unclaimed property claim several years ago. In Iowa they market it as the Great Iowa Treasure Hunt. I received a warrant in the mail, and mobile deposited it like any check. When the county paid me for working the polls, that was also called a warrant.
That’s confusing wording; they are sitting unclaimed until a person claims them. If you prove it’s your money, they write you a warrant for the amount, which is a peculiar name for a check drawn on the state’s account. (it’s not a check legally but works like a check for all intents and purposes)
Ok here it is. You asked for it, you got it
I’m getting bird vibes from this. A hint, nay, a soupçon of velociraptor, as well
“Off-brand NewsNation? I love it. We’re rolling it out next week, so get to work on the brand guidelines.”
I don’t know, but I volunteer to play the redneck on a Grecian isle who did the goat dance very well.
That’s right. No, it won’t stop him from trying. We know that already. Posting “he’ll do it anyway” is defeatist. We ought to contest these intolerable, illegal actions in the legal system as we do in the sphere of public opinion. Resisting with legal action sways public opinion, too.
I do think the ideas are vitally important to their accursed project, because they need to maintain the fake aura of overwhelming strength and inevitability. That said, I will never, under any circumstances, hand it to Newsom.
Hans Moleman: “I need as many Guys to Remember as you have.” … “No, that’s too many guys.”
Why is System of a Down so good? It feels like the precise thing we need right now!
Strange days. You and I agreeing. I suppose these kinds of crises make people choose our allies. What’s right is right. That’s the long and short of it.
I don’t agree that war and concomitant cataclysm is not close. That’s because events can develop really quickly when the heat is on. Just looking at history.
I love all these cute long-haired meow babies!
I suppose my draft number gets called one of these days. What shall be shall be. There’s only right and wrong. Sometimes it’s hard to tell, and other times, it’s just not hard to tell.
Probably Alice In Chains. You may draw any inference about my age you like from this.
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I really think he is the one. There’s plenty of room for anyone to disappoint, but I’m betting on Pritzker. Options are constrained. I would run, but I have no charisma and I don’t suffer fools gladly, which is a prerequisite.
Hmm. Everyone in this country should live in decent housing with modern technology like electricity and running water, and no one should worry about where their next meal will come from. I’m afraid I’ve turned socialist! Oh no! It’s awful! I’m supposed to believe everyone who suffers deserves it!
Do you have the reverse version? Human torso and hippo in back? I need it. For scientific reasons
The cherry tomatoes are aggressive this year. Going wild! We have more than we know what to do with.
Most people have an underdeveloped morality. The commitment to objectivity doesn’t help.
But at night it’s a different world / Go out and find a pillow
That’s a shame. Clearly they needed the theme from Jeopardy!
The Avengers of thirsty MAGA D-listers
I’m not sure. I think we still get reactionaries, the KKK, and Lost Causers in that timeline. The aggrieved moral weaklings sprout up like weeds, even if we put down mulch.
“Suitcase record player” is absolutely savage.
I’m a rocket man. I’m making piquant salads up here, alone.
I used to care about that distinction, but I’m content to acknowledge the horse has left the barn.
What about indicting a capocollo sandwich? I understand in Sicilian dialect it is pronounced more like “gabagool,” but I know it tastes good.
Gee, I thought the right-wingers thought requiring a license to carry a handgun was a tremendous burden and Second Amendment violation. Suddenly, they like restrictive gun laws. Hmm. I wonder why.
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A rockin’ pleasure craft decree Where yacht rock soft and soulful played While bachelor party guys were splayed Across the deck because they were tipsy, and I can’t rhyme anymore, apologies to Samuel Taylor Coleridge
