Howzabout a new grill to get the holiday weekend rolling?
1. Plaid Friday! No need to elbow and shank aggro shoppers at stupid Target…patronize some fine small Oakland businesses instead!
2. Miniature golf in Alameda, 18 holes based on Bay Area landmarks like the windmills on Altamont Pass, the MacArthur Maze, and a Fruitvale taco truck. This sounds really cool; I will be visiting soon.
3. I woke up this morning to find that Primera Upgrade had decorated our dining room with about 50 unique pieces of hand turkey art. Here’s the one she made based on my hand:
4. This is the most hilarious flaming turkey disaster video you will see today:
Happy Thanksgiving, you wonderful FKers you!
4. the man is a (canadian) national treasure
2. We may have found a date spot
Alameda has a good bowling alley too!
And the pinball place.
that place rules
I could happily live in a cot in the back there.
So does Vacaville LOL
Obligatory noting the day…
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Awesome.
The changes of black Friday over the past couple of years have officially messed with a family tradition. I went and got the paper this morning and it has about half the ads it used to have. Mrs. Aces and I always wake up and have an hour of us time having coffee and reading the ads.
I guess if we arent in line already it is now pointless.
Sweet!
There is major pie production going on here right now. I am told there will be 10 pies on hand later at the larger gathering.
I’m making an apple pie. Got rendered leaf lard from the butcher for the crust.
rendered leaf lard?
rendered leaf lard
those aren’t leaves
I’m dreading the larger gathering later.
hope you made it through!
It turned out alright. I alpha-dogged my detractors with kindness and ended up having a fine conversation with my baseball-playing cousin, who wants to be the next Buster Posey something fierce.
I only had three beers, but they were the first three beers I had in months, and my system DID NOT like them one bit. So, after dinner, I threw up, and then passed out curled up in the dog bed in the back bedroom. Then they woke me up and it was time to go home. I slept through pie.
Weird and wonderful things happen when a boy plum tree falls in love with a girl apricot tree. He decided to take her to stand outside the drive-in theater where they were playing the latest Terrence Malick movie. Such a suggestive title! If their parents only knew. As it was, there was already a Capulet-Montague-esque animosity between the species. “Damn it, girl, I won’t hear of it! It’s Apples and Samsungs is what it is!”, her father roared. “Just admit it, it’s because of his dark skin, isn’t it?!”, she shouted as her parents wondered what had happened to that lovely, young sapling they had known. Sure, their friends tried to make them see reason, cajole them even . “C’mon, man, come with us to the orchard across the lake. One look at the trunks on those girls and you’ll forget all about her.” But it was not to be. The universe bent on keeping them apart pushed them together even more. So it was that he, intoxicated by his youth (and desire), and she, undone by a vague, half-understood notion of love (and desire), succumbed to a torrid night of passion. Nature took her course, as She inevitably does, and the couple was in a family way. Tired of the judgment and bitterness, they sought greener, free-thinking pastures of Northern California. That summer, farmer’s markets all across the bay area were inundated by beautiful, green-and-gold colored delights called pluots. Dainty like their mother and succulent like their father, they make the perfect fruit to bake into pies. Pies I baked for the “Come for the walkoffs, stay for the pie” promotion. The last Monday night of July provided ideal conditions for baseball. So much so that baseball went 14 innings, causing the normally savvy Joe Maddon to mismanage his bullpen and have no one but…heeheehee…Kyle Farnsworth to answer the bell in the bottom half. The Coliseum rejoiced as Kyle Farnsworth did what Kyle Farnsworth does and the A’s walked off winners. Yessir. Weird and wonderful things happen when a boy plum tree falls in love with a girl apricot tree.
That was beautiful.
Excellent!
clap-clap
Quit messing with the lights, will ya?
heh
Wow.
I’m not sure if this is a good ‘wow’ or a bad ‘wow’ but either way it’s kinda gratifying.
Awesome!
Pie Of The Month! In the toughest month for pie that there is!
Well gosh, we all fall in love sometimes, I reckon. (Well done!)
This is one of the best of the many great things I’ve read around these parts. Standing Oh! And certainly worthy of a Spiderman-delivered pie to the face.
Does that fit in the tagline?
What about a tagline that links to it? Is that possible?
I was thinking the same thing.
Great minds and all that.
I think that nm has plenty of free time these days to make it happen.
actually he does, or I did.
With baby 1, there really was not much for the non nursing party to do for the first few weeks except change periodically and run errands. But you aren’t working. and you are awake longer hours
Definitely not true. I think I’ve spent 30% of the last week washing the same damn pieces of plastic over and over.
Worth it though. And I think we are starting to find a good rhythm.
Glad to hear it.
If there’s anything you need (especially once the initial rush of support has died down) please don’t hesitate to ask.
CASSEROLE TREE FTW!!!
We got fed fantastic food for a month after Lily’s birth – delivered to the door by a different friend each night, with no expectation of a visit. It was the greatest gift our friends could have given.
it is the greatest gift, i think. just a “hey, we love you” at the door and something good to eat with no worries around cooking or cleaning up.
The pot-luck wedding was pretty special too.
Is that different than the shotgun weddings I’ve been to around here?☺
let’s do this, then, if nm and his Lady are amenable.
Vat ees dees “if”?
Sounds awesome to me. You guys are too kind,
Agree. Food, laundry, and other such things were plentiful. Definitely a major plus to living in high-density apartments at the time.
A couple of years ago, Ozzwife prepared about a month’s worth of meals and froze them all for some friends just before they gave birth. I think they preferred that to anything they got at the baby shower.
Thanks. I won’t hestitate.
Scavenging for nursing shields in the middle of the night (cria 1 struggled early with nursing) and washing them was a ritual I’ll not remember fondly.
I think ultimately I will remember it fondly, but I’m not to “ultimately” yet
I remember fondly the newborn, but not those damnable nipple shields. When we moved I found a mess of ’em behind the bed and it brought it all back.
One thing I loved about newborn’s was how much exercise I got bouncing them, swinging them, carrying them, etc. I was constantly in motion.
Nipple shields. I envision a Monty Python skit built around those words and leftover costumes from The Holy Grail.
Isn’t that what kept the Black Knight alive?
great mind and ozz
I’ll cutcha, Bo.
Tagline attempted, using the same href link code we use in comments. I doubt it will work, but keep your eyes peeled.
Thank you for making the attempt, at least.
Hey, it worked! On my browser at least it comes up in a dark green font rather than the usual gold. I used the first line: “Weird and wonderful things happen when a boy plum tree falls in love with a girl apricot tree.” And if you click, bingo!
nice work!
Yay! You’re a genuine FK hero!
A FKing-class hero is something to be.
If I didn’t love my current andeux-crafted sigline as much as I do, this would be my new one.
Heh. Thanks, FSU.
Though it can’t hold a candle to the Peanutball Chronicles.
Also, the bookend sentence is credited to this.
Not much of a recipe. But it prompted most of that post.
Thanks, all. It’s nice when people get a kick out of lunacy.
Now *that’s a tagline.
This is FK. It’s kind of a given.
We had four pies for six adults, and then two of the adults cancelled due to illness. So we had a 1:1 pie:adult ratio, and needless to say, we have some pie leftover.
Breakfast pie!
I had pumpkin pie for breakfast!!
I had apple pie for breakfast and a hot turkey/stuffing/wild rice/gravy sandwich for lunch. More pie coming after dinner.
I’m coming to your house! LOL
The pie baker was perplexed, he grew up in a family where a 1:1 pie:person ratio meant more pie was baked by Saturday.
Pumpkin, pecan, and apple pie. I was only able to find space in my stomach for the first two.
Hey everybody,
happy Thanksgiving – enjoy your holiday! I hope many of you are sharing some quality time with your families, enjoying some good food and having fun.
In the spirit of Thanksgiving, I am thankful for such a bunch of interesting and amusing people you are, thanks for sharing your time and thoughts with me.
And thanks for sharing yours with us!
If you haven’t planned your meal yet there’s still time.
I heartily recommend trying mlinci with your turkey
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Thanks guys, hope you day is as great as it can be!!!!
Wow, his knee was down. But, as it is Detroit and Suh suhcks, who cares…
Who the hell knew that if you throw a challenge flag on a play which would have been reviewed anyway, that not only do you get a penalty, you void the review which would have happened? Crazy stupid rule. 15 yard penalty, fine. Lose a timeout and challenge opportunity, fine. But void the review process as well? Bizarre.
Wait what? I’m not watching the game but that sounds super stupid.
Texan RB was down (although just very barely) on around his own 30. No whistle. Everybody stopped. he kept running into the end zone. Schwartz threw a flag. As scoring plays are reviewed automatically, he was penalized for throwing a flag by 15 yards and (incredible) reverse of decision to review the play.
So dumb. I’ve seen the refs let coaches pick up flags before, but maybe that was previous to this year?
I also think coaches should be able to keep challenging as long as they keep getting it right.
The difference is whether it’s an automatic challenge versus an unchallengeable play. And they can keep challenging as long as they’re correct. They get two failed challenges.
That doesn’t sound right to me. I thought you only got two whether or not you are right on the first two.
On the last one if you’re correct, as long you have timeouts you can challenge again.
Huh. Well that’s cool!
Honestly, they deserved to get fked by that. No whistle and the entire defense gave up on the play. And Schwartz has been called for throwing flags on TDs in the past, so he should know better.
Someone needs to make an image of Harbaugh and Schwartz, with the caption reading “You mad, bro?”
Exactly
I don’t understandchallenges. dont you qnt to get the call right?
So if I was Kubiak and Schwartz didn’t challenge it, I woulda thrown the red flag on that play. That way it wouldn’t be subject to review and the TD would be guaranteed to stand.
Doesn’t work like that.
So there is some thought behind this rule, then. It’s still a dumb rule.
The logic is something to the effect of you can’t be penalized for unsportsmanlike conduct and overturn a call in your favor. Which is the penalty for throwing the flag in that situation.
Back at the real sports, Liverpool are playing Young Boys at Anfield and the Young Boys fans have just unfurled a huge “In Memory of Hillsborough” banner.
Very classy.
I’m thankful for all of you!
And for my dogs. They had baths yesterday at pet food express and smell like mango madness. Happiness is a clean puppy.
My boss bought me lunch at Subway yesterday. Apparently, if you ask for BLT and say that you want onions and mayo, they think you mean that you don’t want the L and T.
FKers, Romans, Countrymen…
I will be counting this place and its inhabitants among the things for which I am grateful. Right between Matlab and Esperanza Spalding. Eat, nap and be merry. Put another way, have a happy Thanksgiving.
This morning started at 50 and it is now snowing – welcome to Minnesota at thanksgiving. Happy turkey day y’all!
FK is it ever. I landed at 3:30, rented a car, and began driving up Cedar to my sister’s. At about the time I passed Matt’s Bar (Home of the Original Jucy Lucy) I saw the light rain showers which had been forecast change to light snow. 14 blocks later I parked in front of my sister’s house and exited to pelting sleet. Went in and had our turkey, about 5 hours later decided to move the car out back to the alley, and found everything covered with a glistening, magical layer of snow, except my windshield which was covered with a glistening, magical inch of ice. Fortunately, I did bring long underwear.
Glad you made it in at least, I bet the wind made the landing a bit bumpy. Nice little dusting on the ground this morning. We’re escaping Eden prairie for Mpls today.
1.) Matt’s Bar. Gotta remember that. I’ve been looking for the original Jucy Lucy for years.
2.) Magickal.
3.) How did long underwear help with the iced windshield problem?
We went to David Byrne’s “play the building” installation at Aria, up in the warehouse district. If you like kinda weird soundscapes and have time while you’re in town I’d recommend it.
We celebrate Thanksgiving on Saturday at the South Pole, so that people can enjoy a rare two-day weekend. It’s already Friday here, though.
But what I really wanted to post is that Friday lunch was Italian sausage with FREE KRAUT.
nice
That sounds delicious. For Thanksgiving, do you guys roast turkey or penguin?
Antarctica version of a turducken — a seal stuffed with a penguin stuffed with a skua.
That sounds like something Anthony Bourdain would eat.
It would be so FKing gross. Both seal and penguin are basically an outer layer of blubber, right?
I don’t know about penguins, but I would think so. I mean, they spend a lot of time in freezing cold water. Then again, fat is where it’s at.
Penguin foie gras?
I’d eat that.
It’d probably taste a little fishy.
Frozen stuffed walrus!
Pats offense is really hitting it’s stride.
Obligatory cute kid story:
3.75 year old: auntie, I wanted to tell you a secret, I’ve finally decided what to be when I grow up.
6.5 year old: oh! Yes! So have I! I’m going to be an actress and also write scripts for movies! Because the writer gets to choose who the actors will be so I’ll always get to be in the movies too!
Me: actually I don’t think it is the writer who does the casting. But you interrupted your sister. Tell me your plan.
3.75 year old: I’m going to be a chemist. That’s why I poured the water in my soup at dinner.
heh
charming
Chemistry is good work if you can get it!
When I was that young I only wanted to be a rock star president-for-life when I grew up.
I couldn’t decide whether I wanted to be a rock star or scientist; my practical side won out (I also can’t play music for crap). I later learned that there are those exceptional individuals who can do both: Greg Gaffin and Brian May, to name a few, did both.
one of the better Seattle “grunge” bands
I wanted to be a jockey. But then I got a case of the 5’9″. And LATER I got a case of the fat.
I wanted to be a jockey and I got a case of the >5’…(I mean, just barely but still)
That’s pretty awesome. You need to keep documenting this stuff and compile a book someday. That, or start a comic strip.
Happy Thanksgiving everyone! South Lake Tahoe was gorgeous! Hope y’all had lots of turkey, stuffing, & most importantly….PIE!!! :)
I’m going black friday shopping tomorrow at the urgent care clinic. Stupid crias and their stupid fevers. It’s like they know when it is going to be maximally inconvenient to get sick – cria 1 once ran an incredibly high fever on midsummer’s holiday in Sweden. Biggest holiday of the year outside of Christmas, everything is closed, and we’re running to an urgent care facility where we didn’t speak the language.
Ik,r? Everytime they get sick its the worst time
They have never gotten sick on a day when I look at my calendar and say, “Nope, no important meetings or deadlines today!”
(Except grad school, I did whatever the fuck I wanted then.)
Out of 21 people for our family feast, 3 had colds (including me), one needed pepto before the eating even started, and one got so sick I had to take him back to where he was staying right before we sat down for dinner. By tomorrow night’s 90th bday party for my mom we may well all be in sick bay. No little ones to have to deal with though.
I have to do a photobooth for a family reunion today. Which probably means I’m babysitting. I expect to wake up tomorrow in a jail cell and with a cold. Apparently, killing snot-nosed brats is frowned upon in our society.
Turned out I was misinformed. It wasn’t a family reunion, it was a party thrown by a country club for it’s members and their extended families. The kids weren’t too bad, but the drunk adults (by 630!) sucked.
nice
Smart. Only the most savvy shoppers go to the hospital on Black Friday. You’ll have the best bargains all to yourself.
According to my SIL, the ER yesterday seemed to be horribly busy with mean people (i.e. multiple people hit her… a pregnant woman).
OK, to tag our conversation last week about overtime rule. WA WSU. Guy intecepts the ball in OT runs it back to the 3 or so. ANd then they put the ball on the 40?
that is dumb
It wouldn’t be a bad rule change to give the intercepting team the option of taking the ball at that spot rather than starting a new possession at the 25 (not the 40).
I despise Mike Leach, but that was a helluva comeback by the Cougs.
Sorry, 25. I don’t really know the rules. I have watched a total of 5 minutes of college football this year, both overtime in these two games.
You would think I would have caught a little of the USC UCLA game as I came out on the winning end there, but I didn’t.
You and batgirl might be going at it two weeks in a row, with the Rose Bowl on the line next Friday.
I love the rose bowl swap meet.
I remember as a kid watching the rosebowl and parade (As a PCC student in the 40s my aunt was required to enter the beauty pageant, and as I recall my mom’s family attended the parade regularly). It was fun. I can’t recall the last time I watched. UCLA may have gone when I was there.
they did. 1994. a loss. to a team that I have already forgotten even though I just googled it.
Oooh I hope so!!
SO if I don’t care who wins, doe that increase or decrease the likelihood of you coming away happy?
Hmmmm is this a trick question? I’m pretty much only going to come away happy if Stanford wins. However I would assume *you* would come away happier in either situation if you don’t care who wins!
As I said last week, I’m ready to root for USC tomorrow like I never have before. Fuck Notre Dame.
I’d be more willing to bet on Irish chokage if Matt Barkley were going to play.
There’s a tv show called Wives With Knives. Are there really enough cases of women stabbing their husbands to sustain a serial?
ENTERTAIN ME PEOPLE
Thanks, and go As.
[dances]
Not bad!
Thanks, and go As.
I can’t entertain on demand… uh… ummmm…
BOOBIES!
Here we are now Entertain us
Tap 25 just opened a keg of Racer 5. I’m temped, but then I realized I’d be going out to a bar by myself.
Thanks, and go As.
I have done that a few times. Wanted to do it a few more. Its not that bad
I did it when I was a terminal grad student and I was coming home late every night. The hotel across the street had a bar/grill, and i’d stop by for a beer at last call (borrowing against what I was hoping would be large future earnings, little did I know I was to become a postdoc).
Damn … love me some Racer 5.
I’d join you but I’m fucking beat.
Just looked that place up. It’s right downtown. You and I need to go on a date.
Meet me there. I’ll be the first beer.
Thanks, and go As.
Seriously not tonight. I took a sick cria to the doctor this morning, watched both crias all day while mrs llama shopped, and now I’m sick.
I will drink tonight…30 mL of NyQuil.
Doesn’t mean you have to leave the bar alone.
I did.
Thanks, and go As.
I haz a sad. The bar where I watch the 49ers (can I call it “my” bar?) has a cute bartender who flirts with me, but I think only to build up her tip. She’s a Bears fan, so she might not like me as much the next time I see her (didn’t go to the bar for the game last Monday, so I don’t know her mood or reaction).
It’s OK. I had no delusions of grandeur.
Thanks, and go As.
It’s ok to dream. Good, even.
How not to do it.
At that point just kick the shit out of it before he can. Better to reset things than to let him make a run at it. But that was pretty bad.
How not to do it, part II.
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the guy at 2:40 is from my hometown team
Dodgers’ new TV deal may be $280 million per year for 25 years. How much do you think Fox will want to charge in subscriber fees for the cable and satellite companies to carry that channel? That might be where the revolt starts. I’ve noticed the absence of Pac-12 Network on DirecTV this fall, but I can’t say I’ve felt it’s been a major loss.
that writer didn” seem to get that the impending deal was why the team was so valuable.
this feels like its gonna crash.
Yeah, it doesn’t feel sustainable.
I called it long ago, although dmoas may disagree.
I do agree that you called it a long time ago. I still don’t agree with your particular scenario, but I’m starting to waver on my disagreeing about the sustainability based on this absurd contract. Something’s going tank, I’m just not sure what or how. Probably MLB when several TV networks fail and get dissolved from their parents.
You can’t just dictate any monthly sub fee for Fox Prime Ticket by forcibly including it in a “standard cable” package that Grandma has to buy if she only wants to watch the CBS Evening News, the Game Show Network and the Hallmark Channel. At some point Congress gets involved and forces “a la carte” on the industry, i.e. Fox Prime Ticket becomes a separate pay channel like HBO. That model didn’t work for baseball 20 years ago when it was tried briefly in many markets including the Bay Area. At the monthly price required to support that sort of rights fee I think all but the most diehard TV fans walk away and these enormous TV deals start blowing up right and left.
I don’t see congress being able to forcibly do that. Especially with the entertainment lobby et al fight it. Prices will go up and people will pay up until a point and bail. Lots of people scream and yell over “injustices” like this, but ultimately nothing really comes of it.
Agreed. However, with the rise of feasible (and arguably better) alternatives like Netflix et al. for non-live events, I think the bailing point isn’t all that high.
The problem there is paying to develop content. The alternatives aren’t going to be able to fund the content on a level that it can replace them. Netflix is struggling as it is with very little “newer” content to speak of. Their fees for that content will inevitably go up as well. In fact, arguably, the Netflix of the world will likely have to pay more for the content to make up for the cable losses.
Developing the content themselves is the future though. Netflix has started to do this already with the new seasons of Arrested Development. Eventually, if the cable companies start trying to make the Netflixs of the world pay exorbitantly to make up for their declining viewership, Netflix et al. will take the process end-to-end and cut out the cable companies as much as possible.
The current model is rapidly becoming untenable. Cable companies can fight it by trying to hoard their content, but that’s just a delay measure at best and counterproductive at worst. Something is going to give. If cable package prices are too high and the non-sports content isn’t available on the Netflixs, then people will just stream it illegally. TV is becoming like music – people aren’t willing to pay all that much for it anymore with all the other consumption options, and have less and less patience for paying for excesses they don’t want. They still will today, especially less tech-savvy people, but it won’t last.
I know Netflix is trying to do that, but the costs to do so will greatly limit their ability to do it. I wouldn’t be terribly surprised if doing AD results in a net loss for them. The current model is untenable, sure. But the notion of ala carte programming is simply unlikely or, more accurately, unlikely to actually be better. You’ll find yourself having to subscribe to a greater number of places at higher costs than current. Add in fees for internet access going up as well (since you’ve just taken the bread and butter of content provider away from the comcasts, etc. of the world). The model will change or crash, there’s no doubt about it, but the utopian idea of cheap, easy, (and good) content is wrong.
I think cheap and easy content is an inevitability. With illegal free online streaming out there, there’s not much room for content providers to maneuver away from that baseline. The illegality of that streaming is the primary stumbling block for consumers (Endlessly increasing Internet bandwidth and access is quickly removing the access stumbling block).
There is so much choice out there for consumers today, in terms of content and delivery methods, that content providers have to differentiate and cater to those consumers. They’re running out of ways to do that. The tried-and-true differentiator of content exclusivity is going the way of the dodo, so they will have to pursue other methods. Making it cheaper, better and/or easier are the most obvious ones. The overwhelming trend is heading that direction. If a la carte is more expensive and difficult, it won’t happen, and something else will. There’s too much money to be made even in a cheap and easy content delivery world for content providers to refuse to pursue it or pull a nuclear option and stop making content altogether.
If this means that the acting bubble bursts, I’m cool with that.
I can live in a world without high-paid famous actors.
you are destroying the supermarket tabloid industry
It’ll need to go much more beyond an acting & directing bubble bursting. We’re talking entire industry collapsing in on itself. As it is, most of the nuts and bolts that cost a lot aren’t making a ton.
You’re missing the point. Content is fking expensive. Millions of dollars to produce. If you want cheap and easy content, you’re asking for a YouTube quality experience. If you want that, great, in the world of cheap and easy, all scripted material will be toast.
And I’m saying you’ll have both. People are willing to pay at some level; the level is just shrinking. The industry will have to find other ways to monetize and deliver their content.
Content providers are never going to say “well it’s too expensive now to make new stuff, so enjoy YouTube.” Their only advantage over the Netflix of the world is that they produce the content. They’re not going to stop that. They’re going to find cheaper and easier ways to deliver that content or they’ll lose ground to those that do.
The whole AD thing is a perfect example. Why do you think Netflix bought the exclusive rights to air AD? It’s not to make money. They’re attempting to be a loss leader. If Netflix can start airing their own exclusive content, cable companies become obsolete. Why do you think Fox partnered and sold it to them rather than broadcast it themselves? It’s not because they couldn’t be bothered to find a time slot. They’re feeling out if a legit Internet streaming-only show can be successful. This is an exploration of the future. Radio was taken over by TV because it was better, broadcast TV was taken over by cable because it offered more choice, and cable is being taken over by Internet streaming because it’s cheaper and easier to consume. That’s just how it works.
I almost spit out my coca-cola when I read this (but it is too good to waste). You are right there are other ways to pay for things.
Was it a spittake of outrage, laughter or excitement?
(product placement)
Ahh, I see now. *whoosh* on that one.
This is why networks are paying so damn much for sports.
Yep. And which is why it’s an unsustainable bubble. You can’t prop up a dying model on one facet forever.
But you can prop up a dead guy for a weekend.
Until he leans
McCain not smart enough to shut up yet
Uh huh. Is McCain stuck in ’07 thinking he’s still competing against Obama for President?
Yes. Bitter old man is bitter. News at 11
hey there. how are you?
Tired, but fucking ecstatic. Mrs. N and **** are sleeping. Mrs. N’s mom is here.
Finally caught up on FK.
Tounces is sleeping with your wife???!!!
I’ve never called him that.
But you’re right. Back to the drawing board on cutesy fk-reference.
littlemoor?
neverlees?
Moop?
I like it. lm for short. Leaves room for tm later on Llama/XKCD’s theory of parenting.
i don’t think you want to refer to your second born as turtle man.
Ha! I had forgotten TM!
I’m kinda tempted to drop in at **, post a TM pic, and leave.
raven jr?
In FSU face paints you!
I’ll bet when people pointed it out to her, she’d look in the mirror and say “Fuck you, it’s correct” with a major attitude.
I’ll bet no one noticed anything that far above her face.
The face on the right is priceless. It’s like she sat next to this nut all game and suddenly turned and thought, “What the fu….”
All the ladies love FSU. Backwards and forwards.
Wtf?
Canadian PM and:
a) railroad engineer who had to hurry out of bathroom and couldn’t fasten outfit
b) orphaned love child of coal miner and rapper
c) girl from an upcoming shitty “teenager passing as member of opposite sex for ridiculous comic purpose” movie
It is about time for a Just One of The Guys reboot.
Nice!
Seriously? That’s how you dress to meet the PM? I wanna slap him. Repeatedly.
I’ll take some heat for this, but (apart from his music) I think the Beibs is awesome. For a young kid with a tremendous amount of (rapid and perhaps undue?) fame, he seems to have his head screwed on right, is a decent role model as far as celebrities go, and seems to use his fame for good things. He’s a pretty vanilla
Good Christian KidIce, and I think it’s great to see a celebrity like that every once in a while.(But hey, I like Tim Tebow too.)
From what I’ve seen, he’s a first class prick. He’s arrogant, entitled, and snobby.
In what way? (Honestly curious)
This source is, of course, questionable. But I’ve seen/heard similar reports about him elsewhere. He also came off as a major douchebag on Punk’d. It’s hard to explain, but his attitude seemed to be “I’m better than you because I’m rich and you’re not.”
First non-ironic linking of foxnews in FK history!
Even if true, on balance, I don’t think it undoes other things I’ve heard; and of course nobody really knows what celebrities are like in their private life (cf Kirby Puckett). But then you’re left judging him solely on his music (or Yunel Escobar solely as a baseball player), in which case he’s a failbucket (or, in Escobar’s case, croumulent).
I’ve heard good things about Taylor Swift. Not a fan of her music, although I prefer it to Biebs. She’s also considerably prettier.
I have never heard a Taylor Swift song, maybe that’s how I’ll spend this evening.
I wouldn’t call it terrible (what I’ve heard, anyway). But I wouldn’t call it good. Even mediocre might be a bit generous. But I’ve heard she’s really nice. Like, giving backstage passes to everyone in the cheapest seats at her shows. And taking her entire crew on vacation at the end of her tours.
So YouTubed her and hit the first song, “Begin Again.” It sounds like the bland kind of pop that the microscopist plays when we examine samples. At least it has kind of a country twang to it, I like that.
(Once I started bobbing my head to the awesome Ben Folds that was rocking the Bed Bath and Beyond, and I thought, “Man, when did they start playing good music?” and then I realized that I am an old man whose cool musical taste turned out to be easy-listening adult contemporary.)
Ha! Honestly, I would never have thought to classify Swift as country. Sounds like pop to me.
I didn’t say it was country, I said it had a country twang! I decided that I don’t much care for country music (reverse Sturgeon’s law top decile notwithstanding), but I like singers who themselves like country music.
Sorry, didn’t mean that you classified it as country. But the industry does, or has.
I did not know that. Interesting.
I think they actually release slightly different versions of her songs for pop format and country format.
Huh. That’s weird.
You ain’t heard nothing till you’ve heard it in it’s original gangsta rap format.
We are never ever ever,
Getting back together.
Biotch.
that’s actually very smart.
I heard one while waiting for a movie to start last night. It was boring (the Taylor Swift song, that is, not the movie). But I’ve also heard only extremely nice things about her, in terms of personality and behavior, and talent. She does have a pretty voice, the song was just boring.
In other words: Justin Beiber is the Jeff Francouer of pop music.
Hehe!
Nice edit, whoever did that.
Wasn’t Me.
#shaggy
Does this mean that overalls are making a comeback?? HOORAY
shitty overalls, not the good kind.
I’ll bring back the good kind. Just you wait.
I think this is the first picture of Justin Bieber I ever saw
Well, you and all your running around in places without 24/7 bombardment of pop media…
Guess the governor.
Maybe we should rename him “Sunbeam”
You will croak, you little clown
When you mess with President Brown
double heh
heh.
LOL:
There’s absolutely no reason why the state shouldn’t be protecting the counties in this situation when their essentially shoving it down their throats. If he wants it so bad that he’s not going to let anyone stand in their way, he has a responsibility to help those he tramples over when they’re government agencies that need to make sure their ends meet.
Rays extend Evan for 6/100 on top of the 4 years remaining on his current deal. We should do this with Sexy Feet.
I’m down if he is. Although, committing nine years for a player with just one injury-riddled season in professional baseball would be pretty astonishing.
Also, 9 more years for a guy who’s 27? And who’s defense is already suspect and will likely decline? Unless he signs for cheap, I don’t know about this.
The whole point is that this is “cheap” for what the market is expected to be like by the next 2-3 years. It’s the reason why even the ultraconservative Rays are willing to give an additional 6 years to a guy (also 27, but coming off a major injury no less) who still has 4 years left on his contract.
Brandon Hicks traded to the Mets for straight cash, homie.
brandon count -1
Thanks, and go As.
Start of a possibly fun Jonah Keri series ranking the top 50 MLBers in terms of “trade value.” It’s based on Bill Simmons’ fun/infuriating annual NBA rankings. Some questionable calls already (The Cardinals wouldn’t trade Holliday straight up for Cespedes?), but I am curious who the top picks will be.
If you don’t like racing where the cars only turn left, you probably hate racing that goes in a straight line. But man, drag racing is a crazy visceral thrill. And this new Camaro is awesome.
BTW, with a little tuning this car is apparently down to 8.49 @161.44. Chevy claims 550 hp on that motor, but it’s gotta be making more than that.
Surprised they got that car all the way down to 3,200 lbs. If that was a Mustang it’d weigh 4500.
Love the line of cars waiting for their turns. Open nights at the drag strip can be cool.
Yeah, I love that line of cars too. I wanna go to a track on an open night, but I don’t think my little non-turbo Subaru will be much fun at a drag strip.
Also, Ford offers something similar. It’s called the Mustang Cobra Jet. Their production run is limited to 50. It’s running a 5.0L with a 2.9L supercharger, so I can’t imagine it’s making the same horsepower as the Camaro. The one in the video is, I believe, equipped with a 5.3L LS engine topped with a 4.0L blower; they also offer it with 5.3L/2.9L blower and a 7.0L naturally aspirated motor. The engines are officially rated at 550 hp, 500 hp, and 425 hp respectively.
I, for one, welcome our robot overlords.
Damn toasters.
Can he play short?
Can he umpire?
Can anyone?
Sure, but zomg is far moderner.
OMG is sooooo 95 years ago.
Must be a hoax. Everyone knows the Internet had the first instance of everything that’s existed.
So German seamen were entering the enemies rear?
slf needs to register a domain name and have a “work” website for free lance stuff. it will be very simple and not need get complicated.
any suggestions?
sexylittlefk.xxx?
i said simple
slfk.xxx
Our host (byethost.org) gives a free URL and has a webpage setup. Not the fastest, but it’s $35/year.