Hey, kids! It’s Saturday night!
That means it’s time to clue you in on all the great stuff we’ve got lined up for next week here at The Last Best Place on the Internet.
I guess a few people didn’t like the number of posts in their listing on the Contributing Writers page, because we’ve had a little flurry of new posts coming in. Woohoo!
This coming week in addition to the regular great Daily Links posts by Sloopy, BrettL, and OMWC, we’ve got beloved regular features from mexican sharpshooter, SugarFree (unless the work monsters or his cats gobble him up), Web Dom, Not Adahn, trshmnstr, and yours truly. We’ve also got Part 6 of Suthenboy’s Reloading Series, and new pieces from The Hyperbole, Gadianton, straffinrun, CPRM, Sensei, Animal, and hopefully, BakedPenguin’s NFL pick-’em for Week 3 of the regular season. (No pressure, BP!)
Oh, anyone interested in the autumn Beer It Forward (BIF)? See below and make sure you do the part about emailing Nephilium, not me. I have a well-known distaste for beer, so it would end up in my spam.
And now, because I’m feeling magnanimous thanks to a little delicious imbibing before and during dinner, go ahead and have a Saturday Night Open Post! I hope you took your weekly shower first; it sometimes gets a mite crowded in here.
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211 responses to “Coming Attractions & Perhaps Saturday Night Open Post (if you ask really nicely)”
First?
Woohoo!!! First!!! Uh, loser. I’m looking forward to the upcoming articles, so actually, I am first.
Founder’s Solid Gold Lager by the fire in my backyard out in the woods. No STEVE SMITH sightings yet, but it’s still early.
I’m jealous it’s cool enough for you to have a fire
Dude, haven’t had many fires here this summer. It’s been hot and stinking humid; the temperature finally relented somewhat this evening.
Solid Gold is a solid beer from Founder’s, have you had their PC Pils yet?
Yeah, the PC pils is ok. There’s a new brewery in town called Liquid State, and their pils is great, so I usually get growlers of it there.
To my mind the Solid Gold is their best offering.
There are quite a few Founder’s offerings I would put above the Solid Gold, such as the KBS, CBS, and the traditional Breakfast Stout. I just love the story behind how PC Pils got its name (the original wasn’t so PC). Even as they’ve sold out (to a brewery in Spain IIRC), they’re still putting out solid beers, and the owners haven’t made any douchey speeches.
I see the high ratings on Breakfast Stout, but it’s just a bit too strong for me. My definite favorite is the Rubaeus Raspberry, but most of their other ones are really good too. Solid Gold is good, but not top 3.
I’m a big fan of Solid Gold. https://youtu.be/vTWrFJFgWwc
Ur old.
/watched that in real time
Yeah. Dignified and Old. https://youtu.be/n4smOSAkkz4
What will it be like?
I still say Bill Stevenson was a douchebag.
Man, what did he do to you?
Nothing to me, just his antics at a club I used to manage.
Ah, gotcha.
It never pays to get to know artists you like.
Tundra: I enjoyed my times hanging out with the (English) Beat and the Dropkick Murphy’s. But I wasn’t expecting much in either situation.
Dropkick’s have a reputation of being good guys IRL.
Slumbrew: If my word means anything, add me to the Dropkicks being decent people. I spent the night drinking with Spicy (when he was still with them) and he kept getting pissed when me and my friends bought rounds (Spicy was 19 at the time).
A fine reminder that when people talk of decades – e.g., “the 80’s” – it’s really mid-decade to mid-decade. 1981 was still disco. Fast forward to 1985 and it’s “Careless Whisper” and “View To A Kill”, padded shoulders and power ties.
BTW, anyone else seeing timestamps off by an hour? It should be getting the time zone from the browser.
Correct time here.
I always see the timestamps as Central.
Yeah, but everybody hates disco now, so we’ve retconned “80’s music” to pretend that New Wave was big in 1980.
Being a teenager in the 80’s yeah it was like two different worlds between ’81 and ’86.
But pretty goddamn fun.
*Goes looking for his Kill The Bee Gees t-shirt from1979*
You want a prime example of a first world, Shitlord issue?
I ordered a custom dart board cabinet nine months ago with the family crest on it. It finally showed up and it is awesome. I ordered the dart board and darts and they should have showed up today. The dart board showed up and the cabinet is now hung and ready to go. The darts didn’t make it today, so using the board will have to wait.
Do any of these sjw warriors have ANY clue as to just how good they have it by being born in this country?!? People in Bangladesh are hoping for enough rice and cholera free water so they can get a decent night’s sleep, so they can spend tomorrow toiling over getting enough rice to eat and cholera free water. And my darts didn’t show up.
I think the Mormon’s have it right. All college students should be required to do mission work in a third world country before they’re allowed to start college. Idiots.
/rant off.
Welcome to America. We got stuff!! ?????????????
They may just go Camp Refoogee while they’re there. I’m a person who realizes that if I was born even twenty years earlier, I probably wouldn’t be alive now. I don’t think I can make it clear how much I love technology due to that.
This
You’re supposed to buy these things in advance and forget where you put them when the board finally comes in.
At that point you buy a second set and bitch while you wait for them to be delivered.
^This guy knows how to plan^
I found out how good we have it in the states just from a trip to France. Fuggers don’t even believe in complimentary bread at the nice sit-down restaurants.
That’s uncivilized.
French food without bread?
Yep – I don’t believe in the draft, but it would really help.
I could have benefited from some sort of compulsory service when I was 17, that’s for fucken certain. It was the recession and there were no jobs. We did what we could to get by but counting quarters at the liquor store ain’t my idea of living the Good Life.
The pork shoulder is at 187deg…just a bit more then ready to be pulled and eaten. Ribs are for pre-game NASCAR here in Vegas tomorrow and the beer is for tonight.
Enjoy the pork and vroom vroom.
I have done many a pork butt on the smoker and have found that sous viding that hunk o meat at 153 ish for 24 hours and then smoking for four hours delivers a far superior product. Ribs though need a rub to smoke operation for four or five but low heat.
Doing my first pork butt tomorrow. Hopefully it goes well.
Phrasing?
I think it was deliberate.
Well, you know what they say, the bigger the cushion the sweeter the pushin’.
earworm
You went classic. Here’s a modern take on the subject.
Holy shit! That’s a real band!!
Yeah, and they actually aren’t bad. Here’s the closest they got to a hit.
Back when Sarah Silverman still had a sense of humor.
Yep. I bet she wouldn’t do that video today.
I’m going down a Steel Panther rabbit hole and found this cover of Cheap Trick’s She’s Tight. It’s pretty damn good. Also, this is a Panther classic.
I became familiar with them when they came the Carolla podcast and got into a breakdown of Kiss’s Lick It Up (“… and don’t forget the balls, now!”). Still makes me laugh.
That’s like the freebase of hair metal.
I saw Spinal Tap live in San Diego in 1992. I have two fond memories from the show. First, buddy’s wife believed they were a real band. Second, before starting Big Bottom they invited out on stage about half a dozen strippers from a local club and referred to them as the Martha Graham Dance Company.
Ribs for tomorrow. Brined tonight, and smoking tomorrow.
Yum
Eighth.
Fan of the Founders family.
This sounds like a great line up.
When I was on vacation in the UP last week, I got this sticker and thought of all you wonderful people.
I think most of us would fuck STEVE SMITH up if he stole our beer. Most likely he would be shot by the majority of this group.
The fools going to d…
I mean the sheriff going to do it
What a great movie.
Any advice on a cheap cell phone? I find it odd that many of the inexpensive phones from the budget carriers aren’t even on their manufacturers websites.
How cheap, and what does it need to do?
Two soup cans, some string. Also, the internet.
As inexpensive as possible. It needs to make phone calls.
They don’t want to you buy those phones.
I have about five old Nokia’s sold only in shitholes and one Motorola flip phone I am willing to part with for sayyyyy…..twenty bucks?
On Ebay you can get last year’s middle of the line phone pretty cheap.
How cheap?
Walmart – prepaid.
I’m hoping SP will chime in.
Worst. Code-words. Ever.
What?
What I like about you https://youtu.be/Rqnw5IfbZOU
Fuck, I thought it was his girlfriend.
No, that was another girl.
Another Girl Another Planet is a #1 hit song. Niceness.
Another version.
Messy but awesome,
The Mats. Always messy. Always awesome.
I picked up a super cheap LG smartphone at Walmart that is a Tracfone.
It’s Android, but it’s simplicity itself to set up an…alternate…google account to use it fully. One can get cards for airtime or buy a year’s worth of access. If you don’t need a smartphone, just get the cheapest Tracfone fliphone. They are all about equivalent at this point.
Pay cash and it’s basically anonymous.
And seriously, it’s so cheap that I don’t care if it breaks or gets lost/stolen.
What it’s like to watch football these days.
That was good, but this was better
“GW got me so much pussy.”
Those guys make some funny shit. I may have found my rabbit hole for the night.
That’s where I’ve been the last couple days, in that there rabbit hole.
I wish watching football sounded more like this.
Yes. That’s perfect!
Football sounding like this is beautiful.
The all-time interception leader. Of course, he got the vast majority of them playing for that shit team in Wisconsin.
I say this as a Packer fan who had this as his last play for us, and yet we wanted him back. He only hit us cuz he loved us.
Holy shit – how can the replay officials get a play so wrong. USC clearly had the QB sacked in the end-zone – elbow and knees down before the ball crossed the line.
They are all out to get you, Drake. All of them.
Tonight for my Honey-Bunny I’m doing sirloin strips, dry rubbed with mustard, cracked pepper and garlic powder, sauteed mushrooms and onions with scallops in the same cast iron pan and some of the last pole beans from the garden, steamed. It has been unseasonably cold here so the growing season is basically done. If I wanted to there is a supermarket’s worth of horseradish that needs digging, chopping, processing and freezing. Those fucking things are like Triffids.
I’ll take some off your hands!
Buyer beware. Once those fuckers take root they are herpes. Plant in barrels.
Horseradish is a scourge that should be purged.
Now you’re just talking nonsense.
(wait, are we talking from a gardening POV or food?)
Both. When I was a young child, my father brought me a Tupperware container full of freshly grated horseradish. He then asked me to smell it, so (I being a young and dumb child) took a big strong whiff of it. The burning caused me to backhand the container away from me, spreading it throughout the room. To this day, I’ll take a habanero over any level of horseradish in a dish.
Horseradish is the universal condiment. Hot dogs, hamburgers, deli sandwiches, sushi, salmon, pulled pork, steak, chicken wings, all better with horseradish.
Hard for me to properly express how much I love a horseradish sauce with steak.
I can understand those who like horseradish, I just disagree with all of you. Ghost chili is the universal condiment. Go hot or go home.
On a steak, I prefer black pepper and salt, that is all.
I prefer blood and woostersheer on my steaks.
Saw a interesting little road on my hike. Thought I’d pop in for a second and see what’s up.
https://m.imgur.com/a/h2O5FGV
Christ! How far into the mountains do they pave?
The road ends right after that. The 9 year olds and I went in the wild for about an hour before turning back.
It’s beautiful. Post some more pics if you are of a mind,
Pie had a nice travel post. I could definitely groove on more of those.
I’m on the edge of internet reception. One bar and then a minute later no reception. It’s just trees and shit. At least they gave me a free afternoon while they all went to the onsen.
Not now! Enjoy it and share it with your reprobate friends when you are back in civilization.
Have fun, brother.
This! I was quite a traveler as young pup but not so much anymore. These travelogue posts are intriguing.
This. Keep having a good time and more pics please!
We have a great one from Q coming up the first week in October. I loved trshmnstr’s battlefield post, and Pie’s beautiful post.
I’ve love to see MANY more of these.
That road looks better than most around here./country bumpkin
Looks like a nice hike, I’ll be going up Mt. Hakkoda next weekend, will take pics too.
Please do. We’re doing car camping because there are 1 and 2 year olds in the group. Still, at least I got to choose the whiskey. Chita 知多 by Suntory. Smooth as silk single malt. A bit steep at ¥4000 for the 700ml. Worth every yen. Suntory makes crap (Tory’s) and elixir of the gods (Chita). Must be weird working there.
Oh very nice, I’ll have to look into the Chita then. Whiskey-wise here, I’ve usually had just the Tory or a Wild turkey, but I got a nice bottle of Hibiki saved for rainy days or special times.
Nice. Have fun.
Ok, who’s the new guy in your avatar? I can’t tell.
Dave Davies. I’ve been deep into some Kinks for the last week or so.
Damn. I should have known.
/hangs head in shame
Yeah, you should have, dumbass!/has no clue but hi-5s bros over that sick burn
*starts to drop gloves, but realizes that music soothes the sick burn*
Here.
No.
This https://youtu.be/BIc-RnqjwWA
While Dave The Rave hit the rock and roll riffs
Low Budget! – https://youtu.be/fUT9KQ-LuaU
I blame earlier posts for this.
OK, question: how the fuck weren’t the Kinks more successful?
If you were on a desert island and you could only have one library – Beatles, Stones or Kinks?
Discuss.
Stones. There’s such a change in style from early to late that it’s almost like having a few different bands’ songs. And there’s at least a couple fun side-trips along the way (disco and country)
If the record store on the deserted island said, “Bugger off, we’re all out of Stones”, then I’d pick the Kinks…and not be disappointed.
Meh, there’s only one Stone’s song I like.
Kinks were the first punk band.
I don’t find the Stones a big change. They always sound like the Stones. you really got me, Lola, and Come Dancing could have come from three different bands and sound like it.
Having said that, I’d take the Stones library for my desert island.
I’m with GL.
Chafed would only take Gordon Lightfoot, apparently.
From this to this.
But yeah, you can always tell it’s the Stones, I guess. However I think that has more to do with Mick’s very distinctive voice, but I get what Gustave is saying. My vote is still Stones, though.
Kinks.
I don’t have a raging clue for any of those bands so I’ll just go with two coconuts for $300, Alex.
I guess USC didn’t want to be a ranked football team anyway.
Maria Taylor from ESPN?
Would.
I had that thought a short while ago. First I’ve seen her, I think. She’s dope.
Hell yes.
Maybe I’ll give ESPN another chance.
She’s fine but not in my wheelhouse. I prefer the “baby-fat” Belinda Carlisle as compared the sleek and shiny one. I also prefer Jane to Belinda if I had a time machine.
Jane. Always Jane. Cute > beautiful (it lasts longer). Plus, she’s a bisexual fetish-wear enthusiast.
*Adolescent faps overload*
Jane who?
The original MPDG that played some chords and hopped around in flats with the Go-Gos circa 1982.
She was also Joan of Arc in Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure.
Do they screen the new hires for wokeness?
Today, I made mead. Tomorrow, I will make beer.
Life is good.
You said “will” not “gonna”. That means it’s a promise. What time should I show up?
I will turn the burner on about noon.
Good luck on the brew day. I’m hoping to kill my backlog to give me an excuse to brew before I host Thanksgiving again…
thanks
Great. Now I’ve got brewer envy. All I’m gonna do is make horseradish (not tomorrow because Sunday is Monday but soon).
It is.
We had a great dinner full of homegrown tomatoes, good wine, our pup at our feet, a John Wayne western, and as far as I know, nobody I love died today.
Also booked a trip home to see my Dad for his 84th birthday.
I’m grateful.
Holy smokes, fatal shark attack in Wellfleet. First in Mass in 81 years.
Time to stop taking baths.
Sharks like ’em a little gamey, or maybe that was SEA SMITH. I just don’t know anymore.
Like that time I played Spider-Man 2 for 15hrs straight and then when I went to work I was confused why I couldn’t web sling :/
Way ahead of you.
Apropos of nothing, called my brother in NC today – he answered the phone with “Nothing. We got nothing. It’s drizzling and a little breezy. I’m a oddly disappointed” (outside Raleigh).
And it’s all Drumpf’s fault!
I can’t wait for the NYT column criticizing climate-denier Trump’s inaccurate weather predictions.
Like this?
Slum’s bro’s comment got me thinking that Trump’s comments will be called “hyperbole” if the storm doesn’t live up.
“Hurricane Flo, low-energy. A major disappointment. Sad.”
“I knew her aunt, she bled from the wherever.”
Archive’s fucked up so here’s the bareback link.
http://thechive.com/2018/09/15/dont-forget-your-wingman-this-weekend-13/
Fill the gaping hole in your life with cheap and fleeting stimulation.
Have you tried filling your gaping hole with Jesus Christ? That’s what the chercheys always tell me to do when I sit in the back of church in my rain coat…
Better than 12-Step meetings. At least the churchies are clean and the grub is better.
I think they’d try to kill (((me))) for slaughtering their Messiah.
(((You))) people are so self-centered, it’s not always about (((you))), sometimes it’s about fags and muslims. JEEZ.
Wow. That might be the best group of gals yet. I couldn’t begin to pick favorites.
Archive is working again.
http://archive.is/2Vc9y
More ways to distract yourself from the inherent pointlessness and meaninglessness for our random and cruel existence.
18 has a helluva cameltoe.
Being the only Glib at a party.
Hey, D’Arcy Carden!
Your last one about Stop Making Me Defend Trump made several of my “friends” mad.
IOW; it hit a little too close to home.
Pretty much. I give my friends credit for being objectively intelligent. But when I point out that their hatred of Trump is purely a matter of taste and not logic, they don’t like it very much.
I need new (read: no) friends. I’m most of the way there already.
Then I can move here:
https://www.alaskarealestate.com/Search/Property/PropertyDetail.aspx?cid=PeUvG+C4NFzaXSiLybc0eA==&li=k2vPJ3FYRgRYWZxHRFgIQg==&esf=MA|Mg
You all can come, as long as you don’t stay long and don’t get in the way of my drinking myself into chronic pancreatitis.
I found your prime real estate.
A couple G&Ts and would the girl in the maroon hat.
Get in line, young feller. Chicks are hard to come by and the disease rate is VERY high.
Oh, I’d rutt that sober. Look at you on your high horse. Fucking elitist.
You presume I can tolerate being that close to another human without a CNS depressant.
That looks pretty sweet.
I did a double take thinking you liked one of Q’s NSFW links. I’m glad I looked again.
She’s a woman of taste and refinement.
Hence my double take.
No, most of Q’s links in comments don’t do that much for me, so I don’t click. I’m like the straightest straight woman ever born.
Brilliant.
Delay the fast forward to death to experience the few hedonistic pleasures of corporeal existence.
http://thefappeningnew.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Danielle-Sellers-topless-1.jpg
NSFW.
Whatever meaning is a fleeting chimaera guaranteed to lead to only more confusion and despair.
http://babeprofiles.com/media/galleries/5/7/0/b/f/570bf0a11a9d9/570bf1855a245.jpg
NSFW.
Hmm,
Yarg
Aye aye, Cap’n!
My local range actually had one of these for sale:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serbu_Super-Shorty
I desperately want to buy it, but it’s a fucking NFA weapon and I still don’t have my trust set up. DAMN YOU FDR!
How is this better than a regular shotgun? Serious question.
It’s not. I’m just a failure.
Haha you seem to really have a thing for impractical but cool looking firearms.
Kinda like me, but with cars! I can dig it.
I get what they’re trying to do, but fuck this.
http://www.timescall.com/top-stories/ci_32139348/university-colorado-regents-unanimously-pass-changes-free-speech
There is no “balancing” my free speech. There is no “compromise”. Either you have free speech or you’re a slave.
I think we all know what we are in reality.
Poppy?
Let’s see how this works out. A little trashed at 2:38 pm. I’m on a camping trip with 6 families in the mountains of Yamanashi. The other families, including the wife and daughter, went off to the onsen for the afternoon and I resisted the arm twisting they used to get me to go with them. Whenever I go on trips with groups of Japanese people, I steal a half day or so to spend by myself and go on a long distance walk. On this trip, I decided to go off into the mountains behind the campsite with a liter of Stoli’s, a pen and paper and see what’s rattling around the noggin.
The Norm McDonald uproar. This guy says that not every lying cunt should be believed. Shocking stuff. Maybe, just maybe, not every woman claimed to get a cock stuffed in her mouth or got her tit squeezed is telling the truth. It’s better that ten innocent men get ass raped in prison than on comedian say the obvious?
What is the purpose of comedy? In King Lear, the fool is the one person the King calls for when his sanity is dissipating. He has already banished his best advisor when the advisor told him the truth about his daughter. He has no one left to speak truth to power and somewhere in his mind he knew he needed someone to fill the role. So he repeatedly calls for his jester. A society that goes after the jester is a society that is primed to go full Robespierre.
You say the wrong thing at the wrong time and some soy soaked labia is going to spill forth from society’s crotch and shot it’s load all over your face. And you’ll like it. Try to wipe it off? Denier! You’re only choice is to let every skank that eagerly sucked dick in a desperate move to get daddy’s love to squat on your face and let the slurry ooze down your throat. You better have a fucking smile on your face while you’re at it.
I don’t know the answer, and like everything Russian I’ve dealt with in my life, this bottle of Stoli’s is raising great questions and answering none.
When I get back to the campsite, the humans with cocks will be tending the fire and cooking meat and the humans with pussies will be fucking around in the makeshift kitchen. I’ll be drinking my single malt by the fire and thinking about Norm. God fucking bless you.
You should move to Asahikawa.
Awe inspiring rant! Note to Norm – Fuck Netflix, Fuck yer contract, never surrender and NEVER FUCKING APOLOGIZE! Now he’s on his heels, swinging at shadows, blocking punches that haven’t been thrown. Twice for flinching, fucking Normie!
Stoli brings out a little Agile Cyborg in you, eh?
That’s high praise for our gaiju friend. High praise, indeed!
Didn’t think anyone was up.
It’s late and not many will see this, but I just remembered and had to share it:
Saw this in a local store today, in case any of you are looking for Christmas gift ideas for me.