WISDOM
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONES. YOU HAVE BEEN LIFTED FROM BRUTALITY. YOU HAVE SNARKED AT THE BRUTALS WHO ARE LEGION. ZARDOZ IS PLEASED. THUS THE CHOSEN ONES WILL RECEIVE THE GIFT OF THE LINK. GO FORTH AND COMMENT! ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.
P.S. REMEMBER, THE PENIS IS EVIL, BUT THE GUN IS GOOD. … AND WOULD IT HURT FOR YOU TO DROP BY AND SAY “HAIL, ZARDOZ!” ONCE IN A WHILE?
- BRUTAL POLITICIANS RESIST THE WEED! FOOLS – IT IS THE PENIS THAT IS EVIL, NOT A PLANT.
- FOOD RIOTS AMONG BRUTALS IN THE NATION OF ENGLAND?
- ZARDOZ AGREES – TOO FEW! WHAT, HE WANTS ANOTHER BRUTAL LEADER TO PROTECT THE BRUTALS LIVING THERE…NEVERMIND.
- THIS BRUTAL MIGHT BE GOOD MATERIAL FOR ZARDOZ TO RECRUIT.
ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.
HAIL, ZARDOZ
Good?
It’ll do
Ima need a ruling.
/Kanye
FOOD RIOTS AMONG BRUTALS IN THE NATION OF ENGLAND?
Feed them nutritious Soylent Green instead.
He was gazing off in the distance when he felt the leash rip from his hand, and he turned to see a “a big, black circle of fur” mauling his puppy, he said.
That one bites back.
ZARDOZ, with realistic amounts of bureaucracy
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONES. ALL BRUTALS MUST CHECK THE MANDATORY SEXUAL HARASSMENT TRAINING ROSTER POSTED IN THE VORTEX O ROOM. THERE WILL BE A SAFETY BRIEF AT 1500 BEFORE YOU GO FORTH AND KILL. TICKETS FOR THE BRUTAL BALL ARE NOW ON SALE AT A DISCOUNT FOR THE NEXT WEEK. NO LEAVE FORMS WILL BE SIGNED WITHOUT PROOF THAT THE 8 HOUR SAFE DRIVING COURSE HAS BEEN COMPLETED. WEAR CLASS B THIGH BOOTS AND BANDOLEERS ON MONDAY.
That’s training on how to harass, right?
Or am I mixing up ZARDOZ and STEVE SMITH? And by “mixing up”, mean….
Could STEVE SMITH rape ZARDOZ?
[Odd Couple theme song]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDrfHj3j398
*squints*
Is this one of those “irresistible force meets immovable object” conundrums?
The un-rapeable rock versus the unstoppable rapesquatch?
How many Rapesquatches can dance on the rock of a head?
Too bad I’m not making any more first GIF’s cause that has some potential.
Irresistible Force
STEVE SMITH GET ROCK HARD FOR HARD ROCK. YOU KNOW WHAT HE MEAN
Does ZARDOZ have a poop chute?
The gun is good, I’m down with.
That whole “the penis is evil”…well…mine is chaotic neutral at worst.
Hail Zardoz.
Venn diagram: Circle 1: In depth knowledge of polyhedral dice. Circle 2: Wedgie recipient.
Leading gamer in our area, back in HS was 6’8″, 285lbs football player, who ended up playing rugby in college. Nobody messed with the gaming group.
Half our baseball team in HS played it, too. It was fun. When I was 25, a friend at work asked me if I played and invited me to join. These were the Poindexter types. They took it a bit too seriously. Fuckers voted on my characteristics and averaged the results. 9 Charisma. All them were most likely virgins. “Does this finger smell like a 9 charisma?”. They didn’t invite me back.
*prolonged and thunderous ovation*
Charisma means pleasing or thankful in Greek.
The obvious response was, “No, it smells like your mom.”
Makes sense. I reckon if you have the charm to talk one into it, and then put in the time and effort to finger banging a Greek they should be pleased as well as thankful.
My God, I want that as the next Glibs T-shirt!
/I can’t stop laughing at this
Be aggressive- role play tournament song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2XGp5ix8HE
OT: Gillian Anderson: still hot.
IMO she’s had a bit too much work done to her face.
Agreed. Though still would.
Oh hell yeah
Diet Coke, because Fuck it, why not?, I’m a fucking adult, Whatever fuck you, We’re all gonna die anyway so enjoy what you enjoy
Best ad ever.
Oh wait, different Gillian.
MY BAD
She lost me at “it’s delicious”. Diet Coke tastes like turpentine and burnt plastic.
I’m trying Diet 7-Up for my waistline (and for better sleep on school nights). It’s actually not bad after I add some lemon juice to it.
Q: What does 7-Up have in common with a nun?
A: Never had it, never will.
It is a superior mixer for vodka and I’ve been told that’s what all the slim ladies quaff.
That is exactly what I do with it. I wouldn’t call it “superior” but it’s the only sugar- and caffeine-free carbonated (I like carbonation) mixer I have found that I can deal with in mass quantities.
I just got to work and heard a hell of a story. One of my mechanics didn’t make it to work last night. I just found out why.
Apparently he went home after work Thursday morning and couldn’t sleep. His wife gave him one of her ambiens. He said he fell asleep and then woke up in jail. The ambient affected him wrong. Apparently he got up and was wandering around his house playing with his pistol. He said he has no memory of this. His wife couldn’t get him back to bed so she (did the stupidest thing one can do) and called the cops for help. Luckily for him, by the time they got there he had put the gun up and was sitting on his couch. They arrested him anyway. Charged with 3rd degree battery. He’s damn lucky to be alive.
Damn, that nuts.
I know. He’s a good dude too. He’s 51 years old with no record of violence or criminality. Been married to his wife for 15 years with no history of any kind of violence between them. He’d never taken an ambient before. I guess it just hit him wrong. Sucks for him that this is gonna cost him several thousand.
By law, they have to arrest him if she called in that kind of threat, no?
He said they told him they charged him because they had to to remove him from the house. His wife just wanted help getting him to bed and didn’t want him taken away once he put his gun up. He went and got a lawyer today and she says there a good chance they can get the prosecutor to drop everything. Hopefully they do.
If the DA or ASA, or whatever they have there, is a halfway serious person…they will drop, refund bond and tell them “stay away from that crap. Next time try warm milk.” That is what I would have done.
And that’s why they don’t let people like you become DA swiss.
DA’s want points- got an election.
The legal system isnt just. The justice system isn’t legal.
never talk to the police
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE
Oh I know. I told my buddy he’s fucking lucky to be alive.
I’ll have what he’s having.
/lives alone
Yeah, that’s only like the seventh or eighth time I’ve heard a story like that about people on Ambien. Never taking that shit ever.
The Bankruptcy of the American Left
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/bankruptcy-american-left/
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There will be no economic or political justice for the poor, people of color, women or workers within the framework of global, corporate capitalism. Corporate capitalism, which uses identity politics, multiculturalism and racial justice to masquerade as politics, will never halt the rising social inequality, unchecked militarism, evisceration of civil liberties and omnipotence of the organs of security and surveillance. Corporate capitalism cannot be reformed, despite its continually rebranding itself. The longer the self-identified left and liberal class seek to work within a system that the political philosopher Sheldon Wolin calls “inverted totalitarianism,” the more the noose will be tightened around our necks. If we do not rise up to bring government and financial systems under public control—which includes nationalizing banks, the fossil fuel industry and the arms industry—we will continue to be victims.
***
herpy derpy derpity doo!
Sheldon Wolin calls “inverted totalitarianism,”
Y’know, because words don’t really mean anything anymore.
I could eat alphabet soup and shit something more coherent.
Hedges recycles the same rant every week. He should really get some treatment for the PTSD he picked up while a war correspondent.
Smash the system!
That idiot was a professor at Princeton? Good Lord.
And that second sentence makes no fucking sense.
It’s not a sentence; it’s a group of words being held hostage at gunpoint.
LOL…
I get it now, the old fashioned commies are pissed that the identity politics nutjobs are running the show now. Of course, they’re blaming the rise of identity politics on capitalists, because it’s not possible for anything bad to come out of Marxist philosophy. It has to be a corruption by external forces.
Mad Max violence stalks Venezuela’s lawless roads
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With hunger widespread amid a fifth year of painful economic implosion under President Nicolas Maduro, Venezuela has seen a frightening surge in attacks on increasingly lawless roads.
Just a few days earlier, Aguilar said he sat terrified when hundreds of looters swarmed a stationary convoy, overwhelming drivers by sheer numbers. They carted off milk, rice and sugar from other trucks but left his less-prized vegetables alone.
“Every time I say goodbye to my family, I entrust myself to God and the Virgin,” said the 36-year-old trucker.
While truck heists have long been common in Latin America’s major economies from Mexico to Brazil, looting of cargoes on roads has soared in Venezuela in recent times and appears to be not just a result of common crime but directly linked to growing hunger and desperation among the population of 30 million.
Across Venezuela, there were some 162 lootings in January, including 42 robberies of trucks, according to the consultancy Oswaldo Ramirez Consultores (ORC), which tracks road safety for companies. That compared to eight lootings, including one truck robbery, in the same month of last year.
“The hunger and despair are far worse than people realize, what we are seeing on the roads is just another manifestation of that. We’ve also been seeing people stealing and butchering animals in fields, attacking shops and blocking roads to protest their lack of food. It’s become extremely serious,” said ORC director Oswaldo Ramirez.
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The really depressing part is that it’s still better than North Korea.
Some parade goers in Philly looted a 7-11 during the Eagles’ Championship parade. Didn’t realize there was such a shortage of Slurpees in the city. Of course, there were thousands of cops riding bikes along the parade route but none, apparently, thought to stop the looting. A couple knucklehead vandals climbed one of the huge videotron devices, causing “tens of thousands” in damage, but cops couldn’t be bothered to catch them either. The trash left behind approached Occupy Wall Street levels.
People Rescue Air Jordans from Foot Locker During Hurricane Irma
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6-xokjS4PE
Cue Pocahantas music:
“Savages, savages, barely even human!”
Our defensive coordinator is a huge Eagles fan. I could see him burning a celebratory couch or three.
“medicinal marijuana patients say they’re worried a rush on legal weed will deprive them of much-needed medication.”
FU
ALL HAIL, ZARDOZ! HAIL!
Somewhere, a large stone head…smiles.
Comic books continue to embarrass themselves, this looks like it could be viewed like the bund years from now. https://www.bleedingcool.com/2017/11/20/dc-launches-justice-league-china-comic-book-2018/
I can’t wait to see Chinese Wonder Woman.
With her Rasso of Tluth?
“L” can be pronounced in Chinese if it is at the initial position. *Gives self wedgie*
+1 Bruce Lee
-1 swimming poor
And “R” often sounds exactly like in English. I dated a Mandarin speaker once and he had trouble with “L” and “R” which confused me because the sounds are nothing alike (other than being “appoximants”).
Ask him to go buy you Prell shampoo….oh, the hilarity!
That’s People-darin, you shitlord.
Boo!
Mandarin- from Portuguese for “commander”
Mandarin was and is the language of Chinese bureaucrats.
command
demand
mandate
mandatory
you get the idea
Foot bindings of silence..
*opera applause*
I don’t see what’s inherently embarrassing about it, except for the fact that the Great Ten are much, much cooler.
Also, Chinese Batman should have been more of this.
…And then 10,000 Nipponese Soldiers come in and kill them all and rape Catwoman. The End.
Catwoman was Yoshiko Kawashima.
HM, if you’re still around at this hour-
What make you of this?
https://twitter.com/elliosch/status/961984870485577729
Guy moves from California to rural West Virginia to run for Congress. Suddenly develops a rural drawl. #Resist
Also, ALL HAIL ZARDOZ
hmm- knave comes from a word that meant boy or servant.
fool comes from the Latin word for bag- as in something that is empty
fils means son in French and fals means purse in Arabic
etymology is cool
Latin teacher here and before I started explaining etymology to them most of my students thought languages appeared out of thin air!
They still have trouble wrapping their heads around the fact that English is a Germanic language but many of its words come from Latin/French.
Not enough, though. English needs more words like paedicator and irrumātor.
While I got to share those lovely collections of syllables with students when I taught in college, high school kids, sadly, may never hear them even if I hint heavily that there’s lots of crazy shit out there once you get past the textbook.
+1 Catullus word-porn.
Something, something I will something your face and something you.
sequipedalian verba
hyperpolysyllabicomania- obsession with very long words
Too many.
If memory serves, in Latin “dominatrix” is just a female ruler.
gladiatrix, aviatrix, actrix ( which morphed in actress)
Asterix, Obelix
Mueslix
The German word “Knabe”, I presume.
It’s in the lyrics to “Stille Nacht”.
Hail Zardoz!
So this brutal would like to have other brutals’s input on this. Been waiting for a drunken thread for this. Friday night seems good.
I’m currently in between jobs and looking for my next challenge.
I’m armed with a BBA in accounting and realized a few years ago that I cannot stand spending my days behind a desk.
So, I think I should go into trades. I’ve been listening to a few of you talking about your days, and it seems way better than any days I’ve spent in an office.
So well, I’ looking for a trade, that is not too hard to learn by apprenticeship, and not long to learn by going in a trade school (6 months max)
And of course high paying. The most high paying you can think of.
So… any suggestion ?
Around here, welding.
Yusef can address HVAC.
Lachowski can address electrician (that seems to take more training)
You young enough to take a spin in the Navy or Air Force or Coast Guard and let them teach you a trade? Army can do same, but you end up with bigger chance of getting blowed up…. *remembers 5 guys killed in PX at Balad*
anything with oil- go to Alaska, North Dakota, or the Gulf
All the welders I know like what they do and make freaking bookooh bucks on top of it.
^SEE, THIS GUY KNOWS^
Chicks dig scars.
welder
I own a small locksmith and door hardware business and I make good money off it, but that is because it’s mine and it is located in SF, an easy place to make money. I was taking to a guy who works for the main utility company here and he said that they are in real need of good welders. He said 100k a year after a few years of experience was very much doable (this is the Bay Area though so wages here have to be higher). Electricians are also making good money and it’s not going to be outsourced any time soon.
Border guard? Drone pilot? White House chief of staff?
Porn star.
Yeah, I suggest you wise up. The trades get harder and harder on the body as you age. If you insist, then start your own business and hire young men to do the actual work. Yesterday, I rebuilt a floor rotted out by a bad roof: I can barely move.
Yeah, whenever we have some tradesman over to do work around the house, I always hope he’s under 50. I worry about the old dudes overworking themselves.
I spent 2 years in a community college that used to be a vocational school getting an associates in Industrial Control Systems. If there is manufacturing in your area and you can learn the trade, I’d almost guarantee you a job.
Where I work, they will hire damn near anyone who even claims to understand industrial controls just to see if they can hack it. There is a huge market for my trade right now.
1. Change your name to Herbert Kornfeld
2. Join Midstate Office Supply
3. Benjaminz!
+1 Cashroom Bitch Be Having My Shorty.
Whatever you do, don’t go trucking. That time has passed, and you need not be treated like a 4th class citizen.
Yeah thanks a lot for that. I’ve worked with a lot of people working for Normandin (if you know them). I was aiming for that path. Got my class 3 in Quebec. Read that article about you. It seemed like a good gig. Then realized the state was going after truckers. Sure we can regulate another industry out of business.
So that’s why I’am asking for any suggestions.
I’m working for a custom homebuilder now, and at present am working on the beginning stages of wrapping and finishing a home – installing siding, flooring, kitchen cabinets, shiplap, etc. It’s hard work but every day I see yet more progress on a really nice house.
If you are out of shape ….. you won’t be for long doing this.
I’m armed with a BBA in accounting and realized a few years ago that I cannot stand spending my days behind a desk.
So, I think I should go into trades. I’ve been listening to a few of you talking about your days, and it seems way better than any days I’ve spent in an office.
Same here, brutha. I can feel myself slowly dying as I rot away behind my desk.
I might have felt the same, but three deployments overseas (Bosnia, Afghanistan, Iraq)….three domestic call ups (Katrina and 1992 and 2011 floods) have me appreciating a desk, coffee and climate control…
You need to get out and do something else – try your local Habitat for Humanity (or church food pantry). They will work your arse!
I freakin love working for Habitat. I haven’t worked on a build for a while, but it was a great experience every time I have.
I think you left off sanitary indoor plumbing that works.
Java Juggz is hiring.
I love desk work. *shrug*
*high fives*
After setting coffee mug down, of course.
Well, I’m a small guy so “physical” work was never really going to be an option anyway.
As others said, welding is a great trade with many options. I am not a welder by trade but I do it on occasion and all I say when doing it is, “holy fuck this shit is heavy, we should have built it out of wood”. Pipeline guys make good money and don’t have to actually lift the shit. That trade has promise and I wish I had gone that route. I also wish I had became an electrician. That ticket is a license to steal for mostly not hard work. I also wish I had became an accountant so I wasn’t walking like a cripple and settling for whatever work I could get when I reached my early fifties after being out of the trades for ten years. Look for something not susceptible to booms and busts. Some day you get to an age when you have to rely on what you actually did for most of your life and people don’t want to give a semi-old dude the time of day when applying for a job so if you are serious work yourself into owning the business and get established. There are ten younger guys who can do the job when you are looking later in life. Most people can’t tell the difference between good carpentry and shit carpentry but a good carpenter can. It means jack shit.
Most people can’t tell the difference between good carpentry and shit carpentry
Meh, most people couldn’t tell you the whys and whats-its that make up the differences but most people can and will pick the higher quality works over the lower ones. They aren’t willing to pay for the good stuff but that’s an entirely different some sort of fish.
Good point. See box store cabinets vs custom built. One is good enough, one is better and costs more. I still think most people don’t see any difference because they are just looking at the doors.
today in woodchippering
Death of Australian man yanked into woodchipper being treated as suspicious, police say
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2018/02/09/death-australian-man-yanked-into-woodchipper-being-treated-as-suspicious-police-say.html
for more light-hearted fare, click on: Australian lawmakers debate banning sex with staff members
Inspector Paul Algie said at the time of the incident that it was a grisly scene.
“I went out there this morning to speak to officers from Brisbane and I’d have to say it’s one of the worst incident scenes I’ve ever seen,” Algie said. “It was actually quite horrific. His friends discovered him as he became entangled and attempted to extract him from the shredder and were unable to do so. So they’re obviously quite traumatized now.”
You know who else became traumatized from a Woodchipper Incident?
Marge Gunderson?
Tucker?
The tax code?
Linky
Walter Lantz?
Hail ZARDOZ!
I followed the trail of links given by The Brutal SERVATOR and was brought up to speed on the trials and tribulations of The Stone Head.
Many thanks to Swiss!
ZARDOZ is not only a trippy film….he’s a righteous dude.
Which one of You guys is this.
That could be … any number of Glibs.
Needz more cocaine and MAGA.
Hey, Glibs! Roadsplosives here, reporting from, well, the road. Sipping a cocktail here in Rancho Bernardo.
This morning was the job interview with 5 guys, including two that I’m close enough to be on hugging basis with, but it was handshakes all around. Then after the interview was over, the main architect of the whole thing,who had recused himself because we are pretty tight, joined us and we all went to lunch and loosened up.
We returned to the company and all started talking shop (this was preplanned) in a conference room and did a good 4 hours of work.
When we parted, all the hugs were back and they guaranteed an offer will be coming. Hope it is a good one! I loved the facility tour, and the fact that my would be manager dropped his first F bomb in the first 2 min of our one on one interview.
Major life decisions coming right up.
I’m not on hugging basis with anyone besides the wife and kid. Good luck nonetheless!
“C’mere, Straff!”
*drunken stumbles toward straffinrun, arms open for hug*
*waves finger under drunk’s nose*
Lolz.
I hug people sparingly. Not a fan of hugging everyone at church, for example. But i hug the guys i only see a few times a year (or less) that i really am friends with. They get a nice rack press, and i get their cooperation on various ideas and tasks even though we are competitors. I think they are ready to weaponize that power for their benefit. Sure, diplomacy is part of it too, but the hugging is too.
I remember going to Mass in Germany and being surprised they didn’t do the “share your germs by showing some sign of Christ’s peace” crap.
Katholisch oder evangelisch?
Heh I don’t mind that at all. Jeez, it’s just shaking hands at the rare masses I have attended in recent years.
Catholic.
Dad’s cousin Angela insisted we stop off at the church in every city we stopped in. Until the first town in the Netherlands we stopped in and the church was… Protestant.
We didn’t stop at another church until the cathedral in Aachen.
You don’t even have to shake hands if you don’t want to, you lucky stiff.
Any of you homos touch my stuff…
Lighten up, Francis.
Good luck!
“This morning was the job interview with 5 guys”
They make a good pretty good burger and fries but I thought you were aiming a little higher than that. To each their own.
Didn’t go where I was expecting. Clean joke FTW.
*paging Swiss*
Nice one. 🙂
When i count using my fingers, it’s 6 guys, 7 counting Mr Recused.
Man, is it ever gorgeous out here.
Try the fish tacos, San Diego does those right.
Nice work, Lachowsky.
*narrows gaze*
Finally.
Woot! Best of luck!
Thanks!
Cool, good luck with that. San Diego is awesome other than it is in California and Mexico sends its sewage there via the Pacific Ocean.
That may have sounded too smartassery. I was sincere with the, “good luck with that.” It sounds like it is something you want. I hope they make an offer.
leftists love central planning except when they don’t
they also love making everything the same except when they don’t
EVERYTHING YOU LOVE WILL BE EATEN ALIVE
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2018/02/everything-you-love-will-be-eaten-alive
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Here are two different visions for what a city ought to be. Vision 1: the city ought to be a hub of growth and innovation, clean, well-run, high-tech, and business-friendly. It ought to attract the creative class, the more the better, and be a dynamic contributor to the global economy. It should be a home to major tech companies, world-class restaurants, and bold contemporary architecture. It should embrace change, and be “progressive.” Vision 2: the city ought to be a mess. It ought to be a refuge for outcasts, an eclectic jumble of immigrants, bohemians, and eccentrics. It should be a place of mystery and confusion, a bewildering kaleidoscope of cultures and classes. It should be a home to cheap diners, fruit stands, grumpy cabbies, and crumbling brownstones. It should guard its traditions, and be “timeless.”
It should be immediately obvious that not only are these views in tension, but that the tension cannot ever be resolved without one philosophy succeeding in triumphing over the other. That’s because the very things Vision 2 thinks make a city worthwhile are the things Vision 1 sees as problems to be eliminated. If I believe the city should be run like a business, then my mission will be to clear up the mess: to streamline everything, to eliminate the weeds. If I’m a Vision 2 person, the weeds are what I live for. I love the city because it’s idiosyncratic, precisely because things don’t make sense, because they are inefficient and dysfunctional.
…
And yet the logic of capitalism sort of demands that this occur. If efficiency is your goal, then you’re going to have chain restaurants. They’re just more efficient. If you must perpetually grow and grow, then you’re going to have to demolish a lot of things that people dearly love. If everyone embraces the pursuit of financial gain, then landlords are never going to cut tenants a break merely because their business is a neighborhood institution. In a free market world, everything you love will be eaten alive, unless you’re rich.
The great contribution of Vanishing New York is in showing what will continue to happen in a highly unequal world that places more value on innovation than romance. Unless and until social priorities change, the City of Mystery will be slowly destroyed, a gleaming, deathly boring City of Wealth rising in its place. We can have one of these, or the other, but we cannot have both. And I know which I’d rather live in.
***
Oh FFS, get out of Manhattan once in a while, dumbass.
My question is: which city costs less to live in and/or has fewer bums shitting on the sidewalk?
Wah! People’s collective revealed preferences don’t line up with my personal desires. Must be evil capitalism!
By Jove, he’s go it!
your prize:
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/02/young-karl-marx-raoul-peck-engels
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What The Young Karl Marx has working to its advantage is that the 1840s were an exceptionally lively decade. Cold War–era accounts sometimes made it sound like Marx was a misanthropic recluse, scribbling diatribes read mostly by other fanatics. Peck stands that myth on its head in the first scene of Karl and Jenny in Paris, attending a political banquet addressed by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon.
Such banquets were a big part of the oppositional political scene in France at the time. In reading about them, I’ve always imagined a big hall with waiters bringing food to large tables — nothing like the event depicted in the film. What we see is more like an open-air rally during the daytime, with booths for food and books for sale. Proudhon takes the stage to speak about the need for an economy that won’t grind the people into the dirt. He’s surrounded by what looks like an entourage of co-thinkers who don’t look especially happy about it when Marx throws “the master” a hard question, though both he and the audience seem to enjoy the exchange. And it so happens that some of that audience is black — a nice touch and Raoul Peck’s reminder that his ancestors were part of French history even if historians have sometimes written them out of it.
…
This vision of hybridity applies to The Young Karl Marx itself — a film in German, French, and English, directed by a Haitian in a medium well suited to communicating across wide cultural differences. Which brings me back to how in the film, shortly after Marx and Engels meet and begin exchanging ideas, they soon run into police who are hassling immigrants. They try to escape, and the chase is on! I’ve checked the biographies and find no indication that this actually happened. But maybe the director is tipping his hat to American cinema by imagining Marx and Engels in a buddy movie.
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Not mentioned: him fucking his maid, not bathing, abusing his wife and kids, and mooching off of people while never producing anything
It looks as if the 4chan Pepe Army has launched an assault on the kids who had this play cancelled.
Since the cancellation of the school’s production was reported in the Ithaca Journal on Jan. 29, it has been picked up by alt-right sites The College Fix and Breitbart, as well as neo-Nazi site The Daily Stormer. Mainstream outlets such as Fox News and the Washington Times have also covered the issue.
It’s really annoying that the leftoids consider The College Fix ‘alt-right’.
Also, I thought The Daily Stormer lost their hosting site and couldn’t find another one? Which ~stan did they move to?
Those people really shouldn’t make themselves such easy targets.
I don’t think anyone deserves to be hunted down online and have abuse hurled at them like that, but, I also don’t think a play should be cancelled because some spoiled brats raised on identity politics throw a fit when they don’t get everything 100% their way.
I’m not saying it’s right. However if you announce to the whole world exactly what hurts your feelings, expect to catch shit for it. This is a lesson one should learn in elementary school. If you let someone know something bothers you, expect to be picked on about it.
One look at social media tells me that today’s youth aren’t getting that lesson. At all.
I can’t imagine be “terrified” over a threat of physical harm that comes from 4chan of all places. Have they not seen those fuckers? They would experience angina from going up a flight of stairs one floor.
*calls SWAT on HM*
*huffs and puffs up a flight of stairs, nearly dying*
I was alarmed when I was being mortared in Iraq…someone saying something online…barely registers.
It’s a convenient opportunity to lump all those outlets together, isn’t it?
Indeed. I found my epithet of “Buzzfeed, but for Yokels” to be a much more witty and accurate appellation.
Marcotte’s latest brain fart
Surge in alt-right violence: At least 43 murders in the last four years
It’s not just Charlottesville: Self-radicalizing young white men are killing people at an alarming rate
https://www.salon.com/2018/02/09/surge-in-alt-right-violence-at-least-43-murders-in-the-last-four-years/
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Trump “puts so much wind in the sails of these guys,” Hankes explained. “The disregard for so-called political correctness, this willingness to talk about taboo ideas, this willingness to dog-whistle or make outright racist or xenophobic remarks” all allowed young converts to alt-right ideology to believe they could “actually go make real things in the world happen.”
It’s likely no coincidence, then, that the pattern of killings escalated after Trump’s election. Of the 13 separate violent incidents catalogued by the SPLC, 10 of them came in 2017.
***
SPLC herp da derp. Herp da derpity derp. Until one day…da derpy derpy derpy doo. Herpy derp..teh teedily tum! Da derp da derp teh tum teh teedily tum teh terr.
Oh Mandy, it still amazes me that you actually get paid for your unintelligible dreck.
The conversations in the
CooperMarcotte’sbooksarticles have a curious sound in our modern ears. To believe that such talk really ever came out of people’s mouths would be to believe that there was a time when time was of no value to a person who thought he had something to say; when it was the custom to spread a two-minute remark out to ten; when a man’s mouth was a rolling-mill, and busied itself all day long in turning four-foot pigs of thought into thirty-foot bars of conversational railroad iron by attenuation; when subjects were seldom faithfully stuck to, but the talk wandered all around and arrived nowhere; when conversations consisted mainly of irrelevancies, with here and there a relevancy, a relevancy with an embarrassed look, as not being able to explain how it got there.http://twain.lib.virginia.edu/projects/rissetto/offense.html
this willingness to talk about taboo ideas
Oh Heavens!
yes, that terrible alt-right
meanwhile:
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List of Killings in
the Name of Islam:
Last 30 Days
This is part of the list of killings in the name of Islam maintained by TheReligionofPeace.com. Most of these incidents are terror attacks. A handful are honor killings or Sharia executions.
During this time period, there were 118 Islamic attacks in 19 countries, in which 772 people were killed and 1179 injured.
***
https://www.thereligionofpeace.com/attacks/attacks.aspx?Yr=Last30
pay no attention to the jihad behind the curtain!
“43 murders in 4 years”
/Chicago criminal gangs laugh heartily
That is two Spring or Early Summer Weekends.
Ah yes, Elliot Rodger, the “White Asian” to Zimmerman’s “White Hispanic”.
I guess if I killed someone, I’d be a “White Black”.
WHITEY!!!!
Dog whistles can only be heard by dogs, right? So if she hears the white supremacist dog whistles, doesn’t that make her one? Or are Top Men capable of hearing and correctly identifying the precise meaning of words that are ambiguous to the rest of us?
They mean whatever is expedient to facilitate totalitarianism.
If the reporter found a fish that can talk but doesn’t rhyme his sentences he sucks.
I read most of Chris Kyle’s autobiography the other day. There was a rant about how all US military in Iraq were forbidden from drinking alcohol. For some reason, this rule did not apply to any of the other coalition forces. He enjoyed the Polish vodka, though officially, he didn’t drink a drop.
Friends all tried to warn me
But I held my head up high
All the time they warned me
But I only passed them by
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgeIINs1TrQ
Yeah, I read that about 6 months before he was killed. One of the times he had set up on a building in Fallujah, his description of the area was so good, I was able to pull it up on Google maps and find the building and the target zone. Love technology. Hearing about how they would clear buildings I kept thinking, that’s how swat teams train now. Like an occupying force.
Despertar el Hombre Muerto, a Milk Stout with Cinnamon and Mexican Coffee, 8.1%. Tastes like Beer Candy!
https://photos.app.goo.gl/aTwfukACe7rVSwwE2
wake up the dead man? OK
you could translate despertar as “cause the spirit/breath to exit”
That’s about right, this is breath taking..
http://5newsonline.com/2018/02/09/teen-arrested-after-pursuit-through-muldrow-sallisaw/
“I asked him why he did it and from what I understood he said he was scared,” Walters said.
Sounds reasonable to me.
In fear of his life?
Not popular around here, but wanted to point out an obvious flaw with poly relationships. Break up with one person and you often wind up losing both.
Past four years have been great. Two wonderful women. Crazy about them. One has been stepmom to my son, the other an incredible collaboratier on writing and art projects.
Managed to lose both in the same month. Twice the drinking.
Ugh. Moving turned out to be more of a problem than I expected.
Drunk already.
Being drunk is a problem?
Right now I subscribe to Homer Simpson. Booze is the “solution, and source of, all life’s problems.”
Never
Sorry Bob. That sucks. On the bright side, you’re twice as free as a guy who just broke up with one girl.
Or I go gay. Twice the cloth s and I could punch my partner for being emotional and such. Huh. Half of all folk, I imagine, really dog sodomy.
Woof!
Ha!
I would excuse it to aoutocorrect but dogs are really sexy!
Please get drunker and become the Agile Cyborg we all need.
+1 space penis orbiting the black hole of my soul
But aren’t all Glibs already angry, frustrated, cyborg dog fuckers?
Sorry to hear that.
Managed to lose both in the same month. Twice the drinking.
Wow, sorry about that. That may not just call for twice the drinking you may need to go exponential on that and get drunk^xy. It won’t help but it can’t hurt unless you use the phone to call one of them.
One is angrily sleeping in the bedroom, the other angrily texting me! (And obviously texting the one parenting to be asleep!). I need a third house.
Oh shit. I got nothing.
I don’t envy you right now. I’d leave.
Run.
Festus is undergoing a middle-aged crisis. Mrs. Festus wants him to schedule surgery and treatment for his abdominal hernia this summer but Festus fears the repercussions of such an invasive procedure re: his ability to keep his job. Festus also fears going under the knife yet again because whenever he regains consciousness after being anaethized, he is a blubbering mess (what exactly did Festus see in the void?) I ask your advice because I know some of you are medical professionals and also know that I’ve become rather fond of Quato. He has his quirks but he is a wise little homonculus. Quato has grown to the size of a half-cut grapefruit since last year, the little Dickens…
Lost a friend to hernia surgery, so I’m biased.
Then again, odds are on your side.
Yikes!
Good guy, but slave to biology. Has tummy tuck surgery three times. Always gained it back. Gave up weight loss and rolled with it. Hernia got so bad he couldn’t get into his car.
Magnificent bastard. More Glib than me.
Miss th fuck out of him, and it’s been less than a year!
Damn. I’ll raise my glass to him!
So I’d put your opinion in the “not” column. Moving on…
Right?!
Shit. It’s an outlier. Anecdotes make bad science. Just venting over a dude I respected. Never base choices off that!
“Start the reactor…Free Canada…”
Is there surgery mainly for cosmetic reasons? If so, I would avoid it.
Here again I will decry what I call the zero-defect philosophy. Perfection is unobtainable. Stick with the devil you know.
Sometimes it “binds up” which is uncomfortable to say the least and it just keeps growing. Every time I have a coughing fit (yeah, I smoke so just take me to basement and shoot me, Cheka style) that little fucker grows. Maybe it’s my liver making a break for it.
Mine doesn’t grow, knock on wood.
It is helping convince me to lose some fucking weight already though, so I can thank it for that.
“Kuato”, you Philistine.
I have one about the size of a walnut. Haven’t done anything about it since I heard there may be complications form the surgery (?).
That’s where mine started. A tiny tear after a workout and a head-first dive down a water slide when I was about twenty. I’ve done grunt work for most of my life but Quato didn’t really come into life until I had a job in an office furniture warehouse moving flat-packs. Those fuckers were so heavy that sometimes I used a forklift just to get them to knee height so I could stand them up and manipulate them. Watch that shit, Rhy. It starts as an almond, grows to a walnut, a plum, a nectarine and in my case a grapefruit.
Mine hasn’t changed size in a couple years, even after a couple bronchitis-like (? i.e. constant coughing) illnesses. I don’t lift anything heavier than a stapler so I’ve got that covered.
Had double inguinal surgery a couple of years ago. One week of morphine and a week of ibuprofen and I was, and still am, fine.
Thank you for your reasoned response, Stinky!
This is my answer.
Here’s a friendly “Fuck You” to you HM. I loathe Weird Al.
*blinks*
Why?
Sorry, HM. Just feeling a little worried and woesome so the salt levels are up tonight. Still friends?
Ruh roh!
https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/09/politics/democratic-memo-trump-wont-declassify/index.html
Stand by for grandstanding…
Oh that is awesome. Lol.
I fucking hate Imagine. What a wanksock of a song.
Agreed. Fucking commie anthem is what it is.
It really is one of the worst this side of a Billy Bragg song.
No shit, that shit’s awful.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liNnCKPeEv0
Jesus, that one is new to me. I only know his more explicitly Commie stuff. Gah what an unattractive man.
That really hurts the brain. I’m all
For sodomy, weed and gun but this? Fuck. Dude could make me hate puppies, rainbows and raping nuns.
“No shit, that shit’s awful.”
Is that the new Sesame Street?
*glares menacingly*
Here ya go
***
TIM HAWKINS
Imagine Parody Lyrics
Imagine there’s no traffic
no construction zones
no driving slow in the fast lanes
while talking on Cell phones
Imagine all the people, driving like they had a brain
Whoooo hooooo…..
Imagine kids not whining
no screaming fits or squeals
when they don’t get the toy they want
in their happy meal
imagine all the parents
burning down chucky cheese
( god gave me this song…. really!)
you may say I’m a psycho
but I’m not the only one
I hope that some day
things will go my way
and the world will be more fun
Imagine all the actors
the musicians too
would stick to acting and singing
with no political views.
Imagine Barbara Streisand
falling down a flight of stairs
whooo hoooo oooooo
You may say I don’t like Barbara Streisand
looks like I’m not the only one…
This song always goes well when I’m in Texas for some reason
because you people sure are fun fun!!!
***
Imagine Communism – John Lennon Parody (Alex Jones / Globalism Song)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyS_oIZMhSw
Spot the Not: H. L. Mencken
1. War is a good thing because it is honest, because it admits the central fact of human nature.
2. It in my hope and belief that this sick and bogus England will be given a good licking by the Deutsch, to the end truth and health may prevail upon the earth.
3. A nation too long at peace becomes a gigantic old maid.
4. What stands is the immutable law of human progress: that the more fit shall conquer and obliterate the less fit. The present war is merely the first skirmish.
5. To say that the American city in its designs and styles represented our spiritual capacity would be almost to say that we were a nation of madmen.
6. [The United Kingdom’s] victory over Germany in this war would be a victory for all the ideas and ideals that I most ardently detest.
7. The Mailed Fist is dedicated to the eternal facts of life, to the thing behind the mere word, to the truth that is above all petty quibbling over theoretical rights and wrongs. I am for the Mailed Fist, gents, until the last galoot’s ashore.
8. No people in history have made heavier sacrifices for their ideals than the Germans; no people in history have had ideals that were higher.
9. Germany is strong, and fearless, and ruthless, and resolute. Ergo, Germany must, shall and will prevail.
10. I come to the war: the supreme manifestation of the new Germany, at last the great test of the gospel of strength, of great daring, of efficiency.
11. The professional mayor, aloof from party passions, unreachable by intrigues, remains today a characteristic German figure; the supreme triumph of intelligence over mere voting power.
12. In practical business of operating the state, in its units and as a whole, the final determination of all matters was plainly vested, not in politicians or in majorities, but in experts, in men above all politics, in the superbly efficient ruling caste.
13. There can never be any compromise in future men of German blood and the common run of ‘good,’ ‘right thinking’ Americans. We must stand against them forever, and do what damage we can do to them, and to their tin-pot democracy.
14. [German Democracy] was founded upon no romantic theory that all men were natural equals; it was free from the taint of mobocracy; it was empty of soothing and windy phrases. On the contrary, it was a delimited, aristocratic democracy in the Athenian sense—a democracy of intelligence, of strength, of superior fitness—a democracy at the top. Its prizes went, not to those men who had most skill at inflaming and deluding the rabble, but to those who could contribute most to the prosperity and security of the commonwealth.
We all want to be like the Germans, but do we have the sheer force of will?
Hermes ConradWinston: We can’t compete withMomTOS!Her companyTheir blog is big and evil! Ours is small and neutral!That GuySloopy: Switzerland is small and neutral! We are more like Germany, ambitious and misunderstood!Swiss Servator: narrows gaze
Amy WongDerpotoligist: Look, everyone wants to be more like Germany, but do we really have the pure strength of will? And stop stealing my shtick, Winston.Well, this went in at the end of the afternoon links, when I had meant it to be here, so I guess I fucked up. Oh well it still works.
Time for Gojira’s Mystery Link!
What will it be? Gay porn? Straight porn? A delicious barbecue recipe? A Rick-roll? A wiki page about Godzilla films?
You’ll just have to click and find out!
http://bit.ly/2EfVbLT
Saucy!
Nice. Rhywun’s response made me hesitate a little bit.
Yeah, I’m not the target audience for that link.
Heh. Boobs! She is aesthetically pleasing no matter which side your bread is buttered on.
I can’t argue with that.
http://5newsonline.com/2018/02/09/oklahoma-woman-receives-reduced-sentence-after-getting-sterilized/
Um. I know the woman forced and made the decision on her own. However, I don’t like the idea of the state being in any way involved with sterilization programs.
You name your kid “Summer Thyme”. Is anyone surprised how things turned out?
+1 clothes make the man
I went to school with a girl name Ima Champion. She didn’t turn out well.
That’s equivalent to female genital mutilation.
What was her middle name?
You know when there were only one set of foot prints on the beach? That’s when I was getting my cock sucked at a whorehouse in Tiajuana. Won’t happen again. Sorry.
Couldn’t put that response on my sister’s FB, so I dropped it here.
That’s what we’re here for.
What’s your sisters name? I will put it there. Giving you full credit of course.
Just when I thought the Glibertariat was getting too deep, fucking Straff belts one into the cheap seats!
Are you referring to the sappy Christian poem? If so, throw this her way.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSeS7vTEkHE
Yes.
I’m sure she means well.
Nah. She’s a “Jesus would give me free shit. Why do you hate Jesus?” type.
Blessed are the stupid, for the make the rest of us feel smarter.
Inevitable link
But I tell you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you.
Also, unicorns
I’ll follow her philosophy when the IRS changes its motto to “Turn the other cheek”.
Any interest in a March Glib meet up? I’m stuck in Utica as a grumpy distiller. Thinking we could meet at my distillery, drink lots of booze and have a time. If you’re in the are, my email is bob @ Adirondackdistiling .com
(Obviously, lose the spaces!)
Sounds like a lot of fun.
/checks map
Fuck. 2000 miles is a bit far.
I’m sorry.
(I’m from upstate – I can say that.)
If I can do it, I’d be happy to drive. All you’d need is to get up to Chez Moi.
Ok… FedEx is now entertaining me with their warnings. At the top of their tracking pages now:
And Gilmore’d.
In response to the original post, I’d love to make the trip up to Utica to see your distillery. However, I’ve got April and July trips already planned, and only so much vacation time.
I’d be up for that.
Fairfield Co., CT. So I’m about 4-5 hrs away.
Hey, Number 6, is a guy named Betts (R) your state rep?
A Republican? Heh. Doubt it.
Fairfield Country’s representative is Jim Himes – makes Hillary look like a moderate. Then we have Murphy and Blumenthal (Mr. Stolen Valor) as our Senators.
Email on its way.
Don’t blow my cover!
I could swing Utica.
My wife startled me with the admission tonight that she’s never seen The Color of Money.
So after I slapped her as hard as I could with my ring-hand and her lip stopped bleeding we popped it in the dvd player and are watching it now. I forgot how Newman is the smoothest motherfucker in the goddamn world.
I….just…you…
*walks away shaking head*
Paul Newman? Fuck that shit! Steve Fucking Mcqueen!https://youtu.be/KBhru5nLpGE
I leave that there as a warning to all you young glibs. Here is my preferred clip.https://youtu.be/HeWUXV89w0g
The Color of what now?
The Color Purple I think he said.
Green. What do I win?
Let’s find out how many eggs she can eat.
Far less than 50, boss.
Texas Teacher Wears Same Hairstyle As Student Who Didn’t Believe She Really Liked Her Hair
Curtains, or lack there of, match and HAWT.
I remember when a teacher not wearing a tie was a form of resistance. This shit has become unmanagable.
My GI Joe figurines all had acne-spackled, pasty white asses, so I don’t know what it’s like not having positive role models.
Yeah, I saw a local news story with video or pictures of teachers. Jeans and t-shirts for many. Totally unprofessional. Show a bit of a self respect.
You (who IS “us”?) couldn’t learn properly because of distracting physical characteristics?
And, where was this? A private school?
https://thegrapevine.theroot.com/blackpantherchallenge-raises-more-than-300-000-to-sen-1822879892
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Everybody is going to see Black Panther. Frederick Joseph, and his now famous #BlackPantherChallenge through GoFundMe, has seen to it.
The fundraising site has confirmed that some 300 campaigns on the site have collectively raised more than $300,000 combined, which will be enough to send about 23,000 children to see Black Panther in movie theaters this month.
Donations have come from all 50 states plus 30 countries around the world.
And Joseph is still pushing for more to be done, because when we say everybody, we mean everybody.
“All children deserve to believe they can save the world, go on exciting adventures, or accomplish the impossible. I am grateful that all of you have answered the call and are taking action to help more kids watch their heroes on the big screen,” Joseph said in a statement. “Let’s keep pushing forward. If you’re a teacher, buy tickets for your entire classroom. If you’re a coach, take your team. If you’re a community leader, do some organizing and get the kids and parents in your community to the theater.”
***
Call me a killjoy if you like, but how is taking black kids out of school to a comic book movie going to help?
About 40% of black students do not graduate from high school, compared to about 20% of whites and 10% for Asians.
Anyone who can chew gum without crapping their pants can graduate from high school.
Did Asian parents let their kids take a day off school to see Mulan? Fuck no!
It’s possible to be entertained and inspired by the story of David and Goliath even if you aren’t a Jew, or the Odyssey if you aren’t Greek.
I don’t get it.
It’s a tard. It’s inane. No, it’s Wokeman.
Faster than speeding uptwinkle! More powerful than an intersectional feminist!
Victimman?
Impotent Rage?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dcXoEd8IF0g
“G’way! Batin!”
Flaming skull worthy? Fuck it, I’m too drunk to tell (more political Russia shit so beware).
http://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=373811
Just got back from my one night out in downtown San Diego. The Half-Door Brewery is definitely recommended. Mostly IPAs on their menu (I didn’t try), but their Belgian Tripel is excellent. Mocha Nitro Golden Ale….not as good….but the food is good and they gave me a stack of free coasters and stickers. Sadly…they don’t bottle their brews so I can’t buy it anywhere else 🙁
I’m enjoying some Southern Pecan. If you like brown ales, it’s a sure bet.
Bottled in the region? What brewery?
Lazy Magnolia, Mississippi’s oldest brewery
Probably easier to find when I get back to VA.
Driving up to Port Hueneme tomorrow. Any recommendations for that area?
Man…10+% and 5+%. I walked back to the ferry, and then walked back to Coronado Amphib base….kinda a stagger half the way…good stuff, but my feet really hurt after 6+ miles round trip not counting my run this afternoon.
Beer #9 for me and ran 7 miles this morning. But I’m young(ish) and have zero fucks to give.
I once walked 12 miles in flip flops, had a burger and a beer, and then walked back.
I need to update my PT sneakers. I’ve been using these ones for closer to 2 years now….probably worn down. And I’m nearly 37 (next week). I thought you were older too.
33 and I also still have the same pt shoes I got in basic 2 years ago. I recently upgraded.
Admittedly…I do have flat feet. Had a waiver when I joined the army in 2004 (and insoles). Haven’t generally needed them for boots, but it’s been a while now – got new ones with my navy uniform dress shoes when I had to wear those daily.
I am spamming aren’t I? Meh. I’m bored and have nothing else to do.
Another tale from Chris Kyle: a bunch of jihadis were trying to cross a river. They couldn’t swim, so their brilliant plan was to give each guy a large beach ball as a flotation device. Kyle shot the beach balls one by one and laughed as they scrambled for the remaining ones. Eventually, he called in an artillery strike to put them out of their misery.
That bunch was Tunisian. Jihadis from many different countries came to Iraq to fight the US.
Man he really broke their balls.
Echo…echo…he was a dolphin….dolphin…phin…
C’mon, CPRM…you’ve got to concentrate…conentrate…concentrate
Fully or partially or somewhat clothed intruder, why is it that you are active at such times?
Work. I work overnights.
‘Cause he happened to be of THESE!https://youtu.be/s4XkPUsg-so
Not the NR song I usually identify with, but it’ll do.
Also, past tense?
Submitted without comment, a video that that would not be made today. Is that racist?…nah
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEep67akIn4
Sooo…..what it’s like being a late night Glib.
This is probably the time of day i can come to the comments and say hey if your a bunch of loosers don’t say nothing
And i misspelled that goddamnit. Damn phone.
“Your”, or, “loosers”?
/not that I’m complaining….
Chilling out with a Zima and the mellow sound of Christopher Cross and Arthur’s Song.
Easing into a candlelight bubble bath, Killing Me Softly taking the edge of a long day.
ok i do not understand that euphemism …
Log on the fireplace, curled up on the couch with Mittens asleep on my lapon, Other Side of the Mountain in the VCR
These lyrics capture how I feel perfectly.
Cry myself to sleep to this.