Well, Thanksgiving has come and gone, and now we are hard into the shopping festive season. I hate shopping forced consumerism festivities so much. Online shopping was a gift, invented for me alone. But, I don’t mind if the rest of you partake. And, apparently, you are.
Yesterday, I had to go to a CVS Minute Clinic (a topic for another time) for the next injections in two series of immunizations. (Some of you may recall the healthcare program in which I’m trying to enroll. Still trying.) This particular Minute Clinic happens to be housed in a Target near-ish our place. My appointment was (stupidly) scheduled (by me) for Black Friday. At 1500. At Target.
I left the house super early, figuring I might need to park 5 miles away and walk in. I arrived super early. To an empty parking lot. I parked in the center section. Directly in front of the doors. In the second space.
THANK YOU, JEFF BEZOS.
Wait, what? What’s happening on the website next week? Oh, right.
After catching you up on the minutiae of my life, I’m pressed for time this evening, so I’m afraid you’re just getting writers’ names, not attached to days. You’re going to be here every day anyway, amirite?
Links by: Sloopy, OMWC, Brett L. Assorted rap…scallions and badly formed stone sculpture. Perhaps others. Not necessarily in that order.
Regular features by: Not Adahn (even when he’s traveling, he’s a professional!); mexicansharpshooter; Web Dom; SP; SugarFree, if you’re very, very good. And also, What Are We Reading.
Special features from: Nephilium; PieInTheSky; Jarflax; banginglc1; Yusef Drives a Kia; Kinnath; and trshmnstr.
Another great week!
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And, speaking of comments… take it away, Saturday Night Open Post!
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223 responses to “Saturday Night Open Post & Coming Attractions”
Im looking forward to someone hitting that mother-fkin’ THEME MUSIC !
I wonder how many of those 4M views were for sampling.
My expectations were pretty low when I saw the title, but that was actually cool.
I’m looking forward to not clicking Tres’ theme music links. I wouldn’t have this opportunity to not do something if it weren’t for Glibs, and for that I thank me.
that’s meta af, yo
I’m, like, a smart person.
A stable genius?
The best! The most stable! Genius!
Stable genius?! What a bunch of horse shit.
Sheesh, I wish you guys would put these horrible puns out to pasture.
Over the last some days I have binged watched Narcos mexico. I enjoyed it.
#metoo. Good stuff.
I have a BIF post finitoed whenever is convenient.
Glad you mentioned it!
I do plan to roll with everyone’s reviews next week. If you have not sent yours in to Nephilium, or sent it in on your own, please do so by—lets make it Wednesday.
I’ll make it your call…should I combine them or just do multiple posts over next Saturday?
This is democracy in action, gentleman. Let me know.
Mine is kind of short, so it might be better suited to combination.
DON’T ANY OF YOU PEOPLE SLEEP?!
Yes, from ~10 PM until 5:30 or so. Although I stayed up late and slept in today.
Just popped open a 750 ml bottle of Tangerine Dream, so this will keep me happy the rest of the night.
Tangerine Sky, for Yusef, wherever his KIA is.
I’ve been sleeping since Thursday, I’m real sick, waiting for Monday appt
Yuck. Sorry to hear. I hope everything works out.
“NW style sour ale aged in rum barrels for 20 months with tangerine zest, then blended with Cascase Apricot Ale”
Is it good?
I am drinking the 2015 version.
From the label: Last produced in 2011, this extremely limited release is a blend of quad and blonde ales aged in bourbon and wine barrels for up to 18 months with tangerine zest, mandarin zest, apricots, and vanilla beans. Rich and complex, Tangerine Dream captures flavors of fresh tangerines, bourbon, vanilla, and toasted malts.
I think its fucking awesome. One of the best I have had from Cascade Brewing.
I got two bottles of the 2015. I shared one, but I am keeping the last one for me. 😉
I’m on the end of a 500 ml bottle of this. The girlfriend was not a fan, so the majority of the bottle came to me.
Sounds interesting. Is it a mead?
It is. They make a lot of out there flavors, but only three are made year round. Most of their meads are in the 6% range, with a couple of barrel aged ones and some still ones up in the 12-15%.
I am really glad to see people making session meads.
About half the mead I make now is under 10% ABV and will be kegged or bottle conditioned.
I’d say that most of their session meads would qualify as petulant. Nice people, who are looking to expand their production in the next year. Quite a few of their names would cause Swiss to narrow his gaze. But who wouldn’t want a Magnum Peach Inferno, or Baklava to the Future?
I have good friends that run a meadery in Iowa. They are moving production from wine-strength still meads to slightly carbonated session meads. It’s helping their business.
There is a good chance I will traveling through Ohio next August. I would love to visit the best meaderies in your neck of the woods.
Let me know where about in Ohio you’ll be heading, and I’ll provide some recommendations and warnings.
I-80. Breezing through on my way to and from Pennsylvania.
It’ll be a slight detour but the BottleHouse in Cleveland Heights would be a good one to hit up.
Crafted (points at the link above) is closer to Kent/Akron then Cleveland, but could be an interesting stop. The problem there is very limited hours that they’re open. Crafted distributes to most of the better grocery stores and liquor stores in the Cleveland area.
If you want to make a consolidated side trip, in Lakewood there’s another BottleHouse location as well as a Griffin Cider House. However, it looks like they’ve lost their original domain and are running just on Facebook now.
For a brewery that does lots of sours (and has a sour facility they’re bringing online in the next couple of months), you’ve got Platform brewing. This is also widely distributed and available at their facility on the near West Side of Cleveland.
Thanks. I will check with you next summer.
I saw your knife purchase post the other day…baller. ?
For those that missed it.
https://www.arizonacustomknives.com/1151-tuxedo-damascus-brend-auto-1-4of15-1006422.html
It’s a collector’s item. I’ll probably have to buy a real knife to carry.
Wow, that’s one expensive knife.
I looked up the guy that makes the damascus steel. The bar that went into that knife was about half of the cost of the knife.
Given the amount of work required in making pattern-welded billets, that’s no surprise.
I am a sucker for Damascus steel.
That looks nice.
That is pretty.
They have a gorgeous Protech Godfather there that was actually a hundred buck cheaper.
But is pretty obvious when you are carrying a stiletto that it has only one intended purpose.
Lol! That is true. You’re not trimming your nails.
I almost bought this knife.
https://www.arizonacustomknives.com/knives-by-maker/pro-tech-knives/1012832.html
If I get drunk enough tonight, I just may order it. 😉
That’s a nice letter opener!
Beautiful piece of work.
Really cool!
I love damascus steel. I have one heirloom quality knife. The blade is Swedish steel damascus. Scales are aged giraffe bone. I custom ordered it from a master bladesmith in S. Africa.
Sorry to have to geography this to you, but neither Sweden nor S Africa are near Damascus. (I know, I know, it refers to blend of the steal, but I make jokes)
Nice!
Gorgeous. I can’t imagine using it.
Reality set in this morning. I am probably going to buy a practical version of this knife for real life.
No. A beautiful knife is a delight to use. Do not make the mistake so many people do and not use the “good” stuff. It’s meant to be used and enjoyed. Don’t deny the purpose for which it was intended.
/old lady advice
This really is a collector’s pieced #4 of 15. Someone clearly bought it as an investment and is selling it at a profit.
Part of me says that I should hold it and make money in the future.
The rest of me says “fuck that”. I’m going to carry it.
Actually, it’s being sold by the maker. So they’ve held on to it for a while.
Wow
Here’s a 750 MB CD of Tangerine Dream.
Goes well with the booze.
Too bad they started sucking right around the time I got to concert-going age. But at least I have a couple dozen albums of awesomeness to enjoy.
Pillow Assault Weapon
I can’t even, the audio is to bad. Seriously, record it on your damn $500 phone without an external mic and it will sound better. (Sorry, I get really upset over poor video quality)
I get really upset over poor video quality
Does’t seem that bad to me.
Sounds OK to me. All YouTube has is crappy sound quality.
Although, Gilmore pointed how you can download better quality.
Hurumph, I work in both video and audio, I spend hours re-recording audio that sounds better than this for no profit. It irks me on the same level as a video of a cat humping a cactus getting more views than an Orson Welles movie gets .
I don’t get it.
Are they making fun of hipsters or “fags”?
Or do they just think all hipsters are gay? Or all gays are hipsters?
Both?
The answer was clearly all of the above. Jesus.
Oh, ffs.
http://www.jacksonfreepress.com/news/2018/nov/23/hyde-smith-attended-all-white-seg-academy-avoid-in/
A long read. Basically, 43 effing years ago, her parents sent her to high school at a “segregation academy”, so obviously she’s a racist.
I like they tie public hangings to lynchings only especially given Mississippi’s method of execution was hanging up until about 1940.
Link doesn’t work but 43 years ago, that described nearly every suburban school in America.
Works for me. I’m shocked, shocked I tell you that Mississippi was fighting against integration in the ‘70s.
But I bet you and OMWC were volunteering to ‘integrate’ all those young girls.
Feh, it works now. Wayyyy TL;DR but I stand by my claim. You know what else “coincidentally” happened during the 1950s? The movement of millions of mostly wypipo to the burbs. The left has been trying to pin that on racism my entire life and in my younger days I bought it but now it’s quite clear to me that things are more complicated than the media will ever admit.
In the multiple times I read “Raisin In The Sun” in school, you know what was never brought up? Government authority. Nope, Wypipo just somehow kept the black man down, without ever using the government.
Some people have an amazing knack for blaming private actors even when the government is clearly to blame.
At Thanksgiving, a relative went on a rant about how he got hassled at Wal-Mart over his ID because he was trying to buy alcohol while accompanied by two young-looking people who didn’t have ID on them. Even though he’s obviously over 21, the clerk wouldn’t sell it to him under suspicion that he was buying it for the other people.
He said, “Fucking Wal-Mart, I had to go to this dinner party empty handed because of them!” I tried so hard to explain to him that it’s probably not Wal-Mart’s decision (why would they decline a potential sale?) and that the cops regularly set up sting operations where they try to get clerks to sell alcohol to someone without checking ID, not to mention that the person working the register probably doesn’t want to risk their job.
Couldn’t bring him around. He still blames Wal-Mart. He believes that Wal-Mart is a greedy corporation that will sink to any moral low just to make a buck, yet they arbitrarily refuse to sell things to people just to be jerks.
I have been the victim of this. Got a stern talking-to from my loser manager for it. Call it an early (ca. 1992) libertarian moment.
The sins of the parents shall be visited upon the child in perpetuity.
Religious zealotry takes many forms.
NNSFW hotties ready to enjoy your leftovers.
http://archive.is/GdVsj
I’d have 8 crazy nights with 33.
It’s really ok if you like penis, we won’t judge you. It would be a lot less work than keeping up this persona, for your own health.
That’s not how set theory works.
I like my penis. It’s the best.
I’m just saying, Q might like your penis more than you do. It’s weather or not you’re OK with that.
https://s3.amazonaws.com/ksr/assets/000/499/335/e7804a1562f9000dfd54e54ebebf1914_large.png?1365383896
Free country.
6.
I don’t always like blondes, but when I do they have giant boobs and are wearing drindls and pouring booze.
That picture showed up on r/dirndls. I don’t think it is clear she is wearing a Dirndl, but I’ll give the benefit of the doubt.
#12 for the win
Hottest US sportscasters
https://acidcow.com/girls/72386-say-hello-to-the-hottest-sportscasters-in-the-usa-59-pics.html
Dayum. I almost didn’t make it past 3.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SkhMMcx_PJE
I’d take Kay Adams over the lot all day, anyday.
2 and 58 desperately want me.
I missed the true NSFW binge you had the other night.
2, 17, 46, 58 just as appetizers
I know it’s a competition but I feel like we all won.
RE: that missionary guy.
lol
The other Missionary Man .
Wow. A decent music link.
That song is horrid. Clearly you had all your taste burnt off in a fire.
My generation. There’s lots of horrible music from that era that gets me going.
Their first album was great.
This afternoon I was catching up on Tom Woods podcast. This episode had me wondering if Mance Rayder is one of you fuckers.
Red beard, check. Against the wall? Depends how it’s funded. Working with giants? No fucking way! They steal your popcorn and eat all your skittles!
Despite appearing on the Tom Woods Show, Mance is not yokel-y enough to be one of the regulars.
I’ve finished Gun Penance for the night, so time for a beer.
Penance? I was going to get my 03A3 ready for shooting tomorrow assuming the rain isn’t that bad. While doing that, I inspected some of my other rifles. I discovered the bore of one of my rare Lee-Enfields was full of rust. After about two hours or so of cleaning, no more rust. I double checked with the bore scope. Badly pitted bore, but it was badly pitted when I bought it. No more rust.
I went through all the other rifles. A couple pretty thoroughly (cleaning patches, borescope), others I just looked down the bore. A few I discovered weren’t as clean as I thought they were, but no rust. There are two I was concerned about, the rest I think are in good shape and have no rust. One or those I was concerned about was a false alarm. The other I will take care of tomorrow in between cleaning the whole lot.
The false alarm was my Mosin-Nagant 91/38. The auction house I bought it from said the bore was full of dried cosmoline. When I inspected it before I bid, I agreed. When I picked it up after winning it, I double checked, and I still agreed with them. When I looked tonight, I said to myself, “Dumbass, that’s not dried cosmoline, that’s rust!” I started cleaning it. Nope, the auction house was right. It’s dried cosmoline. I’ll clean it more thoroughly later.
How NOT To Carry a Colt Single Action Army
Jesus carried a Colt single-action Navy.
Tonight’s baby making music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pm7gVU3WHT4
I can confirm that “Tupelo Honey” also works quite well.
You need more Issac Hayes funk in yo’ trunk .
Barry White, game over
HEY YUFUS!
Feelin better?
Sup Tres!
Proper Sling Setup & 2 Reasons WHY IT MATTERS
An article I really need “Tips for writers – reintroducing characters in a sequel without boring the audience”
“Write interesting characters in the first place.”
That wasn’t the issue.
I had six named characters in the opening scene (because it picks up immediately at the end of the previous book)
Seemed to work for Ian Fleming
Do a fakeout. Start off with one character, then he dies and his cousin (the character from the other story) comes to avenge him!
I tend to read series all at once (I will wait for the writer to finish it, or more likely, I just won’t find it until it’s already complete) and I do find that “rehash” thing that seems mandatory at the beginning of the 2nd and every following entry to be kind of tedious. My advice? Do what some writers do and put the rehash into a separate prolog.
A lot of people don’t wait for the author to croak and no longer have new volumes.
Also, any book can be a reader’s first. People don’t always start with the start of a series. Each volume must stand on its own, which includes letting people unserstand who these characters are.
Well, I’m not a crazy person, so I like to read a series in order.
But fine… people are unpredictable. My prolog idea solves that without pissing off your regulars.
You’re here, that’s a point against your claim of not being crazy.
I picked up a book from Terry Pratchettt when I was heading out on a business trip.
I enjoyed the book so I looked up what else he had written.
I started at the beginning, and it took me 20 books to get back to the first one I read. And it was different knowing all the other books first.
The secret to reintroducing characters is to do so incrementally over three hundred pages while boring the reader with every fucking detail of every item in a room set in the present as the character reflects upon the events that led them to this situation.
/Robert Jordan’s ghost
🙁 The first book is only 157 pages (letter)
A friend of mine always went on about him. Glad I ignored her 🙂
Court Rules Gun License Restrictions Are “Constitutional”-Liberty Doll
///subtlehotnesspost
Which court? Are we talking SCOTUS, some pissant local judge or the 9th Circus?
1st Circuit COA. I’m sorry I listened to it, now I’m all pissed off.
First Circuit.
And can’t she write a blog?
Her eyes are slightly crazy.
Crazy for freedom.
What are you talking about?
Crazy eyes = Julie Borowski
I like her as well. She’s adorable. But I haven’t seen anything from her lately.
Isn’t she in college? She might just be busy with her studies.
So what you’re saying is she’s available? (no idea what we’re talking about)
Slightly, not fully.
If you can imagine, Venezuela’s state owned oil company is doing a pretty terrible job at preventing spills. It’s a good thing they’re pumping out less oil than they have at any point since the 1940’s.
Socialism is green. That article isn’t real socialism!
“PDVSA stopped making spill data public in 2016. That year, the number of annual incidents had increased more than fourfold since 1999.”
You know it’s bad when they switch from lying blatantly to just not saying anything.
Justin Trudeau is fapping…
You know who else did a poor job of pumping ?
Wiinstons mom?
Yusef has risen. Glad you’re feeling better.
I live! For now, really tired but wide awake,
Thanks all you Guys
Technotronic?
Holy college flashback.
At least it wasn’t “supersonic”
Did you mean Semisonic and “Closing Time”, or actually Supersonic? I’m surprised anybody else remembers the latter.
If you don’t like J.J. Fad…..
I like Oasis and I am not ashamed to let the world know.
I’d rather die of thirst than listen to Oasis.
*golf clap*
Senior year of high school for me.
I’m surprised how soft the mastering is. Although that could be YouTube’s crappy sound fidelity.
Supersonic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3nPLoODtGU
Woops, ninjad.
Damn my nimble fingers!
Everyone not named Hans or Franz?
Re
Sorry for screwing up the link; I’m on my tablet.
Related to Germans and my link above
Hervorragend.
John Holmes after he got hooked on coke?
poor Johnny Wadd went to Haiti and got the shitty end of the stick….
I put the Christmas tree up tonight. It took a full 5 minutes before one of my cats climbed up the trunk and planted herself across a few branches with the intention and attempt of climbing around and playing. It was the younger of the two. She is tiny (albeit full-grown) and adorable, but I think I am going to come home to a toppled tree more than once between now and when i take it down.
Gotta love cats.
And feed them, and clean up after them….
Tie the tree to the wall.
Reason has a sad…
Don’t you mean the Ayn Rand Institute?
They would be mad at our lack of “the USG needs to invade more countries!” sentiment.
Have you ever read the “Take Christ Out of Christmas” essay?
No but I am not surprised now that I do know.
Is it technically price arbitrage if the buying and selling are not simulteneous?
Maybe I missing something, but an arbitrage isn’t simultaneous buying and selling anyways. Just acting on the price differential between markets. Now you have me wondering why your’re asking in the first place.
He’s got a Ponzi scheme in mind.
Hey, I’m wrong. Just checked. Guess I should google first.
From Wiki: “The transactions must occur simultaneously to avoid exposure to market risk, or the risk that prices may change on one market before both transactions are complete.”
It was the phrasing of the dictionary definition.
I was thinking in terms of “Character in book is in land where the value of silver is different from home, thinks of how he can make use of this.”
Make a futures trade?
No markets of that type in the setting. His voyage was the first from his homeland to this area in centuries.
If you’re wondering if you can use the term “arbitrage” to describe a situation where he takes advantage of the price differential, I think it would be fine. An arbitrage technically isn’t simultaneous. It just means that there is no risk in, for example, the fraction of a second when the trade is being made. If there is no risk of price fluctuations or third party interference while the trade is being made, it would effectively be an arbitrage. Maybe call it that; effective arbitrage.
Have some Saturday night blues: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CrdioqIMtpY
Some McKinley Morganfield right back at ya .
Nice: another one – https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iE-RSQKDTnI
Muddy Waters is an idol, but:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_ONyukSLqA
Fun Fact: the “Terrorists Have Won” was famously said about not cancelling the Oscars after 9/11. And said by the screenwriter of Dog Day Afternoon by the way.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/74th_Academy_Awards
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_terrorists_have_won
Not woke Ellen.
Other fun fact: The War Against Terror = TWAT
Back when there was still an airline called TWA, the joke was having a hot stewardess ask if you wanted TWA coffee or TWA tea.
Guess that is why they tweaked the name to Global War on Terrorism. I like your version better. I would love to tell some folks “Yes, I was in in the TWAT.”
My boys in Boise taking it to Utah State. 17-7 in the second quarter.
Boise with their blue field…
Smurf Turf!!!
Touchdown Utah…
Except for WaPo.
You shouldn’t measure a man by his hobbies.
It baffles me that the man who runs one of the currently most fashionable companies to hate also runs one of the #resist movement’s central headquarters.
Progs like Bezos don’t want to have any responsibility of their own. They want the government to have the responsibility. So Bezos can act rationally in his own life because he supports good think. It’s not his job, but society’s/the governments to come in with the “free” healthcare and welfare package to supplement his low wages. It makes sense if you don’t really think about it.
Sometimes I ponder how much easier life would be if I just stopped thinking about shit.
Fig leaf dude. Fig leaf.
FINALLY SOMEONE WHO GETS IT. *Kicks the floor board and tells the prostitutes to stop crying or he’ll give them something to cry about*
There is that. But it sucked long before he acquired it.
Yeah but it got dramatically worse after he took over.
I stopped reading it years before.
As a counterpoint to Q’s skinny ass babes above:
https://thesexier.com/22-stunning-babes-big-fat-booties/
Bless you, my child.
#8 is not sexy at all
#11 isn’t fooling me – that’s a “real” doll
8 is pushing one out.
I think more of the commentariat blew their load over the collectible knife posted, anyway.
Yet another reason to hate college football – their bullshit targeting rule. Some college athlete threw a hit that would have been praised several years ago. Now he’s ejected and will be forced to sit out the first half of the bowl game.
The French right now are rioting over a tax. If we ignore everything else about them, they’re out-American’ing Americans. We’re losing to the French.
So it’s another day that ends in a “y” for France. I’ve heard that just as many of them are protesting his “austerity” measures as his crony green shit.
Until they surrender.
My mother is visiting. I love her and am glad she’s here. However, she only wants to watch Law & Order or Blue Bloods and she doesn’t like my pets. Oh boy.
If you love something, let it go.
If it comes back smother it with a pillow
I’ve literally never heard of this and it has the nerve to set Tom Selleck’s character in my neighborhood. Ugh.
It’s a sad turn in Magnum’s career. The remake is even sadder.
I’m lucky to have this time. Repeat as needed.
Jeebus. I just watched LSU and Texas A&M
74-72 7 overtime victory for the Aggies. What a game.
That game was epic.
BOISE!!! Utards can go all HM on my ass. Well, figurately anyways…I really don’t want to experience that.