Good morning, and welcome to another edition of Hunky Hump Day. We’re going country today.
Thomas Rhett
Chris Young
Kip Moore
Josh Turner
Billy Currington
Short ‘n sweet today. Thank you for your attention, and y’all have a good day.
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Morning.
Hi Jew
From the art post:
Comment by Jimbro on August 5, 2015 6:52 am
“My first ever brisket was at Michael’s house. I always thought brisket was some awful Jewish dish.”
Same here. The first time I ever had real barbecue was a party for my girlfriend at the time’s sister who had just joined a practice down in South Carolina. That was about ’92 or so. There are relatively few smokehouses or barbecue joints up here but the numbers slowly creep higher every year.
This sounds like a typical Monday here:
http://is.gd/rOVElO
(mildly nsfw)
wakey wakey. CUte hunks although I don’t know who a single one of them is.
should i?
Love it, Roamy!!
I know them all.
^suck up.
^ heavy metal head
For accuracy – I’m currently listening to stoner rock.
QOTSA. Or as Scott calls them “Cats fucking in a closet”.
^stoner rock head
(Thanks, I didn’t know what to call you)
Oh I’m a metal head but I’m into all version of heavy rock. Metal. Stoner. Prog. See how diverse I am?
^diversity whore
^i meant diversity suck up
I can’t help it if I’m surrounded by close-minded music snobs.
http://consumerist.com/2015/08/04/whole-foods-apologizes-for-accidentally-selling-6-bottles-of-asparagus-water/
on accident
By accident.
Haha, the picture of the cat is priceless.
I can’t decide if I’ll have brisket tonight, or BLT. Hmmm.
Guess I have time to analyze my decision making. Leon, a little help here?
So, for the debate, Kasich in, Perry out.
Nice. We’re doomed.
Jay, fox can go eff themselves. I’m livid about this. Best run state along with Walkers and this is the bullshit we get.
Kasich is closer to establishment GOP (read: Democrat) than Perry, so of course they will like them. I know some might bristle at it, but I keep thinking that East Coast GOP sure is more liberal than the midwest/south variety. It’s not personal, but that’s what I think. Of course you have to look at individuals, and that’s the important part.
I’d say West Coast GOP, but that doesn’t seem to be a thing.
*dons flak jacket
Kasich can kiss my ass.
We should get the East Coast GOP some “members only” jackets.
*checks caffeine level
One more cup is necessary
I can’t help it if I’m surrounded by close-minded music snobs.
You call that shit you listen to music?
I’d eat the brisket, Jay, unless the lettuce is big enough to wrap the B and the T.
Yes, the lettuce is big enough. I’ve been using tortillas lately, but I think I’m just going with some regular old toast, though.
If you write the name CLINTON and put the L and the I so they are touching, then don’t write the O and the N, you get an apt description of Hillary.
I have no idea whether he’s built like a brick shithouse or whether he’s got a pretty face, but he can sang like a tall snake.
It was sposda just be a link. I’ve forgotten how to not fuck up the blog.
My friend uses the following recipe for brisket and it’s delicious.
The night before he’s gonna cook it he coats it in kosher salt. And I mean coats it. That brisket will end up looking like Richard Pryor’s upper lip by the time he finishes with the salt. He then puts it in a throw away aluminum baking tray and covers it with foil, or aluminum paper as he calls it, and puts it in a cooler on top of some ice all night.
The next day he gets a mesquite fueled fire going in his smoker box and when the cooking area gets up to 250, the brisket goes on the rack. After about 2 hours it gets mopped with a 50/50 mixture of Land O Lakes butter and white vinegar with a generous dose of course black pepper thrown in. So I guess it’s probably really 49/49/2 mixture. The brisket gets mopped and flipped every hour from there on out. Rule of thumb is about an hour per pound so he tries to start with a brisket that’s under 12 lbs due to extreme drunkeness if he has to go longer than that.
As a side note, the beer drinking usually doesn’t start until the third or fourth mop and flop. However, it does appear to be a key ingredient.
Yesterday I took some sliced cold leftover steak and tossed it with green onions, ginger, toasted sesame oil, and garlic powder. Then I put small piles of that steak in a couple huge japanese mustard leaves from my garden, and rolled them up.
Nice little snackie. Crunchy spicy leaf. Cool and tasty interior. Made me feel very Asian for a few moments. Unfortunately my big butt is still here.
Food is over-rated.
But not overtly so
Crunchy leaf is over-rated
Laura does not have a big butt.
“Laura does not have a big butt”
*channels Sohos*
Mine is bigger…
I like big butts, and I cannot lie.
mmm, fresh cucumbers, yummy.
Cucumber beetles have been killing all my cuke plants for the last several years. And they usually also infest my other squashes, though they don’t kill those as handily.
The one year I finally gave up on growing cukes, and not a cucumber beetle in sight for weeks and weeks. Figures.
Well I’m not growing them myself. I harvest them where other people do, at the store.
Hmm, taking next week off to work on flooring. I should probably PBC something every day, right?
“The head of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, Christiana Figueres, readily admits that the real climate change agenda has nothing to do with the environment, but instead is about redistribution of wealth. ”
http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials-viewpoint/080315-764799-real-agenda-is-destroying-capitalism-not-climate.htm
This fucking pope comes out with a new asshole idea daily. Now he wants to meet with that whale Oprah.
Doggies, he’s useless.
http://www.wsmv.com/story/29717483/active-shooter-reported-at-antioch-theater
Wow. This thread is fucking dead. WTF?
Busy: Field appointment plus visit to eye doc.
Am I crazy for trying contact lenses at 39 years old *cough* never having worn them before?
Busy trying to get my office notes done before the skies open up. Too late, it’s pouring buckets out there.
I wouldn’t start contacts. I don’t want to touch my eyes, I have enough itchiness already.
Home early after dental cleaning. Making carnitas for burrito bowl.
leon needs a Pit Barrel.
Comment by Cyn on August 5, 2015 4:25 pm
Busy: Field appointment plus visit to eye doc.
Am I crazy for trying contact lenses at 39 years old *cough* never having worn them before?
And lose the naughty-librarian glasses?!
Seriously, I have contacts and like them, so I don’t think it’s crazy. They do take some getting used to, and I’d start out with daily contacts as opposed to weekly or monthly.
I don’t like contacts, or glasses. They mess up my vision.
*runs
I’ll still have naughty librarians as back up.
I’m told that the lenses will be hard (SYWM).
Meh, I’m gonna give it a whirl; fully refundable other than the doc’s time/fitting fee. WTH.
*stuffs Jay in a Pit Barrel, with cucumbers*
I wore contacts off and on for years before I got LASIK for my distant vision. Now I use reading glasses for prolonged document reading but otherwise no glasses. The only trouble I ever had was when I was up all night on call as a resident and my eyes got really dry. The thing I liked the best about contacts was stepping outside in the winter and not fogging up.
my brother was really glad when he finally tried his.
Yeah, I don’t Cyn has to worry about fogging up in the winter.
She may have trouble keeping moist though
Heh
Erm, I mean, yeah – I do live in a desert. Something to keep in mind.
Exzactly what I meant! Was there any other meaning?
Jimbro, is LASIK a permanent solution?
Nothing worse than a dry muffin.
PBC is a cult.
I saw Dry Muffin open for Foghat at Mohegan Sun in ’92.
Tim Allen, bringing the GOP funneh!
http://www.ijreview.com/2015/08/384720-tim-allen-claims-going-drill-hillary-politically-charged-qa-session-show/
*communes around the barrel
He’s a Kasich fan. Gotta be the only one.
Hi
Hi MJ, what’s shakin’?
I stepped on a wasp in the dark yesterday morning, and it hurts worse today than it did yesterday, and I don’t know why.
Hi Roamy! I’m good thanks for asking.
*bans wasp pain
Inflammation often hurts worse than the poison. Ibuprofen might help.
Some time ago, they took down all the Ares posters at work. Today, some new posters arrived. One is a very nice photo of the Sun from SOHO with the label “solar flair”. I made Office Space jokes all day.
LASIK has been for me Scott. I got it done right before 9/11 which is why I remember the time since it was done so well. The guy who did my surgery was pretty much the LASIK guy for the area and had a high case volume and a relatively new machine for that time. I’m sure it’s even more high tech now. The surgeon was upfront about the potential for complications and the eventual need for reading glasses. For the first year or two I had a mild halo effect when facing oncoming headlights at night but that gradually faded out.
http://www.lasik.com/articles/how-long-does-lasik-eye-surgery-last/
I might have to look into that someday soon.
Why is it so fucking hard to get an HP laptop to talk to an HP wireless printer?
The wireless printer knows what it did.
Wireless printers are a scam.
It’s never when I want to print something unimportant. No, it’s only when it’s time sensitive financial documents!
That’s when I use the USB cable and beat the printer into submission.
It’s probably not plugged in.
I once had a wireless TV, that didn’t work either.
Did anybody tell anybody else that it was okay if they didn’t want to come into the restroom to assess whether or not their pee should be that particular color but they didn’t have to be such a dick about it today?
Is it purple Doc? Anything but purple!
http://is.gd/8OFWb3
Comment by xbradtc on August 5, 2015 7:33 pm
……. sensitive financial documents!
========
Probably sent them to your neighbors printer.
Notice that Hotspur isn’t around much since he moved to Dicksville?
I made my wireless printer work from Ubuntu on the very first try.
I must be some sort of savant.
I must be some sort of savant.
—————————-
You spelled moron wrong.
Idiot savant, then.
So I finally spoke with dad regarding sis and mom. He knew that mom wasn’t invited to the wedding, but not about sis hitting up mom over the years for thousands of dollars (probably at least 10 grand). He’s pissed, which makes me feel better.
I missed the preamble to that, Alex, your not-so-great sister is getting married and your mom and she are estranged?
Something, something…your mom.
Leon,
My sister got engaged and didn’t tell mom, because mom isn’t invited to the wedding. Sis says it’s due to all the crap that happened when she was a child: dad’s investigation by child services, mom’s abusive second husband, and then mom’s boyfriend (now husband) who she got into a fight with in high school.
The thing is, for years sis has taken money from mom and basically given mom the impression that their relationship was slowly mending.
That’s a hell of a grudge to hold.
CoAlex, I’m so sorry for your mom. Are you going to the wedding?
My mom is once again paying my sister’s car payment and electric bill. My sister wouldn’t let my mom visit her in TX, because my mom is a “Fornicator” and she curses too much to be around my sister’s step-grands. (My sister calls them her grandkids, but fuck her)
Sis and her fiancé live with his mother, who cosigned for a new car and now makes the car payments. Fiancé bought the car and lost his job a month later, and is now back in school for urban planning. He refuses to get a job and doesn’t want to use his Spanish degree working for a private company, but instead wants to work for the government. Sis is back in school trying to get into the grad program for Speech Language Pathology.
Yes, I’m going to the wedding. She’s family and it would be weird if I didn’t attend, and because mom asked me to attend. I will fulfill my obligations.
Awards Oso a hedgehog http://is.gd/oILf82
Yay! I want a hedgehog! Beasn will be sooooo jelly!
CoAlex, I’m glad your mom won’t be hurt by your attendance
Retail moment: I’m old. Spent the day loading swimming pools, laminate flooring, and dorm size refrigerators. We got pallets of pellets in today. My pallet jack got a workout.
My pallet jack got a workout.
Euphemism of the day!
Hahaha. I don’t drive or have a DL so the Lift is not an option. I’m a beast when it comes to the pallet jack.
I gave up pallet jacking.
Hahaha. How’s the bebe, Leon?
19% humidity. Suicidal skunk is harshing my mellow
Needy and small, but very pretty.
Sis anyone say “You’re not my real mother!” to their real mother today??
sorry for borrowing your schtik seanm but I was around my mother all day and there were several close calls.
Sis = Did.
Also she’s not really keen on too much Daddy time yet, unless she’s got a full tummy.
She’ll be a daddy’s girl soon enough. Euchre. That’s the ticket
PG, my mom is too ill to “travel”, but still spends LOTS of time at the Inn of the Mountain Gods.
I went to Galveston today for my first look at the Gulf o Mexico from the west side.
Sunsets are way wrong from my perspective. (the gulf is west or north not east)
The water is muddier than a lake and the sand is freaking brown.
What is wrong with the Texas Gulf?!?
However the architecture really rocks!
Vman!!!!! Rocking the FL gulf v. Atl argument but dissing the TX coast.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/vmaximus/20147885099/in/datetaken/
Well Oso Quartz sand is much different from Texas mud.
mud
http://www.flickr.com/photos/vmaximus/20308232176/in/dateposted-public/
HS Texas friends prefer the FL Gulf Coast. Blah blah blah. Loser NM friends like the TX Gulf Coast. I Like Tybee Island!!!! (Doesn’t really matter. I only swim in swimming pools)
Dan spent this afternoon with his mom. Got a massive headache. He is making me bite my tongue with his sister. Familia
We have the same asshole laws as Connecticut, 10 feet away from structure and no grill action. Hibachi? Not named. If we hadn’t lost our guns on a dreary kayak accident, we’d be the first to CCW
“The water is muddier than a lake and the sand is freaking brown.
What is wrong with the Texas Gulf?!?”
It’s shallow, and there is nowhere for anything that blows in there to get out. The entire Texas coastline is the last stop for all of the water east of there.
On the plus side, the water is relatively warm.
I’m not a coastal guy but I’ve wondered about why tx ocean water is so brown. Colorado and Brazos both empty into the gulf within fifty or so miles of Galveston and both carry a lot of silt. That would be my guess as to part of the problem.
He’s as derp as he can be,
Just sees what he wants to see,
Nowhere Man can you see me at all?
Good morning.
A good friend of mine had an Oso day. She is taking care of her mother who has Alzheimers. The mother’s mother passed away (90 and sharp as a tack), and the mom has been like Dan’s mom. “Where are we going?” “To the visitation.” “Who died?” over and over.
God bless the caregivers.
Yep.
And good morning.
““The water is muddier than a lake and the sand is freaking brown.
What is wrong with the Texas Gulf?!?””
Michigan lakes aren’t muddy.
Yeah, they’re full of ice.
shush.
RFH, I’ll keep your friend in my prayers.
I think that’s the hardest thing, loss of memory, alzheimers, etc. You remember what the person was like, and now they are different. It’s heartbreaking. And it’s scary to the person it’s happening to, because at times, they realize what’s happening to them.
Going home today.
I’m struck by an overwhelming sense of sadness.
Or maybe that’s from the morning piña colada…
Did you get caught in the rain?
Back to reality.
I find it much better to never -ever- sample the good life. Makes dealing with reality easier.
Reality is a scam
>>>>Did you get caught in the rain?
What rain? Where?
It rained a couple of times while we were here, but only occasionally and for very short periods of time.
This is a great time to come here, as it turns out. Slow season. Not crowded anywhere.
If they could just do something about the fucjing street vendors. Every fucking time you turn around… ” my mother made this. You want to buy it?”
Even at the resort. GO AWAY ALREADY!!!!
Did you get caught in the rain?
Ugh.
* pictures Wiserkids furiously plastering, painting, and hauling Hefty Bags into the woods *
>>>>* pictures Wiserkids furiously plastering, painting, and hauling Hefty Bags into the woods *
Nah. Better to just torch the place and be sure.
4 bottles of Marie Sharp’s hidden in suitcase.
Don’t tell anyone.
We brought a bunch of Marie Sharp’s back from Belize in ’04. Gave some away as hostess gifts and still have some.
Good stuff.
I had a liberal tell me this morning that she didn’t ask two cable workers in her yard for ID because they were black, and she didn’t want to seem racist, but if they were white she certainly would have.
I told her that right there was racist. She didn’t understand.
Did you explain it to her?
No. You can’t explain things to liberals.
on topic, for HHD:
http://espn.go.com/olympics/swimming/story/_/id/13387181/ryan-lochte-wins-record-fourth-world-title-200-meter-individual-medley
Heh, the verbal “slip ups” are priceless
Gavin McInnes’ brother Miles on the Planned Parenthood videos
On topic for Thursday: