During the holy Christmas season it’s time to get right with God (or Santa for the heathens). Angels are to God as Elves are to Santa. I think. That really wasn’t covered extensively during my years at Catholic learning institutions. There’s a whole hierarchy of angels out there. I’m familiar with the guardian types, messenger types and, thanks to the show Supernatural, the avenging angel as exemplified by Castiel. Some singers have voices like angels.
Angels show up on the tree
in the snow
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Hostage Angel
Reminds me of a young Leon
Women are often described as angels
The end result
It’s been years since I’ve intentionally made a snow angel. It was a fun thing to do as a kid for like 5 minutes before you realized the snow was creeping down your butt under your snow pants. So far we’re in the early snow season before the walls start to close in so it’s all goodness and light. Before too long it’ll be like fish after 3 days. As I write this I still need to get gifts for my family. All set on the home front. My SS gift arrived earlier this week and the one I sent should be arriving 12/16/17 or so says the magic tracking number thingie. Hope you have a great Thursday.
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wakey wakey
Time to start my christmas shopping. What does everyone want?
I’ve moved on to metal. Because I’m all alone.
http://thehill.com/homenews/media/364813-pbs-suspends-host-tavis-smiley-amid-sexual-misconduct-allegations
The Left destroying themselves by their own rules makes me positively giddy
NPR is a hotbed of sexual assault. Goddamn that’s funny.
I can’t even imagine what public radio sex is like.
I would like to move back to the Southeast. Can you make that happen Santa?
Target. Love or hate?
Discuss.
I can’t even imagine what public radio sex is like
I have a picture, but I don’t think it’s SFW.
Hate
i print my own targets –
i really like the turds and flies
http://www.targetz.com/targetzlib/20012.pdf
What do engineers use for birth control?
Engineers don’t need birth control.
>>What do engineers use for birth control?
Usually their personality is enough to get the job done.
*covers self in camouflage*
*blends into landscape, disappearing without a trace*
Jam is a shit stirrer.
Brian Setzer Christmas Show for everyone! Awesome!
*hopes nobody notices this snow-covered tree is shaking with laughter*
A Taste
I like it when Megaton McCain shows up at 2:30
*chops the epileptic tree down
Ow.
That camo would have to be white up here.
*covers self in camouflage*
*blends into landscape, disappearing without a trace*
Uh-oh. Is Scott making you work before 9am again?
I can’t even imagine what public radio sex is like.
The tote bag is nice, but I hate the discussion of Foucault.
Moarning! For Christmas I would like peace on earth, or at least peace at the fenceline between Nessie the Wonderdog and Fezzik, Cash, Pete and Mia (all neighbor dogs).
Our neighbor Susan will be watching over Nessie for us while we travel back to OH for a family Christmas deal for the next 5 days.
It should be noted that all the other dogs are nice to very nice, Nessie is the asshole who won’t stop barking and snapping at the fence.
Funny, Alex!
I am cold-smoking six little blocks of cheese for Christmas gifts.
VERY cold-smoking. No danger of melting today. Nyoop.
Sorry, Pupster. Sounds like she has the doggy anxieties.
Elliot suffers from assholitis too. Wondering how to cure it.
He’s more protective of me, than Mrs. Jay. He’s tolerable around her.
Moose was an asshole this morning, so I’ve been up since 5. He is barking at something, I just don’t know or care what it is.
Yo!
Rowan has started barking at the UPS man even when they’re at the neighbors which is about 100 yards away
She is afraid of everything, I don’t know what happened before we got her but she views anything that moves as a threat and tries to bluster bark and tough-dog her way to making the threat go away. I can get her to back down but I have to have treats and be able to get ahold of her, she’s knocked everybody down at least once when she gets too spun up, you have to intervene before it escalates to the point of no return. We’ve boarded her a couple of times, she never made up with any of the other dogs, they said she barked for hours until they took her out of the chain link kennel and put her in a private doggy suite with walls. We are paying our neighbor well but I don’t think she knows what she’s signed up for.
At least Elliot gets along with all the dogs and workers at boarding/day care, thank God.
If I get another shepherd, that dog is going to be socialized like your mom when the navy is in port.
I’ll walk up to complete strangers and make them hold the pupper. Put treats at the end of the driveway so anyone who comes over will have something to give it.
I’m done with pets inside the house when these die off. Donatello and the barn cats are all I need.
I love the screaming Santa kids.
I’m going to have inside dogs until I die. Perhaps they’ll eat my rotting corpse in the end.
Barnstable, MA? Anyone have knowledge about the area?
It’s in Massachusetts, so it probably sucks.
Cape Cod.
Good chowder.
Great beaches, fishing, seafood.
I don’t know what winter would be like out there. Probably pretty lonely.
Heh. Somebody name their dog Fezzik. Is he a rhyming giant?
Comment by osoloco11 on December 14, 2017 12:09 am
TiFW is my hero. You break down FINALLY and yet you continue to love and be love and spread love. Music posts keep me grounded.
?????
I’ve broken down plenty; you guys just don’t see it!
And that post from the other day has been recycled for about 5 years – I run the Advent Calendar of Music every year, because it’s easy to do. And I am lazy 😄
I’m glad you like it!
Mr. TiFW is coming home today – yay! He was on the west coast for 3 days last week, and this week he has been gone for 4 days.
I miss him when he is gone, but I do have the bed all to myself, which Freckles (a.k.a Fat Cat) likes, because she can take his spot at night and not get in the way of anyone’s toes.
He will be coming home to an empty house tonight, because the girls and I are going to see a special showing of the new Star Wars movie. So excited!
Ha!
https://m.imgur.com/gallery/Dud7i
I think I cocked up that link!
Perhaps they’ll eat my rotting corpse in the end.
Last week’s episode of Shameless.
Why was Oedipus against profanity?
Barnstable is on Cape Cod as Scott said. The town of Barnstable is right next to the arm pit of the Cape. Two bridges (Bourne, Sagamore) over the Cape Cod Canal serve the entire Cape. Traffic all year round now, worse in the summer. My parents sold their home in SE MA and moved to Osterville on the Cape. Beautiful location but they got sick of the relative isolation in the winter and difficulty seeing their friends back in our hometown. They moved to Wareham which is on the west side of the Canal. After college I dated a woman who taught elementary school in Dennis. So many families living in unused hotel rooms under Section 8 Housing programs and that was in the 80’s. Great place for a vacation or day trips to the beach. Wouldn’t want to live there unless I was independently wealthy and had access to a heliport.
Erin passed her written test, now she has a month and she can take the road test. If she’s ready. Yikes.
Erin killed the thread. Hope that isn’t a sign.
Did anyone else have a recipe in The Deplorable Gourmet? I found mine.
Trying to decide what to boil with sous vide on saturday. I have some frozen pork chops, and a big chuck roast. I’m thinking chuck roast.
Why would erin need a license? She’s got you and the Suitors to drive her everywhere.
Pork chops hardly seem worth the effort
Was there a recipe for “widow eggnog” in the book?
Yeah, I’d go with the roast. I bet corned beef would be awesome done sous vide.
Chuck roast will take 29 hours. Just a heads-up.
You should download the Anova app. It has a ton of recipes.
Which model did you get, Jay?
Chuck roast is perfect. 2 or 3 of them would be even better.
https://recipes.anovaculinary.com/
We have this guy’s book, it’s great as an all-purpose guide, but so is his website: http://douglasbaldwin.com/sous-vide.html
The chuck roast I did was rubbed with Meathead’s Memphis smoke. then I slit it all over and pushed in a ton of garlic.
I also covered the roasts all over with pats of butter. The au jus was perfect.
It tasted awesome, but the leftovers didn’t make great sandwiches because cold beef full of garlic doesn’t turn me on.
My cold beef turns your mom on.
Screw y’all, I have a pot of chili I made last weekend I’m slowly working through! Each bowl better than the last…
Tomorrow is December 15th
* shudders *
I turn 42.
my chili I made with smoked ground beef was the best batch I’ve ever made.
but it has beans, so you don’t want it.
I got the non-internet one, $99.
Anova app: is it the free Anova Culinary, or the $1.99 sous vide app?
Anova Culinary
It’s the app that also controls the wifi version of the machine, but it is full of recipes as well.
Joule has a good free app as well.
Well, this roast is frozen, so I won’t be putting any garlic inside. It will have butter and garlic on the outside, though, along with rosemary and thyme.
Why would erin need a license? She’s got you and the Suitors to drive her everywhere.
*****sadly the reality
I have to go to the Post Office, then the SoS, then my water department first thing tomorrow. Then I’m eating chocolate-chip-cookie-crust cheesecake and drinking hard cider for the rest of the day.
Meathead has another good rub that I’ve used called his Simon and Garfunkel Rub. If you make it using his quantities you end up with a jar full of the stuff that lasts for many meals.
Family recipe is beans and tomatoes, yeah we’re chili heretics.
Used sirloin this run (the meat matters, folks). Tossed in some chipotle pepper flakes for the heck of it.
the meat matters, folks
That’s what your mom says.
So I spoke with my boss, and she understands that I can’t stay in California long term, but they’re happy to have me work part time while I go back to school and look for another job.
Only chili with no beans I’ve had is on chili dogs. Tex Barry’s Chili Dogs and Coney Island Chili Dogs (both in MA).
Fuck, I’m going to end up working tomorrow. I still have to do all of those things, so yay.
My day so far:
5 am wake up , thanks Moose.
Secretary of State for Erin’s test
Bank to open account for erin
Store to get little think to hold her DL and cash/cards
(This all took almost three hours)
Shovel what I can
Three hour block of time for Ethan’s PT
Wonder what cock face we’re going to get to replace Ryan.
If the house flips I suppose we’ll get cuntface Pelosi back.
Exactly Jimbro.
Chilli has beans in it. If not, it’s a condiment for hot dogs.
Fuck the chili snobs.
I like beans in chili because I like the flavor and texture. Plus it’s the way my mom made it, and she was awesome.
Chili wasn’t on the dinner rotation at home as kids. First time I had it was from a can on a Boy Scout campout. I started making it when I was on my own and cooking for myself.
Green pepper cut into “bean sized” pieces works as a perfect substitute for those of you who don’t want beans.
My Mother (who was also awesome) used beans too. My daughter didn’t like them so I used green pepper instead and everyone liked it.
Also, kiss my ass.
Canned chili is an abomination before God and man.
Star Wars can kiss my ass
https://is.gd/vaiQoj
The left has gone mad.
Not tired of winning yet.
The only canned chilli I ever thought was even ‘pretty good’ was some stuff I found at Costco years and years ago (they might have been called Price Club way back then?).
The name had something to do with cowboys… Stagecoach?
hormel hot is good on hot dogs.
And I eat beans on the hot dogs, too.
Heh, I hadn’t read jimbros link when I poated that. Mrs Jay turned me on to Hormel.
Hormel and beans (hot) with Ritz crackers, yum.
Wolf chili is also pretty good.
I use Hormel on chili dogs. Some shredded cheddar and a generous squeeze of mustard. Yummy.
My favorite dogs are Koegel’s natural casing franks.
Ima go buy some tonight to keep in the office for lunches.
Nathan’s are my favorite. They sell them at Sam’s. Which is a good place to get a hot dog.
Headline of the day?
https://www.weaselzippers.us/367578-college-student-arrested-trying-to-trade-chicken-alfredo-and-sprite-for-sex/
C’mon, dude. At least make it carbonara.
Carbonara killed this bitch.
Huh – Wolf. Maybe that was the chilli I got at Costco? Certainly sounds familiar.
And, Hebrew National are really good dogs. Nathan’s is a close second, though. I very rarely eat hotdogs, and that’s usually only at a cart or small dog shop.
Mustard, onions, chilli & sometimes sauerkraut.
Scott, what particularly insane thing today are the left losing their shit over?
Dick.
I like the flavor of Hebrew National, but I find them to be too salty. Joos – what do they know about tube steak?
From what I can tell, mare, the Left are shitting themselves over net neutrality. Almost to a man.
The whole net neutrality thing is very confusing. But how do I know net neutrality was bad? The left (almost to a man) think it’s great.
Yep. Net Neutrality was invented to fix a problem that didn’t exist.
All they did was return the internet to the way it was in 2015, or in other words, END THE INTERNET AS WE KNOW IT!!!11!1!1!
Hotspur, you are smart enough to know if the left LOVES it, it is complete shit.
I heard a guy on Prager talk about how much better it was in 2015. Why ? Less regulation which is a) always good and b) more content will be produced.
I love it when the left acts out about something that is nothing.
You know net neutrality was bad because Obama enacted it 2 frickin’ years ago.
Go to Twitchy and read all the hysterics from the lefties – repealing NN is killing blacks, abortion is no longer available, every Google search or tweet will now cost money only the rich can afford!
NN basically turned the internet into a utility so the govt could impose regulations. Now, it’s back to a simple ‘information system’ with a much more hands off/light touch approach.
Gay people will now have slower internet.
I forgot about that one, Scott.
There is one guy paying no attention to NN – A certain smug asshole is crying because he didn’t get due process before being fired from PBS yesterday. Funny, I don’t remember hearing Tavis worried about due process during ANY of the multitude of college campus rape hoaxes, or with Moore, Trump or anyone else not on his Christmas card list.
https://mobile.twitter.com/TANSTAAFL241
This is the tweet I wanted to link:
I’m scared about ending Net Neutrality because I don’t want to go back to using corn cobs to wipe myself.
I’m still laughing!
Corn cobs weren’t so bad.
LOL
FF is giving me a 404 for Breitbart.
There you go. This is why we need NN. ^
Okay, I was able to search to it. Weird.
One of them was from Sandra Fluke. I thought that cunt’s fifteen minutes was up ten years ago.
I recognize her name but forget what her issue was. Free birth control? When I think of her name I picture that Lena Dunham skag
Somebody in the comments at Breitbart just referred to the Obamas as “that monkey bastard and his fullback wife”.
LOL
That college girls are basically mentally incontinent animals who must be chemically sterilized at my expense so they won’t be impregnated by the cock carousel they ride before the age of 30 and finding a beta provider guy to divorce-rape.
At least that’s how I remember it.
https://streamable.com/qid1q
That college girls are basically mentally incontinent animals who must be chemically sterilized at my expense so they won’t be impregnated by the cock carousel they ride before the age of 30 and finding a beta provider guy to divorce-rape.
Holy SHIT!! LOL, Leon.
*raises lighter in homage*
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-12-13/robots-purge-homeless-san-francisco-sidewalks
holy shit….
leon with the caffeine rage comment
That’s the salty nut balls talkin’
Cock carousel needs to be a new category.
It’s been a long week, and I felt like Rectifying a Name.
Most of the women I meet in their late twenties hadn’t been riding the cock carousel. In fact, the opposite: they’d been in shitty relationships for years. My theory is that since they’ve been told that it’s wrong to want to settle down and have kids early on, they have less incentive to admit it’s what they want, and ditch the loser that they’re with. Add in that dating is awful, and there’s a strong incentive to stick around with the guy who’s happy playing video games, smoking weed, and working part-time at Barnes and Noble, and hope that he magically grows up by the time they hit their thirties.
Rectify? Damn near killed ’em!
There’s definitely a lot of that, too.
But Fluke invites invective much like she invites gentleman’s sausages.
Oh, yeah, there’s that as well.
Watching Penn St./Nebraska womens indoor volleyball. These cock carousel riders are damn good.
Glad you specified women’s volleyball
Holy carp, Ash vs Evil Dead is gross. Serious disgusting humor. I love it.
I was single for a good chunk of my 30’s.
There is a bunch of crazy in that dating pool.
In this day of equality, if there is a cock carousel, there must also be a pussy carousel.
and s fishstick carousel.
Near as I can tell, Groperdammerung is about getting men off the mish carousel, while the cock carousel remains intact.
Your mom owns and operates the mish carousel.
I was single for a good chunk of my 30’s.
There is a bunch of crazy in that dating pool.
Pretty much.
Divorcees, Single Careerists, Single Moms,etc.
CA, take a trip to small town middle America.
You can find a wife in a weekend.
Not on meth
Has job
Has car
Enough money to escape middle America.
omebody in the comments at Breitbart just referred to the Obamas as “that monkey bastard and his fullback wife”.
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This and Leon’s comment that Lauraw lifted a lighter to made my day.
I don’t know how to describe it, but I was a rockstar in bumfuck Indiana,
I had a car and some money in my wallet.
Comment by Jimbro on December 14, 2017 8:28 pm
Rectify? Damn near killed ’em!
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One of my super straight arrow husband’s favorite jokes.
Stable men with careers can do very well in the Midwest. I did.
I don’t know shit, and I don’t know what this has to do with anything, but every night I pray that my youngest daughter finds the guy that God made for her. And any of you who pray, I’d appreciate the “ where two or more” deal.
By the way, she’s not some ugly, step child. If I posted picks you’d flip. She’s incredibly smart and logical, she is funny as hell, I think her being a practicing Catholic is a detriment to some, IYKWIMAITTYD. Eff you, you cows who give it away for free!
Why do you think I’m quitting my job in Santa Barbara? I’m going to look for a job somewhere I can afford to live.
Net neutrality killed the thread!
There has to be something in the midwest, colex. Jebus, I’ve been here my whole life and survived.
True, I’ve got more fans than the average man, but not enough derp to last me
To the end of the week, I live by the beat, like you live check-to-check
If you don’t move your feet then I don’t eat, so we like neck-to-neck
Yes, we done come a long way like them slim-ass cigarettes
From Virginia, this ain’t gon’ stop, so we just gon’ continue