Good morning, and welcome to another edition of Hunky Hump Day.
Let’s get started. Sobek could give a lesson about the Child Ballads, the collection of traditional English and Scottish songs published by Frances James Child in 1860. (Joan Baez, Lorenna McKinnitt, and even Led Zeppelin have covered some of these.) This version is shorter and leaves out the Fairy Queen and the sacrifice on Halloween, but I like it for her voice and the guitars.
Now for the hunks. Yesterday’s birthday boy John Terry (Felix Leiter in one of the Bond films).
Today’s birthday boy, Paul Newman.
Alexander Skarsgard.
Fake redhead for Carin.
Someone named Ludwig.
A leftover from last week.
Last, but not least.
Thanks to Pirate’s Cove for the linky love every week, prayers for those fighting the coof, and y’all have a good day.
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Dude. Everyone’s reading Pynchon?
If the hostages read Gravity’s Rainbow as a book club thing, that would be the most amazing thing ever.
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Uppity blog.
Yes. Who doesn’t have a copy and we need to wait for?
Also, its not really divided into chapters. It has a sorta book 1, book 2 format and those are pretty long. I’d be WAAAAAY lost before we got to the end of those. It had “divider” thingies. Little squares in my edition. So we’ll probably have to use those?
wakey wakey
I know, right?
MJ’s just mad because he don’t read so good.
we’ll go slow. Maybe you could have MJ Jr help you out?
Reading Gravity’s Rainbow falls somewhere between waxing my balls and finally getting around to writing a last will and testament in my list of must-do’s.
That high?
after dear cathy made me read confederacy of dunces, I really don’t feel like I’m asking that much.
I’m already reading a book and it’s going to take all my time for a while.
what book Lauraw? I mean, some would see this as me calling you out, but no. Not at all. I’m just completely curious and totally don’t think you’re saying this to avoid reading Gravity’s Rainbow.
Call me old-fashioned, but I don’t think anyone, ever, should be pressured into reading Gravity’s Rainbow.
Also, if no one acknowledges my on-topic derp this morning imma cut someone.
I’m going to spend most of the weekend on planes or in airports, so I guess I’ll have lots of time to read. My local book depository has a couple of copies so maybe I’ll go check one out.
I’m just teasing lauraw. Why can’t she just admit she’d rather shave her balls?
Breed Your Own Vegetable Varieties, by Carol Deppe. Glad I have that genetics course under my belt or I’d be having real difficulty understanding some of this stuff. As it is, it’s getting a bit into the weeds, so to speak.
My balls never grow hair. I’m a girl. Silky soft, smooth balls, that’s all you’ll find on this girly girl.
I saw it, Sobek
but you can still cut somebody
*pushes Carin forward*
If he cuts me, who’s gonna read the book with him?
I’m taking mama to the restaurant supply place this afternoon…looking at the prices online…wtf is up with chicken wings? I don’t understand. I never buy them anyway, but who the Hell is going to pay almost $4/lb for mostly bones? Leg/thigh quarters are .46/lb. and they’re the big meaty ones.
I’ll read Gravity’s Rainbow if you’ll read Hamlet’s Mill.
I thought chicken wings were basically a competition between bars and industrial pet food/bone meal producers.
I have trouble reading comments and staying focused.
killed it DAYD!
We wanted to make sure you had time to read the rest of the thread.
That or they are all dropping acid and trying to read Hamlet’s Mill.
There’s a new variant out
Take me down to Paradox City where the grass is green and the grass is not green.
Don’t forget to add competition for chicken wings by bars, restaurants, hotels and supermarkets during football playoff season to the list of why they’re surprisingly high in price.
I recall a bar in Worcester that had 10 cent wing night every Wednesday. A small pack of my friends would hit that occasionally and devour a few 30 platters along with a corresponding number of draft beer pitchers.
When I drive Ollie to daycare past the airport I see the sign outside of Ground Round advertising 49 cent wings when a Boston team plays.
A 30 platter of wings, which I’d never consider ordering unless in a group of several hungry friends, would run 5X what it did back then. And that’s the special price!
#Wingflation
Wing Stop (investment by ex-ISU super QB Seneca Wallace!) recently changed to Thigh Stop.
I’m a fan of this. That is probably boneless wings anyway.
OK, I’m in. Gravity’s Rainbow. 1 available at the Library. I’ll have to put on a mask, though. Stupid librarians.
https://breaking911.com/breaking-report-says-feds-have-uncovered-credible-specific-plans-to-attack-us-power-grid/
Preview of the next thing the FIB is either going to do to us or “save” us from.
let me guess, another “militia group”?
Oath Keepers funded by Eric Trump, if I had to guess.
I’m reading the oral arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health, and it makes my stomach turn to think how passionately committed some people are to ripping babies into pieces.
Moloch and Ba’al have always had their zealots.
Conspiracy theory: The so-called “immortal” cell line from an aborted child in the 70’s is utter bullshit, and Big Pharma is wholly reliant on new murdered babies they pretend are the old one to do all their testing and a lot of their manufacturing. Oh, and also to procure infernal blessings.
Sotomayor basically threatens Mississippi’s lawyer about gun rights, about overruling Heller if Roe goes down. The problem for her is that literally no one on earth believes she would uphold Heller under stare decisis grounds. Stare decisis only moves in one direction, for liberals.
Best way to kill a book club: choose a book no member actually wants to read.
God knows it worked with Don Quixote – one and done.
factor #2: Sotomayor is an actual idiot
Sotamayor reminds me of the loudmouth chain smoking drunk chick who no guys wanted to take out. At parties they were fun, but never hooked up. If you were having girl troubles you could always talk to them because they were there ‘til the end.
How do these liberal justices come up with their decisions? Started with Ginsberg for me. Obviously a smart lady, but her worldview is totally different than mine.
Hotspur – we read two books.
And honestly, I don’t need a book club to read a book I can figure out on my own. that’s like my kids school that read mitch albom in AP english. Just stupid.
A lot of the questions at oral argument are about “how will the court have legitimacy of people think stuff changes just because we get new justices?”. What an astounding question. If you stick to what the constitution says, you don’t have this problem. But if the text of the Constitution is irrelevant, and the only question is whether you can get five justices on your side, then you have no place to complain when the other side gets five votes. As one of my law school professors loved to say about SCOTUS decisions that made no sense, “it’s good to be the king.” Well that logic cuts both ways, no?
If you don’t want the court to appear politicized, get your collective noses out of political cases, dingbats.
“How do these liberal justices come up with their decisions?”
They say, “what result do I want? Okay, now how do I get there?” Instead of “what does the Constitution or statue say?”
Had to look up who Mitch Albom is.
Sorry, not going to read Gravity’s Rainbow with you. I have two more SPQR mysteries, the latest from Mollie Hemingway, “Burning Daylight” by Jack London (a recent Mark Steyn Tales for Our Times), a Mother Angelica, and a Scarlet Pimpernel book I somehow missed, “Sir Percy Leads the Band”. Plus I did get “Basic Economics” by Thomas Sowell for Christmas, but I was planning that for the home-school shelf rather than actually read it now.
Did you guys know that Critical Drinker = author Will Jordan?
Yes. Everyone knew that but you, Jay.
They say, “what result do I want? Okay, now how do I get there?” Instead of “what does the Constitution or statue say?”
How does one’s conscience allow for this? I know, rhetorical, counselor, I withdraw.
leon doesn’t get any paste. MORE FOR US!
leon gets a Michael Rapaport picture for Christmas, and likes it.
Mitch started as a sport’s writer, and he was pretty good. Then he got a radio show (which was syndicated for a while) – and as they years went on he become more and more insufferable. liberal. he wrote a few books that got all sorts of accolades, but i had zero interest in reading. And, whatever they were – they certainly weren’t AP reading material.
But in the last … year or so he’s changed. he’s becoming a raging libertarian now. I still won’t read his books though.
Mitch is still alive? huh.
The latest addition to the home-school shelf was the surprise discovery of a cache of National Geographic for the Classroom magazines in a box in the basement. These are from the early 1970s and are great, non-woke articles on science and culture. My sister’s name is scrawled on them; I don’t think she ever allowed me to read them. Glad Mom saved them.
Did you guys know that Critical Drinker = author Will Jordan?
I did not know that.
hoo boy, has National Geographic changed. It’s all climate change, now. They even waded into racism.
He hasn’t exactly been shy about it, his book links are in the videos and have been for a while.
I guess if you only watch those as embeds you don’t see it.
Yeah, NG lost me with the BLM crap.
I watch the videos Jay posts, haven’t followed any links.
He’s blegged a couple of times while thanking Patreon supporters and suggested buying his fiction as an additional way to support the channel. He doesn’t do it too often, mostly in streams. I guess I just thought it was common knowledge at this point, apologies.
If you haven’t watched his review of Independence Day take the time. It’s hilarious.
I never actually agreed in here to read Gravity’s Rainbow. I just want that noted. But for reasons I’ll never be able to explain, I just got a copy from the library. It’s especially ironic because yesterday, before all this foolishness started, I went to the library and got a different huge book, An American Tragedy by Dreiser. Not sure why I do this to myself.
Are we waiting for anyone, or do we just jump in?
still have to pick mine up. We’ll see if I last longer than I did with Moby Dick.
GET TO THE POINT, JESUS WEPT!
I never knew the name Will Jordan until I started watching the videos. I haven’t read anything in that genre forever. I love his videos, though.
Moby Dick was a book on CD for me, when I had a lot of drive time to fill.
I will not be reading Gravity’s Rainbow.
pussy
exhaustively, heh
Speaking of things not covered in the media
There are a LOT of trucks.
Breyer to retire. Deace thinks it’s gonna be Garland. They will install someone WAY more leftwing than that.
They are just protesting icy roads and hard working conditions.
It’s not going to be Garland. It has to be a black woman to check the box.
Its fine MJ. we’ll probably be making a lot of literary references that will be completely lost to you. You’ll only have yourself to blame.
MJ FAMILY ThEATEr:
MJ Jr. “Mommy, how come daddy never read Gravity’s Rainbow?”
GND: “Well, he just didn’t think it was that important to read what is considered as exhaustively significant to the second half of the twentieth century as Joyce’s Ulysses was to the first. Its sprawling, encyclopedic narrative and penetrating analysis of the impact of technology on society make it an intellectual tour de force.”
MJ Jr: /cries
/fin
And whoever they pick will be comparable to Sotomayor in terms of liberal opinions (anything a Dem says is legal through penumbras and emanations), abortion at any time including after birth, and general stupidity. Bonus points if she’s a lesbian.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketanji_Brown_Jackson
/fin
I just wrote that in one word
*has capitol police spy on MJ
I hope that they nominate Kamala and Mitch lets that through then keeps VP empty.
Brandon dies and we get Resident Nancy. ’24 will be lit AF.
The important takeaway is that Breyer is either smarter than Ginsburg, or less power-hungry. Or both.
Must be a black woman.
Barak?
I just wanted to point out how much he is disappointing MJ Jr by choosing to not read the book.
Michelle?
Can you imagine that cackle during the nomination process?
How about Hillary Clinton?
Bill Clinton
https://notthebee.com/article/the-army-is-getting-mercilessly-mocked-for-this-tweet
Completely missed this knucklehead
excuse me jimbro, but did you check to see what their pronouns were? That’s pretty important.
Completely missed this knucklehead
Rumor is he did this on a $1000 bet. He’ll need more than that.
Come on. It’s got to be Tank Abrams.
Agree about the black woman being nominated. Ketanji seems to fit the bill more than the rest.
It would be a hoot, although incredibly unlikely to happen, if she ended up becoming conservative after being appointed.
Ya know, like all the supposedly Federalist Society vetted conservative judges who vote with the commie judges?
except that never happens. They unplug their morals when they sign on the commie line.
Not to brag, but I have FOUR dogs sleeping around me.
Buzz posted that Biden had an empty schedule today. I looked at it was yesterday.
well, he did go a minute long…
I have an update to MJ Family theater:
MJ FAMILY ThEATEr:
MJ Jr. “Mommy, how come daddy never read Gravity’s Rainbow?”
GND: “Well, he just didn’t think it was that important to read what is considered as exhaustively significant to the second half of the twentieth century as Joyce’s Ulysses was to the first. Its sprawling, encyclopedic narrative and penetrating analysis of the impact of technology on society make it an intellectual tour de force.”
MJ Jr: “What a stupid son of a bitch”
GND : YOU GO RIGHT NOW AND TELL YOUR DAD “Its nothing personal, pal”
/fin
I read to the first set of boxes, which in my edition is page 8. Dude’s growing bananas in London. Huh.
Mitch is still alive? huh.
*Checks pulse*
YEP! Still here!
I read to the first set of boxes, which in my edition is page 8. Dude’s growing bananas in London.
Is it set during the holocene optimum?
Listening to The Dana Show, for the Cringeshaw interview, and she still has Black Rifle Coffee as a sponsor.
Hmmm
Still shilling Superbeets or has that ship sailed?
It’s set during WWII, but the guy has a greenhouse.
havent seen Superbeets yet.
Tank’s sister is a judge. I’ll bet 100 gold teeth it’s her.
the one handing down rulings in her election? yeah, she’s a peach.
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/591495-youtube-permanently-bans-dan-bongino
YouTube on Wednesday permanently banned conservative commentator Dan Bongino from the platform, saying he attempted to evade a previous suspension.
HEH
Kurt Schlichter
@KurtSchlichter
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I will reluctantly accept an appointment to the Supreme Court.
Still reading these oral arguments. There’s something extremely phony about the liberals who say “you can’t use 15 weeks, you have to use viability!” when you know they actually believe in abortion up to and including after a live birth. It’s all a huge lie.
Yea, that’s why they always trot out the “WHAT ABOUT IN THE CASE OF RAPE”. Or equally overwrought – “health of the mother”.
Cringeshaw: we aren’t talking COMBAT troops in Ukraine, come on!
Dana leading him on. Might have to drop Dana too.
she comments on the twitter question about questions for him.
Why did it blow up? Crenshaw says his polling is great!
So, he’s the independent thinker, and we are establishment. Whoa.
Dana throwing us under the bus.
lies about who asked him the faith question, says it wasn’t a kid, was an opponent, an adult.
No no no no
won’t say he would handle it differently even.
Part of the interview
The internet is the internet, spreading rumors. re insider trading.
even the comments are taking it to Dan and Dana.
He’s just a younger Klaus Schwab with a Tren dealer and a gym membership.
One of the materials gurus at a company I’ve worked with for 20+ years died suddenly last year. (I am suspicious that it was vax related, because he was only 4 years older than me, and it was right when the non-seniors were getting their shots, but that doesn’t matter here.) I reached out to his replacement in September, because NASA is one of their biggest customers. She finally responded today. **blink, blink**
amazing.
They’ve lost millions of dollars in sales for not responding to “request for quote” (not all from me, there are others she’s ignored), I guess it finally hit hard enough.
Someone in the HQ comments said that Gen X is basically Denis Leary in Demolition Man and now I can’t stop thinking it.
I was re-watching “The Sting” the other day – I had forgotten how blisteringly HOT Paul Newman was in that movie; a real silver fox!
I haven’t seen Demolition Man.
Combining movie/TV and books, anyone know of a Catholic study guide for “The Chosen”?
Roamy, you should watch Demolition Man. Kinda goofy, but fun.
It was basically half prophecy half parody, Roamy. Worth watching at least once.
My wife has the hots for Paul Newman as well. Or did back when he was alive.
Or did back when he was alive.
Important detail.
*zombie Paul Newman kicks dirt*
Roamy,
Here’s the study guide from angel studios. Not specifically catholic.
https://thechosengifts.com/collections/best-sellers/products/season-1-2-bible-study-guide-bundle
And a Catholic one.
https://catholic-link.org/the-chosen-catholic-study-guide/
Just started my second pass on season 1 today.
I think I have a crush on Matthew.
Its sprawling, encyclopedic narrative and penetrating analysis of the impact of technology on society make it an intellectual tour de force.
I ain’t reading that.
Let’s do a Michael Crichton novel.
My brother and sister-in-law are coming out to pick Dad up and take him back to live with them for a couple months. I need a break from taking care of him so I can get things wrapped up here for The Big Move. Heck of a thing, I’ve lived in Vegas for 31 years this spring.
Let’s do a Michael Crichton novel.
And I just packed up all of Mom’s Crichton books.
Gross
13th Warrior is better than the Crichton book it was based on.
What was the second book?
Disclosure was a great book, but Jurassic Park was my favorite. Airframe was fun too.
Main bath shower control knob somehow lost control over the flow through the faucet. Fortunately there are actually shutoffs for it in the basement, so I didn’t have to turn off water to the whole house to stop it from running.
Anyone want to start a pool on how long it takes to get a plumber here? I could maybe get the whole thing out and troubleshoot, but I might break it worse than it’s already broken.
I did pull the knob and the fixture out, and the brass that is supposed to serve as the valve no longer appears to be able to shut off the flow at all. I’m guessing sediment/corrosion.
Don’s employer rescinded perks.