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Today I shoveled and ran the snow blower for about 45 minutes in minus zero chills. It was a little brisk. Actual temp right now is -4 with a wind chill of -25. That's whisky weather.

Not going for the TD is going to haunt the Packers for a long time

https://slate.com/culture/2021/01/green-bay-packers-field-goal-bucs-nfc-championship-dumb.html

Robert Johnson - Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues

My condolences to you and your family

I had a Sierra Nevada Narwhal Imperial Stout. Perfect beer for a driving wind, snow, and minus eighteen wind chill.

First game - highly entertaining. Second - hey, what's on PBS?

I don't want to see Brady win yet another Super Bowl but I know so many utterly sanctimonious Packer fans that I would not mind seeing St Aaron blow another NFC championship. It'll shut the fuckers...

I have seen videos of Angus jamming on blues licks. He's definitely coloring in the lines on AC/DC but is capable of much more. Then again, there was a point where you could say the same of Keith...

RIP. He once referred to Ringo as George Harrison while interviewing Ringo and Paul.

RIP, to the one true king of homers.

RIP to a fine actress. I'll have to watch some favorite episodes soon.

It's a shame Eddie's career went the way it did because of his addictions and grudges. So much ridiculous talent and yet, so often it got clouded by bad decisions and cheesy lyrics. The first four...

Got my copy last week. A fine piece to listen to as January has now started to tighten its icy grip.

I think that for a long time he knew he was a bullshitter extraordinare but in the last year, surrounded only by a small circle of yes-men, he has come to believe his own bullshit. The dude was...

How does one make motorcycle noises on a guitar? I have a wife and pets to annoy.

:up

Yeah, I wanted an outtake from Modern Family where Claire and Gloria resolved their attraction for each other but that ain't gonna happen either.

Stan Rogers did it best


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIwzRkjn86w

Pretty much my feelings as well. Axl really got a big head and ruined what could have been a classic guitar band. Slash was great and Izzy could write. Izzy Stradlin's solo album is pretty damn good...

TWICE A DAY?! To an old woman with dementia? That's just ridiculous. Bravo to your sisters. My condolences to you and your family.

I grew up with the original Let it Be but the naked version works for me as well. It's just looking at a semi-great album in a new way.

RIP only to his survivors and the woman he murdered. Phil is the epitome of ugly bastard who made great art. Here's a tidbit from his Wiki page: Spector's sons Gary and Donté both stated that their...

My deepest sympathies to you and your family, Duncan

Having never been to England, I can't say that I've ever had a pint of this brew but damn, I want one now.
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From Warren Haynes FB page:

RIP TIM BOGERT
When Gov’t Mule formed in 1994, as a side project to the Allman Brothers Band, we could have chosen a direction based on any of our many influences,...

I, for one, am eager for elf nudity. But please, no swinging orc dicks.

RIP and condolences to all who loved him. I never met him (then again, I've never met anyone from PE in the flesh) but enjoyed conversations here. Taken away far too soon.

Yeah, it's imprecise to compare Knives Out to the other two. Murder by Death has a few laugh out loud moments (Miss Marble smelling gas) but a lot of it hasn't aged well at all. Neil Simon's powers...

Last night on TCM we watched the double feature of Murder by Death and Clue. Despite both taking a hack at a genre that is ripe for a great parody, they fail. I didn't expect something as brilliant...

I watched the first two seasons of Oz. My wife said it was a soap opera for men. I can kinda see that now.

Flipping through the CD racks I came across this disc. Playing it right now in the office. Some righteous fury and slow burn riffing here.

https://egypt1.bandcamp.com/album/egypt

Best wishes for a continuing recovery, Jed. And hopefully your son and his friends didn't spread it.

I forgot about that one - yes, truly an evil mofo. That "have you a valediction" scene was great. Then again, the movie was packed with great scenes.

Just like my insistence that there is not a third Godfather film, a fourth Indiana Jones film, and only two Alien movies, Buffy ended after season five. It's my world and I like the weather in it.
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They spend such a significant amount of money of these ads and I can't see how any of them get any traction. Wouldn't your best bet for low premiums and seeing claims actually getting paid be finding...

I saw them open on that tour for BOC in a little hockey arena in Minot, North Dakota. It was a thermonuclear event.

At this point I am so sick of auto insurance, home warranty, and auto warranty ads that I would willingly go back to the days of nonstop erectile dysfunction ads.

He has a doctorate in psychology but he's not a licensed psychologist.

I never did get the DVD/CD off the last tour. I didn't think I could handle the vocals on the older tunes. But now I'm in a sentimental mood and reconsidering it. But while doing that, I took the set...

No paywall for me either. But yeah, a great and beautiful article.

Still waiting for prices to come down on other OOP boxes

Any updates on the Ancient One?

I called the local clinic and got us on the vaccine list yesterday. There are tiers to go through but given the amount of slack-jawed dumb fucks who likely believe it's a hoax or contains microchips,...

Screw it, I'm just gonna order the Bandcamp copy. I can always burn the lossless files for the living room stereo.

Way too young. There were a lot of bad sword/sorcery movies in the 80s but Beastmaster was actually decent (albeit cheesy). Tanya was decent in it as well. And indecent in an accompanying promo in...

I watched Wonder Woman 1984 and wow, the Suck Fairy visited that production. Plot holes galore and one of the villains was so ludicrous I couldn't stand most of his scenes. And hell, that was an...

I liked the SNL skit from the 80s where the missing ending to It's a Wonderful Life was found and it was basically everyone in town tracking down Potter and taking turns beating the living shit out...

I had to clean up after both my mom and my mother-in-law, both had twisted notions as what to keep. It took forever. I'm starting off the year with a round of Swedish Death Cleaning - a practice of...

My wife's parents and aunts/uncles had varying degrees of heavy Germanic accents. I always heard things like, "Yah, I hear she got the die-uh-BEE-tus". The next generation down would amuse...

Nothing says repugnant than a malicious corporation. Good call.

I like Brick Top (Alan Ford) in the film Snatch. Now there was a nasty piece of work without a single redeeming quality. But...

1 Mary Ann
2 Samantha
3 Bailey
4 Thandie

My guess is they have deeper pockets and can weather the losses. We have seen a number of large chain stores (and especially restaurants) die in the US, but overall they haven't suffered like the...

I hear ya. I would add to the list of decent broadcast shows, The Orville. It had a rough start but settled down into one of the better takes on a Trek-type show once they got the humor/drama balance...

Weedpecker III

For Christmas my beloved gave me a headphone amp and some basic Sennheizer headphones. It's amazing the amount of tones that come out of such a little thing. Considering that my one Fender amp is a...

We watched the last half of The Family Stone last night on HBO (we've seen it a few times). It's a gorgeous cast and the director clearly likes closeups of their faces. But at the end of the movie,...

Christmas in Connecticut, Bad Santa, It Happened on 5th Ave, Christmas Carol (Sim, Murray, or Scott preferred), The Ref, White Christmas, Die Hard, The Homecoming, and National Lampoon's Christmas...

Secondary world with late 1700s weapons and strategy. There's two writers working this (that I know of): McClellan and Django Wexler. McClellan's world has far more magic but Wexler still has a...

A truly mammoth release! Top five for me without a doubt.

The Promise of Blood by Brian McClellan (musketpunk fantasy)