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October 31, 2007

Teevee Planning

Posted by TFG on 31st October 2007

Thanks to the incessant promotion on the NASCAR roundy-rounds, I’m aware that there’s some kind of awards show on next week that is focused on country music. I’m looking forward to seeing Ryan Bingham accept the award for Mescalito as Album of the Year, and perform his monster hit Bread and Water. I’m sure I’ll Tivo it, so I can see it again.

BWAHAHAHAHA! I crack myself up sometimes. Seriously, Mescalito is an excellent album. Highly crafted but not in a preciously poofy way, instrumentally rich, well written songs, and Bingham’s got that whiskey-and-Marlboro voice that does Texas Music proud. You can check out South Side of Heaven on his MySpace dealio.


Click to buy — I love me some Amazon MP3, boys.

And as far as I’m concerned, Mescalito is Album of the Year. I’ve enjoyed absolutely nothing as much as this in a long time. Sadly for me, it looks like he’s touring everywhere except Texas for the next month. Good on him for spreading the word…I hope it’s appreciated out there…yall get out there and support a good man and a good band. I’d love to get a report on a live show.

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Idiocracy Advances

Posted by TFG on 31st October 2007


KUCINICH: I DID SEE A UFO…


Richardson says government hasn’t ‘come clean’ on Roswell…

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October 28, 2007

TFG Recipe of the Week, #112

Posted by TFG on 28th October 2007

My patented one-plate-one-fork-one-knife dinner.

  • Get a steak. Season it how you want it.
  • Get a normal-size can of vegetables (my favorite is Del Monte green beans.)
  • Open vegetables, leaving the lid hanging on by a 1/16″ of tin.
  • Drain packing water & refill with tap water. Push lid back down.
  • Pre-heat grill to your desired temp for a cooking a steak; put can of vegetables on grill during pre-heating.
  • After grill gets hot, throw on steak.
  • After steak is done on one side, flip it & remove can of vegetables.
  • Take vegetables to sink; drain the water; top with butter (1/8 to 1/4 stick, depending); sprinkle with seasoning. Push lid back down.
  • Take steak off grill when it reaches your desired doneness. Plop on plate
  • Take plate to kitchen, get knife and fork.
  • Dump can of vegetables on plate with steak.
  • Enjoy!
  • Rinse off plate, fork, knife.
  • Throw vegetable can in trash.
  • This works with chicken, pork chops, you name it. I use a gas grill, but if you want to dick around with charcoal, feel free. You won’t get any points for presentation from the Foodies.

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Yes…yes, I do

Posted by TFG on 28th October 2007

I Hate Monday Night Football

MNF will make a good case study for somebody, someday in explaining how to utterly destroy a brand. What was a complete stop-down-drop-everything three hours of teevee is now an occasional swing-by-put-it-on-in-the-background deal, and it’s all because of the choice by ESPN to highlight the personalities instead of the game. I guess it could be, of course, that I’m just too old to hang with the yoots and their viewing preferences for screamy, OTT garbage surrounding the whole point of the broadcast.

Via Craig

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October 26, 2007

Headline of the week

Posted by TFG on 26th October 2007

If you turn vegetarian, this woman might make love to you

Followed closely by the Line of the Week:

then you might have a chance in hell. It’d be slight chance, but there still might be a chance that she’d have dinner with you. And then, after that, who knows what might happen?

Makes me proud that my mama borned me here in Tejas, it do…

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Only a few seconds away from eating a Ruger two-screw

Posted by TFG on 26th October 2007

Rough Type: Nicholas Carr’s Blog: The “$15 billion” nonsense

requires it to inject $240 million into Facebook’s cash-strapped coffers

That makes me completely crazy. $240,000,000. Cash-strapped. Facebook.

Two hundred and forty million dollars.

Why bother making stuff? Physical stuff, I mean. Code up something. Slap into CICS V2 (or V5, who cares?). Get millions, two hundred and forty of them, to do…what?

Back in the 90s, Facebook was facetiously referred to as V2V. Vendor-to-vendor. Time-consuming and wasteful, though slightly useful — never, ever in relation to the dollars spent. Clearly, someone’s figured out how to make two hundred and forty million dollars out of networking.

I stand in awe.

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Peanut Butter Jelly Time

Posted by TFG on 26th October 2007

For Joanie, who’s dealing with the SoCal fires.

Good luck and God bless, sugar.

Bonus new-school extended dance remix version with extra stupidity and silliness:

Double-bonus old-school time-wasting foolishness:

OK, then…back to work, pleebs.

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October 25, 2007

Infield Fashion

Posted by TFG on 25th October 2007

I wonder how many pairs of these will be under Christmas trees this year?

That’s some sweet footwear, no? Goes well with, I’m guessing, either the hot-pants/halter or cut-offs/tube-top outfits. You gotta love NASCAR…

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This is America

Posted by TFG on 25th October 2007

Gov. Bill Richardson: Where is the National Guard? - Politics on The Huffington Post

Neighbors should help neighbors in their time of need. As Governor of New Mexico, I ordered two fire crews (strike teams, with 5 engines and 21 crew members each) to California.

Wow…strike teams! What a guy.

You can’t help but think that this is the moment that Bill Richardson has been waiting for his entire life - a chance to order strike teams around, and then write about it on the tubes.

What happy wonderful chance it is that he’s running for president. For us, you see. We might never have known about his ability to order strike teams around in the face of danger.

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Left-hand academic dead-horse beating

Posted by TFG on 25th October 2007

the story that never mattered but was the biggest thing since Dan Rather

You should read that as, “covered by me more than anybody I personally have ever met.” Frankly, I leaped with joy when I saw there was an opportunity for Cole to uncork his sanctimonious pipes. I knew it was on the way, and no disappointment.

John seems to be going through some form of delayed adolescence and renouncing all of Papa’s beliefs.

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October 23, 2007

Simpsons “Ha-Ha” Sound Goes Here

Posted by TFG on 23rd October 2007

Vandals destroy glass monument to Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara in Venezuela

…or here.

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October 21, 2007

Thirty Two Years

Posted by TFG on 21st October 2007

Fandango was released in 1975? Kee-rist.

Seriously, yall — only Jesus, Otis, and my sainted mama have stuck with me that long.

“Let that boy boogie-woogie…”
“Hand me another one of those brews from back there…”
“Dallas, Texas - Hollywood”

What I love most - just three dudes (from Houston) laying down some fat, fat, FAT licks. Never heard nothing like ‘em before or since.

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Stop the internet tube presses

Posted by TFG on 21st October 2007

By Mona Not a single link to Glenn Grenwald, either.

In non-faux-liberartarian news, there’s this turn of phrase I never expected: beehived cadaver.


Not a bad farewell.

But the world’s greatest old-school blogger is literally dying before my eyes. I feel like I should make a pilgrimage. Instead, I pray.

Why the world hates Yankees fans: As much as I liked Joe Torre, the Yankees are 4-13 in their last 17 playoff games and if Torre deserves credit for the Yankees winning the World Series, then he does deserve some blame for the lack of success they have had over the last 3-4 years. Oh, deary me — the last 3-4 years with no WS bling-bling — how do these people carry on?

Meanwhile, here’s some old-school ZZ Top for you:

youtube is like watching teevee, these days…nothing works anymore…just endless bufferring…you get three or four notes or words then it stops. why bother? nobody wants to watch that kind of shitty service.

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October 18, 2007

Redneck Monte Carlo?

Posted by TFG on 18th October 2007

Texas Treasure Casino Cruises Poker Tables

Very interesting — 1/2, 2/5 NLHE, 5/10 & 10/20 LHE. PLO, if you’re of a gambly mood. Roughly four hours of legal cards, two hours away, $20 entry fee. I wonder what the rake is. I wonder how often the games make. I wonder if you end up playing with crusty old sharks who are de-facto locals.

Well, for a tank of gas, $20 to get on board, four hours of driving, and probably some beers — I’d say that’s worth a day trip, no? Plus, I get to chow down on another one of those half-pound burgers from the Mexican joint. Throw in a motel, a day on the flats redfishing, boozing with the locals after a shower, a good night’s sleep in the salt air, and you’re talking a nice little 3-day weekend for pretty cheap.

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October 17, 2007

Online Poker is SO Rigged

Posted by TFG on 17th October 2007

And it looks like it’s rigged by the owners:

So the poker detectives turned their attention to this observer. They traced the observer’s IP address and account name to the same set of servers that host Absolute Poker, and also, apparently, to a particular individual named Scott Tom, who seems to be a part-owner of Absolute Poker! If all of this is correct, it shows exactly how the cheating would have transpired: an insider at the Web site had real-time access to all of the hole cards (it is not hard to believe that this capability would exist) and was relaying this information to an outside accomplice.

That’s pretty frightening, don’t you think? Online poker is about the only option I have for serious play, and I’m not even a serious player — a foray into 5/10 is about as serious as I’ll go, and that only happens a couple of times a year. How about those Swedes and Norwegians gambling it up at the 500/1000 tables? Regardless, if you’re old, fat and non-balding like me, I need the online games to keep sharp, in case the circumstances arise for a real game.

Well, Absolute was one of those that floated around a little bit, and never really struck my fancy. I recall they had plenty of prop players or maybe even bots. ‘Tumbleweeds rolling past the tables’ kind of place. The fact that they still exist and had players to rip off speaks volumes about the popularity of poker, period.

DanM at Pokerati has mucho more for you.

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