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A super-sweet version of Wham, an all-time favorite:
And who doesn’t love Pipeline? I mean, that’s not American, not digging Pipeline.
What a wonderful, wonderful song. So much Guitar God stuff going on in there. I love this montage of surf shots, too. How does a hayseed from the N. Texas plains fall for surf music, I ask you? Whatever, I want it played at my wake. Here’s the original Pipeline video, which is pretty dang good, too, if you can get past the dumb movie cut-ins.
I don’t do Valentine’s Day–I find it corny and cheesy and, worst of all, I think it lets men off the hook to be romantic and buy you flowers the rest of the year because they do it on this one day [...]
Got that? A grand worth of diamonds, cards, roses, dinner, and probably some ridiculous figurine gets you off the hook.
More proof, if it’s needed, that no matter how hard you might try, it’s just not ever going to be enough, you callous hog.
In the Franklin Reserve neighborhood of Elk Grove, California, south of Sacramento, the houses are nicer than those at Windy Ridge—many once sold for well over $500,000—but the phenomenon is the same. At the height of the boom, 10,000 new homes were built there in just four years. Now many are empty; renters of dubious character occupy others. Graffiti, broken windows, and other markers of decay have multiplied. Susan McDonald, president of the local residents’ association and an executive at a local bank, told the Associated Press, “There’s been gang activity. Things have really been changing, the last few years.”
Anybody else remember Danny Faulkner and his helipad out at Hubbard? Same thing. It’ll happen again, after years of bloviating from vote-buying pols, and lots of crocodile tears, then some bright spark will do it again a different way.
How many of those mortgages do you think Susan high-signed?
Seriously, how can you not believe the parenthetical (Real)? And from CNN, the Most Trusted Name in News? Christ, what idiots. I knew what a damn Colt 45 looked like by the time I was 8. And I had two Colt 45s to contend with.
Eh, what do I care? I got my Glock. I recommend you go get your Glock before Barry Obama gets in, and Hopes and Changes things to not so much. Or not. As I said, what do I care? Yall wanna give it all up for free sutures and shit, that’s your call. I’d sooner bleed.
Another new wrinkle from Hillary Clinton today: she wants a presidential summit on gun control.
It scares me no little bit that a major candidate, albeit one who’s mostly whipped, can say these things out loud.
Worse, I can guarantee you that Barry is no RKBA supporter. Fuck, he’s Chicago through and through. But what’s one measly 10th of the Bill of Rights, so we can get some Hope & Change up in here? Some must sacrifice so that all may bloom.
…or as it is commonly known, the Tuesday Bodonkey. But there’s a neat twist — it really is a series, and the winner of the series gets a $12,000 package to the World Series of Poker. The really cool thing is that it’s an 18-week long series of $10+1 tournaments, meaning, near as I can tell, for a $198 dollar investment, you have a shot at $12,000. I think the smart guys call that an overlay, or something. Here are the details:
How it Works
The Bodog Poker Blogger Tournament Series is composed of a series of 18 qualifying tournaments that run weekly beginning Tuesday, February 5th, 2008 to Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008. The top 30% of finishers in each qualifying tournament will earn points based on their finish. These points will be used to rank players over 4 months of qualifying. At the end of the qualifying series, the top 18 players on the Tournament Leader Board will play in the Final Tournament on Tuesday, June 10th, 2008 with the first place finisher winning a $12,000 WSOP* prize package!
Prizes
Weekly Tournaments
Buy-in: $10 + $1
Prize Pool will be distributed as per Bodog’s standard multi-table payout table. In addition, the top 5 players each week will also win T$109 to be used to buy-in to the $100,000 Guaranteed Tournament held every Sunday at 4:00 PM ET. The top 5 bubble players each week will win a free buy-in to next week’s Weekly Tournament. (T$11 will be credited to these players’ Bodog account within 24 hours after the completion of the tournament)
Final Tournament
Buy-in: $0 + $0 (must finish in the Top 18 on the TLB to be invited)
Grand Prize: $12,000 WSOP* Prize Package with Team Bodog
2nd place: T$540 to be used to buy-in to (2) World Series or Players Choice Semifinal
3rd place: T$379 to be used to buy-in to (1) World Series or Players Choice Semifinal and (1) $100,000 Guaranteed Tournament
4th: T$270 to be used to buy-in to (1) World Series or Players Choice Semifinal
5th: T$109 to be used to buy-in to (1) $100,000 Guaranteed Tournament
Am I missing something somewhere, or did I actually get the math right? Honestly, it seems like a rocking deal.
So, first off, you have to go and register here with your Bodog account to be eligible. After that you find the tournament in the Tournament page (Daily tab), register, then play your little degenerate heart out. Good luck.
Oh, yeah…we missed the first two weeks thanks to stupid on my part. That shouldn’t shut you out, I don’t think.
And while it would be unseemly for the candidates to hand out thousands of dollars to primary voters, or to the delegates pledged to represent the will of those voters, elected officials who are superdelegates have received at least $890,000 from Obama and Clinton in the form of campaign contributions over the last three years, according to the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics.
Kinda unreal, no? I want your vote, and here’s some cash. Just blatant Change & Hope.
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Hendrick vs. Gibbs. Jimmie, Jeff and Junior vs. Tony, Denny and Kyle.
Hendrick Motorsports’ top two drivers hold a combined six Cup series championships — and the other guy just happens to be NASCAR’s most popular driver and a restrictor-plate racing wizard. Joe Gibbs Racing has a two-time champion and two of the series’ rising stars.
How big is this Daytona 500 showdown?
“It’s going to be the epic battle, and it should be the battle of a lifetime and the century,” Gibbs driver Tony Stewart quipped. “There may not be another battle of this proportion for the rest of my life, my career, for the century.”
You just gotta love Tony Stewart for spewing out the requisite verbiage for the ink-stained wretches. I’ve always liked that dude. Equally-cocky Robby Gordon is starting back in 26th, and I’m hoping for a good race from him, as well. Open-wheel pretty-boy Canucks failed to make the field, so that’s An Good. I like open-wheel racing, but I don’t want the fancy-pants hogging up more of the oxygen than necessary. No matter how international and high-tech NASCAR gets, I still want the grits and bacon grease to thrive.
Should I smoke a brisket tomorrow to graze on during the race, or something quicker on Sunday morning? I dunno. Suggestions? A roast, maybe, or a pork loin? Rack of ribs? Yes, rack of ribs.
I was riffing on thisthis over beers just last night:
Another’s followers have taken up the mantra of, “Yes, we can.” We can what? The little engine that could? Government by Sesame Street. “Today is brought to you by the letters B and S.”
– Theocritus (warning: fake Greek pseudonym alert*)
There’s that, and we’re all going to get a nice, warm bowl of Change, and a steaming mug of Hope.
I was mainly complaining last night that I dislike myself very much right now for believing that my fellow Americans are so shallow as to elect an empty-but-purty-talking (“he’s such a great orator”)suit as President for the simple reason that he’s superficially the polar opposite of GWB…black guy, northern state, senator, Democrat, liberal, half-Musselman. But what can I say? People are swooning, yes, I said swooning at his speeches. Americans should not swoon at political speeches. I’m sorry, but that’s just the way it should be. On our best day, we should restrain ourselves from throwing rotten vegetables. We should have them to hand, but restrain ourselves. But no, we’re now swooning over a pol. God help us.
NB: “Yes, we can” reminds of the “Si! Se Puede” billboard on I-35E just outside of Waxahachie, and of course, the La Raza-La Migra demonstrations a few years ago. At least the Mexicans used four syllables. Any more than three, and I fear our swooners would protest, or forget.
* I’m given to understand that Theo is a well-known businessman in his milieu and can’t afford the easy identification. Protecting a mission of commerce will get a pass from me, where an overeducated dork spouting off on the interwebs under fake Greek names won’t.
Then again, every week millions of people still watch Pick a Briefcase, Stupid, so what the hell do I know.
- Jim Treacher, genius
Or are the Oscars already done? I know they did something awardsy. There was this picture of a cute girl in a sexy dress on a red carpet on Yahoo! when I checked it a few days ago. Pulitzers, perhaps? NHRA banquet?
This Presidential election has been going on since November of 2004, and it has been covered in more depth, by more people, with more platforms, than any Presidential election in my lifetime. I’m at a loss as to how it could possibly get more attention.
I am so utterly sick of the process, never mind the twisted megalomaniacs actually running, that I am perfectly content with excusing myself for-frikkin’-ever from the whole shebang, and leave it to the kids. Most Americans have become so scared of liberty and so sure that Santa Claus exists that I don’t have a place here anymore, except as that cranky uncle grandpa, eternally creaking on about the damn revenooers. So, just piss on it and pass the bourbon.
Willie Nelson appeared Monday, February 4, 2008, on the nationally-syndicated Alex Jones Show in a ground breaking interview where the country music legend said the twin towers were imploded on 9/11.
“I saw those towers fall and I’ve seen an implosion in Las Vegas — there’s too much similarities between the two, and I saw a building fall that didn’t get hit by nothing,” added Nelson, referring to WTC Building 7, which collapsed in the late afternoon of September 11.
Marijuana might not be bad for you, but 60 or 70 years of heavy usage probably isn’t real good for you. “…I’ve seen an implosion in Las Vegas…” is some heavy shit. Interesting to note that another Texas pothead hero, Mark Stepnoski, is a Truther, too.
Well, Willie, you’ve definitely lost me now, but I’ve always got Bloody Mary Morning. Off into the sunset for ye, old pard, and don’t let the door hit you in the ass.
The latest (and almost certainly last) grandkid. This one, Luke, had a far more dramatic entry than his older brother. But all is well, mom and dad and kid are home, resting and healthy. Granddad is fairly frazzled though.
Even though I’m out of the tractoring business these days, I still keep my eyes peeled for delightful tractor news:
Police pulled over a tractor on a main St. John’s road Sunday night, and then put the driver in a cell after finding liquor in the vehicle.
The Royal Newfoundland Constabulary said the driver of a CAT tractor was stopped on Kenmount Road at about 11:30 p.m.
So it’s not necessarily a problem that the tractor was on the main road at an eensie bit before midnight in St. John’s (pop: 100,00 and very pretty from the looks of it), but that booze was involved. Sounds like my kind of place, except for the booze part.
I only wish I knew the story behind the story, you know? It’s gotta be a good one. Kooky Newfies…
