ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONES. SHOULD ANYONE SEE A BRUTAL, GOES BY “ZED”, PLEASE LET ZARDOZ KNOW. THX.
- MUSICAL BRUTAL NOT LOOKING SO GOOD THESE DAYS.
- ZARDOZ DEMANDS ONLY GRAIN FROM BRUTALS, BUT BRUTAL CITY OF CHICAGO (HOME OF DEEP DISH PIZZA) HAS LONG FOOD HISTORY.
- VIDEO OF A VERY FLORIDA THING.
- AS TV BRUTAL USED TO SAY, SURPRISE, SURPRISE, SURPRISE.
- THIS HAS BEEN TRIED BEFORE – IT FAILED.
REMINDER, IF YOU SEE THIS BRUTAL – LET ZARDOZ KNOW, ASAP.
WANTED. CONTACT ZARDOZ IF YOU SEE THIS BRUTAL.
Zed’s dead, baby. Zed’s dead.
Everytime I hear/see this, I think of this song.
One of the youtube versions started with that quote.
And then, of course, I am compelled to watch this video.
My first thought was of this song.
Clapton should have died in the 28 club and then we’d never have to listen to “Tears in Heaven” and that kid would have never fallen to his death. Seriously, Clapton started sucking even when he was playing with Cream.
Jack Bruce carried that band. Clapton is and always was pretty boring.
My dad fucks me
..That escalated quickly.
That’s what she said.
….Are you Ivanka?
Look inside yourself for the truth
Soon Yi?
Too Soon.
MUSICAL BRUTAL NOT LOOKING SO GOOD THESE DAYS
Fucking 2016!
THIS HAS BEEN TRIED BEFORE – IT FAILED.
“It didn’t take long for the swamp to drain @realDonaldTrump. No shame, Mr. President. Almost everyone succumbs to the D.C. Establishment,” Amash tweeted Thursday.
Next up: a bull in a china shop?
Not supposed to be a reply…oops.
Fuck you Zardoz, you’re a product of a drug-fueled age of idiotic scifi that is a completely bloody embarrassment.
Not that modern scifi movies have actually improved, rather than become mass produced market-tested corporate crap…
You ok, John boy?
I went to a convention today and as a result I’m a little bitter at scifi nerd culture in general.
It takes a lot for me to realize “holy shit, I’m the coolest person in the room.”
I stopped going to Dragon Con because of that. Now it’s full of DISGUSTING normies.
Fucking normies need to get off your stream man.
I’m more annoyed at the willingness of ‘nerd culture’ to let crap get shoved into their faces.
“MMMM YES NEW PAINT-BY-NUMBERS MARVEL MOVIE, JUST DUMP IT ALL OVER MY FACE.”
Least the girls have improved the smell of conventions.
No fucking kidding. I’m a BIGLY Mike Mignola fan and these Low IQ cape lovers will never appreciate something he creates.
I’d hoped by this point the oversaturation of superhero movies would have caused the fucking trend to die out already.
Same its like too much ice cream
Except just a little bit of ice cream is good. The superhero genre in general sucks.
I’m probably going to lose my nerd license now….
I agree.
Agreed. At the convention I had all these people talking about random superhero comics and I’m sitting there going “bitch, my favourite comic is Transmetropolitian.” There’s a middle ground between goofy superhero stories and Maus that no one is exploiting.
John: I think we missed our window for a good Transmetropolitan movie. Patrick Stewart wanted to play the role, and said as much in one of the forewords to one version of the graphic novels.
I’m cautiously optimistic about the Y the Last Man series that’s rumored to be in development.
I think Transmetropolitan would have been garbage as a movie, an HBO series (possibly even animated) had a lot more potential. You’d never be able to establish the broader series universe in a two hour movie. Stewart’s not a bad pick for Jerusalem, but honestly the role is very hard to fill unless the actor can do a very good Hunter S. Thompson impersonation.
Johnny Depp? Worked well enough for “F&L in LV”….even if I didn’t particularly like the movie.
I went to a convention today
NERD ALERT!!1!!
IT WAS FOR RESEARCH…and I was looking for artists to illustrate my amateur comic book.
Wait, shit, I’m not helping my argument am I?
Does it have to do with obscure Canadian history? That is good stuff there you wrote here.
It’s bizarre to me that people see that as ‘obscure’ when it’s basically me regurgitating what I learned in elementary school with better sources and research that cuts most of the bullshit Canadian propaganda out.
No, it’s way weirder than that…
Dude, I am American. All Canadian history is obscure.
To an Austrian, Habsburg history is probably something they slogged through at gymnasium. To the average American or Canadian, it is a niche (if not weird) thing to know.
I find it’s better to avoid the wider sci-fi nerd culture in general. Then again, I’m not really a fan of most of the mainstream sci-fi stuff anyway.
Don’t tell me you tried to watch it seriously?
It seems like a movie that would require Joel, Crow, and Tom Servo to make entertaining.
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN SARCASTIC ONES. MST 3K IS A GOOD CHOICE. BETTER CHOICE IS WHISKY.
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONES. BRUTAL JOHN TITOR BEWARE. BRUTAL ENFORCERS MIGHT NOT HAVE TIME MACHINE, BUT THEY HAVE THE GUN. AND FREAKY MASKS.
You speak from such a limited perspective, Zardoz. I have walked the path from the birth of the universe to the death of the stars. I have seen empires rise and fall, men of great skill contribute and then fade away. All of which become nothing more than single threads in the tapestry of history, the unending march forward…
You Zardoz? You are forgotten. As all things are, in the sands of time…
OR IS ZARDOZ?
Can’t we all just get along?
Hey, take it easy pal. *offers large mug of glogg*
Blade Runner the 1st was a great film. Alien was another. If these producers read some Saberhagen they’d make some good sci-fi instead of this silly shit that passes for it. I’ve been complaining about this since I was a 12 year-old, jumping around in the basement with Dad’s yardstick trying to be Luke.
Blade Runner still stands up nicely. It’s one of my favorite movies, full stop.
Alien, however, I don’t consider sci-fi so much as a haunted house movie in space. And, in that sense, one of the finest horror films ever made.
Alien is one of the great horror movies. On the sci-fi side of things, have you seen Ex Machina? I thought that was a really well done movie.
Yeah, saw it in the theater with my wife. I was impressed. I thought the acting was well done, and my wife never called “bullshit” on the believability of the story, which is high praise indeed. I’m fascinated by AI–reading Diamond Age went a long way towards inspiring that–and the metaphysical questions that it raises, and I really, really like how the “personhood” of the androids was handled in that movie. Also, I thought the direction was excellent. There was some great tension. In some places it put me in mind of 2001: A Space Odyssey.
For the time “2001” was breakthrough sci-fi and well told. The irony was the Moon that Kubrick was producing was dying as he made the movie. All those sharp formations and sterile clean space suits were dying as the Surveyors landed and dead when the Apollos got there.
I saw it a few months ago and it was fascinating to see what was assumed to be eternal. PanAm, ATT, the USSR were going to still be around and of course 34 years after walking on the Moon we would be visiting Jupiter.
“There is no solution to the Syrian situation while Assad is in power… if you want to help then shine a light on the atrocities carried out by Bashar Assad, the Russians and ISIS.”
Plagiarizing Obama gets your British passport revoked?
I don’t recall the laws/treaties offhand, but most countries don’t let their citizens run off and wage war unless they’ve been granted specific permissions (e.g. contractors, letters of marque, etc)
monopoly on the use of force being the basis of govt authority… yadda yadda yadda
“Granted specific permissions” or being yanked off the street, stuffed in camos and handed a gun. Still pisses me off that I had to register with Selective Service.
sure.
there have been some interesting recent debates on whether the draft actually makes military intervention more or less-likely. Tom Ricks @FP wrote for years on the topic and got all sorts of mil brass and historians to chime in.
How many other countries on earth have had an all-volunteer force, and gone to war? i don’t think any afaik.
Almost everyone in Gulf War 1 and 2 as well as Afghanistan. You could go way back and say “Romans”. In between, many countries did not have conscription until they had the means to arm everyone, support them, etc.
at first i thought you misunderstood… but i guess you mean the coalition members? i was sort of suggesting that the idea of all-volunteer forces invading other people was a relatively new, modern possibility. iow, “before the US came along and made it possible”.
if you put the emphasis on “All”… were the roman legions really 100% voluntary? i can understand how many nations lacked official conscription, but i assumed that there was always a certain amount of impressment involved when need arose.
Mass conscription (in the modern sense) started with the French Revolution and the levee en masse. The Prussians followed up after getting beat down with the Landwehr trickery – rotating everyone through the army, building up a trained body of men to subvert French limits on their army size. Conscription was around in some forms and many places until the USSR collapsed. Some places still have some versions of it – but the forces that have fought in Grenada, Panama, Gulf 1, 2 and OEF were pretty much conscript free (Saddam’s army being the biggest exception).
To the best of my historical knowledge, which is at the level of interested amateur, the legions were nearly all voluntary. Pre-Marian reforms, any levy troops were there pretty much to fill gaps in the line if need be, but the army as a whole was composed of volunteers. Post-Marian reforms, it was an entirely professional army, and because it paid so well (and was an avenue into official citizenship for non-Romans) there was never a shortage of volunteers.
the non-modern sense being, “it existed, of course, but was far more ad-hoc”?
i think the argument people like Tom Ricks et al were raising (maybe about 5-6 years ago?) was this idea that the AVF is a relatively new thing for modern-states… and that he thought it was a bad thing because it made going to war too easy.
His yammering on the topic predates that piece there … i think it sort of kicked off around 2010 or so.
I think the sides in the debate at the time involved some who said, “conscription enables big wars” and therefore was bad; others who said, “an AVF makes small-wars too easy” (that story @FP might link to a few of the older discussions on his blog)
I don’t think either side made a compelling case. but Ricks and some other politicians seemed to think that the Draft would scare the shit out of the public, and therefore make them vote for pols who were far more prone to peace-making diplomacy+rhetoric (insert = Democrats)
Great Britain got their whole empire with purely volunteer, professional army. Although Navy could pressgang sailors in times of war, due to various traditions…
‘nearly’
maybe the question should be “who was the first state to enshrine into law that their rulers were FORBIDDEN from impressing people into military service” And are they still around? 🙂
because we don’t even fit that., AVF aside.
I wish being “Shanghaied” was still a thing. “Sorry I haven’t been home for a month. I was at the bar and a trap door opened. Presto, I’m on a ship.” Perfect for the secret trip to Vegas.
Rule, Rule Britannia!
Somehow these don’t quite feel like apropos analogies to the modern AVF. Tho maybe i haven’t gotten falling-down drunk in the right bars.
Yeah, when you consider the levy system it’s hard to see “join the army or we’ll kill you” and “join the army because it’s your responsibility as a landless citizen” as anything but a distinction without a difference. The Romans though were a little different in the sense that membership in the military was at one point seen as something of a privilege, a mark of social standing. And then under the Empire it was one of the only ways that someone from the lower classes could make a steady paycheck and gain some social standing, so there was never really a time where conscription was necessary. In the army, mind you. The Roman navy, such as it was, used slaves as rowers. Funny, it seems like throughout history navies are where you find poor slobs pressed into service to do shitty jobs for little to no pay.
Oh shit, just thought of something.
The feudal system did in fact have something like a legal limit on conscription. A lord could only call up feudal levies from his vassals for set periods of time, since most of them were farmers and were needed in the fields.
yeah, that’s sort of what i was thinking.
my assumption that history has been largely one-sided re: “the use of compulsion for army-raising” seems to be at least partly wrong…. but i think the idea is basically that states/sovereigns have always *needed* the power to compel people to fight, and that it was always utilized in varying degrees.
the interesting question to me re: the above-mentioned “Ricks-argument” was more about whether an AVF (in the modern context) is something which is ultimately ‘positive or negative’ from a libertarian/non-interventionist-minded POV.
Ricks and his allies argue that the AVF is bad because it takes away the need for pols to justify actions to a general public that they would otherwise be forcing to fight.
Others have argued it actually does the opposite because the ambitions of political leaders will always be limited by the knowledge that their army could wilt in any protracted, unpopular campaign.
then there’s also the complicating factor of ‘technology’ – how much war can you fight with fewer people? It makes a permanent AVF into a far more dangerous tool as time passes.
anyway, all interesting stuff to chew on.
Tom Ricks and others buy into the idea that randomly enslaving primarily young men somehow also puts their friends and family into uniform too (which obviously it doesn’t).
There’s this commonly held notion that “everyone” served in World War II. Only about ~12% total were in uniform at any point during the war (including short time service/releases, early discharges, and non-combat duty, etc). ~88% didn’t serve. Which is not too far off percentage points wise from the number today that did or didn’t serve in uniform since 2001.
Gustave I agree with your point concerning WWII. It was an Allied decision to limit our military participation (only 90 Army divisions, 6 USMC divisions etc) in order to ensure the “arsenal of democracy” kept at high speed.
I do have a nitpick with your numbers for the recent wars. The VA states there are 4.3M veterans since 9/11 and I suspect that number is high. I think they undercount people with multiple tours since from a VA perspective bigger numbers = bigger budgets. But going with that figure and 320M for the US population you get 1.3% of the population serving overseas in uniform since 9/11.
That 12% is anyone who served in uniform, so the comparison number would be everyone who has served since 9/11 not just overseas or combat deployments, and probably anyone who washed out of training and the like. So figure 1.something% to 2%. 98% who didn’t vs 88% who didn’t during WWII. Percentage points wise this isn’t much (~10) between everyone served and no one served in popular memory. The overwhelming number of both periods didn’t serve.
Didn’t they have impressment instead of conscription?
I remember taking a course at Uni called, “Alternatives to War” and one of the concepts was “Civilian Based Defense”. Every civilian is armed and capable of independent resistance to invading armies. Looking back, it appears to be Afghanistan’s defacto strategy.
back to at least 1839, they’ve been pretty good at fielding irregular troops in tribal groups.
Particularly good in 1842.
It was supposed to be our de facto strategy too.
Yeah, and they’ll win after decades of living in squalor and despair.
But it’s an option.
Here’s a brief explanation of CBD.
That kind of thing is sometimes called Irish Democracy.
The problem is, where’s the command and control of that kind of CBD. How realistic is it to expect the entirity of the population to act in a unified manner for sufficiently long? Look at history to see just how unified the French population were in their opposition to German Occupation in 1940.
Dude, people laugh at us for our adherence to the NAP. At least we have the option to resort to arms when provoked.
I’m not advocating CBD by any stretch, but I think you could use some of the tactics as part of an overall non pacifist defense.
I’m familiar.
The force that wins is the one with the most will to win (usually the side whose home has been invaded). The problem with this type of defense is that it takes a very long time to wear down an enemy enough to get him to capitulate. And you take heavy losses throughout because you are vastly outgunned. Rifles are no match for bombers and tanks.
It’s certainly a way for a small, inferior force to defeat a vastly superior force. The downside is you’ll likely be waging such a war for up to half your life. Personally, I’m not really big on doing that.
I advocate a vastly superior force that stays the fuck home and does next to nothing until there’s a very goddamned good reason to use them. But when they’re used, they repel aggressors rapidly.
Furthermore, citing Gandhi’s movement in India ignores the fact that the British hegemonic control over the entire subcontinent was over. WW2 had seen to that. The British Empire was a sclerotic husk of its former self, just waiting for the first stiff breeze of opposition to knock it over.
And then you had all the Indian events which never got mentioned in the seminal Hollywood Gandhi biopic. Behind that pacific, beatific, quotable mountebank, were some wuite violent and decidedly non-peaceful events such as the Royal Indian Naval Mutiny in 1946 and the subsequent (and very real threat) of combat breaking out between a well-armed and well-trained Indian Army and a vastly outnumbered British European contingent.
The reason there was no actual war was that Britain knew it couldn’t win it, and wisely, capitulated.
India’s Non-aggressive independence was won with a very real sword at Britain’s throat.
Having a nuclear arsenal, a population unwilling to yield to foreign agression and an honest media (or at least a competitive one) would be my preference. But it has to be a voluntary force or you’ve basically legitimized slavery. There will always be the free rider problem in a free society, but it’s better than the forced rider abomination that is conscription.
Wholeheartedly agree on voluntary.
Nukes alone won’t cut it unless you plan on nuking countries for every little infraction. There are times when force is appropriate but not nuclear force. There are also situations that require you to mount an offense in order to defend yourself.
I’m all about walking softly and having a big stick in reserve. Although that stick, with the correct (moral) foreign policy, could be a third the size it is now.
I left it at “nuclear arsenal” because I’m lazy and using my phone. By that I should’ve said the most effective and efficient defensive force possible under the constraints of a voluntary force.
Voluntary is a must, yeah. The problem with a conscript force is that you’ve got a group of people who are starting from a position of poor morale. Now you’ve given them a modicum of military training, armed them, and stuck them in some shithole with like-minded people in a situation of high stress. This is pretty much a recipe for mutiny. Plus, the problem with conscription is that you’re removing people from your domestic population who are probably doing more for your country as a, say, web developer, or line cook, or bartender, or crane operator, than they’ll do as a rifleman.
I thought the Iraqi Army was making gains on Mosul and was close to capturing it. Man I’m all fucked up.
Blame your dad.
Your avatar reminds me of the nuclear holocaust scene in Terminator 2.
I know now why you cry.
do those statues in stalingrad still exist?
I don’t know. Got the pic from this site.
Wrong article, but search Stalingrad there and you’ll find it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barmaley_Fountain
No, I think that has more to do with his being a victim of incest.
Victim?
Remember the last time you participated in a Glibertarians comment thread?
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN HEROIC ONE. ZARDOZ HAS A PLACE FOR YOU IN BRUTAL ENFORCER PSYOPS CORP.
jeez
The tears are so sweet – I might get a sugar high.
That guy sounds like his mom made his dad take her last name.
TL;DR but this gave me a chuckle:
The conservative judge Neil Gorsuch is very likely soon to be a Supreme Court justice. Chuck Schumer, the Senate minority leader, has declared his intention to filibuster. But even in the unlikely event that the Democrats rally behind him and Republicans don’t simply respond with the “nuclear option,” whoever replaces the late Justice Antonin Scalia will be to the right of center—guaranteeing that a majority of the Court continues to be conservative, as it has been since the 1970s.
Conservative is in the eye of the beholder.
$#^@$&@! The right…of…center? Did I fucking dream the penaltax??
I am intrigued by what word or words you thought so profane that you had to hide it with Q-Bertese.
Or is it supposed to be Angrish? Is it Angrish?
Center-right court? Lol.
Haha. The Court probably IS center-right by the standards of the modern intellectual left. Of course, the modern left would probably run Karl Marx off a college campus and not allow him to speak coz he wasn’t ‘woke’ with intersectionality.
The ‘center’ as the left describes it, is now somewhere left of Marx.
That is a humorous…and potentially realistic scenario. Interesting to see what the “classical” radicals would think when being introduced to today’s “radicals”.
A center-left Court might have made a redistricting system based on independent, non-partisan commissions the law of the land.
In other words, put the districting decisions into the hands of unelected bureaucrats who can thwart the will of the electorate.
Top. Men. is to a progressive what Jesus is to a Bible-thumper.
Yep, because the system in California is working out swimmingly for a representative republic.
Oh ye of little faith.
And there you have it.
because it can change the Constitution.
WTF? Who wrote that gibberish? *goes to look*
The guy is a lawyer? wow.
They don’t even try and hide it anymore. They come right out and say it. Words mean whatever we say they mean. It’s not even shameful to them any longer.
I find that really disturbing.
“how many grasp how much the country would have changed with a left-of-center Court? ”
I grasp it. Thank you, Trumputin.
All Trump, Bernie and Stein voters must burn in Hell. Ten comments down and we have a winner! “Can you see the Real Me?”
You are atalex?
I thought for sure that he’s Weld.
Back-handed compliment or just a back hand? Who is this “weld” of which you speak? i’m gonna kick his ass!
Short on details but I’m sure the gratuitous image of Trump inserted into this article that has nothing to do with Trump was totally happenstance.
That is a great tweeterige right there.
And the guy in question shouldn’t be facing any legal scrutiny for calling for Amash to be primaried.
Trump team wants more raw intel, less analysis from spy agencies: report
“Officials have urged the intelligence community to supply President Trump with fewer analysis reports compiled by experts and more raw intelligence, the Associated Press reported Saturday.”
He likes his steaks well-done, but his intelligence raw.
Trump’s memo to agencies
I wasn’t quite sure what I was watching, but I couldn’t stop.
Adult Swim and Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland pulled the greatest troll fake-out of all time by just throwing the Season 3 premiere on tonight.
Also, it was awesome.
THOSE MOTHERFUCKERS I DON’T HAVE SATELLITE.
Meh, the internet will solve the problem for me in a day or two.
It’s streaming free on Adult Swim’s website until midnight tonight
Thank you, kind sir, for the intel! Wubba lubba dub dub!
Good. Hopefully he dies there at the hand of Syrians ejecting ISIS.
Let’s hope.
Florence, CO is a nice town. However, like Canyon City (also very pretty), the only work is at the prison.
There’s no way you could pay me enough to work at a prison. Seriously. A million dollars an hour and I still wouldn’t take the job.
Hey now, public school teachers are the highest form of human beings.
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONES. ZARDOZ SHOULD NOT EXTEND INVITATION TO JOIN BRUTAL ENFORCERS THEN?
I had family that spent some time in Canyon City back in the day. They weren’t guards though. Gramps was a prohibition era entrepreneur so to speak.
Ya’ll be cra-cra.
Saturday Evening Party Music
DON’T ANY OF YOU WORK?
You keep the little yard apes on Saturdays too?
Shhhhh!
Productivity has no hours.
I’m at work right now. I used to kill the time by hiding out in a closet reading Agile’s posts. He doesn’t seem post the wall-‘o-words anymore at TSTSNBN.
FOR THE LAST TIME NO WE BLOODY DON’T.
OUR ORPHANS DO ALL THE WORK FOR US YOU ALREADY KNOW THAT SO WHY DO YOU KEEP ASKING, CANUCK?
That’s your ‘baitin’ euphemism, isn’t it?
SHUT THE FUCK UP
3,000 Homeless People Denied Food As City Forces Charity To Bleach The Food And Throw It In Dumpste
If not for our governments who would starve the homeless?
See, we told you charity can’t replace the state but you just don’t listen. SMDH
I hate people sometimes. Hey dipshits, homeless people have been known to eat out of trashcans.
“Health officials”. And the DoD used to be called “The War Department”. The first step to knowledge is to call things by their proper names. True dat.
Like this: https://glibertarians.com/2017/02/rectification-of-names/
I missed that one. Thanks.
Last December, the Dallas, Texas city council enacted Ordinance No. 29595, which makes it illegal to serve food to the homeless without jumping through a statist myriad of bureaucratic hoops, including a fee, training classes, and written notices.
However, the folks over at the aptly named organization Don’t Comply, took to the streets just outside the Austin Street Shelter in Dallas, while well armed, and successfully fed thousands of homeless people.
I posted this on facebook, using Glitterstorm’s snarkgem, then started to wonder if it was true, so I started searching, but at first could only find references to the story from libertarian blogs, but eventually located a legacy media source for it.
About 700 lbs. of the 3,000 lbs. of food were destroyed.
Okay, so it looks like Rick and Morty is on, like, right freakin’ now.
You go to Adult Swim, you go to videos, and they’re playing the first episode of the new season. It isn’t something you can stop and start yourself. It’s like a live broadcast.
Rick and Morty is back!
Or IS IT?
The site is so slammed, the video is going in and out. It’s a new episode that starts with Rick being in jail, but, you know, it’s also April Fool’s Day. And the video keeps coming in and out in like different parts of the show–moving backwards and forwards. But then that’s pretty standard Rick and Morty stuff. But then it’s April Fool’s Day.
Something is either happening or it isn’t happening or we’re talking about Schrodinger’s cat or we’re talking about a show that references Schrodinger’s cat.
So, you know, fuck us, right?
Anyway, I thought you all should know. Not that I care. I’m too cool to care.
P.S. #freerick
Bartender, I will have three of whatever Ken is having please.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dinger%27s_cat
“something is either happening or it isn’t happening or we’re talking about Schrodinger’s cat”
No, something is either happening or it isn’t happening and both not happening at the same time. What is wrong with you, bro? You don’t quantum or something?
It’s back, I watched it, and it was friggin awesome.
New season starts in the summer. This was just a taste.
Well fuck that, might as well wait until June to watch it.
“Go Out and Love Someone by Pogo.
I Sit on Acid to even out the Pogo reference–fer Christ’s sake!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfDylHUsK8M
Your move.
“‘to even out”
those things aren’t really opposites so much as cousins.
(w/ lords of acid being the greasy guido cousin who drives a hyundai with neon underlight, spinning rims and a kicker)
I think the figure-skating music probably evened it out already.
They use Pogo in emergencies if, you know, you’re in a field hospital, you need an appendectomy, but they’re all out of anesthesia.
Lords of Acid will wake your ass up like a 12 pack of Four Loko.
+48 Fist Pumps
Can’t guess how many times I danced to that back in the day.
I have led such a sheltered life. Who knew.
My move, eh?
How about a little drug-using devil music?
Or were you wanting something a little more low-key?
OT but a fun link h.t. Instapundit
How Mayim Bialik Is Fighting For Zionists’ Place In Feminism
Uh oh. The feminists gave her a pass for a bit but this will be a bridge too far.
Ohio = Finally Cracking Down On Dog-Fucking
That’s a relief, I thought they were cracking down on dog *fighting.*
(Just kidding! Go ahead and enforce the animal-cruelty laws)
“It’s not a joke. It’s far more common than people realize it is, and far more sinister than people realize it is.”
How does she know (a How sinister I think it is and (b How sinister the dog fuckers think they are?
Even more curious; how does she know c) How many people are doing it?
Bitch snitches get bitch stitches.
Indiana school raises money by selling Civil War memorabilia, including Lincoln’s alleged hair
did they specify what part of the body it was from?
His butt.
asking for a
voodoo priestessfriendActually a Joshua Speed pube that got caught in Lincoln’s teeth.
TRUE STORY.
Where Are ‘NSYNC Now? Catching Up with the Best-Selling Boyband (Autoplay)
THEN & NOW: What happened to the stars of ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer,’ 20 years later
How the heck did they leave out Anthony Steward Head’s magnificent performance in “Repo: The Genetic Opera“?
Love the movie. Gotta try and catch a live performance some day.
It’s the 25th anniversary of Sir Mix-A-Lot’s hit ‘Baby Got Back!’
Funny, reminiscing. When I first heard that, I thought I was the only white boy who liked big butts. Now I realize I was the only white boy who would admit it. Well, it’s all turned out well for me.
OT: links post, so fuck it. A band of white SJW’s goes to Jamaica, and finds out that “reverse” racism is a thing. At least they wrote a good song about it
Sorry, BP, you SF’d the link.
WTH? I never get corrected that politely when I SF a link.
I’m just trollin for the next episode of Secret Nazi President. And admin rights on the server…
I think you deserve a spot based on your excellent wing sauce recipe.
For posterity’s sake, I also recorded sarcasmic’s hot sauce recipe.
Well, it’s not my wing sauce recipe, that Hyperion is a fraud.
This isn’t you, then?
Huh.
Looking at that link, I see 551 posts on an article that was neither A.M. or P.M. links.
Yesterday’s A.M. links: 160 or so posts
Yesterday’s P.M. links: just under 100 posts
I don’t like it.
It’s sort of like seeing a girl you used to date several years after she dumped you (actually, she never let you out of the “friend zone”), and she used to be so good-looking and everyone liked her, and now she’s, like, puffy and wrinkled and a poor imitation of her former self.
“This isn’t you, then?
Huh.”
Of course that is me, jackwagon. But I am in no way responsible for that first link. *punches cavalier973 in face*.
“Looking at that link, I see 551 posts on an article that was neither A.M. or P.M. links.”
/blargle argle blargle bonk boink derp bloop. /derp
Of course that is me, jackwagon. But I am in no way responsible for that first link.
Ah. Excellent recipe, then.
The link is to my blog, where I could quickly find the recipe.
It took a little longer to find the one you posted at Reason. I wasn’t sure, because people sometimes stole each other’s handles, over there.
“I wasn’t sure, because people sometimes stole each other’s handles, over there.”
Cavalier, I’ve been Hyperion since 2010. I’ve never changed my posting name.
That’s because it’s actually rare with me. Go listen to some Vapors.
One of my favorites there.
True. My posting batting average is at Dave Kingman levels.
The Clash song is also awesome, despite their dismal politics. But yeah, Turning Japanese is an awesome song.
Note: that was a reply to straffinrun.
Mutha… G’damn link. If I mess it up this time, Google “Safe European Home” by the Clash.
And give me a Gilmore award.
you need to screw up the threading, break the link, and say something obnoxious at the same time.
Standards must be maintained, yo.
And the post has to be three hundred words, minimum.
the post has to be three hundred words
optional. you can always just reply your own OG post with tangential footnotes.
OkayHa ha!
I never realized that was what that song was about. I am a bit of a music dimwit though. Along with most other things. I like to keep a steady keel.
The Clash went to Jamaica shortly after the Rolling Stones went there to record one of their late 70’s albums. The locals were used to white boys handing out $100 bills as a matter of course. The Clash, needless to say, didn’t have that kind of money. They had to run around, and make sure there weren’t any gangs waiting to kill them.
And yet Strummer never learned. Good thing he was such a talent, ’cause he was pretty retarded otherwise.
My fave from back then.
That one was listened to way too many times in my truck.
I was a Clash fan back in the day. That link sent me on a whole 80’s flashback and the follow up youtubes are a rabbit hole. Stacy’s Mom was in there. I may need to go to my bunk. Her is one for OMWC. What ever happened to that girl. She was cute as.
The 80’s were a simpler time. And yeah, even with that haircut… mmm… Annabella.
80s? Oh, you guys were totally listening to the wrong shit.
Love Removal Machine
Dude, we listened to everything.
Like this.
One of my favs from the 80s, and there are too many, is this one:
Dokken it’s not love
Why they decided to limit so much the blonde truck driver with the incredible ass to such a small time frame is still something I don’t understand.
Yep, and some of this
Eh, totally pantsed that.
Correction non-removal machine
Dokken, really.
Hyp: Cool tune. But I’d say they “borrowed” the idea for the video shoot from these guys.
“Hyp: Cool tune. But I’d say they “borrowed” the idea for the video shoot from ”
I swear that Bon Scott is the only person in the history of humans that could look cool with a bagpipe.
I swear that Bon Scott is the only person in the history of humans that could look cool with a bagpipe.
Truer words were never spoken.
All in the name of liberty, bitches
Hell yes!
And here’s some more goo stuff from the 80’s: You’re In Love
That is fantastic. The first time I heard them I was watching late nite videos on the TV, because of course there was no intertoobz. My GF was asleep and I saw this video:
Round and round
I was so excited, the next day I told my GF ‘Wow, when you were asleep I saw this video of this band called RAT, and they’re incredible!’. She said I’m lying and I’m just not into her anymore because otherwise I would have been in bed with her, and then we broke up. seriously, I’m not making that up.
And maybe the best RATT video of all. I swear I got laid by a milf because of this video… ok, I was gonna score anyway, but I like this video.
Lay it down
I’d say you dodged a bullet. She sounds nuts.
This and Way Cool Junior are my favorite Ratt tunes. But they have a bunch of good ones. Maybe the best, nearly forgotten about, hair band.
I’d say you dodged a bullet. She sounds nuts.
Referring to the ex-girlfriend, not the milf. The milf sounds hot.
Hey Mike, look at my post right before that, Lay it Down is still my fav Ratt tune right after Round and Round and You’re in Love.
“Referring to the ex-girlfriend, not the milf. The milf sounds hot.”
Yeah, I got that, lol. The milf wasn’t so hot, but you know, for a 29 year old guy, your first 50 year old woman is always memorable.
Yeah, Lay It Down is a great tune, too. They really are just a damn good band.
Jesus, I remember when even MTV was decent, eve if they only played weirdo videos because that’s all they had.
‘In my mind and in my car, we can’t rewind, we’ve gone too far.’
MTV in the 80’s was ground breaking awareness for us mountain kids. Come on. Seeing girls dressed like Madonna, the Go Go’s, whatever. We were a sheltered fleece and denim covered lot prior to cable television.
I loved MTV in the 80s.
Speaking of Stacey….
I’m just gonna leave this here
I’m thinking you should have kept that where ever you had it before you left it ^there. Points for the mustache though.
You miserable SOB. If I ever hear that again I’m going to go Bruce Willis of Sin City on Piko’s scrotum. The Japanese don’t stop at beating a horse to death. They beat everyone around to death with the dead horse and then eat it. Sakuraniku, horse meat sashimi, is delicious, however.
Ah, the Japanese, and their happy, catchy, earwormy tunes.
The Japanese don’t have a monopoly on earworms. The South Koreans have them too.
I knew what that was without clicking the link.
A billion people watched that.
One. Freaking. Billion.
It’s up to 2.8 Billion. Fucking nuts
+1 more. Fuck you guys for making me watch that.
Oh, some on ‘sloper. You liked it. 2.8 billion people can’t be wrong.
Almost three billion at this point. Good hooks, sexy chicks – sorry – winner.
The song isn’t all that… but it’s not always about the song.
Psy is crying to the bank at this point about being a one-hit wonder, I’m sure.
Psy is a douchey amateur revisionist historian. Can’t link it now, but his views on the Korean War are disgusting.
Another reason for the popularity is that it is pretty funny. Even more so to South Koreans. My understand is that it is basically satire pointed at the rich people in Seoul. In the Gangnam district of Seoul to be specific.
It is from 1993 but captures that time well. Hooray for big hair and padded shoulders.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbH60wCO-Yw
And the antidote:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJhye3bKIlI
My freshman roommate was from Alaska. As he liked to say, “Cut Alaska in two and make Texas the third biggest state.”
So it’s Gangnam Shit by Pussy?
Binged several episodes of Difficult People over the weekend. Fun series. Wholly unlikable cast, except for Rusty Venture who plays the extraordinarily patient spouse of the female lead. It’s the sort of show that I suppose east coast liberals watch to make fun of themselves. At least, I think so, because I don’t think they’re intending to make out New York yuppies to be as dumb and airheaded as they come across. I assume it’s meant to be a put-on that appeals to their sort of person. It’s all very on the nose. Which makes it fun nonetheless, since I’m not a New York yuppie or a coastal liberal or in show business or especially interested in drama queens of either sexual persuasion. In the context of the show, those persuasions are: straight woman and gay men. Many gay men.
And the point is, they’re all supposed to be shit manure characters. It’s a modern Seinfeld. Nobody has an ounce of self-awareness. Only the leads, the woman married to Rusty Venture and the gay man, have any sort of intimate bond. I read a lot about IASIP being Seinfeld’s successor, but I don’t think it quite fits. To begin with, it’s not in New York. Secondly, well, it just doesn’t feel right. There are no real analogues between the two series. Seinfeld’s characters were either Jewy or so entrenched in the New York social fabric that trying to draw parallels with IASIP is grasping at straws. Yes, it’s true, neither cast learns anything between episodes or even between seasons. But the cast of IASIP is scummy and lower-class, whereas the Seinfeld aesthetic has always tended toward its own middle-class niche, toward Manhattan chic.
Enter Difficult People: a Seinfeld for a new era. Drenching Jewyness and show biz and New York chic, and the cruel nonchalance of self-involved bystanders to other peoples’ misfortune that ended up with the Seinfeld cast getting incarcerated in the finale. It’s not dark or dreary or depressing. It’s the sort of ordinary social drama you’d expect from an average Seinfeld episode. It’s not sitcomy the way Seinfeld was, but then, sitcoms don’t work like when Seinfeld went off the air. It’s updated, trimmed, streamlined. Still lots of walking down Manhattan streets while making dialogue. But no Kramer bursting in set doors. Instead you get Julie Klausner pissing herself on the street after she discovers her Twitter account has been hijacked by a woman who she’d met for a second time, the first time involving swearing obscenely and self-righteously in front of the her children. And so forth.
I rate it two basset hounds out of a bowtie.
Hey! Senor Antonello has a new composition out.
*clicks link*
*narrows drunken gaze*
I found someone new to follow on Twitter: Patty Politics
She got into an argument with someone named Cheri Jacobus over Mike Pence’s secret ploy to oppress women by not having lunch with them.
Okay; so Cheri accused Patty of being a Russian, then blocked her.
Next, on “Tweets of Our Lives”…
Check out Spicer’s amazing tie.
I want.
Alex Jones is a national treasure.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ntWieh7YIgY
All right, I just went into a fremdschämen daze for a moment.
Sorry me or Alex? No need in either case.
Alex.
It’s got to be an act, though.
I don’t think so. That’s why it’s so enthralling.
“These are people who have gay sex hundreds of times in coffins, begging for spiritual entities to possess them.”
Well, I can’t prove they didn’t, so….
It’s awesome that he is too proper to shat “shit” so he says “feces” instead, yet…
He’s certainly more interesting to listen to than Sean Hannity.