tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7140284793138348122024-03-19T01:48:28.668-07:00Raconteur Report"I like a good story, well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself." - Mark TwainAesophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07834464741531503378noreply@blogger.comBlogger4506125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-48345441046716338692024-03-17T09:05:00.000-07:002024-03-17T09:05:43.511-07:00Another One<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.imgur.com/ZqFEAqj.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="639" data-original-width="800" height="320" src="https://i.imgur.com/ZqFEAqj.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p>Aesophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07834464741531503378noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-52161909071018921722024-03-17T08:31:00.000-07:002024-03-17T08:32:27.730-07:00He's Not Wrong<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.imgur.com/eNAVA5L.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="588" height="518" src="https://i.imgur.com/eNAVA5L.png" width="381" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">And speaking of thieving, only an Irishman could steal every scene he was in, in a movie about a famous Scot.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/jP5lxI8jVYM" width="320" youtube-src-id="jP5lxI8jVYM"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div>And just one more for the day:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/SF_mm5lhZUo" width="320" youtube-src-id="SF_mm5lhZUo"></iframe></div><p></p>Aesophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07834464741531503378noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-77607705344232987872024-03-17T04:35:00.000-07:002024-03-17T04:35:16.288-07:00Sunday Music: Carolina In My Mind<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/oV_MCQm8iFM" width="320" youtube-src-id="oV_MCQm8iFM"></iframe></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Some musical works are just instant classics, and further words are superfluous. This is one of those pieces.</span></p>Aesophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07834464741531503378noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-81615013232414067652024-03-16T16:25:00.000-07:002024-03-16T16:26:14.444-07:00Snortworthy!<p> <span style="font-family: arial;"><i>h/t <a href="http://xenophilicthereturn.blogspot.com/2024/03/too-soon.html">Odd Job</a></i></span></p><p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.imgur.com/mUVC542.png" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="248" height="625" src="https://i.imgur.com/mUVC542.png" width="387" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">I laughed until I cried.<br />From the pain in my sides.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p>Aesophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07834464741531503378noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-35876648855573746872024-03-16T00:47:00.000-07:002024-03-16T00:47:29.115-07:00If They'd Only Known Dept., Pt. II<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.imgur.com/EAsGV5O.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="538" height="559" src="https://i.imgur.com/EAsGV5O.jpg" width="376" /></a></div><br /><p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.imgur.com/G4ryPeH.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="551" height="543" src="https://i.imgur.com/G4ryPeH.png" width="375" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">No points for guessing how it's going to work out here, <br />as the Turd World streams into the country at <br />unchecked flood rates.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p><br /></p>Aesophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07834464741531503378noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-90336366586016229962024-03-15T15:16:00.000-07:002024-03-15T15:16:05.777-07:00If They'd Only Known Dept.<p><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>h/t <a href="https://dailytimewaster.blogspot.com/2024/03/simply-superior-graphic-art.html">cw</a></i></span> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.imgur.com/8NVbK88.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="546" height="558" src="https://i.imgur.com/8NVbK88.jpg" width="381" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.imgur.com/orNETvN.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="498" height="613" src="https://i.imgur.com/orNETvN.jpg" width="382" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">I almost hated to fool around with these classic posters. <i>Almost.</i> But I couldn't help but touch them up a bit, with some 20/20 hindsight.</span></div>Aesophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07834464741531503378noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-38706933067737384572024-03-15T00:00:00.000-07:002024-03-15T00:06:26.001-07:00Bitchy McCuntface, This Is Your 2024 Wake Up Call:<p><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>h/t <a href="https://coldfury.com/2024/03/14/in-your-face-normie/">Mike</a> and <a href="https://areaocho.com/setting-the-stage-2/">divemedic</a></i></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.imgur.com/Qf5wD11.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="639" data-original-width="800" height="320" src="https://i.imgur.com/Qf5wD11.png" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.imgur.com/2V4njKb.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="549" data-original-width="800" height="275" src="https://i.imgur.com/2V4njKb.png" width="400" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.imgur.com/XenXK2l.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="676" height="472" src="https://i.imgur.com/XenXK2l.png" width="399" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">If the Leftards ever see actual violence, it will be as a slapping sensation in the forehead, followed by eternal darkness and silence, as their corpses crumple to the ground.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">NTTAWWT</span></div><p></p>Aesophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07834464741531503378noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-46367387657433571252024-03-14T12:00:00.000-07:002024-03-16T06:53:33.839-07:00Narrative Whiplash<p><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>h/t <a href="https://westernrifleshooters.us/2024/03/14/long-pig-thursday-edition/">WRSA</a></i></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.imgur.com/Rr2n0TG.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="495" height="615" src="https://i.imgur.com/Rr2n0TG.png" width="381" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">When somebody's bullshit <a href="https://www.rt.com/russia/594197-putin-vampire-ball-west/">narrative</a> whips around on itself 180°, so fast that they first step on their junk with cleats hard enough to make it bleed, and then continue so rapidly that they run right up their own ass headfirst, they have suffered a catastrophic Narrative Whiplash.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Usually that kind of thing hurts:</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/MbHmNZU7awo" width="320" youtube-src-id="MbHmNZU7awo"></iframe></div><span style="font-family: arial;">Or at least, it ought to.</span><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Some of the more obvious previous historical examples are things like "We had to destroy the village in order to save it", "Globull Warming/GlobullCooling/Climate Change/Weather", "White hispanic", and "We can't afford $4B to build a wall, but we can afford $200B to take care of an army of illegal aliens".</span></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://i.imgur.com/1LPOuwJ.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="531" data-original-width="800" height="266" src="https://i.imgur.com/1LPOuwJ.png" width="400" /></a></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Occam's Razor says that when you sound crazier than a shithouse rat, and have to flop around like a live fish in a frying pan to try and contort delusion into reality, you're done, and it's best to just admit you were full of shit all along, fess up to being caught at it, and slither away without adding further embarrassment.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.imgur.com/dKDg0UX.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="451" data-original-width="800" height="226" src="https://i.imgur.com/dKDg0UX.png" width="400" /></a></div></div>Aesophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07834464741531503378noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-2877953947737753052024-03-14T04:07:00.000-07:002024-03-14T04:07:54.897-07:00Today's A Good Day To Be Somewhere Else<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.imgur.com/Wchvp2l.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="479" data-original-width="800" height="240" src="https://i.imgur.com/Wchvp2l.png" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div>With a forecast today for 71°, the sun will be shining, the birds out, and there's not a cloud in the sky. </span><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Feel free to amuse yourselves with the free ice cream from anyone on the blog list over on the right. We have a whole lot of nothing to be doing today, and none of it involves a keyboard anytime soon. Back when we feel like it, or everything closes for the day.</span></div>Aesophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07834464741531503378noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-12034274312141196562024-03-13T16:15:00.000-07:002024-03-13T16:16:06.712-07:00If It's Boeing, I'm Not Going<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>h/t <a href="https://dailytimewaster.blogspot.com/2024/03/sky-on-fire.html">cw</a></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.imgur.com/OD6niaT.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="609" height="508" src="https://i.imgur.com/OD6niaT.png" width="387" /></a></div><br /><p></p>Aesophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07834464741531503378noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-44863746841066656132024-03-13T00:00:00.000-07:002024-03-13T05:29:08.177-07:00Important Tip<p> <span style="font-family: arial;"><i>h/t <a href="https://dailytimewaster.blogspot.com/2024/03/eject.html">cw</a></i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://i.imgur.com/qel3IZI.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="541" data-original-width="800" height="271" src="https://i.imgur.com/qel3IZI.png" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.imgur.com/2jtBWUX.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="374" data-original-width="800" height="187" src="https://i.imgur.com/2jtBWUX.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i>One </i>of these two memes is completely made up.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The important tip is: Don't Believe Everything You Read.</div></span><p></p>Aesophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07834464741531503378noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-49063659222681992562024-03-12T23:25:00.000-07:002024-03-12T23:25:50.922-07:00FIFY<p> <span style="font-family: arial;"><i>h/t <a href="https://theferalirishman.blogspot.com/2024/03/from-front.html">Irish</a></i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://i.imgur.com/tQghlnt.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="598" data-original-width="800" height="299" src="https://i.imgur.com/tQghlnt.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><p></p>Aesophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07834464741531503378noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-37986818638009801282024-03-11T13:58:00.000-07:002024-03-11T13:58:32.888-07:00Slowly At First; Then All Of A Sudden...<p> <span style="font-family: arial;"><i>fifteen minutes in the future...</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://i.imgur.com/GnuRVqa.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="631" data-original-width="800" height="316" src="https://i.imgur.com/GnuRVqa.png" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /><i><br /></i></span><p></p>Aesophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07834464741531503378noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-17621049424032964492024-03-11T00:01:00.000-07:002024-03-11T00:01:09.681-07:00"Crypt Keeper" Tour? "Zombie" Tour? IDK...<p> <span style="font-family: arial;"><i>h/t <a href="https://iotwreport.com/madonna-left-red-faced-after-calling-out-wheelchair-bound-fan-for-sitting-during-la-show/#comment-2159719">IOTW report</a></i></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.imgur.com/lAnQPJO.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="762" data-original-width="800" height="381" src="https://i.imgur.com/lAnQPJO.png" width="400" /></a></div><p></p>Aesophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07834464741531503378noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-16534980472177363072024-03-10T11:32:00.000-07:002024-03-10T11:32:55.277-07:00Reminder<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.imgur.com/zU25Ftk.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="763" data-original-width="800" height="382" src="https://i.imgur.com/zU25Ftk.png" width="400" /></a></div><p></p>Aesophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07834464741531503378noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-44046488895938478632024-03-10T01:20:00.000-08:002024-03-10T01:20:57.813-08:00Sunday Music - Bad Girls<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/dMkMu7qaBRE" width="320" youtube-src-id="dMkMu7qaBRE"></iframe></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">About the only memorable Don Felder solo effort after the Eagles went on their 14-year hiatus, with a totally 80's video worthy of the effort, from the guy who gave you the opening riff of <i>Hotel California </i>(both the classic studio track and <i>Hell Freezes Over </i><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrkNYFAJaWY">acoustic version</a>s*), and whose guitar virtuosity drives this whole track as well.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">*{enjoy the acoustic version link - probably the best version of this song they ever did live - while it lasts. The Eaqles/Geffen Records kill uploads of it almost as fast as they can play whack-a-mole.}</span></p>Aesophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07834464741531503378noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-61112392219571429752024-03-09T09:01:00.000-08:002024-03-09T09:16:39.408-08:00A Few More For The Pile...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.imgur.com/H7EufRU.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="577" data-original-width="800" height="289" src="https://i.imgur.com/H7EufRU.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.imgur.com/7mm68z1.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="458" data-original-width="800" height="229" src="https://i.imgur.com/7mm68z1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.imgur.com/7WJI1jd.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="641" height="497" src="https://i.imgur.com/7WJI1jd.jpg" width="399" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><br /><div><span style="font-family: arial;">These things are everywhere you look.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">And just for a change of pace...</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.imgur.com/XpZK9a1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="421" data-original-width="800" height="211" src="https://i.imgur.com/XpZK9a1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div>Aesophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07834464741531503378noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-54387141791917994022024-03-07T16:18:00.000-08:002024-03-07T16:18:30.610-08:00Can't Believe CA Let This One Get Away<p> <span style="font-family: arial;"><i>h/t <a href="https://westernrifleshooters.us/2024/03/07/thursday-shiny-edition/">WRSA</a></i></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.imgur.com/mMBqKVu.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="516" data-original-width="800" height="258" src="https://i.imgur.com/mMBqKVu.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p></p>Aesophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07834464741531503378noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-71774185701539526192024-03-07T15:15:00.000-08:002024-03-07T22:00:47.153-08:00Prop Tart<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.imgur.com/iwSeqcj.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="629" height="462" src="https://i.imgur.com/iwSeqcj.png" width="364" /></a></div> <p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Exactly as we told readers about a day or two after this happened, the guilty party was <a href="https://apnews.com/article/closing-arguments-trial-baldwin-shooting-3fdc75c2510804065a19a9fa374cfefd">found so by a jury</a> in about two hours of deliberations. This could have happened two years ago, without anyone in NM law enforcement or prosecution even breaking a sweat. Which begs the question of how they couldn't figure this out then, and go to trial with the obvious answer a foregone conclusion. [Hint: Because BFEgypt D.A.s wanted to stick it to a big-name actor, to "make their bones", whether he was guilty or not. Johnny Depp trial watchers, stop me if you've Amber Heard this one.] </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The bigger crime is noted above: Halyna Hutchins is dead <i>forever</i>, in a tragedy that was completely avoidable with any two brain cells, if only they'd been used; but this incompetent crackhead is looking at only 18 months, max. Only if she gets the maximum, serves every day, and gets punched in the face and beaten to a pulp daily by the other prisoners, does this approach anything like justice. Even then, it's probably too light a sentence.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Her cohort, serial on-set weapons fuck-up and now-retired-for-life 2d A.D. Dave Halls (who couldn't get a job making rubber dog poop commercials in Hong Kong anyways after this incident), scored a sweetheart plea deal with the D.A. and walked away otherwise unscathed after pleading his total criminal incompetence and dereliction as well, admitting he didn't do anything he was supposed to do as Reed's assistant, including making sure Baldwin's gun was harmless and loaded only with harmless dummy rounds, which he's already admitted in open court he didn't do.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The two of them should both be spending several years in prison for this, minimum. But won't, because the <strike>Albuquerque</strike> * <i>{my mistake} </i>Bumfuckistan D.A. makes Halls and Gutierrez-Reed look like seasoned professionals at their jobs by contrast with the assclowns prosecuting crimes in New Mexico.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">So, with the two people solely and entirely responsible - actually, as well as by custom, practice, and black-letter rules - for ensuring what happened should <i>never</i> happen, and found not just actually but legally and entirely criminally negligent at their jobs, the D.A. still wants to proceed with trying to assign guilt on real-life fucktard Baldwin, apparently for being an actor on set with a prop weapon, which the script for the scene being rehearsed called for him to point and fire (with blanks) directly at the camera. (For Common Core grads, that's called <i>doing your job.</i>) If he'd been twirling guns and pointing them at crew members at the craft service table, there'd be an argument for gross negligence. But when you're handed what you're loudly and clearly told is a <i style="font-weight: bold;">"cold (i.e. unloaded) gun"</i>, by the people in charge of ensuring that's exactly what it is, in order to rehearse a scene where you draw it, point right at the camera, and fire, and rehearsing doing that, alleging anything but being an actor doing his job is going to be a tough row to hoe.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Short of demonstrating his knowing complicity and deliberate direction of the negligence of Reed and Halls, or proving he brought and loaded the live rounds himself, which not even the tinfoil conspiracy theorists have yet attempted, the only way for the D.A.'s office to get there from here is via a gross miscarriage of justice. Which seems to be their exact intent, with the single-mindedness of Captain Ahab.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Either way, it's a win-win: either justice wins, or Baldwin goes to prison. I come down on the former choice being the much better outcome, but I'm not unsympathetic to those who'd like to see Baldwin taken down for being such a loudmouthed ignorant world-class anti-gun asshole for all those years. Other than that whole "innocent people shouldn't go to prison" thingie. You do you, and I'll do me, and we'll see who sleeps better at night. Let's hope none of us have to see how you feel when an outspoken <b><i>pro</i></b>-gun actor has a similar case someday*, and you find yourself having gajillions of anti-gun Leftards making your case for you. <i>Like. They. Will</i>. The death involved isn't worth the "I told you so" for anyone.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">When a production hires people to do a job, and they knowingly don't just shirk it, <b><i>but in fact knowingly and deliberately violate virtually every single written rule and regulation for firearms and ammunition on set, </i></b>and then hand a live loaded weapon to an actor after telling the entire crew it's harmless, finding the guy they handed it to guilty is like blaming the Chief Engineer in the engine room of the <i>Titanic</i> for the ship's sinking.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Given the unmitigated jackassery since the incident by NM officialdom, nothing would surprise us at this point, other than them finally having the sense to drop the case, declare victory, and call it a day.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">*(What...? You thought no one working with guns in Hollywood would set up someone on "our" side to get tit-for-tat if Baldwin goes down? They're <i>setting themselves on fire, literally</i>, FFS. Re-think your premises, and tell me if you'd rather live in Rule Of Law Land, or Kangaroo Court Partisanville. Robbespierre or Pol Pot v2.0 awaits your decision. Howzat working out for you with POTUS 45...? Asking for a few hundred million friends and neighbors.)</span></p>Aesophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07834464741531503378noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-67186372701872892162024-03-05T19:18:00.000-08:002024-03-05T19:22:37.616-08:00Jeb Haley Campaign Commercial<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.imgur.com/4OTlJHc.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="482" data-original-width="800" height="241" src="https://i.imgur.com/4OTlJHc.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Haley's campaign has released a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1XgFsitnQw">new campaign ad</a>, which summarizes her run to a T. <i>Chika-chika.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">They're having a bit more trouble with a campaign theme song; they've narrowed the choices down to either <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OQcglFoL_Y">this one</a> or <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnYWmgSZdlM">this one</a>.</span></p>Aesophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07834464741531503378noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-67783385569685127292024-03-04T14:01:00.000-08:002024-03-04T14:02:51.595-08:00Secret Service Code Name: Miss Gulch<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.imgur.com/lC9FVDc.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="473" height="633" src="https://i.imgur.com/lC9FVDc.png" width="375" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">But it certainly explains why we hear the same <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjHHTWalnvw">piece of music</a> in our own head whenever we see or hear her. Perhaps we're not alone there.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">But trading a broomstick for Air Force One is going a bit far for any party, we think. (For starters, how would Shrillary and Gin Hag Pelosi get around?)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">And congratulations are in order. Jeb Haley secured a "W", winning the votes of the District Of Criminals.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Yet again, just a coincidence that she got all the Flying Monkeys in the Dark Castle to vote for her, right?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Riiiiight.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">It's not like she's the swampiest swamp creature burped out by the GOPe since McCrazy or Mittens, or anything.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Nope. Nosiree. No RINOs to see here.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Bonus points to whoever if someone throws a bucket of water on her to see if she melts, though. That'd be epic.</span></p>Aesophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07834464741531503378noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-62346132226917597972024-03-04T13:23:00.000-08:002024-03-04T13:26:19.259-08:00Another Biff Tannen Award Masterpiece<p> <span style="font-family: arial;"><i>h/t <a href="https://westernrifleshooters.us/2024/03/04/monday-edition-50/">WRSA</a></i></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.imgur.com/RjqQSNm.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="423" data-original-width="564" height="300" src="https://i.imgur.com/RjqQSNm.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Behold another classic violator of Rule One of Comedy, and by extension, memes:</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Comedy requires Truth + Humor</b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Somebody thought they would take a found picture of a convoy fail and jack it into their idea of brilliant commentary on the ongoing New Mexico clown show related to the shooting on the set of <i>Rust</i>.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.imgur.com/pEDLZGW.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="676" height="400" src="https://i.imgur.com/pEDLZGW.png" width="338" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Two problems, Lackwit: you failed to make a meme that was either funny, or true. That's like taking two swings at the same pitch, and getting charged with two strikes by the umpire: a rare feat indeed, for anyone not in a Bugs Bunny cartoon.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/I3I1hlNEdC4" width="320" youtube-src-id="I3I1hlNEdC4"></iframe></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p>You </span><i style="font-family: arial;">thought</i><span style="font-family: arial;"> it was funny, because you </span><i style="font-family: arial;">thought</i><span style="font-family: arial;"> it was true, but that's why delusional psychotics make such poor stand-up comedians: they're the only ones who get their own jokes.</span><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Yes, we know they didn't actually shoot up a truck with a loaded tank in the pic. It was just a truck that had an epic meltdown.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">But we'll spot you taking something that didn't happen and pretending it did as comedic license.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">So, let's flesh it out, and fill in the cast of characters, to make it at least true, and see if it's funny.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">In the scenario you imagined, Baldwin would be the actor playing a tank gunner. Experience with actual tanks: zero.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The scene calls for him to pull the trigger and "send it", on a tank with no live round loaded.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The loader, in this scenario you've concocted, would be blue-haired millennial retard and half-assed armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, who (oopsie) accidentally-on-purpose put a live tank round in the breech. (Haw Haw! How droll!) And then Second AD Dave Halls, who's already admitted being a criminally negligent fuck-up, plays the part of the tank TC, who tells Baldwin, from a dearth of any tank knowledge himself, "It's cool, Alec. The tank isn't loaded. Go ahead and pull the trigger, chief." to Baldwin.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Which Baldwin then does, and in your meme, blows away the truck pulling the load and blows a tank-round-sized hole in the driver, played in real life by former DP and newly-surprised see-through sieve Halyna Hutchins.(Ho Ho Ho! What an absolute scream!).</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">So even when we give our memetard a mulligan on the Truth part, all that's missing now is the Funny.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Bummer.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Okay Slick, this is a burn on total tank rube Baldwin...how, exactly?</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">What you've really done is illustrate in one bonehead balloon how utterly retarded any case against Baldwin is in real life. Mad props for making the defense case in one picture, but we're guessing that wasn't your intention in any way, shape, or form.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">How do you do this the right way?</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Let's consult maestro John Landis for a few moments.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/EtSPFXj_eZM" width="320" youtube-src-id="EtSPFXj_eZM"></iframe></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">Comedy master-class, right there.</span><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">And no, no horses were actually killed in the making of that scene. Which is the whole point.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>But if one HAD been</i>, the culpable party wouldn't be Flounder, Shitforbrains Meme Fuckerupper.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">It would have been the person who <i>loaded the gun</i>, even with blanks. <i>And</i> possibly their assistant. And probably Director Landis, not the actor someone handed a nominally harmless prop to.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Doubt that?</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Check out who was put in the dock when the same director dropped a helicopter onto Vic Morrow and two kids on <i>Twilight Zone: The Movie </i>a few years later, and turned them into filet-of-actor sushi. (And yes, Landis unfortunately got off, and he got away with manslaughter times three, and the bulk of the blame was shifted onto the SFX guy, for "just following orders", despite the fact that TPTB on that shoot deliberately broke about twenty safety rules (stop me if you've heard this one), and deliberately set the scene up to kill people, which it did. But it would have been beyond retarded to try and pawn the blame onto Morrow, for doing what he was supposed to do, as an actor, in the script, and per the director's instructions. That's what prosecuting Baldwin is equivalent to.)</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Proving yet again why all the "Get Baldwin" frothing is exactly nonsense spewed by ignorant assholes. Baldwin's a great actor, and a total piece of shit as a human being. And the karma and career suicide, not to mention carrying around the guilt for life because he was still the one holding the weapon that shot two people and killed one, this whole tragedy has and will cost him is epically well-deserved. Only Shakespeare himself could write a better comic tragedy. But the one thing Baldwin isn't, is criminally culpable, in any way, shape, or form, no matter how annoying and distasteful that is to anyone. Facts are stubborn things.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Lastly, <i>nota bene</i>, the original meme in this instance is unsigned. Wisely so.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Come on down, Anonymous Dumbass, own this Masterpiece of Meme Fail, and proudly claim your <i>Biff Tannen "Make Like A Tree" Award</i>, for spectacularly stomping on your dick with golf cleats while attempting comedy. Tom Wilson would be proud of you.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">And you've earned it.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.imgur.com/Wia4tGf.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="588" data-original-width="800" height="294" src="https://i.imgur.com/Wia4tGf.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p>Aesophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07834464741531503378noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-14837199931546064692024-03-04T12:15:00.000-08:002024-03-04T12:15:19.932-08:00Clown World: Top Of The Heap<p> <span style="font-family: arial;"><i>h/t to <a href="https://raconteurreport.blogspot.com/2024/03/from-endless-convoy-of-bottomless.html?showComment=1709525036452#c5627944312702438659">JW</a>'s comment</i></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.imgur.com/GTk1yVu.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="488" data-original-width="800" height="244" src="https://i.imgur.com/GTk1yVu.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p></p>Aesophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07834464741531503378noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-38566514786776183622024-03-03T09:45:00.000-08:002024-03-03T09:47:09.772-08:00Sunday Music: Scarborough Fair/Canticle<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/c_T7HgZKZjo" width="320" youtube-src-id="c_T7HgZKZjo"></iframe></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">We thought, along with the people who made it a #11 single in 1966, that Scarborough Fair/Canticle by Simon & Garfunkel was the most beautiful piece of modern music we ever heard, both when we first heard it over 50 years ago in the soundtrack to <i>The Graduate</i>, and still think so now. And as much as we treasure their </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Jj4s9I-53g" style="font-family: arial;">original studio version</a><span style="font-family: arial;">, it may even have been improved upon by this live version with the addition of singer Andy Williams, hosting his own TV show in 1968, and joining the duo to make it a trio.</span><p></p>Aesophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07834464741531503378noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-24405576808659415622024-03-02T18:20:00.000-08:002024-03-02T18:20:05.022-08:00From An Endless Convoy Of Bottomless Volkswagens...<p><a href="https://i.imgur.com/HHkZNvn.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="464" height="641" src="https://i.imgur.com/HHkZNvn.png" width="372" /></a><br /><br /></p>Aesophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07834464741531503378noreply@blogger.com1