I've read a few reviews of this Marty Supreme movie and this question springs to mind: Which sport other than golf and table tennis is the least watchable one for the spectators
🇵🇭Birth Anniversary of National Artist Atang de la Rama (Philippines)
🥛Cigarettes are Hazardous to Your Health Day
🥛Heritage Treasures Day
🥛International Parity at Work Day
🥛International Thank-You Day
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🥛National Girl Hug Boy Day
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🥛Secret Pal Day
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🥛World Sketchnote Day
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🌘 On this day the Moon will be in a Waning Crescent phase. This phase is best viewed just before the sunrise in the western sky. In this phase the Moon’s illumination is growing smaller each day until the New Moon.
Phase: Waning Crescent
Illumination: 40%
Moon Age: 23.12 days
Moon Angle: 0.49
Moon Distance: 402,635.41 km
Sun Angle: 0.54
Sun Distance: 147,127,031.14 km
Today in History: Designated Hitter Rule Implemented (1973), Surgeon General's Warning on Smoking Published (1964), Groucho Marx "I Love My Cigar Too, But I take It out of My Mouth Every Once in a While" Flap (1950), First Human Use of Insulin to Treat Diabetes (1922), Roosevelt Declares Grand Canyon National Monument (1908), West German Disco Bombing (1988), HW Bush Gives Secret Iran Contra Testimony (1988), Daktari Debuts (1966), Amelia Earhart Becomes First Person to Fly from Hawaii to California (1935), Alabama Secedes (1861), First American Life Insurance Company Founded (1759), British Forces Invade Zululand (1879), Largest Volcano Explosion in 20th-Century Japan (1914), Henry Lee Lucas Convicted of Killing 11 (1960), Theodora Porphyrogenita Becomes Sole Ruler of the Byzantine Empire (1055), Moons Found Circling Uranus (1787), Lawrence MA Immigrant Strike (1912), Creation of Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Announced (1927), Carlo Tresca Assassinated (1943), People's Republic of Albania Proclaimed (1946), University of Georgia Riots to Prevent Black Students from Attending (1961), Largest Prestressed-Concrete, Single-Box Bridge in the World Opens (1986), Most Powerful Earthquake Recorded in Italy Strikes Sicily (1693), 167 Death Sentences Commuted after Forced Confessions Revealed (2003)
Today's birthdays: Naomi Judd; Albert Hofmann; Alexander Hamilton; Letizia, Linda, Fabrizio, Francesco, Giorgio, and Roberto Giannini (Second Set of Sextuplets to Survive Past Infancy, 1980); David, Grant, Jason, Emma, Nicolette, and Elizabeth Rosenkowitz (First Set of Sextuplets to Survive Past Infancy, 1974); Felix Silla; Rod Taylor; Yevgeny Ivanov; George Zucco; Harriet Maxwell Converse (First White Woman Indian Chief); Sir John Alexander Macdonald; Ezra Cornell
Today's deaths: Carlo Tresca (Leading Public Opponent of Mafia Infiltration of Unions), Beulah Bondi, Sir Edmund Percival Hillary, Edgar Ray Killen, Tommy Allsup, Charles "Commando" Kelly, Francis Scott Key, Anita Ekberg, Ariel "Arik" Sharon, David Nelson, Carl David Anderson (Discovered Positron), Emanuel Lasker, Joseph Wharton, Georges Eugene Haussmann (Responsible for Paris' Underground Sewer Layout), Gail Borden, Sir Hans Sloane
The lady who does my nails was out on maternity leave which left me having to do walk ins for my nail appointments. When you do a walk in, you don't get to choose who you see (which does not matter, NOBODY is as good as my nail lady). Today was my first time seeing my lady since I've been back and she spent a good portion of the appointment talking smack in Vietnamese about how bad the person who did my nails last time did them. I could not understand her, but I did catch "cuticles" and she pointed and the lady next to her looked over and shook her head. Another time, she was giving me a pedicure and said, "Who cut your toenails last time?" and I pointed at her husband and she shook her head. I'm glad she is back!
So far the most exciting play of the game is the field crew trying to bundle and fold a giant
American flag, after 26 mph winds filled it like a balloon.
Yes, perhaps I am a bit critical here. But you try watching beer, truck, insurance, beer, dik stiffeners, beer, fast food and drug commercials for 50 years.
I am so glad I'm retired, because the last place I worked at was a very conservative insurance company full of employees who were evangelical Christians. I retired in 2015, before this became an issue for me. A lot of my coworkers were Birthers and NRA members and they couldn't fucking shut up about it.
They really are. Just shut the fuck up. If you're so "Christian," you shouldn't need to open your hateful mouth to tell everyone.
As did my cousins (who will never be invited back into this house ever again) who bleated out the last time they were here (over a year ago) that they were "Christian" and then proceeded to say a bunch of hateful shit about transgender people.
Safe space here. The world DOES suck right now (largely, there are some little bright spots), so you can be dysfunctional here just like the rest of us.
As far as I know, he's not 'running' the country for its declining North Sea oil . Or in any other way for the next few decades. Also too, whilst he may well be absurd, it's the wrong kind of absurd.. We don't like that.
I was thinking that every single time anyone in the current administration or the right-wing media or the GOP starts to whine about Charlie Kirk, every responsible person present should just start shouting "Melissa Hortman! Melissa Hortman!" and not stop until the assholes leave.
Trump already cant pay attention to the mess in Venezuela (which...well was a mess beforehand) but now he is looking at Cuba and Greenland?
Hes like my Ex's cat. Once it got the ping pong-ball that you flicked across the room it got bored, and you had to use that fluffy mouse on a stick, then put out a cardboard box... what our military philosophy is keeping POTUS TACO entertained with a laser pointer while Noelle and I watched The Simpsons?
Trigger warning for content, and picture of Elon Musk. He's also in a bikini.
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Guardian study of how X/Grok decisions and user behaviour combined to make nudification, humiliation and violence so prominent a trend on Elon Musk's platform over new year to bring the abuse to the attention of politicians, government and the media
I just went to the supermarket and stopped at the Ethiopian coffee shop next door to get a delightful cup of Ethiopian latte. All the staff in the coffee shop are Ethiopian, and they play Ethiopian contemporary music, which is very good - a bit like Egyptian music, but not sung in Arabic.
There was a soldier in camo uniform chatting with the barista, and I don't see soldiers very often in St. Louis, so I asked him where he was from. He was Ethiopian and a friend of the barista. Now that's rather unusual. That's why I like that shop...you never know who you will run into.
There was also a very handsome young man sitting with two attractive ladies, one Black and one White, while he was of Asian descent. The two ladies got up to use the restrooms, and while they were gone I started chatting with the young man, who said the Black lady was his coworker and she was trying to set him up with the White lady, who was her friend. He asked me for dating advice.
I told him "My father told me when I was 15 that if you want to know if the other person is 'the one' then you should live with them for one year WITHOUT SEX." I told my father "You don't need a whole year. Most couples wouldn't last one month." My dad also told me that "If you want to know if the other person is compatible, study their parents. If you like their parents, and if the parents have a good relationship, you will probably like the son or daughter." Well, that may have been true when my father was young (1930's) but I am not sure it's true today. I know my brother married his wife because he really liked her parents (and he thought he liked her, too), but it was a big mistake, as the parents had spoiled their daughter rotten.
Erin Andrew's looks like Cruella DeVille in her Puppy coat!
I've read a few reviews of this Marty Supreme movie and this question springs to mind: Which sport other than golf and table tennis is the least watchable one for the spectators
Bowling
Darts?
Darts.
Cycling. They go by and that's it.
No, the crashes!
Two teams I don't like, AND Tom Brady? To quote Moe Szyslak: "TV Off!"
Today is 1/11/2026 (Sunday)
🇵🇭Birth Anniversary of National Artist Atang de la Rama (Philippines)
🥛Cigarettes are Hazardous to Your Health Day
🥛Heritage Treasures Day
🥛International Parity at Work Day
🥛International Thank-You Day
🇫🇲Kosrae Constitution Day (Micronesia)
🥛Learn Your Name In Morse Code Day
🥛National Girl Hug Boy Day
🥛National Hot Toddy Day
🥛National Human Trafficking Awareness Day
🥛National Milk Day
🥛National Vision Board Day
🥛No Longer New Year's Day
🥛Paget’s Awareness Day
🥛Secret Pal Day
🥛Step in a Puddle and Splash Your Friends Day
🥛World Sketchnote Day
🥛Cuckoo Dancing Week
🌘 On this day the Moon will be in a Waning Crescent phase. This phase is best viewed just before the sunrise in the western sky. In this phase the Moon’s illumination is growing smaller each day until the New Moon.
Phase: Waning Crescent
Illumination: 40%
Moon Age: 23.12 days
Moon Angle: 0.49
Moon Distance: 402,635.41 km
Sun Angle: 0.54
Sun Distance: 147,127,031.14 km
Today in History: Designated Hitter Rule Implemented (1973), Surgeon General's Warning on Smoking Published (1964), Groucho Marx "I Love My Cigar Too, But I take It out of My Mouth Every Once in a While" Flap (1950), First Human Use of Insulin to Treat Diabetes (1922), Roosevelt Declares Grand Canyon National Monument (1908), West German Disco Bombing (1988), HW Bush Gives Secret Iran Contra Testimony (1988), Daktari Debuts (1966), Amelia Earhart Becomes First Person to Fly from Hawaii to California (1935), Alabama Secedes (1861), First American Life Insurance Company Founded (1759), British Forces Invade Zululand (1879), Largest Volcano Explosion in 20th-Century Japan (1914), Henry Lee Lucas Convicted of Killing 11 (1960), Theodora Porphyrogenita Becomes Sole Ruler of the Byzantine Empire (1055), Moons Found Circling Uranus (1787), Lawrence MA Immigrant Strike (1912), Creation of Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Announced (1927), Carlo Tresca Assassinated (1943), People's Republic of Albania Proclaimed (1946), University of Georgia Riots to Prevent Black Students from Attending (1961), Largest Prestressed-Concrete, Single-Box Bridge in the World Opens (1986), Most Powerful Earthquake Recorded in Italy Strikes Sicily (1693), 167 Death Sentences Commuted after Forced Confessions Revealed (2003)
Today's birthdays: Naomi Judd; Albert Hofmann; Alexander Hamilton; Letizia, Linda, Fabrizio, Francesco, Giorgio, and Roberto Giannini (Second Set of Sextuplets to Survive Past Infancy, 1980); David, Grant, Jason, Emma, Nicolette, and Elizabeth Rosenkowitz (First Set of Sextuplets to Survive Past Infancy, 1974); Felix Silla; Rod Taylor; Yevgeny Ivanov; George Zucco; Harriet Maxwell Converse (First White Woman Indian Chief); Sir John Alexander Macdonald; Ezra Cornell
Today's deaths: Carlo Tresca (Leading Public Opponent of Mafia Infiltration of Unions), Beulah Bondi, Sir Edmund Percival Hillary, Edgar Ray Killen, Tommy Allsup, Charles "Commando" Kelly, Francis Scott Key, Anita Ekberg, Ariel "Arik" Sharon, David Nelson, Carl David Anderson (Discovered Positron), Emanuel Lasker, Joseph Wharton, Georges Eugene Haussmann (Responsible for Paris' Underground Sewer Layout), Gail Borden, Sir Hans Sloane
The lady who does my nails was out on maternity leave which left me having to do walk ins for my nail appointments. When you do a walk in, you don't get to choose who you see (which does not matter, NOBODY is as good as my nail lady). Today was my first time seeing my lady since I've been back and she spent a good portion of the appointment talking smack in Vietnamese about how bad the person who did my nails last time did them. I could not understand her, but I did catch "cuticles" and she pointed and the lady next to her looked over and shook her head. Another time, she was giving me a pedicure and said, "Who cut your toenails last time?" and I pointed at her husband and she shook her head. I'm glad she is back!
Drummer Terry Williams is 78 years old today. I love his playing as a member of Rockpile on Dave Edmund's version of Elvis Costello's "Girls Talk":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sa3l3Ei0tdg
Here he is with Dire Straits performing "Telegraph Road":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EX2n2ftbdZU
So far the most exciting play of the game is the field crew trying to bundle and fold a giant
American flag, after 26 mph winds filled it like a balloon.
Yes, perhaps I am a bit critical here. But you try watching beer, truck, insurance, beer, dik stiffeners, beer, fast food and drug commercials for 50 years.
Did I mention beer?
Just in case you didn't mention beer, I'd like to point out that they show a lot of beer commercials during football games.
I am so damn tired of the jingoism, all paid for with tax dollars.
Forget it, Jake, it's NFL town....
*steps in*
Well, work didn't go so great today. I couldn't hide how much the world's hurting my soul lately and my co-workers noticed.
I am so glad I'm retired, because the last place I worked at was a very conservative insurance company full of employees who were evangelical Christians. I retired in 2015, before this became an issue for me. A lot of my coworkers were Birthers and NRA members and they couldn't fucking shut up about it.
Evangelicals are the worst.
They really are. Just shut the fuck up. If you're so "Christian," you shouldn't need to open your hateful mouth to tell everyone.
As did my cousins (who will never be invited back into this house ever again) who bleated out the last time they were here (over a year ago) that they were "Christian" and then proceeded to say a bunch of hateful shit about transgender people.
Fuck. Them.
They will *not* be invited back.
Safe space here. The world DOES suck right now (largely, there are some little bright spots), so you can be dysfunctional here just like the rest of us.
Unless they noticed because you were screaming at them, it means they care at least enough to notice things.
Oh yeah, I didn't raise my voice or anything. Too disciplined for that.
A Call Up from Dr. Bernice A. King (2026 King Holiday Observance)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTlxrVKv-MQ
And this is why Britain will never, ever, be conquered. We embrace the beauty of the absurd.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJabN8VP8Gk
They stepped on their own dick over Brexit, though...
I blame the Daily Fucking Fail and their lying lap-poodle, Boris 'How many kids?' Johnson.
Naw, a lot of the white ones wanted it...
Saxons at dock 2.
"Bloody fernnors! Go 'ome!"
You got conquered from within by fascist AI bros. Mandelson, for one. Blair
As far as I know, he's not 'running' the country for its declining North Sea oil . Or in any other way for the next few decades. Also too, whilst he may well be absurd, it's the wrong kind of absurd.. We don't like that.
I was thinking that every single time anyone in the current administration or the right-wing media or the GOP starts to whine about Charlie Kirk, every responsible person present should just start shouting "Melissa Hortman! Melissa Hortman!" and not stop until the assholes leave.
That's pretty good
even if it's not equivalent
A MAGAt murdered the Hortmans (and the dog)
A MAGAt also shot Charles Kirk (and the entire right wing chose to try to scapegoat Black people for a White man murdering a White man)
So the two situations aren't really equivalent
𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐢𝐞 𝐊𝐢𝐫𝐤 𝐆𝐞𝐭𝐬 𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐔𝐭𝐚𝐡 𝐁𝐲 𝐀 𝐖𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐌𝐚𝐧, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐍𝐨𝐰 𝐇𝐁𝐂𝐔𝐬 𝐀𝐫𝐞 𝐎𝐧 𝐋𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧 —𝐌𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐈𝐭 𝐌𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐒𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐞
https://drstaceypatton1865.substack.com/p/charlie-kirk-gets-shot-in-utah-by
But anything to shut them up
It's so odd to me that they cared more about the Kirk shooting than the fact that Trump, their baby-man savior god, was shot at just a year earlier.
I always say, "He was against the Civil rights act, can you believe it?" As if to put a bug in the person's ear about him.
the party of personal responsibility want overseas companies to police the US military's online purchases... dumb thy name is republican
OT.
Trump already cant pay attention to the mess in Venezuela (which...well was a mess beforehand) but now he is looking at Cuba and Greenland?
Hes like my Ex's cat. Once it got the ping pong-ball that you flicked across the room it got bored, and you had to use that fluffy mouse on a stick, then put out a cardboard box... what our military philosophy is keeping POTUS TACO entertained with a laser pointer while Noelle and I watched The Simpsons?
You kinda nailed it, Baconz
He's running around looking for a "win" because he's failing so hard everywhere he sticks his mofugly nose in
Cat Libelz
LOL
Ron Filipkowski
@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
· 8h
Ronald Reagan’s budget director.
https://bsky.app/profile/ronfilipkowski.bsky.social/post/3mc5rlz4nxk2z
Gawd, I hate agreeing with David Stockman even more than Bill Kristol or -gasp- MTG
It is incredible watching someone being both so incredibly wrong, and yet so very right, at the exact same time.
THEY'RE ALL ASSHOLES!
Trigger warning for content, and picture of Elon Musk. He's also in a bikini.
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Guardian study of how X/Grok decisions and user behaviour combined to make nudification, humiliation and violence so prominent a trend on Elon Musk's platform over new year to bring the abuse to the attention of politicians, government and the media
https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2026/jan/11/how-grok-nudification-tool-went-viral-x-elon-musk?CMP=share_btn_url
https://bsky.app/profile/sundersays.bsky.social/post/3mc6kigbgwk2w
SMDH @ HUMANITY
Most of humanity is pretty OK. But the bad parts be really BAD (and that ain't good).
Truth.
I just went to the supermarket and stopped at the Ethiopian coffee shop next door to get a delightful cup of Ethiopian latte. All the staff in the coffee shop are Ethiopian, and they play Ethiopian contemporary music, which is very good - a bit like Egyptian music, but not sung in Arabic.
There was a soldier in camo uniform chatting with the barista, and I don't see soldiers very often in St. Louis, so I asked him where he was from. He was Ethiopian and a friend of the barista. Now that's rather unusual. That's why I like that shop...you never know who you will run into.
There was also a very handsome young man sitting with two attractive ladies, one Black and one White, while he was of Asian descent. The two ladies got up to use the restrooms, and while they were gone I started chatting with the young man, who said the Black lady was his coworker and she was trying to set him up with the White lady, who was her friend. He asked me for dating advice.
I told him "My father told me when I was 15 that if you want to know if the other person is 'the one' then you should live with them for one year WITHOUT SEX." I told my father "You don't need a whole year. Most couples wouldn't last one month." My dad also told me that "If you want to know if the other person is compatible, study their parents. If you like their parents, and if the parents have a good relationship, you will probably like the son or daughter." Well, that may have been true when my father was young (1930's) but I am not sure it's true today. I know my brother married his wife because he really liked her parents (and he thought he liked her, too), but it was a big mistake, as the parents had spoiled their daughter rotten.