Those buffaloes ( I refuse to call them bison, despite all the scientists in South Dakota), had a definite rhythm to match the headline. Good job, Glambassador!...
Buffalo was one of the richest cities in the country around 1900. You can see it in the magnificent houses along Delaware Avenue. It was a major stop on the vaudeville circuit.
Does that have anything to do with why they have a system of parks designed by Frederick Law Olmsted? I'm referring to the wealth, not the vaudeville, in case you wondered.
I'm guessing that the wealth was a result of Buffalo being at approx. the western terminus of the Erie Canal and the easternmost major city on the Great Lakes. And when the industrial revolution was really getting into high gear Buffalo had abundant electrical power due to hydro plants that used water diverted from going over Niagara Falls. And so on.
"My my, and what do we have here, Bob? Well this is a total surprise from Givenchy, which usually goes so much more conservative with clean lines and a lot of piping. But this full length extremely rustic winter coat looks savagely divine, don't you think?"
"I sure do, Jan. Very surprising, this shaggy, wilderness look, but just look at that exquisite tapering down towards the ankles. Plus I have to say that the model is really subtly working the catwalk with this one. I expect to see a lot of imitators putting something like this on the racks this winter."
Ta, Martini. The last time I was in Yellowstone, we went through the original entrance, the Gardiner Gate in Montana. There was a small building with park information, and standing right outside it was a bison. The idiot I was with thought it was animatronic, but fortunately (he was driving, and I don't drive) he did not investigate too closely.
We went to the Grand Canyon for a day trip back in 2016 for our 25th anniversary (we went to the GC and northern New Mexico for our honeymoon). The whole park thing had been totally rejiggered since we'd been there in 1991, and there was a big outdoor water bottle filling station. There were a bunch of fully-grown elk wandering around the station, waiting for the afterflow once someone had filled their bottle. They weren't concerned about the humans around them a bit. Me, I felt nervous because the night before at a restaurant in Sedona I had elk chops for dinner. (Very tasty, for the record.) I was worried they could smell my breath or something and stomp me into the pavement. To tell the truth, I'd rather die like that than something banal and terrible, like cancer.
We saw a couple of bison grazing near the Great Salt Lake in Utah, about 30-40 yards from the road we were on. We parked to take pictures but we stayed close to the car. Close.
I have made up my mind NOT to sell my house to anyone other than someone who intends to live in it. After watching small-time investors buy the houses on both sides of me, this is not the vision I had for my neighborhood. I'll take less to accomplish my goal.
They don't have to have kids, of course, but they gotta want to live here.
I had a friend who fell in love with a house (she was married with a young child, full transparency), and they were outbid on their offer. They were very disappointed, and the realtor suggested that they write the owners a letter.
She did. She described how much they loved the house, and had wanted to raise their family there.
The owners were an older couple who had also loved the house and raised a family there, and they accepted my friend’s offer.
Speaking of "Movie Night" I'm watching this evening's second showing of "Clueless"on Bravo. I watched the first showing as well. It started reliably enough with Cher telling the Haiti-ans they could come to America, that we'd just haul ass to the kitchen and rearrange some things,and so-on.
But, courtesy of Bravo it pretty quickly went to hell: That is, when Amber said she couldn't hit any tennis balls because her plastic surgeon told her not to do anything where "balls fly at her nose" and Dionne is supposed to say "There goes your social life", nothing, nada, zip. It just cuts to our first introduction of Tai looking "adorably clueless" to Cher but "toe up" to Dionne. When they show GWTW what is Rhett's snappy comeback when Scarlett asks "Rhett, Rhett... Rhett, if you go, where shall I go? What shall I do?" Dies rhett reply :Frankly my dear, I'll 'er, um, see you around?"
I have the feeling I’m listening to an eight-year-old describe the dream that they just woke up from, confident in knowing that continuity and coherence could be assumed.
When I read reports about so-called "Third World countries", often they mention armed groups that are accountable to no law, and refer to them as "paramilitaries". Just sayin' .
We're still in our starter house that we bought 32 years ago. Oddly enough, when we got married, my wife and I hadn't actually discussed whether or not we wanted kids, AFAIK. Not long after we were married, she thought that she got pregnant but had a miscarriage very early on. After that, we discussed things and decided that we didn't want kids, so I got myself snipped. We're planning to move in a year or two, and I'd dearly love to sell to a youngish couple whether or not they have kids. I'm just worried that they might be fronts for either a hedge fund or (more than likely) a Hasidic gang house where a dozen or so of the excess men get shut up in a single-family house.
I love it. The federal government is now going to start telling American citizens which American citizens they're allowed to sell their private property to.
Given the actions of the ICEstapo, it's becoming increasingly difficult to accept that demonstrations and elections alone will turn the tide. Elections will be suborned or cancelled - the orange rapist has already said as much - and ICE will keep killing people in an attempt to strike fear into the population. There's no easy way out of this.
Staatsfuhrer Miller and coterie are trying to provoke someone to snap and respond violently to ICE, thus giving them them thin cover they need to invoke the insurrection act. I'm kinda terrified of that - not bc I fear federal troops, but rather the stochastic terrorism of the MAGAt minority which is disproportionately armed compared to the rest of the population.
I really wanted 2026 to be better than 2025....and my hopes are sinking.
"A Bureau of Land Management auction Thursday of more than 20,000 acres of public land in Colorado for oil and gas development yielded exactly zero bids, despite a starting price of just $10 an acre. “In general, everything that is really high value across the West that will ever produce oil has already been sold,” Aaron Weiss, the deputy director of the Center for Western Priorities, which criticized the auction, told Colorado Public Radio. “There are no oil and gas companies that think that it’s profitable to lease them, even at 10 bucks an acre.”
"My favorite part of this lunatic Heritage Foundation report on how to increase white women babbies is the proposal to not let people sell starter homes until they’ve gotten (and rejected?) an offer from a married couple with kids."
Careful there, HF!! You don't want to accidentally prevent private equity firms from buying up homes all over the place, and fucking over people who genuinely want to live in them, do you? I mean, fucking people over is, after all, one of your most important principles!!!
This murder is bothering me more than previous Trumpian atrocities. It's taken me a while to figure out why.
I think it's this: I expected it. I've thought for months and months now that Trump's goons would start gunning down innocent US citizens on the street.
"President Donald Trump told Fox News’ Sean Hannity on Thursday that it would be “a great honor” to accept the (second-hand) Nobel Peace Prize that was awarded last year to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado. Machado told Hannity this week that she wants to personally give Trump her prize “for liberating her country” following the U.S.-led operation that ousted Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. “Well, I understand she’s coming in next week sometime, and I look forward to saying hello to her,” Trump replied. “And I’ve heard that she wants to do that. That would be a great honor.” https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-nobel-peace-prize_n_6960d153e4b088e2524e4564?origin=home-latest-news-unit
The Nobel committee should explicitly rescind the prize if that happens. "Mr. Trump has a Nobel shaped object in his posession but it is not the Nobel Prize."
"the proposal to not let people sell starter homes until they’ve gotten (and rejected?) an offer from a married couple with kids"
What. The. Actual. Fucking. Fuck. Yes folks, it's the Heritage Foundation out here, proposing an exciting new innovation in redlining in 20 goddamn 26. Us single disgusting unbaby-types can go live in dismal SROs in downtown, I guess.
Your hed gif info: https://martiniambassador.substack.com/p/bison-truckin-along
And meme chat (yeah, I realized the typo too late 😝): https://open.substack.com/chat/posts/ba71c20a-f1b3-4c9a-ad23-839e9b4c320a?utm_source=share
From the Pleistocene to Yellowstone. That was actually a short walk for them.
The American Bison
also called a Buffalo
lives on the Great Plains
at least he used to I know
TGIF with Tab's and Coffee in the Morning ☕💯👍
Buffalo in winter? Bye sun!
Matty told Hatty
About a thing she saw
Had two big horns
And a wooly jaw
Wooly bison
Wooly bison
Yeah drive
Wooly bison
Wooly bison
Wooly bison
Hatty told Matty
Let's don't take no chance
Let's not be L-seven
Come and learn to dance
Wooly bison
Wooly bison
Wooly bison
Wooly bison
Wooly bison
Watch it now, watch it watch it watch it
Ay...
Oh, for those innocent days of old!
"Is this Bills Stadium? I can't tell....."
Those buffaloes ( I refuse to call them bison, despite all the scientists in South Dakota), had a definite rhythm to match the headline. Good job, Glambassador!...
The Buffalo Wool Co. (https://thebuffalowoolco.com/) agrees with you, at least in part. They use both terms throughout.
Only scientists left in SD are ... wait, none. None are the number of scientists left in SD.
This is me, going to my polling place later in the year.
In winter when the bison
Come shuffling through the snow
They get so very hairy
You can almost watch it grow.
The winters can get freezing cold
And hard north winds can blow
But that will hardly bother
A hirsute Buffalo
Are you referring to the BOREAL ZEPHYRS again? FORSOOTH ans HIRSUTH!
Is this what they meant by "The Buffalo Shuffle "?
Shuffle off to Buffalo was a song in the 1933 B&W Film 42nd Street. My mother used to sing the song all the time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMdEqB-TB8g
Thanks so much!
Buffalo was one of the richest cities in the country around 1900. You can see it in the magnificent houses along Delaware Avenue. It was a major stop on the vaudeville circuit.
Does that have anything to do with why they have a system of parks designed by Frederick Law Olmsted? I'm referring to the wealth, not the vaudeville, in case you wondered.
I'm guessing that the wealth was a result of Buffalo being at approx. the western terminus of the Erie Canal and the easternmost major city on the Great Lakes. And when the industrial revolution was really getting into high gear Buffalo had abundant electrical power due to hydro plants that used water diverted from going over Niagara Falls. And so on.
Typos are our friends!
Not a buffalo, a typopotamus.
Justa shambolin along.
Good advice for all of us from Eddie Hendricks "Keep On Truckin'":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eke-oF3Vh6s
or from R. Crumb.
Does this fur coat make me look fat?
"No!"
"You didn't even look!"
"Doesn't matter. Unless you're wearing an 'Austin Powers' Fat Bastard fat suit, the answer is always no."
"My my, and what do we have here, Bob? Well this is a total surprise from Givenchy, which usually goes so much more conservative with clean lines and a lot of piping. But this full length extremely rustic winter coat looks savagely divine, don't you think?"
"I sure do, Jan. Very surprising, this shaggy, wilderness look, but just look at that exquisite tapering down towards the ankles. Plus I have to say that the model is really subtly working the catwalk with this one. I expect to see a lot of imitators putting something like this on the racks this winter."
JUST LOOK AT THE RACK ON THAT ONE!
The fact that I can HEAR their voices SO clearly makes me worry for my own sanity.
Well, more than usual, I mean.
Regardless, fucking FANTASTIC work there. ❤️
Would pet. One time.
that's probably all you'd get.
For the first and last time all at once!
Try to swap spit with him and FIND OUT!
lol! But friend shaped!
Only if cleared for the petting zoo.
Ta, Martini. The last time I was in Yellowstone, we went through the original entrance, the Gardiner Gate in Montana. There was a small building with park information, and standing right outside it was a bison. The idiot I was with thought it was animatronic, but fortunately (he was driving, and I don't drive) he did not investigate too closely.
We went to the Grand Canyon for a day trip back in 2016 for our 25th anniversary (we went to the GC and northern New Mexico for our honeymoon). The whole park thing had been totally rejiggered since we'd been there in 1991, and there was a big outdoor water bottle filling station. There were a bunch of fully-grown elk wandering around the station, waiting for the afterflow once someone had filled their bottle. They weren't concerned about the humans around them a bit. Me, I felt nervous because the night before at a restaurant in Sedona I had elk chops for dinner. (Very tasty, for the record.) I was worried they could smell my breath or something and stomp me into the pavement. To tell the truth, I'd rather die like that than something banal and terrible, like cancer.
We saw a couple of bison grazing near the Great Salt Lake in Utah, about 30-40 yards from the road we were on. We parked to take pictures but we stayed close to the car. Close.
We saw the big bison herd in Custer (ptui!) State Park.
Not driving is a rarity in our age cohort.
I have made up my mind NOT to sell my house to anyone other than someone who intends to live in it. After watching small-time investors buy the houses on both sides of me, this is not the vision I had for my neighborhood. I'll take less to accomplish my goal.
They don't have to have kids, of course, but they gotta want to live here.
I had a friend who fell in love with a house (she was married with a young child, full transparency), and they were outbid on their offer. They were very disappointed, and the realtor suggested that they write the owners a letter.
She did. She described how much they loved the house, and had wanted to raise their family there.
The owners were an older couple who had also loved the house and raised a family there, and they accepted my friend’s offer.
Speaking of "Movie Night" I'm watching this evening's second showing of "Clueless"on Bravo. I watched the first showing as well. It started reliably enough with Cher telling the Haiti-ans they could come to America, that we'd just haul ass to the kitchen and rearrange some things,and so-on.
But, courtesy of Bravo it pretty quickly went to hell: That is, when Amber said she couldn't hit any tennis balls because her plastic surgeon told her not to do anything where "balls fly at her nose" and Dionne is supposed to say "There goes your social life", nothing, nada, zip. It just cuts to our first introduction of Tai looking "adorably clueless" to Cher but "toe up" to Dionne. When they show GWTW what is Rhett's snappy comeback when Scarlett asks "Rhett, Rhett... Rhett, if you go, where shall I go? What shall I do?" Dies rhett reply :Frankly my dear, I'll 'er, um, see you around?"
I have the feeling I’m listening to an eight-year-old describe the dream that they just woke up from, confident in knowing that continuity and coherence could be assumed.
I still refer to Marco Rubio as "Sippy Cup": yes, the joke is years old by now, but it still seems to apply.
When I read reports about so-called "Third World countries", often they mention armed groups that are accountable to no law, and refer to them as "paramilitaries". Just sayin' .
"the proposal to not let people sell starter homes until they’ve gotten (and rejected?) an offer from a [white] married couple with kids"
There.....Fixed it to say what Heritage means.
We're still in our starter house that we bought 32 years ago. Oddly enough, when we got married, my wife and I hadn't actually discussed whether or not we wanted kids, AFAIK. Not long after we were married, she thought that she got pregnant but had a miscarriage very early on. After that, we discussed things and decided that we didn't want kids, so I got myself snipped. We're planning to move in a year or two, and I'd dearly love to sell to a youngish couple whether or not they have kids. I'm just worried that they might be fronts for either a hedge fund or (more than likely) a Hasidic gang house where a dozen or so of the excess men get shut up in a single-family house.
I hadn't considered a Hasidic gang house. But if you live in Rockland County, NY...it's a distinct possibility.
I love it. The federal government is now going to start telling American citizens which American citizens they're allowed to sell their private property to.
Given the actions of the ICEstapo, it's becoming increasingly difficult to accept that demonstrations and elections alone will turn the tide. Elections will be suborned or cancelled - the orange rapist has already said as much - and ICE will keep killing people in an attempt to strike fear into the population. There's no easy way out of this.
Staatsfuhrer Miller and coterie are trying to provoke someone to snap and respond violently to ICE, thus giving them them thin cover they need to invoke the insurrection act. I'm kinda terrified of that - not bc I fear federal troops, but rather the stochastic terrorism of the MAGAt minority which is disproportionately armed compared to the rest of the population.
I really wanted 2026 to be better than 2025....and my hopes are sinking.
I. HATE. YOU.
OK, not really. But ... that song. We are suffering enough. Just. Stop.
"A Bureau of Land Management auction Thursday of more than 20,000 acres of public land in Colorado for oil and gas development yielded exactly zero bids, despite a starting price of just $10 an acre. “In general, everything that is really high value across the West that will ever produce oil has already been sold,” Aaron Weiss, the deputy director of the Center for Western Priorities, which criticized the auction, told Colorado Public Radio. “There are no oil and gas companies that think that it’s profitable to lease them, even at 10 bucks an acre.”
https://www.cpr.org/2026/01/09/bureau-of-land-management-oil-gas-auction-zero-bids-colorado/?utm_source=buzzfeed&utm_medium=iframely
"My favorite part of this lunatic Heritage Foundation report on how to increase white women babbies is the proposal to not let people sell starter homes until they’ve gotten (and rejected?) an offer from a married couple with kids."
Careful there, HF!! You don't want to accidentally prevent private equity firms from buying up homes all over the place, and fucking over people who genuinely want to live in them, do you? I mean, fucking people over is, after all, one of your most important principles!!!
Well, damn. Thanks for THAT ear worm.
"Havin' my baby..." 🎶🎶 🤪
Aaargh. It'll take "Small World" to get that one out of my head.
It will take "You are my sunshine, my only sunshine" to get "Small World" out of your head.
Or the lil’ Wharvey girls from “Oh Brother…”
HA! 😂😂😂😂
The bulwark took down the paywall on the story comparing Good and Babbitt's killings
This murder is bothering me more than previous Trumpian atrocities. It's taken me a while to figure out why.
I think it's this: I expected it. I've thought for months and months now that Trump's goons would start gunning down innocent US citizens on the street.
It feels really, really shitty to be right.
"President Donald Trump told Fox News’ Sean Hannity on Thursday that it would be “a great honor” to accept the (second-hand) Nobel Peace Prize that was awarded last year to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado. Machado told Hannity this week that she wants to personally give Trump her prize “for liberating her country” following the U.S.-led operation that ousted Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. “Well, I understand she’s coming in next week sometime, and I look forward to saying hello to her,” Trump replied. “And I’ve heard that she wants to do that. That would be a great honor.” https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-nobel-peace-prize_n_6960d153e4b088e2524e4564?origin=home-latest-news-unit
The shiny gizmo is not the Nobel Prize, asswipe
The Nobel committee should explicitly rescind the prize if that happens. "Mr. Trump has a Nobel shaped object in his posession but it is not the Nobel Prize."
This is the right answer, and I hope they do it.
Can anyone summarize the Bulwark article about Renee Good and Ashli Babbit for us non-subscribers?
they unpaywalled it, you can read!
"the proposal to not let people sell starter homes until they’ve gotten (and rejected?) an offer from a married couple with kids"
What. The. Actual. Fucking. Fuck. Yes folks, it's the Heritage Foundation out here, proposing an exciting new innovation in redlining in 20 goddamn 26. Us single disgusting unbaby-types can go live in dismal SROs in downtown, I guess.
Either that or drop dead. I'm sure they'd be fine with that, too.