ST:TOS Saturday MeTV Edition - What Are Little Girls Made Of. Been awhile since we did this one; it's, what - number 8 or so? Enterprise is on a mission to find Dr. Corby where 2 previous expeditions have failed; surface temps are -100° tho underground caverns were mentioned in the last communications. Dr. Corby is found alive and underground; events proceed from the discovery of androids as well in the caverns including Roc, left behind by the Old Ones | Ted Cassidy is Roc
Ugh. We drove down here last Sunday. My cat, Maru, (at home, in theory, being cat-sat like the other cats in the house) has been missing since Thursday. Since I am the only human she likes, and the only human she will respond to, do I need to make a 294 mile drive this afternoon to go find her, lock her in the mud room, make sure the cat-sitter knows not to let her escape, and drive back down here? I'd really rather not, dammit.
I think she is probably fine, but the cat sitter, my wife, and my kids are convinced she's run away to join the circus, or maybe another family. Okay, the cat that hates everyone, and pants, is going to just move in with someone else?
The kid doesn't get out of the hospital until tomorrow, and then we have to stick around for another week and a half for post-op checks and stuff, so it's not like I can go home and stay there. Plus, it's pretty much guaranteed that my cat is either bedding down in the lambing barn or the greenhouse overnight, and stealing the food that gets put out for the neighborhood stray during the day.
My wife Lisa loves cookbooks and loves the late, great Vincent Price more than life itself. I done scored me a vintage copy of A Treasury of Great Recipes, a cookbook Price and his wife Mary wrote back in 1965. I have never been what anyone would call good at Christmas gift-giving, but this year will be my even-a-blind-squirrel-finds-a-nut-on-occasion moment!
I found a first edition of that cookbook that had actually been used as a cookbook. I bought it for my son and his wife and it was the envy of her family at Christmas.
Well, I'm waiting for my husband to move his pickup from the front of the garage, so I can go to the grocery store. I think he's waiting on me to make a move.
It's a standoff. That's okay. I got all day. I can even wait until tomorrow.
What would happen if you picked up the keys to the truck, and drove off to do the shopping? And came home with some bulky items that wouldn't have fit in the car?
And you left those in the back of the truck?
Marriage: when your spouse realizes you'll die before you swerve.
I can remember my father's horror when a container of that shit was found in my great grandmother's little one car garage after she died. That little garage was full of interesting and downright bizarre objects, some at least a century old.
It is very educational to sort through the belongings of a deceased, 99 year old virtual pack rat. Nana saved SO much stuff.
My Dad had already got rid of most of the bad '60s chemicals over the years. I did have things like old Roundup and Weed-b-gone. Not to mention seven different cans of old housepaint, different lubricants (some from the 1950s) and various other weird things he'd accumulated over the years. Hell, I found the manual for the in-counter blender that hadn't worked since I was six.
I have no idea why he did that. He was always a weird kid. Never went to prison, as I think it was decided he'd be safer in county, as a trustee, of all things. That was a pretty humane decision, actually. He wouldn't have lasted a day in prison.
My sibs were all in a knot about "what the hell are we gonna do with all this stuff??!?"
"take it to the disposal company"
Duh.
This place is a sharp operation... they come out to your car with their carts of bins, sort right out of your car, take it in, weigh it, ring you up and done.
The inside of the building is clean and organized.
A lot of it was model-airplane related paints/solvents/fuels/etc.. Dad did RC model airplanes since before I was born. And I'm old enough to get a senior discount at the disposal place.
It’s very weird and bizarre. The accusation in the media about Hunter Biden’s case is that Joe Biden somehow intervened even though the Trump appointed prosecutor says nope it was his decision.
And yet this is somehow totally fine and normal? WTF?
If a Biden appointed judge was overseeing a case involving his son it would be decried as improper, bias, corruption, and calls for recusal would abound.
But this is just like, “oh yeah, Trump is confident he’s got this in the bag. He appointed the judge. That’s perfectly ok.”
I was watching MSNBC last night and I learned something from Ali Velshi. Apparently I missed this when it happened.
Trump gave a speech recently and thanked Hannibal Lecter for supporting him.
Apparently he got Hannibal Lecter confused with the actor who portrayed him, Anthony Hopkins. Except Anthony Hopkins didn't say anything supportive of Trump. Another actor who portrayed Lecter is Brian Cox, who has become an American citizen. He calls Trump "a fucking asshole."
Anthony Hopkins says he doesn't vote. "I don’t vote because I don’t trust anyone. We’ve never
got it right, human beings. We are all a mess, and we’re very early in our evolution." Weak, Tony, weak.
Brian Cox had some words for PAB in 2022.
"You go, how the f*ck can this country vote for such a f*cking as*hole? And yet, this part of this country will, you know, adore him. What is it they adore? What is it they want? And how disappointing that is. "
Protest vote never made sense to me. No one know you did it unless you tell them. It's childish. It's as bad as those who say they won't vote for PAB but won't vote for Joe Biden or Hilary Clinton either. Grow up.
In the dialectics of contemporary media, we can guess, when we see this headline in the NYT, that it is some Israeli attack:
They Ran Into a Bomb Shelter for Safety. Instead, They Were Slaughtered.
but upon reading, for a while:
Nearly 30 young people took refuge inside a grimy bunker on the morning of Oct. 7, hoping the reinforced-concrete shelter near the border with Gaza would fulfill its promise of protection.
But just after 7:40 a.m., when a group of Hamas assailants, armed with assault rifles and grenades, attacked the shelter near Kibbutz Re’im in southern Israel, the very characteristics that made the tiny fortress a refuge from incoming rockets turned it into a deathtrap for those inside
I'm rewatching The Last Ship while I get some eBay shit done. I loved this show when it first aired (give me any kind of end of the world stuff, and I'm there), but I'm having a bit of trouble not tearing up now, because the fucking "Immunes" are reminding me of all the RW militia type assholes running around my country right now.
"After a global viral pandemic wipes out over 80% of the world's population..."
"Entertainment Weekly's Ray Rahman said of the second season, 'The story is getting more interesting as we get an on-the-ground sense of how the pandemic-ravaged US has fared'."
It's a global pandemic, yet it's all about the US. There are other people in the world, you know.
What I lack in discipline I make up for with creativity. Local apple stand just got some heirloom apples in today, but I’m supposed to put in 6 hours of studying. Solution: listen to recorded class lectures while slicing apples for pie.
ST:TOS Saturday MeTV Edition - What Are Little Girls Made Of. Been awhile since we did this one; it's, what - number 8 or so? Enterprise is on a mission to find Dr. Corby where 2 previous expeditions have failed; surface temps are -100° tho underground caverns were mentioned in the last communications. Dr. Corby is found alive and underground; events proceed from the discovery of androids as well in the caverns including Roc, left behind by the Old Ones | Ted Cassidy is Roc
Hooper, if you're still reading, we just made the Cosmonaut. Holy crap! That's a lovely concoction. Cheers!
Update: 4 drinks in and Mrs DV is playing fast and loose with the recipe. It doesn't seem to matter. You can't screw this up.
I tried and then loved this also. Used all the remaining raspberry preserves and lemons. Simple excellence with this recipe, Hooper. Cheers!
Dear dog, that's a good drink. Thanks, Hooper!
I've got crap tons of apricot jam from last summer's two-week rain (reign?) of Blenheim. That might be interesting.
Yes it would. Sounds delicious.
Just one comment, a Cosmonaut would never drink gin. A cosmonaut would be a shot of vodka with a small glass of sour cherry juice on the side.
With polonium bitters
The name's a play on "Cosmopolitan", as opposed to any real relation to a cosmonaut.
As far as I am professionally concerned, they can drink a dog turd with anMD2020 chaser.
Ugh. We drove down here last Sunday. My cat, Maru, (at home, in theory, being cat-sat like the other cats in the house) has been missing since Thursday. Since I am the only human she likes, and the only human she will respond to, do I need to make a 294 mile drive this afternoon to go find her, lock her in the mud room, make sure the cat-sitter knows not to let her escape, and drive back down here? I'd really rather not, dammit.
You’re a good parent.
UGH. I'd be tempted, too, but don't you think she's OK? If the weather's not horrible will she stay home until the scary stranger is gone?
It's a tough call.
I think she is probably fine, but the cat sitter, my wife, and my kids are convinced she's run away to join the circus, or maybe another family. Okay, the cat that hates everyone, and pants, is going to just move in with someone else?
Can the cat sitter put your voice on speaker phone?
If she shakes the kitty treats at the same time Maru might show up.
I have cut short vacations to convince my idiot cat to come inside.
When I remind her about my grudge, she shows me her butthole.
The kid doesn't get out of the hospital until tomorrow, and then we have to stick around for another week and a half for post-op checks and stuff, so it's not like I can go home and stay there. Plus, it's pretty much guaranteed that my cat is either bedding down in the lambing barn or the greenhouse overnight, and stealing the food that gets put out for the neighborhood stray during the day.
Oh shoot that's right, it's no vacation. I'm so sorry.
Let the cat learn a lesson and be mad about it.
Hugs to you and the kid, hope everything turns out for the best sooner rather than later.
Taking the grans, wife, and mom to out to a Greek cafe for a nooner brunch. I adore Greek coffee.
Envy
I gotta bed down the vegetable garden for winter and then clear out the attic for new roof on Tuesday.
Don't wanna, for sure on a down swing
Look beyond the pain.
Cosmo Topper is best Cosmo.
https://www.pbs.org/video/topper-1937-3ptf4f/
Leo G Carroll, FTW. He of the later TV series.
I'm more of a fan of "Rain in the Doorway" and "Nightlife of the Gods".
My wife Lisa loves cookbooks and loves the late, great Vincent Price more than life itself. I done scored me a vintage copy of A Treasury of Great Recipes, a cookbook Price and his wife Mary wrote back in 1965. I have never been what anyone would call good at Christmas gift-giving, but this year will be my even-a-blind-squirrel-finds-a-nut-on-occasion moment!
I found a first edition of that cookbook that had actually been used as a cookbook. I bought it for my son and his wife and it was the envy of her family at Christmas.
Awesome score! She'll love it.
Well, I'm waiting for my husband to move his pickup from the front of the garage, so I can go to the grocery store. I think he's waiting on me to make a move.
It's a standoff. That's okay. I got all day. I can even wait until tomorrow.
What would happen if you picked up the keys to the truck, and drove off to do the shopping? And came home with some bulky items that wouldn't have fit in the car?
And you left those in the back of the truck?
Marriage: when your spouse realizes you'll die before you swerve.
when dinner rolls around and he asks what is for it, go "nothing, I could not get to the store today because someone's truck was in the way"
He kinda wants to go hunting today, and he wants me to go with.
I think the novelty has worn off, for me. I prefer home and hearth over dilapidated camper in the scary woods.
For me, the only time the woods are scary is when the hunters are in there.
I used to drive big four door pickups daily. I owned two of them. Now? I hate driving that tank. Parking it is a nightmare.
Rid of the hazmat from Dad's house.. 295lb worth..
https://open.substack.com/pub/tek01/p/clearing-out-dads-house?r=2lkddo&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Well done.
Holy cow! When I cleaned out my parents' house after Dad passed I only had a trunk load of old chemicals to haul to the disposal place.
When I was cleaning out my parents' house, I found a can of DDT powder in a shed.
I can remember my father's horror when a container of that shit was found in my great grandmother's little one car garage after she died. That little garage was full of interesting and downright bizarre objects, some at least a century old.
It is very educational to sort through the belongings of a deceased, 99 year old virtual pack rat. Nana saved SO much stuff.
My Dad had already got rid of most of the bad '60s chemicals over the years. I did have things like old Roundup and Weed-b-gone. Not to mention seven different cans of old housepaint, different lubricants (some from the 1950s) and various other weird things he'd accumulated over the years. Hell, I found the manual for the in-counter blender that hadn't worked since I was six.
we got a one year rule
If we have not used it in that year, chances are we are not going to use it, and off to the place it goes
Admittedly, I am a very What IF sort and just don't want that stuff hangin' around
Dad grew up in the Depression (born in '29), so he held on to as much as he could.
LUCKY they make really good biscuits when you got lots of family over for the holiday.
s/ ......maybe.
I went to school with a guy who tried to kill his whole family with rat poison. Didn't work. He went to jail.
So begging the court for mercy because he nearly became an orphan didn't work?
yikes, glad they caught him, that's a painful way to go.
I have no idea why he did that. He was always a weird kid. Never went to prison, as I think it was decided he'd be safer in county, as a trustee, of all things. That was a pretty humane decision, actually. He wouldn't have lasted a day in prison.
yikes!
Yeah, considering it had been banned for what? Fifty years? I took it to the fire department and let them deal with it.
Well done tek!
My sibs were all in a knot about "what the hell are we gonna do with all this stuff??!?"
"take it to the disposal company"
Duh.
This place is a sharp operation... they come out to your car with their carts of bins, sort right out of your car, take it in, weigh it, ring you up and done.
The inside of the building is clean and organized.
A lot of it was model-airplane related paints/solvents/fuels/etc.. Dad did RC model airplanes since before I was born. And I'm old enough to get a senior discount at the disposal place.
YEAH.
Maggie Haberman Says Trump Team Feels Good About Docs Case Because ‘Trump Appointed’ The Judge — Believes She’s Benefiting Him
https://www.mediaite.com/news/maggie-haberman-says-trump-team-feels-good-about-docs-case-because-trump-appointed-the-judge-believes-shes-benefiting-him/
And we can be sure if they get power again the US court system will be entirely at his service, Roland Freisler style.
Why this injustice is allowed to stand is beyond my feeble understanding. He stole and blabbed state secrets for fucks sake!
I do have some serious doubts about her.
It’s very weird and bizarre. The accusation in the media about Hunter Biden’s case is that Joe Biden somehow intervened even though the Trump appointed prosecutor says nope it was his decision.
And yet this is somehow totally fine and normal? WTF?
Dude's living on a prayer.
lol
Just saying the quiet parts out loud there
They do it because they get away with it.
the NYT would run nothing but op eds on how Wrong It IS Biden Got To Shop for A Judge
Hell, they'd even question it if it was an Obama judge or Clinton judge
But this fucko can go judge shopping and it is all Shruggy guy emoji lol
Hell, they were running op-eds about how wrong it was for Biden to get his son a plea deal even though no evidence such a thing occurred.
If a Biden appointed judge was overseeing a case involving his son it would be decried as improper, bias, corruption, and calls for recusal would abound.
But this is just like, “oh yeah, Trump is confident he’s got this in the bag. He appointed the judge. That’s perfectly ok.”
hes not wrong about this one....stopped clock...
I was watching MSNBC last night and I learned something from Ali Velshi. Apparently I missed this when it happened.
Trump gave a speech recently and thanked Hannibal Lecter for supporting him.
Apparently he got Hannibal Lecter confused with the actor who portrayed him, Anthony Hopkins. Except Anthony Hopkins didn't say anything supportive of Trump. Another actor who portrayed Lecter is Brian Cox, who has become an American citizen. He calls Trump "a fucking asshole."
I heard his dad, with a bakery in Wales, keeps it open for him in case the acting thing doesn't work out.
Anthony Hopkins says he doesn't vote. "I don’t vote because I don’t trust anyone. We’ve never
got it right, human beings. We are all a mess, and we’re very early in our evolution." Weak, Tony, weak.
Brian Cox had some words for PAB in 2022.
"You go, how the f*ck can this country vote for such a f*cking as*hole? And yet, this part of this country will, you know, adore him. What is it they adore? What is it they want? And how disappointing that is. "
https://www.sportskeeda.com/pop-culture/fact-check-did-hannibal-lecter-say-loves-donald-trump-anthony-hopkins-claim-debunked
Thank you for adding that. I did not have the full quote from Brian Cox.
We are all Brian Cox.
Protest vote never made sense to me. No one know you did it unless you tell them. It's childish. It's as bad as those who say they won't vote for PAB but won't vote for Joe Biden or Hilary Clinton either. Grow up.
It's cowardly
It is abdicating responsibility while still claiming to have the moral high ground
Like every Rethuglicon Drumpfenfuehrer rewrites history to suit his narrative, but IncompeDon redefines the entire concept of "Fiction/Fantasy".
Even if Hannibal Lecter was a real person, I question the value of his endorsement.
There's not enough chianti in the world to make Trump's liver palatable.
Likely his liver fattier than a force fed goose's.
literal eating people's faces party
"But he's so smart!"
"He says what Ah'm a'thinkin'"
If nothing else by virtue of his...unique standards.
For his dogs and cats
Unequivocally correct.
Trump has said several insane things, even by his standards, in the last few weeks. It's possible his mind is deteriorating rapidly.
But Biden's age, polls, and the anger of Palestinian-Americans are much more interesting stories for the media to chase
Trump's mind is clearly pudding, but because he's shouty and MAGA has an uncomfortable crush on him he's not seen that way.
A line from a book I'm reading comes to mind: "it's like someone shit in his skull and forgot to mix it."
Trump makes more verbal flubs than Biden does, but Biden is the only one who ever gets blamed.
I should add that I have a chinchilla named Hannibal Lecter, so I checked with him to see if he knew anything about this, but no.
I can ask, but I don't think my daughter's dog Hans Gruber endorses OrangeYouGladHe'sNot.
Please ask. You can never be too careful.
To Donnie Dipshit, "fucking asshole" is probably a compliment in his eyes.
In the dialectics of contemporary media, we can guess, when we see this headline in the NYT, that it is some Israeli attack:
They Ran Into a Bomb Shelter for Safety. Instead, They Were Slaughtered.
but upon reading, for a while:
Nearly 30 young people took refuge inside a grimy bunker on the morning of Oct. 7, hoping the reinforced-concrete shelter near the border with Gaza would fulfill its promise of protection.
But just after 7:40 a.m., when a group of Hamas assailants, armed with assault rifles and grenades, attacked the shelter near Kibbutz Re’im in southern Israel, the very characteristics that made the tiny fortress a refuge from incoming rockets turned it into a deathtrap for those inside
Dammit.
DAMN all of this fucking horror and those responsible.
The horror of this whole thing is just overwhelming.
I'm rewatching The Last Ship while I get some eBay shit done. I loved this show when it first aired (give me any kind of end of the world stuff, and I'm there), but I'm having a bit of trouble not tearing up now, because the fucking "Immunes" are reminding me of all the RW militia type assholes running around my country right now.
Two quotes from Wikipedia"
"After a global viral pandemic wipes out over 80% of the world's population..."
"Entertainment Weekly's Ray Rahman said of the second season, 'The story is getting more interesting as we get an on-the-ground sense of how the pandemic-ravaged US has fared'."
It's a global pandemic, yet it's all about the US. There are other people in the world, you know.
What I lack in discipline I make up for with creativity. Local apple stand just got some heirloom apples in today, but I’m supposed to put in 6 hours of studying. Solution: listen to recorded class lectures while slicing apples for pie.