If you find yourself losing the will to live remind yourself of the joy such a thing would bring your enemies and that refusing to die is the greatest fuck you/act of defiance you can possibly deliver to them. May you live to 100 my friend!
I once saw a picture of an old moustacheod British man sitting alone at his kitchen table, dressed in his old gardening clothes and reading the newspaper with a cup of tea in front of him. Clearly working class and maybe a widower. The tea and paper seemed enough for him, at least preferable to being dead or strung up by his ankles in some torture cell in Ramallah. Made me think of Orwell out there on his lonely Scottish island at the end of his life. Perhaps people just need very low expectations from life, as Thomas Hardy advocates in his poem 'He Never Expected Much'. I'm not sure where the idea that life should be fun comes from. Maybe all those smiley TV presenters have fooled us into thinking that smiling like an idiot all day is normal behaviour. Just being conscious and not suffering is perhaps good enough.
I largely agree with you but none of that relates to my comment about Dave losing the will to live. He wrote that he neither wants to be dead nor here. My thought was that he was feeling like others were having lots of fun while he gets through the day on alcohol. That's what I was commenting on. No Gaza, no China, no Wokeness.
You may be right that some of this is Saudi/Russia funded but this looks to me like we are going rotten from the inside rather than outside influences corrupting us. The trendy leftists who came of age in the 1960's became teachers and journalists and in a vicious circle the schools, universities and media have been staffed by ever more resentful people whose ideas just get weirder by the day in an attempt to outdo each other. Some kind of collapse is bound to come and then some awful alternative (China, Islam etc.) will step into the breach. Luckily I'll no longer be here to see that.
"Gomer Pyle was executed for deviant sexual behavior, Otis the Drunk is doing hard labor, and Ernest T. Bass was “evacuated to the East.”" Post-stroke Floyd was declared a "useless eater" and euthanized.
I used to love such films, and they genuinely scared me. After Jaws there was a spate of them, of course. Grizzly, The Swarm, Orca, etc, and all cashed in on our fear of nature’s wrath, and sometimes of human meddling with nature. I was ready to fear The Night of the Lepus, but enjoyed laughing at it with my friends. My older brother went to a re-release of The Night of the Iguana highly deceived, and left disappointed. I could imagine Count Floyd showing TNOTI by mistake
Only two movies, that I know of, utilized what John Hodgman called the classic dramatic situation of All Animals vs All Humans: Frogs, and Day of the Animals
Did Streisand purposefully sabotage Kristofferson's role and songs in A Star is Born in order to make sure he didn't outshine her? And will a posthumous Kristofferson memoir get released (there were stories he was working on one during the Covid lockdown)? What's his best movie role: maybe Blume in Love, in which he played a character who'd watched Gone with the Wind 40 times or so in movie theaters, and who broke into tears when he found out Susan Anspach was cheating on him with George Segal?
Some people say it was in The Sailor who fell from Grace with the Sea but I loved him in Pat Garret and Billy the Kid as Billy. I like his guest turn on the Muppet Show too. Rita Coolidge was co-host naturally. Didn't he star in a T.V. version of Stagecoach? I remember another stinker he made about the Soviets occupying the States called Amerika. Kinda dumb.
Awe David, I love you buddy, you know, for probably a year or so now, I have felt the exact same way. Okay, I’m not entirely sure it’s EXACTLY the same, but my whole moving to the woods and stuff, is kinda based on what you are describing, but far more articulately than me, here, now! Haha! No, but seriously, I think I actually GET what you’re saying here, finally! (And a rare treat for me because a lot of shit you say and write is soooo over my fucking simple head!) in my own way, I like you, wanna not be here, but be here! I can totally relate and know exactly what you mean. I dunno what to do about it either, I can’t drink rum, but those woods and total isolation looks more appetizing by the day. Anyway, enough of My whining! Enjoy your haze when you can I say! I love the shit out of you Dave! I’ve always got your back! You just reach me anytime you please If you should ever need some cheering up!! I’ll even do a little stupid dance for ya! I’ll make one up! Haha! All my love, take care, and don’t fall down from the rum!
Ash, you're so damn beautiful, your Facebook pics brighten my day, every time you post 'em. Especially knowing that you're a friend. I can look at those pics and be like, "that hot perfect kick-ass babe is my buddy!" I'm doing as much of this month as I can in a rum-stupor...and I'm genuinely not certain I can even do it for a month anymore. Getting old sucks. But the friendship of a beautiful woman makes anything and everything better. Love ya!
Same reason I moved to the land of the swamps. I love rum but have to be responsible about my drinking as I care for an adult disabled son. Otherwise, I'd probably go through a lot more of it.
Well now you know why I have ALL of my clocks set to 24 hour format.
As to not wanting to be here, I was obviously not meant to be born in 1962. I would have thrived would I had been born in 1162, in the steppes of Central Asia.
Yeah, it is 03:31 and I'm sittin' around watchin' a trio of Mongolian women folk singers on YT. I am comparing their noses, I can't decide if I like Bolormaa's, Delgermaa's or Oyuumaa's nose better? Hell, I don't even know which one is which, WTF !!! Cued up to the best part:
on another note entirely-- Dave- maybe make note of the Bridgerton Ball (in Dee-troyt!) I think cold fries would've been welcome compared to what was served!
This is what happened when you sell a bill of goods to a community that has nothing to do w/ said "bill of goods" !
'Bridgerton Ball' Fail Goes Viral, Sparking Memes And Mockery
" ... well, let’s just say the town’s changed a bit ... " --- You didn't mention Floyd the Barber, he's still there - probably a snitch - watching all the goings-on through his coke-bottle glasses, sweaty, muttering "ohh ohhh OH."
Dave - in a pile of Cole there are always a few diamonds. That joke about Barbra Streisand's nose was first rate.
My guess is your post-election day column says Kamala wins, which is depressing as hell. Trump has gone downhill (let's say Death Valley to Dead Sea) in last 4 years, less energy, less sanity, less wit (he did have gift for slinging shit, now it just falls at his feet). Desantis would have beaten Trump in primaries it were not for Trump-picks doing so well in 2022 senate race.
Personally, I think Vance had a great debate. I would take DeSantis, but he is maintaining his dignity for the next cycle. Write in win rates are dismal.
Did you read any of that hurricane study? I'm going to assume that you did. I started to. And then I read the part where they stated that they used data going back over six decades. And then I started to cry because I think we're doomed. You know Dave, once in a while I find myself on the floor in a meltdown, usually yelling something like "I can't do this anymore." And I'll usually yell a number of other things too. None of it pretty. Then I get up and fix whatever the current problem is. Or at least try to. So, I get the 'don't wanna be here' sentiment. But here is where we are. And life is always going to try and beat the shit out of you. Sometimes getting the fuck up off the floor is all that matters.
Lucky for me, I like to learn new things. I'm currently studying machine learning and artificial intelligence, which helps tremendously with my stock investments.
As for drinking, I'm like the opposite of our beloved Ol Dave. I drank like a motherfucker as a young man. Inspired by "Animal House" I joined a frat back when drinking at age 18 was legal in our great state - though by 16 I would drink lots of MD 20-20 in grape - you could buy it anywhere without an ID back then in the colored section of town.
Never got high on any drug, and in my 30's, realized I had no reason to drink because I had a wonderful wife and kids that I loved. I don't miss drinking at all. I can't say I love this country, but I'm in a super low crime section of Dallas and quite comfortable.
I hope Trump wins so all the liberals who said they will set themselves on fire or leave will get ridiculed when they don't keep their promises.
I thoroughly enjoy Dave's work, and I hope he will live for ten thousand years. Bonsai!
If you find yourself losing the will to live remind yourself of the joy such a thing would bring your enemies and that refusing to die is the greatest fuck you/act of defiance you can possibly deliver to them. May you live to 100 my friend!
You're a good friend, Mike, and I assure you, I've no desire to cash out. But man, I do like these brief intervals of "haziness."
Never drive through water of an unknown depth. Unless someone dares you to, then you kind of have to.
LOL!
I once saw a picture of an old moustacheod British man sitting alone at his kitchen table, dressed in his old gardening clothes and reading the newspaper with a cup of tea in front of him. Clearly working class and maybe a widower. The tea and paper seemed enough for him, at least preferable to being dead or strung up by his ankles in some torture cell in Ramallah. Made me think of Orwell out there on his lonely Scottish island at the end of his life. Perhaps people just need very low expectations from life, as Thomas Hardy advocates in his poem 'He Never Expected Much'. I'm not sure where the idea that life should be fun comes from. Maybe all those smiley TV presenters have fooled us into thinking that smiling like an idiot all day is normal behaviour. Just being conscious and not suffering is perhaps good enough.
I largely agree with you but none of that relates to my comment about Dave losing the will to live. He wrote that he neither wants to be dead nor here. My thought was that he was feeling like others were having lots of fun while he gets through the day on alcohol. That's what I was commenting on. No Gaza, no China, no Wokeness.
You may be right that some of this is Saudi/Russia funded but this looks to me like we are going rotten from the inside rather than outside influences corrupting us. The trendy leftists who came of age in the 1960's became teachers and journalists and in a vicious circle the schools, universities and media have been staffed by ever more resentful people whose ideas just get weirder by the day in an attempt to outdo each other. Some kind of collapse is bound to come and then some awful alternative (China, Islam etc.) will step into the breach. Luckily I'll no longer be here to see that.
All I can say, as a gardener, is it's been a good year for cucumbers!
LOL!!!!
"Gomer Pyle was executed for deviant sexual behavior, Otis the Drunk is doing hard labor, and Ernest T. Bass was “evacuated to the East.”" Post-stroke Floyd was declared a "useless eater" and euthanized.
LOL!
Opie joined the Hitler Jugund and starred in TRIUMPH OF THE FIFE.
LOL!!!!!!
Only thing I like about Kristofferson was Joe Flaherty's impression of him in the SCTV version of A Star is Born (especially the 'critters'): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPdnXVG_uD0&t=11s
Kris Kristofferson’s beard could rope, hogtie, and have its way with Sam Elliott’s mustache, even in death
I'm impressed that he did a movie worse than Heavens Gate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFwD6okL2l4
LOL!!!!!! Yes, his movie track record is...questionable.
Kristofferson was in Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia, but Elliott was in Frogs, and Elliott’s mustache is Kristofferson’s beard’s bitch
Both awfull films but fun to watch. The best part of Frogs is crabby old Ray Milland bitching about everyone and everything. It's just fun.
I used to love such films, and they genuinely scared me. After Jaws there was a spate of them, of course. Grizzly, The Swarm, Orca, etc, and all cashed in on our fear of nature’s wrath, and sometimes of human meddling with nature. I was ready to fear The Night of the Lepus, but enjoyed laughing at it with my friends. My older brother went to a re-release of The Night of the Iguana highly deceived, and left disappointed. I could imagine Count Floyd showing TNOTI by mistake
Only two movies, that I know of, utilized what John Hodgman called the classic dramatic situation of All Animals vs All Humans: Frogs, and Day of the Animals
Ay yi yi! Ain't it the truth? The guy could craft a great song though!
Did Streisand purposefully sabotage Kristofferson's role and songs in A Star is Born in order to make sure he didn't outshine her? And will a posthumous Kristofferson memoir get released (there were stories he was working on one during the Covid lockdown)? What's his best movie role: maybe Blume in Love, in which he played a character who'd watched Gone with the Wind 40 times or so in movie theaters, and who broke into tears when he found out Susan Anspach was cheating on him with George Segal?
Better Segal than Seagal.
Yeah, can Seagal play the banjo? And maybe Jonathan Livingston Seagull is better than Seagal too?
Some people say it was in The Sailor who fell from Grace with the Sea but I loved him in Pat Garret and Billy the Kid as Billy. I like his guest turn on the Muppet Show too. Rita Coolidge was co-host naturally. Didn't he star in a T.V. version of Stagecoach? I remember another stinker he made about the Soviets occupying the States called Amerika. Kinda dumb.
How about Trouble in Mind (1985), directed by Alan Rudolph?
Awe David, I love you buddy, you know, for probably a year or so now, I have felt the exact same way. Okay, I’m not entirely sure it’s EXACTLY the same, but my whole moving to the woods and stuff, is kinda based on what you are describing, but far more articulately than me, here, now! Haha! No, but seriously, I think I actually GET what you’re saying here, finally! (And a rare treat for me because a lot of shit you say and write is soooo over my fucking simple head!) in my own way, I like you, wanna not be here, but be here! I can totally relate and know exactly what you mean. I dunno what to do about it either, I can’t drink rum, but those woods and total isolation looks more appetizing by the day. Anyway, enough of My whining! Enjoy your haze when you can I say! I love the shit out of you Dave! I’ve always got your back! You just reach me anytime you please If you should ever need some cheering up!! I’ll even do a little stupid dance for ya! I’ll make one up! Haha! All my love, take care, and don’t fall down from the rum!
Ash, you're so damn beautiful, your Facebook pics brighten my day, every time you post 'em. Especially knowing that you're a friend. I can look at those pics and be like, "that hot perfect kick-ass babe is my buddy!" I'm doing as much of this month as I can in a rum-stupor...and I'm genuinely not certain I can even do it for a month anymore. Getting old sucks. But the friendship of a beautiful woman makes anything and everything better. Love ya!
Same reason I moved to the land of the swamps. I love rum but have to be responsible about my drinking as I care for an adult disabled son. Otherwise, I'd probably go through a lot more of it.
Hilarious as usual!
Well done - a nose for news...ROTFLMAO!
Here’s hoping that the great Ernest T survives the East, and even gets to visit his second favorite country - Iraq.
Well now you know why I have ALL of my clocks set to 24 hour format.
As to not wanting to be here, I was obviously not meant to be born in 1962. I would have thrived would I had been born in 1162, in the steppes of Central Asia.
Yeah, it is 03:31 and I'm sittin' around watchin' a trio of Mongolian women folk singers on YT. I am comparing their noses, I can't decide if I like Bolormaa's, Delgermaa's or Oyuumaa's nose better? Hell, I don't even know which one is which, WTF !!! Cued up to the best part:
https://youtu.be/Bov-Nd_IrMI?t=150
Any opinion Dave?
Yes, I really need to get help for my unusual affliction, Thanks in advance.
Bless your heart, Dave. I had my wristwatch set to military time for just this reason until I retired and it became irrelevant.
on another note entirely-- Dave- maybe make note of the Bridgerton Ball (in Dee-troyt!) I think cold fries would've been welcome compared to what was served!
This is what happened when you sell a bill of goods to a community that has nothing to do w/ said "bill of goods" !
'Bridgerton Ball' Fail Goes Viral, Sparking Memes And Mockery
Forbes
https://www.forbes.com › Lifestyle › Arts
" ... well, let’s just say the town’s changed a bit ... " --- You didn't mention Floyd the Barber, he's still there - probably a snitch - watching all the goings-on through his coke-bottle glasses, sweaty, muttering "ohh ohhh OH."
Hi Dave! I don't think I will be looking upon a cucumber with anything but disgust for some time.
In Dr. Alan Grant's voice: "Bet you'll never look at cucumbers the same way again."
Absolutely! Dr. Grant warned us not to land! LOL
Dave - in a pile of Cole there are always a few diamonds. That joke about Barbra Streisand's nose was first rate.
My guess is your post-election day column says Kamala wins, which is depressing as hell. Trump has gone downhill (let's say Death Valley to Dead Sea) in last 4 years, less energy, less sanity, less wit (he did have gift for slinging shit, now it just falls at his feet). Desantis would have beaten Trump in primaries it were not for Trump-picks doing so well in 2022 senate race.
Personally, I think Vance had a great debate. I would take DeSantis, but he is maintaining his dignity for the next cycle. Write in win rates are dismal.
maybe the Trump would-be assassins were trying to get Vance to head of the ticket.
His debate was 100x better than Trump's. I guess I give T credit for picking Vance
I have to ask, Why are they lying about Vance?
Did you read any of that hurricane study? I'm going to assume that you did. I started to. And then I read the part where they stated that they used data going back over six decades. And then I started to cry because I think we're doomed. You know Dave, once in a while I find myself on the floor in a meltdown, usually yelling something like "I can't do this anymore." And I'll usually yell a number of other things too. None of it pretty. Then I get up and fix whatever the current problem is. Or at least try to. So, I get the 'don't wanna be here' sentiment. But here is where we are. And life is always going to try and beat the shit out of you. Sometimes getting the fuck up off the floor is all that matters.
Beats being an untalented iconoclast!
Lucky for me, I like to learn new things. I'm currently studying machine learning and artificial intelligence, which helps tremendously with my stock investments.
As for drinking, I'm like the opposite of our beloved Ol Dave. I drank like a motherfucker as a young man. Inspired by "Animal House" I joined a frat back when drinking at age 18 was legal in our great state - though by 16 I would drink lots of MD 20-20 in grape - you could buy it anywhere without an ID back then in the colored section of town.
Never got high on any drug, and in my 30's, realized I had no reason to drink because I had a wonderful wife and kids that I loved. I don't miss drinking at all. I can't say I love this country, but I'm in a super low crime section of Dallas and quite comfortable.
I hope Trump wins so all the liberals who said they will set themselves on fire or leave will get ridiculed when they don't keep their promises.
I thoroughly enjoy Dave's work, and I hope he will live for ten thousand years. Bonsai!