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GhostOfTomJoad

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  1. Well fuck. It was gopher country then so...
  2. Mid-ranking security detail acting like a drunken asshole who probably tried to pull the 'do you know who you're messing with,pal' act before getting lit up? Hegseth better watch his step. His replacement as Sec of Defense is already on deck.
  3. Damn. The lunch ticket/free lunch pass hits home. We had a similar setup in MN when I was a kid. We were fortunate enough not to qualify for the free lunch, but my friends who did suffered teasing from classmates & even scorn from the lunch lady we bought our tickets from each week. That just brought back a painful memory from 45 years ago.
  4. I helped my dad steal dirt. We'd drive a few miles to the neighboring town which was mostly farm land. On the side of one backroad was probably a 10' bluff of good top soil. We'd shovel the dirt I to plastic tubs then throw them in the back of the '73 Plymouth station wagon & take back home to level out a section of our backyard. Probably made twenty trips one summer weekend. People would drive by occasionally but nobody said anything. The land nearby was clearly fenced and there was a driveway about 100 yards past where we'd dig. The closest we came to being caught was when I noticed so.e teenagers looking back down at us from top of the bluff, but they were just a young couple out smoking & poking.
  5. Lots of hand me downs. But because I was the only boy & had 2 older sisters I was getting girls' clothing. It was pretty much limited to winter sweaters which also meant my sisters were forced to wear plain, drab shit (not easy to do in the '70s). The worst part was not being able to have my own boy's bicycle w/ the top bar. I had to ride a girl's bike for the first few years which meant I was picked on constantly in my shitty, poor MN town. When my sisters moved up to 10-speeds, my dad took a bottom bar off of one of their bikes and had it welded upside down on another bike to make it a boy's bike. Except it still had the two bottom bars so yeah, I was still teased ruthlessly & got my ass kicked because of my hybrid boy/girl bike.
  6. I was watching the Longhorn baseball game at the local watering hole yesterday and was catching up w/ a friendly acquaintance I haven't seen in a few months. He's in his 60s and could retire at any time but is waiting for a package out the door. He must be a Fox News/Newsmax type because he decided to sneak in a talking point about "well, the stock market was overdue for a correction after hitting 45,000 so in the long run this is probably a healthy thing." I damn near choked on my beer w/ laughter and told him "that's the equivalent of saying 'well, my car two-year old car with 12,000 miles on it was due for an oil change so it's really for the best that an uninsured motorist plowed into it and totaled it in the parking lot of Home Depot.'" Totally clueless.
  7. I don't know if a hundred people have heard this. Came out exclusively to independent stores on Record Day in 2014. It was a scathing indictment of the Bush/Cheney years. It's even more applicable today. "She says, in this house it's so easy/To set a world on fire/All you need is a name/The money/And a soul full of reckless desire"
  8. Plus we opened up huge doors for farmers in South America to penetrate while American farmers were caught in the middle of the original tariffs war. Take a look at which countries' farmers are experiencing real growth in APAC and which ones are struggling to return to pre-2018 levels.
  9. If there's justice in the universe, all of their Kentucky homes will be destroyed by the storms moving through the area. And when they stand there, hat in hand, waiting on FEMA and federal assistance they are greeted with "too bad, so sad." And a bunch of Canadians should be allowed to stand there, point, laugh, and say how they think it's funny.
  10. Overlooked but worth watching for the performances. That's a solid cast in a film bigger than it's budgetary restrictions.
  11. He announced today that Tracks II is coming out in June. Recordings from 1983 - 2018 that are essentially seven unreleased albums. The original Tracks was pretty remarkable. The Promise had some nice outtakes from the Darkness era with some so-so filler. Sony's looking to get some return on their half billion dollar investment. I'm probably one of the few who's gonna throw down $350 for nine LPs.
  12. Terms of Endearment
  13. Pitfall. It was the tits back then.
  14. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang is a damn fun movie.
  15. You're overthinking the cursing. Just look at the Texas values currently represented by our top politicos (unabashed greed, moral depravity, adultery, thievery & using high office to amass wealth illegally, etc). Add to that the continued erosion of rights for women, children, POC, the LGBTQ+ community, etc. "Texas Values" = be a straight, white, male Christian (in name, not deed) and everything is great.
  16. @immamac and why, exactly, have you not marketed a special Weird MF tier of surlyhorns membership?
  17. The book is both a prequel and a sequel to Heat which means H2 would be very expensive to film if Mann is going to make an honest attempt to capture the tone of the original. Location shooting alone would take the production to at least 3 continents. And the reported list of actors Mann is pursuing is intriguing but would likely require pay cuts if they really want to get this made. Adam Driver - Neil McCauley Austin Butler - Chris Shiherlis Ana de Armas - Elisa (new character) Jeremy Allen White and Channing Tatum are apparently also pursuing roles if you believe wikipedia. But I'd take any report of Pacino reprising his role as Vincent w/ a huge grain of salt (and if true, hope to fuck it's just a short cameo).
  18. It's been interesting watching the changes to monthly updates that my financial advisor puts forth on a monthly basis over the past 6 months from the lead up to the election, inauguration, and now. As recently as two months ago they were long & had tremendous detail w/ graphs, charts, comparisons to dotard's first term, etc. The one that they produced in early March didn't take a whole lot of imagination to see that they're all clamoring to find some way to polish the turd Trump and DOGE are dropping on us all, but they can't. Just a cautionary tale about times being "uncertain" and that market corrections are overdue, etc.
  19. Oh for fuck's sake. Barnes is exactly who his record says it is: A very good coach with some seasons that wildly exceed expectations mixed with a few too many WTF results. He cleans up well, his programs avoided major stink, and he covered up his earlier personal foibles well enough to avoid much scrutiny. He's made a shit load of money raising the bar at football schools. But he's a hall of very good type who'll make the HOF due to a long career.
  20. Yeah, it's gotta piss off the O&G fat cats who've long counted on the influence their money buys. Except they maybe didn't count on the king of the grifters to turn around and let them know that he's got more than enough oligarchs, tech bros, and assorted billionaires beholden to him to make up their end.
  21. John Lennon, MacKenzie Phillips, Alice Cooper & Mickey Dolenz I got. Who's the dude in the sweater? Surely not Gordo.
  22. Barnes was a Bible thumping hypocrite whose "spiritual advisor" was casting far too long of a shadow in the locker room. The timing of his exit was good for all parties.
  23. Well you see when these people and thousands (millions?) others stop receiving their checks, the administration will simply proclaim that to be a lie. Everyone who was supposed to get their benefits was paid, the others were fraudsters. And don't believe any reports from the lame stream liberal media. Whatever DOGE reports on X is the truth.
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