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  1. Kate from the B-52s is selling a VERY cool property.  I'd buy it myself but I've already got a desert place...but this one is better. 

    https://www.ocregister.com/2024/05/01/b-52s-kate-pierson-lists-her-airstream-retreat-in-mojave-desert-for-452k/

     

    Kate Pierson of The B-52s has listed her kitschy Airstream “glampground” in the Mojave Desert for $452,000.

    Sited in unincorporated Landers with mountain views, Kate’s Lazy Desert comprises two parcels for a total of 10 acres. It comes with six fully hooked up and equipped vintage trailers, including one filled with B-52s memorabilia, a 400-square-foot “homestead cabin” dating to 1955 and a 225-square-foot storage shed.

    Records show Pierson and her wife,  the artist and designer Monica Coleman, paid $18,000 for the initial 5-acre property in November 2011. A year later, Kate’s Lazy Desert opened for business with nightly rates from $200-plus, Yelp.com reviews show. In June 2017, the couple expanded the grounds through the purchase of a neighboring 5-acre vacant lot for $20,000.

    Since it hit the market in early April, the listing agent Niko Esposito of Paul Kaplan Group/Bennion Deville Homes has heard from “starry-eyed super creatives,” adventure groups and investors hoping to take advantage of the conditional use permit included in the asking price.

    The CUP allows the next owner to operate the property as a motel, trailer park or campground.

    Given the area’s history as a gathering place for spiritualists and UFO enthusiasts, it’s also ideal for “cosmic vibing” and “extraterrestrial communicating,” the listing reads.

    The property is near Joshua Tree National Park, The Integratron and Giant Rock Boulder, a seven-story monolith. There are also popular restaurants in the area, including Pappy and Harriet’s and La Copine.

    Pierson, 76, is a founding member and vocalist of The B-52s. Formed in Athens, Georgia, in 1976, the band — including Fred Schneider, Keith Strickland and Cindy Wilson — has produced hits such as “Rock Lobster,” “Love Shack,” “Roam” and many others over the years and continues to perform.

    n addition to The B-52s, Pierson has appeared as a guest vocalist on Iggy Pop’s “Candy” and R.E.M.’s “Shiny Happy People.” She released her debut solo album, “Guitars and Microphones,” in 2015.

    Pierson also ventured into vacation rentals. Before Kate’s Lazy Desert, she launched Kate’s Lazy Meadow, a Catskills motel, in 2003. After selling that property in August 2021 for $2.3 million, Pierson and Coleman opened Kate’s Lazy Cape, a beach house in Truro, Massachusetts. The property is advertised on Airbnb at $850 nightly.

    For those not familiar, Pappy and Harriet's is a very cool place that's had major acts.  Paul played there before Coachella a few years back. 

  2. DELTA COUNTY, Mich. (WLUC) - After raising questions at a past board meeting, the Delta County Board of Commissioners has voted to continue funding MSU Extension’s 4-H program.

    The vote at Monday’s special board meeting was 4 to 1, with Commissioner Bob Barron saying he voted no because of the program’s diversity, equity and inclusion principles (DEI).

    MSU Extension District Director Paul Putnam addressed the board at the meeting. He said DEI at the extension is about making sure all Delta County youth have access to 4-H.

    “We provide access to all youth regardless of ability, disability, race, color, creed,” Putnam said. “We get people upset every year at county fairs cause there’s kids with purple hair or they have a t-shirt on that they don’t like. They’re out there. We provide services.”

    Also at Monday’s meeting, the board voted to ask MDARD to investigate Delta Conservation District Board Chair Joe Kaplan for possible breach of confidentiality and discrimination within the Michigan Agriculture Environmental Assurance Program (MAEAP).

    During discussion, county Administrator Ashleigh Young told the board she had discussed the confidentiality concern with a representative from MAEAP, who told her there were no confidentiality breaches.

    The vote was 3 to 2, with Commissioner Steven Viau and Commissioner John Malnar voting no.

    Copyright 2024 WLUC. All rights reserved.

     
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  3. On 4/26/2024 at 4:49 PM, Gatorubet said:

    that is really a perplexing situation. Nobody has ever mistaken me for Brad Pitt.    I’ve only met Surly peeps Immamac and Bolverk IRL.  They will sign affidavits that I’m not a head turner.    I did not date a lot in high school but U of Florida being such a large school there was plenty of opportunity to be shut down that was more acceptable in such a large pond.   And there were enough women there a few of them with bad judgment were totally OK dating me.

    After I graduated and started earning some coin, the 80s were fantastic.   I remember one week I slept with a 16-year-old and a 39-year-old (I knew of Xavier college - but there was also a Xavier prep school.  I met the 16 yo her on the riverboat President where X had a concert. The young lady was apparently a Billy zoom fan.)

    The 39-year-old was a recently divorced insurance adjuster, and she picked my 26-year-old self up at a bar during Mardi Gras.   That was my first experience with semi-encapsulated breast implants, but I powered through it

    The simple point is, if you keep swinging your bat, you will eventually get a hit. All of these guys quit stepping up to the plate.  Thinking back, I blame me marrying the ex-wife on the fact that she spent the night - and when I woke up the next morning - I found her earring under my pillow and handed it back to her.  Oops. Turns out it was not her earring.   I then told her “I tried to get a Mormon girl up to my bed  and she was shaking her head vigorously so it must’ve fallen off. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it. “   I believe it was that moment that my ex-wife decided she would go after me full-time because then it became her versus the competition. 

    tldr:  even an ugly Mook like me can get laid if you just put some minor effort into it, shower and cut your toenails occasionally, try not to look like a Pacific Northwest grunge band member from the 90s when you dress, and have something to talk about with your date.  And by that I mean, let your date do most of the talking, and you nod and pretend to look fascinated (until you become fascinated).  That’s about all you need.

    that's funny

    On 4/27/2024 at 8:40 AM, Helobious said:

    Wonder if the decline in sex is partly due to the fact that young men today are more weary of committing statutory rape or having sex with impaired women, who by legal definition can’t consent (also known as rape). Or at least that’s what I’m getting from this thread. 

     

    On 4/27/2024 at 8:46 AM, Celery Man said:

    I doubt that the change is because men are raping less.

    I look at reddit now and again.  it's fucking insane.

    "Today I woke up to my boyfriend's finger in my vagina"

    OMG YOU'VE BEEN SEXUALLY ASSAULTED"


    I've turned down plenty of pussy because the lady had too many drinks.  But, if my girlfriend/wife is/was drunk, it's fucking ON.  With nary a complaint the next day, except maybe a "wow...I'm a little sore". 

     

    Look at the schoolteacher threads.  A female teacher has sex with a 14 year old boy, it's high-fives for the kid.  Turn that shit around, and it's '"GET A ROPE"

     

  4. Under threat of legal action, San Diego-based One America News has retracted a story on its website falsely suggesting that Michael Cohen was having an affair with Stormy Daniels.

    Last month’s post by OAN contributor Brooke Mallory, based on a false tweet, also said lawyer Cohen had tried to extort his former boss, Donald Trump, before the 2016 election.

    “OAN today has retracted its March 27 article entitled ‘Whistleblower: Avenatti Alleged Cohen­ Daniels Affair Since 2006, Pre-2016 Trump Extortion Plan, and is taking it down from all sites and removing it from all social media,” the far-right network said Monday.

    In a 450-word post, OAN added that the retraction was part of a settlement reached with Cohen and “OAN apologizes to Mr. Cohen for any harm the publication may have caused him.”

    No money changed hands, both sides told Times of San Diego.

    Cohen was represented in the defamation matter by Austin-based lead counsel Justin Nelson of Susman Godfrey LLP, “who was retained after publication of the article, said a statement. “Co-counsel is E. Danya Perry of Perry Law PLLC, who separately represents Mr. Cohen in other matters.”

    Nelson said: “Today’s retraction by OAN represents a victory for accountability. This retraction is not about money. It is about protecting the truth.”

    Perry called the outcome a vindication for Cohen.

    “He has faced severe consequences for telling the truth,” she said in a statement. “With this action, he has made clear that those who slander him will face their own consequences.”

    OAN’s report on the retraction said Cohen alerted OAN to the false statements that said Michael Avenatti, imprisoned former lawyer for retired porn star Daniels, had been the source of the affair/extortion claims.

    “OAN promptly investigated and learned that Mr. Avenatti denied making the allegations,” OAN said. “To be clear, no evidence suggests that Mr. Cohen and Ms. Daniels were having an affair and no evidence suggests that Mr. Cohen ‘cooked up’ the scheme to extort the Trump Organization before the 2016 election.”

    OAN quoted Cohen as denying an affirmative with Daniels, whose receipt of $130,000 in a hush-money case has put Trump in criminal jeopardy.

    “The notion that right before the election I would extort the man I fervently supported and believed was about to become president, all to make $130,000 that I did not even keep for myself, is beyond absurd,” Cohen said. “It’s just plain stupid.”

    Cohen says he and Daniels never met or even spoke to one another until a 2021 podcast interview, OAN reported.

    “In that interview – well before the alleged plot was hatched – the two both stated at that time that they had never met before,” OAN said.

    In another statement, Daniels said: “I am pleased that OAN has agreed to retract this story and has acknowledged that the statement is false. While this settlement cannot undo the harm that the publication caused me, it is important to set the record straight — which is what this settlement does.”

    Times of San Diego reached out to Mallory, author of the retracted story, but OAN lawyer Babcock responded on behalf of the Trump-friendly network.

    He couldn’t answer a question about Mallory’s status with the website, calling it a personnel matter. But her most recent post was time-stamped 11:04 a.m. Monday — with the headline “OnlyFans Creator, Popular TikToker Claims She Was Funded To Spread Propaganda For Biden Admin Online.”

    In a phone interview, OAN lawyer Chip Babcock told me legal talks about the alleged defamation began a little over a week ago.

    Cohen’s lawyers “contacted OAN and OAN asked me to to interact with Justin and I did and so it came together in a very short period of time,” Babcock said, noting that his legal counterpart Nelson once ran for Texas attorney general. (Democrat Nelson lost in 2018 to Republican Ken Paxton by 3.6 percentage points.)

    A source on the Cohen side said the former Trump fixer “prioritized a quick and full retraction.”

    Could Tony Seruga of Newport Beach, the X source for the affair story, be sued for defamation?

    “Yeah, he could be,” Times of San Diego was told. “He’s impossible to find.”

    Updated at 1:38 p.m. April 29, 2024

     

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  5. On 4/18/2024 at 12:42 PM, Dbeasy said:

    Finally watched it. Went in with my cheese ball meter properly calibrated. It was exactly that. I therefore had to watch every minute of it so that I can complain about it later. Actually didn’t recognize McGregor at first because I’m not a mma/ufc fan. His acting was horrific. Dumb movie but watchable if you have the right mindset going in. 

    Very, very high, and very, very drunk

  6. 4 hours ago, Born to Run said:
    23 hours ago, Gil Bang said:
    I'm a city boy from the San Diego beaches. 
    But, I've met a few goats. They were all assholes.  I've never murdered one of them. 

    You surf brah?

    Uhh...I'm not gonna send you a pic of my cock.  Leave me alone.

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  7. 4 hours ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

    I wonder how many people getting mad about this are the same ones that gave Britney Griner shit for carrying a bit of weed into Russia?

    She was a fucking idiot, and had no business going to Russia in the first place, but, carry on, I suppose.

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  8. 10 hours ago, BrazilHorn said:

    This changes nothing for Oracle as next to no one moved to Austin from Redwood Shores (Oracle’s old HQ). (Beyond perhaps a small handful).  Certainly no senior execs did. 
     

    Nashville has been in the works for several years and Covid delayed it significantly. They already had all the incentives from the state of TN for the office buildout along banks of Cumberland river close to where the Titans play.
     

    No clue why Ellison made this announcement as it does nothing and means nothing. He lives in Hawaii and the CEO for Oracle (Katz) lives in Florida. 
     

     

    There's a pretty solid chance that he's not the only "Katz" in the Florida phone book.   Tennessee, on the other hand...

  9. 14 hours ago, Jive Turkey said:

    this is kinda big.  Howard is the best interviewer in the game.  i expect Trump to rip into Howard and call him a has been who only made it big because Trump appeared on his show.  "He begged me like a dog to come on.  He'd be nothing without me."

     

    Reports say Bababooey is the one that made this happen. He's been working the campaign for many months.  if so, good for Gary.  He's a good guy 

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