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BrickHorn

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  1. The new pope contains potassium benzoate.
  2. I don’t know much about this new pope, but I’m guessing he won’t overturn the Catholic Church’s long-standing delusion that god exists.
  3. I know, right? Genocide is such a flimsy pretext.
  4. When I visited India years ago, I woke up one morning to an armored bus marked “RIOT POLICE” sitting across the street. That freaked me the fuck out. A riot seemed plausible. Indian streets are a constant buzz of noise and chaos, so it was hard to distinguish between the everyday sound of India and a riot. Turns out it was nothing - the shack across the street was the equivalent of a donut shop. So of course the cops drove the fucking riot bus there to grab a bite.
  5. Arteta: “It’s not fair that Liverpool won the league with 82 points, because we finished second with 84 and 89 points the past two seasons.” Scousers who remember 2018-19 and 2021-22: “You don’t want to play this game, Lego man.”
  6. Trump finally found a casino he can’t bankrupt.
  7. Damn. Where’d you find a copy of my wife’s wedding vows?
  8. Good. This may be an unpopular opinion but, if we’re going to cut public funding for anything, it should be school sports.
  9. Lol at the idea that Harvard teaches its students to hate capitalism. Back in the day, we were force-fed such Marxist principles as the corporate duty to maximize shareholder profit and the tragedy of the commons.
  10. Now that’s the kind of rigorous constitutional ignorance we’ve come to expect from the party of textual originalism!
  11. Indeed. Especially since it was set up by poor decisions and execution. The Blues had chances to kill clock and get cleaner shots on the empty net, but panicked instead. But honestly, the Jets outplayed us significantly over the last two periods. They deserved the win. There’s always next year…
  12. Mo is playing like shit today. No touch. Otherwise we’re dominating possession and creating more chances.
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    High

    Based on this, there’s a strong chance they will.
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    Spoon

    @jimmyjazz may be the only Surlster who can claim earlier Spoon fanhood than me, although plenty of yall are probably deeper, more current fans. (I lost track of them years ago). I first heard Spoon on the KNACK Homegroan, Vol. III CD in 1995. “Dismember” was on that record, and also got a lot of radio play around that time. We played that CD nonstop that year. We saw Spoon once or twice in local shows. The one I recall specifically had them opening for Gal’s Panic at Electric Lounge. Anyway, I bought Telephono when it released in 1996 and played the grooves off of it. As a EE major, I was tickled by the Smith chart printed on the disc. It’s an unpopular opinion, but that’s still my favorite Spoon album. It’s a rare “listen to the whole thing, front to back” record for me. Anyway, we plan to see them open for Pixies in September. Telephono is basically a Pixies album, so maybe they’ll play some of the old stuff.
  15. The phrase “think tank founded by Stephen Miller” is right up there with “Aggie logic” and “Richard Simmons, pussy slayer” in the all-time oxymoron rankings.
  16. I think I just found my path out of the legal practice. Superintendent of Satanic Charter Schools has a nice ring to it.
  17. Object permanence is woke bullshit.
  18. The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the working class to worship unregulated capitalism.
  19. My mother was a witch She was burned alive Thankless little bitch Oh, the tears I cried
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    La Liga 24-25

    I saw Rudiger got sent off for throwing something at the referee. Real is such a trash ass club. Fuck those fascist crybabies.
  21. TSLA is up something like 10%+ since its disappointing earnings report dropped. Maybe your MIL just understands the backassward reality we live in. I’m starting to think we’d all do well with the Costanza Opposite approach these days.
  22. In the old days, a 2-seat pickup truck was good for transporting 9-10 people at a time.
  23. I love that Khruangbin is absolutely devoted to its aesthetic (both visually and sonically). Their stage show is an almost theatrical performance. It’s like watching a long-form perfume commercial. Mark and Laura are committed to the wigs and a vaguely European chic style. Their choreography is slow and deliberate. The band even exits the stage together, in a tidy single file line. There was no rock talk, no looseness, no fucking around. Those dudes took the stage and put on a two hour performance, never breaking character until the final send off after the encore. That commitment tracks in their discography, too. They manage to evolve without losing their trademark sound. (My wife put it succinctly: “Khruangbin will never have an ‘Eras’ tour.”) When you play a Khruangbin album, you know what you’re getting: the bastard child of surf guitar and Ravi Shankar over a funky baseline and metronomic drums, maybe with a dash of repetitive, sultry vocals. It might be a little funky, or vaguely Latin, or Eastern influenced; but it’s always distinctly Khruangbin. It was 45 minutes into the show last night before they played a song I recognized. But at the same time, I felt like I had heard them all before.
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