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Celery Man

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  1. Alright I don’t know which thread this conversation belongs in but I’ll do it here - a couple of years back we did a 10,000 burpees thing, that was very motivating. I don’t want to do fucking burpees but I am trying to come up with some year long metric based exercise goals for 2026 that will support a general goal of cardiac health and some strength building with a slight focus on core. Personally, I’m thinking probably some peloton mileage goal (easy enough) and then maybe…. 10,000 pushups? X minutes planked?

    if anyone is looking for or has set a resolution/goal/whatever for 2026 and wants to do a surly challenge, within reason I’m game

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  2. 8 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

    Purely anecdotal, but LaHa seems to have a pretty high success rate.

    And, it doesn't seem to be second or third tries, either.

    again anecdotal, and of course people go to laha and fall off like any other place, but I saw some of this with the family member as well. it was not their first time doing rehab, and it was a lot of "oh man this place is completely different, I'm getting so much more out of this" when I went to visit. I think LaHa is really good in general - I think there are a lot of places that are set up to process insurance and meet legal requirements and etc where LaHa is truly a place and an organization that is centered on a mission of recovery.

    8 hours ago, Kennythetiger said:

    I just lost my second friend from my treatment stay two years ago. 

    it's part of the whole deal and it sucks every time. rest peaceful buddy

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  3. Love this picture 

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    also, this picture I’ve seen a bunch because it’s the last picture before a bunch of hospital shots of ^^that guy being born. We missed it last year but we went back to the same Santa today and I tried to recreate it

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  4. Last year I was posting about a disastrous Thanksgiving for a family member. Was just texting them congrats on 1 year. Man last Thanksgiving was a goddamn shitshow, got to make an impromptu trip to La Hacienda, and then swing back through for family week in December. It’s a magical place.

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  5. Ok I’m a big fan of buying guitars that you randomly like when you’re in the guitar store (my orange gretsch, my j45, my les paul, my dirnt P) and I’m a big fan of buying guitars that fit your theme. Mine is something like “classics checklist” (blonde tele, cherry burst les Paul, burst strat, d28, burst 45, etc, shit maybe it’s bursts) and yours is “none more black”. I’m also a fan of going back to stores to buy the guitar you didn’t buy the last time (my black gretsch, my d41) so look I’ll finally cut to the chase and ask that you post pics and maybe even live video of our new guitar.

     

    also, I think Gibson just reintroduced some version of that Les Paul Special/Junior. Maybe it was the double cutaway that was only available as like a Rick Beato signature or something? I still want one of those specials or juniors.

     

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    can you imagine how insufferable "global warming is a hoax" people would be if the SCIENTISTS SUDDENLY CHANGED THEIR MINDS AND NOW I GUESS GREENHOUSE GAS IS GOOD HMMMMMMM????

     

  7. 2 hours ago, tbone_ said:

    I mean, the overall vibe, hell yeah

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    The upside down bridge on a J45 style guitar also looks like the right kind of rude to go with an all black guitar. mustache bridge works well too. My reservations on that guitar would be.... what exactly is it? EC? Concert depth dreadnought? I'm not sure exactly what that means but it sounds like it might be dreadnought (or presumably, Gibson Jumbo) shaped but thinner front to back. Which is cool but I'd want to play it and understand the volume, unless I'm going to use it plugged in. If you are using it on stage that might actually be really cool and comfortable, especially if you like the baggs pickup. But I'd check to make sure i understand the size, and also maybe play a Gibson or two if you're used to Martin acoustic scale lengths. I feel like you specifically are a Taylor guy? Can't remember their scale.

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  8. I need to go watch again and see how it hits me this time - live I felt kinda the same way about the ending. In retrospect, I feel like this movie caught so much right about how the pandemic felt although obviously it's all over the top and cartoonish. But the whole ending sequence from the deep state false flag chaos through the ascension to power of the lunatic mom... several months out from watching this movie it feels true to how the pandemic felt in the same way that first scene with the car and the masks felt.

  9. Sack finally discovered a limit to his moral pliability when it came to the popular suggestion that, despite and unrelated to the fact that somebody had shot him right in the fucking neck, that Charlie Kirk guy was a real jerk.

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  10. On 8/4/2025 at 6:30 PM, Celery Man said:

    Saw it today with no awareness of what it was at all. They could have taken 40 minutes out and it would have been better. I enjoyed it but won’t think about it nearly as much as Midsommar etc.

     

    for the above, I did think they did a good job of having her continue her psychotic rambling to nobody in particular back at the house - yeah it’s a stretch but as a joke, the idea that they simply take the crazy online lady and put her in makeup and a skirt and she’s a Boebert is a good gag. And it did seem very clear to me that Lou’s dad was her abuser.

    This is out on HBO now I think and I’m going to watch it again. I was wrong, I do think about this movie and it has grown on me. In retrospect I think it was very good.


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    I loved this. Touching/feel good, Brendan Fraser is great. Two for two out of movies I’ve seen of his since his return that have made me have feelings about dadhood. The girl was good. I’ve enjoyed a lot of heavy or political or tense movies lately, this one is a good feelings movie.

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  12. I lived in the neighborhood around Bedicheck - other side of Congress south of Wm Cannon. I remember one time I went to that HEB and pulled into that trailer park neighborhood on the way out to try and get flipped around. Never took that exit out of the HEB again, and really quickly abandoned that store altogether in favor of shitty HEB, Manslaughter, Brodie, and even Circle C. It is hard to imagine nobody calling the cops, but also I bet it takes a lot for people who live in that neighborhood to invite the police to come to that neighborhood.

  13. 22 minutes ago, Al_4_ISU said:

    Pretty sure the Crutchfield sisters are straight up Millenials.  Lenderman is Gen Z.

    yeah for sure. it's funny, I think my first introduction to MJ was as a guest vocal on that Waxahatchee "Right Back To It" song (apart from JimmyJazz mentioning Wednesday in this thread, but I didn't make the connection), but at this point I feel like everything touched by that group of people is part of the extended Wednesday universe, which is Gen Z coded to me. But Waxa is millennial. This video actually put so much context onto her for me - 


    also was feeling bad for the Wednesday mcu derail again but they are an extension of this whole musical tree

     

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    I like the ending, I think. One of the things that threw me during the book is how much of a pussy he was about the whole thing. It was making me question myself even, if maybe my own history has made me a bit less worried about death than the average person? Was I supposed to relate to his refusal to go on the mission? The only thing that could have gotten me there is if he had kids, but he was a loner. The whole earth is going to freeze killing everyone, you don't have as much as a girlfriend, you are a scientist and you have the opportunity to save the planet with science and the tradeoff is you don't get to come back? Don't be a pussy. And then in the end, he has to go ahead and make that choice on his own for his friend and he makes it, and lives with the consequences, which is maybe ultimately more fulfilling than what he would have found back on earth anyways. Liked it.

     

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  15. It’s so funny hearing a song that’s great and every time, picking up the guitar and finding that it’s the same thing as every other song. He does some quicker changes in there than I was getting and I’m pretty sure the chord I was missing is Am (relative to the capo) but yeah man it’s just g c f d and all those little hammer ons and pull offs 

     

     

    Took me a second to find MJ. This is like Gen Z Breeders.

     

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