Peoni's ensemble is VERY Peoni. Thank god Chafe finally binned the skinny pants, but I've rarely seen a men's jacket with a more unflattering silhouette. Poor Chafe, the hapless bastard can never get it right. He'd do better if his fashion sense matched his anodyne centrist opinions: "well if THIS happens then it's possible THAT will happen in response, and then who can tell where the lion's share of blame resides? BOTH SIDES."
The only time I saw a sillier, more unflattering getup on a man was when the Times showed a model wearing his $350 silk tank top with one arm inside it.
In the summer of 75 my mom bought matching leisure suits for me , my dad and my three brothers. She dragged us down to Olan Mills and we took a family photo. My Mom dad it blown up to like 3 ft x 4 ft and hung it on the wall. When my Mom passed away, me and two of my brothers took the photo out to the burn pile and drank some whiskey while we watched it burn.
I'm sure the leisure suits themselves were long gone, otherwise you could have chucked them into the flames first. That's the only appropriate way to handle a leisure suit.
If only I had saved the light blue brushed denim Levi's ensemble (bell bottoms, natch, with platform shoes to complete the look) I had in 1974 I'd be the height of fashion. Curses! Foiled again!
"Sound of a thousand out-of-tune violins bowed with bandsaws."
JFC, I need at least a half hour long loop of that.
"...something Joe Kahn once told me would be a firing offense at the Good Grey Lady!"
Made me laugh!
'Nuff said--trigger warning, now going on brand:
At least Big Media "...news consumers..." are a dying, shrinking cohort. And over on at least some social media, the truth's been posted without Big Media lies and stuff and will remain there indefinitely. So, you know, if one cares, there are alternatives to Big Media and their prioritized focus to make sure administration lies are as prominent as possible, which is to say far too prominent.
Speaking of these headlines ripped from the Times' website as of this very second:
"A Crisis of Confidence for ICE and Border Patrol as Clashes Escalate"
"How the Trump Administration Rushed to Judgment in Minneapolis Shooting"
Rush to judgment or maybe they know in advance the lies to spew? JFC.
All of which is to say that the establishment media or prestige press of Big Media or monied sociopaths are, on net, failing with the relentless, deliberate spew of lies.
Well, the division of labor was a little different then, the Klan mostly did the killing, the Sheriff mostly did the covering up, with Sheriff's Deputies free to move back and forth between their paid employment and their murder-hobby. Of course, two-thirds of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner were White.
You can bet tens of millions of White people watched police dogs attacking schoolchildren on their Huntley-Brinkley Report and thought, "Well, they musta done SOMETHIN''
"getting his dick sucked by what looks like a large badger."
Who among us hasn't had a few too many drinks and found themselves operating way out of their comfort zone. I mean, in this age of ubiquitous cell phone cameras " I'm glad it happened but I'm sorry there's pictures" is an everyday occurance for Everyman...
I really do wish there was a Bolt and he had a TV show.
I think you may have gotten your "handsaw" and bandsaw" confused.
I see where ICE is heading to Baltimore. Wharever happens, we got your bail!
Wait - there are paid commenter positions at REBID? Why was I not told about this? Is this why SS is always the first one to comment? SS, are you paid in marks? Is Bern the CFO of REBID LLC? Where do I apply?
Alas, the reason for that is in my post-menopausal years I find myself rising by 6 am at the latest, by 5 am in Summer. No, I don't like it, and as yet I haven't even gotten any worms.
I guess that Nick Shirley asshole is in Baltimore. I'll chip in the 50 bucks if you beat his ass. He's probably a third of your age but I bet you're wiley!
DRUGS? For PEONY? Or, I should say, STREET DRUGS. The pretty colored ones she picks up at the CVS and washes down with Hendricks are medically indicated.
Sorry. I meant "DRUGS? For PEONY? Or, I should say, STREET DRUGS. The pretty colored ones Delfina picks up for her at the CVS and washes down with Hendricks are medically indicated."
Twerp Bellend is a name worthy of P.G. Wodehouse via Dickens. And your scene and action descriptions are as entertaining as the dialogue. Which is a remarkable feat considering the subject du jour.
As surreal as a badger fellating a fox on cable TV might be, I saw clips this weekend of the Murder Munchkin, Gregory Bovino, praising his agents for saving their colleagues from the massacre that Alex Pretti clearly intended to perpetrate, so I was prepared for it.
The corporate media IS waking up, now that it’s the second US citizen brutally murdered unequivocally in cold daylight captured by dozens of phones—oh and they were white, btw, as if that’s some line that was crossed—but oh so grudgingly. These late-to-the-party arbiters of discourse announcing, it’s ok everybody, I’ve decided we can at last say the f-word, no, not that one, the other one, think Europe in the 1930’s, because their eyes were finally yanked open by the undeniable spectacle of Trump’s amateur-hour pardonees on a hooligan rampage, terrorizing EVERYONE, regardless of creed, color, gender or age, not even pretending to do law enforcement, then telling insulting lies and blaming the victims. That sweet-faced five year old’s dad is no angel! Those dead people had it coming! But mostly because the good people of Minnesota are fighting back in huge numbers and they’re not going away, getting smarter and braver and wearing down the enemy. Those images of mass protest on Friday were cathartic. The tide has turned, I believe. And these chronic both-siders see it too, now jumping on the bandwagon with some borrowed courage.
And yet, and yet, from what I’ve read so far, not without qualifying their about-turns with some vintage hippy-punching. The left is always wrong somehow, and they were just so annoying with their premature antifascism that was all a pose anyway. They just can’t help themselves, can they?
Oh well, I suppose they should be allowed in the tent, sitting way at the back, as long as they agree to testify at reconciliation hearings after the Nuremberg trials and admit their role in letting things get this bad.
"the good people of Minnesota are fighting back in huge numbers and they’re not going away, getting smarter and braver" -- I'm told this is ORGANIZING, which is NEFARIOUS and EVIL and PAID FOR BY SOME LEFTIST BIG DADDY. And certainly anathema to all things Trump -- the last thing you'd say about this Administration is that it's in any way organized. Bovino (the Murder Munchkin, thanks Porrofatto) is apparently claiming that the Pretti murder happened in the course of an apprehension of a specific known criminal. Riiiiigggghhhht, Greg, that's exactly what it looked like, a real pro operation.
Well, sure, that's why I collected these hundreds of guns, so I could take up arms against a tyrannical government, but I'd say this isn't quite the right moment for that. But if you need me I'll be online buying more gunz.
The Guardian has a video about Minneapolis, and the part INSIDE Minneapolis is just fine, interviewing people who had their car windows smashed and still go out the next day to do ICE watch. Then the reporter says, "Now we're going OUTSIDE Minneapolis to a county that voted for Trump." And that's when you should click the "stop" button, but I was slow to react so I got to see a nice, churchgoing grandma say, "Oh, I don't have a problem with what ICE is doing" [big smile] The reporter asks about Renee Good, and churchlady says "Well, what I heard is that she was where she shouldn't have been. Yes, it's a tragedy, but she was where she shouldn't have been" [big smile]
All the attention goes to the jerks who tie themselves in knots justifying anything Tubby does, but if you're a Republican politician, THIS is the good stuff, ChurchLady is all you need, just tens of millions of people, all they think is that they don't need to think.
Alex Pretti is getting an investigation into his murder because the NRA demanded it. Murders of those of us who don't own guns don't get investigated because there's no one to advocate for us.
Thanks for this--Glad to see you're rising to this horrendous occasion. The day will be won with passive sentences. Borrow the Lorelei Lee locution from the novel Gentleman Prefer Blondes: Screaming Eagle of Justice Network investigates: how Alex Pretti became shot! Were mistakes made and why were they made by the radical left? Next up: Somalis--the problem that won't go away.
Peoni's ensemble is VERY Peoni. Thank god Chafe finally binned the skinny pants, but I've rarely seen a men's jacket with a more unflattering silhouette. Poor Chafe, the hapless bastard can never get it right. He'd do better if his fashion sense matched his anodyne centrist opinions: "well if THIS happens then it's possible THAT will happen in response, and then who can tell where the lion's share of blame resides? BOTH SIDES."
You know these are fictional characters, right?
What the hell are you talking about? Bolt and I are engaged.
That's so...uhmm...sweet?
Mazel tov! Hope we’ll all be invited!
Already shopping for my outfit.
Claire and Roy are no doubt exchanging DMs
I hear Bolt came over to visit, but he broke the horn off your glass unicorn.
The only time I saw a sillier, more unflattering getup on a man was when the Times showed a model wearing his $350 silk tank top with one arm inside it.
Link pls
!
my first thought was, "hey, add the black socks and that's my layin' around the house get-up."
Bolt's outfit screams "Chalamet."
The outfit that would match his opinions is a tub of warm vanilla pudding.
Is this foreshadowing?
Something like this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whipped_Cream_%26_Other_Delights
I know what that is without looking (unless it isn't).
Same here.
Don't have to look; spent a LOT of my pubescent years carefully memorizing that album cover.
Did anybody's parents NOT have it?
This was an inheritance from my grandfather, I believe. And those Julie London albums. *rreerow*
I bought that, and several other TJB's, when I was, like, 11.
Memorization--is that what the kids are calling it nowadays?
Fudge ripple.
The LAST time I wore a suit looking like Chafe Dramaturgy, my date left me at the Fondue Pit.
Apparently men's leisure suits are coming back in style. I don't think any of us are ready.
All men are leisurely, and yet they thrive somehow. One wonders...
All men are leisurely, yet unsuited.
OK, but oof.
NOOOOO we lived through that already!
Leisure suits me fine
Of coarse!
and 2 marks.
In the summer of 75 my mom bought matching leisure suits for me , my dad and my three brothers. She dragged us down to Olan Mills and we took a family photo. My Mom dad it blown up to like 3 ft x 4 ft and hung it on the wall. When my Mom passed away, me and two of my brothers took the photo out to the burn pile and drank some whiskey while we watched it burn.
I'm sure the leisure suits themselves were long gone, otherwise you could have chucked them into the flames first. That's the only appropriate way to handle a leisure suit.
They would've melted into a pile of toxic goo, and Worriedman and his brothers might have been killed by the fumes.
You're right. Safety first.
The polyester would still be burning it's way to china
The Polyester Syndrome
It's no business of mine, but it pains me that you burned an old photo, *especially* one that was embarrassing and funny.
Ho hum. Wake me when zip-front jumpsuits come back.
If I ever own a suit again ...
DIANE: Sam, do you own a smoking jacket?!
SAM: Baby, I’m smoking in ANY jacket.
I was LOOKING for an excuse to see if "Fernwood 2 Nite" is somewhere on line!
If only I had saved the light blue brushed denim Levi's ensemble (bell bottoms, natch, with platform shoes to complete the look) I had in 1974 I'd be the height of fashion. Curses! Foiled again!
My dear late dad had one in the '70s that I still cringe to recall.
Bolt seems (no offense) to be going hard into the "kid wearing his father's suit" look.
"Sound of a thousand out-of-tune violins bowed with bandsaws."
JFC, I need at least a half hour long loop of that.
"...something Joe Kahn once told me would be a firing offense at the Good Grey Lady!"
Made me laugh!
'Nuff said--trigger warning, now going on brand:
At least Big Media "...news consumers..." are a dying, shrinking cohort. And over on at least some social media, the truth's been posted without Big Media lies and stuff and will remain there indefinitely. So, you know, if one cares, there are alternatives to Big Media and their prioritized focus to make sure administration lies are as prominent as possible, which is to say far too prominent.
Speaking of these headlines ripped from the Times' website as of this very second:
"A Crisis of Confidence for ICE and Border Patrol as Clashes Escalate"
Highly doubtful, pretty much as the last honest columnist at the Times notes in a wee Bluesky thread starting here: https://bsky.app/profile/jamellebouie.net/post/3mdayrkjgkk2s
"How the Trump Administration Rushed to Judgment in Minneapolis Shooting"
Rush to judgment or maybe they know in advance the lies to spew? JFC.
All of which is to say that the establishment media or prestige press of Big Media or monied sociopaths are, on net, failing with the relentless, deliberate spew of lies.
On point and indisputable. Carry on.
Ha ha, "Rushed to Judgement" like judgement has anything to do with it.
Thank god the prestige press in on it.
Also why I found Roy’s dig to be funny enough after Saturday.
Sociopaths all…
BTW, Neko Case, per her Substack, discovered Madison’s Capitol which, as we might recollect, I enjoyed a few years ago.
"[G]overnment by a bunch of Bull Connors" is going to fly over the heads of so, so many people who need to understand that metaphor.
Not a defense of Bill Connor but I don’t recall him and his boys killing honkies…
Well, the division of labor was a little different then, the Klan mostly did the killing, the Sheriff mostly did the covering up, with Sheriff's Deputies free to move back and forth between their paid employment and their murder-hobby. Of course, two-thirds of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner were White.
To quote Joe E Brown in the true greatest last line of any movie, “Nobody’s perfect”.
And, as usual, exceptions prove the rule.
You can bet tens of millions of White people watched police dogs attacking schoolchildren on their Huntley-Brinkley Report and thought, "Well, they musta done SOMETHIN''
Rushed to judgement like the Flash rushes home on spaghetti night.
"getting his dick sucked by what looks like a large badger."
Who among us hasn't had a few too many drinks and found themselves operating way out of their comfort zone. I mean, in this age of ubiquitous cell phone cameras " I'm glad it happened but I'm sorry there's pictures" is an everyday occurance for Everyman...
I really do wish there was a Bolt and he had a TV show.
I think you may have gotten your "handsaw" and bandsaw" confused.
I see where ICE is heading to Baltimore. Wharever happens, we got your bail!
Hardly a day goes by when I don't thank the Goddess that mobile phones with cameras didn't exist during my misspent youth.
Well, sure, but alla your misspending eventually got you this sweet gig at Roy's!
The hours are long and the pay is shit, but I do it for love.
❤️
Wait - there are paid commenter positions at REBID? Why was I not told about this? Is this why SS is always the first one to comment? SS, are you paid in marks? Is Bern the CFO of REBID LLC? Where do I apply?
Get in line, pal...
Call Soros
I've been on hold for thirty years
Just you wait, those Hungarian Forints are piling up in the Swiss bank account, and it's all for YOU, comrade!
Alas, the reason for that is in my post-menopausal years I find myself rising by 6 am at the latest, by 5 am in Summer. No, I don't like it, and as yet I haven't even gotten any worms.
Er-lie in the morning but not like a drunken sailor! And so cogent at the break of day. Whatever REBID /Soros is paying you it ain’t enough
Bless. And Soros is a cheap bastard, I've allegedly been on his payroll for years but I've yet to see a dime.
You get used to it, although I sorta miss being able to watch a TV show that starts at 9:00 pm.
Oh, the Early Bird Specials you'll go! (to)
Except when Manqueman is first... to...
HUH. 🤔
I'm glad there's no Badgers in Ohio!
On Miss Johnson! On Miss Johnson!
Badgers? I don't have no badgers.
We don't need no badgers!
I don't have to show you any steenking BADGERS!!
I think that's pretty universal for all of us olds.
Thx comrade
I guess that Nick Shirley asshole is in Baltimore. I'll chip in the 50 bucks if you beat his ass. He's probably a third of your age but I bet you're wiley!
We'll see what we see.
I'm in for 100 if you thump Bovino in the noggin. You'll have to look down to find him.
Step on him, more like.
How many Minnesotans have been injured tripping over him? They'll never release the numbers.
That pipsqueak doesn't get that the getup only makes him look more ridiculous. All he needs is a comically-oversized pickelhaube.
I'm just marking time until he retires to spend more time on the right wing grievance circuit.
Our lives, our bail money, our sacred honor, and maybe – who knows? – 15 minutes of viral...
You’d need a Wal-mart sized studio, or a soccer stadium, for that many bandsaws.
Whatever our faults as a nation, we have plenty of both.
"[...] operating way out of their comfort zone."
Youth today are more comfortable having furry sex than the wholesome kind.
So I've...heard...
I haven't seen much, but I've seen enough.
"the wholesome kind"
with the mayonnaise and wetsuits?
Just don’t go in the water on a full stomach, okay?
OK, that makes this obligatory, especially with the Rob Reiner cameo.
https://youtu.be/qRSAiZoONP4
We are all in gangland now.
Sure the Kid’s got moxie! But Chafe has a future as an apprentice plate spinner!
Alla that is but preface to:
Did you have a procedure today, dear heart?
Which is a legit 3-marker. And here it is only Monday!
Isn't what he's doing already a form of plate spinning?
Now, about this Bellend lad – give him a chance, and maybe he'll evolve...
What I love is "bell end" is a Brit insult, it's calling someone a dick.
[looks down]
You’re right!
I happen to know from personal experience that Roy is rather clever.
A Clever Dick!
Dude, simmer down – you already GOT 3 marks.
Isn't that a British dessert?
A dick HEAD, to be precise. It's brilliant. It's like "knob," but funnier.
Twerp's given name turned out to be prophetic or fateful, as sometimes happens.
Just the twerp
As a former pipe installer I can tell you the bell end is the end that receives the spigot end. I believe the insult is cunt.
My backout weekends weren't as bad as this. Probably.
"PEONI DOYENNE, wearing a white Armani women’s silk crepe tuxedo with a cream turtleneck and ballet flats"
Sloughing off, are you Roy? Here you go: https://www.chanel.com/us/fashion/p/G47081B23427U7313/ballet-flats-iridescent-lambskin-lambskin/
You're paying a grand for the iridescence. Otherwise they'd cost $125.
At that price, you could buy regular flats and buy some LSD to make your own iridescence.
Steve, Steve, you don't understand. It would have to be *DESIGNER* LSD or it wouldn't be fabulous enough as a replacement.
DRUGS? For PEONY? Or, I should say, STREET DRUGS. The pretty colored ones she picks up at the CVS and washes down with Hendricks are medically indicated.
Sorry. I meant "DRUGS? For PEONY? Or, I should say, STREET DRUGS. The pretty colored ones Delfina picks up for her at the CVS and washes down with Hendricks are medically indicated."
Constant lower back and foot pain, Exacerbated By Ballet Flats (instead of the supportive shoes she should be wearing in her senescence)
Kudos for capitalizing Ballet Flats. Now I'm thinkin' of Steinbeck...
*flashbacks to Limbaugh's maid picking his Oxys up ina parking lot *
I wasn't slacking, Peoni was! Her shoes weren't right so she grabbed the flats from the costume department.
I agree yours are spot on.
I'm just a little worried about the lamb's kin...
If Bolt hadn't said It, I was about to. "First goddamn chart I ever saw that was worth a damn!"
Wonder if Bolt was with me in hearing it as Subterranean Homesick Blues:
"You don't need a bar chart
to know which way BS is rising..."
Twerp Bellend is a name worthy of P.G. Wodehouse via Dickens. And your scene and action descriptions are as entertaining as the dialogue. Which is a remarkable feat considering the subject du jour.
As surreal as a badger fellating a fox on cable TV might be, I saw clips this weekend of the Murder Munchkin, Gregory Bovino, praising his agents for saving their colleagues from the massacre that Alex Pretti clearly intended to perpetrate, so I was prepared for it.
"We represent the Homicide Guild..."
Again with the short jokes
I can use the "s" word because I'm "s."
Jeebus, that Armani.. Do those models have fake numbers tattooed on the inside of their arms?
The corporate media IS waking up, now that it’s the second US citizen brutally murdered unequivocally in cold daylight captured by dozens of phones—oh and they were white, btw, as if that’s some line that was crossed—but oh so grudgingly. These late-to-the-party arbiters of discourse announcing, it’s ok everybody, I’ve decided we can at last say the f-word, no, not that one, the other one, think Europe in the 1930’s, because their eyes were finally yanked open by the undeniable spectacle of Trump’s amateur-hour pardonees on a hooligan rampage, terrorizing EVERYONE, regardless of creed, color, gender or age, not even pretending to do law enforcement, then telling insulting lies and blaming the victims. That sweet-faced five year old’s dad is no angel! Those dead people had it coming! But mostly because the good people of Minnesota are fighting back in huge numbers and they’re not going away, getting smarter and braver and wearing down the enemy. Those images of mass protest on Friday were cathartic. The tide has turned, I believe. And these chronic both-siders see it too, now jumping on the bandwagon with some borrowed courage.
And yet, and yet, from what I’ve read so far, not without qualifying their about-turns with some vintage hippy-punching. The left is always wrong somehow, and they were just so annoying with their premature antifascism that was all a pose anyway. They just can’t help themselves, can they?
Oh well, I suppose they should be allowed in the tent, sitting way at the back, as long as they agree to testify at reconciliation hearings after the Nuremberg trials and admit their role in letting things get this bad.
"the good people of Minnesota are fighting back in huge numbers and they’re not going away, getting smarter and braver" -- I'm told this is ORGANIZING, which is NEFARIOUS and EVIL and PAID FOR BY SOME LEFTIST BIG DADDY. And certainly anathema to all things Trump -- the last thing you'd say about this Administration is that it's in any way organized. Bovino (the Murder Munchkin, thanks Porrofatto) is apparently claiming that the Pretti murder happened in the course of an apprehension of a specific known criminal. Riiiiigggghhhht, Greg, that's exactly what it looked like, a real pro operation.
Half-Pint Heydrich.
Micro Mengele. Wee Wessel. Bantam Bormann. Stunted Speer.
Micro-peeno Bovino.
This is fun!
Vaffancoulo Bovino
Il buffo picolo
Nano Nazi
Femtofascist
"apprehension of a specific known criminal."
The lady they pushed into the snow?
YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT SHE WAS PLANNING. But Greg Bovino does.
Sorry, did I say "snow"? I meant "Frozen oxygen dihydride CHEMICAL TERROR WEAPON"
Last thing Americans should be doing is protesting the government, after all!
Well, sure, that's why I collected these hundreds of guns, so I could take up arms against a tyrannical government, but I'd say this isn't quite the right moment for that. But if you need me I'll be online buying more gunz.
Nuremberg is the moderate option.
"Caught together, hanged together" (Low German proverb)
Why does that make me think of gas stations?
The Guardian has a video about Minneapolis, and the part INSIDE Minneapolis is just fine, interviewing people who had their car windows smashed and still go out the next day to do ICE watch. Then the reporter says, "Now we're going OUTSIDE Minneapolis to a county that voted for Trump." And that's when you should click the "stop" button, but I was slow to react so I got to see a nice, churchgoing grandma say, "Oh, I don't have a problem with what ICE is doing" [big smile] The reporter asks about Renee Good, and churchlady says "Well, what I heard is that she was where she shouldn't have been. Yes, it's a tragedy, but she was where she shouldn't have been" [big smile]
Summary execution for thee, not for us suburbanees.
The fact she was from Minnesota is the only thing that kept ChurchLady from adding "Bless her heart" to "She shouldn't have been there."
I guess "she shouldn't have been" dropping off her kid at school.
On a public street no less! The nerve!
But the kid's school was up to no good. That's why it was only right that death threats shut it down.
I read that as "She was in a place I would NEVER go", i.e. Minneapolis.
"where she shouldn't have been" as opposed to, OH, I DON'T KNOW, crawling through a broken window into Congress
All the attention goes to the jerks who tie themselves in knots justifying anything Tubby does, but if you're a Republican politician, THIS is the good stuff, ChurchLady is all you need, just tens of millions of people, all they think is that they don't need to think.
They love what they do.
Only following ardors.
Alex Pretti is getting an investigation into his murder because the NRA demanded it. Murders of those of us who don't own guns don't get investigated because there's no one to advocate for us.
It must be so very uncomfortable at NRA HQ today.
They said neither jack nor shit about Philando Castile, also a legal gun owner executed by Minneapolis-area police now almost ten years ago.
Of course, Castile was Black, so. . .
Why? They know it's all bullshit and it's never made a difference.
"reality flutters like a flipbook riffled by a child, then closes and goes dark"
Man, if that doesn't nail the current mood.
Thanks for this--Glad to see you're rising to this horrendous occasion. The day will be won with passive sentences. Borrow the Lorelei Lee locution from the novel Gentleman Prefer Blondes: Screaming Eagle of Justice Network investigates: how Alex Pretti became shot! Were mistakes made and why were they made by the radical left? Next up: Somalis--the problem that won't go away.
Where all will end, knows God.
That famous take on the old Time magazine, “Backward ran the sentences, reeling the mind.”
Dorothy Parker. She's got a million of em.
You had me at "fink outlets."
"Fink" absolutely has to come back
Zombie Ed Roth is on it!