He didn’t look any different than any of the other broken fellas that jumped into the back of my pickup in the Home Depot parking lot that sunny but chilly Tuesday morning. He had steel-toed boots and what looked like a strong back and that was good enough for me. We were pouring concrete that day for a buddy of mine that happened to end up doing a lot better than I did in the contracting game. Thing is, I saved his ass a few times when his ‘aggressive’ approach to managing folks resulted in his workforce disappearing. So, he paid me regular-unlike more than a few of the other guys. Maybe he saw something in my eye…
That first day the sweat was pouring off us like we were in a shower. One by one the other hired help dropped away and wandered over to the shade. This guy was made of stronger material. I told him, “if you’re there tomorrow, you’ve got yourself another day’s work”. He just nodded. Of course he was there. I imagine he had a few mouths to feed and the prospect of more pocket cash made him eager. Not that he ever showed it though…
So there we were-it was a few months down the road and we’d got to know each other about as best as two taciturn fellas ever would. By this time I’d hired a foreman that would take the rest of ‘the dailies’ back to the parking lot and would sit down with-he said his name was ‘J’. Just ‘J’. We’d sip beers and talk about what needed to be done the next day, week, whatever. It got to be a habit.
This time around we’d started a bit of a fire to warm our hands by and I threw out the idea that ‘J’ might be in line for a foreman job at another site he knew that I’d been overseeing. I could tell he was interested. I got up to grab us another round when I saw the sledge hammer leaning against the pile of concrete blocks. I grabbed it, felt the weight of it in my hands. It felt good.
He never had a chance. The squishing, cracking sound that was made as I crushed the top of his skull almost made me sick. Almost. I drove off to the dumping ground thinking, ‘here’s another that I first seen climb into the bed of my pickup and this is where I’ll see him for the last time’. Taking a man’s life away from him is one thing, but doing it in a symmetrical manner makes it seem like art to me.
TO THE GAME!
Cowpokes/Schmeagles:
Second-most I’m rooting for a tie here so that when the Giants go on an 8 game win streak they’ll win the division. What? I want what Odell pretends to want. First-most it would be great if Philly caught their stride and humiliated Dallas on a national stage.
Don’t bother with the bleach, just burn the clothes afterwards.
He looks like his balls fell off.
Nonsense, they could roll either direction, he would look both left and right and he’s only looking right.
Chin up buddy! It happens to us all!
Mr “It’s not abuse because she wasn’t my girlfriend” scores a TD.
It’s still Veterans Day, folks, we need to keep thanking our heroes.
I’m a veteran, so blow me.
I only spent four years on active duty, so a handjob will adequate for me.
Leftist vet twitter has some fun memes
That Zekedown was for Zymm
Do you see that? That’s how you pick up a telephone.
She seems pleasant.
Hey, you know what’s fun? Your parents talking about estranged relatives lacking credential for their profession.
Who wants to trade off with me, I can get Zeke drunk, but I can’t get him dangerous drunk
As much as I hate that stupid song…meh…go…Eagles…perhaps….just because fuck the Cowboys
Philly ppls – if’n I am in the stadium, and I sing that song “I-G-G-L-E-S!” will I be physically assaulted to the point of morphine?
It’s gonna be roughly as good an attempt as most of the locals
There’s gotta be a better way to get opiates than that.
We were a half circle away from a dick on SNF. So close.
ErtzDOWN!!! The only Dakota Jeebus score that Seamus is allowed to have. 😀
Football’s good again
I’ve had a contact high once in my life, during Los Lobos. It was glorious. The sky was round.
this happened to me in the next-to-last row of a small-venue Ween concert
Heh, Small wood
his twitter handle should be @MotionInTehOcean
If that’s not available @bigmanmyth
So, I was looking through my old high school yearbooks the other day because actual reason of friend dealing with shit, and I was struck by a couple things. Firstly, how many more people I considered part of my life back then, and secondly, how diverse my friend group was growing up. I know there’s a lot of people in the country who don’t have this experience…and it’s legit hard to understand how they view people outside their experience. I can’t wish harm on any normal person, ever. The only thing I will never tolerate is intolerance.
Oh look, Ms Math knew the Asian kids. WHAT A SURPRISE!
But not just the northern Asian kids!
Darby icing the kicker and his knee at the same time
— Blair Walsh
This never gets old.
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Wait…so I was looking at the box score earlier and Amari Cooper had 35 yards on four receptions. Now it says he has 11 yards on five. Did he somehow lose 20+ yards on a catch?
That does seem like the most Cowboys answer. Or maybe it was a pass that got changet to a lateral?
Somehow Harvard had over 400 yards and scored 30 fantasy points, but Tampa only hung 3 on the board. Weird day.
YES SHE IS!
Now this is a fantastic lede:
“Andrew Laming, a Liberal National MP in the federal parliament representing the QLD seat of Bowman, has reignited a two-year-long feud with a Simpsons meme page on Facebook.”
Okay who wins a Gruden vs. Gruden game and why? I genuinely want to explore this.
No matter who wins, we all lose.
Tempted to say we do. We’d need to work extra hard making that game tolerable, so I imagine we’d produce some gems in here.
It really does depend on the teams and management up to that point. If you’re positing two theoretical teams where they have full control of drafts etc, then why don’t we all just vomit now?
Well John probably has a killer gameplan for Brad Johnson and Clinton Portis, so Id say the other one.
“If you thought the Harbaugh bowl was insufferable….”
Funny thing is the lesser Harbaugh won that one.
fat one will try harder
“False start on Dallas with 15:57 to go in the quarter…”
Just looked at the rest of WAS schedule….they’re gonna be so overwhelmed first game of playoffs. The only non-division (aka teams of potential consequence) teams they play are TEN and JAX. They may not win out the divison, but even if they split or whatever, this is a shitty team that’s gonna probably playoffs. I feel super bad for the good members of the team, and super the opposite for chubby Gruden, since he’ll benefit from yet another playoff appearance that isn’t actually due to him being good, but rather the rest of the NFC East sucking various types of mammal balls.
Oh shit. We could get Gruden vs. Gruden in 2021.
lol who am I kidding they’ll both be fired by then
there’s always Canadia?
And neither of them will go beyond the first round of the playoffs, and even then purely by accident.
Probably gonna get Gruden then Gruden at the top of the draft.
A Gruden-Gruden trade on draft day in which they somehow misplace a draft pick.
Oh I would.
For about 5 seconds.
And then the bear would pop?
Speaking of batteries, any dildo sightings at today’s Jets-Bills game?
No, they didn’t show the owner’s booth.
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I still chuckle every time I see this. I also make whirring sounds.
“GET TO DA CHOPPA!!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJFVZxotdN4
Some halftime entertainment…
Is The Rock rebooting “Battle Dome?”
“or the Cowboys trying to take it” The Rock does not watch football
Aaaand time to mute.
If he steps to the right, they have a hail mary chance. Bad all around.
boooooo
Time for the deep cells to go flying.
“What a terrible thing to happen on D cell battery night.”
https://youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=NZxjmhwogCk
Oh boy…here comes the double AA’s….
That Philly defense was looser than a Fishtown crackewhore.
Scanning the fire map of California and nodding to myself the end will come in flames as I had hoped.
AND NO ONE IS ABOVE 20. NFC East….no good
Yup, I’m more afraid of treadmills than most other scarier things
Straight money
I’m feeling kinda bad I haven’t spent more time at my local Old Man Bar (also the only bar near me). Yes, I have a better TV here, yes, I can make my own drinks and don’t have to wait to pay cash for them, yes, I can watch Red Zone instead of probably just the Raiders game, and yes, I can eat food at my place, and yes it’s a bar in a strip mall , but still…I miss having a regular. When I went to the bar on my corner in Chicago a few months ago one of my buddies didn’t know I had moved, because being there every four months or so was apparently enough to keep up appearances. It’s a bit different at the Huddle, because I would be the only regular under 50, but that’s okay, it might be fun to be considered a kid again!
I regularly hang out at one of those types of joints. I just like talking some of those old timers and listening to their stories. Used to do a lot of drinking at the local VFW for the same reason. Plus you could get a beer for 75¢.
Not super cheap there, but definitely interesting people. I like listening, and the couple of times I’ve been there, not disappointed.
Oh you lucky motherfucker
That was some pretty sweet defending…