Okay, it’s been hotter than hell this weekend. A mini heat wave drove the humidex temperature up to 36 degrees Celsius – that’s 95 degrees for you Burmese & American readers out there. This town’s not built for that. I mean, it was pretty & all,

but there’s no point to it if you don’t want to go outside.

I called my mom because it’s expected to be 118 in Palm Springs, and they are doing brownouts just to add to the fun. Also, she says she can smell the fire from Riverside County, which means her asthma will likely kick up. Luckily, she’s used to it from having been down there for so long. They get notice when a brownout will happen, so she’s going to go shopping at Costco because they are on a different grid. You know the type – older, pushing a cart with like three items in it, drinking a pop or smoothie, just looking around. BeerBrother hooked her up with a $1000 gift card that she insists on spending only $50 at a time, so she can get whatever she wants. “But I like just looking at things…” is always the story.

But at least she’s not hoarding. I remember that was my great fear when I went to visit her at Christmas, back when there was an open border & direct flights to America. Seeing that she had no clutter and a circle of friends made me feel better.

She won’t go to the Wal-mart in Palm Desert, however. “The employees keep getting COVID and bringing it to the store.”


Tonight’s sports: Remember – basketball playoffs start tomorrow.

  • NHL:
    • Game 4: Vegas Golden Knights vs. Chicago Blackhawks – 6:30PM | NBCSN / Sportsnet360
      • Vegas leads 3-0
    • Game 3: Philadelphia Flyers vs. Montreal Canadiens – 8:00PM | NBC / CBC / Sportsnet
      • Series tied 1-1
    • Game 3: Vancouver Canucks vs. St. Louis Blues – 10:30PM | NBCSN / CBC / Sportsnet
      • Canucks lead 2-0
  • MLB:
    • Boston Red Sox at New York Yankees – 7:00PM | ESPN / TSN
  • Futbol:
    • Liga MX Soccer:
      • Santos Laguna vs. Atlas – 8:00PM | FS1

I do hope your day was not as humid or hot, but your beer was just as cold as mine.

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Beerguyrob
A Canadian man-child of indeterminate age, he stays young by selling alcohol at sporting events and yelling at the patrons he serves. Their rage nourishes his soul, and their tips pay for his numerous trips to various sporting events.
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Brick Meathook

Here’s my shadow on the pond at Hollywood Forever Cemetery. Those geese are some nasty fuckers.

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ballsofsteelandfury

Since you’ve lived in both places, what are your thoughts on California Geese versus Canadian Geese? I’ve heard Canadian Geese are nasty passive aggressive fucks.

Brick Meathook

Geese are nasty wherever they go. The will fight you.

Brick Meathook

Balls, I’ve spent time all over Canada. I’ve got Newfie roots but the Frenchies are the best because they love Americans and hate the English.

bk109

Nothing a punt gun can’t fix.
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Brick Meathook

One bad thing about living in an elite gated neighborhood on the West Coast is that every one else is asleep yet I’m wide awake.

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Horatio Cornblower

“We hope Matt Cooke is OK”

No. No we absolutely do not.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xW9Sp-WndwA

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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WCS

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

I like this one better than the one I posted the other day; it has people in front of it!!

Gratliff

Realized after copying the URL to the Cooke-Kane “fight” that it matched your link and instead refreshed and laughed at Cooke eating shit

Horatio Cornblower

I still remember this fight. An dumb-as-a-box-of-hammers Shane Churla, playing with a broken orbital bone, decides to fight a clearly reluctant Grimson, and get his face smashed in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9CF7HzMYk8

Horatio Cornblower

Rooting for the Canucks to win the Cup this year, as they’ve never won it and now that the Whalers are out, (not that rooting for them in the play-offs was a frequent occurrence), I go for the teams that haven’t won for the longer period of time.

If Vancouver falls I think I switch over to Philly.

WCS

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Horatio Cornblower

Since I don’t have a favoUrite hockey team anymore, (other than whoever’s playing Carolina), when the play-offs come I root for whatever team has either never won the Cup or has gone the longest without winning the Cup, and then change as those teams drop off, just to maintain interest.

I wound up rooting for Boston the year they won* and haven’t felt clean since.

*I should have been rooting for Vancouver, but they were so goddamn dirty that series I couldn’t.

Gratliff

If Oskar Lindblom ends up playing, I will treat anyone not rooting for the Flyers as an enemy of humanity. Basically, nothing will change about my behavior.

WCS

Oh, terrific. Yinzburgh is trying to be the new Portland.

Horatio Cornblower

My wife and I just watched ‘Ad Astra’ with Brad Pitt. Just over two hours, some nice space special effects, and if you asked me what the point of it was I would be at a total loss.

Some members of the household tell me that it doesn’t matter what the point is, because Brad Pitt is pretty to look at, so there’s that.

yeah right

It was a reason to have cool space set pieces. And that’s about it.

But space monkeys too.

Gratliff

Oh hey. Tie Domi’s kid is a piece of shit just like his old man

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

It is good when the person parental lesson get passed down. The the passing of the family business into competent hands, the dream a bright future.

Horatio Cornblower

One of my fondest memories is Stu “The Grim Reaper” Grimson leaning over to a fallen Tie Domi, grabbing his face with one hand, and then banging his head into the boards.

Needless to say, a pretty good fight followed.

Horatio Cornblower

Found it! Fight wasn’t as good as I remembered it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LJrqWjWbSY

Gratliff

Carey Price might lose this series with over .950 SV%

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Brick Meathook

The metric system is awesome in Third World and Axis Powers countries, but it will never get a man to the moon and back before the end of the decade.

Doktor Zymm

I should probably stop using devices that create a lot of heat in the middle of a heat wave. And sitting in the 95 degree room probably isn’t great for my health either.

Fronkenshteen

One of the great tragedies in turn of the century entertainment was the death of Nancy Marchand after season 2 of The Sopranos. She was fucking amazing as Livia.

scotchnaut

It’s so sad that her son Brad turned out to be such a gotdamn travesty. smh…

Brick Meathook

Also the death of actor Christopher Evan Welch after the first season of Silicon Valley. He played the venture capitalist Peter Gregory like crazy Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys.
Let’s not forget the death of Col. Henry Blake. Tragic episode, that was.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

It’s so hot that I literally have to drink my beer within ten minutes or it will get warm.

scotchnaut

“Ach! We canna na feel ya pain.”

-Guinness Drinkers

scotchnaut

It’s been done before but needs to be posted again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjzfX0eKGtY

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Ten minutes?!?!? Are trying to reenact breast feeding?

Fronkenshteen

Imagine what that little prick would’ve been up to in this political environment.

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scotchnaut

Lee Atwater was Don Segretti’s love child.

Unsurprised

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Redshirt

California got a fire tornado? Why is 2020 turning babyface? God, this booking makes no sense!

scotchnaut

Typical over the top social media bullshit. Fire Tornado is a bonus, not a feature. Get your shit together, kids.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

It’s like forest fire…. fireworks.

Gratliff

<blockquote class=”twitter-tweet” data-partner=”tweetdeck”><p lang=”en” dir=”ltr”>Making the easy joke about this game being delayed because Montreal is technically the home team and they had to give an award to some fourth liner from the 70s in an empty arena</p>&mdash; Charlie O'Connor (@charlieo_conn) <a href=”https://twitter.com/charlieo_conn/status/1295153419481735170?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>August 17, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Dunstan

Ha ha, it’s funny because… well, actually, the Habs have Hall of Famers whose numbers we haven’t retired, unlike some franchises that retire every guy who stuck around for more than four years.

scotchnaut

John Mitchell is the real bad guy.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Basically the male version of Joni Mitchell.

scotchnaut

Best cover of a Joni Mitchell tune? I give you Nazareth

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylW6sC6NNhY

yeah right

Cosigned.

Fronkenshteen

Crawford standing on his head for the Blackhawks. 35 saves to Lehner’s 13. 2-1 lead.

blaxabbath

Fuck hULu but I got the Knights game on.

Unsurprised

I enjoy naps way too much during the weekend.

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Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Why doesn’t my garage have a view like that one off in the distance?

ballsofsteelandfury

I enjoyed a nap like that yesterday. Without the tits.

ballsofsteelandfury

Btw, the Grand Tour Madagascar Special will be released September 4!

Viva La Tabula Raza

Yay! OK, now I’ve got a reason to stay alive at least till then! I’d heard it was gonna be Xmas. Don’t know if I could survive that!

Senor Weaselo

Shut. Down. EVERYTHING!

blaxabbath

I’ve gotten nothing out of this virus. No PPP free money. No govt check. No UI. No Kodak style handouts. I did pay my taxes on the delayed due date.

And that’s okay; really. I’m not one to bitch that I don’t get a welfare check every month because I’m too cursed to be gainfully employed. I mean, I pay WAY too much in taxes to see it squandered away on handouts to the rich and settlements for cops arbitrarily using force on black men but that’s not my point. If someone wanted to do something for me during all this bullshit, MAKE LIVE SPORTS AVAILABLE ON TV. I don’t know why I can’t get NHL. I don’t care why I can’t get NHL. There’s nothing else on and I’m over streaming #content.

But what the fuck would Martha McSally ever do for America?

ballsofsteelandfury

Um, put NBC on in 5 minutes…

blaxabbath

Knights are on like NBCSVU

ballsofsteelandfury

May I interest you in soccer? There’s lots of that!

blaxabbath

Sure can’t!

Redshirt

Political Controversies are being scheduled now?

Redshirt

She served her country in the Air Force? After that, I got nothing.

ballsofsteelandfury

Air Force Amy?

blaxabbath

Bullshit. I did more as an E3 than that C-word did her entire career.

And then she sat in the Senate and said she was sexually assaulted by a superior officer and refuses to name names. Almost as if she’s fabricating the whole thing bc she is getting slaughtered in her race though I wouldn’t put it passed her to just give a, “he’s a good guy to know and might be a Useful ally someday so I’ll protect this rapist in the Air Force.”

Redshirt

Okay, noted for future reference. Being a relative of veterans (including one whose name is sadly on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial) I consider all veterans who weren’t dishonorably discharged as worthy of respect until proven otherwise.

That mewling quim can go to Hell and thank you for your service.

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Unsurprised

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Game Time Decision

Wonder what the line is on that

ballsofsteelandfury

I don’t know if the TV is deceiving me, but Edmonton looks beautiful.

scotchnaut

Ben Bradlee’s kung-fu skills are going to come in handy during the trial.

ballsofsteelandfury

Sexual Intercourse Enthusiast is a great euphemism.

Viva La Tabula Raza

For what, exactly?

herodotus450

Sex Ed Teacher, I reckon.

ballsofsteelandfury

On the Grand Tour they were using it to describe Stormy Daniels.

Gumbygirl

Fucker.

Viva La Tabula Raza

Why you gotta call me that?

Gumbygirl

I’m trying to boost your self esteem!

scotchnaut

Zombie Kenneth Dalhberg? I did not see that coming!

rockingdog

you guys see it?
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ballsofsteelandfury

Yes. It’s … something.

Warthog

Sleepy Joe?

Gumbygirl

Sloppy Joe with actual Joe. That’s kinda creepy.

Viva La Tabula Raza

Looks more like Anthony Hopkins than Biden, to me anyway.

rockingdog

Someone put the face of Steve Bannon in there

Gumbygirl

His is pizza. And booze. And evil.

yeah right

How do you like your Helper, Clark?

scotchnaut

“Follow The Monkey”

-Derp Throat

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

“He led me straight to the purple dishwasher!” – Trent Green

rockingdog

found a funny:

the ideal temperature for food is the temperature paper comes out of a photocopier

herodotus450

Classic M.A. Fluery playoff meltdown incoming!?

herodotus450

Oh he’s not even in goal.

scotchnaut

“I did not see that…coming.”

-EE Cummings

scotchnaut

I didn’t expect this to happen until the third act but G. Gordon Liddy has been swallowed by a sea monster.

Redshirt

I was aiming my time traveling sea monster at Karl Rove, but I’ll take it.

scotchnaut

The old Smith Corona “FingerBlaster 500” typewriter figures prominently in “Some of The President’s Men”.

King Hippo

HBO has a pretty excellent mini-series on demand – “I’ll Be Gone in the Dark” – about Michelle McNamara’s (Patton Oswalt’s wife) quest to track down a serial rapist/murderer.

Horatio Cornblower

Gonna binge that soon.

Redshirt

This 2020 MLB Season has become an unexpected homage to the Pause Glitch from Mega Man 1.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_oj_9udEEk

Doktor Zymm

It seems that’s a common problem with Walmarts and Targets and such, no sick leave I think. I’ve heard the same thing about some of the ones in the Bay Area.

We had thunderstorms today to go along with the heat wave, which was kind of bizarre, I think this was my first proper thunderstorm since I moved to CA 3 years ago. It felt more like Chicago or the East Coast in terms of weather, although the humidity was still only about 65% so not actually that bad.

Unsurprised

Who could have expected not offering sick leave would be bad?

yeah right

That’s definitely the whole essential worker, mass transit, got to feed my family mentality. Highest risk group.