Fifty-seven years ago today, John F. Kennedy visited San Antonio & Houston. He gave some speeches & was reported to have had a generally wonderful time. He retired for the evening in Fort Worth, Texas, and expected to give some more speeches after a comfortable ride in an open-air car with John Connolly & their respective wives. I believe Jackie intended to wear a pink suit.
Forty-five years ago today, Queen released “A Night At The Opera”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zs-TWAITkQc
Of course, we all know about “Bohemian Rhapsody”, but what most folks forget is that this album also has “You’re My Best Friend” and Brian May’s instrumental version of “God Save The Queen”. Plus, the album title was inspired by the Marx Brothers movie; it turns out Groucho was a fan, and he invited them to his house, where they performed songs from the album for him.
And fifty years ago this coming Friday, The Kinks released “Lola Versus The Powerman and the Moneygoround”.
Obviously famous for “Lola”, this album also has the underappreciated “Got To Be Free”, “Get Back In Line”, and “Apeman”. It did well enough that they were able to renegotiate their contract, getting funding to build their own studio – Konk – and the first album to come from that was “Muswell Hillbillies”. Plus, their unofficial four-year ban from touring the States had ended, so they were able to tour in support of the album, and spent part of the time with some kid from London that knew how to play the piano.
Music history is real history.
Sunday Broadcast Maps: (courtesy 506sports.com)
CBS SINGLE
█ Fairbanks
█ Honolulu
█ Tennessee @ Baltimore – Jim Nantz, Tony Romo
█ Pittsburgh @ Jacksonville – Ian Eagle, Charles Davis
█ New England @ Houston – Andrew Catalon, James Lofton
█ Cincinnati @ Washington – Spero Dedes, Adam Archuleta
█ Miami @ Denver (LATE) – Kevin Harlan, Trent Green
█ NY Jets @ LA Chargers (LATE) – Greg Gumbel, Rich Gannon
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FOX EARLY
█ Fairbanks
█ Honolulu
FOX LATE
█ Fairbanks
█ Honolulu
Tonight’s sports:
- NCAA:
- Tennessee at Auburn – 7:00PM | ESPN / TSN2
- Oklahoma State at Oklahoma – 7:30PM | ABC
- Arizona at Washington – 8:00PM | FOX
- Southern California at Utah – 10:30PM | ESPN / TSN2
- Washington State at Stanford – 10:30PM | FS1
- Fisticuffs:
- UFC 255 – Figueiredo vs. Perez: From Las Vegas
- Prelims – 6:30PM | ESPN2 / TSN5
- PBC Fight Night:
- Javier Fortuna vs. Antonio Lozada – 7:00PM | FS1
- UFC 255 – Figueiredo vs. Perez: From Las Vegas
Have yourselves a luverly evening. Maybe listen to a whole album instead of just the singles. You’ll be pleasantly rewarded.
My goddamned alma mater is gonna lose at home to Fucking Liberty
There is no God
Twbs kid gif
Should have prayed harder smh
Michigan gives up a 61 yard answer to storied program Rutgers.
That’s “Storied Home of Ray Rice,” to you buddy.
Interesting.
Seems like more of a halfway house kind of guy.
Janay Rice would like to apologize for her role in this thread.
Saw a father/son combo at the park in their OSU jerseys (red for kid, black for dad).
I hope Biden shuts down Big10 football just because. It’d be the right thing to do.
These kids knew the risks
Of playing for an insufferable fan base?
saturday nite rockin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjYrfV2xIwI
The Yule brothers version of VU.
I was blown away the first time I listened to The Banana Album.
Rutgers special teams let Michigan get sprung from cages on highway 9
Gordon Hayward getting paid 30 million a year to blow out his knee at some point in the future. I’d do it for only 5 million-think of the cap space you could save Hornets!
MSU cb practicing social distancing with opposing wr. Georgia up 24-17.
Just got a text from a childhood friend.
“There is a DB on Auburn called Smoke Monday – 100 yard pick 6. That’s all”
Laughs in Ha Ha Clinton-Dix
Penn State is 0-5, as Paterno would like to say, “Nothing to see here.”
+1 echo of rhythmic slapping
“I don’t hear anything” — Dottie
Paint over it on the mural
Hi
Dad would be proud
My advice to any and all Dads – do not EVAR peruse your child’s Instagram account
Can confirm. Jebus weeps.
Is it the Seafood Buffet? Smells like it.
Well, smells like fish, tastes like chicken though.
All my friends across the pond call them Loo-berty. Cause they’re shit.
Shite.
ppl are currently forgetting that Rutgers is leading Michigan late in the second quarter.
Let us know if they hang Harbaugh after this loss. Not in effigy. Actually hang him.
Wtf happened to Michigan
Wolven Sort 7, Flamers 7 at the half. I am quite annoyed.
Touchdown Washington. 24-0
Ms. Whiskey is making sloppy joes. Its a race between Jameson shots and dinner. My moneys on Jameson but we may still see dinner by halftime.
Jameson and sloppy joes? Glad I’m not gonna be anywheres near you tomorrow.
More for me then
Accidentally started burning stuff in the oven, resulting in the whole place filling* with smoke. Now I can say I’m one of the cool kids who inhales!
*ok not “filled” but enough to be able to see
You know who else burned stuff in ovens?
/Julia Child, in her early years
I’d but a burn in her oven, if you know what I mean
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSxv6IGBgFQ
I think it was cool that she was in the fucking OSS.
She was just a desk jockey though, wasn’t she?
Zona fumbles 2 plays later Washington recovers and punches it in. 17-0 DAWGS
We have a long review for targeting. And …
Washington DB Taylor … after review .. no targeting!
Head stays on no penalty
Multiple Sclerosis State Bulldogs surprisingly up on Georgia 10-7
Coached by The Pirate Mike Leach? Hows that bastard doing
Killed it Week 1, dogshit ever since.
He was the perfect foil for UW. Coached the Cougs to overachieve, yet never beat UW in the Apple Cup. Oh fer. Plus great for at least one ridiculous quote a week.
I dig the guy. He’s a complete lunatic, and I mean that as the highest compliment.
I am 100% buying his book whenever he writes it.
It’s a pity Morrissey is such a cock because, some The Smiths tunes are still phenomenal.
Sidenote, saw Johnny Marr about 5 years ago. He still has rights to their tunes. His voice was perfect. Was a great show in a small venue? Remember those?????????
Morrissey has been a racist dick since at least Your Arsenal. “We are the last truly British people we will ever know”.
such a penis.
Feel like if someone needs to take up the DFO mantle of “universally unpopluar music opinion” I can do it: not a fan of The Smits.
Steven Patrick Morrissey: come for the angsty self obsession, stay for the blatant racism.
Oh DFO is all over the map. I reckon there are country music folkes herein.
Talking classic Country or douchey new pop country.
Here we go! I believe a year or so there was a new country old country argument here.
The line of demarcation is Hank Williams. Hank, senior.
But…but ALL your rowdy friends are here on Monday Night!
The only stuff I can stand is The Cowboy Junkies’ bluesy covers of old standards. That’s it.
Try The Turnpike Troubadours, Jason Isbell, Margo Price.
Or don’t. They’re your ears.
Thankfully they are all pre-shamed enough to not show it
SPM puts on a tremendous live show, too. The last such performance I have attended (and will likely be the last of my life).
He either kills it or ragequits after 20 minutes. I’ve seen both.
He said he wanted to make love to us all, so I guess that was one of his good nights. Heaped praise on Obama, too.
Mizzou head coach Eliah Drinkwitz sounds like he’s a guy in A.A.-Amish Anonymous.
Lol
Washington red zone losing only 3 not bad
Dez Bryant active for the Ravens tomorrow?
Too soon
Oklahoma State Cowboys playing like someone told them they were the Dallas Cowboys.
Cow Fuckers are whipping the Cow Fornicators.
a refresher on Hippo-ese:
BDSM State v. Steerfuckers North
/gonna be some happy (or bothered) cattle in Okiehoma tonite
My new shirt:
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Wr’s tend to make ‘amazing’ catches when the ball is overthrown.
Speaking of being way too high while watching a movie, Star Wars finally hit our wee town theatre in 1980 and we’d heard some good things about it. We smoked way, way too much, arrived late and the only seats available were in the very front row. When the massive spaceship sailed across the screen during the intro I was white-knuckling the hand rests, leaning back into the 2nd row and saying, “Ahh, Ahh, Ahh, Ahh, Ahh.” so loudly that an usher came to my seat and asked me, “Is everything okay here?”.
/everything was not okay
Scotchy’s experience, artist’s re-creation:
Jesus, that’s three years. Did they have to build a road to your town in order to ship the movie there?
[puts one thumb inside suspenders, takes a pull on corncob pipe]
“Things were a little different back then, Sparky.”
We all watching Cowfuckers V Other Cowfuckers tonight?
Its blackout night in Seattle. Ok so thats every night. But watching Zona vs the Huskies.
NC State v. Liberty, damn yeeeewwww!!
Re-enacting the War of Northern Aggression?
FERGET HAYELLLLLL!!!
Falwell Jr. watching from the boat in his shorts
Tebow doing an ad in a Gators jersey. It’s about time you grew up, little boy.
Or at least time to get recircumcised
Tebow is that guy that peaked at 21 and still is reliving it decades later
He’s like a semi-handsome, closeted homer sexual Al Bundy.
Listens to Springsteen’s Glory Days unironically.
Just went for a 7 mile walk.
Can I hibernate now?
Up hill all the way?
he done left Chi**** so at least not snowing smgdh
Bound for New Orleans?
I’m coming from The Future to tell you I got this reference.
NO MASK FOAR HUGH FREEZE SUCK IT LIBTARDS!!!!111111
Invisible friends, I have an issue that involves contracts governed by Georgia law. Does anyone know any Georgia attorneys.
Not this guy:
Though this guy actually wins some cases.
I said Georgia, sir, not New Mexico.
So, no reciprocity then?
I can give you the name of the guy that took care of a speeding ticket in Atlanta in 2003.
I’m by no means an expert but common sense tells me that if you have more toilets on your front lawn than the other guy, you automatically win.
1 second back on the clock in Cinci
I like the challenge of figuring it out.
For instance, that piece of NY gets Dallas because individual markets can sometimes request a regional game over the national game. Since Dallas is NFC East, lower New York would qualify as regional because of the Giants. The rest of the state doesn’t care, so they went along with the national game, but that lower NY state area must have a lot of Giants fans and that’s probably the game they prefer to watch.
Yeah, I think we see a lot of NFC East games down here in TX that as a Cowboys hater I have no fucking interest in just because of that tenuous connection.
Start a fire or a series of fires. DFO shall be your alibi.
BLEERGH demands a Fourth Down Conversion, JV Cincy!
The Spirit of BLEERGH compels you!!
I was four years old when Kennedy was killed. I don’t remember the actual event, but I do remember being pissed off when they televised his lying in state, and my favorite show Diver Dan was pre-empted for that for THREE FUCKING DAYS.
“I’m guessing you don’t remember pulling the trigger either? Typical!”
-Alex Jones
I did light Cigarette Smoking Man’s cigarette as he took aim from the Grassy Knoll. Or in the storm sewer. I can’t remember.
I was 3. I remember being very worried that grownups were crying. I come from a very Catholic family, two aunts were nuns and there were always priests littering my Irish grandfather’s house.
I always end up thinking “why dont they just have two games on each network” and then give up.
We used to have that in LA sometimes when we didn’t have teams.
Famine to feast.
Christ we’re replaying history: https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/nation/2020/11/21/covid-and-thanksgiving-how-we-celebrated-during-1918-flu-pandemic/6264231002/
That’s a good article. The more things change…
“Well besides that, how was the car ride, Mrs. Kennedy?”
Down here in TX, the saying goes “Aside from that, how did you enjoy the parade, Mrs. Kennedy?”
I’m going to carry this over from the morning thread and try to name my top 10 tripping balls movies.
In no particular order.
Clockwork Orange
Apocalypse Now
Stop making Sense
Pink Floyd’s The Wall
Eraserhead
Blue Velvet
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life and you can easily throw in Life of Brian too.
I’ll be back with the rest after I smoke one.
Zardoz
Good answer! Rollerball, original version was pretty bad ass too.
Oh shit! Fantastic Planet!
Fantastic Animation Festival was a popular favorite at the pre-VCR phenomenon called Midnight Movies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantastic_Animation_Festival
Also, 1981, Heavy Metal.
Fear and Loathing is so, so good.
They’re coming back, like a flashback.
Silent Running.
I LOVE that movie!
Here’s a random list of movies that I saw for the first time… while tripping balls.
The Deed Hunter
Reservoir Dogs
Fatso starring Dom DeLuise
Point Break the original yes really
Ghostbusters!
Silence of the Lambs
Jesus, that’s a quality list I’m it’s own right.
I saw Yellow Submarine on a 12″ B&W tv whilst tripping on 3 hits of windowpane back sometime in the late 1970s, it was pretty striking even on the shitty delivery system.
Altered States.
The Doors movie
Flash Gordon
Akira
The Deed Hunter
Compelling film about Christopher Walken working for a Title Assurance company back in the late 1960s, after obtaining a draft deferment for bone spurs.
Jimi Hendrix’s Rainbow Bridge
oh, and excellent “pink suit” joke above!
I may have mentioned this before but my dad’s brother, Uncle Gary, was a Fort Worth motorcycle cop and he escorted JFK’S motorcade from Ft. Worth to Dallas where he handed off escort duties to Dallas PD. I’ve also got a photo of him with Yogi Berra that was on the front page of the newspaper.
JFK’s San Antonio portion of that trip included a stop and short speech at the USAF’s aerospace bio-medical facility at Brooks AFB (think monkeys in centrifuges). A few years ago when we were still HQed at Brooks, a celebratory email honoring a retiring civil servant who attended that speech was sent out for all. She must have been in her 70’s when she retired.
Sudden Niiiiiiiiiccccce Beaver Change!
Xmas lights now up. Think 15 sets of lights plus some wreaths and other assorted stuff.
You understand it is still pre-Murrikan Thanksgiving??
But post Canadian thanksgiving ( at the proper time of year) and Halloween and before it snows here.
You make a good point for not following the USA Social Contract.
Since it is only going to be me, Mrs. Sharkbait and baby shark for Thanksgiving this year, we splurged and got a farm raised turkey for dinner. You better believe I’m making a shit ton of turkey stock once we’re done with dinner.
Humble suggestion to bring the thing first. Soooo much better that way
It arrives Monday. I’ll look into some brines!
I’ve used the Alton Brown one and had great results. While a bit crazy for the ingredient list, worth it to me
I had a minor epiphany today. I’ve always cooked a full dinner every Sunday and most times do take out or delivery on Saturday. Even during football season.
Why the fuck am I cooking on football Sunday?
Today I made a garlic crusted pork tenderloin with turmeric rice and my Thai style green beans. No shortcuts. I’m ordering a damn pizza tomorrow and I ain’t cooking SHIT!
Sometimes it takes me awhile to figure shit out.
It’s funny when you think to yourself, “Why didn’t I do that earlier?”
I know!
Um, do you want to deliver leftovers on your way to work?
Also, we’re going to be making our first Thanksgiving dinner in it’s entirety with family. Any tips? Especially for the turkey?
Put the turkey in the oven.
/thinks
No.
Don’t stuff the turkey just loosely fill the body cavity with celery onion and garlic
I also roast it breast side DOWN. it doesn’t give you the golden breasted Better Homes and Gardens magazine cover turkey but it gives you a moist bird which is the desired result.
You give the best history lessons Beerguy. I’m fortunate enough to have seen both The Kinks and Queen. Queen was on the Jazz tour. The Kinks were at the first US Festival. Never saw Elton John though.
I never got to see Queen, but I did catch The Kinks on the Give the People What They Want Tour, San Diego 1981 right after I got out of boot camp.
Apparently Fox heard my cries for MOAR CLEVE with this southern Nevada reprieve from Taysom Hill QB — about the only interesting thing I’d want to watch tomorrow.