Your “Perfect Day For A Quiet Friend” Sunday Evening Open Thread

  Random thoughts for a Sunday afternoon: Awful nice of John Elway to draft the nephew of the only QB with more Super Bowl losses than him. as Mr. Irrelevant, Chad Kelly will get a celebration in SoCal, promoted by Paul Salata. SBNation has a good write-up about the whole Mr. Irrelevant.

Sunday Gravy with yeah right: Two item Chinese combo!

Greetings esteemed culinarians. Welcome to a piping hot and fresh edition of Sunday Gravy or as the Chinese may say, Xīngqírì ròuzhī or 星期日肉汁. We are off and running with a brand new cuisine and all sorts of cool new techniques for you to show off and dazzle your friends and family. If you've

TGISF…aka Your “Who’s Got Wood?” Sexy Friday Open Thread

Today is Arbor Day. So go plant a tree...so to speak. But yes, Arbor Day, or more specifically Trees....is our theme this week, one way or another. Yes, I know you were expecting something NFL Draft related probably.  But fuck those idiots.  I can barely stand to watch real NFL during the season

HRTN Spring Break Special 2017 (Part Deux)

The scene: Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Future Moose is silently packing up the Moosemobile, Cookiethulhu is cleaning the windows and Old School Zero looks over a map. In the back seat of the Moosemobile Señor Weaselo lies in a fetal position, occasionally making whimpering sounds. Otto's Brain comes rolling up. Otto's Brain:

Historical Badasses: Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck

I've done a lot of reading on the First World War as of late; one of the more recent discoveries from my Wikipedia rabbit-holes is that there was, as it turns out, a pretty significant amount of fighting between the Germans and the British in Africa starting in 1914. With