First half of the sports weekend down, day two set to get started. I don’t know about you, but I’m pretty darn tired this morning. Dunno know how many of you follow college basketball (though I imagine it’s not many), but yesterday was a tough day for a lot of the Top 10 teams. Most notably, #1 Arizona lost (a shame, that), as did #6 Kansas, #7 Michigan State, and #8 OK State. My condolences to all of them and their fans. Now I guess we move on to the SuperBowl. Since it’s like 35° here, I’m assuming it’s nice and warm down there in New Jersey, so there’s no excuse not to head down there (assuming you have tickets and you don’t want to tailgate, which is verboten though they will allow you to sit in your car and eat, which is mighty big of them). And the best part is, you don’t have to cross the George Washington Bridge to get there (at least not if you’re coming from Central NY).
I’m trying to decide my next move, here (which definitely won’t be making the 4-hour drive to Jersey). We’re supposed to get some snow later this week, and I’m in need of diesel for the tractor, so I should probably head out and get some. Normally on Sundays I travel to the bustling metropolis of Auburn, NY (or Pixley, as I like to think of it) to hit up the shopping “club” for a week’s worth of vittles and to fill my gas tank. But I don’t really need food this week (that is, I already have food and actually got an Amazon “Subscribe and Save” package that if I ration carefully I could survive on ’til spring).
I do need gas, though down to a quarter of a tank, which will get me to work and back tomorrow, but I might as well fill up while the weather’s warm. The gas is cheaper at the “club” – like 14¢ a gallon. But it’s 24 miles round trip, which uses, give or take, about a gallon of gas. I think I need about 10 gallons to fill my tank right now, and that would save $1.40 – so it would actually cost more to go buy cheaper gas so I guess it aint really worth it (I mean, otherwise I’d just drive to Billings, MT where GasBuddy says the price per gallon is a mere $2.899 – as opposed to $3.619 at the station here in Hooterville).
Of course, if I drive to the club, I can stop in and buy some shit food to chow on during the SuperBowl, what with my stock of shit food having dwindled to virtually nothing. That’s not really much motivation, though. It’s not like I have friends coming over or anybody to watch the game with, and if I feel the need I can always womp up a batch of my famous boneless chicken wings (actually boneless, skinless organic chicken thighs – I know, I know, I really shouldn’t eat anything with a mother, but I lack the necessary knowledge to figure out how to be vegan, so unless somebody wants to come cook for me or at least send me recipes and shopping lists I gotta stick with what I know).
Besides, they are just so gosh darn good. I sauté them for a bit in olive or coconut oil (whichever I happen to find first) with balsamic vinegar, a little flour, some Italian breadcrumbs, garlic (shit, I think I’m out of garlic), onions, Frank’s Red Hot, black pepper, cayenne pepper, and whatever else happens to fall into the pan. Then I roast them until slightly crunchy on the outside and melt in your mouth on the inside. Then I toss ’em in a bowl and lather on my secret hot sauce.
After that, it’s just gobble ’em up and wait for the burning diarrhea to kick in (typically 4-6 hours). Mmm, mmm, good.
I have so far not been able to bring myself to watch Friday’s Realtime. As you may or may not know, my other brother Daryl Issa was on, and I consider him to be a worthless piece of shit who I really don’t want to listen to. And since Maher has a tendency to suck up to “Conservatives” (I think he believes they’re doing him a favor by being on the show), I can only imagine Issa monopolizing the conversation, obfuscating, filibustering, and just being a generally annoying pain in the ass douchebag (hey Bill, why not have Dana Pigfucker Rohrabacher and that whiny little prick Jack Kingston on at the same time and get your asshole quota taken care of all in one week). I just don’t know that I want to put myself through that (already spent a couple hours last night with a markedly elevated heart rate and increased blood pressure – not sure I want to do that again today).
Well, it appears I missed the window to drive to Pixley (if I don’t get there right at 9:00, too damn many people show up and then I have to wait behind some idiot who insists on using the self checkout even though they’re clearly too stupid), so I guess I’ll just settle on getting gas and diesel.
Then maybe I’ll come back and take a nap.
Issa got touched up a bit by some of Bill’s panel. I am not sure if Ronan
Sinatrais a great hire for MSNBC but he and Ms. Freeland kept him in check. They even gave Maher a little spine calling him on his talking point shit.Meanwhile, Kingston seems to be having some problems of his own.
Amanda Terkel
Jack Kingston’s Campaign Co-Chair Tells ‘Whining’ Atlantans Affected By Storm To ‘Be A Man’
:fu:
Watching this again with more deliberation, the sad truth is that like so many of his ilk, Issahole fancies himself as being funny. I’ll never forgive him for what he did to California and I am glad Ahnie made him cry.
Philip Seymour Hoffman.
🙁 :gate: :
Just saw that. Terrible news.
:gate: Yes I did, too. Really a pity.
Fox News does the Super Bowl:
Men in the man cave, women in the kitchen. As God intended.
Plus, “If You Want To Yap” During The Super Bowl, Do It “With The Ladies In The Kitchen“
no wonder my 86 year old pop loves faux news. rant1:
My only SB.
John Elway to Fox News: I’m Republican because ‘I don’t believe in safety nets’
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/02/02/john-elway-to-fox-news-im-republican-because-i-dont-believe-in-safety-nets/
:barf:
WTF is with this Declaration of Independence thing? Do they not realize the irony, in light of the NSA spying stuff (among other things)?
JFC.
I was just posting on FB…
Maybe the NFL is just signalling they will be foregoing their anti-trust and tax exemptions, great patriotic corporate citizens that they all be.
I think I bought a thing of popcorn from the Boy Scouts that came in a thing that looked like the drum the guy in the honor guard is beating.
I don’t remember this chick being in the Sopranos. Is that a sling she’s wearing?
I hope this pregame shit is over before Shameless comes on at 9:00.
I think Vanessa Williams sang it better last night. Especially since she ended with “GO ORANGE!”
She’s white. She can get over with any kind of caterwauling she likes.
Nice to see B’Way Joe! Nice catch by the official.
Nice toss. Shame he’s got to have that dad animal draped around him.
Rather inauspicious start there.
O-M-HA!
That was a car commercial?
Shitty spot, but they still lose the challenge? Don’t seem right.
Five nothing at the bottom of the first.
I’m bored. The game is pretty dull so far, and the commercials aren’t very interesting either. Plus, I seem to be talking to myself (nothing unusual there).
I may have to go to bed and read for a while or something.
Oh shit. When you turn of the TV cast audio you miss the commercials. If Seattle could get in the end zone for a change, this game could change big time.
OK, well, at the risk of missing the greatest comeback in Super Bowl history, I think I’ll call it a night.
That might be a good audible. I may look for a foreign b’cast to liven things up a little.
Cheerleaders Should be Booing NFL Owners
So pj hit the hay? hmmm
I liked Renée Fleming’s version.
She was great and she’s white! My redneck relations can’t complain.
Cheerleaders should be out there looking to bag a spousal prize like Elway’s Raiderette did. 😉
This game looks pretty done now. Oops. Forgot to mute the Fux.
Yup. This game is a bust, think I’ll follow pj’s lead….. :yawn:
Elway could use a little charity at the moment…
Worst line of the night from The Young Turks watching the game-
“Phillip Seymour Hoffman had a better day than Peyton Manning”
Too soon?
Sorry, art. Obviously I am not much of a Manning or Elway fan but I am sorry for you and Bronco fans.