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Here’s a quick diversion from your daily force-feeding of a shit sandwich of horrible fucking tragic news. Overheard in the grocery store a bit ago:

Kid- 12-13 years old: “Don’t stop, believing…”

Dad: If you keep singing Journey I am going to put you up for adoption.

Kid, singing louder: “HOLD ON TO THE FEELING…”

I’d adopt that kid.

I’m going to take a nap and them immerse myself in a video game where I can just shoot fireballs at everything that sucks.

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  1. 1.

    Patricia Kayden

    Smart kid. I love Journey.

    What a horrible day for Baton Rouge and law enforcement.

  3. 3.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    About to go into siesta mode myself. “Breaking news” coverage is pissing me off, bloggers are pissing me off, and I can’t find anything soothing on TV. Even the housecat is pissing me off, and she’s asleep. She never lets the news get to her. Stupid housecat.

  7. 7.

    Ultraviolet Thunder

    I was out pulling weeds when The Thing That Happened This Time took place. I should just assume that every time I wake up or make a sandwich someone’s staging a bloodbath in this fucked up country.
    I’m going to go look at puppies and kittens until I stop wishing for a meteor.

  10. 10.

    dmsilev

    I decided to go out for lunch; the pizza is in the oven now and should be done in a minute or two.

  11. 11.

    Brachiator

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    One of my PBS stations is showing a docu about the Richard III and princes in the tower.

    Spoiler alert. I’m not sure it turns out well for the princes.

  13. 13.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    Even PBS is pissing me off. No Richard III. One station is showing Inspector George Gently, which I usually like, but it started almost an hour ago, and I can’t come in in the middle.

    And the fucking Nats are losing to the Pirates.

  15. 15.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    Eh, “Who’s Crying Now” is a great song.

    First rule of rock ’n’ roll is that even a wretched band typically has at least one good song.

    Okay, just thought of the Archies. Forget I said anything.

  16. 16.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    @Amir Khalid:

    You mean find someone to wait on me hand and foot and cater to my every need? Yes, that would improve my attitude greatly. Believe me, I’m looking.

    Happy birthday, by the way!

  17. 17.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    @Yellowdog:

    Thanks for the suggestion. I don’t usually have trouble finding sedative TV. I’m just unusually out of sorts this afternoon.

  18. 18.

    a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)

    @Amir Khalid: Happy Belated Birthday! Or is today the actual day? I have dateline issues. Either way, I hope it is/was delightful.

    @Steeplejack (phone): If you find such a someone will you allow permit periodic contract borrowing of that someone?

  19. 19.

    Brachiator

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    It’s a whodunit not a whatwasdone.

    Well yeah. What happened is known.

    Was this program doing the “Richard had much to gain, but we don’t know if he actually gave the order” thing?

  26. 26.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    And the Nats tie the game with two outs in the bottom of the ninth. Afternoon looking slightly better.

  33. 33.

    PurpleGirl

    @Omnes Omnibus: Went to TV schedule and the two PBS stations in the metro NYC area aren’t showing it today. But now I have something to look for.

  34. 34.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Brachiator: It did indeed. Also threw some mud at Buckingham. Raised the possibility of a natural death for the elder and survival for the other.

  36. 36.

    Mnemosyne

    I’m teaching my (almost) 10 year old niece to knit, at her request. It seems to be going reasonably well so far.

  37. 37.

    PurpleGirl

    @Omnes Omnibus: There’s a docu that I saw on the Smithsonian Channel about a search for Richard III grave. The people doing the excavation focus on a what was a church yard and is now parking lot. They were members of the Richard III Society and their agenda is proof that he wasn’t an evil hunchback. It’s an interesting show. They haven’t shown in recently but they have shown it several times.

  39. 39.

    Brachiator

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    It did indeed. Also threw some mud at Buckingham. Raised the possibility of a natural death for the elder and survival for the other.

    Survival? Possible, I suppose. But no matter what, they were removed from the board as far as succession was concerned. And would they have outlived Richard without regaining freedom?

    Ah, I ran across this tidbit:

    An obstinate minority of enthusiasts (known as Ricardians) insist that Richard III did not kill the Princes in the Tower; they argue that the princes were still alive on Henry VII’s accession and that it was Henry who killed them to extinguish the Yorkist claim.

    I wonder what evidence supports this.

  43. 43.

    SFAW

    @Steeplejack (phone):

    And the fucking Nats are losing to the Pirates.

    Good. Let’s hope they go 0-for-gazillion in extra innings. I hear Dusty Baker makes Matt Williams look like Joe Maddon, so there’s hope.

    Go Mets!

  46. 46.

    chopper

    hell, journey is one of those things you can only sing as a kid cause as an adult you’ll never hit those high notes. good on him.

  47. 47.

    Patricia Kayden

    @Omnes Omnibus: Journey, Boston, Reo Speedwagon, Heart, Def Leppard. I could go on and on and on. I love 80s classic rock music (along with other genres, of course). I was a teen during the 80s so there’s that.

  48. 48.

    Mnemosyne

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    I tend to be on Alison Weir’s side and say that Richard had both the motive and the opportunity. Many of the pro-Richard theories were current before recent research that uncovered contemporary (to them) documents showing that the princes disappearance from the Tower was known internationally while Richard was still on the throne, so the later “Tudor propaganda” claims were overblown.

  50. 50.

    Mothra

    I heard Newt G. cite The Apprentice as a relevant accomplishment for Trump.

    He said it exactly like Trump would say it.

  52. 52.

    LAllen

    Re: Shooting fireballs at everything that sucks. Me too , on a big screen HDtv . Once in Oblivion I heard something behind me. I turned around and blew a skeleton off the stairs with a fireball. He turned a flip as he fell.

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