Happy Fathers Day. pic.twitter.com/kFNMrMT6rY
— You Had One Job (@_youhadonejob1) June 17, 2018
So, what happened over the weekend that wasn’t a horror story?
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Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)
Good lord, these people are nuts.
Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.
White supremacy is terrorism.
Meanwhile over at truth Social, the former president is busy confessing to crimes.
Whatever happens next week, the fight doesn’t end.
A last alliance of elves and men. also pet photos.
… pundit janitors mopping up after the GOP
Let’s finish the job.
Only Democrats have agency, apparently.
Tick tock motherfuckers!
Fuck these fucking interesting times.
Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.
Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.
“Squeaker” McCarthy
This blog will pay for itself.
Not all heroes wear capes.
Give the craziest people you know everything they want and hope they don’t ask for more? Great plan.
Come on, man.
Come on, media. you have one job. start doing it.
Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.
Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.
They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.
When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.
Yarrow
That is a great video montage! Here’s to all the excellent dad reflexes.
worn in den
The first leg of my trundle home to Oregon from Father’s Day festivities in Texas? A few more hours to go…
Hope everyone’s weekend was great, and if not that, reasonably tolerable.
Mike J
I like the one with the kid running into the grill who was really old enough to know better. You gotta protect a toddler, but it’s even better to save an older kid.
Yarrow
I’m taking care of my neighbor’s cats again. One of the cats is known to be very skittish. When showing me what to do to feed the cats, etc. a few years ago my neighbor said, “You probably won’t even see her.” That hasn’t been true. I’ve always seen her but she mostly hides under a chair. She’s never let me touch her. Always runs away when I even get close to her.
Well, yesterday she let me pet her a tiny bit, only on her back near her tail. But that was a huge step forward. And today she not only let me do that but let me pet her from her head down to the tip of her tail. She seemed to enjoy it. I’ve talked to two other people who have taken care of her and she’s never let them pet her. I’m taking it as a good sign she’s getting comfortable with me.
So that’s my non-horror story for the weekend.
Mnemosyne
Back from the Happiest Place On Earth. We had a great, if expensive, time, even with all of my discounts. But it was definitely worth it to take a weekend away before G plunges into his very busy summer semester of work+internship an hour apart from each other.
Mike in NC
I was again deeply disappointed not to be notified that a distant relative I never knew about had died and left me his/her entire fortune.
Mnemosyne
@Yarrow:
We’ve had the same pet sitter for years and our semi-feral Annie is just now starting to let herself be seen. Cats operate on their own time scale when it comes to that stuff.
James Powell
Had a day and a dinner with sister and BIL. Youngest moved into her own place this weekend, so there were multiple trips to CostCo, etc. to make sure she was properly provisioned. (I got her the instapot duo.) One of those rites of passage I experience vicariously.
Gvg
My father picked a boat trip in his boat as he often does. Weather cooperated and we did a good portion of the Suwanee fromFanning Springs. Able to get up to a nice breezy speed and be cool. Boats take at least 2 people who can work together and have some physical skills. Dad still does fine at 77 and I am 54 . Mom is kind of unsteady. It went well. I have never learned to drive with a boat trailer though and I suspect we won’t be able to too many more years. It was lovely today though. Nephew snorkeled in the springs. I don’t enjoy the frigid temps so I just watched that. 10 year old getting good with mask and flippers. Raised as a total water baby.
rikyrah
@Yarrow:
It was so funny?
rikyrah
@Mnemosyne:
Glad you checked in. It is quite an experience?
I am sort of cynical, but I loved it.
philpm
Those dads had some amazing reflexes. I’m fortunate I’ve never had to make a save like that.
JGabriel
Anne Laurie @ Top:
Only twelve comments after 45 minutes. I guess that tells us what kind of weekend it’s been.
Mnemosyne
For fans of “The Good Place,” there is now an official podcast, hosted by Mark Evan Jackson, who plays Shawn. There are only three episodes so far, but they’ve all been stellar.
One of the things I like about it is that he closes the show with a segment called “What’s Good?” that allows the guests to highlight a favorite charity or tout a new favorite piece of art.
NotMax
Wondering if anyone here might have watched/is watching Gentlemen & Gangsters on Netflix.
Not recommending it per se, as it’s both engaging and frustrating. Very Swedish (in a Bergman sense). So rife with flashbacks, flash forwards and flash sideways that am finding it difficult to follow (or perhaps it’s just that I’m an oldster). Yet the characters are so interesting that want to know more about them, so sticking with it even though the presentation bounces back and forth between enigmatic and opaque.
Mnemosyne
@rikyrah:
No one in my extended family is surprised I eventually managed to land a job there since I’ve been a fan since I was a kid. It’s still fun to go even though I know some of the behind-the-scenes stuff. Like, there are multiple layers when an employee says, “Have a magical day!” It can mean anything from I hope you have a great day to Go eff yourself depending on the intonation. ?
Aleta
Drove a couple hours to stand in front of one of Collins’ houses in the evening with a few others. It felt good. After days of intense anger, close to breaking down with rage, I felt calm standing with friends. Got home around an hour ago.
I’ve been standing at the bus stations sometimes too (starting in January the CBP has been asking people if they are citizens when they board buses in VT, ME, NH). (ETA AfaIk, these buses are going south, not toward Canada. It’s for scare message.)
Passengers are refusing to answer. Bus co. employees feign cluelessness, so I tell myself we are offering them real time education, a public service, and that helps my attitude stay positive. Feeling positive tonight.
Aleta
@NotMax: I’ve been looking for new things; hadn’t seen that. I like Sweden; thanks.
Jager
My grandson called me, he just turned 19. We talked for two hours. We made plans to go to the sierra together and climb Mt. Whitney, the easy way. It was funny we talked like men, he still called me Grandpa, but somehow it was different this time. Nice.
Ruckus
@Mnemosyne:
Sounds like my job in pro sports. When you are at an event you have to be far more political than I am in real life. You interact with pros, support staff, fellow employees – some of whom worked for me, and the public. You are in uniform so everyone knows who you work for and therefore where to complain. The pros and support staff know you and often you stay in the same hotels and eat at the same restaurants. I’d get invited to eat with people all the time because in many locations there are too few restaurants and most everyone shows up at the same one. Even in tourist cities where there were plenty of places, I’d run into people.
Now the fun part was being able to talk to someone at an event that was giving me shit and have them be the only one that knew I wasn’t having any of it.
Ruckus
@Jager:
That’s great. It’s interesting when someone you’ve known as a kid grows up and becomes at ease, treats you an equal but with respect. I found it fun being the kid when that happens as well.
James Powell
@Jager:
That’s awesome man. I never got a chance to know either of my grandfathers; one passed long before I was born, the other when I was four. When I think about life and what it means to be a human being I can’t think of anything more important than grandparents spending time with grandchildren. Hope you get good weather on your walk up Whitney.
Ninedragonspot
Made my Chinese TV debut over the weekend. The TV shooting was even more chaotic than I had imagined, all for maybe three minutes of airtime. Will see what the audiences made of a slightly Santa-ish white guy chatting about Chinese opera and singing a couple of lines from the Henan Yuju Opera “Mulan”.
NotMax
@Ninedragonspot
How do you say “Woo-hoo!” in Chinese. Congrats on the debut.
Ninedragonspot
@NotMax: 好哇 Hǎo wa! Sort of a “hurray” sound.
Just one more canuck
Spent the weekend at a soccer tournament in Kingston (Ontario) watching my daughter’s team win a gold medal ?- a great group of kids and a great group of parents. So I had an awesome Father’s Day weekend
Ohio Mom
Ohio Son is thrilled to have started his first real job this past week, bussing tables at a breakfast/lunch restaurant in our neighborhood. It’s Friday through Monday, 9-3:15 ish (depends on how cleanup goes). The job developer from the non-profit that helped him get the job, and is supposed to be providing some oversight, promptly disappeared.
Ohio Son is also taking a couple of classes at the community college because most of all, he wants to go to college (he’s a straight C student),
and he’s keeping up with a few other longstanding activities — his social-communication group, swim lessons — and is signed up to start a weekly community outing group next month via a non-profit that serves disabled adults.
It all sounds good at first glance for a 21 yo with one foot in autism and one foot out, but I think there is a good possibility that he is going to crash and burn. His schedule is pretty tight and he needs a lot of down time to decompress, which he no longer has. Just driving him around from one place to another is a marathon for me, and I don’t find the world as overwhelming as he does.
This stage of parenting, where you have to let them make their own mistakes is too hair-raising.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
Well, we went to see Incredibles 2. But it was sold out. So we went to have a steak lunch. But they were out of steak. (Just kidding. The diner was mobbed with dads so there was a bit of a wait, but the food was great. And I got my steak.)
So then we went to hear the singer we’d planned on all weekend. And he didn’t show. His name was on the chalkboard outside but the bartender told us he wasn’t coming and it was just going to be one lady with her ukulele. Did not appeal.
So the day did not go as planned. Nevertheless, it was a lovely day with my beautiful bride of 38 years, just strolling around and having coffee and hanging out. And as we bought Incredibles tickets for today, we get a second date out of it.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@Ohio Mom:
Especially with relationships. Our daughters are both married to incredible guys who adore them and respect strong capable women. But there were some rough patches earlier. And that’s just the guys we were allowed to meet or to even hear about.
Ohio Mom
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: Hah! Yesterday I ran into another mother in the supermarket. Her oldest has Aspergers, her youngest is very autistic and barely verbal, and her middle one is a typically developing soon-to-be college freshwoman.
She said it was her daughter giving her the hardest time. She didn’t go into details but it was clear the daughter’s friends are Bad Influences, and that the idea that neither son had any peer relationships was begininning to look like a net positive to her.
I don’t know how my mother survived a few of the guys I brought home way back in the day.