In case you missed it, the Los Angeles area has been dealing with some uncommonly intense weather recently; Last week, there was a blizzard warning in LA, which is believed to be only the second one on record ever. While that was going on, Foo Fighters leader Dave Grohl decided to make use of his barbecue skills and help out.
As TMZ reports, Grohl rolled up to LA’s Hope Of The Valley Rescue Mission on February 22 with a big meat smoker, and after 16 hours of preparation, he had enough food to feed around 500 people “ribs, pork butt, brisket, cabbage, coleslaw, and beans.”
From what I read, he also footed the bill for the entire endeavor.
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From HumboldtBlue, who tags me in a lot of fun stuff on twitter. I love this little story of kindness and in the end, this guy gets a beautifully landscaped fence area…and a bunch of new friends.
Recently, Andrew Falloon’s father underwent an operation and he’s been recovering at home ever since. But while doctors’ orders to get plenty of bed rest may be a tad confining at times, it’s not something Falloon’s dad has had to face alone.
Evidently, one bewhiskered local caught wind that Dad could use some company — and went on to offer it in the sweetest possible way.
“My mum went out to run a few errands and left one of the doors slightly open,” Falloon told The Dodo. “When she came home, she found Dad and [this cat] curled up on the couch.”
ANDREW FALLOON
The random kitty’s affectionate gesture certainly was adorable — thought it wasn’t quite a one-sided snuggle. Despite being asleep, Falloon’s dad ended up holding hands with the uninvited houseguest as they dozed away together. All the while, he had no idea.
“My dad hasn’t been the biggest cat person so I think he was as surprised as anyone when Mum woke him up,” Falloon said.
Falloon’s parents later came to learn that the cat’s name is Ziggy. He’s a friendly neighborhood feline who’s been known to drop by other people’s homes on occasion to say hello.
If you need some uplifting television, I’ve found Somebody Feed Phil and Queer Eye on Netflix to be an excellent tonic for any bad day, and Baking it (sad that Making It was canceled) on Peacock and anything Steve Hartman posts on Youtube can lighten any bad mood.
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That’s probably enough for tonight.
I’ve got some serious malaise/ennui going on, so the kindness stories folks send me are welcome, even if I don’t get them into a post in a timely fashion. I think my mood is partly due to my dad still being in rehab (he’s been in the hospital and now rehab since the day after Christmas from covid pneumonia). Hoping he’ll be home by mid-March.
I have a long-planned trip to LA in the next few weeks and even that cannot lift the general gloom/restlessness I’ve been feeling. Meanwhile, I chug away at work, my fourth book (the newest one is now available here and I will probably do a post on it at some point – I kinda want to share the process, which was interesting since most of it took place during the pandemic) and you know, taking care of the herd at my house. I’m trying to get enthused over veggie garden plans, but even that feels, meh.
Speaking of the crew, here’s Nick trying to entice Trixie into a round of zoomies and since I have my camera, of course, she won’t play. Eventually, I will get you some serious video of Nick and Trixie: The Interspecies Love Affair. I just need them to cooperate. He is seriously in love with that dog.
So I have some good news/bad news. I suspect the kindness posts will be even further apart, because I have a large assortment of Climate Solutions articles and videos set aside to share. My general departure from social media has left me a lot of time to explore more important things, like climate solution innovations. Can’t wait to share those in at least, a monthly climate solutions post.
Remember to be kind to yourself and share any kindness/good news you’ve come across in the comments.
I don’t know who needs to hear this but rest is not a reward. You don’t have to earn rest. You need rest. You deserve rest. You are worthy of rest simply because you are a living being. And don’t ever feel guilty for taking time to rest.
With his Hollywood good looks and cool, easy smile, you wouldn’t think this handsome shelter dog would need any help finding a forever home to call his own.
But after weeks passed without anyone adopting him, his caretakers got creative.
They made him a star.
Earlier this month, the official account of the town of Collierville, Tennessee, shared an adorable discovery made by staff at their local animal shelter — that is, of the uncanny resemblance this dog has to actor Paul Rudd.
“We have nicknamed him Pawl Ruff,” the town’s post on social media hailed.
To drive that point home, someone whipped up this series of side-by-side photos showing Pawl and Paul’s similarities.
Click through to see the adorable photo set — and yes, the pup did get adopted :) What I wanna know is, will he, like his human doppelgänger, also never age?
I used to drive by Dave Grohl’s house in Seattle, a great place with stone walls in a great neighborhood north of Capitol Hill where my house was. It was like a large cottage. I believe Cobain wanted to replace him.
Dave Grohl and I share a huge love of Rush – but their music is just damn awesome. Dave has dome some crazy stuff at concerts, including having a random member come up on stage and sing vocals on a song.
Dave Grohl is a one and a million – love the guy. He’s a true humanist.
I’m not particularly surprised that Dave would show up like that and do that. It’s more like “Yeeup, Dave is still awesome”
When a massive ice storm knocked out power to hundreds of thousands of people here in SE Michigan, a Thai restaurant in Dearborn cooked up all the food they had in their freezers that otherwise would have spoiled and gave it all away.
ETA: If you are ever in the Detroit area and have a hankering for Thai, you would do well to try Bangkok 96.
I need “an act of kindness” from the jackalariot. My lovely bride had a rough day at work. We’ve run out of “feel good” TV shows or movies. We have access to just about all the services (because I’m too lazy or disorganized to stop the “free trial” periods). Please make suggestions! Thanks.
There’s a whole genre of youtube videos with Dave Grohl inviting people on stage to play at Foo Fighters concerts. I think the ultimate one is Kiss Guy
As one of my sons told me, “Dave has strong Dad energy”
@suzanne: I wonder if it’s the same house. Cobain’s house was a block from my partner’s old house in the Washington Park neneighborhood – big mansions, old money. My partner’s old house had nine bedrooms and a ballroom. Cobain’s was bigger, more ornate, and had impressive grounds.
wow, thank you for the kindness post. I love all of them, including the ones by our valued commenters, and I especially love the Frods. and the photo of Trixie. I’ve had three Great Danes over the course of my life, and I can never see enough Great Dane photos.
I hope you have little bit of relief as some kindness washes gently and playfully back on you for making this post : )
Notting Hill. My favorite rom-com with Hugh Grant and Julia Roberts. Romancing the Stone, Kathleen Turner. League of Their Own, Geena Davis and others. Man From Snowy River.
And an oldie with James Garner: The Wheeler Dealers.
TV: We really liked Wednesday. I liked Schitt’s Creek, but it didn’t get warm and uplifting until the second season. You have to put up with the cringe-worthy characters for awhile. Great finish though!
@cain: Dave Grohl and the Foo Fighters are the band I consider most likely to play a show in Tennessee and dress in drag for the whole show, just to say fuck you to the state government.
@Chief Oshkosh: I don’t watch much but I thought I saw some tempting watching mentions in the last medium cool post I think Sunday about Dorothy Sayers and Christie. Actually any of the medium cool posts probably trend that way. Click on the topic to the right, of medium cool, then pick a night where the discussion sort of interests you. They can be long threads with lots of tv mentioned.
This is off topic/on topic as Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan may have been saved:
”The government’s top Supreme Court lawyer may have saved President Joe Biden’s $400 billion student loan forgiveness plan from what experts considered all but certain defeat,” CNBC reports.
“Experts lobbed praise on Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar, the lawyer who represented the Biden administration in front of the nine justices Tuesday.”
The full explanation is in the embedded CNBC link.
Off topic/on topic Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan may have been saved!:
“The government’s top Supreme Court lawyer may have saved President Joe Biden’s $400 billion student loan forgiveness plan from what experts considered all but certain defeat,” CNBC reports.
“Experts lobbed praise on Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar, the lawyer who represented the Biden administration in front of the nine justices Tuesday.”
Thank you all for all of the recommendations! It turns out that we and the Jackalariot must have similar tastes as we have indeed seen many of your all’s great suggestions. We started on “Shrinking.” It’s OK. But, we now have a great list from you guys that will likely last us to summer – thanks!
@Chief Oshkosh: You’re probably watching one of the many fine shows mentioned, but another is Remember WENN, about a 1930s radio station. Pretty funny, and with a very cozy-looking production design.
Philomena drops line after line after line, like a point guard dropping dimes. So many plays on words, puns or Lenin finally leaving the band, so good.
@NotMax: Everything Philomena Cunk says is factually incorrect. That bit is interesting, though, in that it feels like a rare moment of earned emotion for the character–she’s upset by what they did to Laika and it’s a legitimate feeling.
@Amir Khalid: Here are my favourite Foos songs (no particular order):
– End Over End
– Generator
– Dear Rosemary
– Summer’s End
– Best of You
32
– Everlong
– The Pretender
– Learn to Fly
– Monkey Wrench
– Breakout
– Skin and Bones
– No Way Back
– DOA
– The Last Song
– Cold Day in the Sun
– The Feast and the Famine
– Outside
– Arlandria
– All My Life
– Times Like These
– Make It Right
– The Line
– No Son Of Mine
– Holding Poison
TaMara
Alison Rose
I found this incredibly charming: An animal shelter helped get a dog adopted by showcasing his resemblance to Paul Rudd.
Click through to see the adorable photo set — and yes, the pup did get adopted :) What I wanna know is, will he, like his human doppelgänger, also never age?
JPL
@TaMara: Just sayin that you are a good person also. You bring a smile on our faces at times when it is most needed.
Alison Rose
@JPL: AGREED.
trollhattan
The Wu-Tang Twitter is going to be a ginormous timesink. Thanks…I think. :-)
eclare
@JPL: 1000%.
Dan B
I used to drive by Dave Grohl’s house in Seattle, a great place with stone walls in a great neighborhood north of Capitol Hill where my house was. It was like a large cottage. I believe Cobain wanted to replace him.
eclare
@Alison Rose: That’s where I got my dog back in November! No famous name, though.
Raoul Paste
These little stories brightened my day. Thanks
cain
Dave Grohl and I share a huge love of Rush – but their music is just damn awesome. Dave has dome some crazy stuff at concerts, including having a random member come up on stage and sing vocals on a song.
Dave Grohl is a one and a million – love the guy. He’s a true humanist.
I’m not particularly surprised that Dave would show up like that and do that. It’s more like “Yeeup, Dave is still awesome”
Alison Rose
@eclare: Oh how cool! :)
twbrandt
When a massive ice storm knocked out power to hundreds of thousands of people here in SE Michigan, a Thai restaurant in Dearborn cooked up all the food they had in their freezers that otherwise would have spoiled and gave it all away.
ETA: If you are ever in the Detroit area and have a hankering for Thai, you would do well to try Bangkok 96.
Dorothy A. Winsor
Sorry to hear you’re dragging, TaMara. Hang in there.
suzanne
@Dan B: Did you read Grohl’s book? He talks about his house in Seattle freaking him out. Not sure if it’s the same one.
The book is really fun. You just get the sense that he is an incredibly kind, funny, and expansive person.
I know he’s got a history of being a cheater, and he does not go into that in the book. LOL.
geg6
I’m a big Foo fan (Everlong is my absolute favorite song of all time) and Dave is a truly good guy.
And I feel you, TaMara. I seem to have the same malaise.
Chief Oshkosh
I need “an act of kindness” from the jackalariot. My lovely bride had a rough day at work. We’ve run out of “feel good” TV shows or movies. We have access to just about all the services (because I’m too lazy or disorganized to stop the “free trial” periods). Please make suggestions! Thanks.
RaflW
I loved the Dave Grohl – Nandi Bushell thing back in 2020.
TheOtherHank
There’s a whole genre of youtube videos with Dave Grohl inviting people on stage to play at Foo Fighters concerts. I think the ultimate one is Kiss Guy
As one of my sons told me, “Dave has strong Dad energy”
Ruckus
@Alison Rose:
The dog is better looking.
Just one man’s opinion……
Dan B
@suzanne: I wonder if it’s the same house. Cobain’s house was a block from my partner’s old house in the Washington Park neneighborhood – big mansions, old money. My partner’s old house had nine bedrooms and a ballroom. Cobain’s was bigger, more ornate, and had impressive grounds.
JPL
@eclare: How is the pup?
Does he/she have Paul Newman’s eyes?
Old Dan and Little Ann
If you see a baseball reigns following y’all on twitter now it’s me. I never post anything, though. Dave Grohl is the man.
Joy in FL
wow, thank you for the kindness post. I love all of them, including the ones by our valued commenters, and I especially love the Frods. and the photo of Trixie. I’ve had three Great Danes over the course of my life, and I can never see enough Great Dane photos.
I hope you have little bit of relief as some kindness washes gently and playfully back on you for making this post : )
MagdaInBlack
Dear lord, I needed this. Thank You ❤️
eclare
@JPL: Lucy the pup is good, but no Paul Newman eyes, they’re brown.
S Cerevisiae
@TheOtherHank: ok that kicked ass, I can see Austin having great guitar players everywhere.
zhena gogolia
@Chief Oshkosh: it’s old, but despite a sad start, About a Boy is very heartwarming
frosty
Thanks for posting the Frods so I don’t have to go back through posts and find it. I sent it on to the whole family. What a great story!
kalakal
@Chief Oshkosh: Local Hero
Chief Oshkosh
@zhena gogolia: Thanks! But, we already saw it. Great suggestion, though.
HumboldtBlue
@Chief Oshkosh:
Try 8 out of 10 Cats does Countdown on YouTube. Hilarious British comedy panel show.
zhena gogolia
@Chief Oshkosh: paddington 2?
zhena gogolia
@Chief Oshkosh: the show Friday Night Dinner is hilarious
kalakal
@zhena gogolia: Seconded
frosty
@Chief Oshkosh: Here’s a few, none of them are recent:
Notting Hill. My favorite rom-com with Hugh Grant and Julia Roberts. Romancing the Stone, Kathleen Turner. League of Their Own, Geena Davis and others. Man From Snowy River.
And an oldie with James Garner: The Wheeler Dealers.
TV: We really liked Wednesday. I liked Schitt’s Creek, but it didn’t get warm and uplifting until the second season. You have to put up with the cringe-worthy characters for awhile. Great finish though!
kalakal
@Chief Oshkosh: Old but the Stephen Fry & Hugh Laurie Jeeves & Wooster series is absolute perfection. P. G. Wodehouse done right
HumboldtBlue
@Chief Oshkosh:
Cunk on Earth, Netflix, it’s a hilarious deadpan world history mockumentary from the ever-hilarious Philomena Cunk (Diana Morgan). Non-stop laughs.
NotMax
@Chief Oshkosh
A few under the radar suggestions.
White on Rice (Tubi)
Toc Toc (Netflix)
Corner Gas (Freevee via Prime – the live version, not the animated one)
.
NotMax
Sorry ’bout that. Didn’t mean to make it appear there was linkage other than to the original comment in #38.
Citizen Alan
@cain: Dave Grohl and the Foo Fighters are the band I consider most likely to play a show in Tennessee and dress in drag for the whole show, just to say fuck you to the state government.
Gvg
@Chief Oshkosh: I don’t watch much but I thought I saw some tempting watching mentions in the last medium cool post I think Sunday about Dorothy Sayers and Christie. Actually any of the medium cool posts probably trend that way. Click on the topic to the right, of medium cool, then pick a night where the discussion sort of interests you. They can be long threads with lots of tv mentioned.
Jackie
This is off topic/on topic as Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan may have been saved:
”The government’s top Supreme Court lawyer may have saved President Joe Biden’s $400 billion student loan forgiveness plan from what experts considered all but certain defeat,” CNBC reports.
“Experts lobbed praise on Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar, the lawyer who represented the Biden administration in front of the nine justices Tuesday.”
The full explanation is in the embedded CNBC link.
Jackie
Off topic/on topic Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan may have been saved!:
“The government’s top Supreme Court lawyer may have saved President Joe Biden’s $400 billion student loan forgiveness plan from what experts considered all but certain defeat,” CNBC reports.
“Experts lobbed praise on Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar, the lawyer who represented the Biden administration in front of the nine justices Tuesday.”
The explanation is in the embedded CNBC link.
kalakal
@Citizen Alan: Looks like the Governor could be part of the show.
There’s always a photo
As could this poisonous creep
https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-politics-and-policy/video-appears-show-texas-drag-bill-author-dressed-drag-rcna72950
NotMax
@Chief Oshkosh
One more, on YouTube.
A fun updated but respectful of the original Pirates of Penzance.
delphinium
@NotMax: Saw Corner Gas when it first aired on TV. Funny, offbeat show.
Chief Oshkosh
Thank you all for all of the recommendations! It turns out that we and the Jackalariot must have similar tastes as we have indeed seen many of your all’s great suggestions. We started on “Shrinking.” It’s OK. But, we now have a great list from you guys that will likely last us to summer – thanks!
prostratedragon
@Chief Oshkosh: You’re probably watching one of the many fine shows mentioned, but another is Remember WENN, about a 1930s radio station. Pretty funny, and with a very cozy-looking production design.
StringOnAStick
@HumboldtBlue: Thanks for the Cunk in Earth rec; I’ll never see volcanoes as anything other than “angry hills” thanks to that hilarious show!
NotMax
@prostratedragon
If you haven’t already seen them, you also might enjoy W1A (on Plex and Britbox) and Drop the Dead Donkey (Tubi and Roku channel),
Manyakitty
@Chief Oshkosh: The Good Place is fun and surprisingly clever
prostratedragon
@NotMax: I have Britbox, will keep it in mind.
zeecube
@Chief Oshkosh: Shot Gun Wedding on Prime is goofy fun.
Amir Khalid
It’s not true that cats are aloof. It is true that they are affectionate by nature. Ziggy is just doing what cats do, spreading the love.
My favourite Foo Fighters song is Walking After You.
HumboldtBlue
@StringOnAStick:
Philomena drops line after line after line, like a point guard dropping dimes. So many plays on words, puns or Lenin finally leaving the band, so good.
“There’s a dead dog in space.”
NotMax
@HumboldtBlue
If she’s talking about Laika aboard Sputnik 2, that mission burned up in the atmosphere (dog had died days before) upon re-entry &8230; in 1958.
NotMax
re: #55
upon re-entry &8230; in 1958 = upon re-entry … in 1958
HumboldtBlue
@NotMax:
She is, and does so without the maffs you just went through to pose a question. Is the moon even real?
NotMax
@HumboldtBlue
Still, the line is demonstrably factually incorrect.
HumboldtBlue
@NotMax:
But she doesn’t let it go.
Then the mole winks at you.
Matt McIrvin
@NotMax: Everything Philomena Cunk says is factually incorrect. That bit is interesting, though, in that it feels like a rare moment of earned emotion for the character–she’s upset by what they did to Laika and it’s a legitimate feeling.
Betty
Finally got around to buying the T. J. Wilde books. Looking forward to diving in.
TaMara
@Betty: Squee! Hope you enjoy them.
Paul in KY
@cain: Dave is a mensch. Have seen Foos a couple of times. Love his sets, because he’ll play all their hits and also some pretty good covers.
Paul in KY
@suzanne: I think most rock stars who get gorgeous women/men propositioning themselves 50 times a day, fall into that trap.
Paul in KY
@Amir Khalid: Here are my favourite Foos songs (no particular order):
– End Over End
– Generator
– Dear Rosemary
– Summer’s End
– Best of You
32
– Everlong
– The Pretender
– Learn to Fly
– Monkey Wrench
– Breakout
– Skin and Bones
– No Way Back
– DOA
– The Last Song
– Cold Day in the Sun
– The Feast and the Famine
– Outside
– Arlandria
– All My Life
– Times Like These
– Make It Right
– The Line
– No Son Of Mine
– Holding Poison