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Joelle and I spent the day messing around the house because right now, the PGA’s Waste Management Phoenix Open is going on at TPD Scottsdale, which means that basically you do not want to leave your house unless you are walking in your neighborhood. For those of you who do not know, if you combined Fyre Fest, Woodstock 99, Happy Gilmour, and invited every single one of the worst frat bros and douchebag business guys along with every escort, stripper and instagram influencer girlie, but them all on a gold course, and encouraged them drinking to the point of near alcohol poisoning, you would have the Phoenix Open its current incarnation. You’ve got streakers, portions of the course turned into a beer/mud slide, dudes passing out standing up doing the booze version of the fenty fold, and worse.

We got some thai take out and are watching a little tv and going to go to bed early like proper olds.

Everything political sucks lets not talk about it in this thread.

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  1. 1.

    Chetan Murthy

    John, for reals, the PGA allowed _Waste Management_ to sponsor a golf tournament?  What’ll they do next?  Invite Mr. Bone Saw to sponsor ? [narrator: I’m being informed that, yes, Mr. Bone Saw is sponsoring the whole shebang]

  7. 7.

    Melancholy Jaques

    If you combined Fyre Fest, Woodstock 99, Happy Gilmour, and invited every single one of the worst frat bros and douchebag business guys along with every escort, stripper and instagram influencer girlie, but them all on a gold course, and encouraged them drinking to the point of near alcohol poisoning, you would have the Phoenix Open its current incarnation.

    Have you been there for Spring Training yet?

    I will be there in March, an annual tradition.

  8. 8.

    satby

    Well, you might like the Signora Volpe series for some escapist viewing. 2 seasons on Acorn (via Prime). I don’t think I’ve seen Emilia Fox in anything since she was Georgiana Darcy in the 1995 Pride and Prejudice. Hoping for a season 3.

  10. 10.

    Jackie

    Anyone have Super Bowl parties planned? This household are rooting for the Eagles and sporting our Seahawks attire as representing the NL.

    I read FFOTUS has hatred for the Philadelphia Birds – thus another reason to hope the Eagles can repeat their upset in ‘18 – denying Brady and NE another SB ring, and denying KC the Three-Peat.

  12. 12.

    Jay

    @Jackie:

    Hate to tell you, but 86% of Canadians support Canada having “technical difficulties” with the electricity supply and the gas supply to the US, starting at 6 am, EST. That will only effect 31 States.

    Sadly, that will also effect the Puppy Bowl.

  14. 14.

    Leto

    @Jackie: it’s just Avalune and me at the casa. She’ll make her nachos that we love, and a few other snacks. GO BIRDS!

    It’s currently sleeting here, and this entire upcoming week will be lots of snow and sleet. Should be fun…

  15. 15.

    Suzanne

    I attended the Phoenix Open a couple of times. Not my scene.

    One year, the Phoenix Open and the Super Bowl were both in Phoenix at the same time, and I did my level best not to leave the house.

  17. 17.

    Jackie

    @Jay: I hope it’s an unfulfilled rumor! Maybe technical difficulties whenever the cameras zoom in on the FFOTUS???

    🤞🏻🤞🏻 (sorry, JC)

  19. 19.

    sixthdoctor

    @Jay: Wouldn’t be more efficient for Canada just to have “technical difficulties” for, say, the last five minutes of the game?

  20. 20.

    Jackie

    @Leto:

    It’s currently sleeting here, and this entire upcoming week will be lots of snow and sleet. Should be fun…

    We have a bit of new snow with more forecasted for tomorrow. Perfect weather for chicken wings and 7-layer dip for The Game.

  23. 23.

    Jay

    @sixthdoctor:

    Nope. we are blaming ruZZian hackers, no heat, no kitchen, no nacho’s,  no lights, no TV. Dig out your hand cranked  Disaster radio

    It will only effect 31 States.

  24. 24.

    RaflW

    It snowed up here in the mountians, so my buddy and I got a decently early start to our local hill (12 miles away). It was bonk-diddy-bonkers. It had only snowed 2″ in the previous 11 days, and this snow coming overnight on a Friday meant huge pent up demand matched to a Saturday in Denver.

    Still, i won’t complain! Everyone was well behaved (some novices were dumb, but that’s not bad-intentioned), and goofing around on more than half a foot of powder was wonderful.

  25. 25.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    @Jackie:

    My folks are KC fans, so they’re rooting for them to win. I guess I’ll root for the Eagles if it pisses Dump off lol

    Not a big football fan, really, but watching last year’s SB I could see the appeal. It was exciting

  26. 26.

    Suzanne

    I made a pumpkin cake. Children interrupting me constantly while I mixed the ingredients. Baked it. Thought it looked a little bit lighter in color than the other times I’ve made it.

    Realized…. I forgot to put the pumpkin in the batter. Fuuuuuuuuuck.

  29. 29.

    Chetan Murthy

    @Suzanne: which recipe did you use?  I have a hankerin’ for pumpkin, and my goto is pumpkin bread (b/c I still  haven’t buckled-down and learned how to make pie crusts).

  30. 30.

    RaflW

    Oh, and I would think I’ll either be watching a movie, more season 3 of British Bakeoff, or reading a novel tomorrow at game time. I just cannot be bothered, but any of you who enjoy should enjoy!

    I went to most all of my college home games way back in the day, and later I gave it a go being a Vikings fan the first two years I lived in MN. It wasn’t really connected, but my interest waned about the time Qadry Ismail left the Vikes. Really never followed pro ball after that.

  31. 31.

    hitchhiker

    the only thing that would make me tune in to the SB would be the possibility of seeing the thug have a stroke on live tv … but it’s not guaranteed to happen, and if it does I’ll settle for the clips.

    probably going to walk down to the village and see that Dylan movie again instead.

  35. 35.

    Kayla Rudbek

    I am sitting here playing yarn chicken with this current knitting project. It’s a two-color shawl, and I may have to go tear out a different finished project to have enough yarn, as Knit Picks is not showing this yarn as available in the particular main color I am using. There are some for sale from people’s Ravelry stashes, but that depends on people actually replying to my messages…

  36. 36.

    RaflW

    @Chetan Murthy: I highly recommend pumpkin pie cake. The alternate name, pumpkin dump cake, could use some work, but it’s got the pumpkin custard of a pie, but with a cake-y, nutty crust. Incredibly easy since it uses a box cake mix but you don’t even mix it!

    Our household loves it, and it went into rotation because I can easily source a GF cake mix as an alternative. There are GF pie crusts, of course, but we now prefer the pie-cake (and we also get Costco pumpkin pies in season, and he just skips the crust since he’s not deathly GF – and I admit to eating the crispy edge bit of the crust he has to reject. Oh, the sacrifice).

  37. 37.

    Sure Lurkalot

    Guy and I will be eating snax (meatballs, wings, spinach pies), drinking spicy blackberry margaritas and rooting for all the puppies. Oh the game? Go Eagles, just yesterday saw dozens of eagles at a state park where they buzz by every year around this time, May it be a good sign.

    ,

  38. 38.

    narya

    Mom is a Birds fan, Friend is a Packers fan; they can fight it out. Not only do I not like football, I have a colonoscopy Monday, so I will be . . . busy during the game.

  41. 41.

    Sure Lurkalot

    @narya: I don’t watch much football either but I’m celebrating because it’s my last day before a course of antibiotics, gum surgery and weeks of liquid and mush for sustenance.

    Good luck with your procedure!

  42. 42.

    Matt McIrvin

    What I think is funny about Waste Management is that its logo is WM in the school colors of William & Mary. Reminds me of my alma mater

  43. 43.

    narya

    Honestly, given my brother’s diagnosis, I’m glad there was a cancellation and I could get in in 2 weeks instead of six months! And then I can eat seeds and nuts and beans again.

  44. 44.

    CaseyL

    Might not watch the SB, unless one of my streaming services is carrying it. Will probably follow it online, at least sporadically. I was born in Philly, lived my first 12 years there, have visited a few times and quite like the city… so I have a vestigial fondness for the Eagles, and hope they win.

    Today I finally got to the park to do this month’s water quality testing of the main creek that runs through the park. I should have done it at some point this past week, but the weather was very uncooperative. Today was at least dry, so off I went. I got to chat with a few people who happened by to ask what I was doing, which was great fun. It also meant I was out there for 2 hours rather than 1 hour, and by the time I ran the last test, my hands and feet were freezing.

  45. 45.

    Jay

    @CaseyL:

    Tip, Neoprene.

    I flyfish through the winter. 8 -10 hours immersed in freezing water. Often have to suck the frozen ice off my flyline before making another cast.

  46. 46.

    Origuy

    The good news is that I’ve tested negative for Covid the last four times so I should be over it but there’s the possibility of a rebound. A friend of mine set a course in San Francisco this morning to find the heart and sea lion sculptures that are scattered around the city. He got about sixty people to come out. The bad news is that walking 6.36km wore me out and I thought I was going to die going up the first hill. It’s going to take a while for me to recover from Covid; and I was just getting over my IT band syndrome in my leg. Getting old sucks.

  47. 47.

    mrmoshpotato

    the PGA’s Waste Management Phoenix Open is going on at TPD Scottsdale, which means that basically you do not want to leave your house unless you are walking in your neighborhood. For those of you who do not know, if you combined Fyre Fest, Woodstock 99, Happy Gilmour, and invited every single one of the worst frat bros and douchebag business guys along with every escort, stripper and instagram influencer girlie, but them all on a gold course, and encouraged them drinking to the point of near alcohol poisoning, you would have the Phoenix Open its current incarnation.

    George Carlin was right.  Punch all of these [DELETED].  Thank you Ozzyman for Lions vs Mongoose.

  48. 48.

    comrade scotts agenda of rage

    I will be watching the Phoenix Open thanking the heavens I’m not actually at the Phoenix Open.

  50. 50.

    Mike E

    @Jackie: when PHI beat NE 7 years ago they passed on going to the White House, a decision repeated by the US women after winning the soccer world cup a year after that. It would be fun to see the Eagles take the trophy and then tell fcukface to eat it, again.

  51. 51.

    CaseyL

    @Jay: Thanks for the suggestion! I’ll try it, but most gloves don’t do much for me.  About the only ones that keep my hands warm are fur-lined or insulated ski gloves – neither of which allow enough fine control.

  52. 52.

    Jay

    @CaseyL:

    So tip, surgical gloves under what ever works for you. Keeps the water away, minimal insulation though.

    My go to’s when it’s not -40 are wool, fingerless gloves. Just shake the water off.

    I’m tactile as well, don’t like gloves.

    Then again, don’t like cordless torque tools, stripped out too many bolts into aluminum casings, even with the torque settings on the tool set “right” I go by feel.

    Get there 99% of the time.

  53. 53.

    Jackie

    @Mike E:

    when PHI beat NE 7 years ago they passed on going to the White House, a decision repeated by the US women after winning the soccer world cup a year after that. It would be fun to see the Eagles take the trophy and then tell fcukface to eat it, again.

     

    Absolutely! BUT will the Phillies owner agree?

  54. 54.

    brendancalling

    I’ve been (California) sober for one month, 9 days, and counting. It’s been pretty good!

    I hope the Eagles win and I hope Kendrick shames Donny.

  57. 57.

    mvr

    @Jay & Casey L: Noticing that several jackals are fly fishers. I was just (literally 5 minutes ago) reading a book on Western Fly fishing by Bud Lilly and Paul Schullery from around 25 years ago. Some real optimism there about conservation. Schullery is still around and writing – his books on Yellowstone are really good. Especially the first one about when he lived there in the 70s. I was able to get autographed copies of several of his books at a fundraising auction recently.  Was just thinking about writing to thank him.

    I live in Nebraska and do fish most of the year.  But right now things are frozen over in Nebraska.  I did manage to fish in Northern Arizona on a work trip early in the year and that was fun. Hoping to get out around here later in the month, though things are getting colder for a bit.

  61. 61.

    NotMax

    Planning on the monthly shopping trip in town on Sunday. Expecting the stores to be uncommonly uncrowded.

  62. 62.

    Jay

    @mvr:

    I got bored with basic, standard BC Flyfishing a couple of years ago, started learning how to do Czech flyfishing. It’s basically upstream nymphing with a twist.

    Here on the Coast, other than a couple of months, (spawning), you can flyfish year round in fresh water, (2 trout species, 3 char species, 4 salmon species, 2 steelhead), NPM’s, some Bass and Crappies,

    and then, there is salt water. Blueback’s are a blast, (immature coho salmon,) inshore up to tuna offshore.

  63. 63.

    Jay

    @NotMax:

    Unflavored sheet cake? Poke some holes in it and liberally spread with maple syrup before icing?

    Canadian Maple syrup, fuck Diaper Don.

  64. 64.

    hitchhiker

    @NotMax: that sounds like a version of Poke Cake — sheet cake with holes poked in and then a version of un-set jello poured into them.

    grandkids go crazy for it, plus their fingers are the right size to poke the holes. :)

  66. 66.

    mvr

    @Jay: I’m not jealous (sarcasm or at least irony).  I lived in Oregon a long time ago which is where I took up fly fishing. But to be truthful it was a long time between my first two fish despite going out to the Clackamas & Sandy Rivers after work nearly daily.

    Nowadays (40 years on) I mostly go to Wyoming (where I have built a tiny cabin) to the West, or to the Driftless area of Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin to the East when I want to catch trout or char. But I’ve also learned to like catching (and releasing) small mouth bass around here. I’ve been pretty involved with fisheries related conservation and the new regime is depressing to say the least.

  67. 67.

    NotMax

    @hitchhiker

    Yeah, thought about suggesting Jell-O but that’s not something found in household pantries so much as it used to be.

    Would have mentioned either rum or bourbon but for the kids.

  68. 68.

    Jay

    @mvr:

    Sorry to hear that.

    I grew up flyfishing for brookies in the Maritimes. 122 brookies in two cast iron frypans, none bigger than 4 inches. Then, we moved to BC, first fish was a 22 inch Kamloops trout, (rainbow variant) from Peterhope lake on a half back nymph.

    The salmon and steel head are hard done by here,.

    The best local river fishing is the Upper Salish, which should be great when it opens, the 2022 floods destroyed the road in, and it has not been repaired yet, so when it opens, should be a bit epic.

    When we lived at the place, it was a short walk to Edith Lake, I started out fishing from a boat, switched to a belly boat, then just fishing from shore, as I got to know the lake. 3 Kamloops trout subspecies, naturally spawning Brookies.

    Always got fish.

  69. 69.

    frosty

    @Jackie: Nope, not bothering with the Superb Owl. I hoped the Ravens would be in it but no. Then I thought if the Bills were in it vs. the Lions it would be interesting, but no. I have no interest in watching KC or Mahomes or any more commercials with Mahomes in them.

    Bring on baseball. I’ll try to figure out how much $$ it will cost me to watch some O’s games. MLB doesn’t require them to have at least one station carry them over the air like NFL does. Who knew the NFL could do something right?

  70. 70.

    frosty

    @Suzanne:Pumpkin cake with no pumpkin? Oops!!!

    Was it brain fade? My favorite expression these days. Comes from auto racing, when brake fade would send a driver into the hay bales. Brakes were OK though? It was brain fade.

  71. 71.

    ArchTeryx

    @frosty: Brake fade is also quite deadly. It killed Ken Miles, should-have-been winner of 24 Hours at LeMans, when he was testing a new Ford GT-series car. Brake fade hit, he lost control, and crashed full speed into a track barrier.

  72. 72.

    No One of Consequence

    For the musically-inclined jackaltariat, who are of a mind, or out of their mind with the outrageous shit show of our Present Day.

    I give you, sounds from a Past Day. But oh, what sounds they are.

    Was *just* turned on to this, and never heard it previously. Sublime and fantastic, and let me know if you think it sucks, so I can pie you. ;)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXfWLrLwW_4

    Dollar Brand – Cape Town Fringe (1977)

    I won’t spoil it with too much of a description, it is an instrumental, jazz but really, really cool. I dig it. You may too.

    Peace,
    -NOoC

    (edited to add: give it a couple minutes before you bail on it, else you rob yourself)

  74. 74.

    frosty

    @narya: Best of luck to you, both pre- and post-. For my last round of prep I actually did the Aztec Two Step once. Gotta be fast changing positions!

  76. 76.

    ArchTeryx

    @narya: Chase the purge solution with some sprite or other clear soft drink. The sugar will help settle your stomach and keep you from throwing up from the taste. And bright side: Once the purge is done, so’s the worst part. You at least get to sleep through the scoping.

    I’ve had somewhere around 50 scopings in my lifetime. Crohn’s doth sucketh. (To be fair, several were pouch scopings, not NEARLY as invasive as colonoscopies, but still miserable).

  78. 78.

    frosty

    @ArchTeryx: ​ I know. I watched Ford vs Ferrari twice. Not counting following it in real time in the 60s.

    Ken Miles got his win stolen from him.

  79. 79.

    Jackie

    @frosty: I don’t know about you watching the O’s, but to watch the Mariners, one has to be either a Direct TV subscriber or an FUBO subscriber in the M’s market space or you’re SOL. Games on the MLB network are blacked out inside “their network region.” Maybe catch the four or five games carried by Fox – IF deemed Game of the Week.

  82. 82.

    Jim Appleton

    Jeez John.   The Waste Management Phoenix LSMFT sounds like a prequel to “fuck you Mike Judge.”

  85. 85.

    Jay

    @NotMax:

    So, Northern Pike Minnows used to be commonly called the racist name of “Squaw fish”,

    Dog fish are now properly called “salmon sharks”.

    Just like the Gulf of Georgia is now called the Salish Sea but the Gulf of Mexico will never be the Gulf of America.

  86. 86.

    ArchTeryx

    @frosty: No argument there. He absolutely fucking did. That he only got one real shot at that win was a crime in itself, nevermind what was done to him at LeMans.

  87. 87.

    ArchTeryx

    @NotMax: It sure got me used to Demerol, Fentanyl, Versed, and Propofol. I get scoped once a year and have since 2009. Before that, I got scoped about 20-25 (there were too many for an accurate count) times between the initial appearance of the Crohn’s and my eventual J-pouch surgery.

    Yeah, I’ve had medical stuff stuck up my back door more than an entire nursing home full of old people. My only comfort is that I will never have to drink the purge prep again, though the Fleet Enemas I use to prepare the pouch are painful as hell – just shorter.

    Can’t get colon cancer when you have no colon, and the pouch (which CAN get cancer) is a whole lot more accessable.

  89. 89.

    VeniceRiley

    I went with my roommate to an LPGA event. Totally different atmosphere! Highly recommend if you enjoy watching professional golf. Friendly people, small crowds, see players up close (Annika Sorenstam!) No long lines for a beer. Just a very pleasant day out.

  91. 91.

    p.a.

    No Superb Owl for me: just got to JP FINALLY dying in Bad Sisters and need to see what’s next, and 6pm-8ish pm is our tv time.

    Even tho I’m a Pats fan I’m rooting for the Chiefs.  Three in a row would be fantastic and another thumb in the eye of the many Pats fans who really have become dicks.  Plus, Chiefs unis & colors some of the best in NFL.  Plus-plus Philly fans reputation has been well-earned.  High level of jerkdom, all sports.

  93. 93.

    prostratedragon

    A handy tool:

    This guy created a tool to make it easy to pull up a pre-Musk/Trump version of various federal government websites.

    The genius is how simple it is: He just registered “govwayback.com” and then created subdomains which redirect to pre-1/20/25 Wayback Machine versions.

    https://govwayback.com/

    So for NASA, instead of https://NASA.gov you enter https://NASA.govwayback.com.

    This overlaps heavily with what some of my colleagues & I have been doing, although my indexes include direct links to *every* public-facing page of these sites, which is helpful since some are extremely obscure/difficult to find.

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