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GhostOfTomJoad

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  1. It's meta. They have a similar commercial for Los Lunas, NM which is a small bedroom community south of Albuquerque. The town is built around a Walmart DC and an Amazon DC, and now the data center. The commercial's all filmed at night & the voice over is about how meta has created a community & improved their quality of life, blah blah blah.
  2. Got this under control.
  3. Watching the Weather Channel this morning it looks like the midwest and Great Lakes area are taking a wallop. 3" - 10" of snow and high winds. Nothing like some white knuckle driving to get to the family feast. Meanwhile I've got an unnecessary fire going just so the cat can look cute sleeping in front of it.
  4. In Harker Heights?
  5. Very tough to beat Gimme Shelter because it sets the table for Let it Bleed perfectly. What's Goin' On by Marvin Gaye's gotta be in the conversation. Tangled Up in Blue told you that Blood on the Tracks was playing for keeps out of the gate. Thunder Road from Born to Run. And it Stoned Me on Moondance. Where the Streets Have No Name/Joshua Tree. Time of the Preacher/Read Headed Stranger. Wildflowers by TP. In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning just invites you to have a bourbon while Frank tells you how much love and pain are entwined. There are some damn fine opening tracks. But album tracking as a whole is very much a lost art.
  6. Damn brother. Be strong.
  7. My wife gave me this 16 years ago for my 40th b"day ( the watch, not the cat;he's 15). It was my first automatic & recommended by someone OTOS. Just a shout out to how damn good this Hamilton Khaki field watch has been. Had the crown replaced last year but she's been trouble free & just a versatile watch that I wore daily for almost a decade.
  8. Definitely got the puffy nips.
  9. Safe travels to those of you hitting the roads/airports/bus depots/wagon trains today. Don't fuck this up by getting in a wreck. I was in the office at 5am this morning (my birthday) to see the most glorious sight: out of office notifications by at least 90% of the leadership team. I'll get more stuff done uninterrupted before noon than I normally do in a full week. Then it's home to brine a turkey and enjoy a pizza and some beers plus a beej from my wife. Well, 2 of the 3 might happen.
  10. Wait...y'all are shocked that they're anti-safety features in cars? After what the GQP has done to public health?
  11. Letting our newborns die to own the libs!!!
  12. You should send those neighbors a gift.
  13. So how much money does United HC, BCBS, AETNA, etc need to pump into his crypto scam until he turns around & decides the insurance companies are great for everyone?
  14. Well, he already described him as a "cool guy," a "great person," and "awesome" so I think we can safely determine the BIL is NOT Lincoln Riley.
  15. And last Saturday afternoon at a local sports bar two MAGATs--one in a Turning Point FREEDOM t-shirt--applauded the Noem/ICE embarrassment of a commercial & when they got a few WTF looks from other patrons began loudly proclaiming the awesomeness of dotard, and how the only presidents that MIGHT possibly rank above him--and in it was debatable at this point--were Washington and Lincoln. And they were being serious.
  16. Welp. Cross him off the playlist for good.
  17. Nice run after contact!
  18. Oh how many of you are ready for the Thanksgiving conversations that begin "you know, your grandmother Pearl was 13 when she married your grandfather Enos who was 15 and had already been working at the dairy for 3 years. She was 14 when your uncle Frank was born. That's just how things were then"?
  19. Hegseth will be along any minute to call them DEI promotions & not real life taking warriors like his own drunken self.
  20. Is this Miller, Vance & the truly evil part of the GQP's chance to move on Trump? They see his increased dementia and failing health on a daily basis. Last week's election results portends a potential bloodbath for the midterms. Maybe their play is to let the files come out and then read the tea leaves. They can make a tepid attempt to play all the hits like "fake news", "political hit job", "Bill was there", etc. , but if the rats begin to leave the ship would they seize the opportunity to get Vance in office in the hopes he can temper a Blue Wave next November while giving him a 3ish year chance to build towards the 2028 race?
  21. The good news: we don't have to go to the Hill Country for a family Thanksgiving & will miss the aggy BIL's first attempt at a sober holiday ever. The bad news: well, there really isn't any. It might be just the two of us at home unless my sister or a couple friends decide to stop by. We could use a quiet, drama-free long weekend.
  22. Not a fucking chance. I don't even know if I'm aware of that story & have just assumed the random reference to liquid smoke is a nod to it being universally understood as atrocious.
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