Gil Bang

was it a Cummins factory overhaul?

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I never really understood what happened to champkind? He got surly people to invest in a failed restaurant? Did he intentionally fuck people, or did it just not work out? He was a pretty solid poster for the most part. Gave me a lot of good smoking advice.

Happy Sunday everybody!

better than Fitlump Crispy Taco

that's shitty.

Sho 1 for 1 so far, Arraez taking the night off.

fuck off spammer cocksucker

Arraez isn't giving up. He want 3 for 5 last night.

I don't think I did that, but I've been there. That neighborhood has some cool shit for sure.

Behind the Jane’s Addiction Blow-Up: Perry Farrell Punched Dave Navarro in the Face Backstage After Concert Scuffle, Says Band’s Guitar Tech 'This band is over,' affirms Dan Cleary, one of the crew members who helped end the fight, in a podcast shared with Todd Newman, Navarro's best friend of nearly 30 years. For alarmed Jane’s Addiction fans who’ve been wondering what was really going on before, during and after the fateful Boston concert that saw the veteran group effectively break up mid-song, more details are emerging. The latest revelations include the allegation that Perry Farrell took yet another swing at Dave Navarro after all the band members were backstage — and, unlike the near-miss seen by millions around the world on video, this time the singer’s fist connected with the guitarist’s face. The literally blow-by-blow account of what went down is part of a highly detailed, 90-minute podcast conversation between Dan Cleary, the group’s guitar and bass tech of 17 years, and Todd Newman, a friend of Navarro’s for 30 years whom the guitarist has called his best friend. Cleary is among those who was captured on fan video trying to contain Farrell’s anger and break up the fight. In the podcast, Cleary and Newman express sympathy for Farrell — and the tech says he even got a cordial goodbye text from the singer, after the reunion tour came to a sudden halt — but they clearly have the backs of the other three members, after a fracas that everyone involved seems to believe has ended Jane’s Addiction for good. The podcast, now on YouTube, is episode #313 of “Rare Form Radio” — and, as a fascinating exploration of the tensions that can tear a group apart, is certain to be listened to a lot more than the previous 312 episodes combined. It includes excerpts from the audio feed at the fateful Friday the 13th show… first, of Farrell seeming to sing out of time from the rest of the band, and then of the confrontation between band members on- and off-stage. While listeners will sometimes have to take for granted that Cleary is offering an accurate description of what went down, audio of the after-show confrontation apparently has the singer complaining to his wife, Etty Lau Farrell, that other members were “trying to fuck my show up.” Navarro — who had been shoved and then had a punch thrown at him onstage — then appears to say to Farrell, “What the fuck was that, you motherfucker?” The sounds of a scuffle are subsequently heard that Cleary describes as “Perry punching Dave, and that one, he actually connected with… You can hear it, the right hand to the left side of Dave’s face.” The narrative told by Cleary — and to a lesser extent Newman, who did not attend the Boston show, but heard about it from Navarro — goes all the way back to the first night of the U.S. tour. They both tell of how Farrell “quit the band” before the opening show in Las Vegas, even as fans were starting to come in for the gig, only to be talked into going on with the show at the last minute. “Management earned their keep that day,” says Cleary. Throughout the conversation, Cleary and Newman say they were compelled to speak up in response to Etty Lau Farrell saying that the incident happened because her husband had finally “reached his breaking point” — maintaining that, in their view, Perry Farrell was already at a breaking point on day one of the North American tour. But they also add that, when everything was clicking, and when Farrell was “sober-ish,” the group was doing some of the best shows in its history —even if, in calamitous appearances in Tampa, New York and finally Boston, they ended up doing three of the worst. Variety has reached out to a rep for Farrell to see if he wishes to respond to the podcast’s account of the band’s last weeks. Cleary says that before the initial European leg of the tour — which found the original four members coming together for the first time in 14 years — they had agreed to proceed as a democracy. And one of those democratic decisions at the time was that “we just want to be four guys on stage —no backup singers, no dancers, none of that. Old school music speaks for itself. … And I do know that there was immediate pushback from Perry on that issue.” Some previous tours under the band’s name that had not included all the original players had utilized Etty Lau Farrell and other dancers on stage, but the singer went along with the other musicians’ wishes to not include that element. But before the U.S. leg of the tour, the subject came up again, now with the possibility of having the dancers on video, which the rest of the band nixed. The other members commissioned some non-dancing video content, which Farrell turned down. In this account, Farrell, who had allegedly not attended rehearsals, showed up a few hours before the start of the Las Vegas opener with video content he had filmed “of Etty and I think some other women in the desert dancing. No dancers on the stage, but now uyou want to put ‘em behind us dancing — it’s kind of the same thing… It’s 2024, it’s a bit of a different time. You know, having scantily clad chicks on stage or on video, I don’t think it’s as empowering as maybe the Farrells might think it is… The Farrells sort of couldn’t let go of this thing, to the point that before the first show, Perry quit the band.” Newman, who had come out for the Vegas opener, further discusses with his host how Etty Lau Farrell was “out in this public area yelling about how Perry is going home and the tour is over, and this is in front of our Live Nation reps, who are the people that basically promote the tour and front the bill for the tour. And when they start hearing that people are going home before the first show, obviously they get very squirrelly and very concerned.” According to Newman, “They don’t want to disappoint the fans, and they were a few hours away from showtime, so they collectively decided, well, we should just go and play anyway. And ideas were being thrown out, like, do we know any people who would know the songs that are in Vegas? Or do we just play instrumentally and say, ‘If you know the words, sing along, we’re having a problem with the lead singer’?” The show went on, but Cleary says that “from that point, Perry did kind of pull away from his bandmates” and there was “no joyful interactions, no talk… But even after that kind of weirdness, the band did continue to support Perry through the entire tour. If there was ever parts where… he wasn’t quite sure what part of the song they were in, they would go and say, ‘Here we are.’ If he had a great show, they were the first people to be like, ‘That was fucking awesome. You’re amazing.’… There was some talk of the fight that ended up happening in Boston was brought on by sound issues on stage, and I have to push back on that in a big way, because… this one’s tough to talk about, because it has to do with: Are there other factors involved than just stage stuff?” “The three worst shows, this man was clearly fucked up, and we knew it from the moment we saw him earlier in the day,” Cleary says. He refers to a widely circulated, horrific review by a critic of an apparently woeful Tampa show, an article he says was “tough but also kind of spot-on,” saying that show was “like, holy shit — call the police. There’s been a murder.” Then they got to the first of two shows in New York City, which instantly became buzzy on social media as a disaster. “The first show was the worst show I’ve ever seen in my life — I’m not saying just with Jane’s; it was the worst show I’ve ever seen… He didn’t know where he was in the songs. He didn’t know the words. He was singing words from other songs. These are not sound issues. … And also, he had a bunch of fantastic shows throughout the tour. The sound doesn’t change — we’re the same all the time.” One thing Cleary and Etty Lau Farrell (who addressed this issue in her Instagram comments) apparently agree about: drunkenness is not a big issue for Farrell, despite many reviews noting the singer’s signature wine bottle. “He isn’t drinking a shitload of wine on stage,” says the tech, who notes that he believes “emotional issues” factor into it, along with the possibility of “substances.” A heated argument erupted after the first show in New York went wildly wrong, but “they heard each other” and “got some stuff off their chest. After a string of rough shows and bad vibes and problems, Navarro was pulling Perry in, hugging before the show, (saying) ‘I love you, let’s go kick some ass’… And they turned in probably one of the best shows I’ve ever seen the band do in 17 years. It was magic.” Next up was Boston, with Cleary offering a still more detailed account. He notes that there is fan video going around of an earlier point in the show in which Navarro taps Farrell on the arm, “and what he’s doing is, he’s saying, ‘I’m gonna take my solo again, because you just sang over it a minute ago, and I stopped because you don’t know where you’re at.’” At another point, in the tech’s account, Farrell saw Navarro, bassist Eric Avery and drummer Stephen Perkins huddling about how to proceed, and “in his mind, I think, there’s some kind of paranoia going on there. And it sucks, because these guys just want to have a great show, all four of them. If Perry has a rough night, they’re not happy; they want him to kick ass every night… (Farrell) thinks they’re talking about him, which they are, but not in the way he thinks. They’re trying to figure out how to fix this stuff… So he goes over and starts screaming lyrics at them, which was just strange.” During “Ocean Size,” “for the history of the band, it all fell apart in this moment… Perry is getting angrier and it’s almost like when someone becomes a werewolf.” The podcaster then plays a sound file of Farrell allegedly saying “Fuck these motherfuckers… fuck him” before he body-slams the guitarist. “I’m tuning a guitar when I see the push. Guitar comes right off and I make a beeline for both of these guys — and here is where it gets real sad.” Cleary becomes emotional, in recounting the incident, relating it to times when he had to physically defend his mother and his sister growing up. “I love Dave (and) it felt like seeing a little kid getting bullied on the schoolyard for something he didn’t do. And he’s been through enough shit in his life, and worked so hard to get back to this point. To see that happen just triggered something in me: ‘I’m not gonna let this happen to this guy.’ Eric had the same feeling.” The guitar tech also wonders aloud why Farrell went after Navarro, who has famously fought back from long COVID and other health issues, rather than the other two members. Cleary describes how Avery got Perry in a headlock, while the singer was “still flailing away,” and the bassist got in “two body shots… to the stomach.” In her account, Etty Lau Farrell had counted it as three, calling Avery’s action “a cheap shot” when in her mind her husband had already been disarmed. “Eric said, ‘I didn’t know how to get his attention. I had to get his attention to get him to try to stop him from going towards Dave again.’” Cleary describes their actions as being “like clowns at a rodeo… trying to divert Perry’s attention from Dave.” To Farrell’s wife, Cleary says, “Even if Eric had kicked Perry’s fucking ass, it’s not a cheap shot.” He notes that he exchanged texts with Etty after the incident, and says he wrote her back, “Eric did what I wanted to do. And he wasn’t trying to hurt him — we were all trying to protect Dave. And also, your husband threw the first and the last punch of the night.” “Again,” Cleary says, “I want people to understand it didn’t end there.” He plays the audio of Farrell backstage “being consoled,” and “eventually Dave walks up to ask what the fuck happened, and Perry punches him again… So any of of this talk of cheap shots… (But) I feel for him, because something is going on mentally. He looked crazed.” Says Cleary, “I enjoy Perry. I’ve had great talks with him. He sent me a beautiful text the other day — basically a ‘I’ll miss you’ kind of text. He’s a good dude, most of the time. And then there’s times when it’s kind of this, but we’ve never seen this crazed version before. Which is what makes it so scary.” Newman shares Navarro’s point of view: “I was having a conversation with Dave that just reminded me of that, talking about the footage… He said to me, ‘You see where I’m playing and then I kind of put my hand out after he kind of body checks me, and then he throws that punch. And you see the look of shock on my face.’ And Dave is saying … ‘It’s weird because I wasn’t shocked that he body-checked me.’ He wasn’t shocked that he threw a punch at him. He was shocked by the look in Perry’s eyes that he’s never seen before… ‘like I was seeing something demonic going on.’ And that’s where the shocked look from Dave came from.” Cleary and Newman share notes on the podcast about how widely spread the video footage instantly was, to the point that it made international headlines and because a topic of discussion on Howard Stern’s and Bill Maher’s shows. “We’ll be seeing this clip the rest of our lives.” Cleary shares that he went to the L.A. Rams game over the weekend and ended up in the suite of “South Park” co-creator Matt Stone. “He was like, ‘I’ve known Perry for a while, like peripherally — no pun intended. That was really sad to see.’ When I said goodbye, I said, ‘I’d kick myself if I didn’t tell you I was a fan from day one, and I would love if you put this in a new episode.’ He laughed and said, ‘It’s not a bad idea. But honestly, it bums me out too much.’ And I think that’s how everyone collectively feels. “No one’s trying to villainize Perry,” Cleary continues. “He did do this, and I know this band is over with, but I really do hope that he’s able to figure (things) out… I think that Perry’s apology that was posted on Instagram was heartfelt — and I know that for sure because I’ve checked in and I know that he’s hurting. I feel if I could take that away, I’m sure we would all love to take that away. He’s gonna go through that for a while and it sucks, but I do hope he gets the help. And I appreciate all that he and Etty have done… and what the band has done. I just hate that, at the moment, this is what Jane’s is going to be known for. … This ended on nobody’s terms. It feels like losing someone in a car accident.” In Etty Lau Farrell’s most recent statement, on Sept. 21, she reiterated that her husband had “been pushed to his absolute limit,” but also said that the couple were consulting medical professionals. She said Perry was taking time to “reflect and heal,” and would be seeing an otolaryngologist and neurologist, after the cancellation of the second half of the band’s U.S. tour, which was to have concluded in L.A. with a hometown show Oct. 16. She said Perry is “the gentlest of souls” and told fans “we are equally astonished at Perry’s physical outburst as you are,” further thanking supporters for “checking in over and over again to make sure we are well taken care of. Offering love and compassion… and even your homes for us to escape to.”

He has no choice. He's got to hedge his bet.

Buy a couple of the 20 dollar alexa devices and set them up around your house. If something bad happens, you can yell "Hey alexa, call 911" or whatever. I did this for my MIL. As to the alone part, plenty of nice women are in the same boat. Join some groups, take some classes, volunteer, whatever. Meet people in your age range.

true. I've got a cash cow. I'm SERIOUSLY considering getting deeper into this...like buying a small duplex near the hospital, or buying a single-family and dividing into two or more small units.

can you do air BNB or something like that to generate some cash? Are you anywhere near a hospital? Travel nurses are always looking for a furnished place. You could move all of mom's shit into the smaller bedrooms, put a lock on them, and make the master available for a tenant.

why not just list it and sell it? Vacant houses go to shit fairly quickly. Small leaks that nobody notices, etc. Plus, the carrying costs...taxes, utilities, etc.

other than the fact that it's dumb? Here's the problem...now your house is "for sale", which implies a certain condition and cleanliness level. Do y'all ever leave dishes in the sink? Not any more you don't. Make the beds every morning, y'all. and, since it's only listed on zillow, you're going to be dealing with buyers that haven't been vetted by anybody. If I call to arrange a showing, you can bet your ballsack that the buyers I'm bringing are pre-qualified for a loan, ready to buy, and aren't out just jacking people off looking at houses for shits and giggles.

Ohtani went over 400 total bases last night. Total bases is not a statistic mentioned often. Accumulating 400 total bases in a season doesn’t have the panache of, say, batting .400. Leave it to Shohei Ohtani to reach another rare milestone and prompt statisticians to dive back into the digital record books. He became the first player in 23 years and only 19th in baseball history to reach 400 total bases Thursday night when the Dodgers clinched the National League West title. So, are total bases meaningful? Bill James, the godfather of modern baseball analytics, thought so. He included the stat in the seminal Runs Created formula he devised in the 1970s, which simply counts times on base, multiplied by bases advanced, divided by opportunities. Bases advanced, in a nutshell, are total bases: a single counts as one, a double as two, a triple as three and a home run as four. Attaining 400 total bases reflects uncommon power and relentless offensive production. Ohtani reached the milestone with his last hit Thursday, a bloop double in the eighth inning of a 7-2 victory over the San Diego Padres. He became the first player to reach 400 since four players did so during the steroids-fueled offensive binge of 2001. The 18 previous players to reach 400 achieved it 29 times among them. It was a relatively frequent occurrence in the 1920s and 1930s after a livelier baseball was introduced, then was rarely attained until the steroids era. Babe Ruth set the record of 457 total bases in 1921 and accumulated 417 in 1927, the year he hit 60 home runs. His New York Yankees teammate Lou Gehrig eclipsed 400 total bases a record five times, and fellow Hall of Famers Jimmie Foxx, Chuck Klein and Rogers Hornsby each accomplished it twice. The milestone was rarely reached thereafter. Stan Musial was the only player to reach 400 in the 1940s and Henry Aaron the only player in the 1950s. Jim Rice posted 405 total bases in 1978 and Larry Walker, playing home games in the thin air of Coors Field, had 409 in 1997. Walker’s teammate with the Rockies, Todd Helton, twice eclipsed 400, as did Sammy Sosa. Helton, Sosa, Barry Bonds and Luis Gonzalez all cracked 400 in 2001, and nobody else did so until Ohtani. Aaron Judge is hot on his heels at 392 after hitting his 58th home run Thursday, one more total base than he finished with in 2022. Ohtani has already set records in his first season as a Dodger, becoming the first player to hit 50 home runs and steal 50 bases in a season. He currently has 53 homers and 56 stolen bases to go with a .305 batting average and NL-leading totals of 126 runs batted in, 131 runs scored, a .387 on-base percentage and a .643 slugging percentage as the Dodgers conclude the regular season with a three-game series at the Colorado Rockies on Friday night. He’s delivered when the Dodgers needed it most as they fended off a surge by the Padres the last few weeks. In his last seven games, Ohtani accounted for 40 total bases by going 20 for 29 — including five home runs and five doubles — with 16 RBIs and 13 runs. Remaining that hot through the weekend could possibly result in him winning the triple crown. His batting average is third behind the Padres’ Luis Arráez (.312) and the Atlanta Braves’ Marcell Azuna (.310). As onlookers marvel at Ohtani’s litany of staggering accomplishments, it’s easy to overlook his 400 total bases. But he’s joined a club that is more exclusive than that of pitchers who have thrown a perfect game (24 members). Ohtani has a lot of climbing to ascend the top of the total bases career list. He has 1,781 after posting four consecutive seasons with more than 300, but the all-time record is a daunting 6,856 by Aaron. Who among active players has the most total bases? Ohtani doesn’t have to look far. It’s his teammate, Freddie Freeman, with 3,866. The veteran first baseman has eclipsed 300 total bases six times and his career high is 361, set last season.

The movie (which few have seen) is in theaters this weekend. I'm going. https://www.onehandclapping.film/

A guitarist who has played with Pearl Jam and the Red Hot Chili Peppers and was involved in fatal collision in Alhambra in March pleaded not guilty Thursday to a vehicular manslaughter charge. On March 18, the victim, Israel Sanchez, was heading to the grocery store and walking in a protected crosswalk at Main Street and Meridian Avenue when he was struck by an SUV driven by Josh Klinghoffer, officials said. The man fell to the ground and was dragged a few feet until the vehicle came to a stop, according to video footage provided by the family’s attorney. Sanchez later died in a hospital. Klinghoffer remained at the scene and was not detained. Klinghoffer pleaded not guilty on Thursday to a misdemeanor charge of of vehicular manslaughter without gross negligence. His attorney did not respond to request for comment Thursday. A wrongful death lawsuit filed in July by the victim’s family alleges that Klinghoffer was on his phone while driving the SUV, and that he did not not have a license plate on his SUV at the time of the crash. His attorney in the civil case, Andrew B. Brettler, said in July that after the crash, “Josh immediately pulled over, stopped the vehicle, called 911, and waited until police and the ambulance arrived.”

this guy knows his grass

There's gotta be a sod lawyer on here, right? Right?

haha fuck that guy

LOS ANGELES — Maybe they didn’t get talked off the ledge, per se. Maybe the possibility of leaving was just dangled, unspoken, in spring conversations involving USC’s Bear Alexander and Alexander’s guardian Tony Jones and Eric Henderson. Regardless, as Alexander was feeling the transfer portal tug of returning home to be closer to family in Texas, it was his comfort level with Henderson and USC’s staff that helped keep him grounded in Southern California. “We had to just realize or get back to a point where, like, we understand what – all the sacrifices, things that we made, and just get closer to the new family,” Jones told the Southern California News Group, early in the fall. “It’s always easier to reach back to what you’re comfortable with, but those guys are family. They’ve been treating us that way.” But the family split on Wednesday, a suddenly growing crack in the foundation ripping Alexander and USC apart yet again. The defensive tackle, widely regarded just two short months ago as a breakout candidate and crucial piece on the Trojans’ defense, is planning to redshirt his junior season at USC, guardian Tony Jones said. “We are going to take the shirt,” Jones wrote in a text. Alexander still intends to practice with USC this season despite the redshirt, Jones made clear. It could ultimately bring an end to a tumultuous year and a half for Alexander in a USC jersey, and further a tumultuous journey as a talent. It’s possible he preserves his eligibility and searches for a new program through the winter transfer portal. The one-time top Texas recruit had a difficult upbringing and played for five high schools. He spent his freshman year at Georgia before landing at USC in the spring of 2023, and very nearly dipped his toe back into unclaimed waters in the spring of ’24. Head coach Lincoln Riley made it clear, then, that USC didn’t want to lose Alexander, and his return to Troy looked massive for a new-look defensive line under new defensive line coach Henderson. Everything looked peachy, at the start of the fall, former Rams coach Henderson singing Alexander’s praises as a kid “thirsting for knowledge” and Alexander affirming he needed to take steps in consistency to reach his potential. “Just making sure my motor’s at the top, so other guys’ motors is just trailing as well,” Alexander said in late July. It became progressively clear, though, that USC’s staff wasn’t quite seeing that consistency – wasn’t quite seeing something. Alexander led USC in quarterback hurries in 2023, but Riley mentioned in the fall that his “inconsistencies” had hurt the Trojans at times, despite his ability to “be an explosive player.” Before USC’s Week 1 victory over LSU, Alexander was labeled as an “OR” starter on the team’s depth chart next to former Wyoming transfer Gavin Meyer. He’s been a backup, in three games since, to Meyer and Vanderbilt transfer Nate Clifton. USC’s defense appears to have made significant strides to overall improvement. Riley insisted that the coaching staff didn’t “need to see any more” from Alexander; but he played 20 snaps against Utah State, and 21 against Michigan, and on Monday the ball dropped. “FREE 9-OWE,” Alexander wrote in a tweet, then. On Tuesday, Riley brushed away the notion Alexander was earning less opportunity, pointing to the fact Alexander had still played more than a third of the game against Michigan. “He’s doing a good job for us out here, he’s getting better,” Riley said. “There’s no story there. I mean, I know you guys are looking for one. Like, there’s, there’s no story there.” A day later, Alexander was absent from USC’s practice. Defensive coordinator D’Anton Lynn, speaking to reporters after practice, deferred comment on Alexander to Riley. Meyer and defensive end Jamil Muhammad largely did the same. “Bear’s my brother,” Muhammad said. “I wish him the best.” From a strictly on-field perspective, it leaves USC in a tricky position. The most proven interior defensive lineman on the roster, behind Meyer and Clifton, is senior Kobe Pepe, who has played 124 snaps across his career. There’s Elijah Hughes, a sophomore who showed a couple of flashes during his freshman year. There is proven 6-foot-5, 290-pound true freshman Jide Abasiri. Clifton and Meyer’s consistency, though, was what had given Lynn confidence in starting them on the interior in the fall, he professed. And beyond them, Lynn, Meyer and Muhammad all largely expressed confidence in the program’s depth. “We feel like that’s one of the strengths of the team,” Lynn said Wednesday. The defensive line at USC, Riley proclaimed Tuesday, should be a place difficult to get snaps. And Muhammad and Meyer echoed their head coach Wednesday, lauding the competitiveness of their room. “USC was a team that comes to be reckoned with when it comes to defense,” Muhammad said, asked about Riley’s comments. “So I just think that’s the culture that’s been brought back. And um, that’s across the whole defensive staff, the whole defensive team.” “You have to be a dog day-in and day-out.” But not a Bear, it appears.