Homercles

Does anyone there give a shit? It’s quiet as fuck. This has been a helluva game, between two shit teams of course…but y’all with the Cougar High are spot fuckin on

Those people have proven, over and over again, to be beyond reach of any hope. This morning on npr they were interviewing a woman who was against rabies vaccines for pets, despite scientific evidence that side effects are incredibly rare while rabies is always fatal. Her response was that she lives her life unconcerned about rare events like rabies, but once saw a dog ‘act strange’ after getting a rabies vaccine. Literally contradicted herself, without irony, in a single sentence on national radio.

The world waiting for the IDF to start the ground assault

Good for him

Urinals have been around for years, but agree that they have been a huge improvement. Free up the stalls for the ladies and I don’t have to plan ahead by 30 minutes just to piss…or get mad at people not paying attention, or arguing politely for two minutes whose turn it is, etc.

Coming up on my 20th ACL and there have been some epic crowds near the gates…but Friday getting out after Kendrick and yesterday getting in after the game were borderline scary. Totally understand both occasions were full-tilt-boogey time but was thinking it’d take nothing to spark a crush. Weather obviously a factor too but man they oversell passes like a motherfucker. I miss the days when they didn’t give enough of a shit to check chair bags. Weather has been just about the very best you could ask for. Grounds getting tore up a bit and we’ve all got a slight hack going, but nothing like it’s been on W2 nor in the same universe as 2005. And I drove my wife batty bringing this up…but it pisses me off when we put in work to get there earlier, haul on chairs/booze, carve out the good spot in the shade…and friends show up late, without a chair, and crash in our space all day. We bring in a blanket for that express reason and I still have to nudge friends+random folks to GTFO out of my chair. On one hand I lament the only draft being Karbach but hauling cans around is so much more convenient. Drink prices are stupid as usual. Bailen put me to sleep Half Alive was the first surprise of the weekend, had me groovin Portugal The Man was a great show + covered Nirvana (In Bloom), and we did a long drive by of Bass Drum of Death…was fun to see a basic three piece rock out Major Lazer and Above and Beyond were both disappointments…which sucks as I love electronica, and had been listening to Trance Around the World for over a decade. Lumineers ran a good show with that stage out in the crowd, posted up In that side stage sweet spot near the bars/bathroom Poolside was a lot of fun, great energy for mid afternoon 30 Seconds to Mars was such a monument to pretentious ego for Leto that I had to admire the sheer spectacle of it Tove Lo was severely under-staged, wish I’d stayed at Bob Moses…pissed me off they had Chromeo, Tove Lo and Bob Moses all jammed together. Plenty I want to see today but I’ve been an ODESZA fan since Summer’s Gone got me through grad school and that’s the main event.

They’ve been building practically the same car for a decade and they still have endless QA issues…don’t tell me the S/X/Y/3 are very different cars, they all look the same to me.

I joined this weird clan of traveling misfits, oozing from one board to another, back in 2011. What I recall was the CR was dominated by a handful of guys like Swam who just constantly ragged on Obama, Hilary, and reveled in Facebook memes about ACA/Obamaphones/tan suits/etc. At the time I just ignored it because the old rep system meant one misstep would crater your newbie account quickly. Now you could reasonably argue that things have swung the other way, however I’d counter that there have been far more real world impacts under Trump…rise of the alt right storming the Capitol, women losing right to choose, misinformation killing people from Covid, attacks against trans/gay/minorities, etc…and thus actually worthy of derision vs 2011 bitching about drone strikes or the deficit or feet on the Resolute desk. So yeah, the CR has changed…for the better if you ask me.

“It looks like a chewed up piece of shit with rust, misaligned panels, interior by Mattel, being hauled around on a trailer…or maybe it’s an original Robocop movie prop left outside on a production back lot for 40 years…can’t wait to buy it!”

And it’s working

He’s playing Chutes and Ladders just like my 7yo daughter does…get lucky by catching the huge ladder that traverses 2/3rds of the map and then endlessly tries to cheat to avoid catching any of the slides, throwing fits when I call her on it.

On one hand the GOP really deserves to eat their own dog food and succumb to massive consequences for letting these insane people have any voice in their party…on the other hand, it’s *maybe* possible they can expel the children where the aftermath has some semblance of governance through affective compromise like it’s supposed to be. Who am I kidding…the past decade+ has shown they’ll go with the easy evil route of hurting everyone but rich white folk. Carry on

Yes that show was awesome. I know it’s pretty much straight up Transatlanticism/Give Up so you knew what was coming…but some of those extended jams had me absolutely lost in the music. Had to remind myself that Chris Walla left almost a decade ago. I hadn’t been to the track for a show since Dave Chapelle came back as part of that comedy tour thing…so ages ago. Hated that venue then and I hate it now… - Even arriving at 830 the traffic to get in was a cluster fuck And unless you spring for VIP parking it’s a haul + very little in the way of lighting or other means to remember where your car is - GA lawn showed seats available this week but I don’t know how you’d cram more folks in there…we had to hug the fence stage-right which meant a contestant parade of apparent ham planets squeezing past - Price of drinks are absolutely insane. Obviously part of a bigger trend but holy shit, glad I had brought gummies - We were in lot F, and when you get to the end of your row there was a sea of cones supposedly to direct traffic in orderly lanes but really it was a confusing mess…so many people made a single file line when there were actually two lanes to get out but the poor cone placement obfuscated it all I can’t imagine what race day is like out there. Serving such a huge, global venue with a pair of two lane country roads is awful. Parking is often the most stressful thing about seeing shows anymore and if I never go out there again, I’m fine with it.

Sad thing is I know about a dozen people just like him here in Texas…spouts false narratives about California, constantly outraged about something, somehow works guns into half the conversations, and endlessly talks tough. They’ve always been there, just now they’re emboldened as that behavior has gone ‘mainstream’. My experience at 43 years old is you always watch for the calm, quiet ones. Often they’re the smartest/funniest/toughest. Naturally, I never shut the fuck up.

That beard…wow

Not helpful now but we park at Chuys, despite regular price increases. We car pool from RR with friends, so splitting it six ways makes the cost bearable. There’s an alley/road behind that makes it easy to get out and turn left onto Lamar…so long as you don’t run over the hoard of drunks. Once you purchase a weekend pass, you’re ‘in’ and they email you each year before going public…we used to do this at Shady Grove (RIP), got grandfathered in but miss the Bobcat Goldwhait-looking guy who directed cars…also miss back when VIP was affordable and 4 passes came with parking. Low key excited for the weather outlook. This summer I was worried it’d be 2005-levels of pain.

Well, anyone who has driven from Austin to Colorado knows that Goldwhaite is a strategic crossroads town, up there with Bastogne, in that it’s your first sign of civilization with gas station bathrooms that don’t look like the one in Trainspotting.

and as productive as this

No no no, this sucker’s electrical