irishtexan

Never bet on the guys that are "sticking with their pick". I'm not saying he goes to LSU, but if I were a betting man, that's where my money would be.

Impressive word soup. Whatchoo tryin' to say dude?

Yeah. The point i was trying to make is that I haven’t heard a “new” popular rock band formed by people in their 20s in decades. All the groups you cite have been around for more than 20 years and are well into their 50s and 60s.

I think a lot of me not understanding shit about modern popular music is because kids are not really into, or making, rock music. Am I wrong about that? Has a rock group that formed in the last 10 years had a number 1 album or song over that same period of time? I can imagine someone like Foo Fighters hitting number one based on nostalgic olds buying a new single/album.

I don't want to say all music today sucks, because I recognize I'm 45 and no one's making music for my demographic. That being said, I don't really get it. My 7 year old son listens to the second song from that clip (or at least I think he does. It all sounds the same to me). I just don't get autotune rap and drill rap. I like a lot of rappers making music today like Freddie Gibbs (especially with madlib), Danny Brown, Kenrick Lamar, Tyler the Creator, etc. And it's because I can actually understand the words they're saying. But most of those dudes are also old as fuck, and I'm an out of touch 45 year old white father of two.

I mean, he put a video out explicitly explaining his perspective on the song. So if they still don't get it, they deserve to be surprised by the new video.

So this video dropped this morning. Don't think it was planned, but it's pretty much the antithesis of Aldeanism. For those that like Tyler Childers, he announced a new record's coming out in September.

So Tyler's back out there making noise, releasing the opposite side of the Jason Aldean coin. New album coming in September.

From the post: I have no idea if the person who posted this is a man or a woman, so I'll use the "they" pronoun. The author didn't say it's not racist. One of the first comments on the post after it went viral was from someone asking why they downplayed the racism of the song. They acknowledged that the song was overtly racist, but basically said it was a more nuanced discussion, and that the post was their perspective as someone from a small town. At the time they had only four followers when they posted it and didn't expect anyone to see it.

Read this facebook post by some random writer and thought it was a good read: https://www.facebook.com/markedmelungeon/posts/pfbid02qPTHZQDGHeJJVjsnE69qLf3ttL1RDmdZWauMK3vWYnjA1FumHvmm7y73ikDxcz8Ql I didn’t know why people kept mentioning “small towns,” but assumed it was a pop culture reference I was missing. So, I googled it. Jason Aldean, a country singer I've never heard of and will probably never think about again after people stop talking about him, recently released a song called, "Try That in a Small Town." The song, if you've not heard it, threatens violence on people who do various things like car jacking, stomping on a flag, “cussing out” a cop, or robbing a liquor store at gun point. A friend of mine pointed out that Aldean is from Macon, Georgia, with a population of over 150,000. That’s… not a small town. I’m from Logan, WV. Population is 1,400. I came from Chauncey, WV, a coal camp in Logan. Population is 283. I am actually from “Chauncey Holler” (Hollow). Population is probably fewer than 100 people. I’m from an actual small town. I’m descended from the Hatfield/Vance clan of Hatfield and McCoy repute. I’m cut from the Shawnee resistance to the Indian Removal Act. My ancestors were freedmen. My ancestors mined the coal that kept the pacified middle class warm and cozy in their domesticated complacency. And yes, if you come to an actual small town as an outsider and do things that seem threatening to insiders, they’ll handle it internally. That much is true. What Jason Aldean is talking about isn’t anything like what people from actual small towns would say. In fact, you won’t hear from them at all because it is not in the ethos of people from insular, isolated communities to try and posture with the outside world. They don’t think people are actually going to come there and try to burn their crumbling infrastructure and rob their single-wide trailers and their dead grandma’s house they squat with duct tape and cut up trash bags for windows. No city person is traveling to the middle of nowhere to steal your Aunt Gert’s Buick Skylark, Jason. They don’t carry enough jugs of oil and coolant to pull over every few miles and top it off because they have not been waiting on that black lung settlement for over a decade to get their car fixed. Noey (Noah) Mullens, the town mechanic, passes everyone’s car inspection because no one cares about regulations. The police would not ticket Aunt Gert, either, because when most everyone is that Poor, the police know better. The police don’t “cross that line.” No one is afraid of getting caught or being reported because no one is looking. No one cares. No city folk care. No suburban country music singers care. They’re invisible. Police do not have much of a role in small towns. People do handle things on their own. No one is spitting in a cop’s face in a small town because Officer Joe Sias and his brother Don aren’t patrolling. They probably never fired their weapons on the job at anything other than a rabid raccoon or coyote, and they’re considerably less armed than the average citizen. No one calls the police to report crimes. But in a small town, you are very likely to be robbed by your neighbor’s adult kid with a meth or oxycontin addiction. They’ll steal your grandparents’ cancer and hospice meds and your tube TV. And no one riots in a small town because they can’t afford to reach the power structures that left them so poor. At nights, people steal the flood grates around small towns for scrap metal. They loot abandoned houses and businesses for copper wire and metal pipes to scrap. No one is ever going to revitalize those structures, so people just look the other way. By day they pick up beer and soda cans on the side of the road— for scrap. Anything to avoid the mines. Aldean’s video shows b-roll of protests, property destruction, violence, and generally unrelated incidents in big cities. Nobody in those videos cares about what’s happening in somebody’s small town. This is the suburbanite white dude fantasy version of Scarface. It’s the product of having no sense of personal identity and appropriating some ill-imagined mixture of actual generational Poverty culture (which is not a white phenomenon) and a wholly American mythos of having a closed culture that worships assimilation. They often don’t think they’re racist because they often do genuinely like their Black and Brown neighbors who fish and hunt with them and go to their churches and whose kids are on their kids’ little league team. They have a vision of living in community that they can’t bring to reality because things have changed since the boomer generation's good hand. They have dreams of being financially successful if they just work hard enough, but those dreams are not coming to fruition because they’re an American myth. They’re trying to hold on to a sense of grandiosity characterized by surviving struggles they never experienced and by having values they don’t understand or have no connection to. They are angry at anyone defying the order because they cope with the loss of hope for a mythical future by trying to blame people being crushed by the systems that are also eroding the white working class (at a slower rate). The rate has been so slow, they don’t realize their sentimentality about how great this nation is came from lies they were told and an identity that is as empty and illusory as the history they learned in school. It’s the equivalent of trying to be the proverbial “golden child” to an abusive parent, maintaining the illusion that the truth-telling “scapegoat” is actually the problem. That’s the “great again” that people like that bank on. The proverbial “New Jerusalem.” Is the song racist? That’s the wrong question, because it’s oversimplified. Is the song a mediocre by-product of a mass delusion that white settlers have agreed to maintain because they too had their identities stolen by colonialism, so that they are also defined by Uncle Sam’s toxic legacy as the golden child who is too cowardly to ask questions, hear the truth, accept accountability, or fight back? Yes. This peacock of a song is a blatant and pitiable attempt at being unable to accept that they only get a pass from Uncle Sam when they assimilate into a fictional character that upholds the colonial ego of Big Daddy Nationalism and Mama Manifest Destiny. Unpacking that everything you’ve ever been told is a lie is hard work, and they’re not cut out for that because they’re not actually workers. They aren’t the cheap labor they benefit from. Their “small town” fantasy is as sincere as their “honest worker” fantasy. They need to consult their ancestors, and not just the ones who got free [stolen] land. My “small town” ancestors shot the sheriffs and the deputies, they burned whole towns to the ground, and they led the most violent uprisings in the history of Uncle Sam’s invasion because they did not see the people upholding the status quo as “their own.” Jason Aldean has no idea who “his people” are. They’re not “small town” people. They’re the middle mass, the embodied entitlement that one inherits when they come from a legacy of settler colonialism, slave trading, and evangelical purity culture that justified genocide. They’ve been convincing themselves they’re fighting for something noble for so long, they see the loss of that illusion as a threat to the only identity colonialism left them with— generic whiteness. What he can’t handle is that he’s not a “good ol’ boy,” he’s just a bully doing the business of an abusive parent to preserve the illusion of the “pillar of community.” If he knew how to be in community, he would not be building a cult following on nationalistic propaganda. #SmallTown #trythatinasmalltown #Melungeon

What's Baker's connection to Nebraska? Seems odd for them to be in on a 5-star OT.

Margo Price has some thoughts

you seem very offended.

Tammy Duckworth lost her legs when Iraqi insurgents shot down the Blackhawk helicopter she was piloting in combat. Greg Abbot's dumbass got hit by a fucking tree while jogging. He sued, won millions in a settlement, then pushed tort reform to prevent other victims of much less stupid accidents from benefitting in the same way he did. I personally don't refer to that fucking goblin as Hot Wheels. But I get it.

Would y'all go ahead and shut the fuck up about the character/drive/home life of Defensive Line prospects? Christ on a cracker....

I can't even watch it. It's too embarrassing. And I love watching them make fools of themselves. It's that bad.

Morning Show: Hogan, money-whip Brad Kellner to come back, Rod as the third wheel to talk stats and absolutely nothing about his personal life and relationships with women. Bring Craig in for an hour+ segment every Friday during the football season to preview the high school games that night and discuss the results of the previous week. mid-morning: Dan Patrick mid-day: some other nationally-syndicated guy drive time: who the fuck knows. find a few guys that don't suck balls. maybe a former football and basketball player that aren't dumbasses and can discuss the big three sports at the college and pro level? Fire everyone else. They're all dead weight.

Avery Tomasco is a shit-talking aggy dork. That being said, Prius driver was at fault.

I've briefly looked into this place, but this is something I think I want to do. Don't embalm me. Just throw me in the ground for the worms to eat and turn me into dirt. Plant a tree on top of me if you want. https://www.eloisewoods.com/

I don’t even really care. We haven’t had a decent sports talk radio station for pretty much forever. That’s the biggest problem. E Hogan is the only guy I think is halfway good and he spends all his time trying to redirect a senile and rudderless Bucky. Craig’s a great play by play guy but he’s boring as fuck on the radio. Rod is ok as a sidekick but outside of his statistical analysis he’s not entertaining. Aggy Chad and Zay are terrible. Harge only has a job because he was friends with with that sanctimonious dude that died young on the other station (can’t think of his name). They should have paired Hogan and Brad Kelner when they had the chance to create an anchor program in the morning or afternoons and then gone regionally for talent. They also should never have done that flex high school sports nonsense no one gives a fuck about. They just don’t produce any quality content. But I also think they can’t afford to pay anyone to bring them to town so we are stuck with these spare ass hosts.

Regardless, WRs are overvalued

Black Friday

I noticed at the new Moody Center they have kiosks where you grab a cold beer out of a fridge and self-checkout with a credit card. There's one security guard there making sure no one steals anything. When you go to pay the machine asks how much of a tip you want to leave. Fucking ridiculous.

When he's been healthy he's been nails and one of the toughest motherfuckers around. He's not a 5-star first round NFL draft pick. But he catches the ball and gets tough yardage and I'm happy as fuck he's around for one more year.