Paul Wesley

Yeah, that’s a nice color combo

Fuck that trash-talking Grizzly Adams piece of shit.

I've been fighting with my image hosting account, so I'm getting caught up on replying to the last two pages of this thread. Specifically... When considering "who's a douche?" we need to agree on some kind of talent vs ego ratio. Consider Prince. He strutted, he sassed, and (at least in the person he presented publicly), he was a self-absorbed narcissist with an ego the size of Cleveland. But he was also among the most musically gifted writers, performers, singers, and instrumentalists of the last 50 years. Thus, (read this in your Maury Povich voice), "Prince, you are NOT a douche." Lots of rock stars in that group, I'd argue. Jimmy Page, Elton John, Chuck Berry. They might have been arrogant assholes, especially at the height of their stardom (though two of those three examples found contrition and humility in their later decades). But I don't think that being an asshole is the same thing as being a douche. It's like Dizzy Dean said: "It ain't bragging if you can do it." Lindsey Buckingham is a unique rock guitarist and a phenomenal talent who wrote and produced brilliant music. Not a douche. I will die on this hill. So where should we draw the line? Neil Schon ("You ARE a douche.")

"The Lumineers" makes this one pretty genius:

nm Can’t get my photo of Romeo Rose in a pirate shirt to show up

Man, outside of the first three acts on that poster, the rest of those people.... never heard of them

Alternate theory: Propaganda works really well.

Relax, man. I didn't say it was our worst possession of the first half. I didn't say anything remotely like that (why argue with something I didn't even say?). I was "only bringing it up" because you replied to my post to say that Ramey's first two shots were good shots. Ramey launched a 26-footer a few seconds into the game. No penetration, no ball movement, no motion, no screen, no chance to draw contact, no getting teammates involved in game. No chance for a lob to Sims, no kickout to an open teammate... Just get the pass from Coleman (well behind the arc), launch. We can just disagree on whether that's a good shot.

Our first possession of the game, he was "open" because he was about four feet behind the three-point line, and he launched it with 20 seconds on the shot clock. No big man touched the ball, the ball never went inside the 3-point line.

None so far today.

Ramey has taken at least three hero-ball contested, off-balance fucking bricks.... every one of them should have gotten him a seat on the bench

If we're looking for iconic songs/moments that changed everything with a new sound, "Eruption" has to be on that list. And the all-synth sounds of Donna Summer's "I Feel Love." You could arguably place those two moments as the birth of hair metal and EDM, respectively.

Holy shit, these are some made-up bullshit calls

Sugarcubes is a good answer. Buddy of mine played “Birthday” for me after it came out. Didn’t sound like anything else.

100% this. I had a brief moment after the Capitol riot... maybe a fair % of Republicans are going to come back to a fact-based reality. I thought surely an attempted coup right here in America would be the event that caused the schism between reasonable people who want small government and the lunatics whose political beliefs consist essentially of fairy tales (birthers, Seth Rich, Dominion voting machines, Obama's death panels, laboratory-manufactured viruses, fake pandemics, Hunter Biden's laptop, etc.). Nope.

That’s awesome

Trekii makes cool shit, including a preamp where you can run anything through a Leslie cabinet: https://trekii.com/products/leslie-speaker-accessories/uc-1a-pedal-110v.html That used to be on my "wish list" but the guitar pedals that simulate a rotary speaker have gotten really good, and there's other stuff I'd rather have for that $$$.

Me: 1990-ish Ibanez RG-550 with mirrored pick guard ...which would be a bigger loss than you might guess

Temperature falling, your family is freezing, and you have to keep the fire going or die. You have to burn one instrument that you own. What goes in the fire? Caveat: Let’s assume you’ve already burned the banjo(s)

#stopthesteal

The idea that George Floyd died of a fentanyl overdose is so fucking outrageously stupid, and so utterly preposterous.... People who die of narcotic overdoses just fall asleep and stop breathing. They definitely, positively do not writhe, moan and desperately gasp, “I can’t breathe!” And as fucking ridiculous as that assertion is, it is a thousand times more offensive... what with the fucking video of the cop suffocating him and all. Fucking lies and treason. It’s beyond shameful.

"There's a hole in Daddy's tone, where all the money goes..."

I understand that we can't have every SB guest be a classic rock artist for middle aged white guys. It's not the genre that I take issue with. I agree with jimmyjazz that outside of 2 hits, that guy's music is profoundly pedestrian and forgettable. Why would you think that guy could fill 20 minutes by himself? Obviously, he wasn't up to the job... and it's not like he made up for the shortcoming with great rhythms, choreography, or a compelling stage persona. That show.... fucking ugh, man. A stadium full (ok, half full) of fans, and you run off the field and into a Vegas-style shoebox and spin around mugging right into the camera for a couple minutes, then do a mosh pit thing with the diaper-on-the-head guys for a couple more minutes. What the fuck is that? The happiest guys in America today have to be the Black Eyed Peas, who were often named as worst halftime show ever until yesterday. Next year: How 'bout Snoop and/or Willie?