"Trump’s furious because as a Bishop, Budde can move as far as she wants diagonally, but as a Russian pawn he can only move one square at a time."

- Steve Blair

and so the ADL turns out to be a pack of fucking kapos

can't say that I'm as surprised as I wish I was

Vance says Jan. 6 participants who committed violence 'obviously' shouldn't be pardoned Vice President-elect JD Vance says people responsible for the violence during the Capitol riot “obviously” should not be pardoned.

"obviously" heh

these guys' mascot should be a used condom with a hole in it

can't decide if Musk's provision of Cybertrucks to Altadena firefighters is intended as pr to offset his asinine lies and bullshit about the firefighting effort or to further impede and sabotage that effort, by saddling them with Cybertrucks

"Anyway, how are -you- doing?"

pfft look at that young punk, he's not going to amount to anything

Mel Gibson's $15 million mansion burned down while he was hanging out with Joe Rogan decrying talk of climate change as liberal/Democratic/commie/Jewish foolery and nonsense

if someone wrote it in a story it would be dismissed as too perfect

Mark Zuckerberg, businesses need more "masculine energy"

mmm-hmm nothing says "masculine" like rolling on your back and submissively urinating all over yourself

fwiw the house smells nice

like incense

it's weird to reflect upon 'Citizen Cohn' and realize that James Woods believed that he was playing a hero

Peter Yarrow was most famous for 'Puff the Magic Dragon' and 'Lemon Tree' but I'm most grateful for 'Well, Well, Well' and 'The King of Names'

R.I.P.

"The real looting in L.A. starts when private equity buys up entire devastated neighborhoods."

- robotorotondo

"If I had a dollar for every girl that found me unattractive...eventually they would start finding me attractive."

- Ponyboy Curtis

it is said that one should speak only good, of the dead

Anita Bryant is dead

good

"If I had a dollar for every girl that found me unattractive...eventually they would start finding me attractive."

- Ponyboy Curtis

there are two CL-415 "Super Scooper" firefighting aircraft available in SoCal and some selfish narcissistic drone-flying fuckwit just caused a midair collision that damaged and grounded one of them

nice going, asshole

in case you're wondering about the AQ this morning

so when we see vampires not-reflected in mirrors, why don't their -clothes- reflect?

does vampirism create a no-reflection field around their body, that encompasses the clothes?

or do vampires wear vampiric clothing that must periodically feed upon normal clothes, in order to sustain itself

maybe they can send some LAPD officers to -arrest- the fires

wouldn't surprise me to see the present SCOTUS majority back her up

it took a while but I finally pinned down what bothers me about depictions of vampires with big thick luxuriant mustaches

all the time they must spend cleaning blood out of 'em

Palisades Fire, Santa Monica included for scale

"The Olsen twins look like one of them knows how you die and the other knows when you die."

"Scientists Discover Evidence of Adam and Eve!"

"Scientists Discover Evidence of the Exodus From Egypt!"

it's weird, the way in which religious believers generally contemptuous of scientists appear so hungry for headlines suggesting that scientists are offering support for their beliefs

"We need to simplify this. No fire or explosives. I feel like I shouldn't have to say that."

"Then don't."

Reality Bites: Gen X Executives Seek Career Pivots as Industry Layoffs Hit Hard Industry executives of a certain age seek career pivots as waves of layoffs hit Gen Xers hard.

for the benefit of people who think that "the other half" are the people who don’t have reserved seating set aside for them, at screenings

twelve days, twelve movies about musicians

day two

“If it was never new, and it never gets old, then it's a folk song.”

‘Inside Llewyn Davis,’ Dir. Joel and Ethan Coen 2013

banning public advocacy for the chronically ill, unapproved political activity, minority ethnic, religious or gender identities, immigrants, trade unionists, or anything that we generally just-don't-like

that's familiar from some place in the 1930s

give me a minute to try and remember where