In A Throwback To A Simpler Time
Two Names That We All Learned About:
Much like Staind said, it’s been awhile since we’ve been able to indulge in the bygone pleasure of just laughing at unfortunate names. While Joseph/Joey Pizza would be one of the first names crossed out when brainstorming characters for a parody of The Sopranos/Italian people in general, I need to know the pronunciation of Chief Cum’s name (it’s his name! Leave me alone), and when he decided that ‘George’ was the part that he no longer wanted to be addressed by. Although I could understand if he’s more optimistic about the decency of people, or even proud of the name, having descended from a long line of—[REDACTED]
Watch/Listen To/Broadly Ingest This: Radiohead live concert series - Available via YouTube
For the same time-whiling reasons as Bruce Springsteen, Radiohead have now begun releasing live shows through YouTube as well as their recently redesigned digital archives, the Radiohead Public Library. While I do love the band, I haven’t seen them since the truly weird 2008 show at Nissan Pavilion, now known as Jiffy Lube Live (presumably advocated for by Chief Cum). An otherwise very good show that happened to take place during a biblical rainstorm, I nearly lost a shoe in the mud getting out of there, and hundreds of people never even made it to the venue after some of the incoming roads were washed out, a problem at this venue seeing as how it was remote enough to be one of those places where they have to flip road directions in and out to move humans around on a good day. Surprisingly they’ve only done arena shows in the area since. At any rate, the first show up in the series is a 2000 show from Dublin, done in the wake of the release of Kid A, and expect more until morale improves.
From this picture, it’s safe to assume that California governor Gavin Newsom had an early life career designing marketing elements for Spencer’s Gifts. That or he spends his nights tagging BART trains or making those Salt Life bumper stickers I’ll never learn the origins of, I promise.
This look from ESPN at how the National Hockey League is looking to restart play, offering insight from players and training staff on how to best get everyone back into game shape. The idea has been floated to hold the rest of the season in a more isolated area like North Dakota, and wrassling’s proving that you can create compelling live content in empty arenas (though you may have to censor the on-ice audio feed), but if there’s any risk of transmission I’d rather they pack it in and prepare for the future.
On this day in history, hater and loser Robert E. Lee surrendered his troops over to General Grant, effectively ending the Civil War. To commemorate:
On this day Robert E. Lee surrendered in Appomattox and they gave him a swirly and pantsed him and took his lunch money. He took the mocking with good grace. "I deserve it for I am a piss baby. May future generations remember that my cause was that of piss babies."
Thus solving all the problems of America, forever. Good job everyone.
This story about people ordering things via Instacart, only to modify the tip to $0 after delivery, screwing over people who presumably are already exposing themselves to disease out of necessity, is one of the more upsetting things I read today. While as a principle I’m usually opposed to doxxing, the delivery people need to start posting names of anyone who feels like doing this to others is okay, especially in this kind of environment.
Conversely, in one of the more uplifting things I read today, a woman in Florida put Easter Eggs stuffed with porn and miscellaneous candies into area mailboxes, over 400 by her own admission, which makes the 11 charges of distributing obscene material a little curious, like does an individual charge only cover 30-40 instances of giving porn to others? A question for a better legal mind than I.
Finally, this seems legit:
It seems weird initially, but if I had a bunch of time, a whetstone and no reputation as a weird loner who only talks about his extensive collection of knives it would seem like a good way to pass the time, who knows when your own knives will be dull enough to break out the set again.
