LOL! Norm MacDonald does a bit about some homeless guy he saw and the street with a dog. And Norm was saying that the dog is probably thinking: "what the hell do I need this guy for, I could pretty much do this homeless thing on my own!"

Okay, this one is a good one! That's two in the last month you have contributed Paul (Elizabeth Montgomery and now this one). Who is this pretty lady? Does she have a name I would recognize?

Well did you show her, or did you pay her--- or both? LOL

Yeah, they are still around. Generally good gas, but I NEVER go one. When I turned 18 and was attempting to establish some credit I applied to four gas companies and 3 of them turned me down, only Union 76 sent me a card. So, I contacted the 3 that refused me (Mobil, Texaco, and Chevron) and asked them to reconsider, and if they would just give me a limited $100 max credit line, I would appreciate it. I was working full time and could show the ability to pay. Mobil reconsidered and sent me a card... thank you! But Texaco and Chevron both still said NO way, so I vowed to NEVER spend a nickle ever at one of their stations for the rest of my life.

I have nothing against anyone who doesn't get the shot. I don't believe anyone should be forced to, even as I understand the need for vaccines to help get to herd immunity. My take is that I am old enough to remember when people (older than me) who got polio and ended up crippled, or pregnant women would come down rubella and their children be born deaf or blind. So, I'm for anything which will keep me out of a ICU right now on a breathing machine. I already have some lung issues. And then on the other hand I do agree with SAJ about how governments will use this pretext to put further controls on people. In the state of New York they are talking about a "digital ID" put on smart phones to ensure people entering events have been vaccinated. This is dumb and unnecessary. If people are afraid of catching covid themselves, then just get the shot, and don't worry about what other people elect to do or not do--- including wearing a mask or not. Sadly these things devolve into just another 'exercise in SUBMISSION'. I've had the first shot, and this week will get the 2nd shot. And then two weeks after that I am NOT going to wear a mask anywhere just to make other people "feel good", and anyone asking me to prove I had the shot I will tell them to fuck off. Besides, I don't even own a smart phone; I have a flip phone, and I rarely even turn it on.

Most on planes just claim emotional support to avoid paying the fees imposed on transporting pets. But a trained service animal--- like for the blind, can cost $50K plus. And for good reason, they NEVER react badly under pressure, don't bark or bite, and have the exact temperament, or they wash out of the training program.

USA Network is the other one. Only channel that can somehow fit a 92 minute feature film into a 4 hour time slot, including the edits to remove stuff... so an 85 minute film packed into 240 minutes. I'd rather watch the Home Shopping Club and look at some fat saleslady hawking ginsu knives and stare at her boobs. Ev IFC used air unedited films. Not sure why they lamed out? It really sucks when they play a film like Snatch, Casino, The Departed, and Superbad, and they hack the shit out of stuff. Everyone today afraid of "cancel culture" and losing corporate sponsors. What in the FUCK is the FUCKING point of even bother to put a film like Snatch on and edit out language which while not PC, is part of the "culture" of the people you are depicting? Like showing Boyz in the Hood and making them sound like white catholic school boys.

They ALL do eventually...

RIP G. Gordon Liddy God speed you old rapscallion you.

I'll bet you couldn't help thinking about Metallica and "Some Kind of Monster" while you watched it. Spinal Tap is so good because the actors act so serious about everything. A brilliant film. I was watching a more recent interview with cast and with Rob Reiner, and it was hilarious how after 30 years they could all just get right back into character and ad lib all sorts of funny things off the cuff. They actually studied for months to become those characters. There is so much more to what they created in them than just ended up on screen. They creates a very detailed back story which could not even be contained in the screenplay So, when the camera was rolling, they could just come up with things and play off of each other.

Careful! Cancel culture is watching and listening.... I hate when they edit out that line when Fast Times plays on TV. That is EXACTLY how teenagers talked, then AND now. Was watching Snatch the other day on AMC. And my favorite line in the film where Cousin Avi tells Doug the Head to "Shut up ad sit down you big bald fuck!" They edited fuck out and replaced with "freak". So damn lame to do that, and why? It isn't like the movie is airing ever on Saturday morning between Sesame street and the Billy Graham crusade. Since when can't a gangster say "fuck"?

Trelane was the greatest Star Trek villain. Just a petulant child with "godlike" powers. In the end, who can be mad at a child? hehehe...

I feel bad for the blind and disabled (physically) who rely on actual trained service dogs to help them. I have no problem with those animals, They are highly trained, EXPENSIVE, and of no problem whatsoever to anyone else around them. Not in a store, restaurant, or an airplane. But these "emotional support" animals are impossible to define or regulate. And owing to weak language in the ADA laws, subject to widespread abuse. I hate making more and more laws to try and get people to act civilized. But the emotional support animal thing need some fixing. If only to protect actual handicapped people who need a service dog. Consider this as it applies to flying on an aircraft. If a person comes on the aircraft with animal (which could be many animals not just dogs), and YOU are allergic to, or simply have a phobia to an animal, and you ask the flight crew to have your needs met. The law says the flight crew is required to provide for you, the person who is unable to be near an animal, a "reasonable accommodation". Sound great, doesn't it? Sounds like they will move you or the person with the animal to another seat, right? NOT ON YOUR LIFE. What is a "reasonable accommodation" is that YOU will be asked to de-plane and put on another flight, and someone on standby will take your seat. The person with animal will not be asked to adjust--- unless the flight crew determines the animal may be a security problem, which means you have to wait until the animal does something to create a problem. Meanwhile YOU get bumped for the flight, because YOU dared to voice your needs by not being subjected to an animal near you.

Which vaccines are they currently giving in the UK? Our three options are Moderna, Pfizer, and Johnson & Johnson.

I remember when cassette finally hit the consumer market, and what a vast improvement it was over 8 track tape. Besides the fact you didn't have to deal with that "clunk-clunk" as the 8 track switched channels, there was so much better sound quality from a cassette tape; the actual tape generally not recorded inside the tape case as with 8 track. So, much less 'wow & flutter' during playback. Better still was recording your own cassette mix tapes from vinyl off of a quality turntable and stylus on better tape stock.. I kept one 8 track tape just for nostalgia...(Bad Company). All the rest happily went to the landfill.

I've said the same thing too for years. The only reason I could figure why the British keep this inbred clown show is because they make tourist dollars from foreign visitors to come see the Tower of London and the Buckingham Palace. Britain's version of our Disney world with castles and princesses. The French don't have a royal problem. They "fired" their monarchs a few centuries ago.

I took me far too long to cut the cord too. Used to have Time Warner and every year or so I would call and complain about the creeping price increases, and they would lower the price, and then maybe throw in HBO for something for free for 6 months, so I stayed with then. Then Time Warner sold to Spectrum and Spectrum would not play ball, wouldn't budge a nickle. So then I switched to Frontier (which is fiber optic) and they were about $40 less per month for basically the same thing I had at Spectrum, plus they threw in a $400 gift card to Amazon which they said the would send out after 6 months of service. Frontier was a TOTAL DISASTER. For one, they screwed up porting my old phone number to the new service, and then I ended up with TWO Frontier accounts being charged to me. Get that! Two accounts being billed to TWO phone numbers. I only had one phone line, and one cable tv hook up, and one internet hook up. And to make it worse, the 2nd account was being billed at the highest rate possible, so I would get one bill each month for $89 (the price of the original package deal), and another bill for $300 per month. I brought it to their attention right away; someone said they would correct it, and they never did. So, I would pay the on bill and ignore the other. And each month there were 10 phone calls to 10 people trying to clear it up, and nothing happened, and eventually I started getting collection notices on the 2nd account, and threats to screw with my credit rating. This took 8 month to clear up, until finally I got a sympathetic person who was able to fix it, and also send the $400 Amazon gift card. As soon as I got that, I disconnected all of the Frontier CRAP and put it in a box on the front porch and called them to pick up their shit. Which they never did so I sent it to e-waste. After that I went to back to Spectrum but just for internet and now steam everything. I bought a Roku for my two TVs because I like the software and interface better than what comes with the smart TV, and also upgraded and bought my own router (mesh router) and everything works great. I opted to pay for YoutubeTV ($65 per month) because it provides everything I want, plus all of the local channels. I don't like to use the antennae set up. I also have Amazon Prime because I shop a lot from home, so I get that TV content as well. And every 6 months I'll do a Netflix subscription to binge watch some stuff, and then cancel the subscription, switch to HBO or 6 months and what their content, and then back to Netflix. My deal isn't dirt cheap, but much cheaper than cable tv. Plus I like YoutubeTv free unlimited cloud DVR.

A great street just East of Los Angeles in Glendale (Montrose area) near the San Gabriel mountains is blvd called Oceanview, because on a clear day can see all the way to the coast, with the sun glimmering on the Pacific. Another great spot is in Encino up near Mullholland where Mullholland is just a dirt road in the Santa Monica mountains. There is an old cold war Nike missile tracking station preserved as a park, and you can go up on the former radar tower (radar is removed) and you can see all the way down to the Santa Monica coast. One of my favorite places to watch the sunset in the area.

The blvd has an interesting history. Ironically, it was a much shorter street when it was first named over 100 years ago, and was not yet even connected to Pacific Coast Highway at it's western terminus... or where you might see the "sunset" best from. Originally it was a street closer to downtown Los Angeles, and it kept being added to---and then eventually it connected to the coast. Some decades back the eastern part of it was near downtown was renamed to Cesar Chavez blvd... a real shame. Live long enough and I'm sure some politicians may vote to rename it after some other asshole who may come into vogue. Best part of Sunset isn't in Hollywood or West Hollywood (the strip). Best part is in Pacific Palisades, where the "high rent" people live.

Remember those car alarms with a motion sensor that would sound a recorded warning about getting away from the car before they would start blaring an alarm. People had those and then park in a parking lot right near the front of a store where other people have to walk by and then the thing would just keep going off. Eventually they stopped selling them because anyone who had one of those never got their cars stolen, just keyed and vandalized because they were so annoying. Also, ever notice how the most annoying car alarms are on the biggest chunk of shit worthless vehicles? Usually some teenager with a piece of crap $1000 car, with $3000 bucks worth of crap Pep Boys custom bumpers, spoilers, and other Chinese made aftermarket slop. Like who is going to steal that pile of shit?

I agree. I was in the market a little over a year ago, and a woman had three dog in her shopping cart. THREE dogs! With their dirty poop butts in a cart where people put their food. So, when I said to the woman: "Really lady-- THREE DOGS???" She got very defensive and claimed her dogs were "emotional support animals". I then said, you must be really emotionally unstable to need three support animals--- so I basically called BULLSHIT on her.

Good lordy! The news on this dysfunctional family seems to get worse and worse each day now. This Meghan woman appears to be a certified insane attention whore, doesn't she? The more crap she talks, it almost makes me feel sorry for the "royal family". Almost, not entirely--- they are a institution which has always been an embarrassment to watch.

Damn barking dogs, and their owners. Dog barks are nothing but noise pollution. Horrible animals these things are. They belong out in the wild with wolves and coyotes, not every damn place you go now; market, parks, hotels, restaurants, shops----and all barking, barking, barking all the time. Shut these damn dogs up! They can breed and genetically engineer dogs to be all sizes and colors. Why can't they breed one to be barkless-- the way a navel orange is created to have no seeds?