I haven’t written in a while, like 3 months, oops. So I thought I’d start with something silly.
Did anyone else hear the song “Sad Songs Say So Much” and think it said “I’ll hold the skunk”? No? Just me?
To be fair to myself, I was only 4 or 5 and the song was playing softly on a crackly radio in the bedroom. But I was laying there in bed thinking “Why do you want to hold a skunk? I mean, that would definitely make me sing some sad songs.”
Of course it says “When all hope is gone”, but there will always be a small part of me that thinks “I’ll hold the skunk”.
And this one came out when I was a little older, Good Thing by the Fine Young Cannibals.
At least this guy mumbles, so I’m not a total idiot. But at the end of the third verse, I was convinced it said “I had the flu.” Now that I’ve heard the real words “like a fool”, I can’t hear “I had the flu” anymore. But I listened to that over and over and over again. Am I the only one? I was convinced this guy’s girlfriend finally came back, and now he had the flu so couldn’t go out and have fun with her. I knew that couldn’t be the real line, but I couldn’t find another one that made any more sense.
So those are a couple of thoughts from my childhood. They just happened to come to me while we listened to music on the balcony.
This is so perfect that if I didn’t know the source was a real place I’d think it was fake.
A priest has been placed on leave for the second time after once again being accused of child sexual abuse. that priest? Peter J. Popadick.
The Diocese of Buffalo placed Monsignor Peter J. Popadick on leave for the second time Wednesday, after previously allowing the priest to return to ministry.
In a statement, a spokesperson for the diocese wrote that Popadick was placed on administrative leave after it received a child sexual abuse complaint.
Popadick serves as the pastor of St. Aloysius Gonzaga in Cheektowaga.
Diocese spokesman Joe Martone told 7 News the claim is more than 20 years old.
So at least no one should try to molest it.
In addition to his work as the pastor at the very fun to say St. Aloysius Gonzaga in Cheektowaga, the article also notes that Popadick had served as the secretary to Bishop Edward D. Head.
Sometimes it really does feel like you’re born for something.
You’ve been bugging me for a long time with something you all keep saying, so let’s talk about it.
When someone gets rolled up and pinned, the person who pinned him did not steal the win. Stealing a win involves something like a low blow, pulling the tights, having your hands or feet on the ropes, using a foreign object, outside interference, etc. It does not involve being out-wrestled and trapped in a legal manoeuvre for three seconds. I might hear you out if you want to call a situation where a guy gets rolled up while he’s busy yelling at the referee stealing, but even then I tend to disagree. It’s your job as a combatant to be paying attention. You take your eye off the ball and get schoolboyed or whatever, you lose fair and square. Sucks to be you. The only exception is when the ref fast counts you because he’s had it with your shit. Then you might have a case for calling it theft and yelling for a rematch.
But other than that, please, stop calling one guy being the better man stealing. It kind of ruins wrestling a little. Eventually you’re going to create a generation of fans and wrestlers who won’t see any win as legitimate unless it comes after a finishing move, which will take all of the strategy, fun and unpredictability out of the matches. I’m not sure if this is one of those Vince McMahon rules that he drilled into everyone for years or what, but if it is, he’s gone now. So if this could go away too, that would be lovely.
I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about Hulk Hogan these days. He ended up being a Trump supporting racist who chose steroids over the vitamins he told the rest of us to take, never passed up a chance to lie about basically everything (no, Andre the Giant did not weigh 1000 pounds at Wrestlemania 3) and who I really hoped would just go away by the early 2000s, so the less he enters my brain, the better.
But none of that changes the fact that he was my first favourite wrestler or that I literally cried and punched things when Ted DiBiase bought Andre from Bobby Heenan and paid off those twin referees to screw him out of the title back in 88.
Or that I was worried King Kong Bundy had killed him in 86.
Or that I watched him and Mr. Wonderful in the cage probably 100 times.
Or that him suplexing Big Boss man off of the cage made me jump out of my chair.
Or that he somehow managed to have a great match with the Ultimate Warrior at Mania six.
Or that him turning heel and joining the NWO was one of the craziest things I’d ever seen.
Or that I watched “NO Holds Barred” more than once for some reason.
Or that “Real American” might be the best theme music ever.
Or that “American Made” was pretty damn good too.
I could go on all day, because love him or hate him, he was a huge part of my childhood. And even though I spent more time kinda hating him than anything else, I still have a ton of fun family memories and some of my best friends because of him, and I’m grateful for that. It sucks that we all have to get older and that in the end, nobody Hulks up on Father Time forever.
Note: I wish the title was my idea, but it was a text from a friend at which I laughed heartily.
It is alleged that between 3 and 26 June 2019 Mr Hopper made a false representation to insurers by claiming that injuries to his legs were the result of sepsis and not self-inflicted.
He also faces a charge that between 21 August 2018 and 4 December 2020 he bought videos from a website called The Eunuch Maker which showed the removal of limbs and he encouraged Marius Gustavson to remove the body parts of third parties.
Mr Hopper, who is originally from Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, had been employed by the Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust from 2013 until he was arrested in March 2023, police said.
He has been suspended from the medical register since December 2023.
There are variations, but generally, an accessible pedestrian street crossing signal sounds something like this:
But for a little while in Redwood City, California, some of them sounded like this:
Or in Palo Alto, like this:
Those are obviously not the real voices of Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk, but I must say that the fakes are pretty well done.
Right now, you’re probably wondering how those poles came to sound like that. City officials were too, so they investigated. And while those investigations didn’t yield a who, they’re pretty sure they’ve got a why. They don’t seem overly keen to talk about it, but everybody say it with me now…Always change your default passwords to something stronger!
For years, Polara has had a publicly accessible app on the Google Play Store and the Apple App Store that allowed city officials to access Polara systems. Within 48 hours of the incident being reported in Silicon Valley, the app was pulled from the stores.
Theoretically, access to the crosswalk buttons requires a four-digit numeric code created by the city. However, many online commenters have pointed out that some cities never change the default password: 1234. Polara later republished the app with additional password security requirements. While a four-digit password allows for 10,000 possible combinations, some cybersecurity experts say it can be cracked instantly.
Polara has since added a lockout feature that limits users to two password attempts and gave cities the ability to disable connectivity altogether.
I’ll admit, this is funny. But I’d like to make a request.
Eventually, I will die. But I’d rather not have it happen preventably and prematurely with Elon fucking Musk as a soundtrack, thank you very much. So even if you know how to do this, please don’t. Those signals serve an important purpose. People’s lives (mine included) literally depend on them functioning properly.
I’m not going to sit here and say that Paramount is lying when it says that the decision to cancel the Late Show next year was a financial one. The world has changed a lot this century. The entertainment landscape is much more fragmented now than I think a lot of us ever could have imagined, and it’s hit traditional TV extremely hard. There are still a lot of people watching, but that number is getting smaller all the time. Even a well rated show isn’t necessarily going to command the same type of advertising money that it used to, and even though segments from the late night shows often pull in millions of views on YouTube (I’m one of them because I’m old and have to get up in the morning), the economics of that are often quite different, which you can go ahead and read as not as lucrative. So it stands to reason that even a show that appears successful could become a drag on the bottom line, especially when it’s not cheap to produce.
With that said, however, if you think that I think that they’re being completely honest when they go out of their way to say it’s all money and has nothing at all to do with anything going on at Paramount, then I think that you’re nuts.
Stephen Colbert has been going hard after the Trump administration on his show nearly every night for a decade. Paramount, which owns CBS, is itself trying to merge with a company called Skydance Media, which is controlled by Larry and David Ellison, billionaires who count themselves as Trump supporters and who apparently already have plans to make the network more conservative. There is a multi-billion dollar deal in place, but in order for it to be made official, it needs regulatory approval. That approval needs to come from the FCC, which is at present controlled by a Trump supporting lunatic who seems pretty committed to doing whatever dear leader tells him he’s going to do. Dear leader, meanwhile, had filed a lawsuit against CBS during last year’s election campaign accusing the network of deceptively editing an interview that 60 Minutes conducted with Kamala Harris. that lawsuit, according to basically everyone up to and including some of Paramount’s own lawyers, was frivolous as shit. But because corporations are largely soulless entities devoid of principles, instead of putting the merger on hold and using their considerable resources to defend the freedom of news departments everywhere and to hand Trump his ass, they went ahead and settled it for $16 million. On his show last Monday, Colbert called this exactly what it is. “A big fat bribe.” By Thursday, he was being slow walked out the door. If you don’t think the timing there is at least a little suspect, then I’ve got a bridge I’d like to sell you.
I want to believe that this is an isolated incident, but I’m not that naive. If I’m Jimmy Kimmel or Seth Meyers or especially everyone at the Daily Show which is also owned by Paramount, I’m starting to get nervous. ABC, which airs Kimmel, has already settled one of Trump’s other stupid news department lawsuits, so it’s not unthinkable that they wouldn’t go to bat for an expensive Trump hating comedian if they thought it would be advantageous.
No, late night television isn’t what it used to be, but it’s still important, especially now. It’s one of the only places left in the mainstream where you can hear what’s really going on and be told straight up how not normal it all is. If we lose that, especially for the reasons we’ve just lost some of it, I think we lose more than we realize.
A group of six Republican politicians from Wisconsin and Minnesota took a break from polishing Trump’s knob or whatever it is that Congress does to let the world know that they neither know how the wind works nor that their own country also has forests that sometimes catch on fire, hurting and killing people in the process. They did so in the form of a letter addressed to Kirsten Hillman, Canada’s ambassador to the United States. In it, they chastise Canada for being a bunch of arsonists who don’t know how to keep the woods clean, and more importantly, for ruining their summer with all that damn smoke.
“We write to you today on behalf of our constituents who have had to deal with suffocating Canadian wildfire smoke filling the air to begin the summer,” it reads.
“In our neck of the woods, summer months are the best time of the year to spend time outdoors recreating, enjoying time with family, and creating new memories, but this wildfire smoke makes it difficult to do all those things.”
The representatives ask how the federal government plans to mitigate the wildfire smoke, attributing “a lack of active forest management” as a major driver of Canadian wildfires, and suggesting that some of the fires began with arson.
“With all the technology that we have at our disposal, both in preventing and fighting wildfires, this worrisome trend can be reversed if proper action is taken.”
That person is not going to be me, but I do very much hope that someone who is good at data analysis will do a deep dive into these six and report back on how they’ve voted on climate and environmental regulations during their careers. You know, so we can get a sense of how they truly feel about taking “proper action”.
As for mitigating the smoke, maybe we’ll build you a border wall. We promise it’ll work almost as well as that other one. We’ll get started just as soon as you guys stop sending all your sewage up here.
When I saw that someone had mashed up “The Look” and “Pour Some Sugar ON Me”, I had the thought I often have when confronted with a combination that doesn’t immediately make sense to me. “Hmmm. Interesting. I wonder how that’s gonna work.”
The answer is that even though on a basic level you can tell that it wants to, in the end it doesn’t. Not one little bit. Not in hands that get way too cute with it, at least. But I think I might know what shrooms or an acid trip feel like now, so I guess there’s that.
I was at a wedding a couple nights ago and someone told me how much he hated the song “Stayin’ Alive”. I don’t know if I’m sheltered or what, but I’m fairly certain that no one had ever said that to me before and I fully expect to live the rest of my life without hearing it again.
I doubt that the person in question would like it any better if it sounded like rockabilly or ragtime rather than disco, but I was certainly entertained by this right here.