I had to live my demented Popeye persona this week.
My buddy owns a house in the Hamptons that he usually rents out for the summer. But this year he doesn't have a rental yet so he invited us out for the 4th of July.
So we called Hassan the car service guy and loaded up the truck and moved to Beverly....Hills.... that is....well I really mean the Hamptons.
I tried to stay drunk as much as possible.
So much so that even my pictures topple over.
HAPPY BELATED 4TH OF JULY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Looks like you're defying gravity there, bosun York.
ReplyDeleteMan, they have strange gravity out there.
ReplyDeleteI thought you bought the yacht and then went sailing. Without a compass.
ReplyDeleteI thought you got buried in bras.
ReplyDeletetits.
A man has to uphold his reputation, you know. Nice work.
ReplyDeleteAnd good for you and Lisa that you are taking time off after the long hours during and after the show's first season.
Now do something that gets you on the cover of National Enquirer. That'll cement your star status.
I haven't had time to drink. It's nice to know that your friends are there, picking up the slack for you.
ReplyDeleteEveryone in the pool! Suits optional. Glad to see you got time off for good behavior.
ReplyDeleteTroop doesn't realize the gravity of the situation.
ReplyDeleteSuits optional? I'm in! *jumps in water, looks around*
ReplyDeleteDon't tell me I'm the only one......
Popeye didn't drink and ate spinach. I know Popeye..Popeye was a friend of mine, and you sir are no Popeye.
ReplyDeleteAdd gyroscopically unstable to the less than Stellar Qualities available with this particular model.
ReplyDeleteNow that I am fasting colors are appearing and the universe is becoming smaller yet vivid, with large floating tits in the sky.
ReplyDeletethank you.
tits
While fasting my pinched loafs are light, airy, almost like cotton candy. Like you could sit on them and float in the bowl for a nice relaxing day.
ReplyDeleteCum, float on my cotton candy loaf. Let the currents take you where they will.
tits.
I'll take a rain check on that invitation Titus.
ReplyDeleteOn second thought, thanks but I'll "pass" it altogether.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was at the Goodman Pool in Madison last week, they had to clear the pool after a kid pooped a floater. This was on the hottest day, too. So cruel.
ReplyDeletePeople who live in Wisconsin shit wherever they want.
ReplyDeleteWe usually aim for Illinois.
ReplyDeleteExcellent choice. Illinoids will never notice.
ReplyDeleteFogblather defies gravitas.
ReplyDeleteTitus, time to give up the battle of the bulge at 50.
ReplyDeleteOh, you're not 50?
Okay, have it your way, 39.
Titus wants to become a gentleman farmer. I just can't see him wearing a seed cap sitting in a local diner drinking coffee and busting the waitresses balls. Maybe I'm wrong.
ReplyDeleteRicpic, you bitch-I will be 41 in a couple of weeks.
ReplyDeleteBut, alas, as a gay, I am truly an old fart.
And, unfortunately, I still need to work in Corporate America and make the big bucks for many years before I am able to live on my dad's farm. We rent the farmhouse out and the land is rented out by a farmer.
When I do return there is will be clumberville.
You went to a public pool Chick?
All the public pools here have been taken over my minorities, if you know what I mean. So, unfortunately no whiteys can go. We still have some amazing all indoor skating rinks though and they are pleasantly white. They are fucking old too-something to do with Roosevelt and all those public works commie shit, but they are very cool inside. They even look kind of commie.
Where's Mamam?
tits.
ndspinelli said...
ReplyDeleteTitus wants to become a gentleman farmer
Yeoman, squire, or knave?
Titus, I only noticed a large harmonious mix of all colors.
Chickelit, They have dog day @ Goodman Pool @ the end of the season. I love dogs but I would think they don't like chlorine and would prefer a lake or river. We went to the Monona Pool today, the water temp was 86! Warm enough for a micro hurricane.
ReplyDelete...they had to clear the pool after a kid pooped a floater.
ReplyDeleteI was on the swim team in high school. One day during practice, someone noticed a turd in the pool, left over from one of the days' gym classes. Everyone cleared out. I was captain of the team. Guess who the coach made clean it up? Character-building opportunity, he figured.
They just built or rebuilt a public pool at McCarren Park in Williamsburg, Brooklyn for $50 million. $50 million. $50 million. Sick yet? First day the vibrant ones attacked a lifeguard who dared suggest they not do back flips.
ReplyDeleteMuch of the FDR commie shit was actually very well built, served genuine purposes and lasted. Robert Moses was a tremendous benefactor to millions of working and middle class New Yorkers. Yours truly remembers the thrill of our family summer escapes to Jones, or as millions called it, Joneses Beach. And the plantings! on the approach to the beach. But those millions didn't vandalize or even leave that much trash. Memories.
@ricpic a couple more FDR era commieworks still worthy of applause:
ReplyDelete-Hoover Dam: finished early and paid for itself selling electrical power.
-Red Rocks Amphitheater in Colorado
-Devils Lake State Park in Wisconsin.
All done without unionized SEU labor.
ReplyDeleteWe went to the Monona Pool today, the water temp was 86!
ReplyDeleteI made my kids and their cousin bike around Lake Monona last Wednesday. It was 95!
Trooper's pose looks like he's riding the poop deck of the Titanic down for a frosty plunge!
ReplyDeleteWhen I used to go to the ocean I wouldn't even consider getting in the water if it was less that 85 degrees. One day my sons and I spent the whole day riding the wild surf, and I complained the whole time about how cold the water was. Got home, checked the weather report and sure enough - ocean temp that day was only 84. I halfway expected to see ice floes.
ReplyDeleteCherry Grove, South Carolina, July, 1996.
Our lake is like bath water, I'm glad there were a lot of speed boats and tubers and pontoon boats out the last week to keep the waters churned up so the green stuff doesn't get too disgusting. At least our lake doesn't stink like Monona.
ReplyDeleteI sure hope we start getting some rain so things green up before September. In the past when we have had a drought, hurricane season seems bring us a change in the jet stream too and cooler temps/ rain.
I don't want my daughter to come home to a hot dry desert from a hot dry desert.
Green on trees, not in lake.
ReplyDeleteLawns too, my grass is crunchy.
ReplyDeleteI noticed the drought too, Allie. Still no rain?
ReplyDeleteThe unfair thing is that O'side is like a fridge lately--never even reaching 80. Of course we're used to watering everything out here because it's so dry.
ReplyDeleteThe other day at the fair it didn't even reach 70. It made mixing with all those teeming masses bearable.
ReplyDeleteI rode one of those bungee slingshots with my son at the fair. Unbelievable thrill!
I can hear tunder boomers to the south. Starting to cloud up over me. Weather radar has rain about 10 miles away and approaching. We need rain badly. Hopefully, it will take some of the heat away. You know that thunder is pronounced tunder around here don't you? Norwegian talk.
ReplyDeleteI talked to my mom and she said the corn crops are dead in Wisconsin this summer because no rain.
ReplyDeleteI was like no corn on the cob stands and she said probably not.
That is fucking sad.
Devils Lake State Park is one of the most beautiful places in Wisconsin.
ReplyDeleteAt the old Boating House they have dances in the summer and I took my parents a couple of time. It was like old Glen Miller music and the gray hairs loved it. And only $5.00.
Very romantic.
But, it again, is being overtaken by FIBS and minority FIBS as well.
Allen - You must be west of the Twin Cities, judging by the radar.
ReplyDeleteThere's thunder in the air here in Vilas as well, but the radar shows only a small patch of storm clouds.
We need the rain, like everyplace else. The northwoods are a tinderbox, and one idiot camper could set the county afire.
No rain down here in Waukesha County, no. I'm sick of watering my garden, I'm leaving the grass go brown. Allen send that storm my way when you're done with it.
ReplyDeleteAllen do they say oopdah, where you live? I never heard that until my sister moved to Black River Falls and she had some work done outside, before her lawn was in, in early spring. There was a bear foot print in the mud and she showed it to the local workmen and they said updah/ oopdah, not sure of the spelling, or what it means for that matter.
They say oof-dah. Michael I'm NE of St. Paul in Polk County. St. Croix county, south of me looks like they're getting rain. Nothing here. Not. One. Drop.
ReplyDeleteSpelling correction -- uff da
ReplyDeleteYea, that's it oof-dah!
ReplyDeleteI looked at the radar, no rain anywhere near us :(
What does it mean?
ReplyDeleteGo to Google and type in uff da. Wiki about sums it up.
ReplyDeleteOK, you're gonna make me work for it, huh?
ReplyDeleteI'm going to pull some Norwegian stories from the book "Old World Wisconsin."
ReplyDeleteI saw an old friend in Stoughton last week who is full blooded Norweger. I hadn't been to Stoughton since a Syttende Mai festival there many moons ago. I teased him about being a "Blue Cross" headquarters because of all the flags in town.
ReplyDeleteWind is out of the north. It was 95º today, and now it is 78º. So that helps, but we need rain badly.
ReplyDeleteTitus--the corn is not dead everywhere, but Dane County may be the worst. They actually irrigate crops along the WI river.
ReplyDelete@Titus: The FIBS have always run roughshod over Devils Lake. There used to be a railstop and a hotel there.
ReplyDeleteNeed help with FIBS.
ReplyDeleteAllen, we are still at 92 degrees here. 78 sounds soooo nice.
ReplyDeleteIt's supposed to get down to 64º tonight. Where'd I put my long johns?
ReplyDeleteMSNBC is doing a good segment on the Higgs Boson not that any of you will turn to it, lol.
ReplyDeleteFIBs= Fucking Illinois Bastards.
ReplyDeleteWhere did blake, Darcy, and Ruth Anne go?
ReplyDeleteIt rained when I was over at my other house this afternoon, that was nice, but that will make the grass grow, and that's just more work for me.
ReplyDeleteGot home, and it rained after I got the truck unloaded. Good timing and a nice rain. Some is better than none, and it has been brutally dry here this summer.
It's now 82, 20 degrees cooler than before the storm. Yep, it's hot, but mercifully it is very humid. I really dislike dry air - get enough of that all winter. I live for overnight dew points in the low 80s - summer time, livin' is easy.
Where are Chip and Mama, at a Discordian pot luck?
ReplyDelete@CL - it's a holiday weekend - even our host has vacated.
ReplyDeleteDarcy said she had two extra days off around the 4th. I'd guess that she's back up to the lake cabin.
ReplyDeleteAaaaaannnd.....the power is off again. Third time in five days. Heckuva vacation.
ReplyDeleteThe temperature is down, though, and I'm wearing clothes for a change.
Have opened the Emergency Preparesness kit. It contains roasted almonds and a bottle if tequila, so I'll be okay.
ReplyDeletePower outages are meant to get us used to our malChusian future, named in honor of Energy Secretary Chu, who continues to wage the War on Coal.
ReplyDeleteWe enthuse about MalChus! We worship the great gods of Washington. We pray they show us mercy in their great wisdom.
ReplyDeleteWho am I kidding - we are so fucking screwed...
When the Great Heat Waves of the Summer of 2012 finally wane, the malChusians will credit coal-fired power outages. They're already preparing the script in DC.
ReplyDeleteWorst political class ever.
ReplyDeleteYou thought ObamaCare was a BFD? Just wait until carbon penalties get rammed through Congress and ruled constitutional based on the Commerce Clause because the markets already exist to be regulated.
ReplyDeleteThe goal of carbon penalties is not to abate AGW; rather it is to funnel more tribute $ to Washington DC.
ReplyDeleteThe DC political bubble is the mother of all bubbles (MOAB) or MOB for short.
A rotting treasure: link
ReplyDeleteI got a pet wussy.
ReplyDeleteYou that read wrong.
You read that wrong too.
Saw this on Facebook, don't blame me.
Very sad about the Frank thing in Richland Center Chick.
ReplyDeleteMy dad always took me to Richland Center to trout fish every year. Supposed to have good streams. We would sleep in the back of his truck, with a cab on it, in sleeping bags.
Wow, can you imagine I did that? Three of the other dads I went with all died and the other two have Alzheimers. Sad.
One of the saddest things I see when returning to Wisconsin is small towns that used to be thriving now with boarded up store fronts and boarded up buildings.
You don't see that anywhere in Mass. Even in our small towns.
The bars in those small towns are even closed in Wisconsin! And the bowling alleys are long gone.
Oh Wisconsin, will your glory days ever return?
And can people in small towns still thrive?
ReplyDeleteWhat is their economy?
Do all of their children leave once graduating from high school?
What is in those small towns for those young people?
And where do the older people receive their health care? How far do they have to travel?
I think about that quite a bit and it makes me sad.
And yes some of our large cities that thrived in the past are in awful circumstances but I don't see that here. Boston/Cambridge is thriving because we have so many industries and because of the large amount of universities.
Here the streets are packed, store fronts are full, you have to wait to get a seat at a restaurant and there is waiting lists to get into housing.
I want this to be the entire country though, not just the very fabulous East Coast.
I was driving through the city tonight and there were huge cranes everywhere building shit. New condos, office buildings, stores, etc.
I deteste the sign saying, "space for lease".
tits.
I care.
Power is now back on.
ReplyDeleteI think this is the day the plague of locusts arrive. What else could go wrong?
I shouldn't ask that.
Poison ivy, seriously horrid. I had it all over for weeks it seemed. I had it in paces that I couldn't reach to put ointment on, strange.
ReplyDeleteWow, chickelit, I passed by that warehouse a hundred times and never knew. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteIt's been ridiculously mild here.
ReplyDeleteGlobal smoothing.
Time to start backfilling Troop's "under 200" comment threads until he deigns to post a newer on.
ReplyDeleteI shun commenting on the over 200 club here and there. But I do read it so don't anybody think of posting things they don't think I'll see. I'm look at your allies, Allie.
Actually, it would be hoot to move back in time through Troop's comment threads, skipping over all the 200+ ones.
ReplyDelete@blake: Hasn't the weather here just been gorgeous?
ReplyDeletendspinelli said...
ReplyDeleteWow, chickelit, I passed by that warehouse a hundred times and never knew. Thanks.
Stop and look at it next time you pass through. Also, any PI work you could provide on the Warehouse would be appreciated.
AllieOop said...
ReplyDeletePoison ivy, seriously horrid. I had it all over for weeks it seemed. I had it in paces that I couldn't reach to put ointment on, strange.
I think that "G*D, An Original Asshole" pines to be the unzipped fly in your annointment.
Michael Haz asked...
ReplyDeleteWhat else could go wrong?
I shouldn't ask that.
A soaking rain would hatch swarms of "little flies" (mosquitos)
Nice thought about Wisconsin, Titus. Perhaps one day I'll visit Clumberland Trails.
ReplyDeleteYou have named the farm haven't you? Every decent farm deserves a name.
AllieOop said...
ReplyDeleteI got a pet wussy.
And Michael Haz complains about an "Our Poutage"
Fight The Dour!