Political Instability Report

On Sunday, thousands of people joined protest marches in Croatia against a surging far right following a spate of incidents that have fueled both ethnic and political tensions in the European Union country (AP Video/Sasa Kavic).

Saturday Sage Burning Friday Freak Out

Heard this excellent number leading to a commercial break during the Fox Sports broadcast of the Arizona-Arizona State football game.No idea what that means (Probably nothing.) but there it was.

Minutes later: Wait, it's still Friday for an hr. or so in this time zone. Holidays are stupefying.

Friday Photo

What a great Thanksgiving!! No human contact at all. Total consumption: Two bananas, gluttonous fucking pigs! Could have had half an English muffin but decided that, like virtually all activity, it simply wasn't worth the effort. And plenty of tea & iced coffee to keep me awake, because you brain-dead cretins & your world of shit & pain bore me numb!!

Spent no money. Will not spend any today.

Non-NFL sporting event: Finished watching the November Sumo Tournament. How 'bout that Aonishiki, first Ukrainian to win the Emperor's Cup?NHK doesn't like to share its footage (Pearl Harbor, you rat bastards!!) but the action starts at (24:50) if you click.

Jacques Cartier "Discovers" Canada

Jeeziz, people, make a usable recording, not this horsecrap w/ zillons of extra unneeded pixels! And get the captions right, too! Still worth it, however.

Ten Yrs.

This reporter hasn't had any booze since Thanksgiving 2015, ten yrs. ago today. Not a big deal, as I wasn't boozing much at the time, having tapered off considerably from my yout'.Never got behind (or under) any wheels when plowed good. Don't miss it a bit, either. On the other hand, I had enough "points" for a US$40.00 discount on a $43.00 bag of boo.

Vietnam To Venezuela

Is Big Fat Gay Don going to lie this shithole nation into more war crimes?

Weather Report

Character Building In America

Th' fuck's w/ coach's hair? Or is it not hair, but the world's worst rug?

Fireboats & Everything!

It Was 50 Yrs. Ago Today

Consider your Saturday night rocked. (50 yrs. ago today was also a Saturday.)When music was made by humans rather than robots & telebision was monochrome.

Yesterday's News Today

Now, thanks to the iNternet, we can see the entirety of a police chase.What this reporter saw.

Friday Freak Out

"Girl" Musicians & Hep Girls

No talking, just swinging.

"O" Gauge Goes To Sea

Take-offs & the sinking of the Yamato start at (19:50). Aircraft manufacture & take-off attempts at (10:57).

So Much For Honest Abe

Fuck "President" Trump, this is inflationary.Penny wise & pound foolish, to coin a phrase. Save $56 million of taxpayer money (I'm sure your taxes will be lower almost immediately.) & cost consumers hundreds of millions in price increases.

Everything, Part II

Felt lousy, threw up again. Will try to activate the new crap (Third time's the charm?) if nothing I'll have to call them, which will doubtless be interminable. (I don't have that much time left, you bastards.) What an irritating imposition.

Irony

Decided to get Spectrum iNternet (again) for $30.00/month, half what Starry charges, & because Starry has gone out twice recently. So up to Hollywood (What a shithole of contemporary corporate/chain bullshit it is now. No character at all.) to the Spectrum store, where I traded my modem for a new one that is just like the previous one, & a new router, which will run an extra $10.00/month, so I'm only saving 20 bones. Figures.

Returned home & connected the modem, then to the Spectrum website to see if I could activate it w/o downloading another effin' app to my 'phone. At the website I was greeted by a message claiming there was an outage in the area affecting tee vee, iNternet & 'phone. Dunno about the iNternet, as Starry is still on, but the tee vee's been working all this time. (At one point the 'phone was making white noise, but it's quiet now.) At 2314, the website advises the impacted service is television, & it will be restored asap. Earlier it promised 0030 on the 11th. And it claims my iNternet is connected, which I suppose means the 'modem.

The irony is that because of this alleged outage the activation page doesn't work.

One other little problem, which I didn't notice at the store. No idea what Spectrum is thinking, but their wiring into my bunker is co-axial cable. Do you see a threaded co-ax terminal anywhere on this new-to-me box?

Ah, what was I thinking? The new modem was included because the router connects to the modem's Ethernet port. Can't fool this reporter for long.

Applied power & Ethernet to the router; the green light is steady & the amber one is flashing as they should. Must be connected to something, but the website only shows the modem, not the router. And this:

Plan Unavailable

We're sorry, we're unable to display your plan details. Please try again.

Either still suffering an outage or the system is yet to update my account. May as well wait until tomorrow later today before giving up & calling a human or downloading their app as is suggested. 

Funny, but I'm not (yet) enraged & ready to kill, probably because if anyone but a robot calls it should go to voicemail, & Starry hasn't gone out (as it did last night) so there's still iNternet. But my patience is not infinite.

Fifty (50!) Yrs. Ago Today

Patty Smith's Horses was released.We see that she'll be at our own Walt Disney Concert Hall this Sat. the 15th. And, Mme. Smith will hit the big 8-Oh next December.

Bonus track: Not synched, but a visual document.

Serves Them Right To Suffer

Schadenfreude Dep't.

Enough measles on the loose should result in mutations. "Super Measles Kills Millions Of Unvaccinated Morons" would be a fitting headline.

Some Subtitles For Sunday

I say absolutely not! It's kill or be killed w/ scumbags.

50-Hour Work Week?

Tens of thousands of people in Lisbon took to the streets of Portugal's capital to protest a package of labor reforms proposed by the government, calling for a monthly minimum wage of 1,050 euros ($1,214) in 2026.

What fresh hell is this, Portuguese gummint? 50? That's absurd! The trend is to 35, or even 32 hrs. a wk.