Into The Afternight: Our 3rd Shift O/T
48 repliesIf you’re still up and want to talk Chiefs, or just hang with fellow citizens of the Kingdom, this is the place.
Well, that was disappointing, but they’re one of the top teams in the league, too, and remember that a lot of games are having unpredictable outcome this year. Some might even remember my article on that point.
And let’s face it, that takeaway from Kelce was as fluky as it gets, and without that, they’d have had to play differently, and we likely win. They beat us, but not by much. It sucks, but these things happen.
With that, time’s yours.
Three legends, though the young college set would be outraged by this. Whether is’s because of Blanc doing a caricature of a Mexican accent for laughs (but not at the Mexican he was playing, but the wordplay), Carson actually smoking on set, both, or some other Cause is anyone’s guess, but it’s still funny. Fuck’em.
better times
Mel Blanc a god of my childhood
Well, I’m turning in, good to chat with you Saints, be well – or as well as can be, and same to you BRaG.
Ya, man, this could go on all night and I’d enjoy it, but I’m done in so thanks guys and au revoir.
aww man… lol… don’t leave me alone with BRAG
Ha, old enemies are old friends and vice versa. Cheers.
Don’t worry, I don’t have an axe to grind, so the risk of me burying a hatchet between your eyes is nil. 😛
LOL. so no bullshit..How ya been?
Worse than ever. Got hit with a health issue Mon, but I couldn’t be seen until this Wed. I’ve a good guess at what’s going on, but I’m not mulling too hard on that without learning more. Which includes, if it’s not obvious, thinking about it hard and long enough to describe to someone who doesn’t know me well.
You know me, I’ll say something about it when I’m ready. This site depends on me too damn much to shirk that duty. If I go down for a while, I won’t let it blindside y’all. What after that, I don’t know, but at least there’ll be time to talk with folks, maybe make some arrangements. Life’s what happens when you’re not paying attention.
Sorry to hear that,man, Hope everything works out
Just had a thought re: lamb. If that meat market in older KCK is still in operation, you should try contacting them. It’s basically a westbound Hwy (think US 40) from KU Med, and it abruptly departs the more-developed region into a more depressed local economy, with lots of empty space. Going that way, it’s on the right, driving into KC proper, it’s on the right, but either way, you can miss it. It’s a good-sized place, but it fronts on a side road, just off the main one.
I can get buffalo, eel, anything around here. Just not lamb. I just don’t think it is part of the ”normal” delicacies around here
Well, if KC isn’t local enough, I’m out of ideas, but you have to admit I tried.
Alternately, check to see if The Local Pig is still open. They work directly with farmers to source their meats, and I’d expect them to know where to source lamb. Just don’t expect it to be cheap.
A little bit of humble pie is a good thing…
why does almost every 70’s rock band sound the same?
I would disagree with you because I’m still grounded in that era musically, except that I put together a playlist a few months ago highlighting lesser known but favorite to me tunes mostly from 70s bands and as I listened to that playlist I had that exact thought. I had also thrown in some White Stripes, Deadmaus and some other stuff and those tunes really stood out.
So, here you go:
if we are going there
Ya, see, that’s fresh air and appeals to me too.
my favorite song by them
Don’t get me wrong, MANY artist from that era stand out. Plus, it isn’t like any other decade isn’t formulaic. Still, if I have heard one 70’s epic song (minus Stairway and Freebirds of course) I have heard them all
Dream On etc, you’re not wrong, but if you take the time to listen full through some albums from the 70s there are some real gems, and some of the better known classics never get old to me…
… like this one:
LOOOOOVE that Tune!!. Although….
velvet underground oh sweet nuthin
Hah, here ya go, sure it’s a bit formulaic but it’s a good ‘in:
I can’t argue against your ear, taste’s a thing, but Blinded by the Light and The Weight couldn’t be more different, and then there’s Edgar Winter, Tull, Floyd, and a host of others, and they’re all very distinct. That was the decade where a band having a particular sound was a thing, and that’s really the only real commonality.
Yup – Tull and Deep Purple always stood out to me, but they became formulaic too as their later stuff ground out.
True, but that’s the trap of trying to maintain a signature sound. I didn’t find Farm on the Freeway to be formulaic at all, and it’s a much better song about the plight of the small farmer than Scarecrow. The latter blames everyone else for pert-near everything, and as someone who grew up amidst small hog-and-dairy oriented farms, I know that’s a load of stuff that can’t even be composted for fertilizer.
As a side note, not everyone raised the animals, more grew the corn-beans-alfalfa cycle of fodder, but even they usually raised a slaughter steer and might have a few cows around for milk. It’s a marginal business, and I can think of one family in particular, considered quite well-off, rode that margin too hard, and lost a big chunk of their land. It’s a business, and if Mellencamp’s “Dad” was a bad businessman, claiming victimhood for a bad business model is lame.
True, some real standouts like Jimi, Rolling Stones, Sabbath. I should have clarified as a whole
I’ve featured that guy’s work several times, it’s good stuff. Did you catch the shawarma chicken one? That water-powered rotisserie was ridiculous.
Haven’t seen his stuff in a while. It has been a minute since his vids have come up on my feed, but I used to watch his content all the time.
this was my favorite
I remember that one, too.
It is EXTREMLY difficult to get fresh lamb where I am at. I can get Buffalo meat before I can get fresh lamb. And I live in rural MO..LOL
I expect it doesn’t scale well to our agricultural framework. I don’t know sheep ranching, but I do know that veal’s primarily sourced from culled dairy calf bulls. They’re no good as beef, so making them steers means the same cost for a lesser product, say compared to a Hereford. If you kill them after you evaluate them, it’s straight waste, so as cruel as it may seem, raising them into a useful state, then slaughtering them is the more moral way to go, as well as economic.
MO’s not set up for sheep farming. I’m sure they exist, but at scales so small that there aren’t many culls per year. To get to the point where culling most of them for market takes a medium-sized business scale, not a family farm. Agricultural logistics are as demanding as military ones. Anyway, that’s my educated guess.
I can walk less than 2 miles from my house and pet multiple sheep along the way. They are everywhere around here. However, they are probably used more for their wool and not meat. Eating young lamb(although lamb can be considered as old as 2years old) is feux paux even around these parts
Fair enough, but raising them for wool means less need for culling. “Steer” males can grow that just fine. As I said, too few culls per year, but a different business model. As I said, I know far more about cattle than sheep, so I was thinking mostly in those terms, so I likely didn’t explain it well.
Unless you’d prefer that I bring the old BRaG back, when explaining things to you. But trust me, it’s their business model that drives that sentiment. If you’re trying to make money farming, sentiment quickly gives way to economics. Some will hold out because of the sentiment, but the culture’d change.
Then again, I also live in the country away from factory farming where it would be advantageous to raise lamb for slaughter. However, it just might be a case of supply and demand and there just isn’t much demand for that type of cut around here
See above, thought of a couple places to look.
There were a couple of local ”fresh meat ” places around here and they mentioned KC as an option, but I never heard back from them