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Adder 02-17-2023 02:00 PM
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Originally Posted by LessinSF (Post 533661)
I thought that was Matt Taibbi, who, by the way, appears to have disappeared except for tweeting about Twitter.
Doesn't he have a Substack?

Tyrone Slothrop 02-17-2023 07:52 PM
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Originally Posted by Adder (Post 533675)
Doesn't he have a Substack?
Who doesn't?

Greedy,Greedy,Greedy 02-18-2023 02:10 PM
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Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower (Post 533672)
Just for the record, I stand with you, my brother. The witch hunt they’ve mounted against you is unjust. If loving bourbon too much is wrong, I don’t want to be right:

“Top Oregon Official Resigns Amid Accusations of Bourbon Hoarding.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/13/u...r-resigns.html
I don't get it. They paid for the Pappy's. Why, on God's green earth, would one be on a liquor commission other than getting first choice when the good stuff comes in.

If I am ever named to a liquor commission, you can bet there will be a couple of bottles of well-aged rare scotches that find their way to my office cabinet.

Icky Thump 02-18-2023 02:44 PM
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Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy (Post 533677)
I don't get it. They paid for the Pappy's. Why, on God's green earth, would one be on a liquor commission other than getting first choice when the good stuff comes in.

If I am ever named to a liquor commission, you can bet there will be a couple of bottles of well-aged rare scotches that find their way to my office cabinet.
Criminal investigation, lol. Meanwhile in most cities you could just punch every person you see in the face, get out no bail, punch more people in the face, etc. and never pay a nickel in bail.

Hank Chinaski 02-19-2023 03:30 PM
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Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy (Post 533677)
I don't get it. They paid for the Pappy's. Why, on God's green earth, would one be on a liquor commission other than getting first choice when the good stuff comes in.

If I am ever named to a liquor commission, you can bet there will be a couple of bottles of well-aged rare scotches that find their way to my office cabinet.
Related news: I was at a restaurant Monday that had a whiskey list without prices. I asked for “the oldest Pappy you have.”

Suddenly I was given an elaborate serving glass and set up. Mmm good. Then I got the bill.

Moral: do not order Pappy w/o knowing the price.

Greedy,Greedy,Greedy 02-19-2023 03:44 PM
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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski (Post 533679)
Related news: I was at a restaurant Monday that had a whiskey list without prices. I asked for “the oldest Pappy you have.”

Suddenly I was given an elaborate serving glass and set up. Mmm good. Then I got the bill.

Moral: do not order Pappy w/o knowing the price.
Look at it this way, that glass of bourbon probably cost the same as, what, an hour of your time?

I suspect it was worth it.

Hank Chinaski 02-19-2023 04:35 PM
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Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy (Post 533680)
Look at it this way, that glass of bourbon probably cost the same as, what, an hour of your time?

I suspect it was worth it.
Half hour, so yeah it was worth it.

Replaced_Texan 02-19-2023 10:24 PM
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Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower (Post 533660)
It sounds like what the board needs is a little pick-me-up. Here is a non-exhaustive list of things Sebastian was wrong about, in descending order of egregiousness:

1. The spelling of Lil Jon’s name
2. They’ll never overturn Roe
3. No horns in rock - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=To7q0cn0Fk4&t=11s
4. A president inciting a violent mob to storm the Capitol in order to prevent the certification of a fair election, and to hang those perceived as traitors, including his own vice president, was not a “threat to democracy”
5. That goldfish only have three second memories
6. That the cascading arpeggios of Coldplay’s Clocks somehow redeemed the song and made it transcend the banality of the Coldplay oeuvre
7. That P.J. O’Rourke was the next Hunter S. Thompson
8. The spelling of Hunter S. Thompson’s lawyer’s name
One of my favorite lines ever in a music review: "Personally, I assume this song, like every Coldplay song ever recorded, is about selecting and purchasing patio furniture."


A friend of mine when I passed the review along: "It was all yellow..."
Story checks out.

Did you just call me Coltrane? 02-24-2023 12:05 PM
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Remember the good old days when Sebby ranted about lawyers wearing plain white dress shirts with suits?

Pretty Little Flower 02-24-2023 05:02 PM
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Originally Posted by Did you just call me Coltrane? (Post 533683)
Remember the good old days when Sebby ranted about lawyers wearing plain white dress shirts with suits?
Don’t get him started on the merits of spread collars!

Pretty Little Flower 02-24-2023 05:05 PM
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Originally Posted by Replaced_Texan (Post 533682)
One of my favorite lines ever in a music review: "Personally, I assume this song, like every Coldplay song ever recorded, is about selecting and purchasing patio furniture."


A friend of mine when I passed the review along: "It was all yellow..."
Story checks out.
Haha. True! Then again, Coldplay made about a gazillion dollars making songs about selecting and purchasing patio furniture. So, there’s that ….

Hank Chinaski 02-24-2023 07:14 PM
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So people (GGG elsewhere) are saying the Court has accepted a case that could over rule Griswold. But when I search for it I do not find anything. Help?

Did you just call me Coltrane? 02-25-2023 02:06 PM
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Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower (Post 533684)
Don’t get him started on the merits of spread collars!
I've been in one court room since covid. Everything else has been over the phone or Zoom. I'm guessing billable hours have to be down for litigators because of this?

Icky Thump 02-25-2023 04:24 PM
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Originally Posted by Did you just call me Coltrane? (Post 533687)
I've been in one court room since covid. Everything else has been over the phone or Zoom. I'm guessing billable hours have to be down for litigators because of this?
They are as shitty as they were before. Glad I got all those custom suits when I visited Bangkok in 2019.

LessinSF 02-27-2023 02:55 PM
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Originally Posted by Icky Thump (Post 533688)
They are as shitty as they were before. Glad I got all those custom suits when I visited Bangkok in 2019.
Billable hours will be the same, but my clients (insurance companies) got a windfall in not have to pay for travel to every bullshit status conference and Custodian of Records deposition.

Tyrone Slothrop 02-27-2023 07:43 PM
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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski (Post 533686)
So people (GGG elsewhere) are saying the Court has accepted a case that could over rule Griswold. But when I search for it I do not find anything. Help?
Pretty sure this Court doesn't need to accept a case. They can just issue a ruling sue sponte.

LessinSF 02-27-2023 08:04 PM
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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop (Post 533690)
Pretty sure this Court doesn't need to accept a case. They can just issue a ruling sue sponte.
Did you see this in Justice Kagan's majority decision in an otherwise boring Supreme Court decision (Helix Energy Solutions Group, Inc. v. Hewitt) last Wednesday?

Quote:
. . . Helix did not raise that argument in the courts below. Following our usual practice, we therefore decline to address its merits. See, e.g., Kingdomware Technologies, Inc. v. United States, 579 U. S. 162, 173 (2016); see post, at 2 (GORSUCH, J., dissenting) (agreeing that Helix "failed to raise" the argument, and also declining to express a view of its merits); but cf. post, at 4–5 (KAVANAUGH, J., dissenting) (recognizing that the argument may be forfeited, but opining on it anyway).
Ha!

Icky Thump 02-28-2023 06:46 PM
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Originally Posted by LessinSF (Post 533689)
Billable hours will be the same, but my clients (insurance companies) got a windfall in not have to pay for travel to every bullshit status conference and Custodian of Records deposition.
From 50 flights a year to two, and that's fine with me. Doing a Teams conference at 10:00 AM for Buffalo cases from your home office sure as shit beats traveling a day and a half to say "Everything is on schedule, your honor."

But of course one judge insists on in-person conferences because then you HAVE to listen to em talk about emself.

Tyrone Slothrop 02-28-2023 07:39 PM
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Originally Posted by LessinSF (Post 533691)
Did you see this in Justice Kagan's majority decision in an otherwise boring Supreme Court decision (Helix Energy Solutions Group, Inc. v. Hewitt) last Wednesday?

Ha!
I have had some interactions with her, and she is just awesome.

Replaced_Texan 02-28-2023 09:24 PM
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We lost PLF. I imagine the cause, though I thought he was doing well.

His wife posted on Instagram.

I’m really gutted.

ETA: The obituary said it was a cardiac event while skiing on Saturday, his last fuck you to cancer.

Did you just call me Coltrane? 03-01-2023 10:30 AM
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Originally Posted by Replaced_Texan (Post 533694)
We lost PLF. I imagine the cause, though I thought he was doing well.

His wife posted on Instagram.

I’m really gutted.

ETA: The obituary said it was a cardiac event while skiing on Saturday, his last fuck you to cancer.
Oh no. FUCK.

Adder 03-01-2023 11:06 AM
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Originally Posted by Replaced_Texan (Post 533694)
We lost PLF. I imagine the cause, though I thought he was doing well.

His wife posted on Instagram.

I’m really gutted.

ETA: The obituary said it was a cardiac event while skiing on Saturday, his last fuck you to cancer.
Oh no

Hank Chinaski 03-01-2023 11:47 AM
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Originally Posted by Replaced_Texan (Post 533694)
We lost PLF. I imagine the cause, though I thought he was doing well.

His wife posted on Instagram.

I’m really gutted.

ETA: The obituary said it was a cardiac event while skiing on Saturday, his last fuck you to cancer.
Made me laugh more than anyone else. And his IG was an inspiration. He lived big up to the end.

Oliver_Wendell_Ramone 03-01-2023 12:45 PM
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Originally Posted by Replaced_Texan (Post 533694)
We lost PLF. I imagine the cause, though I thought he was doing well.

His wife posted on Instagram.

I’m really gutted.

ETA: The obituary said it was a cardiac event while skiing on Saturday, his last fuck you to cancer.
Being minimally connected off-board, I didn't even know he was sick. Gut punch for sure. Fuck.

LessinSF 03-01-2023 01:36 PM
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Originally Posted by Oliver_Wendell_Ramone (Post 533698)
Being minimally connected off-board, I didn't even know he was sick. Gut punch for sure. Fuck.
I only met him once, be we got drunk and high together. Double fuck.

Tyrone Slothrop 03-01-2023 03:35 PM
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Oh no. That just sucks.

Replaced_Texan 03-01-2023 04:41 PM
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Originally Posted by Oliver_Wendell_Ramone (Post 533698)
Being minimally connected off-board, I didn't even know he was sick. Gut punch for sure. Fuck.
His Instagram for the last two years has been dedicated to his cancer and more importantly, his utter refusal to let it overwhelm him. Almost every post had a #fucancer tag attached. About a year ago, he got cleared to go back on the trails, and he's been biking and doing what he loves ever since. As recently as January, his numbers from the oncologist were doing really well. It was one of my favorite feeds to follow because it was so full of life and someone doing what he clearly loved. And it was beautiful. He took great photos that really captured the natural beauty around him. And many of the pictures were action shots of the various bike trails he was on. It was hard to reconcile his illness with his absolute love of life. He'd posted in January that his numbers at the oncologist's office were doing great, and I (and I assume everyone else) had assumed that he was otherwise healthy.

I'll miss him a lot, even though we never managed to connect in real life. Once, he was going to come down to Houston for a depo, and we'd have drinks. But it got cancelled, and I never had cause to go up to Minnesota

Tyrone Slothrop 03-01-2023 04:55 PM
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Originally Posted by Replaced_Texan (Post 533701)
His Instagram for the last two years has been dedicated to his cancer and more importantly, his utter refusal to let it overwhelm him. Almost every post had a #fucancer tag attached. About a year ago, he got cleared to go back on the trails, and he's been biking and doing what he loves ever since. As recently as January, his numbers from the oncologist were doing really well. It was one of my favorite feeds to follow because it was so full of life and someone doing what he clearly loved. And it was beautiful. He took great photos that really captured the natural beauty around him. And many of the pictures were action shots of the various bike trails he was on. It was hard to reconcile his illness with his absolute love of life. He'd posted in January that his numbers at the oncologist's office were doing great, and I (and I assume everyone else) had assumed that he was otherwise healthy.

I'll miss him a lot, even though we never managed to connect in real life. Once, he was going to come down to Houston for a depo, and we'd have drinks. But it got cancelled, and I never had cause to go up to Minnesota
I had talked to him on the phone a few times, but like Ollie I did not know he was sick. I miss him already.

Did you just call me Coltrane? 03-01-2023 05:08 PM
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I had talked to him on the phone a few times, but like Ollie I did not know he was sick. I miss him already.
Same here.

I wish I could write like him.

SlaveNoMore 03-01-2023 06:41 PM
Pretty Little Flower
 
I just heard (thanks Less) and thank you Stina for getting my log-in back.

Just also spoke with my old Wonder-Twin Multo, who was good friends with him during her turn in MN.

Flower and I were certainly very friendly, but not as close like some of us here. Yet we would would invite each-other in town. To show how long this GA thing has gone down, we saw shows in both NYC and SF. Three or 4 by my count.

Godspeed, my friend.

-KJFB

Hank Chinaski 03-01-2023 06:49 PM
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Originally Posted by SlaveNoMore (Post 533704)
I just heard (thanks Less) and thank you Stina for getting my log-in back.

Just also spoke with my old Wonder-Twin Multo, who was good friends with him during her turn in MN.

Flower and I were certainly very friendly, but not as close like some of us here. Yet we would would invite each-other in town. To show how long this GA thing has gone down, we saw shows in both NYC and SF. Three or 4 by my count.

Godspeed, my friend.

-KJFB
Stick around?

I’ve been trying to think who else does not seem to be on IG or here? Atticus is all I can think of. He is my FB friend so I told him.


I had a matter in Minneapolis a few years back. We were supposed to meet one night but then he had some driving kid to Bball practice cone up.

Icky Thump 03-01-2023 08:26 PM
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Originally Posted by Replaced_Texan (Post 533694)
We lost PLF. I imagine the cause, though I thought he was doing well.

His wife posted on Instagram.

I’m really gutted.

ETA: The obituary said it was a cardiac event while skiing on Saturday, his last fuck you to cancer.
Jesus. I am so sorry for everyone involved.

Everybody be very fucking careful and get on blood thinners.

Hank Chinaski 03-01-2023 10:26 PM
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Originally Posted by Icky Thump (Post 533706)
Jesus. I am so sorry for everyone involved.

Everybody be very fucking careful and get on blood thinners.
You run daily, I do. Why blood thinners?

LessinSF 03-01-2023 11:19 PM
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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski (Post 533707)
You run daily, I do. Why blood thinners?
I'll take the baby asprin and pass on the running. Jim Fixx died of a heart attack at age 52 while running.

Icky Thump 03-02-2023 09:20 PM
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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski (Post 533707)
You run daily, I do. Why blood thinners?
Clots. Covid. Read up on Sage Canady.

Icky Thump 03-02-2023 09:22 PM
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Originally Posted by LessinSF (Post 533708)
I'll take the baby asprin and pass on the running. Jim Fixx died of a heart attack at age 52 while running.
This one guy died 40 years ago of undetected coronary artery disease but all nonrunners say that. And “You’ll hurt your knees”.

LessinSF 03-03-2023 12:13 PM
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Originally Posted by Icky Thump (Post 533710)
This one guy died 40 years ago of undetected coronary artery disease but all nonrunners say that. And “You’ll hurt your knees”.
Well, he is not "just one guy" when it comes to running in the Us. As for the other, my knees already hurt, so I spared myself the running and still achieved the same result, so bonus for me!

Tyrone Slothrop 03-03-2023 02:14 PM
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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski (Post 533707)
You run daily, I do. Why blood thinners?
I so miss running. My wife convinced me to stop because of the chronic heel pain it was causing -- I want to be walking decades from now. But I really miss it.

Icky Thump 03-03-2023 04:06 PM
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Originally Posted by LessinSF (Post 533711)
Well, he is not "just one guy" when it comes to running in the Us. As for the other, my knees already hurt, so I spared myself the running and still achieved the same result, so bonus for me!
Funny story. I had knee pain in 2018. Went to an ortho. He said I’d never run again but elliptical and bike would be fine. I did both. Knee hurt worse.

One day I decided, I was going to run. Five miles in it stopped hurting. 1012 straight days of running nearly 6k miles (with no elliptical and little bike) it’s been great. The only times it hurts is when I sit with my knees higher than my butt.

Did you just call me Coltrane? 03-03-2023 06:01 PM
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Originally Posted by Icky Thump (Post 533713)
Funny story. I had knee pain in 2018. Went to an ortho. He said I’d never run again but elliptical and bike would be fine. I did both. Knee hurt worse.

One day I decided, I was going to run. Five miles in it stopped hurting. 1012 straight days of running nearly 6k miles (with no elliptical and little bike) it’s been great. The only times it hurts is when I sit with my knees higher than my butt.
I had my knee surgically repaired in 1992 and the only time it hurts is when I'm on a chairlift that doesn't have a footrest.


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