Thursday, August 13, 2026

Let's go fishing they said. It'll be fun, they said...

An octopus clamped its arms onto a fisherman’s face forcing him to club the creature in a bizarre battle. Angler Jesser Cervantes was fishing off Puerto Princesa Island in Palawan, the Philippines, when he reeled in the feisty sea creature.
Video  footage appears to shows the fisherman sitting in a small wooden dinghy as he desperately tries to prise the writhing octopus from his face on July 10. The clip shows the determined creature spreading itself around his head, with its powerful suckers gripping skin. At one point the eight-armed beast can be seen latching onto the fisherman’s mouth gluing it shut. The clip shows Cervantes frantically trying to peel away the gripping discs one by one.
 

The one thing this story doesn't get around to telling us is - who took the friggin' video, and why didn't the video taker dude help his buddy out? 
Ahh, with friends like that...

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Okay - flashback time. When comic books didn't cost six dollars...

Need a return to the days when the newest issue of Fantastic Four 
or Archie and Jughead came out - and you'd run to the corner store? Here a gift for you...
 
The ComicBooks.com Reading Room is a free online library of old comics that you read in your browser, one deep-zoomable page at a time. Open Culture pointed to it this week. The counter on the front page listed 20,109 books. The site promises "No login, no paywall, no catch."
The site sorts everything by genre, publisher, and decade. Romance is the largest genre with 3,590 books, ahead of westerns (2,648), funny animals (2,225), and humor (2,094). Horror has 748. The 1950s account for 9,858 of the books and the 1940s for another 6,243, so most of the library dates from before 1960.
The site says it runs every raw scan through descreening, AI upscaling, and color cleanup before it publishes the scan. It also says it hosts every page on its own servers. The site deliberately leaves out characters that are still licensed. The shelves hold Cat-Man, Skyman, and Bulletman. The reading room has no Batman and no Superman. Thanks to boingboing.net for the headsup.

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Freezing your assets and other stuff...

After rumors circulated that she had split with her boyfriend, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez posted a video explaining how she had actually frozen him just in case she might still want him in the future. "I'm doing this to keep my options open," said AOC, happily surveying the block of ice containing ex-boyfriend Riley Roberts. "As a working woman and someone who has given her life to serving the public, I have very little time right now for personal life stuff. In a few years when things calm down, I might want to get back together with him, who knows? This will keep him safe in the meantime."
Roberts will reportedly be held in a freezer for at least the next decade, pending any further decision from AOC on his relational viability.
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Mystery plane spotted in Kansas sparks rumors it could be America’s new, top secret $700M bomber?
A mysterious aircraft was spotted flying over the McConnell Air Force Base, in Kansas, with observers speculating that it could have been a rare sighting of America’s top secret stealth bomber, the B-21 Raider.
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I got up at about 4:00am this morning to do 'something' and figured as long as I'm up I should go outside and check out the sky. My timing was perfect for the height of the meteor shower. Threw on a bathrobe, grabbed a coke outta the fridge and my smokes from the counter and went outside in the back of the house where the golf course is, figuring the light pollution would be the least there. 
Lit a smoke and looked up in to... absolutely nothing. I couldn't see a fucking thing - not even a star or Venus or nothing. No moon, nada. Jet black friggin' sky - complete cloud cover. Fuck it. Stomped out my smoke, went in and went back  to bed. I hate when that shit happens...
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A new social media trend where fishermen have been seen luring sharks toward New Jersey beaches to pose for photos has sparked fears it could lead to an attack.

Bay Head Mayor Bill Curtis raised concerns after videos emerged showing anglers catching large sharks close to shore, including one group that hauled an eight-foot bull shark onto the beach for pictures
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A powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck western Colombia with its epicenter near San José del Palmar in the Chocó region, killing over 250 people, injuring thousands, and leaving thousands more missing. 
President Abelardo de la Espriella declared a national disaster as rescue operations and international aid efforts continue. The epicenter was near San José del Palmar, Chocó region, impacting the coffee axis and major cities like Cali and So far, over 250 confirmed dead, nearly 2,600 injured, and over 1,600 buildings damaged or collapsed.
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Gets back to that old 'What did he know and when did he know it' kinda thing. If he did know the problems, the motherfucker deserves to be firing squaded.
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A simple shed...

 
This old abandoned sheep herders shed sits beside my brother TJ's cottage up in Donegal. He surmised that the previous owners of the house - an older, widowed woman who raised four special-needs kids in what was a two room shack - had started to dismantle it to use the stones for a partial wall that stood in the rear of the property. When TJ remodelled the cottage he used those wall stones as decorative facing on the entrance. This is how the old shed stands to this day...

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Wednesday, August 12, 2026

That's it for today - it's poker night...

 
As in 'Yeah, I'd poker...'
Seriously Poker, beer, buds. Life is good.
See y'all tomorrow...

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Someone must have a birthday 
or anniversary coming up.
Here's a great gift idea...
 
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The new 'Breed' - or just a bunch of punks?

 
Just the first four words of that headline are enough to make a true bad-ass biker hurl his Cheerios. According tho this report. a 'vicious' gang of e-bike thugs threw rocks at drivers on a busy roadway in the Sacramento area as public officials seek to curb the growing menace.
“This is what the kids are doing here, throwing rocks,” the woman can be heard saying on the video shared by KCRA. Elk Grove resident Karen Vethekar told the outlet that gangs of wild riders have repeatedly targeted her in the neighborhood. “They feel invincible, invincible like most kids do and young adults,” Vethekar said. A gang of 'e-bike ruffians' followed Vethekar home from a local park, she said, with frightening home surveillance shows riders gathered outside her home.
 

Enough. They're a bunch of little punk kids who probably never got their asses kicked in a school-yard scrap. Find out who they are, confiscate the bikes and then beat the fuckin' snot out of the kids - and their parents. That's what woulda happened in my old neighborhood back in the day. Has nobody got any balls anymore? They're bratty little kids. Treat 'em as such. Enough...

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I like tough. This is tough.


 See it for yourself - this is similar 
to a KA BAR at half the price.
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Hats off for this mysterious HillBetty...





A great pair of jeans for under $ 18.00 bucks?
And they're great pants, too. Go figure.

Rustler makes a great pair of pants for a ridiculously low price. 
See for yourself - there's plenty of styles and sizes 
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Some people just shouldn't be parents. We all know that...

A parent who was scrolling on her phone at a Maine beach allowed her baby to wander off unsupervised, prompting a stern warning from authorities. At Mother's Beach (of all places, huh?) in the coastal town of Kennebunkport on Monday, a child briefly went missing while their parental unit was distracted by watching TikTok videos on their phone, according to an announcement from Kennebunk Fire-Rescue posted on Facebook. 
The fire department, which did not name the 'caregiver' and child said that the child was reunited with their parent after authorities located the youngster in 'a completely different beach area.' 
What happened when the child was returned to their parent clearly frustrated authorities. 'After the child was safely reunited with the mother, our personnel observed her immediately return their attention to their phone,' Kennebunk Fire-Rescue said. 
 

  'A stern warning was given regarding the seriousness of what had occurred and the caregiver’s responsibility to actively supervise the child,' the department added. The department took the opportunity to share a reminder with parents: 'Phones down. Eyes up. Know where your children are at all times.'  
Seems simple enough, doesn't it?

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or anniversary coming up.
Here's a great gift idea...
 
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Everybody loves summer, don't we?




These are the same ones I have in my kitchen.



Let's play a game of 'Name that tool' with AOC...

Speculation is swirling over whether Democrat 'darling' Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has quietly split with her longtime beau Riley Roberts - following her public announcement this week that she was freezing her eggs to feel “more in control of my life.”
The “Squad” star, 36, who got engaged to Roberts in April 2022, has been spotted in recent months without her engagement ring and it was noticeably absent in May when the pair was photographed together at a Manhattan burger joint. She also carefully chose her words when asked this week by a reporter about her choice to freeze her eggs and whether her “fiancé was supportive of it.” “All of my loved ones have been very supportive,” she said.
Breakup rumors have spread among the Democrat party, with more than a few insiders speculating that they split because of her ambitions to seek higher office. He thinks she might get elected, and he doesn't want to be 'First Gentleman'. That has to be it. Hey - hopefully the guy got to play with those cans before gravity kicks in. 
Juss' sayin'...

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These are seriously 
comfortable pants. 
 

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Let's go back to the 9th century, they said. It'll be fun, they said...

Talk about 'Little dick syndrome'... Can anyone tell me why these people are the way they are?  Five years after Joe Biden allowed the Taliban to 'reclaim' Afghanistan, 2.4 million girls remain locked out of secondary school, wiping away decades of progress and leaving a generation of young women without access to the classroom.
Afghanistan is now the only country in the world that formally prohibits girls and women from receiving an education beyond the primary level, according to UNESCO, which issued a new call Tuesday for the “immediate and unconditional” restoration of their right to education.
The only way this makes sense is if  the Cooran tells men to keep their women folk 'young, dumb and full of cum'. There is no other way to explain the absolute subjugation of women, some of whom would be killed just for showing their faces. I mean, damn, they may be ugly, but that's a bit harsh, isn't it? Juss' sayin'...

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It's lightning season, that's for sure...

 
A golfer in Ohio is lucky to be alive after he unknowingly recorded the wild-ass friggin' moment he was struck by lightning last Friday. Chris Schiavone was golfing with his pals at the Pebble Creek Golf Course near Cincinnati when a thunderstorm rolled through the region and caused the group’s golf cart to get stuck in the muddy conditions.
Schiavone had pulled out his phone to film his buddies struggling to free their bogged buggy. But he ended up capturing the moment a lightning bolt hit his arm and knocked him to the ground. Following the strike, Schiavone said he temporarily lost feeling throughout his body and his hearing was impacted.
Schiavone posted the now-viral video of the harrowing strike to social media, which has amassed over over two million views amid a barrage of criticism. “1 in 1,000,000 they say,” Schiavone wrote, adding that he is “very lucky and blessed” to be alive after that crazy shit. He said "I just wanted to goof on my buds when they were stuck in the mud. What the fuck, man?".
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If you work hard for 35 or 40 years, you may end up getting, on average, less that $ 1,850.00 per month from Social Security.
A Mexican - or some kinda gang banger - sneaks in to our country and was receiving nearly $ 3,850.00 a month - including free, secure housing - in benefits. Tell me how that makes sense, Mr. Biden. That is, if you can still form a sentence any more. I'll wait over here...
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Sure - fuck around with AI they said. It'll be fun they said. It's fuckin' creepy, dude. I sent ChatGPT one of my profile pics from Facebook - the one on the left -  and asked it to make me a bobblehead. It gave me the one on the right. 
Coupla things worth nothing. It captured the shirt, the hair and the goofy toothy smile okay, but somehow, it put a drink in my hand and changed the hat I had on. And the hat it changed it to is a hat that I own, but obviously not on my head in the original pic. 
How the fuck did it know that? Tell me again that shit ain't fuckin' creepy. I'll be over here with some weird-ass fuckin' green girlie drink in my hand...
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And you wonder why they endure what they do to get here?
 
This is an award-winning photograph by Belgian photographer Alice Smeets, shot in the impoverished Cité Soleil slum of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. This powerful image won the prestigious UNICEF Photo of the Year Award in 2008.
It depicts a young girl wading through polluted standing water and debris alongside pigs in Cité Soleil, one of the largest and most densely populated slums in the Western Hemisphere.
The photographer sought to document the stark reality of extreme urban poverty while highlighting the resilience, dignity, and spirit of the children living within these challenging conditions.
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It's cute but I don't quite get it...
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Tonight's the night. If you're up in the Northeast, 
you should have a pretty spectacular sky tonight.
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Growing up as I did - in a big city, and not having a new bicycle of my own until I was around 20 - it may not be the same with you than it was with me. Every bike I ever had either came as a hand-me-down or came from the NPD's impound of stolen shit that my Father woulda got for me at work.
If I knew a kid who had a bike like this, the kid was 100% guaranteed to be a complete jerkoff, my parents wouldn'ta liked his parents, and the kid probably woulda grew up to be gay. Juss' sayin'...
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Someone must have a birthday 
or anniversary coming up.
Here's a great gift idea...
 
Click on the picture for more information on this lovely bracelet
It's only $ 30.00 - and it comes to you with free shipping!
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When you buy anything on Amazon going from a link
on this blog, I get credit for whatever you buy. 
Granted, it's only pennies, but every penny helps, right?
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Yeah - we make fun of the Dimocrats - maybe because they're such easy targets, but hey, the Republicans really aren't that far behind 'em. Having the President and the majorities in both the House and the Senate and these limp-wristed, do nothing motherfuckers can't get shit done? Almost make ya wanna lose faith in the system or something, don't it?
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Let's go fishing they said. It'll be fun, they said...

An octopus clamped its arms onto a fisherman’s face forcing him to club the creature in a bizarre battle. Angler Jesser Cervantes was fishin...