Seems like I’ve been gone for a week after visiting The Land of The Buckeyes and The Bearcats. It was pure time travel for me, and I’m still reeling from the odd foggy familiarity of places and people that I hadn’t seen in many decades.
Last Wednesday I was signing some legalwork, and asked what the date was. One person remembered that it was Pearl Harbor Day, while his assistant clarified that it was also Johnny Bench’s birthday. JB and Pete Rose are still revered as Sub-Gods in that region (under Woody Hayes, Sparky Anderson and Paul Brown, of course). But none of that has anything to do with this post.
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Someone we all know and love has discounted one of the most popular calendars of all time, and there are hundreds stacked up in the corner of his bedroom available for a small percentage of the original price. The percentage is so low, he’s willing to pay someone to take them off his hands. I think we’ve stumbled upon a great bargain.
The Web’s worst high-functioning autistic photographer, Charles Foster Johnson, has made it possible for you, yes you, you lucky sod to actually stare at his vacant snapshots for an entire year. Yes, lucky dogs, it’s Little Green Footballs – The LGF 2010 Photo Calendar!!!!!
“Now available at Lulu.com in time for Christmas and the New Year — the Little Green Footballs 2010 Calendar, featuring 13 beautiful high resolution versions of photographs I’ve posted at LGF. It’s $24.99, Lulu.com handles all the printing and shipping, I get 10 bucks, and they get the difference. Not a bad deal for all involved.”
“Not a bad deal…” if you favor pedestrian snapshots of flat color, a personal world that is utterly bereft of any human face, or snapshots chilled in the crippled sensibility of a person who has “the brain of a bass player” and the eye of an albino cave-dwelling newt.
[Commentary and snapshot above courtesy American Digest.]
I took the liberty of copying the image (with the cryptic title “October 2010″) and enlarging it a bit, just to help another fellow blogger sell outdated calendars with bland uninspired amateur photographs on The Overnight Open Thread.
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welcome back bunk.
@ coldwarrior:
Great to be back. Thanks. Rough week, ya know.
Bunk X wrote:
i can imagine.
everything go as OK as can be expected?
I missed the “swim in poo ” post by THAT much: Dubai sanitation
{{{BUNK}}}
And, the world is right again.
@ Calo:
I really did clean up the cat stuff behind the couch last week, but last nite I forgot to lock the trapdoor.
I’ll vacuum up the mess again. Sigh.
@ Calo:
I thought you stole cats, not clean up after them.
/mmm, steak
Zimriel wrote:
that was my best attempt at OOT writing.
@ coldwarrior:
Everything went smoothly, and aside from the expected throat-lumps and tears, it was fun, given the circumstances. There was laughter, and that’s the way Mom would have wanted it.
Didn’t have to deal with The BiggestAssholeI’veEverMet, because he didn’t show. (That means I didn’t have to spend time in jail for putting him in the hospital.)
Calo wrote:
that trap door is a real problem.
Calo wrote:
Lotta stuff got resolved. I’m not interested in relaying all the behind the scenes crap, but it all went better than I expected. Could have been a lot worse.
Hey Bunk! Welcome back.
This message is for anyone here who plays BSG Online. I need some help…Krypter Krypter Krypter!
@ Bunk X:
a smooth funeral with some laughs and no jail is a fine thing.
@ Calo:
Some of that stuff has been around so long it’s calcified. You’ll never chip it off.
@ Macker:
Muchisimas Grassyass.
@ Bunk X:
Yep…The Bunkster is back!
@ coldwarrior:
It wasn’t a funeral, just a gathering of a few relatives and friends of the family. There were people who showed up that I hadn’t seen since I was a kid. The stories were great, especially after an informal reception in my mom’s kitchen.
*sneaks in, runs up to Bunk and dry humps his leg*
Welcome back Uncle Bunkey!
*Gone….*
Macker wrote:
Bunk X wrote:
you were in the queen city? didya get some skyline?
Mongoose wrote:
Warning: I’m not getting this nice blue dress drycleaned.
@ coldwarrior:
That was on my mind driving in from the airport. Didn’t get to it.
Just 3 more days of ‘transition’, then we’re on our on with this new project. And, as of Thurs, I get a small raise. Percentage wise, it’s great, value wise, it’s still pretty sad, but it IS a job. Must find something that pays about 70% more though, to help my better half pay the bills.
In other news, our pastor is leaving us soon, so we’ll be starting the process of finding a new leader for our church. Prayers would be appreciated.
God bless, all, and have a great week. See ya’ tomorrow.
Bunk X wrote:
too bad, hell, i eat the stuff here in pgh its so damned good.
(our local supermarket carries it in frozen)
mfhorn wrote:
Absolutely. Our pastor has taken a call elsewhere and we are in the process of calling a replacement. All the best to you.
@ AZfederalist:
We’ve been very lucky. He’s been with us almost 10 years and just about tripled the number of people attending. I’ve been a part of the church since the beginning, and it’s been a rough ride sometimes. My hope is he’ll be able to do for another church what he did for us, and that our next leader will be able to triple our numbers again, and help us reach more people for Him!
barns
@ coldwarrior:
I’d asked my sister to wake me up, since I was still on PST. Instead of opening the door and saying “Bunk, get your ass out of bed,” she quietly came in and tapped me on the shoulder.
I awoke with a start, and kicked my foot into a plaster wall.
The big toe’s not broken, but I’m gimpy.
@ Bunk X:
jet lag. its harder flying against the sun than it is going west
@ coldwarrior:
Never get the canned stuff. The frozen stuff is good.
Bunk X wrote:
i figured that. we can get the spice packets and make our own as well.
but it aint better than the source.
@ coldwarrior:
First morning in, I stepped outside to inhale some potential carcinogens. A large doe came trotting across the lawn, stopped and spotted me. I stood still, whistled at her a couple of times, and she came within 10 feet. Grunted twice at me.
So I shot her.
Okay, everything is true except for the last sentence. Magnificent animals.
@ Bunk X:
HA!
that’s the standard morning up where my parent live.
no one actually goes OUT to deer hunt!
Out of here for the night.
@ coldwarrior:
The deer are a relatively recent addition, as the area is a suburb NE of Cincinnati. I missed the action, but my sister spotted a 6-8 pointer going after a doe. Stirred up the squirrels, and I heard them on the roof mocking and trash-talking the deer below.
It was a great place to grow up. Our house abutted some woods that weren’t too deep to get lost in, but deep enough to hide in when we knew we were in trouble.
Bunk X wrote:
sounds like where i grew up.
coldwarrior wrote:
It was, and we couldn’t stand each other back then.
Bunk X wrote:
that was YOU!
coldwarrior wrote:
Yeah. That was me.
@ Bunk X:
Please accept my condolences, Bunk. First I’ve heard of it.
@ Alberta Oil Peon:
Things could have been a lot worse. I can’t think of a worse way to pass on than sitting in a wheelchair staring at a blank TV screen.
A comfy 19 degrees F in the lower Shenandoah this morning. I think I better get off my ass and go get a Christmas tree today or tomorrow.
@ Mike C.:
All I want for Christmas is a new neck.
@ lobo91:
You can have mine, but I’m not certain there would be any advantage to that.
Good morning. Tim Tebow continues winning & praising
God.
His overtime defeat of the Bears yesterday was really
improbable & heads exploded.
@ Mike C.:
I wasn’t sure I was going to make it to lunch today.
@ lobo91:
Does sound like a bummer…
Hey everybody!
He couldn’t pay me to take those off his hands, lol.
@ Mike C.:
One good thing about the collar is that I can sleep on the bus now and my head doesn’t fall forward.
So far, that’s about all I can say for it.
@ lobo91:
Maybe I should get one for airplane travel, then.
Mike C. wrote:
I do hope that I’m not wearing it when it gets hot again, though. I imagine that it’ll be uncomfortable then.
You mean $24.99 is a discount? How the hell much was he charging for that crap before?
You can go to Big Lots or Ollie’s Wholesale all day long and buy good calendars for 5 bucks or under.
GOOD calendars.
@ lobo91:
I wore a long-sleeve shirt and a tie to the office my entire time in Qatar.
Morning all
Every time I even see bits and pieces of obama on tv I want to reach in and smack his arrogant face. And he looked particularly arrogant on CBS the last night.
@ Nevergiveup:
He had his Arrogance turned up to 11. Yes, his arrogance goes to 11!
@ Iron Fist:
Yeah -- on a logarithmic scale…
@ Mike C.:
This is like wearing a thick scarf, though.