Electrode
Electrode
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Old movies you've only seen recently...
My favorite underrated movies starring Elliott Gould are "The Silent Partner" and "Little Murders".
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Which popular 90's sample cd Crazy Town-Revolving Door guitar riff came from? LA RIOT?
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I know what the world's best job is
The Stooge reminds me of the "jobber" of the old professional wrestling days. He's the guy who probably answered a newspaper ad looking for some schlub to step in the ring, lose as the script dictates, make the opponent appear powerful and collect a quick paycheck. Yet this gig turns into another. Eventually he proves himself to be a reliable fall guy in the local circuit, enough to move up the ladder. Then he hits the big time: a Sunday morning WWF taping.
"And right here's a promising young man, Nate Harrison, from Kellogg, Idaho". The bell rings and he and Rick Rude exchange light open-fisted punches and Irish whip each other into the ropes. Then he forgets the choreography. He flips over when he's not supposed to and doesn't "sell" the body slams. So the Ravishing One decides to work him over for real this time as punishment. He throws him into the turnbuckles hard, kicks him square in his flabby gut and gives him a stiff Rude Awakening with the color commentary encouragement of Gorilla Monsoon at ringside. Not enough to put him in a wheelchair for the rest of his life, but he feels it for a week whenever he turns his head before making a left turn in his car. One, two, three. The poor sap clutches his neck and waddles away to the locker room as the show cuts to a cereal commercial. All for a week's worth of groceries.
Not an ideal career path but when I was a kid I wondered how those guys made a living.
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Recent Finds
Nice little jazz haul.
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T3h C0Vids
I've never caught it and I do what I can to keep it that way. Aside from the usual precautions, I take multivitamins and drink almost a gallon of water a day. Perhaps my regular consumption of hot sauce strong enough to strip paint and the fact that I rarely get sick with anything works in my favor. My social circle is small, I live alone and my warehouse job; which has stayed open and maintains steady business, thankfully, keeps me away from the other six people who work there. Also, the lazy ass, chronically unhealthy coworker who occupied the same office room as mine has been gone since March. He uses the virus as an excuse to collect a paycheck "working from home", giving me the freedom to listen to whatever I want as loud as I want. I too have been taking advantage of the free testing in Los Angeles.
However, the owners of the company, a 90-something married couple, tested positive the weekend before last. They also have been staying home since the beginning of the year. According to the grandson who works with me, he says that they're "doing fine", whatever that means exactly. Apparently, they most likely caught it from their physical therapist, who tested positive, yet the dumbshit wasn't in a rush to let them know. The husband supposedly overcame not only pneumonia but prostate cancer as well a few years ago. I'm amazed that he's still alive.
No one in my remaining family has had it. However, a few of my mother's coworkers (slightly larger company which employs HVAC repairmen and contractors who go to and from job sites) had/have it with moderate symptoms, so it worries her. She's a strict vegan and very healthy, but she rightly fears giving it to her husband, who has emphysema. Their neighbor, who previously was a denier, has a son in his early 30s who caught it in early summer. He used to install alarms and audio/visual equipment in other people's homes.
Hoping the best for everyone!
