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Since the SC decision, It's about the only thing that controls my frustration/anger.
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I’ve been stripping and refinishing some fine Stickley solid Cherry furniture. Friend inherited the pieces. Didn’t want them. Gave them to me. Had the ugliest custom finish I’ve ever seen. Gross. I know the product and the Stickley construction is top drawer and it’s the finest select cherry wood. I use a boiled linseed oil mineral spirits mix for the finish. Put the first application on the console table. The wood just pops. Another 4 To 5 applications over the next few weeks and the finish depth will a natural soft lustre.
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Bludogdem wrote: Fri Jul 01, 2022 11:44 pm I’ve been stripping and refinishing some fine Stickley solid Cherry furniture. Friend inherited the pieces. Didn’t want them. Gave them to me. Had the ugliest custom finish I’ve ever seen. Gross. I know the product and the Stickley construction is top drawer and it’s the finest select cherry wood. I use a boiled linseed oil mineral spirits mix for the finish. Put the first application on the console table. The wood just pops. Another 4 To 5 applications over the next few weeks and the finish depth will a natural soft lustre.
In the late 70s, a young married couple I was friends with bought a dinning room table for about $25 bucks. It was painted with an ugly color so they decided to strip it and refinish it. Once they started stripping it the realized it was a solid oak table. By the time they finished they had a beautiful, expensive table.
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bradman wrote: Fri Jul 01, 2022 10:02 pm Since the SC decision, It's about the only thing that controls my frustration/anger.
Since COVID began, I'll only rode a couple of times. I need to get back on the bike and start riding again, too. I think I'll work tune up my bike on Saturday and maybe plan a 10-mile ride for Sunday morning and then ride every other day until I get back to my 25- and 30 mile rides.
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While people on the left were wringing their hands and pissing and moaning about SCOTUS rulings I took one of my daughters and grandsons on vacation. Went to Soaky Mountain in Seiverville TN, white water rafting, to Smokey Mountain National Park and played semi-high stakes poker against professional player for 3 nights. [ up $250 after 3 nights]
My point being is the only thing you can do is vote against those who you oppose. If you let these rulings really upset your life you are literally wasting time. Again literally we all have an expiration date and should not let scotus ruin even one day. Work against them, vote against them if that is your choice but, do not let them wreck your day or effect your mood.
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Ain't gonna catch me ridin' dirty.

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Number6 wrote: Fri Jul 01, 2022 11:50 pm Since COVID began, I'll only rode a couple of times. I need to get back on the bike and start riding again, too. I think I'll work tune up my bike on Saturday and maybe plan a 10-mile ride for Sunday morning and then ride every other day until I get back to my 25- and 30 mile rides.
It helps 6, it really does.

We added 2 more riders to our little group. There's 8 of us now. We'll take off with no particular place to go. To forget about life for awhile. It helps recharge the batteries. If it wasn't for that and family, i probably would have gone nuts by now.
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bradman wrote: Sat Jul 02, 2022 10:54 am It helps 6, it really does.

We added 2 more riders to our little group. There's 8 of us now. We'll take off with no particular place to go. To forget about life for awhile. It helps recharge the batteries. If it wasn't for that and family, i probably would have gone nuts by now.
I understand the allure of riding motorcycles but it has never appealed to me. Too many idiots on the road. I'd feel safer racing motocross than navigating a motorcycle through heavy traffic.

Two stops you need to make on the way to Sturgis.

1-rest area at Chamberlain with the Lewis and Clark info center and the Dignity statue.

2-Delta-09 Missile Silo site near Wall. An up close look at cold war era engineering is absolutely fascinating. Plan in advance for this one or you might not be able to get on the tour.

https://www.nps.gov/mimi/planyourvisit/index.htm
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Glennfs wrote: Sat Jul 02, 2022 8:00 am While people on the left were wringing their hands and pissing and moaning about SCOTUS rulings I took one of my daughters and grandsons on vacation. Went to Soaky Mountain in Seiverville TN, white water rafting, to Smokey Mountain National Park and played semi-high stakes poker against professional player for 3 nights. [ up $250 after 3 nights]
My point being is the only thing you can do is vote against those who you oppose. If you let these rulings really upset your life you are literally wasting time. Again literally we all have an expiration date and should not let scotus ruin even one day. Work against them, vote against them if that is your choice but, do not let them wreck your day or effect your mood.
Tell that to the people this actually effects. They can't ignore this.

The problem is, you can't experience any empathy for others. You see everything from your own rose-colored glasses. You manufacture far more outrage over a law in California that doesn't effect you in any way.
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what kind of shithole country forces a ten-year-old child to give birth. seriously, how in actual fuck have we as a nation gone so far off the rails
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Glennfs wrote: Sat Jul 02, 2022 8:00 am While people on the left were wringing their hands and pissing and moaning about SCOTUS rulings I took one of my daughters and grandsons on vacation. Went to Soaky Mountain in Seiverville TN, white water rafting, to Smokey Mountain National Park and played semi-high stakes poker against professional player for 3 nights. [ up $250 after 3 nights]
My point being is the only thing you can do is vote against those who you oppose. If you let these rulings really upset your life you are literally wasting time. Again literally we all have an expiration date and should not let scotus ruin even one day. Work against them, vote against them if that is your choice but, do not let them wreck your day or effect your mood.
i'm retired. Every day is a vacation.

We rented 4 cabins and one camper spot for Sturgis this year. 14 people in all.

Last year was a blast. The Trump train put on quite the show. It was the second time i witnessed it. The coach bus had a fancy paint job with the flag, eagle, Trumps face and the year he lost the election plastered on it. Same bus last year, only the date was missing. It was my son and me that spotted it while coming into Deadwood somewhere around 10 in the morning last year. There shouldn't have been a traffic jam coming down into Deadwood that time of the morning. It wasn't until we came around the last corner that we found out why. There was the Trump train in all it's glory. It had 3 guys on the roof. 2 holding a huge banner that read," Sidney Powell appearing at 12:00," and the other with a bullhorn blabbering on about the virtue of the whole thing. We meandered down a ways from the crowd and found a nice quite place to grab a bite to eat. Part way thru the meal a group of senior's from the Trump train sat down at a table close to us and started going on about Powell's arrival. i couldn't help it, never can. i asked them if they were having fun and received the first kick in the shins from under the table. My son knew what i was trying to do. They went on about how much fun they were having. For my shins sake i thought i'd let it go at that. i couldn't help it. i threw in again...So, Powell thinks the election was stolen? Another kick in the shins. i let the senior's go on about voting irregularities for awhile and was ready for the next question when i received a pre-emptive kick in the shins. Looking at my kid a mumbled under my breath, you're no fun. Since it was his first year there i relented. But just couldn't help a parting shot. After turning in my chair to protect my shins, i raised my fist in the air and gave a firm, "Release the kracken." The senior's were clueless. To funny. It was while exiting the establishment to check out the town a bit that my kid wanted to hook a right and me a left. He knew. i wanted to check out the Trump train crowd. He threatened to raise the stakes and the elevation of the kick. i relented. We hooked a right. It after some shmoozing that we crossed the road and headed back the other way. The ground rules had been set. i had to stand outside the crowd, i couldn't get into a conversation with any of them, and i had to leave after no more than 5 minutes. It was quite the show. It was a Q get together. It was like they were in their own little world. The tap on my shoulder meant my time was up. Again, i couldn't help it. i let out a loud "Release the kracken"! From the sound of the cheers that came up it seems were a few in that crowd that got it this time around. It was only a few Trump fans on the outskirts by me that heard my next words. Stupid fuckers. Little did i know at the time, the Trump train wasn't done with me.

It was about 6:00 that evening that we were headed back to the cabin which was at the top of the hill on 16 outside of Rapid city. The 16 city bypass is miles long with rolling hills. It was after cresting a hill that, low and behold, there was the Trump train just in front of me. Since trucks and busses have a problem chugging back up the hills i soon found myself along side of him. It was about the time we reached a intersection with a bunch of Trump waving people went nuts over the picture of Trump. The bus driver hit the horn which sound more like a train horn. It was startling. So i hit the gas while flipping the driver off. He hit the horn again. i didn't think much more of it until i happened to look in my rear view. It looked like he was gaining ground when he shouldn't have been. Naaaa....couldn't be. It was after cresting the next hill that i thought he'd fall back. Nope he popped over the hill way sooner than he should have, and since it was on the down side, he was gaining fast. No problem. i upped it to 5 over the speed limit figuring i'd gain ground on the up slope. Nope. The trump train wanted my ass. He had that bus wrapped tight and was still gaining ground. Since my last speeding ticket was at the age of 25, i backed off. It was just before the top of the next hill that he pulled over into the left lane for the pass. He's on the down hill side and can do it. Problem was, the idiot was so set on showing me that he lost all perspective on the goings on around him. He didn't see that the 3 cars in front of him had started applying their brakes. What he didn't see was the intersection at the bottom of the hill. There were 3 cars packed in the median crossing with a pickup that was also trying to get in. No room. His ass end was sticking half way out into the left lane. Luckily, the car in front of me had his shit together. He shot off taking the shoulder which allowed one of the cars in front of the bus to take the right lane. i quick backed off which brought the bus right along side of me with his horn just a blasting now. Backing off harder and taking the shoulder allowed another car into the right lane. That's about the time he noticed his fuck up. The SUV in front of him now had his brakes locked up. The bus driver responded in kind. i was now on the shoulder slowing fast in the hopes both of them would take the right lane. They had the room but didn't take it. From there it kind happened in slow motion. i'm on the shoulder, the bus has them locked up, i see the space he has left, it doesn't look good. i shot past and kept an eye in the rear view. No bouncing vehicles and it looked like they'd finally come to a complete stop. It was only when i reached the camp ground at the top of the hill that the kid showed up. He saw what was going on and had backed off putting good distance between him and the show. He arrived at the intersection just after the bus finally cam to a complete stop. He said there wasn't but a couple inches between the front of the bus and the rear of the SUV. I should have been done with it. But.........i couldn't help myself. i did a u turn and parked my bike on the side by the stop sign, kicked back, and waited. The trump train eventually had go by. Sure enough. i can here a chugging bus coming up the last part of a steep hill. It's when he rounds the corner and see's me that the horn starts again. For the first time i get a good look at the bus driver. His lips are flapping a hundred miles an hour. i take my index finger on one hand, point it at him, and with the other index finger, i rub it across the top of the other one. Shame on you. i received the finger for my effort. It was about the time he was looking out his side door that i gave the next signal to him and the whole bus. A great big L right up to the forehead. Losers.

Now that was a vacation.
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Glennfs wrote: Sat Jul 02, 2022 8:00 am While people on the left were wringing their hands and pissing and moaning about SCOTUS rulings I took one of my daughters and grandsons on vacation. Went to Soaky Mountain in Seiverville TN, white water rafting, to Smokey Mountain National Park and played semi-high stakes poker against professional player for 3 nights. [ up $250 after 3 nights]
My point being is the only thing you can do is vote against those who you oppose. If you let these rulings really upset your life you are literally wasting time. Again literally we all have an expiration date and should not let scotus ruin even one day. Work against them, vote against them if that is your choice but, do not let them wreck your day or effect your mood.
Says the guy who gets in a bad mood every time some washed-up radio host makes some offhand remark to a caller on some obscure network supported by the Russian agitation-propaganda apparatus, which you immediately twist into some idea that he never meant to support, but which you are convinced the whole left is ready to blow up buildings to enact.

I get your point, though. Indeed morale is important. Left wing burnout is inevitable if this stuff starts monopolizing every thought.
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Ted wrote: Sat Jul 02, 2022 11:43 am I understand the allure of riding motorcycles but it has never appealed to me. Too many idiots on the road. I'd feel safer racing motocross than navigating a motorcycle through heavy traffic.

Two stops you need to make on the way to Sturgis.

1-rest area at Chamberlain with the Lewis and Clark info center and the Dignity statue.

2-Delta-09 Missile Silo site near Wall. An up close look at cold war era engineering is absolutely fascinating. Plan in advance for this one or you might not be able to get on the tour.

https://www.nps.gov/mimi/planyourvisit/index.htm
I don't ride motorcycles or even those three-wheeled cycles because, IMO, they are too dangerous. When someone tells me they ride a motorcycle I ask the, jokingly, if they carry a donor card when they ride.

I ride a bicycle powered by me, not an engine. glenn says he has an electric bicycle but it's still a motorcycle just less powerful. The physical exercise of bicycle riding gets my heart rate up, lowers my blood pressure, and the endorphins produce gives me a natural high that lasts for hours.
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Ted wrote: Sat Jul 02, 2022 11:43 am I understand the allure of riding motorcycles but it has never appealed to me. Too many idiots on the road. I'd feel safer racing motocross than navigating a motorcycle through heavy traffic.

Two stops you need to make on the way to Sturgis.

1-rest area at Chamberlain with the Lewis and Clark info center and the Dignity statue.

2-Delta-09 Missile Silo site near Wall. An up close look at cold war era engineering is absolutely fascinating. Plan in advance for this one or you might not be able to get on the tour.

https://www.nps.gov/mimi/planyourvisit/index.htm
Ya, you're nuts. :) Since the age of 5, i've been on every kind of machine that had a seat. From the first Sting Rays to mini bikes, three wheelers, go carts, snowmobiles, and ...yup......dirt bikes. Never got the hang of it. Dirt bikes are not planes damn it. As soon as the tires left the ground i was lost. i'd be crippled or dead if if i'd gained an interest in motocross.

Ya haven't steered me wrong yet. The scenic route you mention last time was a very nice ride.

The regular biker scene is getting a bit old. Full Throttle was a bit boring by the second year. i kinda have it set up to break away and check out the less travelled interests. Thanks for the tip.
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bradman wrote: Sat Jul 02, 2022 10:34 pm The regular biker scene is getting a bit old.
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"Hey, can we move our meetings to the rec center instead? The commute out here is brutal." :lol:

(OK, "Brian," who says that, is not in this image. :mrgreen: )

True confession: I have ridden a number of motorized vehicles other than automobiles, but never a motorcycle. Or a snowmobile.

We can debate if the Moped I used in Cancun, and almost wrecked :D , counts.
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ProfX wrote: Sun Jul 03, 2022 6:25 am The Loyal Order of Riders!
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"Hey, can we move our meetings to the rec center instead? The commute out here is brutal." :lol:

(OK, "Brian," who says that, is not in this image. :mrgreen: )

True confession: I have ridden a number of motorized vehicles other than automobiles, but never a motorcycle. Or a snowmobile.

We can debate if the Moped I used in Cancun, and almost wrecked :D , counts.
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ProfX wrote: Sun Jul 03, 2022 6:25 am The Loyal Order of Riders!
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"Hey, can we move our meetings to the rec center instead? The commute out here is brutal." :lol:

(OK, "Brian," who says that, is not in this image. :mrgreen: )

True confession: I have ridden a number of motorized vehicles other than automobiles, but never a motorcycle. Or a snowmobile.

We can debate if the Moped I used in Cancun, and almost wrecked :D , counts.
It's turning out to be an interesting year, that's for sure.

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ProfX wrote: Sun Jul 03, 2022 6:25 am The Loyal Order of Riders!
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"Hey, can we move our meetings to the rec center instead? The commute out here is brutal." :lol:

(OK, "Brian," who says that, is not in this image. :mrgreen: )

True confession: I have ridden a number of motorized vehicles other than automobiles, but never a motorcycle. Or a snowmobile.

We can debate if the Moped I used in Cancun, and almost wrecked :D , counts.
There is an old misogynistic joke about riding mopeds and making love to unattractive girls.
Both are fun until your friends find out.
To modernize it let's change unattractive women to old overweight truck drivers
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66 degrees. the moon was good. The ride was nice.

Decided to do what i used to get into some 3 years ago after retirement. Put the kids to bed and went on a night ride. Ol' fashioned. Watched the sunset on the patio of a VFW overlooking White Bear Lake. With a warn glow i decided to grab a good, quiet, quit sit down meal at a different location. A must for such a situation needs good ol' fashion news print. Relax, drink some hot coffee, and read the print before the meal. That's when i ran into a problem. If it isn't bad enough the papers have gotten tall, skinny, and are now an 1/8 of the thickness they have been in the past, now there's no more newspaper box's outside the restaurants. Note to self: Stop at a convenience store before the meal.

Between that and not having anything to read a doctors appointment.........It's starting to piss me off.
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bradman wrote: Wed Jul 13, 2022 11:45 pm 66 degrees. the moon was good. The ride was nice.

Decided to do what i used to get into some 3 years ago after retirement. Put the kids to bed and went on a night ride. Ol' fashioned. Watched the sunset on the patio of a VFW overlooking White Bear Lake. With a warn glow i decided to grab a good, quiet, quit sit down meal at a different location. A must for such a situation needs good ol' fashion news print. Relax, drink some hot coffee, and read the print before the meal. That's when i ran into a problem. If it isn't bad enough the papers have gotten tall, skinny, and are now an 1/8 of the thickness they have been in the past, now there's no more newspaper box's outside the restaurants. Note to self: Stop at a convenience store before the meal.

Between that and not having anything to read a doctors appointment.........It's starting to piss me off.
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We're getting old and many the things we enjoy are destined to be left in the wake of progress.

Newspapers have gotten thinner and the paper is noticeably smaller than it used to be. The content of value has also diminished considerably. The price, however, has trended in the opposite direction.

I read a couple of newspapers almost every day. One local and the other more of a statewide publication. Most of the information in them consists of nationally syndicated columns or wire news. If not for their realtion to my job, I would probably stop reading both.

It's a shame, because a cell phone screen will never have the same look, feel, smell, and sound of a newspaper.
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The only newspaper worth a damn is the New York Times. Maybe WaPo, but I don't see their print edition. Wall Street Journal is Murdoch now and you can do better with CNBC.

The LA Times now is a joke. They can't give ad space away. Nobody advertises in it. The classified ads used to be bigger than the rest of the paper put together, and it was a huge paper. It killed Barbara Bain's dog. Seriously. The thing was so heavy that when the underpaid exploited immigrant threw it out of his car, it hit the dog and killed him dead.

Lucky it wasn't the Sunday edition, which used to weigh a few pounds. It would have left a bloody mess that used to be a dog. Road kill.

All gone. It's skinny, it's a weird shape, there's not a single ad in it, the actual paper web that they print it on is thinner than onion-skin flimsy paper, and it's full of stories on how Covid is going to kill us all. One of them said that a test would require an 8 hour wait and cost $500. They were doing them while you wait for free just up the street.

The sports section was always the best part, but now that's two pages and they hide it on the back of the Metro, so you have to turn the paper over and read it back to front. Seriously. Their deadline is around dinner time now instead of midnight, so if the Dodgers are at home and the game goes long, there won't be a word about it.

We pay for the thing and I don't even read it. The subject has come up that we should discontinue it. I said I wouldn't care if we did. Similar conversations are undoubtedly coming up all over LA. It's a classic death spiral.

Then there's the situation with the movies, and the tsunamis of calculated corporate dreck that's replaced motion picture. Really. Minions XVIII and the zillionth bad sequel to Jurassic Park? And a tired old warhorse like Top Gun for the over-25 "aging" demographic? Makes a ton of bread, yes, but I don't have to see them, or work on them for that matter. Not that some of the movies I got involved with weren't dreck, because they were, but at least they were still movies, not 102-minute commercials.

I don't relate any of this to age, except for the fact that I remember media before the corporations took over the Internet and used it to homogenize everything.
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ZoWie wrote: Sat Jul 02, 2022 1:24 pm Says the guy who gets in a bad mood every time some washed-up radio host makes some offhand remark to a caller on some obscure network supported by the Russian agitation-propaganda apparatus, which you immediately twist into some idea that he never meant to support, but which you are convinced the whole left is ready to blow up buildings to enact.

I get your point, though. Indeed morale is important. Left wing burnout is inevitable if this stuff starts monopolizing every thought.
Look at the way that ass describes the reaction to making Women 2nd class citizens. Makes me FURIOUS :twisted:

FUCK



BTW, we subscribe to our local newspaper. We get the Sunday print only but that includes the digital version. With tip it is $28 a month but it is actually higher but they let me pay the old rate.
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Ted wrote: Thu Jul 14, 2022 6:40 am Gosh darn kids! Git off my lawn!!

We're getting old and many the things we enjoy are destined to be left in the wake of progress.

Newspapers have gotten thinner and the paper is noticeably smaller than it used to be. The content of value has also diminished considerably. The price, however, has trended in the opposite direction.

I read a couple of newspapers almost every day. One local and the other more of a statewide publication. Most of the information in them consists of nationally syndicated columns or wire news. If not for their realtion to my job, I would probably stop reading both.

It's a shame, because a cell phone screen will never have the same look, feel, smell, and sound of a newspaper.
Yeah, the older we get the hard things seem to get. I have a friend who quit getting the paper delivered and subscribed to the online version. She isn't too technology savvy and went through three iPads before we taught her how to cut-and-paste correctly. :lol:
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I think that's why we kept the LA times. The online edition is actually somewhat worthwhile. It's still 1/10 what you get on the digital NYT, which we read daily, but it's OK for local stuff.

I think that if they dropped the "print edition," there'd be some "I remember when..." stories from the over-50 set. There'd be a lot of TV segments on how the mighty had fallen, with quick cuts from their monstrous edifice across the street from City Hall to their current cubbyhole next to the oil refinery in El Segundo. There wouldn't be any real mourning.

It's nothing to do with paper prices. The LA Times is a vertical corporation, and it owns the tree farm. It has everything to do with the fact that they can't give ad space away. The advertisers are all online now, ruining a perfectly good Internet.
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ZoWie wrote: Thu Jul 14, 2022 11:25 am The only newspaper worth a damn is the New York Times. Maybe WaPo, but I don't see their print edition. Wall Street Journal is Murdoch now and you can do better with CNBC.

The LA Times now is a joke. They can't give ad space away. Nobody advertises in it. The classified ads used to be bigger than the rest of the paper put together, and it was a huge paper. It killed Barbara Bain's dog. Seriously. The thing was so heavy that when the underpaid exploited immigrant threw it out of his car, it hit the dog and killed him dead.

Lucky it wasn't the Sunday edition, which used to weigh a few pounds. It would have left a bloody mess that used to be a dog. Road kill.
How many people, without looking it up online or asking someone, know who Barbara Bain is? For them, it's Mission Impossible.
All gone. It's skinny, it's a weird shape, there's not a single ad in it, the actual paper web that they print it on is thinner than onion-skin flimsy paper, and it's full of stories on how Covid is going to kill us all. One of them said that a test would require an 8 hour wait and cost $500. They were doing them while you wait for free just up the street.

The sports section was always the best part, but now that's two pages and they hide it on the back of the Metro, so you have to turn the paper over and read it back to front. Seriously. Their deadline is around dinner time now instead of midnight, so if the Dodgers are at home and the game goes long, there won't be a word about it.

We pay for the thing and I don't even read it. The subject has come up that we should discontinue it. I said I wouldn't care if we did. Similar conversations are undoubtedly coming up all over LA. It's a classic death spiral.
The San Diego Union-Tribune is owned by the same person who owns the L.A. Times. I stopped subscribing to the UT about eight years ago because I could go through the entire paper in about five minutes if I didn't stop to read the comics and do the jumble. My local library lets me read the paper online with my library card and it takes a little longer to read because the pages don't load as quickly as other websites.
Then there's the situation with the movies, and the tsunamis of calculated corporate dreck that's replaced motion picture. Really. Minions XVIII and the zillionth bad sequel to Jurassic Park? And a tired old warhorse like Top Gun for the over-25 "aging" demographic? Makes a ton of bread, yes, but I don't have to see them, or work on them for that matter. Not that some of the movies I got involved with weren't dreck, because they were, but at least they were still movies, not 102-minute commercials.

I don't relate any of this to age, except for the fact that I remember media before the corporations took over the Internet and used it to homogenize everything.
I tend not to relate to a lot of movies made in the last 15 years. Most lack a good story line and rely on action and CGI as filler.
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