Special K: <pic>
Pretty fly for a white guy.
b1-66er: Har.
30.10.20
29.10.20
Conservation of momentum is bad
b1-66er: "Taco Bell's Grilled Cheese Burrito — and its controversial decision to kill menu items like its beloved potatoes — send sales soaring."
b1-67er: There is no controversy like the grilled potato controversy.
66: THESE are the times we live in.
It has never ever ever been as bad as it is RIGHT NOW.
Except for NOW.
67: Or maybe NOW
Plateful 8
Special K: "Nationally, voters have cast 57.3% of the total votes counted in
the 2016 general election." But it doesn't say how many of 2016 were early votes.
b1-66er: I know that answer.
There were 8 early votes in 2016.
K: Exactly.
b1: They were all cast for Ross Perot.
No one likes to talk about that.
K: For good reason.
<ed: the graphic used here is for festive purposes only and not meant to imply preference for any American political party. As with the US 'forever' stamp, the small image presented is not a representation of the Statute of Liberty given to the United States by France as a gift; rather, it's the copy of the tasteful duplicate in front of NY NY casino in Paradise, NV.
28.10.20
No, no gimme the RIGHT answer
<the following is an unprompted soliloquy from a single mom of twin girls who moved from CA to TX for family economic leverage {my term}, pre-pandemic. It should be noted that she achieved what she was hoping to do.>
I feel like my whole life is studying for a big test at the time of my death. At the pearly gates, I will be asked: What did you learn from your life?
And I will answer: I was pretty much always wrong.
26.10.20
Et tu, froggy?
b1-66er: "If you say 'cancelled clown' three times in Burger King restrooms in Sweden, the lights dim and Ronald McDonald appears in the mirror"
Special K: In France, you get a cigarette and a McCroque Monsieur.
Boundom
b1-66er: "Las Vegas police: Passenger intentionally hits bicyclist from moving minivan, both die"
Great and Mighty Ricardo: Pretty crazy. Don't think that you can get that crazy without some mind altering substance. The driver of the car has not been caught yet so who knows how the rest of the story will go.
b1: Absolutely guaranteed there's alcohol at a dead minimum.
They'll get the other guy (and you KNOW it's a guy).
This city has surveillance that's approaching levels of London...
Almost everyone gets apprehended who remains in the LV metro area who does this kind of crime presentation.
When your bars never close and marijuana's legal...
Add in legal prostitution and gambling...
Gives a certain mind type an idea of free reign.
They don't realize it.
It just soaks in like a dry kitchen sponge sitting in a puddle of spilled beer.
GaM: What is strange is that the substance give you freedom. What is concerning is that this is what you want to do if you are free.
21.10.20
I can feel it in the gulf air tonight. Oh, Lord!
Former flyer: Only in Texas will they have early voting in the same auditorium as same day COVID testing
b1-66er: That is truly laugh out loud funny.
Are there 2 lines in...
GUNS
&
NO GUNS
?
Ff: I'm just hoping I'm not in the covid line!
b1: IF you are, I'd suggest voting
NO COVID
but it's your choice.
18.10.20
Squirmin' with Irvin'
b1-66er: "People are done putting hearts on their windows and teddy bears out for scavenger hunts," said Katie Rosenberg, the mayor of Wausau, Wis., a city of 38,000 where a hospital has opened an extra unit to treat Covid-19 patients. "They have had enough."
Special K: Right.
b1: "If the spring was characterized by horror, the fall has become an odd mix of resignation and heedlessness."
... which leads us to Hallowe'en...
... the season of headlessness.
15.10.20
Tryin' for Tiran
b1-66er: http://ktxt.blogspot.com/2020/10/short-bus-runnin.html?m=1
Special K: Great one. Love the title.
b1: I thought there was a CHANCE you might not understand the title.
K: I'm pretty well versed in the DB canon. Although I wasn't a big fan, they were huge when I listened to a lot of radio.
b1: Sure.
I told you about Z, right?
He was learnin' guitar from kids in his neighborhood...
Z: "why do you guys know and play doobie brothers all the time?"
Drug head: "They live in the house right over there!"
Short bus runnin'
Special K: "Michael McDonald, who runs the United States Elections Project, estimates that we could be up to as many as 40 million people having voted by the end of next week."
Is that true, or just what a fool believes?
Not OK computing
b1-66er: "Although vitamins K1 and K2 are safe, synthetic vitamin K3 is known to be highly toxic."
K3 is your new nickname for when you suddenly get bitchy.
K³.
Special K: Why not KKK?
b1: Special K!
K: K OK OK.
13.10.20
Pass the roųge, please
Special K: "Zoë Kravitz Glams Up as Catwoman, Colin Farrell Is Unrecognizable as the Penguin on The Batman Set"
b1-66er: You know, I get the same way whenever Zoë glams.
Fall into the building
b1-66er: https://www.space.com/blue-origin-new-shepard-ns-13-2nd-launch-try-webcast
Special K: I woke up just in time to watch the Blue Origin launch, thanks. A very different vibe from the SpaceX webcasts. This one felt more like they were trying to sell me a condo.
b1: The Accomplice and I are both laughing.
K: Heh. Did you watch? What did you think?
b1: I did not.
I was having deep architectural conversations about the sociological impressions of what I call "the crunchy building guys."
(You may not know this, but I did not go to Princeton... my architectural lexicon isn't "far advanced.")
10.10.20
"Okay Google, increase Mr. Wallen's b1 chip holdings by 1"
Special K: "SNL' Cuts Musical Guest After Videos Show Him Kissing Women And Partying Maskless"
b1-66er: Which one?
K: Morgan Wallen, tonight's musical guest, to be replaced by Jack White.
b1: I don't know MW, but I'd take JW over almost any living musician for SNL.
K: Exactly.
b1: His response in that article is both worthy and spot on.
K: Yes.
b1: Although I don't even know him, I like him better now.
K: Yes. A win for him.
8.10.20
Out of the gutter
Special K: Four count 'em four elimination games in MLB today.
b1-66er: And that is...
What? Unusual?
K: Very unusual, not unprecedented.
b1: Okay.
I just have to regulate both my fervor...
... and my vehemence that you watch.
K: And it's incumbent on me, when I spew sports stuff at you, to properly describe if or why it's interesting.
b1: Good, we both understand our positions.
Me: bitch
You: witch
K: Life: ditch
7.10.20
The viviparous toad croaks
b1-66er: NYT: 'I Won't Be Used as a Guinea Pig for White People'
Special K: I am available as a guinea pig for white people. Ask for rate quote.
2.10.20
Thoughts on Heaven and Bell
<Note to the reader: this posting contains, perhaps, the greatest concept/ line/ personal-passive-aggressive thought to ever appear on KTXT. It's been subtly encoded for your subliminal pleasure.>
b1-66er: https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/taco-bell-employee-astounds-tiktokers-143815088.html
As opposed to this one, which is starting to walk toward the other edge of the food madness globe
...having said that, I eat entirely within the set described there...
...(& don't eat anything packaged, so coloring isn't a problem)...
67: This is right at the intersection of nutrition and psychiatry, the two medical disciplines I believe are the least figured out.
b1-66er: Yes.
I didn't send you the article about the possiblity being blood-let by snorkel nose leeches.
66: "Robotic pet companions were initially tested on adults diagnosed with dementia..."
67: Nothing like pairing someone with an automaton to enhance their grasp on reality.
66: Exactly.
67: Looking at Trump's age group he has about a 6 percent chance of mortality on this. Probably less, he is way above average on quality of health care.
66: I wouldn't mind seeing it do its worst...
If he does a Boris Johnson recovery, the evangelicals will come out of the rafters.
67: Yeah I have very mixed feelings on this, which I'm not proud of. It will probably kill someone in his entourage.
If there is a God, Trump may indeed reap what he sowed.
66: WE FINALLY GET TO PUT MY "GOD THEORY" TO A TEST!
I pray the results are not ambiguous.
67: That's a funny line.
Watching the daze go by
Karpov: Learned days of the week in Spanish today, revelation!
Lunes must have something to do with the moon. ****, does that mean that Monday also is associated with the moon? Yes indeed. I had no idea.
b1-66er: GO KARPOV!
You're kinda doin' this whole life thing backwards, you know?...
... Most people get smart, THEN make millions...
... not vice versa.
Kpi: Don't tell me you knew this.
<note to reader: notice he doesn't deny making millions, which would be the obvious first play for 'normal' people.>
b1: PHUCK KARPOV.
I'VE KNOWN IT SINCE I WAS 13.
WHY?
BECAUSE THAT'S WHEN I TOOK SPANISH.
1.10.20
Sucking in green nuts with the President
Special K: (22:08 PT) The President tests positive.
b1-66er: Seriously?
K: Yes.
b1: NOW do you believe in Yahweh?
K: Same belief as before (whatever that was).
b1: אין דבר כזה
Special K at his bar mitzvah. 1972.
K: Whoa! What the heck is that from?
b1: What?
Come on, man.
I figured out caffeine deficiency was jacking me up...
... AND I AM TOTALLY RAMPED UP RIGHT NOW...
...5 parts organic black, 1 part raspberry zinger.
K: Why did you write that Hebrew? And the bit about my bar mitzvah? I think that’s even the right year.
b1: Because...
... THAT'S WHAT YOU TOLD SOLID GOLDSTEIN'S COUSIN AT YOUR BAR MITZVAH.
What? Do you think I'm going to ignore an early K report?
Especially with you and your newly learned flashy Hebrew.
K: I thought I was SG’s cousin. Which cousin is this?
b1: WHAT? LIKE YOU'RE THE ONLY COUSIN OF SOLID GOLDSTEIN?...
WERE NONE OF THE LEVYS THERE?
OR SHAPIROS?
And what about the COHENS and PEROTINS?
And the FINKS. The Finks absolutely were there.
I'D KNOW, WOULDN'T I?
NONE of them?
None.
Like I'm just "making this up."
K: I am eating pistachios.
b1: THAT makes me laugh.
I'm going to have some too.
K: Excellent. One of my favorite foods.
At night I eat them to stay awake while watching TV.
b1: <pic>
Rubber filter - pleasing to the touch
Special K: "The latest health department records obtained by Forum News Service reveal there are only 22 available ICU beds and 248 regular inpatient beds in the whole state [ND], including zero in Grand Forks and just two in Bismarck."
b1-66er: Penthouse Forum?
K: I hope so.
b1: Well, when you started talking about beds...
... it wasn't hard to connect that dot.
K: That is completely logical.
b1: And that, right there, is the precise the high water mark of my 'reasonable thoughts' this week.
K: You seem sharp through this filter.
b1: My point exactly.
Maybe we could go to the PlayPlace afterward?
b1-66er: "Burger King thinks it deserves a Michelin star"
Special K: And a pony.