Oh, apparently you don’t know Wisconsin! Most number of bars per capita in the country. This is not about fine dining. As long as there is food served and tables to sit at away from the actual bar, every single bar in Wisconsin is a family restaurant.
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What was the name of the supergroup you almost formed with Pantera and Mötley Crüe’s Tommy Lee?
“[Laughs] The Sober Fucks.”
CORRECT.
“I’ve been sober for a while now, but this was a late-night, alcohol-fuelled idea between Pantera’s guitarist Dimebag Darrell, drummer Vinnie Paul, Tommy Lee and I. I regret not starting this chaotic metal band with them, which would have sounded like a cross between Pantera and my old punk group Flipper.”
Ever ask anybody else to start an extracurricular band?
“In the early ‘90s, I was having brunch with Björk and said: ‘We should start a heavy metal band together’. She was very polite, but she had no idea what I was talking about! It was so far outside of her realm of consideration that it didn’t even register!”
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OK! I have context now! It’s a tribute to Choupette, Karl Lagerfeld’s cat.
And heir
Apparently Doja Cat was also cosplaying as her
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Oh yes. On Blue Sky your posts are called skeets. I hope Lil Jon is getting his cut
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So it tuns out that dystopian app that I posted about previously has come to its conclusion in a rather sad manner:
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People really should venture outside more.
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North Dakota and Montana have entered the chat.
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Oh my Gggggooooddddd!!
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His old punk band Flipper? Huh? Did he mean "the old punk band, Flipper?
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In the documentary American Hardcore, Moby stated that he fronted Flipper for two days while singer Will Shatter was in jail because he “knew all of their songs”. Steve DePace recalls that it was only for one night.
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So much of this reminds of stories from actresses bullied by men in more powerful positions in Hollywood productions. There’s the punching down, dismissing accomplishments, failure to pay what is owed, making targets sue organizations with deep pockets, the smear campaign to damage their reputations, and the attempts to cover it up/erase them from public view. All for the “crimes” of not behaving as expected and daring to openly challenge a man about facts. The revenge that sometimes comes from surviving longer than attackers is having the last word. I’m glad Barbara Lowe Vollick got it.
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Ooo. Thanks! Also, apparently I did know how to pronounce it, I just didn’t realize it.
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Bear was surprised too! Time to lock those bins up really well
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Local Psycho and The Hurdy-Gurdy Orchestra - The Hurdy-Gurdy Song
The Hurdy Gurdy Song is a deep drone heard through time.
It is a masterpiece of psycho-cosmology that fuses the ancient music of the British Isles
with the frenetic sound of the present.
It is the sound of euphoria and melancholia, locked together in constant battle that
neither wants to win.
It is an elemental sound, like a sped up version of this country’s weather.
It is an anthem of disruption, of playful provocation and sonic sedition.
It is relentless and restless, like all good music should be.
It sings down through all eternity, the crying of humanity.
It channels the two greatest forms of folk music this country has produced: that of the
peasant’s lyre and drum’n’bass.
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I’m basing it off of the latest (2020) report by 24/7 Wall Street:
The heaviest drinking metro area in the heaviest drinking state, Green Bay, Wisconsin has the highest excessive drinking rate of any U.S. metro area. Some 26.5% of adults in Green Bay drink excessively, making it the only metro area in Wisconsin with a higher excessive drinking rate than the statewide average of 26.2%. For comparison, 18.0% of American adults drink excessively.
It’s not a great claim to fame, but there it is. The population of Wisconsin is larger than Montana + North Dakota, squeezed into a smaller area, and drinking is very much a thing there.
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I like lists, and actual lists are the best.
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Oh, darn, I just took the list out, because it came from a different site, and when I looked at it I could tell it was wrong (maybe from a different year?) and I’m not on my actual computer today so it’s too much of a bother to do it right.
Sorry!
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