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Nope I haven’t been hands on with these.
They look neat

I’m nope-ing out.
I haven’t been out to a bar in Birmingham since I was a teenager and tonight reminded me why.
Old Road, all the time.

I am being punished. I decided to run out to a bar (Al’s on 5th) in Birmingham AL because I have a memorial service for a family friend about an hour north of here tomorrow and decided to overnight here instead of driving up and back in one day.
Of course there is a bachelorette party.

The big thing with gumbo is the texture that and using huge honking chunks of tomato.
You can start a holy war among people on if a good gumbo should contain tomato or not.
Truth is even anti-tomato people will often add tomato paste for umami. But when it looks like chili something went wrong.

Yep. Same thing goes for gumbo. Although to be fair I won’t generally eat gumbo more than 50 or 60 miles off of the Gulf.
A lot of of the variations taste like sadness.
Some of them are very good soups but made by people who have no idea what gumbo is
😇

Ugh! Shit!
I hope it is mild and passes quickly.

I avoided symptomatic Covid until September
I came home from an event.
I had two days where I could not lift my head.
I never tested positive.
Two days later my sense of smell went AWOL for about six weeks

I.CAN.NOT.BELIEVE you went there.
🐷

The BBQ wars are never going to come to a peaceful end.

I’m a fan of Memphis style BBQ.
Dip that pig in sweet sauce with a bite and caramelize the crap out of it.

And that’s staying with pork.
We won’t EVEN discuss brisket/beef ribs.
That’s a Texas thing

Man wearing a jock and Mardi Gras beads

Man wearing a jock and Mardi Gras beads

And we are off to the races. Starting tomorrow Mardi Gras gets really busy with something pretty much every night and from next Friday until the 17th multiple parades, balls, and parties every day and night.
Yes, I earned those beads

I know I can’t convince the voices in your head, but super sharp men are sexy.
I know I’m an acquired taste.
So all that means is there’s one more person out there looking if I’m not what they are after. I hope they find it and know it when they see it

Yes. Vanity. And it was too cold to wear them as they were originally fitted.😈

Nope. I had the chaps fitted for wearing with just a jock or nothing. So they are tight over jeans. If I added another layer I could not zip them

File under mistakes a southern man can make:
Wearing jeans and leather chaps when it is 25°F

I should have pulled the leather pants to wear out to the Phoenix NOLA instead. It was interesting how quickly I noticed the temperature difference. At least the car has heated seats

Angular momentum - Wikipedia

A drag queen with a PhD in aeronautics - Drag Coefficient

A drag queen with a PhD in engineering - Angula Mom Entum

Happy natal anniversary

OK. How many of y’all think I need to stop at Buc-ee’s on the MS coast?
I’m in full BLUF leather gear. Red shirt, Sam Brown belt, leather pants, engineer boots, with my biker jacket - headed into the Phoenix NOLA

I have never in my life wanted to channel Kathy Bates from the movie “Fried Green Tomatoes” as badly as a few moments ago when I pulled up to a traffic signal behind an older truck with the vanity plate “TRU*P J6”.
Fucking moronic seditious traitor

A car windshield covered in pine pollen

A car window covered in pine pollen

Mercy! Have mercy on us.
The pine trees ejaculated overnight with the extreme cold (22°F)
The pine pollen itself is not usually a problem for people. It is so heavy it falls quickly. The problem is in a week to 10 days when those pollen grains start growing mold.
ACK!

For sale: Nazi coat, gently worn

(Size small)

It makes the most wonderful creaking leather sounds as you move around in it.

A man with a white beard wearing a leather jacket

While I was up in DC for MAL I picked up a new leather jacket from Cockeye Kink.
I intended to pick up a jacket there and as soon as I laid hands on this one I knew it was THE one.
The more have worn it the more I am certain of that
THANKS @cockeyekink.bsky.social

Rob has been the only Evangelical I’ve run into who has been actively in the streets to witness, pray, and be a body on the frontline in the streets of Minneapolis.

I hope you watch this.

A man with a white beard, pointing at a sign that reads “asshole alley”

A picture from MAL weekend.
Posted without comment.

Gentle reminder that if you worry you're not doing enough, it's not because you aren't. It's because there's too much to do for only one person to bear. You'll never be able to do it all and do it alone.

Whatever you can, whenever you can, with whatever you have is always the correct amount.

It’s off to Mobile and the Order of Osiris (Gay crew) Mardi Gras ball. Pictures to follow

Two king cakes from Haydels Bakery

Forget milk & TP.
I’m set for a possible winter storm.
Aren’t king cakes the basis of the food pyramid anyway?

IMLClass 48

IMLClass 48

IMLClass 48 picture

CCL brothers at MAL for IML orientation

And we’re off.
IML class 48 orientation and class picture done.
It’s a wonderful Boy Scout troop with ALL the delinquents
Two CCL members are competing

Thank you sweet friend 💙🥰😘

It whips that not only is this guy absolutely going to get reinstated with back pay thanks to UNIONS but he’s already made nearly $1mil in a GFM which means many, many people are now incentivized to scream at Trump that he’s a pedophile

A man with a white beard and a buffalo plaid shirt

OK.
Shit just got real.
I’m up at O-dark-30 (0400) to head for the airport to head to DC for MAL, the first event for IML Class 48.
Many thanks to the FlipSide Bar & Patio in Mobile AL for sponsoring my title and allowing me to spread the good word about them and Mobile.