(fwiw, I initially felt bad about the thread derail, but remembered which thread this was and well, fuck him, Costco is more worthy of attention lol)
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 22 September 2023 20:57 (eight months ago) link
I find that even when the lines look like that they still move pretty fast.
Lots of local stuff at our stores, too, like Michigan honey or Manny's corned beef. We bought our TV at Costco, too (right before the pandemic hit, thank goodness), and they were so easy to deal with, and basically included all sorts of default warranties on top of the regular warranty. Tires, house plants, toilet paper, frozen seafood ... plus a more or less no questions asked return policy.
Anyway, fuck Bob Lefsetz, what a dork.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 22 September 2023 21:08 (eight months ago) link
I always think it's funny when you (invariably) see someone checking out with, like – a crate of oranges, a bag of frozen chicken, a big box of crackers, and a giant-screen TV on a pallet.
― stylized in all lowercase (morrisp), Friday, 22 September 2023 21:11 (eight months ago) link
A ten-gallon jar of mayonnaise
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 22 September 2023 21:12 (eight months ago) link
i don't know if they have these everywhere, but near me there's a Costco Business Center - it's kind of a different layout, lots more huge lots of stuff like mayo, ketchup, way more limited on consumer electronics, clothing, etc...the whole thing is for businesses buying stuff wholesale i think, anyway mine still has gas pumps and it's not nearly as crazy busy with regular folks
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 25 September 2023 15:21 (eight months ago) link
speaking as someone who used to sell products online through Costco, their hardcore fans/customers are the absolute worst entitled people I have ever dealt with in retail
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Monday, 25 September 2023 15:23 (eight months ago) link
no you cannot return your $15K solar system that you bought 8 years ago and let sit in your garage until it became obsolete, fuck off
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Monday, 25 September 2023 15:24 (eight months ago) link
(this being said, it does seem like a decent place to work?)
You can buy a Solar System at Costco? Someone tell Galactus.
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Monday, 25 September 2023 17:32 (eight months ago) link
A ten-gallon jar of mayonnaise― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux)
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux)
gotta duck when the shit hits the fan
― Kate (rushomancy), Monday, 25 September 2023 18:00 (eight months ago) link
I always think it's funny when you (invariably) see someone checking out with, like – a crate of oranges, a bag of frozen chicken, a big box of crackers, and a giant-screen TV on a pallet.― stylized in all lowercase (morrisp)
― stylized in all lowercase (morrisp)
i mean, i did a big shopping order this weekend... a bunch of clothes, 400 heartburn pills, and a "Fun Patriotic Honest Abe with Cotton Candy Brooch", with "a fun color palette of cotton candy pink and baby blue". (that color palette almost reminds me of something...) so that's probably me you're seeing at the costco.
You can buy a Solar System at Costco? Someone tell Galactus.― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes)
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes)
if costco had life on it, i might find my wife on it
― Kate (rushomancy), Monday, 25 September 2023 18:07 (eight months ago) link
To clarify, it's the TV that I find funny... as if it's an "impulse buy" (I know it's not). Heck, if I was picking up a TV at Costco, I'd probably also grab whatever else we need.
― stylized in all lowercase (morrisp), Monday, 25 September 2023 18:35 (eight months ago) link
sometimes you kind of have considered getting a new tv and it's walking through the front door of costco directly into that display of beautiful 77" lg oleds that triggers the purchase
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Monday, 25 September 2023 18:44 (eight months ago) link
a crate of oranges, a bag of frozen chicken, a big box of crackers, and a solar system on a pallet
― difficult listening hour, Monday, 25 September 2023 23:28 (eight months ago) link
Galactus sometimes likes a healthy snack between planetary meals... they never show that in the comics.
― stylized in all lowercase (morrisp), Monday, 25 September 2023 23:36 (eight months ago) link
Does every Palestinian in Gaza support Hamas? OF COURSE NOT! But did we poll every Iraqi to find out whether they supported Saddam before we went into that country?
i...um...
― is he disgruntled adrian? (voodoo chili), Monday, 16 October 2023 22:02 (seven months ago) link
And standing up for human life… Whoo-hoo! Aren’t you admirable, aren’t you taking a risk, saying you don’t want people to die. I never thought of that, how insightful, how innovative. No!
― kirsten gilla band (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 16 October 2023 22:08 (seven months ago) link
no!
― is he disgruntled adrian? (voodoo chili), Monday, 16 October 2023 22:28 (seven months ago) link
Let me see… Someone keeps breaching your property line, do you just take it?
Wait, which side are on you, Bob?
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Monday, 16 October 2023 22:38 (seven months ago) link
isn't this dunce supposed to be a music writer?
― the adventures of Yari and ixa. (Austin), Monday, 16 October 2023 22:51 (seven months ago) link
Oh he’s so much more
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Monday, 16 October 2023 23:27 (seven months ago) link
And when it comes to ticketing... I heard a lot of inside information from the source, one on one, but you weren't there and I can't repeat it. The code of the road, the music business is a club and if you're not in it, you don't know. And most of what's worth knowing never hits the news. But you could get so much in conversation in Aspen.
― underwater as a compliment (Eazy), Tuesday, 12 December 2023 07:16 (five months ago) link
I always forget this guy exists, were it not for this thread occasionally activating. Is he an AI? Does he just live in an underground bunker somewhere?
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 12 December 2023 13:38 (five months ago) link
I get his emails but don’t always read more than the subject line. Peter Frampton emailed him I see
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 12 December 2023 16:54 (five months ago) link
Queen Latifah? I've got nothing against the woman, but she's definitely a B-level artist.
― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 28 December 2023 19:57 (five months ago) link
She's literally been nominated for more Oscars than Billy Crystal
― The SoyBoy West Coast (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 28 December 2023 22:37 (five months ago) link
I respect Rénee Fleming, but it’s not really my bag.
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Thursday, 28 December 2023 23:06 (five months ago) link
just the dumbest man alive
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Thursday, 28 December 2023 23:07 (five months ago) link
A variety show with dancing and singing? They’re already gone from regular network TV, the idea of appealing to everybody went by the wayside- literally some of the biggest shows in the world are dancing and singing performance shows
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 29 December 2023 00:27 (five months ago) link
I do not remember this time 10 years ago when the young people of the world got together en masse to live tweet the Kennedy Center Honors
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 29 December 2023 00:37 (five months ago) link
It must be a terrible thing, to have lived too long.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 29 December 2023 14:22 (five months ago) link
terrible for us at least
― objectively objectionable object to object to (cat), Saturday, 30 December 2023 00:02 (five months ago) link
Dreadful
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 30 December 2023 16:22 (five months ago) link
I'm stunned how much feedback I got about "Killers of the Flower Moon." If I'd written about a record I would have gotten a fraction of the responses. It seems more people are familiar with Scorsese's movie than the music of Taylor Swift.
sir you are 70 years old and your readers are even older
― kissinger on my list (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 16 January 2024 21:24 (four months ago) link
https://Twitter.com/carlzoilus/status/1749625426559877310?s=46&t=m63acfIIT8JsOyy5v_2nJw
― kissinger on my list (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 23 January 2024 04:34 (four months ago) link
Not that Collective Soul was a hair band, it wasn't even a band at first.
But I loved "December." Not that I would have put it that way prior to today. I always liked it, but thinking about it and playing it this morning made me smile.
And think about how I was not the only one who knew it. EVERYBODY knows it. Because it was a different era.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 29 January 2024 15:46 (four months ago) link
Collective Soul had a song other than "Shine"?
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Monday, 29 January 2024 15:59 (four months ago) link
oh weird I had no memory of that but looked it up on YouTube and totally remembered it, I don't know if I knew it was called "December" or by Collective Soul
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 29 January 2024 18:00 (four months ago) link
just a lonely guy thinkin about and smilin over the song we all know as "turn your head now baby spit me out"
― omar little, Monday, 29 January 2024 18:09 (four months ago) link
i hate it when lefsetz makes me picture him listening to music alone
― waste of compute (One Eye Open), Monday, 29 January 2024 18:10 (four months ago) link
xpost - what really surprised me is learning that the song is actually about Jesus and communion, apparently!
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 29 January 2024 18:13 (four months ago) link
lefsetz is definitely thinking of "a long december" by the counting crows, no?
― kissinger on my list (voodoo chili), Monday, 29 January 2024 18:15 (four months ago) link
no, he actually links to the song at the beginning, but "a long december" would make a lot more sense
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 29 January 2024 19:10 (four months ago) link
lol just amazing
But on this extremely warm late January day in Southern California it’s in the mid-seventies and Felice opened the windows and the bubbler in the birdbath was driving me crazy, distracting me, getting under my skin, so I got up to shut the windows and that’s when my eye caught Alexa. I wasn’t looking, but I saw what she had to say, and it was “December.”
Now oftentimes Alexa will display the last cut you told her to play. I didn’t call out “December.” Did Felice? But I couldn’t imagine that. And I sat back down to the “Times” and my coffee yogurt and…
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 29 January 2024 19:12 (four months ago) link
haha OH MY GOD LEF
I guess thinking of “December” made me think of “Push.” Which is a great cut, but I didn’t realize it until I heard the acoustic version recorded in the Star Lounge of radio station 98.7. I bought a CD of performances on the station, at Music Plus, on a bad Love@AOL date. Well, it was a little more complicated than that. I drove to the far west valley to sit down at a sushi bar where the woman professed love at first bite, which freaked me out, but by time I’d calmed down she wasn’t as infatuated, and then I played Van Halen’s “And the Cradle Will Rock…” at top volume on the Alpine/ADS system in my car and that sealed the deal, as in she put her hands over her ears and insisted I take her back to her automobile.
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 29 January 2024 19:14 (four months ago) link
There are a few Collective Soul songs I hear all the time, and they all sound like someone else. "Shine" (a cross between STP and Supertramp?) "December" (Alice in Chains? Pearl Jam's "Glorified G"?), "The World I Know" (Goo Goo Dolls).
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 29 January 2024 19:41 (four months ago) link
But on this extremely warm late January day in Southern California it’s in the mid-seventies and Felice opened the windows and the bubbler in the birdbath was driving me crazy, distracting me, getting under my skin, so I got up to shut the windows and that’s when my eye caught Alexa.
is this the enright translation
― difficult listening hour, Monday, 29 January 2024 20:40 (four months ago) link
Xpost - that Lef playing Van Halen at top volume and thereby ending a date story!
― curmudgeon, Monday, 29 January 2024 22:07 (four months ago) link
it's incredible, truly
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 29 January 2024 23:07 (four months ago) link
He made the choice he had to.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Monday, 29 January 2024 23:34 (four months ago) link