Howdy folks.
Happy Friday once again and welcome to KNIFE Magazine’s Weekend Open Thread. Your shining light in these times of trouble and chaos. Or something like that.
Don’t be dissing the 90’s hip-hop. I still have a little Snoop, Eminem, 50 cent, Bone Thugs, and Biggie floating around my music library.
Obviously it is Super Bowl Weekend. I am less an NFL fan than one of College Football, but I am still a sports fan. I don’t have a dog in the race/horse in the fight but will definitly be rooting for the Bengals now.
RIP Harambe.
It is also the Winter Olympics.
I have never been quite this conflicted about the Olympics. I am a huge fan of the Olympics. It is a bit incongruous for someone as anti-globalist as myself, but I am the son of a Dutch immigrant. My late father and I had a fairly “complicated” relationship, but some of my favorite memories as a kid were watching the Olympics and rooting for both USA and Netherlands – especially the speed skaters. My kids have skyped with their cousins during races.
That said, the CCP can eff right off. THe Games should not have been awarded to a genocidal totalitarian state that misled the world about a virus that many reputable scientists insist escaped from the Wuhan lab. Sod them.
I didn’t watch the opening ceremonies, and I am avoiding as much of the produced coverage as I can. But fact is I am a sports junkie, and I like to watch a lot of the winter sports that don’t get much TV time during the non-olympic years. I took a few minutes of a break to watch the US win gold in mixed team snowboardcross. It seems like cutting off my nose to spite my face to not watch when they are on. (Even Curling)
Hey look, Chairman Xi getting on a bus…
Hi Del…
No knife shows of note on the Events Calendar for a couple of weeks. But be sure to check it regularly to know what is coming down the pike in your neck of the woods.
A few more current event memes, though not sports related…
I might not agree with all of my conspiratorial minded friends, but it is harder to win an argument with them than it used to be.
I don’t like my 2 year trial of Socialism. I want to cancel.
I can’t believe this Spotify thing is still in the news cycle.
I just drew Cmeat in our Spartan Astor giveaway. So he joins Jason K. and Del Corsi as “token holders”. This is a nicer than average knife and you need to be drawn twice to win. Up to 5 comments and replies count as entries, and if you are new to the blog your comments will be held in moderation until I can approve them. After that your comments will post automatically.
Lots more memes to ease you into your weekend, just not particularly themed. This one is far and away my favorite…
Clue, Red October, and Rocky Horror, if you want to go in order of what I first saw…
I am guessing the Shop teacher didn’t make this poster…
This however is genius…
Randomly, two Steve Miller Band memes came across my thread this week…
Almost as good as the late Joe Diffie rhyming “acres” with “tomatoes. I think that one wins all time gold.
Just sayin’…
Statler and Waldorf were the best. My fellow late Gen Xers get this one too…
This is the story of my life…
Or this…
But in reality, this…
And I don’t even have a sister.
Have a good weekend everyone.