random . . . randomness

Pendant-hatch wrote:
I can’t believe thousands of people didn’t die

we don't know that thousands haven't… rescue and recovery is going to take a while.

Not an explosions expert but fireworks explosions can be gnarly. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enschede_fireworks_disaster

Al Jazeera is saying it was a storehouse for “confiscated” sodium nitrate. Who knows.

Julian, wrote:
Not an explosions expert but fireworks explosions can be gnarly. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enschede_fireworks_disaster

they can indeed be gnarly, but still not on the level of what went down in beirut today.  vids of Enschede:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QCp334oCLc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8u6LdxqSCPk

Julian, wrote:
Al Jazeera is saying it was a storehouse for “confiscated” sodium nitrate. Who knows.

interesting…

Julian, wrote:
Not an explosions expert but fireworks explosions can be gnarly. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enschede_fireworks_disaster

Al Jazeera is saying it was a storehouse for “confiscated” sodium nitrate. Who knows.

Yeah that’s what I’m hearing too
The death toll is only at 50 now, which is just shocking when you see the photos

per CNN:
- Lebanon's Prime Minister Hassan Diab said that 2,750 metric tons of ammonium nitrate, which is typically used as an agricultural fertilizer, had been stored for six years at a port warehouse without safety measures
- Initial reports in state media blamed the blast on a major fire at a firecrackers warehouse near the port
- at least 100 people have been killed, 4,000 wounded, those numbers will rise
- four hospitals are out of service because of damage from the explosion
- the United States Embassy in Beirut urged those in the area to "stay indoors and wear masks if available" due to reports of toxic gases released from the blast.
- Anthony May, a retired ATF explosives investigator for the US government, said that the bright or dark red cloud seen in videos of the blast "is not consistent with ammonium nitrate." The telltale sign of the compound would be a yellow smoke cloud, he said. "I'm not saying that ammonium nitrate was not involved in this, it may have been but it appears that there were other items in there as well," May said.
- The amount of explosives and the shockwaves created by the blast, May said, "is typical of what would be equivalent to a kiloton nuclear bomb going off as far as the explosive weight is concerned. There was no nuclear material that we know of involved in this, but the shock wave generated, the blast wave generated is at equivalent to a small nuclear device," May said.
- Blast registered as a 3.3 magnitude earthquake

Lebanon was already experiencing a major economic crisis, on the verge of collapsing into a failed state a la Somalia or Yemen.  add the pandemic and now this… you have to wonder how this country is going to survive.

Ren and Stimpy reboot… apparently without John K involved..

kosmo wrote:
Ren and Stimpy reboot… apparently without John K involved..

The documentary is slated for VOD release August 14th:

Gravitas Ventures has released the first trailer for the Ren & Stimpy documentary Happy Happy Joy Joy, which explores the rise and fall of the cartoon’s controversial creator John Kricfalusi.

<a href="https://youtu.be/LOC-qsIsRNw">trailer</a>;

if you scroll about a third of the way down this cnn page, there is an image with a slider that allows you to flip between images of the port of beirut before and after the explosion.  holy fuck.  the photo gallery just below it is powerful, also.

Some great stuff here:

https://www.etsy.com/shop/ToddAlcottGraphics?ref=seller-platform-mcnav

Totally spaced hijinks on Friday


So pissed

kosmo wrote:
Ren and Stimpy reboot… apparently without John K involved..

So it'll likely suck.

kosmo wrote:
Ren and Stimpy reboot… apparently without John K involved..

how is that even possible?  it's like saying "NIN, without trent reznor".

sweetcell wrote:

kosmo wrote:
Ren and Stimpy reboot… apparently without John K involved..

how is that even possible?&nbsp; it&#039;s like saying &quot;NIN, without trent reznor&quot;.

I did here this: Billy West who voice of both is expected to return along with some of the writers.


also related, TIL : Reznor recorded the band&#039;s debut album, Pretty Hate Machine (1989), while working overnight as a janitor at a Cleveland recording studio

very walkie related content and equally random

The Dead Milkmen to release cover of ‘(We Don’t Need This) Fascist Groove Thang’

http://www.slicingupeyeballs.com/2020/08/11/dead-milkmen-we-dont-need-this-fascist-groove-thang/

I saw the words, "The Dead Milkmen" . . . and I came, here, to comment on it.  Their new bass player, is the weirdest replacement bassist because he is so weird and so fucking awesome at the same time.  I love him.  Like brother love.  Like hardcore DM love.  Listening to this song as I type this, then replaying it, and yes I can say that I really am liking it and now I am being transporting back in time to a place when all I listened to was a heavy replay of all things DM.

Thanks to the mighty Kosmo, who I follow your posts on twitter, for this!!!  I remember the good ole days when NKOTB, I think, and I would talk about Dead Milkmen and side projects and send obscure music to each other that we came across.  Now, I am just lazy.  And work all the time.

So much for the people deserting cities in droves baloney


https://www.washingtonian.com/2020/08/11/dc-area-real-estate-had-a-record-breaking-july/

Good article on the explosion in Lebanon
https://graphics.reuters.com/LEBANON-SECURITY/BLAST/yzdpxnmqbpx/

How powerful was the Beirut blast?
Experts estimate the massive warehouse explosion that sent a devastating blast wave across Beirut could be one of the strongest non-nuclear explosions ever recorded

is over sharing, over caring?

Pat Finnerty a Philly based musician who recently gained some notoriety for doing rooftop shows recently, was doing a 24 hour Grohlaton in order to persuade Dave to join on one of his live streams.  9 hours in and word got to Grohl who joined him for a chat, showing just now awesome Dave is..  Not sure what happened in the preceding hours but at one point Jon Wurster showed up..

Anyways here the videos of Pat and Dave chatting…  headphones on as the language is a bit salty

Part 1

https://www.instagram.com/tv/CD90CZ_j5p6/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Part 2

https://www.instagram.com/tv/CD9zqzljm65/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

kosmo wrote:
Pat Finnerty a Philly based musician who recently gained some notoriety for doing rooftop shows recently, was doing a 24 hour Grohlaton in order to persuade Dave to join on one of his live streams.&nbsp; 9 hours in and word got to Grohl who joined him for a chat, showing just now awesome Dave is..&nbsp; Not sure what happened in the preceding hours but at one point Jon Wurster showed up..

Anyways here the videos of Pat and Dave chatting…&nbsp; headphones on as the language is a bit salty

Part 1

https://www.instagram.com/tv/CD90CZ_j5p6/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Part 2

https://www.instagram.com/tv/CD9zqzljm65/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

This was fun, I saw some early, and then part of the Wurster portion and then tuned off, was a happy surprise to see the full results yesterday.