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Coaster MAYnia 2021 part 2

[coastermaynia]

Coasters on Previous Years' Lists

List of coasters on the prompt lists from 2020-2023, alphabetical by park name!

Adventureland

Dragon (2021)

Monster (2022)

Outlaw (2023)

Alton Towers

Galactica (2022)

Oblivion (2021)

Smiler (2020)

Wicker Man (2023)

Blackpool Pleasure Beach

Icon (2021)

Busch Gardens Tampa

Cobra’s Curse (2022)

Iron Gwazi (2021)

Kumba (2020)

Montu (2023)

Busch Gardens Williamsburg

Alpengeist (2022)

Pantheon (2021)

Verbolten (2023)

California’s Great America

Gold Striker (2020)

RailBlazer (2023)

Canada’s Wonderland

Bat (2023)

Behemoth (2022)

Leviathan (2020)

Yukon Striker (2021)

Carowinds

Copperhead Strike (2020)

Fury 325 (2021)

Nighthawk (2022)

Cedar Point

Corkscrew (2022)

GateKeeper (2023)

Millennium Force (2020)

Steel Vengeance (2021)

Chessington World of Adventures

Dragon’s Fury (2022)

China Dinosaurs Park

Dinoconda (2021)

Dollywood

Lightning Rod (2020)

Thunderhead (2022)

Dorney Park

Steel Force (2023)

Drayton Manor

Shockwave (2022)

Efteling

Baron 1898 (2021)

Vliegende Hollander (2023)

Joris en de Draak (2022)

Energylandia

Zadra (2020)

Europa Park

blue fire (2023)

Silver Star (2022)

Wodan (2020)

Farup Sommerland

Fonix (2022)

Ferrari Land

Red Force (2021)

Fuji-Q Highland

Do-Dodonpa (2020)

Eejenika (2022)

Fujiyama (2021)

Takabisha (2023)

Fun Spot Atlanta

ArieForce One (2023)

Hansa Park

Flucht von Hovgorod (2023)

Karnan (2020)

Heide Park

Colossos (2022)

Krake (2023)

Hersheypark

Candymonium (2020)

Skyrush (2021)

Wildcat’s Revenge (2023)

Holiday Park

Expedition GeForce (2021)

Holiday World

Voyage (2020)

Indiana Beach

Steel Hawg (2021)

Islands of Adventure

Velocicoaster (2022)

Kennywood

Phantom’s Revenge (2020)

Steel Curtain (2021)

Kentucky Kingdom

T3 (2020)

Kings Dominion

Intinidator 305 (2020)

Twisted Timbers (2022)

Volcano (2023)

Kings Island

Beast (2020)

Mystic Timbers (2021)

Orion (2023)

Racer (2022)

Knott’s Berry Farm

GhostRider (2022)

HangTime (2020)

Silver Bullet (2023)

Xcelerator (2021)

Knoebels

Impulse (2022)

Phoenix (2020)

Kolmarden

Wildfire (2020)

Liseberg

Helix (2020)

Marineland

Dragon Mountain (2022)

Motiongate

Dragon Gliders (2023)

Nagashima Spa Land

Hakugei (2021)

Steel Dragon 2000 (2020)

Nanchang Sunac Land

Coaster Through the Clouds (2022)

Oakwood

Speed (2021)

Parc Asterix

Toutatis (2023)

Phantasialand

F.L.Y. (2023)

Taron (2020)

Winja’s (2022)

Plopsaland De Panne

Ride to Happiness (2023)

PortAdventura Park

Dragon Khan (2022)

Shambhala (2021)

Sea World Australia

Leviathan (2023)

Sea World Orlando

Ice Breaker (2020)

Mako (2021)

Sea World San Antonio

Texas Stingray (2021)

Silver Dollar City

Time Traveler (2020)

Silverwood

Aftershock (2023)

Six Flags Fiesta Texas

Dr. Diabolical’s Cliffhanger (2023)

Six Flags Great Adventure

El Toro (2022)

Jersey Devil (2021)

Kingda Ka (2020)

Nitro (2023)

Six Flags Great America

Maxx Force (2021)

Six Flags Magic Mountain

Full Throttle (2023)

Goliath (2020)

Twisted Colossus (2022)

X2 (2021)

Six Flags Mexico

Medusa (2021)

Six Flags New England

Wicked Cyclone (2022)

Six Flags Over Georgia

Blue Hawk (2022)

Thorpe Park

Colossus (2020)

Nemesis Inferno (2022)

Stealth (2021)

Swarm (2023)

Tobu Zoo Park

Kawasemi (2022)

Tokyo Dome City

Thunder Dolphin (2020)

Universal Studios Florida

Rip Ride Rockit (2021)

Universal Studios Japan

Flying Dinosaur (2023)

Walibi Belgium

Kondaa (2021)

Walibi Holland

Untamed (2020)

[cardest]

New Orleans playlist

Hungry for some po boys? Feeling the Mardi Gras vibes for this weekend? This is the ultimate NOLA playlist, right here. Play the songs here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-iHPcxymC182dTlE-Gii6ZOO5ZrN1Z1T

Louisiana and New Orleans, all in the one awesome playlist. If there are songs I left out, let me know and I can add those. Or come meet me at Le Bon Temps Roulé  and we’ll listen to this NOLA playlist together with drinks.

LOUISIANA & NEW ORLEANS

001 Bob James - Take Me To The Mardi Gras 002 Earl King - Ain’t no city like New Orleans 003 John Lee Hooker - goin’ to Louisiana 004 Crowbar -  Wrath Of Time By Judgment 005 True Detective - Theme (The Handsome Family - Far From Any Road) 006 EyeHateGod - New Orleans Is The New Vietnam 007 The The Meters -  Chicken Strut 008 Paul McCartney - Live And Let Die (from Live And Let Die) 009 The Rolling Stones - Brown Sugar 010 Lucinda Williams - Crescent City 011 King Hobo -  New Or-Sa-Leans 012 Concrete Blonde - Bloodletting 013 Down - Underneath Everything 014 True Blood Theme Song (Jace Everett - Bad Things) 015 Corrosion of Conformity -  Broken Man 016 The New Orleans Jazz Vipers - I Hope Your Comin' Back To New Orleans 017 Willy DeVille - Jump City 018 Left Side - Gold In New Orleans 017 Necrophagia -  Reborn through Black Mass 018 Johnny Horton -  The Battle Of New Orleans 019 Dr John - Litanie des Saints 020 Foo Fighters - In the Clear 021 Redbone - The Witch Queen Of New Orleans 022 Jucifer - Lautrichienne 023 Danzig - It's a long way back from hell 024 Harry Connick, Jr. -  Oh, My Nola 025 The Gaturs - Gator Bait 026 Jon Bon Jovi - Queen Of New Orleans 027 Cyril Neville -  Gossip 028 Carlos Santana - Black Magic Woman 029 Gentleman June Gardner - It's Gonna Rain 030 Eddy G. Giles - Soul Feeling (Part 1) 031 Tool - Swamp Song 032 Beasts of Bourbon -  Psycho 033 Seratones - Gotta Get To Know Ya 034 Chuck Berry -  You Never Can Tell 035 Grateful Dead - Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodleoo 036 Pale Misery - Hope is a Mistake 037 Exhorder - Homicide 038 King James & the Special Men - Special Man Boogie 039 Chuck Carbo -  Can I Be Your Squeeze 040 Amebix - Axeman 041 Tomahawk - Captain Midnight 042 Waylon Jennings - Jambalaya 043 Heavy Lids - Deviate 044 Red Hot Chili Peppers -  Apache Rose Peacock 045 Necrophagia -  Rue Morgue Disciple 046 Johnny Cash -  Big River 047 Albert King -  Laundromat Blues 048 Meklit Feat Preservation Hall Horns - You Are My Luck 049 Le Winston Band  - En haut de la montagne 050 Dr. john - I Thought I Heard New Orleans Say 051 Down -  New Orleans is a dying whore 052 Samhain -  To Walk The Night 053 Creedence Clearwater Revival -  Green River 054 Southern Culture on the Skids -  Voodoo Cadillac 055 Bonnie, Sheila -  You Keep Me Hanging On 056 Warren Lee -  Funky Bell 057 Elf - Annie New Orleans 058 Cannonball Adderley - New Orleans Strut 059 Doug Kershaw - Louisiana Man - New Orleans Version 060 Willy deVille  - Voodoo Charm 061 The Animals -  The House of the Rising Sun 062 Porgy Jones -  The Dapp 063 Lost Bayou Ramblers - Sabine Turnaround 064 IDRIS MUHAMMAD - New Orleans 065 John Lee Hooker - Boogie Chillen No. 2 066 Hank 3 - Hillbilly Joker 067 Nine Inch Nails -  Heresy 068 Talking Heads - Swamp 069 Irma Thomas - I'd Rather Go Blind 070 Mississippi Fred McDowell -  I'm Going Down the River 071 Dee Dee Bridgewater   - Big Chief 072 Dr. John  - Creole Moon 073 Agents of Oblivion -  Slave Riot 074 Steve Vai - Voodoo Acid 075 Saviours -  Slave To The Hex 076 Kris  Kristofferson -  Casey's Last Ride 077 JJ Cale - Louisiana Women 078 Cher - Dark Lady of New Orleans 079 LE ROUX - Take A Ride On A Riverboat 080 The Melvins -  A History Of Bad Men 081 Floodgate - Through My Days Into My Nights 082 Opprobium - voices from the grave 083 Quintron & Miss Pussycat - Swamp Buggy Badass 084 Child Bite - ancestral ooze 085 Sammi Smith - The City Of New Orleans 086 The Explosions - Garden Of Four Trees 087 Bobby Boyd - straight ahead 088 Bobby Charles - Street People 089 Wall of Voodoo -  Far Side of Crazy 090 Rhiannon Giddens - Freedom Highway (feat. Bhi Bhiman) 091 Elton John - Honky Cat 092 Serge Gainsbourg - Bonnie and Clyde 093 Fats Domino - I'm Walking To New Orleans 094 Cruel Sea - Orleans Stomp 095 Down -  On March The Saints 096 Danzig -  Ju Ju Bone 097 The Neville Brothers ~ Voodoo 098 Megadeth -  The Conjuring 099 Miles Davis - Miles runs the voodoo down 100 Elvis Presley - King Creole 101 Led Zeppelin - Royal Orleans 102 The Lime Spiders -  Slave Girl 103 BIG BILL BROONZY  -'Mississippi River Blues'   104 Kreeps - Bad Voodoo 105 Dirty Dozen Brass Band -  Caravan 106 Kirk Windstein -  Dream In Motion 107 Eletric Prunes - Kyrie Eleison - Mardi Gras 108 Merle Haggard - The Legend Of Bonnie And Clyde 109 Corrosion of Conformity -  River of Stone 110 THE ADVENTURES OF HUCK FINN (MAIN TITLE) 111 Zigaboo Modeliste - Guns 112 ReBirth Brass Band - Let's Go Get 'Em 113 Inell Young -  What Do You See In Her? 114 Jimi Hendrix - If 6 as 9 (Studio Version) Easy Rider Soundtrack 115 Deep Purple -  Speed King 116 Exhorder - The Law 117 Crowbar -  The Cemetery Angels 118 A Streetcar Named Desire OST - Main Title 119 WOORMS - Take His Fucking Leg 120 steely dan - pearl of the quarter 121 Tabby Thomas - Hoodoo Party 122 Black Label Society -  Parade of the Dead 123 Dwight James & The Royals - Need Your Loving 124 Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter (2012) The Rampant Hunter (Soundtrack OST) 125 PanterA - The Great Southern Trendkill 126 Ween - WHO DAT? 127 Earl King - Street Parade 128 Ernie K-Doe - Here Come The Girls 129 Dejan's Olympia Brass Band ~ Mardi Gras In New Orleans 130 Body Count -  KKK Bitch 131 Goatwhore - Apocalyptic Havoc 132 C.C. Adcock - Y'all d Think She Be Good To Me (from True Blood S01E01) 133 The Meters - Fire On The Bayou 134 Dr. John - I Walk On Guilded Splinters 135 Balfa Brothers - J'ai Passe Devant ta Porte 136 Ween - Voodoo Lady 137 King Diamond -  'LOA' House 138 Creedence Clearwater Revival - Born On The Bayou 139 Dax Riggs -  See You All In Hell Or New Orleans 140 Professor Longhair - Go to the Mardi Gras 141 Dixie Witch -  Shoot The Moon 142 Ramones - The KKK Took My Baby Away 143 Fats Waller -  There's Going To Be The Devil To Pay 144 Mississippi Fred McDowell -  When the Train Comes Along with Sidney Carter & Rose Hemphill 145 Treme Song (Main Title Version) 146 Tony Joe White - Even Trolls Love Rock and Roll 147 Nine Inch Nails -  Sin 148 Exodus -  Cajun Hell 149 NEIL DIAMOND - New Orleans 150 James Brown - Call Me Super Bad 151 Jimi Hendrix -  Voodoo Child ( Slight Return ) 152 Allen Toussaint - Chokin Kind 153 Dash Rip Rock  - Meet Me at the River 154 Hawg Jaw- 4 Lo 155 Hot 8 Brass Band - Keepin It Funky 156 Hank Williams III - Rebel Within 157 Dejan's Original Olympia Brass Band - Shake It And Break It 158 Jelly Roll Morton -  Finger Buster 159 The Royal Pendletons - (Im a) Sore Loser 160 Little Bob & The Lollipops - Nobody But You 161 Gregg Allman - Floating Bridge (True Detective Soundtrack) 162 Michael Doucel with Beausoleil - Valse de Grand Meche 163 Dolly Parton - My Blue Ridge Mountain Boy 164 Othar Turner & the Afrossippi Allstars – Shimmy She Wobble 165 Jucifer - Fleur De Lis 166 Soilent Green -  Leaves Of Three 167 Ides Of Gemini -  Queen of New Orleans 168 Betty Harris -  Trouble with My Lover 169 Lead Belly - Pick A Bale Of Cotton 170 Candyman Opening Theme 171 Goatwhore - When Steel and Bone Meet 172 Acid Bath - Bleed Me An Ocean 173 Pere Ubu - Louisiana Train Wreck 174 Walter -Wolfman- Washington - You Can Stay But the Noise Must Go 175 Alice in Chains -  Hate To Feel 176 Body Count -  Voodoo 177 Live and Let Die - Jazz Funeral 178 Smoky Babe -  Cotton Field Blues 179 Professor Longhair - Big Chief Part 2 180 Lewis Boogie - Walk the Line 181 James Black - Theres a Storm in the Gulf 182 The Balfa Brothers - Parlez Nous A Boire 183 The Jambalaya Cajun Band - Bayou Teche Two Step 184 The Deacons -  Fagged Out 185 Thou - The Changeling Prince 186 Black Sabbath -  Voodoo 187 King Diamond -  Louisiana Darkness 188 Doyle -  Cemeterysexxx 189 KINGDOM OF SORROW - Grieve a Lifetime 190 Hank Williams III - Louisiana Stripes 191 FORMING THE VOID - On We Sail 192 BUCK BILOXI AND THE FUCKS - fuck you 193 Down in New Orleans - The Princess and the Frog Soundtrack 194 Trombone Shorty & James Andrews  - oh Poo Pah Doo 195 Whitesnake -  Ain't No Love In The Heart Of The City 196 The Dirty Dozen Brass band - Voodoo 197 Joe Simon - The Chokin' Kind 198 Down -  Ghosts along the Mississippi 199 AEROSMITH  - Voodoo Medicine Man 200 Nine Inch Nails -  The Perfect Drug 201 The Byrds - [Sanctuary III] Ballad Of Easy Rider 202 The Iguauas - Boom Boom Boom 203 PJ Harvey - Down By The Water 204 Louis Armstrong - Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans 205 Dr John - Right Place Wrong Time 206 ESTHER ROSE - handyman 207 Lightnin Slim - It's Mighty Crazy 208 Slim Harpo - Blues Hangover 209 Irma Thomas - Ruler Of My Heart 210 WEATHER WARLOCK - Fukk the Plan-0 211 Superjoint Ritual - The Alcoholik (Use Once And Destroy) 212 Stressball - dust 213 Trampoline Team - Kill You On The Streetcar 214 Xander Harris - Where’s your Villain? 215 Dukes of Dixieland - When The Saints Go Marching In 216 Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds - Su Su 217 Danzig - I'm the one 218 EyeHatteGod - Pigs 219 Hank Williams Jr - Amos Moses 220 The Cramps - Alligator Stomp 221 Crowbar - The Serpent Only Lies 222 Shrüm - drip 223 Thou  - The Only Law 224 DR. JOHN - Babylon   225 Garth Brooks - Callin' Baton Rouge 226 Wild Magnolias - All On A Mardi Gras Day 227 NCIS New Orleans TV Show theme 228 Skull Duggery - Big Easy 229 Harry Connick Jr. - City beaneath the sea 230 Elvis Presley - Dixieland Rock 231 Tom Waits - I Wish I Was In New Orleans (In The Ninth Ward) 232 Neil Young - Everybody's Rockin 233 Philip H. Anselmo & The Illegals - Delinquent 234 CORROSION OF CONFORMITY - Wolf Named Crow 235 Widespread Panic - Fishwater 236 Lillian Boutté - Why Don't You Go Down to New Orleans 237 Bryan Ferry - Limbo 238 Scream - Mardi Gras 239 EyeHateGod - Shoplift 240 Better Than Ezra - good 241 Duke Ellington - Perdido (1960 Version) 242 Bob Dylan - Rambling, Gambling Willie 243 Big Bad Voodoo Daddy - sAve my soul 244 Le Roux - So Fired Up 245 Concrete Blonde - The Vampire song 246 Boozoo Chavis - Zydeco Mardi Gras 247 Idris Muhammad  - Piece of mind 248 Les Hooper - Back in Blue Orleans 249 Doug Kershaw - Cajun stripper 250 DOWN  - Witchtripper 251 Soilent Green - So hatred 252 Professional Longhair - Big chief 253 Willie Nelson - City Of New Orleans 254 Tom Waits - Whistlin' Past The Graveyard 255 Brian Fallon - sleepwalkers 256 Patsy - Count It On Down 257 Into the Moat - The Siege Of Orleans 258 Bruce Cockburn - Down To The Delta 259 Jello Biafra · the Raunch and Soul All-Stars - Fannie Mae 260 Exhorder - Asunder 261 Cane Hill - Too Far Gone 262 The Slackers - peculiar 263 Crowbar  - A Breed Apart   264 COC - Wiseblood 265 Necrophagia - Embalmed Yet I Breathe 266 EYEHATEGOD - Fake What's Yours 333 Alan Vega - Bye Bye Bayou 666 DOWN  - Stone the crow

I don’t beads by the way! Hit play here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-iHPcxymC182dTlE-Gii6ZOO5ZrN1Z1T

[samueldays]

I wish I knew more detailed vocabulary for describing the function of, and the general way one relates to, the genus of well-oiled high-powered machines with sharp blades and precise specs. Power tools, but also metaphorically.

It can cut off your fingers, but you can also learn where not to put your fingers, and use the machine to do things that would be impossible with weaker, blunter, slower tools.

Sometimes people freak out and demand the abolition of sharp blades as a safety measure (cough, England), and sometimes the depowering of the device results in the little-seen loss and degradation of many products downstream of it.

Neal Stephenson describes Unix as a whole in this way in In The Beginning was the Command Line, comparing it to a top-end drill.

Where my homeowner's drill had labored and whined to spin the huge bit around, and had stalled at the slightest obstruction, the Hole Hawg rotated with the stupid consistency of a spinning planet. When the hole saw seized up, the Hole Hawg spun itself and me around, and crushed one of my hands between the steel pipe handle and a joist, producing a few lacerations, each surrounded by a wide corona of deeply bruised flesh. It also bent the hole saw itself, though not so badly that I couldn't use it. After a few such run-ins, when I got ready to use the Hole Hawg my heart actually began to pound with atavistic terror.

But I never blamed the Hole Hawg; I blamed myself. The Hole Hawg is dangerous because it does exactly what you tell it to. It is not bound by the physical limitations that are inherent in a cheap drill [...] A smaller tool is dangerous too, but for a completely different reason: it tries to do what you tell it to, and fails in some way that is unpredictable and almost always undesirable.

The law, ideally, should be this sort of thing: I do not think it can be made harmless, but I think it can be made predictable, which serves a similar function for those who wish to not get their fingers cut.

I also want words for distinguishing between two different kinds of “safety” measure suggested for such machines, both meant to stop you getting your fingers cut: you can blunt the machine’s blades, or you can build it with a two-handed grip.

I think there’s also an analogy to be drawn here to the proliferation of EULAs, ToSes and consent forms: “by signing here you agree that you know what you’re doing and you won’t sue and blah blah blah don’t complain if the machine’s dangerous” which are annoyingly widespread and annoyingly boilerplate.

[bevoncrane42-blog]

BEST GRILL BRUSH

Everybody likes to flame broil, yet tidying up that grill may not be at the top your 'adoration it' list. Grill barbecues can turn out to be out and out frightful whenever left uncleaned for a really long time. Food remainders and charcoal flotsam and jetsam develops and inevitably you are done barbecuing on the flame broil however on left over food. Sounds net, however there is a simple answer for the jumble. Flame broil brushes are modest and simple to utilize. You may need to get a couple of them if your messy develop is crazy on your flame broil. Those with treated steel bristles are ideal for scratching off the barbecue grinds and having them look pristine once more. The Grill Daddy Platinum is a steam worked cleaning barbecue instrument that retails for about $50. I was suspicious on this so I read many surveys online before thinking about it. Input is positive albeit numerous proprietors state you could likely pull off a less expensive model. Eventually, steam or not, you should put some real effort into the cleaning cycle. We have a Weber S-420 flammable gas barbecue and the hardened steel cooking grates do get messy rapidly. We utilize 2 brushes on the barbecue and keep it fit as a fiddle.

flame broil brush Grill brushes arrive in an assortment of shapes - the best are those that permit you to get influence when brushing the meshes. Consumed on food won't fall off simple, so having the option to utilize some quality without stressing over snapping the cleaning instrument down the middle is an absolute necessity. Those with plastic arms or handles are an unmistakable NO. Handle length goes from around 12 crawls up to 21 inches. The more drawn out the better we discovered per surveys posted on the web. The 12 inch flame broil brushes are tolerable, yet a touch longer of a handle gives you more influence while covering your whole barbecue. The Weber 6493 21-Inch 3-Sided Grill Brush is a decent item that scopes those difficult to get spots on the barbecuing surface. Watch out for tempered steel bristles that happen to the cleaning instrument - a few remarks left online for the Char-Broil Brush Hawg Grill Brush notice this issue. 

A few proprietors even discovered little fiber pieces in their food. The Alpha Grillers Grill Brush is under $20 and gets maybe the best criticism for any device we found. Slices through oil and other food trash effectively on both cast iron flame broil meshes and porcelain veneer covered meshes. The 18 inch handle is perfect - you gain power and weight. The three-sided planned head implies all territories of the barbecue will get cleaned. Another special plan is the Grill Daddy GD12952S Grill Daddy Pro Grill Brush which again utilizes steam to help clean the meshes. Fill the repository with water, preheat the flame broil, and afterward take the plunge. This unit is enormous at 22 crawls long and the handles are ergonomically intended to give an extraordinary grasp and huge amounts of influence. Grievances on this model are the undeniable ones - it spills, feels fragile, and self-destructs. 

Alright, that is in effect unpleasant considering the greater part of the proprietor comments we discovered online were positive, however you ought to at any rate know the real factors before buying any item. Avoid the plastic handles (they will break effectively), go with hardened steel fibers, and search for one with a mid-go handle length (18 inches). A few models offer substitution brushes - that is a pleasant component - however given the items are under $20 it is anything but a prerequisite. Attempt to locate a double highlighted brush - one that additionally has a scrubber edge on it. At some point a brush simply doesn't work and you need a scratching bar to get off the hard stuff. The top of the line Grill Brush - Heavy Duty BBQ Tool is one that we found to get the best appraisals and the person at our nearby BBQ shop said he utilizes this one on his barbecues.

 At about $20 it's an incredible speculation on the off chance that you will in general flame broil a great deal. The 18 inch handle is the correct size to get legitimate influence while cleaning grates - the state of the brush head permits you to arrive at the edges, profound between the mesh bars, and the corners. It's a three-sided plan and one that won't disillusion. Our lone protest is the plastic handle - but it is strengthened with a wire handle so it can take more discipline than the less expensive plastic just handles that will in general break. Audits online back up the toughness of this barbecue brush and proprietor remarks incorporate 'flame broil brush that works' and 'successful barbecue more clean'. In our testing of this brush we discovered it to be exceptionally proficient and very sturdy.

 Ensure the flame broil has had plentiful opportunity to heat up and afterward clean the meshes. We do this before each flame broiling and the mesh trash falls off very easily.The Grill Daddy GD12952S Grill Daddy Pro Grill Brush is surely worth a glance at about $20. We picked it for the plan and uniqueness of the steam cleaning activity. Would it be a good idea for you to expect wonders with that messy barbecue of yours? No, however the Grill Daddy works superbly at cleaning oil and it separates consumed on gunk. The brushes will keep going quite a while and regardless of whether they do get worn out you can generally purchase substitution brushes for about $7.

 At the point when we looked online for audits, we discovered negative remarks about water spillage and absence of by and large toughness. Those audits were posted over 4 years prior and from that point forward it shows up the nature of the item has expanded as later criticism is exceptionally certain. Current conclusions from proprietors are 'makes cleaning a lot simpler' and 'my significant other loves the Grill Daddy'. Regardless of whether the steaming capacity doesn't work consummately, we state the plan of this flame broil brush is one that barbequers will appreciate.

[theliterateape]

From the Archives: Unpacking Branson: A Thanksgiving Improbability

By Don Hall

For Thanksgiving in 2012, I was single and Mom decided that I should come out to my step-sister's place in Branson, Missouri for a good old-fashioned country Thanksgiving. The carrot was family. The stick was Missouri.

In the late 1960s it was pretty much a tiny city in the Ozarks known for roadside stands peddling wares that proliferated the hillbilly stereotype. And, sure enough, there are still today roadside stands that exist only to continue to make fun of that stereotype. It's an odd thing to walk into a business in the middle of the Ozarks that sells you the stereotype it tries to escape from. Like buying a taxi cab medallion from an East Indian store or an “I’m a Wetback” T-shirt in a store that sells Mexican merchandise.

It is said you cannot judge a book by its cover.

This is true most of the time, but there are some things you can judge immediately by its cover and pretty much know what your getting.

An Ann Coulter book. Sean Hannity. A FOX News broadcast. Great America. Applebee's.

I assumed that Branson, Missouri would fall into this latter category. I was right and wrong. And the complexities made it a real trip to remember.

Branson is where the Beverly Hillbillies came from before moving to California.

A winding series of roads littered with signs and theaters and restaurants. Lots of bumper stickers that declare “I’d Rather Be Dead Than SOCIALIST” and random tributes to past GOP glory. In the three days we trucked around the city, I counted perhaps one hundred people of color the entire time — I didn't start the trip by calculating this but after a bit, it was hard to escape. Thousands of old white people with canes and wheelchairs abounded but that doesn't really look that much different than Navy Pier or the audience at Chicago Shakes — old white people like to be tourists and Branson is, after all, a haven of tourism.

My step-sister, Hannah, tells me that the crack business booms among the residents of Branson and there is evidence around if you’re looking for it. The place is slightly schizophrenic in its place as a home to rednecks and hillbillies while trying desperately to distance itself from that by appealing to the tourist trade. There are places that stink of what one expects in Ozarks — a biker bar called the Hawg Trough that even my pro-GOP brother-in-law avoids and a Smoke Shop that doesn't sell cigarettes and has a pit bull guarding the door. But there are surprises that popped up during my three-day Thanksgiving vacation that defied my pre-judged expectations.

The surprises came in weird ways. When I arrived, we ate at a place called the Rowdy Beaver — a place with T-shirts that trumpeted “I Like Bald Beaver” and “That's A Mighty Nice Beaver” and had washboard walls. The thing that surprised was that the food was out of this world. It was delicious and well prepared and not at all what I expected. “Our chef prepares everything from fresh ingredients,” trumpeted our waitress who seemed completely fine with her job at a place filled with such juvenile innuendo.

The Hollywood Wax Museum was fun but the wax figures left me a bit wanting — a frequent refrain of our visit was my niece saying “Who's that?” and me doing my best to figure it out. I tried to convince my family to go to Silver Dollar City so I could find and steal a urinal cake but it was $60 per person and even I couldn't argue that $300 was reasonable for me to complete a toilet cookie tale. We had tickets to a magic show billed as the World's Largest (by the way, every attraction in Branson is billed as “Show of the Year,” “The Most Amazing in the World,” and “Mindblowing”) but the show was cancelled due to illness. Turns out Kirby VanBurch’s greatest trick is to take your money and disappear.

Our replacement show for the afternoon was going to be either Jim Stafford (I desperately wanted to see this) or SIX (the nieces had heard it was awesome). Stafford only did an 8 p.m. show, so SIX at the Mickey Gilley Theater it was.

SIX is six middle-aged brothers who debuted on the Donnie and Marie Show and have fashioned themselves as sort of an older version of an a cappella boy band. As soon as they started with a cheeseball version of Don’t Stop Believin’, Hannah and I turned to each other with a look of pained resignation. These guys had pretty good voices and the arrangements were fine but the self-consciously hip pose and cornball attempts at cool banter was unbearable. I learned that wanting to see an awful Branson show and actually sitting through one are two different things. I also learned that I will never, as a middle-aged white guy, ever use the words “homie” or “peeps” ever again. To be fair, the second act was better — a selection of Christmas songs and a tribute to their dead mother. Apparently this tiny woman had ten children, all boys, and I suspect she isn't dead but just got the fuck out of there before having to bear an eleventh kid. But the damage of the first act left me scarred and a little terrified of that evening’s show — Legends at the Dick Clark American Bandstand Theater.

Legends is a show that debuted in Vegas and moved to Branson. It is a rotating cast of celebrity impersonators ranging from Barry White, Marilynn Monroe and Tim McGraw to the staples of Elvis Presley and Michael Jackson. Our bill was George Strait, Whitney Houston, the Blues Brothers, Liberace and Elvis. As we entered and sat down, once again surrounded by octogenarians, I steeled myself. This was going to be fucking awful.

And it wasn’t.

Really. In fact, it was a blast. The Whitney Houston knocked it out of the park, Liberace was funny but completely inappropriate in a callback to the dark days of The Gay Closet and the Elvis impersonator was so fucking good, if we had been sitting in the nose bleeds it would’ve been like actually seeing Elvis live. My mom, a huge Elvis fan from when he was alive, commented that he was the best Elvis impersonator she had ever seen. Hell, even my teenaged nieces enjoyed the show.

But we saved the best, most Branson-y show for Saturday. Yakov Smirnoff. Holy shit. I couldn’t wait. I was absolutely certain it would embody everything I expected Branson to be — cheesy, cloying, the very portrait of a has-been celebrity stretching out his 15 minutes of fame as paper thin as he could in the heart of the Vegas of the Ozarks. We were greeted by a giant Yakov head making awful jokes about... the size of his head! Inside, it turned out that Yakov was a painter and had his paintings for sale!

The beginning of the show was the longest version of the national anthem I’ve ever heard (who know there were, like, nine verses?) and then I was hit with another fucking surprise. On the video screens came an old Paul Harvey “The Rest of the Story” about a painter known as Jacob who painted and commissioned a painting in tribute to the fallen at Ground Zero in NYC following the Attacks of 9/11.  Painted on the side of a building overlooking the rubble, it was the backdrop to the first anniversary of the attacks. The painter was an anonymous Yakov Smirnoff. He paid for the commission out of his own pocket.

Some of his show was what I expected: a revisitation of his “What a Country!” schtick from the ’80s—a sketch of him as the president answering questions from the audience, and he actually quoted the Lee Greenwood God Bless the U.S.A. as a closer. But other parts were not at all what I anticipated. Turns out that Yakov went out and got a Master's Degree in psychology and decided that his show could also serve as a relationship counseling session as well. Sort of like Defending the Caveman meets a less arrogant Dr. Phill with the takeaway being that we begin relationships laughing and giving each other little gifts and that, if we simply return to giving each other gifts and finding laughter in our relationships, we’ll be happier, healthier people.

Was it a great show? Not really. The dancers were cheesy and only there to fill time, the jokes were funny in a “Yeah, I remember that one” sort of way, the political stuff was tame (although at one point, Yakov asked the audience who was happy with the results of the latest election — a smattering of applause that included my mother and I enthusiastically cheering — and who was ticked off by it — a thundering, slightly ugly ovation — with the Russian comic commenting “Yeah, that's about even...”) and the recurring pro-America stuff was hard to hear after a while. But the thing is... I liked him.

I mean, I really liked the guy. He was so overwhelmingly sincere and genuine. Christ, I wanted to hug him. And, while his show is corny and inoffensive and gentle and perfect for the Branson tourist crowd, this is a guy who lives in Branson, Missouri suggesting that people spend time laughing and loving one another instead of being shitbags.

Prejudice is a funny thing. Judging books by their covers is what we do as people. I imagine it’s a hard drive instinct. But, as I am often heard saying, while we are all unique and precious snowflakes and each of us is completely distinct, we are all made of fucking snow. We all are simply people trying our best to get along in the world. Yes, that means that our baser, uglier instincts come to play like ordinary people rioting in a Walmart on Black Friday to get a discount on a portable DVD player. It also means that our better, more generous nature comes into play, and sometimes it's nice to be reminded that even in Red State Hell, Yakov Smirnoff is telling thousands of people every week to just be fucking nicer to each other.

On Thanksgiving, the point is to be with friends or family and celebrate those things in our lives we are (or should be) thankful for. Sure, the holiday is laden with cultural markers that include the genocide of the Native Americans and our national quest to bequeath every American with diabetes but the point is gratitude. Gratitude can come from a lot of places and I’m thankful to remember the lessons I learned in Branson. 

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2020-06-27: A recycling adventure

We actually left from the bay area the afternoon of Friday the 26th, except, we got stuck in heavy traffic over Sunol and the Altamont pass. Classic Friday afternoon “flee the bay” mistake. We ended up stopping for BBQ in Waterloo, except we didn’t eat it until we got to the cabin 2 hrs later! We had to just smell the food while starving. Truly roughing it, if you ask me.

Before going to sleep, I mused, lying there under rafters we had put up ourselves, that there was something immensely satisfying about sleeping in a structure we built ourselves. Apparently, this sealed the deal for J that we would build out the rest of this project ourselves. Originally, we were struggling with whether we should hire contractors to do the work, and if so, how much of the work would we have done. Getting contractors is by itself no easy feat, since permits need to be pulled, things need to be scheduled and supervised, and it all seemed just as time consuming, if not more so.

Saturday morning, we demolished most of the interior framing. We removed the loft decking, which was formed from two layers of plywood. Many of the nails we pulled up were still in very good condition, so we saved them (to be used next weekend).

Next, the joists needed to come down. There were about 5-6 2x6 joists running the long way, from rafter to rafter. Most of them were either loose or rotted out at the ends, so they came down with a swift blow of the sledgehammer.

Next, the edge of the loft was held up by a 4x6 beam, that also formed the outer support for the ladder. This beam was also rotted out at the back end, and again, the sledgehammer brought it down easily.

Our main goal for Saturday was to take all the scrap metal to the recycling center. The excavation guys said we could probably get a few hundred bucks for all the aluminum and romex wiring, and whatnot. So we piled all the metal in the truck, and made our way over to Valley Springs recycling. It took 3 trips to the scale to get it all sorted out. We ended up filling a small dumpster almost completely with the aluminum from the roof. And the grand total, was... $37. Despite being a disappointment, we were just glad the metal was ending up in the right place, and hey, something is better than nothing for it. I think a good portion of that amount was actually the CRV from the beer cans we brought up.

This all happened in 95+ degree weather, with almost no shade, and our poor dog was panting the hardest I’d ever seen him pant. Our next stop was the Sender’s hardware store, to pick up some supplies, but also for the air conditioning. We picked up something like 60 half-height cinder blocks, for a retaining wall behind the shed. Our local hardware store doesn’t have the half height blocks, so we had to get them here. We picked up a pair of dog bowls, so that we could keep one in the truck as a water bowl for the dog.

At this point, we had thoroughly had it with the heat, and we needed to find a place for lunch. Maps said there was a hot dog restaurant across the street, an idea both of us couldn’t shake. It turns out, Hawg Dawgs is a most excellent establishment. You can even get food and beer for your dog! Halfway through our meal, the owner of the restaurant rolled up in his truck to check in on us, and mention that the menu was going to greatly expand the following week. All in all, a delightfully unique and refreshing experience.

We were clearly having too much fun, since it was around 2-3pm when we left to go back to the cabin, hauling a few hundred points of cinder blocks. We wanted to back the truck up as close to the shed as possible to make unloading easier, but the path that was cleared back there was untested. It took quite a few tries to back in the right way, and move junk pallets out of the way as well.

After removing the final bits of the interior framing, and prying up one piece of the plywood on the floor, we decided it was simply too hot to work, and so we took showers. I went first, and midway I turned the water off to lather, but couldn’t turn it back on. So, with soap in my eyes, I needed some assistance. J tested the electrical and found it was fine, while I checked the water line all the way up to the shower, and it appeared to be fine, too. What failed, it turns out, is the plastic ball valve just before the shower head. I’ve never trusted plastic plumbing, and this just confirms my suspicions. Fortunately, we had a garden hose sprayer attachment, which more or less got the job done.

That night we ate the leftover BBQ and made the usual campfire. Before we went to bed, we went over the plans for framing the new roof. These were plans I had made based on what seemed reasonable at the time, a few weeks prior, and drawn up in SketchUp. After discussing, it was clear there were serious structural flaws with the design, and J came up with a much better idea. Originally, I had proposed framing the lofts above the sill plates, and framing the roof above the level of the lofts. The problem with this, as J pointed out, is that to get the base of the roof up to the level of the lofts would require vertical plates above the sill plates everywhere there was no loft. The outward torque on these plates due to the rafters pushing out is probably too much. Also scrapped was the idea of using a load bearing ridge beam, since it would require interior supports, and that would likely require cantilevering the base of the support through a load bearing wall. Altogether too complicated.

The updated design is that the rafters will rest on the sill plates, as was done previously. The extension loft will be supported by joists below the level of the sill plates. This made much more sense and seemed much easier to construct.

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Choose Your Metal Detecting Accessories Kit

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Choose Your Metal Detecting Accessories Kit

 The practice of amateur detection is sometimes summarized only in metal detectors. Although these devices full of technology are essential to locating finds in most contexts, they are far from enough! Here are some examples of accessories that will help you make your research easier! 

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Optimize the detection of your targets!

Best Metal Detector Headphones

Best Wireless Headphones for Metal Detectors

Dig, scrape, dig up, sift!

Best Garrett Edge Metal Detector Digger

Best Sand Scoop and Shovel Accessories For Treasure Hunters

What accessories to search for gold?

  Optimize the detection of your targets!

While most metal detectors are equipped with a small speaker that can locate and identify targets, the ideal is still to use headphones. In addition to gaining precision, equipping you with a good headset will allow you to get used to the sound palette of your device to optimize your research.

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The use of a helmet will also allow you not to disturb the surrounding wildlife and not to interfere with other detectors who accompany you. Indeed, nothing more cacophonous and counterproductive than several detectors that sound at the same time!

Headphones, there are for all tastes: wired headsets, wireless headsets, waterproof helmets for rainy days, models with a volume control, reinforced models … A tip: focus a comfortable helmet. Remember that you will regularly wear it on your head, sometimes for hours at a time.

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  Best Metal Detector Headphones

Preview Product Rating Price BEHRINGER HPM1000 1,260 Reviews $16.99 Buy on Amazon Bounty Hunter Metal Detector Binaural Headphone HEAD-PL 72 Reviews $23.71 $23.69 Buy on Amazon Bounty Hunter HEAD-PL Metal Detector Headphones No ratings yet $39.95 from $29.89 Buy on Amazon Garrett MS-2 Headphones Land-Use 6 Reviews $36.77 Buy on Amazon White's ProStar Metal Detector Headphones 12 Reviews $69.95 Buy on Amazon

    Best Wireless Headphones for Metal Detectors

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Garrett MS-3 Z-Lynk Wireless Headphones KIT for Garrett Metal Detectors

Comfortable ear cushions and adjustable headband guarantee a comfortable fit for every head size

Features: Built-in Z-Lynk receiver. High-fidelity audio. Volume control. Adjust signal levels to suit individual hearing requirements and to enhance weak signals.

Folds down for easy storage. USB charging cable included. Speaker impedance: 8 ohms Frequency response: 30-18,000 Hz.

Includes: Garrett MS-3 Z-Lynk Wireless Headphones WT-1 wireless transmitter 2-pin AT connector to Micro USB cable-connects AT detectors to transmitter

1/4" Jack to Micro USB cable-connects detector with 1/4" jack to transmitter USB charging cable Mounting band

$161.45

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7 Reviews

Deteknix Wireless Garrett AT Headphones WA

Quest Metal Detectors

$99.99

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4 Reviews

Deteknix Garrett AT WA Pro Wireless Headphones

Wireless Headphones

$159.95

Buy on Amazon

    Dig, scrape, dig up, sift!

In the field of amateur detection, there are several accessories that do not really aim to stay in the bottom of a bag. This is especially the case of shovels, pencils, knives, sieves and other materials essential to unearth his beautiful finds without having to scratch the ground with his nails.

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Let’s also mention the existence of original accessories that fulfill several functions, such as the Garrett Edge Digger knife shovel, the stainless steel demountable pick at the moment, for our folding mini-excavator!

It does not seem like anything, but the profusion of tools to take with you during an exit detection can quickly become a real problem. Accessories that take up a little less space or can serve many things at the same time are therefore far from unnecessary investments!

  Best Garrett Edge Metal Detector Digger

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215 Reviews

Garrett Edge Digger with Sheath for Belt Mount

Garrett Edge Digger with Sheath for Belt Mount

$39.95 - $4.93 $35.02

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12 Reviews

Garrett Propointer AT with Garrett Edge Digger with Carry Sheath

Includes Garrett Pro Pointer AT and Garrett Edge Digger (2 Year Warranty)

Fully waterproof to 10 feet with orange color for added visibility underwater. Maximum Sensitivity for improved detection of nuggets and other small targets. Choose from three Sensitivity levels.

Fast Retune: Quick button press instantly tunes out environment or narrows detection field for precise pinpointing of larger targets. Retuning allows user to quickly: Shrink detection field to precisely pinpoint large targets Tune out mineralized ground, wet beach sand, etc. Help gauge target size/distance Help identify edges of large target Pinpoint multiple targets versus one large target signal

Lost Pro-Pointer Alarm: After 5 minutes with no button presses, the pinpointer emits periodic warning chirps. Automatic power off after 5 minutes of warning chirps; saves batteries. Simple, single-button operation for Power, Retune, Sensitivity adjustment, and Stealth Mode.

Ruler in Inches and Centimeters molded into side of pinpointer to judge target depth. Lanyard Attachment Loop molded into side of pinpointer. New power button is easy to operate even with gloves.

$161.40

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19 Reviews

Garrett Edge Metal Detector Digger with Sheath and Camo Finds Pouch Combo

7.5" digging blade; 12" total length

Strong carbon steel blade with cutting edge teeth.

10" deep zippered treasure bag

Exterior MOLLE-type webbing grid is ideal for attaching a PRO-POINTER, digging tools.

$48.69

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3 Reviews

Garrett Backpack + Garrett Metal Sand Scoop + Garrett Edge Digger

Edge Digger has strong carbon steel blade

Garrett carry sheath for belt mount use included with Edge Digger.

Galvanized Metal Sand Scoop for easy target recovery

Backpack will hold disassembled Garrett metal detector

Backpack includes interior searchcoil pouch and side pouches for drinks or other accessories

$80.60

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18 Reviews

Garrett PRO-Pointer Metal Detector and Edge Digger Combo includes Belt Holster and 9 Volt Battery

Patented proportional audio/vibration pulse indicates targets

Tune out mineralized ground, wet beach sand, etc.

Pinpoint multiple targets versus one large target signal

7.5" digging blade; 12" total length

Strong carbon steel blade with cutting edge teeth.

$144.40

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  Best Sand Scoop and Shovel Accessories For Treasure Hunters

Preview Product Rating Price NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC Sand Scoop and Shovel Accessories for Metal Detecting and Treasure Hunting 112 Reviews $19.99 Buy on Amazon 32" Mini - Root Assassin Shovel 517 Reviews $39.99 Buy on Amazon Lesche Sampson Pro-Series Shovel with T-Handle for Metal Detecting and Gardening 116 Reviews $64.29 Buy on Amazon Radius Garden 22311, Root Slayer Nomad, Red 209 Reviews $39.99 $39.63 Buy on Amazon White's Ground Hawg Shovel For Hardcore Hunters 7 Reviews $68.95 Buy on Amazon MocDoo 12" Serrated Edge Carbon Steel Spade Detecting Metal Garden Detector Digger Tool 22 Reviews $29.99 $25.99 Buy on Amazon Heavy Duty 13.5" Digging Knife for Metal Detecting, Prospecting with Comfortable Rubber Handle 20 Reviews $12.99 Buy on Amazon

  What accessories to search for gold?

If you want to get into gold panning, complementary discipline, but ultimately quite different from conventional detection, you will have to equip yourself with adequate tools. Glitter and nuggets are indeed too small to make possible the use of a device.

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In addition to a good knowledge of the different techniques to apply, it will be necessary to equip you with a pan or a pan, knowing that there are multiple versions, including the American pan which is characterized by its very practical grooves.

Not necessarily essential, the sieve can, however, help you perform the first filter to simplify the washing phase, one of the most used techniques in our country.

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How to pick up your thin glitter and, if you have a little luck, your gold nuggets? With tweezers or a soft pipette, of course! The glass tube or the vial will welcome the fruits of your research. All this equipment is found in very practical gold panning kits.

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Finally, if you practice gold panning along the beaches, we strongly advise you to bring beach equipment including a plastic sifter or, better, stainless steel (remember that the metal and the salt water do not mix!).

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Make Your Cable Pulling Smooth and Easy by Reel Jacks of iTool Co

Slug Buster knockout punch sets are used for the removal of slug. The punch profile splits the slugs and makes the job easier.  Electrical contractors prefer it because of its knockout options that are powered by battery.  They also use other tools such as slug splitter knockouts for stainless steel, stud punches, speed punch knockouts, c-frame punches and specialty punches.

For the installation of cables of large diameter, the cables need to be uncoiled from the cable reels or spools. For this, the reels are to be put on the Reel Jacks which must have adequate base dimension so as to keep the reels stable on the resting surface. Sometimes, additional support may be required to anchor the jack stands to the resting surface. Moreover, the height of the reel stand should be high enough so that the cable reel does not drag on the ground.  The installation process will be faster and easier if you use a reputed brand such as iTool Co.

The Reel Jack of iTool has the following features that have made it popular to the electrical contractors, the world over.

Securely held to avoid tripping over

The closed head traps axle checks it from travelling horizontally or falling out

The axle can take heavier loads

Different sides can be used on uneven ground.

Four bearings, rated 20, 000 lbs

Warranty of 6 years.

Maxis Cable Puller

Maxis Cable Puller is popular for its high speed, light weight and rating to 3,000 pounds. The pulling speeds are 25 ft per minute at low without load and 100 ft per minute on high, without load. Peak capacity is 3, 000 lbs and it can pull 8 feet of any brand of wire out of the conduit. It can be anchored to standard 2” receiver hitch of most trucks. It is not required to be bolted to the ground. The powerful gear box operates under heavy loads with maximum output. It can be collapsed down to Height 40”X Width 26” X Length 70”.

The Maxis Cable Pullers includes i) Puller Cart and conduit adapters of total weight of 93 lbs, ii) 8 numbers of Conduit adapters of sizes 1” through 4”, total weight of 5 lbs, iii) Puller Cart with tool bag, weighing 35 lbs. You can separately buy ½” Super Hawg, two speed drills of 450 and 1,750 RPM. You get a factory warranty of 5 years.

The Greenlee Wire Puller can pull up to 4, 000 pounds. It features a wheeled base for improving the mobility. Because of its standard 15 amp circuit, it is ideal for both industrial and commercial use. The GL-UT4 Ultra Tugger has two options of speed. With high speed, it can  pull 2, 000 pounds and can pull up to 26 feet of cable per minute. With low speed, it can pull between 2,000 and 4,000 pounds and 13 feet of cable per minute. The safety features include built-in circuit breaker, a right angle sheave, a crash bar and remote control switches.

Slug Buster knockout punch sets are used for the removal of slug. The punch profile splits the slugs and makes the job easier.  Electrical contractors prefer it because of its knockout options that are powered by battery.  They also use other tools such as slug splitter knockouts for stainless steel, stud punches, speed punch knockouts, c-frame punches and specialty punches.

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Milwaukee Tool 2017 New Product Symposium Recap

Since 2008 Milwaukee Tools has been throwing their annual New Product Symposium as an opportunity to show off new tools they’re bringing to market and advancements they’re making with their existing product lines. It’s also an excellent opportunity for us tool enthusiasts to get a feeling for what’s to come beyond those items being showcased. This year marks Milwaukee’s 10th annual event. We attended and we were not disappointed.

Though a wide variety of new tools, devices, and accessories were unveiled, Milwaukee’s 2017 Symposium focused on the company’s drive for “Disruptive Innovation” in the tool space. This term is meant to highlight Milwaukee’s ability to identify product lines, either of their own or from their competition, where an existing tool or accessory can be dramatically improved. The improvements can be achieved using Milwaukee’s ability to offer creative and innovative solutions through field interviews, extensive R&D, rapid advanced prototyping, and hands-on field testing. The end results of their effort are aimed at industry changing advancements to help both pros and DIYers alike accomplish their projects in a higher quality, safer, and faster manner.

Throughout the event, the theme of the sessions focused on two primary categories of advancement. First, Milwaukee highlighted where their new solutions were truly first to market, besting their competitors either in specs, efficiency, or form factor. Second, they focused on their ability to leverage and improve on their existing tool technology, both solidifying their users’ existing investments in the Milwaukee brand, and expanding their capabilities of what they offer their users.

Hand Tools, Storage, and Gear

Though hand tools, storage, and gear were lumped into a single demo session, some of the true highlights came from this grouping. Offering innovations in everything from screwdrivers with tactile identification of head type, to an ergonomic punch down tool with integrated LED, I walked away wishing one of each had been in my toolbox 10 years ago! In every case, these are tried and true hand tools with innovative solutions to well known shortcomings in the traditional tools.

What better way to organize hand tools than through gear and storage solutions? Milwaukee’s entrance into sturdy modular storage with their PACKOUT system was one of the real buzzworthy items in the show. After withstanding the abuse of a dropped cinder block that left competitor cases in pieces, the real capabilities of this system are apparent when you see the various sizes neatly stacked and snapped together. There’s really no better way to gain efficiency on the jobsite or in your own project or shop than through organization, and the PACKOUT is a great step to make that a reality. The whole system will be available in September 2017

M12 & M18 Systems

The M12 and M18 FUEL Systems really ended up as some of the stars of the show, and I think that was one of Milwaukee’s goals. From an M18 Hackzall to a High Torque ½” Impact wrench, most of us spent the most “hands on time” in this demo. But the three tools that really stand out are some of the bigger differences in size. The M18 FUEL 7-1/4” Dual Bevel Sliding Compound Miter Saw and accompanying lightweight Miter Saw stand were a great combo. At just 28 pounds it’s one of the lightest and most versatile cordless miter saws on the market, and the only dual bevel available. The saw should be available in September 2017.

The M12 Soldering Iron and the M18 Compact Heat Gun are going to be game changers in the electrical field. A battery operated soldering iron without hot exhaust is an excellent new take on a traditional tool. This new incarnation, with LED indicator for heat readiness, is extremely user friendly. And the M18 Compact Heat Gun is truly a first of its kind in the market. I was able to solder a connection and shrink wrap in about 90 seconds start to finish, and all without any cord. This is going to be a great set for the electrical or HVAC pro, as well as the electronics hobbyist. Expect these tools in October and September 2017 respectively.

Finally, the M12 Stapler was really sort of badass. Bet you didn’t expect to see those words together as part of this event review. Milwaukee’s concept team really outdid themselves on their attempt to innovate a typically stagnated tool. Battery driven, compact, ergonomically friendly, and with features like an auto drive option, using this stapler was just fun. Sure, you might not have the forearm gains of Popeye when you’re done installing a vapor barrier, but your wrists will thank you. The M12 Stapler is slated for an October 2017 release.

ONE-KEY

ONE-KEY is Milwaukee’s inventory management technology solution that is built into their newer tools, but can be added to other tools as an after market capability by way of the TICK. If you’re familiar with Bluetooth tracking technologies like the Tile or other devices that help you track your keys, wallet, pets, or anything else you want to stick it on, this all works in a similar manner. Geared towards the pro that’s trying to maintain and track tool inventory on the jobsite, the capabilities for ONE-KEY are far reaching as more components are released and more software ideas are implemented. Right now you can think of it primarily as a security device, but in the future it’s my guess you’ll be able to track many details, such as when your tools will need calibration or service based on run time. This is the tip of the iceberg when it comes to smart tools, and Milwaukee is making a major attempt at future proofing their tools with ONE-KEY.

Empire Levels

Milwaukee set aside a significant amount of time to highlight the many advances in their Empire Level line of products. Starting with a factory tour to show manufacturing capabilities of Empire on our first day, and a dedicated demo of the products on day two, the apparent quality of this line really speaks for itself.

From an impact resistant UltraView LED torpedo level, to the auto calibrated digital levels with tone that range from 16” to 72”, these levels really breathe new life and features into a proven existing technology. Going into the symposium I didn’t expect to walk away saying “I think really need a digital auto calibrated 72” level,” but here we are.    

Dust Extraction

New OSHA regulations limiting airborne silica dust generated from concrete work go into effect later this year. Milwaukee has been hard at work creating solutions for advanced dust extraction and collection to conform to these regulations. This includes the creation of dust extraction mechanisms for drilling, cutting, chiseling, and grinding. Several demos showed the impressive efficiency the tool accessories offer for dust extraction, which are impressive on their own. But beyond the OSHA regulations, the 8 Gallon Dust Extractor with self cleaning HEPA filter and tool accessories will benefits well beyond the concrete trades. I can’t help but think about how far this could go to limit plumes of joint compound dust, another other airborne particulate debris! The Dust Extractor will be available in July 2017, and the various extraction attachments in the September to October time frame.

Carbide for Days

Milwaukee seems to have a grand time adding carbide tips to all of their blades, and why wouldn’t they? Their manufacturing process is repeatable and reliable, and adding as much as 25% more carbide to their tips than their competitors makes for some seriously impressive bits and blades. Between the BIG HAWG, Hole Dozer, and TORCH, the blades we tested have an excellent lifespan even when encountering obstacles while drilling and cutting. We saw first hand as single carbide TORCH blade but through cast iron, then boron enforced steel, then more cast iron, all while beating competing methods in head to head competitions. I would expect to see more and more carbide tipped applications in the coming years, perhaps in a circular saw blade sooner than later.

Lighting

Milwaukee is putting a lot of time into providing improved jobsite lighting for trades, and that was obvious again this year. Whether we’re talking full room lighting with their RADIUS lights, area lighting with the ROVER offerings, or my favorite, task lighting with rechargeable head lamps, pocket floods, and flashlights. The versatility of the lighting is their real strength.

The M18 RADIUS light even incorporates an integrated two battery charger for when in use as a corded light, and remote operation capabilities via the ONE-KEY app. The task lighting will be available September 2017, and the M18 RADIUS in August 2017.

Plumbing

The focus on improving the efficiency and effectiveness of trade tool users is apparent in all of the demos, but it really stands out for me with the new plumbing offerings. Plumbing tools take some serious abuse due to their often constant contact with water. Add to the fact that plumbers need to keep their work areas clean in customer homes, often when dealing with pretty messy stuff, and you have a recipe for innovation when compared to existing tools. Milwaukee has attempted to rethink design and operation on some classic plumbing tools for modern efficient implementations. An M12 Drain Snake and M18 Drain Snake make a cordless powered solution for a typically very manual and cumbersome tool. And the M18 Sectional Drum Machine offers greater portability in lightweight sectional construction, contained mess within an enclosed drum, and safer operation through an auto break on switch release. But the real star was the M12 AirSnake. A handheld cordless air compressor delivers a variably powered shot of air directly to the drain clog, clearing the obstruction without the need for cumbersome and messy snakes that can damage fixtures. The M12 Drain Snake is already available, and the rest of the line is planned for November 2017.

Summary

Milwaukee’s R&D and desire to stay ahead of the competition is apparent. And from this event, it seems their employees really enjoy and have fun working towards this goal. With all of the cool and innovative tools unveiled at this year’s event, it really makes me look forward to what we might see next year. Would love to see a FUEL Table Saw and Track Saw.

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7 questions after 'The Walking Dead' Hearts Still Beating

"The Walking Dead" is returning much more quietly than it's fall premiere plus a lot less gruesome. Season 7 kicked off with a cringe-inducing double murder that was able to turn the stomachs of even its most longtime fans desensitized to the show's splatter fest. This was the first episode I can recall where people were saying the show had gone too far. Fans not used to seeing Rick Grims and company being put their paces weren't happy as they were all driven down by Negan into misery and subjugation for several episodes. Seeing Daryl Dixon forced naked in a jail cell eating scraps was a shocking change, but it was necessary to show the ramifications the group had when they went after Negan in season six. While Negan may at times be absurdly cartoonish with his antics, he's the worst villain to be on "The Walking Dead," and the only one to take Rick Grimes down to his core where he's lost even more than when he was taking phone calls from his dead wife many seasons back. The last episode of season 7A gave us hope as the crew got back together, and they know they have to fight Negan again or continue losing ratings and driving fans away. It won't be easy as they've now got to band together with other groups to help in their taking down Jeffrey Dean Morgan's memorable bad guy. For those that might be a little foggy on how things ended in December, here's the breakdown review from Heart's Still Beating and then those questions for the Sunday premiere.

The Walking Dead Season 7 Episode 8 Hearts Still Beating Recap Review

Kids. Stay out of pool halls. Nothing good ever comes of it.

Could get stabbed. Maybe shot at. And even cause the death of a friend.

That’s the lesson learned in the mid-season finale of The Walking Dead.

This was a nice wrap-up to a tough season for the good guys. Sure, Team Grimes lost another team member. But the tide is turning. Even if only slightly.

Negan is still in full control, but his excessive bullying is gonna come back to bite him. He’s gotten away with terror tactics on folks that saw fighting back as futile.

Now he’s fucked with the wrong group.

A group that is now ready to go out on their shield if need be.

The episode started and ended with a shot of Maggie at the Hilltop gate. We got a reminder of how big a prick Gregory is, and I’m not sure he will last much longer.

Meanwhile, Negan is playing top chef at Rick’s house. He’s kinda impatient waiting for Rick to get back so he can tell him how Carl tried to assassinate him with the machine gun.

Rick and Aaron were busy getting to the little houseboat that the mystery doomsday prepper left behind. The duo managed to make it to the boat, but Aaron nearly bit the dust when he was yanked into the water.

Guess what, though. The prepper isn’t dead. Someone is watching Rick and Aaron as they load up the guns and supplies. I’m thinking this ninja prepper, whom we see at the very end of the episode, was waiting for someone to take his stuff.

He was out of ammo, so he wanted to find a new group. Anyone who made it through his obstacle course would be pretty powerful so that would be a good group for him to align himself with. Or herself?

We only got a tiny taste of the story at The Kingdom. We see Richard begging Carol and Morgan to help convince Ezekiel that they must fight off the Saviors. This little slave deal they have going doesn't sit well with Richard at all. He knows it will fall apart soon anyway. So why not fight sooner rather than later.

Were you shocked to see Daryl actually escape his cell?

Me too. I figured it was a trick all along. But he made it all the way out, along with Jesus. Of course, he had to use a steel pipe on the brains of Fat Joey before leaving on his motorcycle.

And he also yanked Rick’s hawg-leg pistol back from fat boy too. Could he have let the guy walk away like he begged? Yep, but no way Daryl was taking any chances on getting caught and sent back to his dog crate.

Michonne’s field trip with her hostage didn’t help much. She did realize how formidable Negan’s group is though after seeing the massive layout. She just headed home after popping her carjacking victim with her own pistol and silencer.

When Rick and Aaron arrive back in Alexandria, they get bullied and Aaron takes a real beating just for the hell of it. Nothing they can do. Take it or get someone killed.

Speaking of which, Spencer’s plan to get on Negan’s good side went terribly wrong. Turns out Negan doesn’t like a gutless wonder trying to get him to do Spencer’s dirty work. So he spills Spencer’s guts all over the street.

Didn’t even finish the game of pool.

Negan did slip up and ask the worst question ever. “Anyone want to finish the game?”

Rosita took him up on his offer and took a shot at the king with her single bullet. Barney Fife would have been proud.

But to quote Omar Little from The Wire, “Come at the King, you best not miss.”

She did.

Or more accurately, she hit Lucille instead of Negan. Damn, that was close. And it would have been cool to see Rosita take him out.

Not yet folks. The build up has to continue.

Negan is super pissed at this attempt on his life. He was just playing a friendly game of pool after all. This may change his mind about getting that vacation home in Alexandria he mentioned. Crime rate is just too high there.

Who paid the price for Rosita taking a shot at the king? Poor Oliva. She was murdered and still got insulted after the fact. Negan is cruel in case you have yet to notice.

So Eugene fesses up about making the bullet that is now embedded in Lucille. And he is taken back with Negan and company.

Rick put down zombie Spencer to complete the end of the Monroe family. His brother, mom, and dad all ended up dead after the arrival of Team Grimes. Thanks for coming.

The episode ended with Rick seeing the light as he and Michonne talked things over in the makeshift jail cell. Keep that location in mind for part 2 of season 7.

Rick is now ready to fight. Michonne says just being alive is important. But “it’s what we do with our lives that matters.”

They will find a way. A sensible way to fight an army that far outnumbers them, even if they are joined by the Hilltoppers and Kingdom dwellers.

The show concluded with a shot of Maggie on the wall again. This time, we saw hope on her face though.

Rick and the others walked inside, and hugs were shared.

The best of which was Daryl and Rick. No words needed. The gravity of what they both have been through showed on their faces. Daryl had been treated like a mutt for the past few weeks, and Rick has had his pride ripped from him as he’s watched his people tortured.

Norman Reedus is so good. My daughter actually clapped wildly when she saw him appear from the background at the Hilltop.

Daryl handed over the hawg-leg back to Rick as well. They may not have any bullets, but this group is well on its way to rising up.

The first few episodes of part 2, season 7, should show some careful planning. It has to be more than combining forces with other communities. The attack plan has to be super smart and unconventional.

Negan may be the most ruthless villain we have seen on TWD. Yet he puts himself in harm's way often. Carl could have killed him. And if not for TV luck, Rosita would have put him down.

The next battle Rick and crew wage should be one that they know for sure they can win. Short term and long.

“He who knows when he can fight and when he cannot will be victorious.”

           - The Art of War

Top 7 Questions The Walking Dead Premiere Will Answer

Who all got killed, again?

Glenn and Abraham were the big ones, of course. We also lost Spencer and Olivia, but they were pretty marginal. Daryl and Eugene were taken by the Saviors, but Daryl escaped.

Glenn and Abraham’s brutal deaths set a gloomy tone for the first half of the season, which was primarily about Rick and friends grieving the loss and being victimized by Negan and the Saviors. We also met some new groups, and … well, that was about it. But eventually enough was enough, and the midseason finale ended with the core good guys reuniting, determined to throw off the yoke of Savior oppression.

So is a revolt coming?

The tagline for this half is Rise Up, so it seems like a safe bet. Perhaps the more pertinent question is, when will the revolt happen? Teasers find Rick on a diplomatic mission to bring groups like the Hilltop and the Kingdom into the effort. How long will it take to persuade them to join the fight? Hard to say. Will it all be resolved this season? Considering that Negan doesn’t seem to be going anywhere anytime soon, probably not.

Will we meet any more groups?

Season 7 has kicked off a new phase of “The Walking Dead” marked by colonies that are collaborating and clashing as civilization recreates itself in a postapocalyptic dawn. So far, in addition to the Saviors and Alexandria, we’ve met the weak but industrious Hilltop, led by the sniveling Gregory; the Kingdom, led by the Ren-Faire poser King Ezekiel; and Oceanside, an all-female group, led by the hard-nosed Natania, who hates outsiders but has lots of guns. There are also the Wolves, a murderous gang that was a real problem last season but hasn’t been a factor in Season 7.

So is that it? Or are there more introductions to come? Based on this season’s general world-expanding tendencies, it seems likely.

Who owned that mysterious pair of boots?

O.K., it seems very likely. The boots in question glimpsed in the midseason finale near the pond where Rick and Aaron found supplies, could very easily belong to someone from yet another group.

What’s up with that zombie herd?

In the last episode, we saw Saviors tending a herd of walkers, which may or may not be the same herd the Alexandrians loosed from the quarry at the beginning of Season 6. Whatever its provenance, the swarm seems sure to come into play somehow — we all know what Chekhov said about zombie herds hanging out on the highway.

When’s Carol going to snap out of it?

Carol has been a real bummer this season, moping through her scant few scenes as people like Morgan and King Ezekiel tried to breach the antisocial cocoon she’s spun around herself. They were unsuccessful, and after she’d sufficiently healed from her gunshot wound, Carol got herself a hermit’s hut on the outskirts of the Kingdom.

You’ll recall that the mousy housewife turned stone killer reached a breaking point last season, and sought to distance herself from others so she wouldn’t have to kill again. Carol would seem to be too intelligent to believe such a policy is possible in a lawless hellscape, but perhaps we’ll learn that there’s more to it. Or maybe she just needed some me time. Maybe she’ll learn about Glenn and Abraham, and emerge from that cocoon as a battling butterfly of righteous vengeance.

Whatever the case, here’s hoping she returns to the center of the show somehow, as it has suffered from the absence of both Carol and Melissa McBride, who plays her with grit and grace.

Will Negan tone it down?

Jeffrey Dean Morgan is electric in his performance, which is unfortunately also full of affected mannerisms — wild exclamations, an odd backbend-type move — that quickly grew tiresome. A big villain helps to give “The Walking Dead” focus, and Mr. Morgan has shown promise, so hopefully he and the writers will find the actual man behind the tics.

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Unpacking Branson: A Thanksgiving Improbability

By Don Hall

For Thanksgiving in 2012, I was single and Mom decided that I should come out to my step-sister's place in Branson, Missouri for a good old-fashioned country Thanksgiving. The carrot was family. The stick was Missouri.

In the late 1960s it was pretty much a tiny city in the Ozarks known for roadside stands peddling wares that proliferated the hillbilly stereotype. And, sure enough, there are still today roadside stands that exist only to continue to make fun of that stereotype. It's an odd thing to walk into a business in the middle of the Ozarks that sells you the stereotype it tries to escape from. Like buying a taxi cab medallion from an East Indian store or an "I'm a Wetback" t-shirt in a store that sells Mexican merchandise.

It is said you cannot judge a book by its cover.

This is true most of the time, but there are some things you can judge immediately by its cover and pretty much know what your getting.

An Ann Coulter book. Sean Hannity. A FOX News broadcast. Great America. Applebee's.

I assumed that Branson, Missouri would fall into this latter category. I was right and wrong. And the complexities made it a real trip to remember.

Branson is where the Beverly Hillbillies came from before moving to California.

A winding series of roads littered with signs and theaters and restaurants. Lots of bumper stickers that declare "I'd Rather Be Dead Than SOCIALIST" and random tributes to past GOP glory. In the three days we trucked around the city, I counted perhaps one hundred people of color the entire time—I didn't start the trip by calculating this but after a bit, it was hard to escape. Thousands of old white people with canes and wheelchairs abounded but that doesn't really look that much different than Navy Pier or the audience at Chicago Shakes—old white people like to be tourists and Branson is, after all, a haven of tourism.

My step-sister, Hannah, tells me that the crack business booms among the residents of Branson and there is evidence around if you're looking for it. The place is slightly schizophrenic in its place as a home to rednecks and hillbillies while trying desperately to distance itself from that by appealing to the tourist trade. There are places that stink of what one expects in Ozarks—a biker bar called the Hawg Trough that even my pro-GOP brother-in-law avoids and a Smoke Shop that doesn't sell cigarettes and has a pit bull guarding the door. But there are surprises that popped up during my three-day Thanksgiving vacation that defied my pre-judged expectations.

The surprises came in weird ways. When I arrived, we ate at a place called the Rowdy Beaver—a place with t-shirts that trumpeted "I Like Bald Beaver" and "That's A Mighty Nice Beaver" and had washboard walls. The thing that surprised was that the food was out of this world. It was delicious and well prepared and not at all what I expected. "Our chef prepares everything from fresh ingredients," trumpeted our waitress who seemed completely fine with her job at a place filled with such juvenile innuendo.

The Hollywood Wax Museum was fun but the wax figures left me a bit wanting—a frequent refrain of our visit was my niece saying "Who's that?" and me doing my best to figure it out. I tried to convince my family to go to Silver Dollar City so I could find and steal a urinal cake but it was $60 per person and even I couldn't argue that $300 was reasonable for me to complete a toilet cookie tale. We had tickets to a magic show billed as the World's Largest (by the way, every attraction in Branson is billed as "Show of the Year," "The Most Amazing in the World," and "Mindblowing") but the show was cancelled due to illness. Turns out Kirby VanBurch's greatest trick is to take your money and disappear.

Our replacement show for the afternoon was going to be either Jim Stafford (I desperately wanted to see this) or SIX (the nieces had heard it was awesome). Stafford only did an 8 p.m. show, so SIX at the Mickey Gilley Theater it was.

SIX is six middle-aged brothers who debuted on the Donnie and Marie Show and have fashioned themselves as sort of an older version of an a cappella boy band. As soon as they started with a cheeseball version of Don't Stop Believin', Hannah and I turned to each other with a look of pained resignation. These guys had pretty good voices and the arrangements were fine but the self-consciously hip pose and cornball attempts at cool banter was unbearable. I learned that wanting to see an awful Branson show and actually sitting through one are two different things. I also learned that I will never, as a middle-aged white guy, ever use the words "homie" or "peeps" ever again. To be fair, the second act was better—a selection of Christmas songs and a tribute to their dead mother. Apparently this tiny woman had ten children, all boys, and I suspect she isn't dead but just got the fuck out of there before having to bear an eleventh kid. But the damage of the first act left me scarred and a little terrified of that evening's show—Legends at the Dick Clark American Bandstand Theater.

Legends is a show that debuted in Vegas and moved to Branson. It is a rotating cast of celebrity impersonators ranging from Barry White, Marilynn Monroe and Tim McGraw to the staples of Elvis Presley and Michael Jackson. Our bill was George Strait, Whitney Houston, the Blues Brothers, Liberace and Elvis. As we entered and sat down, once again surrounded by octogenarians, I steeled myself. This was going to be fucking awful.

And it wasn't.

Really. In fact, it was a blast. The Whitney Houston knocked it out of the park, Liberace was funny but completely inappropriate in a callback to the dark days of The Gay Closet and the Elvis impersonator was so fucking good, if we had been sitting in the nose bleeds it would've been like actually seeing Elvis live. My mom, a huge Elvis fan from when he was alive, commented that he was the best Elvis impersonator she had ever seen. Hell, even my teenaged nieces enjoyed the show.

But we saved the best, most Branson-y show for Saturday. Yakov Smirnoff. Holy shit. I couldn't wait. I was absolutely certain it would embody everything I expected Branson to be—cheesy, cloying, the very portrait of a has-been celebrity stretching out his 15 minutes of fame as paper thin as he could in the heart of the Vegas of the Ozarks. We were greeted by a giant Yakov head making awful jokes about... the size of his head! Inside, it turned out that Yakov was a painter and had his paintings for sale!

The beginning of the show was the longest version of the national anthem I've ever heard (who know there were, like, nine verses?) and then I was hit with another fucking surprise. On the video screens came an old Paul Harvey "The Rest of the Story" about a painter known as Jacob who painted and commissioned a painting in tribute to the fallen at Ground Zero in NYC following the Attacks of 9/11.  Painted on the side of a building overlooking the rubble, it was the backdrop to the first anniversary of the attacks. The painter was an anonymous Yakov Smirnoff. He paid for the commission out of his own pocket.

Some of his show was what I expected: a revisitation of his "What a Country!" schtick from the '80s—a sketch of him as the president answering questions from the audience, and he actually quoted the Lee Greenwood God Bless the U.S.A. as a closer. But other parts were not at all what I anticipated. Turns out that Yakov went out and got a Master's Degree in psychology and decided that his show could also serve as a relationship counseling session as well. Sort of like Defending the Caveman meets a less arrogant Dr. Phill with the takeaway being that we begin relationships laughing and giving each other little gifts and that, if we simply return to giving each other gifts and finding laughter in our relationships, we'll be happier, healthier people.

Was it a great show? Not really. The dancers were cheesy and only there to fill time, the jokes were funny in a "Yeah, I remember that one" sort of way, the political stuff was tame (although at one point, Yakov asked the audience who was happy with the results of the latest election—a smattering of applause that included my mother and I enthusiastically cheering—and who was ticked off by it—a thundering, slightly ugly ovation—with the Russian comic commenting "Yeah, that's about even...") and the recurring pro-America stuff was hard to hear after a while. But the thing is... I liked him.

I mean, I really liked the guy. He was so overwhelmingly sincere and genuine. Christ, I wanted to hug him. And, while his show is corny and inoffensive and gentle and perfect for the Branson tourist crowd, this is a guy who lives in Branson, Missouri suggesting that people spend time laughing and loving one another instead of being shitbags.

Prejudice is a funny thing. Judging books by their covers is what we do as people. I imagine it's a hard drive instinct. But, as I am often heard saying, while we are all unique and precious snowflakes and each of us is completely distinct, we are all made of fucking snow. We all are simply people trying our best to get along in the world. Yes, that means that our baser, uglier instincts come to play like ordinary people rioting in a Walmart on Black Friday to get a discount on a portable DVD player. It also means that our better, more generous nature comes into play, and sometimes it's nice to be reminded that even in Red State Hell, Yakov Smirnoff is telling thousands of people every week to just be fucking nicer to each other.

On Thanksgiving, the point is to be with friends or family and celebrate those things in our lives we are (or should be) thankful for. Sure, the holiday is laden with cultural markers that include the genocide of the Native Americans and our national quest to bequeath every American with diabetes but the point is gratitude. Gratitude can come from a lot of places and I’m thankful to remember the lessons I learned in Branson.