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New Orleans
Snow - none -
Just got back from my first round of shoveling, the old fashioned way, because I hate noisy contraptions.
Yee-haw! not only my first first, but it's snowing here too!
I can't even go sledding in NE philly. It's too bad out.
Chicks dig it!
I made some Italian pork soup. it tastes so good. Soup on a cold snowy winters day, can't beat that.
i agreee, but my soup comes out of cans.
/student
About 6 to 10" here in western Pennsyltucky.
Go Steelers!
Yep, we gots da snow here, too. I just closed the store early, picked up a few munchies at the supermarket, picked my way through our as-yet-unplowed city streets and came home to the delightful sight of my son and his friends playing in the snow. I have plenty of various adult beverages, lots of good grub and a cord of firewood.
Bring it on!
Make some snow lanterns for tonight: Make about nine snowballs and arrange them in a circle, touching. Then make the next layer out of seven snowballs, a little on the inside of the nine, and so on. Before you close the whole thing, insert a lit candle, and top with one snowball. It looks really lovely if you make several of these along your front path.
50 Most Loathsome People:
http://www.buffalobeast.com/66/
50mostLoathsome2004.htm
No snow here. Actually nice outside. Would trade it all to not be living in Red State.
.. Krewe d'Vieux is marching tonight - the best parade of carnival. Can't wait for the anti-Bush stuff this year.
We'll catch some beads for all you snow bound folks
Hasn't gotten here yet, but is on the way. We're north enough that we'll only get about 6". Sigh. Well, at least the temps are finally a smidge above zero.
50 Most Loathsome People:
I know who No. 1 is without even looking.
Wow, for once it pays to live near Harrisburg... looks like we might be almost done with the snow...
On the way back from the deli a while
ago, I saw a guy walking some big
old dog, and all the dog wanted to do
was throw himself down and roll
around in the snow.
It was hilarious.
Albuquerque, 1:40 pm, mst: partly cloudy, 50F...no snow, no waves either...just sayin
Yeah, we're under a blizzard warning here too. The local forecast for Sunday says 20-40 cms of snow with 100 km/h winds, and all it says for Monday is "blizzard".
It's usually foolish to count on a storm day before it actually happens, but I like my chances to miss work on Monday.
Here's hoping!
ctjames
It's easy to make. Get crokpot and just throw a bunch of stuff in and let cook for hours. It tastes so much better.
This is what those of you in the north east have coming your way if you are lucky.
Here is the view out the back doors. Looks like about 12" so far.
... and here is the snowdog Dojo.
I love the immediacy of digicameras.
ya.
stuck on queen lane w/o food. at least there's wireless internet.
in the words of my man quagmire, all-right.
Hoyt C.
Go steelers but they will lose in the super bowl to the iggles.
Snowy, windy day in Northern Ohio. Stupid lake effect snow. Oh well, at least I am stuck at the library, there are worse places to be 
.. Krewe d'Vieux is marching tonight - the best parade of carnival. Can't wait for the anti-Bush stuff this year.
We'll catch some beads for all you snow bound folks
lb0313
Are all y'all starting Carnival ALREADY, cher? Mardi Gras must be early this year...
Snow! Bring it on! We've got enough kitty litter to last until 2027, at least.
That's real Social Security
I'm sure the cable will go out at some time tomorrow when the wind picks up, though.
Only spitting snow in St. Louis but a terrible cold wind at about 17 degrees. Wind chill has to be around zero. Hope our east coast friends have plenty of firewood and cocoa.
Shouldn't Dojo have a little keg around his neck or something?
Erik
I seem to remember a 27 to 3 game earlier this season.
Riverbend says:
People in many areas are being told that if they don’t vote- Sunnis and Shia alike- the food and supply rations we are supposed to get monthly will be cut off. We’ve been getting these rations since the beginning of the nineties and for many families, it’s their main source of sustenance. What sort of democracy is it when you FORCE people to go vote for someone or another they don’t want?
Negroponte fingerprints all over this one. Go read
Mrs. THB is expecting about 6 inches overnight.
oh man, it never snows here.
Collingswood, NJ 3:50pm
Yee gawds.
Went walking in 6 inches of the stuff. And thsi is the beginning. Oy.
But then I _do_ think it's cool.
Hey, it's snowing sideways.
Just starting in eastern York county Me. Got to go collect the eggs again. Lots of frozen eggs this week.
Just read at Weather Underground that Philly area forecast is for Heavy Snow Showers . . .
And freezing fog.
What is freezing fog? I've never heard of/seen this before?
Here in central Ohio we've had fresh snow but nothing serious. Which is good since we had the 4 day power outage over holidays followed by swift snow melt and flooding.
Tinfoil Hat Boy
6" of what?
woody
Carnival is a season - from 12th night until the Tues before ash Weds (aka Mardi Gras). We celebrate the whole damn time... Then we take a little break - and come back for St Joseph's/St Patrick's day... come check us out.
This year Mardi Gras is indeed early - a week from Tues.
The Krewe d'Vieux is the last of the old fashioned small time local rabble parades. Goes through the quarter and the adjacent neighborbood - the Marigny. I highly recommend it.
What sort of democracy is it when you FORCE people to go vote for someone or another they don’t want?
Australia. $50 fine if you don't. In fairness, I don't know if they have a "none of the above" choice, though it seems logical. The upside-downers have got it rightside-up. Love to see it here, but I'm not holding my breath.
About 6 to 10" here in western Pennsyltucky.
Hoyt C.
Not that we don't trust, but is there a woman around who could measure?
Well better take the dogs out and start shoveling some of that white stuff.
Stay warm.
Lots of teams beat a team in the regular season only to lose to that same team in the super bowl. Rookie QB's don't win super bowls and Little Ben is no exception.
Snow! Bring it on! We've got enough kitty litter to last until 2027, at least.
And you can sprinkle it on your sidewalks/driveway if you run out of salt.
We had an ice storm recently that took about a fifth of all the limbs off the trees in a five county area. I have a hole in my roof and the power was out for a week. The basement filled up with eight inches of water. This followed a 14 inch snow on christmas day with the power out when it was 15 below. A little snow ain't nothin compared to the other tricks old man winter has up his sleeve.
Not that we don't trust, but is there a woman around who could measure?
That would mean turning the lights while I'm naked and SpongDob Spooge Pants wouldn't approve. You must be a heathen Liberal!
Northern Wisconsin / Lake Superior weather. Woke up to eight to ten inches of fresh light snow. Temperatures in the mid teens(up 40 degrees from last Saturday's -31). Two hours of snowblowing. Trip to video store. Soup on the stove. Crusing until Monday.
the lines in the supermarket are ridiculous. This is NYC, people. Relax. It's not like there isn't a deli every 15 feet. You'll be able to get milk.
Several years ago I was in a supermarket just before a snowstorm. I happened to be standing beside the manager watching people wheel carts out. Some of them had five (5) gallons of milk along with their bread and toilet paper. I turned to him and said "they will never be able to drink all that before it goes sour." He replied "and then they will bring it back for a refund."
The only milk left in the store was a case of goats milk (I have no idea where they got it. Never saw it in that store before or after) and it was one-half gone.
Well, just when do y'all want the woman to take the measurement? Hmmm? I mean, are we talking unexcited, or excited?
Erik
I'd love to debate, but I've got to go shovel snow. (maybe later) and besides the iggles suck.
Good boy, Dojo!
No snow yet. Soon.
meteorologists have predicted 6 - 10" here in Ohio, but the secretary of state has said that snow will not be counted unless it is on 10 lb cardstock...
God's way of punishing Fairbanks for voting Republican was to give us a dose of 53 degrees below last week. I guess He's cooled off now, it's up to zero.
Here in suburban DC we only got about 3" of snow, but with DC drivers, that's plenty. Maybe more tonight, so the Sunday morning trek to get the NY Times will be interesting.
Soulless Kooks, Mr. Bush? By WALTER BRASCH
Rookie QB's don't win super bowls and Little Ben is no exception.
So you're assuming they'll lose to the Patriots led by...Tom Brady?
Tena - you are baaaaaaaaaad today.
put the cat out?
A can of goat's milk?
WTF?
More snow:
Spongebob Squarepants is gay.
No WMDs but democracy is OK.
Tinky Winkie is gay.
Liberals hate America.
Barney is gay.
America does not hold the Bush administration accountable.
Andrew Sullivan is gay.
Fox News is Fair and Balanced.
Wait, Sullivan is gay!
The World wants democracy.
Metrosexuals are, as it turns out, gay - and kinda cartoony.
They are trying to take Christ out of Christmas.
Lincoln was gay - defiantly cartoony.
Jesus was a conservative Protestant Anglo-Saxon heterosexual.
Somebody get me a shovel. Or a blow-job, my driveway is not thatlong!
.
A little snow ain't nothin compared to the other tricks old man winter has up his sleeve.
sj
that's a savage beating, bro...where do you live?
Sorry.
Wrong thread. The snow comments on the Craphammer thread got me confused. He does look like he drank a lot of sour milk though.
Doozer amoung fraggles-
Australia doesn't have a 'None of the above' choice, but we are allowed to rank our preferences. If your first choice doesn't get in, your vote then goes to your second choice and so on. This means that not one vote is ever useless, like a vote for nadar might be, and that you can vote for minor candidates without fear of throwing away your vote.
Secondly, you're not really forced to vote. You're forced to appear at a voting booth, sign off on the role, and collect your ballot or else you get a fine. You're free to do what you want with it then, and if you don't put it in the ballot boxes, no one will know.
The reason we have this system in place is to prevent people from being disenfrancised, either by being scared away from the polls or removed from the roles.
The kitchen beckons.
Catch y'all later....
Southern VT: Snow began 3:25 pm. Picked up an inch in the first half hour.
Was 5 inches on ground already, predictions are for 14 to 18 inches with winds to 60 mph.
On the other hand, they predicted our high today would be 10 degrees, but we didn't even get above zero (from our low last night of -17F).
Ha! Good for you. Here in Canada's National Capital Region (aka Ottawa-Gatineau), it's a balmy day - temp's around 12 degrees Celsius, sunny, no snow, even a few crocuses poking up through the ground. So, take that 2nd-coldest-capital-city-in-the-world, Ulan Bator..and take that, Philadelphia, while I'm at it!
...oh, who the hell am I kidding? I'm looking out the window at the frozen wasteland and am noticing two ravens fighting over one of the two frozen testicles I lost this morning trying to scrape off the car.
that's a savage beating, bro...where do you live?
Ben Roethlisberger country in Northwest Ohio.
Make some snow lanterns for
tonight
That is possibly the coolest crafts idea i have ever heard.
Snow tapering here in Chicago. Funny thing: i shoveled out my car around noon, just enough to blast out of there in case they make me move it to clean the streets later in the week. Luckily wwe both use the train to get to work.
i was behind the wheel, just to move it back and forth a few times to make sure the tires are clear, when a guy pulls up next to me and asks hopefully "You going out?"
i began giggling like Dear Leader at an execution; clearly, he was NOT from Chicago....
Memes for the Left:
Restores America's Values.
&
Freedom & liberty for Arabia, NOW.
What do you think?
It's like a locust swarm here - sideways snow, crazy snow, god's vengeance snow... And I have to walk a block to the 7-11... I need a dogsled
Make some snow lanterns for tonight
snow's too cold here for snowballs. Beautiful light fluffy stuff, and STILL COMIN' DOWN!
whoopeeeeeee!
(Eagles/Steelers Superbowl -- that'd be sweet.)
The reason we have this system in place is to prevent people from being disenfrancised, either by being scared away from the polls or removed from the roles.
Why, that's... that's... un-American!
Damn crazy furriners.
Hey Ripley, as long as you're going out, I have a real short list here.....
I knew God would punish us for the re-election of Bush (although those of Eschatonian Valley are innocent of the crime.) I just didn't think it would be death by snow.
Tons of snow here in Chicago, too.
The snow has finally started. Yay!
QuiltLady - Tena - you are baaaaaaaaaad today.
Gotta do something - we don't gots no snow here.
Plus, I'm pretty bad most days.
comin' atcha, NTodd!
Gotta do something - we don't gots no snow here.
You know what to do to get snow there! Just agree to my terms from the earlier thread.
erik and hoyt, you are both wrong. the steelers will not go to the super bowl. they will lose to new england tomorrow. philly will beat atlanta and will lose to new england in the super bowl.
by the way, i have identified the mystery flavor in laphraoig if anyone is interested.
Lol, Semper - beer and pizza, that's my list..
Hey, Frederick, I'm in Glenview - hiya !
This is what those of you in the north east have coming your way if you are lucky.
Where the heck is that? and my front yard here on Long Island is starting to resemble that picture.
Lou - ...oh, who the hell am I kidding? I'm looking out the window at the frozen wasteland and am noticing two ravens fighting over one of the two frozen testicles I lost this morning trying to scrape off the car.
ROFLMAO!!!
Absolutely one of the funniest things I've ever read.
At the south edge of Ohio we're only getting a few flakes so far, and the freezing rain this morning didn't amount to much. Might get 3" or so overnight.
cs, we get freezing fog in Ohio sometimes, though I think I saw it more frequently in Iowa and Minnesota. It's fog freezing on surfaces. Doesn't make a heavy clear coat like freezing rain, more a light sparkly fur of ice crystals.
Tena, those Russian olives you mentioned a few threads down - the berries are supposed to be not just edible, but pretty tasty. This according to the author of Uncommon Fruits Worthy of Attention, Lee Reich. Haven't tried them myself.
Gee, I was just out in the back, picking oranges!
Ripley, Frederick - used to live in Evanston, then Fake Forest.
East Coaster now.
Monica_A -
You know what to do to get snow there! Just agree to my terms from the earlier thread.
Let's see the snow first, then we can talk.
Know what I like about snow? The way it smells. Really.
Anyone else's moms used to make snow icecream? When I was a kid, we thought that was the coolest thing ever.
Tin Foil Hat Boy,
Even if you have to do it twice?
Ahianne - I had no idea about the berries. I keep wondering if I could successfully keep one alive up where I am. I"m about another 1500 feet above Gunnison, so lots of things that grow there won't make it up where my place is.
The strange thing about that is that Gunnison routinely has colder temperatures than Lake City. Gunnison is the coldest spot in the nation not infrequently.
guy!
you must be in wisconsin. your dog has the same kind of tag as my snow-spaniel
lots of snow in madison
Anyone else's moms used to make snow icecream?
the "lemon" flavor wasn't so good though.
Hecate - I love the way snow smells. In Colorado in late September we sometimes get strong winds blowing a storm in and I can smell the snow in the wind. I love it.
Let's see the snow first, then we can talk.
Oh no! Agree then will talk about scheduling shipment. Quoting Jack Woltz from The Godfather: "I ain't no band leader."
Just started lightly...
Kinda dry and below º0 here in NH...
Oh,,, to be at -- The Fair -- right about now...
I thought there was global warming!?!
"i love the immediacy of digicams."
-guy
i love the snow dog dojo!
snow
You beat me to it, Semper
Jack Woltz. Don't ever disagree with the terms of the don. Khartoum. Khartoum.
No snow here, just cold, gray skies with threats of black ice on the road later tonight.
But I have a beef stew simmering on the stove, lots of vodka, a fire in the fireplace and Garden State all ready to go in the DVD player.
Now, if I could just ignore this 200-page edit job that's due Monday.
Tena 01.22.05 - 4:32 pm
Then my Dylan dear, you would love the aroma of the NH snow hitting my back, cantilevered, cedar porch---
Lets you know Winter in indeed here-
Only a couple inches of snow so far here in Houston...
trevor is right. there can't be global warming because it is snowing. if global warming were not a myth it would always be hot outside.
Know what I like about snow? The way it smells. Really.
I love how it sounds.
Ahianne -- About freezing fog . . . Ah, that makes sense. Thanks.
trevor is right. there can't be global warming because it is snowing. if global warming were not a myth it would always be hot outside.
Can't argue with logic like that!
Madison, WI
It's all done here already. The sun is out and it's nice. Looks like we got about a foot of snow...maybe less.
I like the way snow falls through the light of the streetlamps.
Gotta run to the store... now, where'd I put those pants?
Thoughts on snow.
SPent the morning in a hockey rink. Will spend the evening there as well. Snow has stopped for now. Only had a foot of drifting snow.
Paid the neighbor kid $15 to do the driveway. Well worth it, I might add.
Off to drive from Muskegon to Ludington. Should be an interesting trip.
Good luck to you East Coasters. Let me know if you need something else to warm you up. (G)
drive safely.
RF - Oh that sounds so lovely.
There was a picture of a snowy scene of a street in a small town in Connecticut in my World Book Encyclopedia entry about Connecticut. I used to turn to it and just dream of living there. Always wanted to live where it snows.
Maybe some day.
Just started to snow here, north of Boston in my appropriately named neighborhood of Winter Hill.
But it doesn't smell like country snow. There is a laundromat next door. It usually smells like dryer sheets here....
Yahoo!
Huge Iceberg Runs Aground
(Los Angeles Times) - The world's largest iceberg appears to have run aground near Antarctica, posing more problems to scientific bases and penguin colonies, where tens of thousands of chicks face starvation, scientists said.
Say it with me: "Fuuuuck!"
So what is that mystery flavor in the Laphroiag Scotch, then, Olaf? Inquiring minds want to know. Please.
Know what I like about snow? The way it smells. Really.
I love how it sounds.
I love how snow feels, I love how snow sounds. I love snow all around...
We're buried here in Minneapolis.
Hecate --
I've heard that snow is no longer safe to eat (besides the yellow stuff)
How's the snow in Northern VA? (Western MI is dreadful)
I used to work night shift data entry, and would often come home at 6 or 7AM. I loved being the first person to walk on the snow, and that keen scrunching sound it makes.
In Southern NJ it's turned into freezing ran for 1/2 hour and then back to smow. Thank God I have Vodka and bitters. I also have..."SEA BASS!" Ill-tempered too.
"so what is the mystery flavor in the laphraoig scotch then, olaf?"
-rusty shackelford
wasn't sure if anyone was interested. apparently some are.
the mystery flavor is latakia.
It usually smells like dryer sheets here....
I love that smell. I have fond memories of crossing the street from my junior high school (which is now a school admin bldg) to the laundromat where my friends and I would spend many quarters playing Galaga. I always think of that when I smell clothes drying in a machine.
Snow's not safe to eat?!
Say it ain't snow, Joe.
Rain, not ran.
latakia??
The mystery continues....
Just got back from my first round of shoveling, the old fashioned way, because I hate noisy contraptions.
this is my brother's second winter in minneapolis. he's successfully resisted buying a snowblower so far, but then he's got four kids reaching prime shoveling age.
I think it's close enough to five to go pour a drink.
Stay warm, Atrosians.
'Nova today, Iggles tomorrow.
Same here.
Thank God, I'm stocked up on milk & toilet paper!
latakia is a tobacco used in pipe bleds. it is fire cured over fires feuled by horse dung. has a very robust flavor and aroma. some people like it. others don't. i suspect holmes kept his calabash filled with a blend heavy with latakia.
I've heard that snow is no longer safe to eat
What?
How are you going to have maple syrup on snow?
Well, I went and took a quick look in my garden catalogs, but didn't find Russian Olive so far, so don't know what hardiness zones they're good for.
Know what I like about snow? The way it smells. Really.
I love how it sounds.
Yeah, I always thought that "Informer" song was kinda catchy, though I don't know if I "loved" it.
semper fubar -- Snow ice cream . . . Yes, every time there was a big fresh snow (pretty often in northern Indiana where I grew up). We'd pack top snow into a bowl, then she'd pour warm syrup over it and we'd take spoons and dig in.
mmmmmm...... must be the dung.
We're buried here in Minneapolis.
But at least it's warm! Here in VT it's even colder than in International Falls.
flurries, 32F in tennessee. planning crab legs at the chinese buffet ten miles away.
we'll see.
Olaf--
Is this true? In my wasted youth I used to smoke Balkan Sobrnjie Black Label latakia tobacco (amazing that I survived my wasted youth) -- I loved it but innocent bystanders did not always appreciate it.
I need to find some wealthy donor willing to give some fine scotch to the monks.
maple syrup on snow
We call it "sugar on snow" here. And as elitist as it is, I can't imagine having it with anything other than Vermont syrup.
cosmic grappler,
RE: Garden State. I love The Shins. If you like pop, they really will change your life.
my 'dung" comment was for olaf, of course, not cs @ 4:49.
NTodd-here's one for ya. I can't walk into a butcher shop without crying cos my dad used to be a supermarket meat clerk for years as a part time job. He'd come home with that smell and fall asleep watching the 11 o'clock news.
If the Good Lord had meant it to snow,
Our feet would look like a big banjo.
Jesus Christ never spoke
Of a white-colored cloak.
It's a sign that the Rapture's on "GO"!
Snow's very heavy here on the north-ish Jersey shore. I'm crossing my fingers the blizzard that's coming in a few hours doesn't take down the power lines, because my heat's electric and it's going down to 8 tomorrow night.
Snow is plowed pretty quickly around here, but nobody shovels their sidewalks, and of course the plows create huge drifts at the sides of the roads. If you don't have a car, as I don't, you're out of luck. I won't even be able to get to the 7-Eleven across the street for at least a week, and even then it'll be a real hassle. But I've got two gallons of milk, plenty of coffee, a dozen cans of Habitant Pea Soup, a bagful of Portuguese whole wheat rolls, and a bottle of rum, so I'll be fine.
Freezing fog can create an absolute fairlyland if it has a chance to freeze on the tree branches. If you've never seen the effect, you're in for a treat. Not great for the trees, I'd imagine, but it's really gorgeous.
cosmic - pour that drink and come back.
It's so nice to see you.
6 fun, but unexcited inches 40 miles NE of Philly.
-
Prior Aelred,
You'd better get a bottle apiece, or else....
MONK FIGHT!
aelred, yes indeed it is true. you can't find anyone to donate scotch? i though you said you were episcopalian.
I can't imagine having it with anything other than Vermont syrup.
Don't blame you. Vermont and maple syrup are synonymous, even though other states, including New York, make some pretty good stuff.
NTodd
Sorry to hear it is so cold. I'd rather have 3 feet of snow than that kind of cold anyday.
Oh yes, maple syrup and snow. I really loved that when I was a kid. It is coming down pretty hard here. I think we may be heading for more than the original predictions which were for 10-18 inches. They said tonight it should pick up with possible thunder and winds in excess of 50 miles an hour. Reminds me of Ann Arbor altough it never gets as cold here as it did there.
Aelred,
I had a wonder Johnny Walker Black last night. It warmed my poor cold bones. That doesn't really help you, but I wanted to share.
In MI, the Weather Channel has advised no unnecessary traveling tonight because of blowing snow and frigid temperatures. Stranded motorists would be in BIG trouble.
When I see cars on the road, I always wonder what the definition of *unnecessary* is to some people.
I can't walk into a butcher shop without crying cos my dad used to be a supermarket meat clerk for years as a part time job. He'd come home with that smell and fall asleep watching the 11 o'clock news.
So have you gone vegetarian?
I used to turn to it and just dream of living there. Always wanted to live where it snows.
when I was a kid I used to spread out maps of Canada and wonder what it would be like to live way up north where there aren't any highways.
a couple of years ago we rode the train up the Moose River to the James Bay estuary. I have a picture of my wife and our friends walking ahead of me down a dirt road on Moose Factory Island that might as well be in Mississippi.
Grew up up to my butt in snow. Don't miss it.
Here in Chcago we have 10 inches of lake-effect snow and it's still coming down.
We took the bone from our Christmas ham out of the freezer ths morning and we're making a big pot of split pea soup.
Trevor, it's not global warming.
It's global weirding.
When I see cars on the road, I always wonder what the definition of *unnecessary* is to some people.
Going out for Johnny Walker Black, maybe?
Olaf--
An Episcopalian, yes -- but currently the Episcopal Church is expending all of its time,money & energy on tsunami relief & infighting on the rights of gays in the church & no one remembers the scotch needs of the poor monks (although one donor did give us a bottle of green Chartreuse -- that didn't survive the Christmas holiday season!)
75 and sunny here. All the windows are open, I just got back from a walk.
Here in Dutchess County, NY, they are forecasting up to 2 ft of snow. I've got a full tank of heating oil, two bottles of Stoli, lots of gas for the backup generator, a lapcat, and a nice warm fire going in the fireplace. Tomorrow will be an attempt to clear off 80 feet of driveway with a snowblower.
Going out for Johnny Walker Black, maybe?
I think certain people would say that was necessary.
Going out for Johnny Walker Black, maybe?
I think certain people would say that was necessary.
God knows I would.
I can't walk into a butcher shop without crying cos my dad used to be a supermarket meat clerk for years as a part time job. He'd come home with that smell and fall asleep watching the 11 o'clock news.
waiting, I'm the same way about fresh lumber. My dad ran a building supply company - lumber, plywood and hard wood.
I was born in Hawaii. My parents had left SoCal near the end of the war. They bought a trout farm in the Sierras and moved up there and operated it until they went broke. Dad got a job as a civilian with the Navy afterward, and they sent he and mom to Hawaii. Mom (who grew up in Colorado,) told me that the Christmas after I was born, she walked into a grocery store in Honolulu and they had just gotten the Christmas trees in. The whole place smelled like the mountains. She said she broke down and just sobbed.
Mom hated Hawaii - said it made feel claustrophobic to live on an island.
Sorry to hear it is so cold. I'd rather have 3 feet of snow than that kind of cold anyday.
'sokay: I've got a hat. But the animals don't, so the cats refuse to go outside, and the dog is content to sleep on couch whilst I watch DVDs.
It's actually been a weird, somewhat disappointing winter. Lots of mini-thaws that mean we have significantly less snow on the ground than usual (total snowfall is a bit low, too). We go literally from subzero weather to 50 degree days within a week. Fucked up.
Snow ice cream . . . Yes, every time there was a big fresh snow (pretty often in northern Indiana where I grew up).
heh. I grew up in northern Indiana too, and I never heard of it until I moved to Tennessee.
Spinoza, you're in Dutchess County? I went to high school up there!
Swift Loris -I'm not too far from you. Were you around for the big Nor'easter, I think it was 91 or 92?
And Ahianne, according to the internets, Russian olive is an invasive species. Native shrubs with berries, like viburnums or dogwood, are suggested as a substitute.
I'm 6'4 and the beer was almost dragging in the snow as I walked back from the store. Thank god for tall Uggs and that crazy polar fleece hat contraption the ex-girlfriend gave me.
Here in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, we've got about 4 inches. I am relieved all those cowboy-hat-wearing red staters are finally leaving MY CITY and fervently hoping the weather causes them massive delays at the airport.
And Ahianne, according to the internets, Russian olive is an invasive species.
If you can eat it and it fits into your martini glass, it is not bad.
Eli, Spinoza - ever been to Clinton Hollow or Salt Point? Old stompin' grounds....
But it's really great shit, Mrs.
Pressky!!!
Ripley, hope you got everything else on my list....
Eli, Semper F - Well there are a lot of locals who apparently have never been out of the county. So good for you Eli. Semper F- I am in Saltpoint oddly enough.
aelred, it is possible that the faithful are simply not aware of your lack of fine scotch. maybe you should start a consciousness raising campaign. do you have a retreat house at your monastery? you could tell people that it is traditional to bring a gift for the monks (traditionally a bottle of laphraoig) when they use it. episcopalians love traditions. even brand new ones.
Eli, Spinoza - ever been to Clinton Hollow or Salt Point? Old stompin' grounds....
No, I don't think so. If there wasn't a sporting meet or a class trip there, I probably haven't been...
As usual, Frank Rich rocks. The final paragraph
History tells us that in these cases a reckoning always arrives, and Mr. Danner imagines that "in five years, or maybe sooner, there will be a TV news special called 'Torture: How Did It Happen?' " Even though much of the script can be written now, we will all be sure to express great shock.
Not all of us will express shock. Some of us will be pissed that we knew it all along and no one would listen in time to stop it.
I was just craving some Four Brothers pizza last night, though...
no i'm not a vegetarian, i enjoy cooking and eating way too much. but the big grocery chains don't have meat counters like they did when we were kids. the little corner stores do but very rarely do i spend extra money for meat. pasta tonight with meat sauce...mmmmmm!
I'm getting stir crazy.
Spinoza-
Do the following mean anything to you? Bud's Gas Station, Mei's Store, Country Carousel, Squires East?
(wooo, that takes me back!)
Eli-The one in Pleasant Valley? The Poughkeepsie one closed this year. But yes, Four Brothers Pizza some of the best ever.
steve simels - Fireside?
Well there are a lot of locals who apparently have never been out of the county. So good for you Eli.
Actually, I'm kinda the opposite. I grew up in NYC, but went to the Millbrook boarding school. Lots of rich kids with more money than God, but somehow I managed to have a pretty good time and not be some kind of Dickensian poor-kid pariah (well, more like upper-middle-class, really).
so i came all the way to nyc & all my friends tell me they are too busy to hang out. i am such a loser.
theodoric -- That's kind of interesting. My mom was born in Indiana but her mother moved north from Tennessee.
Semper, the list - doh ! They were out of the Jessica Simpson holiday CD so I bought a copy of Maxim instead. I don't even know who "she" is so I'm not sure it matters if I know how to make her moan for more. But they're the experts...
Semper F-Buds is still there. I think the other three are gone-one burnt down.
pasta tonight with meat sauce...mmmmmm!
Mmmm...meat sauce.
The dog is currently licking the crockpot now that my leftover beef stroganoff has been put in the fridge. I really want more, but I'm saving the rest for tomorrow night.
I miss Ba'al.
Something about the aroma.....
I'm getting stir crazy.
Then start shaking your martinis.
I'm having baby back ribs tonight. I cook them in the oven 'til they're forrk tender and then put them on the grill with Sweet Baby Ray's.
Tonight, they'll get finished in the oven, too.
Tena- did your mother ever adjust to Hawaii?
Hey Swift Loris -- Also here on the North(ish) Jersey Shore --just popped down from Manhattan to go out to dinner with the parents. That's not happening. But there is lots of wine, dogs, and lovely, lovely blankets of snow . .
Eli-The one in Pleasant Valley? The Poughkeepsie one closed this year. But yes, Four Brothers Pizza some of the best ever.
I'm not sure - I think there was a Four B's in Millbrook or Amenia - close enough that they would deliver.
Unusually salty for pizza, but it definitely worked.
so i came all the way to nyc & all my friends tell me they are too busy to hang out. i am such a loser.
Fuck 'em. Go to Times Square!
Spinoza-I used to live on Clinton Hollow road.
Eli-The one in Pleasant Valley? The Poughkeepsie one closed this year. But yes, Four Brothers Pizza some of the best ever.
I fall asleep, come back, and you guys are talking about Four Brothers?
Had one up in Hillsdale, NY, where I had a house (and where several of the four brothers lived).
I was partial to their chicken gyro platters.
Eli-Yes, there is one in Amenia. And Millbrook boarding school? You'll be glad to know they still have their zoo.
Ohmigod -- just the Sci-Fi channel
is running some low budget monster
flick starring Ron Asheton of the
original Stooges.
Amenia!
I'm feeling homesick for upstate. Well, looking out the window, I'm remembering why I sold.
Of course that should be "just now"....
We regret the error.
Semper F-I used to be in the Clinton VFD, lived near the country store.
steve simmels- you are such a movie buff- i gotta turn it on to see cos you know more b actors than i do and i'm the one all my friends call to say 'who was in this'
Chicago is buried under at least 10 inches and counting.
(.)(.)
By the way, check out this post.
waiting - they weren't there that long - only a year and half, about. Dad was offered this deal down here and this was supposed to be temporary too. Alas, it was not - they both died here.
Mom never adjusted to Texas.
And Millbrook boarding school? You'll be glad to know they still have their zoo.
They better! No-one ever believes me when I tell them my high school had a zoo. Alas, the school went all corporate a coupla years after I left - new headmaster, seems like kind of a glad-handing politician type to me.
Mom never adjusted to Texas.
Like mother...
All,
Actually forget the offer to post something warm. (I just read what I had in mind over, and I might have poor Atrios answering difficult questions about the content of his site. Funny, do not remember it being . . . that way) Oh well, enjoy the snow and find warmth where you can.
Amenia!
I know this is probably big-city snobbery, but that sign that proudly announced "Amenia: Gateway to Poughkeepsie" always made me chuckle...
Well sheeeee-it. I had to go into town (west of me bout 10 miles) at 7:30am to pick up my daughter. I was the 3rd set of tracks down the trunkway.
Man, what a fucking good time! I had a riot. All stoned and shit. Of course, the Weatherman said "2-4" and clearing by noon". Well when I left there was a solid 10" in my driveway.
I got back with her after breakfast, and caught up on things, yada yada. Then I figgered with 40-50 mph winds setting in, shoveling would be a good idea. The wife came and helped, and lo & behold - republican neighbor - the one who took his quad down to check on the blazing power box back a couple months back... plowed us out. I might add after we were half done. I thanked him all the same, a nice gesture, but he's still an asshole.
So, since he saved us a good hour or 2 shoveling, I took my kid back to her cousins house, then the wife and I went to the bar for a nice bigass burger and onion rings and a couple frosty beers.
Haven't measured yet, but the airport (which is stupid, nobody lives at the airport) said 9".
YAY! Maybe out later for drift busting !!!!! WooooooHoooooo!!!!!
Be safe everyone.
my parents are both from colorado. people from colorado tend to hate texas as far as i can tell. maybe that's where i got my deep loathing for the place.
spinoza, before I lived in Salt Point, I spent a summer living in a cabin on that little lake in Clinton Corners. Actually, now that I think of it, we went to a party at the Clinton VFD this summer (Town of Clinton party??)
Waiting --
He plays a horny park ranger.....
p.s. -
Thats Lansing, Michigan by the way.
Karin -- I remember the Nor'easter! It was '92. I was living in Chicago at the time, but I remember it vividly because the sea reclaimed my brother's house in Sea Bright (and also because it was very odd to see Sea Bright on the national news.)
wÒÓ†,
i've just made that booby my wallpaper.
Tonight, they'll get finished in the oven, too.
pie /i>
prolly shouldn't ask...ummmm, where do you get the babies???
Good luck to Iggles tomorrow Atrios.
Here in flyover country we got some frozen rain but then the wind came up so hard that it literally blew the ice on the roads away.
Arthur and I agree - now is the time to let all of you stew in your own juice.
We are returning to the back patio, where it is currently 75F and the sky is as blue as my angel's eyes. Arthur has his preprandial rawhide chewy thing and I am putting together an exceptionally nice little cupboard I bought online and was able to pick up here in town.
No. No, there's no snow here. There are some hummingbirds rambling around. Quite a few Inca/Mourning doves. Couple of robins. Pool temperature is up to around 60. Now the almond tree is starting to bud out - and wait! Lookit that! Four fat red tomatoes for dinner.
Good luck folks. You're more than welcome to nudge when it gets up to 118F here in August.
Anybody remember the Blizzard of '78?
Every time I saw the sign for Amenia on Rte. 22, I would think, "switch the letters and you have Anemia."
Ohmigod -- Mosquito. Feeding on an alien corpse makes mosquitoes big, aggressive and thirsty for human blood
I put it on steve, and the music is really ominous. Which character is the Stooge?
Semper F-That's Upton Lake.
GWPDA,
ruby-throated hummingbirds?
Karin - Tena was wondering if it would grow someplace in Colorado, so I tried to find hardiness info. If I were planting to attract birds, dogwood would be a choice that would please me too. However, while the birds like the berries of flowering dogwood, they're not good people food.
This is what my building looked like before the snow started around 11 am. This is how it looks now pretty, eh?
Every time I saw the sign for Amenia on Rte. 22, I would think, "switch the letters and you have Anemia."
I also remember the Hudson Valley Psychiatric Hospital, which was somehow *always* on the way, regardless of which direction the sporting (or, um, math) meet was...
Amenia, Ancramdale, Bangal, Stanfordville... I love it up there. Mr Semper wants his ashes scattered there someday....
I don't know that anybody hates Texans more than New Mexicans. Okies envy 'em, Lusianians disdain 'em. New Mexicans hate 'em like p'ison...
i think ruby throated hummingbirds are the only ones there are in the us. could be wrong though.
Karin:
He plays a horny park ranger named
Hendrix (little in-joke there, I
guess)
This is what my building looked like before the snow started around 11 am. This is how it looks now pretty, eh?
QuiltLady - snow covers a multitude of sins.
I also remember the Hudson Valley Psychiatric Hospital
Aptly named Wingdale (at least the Metro-North stop was).
Blizzard of '78.
Riding my snowmobile all over the highways (same areas I live in now) tripping on acid, and drinking Wild Turkey.
Up for 3 days. Had a gas of a time. Went thru 2 belts on my snowmobile. Had snowmobile drags on the main street of the little town where my buddys were from. Must have been 50 of us. Cops sat and watched us.
Man. Dontcha long for days like that again?
Aptly named Wingdale (at least the Metro-North stop was).
I remember that stop. Man, Metro North was hella scuzzy...
I can't wait for Andrew Sullivan's
inevitable prose poem rhapsody to
the beauty of snow falling over the
water outside his window in
Provincetown.
Should be up mid-day tomorrow.....
QuiltLady,
It's snowing out by you?
pie - Yah, Mom probably had a lot to do with my feeling the way I do about Texas.
Olaf - my parents are both from colorado. people from colorado tend to hate texas as far as i can tell. maybe that's where i got my deep loathing for the place
I'm torn. It seems to be my karma to be perpetually torn between things. I loathe Texas, but I have lived here all my life, so part of me loves it because it's all bound up in my memories and it's part of who I am.
I love Colorado. I have a place there, I spend about 4 months a year there and I consider it just as much my home state as Texas. But it isn't - I know that, and people from Colorado know that.
I think Coloradans feel about the way I do toward Texas - love-hate. Over on the western slope, most of them are making a living off of us.
Are the bars closed tonight?
Getting there will be quite a fight.
'Cause I'm getting quite low --
On brew.
And I'm missing my right --
Snowshoe.
i think one of the reasons i love new mexico so much is that you are finally out of texas when you get there.
Cops sat and watched us.
Man. Dontcha long for days like that again?
Now you'd be busted for terrorist activities.
QuiltLady - snow covers a multitude of sins.
NTodd
I used ta be Snow White...but I drifted
--Mae West.
prolly shouldn't ask...ummmm, where do you get the babies???
Thanks for not disappointing me. When I typed it, I just knew someone would say something like that!!! Hilarious.
Anybody remember the Blizzard of '78?
Yep, although Buffalo got it much worse than we did (south of there). Everything was cancelled, but it really wasn't that bad where we were.
spinoza, we have no doubt crossed paths somewhere along the way...
Steve,
You know the sick part? I've seen this movie already. It's bug day on Sci-Fi.
spinoza, we have no doubt crossed paths somewhere along the way...
You're probably archenemies and don't even realize it - like in Little Shop Around The Corner, or that other thing.
That's funny cause I'm uncomfortable living inland. We lived in Milano, Italy for four years. The only way I could take it was to pretend the Mediterranian was just a hop, skip and a jump away. I grew up in Manhattan.
Riding my snowmobile all over the highways (same areas I live in now) tripping on acid, and drinking Wild Turkey.
Uh...I was a bit too young for that. But I thought it was wicked cool that my friend Aaron McCoy got rescued from being snowed in by snowmobile. The substation that powered our side of the street was fucked up, but we just went and spent a week with neighbors across the street. I really wanted to be rescued by snowmobile. Aaron always was lucky that way.
Eli, you could be right! But here, we are friends.....
Michael Pollard makes a living being in these movies. He was just in the bad one right before this -- the one that I was watching right before I nodded off.
Oops, I think it's just Shop Around The Corner, otherwise Jimmy Stewart would have been feeding his archenemies to a carnivorous plant before he could find out he was really in love with one of them...
Woot, are you in Chicago, too? I'm in Glenview and Ma Nature is heaving snowballs at us.
lime rickey's limericks never scan worth a shit. other than that they are pretty good.
I used ta be Snow White...but I drifted
Tena - LOL!
Autrement qu'Etre - I was living 2 blocks from the ocean in '92. Had to beg a ride home from work because the NJ Transit train tracks were flooded out. Luckily the house stayed dry as a bone, but the entire boardwalk got wiped out. The power of the ocean is awesome. The sand was all over the streets, had to be plowed out with snowplows. No power for 2 days. Good times!
this scene reminds me of the story about the fishermen who's boat was attacked by jumping carp a couple years ago.
Eli--
:-D
Olaf - My dream is to get out of Colorado and have a place in Northern New Mexico. I feel completely at home there. Completely at ease. My dream house is adobe. I keep looking at the places between Espanola and Abiquiu whenever I drive through there.
"ruby-throated hummingbirds?"
Baby, they're far too fast for me to know. But so long as I keep the right things growing in the yard, they stop by on their way down to Tucson and their winter vacation.
WGG - Texans in Tierra Encantada - whenever I'm driving up from Abq to SF, and have a passenger along, we take bets as to when the Tejas plate drivers will be busted. Actually, I slipped out of a ticket going up from El Paso to Abq (in a rental car), soon as I showed my AZ driver's license. The officer agreed that I could go just as fast as I wanted - so long as I wasn't a Texan. He did caution me tho that I should change vehicles as soon as I could.... And never forget who-all are buried underneath the bandstand in Old Town. !Que viva la Union!
Olaf - oop - Meant to say "out of Colorado and Texas..."
Whew! Just came in from a little expedition onto the streets of NYC. When I went out,it was merely snowing heavily. By the time I came back, the wind had picked up and it's getting pretty nasty. About 4" so far, I'd guess.
i think ruby throated hummingbirds are the only ones there are in the us. could be wrong though.
Olaf glad and big
we get three or four species here summers: Broad-tailed, Black-chinned and the big, aggressive Rufus all summer here in the central Rio Grande valley.
Oh, it's really snowing again now!
Geez, Louise.
Just got in from shoveling (while my teenage son is lounging in front of the computer). It's only 3 inches here, after threats of three times as much, but driving on I-270 earlier was a white-out nightmare.
NTodd - I believe that was the year when Boston got 3 feet of snow? Oh, yeah, I remember. That was a doozy.
Olaf - Haven't read the thread, so I don't know how the subject came up, but ruby-throated hummers are the main kind found east of the Mississippi. There are LOTS more hummingbird species in the U.S., and in fact one of the western ones has been hanging around a feeder in downtown D.C. this winter.
quilt lady, where is your building? that place looks familiar.
Michael Pollard makes a living being in these movies.
Did he ever team up with Clint Howard? They would be unstoppable!
Damn, I live in California and I haven't seen snow in years! Enjoy the powder
It looks like the newest Bush scandal is starting to heat up. Chalabi-Gate.
On ruby throats - I'm sorry, but way way wrong. There are many varieties of hummingbird in the U.S. You get rubythroats mostly east.
In the summer, I have broad wings, rufouses, calliopes and black-chinned hummingbirds in Colorado.
That weren't a limerick.
Damn it - it's the pipe - broadtails not broad wings.
Jeeeeeeesus.
I want to see the other kinds! I only got ruby-throated ones at my feeders.
i think ruby throated hummingbirds are the only ones there are in the us. could be wrong though.
Not according to spine over at Candleblog.
"water outside his window in
Provincetown.
Should be up mid-day tomorrow...."
Didn't that go for taxes? And if not, why not? God knows we could have raised enough money for the claiming race. See? This is where liberals always fail.
That weren't a limerick.
But it was a beaut, nevertheless.
I'm really jealous.
No snow here.
I love snow, just love it. Even when there's a blizzard.
I have GOT to get out of this state. Got to.
Karin--no, I was living in NYC at the time. Moved here (Long Branch) three years ago, a block from the ocean. Exchanged unpleasant summers for inconvenient winters, I guess.
Autrement qu'Etre--enjoy, but get back safely!
i was probably thinking that ruby throated hummingbirds are the only ones on the east coast.
It's snowing out by you?
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i absolutely looooove days like this. fireplaces lit,snow shoveled,looking for old stooge on tv...
Why, why, oh why do people in New York City not shovel their walks? Dang, y'all.
Now is the winter of our discontent.
In more ways than one.
watertiger -
Like the night I got home from boot camp in the Marines. My buddys picked me up from the airport, and we headed off with a case of beer and a bag of weed. We had to drop John off, so Mike and I stopped to roll a joint next to the coal piles at the railroad tracks, in town. Next thing you know here comes a car - a cop car.
The one walks up to the driver side and says 'high Mike'. Cop says 'whos that with you'. I'm still rolling a joint... I said 'who the fuck you think it is, asshole'. (I knew who it was) I finish rolling, and get out and walk over his way.
Meanwhile, his rookie partner is out, and has his .38 leveled on me over the door. He says to him - 'put that thing away before he hurts you with it'. The rookie cop looked dumbfounded at him, and obliged. He ended up marrying my cousin, incidently.
We had our welcome home hugs and all that good stuff, and went on about our merry way, everything intact.
Like you'd see that happen anymore either.
Olaf, either that, or maybe a little too much laphroaig.....?
NTodd,
Thank you! What great shots! Where's your cedar waxwing he mentions?
Wait, that sounds wrong. Where's the photo of the bird?
No, that doesn't work, either.
Jennifer!!!!!
Hahahahahaha! I'm saving that and sending it. OMG
Oops, I think it's just Shop Around The Corner, otherwise Jimmy Stewart would have been feeding his archenemies to a carnivorous plant before he could find out he was really in love with one of them...
Or the one where the Nazis confiscate that little old lady's store and then find out it's not turning a profit.
Olaf glad an big - you would be wrong about the hummingbirds. But since we both live east of the Mississipi and way north of the gulf of Mexico, ruby-throated are the only ones we're likely to see.
Made the news when a rufous hummingbird showed up in central Ohio a few years back. Way out of its normal range.
Olaf - I doubt it, Queens, NY
NTodd,
Duh, he linked it. I'm not too clear-headed today.
It's surprising that, given the storm, there's not a lot of weathr porn on the local teevee.
watertiger!
Come out to Tucson. They have a bunch of hummingbird-related stuff going on.
Made the news when a rufous hummingbird showed up in central Ohio a few years back. Way out of its normal range.
The chaka khan hummingbird, on the other hand, has a much wider range.
i said i good be wrong about that hummingbird thing. i guess i was.
Watertiger:
It's always bug day on Sci-Fi.
good=could
doh!!!
Thank you! What great shots!
Yeah, he's really been capturing some great images with his new camera.
Where's your cedar waxwing he mentions?
Heh.
But seriously, do you mean where geographically? Colchester, VT.
Barndog - I got several stories like that. Cops confiscating my weed, smoking a joint with a cop in the car, getting a ride with a highway patrolman with a bag in my pocket and reeking...yep, them were the days.
Great story, Barndog. But you could be wrong about that happening now, especially in a small town.
Cops know cops in Iraq.
It's just begun here in Massachusetts. I'm reminiscing about the blizzard of '78, and Mike Dukakis appearing on TV in his sweater.
The Mitthead better not even THINK of doing the sweater/TV thing.
Seriously.
monica_nyc,
my sister in Australia called me before to get the scoop on the snow. That was her second question -- are the weather programs screaming "OHMIGOD, SNOW!"?
Great Chalabi photos, Jason.
Now I'm going to make a vegetarian version of the Portuguese kale soup.
Anybody remember the Blizzard of '78?
Heh. I remember the Blizzard of '47.
I miss the mated pair of blue jays
that lived in the tree in front
of my living room window.
Guess they've gone south for the
winter.
Damn -- I'm going all Andy Sullivan.
ok was he just the mutilated dude they turned over in office?
"Watch out where the huskies, don't you eat that yellow snow"
Frank Zappa
The chaka khan hummingbird, on the other hand, has a much wider range.
"Humm humm hum hum hummmm, (tell me tell me tell me)..."
dyin'.
What year was that big one that hit Chicago with something like twenty plus days of freezing weather? Early 80's?
Snow? What snow? I don't see no snow.
Heh. I remember the Blizzard of '47.
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I was born during it.
So I'm told.
Fuck - I forgot - we sometimes get Costas up in the mountains too. When I get there at the end of May - there may be 1 broadtail already there. I put out feeders and pretty soon I have 15 broadtails, and the number just keeps going up until July.
In July, the rufous come to town and then the calliopes, then I have probably 100 birds all day long. I keep 3 feeders out - 2 of them hold a quart each. In July, I fill all 3 at least twice a day. Sometimes it's 3 times.
I sit out on the deck and read and they are zinging everywhere. They excrete all over me, my book, my deck - teeny little black specks and syrupy liquid. I have so many birds that it has bothered some people - they couldn't sit out there. It's because I have trees between my deck and the lake and no one else does. Or it might be because I make the food with a much higher sugar content than most people do.
Heh. I remember the Blizzard of '47.
Shit, I wasn't even a glimmer--that was the year my mom was born.
GWPDA,
thanks for that! i love hummingbirds. I was sitting out on my lawn one day, reading the Sunday Times, and one stopped and hovered right by me. I sat stock-still and it just tilted its head, gave me the once-over one more time, and flew over to the feeder.
They're gorgeous creatures.
"that was the year my mom was born."
NTodd.
On behalf of all the adults on this blog.
Go to hell.
Love.
wÒÓ†, that's one beautiful booby.
And here in NC we have rain, cold cold rain that was freezing earlier and may do it again tonight. I'll take snow anyday over this.
NTodd - Nice pictures - amazing, actually. I can't imagine being able to get one at just the right moment. You sure did.
Shit, I wasn't even a glimmer--that was the year my mom was born.
I'm gonna have to slap you, boy.
Did a fucking 5 year old write this screenplay? Jesus!
Sorry, just tuned in to what was playing on the telly.
i hardly ever see hummingbirds out here. only one or two at a time when i do. my grandmothers in co used to keep feeders and they would get swarms of them.
Anybody remember the Blizzard of '78? -- Yes, and I have daughter to show for it.
On behalf of all the adults on this blog.
Hey, I'm old enough to be preznit!
Nice pictures - amazing, actually. I can't imagine being able to get one at just the right moment. You sure did.
Clarification: my friend spine took the hummer pics. He's just gotten into birding and photog. Grrr...
Now they say I can't scan worth a shit.
Oh, how it hurts to be called unfit.
I received my degree
In Limerickery.
They said the plaque on my wall's legit.*
*Came with six months supply of Viagra.
Karin, Swift Loris -- We are Old Home Week here on the Jersey Shore! My brother -- whose last house was pulled out to sea in Sea Bright now lives a block from the ocean in Long Branch! And I too am about to start cooking my (vegetarian) dinner. Dammit. We were supposed to be going to Nicholas in Middletown. Ah well. I love snow and snow in my parents backyard is prettier than snow on 3d Ave.
Ah, snowing here real good. Just getting dark. Waiting for the predicted high winds to kick in. Here is a photo from a few minutes ago.
http://sentenza.blogspot.com/200...ts-
snowing.html
A fiver year old chimp, actually.
They have a union.....
I'm gonna have to slap you, boy.
Ooh, best offer I've had all night! ;-P
Came with six months supply of Viagra.
Sheesh Rickey L, that's one hell of a lot of medicine to reach climax!
i really like that candle picture, ntodd.
Snce this looks like an open thread and I'm in Atlanta, unaffected by snow, let me post something re one of my gave artistes, Back.
I like most everything he's done, the exceptons being "One Foot in th Grave," which sounds like folkie demos to me (despite the clear songwriting talent) and "Sea Change" (What's the point of a sincere stripped-down heart-hurtin' Beck except as a change of pace?).
In any case I just listened to "Midnite Vultures" again wherein Beck impersonates 70s soul lovemen and horny funkateers to great comic effect, winding up with "Debra," a superb Prince imitation, complete with callous male selfishness in fulfilling male sexual fantasies (in this case a 3-way with a discount store clerk, to whom the song is sung, and "your sister--I think her name is Debra.")
This song even out-perverses Prince, with Beck (or "Beck") not even pretending to love the recipient of his "love" song--he barely knows her name, having glimpsed it on her name tag ("I think it was Jenny"). And all this with Beck audibly straining his vocal range (half the fun) to imitate Prince's effortless falsetto swoops and moans. I love the song and welcome any commentary, or on Beck in general.
Jesus, what's with my spelling tonite.
And no, I haven't started drinking
yet.
Looks like the storm passed us here in Maryland (Silver Spring/Takoma Park). We got maybe three inches, and according to the WaPo, the worst of the storm is over.
You folks in New York and New England have my sympathy, but, OTOH, you know what to do when it snows. Around here, people act as if they've never seen snow before.
My pot of stew is ready, and it's almost time for Prairie Home Companion. Farewell everybody!
Hey, I'm old enough to be preznit!
I wish you were.
Er, sorry. Make that these pictures of snow.
They shoulda told me not to take it all at once.
Jeffraham - I have a scar on my right eyelid from the time I taunted our cat Superstar with a paintbrush when I was 3. I'm guessing you like to play with matches, too.
NTodd, "subzero to 50s" = thermal whisplash???
WHIPLASH dammit.
That should have been "re one of my fave artists, Beck." I swear I corrected the typos and later typos in the post. The later typos were corrected, but not in the first paragraph. What kind of HaloScan kink is this?
Ntodd--
"We go literally from subzero weather to 50 degree days within a week. Fucked up."
Here in NJ it's been swinging from 20 to 60 over a couple of days.
In my house, we have a saying about such aggravations: "It's all George Bush's fault."
Because it is.
NTodd: I have a scar on my right eyelid from the time I taunted our cat Superstar with a paintbrush when I was 3. I'm guessing you like to play with matches, too.
Naw, it's not as dangerous as all that. Curly's about three years old (he's an adoptee, so unknown D.O.B.), and he's still very playful. Affectionate, then playful, I should say. It takes a good ten minutes of petting to get him riled up to the "bite Jeffraham's knee" stage. Of course, he's very gentle.
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I was born during it.
I was 5 years old. When I visualize it now, I see the snow rising way over my head, but I was shorter then.
i really like that candle picture, ntodd.
Thanks, Olaf. I like it, too. It just struck me as I was putting a DVD into the player (the candle is on our TV). It's hard for me these days to walk through life without shooting it...
Hey, I'm old enough to be preznit!
I wish you were.
Alas, only weird Quakers like Nixon get to be preznit. I'm pretty sure very few people would vote for a believer in non-violence--just look at how successful Dennis K was!
I'd probably be a crappy preznit, anyway. I hate crowds.
BELOW ZERO and snow. Frigging lots and lots of snow. My poor chickens were huddled and so cold they couldn't cluck so I put a heater in their coop.
Horses complained about ice balls in hooves, laid down more hay for them, shut the windows. Wind wind wind, too, all fireplaces blazing.
since when do mosquitoes "scream"?
Barndog - Great story and you tell it very well. I really could picture the whole incident.
Swift Loris:
Sorry, nobody here can be older than
me.
It's the law.
Snowing in Boston. They're talking 25 inches!
Sure hope my tennis club is open and I can get to it tomorrow. If not, there's the Australian Open on TV and then, hopefully, the Patriots will beat the Steelers.
Have NFL playoff games been called off for bad weather in recent years?
Pop Quiz:
By how many points will the Steelers beat the New England Patsies tomorrow?
65 degrees
Brr
Woot,
Best. Boobie. Ever. It's my wallpaper too (with your permission).
You a fellow Chicago-ite? I had you figured for an ornithologist living on Guam, or wherever the boobies roam free....
A plea to all: I wanna get digital camera/binoculars for my own photo hobbying, but know squat about them or decent on-line vendors. Any wisdom would be appreciated.
Hoyt C.: By how many points will the Steelers beat the New England Patsies tomorrow?
-6.
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Watertiger:
Since when is there sound in airless
space?
Too bad it didn't snow on Bushboy's parade.
He reminds me of a snowman. Stiff, stupid and melts at the first sign of heat.
hoyt, the steelers will lose tomorrow.
I'm gonna have to slap you, boy.
Sheesh, give 'im a break. He could be pushing 40 if his mom was born in '47.
NTodd, "subzero to 50s" = thermal whisplash???
Oh, that's nothing. My wife and I went on a belated honeymoon to Cancun in Feb, 2003. We left from Mirabel airport in Montreal amid temps of -27F. Got to Mexico and it was +83F. 110 degree swing within 4 hours!
In my house, we have a saying about such aggravations: "It's all George Bush's fault."
I think it's about 75 in Houston right now.
Supposed to get down in the 40's tonight. Screwy weather for January. Been up near 80 this week.
Snow? Hoo-hah. That stuff falls in Galveston.
Houston is too far north for snow....
Thanks to the Speed Reading course I ordered form late nite television, I've been able to peruse 2 hrs of comments in 5 minutes.
What's all this talk about hummers?
Re big temperature shifts. I used to attend UF in Gainesville, and if you look at a map, G'ville is right at the midpoint where Florida starts becoming a peninsula. As such it was a combat zone for occluded fronts--a big cold one coming down from Canada and a big moist one coming up from the Caribbean. So a 50 degree F change in temp within a day was rather frequent, accompanied by violent hail and ice. Lots of roof damage, burst pipes and scared squirrels seeking refuge in drainpipes, to their and my regret.
Oops.
Ivytree - I'm stealing your saying.
Jeffraham - knees are probably more resilient than eyes, anyway!
Steelers beat the Patriots?
Yeah, and the Colts were favored last week to do it too.
Watertiger:
Since when is there sound in airless
space?
Since the ad campaign for the first "Alien" movie....
NTodd - correction noted. Your friend took some amazing pictures.
The weather here this winter has been exactly like your weather, NTodd, plus about 25 or so degrees. We go from 77 to 44, then back up to 64 in a matter of 3 or 4 days. Then it gets hotter every day and we get a cool front. Back down to the 30' s and 40's and climb again. The weather is so fucking weird anymore.
Despite the bad weather, the anti-choice nuts were out doing their thing.
I saw a photo in the local paper where one of Dr. Martin Luther King's nieces was with a group of fetus fetishists....none of whom were very attractive.
I thought "Bitch, what is WRONG with YOU?"
George Lucas was Avestus.
given the difficulty that pitt had beating the jets (relatively crappy team) and the ease with which ne beat the colts (relatively good team), i would say the steelers have no chance tomorrow.
Since when is there sound in airless
space?
george lucas - since you ruined sci-fi with sound in Star Wars (which is still one of my faves). 2001 would never work today, but I'm pleased with how the new Galactica handles things.
He could be pushing 40 if his mom was born in '47.
I'll be 36 this summer. My mom was fairly gravid when she received her BA from Bucknell.
What's all this talk about hummers?
Not *that* kind. When's the programming on Cinemax change, anyway?
ok here's another thing i love about snow- how pretty it looks this time of early evening.
Autrement qu'Etre--If it weren't snowing, I'd invite myself over for dinner! That's amazing.
Haven't seen any plows on Ocean Boulevard yet. Guess they figure there's no point until after the blizzard does its work.
Food for thought on a winter's eve!
Re big temperature shifts.
Walking north in downtown Austin once, about 20 years ago. Remember there is, as we say in Texas, nothing between us and the North Pole but a strand of barbed wire.
You can see cold fronts coming in Texas. "Blue Norther" refers both to how cold you get, and the line of gray-blue clouds you can see leading the way from Canada.
So, I'm walking down the street, and in mid step, the temperature drops 30+ degrees. Like stepping across the threshold into a giant, invisible deep freeze. Weirdest sensation I've ever had. Except for the total eclipse, also when I was in Austin.
But that's another story....
Jeffraham & Olaf
I guess you forgot about the game earlier this season, we won by two touchdowns. It wasn't even close. Cory Dillon won't help, we stuffed him pretty regularly when he was with the Bungles.
Oh well you guys had a good run.
Off-topic blogwhoring/pimping:
This blog is believed to be the first blog written by a piece of sculpture.
Steelers have an excellent Defense and an excellent running game. Ditto for NE.
The key will be who's QB performs better.
My money's on Brady.
Okay, I'm retarded. Let me try again.
dadahead.blogspot.com
or click homepage
The best thing about snow is writing your name in pee.
NTodd - correction noted. Your friend took some amazing pictures.
Yeah, makes me extremely jealous. I may just have to kill him.
The weather is so fucking weird anymore.
Is this an el Nino year? Seems the jet stream is dipping wicked low this winter.
"jesus christ" is right, Mr. Slave...
"
# U.S. military fatalities from hostile acts have risen from an average of about 17 per month just after President Bush declared an end to major combat operations on May 1, 2003, to an average of 82 per month.
# The average number of U.S. soldiers wounded by hostile acts per month has spiraled from 142 to 808 during the same period. Iraqi civilians have suffered even more deaths and injuries, although reliable statistics aren't available.
# Attacks on the U.S.-led coalition since November 2003, when statistics were first available, have risen from 735 a month to 2,400 in October. Air Force Brig. Gen. Erv Lessel, the multinational forces' deputy operations director, told Knight Ridder on Friday that attacks were currently running at 75 a day, about 2,300 a month, well below a spike in November during the assault on Fallujah, but nearly as high as October's total.
# The average number of mass-casualty bombings has grown from zero in the first four months of the American occupation to an average of 13 per month.
# Electricity production has been below pre-war levels since October, largely because of sabotage by insurgents, with just 6.7 hours of power daily in Baghdad in early January, according to the State Department.
# Iraq is pumping about 500,000 barrels a day fewer than its pre-war peak of 2.5 million barrels per day as a result of attacks, according to the State Department.
"
at "homepage"
Someone mentioned trees and ice fog. The link below is a pic I took just after a recent snowstorm on the shores of Lake Michigan near Chicago
http://tinypic.com/1fd8wx
Because NYC throws off so much ambient light at night, when it snows like this, the snow reflects the light. Makes the sky a weird gray orange. Twilight on Titan, maybe?
One more time: A soupcon upon which to ponder while this winter's eve progresses:
There were no formerly heroic times, and there was no formerly pure generation. There is no one here but us chickens, and so it has always been:
A people busy and powerful, knowledgeable, ambivalent, important,
fearful and self-aware; a people who scheme, promote, deceive, and conquer;
who pray for their loved ones, and long to flee misery and skip death.
It is a weakening and discoloring idea, that rustic people knew God personally once upon a time-or even selflessness or courage or literature-but that it is too late for us. In fact, the absolute is available to everyone in every age. There never was a more holy age than ours, and never a less.
-Annie Dillard,
FOR THE TIME BEING
and i thankee fer yer attention
NTodd: knees are probably more resilient than eyes, anyway!
It's a theory, yeah.
I got the facial scar @ 3 y.o. from my teenaged brother, tossing me around and eventually into an open paint can (prior to safety lids, apparently). Across the tip of the nose, still visible.
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this movie is stupid and i missed the stooge.
hoyt, i'd love to see the steelers win. i'm getting bored with the patriots. i can't see it happening though.
Naw, the best thing about snow is how light it is outside at night (if there's a moon) and how quiet it is at the same time. Nothing quite like it.
WGG--
Thanks. gonna have to re-read Ms Dillard if I'm gonna keep up fresh postings to my blog.
Thanks for reminding me of her...
waiting,
you *know* the black guy is gonna die. They always do. Sacrifice themselves so the white couple can live.
This just in - Dr. James Dobson decries "no two snowflakes are alike" statements by Left. Urges Xian families to boycott snow and move to Florida.
Hoyt C.: Oh well you guys had a good run.
Certainly not my guys... them's the Titans, and they sucked mightily this year.
.
My money's on Brady.
Mine is, too. Yeah, they lost to the Steelers in the reg season, but this boy turns it on in the playoffs.
The best thing about snow is writing your name in pee.
My peemanship is awful, but I do enjoy leaving my mark (when it's above zero). Otherwise the pen doesn't come out of its warm abode.
Nobody here can be older than
me.
It's the law.
==================I may have you beat. 54
Just started to snow here, north of Boston in my appropriately named neighborhood of Winter Hill.
mem from somerville | Email | Homepage | 01.22.05 - 4:40 pm | #
Hey, mem, how's Howie Winter and Whitey Bulger?
(formerly from Somerville--back when it was blue-collar)
Anybody remember the Blizzard of '78?
NTodd | Email | Homepage | 01.22.05 - 5:20 pm | #
I remember. Got out of work early, went to the just-opened Barnes & Noble on Washington Street in the shopping district until they closed due to the snow. Got the last train out of Washington Station, got off at Lechmere Station, and got off to help push the bus, still full of little old Italian mamas in black, when it got stuckon McGrath Highway. Then watched it disappear into the blizzard, thinking, OHMIGOD, WTF have I done.
Walked a half mile to my house in thigh-high snow, frantic stuck drivers pushing scraps of paper with their phone numbers into my cold-numb hands ("please call my wife and tell her where I am"). Until I got to my apartment on Laurel Street to hear WBCN's Oedipus saying, "The cops have ordered skiiers off Mass. Ave. Repeat, they are shooting skiiers in Cambridge!"
Those were the days, indeed.
waiting:
I made no claims for its excellence.
Hee hee.
I also have..."SEA BASS!" Ill-tempered too.
Monica_A
What - no "frickin' lasers" on their heads?
Bushboy wants to cut Medicaid benefits to help shave some of his deficit problem.
Rolling back his tax cuts for the rich is impermissable in Bushboy's "Christian world".
After all, it's more important that the rich get that extra $50 to $70 thousand extra tax cut, while the states have to struggle with caring for the poor, the indigent and the mentally ill.
Barndog -- Sounds like a classic 70s story. I went to a party back then where a state trooper knocked on the door, walked in and rolled up a joint. He was a friend of the guy giving the party.
A decade later the guy who gave the party had become "successful" and only smoked pot in a special room in the basement -- with a lock on the door!
Ah, the change over time . . .
Star Wars was never sci-fi in the sense that even Star Trek (which I enjoy for its ambition, comedy, unintentional comedy and every once in a while getting things just right) was. Star Wars was plagiarism of Prince Valiant, abetted by Joseph Campbell, plus some space gizmos, with erratic animation. Did you notice in the first SW movie that the second space battle looked just like the first? Did you think the demolition of Carrie Fisher's home planet was badly animated? Well, now Lucas has "fixed" those problems, leaving no original of his movie. Fine by me, but it still sucks wookie.
NTodd: Otherwise the pen doesn't come out of its warm abode.
Maybe it would if it were
href="http://www.penisland.net">here.
.
patriots aren't my guys either. my guys are the evil ravens. who also sucked this year.
Ah, Levitra. Strong, lasting erections. Better quality sexual experiences.
Jesus, that commercial is over the top.
BTW, IMDb's user's review of "Mosquito": As you can tell by the title, this movie sucks!
Actually watertiger, Im sort of waiting for Ba'al or whoever to start making it rain liquid methane on Houston and Atlanta. That would absolutely rock.
Have NFL playoff games been called off for bad weather in recent years?
No NFL regular season or playoff games have been cancelled due to bad weather that I remember.
Back in the 80s there was a playoff game between the Iggles (I think) and the Chicago Bears that should have been called off. The game was played in a pea soup fog. It was so bad that the players on the TV screens were barely visible ghosts. They relied on sideline cameras to get closer to the action. There would be this view of white nothingness and then all of a sudden Walter Payton would appear out of nowhere threatening to leap out of your TV screen about to ring your bell. It was stupid but the game was played.
QuiltLady in NY:
Sorry babe, got you beat.
By three years....
Actually watertiger, Im sort of waiting for Ba'al or whoever to start making it rain liquid methane on Houston and Atlanta. That would absolutely rock.
Those of us in Houston would especially enjoy it....
There was an AFC championship game in Cincinnati in the early to mid 80s. Windchill at game time was about -60. Bengals were playing the Chargers. The Chargers all but said fuck this, run the clock so we can get the hell out of here. It isnt worth it.
The other day when the six foot steaming pile of shit was being interviewed by, I think it was Baba Wawa. She asked him if he had any regrets. His answer was that he didn't get the tax cuts made permanent!
"somerville, back when it was blue collar."
back when it was invariably referred to as "fuckin summahvull"?
Olaf:
What's this "bored with the Patriots winning again" crap?
Here's a team without any real superstars (like Peyton Manning or Leroy Tomlinson), here's a team that plays as a team and here's a team that has invariably been the underdog in most of their playoff games.
It's exciting to watch an underdog beat the guys who are "supposed to win."
Sure wish the Dems could do it.
i cannot remember the blizzard of 78, my eyes were probably too red (!) but i do remember a big one in 74 cos i had a new Nova with a column stick shift that my brother taught me how to drive in a cemetary. I was driving to work and noticed police lights on other side of road coming up around the bend. ohoh i get around the bend and there's all kinds of cars wiped out on my side! i panic and stall out car which barely slides past a car turned sideways on road. Whew!!!!
Hoyt C., don't give him the extra 2 inches. He's only 5'10".
But otherwise, your description is completely accurate.
tar Wars was plagiarism of Prince Valiant, abetted by Joseph Campbell, plus some space gizmos, with erratic animation.
Every artist is a cannibal. Every poet it a thief.
Maybe it would if it were href="http://www.penisland.net">here.
OMG, LOL!
BTW, IMDb's user's review of "Mosquito": As you can tell by the title, this movie sucks!
Oh, you're watching that flick? What a classic. In suckitude. I caught 5 minutes the last time it was on, and I lament the loss of that precious time I could've been using picking my nose.
Everyone talks about the weather but nobody does anything about it.
There was an AFC championship game in Cincinnati in the early to mid 80s. Windchill at game time was about -60. Bengals were playing the Chargers. The Chargers all but said fuck this, run the clock so we can get the hell out of here. It isnt worth it.
Wasn't that the year that the Bungles lost to Montana in the Super Bowl?
And Japan! Anyone familiar with Japanese cultural details or a certain Kurosawa flick will recognize that there was no creativity whatsoever in "designing" the exotica: the bizarre shapes, the teardrop and other strange helmets, the asymmetrical vehicles, the obsession with robots, the mon used as symbols of the resistance, the empire and individual pilots (on their headgear), the "Franklin stove" in Obi Wan's hut (we're fogettng the Japanese name for it, it's not a kotatsu); hell, when we first see Mark Hammill, he's wearing a kimono!
I would hope that Ba'al would spare the pure at heart. During the time I lived in Austin, many years ago, the general view among those I hung around with would have greatly endorsed liquid methane rain on pretty much all of Texas except Austin and San Antonio.
The best thing about snow is writing your name in pee.
Hoyt C.
Famous old country story, the punchline of which is "What the hell, Clem. You think I don't recognize my own daughter's handwritin'???"
In an equally notorious collection, entitled "Pissing in the Snow: A Collection of Ozark Folk Tales" or something like that. published 40 years ago or longer i bet...i just googled it, and there are references to the book, but no sites in particular. the author is Vance Randolph...B&N has it fwiw...
That game with the Pats (that they won, before they won the SuperBowl) was awfully snowy.
Still, oldtimers would probably have stories about playing football in the Northeast before warm underwear, heaters, etc. were available.
I suppose that's one reason SuperBowl Sunday is now in February.
Money, money, money.
I may have you beat. 54
I'm 63 next month. Steve's 57, if my math is correct. No rush, QuiltLady, you're getting there!
Didja all see this from AP?
President Bush's "Hook 'em, 'horns" salute got lost in translation in Norway, where shocked people interpreted his hand gesture during his inauguration as a salute to Satan....
"Shock greeting from Bush daughter," a headline in the Norwegian Internet newspaper Nettavisen said above a photograph of Bush's daughter Jenna, smiling and showing the sign.
Oh, and the upper midwest, of course.
Green Bay. Yowsa!
Oh, you're watching that flick?
"Watching" would be a loose definition.
Re: cedar waxwings: I'm a birder (albeit a somewhat lazy one.) It's really a relaxing little gig that makes you aware of another world. I walked up to a berry tree in the autumn and there must have been about a hundred waxwings eagerly gulping down the berrys. I walked right up to the tree and it seemed to bother them not at all. I must have stood there (it was in a public park in Seattle) for about 20 minutes watching this scene, I kept wanting someone else to walk by so I could show them (never did). Such an elegant bird. If you're close you can see the bright red waxy tip on their wing. Hence the name.
But otherwise, your description is completely accurate.
I can't take credit for that, it's from The Rude Pundit or maybe it was The Fake Rude Pundit in an earlier thread.
(God I wish i could type)
hee hee steve. how's this-Double Indemity is playing at an old theatre tonight. they probably won't get a lot of biz cos it's usually old folks like you and me who go.
rudy, as far as i'm concerned the steelers are the underdogs, big time. i didn't give the colts any chance last week either. i have no idea why people keep expecting new england to lose games. it almost never happens.
Pie, did you hear they have forced-air shoulder pads now, so they can pump in cold or hot air?
Honestly, when you're making that kind of money.... yeesh
beautiful photo, tod
I'm back from cooking, but no more Stooge-my satellite dish went out.
Back to cable.
Ntodd, didnt they do that twice? But yes it was one of them. Real close game. End of game drive by the 49ers. Made Montana and Rice legends. One of the best Superbowls in the last 25 years. Even more interesting Walsh had been offensive coordinator at Cincinnati. When Paul Brown retired as head coach he named the defensive coordinator head coach because he was better at discipline (duh). But it was essentially Bill Walsh's offense versus Bill Walsh's offense.
Well folks, time for dinner. Very pedestrian. Pork chops, baked potato, salad and wine.
Tena - I gave up drinking wine because just looking at a glass of red would give me a tremondous hangover. Then I went through the change, and presto. Have been able to indulge in 2-3 glasses a day with no problems. Sweet, aint it.
Thanks for a great day of snow and talk.
BTW:
In X-Men, that cool helmet Magneto
wears?
That's a direct, deliberate rip-off
of the helmet the evil Teutonic knights
wear in Eisenstein's "Alexander
Nevsky."
Jack Kirby (who was Jewish, of
course) was making a point.
woody gg- you make me laugh all the time!
Olaf:
I hate to admit it, but you've got a point!
Twilight on Titan, maybe?
watertiger
staggeringly nice image, tig!
still no sirens, tho...bummer
Jeez, you leave for 40 minutes and there are 100 new comments. Snowing now in Knoxville, not much but it's still pretty.
did you hear they have forced-air shoulder pads now, so they can pump in cold or hot air?
Doesn't surprise me at all.
Still, when you have to play in it...
But for X number of games for those salaries, well, I don't feel sorry for them. You do what you have to do.
Hey waiting:
But dig this -- in twenty minutes
I'm going to walk seven blocks in
this frickin' storm to meet some
friends at my watering hole.
Do I rock or what?
I got the facial scar @ 3 y.o. from my teenaged brother, tossing me around and eventually into an open paint can (prior to safety lids, apparently). Across the tip of the nose, still visible.
Speaking of scars from 3 years old, my stepmother has scars on her chin and forehead, and does not like large dogs.
'Nuff said.
I would hope that Ba'al would spare the pure at heart. During the time I lived in Austin, many years ago, the general view among those I hung around with would have greatly endorsed liquid methane rain on pretty much all of Texas except Austin and San Antonio.
After 15 years in Austin, I know some who would allow it on some residents of that fair city, too.
Austin has a bad way of being too hip for its own clothes. Plenty of people outside Austin (and San Antonio? White supremacist military industrial capital of Texas? Yow! Spent three years there in law school, the whites still won't acknowledge they're in the minority there!) worth saving. Lots of bad folk in East Texas and West Texas and South Texas and the Trans-Pecos. Lots of good folks, too.
And, as I say, no small number of people in Austin who aren't as valuable as they think they are.
But I'd still move back in a heartbeat. The Austin snobs are kinda funny, if you look at 'em right....
steve-you do rock mister! be careful!!
rmj, thanks again for pointing me toward laphraoig. i am enjoying some more right now. the snow outside makes it taste even better.
kei & yuri--Do you mean a Kurosawa flick other than the obvious "Hidden Fortress"? I'm not quite sure of your "japanicity" point other than Akita K. never resisted J-cult stereotypes and never abided by them either; he picked and varied them to suit his purposes, and was often criticized at home for catering to Westerners, much to his surprise.
By the way, did you see my response to your Verhoeven listings? You come and go with elusive haste.
cory - your pic of ice on the branches near the river made me turn the heat up. This is not a night to watch "Dr Zhivago."
Huh? Wha? Mmmblemm... (sigh) Mmmmbl-ga-rrrlmmm. Mmmmm. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
Do I rock or what?
Seven blocks to meet friends at your watering hole?
Nuthin'.
Talk to me if you make the return trip the same way.
hell, when we first see Mark Hammill, he's wearing a kimono!
kei & yuri
yu guy(s) rock...would 'dada elegance' make any sense?
Another Bruce - that's exactly the scene I see outside my office. We've got a big berry tree which is right by the exhaust of our building's heating system. I feel like Tippi Hedren sometimes, there are so many hanging out there.
Sentenza - that would be their first, then. I remember, because it was one of the first times I really was rooting for somebody in the Super Bowl of my own volition (previously living in PA I always went for the Steelers). I even wrote about the game against SD in my journal. Poor Kenny Anderson. What a fantastic finish to that Super Bowl, though, with SFO's D stopping them on the goal line.
The 2nd game against the Niners was wicked boring. Plus I never really warmed to Boomer.
I love the new Boomer in Galactica, though. Grace Park rocks my world.
Waiting, indeed I will be......
"somerville, back when it was blue collar."
back when it was invariably referred to as "fuckin summahvull"?
Olaf glad and big | Email | Homepage | 01.22.05 - 6:29 pm | #
In the words of your countrymen, Olaf, yeah, you betcha. When I was in grammar school I did children's theater with John and Mary Salemme, who were related (in a way never explained to me--and I knew better than to ask) to "Cadillac Frank" Salemme.
I went to high school with Howie's goon of a son, Gary, football hero and airhead extraordinaire. I wonder if he went into his dad's line of work.
The best part of the Blizzard of '78 was calling the worried and suspicious wives of those male drivers to tell them their hubbies were OK and trying to explain who the hell I was and how I knew their names and phone numbers.
That and the signs reading "fire hydrin".
ooh the guy's from Detroit!
Olaf,
Laphraoig is the nectar of the gods.
Believe me on this one.
"somerville, back when it was blue collar."
back when it was invariably referred to as "fuckin summahvull"?
Olaf glad and big
We always referred to it as Slumerville. But who can afford to live there anymore?
Tena
Memories of Gunnison and the Rockies.
My son was graduating from high school in'92 and I asked him where he was going to college. He said "Western State University"
I said "where the hell is that". Colorado,
Gunnison....the coldest city in America. Sounds fantastic. That spring we flew to Denver,rented a car and drove to Gunnison.
My first time in Colorado. Very beautiful. Gunnison..Crested Butte area is majestic.
My son wanted to take his car to school that
August and I didn't want him to make his first cross country drive alone so I drove with him in his 84 golf packed to the brim.
We went a couple weeks early and did an outback trip in the Rockies. Went in at Estes and didn't come out for a week. Wow what a trip. My children and I did a lot of camping, but this was over the top. Snow at Odessa Lake in August was an awesome
sight. What an experience to have with you child. Something neither of us will ever forget. Thanks Colorado and Wasted{Western}State University.
Oh I know Mr. Jeffers. Im just funnin. Well, except maybe about Fort Worth. Austin was the first place I saw, well, the only place Ive seen a college boy leaving his frat house with a keg of beer sticking out of the back of his 300 series Ferrari. Just the common folk.
But I think that the friendly eccentricity so common in Austin is the most compelling of the personality traits one sees in Texas. I also thought they minded their own business there a lot more than in other parts of the state in general.
and comparing Webelos to hangin in Detroit! now that's tough!
Ba'al likes Laphraoig because of its slightly smoky flavor. It reminds Ba'al of the pleasing aromas of a burnt offering.
rmj, thanks again for pointing me toward laphraoig. i am enjoying some more right now. the snow outside makes it taste even better.
Too correct ba'al..it is the "water of life."
"Uisqebaugh," or thereabouts, is the Celtic word which translates as that phrase and is, I am told, the root of our word "whiskey."
I remember the summer of 1980, when it was like Gila Bend, Arizona here: day after day after day of 111, 115. I took the only summer course I took in law school that summer as a paper course, to get it out of the way.
I can remember working on that paper in the dining room at night and going to open the front door, just to see what it was like. It would midnight and opening the door would be like opening the door on a blast furnace. It quite literally took your breath.
My car had a moon roof. I had to carry 3 throw rugs with me so that I could cover the windshield, the back window and the moon roof. Otherwise, I could have been seriously burned by touching something metal in the car when I got back in it after class. It was unbelievable that summer.
japanicty (we prefer japonisme): If you familiarize yourself with the asymmetry, shapes and lines of Japanese crafts and aesthetics in general (Japanese art has always been Marie Antoinette's ass wrappings: Japanese craft, viz at best in the US the Mingei museum of folk crafts in San Diego's Balboa Park, has always been what it's about), the "instant otherworldy" quality of the designs of the SW movies is explained.
And it was nice to know we were not the only Verhoevan fans here. One fears nobody has gotten past his American movies, which would be as unfortunate as condemning Polanski solely on Fearless Vampire Killers...
Okay, folks -- wallpaper?
We got your wallpaper right here!
http://www.angelfire.com/ab/Ambu...hBug/
irwin.html
rmj, thanks again for pointing me toward laphraoig. i am enjoying some more right now. the snow outside makes it taste even better.
Olaf glad and big
?
You're doing what? Making Laphroaig slurpees with snow?
I still like Lagavulin best, but Laphroaig is surely the peat moss of the gods.
just started snowing real good out in Portland, ME. temp is a brisk 7
dunno if you guys have seen this one or not but, msnbc has a page up talking about "Crackpot" xians.
link in hompage
Re Austin, where I've never been. I know the place largely through the fine movie Slacker, and it reminded me exactly of college town Gainesville FL where I was living at the time. Same wood 2-story houses, same mix of old city and new sprawl, same guys getting coffee and a newspaper in their bathrobes, slightly crabby girlfriends awaiting them in bed. And same mix of arty types wondering about their careers and career types trolling the clubs. Still my favorite Linklatter movie, and I like all of his.
Woody's guitar -- We kept that book in the john for years. Now you've got me wondering what happened to it . . .
Do I rock or what?
steve simels | Email | Homepage | 01.22.05 - 6:39 pm | #
you always rock. careful on the way back.
That's a direct, deliberate rip-off of the helmet the evil Teutonic knights wear in Eisenstein's "Alexander
Nevsky."
And weren't the Alexander Nevsky helmets deliberately made to look like German army helmets?
The peat moss of the gods.
Damn, that's beautiful.
ba'al. i don't find it to be slightly smoky. to me it tastes exactly like latakia tobacco smoke.
Ba'al likes Laphraoig because of its slightly smoky flavor./i
Laphroaig is 'slightly smoky' like belly lox is slightly salty.
For the person who lives in Winter Hill (sorry, the thread is long and I can't find the post again), I used to live at the corner of Main and Broadway, right at the very top of Winter Hill. Greatest view in the area, from the top of our apartment building, as I recall. Also a little weird to wake up to the sound of hoofbeats on Patriot's Day; as a native New Jerseyan, I hadn't imagined that they actually re-enacted Paul Revere's Ride until I lived in Somerville.
Here in New York, it's still snowing, and has been all afternoon. Beautiful stuff; you can hardly see across the street and when I went down to the train station this morning, which is located pretty much on the banks of the Hudson River, not only couldn't you see the mountains on the other side of the river, but you couldn't see the river itself. Spooky and lovely, and the best thing about a snowstorm like this is the quiet it generates. I haven't heard any cars go by in the last half hour, and that's very unusual for a Saturday evening.
Ba'al:
Your acolyte appreciates the
concern.
Also the aroma.
row - My parents took me up to the Rockies the first time when I was about 18 months old. We went every summer thereafter. We used to camp on the headwaters of the Rio Grande, our of Creede, on the eastern slope. We'd camp for as long as 3 weeks sometimes. It was heaven. We used to go over to Lake City every year - and it is incredible going from the Eastern slope to the western in the San Juans. You cross the summit of Slumgullion Pass and start down and my god, you think you are in Switzerland. The mountains are huge and craggy.
My parents ended up buying a house in Lake City and rebuilding it - the two of them did it all. It took them 6 years.
I love that part of the world with all my heart. My dad's spirit wades the Rio Grande. And my mom haunts the house in Lake City - I hope. I hope she's a ghost in there smoking her head off. The people who own her house (and completely redid the inside and fucked it up completely) have a big "No Smoking" sign on the front door.
Hey, I liked the Fearless Vampire Killers.
But thats not what I meant to say. I meant to comment that I too like Lagavulin more than Laphroag and like Bowmore even more. But all this talk of whisky is pissing me off because Ive been sick and I cant drink because of the medication. And that has to be The Leaders fault.
Karin:
RE: the helmets...
Oh yeah. Nevsky was an explicitly
anti-Nazi movie. That's why
Eisenstein got into trouble after
the Hitler-Stalin pact.
We had a multi-umpteen thousand square foot warehouse full of furniture burn down here the other night - went to three alarms, which was pretty good. Good enough so that when I woke the next morning and went out to look at the stars, I thought sure that I'd left my fire burning still thruout the night. Something like 10 miles away.
Laphroaig. 3alarm converted fire. Smoke. Yes. Jeeze, don't you understand that that's how the damned Lowlanders located the stills? That smoke -carries-....
For any birders out there, just was on the phone again to Australia, and my sister put her receiver to the window so I could hear the cockatoos screeching outside, chasing away the crimson rosellas on the bird feeder.
Now *that's* another world of birds. The most amazing colors you'll ever see.
sentenza, if that medication was any good you would be able to drink with it.
Two black QBs in the NFC.
Will the Pigboy be watching TV?
No matter how they play,
He's gonna have to say,
"Nigger hair is so fucking wooly."
rmj,
My mistake, but remember that 4,000 year old Canaanite fertility deities don't need water and cannot be said to be alive in the normal sense.
A modest burnt offering -- let's say for example, the trifecta of Brittany Spears, Paris Hilton, and Ashlee Simpson -- is quite sufficient.
The pleasing aromas are even more pleasing with Uisqebaugh.
i think if i keep drinking laphraoig i will be able to quit smoking actually. it's basically the same thing.
the people who own her house (and completely redid the inside and fucked it up completely)
(shaking her head in sympathy) I hate hearing stories like that.
And, btw, when I was at the nursery this afternoon, before my tyre difficulties, I had the chance to describe horehound as the gateway herb for whiskey. Try. See if I'm'n't right. The complexities are very, very close ....
sentenza-I drank while on some fairly powerful medicine. I don't remember much, but my friends got a lot of emails they enjoyed.
OK, gang...off to brave the elements.
See you later!!!!!
be careful steve! You don't want to break a hip!
nuk nuk nuk!
be a good boy steve!
steve- or break anything (though a broken hip is a nasty thing). Stay well, give hell.
"The most amazing colors you'll ever see."
Maybe if sentenza has some Laphraoig with his meds he will see some colors.
There's gotta be some advantage to being sick.
Hmm, maybe a wee dram of the malt. For medicinal purposes only of course.
Oh yeah. Nevsky was an explicitly
anti-Nazi movie.
I've always loved that movie.
BTW,of the film buffs here picked up on my reference to 'The Shop on Main Street' earlier.
Be careful walking in the snow.
Did i mention that we had a SWAT event in my 'hood last night?
Some guy down the street, cops had his number as a dealer or some shit. Showed up about 7 to bust him, but he barricaded himseld in the house. They called the SWAT guys and the negotiator...all evening the vecinidad echoed with the police bullhorn calling out to the guy to come out, and he would'nt be hurt...eventually they chucked a couple of concussion grenades into the house and the guy surrendered...
RMJ--
Do remember that monks invented distilling!
Ba'al--I like your stint here and encourage Ba'al worship among others I meet. I don't think you responded to my retroactive offer of a burnt spinach pie the other day, but it still stands; I really did think of you as soon as I smelled it. In any case, what kind of everyday things could I be sacrificing to Ba'al? Letting my cigs burn down to the butts? That won't do I'm sure, but you need to innovate for the 21th century.
Karin- was margaret sullivan in it too?
And steve, seven blocks is a lot of walking.
But take a cab home (also a lot).
I got 10 inches. Also, it's snowing.
PS I apologize if someone has already done this joke, don't have time to read all 500 posts.
That should have been:
BTW,none of the film buffs here.
aelred, seriously, try my idea about instituting a tradition among lay visitors. it will work.
no you be the first kind of
Draco
Burnt spinach pie is good. Lots of anti-oxidants. Maybe some twigs and seeds if your stash is not too low.
Of course, if you could manage a pyre for not-Jena, it would be a pious act.
Prior Aelred:
would you happen to have a source on the assertion that the monks invented distilling. Surely the knowledge of distillation has been common far longer than, what, 1300 years?
just askin?
I got 10 inches. Also, it's snowing.
In Hell.
Russian olive trees are invasive, but damn, they are tough and the silvery-grey leaves are nice. The local robins eat the hard seeds with delight. The bark peels continuously, makes it easy to tuck in peanuts for the jays.
Had 'my' female nothern flicker at the water source several times this week. Haven't seen her mate or their juvenile in over 3 weeks. Wondering if I'm just missing their visits, or if they've moved out because of construction and chinese elm removal in the area.
I remember the winter of '78 - we spent the better part of a week playing cut throat board games with our gang of friends - most of us had been without jobs for months thanks to the major layoffs down at Sparrows Point by either first or second hand effects of the recession - we ate popcorn, had six packs of Schiltz turn into slush in 20 minutes out on the window sill and went through $500 of heating oil in 10 days. Our mortage was $350 a month. We closed up the top floor of our brownstone, invited a few friends whose living conditions were worse than ours to come and stay for a while. With no cable tv or VCRs and the only people we knew who had computers to play with were working for the Government, well, we played Diplomancy, Monopoly and Risk, read books and had a few affairs start and a few relationships end that winter. Most of the Bay froze, a few damn fools lost their vehicles trying to drive across the ice on creeks and the Bay itself, and heating oil ran low across the city because the tankers couldn't get into the harbor because of the ice...
ah.... good times....
i thought alchemists invented distillation.
Karin- was margaret sullivan in it too?
No, The Shop on Main Street is a Czech movie, about the Nazi occupation there. I saw it as a kid(my folks used to take us to NY to see foreign flicks).
What a bunch of fucking idiots. Literally everything they do is wrong.
NASA Budget Cuts Plan to Service Hubble, Sources Say
By Guy Gugliotta
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, January 22, 2005; Page A04
NASA is scrapping plans to service the Hubble Space Telescope, either with the space shuttle or with a robot repairman, a decision likely to set up a fresh confrontation with Congress over the fate of the orbiting observatory.
Sources said that the White House, in consultation with NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe, had decided to eliminate the Hubble funding from the 2006 federal budget because the cost of servicing is expected to exceed $1 billion.
The sources said the administration made the decision despite its intention to ask Congress for a 4.6 percent budget increase for NASA to $17 billion. The request is expected to focus on plans to reorient NASA's priorities toward President Bush's "Vision for Space Exploration" to the moon and Mars.
watertiger - shaking her head in sympathy) I hate hearing stories like that.
I'd never met these people, but 5 years ago I was going by and the woman was in the yard. So I stopped and told her who I was. She offered to show me the house. Then her husband joined us. They were pointing out this and that with pride and kept saying things like: "Well that was so poorly done that it had to be redone." The fuckwits - my parents did every bit of the restoration. They knew that my parents did all that work - and kept telling me how badly it was done.
It looks like shit in there now and that isn't just my opinion. Everyone who saw it before agrees.
Ive decided on a course of action. I was planning to go to London at the end of February or beginning of March for a weekend. I probably do 8 or 10 weekends a year in London. Maybe more. And each time I try to plan one thing, at most 2 to do. This next time I plan on going to the British Museum and looking for Ba'al artifacts.
One Person Found in Boston FBI Manhunt
One of the Chinese nationals sought for questioning in connection with an unspecified, unconfirmed threat against the city of Boston has been in U.S. custody for more than two months, the FBI said on Saturday.
(snip)
"It appears at this time that Mei Xia Dong's motives for entering the U.S. may have been for economic reasons," the FBI statement said. "The investigation thus far does not tie her to any terrorist group."
She's been in custody for two months now and they just figured out that she was one of the suspected terrorists they've been looking for?
ah.... good times....
NM Red
Did you hear Patsy Madrid had said she was 'probably' going to support Texas DINO Martin Cross for DNC chair???
tena, I was in the Alps before the Rockies.
First time I saw snow in the summer was in Annecy in the French Alps. When I saw Lake
Odessa I thought, shit this looks like the Alps. Unfortunately the politics of the time deem it necessary to relocate to the French Alps. Selling the house and splitting this spring or summer. By the way..I think the spirit of your parents resides in the proper place...Your heart.
nm red, it was irresponsible of you to spring for schlitz while you were laid off from the point. shoulda stuck with natty boh.
Olaf:
"Anna's Hummingbirds are iridescent bronzy green above and grayish white below, with a varying amount of green wash at the flanks. Males have a deep rose-red crown and gorget that extends to the sides of the neck. Females may have some red feathers at the throat, but none on the crown. Wings and tail are dark, with the female's tail feathers tipped with white."
I've only seen the females, so mine are green, no ruby throat. None of the females I have observed have had the red feathers at the throat. These little ones are actually relaxed and cool enough to hanmg around long enough to determine such things.
I'll give you one for instance, and then shut up about it.
In the front room, my mom and dad matched the grain in every tile and laid a parquet floor that was perfect. These people carpeted it.
She's been in custody for two months now and they just figured out that she was one of the suspected terrorists they've been looking for?
Yeah, but you have to remember who we're dealing with. Connecting dots is hard work.
Just checking in to get weather. Here in Boston, we're battened down with candles and extra food, expecting a rough night.
Weather coming in from Chicago. Has anyone in its path got news? NOAA just says stay in, off the roads, one of the worst in 100 years.
Ha, we'll see. And for this I have to give up a peace & justice training on how to talk to people you don't agree with, I was looking forward to finding out.
Olaf - before everything goes numb, just wanted to let you know that Latakia is also a place. My father's from there.
NMRed- I've got a flicker here at my feeder in New Jersey. Also downy woodpeckers and red bellied woodpeckers.
Tena,
Oh, reeeeal nice. What asses.
Okay, that was weird. We just got thunder and lightning in the middle of the snow.
And I'm going to check out what's happening "on the streets."
And then I am going to watch "City of Lost Children." It's on Showtime right now, but I've come in on the middle of it. Thankfully, I have the DVD.
el, is that peace and justice training of yours voluntary or, you know. . . court ordered?
Karin thanx for info. i really enjoy foreign films- i'll have to check this out. i guess i thought of m.s. cos there was a film about a group of friends in small town that had to adjust to impending occupation in austria maybe?
CLC is awesome!
is latakia the place in the balkans somewhere, mena? seems like latakia blends are often called balkan this or that.
In the front room, my mom and dad matched the grain in every tile and laid a parquet floor that was perfect. These people carpeted it.
I can hear them whine: "But the floors were cold!"
Tena--I can't add much to your story, but I've lived in about 15 different apartments, and I know how the fix-it guy handymen talk. Their 3 prime subjects for conversation are, in reverse order, women, sports, and the shitty job the last fix-it guys did. "Did they know they wuz gonna get fired? Cuz that's the only reason they'da done it like this."
Does anyone know how the pictures of the allegedly smuggled Chinese turned up? I mean, if we don't know how they got here or where they are, how do we have pictures?
She's been in custody for two months now and they just figured out that she was one of the suspected terrorists they've been looking for?
Two months is not bad, considering they don't have a computer system.
HOLY SHIT!
Did we just get to 530+ posts WITHOUT A TROLL?
They must be allergic to cold... or as Eli mentioned, maybe Hell froze over.
sooo.... anyone get a load of
Oh, reeeeal nice. What asses.
Tena, have you seen Big Night? Very excellent "small" movie. Stanley Tucci & Tony Shalhoub have an Italian restaurant in 50s NJ, with Shalhoub the purist old-school chef. There's a scene towards the beginning where Tucci is trying to get Shalhoub to humor a woman who wants rice on the side with her spaghetti dish ("Sometimes the spaghetti likes to be alone").
Shalhoub wants to storm out of the kitchen and give her what-for, but ends up taking a peek out of the kitchen, declaring, "No. She is criminal. I no talk to her."
Your parents' house is inhabited by criminals.
Wayyyyyy upthread, the 50 most loathsome people was great.
?i>My favorite: 34. Clarence Thomas
Crimes: On the wrong side of every Supreme Court decision since he got the job carrying Scalia’s golf clubs.
Smoking Gun: Angry black man routine during Anita Hill hearings was the most forced overacting this side of Keanu Reeves’ tantrum in Johnny Mnemonic.
Punishment: Led out of the Court in chains after inadvertently casting the deciding vote to reinstitute slavery.
If we're lucky and do get slavery back, the funny thing is it'll true!
thank you haloscan
get a load of Bobo's latest excrement?
He really creamed himself over W's inaugural speech.
NASA Budget Cuts Plan to Service Hubble, Sources Say
Yeah, I blogged that earlier today. Pisses me off.
mister x,
Now I see why this thread is so incredibly soothing. Even to me, Ba'al, who likes ritualized sacrifices.
And then I am going to watch "City of Lost Children." It's on Showtime right now, but I've come in on the middle of it. Thankfully, I have the DVD.
Bloody awesome. Have you seen Delicatessen, perchance?
Been out for a few hours ~ roads are terrible. I was stuck once, and some nice young strapping fellas pushed me out. This was on a major highway exit.
We were blessed with way more snow than anticipated.
Hope you folks east of Grand Rapids are safe and warm.
Draco - Yeah, you're right. One of my good rock hounding friends in Lake City is a local "contractor" who is actually a "fix everything, no licenses" kind of contractor. Sweet guy, but he talks non stop about just that - how he had just fixed something that some other guy had totally fucked up.
Yep - you're right.
I still don't like 'em. [row - thanks for the sweet words, they are in my heart...] I still hope mom is haunting that house and smoking one cigarette after another.
"I can hear them whine: "But the floors were cold!"
Our house in Abq, the floors were covered with $60 pure wool broadloom, of such an exquisite shade of the palest celery green that one swooned at the sight. On it being sold, the yuppie buyers immediately ripped up the gorgeous stuff, searching for the cheap, construction grade wood flooring, which then spent thousands of dollars on to transform into Pergo.
Wayyyyyy upthread, the 50 most loathsome people was great.
?i>My favorite: 34. Clarence Thomas
That *was* good, but the single most exquisitely brilliant bit in that entire list was Michael Jackson's Punishment: Being forced to release a new single called "Don't Let Your Son Go Down On Me."
Med. coast of Syria, Olaf. Although there could be more than one, I suppose.
Tena, they are criminals. I've had similar experiences, so I don't mind saying so. They're probably republicans too.
In the front room, my mom and dad matched the grain in every tile and laid a parquet floor that was perfect. These people carpeted it.
Tena
Jesus. Reminds me of an apartment in a 1900s townhouse that had these incredbly intricate parquet floors... the previous renters had used a rocking chair in the corner of the living room that completely tore up the parquet... you can never completely repair/camouflage that kind of damage. Idiots.
commie girl attacks bush (at "homepage")
love her!
Hey GWPDA, did you catch that you were quoted in the Wall Street Journal?
(I'm not kidding, by the way.)
Ba'al:
The pleasing aromas are even more pleasing with Uisqebaugh.
So what's a Canaanite deity doing speaking Gaelic, anyhoo?
And what kind of unfair world is it where I go away for a few hours and miss the damn single-malt scotch thread?
er, misexplained last time. but it's still a pertinent blatt.
JUST SAY NO TO WINTER!!!!
Ba'al--I mentioned before about you innovating for the 21st century. When our posts are devoured by HaoScan, can we count that as an offering to Ba'al? Assuming it was a nice post about impeaching W or declaring west Texas off-limits for oil-drilling. I'm not a theologian, so I need your advice.
Hey GWPDA, did you catch that you were quoted in the Wall Street Journal?
Oh, sure, Kent and I dominate that thread, and you break the kitty-eating cyborg story, and GWPDA gets quoted.
We seem to have gotten a total of about three inches here in Virginia. They say we may get a little more later tonight, but looks as if we dodged the major part of the storm. Just enough to cover everything and make the trees look incredibly beautiful
Here in Chicago, we've gotten about 6-8 inches (hard to tell with the drifts.) Anyway, I felt ambitious and walked around Wrigley with my digital camera.
Here's the Statue of Harry Carey, the sign at the front of the stadium and a view down my block if anyone's interested...
OT but I read an article that holds out a glimmer of hope for hubble.
"These same sources, however, said they had not ruled out that the White House and NASA might be canceling the Hubble servicing mission as the opening gambit in the annual struggle that goes on every budget year, fully expecting that Congress will add money to the agency’s budget over the course of the year to pay for a mission that has strong public support.
Regardless of NASA’s intent, one Senate source predicted that the decision would “go over like a lead balloon” for many lawmakers. A House source concurred. “It’s going to really upset the Hubble crowd and that includes some members of Congress,” the House source said."
Tena:
I went back home for a visit a few years ago and found my parents home had been converted into a daycare center. Not sure if that's a good or bad thing.
hint to ba'al:
according to Aldous Huxley (in the Devils of Loudon, digressing briefly on his favorite digression, the "perennial philosophy"), the name the Celts gave to divine stupor made possible by liquor was SABAZIOS.
NASA Budget Cuts Plan to Service Hubble, Sources Say
Yeah, I blogged that earlier today. Pisses me off.
NTodd
Tell George he can use the Hubble's lens to focus the sun to burn ants. Or dark people. Bet he'd put the funding back.
Now I see why this thread is so incredibly soothing. Even to me, Ba'al, who likes ritualized sacrifices.
Ba'al
Yeah, that was a nice long adult conversation, wasn't it? Just the thing for a snowy night. I'm sure the lil' fuckers will show up sooner or later... off to find the Rebel Yell and a Genesee Cream Ale.
Oh, and ALL HAIL BA'AL!
Tell George he can use the Hubble's lens to focus the sun to burn ants. Or dark people. Bet he'd put the funding back.
Brilliant!
Thersites!
Eeeeeeeek! And I try so hard to only be rude to them in my own name!
Prior Aelred - Listen, macushla, it's a good gig you're working, but the trouble is that as a Piskie, it's, well, it's really, really pushing it to claim authorship of either whiskey or whisky. Canapes, yes, you-all are unquestionably the masters. But otherwise, you really have got to stretch back to the good times when the Presbyterians were consecrating you...
And Karin! Yes, there was a remake of the Shop around the corner with Margaret Sullavan and Jimmy Stewart. Charming. Same dialogue.
"writes GWPDA" indeed. I seem to recall actually snarling that at some conference in the '90s, to about the same effect.
WindyCityLefty,
Do you live near Wrigley Field? Raw Bar has the best crawfish soup I've ever had....
The Boston Chinese terrorists: They had passport or ID card photos of them, because the person who called the authorities was a Mexican smuggler who told them where he chucked the bag that contained the passports and one ID card.
Supposedly.
Back in the 80s there was a playoff game between the Iggles (I think) and the Chicago Bears that should have been called off.
That would be the infamous Fog Bowl; one of the most frustrating games in a lifetime of frustrating games for Iggles fans. Randall Cunningham (somehow) threw for about 400 yards but all they could get were four field goals.
And you couldn't even see what the hell was going on.
{shudders at memory of Eagles teams past that made it to the brink but not over the hump}
Oh, sure, Kent and I dominate that thread, and you break the kitty-eating cyborg story, and GWPDA gets quoted.
Hee hee. All was forgiven though with this quote from that WSJ story, which is one of the greatest ever:
Mr. Reynolds says he wouldn't knowingly publish or link to something false -- but as one guy at a computer, there's only so much fact-checking he can do.
The biggest and yet the dullest tool in the shed is our perfesser. Tool.
Eli - So so true, they are criminals.
I love that movie The Big Night. There are a thousand tiny gestures and facial expressions Stanley Tucci does in it that are just genius. I Just love that movie.
We will see our friends, family or ourselves
arrested on terror...treason charges in the next 12 months.. Irag has always been a time bomb for GWB and his handlers. It has always been a timing thing. Can they get enough control of the country before things start to fall apart so badly that there spin won't work. Well, I think they have it. Information has been concentrated into the hands of there partners in the media business. Both houses of congress are tied up. As for the courts, You will see them totally ignore any ruling they do not like.
tina- that's why they have all these sayings like you can't go home again.
according to Aldous Huxley (in the Devils of Loudon, digressing briefly on his favorite digression, the "perennial philosophy"), the name the Celts gave to divine stupor made possible by liquor was SABAZIOS.
No wonder his book Antic Hay was the first one ever banned in Ireland! Giving scandal, he was.
Turned on local news to see if the snow was truly over. Am I the only one who thinks local news is now far better than national news?
The biggest and yet the dullest tool in the shed is our perfesser. Tool.
Heh. Indeed.
Speaking of perfessers, I just got my first paycheck for teaching at a college. It ain't quite like my corporate paychecks--they weren't kidding when they said you don't get rich in academia.
BTW, our favorite kitten-eating cyborg (with whom I am categorically NOT sleeping) has some questions posted at the BloJobCred site.
JUST SAY NO TO WINTER!!!!
No. It's winter that makes one appreciate spring, and so forth.
Four seasons.
Perfect.
I love that movie The Big Night. There are a thousand tiny gestures and facial expressions Stanley Tucci does in it that are just genius. I Just love that movie.
Yup. An absolutely flawless little gem, with some mouthwatering food scenes towards the end.
And the completely nonverbal reconciliation scene at the end was a work of art.
Interestingly enough, the *first* several minutes of Tucci's next film were also nonverbal.
When we were house hunting, we ran into a house that was simply amazing. The owner was a teacher and a single parent. He blue lined the entire place while he was there, custom wood, finishes etc., remodeled walls, new appliances etc and it seems he did all the work himself. The backyard looked like a japanese garden and the deck was again all custom. When we toured the house, I ran into his hobby room, some of the best scale and flying model work I have seen. Then I hit the garage, I think the reason he was moving was it was time to put the wings on the experimental he was building. We talked a long while about this house and I finally came to one conclusion, anything we would do to personalize the house at our skill level would ruin the good work he had done and we really couldn't think of anything that needed to be done anyway. So we felt bad about it, but we passed on it.
GWPDA - Great comment - no wonder the WSJ picked it.
it is currently 71 degrees in Laguna Beach and the sun is setting over Catalina Island.
Don't know about east of GR, but west...
Son delivers Chronicle. Due to snow helped this morning. Muskegon usually pretty good, but at 0530 even 31 hadn't seen a plow. Have never considered a minivan ideal snowplow, and have retained that opinion after this am: Got finished and serpentine belt slipped off pulley due to all snow up into engine compartment.
Just looking at radar and notice more snow out over lake. Sigh. Will make snow lantern as described up thread, take hot bath and go to bed.
Would seriously consider hot toddy and/or Irish coffee, but would never get up for repeat of this morning's fun.
If any of you take a morning paper and it was delivered today thank your carrier. Nobody appreciates a dollar tip like a paperboy...
'Night all
"Oh, sure, Kent and I dominate that thread, and you break the kitty-eating cyborg story, and GWPDA gets quoted."
Grownups, NTodd. Grownups and kitties. Never fails. Well, grownups, kitties and a whole lot of gams being flashed.
(with whom I am categorically NOT sleeping)
Where's Steph? (Sorry if I missed her latest travels.)
pie - you're so right. it's like how do you know what joy is unless you've experienced misery!
No. It's winter that makes one appreciate spring, and so forth.
Four seasons.
Perfect.
Yeah, baby! I dig having multiple seasons.
The joke in VT is that we have more than 4: we've got winter, mudseason, spring, black fly season, summer and autumn. If summer falls on a weekend, we have a picnic.
no new thread?
also
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
buns!
(not obscene)
The joke in VT is that we have more than 4: we've got winter, mudseason, spring, black fly season, summer and autumn.
In upstate NY we have winter, construction, construction, and construction.
"local news is now far better than national news?"
Hecate, actually now I watch no news on the television. I gave up on our local several years ago and in the last two years pretty much gave up on national.
What clio said.
Muskegon was hit hard, from what I understand. Well over 18" according to my sister.
We only had 12".
Which is 10" too many, but what the fuck...it is lake effect snow, after all.
>it is currently 71 degrees in Laguna Beach <
Dude, it's a cool 64 degrees here in Huntington Beach. Are you in some kind of tropical zone?
NTodd,
Welcome to academia. Make sure to buy at least one completely ridiculous thing with your first paycheck to warm you heart in later days. I bought Strange Brew.
Grownups, NTodd. Grownups and kitties. Never fails. Well, grownups, kitties and a whole lot of gams being flashed.
Should I shave my legs?
Where's Steph?
Sigh. She's working this weekend in Eden, VT, at an open house for the ranch, then she's headed to SFO for a web conference all week. Small wonder I've been driven to the arms of a cyborg.
Oops, I mean, that's just a dirty rumor.
No wonder his book Antic Hay was the first one ever banned in Ireland! Giving scandal, he was.
Thersites,my local used book store is called AnticHay!
i quit watching news when my kids were small cos it was so scary for them and it turned out, for me as well.
Thers whizzed it. It's "Winter already?", Winter, Still Winter, and Construction. Sheesh!
After hearing Dubya's wonderful speech on Thursday, I realized what them preachers been telling me these past few years in ma church. They been sayin' that the crossover from our evangelist religion into our govmint would be when the government would tell us that freedom was given to us by god.
And wouldn'tcha know it, There's George tellin' the world that Freedom is a gift from God and only god could give us this gift...But george is still gonna go forth and try to give freedom to the world as if God himself told him he could do so.
My preachers are pretty smart, huh.
Hecate, actually now I watch no news on the television. I gave up on our local several years ago and in the last two years pretty much gave up on national.
EkCenTriK
Wow. Now you have something in common with the freepers.
Ugh, my cable/phone/internet cut out for almost an hour.
And, the dandruff from Yuggoth is falling freely. It'll be my turn in about 75-90 minutes to shovel the crap.
I hate winter.
you're so right. it's like how do you know what joy is unless you've experienced misery!
I believe the poets figured that out long ago.
And those who read them and had rollercoaster lives said:
there's nothing new under the sun.
Republicans, Olaf. We're going to learn how to speak with republicans, fundies, etc.
Well, I suppose something like that could be court ordered, but this isn't. Just plain old peace and justice training. Don't you have that in your town?
I'll let you know how it went.
Swift Loris, I'm 60, close on your heels/
Olaf - Colorado began to be bought up by Texans in the 60s, which is why Coloradons dislilke them. Hard to like those who colonize you, eh??
I used to go to summer camp in CO from early 50s through early 60s.
In Texas we have summer and demi-summer.
Natty Bo best with jimmies - and was more expensive than the Schiltz. We were all very very poor. Most of us had our 'jobs' where we earned out rent and food, and then had our 'lives' which meant we were artists and writers and musicans and auto-didacts in our heads and hearts. When the bottom fell out in the Rust Belt, it hit hard. Got very very skilled at being poor. Thank the Gods and Andrew Carnegie for libraries where we could get our books and read the newpapers in the reading rooms.
Never had many hummingbirds in the yard until this year. I'd tried feeders, but huge sf-b-movie ants would form long lines to feast upon the nectar. I'd planted a row of bee balm against the back wall, and this year it was 4 feet high and in full purple glory. Had hummers buzzing about for weeks in late august and most of September. Freaked out the cats when the windows were open.
Hummers are attracted to floral scents. I've seen them come up into the faces of women wearing good perfume and look very puzzled, as if thinking "you're not a flower? WTF?"
Wow, the clips on the weather channel make it look like it's getting to be rather nasty back east, hope you all don't lose power or connections.
GWPDA,
I see you are famous now. heh. Were you the one who started the wicked name calling? Hope so.
In upstate NY we have winter, construction, construction, and construction.
Oh shit, I forgot construction season. BTW, I just learned that the state likes to have one team run multiple jobs at the same time. They basically work a couple weeks at one location, then move to another in round robin fashion, so there are always several construction sites at which nothing happens for weeks. Small wonder it takes 8 months to widen 100' of road.
Welcome to academia. Make sure to buy at least one completely ridiculous thing with your first paycheck to warm you heart in later days. I bought Strange Brew.
Oh. I was going to pay my mortgage. Shows how much I have to learn. Man, I'm going to miss the days where I could charge shit to my corporate card without even thinking.
No. It's winter that makes one appreciate spring, and so forth.
Four seasons.
I remember trying to explain to people in CA that the snow is supposed to come to you...
Guess this is not the time to tell y'all that in very southern So Cal it's 76 degrees and dry. But the laugh will be on me this summer when it hits 115 for weeks straight.
Tena - you also never go wrong as an academic (or quasi or ex-academic) by making fun of Harvard. It's better if you're actually there, but still, you do what you can. Besides, what, a week later, Larry Sommers of Harvard decrees that girls can't count cause they're girls? Whiz. At UC we had to put up with Reagan recommending selling all the books in the Bancroft Library to balance the budget but I can't recall even he claiming girls couldn't count. Perhaps March Fong Eu was too vivid in his recollection.
Tena...
Green Grass season and Brown Grass season right?
I bought Strange Brew.
I LOVE that!
In Texas we have summer and demi-summer.
Tena
In Minnesota they have winter and the Fourth of July.
(...the old ones are the best ones)
jan freepers listen to slanted stuff. i read news from about 5 sources.
Well, we got about 6" of rain in 48 hours, so you should get about 5 feet of snow:
Although it was raining lightly off and on Tuesday night and yesterday morning, a massive rainstorm had dumped more than 200 millimetres of rain on British Columbia in the previous 48 hours.
When I lived in northern NJ, we used to see the hummers in the tulip poplar trees. Their flowers have lots of really sticky nectar. It was weird to see the birds that high up-tulip poplars are big trees.
In Texas we have summer and demi-summer.
Tena is in Dallas.
In Houston we have Inferno and meta-Inferno.
GWPDA,
I see you are famous now. heh. Were you the one who started the wicked name calling? Hope so.
I think Thers should get credit for starting the name calling. Kent and I snarked for quite a while, but Thers was the one who called out Rebecca MacKinnon (with whom I am not sleeping) as the evil kitten-eating cyborg that she clearly is (which I can totally vouch for, despite my not sleeping with her).
New thread. ^
Yankeeland is so cold and snow and ice, just cut it loose and then have a nice, progressive, Southern republic.
(snicker)
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kono - yes, I heard about Patsy's choice. Oh boy, I'm going to have a really interesting time these next few years, inciting rebellion amongst my loyal Democratic friends. Between her and RV-G, I don't know which one to focus my righteous anger upon first.
and by the way, I've been meaning to ask you - if any of these trolls ever take you up on your challenge to met at the Civic Center park, can I come and be your second?
Ba'al I thought y'all had Inferno and Mildew seasons?
(which I can totally vouch for, despite my not sleeping with her)
You've had lunch with her, though?
New thread. ^
But I was getting so comfy in this one.
The cold and snow up north I hope isn't the beginning sign that someone just had to say Bush would re-elected when hell freezes over.
EkCenTrik - Green Grass season and Brown Grass season right?
For the last decade or so, Brown Grass season has lasted for exactly 3 weeks sometime between the middle of December and the first of March.
I'm telling you, winter doesn't exist down here for more than 2 days every 3d week for two months nowadays.
NMRed,
Our connection's been cutting in and out. But if we have power, we're okay. This is better than Wednesday's storm, which came out of nowhere. (OK, I was distracted and not checking.) Thers went to clean off the car that morning and came back: "Are you sure we have to go out in this?"