I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
Hi! Twice in one day!
Burrrrh?
I live in Baltimore and I totally forgot about the Preakness. Oops. Did Smarty Jones win again?
That was quick.
Bummer.
Bleakness at the Preakness.
Can anyone remember the name of the female horse - who was hurt in the Preakness and had to be put down? Joan Baez sang a really morbid ballad about it.
who won?
WT, Bernadine or something like that.
Here's a sport that I wish jack and Toby would try...
http://video.google.com/
videopla...891478515007486
Barbaro?
WT, Barbaro suffered an injury. Possibly severe. The winning horse was Bernadini.
Barbaro was injured early on in the race.
Can anyone remember the name of the female horse - who was hurt in the Preakness and had to be put down? Joan Baez sang a really morbid ballad about it.
If you are thinking of Ruffian, it was a match race.
Atrios,
Come to lovely Baltimore anytime, Hon. Crabs, McCormick spices, and great italian cooking.
ah, i see it, DWD.
Can anyone remember the name of the female horse - who was hurt in the Preakness and had to be put down? Joan Baez sang a really morbid ballad about it.
DWD - Palpably Angry
I know Ruffian match raced Foolish Pleasure in 1975 and hurt her leg.
She had to be put down.
hi everyone... 
DWD--i'm rereading your book again. i'm up to where Dow is in the hospital and comes to.
i'd forgotten how parts of it are eerily similar to real life...
I have no idea how to read horse racing news: "Better Talk Now" was the winner?
evening moonbats
just come back from watching The Da Vinci Code.
,i>Here's a sport that I wish jack and Toby would try...
No, they should paly bushkashi ... as the goat.
New York Daily News:
Even if Rove escapes indictment, he could still be forced to resign for talking about Plame with a Time magazine reporter.
"People don't seem to want to talk about the possibility that Karl could be named an unindicted co-conspirator," a third source close to the case said. "Can an unindicted co-conspirator remain at the White House? Personally, I don't think so."
If you are thinking of Ruffian, it was a match race.
JR, kerosene and a match
A "niece", btw, of the great Secretariat.
Better Talk Now?
what were the odds?
She had to be put down.
Terry C
She kept racing on a broken leg.
Heh the winning horse is owned by the Sultan of Dubai!
Where's the wingnut outrage over Our Precious Race Horses being owned by Islamowhammoblammocapitalists?
Did Holden lose, then?
my first reaction to the movie - not bad, not good, just average (though lots of pretty locations).
certainly not the worse movie I have seen this year.
Ruffian was the female colt who shattered a foreleg during a match race and WOULD NOT STOP RUNNING on it. I remember watching in horror as the leg flopped around while her jockey tried to pull her up.
They had to put her down on the racetrack because just trying to move her would have caused more suffering.
I cried for a week. I can't watch a race now without dreading the very thing that has happened now.
Barbaro has a broken leg both above and below the ankle bone. The track vet has said that if the blood supply to that area has been compromised, the injury would be "life threatening," and added, "Say a prayer."
They're bringing Barbaro into surgery and we'll know within the hour.
A "niece", btw, of the great Secretariat.
Terry C
Racehorse bloodlines look like those of the Egyptian pharoahs.
Ruffian - thanks. (I think us old people forget so much cause we have seen so much - Hell, it sounds good!)
Her eyes. glad to hear you are enjoying it (again)
Fuck!
Bonds tied Babe Ruth.
I certainly could not see why the Catholic Church was getting so upset about either.
Fuck!
Bonds tied Babe Ruth.
So what? Records were made to be broken.
Hecate, that is a beautiful garden...absolutely lovely. i'm envious of people's gardens, as i can't seem to grow anything except dandelions.
Ruffian was the female colt who shattered a foreleg during a match race and WOULD NOT STOP RUNNING on it. I remember watching in horror as the leg flopped around while her jockey tried to pull her up.
They had to put her down on the racetrack because just trying to move her would have caused more suffering.
I cried for a week. I can't watch a race now without dreading the very thing that has happened now.
I cried when I read in 1990 when I read that they had to put Secretariat down.
Beautiful horse.
Federal judge strikes down Oklahoma's ban on gay adoption.
Can anyone remember the name of the female horse - who was hurt in the Preakness and had to be put down? Joan Baez sang a really morbid ballad about it.
DWD - Palpably Angry
Google tells me the Baez song was "Stewball," a rendition of old ballad.
Did I win?
Hecate-- here is mine. I know it doesn't look like much now, but we're kinda sub-Arctic around here, so give it a month and then....
Fuck!
Bonds tied Babe Ruth.
So what? Records were made to be broken.
NTodd, Humpizzle™
I'm not pissed off that it was broken.
I'm pissed off that it was broken by that bastard.
It sounds like Atrios should stick to the Holdenesque ponies.
Ruffian was the female colt who shattered a foreleg during a match race and WOULD NOT STOP RUNNING on it.
This makes me so utterly sad.
Heh the winning horse is owned by the Sultan of Dubai!
Where's the wingnut outrage over Our Precious Race Horses being owned by Islamowhammoblammocapitalists?
The Old Man From Scene 24
Didn't he croak right after the Triple Crown?
The Sultan, not the horse.
just come back from watching The Da Vinci Code.
Moonbootica
What did you think of it?
I'm sorry to hear that Barbaro has been injured.
One of the worst things I ever saw while watchihng a sporting event was when a top horse, I think her name was Go For Wand, was injured during a Breeders Cup race over 10 years ago. It was like Ruffian...this horse would not stop running. Her owner was elderly, and was obviously heartbroken when she heard what had happened.
Go For Wand and another horse were running so fast, so hard, that it looked like they were about to collide. It's what they know how to do, and they do it, even when it hurts.
I hope Barbaro is not suffering.
Man, I thought you were talking about a new poll.
I'm pissed off that it was broken by that bastard.
Oh jesus fucking christ in a dugout. Get over it.
certainly not the worse movie I have seen this year.
Moonbootica, Buffy Geek
As I expected, a pedestrian work becomes a pedestrian movie. The worst film I've seen this year (so far) is An American Haunting. This warning may come too late, but don't bother--terrible editing, tedious, repetetive story, complete waste of time.
Where's the wingnut outrage over Our Precious Race Horses being owned by Islamowhammoblammocapitalists?
Considering that the entire Thoroughbred breed is the result of Islamofascist horse breeding... oh, wait, wingnuts don't have history, do they? Never mind.
Where's the wingnut outrage over Our Precious Race Horses being owned by Islamowhammoblammocapitalists?
Considering that the entire Thoroughbred breed is the result of Islamofascist horse breeding... oh, wait, wingnuts don't have history, do they? Never mind.
I occasionally post here. I wanted everyone to know that my kitty Hunter passed away today. I miss my orange boy.
Didn't he croak right after the Triple Crown?
The Sultan, not the horse.
Whoops!
I'm thinking of the horse a couple of years ago owned by some sheik.
I was at Belmont with a high school friend and her stepdad, who owned racehorses. First time I saw a horse put down.
I really dislike horse racing.
I certainly could not see why the Catholic Church was getting so upset about either.
Moonbootica, Buffy Geek | Homepage | 05.20.06 - 6:52 pm | #
i read a review on the movie this morning...the review compared the movie to the book. it said that in the book, the female character was stronger; she was "dummied down" for the movie.
Didn't he croak right after the Triple Crown?
The Sultan, not the horse.
Must be Sultan Jr. but they did say he couldn't be there for the race...
I was just telling my husband how I dread the "into the gate" moment until everyone is out of the gate safely when Barbaro broke through the gate early.
Awful. Just awful. They say it's a severe fracture.
What a beautiful horse. How sad.
I occasionally post here. I wanted everyone to know that my kitty Hunter passed away today. I miss my orange boy.
Fluffy Halifax | 05.20.06 - 6:57 pm | #
I'm so sorry, FH. I know how much that sucks from experience. Peace be with you.
worst movie I've seen so far - Scary Movie 4, jeebus i never want to go through that experience again.
apparenly i was stoney face throughout the whole movie according to my friends.
the cinema was packed though, it was showing on several screens.
almost full seats, so all the publicity has certainly paid off.
Oh, and the horse who won is owned by a Dubai sheik.
Let the wingnut wailing begin!
Fluffy,
I am so sorry. {{{{{hugs}}}}}
I'm sorry, Halifax.
I occasionally post here. I wanted everyone to know that my kitty Hunter passed away today. I miss my orange boy.
Fluffy Halifax | 05.20.06 - 6:57 pm | #
i'm so sorry, Fluffy Halifax...it is a painful thing to go through.
Aw, Fluffy...my sympathies. It's always hard to lose one our the 4-legged friends.
The Sultan is dead.
Long live the Sultan.
Man, I thought you were talking about a new poll.
PSR
I thought that, too, for a moment. If the border shooting gives Bush a poll bump, then we're in for even darker days ahead.
which one was the saudi royal's horse?
Best part of DVC, the book: Three world renowned experts in LDV are utterly baffled by an example of mirror-writing. It's plain to see what the great riddle is, but they puzzle over it for a whole chapter, IIRC. You can just hear the conversation w/ the editor.
"Now, Dan, let's make the readers feel smart here".
Oh, and the horse who won is owned by a Dubai sheik.
Let the wingnut wailing begin!
lisa
Somewhere, Toby is throwing a major tantrum.
Barry Bonds is an asshole. The guy's a frickin' wife beater.
I don't see anything wrong with decrying any good that comes that shithead's way.
was worth it seeing the trailers for Pirates of the Caribbean 2 and X-men 3
since I snobbed on DVC, I'll admit that I think the X-Men movies are a hoot.
jeebus thanks haloscam for eating half my post!
Barry Bonds is an asshole. The guy's a frickin' wife beater.
I don't see anything wrong with decrying any good that comes that shithead's way.
He tied a goddamned ancient dude for second in the recordbooks of a fucking game. Wake me when he's appointed preznit by the SCOTUS.
Fluffy Halifax, I guess, remember the good times. I still miss my dog and she has been dead for 18 years.
Sorry.
The movie was not as cool as Indian Jones and the Last Crusade, their take on the grail legend was much more enjoyable.
Not much of a Preakness win for the sheik, though. Not when the favorite pulls out lame, possibly on his way to the big stable in the sky.
I guess this sheik has been looking for legitimacy in the US horse racing world, or something to that effect.
He didn't get it today, even though his horse won.
Anyone winning the Preakness under these conditions gets no respect.
Bernardini is owned by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai. Wingnuts everywhere are hiding under their beds, pissing themselves with irrational fear.
He tied a goddamned ancient dude for second in the recordbooks of a fucking game. Wake me when he's appointed preznit by the SCOTUS.
NTodd, Humpizzle™
I do find it ironical that he got it by cheating, makes him the perfect metaphor for the Bush Age.
En la Paradisa de los Gatos,
the mice, they are just as fat and lazy as joo weesh,
and the dogs who were bad een life, they must wait on you from nose to tail,
and the pipples who spent their allotment of time on thees earth hating gatos, they are stuck cleaning the shiny, perfumed litterboxes.
es verdad.
so.
i haven't read dvc and i'm wary of seeing the movie without first reading the book.
btw, my boy and i never did go see flight 93. he apparently got distracted by a different shiny object and forgot all about it...
DemByDefault, what does the book/movie say about the mona lisa?
He tied a goddamned ancient dude for second in the recordbooks of a fucking game.
Hooray for the pharmaceutical industry.
Please. Bonds is a supreme asshole who is the poster boy for performance-enhancing drugs.
What a victory. Woo. Hoo.
Moonbootica, just be glad you do not live in Western Michigan. The local TV news-talk show said the problem with DaVinci Code (the movie) was that DaVinci Code (the book) is one of the best books ever written. . . .
Federal judge strikes down Oklahoma's ban on gay adoption.
watertiger
"It's another case of an activist court trying to legislate from the bench," said Republican Rep. Thad Balkman. "It's unfortunate that a single judge is trying to rewrite the law."
No, it's that pesky ol' Consitution keeping y'all from depriving people of "life, liberty, or property, without due process of law."
If y'all want to destroy families, you gotta take 'em to court, assholes, and present your "evidence."
Thank, Watertiger, that made my day.
Barry Bonds is an asshole. The guy's a frickin' wife beater.
This is a guy who went to court during the 1994 strike and wanted his child support payments drastically lowered.
He wanted to take food out of his children's mouths.
Fuck him!
looks like the PR assassination of hugo chavez has begun in earnest.
how dare he be popular with the poor?
DemByDefault, what does the book/movie say about the mona lisa?
jello
I can't even remember if they mention it, (haven't seen the movie, btw, and probably won't, unless it's on cable, I'm hungover and there's no Cops marathon for the first time in living memory.)
Just finished your book, DWD.
I'll be happy to email you with some of the errors I found and other thoughts, if you're so inclined....
of course, all the pitchers are using steroids too, so it kinda evens out.
more miners killed.
My review The Da Vinci Code
So if Bonds is tied for #2, who is #1?
Nim, please do. I am curious. (But, hey, at least you finished it.)
I do find it ironical that he got it by cheating, makes him the perfect metaphor for the Bush Age.
I don't really find steroids cheating. Dumb, bad for your health, but really, what's cheating when you're trying to overcome the limitations of your body?
I hate the idea of asterisks next to records. Every era is different, and the only thing that's universal is the numbers. I don't give a shit how many extra games Maris had, or how juiced the balls are rumored to have been the last couple decades. Somebody hit X number of homerun in a season, a career, whatever. Period.
And when people start injecting the personality into the discussion, it smacks of the same shit that racist fuckers pulled when Aaron was going to break Ruth's record. The only thing that matters is that a guy swings a piece of ash, hits a leather ball, it goes over the fence. Rinse, repeat, write it down in the book.
Henry Aaron.
So if Bonds is tied for #2, who is #1?
The Old Man From Scene 24 |
Hank Aaron, innit?
I did squeal with delight seeing the trailer for Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Cops marathon for the first time in living memory
bad boys, bad boys...
I still miss my dog and she has been dead for 18 years.
Sorry.
DWD - Palpably Angry
May 31 will be 23 years that I lost my grey tabby, Muffy.
I still miss her!
their take on the grail legend was much more enjoyable.
Moonie, if you don't do anything else this summer, please read Avalon, the feminist retelling of the grail legend. Email me and I'll loan you my copy via our London office. It will change your life.
I was going to add my condolences, Fluffy, but ˇEl Gato Negro! said it best.
So if Bonds is tied for #2, who is #1?
Hank.
So if Bonds is tied for #2, who is #1?
The Old Man From Scene 24
Hank Aaron, 755 home runs.
May Bonds never come NEAR that!
I do find it ironical that he got it by cheating, makes him the perfect metaphor for the Bush Age.
DemByDefault
Kind of a chemical version of Diebold.
Hecate, cool i'll keep that in mind
best movie I've seen so far this year has been V for Vendetta.
And race has nothing to do with my opinion of Barry Bonds.
He's a spoiled brat and they come in all colors!
"My review The Da Vinci Code
Moonbootica, Buffy Geek"
I got strongarmed into seeing that today.
It wasn't execrable. It wasn't great. It was mildly entertaining. Maybe if they hadn't gotten a hack like Akiva Goldsman to write the screenplay, there wouldn't have been quite as many eye-rolling lines, but Ron Howard did a decent enough job.
though X-Men: The Last Stand looked pretty impressive, or at least fun to watch heh
the same shit that racist fuckers pulled when Aaron was going to break Ruth's record.
It is weird that everybody's making such a big deal about second place. I just heard something in the last year or so on NPR about Aaron's taking the record. A constant barrage of death threats.
The foundation stud of the Thoroughbreds are three horse: The Byerley Turk (captured from the Turkish in Hungary), The Darley Arabian (A gift from a Syrian sheik), and the Godolphin Barb (another gift, this time from Tunis).
The world's most respected racehorse owner is the Aga Khan.
The folks of North Africa and the Middle East do not need a Preakness win to get respect in horse-racing.
And when people start injecting the personality into the discussion, it smacks of the same shit that racist fuckers pulled when Aaron was going to break Ruth's record.
Yeah, 'cuz disliking someone for beating on women is so much like being a racist.
Right on.
Shergar!!!!!!
"I don't really find steroids cheating. Dumb, bad for your health, but really, what's cheating when you're trying to overcome the limitations of your body?"
Well, Bonds is going to pay the price for the steroids - healthwise.
I understand he already is.
Not worth it!
Shergar!!!!!!
Moonbootica
When do those motherfuckers pay for that?
Yeah, 'cuz disliking someone for beating on women is so much like being a racist.
Right on.
lisa
Thank you - took the words right out of my mouth!
And race has nothing to do with my opinion of Barry Bonds.
I never said it did. Hence the "smacks of". It's a comparison: using external factors to weigh his "worthiness" of reaching a milestone instead of considering solely the achievement.
It is weird that everybody's making such a big deal about second place.
That I don't find so weird, actually. Ruth is still a revered figure in the pantheon of the Church of Baseball, and his record lasted almost forever. Bonds could retire today and feel pretty fucking good about achieving such heights. Well, 'cept that he's not that way.
Best Mate was moured by those in the racing world.
the horse even has a statue I think put up at one of the race courses here.
JR, did you ever read Margurite Henry's book: KING OF THE WIND? It is about the Godolphin Arabian.
The folks of North Africa and the Middle East do not need a Preakness win to get respect in horse-racing.
JR, kerosene and a match
Arabians - fine horses!
Finnish monsters rock Eurovision
A Finnish "horror rock" group who dress in monster costumes have pulled off a surprise win at the 51st Eurovision Song Contest in Athens.
European viewers voted for Lordi's song Hard Rock Hallelujah in a show that is normally associated with catchy pop and big ballads.
Russia was second with Dima Bilan's Never Let You Go.
But UK rapper Daz Sampson could only manage to come 19th out of 24 countries with his song Teenage Life.
Lordi's masks, armour and jets of flame attracted widespread attention before the contest - but many thought they were too outlandish to win.
Used to live in Northern California, N.Todd. There was this lovely story about Barry Bonds coming home from a game against Atlanta where he didn't perform well. He was pissed off about it.
So he smacked his wife around in a self-piteous rage.
How racist of me not to dig him for that.
Blah
Yeah, 'cuz disliking someone for beating on women is so much like being a racist.
Way to miss the point.
Go ahead and dislike the fucker. I don't give a shit. But for fuck's sake, whining about his tying Ruth in a goddamned game is the height of assholish pettiness.
Moonbootica:
Red Rum.
Gamest horse ever.
As if we need any more proof of O'Reilley's stupidity, now he wants to boycott Selma Hayek. Yeah, that'll go over in the heartland.
Well, my daughter and I have our weekly dinner date.
Back in a little while.
best movie I've seen so far this year has been V for Vendetta.
I blogged some of the feminist implications of it.
I'm looking forward to seeing Gore's new movie. Last movie I really enjoyed was The Smartest Guys in the Room, and that was because we played a small role in it. B4 that, WTF Do We Know?
JR my dad's greatest dream beside owning his own Chalet, is to own a string of race horses.
JR, did you ever read Margurite Henry's book: KING OF THE WIND? It is about the Godolphin Arabian.
DWD
Way back in elementary school, if it's the book I'm thinking of. Didn't she do "Misty" as well?
How racist of me not to dig him for that.
Please do keep on being obtuse and harping on the wife beating. Maybe you could petition the Commish to ban him from baseball and the Hall of Fame. I'd be interested in your liveblogging of the process.
I did squeal with delight seeing the trailer for Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Moonbootica, Buffy Geek
I just watched The Curse of the Black Pearl again last night--so unexpectedly well done.
That last last moment, when Jack Sparrow (Captain) says, "Drink up, me hearties, yo ho," tilts his head and gives the wheel a push, thrills me and leaves me wanting more.
Ruth is still a revered figure in the pantheon of the Church of Baseball, and his record lasted almost forever.
Well, I won't know what to think till I see the Right Reverend George Will oratiate upon this event.
Did you ever see the old George Will's baseball game show on SNL? Dana Carvey as both will and Sam Donaldson, the wacky announcer. It was damn funny; too bad they didn't have Carvey do Cokie, too.
JR my dad's greatest dream beside owning his own Chalet, is to own a string of race horses.
Moonbootica
I hope he has money to waste then...
Tasty sammich!
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WTF Do We Know?
Hecate, Grammar Fag ,/i>
I try to avoid cult propaganda.
JR, yes, I am sure you did. If you want a thrill though, read it as an adult. She was a wonderful writer. One of my favorites.
Hecate-
See "Water" if you get a chance-a tremensou movie.
Uncle Smokes Johnny Depp can ravish me anytime 
yes the first Pirates movie was excellent and i have a feeling the sequel will be just as good.
I won't know what to think till I see the Right Reverend George Will oratiate upon this event.
Oh yes, we should wait until he speaks ex cathedra on this!
Slamming Hank Aaron for being a black man breaking a white man's record: racism.
Slamming Barry Bonds for being a wife beater: not racism.
Sorry, dude. I'm not missing the point. When someone says that criticizing Barry Bonds for his personality "smacks of racism," I think your point was pretty clear.
JR my dad's greatest dream beside owning his own Chalet, is to own a string of race horses.
Hey did you know that they named a horse race in England after the Kentucky Derby?
For the record, the "wife beating" was an allegation thrown out during a divorce battle. So far as I know, it's never been substantiated. Not that I care one way or the other, but still.
As if we need any more proof of O'Reilley's stupidity, now he wants to boycott Selma Hayek. Yeah, that'll go over in the heartland.
Moe Szyslak
if the phrase "self-parody" didn't exist... I wonder if Bill would be offended by his own post-modernism if he were aware of it.
Ah...a dinner of shrimp and chicken has arrived.
Catch y'all later, and take care of your good cat-loving selves
The only thing that matters is that a guy swings a piece of ash, hits a leather ball, it goes over the fence. Rinse, repeat, write it down in the book.
NTodd, Humpizzle™ | Homepage | 05.20.06 - 7:08 pm | #
I actually agree with you. I don't know his story, but if he's a wife-beater, take that to court. As for baseball, well, it's baseball.
Far out - click and play!
http://www.channelchooser.com/
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i want to see this documentary, that got mentioned in a dvc review:
While "Decoding Da Vinci," "The Da Vinci Deception" and other literary spin-offs from Brown's novel are crowding book stories, movie spin-offs have not made much of an impression. "Rape of the Soul," a documentary that shares Brown's fascination with hidden messages in religious art, died at the box office earlier this year.
I blogged some of the feminist implications of it.
So I recall!
See "Water" if you get a chance
Planning to go Monday or Tuesday at Dupont.
Earth, air, fire, and water, come be with me, I'm your daughter . . . .
Barry Bonds is trying to break the Da Vinci Code?
OK, folks. Get your insulin ready and then go visit my blog for an enormous dose of cute.
"JR, did you ever read Margurite Henry's book: KING OF THE WIND? It is about the Godolphin Arabian."
(waving hand) I did! I did!
Hadn't thought about it in decades, but when JR mentioned those three Thoroughbreds, the names rang a bell--but I couldn't remember from where.
Henry also wrote the wonderful "Misty of Chincoteague."
Now I'm going to have to find copies and read 'em again...
If you want a thrill though, read it as an adult.
In elementary school my reading *was* adult. I was a bit of a freak, having a university reading level before grade 6.
I thought the Da Vinci Code cause Paul MaCarthy and Heather Mills to split up?
Slamming Hank Aaron for being a black man breaking a white man's record: racism.
Slamming Barry Bonds for being a wife beater: not racism.
I didn't say it was racism. I said it smacked of the same shit the racists pulled: bringing in factors external to the game to whine about his achieving a fucking milestone.
Jesus, please get a hold of yourself.
Moe Szyslak--just saw your last post downstairs.
Yes, it would have been weird.
May Bonds never come NEAR that!
He's got 41 to go reach Aaron. Bonds has 5 home runs in 35 games so far this season, which works out to about 20-25 homers for the season if he plays the entire year at that pace and manages to play 140 or more games.
However, considering his recent injury problems and the fact that he's almost 42, I don't think he'll catch Aaron. In fact, it wouldn't surprise me if he retired before the end of the season.
O'Reilley:
There's no reason Canada should be prosperous and Mexico not. No reason on this earth.
Moron. He hates Canada too, cuz we won't offer up our young for his imperialistic war.
I did squeal with delight seeing the trailer for Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Moonbootica, Buffy Geek
I just watched The Curse of the Black Pearl again last night--so unexpectedly well done.
That last last moment, when Jack Sparrow (Captain) says, "Drink up, me hearties, yo ho," tilts his head and gives the wheel a push, thrills me and leaves me wanting more.
Uncle Smokes | Homepage | 05.20.06 - 7:15 pm | #
Hey! I just happen to be wearing my Pirates of the Caribbean t-shirt that my dad got me last summer when he lived his dream: taking his grandaughters to Disneyland!
In elementary school my reading *was* adult.
I only read Swank in kindergarten.
Here's what I said:
when people start injecting the personality into the discussion, it smacks of the same shit that racist fuckers pulled when Aaron was going to break Ruth's record. The only thing that matters is that a guy swings a piece of ash, hits a leather ball, it goes over the fence. Rinse, repeat, write it down in the book.
The point was pretty fucking clear I thought in the last sentence: don't bring up anything else when talking about HR records. It's not germane.
One of my favourite writers for "younger" readers whoo is emminently readable for adults is Rosemary Sutcliff. I blame her for my interest in history.
JR,
Mine was too - but having the reading ability is sometimes different from having an adult's perspective.
All I was saying that it is a good book and fun to read.
I'm going to go make some dinner. Later batses.
All I was saying that it is a good book and fun to read.
DWD
The fact that I remember it after all these years is a good indication of the quality.
I used to read almost a book a day, back then.
I once got falsely accused of domestic abuse. There's no recovering, the allegation sits there on you for the rest of your life, and there's not a damn thing you can do about it. The people who love you know better, and stand by you, but out of the blue people who don't know the first thing about you, the alleged incident, or the accuser drop "wife beater" on you to discredit everything else you do.
It's not the 'puter -- I just got nuttin' on horse racing OR baseball.
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jello : DemByDefault, what does the book/movie say about the mona lisa?
"Nice picture...hey, what's that over there?"
(and having never married, I've never had a wife to beat... nor have I done steroids)
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I only read Swank in kindergarten.
Thers
Of course you did. But only for the articles....
Turkey PM snubs outspoken general
Tayyip Erdogan, the prime minister of Turkey, has rebuked his top general for calling on Turks to continue their protests in defence of secularism following the killing of a judge by a suspected Islamist.
Erdogan was quoted by the state-run Anatolian news agency as saying on Saturday that "expecting such protests and reactions in future and commending such actions is not the right thing to do".
He was referring to comments by General Hilmi Ozkok, Turkey's Chief of General Staff, who urged people to continue protests in defence of secularism.
Erdogan rejected the general's comments, saying: "People holding responsible positions should know well what to recommend and how,"
WTF Do We Know?
Hecate, Grammar Fag ,/i>
I try to avoid cult propaganda
Really, there was no cult propaganda involved. There were folks I think are fools and folks I think are wise. But the movie definitely stretched your mind. I've enjoyed too few movies over the past few years. I enjoyed that one.
It's not the 'puter -- I just got nuttin' on horse racing OR baseball.
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Jeffraham Prestonian | Homepage | 05.20.06 - 7:23 pm | #
word on that...i got nothing either...
Really, there was no cult propaganda involved.
It was put together by the Ramtha cult, and several of the interviews with respctable types were edited to the point of falsehood. There is a lawsuit in the works over that, IIRC.
JP--how is curly?
I only follow the NFL... and since I heard about some struggle between Billy Volek and Vince Young, I have to assume that in my Innernets greyout, I've missed the news of McNair getting traded to Baltimore.
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Moron. He hates Canada too, cuz we won't offer up our young for his imperialistic war.
Moe Szyslak
but....the canadian parlaiment just voted to extend the afghan mission for two years....okay, it's not iraq...but...
I once got falsely accused of domestic abuse.
That sucks.
When I was a teen, I babysat in addition to having a paper route. As a male sitter, I was always paranoid about false accusations (especially after I learned one of my charges had, in fact, been molested by a male sitter previously).
And when you break your wife's nose and cheekbone, watch out! Maybe someday I'll tell the story about how the State Police came to our house when I was in VA...
the canadian parlaiment just voted to extend the afghan mission for two years....
By a razor thin margin. They lose NS they lose the next round.
I heard a great, great Joan Baez version of this Steve Earle song the other day on PBS. Makes me wanna cry.
her eyes: JP--how is curly?
He's fat -- check "homepage" for proof! I'd provide a link, but by the time I loaded that page and got back here to paste it in, there'd be two new threads.
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historical events today
# 325 - The First Council of Nicaea – the first Ecumenical Council of the Christian Church – is held.
# 526 - An earthquake kills about 300,000 people in Syria and Antiochia.
# 685 - The Battle of Dunnichen or Nechtansmere is fought between a Pictish army under King Bridei III and the invading Northumbrians under King Ecgfrith, who are decisively defeated.
# 1217 - The Second Battle of Lincoln is fought near Lincoln, England, resulting in the defeat of Prince Louis of France by William Marshal, 2nd Earl of Pembroke.
# 1293 - King Sancho IV of Castile creates the Study of General Schools of Alcalá.
# 1631 - The city of Magdeburg in Germany is seized by forces of the Holy Roman Empire and most of its inhabitants massacred, in one of the bloodiest incidents of the Thirty Years' War.
# 1690 - England passes the Act of Grace, forgiving followers of Catholic James II.
# 1813 - Napoleon Bonaparte leads his French troops into the Battle of Bautzen in Saxony, Germany, against the combined armies of Russia and Prussia. The battle ends the next day with a French victory.
Evening all.
I am actually a bit upset about Barbado's injury. Those types of injuries are not good. Horses do not take well to anesthesia well, and for as tough an animal as they are, can be very fragile.
speaking of cults i once knew several people involved in the Bhagnwan Shree cult. the rolls royce/oregon/tax evasion/fuckathon in poona India who the locals detested/ guy. they all wore orange.
many returned from poona with venereal diseases and new names.
"...the female colt who shattered a foreleg during a match race and WOULD NOT STOP RUNNING on it."
Sounds like the Algore!
Algore/Dukakis '08
but....the canadian parlaiment just voted to extend the afghan mission for two years....okay, it's not iraq...but...
grandma moses
Yea, sigh. At least the vote was close.
Most Americans still believe that some of the 9-11 hijackers came from Canada. Sigh again.
As I expected, a pedestrian work becomes a pedestrian movie. The worst film I've seen this year (so far) is An American Haunting. This warning may come too late, but don't bother--terrible editing, tedious, repetetive story, complete waste of time.
Uncle Smokes | Homepage | 05.20.06 - 6:56 pm | # Really bad movie and almost as ahistorical as The DaVinci Code.
Best part of DVC, the book: Three world renowned experts in LDV are utterly baffled by an example of mirror-writing. It's plain to see what the great riddle is, but they puzzle over it for a whole chapter, IIRC. You can just hear the conversation w/ the editor.
"Now, Dan, let's make the readers feel smart here". Yeah, the first thing that occured to me was DaVinci's "unreadlable" backwards handwriting that they talked about at least two times prior in the novel.
Please. Bonds is a supreme asshole who is the poster boy for performance-enhancing drugs.
What a victory. Woo. Hoo.
lisa | 05.20.06 - 7:05 pm | # McGwire ans Sosa were probably just as juiced in 99, and it's pretty obvious that the changes to Bond's physique occured after that. He was probably one of the best all time players before he started taking steroids. By all rights Barry Bonds is an extremely ugly personality. But then again so was Ty Cobb.
the Ramtha cult
See, cult is a fun word. The Catholics aren't a cult, but the Ramtha people are. I'm not wild about her, but, OTOH, she never burned anyone at the stake, did she? And regardless of where the ideas come from, some of them are very good ideas. Just go see the movie and make up your own mind.
I'm a member of an ancient fertility "cult." Just sayin'.
Drake did not attend Friday's fundraiser luncheon with the president, but her aides said the reason had nothing to with Bush's political standing. They said she was in Washington for a vote on legislation affecting military families.
You mean this 395-0 vote?
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# 1882 - The Triple Alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy is formed.
# 1883 - The eruption of Krakatoa begins, leading ultimately to the volcano's destruction three months later.
# 1891 - History of cinema: First public display of Thomas Alva Edison's prototype kinetoscope (shown at Edison's Laboratory for a convention of the National Federation of Women's Clubs).
# 1902 - Cuba gains independence from the United States. Tomás Estrada Palma becomes the first President of Cuba.
# 1920 - The Weimarer Nationalversammlung, the national assembly of Germany's Weimar Republic, is permanently dissolved.
# 1927 - By the Treaty of Jedda, the United Kingdom recognizes the sovereignty of King Ibn Saud in the Kingdoms of Hejaz and Nejd, which later merged to become the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
# 1932 - Amelia Earhart takes off from Newfoundland to begin the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean by a female pilot, landing in Ireland the next day.
JP--curly is indeed "big boned" or "pleasingly plump."
teh cute!
Non-sports related turtles above.
okay wild guess. is the Ramtha 'cult' the 'mother' cult?
The Catholics aren't a cult, but the Ramtha people are.
Depends whose definition you use. I have no problem labelling certain aspects of the RC church as "cult".
Of course, from a purely academic perspective, all religious rituals are "cultic", but that's a completely different terminology.
They lose NS they lose the next round.
I don't know the province breakdown. But I'm in Nova Scotia, and my MP (a guy named Michael Savage) was one of the two dozenor so Libs who voted yes. I called him up and gave him an earful.
Most Americans still believe that some of the 9-11 hijackers came from Canada. Sigh again.
Moe Szyslak
well, I'm pretty convinced that Florida flight schools are in Canada
Watching Charley.
Charley Gordon is a fella who will shortly be who he used to be.
There are several ways to interpret that.
I'm a member of an ancient fertility "cult." Just sayin'.
Hecate
No, you aren't. You are a memeber of a modern reworking of an ancient fertility cult.
There's nothing wrong with the "neo" in "neo-pagan", BTW.
if the 'Ramtha cult' is in fact the 'mother' cult I knew someone who waited in line for 3 hours to get her hug in the middle of the night.
she said it was, er, 'disappointing.'
well, I'm pretty convinced that Florida flight schools are in Canada
I don't know who's in charge of security in Cananda, but hopefully, it has nothing to do with georgie nd the boyz.
As if we need any more proof of O'Reilley's stupidity, now he wants to boycott Selma Hayek. Yeah, that'll go over in the heartland.
Is it even possible to boycott something(one) that wouldn't have anything to do with you in a million years?
As if we need any more proof of O'Reilley's stupidity, now he wants to boycott Selma Hayek. Yeah, that'll go over in the heartland.
Is it even possible to boycott something(one) that wouldn't have anything to do with you in a million years?
I'm still reeling from Selma's embargo of '97...
I was devastated when I saw Barbaro go down. Simply heart-broken. He's such a magnificent athlete, a beautiful horse... I just wish something GOOD would happen once in a while.
Fluffy Halifax,
My heart goes out to you. It's awful when we lose one of our furry children.
{{hugs}}
Ruffian broke her leg at Belmont Park in a match race. She was brought to a vet across the street from the park (they didn't put her down on the track). they attempted to put her leg in an air cast at the vet. The vet was located directly next to my high school.
She was destroyed at the vet, and buried under the NYRA flag pole. Look for it when you watch the Stakes on Saturday, June 10.
Also, check out the pond in the infield, the pond on the left. That small island...my old drinking island in high school in the off-season. WHat a jerk I was.
if the 'Ramtha cult' is in fact the 'mother' cult I knew someone who waited in line for 3 hours to get her hug in the middle of the night.
No, the hugging is the Amma group. Whatever you think of the hugs, Amma is a legitimate guru, and her organization is very heavily involved in good works all over the world.
Ramtha is a dude who supposedly died many thousands of years ago and speaks through a woman named J.Z. Knight. Knight's organization made "WTF Do We Know?" and she appears in it, channeling Ramtha; but the film deals with lots of other stuff and doesn't appear to be propaganda for Knight's group so much as for the kinds of "we make our own reality" ideas it espouses.
I spent most of my childhood working my way through horse books. The best were Walter Farley's Black Stallion books; he also wrote a terrific book about Man O'War. I also read Godolphin, and the Misty books.
Seabiscuit, the book by Lauren Hildebrand, is excellent. Esp. when she writes about the match race with War Admiral; you really feel like you're right there. (The movie wasn't nearly as good;please don't judge the book by the movie).
I love racing, because a horse running full out, with everything s/he has, out of sheer love and competitiveness, is an apotheosis of grace and power. I know it's hard on horses; it breaks my heart whenever a horse is hurt while racing. But they - the horses - love it. Long before we bred them for racing, they evolved to run great distances at top speed.
I had a horse for a while, loved him dearly. I let some friends ride him in jousts. I worried at first that he might be afraid of running in tourneys - scared of the noise, the armor, the running-straight-at-another-horse. He *loved* it. He'd practically dance on his way to the lists, and ran like the wind.
You'd be amazed, at what horses do because they love doing it.
Live by the ponies; die by the ponies... I blame Holden!
The world's most respected racehorse owner is the Aga Khan.
The folks of North Africa and the Middle East do not need a Preakness win to get respect in horse-racing.
JR, kerosene and a match | 05.20.06 - 7:11 pm | #
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"And you know the Aga Khan,
And he sent you a race horse for Christmas,
And you keep it just for fun,
For a laugh,
A-ha ha ha..."
Who sang that song? ("Where Do You Go to, My Lovely?") Damned if I can remember.
And Horshak, thanks for the correction. I'm probably confusing that part of Ruffian's tragic story with another horse's.
"...the female colt who shattered a foreleg during a match race and WOULD NOT STOP RUNNING on it."
Sounds like the Algore!
Algore/Dukakis '08
Osama F. Kerry |
You're a real jerkoff, you know that?
Moron. He hates Canada too, cuz we won't offer up our young for his imperialistic war.
Moe Szyslak
He hates Canada because people up there think for themselves and see him for the asshole that he is.
Fuck Bill O'Wanker.
I occasionally post here. I wanted everyone to know that my kitty Hunter passed away today. I miss my orange boy.
Fluffy Halifax | 05.20.06 - 6:57 pm | #
I'm so sorry, Fluffy. That definitely hurts. Getting a new cat takes away some of the pain. When my sweet 2.5 y/o kitty died in Nov, I ended up having to get 2 to replace him.
Ruffian was put down after she came out of a 12 hour, complicated surgery, flailed, reinjured her leg and broke another one. Since she'd already had to be revived twice during the original surgery, they determined she wouldn't survive the now-necessary second one and put her down.
At the point in the match race where she broke down, she was actually beating the colt, Foolish Pleasure.
Ruffian
I was way up for the day today, so although I hadn't planned on betting the Preak (which looked unbettable, frankly) I finally decided to go $20 Win on Bernardini. I felt terrible for having won that way; even worse is that the winning colt is a superstar in the making, but until he wins the Travers and BC Classic he'll just be the horse that won the Preakness when Barbaro broke down.
Oh, and a Dubai sheikh has already won two of the Triple Crown races. One of the Dubai sheikhs bought War Emblem a week before that horse won the Kentucky Derby (and then the Preakness) a few years ago. The Dubai horse contingent are also among the single biggest individual-entity donors to the various 9-11 relief funds for families of New York police and firemen.
It's time for thoroughbred racing to do what non-thoroughbred racing did, and add a year to the minimum requirements for the big races. Two year olds are too fragile to go through that rigorous training. Their knees still aren't finished growing when they're three.
Make all these big money three year old races for four year olds, and the number of crippling injuries and euthanized horses would drop preciptously.
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