I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
Frist???
prez hillary in 08
Wow, that took several seconds!
I've been reading Haloscan error messages.
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You might want to call EOD about that front page.
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I've been reading, "Under the Tuscan Sun," and the local paper...
But I haven't been reading my default posting name from previous troll-related banter.
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Tony Hillerman.
HBC reports of the activity at Archangelsk in 1917-19.
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Any dem is better than any repug, but hillary, obama, and edwards pale in comparison to gore, kucinich and feingold.
been reading/doing calculus homework...which reminds me.....where's my pencil?
I dunno, I still haven't heard what Gore has to say about Iran....
Why does Duncan insist on terrorising us all with the light brite at the top of the page?
tbsa | 02.03.07 - 8:33 pm | #
Yeah, he should switch it out with an Etch-a-Sketch.
Or maybe a Spirograph.
what have you been reading?
I've been reading Slavoj Zizek of late. Along with a bunch of 1950s scifi.
HBC reports of the activity at Archangelsk in 1917-19.
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GWPDA, yclept Shouty-Crackers | Homepage | 02.03.07 - 8:37 pm |
That sounds like fun.
Currently reading The Silmarillion.
I have been reading resumes for nearly 300 Spanish speaking people in TX.
I just finished re-reading Clark's "Childhood's End" for the leventy-seventh time.
Marcy Wheeler liveblogging the Libby trial. Pretty juicy stuff I might add.
Just finished "The Alien Years" by Silverberg and starting "Ghost Road Blues" by Maberry. The latter I have not a clue about. Impulse buy based on the blerb. May swich over to "Wolves Eat Dogs" by Martin Cruz Smith instead.
I have started the Silmarillion about 10 times. Haven't got past page 50 or so on each attempt.
Tony Hillerman.
I gave up about two or three books ago...I haven't liked em since Jim hooked up with Bernie. Have they picked up?
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Husband has been reading Turgenev.
the little green man is dead, long live the little green man.
Arthur and George by Julian Barnes
The Dead Beat by Marilyn Johnson
"I dunno, I still haven't heard what Gore has to say about Iran...."
If they had listened to what he had to say about Iraq we wouldn't be in this mess.
I need to finish Harry Potter #6 before the seventh and final book arrives this summer. Let's face it, once Marcy's book arrives, that's what I'll be reading next.
Any dem is better than any repug, but hillary, obama, and edwards pale in comparison to gore, kucinich and feingold.
mike in pr
I like Wes Clark, too.
but, i've been meaning to read some phillip k. dick
and i'm reading jonathan kellerman's psycho drama trash in the bathroom....:0
a repost
I had quite a varied of degree choices, we had to select 6 choices of unis , of which 5 gave me conditional offers, of that I had to pick a Primary and a Secondary offer.
they were
Russian Studies at Birmingham University
Islamic Studies at Exeter University(did not get an offer)
Comparative American Studies at Liverpool University
Persian and Islamic Studies at Manchester University
Ancient History at Cardiff University
and where I am now Ancient History at Swansea University. (which was my second choice)
Moonbootica, 21 | Homepage | 02.03.07 - 8:39 pm | #
I have been reading various scenarios concerning the outbreak of war with Iran, and its likely course.
It sickens the soul.
I like Wes Clark, too.
Word, word, and word!
hy Dick Cheney Cracked Up
By FRANK RICH
IN the days since Dick Cheney lost it on CNN, our nation’s armchair shrinks have had a blast. The vice president who boasted of “enormous successes” in Iraq and barked “hogwash” at the congenitally mild Wolf Blitzer has been roundly judged delusional, pathologically dishonest or just plain nuts. But what else is new? We identified those diagnoses long ago. The more intriguing question is what ignited this particularly violent public flare-up.
The answer can be found in the timing of the CNN interview, which was conducted the day after the start of the perjury trial of Mr. Cheney’s former top aide, Scooter Libby. The vice president’s on-camera crackup reflected his understandable fear that a White House cover-up was crumbling. He knew that sworn testimony in a Washington courtroom would reveal still more sordid details about how the administration lied to take the country into war in Iraq. He knew that those revelations could cripple the White House’s current campaign to escalate that war and foment apocalyptic scenarios about Iran. Scariest of all, he knew that he might yet have to testify under oath himself.
http://select.nytimes.com/2007/
0...agewanted=print
http://www.democraticunderground...&
mesg_id=119403
Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock . . .
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Well, I mean, I expect Gore to be good on Iran, but I'm still waiting for the speech.
(And is he going to say anything about how NAFTA turned out?)
I hope that JK Rowling just says fuck it, I have enough money, and have Rom & Hermione in a hot love scene, and Harry shooting up magic smack or something needing to go to St. Mungos in order to detox.
W
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I'm reading an unpublished children's book that a friend wrote. Also part way through "The Summer of A Dormouse" by John Mortimer, "As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning" by Laurie Lee, and trying to catch up with last month's New Yorkers.
(And is he going to say anything about how NAFTA turned out?)
Avedon | Homepage | 02.03.07 - 8:42 pm | #
NAFTA is fantabulous!
oh yeah, i read barack obama's book. i didn't like it.
then i started re-reading catch-22. that's one fine catch.
I highly recommend these:
Disaster by Christopher Cooper
The Storm by Ivor van Heerden
The Great Deluge by Douglas Brinkley
Jed Horne's Breach of Faith
Path of Destruction by John McQuaid and Mark Schleifstein
British children - taught to HATE
Moon, I absolutely need you to proceeed to graduate history work. C'mon - you know you want to. What - you want to go to work at Swansea City Hall?
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"I like Wes Clark, too."
Me too. I just didn't add him to my list for the sake of parallelism.
James Fenimore Cooper - as always.
then i started re-reading catch-22. that's one fine catch.
charley | Homepage | 02.03.07 - 8:43 pm | #
That is one Major Major Major Major novel.
I have started the Silmarillion about 10 times. Haven't got past page 50 or so on each attempt.
trifecta | 02.03.07 - 8:40 pm |
It's a bit of a slog the first few chapters, much more 'mythology' than story. I read it for the first time three years ago. But I figured if I was re-reading LOTR I should do the pre-history.
but, i've been meaning to read some phillip k. dick
me_imperturbe, I recently read Dick's "Galactic Pot-Healer," which was a little different than some of his earlier work. It was a bit tentative in spots, but pretty good nonetheless.
"This comic is graphic, blood-spattered and filled with poison."
Moon, made me think of Mallard Fillmore.
I have nothing to say - what have you been reading?
I've been reading shitty little pissant Z-list blogs...
Moon, I absolutely need you to proceeed to graduate history work. C'mon - you know you want to. What - you want to go to work at Swansea City Hall?
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GWPDA, yclept Shouty-Crackers | Homepage | 02.03.07 - 8:43 pm | #
I'd truly love too but where would I find the money?
I don't want to live off my dad's money forever, I need to find a job!
Just stopped reading Marley and Me.
A simple and delightful book about a hyperactive blond Lab and his owners.
I stopped because it was getting too sad.
The author could not stop at some point and do an epilogue noting his dogs death, but went into this graphic chapter by chapter account of this wonderful dog losing his faculties.
I just could not read it anymore.
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James Fenimore Cooper - as always.
Artie | Homepage | 02.03.07 - 8:44 pm | #
That right there is a man who can't write for crap.
catch-22. that's one fine catch.
charley
It's the best there is.
I need to finish Harry Potter #6 before the seventh and final book arrives this summer.
Here's a few spoilers from book 6:
Hermione and Ron have sex and Ron gives her magical genital warts which cannot be cured by potion or wand.
Hagrid is booted out of Hogwarts for dealing coke.
There's a special guest appearance by Paris Hilton, who plays a skank. Which in the wizarding world means a "muggle frequently in public without panties"
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trifecta, what and break the kids hearts? Ok, it would crack me up to no end, but...
but, i've been meaning to read some phillip k. dick
get the fuck on it. now.
I've been reading shitty little pissant Z-list blogs...
Dr NTodd, Articulate Negro | Homepage | 02.03.07 - 8:45 pm | #
That was you that visited my place? Cool.
Another good book (and a movie I will be sure not to watch): Running with Scissors.
'Europe: A History' by Norman Davies
an absolutely riveting historical narrative, you don't want to set it down...
I have been re-reading American Gods by Neil Gaiman. Great book.
mrs. al-jafeeri, did you see the "Masters of American Comics" show that's in New York & Newark now? I think it may have toured other parts of the country also. I've been recommending it to everybody.
I am really shocked that no one is reading them some Shakespeares....
I don't want to live off my dad's money forever
That's pretty fucking stupid. I've been trying, but NTodd's Pa has been damned uncooperative. My clever ruse to put him in the hospital didn't pan out, but I'm pretty sure I can smother him with his pillow tomorrow.
I myself have never held down a part time paid job.
I've done time at charity shops and did a stint as a dish washer at a local hotel in my town.
frankly I am a bit freaked out about post graduate life and before that my dissertation.
catch-22. that's one fine catch.
charley
It's the best there is.
SteveLG, proudly pre 9/11 | 02.03.07 - 8:45 pm | #
I don't know. Among WWII novels that have numbers in the title, Slaughterhouse Five is a strong contender.
mrs. ibrahim al-Jafaari and Diane, i'll get to phillip k. dick soon, but calculus awaits....dammit!
There's a special guest appearance by Paris Hilton, who plays a skank. Which in the wizarding world means a "muggle frequently in public without panties"
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William H. Rehnquist
Wow, thanks. No really. You've saved me some time. Now provide brain bleach for making me think of PH.
Vonnegut is amazing. I hope people still respect and read him 50 years from now.
Gaia's Revenge by James Lovelock.
All about how to try and arrange for a "soft fall" for civilization during the coming climate crisis that will allow for a rebound sooner, in terms of hundreds of years, than otherwise. Oddly optimistic book, actually.
Couple of works:
"Andrew Jackson: HIs Life and Times" by Brands, "The Transformation of War" by van Creveld, and "The Quiet American" by Greene are the main pieces, though I'm always re-reading selected books from the past.
I just finished reading some shit about American myths that Atrios hasn't linked to.
American Gods was good, but Good Omens knocked my socks off.
Catch-22 and To Kill A Mockingbird are the books I have re-read more than any others, by a long way.
I've been staring at this off and on for the last several days:
http://labs.digg.com/swarm/
At some point, I'll reach enlightenment.
I have been re-reading American Gods by Neil Gaiman. Great book.
Second that one. I think I liked Anansi Boys even better. A great set of concept books.
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It is very hard to type with a twenty pound cat draped across the keyboard.
I recommend The Star Fraction by Ken MacLeod.
Stone Canal also.
Ken MacLeod rulez.
I've been reading the comments on some fucked up blog.
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Vonnegut is amazing. I hope people still respect and read him 50 years from now.
trifecta | 02.03.07 - 8:48 pm | #
Honestly, I can't see any way that that would not be the case. His place is secure.
the snort on GOP is not "Republic Party" as Bush pushed with his faux make up session to House Dems. It is Publicans as in pubic.
frankly I am a bit freaked out about post graduate life and before that my dissertation.
My advice is to start drinking heavily.
well, duncan, by removing skippy from the blogroll, you force me to remove eschaton from mine, thus adhering to my reiprocal link policy.
also, you force me to come here and blogwhore even more than i did, thus adhering to being a pain in the butt as often as possible policy.
good enough for crooks & liars and steve gilliard and digby, not not eschaton?
well, excuuuuuuuuuse me!
Ken MacLeod run a blog too - The Early Days of a Better Nation
"That is one Major Major Major Major novel."
Yes, isn't it wonderful how it keeps getting better with age?
The Pub Party or Publican Party.
American Gods was good, but Good Omens knocked my socks off.
I was pretty disappointed by Good Omens. It was too goofy. They were trying too hard to be absurd.
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Saturday by Ian McEwan
Catch-22 and To Kill A Mockingbird are the books I have re-read more than any others, by a long way.
Catch-22 Kill a Mockinbird was a great book. Atticus Minderbinder was one of the truly original characters of fiction.
Richard Morgan rocks too.
I recently re-read Vonnegut's Jailbird. I love that stuff.
kazrin
no. begging my betters to bring it here
PS; by no I mean I have not seen that show, but yes, I have seen those comics. seen he originals (mass produced fetish objects) but not seen those particular originals (pen and ink on board, plus reproductions , plus originals, etc, placed as Museum objet a)
you see the problem with my object of study? fetish-e
The Pub Party or Publican Party.
Peterboy
A.K.A. The pukes.
Catch-22 and To Kill A Mockingbird are the books I have re-read more than any others, by a long way.
Avedon | Homepage | 02.03.07 - 8:49 pm | #
I find To Kill a Mockingbird mystifying. It's brilliant. And it's all Harper Lee ever wrote.
Very odd.
Vonnegut is amazing. I hope people still respect and read him 50 years from now.
My father is reading his "Man Without A Country" now, and recommends it. A collection of essays & speeches.
I wasn't the biggest fan of Good Omens either. I liked Anansi boys better.
My wife has that children's book Gaiman put out. I might give it a read.
I've read The Star Fraction so many times.
well, duncan, by removing skippy from the blogroll, you force me to remove eschaton from mine, thus adhering to my reiprocal link policy.
Pffft. I did that several threads ago. Much like the towelheads in Iran, Atrios refuses to bow to such pressure, so I'll be forced to deploy my carrier groups to Philly next.
"The Structures of Everyday Life," subtitled "The Limits of the Possible," by Fernand Braudel.
Utterly engrossing. It's about life, commerce and economics in the 15th-18th centuries (The pre-industrial world). Amazing in its breadth and in the details he brings out about what people ate, what they made, what they bought, sold and raised.
If nothing else, it made me damned glad that I didn't live back then.
ciao moonbats for now 
I recently re-read Vonnegut's Jailbird. I love that stuff.
Avedon | Homepage | 02.03.07 - 8:51 pm | #
That's a great one. I think Vonnegut only ever really missed once: Player Piano.
I'd truly love too but where would I find the money?
I don't want to live off my dad's money forever, I need to find a job!
Moonbootica, 21 | Homepage | 02.03.07 - 8:45 pm
Debt is fun!
"Publicans" are bar owners in British English.
A recommendation I have for folks is to get collections of Mark Twain. His speeches, essays, and short stories outside of the typical stuff is really mindblowing.
His short story Little Bessie would get him hung in parts of the south these days.
also 'The Third Reich in Power' by Richard Evans, to get some perspective on how dubya and his minions compare (early summary: dubya couldn't hold Hitler's dick in terms of ruthlessness).
and 'The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions' by Karen Armstrong - to lighten things up...
Vonnegut is amazing. I hope people still respect and read him 50 years from now.
trifecta
I bought my Dad a compilation of his works. He loved it.
When he died I went thru his books and selected the ones I wanted, but my Mom got confused and shipped the ones I took too my Sis's house.
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Stuart Kauffman's _Origins of Order_ is on top of the pile right now. But I've been reviewing too many manuscripts to get to it much lately.
OT: Thanks Troutsky for posting that info on child preparedness in the discussion thread this morning. I didn't have time to find any references for my vague assertions and probably should have made coffee instead of posting.
Daniel Radcliffe is acting in Equus atm. The little Harry Potter has nude scenes:
http://rantsfromtherookery.blogs...nude-
actor.html
This is what you get when you polish off Dumbledore in the sixth book, dammit!
Skippy, he still hasn't put me back on the blogroll!
I wasn't the biggest fan of Good Omens either.
Oh, I enjoyed that immensely, as I have all of Gaiman's (still haven't read American Gods, though I picked up a copy from the General Store for 5 bucks).
His short story Little Bessie would get him hung in parts of the south these days.
trifecta
Not to mention, "Letters to the Earth."
Vonnegut isn't half the writer Kilgore Trout is.
NTodd, it will literally make you drop your socks (and your pants). American Gods is that good.
Books?
Just finished Dava Sobel's Galileo's Daughter. Good. (She's the one who wrote Longitude).
Reading latest Hillerman...
Vonnegut is amazing. I hope people still respect and read him 50 years from now.
I read Breakfast of Champions when I was a teen. All I can remember about it were the continual references to the penis size of each male character, which at the time, I could repeat verbatim.
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HICA!
Mia got a makeover for flg's benefit...
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the god delusion -- great read!
I was especially amused once when Dan Quayle was extolling the virtues of Mark Twain, having no fucking clue about what Twain actually wrote about other than Tom Sawyer maybe.
Skippy, he still hasn't put me back on the blogroll!
Avedon | Homepage | 02.03.07 - 8:54 pm | #
Sigh.
I have little if any hopes that I shall ever make the grade to be on the blogroll. He's just too good for me.
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I was pretty disappointed by Good Omens."
Weird, wife just pointed that one out to me at the bookstore last week. Weirder is I had it at one time. Halfway through, I lost it.
"Catch-22 and To Kill A Mockingbird are the books I have re-read more than any others, by a long way"
For me it's been Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man.
American Gods was good, but Good Omens knocked my socks off.
Catch-22 and To Kill A Mockingbird are the books I have re-read more than any others, by a long way.
Avedon | Homepage | 02.03.07 - 8:49 pm |
I loved Good Omens.
NTodd, it will literally make you drop your socks (and your pants). American Gods is that good.
If I drop my socks, then people will see my Wee Willy. And it's cold and snowy.
For me it's been Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man.
I like that scene where Stephen Dedalus and Jim meet those two con artists.
By New Testament times, publicans were seen chiefly as tax collectors by provincial peoples. However, their role as public contractors, especially as regards building projects, was still significant.
Wikipedia definition of publican.
Appropriate, no?
Read "Venus on the Half-Shell" (Kilgore Trout) recently, & spent the afternoon with Raymond Chandler's "The High Window"
Oh, I enjoyed that immensely, as I have all of Gaiman's (still haven't read American Gods, though I picked up a copy from the General Store for 5 bucks).
Dr NTodd, Articulate Negro | Homepage | 02.03.07 - 8:54 pm | #
I love the "Ramadan" issue of Sandman.
I read Breakfast of Champions when I was a teen. All I can remember about it were the continual references to the penis size of each male character, which at the time, I could repeat verbatim.
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William H. Rehnquist | Homepage | 02.03.07 - 8:55 pm | #
I still remember the drawings of the asshole and the wide-open beaver.
And of Galapagos, I remember his hilarious use of asterisks to forewarn readers when a character was about to die.
I'd truly love too but where would I find the money?
I don't want to live off my dad's money forever, I need to find a job!
Moonbootica, 21
Go talk to your academic advisors and find out what's available. Find out what there is before saying you can't. You can study abroad for goodness sakes, lots of fellowships. Lots of British/Cdn stuff. You just need to go ask. Finding a job is more than just finding a job. You go into your advisor's office to-morrow and say what it is that you want, without fear. You're allowed.
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Holy Shit, I've been watching "National Treasure", where the steal the Declaration of Independence, and guess who shows up?
Harvey Keitel.
If I drop my socks, then people will see my Wee Willy. And it's cold and snowy.
Dr NTodd, Articulate Negro
Wasn't there a book about Wee Willy?
Books I'd like to re-read if I had time:
The Secret Garden
The Mists of Avalon
The Gormenghast Trilogy
What trifecta said. For instance, this is from "A Connecticut Yankee" which is one of Twain's lesser read books:
IT'S a world of surprises. The king brooded; this was natural. What would he brood about, should you say? Why, about the prodigious nature of his fall, of course -- from the loftiest place in the world to the lowest; from the most illustrious station in the world to the obscurest; from the grandest vocation among men to the basest. No, I take my oath that the thing that graveled him most, to start with, was not this, but the price he had fetched! He couldn't seem to get over that seven dollars. Well, it stunned me so, when I first found it out, that I couldn't believe it; it didn't seem natural. But as soon as my mental sight cleared and I got a right focus on it, I saw I was mistaken; it WAS natural. For this reason: a king is a mere artificiality, and so a king's feelings, like the impulses of an automatic doll, are mere artificialities; but as a man, he is a reality, and his feelings, as a man, are real, not phantoms. It shames the average man to be valued below his own estimate of his worth, and the king certainly wasn't anything more than an average man, if he was up that high.
Confound him, he wearied me with arguments to show that in anything like a fair market he would have fetched twenty-five dollars, sure -- a thing which was plainly nonsense, and full or the baldest conceit; I wasn't worth it myself. But it was tender ground for me to argue on. In fact, I had to simply shirk argument and do the diplomatic instead. I had to throw conscience aside, and brazenly concede that he ought to have brought twenty-five dollars; whereas I was quite well aware that in all the ages, the world had never seen a king that was worth half the money, and during the next thirteen centuries wouldn't see one that was worth the fourth of it.
Just finished The Shia Revival by Valli Nasser. Starting Circle in the Sand, Why We Went Back to Iraq by Christian Alfonsi (maybe he knows). Up next The Storm by Ivor Van Heerden.
I confess to a total addiction to Terry Pratchett. It's like he has no illusions and loves the human race anyway. Gets me right...here. Or do I mean here?
then i started re-reading catch-22. that's one fine catch.
charley | Homepage | 02.03.07 - 8:43 pm | #
That is one Major Major Major Major novel.
rorschach | Homepage
Gotta recomend "M.A.S.H."
The book rules.
I'm re-reading The Illuminatus Trilogy.
Find out what happened in Dealy Plaza From,
The Dealy Llama!
(Hero,standing on conning tower of stolen, yellow, nuclear submarine smoking dope grown by Atomic light)
"It was then I saw the Illuminati Spider ships coming over the horizon. Or did I just THINK I saw the Illuminati Spider Ships coming over the horizon?...At any rate, there they were."
Holy Shit, I've been watching "National Treasure", where the steal the Declaration of Independence, and guess who shows up?
Harvey Keitel.
It's his Jump the Shark moment.
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I still remember the drawings of the asshole and the wide-open beaver.
rorschach
Oh. Yeah!
I forgot about that.
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I really liked Gaiman's "Neverwhere."
Meet the new thread . . . same as the old thread.
Read Moby Dick.
Books I'd like to re-read if I had time:
The Mists of Avalon
Yeah, I'd like to reread that. I'd also like to see the TNT mini...
Here is a link to the full text of Little Bessie by Twain. He wrote it in 1908, two years before he died. He was angry at God at the time for taking his wife and daughter.... very angry.
I confess to a total addiction to Terry Pratchett.
Agree 100%. When I grow up, I want to be Granny Weatherwax
I really liked Gaiman's "Neverwhere."
THAT fucking rocked my world. One of my mentors turned me onto it--didn't know he'd switched to novels at that point.
I'd also like to see the TNT mini...
It wasn't that great. I had high hopes for it, but, eh....
Wasn't there a book about Wee Willy?
ellroon, Leave Iraq/n now!
No
I confess to a total addiction to Terry Pratchett. It's like he has no illusions and loves the human race anyway. Gets me right...here. Or do I mean here?
Avedon | Homepage | 02.03.07 - 8:59 pm | #
I've read quite a few of his. Very good stuff.
Miriam's a complete Pratchett junky and has read everything by him.
What have I been reading?
The same fucking questions over and over from Vista on my mew laptop.
There was woman in Tennesee who died in last month who was already married with children when Mark Twain died.
Daughter of slaves.
Freakin 116 years old.
Wasn't there a book about Wee Willy?
ellroon, Leave Iraq/n now!
No
Winkey | Homepage | 02.03.07 - 9:01 pm
Winkey...why are you swearing at Vermont in your homepage?
The same fucking questions over and over from Vista on my mew laptop.
smalfish | 02.03.07 - 9:02 pm | #
I think you've just taken cat-blogging way too far.
what, you took down the sideshow too??
man, that's cold...
however, skippy will always keep the sideshow on his blog.
It wasn't that great. I had high hopes for it, but, eh....
How is that possible? It's got whatsername from ER!
I just finished reading "American Fascists" by Chris Hedges, and am about to start "The God Delusion".
Fascinating!
The same fucking questions over and over from Vista on my mew laptop.
smalfish
Prrrrrrrrr
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The same fucking questions over and over from Vista on my mew laptop.
smalfish
This blog has entirely too much stuff about cats.
Skippy, he still hasn't put me back on the blogroll!
Avedon |
Hasn't put the Madly,Hos on either. Calls for another YouTube war.
Though I've started a lobbying effort for the Madly, Hos to add that French-accented educated guy who unilaterally surrendered in the blogwars to the team. Who could withstand the onslaught of a B.Rocketbé byline?
I'd also like to see the TNT mini...
It wasn't that great. I had high hopes for it, but, eh....
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator | Homepage | 02.03.07 - 9:01 pm | #
Yeah, outside of the ritualistic Celtic sex, not a whole lot to recommend it.
I think you've just taken cat-blogging way too far.
I could probably use some petting about now.
I am totally fustrated.
The books I reread most are Pride and Prejudice, and the Peter Wimsey mysteries by Dorothy Sayers. Also "A Far Cry From Kensington". I adore Muriel Spark.
I think you've just taken cat-blogging way too far.
Avedon
Hee HE Haw.
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If I drop my socks, then people will see my Wee Willy. And it's cold and snowy.
Dr NTodd, Articulate Negro
Wasn't there a book about Wee Willy?
ellroon, Leave Iraq/n now! | Homepage | 02.03.07 - 8:58 pm |
Little Willy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z...h?v=ZD-M_ZK-
It8
I think that I owe two cokes (Curse you, arthritis!).
How is that possible? It's got whatsername from ER!
Dr NTodd, Articulate Negro | Homepage | 02.03.07 - 9:03 pm | #
Julianne Margulies is teh hot.
I think you've just taken cat-blogging way too far.
I could probably use some petting about now.
I am totally fustrated.
smalfish | 02.03.07 - 9:04 pm
Check the hard drive for furballs....
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I think you've just taken cat-blogging way too far.
Avedon "
Damn Bill Gates, now I have going to have to upgrade all my cats.
Look Homeward Angel was the best book i ever read. i think.
shit, most of the books i've read i can't even remember what they were about.
Moon, go to school now. it get's harder when you're older. you're obviously too smart not to go all the way. just do it.
oh, i liked all the shit by that russian guy too.
Wasn't there a book about Wee Willy?
Willy, Willy,Willy, won't go.
American Notes for General Circulation.
And to lighten it up a little...
http://hairyfishnuts.com/index.htm
I stumbled upon it yesterday through a link at Jesus General, and I am so glad I did; I'm having a great time reading through the archives! Good stuff.
but, i've been meaning to read some phillip k. dick
i'd recommend renting a scanner darkly on netflix.
damn good dick.
It's got whatsername from ER!
Julianna Marguiles (sp?). Turns out, she plays a modern nurse whatever part she's given.
Another vote for Norman Davies' 'Europe'; his 'The Isles' is also superb.
'The Omnivore's Dilemma' (Michael Pollan)
'The Road to Reality' (Penrose) is extraordinary, but you have to be a math geek to really like it...
'The Blind Side' (Michael Lewis)
Damn Bill Gates, now I have going to have to upgrade all my cats.
EkCenTriK
I think Zoe is still running on DOS.
.
I have nothing to say - what have you been reading?
If you must know...
Skippy can't get enough dick.
Check the hard drive for furballs....
I am SO fucking tired of Vista asking me if I'M SURE I want to look for fur balls on my hard drive?.
Look Homeward Angel was the best book i ever read. i think.
Or, as we had it in my family, Lukomsky Angel, for Prince Alex Lukomsky who my Mummy dated in 1941 in New York.... A lovely man.
His short story Little Bessie would get him hung in parts of the south these days.
trifecta
Hanged
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Anyone watching The Hollow?
I am SO fucking tired of Vista asking me if I'M SURE I want to look for fur balls on my hard drive?.
smalfish
I heard it can delete files on your hard drive without your command.
I'm currently reading The Blind Side. It might be better than Moneyball.
Damn Bill Gates, now I have going to have to upgrade all my cats.
On C-SPAN/BookTV now
Interview
After Words with Eric Klinenberg
C-SPAN, BookTV
Washington, District of Columbia (United States)
01/30/2007 - 0:56
Klinenberg, Eric Associate Professor, New York University, Sociology
Scott, Ben Policy Director, Free Press, The
Eric Klinenberg talked about his book Fighting for Air: The Battle to Control America's Media, published by Metropolitan Books. In his book he the control of local media by companies such as Clear Channel, Sinclair Broadcasting, and the Tribune Company. The guest interviewer was Ben Scott.
Eric Klinenberg is an associate professor of sociology at New York University and the author of Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago, published by University of Chicago Press, about the 1995 heat wave that took the lives of over 700 people in Chicago. His work has appeared in the Washington Post, The Nation, and Rolling Stone.
Ben Scott is the policy director for Free Press, an organization that promotes media reform. He is the co-editor of The Future of Media: Resistance and Reform in the 21st Century, published by Seven Stories Press.
As for rereads, I reread Philip Pullman's 'His Dark Materials' last month, and liked it even better than I did the first time, from start to finish...
v.i. warshawski is always good. especially in black list, in which author sara paratsky manages to link a murder during the mccarthy era w/homeland security concerns of today.
Any dem is better than any repug, but hillary, obama, and edwards pale in comparison to gore, kucinich and feingold.
mike in pr
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Very much Word!
A few months ago I had a job interview in a building on E42nd St in NYC. It had one of those security setups where you have to sign in. There was a short woman in front of me wearing a beret and a trench coat. When I signed in, the name ahead of mine was "Julianna Margulies." True story!
As for rereads, I reread Philip Pullman's 'His Dark Materials' last month, and liked it even better than I did the first time, from start to finish...
ProfWombat | 02.03.07 - 9:09 pm | #
I read that at the behest of my wife, and with Tena's urging. Loved every bit of it.
I need to finish Harry Potter #6 before the seventh and final book arrives this summer. Let's face it, once Marcy's book arrives, that's what I'll be reading next.
Now that it's finished, I may start reading the series. I'm going to seek out the UK versions (it's the Philosopher's Stone, dammit -- Sorcerer's Stone makes no sense).
"Damn Bill Gates, now I have going to have to upgrade all my cats.
charley"
Cats and depleted uranium do not mix.
The books I reread most are Pride and Prejudice, and the Peter Wimsey mysteries by Dorothy Sayers. Also "A Far Cry From Kensington". I adore Muriel Spark.
Karin | 02.03.07 - 9:05 pm
Muriel Spark? Mystery writer? Just reread Austen. Love Sayers.
And.....Ta Da!
I am on the bastard now.
Funny I don't hear no purring.
What's up with that?
I enjoyed, immensely, Phillip Roth's rewriting of Sinclair's "It can't Happen Here."
the denouement in Roth was much more satisfying than in Upton Sinclair
There was a short woman in front of me wearing a beret and a trench coat.
So - did she have tightly curled dark hair and was George Clooney nearby?
oh, i just read your post about adding blogs as you think about them.
assuming you think about skippy in the next couple of months, i take back everything i said.
meantime, over at my blog, we're asking the important question:
krupa, rich, or bonham???
.
.
The Hollow is pretty spectacularly bad so far...
prrrrrrrrrrr
.
So - did she have tightly curled dark hair and was George Clooney nearby?
Yes. No.
I've read the first three of Charlie Stross Merchant Princes series and liked it a lot - waiting anxiously for the fourth.
Read A Princes of Roumania by Paul Park a month or two ago and just got the next two in the mail.
And just got the galleys for a new Ken McLeod book in the mail....
When I signed in, the name ahead of mine was "Julianna Margulies." True story!
It was actually me. Usually I sign in as Mike Hunt. But I was feeling saucy that day.
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Dorothy Sayers was amazing. I always take a collection of her works with me when I go on a vacation where I'll get to just plop and read. I've always been half in love with Lord Peter Whimsey, as much for his name as for anything else.
I enjoyed, immensely, Phillip Roth's rewriting of Sinclair's "It can't Happen Here."
the denouement in Roth was much more satisfying than in Upton Sinclair
mrs. ibrahim al-Jafaari | 02.03.07 - 9:11 pm | #
Haven't read that.
But then, I can't say that I've ever read anything by Roth that has impressed me much.
Now that it's finished, I may start reading the series. I'm going to seek out the UK versions (it's the Philosopher's Stone, dammit -- Sorcerer's Stone makes no sense).
Certified Mutant Enemy | Homepage | 02.03.07 - 9:10 pm
For a while we were purchasing both the American and British versions....
I read 'L.A. confidential'the other day by james elroy. One of the scenes was that, in order to kill a certain person, the killers were moved to slay an entire group of people.
Is this what Atrios has in mind with the blog change format? look for the absence of a few and the inclusion of many of the old stalwarts, which it is beginning to resemble now.
Bunter posts here quite a lot.
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Got this link from Moonbootica,
Bad Vista
v.i. warshawski is always good. especially in black list, in which author sara paratsky manages to link a murder during the mccarthy era w/homeland security concerns of today.
Try "A Red Death" by Walter Mosely. In fact you can't go wrong with anything by Walter Mosely.
And of course, that would be Wimsey....
I heard it can delete files on your hard drive without your command
It would not suprise me in the least.
I think I might format this drive and install my hacked copy of XP.
That is, if MS is'nt spying on me, as I type.
Dark Ages America: The Final Phase of Empire. Author: Morris Berman
I read it at night in bed, which can be dangerous due to its significant mass - when I drop it on my head, I know its time to go to sleep...
I read 'L.A. confidential'the other day by james elroy. One of the scenes was that, in order to kill a certain person, the killers were moved to slay an entire group of people.
His "LA Quartet" of novels are very good. I have a lot of his stuff, and pick up his older works when I get the chance.
Of late I've been reading "Hyperspaces" and "Parallel Worlds" by Michio Kaku, and just started in on "Blood of the Earth" by Dilip Hiro.
Is this what Atrios has in mind with the blog change format? look for the absence of a few and the inclusion of many of the old stalwarts, which it is beginning to resemble now.
sightunseen
And he still can't alphabetize.
.
So - did she have tightly curled dark hair and was George Clooney nearby?
Did she have the comb that stops time???
Confessions of an Economic Hitman Interesting insight into the link between US goverment, foreign policy, and corporations. Easy to read, but not a polished writer. Wingnuts grind their teeth to nubs in the Amazon comments section, so it has that going for it.
I'm too lazy to get atm, but there is a woman who has filled out the Wimsey story with Harriet. Two more books during the beginning of WWII. Decent enough to be fun.
My War by Colby Buzzell, his experience in the Army's Striker Brigade. Driving around trying to provoke insurgents to shoot at them.
"City of Nets: A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940's" by Otto Friedrich is a detailed and entertaining journey into the effects of the blacklist in Hollywood and the many people harmed by it.
Smalfish you owe me $249.95
I read 'L.A. confidential'the other day by james elroy. One of the scenes was that, in order to kill a certain person, the killers were moved to slay an entire group of people.
Modeled after Bush?
That is, if MS is'nt spying on me, as I type.
smalfish
.
And he still can't alphabetize.
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agave | Homepage | 02.03.07 - 9:15 pm | #
And that still strikes me as odd. If you're rebuilding from scratch anyway, why not put the damn links in order?
It doesn't matter to me one way or t'other, but it is perplexing.
My War by Colby Buzzell, his experience in the Army's Striker Brigade.
I read that too. He sounds like a regular dude.
Anyone who's fond of Sayers and Wimsey really needs to enlarge their experience with Margery Allingham .... Lugg is not to be missed. Sayers was an awfully good theologian. Allingham was a hell of a writer. Autres moeurs....
Just remember that the NSA had a hand in programming Vista:
http://rantsfromtherookery.blogs...p-from-
nsa.html
Smalfish you owe me $249.95
Bill Fucking Gates |
I will gladly pay you next Tuesday for a working operating system today.
Muriel Spark? Mystery writer?
No, marvellous British novelist.
B Gates you owe me a coke & $249.95
i forever hate david chase for not digitally editing out julianna margulies cellulite on the sopranos last season.
ruined my week.
I read that too. He sounds like a regular dude.
Yeah, loved his survivor note to his parents that simply said, dear mom and dad should have gone to school love Colby.
I'm reading "The Places Inbetween" by Rory Stewart. A Scotsman walks across Afghanistan in the winter of 2002.
Fabulous.
At the same time, I'm reading fiction. "The Sea" by Irish writer, John Banville.
i forever hate david chase for not digitally editing out julianna margulies cellulite on the sopranos last season.
ruined my week.
Dude, if that's the worst thing that happens to you, you're living a pretty good life.
Cats and depleted uranium do not mix.
EkCenTriK
we may be finding out.
and damn you GWPDA.
Steve was anesthetized today for a little tail operation. you'd a thought he was a radioactive cat. i thought anasthetics made you sleepy? he came home one wired up cowboy.
Muriel Spark? Mystery writer?
No, marvellous British novelist.
Karin
Memento Mori. Incredibile!
I will gladly pay you next Tuesday for a working operating system today
That really is no shot. I am really taken aback by how many clicks it takes now to do a simple process.
Oh, and all you Bill Gates' can byte me.
Sarah Caudwell's books are great re-reads, too.
Say what you like about the Revealed Word of God called the Old Testament-- but when a person abandons the alphabet, that person has slipped into the Singularity, or Abyss, of wanton Anarchy.
Gone beyond the pale-- become an outlaw and desperado.
I've become so caught up with the sad state of world affair I've practically stopped reading good fiction. Just one small insignigicant example of how Bush has disrupted life as is ued to be.
Current reading is "American Fascists" by Chris Hedges. Excellent so far.
Napoleon's Buttons is a good book if you don't mind a little organic chemistry.
mike in pr, that's actually why I've been enjoying fiction more than ever - it makes more sense.
At the same time, I'm reading fiction. "The Sea" by Irish writer, John Banville
You strike me as an Oprah book club gal. You know, Horse Whisperer and Bridges of Madison County kind of stuff.
[Ducks.]
Mason & Dixon by Pynchon is one of my favorite novels of all time. I'm reserving his latest novel as a reward for myself once I get the fucking diss written.
Memento Mori. Incredibile!
I was thrilled to discover Penelope Fitzgerald, after I ran out of Muriel Spark books.
I've also started drinking more than I should again, as post above suggests.
Memento Mori. Incredibile!
It is true that we should always remember the Maori.
Any Ivy Compton-Burnett fans out there?
Cunningham (alleged) briber Brent Wilkes' wife sues for divorce as indictment watch comes to a head.
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com...ives/
012271.php
Spoiler from Harry Potter 7:
Voldemort remarks casually to Snape that he likes the cut of Dick Cheney's jib.
I will gladly pay you next Tuesday for a working operating system today.
That really is no shot.
smalfish |
I thought it was kind of wimpy. 
Gone beyond the pale-- become an outlaw and desperado.
Little Brøther
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To live outside the law you must be honest.
-----Bob Dylan
Cats are either sleeping or wired.
Voldemort remarks casually to Snape that he likes the cut of Dick Cheney's jib.
Apprentice to Darth Holden | 02.03.07 - 9:25 pm | #
8" cut?
the Chinese are at it again! (courtesy of The Onion):
http://www.theonion.com/content/
...demand_military
and with Super Bowl Sunday right around the corner...
Spoiler from Harry Potter 7:
Voldemort remarks casually to Snape that he likes the cut of Dick Cheney's jib.
Apprentice to Darth Holden | 02.03.07 - 9:25 pm
Psst! Ya wanna see Harry Potter in the buff?
http://rantsfromtherookery.blogs...nude-
actor.html
Did she have the comb that stops time???
I have a watch that combs hair.
Memento Mori. Incredibile!
It is true that we should always remember the Maori.
rorschach | Homepage | 02.03.07 - 9:25 pm |
Still haven't read The Bone People.
At the same time, I'm reading fiction. "The Sea" by Irish writer, John Banville
You strike me as an Oprah book club gal. You know, Horse Whisperer and Bridges of Madison County kind of stuff.
[Ducks.]
William H. Rehnquist
*Thows a plate of meatballs and eggplant parmesean at the undead*
I HATE popular fiction! HATE IT!!
John Banville is an egotistical son of a bitch. But he knows how to write a friggin' sentence.
The Irish are the best writers. Ever.
I like this Onion headline:
Ailing Castro Begins 750,000 Last Words
Voldemort remarks casually to Snape that he likes the cut of Dick Cheney's jib.
Voldemort?
Voldemort?
Voldemorte couldn't carry Pork Chop's pacemaker battery.
Same goes for Sauron.
Did she have the comb that stops time???
I have a watch that combs hair.
Dr NTodd, Articulate Negro | Homepage | 02.03.07 - 9:27 pm | #
I have a crotch that warms, bare.
"Voldemort remarks casually to Snape that he likes the cut of Dick Cheney's jib."
I was just taking a drink of tea when that ran across the screen. Thanks.
I have a watch that combs hair.
Dr NTodd, Articulate Negro | Homepage | 02.03.07 - 9:27 pm
Getting your watch snagged in your hair doesn't make it a comb.
Did she have the comb that stops time???
I have a watch that combs hair.
Wasn't Pam Dawber in that?
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Say what you like about the Revealed Word of God
Beware His impersonator(s) /molly ivins
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"Voldemort remarks casually to Snape that he likes the cut of Dick Cheney's jib."
I was just taking a drink of tea when that ran across the screen. Thanks.
He shoots, he scores!
Say what you like about the Revealed Word of God
I would, but it might give away the fact that I'm a cylon. And then NTodd wouldn't love me anymore.
Does Avedon lurk here, or merely check the blog once in a while and save us lowly commenters from mega threads? I rarely see comments from Avedon.
William Gaddis ain't bad either.
"The Recognitions" one of the best books ever written.
Bo--she gives us thread. It's all you need to know.
(Shoots a fifth of Grey Goose to Bo up the 5)
I HATE popular fiction! HATE IT!!
The lady doth protest too much, methinks. You're among friends. You can admit that there are tear stains on the all the dog-eared sections of your well-worn copy of Bridges of Madison County.
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"He shoots, he scores!
Apprentice to Darth Holden"
That is so inconsiderate.
Voldemorte couldn't carry Pork Chop's pacemaker battery.
Same goes for Sauron.
How about the Borg Queen? Darth Sidious? Doctor Doom? Simon Bar Sinister?
Wasn't Pam Dawber in that?
.
William H. Rehnquist | Homepage | 02.03.07 - 9:30 pm |
Yes, IIRC.
hey sallyh: howyadoon?
The Irish are the best writers. Ever.
That's just the whiskey talking. Er...writing.
Damn, it seems like another story (Market Blast in Baghdad) that everytime I see a report, the death toll has inched up.
What, no poetry tonight?
Philip K. Dick is in a sense one oeuvre; you have to read a bunch of his novels to get the whole thing, because to some extent they interlock. However, I read "Our Friends From Frolix 8" the other day, and I recommend it because in the climactic scene TV newscasters throw down their mikes and apologize, more or less, for having lied so long.
I really love it when this group talks books...I get so many good recommendations. Not that I have any time to read any more but I'm making my list for retirement now.
The lady doth protest too much, methinks. You're among friends. You can admit that there are tear stains on the all the dog-eared sections of your well-worn copy of Bridges of Madison County.
.
William H. Rehnquist
Yeah. I admit it. I loved that like the way I loved that other great piece of American literature, The Sisterhood of the Ya Ya Shit Crap.
speaking of the revealed word of god:
http://www.landoverbaptist.org/n...ws1206/
ps3.html
will allah one-up god with an xbox360? stay tuned...
The Irish are the best writers. Ever.
Don't make me start bringing up Auden's hilarious quotes dissing the hell out of Yeats!
I have a crotch that warms, bare.
Do you ever have had a bare day? I mean, had a bad hair day?
Well, praise be to the thread goddess, then.
Madam P,
Any thoughts on what should go into a Pissed-Off Molly? Ms. Ivins deserves a drink, I believe.
Flan O'Brien.
None better. None.
Damn, it seems like another story (Market Blast in Baghdad) that everytime I see a report, the death toll has inched up.
This sucks.
It's really too bad that some people who deserve to face the consequences of this folly, such as Broder, Friedman, Renquist, and of course Lord Fuckwit and his Edgar Bergen, Darrth Cheney, aren't included in the body count.
Bo--Molly was pissed off, but shockingly well mannered. I suggest the drink should be the same.
Yeah. I admit it. I loved that like the way I loved that other great piece of American literature, The Sisterhood of the Ya Ya Shit Crap.
The book was good. But I liked the porn version better. They're making a new one for HDTV.
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A couple of Walter Mosely's books have been made into quite good movies, Devil in a Blue Dress, with Denzel Washington, and Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned with Lawrence Fishburne.
Flann O'Brien is terrifying and laugh out loud funny, often simultaneously...
Any thoughts on what should go into a Pissed-Off Molly? Ms. Ivins deserves a drink, I believe.
bo | 02.03.07 - 9:36 pm | #
Tequila & diet Dr. Pepper?
so, here are a few i have read recently...
1. CAPTURING JONATHAN POLLARD. isbn # 1591146526
2. the UNQUIET GRAVE: THE FBI AND THE STRUGGLE FOR THE SOULD OF INDIAN COUNTRY. isbn # 1560257350
3. MISHIMA'S SWORD: TRAVELS IN SEARCH OF A SAMURAI LEGEND. isbn # 0306815133
4. SERIOUS ADVERSE EVENTS: AN UNCENSORED HISTORY OF AIDS. isbn # 1933633018
5. ONCOGENES, ANEUPLOIDY, and AIDS: A SCIENTIFIC LIFE & TIMES OF PETER H DUESBERG. isbn # 1556435312
6. CONJURING HITLER: HOW BRITAIN AND AMERICA MADE THE THIRD REICH. isbn # 0745321828
7. THE SECRET OF SCENT: ADVENTURES IN PERFUME AND THE SCIENCE OF SMELL. isbn # 9780061133831
8. DEEP WATER: THE EPIC STRUGGLE OVER DAMS, DISPLACED PEOPLE, AND THE ENVIRONMENT. isbn # 0374281726
not light. not warm and fuzzy. but revelatory.
slanz
"The God Delusion" by Richard Dawkins. Lot's of food for thought.
Hellkitty--that's just wrong
I have a crotch that warms, bare.
Do you ever have had a bare day? I mean, had a bad hair day?
Dr NTodd, Articulate Negro | Homepage | 02.03.07 - 9:35 pm | #
I do have ever had a good bare day. I swear it, upon my short and curlies.
Cats are either sleeping or wired.
Culture of TrÜth
Well, some, and we have one like that.
Damn, she does not just get up on your lap and let you pet her and lay there purring, She is nudging and pushing, up on the desk, back down on your leg, then the other leg, on the keyboard, in your face, till you feel like screaming!
.
Flann O'Brien.
None better. None.
You are a woman of excellent taste.
Flann O'Brien is terrifying and laugh out loud funny, often simultaneously...
ProfWombat
They've made a movie of "The Third Policeman."
How could anyone see it without having smoked a joint?
One of the funniest and heartbreaking books I've ever read, except maybe "The Hard Life."
Hellkitty--that's just wrong
Sallyh, Grandmere Poissonniere | 02.03.07 - 9:37 pm | #
actually, its not mine...Virgotex drinks them.
"slanz
albertchampion "
Albert, dude, a suggestion, take in a few weeks off and pig out on the Cartoon Channel. Really.
Phillip Roth's "The Plot Against America" is spectacular.
I've been reading tea leaves.
It's not pretty.
It may be older than this, but it surely doesn’t date back to the period of the Irish Pale, or anywhere near. It is often said that it does come directly from that political enclosure, but the three-century gap renders that very doubtful indeed. The idea behind it is definitely the same, though.
Off to tend to carnivorous desires. Back in a bit.
I do have ever had a good bare day. I swear it, upon my short and curlies.
rorschach
A pun?
.
There's a striking, beautifully done picture book by Jane Yolen called 'Letting Swift River Go', about the communities inundated by the formation of Massachusetts' Wachusett Reservoir...
"The God Delusion" by Richard Dawkins. Lot's of food for thought.
See you in hell
CONJURING HITLER: HOW BRITAIN AND AMERICA MADE THE THIRD REICH. isbn # 0745321828
7. THE SECRET OF SCENT: ADVENTURES IN PERFUME AND THE SCIENCE OF SMELL
Was skimming and read:
CONJURING HITLER: ADVENTURES IN PERFUME AND THE SCIENCE OF SMELL
Thought, wow. someone made perfume to smell like Der Fuhrer. Wonder what they used for that one.
.
.
I've been reading tea leaves.
It's not pretty.
watertiger | Homepage | 02.03.07 - 9:39 pm
You're supposed to drink the tea first.
Watertiger--we really can't get him dethroned before he tries to blow up the world?
I've been reading Adams vs. Jefferson by John Ferling and Real Money by Jim Cramer. I just bought a bunch of books (on clearance) at the Vanity Fair Outlet Place in Cinnaminson (NJ) including a couple Molly Ivins, a couple Joe Conason, a Henry Hertzberg and some Jeremy Rifkin books. Oh, and a Hanz Blix and a Scott Ritter book.
Well, you asked what I was reading.
My wife wants to watch Inconvenient Truth again but I just borrowed What Happened to the Electric Car? from the library.
So much to do, so little time.
Cheers.
"Devil in a Blue Dress" is the last movie my father ever saw.
Flann O'Brien.
None better. None.
You are a woman of excellent taste.
Karin
Tell it to Zombie Rehnquist. Does he really think I read Oprah's books? I'm devastated! I want so much to have the undead admire me!
/snark
You're supposed to drink the tea first.
ellroon, Leave Iraq/n now! | Homepage | 02.03.07 - 9:40 pm | #
Yeah, otherwise you run the risk of burning your eyeballs.
"The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Afred Hitchcock" by Donald Spoto has been a book which I've returned to over and over during the past 20 years.
harry potter is appearing nude in London's West End.
Discuss...
I've been reading blogs, but C&L is down.
Drifty's got the funniest Barney cartoon you've ever seen.
"The God Delusion" by Richard Dawkins. Lot's of food for thought.
See you in hell
Certified Mutant Enemy
Yeah. Read it with Sam Harris' "Letter to a Christian Nation."
some Jeremy Rifkin books.
Rifkin really rather works my nerves.
I'm about the only person I know of who thinks Hitchcock is way overrated...
harry potter is appearing nude in London's West End.
Discuss...
irritated | 02.03.07 - 9:42 pm
http://rantsfromtherookery.blogs...nude-
actor.html
With picture!
jeremy Rifkin is wrong even when he's right...
Rorschach--Rifkin tends to be weak on research; his arguments aren't well supported, and he veers off into polemicism before he makes a substantive point.
Hey, My Cat Rocks
Yes, he does. He is really darling.
I'm about the only person I know of who thinks Hitchcock is way overrated...
ProfWombat |
And so it shall remain.
"slanz
albertchampion "
Was albert here? I didn't see him. Say what you like about his political theories, he has great taste in music. I've gotten some good tips from him. Classical & jazz.
some Jeremy Rifkin books.
The crank?
.
I'm about the only person I know of who thinks Hitchcock is way overrated...
ProfWombat | 02.03.07 - 9:43 pm
I read his biography. He was one really sick dude.
I've been reading tea leaves.
It's not pretty.
As Ron Weasley can attest.
Just finished "The Omnivore's Dilemma.
Thought for food!
I'm watching Glen Beck for the first time. This guy is worse than Hannity and O'Reilly! Fuck CNN.
As I noted several days ago, Danny Radcliffe needs a few hours with a tanning bed.
Or some self-bronzer.
Watertiger--we really can't get him dethroned before he tries to blow up the world?
Sallyh, Grandmere Poissonniere
==
He's already trying.
I'm about the only person I know of who thinks Hitchcock is way overrated...
ProfWombat | 02.03.07 - 9:43 pm | #
Count me in on that.
Rorschach--Rifkin tends to be weak on research; his arguments aren't well supported, and he veers off into polemicism before he makes a substantive point.
Sallyh, Grandmere Poissonniere | 02.03.07 - 9:43 pm | #
Yep. I've used his essays in my writing classes in the past, but primarily in order to discuss how NOT to make an argument.
Soothing, beautiful and engrossing:
"Tao Te Ching" translated by Gia-Fu Feng with gorgeous black and white photographs by Jane English.
I just finished reading, and much enjoyed, "The Jesus Dynasty" by James D. Tabor, in which he reveals a history of Jesus and his historically airbrushed-out siblings and other quasi-relatives. I found it compelling and evocative, so I'm sure the religion professionals here would slice and dice it into mere speculative garbage.
I think someone here put me on to it.
And now I'm reading a book called, "Jesse James / Last Rebel of the Civil War" by TJ Stiles; my brother forced it on me months ago. So far it's a grim but gripping history of the turbulent Civil War history of Missouri, a state grinding on the slavery fault line and suffering social and political earthquakes well before the national hostilities were declared.
Young men supporting secesh and opposing Northern/Federal encroachment became bushwhackers, which is what this particular crop of guerilla terrorists came to be called. Frank and Jesse James made their bones, in the grisliest sense of the term, as bushwhackers.
The bushwhackers, and their pro-Union opposite numbers, the Jayhawkers, were purely free-lance independent operators. They typically were organized by primitive paramilitary rules around a brutal leader, e.g. William Quantrill or "Bloody Bill" Anderson. The "history repeats itself" vibe is quite tingly, which is why I think my good bro thrust it upon me.
So I'm enjoying my reading these days...
Larry King Live has a roundtable discussion on the legal concept of 'beyond a reasonable doubt'.
Watertiger--it's the whole north of the 50th parallel thing. We specialize in translucent.
his arguments aren't well supported, and he veers off into polemicism before he makes a substantive point.
Sounds like Shoelimpy. Or Gordon. Or...
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"I'm about the only person I know of who thinks Hitchcock is way overrated...
ProfWombat"
Yes.
I'm about the only person I know of who thinks Hitchcock is way overrated...
ProfWombat
Why did he chose Tipi Hedron to be in two of his films?
Her acting abilities ran the gamut from A to A.
Wooden? More like cement. She was awful.
I read his biography. He was one really sick dude.
ellroon, Leave Iraq/n now!
Apply as neccesary to every great artist you can think of.
Am I the only person who reads Playboy for the articles?
CME: up for a dumb math question? So you take a unit hypercube, of dimension n, and its diagonal is sqrt (n). Anyone ever try to generalize the notion of dimension itself to a set larger than the integers greater than zero, say, over the complex plane?
Watertiger--it's the whole north of the 50th parallel thing. We specialize in translucent.
I can relate. I pretty much burst into flames when exposed to bright sunlight.
Might I observe that the Firewall Fairy's out, and Lola has wee paws? They would be on my homepage, if I had a blog.
NTodd--Miss February will be so disappointed.
Am I the only person who reads Playboy for the articles?
Dr NTodd, Articulate Negro | Homepage | 02.03.07 - 9:46 pm | #
For the what now? I under the words, but when you put them together thus, they do not make sense to me.
I'm about the only person I know of who thinks Hitchcock is way overrated...
ProfWombat
And, ah... Whose the famous female mystery writer?
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So you take a unit hypercube, of dimension n, and its diagonal is sqrt (n). Anyone ever try to generalize the notion of dimension itself to a set larger than the integers greater than zero, say, over the complex plane?
This is the very question that lead to the development of the screw top beer bottle...
Why did he chose Tipi Hedron to be in two of his films?
Likewise Grace Kelly and Kim Novak. Two other actresses who were complete strangers to portraying emotion.
As I noted several days ago, Danny Radcliffe needs a few hours with a tanning bed.
Or some self-bronzer.
He looks like he's lived his life on a sheep farm in the Highlands.
Why did he chose Tipi Hedron to be in two of his films?
Her acting abilities ran the gamut from A to A.
Wooden? More like cement. She was awful.
Yes. But she could suck a kickball through a garden hose. And her name was Tipi. It's fun.
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Why did he chose Tippi Hedron to be in two of his films?
Um, Grace Kelly went and married a prince? I don't think he was picky, as long as they were blond.
Might I observe that the Firewall Fairy's out, and Lola has wee paws? They would be on my homepage, if I had a blog.
Dr NTodd, Articulate Negro | Homepage | 02.03.07 - 9:47 pm | #
Sigh.
I wish you had a blog.
I'm watching Glen Beck for the first time. This guy is worse than Hannity and O'Reilly! Fuck CNN.
mike in pr
Glen Beck: Makes your pet's excrement look like a PhD dissertation.
Rereading "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson.
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CME: up for a dumb math question? So you take a unit hypercube, of dimension n, and its diagonal is sqrt (n). Anyone ever try to generalize the notion of dimension itself to a set larger than the integers greater than zero, say, over the complex plane?
There are no dumb questions, only dumb people
But seriously, I dunno... (and it's Saturday night)
This is the very question that lead to the development of the screw top beer bottle...
Dr NTodd, Articulate Negro | Homepage | 02.03.07 - 9:48 pm | #
The screw top Kline bottle, anyways.
If Bush starts bombing Iran and imposes Murphy's Law in Iran like he's done in Iraq, that should just about do it.
Glen Beck: Makes your pet's excrement look like a PhD dissertation.
Kayla just pooped, and her argument was solid.
Hitchcock worked for the Britsh Film Service during WWII, and was the first camera at many of the concentration camps as they were liberated.
Remember all that black and white footage that scared the shit out of you when you were a kid?
That was Hitchcock, too.
Makes your pet's excrement look like a PhD dissertation.
Is that another dog ate my homework excuse?
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harry potter is appearing nude in London's West End.
irritated
Harry's sporting a little different kind of wand this time around.
Fuck!
I just remembered there is Chips and Dip!
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If Bush starts bombing Iran and imposes Murphy's Law in Iran like he's done in Iraq, that should just about do it.
I for one will hail our new Persian masters.
CME: reason I ask is, if you take sqrt of a complex number, you get a different metric out of it. Don't know how I'd interpret the complex dimensions, though. Sorry if I'm running on...
Rereading "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson.
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rochelle rochelle | 02.03.07 - 9:49 pm | #
I like Six Walks in the Fictional Woods by Umberto Eco...
I'm about the only person I know of who thinks Hitchcock is way overrated...
ProfWombat
Why did he chose Tipi Hedron to be in two of his films?
Her acting abilities ran the gamut from A to A.
Wooden? More like cement. She was awful.
Shaw Kenawe | Homepage | 02.03.07 - 9:45 pm
He loved the ice queen blonds. And no, Hitchcock was not the usual artistic asshole. He was in his own class.
I'm watching Glen Beck for the first time. This guy is worse than Hannity and O'Reilly! Fuck CNN.
mike in pr
interesting, i had the same experience several months ago.
i'm down with that drinking thing too.
the worst part is it's such an obvious game, and they're allowed to play. their oughta be rules. beyond the pale indeed.
NTodd, I have also noted we seem to be losing a lot of helicopters lately in Iraq.
Anyone ever try to generalize the notion of dimension itself to a set larger than the integers greater than zero, say, over the complex plane?
A point labeled infinity can be added to the complex plane as a topological space giving the one-point compactification of the complex plane. When this is done, the resulting space is still a one-dimensional complex manifold and called the extended complex plane or the Riemann sphere. In this context is often useful to consider meromorphic functions as maps into the Riemann sphere taking the value of at the poles. The domain of a complex-valued function may be extended to include the point at infinity as well. One important example of such functions is the group of Möbius transformations.
For the what now? I under the words, but when you put them together thus, they do not make sense to me.
rorschach
And I thought it was me last nite.
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"He shoots, he scores!
Apprentice to Darth Holden
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Thanks for reminding me. Must go and watch the Canucks on CBC.
....'bye
"Am I the only person who reads Playboy for the articles?"
We all used to claim that when we were kids..
Harry's sporting a little different kind of wand this time around.
Harry has sex with a horse. Who saw that coming? Evidently, this is some kind of radical rebound romance after the Ginny Weasley break-up. Not sure Dumbledore would approve.
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the worst part is it's such an obvious game, and they're allowed to play. their oughta be rules. beyond the pale indeed."
Like substantiated commentary? Facts? Remembering they are a news organization in theory?
And I thought it was me last nite.
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B Gates | Homepage | 02.03.07 - 9:53 pm | #
You were correct.
Am I the only person who reads Playboy for the articles?"
We all used to claim that when we were kids..
mike in pr
I read it for the recipes.
"We all used to claim that when we were kids.."
What do you mean "claim". I hate people putting words into my mouth.
"Am I the only person who reads Playboy for the articles?"
We all used to claim that when we were kids..
mike in pr | 02.03.07 - 9:54 pm | #
I only watch porno for the character development and nuanced plot twists.
You were correct.
rorschach
That was not me!
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tippi hedren has gone on to be an animal welfare hero. and she gave birth to melanie griffith. a two-fer!
Harry has sex with a horse. Who saw that coming? Evidently, this is some kind of radical rebound romance after the Ginny Weasley break-up. Not sure Dumbledore would approve.
The real question is what is Hagrid's reaction. Something along the lines of "I didn't teach that to anyone in Care of Magical Creatures!"
I'm currently reading my FDL post for tomorrow.
But after that, there's Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro.
When I finish that, the new Pynchon awaits.
I've been reading Howard Pollack's comprehensive -- and I DO mean comprehensive -- book on George Gershwin's life and career.
I only watch porno for the character development and nuanced plot twists.
rorschach | Homepage | 02.03.07 - 9:56 pm | #
not for the soundtrack?
I read it for the recipes.
Which one's your favorite? Panties Florentine, New England Manchowder, or some other Hefner delicacy?
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Thanks for reminding me. Must go and watch the Canucks on CBC.
....'bye
Bobby St. Chomsky |
Now, will we force him in to a teary-eyed apology for calling them Canucks?
thackery's vanity fair is the best book ever!!!
I read it for the recipes.
Which one's your favorite? Panties Florentine, New England Manchowder, or some other Hefner delicacy?
William H. Rehnquist
It had a great spread on donuts and weiners a few months ago.
But after that, there's Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro.
Don't do that to yourself. That book is a shit stain. I lost complete and total respect for the Booker Prize after I found out it had been a finalist. What a wretched novel.
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Fyi: In the spirit of sharing my deep concerns, etc. Please don’t forward.
jim
From: Jim Alichin
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 8:38 AM
To: Bill Gates; Steve Balimer
Subject: losing our way...
This is a rant. I’m sorry.
I am not sure how the company lost sight of what matters to our customers (both business and home) the most, but in my view we lost our way. I think our teams lost sight of what bug-free means, what resilience means, what full scenarios mean, what security means, what performance means, how important current applications are, and really understanding what the most important problems our customers face
are. I see lots of random features and some great vision, but that doesn’t
translate into great products.
I would buy a Mac today if I was not working at Microsoft. ...
http://www.iowaconsumercase.org/...7/
PLEX_7264.pdf
http://www.democraticunderground...&
mesg_id=119814
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Allchin
Not to start the wars up, but wow!
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charles: OK, I'm taking Roger Penrose's magical mystery tour of complex analysis in 20 pages and finding it heavy going. My question is, has anyone ever defined a space with, say, n real and m complex dimensions?
What do you mean "claim". I hate people putting words into my mouth.
EkCenTriK | 02.03.07 - 9:55 pm | #
I know what you meant to say was...
thackery's vanity fair is the best book ever!!!
irritated
Becky Sharp. One of the best names in fiction!
nuanced plot twists
Fetishist.
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great article about HD porn in pravda on the hudson a few days ago. all the news that's fit to print.
If Bush starts bombing Iran and imposes Murphy's Law in Iran like he's done in Iraq, that should just about do it. | mike in pr
"Should" is a bold word, my friend. And what will the world look like after it is generally apparent beyond even maximum favorable spin that he has just about done it?
I'm in total agreement, but I also expect at most a ripple of harrumphing, because our political process runs by deliberate and labor-intensive due process: investigations, committee meetings, hearings, and reports.
And all of the above skewed by the constant pressure of a permanent election cycle; thus, politicians are always surfing on a sea of political status while claiming to represent We the People. The political process is so deliberate and dampened that bold and direct opposition to Executive overreach is avoided.
On the other hand, if Congress can finally begin to feel the flames of burning Rome on their leathery feet, maybe they'll crank it up a notch after all. Hope springs eternal.
Don't do that to yourself. That book is a shit stain. I lost complete and total respect for the Booker Prize after I found out it had been a finalist. What a wretched novel.
William H. Rehnquist
Aha! So you do know who John Banville is!
all is vanities, nothing is fair...
sallyh: still there? Any thought on spaces of dimension a + bi, a and b integers? Anybody ever do that?
not for the soundtrack?
Hellkitty | 02.03.07 - 9:58 pm | #
Bawm chicka.
thackery's vanity fair is the best book ever!!!
irritated | 02.03.07 - 9:59 pm | #
Not so much. Thackeray was getting paid by volume of installments, and had long been poor, and so really sacrificed his artistry in favor of drawing it out to make more cash.
Not that I blame the guy, but the work suffers for it.
George Eliot is far and away better than Thackeray.
Aha! So you do know who John Banville is!
Sure. He was in the original cast of Hee Haw. I believe he was a-pickin. Or was it a-grinnin?
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CME: reason I ask is, if you take sqrt of a complex number, you get a different metric out of it. Don't know how I'd interpret the complex dimensions, though. Sorry if I'm running on...
I see. Yes, you can have multiple complex dimensions. And no, it's not easy to visualize...
not for the soundtrack?
Hellkitty
My parents and I rented a movie.
When it started, I said, "This music sounds like it came from a Porno movie."
They both looked at me and I blushed.
But sure enough, the video store put the wrong movie in the box. When the two girls started kissing there was scrambling for the remote.
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becky sharp was the first color movie.
J.P. Donleavy?
"The Ginger Man"
Sebastian Dangerfield.
not for the soundtrack?
Ever notice that those anti drug movies they used to show in high school and porno movies use the same soundtrack.
And in other news...
Bush puts 'ic' back in 'Democrat Party'
Bush had not seen fit to attend a Democratic congressional retreat since 2001, his first year in office. But the new political reality that has Democrats in charge of Capitol Hill for the first time in a dozen years changed his mind. When he appeared before House Democrats at a Virginia resort, he seemed to be trying to make up for lost time.
"Now look, my diction isn't all that good," Bush told the 200 lawmakers who wrapped up two days away from Washington with family and aides. "I have been accused of occasionally mangling the English language. And so I appreciate you inviting the head of the Republic Party."
Apparently his remarks got "hearty laughs" from the audience.
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I only watch porno for the character development and nuanced plot twists.
rorschach | Homepage | 02.03.07 - 9:56 pm | #
not for the soundtrack?
I'm with rorschach.
The soundtracks aren't what they used to be. They've gone from cool jazz to grunts and groans and aahhs.
charles: OK, I'm taking Roger Penrose's magical mystery tour of complex analysis in 20 pages and finding it heavy going. My question is, has anyone ever defined a space with, say, n real and m complex dimensions?
At about 500 pages in, it starts making sense...
"Now look, my diction isn't all that good," Bush told the 200 lawmakers who wrapped up two days away from Washington with family and aides. "I have been accused of occasionally mangling the English language. And so I appreciate you inviting the head of the Republic Party."
Apparently his remarks got "hearty laughs" from the audience.
Fuck him. He knew exactly what he was doing when he said "Democrat party." Asshole.
Ever notice that those anti drug movies they used to show in high school and porno movies use the same soundtrack.
I was actually in one of those.
An anti-drug movie, I mean.
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I appreciate you inviting the head of the Republic Party.
SB: I appreciate your inviting the head of the Republic Party.
hip hop is the best soundtrack to porn.
ProfWombat--are you trying to challenge me? Or do you wish to share a glass of good wine instead?
Fuck him. He knew exactly what he was doing when he said "Democrat party." Asshole.
Shaw Kenawe | Homepage | 02.03.07 - 10:09 pm | #
Bush puts the "dick" into "diction."
They've gone from cool jazz
Since when?
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Kicking down doors and nabbing ne'er- do-wells to establish some semblance of security is *not* the business of an occupying foreign military force.
It is the mission of the local constabulary, and even 100K more GI Joes in theater won't change that fact.
Carthiginians were daring sailors.
I appreciate you inviting the head of the Republic Party.
SB: I appreciate your inviting the head of the Republic Party.
Dr NTodd, Articulate Negro | Homepage | 02.03.07 - 10:09 pm | #
Ahem. Let's not be rude.
The correct term is "Republican't."
Somebody said "Panties." Don't think I'm not paying attention.
Carthiginians were daring sailors.
Is than an innuendo? Are you hitting on me?
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Carthiginians were daring sailors.
Shaw Kenawe | Homepage | 02.03.07 - 10:10 pm | #
and many Eschatonians are cunning linguists
The soundtracks aren't what they used to be. They've gone from cool jazz to grunts and groans and aahhs.
mike in pr | 02.03.07 - 10:08 pm | #
Indeed.
And the diction is horrible.
Ahem. Let's not be rude.
The correct term is "Republican't."
Johnny Depp stepping up to the plate:
"I heard a bunch of shit about you, George. So . . . you a Republican or a Republican't?"
Evening, all. Hope this day has been kind and restful.
sallyh: a glass of good wine by all means, but I've got this peculiar idea in my head and I'm using my inadequate resources to try to make sense of it. Perhaps what I need is diversion, until a venue more appropriate than saturday night among friends suggests itself...
Carthiginians were daring sailors.
Carthage was a Phoenician colony.
Carthage was mistress to the Mediterranean.
I appreciate you inviting the head of the Republic Party.
Could not one of them just stood up and yelled, "FUCK YOU, YOU MORONIC ASSHOLE!"
I mean, just to push the envelope.
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ProfWombat--well, complex analysis can replace sex. Just not very well.
ProfWombat--well, complex analysis can replace sex. Just not very well.
Sallyh, Grandmere Poissonniere
So can chronic pain . . . 
Carthiginians were daring sailors.
Should we shave their bellies with a rusty razor/Ear-lie in the morning?
for all the lies that monkey told he might as well have discussed hair styles in the 70s.
Carthiginians were daring sailors.
Is than an innuendo? Are you hitting on me?
William H. Rehnquist
Sempre.
But...
"Carthago delenda est"
ProfWombat--well, complex analysis can replace sex. Just not very well.
Sallyh, Grandmere Poissonniere | 02.03.07 - 10:13 pm | #
"hey ref where's the no flirting flag?"
charm offensive. accent on offensive.
Carthiginians were daring sailors.
Should we shave their bellies with a rusty razor/Ear-lie in the morning?
I once shaved a Carthaginian in the Mediterranean just to get her off.
sallyh: right you are, of course, m'dear...
I once shaved a Carthaginian in the Mediterranean just to get her off.
Dr NTodd, Articulate Negro | Homepage | 02.03.07 - 10:16 pm | #
That's a salty tale. As salty as the Mediterranean. And as the ground where Carthage used to be.
DWD--yeah, but complex analysis has the potential to be entertaining.
I'm about one-third of the way thru Stephen King's The Dark Tower, the seventh novel in the series of the same name.
It's really been a wild ride. Mix westerns with fantasy, sword-and-sorcery (make that six-shooter-and-sorcery), science fiction and King's unbelievably well-tuned ear for popular culture, and the result has been staggeringly creative.
Has anyone out there read this series? What did you think? Please no seventh novel, end-of-series spoilers please.
"Carthago delenda est"
Again, I prefer the porn version: The Pubic War. Where they destroy Carthage with giant latex double dongs. The battle scenes are amazingly realistic.
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Mlle's got a great new bumpersticker.
"Impeachment: it's not just for oral sex anymore."
DWD--yeah, but complex analysis has the potential to be entertaining.
It's mega cool, but doesn't get you much face time at most parties...
CME--parties? Meh.
Again, I prefer the porn version: The Pubic War. Where they destroy Carthage with giant latex double dongs. The battle scenes are amazingly realistic.
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William H. Rehnquist | Homepage | 02.03.07 - 10:18 pm | #
The Romans, ingeniously, penetrated the city from the front and from behind at the same time.
"Impeachment: it's not just for oral sex anymore."
Blow jobs: not just for impeachment anymore.
Trying to match wits with rorschach is fun.
I tink I do fairly well.
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Again, I prefer the porn version: The Pubic War. Where they destroy Carthage with giant latex double dongs. The battle scenes are amazingly realistic.
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William H. Rehnquist | Homepage | 02.03.07 - 10:18 pm | #
who knew that the undead could be so hilarious?
"I appreciate you inviting the head of the Republic Party."
It's the fuckers refusal or inability to be serious that pisses me off the most.
The Romans, ingeniously, penetrated the city from the front and from behind at the same time.
rorschach
And the villagers escape via the puzzlingly unguarded taint to fight another day.
Trying to match wits with rorschach is fun.
I tink I do fairly well.
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agave | Homepage | 02.03.07 - 10:20 pm | #
I tink you do too.
Carthiginians made nice sweaters.
So fucking what?
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Favorite books? Doesn't that sort of depend on what you are expecting from the book?
I love Hesse - but I also love Clive Cussler.(Clive does the first forty pages of a novel better than anyone. The rest? Not so good.)
They are not the same.
Again, I prefer the porn version: The Pubic War. Where they destroy Carthage with giant latex double dongs. The battle scenes are amazingly realistic.
William H. Rehnquist
This is why I love ancient history.
[laughie] [laughie] [laughie]
"I appreciate you inviting the head of the Republic Party."
It's the fuckers refusal or inability to be serious that pisses me off the most.
mike in pr
Prince Fuckwit will die a frat boy.
And the villagers escape via the puzzlingly unguarded taint to fight another day.
Max Planck | Homepage
Now I want to start a punk band called "The Unguarded Taint."
I have nothing to say - what have you been reading?
In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower, by Marcel Proust.
And Maytrees, the soon-to-be released 2nd novel by Annie Dillard.
Oh, I'm sorry. Is that not still the topic?
This is why I love ancient history.
"We tend to scoff at the beliefs of the ancients. But we can't scoff at them personally, to their faces, and this is what annoys me."
-- Jack Handey
I tink you do too.
That's a pun, right?
"I appreciate you inviting the head of the Republic Party."
It's the fuckers refusal or inability to be serious that pisses me off the most.
mike in pr | 02.03.07 - 10:20 pm | #
he thinks he can deflect insults with smirks and lame attempts at humor.
If he's the head of the Pubican Party does that make him the top dick?
Charles Jones talking Black Panthers on c-span2/BookTV, said they will be showing pictures, including the ones from 1968 where Raygun poses with a bunch of armed Panthers when they went to Sacremento to support his gun policies.
I love those pics and they're very rare on the internets, it seems to me whenever I look around. Raygun's queasy smiles are priceless.
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I tink you do too.
rorschach
I don't get that.
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I love Hesse - but I also love Clive Cussler.(Clive does the first forty pages of a novel better than anyone. The rest? Not so good.)
They are not the same.
DWD - Dirty Fucking Hippy | Homepage | 02.03.07 - 10:22 pm | #
I used to love Hesse, but gradually I grew sick of him. His worlds are all too nice and tidy, I think.
In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower, by Marcel Proust.
Can you summarize Proust?
Trying to match wits with rorschach is fun.
I tink I do fairly well.
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agave | Homepage | 02.03.07 - 10:20 pm | #
I tink you do too.
rorschach
I do well to match socks. Another reason I always wear boots.
Can you summarize Proust?
Certified Mutant Enemy | Homepage | 02.03.07 - 10:24 pm | #
Shorter Proust:
Prst.
Is Zombie Rehnquist still here?
I'd hit him.
But that's because I've got a thing for deadies.
Can you summarize Proust?
Certified Mutant Enemy
Proust in his first book wrote about, wrote about,
Proust in his first book wrote about, wrote about,
Proust in his first book wrote about, wrote about,
He wrote about!
That's a pun, right?
Dr NTodd, Articulate Negro
You are back?
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undeadies.
The Romans, ingeniously, penetrated the city from the front and from behind at the same time.
I actually prefer Pubic War II: Sicilian Boogaloo, where Hannibal uses a herd of randy elephants against and army of stewardesses, nurses, and cheerleaders.
Elephant-on-Roman-stewardess action cannot be topped. It rawks.
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Can you summarize Proust?
Certified Mutant Enemy | Homepage | 02.03.07 - 10:24 pm | #
it all started with a cookie.
Shorter Proust:
Prst.
O, u...
You are back?
I find affront in that.
Shorter Proust:
Prst.
rorschach
FUCK YOU!!!!
he!
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tippi hedren has gone on to be an animal welfare hero. and she gave birth to melanie griffith. a two-fer!
irritated
Melanie Griffith of the Michael Jackson-like addiction to plastic surgery?
Elephant-on-Roman-stewardess action cannot be topped. It rawks.
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William H. Rehnquist | Homepage | 02.03.07 - 10:26 pm | #
Can it be bottomed?
You are back?
I find affront in that.
Dr NTodd, Articulate Negro | Homepage | 02.03.07 - 10:27 pm | #
I refuse to take sides in this matter.
it all started with a cookie.
Hellkitty
A shell-shaped cake named after a little girl in a French boarding school.
Apparently. Very tasty. I learned to make them because of Proust.
Just like I learned to drink Laphroaig because of John Fowles.
And to be the mike rulah because of...oh, now it's just getting silly.
Well ladies and gentlemen, I don't think any of our contestants this evening have succeeded in encapsulating the intricacies of Proust's masterwork, so I'm going to award the first prize this evening to the girl with the biggest tits.
James Fenimore Cooper - as always.
Artie | Homepage | 02.03.07 - 8:44 pm | #
That right there is a man who can't write for crap.
rorschach | Homepage | 02.03.07 - 8:45 pm | #
Fenimore Cooper is a man? I had no idea.
"Sticky Sheets" pet hair remover.
What a country!
Is it true that AUMF actually stands for "Awesomely Ugly Mother Fucker"?
Can it be bottomed?
With great care. With great care.
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Rmj, Shake Zula | 02.03.07 - 10:28 pm | #
I like them too and make them in lemon or vanilla dipped in bittersweet chocolate.
CME--36D.
I'm going to award the first prize this evening to the girl with the biggest tits.
[pulls of shirt]
I find affront in that.
Dr NTodd, Articulate Negro
Just saying, I thought you Left.
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I love Hesse - but I also love Clive Cussler.(Clive does the first forty pages of a novel better than anyone. The rest? Not so good.)
I grew a little tired of Clive sticking himself in his novels so he could run into Dirk Pitt. It got old quick.
Certified Mutant Enemy | Homepage | 02.03.07 - 10:29 pm | #
you really believe we will reveal our dimensions?
"Sticky Sheets" pet hair remover.
What exactly are you up to over there?
.
[pulls of shirt]
Dr NTodd, Articulate Negro | Homepage | 02.03.07 - 10:30 pm | #
[pushes of pants]
You are back?
No, he are NTodd, the man without a blog.
"Breathes there a man with soul so dead, that never to himself has said, 'This is my blog.'?"
[pulls of shirt]
Dr NTodd, Articulate Negro | Homepage | 02.03.07 - 10:30 pm | #
Nobody wanted to see that...
I'm going to award the first prize this evening to the girl with the biggest tits.
You don't come across big, heavy breastesses every day.
Hellkitty--I just did.
Hell, the minimum wage salesclerk at Vicki's knows it.
Just saying, I thought you Left.
I did for a moment, you are right.
sigh, 36DD
you really believe we will reveal our dimensions?
Hellkitty
I only have two, and you're not seeing them until I know you better.
Breaking....
Thousands of birds found dead in Suffolk, England.
[pulls of shirt]
Dr NTodd, Articulate Negro | Homepage | 02.03.07 - 10:30 pm | #
Nobody wanted to see that...
Certified Mutant Enemy | Homepage | 02.03.07 - 10:31 pm | #
It was Vicki's shirt.
You don't come across big, heavy breastesses every day.
Max Planck | Homepage | 02.03.07 - 10:32 pm | #
Unless you live with a certain miriam.
I'm going to award the first prize this evening to the girl with the biggest tits.
I thought every woman on the Internet had big breasts--and were men as well.
Supreme Commander Thor,
and that would be in the "not so good" part. But the beginnings are simply wonderful.
Hesse? I like that his characters are always questing to put some sort of structure on meaning. They mostly fail but not all quests are going to succeed.
I'm going to award the first prize this evening to the girl with the biggest tits.
I've been rubbing my manboobs with tea tree oil all night long waiting for precisely this moment.
.
It was Vicki's shirt.
Well, OK then...
"Sticky Sheets" pet hair remover.
What exactly are you up to over there?
William H. Rehnquist
Just a humble chronicler of American culture.
Ah, Proust.
The Irish Censorship Board censored the last volume of Remembrance of Things Past.
Which always struck me as pretty funny. Pity poor Padraig sitting in his Connemara cowshed: "How's the feckin' bewk END!"
There's a show on Discovery Network called Future Weapons, and it glamourizes killing and death, and the guy who hosts the show actually has orgasms on camera when he watches a bomb take out a bunker.
Breaking....
Thousands of birds found dead in Suffolk, England.
red
Well, I did once shoot an elephant in my pajamas.
Melanie Griffith of the Michael Jackson-like addiction to plastic surgery?
Terry C, Pelosi Fan
Except that Melanie Griffith started out a white woman, whereas Michael required surgery to become one.
Hellkitty--you beat me
Just saying, I thought you Left.
I did for a moment, you are right.
Dr NTodd, Articulate Negro | Homepage | 02.03.07 - 10:32 pm | #
We should just take a moment to center ourselves.
A non-existent comic book called Cylon Husband Swap. Karl Agathon refuses his participating hosts' offer of strenuous sperm collection so he can gaze at a locket portrait of a woman he would not even cheat on with another (or a few hundred) who look exactly like her. At the same time in a different bedroom GB is desperately fending off a temporary partner who he had in the past told to kill herself and at another time killed her current lover in front of her. So actually very chaste and kid-safe.
Breaking....
Thousands of birds found dead in Suffolk, England.
red | 02.03.07 - 10:32 pm | #
well, we had Dead Bird Day in Austin last month.
They mostly fail but not all quests are going to succeed.
DWD - Dirty Fucking Hippy
Just the ones that become bestsellers. Preferably in a series running to several expensive volumes spread out over two or three years of publication.
It's all about marketing.
Well, I did once shoot an elephant in my pajamas.
Rmj, Shake Zula | 02.03.07 - 10:33 pm | #
You've got some big fucking pajamas, my friend.
Breaking....
Thousands of birds found dead in Suffolk, England.
red
Now they know how many holes
It takes to fill the Albert Hall
I'd love to turn you on...
You've got some big fucking pajamas, my friend.
rorschach
I've mentioned before you don't know the real me.
There's a show on Discovery Network called Future Weapons, and it glamourizes killing and death, and the guy who hosts the show actually has orgasms on camera when he watches a bomb take out a bunker.
i am the pony man
And this is wrong because...
well, we had Dead Bird Day in Austin last month.
Hellkitty
No offense, but if that's the best your Convention and Visitors Bureau can come up with, it might be time for a change of leadership.
Hellkitty--you beat me
Sallyh, Grandmere Poissonniere | 02.03.07 - 10:34 pm | #
well, it wasn't until the kind lady at Nordsrtoms told me that I knew myself.
As Auntie GWPDA said not too long ago, it is hard to get a good fitting these days.
Whoever named it "necking" was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx
RMJ, if I knew anything of marketing I would be a Republican.
Instead I just quest on ahead seeking meaning in the meaningless and wonder at the depths of degradation humans are capable of . . . .
Well, I did once shoot an elephant in my pajamas.
Rmj, Shake Zula
How you got into the elephant's pajamas, we'll never know.
Well, I did once shoot an elephant in my pajamas.
That wasn't an elephant. And they were my pajamas.
I've mentioned before you don't know the real me.
Rmj, Shake Zula | 02.03.07 - 10:36 pm | #
I've been to Paradise, but I've never been to you.
How you got into the elephant's pajamas, we'll never know.
Max Planck
He!
.
Well, I did once shoot an elephant in my pajamas.
Rmj, Shake Zula
It is difficult for me to believe this.
Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.
-- Groucho Marx
Lucky you--I haven't even been to paradise.
Fuck him. He knew exactly what he was doing when he said "Democrat party." Asshole.
Shaw Kenawe |
And his quip about the Republic party restates the wingnut talking point that the US isn't a democracy but a republic.
(significant for a bunch of neo-platonist Straussians, if you understand the main thrust of Plato's Republic)
I've mentioned before you don't know the real me.
Great. RMJ is going to be giving us Who songs and okra all night...
Instead I just quest on ahead seeking meaning in the meaningless and wonder at the depths of degradation humans are capable of . . . .
Then have I got a few restaurants for you.
.
I love riffing on that ancient Groucho pajama joke.
It is difficult for me to believe this.
Shaw Kenawe
(it's not true)
.
I've shot up quite a few things, but to shoot an elephant?
That's gotta take a really big syringe and a mighty vein.
No offense, but if that's the best your Convention and Visitors Bureau can come up with, it might be time for a change of leadership.
Dr. Wu | 02.03.07 - 10:36 pm | #
that and the nightly flight of bats from under the Congress Avenue bridge are big local draws. What was funny was the series of pictures of hazmat teams removing a very deceased looking Big Bird from several locations in town which appeared in email boxes in the following days.
A FUN READ:
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalo...oc/
imtconst.htm
I've mentioned before you don't know the real me.
This terrifies me. But, I'm willin to give it a go.
Whoever named it "necking" was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx
Certified Mutant Enemy
If Atrios was a religious man, he'd bring back the emoticons.
"For the love of God, Montresor!"
I've mentioned before you don't know the real me.
Great. RMJ is going to be giving us Who songs and okra all night...
Fuck both of you and all the other Blogroll Elite. With my last breath I spit at thee...
Great. RMJ is going to be giving us Who songs and okra all night...
Thers
Fuck!
I was hoping for Lawn Care tips.
.
Fuck both of you and all the other Blogroll Elite. With my last breath I spit at thee...
Dr NTodd, Articulate Negro | Homepage | 02.03.07 - 10:41 pm | #
Whatever you say, Ricardo Montalblog.
Instead I just quest on ahead seeking meaning in the meaningless and wonder at the depths of degradation humans are capable of . . . .
Then have I got a few restaurants for you.
William H. Rehnquist
Come to the North End of Boston and let me introduce you to Carmen "Big Cheese" DeStefano.
Great. RMJ is going to be giving us Who songs and okra all night...
Thers
The okra is for strength. And fiber. At my age, you appreciate the fiber.
We had to stop what we were doing, realizing that RMJ had ruined (or was about to) the image and the style we had grown accustomed to. He looked funny, and yet, and this honestly is the only thing that matters to us yanks, he was clearly financially independent. We can only hope the world is ready for him.
I've shot up quite a few things, but to shoot an elephant?
That's gotta take a really big syringe and a mighty vein.
Take it all, bitch!
Whatever you say, Ricardo Montalblog.
rorschach
Your blog looks mmmahvelous, dahling.
I was hoping for Lawn Care tips.
Perhaps you can get both. Pete Townshend was and is an avid gardener.
.
thee?
.
We can only hope the world is ready for him.
fsj
We're ready for his close-up, Mr. fsj.
Speaking of William H. Rehnquist and anti-drug movies, I think it'd be a hoot to issue an anti-drug movie featuring a re-enactment of the time Rehnquist tried to escape in his pajamas from a hospital, coked to the gills and allegedly hallucinating during withdrawal from prescription drug-dependency. (Incidentally, just the sort of behavior for which a good many persons of lesser repute and lineage are incarcerated in federal and state penitientiaries.)
The scene of the Chief Justice babbling to the cops or security goons or psychiatric orderlies who restrained him would be an object lesson on the Evils of Drugs in and of itself.
We had to stop what we were doing, realizing that RMJ had ruined (or was about to) the image and the style we had grown accustomed to. He looked funny, and yet, and this honestly is the only thing that matters to us yanks, he was clearly financially independent. We can only hope the world is ready for him.
fsj
Having survived the blogroll purge, I am ready to take on the world.
Whether the world is ready is none of my concern.
Fuck both of you and all the other Blogroll Elite. With my last breath I spit at thee...
Too bad Gregory Peck is dead, otherwise he could play NTodd in Eschaton, The Motion Picture
Does Avedon lurk here, or merely check the blog once in a while and save us lowly commenters from mega threads? I rarely see comments from Avedon.
--
Hot girls!
Pick up Girls You want!
thee?
.
agave | Homepage | 02.03.07 - 10:44 pm | #
Yeah, that's English for "diee."
Whatever you say, Ricardo Montalblog.
The Klingons say that revenge is a blog best served without comments.
"Are fat girls ticklish?" RMJ asks rhetorically; "Yes," he further goads his muse, "I called you fat; look at me I'm skinny."
Fuck both of you and all the other Blogroll Elite. With my last breath I spit at thee...
And with my last Kleenex I clean off my glasses.
Sheesh.
"If a man starts a war, he must have the nerve to bear the consequences"
--German Army Chief of Staff Kurt Zeitzler Re: A. Hitler Sep/1942
Hellkitty--hell, we revealed our asset measurements, and all they care about are man-tits!
I say we take our well endowedness home
NONE OF THESE PEOPLE ARE GROKKING US.
Speaking of William H. Rehnquist and anti-drug movies
Seriously, I was in an anti-drug movie (well, filmstrip, really) aimed at high school kids.
I played the friend who hooked his buddy on pot.
.
I say we take our well endowedness home
Sallyh, Grandmere Poissonniere
Later, guys.
I gotta walk Grandma home.
The Klingons say that revenge is a blog best served without comments.
Dr NTodd, Articulate Negro | Homepage | 02.03.07 - 10:46 pm | #
Dude. That is cold.
The okra is for strength. And fiber. At my age, you appreciate the fiber.
That's Roger Daltrey's excuse, too.
thee?
.
agave | Homepage | 02.03.07 - 10:44 pm | #
Yeah, that's English for "diee."
rorschach | Homepage | 02.03.07 - 10:45 pm | #
I thought it was just the archaic spelling of "the" like "old".
'night, all
Speaking of William H. Rehnquist and anti-drug movies
How much you wanna bet Billy Rehnquist denied cert on a really close call drug case, then got fucking waxed on goofpills later that night?
And with my last Kleenex I clean off my glasses.
You should pick up more tissues when you're out getting diapers and 40s...
Hellkitty--hell, we revealed our asset measurements, and all they care about are man-tits!
I say we take our well endowedness home
Sallyh, Grandmere Poissonniere | 02.03.07 - 10:47 pm | #
I was wondering when and if they would ever react to the revelation. CME is not quick to award the prize. Maybe he's waiting for Justice Rhenquist to sprout? I say we retire to a nice glass of brandy and wait it out.
'night, ProfWombat.
Too bad Gregory Peck is dead, otherwise he could play NTodd in Eschaton, The Motion Picture
Certified Mutant Enemy
Jack Black.
thee?
.
agave | Homepage | 02.03.07 - 10:44 pm | #
Yeah, that's English for "diee."
rorschach | Homepage | 02.03.07 - 10:45 pm | #
I thought it was just the archaic spelling of "the" like "old".
Dr NTodd, Articulate Negro | Homepage | 02.03.07 - 10:48 pm | #
We are heading for the far reaches of geeky silliness at maximum warp.
CME--36D.
Sallyh, Grandmere Poissonniere | 02.03.07 - 10:30 pm | #
Mmmm...
Mmmm...
Certified Mutant Enemy | Homepage | 02.03.07 - 10:50 pm | #
keep reading.
CME--Hellkitty's 36DD. yes, that's larger.
We are heading for the far reaches of geeky silliness at maximum warp.
Warpe Factor Tenne, Mr Sulu.
I thought it was just the archaic spelling of "the" like "old".
Dr NTodd, Articulate Negro
Oh!
Like Ole E!
.
CME--36D.
Sallyh, Grandmere Poissonniere | 02.03.07 - 10:30 pm | #
Mmmm...
Certified Mutant Enemy | Homepage | 02.03.07 - 10:50 pm | #
C57D would be more impressive, Miranda.
you really believe we will reveal our dimensions?
Hellkitty | 02.03.07 - 10:31 pm | #
It was worth a try.
How much you wanna bet Billy Rehnquist denied cert on a really close call drug case, then got fucking waxed on goofpills later that night?
It was the 80s. And I had a bad back. And a prescription. Several actually.
.
CME--Hellkitty's 36DD. yes, that's larger.
Sallyh, Grandmere Poissonniere
Thanks for keeping us abreast of the situation.
DWD--you guys, you're all about Mantitsa Theory.
CME--Hellkitty's 36DD. yes, that's larger.
Sallyh, Grandmere Poissonniere
Thanks for keeping us abreast of the situation.
DWD - Dirty Fucking Hippy | Homepage | 02.03.07 - 10:53 pm | #
Indeed.
Thanks, for the mammaries.
sigh, 36DD
Hellkitty | 02.03.07 - 10:32 pm | #
Mmmm, Mmmm
The Oxy's finally rotted away what few brain cells he had left:
http://mediamatters.org/items/20...ms/
200702020017
oh no, breast puns.
BTW, liberal women are not fans of the silicone implant (aside from clinical reconstruction)
Well, all of this talk of breasts and such has left me kind of dead. But just a thought, Bush and Rush give me twin piques.
C57D would be more impressive, Miranda.
Leslie Nielsen hitting on Anne Francis...
oh no, breast puns.
Hellkitty
Hard to bare, huh?
BTW, liberal women are not fans of the silicone implant (aside from clinical reconstruction)
Sallyh, Grandmere Poissonniere | 02.03.07 - 10:55 pm | #
ain't that the truth.
The Omnivore's Dilemma
http://www.outsidethedream.org/
-
oh no, breast puns.
Hellkitty
Hard to bare, huh?
Rmj, Shake Zula | 02.03.07 - 10:56 pm | #
Of corset it could stop if you want it to, bra.
BTW, liberal women are not fans of the silicone implant (aside from clinical reconstruction)
Sallyh, Grandmere Poissonniere
So that surgery I had to look like Ricardo Montalban....bad idea, huh?
BTW, liberal women are not fans of the silicone implant (aside from clinical reconstruction)
Sallyh, Grandmere Poissonniere | 02.03.07 - 10:55 pm | #
I prefer real ones...
Hard to bare, huh?
Rmj, Shake Zula | 02.03.07 - 10:56 pm | #
being bare makes things hard, no?
RMJ--was it the rich Corinthian leather that made you do it?
being bare makes things hard, no?
Shudders.
.
So that surgery I had to look like Ricardo Montalban....bad idea, huh?
Rmj, Shake Zula | 02.03.07 - 10:57 pm | #
Between your hopes and the reality there is a certain... cleavage.
oh no, breast puns.
Hellkitty
yeah, tits just not right!
.
yeah, tits just not right!
.
agave | Homepage | 02.03.07 - 10:58 pm | #
Busted!
K, back from dinner and you guys are still here!
And still talking about sex...
Leslie Nielsen hitting on Anne Francis...
"Oh, murder!"
I can't believe Governor Goodhair decided to do the correct thing for a change:
http://www.comcast.net/news/heal.../03/
577840.html
Thanks, for the mammaries.
rorschach
Bon Appeteet?
Only boobs make breast puns.
I prefer real ones...
Certified Mutant Enemy | Homepage | 02.03.07 - 10:57 pm | #
this kitty has no artificial ingredients or prosthetic devices. What I have is all mine. OEM
oh no, breast puns.
Hellkitty
Well, I'm all out.
Flat busted. Gotta leave the table.
Only boobs make breast puns.
mike in pr | 02.03.07 - 11:00 pm | #
Surely you chest.
Rack 'em up...
Flat busted. Gotta leave the table.
Rmj, Shake Zula | 02.03.07 - 11:00 pm | #
come back in, its cold out there...have a nice warm hug.
oh no, breast puns.
Hellkitty
Well, I'm all out.
Flat busted. Gotta leave the table.
Rmj, Shake Zula | 02.03.07 - 11:00 pm | #
Oh, come on.
Grow a pair.
Busted!
rorschach
Nice!
I'll give it a 38.
.
"Only boobs make breast puns."
And just how do you support that assertation?
Udder silliness.
now we are drifting into the bovine!
"Only boobs make breast puns."
And just how do you support that assertation?
EkCenTriK | 02.03.07 - 11:02 pm
Bra'ed generalizations...
Busted!
rorschach
Nice!
I'll give it a 38.
.
titty pun judge | Homepage | 02.03.07 - 11:02 pm | #
I really dug that comment.
"Surely you chest."
Tit for tat.
"Bra'ed generalizations...
ellroon,"
HAH!
now we are drifting into the bovine!
Hellkitty | 02.03.07 - 11:03 pm | #
Yes, I fear we have lost our whey; the cream of the puns has been exhausted.
can't believe Governor Goodhair decided to do the correct thing for a change:
http://www.comcast.net/news/heal.../03/ 577840.html
Terry C, Pelosi Fan
Merck's been a big contributor to his campaign. The anti-HPV drug is a Merck product.
Sorry I'm fresh out of titty jokes.
now we are drifting into the bovine!
Hellkitty | 02.03.07 - 11:03 pm | #
Yes, I fear we have lost our whey; the cream of the puns has been exhausted.
rorschach | Homepage | 02.03.07 - 11:05 pm
Only cow...ards think this punning is mooo...t.
"Bra'ed generalizations... -ellroon,"
You're having a tit fit over this?
"Bra'ed generalizations... -ellroon,"
You're having a tit fit over this?
bo | 02.03.07 - 11:06 pm
It's to prevent it from getting in the wringer...
Only cow...ards think this punning is mooo...t.
ellroon, Leave Iraq/n now! | Homepage | 02.03.07 - 11:06 pm | #
Very baaaad. One might almost think you were trying to get my goat. (He says sheepishly.)
I'll be gland when this is over.
I'm shockingly bored by the breast puns. I must be getting old.
I'll be gland when this is over.
Hellkitty | 02.03.07 - 11:08 pm | #
It has rendered me rather lymph.
I really dug that comment.
rorschach
I don't get it
.