OK, here's the story to make you think that your day probably went better:
"SHEBOYGAN, Wis. -- A truck driver distracted by his digital music player tipped his semitrailer on Interstate 43 in Sheboygan County, spilling about 40 tons of cow intestines.
"Parts of the interstate were closed for about two hours on Thursday while authorities took care of the mess of beef by-products, including intestines and bones.
"Sheriff's officials said that the 25-year-old driver told them the semitrailer veered off the road as he adjusted his MP3 player. He was taken to the hospital with minor injuries.
"The tractor-trailer, which is owned by Birchwood Transport of Kenosha, had to be towed from the scene."
except you don't have to know where to look as the great is almost everywhere you look.
klyde |
02.09.07 - 7:01 pm | #
OK, here's the story to make you think that your day probably went better:
I hate it when a tragedy queen spills their guts.
bo |
02.09.07 - 7:01 pm | #
Now that truck driver had some guts.
JeffCO |
02.09.07 - 7:01 pm | #
Back later...
Janeane The Acerbic Goblin |
02.09.07 - 7:02 pm | #
Excellent--NBC just mentioned Jennifer Parcell, from Attytood's blog earlier today.
Wannbeanona |
02.09.07 - 7:02 pm | #
SHEBOYGAN, Wis. -- A truck driver distracted by his digital music player tipped his semitrailer on Interstate 43 in Sheboygan County, spilling about 40 tons of cow intestines.
Song on his player at the time:
"mention my name in Sheboygan, it's the greatest little town in the world."
ErinPDX |
02.09.07 - 7:02 pm | #
Kenosha! Kenosha!
I know a kid from there!
(Actually It's from gravity's rainbow, but I keed, I keed. I keed because I love.
(and I saw Athenae first!)
The bad kind of sick humor |
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02.09.07 - 7:04 pm | #
David Lynch and Werner Herzog said L.A. is a great city, but you have to know where to look.
Absolutely. If you come here in search of a normal life, you're bound to be pleasantly surprised.
Sallyh, Grandmere Poissonniere |
02.09.07 - 7:04 pm | #
[deadthread repost:]
I hate the Catholic church, and The Disney corporation.
Are they by any chance related? | sally
Well, sally, I would just love to connect the dots for you-- I really would. But the fact is, this place is not especially congenial to conspiracyish discourse. I really can't lay it out here, so I'll only remind you pointedly that search engines are your friend.
And I'll give you one hint, which is more than I should dare: Kevin Bacon is involved.
Little Brøther |
02.09.07 - 7:04 pm | #
I needed to post that because seldom do Kenosha, Sheboygan, and spilled cow intestines come together.
At least in a news story.
Roadmaster, Circumspectacled |
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02.09.07 - 7:05 pm | #
My 3.75 YO loves Central Park and the fountain in front of the Plaza. He will sometimes say, "I want to go to New York," just out of the blue.
Professor Wagstaff |
02.09.07 - 7:07 pm | #
I needed to post that because seldom do Kenosha, Sheboygan, and spilled cow intestines come together.
Do you-all really expect me to waste my time reading such tripe?
Little Brøther |
02.09.07 - 7:07 pm | #
I know this site's ad policy is "blind" and Atrios does not necessarily support all those who advertise on this site.
Nonetheless, the ad at the top of my screen is from the Catholic League and boasts that "Condoms don't save lives."
That's a very dangerous (and incorrect) statement for them to make. I'll be sending them some sternly worded e-mail.
joel |
02.09.07 - 7:07 pm | #
Makes me wonder where those guts were going?
fertilizer for the horrid, sweet fruit wine of Dorr county?
ErinPDX
That would be "Door" County.
And I can think of worse offenses than strawberry rhubarb wine.
Roadmaster, Circumspectacled |
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02.09.07 - 7:07 pm | #
The bad kind of sick humor, whose coffin is that?
mer |
02.09.07 - 7:08 pm | #
My 3.75 YO loves Central Park and the fountain in front of the Plaza. He will sometimes say, "I want to go to New York," just out of the blue.
Professor Wagstaff
That is one smart kid.
madamab, retrograding |
02.09.07 - 7:08 pm | #
When do the Cheney Impeachment hearings begin?
Unrepentant Fenian |
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02.09.07 - 7:08 pm | #
Makes me wonder where those guts were going?
fresh supply to make up for the lack in the democratic congress?
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Tacitus Voltaire |
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02.09.07 - 7:08 pm | #
I needed to post that because seldom do Kenosha, Sheboygan, and spilled cow intestines come together.
Do you-all really expect me to waste my time reading such tripe?
Little Brøther
If not, they why are you casing this joint?
Roadmaster, Circumspectacled |
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02.09.07 - 7:08 pm | #
Who invented the runaway truck ramp?
scooter |
02.09.07 - 7:09 pm | #
I was under the impression that the Disneys were Protestant.
Sallyh, Grandmere Poissonniere
That's where Kevin Bacon comes in! I can't say more, so please don't ask...
Little Brøther |
02.09.07 - 7:09 pm | #
Joel, remember where you are, and that irony isn't dead. Just click.
Sallyh, Grandmere Poissonniere |
02.09.07 - 7:09 pm | #
I know this site's ad policy is "blind" and Atrios does not necessarily support all those who advertise on this site.
Nonetheless, the ad at the top of my screen is from the Catholic League and boasts that "Condoms don't save lives."
That's a very dangerous (and incorrect) statement for them to make. I'll be sending them some sternly worded e-mail.
joel
Um, if you actually click on the ad, you'll see why it's on there. Hint: it doesn't go to the ad.
Hell, just point to it with your mouse and see what your browser says. It's not as bad as you think.
Sinfonian, 200 hits a day |
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02.09.07 - 7:09 pm | #
madamab,
He's fond of the Waldorf too.
Professor Wagstaff |
02.09.07 - 7:09 pm | #
A little late, but... yo, Atrios! Your blogroll doesn't need to be divided into A, B, and C lists - it needs to be alphabetized!!!
Before clicking, I point the cursor and let my browser tell me the target ... I don't know if all browsers do that, but that's how I figured out where it went.
Sinfonian, 200 hits a day |
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02.09.07 - 7:11 pm | #
The bold and intelligents masters of the road
With their own secret language.
Doug Watts |
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02.09.07 - 7:11 pm | #
Terry--well, certainly, they're not a part of any of the Church social service orgs that I've come to know. (Some of which actually do good things)
Sallyh, Grandmere Poissonniere |
02.09.07 - 7:12 pm | #
Mmmmm, Kevin Bacon. aaaaaaaaaaaagh
madamab,
Maple candied Kevin Bacon. mmmmmmmmmmm
Tena |
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02.09.07 - 7:12 pm | #
It cracks me up, it just drives them nuts that Nancy is Speaker now.
Why do they call it the "power of the purse" anyway, if they're so terrified of a female Speaker of the House?
melior |
02.09.07 - 7:12 pm | #
I never sausage a thing!
Sinfonian, 200 hits a day
Baloney. You're yankin' my weiner.
Roadmaster, Circumspectacled
That's the wurst pun yet.
Sinfonian, 200 hits a day |
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02.09.07 - 7:12 pm | #
See a tongue-in-cheek visual of "Nancy's Flight Of Fancy"...here:
Because, Tweety, people like you slimed Gore so bad that Chimpy was allowed to steal the election. I hope you have nightmares about headless and limbless bodies the rest of your unnatural life.
Lime Rickey |
02.09.07 - 7:12 pm | #
I was under the impression that the Disneys were Protestant.
Sallyh, Grandmere Poissonniere
Alternate answer: That's exactly what they want us to think!
Little Brøther |
02.09.07 - 7:12 pm | #
SHEBOYGAN, Wis. -- A truck driver distracted by his digital music player tipped his semitrailer on Interstate 43 in Sheboygan County, spilling about 40 tons of cow intestines.
He must have studied at the Sheboygan Conservatory of Music.
JT |
02.09.07 - 7:12 pm | #
David Lynch and Werner Herzog said L.A. is a great city, but you have to know where to look.
Absolutely. If you come here in search of a normal life, you're bound to be pleasantly surprised.
Sallyh, Grandmere Poissonniere | 02.09.07 - 7:04 pm |
My sister lives in eastern LA county, and I lived near San Dimas for the first six months of 1990. I liked it, and it was indeed 'normal.'
Buckeye, Dealer of Rare Coins |
02.09.07 - 7:13 pm | #
I was under the impression that the Disneys were Protestant.
Sallyh, Grandmere Poissonniere
Didn't the last actual Disney quit the Board recently?
flory |
02.09.07 - 7:13 pm | #
Maple candied Kevin Bacon. mmmmmmmmmmm
Tena
I like the way you think.
madamab, retrograding |
02.09.07 - 7:13 pm | #
flory - I emailed you with that link.
I hope it works- if not, let me know.
Hope your flight out is a good one, too.
Tena |
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02.09.07 - 7:13 pm | #
I never sausage a thing!
Sinfonian, 200 hits a day
Baloney. You're yankin' my weiner.
Roadmaster, Circumspectacled
That's the wurst pun yet.
Sinfonian, 200 hits a day
It's all I could mustard.
Roadmaster, Circumspectacled |
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02.09.07 - 7:14 pm | #
Okay, it's a real sausage-fest in here now.
I was leaving 20 minutes ago. Now I really am.
Later, bats.
Sinfonian, 200 hits a day |
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02.09.07 - 7:14 pm | #
Please, for the love of dog. Otherwise, I demand you blogroll me.
NTodd, Star-Bellied Smartass
I don't think he's got to the Z-list yet....
flory |
02.09.07 - 7:15 pm | #
Tweety: "Why did we go into the war."
(a) Oil
(b) Money
(c) Chimpy wanted to prove his weinie was bigger than his daddy's....and to show how fabulous he looked in a flight-suit.
Terry C, Pelosi Fan |
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02.09.07 - 7:15 pm | #
Buckeye--normal life, but with great benefits: a wide array of foodstuffs not available at markets in other parts of the country, frequently open all night; climate change within a 2 hour drive, massive diversity of culture, language and viewpoints, great restaurants, most unheard of and reasonably priced; beautiful weather, and in the Valley, free parking!
Sallyh, Grandmere Poissonniere |
02.09.07 - 7:15 pm | #
Should I watch Lehrer?
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Jeffraham Prestonian |
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02.09.07 - 7:15 pm | #
What does the truck do when it gets to the top of the runaway truck ramp? Roll backwards?
scooter
Na, deep gravel keeps them in place. Highway engineers aren't stoopid.
1watt Hermit |
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02.09.07 - 7:15 pm | #
I'm kraut of here.
Don't be such a brat.
ErinPDX |
02.09.07 - 7:15 pm | #
Who invented the runaway truck ramp?
scooter
why, the wonderful folks at No-Doze...
focus |
02.09.07 - 7:15 pm | #
It's reported that the Arizona "minutemen" have to spend a great deal of time purging "racists" and "neo nazis" and "white supremacists" from their organization.
They should really upgrade their Microsoft Excel software to prevent these database glitches.
Doug Watts |
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02.09.07 - 7:16 pm | #
Flory--forced out, and Roy Disney filed suit. Still ongoing, if I recall.
Sallyh, Grandmere Poissonniere |
02.09.07 - 7:16 pm | #
flory - I emailed you with that link.
I hope it works- if not, let me know.
Hope your flight out is a good one, too.
Tena
Got it. did you get my reply?
I just hope the flight's on time...
flory |
02.09.07 - 7:16 pm | #
Buckeye--normal life, but with great benefits: a wide array of foodstuffs not available at markets in other parts of the country, frequently open all night; climate change within a 2 hour drive, massive diversity of culture, language and viewpoints, great restaurants, most unheard of and reasonably priced; beautiful weather, and in the Valley, free parking!
Sallyh, Grandmere Poissonniere | 02.09.07 - 7:15 pm |
Yup. I'd move back, if I could afford it.
Buckeye, Dealer of Rare Coins |
02.09.07 - 7:17 pm | #
Drive-by "hi".
How's everyone tonight?
geor3ge
Hey, geor3ge! What it do?
Tena |
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02.09.07 - 7:17 pm | #
I am the true father of Anna Nicole Smith's infant child.
.
William H. Rehnquist |
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02.09.07 - 7:17 pm | #
Got it. did you get my reply?
I just hope the flight's on time...
flory
Didn't look - just asked.
I'll check. Hope your flight's on time, too. With all my heart - I know you want to go home.
Tena |
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02.09.07 - 7:18 pm | #
Flory--forced out, and Roy Disney filed suit. Still ongoing, if I recall.
Sallyh, Grandmere Poissonniere
Thought it was something like that. So -- how Catholic is the rest of the board.....not.
flory |
02.09.07 - 7:18 pm | #
I can't believe that Roadmaster and Sinfonian would go to such excess in testin' our patience-- or that they have the guts to sit there and crank out callous puns about a quite serious and potentially deadly road accident with public health concerns.
Little Brøther |
02.09.07 - 7:18 pm | #
I am the true father of Anna Nicole Smith's infant child.
.
William H. Rehnquist
You...Zsa Zsa Gabor's current husband...
Take a number.
Terry C, Pelosi Fan |
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02.09.07 - 7:18 pm | #
If everybody went to NTodd's blog more often and wrote thoughtful, creative comments that frequently use the word FUCK ... his blogrolling issues would be fully salved.
Doug Watts |
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02.09.07 - 7:18 pm | #
I am the true father of Anna Nicole Smith's infant child.
.
William H. Rehnquist
I beg to differ.
Mary Cheney's Turkey Baster |
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02.09.07 - 7:18 pm | #
Why do they call it the "power of the purse" anyway, if they're so terrified of a female Speaker of the House?
melior
**
that expression goes back to when men wore wigs
Nancy Willing |
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02.09.07 - 7:18 pm | #
Flory--the Disneys were from Kilkenny, Ireland, but as to the Catholicism of the board, hell if I know.
Sallyh, Grandmere Poissonniere |
02.09.07 - 7:19 pm | #
ooohhh, david shuster coming close to saying timmeh was a bit too compliant with the white house while talking about the libby trial.
linda |
02.09.07 - 7:19 pm | #
Waitress, why do my cow intestines have road sand in them ???
Doug Watts |
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02.09.07 - 7:19 pm | #
What it do?
Tena
A'ight. Fixin' to have a nice slow weekend with few engagements. Tonight: clean house. Tomorrow: take pup to obedience school, practice Beethoven and Barber 'til my hands bleed.
Anyone get an email from :matthew yet?
geor3ge |
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02.09.07 - 7:19 pm | #
Little Brother--they just love their puns. That's it.
Sallyh, Grandmere Poissonniere |
02.09.07 - 7:19 pm | #
You...Zsa Zsa Gabor's current husband...
Take a number.
Terry C, Pelosi Fan
You'd think they'd wait to see if the kid gets the money before they all start claiming paternity....
flory |
02.09.07 - 7:20 pm | #
At least he had the intestinal fortitude to admit he was distracted by adjusting his mp3 player.
Marchbleed |
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02.09.07 - 7:20 pm | #
♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ Sallyh!♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
I have a new post up about the CDM what got stoled.
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Jeffraham Prestonian |
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02.09.07 - 7:21 pm | #
I wanna know if Holden ever stopped being John Edwards and kicked the shit outta Dissento for failing his blog.
billy b - monkey man |
02.09.07 - 7:21 pm | #
normal life, but with great benefits
You're making me miss LA. Well, not LA, but the area around it. If I couldn't live here, I'd want to live in Pasadena. I love Pasadena and there are more great restaurants there per square inch than anyplace outside of Paris, I think.
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator |
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02.09.07 - 7:21 pm | #
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urb...ki/
Urban_legend
A reacurring urban legend tells of a family wiped out when they mistook a runaway truck ramp for a rest stop. No reports of this have ever come up, and it is hard to explain how a family might make such a mistake.
scooter |
02.09.07 - 7:22 pm | #
You'd think they'd wait to see if the kid gets the money before they all start claiming paternity....
If the kid doesn't get the money, then I eat its brain. Either way I win. I get a fortune or veal a la Anna.
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William H. Rehnquist |
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02.09.07 - 7:22 pm | #
Hecate: Raw foods weaken and stress the immune system. To make an immune-strengthening soup
I've never heard this before. Do you know the thinking behind this?
flory |
02.09.07 - 7:22 pm | #
I can't believe that Roadmaster and Sinfonian would go to such excess in testin' our patience-- or that they have the guts to sit there and crank out callous puns about a quite serious and potentially deadly road accident with public health concerns.
Little Brøther
I give the driver credit - although he rectum'ed the company truck, he at least had the balls to let the authorities know where he slipped up.
Roadmaster, |
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02.09.07 - 7:22 pm | #
Who invented the runaway truck ramp?
scooter
why, the wonderful folks at No-Doze...
focus | 02.09.07 - 7:15 pm | #
dunno, but saints be prised that someone did...
coming down a grade on CA 58, heading east, i watched as a tanker lost his brakes on one of those steep fucking grades near tracy and rocketed off the road into the soft stuff and opposite grade...it was a wonder to behold...
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WoodyG'sGuitar, rogue scholar |
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02.09.07 - 7:22 pm | #
Jeffraham--that is just too sucky. I'm so sorry.
Sallyh, Grandmere Poissonniere |
02.09.07 - 7:22 pm | #
Waitress, why do my cow intestines have road sand in them ???
Doug Watts
Added roughage to clean out the colon.
Roadmaster, |
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02.09.07 - 7:23 pm | #
I love Pasadena and there are more great restaurants there per square inch than anyplace outside of Paris, I think.
I may be moving there for the better part of a year. What shouldn't I miss?
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William H. Rehnquist |
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02.09.07 - 7:23 pm | #
Brooks on Lehr, stoopid, a matter for historians, why import. beyond him???
1watt Hermit |
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02.09.07 - 7:23 pm | #
Why do they call it the "power of the purse" anyway, if they're so terrified of a female Speaker of the House? | melior
Because in the day, "purse" was a metaphor for "scrotum"-- read your Shakespeare, for Crissakes! Women were considered "cutpurses" and such.
Little Brøther |
02.09.07 - 7:23 pm | #
Raw foods weaken and stress the immune system.
Those stupid Nips and their cold, raw, dead fish...
NTodd, Star-Bellied Smartass |
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02.09.07 - 7:24 pm | #
Anyone heard from fourlegs? Today is supposed to be kitten day.
Finny |
02.09.07 - 7:24 pm | #
If the kid doesn't get the money, then I eat its brain. Either way I win. I get a fortune or veal a la Anna.
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William H. Rehnquist
Yer one sick fuck, yer honer.....
flory |
02.09.07 - 7:24 pm | #
The Florida Medical Examiner Rita Cosby *tabloid diva* interviewed has a strangely shaped head, to say the least.
plantsman, lowercase |
02.09.07 - 7:24 pm | #
Little Brother--they just love their puns. That's it.
Sallyh, Grandmere Poissonniere
Raw foods weaken and stress the immune system. To make an immune-strengthening soup
I've never heard this before. Do you know the thinking behind this?
flory,
I don't know the thinking behind it, although if Weed said it, I'm sure there's research behind it.
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator |
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02.09.07 - 7:25 pm | #
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Run...te-
TR_News_1993
Emergency escape ramps are typically located in mountainous areas which attract high construction costs and present difficult site selection.[1] Designs include:
* Arrester bed (see below): a gravel filled ramp adjacent to the road that uses rolling resistance to stop the vehicle.
* Gravity escape ramp: a long upwardly-inclined path parallel to the road. A large length is required, control can be difficult for the driver, including rollback after the vehicle stops.
* Sand pile escape ramp: a short length of loosely piled sand. Problems include large deceleration and the sand is affected by weather conditions (moisture and freezing).
* Alternatives: such as a vehicle arresting barrier
scooter |
02.09.07 - 7:25 pm | #
Zsa Zsa's husband, why were you cheating on her? She'd never do the same to you.
You have to be when you're going up against that Howard K. Stern ghoul. At least that bastard can't kill me for the money, since I'm already undead.
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William H. Rehnquist |
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02.09.07 - 7:26 pm | #
Zsa Zsa's 9th husband; like liz taylor, she felt she should marry any man she slept with.
plantsman, lowercase |
02.09.07 - 7:26 pm | #
I knew a raw-food person. She made very tasty crackers, but seemed to think that digestive enzymes were a sort of microbe.
Finny |
02.09.07 - 7:26 pm | #
What shouldn't I miss?
The Huntington Gardens are amazing. There's a shitload of amazing Arts & Crafts architecture all over the place. Eat at the Parkway Grill every chance that you get, but even little restaurants on the corner are very good. Go up into the San Gabriel Mountains and listen to the silence. And, then, there's In 'n Out.
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator |
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02.09.07 - 7:27 pm | #
If you just sawed off Florida at the Georgia border and pushed it into the Gulf Stream, you'd lose 99 percent of the basic, whacko news coverage of the USA.
Doug Watts |
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02.09.07 - 7:27 pm | #
I don't know the thinking behind it, although if Weed said it, I'm sure there's research behind it.
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator
Your blog always makes me think.
*sigh*....
I need another glass of wine....
flory |
02.09.07 - 7:28 pm | #
Hecate--a summer evening in Old Town Pasadena is lovely, indeed.
Sallyh, Grandmere Poissonniere |
02.09.07 - 7:28 pm | #
If you just sawed off Florida at the Georgia border and pushed it into the Gulf Stream, you'd lose 99 percent of the basic, whacko news coverage of the USA.
Doug Watts
Why, does Rupert Murdoch live in Florida?
madamab, retrograding |
02.09.07 - 7:28 pm | #
They're lettin' you outta hell for a whole year?
Didja hafta blow Satan first?
I'm responsible for the Undead entry in the Tournament of Roses Parade. Did you know that it will take over 600,000 dead violets to just to create one lobe of the giant brain on the this year's entry?
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William H. Rehnquist |
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02.09.07 - 7:28 pm | #
So the blithering idiot impersonating Altmouse just can't stop blabbering about her hero, Anna Nicole Smith.
Choice quote: "I watched her reality show. I recommend it."
Paul Shepard, whom i've referenced often, holds that a lingering fascination with the shapes and forms of language--e.g., punning--is a sign of arrested development...and is most commonly a pathology among boys...
WoodyG'sGuitar, rogue scholar |
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02.09.07 - 7:29 pm | #
i>Anyone heard from fourlegs? Today is supposed to be kitten day.
Finny
I wouldn't be surprised if fourlegs was stuck in traffic - the highway between Ft. Worth and Austin is a parking lot a great deal of the time - especially on Friday evenings.
Tena |
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02.09.07 - 7:29 pm | #
Artemesia "Huntington Garden" is amazing, all by itself -- if silver plants send you.
plantsman, lowercase |
02.09.07 - 7:29 pm | #
According to Bobo, Congressional hearings investigating the Iraq war are about what is past, a matter for historians, a partisan game show.
Eat at the Parkway Grill every chance that you get
Word.
And then, for a total mind blower, just wander thru the lobby of Huntington Hospital.
You'll swear you're in a 5 star hotel....
flory |
02.09.07 - 7:29 pm | #
Woody G--you say that like it's a bad thing
Sallyh, Grandmere Poissonniere |
02.09.07 - 7:30 pm | #
People who can't pun reliably always rag about it.
plantsman, lowercase |
02.09.07 - 7:30 pm | #
plantsman,
They have a moon garden, and a desert garden, and a rose garden, and a Japanese garden and . . . .
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator |
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02.09.07 - 7:30 pm | #
Artemesia "Huntington Garden" is amazing, all by itself -- if silver plants send you.
plantsman,
I love artemesia.
Tena |
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02.09.07 - 7:31 pm | #
I'm responsible for the Undead entry in the Tournament of Roses Parade. Did you know that it will take over 600,000 dead violets to just to create one lobe of the giant brain on the this year's entry?
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William H. Rehnquist
Try the black violas next year.
Roadmaster, Circumspectacled |
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02.09.07 - 7:31 pm | #
I'm responsible for the Undead entry in the Tournament of Roses Parade. Did you know that it will take over 600,000 dead violets to just to create one lobe of the giant brain on the this year's entry?
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William H. Rehnquist
Hmmm....musta missed that entry this year. Or is it new?
flory |
02.09.07 - 7:31 pm | #
The Huntington Gardens are amazing. There's a shitload of amazing Arts & Crafts architecture all over the place. Eat at the Parkway Grill every chance that you get, but even little restaurants on the corner are very good. Go up into the San Gabriel Mountains and listen to the silence. And, then, there's In 'n Out.
I'll pretty much be living at the Huntington. Where's the best Mexican food?
(Hate to say I think In 'n Out is overrated. I am LONGING for El Pollo Loco. Best. Fast food. Evah.
Ceptin, of course, The McBrain sandwich at Mickey Dees.
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William H. Rehnquist |
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02.09.07 - 7:31 pm | #
According to Bobo, Congressional hearings investigating the Iraq war are about what is past, a matter for historians, a partisan game show.
Yeah, cuz that all has NO relevance at all now that the same goddamn administration is trying to lie us into war with Iran. None at all. Oh, look! A dead woman in a diaper with a big guitar or something.
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator |
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02.09.07 - 7:32 pm | #
Marvin Gardens?
The Huntington Garden in Pasadena.
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator |
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02.09.07 - 7:33 pm | #
Hmmm....musta missed that entry this year. Or is it new?
We're replacing Outback Steakhouse.
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William H. Rehnquist |
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02.09.07 - 7:33 pm | #
Un, deux, trois cats sank.
Rod Stewart |
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02.09.07 - 7:33 pm | #
Paul Shepard, whom i've referenced often, holds that a lingering fascination with the shapes and forms of language--e.g., punning--is a sign of arrested development...and is most commonly a pathology among boys...
WoodyG'sGuitar, rogue scholar
OK, now I REALLY blame Eli.
Roadmaster, Circumspectacled |
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02.09.07 - 7:33 pm | #
Where's the best Mexican food?
Rudy's, at the corner of Colorado and Myrtle in nearby Monrovia is pretty damn' good.
Dennis - SG mountain music |
02.09.07 - 7:33 pm | #
I am LONGING for El Pollo Loco. Best. Fast food. Evah.
Zombies have no taste.
flory |
02.09.07 - 7:33 pm | #
I believe the original Rosa chinensis "Mutabilis"
also thrives there -- and lavenders love it!
plantsman, lowercase |
02.09.07 - 7:33 pm | #
I must note that I was floored when a Zsa Zsa angle surfaced in the Anna Nicole Smith story. I'm consciously avoiding being sucked into morbid, lurid, and pathetic detail, or media hype.
But I couldn't resist checking out the Zsa Zsa story when I saw the name in the headlines; for a second I thought the media had copped my use of "Zsa Zsa" as a nickname for Joe Biden.
I haven't worked out the Kevin Bacon connection yet.
Little Brøther |
02.09.07 - 7:33 pm | #
Oh, look! A dead woman in a diaper with a big guitar or something.
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator |
Doug Feith on Blitzer...'Nobody ever claimed an Al Queda-Iraq connection. We simply asserted that the conditions were ripe for such a relationship, which we now see has born fruit.'
bill |
02.09.07 - 7:34 pm | #
holy shit:
Nobel prizewinner, author attacked at S.F. hotel
Matthai Chakko Kuruvila, Chronicle Staff Writer
Friday, February 9, 2007
(02-09) 13:37 PST SAN FRANCISCO -- Elie Wiesel, the renowned Holocaust author and Nobel Peace Prize winner, was attacked and dragged out of a San Francisco hotel elevator last week, possibly by a Holocaust denier who claims to have stalked Wiesel for weeks, police said.
Wiesel, 78, was at the Argent Hotel Feb. 1 for a conference on "Facing Violence: Justice, Religion and Conflict Resolution" when he was confronted in an elevator by a man insisting that he wanted to interview the author, according to San Francisco Police Department Sgt. Neville Gittens.
Wiesel said he would do so in the hotel lobby, but the man insisted on going to Wiesel's room. The man then stopped the elevator at the sixth floor and tried to force Wiesel into a room there.
"That's when the victim started yelling," Gittens said. Wiesel escaped unharmed, made his way down to the lobby and called police.
A man calling himself Eric Hunt and claiming to be the attacker posted an account of the incident on a virulently anti-Semitic Web site called ZioPedia. The account, posted Tuesday, matches the description of the attack police later released.
Gittens said police were aware of the Web site and that there is a suspect being sought. However, he would not say whether the suspect is the person who posted the Web account.
linda |
02.09.07 - 7:34 pm | #
Artemisia is beautiful. My favorite garden time is June when I have the silver of these plants and the purples of salvia and friends and the pale pink of roses. It's mystical at sunset.
Echidne of the snakes |
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02.09.07 - 7:34 pm | #
Have a good evening, denizens.
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02.09.07 - 7:34 pm | #
According to Bobo, Congressional hearings investigating the Iraq war are about what is past, a matter for historians, a partisan game show.
There's only one explanation: Bobo is a paid Repug shill.
Tena |
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02.09.07 - 7:34 pm | #
People who can't pun reliably always rag about it.
plantsman,
You just need to ruminate about it awhile and digest the meaning
JeffF |
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02.09.07 - 7:35 pm | #
Oh, look! A dead incivil blogger in a diaper with a big guitar or something.
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator
That's what you meant, right?
flory |
02.09.07 - 7:35 pm | #
Doug Feith on Blitzer...'Nobody ever claimed an Al Queda-Iraq connection. We simply asserted that the conditions were ripe for such a relationship, which we now see has born fruit.'
bill
Woody G--you say that like it's a bad thing
Sallyh, Grandmere Poissonniere- 7:30 pm
with an ouvre as expansive as mine, i'm not sure to what you refer, gal-pal sal...if you mean the trucker, wow...no...it was a sight, though...dust and gravel and shit flying around...it's a lot to ask somebody to die for what's not their fault...
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WoodyG'sGuitar, rogue scholar |
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02.09.07 - 7:35 pm | #
Doug Feith on Blitzer...'Nobody ever claimed an Al Queda-Iraq connection. We simply asserted that the conditions were ripe for such a relationship, which we now see has born fruit.'
bill |
No thanks to the organic and inorganic fertilizer you poured on that tree...
Roadmaster, Circumspectacled |
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02.09.07 - 7:36 pm | #
According to Bobo, Congressional hearings investigating the Iraq war are about what is past, a matter for historians, a partisan game show.
That seems to be the RNC talking point, third or fourth time I've seen it today.
1watt Hermit |
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02.09.07 - 7:36 pm | #
Doug Feith on Blitzer...'Nobody ever claimed an Al Queda-Iraq connection. We simply asserted that the conditions were ripe for such a relationship, which we now see has born fruit.'
He should be horsewhipped for that -" which we now see has born fruit" - yeah, cause you planted the motherfucking seeds, you sorry sorry piece of shit.
Tena |
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02.09.07 - 7:36 pm | #
We're replacing Outback Steakhouse.
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William H. Rehnquist
Hmmmm....from Down Under to DOWN UNDER.....
flory |
02.09.07 - 7:36 pm | #
Well, I sat down and read the paper at dinner this eve. Specifically the letters to the editors. I have been increasingly distrustful of how LTEs are handled, but today it was enough to bring me to vulgarity. One thing I am trying to recall, is it seems to me in the past the Paper would print rebuttals, corrections and other clarifications in response to a Letter. It dawned on me that I have not seen such a practice in years. Instead, they print anything (selectively?) and allow it to go unchallenged. If a rebuttal comes in at a later point, I am not sure if it has a chance of seeing print. The following is what seems the norm again and it pretty much blows. Of special note, read the SLANT TOO NEGATIVE letter. That just royally pissed me off.
EkCenTriK |
02.09.07 - 7:36 pm | #
That soup sounds great, the problem is, I'm just too wore out to get off this bed and cook it.
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02.09.07 - 7:36 pm | #
If we were picking immigrant communities to please our palates, Mexicans and Vietnamese people were good choices. A fine plate of lemon-grass beef ribs could persuade me to do many things.
plantsman, lowercase |
02.09.07 - 7:36 pm | #
Dead white women rather than missing white women.
Is this what they meant by "enhancement"?
Dennis - SG mountain music |
02.09.07 - 7:37 pm | #
Elie Wiesel, the renowned Holocaust author and Nobel Peace Prize winner, was attacked and dragged out of a San Francisco hotel elevator last week, possibly by a Holocaust denier who claims to have stalked Wiesel for weeks, police said.
Zsa Zsa's husband, why were you cheating on her? She'd never do the same to you.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Lime Rickey
He's 59, she's 90.
I don't think she can do too much cheating now.
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02.09.07 - 7:37 pm | #
Artemisia is beautiful. My favorite garden time is June when I have the silver of these plants and the purples of salvia and friends and the pale pink of roses. It's mystical at sunset.
If'n you want salvia, you need to hit Kew Gardens outside London. Magnificent.
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William H. Rehnquist |
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02.09.07 - 7:38 pm | #
Best. Rube Goldberg. Contraption. EVER.
That's been around for a long time (judging by the URL, I ain't got time to download)...
NTodd, Star-Bellied Smartass |
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02.09.07 - 7:38 pm | #
A fine plate of lemon-grass beef ribs could persuade me to do many things.
plantsman, lowercase
Damn, I wish you'd brought that up two days ago when I was ordering herbiages. That would be lemon grass, not the ribs.
But I've got two sixpacks of celery and they're very handsome too. Into the ground with them!
GWPDA, yclept Shouty-Crackers |
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02.09.07 - 7:38 pm | #
There's only one explanation: Bobo is a paid Repug shill.
Tena
I don't think they have to pay him. All he needs is invites to the right cocktail parties...
flory |
02.09.07 - 7:39 pm | #
Doug Feith...'I believed George Tenet's published report that asserted cooperation between Saddam and Al Queda. I still believe the report, which was George Tenets.'
bill |
02.09.07 - 7:39 pm | #
La Cucina in Pasadena's delicious. And if you want pie, Pie 'n' Burger (but only for the pies).
Sallyh, Grandmere Poissonniere |
02.09.07 - 7:39 pm | #
Jennifer, that was fun!!!
madamab, retrograding |
02.09.07 - 7:39 pm | #
Keep those Pasadena recommendation coming. I'm cutting and pasting into a file.
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William H. Rehnquist |
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02.09.07 - 7:40 pm | #
He should be horsewhipped for that -" which we now see has born fruit" - yeah, cause you planted the motherfucking seeds, you sorry sorry piece of shit.
Dear, I would rather sodomize Feith with a white hot length of rusty reebar.
billy b - monkey man |
02.09.07 - 7:40 pm | #
GWPDA, seek out lemon thyme. (Thymus citriodora)
It's cute, loves sun, and tastes wonderful with fish or fowl!
plantsman, lowercase |
02.09.07 - 7:41 pm | #
Doug Feith on Blitzer...'Nobody ever claimed an Al Queda-Iraq connection.
What about those claims of a meeting in Czechoslovakia (Subsequently debunked) between one of the 911 hijackers and a member of the IRaqi secret police?
Dennis - SG mountain music |
02.09.07 - 7:41 pm | #
Woody--was referring to punning as evidence of arrested development, particularly among males...
I'd stack any guy here up against a Republican guy.
Sallyh, Grandmere Poissonniere |
02.09.07 - 7:41 pm | #
That's been around for a long time (judging by the URL, I ain't got time to download)...
Oh yeah? Well FUUUUUCCKKK YOOOUUU and your pants, you Sneetchie Snob!
Jennifer |
02.09.07 - 7:41 pm | #
Doug Feith on Blitzer...'Nobody ever claimed an Al Queda-Iraq connection. We simply asserted that the conditions were ripe for such a relationship, which we now see has born fruit.'
He should be horsewhipped for that -" which we now see has born fruit" - yeah, cause you planted the motherfucking seeds, you sorry sorry piece of shit.
Tena
UnFUCKINGbelievable. George Orwell, where are you?
JT |
02.09.07 - 7:42 pm | #
Wolf Blitzer will have an interview with boxing promoter Don King, who invited Anna Nicole Smith to the hotel where she was later found dead.
bill |
02.09.07 - 7:42 pm | #
Oh yeah? Well FUUUUUCCKKK YOOOUUU and your pants, you Sneetchie Snob!
Jennifer
x infinity
I may die laughing....
Tena |
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02.09.07 - 7:43 pm | #
What about those claims of a meeting in Czechoslovakia (Subsequently debunked) between one of the 911 hijackers and a member of the IRaqi secret police?
Dennis - SG mountain music
What about when Bush confused Osama with Saddam in the debate, and Kerry called him on it? Bush got super-snippy and said, "I know Iraq didn't attack us. I know that." No ya don't, you ignorant f&ck!!!!
madamab, retrograding |
02.09.07 - 7:43 pm | #
The Florida Medical Examiner Rita Cosby *tabloid diva* interviewed has a strangely shaped head, to say the least.
plantsman, lowercase
Rita doesn't sound as raspy as she used to.
Terry C, Pelosi Fan |
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02.09.07 - 7:44 pm | #
(borne fruit)
Yes.
I missed it - I was so damn mad. What the fuck is Feith doing out and about all of a sudden?
Tena |
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02.09.07 - 7:44 pm | #
I may die laughing....
If you do, I'd be willing to show you the ropes.
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William H. Rehnquist |
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02.09.07 - 7:45 pm | #
Wolf Blitzer will have an interview with boxing promoter Don King, who invited Anna Nicole Smith to the hotel where she was later found dead.
bill
and?
Terry C, Pelosi Fan |
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02.09.07 - 7:45 pm | #
Yeah, its true -- but dose roots!
plantsman, lowercase |
02.09.07 - 7:45 pm | #
Zsa Zsa's husband, why were you cheating on her? She'd never do the same to you.
She'll slap you silly.
JT |
02.09.07 - 7:45 pm | #
I'm feeling a bit punchy this evening...
Jennifer |
02.09.07 - 7:45 pm | #
According to MSNBC, Feith's intel has been totally
repudiated, so of course, he's gotta say IT IS TOO TRUE!
plantsman, lowercase |
02.09.07 - 7:46 pm | #
Rita Cosby's voice is the one I have in my nightmares and am trying to scream.
Lenore |
02.09.07 - 7:47 pm | #
GWPDA, seek out lemon thyme. (Thymus citriodora)
It's cute, loves sun, and tastes wonderful with fish or fowl!
plantsman, lowercase
I've always dreamed of having more thyme. I'll keep my eye peeled.
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GWPDA, yclept Shouty-Crackers |
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02.09.07 - 7:48 pm | #
The thing about lemon thyme is, you can step on it and crush it a bit in the garden, and the fragrance stays with your shoes and blows you away!
plantsman, lowercase |
02.09.07 - 7:51 pm | #
OK, I was on the previous thread but let me repeat my comment--so weird--just as I was reading a comment from Sinfonian, there he was, talking on my tv--some q/a show I have never seen.
Missouri Bird |
02.09.07 - 8:35 pm | #
Anyone that makes it this far down, take a picture of yourself making a toast, post it to these guys and they'll buy a soldier a beer!
Limited time offer, not available in Iraq or Afganistan.
TJ |
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