HULK SMASHED
Peace
Saw REM at SXSW. So there
Ummm...not I.
And MM at SXSW about 3 years ago. Ha!
maybe simels?
The oil companies need a political champion. They netted a quater trillion last year, and people are actually giving them shit about it.
No, but I'm happy to investigate the possibility of introducing Glenn Beck to a big angry polar bear.
Wish I could help.
Ok, you got me on The National. But Hayes Carll and Corb Lund are doing a show at the Belcourt in May.
dude i hate to break it to you but MM have had a precipitous decline in their awesomeness. all been downhill since 'float on'.
I had tickets; but a polar bear ate them.
Going to shows is uncool.
Cool guys stay home on weekend nights breaking up toddler fights. That's a cool thing, not a nerdy and dumb thing, like going to concerts.
That would be a cool show.
Stupid polar bears ruin everything.
They're turning an exciting apocalyptic event like global warming into a real downer.
WATCH OUT!!!
Bear Attacks
Page 1 of 2
Churchill, Manitoba, the "Polar Bear Capital of the World," was established in 1717. Since that time, only two townspeople have ever been killed by polar bears, despite numerous encounters.
The first death occurred in 1968. Native teenagers followed polar bear tracks through a fresh snowfall, found the animal, and proceeded to toss rocks at him. The bear attacked and killed one of them. The bear was shot.
The second took place in 1983. A native was scavenging in the newly burned ruins of the Churchill Hotel. He found some unspoiled meat in the freezer and stuffed his pockets with it. Unfortunately, a polar bear in the vicinity was intent on doing some scavenging of his own. The man was killed. The bear was subsequently shot.
Pilgrimage!
No, but I already have my tickets to the Austin City Limits Music Festival, which REM will headline along with 130 other acts.
Except it's not, because thers said so.
More via Froomkin:
"When Iraqi government forces became bogged down after the initial attacks, US officials were quick to brief American journalists that they had not been fully consulted in advance. . . . [I]t is hard to believe that the Iraqi army could have undertaken such a major offensive without American cooperation, since they needed American, and British, surveillance and air support.
"The most likely explanation is that the Americans approved the assault, confidently expecting it would succeed within a few days. The hardline US vice-president, Dick Cheney, was in Baghdad two weeks earlier and may well have urged Maliki to go ahead. They hoped for a triumph to boast about in Congress. Now they must explain a disaster."
Heckuva job, Dick!
Yeah, but you'll bake in the September sun. Actually, my Austin friends always go, and then make fun of me.
Oh, I know it's officially Spring now. I hear the trinkly ice cream truck in the distance. And I will hear Turkey In the Straw from now till the election.
picked up from below
Didn't somebody recently post a youtube of killer whales circling an ice flow with a seal on it. The whales finally managed to create a little tidal wave and the seal was history.
sekmet
surfing yesterday and came across this:
Octopus exhibit sucks people in
By Linda Shaw
Seattle Times education reporter
Octopuses don't recognize themselves in a mirror. But they can differentiate among people. In an experiment done by Roland Anderson, a biologist at the Seattle Aquarium, giant Pacific octopuses would rise to the surface to greet a researcher who had fed them in the past. But when a second researcher approached — one who'd touched them with a bristly stick — they squirted water on him.
I gots tickets for this:
http://www.pembertonfestival.com...home/
index.aspx
It's in my home town and everything!
Did black-skinned bears grow white fur so they could blend in with "normal" bears?
I'm just sayin' what everybody's thinkin'.
/beck
I think I'll go see the new pornographers and Bon iver in June instead.
Polar Bears run Ticketmaster.
More via Froom:
Retired Lt. Gen. William Odom told the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee on Wednesday: "The surge is prolonging instability, not creating the conditions for unity as the president claims. . . .
"[T]he decline in violence reflects a dispersion of power to dozens of local strong men who distrust the government and occasionally fight among themselves. Thus the basic military situation is far worse because of the proliferation of armed groups under local military chiefs who follow a proliferating number of political bosses. . . .
"We are being asked by the president to believe that this shift of so much power and finance to so many local chieftains is the road to political centralization. He describes the process as building the state from the bottom up.
"I challenge you to press the administration's witnesses this week to explain this absurdity. Ask them to name a single historical case where power has been aggregated successfully from local strong men to a central government except through bloody violence leading to a single winner, most often a dictator."
Polar bears vote for Hillary!
Heckuva job, Dick!
heh.
Dick was SecDef, wasn't he? Not much of a military strategerist is he?
I used to be a big REM fan, but "Monster" sort of lost me and it's been downhill ever since.
Going to shows is uncool.
Cool guys stay home on weekend nights breaking up toddler fights. That's a cool thing, not a nerdy and dumb thing, like going to concerts.
Thers | Homepage | 04.04.08 - 2:31 pm | #
Werd.
Staying home to wash the dogs is also cool.
PBS did a Lonely Planet episode where the Aussie twit was visiting a remote island off the coast of Norway. There are so many polar bears there that in order to camp, a person has to set up a perimeter of electronic alarms that are supposed to go off when the polar bear tries to enter your tent. The plan is that the alarms go off, you wake up, grab your rifle and shoot the bear. They didn't mention how successful this brilliant plan was.
Except it's not, because thers said so.
It's like totally dorky.
If anyone wants to do something really cool, they could come over and watch our kids on a weekend night. It's really cool. And we'd only charge like $50 for you to do it, which is cheaper than some nerdy rock concert.
Doc Severinsen fucking pwned the trumpet.
If anyone wants to do something really cool, they could come over and watch our kids on a weekend night.
Watch them do what?
Ask them to name a single historical case where power has been aggregated successfully from local strong men to a central government except through bloody violence leading to a single winner, most often a dictator."
what?
Polar bears vote for Hillary!
Ali | Homepage | 04.04.08 - 2:34 pm | #
A polar bear woulda killed Vince Foster, too.
Obama's outreach to conservatives
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/whalen/
http://www.nysun.com/politics/ob...aq-through-
2010
Staying home to wash the dogs is also cool.
Oh, yes, my exciting Friday nights. With much alcohol afterwards.
Oh, I know it's officially Spring now. I hear the trinkly ice cream truck in the distance.
Here in Central Ohio, I know it's spring when the buzzards return in mid-March.
And I will hear Turkey In the Straw from now till the election.
MP
ZOMG!!! You hear it too?!?!?!?!?!
.
Dick Cheney and Don Rumsfeld are the men responsible for the mess in Iraq.
They hoped for a triumph to boast about in Congress. Now they must explain a disaster.
"Must explain" is two words out of thousands that Chimpy don't know.
cool guys grill hamburgers in their backyards, because they do it better and cheaper than the people being paid $8/hr to do it at hardee's.
"[T]he decline in violence reflects a dispersion of power to dozens of local strong men who distrust the government and occasionally fight among themselves.
There you have it.
Afghanistan No. 2.
SIGH!
Threadkiller from below:
Hecate & I think that polar bears in armor are cool!
Prior Aelred | Homepage | 04.04.08 - 2:33 pm | #
The first rule of toddler fight club
is you do not talk about toddler fight club
"I challenge you to press the administration's witnesses this week to explain this absurdity. Ask them to name a single historical case where power has been aggregated successfully from local strong men to a central government except through bloody violence leading to a single winner, most often a dictator."
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for I am the meanest sumbitch in the valley...
See? It's even Xian!
thers' kids are funny...but.not $50 funny.
Oh, yes, my exciting Friday nights. With much alcohol afterwards.
I'm going for the alcohol without the dogwashing...
I need to get tickets for this. Its an incredible line up. I've seen Modest Mouse live and they were great. Should be a kick ass show.
Watch them do what?
Take off their diapers and pee on the floor, get crayons & write on the walls, get into hysterical screaming fights over toys -- lots of hip, exciting stuff like that!
"I challenge you to press the administration's witnesses this week to explain this absurdity. Ask them to name a single historical case where power has been aggregated successfully from local strong men to a central government except through bloody violence leading to a single winner, most often a dictator."
sadr has won. what's the issue?
If anyone wants to do something really cool, they could come over and watch our kids on a weekend night. It's really cool. And we'd only charge like $50 for you to do it, which is cheaper than some nerdy rock concert.
Thers
A polar bear could handle that, easy.
Oh, yes, my exciting Friday nights. With much alcohol afterwards.
Bunter | Homepage | 04.04.08 - 2:35 pm | #
Drinking heavily before and during is also advisable.
Take off their diapers and pee on the floor, get crayons & write on the walls, get into hysterical screaming fights over toys -- lots of hip, exciting stuff like that!
Reminds me of college.
And if you get tickets, Atrios, I shall be jealous of you forever n ever!
I'm going to spend Friday night washing a polar bear with alcohol.
Staying home to wash the dogs is also cool.
Oh, yes, my exciting Friday nights. With much alcohol afterwards.
Bunter
What do your dogs drink - beer, or wine?
iPod...dying.
Later!
Rmj:
I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.
what is the religious symbolism in teh bolded part?
cool guys grill hamburgers in their backyards, because they do it better and cheaper than the people being paid $8/hr to do it at hardee's.
Red Lobster has the best chefs! Many of them are also really cool guys who post at LGF!
There is a town in Alaska that is on the polar bears' migration route so twice a year, hundreds of bears wander through town. Hilarity ensues!
I'm going to spend Friday night washing a polar bear with alcohol.
Maybe we can talk Glenn Beck into stuffing his pockets with raw meat and throwing rocks at polar bears.
Take off their diapers and pee on the floor, get crayons & write on the walls, get into hysterical screaming fights over toys -- lots of hip, exciting stuff like that!
Reminds me of NTodd.
jezebel
Fixed your typo.
What do your dogs drink - beer, or wine?
He takes after his human, tequila all the way.
Polar Bears drink coke right?
But he's viewed negatively enough that Hillary merely mentioning the actual way civil rights legislation was achieved in this nation lead to her being attacked as "disrespectful" of MLK.
I think she just has no idea. There was no way that the civil rights legislation would have made it to the floor of congress if it were not for 50 years of people putting their lives on the line against great odds and that last push from MLK, Bayard Rustin, SNCC, Bob Moses, Rosa Parks, the selma marchers, the freedom riders, the Panthers and Muslims, and so many others made it happen. Hillary Clinton thinks that some crafty politician decided it was time. That's just not right.
(and if she'd demonstrated 1/8 of LBJ's ability to get things done her story here would be less pathetic - not that any other living democrat has much to boast about in the getting things done department)
Take off their diapers and pee on the floor, get crayons & write on the walls, get into hysterical screaming fights over toys -- lots of hip, exciting stuff like that!
Thers | Homepage | 04.04.08 - 2:37 pm | #
Fifty bucks is a fucking bargain, people. He oughta be charging fifty bucks per toddler.
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for I am the meanest sumbitch in the valley...
Saw "Platoon" last night for the first time in over 10 years.
I was surprised at how much I liked it.
Off topic, but this came as no surprise to me.
They protect their own....just like the GOP does.
http://www.philly.com/philly/hp/...e/
17253809.html
Polar Bears snort coke right?
Unrepentant Fenian
Explains the aggression.
Final Froom: Saluting Chimpy Is Hazardous To Your [Political] Health
ABC News of Australia reports that Australian Prime Minister was caught on video saluting Bush at the NATO leaders' summit. "It was just a joke, according to the prime minister. But his political opponents are calling it a gaffe that belittles the country."
I used to be a big REM fan, but "Monster" sort of lost me and it's been downhill ever since.
Me 'n all. Thing is, I'd bought Every. Single. Album. the band put out up to that point, and I was wondering if the world would collapse if I no longer supported them.
The lads seem to be doing ok without me, and that's fine.
I suppose I ought to get their new one a listen. Anyone in here heard it yet?
He oughta be charging fifty bucks per toddler.
Nobody has that kind of dough.
Ironically, even though I lived in Athens, GA for 6 years, and took Entertainment Law with REM's lawyer, Bertis Downs, I had never seen REM play until SXSW 08 (except when they were hanging out at the clubs and bars).
Probably because I played trumpet in high school at the time it was part of US pop culture, I still really dig Herb Alpert's Dating Game Whipped Cream and Taste of Honey stuff.
I just learned that Glenn Beck makes $ 10,000,000 a year for his radio show.
That's ten million.
Dick Cheney and Don Rumsfeld are the men responsible for the mess in Iraq.
Unrepentant Fenian
Well, them and those five assholes on the Supreme Court who made Chimpy preznit.
He takes after his human, tequila all the way.
TooKillYa?
Hoo boy gf, that shit will make one crazy. I'm talking tripping.
Saw REM at SXSW. So there
I could've seen REM at Maxwell's in Hoboken back in '82, but I couldn't be bothered.
When I got around to finally seeing them in a 3,000 seat venue in support of "Fables" I figured they'd peaked.
I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.
what is the religious symbolism in teh bolded part?
Ann Coulter's larynx?
My fave Herb Alpert song is actually "This Guy's in Love With You"
though don't tell anyone.
Holy Crap!™
Drunk again.
missed the boat
MM
supernatural superserious
REM
Peter Buck scares me. I used to see Mike Mills driving around socal in a Porsche ragtop - he looked like a nerd in a Porsche. Also saw him at a Camper Van Beethoven show in 1987 with a guy who looked exactly like him.
I just learned that Glenn Beck makes $ 10,000,000 a year for his radio show.
And yet he still got shitty healthcare in America...
My fave Herb Alpert song is actually "This Guy's in Love With You"
Alperts gets all over Zorba the Greek. 32nd notes and shit.
Dick Cheney and Don Rumsfeld are the men responsible for the mess in Iraq.
Unrepentant Fenian
The only war movie I'll watch is "M*A*S*H."
Don't like war movies.
Saw REM at SXSW. So there
I could've seen REM at Maxwell's in Hoboken back in '82, but I couldn't be bothered.
hillbilly ragger
Shit, man. Those Maxwell's performances were fucking awesome.
That's ten million.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore | 04.04.08 - 2:41 pm | #
spewing incessant garbage for the corpo is not easy...
Beck is a shit head and i hope he kills himself.
Dood can't hold his Croatian ripple.
TooKillYa?
Hoo boy gf, that shit will make one crazy. I'm talking tripping
It's been my drink of choice since college. I was sipping it before that became chic. But yes, too much and I'm dancing on the bar. 
what is the religious symbolism in teh bolded part?
euphronius has a bucket
Taken from deutero-Isaiah, announcing the return of the Exiles in Babylon to Jerusalem, and the presence of the glory of the Lord on earth. Valleys raised and mountains lowered mean no obstacle to clear line of sight on the glory of God as present in Jerusalem and also as available to all peoples (the Hebrews weren't much on the kind of exclusionary practices so many Xians have indulged in over the millenia).
So the image is one of peace on earth for all nations (peoples), with no obstacles to obstruct/obscure it.
God, did I fuck that last post up!
Saw "Platoon" last night for the first time in over 10 years.
I was surprised at how much I liked it.
Billy B
The only war movie I'll watch is "M*A*S*H."
Don't like war movies.
REM?
Try finding My Bloody Valentine tix.
Shit, man. Those Maxwell's performances were fucking awesome.
jac | 04.04.08 - 2:44 pm | #
I have a Replacements show from Maxwells - 1986. Great, great performance.
TY RMJ!!!!!
Me 'n all. Thing is, I'd bought Every. Single. Album. the band put out up to that point, and I was wondering if the world would collapse if I no longer supported them.
Actually, there for a couple of years (the early years), I could barely listen to anything but REM. I drove everyone I knew crazy.
Holy Crap!™
Drunk again.
Holden Caulfield
He's crocked!
Now the Croatian dood has to help him walk.
Brooklyn Girl : And they do necessary jobs that Americans don't want to do. They need a guarantee of a reasonable wage, access to some benefits, and the option of staying for an extended period of time.
You have that backwards, somewhat. If those "necessary jobs" actually offered "a guarantee of a reasonable wage, access to some benefits, and the option of staying for an extended period of time", they would find a lot more Americans who would do them.
catalexis : If a business can't survive without exploiting labor unfairly then the business shouldn't survive.
Exactly right.
TooKillYa?
Hoo boy gf, that shit will make one crazy. I'm talking tripping
One of the First Principles in the Meander household(s):
Tequila = Property Damage
The US is falling apart and Bush in in Europe getting drunk and making a fool of himself. I look forward to another "Surprise" trip to Iraq.
Trip to Iraq means Air Force One lands at Baghdad Intl., Malaki meets with Bush in a plane hanger for about an hour and then Bush leaves.
TooKillYa
One must carefully craft a tequila buzz.
Now the Croatian dood has to help him walk.
Holden Caulfield
It would have been funny if he'd barfed right then and there.
Try Craigslist.
Trip to Iraq means Air Force One lands at Baghdad Intl., Malaki meets with Bush in a plane hanger for about an hour and then Bush leaves.
Unrepentant Fenian | 04.04.08 - 2:47 pm | #
Don't forget the soul gazing. Lotsa soul gazing.
Holy Crap!™
Drunk again.
Holden Caulfield | Homepage | 04.04.08 - 2:43 pm | #
Was it WT who observed recently that he's not even trying to hide it anymore?
That Croatian ripple packs a punch.
Drunk again.
Holden Caulfield
He's crocked!
Terry C. - Dislikes Repugs
he looks like shit. and this after leaving the nato meeting for a 2-1/2 hour break in his hotel room.
The US is falling apart and Bush in in Europe getting drunk and making a fool of himself
The ETERNAL Frat Boy.
Now the Croatian dood has to help him walk.
Holden Caulfield
Scent of a Moron. "HOO WAH, what was in that galss Steppy?"
I also mixed that REM at Maxwell's show back then. I was living in Bronxville and it was just too many trains to ride.
Though years later I did end up seeing both Husker Du and The Minutemen there.
Was it WT who observed recently that he's not even trying to hide it anymore?
abyssgazer, DraftKang | 04.04.08 - 2:48 pm | #
he was drunk in Germany last year. drinking beer in public.
Anyone hear the similarities between Michael Stipe and Ethyl Merman ? Especially stuff like:
This one goes out to the one I left.....BEHIIIIIIND!
Rmj : So the image is one of peace on earth for all nations (peoples), with no obstacles to obstruct/obscure it.
Bravo -- thanks for the explanation.
MP : One must carefully craft a tequila buzz.
So I've learned. Knocking back multiple shots is Not Recommended.
Was it WT who observed recently that he's not even trying to hide it anymore?
abyssgazer, DraftKang
It was indeed watertiger.
In every photo she posted anymore...for the last year, IIRC...he looks plastered.
It's been my drink of choice since college. I was sipping it before that became chic. But yes, too much and I'm dancing on the bar.
I was a fan in colegio. Used to get a half pint of Two Fingers and a half case of Busch.
The key word you mention is "sipping"... That's an act of which I am unfamiliar.
[wink]
atrios: i hear us special ops has front row center tix if you can "help them out"
http://blog.wired.com/defense/
20...cruit.html#more
Anyone hear the similarities between Michael Stipe and Ethyl Merman
Ethel was a Republican.
Give me a ticket to an aeroplane.
Ain't got time to take a fast train.
Now the Croatian dood has to help him walk.
Holden Caulfield
that's no garden variety car door in the backround
When is W coming out of the closet?
I mean ... gaii ... hello!!!
.
I also mixed that REM at Maxwell's show back then. I was living in Bronxville and it was just too many trains to ride.
Though years later I did end up seeing both Husker Du and The Minutemen there.
The Kenosha Kid
You my new best friend!
More good news for Republikkans!
U.S. consumer food prices normally rise by about 2.5 percent annually, but they increased by 4 percent in 2007 -- the biggest increase in 17 years, according to U.S. Agriculture Department data.
Prices continue to rise. A survey conducted by the American Farm Bureau Federation in February showed that in the beginning months of this year, the cost of 16 grocery items, including flour and cheddar cheese, was $45.03, up $3.42, or 8 percent, from the fourth quarter.
Way to pick a presidential nominee who admits he's ignorant of economic issues, GOP!
that's no garden variety car door in the backround
::matthew | 04.04.08 - 2:51 pm | #
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it stops .50 caliber rounds and above even.
special ops bloggers for hire
http://blog.wired.com/defense/
20...cruit.html#more
that's no garden variety car door in the backround
::matthew |
It's Chimpy's armored limousine. He has it shipped with him whenever he travels abroad.
Dood can't hold his Croatian ripple.
Holden Caulfield
How nice. 4000 Americans have been killed (so far) in his little vanity war, the US economy is in the toilet and he's out partying and yukking it up.
Special place in hell for that bastard!
I'm sorry, I can't imagine Ethyl singing "Gardening at night."
Now the Croatian dood has to help him walk.
Holden Caulfield | Homepage | 04.4.08 - 2:46 pm |
Poor Mesic, first Tudjman and Milosevic, and now this.
8 percent,
ruh roh.
Way to pick a presidential nominee who admits he's ignorant of economic issues, GOP!
Holden
regular people don't buy groceries
It seems like in the past couple of weeks I've read reviews of a bunch of old faves who, if you can believe the reviewers, have recaptured some of their past magic.
REM, the Bs, Bob Mould...
Classy Chimpy
http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/sl...3608260920.jpg/
Can't help with this show but, you might want to bookmark this if you're coming to Denver in August. Kinda early for Aug. listings.
http://www.redrocksonline.com/pa...certs/
index.asp
Mixed? I meant missed.
The Croat dude is proof that the Neanderthal didn't go extinct.
I saw Adrenalin OD at Maxwell's back before they never got really popular.
It's Chimpy's armored limousine. He has it shipped with him whenever he travels abroad.
Holden Caulfield
I thought he was a popular wartime preznit.
It seems like in the past couple of weeks I've read reviews of a bunch of old faves who, if you can believe the reviewers, have recaptured some of their past magic.
REM, the Bs, Bob Mould...
abyssgazer
They've all sold out, man
/Cool
Alperts gets all over Zorba the Greek. 32nd notes and shit.
MP
shhh
you'll scare Gummo
The Croat dude is proof that the Neanderthal didn't go extinct.
Billy B
You took the words right outta my mouth, my friend.
REM? Weren't they that band that did the theme song for "Get a Life"?
They sounded like old-people music back in the 80s. I'm surprised anyone still cares about them now.
Eh, maybe I'm just cocky because Stars is coming to Boulder.
It's Chimpy's armored limousine. He has it shipped with him whenever he travels abroad.
Holden Caulfield
I thought he was a popular wartime preznit.
Terry C.
Barney pissed in one of his shoes last week.
Popular my ass.
How nice. 4000 Americans have been killed (so far) in his little vanity war, the US economy is in the toilet and he's out partying and yukking it up.
Y'see TC - That's what sociopaths do.
regular people don't buy groceries
::matthew
...unlike blacks and the educated.
/tweety
.
It's Chimpy's armored limousine. He has it shipped with him whenever he travels abroad.
Can you blame him, really? I wonder what it must be like to be the second most hated person on Earth (Unca Dick being first place).
I saw Adrenalin OD at Maxwell's back before they never got really popular.
I saw them at Great Gildersleeves. (Remember that place? Between bands you could go across the Bowery and buy cheap beer at the bodega, then come back in and see the next band)
Classy Chimpy
http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/sl...3608260920.jpg/
P O'Neill | Homepage | 04.04.08 - 2:53 pm |
WTF?
I want an adult as president.
I thought he was a popular wartime preznit.
Terry C. - Dislikes Repugs | Homepage | 04.04.08 - 2:54 pm | #
He's wanted - in the Hague.
I'm sorry, I can't imagine Ethyl singing "Gardening at night."
hillbilly ragger
I just