HULK SMASH!!!
Zod has arrived
hola!
my god it's zod...
Bring me the doggie bag, please...
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Uranus, Bitches!
Good afternoon!
Tweety is being especially Tweety, I see.
Mussels and oysters and squid, oh my!
It is a chilly nite in North Eastern MD
Actually, Dana Milbank was the first reporter in the MSM that I can remember actually criticizing GWB in print back in 2001.
dog and cat both on the bed
tea brewing
dog and cat both on the bed
lovepat
The world turned upside down!
Dana Milwank?
..couldn't resist.
the hour of 8 striketh
cat thinks he's a dog
Our cats' rules about who can be on the bed are very rigid. One cat at a time. Otherwise there's trouble.
jack is very confident- the golden doesn't faze him
One of my outside kitties is playing with pine cones. It was a beautiful day here - and I bought my pickets for Tittsburgh for Christmas. And Bush is gone in 48 days.
All in all, an excellent day!
Our dog thinks our cats are little dogs & wants to sniff their butts. The cats can't be having that.
Doc just does the golden eyebrow thing at jack
cat thinks he's a dog
lovepat
I've got one like that.
22 pounder....swears he's a dog!
Our dog thinks our cats are little dogs & wants to sniff their butts. The cats can't be having that.
Willendorf Venus
HAH!
Haven't chatted in a while; how's tricks by you?
So fucking crucify me.
Moe Szyslak, eiditer
Why would I do that when I agree with you 100% and purposely live in an area where the govt plans that way?
thanks very very much to hecate, sparkle and blah for the thoughtful comments downstairs. really.
hahahahaha ... glad to see chris dodd and richard shelby getting such yuks out of the collapse of the auto industry.
Our cats' rules about who can be on the bed are very rigid. One cat at a time. Otherwise there's trouble.
V for Virginia, Your Ad Here
The rules must be followed. Two tiggers together by my pillow. Max at the foot on the other side. Every morning after breakfast without fail.
Dana Milwank?
Ali
Why would I do that when I agree with you 100% and purposely live in an area where the govt plans that way?
ErinPDX
Sorry. I'm testy tonight, not sure why. I'm pissed off at Canada, in part. And wishing a certain someone would pay me a little attention...
You know, the next time one of these TV morons makes up information about how blue-collar workers are paid per hour, I hope someone digs up their fat contracts and figures out what they all make, including perks.
But, in my defense, I threw out an idea, and caught nothing but flack for suggesting something that I can only see as a positive thing.
Moe, the one time in my life where I had the ability to move to my job I purposely found a place only 1.5 miles away. Most would do the same if they could.
ErinPDX | 12.04.08 - 8:01 pm |
I would love to be within walking distance. But if I do this move, I'll be taking a bus route off of my commute (slightly longer bus route, but a direct route, no transferring).
I may have to get a bigger bed.
Three small dogs and a large kitty sharing it with me.
One advantage: they all like to sleep under the covers and keep my feet and legs toasty.
is anyone going to watch the game online?
http://static.nfl.com/static/
tnf...ign=live_Footer
And wishing a certain someone would pay me a little attention...
Oh, sorry, Moe. Duff me!
The latch on our sliding door broke and one of our outside cats has figured out to hurl himself at the door so it opens a crack, then slides it wide enough with his paw so he can come in.
If he'd just close it after himself it wouldn't be so bad.
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My principal asked us today to let him know if we needed any strokes...
One advantage: they all like to sleep under the covers and keep my feet and legs toasty.
We've had a couple of three-dog nights and are down to only one.
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Don't know why I thought of that- must be the puss on my lap.
I thought working from home would be pretty cool, but after doing it a lot the past few years, I've decided I REALLY don't like it that much. Too much isolation, too many distractions, too much staying up all hours just because you can.
I also actually MISS the commute. Getting on the bus or the train, a nice 45 minutes or so of just reading the paper...
stoat
Is there an age requirement on the nudity? Can she move from Annapolis to DC audition-wise?
I am so sick of this shit with birth certificate.
This D'Onofrio jackass needs to be locked in a padded room.
Chimpy at Christmas tree lighting
It is the story of a humble birth in a quiet town, and the story of one life that changed millions more. For two millennia, the story of me will bring joy to families, comfort to communities, and hope to hearts around the world.
a rabid republican teachers aide went on and on about it- saying he needs a Dale Carnegie course in appropriate communication
When my kitty cat died I had to check myself into the insane asylum because of the loneliness.
If I could get a job in Brooklyn you can call me Princess Honey.
When my kitty cat died I had to check myself into the insane asylum because of the loneliness.
grand
Making fun of pet owners give you a woody, jack?
Jeez, wasn't arguing with your impulse, Moe. Everybody hates commuting; waste of time, energy, money and patience, while destructive of community. Just saying that I didn't see how it could be done away with, absent more job security and more mixing of income groups in cities, towns, neighborhoods and like that...
My ideal city would be one with dense urban cores separated by a few miles but connected by dense transit corridors. The intervening areas would look like the old inner ring suburbs, with schools within walking distance of every student, lots of parks, etc.
And Bush is gone in 48 days.
Thank SPAG. Go, George, go. Get the hell out of town. Get out of Barack Obama's house. Just leave.
/throws rotten eggs.
On broadway Meryl Streep's daughter played that part and the nakedness was primarily male.
I don't think we need skyscrapers, either.
Dear God, NOOOOOOOOOO!!!
Pouty-lipped Bratz will stay on store shelves until after the holidays, but their fate after that — and that of their parent, MGA Entertainment Inc. — was uncertain Thursday after a federal court ruling banning MGA from making the saucy Barbie alternative...
Late Wednesday, a federal judged banned MGA from making and selling all 40 dolls in the Bratz line, which it began selling in 2001, including the four originals — Yasmine, Chloe, Sasha and Jade. U.S. District Judge Stephen Larson also ordered MGA to reimburse its vendors and distributors for the cost of the dolls and all shipping charges for sending them back.
The ruling, issued in a California federal court, followed a jury's finding that Bratz designer Carter Bryant developed the concept for the dolls while working for Mattel. The same jury later awarded Mattel $10 million for copyright infringement and up to $90 million for breach of contract after a lengthy trial stemming from Mattel's 2004 lawsuit ended in August.
My ideal city would be one with dense urban cores separated by a few miles but connected by dense transit corridors. The intervening areas would look like the old inner ring suburbs, with schools within walking distance of every student, lots of parks, etc.
Moe,
Thread some wilderness corridors, even six feet wide, through that city, and I'm there.
Just saw a great ad about "clean coal" technology.
Which demonstrated that it is more fantastic and fictional than The Force is.
Pouty-lipped Bratz will stay on store shelves until after the holidays
Those things are ugly. They look like hookers.
I suggested that she take up a collection for Sarah to take the course... she did NOT appreciate the suggestion...
This D'Onofrio jackass needs to be locked in a padded room.
Terry C - Obamamaniac
He will be on Ed Hale's AWESOME radio show tonight, if ya wanna tell him that 
Can't stand skyscrapers. Entirely dehumanizing, dominating a neighborhood. And very difficult to modify; once they're there, there they sit.
Is there an age requirement on the nudity? Can she move from Annapolis to DC audition-wise?
it's a specific thing with colonial players, who are doing the production. i assume it was the director's decision not to cast anyone under eighteen in the show. i don't really know the particulars.
when she and her sister were here last week i made sure they both know that if it means more opportunities for them... for summer jobs, for college, for acting or whatever, they're welcome to come live here. they both heard that.
we'll see.
They look like hookers.
"Look like"?
He will be on Ed Hale's AWESOME radio show tonight, if ya wanna tell him that
Barry from Alaska 01-20-09
I'd like to tell him AND Ed to go fuck KKKarl Rove.
iPod playing Fake Empire, to which Atrios introduced me.
I don't think we need skyscrapers, either.Dehumanizing?
Thread some wilderness corridors, even six feet wide, through that city, and I'm there.
Hecate,
Those are creeks. With decent setbacks-- 100 feet--- to allow for animals to travel back and forth, and for the streams to wander a bit.
Even the sewer of fucktarded pure wingnut bullshit NewsMax acknowledges that there is no valid challenge to Obama's status as "naturally born".
Barry can you call in or do they have your number blocked?
VERO BEACH, Fla. (AP) - A Vero Beach man faces a domestic violence charge after authorities said he assaulted his girlfriend with a cheeseburger.
Thread some wilderness corridors, even six feet wide, through that city, and I'm there.
No fooling. Look at Phoenix.
stoat -- good on the kid for having the integrity to decline the sister role when she didn't feel it was right for her. She's got a great head on her shoulders and these rejections are just part of the process, for everyone I ever heard of.
She'll be swell
She'll be great
Gonna have the whole world on a plate
(Monday is Mr. V's b'day, too. He's getting a bicycle if I can find one I can afford )
Can't stand skyscrapers. Entirely dehumanizing, dominating a neighborhood. And very difficult to modify; once they're there, there they sit.
ProfWombat
Agree.
I'm terribly old fashioned that way.
Dehumanizing?
Yes, but also, contrary to conventional wisdom, they're huge energy wasters.
On broadway Meryl Streep's daughter played that part and the nakedness was primarily male.
that's what i assume will be the case in this production.
(and of course laura linney played the 'glenn close' role)
when she and her sister were here last week i made sure they both know that if it means more opportunities for them... for summer jobs, for college, for acting or whatever, they're welcome to come live here. they both heard that.
we'll see.
They're lucky to have a dad like you. I can see not letting teens do nudity, but if it's limiting her growth as an actress and her parents think she's ready for it . . . .
DC does have more and more good opportunities.
I don't mind (some) skyscrapers. Problem is, there are no Cass Gilberts left in the world anymore to design something warmer than thousands of plates of glass stacked on top of each other.
Skyways, OTOH...
I can't wait till Dana Peroxide fades into obscurity.
Depending on latitude, you can't use solar for space heating beyond, say, five to eight stories. More, the farther south you go.
She's got a great head on her shoulders and these rejections are just part of the process, for everyone I ever heard of.
yep. but this is the first, so it's tough.
Yep- that's who I saw in it- boy what a dark plot.
Keith I don't think the SOFA needs congressional approval.
BushCo was screaming at the Quakers for translating it into English.
yep. but this is the first, so it's tough.
stoat
I know. Didn't mean to minimize it.
Can't stand skyscrapers. Entirely dehumanizing, dominating a neighborhood. And very difficult to modify; once they're there, there they sit.
I agree. And yet, those skylines. Skylines fill me with the same awe as mountains and oceans do.
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I'd like to tell him AND Ed to go fuck KKKarl Rove.
Terry C - Obamamaniac
Hee, the line forms way over there...
Those are creeks. With decent setbacks-- 100 feet--- to allow for animals to travel back and forth, and for the streams to wander a bit.
Yes and I've read they also allow plants to adjust better to cities. G/Son has this thing he does where he grabs your arm and says, "What were you shthinkishing?" How did we build cities w/o these? They make so much sense.
Dinner's ready. I'll be back in a bit.
hecate, as lovepat pointed out upthread, i think it's the major male character in 'liaisons' who gets nekkid, mainly.
if it were hallie's role, i think the mom would intervene.
and i'm glad i don't have to find out how i'd feel about it.
[ wipes brow ]
Barry can you call in or do they have your number blocked?
HoneyBearKellyGoGiants
No, I could call in, I'm not blocked.
'cause I use skype to call em, and there is no caller ID
Jamaica Plain has a lovely pond with a park and walkways around it an a boat house and a few steps away you can catch a bus.
http://thumbsnap.com/v/rGY6mEvu.jpg
Philadelphia's Skyline
I know. Didn't mean to minimize it.
you weren't, silly.
N. Central Avenue, looking north - 'midrises' and light rail station.
God is pissed off all the time.
He needs an intervention
And the nekked guy basically hops in bed with the girl and rapes her...
More examples and FUN at Will Photoshop For Food.
(and I may have had my first customer, Noam Sane! waiting on his approval...)
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Huffington Post headline:
DEMOCRATS GROWING IMPATIENT WITH OBAMA
WTF? He has been President Elect for one month. He didn't cause the mess, and can't do anything right now to fix a mess that will take years.
Huffington Post headline:
DEMOCRATS GROWING IMPATIENT WITH OBAMA
Oh, blow it out your ass.
Neat mix there of old houses and neighborhoods, gardens and ethnic restaurants a stroll away.
I recall reading about what a great monument to architecture the Lever House is, in NYC. Went to look at it. Didn't get it, no matter how hard I tried. Tried to see it in context, see what the critics were finding so wonderful about it. Never did. Still don't.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lever_House
Minnehaha Creek, Minneapolis.
Runs right through the southern part of the city and into the Mississippi.
Love you, you lovely, liberal Moonbats.
Going to go sit at my altar and burn some incense.
May the dreams that you dream tonight come from God, Herself, involve peacocks, smell like lapsang souchong, sound like French horns, feel like ALIVE grass, and taste like a long-forgotten bit of angelica candy.
It's all real. It's all metaphor. There's always more.
And the nekked guy basically hops in bed with the girl and rapes her...
she got kinda manhandled in the anouilh/galantiere antigone last year, but i got through that okay.
liaisons would have been a whole lot tougher, i expect.
being a more or less normal dad.
Didn't get it, no matter how hard I tried. Tried to see it in context,
see what the critics were finding so wonderful about it. Never did.
Still don't.
Well, it's the quintessential glass box.
We've forbidden those here. Something about ambient heat levels.... We're so damned silly.
More examples and FUN at Will Photoshop For Food.
Cool! Have you sent that around to local businesses? Howzabout photoshopping people into a Xmas scene and then sending the file along to Walgreen's for printing on a photo card?
why can't obama close teh deal?
maybe because it was built in the early 50s- not many big glass boxes then.
GWPDA- How's Harry?
Harry went home with other than I.
god is the paralegal everything gets blamed on.
I recall reading about what a great monument to architecture the Lever House is, in NYC. Went to look at it. Didn't get it...
I love the Lever House, and I don't know shit about architecture, either. I just think it looks cool.
You've read Wolfe's "From Bauhaus to Our House," I presume? Nice snarky little book...
Can't stand skyscrapers. Entirely dehumanizing, dominating a neighborhood. And very difficult to modify; once they're there, there they sit.
ProfWombat | 12.04.08 - 8:22 pm
Here they knock 'em down every 30-40 years or so and build new ones to replace the old ones. (though it's hard to dominate a neighbourhood when you have a whole bunch of skyscrapers in the neighbourhood.)
So sorry. Hadn't heard.
You will love again
Stoat- I winced alot and the actress wasn't my daughter...
Jamaica Plain has a lovely pond with a park and walkways around it an a boat house and a few steps away you can catch a bus.
Nice area, but not easily accessible by train or car. (So it seems like the other end of the planet, when in reality it's a few miles away...)
Most folk love the Lever House. I just don't get it, somehow. Like I said, I tried to; lots of smart people suggested why I might change my mind.
Anouilh's 'Antigone' is a great play...
We caught the T in the neighborhood and could get to central Boston, Logan- wherever pretty directly. Too the train there from MD as well.
I winced alot and the actress wasn't my daughter...
as i say... i'm not sorry to miss the opportunity to find out how i'd react.
Never did. Still don't
because it was the first in nyc to embody the modernist architectural principles
plain exterior ( just the same repeated, clean form, a hallmark of modernism)
not heavy because of the use of modern building materials ( glass and steel v stone)
and encloses a lot of space without being heavy ( again, due to 2)
I just read where Pickles and Chimpy bought a house in the fancy part of Dallas.
Doesn't he want to cut brush anymore?
The small city we moved to when I was in HS had a park that wound right through town all along the river. The town itself was on the bluffs and flat land above so you never saw the park at all until you turned into one of the short entrances off main drags or neighborhood streets and dropped down in. It was rocky and wild with a couple of old stone forges for crossing the river. Really lovey. Gave the town a character it wouldn't have had otherwise.
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"Ford" not "forge"
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Lots of great plays out there- Center Stage in Balto has a slew every year - not a loser amongst 'em.
Minnehaha Creek, Minneapolis.
Runs right through the southern part of the city and into the Mississippi.
AndyMN | Homepage | 12.04.08 - 8:34 pm | #
My friends live on minnehaha parkway, I'm presuming it's near the creek, in some way.
i am pretty certain that the person who selected 'the diary of anne frank' as a production for this year had hallie in mind when he chose it... he was her director in 'antigone.'
but he isn't the director of that show, and it wasn't his decision who'd be cast.
In Han Chinese culture, the kowtow is the highest sign of reverence.
Shepherdstown has a wonderful theater festival every summer- lots of new plays.
Good evening.
Son-the-cook came over and cooked duck, mushroom risoto, green beans and tomatoes. Yum.
Son-the-cook came over and cooked duck, mushroom risoto, green beans and tomatoes. Yum.
Gromit |
Good, because from now on, it's nothing but guinea pig. 
Can't stand skyscrapers. Entirely dehumanizing, dominating a neighborhood. And very difficult to modify; once they're there, there they sit.
I agree. And yet, those skylines. Skylines fill me with the same awe as mountains and oceans do.
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Sparkle Plenty | Homepage | 12.04.08 - 8:27 pm
We got a 3 for 1 special for ya.
http://www.the-eleven.com/~tjleg...-2/
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View from MegaBox ice skating rink (Kowloon Bay) across Victoria Harbour towards HK Island (North Point, residential/secondary commercial)
Gromit!
Was Karyn Allison one of the vocalists that you like? (Free "bailout package" show at Scullers next week...)
Can't stand skyscrapers. Entirely dehumanizing, dominating a neighborhood. And very difficult to modify; once they're there, there they sit.
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I don't mind skyscrapers, but big churches and palaces really annoy me. Went to Versailles and thought the mob should have burned it down.
Most folk love the Lever House. I just don't get it, somehow. Like I said, I tried to; lots of smart people suggested why I might change my mind.
ProfWombat
Prof-- are you familiar with Kunstler's Eyesore of the Month? Lots of silly things, if you scroll through the months.
Lots of great plays out there- Center Stage in Balto has a slew every year - not a loser amongst 'em.
she's pretty interested in goucher. they do a lot of theater and there's community theater nearby. also looking in the philly area.
annapolis has been good to her: colonial players, dignity players, summer garden theater.
but you know, the thing i've been proudest of was her production and direction of a "broadway review" at her high school. she and her boyfriend thought up the whole thing, put it together, casted coached and directed, and pulled it together in an almost miraculous fashion.
they're doing it again this year and they were overwhelmed by the number of auditions and the amount of talent, especially freshman, who just came out of the woodwork.
this girl will be fine.
My friends live on minnehaha parkway, I'm presuming it's near the creek, in some way.
Yeah, the parkway runs along the creek. Just a neat area...grew up kinda close by.
Son-the-cook came over and cooked duck, mushroom risoto, green beans and tomatoes. Yum.
Gromit | 12.04.08 - 8:47 pm |
You'll be leaving tommorow for here?
http://images.google.com/images?...F-8&sa=N&
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Okay, I've whored enough.
Go see my homepage if you think a homeless Curly would be a terrible thang!
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Was Karyn Allison one of the vocalists that you like? (Free "bailout package" show at Scullers next week...)
Yes, she's terrific! By all means, go.
She does some great covers of Joni Mitchell tunes, and has written lyrics to a number of classic instrumentals.
Five star recommendation.
maybe because it was built in the early 50s- not many big glass boxes then.
lovepat
I think that's part of it, it's airiness even though it's really so massive. And the surrounding plazas. It could have replaced some really crowded dingy old buildsing.
Plus, I love that mid-century interior design stuff. I hate that in so many of those office buildings the suites have been repeatedly remodeled and the unity of the interior designs lost.
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the 911 perps found a way to modify skyscrapers...
My friends live on minnehaha parkway, I'm presuming it's near the creek, in some way.
Yeah, the parkway runs along the creek. Just a neat area...grew up kinda close by.
AndyMN | Homepage | 12.04.08 - 8:51 pm | #
They're near a small park, their neighborhood is very nice, at least it looks all nice and leafy from the pics I've seen.
Buckeye, that's the place. We spend five days there, one in Santiago, and another day at a penguin colony.
Hoping for decent weather.
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Five star recommendation.
Good enough for me...
Karrin Allyson, Moanin'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=V...feature=related
(The tune, you perverts)
Buckeye, that's the place. We spend five days there, one in Santiago, and another day at a penguin colony.
Hoping for decent weather.
Gromit | 12.04.08 - 8:54 pm | #
I don't suppose you need anyone to help carry your luggage?
Eyesore of the Month
I could save him some trouble and just pick 12 Frank Gehry buildings.
Sounds like a lovely young woman- Gouch has a lovely campus and a very nice theatre of its own.
She will brighten the stage where ever she lites.
Traffic cop on Route 2 - Wost Person in the World! (I dearly hope that this doesn't spark a competition amongst them...).
Um, Goucher, that is
Moe: thanks for that cite; quite a collection.
Gets harder every year, seems to me, to argue with Jane Jacobs..
Tom - 大肚腩 -- Just wow! That's got to be the next best thing to ice skating outside.
Moe Szyslak, eiditer -- Where I used to live that wouldn't even rise to the level of an eyesore. For a photography class I once did a photo essay of ugly architecture in our town.
Thirteen buildings with fake boulder facades, pizza hut roofs with shake shingles, They were the vogue . . . And they're still there.
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JeffPres:
Homepage linkie no workie.
very large owls.
chargers score 17 - zip
I sheet you not.
Traffic cop on Route 2 - Wost Person in the World! (I dearly hope that this doesn't spark a competition amongst them...).
bill buckner
I just asked Richard why people don't use their brains anymore, and he said if you don't have any, how can you use them.
The good-morning is so called because the exercise resembles bowing to greet someone.
The good-morning is a controversial exercise as some will claim that it leads to lower back injuries. Famously, Bruce Lee seriously injured himself while performing the exercise after an inadequate warm-up and overconfidently selecting his working weight.
Gets harder every year, seems to me, to argue with Jane Jacobs..
ProfWombat
Oh, yea.
For some reason I don't fully understand, architecture has gone off in some weird direction that has nothing to do with sensible living.
Some of it has to do with the thrill of playing with materials, having the technology to build whatever crazy shit you want. But that doesn't explain all of it; there seems to be downright disdain for human scale, fitting into existing space, thinking of the whole. Can't explain it.
Went to Versailles and thought the mob should have burned it down.
rootless-e, mysterious
I'm soooooo glad they didn't.
The Obama New Yorker covers by Barry Blitt are great, I think. On the current one, he's interviewing dogs...
architecture has gone off in some weird direction that has nothing to do with sensible living
Not a recent phenomenon. I've encountered architects who are sincerely offended at the concept that their buildings must make life easy for the people who use them. They create art; people, apparently, are smelly organic decomposable things, not unlike shit, to whom they must pander for funding but who otherwise are irrelevant.
Also odd: landscape architects seem amenable to the concept that people are part of their equation. You'd think it would be the other way around.
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