HULK SMASH
Halloo!
You cannot walk the city of Chicago. You can walk the neighborhoods, but this place is almost as big as the Five Boroughs.
I live about five miles north of the southern boundary of the city. (Not Cook County; the city.) The northern boundary is 22 miles from my house.
You can walk 27 miles, be my guest. And that's just pure north. Chicago goes west quite a ways.
David Derbes, ochen' pissed. | 05.09.08 - 6:51 pm | #
I know that, I think I was referring to what would be the 'tourist' Chicago: downtown, lakefront. Hopefully they'll get out and about to the neighborhoods.
Buckeye. Dealer of Rare Coins | 05.09.08 - 6:54 pm |
I called sheets; where the hell is everyone?
I'm in lurk mode.
I for one dutifully read the Yglesias piece
I'm in house cleaning mode.
She's a mermaid, jackhole!
Mermaid pr0n!
Deadthreaded
eh, go back ta Jersey...
focus, other Wizardly
Paraphrasing from the Crocodile Dundee movie "Imagine twelve million people all wanting to live together in the same city! New Yorkers must be the friendliest people in the world!"
bin Lurkin at Work
Rachel:
"If you liked the first two Bush wars, McCain's already written the jingle to the third one , it's a Beach Boys tune."
Well done.
just returned from business meeting and was inspired to wonder whether capitalism is such a good system after all.
Thanks for cheering up Molly Ivors with that post, Duncan.
/
Mmm, fresh brewed, shellfish tangy. Wake up to a cupful of Slutbark's Slow Drip.
I like those pumpkin scones they have at Slutbucks.
Chickens have a very dark view of the world and spending time with them is courting despair.
I'm a Dem; I'm used to it.
Myanmar has agreed to allow a single U.S. cargo aircraft to bring in relief supplies for cyclone victims. The Democratic People's Republic of Korea is more intelligent and humane.
I like those pumpkin scones they have at Slutbucks.
abyssgazer, DraftKang
I'm pissed that they discontinued the maple nut scones a year or so ago.
Oh, Monica, I expect he's not much worried about that.
I'm a Dem; I'm used to this.
Molly Ivors | Homepage | 05.09.08 - 6:56 pm | #
Chickens are more like Larouche, i think. Talk about your pecking order.
rootless-e | Homepage | 05.09.08 - 6:59 pm | #
Growing up in a small southern town and being regarded as "odd", I always considered New York my own personal Mecca.
abyssgazer, DraftKang
"Odd" is southern for "sexy."
I admit that some New Yorkers are a little grumpy, and even unfriendly; and there are predators everywhere.
I'll take that as a small price to pay for life in the most vibrant city (well, London can give it a run for the money) in the English speaking world.
It's certainly the most electric city in North America, and I mean no disrespect to Canada (so don't taze me, GWPDA!)
Chickens have a very dark view of the world and spending time with them is courting despair.
but you can lay them on their back and hypnotize them
(or so I've been told, not that I'd ever do that)
(okay I did it but it was in the 60s and I was a small child)
The occupation will continue until morale improves.
this reminds me of the Warsaw Ghetto
they didn't have maple scones there either.
so quick to change the subject, aren't you?
Having run out of orphan's blood and crushed puppy boulabaise, the RIAA gets U.S. House to pass bill allowing them to seize your house as part of their "settlement"
"Odd" is southern for "sexy."
doncjesuis, Tina Fey fan | Homepage | 05.09.08 - 7:00 pm | #
You have a knack for saying the right thing. 
(psst--say something to Molly)
how about the media ask bush:"Where's Bin Laden?" or better yet:"Did you, Bush, make a deal with Bin Laden?"
So let's recap the scene: the US military and its Iraqi "allies" are
laying siege to a sprawling neighborhood in Baghdad housing roughly 2.5
million Iraqis, launching air strikes, artillery attacks, tank shells
and other assorted ordnance ...
but, but, they have no army, no planes, no missiles, no heavy artilliary or equipment. why do they resist ... oh wait, where have I read this story before?
Molly, The Teen's flt should be arriving in about 12 minutes. I think we're good...
I'll take that as a small price to pay for life in the most vibrant city (well, London can give it a run for the money) in the English speaking world.
David Derbes, ochen' pissed.
Sydney is fun, too, but way too far away.
but you can lay them on their back and hypnotize them
If only musicians were so easy
Obama presently getting a standing ovation from a bunch of uneducated white people in my home-millworker county. Maybe it's time to move back.
http://www.katu.com/news/live/38...ve/
3882262.html
Obama is bypassing attacks on Hillary Clinton and is instead directly attacking John McCain, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee
http://blog.oregonlive.com/elect...obamavisit2008/
I'm pissed that they discontinued the maple nut scones a year or so ago.
ErinPDX, salmon-lover | 05.09.08 - 6:59 pm | #
I really liked the texture of those. Grainy or something. And very nutty.
It's certainly the most electric city in North America, and I mean no disrespect to Canada (so don't taze me, GWPDA!)
David Derbes, ochen' pissed. | 05.09.08 - 7:00 pm | #
I'm old and grumpy, but to me it's a shadow of its former self at least in manhattan. I mean there are chain stores on astor place.
(or so I've been told, not that I'd ever do that)
Did that with a pet duck I had when I was a kid, he didn't seem to mind.
this is "we had to destroy the village in order to save it"
territory.
but no one is there to report on it because it is too fucking dangerous.
re: Slutbucks:
You know things are bad when fighting against evolution is the more intellectually coherent of their causes célèbres.
(okay I did it but it was in the 60s and I was a small child)
Is there a YouTube?
Happy Friday, Molly! Thanks again for sending the DFH shirt!
Best wishes from Chicago, City of the Stinking Onion and Big Shoulders!
Wish I could pour you & the big lug a whiskey...
and even when it is reported on, it immediately gets usurped by maple scones as a topic of conversation
Thanks, NTodd. That was just one of my stressors today.
but you can lay them on their back and hypnotize them
If only musicians were so easy
I cannot say what i'd like to...
(but nice 'next best line')
My friends...I won't tell you again. If you continue to bring up my age, temper, wife, corruption, cluelessness
on the economy, war mongering or my P.O.W. days, I will slip into your bedrooms in the dead of night, slit your throats from ear to ear and eat your children!
I'm John McCain and I approve this message and you will to or I will rip your intestines out thru your nostrils.
Sen. John McCain | 05.09.08 - 6:59 pm | #
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I rarely watch CNN and I remember why now that I turned it on this afternoon. They were loving all over McCaim.
(psst--say something to Molly)
abyssgazer, DraftKang
I made her say "Bleah!" in the last thread. Does that count?
True, rootless-e; but there's still the big ol' cube on its corner across from Cooper Union there at Astor Place, and you can still turn it.
New York changes. I still love it.
Dr Jennifer Chu of Philadelphia gets a Fark hero tag for helping Burmese cyclone victims.
I so wish we could please all the regular, important commentators.
The "news" in NYC now is the neighborhoods. Williamsburg's still mostly small businesses, though the hipster quotient is unbearable. Astoria's pretty cool.
Evening, bats.
WHO'S ON YOUR BLOGOSPHERE?
The above being, I kid you not, possibly the stupidest thing ever said about blogs on TV, EVER.
But they're "mom blogs" so they deserve to be mocked, or something.
A.
Athenae!!!
In Our Name
Depressing.
Neocatch 22.
-
I remember reading a blog post by an Iraqi blogger - I'm sure you've heard of him - Raed, who is good friends with the Bagdhad blogger.
Anyway, Raed goes to a demonstration in front of the prison where an execution is to be held in the USA, and expects to meet all types of sister-souls or something.
Instead, he sees all these American "progressives" chatting and socializing and he leaves totally disgusted.
(okay I did it but it was in the 60s and I was a small child)
Is there a YouTube?
if there was it would be hysterical.
My folks got me five Easter chickens thinking they'd die.
They all lived and prospered and four of them were demons. The fifth was, as I recall, somewhat mentally challenged, even for a chicken. He was the hypnosis victim.
I also dressed him up once or twice.
I so wish we could please all the regular, important commentators.
NTodd, Poseur
If they would just do their early, funny stuff.
Instead, he sees all these American "progressives" chatting and socializing and he leaves totally disgusted.
mimi | Homepage | 05.09.08 - 7:06 pm | #
Perhaps you should follow his example, dear.
Chickens have a very dark view of the world and spending time with them is courting despair.
I went back through the thread a while to find the context for this, but I've decided it's much better without it.
A.
It can be horrifying and amusing all at once to see a dog eat a small, running chick in one bite
Hey A, I was blogwhoring for you about that in the last thread.
I think for a lot of people, Iraq is just... too big, too terrible. Our culpability is so clear. It's almost impossible to grasp the scale.
I see - NToad† thinks this is like Animal Farm - some commenters are more important than others.
Let me see, the teachers would be first of course, because they are used to being the centre of attention....
even if they only teach in CC
New York changes. I still love it.
David Derbes, ochen' pissed. | 05.09.08 - 7:04 pm | #
aarh, in the old days, we used to go to anarchist riots in astor place, hike down st. marks to go to punker parties, and the dodge junkies and bikers and H dealers to drink ourselves senseless in the horseshoe bar or down 8bc. now you can go to kmart on astor place, hike down the canyon of investment bankers on st. marks, and dodge art dealers on tompkins square.
I'm kinda getting into this grumpy old guy thing. maybe it's time to get suspenders.
Ted Kennedy doesn't think Hillary appeals to our "noble aspirations", and thinks she is not worthy of a place on the democratic ticket.
Ouch!
It can be horrifying and amusing all at once to see a dog eat a small, running chick in one bite
Are you reading this, NTodd? Be careful!
But they're "mom blogs" so they deserve to be mocked, or something.
You just made me think of Tina Fey's "Mom Jeans" sketch.
I bet she could do something cool with "Mom Blogs."
even if they only teach in CC
Fuck you.
"I so wish we could please all the regular, important commentators."
I've got two quarters if you have the time.
I so wish we could please all the regular, important commentators...
Virgotex shall henceforth be known as Virgopimp. A Pimp Called Virgo.
*waves to Derbes*
Is it me or was this a particularly brutal and stupid week for everybody else, too?
A.
I wish some commentators would get irony.
mimi | Homepage | 05.09.08 - 7:06 pm |
If this site disappeared, you'd kill yourself the next day.
Rachel:
"If you liked the first two Bush wars, McCain's already written the jingle to the third one , it's a Beach Boys tune."
She is Just. That. Good.
I LOVE that woman..
like I said, only the CC teachers
Molly Ivors
As Hillary Clinton or her handlers for example failed to grasp, the only thing worse would be trying to do it again.
I'm kinda getting into this grumpy old guy thing. maybe it's time to get suspenders.
rootless-e
I remember when all the old guys at McSorley's gave way to NYU students, at least as many women as men, and it depressed me a little. But what the hell, it's still like the old days at lunch.
Not opposed to the women, hell no; opposed to the frat atmosphere.
I so wish we could please all the regular, important commentators...
NTodd, Poseur | Homepage | 05.09.08 - 7:10 pm | #
What choo talking 'bout?
even if they only teach in CC
mimi
[averts eyes from coming carnage]
I wish some commentators would get irony.
They have anemia.
someone's harshin my buzz
on Atrios' posts about house prices, there are about 200 comments before the thread goes OT
on the death of Iraqis, not a single one before it goes OT
that's what upset me
Are you reading this, NTodd? Be careful!
I'll keep Mex on a leash for a while. He doesn't seem to eat anything, though: he appears to think every animal is a dog and wants to play.
And our plane has landed and is unloading. They're still pretending it's ontime, but it's going to take 20 minutes at least to turn it around, so The Teen should be fine. Whew!
Well, my sister underwent surgery for cancer, so it wasn't one of my favorites, no.
(Don't know the prognosis yet; may be OK. More when I know more.)
Hiya, David D!
Having a bad day--clearly shouldn't be here. Later.
Barack needs to continue putting the lie to Hillary's demagogy, as long as she continues to race - bait, in her desperate bid to steal the nomination.
I so wish we could please all the regular, important commentators.
This place used to be about the music, man.
Remember when the whole blogosphere, which was like seven people at the time, posted LUSKIN IS A STALKER all over their sites in solidarity with our noble host?
That was awesome.
A.
See ya later, Molly!
I wish some special commenters' sadness could somehow be heard over the whirlwind.
I went back through the thread a while to find the context for this, but I've decided it's much better without it.
A.
Athenae | Homepage | 05.09.08 - 7:08 pm | #
"context" may be too kind a word in this case.
.""Hillary Clinton’s campaign aides admitted Thursday they
were consulted by their big donors before the group sent a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi containing a veiled threat that she would
risk their financial support unless she reversed her view that
superdelegates should follow the will of voters
She's a mermaid, jackhole!
Mermaid pr0n!
doncjesuis, Tina Fey fan
No, no... this is mermaid porn.
caray...
on Atrios' posts about house prices, there are about 200 comments before the thread goes OT
on the death of Iraqis, not a single one before it goes OT
that's what upset me
mimi
This place is always off topic. That's what gives it its charm. It's an anomaly to be ON topic
(Don't know the prognosis yet; may be OK. More when I know more.)
David Derbes, ochen' pissed.
Good luck, David D..
By Andrea Stone, USA TODAY
BAGHDAD — Suad Rzuki Aboud lost her husband, three sons and a son-in-law when Sunni insurgents blew up the family bakery.
As she held her dying husband, "I was pleading for anyone to help," says Aboud, 50. "No one came."
Aboud, her youngest son and widowed daughter fled their Shiite neighborhood with "just the clothes on our backs" and wound up as squatters in an apartment with eight other people. She sold her last possessions, two gold bracelets, to pay the rent. She survives on $50 a month from the government.
Violence in this country creates more widows by the day, and some members of parliament and women's advocates warn of a growing class of poor, single mothers unable to raise Iraq's next generation.
They say the situation has been made worse by U.S.-backed constitutional changes that allow each religious sect to decide its own rules on marriage, divorce, inheritance and child custody.
oh please - only children should be outlawed.
they will ruin the world. they have a sense of self-importance that is just indecent.
Well, a friend seemed to sense that I needed to get up off my ass, called and asked me to have dinner. Haven't seen her kids in a while. So I am off.
And mimi, you're a shitstain. That is all.
Athenae
That was back when Craigslist was actually good for sex and antiques.
even if they only teach in CC
Dip.
no it's not always OFF topic
when talking about housing prices, boy, you guys can stay on topic for 500 comments
dead Iraqis, not so much
they have a sense of self-importance that is just indecent.
Now *that's* irony, folks!
Sorry. Really gone now.
Thanks, Duane. Listen, this may be a not big deal (kidney; and as my brother in law pointed out, you come with two); and it may be very serious.
Don't have enough information yet. We're hopin'.
More when I know more.
David, good thoughts for your sister.
A.
I so wish we could please all the regular, important commentators...
NTodd, Poseur
I do feel important.
(Don't know the prognosis yet; may be OK. More when I know more.)
Take care of yourself, too. The stress of being a relative/caretaker/non-patient is enormous, and debilitating.
Why mimi hasn't been banned yet is just baffling.
I'm self-important because I think it's indecent how quickly you guys switched the topic?
wow!
The Teen called: plane's on the ground.
So, out of curiosity, I unkilled one of mimi's recent "comments".
The stuff leaking out of the abcessed lipoma on my back last year was more appealing.
And I'm heading out, too. l8rh9rz.
when talking about housing prices, boy, you guys can stay on topic for 500 comments
dead Iraqis, not so much
that's cause we're horrible people.
I so wish we could please all the regular, important commentators...
Only commenters whose names do not end in a vowel are important.
someone's harshin my buzz
bin Lurkin at Work
Lurkin&workin'!!
My sister Anne is in Maryland. She is also, not to be too proud about it, one of the world's authorities on Giotto.
She is much smarter than I am, and twice the scholar.
Try Google if you think I'm kidding.
God, when I think I've seen the worst America has o offer, I get surprised once again.
You just watch someone get a mineral pun thread started and see just how on-topic this place can REALLY be!
I'm not important here and I don't give a shit.
"Only commenters whose names do not end in a vowel are important."
I am in complete agreement with this statement of indisputably undeniable fact.
That was back when Craigslist was actually good for sex and antiques.
Craigslist had ANTIQUES?
A.
Lurkin&workin'!!
Duane V, 'Nuff Said
Well, you're half right. Although off topic.
"Only commenters whose names do not end in a vowel are important."
I am in complete agreement with this statement of indisputably undeniable fact.
I am not.
Me either.
A.
I think for a lot of people, Iraq is just... too big, too terrible. Our culpability is so clear. It's almost impossible to grasp the scale.
Molly Ivors
10,000 dead is a tragedy of incomprehensible magnitude.
1,000,000 dead is a statistic.
Index of Christian Art: Studies in IconographyAnn Derbes, Hood College
Dave,
Is that Hood College in Maryland?
It is, Shaw.
I am not.
Echidne
Me neither.
Craigslist had ANTIQUES?
A.
Athenae
All the ones who answered my sex ads were antiques.
Evening, Moonbats.
Time for me to commute home.
have a good evening, all
David Derbes, ochen' pissed, hang in there. The time of not knowing can be very exhausting. Sending hope.
Why mimi hasn't been banned yet is just baffling.
Prolly because Atrios has better things to do, you can get around banning the same way you fix everything else in Microsoft Windows, and killfile works better anyway. Gee, that's three reasons right off the tops of our heads. That's not very baffling.
It is, Shaw.
David Derbes, ochen' pissed.
My bestest friend from childhood graduated from there.
[positive vibes for David Derbes' soeur]
1,000,000 dead is a statistic.
Duane V, 'Nuff Said | 05.09.08 - 7:19 pm | #
Life goes on
/Don "Donald" Rumsfeld
Tweety, why don't you wear your specs on TV? Your constant squinting is as annoying as your new weird hair color.
Thanks, all.
We just have to wait and see. My father was a doctor, and one thing (of many) he taught us was: don't make judgments before you have enough facts. People worry prematurely, and it's foolish.
Hey, Hecate!
best wishes david derbes to you yours.
Echidne, if you rendered the nym in Finnish, would it still end in vowel?
Actually yes, yes it is.
Off to dinner. I promise to keep everyone informed, but I may not know much for a few days yet.
If you want to do something nice for my sister, visit a museum! Do something nice for an artist or a historian!
Offered by Fark as the most pointless not-news story ever, here is a free advertisement for Giant Don's Carpet in Alaska, from the apparently bearless staff of the Anchorage Daily News.
The Big Dog is wagging his finger at folks. Hillary thought she was entitled to the White House...
Well, a funny thing happened on the way to the nomination, eh?
Tragic.
Haloscan, I will hurt you.
Barnicle, shouldn't you be rooting through old magazines, looking for material to steal?
That article took a lot of words to spell out C L U S T E R F U C K.
Prolly because Atrios has better things to do
"mimi" at one point claimed to have been banned at several of the IP addresses it usually uses.
Getting around a ban is very easy. Just use a proxy server, and you're back posting in less than 5 minutes.
Our Aggie transvestive friend even wrote an article describing how to do it. I wonder if he got more than $3 for it.
Haloscan, I will hurt you.
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator
Can you turn Haloscan into a toad?
On a slow, rainy Friday in Washington, when all eyes are on presidential politics, this little gem arrived over the ticker courtesy of Defense Secretary Robert Gates. Speaking at the Brookings Institution Monday, Gates said:
Washington is also a city of monumental embarrassments. Like the first time that President Nixon met with Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir after appointing Henry Kissinger as Secretary of State. Golda Meir had with her her Cambridge-educated foreign minister, Abba Eban. Nixon turned to Golda Meir and said "Just think, Madam Prime Minister, we now both have Jewish foreign ministers." And Golda Meir looked at him and said, "Yes, but mine speaks English."
from Wash. Indie
Well, according to Time, five funny things. Let's all hope Mitch Albom doesn't get involved.
Can you turn Haloscan into a toad?
I think it already is a toad. Like the one inside the tree in Pan's Labyrinth. If I were a truly powerful witch, I'd turn it into a functioning comments program.
I want back the dope you stole from me!!
"The Big Dog is wagging his finger at folks. "
yeah, well, i'm wagging something back at bill and it ain't no finger.
Alrighythen, time to hit the Casa de Liquores and back to my price-deflating-yet-still-overpriced home. Happy evenings all (or most, anyway).
If I were a truly powerful witch, I'd turn it into a functioning comments program.
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator
There's a guy in Florida who can do that with just a toothpick.
Washington is also a city of monumental embarrassments. Like the first time that President Nixon met with Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir after appointing Henry Kissinger as Secretary of State. Golda Meir had with her her Cambridge-educated foreign minister, Abba Eban. Nixon turned to Golda Meir and said "Just think, Madam Prime Minister, we now both have Jewish foreign ministers." And Golda Meir looked at him and said, "Yes, but mine speaks English."
You know, there's a joke in there to be combined with Kennedy's toast to some dinner guests saying that it was the greatest assemblage of intellect since Jefferson dined alone and the fact that even alone in the WH, Bush trips over pretzels, but I'm too tired to make it.
"She is also, not to be too proud about it, one of the world's authorities on Giotto."
gosh, what a career that must be, going all over the wo