HULK SMASHED
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MR SIMELS!!
OK ok.
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Happy birthday, steve simels!
Oh my god. One of the only truly spectacularly early-eighties cheesy songs not done by Journey.
riposte
Flashback 1988: George Bush On The National Guard And Viet Nam
Bush: “I flew fighters in the Texas Air National Guard for which I’m very proud.” [Snip]
“They should have probably called up the National Guard in those days. Maybe we would have done better in Vietnam.”
http://www.crooksandliars.com/20...rd-and-viet-
nam
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It is my birthday too!
Happy birthday partner!
I'm a great uncle. Whoo-hoo!
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who's baking the cake?
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TOUCARI!!
Happy birthday, Toucari!
For some reason I'm letting this whole video play out, even though I've got Bach on the CD player
Happy b-day, b-day people!
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steve!
per cent' anni!
Happy birthday, Steve Simels!
Thanks. I'm 60 today. A real leftover from the radical 60s.
Seriously. My youngest niece just had her first baby. How about that?
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HA! HA!
fteve fimelf is older than I am!
dodd is in the owner's box at fenway drinking a beer.
And Toucari!
Bappy Hirthday!
sheng rir kwai luh steve!
hbty hbty hbd steve and toucari hbdy
and many more
thus demonstrating the classic counterintuitive notion that in a group of 30 or so, it's more likely than not that two will share the same birthday...
Hah. I never liked Yes, my friend a huge ELP fan. He loved Asia, I knew they were shit from the get-go.
Thanks. I'm 60 today. A real leftover from the radical 60s.
Toucari, fka cosmic tumbler
Wow, I think you and Simels are really twin sons of different mothers. I think he said he's sixty too
Quick comment: I met Steve in Washington in September and loved him immediately. Happy Birthday Steve, hope you check in.
Asia? Man, that's cold...
Fine. Leave me all along, bitches!
Well, its interesting that the unknown anthrax terrorist targeted Democrats and was never caught.
rootless-e
Not just Democrats, but also the teebee news media. ABC News, NBC News, and CBS News among others.
Another interesting fact is that Dead-Eye and the Cod Piece let a contract to Mitchell Wade's company, MZM, to screen their mail for anthrax. MZM had zero experience at this sort of thing. The cost? Precisely the amount of money necessary to buy Duke Cunningham's payoff yacht, $145,000.
The only reason one would let a contract for what appears to be a critical service to a git like Wade is because you don't ever expect to need the service. I.e., the White House KNEW who had done the anthrax killing and KNEW they had nothing to fear.
Oh look, Asia's going on a reunion tour.
Dodd roting for the Sox? I wish he wouldn't use up his karma on the game -- I also wish Senators Clinton & Obama would join Biden in supporting his filibuster against the majority leader! (which I REALLY wish wasn't necessary!)
WTF is the point of electing a Rockefeller if they are not too rich to be bought?
Happy birthday all!
“They should have probably called up the National Guard in those days. Maybe we would have done better in Vietnam.”
Had they done so, we might not now have the Shite House run by criminals.
And really, I liked Evan Almighty just fine!
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Happy Birthday, Steve, a classic in every sense of the word
New Frank Rich is up at the Times. Good piece from what I could make myself read. I lost heart after about two thirds of the way through. It deals with corruption in Iraq and the Prince Group's involvement and such.
Too disheartening for me at this moment.
God, I HATE what they have done to my country.
Steve Simels: now older than dirt!
Thanks. I'm 60 today. A real leftover from the radical 60s.
Toucari, fka cosmic tumbler
You look mah-valous!
That's quite a milestone! Good on you!
♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ Sallyh! ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
Resting that ankle, I hope.
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Happy 1112th B-Day, Steve!
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60 is the new 40.
Er -- "rooting"
Yes was pretentious
Asia didn't even get to pretentious
ELP as pretentious, but _sometimes_ had just cause (IMHO -- of course, I liked Willa Ford, so there's that ...)
Put another candle on the birthday cake!
toucari,
Happy Birthday to you as well. I hope this day has been special and that every day from now on is as well.
And really, I liked Evan Almighty just fine!
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Jeffraham Prestonian
Someday, somebody is going to figure out how to use Wanda Sykes in a movie or TV show. I look forward to that day. She cracks me up.
WTF is the point of electing a Rockefeller if they are not too rich to be bought?
Prior Aelred
An excellent question. Perhaps instead of bribes, they took the other Soprano route and intimidated him? After all, they routinely spy on all their political opponents. It is the NSA, after all (New Spying Agency).
D'oh... here's a link to the song:
Put another candle on the birthday cake.
What a singularly terrible music video.
What a singularly terrible music video.
Enoch Root
Of course. It's for Simels.
Toucari, fka cosmic tumbler | 10.20.07 - 11:12 pm
Steve and Toucari and Slutty Jewish Girl and Tobes have never been photographed together. By five lesbian koalas.
I had no idea about the connection to Asia and ELP, Yes, etc
Thanks Shaw and DWD.
I'm off to get my birthday present.
This is not looking like a good night for the Indians
I am going to go to bed -- it can't hurt the Indians & it night help me get to church in the morning!
Later Bats!
It is the NSA, after all (New Spying Agency).
The New Spies are TIA, which keeps accidentally disappearing laptops and is genuinely new; NSA = No Such Agency.
It's unimaginable that the US government would be involved in the anthrax plot. Why next you will come up with ridiculous fantasies about sending cakes and missiles to Iranian mullahs or giving stingers to Bin Ladin or breaking into psychiatrists office to spy on dissidents or locking people up in secret prisons or something.
Heat of the Moment.
I knew Asia had an even cheesier song!
(That I know all the words too)
Perhaps I WILL have a beer.
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Perhaps I WILL have a beer.
In heaven, there is no beer.
That is why we drink it here.
Steve and Toucari and Slutty Jewish Girl and Tobes have never been photographed together. By five lesbian koalas.
Now, mutant Martian bears, that's a different story.
I think (Simels) said he's sixty too.
Again???
Okay, how many blogs is Thers posting to at this moment? Here, FDL, ...
Formerly Kinky Friedman is on c-span2/BookTV ruining jokes.
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For steve and Toucari:
http://tinyurl.com/2vg5yq
I don't know about beer, but I've got some excellent pomegranate martinis happening over here, and no one to help me drink them.
I don't know about beer, but I've got some excellent pomegranate martinis happening over here, and no one to help me drink them.
ThinlyVeiled,
Do you make those with some kind of liqueur? Or just pom juice?
Okay, how many blogs is Thers posting to at this moment? Here, FDL, ...
You thought you knew Planck's constant?
((thers postings/(Irish Children)*(posts/pi))/NTodd blogs=1
I'll add some to the simels shindig
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p...h?
v=pl00WC18qv4
and no one to help me drink them.
ThinlyVeiled, Vaginal American | 10.20.07 - 11:25 pm | #
if i could just find those damned keys i'd be right over...
Funny you should mention poms; the Blogdiva just posted about'em.
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Pomegranate liquor must be more expensive than fermented incubus sperm. A glass of that "Pom" tea is three bucks, and the other day we came across a bulb (literally a philtre, not something worthy of the name "bottle") of pure pomegranate juice smaller than an actual pomegranate for twenty bucks.
Link some more Spoon for Simels... he's only heard one of their songs.
Happy B-Day, Steve!
So I've gotten almost 7,000 hits on my original Treasure Island Pirates video over at YouTube.
Anyhoo... this one's for Steverino!
Mazeltov, ya schmuck!!!
Y'know, I should've been drinking through that movie. I'm gonna be up way too late.
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Looks like Michigan is going to beat Illinois at Champagne/Urbana. That is, at least, something.
(After the first two games, we accept almost anything as good news)
Do you make those with some kind of liqueur? Or just pom juice?
1 part Stoli Citros
2 parts Pomegranate Juice
1 part Triple Sec
1 splash Lime Juice
Fill shaker with ice, shake and pour into chilled glasses.
What the hell - Simels, can you hear me? 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S...h?
v=Sag7F8ziVUE
Another simels singalong
The Nazz - "Open My Eyes"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l...h?
v=llJG6pHhuBY
So I've gotten almost 7,000 hits on my original Treasure Island Pirates video over at YouTube.
I'm going to hurt you.
Oh, and I met my new neighbor, downstairs.
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Sorry... here's the Pirate video.
Simels etc...
Happy Birthday, Steve Simels, and many more! As they are trying to teach me to say,
Поздравляю вас с днем рождения!
which is Russian for take me to your leader, or something. (Well, it's supposed to be Happy Birthday, but I am not a very good student...)
Haven't seen Eric Gagne yet tonight. There's hope...
Wizards, on the other hand... I don't know why I thought that was so cool at age 13. After all, I'd yet to drop acid!
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I'm going to hurt you.
That's over the course of about a year.
I had no idea. This was the first time I've looked at it in some time.
I was shocked to discover that "Santa Homer" video had about 4400 "hits."
And this one - nearly 1000.
I have found that lime and pomegranate don't really get along that well.
Try this:
2 parts Pearl Pomegranate vodka
1 part Hiram Walker Pomegranate schnapps
pour over ice into tall glass. fill with soda. keep limes away.
Cheers!
Well, there he is. Ater eight runs score, maybe they'll yank him...
Let me just point out that this video is sickening
This is music
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q...h?
v=QPhTn2hceAY
And this one - nearly 1000.
dave™© | Homepage | 10.20.07 - 11:34 pm | #
The same melody as Bob Marley's "Buffalo Soldier"
oh, fuck, Gagne's in! Cleveland might yet have a shot...
So it's the slutty jewish girl's birthday also? May she have a wonderful Long Island birthday.
Wow, SNL goes repeat four weeks into the season. Commitment to their craft.
Steve Simels and Toucari
Happy Birthday to you. All the best.
Peace.
My only question is how did Rush Limbaugh and Peter Pace's pet charity become the greatest way ever to honor "the troops." The first half of their name refers to the Marines. That's the "MC" part. The "LEF" part is the federal Law Enforcement part of the equation. Which is half of the equation. "Law Enforcement" workers are not "the troops." They might more precisely be considered to be "the cops."
So for every dollar donated to "the troops," "the cops" get 50¢. Are there really no other charities on earth dedicated to helping the children of fallen soldiers and cops? And why are there no prominent Democrats or Liberals on the board of directors, or among the officers?
Moreover, since these are scholarship funds, what happens in 12-18 years when the kids decide to, say, not go to college? The MC-LEF boasts they have "no overhead" because they don't retain staff. So who decides which claims are real, and who's going to be around as these kids hit college age?
I like the lime with the pomegranate. But then again, I ain't right.
Coke to Wombat...
...remember how Bush said he would carry George Howard's police shield and that dead guy's mom was in the audience?
...remember how years later, Bush's pockets were fucking empty?
HAPPY BIRTHDAY SIMELS
(relurk)
Wow, SNL goes repeat four weeks into the season. Commitment to their craft.
puppethead | 1
watching TDS and Letterman, I wonder if young comedy writers consider SNL a sort of "safety school"
My FDL post this week is pretty grouchy... maybe it will cheer Dave up.
I like the lime with the pomegranate. But then again, I ain't right.
ThinlyVeiled, Vaginal American
Difference in taste is the spice of life. Enjoy!
bill b: spike that sucker, buddy...
You thought you knew Planck's constant?
spinoza, non ridere, non luger
I spend all my time at the h-bar.
That's 1.0546 times ten to the minus 34 joule-seconds to most people, but to me it's a place for a cold one. Or two. Or who's counting?
Trademark Dave! Gilly! Hecate! DWD! Prior Aelred! What a crew. I'm sure I've missed others.
I just got done reading Dr. Krugman's FDL book Salon Q&A. It was fun. And then I read Glenn Greenwald bit on Howie Kurtz. I the Glenn Greenwald comments someone made a point about Rush and his auction of the letter from Reid. Anyone following that story?
Happy happies to Toucari and Simels!
I'm right behind you and closing ground fast.
Yes, happy birthday. May you live long and live well....
I'm sure SNL took the week off to let everyone cheer on the Yankees in the playoffs. Oh, wait...
The greatest way to honor the troops is to give them full benefits, and to end the goddamned war and bring them home.
Delmar: Well that’s it boys, I’ve been redeemed. The Preachers done washed away all my sins and transgressions. It’s the straight and narrow from here on out and heaven ever lasting is my reward.
Pete: Delmar what are you talking about? We got bigger fish to fry.
Delmar: The Preacher says all my sins is washed away. Including that Piggly Wiggly I knocked over in Yazoo.
Pete: I thought you said you were innocent of those charges.
Delmar: Well I was lyin and the Preacher says that sins been washed away too. Neither God nor man got nothing on me now. Come on in boys the water is fine.
OK, here's one:
Another Girl Another Planet, with one of my favorite leads of all time:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P...h?
v=P3vd6lL_uec
ProfWombat | 10.20.07 - 11:39 pm |
BUT THEN WHO WOULD WE KILL?
see Rendition
new bosses just slightly less rancid than the old bosses
Delmar: Well I was lyin and the Preacher says that sins been washed away too. Neither God nor man got nothing on me now. Come on in boys the water is fine.
pigboy
A wonderful film. Somebody ought to do a double header of "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" and the old Brad Dourif version of Flannery O'Connor's "Wise Blood".
The South is not merely a different country, it is a different galaxy, and I speak as one who grew up there.
see Rendition
K. & Yuri Waterhouse,
Meryl Streep as Condi Rice? I bet Teh Stanford Virgin is most displeased.
Happy Birthday, Steve.
Hi, Spocko!
The Replacements - "Merry Go Round"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_...h?
v=_stFPb3_cLk
Wheee! We threw Simels a surprise party and he was SURPRISED!
Evening, Spocko, Hope you are living long and prospering.
Wheee! We threw Simels a surprise party and he was SURPRISED!
watertiger
Cool. Good on ya!!
The greatest way to honor the troops is to give them full benefits, and to end the goddamned war and bring them home.
Communist!
Meryl Streep is amazing. Her character isn't Ricey at all, she's more like the head of a CIA office (in other words, not in the least airheaded or yessy).
The Replacements - "Merry Go Round"
Gilly Gonzylon
Good call.
Spocko, see this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9...related&
search=
Proof that chimp likes to blow people up.
I went to the movie, Rendition, today and was unhappy to hear one of the actors say that rendition had begun during the Clinton years. (It's Clinton's fault). The claim is really bogus in the context and here is what Media Matters had to say about it.
http://mediamatters.org/items/20...ms/
200503120002
Um, Steve?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u...h?
v=uNClsvgv2V0
A wonderful film. Somebody ought to do a double header of "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" and the old Brad Dourif version of Flannery O'Connor's "Wise Blood".
The South is not merely a different country, it is a different galaxy, and I speak as one who grew up there.
David Derbes | 10.20.07 - 11:42 pm | #
I just googled "Wise Blood". I had never heard of it but it sounds like a film worth watching.
Good call.
melior | 10.20.07 - 11:44 pm | #
Hee hee. Saw 'em in 1986. Waited an hour in the 50 degree Columbus, OH rain to get in. Good show. No talking in between songs. They did rousing covers of "Hitching a Ride" and "Take Me Home, Country Road".
Jackson | 10.20.07 - 11:45 pm |
Oh for Nader's sake, what the movie actually said was that it technically began under Clinton as an extra-ordinary emergency measure, not that "it's Clinton's fault," and that its present form is very much a result of IX/XI. This is as Ebert said a perfect movie.
Brad Dourif is one of my favorite actors.
"The 11%-approval Get Along Gang in Congress."
But Pelosi and Reid were able to take a morally repugnant stand in order to side with the highly unpopular Bush.
We threw Simels a surprise party and he was SURPRISED!
Not good at his age, you know...
Aha! I think I figured it out!
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Wheee! We threw Simels a surprise party and he was SURPRISED!
watertiger
Did he have enough breath to blow out the 100 candles?
I went to the movie Rendition today and was really surprised to hear that "Rendition began in the Clindton Administration". It is a bogus claim and here is what Media Matters said about it when the claim was really made a couple years ago.
http://mediamatters.org/items/20...ms/
200503120002
From the Greenwald comments section< Garry Owen
Regarding Rush's ebay letter scam
A 501 3c tax exempt non-profit (Casey Foundation) plunks down roughly 72 percent of all the assets of their organization to buy a piece of paper from Rush Limbaugh who just happens to be a director on the board of the 501 3c tax exempt non-profit that will get the money (Marine Corps-Law Enforcement Foundation.)
The reason given by the Casey Foundation for this astounding and organization-ruining financial give-away?:
“to support Rush Limbaugh, his views and his continuing education of us.”
Now I've known some executive directors of 501 3c's in my six decades on this planet, and I can't think of one of them who would take 72 percent of their capital assets and transfer it to another 501 3c, leaving them to take care of all operating expenses, fund raising, staff salaries, facilities management and other capital outflow on the remaining 28 percent of the monies that has been contributed to their charitable organization.
They in essence just bilked their donor base for a piece of paper. I can't imagine that if Casey Foundation has a board of directors that they would let their chairperson give away almost 75 percent of their capital in one fell swoop!
[Snip}
1. Rush Limbaugh is a director on the board of the organization that will get the money.
2. The total revenues of the Marine Corps-Law Enforcement Foundation before this gift was $5.2 million.
The rest here
http://letters.salon.com/opinion...398b1c56a2.html
I just googled "Wise Blood". I had never heard of it but it sounds like a film worth watching.
One of John Huston's last films, and a worthy addition to his long string of literary adaptations. Not on DVD, last time I checked...
Evening, moonbats.
Bonsoir!
did i miss monsieur Simels anniversaire? BONNE FÊTE!
My FDL post this week is pretty grouchy... maybe it will cheer Dave up.
It's like you were listening in on my phone call to Pelosi's office yesterday!
you all have to check out Fogerty's new CD. Totlly anti-war. It is really good.
No, that is not what the comment said and you didn't quote me accurately either.
kitten surprised about that Dumbledore news:
http://icanhascheezburger.com/20...bledore-is-gay/
The reason given by the Casey Foundation for this astounding and organization-ruining financial give-away?:
“to support Rush Limbaugh, his views and his continuing education of us.”
Yup. When you get them to answer honestly, without thinking about and weighing their words, this has fuck all to do with Our Troops. It's a big tribalist pie fight, and Our Troops, to these people. are just pie.
Evening, Molly!
you all have to check out Fogerty's new CD. Totlly anti-war.
If there were a God, "Deja Vu" would have been a number one single.
Still apropos for a re-release...
(BTW, I like the new elpee, overall, better than the "Deja Vu" elpee. But "Deja Vu" the song is a fucking classic.)
oh, and you missed this when i posted it earlier (stolen from Cute Overload), this is a must for any cat owners who wakes up with a headache
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1.../cute_overload/
DWD -
What's the pain level like today? You doing okay?
The digital channels that vanished? They're all part of Comcast's pay-per-view setup, and I can see them when someone else is watching. I know this, 'cause the movie I just came across? Someone paused it, rewound it, and started it, again. Hilarious.
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See you tomorrow, Tribe...
It's a big tribalist pie fight, and Our Troops, to these people. are just pie.
Jim, Collieresque
And apparently some of it is phony pie, according to a drug-addled fat bald guy who's afraid to go into a kitchen because of a cyst on his butt.
Hiya, Hecate!
It was nice to go out as an adult with other adults. And steve was genuinely verklempt.
See you tomorrow, Tribe...
I have a new assignment to start early Monday morning. Think they'll mind if I show up reeking of beer, and still wearing my colors?
It was nice to go out as an adult with other adults. And steve was genuinely verklempt.
Molly Ivors,
i just got here. What did you do for his bday?
Someone paused it, rewound it, and started it, again. Hilarious.
That's apparently a fun way to watch cable. Most on-demand stuff is broadcast clear QAM, so anyone can watch it. The cable companies assign arbitrary channels for each user when they get a show, but the computer-based clear QAM video things can hook into them.
Spocko,
It is okay this day. I took less pain medication than usual and managed a nice walk in the beautiful fall woods with my love and the dogs: a good day.
I have decided to turn my anger over everything into work again. I will begin reworking one of the four major novels I have completed on Monday. It is time that I worked on something substantial, and I need a place to aim my fucking arrows anyway.
In about sixw months or so (and if my other blog friend from here wants to help) the new book should be done. Sorry in advance if I bug everyone: I am the worst salesman in the world.
bill b: there's going to be a fair amount of absenteeism Monday around Boston...
i just got here. What did you do for his bday?
A bunch of us met up at his fave watering hole to surprise him for his birthday.
DWD... keep up the good work.
Being still stuck in technical writing hell, I'm envious and jealous of you working on a novel.
But then..., you're an inspiration, too.
puppethead: That's apparently a fun way to watch cable. Most on-demand stuff is broadcast clear QAM, so anyone can watch it. The cable companies assign arbitrary channels for each user when they get a show, but the computer-based clear QAM video things can hook into them.
Apparently my new HDTV can do it on its own, just as well. No wonder I couldn't figure out what pay channels I was getting for free -- these flicks aren't on any schedule!
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A bunch of us met up at his fave watering hole to surprise him for his birthday.
Molly Ivors
very nice!
Hey Hecate I read you post about nuns
For awhile I corresponded with
"the brilliant Joan Chittister",
who you wrote said
[she] urges sisters to live their Monastic Profession through its three dimensions of stability, obedience, and conversatio morum in their present day commitments. “Do what these values demand, in this culture, on this planet, at this time, in this civilization, in the here and now.”
After I saw her on Bill Moyers I wanted to see MORE of her going up against these people who call themselves Christians who encourage war and kill day after day.
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