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Gomez w new OS |
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06.23.07 - 9:11 pm | #
second again
dirk gently, sociopathetic |
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06.23.07 - 9:11 pm | #
second
Gomez w new OS |
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06.23.07 - 9:11 pm | #
second again again
dirk gently, sociopathetic |
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06.23.07 - 9:12 pm | #
You would think Thers could simply just call sheets. But nooooo, he has to go get all insulting about it.
EkCenTriK |
06.23.07 - 9:12 pm | #
i am heading upstairs to watch harpies in bed.
or, to be more accurate, from bed.
dirk gently, sociopathetic |
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06.23.07 - 9:13 pm | #
You would think Thers could simply just call sheets. But nooooo, he has to go get all insulting about it.
EkCenTriK
He drinks.
Gomez w new OS |
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06.23.07 - 9:13 pm | #
Thers is likely drunk. You know how they get with too much sauce.
trifecta |
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06.23.07 - 9:13 pm | #
Cops sure get a lot of strange.
Gomez w new OS |
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06.23.07 - 9:13 pm | #
Recycled from below cuz I feel like it
That rough, early version of Dazed and Confused with totally different words that was a bit down the YouTube queue was pretty interesting too....
Of course y'all know that Jimmy bought that song from a certain Jake Holmes who released two fucking incredible LPs on Tower Records back in the day. His version of Dazed and Confused appears on his first LP.
I can't recommend the first two records highly enough. Solid all the way through, if you're into a relatively low key somewhat downer psych vibe -- which I am ALL THE TIME.
Sadly, Jake Holmes subsequent records (for Reprise) suck ass terribly. This is why it's important for artists to avoid bullshit producers who whisper in their ears about what the "public" want.
Holmes must still be around today. I have no idea what he's up to but I bet he wishes he hadn't sold his song to Jimmy Page (perhaps the greatest musician-businessman in the history of the biz).
Stunt Woman |
06.23.07 - 9:13 pm | #
I just nestled my foil-wrapped taters in the coals. Steaks, etc. will go no in 45 minutes or so. I think it will be a shot of Hornitos and Trumer for me. Work? Not so much.
blerb
Must you rub it in?
Stunt Woman |
06.23.07 - 9:14 pm | #
"Wanted a wookie, never bargained for you"
Gilly Gonzylon, Alphalpha Male |
06.23.07 - 9:14 pm | #
"
He drinks.
Gomez w new OS "
Yeah, some Chick named NY Mary used to say that. Haven't seen her around lately.
EkCenTriK |
06.23.07 - 9:15 pm | #
woody lives
Tena
I thought both were NTodd's sock puppets.
Stunt Woman |
06.23.07 - 9:15 pm | #
CANTON, Ohio - A massive search ended in sadness Saturday when authorities announced they found a body believed to be a pregnant woman who vanished from her home a week earlier. A police officer believed to be the father of the unborn child was arrested on two counts of murder. Jessie Davis, 26, who was due to deliver a baby girl on July 3, was reported missing after her mother found Davis' 2-year-old son home alone, bedroom furniture toppled and bleach spilled on the floor.
Somebody watched the Sopranos...
Gilly Gonzylon, Alphalpha Male |
06.23.07 - 9:15 pm | #
Thers is linking to his own blog? That's sheer genius.
Phila, Pizen Sarpint |
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06.23.07 - 9:16 pm | #
I thought both were NTodd's sock puppets.
No, my sockpuppets are trademark dave and simels.
NTodd, Boring MEQUA |
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06.23.07 - 9:17 pm | #
Why did I just waste my time reading that gibberish?
How about just saying...something...anything.
Fluffy |
06.23.07 - 9:17 pm | #
No, my sockpuppets are trademark dave and simels.
NTodd, Boring MEQUA | Homepage | 06.23.07 - 9:17 pm | #
Mine are NTodd and Stunt Woman.
Phila, Pizen Sarpint |
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06.23.07 - 9:17 pm | #
No, my sockpuppets are trademark dave and simels.
NTodd, Boring MEQUA
We knew that.
Gomez w new OS |
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06.23.07 - 9:17 pm | #
My head just exploded.
Or maybe it was Phila's.
Stunt Woman |
06.23.07 - 9:18 pm | #
Anyone hate it when a fist fight is broken up by groups of people who pull the guys away? I want an extended circle to pull THOSE people away.
Gilly Gonzylon, Alphalpha Male |
06.23.07 - 9:18 pm | #
My head just exploded. - Stunt Woman
Nah, I just burped. 'Scuse me.
bo |
06.23.07 - 9:19 pm | #
Anyone hate it when a fist fight is broken up by groups of people who pull the guys away? I want an extended circle to pull THOSE people away.
Hmm. Worth working into a movie script ...
Stunt Woman |
06.23.07 - 9:19 pm | #
fuck you all
woody lives
So clever! How do even stand yourself?
Run around the house laffing at your own jokes?
Those harpies need to get more sleep.
aeon_flux |
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06.23.07 - 9:22 pm | #
Draco and Incog are my sockpuppets.
You hetero pukes.
My eyes are bleeding.
Gomez w new OS |
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06.23.07 - 9:22 pm | #
Cops sure get a lot of strange.
Gomez w new OS
Well, I was married to one. He used to tell me about all the drunk girls who would flash him to get out of being arrested. Then they would get violent when it didn't work.
Allie |
06.23.07 - 9:22 pm | #
Phila is the best commenter here.
NTodd, Boring MEQUA |
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06.23.07 - 9:23 pm | #
You'd think a cop could hide a body.
Gomez w new OS |
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06.23.07 - 9:23 pm | #
Recycled from below cuz I feel like it
I will check those out.
And I'm sorry to rub it in. It Sux to be working on a day like this.
blerb |
06.23.07 - 9:23 pm | #
"Thers is linking to his own blog? That's sheer genius."
--Phila
Give him credit, he didn't post the first comment on this thread. I would have.
mer |
06.23.07 - 9:23 pm | #
Could you all start double spacing your comments?
TIA.
Gomez w new OS |
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06.23.07 - 9:24 pm | #
Hmmm, can't you think of anyone better for you to put your hand up their naughties?
Allie |
06.23.07 - 9:24 pm | #
I just had one of those whole-body shivers. Careful whom you conjure, man.
blerb |
06.23.07 - 9:24 pm | #
You'd think a cop could hide a body.
I figure he was not the best cop, but thought he'd be able to get away with it. Grissom would kick his sorry ass, though. Bleach? Geesh.
NTodd, Boring MEQUA |
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06.23.07 - 9:24 pm | #
Phila is the best commenter here.
NTodd, Boring MEQUA
Well, I love him, but he's no Golden Ass.
Allie |
06.23.07 - 9:25 pm | #
I know just the incantation to revive Draco...
NTodd, Boring MEQUA |
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06.23.07 - 9:26 pm | #
The Golden Ass Award. I like it.
blerb |
06.23.07 - 9:26 pm | #
Up next on the factor:
"The Dead Ohio Woman - Was She Just Asking for It ?"
Gilly Gonzylon, Alphalpha Male |
06.23.07 - 9:26 pm | #
Draco and Incog are my sockpuppets.
I'm making soup while listening to "Street Hassle." Interesting use of cello...very strophic.
Too bad the monotheists are going to kill us all.
Phila, Pizen Sarpint |
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06.23.07 - 9:26 pm | #
I love dirk. I will volunteer to be his sock puppet.
Allie |
06.23.07 - 9:26 pm | #
I'm making soup while listening to "Street Hassle." Interesting use of cello...very strophic.
Too bad the monotheists are going to kill us all.
Phila, Pizen Sarpint
Is that a non-sequitor?
Allie |
06.23.07 - 9:27 pm | #
Torn between two sockpuppets, feelin' like a fool...
NTodd, Boring MEQUA |
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06.23.07 - 9:27 pm | #
Checking in for a second. I'm watching Kagemusha on dvd. Nice ripping off an idea, makers of "Dave". Hollywood: There's no idea we won't recycle!
Monica_A: Super Genius |
06.23.07 - 9:28 pm | #
Gomez, you do know I was kidding, don't you?
Allie |
06.23.07 - 9:28 pm | #
I tried to talk to NTodd today, but he hung up on me. I think the things he saw at the Tastee Freez have screwed him up...made it difficult to form attachments.
I feel I've done all I can do.
Phila, Pizen Sarpint |
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06.23.07 - 9:29 pm | #
Gomez, you do know I was kidding, don't you?
Allie
Of course.
I was just doing my impression of Draco.
Gomez w new OS |
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06.23.07 - 9:29 pm | #
Is that a non-sequitor?
Allie | 06.23.07 - 9:27 pm | #
I was trying to be Draco and Incog simultaneously. Kinda like "The Thing With Two Heads."
Phila, Pizen Sarpint |
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06.23.07 - 9:30 pm | #
George Harrison's wife Patti Boyd was friggin hottttttttttttttttttttttt.
Whatever happened to Draco? I had kind of forgotten about him.
I think he bled to death after severing his femoral artery, then got gangrene in his eyeballs, then came over to my place and bitched about all the lies I tell about him.
NTodd, Boring MEQUA |
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06.23.07 - 9:35 pm | #
Whatever happened to Draco? I had kind of forgotten about him.
mer | 06.23.07 - 9:34 pm | #
He felt he didn't get quite the proper respect, and went away mad.
Phila, Pizen Sarpint |
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06.23.07 - 9:35 pm | #
The Criterion version of Xanadu is excellent.
NTodd, Boring MEQUA | Homepage | 06.23.07 - 9:38 pm | #
Especially the restored hardcore scenes they cut to earn a PG rating.
Phila, Pizen Sarpint |
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06.23.07 - 9:39 pm | #
Senior Black Democrat Loses Seat After Endorsing Republican
by Bonnie V. Winston
Special to the NNPA from the Richmond Free Press
Originally posted 6/21/2007
RICHMOND, Va. (NNPA)-He had far less money and a lot less seniority than his opponent.
But A. Donald McEachin had a message compelling enough to sweep him to victory in the Democratic primary election for the Virginia Senate June 5: “Vote for the True Democrat,” his campaign slogan stated.
Voters complied, giving Delegate McEachin 91,700 vote win over veteran Richmond Sen. Benjamin J. Lambert III, whose defeat ends a 29-year tenure in state political office.
It was a backlash.
masculine_monica_nyc |
06.23.07 - 9:39 pm | #
Gomez!
You got your "operating system" (as it were) ... up!
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore
*SPROING*
Gomez w new OS |
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06.23.07 - 9:39 pm | #
"Gomez!
You got your "operating system" (as it were) ... up!"
--Vicki,
"Mommy's in the Rug". ugh
Gomez w new OS |
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06.23.07 - 9:40 pm | #
*SPROING*
Gomez w new OS | Homepage | 06.23.07 - 9:39 pm | #
Stop that! There are ladies present....
Phila, Pizen Sarpint |
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06.23.07 - 9:40 pm | #
"
I'm calling the ASPCA.
Phila, Pizen Sarpint"
And not Sanctorum?
EkCenTriK |
06.23.07 - 9:41 pm | #
Not sure it needed the Criterion treatment.
Agreed - and am really glad that it was just a Netflix rental. The days where I would buy anything with the Criterion imprimatur are long over..
bill buckner |
06.23.07 - 9:41 pm | #
Sweet Movie was pretty lame the first time around. Script must have been written by the Dutch equivalent of the band "America".
bo |
06.23.07 - 9:41 pm | #
"Mommy's in the Rug". ugh
Gomez w new OS | Homepage | 06.23.07 - 9:40 pm | #
That's a band name, G
Gilly Gonzylon, Alphalpha Male |
06.23.07 - 9:42 pm | #
Agreed - and am really glad that it was just a Netflix rental. The days where I would buy anything with the Criterion imprimatur are long over..
bill buckner | 06.23.07 - 9:41 pm | #
Yeah. It's been a while since they put out anything I was really excited about. Since "Mouchette," probably.
Although I do want to re-watch "Phantom India" someday...
Phila, Pizen Sarpint |
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06.23.07 - 9:43 pm | #
Hah! Killed the thread. Time to add another notch to my belt...
Phila, Pizen Sarpint |
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06.23.07 - 9:46 pm | #
They got theme music for the dead white girl.
Gomez w new OS |
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06.23.07 - 9:46 pm | #
why would a brining recipe call specifically for uniodized salt?
ErinPDX |
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06.23.07 - 9:46 pm | #
Phila is the best thread-killer EVAH!
NTodd, Boring MEQUA |
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06.23.07 - 9:47 pm | #
They got theme music for the dead white girl.
Oooh, is it Dead White Girl by Nirvana?
NTodd, Boring MEQUA |
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06.23.07 - 9:47 pm | #
"why would a brining recipe call specifically for uniodized salt?"
--ErinPDX
Not sure, but whenever I brine stuff I use kosher salt. Available in my local grocery store.
mer |
06.23.07 - 9:49 pm | #
Oooh, is it Dead White Girl by Nirvana?
NTodd, Boring MEQUA
No its a variation of the old 9/11 music.
Gomez w new OS |
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06.23.07 - 9:49 pm | #
why would a brining recipe call specifically for uniodized salt? -ErinPDX
The iodine might color it or interact with something?
Whenever they put theme music with a story, it's a signal that they have nothing new to report and are going into 24/7 repeat mode of things they've already reported.
Jennifer |
06.23.07 - 9:49 pm | #
The Oh the Humanity Hindenburg Guy.
Gomez w new OS
Herb Morrison?
Soprano, sempre libera |
06.23.07 - 9:49 pm | #
I liked the Quecreek Mine Rescue Theme Music.
Gomez w new OS |
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06.23.07 - 9:50 pm | #
why would a brining recipe call specifically for uniodized salt?
ErinPDX
Same reason you use uniodized salt for pickles--to avoid an off-taste in the finished product.
Soprano, sempre libera |
06.23.07 - 9:50 pm | #
Say, has anybody seen Jessie Davis around lately?
NTodd, Boring MEQUA |
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06.23.07 - 9:51 pm | #
mer...also thanks for the asparagus ideas earlier
ErinPDX |
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06.23.07 - 9:51 pm | #
Say, has anybody seen Jessie Davis around lately?
NTodd, Boring MEQUA
Where can I find a woman like that?
Gomez w new OS |
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06.23.07 - 9:53 pm | #
Mmmmm. Trumer Pils!
A brewery from Salzburg, Austria, not an hour's drive from where my mother grew up, decided to set up shop in Berkeley, apparently because of the water here. Their product was kind of inconsistent at first, but now it is consistently excellent. One of the few microbrewed pilseners that is really good. Buy it if you ever see it.
blerb |
06.23.07 - 9:53 pm | #
Where can I find a woman like that?
Nonono, that's Jessie's Girl. This chick is named Jessie. But you can find her in an Ohio field, apparently...
NTodd, Boring MEQUA |
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06.23.07 - 9:54 pm | #
That announcer was doing helium, which made it that much more ironic.
Gilly Gonzylon, Alphalpha Male |
06.23.07 - 9:54 pm | #
Nonono, that's Jessie's Girl. This chick is named Jessie. But you can find her in an Ohio field, apparently...
NTodd, Boring MEQUA
My money was on Brian Sipe as the culprit.
Gomez w new OS |
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06.23.07 - 9:55 pm | #
Oh, that Jessie Davis. From Ohio. I forget from thread to thread.
mer |
06.23.07 - 9:56 pm | #
"That announcer was doing helium, which made it that much more ironic."
If you listen close to the full recording you'll hear him say "Lady, I'm sorry." Apparently someone waiting to meet a passenger was standing next to him and passed out. He did part of the broadcast holding her up.
Uncle Blodge, Urban Teacher |
06.23.07 - 9:57 pm | #
"But you can find her in an Ohio field, apparently..."
she had an irresistable impulse to be corn fertilizer.
so, was it the hubby or the boyfriend?
jdw |
06.23.07 - 9:57 pm | #
My money was on Brian Sipe as the culprit.
The Kardiac Kids would hide the body better, just like they hid their chances to win a fucking title.
NTodd, Boring MEQUA |
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06.23.07 - 9:58 pm | #
"That announcer was doing helium, which made it that much more ironic."
If you listen close to the full recording you'll hear him say "Lady, I'm sorry." Apparently someone waiting to meet a passenger was standing next to him and passed out. He did part of the broadcast holding her up.
He also says he stayed last night at a Holiday Inn Express and that Reagan would make the bestest president.
spinoza |
06.23.07 - 9:59 pm | #
A nice piano solo in the theme music.
Gomez w new OS |
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06.23.07 - 10:00 pm | #
This is the lamest castle storming I have ever seen on film.
Snow, Contrary |
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06.23.07 - 10:00 pm | #
Whenever they put theme music with a story, it's a signal that they have nothing new to report and are going into 24/7 repeat mode of things they've already reported.
Jennifer
What a boring victim relative of a similar crime.
Gomez w new OS |
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06.23.07 - 10:04 pm | #
Whenever they put theme music with a story, it's a signal that they have nothing new to report and are going into 24/7 repeat mode of things they've already reported.
Jennifer | 06.23.07 - 9:49 pm | #
My memory is that it took 1010 WINS about three days to come up with a 9/11 theme. The coverage had been raw and unedited for the most part, but then it started to get a lot more theatrical.
Phila, Pizen Sarpint |
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06.23.07 - 10:04 pm | #
In my line of work, you get bored with Stupid Liquid Nitrogen Tricks pretty quick.
blerb |
06.23.07 - 10:08 pm | #
Gilly, why are you calling yourself an alfalfa male?
atablarasa, omega hippy |
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06.23.07 - 10:09 pm | #
I gotta say, "Knocked Up" was a really funny movie.
watertiger, snarkywarky |
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06.23.07 - 10:10 pm | #
Speaking of pools, anyone wanna buy me a present? Please? Yes, a pool would make a lovely gift, too, but much more expensive...
whiskey girl, a-go-go |
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06.23.07 - 10:12 pm | #
I gotta say, "Knocked Up" was a really funny movie.
watertiger, snarkywarky
Yes, it was. I exceeded my expectations, even with all the good reviews on NPR.
blerb |
06.23.07 - 10:13 pm | #
In my line of work, you get bored with Stupid Liquid Nitrogen Tricks pretty quick.
blerb
Speech
The Secret History of the American Empire
06/06/2007
Perkins, John M. Founder and Chairman, Dream Change
John Perkins talked about his book The Secret History of the American Empire: Economic Hit Men, Jackals, and the Truth about Global Corruption, published by Dutton.
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QuentinCompson |
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06.23.07 - 10:14 pm | #
Mrs Noonan said The Politico did this by "exploiting anonymous sorcerers"
Ah ha!
"Anonymous sorcerers" = He who must not be named.
So, we now know who runs "The Politico".
The Dark Lord.
Apprentice to Darth Holden |
06.23.07 - 10:14 pm | #
Fuck, it looks like Operation Arrowhead Ripper is working and will lead to a turning point in Iraq. Is there any way that Harry and Nancy could pass an emergency bill to cut off the soldiers' funding so they lose like we all want?
Democrats for Defeat |
06.23.07 - 10:19 pm | #
Democrats for Defeat | 06.23.07 - 10:19 pm | #
Blow me, and have a nice day
Gilly Gonzylon, Alphalpha Male |
06.23.07 - 10:20 pm | #
Blow me, and have a nice day
Gilly Gonzylon, Alphalpha Male
So you're one of Simels' sock puppets, then? It's so hard to keep this all straight....
blerb |
06.23.07 - 10:22 pm | #
Fuck, it looks like Operation Arrowhead Ripper is working
By what metric, Republican for Strawmen?
NTodd, Boring MEQUA |
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06.23.07 - 10:22 pm | #
So you're one of Simels' sock puppets, then? It's so hard to keep this all straight....
blerb | 06.23.07 - 10:22 pm | #
Oh, blow me while I shit
Gilly Gonzylon, Alphalpha Male |
06.23.07 - 10:24 pm | #
John Perkins talked about his book The Secret History of the American Empire: Economic Hit Men, Jackals, and the Truth about Global Corruption, published by Dutton.
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QuentinCompson |
Was on Democracy Now a couple of weeks ago. Quite chilling stuff.
Tom - 大肚腩 |
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06.23.07 - 10:24 pm | #
Blow me, and have a nice day
Gilly Gonzylon, Alphalpha Male | 06.23.07 - 10:20 pm |
Can we do it at my house, I want to show my family our Democratic alternate lifestyle culture?
Democrats for Defeat |
06.23.07 - 10:26 pm | #
Oh, blow me while I shit
Gilly Gonzylon, Alphalpha Male
And Steve Simels is really Gene Simmons! Who knew?
blerb |
06.23.07 - 10:26 pm | #
Jay Garrity who serves as director of operations and is constantly at the side of the former Massachusetts governor, is accused of leaving a lengthy message with the answering service of a plumbing company on Mother's Day, identifying himself as ''Trooper Garrity'' of the Massachusetts State Police and complaining about erratic driving by a company driver. A spokesman for Governor Romney, Miami Resident, Angel M. Oroni, said, “Listen, we are not sure what is going on with Mr. Garrity. We know that he has asked for and received a temporary leave of absence to work for the O’Reilly Factor in some capacity. We are just not sure what Fox News has in mind for him.”
DWD |
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06.23.07 - 10:26 pm | #
Voters complied, giving Delegate McEachin 91,700 vote win over veteran Richmond Sen. Benjamin J. Lambert III, whose defeat ends a 29-year tenure in state political office.
It was a backlash.
masculine_monica_nyc
mmonica, thanks for this story. Didn't realize the primary was this weekend so would have missed it. I loved the part where the booted incumbent sez:
Lambert, despite his long-term incumbency, never could overcome the albatross of his support last fall for then-U.S. Sen. George Allen, a Republican. Allen is very unpopular in the majority black 9th District.
[snip]
Lambert said his support of Allen probably cost him his job. "I thought the Allen folks would have helped me more, but it didn't work out that way."
He thought support from "Allen folks"--um, Republicans--was going to help him win a Democratic primary. Bright fellow, that...
Xan |
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06.23.07 - 10:28 pm | #
Why was Atrios killing hamsters back there?
ellroon |
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06.23.07 - 10:28 pm | #
I like these two paragraphs from TPM's JMM, "Since the outset of the war in Iraq, Bush and his administration have enjoyed almost unfettered control over policy. Everything the president has asked for, the president has received.
Of course, more than four years after Bush launched the war, we now know that every decision the administration has made falls into one of three categories: a) wrong; b) tragically wrong; or c) you've-got-to-be-kidding-me wrong."
Let's all hold hands, like Chimpie does with Saudi Kings
Gilly Gonzylon, Alphalpha Male |
06.23.07 - 10:31 pm | #
Let's all hold hands, like Chimpie does with Saudi Kings
I ain't kissin' ya, tho...
NTodd, Boring MEQUA |
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06.23.07 - 10:31 pm | #
Of course, more than four years after Bush launched the war, we now know that every decision the administration has made falls into one of three categories: a) wrong; b) tragically wrong; or c) you've-got-to-be-kidding-me wrong."
Of course, more than four years after Bush launched the war, we now know that every decision the administration has made falls into one of three categories: a) wrong; b) tragically wrong; or c) you've-got-to-be-kidding-me wrong."
Putting newly graduated college Republicans in charge of billions of dollars of aid was a stroke of genius. They turned Iraq into a free market paradise that was the envy of the world.
Richard |
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06.23.07 - 10:33 pm | #
Fuck, it looks like Operation Arrowhead Ripper is working and will lead to a turning point in Iraq.
(That was mine but what do I know, I am just a dirty fucking hippy?)
DWD |
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06.23.07 - 10:34 pm | #
(That was mine but what do I know, I am just a dirty fucking hippy?)
DWD
I bow in apologies in your general direction. And dirty fucking hippies know quite a bit, actually....
ellroon |
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06.23.07 - 10:36 pm | #
Frank Rich, "BY this late date we should know the fix is in when the White House’s top factotums fan out on the Sunday morning talk shows singing the same lyrics, often verbatim, from the same hymnal of spin. The pattern was set way back on Sept. 8, 2002, when in simultaneous appearances three cabinet members and the vice president warned darkly of Saddam’s aluminum tubes. “We don’t want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud,” said Condi Rice, in a scripted line. The hard sell of the war in Iraq — the hyping of a (fictional) nuclear threat to America — had officially begun.
America wasn’t paying close enough attention then. We can’t afford to repeat that blunder now. Last weekend the latest custodians of the fiasco, our new commander in Iraq, Gen. David Petraeus, and our new ambassador to Baghdad, Ryan Crocker, took to the Sunday shows with two messages we’d be wise to heed.
The first was a confirmation of recent White House hints that the long-promised September pivot point for judging the success of the “surge” was inoperative. That deadline had been asserted as recently as April 24 by President Bush, who told Charlie Rose that September was when we’d have “a pretty good feel” whether his policy “made sense.” On Sunday General Petraeus and Mr. Crocker each downgraded September to merely a “snapshot” of progress in Iraq. “Snapshot,” of course, means “Never mind!”
The second message was more encoded and more ominous. Again using similar language, the two men said that in September they would explain what Mr. Crocker called “the consequences” and General Petraeus “the implications” of any alternative “courses of action” to their own course in Iraq. What this means in English is that when the September “snapshot” of the surge shows little change in the overall picture, the White House will say that “the consequences” of winding down the war would be even more disastrous: surrender, defeat, apocalypse now. So we must stay the surge. Like the war’s rollout in 2002, the new propaganda offensive to extend and escalate the war will be exquisitely timed to both the anniversary of 9/11 and a high-stakes Congressional vote (the Pentagon appropriations bill)"
I really gotta do something about the mice. The sounds in the other room sound more like Sasquatch.
whiskey girl, a-go-go |
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06.23.07 - 10:38 pm | #
Pretty much what we've all been saying for months, if not years. I know I have.
War criminals.
SteveLG | 06.23.07 - 10:38 pm | #
And we can thank our jellyfish leaders in part.
Gilly Gonzylon, Alphalpha Male |
06.23.07 - 10:40 pm | #
Here is Maureen Dowd as well. I guess I am bored and since I can, I might as well. (NTodd actually does this better than me. When he does his, I will take mine down in deference)
oMG. Not the jessie davis I know.
Never in my life!
She was not on the Hindenberg or the Challenger.
She wasn't even alive then. This is awful. Oh, the inhumanity.
Oh, it were that Jessie Davis. Too bad about her.
vox clamantis in red state |
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06.23.07 - 10:42 pm | #
I really gotta do something about the mice. The sounds in the other room sound more like Sasquatch.
whiskey girl, a-go-go
Real mice? Or the patter of small human feets?
Real mice... hire a cat...
ellroon |
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06.23.07 - 10:42 pm | #
DWD - I say let a thousand Firewall Fairies bloom! The more of us who post the better--makes it harder for them to crack down.
I guess I should get cracking, but I've been trying to figure out tomorrow's 198 Sundays post at Pax, and edit some pix.
NTodd, Boring MEQUA |
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06.23.07 - 10:42 pm | #
Hey whiskey, your myspace song needs more dynamic compression. Run the original WAV or AIFF file through the free Audacity sound processor and choose the compressor effect.
I have those, too. I have a glass jar of cashews, with one of those glass lids that has a rubber ring under it. The mice have tried to chew off the rubber ring. It looks lace-edged now.
They don't seem to go away, whatever I do. I may have to get an exterminator.
Echidne of the snakes |
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06.23.07 - 10:48 pm | #
Ntodd,
The idea of the NY Times to limit their newspaper's columnists is about as silly as I can imagine. I had no problem with them charging for researching their back issues and stuff. That is a legitimate expense for them. But trying to limit the public's access to what they are trying to get them to read seems odd.
But the other day when someone posted a link to SICKO, I had no interest in going there. Michael Moore made a move to charge people to see. I have no problem for paying to see it. That is what you do.
Music? Not so much. The musicians are certainly welcome to tour. I would pay good money to see them perform if they would come within 90 miles of where I live. But they never (or seldom) do.
So, I am messed up I guess. But the mores the merrier I guess.
DWD |
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06.23.07 - 10:49 pm | #
CBS' "Face the Nation" — Former New York Mayor Ed Koch; political consultant Ed Rollins; actor Sam Waterston.
NBC's "Meet the Press" — Former presidential candidate Pat Buchanan; Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill.
ABC's "This Week" — Sens. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., and Jeff Sessions, R-Ala.; actor David Hyde Pierce.
CNN's "Late Edition" — Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon ;Sen. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas
Nguyen Minh Triet, Vietnamese President
Nabil Fahmy, Egyptian Ambassador to U.S.
Sallai Meridor, Israeli Ambassador to U.S.
Dennis Ross, Former U.S. Special Envoy; author, “Statecraft”
Bill Schneider, CNN Senior Political Analyst
Elaine Quijano, CNN White House Correspondent
Joe Johns, CNN Correspondent
Ralph Nader, Former Presidential Candidate
Which song, Gilly? The first three on the page were live recordings a fan made more than a year ago, and the last song a friend recorded for me years and years ago. Sadly, that's all I got so far. And I'm so much better now!! I'll mess with compression or whatever when I actually have good recordings to work with.
And thanks again for listening, I do appreciate it.
whiskey girl, a-go-go |
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06.23.07 - 10:49 pm | #
They don't seem to go away, whatever I do. I may have to get an exterminator.
Echidne of the snakes
If they are breeding where you cannot get them, then there will be an endless supply. Just be wary of the droppings because of the Hantavirus. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hantavirus
ellroon |
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06.23.07 - 10:52 pm | #
They don't seem to go away, whatever I do.
I recommend a good length of 1" steel pipe.
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QuentinCompson |
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06.23.07 - 10:52 pm | #
NTodd - we decided to get the Spamalot tickets: good seats, too. But we are JAZZED about Young Frankenstein's World Premiere here.
WalterNeff, now with lanolin |
06.23.07 - 10:52 pm | #
Hee. It's just a guess 'cause the neighbor's tree is on top of my roof at this point and I saw a squirrel using a branch as a highway to my house the other day.
Echidne--the most I've done to try to get rid of mine is leave a bunch of packages of traps out for a friend who was staying at my house while I was out of town. He didn't take the hint, though.
whiskey girl, a-go-go |
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06.23.07 - 10:53 pm | #
Loreena. I love beautiful music. (Maybe you do as well?)
And thanks again for listening, I do appreciate it.
whiskey girl, a-go-go | Homepage | 06.23.07 - 10:49 pm | #
Sure, my pleasure. aYUP.
Gilly Gonzylon, Alphalpha Male |
06.23.07 - 10:55 pm | #
From P O'Neill's link:
"Memo: Yes, we are still fighting terrorists of Al Qaida in Iraq in Haditha. (“Fighting terrorists associated with Al Qaida” is stronger language than “serving.” The American people will side more with someone actively fighting a terrorist organization that is tied to 9/11 than with someone who is idly “serving,” like in a way one “serves” a casserole. It’s semantics, but in reporting and journalism, words spin the story.)"
Holy shit. That gave me goosebumps.
V for Virginia |
06.23.07 - 10:55 pm | #
June 23, 2007
The Only Way
A little Instapundit post like this one can cause such a reaction from my little blog bitch Olliver Willis and Kevin Drum at Washington Monthly......is......there must be some truth to it. Stuff just doesn't get that kind of reaction unless you feel guilty about err something, like say maybe selling out your country for political gain?
Fighting the Liberal Enemy |
06.23.07 - 11:03 pm | #
The Boston Globe is doing a seven part series on Mitt Romney. Part one deals with a fatal car accident in which young Mitt was the driver. I thought I was up to speed on all things Mitt-licious but I didn't know about it. Doesn't appear he was at fault.
Also, it appears Jay Garrity, the Mitt staffer who impersonated a trooper to complain about a driver, has a suspended license. Probably too busy driving Mitt around to take care of fifty parking tickets.
Neponset |
06.23.07 - 11:06 pm | #
Slow time. Dad died.
cosmic tumbler
What?
V for Virginia
My father died today.
cosmic tumbler |
06.23.07 - 11:07 pm | #
Did anyone explain why Atrios was killing hamsters?
ellroon
I think it was when he linked to Sadly, No! and the site went kerflooey.
V for Virginia |
06.23.07 - 11:07 pm | #
I'm so sorry. Had he been ill?
V for Virginia |
06.23.07 - 11:07 pm | #
My father died today.
Oh shit, I'm so sorry, tumbler. Peace be with you.
NTodd, Boring MEQUA |
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06.23.07 - 11:08 pm | #
I'm so sorry. Had he been ill?
V for Virginia
No. It was sudden. But, he was 85.
cosmic tumbler |
06.23.07 - 11:08 pm | #
cosmic tumbler,
Rough. Sorry to hear that. One of the hardest days ever. Be well. Take care. Remember the good times.
DWD |
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06.23.07 - 11:09 pm | #
No. It was sudden. But, he was 85.
cosmic tumbler
Really, truly sorry. It's a shock, isn't it? I hope his passing was smooth.
V for Virginia |
06.23.07 - 11:09 pm | #
Thanks for all the nice comments. The real tragedy was my mother's loss. They were together for over 60 years. Sorry, I don't mean to create a downer.
cosmic tumbler |
06.23.07 - 11:10 pm | #
No. It was sudden. But, he was 85.
cosmic tumbler
Sorry to hear. But dealing with the slow fading of my MIL who needs constant care, going quickly seems so much better.
ellroon |
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06.23.07 - 11:11 pm | #
I don't mean to create a downer.
cosmic tumbler
's OK, nothing more important right now.
I know how hard it is for your mom. It's just awful.
V for Virginia |
06.23.07 - 11:12 pm | #
Cosmic tumbler-
My father has been dead 42 years and 3 days. And I still miss his voice. I have questions I will never know the answers to.
spinoza |
06.23.07 - 11:13 pm | #
El Gato knows all, sees all...
Sallyh, Grandmere Poissonniere |
06.23.07 - 11:13 pm | #
Condolences to you, Cosmic.
Spinoza, you must have been very young when you lost your father, not unlike my baby brother.
21 years later, the loss is very keen for him.
Sallyh, Grandmere Poissonniere |
06.23.07 - 11:14 pm | #
My father died today.
cosmic tumbler
I'm sorry for your loss.
DJ |
06.23.07 - 11:15 pm | #
My father has been dead 42 years and 3 days. And I still miss his voice. I have questions I will never know the answers to.
spinoza
Yes. Thank you, as usual, that is the issue. I'm going to bed now. Thanks again.
cosmic tumbler |
06.23.07 - 11:15 pm | #
. I'm going to bed now. Thanks again.
cosmic tumbler
take care of yourself.
V for Virginia |
06.23.07 - 11:16 pm | #
I was 14. The hospital would not allow juveniles into his ward. He died next to his wife and older sister. But he was denied any visits from his children. I sat in a Frisch's Big Boy across from the hospital while he died.
spinoza |
06.23.07 - 11:19 pm | #
cosmic tumbler: you & your family have my sympathies. I know how it is to lose the parent, a feeling of surprise (even when it is expected, imminent even) and a deep sense of being alone that persists...
...but it pales next to losing someone with whom you spent 2/3 of your life as an equal. That has to be staggering.
take care of each other, best you can
nick carraway |
06.23.07 - 11:20 pm | #
Spinoza, that royally sucks.
My baby brother was the one that found my father dead when he went to the parents' bedroom for the TV Guide.
Sallyh, Grandmere Poissonniere |
06.23.07 - 11:21 pm | #
Sallyh-
None of us get out of this alive. Good existential philosophy and therapy is how to think about that. Good living is how to deal with it. I find both very challenging. I want to die happy, singing, awake, not pushed off in some sad ward.
spinoza |
06.23.07 - 11:27 pm | #
Spinoza, Matt was your age, 14.
And as difficult as it was for him, he knows that at least my da died in his own bed, after a wonderful night out, with good food and drink, and that ten days before he died, my da said he'd gotten to do everything he ever wanted.
Sallyh, Grandmere Poissonniere |
06.23.07 - 11:28 pm | #
the rough part is accepting how little control one really has over how he/she exits this mortal coil...
nick carraway |
06.23.07 - 11:29 pm | #
*lol* Sold out their country for political and financial gain? Hmmm... sounds like Halliburton and the Mercenaries and the young Whoritage Foundation-wanna-bes.
How many millions and millions and millions of dollars are missing and unwilling to be accounted for, Busheviks?
Tom - 大肚腩 |
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06.23.07 - 11:29 pm | #
My father died today.
I am sorry for your trouble. May you know peace.
Thers |
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06.23.07 - 11:29 pm | #
the rough part is accepting how little control one really has over how he/she exits this mortal coil...
This may be your last chance to share an Alaska cruise with John Bolton, Jonah Goldberg, Ramesh Ponneru, and so many, many other wise, virile and patriotastic folk.
I want to die happy, singing, awake, not pushed off in some sad ward.
spinoza
My dad managed this, very nearly: dropped dead of a heart attack while playing the accordion with his little Musicians Union-sponsored band that entertained at nursing homes on Sundays.
Now it was a very hot day even for July in east central Illinois, and we heard the airconditioning in the place was rather on the fritz. But in fact I think it is more notable that he died on what would have been my little brother's 19th birthday, had said brother not himself died of bone cancer less than two years before.
He was a great guy in a lot of ways but had very little capacity for dealing with "hard" emotions like anger and grief. My brother's illness and death just took all the life out of Dad and not even the birth of his first grandchild could turn it around. I will always believe that he "thunk" himself to death and departed with nothing more than a sense of relief that his own pain was ending.
Xan |
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06.23.07 - 11:36 pm | #
I want to die writing a blog post making fun of Ace of Spades.
Thers |
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06.23.07 - 11:37 pm | #
Xan: that sounds very familiar. My father was much the same way.
nick carraway |
06.23.07 - 11:39 pm | #
I want to die writing a blog post making fun of Ace of Spades.
Thers |
Well that limits the day you die to any day of the week, any week of the year.
Tom - 大肚腩 |
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06.23.07 - 11:40 pm | #
I want to die writing a blog post making fun of Ace of Spades.
Thers
I wonder how many have already checked out, from apoplexy, watching the little Blogger wheel spin, and spin, and spin after having just hit "publish"....
Xan |
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06.23.07 - 11:42 pm | #
Doesn't The Nation put on one of those Alaskan cruises, too? Seems very fricken bizzare to me... be kinda funny if they crossed paths-- "avast, me hearties!"
nick carraway |
06.23.07 - 11:42 pm | #
This may be your last chance to share an Alaska cruise with John Bolton, Jonah Goldberg, Ramesh Ponneru, and so many, many other wise, virile and patriotastic folk.
Bolton is going to visit his Walrus family
Gilly Gonzylon, Alphalpha Male |
06.23.07 - 11:43 pm | #
Thomas Friedman at NYT hits the Senate Repugs hard on the new lax energy bill. He hopes the House can toughen it up in their version of the thing.
Sen. Markey -“We are the only major country in the world where no one even knows the name of the environment minister — the head of our Environmental Protection Agency,” said Representative Edward Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat. “Whoever it is — and most people don’t even know if it is a he or a she — has been in a six-year witness protection program. Until the Democrats took over, no Bush E.P.A. administrator appeared before the House committee in charge of energy and climate change.”
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Agent Orange |
06.23.07 - 11:43 pm | #
Doesn't The Nation put on one of those Alaskan cruises, too? Seems very fricken bizzare to me... be kinda funny if they crossed paths-- "avast, me hearties!"
nick carraway
Yes and Ralph Nader is one of the 'celebrity' names.
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Agent Orange |
06.23.07 - 11:45 pm | #
Jesus fuck,
They're sailing right into the 12th century.
angryspittle |
06.23.07 - 11:45 pm | #
I wonder how many have already checked out, from apoplexy, watching the little Blogger wheel spin, and spin, and spin after having just hit "publish"....
The technical term is "the Rich Tapestry of Existence."
Thers |
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06.23.07 - 11:45 pm | #
Doesn't The Nation put on one of those Alaskan cruises, too? Seems very fricken bizzare to me... be kinda funny if they crossed paths-- "avast, me hearties!"
Someone told me that the cruises are what makes money for the political opinion magazines these days.
Echidne of the snakes |
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06.23.07 - 11:47 pm | #
People hate being wrong. And that's a big reason the 26%ers exist.
Gilly Gonzylon, Alphalpha Male |
06.23.07 - 11:47 pm | #
True. And most of that 26 percent are members of the MSM, who, in their eyes, are never wrong.
Janeane The Acerbic Goblin |
06.23.07 - 11:48 pm | #
A three hour tour, a three hour tour
Gilly Gonzylon, Alphalpha Male |
06.23.07 - 11:50 pm | #
Doesn't The Nation put on one of those Alaskan cruises, too? Seems very fricken bizzare to me... be kinda funny if they crossed paths-- "avast, me hearties!"
nick carraway
Hmm, I wonder what Greenpeace would charge us to rent the Rainbow Warrior for a week or so (assuming it's not locked up by whatever nation is currently trying to sue them out of existence.)
I've got a nice black velvet cape, some black eye patches left over from various occular misadventures, and i bet Darryl can get us some black powder cannon, and if we rope the SCA in on the deal they could probably provide some pikes and belaying pins and sabers and blunderbusses and the like....
...no, no. Shame on me for such thought. Bad Xan. Piracy is evil. I must go do a Dobby and shut my ears in the oven door now.
Xan |
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06.23.07 - 11:50 pm | #
http://www.nationcruise.com/
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Agent Orange |
Had me going until I saw Nader's name. ewwww...
Tom - 大肚腩 |
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06.23.07 - 11:50 pm | #
"ICEBERG !!!!"
"Let's rearrange the deck chairs" - Bolton
Gilly Gonzylon, Alphalpha Male |
06.23.07 - 11:51 pm | #
cosmic tumbler,
just checked in and saw your news.
My deepest condolences to you and yours.
watertiger, snarkywarky |
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06.23.07 - 11:52 pm | #
People hate being wrong. And that's a big reason the 26%ers exist.
Ayup.
Many people would rather die than be wrong. And when I say "many people", I mean small minded, unevolved conservatives.
Mr French |
06.23.07 - 11:52 pm | #
True. And most of that 26 percent are members of the MSM, who, in their eyes, are never wrong.
Janeane The Acerbic Goblin | 06.23.07 - 11:48 pm | #
Hi J
Gilly Gonzylon, Alphalpha Male |
06.23.07 - 11:52 pm | #
Someone told me that the cruises are what makes money for the political opinion magazines these days.
Really?
How about a "substitute Eschaton posters cruise!"
"Splash around the Caribbean with Avedon Echidne and Attaturk! Thers may also be invited!"
Thers |
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06.23.07 - 11:52 pm | #
Hi J
Gilly Gonzylon, Alphalpha Male | 06.23.07 - 11:52 pm | #
Count me in, matey
DWD |
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06.23.07 - 11:53 pm | #
Many people would rather die than be wrong. And when I say "many people", I mean small minded, unevolved conservatives.
Mr French | 06.23.07 - 11:52 pm | #
You knew my ex strife?
Gilly Gonzylon, Alphalpha Male |
06.23.07 - 11:53 pm | #
cosmic tumbler, may your dad be in peace. May you and all others who loved him be in peace.
Echidne of the snakes |
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06.23.07 - 11:53 pm | #
Many people would rather die than be wrong. And when I say "many people", I mean small minded, unevolved conservatives.
Mr French
I wish they'd get on with it then....
ellroon |
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06.23.07 - 11:53 pm | #
How about a "substitute Eschaton posters cruise!"
"Splash around the Caribbean with Avedon Echidne and Attaturk! Thers may also be invited!"
If only! My life would be complete.
Echidne of the snakes |
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06.23.07 - 11:53 pm | #
"Splash around the Caribbean with Avedon Echidne and Attaturk! Thers may also be invited!"
Thers |
Book early before all cabins are filled with Thers and Molly's children.
Tom - 大肚腩 |
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06.23.07 - 11:54 pm | #
I want to die writing a blog post making fun of Ace of Spades.
I want to die laughing in my sleep.
watertiger, snarkywarky |
Homepage |
06.23.07 - 11:54 pm | #
Well, that National Review cruise would be a terrible way to die... jebus, what a pack of dolts. Believe I'd rather sail with Capt. Stubing & Gopher, or even the Skipper & Gilligan.
nick carraway |
06.23.07 - 11:54 pm | #
I saw a break dancin' outfit in Union Square tonight. Made me want to see Breakin'.
Not really...
Janeane The Acerbic Goblin |
06.23.07 - 11:54 pm | #
wapo blows cheney [and gives bush a thigh massage] in a massive 3 parter:
Today: Part 1
Working in the Background
A master of bureaucracy and detail, Cheney exerts most of his influence out of public view.
The vice president's reputation and, some say, his influence, have suffered in the past year and a half. Cheney lost his closest aide, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, to a perjury conviction, and his onetime mentor, Donald H. Rumsfeld, in a Cabinet purge. A shooting accident in Texas, and increasing gaps between his rhetoric and events in Iraq, have exposed him to ridicule and approval ratings in the teens. Cheney expresses indifference, in public and private, to any verdict but history's, and those close to him say he means it. http://blog.washingtonpost.com/c...ters/chapter_1/
cheney is a "master of bureaucracy and detail"? If by "master of bureaucracy and detail" they mean does whatever the fuck he pleases then yeah.
hadenough |
06.23.07 - 11:54 pm | #
Believe I'd rather sail with Capt. Stubing & Gopher, or even the Skipper & Gilligan.
nick carraway | 06.23.07 - 11:54 pm | #
Thank you !
Gilly Gonzylon, Alphalpha Male |
06.23.07 - 11:55 pm | #
The Nation vs National Review cruises are run by the same line. Identical webpage templates. The cheap berths are sold out in the Nation cruise not in the NR cruise. Plus the Deluxe singles on the NR ship are 50 % more than the Nation cruise.
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Agent Orange |
06.23.07 - 11:55 pm | #
Believe I'd rather sail with Capt. Stubing & Gopher, or even the Skipper & Gilligan.
nick carraway | 06.23.07 - 11:54 pm |
Capt. Wrong way Peachfuzz has been right more often than the entire passenger manifest of the NRO cruise.
Tom - 大肚腩 |
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06.23.07 - 11:56 pm | #
CNN has a special on food safety, with packaged spinach singled out as a supervillain. I like that there's an organic produce company called Natural Selection
Even funnier was the food safety activist who called spinach "Katrina on a plate." Some people really hate spinach
Space |
06.23.07 - 11:57 pm | #
all the commenters will be dragged in dinghies behind the luxury liner.
I thought the annoying 'A-list' commenters at least got to water ski?
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Agent Orange |
06.23.07 - 11:58 pm | #
Even funnier was the food safety activist who called spinach "Katrina on a plate." Some people really hate spinach
Space | 06.23.07 - 11:57 pm | #
"Katrina on a plate"...hehehehe..
Janeane The Acerbic Goblin |
06.23.07 - 11:58 pm | #
Old joke: Captain to the galley Slaves, "I have good news and bad news. The captain's daughter has invited you to her sixteenth birthday party but she wants to water ski. . . .
DWD |
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06.23.07 - 11:59 pm | #
There's a new neighbor just learning how to write songs on acoustic. Boring, bad, songs, obsessed with the G chord. I'm thinking of cranking up Revolution 9.
Gilly Gonzylon, Alphalpha Male |
06.24.07 - 12:00 am | #
"Historee Ain't Shit to Me" - Oh, brother...
Gilly Gonzylon, Alphalpha Male |
06.24.07 - 12:01 am | #
"Most speakers made very sincere efforts at hospitality- a most special plus for National Review"
"I enjoyed the cigar smokers and the cocktail parties for the accessiblity to the speakers"
plus Bill Buckley & his sister, playing the Howells.
nick carraway |
06.24.07 - 12:01 am | #
Agent Orange, and here, I thought the A list bloggers were to be flogged with a cat o'nine tails.
Sallyh, Grandmere Poissonniere |
06.24.07 - 12:01 am | #
Gilly Gonzylon, Alphalpha Male | 06.24.07 - 12:00 am | #
Go for it. My favorite Beatles track (not really, but I like Revolution #9 once in a while).
Janeane The Acerbic Goblin |
06.24.07 - 12:02 am | #
Go for it. My favorite Beatles track (not really, but I like Revolution #9 once in a while).
Janeane The Acerbic Goblin | 06.24.07 - 12:02 am | #
"They are standing still"
Gilly Gonzylon, Alphalpha Male |
06.24.07 - 12:03 am | #
Instant eyesore on the Parkway.
I'll like it better if they completely surround it with tall evergreen trees.
I'll bet I can make you talk like an Indian
Gilly Gonzylon, Alphalpha Male
When and where?
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Agent Orange |
06.24.07 - 12:08 am | #
The Ballad of John and Yoko is one of my favorite Beatle tracks.
Janeane The Acerbic Goblin | 06.24.07 - 12:07 am | #
Performed only by John and Paul, interestingly enough.
Gilly Gonzylon, Alphalpha Male |
06.24.07 - 12:08 am | #
I like "Paperback Writer" and "Tomorrow Never Knows"
Gilly Gonzylon, Alphalpha Male |
06.24.07 - 12:10 am | #
I know this is sacreligious, but I'm not a Beatles fan. My cats hate them, too.
Sallyh, Grandmere Poissonniere |
06.24.07 - 12:11 am | #
Mister X, no, but Bush has fucked up on one.
Sallyh, Grandmere Poissonniere |
06.24.07 - 12:11 am | #
Gilly Gonzylon, Alphalpha Male | 06.24.07 - 12:08 am | #
I know. Paul's not a bad drummer, but he's no Ringo.
Janeane The Acerbic Goblin |
06.24.07 - 12:11 am | #
I know this is sacreligious, but I'm not a Beatles fan. My cats hate them, too.
Sallyh, Grandmere Poissonniere | 06.24.07 - 12:11 am | #
Of course, with songs like "Hey Bulldog"
Gilly Gonzylon, Alphalpha Male |
06.24.07 - 12:12 am | #
I know. Paul's not a bad drummer, but he's no Ringo.
Janeane The Acerbic Goblin | 06.24.07 - 12:11 am | #
Macca also plays the drums on "Back in the USSR"
Gilly Gonzylon, Alphalpha Male |
06.24.07 - 12:12 am | #
Sallyh: what do the cats like?
nick carraway |
06.24.07 - 12:13 am | #
Mister X, no, but Bush has fucked up on one.
Sallyh, Grandmere Poissonniere
HA! White man can't segue.
How's tricks? We Xs are all good lately... disposing of vehicles, enjoying good kite weather, playing Competition Badminton, etc.
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MisterX |
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06.24.07 - 12:13 am | #
Sallyh: what do the cats like?
nick carraway | 06.24.07 - 12:13 am | #
Mrs Miller, I'll wager
Gilly Gonzylon, Alphalpha Male |
06.24.07 - 12:14 am | #
My cat likes Bertolucci's The Conformist a lot. He watched it for a couple of minutes, which for him is a long time.
Janeane The Acerbic Goblin |
06.24.07 - 12:14 am | #
sallyh - Oooh, and saw the relics of Tut in Atrios' town. Cool friggin' beans.
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MisterX |
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06.24.07 - 12:14 am | #
My cat likes Bertolucci's The Conformist a lot. He watched it for a couple of minutes, which for him is a long time.
Janeane The Acerbic Goblin | 06.24.07 - 12:14 am | #
What, no blog with pics ?
Gilly Gonzylon, Alphalpha Male |
06.24.07 - 12:15 am | #
Musically, my cats don't mind soul. They really hate the Beatles, though. And Springsteen, for some reason.
Sallyh, Grandmere Poissonniere |
06.24.07 - 12:15 am | #
Gilly Gonzylon, Alphalpha Male | 06.24.07 - 12:15 am | #
Not yet. Someday soon, we hope.
Janeane The Acerbic Goblin |
06.24.07 - 12:16 am | #
My favorite part of the 40th anniversary issue of Rolling Stone was when Wenner, in his interview of Dylan, lobbed in a big ol' softball question designed to get Dylan talking about how great Lennon was.
Bob took the opportunity to praise *McCartney* to the skies, which, with any luck, frustrated the hell out of Wenner.
nick carraway |
06.24.07 - 12:17 am | #
Most yucky term of 2007, as voted:
"We're Pregnant"
Gilly Gonzylon, Alphalpha Male |
06.24.07 - 12:18 am | #
nick carraway | 06.24.07 - 12:17 am | #
That's how you handle a reporter, when you know they're leading you somewhere. Throw him a curveball right at his head.
A lot of artists/entertainers (some who I really admire) get caught in that trap, and they say things they don't really agree with.
Janeane The Acerbic Goblin |
06.24.07 - 12:19 am | #
nick carraway | 06.24.07 - 12:17 am | #
Wenner - "What do you think of Macca?"
Dylan - "He's got everything he needs, he's an artist, he don't look back"
Gilly Gonzylon, Alphalpha Male |
06.24.07 - 12:20 am | #
I know this is sacreligious, but I'm not a Beatles fan. My cats hate them, too.
(No disrespect for Beatles fans)
I was telling my sister I ordered the Stones circus DVD from around'68. She started laughting, and told me about my nephew.
Nephew and wife were visiting sister, and wife starts talking about the Beatles. My nephew looked at his wife like she just farted or said she loved Bush, and said, "we are Stones people".
Chris/tx |
06.24.07 - 12:20 am | #
"We're Pregnant"
Gilly Gonzylon, Alphalpha Male
I was pretty sure it was just MissusX who was the pregnant one, and I was just there so that she would have something soft to bite into to ease the pain...
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MisterX |
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06.24.07 - 12:20 am | #
"We're Pregnant"
Gilly Gonzylon,
Well, I'll have to give you that one on the assumption that "We're trying...." was taken in some previous year
Jim |
06.24.07 - 12:21 am | #
Chris/tx | 06.24.07 - 12:20 am | #
The performance by the Who that night eclipses all the other groups.
Gilly Gonzylon, Alphalpha Male |
06.24.07 - 12:21 am | #
Chris, we, too, are Stones people
Sallyh, Grandmere Poissonniere |
06.24.07 - 12:23 am | #
Wow. The Conformist. One of my favorite movies.
Zealot |
06.24.07 - 12:23 am | #
I always wondered what Keith Moon poured on the drums to get that spray effect... didn't look like water, but maybe it was... anything stronger he would have drank, I think.
nick carraway |
06.24.07 - 12:24 am | #
My cats hate movies. The dog is bored by anything that doesn't bark.
Sallyh, Grandmere Poissonniere |
06.24.07 - 12:25 am | #
Gilly Gonzylon, Alphalpha Male | 06.24.07 - 12:23 am | #
I was just watching that...
Janeane The Acerbic Goblin |
06.24.07 - 12:25 am | #
Zealot | 06.24.07 - 12:23 am | #
Bertolucci rules, for the most part. The Conformist, The Last Emperor, The Sheltering Sky, 1900, Last Tango in Paris...
Janeane The Acerbic Goblin |
06.24.07 - 12:26 am | #
I always wondered what Keith Moon poured on the drums to get that spray effect... didn't look like water, but maybe it was... anything stronger he would have drank, I think.
nick carraway | 06.24.07 - 12:24 am | #
Heh. And the faces he makes are great. Moon only solos. It's hilarious.
Gilly Gonzylon, Alphalpha Male |
06.24.07 - 12:26 am | #
nick carraway | 06.24.07 - 12:24 am | #
There is a Moon biopic in development, and Mike Myers is supposed to play him.
I'm not sure if that's a good idea...
It's been in development for a while, and it still is.
Janeane The Acerbic Goblin |
06.24.07 - 12:26 am | #
Mmmmkay. Best to you, sallyh... gotta go plumb the depths of my debaucherie...
And that was milk on Keith's heads.
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MisterX |
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06.24.07 - 12:27 am | #
Gilly - I just saw part of it on PBS, but all the reviews say the same, the Who stole the show. And Simels said I would enjoy it...
Chris/tx |
06.24.07 - 12:27 am | #
Janeane The Acerbic Goblin | 06.24.07 - 12:26 am |
Yeah but not Last Tango. Ranked right down there with Death in Venice as worst movies ever.
Zealot |
06.24.07 - 12:27 am | #
Yeah but not Last Tango. Ranked right down there with Death in Venice as worst movies ever.
Zealot | 06.24.07 - 12:27 am | #
How DARE you? Heh. Suture Self
Gilly Gonzylon, Alphalpha Male |
06.24.07 - 12:29 am | #
I feel the same way about the Who as Sallyh does about the Beatles. I never understood the attraction.
Mr French |
06.24.07 - 12:29 am | #
I feel the same way about the Who as Sallyh does about the Beatles. I never understood the attraction.
Mr French | 06.24.07 - 12:29 am | #
Don't you have a phone call to attend to, French ?
Gilly Gonzylon, Alphalpha Male |
06.24.07 - 12:30 am | #
Milk? I sort of thought so... & Mike Myers is way the hell too old to play Keith Moon-- unless the movie's going to stick to the last, Elvis-esque phase.
nick carraway |
06.24.07 - 12:31 am | #
Wanker of the day thread above
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06.24.07 - 12:31 am | #
Zealot | 06.24.07 - 12:27 am | #
Last Tango AND Death in Venice are very good films.
Janeane The Acerbic Goblin |
06.24.07 - 12:31 am | #
Don't you have a phone call to attend to, French ?
Thankfully, I'm done.
Oh, and lest I forget... go to hell Gilly!
Mr French |
06.24.07 - 12:32 am | #
Oh, and lest I forget... go to hell Gilly!
Mr French | 06.24.07 - 12:32 am | #
LOL
Gilly Gonzylon, Alphalpha Male |
06.24.07 - 12:33 am | #
Can't imagine Myers duplicating Moon's amazing technique, even with stunt doubles and clever editing, and Myers doesn't have any depth as an actor, so it's going to mostly an "impression", rather than a performance.
Janeane The Acerbic Goblin |
06.24.07 - 12:34 am | #