I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
'morning!
/thanks, Molly!
hey peeps.
So what's the proper scrabulous etiquette.
I was fooling around with the letters on the board and pressed play and the stoopit game took the word. I figured wtf, I was pretty sure it wasn't a word and JeffCo successfully challenged it. I've apologized. Can you unplay a word? Do I need to be banned from the game now? A hundred lashes with a wet noodle?
I feel quite contrite.
...
Oy haloscan already messing with me.
Thanks, Molly
pax
Hi, V4VA.
Pinktoe outbreak at http://cabdrollery.blogspot.com
Ruth
The blessed cats of peace are always welcome.
pax
Rep. Renzi (R-AZ), McCain,
true buddies.
http://democrats.org/a/2008/02/r..._renzi_r-
az.php
Hmmm that might make a good poster to stick up on a wingnut bulletin board I've noticed a couple miles away.
Ha, you beat me, I was gonna post this thrilling adventure story I found at Crooks and Liars.
ah, now we are up here
I can't take my own first; that's cheating.
Doug - I love your grav. What is it?
pax
Hah! That letter from the blue states that sinfonian blogged made me laugh.
ql,
The ways of Scrabulous are strange (and JeffCO loves to challenge, I hear).
like the video, avedon, it's scaring fluffy tho.
That gravatar was some sort of insect I saw swarming around my grape vine last winter. This winter has been colder so I've not seen them since, nor have i found where I put the original hi-rez pictures of it. They were iridescently blue, glinting from the light blue you see in the gravatar, to an almost ultra-violet black.
So no, I don't know what they are. Might be a moth of some kind due to the barbed tufts at the end of it's antenna.
Pinktoe outbreak at http://cabdrollery.blogspot.com
Ruth
So sweet!
Mr. V got the eagle pix up. They were really far away, so they're not great, but there they are:
http://www.wildflphoto.com/anima...animal.php?
id=5
Arabella, appreciate your comment, and I must make sure FeralL sees it too. good cat pics on his flicker site, which I have up at the homepage.
V, I challenged you.
ql -- I haven't played a challenge game, so I don't know what you do when challenged.
wunnderful, V4VA, eagles are always far away in my experience. Once was in a tiny car that got chased by a mammoth bald eagle, out in /wyoming, always tho't it would have been awful if he caught us.
Where is this scrabulous game people keep talking about?
nor have i found where I put the original hi-rez pictures of it.
That's a shame, I'd like to have seen it, and shame on you for not immediately posting it to Flickr!
trifecta, I'm about to make blueberry oatmeal - can't make oatmeal now without thinking how it would look on my shirt.
I figured wtf, I was pretty sure it wasn't a word
But, but, that's pretty much my whole method of playing! 
Doug, you have to join facebook, which is free but makes some people squeamish. I'm there under my real name, but plenty of people use their online nyms or versions thereof.
Morning, gang. How goes the triple-word-score thingee?
I'm going to wake up the wife in a couple of hours so we can go look at some desert wildflowers, that are blooming madly in one of the local parks.
I'm embarrassed, but not so embarrassed that I didn't go ahead and play a real bingo on my next turn.
Molly, can't you play from scrabulous.com without facebook? And if so, can you play against fbook people?
Where is this scrabulous game people keep talking about?
Doug
It's a supplemental form of crack a bunch of us have gotten hooked on. On facebook.
I have the anonymous email account that I set up years ago for gravatar. I use that. No doubt I'm probably only a couple of clicks from being outed by someone who knows what they're doing.
{{{{{{filertom}}}}}}}
interesting, seems that IAEA report is out already;
"In this report the Agency once again states unambiguously that it “has been able to continue to verify the non-diversion of declared nuclear material in Iran.”"
http://icga.blogspot.com/
MikeJ,
I think it's a facebook application. Technically illegal, and they keep threatening to shut it down, but so far it's still there. There's another version on Yahoo that's less like the real game, but I find that one really confusing.
Improv Everywhere plays with New York's mind:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j...h?
v=jwMj3PJDxuo
(h/t Dave Kellett)
It's my observation that most places have magical looking scenes, animals, and plants all around us, but so few ever see them.
{{{{{ V4VA }}}}}
hi, filk, got one of those once that made a friend refuse ever to play with me again. oooops
cheer up molly... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R...h?
v=RY1Bl4nfpdA
http://images.google.com.hk/
imag...G=Search+Images
Magnolia Soulangiana.
i was 'here' last night for ten minutes.
it was nauseating.
basically 'toby' was holding court.
every post garnered a reply.
every comment responded to.
the theme was 'toby.'
ludicrous.
I'm going to wake up the wife in a couple of hours so we can go look at some desert wildflowers, that are blooming madly in one of the local parks.
Doug | 02.23.08 - 6:53 am |
I'm sure you'll post pictures?
Almost went out to the Tucson area, since the Florida trip fell through.
Right now, after yet another day of no sun and sleet/snow, I'm not sure why I didn't go out. My aunt would love to see me.
It's my observation that most places have magical looking scenes, animals, and plants all around us, but so few ever see them.
Doug
had one of those just a few days back, in a place where there are lots of old, tall trees, a flock of American robins lighted and just started singing. magical, indeed.
now, oatmeal. brb.
Vicki's in Arizona this week too, I think.
It's my observation that most places have magical looking scenes, animals, and plants all around us, but so few ever see them.
Doug | 02.23.08 - 6:58 am | #
well, vincent van gogh certainly thought so. practically knocked over and swept away by the energies in plants/sky/soil/humanity he depicted as realistic emotionally as possible.
It's my observation that most places have magical looking scenes, animals, and plants all around us, but so few ever see them.
Doug
Yes. Like this place that my friend Martin was so enchanted with that his mother and brother decided to scatter his ashes there.
It's a supplemental form of crack a bunch of us have gotten hooked on.
Ain't it the truth.
I'm going out for a run. BBL
I saw visited the McCain campaign store and saw they added a pair of kneepads with the campaign logo on them.
I'm going to shoot pictures with my old fuji camera. I keep looking at newer models of various brands but still can not decide what to get. I like fuji image sensors, panasonic/leica lenses, and overall cannon camera function, but since money is always an issue, cannot decide what to get.
*digital cameras tend to be sort of disposable devices*
Hey, Ruth! [hugs]
Sorry about that, juan, part of that was my fault. I didn't hang out there that much last year, and it'd been so long since I'd seen him I forgot how much of a... problem child he really is.
On the other hand, I was polite, which I think surprised him into being momentarily civil, at least to me.
wunnderful, V4VA, eagles are always far away in my experience. Once was in a tiny car that got chased by a mammoth bald eagle, out in /wyoming, always tho't it would have been awful if he caught us.
Ruth | Homepage | 02.23.08 - 6:49 am | #
what did the eagle think 'he' was chasing?
some sort of 'scurrying insect?"
Buggered the link, it's here:
http://sideshow.me.uk/images/
Mar...nsbluebells.jpg
It's my observation that most places have magical looking scenes, animals, and plants all around us, but so few ever see them.
Doug
Certainly my experience with Florida; people tend to see beaches and the rat that ate Orlando. There's so much natural beauty (and 26% of Florida's land is in public ownership); if that's all you're seeing you're utterly missing the boat.
I'm getting better, fokowi. But as the mood thing lifts, a cold is kicking in, which sucks. I sound like Harvey Fierstein.
well in a strange sort of way the 'toby' issue was a 'boon' to me personally.
instead of getting caught up in something interesting or humourous i simply got the night's sleep I needed.
Avedon -- oooooh. Very nice. Yeah, it's been awhile since I walked around the parks out here -- some very small, but cozy and pleasant. Thank God enough people think calling some place "Ann Arbor" means you should maintain some damn greenery for everyone to enjoy.
the shamanic Ojibway artist Norval Morrisseau saw the 'interconnectedness' of nature's 'spirit' beauty.
quite fantastic.
I think it's a facebook application. Technically illegal, and they keep threatening to shut it down, but so far it's still there.
I double checked, and yes, you can play on their (scrabulouos.com) website. The downside is I don't think you can play against facebook people, and without the social network of people to play against, there's not much point. I guess in the future if people complain about joining facebook they can meet up with other atriots of the same mindset there.
Scrabulous isn't actually illegal. In the US, you cannot copyright the rules of a game. Yes, the rightsholders to Scrabble have made threatening noises, but I don't think they've actually filed suit, merely tried to bully others into giving them something for nothing.
V,
I liked all those little beaches right off the side of the road, heading down into the Keys. Key West, not so much.
Certainly my experience with Florida; people tend to see beaches and the rat that ate Orlando. There's so much natural beauty (and 26% of Florida's land is in public ownership); if that's all you're seeing you're utterly missing the boat.
V for Virginia, home again | Homepage | 02.23.08 - 7:03 am | #
that's where my sister and her family have been this week, they go every year and have been discovering the parks and are quite pleased with them.
http://sideshow.me.uk/images/ Mar...nsbluebells.jpg
Avedon | Homepage | 02.23.08 - 7:02 am | #
what a lovely image
juan -- hey, whatever works. I think I'm just going through a "Why work yourself up about it?" phase. It's exhausting to be angry all the time.
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index.c...Product_ID=2075
Good bye, dear friends
I'm off to do errands.
Be good to each other.
pax
I'm getting better, fokowi. But as the mood thing lifts, a cold is kicking in, which sucks. I sound like Harvey Fierstein.
Molly Ivors, Blue | Homepage | 02.23.08 - 7:04 am | #
my ex would line up the bach flower remedies and have a field day with your 'symptoms.'
I'll never recover from the day Toby, in an attempt to tweak Thers, fantasized about fathering my children. (shudder)
Morning, all. Some asshole neighbourhood kid rang my doorbell at 7 a.m. on a Saturday, wanting some money to shovel the inch of snow on my walk.
Molly, sometimes you write things that nail it so perfectly that I want to bear your children.
Certainly my experience with Florida; people tend to see beaches and the rat that ate Orlando. There's so much natural beauty (and 26% of Florida's land is in public ownership); if that's all you're seeing you're utterly missing the boat.
V for Virginia, home again | Homepage | 02.23.08 - 7:03 am | #
that's where my sister and her family have been this week, they go every year and have been discovering the parks and are quite pleased with them.
Buckeye, Dealer of Rare Coins | 02.23.08 - 7:06 am
I've been getting to know Florida a bit myself, and I love it more and more. Blue Springs State Park, where the manatees come in, is way cool. And last year I was leaving Orlando early in the morning to go down to Fort Lauderdale and pick up a friend getting back from a cruise. The morning fog, with the sun burning through it, made the whole turnpike look like an alien landscape. Amazing.
juan -- hey, whatever works. I think I'm just going through a "Why work yourself up about it?" phase. It's exhausting to be angry all the time.
filkertom | Homepage | 02.23.08 - 7:06 am | #
you are more than right on that one filkertom.
the anger thing is draining for sure.
like a sore on the thumb controlling the brain or something.
i guess I'm guilty of that a lot.
'nurturing' the sore on the thumb.
It's exhausting to be angry all the time.
filkertom
I think that's where the entire country is right now. I'm very concerned though.
Morning, all. Some asshole neighbourhood kid rang my doorbell at 7 a.m. on a Saturday, wanting some money to shovel the inch of snow on my walk.
Moe Szyslak, two-handed! | Homepage | 02.23.08 - 7:09 am
In a perfect world, he'll grow up to be a health insurance salesman, and get his certification the week before universal single-payer puts his entire industry to the side of the road.
MikeJ -- facebook doesn't know a damned thing about me, except who some of my friends are
Morning, all. Some asshole neighbourhood kid rang my doorbell at 7 a.m. on a Saturday, wanting some money to shovel the inch of snow on my walk.
Moe Szyslak, two-handed!
I had a 'job' when I was 14 or 15 selling the weekend paper to motels.
Imagine some kid ringing your room buzzer at 8:30 a.m. after a hard night of drinking with the other 'salesmen' or banging your co-worker on an ill-planned weekend romp.
Thanks, Avedon! That means a lot to me.
I've been feeling overwhelmed and uninspired lately, just trying to get my "me" back.
I'm guilty of it myself, juan. And it's a fair amount of work sometimes not getting worked up, especially here in the U. S. of Chimpy. Just... I got tired of sputtering and running in place, is all. I try to constructively channel what anger I have, and I find I get more done. I know I'm late coming to such a revelation, but at least I did have it.
In a perfect world, he'll grow up to be a health insurance salesman, and get his certification the week before universal single-payer puts his entire industry to the side of the road.
filkertom
er, too late! Unless for some reason the idiot wants to move to the states.
It's exhausting to be angry all the time.
filkertom
I think that's where the entire country is right now. I'm very concerned though.
qlª | Homepage | 02.23.08 - 7:10 am
I know. Gotta keep our guard up, because the true fuckers out there wait for us to nap, or even blink.
I'll never recover from the day Toby, in an attempt to tweak Thers, fantasized about fathering my children. (shudder)
Molly Ivors, Blue | Homepage | 02.23.08 - 7:07 am | #
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oh lord.
sometimes on the subway i look at certain people and imagine a domestic life with them.
maybe even somebody I'm not attracted to for the hell of it.
'do these pleated jeans look nice?'
AFRICOM (from Cab Drollery)
Certainly looks like the Bushies plan to stay around for awhile and reap many benefits. Poor Africa. Poor us probably.
er, too late! Unless for some reason the idiot wants to move to the states.
Moe Szyslak, two-handed! | Homepage | 02.23.08 - 7:13 am
[facepalm] Forgot you were non-US, Moe.
Hello again
sorry got distracted by YouTube heh
Morning, rational people.
Need to run to the store. Back in 15 minutes or so.
I could have worked another 12 or 16 hours this weekend but I politely declined the offer. I'm still somewhat recovering from the flu of a week ago. I'm sleepy these days.
{{{{{ Molly }}}}} Maybe this'll cheer you up a bit.
I'm guilty of it myself, juan. And it's a fair amount of work sometimes not getting worked up, especially here in the U. S. of Chimpy. Just... I got tired of sputtering and running in place, is all. I try to constructively channel what anger I have, and I find I get more done. I know I'm late coming to such a revelation, but at least I did have it.
filkertom | Homepage | 02.23.08 - 7:12 am | #
I totally agree with the consideration that I slip into sputtering far too often.
in fact I think I have several doctorates in sputtering.
and 'spewing.'
Mornin', Moonbootica and Diane!
There's a CBC report of the Americans sending a military plane to fuck with an Air Canada flight coming from Cuba, nearly a mid-air collision. Nothing on their web site yet.
((filk))
You guys are the best, seriously.
It's a shame this country wasted the money and time of the last 7 years, but maybe we'll be ready to use the opportunities of the near future. There's so much that needs to be done.
Diane not taking the LATimes line, that the telcoms were just doing their duty by security, at http://cabdrollery.blogspot.com
hi!
spew on spew
heartache on heartache
and i cant get used
to losing you
spew velvet
bobby vinton
a classic
I've been feeling overwhelmed and uninspired lately, just trying to get my "me" back.
Molly Ivors, Blue | Homepage | 02.23.08 - 7:12 am
Post-MS, Seasonal Affective Disorder, I'm meaner and grumpier than usual. Can't wait for some sun.
Off to errands.
stayed up watching Caravaggio (1986, Directed by Derek Jarman)last night, a strange film, nicely shot though
We'll certainly be justified in dismissing the objections of any wingnuts that care to speak up, as stupid, foolish, and not worthy of consideration.
canadian office workers vacationing in cuba inspired the belgrade riot.
stayed up watching Caravaggio (1986, Directed by Derek Jarman)last night, a strange film, nicely shot though
Moonbootica, Employed | Homepage | 02.23.08 - 7:19 am | #
that sounds like a great film
a classic
juan no no nsense | 02.23.08 - 7:19 am
Spew Moon
Spew Light Up My Life
If Not For Spew
Spew and Ire (from Chess)
and of course, that classic by Meat Loaf:
Spew Out Of Me Ain't Bad
I've been feeling overwhelmed and uninspired lately, just trying to get my "me" back.
Molly Ivors, Blue
the effect of small children, for me, was sometimes feeling like all that energy should be appreciated and used, somehow, and I was just run around the mill by it much too much.
Boobies and bluebells. My kinda mornin'. [sigh]
Where I am hopeful is that Obama is a very inspiring speaker and given the presidential platform, he may be able to persuade people to move to a more progressive agenda. It's not going to be easy and so much depends on how many seats we gain in both houses of Congress. Bringing back the Fairness Doctrine should be step one. My wingnut neighbor thinks so too.
There's a CBC report of the Americans sending a military plane to fuck with an Air Canada flight coming from Cuba, nearly a mid-air collision. Nothing on their web site yet.
Moe Szyslak, two-handed! | Homepage | 02.23.08 - 7:17 am
oh jeebus. what vindictive assholes.
Ruth, the NYTimes has an article that ought to make you happy: Texas has surpassed California in the production of electricity by wind power.
I've been feeling overwhelmed and uninspired lately, just trying to get my "me" back.
Molly Ivors, Blue
a massage by a student at the massage clinic?
a watercolour workshop?
a poetry workshop?
an afternoon alone at a movie?
Westboro Church Told To Share Financial Data
Funeral-Picketing Church Owes $5 Million To Family
Says they don't have the money.
http://www.kmbc.com/news/1538057...571/
detail.html
ql, I'm some one who watches CSpan constantly, and see oratory lots on the floor of congress, it goes very much along with actual principles. I am not afraid Obama is all hat, no cattle - seen enuff of that type.
It's not going to be easy and so much depends on how many seats we gain in both houses of Congress. Bringing back the Fairness Doctrine should be step one. My wingnut neighbor thinks so too.
qlª | Homepage | 02.23.08 - 7:23 am
which is why i'm a bit peeved with so much focus on the Presidential primary as opposed to finding new seats to target.
A chart I saw yesterday gives some reason for optimism regarding our success in the Congressional elections in the fall: currently, 40% of registered voters are registered as Democrats, while only 26% of currently registered voters are Republicans.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0...h?v=0fd-
MVU4vtU
have you seen this great fun on youtube?
Viva Obama!!!
this will wake you up this morning!
Texas has surpassed California in the production of electricity by wind power.
Diane C. Barking-Mad
it's pretty windy around here right now, for sure
If Not For Spew
filkertom | Homepage | 02.23.08 - 7:22 am | #
heh.
bob and george's classic.
the traveling spillburys.
juan - when we lived in the burbs I was always annoyed with Mr. ql cause he didn't tend to the lawn the way the neighbors did. Then I realized that if he were the type to tend to the lawn, he wouldn't be the type I would want to be married to. Thereafter I hired a lawn service outfit and Mr. ql got a pass.
plantsman, we were having a What is a tulip tree in real life? discussion, got any idea?
Thanks, juan. Good suggestions all.
Liriodrendron tulipifera
Tulip trees did spectacularly well in the red-clay Piedmont of North Carolina, not so well in the Far West.
okay, liriope a relative at all?
bye for now
Thereafter I hired a lawn service outfit and Mr. ql got a pass.
qlª | Homepage | 02.23.08 - 7:27 am | #
Good suggestions all.
Molly Ivors, Blue | Homepage | 02.23.08 - 7:29 am | #
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I have a friend in Chicago. A brilliant sculptor. He had completed a major commission and told me he'd probably 'never have another good idea again.' (silly idea of course) And that he was going to do the workbook 'the Artists Way'
which surprised me because he's a total cynic about that sort of thing.
well, hell, I did the workbook.
And one of the (okay this is so corny I know) things the author suggests is weekly 'artists dates' for replenishment.
In this case, as a liriope is a monocotic grass, and a Liriodendron a dicottic tree, I think no close association -- but rather that the name may derive from the Lyre-shaped leaves of the tree, perhaps.
Back later, folks. Hugs all around.
A New York man who withdrew money after a bank error gave him access to a multimillion-dollar account managed by a man with the same name has been charged with grand larceny.
Back in 1980 or so, Wells Fargo mistakenly credited my account $100 too much. I knew exactly how it happened-- it was a data entry mistake when one bank bought out another bank.
I went to the bank three separate times to try to straighten it out, because I knew it could only lead to trouble for me. Finally, the bank manager said it would cost more than $100 for them to fix it, so I should just keep it. I made him write me a letter to that effect, then (I was pretty young at the time) I took the money and hitchiked through Mexico for a week.
In this case, as a liriope is a monocotic grass, and a Liriodendron a dicottic tree, I think no close association -- but rather that the name may derive from the Lyre-shaped leaves of the tree, perhaps.
plantsman, silly | Homepage | 02.23.08 - 7:34 am | #
Did Orpheus like to relax under the Liriodendron?
http://images.google.com.hk/imag...F-8&sa=N&
tab=wi
That produces a yellow flower, which isn't what you were looking for.
see the magnolia soulangiana photos up above.
Of that, juan n n, I have no idea.
the Russian Highway from Hell
http://www.ssqq.com/ARCHIVE/vinl...E/
vinlin27c.htm?
I made him write me a letter to that effect,
good thinking, Moe.
I had a bank deduct the same check from my account twice, took me months and a call to their national hq to straighten it out. I should have charged them for my time./
In bountiful years, the trees would pelt us with the waxy, heavy flowers -- relentlessly, it seemed.
i>stayed up watching Caravaggio (1986, Directed by Derek Jarman)last night, a strange film, nicely shot though
Moonbootica, Employed
Speaking of strange films, we put in the DVD of Holy Mountain last night. I made it about 10 minutes in.
I guess I'm not sophisticated enough for Art.
the Russian Highway from Hell
http://www.ssqq.com/ARCHIVE/vinl...E/ vinlin27c.htm?
Doug | 02.23.08 - 7:37 am | #
good grief!
Nah, Virginia; tis the Nature of Art: some grabs you, some leaves you cold.
Where's hbk - I want to challenge her.
Of that, juan n n, I have no idea.
plantsman, silly | Homepage | 02.23.08 - 7:37 am | #
the lyre-shaped leaves got me thinking...........of orpheus with his lyre.........
Speaking of strange films, we put in the DVD of Holy Mountain last night. I made it about 10 minutes in.
I guess I'm not sophisticated enough for Art.
V for Virginia, home again | Homepage | 02.23.08 - 7:40 am | #
I dont know the film 'Holy Mountain' but everyone has their tastes.
One person's 'sophistication' is another person's 'acid indigestion.'
ql,
Did she ever nail down her transfer?
for Molly;
""There is good evidence to suggest that education will continue having only a moderate impact on economic mobility until... schools are more effective in imparting basic skills... and until more poor students enter and complete college," said Ron Haskins, the Brookings scholar who authored this section of the report."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/busin...ess/
7256316.stm
more for the comm. college to do.
the lyre-shaped leaves got me thinking...........of orpheus with his lyre.........
juan no no nsense
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this is weird, because the mister and I have recently rented and now bought the 1959 movie Black Orpheus, that was based on the myth. It's a good movie.
Caravaggio sounds good, though prolly not about the artist. Will see if tv-linkscc has it.
Anyone else watching whatever tv or movies they want for free on tv links? Google lists the creator being in and out of jail, though. Various forms of linkcc have either japanese or spanish subtitles.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/
2...VUNOA6i6O1LP17g
Waterboarding Is Focus of Justice Dept. Inquiry
:::Mr. Jarrett’s report could become the first public accounting for legal advice that endorsed methods widely denounced as torture by human rights groups and legal authorities. His office can refer matters for criminal prosecution; legal experts said the most likely outcome was a public critique of the legal opinions on interrogation, noting that Mr. Jarrett had the power to reprimand or to seek the disbarment of current or former Justice Department lawyers.:::
disbarment for who? Yoo know who.
morning, kidz. this quote is perfect to begin the day with...and this is why bob bennett gets paid the big $$$$$:
McCain attorney Robert S. Bennett played down the contradiction between the campaign's written answer and Paxson's recollection.
"We understood that he [McCain] did not speak directly with him [Paxson]. Now it appears he did speak to him. What is the difference?" Bennett said.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp...ml?
hpid=topnews
They're ripping the tops off mountains in West Virginia coal country to feed our insatiable appetite for power. It's cheaper that way. And the trees and the animals and the flooding? It may not be pretty, but we've got all those dishwashers to run
...This is the new face of coal mining in Central Appalachia. It is called mountaintop removal. Instead of extracting coal the old-fashioned way, by burrowing, the mountain is extracted from the coal – blown up sequentially to reveal each black seam. Everything left over – trees, soil, plants and rock – is considered "overburden." It's dumped into the valleys below, filling them up.
Some say as many as 470 mountains in West Virginia, Kentucky and Virginia have been flattened this way. For the industry, it's a financial jackpot – fast, cheap and thorough. But for the mountains, and the communities nestled between them, it's war.
Their homes have been flooded, walls cracked, wells poisoned, streams polluted; their jobs have been forfeited, cemeteries unearthed and communities abandoned. Many suffer from early-onset dementia and kidney stones. And they've lost their ancestral home...
Molly, I don't know. She hasn't been around much. Maybe I'll email her.
One person's 'sophistication' is another person's 'acid indigestion.'
juan no no nsense
I think it's some kind of Christ metaphor. The title sequences were beautiful, and then it all went whackjob on me. Christ figure lying in the dirt with flies covering his face, urinating on himself, rescued and then tied to a cross being pelted with rocks by naked children; cut to a city scene where people are being gunned down and birds fly from the wound in one man's chest, people in evening wear are moving down the street on their knees . . . it made me long for an Archie comic book
this is weird, because the mister and I have recently rented and now bought the 1959 movie Black Orpheus, that was based on the myth. It's a good movie.
foolme1ns | 02.23.08 - 7:48 am | #
spectacular film!!!
do you know the 1949 Cocteau film 'Orphee?'
fantazmo!!!
Oooo, I love Black Orpheus! What a great film!
more for the comm. college to do.
Yep.We need a new GI Bill, too.
. it made me long for an Archie comic book
V for Virginia, home again | Homepage | 02.23.08 - 7:50 am | #
heh.
hey how come no birds ever fly out of wounds in Jughead's chest?
what a ripoff!!!
I was at a preview of sorts for the new show at the Art Institute of Chicago, which combines Edward Hopper and Winslow Homer. Highly recommended. Very beautiful images.
Both artists worked for a while in Gloucester, Massachusetts. A town would have been honored to have one of these geniuses, never mind two.
If res is up, and still headed to Chicago, I strongly encourage her to drop in and have a look.
V4VA, your description reminds me of a discussion yesterday of List of Alltime Worst Lists, and that movie's from a List of Art Effects.
spectacular film!!!
do you know the 1949 Cocteau film 'Orphee?'
fantazmo!!!
juan no no nsense
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I have not heard of that one. Do you recommend it?
This
"They're ripping the tops off mountains in West Virginia coal country to feed our insatiable appetite for power."
vs
This,
Arizona to become 'Persian Gulf' of solar energy
http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/02/...t.ap/
index.html
Notice that most the companies doing this are from somewhere else but the US.
The Republican's Saint Ronnie was a fsking moron. If he'd not dismantled all the alternative energy programs started by J. Carter, think how far along we'd be with this tech.
Arizona to become 'Persian Gulf' of solar energy
100 years of war in Arizona.
Me love Black Orpheus , too!
edward hopper's 'nighthawks' is such a great film but also his exteriors and figures inside rooms are great.
he's such a 'quiet' 'solid' artist.
i just had an idea:
an exhibition juxtaposing de chirico and hopper.
It was just a shitty little snow storm last night, just enough to get the plows going, but everyone sure seemed in a bummer mood because of it. I think we've all about had it with this winter, we're ready for something else.
After staring vacantly at the monitor for the past 15 minutes it's clear I need to get a little more sleep.
I'll be back later, when I'm a little more compos mentis.
While I'm gone, please feel free to peruse my take on a moronic editorial in the LAT which thinks the argument over retroactive immunity for the telecoms is a distraction.
100 years of war in Arizona.
Not a chance, summer temps here are higher than in the Gulf.
Gila Bend is southwest of Phoenix, btw.
Yep.We need a new GI Bill, too.
Molly Ivors, Blue
And GED instructors so kids can finish their HS and get enrolled in CC.
C'mon, ya bastiges, you know you want to hire me!
I just completed the application online; I think I'm going to write a letter and deliver it on Monday, all about my pash commit to ed.
If he'd not dismantled all the alternative energy programs started by J. Carter, think how far along we'd be with this tech.
Doug
snif.
we're still being pushed to foul up ANWR and the coasts for more oil, by the Shell etc. consortia, while the sun keeps shining along, suggestively.
I see that EDS and co. are locating their servers, with all their energy drainage, closer to hydroelectric sources. hmmmm
Not a chance, summer temps here are higher than in the Gulf.
But it's a dry heat. Or so they always try to tell me.
the Russian Highway from Hell
holy shit. i cannot begin to imagine being stuck in something like that. ugh.
I have not heard of that one. Do you recommend it?
foolme1ns | 02.23.08 - 7:54 am | #
I've watched it about 20+ times.
and have 2 VHS copies.
loaned one to a friend.
Jean Cocteau decided to retell the myth of Orpheus in contemporary France.
of course 'contemporary' in 1949 is quite different than how it appears to us now.
He 'pioneered' a lot of low-tech special effects for that film.
The premise is visually arresting and the music is moody and entrancing.
personally i love it. 'love it' is an understatement.
good vibes on the application, v4VA, you wuld be just amazing.
Gila Bend is southwest of Phoenix, btw.
plantsman, silly | Homepage | 02.23.08 - 7:57 am | #
the 'ex' is from arizona and had an album by a tucson rock group called the dusty chaps with this line:
it's a hundred and ten in gila bend
in buckeye its a hundred and two
summers here and I just cant find
a way to stop loving you
Gamesmanship
Whether Rove left Washington in only body not spirit, or a substitute Rove is now beside Bush, it is evidently clear that Bush is still practising the same stragedy of "Make your weakness your strength" . In this case, he is running on his Telecom Immunity like it was certain death. Same with Waterboarding. Instead of admitting that it is illegal, they make it about 'surrendering to terrorists' blah blah blah.
But now the Rove doctrine is in trouble. The Democrats throughout this Bush administration, even after 2006, have been the most useless and embarrassing body of Congress in memory. They have failed to realise that this Rovian game could easily be defeated by merely standing up to the bully (something I bravely did back in schoolyard days). We know this is true, just look at the 9/11 Commission challenges by the White House. No interviews. OK interviews. No declassifying of key documents. OK they are declassified.
This time the bullying tactic is in great danger. Thanks to the obvious swell of the country's support toward the Democratic Presidential campaign, there is finally a brave few in the House who are standing up to the Bully over the telecom issue. Bush is now cornered for the rest of his Presidency. Last week he stood in front of the microphone and gave the same "be afraid" speech bullying to the American public. Almost immediately his approval rating plummeted to 19%, a record low for any President in history. The Bush who cried wolf now is falling on deaf ears.
This blog comment is a bit lengthy, but people should realise what has happened, Bush has been called on his bluff. The American people support the Congress in refusing to allow our privacy to be invaded. Bush has no hand. The Telecom Immunity battle will be his last stand. He literally can no longer insist on ANYTHING that goes against our constitution or the wishes of the American people.
But it's a dry heat. Or so they always try to tell me.
Not when the monsoon rains hit. The humidity will jump from 30% to about 95% in 15 minutes. That's when my house cooling systems are set to turn off the swamp thing cooler and switch to AC, till things dry out in a couple hours.
Though I've started to put in fogging coolers for patios outside, when the monsoon rains hit, you don't bother to use them.
Notice that most the companies doing this are from somewhere else but the US.
yep. iowa is really getting into developing wind energy; and it's alot of foreign money going into it. nevertheless, it's exciting to see these state initiatives. new jobs are being created in these small communities who desperately need them; and it's also uniting the community college/univ of iowa into developing curriculum to build/operate these technologies.
We will have to try to get a copy of that. I wonder if it is out on DVD. We have several older foreign films that we just love. One of my favorites is Quai Des Orfevres, a murder mystery from 1947, and the detective in it reminds me an awful lot of Columbo.
Another is Bob Le Flambeur about a gambler who comes up with a scheme to steel from a casino. It was made in 1959.
And one other favorite is Touchez Pas Au Grisbi with Jean Gabin in it. He reminds me and the mister of Spencer Tracy. It was made in 1954.
Three very good films.
I'm so proud of Athenae I could bust.
Not just in Iowa, either, nona. Our CC is starting a green engineering major. First class starts in the fall.
Morning, friends, (Now that Obama looks to have this thing sewn up, I'm hoping we all are again),
Have to head back to the real world in a few. Woke up to see over 100 great egrets rise off the lagoon as the sun rose. Watched mating octopus late yesterday afternoon. Will have to pack those memories along with the dirty laundry and plastic bags and junk we remove from this little island when we leave. TSA doesn't quite know what to do with our luggage, always inspecting it on the flight home to discover basically it's filled with trash.
Oh, and finished Richard Russo's Straight Man. Haven't enjoyed a book that much in years. Laugh out loud funny.
Here, too. Vestas Energy, a Danish company, has opened a US HQ and manufacturing plant in Portland; and green engineering and architecture is all the rage.
The bright spot about returning home is I get to go to Athenae's book signing tomorrow!
I'm so proud of Athenae I could bust.
I see she's advertising in the sidebar.
Three very good films.
foolme1ns | 02.23.08 - 8:06 am | #
where do you find those films?
do you have a favourite video store and browse?
or so you specifically search for certain directors? actors?
I'm so proud of Athenae I could bust.
What did she do?
Oh, and finished Richard Russo's Straight Man. Haven't enjoyed a book that much in years. Laugh out loud funny.
One of my faves. I just wish it were a tad *less* realistic than it is--all the petty politics and whatnot are a perfect picture of a college English department.
noblejoanie
what a beautiful sight to wake up to. I get a glimpse of an egret or great blue heron every once in a while around here. One September when we went down to the highland games down in Charleston SC, we were going around the bend in the drive that went around a small pond and it was filled with several aquatic birds. Spoonbills, herons and egrets. It was wonderul, but momentary. Apparently they all had places to go.
Let me see if I have this correct:
When McStain couldn't raise money and needed money to keep his campaign going he borrowed money and used the funds promised by public financing as collateral for the loan.
Now that public financing will cap the amount of money he can spend, he is TELLING the FEC that he wants out of public financing.
And this from one of the authors of the "McStain/Feingold" campaign finance law, which sought to keep candidates from whoring themselves out to private, special interests.
Of course the MSM will ignore (except for KO) McStains flipflop on this issue and his caterwauling about Obama rejecting public money!
Because McStain must be portrayed as the "Straightshooter," his lies, flipflops and sexual escapades notwithstanding.
Yea, but if you scratch some of these "green initiatives" you find a load of the usual bullshit. Sometimes its just a PR move, no real substance, to cover up business as usual. And others have something real in them, but its covered by layer upon layer of the good-old-boy network, "consultants" and such, which take the bulk of them money. Like everything else, the assholes have figured out how to make boatloads of money by playing up the enviro card.
McStalin
Mike McConnell and Michael Mukasey are saying that the US is losing intelligence information because the telecommunications industries are less eager to "cooperate" with the Feds, so the House has to hurry up and OK the new, give-the-telecoms-retroactive-scofflaw- powers act.
The Dems are replying, well, you shoulda OK'd the old law.
Why don't the Dems say: bullshit. You can wiretap using the current law; you just have to justify it within 72 hours, and judges never turn you down.
We all know what's going on here. They're spying on their political enemies, and if they get caught, they're going to jail. They're gonna get caught, it's inevitable, so they wanna be sure they can get away with it.
Which I fear they will.
noblejoanie -- sounds like a fabulous trip; will there be photos?
Molly,
"Straight Men," isn't Richard Russo's latest is it?
Like everything else, the assholes have figured out how to make boatloads of money by playing up the enviro card.
Moe Szyslak, two-handed! | Homepage | 02.23.08 - 8:13 am | #
i wonder if 'green' mercury exists?
Rudy,
By George, I think you've got it!
where do you find those films?
do you have a favourite video store and browse?
or so you specifically search for certain directors? actors?
juan no no nsense
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we rent them from Netflix first and then we buy them from a place called Deep Discount DVD on the internet for the best prices, and there is also a company called Critereon and they also have a website, and if you like silent movies, KINO is the place to go and find restored versions of those.
McVicki
McCindi
foolme1ns --spoonbills, lucky you. One of the world's most beautiful birds.
Speaking of highland games, my husband learned that his birth family is seriously Scottish (clan Donald) and we'd like to go to one someday.
Which was my point, in a slightly different context:
...Last week council was given four-colour architectural plans for another sensible pedestrian trail, this one along Bedford Basin, stretching from Hogan's Point all the way to Bedford proper. Everyone congratulated the planners for the pretty drawings, and there was a general round of "Wow, we're so wise," until councillor Bob Harvey rudely interrupted the self-love fest with the observation that "there's a whole library of pretty pictures" over at city hall---plans for pedestrian-friendly streetscapes, plans for hiking trails, plans for pools and rinks and courts and ball fields.
Plenty of plans. Just no money to realize them.
Let's get back to what nobody wants to talk about: the Commonwealth Games. Remember the arguments? By spending $200 million of city money (and $2 billion or so in total) on world-class facilities for elite athletes from far away, we somehow or another would have ended up with an entire generation of local athletic superkids. And never mind the cost: with some creative budget juggling we could have afforded it all, without raising taxes.
Surely, if we had the money for the Commonwealth Games, we've got enough money for all the neighbourhood recreational facilities we could ever possibly need.
Alas, when it comes to creating a simple pedestrian trail, or a walking-friendly street or neighbourhood pool, there aren't a few dozen well-connected business mucky-mucks who can make boatloads of money servicing bloated construction budgets.
'Tis a pity, that.
No. Russo's been writing for ages. Straight Man was 97 or so. Bridge of Sighs is his latest, but he won the Pulitzer in 02 for Empire Falls.
I got a whole new view of him when I read She's Not There, a nonfiction book by one of his friends, a transsexual college professor named Jenny Boylan. Russo figures prominently in it.
green mercury?
sure.
A green mercury chloride laser with wideband optical pumping
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&
c...pScp90ZDdd2gXzg
Width of the Green Mercury Line from a 198-Isotope Lamp
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&
c...DSCO9e4SMX43L5w
And then there's pills of white mercury.
Good morning.
I think the Columbo character was based on the detective from the original Diabolique.
I don't have a homepage, or I'd put up some photos, V4V.
Hey Moe, our son got in to Stanford's IPER grad program!
Roger Clemens now appears to have lied to that Congressional Committee about attending the Jose Canseco party back in the 1990s. There appears to be pictures of him in attendance.
Clemens should be charged with the felony of lying to Congress, but even if he is (long shot) and even if he's prosecuted (another long shot) and even if he's convicted (probable), Bushboy is waiting with a pardon in his hand, as gratitude for all those big donations bonehead Clemens has made to the Goopers all these years!
Another heartwarming American story of a Republican going from rags to riches to ruin.
As a side note, NTodd had Boylan as a professor when she was a he.
Hey there, HBK!
foolme1ns | 02.23.08 - 8:15 am | #
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sounds like a great system!
I recently rented 'Ekstacy' (1933-starring Hedy Lamar-Directed by Gustav Machaty /Czech dir.)
the first 'extensive' nude scene in cinema apparently.
hard to know what you are seeing because so many versions with different cuts were made for various govt boards.
I was interested tosee if a 1933 Austrian film contained 'messages' about the political situation.
It 'seems' to be euphemistic in some ways and the last ten minutes are totally inexplicable.
a tragic love story seems to erupt into a soviet style workers paradise film complete with happy workers celebrating labour, the land, and the birth of a child!!!!
noblejoanie,
The games run on a circuit. You should be able to find them by doing a search on google and see what might be in your area. It is great fun, if you like watching guys throw things, like telephone poles and bales of hay and hammers and weights. They love to throw things. We usually just do the Saturday thing, but I think they do a golf thing on Friday. The ones in Charleston are held at the Boone Hall Plantation and the price of admission covers a tour of the house and grounds. It's very cool.
Hey Moe, our son got in to Stanford's IPER grad program!
noblejoanie
I'd say your son is going places, but he's already done so much, let's just say he has arrived.
I think the Columbo character was based on the detective from the original Diabolique.
HoneyBearKellyGoGiants
I thought it was the detective in Crime and Punishment. But I have no idea where I got that idea!
Athenae wrote a book which is getting favorable reviews, I believe.
Putting on my tinfoil hat:
Is anyone else creeped out by the fact that a day after an anonymous Dallas police officer blew the whistle on half-assed Secret Service protection for Senator Obama, that a Dallas Police office on Hillary's security detail was killed in an accident?
An officer who Senator Obama says was also on HIS security detail when HE was in Dallas?
I can't take my own first; that's cheating.
Molly Ivors, Blue
I have always thought it would be funny if Atrios did that.
Is the 'Age of American Unreason' book Athenae's?
foolme1ns --by the time we found his birth family, my husband's parents (who had later married) were both gone. His wonderful sibs gave him one of his dad's favorite kilts and me one of his mom's scarves. We were very touched.
Russo figures prominently in it.
Molly Ivors, Blue
I read "Empire Falls," and just got "Bridge of Sighs," but it will have to wait as I'm currently reading, "The Political Brain," by Dr. Drew Westen (psychologist), which elucidates why working people delude themselves into thinking Goopers are "on their side."
A green mercury chloride laser with wideband optical pumping
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t& c...pScp90ZDdd2gXzg
Width of the Green Mercury Line from a 198-Isotope Lamp
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t& c...DSCO9e4SMX43L5w
Doug | 02.23.08 - 8:17 am | #
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!!!!!!!!!!!! heh. 'okay'
I have always thought it would be funny if Atrios did that.
As it turns out, it was just one more Haloscan glitch.
From the right sidebar:
A Hell Of A Story'
In "It Doesn't End With Us: The Story of the Daily Cardinal," Allison Hantschel (Athenae of First Draft) tells the tale of a 115-year-old college newspaper, and how its staff fought for their right to shape the future of the independent press, from World Wars to worker strikes. Reviewers say it "relights the fire for the news biz." Readings and signings this month! Come and learn about the best in American journalism and the best in all of us.
I was pretty much alone in thinking that Empire Falls was not all that.
Pills of White Mercury
The mercury was beating, the limestone was reeking
His tongue all inflamed hung over his chin
A hole in his bosom, his teeth were a closin'
Bad luck to the girl that had gi'ed him the Phlegm
And had she but told me, oh when she dishonored me
Had she but told me of it in time
I might have been cured by those pills of white mercury
Now I am a young man cut down in my prime
My parents they warned me and oftimes they chided
With those young flash girls do not sport and play
But I never listened, no I never heeded
I just carried on in my own wicked way
Hi again, beuatiful people.
Moe, you get my e-mail?
I was pretty much alone in thinking that Empire Falls was not all that.
Cookie Fleck `
I felt the same so was surprised at how much I enjoyed Straight Man. I may have to reread Empire Falls.
spoonbill flock overhead was one of the most exciting sights I saw at rockport (TX) - and V4VA, if you would email me (at the verizon email address) a copy of the two eagle shot? I would so much love to thursday birdblog it, along with anything Paul would share with us about it.
my tin foil hat is always vibrating.
this stuff just makes me see the yawning pit behind the curtains.
Well, robot Scrabulous is fixed, and the "robot" is ornery as ever.
Moe, you get my e-mail?
Marcellina
Yes! I've got a few to update. I'll set aside some time this evening, before I go to the Blue Rodeo concert.
Morning, Marcellina,
Thought of you while diving.
noblejoanie: I liked Straight Man too.
Mukasey, McConnell, McStain, Clemens, et. al., the parade of morally defective or legally culpable Goopers never seems to end.
Goopers should be banned from holding office. None are trustworthy.
Putting on my tinfoil hat:
Hesiod, I thought the officer was leading the motorcade, ran into a cement embankment. Sad but maybe not creepy
Okay, spouse is scurrying around packing. Have a wonderful day. We'll be stuck in the purgatory that is air travel.
Off to gas up the zuki and get some morning munchies for the trip. need to clear out one of the memory sticks for the camera too.
moe where in the world is that Pills of White Mercury song from?
Is that a new ballad?
something old?
"The Political Brain," by Dr. Drew Westen (psychologist), which elucidates why working people delude themselves into thinking Goopers are "on their side."
Rudy
wonder how much it agrees with "what's the matter with KS"?
Well, robot Scrabulous is fixed, and the "robot" is ornery as ever.
plantsman, silly
I just signed up and the robot was kicking my ass so bad I decided to limp back here.
Not much you can do when you're sitting there with a rack like I E O E I E R.
Unless you count "Old MacDonald."
Hesiod, I thought the officer was leading the motorcade, ran into a cement embankment. Sad but maybe not creepy
You mean he just ran into it for no apparent reason?
juan no no nsense
We have that one as well. The mister is a very big fan of the older movies. Not so much the new stuff unless it is very good. He is interested in seeing Michael Clayton. That one has peaked his interest. But he truly loves the older films, even the older foreign films and of course since I watch them with him, I've come to love them too. He likes the Akira Kurosawa samurai films. Another great movie is Closely Watched Trains, which is a Czech film. Great stuff.
moe where in the world is that Pills of White Mercury song from?
It's the Old Blind Dogs, reworking (I think) a traditional Irish piece (Streets of Larredo?).
Not just in Iowa, either, nona. Our CC is starting a green engineering major. First class starts in the fall.
Molly Ivors, Blue
just read where unions are banding together to really press the development of alternative energies. so there's alot of hopeful signs out there; we just need some national leadership to rally and focus the country. people are ready for this.
I will contribute at least a hundred bucks for a billboard rental, in a red state, that shows McCain hugging Bush, with a large caption reading:
Give George W. Bush A Third Term: Vote For John McCain.
all the reports on local dallas news say the officer killed was running behind the others, took too quick a turn.
Aw, noblejoanie, I'm so jealous!
The "season opening" is next week (in the lakes!), but until I have a dry suit I have to wait til it's a little warmer.
Playing with real people is much, much better than the robot. Slower, though.
But:
'Gunning quite literally takes the traditional "Pills Of White Mercury" by the scruff of the neck and delivers a spirited rendition that makes the song his own. Geographically speaking, it's set in my native North East Scotland. The opening verse mentions the River Ugie, which sheds its waters into the North Sea on the northern outskirts of the fishing port, Peterhead. At the outset, the narrator " ...spied a dear comrade, dressed in white flannel " who had died of syphilis, a disease from which, because of his own loose social habits - and despite his parents' repeated warnings, the narrator is also suffering. When Gunning introduced this song during his Kerrville 2004 mainstage set, he commented that he had first heard it performed by a Scottish band. By way of settling his affairs, in the closing verse the narrator requests " Now get you six strong fellows to carry my coffin, Six pretty maids to bear up my pall, And give each of them a bunch of red roses, So when they pass by me they'll not know the smell ."'
Ruth,
It agrees a lot with "KS." Except that Westen does clinical tests that show not only how bias effects political choices but he actually wired peoples heads to see what parts of their brains did what during their obvious denials.
Westen incidentally is a Democrat who points out how the Dems have often appealed to people's rationality, while the Goopers have focused on their emotionality.
Emotional always trumps rational thinking, which is why Westen recommends Dems change tactics.
British soldiers in Iraq may have tortured, mutilated and executed up to 20 Iraqi detainees four years ago, according to five Iraqi civilians who say they saw the murders.
Lawyers acting for the five men produced a dossier yesterday which alleges the British Army executed the detainees at the Abu Naji military base where they had been taken after a three-hour gun battle near the southern Iraqi town of Majat-al-Kabir in May 2004.
click homepage link for article
SteveLG
trade some tiles. Hell trade all of them. You're bound to be better off.
There's a lot of this stuff online:
The metamorphosis of a ca.1795 ballad about "pills and salts of white mercury" into The Bad Girl's Lament" and "The Streets of Laredo" is one of the best documented evolutions in Engliah ballad scholarship. ("St. James Infirmary Blues" is a stretch, however.)People, ballad printers included, evidently loved this stuff.
The late Kenneth Goldstein edited an entire Folkways album around 1960 showing examples of the sequential alterations.
I believe Philips Barry first pieced the evolution together in the 1930s. For a specific reference, see N. Howard Thorp, "Songs of the Cowboys," ed. by Fife & Fife (N.Y.: Clarkson Potter, 1966).
I know real people are better to play, but I'm exercising my ability to scramble letters in my head
quickly, and I usually lose, anyway.
Playing with real people is much, much better than the robot. Slower, though.
Molly Ivors, Blue
No doubt. Slower wouldn't bother me in the least.
I just thought I'd check out the operation before I ventured out... do y'all kids play at scrabulous.com or facebook?
I'm gone, batz, gone! Cyall anon...
plantsman, I'm starting a game.
It's time you got weaned from that robot
Emotional always trumps rational thinking, which is why Westen recommends Dems change tactics.
Rudy
that makes me afraid we'll change the nature of our appeal. I prefer to be the party of rational people.
SteveLG
trade some tiles. Hell trade all of them. You're bound to be better off.
foolme1ns
I did, and I was better off. By as small an increment as you can imagine. For about two moves.
Did I mention that I'm a scrabble whiner?
It's not breaking news, but here's the outcome of the Global Primary in which I voted.
The "real" licensed Scrabble (which you can briefly test-drive for free) lets you assign a skill level to your opponent, uses a much more normal dictionary, and has pretty tiles.
wow moe.
thanks for all that.
really.
thank you.
what a fascinating piece of song-verse.
i've cut and pasted your notes.
and foolme1nce.
michael clayton is a good film.
CSpan has David Jackson on war profiteers on now.
There's an entire Wikipedia entry on this song.
Fine el, virtual teats don't do much for me.
plantsman, do you want to play "real"? Can you set up a game?
Sure. brb.
juan no no nsense-- besides a pretty nifty history, the song is damn good. At least, the Old Blind Dogs version. I'm not familiar with the others, but wiki says:
"Streets of Laredo" (Roud 2), also known as the "Cowboy's Lament", is a famous cowboy ballad in which a dying cowboy dispenses his advice to a living one.
Recordings of the song have been made by Johnny Cash, Joan Baez, Roy Rogers, Marty Robbins, Chet Atkins, Arlo Guthrie, Rex Allen and many country and western singers, as well as avante garde rocker John Cale, the British pop group Prefab Sprout and Mercury Rev.
The song plays a prominent role in the book and film Bang the Drum Slowly, in which the song is sung. The words from the title replace the words "beat the drum slowly" from the lyrics above. This in turn is the phrase used in the song "Bang the Drum Slowly" on the album Red Dirt Girl by Emmylou Harris.
An Irish band, The Chieftains, made an interesting link between this song and the traditional Irish song "The Bard of Armagh" on their CD "Long Journey Home", as both songs are sung on the same tune.
steve, I'm always looking for a game. El Quilt is my facebook nym
Steve,
We're mostly on Facebook.
I'm going to fix breakfast. See you all in a bit, I hope.
Molly -- still not sure what to do about that other thing. Perhaps an e-mail exchange with the party in question would be illuminating.
Also -- sound equipment? Want me to do anything there?
e-mail or chat l8r.
*MWAH!*
But Moe, most 60's survivors remember the song best for "If you get an outfit, you'll be a cowboy too" by smothers brothers? I believe.
I want to play Steve too! Steve, please post who you are on fb
Did you see the cell-phone video of the Serbian Girls looting lingerie and shoes while their "brothers" were protesting Kosovo's Independence?
Hm. ("hm" was a word the robot played on me)
Facebook, eh?
brb
Did you see the cell-phone video of the Serbian Girls looting lingerie and shoes while their "brothers" were protesting Kosovo's Independence?
plantsman, silly
the whole world is watching, huh?
okay, gotta do things now, myself. cya
The robot's got a zillion of 'em. Licensed Scrabble uses Merriam-Webster, a dictionary you may have heard of.
This Mudcat thread (about a quarter of the way down) mentions a Folkways album--The Unfortunate Rake: A Study in the Evolution of a Ballad -- from 1960 that has 20 different songs, all derived from the same English ballad.
hbk - wanna play?
But Moe, most 60's survivors remember the song best for "If you get an outfit, you'll be a cowboy too" by smothers brothers? I believe.
Ruth
As I walked out on the streets of Laredo.
As I walked out on Laredo one day,
I spied a young cowboy all dressed in white linen,
Dressed in white linen as cold as the clay.
"I can see by your outfit that you are a cowboy."
"I see by your outfit you are a cowboy too."
"We see by our outfits that we are both cowboys.
If you get an outfit, you can be a cowboy too."
It's not bad, SteveLG. There are nearly 40 Atriots to be found there, and lots of them play scrabulous.
I found the best way to start is to search "NTodd" and then get in touch with him there.
Sure ql.
I was just listening to all the trouble Renzi is in.
Damn.
I'll set aside some time this evening, before I go to the Blue Rodeo concert.
Moe Szyslak
Son of a b--! Funny, it's pretty much exactly 20 years since I saw them play live, right when "Try" hit big.
They've written a crapload of great songs since them. Bet the show will be excellent!
"In the words of the wise Arabella, pax."
what do that mean?
The "real" licensed Scrabble (which you can briefly test-drive for free) lets you assign a skill level to your opponent, uses a much more normal dictionary, and has pretty tiles.
plantsman, silly
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I bought that from Best Buy and I enjoy playing it, the only problem is, I am a real multitasker, and it takes up my whole screen and doesn't let me see my task bar, so I can see if my sister is instant messaging me, and I can't keep up with the conversations here. It also wants to shut down my computer after I've played about 3 games on it. I love the game, but not this disc. Oh, and I have to have the disc in my computer. I might do better to just pay for it again and just download it. :-(
Looks like Nader is gonna be on Meet the Press tomorrow. Some think he has an announcement to make.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homep...tory/
28459.html
His announcement better be that he's supporting Obama, or even Hillary. But I doubt it.
Hey SteveNS! That Commonwealth Games thing I'm working on has turned into a monster story. To be published March 13.
Poor McSaint. An "Arizona Co-Chair" of his campaign, Renzi is.
Facebook peeps can find me on other Atriots friends lists by my pic.
SteveLG, your name is apparently very common.
Cool stuff, Moe -- think it's going to be an issue in the rumoured upcoming election?
foolme1ns, check it out at Game House.com, I think. Downloadable for sure.
what do that mean?
Well, at that moment, we were talking about how we need to walk away when we get angry or upset. And she always signs that way.
Even I walked away last night - I surprised myself.
His announcement better be that he's supporting Obama, or even Hillary. But I doubt it.
Neponset | 02.23.08 - 8:47 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=J...feature=related
Again. the message to Ralph Nader.
SteveLG, your name is apparently very common.
Molly Ivors, Blue
On top of that, none of them are me. I guess I'll have to select something wine-releated for my nym.
I haven't gotten a 'confirmation email' from facebook. Do they usually take, like, forever?
Weird.
Sitemeter continues to amuse me. I just saw that someone has clicked on my site via Hecate, from Iran.
"Streets of Laredo" (Roud 2), also known as the "Cowboy's Lament", is a famous cowboy ballad in which a dying cowboy dispenses his advice to a living one.
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I like the Smothers Brothers version
Funny stuff.
So get yourself an outfit, you can be a cowboy too
think it's going to be an issue in the rumoured upcoming election?
SteveNS
It should be, but it probably won't be. I can't believe I'm the only one tracking this down-- that says less about me than about how lame that One Remaining Paper is.
There should be (but won't be) a full inquiry. Blame the press.
Thers frequently notes that 95% of what happens online is meaningless, and when the other 5% gets to you, it's time to live your life.
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
-George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903)
"Maxims for Revolutionists"
foolme1ns, check it out at Game House.com, I think. Downloadable for sure.
plantsman, silly
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Thanks Plantsman. I will do that. I also bought the real game last week so that me and the fam could play together. That's been fun.
The confirmation emails are usually quick, but there was some trouble at Facebook/Scrabulous over the last several hours.
Did someone mention Ralph Nader?
CK, you may want to watch yer guy on MTP tomorrow.
I also bought the real game last week so that me and the fam could play together. That's been fun.
A big thing in my birth family, but impractical in my own home, for obvious reasons.
Should be interesting - I know at least 3 people that sent him over $300 and that's just from AK. I'd work my ass off for him, 'cause he's done more for this country than any 10 democrats combined.
Clearly Mr. Shaw did not anticipate the Dubya level of unreasonable.
I can't believe I'm the only one tracking this down-- that says less about me than about how lame that One Remaining Paper is.
Yeah, investigative reporting doesn't happen much hereabouts. CBC does a little, but for the most part, they're just happy to churn out crime blotters and lame "news you can use!" pieces.
There are people out there who think "Live At 5" is hard news, and they are legion. The Chronically Horrid is targeting the same readership / viewership.
I thought of you when I heard about the Daily News -- is the new daily paper going to be any kind of competition for The Coast?
Saw a quote from Gates in Al Jazeera, the thugs in charge will "evaluate" the surge in July and August re" impending cuts.
Better believe they will make the cuts, in time for fall elections, everyone jump on board the flag waving express for McCain.
Thers frequently notes that 95% of what happens online is meaningless, and when the other 5% gets to you, it's time to live your life.
Molly Ivors, Blue | Homepage | 02.23.08 - 8:52 am | #
GODDAMMIT ITS ONLY 94%
WHAT THE HELL IS HE TALKING ABOUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
Here he goes again...
I bought (strange for me) a stupid hidden objects game. When I get pissed here I go there. Figure it should keep me busy past 3/4.
WHAT THE HELL IS HE TALKING ABOUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
Bacon, probably.
Did someone mention Ralph Nader?
CityKid (uppity) | Homepage | 02.23.08 - 8:53 am
as the video says, if ralph runs this time he can stick his seat belts where the minimum wage don't shine.
they provide him his laurels and tell him to rest on them and take a damn nap or something.
Morning,all.
Off to Gomorrah on the Hudson -- we'll talk in the evening, j'espere.
In the meantime, the greatest vocal thing you'll ever hear is up at the homepage.
Later!!!
Here he goes again...
plantsman, silly
I'm not going any where PM - but I do like to poke folks in the party I used to pay dues to.
oh fuck the NYT and mcstain: in 48 hours we hear that the asshole repugnicants circled the wagons and are donating heartedly...pathetic stunt
Anyone ever play the board game Kings Cribbage?
It's an unholy amalgam of cribbage and scrabble -- and it's pretty challenging and fun, if you like both of those games.
THANKS MOE
i'm going to set aside some time this weekend to get into this
Last I heard, McCain was crowing but would not release dollar amounts.
I thought of you when I heard about the Daily News -- is the new daily paper going to be any kind of competition for The Coast?
SteveNS
No. It's just another throwaway Metro paper-- I think they're just doing the Halifax thing so they can sell "coast to coast" advertising thing. Our sales dept. doesn't seem at all concerned.
We are worried, tho, becuase they have a reputation for sloppy distribution. They'll get into a coffeeshop or whatever, and make such a mess that the management gets rid of *all* the free papers, not just the offending one.
I write the polls at our place, including this one.
they provide him his laurels and tell him to rest on them and take a damn nap or something.
Tom - 大肚腩 |
Glad to know you've taken the good of our country to heart. I appreciate that. BTW, I probably won't watch the video.
Heh. Tina Fey is hosting SNL.
Holy crap!
Looks like Krugman might be in.
I write the polls at our place, including this one.
Ha!
a very good decision out of cali:
Health Net ordered to pay $9 million after canceling cancer patient's policy
The punitive damage award is the first of its kind and has prompted the giant medical insurer to scrap practices that have recently come under fire.
By Lisa Girion
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
February 23, 2008
One of California's largest for-profit insurers stopped a controversial practice of canceling sick policyholders Friday after a judge ordered Health Net Inc. to pay more than $9 million to a breast cancer patient it dropped in the middle of chemotherapy.
The ruling by a private arbitration judge was the first of its kind and the most powerful rebuke to the state's major insurers whose cancellation practices are under fire from the courts, state regulators and elected officials.
Calling Woodland Hills-based Health Net's actions "egregious," Judge Sam Cianchetti, a retired Los Angeles County Superior Court judge, ruled that the company broke state laws and acted in bad faith.....
The judge's strong denunciation of the way Health Net carried out Bates' cancellation and big money award stunned and pleased regulators and patient advocates....
The case was heard by a private judge, rather than a jury, because Health Net required Bates to agree to binding arbitration, a practice common among insurers.
"That's the point," said Carl Tobias, a law professor at the University of Richmond in Virginia. "Those kind of agreements that mandate arbitration tend to favor the bigger party or the interest with more economic clout."
The size of the award will require other insurers to take notice, he said.
Glad to know you've taken the good of our country to heart.
Hah. That's rich. How's that surge working out for ya?
Yeehaa Molly.
Great news.
I was hoping the subway answer would win, but readers had their own opinions.
Is Miss Vicki being held somewhere against her will? Why hasn't she held a press conference, as promised?
Is McStain afraid that she'll blow him and his "principles" sky high?
Holy crap!
Looks like Krugman might be in.
Be a doll and genuflect before him, on my behalf?
Hah. That's rich. How's that surge working out for ya?
Snow (D-SC)
WTF are you talking about?
Looks like Krugman might be in.
Autograph!!!
It's rumored SNL has hired someone to portray Obama, MSNBC was wondering what they'd snark on about him.
have a great day all-
off to saturday work-
Glad to know you've taken the good of our country to heart. I appreciate that. BTW, I probably won't watch the video.
CityKid (uppity) | Homepage | 02.23.08 - 9:01 am
It's a pretty good take off on the anonymous video to the CoS.
with images of some familiar people who supported Nader in 2000, but almost assuredly won't this time around.
and they admit that Nader used to do some good for the country. though not when he was running for President on funds provided by the Republican Party
Do you mean, Krugman is coming to EschaCon?
Oh hell, what I'm gonna be missing.
Ralph Nader's getting to be sort of a national Lar Daley, who Midwesterners of a certain age will remember...
Be in what?
WTF are you talking about?
I forget.
I had written to him at his NYT address and hadn't heard back, so I had sort of given up. Then it occurred to me that his school address was likely to have fewer filters and less traffic.
Bingo.
Holy crap!
Looks like Krugman might be in.
Be a doll and genuflect before him, on my behalf?
SteveNS | 02.23.08 - 9:03 am
Tom Lehrer is writing a new tune, The Economist Rag, for E08?
Anyone ever play the board game Kings Cribbage?
It's an unholy amalgam of cribbage and scrabble -- and it's pretty challenging and fun, if you like both of those games.
SteveNS
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I never learned to play cribbage. I'm so ashamed
and they admit that Nader used to do some good for the country. though not when he was running for President on funds provided by the Republican Party
Tom - 大肚腩
Tom - your starting to act like a Republican. 'cuse me - is that why the Dems and Rethugs kept him out of the debates. I think it was Ellul who pointed out that once you embrace the propaganda tactics of your enemy you become them. Give me a break.
Miz Molly rawks!
Sheets
And sheets.
Maybe Nader can help McCain get elected and we can invade Iran. Won't that be fun.
There's also a really good chance that Hamell on Trial will be there, although that's not totally set yet.
Never played cribbage here either.
My grandparents used to play one or two games of scrabble every day. I still have their set which was covered in leather and had fancy tiles. A lot of the letters are beginning to wear off. Mr. ql won't play with me anymore. I beat him too regularly.
if i read the NYT, i wouldn't anymore
Liberals ought to boycott the times for 2 reasons: mchuggy-bear and bullshit planted story to make him more endearing to his base
fuck you NYT, you ain't shit but a corporate whore
you are formidable, ql, thanks for game.
Tom - your starting to act like a Republican. 'cuse me - is that why the Dems and Rethugs kept him out of the debates. I think it was Ellul who pointed out that once you embrace the propaganda tactics of your enemy you become them. Give me a break.
CityKid (uppity) | Homepage | 02.23.08 - 9:06 am
Sound like a Republican? Nah, more like someone from CounterPunch.
When you have folks like the Oregon Family Council making calls to get you on the ballot, ya have to wonder what the real motive is.
http://www.counterpunch.org/
bate...es09252004.html
Maybe Nader can help McCain get elected and we can invade Iran. Won't that be fun.
Snow (D-SC)
Snow, you're right. Ralph agrees with everything that McCain says. Fuck off. Democracy is not important to you I guess. It's winning that counts - we can speak through our elected leaders - ehh. Those powerful Congressmen and Senators who are only there to work for us.
Mr. ql won't play with me anymore. I beat him too regularly.
qlª
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tell him you will play with one hand tied behind your back
fuck you NYT, you ain't shit but a corporate whore
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But they've been doing that with ALL their candidates, maybe not a ploy to support McCain (althought they endorsed Hill, but had to).
More a whorey ploy to make $$ off of everyone.
tell him you will play with one hand tied behind your back
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and blindfolded
have a great day all-
off to saturday work-
juan no no nsense
wÖrk!
</Maynard G Krebs>>
When you have folks like the Oregon Family Council making calls to get you on the ballot, ya have to wonder what the real motive is.
So what the hell does that have to do with Nader himself? So GM is going to support him; does that mean he should quit?
So what the hell does that have to do with Nader himself? So GM is going to support him; does that mean he should quit?
CityKid (uppity) | Homepage | 02.23.08 - 9:13 am
Oh noes... I's being used by my enemies in order for my goals to be defeated.
Which is more important, my goals or my vanity?
Which is more important, my goals or my vanity?
Tom - 大肚腩
I don't know - you tell me. The Dems and the Republicans have become peas-in-a-pod. They are almost indistinguishable now days.
So GM is going to support him; does that mean he should quit?
I think we are all wondering what Ralph Nader's real motives are, since his actions are more likely to result in FEWER of his stated goals being acheived than more. i hate to think badly of the guy, I really do; but it sure starts to look like vanity.
I think we are all wondering what Ralph Nader's real motives are, since his actions are more likely to result in FEWER of his stated goals being acheived than more. i hate to think badly of the guy, I really do; but it sure starts to look like vanity.
Potterchik
I have to laugh, because that's the same thing the corporate types were saying about Ralph Nader back in the '60's. Sheesh - I wish folks would come up with something new and creative.
PM - I guess you were right
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