I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
I am not first.
yes you are!
That is an illusion up there.
They opened a giant gorge in Texas this weekend that was created overnight in a 2002 flood.
You coming to my gig?
http://www.stuffonmycat.com/inde...php?
itemid=5289
'evenin'
Took the kids to the circus today. A blast and a half.
we just flicked the switch on our dns - waiting to propagate throughout the galaxy, then: presto-chango: no more WalterNeff.
You will turn into an interneft?
The internet is going to disappear you?
Prof Wombat
How old are the kids?
Took the kids to the circus today. A blast and a half.
Saw a whole bunch of hippie-ish marching brass bands in Davis Square this afternoon. An equal blast...
Raise taxes! It's the right thing to do. Abolish the death penalty. Free Health Care, free education. Call me a socialist and I will smile and say "You're damned right I am!" 
I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in.
vive les socialistes!
camelot: well, thank you so much. The 10 yo is starting to read for pleasure, which is a big thing for her. The 16 yo was angry and flabbergasted at someone in her HS trying to use Hugh Everett's many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics as a refutation of the notion of free will. Always something...
TRIIIIIIIIIIIIBE!
I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in.
You watching Big Lebowski?
TRIIIIIIIIIIIIBE!
NTodd
have you produced a new video at Liberal Mountain?
hey bill b: sounds like fun; it was a beautiful day for such shenanigans. Looks like we won't have the Cubs to kick around anymore, alas...
we're free cheesy bread, we're free!
i want to know when someone is going to do something about this torture bullshit.
89 degrees today, October 6.
I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in.
The Kenny Rogers apex, ladies and germs.
On c-span2/BookTV
In The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, Naomi Klein argues that in the wake of natural and manmade devastation economic reform is introduced to benefit investors and free market advocates while taking advantage of moments of collective disorientation. Ms. Klein focuses her criticism on Milton Friedman and the Chicago School of Economics, and presents examples for her argument by profiling the current situations in Iraq and New Orleans. Naomi Klein is interviewed by Franklin Foer, editor of The New Republic and author of How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory for Globalization.
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have you produced a new video at Liberal Mountain?
Some production issues last night. Resolved today and as soon as Thers becomes pretty, we'll finish.
Yup. We'll never finish. But at least we'll be drunk.
ProfWombat
Sounds very familiar, my kids couldn't be more opposite. The older one is driven and serious, the younger one is silly and the life of the party. Family outings that all enjoy are special.
"i want to know when someone is going to do something about this torture bullshit."
--charley
Don't hold your breath.
I'm already pretty, motherfucker.
Cubbies lose. Crowd boos. At least I can lay to rest my Sox/Cubs divided loyalty thing...
"i want to know when someone is going to do something about this torture bullshit."
--charley
Never been a better reason to fly the flag upside down.
The Kenny Rogers apex, ladies and germs.
Nah. That was the made-for-tv Gambler movies. And "Six Pack" with a young Diane Lane that the scrumptious Erin Gray. It doesn't get much higher than that folks.
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Well of course the Cubs lose. Do you want to upset the fabric of the universe?
Yup. We'll never finish. But at least we'll be drunk.
NTodd
tsk tsk tsk, disappointing your fans once again...
I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in.
You watching Big Lebowski?
NTodd, Free Speedy!
Yep.
"Shut the fuck up, Donny!"
Ntodd
Did the Valerie Plame date happen yet?
camelot: seems as if so much pulls people and families apart these days. Moving every 5 years, driving everywhere, neighborhoods and Main Streets destroyed by commerce and development, everybody with their own iPod, hard to eat dinner together between afterschool stuff and work demands, on and on. I'm grateful for the times we're all together, and sorry that it's something that needs to be worked at rather than the natural course of events...
Never been a better reason to fly the flag upside down.
MP
Go see "In the Valley of Elah."
That's in there.
at least we can all agree that purdue is the suXX0rZ.
Well, the Cubs lose. agh/ugh.
At least during my home stay I kept my pops away from the TV with some clever remote hiding and bribing my moms to take him to Oktoberfest for a couple'o'beers.
It could'a and would'a been a commentary shitfest from him.
Oh Well.
Next Season is the Cub's season!
85 degrees here. No rain to speak of for the last five months. Leaves still green, but drooping. I don't think we'll have a pretty autumn.
Well of course the Cubs lose. Do you want to upset the fabric of the universe?
I'm just happy there are other losers to join my beloved Mets. Prolly tomorrow, the Yankees with eclipse da boys from Queens. Please, oh please.
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...i thought NTodd went out with Dita von-Teese?
tsk tsk tsk, disappointing your fans once again...
I was hard for the video. But some of the prima donnas...prima donnae...Thers...fucked up.
That's in there.
What's in where?????????
.
...i thought NTodd went out with Dita von-Teese?
She broke our date.
That's in there.
What's in where?????????
.
William H. Rehnquist
That. Y'know. That!
It's in there.
Oh Well.
Next Season is the Cub's season!
dew, omnischievous grin | 10.06.07 - 9:38 pm
I think the Cubs are waiting until they hit an even 100 years between Series.
At least that's what I'm telling myself.
'night, bats.
Naomi Klein does not shy from calling a warmongering capitalist pig a warmongering capitalist pig.
http://harpers.org/archive/2007/...2007/10/
0081739
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"i want to know when someone is going to do something about this torture bullshit."
--charley
Don't hold your breath.
mer
Unless you're being waterboarded.
Hey Shaw!,
Dinner in the North End when res is in town? I would, of course, defer to your superior knowledge of the neighborhood...
you want scary? he's some scary:
A woman's right? We'll be the judge of that
Five judges in the American Supreme Court have taken what may be the first step towards outlawing abortion in the US. Could it happen here? By Louise France
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/
w...2182680,00.html
She broke our date.
NTodd, Free Speedy!
I saw her wuth Karl Hungus.
Too funny.
Comcast has video from Faux News on the homepage about a deadly brain-eating amoeba that lurks in water.
In the clip, they never once acknowledge that without it, they would have no audience.
Don't be fatuous, Gomez.
Unless you're being waterboarded.
"This isn't what it looks like, honey!"
I don't roll on the Shabbos.
It's in there.
You women are so lucky that you can do that in public.
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SPRINGFIELD, Ohio - Attention Wal-Mart shoppers, wedding in lawn and garden.
Employees Chet Eldridge and Danna Hornback tied the knot Thursday amid the retailer's flowers, shrubs and lawn chairs.
Eldridge, 51, an automotive manager, and Hornback, 45, an arts and crafts associate, met during the store's employee orientation. She agreed to their first date in the furniture section. After the couple became engaged, a manager suggested they exchange vows at the store.
TRASH
ProfWombat
Yes, their lives are completely different than ours. My children are busy with soccer, basketball, ballet, piano, violin, etc. I sometimes think we are doing our children a disservice not teaching them how to relax, or chill, as they would say.
Aw, the fuckin' Cubs. Now they're going to need to add a new digit to that sign.
I DIDN'T FUCKING LEAVE BUDDIES FACE DOWN IN THE MUD IN NAM JUST SO THE CUBS CAN LOSE EVERY FUCKING TIME.
Disaster capitalism example, the 2004 tsunami ushering in first-time water privatization in Sri Lanka et al.
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My children are busy with soccer, basketball, ballet, piano, violin, etc. I sometimes think we are doing our children a disservice not teaching them how to relax, or chill, as they would say.
I often think that about today's kids, actually. But I ain't a parent and don't know what pressures you're under these days...
Don't hold your breath.
mer
well, i hear andy sullivan has flat out called the maestro of morons a war criminal. so that's sumth'n, heh?
a bit freak'n obvious. a bit freak'n late.
i'm not holding my breath.
Eldridge, 51, an automotive manager, and Hornback, 45, an arts and crafts associate, met during the store's employee orientation.
51 and 45 years... and they're getting orientation (as new hires)?!
...
WHAT THE FUCK DO THE CUBS HAVE TO DO WITH VIETNAM, WALTER...UH, GOMEZ?
Well of course the Cubs lose. Do you want to upset the fabric of the universe?
wow, did they make the playoffs? good for them ...
When did Leonardo DiCaprio get to be a good actor?
When did Leonardo DiCaprio get to be a good actor?
camelot
Beats me. When?
When did Leonardo DiCaprio get to be a good actor?
I think he's been a good actor from the beginning. Just doesn't always choose good vehicles, and he's an impetuous dick sometimes.
THEY DON'T ROLL SHIT WHEN IT COUNTS, NTODD...or something like that.
Oh, that wasn't my question. Whatever.
Unless you're being waterboarded.
Lumpenprolitariot
damn, i was trying to figure out how to work that in. look how easy it was.
the whole goddamned krovy horror show has been torture,,, for six long years...
Hey Shaw!,
Dinner in the North End when res is in town? I would, of course, defer to your superior knowledge of the neighborhood...
bill buckner
I'll be sending another email around with more details. So far we have an anti-war march through Boston Common in the afternoon, pre-dinner drinks at Chez Shaw, dinner at Piccolo Nido, after dinner drinks and dessert at Chez Shaw.
Also, anyone else who would like to make it to Bostonian Eschatonian on October 27 let me know.
Anyone know how to reach Chris Tucker???
email me at shawkenawe (at) yahoo (dot) com
When did Leonardo DiCaprio get to be a good actor?
I think he was even better as a child actor. He stole What's Eating Gilbert Grape. And out did DeNiro in A Boy's Life. Then he started doing Titanic and the Island and crappy flicks where the characters were pretty one dimensional.
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We got a man down dude.
Damn, I get no props for tying together Faux and brain-eating amoebas?
You are all bastard people.
When did Leonardo DiCaprio get to be a good actor?
camelot
he actually was always good. Too bad about his pretty face
When did Leonardo DiCaprio get to be a good actor?
Thought he was pretty good in "The Departed" - better Bawstin accent than Damon, who grew up in Cambridge...
I often think that about today's kids, actually. But I ain't a parent and don't know what pressures you're under these days..
Ntodd
You do about three million things a day, and I'm not sure you've grown up yet. You're just like my kids! I'm not quite old enough to be your mother, but I'm sure the girls would like you as an older brother, don't Thers and Molly's kids?
evening bats
my team actually won with authority today!
Damn, I get no props for tying together Faux and brain-eating amoebas?
You are all bastard people.
Jennifer
Lebowski's on. Sorry.
email me at shawkenawe (at) yahoo (dot) com
Shaw - I'll e-mail you his addy.
my team actually won with authority today!
::matthew
I've always had a problem with authority.
Leo was fantabulous in "The Departed" and "What's Eating Gilbert Grape".
Shaw Kenawe -
Does the esteemed DrWombat know about this? You still here, doc?
and Hill 364...
VIET NAM WAS BEAUTIFUL, JUST SOME PLACES SMELLED LIKE SHIT, HAD TO KNOW WHERE TO GO FACE DOWN.
or something like that.
(not a sexual pun. that smelled like fish)
Evening, all
WIngs 2 Blackhawks 0 ( for the Chicago people 11:00 left in the second)
On it, bill b and Shaw and whomever, and I'll try to make it for at least some of it. I'd love to meet you guys. Shaw K has me on her email list.
All I can say is the Cubs got beat fair & square. Dammit.
Was it Leonardo's evil twin in Titanic, then, or did that movie just suck so much it dragged Leonardo down with it, so to speak?
Fuck it. Let's go bowling.
Thought he was pretty good in "The Departed" - better Bawstin accent than Damon, who grew up in Cambridge...
Well, everyone seems to have a different opinion on Leo. I thought he was good in "The Departed" also. (He and Walhlberg.)
Then, there is the fact that he loves Al Gore.
WIngs 2 Blackhawks 0 ( for the Chicago people 11:00 left in the second)
DWD
he Canadiens just lost their first of the season. against the Maple Leaf. dammit.
All I can say is the Cubs got beat fair & square. Dammit.
strawhat
No Billygoats, no Bartmans, no Buckners.
Hawks score 2-1
email me at shawkenawe (at) yahoo (dot) com
Shaw - I'll e-mail you his addy.
NTodd, Free Speedy!
Thanks.
Was it Leonardo's evil twin in Titanic, then, or did that movie just suck so much it dragged Leonardo down with it, so to speak?
Dr. Wu
it's the movie's fault. Even Kate Winslet is bad in this one. AND SHE'S NEVER BAD!
SPRINGFIELD, Ohio - Attention Wal-Mart shoppers, wedding in lawn and garden.
Employees Chet Eldridge and Danna Hornback tied the knot Thursday amid the retailer's flowers, shrubs and lawn chairs.
Eldridge, 51, an automotive manager, and Hornback, 45, an arts and crafts associate, met during the store's employee orientation. She agreed to their first date in the furniture section. After the couple became engaged, a manager suggested they exchange vows at the store.
TRASH
Gilly Gonzylon | 10.06.07 - 9:44 pm
My friend, who lives just outside Springfield, informs me that it is indeed very white trashy.
Though it does have a very nice outdoor concert series during the summer.
He sucked hard in "Gangs of NY", or maybe compared to Daniel Day Lewis.
De Capreo was a good actor in Gilbert Grape. But I havn't gotten over Titanic.
I thought Leonardo was good in "The Aviator," which movie I enjoyed even though lots of people whose opinions I respect said it was crap. Overwrought crap. And overproduced. But I liked it.
Though it does have a very nice outdoor concert series during the summer.
Buckeye, Dealer of Rare Coins | 10.06.07 - 9:56 pm | #
REM played there in 1985.
You know, you'd think I'd be the first one to open an email with the title "teen girl posing nude".
You'd be wrong...
DeCaprio was great in The Departed.
Dept of Don't Fuck With the Spooks
It wasn’t just Goss’ aides, derisively dubbed the Gosslings by agency careerists, who thought the CIA needed new leadership after the twin debacles of 9/11 and the invasion of Iraq. But from day one, Goss and his people seemed to be punching above their weight. The well-publicized departure of several agency mainstays after confrontations with the Gosslings sealed their fate.
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Goss, 68, has been spending time with his family, sorting through various options for involving himself in policy debates on intelligence and “actively participating in the early years of his well deserved retirement from government service,” according to one friend who asked not to be identified. His former chief of staff, Patrick B. Murray, is working as a corporate lawyer near Washington. Another former aide who accompanied Goss to the CIA, Merrell Moorhead, has launched a new career in Nova Scotia as a vintner, turning sour grapes, you might say, into pinot noir.
...
“Shelby hated Tenet,” said another former CIA station chief. “Shelby would come through town and ask for dirt about Tenet. He made no secret of that. He always said, ‘I’m going to get you a new director.’”
Tenet got back at Shelby in a little-noticed passage in his memoir. He recounted how, in December 1996, shortly after President Bill Clinton nominated his national security advisor Anthony Lake to be CIA director, Shelby approached him after a committee briefing. (Tenet was then deputy director.) “George, he drawled,” according to Tenet, “if you have any dirt on Tony Lake, I sure would like to have it.” ...
Tenet also wrote that, “National Security Agency officials told us that Shelby staffers had been asking whether there was derogatory information in their communications intercepts on Lake.” ...
Shelby also demanded, and got, the FBI’s raw files on Lake. The senator did not respond to three days of requests last week for comment. ...
Shelby’s ability to obtain FBI files, which could be filled with uncorroborated allegations and rumors, he added, set a bad precedent.
“Using intelligence agencies to go after officials,” he said, “is not a good idea.”
http://public.cq.com/docs/hs/
hsn...0002601117.html
Off with his head!
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Fuck it. Let's go bowling.
Shaw Kenawe
ok - Just Shorten Your Stance in the Restrooms ...
Z’s Tap House & Grill for Bowling and Fun?
I liked 'The Aviator', but found it oddly hollow, in the final analysis, for an epic story about power, drive, madness, and like that...
DWD - Uncivil | #
Hawks score 2-
I haven't quite got over you saying that Pgh shouldn't have a hockey team. You should try to get a ticket for this season.
You know, you'd think I'd be the first one to open an email with the title "teen girl posing nude"
It's the "teen girl posing nude ready to service Osama bin Laden before planning attack" that will wake up the NSA supervisor.
Leo Dicaprio started off with the cool name. Boyishily handsome. This afforded him the bodaciously enormous paychecks, to allow him to learn how to act.
He's getting better.
This movie-"Blood Diamonds"-is more violent than "The Departed," and I didn't think that was possible.
Stuart Townsend is the director of the forthcoming film, "The Battle In Seattle."
Here's a link to an interview with him in today's Vancouver Sun. Turns out he's on the same page as most folk here.
Check it out.
http://www.canada.com/vancouvers...35-
08254a475fe6
Take er easy.
I haven't quite got over you saying that Pgh shouldn't have a hockey team. You should try to get a ticket for this season.
camelot
Apparently the NHL's Evil Plan worked to perfection. The Wings' Stadium was 1/3 empty because people are just not going to pay that much to see a bunch of no-name players. They are used to the best and would pay to see it. Are the Pittsburghs and other cities that were having trouble making ends meet satisfied that they have destroyed the great hockey teams like the Wings and the Stars and the Avalanche?
I thought Damon was good until I saw him act against the others in "The Departed."
First time I saw Leo in a movie, the Gilbert Grape one, I pegged him as a great actor and a future star.
From CNN:
"LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Lindsay Lohan has checked out of a drug and alcohol treatment program in Utah that she entered in August, according to People magazine."
Street prices rose accordingly.
DWD - Uncivil
Yes.
Fuck it. Let's go bowling.
Are the skinheads coming?
Shelby also demanded, and got, the FBI’s raw files on Lake. The senator did not respond to three days of requests last week for comment. ...
Shelby’s ability to obtain FBI files, which could be filled with uncorroborated allegations and rumors, he added, set a bad precedent.
WTF Clinton was thinking when he allowed FBI to be operated by a political enemy is a mystery to me.
Teen girl posing nude? Where?
Just to be myself, I HATED The Departed. What an awful vision of society. I never did figure out who the good guys were until it dawned on me, there simply were none.
no Buckners....
HEY NOW! (He wasn't a Cub then...)
I think Vincent Chase has a good career ahead of him. Go Aquaman !
Teen girl posing nude? Where?
The Kenosha Kid
shut the fuck up donnie
i'm taping Children Of Men right now. I am too tired emotionally to watch it tonite
Are the Pittsburghs and other cities that were having trouble making ends meet satisfied that they have destroyed the great hockey teams like the Wings and the Stars and the Avalanche?
We got lucky and drafted Crosby and Malkin. We're selling out our house.
Damon is a good actor to the extent that he makes good career choices. Which is no mean feat.
First time I saw Leo in a movie, the Gilbert Grape one, I pegged him as a great actor and a future star.
First time I heard Michael Jackson's "Thriller," I told the record company rep who brought it into the store I was working that it would never top "Off the Wall."
Just to be myself, I HATED The Departed. What an awful vision of society. I never did figure out who the good guys were until it dawned on me, there simply were none.
DWD - Uncivil | Homepage | 10.06.07 - 10:05 pm | #
I didn't like those shoe covers in the last scene w/ Marky Mark.
I really liked the departed and thought most did a pretty good job acting in it
shut the fuck up donnie
I am the walrus.
I never did figure out who the good guys were until it dawned on me, there simply were none.
DWD - Uncivil
Like our government at the present moment.
Diamondbacks!
First time I saw Leo in a movie, the Gilbert Grape one, I pegged him as a great actor
"Great" evidently doesn't swagger the way it used to.
Just to be myself, I HATED The Departed. What an awful vision of society. I never did figure out who the good guys were until it dawned on me, there simply were none.
DWD - Uncivil | Homepage | 10.06.07 - 10:05 pm
Huh??? This is an awful vision of society? Realistic is more like it. (and there may be good guys, but just not among the cops and robbers)
Especially in Boston's FBI/Gangworld.
shut the fuck up donnie
I am the walrus.
The Kenosha Kid
I think Vincent Chase has a good career ahead of him. Go Aquaman !
Wait'll you see "Medillon"!
there simply were none.
DWD - Uncivil
wasn't that the point?
Damon is a good actor to the extent that he makes good career choices. Which is no mean feat.
The Kenosha Kid | Homepage | 10.06.07 - 10:06 pm | #
He's good at choosing projects, unlike his buddy, Ben Affleck.
I am the walrus.
The Kenosha Kid
Forget it, Donny, you're out of your element!
"He's good at choosing projects, unlike his buddy, Ben Affleck."
First thing that works in Damon's favor is when he doesn't do a project with Afflecktion.
Watched part of the Cubs game tonight (MISTAKE). Arizona pitcher walks the bases loaded, has the Cub hitter at 3-1, you'd figure he'd be taking all the way.
No, he swings at ball four, grounds into a double play.
wasn't that the point?
plum p, Gore/Webb 08 | Homepage | 10.06.07 - 10:08 pm
In the original Infernal Affairs, yes, that was the point. And that being a good guy didn't miraculously save your ass until the end of the film.
Wha? Huh?
DWD?
Very good flick.
Very possible truthiness.
Awful vision of society..?hell yeah.
On c-span2/BookTv, a man with no respect for Clarence Thomas
About the Program
In "The Nine," author Jeffrey Toobin takes a look at the Supreme Court from the Reagan Administration to the present, commenting on the personalities and contributions of the various justices who have served in that time.
About the Author
Jeffrey Toobin is the author of "Too Close to Call," "A Vast Conspiracy," and "The Run of His Life." He is also a CNN senior legal analyst and New Yorker staff writer.
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To Affleck's credit, I think he knows he's not the smart one....he's the pretty one.
remember when Good Will Hunting came out? Evrrybody thought Affleck would be the better actor and better carrer. Oups! Advantage Damon
EkCenTriK | 10.06.07 - 10:10 pm | #
They went their seperate ways a while back.
Damon opted for the non-celebrity route. He doesn't really do the paparazzi/celebrity thing.
...And that being a good guy didn't miraculously save your ass until the end of the film.
Tom - 大肚腩
the elevator scene def. caught me off-guard
unlike his buddy, Ben Affleck.
He wuz da bomb in Phantoms, yo!
BTW...I think Ben Affleck's bro, Casey, will end up being the more remarkable actor...but probably not the richer of the two.
He's good at choosing projects, unlike his buddy, Ben Affleck.
Janeane The Acerbic Goblin | 10.06.07 - 10:08 pm | #
O' Banyon in Dazed and Confused was best.
plum p, Gore/Webb 08 | Homepage | 10.06.07 - 10:11 pm | #
Never believe the press on anything. Everyone thought Affleck was the smarter one.
Ben is rather articulate in some interviews I've seen, but he's made poor choices in terms of projects.
there simply were none.
DWD - Uncivil
wasn't that the point?
plum p, Gore/Webb 08
Plum,
I am an (Or was - To be determined yet if I am going back) an inner city school teacher. I have seen enough reality to last me forever. I live in a country that has been taken over by crazy people and there seems to be no recourse to the insanity. (We even elect a congress to stop it and they refuse and act like they are simply deaf or dumb) So, hyper-reality on the movie screen holds little appeal for me. I AM aware of it. I don't need a reminder. What I need is entertainment. A place where rules makes sense. The good guys win. The bad guys lose. The geeky hero meets the neat girl - that sort of thing.
Too much reality gives me a heartache.
I think Ben Affleck's bro, Casey, will end up being the more remarkable actor...but probably not the richer of the two.
dew
he's got better chances to win an acting Oscar for sure!
The thing about Infernal Affairs (the original Departed) is that it's part of a trilogy, at least I think so.
I did like The Departed, but it isn't Scorsese's best by a long shot.
Too much reality gives me a heartache.
DWD
indeed
I thought Damon was good until I saw him act against the others in "The Departed."
He was actually quite good in The Good Shepherd playing an emotionally dead unsympathetic character who was on screen for nearly 3 hrs.
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He loves him some liberal politics. (Ben A.)
Jeezus, what they do to children in this movie...Oh, God.
" DWD - Uncivil | Homepage | 10.06.07 - 10:14 pm | #"
what he said!!!
I did like The Departed, but it isn't Scorsese's best by a long shot.
Janeane
but moi, i liked it better than Gangs Of New-York, which i strongly disliked, don't know why, but i did
What an awful vision of society.
Yet pretty true-to-life if you've followed the career of Bawstin scumbag gangster Whitey Bulger. A good book about the Boston/Providence mafia:
http://tinyurl.com/3885av
He's good at choosing projects, unlike his buddy, Ben Affleck.
Ben was surprisingly good in Hollywoodland playing George Reeves. Adrien Brody, not so much.
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Too much reality gives me a heartache.
DWD - Uncivil | Homepage | 10.06.07 - 10:14 pm | #
I'm looking forward to the Golden Compass.
but moi, i liked it better than Gangs Of New-York, which i strongly disliked, don't know why, but i did
plum p, Gore/Webb 08 | Homepage | 10.06.07 - 10:16 pm | #
Because they all lost their Irish accents halfway through the movie? )
He was actually quite good in The Good Shepherd playing an emotionally dead unsympathetic character who was on screen for nearly 3 hrs.
.
William H. Rehnquist
Agreed. I thought he managed that role quite well.
Too much reality gives me a heartache.
DWD
indeed
plum p, Gore/Webb 08 | Homepage | 10.06.07 - 10:15 pm | #
Reality is boring (I didn't want to say it bites, for obvious reasons)...
but moi, i liked it better than Gangs Of New-York, which i strongly disliked, don't know why, but i did
plum p, Gore/Webb 08
Too much knife work for my taste. I still have nightmares about that movie.
Too much reality gives me a heartache.
Thats why we all come here, to share with all these happy and loving people.
I'm looking forward to the Golden Compass
I'm looking forward to the fundies going batshit over that one: a movie where god "the authority" and the church are the villains and the fallen angels (aka Satan) are the good guys.
It's gonna be AWESOME BAYBEEEE.
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He sucked hard in "Gangs of NY", or maybe compared to Daniel Day Lewis.
Script problems from Day One, according to an acquaintance that worked on that movie. As written, the rival Day-Lewis gang was comprised of firefighters. Then 9/11 happened. Oops... (Too bad, as I had great hopes for that film...)
well Cate Blanchett will be The Queen once more starting next week. That makes me very happy
Does anyone actually understand what the spoiled bint at the New York Times is trying to say in her column this day? I read it: twice. I have yet to find the point. (At any rate, she is proving once again that she undeserving of the attention and money she gets for writing this trash that is printed without question (or apparently) editing by her newspaper.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/0...ion&
oref=slogin
I have to re-read Golden Compass tonight. A good time for some comfort reading.
I'm looking forward to the fundies going batshit over that one: a movie where god "the authority" and the church are the villains and the fallen angels (aka Satan) are the good guys.
It's gonna be AWESOME BAYBEEEE.
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William H. Rehnquist | 10.06.07 - 10:19 pm | #
As you point out, it does have realistic parts to it.
...pfft.
"Nine-Eleven changed everything."
(Only to those who didn't want to play by the rules.)
bill buckner | 10.06.07 - 10:19 pm | #
Homer: There were script problems from day one.
Bart: Sounds like nobody read the script.
Homer: That was the problem.
From an obscure Simpsons episode when Mr. Burns makes a "talkie" about recruiting people for the nuclear power plant.
I'm looking forward to the Golden Compass.
Ever read the kid's book, "godless?"
Golden Compass is a book?
Hey! I thought A man said Rock On!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pGht71KFkY
Daniel Day Lewis.
that's it, that's him why i disliked the film. an overblown performance. Too much of it
Plum, I thought Casey's Affleck's acting in "The Last Kiss" was pretty good.
Script problems from Day One, according to an acquaintance that worked on that movie.
Had a friend who they tried to bring on as a historian consultant and had an early look at the script and told Scorcese's peeps that it was too one sided in terms of it's depiction of these people as essentially violent animals. Not what they wanted to hear.
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DWD - Uncivil | Homepage | 10.06.07 - 10:20 pm | #
She is a major flake and vastly overrated.
She trashed Al Gore every chance she got, and would do it again if he ran.
They didn't like it at Cannes, but what the fuck do the frogs know?
...so what the hell is this The Seeker that's supposed to "be the new Harry Potter" franchise?
Script problems from Day One, according to an acquaintance that worked on that movie. As written, the rival Day-Lewis gang was comprised of firefighters. Then 9/11 happened. Oops... (Too bad, as I had great hopes for that film...)
bill buckner | 10.06.07 - 10:19 pm | #
Interesting!
I did like in the beginning when the frame was filled with a bunch of Abe Lincolns.
"Da Shirt Tails"
"Da Forty Teeves'
"Da Blue Marlins"
"Da Crunchberries"
"Da Homely Goyams"
There's a principle at stake here man.
I'm fucking staying. I'm finishing my coffee.
I found Dowd not bad in that column. She's pretending to be Clarence Thomas musing aloud about Anita Hill and Al Gore and Atticus Finch.
Does anyone actually understand what the spoiled bint at the New York Times is trying to say in her column this day?
"Clarence Thomas cost Al Gore the election, not Maureen Dowd"
Golden Compass is a book?
Maybe it's the name of the whole trilogy? Not sure, but the first book is what I have in mind. It's by far the best of the three.
DWD, that article doesn't make an ounce of sense.
She must be abusing prescription drugs, or she's just an idiot who thinks she's brilliant.
(Collapses, requests drink)
Golden Compass is a book?
If you're not joking: It's a great young-adult trilogy by Phillip Pullman. Like Harry Potter. Except is deals with religion head on and is super fucking violent in terms of racking up a high body count of main characters.
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She must be abusing prescription drugs, or she's just an idiot who thinks she's brilliant.
Janeane The Acerbic Goblin | 10.06.07 - 10:25 pm | #
She was good in "Run Lola Run", though.
"Does anyone actually understand what the spoiled bint at the New York Times is trying to say in her column this day? I read it: twice. I have yet to find the point."
really weird...
I have not found the sense.
the lambs express!
http://mfrost.typepad.com/cute_o...ckin-
lambs.html
She must be abusing prescription drugs, or she's just an idiot who thinks she's brilliant.
Janeane The Acerbic Goblin
Ding ding ding ding ding ding!!!!!!!
The Golden Compass--Bk 1
The Subtle Knife--Bk 2
The Amber Spyglass--Bk 3
Echidne,
Thanks: must be the damned Percocets messing with my mind this night (I have had two since five tonight.)
There always are choices, right?
really weird...
I have not found the sense.
You need to pretend that you just finished reading Clarence Thomas's autobio.
"(Collapses, requests drink)"
hands her a martini
(Collapses, requests drink)
Sallyh
how about a nice glass of wine?
(Collapses, requests drink)
Sallyh
vodka & tonic, here
If you're not joking:
I can do my internet research, sir. And I live my life according to the credo that I'm never too old to learn something.
...
and now Sallyh is drunk! good work guys!
And I live my life according to the credo that I'm never too old to learn something.
I am to old to learn lots of stuff, I've decided. It's easier that way.
As to anyone who offered drinks: yes.
Fave Marty flick
"Casino"
I can do my internet research, sir. And I live my life according to the credo that I'm never too old to learn something.
Wasn't talking smack. Just didn't know if you were being sarcastic at first.
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sallyh will be feeling no pain in a moment...
Ok, doing a distance healing on DWD now.
Fave Scorsese flicks...
Last Temptation of Christ
Taxi Driver
Goodfellas
The Last Waltz
Uncle Blodge, and I'm good with that!
I think MoDo's new nickname should be Young Althouse.
Pullman's answer to The Lion, the Witch, and The Wardrobe. Most Literature critics like Pullman's series better than Harry Potter.
Do you remember that The Golden Compass begins with a wardrobe also, just like The LWW.
There always are choices, right?
DWD - Uncivil
Even if you choose not to make one ...
Geddy Lee - (circa Stonerozoic Period)
Just didn't know if you were being sarcastic at first.
...a good caution, especially on an Atriot thread!
[ quaffs drink ]
[ throws chalice into fireplace with a smash ]
I am to old to learn lots of stuff, I've decided. It's easier that way.
Echidne | Homepage | 10.06.07 - 10:29 pm | #
Live 100 years. Learn 100 years. Die a fool.
- talmud
Fave Scorsese flicks...
Can I get an amen for the vastly underrated "King of Comedy?" Creepy...Goddamned...Movie...
Pullman's answer to The Lion, the Witch, and The Wardrobe. Most Literature critics like Pullman's series better than Harry Potter.
Do you remember that The Golden Compass begins with a wardrobe also, just like The LWW.
It's also his answer to Paradise Lost.
God's a sadistic putz who becomes a senile old man. Eve was the real savior of mankind. World is redeemed by a girl with help from witches, harpies (among other traditional symbols of evil). He turns the whole thing upside down.
Politically and theologically, it's divine.
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I think MoDo's new nickname should be Young Althouse.
Little Annie Havisham?
"I think MoDo's new nickname should be Young Althouse."
or old shithouse
I kinda liked The Aviator, but I'm a sucker for anything with elements of Old Hollywood in it.
Politically and theologically, it's divine.
.
William H. Rehnquist
and one of his books is becoming a movie?
Can I get an amen for the vastly underrated "King of Comedy?" Creepy...Goddamned...Movie...
What you said. The DVD has one or two interesting deleted scenes. Also, from that same era, After Hours.
It's also his answer to Paradise Lost.
Politically and theologically, it's divine.
Yes, absolutely, to both.
Can I get an amen for the vastly underrated "King of Comedy?" Creepy...Goddamned...Movie...
bill buckner | 10.06.07 - 10:34 pm | #
Ah, yes, of course! Rupert !
bill buckner | 10.06.07 - 10:34 pm | #
Amen...great film.
"I think MoDo's new nickname should be Young Althouse."
She'd think it was a compliment because it had "young" in it.
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Youngest DWD and I watched David Cronenberg's SCANNERS tonight. He had never seen it. It was as I remembered it: decent with exploding heads.
You are all bastard people.
Jennifer | 10.06.07 - 9:50 pm | #
Yes.
You are all bastard people.
Jennifer | 10.06.07 - 9:50 pm | #
You're so sweet...
You are all bastard people.
Jennifer | 10.06.07 - 9:50 pm | #
am i still a bastard people even though I wasn't on then?
and one of his books is becoming a movie?
Remarkably, the whole trilogy. And, mark my words, if they are true to the books in terms of theology and politics, there's going to be fundie firestorm that is going to make their protests over Harry Potter and The Last Temptation of Christ seems like a day at the county fair.
I can't wait!
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godless is good too. A 14 YO decides to make the town water tower his God.
I now know why people left this movie, Blood Diamonds, swearing to never wear diamonds again.
but on the bright side- USC loses ...
I can't wait!
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William H. Rehnquis
this!
http://goldenfiddle.com/node/9119
OH MY GOD!!!
Stanford beats USC
You are all bastard people.
Jennifer | 10.06.07 - 9:50 pm | #
Shudupp, biotch!
So anyone else heard the cover of "Band on the Run" by Foo Fighters?
I would have preferred "Jet," but it's still pretty cool...
but on the bright side- USC loses ...
focus, soxer | 10.06.07 - 10:41 pm | #
As long as it isn't USB. I love that PC connector.
Stanford beats USC
I have to admit, my hatred of USC beats my hatred of Stanford...
Also, from that same era, After Hours.
I saw it again a few weeks ago and it was even better than I remembered. What a great little fim.
William H. Rehnquist | 10.06.07 - 10:40 pm | #
The trailer seems to indicate a distinctly un-pc dislike of church.
http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/18...standardformat/
The books were written as a counter to that lion-of-christ series.
Stanford beats USC
..that's "sliderules" over "champagne" right?
Haven't read Pullman, but want to check him out on Rehnquist's rec... I've met people who won't let their kids read "Harry Potter" because it deals with "witchcraft" and shit. Sounds like this would make them spontaneously combust...
"OH MY GOD!!!
Stanford beats USC"
want a miracle?
Temple won
WASHINGTON, Oct. 6 — Tens of thousands of Medicare recipients have been victims of deceptive sales tactics and had claims improperly denied by private insurers that run the system’s huge new drug benefit program and offer other private insurance options encouraged by the Bush administration, a review of scores of federal audits has found.
The problems, described in 91 audit reports reviewed by The New York Times, include the improper termination of coverage for people with H.I.V. and AIDS, huge backlogs of claims and complaints, and a failure to answer telephone calls from consumers, doctors and drugstores.
Medicare officials have required insurance companies of all sizes to fix the violations by adopting “corrective action plans.” Since March, Medicare has imposed fines of more than $770,000 on 11 companies for marketing violations and failure to provide timely notice to beneficiaries about changes in costs and benefits.
The companies include three of the largest participants in the Medicare market, UnitedHealth, Humana and WellPoint.
You know, Trademark Dave, I usually defer to you musically (as you have excellent taste) but I cannot imagine ANYONE doing a version of BAND ON THE RUN that I would actually want to hear. (But that might just be me)
Well, there is a bastard peolel working for Discovery.ca's "Forensic Factor".
you aren't supposed to laugh that hard at a crime documentary (I was fucking bored, OK?)... on purpose.
we were tempted to see blood diamonds, but i'm so sick of the lone ranger (white hero and savage sidekick) recipe.
Sounds like this would make them spontaneously combust...
bill buckner
Now *that* would be worth watching...
Sounds like this would make them spontaneously combust...
We can only hope. It's the potential of capturing moments like that which make me praise jeebus you Youtube.
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Stanford beats USC
The realistic core of the Pullman series is that the established church wants power and hates all that is good in life.
I like the witches having ordinary Finnish surnames in the Golden Compass. I guess they sound exotic to a Brit but it's like someone naming witches Maud Smith.
Stanford beat USC?!
Quel horreur!
(Monsieur and I hate Stanford)
ordinary Finnish surnames
...and those might be?
"The realistic core of the Pullman series is that the established church wants power and hates all that is good in life."
can't be - the church praises jeebus
ErinPDX,
I present this "gift" from Jane Hamsher. Enjoy, All too often the “she’s unelectable” mantra turns out to be the last refuge of misogynists and Republican concern trolls like Karl Rove, who just does not offer up agenda-free advice to Democrats. When he says she’s “fatally flawed” as a candidate what he really means is she’s run (in technical terms) a pretty flawless campaign, and almost any other candidate is more likely to strap on a helmet and climb into a tank before the election is over.
TMDave:
Ever heard either of these? WILDLY uneven, but a few keeper tracks...
http://www.vh1.com/thewire/conte...jhtml?
nid=14461
...and those might be?
One of the witches is called Serafina Pekkala. Pekkala is roughly Peterson, strictly "Pekka's farm".
The realistic core of the Pullman series is that the established church wants power and hates all that is good in life.
More than that: they hate wisdom, knowledge, inquisitiveness, and just about anything that makes life worth living. And it's more than the established church: it's God, it's his minions in heaven, Jeebus, and all the end of days "good guys." He completely turns it upside down.
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The realistic core of the Pullman series is that the established church wants power and hates all that is good in life.
rootless2
The realistic core is that every single organization and most disorganizations want power, and most of them have differing definitions for "good".
I cannot imagine ANYONE doing a version of BAND ON THE RUN that I would actually want to hear.
It's not bad - it starts off a little too true to the original but kicks into full Foo Fighter pop-grunge at the "If I ever get outta here" section.
Like I said, I'd have rathered seen them cover "Jet," but what the hell.
It's from a compilation album celebrating 40 years of the BBC's Radio One, btw...
...and those might be?
Darryl Pearce | Homepage | 10.06.07 - 10:47 pm | #
Morton.....Whitney....
(Monsieur and I hate Stanford)
Eli went to Stanford.
(Monsieur and I hate Stanford)
Eli went to Stanford.
One more reason to stop him.
Ban Don Derun
You are all bastard people.
Jennifer
Bastards we may be but you, ma'am, are a slattern, a round heels, a doxy, a miss howdja do, and a she-whelp. (I have no idea what any of that means.)
my hope is that kids in christofascist madrassas around the country are reading smuggled copies of Dark Materials.
"(Monsieur and I hate Stanford)"
as an owl I hate Penn, but that's about it.
the only team I hate is the dallas physical manifestations of total evil. they just suck.
...actually, in my meager study of languages, however exotic a name might sound, when translated it becomes something simple like a description: "The town over the hill by the water."
"John the pig farmer's son."
"Smith is a child of the smiths who live in the town of the smiths."
I'm reposting my song of the week. It would make such a perfect Bond Theme
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M...h?v=Ml8rrQ6-
w58
the only team I hate is the dallas physical manifestations of total evil. they just suck.
Uncle Blodge
DREW PEARSON PUSHED OFF!!!
Fave Macca songs (Post Beatles)
Junior's Farm
Jet
Darryl Pearce | Homepage | 10.06.07 - 10:53 pm | #
---
Vermont always seemed to me to be a name adopted by a Eastern European Jewish family that had acquired some pretensions.
Have the Yankees conceded yet?
Sidetrack: who did the song with the lyric "Just when you think it's all over, it's not over"
...I've
had
that
brainworm
all
day.
(I have no idea what any of that means.)
Well, that would be filthy, a slut, a whore, and a bitch, thou glass-gazing slave.
"DREW PEARSON PUSHED OFF!!!"
yes he did.
what really opisses me off is we Phila fans get into trouble just for all the drunken brawls, snowballs and booing - yet the dallas fans can light a viking fan in a snowman costume on fire and everyone forgets.
fuckers
Fun stuff at Orcinus re Oral Roberts ministry:
"...plus the fact that this laundry list of sins against the family business was compiled by a family member, all point to a pile of tantalizing hints that the old man may soon live to see his empire go down in the biggest blaze of money, sex, and greed since Heritage USA. In the meantime, sports fans, stock up on popcorn."
http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/200...ens-part-
i.html
"John the pig farmer's son."
"Smith is a child of the smiths who live in the town of the smiths."
I read somewhere that Baker comes from a guy who is a baker and that Baxter comes from a gal who is a baker. Some other names have similar pairings.
my hope is that kids in christofascist madrassas around the country are reading smuggled copies of Dark Materials.
Me too. And I think they will once their parents tell them it's the most evil book ever written.
Cause ya gotta read that one, just cause.
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Ban Don Derun
Gilly Gonzylon | 10.06.07 - 10:51 pm
Ban Da Doo Run Run...
"Vermont" is an old Algonquin word that means "more Canada."
plum p, Gore/Webb 08 | Homepage | 10.06.07 - 10:53 pm | #
A great one, Plum.
DWD, come on now, you don't want to get me all pissed off and serious on a Saturday night. My problem with her is that she IS electible. I don't like her policies, and don't trust someone who would again hand bush a loaded gun. And now that you mention it, the polarizing thing is a massive issue with for us here in Oregon and other places as related to the senate and congressional races. I want Gordon Smith out and don't need the wacko base energized to vote. All polls here and in many other states show Edwards with the biggest lead over all republicans.
But other than that, how bout those damned mosquitos in cleveland. Damn!
Feelin' sorry for Chicago tonight...
Hard habit to break...(uh-oh, bad pun night)...
Oral Roberts going down in flames????
too cool for words if true.
Ever heard either of these? WILDLY uneven, but a few keeper tracks...
Oh, man, someone let Simels know about this:
Ray Paul with Emitt Rhodes - "Oh Woman, Oh Why"
Add my voice to those in praise of Pullman's 'His Dark Materials' trilogy. RMJ didn't like the later books. I loved every last word of them. By all means, check them out. Very challenging, as the dead guy said, to the notion of organized religion.
Pullman also wrote some essays introducing 'Paradise Lost' in an Oxford book, which includes PL in full and is a hell of a read for both. If you haven't read 'Paradise Lost', you're in for more of a treat than you think you are...
Some other names have similar pairings.
Echidne
My mother's surname means "lower-ranked member of the clan McGregor that managed to get the fuck out of dodge before getting killed"
Hard habit to break...(uh-oh, bad pun night)...
Janeane The Acerbic Goblin
lol
"Vermont" is an old Algonquin word that means "more Canada."
Darryl Pearce
they wish!
Feelin' sorry for Chicago tonight...
Hard habit to break...(uh-oh, bad pun night)...
Janeane The Acerbic Goblin | 10.06.07 - 10:56 pm | #
You're pro Mrs O'Leary's Cow?
Gilly Gonzylon | 10.06.07 - 10:58 pm | #
Chicago needs another fire like that...the cow had the right idea...
plum..., I like Concrete Blonde
Feelin' sorry for Chicago tonight...
No need....it is our destiny....the Bulls in the 1990's were an aberration.
Feelin' sorry for Chicago tonight...
Same shit for 40 years for me.
Let do 100!
Darryl Pearce -
Not certain, but I think it's Tears For Fears...
Exiled emperor Napoleon Bonaparte died on May 5, 1821. The following day, doctors conducted an autopsy, which was reportedly witnessed by many people, including a priest named Ange Vignali.
Though the body was said to be largely intact at the time of the undertaking, it seems the priest took home a souvenir. In 1916, Vignali's heirs sold a collection of Napoleonic artifacts, including what they claim to be the emperor's penis.
While no one knows for sure if it really is Napoleon's, uh, manhood, people have paid good money for the penis. Currently, it's in the possession of an American urologist.
Fave Macca songs (Post Beatles)
"Some People Never Know"
"Picasso's Last Words"
"Letting Go"
"Girls' School"
"Oh Woman Oh Why"
Sadly, I have more fave post-Beatle McCartney songs than fave post-Beatle Lennon songs...
oh, and just to rub it in, the canadian dollar finished the week worthing more than the american dollar. It's big big news in Canada. A national ego booster you might say
It's all true, from the ap article:
It details dozens of alleged instances of misconduct. Among them:
• A longtime maintenance employee was fired so that an underage male friend of Mrs. Roberts could have his position.
• Mrs. Roberts — who is a member of the board of regents and is referred to as ORU's "first lady" on the university's Web site — frequently had cell-phone bills of more than $800 per month, with hundreds of text messages sent between 1 a.m. to 3 a.m. to "underage males who had been provided phones at university expense."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/
20071...roberts_scandal
Shared Humanity | 10.06.07 - 10:58 pm | #
The Bulls were an anomaly/aberration for sure...
6 championships in 8 years...
Never happen again...
"Feelin' sorry for Chicago tonight...
Same shit for 40 years for me."
Um - white sox??
Speaking of the Chicago Fire, it reminds me of a bit of dialogue from a film...
"If you beat this guy enough, he'll tell ya he started the goddam Chicago fire, but that doesn't necessarily make it fuckin' so!"...
"Same shit for 40 years for me.""
Bears 1985?
I could never trust a man named Oral.
The realistic core is that every single organization and most disorganizations want power, and most of them have differing definitions for "good".
JR, kerosene and a match | Homepage | 10.06.07 - 10:49 pm | #
Too generic to be useful. The way that Nature Conservancy or Grameen Bank want power is different from the way that the Federalist Society and Focus on Killing Families want power.
Erin,
I thought you would like it. The bugs were non-biting flies. The amount of them actually reflected the health of Lake Erie and the warm weather. (I read an article on them earlier but the link is gone now)
OK, non-non-white musicians...
Beat Farmers - Gun Sale At The Church
thou glass-gazing slave. = wanker?
Darryl i remember the Concrete Blondes
here's them doing some Leonard Cohen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a...h?v=axnCMV-
on9Q
I could never trust a man named Oral.
Not even for fellatio or cunnilingus?
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Mrs. Roberts — who is a member of the board of regents and is referred to as ORU's "first lady" on the university's Web site — frequently had cell-phone bills of more than $800 per month, with hundreds of text messages sent between 1 a.m. to 3 a.m. to "underage males who had been provided phones at university expense."
She's got that Mrs. Wormer vibe about her.
Bears 1985?
Uncle Blodge, Urban Teacher
I don't watch football--besides, they're done the same things for decades as well
Sadly, I have more fave post-Beatle McCartney songs than fave post-Beatle Lennon songs...
I'm probably the only record-head on the East Coast who REALLY likes "Wings Over America." Secret Weapon: Poor drug-doomed Jimmy McCullough...
Okay, that was a dumb movie.
Uncle Blodge, Urban Teacher | 10.06.07 - 11:01 pm | #
Probably Black Hawks...haven't won the Cup since the 60's...
Bears' drought since 1985...
Bulls' drought since 1998....
Cubs...let's not bring that up again...
Too generic to be useful.
rootless2
Funny, a couple of days ago I was told that non-generic definitions were bad...
Sadly, I have more fave post-Beatle McCartney songs than fave post-Beatle Lennon songs...
dave™© | Homepage | 10.06.07 - 10:59 pm | #
There was talk that had the Beatles stayed together, the follow up to Abbey Road would have been called "Everest". The material they had been working on as the Beatles and later released in solo projects would have created yet another strong Beatles album.
I'm probably the only record-head on the East Coast who REALLY likes "Wings Over America."
Wow, haven't listened to that in years... probably should check it out again. Isn't there a film, also?
Susan Sarandon on MAd TV!
I used to work for a church school. they started acting like a business about 10 years ago - letting people go in order to outsource business to the board of directors son and such.
after I got a mailing talking about positioning the school/church's "brand" I knew they were now openly evil.
Funny, a couple of days ago I was told that non-generic definitions were bad...
JR, kerosene and a match | Homepage | 10.06.07 - 11:04 pm | #
----
The things that you're often
going to read in the comments
ain't necessarily so
either.
Have the Yankees conceded yet?
NTodd, Free Speedy!
Rocket pitches tomorrow.
Say yer prayers.
Funny, a couple of days ago I was told that non-generic definitions were bad...
That's because many prescription drug plans no longer cover many non-generics.
.
Hey good thing Cleveland saved their ace for tomorrow, huh?
The things that you're often
going to read in the comments
ain't necessarily so
either.
rootless2
I waz just snarkin', dude.
...ah, Tears-for-Fears "Who Killed Tangerine?"
Back to The golden Compass: go to thegoldencompassmovie website and click on daemons. Answer 20 questions and you will find your daemon. Mine is Nicolius, a black crow.
Okay, that was a dumb movie.
fourlegsrgood
which one?
The material they had been working on as the Beatles and later released in solo projects would have created yet another strong Beatles album.
I've often speculated about a Beatles' album that would start off with "Instant Karma", "Maybe I'm Amazed", "My Sweet Lord," and "It Don't Come Easy"...
Janeane: er, the basketball team up here in Boston--the Celtics, I think they were called--enjoyed a rather spectacular run of success longer, in fact, than Chicago's. 1957, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 19645, 1966, 1968, 1969, and a few more yet...
I could never trust a man named Oral.
Luckily, I never needed to.
I could never trust a man named Oral.
Never got to the potty stage.
I've often speculated about a Beatles' album that would start off with "Instant Karma", "Maybe I'm Amazed", "My Sweet Lord," and "It Don't Come Easy"...
dave™© | Homepage | 10.06.07 - 11:07 pm |
Yes indeed. They could have had strong albums up through 1973-74.
Plum..., there's was another group I liked: 4 Non-Blondes, whose singer, Linda Perry, did a couple of other CDs. She's a producer now, and that lead me to Sierra Swan...
Rocket pitches tomorrow.
Say yer prayers.
Dear baby Jeebus:
Please let the rocket get caught with the steroids we all know he's been taking but that the Peter Gammon's of the world have willfully turned a blind eye to.
If you do, I'll eat all my vegetables. Even broccoli.
.
Consider the 1985 Bears and then tune in tomorrow night to see the team that wears the same colors get rubbed into the turf by Brett Favre and his little friends.
Bitter? Me? Oh no. Not at all. Talk to me in a week and I'll have recovered my bounce.
Janeane The Acerbic Goblin | 10.06.07 - 11:03 pm | #
Pfah.
Eagles since 1960
Phillies since 1980
Flyers since 1975
Sixers since 1983
Chicago gets 8 titles in that span.
Yeah usually the teams are good, but there are people pushing 30 who don't remember a philadelphia title.
Linda Perry, did a couple of other CDs. She's a producer now, and that lead me to Sierra Swan...
Darryl Pearce
i never cared for her or them. She wrote "beautiful" for Christina Aguilera you know. And Christina's voice can drive me to murder, you know
OK, non-non-white musicians...
I still remember where I was, and what I was doing when I heard that Country Dick Montana had died...
...! Well..., now I know.
...ah, Tears-for-Fears "Who Killed Tangerine?"
Think so. It was in that silly "Fever Pitch" movie...
Uncle Blodge, Urban Teacher | 10.06.07 - 11:08 pm | #
Philly and Chicago should get together and have a bitter fest...
I've often speculated about a Beatles' album that would start off with "Instant Karma", "Maybe I'm Amazed", "My Sweet Lord," and "It Don't Come Easy"...
dave™©
Let It Be is generally viewed as one of their kinda throwaways.
I dig I Me Mine a lot, though.
They were still able to produce very enjoyable music togehter, even though by that time they detested each other.
"Consider the 1985 Bears and then tune in tomorrow night to see the team that wears the same colors get rubbed into the turf by Brett Favre and his little friends."
yeah - do they play da igglz this year?
this is the year the tires fall of the birds - they are going to suck. beating detroit was a fluke
Uncle Blodge, totally without ethics and possibly illegal. They tried to run it as a dishonest business.
Seen on the internets:
THE BEATLES almost called their iconic ABBEY ROAD album EVEREST after a brand of cigarettes. Recording engineer GEOFF EMERICK was a fan of Everest cigarettes and while the Fab Four were considering a title for their landmark album, they came across an empty packet and were inspired. They even considered flying to the Himalayas for an album cover photo shoot. Emerick recalls, "The album was going to be named after my cigarettes, Everest, that I used to smoke because they were stuck for an album title. "Ringo didn't like traveling and they thought of going to Mount Everest to do a photo shoot." And it wasn't the only time cigarette packets helped to give the Beatles inspiration. Emerick reveals, "RINGO STARR's snare drum sound came from a soft packet of Lark cigarettes that he always used to keep on top of the snare drum. "If you put a different pack of cigarettes there it didn't sound the same."
And it seems I'm not the only one to think about a post-"Abbey Road" Beatles album.
That's a great mix!
ProfWombat | 10.06.07 - 11:07 pm | #
Even the Bulls run was bested by another team.
I waz just snarkin', dude.
JR, kerosene and a match | Homepage | 10.06.07 - 11:06 pm | #
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My poor rewrite of Porgy and Bess.
Imagine if "Ain't necessarily so" was on Broadway now.
"Philly and Chicago should get together and have a bitter fest..."
depends on the teams.
cubs fans have it rough - no doubt about that.
Hey, but Plum... at least we knew what we were talking about. Do you ever listen to Flogging Molly?
TEARS FOR FEARS - MAD WORLD
I like the cover version from Donnie Darko much better than the original.
.
Incorporate the World
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8...h?
v=8q29n2XBXLI
Dear baby Jeebus:
Please let the rocket get caught with the steroids we all know he's been taking but that the Peter Gammon's of the world have willfully turned a blind eye to.
I you do, I'll eat all my vegetables. Even broccoli.
William H. Rehnquist
Ah-Men!
I like the cover version from Donnie Darko much better than the original.
That is awesome.
My poor rewrite of Porgy and Bess.
Imagine if "Ain't necessarily so" was on Broadway now.
rootless2 |
Sorry, missed that.
Although I'm not overly familiar with show tunes, if'n you get my drift....
Hey, but Plum... at least we knew what we were talking about. Do you ever listen to Flogging Molly?
Darryl Pearce
i didn't know them! But my specialty is british indie pop. I missed a lot from the US
cubs fans have it rough - no doubt about that.
Uncle Blodge, Urban Teacher | 10.06.07 - 11:12 pm | #
Surprised they haven't rioted yet...people can only take so much....
It's a real bind being a Cub fan...
There was talk that had the Beatles stayed together, the follow up to Abbey Road would have been called "Everest". The material they had been working on as the Beatles and later released in solo projects would have created yet another strong Beatles album.
Gilly Gonzylon
I can hear that. Paul's first solo album always sounded like a demo to me. Loved "Junk". Pretty little nostalgic tune.
I like the cover version from Donnie Darko much better than the original.
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William H. Rehnquist
Is that the Gary Jules?
I was never more proud of my older daughter than when she made me a mix-CD for my birthday and included that.
I love TfF, and "Mad World" in particular, but Jules knocked that one right out of the park.
67 fuckin' no-life-havin' muthers!
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Blodge, i've seen so many of those situations.
I nearly spewed coffee on the TYV tonight when
The countdown begins
OMD - ENOLA GAY
Gomez
i was watching the last episode of The War this week and could not stop whistling that song! Which made me feel awful to juxtaposed that poppy song with those horribles images...
What an unhip town D.C. is:
http://www.pecha-kucha.org/washi.../washington-dc/
after I got a mailing talking about positioning the school/church's "brand" I knew they were now openly evil.
My Mom was an elementary school principal who had an asshole superintendent who openly referred to children as "our product."
Surprised they haven't rioted yet...people can only take so much....
It's a real bind being a Cub fan...
Janeane The Acerbic Goblin
God created cheap beer to keep the North side from going up in flames.
Not like the sparks could spread with all the ground in Wrigleyville besoaked in urine.
(Haloscan, you may blow me).
Let's try that again with non-malformed tags...
I nearly spewed coffee on the TV tonight whern this put in an appearance on Forensic Factor.
"Uncle Blodge, totally without ethics and possibly illegal. They tried to run it as a dishonest business."
that school tried to say it was not a conflict of interest because the member of the board had retired from running the company and turned it over to his son.
He also had the school buy some land "as an investment" and then let his "son's" groundskeeping business put a tree farm on it.
when they had a budget shortfall, he wouldn't let them sell the treefarm because it was an investment, after all
They laid off the grounds department instead. total freeper place. My 30th reunion is next weekend and I ain't goin. fuck them.
The countdown begins
WalterNeff
it's about time!
After discussing how it would take two Democratic administrations worth of Supreme Court appointments to restore a normal court, Toobin closes by asking himself a question: Jeff, who would Hillary Clinton appoint to the court?
And answers, Barack Obama.
Bwaaaahahahahahaha. Brilliant.
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But my specialty is british indie pop. I missed a lot from the US
plum p, Gore/Webb 08 |
Have you heard much/any of the forthcoming Justin Currie (ex-Del Amitri) yet?
What I've heard on XM has knocked me flat out.
Here's some of it: http://www.myspace.com/justincurrie
(anything but sports)
Is that the Gary Jules?
Listening to it right now.....prefer it to Tears for Fears.
(even TV)
67 fuckin' no-life-havin' muthers!
.
Jeffraham
Guilty as charged.
Broccoli is nice...
Is that the Gary Jules?
That's the one. Got lots of airplay about a year or so ago for reasons that escaped me.
Could hear it non-stop on WRNR and WTMD.
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Well, Chicago, the Hawks won in a shootout.
ROYKSOPP - REMIND ME
This video is cool if you're a nerd.
Its got diagrams and shit.
knew a guy who was once the GM for the cubs AA farm team. die hard bleacher bum growing up.
we went to see the Phils once - and during the singing of take me out to the ball game he improvised -
"root root root for the home teeeeem -
If they don't win they're the CUUUUBBBSS!"
Kaus is a hack.
I'm just saying.
I can hear that. Paul's first solo album always sounded like a demo to me. Loved "Junk". Pretty little nostalgic tune.
G. Fawkes
All of the solo albums post-breakup had a kinda mournful thread to them.
x-ray stars of Orion
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod...d/
ap071006.html
Attention Beatles fans:
http://sirfev06.blogspot.com/
You can thank me later.
"67 fuckin' no-life-havin' muthers!"
I resemble that!!
Wow, haven't listened to that in years... probably should check it out again. Isn't there a film, also?
dave™©
Indeed there is...
with some outstanding musicianship by one Denny Lane - including "Go Now"
[X]
rootless2 |
10.06.07 - 10:44 pm | #
we were tempted to see blood diamonds, but i'm so sick of the lone ranger (white hero and savage sidekick) recipe.
It just ended. See it.
Kaz Matzui looks like he's got problems with his contact lenses.
Although I'm not overly familiar with show tunes, if'n you get my drift....
JR, kerosene and a match | Homepage | 10.06.07 - 11:14 pm | #
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That's not what they say in the Twin Cities Airport.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f...h?
v=fJtAKteeWJc
or
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j...h?v=j6Wxm0x-
ZRk
"Rocket pitches tomorrow.
Say yer prayers."
washed up steroid-laden fart.
f'em. wankees going down.
Jeffraham, how's your butt?
"Jeffraham, how's your butt?"
what - you don't care about my butt??
I am hurt
Jeffraham, how's your butt?
ErinPDX
Is that a loaded question?
The last time I saw Kaz Matzui on national television , he looked like he had problems with his contacts then as well.
Which was 4 years ago.
What the hell is wrong with this guy?
how's your butt?
compared to whutt?
The last time I saw Kaz Matzui on national television , he looked like he had problems with his contacts then as well.
He spent a few seasons with the Mets having near constant problems with his contact lenses. And every other aspect of his game.
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Uncle Blodge, Urban Teacher | 10.06.07 - 11:21 pm | #
Cute.
Tonight was painful. They had the bases loaded in the 5th (the Arizona pitcher walked them loaded). On a 3-1 pitch clearly out of the strike zone, the Cub batter grounded into a double play.
Why he wasn't taking on 3-1 is mind boggling. And why Pinella took Zambrano out in the first game is highly questionable.
As a friend of mine once said, the Cubs look for ways to lose.
beta testers to get their instructions tomorrow. We are off our hold and the clock is operating. All systems are go for launch.
www.boxoffice.com
The last time I saw Kaz Matzui on national television , he looked like he had problems with his contacts then as well.
C'mon. Laser eye corrective surgery has only been around for ten years.
Roger Clemens winning a big, big game?
That's what someone's suggesting?
plum p
That is so cool, Orion is one of my favorite constellations.
"the Cubs look for ways to lose."
I have a fondness for the cubs - like someone kinda understands what I go through with the Phils.
that and those years when dallas green raided the Phils for people like ryne sandburg.
In a short while I will be joining you on the sidelines watching others play for the series dammmit.
ProfWombat -
Anyone seen blerb? I've got a great bottle of wine open... right up his alley.
Brett Favre came into the league around 1990 and he hasn't missed one day of work since.
okay Neff
Cal Ripken came into the league around 1981 and didn't miss one day of work for nearly 18 years.
Every once in a while a ray of sanity shines through the fog, "EMI's biggest names include Robbie Williams, Joss Stone and David Bowie, all of whom are established enough to adopt the Radiohead model. With bands' revenues from playing concerts and festivals overtaking their income from CD sales, the decision to break free has become less risky.
"Why should they subsidise their label's new talent roster – or for that matter their record company's excessive expenditures and advances?" asks Hands.
Radiohead's decision came in the same week that indy -legends The Charlatans decided to give away their new album over the web, also without help from a record label. Tim Burgess, the Charlatans' lead signer, told The Sunday Telegraph: "I want the people to own the music and the artists to own the copyright. Why let a record company get in the way of the music?" "
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money...07/
cnemi107.xml
Brett Favre came into the league around 1990 and he hasn't missed one day of work since.
blo
Model of the Modern Hall of Famer. I wonder if anyone will cast a vote against his induction.
Walter Payton missed one game in his entire career....
DWD - Uncivil | Homepage | 10.06.07 - 11:32 pm | #
Another record company fucks up...
A privileged man needs to cover his ass with iron man.
Sweetness......poetry in motion.....the only back I've ever seen who could throw a block for himself.
Another record company fucks up...
Janeane The Acerbic Goblin
I weep not.
A privileged man needs to cover his ass with iron man.
Did Larry Craig say that? Or Ted Haggard?
.
Although I have issues with pro sports, ya gotta give the Packers credit. What other team is owned by the city they play in???
Why let a record company get in the way of the music?" "
Dirty Little Secret of the record bidness: Very few bands actually make any money on recordings. (At least at the major label level...)
geor3ge | 10.06.07 - 11:36 pm | #
It's hard to weep for them. A lot of their misery is their own f---ing, arrogant fault....
Dirty Little Secret of the record bidness: Very few bands actually make any money on recordings. (At least at the major label level...)
bill buckner
That's why I make a point of buying directly from the artist if at all possible.
Merlin's Lament
© 2001 Dave Carter / Dave Carter Music (BMI)
in a castle keep, in a vault of stone, in a house at the end of the lane
and old man weeps in his door alone and he sings out this mournful refrain***
she will not come back, she will not come back
though the mountains fall down to the sea
and the sky burns to cinders and the river runs black
she will not come back to me***
no lightnin' rede from his books of lore, and the staff in the corner, no fire
and the crystal ball always bright before is grey as the dust of desire***
she will not come back, she will not come back
though he call on the powers that be
they will cipher this message in his cold zodiac
she will not come back to me***
and joy my love was a dancin spring, and life was the touch of her lips
and a brook ran mad to my cave downstream from the miracle hills of her hips***
she will not come back, she will not come back
though the stars hang their tears in the trees
And tireless Orion lies spent in his tracks
she will not come back to me
So the abbot is the big baseball fan in the monastery & this morning I was telling him about the Indians second win against the Yankees -- about the plague of gnats attacking the pitcher during the eighth inning as a sign that God was an Indians fan, feeling sorry for all their disappointments through the years & the abbot said, "What about the Cubs?" & I said, "No, Jesus is a Cubs fan -- we are talking serious Old Testament stuff here -- Plague of Gnats!"
GO TRIBE!
FeralLiberal | Homepage | 10.06.07 - 11:36 pm | #
That is cool. I don't despise the Packers like many Chicagoans do, but I don't like them either.
That is so cool, Orion is one of my favorite constellations.
FeralLiberal
*You're* Graham Hancock?
C'mere......
It's hard to weep for them. A lot of their misery is their own f---ing, arrogant fault....
Janeane The Acerbic Goblin
I'm only surprised more major artists didn't start this ages ago.
DWD: i'm old fashioned. I pre-ordered the 80$ boxset instead!
Speaking of show tunes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m...h?
v=mzNEgcqWDG4
That's why I make a point of buying directly from the artist if at all possible.
geor3ge | 10.06.07 - 11:37 pm | #
You could see something like that for films as well...self distribution through the Net. Some already do it.
Films are obviously a little bit different, and seeing them on the Net isn't really ideal (a movie screen or a TV screen first).
"No, Jesus is a Cubs fan -- we are talking serious Old Testament stuff here -- Plague of Gnats!"
[applause]
I'm still euphoric over Manny's homer.
Janene,
I have thought a lot about the music thing. I really would rather be at a concert tonight than sitting in my room listening to music. But there are no concerts in my town this evening. None. Not one. I would imagine that some of the people whose music I have been listening to are sitting around tonight too. I am not sure that is the way it is supposed to be. Musicians are primarily performers. Aren't they?
Writers are a little different but, in truth, I would love to give my books away to people. (and sell tickets to have me read them live or see movies made from my books or something - and my books would make excellent movies I think. I have always been told I am a very visual writer)
All art needs to be heard and seen and read to be appreciated. The more people that can participate the better the artist should like it. If there is some way for the artist to make a living then I don't see that there is a problem, you know?
I despise the Yankees; I spise the Mariners and Seahawks.
That's why I make a point of buying directly from the artist if at all possible.
Chatted with the merch guy at a show the other night: "If you buy it from us, we get 8 bucks. If you buy it in a store, we get 60 cents."
Films are obviously a little bit different, and seeing them on the Net isn't really ideal (a movie screen or a TV screen first).
Janeane The Acerbic Goblin
Not yet, but as HDTV gets a larger market share and downloading becomes faster and easier, I give it maybe five years.
*You're* Graham Hancock
No grabbin' hand cock, I'm not in the senate ya know...
Janeane The Acerbic Goblin --
IIRC, you were knowledgeable about the WWE -- WTF is it with all these injuries? Now Cena is out (did Mr Kennedy screw something up?)
When I was a kid I don't remember anything like this level of serious injuries -- now it seems like half the talent is out at any one time either for steroid use of because muscles have been ripped from bones -- something is not right!
i miss the Expos, sniff
Prior,
Being a Cubs fan is proof positive that we live in a fallen world...
Chatted with the merch guy at a show the other night: "If you buy it from us, we get 8 bucks. If you buy it in a store, we get 60 cents."
bill buckner
Sad, isn't it? And indy labels aren't necessarily a guarantee of a larger cut. My former professor has released two albums on Centaur records now. He loves it for the complete artistic freedom, but hardly sees a dime in royalties.
When I was a kid I don't remember anything like this level of serious injuries -- now it seems like half the talent is out at any one time either for steroid use of because muscles have been ripped from bones -- something is not right!
Prior Aelred | Homepage | 10.06.07 - 11:41 pm | #
The same is becoming true in the NFL.
Rocket pitches tomorrow.
Fucking 6-6 this season. Old fucker. Goin' down.
When I was a kid I don't remember anything like this level of serious injuries -- now it seems like half the talent is out at any one time either for steroid use of because muscles have been ripped from bones -- something is not right!
Prior Aelred
Perhaps the talent has forgotten it's supposed to be theatre?
some stories require the expanse of the cinema screen to tell; some work best in a more intimate setting. "Sideways" plays better on a laptop with two cuddled in bed than a theater screen.
So the abbot is the big baseball fan in the monastery & this morning I was telling him about the Indians second win against the Yankees -- about the plague of gnats attacking the pitcher during the eighth inning as a sign that God was an Indians fan, feeling sorry for all their disappointments through the years & the abbot said, "What about the Cubs?" & I said, "No, Jesus is a Cubs fan -- we are talking serious Old Testament stuff here -- Plague of Gnats!"
Prior, that's the funniest thing I've heard in weeks. And as a Mets fan with a sense of humor, there's been plenty of funny baseball stuff the last few weeks.
.
Walter Neff!
How the hell are you?
It seems like ages since I've seen you (but I'm not around as much as I would like, so it could be me...)
I grew up hating the Yankees & loving the Indians -- maybe that is why I have always been for the underdog (NOT the recent movie!)
Do the hotel rooms have HDTV?
Favre holds most of the NFL QB all time records. Anybody who would not vote him into the Hall is just being a dick.
The same is becoming true in the NFL.
Brooklyn Girl
Apparently the reason for the increase in football injuries (not just at the pro level, it goes all the way down to HS football) is the increased wieght of the players.
basic physics.
All art needs to be heard and seen and read to be appreciated. The more people that can participate the better the artist should like it. If there is some way for the artist to make a living then I don't see that there is a problem, you know?
DWD - Uncivil | Homepage | 10.06.07 - 11:40 pm | #
I agree. Art should be seen. I remember Alejandro Jodorowsky purposely released bootlegs of El Topo and The Holy Mountain because he wanted people to see his work. There were rights issues between him and the producer, Allen Klein (the Beatles's former manager), so the films were in limbo for a long time.
Luckily, Jodorowsky and Klein made peace, and released his films on DVD.
A film needs to be seen, a play performed. Art doesn't exist in a vacuum. But then, the artist needs to make a living, and can't do everything for free. It's a bit of a dilemma.
Prior Aelred:
and I'm leaving in two days, so lucky for me I can say "hello" now.
"The same is becoming true in the NFL."
one thing that drives me NUT|S is the way so many people get on their soapbox about steroids in baseball - yet are BLIND to what is going on in the NFL.
really - 280 pounds used to be a big lineman. now it's a small lineman, they're about 60+ pounds heavier.
all weight training I'm sure.
the more i hear about their post nfl health problems the less I can enjoy the games.
At the great Peter Case show last week at Jammin' Java in Vienna, VA Peter said "This is the last night of the Southeastern Road Trip. Badger (his traveling companion) and I have figured out that to break even we need to sell 135,000 CDs tonight. You can divide that up any way you see fit."
Someone said "Have you thought about charging $135,000 and just trying to sell one?"
Peter said, yes. And we have the complete box set for $13,500,000.
I grew up hating the Yankees & loving the Indians -- maybe that is why I have always been for the underdog (NOT the recent movie!)
Prior Aelred
Did you hear the "All Things Considered" piece from a few weeks back, about Japanese fans following the Yanks/Sox rivalry from abroad? I loved one guy's response about preferring the Sox over NY because he wants good to triumph over evil.
Non-baseball related:
(Choplick)
(As a matter of fact, thees post ees more about those who do not or can not play correctly weeth their bats, because they have no balls.)
so.
I saw my first glimpse of hDTV on Friday at the cable company.
Prior Aelred | Homepage | 10.06.07 - 11:41 pm | #
I don't either. Occasionally, they would write someone out because of a real injury, but it happens all the time now, and wrestlers dying at the ages of 40. The steroids are killing (literally and figuratively) the sport.
Some did steroids in the old days (Hogan admitted to it, Superstar Billy Graham), but now they're all bulked up, and the WWE/WWF is shit.
The stars that are still around are the hardcore guys like Mick Foley, Abdullah the Butcher, and Terry Funk. No steroids, just a lot of scars.
"Fucking 6-6 this season. Old fucker. Goin' down.|"
6-6? the Phils would take him...
Anybody who would not vote him into the Hall is just being a dick.
MP
These are not in short supply, however.
If I could be promised that the Yankees would only win 60 games next year I would accept four more years of Bush.
DWD: I've found, as have many, that the more immediate a connection between artist and audience, the more compelling the art. So, for instance, music in a small club or a roadhouse, where the guy schmoozes at the bar between sets, versus arena rock, versus studio rockers available only on CD. So, too, art, or architecture, which often seem addressed more towards their own community of practitioners and critics than to lay folk, even informed lay folk. (Yes, I know, there's nothing new about this; that's another discussion.) And it's deepened my appreciation of your writing to engage you here on all sorts of things.
being one with several sheets to the wind... i wonder if there is any intelligent life within this particular area of the universe.
"The New York Times reported yesterday on the military's use of cultural anthropologists in the war effort in Afghanistan and Iraq in what they refer to as a "crucial new weapon in counterinsurgency operations."
Until the good Prior's quip, my favorite recent baseball story:
Associated Press (New York)- October 1, 2007 — A seven-year-old boy was at the center of a Queens courtroom drama yesterday when he challenged a court ruling over who should have custody of him. The boy has a history of being beaten by his parents, and the judge initially awarded custody to his aunt, in keeping with child custody law and regulations requiring that family unity be maintained to the degree possible.
The boy surprised the court when he proclaimed that his Aunt beat him more than his parents and he adamantly refused to live with her. When the judge then suggested that he live with his grandparents, the boy cried out that they also beat him.
After considering the remainder of the immediate family and learning that domestic violence was apparently a way of life among them, the judge took the unprecedented step of allowing the boy to propose who should have custody of him. After two recesses to check legal references and confer with child welfare officials, the judge granted temporary custody to the NY Mets , whom the boy firmly believes is not capable of beating anyone.
.
as ronjazz said here one night, "players play."
the more i hear about their post nfl health problems the less I can enjoy the games.
Uncle Blodge, Urban Teacher | 10.06.07 - 11:45 pm | #
Me, too.
El Gato Negro!
We have some delicioso rrrrrrrroast herrrrrrrbed cheeken por joo, and eef joo so like, some chocolate cake.
i wonder if there is any intelligent life within this particular area of the universe.
fokowi
So long, and thanks for all the fish.
"i wonder if there is any intelligent life within this particular area of the universe.|"
yes - all around you are children is learning
If I could be promised that the Yankees would only win 60 games next year I would accept four more years of Bush.
Walter, your priorities are totally wrong.
William H. Rehnquist | 10.06.07 - 11:48 pm | #
oy....
ProfWombat | 10.06.07 - 11:47 pm | #
For someone who knows how to connect with an audience, check out this guy.
If I could be promised that the Yankees would only win 60 games next year I would accept four more years of Bush.
WalterNeff, 10/09/07
I'd have to think about that a while, but I wouldn't rule it out.
bill buckner --
G. K. Chesterton said that the Fall was the only Christian doctrine that was self evident!
geor3ge --
The talent puts on a good show (most of the time) -- I think the McMahons push them to do more & the talent loves to entertain the fans -- poor Chris Benoit apparently had multiple serious concussions (flying head butts from the top turn buckle will do that to you) -- I think that is a more likely culprit than steroids (if lots of body builders have been dying young or killing their families before committing suicide, I haven't heard about it).
William H. Rehnquist --
Thanks! BTW, what's it like in hell? (just curious)
plum p - I'll have some new pics of Pippin and Emma tomorrow.
Is Henriette still enjoying being out?
JR, kerosene and a match | Homepage | 10.06.07 - 11:49 pm | #
In the beginning the universe was created. This angered many and is widely regarded as a bad move...
the judge granted temporary custody to the NY Mets , whom the boy firmly believes is not capable of beating anyone.
.
William H. Rehnquist
you owe me a new monitor!!!
The new normal-- burn your flag pin but teach second graders about same sex marriage. Welcome to the new America carefully sculpted by the Democrat,socialist,stalinist,communist,fascist party.Goodbye to Halloween, Christmas,Easter and all those now outlawed Christian holidays we grew up loving. Hello to how harry mey Barry. Give me back my country.
and Mr. May is going to make the final out against the Indians
ProfWombat,
Sometime when you are thinking about it, send me an email with your address: I have a little book I self-published about ten years ago. It is a horror story for young people. I do it with my fifth graders and they enjoy it a lot. (I actually wrote it for my fifth graders.) It is called The Haunting. Your little one might enjoy it. A few people around here have read it, I usually give it away to friends now.
Philly's 44 year old has gone 6 innings and allowed only 1 run.
Prior -- Jesus a Cub fan? Hmm, come to think of it, Scripture does say "Jesus wept," so clearly he is.
Janeane The Acerbic Goblin | 10.06.07 - 11:50 pm | #
Tell me you don't think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.
Did someone leave the trash compactor open?
"i wonder if there is any intelligent life within this particular area of the universe.|"
I could explain to you the difference between soup and art.....
Is Henriette still enjoying being out?
FeralLiberal
untill today, oui. But autumn arrived today. We had a wonderful september and early oct.
This LSU-Florida game has been a fantastic slugfest, with LSU just going up late.
How the fuck do you pin a flag pin?
ProfWombat, a night cap, if you would?
i wonder if there is any intelligent life within this particular area of the universe.
fokowi
hah, what you call universe I call hemorrhoids
ProfWombat, the first three chapters are here.
http://home.comcast.net/~veritas...1/
haunting.html
So long, and thanks for all the fish.
JR, kerosene and a match | Homepage | 10.06.07 - 11:49 pm | #
just doin' my what i can to contribute, bro...
Halloween is a christian holiday? How can you guys get everything so wrong and still breathe?
If I could be promised that the Yankees would only win 60 games next year I would accept four more years of Bush.
WalterNeff, 10/09/07 | 10.06.07 - 11:47 pm | #
No, you wouldn't.
The only thing that bores me more than sports is people talking about sports.
G'night.
oy....
Must. Try. To. Laugh. Until. Omar. Can. Rebuild.
Sometimes, right before I fall asleep, I have vision of Johan Santana in bed with Mr. Met. And they're wearing WS rings and giggling.
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slamclik:
Turn your brain off puree; it may help.
Audiences today are especially attuned to their tastes. Obscure shows/films on cable are given new life on DVD.
But I want to strangle the nimrod at Comedy Central who allows films like House Party 4, Artie Lange's Beer League, Andy Dick's directorial debut, and Police Academy 6 on his network.
Give me back my country.
slamclik
so you own it? It's your country right? Who are you, George W? Where's your crown?
The talent puts on a good show (most of the time) --
I never really got the point of pro wrestling until my brother and his wife sat me down one evening and made me watch The Rock go through his pre-match banter. I do admit to being enormously entertained.
If I could be promised that the Yankees would only win 60 games next year I would accept four more years of Bush.
WalterNeff
I'd take "Drew Pearson pushing off" again and again and again over that.
Just jumping in:
Is simels here?
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Deep Sea news is less than $200 short of there Donors Chose Challenge goal. It's for science education, so if you feel like encouraging the next generation of marine biologists, drop them a few pennies.
I'd rather watch baseball on TBS than on Fox.
Loves me some Jamie Moyer - still does radio commercials here.
DWD, there are probably some very good musicians playing live in your town.
geor3ge | 10.06.07 - 11:53 pm | #
The stuff, when it's done right, was hilarious and really entertaining. I like it better when they never broke character in the old days, when they played it straight.
geor3ge: thanks for the link; good stuff, and interesting to watch this evolve. He links to Jeff Foucault, who, it happens, DWD recommended me a while back...
Night, all
keep 'em flyin'
I meant, 'burn' a flag pin?
Is simels here?
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MisterX
no
Sallyh can always make me choplick weeth just a few taps on her keyboard.
(Choplick)
How the fuck do you pin a flag pin
Primero, joo hold the flag still...
But I want to strangle the nimrod at Comedy Central who allows films like House Party 4, Artie Lange's Beer League, Andy Dick's directorial debut, and Police Academy 6 on his network.
Janeane The Acerbic Goblin
Same guy who canceled MST3K?
For someone who knows how to connect with an audience, check out this guy.
geor3ge
I have seen Peter give exactly one less-than-exemplary show in the countless times I've seen him.
I'm incapable of being objective about the guy... I love him and Goody to death.
I'd rather watch baseball on TBS than on Fox.
blo
No McCarver
Janeane The Acerbic Goblin | 10.06.07 - 11:52 pm | #
Those 2 paragraphs had little to do with each other...sorry about my incoherency...
bonne nuit DWD
"How can you guys get everything so wrong and still breathe?"
the certainty is what gets me. it must be nice in a way to never reflect and say maybe i need to reconsider that.
9/11 changed everything. Why do you have america? Support the troops. this is a christian nation. we have the greatest _________ in the world.
repeat as necessary.
How the fuck do you pin a flag pin?
Attachment device on the interior side of the lapel.
Army's been using them for decades.
Same guy who canceled MST3K?
geor3ge | 10.06.07 - 11:54 pm | #
Probably. And the guy who books the comics on "Comedy Central Presents".
And who gave Mencia his own show...
Thanks! BTW, what's it like in hell? (just curious)
Hot. But it's a dry heat. Not like that unseasonal heat with humidity that's currently infecting much of the nation.
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How the fuck do you pin a flag pin?
NTodd, Free Speedy!
i think you have to agree to go steady with a Varsity guy ... then stick-out your sweater
But I want to strangle the nimrod at Comedy Central who allows films like House Party 4, Artie Lange's Beer League, Andy Dick's directorial debut, and Police Academy 6 on his network.
Janeane The Acerbic Goblin
Same guy who canceled MST3K?
It's amazing how much unmitigated dreck is broadcast on Comedy Central.
JEEBUS!
It is almost midnight -- I ran 5 miles after Compline (our last service of the day) & then stopped by to chat with guests at St. Anthony's guest house -- I need to go to bed if I am going to get up tomorrow before everyone else & make coffee -- later bats
(GO TRIBE!)
(The Indians have never won a series in my lifetime -- the Cubs haven't either, since they've never won at all, but failure this year will mean a century of existence without winning a series, so that is like a milestone, right?)
He links to Jeff Foucault, who, it happens, DWD recommended me a while back...
ProfWombat
He, Foucault and Kris Delhorst did a one-off called "Redbird", recorded in Foucault's living room. Great acoustic covers. Mulvey himself cut his teeth in the Boston subways, and went back underground to do a "covers" album. It's one of my faves, and it's fun to hear the trains pulling in and out, and his thanking the folks who drop bills into his case at all the wrong times.
i was completely wasted coming into this gig...
but i can see now that it will take a little more lubrication to really become one with the room.
and i like it...
slamclik | 10.06.07 - 11:50 pm | #
I keep hoping that is the sound of him loading another full clip and taking off the safety as a prelude to ending his whiney assed life.
It's amazing how much unmitigated dreck is broadcast on Comedy Central.
Apprentice to Darth Holden
Unmitigated dreck is cheap;
I'm sure San Francisco Democrat Pelosi will be in tears tomorrow when she is grilled by a real journalist on Fox, Chris Wallace, over S-bullchip being vetoed.The poor kids,uh,the $35 billion the government needs was rejected by mean Republicans.Those 18-25 year olds and the illegals and $85,000 incomers won't get coverage now and they'll all die in the streets. What you have done to my country.
no
plum p, Gore/Webb 08
OK. Fanks, plum p!
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We had a wonderful september and early oct.
There was record heat here today. High was mid 80's. Neighbor's had a bonfire last night, everyone sat on the deck as it was too warm to hang next to a fire. In Wisconsin on Oct.6th!!!!
Although I have issues with pro sports, ya gotta give the Packers credit. What other team is owned by the city they play in???
County...but, yeah. Go Pack Go!
(I Think)
Scripture does say "Jesus wept," so clearly he is.
In the "Big Inning?"
Unmitigated dreck is cheap;
Jim
Then why isn't cable free?
I have seen Peter give exactly one less-than-exemplary show in the countless times I've seen him.
Wow, that's one more than I've seen. And yeah, Goody's great too.
Probably. And the guy who books the comics on "Comedy Central Presents".
And who gave Mencia his own show...
Janeane The Acerbic Goblin
They're digging a new circle of hell right now.
Apprentice to Darth Holden | 10.06.07 - 11:56 pm | #
Aside from The Daily Show and The Colbert Report, their stuff reeks.
Every comedy show is cancelled after one season with good reason (except Sarah Silverman and Drawn Together).
Dog Bites Man, Freak Show, Body Shop, the "Trucker" guy show.
gators choke!
No McCarver
But if they ONE more promo for that unfunny comic with the enormous head, I swear I'm going to take a hostage...
went back underground to do a "covers" album. It's one of my faves, and it's fun to hear the trains pulling in and out, and his thanking the folks who drop bills into his case at all the wrong times.
geor3ge
There's also his great cover of The Waterboys' "Whole of the Moon" on "Rapture" when a train comes rolling into the station, brakes screeching, right during the finale of the song.
Peter pretty much cracks up, though he finishes.
geor3ge --
I've never seen anyone work a crowd like The Rock or Stone Cold Steve Austin -- just amazing!
Rey Mysterio & Mr Kennedy are better wrestlers, but that's just a part of the business (most of the big guys can't wrestle at all)
MVP is turning into a supreme heel!
(& now I really am outta here -- really!)
I ran 5 miles after Compline
Shouldn't you be in bed?
OK. Fanks, plum p!
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MisterX
i'm here to please
Drawn Together has a funny joke once in a while, as does Sarah, but neither is very good.
I miss Chappelle....
Scripture does say "Jesus wept," so clearly he is.
There's no crying in baseball.
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i think you have to agree to go steady with a Varsity guy ... then stick-out your sweater
I.
Do.
Not.
Put.
Out.
Then why isn't cable free?
Dreck is cheap, not free. Satellite time is expensive. The actual cable is expensive, and they have to pay for their spot on the utility poles.
the certainty is what gets me. it must be nice in a way to never reflect and say maybe i need to reconsider that.
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they don't acknowledge doubt, but they live bitterness and hate. Never met a serene wingnut - best they can do is that weird smugness so crisply outlined in catch-22 for the character who kills the prostitute.
But if they ONE more promo for that unfunny comic with the enormous head, I swear I'm going to take a hostage...
bill buckner
Frank Caliendo? Letterman loves him. I'm usually in sync with Letterman's personal favorites (Amy Sedaris, for one), but that just bewilders me.
slamclik is what he hears when he calls his mommy.
i'd rather watch mencia than silverman though.
Scripture does say "Jesus wept,"
What was he crying about? How shitty his Dad made people?
"Never met a serene wingnut"
However, I have met serene christians.
There's also his great cover of The Waterboys' "Whole of the Moon" on "Rapture" when a train comes rolling into the station, brakes screeching, right during the finale of the song.
Yep. Love that one.
My brother went to college with him umpteen years ago, and couldn't stop talking about him. Now if he's touring somewhere we have relatives, we have them show up and say "John says 'hi'". Never ceases to amuse him.
gators choke!
jdw
ehhhexcellent...
Reno 911 breaks me up frequently.
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I feel haunted by shit that sucks.
I feel haunted by shit that sucks.
NTodd, Free Speedy!
Do you dream of anal annie's blog at night?
Reno 911 breaks me up frequently.
;
That's one I keep meaning to watch, but always miss. The bits and pieces I've seen have been pretty good.
DWD: thanks; I'll email you...
sallyh: your pleasure's mine, m'dear. Took the kids to the circus today, thence to dinner in the North End. Great time...
I feel haunted by shit that sucks.
NTodd
The road to hell is paved with sitcpom scripts.
Wow, that's one more than I've seen. And yeah, Goody's great too.
geor3ge
It was one night when the opening act, a local guy named Andy Zipf, put on an amazing performance and absolutely sucked the oxygen out of the room. Peter seemed uncharacteristically listless afterwards.
Of course, my judgment may have been affected by that of my opinionated and judgmental then-girlfriend who was blown away by Andy and hated Peter's show.
Good riddance to her, y'know?
CC hasn't been funny since it was HA TV.
The Waterboys' "Whole of the Moon"
Tis one of the great songs of the last 30 years.
Too bad Mike Scott got all jeebusy and lost his mojo.
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The road to hell is paved with sitcpom scripts.
JR, kerosene and a match
Well you'll be happy to know that now that she's lost thirty pounds with Jenny Craid, Valerie Bertinelli is on board and the "One Day At A Time" reunion special has been greenlighted!
Good riddance to her, y'know?
SteveLG
Fo shizzle. I loaned "Rapture" to a college buddy once, who said the lyrics were stupid. Haven't spoken since.
However, I have met serene christians.
Uncle Blodge, Urban Teacher | 10.07.07 - 12:02 am | #
I've met a few - none of them wingers though. For those people faith is a gift indeed. Us doubters got a harder row to hoe.
Reno 911 has its moments. Not brilliant, earth shattering comedy, but watchable and occasionally very funny...
Tis one of the great songs of the last 30 years.
Too bad Mike Scott got all jeebusy and lost his mojo.
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William H. Rehnquist |
agreed
I just watched the last episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm. Bummer!
Good riddance to her, y'know?
SteveLG
On the other side of that equation, Future Mrs. Geor3ge finds him incredibly sexy. Don't know how to feel about that.
Us doubters got a harder row to hoe.
rootless2
Speak for yourself. 
Sitcoms have scripts?
Is there evidence for this?
OK -- now I'm gone...
a Thompson skit on SNL. the fake one asked for applause as well
I like Rick Gervais' standup bit about Genesis. God made the Earth and the Universe, then said "Let ther be Light".
WTF, He was fumbling around in the dark, and the whole time He could command light to occur?!
Tis one of the great songs of the last 30 years.
File that one under "lyrics I wish I'd written".
Speak for yourself.
JR, kerosene and a match | Homepage | 10.07.07 - 12:06 am | #
Agreed. Not having faith in a supreme being doesn't bother me a bit.
Done and Gone. G' night ya'all...
geor3ge: is Future Mrs aware of the undoubted fact that you find perhaps one or two other females of the species of, perhaps, speculative interest?
Sitcom have scripts...that's surprising...they seem to be written by the same guy/girl....
I sold my screenname on eBay today for 14 bucks. I was hoping to get about 10 grand, but someone took advantage of my "buy it now" link. Why did I do that?
I hope I get positive feedback.
"Reno 911 has its moments. Not brilliant, earth shattering comedy, but watchable and occasionally very funny..."
Oh good, I can admit that I love the show.
Isn't Thers a Gator fan?
Sitcoms have scripts?
Is there evidence for this?
OK -- now I'm gone...
Prior Aelred | Homepage | 10.07.07 - 12:07 am | #
Yes. It was called the Dick van Dyke show.
I've met people before who like Reno 911, but I have yet to figure out what the appeal of that show is. I think it sucks major big ones. However, to each their own.....
The piano has been drinking....
geor3ge: is Future Mrs aware of the undoubted fact that you find perhaps one or two other females of the species of, perhaps, speculative interest?
ProfWombat
Not. Sayin' Nuthin.
OTOH she does think there's nothing sexier than a man who plays piano.
Toonscribe | 10.07.07 - 12:09 am | #
I think it's OK. I like Cops, so maybe that's why I like it.
I saw the first season, none of the subsequent ones (or the movie)...
geor3ge: well, then, sounds like things are well in hand...
"Isn't Thers a Gator fan?"
dunno. if he is, he's all choked up.
Too bad Mike Scott got all jeebusy and lost his mojo.
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William H. Rehnquist
No shit.
I saw him and a keyboard player... the Waterboys duo, if you will... at The Rams Head in Annapolis a few years ago.
The recent material was execrable. Absolutely flat fucking unlistenable.
And they would not allow any food or beverages to be served during their shows.
Some wag in the crowd kept asking Scott for a hit off his water bottle, since we weren't allowed any.
Wretched, awful evening.
But "Whole of the Moon" was great, wasn't it? "Don't Bang the Drum," also.
Is "It;s always sunny in Philadelphia" any good? I'm drawn to a misanthropic comedy starring Danny DeVito, but I"ve never gotten around to watching it.
Two Million Galaxies
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod...d/
ap071007.html
bonne nuit atriots and atriettes
geor3ge: well, then, sounds like things are well in hand...
ProfWombat
True. And I find nothing sexier than a smart woman who looks hot in tight jeans. So we get along fine.
Sitcom have scripts...that's surprising...they seem to be written by the same guy/girl....
I thought Aaron Sorkin wrote them all and that's why he did so much drugs, so he could stay awake to write.
He writes 2 and 1/2 men at 4am.
Speaking of that show, usually, I'm pretty agnostic. But I think the fact that Jon Cryer has consistently had work for the last few decades is a sign that Satan may actually be real.
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Tom Waits is sexy in a run down sort of way....
NTodd
you're not normal. but then again, you really are.
but, wtfdik?
just sayin'...
The piano has been drinking....
Shared Humanity
...not me.
Well, me a little bit. More as the evening wears on.
Speaking of that show, usually, I'm pretty agnostic. But I think the fact that Jon Cryer has consistently had work for the last few decades is a sign that Satan may actually be real.
That's the highest rated sitcom on TeeVee right now, I gather.
Kinda makes "President George W Bush" less of a mystery, don't it?
The winners of this year's round of IgNobel Prizes have been announced!
MEDICINE: Brian Witcombe of Gloucester, UK, and Dan Meyer of Antioch, Tennessee, USA, for their penetrating medical report "Sword Swallowing and Its Side Effects."
What was he crying about? How shitty his Dad made people?
In Twain’s “The Mysterious Stranger” the boy Satan character would form little people with his hands out of the mud – then when they would fight and fuss to the point of his annoyance – he would grind them back into the mud-pile ... and all the other kids who had befriended Satan would cry and cry
William H. Rehnquist | 10.07.07 - 12:12 am | #
Never understood Jon Cryer's appeal, or that of Two and a Half Men.
BIOLOGY: Prof. Dr. Johanna E.M.H. van Bronswijk of Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands, for doing a census of all the mites, insects, spiders, pseudoscorpions, crustaceans, bacteria, algae, ferns and fungi with whom we share our beds each night.
"Sword Swallowing and Its Side Effects."
JR
yeah! i was rooting for them!
I saw him and a keyboard player... the Waterboys duo, if you will... at The Rams Head in Annapolis a few years ago.
Glad I didn't know about it. I prolly would have driven down to see him. He fell far and fast. Sad.
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CHEMISTRY: Mayu Yamamoto of the International Medical Center of Japan, for developing a way to extract vanillin -- vanilla fragrance and flavoring -- from cow dung.
Ice cream, anyone?
"Never understood Jon Cryer's appeal, or that of Two and a Half Men."
Some of the work is fun. But they get way to far into the sexual innuendo, well scratch the innuendo bit, too much. The earlier shows were more clever.
A'ight. Bedtime for geor3gie.
night all. Gotta go stalk the living before the sun rises.
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Glad I didn't know about it. I prolly would have driven down to see him. He fell far and fast. Sad.
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William H. Rehnquist | 10.07.07 - 12:15 am | #
I'm not familiar with this guy. What happened to Mike Scott? Was it just losing the mojo, or was it drugs, the road, etc.?
Agreed. Not having faith in a supreme being doesn't bother me a bit.
Brooklyn Girl | 10.07.07 - 12:08 am | #
It's not necessarily faith in one set of bubbemeices or another (zademeices allways seemed more accurate), but some belief in purpose. I've met communists (old ones) and religious people with such faith.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_...h?
v=_tNSp7MaADM
LINGUISTICS: Juan Manuel Toro, Josep B. Trobalon and Núria Sebastián-Gallés, of Universitat de Barcelona, for showing that rats sometimes cannot tell the difference between a person speaking Japanese backwards and a person speaking Dutch backwards.
Bork, bork, bork!
My favourite:
PEACE: The Air Force Wright Laboratory, Dayton, Ohio, USA, for instigating research & development on a chemical weapon -- the so-called "gay bomb" -- that will make enemy soldiers become sexually irresistible to each other.
take it away, Eschaton...
I'm not familiar with this guy. What happened to Mike Scott? Was it just losing the mojo, or was it drugs, the road, etc.?
Of the Waterboys. Found religion and started producing faith-based music with insipid lyrics and dreck melodies. Right as it looked like they were going to make it mainstream.
A classic tale.
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It will always be to our Nation's detriment to require candidates for our highest office to profess devotion to religion.
Know who can burn in hell? The MS person who decided not to include a "No to all" option for not overwriting files when copying a bunch, forcing you to sit there and babysit. In fact, why can't it be specified up front? Piece of shit.
Thank you.
You guys haven't even touched bad comedy(?) I had SNL on for half an hour. Luckily i caught myself slipping the clip into tbe 9mm.
Of the Waterboys. Found religion and started producing faith-based music with insipid lyrics and dreck melodies. Right as it looked like they were going to make it mainstream.
A classic tale.
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William H. Rehnquist | 10.07.07 - 12:18 am | #
Ugh, like insipid Christian rock? John Tesh territory?
At least when Dylan went Christian his music was still good.
" vanilla fragrance and flavoring -- from cow dung.
Ice cream, anyone?
JR, kerosene and a match"
You know they are going to do it.
rootless2: happens I grew up in an old lefty house. Our politics was very much a religion: we had rituals of faith, catechisms, tracta, holidays, sacred music, saints and miracles, doctrinal disputes with other sects, the whole nine yards. When I fell in love with my wife, it was objected to because of her lack of politics as an organizing principle of her life; I eventually married outside our faith...
LINGUISTICS: Juan Manuel Toro, Josep B. Trobalon and Núria Sebastián-Gallés, of Universitat de Barcelona, for showing that rats sometimes cannot tell the difference between a person speaking Japanese backwards and a person speaking Dutch backwards.
fuck, another illusion shattered.
dmark | Homepage | 10.07.07 - 12:19 am | #
Your post is funnier than anything the SNL writing staff can come up with.
You won't be hired because you're funny...
Here's a sketch when SNL was funny...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5...h?
v=5x24w0dlO6k
OK, We have lightning again...
G'night flittermice.
"You guys haven't even touched bad comedy(?) "
We held on for five minutes with the new Caveman series.
Now that is bad.
JR: me, I wouldn't mind being sexually irresistible to, well, anyone sometimes...
I'm not familiar with this guy. What happened to Mike Scott? Was it just losing the mojo, or was it drugs, the road, etc.?
Janeane The Acerbic Goblin
I don't really know, but he seems to have a really controlling sort of personality (as witness the "no food or beverages" edict at the Rams Head, for instance). Things I heard about other performances led me to expect that he might be sort of a dick, but I didn't know about the Jeebus stuff.
It was totally lame and repetitive, seemingly by design.
Weird.
Can we get past the "bad crop season, Vague Sky Power Guy unhappy with us" method of dealing with real problems?
EkCenTriK | 10.07.07 - 12:21 am | #
That's very brave of you...
There is, in the Constitution, a specific prohibition of religious test for office.
Not enough people, seems to me, know that's the law of the land...
SteveLG | 10.07.07 - 12:22 am | #
He does sound a bit off...
At least when Dylan went Christian his music was still good.
Janeane The Acerbic Goblin
Uhhhhhhh... that's open to debate.
We held on for five minutes with the new Caveman series.
You are much braver than i am.
"That's very brave of you...
Janeane The Acerbic Goblin "
We will be getting counseling shortly.
Fucking fashion morons.
watertiger
What is Not-Jenna doing to her Not B-Cup?
Janeane The Acerbic Goblin | 10.07.07 - 12:21 am | #
"DEAD honkie."
A classic.
Watertiger, the term 'blue dress' could take on an entirely new meaning.
profwombat.
you're not like anybody...
sheeitz.
SteveLG | 10.07.07 - 12:24 am | #
Yeah, it's debatable. I really dug Slow Train, some of Saved and Shot of Love.
Watertiger,
How is the filming of "Blue Harvest" going?
And Barbara, don't hitch up the tits in public. Just sayin'.
Mind yer own damn business.
Deny an old man one of his few little pleasures in life...
:: spits ::
Sheets...
Fucking fashion morons.
watertiger | Homepage | 10.07.07 - 12:24 am | #
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I'll have to show this to Mrs d. She designs dresses and does bridal alterations. The "Bust Adjust" is something she always laughs at.
Why did all of the spiritual offerings have to involve young girls? Weren't there a bunch of young virgin males just as handy?
Trying to recall who said he was doing a show with Mike Scott and was listening to him talk about his "dark side." Said he couldn't help get the feeling he thought his dark side was just so much darker than everyone else's. Might have been Badly Drawn Boy. That said, I like a few of Mike Scott's overtly Xian tunes.
watertiger.
anytime i see you post something... even before i click on it, i blow whatever is in my mouth out thru my nose, cuz i know it will happen eventually anyway...
(as witness the "no food or beverages" edict at the Rams Head...
I'm rather fond of the singer/songwriter Slaid Cleaves, but he had a memorable meltdown at a local club a couple of years ago. He objected to a ballgame playing on the TVs behind the bar, despite the fact that they were out of his sight line, and that the sound was turned off. (I often sit there, so I can monitor the Red Sox between acts.) Club owner wouldn't budge: she had regulars who were watching, and she had booked him - and lost money -when nobody knew who he was. He proceeded to run off the stage and out the door, and ended up playing an impromptu acoustic set in the park across the street.
There's a story in Aaron Lansky's book about the Yiddish Book Center when he is in LA, giving his standard spiel on preserving the old books to a bunch of viejos and he says something about how between Hitler and Stalin, most of the Yiddish artists were wiped out, when some old geezer staggers up, this is in the 1980s!, and angrily denies the purge of the Yiddish artists by Comrade Joe as a capitalist lie. "Nu, then where are they?" one of the other geezers asks. "Hidden by the capitalists to discredit Stalin" is the reply.
That is faith.
Know who can burn in hell? The MS person who decided not to include a "No to all" option for not overwriting files
You probably already know you can use the cmd line copy with the /Y option to suppress the prompt, which can also be preset with the COPYCMD environment variable. And yes, the gui 'designers' have always been horrible.
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rootless2: the ritual statement in my parents' house was that Stalin may have been ruthless, but perhaps he had to have been to save Russia. Any less measured denunciation placed its utterer irretrievably in the company of the worst of the Red-baiters, or, worse yet, amongst the Americans for Democratic Action.
You younger folk have to take this, well, on faith. I am not snarking or exaggerating here. You had to have been there...
I can also use a knife to eat peas, but that doesn't mean I should have to.
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