I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
It was an accident.
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You'll never prove it.
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It's a national security secret - nah nah nahnah nah.
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Watcha got to hide?
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9/11s
and?
KOSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It would explain a whole lot of stuff that has taken place.
Evening folks. Watching a marathon of "Titanic" shows on the History channel.
So what's the big deal? Stop being shrill!
We have cleavage and haircuts and Linsday and helicopters!
/MSM
Trademark Dave, I got my bumperstickers today. Going out to Pelosi and my Rep on Monday. In my Nancygram post I'll of course be linking to http://www.dumpbushnow.us/
Well the Orange Satan was understandable.
spying just on the terrarists and democrats.
I totally did not mean to spy on those 100,000,000 people. Honest Injun.
So true.
George is king, what other explanation do we need? And you are either a loyal subject, or ought to be beheaded as a traitor...
Satan's a nice guy when you get to know him.
BTW, in case you missed it below... I'm putting on the ol' Carnac turbin and predicting tomorrow's Wanker of the Day... today!*
And the answer is (sealed in a mayonnaise jar... Funk 'n Wagnall's porch...)... David Ignatius!
Try to imagine what was running through the mind of Hassan Kazemi Qomi, Iran’s ambassador to Baghdad, as he sat across the negotiating table from his American counterpart, Ryan Crocker, last week. While the U.S. diplomat delivered his stern warning against Iranian meddling in Iraq, Qomi must have wondered: Why should I listen to this guy? Congress is going to start pulling U.S. troops out soon, no matter what he says.
That's the difficulty for Crocker and Gen. David Petraeus as they try to manage a stable transition in Iraq while Congress chants ever more loudly: "Troops out! Troops out!" It's hard for anyone to take American power seriously when prominent members of Congress are declaring the war already lost...
* Technically, it's just now tomorrow back east... but it's still today here on the Left Coast!
drawn and quartered.
They were eavesdropping on whoever they wanted to without any warrants or oversight.
Yep.
Fucking fuckers thought they would rule forever and no one would ever have the sac or the opportunity to ask questions.
Chimpeachment is the only answer.
Did the Orange Satan write the Orange Catholic Bible?
So then, what the hell are you willing to do?
Could it be that the reason I feel the way I do is that I just don't fucking know?
Asking questions is one thing. Getting answers is another.
I got my bumperstickers today. Going out to Pelosi and my Rep on Monday.
Cool!
I'm thinking of dropping off a bunch of these at her SF office in the near future. I get the feeling her staff might dig 'em...
Did the Orange Satan write the Orange Catholic Bible?
Orange is the protestant color
It might not be clear, but who in their right mind believes they didn't?
So then, what the hell are you willing to do?
Could it be that the reason I feel the way I do is that I just don't fucking know?
Prolly.
You've got a nice out! You won't take suggestions people give, and you won't brainstorm.
Sadly, this is exactly the disempowerment we have to fight against...
Actually, the only way we'll ever know is if someone talks.
And they won't while Bush and Cheney are in power because they know they'll be prosecuted. I predict that as soon as they're out of office, all kinds of people will start speaking out.
The accountability question is the one that must be asked. Will you stand for the Constitution you are sworn to uphold or will you stand for the Republican party? Choose now.
(And if you choose party, you MUST be impeached as well, you do realize that this is a trick question, right?)
I'm thinking of dropping off a bunch of these at her SF office in the near future. I get the feeling her staff might dig 'em...
YES!
I prolly should order some of those next. Thinking I might keep the campaign open longer than until August 2nd...
What was that program that creepy felon John Poindexter was placed in charge of, Total Information Awareness? They might as well have just called it Spies R Us.
OT, but here's what the mutant kitten looks like today:
http://plush-life.blogspot.com/2...ie-
madness.html
Renditioning the assistants might prove useful. Gonzo already said that twistin' da nutz ain't like it was torture .
Yeah, who's still pretending the Rove White House isn't spying on their political opponents?
OT, but here's what the mutant kitten looks like today:
It's like a train, that tail. She looks like royalty.
The accountability question is the one that must be asked. Will you stand for the Constitution you are sworn to uphold or will you stand for the Republican party? Choose now.
You are unpatriotic for suggesting that!!
/ random republican
Question: Would they do what they have done if they ever thought they were no longer going to be running the country?
And a follow-up: What exactly is it that makes them so confident they will always be running the country?
I prolly should order some of those next.
I agree!
BTW, I left a comment on your insurance post, believe it or not...
Orange is the protestant color
rMatey
Which makes it even more interesting why Frank Herbert chose that color for the book.
Yeah, who's still pretending the Rove White House isn't spying on their political opponents?
puppethead |
Don't forget, its job ONE.
It's like a train, that tail. She looks like royalty.
Isn't she lovely?
She sits in the window and people stop by and oooh and ahhhh at her.
I still don't understand why the wingnuts are so behind protecting the Toy Penis. They have to know Hillary Clinton is about to inherent his kingly powers.
She sits in the window and people stop by and oooh and ahhhh at her.
I was down at the local shelter today and saw a couple of MaxxKitty lookalikes...
It was a Rovian idea, RICO RNC.
That's the only cure.
Would be sweet if they were listening to a WP/NYT 'reporter'.
Of course, they wouldn't object.
Maddie is indeed teh gorgeous.
But Ripley is such a cutie, too.
I still don't understand why the wingnuts are so behind protecting the Toy Penis. They have to know Hillary Clinton is about to inherit his kingly powers.
Plus, her dick's twice as big.
So then, what the hell are you willing to do?
Could it be that the reason I feel the way I do is that I just don't fucking know?
Have you done everything you can do to make your house energy efficient? replaced all the light bulbs? installed double paned windows?
Do you drive an energy efficient vehicle?
There's lots you can do. And even if you only hang the laundry out occasionally, it's better than nothing.
I still don't understand why the wingnuts are so behind protecting the Toy Penis. They have to know Hillary Clinton is about to inherent his kingly powers.
Nah.
Law and Order Fredneck is their imaginary savior.
I think that weird tail deserves it's own name. Maddie and ?
Did Dr. KAtvorkian have anything for the 'Dick' Cheney today, hopefully.
You've got a nice out! You won't take suggestions people give, and you won't brainstorm.
What suggestions have I turned down? Giving up my clothes dryer? I'm sorry I've not been brainstorming. At this point in my life, I'm barely able to have a coherent conversation. This is not an out.
Sadly, this is exactly the disempowerment we have to fight against...
At least I've done something. I've showed us what we're up against.
Maddie is indeed teh gorgeous.
But Ripley is such a cutie, too.
Yes she is.
They obviously claimed the power to do so, it just isn't clear if they did it. - Atrios
Such comments negatively impact the tinfoil commodity market and certain specialized segments of the retail habberdashery industry.
It is sounding and looking like Nancy Pelosi is in with the bush crime Family. She's got an I'M A DLC TURNCOAT badge at the least.
Fucking fuckers thought they would rule forever and no one would ever have the sac or the opportunity to ask questions.
Mr French
Naaaaah. They don't care about questions. They know that the Democrats will take over and "rescind" all those sweet, sweet spying powers the Preznit granted himself.
And the Dems will raise taxes, reduce wasteful spending, balance the budget, and then in 8 or 12 years the Cons will say, "The Dems raised your taxes: they suck."
And the People will elect a Republican government and taxes will be lowered on the rich, wars will be started, and secret spy powers will be wielded again.
This should be grounds for impeachment.
If our government allows (executed by the executive branch and complied with by the inaction of Congress) such unconstitutional actions to occur then it should be overthrown, non-violently or otherwise.
At least I've done something. I've showed us what we're up against.
smalfish,bikerider | 07.29.07 - 12:16 am | #
You?
Have you done everything you can do to make your house energy efficient? replaced all the light bulbs? installed double paned windows?
I can't afford to replace the windows. So I made lined (with teflon outwards) and interlined curtains for all the windows, and I keep them mostly closed. I read somewhere that what I get from them equals triple-pane level of energy savings. Not sure if that is true.
fourlegs gets it!
Have you done everything you can do to make your house energy efficient? replaced all the light bulbs? installed double paned windows?
Do you drive an energy efficient vehicle?
Yes, yes and not possible. I've not been able to add the radiant barrier in my attic yet. But I have R38 right now.
it should be overthrown, non-violently or otherwise.
tbhull
Then it might have to be painfully violent.
Yes, yes and not possible. I've not been able to add the radiant barrier in my attic yet. But I have R38 right now.
Quit beating yourself up. You're waaaaaay ahead of the curve...
Hey folks, I'm soliciting honest opinions about the candidates I'm considering:
Clinton
Obama
Paul*
Kucinich
Biden
*though Republican, my judgement is that Paul is an honest guy, and I am a state's rights/small federal government kinda guy.
Night, all. Keep 'em flyin'
If they were spying on me I hope they took better notes than me.
I can't afford to replace the windows. So I made lined (with teflon outwards) and interlined curtains for all the windows, and I keep them mostly closed. I read somewhere that what I get from them equals triple-pane level of energy savings. Not sure if that is true.
echidne | Homepage | 07.29.07 - 12:18 am | #
The house we're likely buying in Oshkosh has a very cool big, thick sliding door so that we can completely cut off the upper floor and not heat & cool it when we don't have guests.
Very happy about that.
It wasn't clear if they didn't.
Burden on proof on the defendant.
Otherwise what few(if any) measley convictions they've garned via spying would be overturned...
If their program gets a conviction, then its presumption standard should grant a wide swath of standing to chellenges in court for anyone in the USA.
Biden: Smart, good talker, a wholly owned subsidiary of the credit card industry.
IMO
rMatey, pardoned bucaneer | 07.29.07 - 12:19 am | #
When is is violence ever non-painful?
Ron Paul is for coat hangers.
When is is violence ever non-painful?
When you're wicked drunk.
Here's an article about an Austin couple who went completely green. Their June electic bill was $11.47.
http://www.statesman.com/news/
co...28conserve.html
For all the latest news, key reports, document releases and other essential materials surrounding the NSA illegal domestic surveillance scandal, visit:
- The NSA Domestic Surveillance Scandal Documents Center
Ron Paul is a nutjob, and he almost stole my name.
Mr. Murder, I suspect they don't care about legal convictions.
Blackmail is probably a hobby amongst them. And then there's the notion that if Bush says you're an enemy, you're an enemy.
Via Orange Satan, from tomorrow's Times:
...As far as we can tell, there are three possible explanations for Mr. Gonzales’s talk about a dispute over other — unspecified — intelligence activities. One, he lied to Congress. Two, he used a bureaucratic dodge to mislead lawmakers and the public: the spying program was modified after Mr. Ashcroft refused to endorse it, which made it “different” from the one Mr. Bush has acknowledged. The third is that there was more wiretapping than has been disclosed, perhaps even purely domestic wiretapping, and Mr. Gonzales is helping Mr. Bush cover it up.
Democratic lawmakers are asking for a special prosecutor to look into Mr. Gonzales’s words and deeds. Solicitor General Paul Clement has a last chance to show that the Justice Department is still minimally functional by fulfilling that request.
If that does not happen, Congress should impeach Mr. Gonzales.
Spying on the Kerry Campaign or the Dem Party is probably the one thing that would make the loyal Bushies balk. Smart money says that Ashcroft balked at that point.
Kucinich, 'cause he ain't working for the big money lobby.
Ron Paul is about the samething, but republican.
Have you done everything you can do to make your house energy efficient? replaced all the light bulbs? installed double paned windows?
Buy energy efficient appliances!
Of course, you know, I own an appliance store.
Clinton
Obama
Paul*
Kucinich
Biden
Quite an interesting list. What do YOU think of each candidate?
*though Republican, my judgement is that Paul is an honest guy, and I am a state's rights/small federal government kinda guy.
He's a nutter.
We will rue the day if Ron Paul ever gets elected President.
Spying on the Kerry Campaign or the Dem Party is probably the one thing that would make the loyal Bushies balk. Smart money says that Ashcroft balked at that point.
Yep, that about sums it up.
Here's an article about an Austin couple who went completely green. Their June electic bill was $11.47.
Fucking commies. But I'll bet they still use toilet paper.
*though Republican, my judgement is that Paul is an honest guy, and I am a state's rights/small federal government kinda guy.
Anti-choice.
Flat tax advocate.
What would be cool is that I didn't have to pay 4 cents extra per KWh for "green" electrons.
When is is violence ever non-painful?
tbhull
Violence may be against property or people. People feel the pain.
I wouldn't eat spinach with anyone on that list...
Ron Paul is a bit of a looney (though not as crazy as the wingnuts in the GOP).
He's just a looney Libertarian that thinks the "free market" is perfect.
If he wasn't against this war (which he has been from the beginning), no one would have ever heard of him.
a wholly owned subsidiary of the credit card industry.
IMO
Lindsay, clean fucking hippie
? if you have time and the will? I know little of Biden.
Buy energy efficient appliances!
Of course, you know, I own an appliance store.
I have an old fridge. I should change it. Do you have any recommendations?
A bit of a looney???
If he wasn't against this war (which he has been from the beginning), no one would have ever heard of him.
Exactly.
Spying on the Kerry Campaign or the Dem Party is probably the one thing that would make the loyal Bushies balk. Smart money says that Ashcroft balked at that point.
If so, it's just amazing. After all those Republicans went to prison and their boss quit the White House, that these Republicans would so eagerly do it again.
My impression of Ron Paul (no Rich Little jokes, please) is that he hates women and anybody else who is not a white male. He also hates government funding of anything but defense, including things like schools and infrastructure.
Only thing really in his favor is that he knew from the start that the neocons were nuts.
Markos Moulitsas is a threat to mankind!
I wouldn't eat spinach with anyone on that list...
Never eat spinach with a stranger.
Lindsay, clean fucking hippie | 07.29.07 - 12:28 am | #
Exactly. He gets a point or two for recognizing the insane neocons, but that's it.
"They obviously claimed the power to do so, it just isn't clear if they did it."
A more appropriate phrasing may be: They obviously claimed the power to do so, it just isn't clear to whom they did it.
And going from there to the semi-recent ruling that you have no grounds to sue unless you can somehow prove that you were spied upon you can see why they will fight tooth and nail to keep this under wraps until the lists are pried from their cold, imprisoned fingers.
I have an old fridge. I should change it. Do you have any recommendations?
Almost all the new ones are far more energy efficient than the old ones.
If so, it's just amazing. After all those Republicans went to prison and their boss quit the White House, that these Republicans would so eagerly do it again.
MP
Its just something that the republicans are partial to, you know, just like Pinky and The Brain. total world domination.
Josh sure seems like a troll fishing for oppo research or trying to sidetrack everything into pointless rehashing of obviousness.
Violence may be against property or people. People feel the pain.
Violence against property can be painful to the people who own it.
Quite an interesting list. What do YOU think of each candidate?
NTodd, Fanciest
Clinton: A little to tied to protecting Israel interests. Probably a little to mainstream for me. I also shy away from Christian candidates.
Obama: I like Obama--I think he means well--but he's starting to do the Kerry thing: I'm tough, I love God, I have to watch what I say
Paul: Understands and is willing to say what is destroying American democracy. Though a Christian, his state's rights mentality, I can work with.
Biden: Honest and smart.
All Republicans have an authoritarian streak in them, that's why they will go down with Bush. The more of an asshole he is, the more the GOP will follow him.
Kucinich: Honest, actually wants to do what his heart tells him.
If so, it's just amazing. After all those Republicans went to prison and their boss quit the White House, that these Republicans would so eagerly do it again.
Well, not really.
They never thought they did anything wrong during Watergate.
So they would feel completely justified in doing it again.
Thanks for the link 4lg.
I'm looking to see if I can get some kind of subsidy to install some solar panels on my enormous roof.
Biden: Honest and smart.
The original powershare agreement with photovoltaic community college sources was ridiculously subsidized and prorated in favor of big energy.
It became a model for later power sharing agreements in Cali and eslewhere. Enron was grid sharing on steroids.
Entergy was the power company on the grid, unsurprisingly that company was a big part of sharing Enron cash on paper/actual transfer of power.
Kucinich: A little to Big Fed Government for me, just from what I've heard--though I couldnt give you any direct instances off the top of my head.
Quit beating yourself up. You're waaaaaay ahead of the curve
If everyone starts by doing what they can, improvement will be made.
This can be doing all the eco things they can think of or it could be researching newer ways of conserving resources.
BTW, did you know?
per 1,000 sq foot of roof, you can get 623 gallons of fresh water per inch of rain fall, out of the rain gutters?
My roses, and other flowers are very happy with this issue. They get better water (the water utility here pumps alkali water to your house, bleuuuck!) , and my water bill is less.
BTW, these guys are running a Police show from '79.
Right now, they're doing a charmingly out-of-tune version of "Message in a Bottle"...
Josh sure seems like a troll fishing for oppo research or trying to sidetrack everything into pointless rehashing of obviousness.
puppethead |
Just me sitting in Tennessee, with a Putnam County Democrats shirt on, next to my Beagle sleeping on the couch.
Josh - to me it's not an issue of Big Government or Small Government, but an issue of a government that does what the people need it to do.
Just sayin'.
Just me, 26 and no where to go in this lonely town on a saturday night. 
But I love this stuff 
Let's connect a couple more dots, shall we?
IN 1998, MI6 didn't want to turn Bin Laden over to the CIA, if they could catch him, unless the CIA could give assurances Bin Laden would not be tortured.
Astute readers will note that was before Bush was elected. Tell me again everything will be different with a Democrat in the White House, and all this wiretapping will just go away, or Congress will forcibly eliminate it.
The CIA couldn't do that.
Just me sitting in Tennessee, with a Putnam County Democrats shirt on, next to my Beagle sleeping on the couch.
Sounds suspiciously gaiii...
If that's true, then...
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Thanks for the link 4lg.
I'm looking to see if I can get some kind of subsidy to install some solar panels on my enormous roof.
You're welcome buddy. I think in a lot of ways, since you're a subcontractor, you're in a better position than many to do some of this stuff.
And the trick is to at least do something. If eveyone does something, the cumulative effect will be quite positive.
"They obviously claimed the power to do so, it just isn't clear if they did it."
Duh Doi Duh
And the trick is to at least do something. If eveyone does something, the cumulative effect will be quite positive.
Afuckingmen.
Sounds suspiciously gaiii...
Gay? Nope. Not in a frat, no church friends, and tired of the same watering holes in a small town? You bet.
Just me sitting in Tennessee, with a Putnam County Democrats shirt on, next to my Beagle sleeping on the couch.
If you don't have anything to do why don't you go do some research for yourself?
Geez, you fucking 20 somethings are such lazy wankers.
They're traitors...
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Biden: Honest and smart.
Signed,
Visa and Mastercard
And should be treated as such.
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There was a very annoying anti-war harangue in Union Square on Friday. I can't imagine that that type of thing ever does any good.
Although the wear-orange-for-impeachment sounds doable, and I hate orange.
The rain barrels are a good thing to have. My granny used to have them, and the more I think about the way she ran the farm the more I get ideas that could be reproduced today. The earth cellars, for example, where potatoes, onions, carrots and the like were kept.
Right?
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Flat tax advocate. - batguano
What do you get when a tax petition signature collector is run over by an SUV? [/Karnac the Great
Allie | 07.29.07 - 12:37 am | #
It's not like NYCers are for the war. It's just preaching to the converted in many ways.
If you don't have anything to do why don't you go do some research for yourself?
Geez, you fucking 20 somethings are such lazy wankers.
fourlegsrgood, got pitchfork? | Homepage | 07.29.07 - 12:36 am | #
You're one to talk.
Like you ever provide massive amounts of useful and relevant information to people who need it!
Although the wear-orange-for-impeachment sounds doable, and I hate orange.
Allie | 07.29.07 - 12:37 am | #
And what it offends someone from Northern Ireland?
Geez, you fucking 20 somethings are such lazy wankers.
fourlegsrgood, got pitchfork?
I just like to hear what everyone else has to say. Biden I've never researched. I like talking to people. And I like to treat them like I like to be treated.
The rain barrels are a good thing to have. My granny used to have them, and the more I think about the way she ran the farm the more I get ideas that could be reproduced today.
Yes.
In many ways we've all just gotten lazy.
You're one to talk.
Like you ever provide massive amounts of useful and relevant information to people who need it!
hee hee.
At least I provide kittehs.
You're welcome buddy. I think in a lot of ways, since you're a subcontractor, you're in a better position than many to do some of this stuff.
And the trick is to at least do something. If eveyone does something, the cumulative effect will be quite positive.
Yes, I am in a position that many are not where I can help us save energy. While I'm working I look for ways to conserve as much as possible.
I have six more weeks of poisoning myself and then I'm supposed to regain my energy, memory, (hair) and all I've lost over the last year. Maybe I can start doing some of the stuff you all are egging me on to do.
Have you done everything you can do to make your house energy efficient? replaced all the light bulbs? installed double paned windows?
Yup. 7 miles from the beach, no need for A/C.
It's not like NYCers are for the war. It's just preaching to the converted in many ways.
Janeane The Acerbic Goblin
And there were people in front of Whole Foods responding, "yeah" to the question, "Do you support torture?"
Then the singer who fit in the words fascist, administration, and Hitler into his off-key protest song. I'm a liberal, and at that point I was supporting torture.
The rain barrels are a good thing to have. My granny used to have them, and the more I think about the way she ran the farm the more I get ideas that could be reproduced today.
Speaking of which, movies need to bring back the "I lost my clothes, and all I could find was this barrel to put on" scenes. Man, that shit cracks me up !
*sigh*
Some day.
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Echidne: I only WISH I had been smart enough to get my grandmother to explain all the skills she had for preserving fruits, cooking in a kind of intuitive way that had nothing to do with formal recipes, making a little go a long way, all kinds of knowledge that was traditional in the Western US for women of her generation (b. 1912). Now they put on demonstrations of canning, preserving and so forth as historical recreations.
Yup. 7 miles from the beach, no need for A/C.
under the radar | 07.29.07 - 12:39 am | #
I'm about to be two blocks from Lake Winnebago; I expect the same shall be true there.
I'm a liberal, and at that point I was supporting torture.
I like how they don't stress that people being tortured will tell you whatever you want to hear. Niiiice.
Sirius Black!!
And what it offends someone from Northern Ireland?
Gilly Gonzylon
I'm a Scot, so fuck all y'all!
And would it kill you to bake me some shortbread?
"I lost my clothes, and all I could find was this barrel to put on"
Now if you'll excuse me, I have a delicious shoe to eat.
hee hee.
At least I provide kittehs.
fourlegsrgood, got pitchfork? | Homepage | 07.29.07 - 12:39 am | #
That you do!
(And someone finally responded to a comment I made! It's been one of those nights where they seem to vanish without a ripple.)
Sirius Black!!
Traitor? I'm only on G.O.F. No spoilers!
Wasn't it Biden who sat there and told old college stories and jokes instead of trying to draw Alito out so people knew what he was going to do as a Supreme Court judge?
Not that it would have likely worked, but the effort to do so is part of Biden's job...
Yes.
In many ways we've all just gotten lazy.
fourlegsrgood, got pitchfork?
The energy of slaves. We've gotten used to using sources of energy which are not replenishable, mostly petroleum based. It created a shift uknown in human history, one so dramatic we assumed it would last forever.
It won't. And what was once natural (flooding, hurricanes) are now disasters we simply can't cope with. Where I live in Houston, people used to live on farms not 70 years ago. If a hurricane swept through they went inside, and came out when it stopped. They picked up the debris, lit the lamps, pumped their water, and went on.
Rita paralyzed this city, and it never even hit us. We lost power for 36 hours, and could hardly do anything but suffer in the heat.
Feh,you can tell it's late; I'm morbid and loquacious.
I DID MY WAITING!!
12 years of it, IN AZKHABAN!!
Allie | 07.29.07 - 12:40 am | #
It's very easy to strum an E chord or two, and say "bush sucks, stop the war". Sure, he sucks, yeah, the war is bullshit, but it has no resonance. It's like when a comic does something for a cheap appaulse line.
(And someone finally responded to a comment I made! It's been one of those nights where they seem to vanish without a ripple.)
rorschach, infogit | Homepage | 07.29.07 - 12:42 am | #
Heh. I've been there, bro.
(And someone finally responded to a comment I made! It's been one of those nights where they seem to vanish without a ripple.)
rorschach, infogit
I've read it all
And would it kill you to bake me some shortbread? - Allie
Only if you renounce haggis.
But I LOVED the Simpsons Movie.
Spider Pig
Spider Pig
Does whatever a Spider Pig does.
Can he swing
On a web?
No he can't
'Cause he's a pig.
Watch Out!
Rita paralyzed this city, and it never even hit us. We lost power for 36 hours, and could hardly do anything but suffer in the heat.
Feh,you can tell it's late; I'm morbid and loquacious.
Yep. In my grim moods I think we deserve the fate that we're heading towards.
Now you must all answer to this comment.
Heh. I've been there, bro.
Gilly Gonzylon | 07.29.07 - 12:43 am | #
Yeah. Weird how it just happens sometimes.
That you do!
(And someone finally responded to a comment I made! It's been one of those nights where they seem to vanish without a ripple.)
Oh, I've been mostly talking to myself tonight. As usual.
I hardly even notice anymore.
Yeah. Weird how it just happens sometimes.
rorschach, infogit
I wish people hung out in the comments of my blog. If I had a blog.
Yup. 7 miles from the beach, no need for A/C.
under the radar | 07.29.07 - 12:39 am | #
I'm about to be two blocks from Lake Winnebago; I expect the same shall be true there.
rorschach, infogit
I have no car, live on public transportation, and have window air conditioner. I'm also a vegetarian, which some writers say is the most important thing you can do for the environment.
I'm cute, too. But that's incidental.
Alexander Graham Bell and Sebastian Cabot
Wasn't it Biden who sat there and told old college stories and jokes instead of trying to draw Alito out so people knew what he was going to do as a Supreme Court judge?
Yes, and pulling on the old Princeton baseball cap to cover his vain hairplugs.
http://www.dailyprincetonian.com...ews/
14221.shtml
Yeah. Weird how it just happens sometimes.
rorschach, infogit
End your comment with a question if you're feeling ignored. Get it?
.
I have no car, live on public transportation
Living on public transportation is illegal in most municipalities.
I have no car, live on public transportation, and have window air conditioner. I'm also a vegetarian, which some writers say is the most important thing you can do for the environment.
I'm cute, too. But that's incidental.
Allie
Me too. I want what you have and are. Lets fall in love.
I'm a vegetarian, too. But I eat chocolate which causes pollution and will not stop eating it, either.
How the fuck is that working out Biden?
Only if you renounce haggis.
bo, economist
I would never do haggis, but I have been complimented on my blackberry pie. It had a little thistle cut-out on it, so that made it Scottish.
Biden: 34 years in the Senate. Thanks Delaware!
I'm switching to compact fluorescent LCDs in my laptop.
The Republicans in my lifetime, especially the White House ones, have all carried a sort of indignant contempt of people vibe with them into power. It's very strange.
I'm cute, too. But that's incidental.
Allie | 07.29.07 - 12:46 am | #
If only there was a keyboard combo where you could put hearts as dots over your "i"s...Hee hee
I have no car, live on public transportation
Living on public transportation is illegal in most municipalities.
rorschach, infogit | Homepage | 07.29.07 - 12:47 am | #
It's also considered communistic in certain states...
The Republicans in my lifetime, especially the White House ones, have all carried a sort of indignant contempt of people vibe with them into power. It's very strange.
MP
It's 'cause this is constantly running through their minds: "I got mine, dammit! Hands off my stuff!"
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It's also considered communistic in certain states...
Janeane The Acerbic Goblin | 07.29.07 - 12:49 am | #
It's also considered nihilistic in certain states of mind...
Explaining the shift in Biden's treatment of Princeton from Tuesday to Wednesday, the senator's press secretary Chip Unruh said in an email: "Senator Biden was simply criticizing Princeton's pre-1970s admissions policy that excluded women and lacked diversity. But he knows that just like people, institutions have the ability to change and Princeton has changed for the better. He applauds Princeton for the gains it has made and continues to make."
America is forever indebted!
Thanks again Joe!
Living on public transportation is illegal in most municipalities.
rorschach, infogit
:P I live in an apartment, and live on (depend on) public transportation.
I'm not so fond of the compact fluorescents, though. So I guess I'm going to hell.
Me too. I want what you have and are. Lets fall in love.
Josh,
What I have and am? Cats and a Libra?
The Republicans in my lifetime, especially the White House ones, have all carried a sort of indignant contempt of people vibe with them into power. It's very strange.
Not all that strange. The people who vote them into power enjoy being treated with contempt.
If everyone starts by doing what they can, improvement will be made.
This can be doing all the eco things they can think of or it could be researching newer ways of conserving resources.
Let me suggest reading Natural Capitalism, by Paul Hawken, L. Hunter Lovins and Amory Lovins.
Then get Paul Hawken's new one, Blessed Unrest. It's great, VERY encouraging!
Clinton - triangulator. Wall Street. Condescending insider.
Obama - has moments and has non-moments.
Paul* - messhuga
Kucinich - Political instincts lacking
Biden - boring senator from MBNA
Bottom line. They all suck, and all but Paul would be universes better than bush.
There's 8 million people (or so) in NYC, and 7.5 million of them probably depend on public transportation.
I have the compact fluorescents in all other rooms but the study. The study has nature-imitating lights for health reasons.
What I have and am? Cats and a Libra?
Allie
No, the city and a city with public transportation, and vegetarianism.
Public transportation breeds plagues!
Cats rule, dogs drool...
Let me suggest reading Natural Capitalism, by Paul Hawken, L. Hunter Lovins and Amory Lovins.
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Amory Lovins is too smart. Hawken - nice salesman.
I'm enjoying some Trader Joes Ginger Chews. I like that fine powdered sugar they use to keep the candy from sticking to the wax paper wrapper. Fascinating for being so simple a solution...
I'm not so fond of the compact fluorescents, though. So I guess I'm going to hell.
I've noticed no difference at all. The color of the light is exactly the same.
ripple
Allie: Oh, I get it now.
But still I like those things.
rorschach, infogit | Homepage | 07.29.07 - 12:54 am | #
They put flouride in the MTA cards for brainwashing us...
Ron Paul banners have been popping up all over town (Mesa, AZ). First it was the orange-yellow "RON PAUL REVOLUTION" banners. Now it's the white "RON PAUL NO IRS" and "RON PAUL PRO-LIFE" banners.
Says it all about that guy.
If only there was a keyboard combo where you could put hearts as dots over your "i"s...Hee hee
Gilly Gonzylon
Funny, but looooong ago in high school, I used to dot my I's with hearts. My elderly social studies teacher, Mr. Hart, used to call me "the heart girl."
It was cute AND mildly creepy.
"America is forever indebted!
Thanks again Joe!"
Mr French
And special thanks to adaptable Princeton, where women like Ann Marie Slaughter can hang out and use their prestigious academic appointments to angle for high office! Hey, it's progress.
I DID MY WAITING!!
12 years of it, IN AZKHABAN!!
Settle the fuck down, Sirius, and go play Beethoven or something.
Well, I'm extra tired and the bed needs made. Baggin' it.
G'Nite.
dogs drool...
Especially Great Danes. My in-laws used to own one and all it did was slobber all over everthang.
Let me suggest reading Natural Capitalism, by Paul Hawken, L. Hunter Lovins and Amory Lovins.
And I suggest listening to "That Word 'Broadminded'", by the Louvin Brothers.
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Ron Paul = loopy Libertarian.
Gilly Gonzylon | 07.29.07 - 12:54 am | #
The Trader Joe's in Manhattan is like an artist commune. Everyone there is either an actor, filmmaker, writer, poet, musician, painter, sculptor, etc., etc...
There's 8 million people (or so) in NYC, and 7.5 million of them probably depend on public transportation.
Janeane The Acerbic Goblin | 07.29.07 - 12:53 am | #
Anyone who wants to own a car in that city is crazy.
In Oshkosh, I reckon I'll rely mostly on my feets.
...gyah.
This workin' 12-hours a day sux.
And they've "blocked" blogspot.com
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.
...fuck.
I have the compact fluorescents in all other rooms but the study. The study has nature-imitating lights for health reasons.
Yep.
I have full spectrum bulbs in the lamp on my desk. It's also fairly energy efficient. In my office at work too.
Flourescent light gives me a headache when I'm working.
Got a great name for a NYC Mexican Food Joint -
The Five Burritos of New York
I've noticed no difference at all. The color of the light is exactly the same.
smalfish,bikerider
No they're not. I'll bet anyone, any amount, anytime I can tell the difference between an incandescent and a fluorescent no matter how that juice the coating inside the bulb.
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rorschach, infogit | Homepage | 07.29.07 - 12:55 am | #
There's no point in owning a car, even if you're loaded. There are cabs, buses, rickshaws, and subways.
There's no point in owning a car, even if youe're loaded. There are cabs, buses, rickshaws, and subways.
Janeane The Acerbic Goblin
I love that about Manhattan.
But I eat chocolate which causes pollution and will not stop eating it, either.
echidne
We all do what we can. Living causes pollution. I'm happy to live in a concentrated urban center, so I feel our impact is a bit contained, but public transportation is not pollution free. If it weren't so sweat-producing and death-defying, I'd love to bike to work.
The Five Burritos of New York
Gilly Gonzylon | 07.29.07 - 12:56 am | #
That's pretty good...
But Staten Island doesn't count. It's a rubbish tip. It's like the food you throw away at the end of the night.
Five Burritos of New York
Four actually. We don' need no stinkin' Staten Island!
Janeane The Acerbic Goblin | 07.29.07 - 12:56 am | #
Anyone here in NYC?
I don't know how I feel about those rickshaws in the city. There's a hint of indentured servitude about them.
It's just that the Republicans seem hard-wired to obsess about having an enemy to confront, and it's likely to include another group of Americans.
And nobody forget "Sherman's March to the Seafood" for the Catfish stand in the South.
Deacon Blues | Homepage | 07.29.07 - 12:57 am | #
It is nice. Besides, riding the subway is better than driving. You see more people, hear more interesting conversations, and look at the opposite sex with more frequency.
I was thinking more in terms of hereditary serfdom, but that's just me.
It was cute AND mildly creepy. Allie
How come no matter when I come here someone is talking about NTodd?
I found out that compact fluorescents will not work in dimmer switches. This after I bought a bunch to put in my ceiling fans.
Josh | Homepage | 07.29.07 - 12:58 am | #
Quite a few of us are....
No, the city and a city with public transportation, and vegetarianism.
Josh
I'm just teasing you, you know...
I was thinking more in terms of hereditary serfdom, but that's just me.
Hedley Lamarr
But you must admit, it's great for their abs.
It's just that the Republicans seem hard-wired to obsess about having an enemy to confront, and it's likely to include another group of Americans.
Yass. It's always someone that can be made into pure evil. Not sure why, but it seems to be needed for the inner cohesion of their society.
The rickshaws have a bicycle attached to them, and they're usually around Central Park a lot.
I'm just teasing you, you know...
Allie
k
In your city, can a school teacher with a Masters degree make it?
I love the auto-rickshaws in India - esp the new natural gas ones. Zooming in and out of traffic consisting of every vehicle made by humankind in the last 10 centuries, it's the most adrenalin for the mile-per-hour
No they're not. I'll bet anyone, any amount, anytime I can tell the difference between an incandescent and a fluorescent no matter how that juice the coating inside the bulb.
We're talking about those corkscrew type light bulbs, right?
I just don't notice any difference in lighting. I have them in the bathroom over the mirror, I can tell no difference. We have them almost everywhere. I just haven't had the juice to drag the ladder into the living room and replace the nine flood lights yet. Those are the last.
Those floods are on a dimmer, can you dim the CFL's?
riding the subway is better than driving
Buses are good, too. Though you don't get to eyeball as many people on the bus. OTOH you do get to look out the window at all the humanity outside.
Janeane The Acerbic Goblin
I have only limited experience with Manhattan on a short trip there. Stayed near Times Square. Mostly walked or cab, but did ride subway one time "just because".
There was an awesome show on Discovery Channel a while ago about mass transit in NYC.
Broadminded (Ira Louvin, 1952)
Chorus:
That word broadminded is spelled s-i-n
I read in my Bible, they shall not enter in.
For Jesus will answer, Depart, I never knew you
That word broadminded is spelled s-i-n
Some people say they gamble now and then for pleasure
And drink a little whiskey just to please a friend
They say it's really nothing, you've got to be broadminded
That word in my Bible is spelled "s-i-n".
ch.
That broadminded mother goes out and joins a party
There's nothing wrong in drinking and dancing with a friend
And then on Sunday morning, she'll say she loves her savior
She should be begging God to forgive her of her sin.
Yass. It's always someone that can be made into pure evil. Not sure why, but it seems to be needed for the inner cohesion of their society.
echidne
The Paranoid Style in American Politics (Hofstadter) spelled it out pretty well. Not to forget Lord of the Flies.
NYC people:
I am a public school teacher. I want to move to NY. Would start at about 55,000 with my credentials. Can I afford it?
And what is the state of public schools there? As bad as YouTube, etc. lead me to belive?
Deacon Blues | Homepage | 07.29.07 - 1:01 am | #
You can go anywhere in Manhattan by the subway. And a good NYCer will know alternate routes because something always happens on the subway.
The other day I had to get off the #7 train (a sick passenger stopped the train), and had to go to the E Train, which took me to 74th street, where I caught the #7 train again.
JeffCO!
"Midnight Cowboy" is a movie that takes place in New York...
Trivia Question - Name one more...
Buses are good, too. Though you don't get to eyeball as many people on the bus.
I still remember the face of a woman I saw on a bus in Philadelphia 20 years ago - must have had at least 3 different ethnicities in her background and was unbearably gorgeous.
The Paranoid Style in American Politics (Hofstadter) spelled it out pretty well. Not to forget Lord of the Flies.
Ever read Jack London's The Iron Heel?
Hint: it's not about doggies.
"Midnight Cowboy" is a movie that takes place in New York...
Trivia Question - Name one more...
Gilly Gonzylon | 07.29.07 - 1:03 am | #
Escape from New York.
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Josh | Homepage | 07.29.07 - 1:02 am | #
55K? Yes. More than enough.
Manhattan apartments are ridiculously overpriced (and tiny), but you can rent decently in Queens, Brooklyn, and some areas of The Bronx.
Hey Deacon - how's tricks?
Josh - are you the one from a while back trying to decide whether to teach in LA or NYC?
Trivia Question - Name one more...
Gilly Gonzylon
Woody Allen's "Manhattan"
The other day I had to get off the #7 train (a sick passenger stopped the train), and had to go to the E Train, which took me to 74th street, where I caught the #7 train again.
Janeane The Acerbic Goblin | 07.29.07 - 1:03 am | #
Certainly you saw someone running through an uncapped hydrant during that escape...
Janeane The Acerbic Goblin
I was fortunate enough to be on vacation, so had no need to stress schedule. At the same time, we only had a couple of days so every minute counted and we had a pretty, young blonde woman in our party who could get us a cab *snap* like that.
Escape from New York.
batguano | 07.29.07 - 1:04 am | #
Has NYC become a maximum security prison yet? John Carpenter fucked that one up.
I still remember the face of a woman I saw on a bus in Philadelphia 20 years ago - must have had at least 3 different ethnicities in her background and was unbearably gorgeous.
I remember someone from a bus in Leeds, England. It was sad.
The French Connection
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Josh - are you the one from a while back trying to decide whether to teach in LA or NYC?
NTodd, Fanciest
Hmm...maybe, not sure if I discussed it in here, but...probably.
Gilly Gonzylon | 07.29.07 - 1:05 am | #
I should send you a fire hydrant.
Those floods are on a dimmer, can you dim the CFL's?
smalfish,bikerider
There are '3-way' compact fluorescents. There may be dimmable fluorescents but the physics of how an incandescent works vs. a fluorescent is very different.
And yes the corkscrew ones are fluorescents but as I said I can easily tell the difference by the 'quality' of the light.
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55K? Yes. More than enough.
Are you kidding?
Not to live at all well.
Wayne Madsen doesn't sound so looney now.
.
Trivia Question - Name one more...
Dog Day Afternoon? Escape From New York?
Ever read Jack London's The Iron Heel?
Hint: it's not about doggies.
Hedley Lamarr
I'm sorry to say I have not, although I know London was one pissed off type, politically speaking. I only read the Call of the Wild and the one about the evil sea captain they made into a movie with Edward G. Robinson, IIRC it was The Sea Wolf....
Trivia Question - Name one more...
New York, New York....?
...um, er, uh... for the entire movie?
What was that one? Any one? With Jack Lemmon?
"Midnight Cowboy" is a movie that takes place in New York...
Trivia Question - Name one more...
Fourteen Hours, with Richard Basehart, Paul Douglas and Barbara Bel Geddes.
On the other hand, I met a fascinating couple in the train last summer. They were in their nineties and had been involved in progressive politics all their lives. The woman dropped her fork when I asked how she liked Bush.
How come no matter when I come here someone is talking about NTodd?
JeffCO
NTodd is all things to all men, and to some lucky woman!
fourlegsrgood, got pitchfork? | Homepage | 07.29.07 - 1:06 am | #
You can live alright. You may have to get a roommate. Almost everyone has one here.
Not to live at all well.
fourlegsrgood, got pitchfork? | Homepage | 07.29.07 - 1:06 am | #
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Depends. Sometimes living in NYC can seem a blessing and sometimes you can wonder what you did wrong in a previous life.
JeffCO
Ack. Back to work/school, the usual. Vacation buzz pretty much abated. Supchew?
I see the Dodgers were rained out last night at Coors.
Janeane The Acerbic Goblin | 07.29.07 - 1:06 am | #
(snort)
Midnight Cowboy" is a movie that takes place in New York...
Trivia Question - Name one more...
Gilly Gonzylon
Oh fuck, The Apartment, The Out of Towners, most anything by Woody Allen.
What was that one? Any one? With Jack Lemmon?
The Apartment?
Richard Hofstader was a conservative.
Part of Once Upon a Time in America was shot in NYC...
Barefoot in the Park
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How come no matter when I come here someone is talking about NTodd?
JeffCO
NTodd is all things to all men, and to some lucky woman!
Allie
I have yet to meet that lucky woman. But it's lovely to be talked about, even when Zod is doing it.
it should be obvious that the GOP are using warrantless surveillance to spy on Democratic politicians and candidates ---
they misuse the state department to campaign
they misuse the justice department to suppress the Democratic vote and to maliciously prosecute Democratic politicans just before elections
they misuse the surgeon general's office to promote GOP ideology --
so of course they misuse surveillance powers to gather in formation on their political opponents
Come 2008 there will be mysterious video tapes of Democratic candidates or their wives or husbands -- and the GOP will be mysteriously prescient in their ability to derail Democratic political strategy
it couldn't be more obvious
You can find The Iron Heel on line. Worth reading.
You can live alright. You may have to get a roommate. Almost everyone has one here.
Janeane The
Ack.
I made that much when I lived there in the 80's and 90's. Can't imagine living in Manhattan on that salary now.
How 'bout Kiss of Death?
Friday The 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan
Home Alone 2: Lost In New York
The second half of King Kong...
The Paranoid style is the style of all politics in all times.
fourlegsrgood, got pitchfork? | Homepage | 07.29.07 - 1:08 am | #
Manhattan, no, probably not (unless you're living with the landlord).
Midnight Cowboy" is a movie that takes place in New York...
Trivia Question - Name one more...
Big.
We all do what we can. Living causes pollution.
I made this point late last night - we are not apart from nature. It's not living that causes pollution it's life out of balance. Hmm, someone should make a movie about that.
Koy...aan......i.... sqatsiiiiii.....
...CHUD?
...did that happen in New York?
NYC is not like Sex and the City, for the record (in case Josh is thinking that).
"Mindy Does Manhattan"
On the other hand, I met a fascinating couple in the train last summer. They were in their nineties and had been involved in progressive politics all their lives. The woman dropped her fork when I asked how she liked Bush.
echidne
On 9/11, the actual 9/11, after finding access blocked to my building (7 WTC) I ended up rather randomly in the apartment of an elderly rich couple on the East Side. (Parents of a friend). They refused to let us watch the coverage on Fox News. I knew then that some people would retain their sanity no matter what....
Richard Hofstader was a conservative.
boke | 07.29.07 - 1:08 am | #
And a dumbass, but that's just repeating what you said.
Hannah and Her Sisters.
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I am a public school teacher. I want to move to NY. Would start at about 55,000 with my credentials. Can I afford it?
And what is the state of public schools there? As bad as YouTube, etc. lead me to belive?
Josh
I live in a one-bedroom in Astoria for $110/m and make about $60,000/yr, but I don't have a lot of material needs. The teen eats all the wages.
Really. She has dollar bills and Silk in a bowl for breakfast.
The remake of Godzilla?
On the Waterfront?
NYC is not like Sex and the City, for the record (in case Josh is thinking that).
Janeane The Acerbic Goblin
Bet its not like BumFuck, Tennessee, either.
Wall Street
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Tarzan's New York Adventure?
Powerless.
Working Girl.
Q is a movie that takes place in New York....
So many bold and knowledgeable people stepping up to Gilly's formidable movie trivia challenge!
I see the Dodgers were rained out last night at Coors. Deacon Blues
I went down to Denver to see a movie this week without checking the schedule and got stuck in the worst pregame traffic I have been in in years. What should have been 40 minutes tops took a solid 1-1/2 hours. I should have just gone to the game.
West Side Story
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Walker, Texas Stranger.
I know I can make it on 55K, especially for my lifestyle. What I would like to have a better understanding about is the state of the public schools. Hard to get good solid info on that online, at least on the surface (which is all I've scratched).
She has dollar bills and Silk in a bowl for breakfast.
She must be very regular. I like that in a woman.
On the other hand, I met a fascinating couple in the train last summer. They were in their nineties and had been involved in progressive politics all their lives. The woman dropped her fork when I asked how she liked Bush.
echidne
Had a similar experience with a firendly, elderly Jewish couple at a restaurant.
I must say -- aware of the tininess of my sample size -- New Yorkers were on the whole very friendly with us tourists.
Oops, $1100/month. I guess that makes a difference...
Debbie Does Manhatten.
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EXPECTO PATRONUM!!!!!!!
Wish I could do that and drive all the republicans out of washington.
Love With a Proper Stranger.
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I live in a one-bedroom in Astoria for $110/m and make about $60,000/yr, but I don't have a lot of material needs. The teen eats all the wages.
Really. She has dollar bills and Silk in a bowl for breakfast.
Allie | 07.29.07 - 1:10 am | #
Astoria Queens. Woody Allen never went there.
HERCULES IN NEW YORK!
Q is a movie that takes place in New York....
Which has to be the the most beautifully retarded movie ever made.
Oops, $1100/month. I guess that makes a difference...
I was already packing...
What was that movie with Jack Lemmon who was a tourist in NYC where he got mugged and had all kinds of bad luck?
Josh | Homepage | 07.29.07 - 1:10 am | #
Nope.
It's a hell of a lot better than anywhere. NYC is really its own state, its own universe.
"Annie Hall"
The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms
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NYC is really its own state, its own universe.
...an "eternal" city.
What was that movie with Jack Lemmon who was a tourist in NYC where he got mugged and had all kinds of bad luck?
The Out of Towners.
So many bold and knowledgeable people stepping up to Gilly's formidable movie trivia challenge!
rorschach, infogit | Homepage | 07.29.07 - 1:11 am | #
Who knew we all were so good at this ?
The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms
...koooooool. I love that movie.
Gangs of New York
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Naked City
What was that movie with Jack Lemmon who was a tourist in NYC where he got mugged and had all kinds of bad luck?
"The Out of Towners."
Sandy Dennis as his wife...
What I would like to have a better understanding about is the state of the public schools. Hard to get good solid info on that online, at least on the surface (which is all I've scratched).
Josh
LIC is a good public school; Stuyvesant is a great public school. There are others that are awful. The range is pretty big here.
"On the Town"
Gimme my coke Dave.
About any Edward Burns film.
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Who knew we all were so good at this ?
Gilly Gonzylon | 07.29.07 - 1:14 am | #
Ooooooh! Ooooooh! I know this one.
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..."what movies take place in New York city" is not a trivia challenge!
Now, as to particular genres of movie....
That's the one where the beast eats the cop who's shooting at him with a pistol???
.
"The Out of Towners."
Sandy Dennis as his wife...
dave™© | Homepage | 07.29.07 - 1:14 am | #
Damn, that's a funny movie!
The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms
...koooooool. I love that movie.
Especially when the supersized dino eats that cop, man!
Fuckin' kewl!
All these "new york" movies are really shot in Toronto, aren't they? And in King Kong, didn't they use a studio lot?
Eyes Wide Shut takes place in NYC....
Cash Cab
OK it's not a movie.
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Serpico and Prince in the City were shot in NYC...
They're local favorites....
Eyes Wide Shut takes place in NYC....
FIlmed in London though.
Who knew we all were so good at this ?
Gilly Gonzylon | 07.29.07 - 1:14 am | #
Heh indeed.
Name two set in Wisconsin!
After Hours.
I'd say a majority of movies do take place in NYC. At least American movies.
I just thought of a great Chicago movie: High Fidelity
Name two set in Wisconsin!
American Movie!
Eyes Wide Shut takes place in NYC....
Janeane The Acerbic Goblin | 07.29.07 - 1:15 am | #
...or DOES it?
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It's a hell of a lot better than anywhere. NYC is really its own state, its own universe.
Janeane The Acerbic Goblin
It is so utterly unlike the rest of the country. Brokers for renting apartments? Freaky.
In one class, the native NYers were scoffing at the whole bible-based voting idea...even the boys with the yarmulkes. I said, "There are real places in the country where the bible is a real, living basis for everything, especially voting."
Name two set in Wisconsin!
The Jeffrey Dahmer Story ?
Panic in Needle Park.
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But then Lee Van Cleef shot Mr. Dino with an atomic magic bullet on top of the roller-coaster ride.
Josh | Homepage | 07.29.07 - 1:16 am | #
Best Chicago movie....
The Blues Brothers....
You might say "Eyes Wide Shut" stands still in NYC.
Name two set in Wisconsin!
American Movie!
JeffCO
The one where Pauly Shore went on the farm? I can't remember...
KING KONG!
Name two set in Wisconsin!
American Movie!
JeffCO
Something about pot!
Dag Day Afternoon was set in New York.
...and The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 takes place in New York City
Devil's Advocate takes place in New York.
Name two set in Wisconsin!
rorschach, infogit |
Laverne and Shirley Take Milwaukee?
Billy Madison?
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Everyone's your friend
in New York city
Everything is beautiful
when you're young and pretty
The streets are paved with diamonds
and there's just so much to see
The very best thing about New York City is
you and me
fourlegsrgood, got pitchfork? | Homepage | 07.29.07 - 1:16 am | #
Actually, Kubrick dispensed a 2nd unit who shot footage on the streets of NYC for the film.
But the bulk of it was shot in London.
In one class, the native NYers were scoffing at the whole bible-based voting idea...even the boys with the yarmulkes. I said, "There are real places in the country where the bible is a real, living basis for everything, especially voting."
Allie
Here.
Great New York movie: "Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me?"
The Man With The Golden Arm is good on Chicago, too. Especially pre-Munsters Emile Meyer as the cop.
"Get Smart" finally out on DVD.
Debbie Does Madison
.
Ok smarty pants.
What movie (one AFAIK) was filmed in Dallas?
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 takes place in New York City.
That is a great fucking movie...
Darryl Pearce | Homepage | 07.29.07 - 1:18 am | #
Great film. Very NYCish...
It must have been cool to say, "Hello, I'm Lee Van Cleef".
Ghostbusters!
Name two set in Wisconsin!
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there was some terrible goldie hawn, mad max movie that had a scene in Racine or something - saw it on an airplane years ago.
"From here to New York, I get them skins, I ain't talking about pork" --Ice Cube
"New York New York big city of dreams, but things in New York ain't always what they seem."
--Snoop Doggy Dogg
"Get Smart" finally out on DVD.
Sorry about that, chief.
Now howzabout some San Francisco movies?
Let's start with "Psych Out"!
Jack Nicholson and Bruce Dern.
Ghostbusters!
Ah yes, filmed down the block from us.
What movie (one AFAIK) was filmed in Dallas?
smalfish,bikerider | 07.29.07 - 1:19 am | #
JFK ?
Putney Swope is a nice wholesome NYC movie.
Two set in Wisconsin:
Psycho
Wisconsin Death Trip
Midwest be all scary and shit.
What movie (one AFAIK) was filmed in Dallas?
smalfish,bikerider
The Abraham Zapruder film where the guy in the open limo gets shot in the head?
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"The Laughing Policeman" starring Walter Matthau is another good SF travelogue movie...
Astoria Queens. Woody Allen never went there.
rootless2
He's a wussy poopy head. All the good Greek restaurants are in Astoria. And the cute Greek boys. And you can actually see the Manhattan skyline. We watch the July 4h fireworks from our fire escape.
North Dallas Forty?
Ghostbusters!
NTodd, Fanciest
I forgot my favorite movie of all time
More great Wisconsin/NY films:
Fargo
Sunshine State
Atlantic City
Barcelona
Paris, Texas
Texasville
JFK ?
I don't think that was actually filmed here.
Ghostbusters!
...do-d'do-do-d'do-do-doooo
Now howzabout some San Francisco movies?
Bullitt. The Maltese Falcon.
Name one low-budget movie set in the Pittsburgh area.
I can do 
How does one to the frowny-face?
Name one low-budget movie set in the Pittsburgh area.
Flashdance.
SF: Vertigo
Here.
Josh
Where?
What movie (one AFAIK) was filmed in Dallas?
Stella Dallas?
Fargo
Minnesotta
The Abraham Zapruder film where the guy in the open limo gets shot in the head?
Well I was thinking Robocop, but you're right.
Name one low-budget movie set in the Pittsburgh area.
Hedley Lamarr |
A Fish Called Wanda?
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Allie | 07.29.07 - 1:21 am | #
Allen (and others) are part of a breed that never leave the island (the island being Manhattan).
Queens, Brooklyn, The Bronx, Staten Island, and New Jersey are considered the hood by a lot of them.
Bet nobody can name any Vermont movies...
Name two movies with scenes filmed in or around the little burg I went to high school in - Tracy, California!
For bonus points, name a movie filmed in Stockton by a major director (and the film's a cult classic).
Now howzabout some San Francisco movies?
Bullitt. The Maltese Falcon.
interloper
Guess Who's Coming To Dinner?
filmed in Dallas
Part 1:
* 1945, State Fair
* 1950, Dallas (movie)
* 1959, The Killer Shrews
* 1959, The Giant Gila Monster
* 1960, My Dog Buddy
* 1967, Bonnie and Clyde
* 1973, Executive Action
* 1974, Benji
* 1974, Phantom of the Paradise
* 1978, Debbie Does Dallas
* 1983, Silkwood
* 1983, Tender Mercies
* 1984, Places in the Heart
* 1985, The Trip to Bountiful
* 1987, Paramedics
* 1987, RoboCop
Where?
Allie
Middle Tennessee
Now howzabout some San Francisco movies?
Bullitt. The Maltese Falcon.
All the Dirty Harry movies. Not to mention the first remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
Name one low-budget movie set in the Pittsburgh area.
Hedley Lamarr |
Night of the Living Dead...
The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh?
Bloodsucking Monkies from West Mifflin, PA?
Flashdance.
fourlegsrgood, got pitchfork?
Good one.
Just a Steel Town girl on a Saturday night
Looking for the (fight?) of her life...
For bonus points, name a movie filmed in Stockton by a major director (and the film's a cult classic).
Too easy.
American Graffitti.
part 2:
# 1988, Dead Solid Perfect (HBO movie)
# 1988, It Takes Two
# 1988, Il Nido del Ragno ("The Spider's Nest")
# 1988, Talk Radio
# 1988-1991, Gerbert (TV series)
# 1989, Born on the Fourth of July
# 1990, Problem Child
# 1991, JFK
# 1991, My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys
# 1991, Necessary Roughness
# 1991, Steele's Law
# 1992-2002, Barney & Friends (TV series)
# 1992, Leap of Faith
# 1992, Love Crimes
Name one low-budget movie set in the Pittsburgh area.
Hedley Lamarr
The Attack of the Killer Tomatoes
SF: Vertigo.
Well, sure.
Also "The Birds."
And "Shadow of a Doubt" was filmed in Santa Rosa.
Name another movie filmed in Santa Rosa.
Name the only feature film shot in Lawrence, Kansas...
Vermont movies?
"Woodstock"
part 3:
# 1992, Love Field
# 1992, Ruby
# 1993, Hexed
# 1993-2001, Walker, Texas Ranger (TV series)
# 1994, Curse of the Starving Class
# 1995-1998, Wishbone (TV series)
# 1996, Bottle Rocket
# 1997, The Apostle
# 1997, Asteroid (TV movie)
# 1997, Batman & Robin
# 1997, Point Blank
# 1998, The X Files: Fight the Future
# 1999, Any Given Sunday
# 1999, Boys Don't Cry
# 1999, Office Space
# 1999, Olive, the Other Reindeer (TV special) (animated in Dallas)
For bonus points, name a movie filmed in Stockton by a major director (and the film's a cult classic).
dave™©
American Graffiti?
Name one low-budget movie set in the Pittsburgh area.
Hedley Lamarr |
A Fish Called Wanda?
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Agent Orange
Try Night of the Living Dead.
Unfortunately, the blood-sucking leech Time-Life is selling the "Get Smart" DVDs.
Bet nobody can name any Vermont movies...
NTodd, Fanciest | Homepage | 07.29.07 - 1:23 am | #
"Vermont Jones and the Temple of Dunes"
Name the only feature film shot in Lawrence, Kansas...
The Day After.
Name 5 movies about a boxer filmed in Philadelphia?
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part 4 of 4, thank you wikipedia:
# 1999, Universal Soldier, The Return
# 2000, Dr. T & the Women
# 2001, Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius (animated in Dallas)
# 2001, Pendulum
# 2002-present, The Adventures Of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius (TV series) (animated in Dallas)
# 2002, The Anarchist Cookbook
# 2002, The Rookie
# 2002, Serving Sara
# 2002, Slap Her... She's French
# 2003, Saving Jessica Lynch (TV movie)
# 2004, The Ant Bully (animated in Dallas)
# 2004, The Benefactor (TV series)
# 2004, Primer
# 2005, Bewitched
Bet nobody can name any Vermont movies...
NTodd, Fanciest
I'm sure there must have been a John Candy movie set in Vermont...
Hedley Lamarr | 07.29.07 - 1:24 am | #
Got it up thread...
Most people don't know that...
# 1992-2002, Barney & Friends (TV series)
Oh ya. I forgot I've done work for Barney.
I'm always enthralled by the way New Orleans movies manage to mangle the reality of the French Quarter (it doesn't always look like Mardi Gras! Seriously!) and the accent (NOLA accents are closer to Brooklyn than to Cajun).
Worst offender, though:
"Albino Alligator" which takes place in a (get this) cellar bar.
"howzabout some San Francisco movies?"
...The Maltese Falcon.
Oooooh, no, sorry. Filmed on Warner Bros. backlots in LA.
American Graffiti?
Coke me dood.
Name one low-budget movie set in the Pittsburgh area.
Hedley Lamarr
Milk Money
The very best thing about New York City is you and me -Mr French
I want another first kiss!
Hedley Lamarr | 07.29.07 - 1:24 am | #
Oops. Forgot that was filmed in Kansas (even though it was a TV movie).
Think low budget, horror film...
Rosemary's baby
Godzilla
(hey, you didn't specify 'good' movies)
Coke me dood.
fourlegsrgood, got pitchfork?
You got it.
Allie:
Astoria still has greek restaurants? Has it started to be colonized by wall streeters yet?
I can think of a metric assload of Clint films shot in SF.
Bet nobody can name any Vermont movies...
NTodd, Fanciest
On Golden Pond.
But wasn't that actually shot in NH?
NY: Breakfast at Tiffany's (dats GOT to cost me a coke...)
...well filmed in Vermont and "set in Vermont" are different things? What was it you wanted again?
Wasn't that Diane Keaton "yuppie baby" movie set in Vermont?
Name a movie set in LA, NY, Paris, and Helsinki!
"howzabout some San Francisco movies?"
Wassup Doc? with Ryan O'Neil
Middle Tennessee
Josh
At least it's pretty there.
In NY, unions still run a lot of things and the public pools are free. And pizza can cost $1.00 a slice or $6.00 a slice...or probably more.
You get what you look for.
"For bonus points, name a movie filmed in Stockton by a major director (and the film's a cult classic)."
American Graffiti?
Nope. Filmed in Petaluma and San Rafael, IIRC.
BTW, the radio station "The Wolfman" worked in was a transmitting station on the outskirts of Berkeley... they just opened a "Bay Area Radio History" museum there and that fact was part of the press releases...
So what movie was filmed in Stockton? And two with scenes filmed around Tracy?
Lawrence, Kansas
In Cold Blood?
rorschach, infogit | Homepage | 07.29.07 - 1:27 am | #
I know the answer...should I let someone else try and guess?
Here's an interesting book:
Guide to Fiction Set in Vermont.
Wassup Doc? with Ryan O'Neil
Gilly Gonzylon
When Barbra Streisand was cute and funny! I loved that movie!
Bet nobody can name any Vermont movies...
NTodd, Fanciest
Not a movie, but was Bob Newhart's show set in Vermont, or was that New Hampshire?
Deacon Blues | Homepage | 07.29.07 - 1:27 am | #
Carnival of Souls....
Name 5 movies about a boxer filmed in Philadelphia?
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Agent Orange |
OK you're all obviously stumped...
Rocky I, name the other 4.
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Think low budget, horror film...
------>racks brains, bites lip, clock ticking...
Children of the Corn?
Name another movie filmed in Santa Rosa.
Big Chill?
I want another first kiss!
Like this?
Think low budget, horror film...
Mars attack?
White Christmas was set in Vermont, I believe.
Re: Vermont movies
Me, Myself, & Irene.
Beetlejuice
Allie | 07.29.07 - 1:27 am | #
You have to know where to look for the cheaper stuff. You can find it, even in Manhattan.
Bet nobody can name any Vermont movies...
Night of the Living Syrupheads.
I've long been under the impression that this was an automated multi-language voice recognition and transcription system (with literally thousands of supercomputer-class machines) that, once it flagged someone for the use of a suspicious phrase, would find other entities contacted by the flagged "suspect" and flag them for monitoring as well. And so on and so on... No probable cause, but it creates an ever-expanding web of "suspects" to monitor all phone calls and email threads of the whole class of "suspects." This would form a massive database to then be data-mined. The system also used the giant database of telephone company call/billing records to flag other related entities that had any relation to one of its "suspects." The potential for abuse of such a system is tremendous. If true, it could potentially spread its web over a significant percentage of the (totally innocent) US population, transcribing and storing everything in real time.
At least that's what I gathered from James Risen's "State of War," who was also the author if the NYT story (plus other tech sources as well.)
Creepy stuff and definitely illegal - but that's why they decided that they could not comply with FISA. They didn't even know for sure who was to be monitored, as the system would "crawl" to wherever the flags led it in the communications network based on what it finds.
I suspect that up until 2004, when Ashcroft needed surgery, he never looked into the details of what the NSA system did and just signed off on it. But Comey might have wanted to know more before renewing approval. When he found out that it was operating the way it did, he objected and others joined him. Then they somehow scaled down the program to squeak out some basic level of legal sign-off, naming the modified version of the program "Terrorist Surveillance Program" and Gonzales has been treating the new version as a whole different program in some of his testimony. All of the disabled "features" are now referred to as "other intelligence activities" - that no one is willing to talk about. And once Gonzales became the guy to do the sign-offs, who knows if they haven't gone and re-enabled all of the features? It wouldn't surprise me. Remember that when Negroponte moved from DNI to Sate Dept, it was rumored that he wasn't comfortable with the increased level of wiretap surveillance that Cheney was insisting upon and moved over to save his own ass, and they replaced him with someone more "loyal."
You get what you look for.
Allie
I'm looking for people, public transportation, a wide variety of arts to experience, and the ability to easily eat at vegan restaurants.
Name a movie set in LA, NY, Paris, and Helsinki!
Until The End of the World?
VT: Teenage Mutant Maple Trees
Vermont? The Simpsons promo in scenic Springfield VT, home of Stellafane!
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was Bob Newhart's show set in Vermont, or was that New Hampshire?
I'm going to assume you're making a joke based on the finale...
Name another movie filmed in Santa Rosa.
Big Chill?
Santa Rita was the name of the town in the original Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
The Lawrence, Kansas film was Carnival of Souls directed by Herk Harvey.
...ah, Lab Coat Larry's on the case.
Name a movie set in LA, NY, Paris, and Helsinki!
I'm gonna have to re-route my trip.
I don't want anyone to think I'd flipped if I
Went to LA ... via Omaha.
.
So what movie was filmed in Stockton? And two with scenes filmed around Tracy?
dave™©
Well it's gotta be either Lucas or Spielberg. Was it that THX thing Lucas did early on?
Name a movie set in LA, NY, Paris, and Helsinki!
Night on Earth....
Not a movie, but was Bob Newhart's show set in Vermont, or was that New Hampshire?
MP
I was thinking the same thing. I think New Hampshire or Maine
Debbie Does Springfield VT?
.
"New Hampshire" is an old Algonquin word that means "more Vermont."
Hitchcock's Trouble with Harry was set in Vermont.
Night on Earth....
Janeane The Acerbic Goblin | 07.29.07 - 1:30 am | #
We have a winnah!
Astoria still has greek restaurants? Has it started to be colonized by wall streeters yet?
rootless2
Yes and no. On Broadway it is a bit more trendy (not like Williamsburg, Brooklyn, though), but on Ditmars, one old Greek lady I was trying to help had to make sure I wasn't Italian -- she wasn't fond. There are a lot of long-timers here...especially the restaurant owners. Eastern Europeans, Middle Easterners, Greeks, Latinos...we have a hookah bar down the block across from the old bagel shop.
I'm going to assume you're making a joke based on the finale...
NTodd, Fanciest
No joke, I didn't watch the show often enough to memorize the locale.
I've long been under the impression that this was an automated multi-language voice recognition and transcription system (with literally thousands of supercomputer-class machines) that, once it flagged someone for the use of a suspicious phrase, would find other entities contacted by the flagged "suspect" and flag them for monitoring as well
So, if you used a phrase like "due process of law" or "bill of rights" you got flagged, yes?
Holy god.
One of my favorite Jamie Lee Curtis horror films, Terror Train, was filmed in Vermont.
Bob Newhart sez: "Honey, have you thought about wearing more sweaters?"
Well it's gotta be either Lucas or Spielberg. Was it that THX thing Lucas did early on?
MP | Homepage | 07.29.07 - 1:30 am | #
THX 1138 - Great flick. The recent frame by frame restoration of the movie was fantastic.
SF
Herbie the Lovebug
Was Bob Newhart afraid of the nip?
Frankie sez:
CHOOSE LIFE
.
"New Hampshire" is an old Algonquin word that means "more Vermont."
Darryl Pearce | Homepage | 07.29.07 - 1:31 am | #
Such a goyishe place, funny to think Vermont is the same as Greenberg.
Was Bob Newhart afraid of the nip?
Mr French | 07.29.07 - 1:33 am | #
Japanese people? Hell no.
All right, here are the answers:
Movies with scenes filmed in or around Tracy: 1. "Take the Money and Run." The "chain gang" scenes were filmed in the San Joaquin Delta outside of Tracy. Woody Allen actually spoke at a lunch meeting of the local Chamber of Commerce during the filming. 2. "The Candidate" with Robert Redford. There's a parade sequence with cheerleaders and bands that was filmed during the high school homecoming parade. There's also a conference room scene that was filmed at the local newspaper office. A friend's sister actually ran lines with Redford there.
Another movie filmed in Santa Rosa: "Smile" with Bruce Dern. Directed by Michael Ritchie, who also directed "The Candidate."
And the movie filmed in Stockton? John Huston's "Fat City." Shot exclusively on the seedy side of town. The auditorium where the big fight scene is held is where I saw Blood, Sweat and Tears, Cheech and Chong, Supertramp, and the Kinks, to name but a few...
and the ability to easily eat at vegan restaurants.
Josh
Vegetarian's Paradise, Red Bamboo, Zen Garden, Candle Cafe, Angelica's Kitchen...Raw Vegan -- Quintessence, Pure Food and Wine...
"New Hampshire" is an old Algonquin word that means "more Vermont."
And "latte" is French for "you paid too much for that coffee".
filmed in Stockton, scenes in Tracy
Coolhand Luke?
Old New York was once New Amsterdam.
Are any blogs set in Vermont?
Vegetarian's Paradise, Red Bamboo, Zen Garden, Candle Cafe, Angelica's Kitchen...Raw Vegan -- Quintessence, Pure Food and Wine...
Allie
Cool. It'll be awhile before I'm up there though.
link to movies filmed in Stockton:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Sto...her_Pop_Culture
Another movie filmed in Santa Rosa: "Smile" with Bruce Dern. Directed by Michael Ritchie, who also directed "The Candidate."
Probably the most underrated movie of the 70s.
Old New York was once New Amsterdam.
Mr French | 07.29.07 - 1:34 am | #
They Could be Midgets...
Are any blogs set in Vermont?
It Blogged From Vermont
.
Name a movie set in Stalingrand.
Are any blogs set in Vermont?
Blogfreeordie.blogspot.com
I'm going to assume you're making a joke based on the finale...
NTodd, Fanciest
There was a finale?
Wet girl-on-girl-on-girl-on-girl-on-girl-on-girl-on-
girl-on-girl action...!
JeffCO, you see the Simpsons Movie?
...it's gotta be either Lucas or Spielberg.
Actually, the closest Lucas came to filming in that area was when he produced "More American Graffiti" and they shot the 'Nam scenes in the rice paddies of the Delta. Supposedly, that's where he was planning on filming "Apocalypse Now" back when he was slated to direct it in the early 70s.
Old New York was once New Amsterdam.
Mr French
Morey's ancestors ran the place.
Name a movie set in Stalingrand.
Stalingrad: The Movie.
There was a finale?
An infinite temporal u-turn exiting at the beginning.....
There was a finale?
Allie
It was all a dream. Went back to the Bob Newhart Show
Dontreadonme.blogspot.com
"American Pie 2" was filmed on Main Street and the pier of my little town of Seal Beach CA.
Name a movie set in Stalingrand.
NTodd, Fanciest | Homepage | 07.29.07 - 1:35 am | #
"Stalingrad Welcomes Tourists from All the World"
link to movies filmed in Stockton...
Without looking at it, I'm gonna mention that "The Strawberry Statement" was also filmed there... along with one of Rob Reiner's early ones with John Cusack, IIRC...
JeffCO, you see the Simpsons Movie? Thers
Indeed, and I fully agree with the 7-year-old!
Name one movie Dennis Hopper was in where he wasn't high during the filming.
JeffCO, you see the Simpsons Movie?
Thers, Man of Numenor
I did. In a big sold-out theatre.
Oh. You didn't ask me. Sorry.
How many movies are based on blogs?
Morey's ancestors ran the place.
MP
Barkeep! Set 'em up!
The Doberman Gang was filmed in Simi Valley about ...1972?
Nobody can name a movie filmed in Katie Couric's colon...
Wet girl-on-girl-on-girl-on-girl-on-girl-on-girl-on- girl-on-girl action...!
Reminds me of the one of the great radio bloopers...excited announcer sez "See Gene Kelly Les Girls In Color!!"
Allie | 07.29.07 - 1:31 am | #
Queens is a nation to itself. Used to go to Jackson Heights to eat south indian food.
Name one movie Dennis Hopper was in where he wasn't high during the filming.
rorschach, infogit | Homepage | 07.29.07 - 1:37 am | #
NOT Apocalypse...
How many movies are based on blogs?
Thers, Man of Numenor | Homepage | 07.29.07 - 1:37 am | #
There is a movie in pre-production based on a video game based on my blog.
Does that count?
Name one movie Dennis Hopper was in where he wasn't high during the filming.
Gunfight At OK Corral.
Indeed, and I fully agree with the 7-year-old!
I am so going again...
I also saw Curtains with David Hyde Pierce, but nobody asked...
How many movies are based on blogs?
I saw a spec script for "Eschaton: The Suck Blog from Sucktown"
Nobody can name a movie filmed in Katie Couric's colon....
Ed Wood, to the white courtesy phone.
Probably the most underrated movie of the 70s.
Both those Ritchie movies are great. Spielberg really stole a lot of his "suburban" schtick from "Smile" and the film Ritchie did after that, "Bad News Bears."
Queens is a nation to itself. Used to go to Jackson Heights to eat south indian food.
rootless2
Jackson Heights is mentioned in the theme song to Car 54.
How many movies are based on blogs?
What are these 'movies' you speak of?
.
Name one movie Dennis Hopper was in where he wasn't high during the filming.
Giant?
How many movies are based on blogs?
Blogging While Nekked.
Queens is a nation to itself. Used to go to Jackson Heights to eat south indian food.
rootless2
And Jamaica to get your hair braided.
Hey! I haven't seen The Simpsons yet. No plot spoilers please!
Actually, I just saw Knocked Up again with one of Mannix's old army buddies and laughed my ass off a second time.
Oooh, Flushing has a really good vegan kosher Chinese restaurant...Buddha Bodhai, I think...
Nobody can name a movie filmed in Katie Couric's colon....
From Here to Eternity?
.
Jackson Heights is mentioned in the theme song to Car 54.
MP | Homepage | 07.29.07 - 1:40 am | #
Always wished that show was more existential - "Car 54, WHY are You?"
No plot spoilers please!
Don't leave during the credits.
There's a hold-up in the Bronx,
Brooklyn's broken out in fights....
Jackson Heights is mentioned in the theme song to Car 54.
Now, how could a traffic jam in Harlem be backed up to Jackson Heights?
Is that like across the Triboro or somethin'.
I did. In a big sold-out theatre.
Did you dig it?
It is the best fillum evar...
How many movies are based on blogs?
On the Internet, No One Knows You're A Cat
.
Blogging While Nekked.
"Nekked" is a Finnish word meaning "I eat fish with mustard!"
I called my ex-husband and sang the Spider Pig song on his voicemail. He hasn't called back, though.
And Jamaica to get your hair braided.
Allie | 07.29.07 - 1:40 am | #
?
Don't leave during the credits.
JeffCO
Never do...
"I called my ex-husband and sang the Spider Pig song on his voicemail. He hasn't called back, though."
the bastard.
Flushing has a really good vegan kosher Chinese restaurant...Buddha Bodhai, I think...
Also an excellent kosher Japanese place called Sosumi...
Oh. You didn't ask me. Sorry. Allie
Allie oops!
Simpsons movie good?
Did you dig it?
It is the best fillum evar...
Thers, Man of Numenor
I wanted to see it again right after we saw it.
"I like boys now."
How many movies are based on blogs?
Tales of the Fightin' 101st Keyboard Brigade
Never do...
Deacon Blues | Homepage | 07.29.07 - 1:42 am | #
You're shunned in Socal if you do.
Jackson Heights is mentioned in the theme song to Car 54.
Now, how could a traffic jam in Harlem be backed up to Jackson Heights?
Is that like across the Triboro or somethin'.
Hedley Lamarr |
Kruschchev's due at Idyllwild!!!!!
(JFK)
.
Never do... Deacon Blues
I am both a closesitter and a creditreader.
"Simpsons movie good?"
Simpsons movie good!
just got back - well after a stop off at a watering hole...
BTW, if you've never seen "Fat City," check it out. One of Huston's best, and an unjustly overlooked film when it comes to "cinema classics of the 70s".
Hopper's character in Apocalypse Now reminds me of how the MSM feels about Bush.
The MSM are so fucking deluded (like Hopper) that they think their guru is a god, a king, and a genius. Except Hopper was acting in a film, and the MSM are not in a film but in reality.
There's a hold-up in the Bronx,
Brooklyn's broken out in fights....
Car 54 where are you?
And Jamaica to get your hair braided.
Allie | 07.29.07 - 1:40 am | #
?
rootless2
When my daughter wants to get Brandy-braids, we end up going to Jamaica, Qns. She's black, and I have no talent where hair is involve.
Yes,
Please! No Simpsons spoilers!
Nobody can name a movie filmed in Katie Couric's colon....
The Dynamic Duodenum
Hopper's character in Apocalypse Now reminds me of how the MSM feels about Bush.
Janeane The Acerbic Goblin | 07.29.07 - 1:44 am | #
"The man's expanded my mind, man"
You're shunned in Socal if you do.
Gilly Gonzylon
Like the rude b!*%ch in the broad-brimmed hat three rows up who STOOD to read the credits at SiCKO...
I am both a closesitter and a creditreader.
JeffCO
Are you a high-talker?
BTW, if you've never seen "Fat City," check it out. One of Huston's best, and an unjustly overlooked film when it comes to "cinema classics of the 70s".
Easily one of the best movies about boxing ever made...a Huston succes d'estime that bombed at the box office.
I am both a closesitter and a creditreader.
JeffCO
Chairkicker? Drinkslurper ?
Please! No Simpsons spoilers!
SPOILER ALERT:
Homer acting thoughtlessly creates a problem.
Please! No Simpsons spoilers!
Bart kills Voldemort!
Nobody can name a movie filmed in Katie Couric's colon....
The Dynamic Duodenum
Polly the Polyp?
Speaking of Dennis Hopper, I hope everyone here has seen "Porklips Now!"
Tales of the Fightin' 101st Keyboard Brigade
Deacon Blues | Homepage | 07.29.07 - 1:43 am | #
That would be a stunning movie.
NYC is not even as remotely interesting as it's denizens think it is. Sex in the City. Who could even to begin to give a fuck?
Nobody can name a movie filmed in Katie Couric's colon....
No Way Out.
.
Are you a high-talker?
Chairkicker? Drinkslurper ?
Pfft - I annoy myself if I am eating popcorn during a quiet scene.
I need to see Fat City again. It's been a while...
Homer acting thoughtlessly creates a problem.
JeffCO
d'OH!
I asked you not to tell me that! /Maxwell Smart
I am both a closesitter and a creditreader.
JeffCO
Just don't say you're a midnight toker, OK?
...a Huston succes d'estime that bombed at the box office.
It's damn depressing. And had no "stars" - Stacy Keach and Jeff Bridges not being household names at the time.
Huston really caught the run-down sleaziness of Stockton at the time, though!
Like the rude b!*%ch in the broad-brimmed hat three rows up who STOOD to read the credits at SiCKO...
Deacon Blues
SiCKO was sold out when we saw it, too.
Sex in the City. Who could even to begin to give a fuck?
Weep WOW!
Nobody can name a movie filmed in Katie Couric's colon....
"Something In the Air"?
Were there awards for filmstrips? If so, Hemo the Magnificent must have swept its year.
NYC is not even as remotely interesting as it's denizens think it is. Sex in the City. Who could even to begin to give a fuck?
Actually, fucking in Mnahattan does have a certain je ne sais quoi which is generally absent elsewhere.
Nobody can name a movie filmed in Katie Couric's colon....
Platoon.
.
NYC is not even as remotely interesting as it's denizens think it is. Sex in the City. Who could even to begin to give a fuck?
gullycat, end times
Yes. Sex in the City is reality TV.
"Actually, fucking in Mnahattan does have a certain je ne sais quoi which is generally absent elsewhere."
I fucked in Massachusetts once. it was nice.
NYC is not even as remotely interesting as it's denizens think it is.
Yeah, it's a regular Dullsville.
The Birds was filmed in Bodega Bay, on the coast north of SF.
Actually, fucking in Manhattan does have a certain je ne sais quoi which is generally absent elsewhere.
Hedley Lamarr | 07.29.07 - 1:50 am | #
And having homing pidgeons on the roof
When my daughter wants to get Brandy-braids, we end up going to Jamaica, Qns. She's black, and I have no talent where hair is involve.
Allie | 07.29.07 - 1:45 am | #
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Never been there or had braids either for that matter.
I'm so old I remember when Tompkins square was scary.
Yeah, it's a regular Dullsville.
MP | Homepage | 07.29.07 - 1:51 am | #
Closes up at 8...
MP | Homepage | 07.29.07 - 1:51 am | #
Worst place in the world. That's why I live here.
I love living a dull, tedious life here....
The Birds was filmed in Bodega Bay, on the coast north of SF.
And guess who the songbird was named after?
The Birds was filmed in Bodega Bay, on the coast north of SF.
Warren Terra
There wasn't enough poop in that movie to make it believable.
It is city building code that all New Yorkers have sex swings in their apartments.
BTW, there's a scene in "American Graffiti" where Richard Dreyfuss is hooking up a wire to the axle of a police car. The soundtrack for those few minutes - with the sound of a freight train in the background - is a perfect fucking rendition of the sounds of a summer night in a podunk little town like Modesto.
That and the scene out by the canal are letter-perfect renditions of the environment Lucas grew up in.
Manhattan = Topeka on the Hudson
Don't get me started on audience issues - just as the Simpsons film was starting after 15 minutes of trailers, some teenager runs down the aisle, plops into the seat next to me and coughs through the whole thing while apparently trying to see if he could get his knee to touch the seat on the other side of me. On the plus side, he did not have any friends to necessitate checking his cellphone every 5 minutes. I understood why.
There wasn't enough poop in that movie to make it believable.
MP | Homepage | 07.29.07 - 1:52 am | #
T Shirt Slogan Time
"There wasn't enough poop in that movie to make it believable."
I loved the part of high anxiety based on the birds. that was enough "poop".
The Birds was filmed in Bodega Bay, on the coast north of SF.
The schoolhouse is still there.
The restaurant was extensively remodeled, however, some time ago...
It is city building code that all New Yorkers have sex swings in their apartments.
Allie
cool
Anybody ever see "Your Friend, the Drillpress"? Saw that in shop in the 8th grade. It changed my life.
There wasn't enough poop in that movie to make it believable.
Those were disciplined birds, dude. They weren't about to take a crap just anywhere.
Allie | 07.29.07 - 1:53 am | #
Absolutely. There's a couple fucking in my bathroom right now, and I haven't been properly introduced to them yet.
There wasn't enough poop in that movie to make it believable.
MP
Mel Brooks fixed that with his remake, High Anxiety.
I loved the part of high anxiety based on the birds. that was enough "poop".
"Those who are tardy will get no fruit cup."
BTW, there's a scene in "American Graffiti" where Richard Dreyfuss is hooking up a wire to the axle of a police car.
Didn't Wally and Eddie Haskell do that to Lumpy in Leave it to Beaver?
You brought them here-because you're EVIL!!! EVIIIILL!!!!
Absolutely. There's a couple fucking in my bathroom right now, and I haven't been properly introduced to them yet.
Janeane The Acerbic Goblin
Nows your chance, star.
Absolutely. There's a couple fucking in my bathroom right now, and I haven't been properly introduced to them yet.
Janeane The Acerbic Goblin
Get in line...
to shake their hands?
Anybody ever see "Your Friend, the Drillpress"? Saw that in shop in the 8th grade. It changed my life. earl
For me it was The Lathe of Heaven.
Mr.Murder | 07.29.07 - 1:56 am | #
They're heavily into reading the New Yorker magazine, James Joyce, and sodomy.
For me it was The Lathe of Heaven.
JeffCO | 07.29.07 - 1:57 am | #
I've read about that film. I hear it's excellent.
You brought them here-because you're EVIL!!! EVIIIILL!!!!
That one scene in the waterfront cafe pretty much said it all about dumbass hysterical rightwing Americans.
NYC is Baltimore with more accents.
I like "The Only Living Boy in New York" by Simon and Garf.
It is city building code that all New Yorkers have sex swings in their apartments.
I have GOT to visit the city more often.
"BTW, there's a scene in "American Graffiti" where Richard Dreyfuss is hooking up a wire to the axle of a police car."
Mythbusters tried to replicate that and couldn't.
They're heavily into reading the New Yorker magazine, James Joyce, and sodomy.
Janeane The Acerbic Goblin | 07.29.07 - 1:57 am | #
I've never read sodomy.
Rudy G has made bathrooms safe to fuck in for all New Yorkers.
Anybody ever see "Your Friend, the Drillpress"? Saw that in shop in the 8th grade. It changed my life. earl
I preferred The Ballad of Chickasaw Bandsaw
The word "Sodomy" seems so vague...
I've read about that film. I hear it's excellent.
Still, even it pales next to Beelzebub's Bandsaw, which got two thumbs off.
Mr.Murder | 07.29.07 - 1:58 am | #
That's a good talking point. Tweety's on the case...
I've never read sodomy.
It's a publication of City On The Plain Press.
NYC is Baltimore with more accents.
gullycat, end times
And like 8.5 million more people
I have GOT to visit the city more often.
NTodd, Fanciest | Homepage | 07.29.07 - 1:58 am | #
THAT could be a wicked "Crocodile Dundee 6" idea.
"I've never read sodomy."
it's a real pain in the ass.
Sodomy: Oral or anal?
I say yes.
Tweety's on the case...
Janeane The Acerbic Goblin
His regional campaign director took this new vision to the battleground state of Florida...
I've never read sodomy.
Wait for the movie. Katie Couric stars.
Sodomy is a good book, adapted by many authors.
The word "Sodomy" seems so vague...
Mr French | 07.29.07 - 1:59 am | #
I prefer to think of it as flexible.
I've never read sodomy.
Wait for the movie. Katie Couric stars.
Don't you mean Jean Schmidt?
thumb, meet bum
THAT could be a wicked "Crocodile Dundee 6" idea.
CD6.0.
From TBogg:
Jon Stewart and other liberal humor wannabes should take heed, Jonah Goldberg has spoken:
http://tinyurl.com/2b7h9o
thumb, meet bum
Josh | Homepage | 07.29.07 - 2:02 am | #
T Shirt Time. Thanks !
...good night all. May the new day bring enlightment....
thumb, meet bum
Josh | Homepage | 07.29.07 - 2:02 am | #
Next time I'm homeless, I'm steering clear of you!
Shirt Time. Thanks !
Gilly Gonzylon
All of my proceeds go to the development of conversational skills of those in need.
CD6.0.
NTodd, Fanciest | Homepage | 07.29.07 - 2:02 am | #
LOL
yeah, I'm drinkin'
Ok. Gotta get up early tomorrow. My running partner insists on meeting 20 miles away to lap a reservoir. At 8:00.
Ugh.
Good thing he keeps ice-cold microbrews in the house for the post-run rehydration.
Don't you mean Jean Schmidt?
Hedley Lamarr | 07.29.07 - 2:01 am
She reminds of the shitty PE teacher in Donnie Darko (played by Beth Grant.)
Deacon, drink scotch whiskey, all night long
They're heavily into reading the New Yorker magazine, James Joyce, and sodomy.
James who?
Gotta-Go-To-Bed!
"yeah, I'm drinkin'"
I was, done now.
James who?
Thers, Man of Numenor | Homepage | 07.29.07 - 2:05 am | #
Yeats is for Yonkers.
James who?
Thers, Man of Numenor | Homepage | 07.29.07 - 2:05 am | #
Jessie James Joyce DeWitt
My running partner insists on meeting 20 miles away to lap a reservoir.
NO FLIRTING.
"drink scotch whiskey, all night long"
won't that cause you to die behind the wheel?
Are you hep to the jive?
Deacon, drink scotch whiskey, all night long
Josh
You got it, Josh
"Are you hep to the jive?"
no.
Don't you mean Jean Schmidt?
Hedley Lamarr | 07.29.07 - 2:01 am
She reminds of the shitty PE teacher in Donnie Darko (played by Beth Grant.)
Lab Coat Larry |
Absofuckinglutely.
Thers, kidz are at The Simpsons right now, I'm light on the brewski as I must pick them up.
Yeats is for Yonkers.
rorschach, infogit | Homepage | 07.29.07 - 2:06 am | #
Keats is for Queens
What was your lasted tested testosterone level?
Me, I can't wait to find out the next set of hijinks that Mallard Fillmore gets mixed up in.
DROPPING LIKE FLIES
Guess I should go finish a beat . . .
any musicians in here? Anyone use Propellerhead Reason?
OK, can we now stop worrying about Godwin's Law when talking about the fascist dogshit in the White House now?
Sometimes I doubt Lab Coat Larry's commitment to Sparkle Motion.