I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
Yes
Do I go call sheets?
I suppose I could.
Hi mom!
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but i can't stay...
Hitchens, Passion of the Christ, Mother Theresa...
Might as well now.
Sure. Go ahead and call sheets. It's the right thing to do...
MisterX | Homepage | 08.24.07 - 10:09 pm | #
Today's my mom's birthday.
Janeane has done so
Arrrrrrrgggggghhhhhh!
Janeane: and a happy birthday to her.
hai
How's the weather this morning, Avedon?
poop
S p o c k o: What brought this comment on?
He was on Bill Moyers' Journal tonight. Check local listings.
Saw him (and the other clowns) here in Gnashvegas, right before I got hired on.
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Happy Birthday, Janeane's mom
I wouldn't poop a jackhammer.
NTodd, Hungry For Mimi
OK, here I am apologizing for stuff I posted last night in a drunken frenzy, and I see this.
Plus, NTodd, I'd wager you really would poop a jackhammer, if somebody offered you five cents to do it.
fyt
L.E.
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Democracy doesn't march, it slithers.
Today's my mom's birthday.
Janeane The Acerbic Goblin
Well, Happy Birthday to Mrs. Acerbic Goblin! Many happy returns of the day!
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Money doesn't talk, it swears.
ProfWombat | 08.24.07 - 10:10 pm | #
Buzz Bomb | 08.24.07 - 10:11 pm | #
I will extend your greetings to me mum...
Democracy doesn't march, it slithers.
Sallyh, Grandmere Poissonniere
Slither on over here and have a 'tini. It's Friday.
http://www.harpers.org/archive/2...07/hbc-
90000490
Harper's article about Dorrance Smith, former ABC News producer who is going to man the Pentagon War Room on catapulting the propaganda about Surge Success! (imaging little trademark symbol).
Recess appointment to DOD--good ol' BushBoy's fave method of providing excellence in government to the American people.
Bring back Saddam!!!!!!
Avedon, tell those lazy slackers over there to get cracking and get the new episode of The IT Crowd on the Torrents.
Thank you!
anybody have the body count for today in Steny Hoyer's War?
Interesting news: I heard a rumor that Jeff Gannon's squirrel, Sammy, escaped last night, somewhere in the San Antonio, TX area. I've got my eyes peeled for it and have set up a trap using some nuts and corn as bait.
Today's my mom's birthday.
Janeane The Acerbic Goblin
Is she as acerbic as you or has she mellowed into a sweet wine?
Tomorrow's news today
3 Secular Iraqis in Cabinet to Formally Resign
By Megan Greenwell
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, August 25, 2007; Page A12
BAGHDAD, Aug. 24 -- Escalating a political crisis that has paralyzed the Iraqi government, three secular cabinet members will formally resign Saturday, according to a senior member of the group.
Just driving by to say that The Last Legion was the worst movie I have seen since Battleship Earth.
So so bad.
You know, I used to have a slight respect for our generals, but not any more:
Speaking to Pentagon reporters Friday via teleconference from Iraq, Lynch said, "Only when the Iraqi security forces come forward and say, 'OK, here I am, I'm trained and equipped, I'm ready, I'm the Iraqi army or I'm the Iraqi police,' can I turn those sanctuaries over, and that's not going to happen between now and Christmas."
http://www.cnn.com/2007/
POLITICS...ref=mpstoryview
Freeance and peance!
pie | Homepage | 08.24.07 - 10:14 pm | #
She's actually much more jovial these days...she divorced my dad, which was the best thing for her...
Democracy doesn't march, it slithers.
That's right. Freedom marches. Democracy slithers. Dignity was the first to leave.
anybody have the body count for today in George Bush's War?
flippered your timber.
anybody have the body count for today in Steny Hoyer's War?
mrs. ibrahim al-jafaari |
no, but i do have the most pathetic excuses ever for why "real" progressives should support hillary, via a staffer's email.
somehow the latter is as vomit inducing as the former.
OK, here I am, I'm trained and equipped, I'm ready, I'm the Iraqi army or I'm the Iraqi police,' can I turn those sanctuaries over, and that's not going to happen between now and forever."
fht
Just driving by to say that The Last Legion was the worst movie I have seen since Battleship Earth.
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I seem to recall Simels liked it.
Slither on over here and have a 'tini.
NO FLIRTING!
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Jeffraham Prestonian
Thanks.
I asked him a question at the Yearly Kos convention. I told him how ABC/Radio Disney had my blog shut down, how the hosts talked about killing people on the air and how since the FCC rules say nothing about killing people on the air I took it to the advertisers.
Then I asked, "How does the call for killing people on the air serve the public good."
He didn't know where I was coming from (I was later told that I wasn't specific enough and that he probably thought I was just talking about generic violence on radio) and said that going to the advertisers was the right thing to do.
But I'm thinking about droping him a follow up letter and explaining that one reason that I believe that Disney was so eager to support the hosts because they were trying to sell their "assets" and that if they got fired or their new boss found out how much money they were losing it would put a wrench in the sale (or at least the sale price).
Just driving by to say that The Last Legion was the worst movie I have seen since Battleship Earth.
So so bad.
TJ, lurking
Given the way it was guiltily snuck into theaters in mid-August with zero fanfare or advance trailers, I naturally assumed it was rubbish. But Steve Simels (I think) was raving about it on here a few days ago.
which was the best thing for her...
That's a good thing.
I hope she has many more happier birthdays.
ai kin haz war wif Iran?
I seem to recall Simels liked it.
spinoza Neque lugare, neque in
He was either focusing solely on the stunning Indian actress playing one of the leads, or he was yanking your chain.
Cheesy doesn't begin to describe it...
But Steve Simels (I think) was raving about it on here a few days ago.
Steve Simels thinks David Bowie is "overrated" and has never listened to The Fall. Nuff said.
i can haf islamofafif?m
it is simply impossible to overrate David Bowie.
Well, I suppose it is... but it's a tough case to make that he's currently overrated.
ai kin haz war wif Iran?
lolbush | 08.24.07 - 10:18 pm
Mary did it and she dug it
Mary did it twice
Mary did it and she dug it
She was so nice
And when it was alll over
She lay glitening with sweat
She said, "Sweet Joseph I'm glad we met."
Mary did it in the sunshine
She did it in a storm
And nine months later, baby Jesus was born.
Now everybody calls her Mother
They say she did it like no other
simels likes no Holdsworth. Who's gonna listen to such nonsense?
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Do one could have anticipated how hard it would be to try and combine democracy with a puppet government.
spocko, sorry i missed you in chicago. of whom are you and JP speaking? lots of good kweshuns didn't get asked, so i'm glad to hear yours got thru, even if it wasn't understood properly.
no, but i do have the most pathetic excuses ever for why "real" progressives should support hillary, via a staffer's email.
If progressives want a better candidate, they have to do the legwork and have money in large supply.
Sucks, doesn't it.
Sleep well, loves.
I hope she has many more happier birthdays.
pie | Homepage | 08.24.07 - 10:18 pm | #
She'll appreciate that...
somehow the latter is as vomit inducing as the former.
HRC has said clearly and repeatedly, she will end Steny Hoyer's War by no later than the 3rd year of her second term.
clearly, she's the antiwar candidate.
Or maybe he was drunk. I cannot fathom for one second that simels seriously liked it.
Some people say the Iraqis can be democratic...
Can I smack Gloria Borger?
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pie, you've had the slanties pretty bad today. you should have that looked at, you know?
simels is worse than hitler, that is true. but honestly, and i say this as a queer person who loves interracial relationships/sex: bowie confounds me. he can't sing, like, at all. his lyrics are fun and his costumes are great, but i'm just not moved by most of his music. it seems rather commercial and ordinary, all told.
flame away.
Can I smack Gloria Borger?
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Jeffraham Prestonian | Homepage | 08.24.07 - 10:22 pm | #
Its: May I smack Gloria Borger.
Jeffraham, what did she do now?
Can I smack Gloria Borger?
A gentleman should never hit a lady. Here, let me do it for you
Bjorn: Its: May I smack Gloria Borger.
Actually, the geographical distances and logistics of locating Borger...
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BURP!!!!!!!
Sorry. Drinking single Barrel and Yuengling Amber Lager. YUMM!!!!!!!!
chidyke,
What kind of seeds were you "harvesting"?
http://ezraklein.typepad.com/blo...-hate-the-
.html
The post by Kathy G which Digby refers to and quotes from--what she quotes, however, is the civil society portion of the post, er, diatribe.
I mean diatribe as a good thing--she takes absolutely not prisoners in her discussion and dissection of TNR.
Whoohoo! Kathy G can write.
Can't we just say Iraq is democratic enough and leave? It's not that much less democratic than we are at this point, so let's split the difference.
Sallyh, you better help me drink these...
Sallyh: Jeffraham, what did she do now?
I don't even know. I was paying scant attention, and overwrote those neurons with pr0n immediately to protect the guilty. She's on Ifool, tonight; check local listings.
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Buzzy, gladly. (Takes glass, sucks down in one gulp)
Thank you, sir, may I have another?
Let me state for the record that I really hate that appalling "Viva Viagra" commercial.
Let me state for the record that I really hate that appalling "Viva Viagra" commercial.
I'm grateful I've not seen that yet.
Buzzy, gladly. (Takes glass, sucks down in one gulp)
Okay...this next one's for sippin'
I don't understand what all of the problems are...but, we have the money for the victory party already.
OK, we win. Party time.
Profwombat,
MJQ just wrapped it up: lovely.
S P O C K O,
The answer is not in questioning it is in explaining. If people do not know of injustice then they have no stake in correcting such things.
Ignorance is the state that "They" would like to keep us in. If people knew and understood that corporations are taking their power and using it to stifle objective and fair discourse, then the equation can be changed.
Asking questions is a good start but the questions can be stifled as well. (IOW, the offer stands.)
OMFG! What is this strange, rare occurrence?
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pie, love hillary all you want. but i warn you: i'm making a catalogue of hillary lovers' statements about what "she will do for us" if she's elected. it's going to be an ugly, smackdown post detailing all the ways in which some of us warned you, when she sells you out.
no one who lunches and takes benes from murdoch is wholly "good." even her hubby, if he does (and i don't know in his case). i've read her words rather closely, and i think she's made it very clear what she is: the "moderate" candidate when "moderation" is supporting lifetime sentences of hard labor instead of gas chambers.
if i'm being extreme, it's because i don't think it's "better" that she'll continue a war which has killed ~600K iraqis such that only 10K/yr die instead of 100.
Let me state for the record that I really hate that appalling "Viva Viagra" commercial.
The one where the guys are singing??? Poor slobs, finally gonna get some.
I rode a tank
Held a generals rank
When the blitzkrieg raged
And the bodies stank
Pleased to meet you
Hope you guess my name, oh yeah
Happy birthday to your mum, Jeneane. I've enjoyed several late night conversations with you here over time.
All the best.
Let me state for the record that I really hate that appalling "Viva Viagra" commercial.
I'm grateful I've not seen that yet.
r€nato, love peace and grease | 08.24.07 - 10:27 pm | #
Yeah, I like when the festively adorned erect penis smacks the vagina pinata and little blue pills come falling out.
spocko, sorry i missed you in chicago. of whom are you and JP speaking? lots of good kweshuns didn't get asked, so i'm glad to hear yours got thru, even if it wasn't understood properly.
chicago dyk
I would have LOVED to meet you in Chicago. I did get Athenae down to the bar on Saturday night and it was WONDERFUL! I dragged her over to Digby and introduced them to each other.
In my letter to the commissioner I think what I will do is provide him clips and also another good example of how ownership in the hands of a few forces them to do things that are unthinkable.
At YKos he talked about the rubberstamp of licensing.
The way that licensing has become a rubber stamp makes it almost impossible to impact is one of them.
Frankly KSFO could have or should have lost their license over their behavior.
Some how I don't believe that the community standards of San Francisco support inciting violence toward blacks, liberals, democrats and journalists. Yet they supported ALL those things when they supported the hosts on KSFO.
What do you do with all that anger that the political shit causes? It's too late at night here to go running or to scream.
I can't watch Ifool anymore. Any 6 random regulars on this blog would have more knowledge & insightful opinions than that bunch.
nuncamas | 08.24.07 - 10:29 pm | #
Many thanks.
Bowie's best work was...Fire Walk With Me.
r€nato, it's just appalling. A bunch of men playing guitars and a piano, singing a version of "Viva Las Vegas".
Yeah, I like when the festively adorned erect penis smacks the vagina pinata and little blue pills come falling out.
you should see what my erect penis can do when it's festively adorned.
"What do you do with all that anger that the political shit causes?"
punch the living shit out of your mattress.
What do you do with all that anger that the political shit causes?
I don't know...abuse Toby when he shows up?
What do you do with all that anger that the political shit causes? It's too late at night here to go running or to scream.
Here at the Oh-Pa-WVa area we just get drunk on boilermakers.
Just checking my editing on Wiki, and no one's fucked with it too much.
I edited the Sweet Movie entry because it was so appallingly wrong. Luckily, it's stayed the same.
Echidne: What do you do with all that anger that the political shit causes? It's too late at night here to go running or to scream.
I shoot random wingnuts, and leave them in truck stop dumpsters.
No, I stopped doing that in 1971.
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What do you do with all that anger that the political shit causes? It's too late at night here to go running or to scream.
I focus on my son, and watch his eyes as I give him his bottle, and it all melts away.
What do you do with all that anger that the political shit causes?
I drink.
I should watch INLAND EMPIRE and Eraserhead simultaneously...
Me, too.
Antiwar.com has today's death count as:
Friday: 1 GI, 45 Iraqis Killed; 36 Iraqis Wounded
Updated at 6:40 p.m. EDT, Aug. 24, 2007
So, today, Iraqis got off pretty lightly, so to speak. Using NTodd's 11x factor, it's only been about 1/17th of a US 9/11 death toll.
Of course, there was only one 9/11 day in the US--Iraqis get a portion of one or more every single day.
What a horrible thing we have done.
hec: that's the beauty and adventure of it- i don't even know. i stole from any plants at the botgardens and nursery that looked neato, and because i was using the 'five finger' discount, i stashed them all in my pocket in a big mess and then separated them into plastic bags later.
i'll start them all in paper cups, on a big table after last frost next spring. we'll see what comes up, and from there- pure chaos of nature!
fuck it, i've got a full acre to work with. i can afford some big, silly, unknown plants.
OMFG! The local PBS station has a commercial using Roger Miller's tune (whatever its name may be) that when sped up, is the famous Hamster Dance tune.
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No, I stopped doing that in 1971.
well, good for you, I would guess the statute of limitations has expired by now.
if she's elected. it's going to be an ugly, smackdown post detailing all the ways in which some of us warned you, when she sells you out.
and she will sell you out.
then there is the matter of that if. and i swear to god if ghouliani beats her, and he could, i will despise her till my dying day.
What a horrible thing they have done in our name without our permission.
jawbone
Fixed that one too.
Good ideas. But my mattress has no living shit in it. And I don't drink.
DWD: doesn't get much better than that. Talk about not wasting a note. Hard to be in such utter, effortless control of your material, while transcending it, in any medium, not just music. I'd love to write the way they played...
echidne,
Well, I do drink, but I also find it helps to take action. It's one reason that I do the marches and I'm looking to link up w/ a group that does a weekly vigil, the way that ql does.
If the election was today, would Ghouliani beat HRC?
Who here still listens to the Hamster Dance tune when they're feeling blue?
(stands alone with raised hand)
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If the election was today, would Ghouliani beat HRC?
no, he would just have some cops shoot her.
well, I'll give Hillary this, her Flag Burning Ammendment makes me feel safe. I haven't seen one single flag burned since it passed. So she has proven she can craft effective legislation.
ProfWombat,
Whatever else anyone thinks of my writing I have never been accused of being wordy. I edit it down until it is tighter than a Hollander in a big city.
i've got a full acre to work with.
Ooohh, sounds wonderful. You'll have to let us know what you got!
Who here still listens to the Hamster Dance tune when they're feeling blue?
I listen to house music when I feel blue. Ain't no way you can be down when you're shaking your groove thing.
but I also find it helps to take action
It does. But I'm full of anger, bursting at the seams and it's Friday fucking night. And the trophy is minding Henrietta.
I focus on my son, and watch his eyes as I give him his bottle, and it all melts away.
But he's 14!
/runs from room
If the election was today, would Ghouliani beat HRC?
Only if the RNC has to count on Diebold for the final solution.....
Tee hee, Mrs. ibrahim. Thank you for some good snark there.
What do you do with all that anger that the political shit causes? It's too late at night here to go running or to scream.
Echidne
Mozart horn concerto, avec sourdine.
Or, bo and I could sit by your side and purr.
goddess e:
it depends. yoga is nice at any hour. pot too. drinking sometimes, but not when i'm bleeding or horny, that gets out of control. petting the kittens is good, so too calling a friend i've not spoken with recently. then there are books, games, making candles, cookies, movies...
what's bothering you so badly tonight, and how can we help? talking is another solution.
I'm kinda afraid the answer is yes.
Who here still listens to the Hamster Dance tune when they're feeling blue?
I listen to 70's rock and drink a bunch.
mrs. ibrahim al-jafaari | 08.24.07 - 10:36 pm | #
As a resident of New York, I am proud of Hillary's stance on flag burning. I don't care about war, smog, inflation, global warming, health care, etc., etc.. I just keep those flags from burning.
what's bothering you so badly tonight, and how can we help? talking is another solution.
Sweet of you. It's just everything at one go. Like dripdripdripsplash! Nothing in particular, though my dog is not well at all and the day approaches when I have to decide.
echidne,
Well you can go stand outside under the almost-full moon, with your bare feet on the good solid Earth and let all the anger drain from your body back into the Earth. She can take it and transmute it. The witches say, "One thing becomes another, in the Mother, in the Mother."
I've my ducks in a row.
http://thumbsnap.com/v/lfIzIhKO.jpg
Echidne, it might be good to write out some pointed letters to some pointy-headed people. Print 'em out or write them in longhand. Look at them over the weekend and edit.
Send 'em out on Monday.
Tomorrow's schedule is all set now. Art Institute, lunch at Manny's Deli, supper at Girodanos near Michigan Avenue and then Second City for Between Barack and a Hard Place.
Sunday we will be home.
Jeffraham:
This one?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7...Hamster%
2DDance
well, I'll give Hillary this, her Flag Burning Ammendment makes me feel safe. I haven't seen one single flag burned since it passed. So she has proven she can craft effective legislation.
So who you voting for in the primary?
nuncamas, that does help. I have some blog posts ready and waiting, but today's anger seems like one of those things that is sad to waste. I could do some real damage with it. 
Oh, I missed the part about your dog who is ill. That's a very hard spot to be in.
You'll what to do when the time comes.
What do you do with all that anger that the political shit causes? It's too late at night here to go running or to scream.
I write letters, & come here and bitch. Also yoga, and reading trashy novels & watching silly old movies on TV. Last night I saw an old Jane Fonda movie, "Any Wednesday", which was extremely silly.
As a resident of New York, I am proud of Hillary's stance on flag burning. I don't care about war, smog, inflation, global warming, health care, etc., etc.. I just keep those flags from burning.
Janeane The Acerbic Goblin
Oh shit, I thought it was a law requiring me to burn a flag. Damm that fine print.
On BookTV/c-span2 this weekend and next -
A Tragic Legacy: How a Good vs. Evil Mentality Destroyed the Bush Presidency
Author: Glenn Greenwald
Upcoming Schedule
Sunday, August 26, at 9:30 AM
Monday, August 27, at 6:30 AM
Saturday, September 1, at 4:30 PM
About the Program
Glenn Greenwald argues that President Bush's good vs. evil world view won him supporters after 9/11 but has since backfired namely in Iraq, Iran, and on the domestic front.
About the Author
Glenn Greenwald is a contributing writer at Salon and writes Unclaimed Territory, a political blog. He is a former constitutional law attorney. His previous book is "How Would a Patriot Act?"
http://www.booktv.org/program.as...e=&
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Culture of TrÜth | Homepage | 08.24.07 - 10:41 pm | #
If they ever passed a bill banning flag burning, people would burn more flags.
You'll what to do when the time comes.
I know. I did it just last year, though, with my younger dog. So it's beginning to feel harder.
Well you can go stand outside under the almost-full moon, with your bare feet on the good solid Earth and let all the anger drain from your body back into the Earth. She can take it and transmute it. The witches say, "One thing becomes another, in the Mother, in the Mother."
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator
That sounds beautiful.
Banana Phone
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3...related&
search=
I will try draining the anger into the ground. Let's hope the raccoons aren't out there snacking.
What do you do with all that anger that the political shit causes?
I drink.
I second that.
So who you voting for in the primary?
whoever is the most likely to actually end the War. right now I lean towards Dodd, but Edwards may still have a shot at my vote.
Dodd is pretty conservative over all, but he clearly wants to stop the killing, and he has said he WILL withdraw all the troops as soon as possible.
Echidne,
though my dog is not well at all and the day approaches when I have to decide.
The very best that you can do is try to find the optimum time of quality of life. The distress you suffer will very markedly ease the transition of those you love. To love is to be able to release those you love, but only at the time that best suits those you love, and not you.
That is all I ask out of life.
but today's anger seems like one of those things that is sad to waste. I could do some real damage with it.
Spoken like a true Effete Political Hack.
What do you do with all that anger that the political shit causes? It's too late at night here to go running or to scream.
I read something difficult and not related to politics, or I listen to music that I can't ignore. Or I write in a journal, or I write a letter. Try find a way to trick my mind into hooking on something else before going to bed.
hec- what don't i have, at this point? hee hee, i did some serious plant shopping this year, and most of it took. my fav this season: incarnavillas. twice blooming, after the first cutting. i'll go find a link to the post i did on it.
well, I'll give Hillary this, her Flag Burning Ammendment makes me feel safe
and i still cry that her violent video game bill didn't go anywhere. that would've solved all our problems, i'm sure.
So who you voting for in the primary?
Kucinich is best, but Edwards has a chance.
*Install* a democracy sounds kinda contradictory to the whole notion of who wields the power.
If they ever passed a bill banning flag burning, people would burn more flags.
How else would you dispose of a flag that has been soiled by the ground?
rodentia: This one?
Close enough, yes!
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What do you do with all that anger that the political shit causes? It's too late at night here to go running or to scream.
Echidne
i come here and post irate comments about how irate i am.
or copy lyrics from old rock-n-roll songs that only vaguely approximate what i am irate about.
i am very pissed.
*Install* a democracy sounds kinda contradictory to the whole notion of who wields the power.
it's just like installing a light bulb.
I will try draining the anger into the ground. Let's hope the raccoons aren't out there snacking.
Not a good idea. It gets into creeks and steams and into the water supply. Better to go to a designated disposal center. Or you can wait for the designated day of the month that recycling picks up hazardous material. Bear in mind that you may have to make an appointment to schedule collection of anger.
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Guns don't kill people. Burning flags kill people. So don't burn a flag or guns will kill people. Or something like that.
ok, diaper/bottle time. back in a while.
chidyke,
Here's my datura, which I grew from seed. Smells like a vanilla lemon or like lemon meringue pie with a lot of vanilla in it.
Fixed that one too.
DWD - Chi-town and Down | Homepage | 08.24.07 - 10:34 pm
Thank you!
QuentinCompson -- Bless your li'l pea-pickin' heart for postin' that CSPAN data.
I now have a reason to get up, Sunday. Besides the local blogger picnic.
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Whenever I'm sad
Whenever I'm blue
Whenever my troubles are heavy
Beneath the stars I play my guitar
Just like Eddie
*Install* a democracy sounds kinda contradictory to the idea that you fight for and cherish the values of same.
if u luved merica u wouldn't burn teh flag.
unless it was like a french flag. then that wuld be funy
my spring gardens, some of them at least.
Snow, Liberal | 08.24.07 - 10:45 pm | #
Ssshhhh! Hillary and her GOP friends don't want to hear about that one...
Oh, Brancaccio is doing the Vandy custodian redux...
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ai kin byrn constatushun?
Mikaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Brzezinski Offers Support for Obama
Right on the heels of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s assertion that she could handle the political ramifications of a terrorist attack better than her Democratic rivals, a major foreign policy figure associated with Democrats endorsed her archrival, Senator Barack Obama.
In an interview with Al Hunt that will air on Bloomberg’s “Political Capital” at 11 p.m. tonight, Zbigniew Brzezinski said that Mr. Obama is “clearly more effective and has the upper hand.” The national security adviser under President Jimmy Carter continued, “There is a need for a fundamental rethinking of how we conduct world affairs, and Obama seems to me to have both the guts and the intelligence to address that issue and to change the nature of America’s relationship with the world.'’
He called Mrs. Clinton’s foreign policy “very conventional.”
“I don’t think the country needs to go back to what we had eight years ago,” Mr. Brzezinski said.
Beneath the stars I play my guitar
Just like Eddie
Eddie Money? Please say no, because that would be pretty lame. And no way to cure the blues.
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Cute, sweet, completely off-topic story:
My son's half-sister (4 1/2) has been asking me for a Barbie for two weeks. I finally breakdown and get it and call to arrange to bring it to her. She was so excited and happy. She has to go for a colonoscopy and endoscopy on Monday, so I wanted to make her a little happy before enduring all of that.
Oh, Brancaccio is doing the Vandy custodian redux...
I think that Brancaccio has made NOW his own. He does a respectable job with that program.
What do you do with all that anger that the political shit causes? It's too late at night here to go running or to scream.
Echidne
Husband called this afternoon. "I pulled an Erin."
I guess the grocery checker was carrying on about how there really were WMD, "we'll never know what happened to them."
Mr. E went ballistic on his ass. Thing is, I'm really mild out there in meatspace, but had my own clerk encounter a couple weeks ago.
Here's my datura, which I grew from seed. Smells like a vanilla lemon or like lemon meringue pie with a lot of vanilla in it.
That's somewhat toxic, isn't it? I need to get me some. I enjoy growing plants like foxglove, monkshood, & lily-of-the valley. I haven't poisoned anyone yet, but one never knows, does one?
Documents obtained by IraqSlogger show Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki's chief Iraqi opponent, Ayad Allawi, is paying Washington lobbyists with close ties to the White House $300,000 to help with Allawi's efforts in the U.S. to promote himself and undermine Maliki.
The powerhouse Republican firm retained by Allawi is Barbour, Griffith, & Rogers (BGR), and its BGR International unit is headed by President's Bush's one-time White House point man on Iraq, Robert Blackwill, who will lead the lobbying efforts on Allawi's behalf.
Hhhmmm--does this say something about where the real power in Iraq lies? (Pun intended.)
http://www.iraqslogger.com/index...ons/
splash.html
Cochran!
Money???? feh
hec- nice datura! i've got to get some of those that won't die in this colder climate.
sigh. that's what i miss most about DC. not the parties, or the dining, certainly not the people, but the growing season. y'all got moved into a warmer zone recently, like most of us. it was so nice wearing only a sweatshirt in january.
still, i'm part finn. so i'll take a sauna when it gets cold here and dream of my DC days, only in my dreams this time Lil Billy Kristol won't run away from me like a skeerd little girl when i confront him in public.
This is a bit off topic, but I find when I talk to young children (grade school and older), it's better to talk to them as adults, or in the same manner. I don't really modify my behaviour at all. I think this is better because you take a child seriously. Too often I see people dumb themselves around them, and while they may not have tons of knowledge, they have intuition, and they know if you're talking down to them.
I don't know, just something I'm thinking about.
I guess the grocery checker was carrying on about how there really were WMD, "we'll never know what happened to them."
Mr. E went ballistic on his ass. Thing is, I'm really mild out there in meatspace, but had my own clerk encounter a couple weeks ago.
Shit!!!! We should have had the checkout clerks lookin' for the WMDs instead of the weapons inspectors. DUH!!!!!!!!!! Damn it, another shot glass full.
Hhhmmm--does this say something about where the real power in Iraq lies? (Pun intended.)
TPM sez Allawi's faction has pulled out of Maliki's coalition.
Allawi re-becomes PM, Bush sez we need to give him six months to show some results.
Lather, rinse, repeat. Just three more F.U.'s and Bush is off the hook (so he thinks).
Documents obtained by IraqSlogger show Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki's chief Iraqi opponent, Ayad Allawi, is paying Washington lobbyists with close ties to the White House $300,000 to help with Allawi's efforts in the U.S. to promote himself and undermine Maliki.
"Democracy" is action.
On my eight mile run I pass three flags -- one is always flying at full mast (with a light shining on it at night & in inclement weather -- thanks to Pat Nixon -- GRRR!) -- the other two have been at half mast (staff) for ages because the governor (Jennifer Granholm) has ruled that the flag should be flown at half mast (staff) after someone from the Michigan National Guard has been killed in Bush's War -- for the two that are always at half mast (staff), I doff my hat & place it over my heart -- in honor of those whom Bush has killed.
I think that Brancaccio has made NOW his own. He does a respectable job with that program.
Ebenezer Le Page | 08.24.07 - 10:50 pm
Agree! And it's a great complement to Bill Moyers' Journal. Moyers brings something back which is missing, liberal passion.
I don't know, just something I'm thinking about.
i think you are spot-on.
*Install* a democracy sounds kinda contradictory to the whole notion of who wields the power.
Yup. Self-determination is kinda...NOT...if somebody else determines when you get it.
chidyke,
You can just treat them like annuals; they'll make their own seeds. They smell so wonderful.
DC is poorer for your absence.
How else would you dispose of a flag that has been soiled by the ground?
Putting it into compost?
Too often I see people dumb themselves around them, and while they may not have tons of knowledge, they have intuition, and they know if you're talking down to them.
I don't know, just something I'm thinking about.
Janeane The Acerbic Goblin
Oh yes indeedy.
Let the river flow...
http://thumbsnap.com/v/GJYsTi4U.jpg
karin: i LURV my monkshood. i've got two now, i'm aiming to make a mess of them next year. sooooo delicate and loverly.
flowers are addictive like that, you grow one and the next thing you know, you're tilling out a 20x20 bed so you can have a dozen, all in different colors.
lantana is nice too, if you can grow it. it can even be tree sized. corydalis is another i'm really groovin on right now. stands up even in a tornado! really.
Yup. Self-determination is kinda...NOT...if somebody else determines when you get it.
That's why I self-determine myself when I want to get it.
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Prior,
Good on your governor. Bush wants to pretend that no one dies. Not one military funeral in six years of death and killing.
Documents obtained by IraqSlogger show Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki's chief Iraqi opponent, Ayad Allawi, is paying Washington lobbyists with close ties to the White House $300,000 to help with Allawi's efforts in the U.S. to promote himself and undermine Maliki.
Rove is working for Allawi now. Frgg, I can't keep up.
i made a dimocruhsee in irak
but i eated it
r€nato, love peace and grease | 08.24.07 - 10:53 pm | #
Thanks. I worked with a DJ once who talked down to children all the time. It really bothered me because he kind of talked that way to everyone, and now he's a teacher. Ugh.
Kids aren't stupid. A friend of mine has a son who is more articulate than most adults I know, and it's a relief and pleasure to actually have a conversation with him.
Wonder when Chalabi is going to get back into the lobbying game--or is he still at it?
*Install* a democracy sounds kinda contradictory to the whole notion of who wields the power.
it's just like installing a light bulb.
r€nato, love peace and grease
Q: How many Neo-Cons does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Fuck you!
I'm NOT putting up with this shit anymore.
Come and get ME Ted Nugent you stupid fucking dickweed.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?
i=7...=757_1187963465
Would it be overly cynical of me to suggest that Pete Hoekstra's wanton lust for throwing our money and lives into the grinder of the military industrial complex might be predicated on something other than our best interests?
Does it matter to anyone that Ol' Sneaky Pete was given $25,750 by the defense industry in '06? Or that the energy/nat resource sector gave him $16,980 that same election cycle?
Is it cynical of me to mistrust the hawkishness of a man who numbers Boeing Co, General Dynamics, General Motors, Lockheed Martin, and Northrop Grumman among his biggest financial supporters? Or am I getting all mired down in reality based thinking?
"Facts are stupid things" --Ronnie Reagan
Folks will just have to excuse me if I'm less concerned with sound bytes about mythical tax and spend democrats than I am with the reality of attack-and-spend "conservatives".
Those quotes around the word conservative are there because someone who's only conservative with their own life and their own money isn't a *real* conservative.
Richard,
Oh, gorgeous! What river is that?
"*Install* a democracy sounds kinda contradictory to the whole notion of who wields the power."
Normally don't you just double click on setup.exe?
Oh wait a sec. We did. Now we are in the endless security updates.
We'll force self determination on them whether they want it or not
Interesting place to stick a flag...
http://thumbsnap.com/v/AgsMkTcP.jpg
Janeane The Acerbic Goblin @ 08.24.07 - 10:53 pm --
Back a gazillion years ago when I worked in the Head Start Program, my rule of thumb was to treat children as very short adults -- this is not actually correct, but treating them with respect often paid dividends (but some still misbehave just to get attention)
I sometimes reflect on the fact that all the kids I know have probably sent their kids to Head Start (I try not to think about the ones who have sent their grandchildren to Head Start)
only in my dreams this time Lil Billy Kristol won't run away from me like a skeerd little girl when i confront him in public.
chicago dyke
damn, i'd pay big bucks to see that
Oh, gorgeous! What river is that?
It's called the Current River. It's in Ontario, Canada.
Oh wait a sec. We did. Now we are in the endless security updates.
what do you expect when you run Democracy Vista as your OS?
You shoulda got Mac Democracy X.
Prior Aelred
I thought when the gov had the gravitas to have ALL the flags flown at half mast when ordered, so why the Pat difference???
'Evening all.
How's life?
Russ Feingold mimics Bob Dylan's classic video for his latest Progressive Patriots Fund fundraising effort.
It's teh kewl.
He's such a hip and savvy Jewy Jew, I'm getting Kosher overdose.
"You shoulda got Mac Democracy X."
Don't forget the free and open source Democracy.
Although this information is about a year old I will share it with the assembly just because I am tired of seeing advertisements for erectile dysfunction on my television.
When I had my last physical before the current situation my doctor asked if I needed any Viagra or Cyalis or Levitra to which I replied no. I had to see the urologist because I am the right age and have an unusually shaped prostate gland that has to be inspected by an expert. He asked me if I needed any Levitrata, Viagra, or Cialias to which I replied No.
I thought about this and when I went back for my follow-up with my doctor I asked the question that I came up with. Now male anatomy is such that when males are young sex is about all they think about. (Junior high and high school are the worst.) But as us guys get older it does diminish some.
As it diminishes we actually do think about it less and less. As we think about it less and less the NEED becomes less and less. It is not that we can't it is that we really don't NEED to. (In a lot of ways it is fucking relief)
My question was this, "If a guy can't, why would he want to take a drug so he can?" The need is no longer there and he can kind of relax. I guess maybe SHE might want to but in general if you can't, you really don't WANT to.
Not one military funeral in six years of death and killing.
There are no words to convey how disgusting he is.
You shoulda got Mac Democracy X.
That's just another non-democratic version. Linux Democracy is open-source, the way a democratic operating system should be.
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Sweet dreams, you lovely Moonbats. May you know yourself, in all your parts.
open-source is communism!
/microsoft
you know, the Eschatonian men of the morning crowd like to talk about plants. sorry, dudes, if you prefer we can talk about lynching rich black celebrities for their abuse of dogs (while we don't do the same for rich white men who lie us into war).
janeane, i'll confess: my niece and nephew love me so much, they kiss the phone when we talk that way. it confounds their mothers, because i'm the childless dyke in the family and i'm not supposed to be good with kids. but i've always taken the tack you describe: treat them like i treat anyone else. my nephew in particular, as he's older, really responds to and understands what i say to him. also: i never, ever lie to them. imho there is no greater sin/crime you can commit with a child, excepting pederasty.
Don't forget the free and open source Democracy.
Open source ok. But free? Freedom isn't free. Democracy isn't free. It's expensive to buy all those lobbyists.
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May I offer a little garden pron myself? My garden isn't going to last much longer...
r€nato: You shoulda got Mac Democracy X.
I couldn't deal with the curb-stomping scene in Mac History X.
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As it diminishes we actually do think about it less and less.
Like once every 20 or 30 seconds vs. once every 5-10 seconds.
Hecate --
Have you seen "The Simpson's Movie"? President Schwartzenegger picks a plan to deal with a crisis at random because, "The people elected me to LEAD, not to READ!" Our "decider" is like that (reading makes his lips tired).
Kids aren't stupid.
Nope, they ain't. I pretty much talk to them like I would an adult, sometimes even age-appropriately. Mostly it's about poop, but still...
Hecate, ty goddess, your words always have sincerity and depth to them.
It's in Ontario, Canada.
Exactly where in the 999 gazillion hectares would that be?
We'll force self determination on them whether they want it or not
Culture of TrÜth
if they don't like it they can just leave (mineral rights not included)
if you prefer we can talk about lynching rich black celebrities for their abuse of dogs (while we don't do the same for rich white men who lie us into war)
I find your ideas intriguing and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
"We didn't buy Microsoft, Microsoft bought us!!"
/a spike lee joint
If Ted Nugent isn't fucking arrested over this all you right-wing limp-dick bed-wetting child-molesting fuckers better watch out.
I'm done with this shit!
I'm done with these lying assholes.
I'm taking my country back.
DWD, thanks for that. I've always wondered how the Viagra stuff affects relationships, existing or new, between older folks who by nature are somewhat ready to slow down on that front, as it were.
As a hermit, it doesn't affect me, but it's a question I wonder about.
rMatey, Syrup Sex Fan @ 08.24.07 - 10:58 pm --
Well a private homeowner flying a flag can do pretty much whatever, I suppose -- even flying the flag upsidedown (a sign of distress -- most appropriate, some would say...)
Mostly it's about poop, but still...
NTodd, Hungry For Mimi
don't the kids ever try to change the subject?
oh, Chicago Dyke, I like to listen to you talk about nearly anything. (nearly) I find you an interesting person and a treasure.
Well a private homeowner flying a flag can do pretty much whatever, I suppose -- even flying the flag upsidedown
mine has been flying upside-down whenever it's put out, ever since Bush fradulently occupied the White House.
I missed the new on Nuge, wtf did he do?
Bed another teen and Cheney somebody on a hunting trip?
I should also have mentioned gardening as a great anger-reliever. Just go out there and look at the flowers for a few minutes, everything melts away.
NTodd, Hungry For Mimi
Best snark I've seen all week!
NTodd --
Are your conversations with kids about poop because of them or because of you? (just askin'...)
don't the kids ever try to change the subject?
Yeah, but you know how tenacious I can be...
Agree! And it's a great complement to Bill Moyers' Journal. Moyers brings something back which is missing, liberal passion.
jawbone | 08.24.07 - 10:53 pm | #
liberal passion. yes, it was missing, in fact, i think it used to be an oxymoron.
not anymore. no fucking way.
let's rock.
I assume my niece is smarter than me. True, she's younger and less educated, but that counts for less and less these days.
I think it makes her feel good to believe she's smarter than me - wait til she realizes I ain't faking it.
chicago dyke | Homepage | 08.24.07 - 11:01 pm | #
Treat kids like adults, what a concept, eh? You'd think more people would do it, but, alas, no.
Us on this blog can and will continue to do it, though...
Even the lowly squash has it's moments of beauty.
NTodd, Hungry For Mimi
Best snark I've seen all week!
Her voice is sexy.
Just saw for the first time the Ari Fleischer ad on the local TV -- Faux affiliate of course.
These people have no shame; of course, we all know that. But to so blatantly use the grief of a mom the way they have. Good grief, words fail me.
http://antiwar.com/justin/
Today's Justin Raimondo column dissects the lies in the Freedon Watchers' ad campaign and comments on the the major funders listed in a WaPo article.
Here is the real face of the War Party: openly and brazenly peddling long-debunked myths designed to appeal to the emotions, rather than the intellect. This is classic war propaganda produced without respect for the facts of reality or the most basic human decency.
So what else is new?
What's interesting, aside from the crude content of these ads, is their funding: who's paying for this pack of lies? The Washington Post lists the major donors:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/
wp...7082202555.html
Raimondo thinks this campaign will boomerang--too optimistic?
Can't provide a link, but they are blowing up another dam here to save the salmon.
Yeah, but you know how tenacious I can be...
NTodd, Hungry For Mimi
*sigh* I mean ... *poop*
damn, i'd pay big bucks to see that
ErinPDX
first time: at a school lecture, hosted by the college rethugs. i dressed up and was all conservative-looking, although i was the only non-white face in the crowd. during questions, he ignored my raised hand until the end, when i was the only one left. he said then, "well, that's all the time we have" and left.
second time: in a bar. a public, but rather small and intimate place, also on campus. he was drinking with a small group, one of whom i knew as a student. i sat down, bought him a drink, and made nice small talk with others in the group, not trying to act as if i was there b/c of him only. when i finally started to include him in the conversation, he got up and left, his drink unfinished.
third time: at AEI, in DC for the lieberman/mccain lovefest. chickenhearted mother didn't even speak with me- he saw me sitting b/w to an exec from the lincoln group and some arms dealer, chatting it up and laughing. again, i was the only dark face there not serving the food. so he noticed me, and my seat in the middle of the room, and B-lined all the way to the back, behind the cameras.
he.is.a.Coward. also: very short.
!!!
Hungry For Mimi would make a good band name
Exactly where in the 999 gazillion hectares would that be?
Right about here...
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Th...1&t=k&z=11&
om=1
Well, SciFi finally did it. Didn't think it was possible. Flash Gordon is so boring that I tuned into the local news.
More garden pron:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/924...in/photostream/
Right about here...
Cool. That means very far from me.
I live about 40 minutes from Ontario if it's called Alexandria.
There's a big difference.
ChiDy--who are you taking about? Looked above but missed initial reference.
Feral Lib--How's your weather been--and how's you water level?
i like plants. i once had a beautiful garden. like karin, and apparently you and hectate i tried to grow plants that would do things chemically. i guess that's most plants really.
anyway, this is florida, the plants can take the heat, but not me. only the native morning glory remains, and that beautiful, but nasty, mean bougainvillea.
i do have pots of coleus, i'm told it's a hallucinogen.
Jawbone,
Thanks for your post on the Rethug ad. I'd missed the Post piece today.
It's easier to treat somebody else's kids as adults. Your kids make you say no to them. They positively force you to do it. One reason, among many, that kids need exposure to trustworthy adults outside the family dynamic.
A private homeowner can execute cats trespassing on their properties.
dwd, and all y'all are very sweet here, in case no one has told you lately.
feral! loving the flower pron! let's swap some seeds, we're in a similar zone.
sigh, it will be a long time before i can make wine like you do.
renato: you can find more of that sort of anarchist crap at my blog, you know. it's not a 'newsletter' but i'm working on that. we may someday even use paper.
Feral Liberal, I'm coveting your red currents.
i do have pots of coleus, i'm told it's a hallucinogen.
I don't know about that, but, "I'm told" that it's poisoness(sic).
also: very short.
chicago dyke
Is that important to you? Do you think it reflects on him in the same way as race or orientation or nationality or religion?
"A private homeowner can execute cats trespassing on their properties."
Are discussing Nugent again?
How's your weather been--and how's you water level?
Hi jawbone, rain, rain, and more rain.
The river's receding now, but the damage to the yard and flowers has been done. Could have been worse...
It's easier to treat somebody else's kids as adults. Your kids make you say no to them. They positively force you to do it. One reason, among many, that kids need exposure to trustworthy adults outside the family dynamic.
ProfWombat
Prof,
I was a single parent with my two older sons for seven years, and I always tried to pull off the "treat 'em like an adult" thing. But there were times when I had to say no or otherwise raise holy hell with them. They'd ask why, and I tell them and then remind them that it was my job.
They were fine with that. Now they're both attorneys. I have other faults, too.
Karin,
Had 31 lbs of currants this year, best year ever. 10 gal. of currant wine in the works...
Mmmm...red current jelly.
Glenn: heckuva a job. No snark at all.
Clover is a fun plant for kids. You can pull out the individual tubes from the flowers and suck their roots. They taste sweet.
prof W: i say no to them, all the time. i don't deal well with tantrums and demands for elmo. i just say, "no, babyluv. we're talking now, so it's not a good time for TV." when they start to cry/tantrum, i look them in the eye and say meaningfully, "that's not going to work, and you need to stop now" and then i distract them with a flower or kitty or somesuch.
i guess i'm not a parent so i really don't know, but i've never had a problem with disciplining younglings. look 'em in the eye, say no, and move on to the next topic. if you can take 2-5mins of crying, they usually seem to get over it. but what do i know?
M'kay -- s'late -- outta here -- later bats!
oh yeah, i almost forgot, i have a blog. quite a few plant pics too. scroll to the second post to see my lovely orchids.
now deceased.
chidy: ayup...sounds about right...
Prior Aelred
"you're my technicolor dreamboat"-Pete Hoekstra to Allawi
You can pull out the individual tubes from the flowers and suck their roots. They taste sweet
Yes! I haven't done that in many years. You can do that with some types of petunias too.
There's a big difference.
A friend of mine had Swedish relatives who were flying over to North America. They had a 5 hour stop over in Toronto in between flights, and they had the idea that my friend should drive down from Thunder Bay to hang out with them, not realizing that, despite the fact that it is in the same province, it is an 800 hundred mile drive.
Which river, Feral Lib?
I'm green with envy at your beautiful, expansive, lovely, well-tended, graceful, did I say beautiful? land.
Thanks, prof.
My other two children are still living at home. One graduated from college this year and learned today that a job he thought he had didn't pan out. He's a journalist and writer like his dad, so times are tough in that job market.
My only daughter is a college sophomore with a heart condition, and a heart as big as all outdoors. Couple all the kids with the world's best wife, and I'm probably the luckiest son-of-a-gun on the planet.
And sure, they're all liberals.
FeralLiberal: Yes! I haven't done that in many years. You can do that with some types of petunias too.
Honeysuckle!
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A private homeowner can execute cats trespassing on their properties.
First, which homeowners hold their personal real estate publicly?
Second, who would "execute" a cat, just for passing by? Is that an episode that the executioner would gladly tell others?
Third, cats can't trespass. The stupid fuckers can't read the sign.
EkCenTriK | 08.24.07 - 11:09 pm |
Alas, all that spandex was there for a reason!
Nice pics, charley.
CoT: guilty as charged. but my experience with medium sized men is confusing. i'm a tall, odd looking woman and short men seem to respond to me...strangely. i don't claim to understand it, but there it is. my mother is even taller, and shorter men either worship her or despise her on sight. it's weird.
in this case, i was merely being excessively dismissive of a cowardly republican, and i apologize to all decent shorter men for my slur. his views, and not his size, matter most.
Honeysuckle!
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Jeffraham Prestonian
Ahhh, one of the great joys of the growing season, the sweet nectar of the honeysuckle. Thanks for reminding me; I haven't tasted one in years.
Richard | Homepage | 08.24.07 - 11:21 pm
No kidding. Ontario is MUCH larger than Texas.
I don't know about that, but, "I'm told" that it's poisoness(sic).
aangus
well that's the thing. Datura too can produce a euphoria, or kill you.
Wow--I've never sucked a honeysuckle--looking forward to that!
Third, cats can't trespass. The stupid fuckers can't read the sign.
MP | 08.24.07 - 11:23 pm |
Cats don't trespass: they patrol the full range of their domain executing rodents you're too big and clumsy to catch yourself. Unless of course you're really hypersensitive about domesticated cats but want lots of disease-bearing mice and rats.
Why is Stephen Hayes on mah teevee?
jawbone -
It's the White river, flows from Lake Geneva into the Fox in Burlington.
My garden is a mess now, part of it flooded and the rest has been so pounded by rain and smothered by saturated ground that I'll lose most of it.
ChiDy -- You in no way odd-looking. You're a total babe!
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If you hammer at your mouse violently to get Blogger's attention ---- nothing happens.
Lose the annuals--or are the perennials in danger as well? So sad!
I've taken great pleasure from looking at your photos of your garden.
chidy--I'm sure you know that the stereotypical short-man Napoleon complex is, in fact, based on more than myth. That is, there are them guys out there.
i'm a tall, odd looking woman
The word "striking" comes to my mind...
i apologize to all decent shorter men for my slur.
Kucinich?
*Groucho Marx eyebrows going up & down*
"The word "striking" comes to my mind..."
I was involved with a striking woman once. Eventually I learned to duck.
jawbone: Wow--I've never sucked a honeysuckle--looking forward to that!
You pluck the flower from the vine, then pinch the base of the flower, pulling the pistil through the bloom. There'll be a little pinhead-drop of nectar on the end of the pistil.
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jawbone - thanks! The perennials will probably survive, I tend to plant hardy stuff, but the veggies and annuals are pretty much toast.
oh yeah, i almost forgot, i have a blog. quite a few plant pics too. scroll to the second post to see my lovely orchids.
The orchid is gorgeous.
Hoo boy, Tim Robbins is kicking ass.
4LG, I have been showing off your kittehs.
Hope you don't mind!
The stupid fuckers can't read the sign.
And, even if they could it wouldn't make a difference!
Cats are very intelligent animals. I was being sarcastic.
The word "striking" comes to my mind...
Ordinarily I'd say, "I'd hit it." Instead, I'd rather she strike me.
My those are fine kitties, WT!
chi dyke, I have a friend who's 5'10", and she also says short guys get fixated on her. When she travelled in Italy & Spain, they followed her all over. She always claimed it was a Mt. Everest syndrome-they want to climb it because it's there.
Glenn: I know for a fact that you don't have the world's best wife, but, things being what they are, we can surely agree to disagree on that one...
tall women
Eric. Stanton.
Quick drive-by hi!
I'm sayin' bye to our apartment; and hello to our new house.
Have fun tonight, kiddos!
Meet the Cats.
Did U see this last night? I builded it just cause I thought U wud laff.
http://plush-life.blogspot.com/2...-worm-
hole.html
If you hammer at your mouse violently to get Blogger's attention -
Meet the Buffalo
http://thumbsnap.com/v/mgIqGupS.jpg
chidy--I'm sure you know that the stereotypical short-man Napoleon complex is, in fact, based on more than myth. That is, there are them guys out there.
nuncamas
As a short guy, I second that. Being short (5-7) was the only reason I tried to play basketball. An uncle told me to become a jockey; I told him I'd be a player and besides, it was the only wsay I could afford to go to college.
OF course, that was long ago when little guys such as I could still play the game. Today, it doesn't happen quite so often.
I was involved with a striking woman once. Eventually I learned to duck.
Have you met watertiger?
Did U see this last night? I builded it just cause I thought U wud laff.
We just saw it.
And we laffed.
4LG, I have been showing off your kittehs.
Hope you don't mind!
Oh, feel free.
They are vain little suckers. They like the attention.
I'll put up some moar for U.
charley: that saw palmetto-ouch! but the orchids are nice. i use bone meal instead of my own blood for those plants that need it, try it. it's less painful that way.
beer doesn't seem to be working tonight. i may have to get Get Some.
water tiger's a good girl who loves her mama, loves Jesus and America too.
Here's Pippin in drier days....
"Have you met watertiger?"
No, but I happen to know she is a Leo - and I seem to always end up with Leo women...
I don't hit unless I'm provoked.
Hungry For Mimi
I can't not see this and not comment on it...
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Nevermind.
water tiger's a good girl who loves her mama, loves Jesus and America too.
oi, rats!
You're in for it. That sounded too much like John Cougar Mellencamp.
So did anyone see that McNerney "chat" over at FDL earlier?
What a fucking weasel.
On the good side, Joe Wilson kicked his ass all over the yard.
I missed the new on Nuge, wtf did he do?
oh.. not much. He just called for the murder of a presidential candidate. I'm not sure why anyone would be upset by that. Gee...
If this doesn't make your blood boil I don't know what would.
You think this isn't a rallying call to the right-wing nutjobs to take Obama out?
Enough of this crap!
http://www.liveleak.com/view?
i=7...=757_1187963465
"I don't hit unless I'm provoked."
I never provoke - unless asked.
kristol is one weird motherfucker.
If he has a complex i bet it's tied with his daddy.
Like Bush, Romney, Rudy, McCain...
We just saw it.
And we laffed.
Ripley iz a scamp.
That sounded too much like John Cougar Mellencamp.
No petty squabbling.
NTodd - During my travels last week I was in the real Colby, not that poser collegiate place. Got me a nice mess o' cheese!
5' 7" is much too tall for a jockey, sorry
Segovia playing Bach:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=b8EDpJ-aIM8
I know for a fact that you don't have the world's best wife, but, things being what they are, we can surely agree to disagree on that one...
ProfWombat, roger that.
water tiger's a good girl who loves her mama, loves Jesus and America too.
yeah but who does she hate?
kristol is one weird motherfucker.
Who has never really, fingernail-dirty, worked a fucking day in his kinda goulish life.
5' 7" is much too tall for a jockey, sorry
Yes.
water tiger's a good girl who loves her mama, loves Jesus and America too.
yeah but who does she hate?
Culture of TrÜth
Tom Petty?
Nice pics, charley.
FeralLiberal
hey, thanks. and thanks for looking.
photography was the only thing that ever came naturally to me. to bad i didn't figure out how to make a liv'n at it.
now i must be off, to rest up, so i can go into my "stupid" job.
yeah but who does she hate?
Rudy!!
Bub-bye.
5' 7" is much too tall for a jockey, sorry
Culture of TrÜth
I wasn't that big at the time -- I was about 14 and much smaller. Weight about 90 pounds and no one thought I was gonna "grow."
But I did a bit and then spent far too much time running into other people's knees. But it got me to and through college, so I'll always be grateful to the game.
"5' 7" is much too tall for a jockey, sorry"
Red Pollard, the guy who rode Seabiscuit, was 5"7"
NTodd - During my travels last week I was in the real Colby, not that poser collegiate place. Got me a nice mess o' cheese!
All Colbys are united by the One True Cheese.
MP | 08.24.07 - 11:33 pm |
Don't be so Petty. Mellencamp would've said it unironically.
yeah but who does she hate?
Rudy!!
And Christie! Lord knows she hates her worse than I do, and she wasn't even wt's governor.
ProfWombat,
One of my all-time favorite song is on YouTube. Linda Rondstandt doing, LONG LONG TIME.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A...h?
v=A0qm8nq8RcA
i'm a heartbreaker.
well, only on special occasions.
Oh, fucking Huckabee trying to be funny.
Not werking.
"i'm a heartbreaker."
Leo women.... (sigh)
All Colbys are united by the One True Cheese.
So do the undergrads dress like mice?
I don't hit unless I'm provoked
Hit me, beat me, make me write bad checks for your vacation.
Heh.
i just turned to BBC international to find out what is going on in the world.
I hear "Is he sexy??"
Story all about Putin.
Interviewing a woman in Moscow.
"Our president is sexy beautiful man"
another woman:
"I though he was was more, more..?"
In advance of the September White House report, the Pentagon is launching “a 24-hour-a-day, seven-day-a-week Iraq Communications Desk that will pump out data from Baghdad — serving as what could be considered a campaign war room.” “I would not characterize it as a war room,” Pentagon press secretary Geoff Morrell said. “It’s far less sinister than that. It’s more like a library.”
Most very serious people plan their murders in libraries.
I'm lurking, just because i can.
Chidyke, we might be cousins, yanno.
Oh, fucking Huckabee trying to be funny.
Not werking.
Did he tell that funny story about his son & the dog? That's a real knee-slapper.
i'm a heartbreaker.
Better heart than spine, pelvis, clavicle, etc.
when i say "odd looking" i mean "mixed race." nothing, and i mean nothing, not even pregnancy, gets more stoopit kweshuns from strangers on the street. if you're not white and have a "white" hair color, it's even more ridiculous. people are so fucking obsessed about "race" in this country. although- it's getting better. a lot. the Kidz are truly Alright. it the old timers who can't seem to let it go.
re short men: to me, it's like bald men. women really don't care. i'll confess, i get a hard clit for the occasionally-found brilliant man, and it doesn't matter what he looks like. i'm sure most str8 women are the same. if you do it for her, you do. if you don't, all the money, power, cock inches or athletic prowess won't matter. and if you do, those things won't matter either.
there's a woman for every man, and a man for every man, and a woman for every woman, and a man for every woman. and then some. seriously, if you doubt this- go out in public and just start chatting it up with what you want. i used to be ugly, but i've never had a hard time getting It, as i learned this truth early on. even the "best" people are often really lonely, and a smile and a little concern for your fellow human is the easiest and most successful way of satisfying that itch.
hmmm...i guess i should head out and git it on. later, taters.
Who has never really, fingernail-dirty, worked a fucking day in his kinda goulish life.
ME
CURSE YOU (SIC)
for asking such a dumbass question???
A very famous scene in Tarkovksy's The Sacrifice...
http://youtube.com/watch?v=je4wtGvEW2w
gr_pramenko wrote:
The Current crop of conservatives in this nation have no sense of decorum or fairplay.
Even high school seniors here in Colorado Springs, CO are being provided with Constitution Booklets that contain a website
that then links them to right-of-center partisan materials.
A group called Active Citizens Together helps produce the booklets and it runs the
website to link high schoolers to GOP "talking points", speakers and organizations that support right wing GOP
political candidates of all kinds at all levels.
Like I said, the current crop of conservatives have no sense of decorum, propriety, fairplay, sense of what is and what isn't appropriate. They have no class.
Dan Eggen's article about "White House Declares Office Off-Limits" is very indicative and parallel to what's going on
here in the Colorado Springs Public School Districts.
GP, Center for Early American History, Arvada, CO 80002
Red Pollard, the guy who rode Seabiscuit, was 5"7"
Uncle Blodge, Urban Teacher
Yes, but Seabiscuit was 60 hands high if he was a finger ...
Red Pollard, the guy who rode Seabiscuit, was 5"7"
Uncle Blodge, Urban Teacher
That was years ago.
Doc Watson playing 'Deep River Blues', which might just be the single best bit of fingerpicking ever done...
http://youtube.com/watch?v=MFRNMTxvt08
i'm a heartbreaker.
well, only on special occasions.
watertiger
watertiger knows the five-point-palm-exploding-heart technique.
Guy: Enough of this crap!
I like recalling Ted's old Circus interview, where he described shitting his pants for three days before he went to the draft board, so he'd be declared mentally incompetent, and out of going to Vietnam.
Squares perfectly with the neo-con chickenshit warmongering stereotype.
.
The leading idea of evolution is not that men came from monkey. The leading idea is that nature is created with the mechanism of the invisible hand.
Boldies, oopppsss!
Plus, sorry if I shot from the hip on that one, but it's a sensitive point with me.
Moar kittehs for U:
http://plush-life.blogspot.com/
2...watertiger.html
Finding all kinds of wonderful stuff. Here's Doc Watson and Leo Kottke together doing 'Last Steam Engine Train'. Goodness gracious.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=OR63Y5LIQDI
Did he tell that funny story about his son & the dog? That's a real knee-slapper.
That's the oven Mitt.
Don't sit so close to the teebee!
(just pic)
That sounded too much like John Cougar Mellencamp.
I always called him Johm Cougar MenstrualCramp
Moar kittehs for U:
Good Lord, 4LG, is that her tail?
Doc and Deep River. That is really something. Tony Rice does a nice version too (sorry, I don't have a link), but Doc's is the best.
Snark is a battlefield.
Here's a little water pron from my camping trip last week.
fourlegsrgood, got Fit/pitchfo | Homepage | 08.24.07 - 11:44 pm | #
I'm such a sucker for cats...
My cat is sleeping at my feet now...
Good Lord, 4LG, is that her tail?
http://bp1.blogger.com/_VF0ee3ix...-h/
IMG_3316.JPG
Yes.
Scary.
ProfWombat | 08.24.07 - 11:42 pm
Loves me some Doc Watson.
Thank you!
http://video.google.ca/videoplay...earch&
plindex=0
Hey, if you can maintain 115 lbs at 5' 7" more power to you.
I would like to bitch slap Stephen Hayes.
He is such a dickhead.
Hoekstra Hoekstra read all about it!
Another Warner Clone to be eviscerated by the wangers!
Did you know if you accept a collect call these days that they want to know your name? They also want to know what your relationship is with that person. If you ask why they keep asking you and refuse to put the other party through. It happened twice today. When I said "thank you homeland security" the operator left the line. I'm paying for the call yet they call the tune. Welcome to 1984.
On the good side, Joe Wilson kicked his ass all over the yard.
dave™
one last and then it's into the Boots: Wilson is a real, honest to god gentleman. he took the time to speak with me, despite the differences in our station, and in a group of Beltway Elites, when he didn't have to. and he didn't flirt, or shy away from difficult topics.
i'm one of the original Foil Wearing Doomsayers, and no one hates the MIC more than i do. but if we had more people like Wilson and his wife in those positions, i'd be ready and willing to believe in "america's greatness" in the world again. seriously- he's a terrific, intelligent, compassionate guy. or at least, that's my impression after a couple of meetings.
ok, i'm gone. sleep well, all. and yes, goddess E: we should compare family in the old country some time. i'm sure you're as proud as i am that finland was the very *last* nation in Yurp to go xtian. fucking swedes.
Gee I'm shocked Cheney's guy defending Vick.
Journalist Michelle Martin on Bill Maher, whose husband represents Michael VicK, says people will use this crime to vent racism. She's says white folk were standing on the steps of courthouses in the south with signs saying, 'Castrate vICK.'
My cat is sleeping at my feet now...
Janeane The Acerbic Goblin | 08.24.07 - 11:47 pm
Any fire hydrant sightings?
I always called him Johm Cougar MenstrualCramp
Gilly Gonzylon
And he always called you, "who"?
good news: Daniel's diaper was full of poop.
nothing makes me happier these days than a poopy diaper. how the mighty have fallen.
goodnight CD and i have a man cruch on Joe Wilson too
Professor Wombat,
I saw Doc Watson and his son Merle a decade (or more) ago. Tremendous show (Shortly after that I put away the guitar in shame)
Hey, prof:
Kottke and Doc looked really young in that clip. That was too neat; thanks a bunch.
And he always called you, "who"?
Gullycat | 08.24.07 - 11:49 pm | #
He always called me "Golly Gonzeelon"
Gee I'm shocked Cheney's guy defending Vick.
Yah, I nevr wud hav seen THAT coming.
heh. i love watching cats getting high on catnip.
Bill Maher has a husband?
And he always called you, "who"?
Gullycat
Selling uber X 10 records, has its privileges.
nothing makes me happier these days than a poopy diaper
Been there, seen it...etc..
A piece of odd info. Soviet lunar missions. Notice how many times they managed to land and even return to earth, with those robotic devices.
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/plane.../
lunarussr.html
Gee I'm shocked Dick Cheney's boy is defending the mine criminal.
Journalist Michelle Martin on Bill Maher, whose husband represents Michael VicK, says people will use this crime to vent racism. She's says white folk were standing on the steps of courthouses in the south with signs saying, 'Castrate vICK.'
SUCK | 08.24.07 - 11:49 pm |
This is true. Whenever something goes wrong with famous blacks there's this extraordinary willingness waiting just under the surface to reassure anyone listening that this is the final straw and justice cannot wait. When something goes wrong with whites, there is a variety of responses depending on the situation, sometimes very gentle.
News alert.
Michael Hayes is not a mine safety expert.
YOU'RE NOT A FUCKING EXPERT OF ANYTHING YOU FUCKING ASSHAT.
I pretty much gotta go to bed. Such an early-risin', sleep hygiene freak, these days.
♥
I'll say this - I saw on tv that Tom Brady left his pregnant girlfriend for a supermodel.
The anchors all chuckled - if he was black would there have been more finger wagging?
Nice pics, charley.
FeralLiberal
nice pippin too.
and now i really wish i had hi speed so i could check out the Segovia. i have a nice guitar, i'm certainly not a natural at that.
they say you can learn, but some things you just can't do. like bein' 5'7" and playing b-ball or more impossibly a jockey. that's when you compensate and become a smarmy, slick smilin', war monger.
heh. i love watching cats getting high on catnip.
Last night Ripley wuz playing wit her catnip evil carrot and she just got progressively wilder and wilder.
Teh funny.
Gee I'm shocked Cheney's guy defending Vick.
Yah, I nevr wud hav seen THAT coming.
fourlegsrgood, got Fit/pitchfo | Homepage | 08.24.07 - 11:50 pm | #
I'm surprised that more Republicans haven't defended Vick. They would use the excuse that "people are jealous of his wealth, and his right to entertain himself as he sees fit. He's simply enjoying his wealth, and to prevent him doing so is Communism".
That's pretty sick, but it's a realistic Republican position.
But then Vick is black, and the GOP don't like that.
feral liberal
nice vacation pics. the deer in the foliage was shweet, though I have seen that waterfall, and cooper is a very nice state park.
Michael Hayes is not a mine safety expert.
YOU'RE NOT A FUCKING EXPERT OF ANYTHING YOU FUCKING ASSHAT.
fourlegsrgood, got Fit/pitchfo | Homepage | 08.24.07 - 11:52 pm | #
Is that Michael "PS" Hayes from the Freebirds wrestling outfit? Probably not.
I'll say this - I saw on tv that Tom Brady left his pregnant girlfriend for a supermodel.
Nixon will never introduce him to Tricia, if he keeps that shit up.
Any fire hydrant sightings?
Gilly Gonzylon | 08.24.07 - 11:49 pm | #
I saw Tyne Daly. Does that count?
So Doc Watson and Jack Lawrence (no slouch either) play faster than anybody, crystal clear. Last concert, they double the speed. There's no excuse for jaw-dropping virtuosity like that, other than that it gives you a shit-eating grin...
NEW RULES!!
Fig Newtons also make kitties high.
I have proved this with experiments.
I even spoke about this with the head of Nabisco.
I saw Tyne Daly. Does that count?
Well, she did get plugged in The Enforcer. Don't concern yourself though.
I'm surprised that more Republicans haven't defended Vick.
No political upside to doing so. None.
Fig Newtons also make kitties high.
I have proved this with experiments.
Really?
I must experiment myself.
JeffCO | 08.24.07 - 11:56 pm | #
I actually saw that film for the first time a few months ago, and I told her. She said "oh my God, is that old".
She was very nice, by the way. Sweet and sarcastic at the same time...
shit-eating grin..
ABSOLOUTLY!
I gots vacation pix at the homepage my own self.
There's no excuse for jaw-dropping virtuosity like that, other than that it gives you a shit-eating grin...
ProfWombat
It's true that every great guitarist I've ever seen does get a little grin that says "I can do this and you can't." And like DWD, I played a bit around town with a friend; I wasn't very good, he was. And when he died four years ago I put it away. Can't bear to play it without him.
Oh, I also wrote, like, a kinda serious post that's not too long.
They those shoes next door to my office for $2.
I wonder if they are made from chines lead.
mrs. ibrahim al-jafaari
Copper Falls is one of the nicest parks in the state IMHO. The place was lousy with deer, saw one or more almost every day. Saw a black bear while on an excursion, not while hiking in the national forest, but running down the street while I was driving through a small town.
Punkz are cute.
NO TYNE DALY PORN.
Bring me the head of Na bis Co.
They those shoes next door to my office for $2.
I'm so unhip I didn't realize they were popular.
Off whatever topic we're on, but just in case...
Saw a terrific movie called "The Station Agent" last night, and highly recommend it. When told about it beforehand, didn't think it would be nearly as entertaining as it was. A thoroughly enjoyable film.
Thers - looks like a good time was being had by all.
$30 DVD players?
Seriously?
Really?
I must experiment myself.
fourlegsrgood, got Fit/pitchfo
Yes really. Don't expect catnip style reactions. But it is definitely beyond the norm.
I mentioned this to Nabisco but he I'm not sure he believed me.
Thers - looks like a good time was being had by all.
Yeah. Especially when the aunt & uncle were playing with the kids...
Seriously?
fourlegsrgood, got Fit/pitchfo | Homepage | 08.25.07 - 12:01 am |
One region and they stop working within weeks of purchase. However Atrios occasionally shows up to boast about his $40 unit.
I actually saw that film for the first time a few months ago, and I told her. She said "oh my God, is that old".
The best things about Dirty Harry films, aside from the unashamed fascism, are the unbelievably huge American cars of the 70s.
$30 DVD players?
Seriously?
fourlegsrgood, got Fit/pitchfo
Yeah. they sell them in the grocery store. There's no excuse for not owning one when you can hear scorcese's and schrader's commentary over raging bull.
Jorma Kaukonen doing 'Embryonic Journey'
http://youtube.com/watch?v=VuXqiVFnbY8
I must go to bed. Been a down day for me. No energy and no will to find any. Hope tomorrow is better as we have a full day planned ( I managed to miss a full day of shopping - something that hardly caused a ripple of regret in my life)
Have a good evening, everyone and keep 'em flyin'
Thers:
What, no pictures of them driving "uncle" NTodd into oblivion??
I'm so disappointed!!!
Thers - looks like a good time was being had by all.
Yeah. Especially when the aunt & uncle were playing with the kids...
What, you got some roleplay time with the missus?
The best things about Dirty Harry films, aside from the unashamed fascism, are the unbelievably huge American cars of the 70s.
And the guns. Really big guns.
NO TYNE DALY PORN.
Thers
that first pic- is that that same little baby of last something? my god, what kind of liberal steroids you feeding that kid?
I gots vacation pix at the homepage my own self. Thers
How many times a day do you look at whatever dozen kids happen to be in the room and wonder how the hell you managed to produce them?
And the guns. Really big guns.
That's so's you always hit what you aim at.
Jodie Foster is going to bring the vigilante genre back.
That's so's you always hit what you aim at.
Side of a barn. I need to hit the side of a barn!
Here's Doc Watson and Leo Kottke
Dyn-no-mite.
-
Saw a terrific movie called "The Station Agent" last night
IIRC, Patricia Clarkson was in that and Pieces of April (with pre-WTF Katie Holmes) around the same time and fabulous in both.
Jodie Foster is going to bring the vigilante genre back.
What the fuck was she thinking? The trailers look awful.
Homeland Security Studies
that's a joke, right?
it's all just getting too weird.
Side of a barn. I need to hit the side of a barn!
I recommend a front kick.
watertiger | Homepage | 08.25.07 - 12:08 am | #
Foster's a pretty damn good actress (even though I didn't like Panic Room at all). I'm not sure about her current film.
Jodie Foster is going to bring the vigilante genre back.
I hear there's a new edition of Taxi Driver out recently.
The best things about Dirty Harry films, aside from the unashamed fascism, are the unbelievably huge American cars of the 70s.
And the guns. Really big guns.
The best thing about Dirty Harry films is that they inspired Simon Pegg to write Hot Fuzz.
And that's the fucking TRUTH.
Saw a terrific movie called "The Station Agent" last night
Great flick. Peter Dinklage was effin' great in that.
GravatarJodie Foster is going to bring the vigilante genre back.
What the fuck was she thinking? The trailers look awful.
I know. If she expects this film to make me fall in love with her again and send her more letters, she's crazy.
The best things about Dirty Harry films, aside from the unashamed fascism, are the unbelievably huge American cars of the 70s.
High school ride: '70 Torino, 351 Cleveland, ram-air hood scoop.
Found out the difficult way, that it was way more vehicle than I really needed at that particular juncture.
One last kitty pic before I fade. Here's Emma.
That's so's you always hit what you aim at.
Side of a barn. I need to hit the side of a barn!
watertiger
I've never owned a gun and always said I wouldn't. But honest to pete, with the way things are goin' in the country, I've started thinking about it. If martial law ever comes around, I'll probably wish I had one...
Men are born with millions of sperm.
Thers can keep going and going...
Jodie Foster is going to bring the vigilante genre back.
Culture of TrÜth
Her new movie looks awful, as was her last one. Time to hire a new agent.
Saw a terrific movie called "The Station Agent" last night, and highly recommend it.
Wonderful film. And actually sort of on-topic.
Anyhoo, I feel stoopid cause I have a Sony DVD player when I coulda got me 3 chinese ones.
I hear there's a new edition of Taxi Driver out recently.
Kristol plays the taxi driver and Ann Coulter the Jodi Foster part.
Bedtime for me. I set myself an Outlook reminder to watch Glenn Greenwald on CSPAN Sunday morning.
"Uncle" NTodd has a restraining order.
Against the kids. And fair enough, too.
Watertiger,
You're are correct, madam, about Dinklage. I keep thinking I've seen him in something else, but can't remember what. Old man; fading memory.
Saw a terrific movie called "The Station Agent" last night, and highly recommend it.
I love Patricia Clarkson.
[Harry Callahan has to explain why he shot a man]
Harry Callahan: Well, when an adult male is chasing a female with intent to commit rape, I shoot the bastard. That's my policy.
The Mayor: Intent? How did you establish that?
Harry Callahan: When a naked man is chasing a woman through an alley with a butcher's knife and a hard-on, I figure he isn't out collecting for the Red Cross!
[walks out of the room]
The Mayor: He's got a point.
How many times a day do you look at whatever dozen kids happen to be in the room and wonder how the hell you managed to produce them?
If you drink enough booze it's not an issue.
Thers, Uncle Todd has lots of restraining orders.
Evening all.
Been gone all day...have I missed anything particularly irksome?
talk about inappropriate rides: a Daimler SP250. About the size of a Sunbeam Alpine 2-seater. Fiberglass body, leaf springs, hemi V8 with twin 4 barrel carbs. An 18 year old in possession of a Y chromosome had no business, none whatever, behind that car's wheel.
I now drive a minivan. Sic transit gloria Wombat...
Men are born with millions of sperm.
OK. I don't mean to be pedantic, but you gotta wait for the little fellows to descend, etc. Women now, they are actually born with all their eggs.
The best things about Dirty Harry films, aside from the unashamed fascism, are the unbelievably huge American cars of the 70s.
JeffCO
Ford LTD. what was it, a 390. like owning a very fast tank.
hey steve: I've been posting lots of white guys playing music...
The one on the airplane?
or the Spike Lee thing?
Either way she's playing high strung annoying unrealistic characters.
You're are correct, madam, about Dinklage. I keep thinking I've seen him in something else, but can't remember what. Old man; fading memory.
That's what google & the internets are for.
I love Patricia Clarkson.
Buzz Bomb
As do I. A greatly underused and under-rated actress, in my humble opinion.
Just saw Dinklage in a little Brit fluff called Death At A Funeral. It was ok, has some pretty funny bits but trying too hard IMO. I rate it a rental.
Kristol plays the taxi driver and Ann Coulter the Jodi Foster part
Travis Bickle was gay?
Evening all.
Been gone all day...have I missed anything particularly irksome?
No, I have Host ready to pop into by ridiculously overpriced DVD player.
Just saw Dinklage in a little Brit fluff called Death At A Funeral.
Is that the new Alan Tudyk flick? Wash from "Firefly"?
I now drive a minivan. Sic transit gloria Wombat...
Heh.
I drive a Tonka Toy.
Been gone all day...have I missed anything particularly irksome?
Sandra Locke.
I don't mean to be pedantic, but you gotta wait for the little fellows to descend, etc.
blah blah blah it's after midnight.
The point is Thers doesn't wonder which kids are his, he wonders which *aren't*
The Mayor: He's got a point.
Richard | Homepage | 08.25.07 - 12:12 am | #
John Vernon is great as "the mayor". He was in The Outlaw Josey Wales, Point Blank, a little comedy called Animal House, and Sweet Movie. Yes, that Sweet Movie art film that I talk about a lot. He played Mr. Dollars.
Richard: yup, there's no doubt that the vast majority of police, when confronted with such situations, are so cowed by their overexposure to Fourth Amendment jurisprudence that they'd never, well, shoot the bastard...
Thers, Uncle Todd has lots of restraining orders.
Just saw Dinklage in a little Brit fluff called Death At A Funeral.
Is that the new Alan Tudyk flick? Wash from "Firefly"?
Shit, ain't that a Frank Oz joint?
ProfWombat, why did we ever have kids?
Is that the new Alan Tudyk flick? Wash from "Firefly"?
He was pretty funny in it. Directed by Frank Oz for some reason.
Sandra Locke.
JeffCO | 08.25.07 - 12:15 am | #
During her time with Clint, she never starred in another film. Then after they broke up, she retired from acting.
I can't believe I'm saying this, but....
Saw "The Nanny Diaries" -- surprisingy good.
Also saw "Mr. Bean's Holiday" -- and I like Rowan Atkinson, but never liked Mr Bean (tv or movie ) and --
this new one is a little classic. Sweet, funny, unpredictable, just a delight....
That's what google & the internets are for.
Karin
Thanks, Karin. I'll try to remember that.
Speaking of Tyne Daly, anyone remember who played her hubby on "Cagney and Lacey" - and the character he played on a certain pop-culture favorite?
NO GOOGLING!
We have baby kitten pics of Maxxine, War On War Off's new baby kitteh:
http://plush-life.blogspot.com/2...8/
maxxxine.html
Either way she's playing high strung annoying unrealistic characters.
Sign her up for the Laura Bush role!
Though Jack Nicholson is the frontrunner still for that part.
I like Rowan Atkinson, but never liked Mr Bean (tv or movie )
YES!!!
Kristol plays the taxi driver
So he unctiously smarms his street vengeance? I don't think Scorcese was focused on that back in '76.
Okay, you crazy youngsters. I'm off to listen to some doo wop on the XM and get a bit of sleep.
Thanks for the company, comments and videos.
too much kitteh goodness! must go to sleep.
laters.
Just saw Dinklage in a little Brit fluff called Death At A Funeral.
Is that the new Alan Tudyk flick? Wash from "Firefly"?
I am a leaf on the coffin...
Mayor: "I don't want any more trouble like you had last year. That's my policy."
Drebin: "When I see five weirdos dressed in togas stabbing a guy in the middle of the park, in a full view of a hundred people, i shoot the bastards! That's my policy!
Mayor: "That was a Shakespere in the park production of "Julius Caesar"! You Moron! You killed five actors!
Good ones!"
I can't believe I'm saying this, but....
Saw "The Nanny Diaries" -- surprisingy good.
Also saw "Mr. Bean's Holiday" -- and I like Rowan Atkinson, but never liked Mr Bean (tv or movie ) and --
this new one is a little classic. Sweet, funny, unpredictable, just a delight....
Good grief. How is a person supposed to know what to see when all the movies that look decent suck ass and the ones that look like they are teh suxxxxor are good?
Speaking of dynamite, Ms Dennis Kucinich is on c-span2 now. And Dennis.
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Directed by Frank Oz for some reason.
He's trying to be remembered for more than Muppets.
I will say this for Death... - it was a pure delight to see Spud in it!
Gotta go - Good night and good bowling, everybody!
Culture of TrÜth | Homepage | 08.25.07 - 12:19 am | #
Did you ever listen to the commentary on The Naked Gun DVD? It's one of the best I've heard.
All movies suck. So does all music.
Speaking of movies, a friend saw "Talk to Me" and said it was terrific.
I would rather see Cake than Death.
4Legs, wouldn't you rather eat cake than death?
All movies suck. So does all music.
Thers
I told you not to rent Speed, The Musical.
All movies suck. So does all music.
Forget it, the thread seems to be moving that way.
*sheepish grin*
All movies suck. So does all music.
Thers
And all fiction.
Good grief. How is a person supposed to know what to see when all the movies that look decent suck ass and the ones that look like they are teh suxxxxor are good?
If only there were people who were paid to see movies in advance and give us their opinions.....
Right now I'm in favor of anything that will make me forget, at least temporarily, that I have kids.
If only there were people who were paid to see movies in advance and give us their opinions.....
Dream on, sucker!
We should have a bad poetry thread.
"I now drive a minivan. Sic transit gloria Wombat..."
that made my night...g'night bats.
The cspan2 Kucinich thing is interesting. He has to hit the talking points, but he is obviously in the moment, being kind to questioners, etc.
He's trying to be remembered for more than Muppets.
Thers
dood there was that whole merry old land and yellow brick road thing.
He's trying to be remembered for more than Muppets.
Thers
His scholarly critiques of Rabelais and Montaigne are awesome.
All movies suck. So does all music. Thers
If I had your taste I'd think so too.
We should have a bad poetry thread.
You mean this isn't it?
CANCEL MY ACCOUNT!!!
We should have a bad poetry thread.
Are U trying to make me run away?
heh.
I just caught that the guy with two heads from Flight of the Conchords was also a drawing in the girl's bathroom. Did Molly catch that?
sallyh: not sure there's an answer to the question. Closest I ever get to agreeing with the evolution psych people is to say we're built that way a bit. But I've never loved anyone the way I've loved my kids, and there's a piece of me I'd never have known about were it not for them. And I think they make the world a better place.
(fills two glasses of Calvados)
To our kids.
(refills glasses)
Jeez, we get serious here sometimes...
Segovia playing Bach on YouTube:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=b8EDpJ-aIM8
dood there was that whole merry old land and yellow brick road thing.
Don't fergit teh monkeys dat flew they make me be askeerd.
I feel so alone, alone...
Why won't someone call me on the phone, the phone?
I want to rent a throne...
There's some bad poetry...
Bad poetry threads always bring out Toby's best...
Did you ever listen to the commentary on The Naked Gun DVD? It's one of the best I've heard.
Kurt Russell does excellent, usually drunken, commentaries - the ones for Used Cars and Big Trouble in Little China are possibly funnier than the movies.
ProfWombat, I love mine more than life itself.
But I'm so freaking tired of all the crying and the emotional overload I get from them. I'm beyond worn out.
I'm starting to become really depressed about everything again.
Hi ho, Steverino!
I answered the question over at the Blog You Won't Whore.
(fills two glasses of Calvados)
Once upon a time I could do that.
*Sigh*
Bless you, sir.
Are U trying to make me run away?
Yas, ofcourse.
Here is a bad poem:
Ms. Mosquito
Listen to the never-ending whine./ The darkness sleeps. You cannot./ You can hear her dance. It is hot./ When the dance is over she will dine.
You'll be her meal, laid out on bed./ Unless you rise and find her first,/ and squash her and her bloody thirst,/she will turn your pillows red.
Prof Wombat,
Heard one evo psych leader give a talk in which he said that the parents' aversion to homosexuals was an adaptation to protect their offspring so they would produce more children as heterosexuals.
I like Rowan Atkinson, but never liked Mr Bean (tv or movie )
The movie was an abomination and should not be viewed by anyone.
The live action TV series was excellent, and had some incredibly inventive physical and situational comedy.
I haven't seen enough of the cartoon series to render an opinion on that.
Bad poetry threads always bring out Toby's best...
Flaming doggerel.
Don't fergit teh monkeys dat flew they make me be askeerd.
Because they flew out Jon Stewart's butt?
I'm starting to become really depressed about everything again.
Oh, noes!!
I'll send Ripley through the wormhole toot sweet!!
Spinoza, that argument makes absolutely no sense.
I'm waiting for the evo psych critters to come up with something that just might.
Heard one evo psych leader give a talk in which he said that the parents' aversion to homosexuals was an adaptation to protect their offspring so they would produce more children as heterosexuals.
Wow! What hard and original thinking that must have required! I'm awed.
sallyh-
Well, you can always come hear and discuss dinner plans with ProfWombat.
[encouraging thoughts for Sallyh]
Getting sleepy y'all...
Night, all...
spinoza: jeez, they're not very philosophically aware, are they? Chasing their own tails in all that a posteriori stuff, blissfully unaware that they're adding nothing substantive whatever to the discussion...
Nobody's allowed to leave! Halt!
(fills third glass of Calvados and passes it to aangus)
Right now I'm in favor of anything that will make me forget, at least temporarily, that I have kids.
Sallyh, Grandmere Poissonniere
I have just the thing!
I am thinking of renaming it evil psychology. It's the same big theory shit that psychologists have gone through like behaviorism and some of the worst of cognitive science (everything is a module).
Buzzy, pass it on over.
You interested in evolutionary psychology? Read my homepage. Second post from top.
I typed "hear" for "here"? Sheesh!
[encouraging thoughts for Sallyh]
Look, I already promised to brutally torture and murder her SIL. What the hell more does she need?
I've been blue of late and I apologize if I've added to others' sadness. So I pop in now to say something good--that Feingold Progressive Politics video? A dear young friend did the signs he held up, my fav being My Next President will be a Cheesehead! She's a senior in college and works her young butt off for progressive causes. My kids are doing the same.
Those of you still raising young ones, the day will dawn when you will reap what you've sown. And having gotten to know some of you, I can go to sleep tonight knowing the best is truly yet to come.
I can't believe I'm saying this, but....
Saw "The Nanny Diaries" -- surprisingy good.
Also saw "Mr. Bean's Holiday" -- and I like Rowan Atkinson, but never liked Mr Bean (tv or movie ) and --
this new one is a little classic. Sweet, funny, unpredictable, just a delight....
steve simels
There was some skepticism upthread about your thumbs-up for The Last Legion. Was it, in fact, not horrible?
NTodd, I'm just worn out. Both of them. They make me cry.
Nobody's allowed to leave! Halt!
You'll need to provide chocolate.
All movies suck. So does all music.
Thers
And all fiction.
doncjesuis
The good are rewarded and the bad are punished. This is what fiction means.
spinoza: jeez, they're not very philosophically aware, are they? Chasing their own tails in all that a posteriori stuff, blissfully unaware that they're adding nothing substantive whatever to the discussion...
It's like reading a lot of theology (I hope rmj is safely asleep and not lurking).
Buzzy, pass it on over.
Sallyh, Grandmere Poissonniere
Grey Goose with a twist. I'm out of vermouth.
You'll need to provide chocolate.
NTodd, Hungry For Mimi
Hungry for Mimi! So fickle are the NTodds of this world.
There was some skepticism upthread about your thumbs-up for The Last Legion. Was it, in fact, not horrible?
H said it was good and I believe him. He knows I'll fly up there and hunt him down if he lies to me.
Rocking opening credits of "Inside Man" now on HBO
NTodd, I'm just worn out. Both of them. They make me cry.
I understand.
{{{hugs}}}
Buzzy, don't worry about the Vermouth.
Just hand me the bottle.
Look, I already promised to brutally torture and murder her SIL. What the hell more does she need?
NTodd, Hungry For Mimi
Booze?
Echidne: nice post. Sometimes the snark just writes itself, doesn't it?
Hungry for Mimi! So fickle are the NTodds of this world.
Now that I've heard her voice, I can accept no substitute.
Bad poetry threads always bring out Toby's best...
Flaming doggerel.
JeffCo pisses me off in that he is always stealing jokes I haven't thought of yet. Fucking degenerate.
echidne-
That study was pure garbage. No controlling for culture, learning, and so the assumption is that women have this genetic predisposition to pink.
This is what fiction means.
Heh. C'est vrai.
Echidne: nice post. Sometimes the snark just writes itself, doesn't it?
Bless you, sweeting.
There was some skepticism upthread about your thumbs-up for The Last Legion. Was it, in fact, not horrible?
Buzz Bomb | 08.25.07 - 12:36 am | #
Best episode of XENA: WARRIOR PRINCESS ever.
Literally...it's directed by a guy from the show.
But it's Colin Firth and Ben Kingsley, fer crissakes.
nj: what's getting to you? Lord knows, if you feel like venting, there's enough of it here so that, unless you're eating live kittens or something, you won't give folk much pause...if it'd help, my email is KempsterMD@comcast.net...
Now that I've heard her voice, I can accept no substitute.
I have a funny accent, too. sulk
(fills third glass of Calvados and passes it to aangus)
AAarrrghhh!
You'll need to provide chocolate.
Double AAarrrghhhh!
sallyh {{{{{{{{good karma]]]]]]]]]]
Literally...it's directed by a guy from the show.
But it's Colin Firth and Ben Kingsley, fer crissakes.
I'm going to watch The Host in a moment. I'm in the mood for a good eatage movie.
The good are rewarded and the bad are punished. This is what fiction means.
Thers
Will this be on teh final exam?
I have a funny accent, too. sulk
Echidne
You must sing him the Finnish Worm Hymn.
Will this be on teh final exam?
You bet!
I'm too tired to be depressed.
sallyh has the chocolate, but she may need it more than you do tonight...
You must sing him the Finnish Worm Hymn.
He'd wear my ring forevermore. Don't ask where.
But I'm so freaking tired of all the crying and the emotional overload I get from them. I'm beyond worn out.
I hear you. I have reached a point in my life where I can't handle that stuff anymore either. I just want peace and tranquility at home. Which is probably why I live with just myself and two cats.
Your disadvantage is having 137 kids brkng all ur cmptrz and dsrptng ur nrl pthwyz.
I hear you. I have reached a point in my life where I can't handle that stuff anymore either. I just want peace and tranquility at home. Which is probably why I live with just myself and two cats.
I've noticed with several people that their ability to empathize and console is like an elastic band which snaps one day and that seems to be it. Not sure how common this is.
Best episode of XENA: WARRIOR PRINCESS ever.
I came to Burn Notice for Bruce Campbell, but I also stay for Gabrielle Anwar.
I'm actually feeling better than I have in a while. The trip to Acadia (Maine) helped. We'd been there many times, and it helped me connect to old as well as more recent happinesses...
Trouble In Paradise
Get ready for the big flip and *gasp* change in direction in Iraq with the WMD knight in shining armor coming to rescue the day...At least in right wing fantasies.
I just need a vacation. I'm sure everyone at at work wishes I'd go on vacation too.
Will this be on teh final exam?
I cannot do final exam till the goal posts stop moving.
Thanks for your encouragement, dear friends. I don't know what I'd do without you.
This semester isn't starting well, and just when you think things are going to be okay with the kids...
I don't know if my meds need tweaking, either.
I put up an overnight thread. I can take it down if Thers has a real post.
Now matter how many times I see Bulletproof Monk, the traitor monk never learns you Can't. Trust. Nazis.
I'm actually feeling better than I have in a while.
Glad to hear that. Sallyh, I will light a bright red candle for you for joy (or blood, if you wish) and a white one for calm and peace.
Anyway, have 7700+ students all starting to get on my case about why doesn't the library have 50+ copies of my textbook available to me for as long as I want?
'Night all.
That was ProfWombat, but thank you, Echidne.
Out of the night that covers me
Black as the pit from pole to pole
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Despite the bludgeonings of chance,
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this vale of wrath and tears
Lies but the horror of the shade,
And all the passing of the years
Finds, and shall find me, unafraid.
It matters not how straight the gate
Nor charged with punishment the scroll.
I am the master of my fate,
I am the captain of my soul.
William Ernest Henley
Hee, over at Think Progress, this headline - er.. blog topic:
Right-Wing Launches Assault Against Warner, Claims He ‘Hurts The Cause Of Freedom’
Didn't they say the same thing about the Dixie Chicks?
Excuse me, finally saw "Shut up and Sing" tonight.
I have a funny accent, too. sulk
So why haven't you called me?
That was ProfWombat, but thank you, Echidne.
Yes. Sorry for mixing the two messages into one post. Thanks for the poem, Wombat.
They can't afford to lose people like Warner, not even a little bit. And they know it.
Holy fuck, is anyone else watching Charlie Rose right now?!?
It's an upside down world inside Charlie's head.
Echidne: always a pleasure
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