Dance party!!
(waves at TRex) Have fun tonight hon!
(waves at TRex) Have fun tonight hon!
LoudounLib
Do you like my outfit? Do these pants make my tail look fat?
Oh no, not at all -- you look mahvelous. I haven't figured out how to quote a previous comment yet :-(
I'll explain it to you tomorrow, I promise.
Have a good night!
Hey, don't do anything WE wouldn't do -- IOW, tear it up out there tonight 
But we need you!!!
Have fun, and don't scuff your dancin' shoes!
he went dancing without us!!!
ack!
and i was gonna blog whore and everything!
http://frecklescassie.wordpress.com/
See what bad habits the young develop when they hang about such dens of iniquity as this?
;>)
No problemo, we'll just help ourselves to the beer and munchies in the fridge.
Hey, can we turn up your stereo?
See ya later....
Memories...not even leaving the house for a night out till 11, closing the club at 3, off to some gut busting eatery for really bad food, then home as the sun rises. Good times. At least I think they were, it's hard to remember now ;0)
hey oddmommy! I'd say we were both doing the same kinds of things at the same time in our lives *g*
ack -- make that "hi madmommy!"
sheesh!
Good post Cassie. The lack of mental health services is a HUGE problem in NOLA, and it's not gonna get better any time soon. But it's ok, these poor people can just go to the ER and everything will be just ducky.
LL, make it HI CASSIE!
I can do that too -- Hi Cassie!!
Hi Loudounlib!
Hey LL! I'm beginning to think I should change my nom de blog to help with confusion, but I kinda like it. What to do, what to do?
no, madmommy, keep your nom de blog -- I like it too, and I'm obviously confused enough already!
hey oddmommy! I'd say we were both doing the same kinds of things at the same time in our lives
Oh boy, let's tell war stories of our youthful indiscretions!!
You guys go first!!
Hi, y'all! TRex went dancin' without us?
Great opportunity. Let's decorate the treehouse and dress up the cats!
Oh boy, let's tell war stories of our youthful indiscretions!!
You guys go first!!
hwmnbn
Depends...is the statute of limitations expired?
SunnyNobility-
Ever tried to dress up a cat, especially a Siamese? The often do not appreciate it and it can become very painful for teh hooman very quickly :0)
LL
Depends on the infraction-are we talking felonies or misdemeanors
Yep madmommy -- just witness some of those dressed-up cats on Icanhascheezburger...they are not amused!
shit, he's not here and i wore a dress and makeup and everything.
LL says:
Oh no, not at all -- you look mahvelous. I haven't figured out how to quote a previous comment yet :-(
Highlight, copy, new comment, put in a blockquote tag, and paste. Don't forget to close the blockquote tag.
not me suzanne.
my pajamas and a sweatshirt
LL
Depends on the infraction-are we talking felonies or misdemeanors
madmommy
I'd better hush up for now, Cassie is still here! *g*
Cassie is having her own indescretions thank you!
hi burnsie, and thanks -- I may have stumbled upon how to quote, at least in a rudimentary fashion.
Rumor is, from comments in an earlier thread here, that Wordpress might be up and running for TRex early next week!
I like wordpress. Much better than this.
Hi Suz, you look mahvelous too 
Didn't dress up but this chair is rockin...good life!
Good nite!
Depends...is the statute of limitations expired?
Yep, at 3:30 pm, yesterday.
Depends on the infraction-are we talking felonies or misdemeanors?
Let's just stick with...
"seemed like a good idea at the time"
My misspent youth was all technically legal, as I hit the drinking age right before they raised it to 21. However, since I went to a very strict church college they sent spies to the local clubs trying to bust students breaking the rules. But Nashville has several colleges and universities and plenty of nite-life so it wasn't that hard to avoid the rats. Plus, they stuck out like sore thumbs. Everyone was dressed to dance and flirt, while they looked like a team of Mormons on bikes.
Let's just stick with...
"seemed like a good idea at the time"
hwmnbn
That was my philosophy back then
Yeah, when you have the munchies, stopping at the McDonald's on the corner of Bladensburg Road and New York Avenue at 2:00 a.m. seems like a good idea.
It's only when you get a look at that neighborhood in daylight that realize how f**king stupid that was.
At least that's the way it was in the late 70s.
We would go to Krystal's (similar to White Castle) if we were short on cash, Denny's if we were flush.
"...seemed like a good idea at the time."
The correct question is, "What do intelligent and responsible Republicans say about George Dubya Boosh?
burns -- ding!!!
I forget where we were, sometime in the late 70's, with a group of friends in someone's dad's car...we'd left Georgetown in the dead of night and got turned around somehow and ended up probably in far Southeast...one of the guys in the car looked out at the scene in the street and said "this road leads straight to hell!"
That was my philosophy back then
I wasn't into philosophy. My youth was geared more toward serious chemical research. Pity I wasn't in school at the time. 
All this talk of youthful indiscretions, and all of a sudden I remembered what the treehouse is lacking.
A foosball table!
LL-
707!! Very pithy remark for the circumstances.
Foosball would be awesome. And maybe a ping pong table.
madmommy, that's one line that has always stayed with me, 30 years later *g*
SunnyNobility-
Ever tried to dress up a cat, especially a Siamese? The often do not appreciate it and it can become very painful for teh hooman very quickly :0)
madmommy
--------
Awww.. not like dressing up a golden retriever, eh?
(actually, I thought you guys might bite I've got a black rescue kitteh with a big red caution sticker on his vet file - none of the other kittehs there have one. I'm *very* proud)
We can walk to Wendy's or Gatti's pizza.
I hardly ever drink anymore, but all this talk of youthful indiscretions has me jonesing for a 25 oz. can of Foster's. The drug of choice.
SN, what's the caution sticker for? A bit feisty or just generally cat-like?
Any truth to the rumor that Friday is Dollar Beer Night at the Treehouse?
And whose bogus ID did Cassie get in here on?
ain't no age limit for the treehouse!
Well shoot, since the host isn't here -- sure burns, dollar Fosters for you, dollar Stella for me.
Hiya All,
Missing the numbers on the comments...I tend to get lost. Dance party? How about those 70's bell-bottoms with embroidered flowers all over the rear? Talk about the clothes being wild.
Well, if that's all that's available, then beer it is. Hopefully there's something good in the fridge, maybe Newcastle? Turbo Dog?
Today was payday. I've got the first round for the house.
Who's got quarters for the jukebox?
Hey gang, I got peanuts in the shell for us to throw on the floor, some gluten free beer and diet cokes in the bag. Also, colored lights to string up just for fun.
Laura, any candy or cookies in that bag?
Christine, don't forget the platform shoes. My very first pair of high heels were platforms and I nearly broke my neck trying to learn how to walk in them. A giraffe on stilts is a fitting mental picture.
Yay, Laura is here with the party accoutrements
madmommy, betsy is going to bring platform shoes and a pink feather boah to her discogram next week.
There's something in the fridge, I'm not sure if it's jalapeno bean dip or Juan Carlos's breakfast.
Hey suzanne, wanna taste this?...
y'all want me to leave so you can do drugs and have sex with each other?
How about those 70's bell-bottoms with embroidered flowers all over the rear? Talk about the clothes being wild.
Christine
Hi Chris! A girl I went to school with had American flag bellbottoms...tres wild.
MM,
Oh yes, the platform shoes. Gosh, I remember feeling so tall -- I loved them. Quarters for jukebox let's go!
707 Cassie -- well no, you just stay right here!
Let's give it a shot-see if this works.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O...78F3B6&
index=33
YouTube - Little Feat,Bonnie Raitt- Dixie Chicken
Mad Mommy-
Bit the vet tech in the boob. She was not amused, even after it stopped bleeding.
y'all want me to leave so you can do drugs and have sex with each other?
No Cassie, that is soooo 1968ish. We're much more enlightened now.
Sigh, I've got to leave just when the jukebox is firing up :-( Must be at work early tomorrow. Y'all have a blast, hear? Good night!
Clapton and Winwood.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=E...feature=related
Now THAT is classic. Good Life's one of the best things to ever come out of Kevin Saunderson's / Inner City's studio -- second only to their seminal hit, Big Fun.
Good for Betsy, I am a believer in a positive outlook and you can't get much more upbeat than a feather boa and platform shoes!
Hey LL,
I got the cut and paste, but can't find the italics on my toolbar...hmm
Flags on bb -- I think we would put anything on those pants to shake, shake, shake.
SN, what did the vet tech do to the poor kitteh to make him bite her? Couldn't possibly have been kitteh's fault, there must have been provocation.
y'all want me to leave so you can do drugs and have sex with each other?
I thought you were the designated driver.
Where can I drive y'all to Burns?
Wonder how they got Jesse Winchester into the country for that taping with Little Feat.
Here's another question: after a comment, I'm back at the top. How do I get to the end of comments without scrolling down. Sorry for such dumb questions (this is only the second site I've ever made comments on, except FDL).
burns-backstory please? I was looking for a Bonnie Raitt clip when I found the Little Feat, just blown away by how young she and Emmy Lou looked.
Just drop me anywhere along East Sixth, Cassie, and I'll crawl back to the Driskill.
Little Feat, Emmy Lou Harris, Bonnie Rait, Stevie Winwood and Clapton...
I'm going to sound like old folks.
In my day, we had good music!!!
christine, mac's have fn-pgdown to get to the bottom and windows have and END key.
*Waving g'nite to LL. * Yep Cassie, I've got homemade choc. chip cookies, snicker doodles and chocolate-covered clementines.
ooops, fn-end on the mac.
Laura, do you need any new best friends????
burns-backstory please? I was looking for a Bonnie Raitt clip when I found the Little Feat, just blown away by how young she and Emmy Lou looked.
Jesse Winchester was a draft resister who went to Canada. I know he got pardoned by Carter, and I may have my dates wrong, but I thought it wasn't until some time after Lowell George died.
Thanks Cassie! Thank goodness for our youngest and most technical. And funniest!
Chris
mad mommy-
Said he didn't know better 'cause it's ok when he bites me.
Gee Cassie, I thought you already WERE a best friend! Silly me. There's plenty in the bag--it's like the tree house, its inside is bigger than its outside.
are you Laura DOTY?
Got it in one.
I had the timeline wrong. Winchester was part of the amnesty in 1977.
burns,
according to the clip it's a 1977 Midnight Special but doesn't say where it was taped.
So, Carter DID pardon Winchester, no?
Now, where to string up the lights...hey! Isn't that a moosehead in the corner? Oh, no, wait, I think it's a jackalope.....
are we getting a christmas tree? or wait until we move to wordpress?
Here's another from the wayback machine.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E...78F3B6&
index=29
We're IN a tree, right? It must be christmas all the time here, and never winter.
Hey Cassie,
I have another cyber-buddy who's your age. Her name is Ava Lowery and she has this site...
http://www.peacetakescourage.com
Both of you give me much hope for the future.
The kids are alright!
hwmnbn--- Ava and I are good friends. She is a year older than me and two years ahead in school. She blogged with us at Youthinkleft.com the first three weeks we had the blog, but we;re still friends. She's giving a big speech tonight at her state dem dinner.
Wow, all these oldies...
Here's my entry to establish my DFH creds...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p...h?
v=p6pphVs8bF0
The kids are alright!
Amen to that, hwmnbn. By the way, did you see that our dear Scarlet P is linked on her site? HOORAY, the demmed elusive Pimpernel is everywhere!
scarlet P was mentioned on rachel maddow's show yesterday
Okay, if we're going to go waaay back, here's mine:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X...h?
v=XWwF8WlIqlY
(That's neat news about Scarlet P, Cassie)
hwmnbn--- Ava and I are good friends.
It's a small cyber-world. You guys are terrific! You would've fit right in with our hippie nation. Except y'all are smarter.
I'm going to catch hell for this confession. I thought the freewayblogger was a guy!!
*hwmnbn dons his flame retardant suit and goes into defensive crouch*
Maybe we could get TRex to do this song the next time he gets inspired to go into the studio.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=L...feature=related
Scarlet P is a guy. There are pictures from the meetup at Suzanne's a few weeks ago. I had thought he was a she at first as well, with the name Scarlet, but then I got the Pimpernel reference and all became clear!
in the pics from the NorCal firepups meetup, the freewayblogger sure looked like a guy. And iirc, the Scarlet Pimpernel was a male character.
You were right. Scarlet P stands for Scarlet Pimpernel (I'm pretty sure), you know, the novel about the French Revolution. He was at Suz's nor cal FDL meetup a couple weeks ago.
I wasn't able to go (*sigh*) but it sure seems a good time was had by all....(there's pix somewhere in the fdl archives....11/17)
Good night. Go have the grown-up part of the party.
I am fading fast. Good night all, I'm taking my platform shoes with the goldfish in the heels and heading of to bed. Just hope I can make it down the ladder in these damn shoes!
I always preferred the Scarlet Pumpernickel.
http://duskman.files.wordpress.c...03/daffy-
pp.jpg
slip 'em off madmommy, smooth wood feels good on toes. MUCH better than a sprained ankle.
G'nite MM, g'nite Cassie,
That's because you have a rye sense of humor Burns!
Scarlet P is a guy
I knew it, I knew it, I KNEW IT!!
I'm so embarrassed now, it seems like my gender analyses criteria has some flaws.
burns, wouldn't that be the Scarlet P, P, Pumpernickel accompanied by clouds of saliva? I do loves me some Daffy!
All right, the shoes are off and I'm headed down the ladder for true!
remember in Dumbo when after a night of inebriation, our hero wakes up,
in a tree?
but he doesn't know how he got there ...
...
But a therapod couldn't fly ...
...
"Coming, Melissa!"
That's all, folks. Didn't get nearly enough sleep last night, and have an early day tomorrow (the Duke game comes on a 9:00 Pacific time, and I want to have as many errands and chores as possible done before then).
See y'all soon.
Dang, all the cool ones hang here now...
Cassie left, right?
*hands bong to Suzanne*
I'll get it from you tomorrow. You look fabulous in that dress, by the way.
Sweet dreams, B.
Hi CT, hi YD J! I'm slipping off, too....worn out from 2 classes at the dojo. Hope everyone has a good weekend. (Whoever leaves last, don't forget to unplug the lights, please!)
sweet dreams dreamt sweet, laura
Isn't this the scarlet p "he's here, he's there, he's everywhere..."?
Gonna saunter home now - nite all
Alright folks. I'm makin' another run.
Be back in a few....
"they seek him here, they seek him there,
those frenchies seek him everywhere.
Be he in heaven, be he in hell,
that demmed elusive Pimpernel."
A youth spent drowned in books.
Now good night for reals. Sweet dreams to writers and lurkers.
Go Duke -- whip Davidson (and hire Paul Johnson!)
Did TRex seriously leave us unsupervised in his treehouse ... Hah hah hah ... rubbing hands with glee ...
Evenin' all !
Let's pah- tay !!!
h/t laura. mebbe I read the cliff notes (or the comic) 
how many people can the tree swing hold?
Did TRex seriously leave us unsupervised in his treehouse ... Hah hah hah ... rubbing hands with glee ...
Evenin' all !
Let's pah- tay !!!
Petrocelli | 12.01.07 - 1:04 am | #
Hey, Let's!!! Not that late, OK?
OK Christine, it's a deal ... except I think everyone else has gone to sleep ...
Hi Petro! Hi everybody! great to see yall again.
elaine (f/k/a oddmommy
Hi guys,
Just checking in but am on my way out. You carry on and party as long as you want. I'm tired
See you on the flip side.
Hiya Elaine, how have you been ?
hey does anybody know what jane is talking about over at FDL? Goodbye??? WTF?
She's planning a good surprise, you can be sure.
in the comments,
Suzanne sounds reassuring
and selise offers hints from emptywheel and dave neiwert
that it seems "known" that FDL is in for some sort of makeover or other.
see http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/11/30/goodbye/
#comment-1126255
we are promised this is a good thing.
jane's was more like taunted.
...
1:42 a.m. Hey, I don't know how to do anything here, including the TIME. Dear Petrocelli, I'm totally confused here.
About the surprise at FDL...
I got a good vibe...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l...h?
v=l4kMnMM2Fmk
I do think folks deserve better than being treated like 5 year olds. Just sayin.
Geeze, I stay up late watching a DVD and more changes for FDL. I gotta keep up better!
I do think folks deserve better than being treated like 5 year olds.
I think this is fun.
I've been lurking on FDL since the Libby trial, posting infrequently, but I've always felt a part of the Lake.
You can say I have a 5-year old's trust in this community. Because they've restored my belief in this country.
"...*hands bong to Suzanne*..."
Smooth move, Burns
;>)
Hey,
TRex is still dancing?!?
So here everyone is...
At least the real late, late crew.
This has been a very confusing blog couple of days.
This past week has been hard on my comfy notion of blogdom.
I hate having two browsers open and trying to figure out how much attention should be paid to which blog. Help!!!
I'm just glad I was around for the changes, instead of getting totally sideswiped.
You can say I have a 5-year old's trust in this community. Because they've restored my belief in this country.
hwmnbn
this is exactly what IS called for.
Right On!
jane and christy Have earned that.
This past week has been hard on my comfy notion of blogdom.
Shadowstalker | 12.01.07 - 2:48 am | #
Yes.
Are we being moderated? Hmmmmm.
TRex said he'd like to leave it unmoderated as long as nutcases don't invade.
I'm a nutcase, hope I don't count.
OK, unfriendly nutcases, lol.
I'm a nutcase, hope I don't count.
I'm pretty sure he meant wingnut cases. Most likely you're cool.
wingnut cases
looks like FDL has shut down - change be happenin'?
Good morning. All will be well.
morning!
so nice of trex to leave the door unlocked, so we have a place to gather while the renovations (or whatever it is) are going on.
egr - when will your puac post go up at fdl?
*sigh*
Everyone's in the treehouse...
Think it'll hold us all?
iThink it'll hold us all?
sure - after all it's trex's place!
Y'all still here? I'll come on up.
so .... the new FDL has comments closed? hmmmmm....... not liking the other side quite so much ..... but i will give it time
Well feel free to check out the news and blog posts at reality based news ---- soon to be moving to Powers & Morrison. http://www.youthinkleft.com/news/
Up early, checking the treehouse for signs of what Jane is up to at FDL. I do like the foosball table.
Morning Ellen.
Good morning TRexians! Wow, big doings afoot all over: gates locked at the lake, the new treehouse, I am a bit overwhelmed. I was happy in my little rut, now everything's discombobulated. Nevertheless, change can be a good thing and I will reserve judgement till I see how it all shakes out.
BTW Betsy, digging your blog, great way to catch alot of wide ranging news and info. Between you, Cassie and TexTeen the center of the blogging universe seems to be shifting towards Austin ;0)
Thanks madmom. As of yesterday, even my dad has agreed to check out our work sometimes.
How Ronald Reagan caused the hostage situation at Hillary’s headquarters
from Feministe by Jay
Several of Hillary Clinton’s campaign workers were held hostage yesterday at her headquarters in Rochester, New Hampshire, and Ronald Reagan bears at least part of the blame. Richard Kim explains at The Nation - Reagan started to dismantle state-funded mental health care without creating an alternate system, and subsequent administrations have only made the problem worse.
http://www.feministe.us/blog/arc...s-headquarters/
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