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1 windsagio  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 6:13:58pm

I'm pretty ignorant of music but; This is great, should I know who these guys are?

Also bonus points for paper cutout imagery!

2 albusteve  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 6:15:09pm

so what is the meaning of the renegade white suit guy?....Paul is dead?

3 windsagio  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 6:20:12pm

kinda makes me think of this (dunno why):

4 freetoken  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 6:27:13pm

Good news... it looks like Cox has opened up the pipes a bit... I'm now getting 15Mbs download, and 1.5Mbs upload. However, I think they're going to charge me an extra $1/mo for it.

5 Obdicut  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 6:30:25pm

For anyone who's never run into the amazing jazz poet Nordine:


6 windsagio  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 6:31:22pm

re: #5 Obdicut

yeah I'd never seen that... its really something.

7 The Left  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 6:34:10pm

Has this been posted yet?

Rep. Trent Franks: African-Americans were better off under slavery.

Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ) — one of the most conservative member of Congress, according to a new National Journal ranking — decried the strained state of political discourse in an interview today with blogger-activist Mike Stark. While defending hate radio host Rush Limbaugh, Franks said bipartisanship and “true tolerance” is about “being halfway decent to each other in spite of the differences.” But when the conversation turned to abortion, Franks made a clearly indecent comment, claiming that African-Americans were probably better off under slavery than they are today:

FRANK: In this country, we had slavery for God knows how long. And now we look back on it and we say “How brave were they? What was the matter with them? You know, I can’t believe, you know, four million slaves. This is incredible.” And we’re right, we’re right. We should look back on that with criticism. It is a crushing mark on America’s soul. And yet today, half of all black children are aborted. Half of all black children are aborted. Far more of the African-American community is being devastated by the policies of today than were being devastated by policies of slavery. And I think, What does it take to get us to wake up?

More:
Rep. Trent Franks: Blacks Better Off Under Slavery

Arizona Congressman Trent Franks told blogger Mike Stark that African Americans were much better off under slavery. Franks, the most conservative member of the Republican caucus, who has in the past called the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision "the greatest holocaust in the history of mankind," is not new to conspiracy and bigotry.

Last October for example, Franks accused a prominent Muslim advocacy group of "trying to infiltrate the offices of members of Congress by placing interns in the offices." Franks, an on-again, off-again birther, has called president Obama "un-American," accused him of going "against American interests" and even called him "an enemy of humanity." His comments to Stark, as repulsive and abhorrent as they are, seem to be consistent with the reactionary mindset that some on the right hold.

Video at either link. Stay KKKlassy, Trent!

8 Obdicut  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 6:34:10pm

re: #6 windsagio

He does the whole spectrum.

Here's a different kick of his, much creepier:

9 Decatur Deb  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 6:38:47pm

re: #3 windsagio

kinda makes me think of this (dunno why):


[Video]

And that is very much like this, but 60 yrs younger:

10 The Sanity Inspector  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 6:40:23pm

re: #1 windsagio

I'm pretty ignorant of music but; This is great, should I know who these guys are?

Also bonus points for paper cutout imagery!

If you like 80s music, you might know them from this hit:

11 albusteve  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 6:40:35pm

since this is a music thread I will do you all a favor....

Sweet Jane....live
for guitar lovers, like me

12 Decatur Deb  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 6:41:45pm

re: #9 Decatur Deb

PIMF. Make that 79 yrs.

13 Bagua  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 6:43:22pm

Wear your love like heaven


- Donavan
14 Unakite  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 6:44:00pm

For informational purposes, responses to the UK Parliament Science and Technology Committee's investigation into the disclosure of UEA climate info can be found here:

The disclosure of climate data from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia

This is not pro- or anti-AGW. Comments from both sides are included.

15 windsagio  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 6:44:56pm

re: #10 The Sanity Inspector

YEs, yes, I am familiiar with that ;)

16 albusteve  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 6:47:36pm

is this the FNDT?

17 Obdicut  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 6:48:19pm

re: #14 Unakite

Nifty. I like this one, from the MET office:

What are the implications of the disclosures for the integrity of scientific research?

1. The UK enjoys a reputation for strong and robust science on the international stage. In the field of climate research the Met Office is widely acknowledged as world leading.

2. Whilst it would be arrogant to assume that any system or process is perfect, the codes and processes in place to govern science research across the UK, laid down by the Government Office for Science, the UK Research Integrity Office and Research Councils UK, form a comprehensive framework within which science research is produced and debated. In addition, the Met Office also adheres fully to the Civil Service Code and operates to the highest standards of integrity and transparency.

3. All published science is subjected to a rigorous process of peer review: a well-established method by which scientific evidence and claims, and importantly the methodology behind these, are scrutinised by qualified experts in the field. Peer review also promotes and maintains open debate across the science community - crucial to further developments in science.

4. Transparency and integrity are vital components in maintaining the Met Office's, and the UK's, position at the leading edge in climate science and we have wherever possible, but dependant on IPR ownership, released the underlying land temperature component used in the HadCRUT analysis. The Met Office's sea temperature component has been widely available for some time.

How independent are the other two international data sets?

5. There is strong evidence that the globe has warmed. Three independent global temperature data sets, HadCRUT, NCDC and NASA-GISS, all clearly demonstrate the rise in global temperatures over the last 150 years. Despite the large differences in the methods used to estimate global temperature trends, these blended analyses are consistent in their view of global temperature change.

6. There are numerous studies in the peer-reviewed literature that attest to the robustness of the surface temperature records, their independence and their non-reliance on specific individual station records. Support for the reality of surface trends also comes from reanalyses and changes in ocean heat content, glaciers, humidity and a host of other indicators including phenological data. Indicators from meteorological, oceanographic and physical measurements are strongly consistent with the surface temperature records discussed above.

7. The data come from numerous different technologies and have been investigated by numerous independent groups. Where multiple datasets exist for a given parameter none fundamentally disagrees with the expected signal for a warming world. For the surface records to be wrong would require all these other analyses to be similarly wrong.

8. Annex A provides a detailed explanation of the differences between the analyses with respect to data sourcing and methodology.

18 Aye Pod  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 6:48:46pm

re: #7 iceweasel

And yet today, half of all black children are aborted. Half of all black children are aborted. Far more of the African-American community is being devastated by the policies of today than were being devastated by policies of slavery. And I think, What does it take to get us to wake up?

sPeAk you're bRaNes, Mr Franks!

19 Gus  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 6:49:40pm

re: #7 iceweasel

Has this been posted yet?

Rep. Trent Franks: African-Americans were better off under slavery.

Video at either link. Stay KKKlassy, Trent!

KT posted the video this afternoon. Trent Franks is an imbecile however he's one of many single issue and small minded GOP members of congress. I just laugh to myself when I think about how while I'm not happy with the performance of the Democrats in congress and then they trot out these rehashed mental midgets like Franks as the alternative.

20 freetoken  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 6:49:51pm

The Greece fiscal problem is taking an unexpected turn to the ugly:

Greece's Debt Crisis: Blaming Nazi Germany


It's not quite World War III, but tension over Greece's debt crisis has ignited a battle of words between Athens and Berlin, reopening old wounds and raising the specter of Nazism. As Greece struggles to avoid default, and Germans debate whether to bail out their spendthrift neighbor, the question of what, if anything, Germany owes Greece for the past has become a topic of bitter debate and angry mutterings in the southern European nation.

[...]

But it was Athens' oft-intemperate mayor, Nikitas Kaklamanis, who upped the ante by invoking the ghosts of Greece's war dead: "Ms Merkel, you owe us for Kalavryta, you owe us for Distomo, you owe us �70 billion ($95 billion) for the ruins you left us," he said, referring to two World War II incidents in which hundreds of Greeks were massacred in reprisal attacks by German soldiers.

[...]

The past still haunts us today.

21 albusteve  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 6:50:06pm

I guess not

22 Gus  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 6:51:01pm

re: #21 albusteve

I guess not

Earth First!!11!!1
Al Gore!1111
John.F.Kerrryyy!!!!!

23 The Left  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 6:51:54pm

re: #18 Jimmah

sPeAk you're bRaNes, Mr Franks!

Heh. For people who aren't aware, that is the title of this hilarious website, which pulls all the 'best' quotes from the BBC "Have Your Say" site.

I think the "about" there captures it the best:

A collection of ignorance, narcissism, stupidity, hypocrisy and bad grammar.
All the comments quoted were found on the BBC "Have Your Say" site. Yes, people really have written them. On purpose as far as I can tell.
24 albusteve  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 6:52:15pm

re: #22 Gus 802

Earth First!!11!!1
Al Gore!1111
John.F.Kerrryyy!!!

that was a great old tradition...big fun

25 Velvet Elvis  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 6:54:28pm

We saw the Finn Brothers at a fairly small club in Nashville a few years back and it was one of the best live shows I've ever been too. Yay Crowded House.

26 Decatur Deb  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 6:55:21pm

re: #21 albusteve

I guess not

FNDT...What is "D"?

27 Velvet Elvis  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 6:56:52pm

re: #1 windsagio

I'm pretty ignorant of music but; This is great, should I know who these guys are?

Also bonus points for paper cutout imagery!

You might know them from this one:

28 MandyManners  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 6:57:15pm

"I expect a scorched-earth, smoking, radioactive wasteland, a post-apocalypic Mad Max hellscape."

Rick Wilson musta' been a court-house follower leading up to my divorce.

29 MandyManners  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 6:57:29pm

re: #26 Decatur Deb

FNDT...What is "D"?

DRINKING.

30 Gus  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 6:58:41pm

Just spent 16 bucks on a 14 inch pizza that's nothing to really crow about. Too much moola if you ask me.

31 Decatur Deb  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 6:59:01pm

re: #29 MandyManners

DRINKING.

Wow!!! Like synchronicity, mam. I'm 2 ahead.

32 Unakite  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 6:59:13pm

re: #17 Obdicut

Nifty. I like this one, from the MET office:

That's a good one.

33 Velvet Elvis  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 6:59:38pm

re: #11 albusteve

from the 2007 Berlin tour, back with Steve Hunter:

34 The Left  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 6:59:54pm

re: #30 Gus 802

Just spent 16 bucks on a 14 inch pizza that's nothing to really crow about. Too much moola if you ask me.

What's on it?

35 Gus  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:00:33pm

re: #34 iceweasel

What's on it?

Mushrooms and pepperoni that I can barely see. I had to squint to see. Like I said it's not even that great.

36 Aye Pod  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:00:41pm

re: #23 iceweasel

Heh. For people who aren't aware, that is the title of this hilarious website, which pulls all the 'best' quotes from the BBC "Have Your Say" site.

That website is awesome :) Of course, as you know, the original source of the phrase is Chris Morris's classic 90's satirical news programme "the Day Today" :

37 MandyManners  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:00:53pm

re: #30 Gus 802

Just spent 16 bucks on a 14 inch pizza that's nothing to really crow about. Too much moola if you ask me.

Well, you're paying for the ingredients as well as the labor. If it was delivered, you're paying for that, too.

38 reine.de.tout  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:01:11pm

re: #29 MandyManners

DRINKING.

Tomorrow evening I'm going with a group of friends to a place where we will be given painting supplies, and a "lesson" which is supposed to guide us through to a finished painting.

Given that most of us have absolutely no artistic talent whatsoever, AND given that the instructions are for each of us to bring a bottle of wine for refreshment during our session, I have a really odd feeling that the finished products may not be exactly professional.

39 laZardo  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:02:03pm

Hey now, hey now....

/embedding disabled

//also gdafternoon

40 Gus  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:02:04pm

re: #37 MandyManners

Well, you're paying for the ingredients as well as the labor. If it was delivered, you're paying for that, too.

I picked it up. And tipped 2 bucks. So that's 18 dollars for a little old pizza. I did fanagle a free liter of Diet Coke. I know the guy that works there.

41 Racer X  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:02:23pm
42 Gus  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:02:39pm

re: #40 Gus 802

I picked it up. And tipped 2 bucks. So that's 18 dollars for a little old pizza. I did fanagle a free liter of Diet Coke. I know the guy that works there.

Oops. Pepsi! No Coke. /

43 wee fury  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:03:02pm

Whiskey You're the Devil

44 MandyManners  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:03:14pm

re: #38 reine.de.tout

Tomorrow evening I'm going with a group of friends to a place where we will be given painting supplies, and a "lesson" which is supposed to guide us through to a finished painting.

Given that most of us have absolutely no artistic talent whatsoever, AND given that the instructions are for each of us to bring a bottle of wine for refreshment during our session, I have a really odd feeling that the finished products may not be exactly professional.

Sounds like a blast!

45 Decatur Deb  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:03:22pm

re: #38 reine.de.tout

Tomorrow evening I'm going with a group of friends to a place where we will be given painting supplies, and a "lesson" which is supposed to guide us through to a finished painting.

Given that most of us have absolutely no artistic talent whatsoever, AND given that the instructions are for each of us to bring a bottle of wine for refreshment during our session, I have a really odd feeling that the finished products may not be exactly professional.

Birmingham Daughter did that. Produced painting of wine glasses.

46 Unakite  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:03:46pm

re: #30 Gus 802

Just spent 16 bucks on a 14 inch pizza that's nothing to really crow about. Too much moola if you ask me.

Digiorno from the grocery store. Still not much to crow about, but half the price. :-)

47 jaunte  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:04:02pm

re: #38 reine.de.tout

Go for asymmetry, and lots of diagonals. Should be fine!

48 Decatur Deb  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:04:19pm

re: #43 wee fury

Long a favorite.

49 MandyManners  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:04:36pm

re: #40 Gus 802

I picked it up. And tipped 2 bucks. So that's 18 dollars for a little old pizza. I did fanagle a free liter of Diet Coke. I know the guy that works there.

Can't help you there, Gus.

BTW, how much of that pizza goes to pay for the ingredients, electricity, labor, OSHA rules, et cet.?

50 The Left  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:04:48pm

re: #35 Gus 802

Mushrooms and pepperoni that I can barely see. I had to squint to see. Like I said it's not even that great.

Sorry to hear that. Excellent toppings choice, though!

51 windsagio  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:04:56pm

Can somebody help me?

I'm trying ot remmeber which Yes Tour in the 70's/80's had the ludicrous sets that cost so much that the tour was a financial disaster

(presuming its not an urban legend)

Anybody know?

52 Decatur Deb  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:05:21pm

re: #49 MandyManners

Can't help you there, Gus.

BTW, how much of that pizza goes to pay for the ingredients, electricity, labor, OSHA rules, et cet.?

Do you want a pie chart?

53 reine.de.tout  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:05:29pm

re: #44 MandyManners

Sounds like a blast!

It does, doesn't it?
There are 30 of us.


re: #47 jaunte

Go for asymmetry, and lots of diagonals. Should be fine!

We are painting "French Quarter Doors". I saw the painting, it should be simple enough for most of us. Depending on amount of wine.

54 albusteve  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:05:54pm

re: #33 Conservative Moonbat

from the 2007 Berlin tour, back with Steve Hunter:


[Video]

pretty good, but Hunter and Dick Wagner were a trip....classic

55 Gus  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:06:01pm

re: #49 MandyManners

Can't help you there, Gus.

BTW, how much of that pizza goes to pay for the ingredients, electricity, labor, OSHA rules, et cet.?

I didn't want to get into the regulatory end of things. Guess the price of pizza went up when I wasn't looking. Been getting it at the grocery store.

56 The Left  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:06:19pm

re: #52 Decatur Deb

Do you want a pie chart?

I'm thinking of making a pie chart listing my favourite bars, and a bar chart listing my favourite pies...

57 Killgore Trout  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:06:27pm

re: #38 reine.de.tout

Tomorrow evening I'm going with a group of friends to a place where we will be given painting supplies, and a "lesson" which is supposed to guide us through to a finished painting.

Given that most of us have absolutely no artistic talent whatsoever, AND given that the instructions are for each of us to bring a bottle of wine for refreshment during our session, I have a really odd feeling that the finished products may not be exactly professional.

My mom took up painting a few years ago when she retired. She's now obsessed with watercolors. I still can't believe how much she loves it. I was an artistic kid, always painting drawing and making music while she was always a hard ass workaholic. I'm glad she's finally discovered her artistic side but it still strikes me as odd. She openly detested my artistic obsession and now she's infected too.

58 MandyManners  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:06:31pm

re: #52 Decatur Deb

Do you want a pie chart?

With pepperoni, sausage and lotsa' onions?!

59 Gus  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:06:33pm

re: #50 iceweasel

Sorry to hear that. Excellent toppings choice, though!

Thanks.

60 reine.de.tout  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:06:33pm

re: #45 Decatur Deb

Birmingham Daughter did that. Produced painting of wine glasses.

Did it come out nicely?
We could have done one of wine glasses. But we voted for the French Quarter Doors (lots of straight lines, bold colors).

61 Velvet Elvis  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:06:43pm

re: #46 Unakite

Digiorno from the grocery store. Still not much to crow about, but half the price. :-)

Our thing is to get a Tony's cheese pizza or whatever you can get for $3-$4 and put a bag of frozen broccoli and cauliflower on top of it with some fresh basil and olive oil. It's better than a dirt cheap pizza, cheaper that Digorno and you still feel like you cooked something. Kinda.

62 Obdicut  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:07:19pm

re: #55 Gus 802

And extra-large (which is good for six people) costs us $24 delivered and tipped, with two toppings, from a freaking scrumptious place. Oh, and for anyone who doesn't know it:

[Link: eat24hours.com...]

It really works. The restaurants have to sign up for it, though.

63 Racer X  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:07:20pm

re: #51 windsagio

Can somebody help me?

I'm trying ot remmeber which Yes Tour in the 70's/80's had the ludicrous sets that cost so much that the tour was a financial disaster

(presuming its not an urban legend)

Anybody know?

I saw them "In The Round" at UCLA. Whole stage spun around.

64 MandyManners  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:07:58pm

re: #55 Gus 802

I didn't want to get into the regulatory end of things. Guess the price of pizza went up when I wasn't looking. Been getting it at the grocery store.

We sometimes do pizza on Sunday nights but, I gotta' tell you that I miss the days in college.

65 reine.de.tout  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:08:12pm

re: #57 Killgore Trout

My mom took up painting a few years ago when she retired. She's now obsessed with watercolors. I still can't believe how much she loves it. I was an artistic kid, always painting drawing and making music while she was always a hard ass workaholic. I'm glad she's finally discovered her artistic side but it still strikes me as odd. She openly detested my artistic obsession and now she's infected too.

I'm so glad for your mom!
Watercolors are special, imo. I love 'em. I have some bayou scenes in watercolor by a long-dead relative who was very talented, and I'm just so thrilled to have them.

66 windsagio  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:08:15pm

re: #63 Racer X

I think that's the one >> Thanks!

67 Decatur Deb  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:08:21pm

re: #60 reine.de.tout

Did it come out nicely?
We could have done one of wine glasses. But we voted for the French Quarter Doors (lots of straight lines, bold colors).

What do you call "refrigerator art" when they're 30 yrs old?

68 Gus  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:08:24pm

re: #62 Obdicut

And extra-large (which is good for six people) costs us $24 delivered and tipped, with two toppings, from a freaking scrumptious place. Oh, and for anyone who doesn't know it:

[Link: eat24hours.com...]

It really works. The restaurants have to sign up for it, though.

I could have been Mr. Creosote for the evening!

/

69 Killgore Trout  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:08:42pm

re: #51 windsagio

Can somebody help me?

I'm trying ot remmeber which Yes Tour in the 70's/80's had the ludicrous sets that cost so much that the tour was a financial disaster

(presuming its not an urban legend)

Anybody know?

Could be the Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman and Howe tour (Tony Levin on bass but he didn't get a listing in the title). It was a Yes spinoff that flopped. Large stadium tour with lots of sets with a stage "in the round".

70 reine.de.tout  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:08:49pm

re: #67 Decatur Deb

What do you call "refrigerator art" when they're 30 yrs old?

too much wine at the painting session.
LOL.
That'll be mine.

71 albusteve  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:09:42pm

re: #40 Gus 802

I picked it up. And tipped 2 bucks. So that's 18 dollars for a little old pizza. I did fanagle a free liter of Diet Coke. I know the guy that works there.


you got ripped...my Chinese pizza family down the road treats me right....for 12 bucks I get a huge pizza with anything on it I want....three minutes from the bunkhouse...I love this town

72 windsagio  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:09:45pm

In other news, I finally found that awesome Get Fuzzy political joke strip I've been looking for forever!


Bask in the glorious funny

73 Gus  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:09:52pm

re: #46 Unakite

Digiorno from the grocery store. Still not much to crow about, but half the price. :-)

I like Freschetta. Although the Safeway Selects are pretty decent.

74 Gus  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:10:29pm

re: #71 albusteve

you got ripped...my Chinese pizza family down the road treats me right...for 12 bucks I get a huge pizza with anything on it I want...three minutes from the bunkhouse...I love this town

Yeah, I imagine it's cheaper down there.

75 albusteve  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:10:59pm

re: #43 wee fury

Whiskey You're the Devil

[Video]

hey! hoy!....I love it!

76 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:11:10pm

Superman Is Ethiopian

Mild mannered Addissu Andabo, disguised as a common auto mechanic, was driving to work when he noticed a crashed vehicle in flames with a woman trapped inside. At this point, I assume he jumped into a nearby telephone booth and changed into an outfit made out of the blanket he was wrapped in when he was sent to Earth.

77 Aye Pod  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:12:03pm

M.I.A. - "Jimmy"

78 MandyManners  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:12:05pm
79 Obdicut  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:12:18pm

re: #76 Slumbering Behemoth

That reminds me of this terrifying but heroic video:

And now I"m out.

(and no, that wasn't the first salvo.)

80 The Shadow Do  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:12:56pm

Hoops ain't here so probably no one cares but ...

After taking the Lakers a couple of nights ago, the Dallas Mavs just played an awesome game against Atlanta (111-103 in OT).

Down 15 in the 4th, Jason Kidd takes over.

This may be one of the few truly all time greats of the game. I can count them on one hand.

Some stats from tonight:
* 37 years old
* 19 points
* 16 rebounds
* 17 assists

Did I mention he is 37 years old? You know you love this. Unless you are a kid of course.

81 Gus  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:13:23pm

Hey! It's a Moola Moola fish. Kind of looks like... a thing.

82 MandyManners  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:13:58pm

re: #76 Slumbering Behemoth

Superman Is Ethiopian

What's the highest honor the State of Texas can give to a civilian?

83 Unakite  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:14:47pm

re: #51 windsagio

Can somebody help me?

I'm trying ot remmeber which Yes Tour in the 70's/80's had the ludicrous sets that cost so much that the tour was a financial disaster

(presuming its not an urban legend)

Anybody know?

I saw Yes here in Virginia (twice; awesome), but don't think that was the tour. May have been their Japanese tour. Tales from Topographic Oceans? Don't know, but a place to start looking from.

84 reine.de.tout  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:15:04pm

re: #81 Gus 802

Hey! It's a Moola Moola fish. Kind of looks like... a thing.

Looks like a flounder.

85 The Sanity Inspector  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:15:06pm

re: #69 Killgore Trout

Could be the Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman and Howe tour (Tony Levin on bass but he didn't get a listing in the title). It was a Yes spinoff that flopped. Large stadium tour with lots of sets with a stage "in the round".

I seem to remember a Yes tour from that time, or maybe later, in which on some dates they were reduced to giving 2 for 1 tickets, because they were stiffing at the box office.

86 laZardo  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:15:10pm

"CHANGE!" - now an Actual Tory Slogan

87 MandyManners  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:15:13pm

You're the hardest thing I ever tried to get off my mind.

88 Walter L. Newton  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:15:25pm

re: #35 Gus 802

Mushrooms and pepperoni that I can barely see. I had to squint to see. Like I said it's not even that great.

Have you ever had an Anthony's Pizza, they are all over town. He's from NYC and it's the first time in 20 years that I could actually get NYC styled pizza that was truly a NYC styled pizza.

A bit pricey, but very authentic. We even have one up here in the hills at 8000 thousand feet (must be harder to make the dough rise). He has about 20 shops in the Metro Denver area.

89 Decatur Deb  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:15:28pm

re: #82 MandyManners

What's the highest honor the State of Texas can give to a civilian?

Commuted sentence.

90 Kragar  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:15:34pm

re: #87 MandyManners

You're the hardest thing I ever tried to get off my mind.

in bed.

91 Walter L. Newton  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:15:59pm

re: #80 The Shadow Do

Hoops ain't here so probably no one cares but ...

After taking the Lakers a couple of nights ago, the Dallas Mavs just played an awesome game against Atlanta (111-103 in OT).

Down 15 in the 4th, Jason Kidd takes over.

This may be one of the few truly all time greats of the game. I can count them on one hand.

Some stats from tonight:
* 37 years old
* 19 points
* 16 rebounds
* 17 assists

Did I mention he is 37 years old? You know you love this. Unless you are a kid of course.

I care... I like hockey.

92 Randall Gross  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:16:07pm

Shout Out Louds -- Fall Hard

93 albusteve  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:16:09pm

re: #84 reine.de.tout

Looks like a flounder.

too far south by the looks of it

94 Gus  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:16:58pm

re: #88 Walter L. Newton

Have you ever had an Anthony's Pizza, they are all over town. He's from NYC and it's the first time in 20 years that I could actually get NYC styled pizza that was truly a NYC styled pizza.

A bit pricey, but very authentic. We even have one up here in the hills at 8000 thousand feet (must be harder to make the dough rise). He has about 20 shops in the Metro Denver area.

Anthony's? No. Just Pasquini's. This one was from Pudge Brothers.

I'll keep Anthony's in mind though.

95 reine.de.tout  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:17:05pm

re: #93 albusteve

too far south by the looks of it

And it's got what looks like flippers instead of that fin or whatever the flounder has down its back.

96 albusteve  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:17:11pm

re: #89 Decatur Deb

Commuted sentence.

heh...I actually tried for that very thing, but it wouldn't come to me

97 The Sanity Inspector  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:17:21pm

re: #82 MandyManners

What's the highest honor the State of Texas can give to a civilian?

A one-way air ticket to--*SLAP!*...plop...

98 Gus  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:17:31pm

re: #84 reine.de.tout

Looks like a flounder.

It does. Or a concrete paver with fins. /

99 Decatur Deb  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:17:48pm

re: #96 albusteve

GMTA

100 The Shadow Do  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:18:09pm

re: #91 Walter L. Newton

I care... I like hockey.

Tuned into the USA olympic game today in the 2nd period. 6-0 USA? Holy crap. Game over and I just got there.

101 Walter L. Newton  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:18:26pm

re: #94 Gus 802

Anthony's? No. Just Pasquini's. This one was from Pudge Brothers.

I'll keep Anthony's in mind though.

One of our company actresses at the theatre works there.

102 Walter L. Newton  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:18:43pm

re: #101 Walter L. Newton

One of our company actresses at the theatre works there.

Pasquini that is.

103 MandyManners  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:19:00pm
104 Unakite  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:19:01pm

re: #61 Conservative Moonbat

Our thing is to get a Tony's cheese pizza or whatever you can get for $3-$4 and put a bag of frozen broccoli and cauliflower on top of it with some fresh basil and olive oil. It's better than a dirt cheap pizza, cheaper that Digorno and you still feel like you cooked something. Kinda.

Hey, I suggested Digiorno for mediocrity at half the price. But I like Tony's. Extra cheese, red pepper, and dinner. I like your idea, but never tried it.

105 Walter L. Newton  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:19:17pm

re: #100 The Shadow Do

Tuned into the USA olympic game today in the 2nd period. 6-0 USA? Holy crap. Game over and I just got there.

They play basketball at the winter Olympics?

106 MandyManners  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:19:19pm

re: #89 Decatur Deb

Commuted sentence.

SNORT.

107 The Left  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:19:24pm

re: #74 Gus 802

Yeah, I imagine it's cheaper down there.

I went something like 4 years not eating pizza, not for any specific reason. For the last two months I've been eating it like once a week, out of an overwhelming fear of what pizza in Scotland must be like and the knowledge that it'll be a few years before I can eat NYC pizza again....Time to learn how to make it!

108 Gus  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:19:33pm

re: #101 Walter L. Newton

One of our company actresses at the theatre works there.

I used to go there a lot for a couple of years.

109 MandyManners  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:19:42pm

re: #90 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Well, now.

*ahem*

110 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:20:06pm

re: #79 Obdicut

That reminds me of this terrifying but heroic video:


[Video]And now I"m out.

(and no, that wasn't the first salvo.)

Wow, that is as real as it gets. Hats off to the average Joe's and Jane's of this world who step up like that.

111 jaunte  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:20:08pm

re: #98 Gus 802

It does. Or a concrete paver with fins. /

The species name, mola is Latin for millstone, but the Germans call it the Schwimmender Kopf (swimming head).

112 albusteve  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:20:10pm

re: #94 Gus 802

Anthony's? No. Just Pasquini's. This one was from Pudge Brothers.

I'll keep Anthony's in mind though.

it's surprising to me that people will spend big money on terrible pizza....if you're interested it's not hard to bake a pretty good pie...in all of ABQ, the food capital of the SW, there are few good pizza joints

113 MandyManners  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:20:14pm

re: #97 The Sanity Inspector

A one-way air ticket to--*SLAP!*...plop...

?

114 Walter L. Newton  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:20:43pm

re: #107 iceweasel

I went something like 4 years not eating pizza, not for any specific reason. For the last two months I've been eating it like once a week, out of an overwhelming fear of what pizza in Scotland must be like and the knowledge that it'll be a few years before I can eat NYC pizza again...Time to learn how to make it!

Ever try a Haggis Stuffed Crust Pizza... yummy.

115 The Shadow Do  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:21:10pm

re: #105 Walter L. Newton

They play basketball at the winter Olympics?

Yeah but it was kind of weird. No fouls, pads, weapons...

116 Killgore Trout  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:21:19pm

Corporate pizza iz fascism, maaaan! Make yer own, don't feed the capitalist beast!

117 The Left  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:21:43pm

re: #114 Walter L. Newton

Ever try a Haggis Stuffed Crust Pizza... yummy.

See?
Even my dreams are haunted, I tell you.

118 Walter L. Newton  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:21:44pm

re: #112 albusteve

it's surprising to me that people will spend big money on terrible pizza...if you're interested it's not hard to bake a pretty good pie...in all of ABQ, the food capital of the SW, there are few good pizza joints

But, as we discussed before, there is lousy chinese food in Socorro.

119 MandyManners  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:21:53pm
120 Gus  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:21:56pm

re: #112 albusteve

it's surprising to me that people will spend big money on terrible pizza...if you're interested it's not hard to bake a pretty good pie...in all of ABQ, the food capital of the SW, there are few good pizza joints

Yeah, I have to stock up on cooking supplies. Been doing the microwave food for years but it's all just getting too expensive and the quality just isn't there.

121 albusteve  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:21:56pm

re: #99 Decatur Deb

GMTA

I still can't think of it...what's the word for being released from prison?

122 laZardo  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:22:10pm

re: #116 Killgore Trout

Corporate pizza iz fascism, maaan! Make yer own, don't feed the capitalist beast!

I think I may have heard of marijuana as a topping, but I'm not sure.

123 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:22:13pm

re: #82 MandyManners

What's the highest honor the State of Texas can give to a civilian?

That's a good question, but I don't know the answer. Considering his actions, though, I doubt he has any interest in being honored.

124 Racer X  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:22:22pm
125 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:22:28pm

Lets go Slovakia (clap clap clapclapclap)
Lets go Slovakia (clap clap clapclapclap)

(really don't want to the US to have to play Canada again)

But, I think it's a probably.

126 reine.de.tout  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:22:56pm

re: #88 Walter L. Newton

Have you ever had an Anthony's Pizza, they are all over town. He's from NYC and it's the first time in 20 years that I could actually get NYC styled pizza that was truly a NYC styled pizza.

A bit pricey, but very authentic. We even have one up here in the hills at 8000 thousand feet (must be harder to make the dough rise). He has about 20 shops in the Metro Denver area.

When I want pizza, this is where I go.

Not exactly authentic NY pizza.

But they do have what must be the only crawfish etouffee pizza on the face of the earth.

127 Unakite  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:23:01pm

re: #103 MandyManners

Allman Brothers.

[Video]

One of my favorites!!

128 Decatur Deb  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:23:11pm

re: #121 albusteve

I still can't think of it...what's the word for being released from prison?

Parole, execution, maybe a couple others.

129 albusteve  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:23:37pm

re: #118 Walter L. Newton

But, as we discussed before, there is lousy chinese food in Socorro.

you're alive ain't ya?

130 Gus  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:23:42pm

re: #107 iceweasel

I went something like 4 years not eating pizza, not for any specific reason. For the last two months I've been eating it like once a week, out of an overwhelming fear of what pizza in Scotland must be like and the knowledge that it'll be a few years before I can eat NYC pizza again...Time to learn how to make it!

I imagine pizza take-out is rather pricey in Scotland?

131 Aye Pod  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:24:07pm

re: #86 laZardo

"CHANGE!" - now an Actual Tory Slogan

Here's an actual Tory campaign poster - pretty disgusting it is too :

Image: I%27venvervotedlabour(immigrant).jpg

132 The Shadow Do  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:24:22pm

re: #126 reine.de.tout


crawfish etouffee pizza

OMG. Is that Northern or Southern Italian?

133 The Sanity Inspector  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:24:33pm

re: #1 windsagio

I'm pretty ignorant of music but; This is great, should I know who these guys are?

Also bonus points for paper cutout imagery!

Now, if it's paper cutout imagery that you like...

Put it on 480p and embiggen the screen.

134 Gus  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:25:06pm

re: #132 The Shadow Do

OMG. Is that Northern or Southern Italian?

Southern Louisiana

135 albusteve  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:25:24pm

re: #122 laZardo

I think I may have heard of marijuana as a topping, but I'm not sure.

we used to cook it into spaghetti sauce...kick your ass

136 The Left  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:25:38pm

re: #130 Gus 802

I imagine pizza take-out is rather pricey in Scotland?

I think there is a place that delivers to us? The whole time I was there we were cooking, though. We didn't eat out (locally) anywhere at all, just in one of the cities.

137 The Sanity Inspector  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:25:41pm

re: #113 MandyManners

?

Pre-emptively whacking myself for insulting the Lone Star State...

138 Unakite  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:25:41pm

re: #114 Walter L. Newton

Ever try a Haggis Stuffed Crust Pizza... yummy.

Is that legal??

139 Decatur Deb  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:26:04pm

re: #132 The Shadow Do

OMG. Is that Northern or Southern Italian?

Is "Coonass" a nice word?

140 reine.de.tout  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:26:19pm

re: #139 Decatur Deb

Is "Coonass" a nice word?

Only if you're a coonass.

141 Walter L. Newton  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:26:29pm

re: #126 reine.de.tout

When I want pizza, this is where I go.

Not exactly authentic NY pizza.

But they do have what must be the only crawfish etouffee pizza on the face of the earth.

Retch....

142 laZardo  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:27:18pm

re: #140 reine.de.tout

Only if you're a coonass.

RACIST!

143 Walter L. Newton  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:27:18pm

re: #140 reine.de.tout

Only if you're a coonass.

"Although many Cajuns use the word in regard to themselves, other Cajuns view the term as an ethnic slur against the Cajun people, especially when used by non-Cajuns. "

144 Decatur Deb  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:27:19pm

re: #140 reine.de.tout

Like him. [Link: farsouthofi-10.blogspot.com...]

145 The Shadow Do  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:27:24pm

re: #134 Gus 802

Southern Louisiana

But you still call it pizza? No quibbles here. Throw down some mud puppies on that dough and lets go at it!

146 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:27:24pm

re: #123 Slumbering Behemoth

Now that I think of it, if that guy isn't already an American citizen, he sure as hell deserves to be.

147 albusteve  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:27:27pm

to me pizza is a take out thing, delivered, or eat it at the parlor....making it at home just doesn't give me that pizza buzz

148 Unakite  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:27:43pm

re: #121 albusteve

I still can't think of it...what's the word for being released from prison?

Spring, sprung, sproinged??

149 Gus  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:27:46pm

re: #136 iceweasel

I think there is a place that delivers to us? The whole time I was there we were cooking, though. We didn't eat out (locally) anywhere at all, just in one of the cities.

So out in the countryside... was it all lush and green? Scotland and Ireland always seemed that way in photographs or film -- never been there myself but it looks really nice.

150 laZardo  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:27:54pm

re: #131 Jimmah

Of course it's disgusting. All those Frenchmen trying to sabotage a glorious British institution.

/ q;

151 Walter L. Newton  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:28:10pm

re: #139 Decatur Deb

Is "Coonass" a nice word?

No... not in my book. Half of my family is from New Orleans and that word was never considered nice in any way.

152 albusteve  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:28:23pm

re: #137 The Sanity Inspector

Pre-emptively whacking myself for insulting the Lone Star State...

really...don't fuck with Texas

153 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:28:47pm

I love Pizza Hut pizza.

Is that so wrong?

154 Gus  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:28:48pm

re: #145 The Shadow Do

But you still call it pizza? No quibbles here. Throw down some mud puppies on that dough and lets go at it!

Crawdad pizza!

155 jaunte  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:29:06pm

re: #152 albusteve

Perry might secede again.

156 albusteve  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:29:11pm

re: #153 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

I love Pizza Hut pizza.

Is that so wrong?

yes, very

157 The Shadow Do  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:29:39pm

re: #154 Gus 802

Crawdad pizza!

And beer. lots and lots of beer.

158 The Left  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:29:40pm

re: #126 reine.de.tout

When I want pizza, this is where I go.

Not exactly authentic NY pizza.

But they do have what must be the only crawfish etouffee pizza on the face of the earth.

Oh reine-- I think I recommended this place to you already? If you're ever in NYC:

Two Boots Pizza (pdf link) : the two boots are Louisiana and Italy natch. Crawfish, andouille, tasso, creole & cajun toppings-- probably not as good as your place but I bet you'd still like it!
(their po'boys are crap tho IMO)

159 MandyManners  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:29:42pm
160 Killgore Trout  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:30:11pm

re: #124 Racer X

Round About / Yes - Live


[Video]

They really were a great band, I still love the sound of that Rickenbacker bass after all these years. Unfortunately, that one of their few songs that still holds up over time. It's great music but most of it doesn't hold up anymore. Rush had the same problem. I think King Crimson still holds up well today.
I´ve Seen All Good People still holds up well....

161 MandyManners  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:30:20pm

re: #123 Slumbering Behemoth

That's a good question, but I don't know the answer. Considering his actions, though, I doubt he has any interest in being honored.

Perhaps that is why he should be.

163 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:30:36pm

re: #153 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

I love Pizza Hut pizza.

Is that so wrong?

You'll eat anything that has the word "pie" attached to it, huh?

164 Unakite  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:30:42pm

re: #125 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Lets go Slovakia (clap clap clapclapclap)
Lets go Slovakia (clap clap clapclapclap)

(really don't want to the US to have to play Canada again)

But, I think it's a probably.

Watching the game right now. Trivia-did you know that the guy who scored the open-net goal for the USA against Canada plays for Vancouver Canucks?

165 Gus  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:30:51pm

re: #157 The Shadow Do

And beer. lots and lots of beer.

That would also require a cot and a sleeping bag.

166 Aye Pod  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:30:53pm

I'm trying to reassure iceweasel just now about the quality of Scottish Pizza. Maybe it's because of all the Italian immigrants we had here, but our pizza - and ice cream - are actually very tasty.

167 MandyManners  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:31:01pm

re: #127 Unakite

One of my favorites!!

Happy to help!

168 Decatur Deb  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:31:04pm

re: #151 Walter L. Newton

No... not in my book. Half of my family is from New Orleans and that word was never considered nice in any way.

I've dated a Thibodeau, and bummed around Italy with a Boudreau. There's an entire Justin Wilson routine right there.

169 MandyManners  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:31:36pm

re: #137 The Sanity Inspector

Pre-emptively whacking myself for insulting the Lone Star State...

Get thee to an optometrist.

170 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:31:44pm

re: #162 The Sanity Inspector

I am SO suing your ass for false advertisement, man!

171 albusteve  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:31:47pm

re: #155 jaunte

Perry might secede again.

oh man...choo fuck wid Texas choo fuckin wid me...no what I'm sayin?

172 The Shadow Do  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:32:10pm

re: #158 iceweasel

Oh reine-- I think I recommended this place to you already? If you're ever in NYC:

Two Boots Pizza (pdf link) : the two boots are Louisiana and Italy natch. Crawfish, andouille, tasso, creole & cajun toppings-- probably not as good as your place but I bet you'd still like it!
(their po'boys are crap tho IMO)

Don't do cajun in NY
And don't do pizza in NO
And whatever you do, do not, I repeat, do not order seafood in Omaha.

173 jaunte  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:32:26pm

re: #171 albusteve

Yo soy Tejano, amigo.

174 reine.de.tout  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:32:46pm

re: #144 Decatur Deb

Like him. [Link: farsouthofi-10.blogspot.com...]

OOH!
I've bookmarked it.
re: #158 iceweasel

Oh reine-- I think I recommended this place to you already? If you're ever in NYC:

Two Boots Pizza (pdf link) : the two boots are Louisiana and Italy natch. Crawfish, andouille, tasso, creole & cajun toppings-- probably not as good as your place but I bet you'd still like it!
(their po'boys are crap tho IMO)

Yes, you did mention it once! I've got it saved in my "downloads".

I see they use tasso.
Great stuff. Not a lot of folks use tasso outside of La, that I know of.

175 Walter L. Newton  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:33:24pm

re: #168 Decatur Deb

I've dated a Thibodeau, and bummed around Italy with a Boudreau. There's an entire Justin Wilson routine right there.

Well I'll be... I haven't heard that name in years. Justin Wilson taught me how to make a rock salt beef roast, well, I mean on his show. The guy was clever and smart. The Cajan bumpkin routine worked, but the guy was smart... and funny.

176 reine.de.tout  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:33:37pm

I'm hungry.

177 Killgore Trout  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:33:41pm

re: #172 The Shadow Do

You can't get a good biscuit north of the Mason-Dixon line or a decent bagel West of the Mississippi. Those are the rules.

178 Velvet Elvis  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:33:48pm
179 Silvergirl  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:33:49pm

re: #153 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

I love Pizza Hut pizza.

Is that so wrong?

No, but it may not be the phrase they're looking for in their next ad. Though it could be an edgy ad.

180 Gus  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:33:50pm

re: #172 The Shadow Do

Don't do cajun in NY
And don't do pizza in NO
And whatever you do, do not, I repeat, do not order seafood in Omaha.

You mean they don't have Omaha Sushi™ where they deliver it fresh and packed in dry ice?

181 The Left  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:34:36pm

re: #174 reine.de.tout

Yes, you did mention it once! I've got it saved in my "downloads".

I see they use tasso.
Great stuff. Not a lot of folks use tasso outside of La, that I know of.

Yeah, I tried finding tasso where we live in Scotland-- wasn't going to happen. That was a very sad day for me. I remember I told you about my woes in that regard. Time to stock up on the zatarans!

182 Walter L. Newton  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:34:59pm

re: #168 Decatur Deb

I've dated a Thibodeau, and bummed around Italy with a Boudreau. There's an entire Justin Wilson routine right there.

Squirrel...

183 Gus  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:35:22pm

I had some Omaha Steaks filet mignon once. Good stuff.

184 Decatur Deb  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:35:23pm

re: #175 Walter L. Newton

Well I'll be... I haven't heard that name in years. Justin Wilson taught me how to make a rock salt beef roast, well, I mean on his show. The guy was clever and smart. The Cajan bumpkin routine worked, but the guy was smart... and funny.

Did party records in the '50s, long before PBS.

185 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:35:35pm

re: #171 albusteve

oh man...choo fuck wid Texas choo fuckin wid me...no what I'm sayin?

I know it is not what y'all are talking about, but I love Ron White's thing on Texas executions...

"In Texas, you kill someone? We'll kill you back."

186 The Shadow Do  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:35:43pm

re: #177 Killgore Trout

You can't get a good biscuit north of the Mason-Dixon line or a decent bagel West of the Mississippi. Those are the rules.

Yes, that is balance in the universe as I see it.

187 MandyManners  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:35:56pm
188 Randall Gross  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:36:08pm

Fang Island - Daisy

189 Gus  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:37:01pm

Hold the phone! Omaha Steaks carries seafood.

190 Silvergirl  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:37:04pm

Phyllo pizza, though not traditional pizza pizza, is easy and scrumptious.

191 albusteve  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:37:17pm

re: #177 Killgore Trout

You can't get a good biscuit north of the Mason-Dixon line or a decent bagel West of the Mississippi. Those are the rules.

or a decent taco outside of New Mexico....faget aboutit

192 MandyManners  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:37:26pm

re: #176 reine.de.tout

I'm hungry.

I'm horny.

193 Randall Gross  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:37:45pm

heh

"Finally: concrete proof that mimes of all colors and plastic presidential masks are scary in every situation, including as the backing track to one of the happiest sounding songs this year. Thank you, Fang Island, for clarifying." - Daily Swarm

194 reine.de.tout  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:38:08pm

re: #168 Decatur Deb

I've dated a Thibodeau, and bummed around Italy with a Boudreau. There's an entire Justin Wilson routine right there.

They probably had an "x" at the end of their names though.

I've heard various stories as to how that came about.

1. As they arrived from Acadia, as they left the boats, they were checked off a list as a family - and to make it obvious, the family name as pluralized by putting an "x" behind it (like we would use an "s" for "the Smiths").

2. As they arrived and left the boats, the "x" was placed after the name to indicate they had gotten off the boat.

3. And, aw, hell - there's one more and I can't remember it right now.

195 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:38:29pm

re: #192 MandyManners

Finally, something we have in common.

196 Walter L. Newton  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:38:37pm

re: #181 iceweasel

Yeah, I tried finding tasso where we live in Scotland-- wasn't going to happen. That was a very sad day for me. I remember I told you about my woes in that regard. Time to stock up on the zatarans!

I tried finding any kind of salsa in eastern France once. The only chili type anything on the super marche shelf was Tabasco. Had to make my own salsa, sans cilantro, couldn't find that.

197 The Shadow Do  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:38:39pm

re: #180 Gus 802

You mean they don't have Omaha Sushi™ where they deliver it fresh and packed in dry ice?

There is nothing but pain in Omaha surf and turf. That there sushi stuff don't travel well. Omaha steaks? now they be ok.

198 MandyManners  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:38:41pm

Oh, shit.

I must get a better brain-to-keyboard filter.

199 reine.de.tout  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:39:15pm

re: #192 MandyManners

I'm horny.

in bed?
I can't believe you wrote that.

200 Walter L. Newton  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:39:19pm

re: #184 Decatur Deb

Did party records in the '50s, long before PBS.

Oh I know... I had em. In that video I just link to, he uses the term "you're gonna go to hell in a bobsled."

201 laZardo  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:39:35pm

re: #192 MandyManners

I'm horny.

I'm available.

202 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:39:55pm

re: #198 MandyManners

And ruin all the fun? Nah, don't do it.

203 The Shadow Do  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:40:05pm

re: #192 MandyManners

I'm horny.

I want some of Steve's green chilis

And sex

204 MandyManners  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:40:42pm

re: #199 reine.de.tout

in bed?
I can't believe you wrote that.

NEITHER CAN I.

205 freetoken  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:40:56pm

re: #201 laZardo

I'm available.

You two are 8000 miles apart...

206 MandyManners  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:41:21pm

re: #201 laZardo

I'm available barely legal.

207 albusteve  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:41:28pm

re: #196 Walter L. Newton

I tried finding any kind of salsa in eastern France once. The only chili type anything on the super marche shelf was Tabasco. Had to make my own salsa, sans cilantro, couldn't find that.

the Fwench are clueless...ever had a good ballpark fwank there?...I thought not

208 The Shadow Do  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:41:33pm

I love green chilis

209 The Left  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:41:42pm

re: #205 freetoken

You two are 8000 miles apart...

And that's just politically!
/

210 Gus  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:41:44pm

re: #197 The Shadow Do

There is nothing but pain in Omaha surf and turf. That there sushi stuff don't travel well. Omaha steaks? now they be ok.

I spent a night in Omaha once. On my way to Denver.

Had some pretty bad Maguro (tuna) in San Francisco years ago. It was leathery.

211 MandyManners  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:41:49pm

Okay. I'm outta' here for a bit.

212 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:41:53pm

re: #205 freetoken

Web cams, my good man, web cams.

213 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:42:04pm

re: #211 MandyManners

heh

214 jaunte  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:42:13pm

Some things transcend politics.

215 Unakite  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:42:17pm

re: #167 MandyManners

Happy to help!

Thanks.re: #187 MandyManners

I was living to run and running to live.


[Video]

216 Decatur Deb  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:42:22pm

re: #194 reine.de.tout

They probably had an "x" at the end of their names though.

I've heard various stories as to how that came about.

1. As they arrived from Acadia, as they left the boats, they were checked off a list as a family - and to make it obvious, the family name as pluralized by putting an "x" behind it (like we would use an "s" for "the Smiths").

2. As they arrived and left the boats, the "x" was placed after the name to indicate they had gotten off the boat.

3. And, aw, hell - there's one more and I can't remember it right now.

I think you could be right about the girl--Boudreau was x-free. He was determined to fulfill every Cajun tale, once arranged for me and a couple hundred people to be inside a 4 July fireworks display.

217 The Shadow Do  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:42:57pm

re: #210 Gus 802

I spent a night in Omaha once. On my way to Denver.

Had some pretty bad Maguro (tuna) in San Francisco years ago. It was leathery.

I bought a postcard from Omaha when there once. It was totally black. The caption said "Omaha at Night"

218 Kragar  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:43:06pm

re: #204 MandyManners

NEITHER CAN I.

Oh Mandy Mandy Mandy, do you realize what you've unleashed?

219 albusteve  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:43:28pm

re: #198 MandyManners

Oh, shit.

I must get a better brain-to-keyboard filter.

me and Mighty Thor the Conqueror are available...call my office for details

220 Gus  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:43:30pm

re: #214 jaunte

Some things transcend politics.

The way to a man's (and woman's) heart is through...

El estómago!

221 Our Precious Bodily Fluids  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:44:07pm

re: #1 windsagio

I'm pretty ignorant of music but; This is great, should I know who these guys are?

GOD DAMMIT, I feel so fucking old.

Bauhaus, anyone? Skinny Puppy? Joy Division? Dead Can Dance? Legendary Pink Dots?

222 Walter L. Newton  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:44:11pm

re: #192 MandyManners

I'm horny.

A good plastic surgeon can remove them.

223 Unakite  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:44:18pm

re: #187 MandyManners

Posted too quickly, but meant to ask if you like Marshall Tucker.

224 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:44:19pm

re: #211 MandyManners

TCB?

225 Gus  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:44:26pm

re: #217 The Shadow Do

I bought a postcard from Omaha when there once. It was totally black. The caption said "Omaha at Night"

That's exactly how I saw it. Got there when it was pitch black.

226 albusteve  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:44:39pm

re: #206 MandyManners

robbin the cradle?....get a nirth cert

227 The Sanity Inspector  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:44:47pm

re: #172 The Shadow Do

Don't do cajun in NY
And don't do pizza in NO
And whatever you do, do not, I repeat, do not order seafood in Omaha.

If you do pizza in Korea, be prepared for some surprises. There might be kimchi or hot pepper paste on it. And that ring around the crust, that looks like cheese? It's sweet potato.

228 albusteve  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:45:03pm

re: #222 Walter L. Newton

A good plastic surgeon can remove them.

don't be such a toad

229 freetoken  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:45:04pm

re: #214 jaunte

Some things transcend politics.

Testosterone, for one.

230 Kragar  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:45:06pm

re: #219 albusteve

me and Mighty Thor the Conqueror are available...call my office for details

Might thor is how Mandy might feel afterwards, assuming she had a lisp.

231 reine.de.tout  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:45:09pm
One day Thibodeaux went up to Boudreaux. "You know Boudreaux, I think somethin' wrong wit me."
Boudreaux said, "Mais, Thibodeaux, tell me what's your problem.?"
"Well, Boudreaux," Thibodeaux said. "My whole body is in pain. Everywhere I press on my body it hurts."
"Thibodeaux, I think I know what's wrong with you." Boudreaux replied.
"Tell me Boudreaux, what could it be?"
"Thibodeaux, you need to see the doctor because your finger's broken."

This one's for Walter:

Thibodeaux: Boudreaux, did you get the parrot I sent you for your birthday?
Boudreaux: Yes, it was good!
Thibodeaux: You ate the bird!
Boudreaux: Of Course I ate it.
Thibodeaux: That bird spoke five different languages!
Boudreaux: Then he should have said something.

Thibodeaux: Boudreaux, What's the score?
Boudreaux: Seven to Ten.
Thibodeaux: Who's winning?
Boudreaux: The ten.

232 jaunte  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:45:48pm

Don't do Mexican food in Amsterdam, unless you like curry burrito.

233 albusteve  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:45:53pm

re: #208 The Shadow Do

I love green chilis

you hombre you

234 Gus  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:46:33pm

re: #232 jaunte

Don't do Mexican food in Amsterdam, unless you like curry burrito.

Tanduri tacos?

235 Kragar  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:46:57pm

re: #231 reine.de.tout

Dont get saucy with me, Bernaise!

236 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:46:59pm

re: #232 jaunte

Yeah, but curry ketchup on burgers is the bomb.

237 albusteve  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:47:16pm

re: #217 The Shadow Do

I bought a postcard from Omaha when there once. It was totally black. The caption said "Omaha at Night"

I spent a week in Omaha one night....

238 Walter L. Newton  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:47:25pm

Ah.. an nice quiet night in the Rocky Mountains. The family is out at the high school watching a high school production of "Damn Yankees," I'm home alone, the red healer is sitting behind me on the floor, I have a cup of fine coffee, electric heater blowing up my crouch, snow on the ground, it's 19 (f) outside and the pellet stove is... well... burning pellets...

And Mandy is horny... what more could you ask for.

239 jaunte  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:47:25pm

re: #236 Slumbering Behemoth

That does sound good.

240 albusteve  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:48:34pm

re: #230 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Might thor is how Mandy might feel afterwards, assuming she had a lisp.

no mercy

241 The Sanity Inspector  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:49:04pm

re: #170 Slumbering Behemoth

I am SO suing your ass for false advertisement, man!

Hey, it's Australia! They've got a corkscrew sense of humor down there. Like honoring a Prime Minister who drowned at sea by naming a municipal swimming pool after him.

242 reine.de.tout  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:49:34pm

re: #241 The Sanity Inspector

Hey, it's Australia! They've got a corkscrew sense of humor down there. Like honoring a Prime Minister who drowned at sea by naming a municipal swimming pool after him.


That's warped.

243 The Sanity Inspector  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:49:38pm

re: #230 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Might thor is how Mandy might feel afterwards, assuming she had a lisp.

The plot thickens...

244 The Left  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:49:44pm

Update from Scotland: Jimmah tells me one of our cats (for the second time this week) just raided the kitchen and ate some of his curry.

245 Randall Gross  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:49:52pm

Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway

246 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:50:04pm

re: #239 jaunte

It was weird the first time. I was wondering "What is up with this ketchup?", then it dawned on me: Ketchup+curry-sugar=awesome!

247 Bob Dillon  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:50:08pm

"How To Simulate Being A Sailor"

1. Buy a steel dumpster, paint it gray inside and out, and live in it for six months.

2. Run all the pipes and wires in your house exposed on the walls.

3. Repaint your entire house every month.

4. Renovate your bathroom. Build a wall across the middle of the bathtub and move the shower head to chest level. When you take showers, make sure you turn off the water while you soap down.

5. Put lube oil in your humidifier and set it on high.

6. Once a week, blow compressed air (or use a leaf blower) up your chimney, making sure the wind carries the soot onto your neighbor's house. Ignore his complaints.

7. Once a month, take all major appliances apart and then reassemble them.

8. Raise the thresholds and lower the headers of your front and back doors so that you either trip or bang your head every time you pass through them.

9. Disassemble and inspect your lawnmower every week.

10. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, turn your water heater temperature up to 200 degrees. On Tuesdays and Thursdays, turn the water heater off. On Saturdays and Sundays tell your family they use too much water during the week, so no bathing will be allowed.

11. Raise your bed to within 6 inches of the ceiling, so you can't turn over without getting out and then getting back in.

12. Sleep on the shelf in your closet. Replace the closet door with a curtain. Have your spouse whip open the curtain about 3 hours after you go to sleep, shine a flashlight in your eyes, and say "Sorry, wrong rack."

13. Make your family qualify to operate each appliance in your house - dishwasher operator, blender technician, etc. Re-qualify every 6 months.

14. Have your neighbor come over each day at 0500, blow a whistle so loud Helen Keller could hear it, and shout "Reveille, reveille, all hands heave out and trice up."

15. Have your mother-in-law write down everything she's going to do the following day, then have her make you stand in your back yard at 0600 while she reads it to you.

16. Submit a request chit to your father-in-law requesting permission to leave your house before 1500.

17. Empty all the garbage bins in your house and sweep the driveway three times a day, whether it needs it or not. Have someone repeat loudly, "Now sweepers, sweepers, man your brooms, give the ship a clean sweep down fore and aft, empty all ****cans and butt kits over the fantail!"

18. Have your neighbor collect all your mail for a month, read your magazines, and randomly lose every 5th item before delivering it to you.

19. Watch no TV except for movies played in the middle of the night. Have your family vote on which movie to watch, then show a different one. Repeat the same movie several nights in a row.

20. When your children are in bed, run into their room with a megaphone shouting that your home is under attack and ordering them to their battle stations, shouting, "Now general quarters, general quarters, all hands man your battle stations!"

21. Make your family menu a week ahead of time without consulting the pantry or refrigerator.

22. Post a menu on the kitchen door informing your family that they are having steak for dinner. Then make them wait in line for an hour. When you finally get to the kitchen, tell them you are out of steak, but they can have dried ham or hot dogs. Repeat daily until they ignore the menu and just ask for hot dogs.

23. Bake a cake. Prop up one side of the pan so the cake bakes unevenly. Spread icing real thick to level it off.

24. Get up every night around midnight and have a peanut butter and jelly sandwich on stale bread. (Call this "Midrats".)

25. Set your alarm clock to go off at random during the night. At the alarm, jump up and dress as fast as you can, making sure to button your top shirt button and tuck your pants into your socks. Run out into the backyard and uncoil the garden hose.

26. Every week or so, throw your cat or dog in the pool and shout "Man overboard port side!" Rate your family members on how quickly they respond.

248 The Shadow Do  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:50:43pm

re: #227 The Sanity Inspector

If you do pizza in Korea, be prepared for some surprises. There might be kimchi or hot pepper paste on it. And that ring around the crust, that looks like cheese? It's sweet potato.

Did you throw up?

249 Bob Dillon  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:50:45pm

"How To Simulate Being A Sailor" Pt 2

27. Put the headphones from your stereo on your head, but don't plug them in. Hang a paper cup around your neck on a string. Stand in front of the stove, and speak into the paper cup "Stove manned and ready." After an hour or so, speak into the cup again "Stove secured." Roll up the headphones and paper cup and stow them in a shoebox.

28. Make your family turn out all the lights and go to bed at 2200, saying, "Now taps, taps! Lights out! Maintain silence throughout the ship!" Then immediately have an 18-wheeler crash into your house (for the benefit of aircraft carrier sailors).

29. Build a fire in a trash can in your garage. Loudly announce to your family, "This is a drill! This is a drill! Fire in hangar bay one!"

30. Place a podium at the end of your driveway. Have your family stand watches at the podium, rotating at 4 hour intervals. This is best done when the weather is worst. January is a good time.

31. When there is a thunderstorm in your area, get a wobbly rocking chair, sit in it and rock as hard as you can until you become nauseated. Make sure to have a supply of stale crackers in your shirt pocket. ALT: Find the biggest horse you can, put a 2-inch mattress on his back, and strap yourself to it. Turn him loose in a barn filled with snakes for six hours and try to sleep. Then get up and go to work.

32. For former engineers: bring your lawn mower into the living room and run it all day long.

33. Make coffee using eighteen scoops of budget priced coffee grounds per pot; let the pot simmer for 5 hours before drinking.

34. Have someone under the age of ten give you a haircut with sheep shears.

35. Sew the back pockets of your jeans on the front.

36. Add 1/3 cup diesel fuel to the laundry.

37. Take hourly readings on your electric and water meters.

38. Every couple of weeks, dress up in your best clothes and go to the scummiest part of town. Find the most run down, trashiest bar, and drink beer until you are hammered. Then walk all the way home.

39. Lock yourself and your family in the house for six weeks. Tell them that at the end of the 6th week you are going to take them to Disney World for "liberty." At the end of the 6th week, inform them the trip to Disney World has been canceled because they need to get ready for an inspection, and it will be another week before they can leave the house.

40. Hire someone to hammer on a 55-gal drum at random hours to simulate paint chipping.

250 Gus  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:52:30pm

re: #244 iceweasel

Update from Scotland: Jimmah tells me one of our cats (for the second time this week) just raided the kitchen and ate some of his curry.

Cats like curry? We had a cat once that was crazy about corn on the cob.

251 Walter L. Newton  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:53:22pm

Shameless self promotion...

Anybody interested in a short scenic monologue that I have never posted here before? The sports fans may enjoy it.

252 Our Precious Bodily Fluids  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:53:55pm

re: #248 The Shadow Do

Casu Marzu

Casu marzu is considered toxic when the maggots in the cheese have died. Because of this, only cheese in which the maggots are still alive is eaten. When the cheese has fermented enough, it is cut into thin strips and spread on moistened Sardinian flatbread (pane carasau), to be served with a strong red wine.[6][7]

Casu marzu is believed to be an aphrodisiac by local Sardinians.[2] Because the larvae in the cheese can launch themselves for distances up to 15 centimetres (6 in) when disturbed,[1][8] diners hold their hands above the sandwich to prevent the maggots from leaping into their eyes.[4]

Those who do not wish to eat live maggots place the cheese in a sealed paper bag. The maggots, starved for oxygen, writhe and jump in the bag, creating a "pitter-patter" sound. When the sounds subside, the maggots are dead and the cheese can be eaten.[9]

253 The Left  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:54:30pm

re: #250 Gus 802

Cats like curry? We had a cat once that was crazy about corn on the cob.

Really? That's cute!
This cat is a little thug. She'll eat anything. She's the cat in Jimmah's avatar at the moment. I've never known a cat that would eat anything that spicy, but she will.
She's also stolen a sausage out of the skillet while it's still sizzling and cooking when he turned his back for a second.

254 Unakite  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:54:39pm

re: #238 Walter L. Newton

Ah.. an nice quiet night in the Rocky Mountains. The family is out at the high school watching a high school production of "Damn Yankees," I'm home alone, the red healer is sitting behind me on the floor, I have a cup of fine coffee, electric heater blowing up my crouch, snow on the ground, it's 19 (f) outside and the pellet stove is... well... burning pellets...

And Mandy is horny... what more could you ask for.

Why are you "crouch"ing??

255 Gus  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:54:57pm

Oh this is funny. Here a cat eating corn.

256 albusteve  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:55:11pm

repost
Neville Bros rockin the house

257 albusteve  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:55:52pm

re: #251 Walter L. Newton

Shameless self promotion...

Anybody interested in a short scenic monologue that I have never posted here before? The sports fans may enjoy it.

what's in it for me?

258 Gus  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:56:38pm

re: #253 iceweasel

Really? That's cute!
This cat is a little thug. She'll eat anything. She's the cat in Jimmah's avatar at the moment. I've never known a cat that would eat anything that spicy, but she will.
She's also stolen a sausage out of the skillet while it's still sizzling and cooking when he turned his back for a second.

Get it while it's hot! It's not often you'll find a cat that likes spicy foods but they're out there.

259 The Left  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:56:40pm

re: #255 Gus 802

Oh this is funny. Here a cat eating corn.


[Video]

OMG that's cute! I never knew cats would eat corn on the cob!

260 Walter L. Newton  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:56:48pm

re: #257 albusteve

what's in it for me?

That's all the encouragement I needed. Here is is... read if you like...

261 Walter L. Newton  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:56:54pm

Stan

by Walter L. Newton

(When the curtain opens or the lights come up, we see Stan. He is dressed in grey pants and a grey shirt)

That’s my kid out there. Look at him… watch that pitch. Major league material. He’s 16 years old. He’s been playing baseball since he was eight. I’ve been with him right from the beginning. Driving him to this ball field, to that ball field. I worked overtime to pay for his equipment. He has a drivers license now. He can drive me to the games. It’s a beginners license, so I still have to be in the car.

Look at the coach… bastard… I didn’t mean that. But he pisses me off sometimes. He’s got a problem with winning. He says my kids too competitive. He says being part of a
team is more important than winning.

Where did he come up with that crap. I’ll tell you, my kid knows about winning. I taught him. You see that SUV over there, look at his uniform, those shoes of his cost me more than a plane ticket to New York.

That’s because I’m a winner. That’s because I learned how to lead the team, not get lost in the second string.

Now look at that shit. The coach is taking him out of the game just to give another kid a chance to pitch. My kid hasn’t given up a run in three innings and has struck out four batters. Why don’t we just tuck our tails between our legs and become women?

I don’t care… much. But what is this doing to the kids. Makes them fell worthless. That’s how they treated me when I was young. I was a little fat kid then. We’d play dodge ball and the other team would make sure I was the last one left in the game. Then they would grab all the extra basketballs and pelt me good.

Fucking gym teacher would just stand there… laughing. I would go home and tell dad what happened… and he’d punch me in the face. Then he would dare me to punch him back. He said he was teaching me a lesson. “Fight back you little pansy… don’t let them get the best of you.”

Shit… two runs in six pitches. Where the fuck is the coach? Is he even watching this?

No… I didn’t punch him back… never. I was chicken shit at the time. And that wasn’t the only time he punched me. If I got an “f” on a test, when I failed my Boy Scout exam, if I wimped out on a date…

Bam… bam… bam… “That’ll teach you a lesson.”

I’m not going to let my kid get treated like I was. I told him about my dad… how he was. I told my kid that if I ever smacked him it was because I loved him. “Kid… you’re going to be a winner and don’t you ever let any motherfucker tell you otherwise.”

Oh god… I have to watch my language around here. I may accidentally insult someone. One day the coach told me… “Hey Stan… cool it… some of these parents don’t want to hear that shit.”

So what is all this non-competitive sports stuff all about? Why do we teach them how to play the game if we stop short of teaching them about winning. It’s for their self-esteem… they say. Bullshit… nobody in life is going to give you jack for your self-esteem. I didn’t get an office with a window-view because of any self-esteem. I didn’t get a company car and a expense account because I felt all warm and cuddly about myself. I got what I got because I fought for it.

My kid hooked into all of this “I’m Okay, You’re Ok” crap. Once… get a load of this… once he went to the coach and asked him to pull him from the game so some other weasel-assed kid could have a chance to pitch. My kid will never forget the lesson I taught him that night. But you know I love him… he’s still on my side.

(continued)

262 The Shadow Do  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:56:58pm

re: #252 negativ

Casu Marzu

*dry heaves*

263 Walter L. Newton  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:57:17pm

(continued)

There we go… now we’re six runs behind. That’s the fucking game.

You know that I am right. You may not want to admit it… but deep down inside… you think just like I do. Do you know what your problem is? You’re afraid. You’re afraid to get off of your couches and let them know that this is all a bunch of crap.

I didn’t put up with any of that. I got the hell out. I left home when I was eighteen. Do you know how I discovered how to be a winner? In a carnival. Yea… really. I traveled with a carnival for two years. I worked a game… a game you couldn’t win. And I won… every night, day after day… 14 hours… from noon to 2:00am. It wasn’t luck… it wasn’t self-esteem… it was a down-right con. But I learned a lesson. You either fight to be a winner or you drown. Simple as that.

Life is a pretense. You can spend your time looking up at the shit that keeps falling down in your face or you can dig yourself out of that pit and start shitting on the ones you left behind.

Ok… now eight runs to two… that asshole coach just lost the game. He should have left my kid on the mound… but no… we have to work on Marty’s self-esteem, or we have to consider the other kids… or the parents will get mad if their kids don’t get a chance to play. You want your kids to play… then teach them how to be winners.

I never punched my dad… I was scared. I had the opportunity… more than once. At the time I didn’t realize what he was trying to teach me. What he was saying to me. He died when I was twenty years old… well… not right away. He had aortal aneurism. It busted and he filled up with blood. Like a… basketball. The doctors told me there was only a one percent chance that he would even survive the night.

Yea… he was a winner… he survived the night. And the next day… there he was… lying on the bed in ICU… all this stuff hooked up to him. His vital organs were working all right. But his head… I mean… his brain… it was damaged.

The doctor said to me “Stan… we can keep him alive for… well.. forever like this… but there is no chance that he will ever be anything but a vegetable.” Mom was already dead… I was the only living family member left. It was my decision.

The only thing I ever wanted to do in my life was to PUNCH MY DAD IN THE FACE. One good punch… right smack on… center.

But he won… he was a winner. Right to the end he held all the cards. But he gave me the final chance to be a winner. I pulled the plug on him. The docs turned off all the machines. I don’t know what I was expecting, but it wasn’t what I expected.

(continued)

264 reine.de.tout  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:57:41pm

re: #253 iceweasel

Really? That's cute!
This cat is a little thug. She'll eat anything. She's the cat in Jimmah's avatar at the moment. I've never known a cat that would eat anything that spicy, but she will.
She's also stolen a sausage out of the skillet while it's still sizzling and cooking when he turned his back for a second.

heheh.
Sounds like one or two of the cats in my house.
Sneaky critters, think everything belongs to them.

The Roi once was eating a piece of chicken while watching TV, and he had picked it up in his hands to take a bite.

When he looked down, the dog, who was sitting in his lap at the time, had reached UP and was taking a bite out of the other end of the chicken piece.

EW!

265 Killgore Trout  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:57:48pm

re: #245 Thanos

Good stuff.

266 Unakite  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:57:57pm

re: #251 Walter L. Newton

Shameless self promotion...

Anybody interested in a short scenic monologue that I have never posted here before? The sports fans may enjoy it.

Shamelessly self promote. It's late (at least it is here).

267 Walter L. Newton  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:58:18pm

(continued)

So what does this have to do with my kid? I think he’s given in. I mean given in to all this tree-hugger shit.

He tells me “Hey dad… don’t worry… the coach is just trying to give the other kids a chance.” A chance at what? A chance to loose?
And his mother? My wife… shit… a good women… but she would side with the kid in an instance. “Stan… he’s just trying to be team member. There’s nothing wrong with that.”

No… there’s nothing wrong with that… not if you want to spend the rest of your life in line with the losers.

Forget the game. Look at them… there’s no way they are going to win that game.

It’s the coach… he’s poisoned their minds. Filled it will all that P.C. stuff. I ran into the coach one night, in a bar. I went up to him and told him… straight out… “My kid is good… my kid can make your team a winner… you know that you stupid son-of-a-bitch. Let him pitch. I’m getting tired of dragging him to your games, just to see him sit on the bench… twiddling his thumbs… while your fat-assed lazy under-achievers prance around the field like a bunch of ballet dancers.”

He got the message. The school called me and warned me that if I ever pulled a stunt like that again, that my kid would be dropped from the team.

My kid even came to me, crying… crying is eyes out. He told me I embarrassed him… that all the kids at school were making fun of him. His daddy is crazy. And the kid agreed with them. He blamed me. He wanted me to stay out of his business.

It was MY business. He is MY son. I haven’t signed any papers giving that school the right to raise my kid. I brought him into this world… and…

Ok… now they put him back into the game. See that… now that their ass is in a hole, they’re going to dump all the responsibility on his back.

Have you ever thought about killing someone? It seems strange at first. You can’t quite figure out why you would think of such a thing. It isn’t in your nature… that’s what you tell yourself. You forget about it for a while… but it comes back. You already know that you could do it… but you keep telling yourself it’s just some sort of fantasy.

But then it becomes sort of a mind-game. If you really wanted to do it… how would you… where would you… when would you? You start to work out the details. You pass by the baseball field, looking over the place. You mentally check out the places where no one would see you, the bathrooms, underneath the bleachers, maybe in that clump of trees behind the outfield. You think about the time of day… afternoon after a game… a private meeting… maybe in front of everyone?

What kind of weapon? Everyone knows how to shoot a gun, even if you have never done it. Guns are easy to get, you may have a few in your house. Just for protection… that’s what you said when you bought it. To protect the little lady and the kids.

At some point you put the gun in the car with you. Hell… the crime rate has gone up in the neighborhood… maybe it would be a good idea to keep a little protection nearby. You’d never use it, but it makes you feel better.

Do you remember that day? Did you read about it in the papers? It was one of those things. The wife didn’t wake me up on time… so I raced out of the house with the kid and barely made it to the game before it started. The kid was supposed to open the game, but the coach benched him for being late.

The game was a disaster. They lost… 13 to zero. I was never so mad at the coach as I was on that day. And I let him know it. Every inning… every error… I let him know it… loud enough so everyone could hear me. I let him know what a dumb-assed excuse he was for a coach.

(continued)

268 Gus  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:58:57pm

re: #259 iceweasel

OMG that's cute! I never knew cats would eat corn on the cob!

Yeah, I think it's the ones with the sweet tooth. Plus I think they like mashing into it so it's almost like an experience for them.

269 reine.de.tout  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:58:58pm

re: #261 Walter L. Newton

Walter - post a pdf of that, could you?
I want to print it out and read it properly.

270 Aye Pod  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:59:10pm

Baba Maal - Yela

271 Walter L. Newton  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:59:13pm

(continued)

At the end of the game… I headed for my car. I was raging… I didn’t even know where the kid was. I just wanted to get out of there. I got into my car and put the keys in the ignition. And then suddenly I have this nut-case pounding on my window. He was screaming at me through the closed window. I was going to just drive away… but he was punching at the window and it shattered.

I got out of the car. There were glass fragments all over me. My face was bleeding. I didn’t even realize that I had grab the pistol from under my seat. I stood there in front of him and he kept ranting and shouting at me. I raised my right hand and pointed the gun right at his chest. One squeeze of the trigger and silence.

Right at that point my kid runs up to the car and sees the coach lying on the ground. And would you believe it… the kid yells at me… “Leave him alone… leave him alone.”

I looked at him.. and it was like a movie running at fast speed… but only I could see what was happening. His head turned into a basketball and then into my fathers face, and then into the kids… mocking me “Hey fat boy… suck this.” And it kept replaying… faster and faster… yet slower and slower in my mind.

And the basketballs kept coming at me… I had to stop them. I held the gun straight out… waiting for a basketball. Then… boom.

I stopped them. Those shitty little bastards. I stopped the basketballs. I won.

(He sits on the stage floor, crying, mumbling, with his back to the audience. We see on the back of his shirt the words “State Mental Hospital.”)

He betrayed me. My own flesh and blood betrayed me.

(He turns around facing the audience, still sitting)

The doctors let me watch these video tapes of my kids baseball games. The say it helps in my therapy.

You know what they are really trying to do? Make me conform. I’m an outsider you know… I don’t fit in anymore. Society doesn’t respect winners. If you get to the point where there isn’t any right and wrong… where values are relative… then you got to get rid of us who see life as black and white. We get in the way. We confuse the program.

They tell us we can’t judge the sins of the past. They tells us Hitler was right… with in his relative assessment of his times. We have to be sensitive to the realities of others… even if they seem to go against the thousands of years of moral advancement.

They forget about the winners. The forget about the past. Everything is about the moment.. and they keep moving the target.

They fool themselves. At some point the target stops moving. And thank God … there will always be someone like me.

(As if answering a unheard question)

Same time next week? Sure. I’ll be here.

(Blackout)

272 The Sanity Inspector  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:59:20pm

re: #248 The Shadow Do

Did you throw up?

No. By that time I was used to surprises. In the beginning I was so ignorant that people had to explain to me, "this dish is special, only for festive occasions, because you're here."

273 jaunte  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 7:59:35pm

re: #249 Bobibutu

That reminds me: speaking of sailors: I worked this week on designing a trophy for a yacht race which will honor Roger Stone, late of Texas A&M Galveston, who saved two students from drowning when the Cynthia Woods lost her keel 27 miles offshore, then was caught below decks as she sank.
What a hero.
[Link: www.nowpublic.com...]

274 The Sanity Inspector  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 8:00:58pm

re: #271 Walter L. Newton

Ooh, this is like watching the novelist write a story in the bookstore's front window!

275 Killgore Trout  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 8:02:01pm

"Lucifer Sam" Pink Floyd (London '67)


"That cat's something I can't explain"
276 MandyManners  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 8:02:07pm
278 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 8:02:25pm

re: #271 Walter L. Newton

Updings for paragraph breaks. I didn't read the whole thing, but I have to at least give you dings for having the courtesy to use paragraph breaks.

279 Walter L. Newton  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 8:02:35pm

re: #274 The Sanity Inspector

Ooh, this is like watching the novelist write a story in the bookstore's front window!

Really... never heard about that... maybe I could get a job doing that.

280 The Left  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 8:03:17pm

re: #268 Gus 802

Yeah, I think it's the ones with the sweet tooth. Plus I think they like mashing into it so it's almost like an experience for them.


[Video]

I love the way you can hear the kitteh crunching into it and making yummy noises.

281 freetoken  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 8:03:29pm

re: #278 Slumbering Behemoth

Brilliant.

282 Aye Pod  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 8:03:39pm

re: #258 Gus 802

Get it while it's hot! It's not often you'll find a cat that likes spicy foods but they're out there.

She has learned how to fish the large pieces of chicken out of the curry sauce in the pot...wee thug that she is. I'll have to increase security in the kitchen now.

283 The Left  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 8:03:49pm

re: #274 The Sanity Inspector

Ooh, this is like watching the novelist write a story in the bookstore's front window!

Harlan Ellison did that at least once, right?

284 Walter L. Newton  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 8:05:14pm

re: #281 freetoken

Brilliant.

I know... I'm fishing... was that a compliment for my paragraph breaks?

285 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 8:05:24pm

re: #277 The Sanity Inspector

That website is pretty damn cool. I check it out from time to time.

286 Stonemason  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 8:06:51pm

re: #284 Walter L. Newton

I know... I'm fishing... was that a compliment for my paragraph breaks?

Nicely done Walter. And so...Walter.

287 MandyManners  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 8:06:52pm

Two top House Democrats have introduced a measure aimed at blocking the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating pollution-causing greenhouse gases.

House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson of Minnesota and Armed Services Chairman Ike Skelton of Missouri want to veto the EPA's finding in December that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases endanger public health and welfare.

SNIP

288 freetoken  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 8:07:03pm

re: #284 Walter L. Newton

Actually, it was my mistake. I meant to reply to the entry 277.

289 Gus  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 8:07:26pm

re: #282 Jimmah

She has learned how to fish the large pieces of chicken out of the curry sauce in the pot...wee thug that she is. I'll have to increase security in the kitchen now.

She wants the human food. You feed her dry, wet food or both? Back in the old days in Brooklyn my mom would sometimes treat the first two we had with raw liver which they loved. Had another cat that had a thing about peas.

290 The Sanity Inspector  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 8:07:53pm

re: #283 iceweasel

Harlan Ellison did that at least once, right?

Yes, he's the only one I've ever heard of doing it, actually.

291 The Shadow Do  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 8:08:19pm

Gonna have to start hatin' on them Canadians now. Gold medal game Sunday!

Waitin' for some Canuck style trash talkin' now, eh? Eh?

Buncha girly figure skaters them there Canadas are. It's our game now!

*breaks into a chorus of Proud to be an American", or some such"

292 Decatur Deb  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 8:09:17pm

re: #271 Walter L. Newton

re: #267 Walter L. Newton

re: #263 Walter L. Newton

re: #261 Walter L. Newton


Very good stuff, Walter, now where's the sports story?

Note in 271--"tells" for "tell", in 261--"fell" for "feel".

293 albusteve  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 8:09:24pm

winning isn't everything, it's the only thing

294 albusteve  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 8:11:12pm

nobody digs the Nevile Bros?...whoa

295 Walter L. Newton  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 8:11:41pm

re: #292 Decatur Deb

re: #267 Walter L. Newton

re: #263 Walter L. Newton

re: #261 Walter L. Newton

Very good stuff, Walter, now where's the sports story?

Note in 271--"tells" for "tell", in 261--"fell" for "feel".

Thanks and thanks for the edits. I've never gone over this set of monologues with a fine tooth comb yet, it's in my stable of things to do. I have a lot of other plays waiting for my attention.

296 Aye Pod  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 8:12:05pm

re: #289 Gus 802

She wants the human food. You feed her dry, wet food or both? Back in the old days in Brooklyn my mom would sometimes treat the first two we had with raw liver which they loved. Had another cat that had a thing about peas.

I used to feed them both - mainly wet though. Now I feed them only wet as it reduces the amount of vomiting, and I think it's healthier too.

297 laZardo  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 8:12:20pm

brb lunch.

298 Walter L. Newton  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 8:12:36pm

re: #269 reine.de.tout

Walter - post a pdf of that, could you?
I want to print it out and read it properly.

[Link: newton.acrossthebow.com...]

299 Bob Dillon  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 8:13:07pm

re: #273 jaunte

That reminds me: speaking of sailors: I worked this week on designing a trophy for a yacht race which will honor Roger Stone, late of Texas A&M Galveston, who saved two students from drowning when the Cynthia Woods lost her keel 27 miles offshore, then was caught below decks as she sank.
What a hero.
[Link: www.nowpublic.com...]

Heh - long story short. 6 of us (IBM Field Engineers) had a Choy Lee Offshore 40 built in Hong Kong back in the 60s. We planned on sailing bak to the US after our tours were over in SEA and Nam. On its maiden trip from HK to Saigon the rudder fell off (we found out later the @ss holes in the shipyard dropped it and put it on anyway) while we were well up off NVietnam. All we could do was tack back and forth - 200 miles of E & W tacking yielded ~50 miles of southern gain. When off Da Nang we shot off flares to no avail. Finally a Navy patrol boat came out. How come you guys didn't fly your Ensign up side down? The SeaBees there built us a new rudder.

300 Stonemason  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 8:13:28pm

re: #294 albusteve

nobody digs the Nevile Bros?...whoa

I dig the neville brothers...no video at work though. Saw them with the Grateful Dead in 1986(7) in Pittsburg PA, or a couple o' the Nevilles at least.

301 Our Precious Bodily Fluids  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 8:13:44pm

tl;dr

302 The Shadow Do  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 8:14:56pm

re: #271 Walter L. Newton

Creepy but compelling, Walter.
Good stuff. Need the play for context but would read further for sure.

303 reine.de.tout  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 8:15:17pm

re: #294 albusteve

nobody digs the Nevile Bros?...whoa

Well I do of course.

304 albusteve  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 8:16:04pm

re: #300 Stonemason

I dig the neville brothers...no video at work though. Saw them with the Grateful Dead in 1986(7) in Pittsburg PA, or a couple o' the Nevilles at least.

they are a rockin machine...maximum funkitis

305 reine.de.tout  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 8:16:19pm

re: #298 Walter L. Newton

[Link: newton.acrossthebow.com...]

got it, thanks.

306 reine.de.tout  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 8:16:43pm

re: #301 negativ

tl;dr

What is tl;dr?

307 The Shadow Do  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 8:16:54pm

Sissy Canadian hockey team up 3-0

308 Page 3 in the Binder of Women  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 8:16:55pm

re: #271 Walter L. Newton

Holy shit Walter, that was good!

309 albusteve  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 8:16:58pm

re: #303 reine.de.tout

Well I do of course.

you da gumbo princess...I knew that

310 Walter L. Newton  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 8:17:19pm

re: #302 The Shadow Do

Creepy but compelling, Walter.
Good stuff. Need the play for context but would read further for sure.

Thanks.

No... it's a stand alone monologue, just a slice of life. Part of a 5 monologue series dealing with death. Stan, Joanna, Elder Shawn (I posted that the other night), Sylvie Grey and Allama.

311 Walter L. Newton  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 8:17:34pm

re: #308 Stanley Sea

Holy shit Walter, that was good!

Thanks.

312 Bagua  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 8:18:53pm

re: #308 Stanley Sea

Holy shit Walter, that was good!

Agreed, good stuff Walter, I didn't realise you are an author as well as an actor.

313 jaunte  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 8:19:08pm

re: #299 Bobibutu

In the Roger Stone story, a Coast Guard investigation found out that the Cynthia Woods ( which drew 7 feet, pretty deep for Galveston Bay) had gone through 5 hard groundings, and the keel repairs had been insufficient.
[Link: www.oceannavigator.com...]

314 Our Precious Bodily Fluids  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 8:20:06pm

We interrupt this program to bring you Adrian Legg from way back when he still had hair and I still believed I had talent:

315 MandyManners  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 8:20:29pm
316 Walter L. Newton  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 8:20:30pm

re: #312 Bagua

Agreed, good stuff Walter, I didn't realise you are an author as well as an actor.

Thanks... (shameless self promotion again)

[Link: newton.acrossthebow.com...]

317 The Shadow Do  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 8:20:57pm

re: #310 Walter L. Newton

Thanks.

No... it's a stand alone monologue, just a slice of life. Part of a 5 monologue series dealing with death. Stan, Joanna, Elder Shawn (I posted that the other night), Sylvie Grey and Allama.

Ah, death monologues. I'll leave for the younger lizards to appreciate. At my age the drama diminishes, sadly.

318 Walter L. Newton  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 8:21:15pm

re: #315 MandyManners

[Video]

Don't cry Mandy.

319 Gus  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 8:21:53pm

re: #296 Jimmah

I used to feed them both - mainly wet though. Now I feed them only wet as it reduces the amount of vomiting, and I think it's healthier too.

Too much dry food can lead to obesity. Especially if it's always out there.

320 Bagua  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 8:23:16pm

re: #316 Walter L. Newton

Thanks... (shameless self promotion again)

[Link: newton.acrossthebow.com...]

I'll have a read through after dinner. Thank you for the link.

321 Bob Dillon  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 8:23:54pm

re: #311 Walter L. Newton

Thanks.

Reminded me of HS gym class back in the 50s - softball. I was pitching and smokin' 'em. Teach replaced me and put me on third. After the new pitcher gave up about 6 hits in a row, in frustration, I yelled out "hey - the object is to "not" let them hit the fucking ball". Yep - I never pitched again.

Thanks Walter. Good one.

322 jaunte  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 8:24:08pm

re: #296 Jimmah

I used to feed them both - mainly wet though. Now I feed them only wet as it reduces the amount of vomiting, and I think it's healthier too.

Less vomiting is always right up near the top of my desirables list.

323 Walter L. Newton  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 8:24:09pm

re: #317 The Shadow Do

Ah, death monologues. I'll leave for the younger lizards to appreciate. At my age the drama diminishes, sadly.

Maybe I simplified it too much. The 5 monologues deal with death, how easy it is for us, anyone, the guy, girl next door to rationalize about taking a human life, how easy it can be to talk yourself into it, for religious reasons, to support your obsession with sports, for love or lack of love.

The 5 monologues are titled "On Any Given Day... why we kill." It's not just about dying... it's about avenging, sweet.

324 Walter L. Newton  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 8:25:15pm

re: #321 Bobibutu

Reminded me of HS gym class back in the 50s - softball. I was pitching and smokin' 'em. Teach replaced me and put me on third. After the new pitcher gave up about 6 hits in a row, in frustration, I yelled out "hey - the object is to "not" let them hit the fucking ball". Yep - I never pitched again.

Thanks Walter. Good one.

Thank you. I like feedback, this is the first time a "public" has been able to read that one.

325 Dark_Falcon  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 8:26:49pm

re: #271 Walter L. Newton

Nice twist at the end, Walter.

326 Dark_Falcon  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 8:28:30pm

re: #323 Walter L. Newton

Maybe I simplified it too much. The 5 monologues deal with death, how easy it is for us, anyone, the guy, girl next door to rationalize about taking a human life, how easy it can be to talk yourself into it, for religious reasons, to support your obsession with sports, for love or lack of love.

The 5 monologues are titled "On Any Given Day... why we kill." It's not just about dying... it's about avenging, sweet.

That Fundie recruiter monologue you posted earlier this week was from the same series, if memory serves.

327 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 8:29:18pm

re: #310 Walter L. Newton

No... it's a stand alone monologue, just a slice of life. Part of a 5 monologue series dealing with death. Stan, Joanna, Elder Shawn (I posted that the other night), Sylvie Grey and Allama.

I dug that one. I'll give tonight's a proper read in a bit here.

328 Our Precious Bodily Fluids  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 8:30:08pm

re: #317 The Shadow Do

I work all day, and get half drunk at night.
Waking at four to soundless dark, I stare.
In time the curtain edges will grow light.
Till then I see what's really always there:
Unresting death, a whole day nearer now,
Making all thought impossible but how
And where and when I shall myself die.
Arid interrogation: yet the dread
Of dying, and being dead,
Flashes afresh to hold and horrify.

The mind blanks at the glare. Not in remorse
- The good not used, the love not given, time
Torn off unused - nor wretchedly because
An only life can take so long to climb
Clear of its wrong beginnings, and may never:
But at the total emptiness forever,
The sure extinction that we travel to
And shall be lost in always. Not to be here,
Not to be anywhere,
And soon; nothing more terrible, nothing more true.

This is a special way of being afraid
No trick dispels. Religion used to try,
That vast moth-eaten musical brocade
Created to pretend we never die,
And specious stuff that says no rational being
Can fear a thing it cannot feel, not seeing
that this is what we fear - no sight, no sound,
No touch or taste or smell, nothing to think with,
Nothing to love or link with,
The anaesthetic from which none come round.

And so it stays just on the edge of vision,
A small unfocused blur, a standing chill
That slows each impulse down to indecision
Most things may never happen: this one will,
And realisation of it rages out
In furnace fear when we are caught without
People or drink. Courage is no good:
It means not scaring others. Being brave
Lets no-one off the grave.
Death is no different whined at than withstood.

Slowly light strengthens, and the room takes shape.
It stands plain as a wardrobe, what we know,
Have always known, know that we can't escape
Yet can't accept. One side will have to go.
Meanwhile telephones crouch, getting ready to ring
In locked-up offices, and all the uncaring
Intricate rented world begins to rouse.
The sky is white as clay, with no sun.
Work has to be done.
Postmen like doctors go from house to house.

-- Philip Larkin

329 Racer X  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 8:30:18pm

re: #324 Walter L. Newton

Very good!

Ya got skills.

330 Bob Dillon  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 8:31:31pm

re: #313 jaunte

In the Roger Stone story, a Coast Guard investigation found out that the Cynthia Woods ( which drew 7 feet, pretty deep for Galveston Bay) had gone through 5 hard groundings, and the keel repairs had been insufficient.
[Link: www.oceannavigator.com...]

We got Choy Lee to ship us a new rudder (they paid for it) so we now had a spare. We needed it because it fell off again. (we found out later that the idiots damaged the mounting post when forcing on the original dropped rudder during construction). Now, I love Asians - hell I was married to one. However some Chinese are to be watched closely if any sum of money is involved. I think they would rip off their mothers given the chance. Then again there are others who I would damn near die for.

331 Walter L. Newton  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 8:31:43pm

re: #325 Dark_Falcon

Nice twist at the end, Walter.

re: #326 Dark_Falcon

That Fundie recruiter monologue you posted earlier this week was from the same series, if memory serves.

Thanks... yes it was. And each of the stories have a twist like that at the end. I have three more that I will post at some time, far apart, so as not to totally abuse posting privileges

Sylvie Grey is about a very country girl on trial for murder and Joanna is about is about an estranged woman and what happens when she let's her husband back into the house.

Both very creepy.

332 Walter L. Newton  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 8:32:10pm

re: #329 Racer X

Very good!

Ya got skills.

Thank you.

333 Dark_Falcon  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 8:33:10pm

re: #331 Walter L. Newton

Thanks... yes it was. And each of the stories have a twist like that at the end. I have three more that I will post at some time, far apart, so as not to totally abuse posting privileges

Sylvie Grey is about a very country girl on trial for murder and Joanna is about is about an estranged woman and what happens when she let's her husband back into the house.

Both very creepy.

Has this series been brought to the stage yet? Because its very good.

334 Aye Pod  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 8:33:24pm

re: #322 jaunte

Less vomiting is always right up near the top of my desirables list.

I'm beginning to think the reason cats vomit so much is that their food basically sucks.

335 Bob Dillon  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 8:33:26pm

re: #313 jaunte

BTW - the cookbook is becoming a massive hit in the retirement community I live in. The cover really throws others for a loop.

Nice work.

336 Gus  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 8:34:52pm

Wow. That pea brain Cenk Uygus (Young Turks show, also did a phone interview of Charles) and his side kick were laughing away and making light of the tragedy at Sea World Orlando where the trainer was killed. Complete lack of maturity.

337 The Shadow Do  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 8:35:20pm

re: #315 MandyManners

Ouch! My anti-anthem. The end of my last marriage occurred when I walked into a bar where I was tipped I would find her....and yes, there she was, doing the slow dance to this... with ?. One thrown drink in her general direction and a quick 86 by the staff, then off to home and my young daughter.

Got a new bride since then though and a beautiful grown daughter now. Third time is a charm they say.

But I still hate the Righteous Brothers.

338 Aye Pod  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 8:35:31pm

re: #319 Gus 802

Too much dry food can lead to obesity. Especially if it's always out there.

Bad for the kidneys too, from what I've heard.

339 Gus  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 8:35:36pm

re: #336 Gus 802

Wow. That pea brain Cenk Uygus Cenk Uygur (Young Turks show, also did a phone interview of Charles) and his side kick were laughing away and making light of the tragedy at Sea World Orlando where the trainer was killed. Complete lack of maturity.

340 The Shadow Do  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 8:36:05pm

re: #328 negativ

And there you have it

341 Bob Dillon  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 8:36:12pm

re: #325 Dark_Falcon

Nice twist at the end, Walter.

Yeah - sucks you in and then ... zing.

342 Dark_Falcon  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 8:36:29pm

re: #334 Jimmah

I'm beginning to think the reason cats vomit so much is that their food basically sucks.

Well, it does cling to the dish quite firmly. I sometimes feed my parents cats, and its always tough to clean their dishes.

343 Gus  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 8:36:54pm

re: #338 Jimmah

Bad for the kidneys too, from what I've heard.

Something to do with crystallization if I recall correctly.

344 The Left  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 8:37:43pm

re: #338 Jimmah

Bad for the kidneys too, from what I've heard.

My sister's cats are like that because she leaves a mountain of dry food out for them all the time. Obese and with some kidney trouble.

One of them looks like a barrel with a piece of string taped to one end.
(Very sturdy cat, very skinny and stubby white tail).

345 Walter L. Newton  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 8:38:12pm

re: #333 Dark_Falcon

Has this series been brought to the stage yet? Because its very good.

Nope. It's what's called a one act play. The five monologues, about an hour and ten minutes worth of theatre. The stories have not even been edited for mistakes (evident by Debs two corrections).

I Never Promised You A Rose Garden, High Crimes and Misdemeanors, Poof! and 1894 has had major staged productions in the Denver area and out of state.

Appearances and A Field of Buttercups have won the Colorado Theatre Guilds New Ventures Award and received staged readings.

And I have had a number of short scene pieces staged at numerous theatre festivals.

I have other finished or half finished pieces in the "in" basket.

346 The Left  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 8:38:54pm

re: #328 negativ

My favourite Larkin poem, ever. And that's saying something...

347 Walter L. Newton  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 8:39:11pm

re: #345 Walter L. Newton

Nope. It's what's called a one act play. The five monologues, about an hour and ten minutes worth of theatre. The stories have not even been edited for mistakes (evident by Debs two corrections).

I Never Promised You A Rose Garden, High Crimes and Misdemeanors, Poof! and 1894 has had major staged productions in the Denver area and out of state.

Appearances and A Field of Buttercups have won the Colorado Theatre Guilds New Ventures Award and received staged readings.

And I have had a number of short scene pieces staged at numerous theatre festivals.

I have other finished or half finished pieces in the "in" basket.

1984 (I must be getting tired)

348 Gus  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 8:39:45pm

re: #344 iceweasel

My sister's cats are like that because she leaves a mountain of dry food out for them all the time. Obese and with some kidney trouble.

One of them looks like a barrel with a piece of string taped to one end.
(Very sturdy cat, very skinny and stubby white tail).

That's the biggest problem right there. We used to do that. It's like we thought they were going to starve but that wasn't the case. They're not like birds that require a constant stream of bird seed.

349 albusteve  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 8:42:19pm

re: #324 Walter L. Newton

Thank you. I like feedback, this is the first time a "public" has been able to read that one.

I'm willing to marry you

350 The Left  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 8:42:37pm

re: #348 Gus 802

That's the biggest problem right there. We used to do that. It's like we thought they were going to starve but that wasn't the case. They're not like birds that require a constant stream of bird seed.

That's what my sister did. They would still wake her yowling at 5 am too for-- fresher dry food? Not sure.
They did live a long time though-- one made it to 16 and the other is 18 now. But they've had kidney trouble and the 18 year old one has always had a pee problem-- although in her case it was spite. Left alone for too long and she'd pee on furniture. Definitely deliberate.

351 The Shadow Do  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 8:42:55pm

Gonna havta beat them damn Canadahoovians come Sunday, yes we will.

352 Aye Pod  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 8:43:10pm

re: #343 Gus 802

Something to do with crystallization if I recall correctly.

That reminds me of the time I went through a spell of not drinking enough liquids and got a bladder stone (in reality a bunch of small glassy shard-like crystalline salts). I got treatment in hospital to break them up, but they still had to come out the hard way in the end - ouch.

353 Gus  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 8:44:33pm

re: #350 iceweasel

That's what my sister did. They would still wake her yowling at 5 am too for-- fresher dry food? Not sure.
They did live a long time though-- one made it to 16 and the other is 18 now. But they've had kidney trouble and the 18 year old one has always had a pee problem-- although in her case it was spite. Left alone for too long and she'd pee on furniture. Definitely deliberate.

Sounds exactly like some of our cats. I tell you when they have urinary tract problems that can be a royal pain especially if they start going anywhere.

354 Our Precious Bodily Fluids  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 8:46:40pm

re: #346 iceweasel

They fuck you up, your mum and dad.
They may not mean to, but they do.
They fill you with the faults they had
And add some extra, just for you.

But they were fucked up in their turn
By fools in old-style hats and coats,
Who half the time were soppy-stern
And half at one another's throats.

Man hands on misery to man.
It deepens like a coastal shelf.
Get out as early as you can,
And don't have any kids yourself.

355 Gus  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 8:46:53pm

re: #352 Jimmah

That reminds me of the time I went through a spell of not drinking enough liquids and got a bladder stone (in reality a bunch of small glassy shard-like crystalline salts). I got treatment in hospital to break them up, but they still had to come out the hard way in the end - ouch.

Ouch. Ouch. Ouch.

356 albusteve  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 8:47:22pm

re: #352 Jimmah

That reminds me of the time I went through a spell of not drinking enough liquids and got a bladder stone (in reality a bunch of small glassy shard-like crystalline salts). I got treatment in hospital to break them up, but they still had to come out the hard way in the end - ouch.

foolish man...I never go without an abundance of liquids...vodka, rum etc...you have to stay healthy!

357 Dark_Falcon  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 8:47:34pm

re: #351 The Shadow Do

Gonna havta beat them damn Canadahoovians come Sunday, yes we will.

We did it before and we'll do it again.

358 Walter L. Newton  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 8:47:59pm

re: #349 albusteve

I'm willing to marry you

I've alway known that, silly.

359 Gus  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 8:48:32pm

re: #357 Dark_Falcon

We did it before and we'll do it again.

Was it over when the Canadians bombed Pearl Harbor?!

/

360 albusteve  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 8:48:38pm

re: #358 Walter L. Newton

I've alway known that, silly.

you are a very good righter

361 Walter L. Newton  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 8:49:27pm

re: #360 albusteve

you are a very good righter

Wrong!

362 Irenicum  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 8:50:17pm

A quick swing through the thread and no major downdings. In other words, a cool thread I can feel comfortable with. Hey gang.

363 cliffster  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 8:50:21pm

TGIF bitches. Miss anything?

364 The Left  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 8:50:28pm

ForumWarz!

Character classes include:

In Scandinavian folklore, a Troll is a mythical, dwarfish creature who lives in caves, hoards gold and smashes skulls with clubs. In Internet folklore, a Troll is a dickhole who purposely disrupts online forums by posting inflammatory, off-topic or otherwise scatological content. The more upset you become, the more this jackass gets his jollies.

The Troll’s limited (but seemingly unlimited!) secondary attribute is Douchebaggery. This can be replenished with an unhealthy or even — God willing — lethal combination of testosterone supplements, paint thinner and Norwegian grind metal.

The Hacker:

The Hacker takes advantage of the average web-schmuck’s lack of security measures and brutally exploits using complex technologies like backdoors, rootkits, masks and sniffers. Successfully launching a brute force attack into a protected network is the closest this über-dork will ever come to having vaginal sex.

The Hacker needs badass hardware with plenty of Processing Power to execute his deadly deeds. A small price to pay for having such l33t motherfucking skillz.

The CamWhore:

The Camwhore is an extreme narcissist who requires constant ego validation. She’s the girl who was called “pretty” one too many times as a kid, and now needs to reinforce her self-worth anytime something with a lens — webcams, human eyes, small municipalities in the Swiss canton of Valais (pop. 3,470) — is aimed at her overly made-up face.

With her secondary Sexiness attribute, the Camwhore derails forums with post after post of pouty, doe-eyed stares and exaggerated cleavage. And if she’s really feeling frisky, she can get your ass arrested on kiddie-porn charges.

And the EmoKid:

The Emo Kid is exactly who you’d expect: a whiny little bitch who takes over forums by making everyone so miserable they’re compelled to leave. Suffering from perpetual teen angst, the Emo Kid turns otherwise agreeable forums into dumping grounds for her depressing rants, false-alarm suicide notes and side-splittingly morbid poetry.

The Emo Kid’s lifeblood, fueling her anguished existence, is a steady flow of Tears. These are easily replenished with eyedrops, eye irritants, or just a good old-fashioned flogging.

I think EmoKid might be the one for me...
Definitely NSFW, btw.

365 bagua  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 8:50:38pm

The supper bell is ringing, later on...

Nothing But the Water

bbl

366 Irenicum  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 8:51:01pm

And Ice is rocking as usual!

367 Aye Pod  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 8:51:03pm

re: #355 Gus 802

Ouch. Ouch. Ouch.

It's exactly the sort of ouch you'd imagine it to be. Definitely one to be avoided!

368 The Left  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 8:51:08pm

re: #354 negativ

Home is so sad. It stays as it was left,
Shaped to the comfort of the last to go
As if to win them back. Instead, bereft
Of anyone to please, it withers so,
Having no heart to put aside the theft

And turn again to what it started as,
A joyous shot at how things ought to be,
Long fallen wide. You can see how it was:
Look at the pictures and the cutlery.
The music in the piano stool. That vase.

369 Dark_Falcon  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 8:51:09pm

re: #363 cliffster

TGIF bitches. Miss anything?

Not much. Things are quite and cordial tonight.

370 The Left  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 8:51:40pm

re: #362 Irenicum

A quick swing through the thread and no major downdings. In other words, a cool thread I can feel comfortable with. Hey gang.

Hey baby! S'up?

371 bagua  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 8:52:26pm

re: #369 Dark_Falcon

Not much. Things are quite and cordial tonight.

I don't think that word means what you think it does.

(Filling in for Cato)

372 albusteve  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 8:52:26pm

re: #361 Walter L. Newton

Wrong!

okay...a very good wronger then, whatever you say

373 Walter L. Newton  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 8:53:00pm

re: #372 albusteve

okay...a very good wronger then, whatever you say

You're so cute.

374 Irenicum  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 8:53:44pm

re: #370 iceweasel

Glad it's Friday. Trying to figure out what to do with the weekend.

375 cliffster  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 8:54:10pm

re: #369 Dark_Falcon

Not much. Things are quite and cordial tonight.

Bout time. Hope you're rounding out the weekend well, DF.

376 Walter L. Newton  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 8:54:22pm

re: #374 Irenicum

Glad it's Friday. Trying to figure out what to do with the weekend.

Sex and debauchery always works for me.

377 freetoken  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 8:54:53pm

re: #362 Irenicum

In other words, a cool thread I can feel comfortable with. Hey gang.


We're cool... way cool...

378 Gus  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 8:55:01pm

re: #367 Jimmah

It's exactly the sort of ouch you'd imagine it to be. Definitely one to be avoided!

I can imagine. I had a "catheter experience" once that lasted a total of maybe 90 second. They were testing something. Anyway, I spend the better part of those 90 seconds screaming.

379 Dark_Falcon  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 8:55:06pm

re: #371 bagua

I don't think that word means what you think it does.

(Filling in for Cato)

quite should have been quiet.

PIMF

380 Gus  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 8:55:29pm

re: #378 Gus 802

Spent not spend.

381 Racer X  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 8:56:03pm

re: #371 bagua

I don't think that word means what you think it does.

(Filling in for Cato)

Quiet Concur

382 Irenicum  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 8:56:11pm

re: #376 Walter L. Newton

No comment. Else I get in too much trouble with my peeps. Though what you suggest is strangely appealing.

383 Walter L. Newton  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 8:56:38pm

re: #378 Gus 802

I can imagine. I had a "catheter experience" once that lasted a total of maybe 90 second. They were testing something. Anyway, I spend the better part of those 90 seconds screaming.

Catheters can be fun if you like the feel of flaming hot metal rods being shoved up your... it will certainly get your attention.

384 Bagua  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 8:56:40pm

re: #376 Walter L. Newton

Sex and debauchery always works for me.

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.

- Hunter S. Thompson

385 Aye Pod  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 8:57:17pm

re: #356 albusteve

foolish man...I never go without an abundance of liquids...vodka, rum etc...you have to stay healthy!

386 The Left  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 8:57:29pm

re: #376 Walter L. Newton

Sex and debauchery always works for me.

More Larkin!
Love Again

Love again: wanking at ten past three
(Surely he's taken her home by now?),
The bedroom hot as a bakery,
The drink gone dead, without showing how
To meet tomorrow, and afterwards,
And the usual pain, like dysentery.

Someone else feeling her breasts and c**t,
Someone else drowned in that lash-wide stare,
And me supposed to be ignorant,
Or find it funny, or not to care,
Even ... but why put it into words?
Isolate rather this element

That spreads through other lives like a tree
And sways them on in a sort of sense
And say why it never worked for me.
Something to do with violence
A long way back, and wrong rewards,
And arrogant eternity.

387 Gus  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 8:57:47pm

re: #383 Walter L. Newton

Catheters can be fun if you like the feel of flaming hot metal rods being shoved up your... it will certainly get your attention.

Yes. I did not have any fun. Whew. Ouch.

388 cliffster  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 8:57:52pm

re: #377 freetoken

To that I say, fuck yeah

389 Dark_Falcon  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 8:58:03pm

re: #364 iceweasel

ForumWarz!

Character classes include:

I think EmoKid might be the one for me...
Definitely NSFW, btw.

Looks fun. I'll try to remember to give it a whirl.

390 Racer X  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 8:58:10pm

re: #376 Walter L. Newton

Sex and debauchery always works for me.

Thats my plan. Got the house to myself.

391 Irenicum  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 8:58:11pm

re: #377 freetoken

Cool whacko daddyo!

392 Dark_Falcon  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 8:59:19pm

re: #386 iceweasel

More Larkin!
Love Again

Love again: wanking at ten past three
(Surely he's taken her home by now?),
The bedroom hot as a bakery,
The drink gone dead, without showing how
To meet tomorrow, and afterwards,
And the usual pain, like dysentery.

Someone else feeling her breasts and c**t,
Someone else drowned in that lash-wide stare,
And me supposed to be ignorant,
Or find it funny, or not to care,
Even ... but why put it into words?
Isolate rather this element

That spreads through other lives like a tree
And sways them on in a sort of sense
And say why it never worked for me.
Something to do with violence
A long way back, and wrong rewards,
And arrogant eternity.

Larkin had skill, but the nastiness can be somewhat off-outting.

393 Bagua  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 8:59:41pm

Santa Fe Blues


- Mance Lipscomb
394 cliffster  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 9:00:21pm

re: #368 iceweasel

re: #386 iceweasel

Glad you're in good spirits, Ice...

395 Irenicum  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 9:00:33pm

re: #384 Bagua

My brother is a huge fan of Hunter S Thompson. What a whack job. And yes, I mean both my brother and Hunter. And yes, it's not an insult.

396 SanFranciscoZionist  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 9:01:27pm

re: #272 The Sanity Inspector

No. By that time I was used to surprises. In the beginning I was so ignorant that people had to explain to me, "this dish is special, only for festive occasions, because you're here."

One of my friends worked a couple of years in Shanghai. She stopped asking what food was when she was out with coworkers, because the answer was always "Local speciality!"

The phrase she used to describe the food in Shanghai in general was "Trayfedik-o-rama".

397 The Left  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 9:01:38pm

re: #392 Dark_Falcon

Larkin had skill, but the nastiness can be somewhat off-outting.

DO you think that one's nasty? I don't-- just harsh and dark.

Although if I remember rightly Larkin himself was a bit nasty. Racist, I think? Seems like a lot of guys of his place and time were.
Another reason I prefer not to know too much about the people who make art, whether it's actors or poets or musicians or painters. I don't want to hear your politics, just shut up and sing!

398 Racer X  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 9:02:02pm
399 Walter L. Newton  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 9:02:53pm

re: #386 iceweasel

That's a bit dark. I can't do the angst stuff anymore. Those "death" monologues I have been posting and discussing, that stuff was written about 5 years ago, when I was still drinking like a sailor and enjoyed being pissed at everything.

For a matter of fact, ever since I stopped drinking 4 years ago, I can't write the heavy drama anymore, period. There was about a two year period after the drink 2007-8, where I had some of that stuff still in me, and that's when I wrote Appearances about pedophilia, but now, I'm really dry, really in touch with, well, reality, and most of what I put together right now is more clinical, clean, funny stuff a lot, but I can't get back down into the "soul" and beat myself up a bit for the sake of some good drama.

400 The Left  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 9:03:08pm

re: #394 cliffster

re: #386 iceweasel

Glad you're in good spirits, Ice...

I am! And you?

re: #392 Dark_Falcon

Whoops, random capitalisation in that answer to you DF, sorry. Not DO but Do. And also D'oh!

401 Aye Pod  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 9:03:43pm

re: #378 Gus 802

I can imagine. I had a "catheter experience" once that lasted a total of maybe 90 second. They were testing something. Anyway, I spend the better part of those 90 seconds screaming.

Ugh - one of the top nightmare medical examination scenarios that one. Btw - something funny about the procedure they put you through for the bladder stones in hospital - they give you some radioactive drink or something before they x-ray your bladder. Thing is, a minute or two after drinking it, as you are lying there, you have this feeling that you have just shit yourself. The nurse of course waited till after I'd had that before saying "Oh btw - you probably felt that you just shit yourself there - am I right? don't worry - it does that".

402 Irenicum  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 9:05:05pm

re: #399 Walter L. Newton

Wow, Walter, that was really insightful. Thanks for sharing that.

403 SanFranciscoZionist  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 9:05:07pm

re: #319 Gus 802

Too much dry food can lead to obesity. Especially if it's always out there.

Some friends of ours went through a period of time when they had both a beagle puppy and a whippet. You really need to leave food out all the time for whippets. They are natural anorexics, and if you don't have the food there at the exact moment they figure eating something might be a good idea, they may not want to eat when you put the food out again.

Beagles will eat everything, and if there's more, they'll eat that too.

They finally had to put the whippet's bowl at a level that the whippet could reach, and the beagle could not.

404 Dark_Falcon  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 9:05:12pm

re: #392 Dark_Falcon

Larkin had skill, but the nastiness can be somewhat off-putting.

Sorry, long day. My worries about my job are back too, but I've got a plan to tip the odds in favor of me keeping it.

405 Gus  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 9:06:21pm

re: #401 Jimmah

Ugh - one of the top nightmare medical examination scenarios that one. Btw - something funny about the procedure they put you through for the bladder stones in hospital - they give you some radioactive drink or something before they x-ray your bladder. Thing is, a minute or two after drinking it, as you are lying there, you have this feeling that you have just shit yourself. The nurse of course waited till after I'd had that before saying "Oh btw - you probably felt that you just shit yourself there - am I right? don't worry - it does that".

Must have been barium. They use that for digestive tract examinations as well.

406 Walter L. Newton  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 9:06:30pm

re: #395 Irenicum

My brother is a huge fan of Hunter S Thompson. What a whack job. And yes, I mean both my brother and Hunter. And yes, it's not an insult.

You know, I write plays, and I attempted to write a one man play on Hunter once, hell, his wife lives up in the hills here just a few hours away.

I went through a lot of material including his wife's short biography and when all was said an done, I really couldn't find a coherent thread in which to tie an hour and a half of theatre together with.

I'm not saying it couldn't be done, but, gee, what did he really have to say about anything that you could take to the bank.

After a while, I got the impression he was goofing on everyone, all the time, and really didn't have anything to say except "fuck you all." Doesn't make for good theatre.

407 The Left  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 9:07:24pm

re: #404 Dark_Falcon

Sorry, long day. My worries about my job are back too, but I've got a plan to tip the odds in favor of me keeping it.

Yikes. What's up? (please ignore if you don't want to talk about it).
Best of luck to you though; jimmah and i will be thinking of you.

408 Gus  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 9:08:26pm

re: #403 SanFranciscoZionist

Some friends of ours went through a period of time when they had both a beagle puppy and a whippet. You really need to leave food out all the time for whippets. They are natural anorexics, and if you don't have the food there at the exact moment they figure eating something might be a good idea, they may not want to eat when you put the food out again.

Beagles will eat everything, and if there's more, they'll eat that too.

They finally had to put the whippet's bowl at a level that the whippet could reach, and the beagle could not.

That a good solution. Of course with a cat you could put the food on the ceiling and he'd get to it.

409 Walter L. Newton  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 9:08:28pm

re: #402 Irenicum

Wow, Walter, that was really insightful. Thanks for sharing that.

Thanks...

Here's something for you. I posted this up thread in 4 comments, but you may want to read it in whole...

[Link: newton.acrossthebow.com...]

410 Walter L. Newton  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 9:08:51pm

re: #404 Dark_Falcon

Sorry, long day. My worries about my job are back too, but I've got a plan to tip the odds in favor of me keeping it.

What's up (wanna talk?).

411 freetoken  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 9:09:06pm

At the risk of un-cool-ing the thread...

Why's George Clayton, of North Dallas High, Running for State Board of Ed? Because It Needs "An Educator," Dang It.

After a couple of weeks playing phone tag, Unfair Park finally managed to connect with George M. Clayton, the District 12 State Board of Education candidate opposing incumbent Geraldine "Tincy" Miller in Tuesday's GOP primary. Clayton has been something of a mystery man to the Republican Party folk and state board watchers we've spoken with, and we wanted to ask him why he's running. [...]

Unfair Park tried to pin Clayton down on where he stood on the GOP conservative spectrum -- using a form of reportorial shorthand. We asked him how old the Earth is, figuring anything in the 10,000-year range would peg him as a religious conservative.

"I'm not going to cut it half and count the rings," Clayton replied cannily.

OK, slippery answer. (Also wrong, but never mind.) We tried again: Should evolution be taught in science classrooms?

Clayton said evolution is and should remain in science classrooms, but he thinks the alternative theories supported by the religious right -- intelligent design and creationism -- can "find a real nice home" in humanities, philosophy or world history classes.

"It's seems to me you can't be taught the one [evolution] without the other [creationism]," Clayton said. "It's an impossibility to talk about evolution without mentioning creationism."

[...]

TEACH THE CONTROVERSY!

412 Irenicum  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 9:09:46pm

re: #406 Walter L. Newton

Strange thing is, I agree. My brother is the same way. His motto is: "the world's about to end and I'm a happy camper" I don't share that view, but I do understand what drives it. It's very dark.

413 Aye Pod  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 9:10:07pm

re: #386 iceweasel

More Larkin!
Love Again

Love again: wanking at ten past three
(Surely he's taken her home by now?),
The bedroom hot as a bakery,
The drink gone dead, without showing how
To meet tomorrow, and afterwards,
And the usual pain, like dysentery.

Someone else feeling her breasts and c**t,
Someone else drowned in that lash-wide stare,
And me supposed to be ignorant,
Or find it funny, or not to care,
Even ... but why put it into words?
Isolate rather this element

That spreads through other lives like a tree
And sways them on in a sort of sense
And say why it never worked for me.
Something to do with violence
A long way back, and wrong rewards,
And arrogant eternity.

Larkin always reminds me of Morrissey.

"Two lovers entwined pass me by, and heaven knows I'm miserable now". Morrissey is more humorous, of course.

414 cliffster  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 9:10:23pm

re: #400 iceweasel

I am! And you?

Spirits are good here. My wife seems to be coming down with something, but it's the weekend so she can just lounge around and let me take care of things. If she's feeling better tomorrow AM, she's going out of town and leaving me with the two little ones. Scary stuff.

415 Gus  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 9:11:51pm

re: #411 freetoken

At the risk of un-cool-ing the thread...

Why's George Clayton, of North Dallas High, Running for State Board of Ed? Because It Needs "An Educator," Dang It.

TEACH THE CONTROVERSY!

Damn, you just ruined my hashish buzz.

/I wish.

/

416 Irenicum  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 9:11:53pm

re: #409 Walter L. Newton

Thanks Walter. I saved it for future reading.

417 Walter L. Newton  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 9:12:04pm

re: #412 Irenicum

Strange thing is, I agree. My brother is the same way. His motto is: "the world's about to end and I'm a happy camper" I don't share that view, but I do understand what drives it. It's very dark.

I understand. Been there, done that, actually really fun, if you thrive on chaos, it's like a drug. I actually enjoy the fact that I went through that stuff, and made it out the other end.

I'm on to other things now.

418 cliffster  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 9:13:33pm

re: #404 Dark_Falcon

Sorry, long day. My worries about my job are back too, but I've got a plan to tip the odds in favor of me keeping it.

Sorry, dude. Just the normal month-to-month sales quota stuff?

419 freetoken  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 9:14:01pm

re: #415 Gus 802

Damn, you just ruined my hashish buzz.

420 The Sanity Inspector  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 9:14:02pm

Read Kingsley Amis' Memoirs for a lot of anecdotes about Larkin.

As for his darkest poem, this one's a top-fiver:

Next, Please

Always too eager for the future, we
Pick up bad habits of expectancy.
Something is always approaching; every day
Till then we say,

Watching from a bluff the tiny, clear
Sparkling armada of promises draw near.
How slow they are! And how much time they waste,
Refusing to make haste!

Yet still they leave us holding wretched stalks
Of disappointment, for, though nothing balks
Each big approach, leaning with brasswork prinked,
Each rope distinct,

Flagged, and the figurehead wit golden tits
Arching our way, it never anchors; it's
No sooner present than it turns to past.
Right to the last

We think each one will heave to and unload
All good into our lives, all we are owed
For waiting so devoutly and so long.
But we are wrong:

Only one ship is seeking us, a black-
Sailed unfamiliar, towing at her back
A huge and birdless silence. In her wake
No waters breed or break.

421 MartiansAteMyCat  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 9:14:14pm

re: #2 albusteve

Great, great band!

If you haven't introduced yourself to Crowded House yet... boy, are you in for a treat. ALL their records are stellar, and there are very few bands of which you can say that.

And yes... unfortunately, Paul is dead. Drummer Paul Hester, that is. After struggling with depression for years, he took his own life in 2005, and his absence haunts the lyrics of Time On Earth.

422 Irenicum  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 9:14:59pm

re: #417 Walter L. Newton

Chaos is good temporary fun. Nothing more. Very glad you're in a different place now.

423 Obdicut  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 9:15:28pm

re: #420 The Sanity Inspector

Where would you rank Myxomatosis?

Caught in the center of a soundless field
While hot inexplicable hours go by
What trap is this? Where were its teeth concealed?
You seem to ask.
I make a sharp reply,
Then clean my stick. I'm glad I can't explain
Just in what jaws you were to suppurate:
You may have thought things would come right again
If you could only keep quite still and wait.

424 The Left  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 9:16:33pm

re: #413 Jimmah

Larkin always reminds me of Morrissey.

"Two lovers entwined pass me by, and heaven knows I'm miserable now". Morrissey is more humorous, of course.

Excellent comparison. But Larkin can be hella funny, and Morrissey can be damned bleak himself...
Not gonna post "I Know It's Over" or "Please please please", but here's Frankly Mr Shankly instead. :)

425 prairiefire  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 9:16:48pm

re: #406 Walter L. Newton

I admired Mr. Thompson and tried to emulate him, not always in a good way....
I think he had a lot of manic energy. I don't think his substance use was a good thing for him, but probably inevitable. Self-medicating and all that.

426 Dark_Falcon  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 9:17:19pm

re: #407 iceweasel

re: #410 Walter L. Newton

My boss told the store that there we are over headcount. I haven't done well this month prior the last few days, and though I'd made up ground, a bad customer service survey (the customer did not like the options available and gave Sprint a bad survey, but it comes back at me) took much of the ground back. I've still got this weekend and a good number of new lines and that'll make sure I'm not in last place, but I'm still worried. I do have so things going for me in that I'm always on time, I don't backtalk the management, and I don't steal sales from others. People like me at work, so iIfigure at worst I'll be transferred,

427 freetoken  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 9:18:00pm

BTW, I finally watched the movie "Creation". Sort of slow and awkward as far as storytelling, with acting that was better than the story-line itself deserved. Some beautiful cinematography in parts.

It falls unfortunately in a category of films that is hard to fit into the traditional American movie-going experience. Half documentary, half drama, it won't satisfy those who want 100% of either.

Good idea though.

428 The Sanity Inspector  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 9:18:12pm

re: #423 Obdicut

Where would you rank Myxomatosis?

Caught in the center of a soundless field
While hot inexplicable hours go by
What trap is this? Where were its teeth concealed?
You seem to ask.
I make a sharp reply,
Then clean my stick. I'm glad I can't explain
Just in what jaws you were to suppurate:
You may have thought things would come right again
If you could only keep quite still and wait.

Don't know that one. I do know this, though:

Aubade
I work all day, and get half drunk at night.
Waking at four to soundless dark, I stare.
In time the curtain edges will grow light.
Till then I see what's really always there:
Unresting death, a whole day nearer now,
Making all thought impossible but how
And where and when I shall myself die.
Arid interrogation: yet the dread
Of dying, and being dead,
Flashes afresh to hold and horrify.

The mind blanks at the glare. Not in remorse
- The good not used, the love not given, time
Torn off unused - nor wretchedly because
An only life can take so long to climb
Clear of its wrong beginnings, and may never:
But at the total emptiness forever,
The sure extinction that we travel to
And shall be lost in always. Not to be here,
Not to be anywhere,
And soon; nothing more terrible, nothing more true.

This is a special way of being afraid
No trick dispels. Religion used to try,
That vast moth-eaten musical brocade
Created to pretend we never die,
And specious stuff that says no rational being
Can fear a thing it cannot feel, not seeing
that this is what we fear - no sight, no sound,
No touch or taste or smell, nothing to think with,
Nothing to love or link with,
The anaesthetic from which none come round.

And so it stays just on the edge of vision,
A small unfocused blur, a standing chill
That slows each impulse down to indecision
Most things may never happen: this one will,
And realisation of it rages out
In furnace fear when we are caught without
People or drink. Courage is no good:
It means not scaring others. Being brave
Lets no-one off the grave.
Death is no different whined at than withstood.

Slowly light strengthens, and the room takes shape.
It stands plain as a wardrobe, what we know,
Have always known, know that we can't escape
Yet can't accept. One side will have to go.
Meanwhile telephones crouch, getting ready to ring
In locked-up offices, and all the uncaring
Intricate rented world begins to rouse.
The sky is white as clay, with no sun.
Work has to be done.
Postmen like doctors go from house to house.

****

Glad I never ran into Larkin when I was a mopey, tragic adolescent.

429 prairiefire  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 9:18:19pm

re: #426 Dark_Falcon

Best of luck, sweets.

430 The Sanity Inspector  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 9:19:48pm

re: #426 Dark_Falcon

re: #410 Walter L. Newton

My boss told the store that there we are over headcount. I haven't done well this month prior the last few days, and though I'd made up ground, a bad customer service survey (the customer did not like the options available and gave Sprint a bad survey, but it comes back at me) took much of the ground back. I've still got this weekend and a good number of new lines and that'll make sure I'm not in last place, but I'm still worried. I do have so things going for me in that I'm always on time, I don't backtalk the management, and I don't steal sales from others. People like me at work, so iIfigure at worst I'll be transferred,

We want you to succeed, not just survive. I hope you come through with flying colors, but whatever happens, a bend in the road is not the end of the road.

431 rurality  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 9:20:12pm

Attending to things, out of the loop.. and fatigued by hunkered down positions here. Certain folks bring up points and then there is a "don't care", I'm not this or that, just bitter, or response of Bush clipping service, take that, yeah Isreal, I miss bush, gotts to go to the club. Ms. Weasel/Mrs.Jimmah put's info out there, links, clips, and then just gets a bunch of toad-like croaks, "liberal", "there she goes again..." If people take issue with a post, especially if is linked, come back with something that refutes it other than some wish for a Goldwater never, never, ever land. People didnt want it in 64, get over it.

432 Aye Pod  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 9:21:46pm

re: #415 Gus 802

Damn, you just ruined my hashish buzz.

/I wish.

/

Heh. Me too. Got nothin here but the soundtrack.

433 Dark_Falcon  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 9:22:14pm

re: #430 The Sanity Inspector

We want you to succeed, not just survive. I hope you come through with flying colors, but whatever happens, a bend in the road is not the end of the road.

It'll be worse than a bend. I might well go bankrupt if I lose me job, which would make it very hard to find another job. Still, I think I'll be able to keep it. Though I will update my resume this weekend, just in case. And I'll get back in touch with some headhunters I know.

434 Gus  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 9:23:32pm

re: #426 Dark_Falcon

re: #410 Walter L. Newton

My boss told the store that there we are over headcount. I haven't done well this month prior the last few days, and though I'd made up ground, a bad customer service survey (the customer did not like the options available and gave Sprint a bad survey, but it comes back at me) took much of the ground back. I've still got this weekend and a good number of new lines and that'll make sure I'm not in last place, but I'm still worried. I do have so things going for me in that I'm always on time, I don't backtalk the management, and I don't steal sales from others. People like me at work, so iIfigure at worst I'll be transferred,

This might cheer you up a bit.

Raquel Welch ► GALLERIA FOTO

435 Irenicum  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 9:24:01pm

re: #432 Jimmah

OK bud, we need to weed out that bad doobies and get a good pun thread going.

436 The Sanity Inspector  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 9:26:07pm

'Night all. Here's some Duke for you...

437 The Left  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 9:26:28pm

re: #431 rurality

Hey, I may be married now but it's still Ms. ! /
What's up rurality? Hang with us and pass the dutchie on the left hand side.

438 mich-again  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 9:26:45pm

re: #431 rurality

Ms. Weasel/Mrs.Jimmah put's info out there, links, clips, and then just gets a bunch of toad-like croaks, "liberal", "there she goes again..."

Ribbeting stuff there..

439 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 9:27:13pm

re: #411 freetoken

At the risk of un-cool-ing the thread...

Why's George Clayton, of North Dallas High, Running for State Board of Ed? Because It Needs "An Educator," Dang It.


TEACH THE CONTROVERSY!

it's impossible to talk about the digestive and circulatory system without teaching the competing theory of the four humours! Also, it's impossible to talk about airplanes and the concept of lift without also teaching the theory that airplanes may in fact, actually be witches.

440 cliffster  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 9:27:14pm

re: #436 The Sanity Inspector

'Night all. Here's some Duke for you...

Duke is always welcome

441 SanFranciscoZionist  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 9:28:17pm

re: #431 rurality

Attending to things, out of the loop.. and fatigued by hunkered down positions here. Certain folks bring up points and then there is a "don't care", I'm not this or that, just bitter, or response of Bush clipping service, take that, yeah Isreal, I miss bush, gotts to go to the club. Ms. Weasel/Mrs.Jimmah put's info out there, links, clips, and then just gets a bunch of toad-like croaks, "liberal", "there she goes again..." If people take issue with a post, especially if is linked, come back with something that refutes it other than some wish for a Goldwater never, never, ever land. People didnt want it in 64, get over it.

And good evening to you too!

442 Obdicut  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 9:28:47pm

re: #428 The Sanity Inspector

I had the luck to be studying in England when he was very popular, and got to spend quite a bit of time on him. He has some happy poems, too. Very few.

443 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 9:29:21pm

re: #431 rurality

Attending to things, out of the loop.. and fatigued by hunkered down positions here. Certain folks bring up points and then there is a "don't care", I'm not this or that, just bitter, or response of Bush clipping service, take that, yeah Isreal, I miss bush, gotts to go to the club. Ms. Weasel/Mrs.Jimmah put's info out there, links, clips, and then just gets a bunch of toad-like croaks, "liberal", "there she goes again..." If people take issue with a post, especially if is linked, come back with something that refutes it other than some wish for a Goldwater never, never, ever land. People didnt want it in 64, get over it.

This post is very....cubist.

444 cliffster  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 9:29:28pm

re: #437 iceweasel

Hey, I may be married now but it's still Ms. ! /
What's up rurality? Hang with us and pass the dutchie on the left hand side.

Wow, there's a blast from the past

445 The Left  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 9:30:31pm

re: #439 WindUpBird

it's impossible to talk about the digestive and circulatory system without teaching the competing theory of the four humours! Also, it's impossible to talk about airplanes and the concept of lift without also teaching the theory that airplanes may in fact, actually be witches.

Phlogiston, people. Why aren't we hearing about that either, huh?
Big Phloga doesn't want us to know TEH TROOF!!11!

446 mich-again  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 9:31:22pm

re: #439 WindUpBird Isaiah 11:12 proves the Earth is flat..

He will raise a signal for the nations and will assemble the banished of Israel, and gather the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.

Teach the Controversy!

447 Aye Pod  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 9:32:09pm

re: #435 Irenicum

OK bud, we need to weed out that bad doobies and get a good pun thread going.

I know most folks love them, but to me, puns are the grey goo of the internet. Must...resist :)

448 Irenicum  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 9:34:02pm

re: #439 WindUpBird

A good example of how to "teach the controversy" that is actually reasonable. Honestly, teaching the controversy is a class best left to logic and not science classes. The issue isn't scientific knowledge but thinking critically. That's a quality sorely missing nowadays.

449 rurality  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 9:36:12pm

I sit back and am awed by your patience and kindness and knowledge. I gather it has changed since you first threw your bong/diaphram/dream catcher into this areana, but, gads. Banging. banging. head ache. Also, I don't know how to link to music stuff, so I also sit back and go---fuck, Claus Nomi, now that was a show...he was intro to Ultravox. And Jimmah, don't know you, did love the Clarkson Isle thing the other day, do you know Tanglefoot???

450 The Left  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 9:36:40pm

re: #444 cliffster

Wow, there's a blast from the past

Not the use of Ms., surely?

On the other hand, speaking of blasts from the past, this was probably already mentioned: minor kerfuffle earlier today over Carly Simon and You're So Vain


According to an interpretation of a clip of a remastered version of "You're So Vain," Carly Simon named David Geffen as the target of the song.

When the song is played backwards, at least as heard in the clip, a voice whispers "David."

Geffen was the head of Simon's record label at the time, and was supposedly paying more attention to Joni Mitchell.

That would mean it is not about exes Cat Stevens, James Taylor, Warren Beatty, Mick Jagger or Kris Kristofferson.

UPDATE:
Maybe not.

While Simon does whisper "David" backwards, as reported below, she supposedly also whispers the name "Warren" backwards elsewhere on the same album redo. Also, Simon reportedly wasn't mad at Geffen until two years after "You're so Vain" was recorded.

Teach the controversy!

451 Dark_Falcon  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 9:38:05pm

re: #439 WindUpBird

it's impossible to talk about the digestive and circulatory system without teaching the competing theory of the four humours! Also, it's impossible to talk about airplanes and the concept of lift without also teaching the theory that airplanes may in fact, actually be witches.

Then the next question to ask is whether an airplane weights more than a duck.

/

452 Gus  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 9:38:29pm
453 Irenicum  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 9:38:43pm

re: #450 iceweasel

My world is spinning! Nothing makes sense!?HIQ*)@!!!!,Kh!Y&

454 rurality  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 9:40:15pm

449 was directed, mainly, at iceweasel. I am really rusty and not sure I want to be shiney, ya know?

455 cliffster  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 9:40:29pm

re: #449 rurality

I sit back and am awed by your patience and kindness and knowledge. I gather it has changed since you first threw your bong/diaphram/dream catcher into this areana, but, gads. Banging. banging. head ache. Also, I don't know how to link to music stuff, so I also sit back and go---fuck, Claus Nomi, now that was a show...he was intro to Ultravox. And Jimmah, don't know you, did love the Clarkson Isle thing the other day, do you know Tanglefoot???

Blub, glub, gloogle. The sluggish, almost sleepy stream of thought bubbles across the countryside.

456 The Left  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 9:41:19pm

re: #449 rurality

I sit back and am awed by your patience and kindness and knowledge. I gather it has changed since you first threw your bong/diaphram/dream catcher into this areana, but, gads. Banging. banging. head ache. Also, I don't know how to link to music stuff, so I also sit back and go---fuck, Claus Nomi, now that was a show...he was intro to Ultravox. And Jimmah, don't know you, did love the Clarkson Isle thing the other day, do you know Tanglefoot???

Cheers, rurality, but I'm not especially patient and quite often unkind here.
It's a bit easier now than when I joined, true, but that's partly because we have many more equally outspoken libs than we used to.
Even so, certain subjects I just avoid. I hit my old haunts in the lefty-sphere for those when necessary.

Gotta know when to fold 'em....

Stick around!

457 cliffster  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 9:43:39pm

you're so vain,
you probably think this post is about you.
you're so vain,
you probably think this post is about you...
don't you?
don't you?

458 freetoken  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 9:44:47pm

The 1960's...

459 Irenicum  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 9:44:57pm

re: #457 cliffster

I know with absolute metaphysical certitude that this post is not about me.

460 Dark_Falcon  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 9:45:38pm

re: #457 cliffster

you're so vain,
you probably think this post is about you.
you're so vain,
you probably think this post is about you...
don't you?
don't you?

Yep, I do. It's all about me! That's my I keep trying to register here, even though Charles banned me!!1

/YoungLibertarian92

461 Gus  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 9:46:40pm

re: #458 freetoken

The 1960's...


[Video]

Captain America

462 The Left  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 9:47:14pm

For a taste of your whiskey, I'll give you some advice
So I handed her my bottle, and she drank down my last swallow
Then she bummed a cigarette and asked me for a light
And the thread got deathly quiet, and her face lost all expression
Said, if you're gonna play the game, boy, you gotta learn to play it right

You got to know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em
Know when to walk away and know when to run
You never count your karma, when you're sittin' at the table
There'll be time enough for countin', when the postin's done.

Every lib on LGF knows that the secret to survive is
Knowing what to throw away and knowing what to keep
'Cos every post's a winner and every post's a loser
And the best that you can hope for is dyin' in your sleep
And when she finished speakin', she turned back for the window
Crushed out the cigarette, faded off to sleep
And somewhere in the darkness, iceweasel she broke even
But in her final words I found an ace that I could keep

463 cliffster  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 9:47:16pm

re: #460 Dark_Falcon

Ha! Bizarro. 300 million people in the US, you're going to get some one-off personalities.

464 rurality  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 9:47:25pm

re: #455 cliffster
So I sound like I am drowning? That's a couple more note than I have ever heard from you.. you are kinda, one-note-ish and at least I got, "glub, glub".

465 Aye Pod  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 9:48:26pm

re: #449 rurality

I sit back and am awed by your patience and kindness and knowledge. I gather it has changed since you first threw your bong/diaphram/dream catcher into this areana, but, gads. Banging. banging. head ache. Also, I don't know how to link to music stuff, so I also sit back and go---fuck, Claus Nomi, now that was a show...he was intro to Ultravox. And Jimmah, don't know you, did love the Clarkson Isle thing the other day, do you know Tanglefoot???

Cheers - ice is quite something, there can be no doubt; I think about how lucky I am every day :) Tanglefoot - nope - never heard of that. I do know/remember Ultravox though:

466 cliffster  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 9:51:46pm

re: #464 rurality

So I sound like I am drowning? That's a couple more note than I have ever heard from you.. you are kinda, one-note-ish and at least I got, "glub, glub".

You forgot blub and gloogle.

467 goddamnedfrank  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 9:51:46pm

re: #406 Walter L. Newton

After a while, I got the impression he was goofing on everyone, all the time, and really didn't have anything to say except "fuck you all." Doesn't make for good theatre.

True, but "fuck you all" is what film festivals are made of.

Seriously.

It's the same reason I keep watching Lost, and yes I know you like Lost. So do I, it's a broadcast donkey punch straight to the reasoning center of the brain. I love Lost because it's exactly like Hunter; crazy, addictive, wild, strange, while also being a stumbling heap of poorly cobbled together what the fuck all at the same time.

It's not that there's nothing else on, but nothing that approximates the first few nanoseconds of your brain beginning to process this image on an ongoing basis, with few if any meaningful answers as to what anything really means.

468 The Left  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 9:53:05pm

re: #460 Dark_Falcon

Yep, I do. It's all about me! That's my I keep trying to register here, even though Charles banned me!!1

/YoungLibertarian92

Didn't I see that CJ just busted him for the sixth time at least the other day?
That's a glibertarian who really needs another holiday.

469 cliffster  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 9:53:59pm

re: #462 iceweasel

Nice work, Internet Kenny

470 Irenicum  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 9:54:40pm

re: #467 goddamnedfrank

Why the hell did you make me click that? I'm so glad I didn't get into Lost. That's one addiction I don't need.

471 The Left  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 9:56:53pm

re: #469 cliffster

Nice work, Internet Kenny

Well, I was Internet Ramones the other night:

If I were still in a band I'd totally do a version of this called the JBS took my baby away.

472 rurality  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 9:57:27pm

re: #465 Jimmah

Tanglefoot is a beer, brewed around Salisbury--it's like Tequila or Windowpane. Crazy and yet subtle. Saw Claus and Ultarvox in 79, and Wide Boys was the U. song I liked. Claus was just tiny and fun to look at.

473 Dark_Falcon  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 9:59:39pm

re: #468 iceweasel

Didn't I see that CJ just busted him for the sixth time at least the other day?
That's a glibertarian who really needs another holiday.

He got busted just this morning. He has a serious yen to troll here.

474 Aye Pod  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 10:00:51pm

re: #468 iceweasel

Didn't I see that CJ just busted him for the sixth time at least the other day?
That's a glibertarian who really needs another holiday.

IIRC Charles said he tried to get back in within a couple of minutes of him opening registration, unannounced. Is this guy sitting with lgf on his browser all day, clicking on the register button every few minutes just on the off chance? Sure seems like it. Anyone who thinks their life is in a rut - look on 'young libertarian' and take heart.

475 Irenicum  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 10:00:53pm

re: #471 iceweasel

I wanna be sedated.

476 Dark_Falcon  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 10:02:14pm

re: #474 Jimmah

IIRC Charles said he tried to get back in within a couple of minutes of him opening registration, unannounced. Is this guy sitting with lgf on his browser all day, clicking on the register button every few minutes just on the off chance? Sure seems like it. Anyone who thinks their life is in a rut - look on 'young libertarian' and take heart.

I'd guess he has a bot to let him know when registration opens.

477 Aye Pod  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 10:03:13pm

re: #472 rurality

Tanglefoot is a beer, brewed around Salisbury--it's like Tequila or Windowpane. Crazy and yet subtle. Saw Claus and Ultarvox in 79, and Wide Boys was the U. song I liked. Claus was just tiny and fun to look at.

Re Tanglefoot: Thank christ for that! I was really in a sweat there - here's why :

478 The Left  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 10:04:56pm

re: #476 Dark_Falcon

I'd guess he has a bot to let him know when registration opens.

I think he's here all day compulsively reading and hitting the 'register' button.

Someone could probably do a version of Bowie's Young American about him and call it Young Libertarian, but it won't be me: 1) i need more booze and 2) I always hated that song. Also 3) YL is too boring to merit such attention.

479 austin_blue  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 10:05:38pm

Good evening all!

Long thread, and I'm feeling a bit lazy. Anything cooking tonight?

480 Irenicum  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 10:06:20pm

re: #479 austin_blue

It's pretty groovy tonight.

481 Dark_Falcon  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 10:07:04pm

re: #479 austin_blue

Good evening all!

Long thread, and I'm feeling a bit lazy. Anything cooking tonight?

Some worries, but we're basically all right.

482 freetoken  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 10:07:56pm

re: #480 Irenicum

It's pretty groovy tonight.

483 Irenicum  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 10:09:18pm

re: #482 freetoken

As a major Simon and Garfunkel fan, I can't thank you enough!

484 Irenicum  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 10:11:16pm

re: #481 Dark_Falcon

And DF, I hope your job situation works out. I have many other friends going through the same situation. These are definitely tough times.

485 The Left  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 10:12:02pm

re: #482 freetoken

[Video]

Whee!
Full disclosure: Jimmah and I considered getting married there.
Here, specifically: (Woody Allen fans take note)
Image: manhattan.gif

Went with somewhere else ( in Central Park).

486 austin_blue  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 10:12:32pm

re: #480 Irenicum

It's pretty groovy tonight.

Sweet!

re: #478 iceweasel

I think he's here all day compulsively reading and hitting the 'register' button.

Someone could probably do a version of Bowie's Young American about him and call it Young Libertarian, but it won't be me: 1) i need more booze and 2) I always hated that song. Also 3) YL is too boring to merit such attention.

Rick "Goodhair" Perry just put up a parody on his site about Kay Bailey (the other cheerleader) Hutchinson set to the tune of Abba's "Dancing Queen" reworked as "Earmark Queen". He's blaming her for every goofy earmark in every budget she has voted for since 1994. Not *her* pork, mind you, but anything in any budget since 1994. Silly, of course, but it will play very well to the great unwashed in Texas.

487 rurality  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 10:13:34pm

re: #477 Jimmah

I'm barely beyond Dewey Dec., "Oh what you kids can do!!!"" and yet I so wish I could share some music loves with you all---NOT TANGLEFOOT ouch AND ick. If you like the Ramones, your really should, really, like the MEATMEN. Dutch Herculeas, Ride Sally Ride,. So Great

488 austin_blue  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 10:14:37pm

re: #481 Dark_Falcon

Some worries, but we're basically all right.

Job hassles?

Oh, no, DF, I am so sorry!

489 Gus  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 10:15:36pm

Whew, I need to get horizontal.

Night folks.

490 cliffster  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 10:16:25pm

off to bed cliff goes. thanks for the drama-free thread, I hope it's an omen for a good weekend. peace to you all, and purpose to you all.

491 Irenicum  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 10:16:39pm

re: #486 austin_blue

So in other words, ignorance is still bliss. Anecdotes still work as history in political campaigns. No big surprise.

492 austin_blue  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 10:16:45pm

re: #489 Gus 802

Whew, I need to get horizontal.

Night folks.

Night, my friend. Sleep well.

493 austin_blue  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 10:17:42pm

re: #490 cliffster

off to bed cliff goes. thanks for the drama-free thread, I hope it's an omen for a good weekend. peace to you all, and purpose to you all.

Night, cliffster.

494 Dark_Falcon  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 10:17:45pm

re: #488 austin_blue

Job hassles?

Oh, no, DF, I am so sorry!

Don't be sorry yet. I still have my job and aim to keep it. The ax won't come down in March, I'm going to ensure that this weekend. I know what I have to do, and how I'm going to do it.

495 Irenicum  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 10:19:39pm

Well kids, I think it's time for me to call it a night too. Thanks for the nocturnal tranquility.

496 austin_blue  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 10:22:25pm

re: #494 Dark_Falcon

Don't be sorry yet. I still have my job and aim to keep it. The ax won't come down in March, I'm going to ensure that this weekend. I know what I have to do, and how I'm going to do it.

It still sucks that you are putting in your off time to save your job. Things are tough all over. A friend of mine was "made redundant" today, as the Brits would say, after ten years as the Web master at a Major Utility (not the City's) here. It just sucks.

Hang in there. I've got faith in you.

497 austin_blue  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 10:23:08pm

re: #495 Irenicum

Well kids, I think it's time for me to call it a night too. Thanks for the nocturnal tranquility.

Sleep well!

498 The Left  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 10:23:37pm

re: #486 austin_blue

Rick "Goodhair" Perry just put up a parody on his site about Kay Bailey (the other cheerleader) Hutchinson set to the tune of Abba's "Dancing Queen" reworked as "Earmark Queen". He's blaming her for every goofy earmark in every budget she has voted for since 1994. Not *her* pork, mind you, but anything in any budget since 1994. Silly, of course, but it will play very well to the great unwashed in Texas.

I was thinking earlier that someone should do Orly Taitz "Nirthin' Queen" to "dancing queen". Damn, I was sure it had been done.

499 Dark_Falcon  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 10:26:58pm

re: #498 iceweasel

I was thinking earlier that someone should do Orly Taitz "Nirthin' Queen" to "dancing queen". Damn, I was sure it had been done.

Your wish is my command:

You can seeth, You can see-eeeth.
Having the time of your life.
Ooooh!
See that shrew, watch that spew
Digging the Nirthing Queen!

500 austin_blue  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 10:28:23pm

re: #498 iceweasel

I was thinking earlier that someone should do Orly Taitz "Nirthin' Queen" to "dancing queen". Damn, I was sure it had been done.

Well, it's real gender specific, unless it's about Barney Frank. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

;-)

501 Dark_Falcon  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 10:29:31pm

re: #496 austin_blue

It still sucks that you are putting in your off time to save your job. Things are tough all over. A friend of mine was "made redundant" today, as the Brits would say, after ten years as the Web master at a Major Utility (not the City's) here. It just sucks.

Hang in there. I've got faith in you.

Better to work 42 hours and only get paid for 40, than not to be able to work at all. That's the way my boss and I see it. I am hoping to be able to take a small number of vacation days this spring. The first one will be next month. I'm fighting to make sure I'm still in a position to enjoy. And I will be in that position!

502 Aye Pod  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 10:29:50pm

re: #487 rurality

I'm barely beyond Dewey Dec., "Oh what you kids can do!!!"" and yet I so wish I could share some music loves with you all---NOT TANGLEFOOT ouch AND ick. If you like the Ramones, your really should, really, like the MEATMEN. Dutch Herculeas, Ride Sally Ride,. So Great

Just looked them up. Some strong stuff there...lol. Had a good laugh at their rewording of The Smiths "How Soon is Now":

503 The Left  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 10:30:56pm

re: #500 austin_blue

Well, it's real gender specific, unless it's about Barney Frank. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

;-)

Nirther queen, Sez Obama's mama was only seventeen
Nirther queen, feel the beat from the tambourine
You can sue, you can seethe, having the time of your life
Sue those guys, watch that scene, dig in the nirther queen

504 austin_blue  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 10:31:08pm

re: #501 Dark_Falcon

Better to work 42 hours and only get paid for 40, than not to be able to work at all. That's the way my boss and I see it. I am hoping to be able to take a small number of vacation days this spring. The first one will be next month. I'm fighting to make sure I'm still in a position to enjoy. And I will be in that position!

Good for you. Tear it up.

505 Dark_Falcon  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 10:32:34pm

re: #503 iceweasel

Nirther queen, Sez Obama's mama was only seventeen
Nirther queen, feel the beat from the tambourine
You can sue, you can seethe, having the time of your life
Sue those guys, watch that scene, dig in the nirther queen

Between you and I, we'll come up with a better parody than BannedStalkerMonkey ever could.

506 Bob Dillon  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 10:32:37pm

re: #500 austin_blue

Well, it's real gender specific, unless it's about Barney Frank. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

;-)

As a US Navy certified diver ... I would like to teach them all how to do it.

Just once.

507 austin_blue  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 10:36:25pm

re: #506 Bobibutu

As a US Navy certified diver ... I would like to teach them all how to do it.

Just once.

As an ex Air Force tanker pilot, you have horribly confused me!

508 Dark_Falcon  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 10:37:29pm

I'm fading so I'm going to get to bed. I'll be back tomorrow before I go to work. Sleep well, all.

509 Bob Dillon  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 10:37:38pm

re: #507 austin_blue

As an ex Air Force tanker pilot, you have horribly confused me!

OK - what is your option?

510 austin_blue  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 10:38:48pm

re: #508 Dark_Falcon

I'm fading so I'm going to get to bed. I'll be back tomorrow before I go to work. Sleep well, all.

Night, DF. Be well!

511 Bob Dillon  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 10:38:52pm

re: #508 Dark_Falcon

I'm fading so I'm going to get to bed. I'll be back tomorrow before I go to work. Sleep well, all.

Nite big dog - sleep well.

512 austin_blue  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 10:43:55pm

re: #509 Bobibutu

OK - what is your option?

So confused....

You said in your 506 that you would teach them how to do it, but just once.

It went right over my head. A complete non sequitur to me.

Hence, my befuddlement.

No hoo hoo. Probably me. It's late.

513 The Left  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 10:44:11pm

re: #508 Dark_Falcon

I'm fading so I'm going to get to bed. I'll be back tomorrow before I go to work. Sleep well, all.

Nite DF. Good luck tomorrow (and always).

514 Bob Dillon  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 10:44:49pm

re: #507 austin_blue

As an ex Air Force tanker pilot, you have horribly confused me!

Have you ever refueled a SR-71?

515 rurality  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 10:45:36pm

re: #502 Jimmah

That's not the Meatmen I know. I think they hailed from around Detroit. Husband likes crunch, three piece bands, loud. I like that too, bored with scale hoppin' noodling and like lyrics (I'ma dreamweaver), why I like the MeatMen...but I also like AC/DC.

516 austin_blue  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 10:50:03pm

re: #514 Bobibutu

Have you ever refueled a SR-71?

Twice. European Tanker task Force out RAF Mildenhall in the early 80's. Had to use dedicated airplanes (Q models) that had separate tanks for the Habus and the 135's. They had a fuel blended with boron compounds that allowed them to do the voodoo that they did do so well. Most of their dedicated tankers were based out of Beale AFB, in Marysville, CA. But when we were in Europe, different crews got to fly different missions. Kinda cool.

517 The Left  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 10:50:14pm

re: #515 rurality

That's not the Meatmen I know. I think they hailed from around Detroit. Husband likes crunch, three piece bands, loud. I like that too, bored with scale hoppin' noodling and like lyrics (I'ma dreamweaver), why I like the MeatMen...but I also like AC/DC.

The first time I ever heard AC/DC-- and liked it-- I was 15 and a slightly older female friend (20's) took me to a male strip club.
The first guy came out in some Hot Cops-ish gear (h/t Arrested Development) and took it off to this:

518 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 10:50:18pm
519 austin_blue  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 10:51:56pm

re: #517 iceweasel

The first time I ever heard AC/DC-- and liked it-- I was 15 and a slightly older female friend (20's) took me to a male strip club.
The first guy came out in some Hot Cops-ish gear (h/t Arrested Development) and took it off to this:


[Video]

Well. I am sure that that, errr...rocked your world?

520 Bob Dillon  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 10:52:59pm

re: #516 austin_blue

Twice. European Tanker task Force out RAF Mildenhall in the early 80's. Had to use dedicated airplanes (Q models) that had separate tanks for the Habus and the 135's. They had a fuel blended with boron compounds that allowed them to do the voodoo that they did do so well. Most of their dedicated tankers were based out of Beale AFB, in Marysville, CA. But when we were in Europe, different crews got to fly different missions. Kinda cool.

What would have happened if they over shot? and you could not hook up with them?

BTW Kudos!

521 Aye Pod  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 10:54:17pm

re: #503 iceweasel

re: #505 Dark_Falcon

Between you and I, we'll come up with a better parody than BannedStalkerMonkey ever could.

Sad little stalker bs monkey sez :

"Your work, if I may stoop to dignify it by such an epithet is nothing but the combined yammering of two ignorant fubsies with not one whit of the distilled genius of Gilbert and Sullivan wot I've got. Tenth rate intellects who cleave to the notion that being able to argue one's points effectively and succinctly without resorting to gratuitous mysogyny and fits of spluttering rage is somehow superior to my combination of pompous antiquated verbose stylings and monocle popping tantrums. I'm off to buy some non-whorish underwear now, assuming such a thing still exists in this disgusting 'modern world' of yours"

522 The Left  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 10:55:19pm

re: #519 austin_blue

Well. I am sure that that, errr...rocked your world?

re: #519 austin_blue

Well. I am sure that that, errr...rocked your world?

Not at all. Male strip clubs are very different from female ones. We sat in the back and I was primarily horrified by all these (quite unattractive) housewives up front losing their shit, so to speak. (This was in the 'burbs).

My main memory (which I hope time has altered and made more horrific, surely?) is of this very fat woman wearing curlers (! that has to be memory playing a trick?!) trying to stuff money in this guy's gstring.

523 Aye Pod  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 10:58:59pm

re: #515 rurality

That's not the Meatmen I know. I think they hailed from around Detroit. Husband likes crunch, three piece bands, loud. I like that too, bored with scale hoppin' noodling and like lyrics (I'ma dreamweaver), why I like the MeatMen...but I also like AC/DC.

Heh - again, kinda relieved, to be honest. Some of that 'meatmen' that I found on you tube was pretty scary.

524 austin_blue  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 10:59:10pm

re: #520 Bobibutu

What would have happened if they over shot? and you could not hook up with them?

BTW Kudos!

You had to maintain a much higher refueling speed for the Habu's than you did for other receivers.

They didn't overshoot. Those pilots were stone cold pros.

525 austin_blue  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 11:00:05pm

re: #522 iceweasel

Not at all. Male strip clubs are very different from female ones. We sat in the back and I was primarily horrified by all these (quite unattractive) housewives up front losing their shit, so to speak. (This was in the 'burbs).

My main memory (which I hope time has altered and made more horrific, surely?) is of this very fat woman wearing curlers (! that has to be memory playing a trick?!) trying to stuff money in this guy's gstring.

Oh. Eeew!

526 Bob Dillon  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 11:00:08pm

re: #524 austin_blue

You had to maintain a much higher refueling speed for the Habu's than you did for other receivers.

They didn't overshoot. Those pilots were stone cold pros.

Here is a story ...

[Link: maggiesfarm.anotherdotcom.com...]

527 The Left  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 11:02:52pm

re: #525 austin_blue

Oh. Eeew!

Ewww indeed.
Later that night my friend told me about the very doomed affair she was having with her very married, very much older college professor.
It was an interesting night, in many ways. /
And I thought I grew up fast, but, ewww.

528 Bob Dillon  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 11:04:52pm

re: #526 Bobibutu

Here is a story ...

[Link: maggiesfarm.anotherdotcom.com...]

No argument - There is an autographed photo from an associate, one of the pilots, that hangs on my office wall.

Ahhh the stories of mach 3+ pilots.

529 austin_blue  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 11:06:38pm

re: #526 Bobibutu

Here is a story ...

[Link: maggiesfarm.anotherdotcom.com...]

Umm...hmmm..

Some problems with the first couple three paragraphs. That's not how Habus operated in the European theater, or anywhere else. The refueling profile is all wrong.

Hmmm...

In any case, I'm off to the rack.

Good night my friends!

530 austin_blue  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 11:07:29pm

re: #527 iceweasel

Ewww indeed.
Later that night my friend told me about the very doomed affair she was having with her very married, very much older college professor.
It was an interesting night, in many ways. /
And I thought I grew up fast, but, ewww.

Night, Ice. I'm for some kip.

531 rurality  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 11:08:04pm

re: #517 iceweasel

I was so deprived... I went from midwest Baaaaracuda, to Disco in College. My roomate only played Debbie Boone, best friend only played Dylan, other friend, Devo. Yup. 1979. But I had missed AC/DC. Husband, kinda yawningly, offered it up to me about ten years ago, and I thought, who are these guys, they're great...yup, cutting edge.

532 Bob Dillon  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 11:10:23pm

re: #529 austin_blue

Umm...hmmm..

Some problems with the first couple three paragraphs. That's not how Habus operated in the European theater, or anywhere else. The refueling profile is all wrong.

Hmmm...

In any case, I'm off to the rack.

Good night my friends!

Looking forward to your experiences - all else is hearsay. Including mine.

533 The Left  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 11:11:40pm

re: #530 austin_blue

Night, Ice. I'm for some kip.

Night a_b. Kick butt on the slopes this weekend! or the piste, or whatever we should call it. :)

534 The Left  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 11:17:09pm

re: #531 rurality

I was so deprived... I went from midwest Baaaracuda, to Disco in College. My roomate only played Debbie Boone, best friend only played Dylan, other friend, Devo. Yup. 1979. But I had missed AC/DC. Husband, kinda yawningly, offered it up to me about ten years ago, and I thought, who are these guys, they're great...yup, cutting edge.

Oh, I think that's cute!
So much music that I missed. I'm woefully ignorant of Dylan for example. Also Disco, pretty much.

535 rurality  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 11:20:07pm

re: #523 Jimmah

Sad to say, I have a feeling the youtube stuff you have found is, indeed, the Meatmen. I have had a CD for nearly 20 years that I have loved, yup, loved. Got hi-speed internet a year ago, discovered all that youtube stuff, I don't know how to link, looked up Meatmen, and was not too pleased to see faces/cranks, behind the music. I still love their album.

536 The Left  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 11:24:54pm

re: #535 rurality

Oh i meant to tell you-- if you want to post a youtube vid here, just go to youtube, find the vid.

On the right, you'll see URL and also "embed video"
Select the URL, copy and paste. Like this:

http:[......]//www.youtube.com/[........]watch?v=QYEC4TZsy-Y

(take out the brackets and dots, obv)

537 rurality  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 11:35:00pm

re: #534 iceweasel

I am amazed that you don't know Dylan, have an album that you like. I'm 50 and he's been in my face for about my whole life, not to say I really enjoyed his braying early on, and maybe it was the fucked up juxtaposition of my freshman year hallway, Joan Armatrading (liked) Bee Jees SAturday Night Fever, oof, Roomate's Debbie Boone, Bob Marley, Little Feet, GDdead, Dylan was such a relief. I probably put more weight on his words than he did--I've come to think he was the master of contrived gibberish, but Blood on The Tracks , defies this jaded attitude. It is one of the truly great albums, no drugs reguired.

538 The Left  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 11:38:25pm

re: #537 rurality

I am amazed that you don't know Dylan, have an album that you like. I'm 50 and he's been in my face for about my whole life, not to say I really enjoyed his braying early on, and maybe it was the fucked up juxtaposition of my freshman year hallway, Joan Armatrading (liked) Bee Jees SAturday Night Fever, oof, Roomate's Debbie Boone, Bob Marley, Little Feet, GDdead, Dylan was such a relief. I probably put more weight on his words than he did--I've come to think he was the master of contrived gibberish, but Blood on The Tracks , defies this jaded attitude. It is one of the truly great albums, no drugs reguired.

No, i exaggerated slightly for comic effect-- I have Blood on the Tracks of course, but in general Dylan kinda left me cold. I didn't even start liking that until I was in my 20's and I hardly know anything apart from that album.
Cato is beating some Dylan into me, and that's cool.

539 The Left  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 11:41:46pm

re: #537 rurality

BTW, do you know Locker? Can't remember, but he's super-cool and he can help you get over generalised disgust at some of the entrenched positions here. Just asked him to pop down here and say hi.

540 Locker  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 11:45:08pm

re: #539 iceweasel

BTW, do you know Locker? Can't remember, but he's super-cool and he can help you get over generalised disgust at some of the entrenched positions here. Just asked him to pop down here and say hi.

But he likes Dylan and said the horrible words "no drugs reguired". It would never work out for us... heartbreak guaranteed...

541 The Left  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 11:49:03pm

re: #540 Locker

But he likes Dylan and said the horrible words "no drugs reguired". It would never work out for us... heartbreak guaranteed...

Rurality is a she!
Also, too.

I took 'no drugs required' to mean, hey, even without drugs...
Anyway, lib poster disheartened. Help!

542 rurality  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 11:50:46pm

re: #538 iceweasel

I think your connection to Dylan, sadly, depends on your age and, to an extent your need to project. From what I have read, Dylan wanted to be hip, famous to an extent that I kinda feel all his stuff is contrived. Plus, I think the guy is a rather large misogynist. I do think some of his stuff is brilliant, but not sincere. It's not like the Metallica documentary where these idiots are sitting around with a rhyming dicitionary, but, well, I want to believe in Blood onthe Tracks.

543 The Left  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 11:55:32pm

re: #542 rurality

Plus, I think the guy is a rather large misogynist. I do think some of his stuff is brilliant, but not sincere. It's not like the Metallica documentary where these idiots are sitting around with a rhyming dicitionary, but, well, I want to believe in Blood onthe Tracks.

Yeah, me too.
Also-- how interesting. I never got into Dylan partly because he did seem very misogynist to me. Just the songs, I don't even know anything about his life.
I guess i first heard some of his music when I was a teenager and I filed it all away under Jack Kerouac. Another person I was told was so great but who just seemed like a misogynist to me.

On the Road was such a disappointment. I was a teenager and kinda on the road when I read it, and the whole role of women in it was to get pregnant, keep the guys from being on the road, and cry "Dean, come back!"
Kinda soured me on it. Dylan always hit the same note for me, so to speak, back then.

544 Locker  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 11:56:14pm

re: #431 rurality

Attending to things, out of the loop.. and fatigued by hunkered down positions here. Certain folks bring up points and then there is a "don't care", I'm not this or that, just bitter, or response of Bush clipping service, take that, yeah Isreal, I miss bush, gotts to go to the club. Ms. Weasel/Mrs.Jimmah put's info out there, links, clips, and then just gets a bunch of toad-like croaks, "liberal", "there she goes again..." If people take issue with a post, especially if is linked, come back with something that refutes it other than some wish for a Goldwater never, never, ever land. People didnt want it in 64, get over it.

Well it's a lot better than it was six months ago as far as a welcoming environment for us evil libs. Charles' unwillingness to play ball with the standard right side talking points has also helped as a very large mass of the most hostile have flounced or fallen away.

There is still a core around here who aren't interested in discussion or debate. I like to think of them as traffic cones, you just drive around em and no one cares if you run over one every once in a while.

Anyway as long as JimIceAlot and gang are around here it just gets better and better. If you can add to the mix it would be most welcome as it just tips the scales that much more.

545 The Left  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 11:57:08pm

re: #542 rurality

I meant to say, Why did Dylan strike you as misogynist? I'm really interested because that was my feeling back then, my instinctive feeling, but I don't think I've ever talked to anyone who agreed before.

546 Locker  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 11:58:54pm

re: #545 iceweasel

I meant to say, Why did Dylan strike you as misogynist? I'm really interested because that was my feeling back then, my instinctive feeling, but I don't think I've ever talked to anyone who agreed before.

I didn't really know of his misogynistic tendencies but that's probably because don't enjoy the sound of a bullfrog trying to sing after a carton of cigarettes so I never really heard much of his stuff. ;)

547 The Left  Fri, Feb 26, 2010 11:59:54pm

re: #544 Locker

Well it's a lot better than it was six months ago as far as a welcoming environment for us evil libs. Charles' unwillingness to play ball with the standard right side talking points has also helped as a very large mass of the most hostile have flounced or fallen away.

There is still a core around here who aren't interested in discussion or debate. I like to think of them as traffic cones, you just drive around em and no one cares if you run over one every once in a while.

Anyway as long as JimIceAlot and gang are around here it just gets better and better. If you can add to the mix it would be most welcome as it just tips the scales that much more.

I love the traffic cone analogy.
Especially as in my bad young years I often drove over them and at least once pulled over in a very dangerous place to load one into my car.
You've been doing some great work btw. WindupBird and windsagio and Obdicut too.

548 The Left  Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:01:09am

re: #546 Locker

I didn't really know of his misogynistic tendencies but that's probably because don't enjoy the sound of a bullfrog trying to sing after a carton of cigarettes so I never really heard much of his stuff. ;)

Hee hee! yeah-- i do think some of the Dylan-love is generational.

549 The Left  Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:03:53am

re: #548 iceweasel

Hee hee! yeah-- i do think some of the Dylan-love is generational.

For example, in 20 years people will hate Thom Yorke's vocals, i bet. If they don't already.

550 Locker  Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:04:32am

re: #549 iceweasel

No idea who that is to be honest. You know me baby, House Music All Night Long... Say What?!

551 The Left  Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:08:34am

re: #550 Locker

No idea who that is to be honest. You know me baby, House Music All Night Long... Say What?!

Radiohead!

Karma Police, which would kinda rock as an anthem for the butthurt...

Post some more house music though, i love it.

552 rurality  Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:10:35am

re: #541 iceweasel

The no drugs required, is a nod to my total boredom with the Grateful Dead. I am of the age where I was supposed to really like the GD. I thought, and still to, that they are cripplingly boring...unless your are smoking p.o.t and I only know this, cause once I did, and I thought, NOW I GET IT. But, then I stopped eating and realized no one around me knew how to play an instrument, so enough with the fake mastery and shit.

553 The Left  Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:14:39am

Radiohead, What's up? Free downloading of new albums, can't post videos?
Some Streets for locker:

re: #552 rurality

The no drugs required, is a nod to my total boredom with the Grateful Dead. I am of the age where I was supposed to really like the GD. I thought, and still to, that they are cripplingly boring...unless your are smoking p.o.t and I only know this, cause once I did, and I thought, NOW I GET IT. But, then I stopped eating and realized no one around me knew how to play an instrument, so enough with the fake mastery and shit.

That is one of the funniest things I've ever seen posted here. And true!

Yeah, Grateful Dead-- forget it.

554 Locker  Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:17:13am

I have a good friend who's a "Dead" guy. He also likes all those other related types of bands... Fish, String Cheese Incident... etc. Personally, in the Classic Rock type of genre I'm a Led Zeppelin, Rolling Stones kind of guy. Besides I can not tolerate the smell of Patchouli.. no forking way.

555 The Left  Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:17:28am

BTW, I'll also say now that I hate Led Zep.

Yeah, bring on the downdings bitches, I can take it. There are no drugs that can make that shit good.
Stuff the rhetoric about the guitar blah blah.

556 Locker  Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:19:33am

re: #555 iceweasel

BTW, I'll also say now that I hate Led Zep.

Yeah, bring on the downdings bitches, I can take it. There are no drugs that can make that shit good.
Stuff the rhetoric about the guitar blah blah.

I won't down ding you but this is probably the first time I've had the urge. :)

557 The Left  Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:19:50am

re: #554 Locker

I have a good friend who's a "Dead" guy. He also likes all those other related types of bands... Fish, String Cheese Incident... etc. Personally, in the Classic Rock type of genre I'm a Led Zeppelin, Rolling Stones kind of guy. Besides I can not tolerate the smell of Patchouli.. no forking way.

Get your patchouli stink outta my store!

558 Locker  Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:23:29am

That's it for me.. I'm out. Ya'll have a good one and don't let the haters get you.

559 The Left  Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:25:08am

re: #556 Locker

I won't down ding you but this is probably the first time I've had the urge. :)

I'd still love you. :)
Nite, Locker. Rock on.

560 boredtechindenver  Sat, Feb 27, 2010 2:52:57am

re: #94 Gus 802

If you are in or around Belmar, The Oven or Virgilio's are both good. The Oven is a bit higher end and owned by Mark Tarbell, a Phoenix Chef. Virgilio's is a family place.

561 RogueOne  Sat, Feb 27, 2010 7:16:31am

re: #555 iceweasel

BTW, I'll also say now that I hate Led Zep.

Yeah, bring on the downdings bitches, I can take it. There are no drugs that can make that shit good.
Stuff the rhetoric about the guitar blah blah.

Finally, someone else who doesn't get it. Led Zepplin sucks ass. Can't stand Pink Floyd either.


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