Saturday Off the Wall: Tom Waits on Everything and Nothing

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“I don’t know what the ‘big time’ is”
- Tom Waits in 1988

As told to Chris Roberts (from rocksbackpages.com)

Hear more from this rare interview: blankonblank.org

“He’s a natural raconteur. A great one. You just get out of the way and let him do his thing, perform. If you can nudge the jokes along, so much the better.” - Chris Roberts on interviewing Tom Waits.

From this glorious interview (recorded on cassette tape) we decided to just dip inside the mind of Tom Waits. So he takes us to church, Stonehenge, the streets of New York and inside a Hawaiian nightmare. The interview was recorded in a London recording studio and you can hear muffled music throughout the conversation.

Get more on Tom Waits, his turn as an animated cartoon in the 1970s, paling around with Keith Richards and Charles Bukowski and GIFs from the episode:
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Executive Producer: David Gerlach
Animator: Patrick Smith
Audio Producer: Amy Drozdowska
Colorist: Jennifer Yoo

Music from Tom Waits
“Clap Hands”
“Hang Down Your Head”

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“Marinier” Anne-Maire Bernert
“Ten Men Dead” Deep Sounds
“Gypsy Twang” Paul Lenart, Bill Novick
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135 comments
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b_sharp  Oct 10, 2015 • 4:07:27pm

Groovy man.

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thedopefishlives  Oct 10, 2015 • 4:07:38pm

Evening Lizardim.

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Charles Johnson  Oct 10, 2015 • 4:10:48pm
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prairiefire  Oct 10, 2015 • 4:11:28pm

Happy Saturday, Lizards.

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Belafon  Oct 10, 2015 • 4:13:47pm

We have to watch that we don’t let their misappropriation of the events leading to the holocaust keep us from talking about the shootings here in the US.

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Barefoot Grin  Oct 10, 2015 • 4:20:00pm

Tom Waits for no one, and he won’t…wait for me…. (Tom appears in the new Keith documentary “Under the Influence” as a close friend and co-writer; I had no idea.)

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thedopefishlives  Oct 10, 2015 • 4:22:43pm

re: #4 prairiefire

Happy Saturday, Lizards.

I spent my afternoon watching my tae kwon do instructor win Grand Champion at the biggest tournament of the season, clinching his place as #1 fighter in the country in his age and weight class in the process. It was a good Saturday.

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Charles Johnson  Oct 10, 2015 • 4:22:58pm
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Charles Johnson  Oct 10, 2015 • 4:23:41pm

re: #6 Barefoot Grin

Keith Richards has played on several Tom Waits tracks.

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thedopefishlives  Oct 10, 2015 • 4:25:00pm

re: #8 Charles Johnson

What in the ever-loving hell…?

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Barefoot Grin  Oct 10, 2015 • 4:25:22pm

I’ll try not to post too much more tonight. I tend to enjoy the irrelevant. But I just saw this on FB and hadn’t ever seen it before, so I wanted to share (Beatles Revolution live on David Frost):

dailymotion.com

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Barefoot Grin  Oct 10, 2015 • 4:25:49pm

re: #9 Charles Johnson

Keith Richards has played on several Tom Waits tracks.

Really? I am so behind.

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prairiefire  Oct 10, 2015 • 4:28:48pm

re: #7 thedopefishlives

Awesome!

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Oct 10, 2015 • 4:29:55pm

re: #8 Charles Johnson

vindictive SOB

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b.d.  Oct 10, 2015 • 4:30:18pm

re: #8 Charles Johnson

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Chuck’s days of pretending to be a journalist are about up. I can’t see Chuck ever being able to hold down a job working for anyone, it will be interesting to see what happens to him.

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Charles Johnson  Oct 10, 2015 • 4:30:21pm
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Charles Johnson  Oct 10, 2015 • 4:30:50pm
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Charles Johnson  Oct 10, 2015 • 4:31:48pm

re: #14 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

vindictive SOB

He’s one of the most disgusting slime bags I’ve ever encountered. And I’m a professional musician, so that’s really saying something.

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b.d.  Oct 10, 2015 • 4:33:21pm

re: #18 Charles Johnson

He’s one of the most disgusting slime bags I’ve ever encountered. And I’m a professional musician, so that’s really saying something.

ha!

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b.d.  Oct 10, 2015 • 4:34:58pm

Watching V for Vendetta on HBO for about the 50th time. I love the movie but I don’t view it as an instruction manual like some people do.

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Bubblehead II  Oct 10, 2015 • 4:38:14pm

OK, just did a youtube of the Best Songs of Tom Waits.

Can honestly say, not my cup of tea.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Oct 10, 2015 • 4:38:37pm

re: #18 Charles Johnson

He’s one of the most disgusting slime bags I’ve ever encountered. And I’m a professional musician, so that’s really saying something.

Considering his over-inflated sense of accomplishment, his belittling Adam for leaving Gawker and taking a new, better job is pretty rich.

CCJ: Ho, ho, ho! I’m an AWJ. I have my own LLC. I took down Menendez (not). I took down McCarthy (not). Now I’m gonna take down Gawker, and then Twitter. What are you doing with your life, taking a step down to work for Fusion?

AW: Well, hang out with my family at the beach condo I just bought with the money I made working for Fusion. Good luck with that Gawker thing. Bye.

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Charles Johnson  Oct 10, 2015 • 4:40:06pm
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Charles Johnson  Oct 10, 2015 • 4:44:33pm
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Unabogie  Oct 10, 2015 • 4:45:09pm
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PhillyPretzel  Oct 10, 2015 • 4:45:29pm

re: #24 Charles Johnson

That does sound like a 6 year old.

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b.d.  Oct 10, 2015 • 4:46:11pm

re: #24 Charles Johnson

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Pretty soon Chuck will be referencing the court case of Rubber v. Glue.

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KGxvi  Oct 10, 2015 • 4:46:53pm

re: #24 Charles Johnson

Calling you a “cuck” is such a nice touch

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Oct 10, 2015 • 4:50:27pm

re: #24 Charles Johnson

Are we sure Chuck is not tweeting some these replies?

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Oct 10, 2015 • 4:51:30pm

Chuckie is still perfecting his “Your Foot to My Face” style.

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KGxvi  Oct 10, 2015 • 4:51:48pm

re: #29 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

If he is, it won’t take too long for the mask to slip. He just can’t help himself. He’s like an even more inept version of a Bond villain

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thedopefishlives  Oct 10, 2015 • 4:53:12pm

re: #29 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Are we sure Chuck is not tweeting some these replies?

I’m about 90% certain that he’s had his fingers on that account somehow. The whole parenthetical about the account not being Chuck really screamed out to me.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Oct 10, 2015 • 4:54:09pm

re: #32 thedopefishlives

I’m about 90% certain that he’s had his fingers on that account somehow. The whole parenthetical about the account not being Chuck really screamed out to me.

Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!!

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Charles Johnson  Oct 10, 2015 • 4:55:49pm

re: #29 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Are we sure Chuck is not tweeting some these replies?

I don’t know - this doesn’t really feel like Chuck’s style to me. I think it’s “weev.”

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wrenchwench  Oct 10, 2015 • 4:56:39pm
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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Oct 10, 2015 • 5:01:31pm

re: #34 Charles Johnson

I don’t know - this doesn’t really feel like Chuck’s style to me. I think it’s “weev.”

Six of one, half a dozen of the other.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Oct 10, 2015 • 5:02:04pm

re: #34 Charles Johnson

I don’t know - this doesn’t really feel like Chuck’s style to me. I think it’s “weev.”

If he calls you “honey,” then you’ll know for sure.

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Bubblehead II  Oct 10, 2015 • 5:15:10pm

Well crap. Didn’t hear anything this A.M. so called Dad. Mom is still in the hospital till tomorrow. Nothing serious, just want to make sure, yada yada yada…. What pisses me off is my sisters were supposed to call me if there were any changes. Mushroomed again.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Oct 10, 2015 • 5:25:13pm

re: #34 Charles Johnson

It does have the stench of a fifth-rate script kiddie. But whoever owns this will eventually let their Commanding Self shine through-and when it does, we pounce.

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Romantic Heretic  Oct 10, 2015 • 5:26:56pm

re: #21 Bubblehead II

Try this one.

Tom Waits - Martha (album version)

And this.

Tom Waits - I Hope I Don’t Fall In Love With You

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Romantic Heretic  Oct 10, 2015 • 5:28:14pm

re: #38 Bubblehead II

Sending positive vibes your way.

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Charles Johnson  Oct 10, 2015 • 5:28:48pm
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Bubblehead II  Oct 10, 2015 • 5:39:55pm

re: #40 Romantic Heretic

Try this one.

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Video

It’s the voice, not the lyrics or instruments. The voice grinds upon my nerves. I can’t explain it. Maybe Charles can as he is a musician.

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Dave In Austin  Oct 10, 2015 • 5:41:00pm
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Charles Johnson  Oct 10, 2015 • 5:42:45pm

re: #43 Bubblehead II

It’s the voice, not the lyrics or instruments. The voice grinds upon my nerves. I can’t explain it. Maybe Charles can as he is a musician.

I don’t think I can explain it either, because I actually love Tom Waits’s music. But then, I’m kinda weird.

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bratwurst  Oct 10, 2015 • 5:42:49pm

As I have mentioned before, I declined to renew my subscription to The Atlantic after they turned part of their website over to Scientology and sold my information to third party subscription services who called me dozens of times, then denied doing so without offering an alternative explanation as to how so many of these services knew I was a subscriber.

I still like to follow them on Twitter to make sure I am not missing anything.

Nope…still not missing anything.

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Dark_Falcon  Oct 10, 2015 • 5:44:40pm

re: #28 KGxvi

Calling you a “cuck” is such a nice touch

That’s the wording of someone who still sees Charles as seeing himself as right of center. “Cuck” in this case is short for “cuckservative” which is an ugly taunt racists throw at right-of-center people who refuse to endorse their racism or who have visible positive associations with black people.

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teleskiguy  Oct 10, 2015 • 5:45:13pm
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b.d.  Oct 10, 2015 • 5:49:20pm

re: #44 Dave In Austin

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Aw hell, I’m envious

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Bubblehead II  Oct 10, 2015 • 5:51:46pm

re: #45 Charles Johnson

I don’t think I can explain it either, because I actually love Tom Waits’s music. But then, I’m kinda weird.

Aren’t we all? In one shape or another.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Oct 10, 2015 • 5:52:08pm

re: #45 Charles Johnson

I like Belle and Sebastian, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, and listen to late 19th-early 20th century classical music. Upding if you are as twisted as I am.

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Charles Johnson  Oct 10, 2015 • 5:52:10pm

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b.d.  Oct 10, 2015 • 5:52:55pm

re: #46 bratwurst

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Nope…still not missing anything.

I guess I had no idea northern Italy was that lit up?

Before reading the article, do they mention Greece in their borderless fantasy world?

I would imagine that Alex Jones will be twitching about that article?

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Dave In Austin  Oct 10, 2015 • 5:53:41pm

re: #49 b.d.

The fishing reports are spotty. There is a red tide on the gulf side. I hope it’s not to bad in the bay.

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thedopefishlives  Oct 10, 2015 • 5:54:46pm

re: #52 Charles Johnson

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b.d.  Oct 10, 2015 • 5:55:28pm

re: #54 Dave In Austin

The fishing reports are spotty. There is a red tide on the gulf side. I hope it’s not to bad in the bay.

My truck driver just got back from Corpus with his red tide report. Haven’t been to South Padre in a while though I spend a week every year at Port A. How is the beach erosion?

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Bubblehead II  Oct 10, 2015 • 5:58:28pm

re: #52 Charles Johnson

snicker

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Reality Based Steve  Oct 10, 2015 • 5:58:34pm

re: #53 b.d.

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Nope…still not missing anything.

I guess I had no idea northern Italy was that lit up?

Before reading the article, do they mention Greece in their borderless fantasy world?

I would imagine that Alex Jones will be twitching about that article?

I had somebody say to me “Say what you will about Alex Jones” (and based on personal experience that disclaimer is always followed by something outlandish) “But he is asking the questions nobody else is asking”.

I just looked at her and said “Nobody is asking if unicorn farts smell like pastrami, but it still doesn’t mean the question makes any sense in a rational world”

Let’s just say that she took offense. Oh well… C’est la vie.

Emerson, Lake & Palmer - C’est La Vie - Live In Montreal, 1977

RBS

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Oct 10, 2015 • 6:00:03pm

re: #52 Charles Johnson

+fa37ietdblGT55kIML25s6DL52yD3TWbKsxTYETu/Zy6AKiDtKmjd5BjDQRsNKzbUIlhA7VUMbEPF94Aa7ATvb4xOmH8GApnKtzDOxm5FVDqXyj/G2XtSemeIUXMf0U

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bratwurst  Oct 10, 2015 • 6:00:20pm

re: #53 b.d.

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Nope…still not missing anything.

I guess I had no idea northern Italy was that lit up?

Before reading the article, do they mention Greece in their borderless fantasy world?

I would imagine that Alex Jones will be twitching about that article?

Northern Italy is both densely populated and the country’s industrial heart. As you can see there, it is pretty much completely paved over.

I wouldn’t waste a minute of my time reading that nonsense. It is REMARKABLY untimely, coming as the great experiment in eliminating borders (Schengen) is being strangled.

Don’t get me wrong, I dearly love borderless travel within Europe and will be sad if it goes back to the old system. I suspect that air travelers will continue to enjoy the benefits of Schengen, but other borders are a different story. My days of being able to travel are limited, was really hoping to do a Balkan tour next year…but I am leaning heavily toward giving that region a wide berth for the time being.

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b.d.  Oct 10, 2015 • 6:00:33pm

re: #58 Reality Based Steve

I had somebody say to me “Say what you will about Alex Jones” (and based on personal experience that disclaimer is always followed by something outlandish) “But he is asking the questions nobody else is asking”.

Nobody is asking if there is too much lithium in the chemtrails!

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The Ghost of a Flea  Oct 10, 2015 • 6:01:33pm

re: #47 Dark_Falcon

It’s been internet slang for cuckold, and a manosphere/neoreactionary term that has more content than the dictionary definition, prior to the portmanteau.

It’s their preferred epithet for No True Real Men.

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Dark_Falcon  Oct 10, 2015 • 6:02:57pm

Especially since @helloraspberry is an open Nazi.

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b.d.  Oct 10, 2015 • 6:05:34pm

re: #63 Dark_Falcon

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Especially since @helloraspberry is an open Nazi.

For Chuck to sustain his Bell Curve superiority delusion he has to have a bunch of Nazi/white supremacists thrown in the midst.

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Dark_Falcon  Oct 10, 2015 • 6:06:03pm

I tell you, Tarder Sauce AKA Grumpy Cat has the patience of a saint:

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b.d.  Oct 10, 2015 • 6:06:55pm

re: #65 Dark_Falcon

I tell you, Tarder Sauce AKA Grumpy Cat has the patience of a saint:

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At least Geraldo kept his shirt on for that pic.

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bratwurst  Oct 10, 2015 • 6:09:13pm

The Great Fox Boycott of 2015 continues!

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b.d.  Oct 10, 2015 • 6:10:44pm

re: #60 bratwurst

Northern Italy is both densely populated and the country’s industrial heart. As you can see there, it is pretty much completely paved over.

The opinion of the Southern Italians by the Northern Italians is rather startling and vice versā

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Dark_Falcon  Oct 10, 2015 • 6:11:46pm

re: #64 b.d.

For Chuck to sustain his Bell Curve superiority delusion he has to have a bunch of Nazi/white supremacists thrown in the midst.

I understand that, though I find it supremely illogical, given what The Bell Curve actually said. Bad though the book is, it did not argue that all black people were inferior, as Klansmen and Nazis. It (wrongly) argued that they had lower average intelligence.

I am not defending The Bell Curve, as that book was indefensibly wrong. But I find it amusing to note that UpChuck and Co. are so stupid they can’t even understand the argument of the book they praise.

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stpaulbear  Oct 10, 2015 • 6:11:53pm

re: #43 Bubblehead II

It’s the voice, not the lyrics or instruments. The voice grinds upon my nerves. I can’t explain it. Maybe Charles can as he is a musician.

You’re not the only one who feels like that. I can’t listen to him. I’m not hip enough to dig it.

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b.d.  Oct 10, 2015 • 6:14:12pm

Quit Digging Your Grave with a Knife and Fork: A 12-Stop Program to End Bad Habits and Begin a Healthy Lifestyle
by Mike Huckabee

amazon.com

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The Vicious Babushka  Oct 10, 2015 • 6:20:42pm

I wonder how much of this hate & genocide memorabilia that disturbed people want to pay good money for, is actually fake shit made in third world sweatshops.

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freetoken  Oct 10, 2015 • 6:20:57pm

re: #71 b.d.

I thought something felt off around here today.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Oct 10, 2015 • 6:24:05pm

re: #71 b.d.

I don’t see hordes of migrants swarming over the border. Did they miss the casting call?

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Charles Johnson  Oct 10, 2015 • 6:26:23pm
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bratwurst  Oct 10, 2015 • 6:27:49pm

re: #71 b.d.

Quit Digging Your Grave with a Knife and Fork: A 12-Stop Program to End Bad Habits and Begin a Healthy Lifestyle
by Mike Huckabee

As someone who lost a life-changing amount of weight myself, this used to be one of the few things I liked about Huckabee. I am sorry to see that he has apparently let himself go there. I totally get it though, it is a lifelong struggle for millions of us.

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b.d.  Oct 10, 2015 • 6:28:08pm

re: #74 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

I don’t see hordes of migrants swarming over the border. Did they miss the casting call?

I guess they saw Huckabee and thought it was that promised wall?

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Jay C  Oct 10, 2015 • 6:29:01pm

re: #71 b.d.

re: #74 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Yea, by that pic it’s pretty sleepy along the border: did the immigrant hordes get word that Mike Huckabee was going to be there and get scared away?

I know I’d try to avoid Mike Huckabee wherever possible….

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Dark_Falcon  Oct 10, 2015 • 6:29:13pm

Normally one does not find solace from the Daily Mail but the paper’s site just ran a book excerpt that is a decent palate cleanser from the historical illiteracy and pro-Nazi sentiments I’ve been running across today:

SAS vs SS: The untold story of how a tiny band of our elite troops parachuted into Occupied France to wage bloody guerilla war against some of the Nazis’ most depraved torturers

In autumn of 1944, SAS parachuted into remote region of Occupied France
They harassed Nazi forces and made significant dent in SS command chain
Dangerous and daring Operation Loyton, its codename, lasted for months
But it has remained little known and is revealed here in detail for first time

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b.d.  Oct 10, 2015 • 6:29:14pm

re: #72 The Vicious Babushka

I wonder how much of this hate & genocide memorabilia that disturbed people want to pay good money for, is actually fake shit made in third world sweatshops.

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You mean Nazi Plumbing and Valve Co. didn’t emblazon swastikas on all of their fittings?

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Oct 10, 2015 • 6:36:06pm

re: #72 The Vicious Babushka

There is a local “international hotel” in town here that has a series of swastikas running up one side of the building. I’m assuming they are the ancient Hindu version meaning good luck, and not the Nazi symbol, but who knows? I’ve found people in China are totally ignorant of Nazi Germany and Hitler, so they might not even be aware of how those swastikas on the side of an international hotel look to a visitor from a Western country.

I’ll try to take a photo of the hotel sometime, so you can see what I mean.

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Charles Johnson  Oct 10, 2015 • 6:36:06pm

re: #72 The Vicious Babushka

I wonder how much of this hate & genocide memorabilia that disturbed people want to pay good money for, is actually fake shit made in third world sweatshops.

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I did some quick Google searching and it looks like this might actually be a Crane Steel fitting.

flickr.com

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b.d.  Oct 10, 2015 • 6:36:13pm

re: #76 bratwurst

As someone who lost a life-changing amount of weight myself, this used to be one of the few things I liked about Huckabee. I am sorry to see that he has apparently let himself go there. I totally get it though, it is a lifelong struggle for millions of us.

Agreed. I’ve recently lost 65 lbs of stop smoking and general laziness weight to be in the best shape of my entire life but I’ve managed not to write a book chastising all of the people who haven’t done it. Huckabee did the typical republican thing, did something, took an instant photo of it, claimed it was irrefutable proof that he was right and ignored the long term results.

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b.d.  Oct 10, 2015 • 6:38:44pm

re: #82 Charles Johnson

I did some quick Google searching and it looks like this might actually be a Crane Steel fitting.

flickr.com

If the Crane Fitting Company employees had guns then they wouldn’t have been forced to make fittings with swastikas emblazoned in them

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Oct 10, 2015 • 6:39:08pm

re: #76 bratwurst

Remember, the Rage Furby said that he had info that Huckabee underwent Gastric Reduction Surgery so he could also write a book about his success and methods. Needless to say, he never delivered on publishing anything related to that because if it was true, someone would be in hot water for violating HIPPA, and if it wasn’t true, Huck would sue the Rage Furby for libel and defamation - and CCJ would be the defendant in the receiving side of such a suit instead of being the plaintiff a la Gawker.

Of course, given that the failure rate of gastric reduction surgery resulting in permanent weight loss thends to lean on the high side (ironically, males tend to better than females) it would not surprise me that even if he did have some form of gastric reduction surgery, that his weight would creep back up.

(And for the record-I underwent the ‘Gold Standard’ surgery (Roux-en-Y + Vertical Banded Gastroplasty) in 2000 when I weighed a shy under 400 lbs. Today I am at 250 lbs due to other medical conditions unrelated to the surgery.)

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Camacho DeezNuts 2016  Oct 10, 2015 • 6:48:40pm
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b.d.  Oct 10, 2015 • 6:51:08pm

re: #85 Eric The Fruit Bat

Congratulations and good job The Fruit Bat. I quit smoking a little over 5 years ago and gained 50# (I’m 6’3” and got up to a one day high of 270#) My body wouldn’t react to exercise or diet for a long time until about a year and a half ago then it started doing what it should have ( i guess after a few decades of trying to kill my body due to smokes it didn’t know how to act).

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Mattand  Oct 10, 2015 • 6:52:43pm

re: #52 Charles Johnson

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So they pay you to leave insults about your forum members that are permanently eradicated within 24 hours, at worst?

Jesus God, if that’s not the walking definition of stupid, I don’t know what is.

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Amory Blaine  Oct 10, 2015 • 6:52:55pm

Day by day I feel more vindicated for taking a hardline approach of communicating with the meat conservatives in my life.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Oct 10, 2015 • 6:55:48pm

re: #88 Mattand

So they pay you to leave insults about your forum members that are permanently eradicated within 24 hours, at worst?

Jesus God, if that’s not the walking definition of stupid, I don’t know what is.

The obsessive hating of Charles for leaving the RW is truly a sight to behold.

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The Vicious Babushka  Oct 10, 2015 • 6:56:50pm

re: #81 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

There is a local “international hotel” in town here that has a series of swastikas running up one side of the building. I’m assuming they are the ancient Hindu version meaning good luck, and not the Nazi symbol, but who knows? I’ve found people in China are totally ignorant of Nazi Germany and Hitler, so they might not even be aware of how those swastikas on the side of an international hotel look to a visitor from a Western country.

I’ll try to take a photo of the hotel sometime, so you can see what I mean.

Several years ago a Hindu co-worker put her wedding invitation on the corkboard in the break room. It kind of freaked me out because the card had a border trim of little swastikas but then I was like OH WAIT THEY’RE HINDU.

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b.d.  Oct 10, 2015 • 6:59:04pm

re: #89 Amory Blaine

Day by day I feel more vindicated for taking a hardline approach of communicating with the meat conservatives in my life.

At what point do the cheap, cold-hearted business conservatives who really are the GOP core that built that party draw the line against the government hating mob that has become their vocal base?

I think we are seeing the fundamental problem with this Speaker mess.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Oct 10, 2015 • 7:00:57pm

re: #92 b.d.

At what point do the cheap, cold-hearted business conservatives who really are the GOP core that built that party draw the line against the government hating mob that has become their vocal base?

I think we are seeing the fundamental problem with this Speaker mess.

Oil and water.

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Charles Johnson  Oct 10, 2015 • 7:02:09pm

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Reality Based Steve  Oct 10, 2015 • 7:02:23pm

I’m outta here gang. Spent the day making some shelving and hanging racks for gear at the shop, going back tomorrow to finish the job. We desperately need more storage space, and since there isn’t any square footage available, I’m taking maximum use of the walls and even hanging stuff from the ceiling in the store room. Not spending very much of the owners money and getting a great return on it. I have to admit that I’m probably putting a bit more care and detail into these utility projects than they need (pocket screws for all the joinery, rounding off the edges of shelves with my router, things like that. I just enjoy the process and even if nobody else notices it, I know it was done pretty darn well.(Plus I get to play with power tools)

Looks a lot better, and pretty soon it may actually be possible to find things back there.

Enjoy the evening, and help yourself to the trail mix.

RBS

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Oct 10, 2015 • 7:04:18pm

re: #94 Charles Johnson

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Brian J.  Oct 10, 2015 • 7:05:10pm

re: #93 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Racism, bigotry in general, and theocracy are all very, very bad for business. So is a lack of customers who can afford your goods and services.

The GOP moneymen are finding that their business model has hit its limit. Apparently, to finance the Republicans, you must owe your position as CEO to inherited money and/ or the Peter Principle.

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b.d.  Oct 10, 2015 • 7:06:03pm

re: #93 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Oil and water.

How does the GOP make their base less crazy?

I can’t see them poaching large amounts of Dems by going socially and scientifically tolerant and fiscally conservative, though that would be the sane route. The GOP’s fervor in making it harder for regular folks to vote is working against their own ends.

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b.d.  Oct 10, 2015 • 7:09:19pm

re: #94 Charles Johnson

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I’m donating $50 to LGF right now because, fuck them.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Oct 10, 2015 • 7:09:56pm

re: #98 b.d.

How does the GOP make their base less crazy?

I can’t see them poaching large amounts of Dems by going socially and scientifically tolerant and fiscally conservative, though that would be the sane route. The GOP’s fervor in making it harder for regular folks to vote is working against their own ends.

I can’t see the GOP becoming more moderate in the short term without a purge of the extremist element, or a split into two parties. Over the long term, moderation may happen, but things have gone so far to the right, it’ll be decades before the Republican Party is sane again.

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b.d.  Oct 10, 2015 • 7:12:46pm

re: #100 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

I can’t see the GOP becoming more moderate in the short term without a purge of the extremist element, or a split into two parties. Over the long term, moderation may happen, but things have gone so far to the right, it’ll be decades before the Republican Party is sane again.

I am woefully ignorant on the demise of the previously powerful political parties in US history. This must have a parallel?

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Great White Snark  Oct 10, 2015 • 7:13:20pm

smh

nytimes.com

A former investigator for the Republicans on the House Select Committee on Benghazi plans to file a complaint in federal court next month alleging that he was fired unlawfully in part because his superiors opposed his efforts to conduct a comprehensive investigation into the 2012 attack on the American diplomatic mission in the Libyan city. Instead, they focused primarily on the role of the State Department and former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, he said.

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Brian J.  Oct 10, 2015 • 7:13:28pm

re: #98 b.d.

The poll tax generally did a decent job in the South. Of course, it also kept black people away from the polling booths and is unconstitutional for very good reason. Still, that kept out-and-out lynching promoters and genocidalists down and business interests in charge with only moderate racism required.

Perhaps British politics shows the way- UKIP has essentially drained off the cray-cray from the Conservative Party (and to some extent the Labour Party).

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Oct 10, 2015 • 7:13:31pm

re: #87 b.d.

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Charles Johnson  Oct 10, 2015 • 7:14:54pm
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Brian J.  Oct 10, 2015 • 7:16:44pm

re: #105 Charles Johnson

The media couldn’t admit that they saw it until it came from the horse’s… mouth.

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Jenner7  Oct 10, 2015 • 7:33:41pm

The prosecutor says it will still go to a grand jury…..

Where he’ll tell the grand jury “nothing to see here, move along…”

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KGxvi  Oct 10, 2015 • 7:34:42pm

re: #72 The Vicious Babushka

There’s a couple of vintage swap meets around Southern California, and I tend to go to the Long Beach one every couple of months. There’s always a vendor or two selling either nazi parafenellia or racist items from the Jim Crow era (for example a sign pointing to the whites and colored showers at an army base). I never know how to feel about that stuff being sold. It is just weird seeing it every time

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Jenner7  Oct 10, 2015 • 7:35:18pm

Sooo, will msm ignore the ex staffer Benghazi committee story tomorrow morning???

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b.d.  Oct 10, 2015 • 7:35:39pm

re: #104 Eric The Fruit Bat

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jaunte  Oct 10, 2015 • 7:35:54pm

re: #107 Jenner7

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Barefoot Grin  Oct 10, 2015 • 7:36:21pm

I’ve always been uncomfortable with race as the main explanation for the RWNJ hatred of President Obama. I remember too well the unhinged hatred of the Clintons. Of course there was a “vast right wing conspiracy”; Citizens United gave it respectability.

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Mattand  Oct 10, 2015 • 7:36:28pm

re: #100 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

I can’t see the GOP becoming more moderate in the short term without a purge of the extremist element, or a split into two parties. Over the long term, moderation may happen, but things have gone so far to the right, it’ll be decades before the Republican Party is sane again.

There’s at least one “sane” Republican here who you know is going to continue to vote GOP, even if the eventual nominee is a fucking psycho like Trump or Carson. That doesn’t even include the precious “indepdenent” voters out there who will vote GOP because they just can’t believe that the GOP has gotten this crazy.

The GOP isn’t going anywhere. They never suffer any repercussions for their insanity. None. They have essentially pursed a policy of “Fuck the black guy, even if it destroys the country” since 2009, and they still control huge swaths of the federal government.

People vote these loons into office to run the same government that, as candidates, they have vowed to destroy.

This does not fill me with confidence.

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b.d.  Oct 10, 2015 • 7:37:57pm

re: #105 Charles Johnson

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So at this point the only scalp the Benghazi Committee has is the guy who was to be the next Speaker?

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gwangung  Oct 10, 2015 • 7:40:53pm

re: #107 Jenner7

If somebody was raging to burn down Cleveland….not sure I’d stop ‘em.

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teleskiguy  Oct 10, 2015 • 7:42:31pm

Blast from the past! Andrew Breitbart hoping and praying for another civil war.

Breitbart, Bring it on.AVI

There it is, folks, the id of the right wing in the United States.

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b.d.  Oct 10, 2015 • 7:44:06pm

The 1st realistic chance of a cantonal government in the US is if the GOP and The Buggers split into 2 parties?

Ballot access, of course, being a huge factor. Sanders had no Dem. opposition, I would imagine that the GOP would treat bagger districts with the same approach?

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Jenner7  Oct 10, 2015 • 7:45:18pm

Damn it. Trying to avoid pictures of Tamir. They invoke all sorts of emotion and the tears start.

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Romantic Heretic  Oct 10, 2015 • 7:45:40pm

re: #43 Bubblehead II

That I can understand. His voice can never be described as mellifluous.

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jaunte  Oct 10, 2015 • 7:47:14pm
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Barefoot Grin  Oct 10, 2015 • 7:50:58pm

re: #116 teleskiguy

Blast from the past! Andrew Breitbart hoping and praying for another civil war.

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There it is, folks, the id of the right wing in the United States.

Master of projection. I’m sorry for his family, and I mean that. But this asshole embodied hypocrisy and it killed him.

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retired cynic  Oct 10, 2015 • 7:54:10pm

OT I just heard a large owl hooting outside the door, so I turned the light off in here to see what I could see, or hear better. It sounded like a whole herd of elephants, and smelled like a skunk, so I got a flashlight and the herd of deer moved off, but the baby raccoons continued to have a merry old time running around on the back porch, climbing one of the trees, and chittering away. Owl has given up now, too. I love life in the country!

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b.d.  Oct 10, 2015 • 7:56:28pm

re: #122 retired cynic

I’m envious and it is nice when all of those critters shoo off when they need to.

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retired cynic  Oct 10, 2015 • 7:59:54pm

re: #123 b.d.

Yes. We’ve had bobcats and packs of coyotes, and wild turkeys, and lots of various birds. It’s a major flyway, so there is usually something interesting to see. When shotgun deer season arrives, there will be a lot more upset traffic in critters.

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retired cynic  Oct 10, 2015 • 8:01:55pm

We even have a long-term bald eagle nest, which provides plenty of entertainment.

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retired cynic  Oct 10, 2015 • 8:07:47pm

Thread killer.

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Barefoot Grin  Oct 10, 2015 • 8:12:00pm

re: #126 retired cynic

Thread killer.

He came dancing across the water….

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Mattand  Oct 10, 2015 • 8:12:30pm

re: #126 retired cynic

Thread killer.

Qu’est-ce que c’est
fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa far better

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b.d.  Oct 10, 2015 • 8:15:12pm

re: #125 retired cynic

We even have a long-term bald eagle nest, which provides plenty of entertainment.

Remember when there were no Bald Eagles? I was raised in Austin and never heard of any but now there are many down here. I also grew up going to the Texas coast every summer and I never saw a pelican and now they are all over the place.

In the fall of 2009, Audubon celebrated the removal of the Brown Pelican from the Endangered Species list due to its significant recovery. In Texas, where a census showed 12 breeding birds in 1973, we now have more than 12,000 Brown Pelicans breeding annually.

tx.audubon.org
The GOP would still have DDT everywhere and the only buzz would be about what they can come up with to those new DDT resistant mosquitos.

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retired cynic  Oct 10, 2015 • 8:19:28pm

re: #129 b.d.

Absolutely. I was so thrilled to have them so close. A generation ago, old-timers here say the geese and duck flyways blackened the skies during the change of season. They said you could sit on your porch, point your gun up, and bring dinner right down. Of course, the pollution used to come up the waterway from the cities, too, and that is so much improved. And we are getting larger numbers of waterfowl than we did twenty years ago.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Oct 10, 2015 • 8:22:18pm

re: #110 b.d.

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blueraven  Oct 10, 2015 • 8:33:57pm

re: #45 Charles Johnson

I don’t think I can explain it either, because I actually love Tom Waits’s music. But then, I’m kinda weird.

Thanks for posting more Tom Waits!

Mule Variations and The Heart of Saturday Night are my two favorite Tom Waits albums. (currently, anyway)

His lyrics and his voice can easily bring me to tears one minute but have me dancing the next.

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prairiefire  Oct 10, 2015 • 8:36:53pm

Amy Schumer on SNL

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Kragar  Oct 10, 2015 • 8:37:40pm
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Bird in the Paw  Oct 11, 2015 • 2:57:35am

re: #95 Reality Based Steve

I have to admit that I’m probably putting a bit more care and detail into these utility projects than they need (pocket screws for all the joinery, rounding off the edges of shelves with my router, things like that. I just enjoy the process and even if nobody else notices it, I know it was done pretty darn well.(Plus I get to play with power tools)

Playing with power tools always a plus. Not knowing what the baseline of the shop is visually, I’d be willing to be that people will notice, if not necessarily specifics, that all the visual lines are tidier and and not clunked together.

And then there’s OCD freaks like me who walk. Into the local specialty shop and and say “damn, that new display is really good, why?, and oh, look, it’s finished and not just hacked together to do something.


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Texas County at Center of Border Fight Is Overwhelmed by Migrant Deaths EAGLE PASS, Tex. - The undertaker lighted a cigarette and held it between his latex-gloved fingers as he stood over the bloated body bag lying in the bed of his battered pickup truck. The woman had been fished out ...
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