Oops. Sorry kids. The Powers that Be (i.e., Christy, shhhhh!) have informed me that their day has been hard enough zapping the millions of rightard trolls that have come streaming through the worm-hole opened by Michelle MalKKKin’s desperate attempt to smear us today. My Malkin post was considered to be something akin to pouring gasoline on a fire that was already starting to catch the drapes, so in the interest of Redd not having to spend her whole day tomorrow dealing with screaming morons from the Other Side, we’re going to let that one sit backstage, possibly until a later date.
In the meantime, I want to thank you all profusely for the support you showed during last night’s "Send a TRex to Camp" Pledge Drive. As the donations started coming in, I told myself that I would be sending each and every donor a personal note to thank them. But then they just kept coming. And coming. More and more. It was like the letters from Hogwarts that came pouring in through the mail slot and the chimney in the first Harry Potter. You guys have blown me away with your generosity. I am forever in your debt, and I am going to work my ass off in CT to be worthy of the love and support you have shown me.
This is the best community on the web. I spent most of the morning on the phone to My Wise Friend trying to make sense of it.
Rex: I feel, I feel…
Friend: Like you’re not worthy of this kind of love?
Rex: No, I feel like I’m going to hurl.
Friend: Why?
Rex: I dunno. What if I disappoint them? What if I’m really a fraud and they find out? This is too much. I can’t accept all this.
Friend: Your low-self-esteem thing gets really old, sometimes, you know? Especially to be as grandiose as you are the rest of the time.
Rex: I resemble that remark. Oh, God, my stomach…
Friend: It’s going to be alright. You’re going to have a good time.
Rex: If I can keep from heinously embarrassing myself. You know, the last leg of that flight is on a little prop plane. I heard Democrats should avoid little planes. What if it crashes and I die? What will happen to Gus and Juan?
Friend: If you keep this up, I’m hanging up on you.
And so forth and so on.
Seriously, though, you guys rock. I’ve got enough put by now to go up there in serious style. Heh. And then some. I just can’t fathom that anyone would want to be so sweet to me when they don’t even know me except through my writing. Of course, Wise Friend says that my writing is the best way to get to know me, so maybe y’all are on to something.
Anyway, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. I will be trying to write to as many of you as I can, but it may take until Christmas. I will do everything I can to not let you down. Thanks for believing in me.
Love,
TRex
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TRex!
GOT IT
ahhhhh, the zed for ted!
Fitzy and Trex!
Jane is relentless. I love it.
Trex! Jane!! Christy!!!
Alright…and
Hey, Michelle…look into your soul and give up trying! Punk!!!
Kitties!!!!
Go Rexie!! Yea Team!! You can’t let us down, just show up and be you.
PS… I think this photo works really well.
darkblack
Oh, those kitties… Kawai!
I want one!
TRex, I am never giving you my phone number. That conversation is way too much like the ones I have with my mother, and, well, don’t be offended, but you’re, uh, in the Mom role there. Oh God–you’re not my mother in disguise are you? ;)
TRex
see you on Sat. We’ve got some serious work to do and then hopefully, some serious partying.
Got to get NED on the road to D.C. (and Joe off the road . . . doing 90 in a bus, no less, shame on them)
TRex –
Spider Robinson, a great science fiction writer, put it like this: pain shared is lessened, and joy shared is increased.
TRex, you do a helluva lot to increase the joy around these parts. Now you know how more than a few of us feel when we click on and see what tasty treat you offered up for a Late Night snack.
Even if we don’t get to it until the next morning.
Thanks!
aw, damn.
But TRex… you promised that tonight’s special was anchor baby on a stick!!!
I mean, I guess I understand….
Fuggin rightards…
how much KoolAid is left in that bucket, y’all?
LJ/Aquaria @ 10
MWAAH-HAAA-HAAAA-HAAAAAAAAAAA!
You’re driving me to an early grave, LJ! See these gray hairs? YOU DID THIS!!
no more late nite snacks tonite. Gotta sleep, the roofers are coming early in the am.
and one more time for good measure and sweet dreams . . .
NEDMENTUM
JANE
CHRISTY
PATCH
ROOTZ
TREX
TRex…
by the way… is Wise Friend…? Um…. y’know? Mrs. Dog?
Mrrrrow! I look forward to the reappearance of the disappeared, but am glad to see kitties and to have a chance to say hooray for you and kick some tail up among all those yankees!
TRex, I hope you will remember to take along a camera to get some photos from the trip to share with us all. I want to see what some of the other FDL folks look like that will be there with you!
patrick @ 16
Yes.
TRex- this from an earlier thread.
Hey TRex- I just tried to phone you thinking I would try to talk you off the Malkin ledge. Seems you were on the phone. imo attacking MM is not a good idea right now. Seriously. We could all use some lite relief, so howsa about another sweet cat thread? Or even the “cat’s revenge”?
On the “sweet” theme, this is a fun article from the Boston Globe:
http://www.boston.com/news/odd…..ar_suspect _in_garden_glove_thefts/
Feline felon suspected in glove thefts
By Jim Fitzgerald, Associated Press Writer | July 20, 2006
PELHAM, N.Y. –A pink-and-white gardening glove was missing Thursday morning from Jeannine Goche’s front porch. But there was absolutely no mystery about who had taken it.
Willy, the cat who loves gloves, had struck again.
“It has to be him,” said Goche, an attorney. “I’ve heard about him.”
As if the gardeners of Pelham don’t have enough to worry about, with the rocky soil and the slugs and the big trees casting too much shade, a feline felon has been sneaking into their back yards and carrying off gardening gloves
etc.
Great pic also!!! http://cache.boston.com/resize…..0/11534508 33_1690/410w.jpg
It really is a “keeper”
And, I earlier left you a phone message saying I would also be in CT! Hope you got my small contribution. xxx
I actually don’t have a digital camera, but I may take my old Pentax K1000. You never know.
I gotta head out of here and go home. I’ll check back in from there.
Anybody need anything while I’m up?
TRex @ 21
CVS sells a disposable digital camera for $15 I think. Try one of those out!
TRex @ 19
Yeah, I thought I recognized that “Get over it” eyebrow, from all the way over here.
I said this several week s back but it seems so appropriate again TRex
On Commitment
“Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectivness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one
elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves, too. All
sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. The whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one’s favor all manner
of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material his way. I have learned a deep
respect for one of Goethe’scouplets: ‘Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.’”
-from W.H. Murray, “The Scottish Himalayan Expedition”
I would like a single peony in an ebony vase!
Ohhh, I just remembered — cheap plane tickets!!!
last time I flew (from DC to Denver) the walkup price on a one way ticket for Frontier Airlines was $580, or something like that. A round trip advance ticket on Expedia was $320 — but for $25, I could change the date at the ticket counter.
Check out those online booking companies — Expedia, Travelocity, Orbitz, etc; sometimes you can get really good deals, and change the flight at the terminal for a nominal fee.
T-Rex
Make sure you look me up while you’re in state.
I’m off to bed (new poll numbers tomorrow means spazeboy wakes up early).
See ya!
M/Valley Girl, So glad to see you back here at the lake and now off to CT. TRex, wonderful news about your trip–glad so many of us could contribute to your excellent adventure!
Night spaze…than you for all your work.
Dana
TRrex has stepped away, but can I get you that glass of wine now?
Apparently, everyone has sepped away…t
As you know, Hope, I never catch him in time! Thank you so much, but this time I brought a bottle of champagne to pour for you–you’re a peach.
Not quite everyone…
I’m here…just quiet.
stepped away…how did that happen?
TRex can cook the most amazing things, by the way.
I’m just saying.
Not that I am trying to send him off to CT to find a new soulmate/boyfriend/hostage…
But ask him to fry some chicken and mash some potatoes for supper some time, and see if you don’t go to bed with a smile on your face a crowbar couldn’t knock off….
Dana …you have no idea…
heer!
What exactly does he do to that chicken Patrick?
Oh my god – I was just at the sitemeter and there is someone else here from Winnipeg – Hi there you.
Hey Dana!!!! {{{{[[[hugs]]]}}}} edu life is tough at times!!!
Nope, not everyone. Still here reading. My granddaughter is in the bed behind me. She had trouble going to sleep so she is sleeping in my bed on the other side of the room. sometimes they just like to be close while I check in here at the lake.
Busy day. Jane did the right thing in taking it down and so did TRex. Emotions are high and we are so very angry, and have been for well over 5 years (speaking personally) that it all sometimes comes out in posts that are seen in the same light they were meant.
Kittens are puuuuurfect for a quiet night getting ready for the polls.
‘ere!
patrick @ 36
I need that recipe, Mr. TRex, sir. Pretty, pretty please?
-ck- @ 43
[looks sternly at his watch, taps it a couple of times] Where you been? YOU’RE LATE!
We don’t need no stinkin’ hostages…
HopeSpringsATurtle @ 39
Grandma’s secret. Sorry, I can’t reveal it or I risk being thrown out of the family and banned from Christmas.
Well, obviously the edit button is quite doing it, so last sentence should read “…are NOT seen in the same light…” Well maybe bed is a good idea…
If TRex blows it, I swear I’m going to boil a kitten.
An adorable kitten.
So, no pressure.
We don’ need no steenkin’ trolls, either . . .
Why do concern trolls sometimes do things that defy common decency like hammer on someone who has already admitted their mistake and apologized for the same? Ignorant…
The Peking Duck is right, it is a Dilettante.
OK anyone have an over/under for the Q-poll coming out tomorrow?
If Ned’s up by double digits I will shave my head into a mohawk so as to provide further blogger-induced grief for Tom Swan and Tim Tagaris when I walk into Lamont HQ Monday morning.
In case anyone here is interested…I signed up at http://www.Southwest.com for the DING program they have. They offer one way and round trip fares from $39.00 You go to the website and set up the “ding software” on your computer, listing the airport you are likely to use for your flights. Then, sometimes, while you are online, you may hear a “ding” and you can click on the logo that is on your toolbar and there are specials. You usually have 12 or 24 hours to book. And, the good thing about it also, I heard from my brother who uses it all the time, is that you can change the date for a later date at a later time and not pay anything. He picks up flights to NY all the time from Florida for $39.00
New Billmon, for those so inclined.
http://billmon.org/archives/002621.html
Hi, Thers….
don’t worry about your secret, by the way, (the one about secretly liking Led Zeppelin and all, even though it’s painfully uncool, except that everyone knows John Bonham was all that and a bag of bullets) (don’t worry, I won’t tell anyone) (oops) since no one reads my blog these days….
been having hosting trouble, usually right when I want to post…
So… how’s it going?
Rather than a mohawk – get a buzz cut and shave “NED LAMONT” into the stubble. Uncomfortable enthusiasm is what you are going for.
That is what it calls itself, “A Dilettante”
And as far as silver platters go, Malkin wouldn’t know what to do with one anyway.
Hope – love your youtube poem vid. I saw it a few weeks ago but had forgotten to share it here. Glad you did.
Matt Browner-Hamlin @ 54
It wont be double digits but its gonna be a significant bump. I’m taking that he’s up by 7 or 8 points.
M–(((((hugs))))) backatcha! I did read earlier that you completed the grant proposal? Congrats! Two more weeks until campus fills up again.
Everyone’s favorite wise-cracking sociopath, Dr. Strange-Rumsfeld does an about face and will testify tomorrow.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITI…..index.html
-GSD
jayt at 59
thanks, it seems appropriate for fdl.
Fini FiniTOOBZ! @
52
Why? Why ask why? If you try to figure out things like “why” when it comes to certain subspecies like concern trolls, especially when it concerns things like common decency, you will end up needing some relatively strong medications to relieve the pain. Always better to laugh at them.
Then you can save the relatively strong medications for amusement purposes.
Matt Browner-Hamlin –
No serious leakage on the polls yet, but you’d best have those clippers handy — my guess is at least another five points for Ned, but ten or fifteen points wouldn’t be at all surprising.
Joe-nertia is imploding into a black hole of his own making. But hey — it’s a great starting point for an Indy race, I guess. No where to go but up — except for down.
My prayer is that HoJo throws in the towel and endorses Ned on Tuesday night. After all, who’s going to be at his party? The College Republicans, and that’s about it.
I’m here! Hey, Dana. I brought you some peaches.
Morris Sheppard @ 66
YEAH! Oh, erm, what I meant was…uhh…*blinks a couple of times*…oh what the hell, YEAH!
HopeSpringsATurtle @
58
I’ve got something she can do with one.
you will end up needing some relatively strong medications to relieve the pain. Always better to laugh at them.
I’m in favor of laughing at them – while heavily medicated.
TRex, we have to give you virtual ducats for this trip, I’m afraid. The banks account be a little thin right now. We send the moths from our walletses.
Please don’t barf.
Dana- yes I did finally birth Grant. Hard labor. Thankfully I have a little more time than you to enjoy life w/o students!!!
TRex @
14
Mom!
Oh, and maybe now it’s okay to confess that the 12″ cast iron skillet you’ve been lamenting the loss of since 1975?
I broke it when I got mad at those two brats you dragged home you traitorous…er…those sweet brothers you thoughtfully gave me, and threw the skillet on the floor of the living room. The carpeted floor. And the skillet broke. I’m really sorry about that, but that’s what happened, so you don’t have to wonder anymore.
I’m so glad we had this little talk, Ma. :)
[ yes, my mother really still wonders what happened to that damned skillet! ]
Hey Patrick, can’t complain.
So wait — Michele Malkin is complaining about racism? Michelle… Malkin? The one with the book about how Japanese internment was a great idea?
Really? ‘Cause that’s kinda funny.
TRex – Pammy from Atlas Shrugs, War Tart – is she off limits for tonight too?
So how many FDLers are, or will be, in Connecticut?
Astralplane @ 58:
I don’t think my head’s big enough…
I’m lovin’ the kitty pictures. The one at the top left, leaning on his mother’s rump, looks just like Kittaine, the kitty we kittysat. Luke wants to go to cuteoverload now, to look at more kitties. Back when we’re full.
Matt Browner-Hamlin -
It could be shaved in a very small font, which would enhance the effect, because people would have to stand uncomfortably close to you to read what it says.
tried to paypal re trex bleg, can’t grok why, but no go. went to ned and sucessfully posted donation.
peas!
karen allen!
jayt @ 75
Patience, Grasshoppa…
Hi. I’ll be in Connecticut on Friday morning!
WOW, TRex! Of all nights, you have enough on your mind without bringing back peaches.
VG–enjoy every minute of the remaining summer days.
I know we’re all about Lamont right now, but my own attention will be shifting to the Webb campaign in VA. A win for Lamont will have a huge effect, I hope, on other races. Hope is not a viable course of action, of course. Gotta Act–which is what I’ve learned from all of you.
karen allen, will you be there for the festivities or is this a different kind of trip?
Mommybrain: Absolutely goin there to work on the Lamont campaign! I expect to have a lot of fun.
Hi, y’all. I’ve been reading off and on all day, but no time for posting ’til now. What a day! Glad to see that some calm has returned to the lake, with kittens yet. Maybe the moderators will get some rest (or maybe not, but at least that won’t be our fault.)
Patrick, will you be dogsitting for TRex? And how did he manage to buy a fancy cellphone without a camera? Or maybe it has a camera and he’s forgotten. Anyway, betcha TMobile will sell him a cheapo spare phone with a camera for less than the price of a supermarket throwaway digital. Then he can just swap the sim card to email photos if he has a data plan, or download the pics, or whatever. Just a thought.
Did I mention I love kittens?
Thers @ 74
You noticed that too?
I thought it was just me… or the wallpaper or something in here that just seemed…. fucking ridiculous….
astralplane – I suppose I could go small font, but my height could make things a bit tough (I’m about 6′3) for short people lacking step ladders.
Anyone know what time the Q-poll is supposed to be up?
Dana- I intend to. Did you see the part about going to CT on Sat and coming back on Thurs? Staying with my college BF in CT and gonna work to GOTV. Hopin I can find the celebration party on Tuesday eve. She thinks he gonna win.
TRex @ 82
hmmph – who came up with this one fight per day rule? S’okay – I can wait. Funny thing, after I watched a little of Pam, I was suddenly very happy to be single.
Magalalalagangbang accusing people of racism.
Ha–
Ha ha–
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Oh, that’s too much.
I just love it when wingnuts are too dumb to know that they’re being funny, without meaning to be.
BarbaraB @ 87
TRex? That faincy phone o’ yers gotta camera on it?
I don’t know if I am going to be cat-sitting or not. Am I?
Alternatively, if Ned is down or even in the polls a little bad-ass hair cutting could be in order to pump me up (further, now approaching a bursting point) for the final stretch…
Plus it’s really hot in NYC and I am hurtin’ for certain.
jayt @ 74
I think TBogg today described spammy as Tits on a Blintz.
Talk about destroying a computer monitor with that one.
karen allen!
Is this your first comment here in awhile?
When Paul Hackett announced he was supporting Brown, a lot of the old timers mentioned you.
Your name has come up several times.
Are you familiar with what Pach has done with Netroots? IIRC, a lot of that happened as a result of your work, but didn’t really get off the ground before while you were still a regular commenter.
It sounds as though you are in CT?
Wrt your question, siun is there, I think Valley Girl/M is going, Trex, …. I’m thinking.
Here is a Yahoo story that responds to the Limp-baugh/Malkin pushed “theory” that reporters were “in on the game” and helped Hezbollah “stage” the Qana bombing photos.
Needless to say, some professionals are very pissed that their integrity and ability to discern a real incident from staged propaganda photo are being questioned by cigar chomping perverts and crazy-eyed wingnutesses.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/200…..0bQ–
-GSD
Thanks, John Casper.
Yes, what a shame re Paul Hackett. Although I think he has more political plans.
Aren’t you going to CT? I want to tell Lieberman what I think of him.
M @ 89
I did see that part, VG, and I envy you the trip, the time with a good friend, and what we all hope is a fantastic party!
karen allen, I was commenting on your early work here and how IIRC it led to the netroots. I could not, however, recall your name. punaise came up with it, but he called you karen black. someone else, JWR?, or RBG?, or other corrected us.
No, I missed DKos and I’ll miss CT, but you’re nice to ask.
Okay, kids. My original Late Nite Post for tonight is now here.
WARNING: Not for the faint of heart or easily offended.
I’m willing to share lodgings with someone at my hotel in CT, so don’t let that hold you back. And Delta Airlines just dropped their prices to Hartford, CT.
John Casper: Nope, always posted as Karen Allen. Punaise’s memory failing? Or falling?
War tart. I like that one.
It’s getting used…
Matt Browner-Hamlin @ 89
Uh, and where can I find you while I’m up there, Mr. Browner-Hamlin?
peterr #12, as in a burden shared is half as heavy, and a joy shared is twice as nice.
TRex @ 105
He can cook…
I’m just saying….
If anyone is hesitating going to CT over $$, I’m willing to share lodging in my hotel in CT. And Delta Airlines just reduced their prices for flying into Hartford, CT., just a few miles’ drive from the action.
Dana- thanks. I haven’t talked to her that often of late bec. of all the stress on my part. Just can’t converse when I am feeling low. But, last time I talked to her ~ mos. ago she said she was working on the CT House races, and thought that Lieberman was “ok”. Huh! I said, but this is the most important contest right now: L vs Lamont. So, when I spoke to her on the phone this eve, she said that I had misinterpreted her comments and went on to tell me about how she and a mutual college friend from CT had gone to see Lamont speak- friend changed her party registration from R to D in the next few days so that she could support Lamont!!!! So, also, BF now had nothing nice to say about Joey. Not that I thought that she supported him before, just that Lamont was not on her radar screen. Now he is!!!!
See! The small font gets the best reaction. Then you can start to go crazy with the flourescent temporary hair dye – for kicks!
We knew punaise was incorrect, but he did better than I did. We gave him hech about the actress, karen black.
oops.
Patrick, Alicia is watching the boys. They asked for her special.
TRex @ 112
OK. She’s always wearing black, anyway, which means that they can better see their handiwork once they’re done shedding all over her, i am guessing.
Karen, what day did you say you get in? I’m coming in on Saturday and will be renting a car.
TRex, you are right. This is the best family on the web. Hope my little gift is part of the overage. Please buy yourself and my Goddess Jane a drink. Opps, she doesn’t drink. So buy two and drink one for me. You may be the king of fried chicken, but my chicken fried steak rocks. My kids watch and still can’t get it right. Do you leave the skins on when you mash the tatters?
Trex and everyone else: We should share a car. No sense in wasting money. I’m getting in on Friday morning. I’ll be glad to come to Hartford to pick you up on Saturday.
could a moderator do the href thingy with GSD’s long linky?
Hey TRex- I’ll be in CT also- have I offended you?
Dana — since I can’t go to CT (pout!), I need to ramp up my involvement in the Webb campaign (and congressional campaigns) too.
M @ 118
Good heavens, no. Didn’t you get my message earlier?
Trex 103 -
damn! now that’s what those big teeth and claws can do.. :)
good on ‘ya
Thank you, Jane — you handled the situation perfectly.
A couple of threads were in serious melt down this afternoon.
TRex- No- phone or email? Haven’t checked phone or email in the last few hrs. What flight are you on on Sat? I’m on United.
I am curious about the trolls. Do those school-yard taunts and over-telegraphed “smack-downs” work over in their accustomed haunts?
karen allen @ 116
Sweet! Jane was saying I’d be glad if I rented a car, but to tell you the truth, the thought of parachuting alone into a strange town looking for a hotel I’ve never been to all by myself in a car I’m not used to driving? Why, I think I’d sooner French kiss Ann Coulter.
As I just wrote in a letter to a friend about going to CT:
I do wish I was going. Someone needs to read “Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail 1972” on the plane. It’ll really put the whole thing in perspective, I think.
Redshift–You are like the mystery man to the people you introduced me to here, but we are meeting again soon, so thank you so much! I’ve already volunteered for the Webb campaign. Wish people would get to the blog (Shapiro’s) at the on-line T-D and get a word in! I can’t because of my newspaper connection. Maybe I’ll meet you one day.
Trex: Good idea! We should have a second kissmobile of you and Ann Coulter.
Hey TRex- but your own car might be good for GOTV efforts. Where are you staying? New Haven or ???
astralplame 125 -
those techniques worked well enough in my junior high school… can’t see why they wouldn’t work just as well in the trolls’ middle schools…
John Casper at 9:57 pm – The name I remembered was Melanie Oakland. Doesn’t sound quite right anymore, though.
I’m arriving in Hartford on USAir at 2:49pm.
Oh great. Now I’m at Hogwarts. Hey, T-Rex, take my little bit and do something fun with it. Like buy an outrageous breakfast from room service. Then go bust chops. Go Ned!!
Staying in New Haven. Not sure which hotel yet.
Yeah, it might be good to rent a vehicle. I dunno. This is all coming together so fast.
VG–That’s an interesting story. You and your BG will have plenty to talk about, way beyond the campaign stories, I’m sure. Glad to hear your stress is dissipating. I can only imagine.
gortex!
I mean, go, Trex!
TRex -
What a treat! Two posts in one evening. I liked the 2nd one the BEST, but this one was sweet. :o)
Have fun in CT!
So, Punaise, you don’t remember me?
TRex:
Nice takedown of the Nazi bitch.
I hope you’ve had a chance to take a hazmat shower.
Hit ‘em hard in CT.
TRex- I’m arriving at 3:55. I’ll phone you. Are you planning on staying in Hartford or New Haven?
Youtube’s Joe’s Greatest Hits.
The Republican lovefest.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..lykos.com/
-GSD
howdy gang!
just finished a long day on that wacky campaign trail … and wow!
This evening, Ned was at the Bethel AME church in New Haven with Jesse Jackson and it rocked, literally! What a thrill …
can’t wait for everyone to get here … we’re so busy and we so need you all … and you cannot imagine how much fun it is!
No JWR, you remember all too well. Melanie and karen were working together on Hackett’s campaign, I believe and Melanie was a really good worker, according to karen.
Then there was a poetry contest, then ….
Was it RBG who took us from karen black to karen allen or someone else?
Siun–See you there on Friday!
TRex- okay, just saw that you are staying in NH. I’ll phone you tomorrow to give you the lay of the land. Don’t stress yourself.
karen allen @ 139
au contraire! I just now dropped into this thread, haven’t read through the comments. I’ve asked about you from time to time when we get to reminiscing about FDLers of yore. when you resurfaced last night I wondered aloud if that was really you.
welcome back!
Car rental info – I got the best rate by booking on Southwest.com … skip the flight and go to the “Book Car” link … I’ve got a car from Alamo and it’s just fine and dandy and when I picked it up, everyone was automatically upgraded so book a compact (often cheaper or the same as an economy) and you may get a muscle car!
Karen was one of our intrepids who marched into Mean Jean Schmidt-head’s office and smacked her around.
Yes, Trex at 10:29, thank you.
hi siun -
oooh! CT sounds amazing….
err..umm…will Ned still be needing volunteers after the primary, by chance?
Trex: I still like to kick her around. It’s getting to be a habit. I sure miss froggermarch!
Karen Allen – Yay! So glad you are coming too!
If folks have a choice, we’re recommending some options in Meriden but can use folks in NH or Htfd (or everywhere) … we may have more hotel type options after tomorrow as well … we’re working on it.
The Sheraton Four Points is directly across from HQ and runs about $110 a night for a room with 2 queen beds (though they may have caught on and raised that – check Orbitz) and the ESA in Meriden where Jane first stayed will do $74.95 a night with free wifi and you get a kitchen and 1 queen bed but ask them what 2 costs if you want to share.
hi punaise -
saw your post on the prior thread – the earth didn’t move for you in Berkeley?
siun, thank you so much for the update. The fact that Jackson, Sharpton, and Waters are all on the gound is so wonderful and important. In many ways they are walking in Dr. King’s footsteps wrt the Vietnam War.
Kirk – of course, this fight is going to need folks straight through to November! (in fact, I am really upset already that I’ll have to head back to Chicago and work after the primary but I’ll have to see if I can get more time in Nov… this is such a great team and Ned is wonderful!)
prolly already mentioned, but Kos says he’s not buying the rumors that tomorrow’s Q-poll will show a blow-out for Ned. It all comes down to turnout.
Jackson really called out Joe on the war … it was such a thrill to hear truth! And Ned was great and people went nuts over him … even in amazing heat, the church was jammed and it was such a celebration of what we can and must do.
When I see the trolls, I do wish I had done my original post.
Sigh.
Well, Michelle will hear from me eventually.
Hi Siun! I’m still hoping I can take off maybe Friday, I let my daughter know today she may have to make arrangements next week for a babysitter for my grandson. I so wish I was there right now.
TRex, funny take down of Malkin. *grinz*
someone asked me tonight about the poll tomorrow … my take is that polls are lovely but don’t mean much for all of us… we still need everyone possible on the ground getting out those votes!
John Casper – Yep, it was RBG who corrected our memories re “Karen Black.”
kirk murphy @ 155
it’s odd, because I usually am quite attuned to seismic events (setting aside for the moment the pending seismic electoral event in CT). I was just leaving my office around that time and frankly didn’t notice anything. nor did anyone else in the punaise coterie. 4.4 is a pretty decent jolt.
“prolly already mentioned”
I hadn’t seen that, but my reading has been sketchy today.
I do recall someone saying the rumor might have started because Russert really sounded optimistic. I guess that fed speculation that he got a preview of the poll. Not like Timmeh to to out on a limb.
Either way every vote counts. The bigger the margin of victory, the harder it is for Joezoe to run as an independent.
Shez! Yippee!!!!
we really are flying … and the media calls for Primary night — wow!
JWR @ 163
yeah, that was my bad. don’t know where that came from…..
Y’all, I need to head into the kitchen and fix myself something to eat. Are there other moderators here to pick off the trolls as they come over the hill?
astralplame at 10:15:
I am curious about the trolls. Do those school-yard taunts and over-telegraphed “smack-downs” work over in their accustomed haunts?
A troll’s purpose is to disrupt the conversation and sidetrack people, so I wouldn’t assume they behave the same way in their “home” haunts. In other words, troll is a role, not an identity.
(Though I have heard tales of winger blogs where it appears they “practice” lying and being inflammatory on each other, so who knows.)
I am so freaking jealous of all the CT-bound people, I may actually die. Seriously. Have fun, y’all. Stay safe. And be careful of the College Republicans- I’m pretty sure they bite. In more ways than the most obvious;)
I want a chance to yell at Joe. Think I’ll get it?
TRex- I haven’t done that gig in a while- how long will you be away? I have to crash soon, but I will do it for you.
time for me to sleep …
have I mentioned how much I love campaign life!
Redshift at 10:39
that makes sense — it all seems so juvenile and like such a waste of energy. *sigh*
This will be my first campaign.
Does it come with a whirlwind romance as well?
TRex @ 171
I’ll put my people on it.
TRex @ 173
Josh didn’t kiss Donna for 8 years on West Wing. Keep that in mind.
CT all sounds so exciting. I am very jealous. It’s great to hear that M/VG is going, as well as TRex and others. As I said on my Paypal message to TRex, work hard until the polls close, then party hard. And tell us all about it.
goodnight siun –
joy and laughing on the campaign trail to you….
hope the best possible circumstances let you return to CT in the fall
M @ 172
M – out of the frying pan into the fire? getting back up on that horse? careful, pal!
When you check in at the Lamont campaign office, go to the Whirlwind Romance table. Be careful not to mistake it for the Caveat Emptor Romance table.
I hope some of you got to see Colbert’s lash on joe and his support for Ned tonight.
Trex, bud. You must kiss and tell. No pressure.
Dana at 10:18:
Hee, hee! That’s me, Redshift, international (or at least inter-campaign) man of mystery! I’m really glad I could help you get involved.
It would be very nice to meet you someday. I would have been down in Richmond for the inauguration in January if life hadn’t intervened. I really ought to go down for a lobbying day sometime when the legislature is in session; if I do, I’ll be sure to get in touch. And if you ever find yourself in the Northern Virginia or DC area, let me know.
astralplame, yea the trolls don’t like the Truth one bit or us putting up things that show the Truth like this link I was sent today:
http://www.netlebanon.com/LebAttacks2006/
Take meds before viewing, it’s a reminder of why all of us work so hard to put a stop to this regime in the current White Outhouse.
M–I wish you wouldn’t, even if it means help to TRex. You’re in recovery!
sandlin
Was that Colbert lash on joe new tonight or was it a replay from last night?
TRex- I am being immoderate so that you can have some eats. That is so far all I can promise.
(((me yelling at Joe)))) End the damn war.
neurophius @ 186
NEW
arright, you lovely folks….
I ran five miles in the heat this evening, so I am starting to wind down hard.
I hope everyone has a better day tomorrow than the day I had today.
And TRex, call me in the morning, let me know if you need anything before you leave town.
Redshift, will do! And do get in touch if you swing down to Richmond.
Valley Girl @ 187
Eternal thanks. My dinner is cooking as we speak.
patrick- hey, wait– who’s driving TRex to the airport???
I wish we could write the real West Wing. You know, the real dirt. All of it. Don’t you think ABC would pick us up?
karen allen @ 179
Karen, we’ve never met, but those directions sound like they could have been all too useful at times in my life…
Kirk Murphy: Ah, yes. We could write books about it, couldn’t we?
meta @ 194
Meta, I think the FBI would pick you up and we might not here from you anymore,
ipued from I don’t know where
uh, punaise
when someone says you reminded him to buy mayonaise the proper response is
Thanks for the CONDIMENT
I’ll be here all week, remember to tip your waiter
VG you’re not alone in being immoderat tonight. It’s pretty quiet right now.
freepatriot @ 199
right you are – guess I’m in a bit of a pickle now. I’m heading upthread to ketchup on the comments.
meta @ 193
Yeah, I do, I’ve wanted to do a COPS style reality show in the real West Wing and call it HACKS. That’s what is in the West Wing now anyway – Republican HACKS like Little Ben and Ken Mehlman, et al.
MB- thanks. Glad to know you are around this eve. I’m on ET just like TRex, so it’s good to have a presence from Pacific/ Western ??? can’t remember !!! time zone.
sandlin, yes, I do think that’s my destiny. Sigh.
punaise @ 200
Now I know how people felt when they couldn’t go to YKos. Grrr. By the way, Siun, I’m sorry to be so clueless, but what’s ESA? Sheratons I know.
TRex, I don’t like driving in a strange town either. I would bet there are local (non-airport) offices for rental cars, so you might wait until you get in and settled and see if you really need one. If you do, Enterprise (do they have that in Connecticut?) will come pick you up at your hotel. Just a thought. Oh, and I meant cat-sitting, of course. And check and see if your new cell phone has a camera. Most Nokias do.
I’m on the west coast, TDs is just starting. My, you’re up late.
MB- yeah, but this was a usual hour for immod activities of past times. At present, I am unwinding from finally haven sent in a grant proposal. Is it called Pacific time???
Mommybrain @ 206
Mommybrain, I’m on the west coast too. I don’t think I could be doing this at 2 in the morning. I can barely type now,
BarbaraB @ 205
Good idea on the car thing.
And yes, it has a camera, just not a particularly good one.
Hey, where’s Sharkbabe been?
Good nite all – am off to bed to catch the last of the Edward R. Murray story on PBS. Just looking at the picture of T-Rex kittens warmed and lifted my spirits more than words could ever convey.
TRex, how did we ever manage without your writing and ranting gifts? If or when you come up for air you have new mail from the left central coast.
Punaise – if you’re still around am awfully glad to learn the quake came and went without incident in your special little neighborhood.
CT BF just recommended Enterprise- so, it’s there.
hey sandlin I’m a west coaster too
and I could barely type to begin with …
and I’m having fun with these new buttons right now so …
what does that make me ???don’t try this at home folks, or your kids could turn out like me …
woo hoo
Anne Holliday @ 212
Hey Anne! seems it caused a bit of a ruckus elsewhere in the Bay Area.
on the one hand the seismologists say that small quakes are good: letting off steam, so to speak. OTOH, there is a sentiment that it’s a build-up to the whopper.
there was an earthquake in the bay area ???
nobody told me
what was the score ???
kirk murphy @ 195
When you get to be my age, you head straight for the Interested Spectator table. And you hope there’s a comfortable chair.
kirk murphy @
131
the trolls’ middle earth schools.
Yes, Pacific Daylight Time. Congrats on your baby Grant. I hope he grows up big and strong and catches the eye of some generous administrator.:-)
siun @ 171
siun, you’re beaming…
MB- thanks. With your permission I will now crash. So bad for a native not to be able to remember that it is PDT!!!!
I’m back, but sleepy, now. May turn in soon.
G’night, VG. Good to see you looking like yourself again.
freepatriot @ 213
freepatriot @ 214
4.4 in Glen Ellen (Sonoma County – where Jack London lived)
http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recen…..187964.htm
my first earthquake, and we couldn’t even feel it down south . . .
I will be volunteering for Lamont in Bridgeport on Saturday and Sunday. I can’t wait to get out there.
If any other FDL’ers are going to be in the Bridgeport area, please let me know!
I sure felt the one in 89 in Santa Cruz County.
and since it’s late, and this is a pretty old thread, I’ll post my plan for thwarthing holy joe loserman’s college repuglican brigade
all we need is 4000 hookers, cuz you know most of these kids ain’t getting laid, or they wouldn’t be so interested in politics
we’re gonna need some kegs of beer, and all those phone numbers you guys kept from your trip to Vegas
I know that “What Happens In Vegas” is supposed to stay in vegas, but we need some folks to step up here …
what ???
It Could Work
you think any 20-something male who is that worked up about Gay Rights is getting laid
which reminds me, anybody got gannon/guckert’s number ???
Okay, that last part was probably out of line …
come back here, damn it …
freepatriot @ 227
you could probably make do with 2000 of ‘em, you know what I’m saying?
you think any 20-something male who is that worked up about Gay Rights is getting laid
which reminds me, anybody got gannon/guckert’s number ???
Okay, that last part was probably out of line …
come back here, damn it …
Snerk!
Twos leap! Perch ants ‘tude ream!
oh punaise you are the kool kat! I just about lost it when hearing the source was Santa Rosa not SF – not even sure if it is truly accurate but recall reading the massive SF ‘06 quake originated from Santa Rosa.
But my week has been bonkers on every front and just happy my friends haven’t wrapped me in wet sheets and taking away my Mac and with it the tubes that bring me the internet.
Nite nite, this time for certain, dear firepups!
freepatriot -
you’re probably going to want a bunch of those disposable digital cameras, too.
wxyz, Siun seems to be keeping track of these things. Make sure she knows you’re coming and she can probably tell you who else will be in Bridgeport. I will now toddle off to bed, muttering about how some people have all the fun. ‘night, y’all.
Anne Holliday @ 231
Anne Holliday @ 230
IIRC it was centered near Point Reyes (Olema?) in western Marin County.
(PS enjoying a certain book about a certain newspaper man)
astralplame @ 225
if you didn’t feel it, you’re still a virgin
the guy who said that smaller quakes are best was right. the really big quakes occur when the smaller quakes don’t happen, and the tension is released all at once
a series of small quakes in a random sequence along the fault line over a period of years can release more tension from the fault than one major quake would release, and the bonus is that we all don’t die
as long as we have small quakes along the San Andreas fault line at regular intervals we’re okay
none of this information applies to LA or any other fault line (I could explain the ‘94 quake, but it’s a whole different ballgame down there)
in case anybody is interested, I’m close enough to the bay area that the ‘89 quake was a major quake here too, but I didn’t feel the one today
An even bigger slab of irony from Dan ‘LieberDem’ Gerstein:
Well, you’d know the difference between an unpaid supporter and a paid staffer, wouldn’t you, Dan?
punaise @ 235
I bet it’s Anne’s Daddy
Then I am in for some fun – I am in LA, still coyly awaiting my tectonic de-flowering . . .
I missed the 89 quake – didn’t feel it in Paris. Plenty of family and friends affected by it, none grievously.
astralplame @ 238
Carole King:
astralplame @ 232
nope, I’m expecting full conversions, on the spot they’ll get laid and become Democrats right before your eyes. (I figure most of them will end up leading the Gay Rights Movement, but that’s just my opinion)
and considering the people and the method, well, what’s the formula ???
4000 virgins, 10 minutes a virgin, so each hooker could “convert” about 6 CRs an hour
do we have any comptrollers in the house ???
I think we could do it with a lot less hookers (and a lot more beer)
sandlin 27 – yep
The fact that the Liebercamp is glomming on to this whole graphic story is a sure sign of how desperate they are at this point.
Okay, now I’m really going to bed.
Thanks again, firedogs. You rule.
freepatriot, yes. I can attest to 7.1 being a major quake. Do you happen to know on what fault today’s quake happened?
The most haunting thing about earthquakes is that…sound, like a freight train or a ginormous boulder rumbling down a rocky slope or a giant middle earth fart and you say What is that noise? What the hell is it? And then the rock and roll begins.
Our lab, usually an independent cuss, is slinking around liked a cat. He’s on my feet now, not sleeping, just looking staring at the floor. Yikes! Is he foretelling?
TRex @ 229
buenos nachos, Sir Trexitude
mommybrain – it has occurred to me to keep aware of what the puppy is paying attention to, as an early warning device. has your dog warned you before?
meta @ 244
Rodgers Creek fault zone (hover your mouse over the line on the map):
http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recen…..123-38.htm
the ‘89 quake was fun because about 30 seconds after the house started jumping around, Al Michaels told us we were having an earthquake
the satalite feed was already out, so the only people that Al informed were the people who were already rocking along with him
that was about the best “NO SHIT SHERLOCK” momment I’ve ever had
then the bastards cancelled the baseball game …
punaise, does a certain book have a name or anything? I love books about newspapermen.
maybe some dogs are the prescient Canarios in the coal mine, so to speak
My cats and parrots were not acting normaly at least 36 hrs before the “89 quake.
Mommybrain @ 250
not sure if it’s widely available: drop a line to Anne Holliday, she knows
punaise @ 249
or, akita understanding what might be happening in the earth -
good friends, unfazed veterans of many decent sized Bay Area quakes, said they were really thrown for a loop by the Loma Prieta quake. Other quakes had been a “fun ride”, not so this one.
I see the lights, I see the party lights,
They’re red and blue, and green
Thanks, punaise. The weird thing is that you didn’t feel it, when logically you were right in it’s downward direct line path. It was fairly strong through central SF. But there’s also all that ripple affect stuff. Ah, such mysteries.
good map P
and hey, that counts, it’s parallel to the main fault line, and within 25 miles of the edge (The San Andreas Fault is the cutting edge of the North American plate)
every little bit helps
btw, just tried spell check, it sucks
SteveAudio @
257
SteveAudio, crank up the music a notch!
I think most animals know. We just don’t know how to listen.
Remember how many animals moved in from the coast before the big tsunami rolled in?
BarbaraB – 233
Thanks for the advice. Do you know how I can get in touch with Siun?
I’m looking to helping Lamont and hopefully meeting fellow FDL’ers in the process.
Well, Mama dear, tell me, do you hear?
We’re partying tonight
I tell you, I can’t sleep
Because across the street
Wo oh I see the party lights
I’ve always thought the strangest thing about earthquakes is the disorientation. Everything’s moving. Walls and streets go rubbery. You lose all frame of reference. Plus, you’ve no idea when it’s going to stop.
meta @
258
strange indeed. according to this map, the reports don’t vary much between SF and the East Bay. I must have been in the car.
I have to get to bed before my Poodles do or they won’t leave a respectable area for me. bye
Possibly the Best.Song.Ever.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mb8od-MghOc
freepatriot @ 242
1) The hookers will need the beer, in addition to their fees. Some things, even they won’t do for money alone.
2) Smart to make it 10 minutes. You have to give the CRs time to hide their wallets from “the help,” and some more time to negotiate just how hard they want their bottoms spanked (and possibly other things they’d like done in that, er, vein),. Then you have to allow for some time after the act for them to cry for mama. They always cry for mama after coitus.
If you didn’t have those problems, well, 3 minutes would be generous.
Can you tell I’ve actually had sex with a Republican?
sandlin @ 253
I have a friend who says the same thing about her dogs on that day
all I can say is that my dogs were staring at the swimming pool afterwards
water was washing out of either end, as the resulting wave lapped over the ends in turn, and it was a single wave across the whole pool. the dogs had never seen the pool do that before (me either)
it really freaked the dogs out
then I saw the Cypruss section of the 880 freeway, and I knew the baseball game was gonna be postponed
SteveAudio @ 267
great song indeed. I loved Elvis Costello’s version too.
Yeah, the car experience is a totally different experience. I had a close friend show up at my doorstep moments after Loma Prieta wondering why our house was such a mess.
JWR, the other weird thing is the sound. That odd rumbling sound that almost approaches a roar. eeeerrryyyy.
SteveAudio, I really remember that song.
it’s all about anchor bolting the sill plate to the foundation (assuming the foundation is adequate) and plywood shear panels on the cripple walls. That should keep most wood frame houses attached to their moorings.
I was near downtown Santa Cruz. Pretty scarey for s girl fom a small town in the mountains of Pennsylvania
punaise 270:
Back in the old days, like, oh, early ‘05, there was music meme thing passing around the bloggersphere, I think Jane sent it to me, and a few others, I sent to tbogg and a few others, I don;t know if anyone remembers it.
It included: 5 fav lyrics; 5 fav live performences, that kind of stuff.
I was thinking about top ten best songs of all time. That might generate an opinion or 2…
well, plan 9 from outer space is wrapping up (love that google video) – so that means I am wrapping up also. good night all – sweet dreams.
I remember watching waves ripple across the courtyard at our middle school in the early 70s.
LJ/Aquaria
thanks for taking one for the team
btw, if the repuglican is still a repuglican, you might not be doing something right
In te spirit of total blogwhoring, here’s the Music Meme, at least, my entry.
And I tagged Jane and tbogg.
http://steveaudio.blogspot.com…..-song.html
punaise @ 270
This is on the Top 100 Songs of All Time isnt it? It should be. But I have to say I am partial to the Costello version truthfully. It had a touch more sparkle.
SteveAudio @ 274
I recall seeing the pass-it-around thingy (”tag! you’re it”).
my personal ten best wouldn’t match up with the general consensus (some quirks* – and gaps – in my musicology), but it would be fun to ponder. Some other Late Nite, perhaps? Then again, there’s Donita’s Friday segment, The Spin I’m In, for current favorite tunes.
* major detour into progressive rock in the 70s. anybody remember Camel? Gentle Giant? PFM?
*and jazz
FFT 279:
I agree, I just happened to have that one up at youtubes.
yeah, shit was definitely postponed.
But you won’t let me make the scene.
punaise @ 272
and then staple your furniture to the floor
I spent the “active” part of the ‘94 quake holding a china closet up (cuz I didn’t want it to fall on me)
the really strange thing was watching the China Closet pop up in the air in the first place. then I started thinking the china closet might fall on me, so I stood up (not easy to do) and grabbed the china closet, then somebody fed Al Michaels his cue …
weirdest 30 seconds I can remember, after that it was smooth sailing for about 2 minutes
just in case any of you east coasters are still up, and thinking of visiting …
Jeezus, PFM! Wow, I had forgotten them, I had some of their vinyl.
Just so you know, I have every Yes album, vinyl and CD.
wxyz, Siun is working out of the Meriden headquarters. You can get the number from the Lamont website: http://www.nedlamont.com/page/content/finalpush/
Siun, whose first name is Christine when you call, has from time to time posted her email address here, but I’ve never written it down. Maybe the search function works for that? I am such a technoklutz; sorry about that. I can pretty much guarantee that you’ll like the FDLers when you meet them in person. It really does feel like family. And now, really, bedtime.
Mommybrain 283:
that’s the one.
meta – I’ve always wanted to record the sound of a quake because that’s the one thing I can never quite remember afterwards, perhaps because I have no reliable reference for that either.
jwr 288:
It would sound different everywhere, depending on the degree and type of urbanization, and distance from fault line.
YES! Here’s something with new meaning these days, my favorite Yes tune, Leave It.
SteveAudio @
285
PFM: listen to “Alta Loma Mr. Nine til Five” on the live album “Cook”. Amazing jam, almost Allman Brothersesque.
Checked out your list(s): nice!
Glad to see Lucinda Williams represented. And I found that Yes (and Gabriel era Genesis) age pretty well!
OOH: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jID08KAHBLE YES!
Yes version of Paul Simon’s “America”
punaise 291:
Thanks, indeed!
Remember a really dopey band called Star…something, later ’70s, american guys, tried to be Yes, and failed pretty spectacularly?
Yes version of Paul Simon’s “America”
Still turns my crank to this day.
Starcastle!
SteveAudio, that’s a great suggestion for a Pull Up a Chair Saturday.
Two of my all-time fave live performances were SeaTrain, in ‘70 or ‘71 and Tom Waits at the Cellar Door, opening for the Country Gentlemen.
Andy Kuhlberg (sp) of SeaTrain does this Flute Thing (that’s what it’s called, Flute Thing) that he used to do with the Blues Project. It’s awsome, especially when they do the pin spot light show that looks like the notes are escaping from the flute.
Tom Waits, what can I say. He was mesmerizingly good. Three or four encores later the Gentlemen, good sports that they were, finally came on. The crowd was yelling for more. Awesome.
This reminds me of the recording a close friend of mine did of the water and the chants in Varanasi. Totally different stuff depending on the day. But capturing some really indescribable unworldly essence.
SteveAudio @
294
vaguely rings a bell…
hi folks -
thanks to pointing the way to the usgs quake site.
they have a map showing differences in shaking intensity (measured by instruments) around the Bay Area in the recent quake.
the map seems to show relatively low signal intensity in the Oakland/Berkeley area, and a plume of relatively high signal intensity running through eastern Marin county and down into SF.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqc…..nsity.html
freepatriot @ 277
I can kinda leave politics at the bedroom door, and, funny, a lot of men can too. I wasn’t on a mission to convert anyone, either.
MB 297:
Good ones!
I’ve seen all good people turn their heads each day so satisfied I’m on my way
Hi just checking in before going to sleep… So glad that TRex gets a road trip….
See ya all on the flip
Here;s someone I just turned onto last year:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fm39F6INV_4
Thank goodness nobody tagged me with that list meme.
I hate those things.
I don’t “think” that way about the arts, so it’s always a nightmare for me to complete any of those things. That, or I’m at an age when I’ve heard/seen/read so many great things I like that choosing only five or ten is just impossible.
someday, when Tomales Bay pierces through to Bolinas Lagoon, Point Reyes will become an island. The San Andreas fault.
‘night Katymine.
Try dating in a state where the wacky liberal of the state is supposed to be Evan Bayh.
Fini–
I’m in Texas. Most of my dating years took place in East TX, the hellhole of the world.
Imagine Alabama. With fewer brain cells. And about the same amount of teeth.
SteveAudio at 12:08 am – Yeah, that’s why I had a condenser mic set up in my bedroom for awhile. I wanted to know what I heard, but forgot in the aftermath.
LJ/Aquaria @
306
ah, come on: it’d be the list you can do.
JWR 311:
When the earth, the fundamental constant of our lives, starts doing the Cool Jerk, it’s pretty ahrd to stay rational and scientific.
It really pust us into fright/flight mode. All else fades away for a bit.
LJ/Aquaria @ 310
I say two things about Indiana where I was born and raised. 1) Indiana is a Southern state except by accident of geography and 2) Indianapolis is the biggest small town in America. I am trying to escape from here and plan to do so once some family business is concluded here.
Went to see Manu Chao at the Shrine Auditorium last night. What a sucky hall! The crowd was really international – he’s french but sings in several languages. We went with French friends who love him; I knew nothing about him.
Most songs have a reggae beat and are about war and peace, immigration, poverty and like that. Or so I’m told. I don’t quite have the ear for deciphering lyrics in a mushy room at full blast.
Mommybrain 315:
We have a lot of cool, yet crappy sounding venues doen here in L.A., too. Worst comes to mind is The Palladium. Great for ’40s supperclub and swing bands, when it was built, but dismal for R’n’R.
SteveAudio @ 313
TRex is in smite mode lately
Had a great DFA meeting tonight… Took the book that will be featured Sunday go generate ideas for action. Then gave everyone the 800# for congress to call about Net Neutrality & Faux Minimum Wage bill. We need a NO Cloture vote on both.
Then we are going to go after our Secretary of State that seems to want to violate a new law to create the pannel that will do the manditory validation of the voting machines by Auguest 13th. Going to send a blast email to my county wide group to call, email or write the SOS to follow the law and do her job.
Hanging out here and learning how it is done…
I missed Manu Chao in Berkeley. :~(
punaise 317:
TRex is in smite mode lately
is that because he’s …, heck, words fail me!
When the earth, the fundamental constant of our lives, starts doing the Cool Jerk, it’s pretty ahrd to stay rational and scientific.
You can say that again. Too busy running for my life to stop and think, Oh, I must record this. :p
and katymine is still doing real work.
Bless you.
Maybe he’s smitten.
Mommybrain @ 315
This is a prime example of how much it sucks to live here. No way in hell would I ever have an opportunity to go see someone perform who speaks in a language other than English or Spanish in this city. I would simply enjoy hearing someone from a continent not of my own perform in French with a reggae beat and indecipherable lyrics.
SteveAudio @ 320
nah, it’s he who is doing the (verbal) smiting with his Late Nite rants. although he appears to be smitten with kittens.
Fini FiniTOOBZ! @ 309
It’s great in CA. We got Jerry “Moonbeam” Brown.
What can I say, pussycats are great people. Well, I know one who is possibly criminally insane, but that’s pretty rare.
It’s great in CA. We got Jerry “Moonbeam” Brown.
Anyone remember why the “liberal media” started calling him that? I know…
SteveAudio @ 328
something New Agey or something to do with Linda Rondstadt?
SteveAudio @ 328
Don’t off hand, but wiki looms…
Oh yeah – the satellites?
When I was 8 my mother came to pick me up at a friend’s house. She was making chitchat with the other mom when she noticed a Siamese come into the room and fix her with its mad eyes. Never taking its eyes off her, it stalked her across the room and attacked her face and hair.
Poor mom. She was never quite the same around cats after that. They put the cat down a few days later. It was quite mad, you know.
punaise, newtonusr:
Because he had talked with folks, and was keen on the idea of sattellites in geosynchronos orbits, which could be used for communication, etc.
Pretty wild idea, eh? Not in our lifetime.
Oh wait…
our new kitten Louis has a split personality. cute ‘n playful most of the time, occasionally possessed.
SteveAudio @ 332
so he was Al Gore before Al Gore was Al Gore?
punaise 334:
very possibly!
…you all (who’sever left here) will probably think I’m a nitwit but since I last drove by this “leave a reply” section, everything has changed…so…what does it all mean? “Quote this Comment”? Being the least adventurous tech person on the entire internet, I wouldn’t dare try all the lettered buttons…just noticed the spell check! Wow
SteveAudio
Not your average luddite. Ted Stevens could learn a thing or 7 from old Gov. Moonbeam…
Just saw “Truth” last night. Gore-Feingold ‘08.
spiderpaws – new toys to play with. check back to this thread:
http://www.firedoglake.com/200…..en-thread/
hehehe I’ve wanted to change my name to this all week since *ilson46201 joked about it on Monday.
They called Jerry Brown Moonbeam for the same reason they call us moonbats – he was a thinker and way ahead of his time. IIRC, the Moonbeam moniker was for his notion of using what he called “appropriate technology” and starting the Office of Appropriate Technology. he was something of a futurist and certainly an idealist back then. He was a Bucky Fuller fan and had Steward Brand of the Whole Earth Catalog as an advisor. woowoo stuff way back then, mainstream now.
newtonusr 337:
Several of us L.A. bloggers had a lunch with Riss Feingold back in, I think, April. Came across as really committed, seemed like a good guy in person.
BarbaraB @ 288
Suin’s was one of the email addys I copied down.
christina underscore siun at mac dot com
Just got in, haven’t looked upthread… Anybody feel the quake about 6:45 pm PST?
“Russ”. Jeez, I can’t type.
Jerry Brown, former governor, former (rather ineffectual) mayor of Oakland, is set to be elected the next Attorney General of CA.
punaise 345:
You don’t really like the guy, I take it?
newtonusr @ 343
see #163 and after on this thread and lots of comments on the preceding thread
spiderpaws, of all the new toys, spellcheck is the only one that, well, we could probably spell better without.
Do play with them Want a piece in italics? Simply highlight the phrase and click on I. If I can do it, so can you.
The ‘quote this’ feature is the coolest. Instead of cutting and pasting, you hit that button and it copies the entire comment into your window.
G’night, all.
punaise
If anyone could be effectual as Oakland Mayor, I would have thought it would be Brown. Not afraid to think waaaaaaay outside the box. He seems tired, though.
SteveAudio @ 346
not true, I like his gadfly schtick. It’s just that he was something of a disappointment in nearby Oakland (a city with lots of problems, to be sure). Let’s see what newly elected former Congressman Ron Dellums can do.
Jerry Brown’s bushy eyebrows say Hate me or Love me, I don’t care. Few are neutral when it comes to Jerry Brown.
REally g’night.
‘night mommybrain. I feel a *plouf* coming on myself.
I didn’t really pay attention to what he did in Oakland, although Mrs.Audio’s son lived in OK for 3 years, until last summer, and he and his bohemian friends thought that Jerry was the shizzle.
SteveAudio @ 354
I shouldn’t be too critical because I didn’t follow all the ins and outs, but I think it was a matter of talking the talk but not walking the walk. Many African-Americans felt shunned by his “machine”.
Damn. Tomorrow’s NYT got the goods on this afternoon’s unfortunate photo with Jane’s Huffpo piece.
Not good press for Jane or Ned, I’m afraid. It may exemplify Leiberman’s desperation, but it blows back on Jane and Ned first.
Very sorry to be the bearer of bad news. Kinda feel like I wanna cry myself to sleep.
Karen Allen!!! We’ve missed you around these parts.
shoephone @ 356
3 short paragraphs in the middle of a positive piece for Lamont does not a kerfuffle make.
what Fini Finiquote said
punaise @ 359
heh indeedy! 1000 atta boys por l’punaise!
Quote Fini -
I don’t think it’s a kerfuffle. The article mentions Jane by name, the blog where it appeared (so NYT readers can go and see the vile comments section) and most importantly, it quotes Joe as demanding that Ned separate her from his campaign.
Unfortunately, Jane has now become part of the ugly back story. I wish I felt as blase about it as you do.
shoephone @ 361
actually I’m somewhere in the middle ground on this. I missed the whole kerfuffle as it unfolded. Anything that potentially gives Lieberman some traction – a distraction – is regrettable. anyway, what’s done is done.
Fini FiniQuote @ 360
downgrade me to 500?
*plouf*
The Washington Post has it too. Unfortunately, it’s much more damaging than the Times:
The article goes to great lengths to tie Jane to Ned. Filled with Lieberman camp quotes. They say Jane “did not return a call to her cell phone” but they don’t bother to report her comments and her apology on FDL. I’d call it deliberate malfeasance by Dan Balz. He knows damn well that Jane is Jane, and Ned is Ned.
shoephone @ 361
It was not her finest moment, and I am not blase about it, but she took it down, apologized, owned up to it and expressed regret. No kerfuffle can germinate, she did what someone in her position should do under circumstances such as that.
As a rational human initially offended by the picture but also understanding the emotionally charged atmosphere in which she is operating right now I’m willing to accept her apology to anyone who was offended (thank you Jane) and consider this incident done and over.
“Joey Lies” has yet to own up to the flyers distributed in African American neighborhoods about Lamont’s country club membership, so until he does that they are hypocritical for cranking up the Mighty Wurlitzer on Jane.
They think Lamont’s weakness is Jane and the blogs. Let them have their spin cycle with this, no one is gonna notice in CT where it matters. Those people hate Joey Lies and want to dump him. Keep your eye on the ball everyone, its the last few days, they’re desperate and are trying everything.
My letter to Dan Balz:
Finiquote – I know Jane apologized and had the photo taken down. I give her props for that, absolutely. I’m not implying she didn’t handle it correctly. I’m only noting that the fact that the photo got posted on HuffPo in the first place, and stayed up for quite awhile, was an error. Because it put Jane in the position of having to backtrack and disavow it. And I hate to see her becoming part of the story. I’m sure that’s not what she wanted.
There are only five campaign days left in a race that is way too close to call.
And yes, Leiberman has been a total pig about the flyers. I believe I may have helped get that story posted on nbc.30 yesterday. But the NYT has a much bigger reader base. And I didn’t know that WAPO had the story and was worse about it than NYT.
I’m not assigning “blame” here. I’m just really uncomfortable with this happening, this close to Primary Day. We’ll all just have to hold our breath and see how it plays out over the next couple of days. If it disapperas by Friday, that’s good. If it’s covered on the Sunday chat shows – not good.
w0551 @ 368
Very well written letter. The amazing bit of hypocrisy here is that Jane is an independent opinion columnist/journalistic entity unto herself and since she is unabashedly pro Ned she gets shat upon and accused of being attached or embedded with the campaign, but when Joey Lie’s CAMPAIGN SPOKESMAN Dan “Danny G” Gerstein is caught red handed engaged in astroturfing on the LieberDem blog there is no corresponding ‘tude from WaPo.
w0551 – that’s an excellent letter to Balz.
I am not comfortable with it either but I was expecting some sort of sneak attack on FDL or something like this. It just doesn’t help to shoot ourselves in the foot like this.
Time will tell how much this plays a role. I think it will blow over quick personally. It’s Thursday early AM, six hours from now this will be old news.
Just now saw the “graphic”.
Does anybody think RGJoe wasn’t cozying up to Bubba to get Black votes?
FDL is wide now, and any chance they get (or manufacture) to slime, they will take.
This is the admin with a press sec who suggests that racism is so 1990’s. An Admin who targets black voters for suppression. The admin that slimed anyone who scoffed @ Chimpys visit to the King funeral.
The admin who pimps for Dino’s like RGJoe after he launches charges of racism @ Lamont (the expected tactic, since RGJoe can’t very well say that Lamont isn’t “Jewish enough”… yet).
Fuck with Jane Hamsher, in bounds or out? Fuck them.
Just a really bad job of reporting at the Post. The story for the day clearly should have been Jesse Jackson & Al Sharpton, with a few paragraphs to the Huffington incident. More or less how the Times handled it.
That the Washington Post thinks it’s worth a headline and 2/3 of an article is unfathomable.
That’s what I’m hoping.
newtonusr @ 373
1000 atta boys for “getting it” on why Bubba blew into town in the first place. The whole campaign on the Joey Lies side for weeks has been about minority voters. He thinks the old racial politics tactics still work. All those DC Dems think its about race.
Rummy gonna have to testify tomorrow – hat ought to be the story of the day in the U.S.
shoephone @ 356
Thanks shoephone, just now read it. I was kind of relieved myself — it could have been much worse in different hands …
newton — yes, I should clarify that I meant the Lamont-Lieberman story of the day.
medaka – read the WaPo link above. It is.
Shoephone- I’ve been here on and off since yesterday morning.
Can’t sleep. Kitties won’t help.
Too worried about my country.
newtonusr @ 377
Hence, my earlier crack of about 6 hours from now the story being old…that puts us at about 10am, about time for the Rumsfeld Comedy Hour.
w0551 @ 380
That sucks — so typical from the war-pimping bastards ….
Maybe Stephen Colbert can use the whole kerfluffle as the basis for an interview with Joe Not-in-the-Chair ….
C’mon Stephen, we know you read FDL … *g*
medaka @ 383
At minimum one of his writers reads this blog…and whoever you are, if there is ever a writer’s job open there I have laptop and will travel.
ok, time for the staring at my bedroom ceiling portion of the morning. Gnight, gday, gafternoon.
Fini
Thing is, an alert electorate would see the “graphic” for what it is – an indictment of RGJoe’s phony, trumped-up street cred. One with punch, to be sure.
Remember Bush: “…catapult the propaganda” line? Talked with Glenn Greenwald @ yKos – we had a few minutes and it evolved into a chat about battle space. We fight our battles within a confined, traditional, 3-dimensional arena.
Lee Atwater’s idea was to not fight in traditional territory, but to define their own grid for combat. They could fill their imaginary battle space with imaginary issues, characters, and schedules.
Remember when Clinton was elected, but not yet inaugurated? The GOP pounded the media with gays in the military from the moment the election was called. They had drawn their own battle space, and dragged their opponent out of the traditional field and on to unfamiliar ground where the “rules” were fluid. Granted, we let ourselves be dragged there in the first place (RGJoe???).
It’s now commonplace for the media to allow itself to be dragged by sheer volume to that imaginary issue-space, and bludgeoned ’til they “print”.
CA DFLer -
I rarely sleep anymore.
w0551
with you on that. Didn’t mean…
Never seen Colbert go 2 nights straight on someone!
This is coming from people who think torture, ethnic imprisonment, and Genocide are rational Foreign policies.
They are Bushpigs. Smile and tell them to fuck off.
newtonusr @ 388
Colbert did his 2nd night, i.e. w/Joe in the empty seat “last night”, which is now turning to daytime on the e coast, yes? So he could do it again for 3-in-a-row, yes?
Just trying to keep track — the sun is just setting here, time to go our and round up some viddles ….
did Balz act responsibly? Evict or Hugh go.
Vic tore you goat
get in the Flow, bear,
you’g Rousseau much
watch the Guide Mope assent
Seem own Tub of war
Zola strain to clarksville will be both Yourcenar’s
the re-Voltaire don TV (the revolution will be televised)
Dumas end?
that’s what you get Verlaine around
thanks Verne oathing
that Proust me you’re wrong:
go pound Sand, Georges.
watch the Guide Mope assent
Gin he right the puerile neck lass?
Time to go pun aise head on the pillow.
Goodnight, soldiers and poets.
The NYT’s piece is much less lazy than Balz in the WaPo.
Particularly egregious is the quote from Dan Gerstein, Mr Conflict-of-Interest hisself, on the relationship between bloggers and campaigns. The deceitful little scrote is obviously full of himself on this one.
The other Lieberman story in the news is his belated “criticism” of the war. Check this headline from the NY Daily News: “Lieberman rips W’s war plan” followed by a lukewarm story wherein Joe drones on about how he’s always been critical of its execution.
Too little, too late on that account. I’ll guess that Lieberman’s got too many fronts to fight to take on the graphic kerfuffle. He’ll leave it to the online wingnut community to do what little they can to make it an issue.
And there’s not much beyond the NYT and WaPo articles dealing with it as of yet. (The Boston Globe picked up the Balz piece.) Joe’s window of opportunity, what little of it there was, is rapidly closing.
My two cents. Thankyou and goodnight.
BTW punaise – that was brilliant. (And I was wondering where you’d been for the previous 20 minutes…)
Hey folks, well here’s the reality in CT as I see it: in the immediate aftermath of the publication of Blackface Lieberman on HuffPo, I attended two Lamont campaign stops (at Methodist churches in Bridgeport and New Haven, attended by Rev. Brothers Jackson and Sharpton) and tried to assess the damage.
Bottom line: some damage has been done; not fatal damage, but noteworthy damage. As I see it (and have been experiencing it on the phone as a Lamont volunteer), Ned’s support among African American voters is split about half-half between strong enthusiastic supporters, and mildly hesitant supporters whose distrust of out-of-the-blue old Greenwich money has been conditionally waived. This waiver has been granted largely on the strength of the prestigious endorsements Lamont has picked up, as well as on Lamont’s own genuine appeal as a classy human being. That waiver is fragile enough to evaporate in the heat of controversies like the one we’re in.
A very rough estimate: I believe the Blackface Lieberman episode will likely peal away some 10 to 15 percent of the conditional Lamont-supporting African American voters, and another 5 to 8 percent in other communities of color.
Yes, I did assemble a circle of friends and associates (a small circle, not wanting to do further damage!), and showed them the HuffPo post in question. Without exception, everybody was appalled and disappointed. Without exception, nobody could see why any blogger would take such cultural risks with such loaded imagery, with so little upside.
Well I guess our only option is to just push through this crisis, keep our heads and hearts together, and focus on doing the right thing each day. Let’s keep our eyes on the prize.
Peace.
The cartoon was an unbelievably dumb thing to do. Granted, it’s absolutley absurd that the press smeared the official campaign with the action of an independent supporter. But after Dean went down in Iowa, people need to be aware of the media’s mission to generate polemic. And with the endorsements from Sharpton and Jackson, of course they were going to latch onto this in order to manufacture “balanced” coverage of the two campaigns.
Good News, Lamont 54%, Lieberman 41% in new Q-piac poll!
http://politicalwire.com/archi…..erman.html
Kai,Thanks for that analysis. Sobering and sad.
I very much appreciate the “condidtional waiver” concept of minority community politics. It is the perfect phrase. Two questions: Just this lead to suppressed votes, Or does it lead to switched votes? and
Is there any way to make that turn around in the next few days?
What you describe is actually worse than what I had hoped to hear :~(
Visitor –
AHhh, some mood balancing news.
By the way, Visitor, I thought you were right on and great yesterday. Thanks for joining in.
And, the poll will be the news of the day. I will wait to see how many organizations add: but that was before the graphic….
I want to encourage everyone to read the Vanity Fair article on the 9/11 NORAD tapes. Simply compelling.
Professor Foland, good morning. Read the article –
“Compelling” was not the first word I thought of, “upsetting” was.
Talk about shiny happiness, new thread and GOOD MORNING
Moring, OS
Lotus? You in the land of the living yet?
ooh, folks are starting to wake up! see ya’ll in the new thread ….
HEY, HEY, HEY! No 5 star hotels, pal. – You promised a Nedtribution with any overage.
Not just your writing, TRex. It’s your willingness to get up off your ass and do something physical.
I appreciate that.