(Hey, firedogs. Christy needed a bit of time away from the computer, so I am here to bring you a special afternoon post. Enjoy!)
Okay, so. How exactly does one dress to be a campaign volunteer? Should I pack a lot of dress shirts and ties? Or clothes for walking long distances in hot weather? Does it cool off at night? Will I need a jacket? Am I going to need a separate suitcase for shoes? Well, actually, I might.
I tried standing in front of the open closet with a divining rod. That hasn’t worked out particularly well. My divining rod appears to think that it’s 1998 and I’m going to be going to a five-day rave. I seriously doubt I am going to need that shiny shirt. In fact, why do I even have that?
Oh, my clothes! When did there get to be so many of you? And how come so many of you don’t get along with each other?
Next I tried explaining things to them. I laid a tuxedo, a bathing suit, and a pair of plaid punk-rock bondage pants out on the bed.
"I can’t take you all," I said, "But that doesn’t mean I love you any less."
Silence. Great. Now they’re all offended.
Maybe I should just do what I usually do and wait until the very last possible minute and then just dump everything willy-nilly out of the chest of drawers and into multiple bags, hastily zip them shut and run like hell and just hope for the best. Of course, I could regret that when I have 11 pairs of boxers and no pants.
And what should I iron first, if anything? It’s all too bewildering! 60 million year old carnivores shouldn’t have to make these kinds of decisions.
Does this shirt make my forelimbs look even tinier? Does my tail look fat in these jeans?
Hooboy. This might take a while.
Any tips you former campaign folks can share with me? I’m kind of at a loss, here.
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T-Rex
Colbert!
Dress like you live in CT….
I’d dress like the average 30-something working for an upstanding company on the west coast. IE, shirt with collar (polo or the like) and a nice pair of semi-casual pants (jeans OK if they look new). The idea is to not look too dressed up or too dressed down, I think.
Is that an old analog flight computer?
That, actually, is a World War One spy radio.
When I travel, I roll my clothes so that I never have to iron. Lay it flat, start at one end and roll. Don’t forget:
Boxers
jeans
T-shirts (supplied by campaign??)
comfy shoes
socks
belt
pajamas for late-nite blogging
meds
flask
water bottle carrier
headband
blankie
laptap
plugs
batteries
books
another flask
TRex
double underwear by number of days.
2 pairs comfortable shoes for walking (in case it rains)
button down shirts (5) and jeans (2)for stumping
leave the dayglo bondage pants for partying at night
bathing suit
light jacket
LBJ464 t-shirt, along with Creedance Clearwater Revival/Janis Joplin t-shirts
TRex @ 6
Ah, of course, silly me, not enough banana jacks in the jackfield.
T
Dress for comfort.
You are so cute and funny. If you were a 50′ish straight man I’d hunt you down and marry you. HA! Hope you have a great trip.
Two words: Comfortable Shoes
Clueless on what you should bring, but I can tell you that (thankfully) it’ll be cooler by tomorrow, with Saturday predicted to be lovely. “Lovely” in CT in August means warm days (80s) and relatively dry nights (60s).
Make sure you know where your towel is…
50 Ways To Dump The Dubya
And his Liberdog too!
“I can’t take you all,” I said, “But that doesn’t mean I love you any less.”
Silence. Great. Now they’re all offended.
Me: Bwahahahahah!
Her: What are you laughing at?
Me: Huh? Its a … a clothing joke.
Her: Are you looking at porn again?
Pick three colors. Neutrals like white, beige and blue, or beige, blue and black. and then pack everything you have in those colors. Everything will go with everything else. Pick two things in other colors, just to give yourself a bit of a change. That’s how I pack. It always works.
Don’t forget that the weather in CT is a bazillion degrees with a batrillion percent humidity. (ie NO lite wool blue blazers!)
Have fun!
Clothes for walking long distances in hot weather, definitely. It’ll cool down at night, but not enough that you’ll need a jacket for warmth.
I’d bring the clothes bdu@4 suggests, and if you’re more comfortable in t-shirts, bring those, too; there will probably be plenty of lit-drop and stuff where it doesn’t much matter what you wear.
If you think they might make use of your media skills, you could bring something nicer to wear, but honestly, chances are if you’re coming in at this point, you won’t be on camera except in crowds.
Or to put it briefly, dress comfortably, and the fact that you’re even thinking about it probably means you’ll look nicer than most of the volunteers. *g*
So far Tony Blair, the Bush brown-noser has said one thing at his news conference now on CNN that makes any sense. That the Arab world views the West as NOT being even-handed in it’s treatment of the Palestinian question. And that the Israeli/Palestinian conflict is the basis for the problems in Lebanon and the rest of the region. No s**t Blair!
Todd @ 15
Aheh. Actually, that’s about all I have. Black, blue, white, green, gray, and khaki. It’s like grown-up Grr-animals.
What bdu @ 4 said.
Think preppy & you’ll be fine.
Here’s some advice:
It’s not about you, nor how you dress or pack for your trip.
Cut the cute crap, get to Connecticut promptly, and do the job you owe to readers of this blog who contributed to your expenses.
A dinosaur in bondage pants? At least we now know what happened to Barney.
Does this shirt make my forelimbs look even tinier? Does my tail look fat in these jeans?
ROFLMAO!!! TRex! TREx!TRex!
I’m gonna go by Todd’s rules next time. So simple, so efficient, so will reduce the quantity of textiles I lug around with me. I always pack for the Just in Case scenario (what if I get invited to a formal? Need the ball gown and pointy shoes).
Have fun, try to be normal and not scare the potential voters with your sharp teeth and tiny forearms.
T Rex,
so thrilled you are going
fyi – any of the brand name wrinkle releaser stuff actually works
don’t forget the woolite!
trex – thanks for asking the question the rest of us probably wanted to… i’ll be carefully watching the comments for suggestions i can use. been down to CT twice now (once for canvassing and once for FDL meetup). i always need what i forgot to pack – or don’t have.
hope to meet you in CT! heading there myself on saturday – also from MA (that i am aware of) will be RevDeb, Kathryn_in_MA and scarecrow.
billyjoe 19 — obviously you do not understand about packing. Every successful trip has a fabulous packing overture.
BTW, did you contribute to TRex’s expenses or are you just appropriating the indignation?
Sometimes you feel like a nutmeg.
Sometimes you don’t.
one word – cotton!
You have lots of good wardrobe suggestions, but I would add earplugs, eyeshade and a neck roll in case you get delayed somewhere en route or have to share a room.
Oh, and leave the new Kenneth Cole shoes at home!
Bon voyage!
Sorry, Jane.
I truly appreciate what y’all are doing, but I felt TRex is being a little too self-indulgent with this post.
Good luck to everyone in Connecticut.
billyjoe? I don’t know how it works on your planet, but here on Earth, hurrying to the airport doesn’t make the plane leave sooner.
Mary, lotus and I left you bandaid comments prior thread.
Please no – I came here for a distraction. I’m moving tomorrow and do NOT want to hear about packing. Why do I own 600 books? Why didn’t I hire someone to do my packing? Damned if I know.
Did you read the italic comment at the beginning of the post? It may be light entertainment, but it’s anything but self-indulgent.
I’m in Simsbury and it is horrific-hot here…Heavy air, the occasional thunderstorm…Be comfortable yes, but that means all khaki all the time.
billyjoe 26 — no problems, but one of the things we struggle to do is communicate the fun and excitement of being a part of this effort so people won’t think it’s a grind to come down here and work. It’s not, it’s great, and I think TRex’s post communicates that sense of anticipation very well.
It could be worse T-Rex. Think if you had to bring make-up, jewelry, curling iron, flat iron, hair product, blow dryer, tampons and mace!
leave the “I’m With Stupid” t-shirt at home.
thank you Jane re: Billyjoe
when you give, give from the heart, not from expectation and resentment
Fern — I feel your pain. I have to remind myself every time I pack, or help someone pack: “Don’t use the big boxes for books.” My first major move, that didn’t occur to me and I had to unpack and repack several boxes that were too heavy to lift.
“Time away from the computer”??
What are you *thinking?* Back, woman, back to the kitchen – uh, I mean computer.
Tom @ 37
Especially since the arrow points at my pants.
Redshift, the point never, ever escapes you. :)
What the hell is wrong with having a little fun now and again!
We are living in terrible times, and I for one, really appreciate the opportunity to laugh now and again.
And have I mentioned that I have a huge crush on TRex? If only if I were about 15 years younger and of another sex.
Sigh….
On the clothes-rolling thing – hair ties. I wear a pony tail, so I’ve got lots of them around. Use them to turn each item into a nice compact package you can pack and unpack with ease. You’ll have to do some looking to find one that will hold a rolled pair of jeans, but they do exist.
OT: Blurry focus
From Jomo’s official website, today:
Campaign Remains Focused on Winning Democratic Primary
July 3, 2006
Shouldn’t that be August 3, 2006?
Oh well, he’s got a lot on his mind or perhaps he is just psychic and hadn’t updated his web-site in awhile…
Speaking of losing to Lamont and not running as a Democrat: what are the governing rules for return of campaign contributions to parties who expected Joe to run as a Dem and not personally?
If someone, had contributed these funds and wanted them back would they say, have to sue (Class action?) to have them returned?
Does Joe not have to show a complete accounting of all funds or seek confirmation from contributor’s that he has permission to use these funds for non-Dem campaign run?
What are the Reps and Warranties on this issue?
Anybody?
Update: Jomo’s web page linked above is gone now, perhaps they are correcting the date…the info posted was that he was prepping for an ‘individual’ or ‘petition’ run if he failed to win the primary, although he is very confident he will win…sure Joe… [you guys may have covered this already]
Oh, and as to your closet problem. when you get back from CT having done all your great work, you should have your best friend come over and play a rousing version of LOVE ITHATE IT. It’s loads of fun. After a bottle of wine, or two or whatever, you fling open your clost door and proceed to pull out each item. You both then scream Love It or Hate it. If you both hate it it goes to the Goodwill pile. It takes forever because, well, there are so many things that have memories and stories and they get told, usually with lots of laughs. But it works. Your closet will be much more manageable. And I can’t help but think that CT is playing a game of Love ItHate it with Joe. Poor thing. They have some good memories but it’s time for the Goodwill pile.
Oh. My. God. That does it — I’m calling Homeland Security.
Please be on the lookout for a large carnivorous therapod, with a WWI Spy Radio — he’s part of the Dinosaur Liberation Front, and he’s headed to Connecticut with the intention of disrupting the Beltway cocktail weenie connection. Be afraid — the pork you save may be your own.
Seriously — polos, shorts, slacks, casual dress shirts, comfortable shoes. Sensible, nothing fancy.
op99 at 11:26:
Hee, hee! Thanks.
Well I would say comfortable shoes, and 2 pairs. And if you plan on bobbing for sailors, leave the shiny shirt at home.
Comfort is the key.
Actually, I donated a giant pile of surplus clothes to one of the addiction recovery houses in my town just a couple months ago. They were taking up too much space and I thought those guys might be able use them.
Don’t worry about the duds, TRex–pack light in a backpak. Think the wrinkled look…the clothes, silly! Carry extra deodorant, breath mints, sun block, wet wipes, and an always full bottle of water.
You’ll do us proud!
[somebody needs to fix the italics that didn’t close on the last thread.]
Regarding the heat: I have to say how rude it is that while we in the Flyover States were baking in this heat wave that was SO not abetted by global warming (a Leftist hoax, you know) that no one in the national media cared. Oh, that is, until it hits the Left Coast and starts frying New England. THEN it makes the top of the hour news on Morning Edition.
And we don’t even get to cool off with elitest chardonnay; only Pabst Blue Ribbon.
Damn liberal Israeli media…
When you’re choosing colors, definitely include blue. As Democrats, the one thing you’re likely to get when trying to herd the cats into a reasonably consistent appearance (if it’s not campaign t-shirts) is “everybody wear blue!”
An Oklahoma senate Republican has switched parties to Democrat.
Looks like a change is taking place in the reddest of red areas.
Kansas is also seeing a bluing effect taking place with much help from Gov. Sebelius.
http://www.ktul.com/news/stories/0806/349869.html
-GSD
OH LOL! Grrr-Animals! That’s where I got my idea!!!!!
Hey Firepups,
The spam filters must be set on extra-tippy-toes-high today, after yesterdays *alkin Mob attack. Don’t re-post or panic if your comment disappears. Just be patient, please. Any mods out there?
Jane, thanks so much for the early am post about the Q-poll.
Joezoe is now criticizing the President during time of war.
Once you get your bag packed lift it and if you think it seems to heavy, IT IS. Don’t overpack. If you get low on things to wear you can get your things laundered easily, whether you are in a hotel or staying in someone’s home.
Work hard and have fun!
happy monkey=satisfied trex fund contributor.
TRex, neutral, comfortable, not too dressy, not too sloppy, no earring, and more than one pair of comfortable shoes. Even if it doesn’t rain, you need to change them so your feet don’t get blisters. And some Dr. Scholl’s little stick-on pads for blisters would be a good idea. A bag or pack that is comfortable to carry will be useful for stashing literature and several bottles of water. Bandanas for wiping the sweat out of your eyes. Oh, I do love canvassing. Not. Usually I get to do it in freezing cold.
Jane, the Lamont campaign sent out a request for help. I suggested that those of us who have free cell phone minutes could help with calling even if we’re not coming to CT. Haven’t heard back, but FWIW.
TRex, if you’ve got (or can borrow) any shirts/pants made of that “wicking” nylon, you’ll be RILL glad you brought ‘em!
Kansas is also seeing a bluing effect taking place with much help from Gov. Sebelius.
GSD,
I read somewhere that Sebelius may be a dark horse candidate for VP. She’s completely reviving the Dems in Kansas. Now if only she could fix their school board.
I am probably going to get laughed out of here for this one.
Trex, it doesnt matter what you take, it’s how. I still have my Dad’s 1950’s duffel bag from the Navy. I have been clear across the country with it , more than once. I have found you can get most of what you need into it. Esp. if you roll the clothes as mentioned above. The best part for me, I usually get to take it as carry-on if early boarding is available.Tough, fairly light. and flexible.
clothes make the dino soar.
btw, Trex forgot to say I am so happy you are going, and love that you sound so excited….what can I bribe you with for the fried chicken recipe?????
T Rex,
what does Kos say you should bring ?
“Self-indulgent?” Well, why the hell shouldn’t TRex be excited about going to CT to be part of what may be a true watershed moment? Yeah, getting Ned elected is serious business, but at the moment, TRex is in a state of anticipatory euphoria – aomething those of us who can’t go would (1) love to be experiencing ourselves and (2) are happy just to be feeling “through the tubes.” Plenty of time for “serious” when he gets there, and even then, I think TRex’s energy, enthusiasm and humor is going to be a terrific shot in the arm for whoever is lucky to be G’ing OTV with him.
Have a blast, TRex – and remember, they have stores in CT!
The limits of Dana Priest’s intelligence.
WaPo chat.
Think Progress has a tiny bit of the Clinton-Rumsfeld exchange. I am dying to see more of it though.
lotus @ 57
No synthetics for me. They irritate my scaly backside.
I think my linen pants are going to be my best friends up there, though.
Again, if you’ve got or can borrow a pair or two of da “convertible” pants wid da zip-off legs that turn into shorts . . .
Yes, w0551,
I was not impressed.
Samurai Sam @ 59
I think the Scientific Darwinists took over the Kansas School Board this week — read about it on the internets.
Seconded
TRex – yacht to bring your Topsiders, Dockers and polo shirts.
Tried to correct my typo in the parenthetical about the italics last thread, but apparently I can’t access edit.
Go TRex, Go Jane, and absolutely positively Go Ned!
billyjoe, you sound like just the guy to send MSNBC some feedback about their stenography…see my post late in the last thread. How ’bout the rest of you? Why let TRex have all the fun just ’cause he gets to be on the ground. We have the power of the netroots, let’s keep using it. Tough love, high standards. Keep movin’ those small stones.
[Moderator: if you re-load your page from the last thread, you should see the magic of moderator powers! - and typo fixed, too!]
Know what you mean, TRex, but those are the only synthetics I wear, and I dearly wish for more. Highly comfy in deep-summer Florida!
-ck-
Just popped over to Pharyngula and you are absolutely right. The elections removed two of the biggest I.D.iots on the school board. If progressives can win in Kansas, we can definitely win anywhere.
Bustednuckles @ 59
Um, actually, I am taking my dad’s Air Force duffel. I’m right there with you. Huge, light, flexible.
Although I think I am going to bring a suit bag as well.
Samurai Sam at 11:33:
Didn’t you hear? The voters fixed the Kansas school board. Two of the three creationism-supporters up for re-election lost in the primary this week, so whoever wins in November, there’ll be a non-creationist majority. They’ve already said they’re going to revisit and throw out all the creationist crap.
Hope you meet you in CT , TRex.
As for packing, it’s Connecticut, who cares :)
Don’t forget -
IPod
Medicines
Drivers License
Comfy Shoes
Sunglasses
Anything else you forget can be bought on-site.
From Froomkin today:
And Bush is supposed to be a “common guy”, somebody you would want to have a beer with, which I suppose is true if you like assholes. I have heard that Bush was always this miserable but that it wasn’t reported. Still you got to wonder if the ole double carbon affliction hasn’t caught up to him and his pickled brain.
DeLay forced to stay on ballot:
http://lonestarproject.net/
via thinkprogress
TRex, bandaids should your big ol’ hind feetsies speak to you of blisters!
Samurai Sam –
The wing nuts depend on people who are loyal to Brand GOP — once you educate them as to how crazy the GOoPers really are, a lot of them will step back from the voting booth.
Now, if we can just get our side to develop a coherent message to sell Brand Democrat, we will kick their Wing Nut GOoPer Ass!!!
darkblack
TRex my sartorial advice from about 30 comments upthread seems to have disappeared.
OK — this is what I would recomend.
Short sleeved, button up shirts with collars, to be worn loose and untucked — in cotton. Respectable, hip and well ventilated.
Linen pants are tres cool, but so would some of those nylon unzip into shorts.
Two pairs of shoes. One pair of real ones and also a pair of comfortable walking sandles if you wear sandles. Keeps the feet cooler and lets them spread in the heat and humidity.
I live in NYC — wouldn’t bother w a jacket. If you want something warmish, bring one item with long sleeves, that would be plenty.
And a coupla t-shirts and all the necessary personal hygene items.
And Sunblock or whatever hip hat with a brim you tend to wear. And sunglasses.
TRex – From an old clothes horse to a master punditerer…
Smoking jacket and a cigarette holder..
No no no disgusting baseball caps!
SUNGLASSES!
will stop here.)
lotus @ 80
I have even better than that. Adhesive-backed cotton flannel to line the parts of the shoe that rubs.
My Kenneth Coles are all broken in now. They’re definitely going with me. Too nice to leave at home.
Delay must stay. Judge rules that Dirty Tom Delay must remain on ballot.
http://www.dailycomet.com/apps…../608030764
We will have Tom Delay to kick around for another few months after all.
-GSD
Didn’t you hear? The voters fixed the Kansas school board.
I must be behind in my reading. That’s it: less work, more blog!
It definitely feels like, all over the country, people are starting to wake up to what a trainwreck American conservatism is. Now if we can just get them to the booth…
Very thin cotton “liner” sox under your regular sox will prevent blisters in the first place. Really!
I agree, remember there are stores and you can wash stuff, so don’t overpack. I spent three weeks in Europe a few years ago and followed advice to only pack what I could fit in a backpack (a school-sized one, not backpacker-sized), and it was more fun than all those trips where I’d dragged suitcases.
Jane Hamsher @ 23
lotus @
82
Lotus, you always make me smile, if not LOL. Sometimes even 707, a feat normally reserved for the staid punaise.
OT – I wrote this little cheer yesterday while listening to that double-crossing-dickhead Benveniste talk about the *11 commission yesterday:
Backpedal
Backpedal
CYA
How many Lies
Can you tell
Today?
Hugh, what’s a double carbon affliction?
Weather is important. This weekend looks like perfect outdoor weather: mid-eighties and sunny. I would pack nice jeans, khakis, and comfortable shoes.
That’s what I am planning anyway.
See you there.
“Packing is Such Sweet Sorrow”
great title
Actually, if you’ll be walking all day, moleskin or secondskin instead of bandaids.
If you’re going for the rumpled, Columbo look, definitely go with the linen.
Todd:
OMG. I thought only chicks did this! I’ve had love it/hate it closet cleanings with friends, and it is a total blast. TRex, you have to try this!
What I always pack for trips: iPod. I can’t go anywhere without it. Man, has that made travelling, like, 1000X easier, what with not needing to lug crates of tapes and/or CDs, not to mention the players. Now I have a Nintendo DS, and that will probably go with me on future trips. A few games of Brain Age or Yoshi’s Island can really make the time pass, which would be useful during a layover.
I usually put a small bottle of lotion in my carry-on. Airplanes can really dry out skin, even for people who don’t have dry skin (like me).
Someone mentioned rolling clothes for packing. That works really well for keeping clothes less wrinkled–and being able to pack more.
I’m not sure what a guy should pack. My guess, for campaigning, would be khakis and nice jeans, and some polo or Oxford shirts. Sneakers are fine for that. People know you’re doing a lot of walking. A wardrobe like that can take you to most restaurants as well, these days, although I would do a change of shoes–NO, NOT THE KENNETH COLES!
Can’t think of anything else…. yet…
Sam-Sam, I betcha the ones waking up to “GOP = disaster” are also awake to “my vote = cure”!
Trex, You have all the fashion advice you might possibly ever need. Have a great trip and represent us Georgians well. We have to be in Chicago next week or we would have seriously considered going with you. Try not to think about the headline in the AJC this morning “Newt for President”. What a depressing thing to see first thing in the morning.
hat with brim all around – better for your eyes and your tiny, tiny, saurian ears (which must sunburn quite easily).
Those pants Punaise talks about are very cool, and hip in CT.
I would recomend cotton short sleeved, button up shirts with collars that can be worn untucked. Respectable and well ventilated.
Two pairs of comfortable shoes at least. But one should be very comfortable walking sandles. Makes a huge difference when you your feet are on hot pavement in hot weather all day long, gives the feet room to expand and breathe. If you wear prefer shoes all day, they are nice to put on in the evening. Happy feet make for happy campers.
Sunglasses.
No jacket for evenings necessary in CT in Aug. Might want to bring something with long sleeves though in case you get stuck in a too cold airconditioned building for any amount of time (resturants can be the worst offenders).
And don’t forget your vitamins!
Bring comfortable clothes and shoes. Remember that you will be spending a lot of time getting into and out of cars, walking around, knocking on doors, in crowded rooms with sweaty people and inadequate AC and pack accordingly!
As Jesse might say: Don’t be a fool! You’ve got to stay cool!
Violent Femmes – Blister in the Sun:
John Casper is reading my mind- DARKBLACK
darkblack is on my mind this afternoon, in a good yet concerned way. Have we heard from our wonderful graphic artist friend today?
A non response yet wonderful post might be a tribute or display of darkblacks greatest snark. Art Snark! Maybe No words at all or little captions. darkblacks art is such a treasure and manages to say so much of what cannot be put in words with the same impact. Anyway my heartfelt thanks for magnificent work displayed here are sent out to darkblack, from the bottom of a belly laugh and all the tears I have had to wipe off my smiling face.
Great minds Trex, great minds.
OK — 2 posts have not made it. I thought the first time was my fault, but I think I am being moderated. No clue as to why — but if they get approved, can the kindly moderators delete one please?
packing for three days is the same as packing for three weeks.
Thank you, Mommybrain (she blushed). What’s “secondskin”?
TRex @ 76
I always just take ONE piece of carry on luggage. Like this…
http://www.shoebuy.com/sb/s.js…..one-_-none
That’s it. I don’t partake of checking bags. Easy on and easy off.
PS. Unless I’m going to Cozumel in which case I check my dive bag ; )
lotus @ 107
umm, half of – oh, nevermind. Eli?
OT — but holy crap, David Walker, U.S. Comptroller General is up in front of the Senate Armed Services Committee on C-SPAN right now.
This guy does NOT pull punches.
“…It’s time for us to declare war on waste,” he says.
Now if Coburn would just STFU and stop wasting our time…
timewarp, refresh your browser.
mommybrain,
probably should have said “ole double carbon molecule affliction”. It’s ethanol or “alcohol” : CH3CH2OH.
Lamont increases lead over Lieberman
“WASHINGTON (CNN) — Embattled Sen. Joe Lieberman is trailing businessman Ned Lamont by double digits in the race for the Connecticut Democratic Senate nomination, a new poll released this morning shows.
The Quinnipiac University poll gives Lamont a 54 percent to 41 percent lead among likely Democratic primary voters and is the latest indication that the three-term incumbent is in serious danger of losing the Democratic primary next Tuesday…..”
Lotus – moleskin and secondskin are things hikers buy to protect from blisters. IIRC, one is a liquid that’s painted on, the other a supersoft bandage.
More signs that Rumsfeld is huffing glue. If only the US could control the weather, we can beat the insurgents.
(Snip-from testimony today)
Rumsfeld:
“Does the violence tend to be up during the summer, in the spring, summer and fall months? Yes it does. And it tends to decline during the winter period. Does that represent failed policy? I don’t know. I would say not.”
Nothing a little nuclear winter won’t cure.
-GSD
timewarp – one of your posts did end up in mod – have no clue why – and it was released. You should re-load the page (not just “Refresh Comments”) and you should see both of them.
punaise @ 111
secondskin is something related to or in the family of seconds – particularly third helpings of a dinner entree.
punaise @
112
Ha, sounds like a golf term to me.
Ah, thanks MB. “Secondskin” must be the paint-on, because moleskin ain’t.
If you use two secondskins, well you’ll get fourskin.
-GSD
Is there a moderator in the house who can take the wheel for a bit while I fold some clothes that just came out of the dryer?
timewarp, as I mentioned earlier, the spam filters are on code red alert. New innocuous words and phrases get caught but us spidermen and women know how to set them free.
GSD…11:31am
Oklahoma Senator Nancy Riley switches from Republican party to Democratic party. YESSSS!!!
One of these days this state will be as blue as an Oklahoma prairie sky in the morning. We doin’ what we can down here.
Now if Ned can do it, it will be a perfect southwestern summer.
Knew that one hadda be on the way from somewhere, GSD (but rather expected a Berkeley return-address) . . .
Eureka Springs, AR @ 106
Seconding that emotion…
TRex, take a shower too will ya? Anne’s here, too.
Eureka, your 106 is a splendid idea.
spidermen and women! LOL.
Was it the mention of “feet” too many times?
Mommybrain @ 129
Uh oh. Do I smell like my last kill? I brushed and flossed. I even washed my face and claws in the river. Still no go, huh?
OK kiddo, the day we can get shut of Inhofe and Coburn will be a great day for America, yuh-huh!
What happened to the days when people had steam-trunks for traveling?
It’s easier to trek around Europe in the equivalent of a gym bag, than to pack for even a few days in a fixed location where you see the same people every day. To keep from overpacking, take 2 pair of pants (one on you, one packed) and 2 shirts/day. It’s not like your pants get stinky. You can rinse out a shirt in your sink if you run low.
darkblack’s work has the wingnuts all up in arms still today. Jane’s become the new Glenn Greenwald for the obsessed-about-liberal-bloggers crowd.
Personally, I admire his work. Art should shake people up and make them think.
TRex — looks like you’ve got a lot of good advice so far.
Add medical tape, preferably fabric if you have it, for taping up blister-prone areas.
If you have too much to carry on, do put at least one change of clothes along with meds in your carry-on.
Raining here in MI today, will be raining that way tomorrow, I imagine; system is slow moving, so plan on rain most of Friday-early Saturday in CT. Means walking shoes that can handle wet conditions, extra socks, maybe a Gore-Tex weather shell if you have one.
Hugh at 11:40:
Bush has always been an asshole, it’s not just brain decay. I guess if you’re the campaign press and you get into the circle where it feels like friendly ribbing, you don’t notice it so much.
I saw a clip from that 2000 Bush campaign documentary where the filmmaker (behind the camera) is asking him about his reputed fondness for baloney sandwiches, and then asks him if he finds that ironic (I’m not sure what it was a reference to, possibly just politician “baloney.”) And he sneers at her, “I find you ironic!”
I mean, what the hell? Not only is it incredibly obnoxious, it doesn’t make any sense! And as I recall, the filmmaker came out of the project sympathetic to Bush even though she disagreed with his politics. WTF? Does Rove have some kind of mind-control device, or what?
TRex: Um, actually, I am taking my dad’s Air Force duffel.
Navy duffels are way cooler!
:-)
All you need TRex are black shoes, white socks, bermunda shorts and a striped shirt. You can get the rest at Bradleys.
Sounds like a steamer trunk circa Marx Brothers “A Night At The Opera” is in order for this trip.
Trex, you need to floss your scales, too, after you roll in your dinner ;~)
I’m just feeling my oats this AM is all.
Eureka Springs, AR @ 134
beat me to it! Curses, foiled again.
Mommybrain @
94
Occasionally I see this reference in comments to 707 and I think it means an industrial strength LOL, is this definition correct?
Chatzwhoring (”yes, I invented that word….”)
WOW 137 comments? How did that happen?
Oh, yeah, I was kinda busy with Dana Priest, and she with me….
http://www.washingtonpost.com/…..01192.html
especially see the PS from Teddy at the end of her chatz, after she signed off!
That is classic Rumsfeld. He often doesn’t answer a question but instead asks himself a different one which he then answers. Also his laying out all the seasons is a reminiscent of that other litany of his:
Hugh: CH3CH2OH
Gezundheit!
:-)
OT
Marcy is on fire today on “Lamont’s Single Issue Voters”
There’s more over at The Next Hurrah
Steamer trunks are great, especially if your yacht sinks. You can make a raft out of them…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J…..he_Volcano
Urban Pirate @ 79
might i add a nose plug for the smell that is gonna be eminating from holy joe’s adult diaper on tuesday . . .
op99 @ 11:47
AMEN on the linen – and I love it, but raising 5 wee ones helped me break the habit.
Raw Silk, when it doesn’t come with that smell of wet hay, provides all that linen does with half the wrinkling
Dr. Bong,
Thank you!
Eureka Springs, AR @
134
There’s a fantastic old house in South Pasadena that they sometimes use to film the Lady Heather episodes for CSI. It was built at the turn of the last century for some heiress. It has its own chapel and an entire floor for her steamer trunks. Can you imagine trying to get one thru a *SA check at the airport?
Modest suggestion . . .
Leave the plaid punk-rock bondage pants.
Stick with LL Bean and flash that smile.
(Where the hell do you find plaid punk-rock bondage pants anyway?)
Fini FiniQuote @
142
upside down LOL, from falling over backward in your chair
bdu @
8
I hate it when that happens.
Dru at 12:06
ROTFLMAO
FiniFiniwhatnow,
As it was explained to me, 707 is LOL so hard you fall out of your chair. TRex does that to me regular, as does punaise.
Mommybrain #150:
Back in the day (’way back), SoPas was the location for the exteriors of the Andy Hardy films.
Fortunately, some things never change.
Condoms.
Pack condoms and lube.
It’s the old-school HIV prevention guy inside me screaming to get out:
CONDOMS!
Agh, my bad, David Walker is in front of Subcommitte on Federal Financial Management…
These guys are not going to do a thing this guy’s asking. He wants to do some serious revamping structurally to DoD to save money and it’s not going to happen.
We’re so bankrupt. And he knows it.
Redshift, some time back I saw an old clip of Chimpy (from, oh, maybe 25-30 years ago — home-movie kind of thing) that I’ll never forget. Looked like a barbecue kind of casual get-together, and he was flirting with somebody — doing that quick back-&-forth head-tilting move as he nattered some sarcasm at her, finishing with one of those “NYAH!” smirks.
Even without a soundtrack, I could tell he really needed a slapping.
Eureka Springs, AR @ 133
Umm — they went into attics when the steamships disappeared?
lotus…12:00pm
I’m hearin’ ya’all. These two guys gotta go. Like Will Rogers, our favorite son once said: “I’m not a member of any organized political party. I’m a Democrat”. And we’re gonna do it again, Will. Or we’ll die tryin’.
Eureka Springs, AR at 12:00:
I think steamer trunks went out when people stopped traveling by steamer. (Well, except for some of my friends, who still have them.)
I find it funny that anyone would say that females have packing “rituals.”
I’ve had three husbands, and I’ve always been the one waiting in the car for them, while they’re still fretting over which shoes to take. “Honnnneeeeeey…. Where are my blue socks? I want my blue socks…”
After being in the USAF, I can be packed and ready to go for anything in…Oh….15 minutes. That includes makeup and other toiletries. And even shoes. Prada goes everywhere, darlings.
I remember when I was going to see my brother in East Texas (I was living in McAllen). My mother, bless her dictatorial soul, had to call me to “coordinate” my trip before I set out. Mind you, I was working the graveyard shift, then, I’d gotten off work at 7 a.m., raced home to to get the kid ready for school, then decided to grab a few hours sleep before driving up.
So I get THE CALL. At 11.15 a.m. The first question, “Why are you still there?”
“Ma! I did get off work at 7 a.m.! Do you want me to kill myself driving 500 miles, with no sleep?
“Fine, fine. So how soon will you be leaving. Your brother needs you, he’s waiting for you!”
“I’m leaving in about an hour, just like I planned.”
“Are you packed?”
“I’m doing that after I get a shower and get dressed.”
“DO YOU MEAN TO TELL ME YOU’RE NOT PACKED?”
“I’m going to East Texas, for three days. Three, Ma. I’ll spend it tending a brother who’s just come home from chemo. We won’t be going many places, and I have fuck-all friends there, besides. So, unlike you, I don’t need a steamer trunk for a visit like that.”
“You don’t have to be rude! I can’t believe you haven’t packed yet. You’ve known you were going for over a week–why do you always wait until the last minute to do things?”
And on. And on.
Let’s not mention how she called me when I was on the road, every half hour, to find out where I was on my route. And this was back when cell phones were 37 cents a minute.
I finally yelled at her, “Ma, where is anybody who’s driving across Texas? I’m in the middle of fucking nowhere!”
And she started crying. That’s when I knew she’d finally–FINALLY leave me alone, and trust that a 34 year old woman could figure out how to do a simple road trip.
Rayne @ 11:53 am –
One of my friends brought this story to my attention. Please look at this: http://www.usatoday.com/news/w…..usat_x.htm
When I was growing up, we had two steamer trunks in the basement, that my mother’s aunts had used when they emigrated from Sweden.
I still have an old steamer trunk. The urge to make a lame joke about buying it for the ex is ….almost….irresistible.
TRex @
5
That’s totally cool!
I am turning greener and greener with jealousy over your trip! I hope you have a wonderful time! :-)
Make sure you have a comfortable hat for the sun.
Might want to take a very lightweight but waterproof jacket in case of rain. You can wear it at night to keep the chill and mosquitos off too hehe.
Been a while since I’ve been in the northeast during the unbearable summers, but I do remember sundown for when the bugs start eating ya alive. Bugspray and long pants for night. Remember to search for ticks before going to sleep!
TRex
For a man–neat looking golf shirts and what are called “blazer shirts”, and anyting button down oxford cloth.
Kacki (sp?) pants and neat looking (ie not too lived in) jeans.
COMFORTABLE SHOES–at least 2 pair
More oscks than you think you need b/c changing your socks and shoes midday can add anoth 2 hours of canvassing stamina.
You may want to bring a tie or something nice to wear for the victory party. I usually spend election day in jeans (sometimes sweats cause I run a boiler room operation for election protection, no one sees me, just talking the election day lawyers in the filed through the problems), but I bring a suit to chnage into once the polls close.
Then we go to the victory party location to wait for the results. (For a man, I would bring a shving kit and toothbrush and any other toiletries on election day as well–you know to spiff up in the lavatory)
I fyou have any hope of the weather breaking, you may want to bring a slicker in case of rain, a windbreaker, maybe even a light sweater (wishful thinking on my part)
you also want to bring flipflops or similar for when you get “home” at the end of the day cause your feet will need a break from the shoes you are wearing to campaign.
Don’t forget a bathing suit, there are miles and miles of coastline in Conn.
Also, if you have any gear (like from golfing or sailing) designed to keep you cool–sometimes you see these golf hat things that you wet some part of and it keeps you head cool or those coolmax shirts etc. you want to bring those.
I like downy wrinkle release for campaigning onthe road and DOO DOO DOO bring some sort of first aid kit and maybe even a seperate foot first aid kit.
Most important of all, I thought you post was hillarious–just right
-ck- @ 160
people! everyone knows it’s elephants that have trunks, not dinosaurs.
Thank you Jamie. Thank you Jamie. Thank you Jamie.
Re-edit,preview and spell check are my friends.
I’ve got a great old steamer-trunk at the foot of my bed (a gift from a long-departed dear old friend). Its lines sorta do this ~ move, and it’s covered in black embossed leather with brass studs. One handle has pretty-much come apart, but otherwise, in good shape. I bet it was quite elegantly used 100 years ago or so — and what I’d give to see what it’s seen.
raw story has the video of rummy and the hil
http://www.rawstory.com/news/2….._0803.html
Samurai Sam @
60
Intelligent Design has been defeated in Kansas.
Can someone tell me how to get a quote from the last thread, please?
Kansas is not intelligently designed, what’s the surprise?
Dru @
128
on board with some darkblack love from TeddySanFran as well.
… and if that troll using the last syllable of my name shows up again with her concern, would you please tell her she’s infringing on my name and I won’t have it??
thanks, ‘pups, real world beckons. Gotta get out in the light! (because TRex makes me wanna go in the closet and PACK for Connecticut!!)
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Had Enough, Connecticut?
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Hopesat, highlight, control c control v To insert.
Pack Immodium (or whatever brand you prefer). Don’t wanna get gross, but road food can upset even a dino’s sensitive digestive tract, and bathrooms can be few and far between.
people! everyone knows it’s elephants that have trunks, not dinosaurs.
The way BushCo is going, pretty soon all of the crazy GOoPers and their elephant trunks will be locked in the attic — and not a moment too soon!!!
Hope, just copy&paste, if you just want a line or two, or hit Quote This Comment for the whole thang.
I use an “Indestructo” trunk for a coffee table in one room. Still has the label with the unconditional warranty of 5 whole years, dated 1908. Lasted close to a century now.
Hope:
Go over there, click on quote. Go down to the leave a reply box. Copy it. Come back here. Paste it into the leave a reply box here.
LJ/Aquaria @12:15 – Are you my long lost sister? Mom never told me!
My mother always thought yelling at us and reminding us, at 25, 30, whatever, how to do the simplest task was how she showed she loved us. She was an only child.
-ck- Yes, old ships and trains. I found so many in San Francisco, before I could stop myself I had a collection of about 30 ish. Wonderful works of art and the smell of world travel in every one.
LJ/A and MB, I wonder just how big our long-lost family IS here?
Hope, go to the comment in question, and put your cursor over the comment number. When it turns into the little hand, right click and then click on “Copy shortcut.” Then go to the new comment window on thread and paste it in. Then you can use the new link button to name it whatever you want.
T Rex,
keep forgetting to post this pic of my new boss – kind of a sexy beast aint he ? He’s from the Crustaceous Period.
http://www.envisioncreativegro…..-large.jpg
Teddy – I’ve supplied the world with a universal blocker for the Fran’s of the world, and for free.
http://static.flickr.com/85/20…..1375_o.gif
Redshift @ 137
I saw that clip, too, and had the same reaction. I think the videographer was Alexandra Pelosi.
Once again, we have Bush talking with his mouth full, delivering himself of another witless utterance.
Yet Ms. Pelosi came away from the assignment with a favorable impression of him, and still the Washingon press corps busts a gut every time he opens his mouth to prove, yet again, that he is a humorless dullard.
If I had a nickel for every time I’ve said “I don’t get it,” I could send Ned a big ol’ check.
JUST the thang, EPU!
TRex:
Yours is the polar opposite problem I had when I did some campaign stumping during the primaries in New Hampshire in January. BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR.
My advice from California: khaki, white (cotton, crisp and neat), black t-shirt(s), blue jeans for canvassing, black jeans for socializing, a good pair of KEENS if you’ve got ‘em (every step makes your feet feel like they can forgive you for all those years of wearing 5-inch spike heels).
And no jewelry where you’ve been pierced.
fwiw, that’s an AN/PRC-1 World War Two style radio described as
Samurai Sam @
136
yes yes yes
And TRex — I love your post. Have fun, fun, fun till the return flight takes the TRex away!
*ilson 32 lbs. oh, man that would take an extra best boy.)
Whole buncha fresh Ned-vs-Joe stories here:
http://www.courant.com/news/po…..s-breaking
HopeSpringsATurtle @ 172
You mean quoting a comment from the last thread? This should work:
Do “Quote This Comment” in that thread.
Then copy the URL for that thread, which should be in the browser’s URL box at the top of the screen (http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/08/03/iraq-policies-questioned/, in this case), and paste it into the comment text after ‘href=”‘ and before ‘#’.
Then select all the text from the comment box and copy it (using Copy in the browser’s Edit menu, or Ctrl-C)
Then, come to the comment box in this thread, and paste the text.
It’s a little complicated; let me know if that’s not clear, and I’ll try to explain further. If you don’t care about the link to the original comment working, you can skip the complicated Step 2.
Light-colored pants and socks (Lyme disease was invented there, and ticks need keep-away always, not only at the end of the day).
Go to the Lands End catalog online. Choose anything in your wardrobe that looks like it could come from there.
“Georgia TRex in RGJoe’s Court”
I know you can buy CONDOMS and LUBE on the road, but my advice is to have them handy. Never know when opportunity might knock, even at Hartsfield Intl.
Oh, ship the plaid bondage pants here, and we’ll club SanFran all night with you in those. You’ll want some more condoms for that part of the expedition, though.
Do they make condoms for TRexes?
Fe – “…wearing 5-inch spike heels.”
Hooboy, Trex in 5 in spiked heels!
Sister lotus :~)
EPU – are those available in different flavors of politician at Cafe Press?
OT -
Just listening to some clips from the C-span hearings on Randi Rhodes show and hearing the grilling of the generals is excruciating. You know, they’re going to take the blame for this, even though the whole thing was comandeered from Rumsfeld’s office and no one in the administration would listen to any dissent.
So the generals either had to give up their careers from the get-go or go along with the really terrible planning coming from DC. They’re going to be the new Lyndie Englands…
Apologies for this comment coming from left-field, I just logged on and don’t have a clue what you’re talking about at the moment!
EPU — please pass that cuppa on to Fran if she shows up!
ty ty ty ty ty
I just got 5 different ways to do it lol
If you give a Trex a condom….
HopeSprings 172 -
I would just copy the comment from last thread, paste it into the comment box here, highlight the text and click on “quote”.
Voila!
*ilson46201 @ 12:33 pm (#196) – What gave it away, the bakelite labels?
Stephen Parrish CPA –
Hey thanks, back at ya’; here’s a post that has stuck in my craw for months now:
Comptroller General of the US Delivers Alarming Barn Burner
Excerpt:
Gah…
BTW, watching C-SPAN2 now, Huckleberry Graham droning on, in agreement with Boxer about U.S. troops not being subjected to Iraqi law. (But it’s good enough for Saddam, right? The Iraqi people will get justice from their own system, right?)
Jeebus. Bush so needs to be slapped up on the issue of nationbuilding, every way to Sunday.
as far as clothing styles go — remember that Connecticut is the homeland, the heartland, the very epitome of preppy !
TRex you’re getting great packing advice here, I’ll echo, comfy shoes, more socks than you think you need, sunscreen and bug repellant. Oh, and a carrier for a water bottle.
I’d give you my usual packing for trips, but it involves embroidered linen smocks, tunics, viking pants, doublets and knee breeches, velvet hat with enormous ostritch feather…etc. Right fashion sense, wrong century.
TRex, you remind me of Rowan Atkinson’s sketch of Mr. Bean packing for a trip.
Don’t pack a toofbrush. Just buy a new one, you probly need one anyway.
We gotta stop tying up Hopie, y’all. It’s getting toward cocktail time, and we DO want her to pour us one, don’t we?
Bong? Am I right er am I right?
TEddySF,
You give the best travel advice. All of it. TeeHee – Land’s End packing.
TeddySanFran @ 157
Actually, Teddy, for the time being? I’m a celibate dinosaur. Don’t tell anyone.
Okay! Gorra go. Off to work! See you all at Late Nite!
http://www.firedoglake.com/200…..ent-221542
well, hmm… I just wanted you guys to see my letter…
Oh, Lotus gave HSAT the same copy/paste advice I did. This is what you get for not reading the thread. :)
Mommybrain – Not that I am aware of; I could see the “Shut The Fuck Up” line being popular though. I’ll license it to them if they want.
we are in the land’s Endtimes
I knew I’d forgotten something, dear lotus!
{ checking yardarm }
{striking match}
{looking over shoulder for former State Prosecutor}
Hey, it’s our resident pun gent!
lotus, thanks for those Ned links from the Courant in your 12:36.
cocktails?? lol I’m drinking a red bull baby. I have to clean the pool. Unless there’s someone willing to be my pool boy? girl?
I’d go with the hemp.
BREAKING NEWS: George W Bush is an idiot. now back to your regularly scheduled FDL programming
BOFFO letter, Hopie! Right up their snoot!
Cujo — as a bright young lad growing up in the 1950s, surplus WW2 electronics stuff was dirt cheap. Ham radio K9JYO. Look at the name of the photo : it’s an AN-PRC-1.jpg — from then on, Google is your friend.
TeddySanFran @ 218
part of odor Tudor campaign
friends, aromas, countrymen: lend me your noses
HSaT: You and *ilson can cast an entire Falcon VideoPac, with your poolboiz, girrlz, and maildeliverypersons.
Next, somebody’ll order a pizza, I bet….
jim preston @ 224
‘ere. I got work to do.
Moses supposes his toeses are roses but Moses supposes erroneously.
Teddy…you have no idea…
Mmm, speaking or aromas . . . jim preston, you come sit next to me.
twolf1 @ 222
First he busts the deficit, then he blows up Iraq, and now he Breaks the News? Can’t we get rid of this doofus?
Or oF aromas, either.
Erbody could use a little “attitude adjustment”. Just don’t camp.
SPEW WARNING!
Go here for a graphic you won’t soon forget.
Roflmao.
http://driftglass.blogspot.com/
Evil Parallel Universe @ 218
No kidding it’d be popular. You should send tghem a proposal.
-ck-, you’re in FLA, aren’t you?
OMG!!! I’m so sorry…somebody fix it quick
justintime @
212
Your teddy bear! Don’t forget your teddy bear! :-)
Hope 214
Oh, dear. My little note to MSNBC is a quivering bowl of tapioca compared to yours!
My effort:
Your crawl describes Senatorial candidate, Ned Lamont, as “Millionaire Mogul Ned Lamont”.
Perhaps a more neutral description would be “Entrepreneur Ned Lamont” or “Citizen-candidate Ned Lamont”.
If you want to use colorful and loaded adjectives on both candidates, perhaps you are aware that Joe Lieberman is a millionaire, too.
One wonders how he became a millionaire holding public office for some thirty years.
His wife, of course, has lately been a lobbyist for big pharma, so perhaps that’s where they’ve made their money.
Of course, that might be a conflict of interest, if a news company wanted to look into it.
ok its in moderation…Fix it Lotus…*ilson. Ack! I don’t know what I did but the whole thread came through as a quote.
Someone stop me.
lotus –
Denver . . .
Queen City of the Plains, Gateway to the Rocky Mountain Empire!!!
I’m waiting for the Trex book. Someone suggested this a while back, and I would definitely buy it.
We need a laugh till you cry book.
How about it?
Fix whut, Hope-ers?
Digby. On the kerfuffle (Oh, the Vapors).
I am not making this up. CNN is reporting about a guard dog (brown Dobe) who ripped up a teddy-bear museum.
Dress casual-formal. Not a sut and tie or anything, but not jeans and a t-shirt. Certainly something with a collar, like a polo or a button-down. Slacks (Or, if you’re a bit younger and have some, a really nice pair of jeans, but not distressed or anything like that). Comfortable but nice-looking shoes.
Of course, it depends on where you are. When I camiapgined for Tim Kaine in VA, we were near UVA, so I wore one of their t-shirts and got a lot of love for it. I guess you have to play it by ear, sometimes.
But always, always wear a candidate sticker.
Bring a red sox cap and a yankees cap, and be ready to swap them AT A MOMENT’S NOTICE.
Little dog…I like your letter. Its civil. Mine sounds like it will not be read and end up in the trash. But I do like the line:
“There is a special place in hell for those of you that quietly coax along flash over substance and profits over truth.”
lotus, it was Elvis’ teddy.
Lotus, they’ve been showing that all day. By far the most important issue of the day.
lotus @ 239
Well . . . let’s see. A dog is a dog. Is a dog.
Lotus i did the thing with thing and then poof! the whole thread was over here as my comment. Someone really ought to take this thing away from me.
well shoot, -ck-, I had that all misremembered then. ccmask and BarbaraB and I are trying to get together a FLA FDL par-tay, and I coulda sworn somebody else beginning with a C is among us’uns.
Anyhow, anybody in/near FLA who wants to join us, sing out!
timewarp #247:
I’ll see your Digby and raise you a pair of Billmons:
http://billmon.org/archives/002623.html
lotus @ 244
BBC covered it too. It seems that Elvs’ teddy bear has been eviscerated. Such important news for the world to know.
Dog bites man-made bear! Wow, that is news! Is there film?
Blitzer is gonna do a bit on the new lamont/lieberman poll numbers.
At least it wasn’t a firedog.
That we know of.
But Malkin’s prolly all over it anyway.
lotus –
cbl maybe?
Here’s a portion of a comment on Digby’s post:
Lotus i did the thing with thing and then poof!
But, but … isn’t that what you’re supposed to do, Hopie? I mean, as I recall, getting to poof was really Fun too . . .
Mommybrain @ 260
Made me wonder: what exactly is Stephen Colbert’s stance on Teddy Bears?
Not my comment – attributed to:
LowLife | 08.03.06 – 2:39 pm | #
No, cbl is a True Texan.
GuyfromOhio @13, LOL
My neighbor told me once that she heard me laughing like crazy at night. “Is it another Flip Wilson marathon?” No…just funny people on the computer!
BBC
Thank you all for your kind words of support and measured criticism…John Casper, TeddySanFran, punaise, The Nefarious Leslie, Dale in Alabama, mommybrain, meta, RevDeb, JWR, Eureka Springs AR, PKC, Kelven, kirk murphy, -ck-, lotus, beth meacham, immanentize, The Wordy Bird, Caoimhin Laochdha, GSD, Anne, Dru, astralplame, isis2, HopeSpringsATurtle, rudy, Wilbur, and anyone else whom I may have neglectfully missed.
I am currently on ’sabbatical’, but I will return.
Allow me the opportunity to wish Mr. Lamont victory for all the honorable reasons, as a man of principle who opposes enabling those who would carelessly destroy the ideals of civilization for personal enrichment, or to gain a pyrrhic philosophical ‘achievement’.
As for those who fling senseless imprecations and ad hominem as a strategy of bamboozlement, whether external or internal…‘You’re my huckleberry.’ Be seeing you.
Oh, yeah…Rummy? Have a bucket of water.
;>)
Pax
everyone sing along now:
We live in the dullest state
Package stores all close at eight
Malls are full of optometrists
And restaurants we hate
Swimming across Lake Quassapaug
Stealing makeup, catching frogs
Cutting our feet on broken bottles
As we wade in the Shepaug
It’s true for horses, cows and dogs?
Connecticut’s for fucking
That’s all there is to do.
I love to listen to classic rock
and have sex with you.
al-scooter 258, good hand. Now I will bet on more dirty electioneering in the Katherine Harris camp!
Shorter Rummy:
No one could’ve anticipated the seasonal change.
When I get to Hell, I hope my job is stoking the fire around him.
Re the deficit, a pet peeve of mine, there are many different ways of looking at debt. The one I prefer to look at is the on-budget deficit since this takes into account borrowing from Social Security. The off-budget deficit is expected to be around $300 billion this year. It does not take into account approx. $180 billion borrowed from Social Security. It is also unclear how much of the supplemental approriations for Iraq, Afghanistan, and Katrina have been factored into the “official”/off-budget deficit. So the real deficit this year will be at least $480 billion and perhaps as high as $580 billion.
Keep in touch DarkBlack. We got yer back.
Darkblack!
lotus @ 248
If I ever need an example of how you can have too much security …
dARKbLACK!
HopeSpringsATurtle at 12:44:
Very nice letter. I sent a letter to the Post about their Lieberman editorial, but I’m not going to post it here just yet. They make this big deal about how they won’t publish anything that’s been published elsewhere. They probably won’t publish it, though, so if I haven’t heard from them by Sunday, I’ll post it for all to see.
(The hardest thing about it was stopping my ranting and trying to get it down to a length they might publish.)
better that Dobe, not Kobe, shredded the Sacred St. Elvis Teddy Bear … Lieberman never would have shut up about that !
YAY, darkblack!!! Thank you! Have a good break but please don’t wander far, okay?
(((((DARKBLACK)))))
darkblack in da shack! we’ll keep the lights on for you.
Bravo Darkblack!! I wish the most restful and pleasant sabbatical ever. You are a constant inspiration with you brilliant mind and magical techno talents. Long Live Darkblack!!!
Darkblack, don’t let the malkinhordes drive you away. The Dems have one effective strategy this election cycle, and one only. Attack, ATTACK, ATTAAAAAAAACKKKKK!!
Seriously, don’t let them deter you. Grind them under your jack boots of liberal doom :)
spotlights and gels
timewarp #272:
Good one!
She’s scraping splinters out of the bottom of the barrel.
I don’t suppose that under Jebbie the FL mental health folks can come after her with men in white coats, but she might be more than one lime short of a margarita.
Thanks for coming back, darkblack! Much love!
WE ARE DARKBLACK!
Darkblack — Come back soon, y’hear?
kristinejoy @ 288
I love that! WE ARE DARKBLACK!!
Wearing black ’til you return, hurry it’s hot!
Hey, Darkblack! Wonderful to see you just as I’m getting in. Enjoy the sabbatical, recharge, and y’all c’mon back again real soon now, y’hear?
Still on the deficit issue, there were 2 reasons that OMB decreased its projections for the 2006 deficit, which IIRC they had pegged at $423 billion.
The first is political. The CBO had predeicted a deficit of around $340 billion early on. The discrepancy between the WH and Congressional numbers was essentially a ploy. The OMB jacked its numbers up so that it could later reduce them and claim greater credit for “reducing” the budget deficit.
The second is fairly perverse and was due to tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations. They got back so much money that even with lower tax rates they ended up paying more than they had the previous year.
darkblack
And, since we are sharing our emails to the feedbackians at msnbc, here’s mine, with the Subject Line of “Per MSNBC: Lamont = MILLIONAIRE MOGUL”
C’mon, guys, you are a NEWS channel, not a stenography channel. Get with the program — and treat challengers to sitting war-enabling Senators with the seriousness they deserve. You’re going to get lots more practice covering these kinds of races, better get this one right.
Are you reading this, Norah?
Teddy
Oh, and db:
They’re my dingleberry!
Darkblack, you are the darkbestest. We’ll be here, waiting, ’til you return.
What? Is black the new black
abra cadabra – close tags
Hugh @ 293
well, then, clearly we need a mechanism for refunding them their tax money tax-free. Yeah, that’s the ticket, the next round of tax cuts should themselves be free of federal tax! Thank heaven there’s something for BushCo to push for in the last two years of this term….
al scooter 287 — well, if you are an experienced election thief, then it pays to hire expert help! Would love to know what Kat et al have been scheming up for November.
Darkblack is the new black…
it’s too hot for condoms.
I gotta clean the pool…be back.
I think I’ll go to work for the GOP as a second-term strategist, clearly they are out of ideas AND have no sense of the ironic.
I think in the W dictionary, “ironic” means “you are stupid. I don’t know what to say.”
Darkblack is always in style ;-)
This is jane’s and christy’s house, but we all helped build it. It’s our fightclub!
Rule 7: The fights go on as long as they have to.
Teddy, Bush’s problem is that ironic is a polysyllabic word ;-)
Well as long as we are on the subject, this has always been one of my favorite poems.
Sonnet of Black Beauty
by Edward, Lord Herbert of Chirbury
Black beauty, which above that common light,
Whose Power can no colours here renew,
But those which darkness can again subdue,
Do’st still remain unvary’d to the sight.
And like an object equal to the view,
And neither chang’d with day, nor hid with night,
When all these colours which the world call bright,
And which old Poetry doth so persue,
Are with the night so perished and gone,
That of their being there remains no mark,
Thou still abidest so intirely one,
That we may know thy blackness is a spark
Of light inaccessible, and alone
Our darkness which can make us think it dark.
Good to see you Darkblack. Thanks for stopping by and telling us about the sabbatical. Hope you come back soon!
I don’t suppose that under Jebbie the FL mental health folks can come after her with men in white coats, but she might be more than one lime short of a margarita.
Not so fast, al-Scoots. Jebbie’s boys may be the first in line to get her off the streets. RevDeb and I were just this morning pondering whether a straitjacket or an orange jumpsuit would become her more (or, as medaka says, her and the twins).
“You’re my huckleberry”, said Doctor John Henry “Doc” Holliday (Val Kilmer) to Johnny Ringo. Just before the Doc put a hole in his head.
lotus, how ’bout an orange straightjacket? What could be more appropriate for Florida?
Ooops, I copied that on line. I think it should read:
Art neither chang’d with day, nor hid with night.
new thread upstairs
darkblack!!
(and your little dog too!!)
lotus, how ’bout an orange straightjacket? What could be more appropriate for Florida?
Ver’ true, al-S.
Hugh, what an exquisite poem.
and alone
Our darkness which can make us think it dark.
Indeed. And we are the party of light.
Here’s some hard work on a diary about the USSenate races all y’all might want to bookmark:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/8/3/14385/79790
I’m nowhere near talented enough to be a part of the darkblack franchise – but I admire from afar. *g*
Light note – but not. The Onion:
Bush Grants Self Permission to Grant More Power to Self
Hi darkblack -
great to see you back! good fun to you – enjoy the break.
thanks for sharing your gifts with us….thanks for taking time out for you
everybody – pack powerstrips for the hotel room!! they never have enough outlets@
TRex @
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Trex – hey – far be it from me to intrude on your personal life, but didn’t the celibate dino stuff kinda die out say – i dunno – 65 million years ago?
I made it through a third of the comments before realizing I couldn’t enjoy them all, so apologies if this is a repitition.
TRex, if you’re working in the Meriden Lamont HQ it’s super casual. A few of the staff are known to rock old, torn Aloha shirts and gym shorts. Not the most fashionable bunch. Jane definitely sets the bar high for the rest of us. I’m a shorts/jeans and a tshirt guy myself. So basically – don’t stress vis a vis office attire.
TRex-have you checked out dresskevin.com?
TRex,
Stuff which hasn’t been mentioned:
Chapstick or similar balm with sunblock (talking through blistered lips is no fun, and they burn just like skin!)
Kerchief/Bandana so that you can wash your neck, splash water on your head, wash your fingers, whatever. Remember that most restrooms don’t have paper towels any more, and being able to throw water on your neck is very refreshing. Always have enough water!!!
Throat drops/Vitamin C drops are vital. If you are not used to talking all day, your throat will be raw and your voice non-existant. If you want to do any victory cheering above a whisper, bring something to keep the whistle wetted. Orange flavor will help with breath, too. ;)
Disposable earplugs, eyemask if you are sharing a room with people coming and going at all hours, or are too excited to sleep and fasten onto any noise, or just have trouble sleeping away from your own bed, these will cut down on the distractions.
Deck of cards I find that Solitaire relaxes my brain if it is spinning in all directions, and some games such as Hearts can be played while standing in long lines waiting. A deck of cards is a traditional ice-breaker and most people know at least a few games. I travel with a Scrabble set, but the scifi community is full of people who love words.
Spare pen/pencils and Post-It pad are also useful for leaving notes to yourself or others.
And what to leave behind?
Anything perfumed. Mosquitoes and wasps and such are attracted to floral scents (you don’t want bugbites!). Also if you are in close quarters with others, you don’t want to stink up the room. Male sweat isn’t nearly as offensive as perfume on an airplane.
Anything new. Unless it has been washed to softness or broken in, there is a risk that the spiffy new outfit will chafe, cling, raise blisters, or worse. I prefer old silk for traveling.
HTH,
Carolly