Fitzy

Family!

Jeez, I’m still depressed from the last thread.

3 things I would eat though.
A HUGE T-Bone,My grandmothers brown beans, and fried ‘taters an’ onions .
Cain’t beat it.

Christy! Happy Thanksgiving. Am contentedly awaiting older egrDaughter and egrSon from afar.

Quite the merry crowd today at the pie shop. People were talking to strangers and enjoying even waiting in line.

Btw this pie shop is where the pumpkin muffins came from, and they do mail order. Just in case you want to treat yourself for Christmas.

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone. I recommend celebrating the holiday by supporting Ciro Rodriguez for Congress in the runoff against Republican Rep. Henry Bonilla in Texas 23. This is our last chance at a Democratic pick up in 2006.

Unfortunately, the authors of SYFPH diaries at Daily Kos are not supporting Rodriguez. I guess they are not committed to electing Democrats. But we can. Donate to Ciro, or volunteer for his campaign. This race can be won, as Democrats received more votes in the open primary than Republican Henry Bonilla, who was the only Republican on the ballot. Bonilla also failed to clear 50% despite spending $2 million.

It’s only 5 am here so I can’t think of much but coffee, but Happy Thankgiving to Christie, Jane, Pach, Trex and all the FDL pups.

In an otherwise uneven piece at salon.com, Walter Shapiro has a nicely condensed paragraph about this holiday:

What is wondrous about Thanksgiving is that it is the only national holiday that has stoutly — very stoutly after dinner is consumed — resisted commercialization (buying a Butterball turkey is not the linchpin of capitalism), religious excess (the Puritans were not your typical evangelical voters) and jingoistic displays of patriotism (this is a day blessedly free of another Kate Smith rendition of “God Bless America”). In short, Thanksgiving appeals to our better angels, secular though they may be.

petedownunder @ 6

It’s only 5 am here so I can’t think of much but coffee, but Happy Thankgiving to Christie, Jane, Pach, Trex and all the FDL pups.

Pete, if it’s 5am then you are already in Thanksgiving! Hope it’s a good one.

Here is the location of the Larry Kissell Recount Fund via egrBlue.

I know people are pretty much tapped out, but if you can spare some funds they are in need.

Larry PERSONALLY loaned the campaign about $40,000. I hope we can help with the recount and with the debt. The N.C. Democratic Party, bless their hearts, have already coughed up the maximum allowed.

I’ve got Karen Carter on the page too, just scroll down to near the bottom.

On the topic of Thanksgiving,something failed on the power grid in our neighborhood and our house was without electricity from about 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. local time. I am thankful this happened today and not tomorrow, when it would have made a disaster of the Thanksgiving meal we will be preparing.

(Sorry, keyboard snafu posted too early)

1. - In your eyes by Peter Gabriel

2. - Say Anything
- Breakfast club
- Christmas Vacation

3. - Porterhouse steak with au-poive
- garlic mashed potatoes
- A pint.

4. - Antigua (Sandals)
- Marco Island, FL
- Lake Anna (20 years ago in my childhood)

5. - Pet Semetary
- The Hungry Catapillar (with my daughter)
- Ok, I don’t read much lately.

6. - House, I love the diagnostic angle.
- Seinfeld, one episode in particular
- Divorce court. (The judge kills me)

Fond memories of YK, Cruise Director Hardin Smith!
This is our family’s blended list, therefore there are unresolved ties that yield four choices:

1. Three songs you can — and do — listen to again and again.
a. Bridge Over Troubled Water (Simon and Garfunkel)
b. Doot-Doot (freur)
c. Let it Be (Beatles)
d. You’re So Vain (Carly Simon)

2. Three movies you can — and do — watch over and over.
a. South Park: Bigger Longer Uncut
b. Koyanasquatsi, Life Out of Balance
c. The Hunger
d. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

3. Three dishes you would choose for your last meal.
a. Lobster newburgh
b. Turkey stuffing
c. Pecan pie

4. Three most relaxing vacation spots you’ve ever visited.
a. Hawaii
b. Puerta Vallarta
c. Nauset Beach, Cape Cod, Mass

5. Three books that you consider great reads.
a. WPITW (Olbermann)
b. Profiles in Courage (JFK/Sorenson)
c. A History of the World in Ten-and-a-Half Chapters, Barnes

6. Three shows that you consider the best on television, past and present.
a. Soap
b. Twin Peaks
c. Countdown

egregious @ 9

Here is the location of the Larry Kissell Recount Fund via egrBlue.

I know people are pretty much tapped out, but if you can spare some funds they are in need.

Larry PERSONALLY loaned the campaign about $40,000. I hope we can help with the recount and with the debt. The N.C. Democratic Party, bless their hearts, have already coughed up the maximum allowed.

I’ve got Karen Carter on the page too, just scroll down to near the bottom.

But what about Ciro Rodriguez? He is running against a Republican in a runoff on 12 DEC, and he can win this race based on the results of the open primary on election day. If we are committed to elected Democrats to the House, we have to support Ciro. The DCCC, the Texas Democratic Party, activist Latino organizations and local Texas Democrats are all supporting Ciro. We must too. Please add Ciro to your list. Besides, he is a true progressive Democrat. Let us be Democrats and let us support Ciro.

Thanks for the prompt Christy! Hope everyone has a happy and civil (in the real sense, not the Joe Lieberman sense) Thanksgiving.

Songs:
“Konstantine” by Something Corporate
“The Light & The Glass” by Coheed & Cambria
“Counting off the days” by …And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead

Movies:
Boondock Saints, Good Will Hunting, Requiem for a Dream

Last meal:
Grandma’s matzo ball soup, ahi tuna sashimi, medium-rare filet mignon

Relaxing spots:
Waipio Valley, Hawaii; Lake Tahoe; Any coffee shop with free wifi, comfy chairs, and no incoming business calls

Books:
“The Rules of Attraction” by Ellis, “Upside Down” by Galeano, “For Common Things” by Jed Purdy

TV:
The Wire, Nip/Tuck, The West Wing

Here is the pie shop. The real down home stuff.

It was founded by a local woman who had retired and was looking for something to do. People had admired her baking, so she opened up a little shop to see if they would sell. HA!

Mail order pie…life is good.

2. Three movies you can — and do — watch over and over.

Casablanca
Roman Holiday
Inn of the Sixth Happiness

Ok, so I don’t get out much!

Super idea Christy!

3 Songs-”Promised Land”-Bruce, “Come Back”-J Geils Band, “Irish Rover”-The Dubliners

3 Movies-”Lord of the Rings” (I consider it 1 movie)”Moonstruck” and “The Sting”

3 Foods-Steak, shrimp and Gazpacho

3 Books-Any Tolkien, any Clive Cussler, and anything by David Halberstam

3 TV Shows-Larry Sanders(the funniest show ever), MASH and Seinfeld.

3 Vacation spots-Galleon Beach, Antigua, Alta/Snowbird, UT, and Block Island, RI

A couple of months ago I ddn’t think I’d be alive today, so this is going to be a wonderful Thanksgiving in my home this year.

For those here who haven’t tried it yet, I’m engaging in a delightful bit of Holiday activism aimed at gently altering the course of Human Civilization by touching the hearts of others. Your help would be appreciated in passing this around to your friends and family.

Thanks.

May the Love that knows no Compehension find refuge in your hearts and in your homes forever.

A Christmas Card To The World

Twisted Martini @ 17

Super idea Christy!

3 Songs-”Promised Land”-Bruce, “Come Back”-J Geils Band, “Irish Rover”-The Dubliners

3 Movies-”Lord of the Rings” (I consider it 1 movie)”Moonstruck” and “The Sting”

3 Foods-Steak, shrimp and Gazpacho

3 Books-Any Tolkien, any Clive Cussler, and anything by David Halberstam

TV Shows-Larry Sanders(the funniest show ever), MASH and Seinfeld.

AhHAA! Another Cussler fan! Good man.

Songs:
Radiation Vibe, Superstition, Human Touch
Movies:
Coconuts (Marx Bros), Wizard of Oz, Twelve Monkeys
Dishes:
Prime Rib, Yorkshire Pudding, Creamed Spinach
Vacation:
Anywhere I can canoe
Books:
Bleak House, Gone with the Wind, Lose 200 lbs this weekend
TV: Twin Peaks, X-Files, Night Stalker

Louisiana Girl @ 13

egregious @ 9

Here is the location of the Larry Kissell Recount Fund via egrBlue.

I know people are pretty much tapped out, but if you can spare some funds they are in need.

Larry PERSONALLY loaned the campaign about $40,000. I hope we can help with the recount and with the debt. The N.C. Democratic Party, bless their hearts, have already coughed up the maximum allowed.

I’ve got Karen Carter on the page too, just scroll down to near the bottom.

But what about Ciro Rodriguez? He is running against a Republican in a runoff on 12 DEC, and he can win this race based on the results of the open primary on election day. If we are committed to elected Democrats to the House, we have to support Ciro. The DCCC, the Texas Democratic Party, activist Latino organizations and local Texas Democrats are all supporting Ciro. We must too. Please add Ciro to your list. Besides, he is a true progressive Democrat. Let us be Democrats and let us support Ciro.

I just got a letter from his campaign today and it says the runoff is tentatively scheduled for December 19th

Okay, here are my answers:

1. Three songs you can — and do — listen to again and again. Lately it has been: Get Here by Oleta Adams; Desert Rose by Sting; and Natural Woman by Carole King. (No idea why, because they really don’t go together, but they’ve been my repeat choices lately on the iPod.)

2. Three movies you can — and do — watch over and over. Out of Africa, Spirited Away and Love, Actually (lately, it’s been comfort movies).

3. Three dishes you would choose for your last meal. Roasted garlic mashed potatoes with port wine sauce from Spago, my Granny’s homemade macaroni and cheese (if only to be able to eat with her one last time…miss her this time of year), and Granny’s yummy rice custard. (Mmmm…starch fest for me, I suppose. lol)

4. Three most relaxing vacation spots you’ve ever visited. Hilton Head in the winter; Disney World in the late Fall; and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC pretty much any time.

5. Three books that you consider great reads. This one is tough, but I’m going to corss-genres here: Dune by Frank Herbert; any book in the George R.R. Martin Song of Ice and Fire saga; and pretty much anything by Dickens, although it is tough to beat Oliver Twist. But SO many more…

6. Three shows that you consider the best on television, past and present. The shows I miss: West Wing, MASH and All In The Family.

Great Questions
Songs: Moondance- Van Morrison
La Vien Rose- Edith Piaf
The Passenger- Iggy Pop
Movies: Dirty Rotten Scoundrals
Casablanca
A Christmas Story
Books : Confederacy of Dunces
Look Homeward Angel
Amphigorey

OfT:
Seeing [dangerstein] on FOX identified as a “Democratic Strategist” (ascribing racial and genderexpression stereotypes in this newly hyped unwed mothers study) makes me wonder — how can Democrats protect our brand from such poachers?

Coca-Cola would never let any ex-employee (who subsequently worked for Pepsi head-to-head against Coke!!) go on the teevee and be identified as a Coke Strategist.

Protecting brand identity is very important, and will only increase in importance as we go forward. Can’t we demand [dangerstein] shed OUR brand ID, encouraging him to adopt his own, perhaps “IDiot”?

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1. Three songs you can — and do — listen to again and again.

- side 2 of Abbey Road
- “Biko”, Peter Gabriel
- “Crosseyed and Painless”, Talking Heads
- “Amelia” and “Song for Sharon”, Joni Mitchell

Cozumel @ 21

Louisiana Girl @ 13

egregious @ 9

But what about Ciro Rodriguez? He is running against a Republican in a runoff on 12 DEC, and he can win this race based on the results of the open primary on election day. If we are committed to elected Democrats to the House, we have to support Ciro. The DCCC, the Texas Democratic Party, activist Latino organizations and local Texas Democrats are all supporting Ciro. We must too. Please add Ciro to your list. Besides, he is a true progressive Democrat. Let us be Democrats and let us support Ciro.

I just got a letter from his campaign today and it says the runoff is tentatively scheduled for December 19th

I guess Gov. Perry will waffle until he and his cronies can find the worst day possible to hold the runoff. This is all the more reason for us to support Ciro, for we need someone who will challenge Republicans both in the House and in Texas. This is the real race of December, and all of us who are Democrats need to support him. Let us add another seat to the House, and let us be true Democrats.

1. “I Wanna Destroy You,” Soft Boys; “Cross Town Traffic,” Jimi; “We’re A Happy Family,” Ramones.

2. APOCALYPSE NOW, DOWN BY LAW, FIGHT CLUB.

3. Real southern-fried chicken, unagi sushi, and a big Harris Ranch tri-tip ‘cuz I can’t eat red meat anymore.

4. San Blas Islands (Panama), Prague, Edinburgh

5. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Twain; On The Road, Kerouac; The Last Investigation, Gaeton Fonzi [near-cracking of JFK assassination]. The 3 books that influenced my life the most.

6. I prefer not to think about this…

1. Three songs you can — and do — listen to again and again.

Just My Imagination (Temptations)
What a Wonderful World (Louis Armstrong)
In My Life (Beatles)

2. Three movies you can — and do — watch over and over.

Young Frankenstein
Some Like It Hot
Fantasia

3. Three dishes you would choose for your last meal.

B&J’s Cherry Garcia
HaganDaaz’s Dulce de Leche
Denali’s Moose Tracks

4. Three most relaxing vacation spots you’ve ever visited.

Okracoke Island
Rocky Mountain National Park
Key West

5. Three books that you consider great reads.

Devil in the White City (Eric Larson)
Mists of Avalon (Marian Zimmer Bradley)
Mallory’s Oracle (Carol O’Connell)

6. Three shows that you consider the best on television, past and present.

Edward R Murrow’s See It Now
The Daily Show
Soap

Happy Thanksgiving to All

Movies (that must be watched at least once per year:
1. Braveheart
2. Pulp Fiction
3. Field of Dreams/Bull Durham/Tin Cup (pick-em)

Last meal (excluding my mother’s chili or pork roast?)
1. Big steak, lobster tails, baked (not nuked) potato, ceasar sald.

Music that I continue listening to:
1. Anything from the Grievous Angel album (Gram Parsons/Emmylou Harris)

Best vacation spot (i.e. best beach) Siesta Key, Sarasota Fla.

Best on TV currently:
1. Studio 60
2. Deadwood
3. The Shield

Best on TV past:
1. West Wing
2. Sports Night
3. Soap

Happy Thanksgiving to all.

p.s. Guess who just finished getting his license back to practice law in IN?

3 songs
Dirty Laundry by The Eagles
Walk Away by Whatshername
Wildcat by Ratatat

3 movies
Lord of the Rings trilogy
Aliens
Jurassic Park

3 last dishes
meatloaf
mashed potatoes
corn on the cob

no vacation spots

3 TV shows
The original Saturday Night Live
Laugh-in
? Not a big series watcher

No vacation spots.

3 books
A Tale of Two Cities
Gone With The Wind
Lord of the Rings

1. Three songs you can — and do — listen to again and again.
Won’t Get Fooled Again - The Who
Turn out the Lights - Nelly Furtado
(What’s So Funny Bout)Peace, Love and Understanding - Elvis Costello

2. Three movies you can — and do — watch over and over.
Dr. Strangelove
Duck Soup
Indiscreet

3. Three dishes you would choose for your last meal.
Paella
Blackened mussels
tiramisu

4. Three most relaxing vacation spots you’ve ever visited.

Ha! That’s funny.

5. Three books that you consider great reads.

A Fan’s Notes - Frederick Exley
The Sportswriter - Richard Ford
All the Flashman books - George MacDonald Fraser

6. Three shows that you consider the best on television, past and present.

Dick Van Dyke Show
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
St. Elsewhere

1. I tend to listen to cds over and over, rather than certain songs. My current top three:
Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar Masters Collection vol. 2
Virginia Rodrigues, “Nos” (wonderful Brazilian singer)
Madeleine Peyroux, “Careless Love”

2. Cars/Finding Nemo/Toy Story 2 (graphic artist by trade, I love Pixars animation)
Notting Hill
Ten Things I Hate About You

3. If I knew it was my last meal, I wouldn’t waste time eating, I’d want to be digging in my garden.

4. Kauai, Maui, Great Smokies National Park

5. I tend to get enthused about certain authors, my current faves:
Karin Lowachee
Carl Hiaasen
Tim Dorsey

6. I hate TV and rarely can be enticed to sit and watch it, I will sit still for most of the following:
The New Red Green Show
BlackAdder

My sister had a coworker who related that at family gatherings, always, always, one of his flock of sisters would end up locking herself in the bathroom to cry. His concluding statement has become a annual reminder to my extended family, “Remember, hon, it ain’t family less someones in the bathroom cryin!”

Cliff Varnell @ 27

1. “I Wanna Destroy You,” Soft Boys; “Cross Town Traffic,” Jimi; “We’re A Happy Family,” Ramones.

2. APOCALYPSE NOW, DOWN BY LAW, FIGHT CLUB.

3. Real southern-fried chicken, unagi sushi, and a big Harris Ranch tri-tip ‘cuz I can’t eat red meat anymore.

4. San Blas Islands (Panama), Prague, Edinburgh

5. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Twain; On The Road, Kerouac; The Last Investigation, Gaeton Fonzi [near-cracking of JFK assassination]. The 3 books that influenced my life the most.

6. I prefer not to think about this…

Apocalypse Now is definitely in my top 10. “Hearts of Darkness” a documentary that Coppola’s wife made during the shooting, is an awesome companion to the movie.

egregious @ 15

Here is the pie shop. The real down home stuff.

It was founded by a local woman who had retired and was looking for something to do. People had admired her baking, so she opened up a little shop to see if they would sell. HA!

Mail order pie…life is good.

omg egr, maple avenue, vienna!! megatons of nostalgia!

1. Three songs you can — and do — listen to again and again.
Mustang Sally by Wilson Pickett
Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen
Whiskey in the Jar by various Irish bands.

2. Three movies you can — and do — watch over and over.
Casablanca
Star Wars
The Man Who Would Be King

3. Three dishes you would choose for your last meal.
Catfish Courtboullion from Dwyer’s Restaurant in Lafayette, LA
Steamed blue crabs with cider vinegar to dip the meat into
Homemade kobassy and sauerkraut
(dessert would be either sweet potato pie or poppyseed roll)

4. Three most relaxing vacation spots you’ve ever visited.
Tortola
London
Dublin

5. Three books that you consider great reads.
A Place of Execution by Val McDermid
Reverse of the Medal by Patrick O’Brien
Beautiful Swimmers by William Warner

6. Three shows that you consider the best on television, past and present.
Life on Earth - David Attenborough’s series
Sopranos (some seasons better than others)
Homicide: Life on the Streets (the first season more so than the others)

Three songs:
Desolation Row, by Bob Dylan
Wild Age, by Warren Zevon
Complete Control, by the Clash

Three movies:
Duck Soup
Sleeper
Harvey

Three Books:
The Long Goodbye, by Raymond Chandler
Breakfast of Champions, by the incomparable Kurt Vonnegut
The Once and Future King, by TH White
Catch-22, by Joseph Heller (Okay, I cheated with four…)

Three meals:
Probably all pizza

Three vacation spots:
Santa Barbara
Hanover, NH
and I haven’t been to the third one yet

Three Shows
The Dick van Dyke Show
MASH — but only until Henry and Trapper leave
Seinfeld — Michael Richards notwithstanding

ooohhhh - Out of Africa - yes!

We eat together ( husband and almost 17 yr old daughter almost every night.And it’s always from scratch. My daughther is a vegan while my husband and I eat meat…This morning I baked brownies and homemade pumpkin pie and made her a pumkin pie that has no dairy. We have tofurkey for her for Thurs…. Stuffing will be made by her with seitan Its yummy even for those of us that eat the turkey

Songs..
Gimmme Shelter The Stone
Rosalita Bruce Springsteen
Some enchanted Evening form South Pacific

Movies..
The Godfather Pt 2
Almost all Hitchcock movies
Mccabe and Mrs Miller -Robert Altman

3 dishes
Yukon Gold MAshed potatoes ( serving them Tom
A big juicy steak,,, Porterhouse
Spaghetti and meatballs

Books…
Fanny by Erica Jong,,, beautiful words and a great heroine
Hamlet
Peoples History _ Howard Zinn

Tv shows

MASH…hands down
West Wing.
6 feet under

6. Three shows that you consider the best on television, past and present.

Past…

Le Femm Nakita
The Prisoner
Twilight Zone

Present…

Countdown
The Daily Show
The Sopranos

1. Three songs you can — and do — listen to again and again.

a. Anything by Roy Orbison.
b. “Bernadette”
c. “Jewel of the Sea” (track 5 of “Atlantis”)

2. Three movies you can — and do — watch over and over.

a. “V for Vendetta”
b. “Remains of the Day”
c. “Lonesome Dove”

3. Three dishes you would choose for your last meal.

a. My mom’s fried potatoes and onions (she died in 2003)
b. Huge banana split
c. Lemon scallops from Normandy Farm Restaurant in Maryland

4. Three most relaxing vacation spots you’ve ever visited.

a. Guantanamo Bay (seriously - we lived there for 4 years in the mid-to-late 60s; I cried for weeks when we came back to the States)
b. Catalina Island
c. Log cabin outside Helena, Montana

5. Three books that you consider great reads.

a. One Hundred Years of Solitude
b. Forever Amber (so sue me)
c. Marley and Me

6. Three shows that you consider the best on television, past and present.

I’m out of the loop here, as I haven’t watched TV shows in a lot of years.

1: Albums Really this time of year: Blue by Joni Mitchell, Just in Time For Christmas by Nancy Lamott, and Abby Road.

2. Stat Wars. Life of Brian. Casablanca.

3 Steak withs sides and banana cream pie for desert.

4. What’s a “vacation” and how do you “spot” one?

5. The Aquarian Gospel by Levi. Illusions by Richard Bach, and a toss up between Stranger in a Strange Land and The Prophet.

6. Smallville. It’s the best show on TV since the original Star Trek. Star Trek. Eureka.

Three songs you can — and do — listen to again and again.
1) Have You Had Enough
2) The Internet is Not a Big Truck
3) Thick As A Brick

2. Three movies you can — and do — watch over and over.
1) Secrets & Lies
2) The Color Purple
3) Sling Blade

3. Three dishes you would choose for your last meal.
1) Grouper in Pecan Butter w/ Muniere Sauce
2) Eggplant Rollatini
3) Zuppa DePesch

4. Three most relaxing vacation spots you’ve ever visited.
1) Martinique
2) Berlin
3) Lake Placid, NY

5. Three books that you consider great reads.
1) Anything by Stephen King
2) Anything by John Grisham
3) Anything Not by Rush Limbaugh & Bill O’Falaffel

6. Three shows that you consider the best on television, past and present.
1) I love Lucy
2) Sopranos
3) Six Feet Under

OT, but funny:

My wife has a new job mentoring intern student teachers. She works with eleven of them. One teaches at a public grade school full of fundamentalist and evangelical kids. Some of these kids don’t seem excited about their studies, cause - ya know - Jesus is coming back real soon.

But this intern has come up with a four-word phrase which seems to work every time.

“You’ll be blank - blank-.”

any guesses on the other two words?

Three is hard, but I’ll try to follow the directions.

TV shows . . . Northern Exposure, MASH, and West Wing

Relaxing vacations spots . . . camping along the Northern California coast in October after all the tourists are home and the kids are in school; fishing off the dock at my parent’s home in Southern Illinois; Rocky Mountain National Park in February, during the week when no one else is there.

Songs . . . lots to choose from . . . how about Canadian Brass’ Saints Hallelujah! (listened to it just yesterday after seeing Wynton Marsallis lead the New Orleans-style funeral procession at Ed Bradley’s memorial service on C-SPAN!); Handel’s Messiah; and Jimmy Buffett’s Gypsies in the Palace. (Lots more to choose from, but these are a good three.)

Movies . . . Cinema Paradiso, Princess Bride, and Bull Durham.

Meal . . . an appetizer of potstickers and shu mai (with a good Gewurtramiener), a Chicago-style deep dish pizza for a main course (with a hearty Zinfandel), and after a break to cleanse the palate, a German himmeltorte for dessert (finished off with a nice port).

Books . . . This is the toughest, because I’ve got too many around to choose from. . . .Gotta have at least one science fiction book, so how about Stardance by Spider and Jeanne Robinson; The Language of Life by Bill Moyers; and the Bible. (surprise, surprise)

Wow, more mentions of “Soap” than I imagined there would be! Love it!

Ed*ard Teller @ 43

OT, but funny:

My wife has a new job mentoring intern student teachers. She works with eleven of them. One teaches at a public grade school full of fundamentalist and evangelical kids. Some of these kids don’t seem excited about their studies, cause - ya know - Jesus is coming back real soon.

But this intern has come up with a four-word phrase which seems to work every time.

“You’ll be blank - blank-.”

any guesses on the other two words?

left
behind

Dune!

White Christmas
Back in the Saddle again
Jesus Loves the Little Children

How Green Was My Valley
Grapes of Wrath
The Bishop’s Wife

Pinto beans ‘n ham hocks, corn bread, greens
Buttered lobster, baked spud, veggies
BBQ gator tail, pan fries, Caesar salad

Cayman Islands
Roatan, Honduras
Copan, Honduras

How Green Was My Valley
Grapes of Wrath
The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge

Olbermann
Have Gun Will Travel
Twilight Zone

Slowpoke (Neil Young)
Quiet City (Aaron Copeland)
Gates of Delirium (Yes)

LOTR (all three of them)
Wizard of Oz
Chinatown

Chocolate ice cream
Shrimp scampy
Grilled asparagus

Italy
Mexico
New York

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (Robert Pirsig)
Skintight (Carl Hiaasen)
Into Thin Air (Jon Krakauer)

Seinfeld
Six Feet Under
The West Wing

1. Three songs

Brand New Day - Sting (Brand New Day)
Waiting in Vain - Annie Lennox (Medusa)
Time - Pink Floyd (Dark Side of the Moon)

2. Three movies

Home for the Holidays (all the sad, funny, familial angst you could want without the airfare)
The Fifth Element (because love is redemptive)
The Matrix (because I want to kick ass like Carrie Ann Moss; I’d settle for being able to wear a shiny cat-suit like her)

3. Three dishes

As enjoyed at Emeril’s NOLA restaurant, on one of the very best chick-friend vacations I ever had:

Fire-roasted duck breast served with a nice shiraz
Garlic-mashed sweet and russet potatoes
Bread pudding with buttermilk ice cream

Honorable mention: Sesame-seared tuna roll at Cafe Appareil with a little zinfandel

4. Three most relaxing vacation

My folks’ place outside Marquette in the Upper Peninsula during the month of July (cheap, occasional guilt-trip, always someone ready to help with berry-picking or drinking margaritas while sitting on the beach on Superior’s shore);
Kailua-Kona Hawaii (expensive, but worth it, get a condo on the water and let the surf lull you to sleep);
My own whirlpool tub when the kids are staying overnight with friends (cheap, satisfying, good wine cellar in the basement)

5. Three books

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (reads like fiction);
Collapse by Jared Diamond (even my kids love it);
Toss up: Bird by Bird, by Anne Lamott, or Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris (because we need short, sweet, funny and good writing to punctuate our lives, like little chocolates from time to time).

6. Three shows

Carl Sagan’s Cosmos (always felt like I was both significant and insignificant at the same time when watching this show);
Northern Exposure (zen - no other television show ever really got zen like this one did);
X-Files (satisfies the tinfoil hatter in me, and Duchovny? Yum).

Honorable mention: any National Geographic special featuring Jacques Cousteau, because he was simply good for you and for the earth.

Happy T-Day, FirePups!

Always difficult for the humanities major to narrow things down to just three things. It’s a big world. :)

1. Three songs you can — and do — listen to again and again.

Leo Kottke’s version of “Eight Miles High”
“Boogie Woogie Waltz” - Weather Report
“Dolphins” - Fred Neil

2. Three movies you can — and do — watch over and over.

“Real Genius”
“To Kill a Mockingbird”
“Chinatown”

3. Three dishes you would choose for your last meal.

The pu-pu platter from the now-defunct Pearl City Tavern.

The wienerschnitzel from Siechens in Wiesbaden.

My own chocolate and orange cheesecake.

4. Three most relaxing vacation spots you’ve ever visited.

Never had the money and time together for a real vacation.

5. Three books that you consider great reads.

Ah, well, that’s tough to narrow down to three. Probably, Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow (I might be the only person in the world who’s read it cover to cover three times), Robert Penn Warren’s All the King’s Men and Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude.

6. Three shows that you consider the best on television, past and present.

Can’t say about the present. No television. In the past, was always amused by “WKRP,” rarely missed “The Dick Cavett Show” when it was on, and I still think Edward R. Murrow’s “Harvest of Shame” was the best television documentary ever produced.

Oh wow, three per category is way too tuff so I’m goona cheat and just go with one per. And no laffin! I mean it!

Song: Layla. There’s one for the ages, Eric and Duane etal. There are some surprising connections behind the story.

Movie: No, not Citizen Kane, not Casablanca. Predator. Yeah, so sue me. Full length cartoon sans animation.

Last meal: Ham and beans with lotsa ketchup. Corn bread, spinach salad, sweat tea. Love them beans. Give me gas bad. Circumstances of the meal obviates the need to worry about that. Heh.

Relaxing vacation: Right here at home. Fun vacation, Pre Katrina Mardi Gras.

Great read: Terry Pratchett’s Going Postal. For reading during that relaxing vacation.

Tee Vee show: Twilight Zone. No contest.

Three songs (god, this is hard):
Good Vibrations - The Beach Boys
Ring of Fire - Cash
Heavy Metal Drummer - Wilco

Three Movies
Pulp Fiction
Lord of the Rings Trilogy (I’m counting that as 1)
High Fidelity

3 Dishes
Anything from Tanoshii in Chicago
Steak from Gibson’s
Something else from Tanoshii

3 vacation spots
I haven’t done a lot of vacationing except for Vegas, so I’ll go with 2 places I want to go to
Japan
Australia

3 Books
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Catch-22

3 Shows
Seinfeld
The Daily Show
Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Ed*ard Teller @ 43

OT, but funny:

My wife has a new job mentoring intern student teachers. She works with eleven of them. One teaches at a public grade school full of fundamentalist and evangelical kids. Some of these kids don’t seem excited about their studies, cause - ya know - Jesus is coming back real soon.

But this intern has come up with a four-word phrase which seems to work every time.

“You’ll be blank - blank-.”

any guesses on the other two words?

right ahead? (opposite day)

“just one more little slice” of pie

It is important not to have a raggedy edge on the pie. If you see a rough edge, go ahead and take some excess pie out of the dish.

Re movies: Blues Brothers, because after each calamity they get up, dust themselves off, and set off again on their Mission From God.

1. I Can Only Imagine - Mercy Me
Who Am I - Casting Crowns
The Mountain of God - Third Day
2. Shawshank Redemption
Field of Dreams
Wizard of Oz
3. Lesa’s morning breakfast of Frosted Mini-Wheats, Strawberries, Milk, and LOVE.
Mom’s Thanksgiving Turkey, Dressing, and LOVE.
Lesa’s Mom’s Apple Pie and LOVE.
4. Newton Falls, Ohio - where I grew up
Bar Harbor, Maine
Savannah, GA and Tybee Island
5. I Love Lucy
Cheers
Seinfeld

I am a 54 year old survivor of lung cancer now for 4 years. This was very hard for me.

Peace and LOVE to all,
PJ

egregious — those pumpkin muffins were awesome. I may have to place myself an order for them for Christmas. :)

1. Songs
Eyes of the World - Grateful Dead
What’s Goin On - Marvin Gaye
Rastaman Chant - Bob Marley

2. Movies
The Princess Bride
Star Wars
any Chris Guest ensemble movies

3. last meal
crawfish monica
raw oysters (hey it’s my last meal!)
seared ahi

4. vacation spots
Tahiti (Moorea, Bora Bora, and Rangiroa)
Negril Jamaica
Molokai

5. books
any Tom Robbins
Sometimes a Great Notion

6. TV shows
MASH
Taxi
Daily Show

“And no laffin! I mean it!”

“Anybody want a peanut?”

The Princess Bride. How could I have forgotten?

OfT:
Hey, America, better wait to getcherself a Tahoe, Suburban or Corvette! Kerkorian starts to bail on his “investment” in GM:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/.....01071.html

yup, oysters

I’m sorry, I missed the book thing.

5. 1984 - George Orwell
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Animal Farm - George Orwell

Songs:
1. “Imagine” John Lennon
2. “Born to Run” Bruce Springsteen
3. “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For” U2

Movies:
1. Casablanca
2. Diner
3. Lord of the Rings

Meals:
1. Mom’s Brisket
2. The Traditional Tuscan Menu at L’Enoteca in Florence
3. Grandma’s potato pancakes

Vacation spots:
1. Portofino
2. Bali
3. Glacier National Park

Books
1. The Kite Runner
2. Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
3. Catch-22
4. Into Thin Air

Current TV
1. The Sopranos
2. Rome
3. The Daily Show

Past TV
1. Hill Street Blues
2. Homocide: Life on the Street
3. Cheers
4. The Larry Sanders Show

Just for fun, a little poem:

MAY YOUR STUFFING BE TASTY, MAY YOUR TURKEY BE PLUMP.
MAY YOUR POTATOES ‘N GRAVY HAVE NARY A LUMP,
MAY YOUR YAMS BE DELICIOUS,
MAY YOUR PIES TAKE THE PRIZE,
MAY YOUR THANKSGIVING DINNER
STAY OFF OF YOUR THIGHS.
Happy Thanksgiving!

I gotta go bake some pies, but I can try a few of the “best ofs”..

The song is Heaven, by Lennon
The movie is To Kill a Mockingbird
The dish is potato-leek soup (Irish at heart)
The relaxing vacation is Cape Cod, the most spectacular is San Francisco and North of Golden Gate Bridge
The book could also be To Kill a Mockingbird, but so as not to repeat it’s Pilgrim At Tinker’s Creek (Dillard)
And the show is M.A.S.H

Enjoy yourselves all ye Firedog Folks!

Patrick 4/4 @
45

Ed*ard Teller @ 43

OT, but funny:

My wife has a new job mentoring intern student teachers. She works with eleven of them. One teaches at a public grade school full of fundamentalist and evangelical kids. Some of these kids don’t seem excited about their studies, cause - ya know - Jesus is coming back real soon.

But this intern has come up with a four-word phrase which seems to work every time.

“You’ll be blank - blank-.”

any guesses on the other two words?

left
behind

Bingo! Patrick 4/4 - “You’ll be left behind.” Scares the hell out of ‘em…

Wow! What a great thread! Hmmm, let’s see…

1. Not songs, but CDs. “So Far” by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, “Goostly Psalmes” (Anglo-American Psalmody 1550-1800, and the Rachmaninoff Vespers.

2. Hopscotch, I have a HUGE collection of Christmas movies I’m just as likely to watch in August.

3. Eggplant parmigiana, fresh bay scallops the way my Uncle Harold cooked them, and just about any vegetable except okra.

4. Nantucket, Yosemite (well, back in the early 70’s before the air pollution) and Cornwall.

5. Fear & Loathing on the Campaing Trail ‘72, The Just So Stories and Stalkey & Company by Kipling, and Harry Potter.

6. Law & Order, The Story of English, and ???

Have a wonderful Thanksgiving, pups!

1. Three songs you can — and do — listen to again and again.
Ain’t no Sunshine - Bill Withers
Only Daddy that’l Walk The Line - Waylon
We had it all - Waylon

2. Three movies you can — and do — watch over and over.
The Jason Bourne Movies
Giant
The Trilolgy

3. Three dishes you would choose for your last meal.
Meat Loaf
Scalloped potatoes
Green Beans

4. Three most relaxing vacation spots you’ve ever visited.
Never had a relaxing vacation.

5. Three books that you consider great reads.
Godfather
Tom Sawyer

6. Three shows that you consider the best on television, past and present.
NA

jeffreyw @
51

Oh wow, three per category is way too tuff so I’m goona cheat and just go with one per. And no laffin! I mean it!

Song: Layla. There’s one for the ages, Eric and Duane etal. There are some surprising connections behind the story.

Movie: No, not Citizen Kane, not Casablanca. Predator. Yeah, so sue me. Full length cartoon sans animation.

Last meal: Ham and beans with lotsa ketchup. Corn bread, spinach salad, sweat tea. Love them beans. Give me gas bad. Circumstances of the meal obviates the need to worry about that. Heh.

Relaxing vacation: Right here at home. Fun vacation, Pre Katrina Mardi Gras.

Great read: Terry Pratchett’s Going Postal. For reading during that relaxing vacation.

Tee Vee show: Twilight Zone. No contest.

“If it bleeds, we can kill it.” “Ain’t got time to bleed.”

Where else to you get Apollo Creed, Jesse the Body and Aganold together in one sitting?

Meant Imagine, by Lennon (sloppy work)

movies:

Usual Suspects
Babette’s Feast
Le Diner des Cons

meal:

butter lettuce salad with Stilton cheese, pears, and grilled walnuts
duck confit with polenta
a good red wine

Ed*ard Teller @ 63

Patrick 4/4 @
45

Ed*ard Teller @ 43

left
behind

Bingo! Patrick 4/4 - “You’ll be left behind.” Scares the hell out of ‘em…

and “shit out of luck” has too many words…

1. Three songs you can — and do — listen to again and again.

Norwegian Wood
Heart of Mine (hate to say it but Norah Jones version is phenomenal)
Powderfinger (Margo Timmins version)

2. Three movies you can — and do — watch over and over.

Casablanca
North by Northwest
The Seven Samarai

3. Three dishes you would choose for your last meal.

Lobster Thermador
Imperial Mock Duck (Thai)
Blackened Catfish

4. Three most relaxing vacation spots you’ve ever visited.

Quetico Provincial Park, Ontario
Winter Park, Colorado
Banff National Park of Canada

5. Three books that you consider great reads.

Dune
The Story of Philosophy
The Hunchback of Notre Dame

6. Three shows that you consider the best on television, past and present.

M*A*S*H
All in the Family
South Park

1. Songs
Bruce Springsteen, “The River”
The Association, “Cherish”
Dolly Parton, “These Old Bones”
(I don’t suppose compositions by Mozart or Haydn count as “songs”?)

2. Movies
“2001″ (at least 7 times)
“Galaxy Quest”
“Wizard of Oz” (there is ALWAYS something new to see in it)

3. Last meal
Vegetable soup
Moroccan chicken
Ann Amernick’s caramels

4. Vacation spot
Grand Canyon, Grand Canyon, Grand Canyon!

5. Books
“Tristram Shandy” by Laurence Sterne (hilarious)
“Perfume” by Patrick Suskind (hypnotic)
“Into the Heart of Borneo” by Redmond O’Hanlon (fascinating and funny)

6. TV shows (I rarely watch)
“Arrested Development”
“I, Claudius”
“The Vicar of Dibley”

Three songs you can — and do — listen to again and again.

1)Love and Affection / Willow (Joan Armatrading)
2)Someone Like You / Moondance (Van Morrison)
3)Jungleland / New York City Serenade (Bruce)

And that’s as much narrowing it down as I can do. :)

1. Three songs you can — and do — listen to again and again.
John Lennon, #9 Dream
Billie Holiday-just about anything
Shocking Blue, Acka Raga

2. Three movies you can — and do — watch over and over.
Wings of Desire
My Favorite Year
Chicken Run

3. Three dishes you would choose for your last meal.
Biftec de Chorizo from Argentina
Gnocchi with shaved Truffles
flourless chocolate cake

4. Three most relaxing vacation spots you’ve ever visited.
Lesvos, Greek islands
Goa, India
Tuscan countryside

5. Three books that you consider great reads.
John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany
Walter M. Miller, Jr., A Canticle for Liebowitz
The Lord of the Rings trilogy

6. Three shows that you consider the best on television, past and present.
The Colbert Report
The Twilight Zone
Wiseguy

Sorry if this is old news, but Iraq War Veteran Tammy Duckworth has herself a new job:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/.....01258.html

susan @ 73

Walter M. Miller, Jr., A Canticle for Liebowitz

Wow, I haven’t read that in 30 years. i liked it - except the convertin’ the jews part.

TeddySanFran @ 47

Dune!

Hey, don’t go dissen Frank Herbert’s classic until you’ve tried it. It’s a SF classic, not to mention an incomparable study of various human psyche. Just because your guy David Lynch ruined the first movie attempt (I noticed you chose Twin Peaks).

great thread, all.

Let’s see…

3 songs - “As” by Stevie Wonder,”Elements” Suzanne Sterling, “Imagine” John Lennon

3 movies - “Hairspray”, “Lord of the Rings”, “Eve’s Bayou”

3 books - “Lord of the Rings”, The Harry Potter Series, Anything by Jane Roberts/Seth

TV shows - Star Trek (esp. Voyager), Dr. Who, Medium

Well guess that shows what a big ol nerd I am… ah well back to work…

1. Oye Como Va (Santana), Because (Beatles), Don’t Advertise Your Man (Bonnie Raitt)

2. MASH; Bell, Book and Candle; Dr. Zhivago

3. Enchiladas w/ red chili and a fried egg on top; garlic chicken; chocolate cake w/ ice cream.

4. Jemez Wilderness; Chincoteague Island; Grand Canyon

5. The Moonstone; Reading Lolita in Tehran; The Wind in the Willows.

6. The Prisoner; The Medium; The Man from UNCLE.

I don’t like popular music; I don’t watch movies or television other than documentaries. I eat the same things every day; and none of the books I love would be considered “great reads.”

How about a quiz for those of us who love your blog but are not participants in the popular culture?

Tammy Duckworth has a head start. This woman already belongs to the ages. Most of us have to die first. I like Duckworth. A lot.

johnSwifty @ 76

TeddySanFran @ 47

Dune!

Hey, don’t go dissen Frank Herbert’s classic until you’ve tried it. It’s a SF classic, not to mention an incomparable study of various human psyche. Just because your guy David Lynch ruined the first movie attempt (I noticed you chose Twin Peaks).

Again, yet again!! — my enthusiasm translates in the toobz as sarcasm, for which I accept full responsibility. I love Dune. I’ve read all the sequels, and the odd Young-Herbert-penned prequel as well. Still can’t decide between the “Blond Dune” and the “Dark Dune” movie versions. But they are both worth watching, although SciFi has butchered the “Blonde Dune” version and I encourage all to avoid the result. The butchered version includes storyboard-like panels and narrative transitions that (a) give too much away and (b) corrupt the sequence.

I too am an unashamed Dune fan.

Wow. I see a lot of people had my TV pics. Back in the day when families really used to gather around the TV and watch together. Anyway, here are my picks:

1. Three songs you can — and do — listen to again and again.

I don’t want to set the world on fire - the Ink Spots
7 Little Indians - John Hiatt
If I Had a Boat - Lyle Lovett

2. Three movies you can — and do — watch over and over.

Casablanca
To Catch a Thief
The Usual Suspects

3. Three dishes you would choose for your last meal.

Foie Gras (I know, I know)
Mahi mahi chowder
Fillet au poive, rare

4. Three most relaxing vacation spots you’ve ever visited.

Bermuda
Hawaii (sailing around Oahu)
Eleuthera

5. Three books that you consider great reads.

The Power of Myth - Joseph Campbell
The Portable Jung
The Gnostic Gospels - Elaine Pagels

6. Three shows that you consider the best on television, past and present.

All in the Family
M*A*S*H
St. Elsewhere

1. Three songs you can — and do — listen to again and again.
a. Time has come today (Steve Earle cover, though I like the original, too.)
b. Various things from Tommy
c. Tangled up in blue-Bob Dylan/Love minus zero (live version from 1975 Rolling Thunder tour) Bob Dylan. (tie)

2. Three movies you can — and do — watch over and over.
a. Ben Hur
b. Lawrence of Arabia
c. The Empire Strikes Back

3. Three dishes you would choose for your last meal.
a. home-made chicken and dumplings
b. mulled cranberry sauce with ginger (making it right now…mmm)
c. chocolate cake

4. Three most relaxing vacation spots you’ve ever visited.
a. Sarasota, or Ft George Island, Florida
b. the coast around Vera Cruz, Mexico
c. Washington DC at Thanksgiving, when nobody is at the museums.

5. Three books that you consider great reads.
a. Is Lord of the Rings one book or three? Tolkein thought of it as one, so I’m calling it one.
b. Archaeological Survey of the Lower Mississippi Valley by Phillips, Ford, and Griffin
c. Harry Potter 3 or 4

6. Three shows that you consider the best on television, past and present.
a. Star Trek
b. Firefly
c. The better seasons of West Wing

Longtime lurker finally jumps in . .
1. Songs: Hey Jude (Beatles), Train in Vain (Clash), You’re With Stupid (Aimee Mann)
2. Movies: Roman Holiday, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Princess Bride
3. Last meal: Sauteed Scallops, New England Clam Chowder, Pasta with pesto
4. Relaxing vacations: Nova Scotia, Bermuda, Outer Banks NC
5. Books: Anna Karenina, Portrait of a Lady, Franny and Zooey
6. TV shows: I Love Lucy, Seinfeld, Daily Show

Katherine @
82

I don’t like popular music; I don’t watch movies or television other than documentaries. I eat the same things every day; and none of the books I love would be considered “great reads.”

How about a quiz for those of us who love your blog but are not participants in the popular culture?

Great idea!

omg StE!!

1. Three songs…
*-”Last To Know” by Ajeandro Escovedo performed by the Jayhawks.
*-”Who Wants To Live Forever” by Queen
*-”Dog & Butterfly” by Heart

2. Three movies…
*-”Spirited Away”
*-”Chinatown”
*-”The Heiress”(1949-Olivia de Havilland and Montgomery Clift)

3. Three dishes…
*-rare Prime Rib with lots of horseradish
*-Corn on the Cob(grilled in the husk)
*-my mother’s potato salad

4. Three most relaxing vacation…
*-Escalante country(southern Utah)
*-Laramie Peak
*-staying home and working in my garden

5. Three books…
*-”Persuassion” by Jane Austen
*-”Big Trouble” by J. Anthony Lukas
*-”The House Of Mirth” by Edith Wharton

6. Three shows(TV)…
*-”The Wire”
*-”I, Claudius”
*-”The Daily Show”