Login HereSo, who made the rule I only get one Valentine?
So, of course, I have my honey. At the moment, he's sitting on the couch channel surfing. Jane just got up off that couch a little while ago to take the poodles home, after we all shared a dinner together here at La Casa de Pachacutec.
So, Jane is my Valentine, too. And Kobe and Lucy and Katy. Especially Katy: she's such a sweetie.
Who's your Valentine? S/he doesn't have to be a partner, spouse or lover.
Leave a Valentine's Day note in the comments. Then, this Wednesday, February 14th, be sure to tell your Valentines what they mean to you. Consider the comments tonight a rehearsal, a dry run.
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F I T Z !!!!
Pach’s Dinosaur Flatulence-free Zone!
I luv me some Madea.
Fitz? Me?
My Valentine goes out to all the FDLers out there fighting the good fight. They give me hope.
Thanks to every one out there.
Valentine to Anna Quindlen. And the troops.
EPU-ed from last thread:
Lost the link and don’t know how to pull it forward from the comment in the last thread, but you can find her new column at the newsweek website / columnists.
Must reading.
Hey!
That video is copyrighted material. Have it removed immediately!
Can’t get the Madea to load, either here or over at YouTube.
Anyone else having a problem?
Here is Prairie Sunshine’s lost link.
Don’t do Valentine’s Day. Been single too long and find all the promotion seems to be an effort to make those of us without SOs lesser human beings. Sorry. When I did have men in my life, they were always the ones who forgot Valentine’s Day and your birthday and nothing for Christmas. But, don’t ever forget his birthday. Don’t need or want that aggravation any more.
Thanks, Suzanne! I went back and figured out how to retrieve it, also.
AQ is must reading, pups. Talk it up!
NBC Nightly News had a powerful report tonight on the decimation of our National Guard capabilities here at home. Armament and equipment down to fractions of what it should be…half the guards fighting in Iraq. We are in sorry shape on the home front.
Why is George Bush trying to destroy America?
A big heart to Mrs. K8.
Hope her super-duper-hyper-magnum-razz-matazz- tests showed just a minor bump.
Hope to hear from her soon.
(((((Mrs K8)))))
Suzanne @ 8
That link is to this post. Did you mean to link to something else?
I love you…. and you… and you… and you too!
A friend of thirty years who is presently wearing herself out trying to salvage an elementary school class that was left to run to seed for the first half of the year as the regular teacher struggled with illness. When she talks about the kids, even the worst of them, her face lights up and it’s obvious she is hopelessly, helplessly in love with every one of them, no matter what their accomplishments or whether they are cooperative or a major pain in the butt. I’ve spent some late nights helping her, too few probably, and when she asks why I have no very good answer other than love is contagious. Perhaps I should simply say that is is at root selfishness, that it is more comfortable to lose some sleep than to think of her struggling alone, going to bed at two or three in the morning and waking again at six-thirty. Her husband, a successful businessman, thinks teachers are lowlife and tolerates her working mainly because his appetite for money is insatiable and he expects to be able to spend her money as well as his own. He bewilders me; how could he have lived with her for twenty years and never noticed the light in her eyes? But he grew up very poor, and has never been able to shake the hunger of that time.
Thirty years next September. We will be doing this together for the rest of our lives, the odd couple that no one could ever understand. We’ve never gone out together; there were always important things, vital things to do together, not that. But I am terrified she might overwork and hurt herself. I don’t know what I’d do without her; she can read my mind. Does it really matter what relationship one has with a double such as this?
Happy Valentine’s Day, L. Maybe I’ll get your daughter to buy you some flowers; she’s a good girl but tends to forget these things in her giddy early twenties. Meanwhile, there are those exercises on paragraph structure I promised you for your charges….
Try this:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17...../newsweek/
Prairie Sunshine @ 15
Thanks.
sorry for the wrong link. Prairie Sunshine has the real one up. too many tabs open again
It was nice to have Jane here. The dogs are fun and my partner is in love with them.
They came right into the house like it was their home when they arrived. But after competing for attention and scoping the place out, they lay down like big, black flokati rugs.
My anti- valentine to George
Roses are Red
Violets are Blue
Your’re NOT the decider,
you got no clue.
Bonnie @ 9
Yeah, been there, done that too. But the point that it doesn’t have to be that romantic-happily-ever-after-Hallmark-holiday kind of love. The English language, for all its beauty, has only one word, love, to define a broad category of feelings. I love my cats, I love my Dad, I love my co-workers, I love humanity, I still love my ex-boyfriend, just not in the same way. The Greeks, on the other hand, had five different words for love, depending on the type.
And always remember: A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
At the old site there were links to Jane’s older posts. There was a Kobe Valentine’s post that was very sweet. I tried to pull it up but couldn’t figure out how. If anyone knows how to bring it up or would share the ‘how to’, I would appreciate it.
Here you go- Kobe is Jane’s Valentine
alas, the Kobe pic is missing.
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So this year, Kobe (pictured above) is my Valentine. Why, you ask? Well, for starters, here is a list of things I will not have to overlook in order to stay in a relationship with him:
1. He will not present me with a box of chocolates as a gift after I have announced I am on Atkins
2. He will not download tons of porn onto my computer then think I won’t find out if he empties the cache
3. He won’t show up for a date with a box of Viagra and leave it out in the bathroom
4. He will not sleep through my party — in my bed
5. He will not call his mother to come fix his broken car
6. He will never make me listen to the Dave Matthews Band
7. He will not rack up a bunch of parking tickets in my car and never tell me about them
8. He will never make the claim he and his friends are responsible for the newfound popularity of the term “jackass”
9. He’s never gonna “wake & bake”
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to my one and only - madame punaise!
ding!
Prairie Sunshine @ 15
OK, was I the only one struck by the irony of the military recruiting ad in the middle of the column?
Ding, indeed!
Thanks Valley Girl!
ember- BTW, I found the link via google with “kobe valentine firedoglake” as search terms. quickest way to find old posts, I’ve found.
The ding thing is so sweet. We have a different version- every evening after dinner, my nearly 2 yr old nephew ends his meal by pointing to the pendant lamp over the kitchen counter and his Mom or Dad (or Aunt) must lift him up for “just one” ding!
Bonnie, babe, I hear ya. Three heartfelt (at the time) marriages, their demises not all my fault by any means (mucho infidelity, much?). I love my kids, my cats, and two super extraordinary friends. I’m about to move to another town to be near my friend of, absolutely, 50 years. Her only reservation about my moving near her is that I’ll be distant from my other friend whom I see each Sunday night for drinks & food. My Sunday friend says she’ll be okay with me moving (150 miles) because I’ll be closer to friend number 1. So I have never felt more loved than by my two friends, both of whom want me to be happy by being nearer either themselves or the other. No one has ever been more blessed, I think. I bought myself a valentine’s day gift today, a pair of nice pearl earrings that I’ve never had in my long life. I don’t need the rest of the foo-fah of romancieness, the price has always proved to be too high.
When I take my 47th round of chemo ‘n’ pals later this month… my valentines will be Jane’s dogs who are love’s true avatars and, to prove that, never shed.
Actually… my valentine will be Jane’s future of insanely wondrous fulfillments, highly livable happinesses and damn glorious triumphs.
That’s truly dear to my heart. As is everyone here!
Oh, hell! Be my valentines, all of you!!!!
My valentine is my new kitty, Ben. He came through the doggie door at 3 o’clock in the morning the day before Thanksgiving. We tried to find his home but he let us know we were it. What a sweetie. Wally The Dog loves him in the very special way only a doggie can do. Ariel The Cat hates him. Always will, too.
9/11 survivor (sort of) @ 30
My sentiments exactly.
nuncamas21 @ 29
Thank you for sharing this nuncamus21. Bonnie, I can also relate to what you are feeling. Holidays are tough for everybody with that extra element for those of us who are single. Next year it will be 10 years since I ended my last relationship. I hope that I’ll start dating one of these days but in the meantime I am really thankful for my family and my friends…
“Oh, hell! Be my valentines, all of you!!!!”
9/11 Survivor - #30
Ding!
My valentine is Kim Jong Il. Our Valentine’s Day plans are to watch the Godfather series over and over as we eat smuggled Whitman’s chocolates and I style his pompadour into a slightly higher pompadour.
From tonight’s McLaughlin Group:
Buchanan: “Obama’s going to fade.” He thinks it’s going to be a contest between Hill and Edwards.
He continued: “Fitzgerald won the week. It will be a hellish case for the defense [to make the case that all the prosecution’s witnesses lied]……It’s a Martha Stewart case. This isn’t gonna implicate Cheney in any crime.”
Blankley: The prosecution has made a strong case….but this is an inside the Beltway story.
McLaughlin: “Do you think Libby would rat out Cheney?”
Pat: “The only way he could rat out Cheney is to admit he’s lied his head off! [Then] he wouldn’t be a credible witness against Cheney!”
Everyone agrees: “Libby is the final quarry.”
I have a Valentine who proceeds “without fear or favor.”
I agree with the poster above — will you all please be my Valentine?
I have no idea whom the guy I’m quoting was, but I’ve loved this ever since I could remember.
“True love is night jasmine, a diamond in darkness, the heartbeat no cardiologist has ever heard. It is the most common of miracles, fashioned of fleecy clouds - a handful of stars tossed into the night sky.” — Jim Bishop
-S
The Frontline episodes for the next 2 weeks are of interest:
Oh, I see it’s a trilogy:
Thank you, Ember. I should also say that I have lived and learned from those marriages, however failed in the end. I feel a good sort of serenity now, not chasing after “LUV” and not eschewing it altogether. I think I will be at peace if I live my remaining years alone. I have raised my kids, they are launching themselves on their trajectories, my friends have their lives to lead, I try to do my bit for my community and for my political preferences and for good works for others (particularly Habitat, Doctors without Borders, Heifer). I’m pretty much content with all that. And yet I enjoy my debauchments whether they involve alcohol, naturally grown greens, music, etc.
I recommend to folks to get to be of the late fifties in age, it may get you some peace at last. Although I still wonder what I’m going to be when I grow up.
Oops, I see Christy has already posted about this series (and is linked to by the Frontline website.) Oh well, can’t read everything!
Strategerie @ 37
nuncamas21 @ 40
I was always told that growing up is optional.
My valentine is the extraordinary man who not only puts up with me when I’m in full-on mode, does the laundry when I have no clothes left to wear, thanks me when I make extra hot enchiladas (which I know give him horrible heartburn) shovels the walk, is really kind to the doggies, and occasionally vacuums. I don’t ever. He changes the jointer and planer blades in my workshop, pacifies my clients when they become impatient, humors me when I buy new tools which we really can’t afford and changes the filters in the hot tub. He will iron a skirt for me when I have to go to an appointment with someone who needs to be impressed and give me a hug when I come home with a check.
My friends all want to know if he has any brothers.
No - all five of them are married.
Dadgum, theexog, you got it all, babe!
Truly an extraordinary man!! Kudos to him, and to you!!
Kristine @ 42
While I understand the import of that (remaining playful, etc.), we have to be grown-up, since the President and Vice President never have matured beyond the age of thirteen. We have to be responsible adults because they cannot be. :)
My wretched heart. I hear that my only true love, Dick, may be leaving the country shortly. I have lived for the last twenty years only for the hope of a valentine card from “the dark side”. It sounded so hopelessly romantic…the tick tick tick of the pacemaker…along with the snorteling (that’s a new and romantic valentine word) through that trembling trachea. GOD! I need Libby to help me express myself. Oh, but alas, Libby too will be wondering where my darling dark heart is, when HE is called to speak for the defense. Japan? Malasia? It all sounds so UNAmerican and romantically far away… from the trial.
Terry Olson @ 46
Channeling the inner desires of Judy, Judy, Judy, I see…. :)
I wrote this for my wife 21 years ago on Valentine’s day. May you all be as happy as we are.
Full Snuggle Blues
“There is no remedy for love but to love more.”
~ Thoreau
montag @ 45
Agreed to that point. But that doesn’t mean we can’t have fun while we’re doing it. ;-) Besides, what will make out hearts happier than watching the SOBs go down? That will be my valentine.
damn glorious triumphs
that’s my valentine wish for Jane too!
Then there is the dark side of Valetine’s Day.
http://www.theoaklandpress.com.....1026.shtml
I just want to state for the record that the collaspe of my marriage was not due to cheating, it was my bad habits and her being a control freak.
h/t to Susie at Suburban Guerrilla.
An anti Valentine (Julio and Willie)
I Couldn’t Resist
I’m saddened that this thread seems to have died. I was enjoying it and felt like I shared something of my ownself herein. I’d still like to encourage reply or whatever comment from others. Or is it that it’s just too late on Saturday night/ Sunday morning? Am I the only one hanging out here tonight? That’s okay, I’m having some fun my ownself.
I think it is just that it is getting late on a Saturday nite.
Perhaps your query will entice some of the lurkers to post.
nuncamas21 @
54
It’s kinda odd to see under a hundred comments this late in the thread. Perhaps the Valentine thread prompted some late night romance in Blogtopia…
nuncamas21 @
54
I’m here if you want.
I just came in from a Music Hates You show.
And boy, are my ears tired!
Kristine @
20
sorry, for those bitter words and whatever lead to them …..
If your ears are tired, it was a good show, TRex.
nuncamas21 @
40
sounds like wisdom to me ……
nuncamas21 @ 54
no there are others, Happy VD to all …early *ding*
Terry Olson @
46
it’s a romantic junket. maybe not as nice as a trip to niger, but lynn probably wanted him to show us how frugal we all need to be in this difficult time. call it his sacrifice for the war effort.
Hey - cherish the love you have from whoever is so tolerant to care for you despite all your peccadilloes (sp??). We decided when we married that we would never argue - nothing was worth that sort of pain and aggro.
Its remarkable what you can do for each other when you don’t have to make points - and how much pleasure you get from doing good stuff for each other.
To Bonnie, Nunca and others: perhaps you would like to check out quirky alone
http://quirkyalone.net/qa/
Suzanne, if you are still here - wanted to let you know that your link doesn’t work anymore - you need to reenter the URL.
Wanted to send you an email, but don’t have it.
sorry about that jacqrat… you can send me email at ten67x at aohell dot com
I hate Valentine’s Day. Can I say that? It really, really sux.
that’s it for me, folks. g’nite
Okay, I am obviously the only one up here at 3:29 a.m. EST I am actually up for the day. Such is the bizarre nature of my weekend sleeps.
Maggie @
65
the physical manifestation of an oxymoron ……..
Pachacutec Rulez!
My Valentine is my ever ever girl… just made her a funny 3D talking avatar e-card for Valentine’s Day
My valentines are my amazing incredible wonderful daughters, and our good friends and our chosen family–all people who make me glad I’m alive and lucky enough to have them in my life.
Tonight I walked into the coffee house where some friends were playing a concert, and every person there who knows me (at least half the audience, plus the band) demanded to know how I was, then found me a seat where I could put my recently-injured leg up. Damn, but life is good.
Happy Valentines Day everyone! May your lives be filled to overflowing with the joys of family and community.
Thanks, folks. I feel good about having been amongst y’all tonight. I really do need to get some sleep but it’s been very pleasurable, bein’ here with you all.
Yo amo todos de ustedes, or something like that.
You’d think, you’d really think, that the NYT would develop a sense of shame and/or responsibility if only for the duration of the Libby trial.
hehe.. just saw a new lable on CNN for liarman:
(Lieberman I/D-Connecticut)
…expressing their confusion????
Blub @ 76
That’s bullshit. He ran as an Independent, it should be “I”!
Just popping in here at the end of the evening.
My valentine, besides the lovely Pam (Mrs. Audio), is to all liberal lovers of freedom out there, and here.
Blessings on us all!
[/sappy]
Okay, so I’ve been a lil crankly about the whole Valentine’s Day bidness. Bitter much?
Nah!
Here’s to love and kisses.
Firedogs are on my Valentine list. No Doubt.
Just for the erudite enchanment, which I find as fun fun as rockabilly swing dancing.
[Barry White sotto voce]: In honor of VD, here’s one just for the laay-deez, mmmm-hmmm.
My Valentine is my wife, Judy. We spent the beginning of the weekend seperately, as she went down to Soldotna to root for our son and his Colony High School nordic ski team, which kicked serious butt winning the regional championship. I stayed here, almost finishing her Valentine present, a set of four songs about winter.
She drove up from Soldotna and I drove down from our lake to Girdwood, where we met for a friend’s wedding. Remarriages for both partners, both with kids, our friend now with two grandkids. Both of them, when you think about it.
During the ceremony, my valentine and I held hands, leaning toward each other. Afterward, and at the reception, we got a lot of group hugs with other friends and members of a new, rather large family.
Oh, god, I am soooo alone! You people with loving, sustaining, rewarding relationships are making me depressed! Auughhh!
Of course, what can I expect? I live in a red state. NASCAR & Clemson v. USC rivalry & Bab-tist church Sundee mornins. Gawd hates Muslims.
The most exciting and rewarding part of my life is watching the oversight hearings. I do have a cat on my lap right now, but she doesn’t love me, it’s just that she doesn’t know how to open the tuna can.
Mandrake: can you say Hijack?
Mandrake! Go to your room!
Pach,
You come up with some of the greatest music videos and posts to go with them. Tonight’s: 707!
fahrender @ 84
Geez, I’m sorry. I thought we were talking about love and it’s 6:00 a.m. where I am and no one else is talking.
I’m not sure what I did or said that was so offensive. I was really trying to be funny about my pathetic life.
Leaving hurt.
Valentine’s greetings to the MI contingent of FDL — Rayne, Sharon RB, Neol Roberts, Land of the Free, Shez, and any others that I can’t recall on an early Sunday AM. But saving the biggest card for Group Captain Mandrake. Love the movie, so love to you from me and the Mrs.
Valentine’s day… another marketing guilt tripping day. fogeddaboudit.
I love my wife everyday and tell her it. Perhaps I am sounding like a broken record?
Totally lame idea for a thread.
Awwwwww, morning retirin’ in five! We have one more MI’er named Sharon that I want to give a shoutout to, she doesn’t comment often but she is the only person from here I have met in person so far, and what a sweet person she is.
Send me an email to: humorhasitthat AT aol DOT com and we can arrange to have coffee
gallons of boozesoon.Heads up: Washington Journal is taking calls right now -
What would You ask President Bush?
in preparation for their interview with him, tomorrow.
Here’s your chance to ask him that burning question!
Call-In Numbers
Support Bush:
(202) 737-0001
Support Democrats:
(202) 737-0002
Support Independents: (not sure if they mean Joe LIE, tho)
(202) 628-0205
Outside U.S.:
(202) 628-0184
Email:
journal@c-span.org
Mornin’ all!
Mr. Bush, what does ‘peeance freeance’ mean?
Thanks, Shez. Will do.
Judging by the last CSPAN caller and the Drudge article they are now showing, more ‘Obama is a terrorist’ propagenda is about to hit the mainstream.
emailed this:
Mr. President:
You declared anyone who had a role in outing a CIA Agent would no longer be working for your administration. Testimony in the Libby Trial has uncovered Cheney is the ringmaster of that outing.
Why is Dick Cheney still in the White House?
Yeah, right lady (current caller) I’m real sure Bush has read your “Covenant With America”
Jacqrat, how about the winger that started off with “I’m conservative… I benefited greatly from Bush’s tax cuts…”
Yep buddy, I’m sure YOU did, asshat.
Woo! loved the “do you consider yourself the one who will bring the Apocolypse?” question. Wish they took these questions for the entire show!
I will have to go to bed soon, but good morning to all awaking firepups, and enjoy your time with Christy. I’ll catch up, after noonish.
Just pulled some loaves of orange nut bread out of the oven………grab a knife & a smear of cream chez & help yourselves.
Looks like a real bag of garbage on the talk shows today; off with the tv!
Good morning, pups. It’s gone all cold again this morning, with frost on the car… Boo. The NYT has Bobo Brooks babbling about how great the economy is, Nicholas Kristof on disinvestment in Sudan, and Frank Rich (who simply could’t resist a swipe at Joe Biden) on Barack Obama and the Senate.
http://mgpaquin.blogspot.com/
Today there are French roast coffee and Irish Breakfast tea over there next to the English muffins. Because it’s cold there’s also a pot of Scottish steel-cut oatmeal. Stop by later, when there will be a new batch of beef stew, just the thing to warm you up.
‘Morning, FirePups! Back from a weekend up north in dial-up country, feel like I was cut off from the world altogether.
You folks are my Valentines, as are the folks at DailyKos and MichiganLiberal, and ePluribusMedia.org, and AtLargely.com. Almost seems redundant to have to say it, since these places are where I invest my time. Proof of love and all that.
Marion -
Is that McCann’s? Here’s some demerara sugar to go with.
Laws of irony
nFederal prosecutors have insisted so far that any ill-gotten money that former Enron executives had squirreled away in their spouses’ names still can be fully recovered by the government, except for one executive. Michael Kopper, once a director of Enron’s global finance unit, pleaded guilty in 2002 to illegally obtaining $16.5 million, but he is openly gay. And since his home state of Texas does not recognize his union with his longtime partner, prosecutors cannot treat the partner as a “spouse” and have lumped him with “third party” transferees, whose assets are much more difficult to obtain (according to a report in Washington Blade).
http://www.aberdeennews.com/ml.....675213.htm
I’m looking forward to Russert’s “Meet the Source” today.
What to watch this week:
TUESDAY
“Frontline” (9 p.m. on KCPT and KTWU) takes a four-week look at the news business through the skeptical gaze of Lowell Bergman, its longtime contributor. This week looks at the thorny issue of journalistic independence through the ultimate test case — the Scooter Libby trial currently under way — and the controversial practice of keeping sources private, which in the case of the Libby trial sent reporters Judith Miller and Matt Cooper to jail. Miller, who agreed to speak to “Frontline,” is unrepentant about her role, even if it helped smear critics of the Bush administration’s case for war in Iraq.
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/.....655378.htm
Waccamaw @ 102
Thanks! That’s what was missing.
new thread
Oh well. Sorry I prompted some blues. Didn’t mean to. There’s a lot to be said for redefining holidays on or own terms, and that’s what I was thinking of. Madea always makes me laugh my ass off, too.
Who’s your Valentine? S/he doesn’t have to be a partner, spouse or lover.
I think Pach had it right.
I used to feel that holidays were pr for the card companies, so I used to protest them - feeling as I do that no particular day is necessary to be kind, to love or to bring joy to any person or animal. With age comes a little wisdom though and now I realize anyone of us has the ability to reach outside of ourselves at anytime of the year, including the pr holidays, just to say hello or I care for you, because we all need reminders once in awhile to lift our eyes out of our own life and circumstance and see the light and beauty of others.
HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY TO ALL AND MAY YOUR HEART WEAR A SMILE :)
Thank you to Jane (be well and grow very old :)) and Christy and all at FDL for all the wonderful work and words each day and for helping to raise the conscience of our Society.
May the Creator bless us all and may we always give Peace a chance.
9/11 survivor (sort of) @
30
Thanks so much. That’s really sweet.
off topic but pertinent nonetheless, something just struck me…
do you suppose the “tech-attack” on Gabbly during the first day of live blogging was part of that much larger offensive that his the internet about that time?
Remember on Star Trek, or even on an old WW2 submarine move, when they got “scanned” by another space ship, or heard the sonar beeps ?
I th9nk we’ve been scanned, and I don’t just mean FDL, whatever that was may have been a prelude to web-control.
Yes, I do enjoy a very healthy paranoia thank you, and it has proven to be more than just imagination, seems as if all our conspiracy theories are being borne-out these days, so when I get the feeling there’s some subtergfuge going on in the WWW underpinnings, I hope this time I’m wrong.
Something’s amiss in the internet ether, and I hope we still have our precious worldwide web in the days and weeks an