Login HereThis Sunday wasn't so gloomy for me, although they can be, can't they? Diamanda Galas certainly has that covered, even better than Billie Holliday, y'think?
Knowing American troops' supply lines are being cut off one bridge at a time is certainly a reason for gloom. Knowing Short-Ride Joey Lieberman thinks it's time to invade Iran is another reason for gloom.
Are you gloomy this Sunday? Or not? If not, please tell us why. For the gloomy among us, just have another hit of Diamanda above. She'll cheer you up in a heartbeat!
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TeddySanFran!
Hey there, LL, what’s shakin? Are ya gloomy or no?
Good evening friends. I need the soothing waters of the lake these evening for my aching back. Family stuff is going FAR better than expected but a busy weekend is taking its toll on my body.
Man I was sooooo glad to see santorum cut down in his prime of iran chest beating.
Hey Teddy,
Watching the Tonys and flipping to and fro the Cubs game. Hope to see them in Wrigley in August.
Gloomy Sunday? Had my last service with current church. Moving on to the next but no house to move to yet and ours still for sale. Starting to get gloomy about finding a place to live. That’s the only cloud looming as I’m very much looking forward to the new job.
Okay, it’s been a day of total fuckery. Can we relax a bit? Hope TRex is making great strides on his book!
Thanks, Teddy. Evening everyone!
Yup, I’m not gloomy to see the last of Santorum. And no more Macaca Allen in the Senate either!
Well Teddy, I wasn’t gloomy until after I’d posted the first comment — and then my browser crashed!
Actually that didn’t even make me too gloomy. Things are good overall in LL’s world.
Hi TexB, glad the family stuff is going well — and sorry for the toll it’s taking on you!
Evening all. How’s life in the Lake? Not so gloomy here in the Big Sky, though it is gray and rainy. We are having a wetter than usual late spring, which is good for fishing and (no) fires later this summer.
Loo Hoo. @ 6
TRex quote from FB:
Hey, gang! I’m going to be a live guest on KIRO-AM tonight with David Goldstein:
http://www.kiro710.com/
12a Easter, 9p Pacific.
Call in with questions!
206-726-5499
Hope you can join us.
Hi ya preacher! Did they have a wonderful sendoff for you today?
Oh sweet, let’s flood those phone lines!
Not quite gloomy, but the flash floods and bad news did send me back to bed for reading and a siesta instead of spending a day in the yard or writing my next rant to both of my D senators (Lincoln and Pryor) who have clearly gone round the bend with their reincarnation of the ISG report last week.
TeddySanFran @ 9
I did REALLY well all weekend and didn’t have major pain until tonight. Last of the guests leave tomorrow and kids start leaving by Tuesday.
G’day Teddy, LL, everyone. Not gloomy here, had a nice lunch with my Mumsey in Sacramento -found a great new little Bistro (Plan B in the Pocket area) and then had dinner with my neighbors. So I’m fat, but not gloomy.
Have ignored politics all day, which helps.
TeddySanFran @ 12
It was very nice. Gift of a lovely piece of art. I’ve amassed quite a collection as 4 of the 5 congregations I’ve served as interim have given me wall art. Now I need some walls on which to hang them.
Opposite of gloomy, but dead tired.
We had a waterslide birthday party for Danny, age seven (almost). The neighbor kids stayed an extra four hours. It was wonderful.
G’day Pete, glad you’re having fun in Cali!
tw3k,
Let’s call. I can’t hear his program, though. I just read everyone’s live blogging. Question for the night?
Swear I hope there are some capitalistic young techies at YK2 to help me out. I have a HP Pavilian and can’t figure out anything!
ES, what’s the possibility of getting Wes Clark to weigh in with Pryor? Doesn’t his stated support come with some strings? I would hope Wes could get an audience with Pryor and make some progress with him, having come out so early in favor of his 08 race….
RevDeb @ 17
heh, that’s the down side of knowing an artist. All my friends and family run from me now when they see me carrying a piece of art ;)
Happy Birthday to Danny Soyinkafan!
LooHoo - find a teenager in your neighborhood, they can probably sort out your HP issues. It’s amazing how the kids seem to be born knowing this stuff.
Despite the rotten political outlook, put me in the non-gloomy camp. The weather was glorious, I mowed the lawn, I am near closing on a deal to purchase a warehouse with a buddy, and I took the first steps to making an audio/HT room out of the unfinished basement. With no more treatment than some 4′ x 4′ compressed high-density fiberglass panels, it sounds pretty good!
It’s a selfish POV, but for now, I’m going with that.
But the possibility of troop supply-line cutoff is horrible.
OT, but the techs finally seem to have gotten the bugs out of the comments. This morning things were still pretty chaotic.
Loo Hoo. @ 20
Why, you on dial-up or something? I’ve never listened to show but I’m going to tune in tonight. I hate using phones tho so Q from me.
DrDick @ 26
yup, now that the kinks are worked I like the ajax version better.
I’m kinda low myself, TSF. Thank you for asking. Is daring to have hope asking too much?
On the other hand, I found the rubberbands and picked up some straws in town.
Not gloomy. We are singing Carmina Burana this week, rehearsals of that lovely piece most every night this week, even though the conductor is impossible, it will be fun to get out and sing with friends. My family are getting along fine, work is interesting, weather is good.
The world tries to stick its nose into my life, but mostly it is a long ways from me, but I am trying as best I can to deal with it. My feeling of powerlessness to change the federal government isn’t enough to make me gloomy.
Suzanne @ 29
Uh-oh. Looks like we turned the mod kids. Could get rowdy tonight, especially with resident bad girl TSF in charge.
TeddySanFran @ 21
Nothing newsworthy that I know of and yours is the first mention of strings that I have read or heard. Everyone on AR state blogs would love for Wes to run for Senate (even those who dont understand how badly we need to remove Pryor from his seat and the party, imo).
Unless hillary is planning on asking Wes to be VP candidate.. I cannot imagine what he is up to since he isn’t even in the debates.
One thing I’m not gloomy about — our extraordinary Presidential field. Wow, wouldn’t you be happy to have any one of them president right about now? And don’t you think most Americans — like 70% — agree? We have to be sure the GOP candidate doesn’t escape the BushCo taint, but it will be great to have one of these wonderful public servants working for all Americans in 2009.
And they are using this loooooong campaign so well — with Dodd’s focus on restoring the Constitution, and Richardson’s call to de-authorize the President’s war. It’s great to see such a large field, and those in it using their time and the attention wisely.
tw3k @ 11
Interestingly, I had just deleted the KIRO bookmark, earlier today, hmmm… What is the topic tonite???
Suzanne how can you POSSIBLY be gloomy after the joke I sent you?
TexB @ 35
What joke? Now you have to share…
I’m no more gloomy than usual. I’m sorry if I said anything which distressed Raven overly much in the Lieberman thread. I know that through the winter I ranted on and on here and elsewhere about the inevitability of war with Iran. Now that I’ve accepted that inevitability as being total and out of the hands of representative democracy, it doesn’t gnaw on me in the same way it did.
It is the most beautiful day so far of the year here, the nicest June day in two years. My garden is coming in fine, This afternoon, we took the dog out on the lake and tested the water quality monitoring equipment we’ve been trained to use. We had to find the very deepest place in the lake and take the GPS coordinates so that our future readings are all in the same place.
(( suz ))
That was earlier today, Tex. Totally funny cop joke that I had not heard before. Thank you Tex, for the wake up laugh.
Alas, it has worn off.
Super ZED!!!!
Nope, not gloomy. I don’t DO gloomy. I do happy, super-happy, scared, pissed off, and silly. Gloomy is not in the rotation.
Hiya!
petedownunder @ 36
In an hour Pete. No jokes till all my chickadees are safely in their nests.
hiya Cassie!
TSF - can I post Tex’s joke on your thread?
Cassie, is it bedtime yet (just kidding dear) how was your weekend?
Evening Cassie. That’s quite a repertoire you have there. One thing missing, however. You will definitely need “teh Bitch” as you get older. Maybe Suzanne can give you some tips (she claims to have mastered the art).
TexB @ 41
Darn - it’ll be past my bed time too. Today started pretty early as will tomorrow. But post it anyway and I’ll look at it in the morning.
tw3k @ 27
No, I’ve got cable. I’ve got icons all over my screen that are downloads of what they tell me will work, but nada… I also have an 18 and 20 year old who come home only to do laundry, eat or sleep. Can’t beat that. At least they say “love ya” on the way out the door!
BTW Suzanne, with the new upgrade, what’s the zig limit?
TeddySanFran @ 33
Not at all happy about Barak being a sponsor of a coal liquification bill. Really Really Bad.
SnarKassandra @ 40
Hey. Lucky you–I seem to get the Sunday blahs no matter what I do. Ah, well, next weekend is my very smart nephew’s third birthday. That’ll be fun.
Still not time to play beat the ziglimit yet, petedownunder.
last nite gave me more gray hairs - lets get the rest of the kinks outta the software first.
btw, the tech crew - oh boy, do they need some uh uh … cleanup?
CTuttle,
If tonight’s radio show is anything like last week’s the topic will be David Goldstein, his suffering at the hands of his psychiatrist parents, his incredible leftiness, his desire to have wingnuts call his show so that he can slap them down and, finally, the fact that he talks over his guests because it’s HIS show.
CTuttle @ 34
No idea!
WaPoO chatz tomorrow; questions accepted anytime!
Shailagh Murray at 11am eastern
Howard Markel at 11am eastern, on XDR-TB
Howard Kurtz at Noon eastern
Michael Leahy, Post Magazine writer, at Noon eastern, on his article on Connecticut freshman Congressman Joe Courtney
The Courtney story, if you missed it, is worth reading. He was elected by the smallest margin (83 votes) last fall; the article talks mostly about the grind of raising money to run in 2008. It’s a great argument for public financing and bookmark-worthy, I think.
Suzanne @ 51
OK, I’ll try to be good.
Well I have a nice CLEAN joke about creationism up on my site today.
persiflage @ 52
Aw, hell, that’s not liberalism. That’s just a personality disorder.
Teddy, I read that story on Courtney today — it is a good ‘un and very interesting.
DrDick @ 45
Years ago when i went thru chem-dep treatment, my favorite counselor told one all-female group, “when they start calling you a bitch, know you’re on the right track!” Words to live by for those of us who were raised to be too nice.
((waives to persiflage))
masaccio @ 30
I’ve sung in Carmina 2x and played trombone in it 3x now over the years. Either way, it is always thriilling to be in a long piece that everyone is excited about. That’s always the case with Carmina. In Anchorage, they did it as a ballet ten years ago, with the chorus up on ledges over the dance stage, the soloists from the wing edges of the stage.
SnarKassandra @ 56
Cute. I know how God felt, as I had to do that today as well. I clearly know my place in the universe as servant to my cats.
Loo Hoo. @ 47
Well Love is Good :)
Maybe try installing QuickTime. You don’t need the pro version.
NewDealFarmGrrrlll @ 59
Bitch is not a feeling. It is a way of acting. Different.
SnarKassandra @ 56
The seventh day isn’t exactly tidy, is it?
SnarKassandra @ 56
What a great joke! Thanks Snarkers, my husband and fellow cat-servant will love that one!
NewDealFarmGrrrlll @ 59
Absolutely a vital life skill. Guys have it too, but they just call it assertiveness. Funny how that works…. ;-p
Haven’t commented on late night for a while.
My day was actually pretty nice. Finished planting flowers in my yard, then got some sun while reading and listening to Michael Buble. Weather was great- high pressure, Montana-blue sky, low humidity, and lots of sun. That is saying a lot for the north coast of Ohio. My cat has been going up into the trees around my house trying to get birds out of nests. So I bought this mammoth long-range spraying squirt gun to persuade him to get down from the trees. It’s been effective, harmless, and fun. Also caught the last Sopranos this evening…….
DrDick @ 62
Our household downunder consists of the Future Mrs Downunder, The 10 Kilogram Kitty, and me. Our neighbor asked if I was second in command, I replied only when the Future Mrs is away, otherwise I’m third in the chain of command.
Suzanne @ 51
Is there a particular way to donate to techs and mods? Just as a special thanks?
MR — nice to see you on Late Nite again! But we’ve already been cautioned: no Sopranos spoilers on the Lake.
persiflage @ 52
DING! I met Mr. Goldstein last summer at a Seattle DL at the Montlake Ale House. He was “holding court.”
Bitch is not a feeling. It is a way of acting. Different.
Bitch can be very empowering. I was called bitch so often that I almost react as if Suzanne had been said.
I can dig up my inner bitch when I need to. She has gotten me through tough times. Bitch is a feeling. A feeling of being strong, powerful, that no one can fork with me. That I am just as good as any man or whatever the situation is.
I like my inner bitch.
Carmina Burana as a ballet? wow.
SnarKassandra @ 64
good point, excellent that you know the diff and can call someone on it
Suzanne @ 73
See. I told you, Cassie.
G’night everyone, have a nice evening (or mid-afternoon as the case may be).
g’night Pete
Night Pete.
It’s so nice to have our Aussie folks here! Hello Persiflage and PDU! (Sorry about your Howard sitiation!)
Suzanne @ 73
I can be a bitch but not often. Don’t really feel bitch though. As for gloom, I allow myself a max. of 10 minutes a day to feel sorry for myself, and then it’s time to do the next right thing and move on in life.
Oh, and don’t miss the rather respectful portrait of Code Pink the Washington Post featured today as well. (DrDick, there’s a mention of handcuffs I know you’d enjoy!)
Is there a particular way to donate to techs and mods? Just as a special thanks?
Any time the donate button at the upper right is clicked, you are helping the techs and mods by keeping the servers well fed, LooHoo.
Suzanne @ 73
Which one o’ youse likes to play with whips? *g*
Evenin’ Suz !
Evenin’ All !
TeddySanFran @ 33
So what’s the game plan? A military rout in Iraq topped with an new disaster in Iran and the dems come out victorious? Now that’s gloomy. Spent the day petitioning for impeachment in small-town Oregon and found folks receptive. My liberal dem Representative claims we will get bogged down with impeachment when Congress is just doing so much good with it’s new majority. Hearings good. Nice legislation that gets vetoed, and no one willing to fight for it, not good. Impeachment good or not good? I don’t really know, but I feel like priming the pump is a contingency plan, and giving my Rep. a springboard should impeachment become more attractive may help.
ET: Our ballet did portions of Messiah, and the Opera company sang. Imagine All We Like Sheep….
hiya Petro
On the drive back home I saw a nice alternative ribbon sticker. “UNTANGLE OUR TROOPS”
Night Pete!
Bye Pete. Hi Petrocelli.
Which one o’ youse likes to play with whips? *g*
Evenin’ Suz !
Petrocelli, find me a link to a quote where I said that.
TeddySanFran @ 82
Actually, it is Petrocelli and CTuttle that are into handcuffs and such. Personally, I just like strong, independent women who know what they want.
jc — moving the good guys toward impeachment is really important. We can get that table re-set!
All they have in common is the denominator of all politicians: they want to stay in office. Making clear that they need to be responsive to folks who have HAD ENOUGH is really important work. Congratulations. Keep it up!
DrDick @ 92
Even if they know they want handcuffs?
Just asking.
LoudounLib @ 87
Hi LL , how ya doin’ ?
Sorry, Dr.
EvilDrPuma @ 94
Well, I am open to suggestions….
Suzanne @ 91
hrm… which time?
Eight minutes to theropod on the radio.
Suzanne @ 91
What’s the reward for findin’ your quote? *g*
all’s well here Petro, how about with you?
TeddySanFran @ 96
No problem. No offense taken, just not my thing.
TexB @ 3
Evenin’, Betsy! Try the whirlpool section of the Lake, next to the hot spring! Settle back and be soothed!
Bob in HI
TexB @ 90
… waves to TexB, persiflage …
So I heard that perhaps the no confidence vote on Gonzales is happening this week.- Someones tell-me-something-I-don’t-know prediction on the Matthews Sunday show this evening
I have been eating sugar ALL day. Never usually do this. Anxious is how I feel. But a walk on the American River just now (dusk) made me love the planet again. Saw a blue heron. A big one. Saw four bucks together. Youngs one. Ohh! Ohh! The other day I was watering the garden and the hose had a perfect little arch coming out of it. A hummingbird flew down and took a drink about a foot from me. Then it flew back down and took a bath in the arch. Blew me away. I am relieved of my anxiety.
This is one of those “why me?” Sundays…
Yesterday I started coming down with a bug- full force today, then, and I still can’t believe it- a big rotten tree limb fell from about 30 feet up onto the roof of my car, puncturing the roof, breaking the windshield and knocking off a side mirror.
And I am out of flu medication, now…
I think I will go to bed, or better yet, hide under it….
I’m gloomy the Anahiem Angels of Los Angeles lost to St. Louis but glad they are still in first place five and half games ahead of San Francisco. As long as we have baseball there will always be something good about America.
EvilDrPuma @ 94
LOL !!!
The Doc is in fine form tonight !!! *g*
Milan River @ 104
Seems it’s coming up, complete with a proposed amendment from Coburn to express no confidence in Congress’ ability to pass a balanced budget. Somebody needs to rub his nose in the fact that his party failed for seven years straight, much as one rubs a poorly-trained dog’s nose in its own accident.
azureblue @ 106
Oh dear. I hate days like that. Hopefully things will straighten out fairly soon.
Bob Schacht @ 103
Thanks Bob. Perfect!
Milan River @ 104
I caught a small part of this on CNN today. They said the vote will be one hour before prime time news tomorrow.
masaccio @ 30
LoudounLib @ 100
Suz is gonna make me sprint through a week’s worth of posts to prove she likes whips.
… lacing up speedy BatRocketShoes … *g*</