zed

Late Night!

Woohoo, Pach!!!

hi y’all

Pach!

(diving into the lake wearing my flameproof mod/diving suit and kevlar lined cap) just a free dive – no points no competition, just a dive for the sure pleasure of slicing through the water

g’evening everyone

(diving into the lake wearing my flameproof mod/diving suit and kevlar lined cap) just a free dive – no points no competition, just a dive for the sure pleasure of slicing through the water

g’evening everyone

Hey gang. Suffice it to say, no black lights are allowed here at the Blog Whorehouse.

That dive was so nice, she had to do it twice ;-)

hi Suzanne – double double

um, Pach? Did you mean to post this in “Bigotsphere”?

Evening all. How’s life in the Lake this evening?

These are the titles of our latest posts on YouthINKLeft:

* Corporate Crime —- did they fool you too?
* Romney woos anti-abortion activists
* It’s Time to Take on the Puppy Mills
* Another Modest Proposal
* Will Bush pardon Libby?

I wrote the first and the last. Those two are also on Political Teen Tidbits, along with some other stuff I wrote or stole off this site!

Hey DrD :-)

Yep, give us your best. Would love to see some new blogospheric voices.

Suzanne @ 7

(diving into the lake wearing my flameproof mod/diving suit and kevlar lined cap) just a free dive – no points no competition, just a dive for the sure pleasure of slicing through the water

g’evening everyone

Uhoh, points subtracted for technique(double post)! Evening, Ma Cheri!!!

Suzanne is somebody shooting at you? Or is your lake on fire?

Hi Suzanne!

Suzanne @ 6

(diving into the lake wearing my flameproof mod/diving suit and kevlar lined cap) just a free dive – no points no competition, just a dive for the sure pleasure of slicing through the water

g’evening everyone

Evening, Suz! It’s almost warm enough to swim here in the non-heated pool! Sounds like an interesting outfit you have going!

DrDick @ 12

Evening all. How’s life in the Lake this evening?

We’re watching “All the President’s Men”

LoudounLib @ 11

um, Pach? Did you mean to post this in “Bigotsphere”?

Whenever I trip and fall, I like to do the Inspector Clouseau thing: I meant it to look like that.

(er, anyway, the tag has changed)

;-) Pach

OK, I’ll bite.

The Seeker Blog.

Not liberal but not conservative, meaning I am hard on both – I bash FDL just as easily as O’Reilly (mostly because I expect more out of FDL). :-) But all I really want to do is make you think. So if you would like to argue with me or try to convince me otherwise, please stop by and comment. I like a good argument from conservatives and liberals alike ;-)

Suzanne I left a “Please MOD” comment on the last thread. Please.

Nuh-uh.

The last time I went blog-whoring my computer got a virus.

*crosses legs*

TRex @ 24

Nuh-uh.

The last time I went blog-whoring my computer got a virus.

*crosses legs*

ALWAYS use protection when you go out!

Pach, Jane, and now TRex. Triples! Is there a dive, Suz, for such an occasion?

My name is David. I’m The Subway Serenade and I blog from “The End Of Civilization As We Know It!”

Got your joke of the week right here.!

So, I made some empanadas tonight, and they are yummy. I’m gonna make more tomorrow. I have lots more meat left but I have to make more dough, and anyway, I had to quit for the night to blog.

Hi Jane – Oh wait Trex is here – who should I talk to? I am very confused…

Pachacutec @ 28

So, I made some empanadas tonight, and they are yummy. I’m gonna make more tomorrow. I have lots more meat left but I have to make more dough, and anyway, I had to quit for the night to blog.

I love it when you talk dirty.

Mmmm, empanadas…a few weeks ago a guy we work with, who was born in Cuba, brought in some home-made empanadas for us. Muy delicioso!

Gosh, should I call Christy? I wonder if she’s awake.

Wear a raincoat Trex, viruses won’t be a problem. Kidding. For those of you who love college football, EDSBS.com is the funniest blog out there.

Every day should be Saturday.

well, this is really neither there nor here for purposes of the discussion….but I gotta confess, I’m kind of a blog virgin myself.

B4 I found fdl in fall 2005, the only thing I ever read was Salon……and since then, I haven’t, uh, gotten out much.

I like Rude Pundit though. He rawks…

Blogshack, baby, blogshack!!

Good gravy, Pach, does that tune bring back some tequila-sodden memories. Ah, the good old days when I still believed there were adults in charge…

SnarKassandra @ 23

Suzanne I left a “Please MOD” comment on the last thread. Please.

It is done, Cassie – please check and confirm.

If there are any Washington Nationals fans about, I like the blog Capitol Punishment

So Jane, can I make an appointment with you when I am in CT in July? Love to be able to chat with you…

TRex @ 32

Gosh, should I call Christy? I wonder if she’s awake.

And where the hell is Phoenix Woman? Lew? Howie!

Subway Serenade @ 27

My name is David. I’m The Subway Serenade and I blog from “The End Of Civilization As We Know It!”

Got your joke of the week right here.!

I kinda sorta saw something about you performing at the DemFest in NH, Subway!!!

True? What was it like?

For the last two weeks or so I have been trying to do a daily post on the Doom Brothers. This is actually a site I used to do with a friend before there was such a thing as a blog. We had quite a bit of success but found the daily grind of doing humor every day to be a bit much. (and when Bush was elected, I did not find anything funny, he did.)

I decided to try to do it again. I do not know how long I will be able to keep it up: but if you go there and like it, please leave a note saying so. If you hate it, I guess not note is necessary. :)

Thanks (DWD – a constant reader, infrequent contributor but a friend of WGG’s and Eli’s)

http://www.doombrother.blogspot.com

Thanks again and keep up the good work over here. This blog is on my must see list and I am here many times a day checking on postings. I enjoy it.

Twisted Martini @ 38

So Jane, can I make an appointment with you when I am in CT in July? Love to be able to chat with you…

I may be letting the cat out of the bag here, but Jane is moving to the DC area in a couple of weeks.

She’s gonna set up with an extra bedroom so Marcy can come in and cover congressional hearings, or Howie can come to town for Blue America stuff, etc.

So, Jane’s gonna be my neighbor. Soon.

I’m afraid I don’t pimp my blog anymore since I left the Salon blog ring. Miss that community, was so much fun and so many quality bloggers, too. I still visit my buddy Dave Pollard at How to Save the World; he’s one of the few who continue to hang their shingle at the Salon digs, and of course he is still pumping out the quality content.

C-Span-whoring: Colbert on book TV, C-Span 2 @ BookExpo.

S’ok Pach, your gain is CT’s loss. I was was just hoping to get a shot of Jane when I go back east in a couple of weeks. Hate that Glavine lost today too.

ok, lets see if that fixed my double posting (fingers, toes, eyes, and legs crossed)

LooHoo, that would be the infamous Triple Lundy dive.

Pachacutec @ 43

Twisted Martini @ 38

So Jane, can I make an appointment with you when I am in CT in July? Love to be able to chat with you…

I may be letting the cat out of the bag here, but Jane is moving to the DC area in a couple of weeks.

She’s gonna set up with an extra bedroom so Marcy can come in and cover congressional hearings, or Howie can come to town for Blue America stuff, etc.

So, Jane’s gonna be my neighbor. Soon.

someday it would be nice to have a get together of some kind. I would really enjoy meeting the local fdl folks. (And the remote ones too, of course.)

Rayne, you need to thank your maker that you don’t have MR Amway as your Governor. I told you to have faith!

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Hi all,
Scarecrow, Kathryn in MA, and Ryan and I went to a forum that Kerry did this afternoon. He took questions about the war and it was beyond words awful. Then we came back to the house for hot dogs and some major ranting. it may take a while to work that one out of my system.

Personally I’ve written very little since getting close to getting the job I’ll be starting in August. But my last sermon was on the coming American Fascism. Didn’t want to post it for the church folks so did it on my web site instead. I’ve had so much to do lately that writing for my site has been really spare. Hope to get back to doing more come July.

Jane, I sent you an e-mail regarding Charlie Savage.

I realize that the WaPo is not a blog (try as some of them may), but when Dalia’s up with the Testimonial Two Step, it’s worth a read.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/…..inionsbox1

Rayne @ 43

I’m afraid I don’t pimp my blog anymore since I left the Salon blog ring. Miss that community, was so much fun and so many quality bloggers, too. I still visit my buddy Dave Pollard at How to Save the World; he’s one of the few who continue to hang their shingle at the Salon digs, and of course he is still pumping out the quality content.

Speaking of which, it should be interesting to see how MyDD fares with their new losses!!!

oddmommy @ 48

Pachacutec @ 43

I may be letting the cat out of the bag here, but Jane is moving to the DC area in a couple of weeks.

She’s gonna set up with an extra bedroom so Marcy can come in and cover congressional hearings, or Howie can come to town for Blue America stuff, etc.

So, Jane’s gonna be my neighbor. Soon.

someday it would be nice to have a get together of some kind. I would really enjoy meeting the local fdl folks. (And the remote ones too, of course.)

We are having a Central Texas FDL picnic soon.

(woohoo) i’m single again

oddmommy, that would be great!

I blog on solar energy, particularly entry level solar, at
http://solarray.blogspot.com and more regularly on solar, books, politics, and policy at http://gmoke.dailykos.com

Hey sailor, thanks for the opportunity to blogwhore here.

Pachacutec @ 42

Twisted Martini @ 38

So Jane, can I make an appointment with you when I am in CT in July? Love to be able to chat with you…

I may be letting the cat out of the bag here, but Jane is moving to the DC area in a couple
of weeks.

She’s gonna set up with an extra bedroom so Marcy can come in and cover congressional hearings, or Howie can come to town for Blue America stuff, etc.

So, Jane’s gonna be my neighbor. Soon.

So – at what point should we tell everyone that hey are our neighbors? I am a NYC person who????

Valley Girl @ 41

Subway Serenade @ 27

My name is David. I’m The Subway Serenade and I blog from “The End Of Civilization As We Know It!”

Got your joke of the week right here.!

I kinda sorta saw something about you performing at the DemFest in NH, Subway!!!

True? What was it like?

I was treated like visiting royalty by the Deaniacs in attendance . HOWARD DEAN SAID HE REALLY LIKED MY SHIRT! I think that’s an important admission, but hey, I’m just a street musician.

“…It was late in the evening, and I blew that room away…”

inaction alert!! no $$ for dems!!

but, on a lighter note, here’s edith piaf singing non, je ne regrette rien.

Doing the heroic and often unpleasant work of keeping up with the GOP PrezCandis: The Right’s Field

I went and saw a friend’s band tonight. They’re from Florida and they’re called The Mayhaws. They’re on tour right now. It was a GREAT show and I highly, highly recommend them:

Jun 17 2007 8:00P BoBo Gallery Asheville, North Carolina

Jun 18 2007 7:00P Acoustic Coffeehouse Johnson City, Tennessee

Jun 21 2007 3:15P Roots are Showing radio show Morrisville, Vermont

Jun 21 2007 7:30P The Bee’s Knees Morrisville, Vermont

Jun 22 2007 2:00P Stay Tuned radio show Portsmouth

Jun 22 2007 8:00P UU Church Haverhill

Jun 23 2007 7:00P
Rimrock’s Tavern Stowe

Jun 25 2007 9:30P
The Cantab Lounge Cambridge, Massachusetts

Jun 26 2007 8:00P The Tritone Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Jun 27 2007 9:00P Cafe Moto Brooklyn, New York

Jun 28 2007 8:00P The Mermaid Inn Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania

Jun 30 2007 7:00P White Hawk Music Cafe Goochland, Virginia

Jul 1 2007 3:00P RA Fountain General Store Fountain, North Carolina

Jul 3 2007 12:00P Walk Right In Radio Show Charlottesville, Virginia

Jul 3 2007 10:00P Fellini’s #9 Charlottesville, Virginia

Jul 5 2007 9:30P Poe’s Pub Richmond, Virginia

Jul 6 2007 7:30P First Friday for Folk Music Savannah, Georgia

Jul 14 2007 6:00P Trio at The Mockingbird Havana, Florida

Jul 20 2007 7:00p Shenanigan’s Irish Pub Tallahassee, Florida

Jul 26 2007 8:30P European Street Cafe Jacksonville

Aug 24 2007 7:00P Private Event Tallahassee, Florida

Nov 8 2007 8:00P Riverhawk Music Festival Brooksville, Florida

We are having a Central Texas FDL picnic soon.

That’s fantastic!

Wouldn’t it be cool if people got together for FDL BBQ’s and stuff? I know some MA folks did that last year, with Rots Project. Or at least, they tried to put it together.

Keep those blog hookers, er. . . coming!

So Jane is moving to DC, I’m moving to PA. We’ll be within shouting (and driving) distance.

Meanwhile any FDL folk in Portland OR? I’m heading there monday for a week.

Twisted Martini @ 47

Rayne, you need to thank your maker that you don’t have MR Amway as your Governor. I told you to have faith!

Thank mom and dad? I think not. ;-)

It took more than faith; it took beating him back with his corruption during one of the debates (GO JENNY!!) and it took a big dose of humor.

If you weren’t following along with the Disembodied Head of Dick DeVos, you missed the best part of the race! What a hoot; I think this guy’s got enormous potential if he can get a crack at another Mormon, I mean, moron not unlike Dick’s Head in a national race…

G’night Firedogs, heading to bed. Gotta sleep off a few V&T’s.

Well cr@p, let me try that again.

I like this:

Bitch Ph.D.

and, of course, this:

The Rude Pundit

and especially this (my Dad’s blog):

Scarabus

Pachacutec @ 63

We are having a Central Texas FDL picnic soon.

That’s fantastic!

Wouldn’t it be cool if people got together for FDL BBQ’s and stuff? I know some MA folks did that last year, with Rots Project. Or at least, they tried to put it together.

Keep those blog hookers, er. . . coming!

Some of us have been gathering regularly. When I cook, they come.

Rayne @ 44

I’m afraid I don’t pimp my blog anymore since I left the Salon blog ring. Miss that community, was so much fun and so many quality bloggers, too. I still visit my buddy Dave Pollard at How to Save the World; he’s one of the few who continue to hang their shingle at the Salon digs, and of course he is still pumping out the quality content.

as a long time Salon reader, may I ask which one there was yours?

These days, I like Steve Conason, Sidney Blumenthal, and Glenn Greenwald; Joan Walsh (most of the time); whoever does Broadsheet (most of the time). And the war room guys most of the time. And the how the world works dude…..(is Andrew Leonard his name?) though often he’s over my head.

Camille Paglia, though…….GOD! What f*******g rock did they dig her up out of?

Night Twisted M.

I’m just glad he didn’t make the whole state buy overpriced laundry detergent. And I’m glad that he is reduced to peddling same.

jane hamsher @ 15

Would love to see some new blogospheric voices.

I’ve heard of hearing voices, but…

;>)

Since I’m a name you can trust to drive up the price of eyebleach stock, I won’t sully Pach’s pristine empenada lovefest with my vulgar trifles.

:)

Dang, I missed Jane, Pach, and TRex while rebooting :(

Good night Mr Martini

Suzanne @ 54

(woohoo) i’m single again

Congratulations!

I meant JOE Conason. Senior moment…..

Well, I have to say that in addition to FDL, I ALWAYS read Howie Klein’s and keninny’s posts at DWT. http://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/

Obviously, DWT is not exactly unknown to FDL readers. But, it may not be a major stop in the blogging world. Sure is for me. These guys are both great writers. And, I know for sure that keninny graduated college the exact same year that I did, and suspect that Howie is close in that grad date. Thus, they use words and language that derive from the same cultural surroundings and times as mine. Not to mention an unaccountably similar political perspective ;).

i”m still here, but I my spidey sense tells me Jane has crashed for the night.

Sorry, Pach, thought I had missed all 3 of you in the eternity it took to reboot.

I’m here, but I’m about to go take some laundry out of they dryer and start folding, and maybe iron a shirt to wear to church in the morning.

oddmommy @ 68

Rayne @ 44

I’m afraid I don’t pimp my blog anymore since I left the Salon blog ring. Miss that community, was so much fun and so many quality bloggers, too. I still visit my buddy Dave Pollard at How to Save the World; he’s one of the few who continue to hang their shingle at the Salon digs, and of course he is still pumping out the quality content.

as a long time Salon reader, may I ask which one there was yours?

These days, I like Steve Conason, Sidney Blumenthal, and Glenn Greenwald; Joan Walsh (most of the time); whoever does Broadsheet (most of the time). And the war room guys most of the time. And the how the world works dude…..(is Andrew Leonard his name?) though often he’s over my head.

Camille Paglia, though…….GOD! What f*******g rock did they dig her up out of?

Oh no, I wasn’t part of the magazine itself, which all those folks are. In 2002, Salon tried an experiment offering Salon-branded blogs to users who bought Radio Userland blogging app and hosted space on Salon servers. There was nice little community of individuals who gave it a shot for the 4 years they offered this package, but a redesign and a new approach to content blogged by professionals meant that the blogs by individuals had to take a powder.

My blog then and now was Rayne Today; I moved to Blogger after a crash with Radio from which I couldn’t recover. But I moved my blogging just about the time I burnt out on blogging, went dormant for quite a while and I’ve never really gotten the mojo back to blog as regularly as it takes to build traffic.

I also group-blogged at RadioFreeBlogistan, owned and operated by Christian Crumlish; unfortunately that blog is now on deathwatch, since Christian has moved on to new projects and my fellow co-bloggers are likewise preoccupied.

Suzanne did you see the MOD PLEASE note I left on the last thread? Or did some other mod back there?

darkblack, if you’re still here — you might like this one for pretty cool graphics:

The Daily Render

not mine, but I kinda like it :-)

Suzanne @ 78

Sorry, Pach, thought I had missed all 3 of you in the eternity it took to reboot.

Eternity has a new meaning…seems like it though, huh?

Cassie, look upthread to the comment by the Lurking Mod.

TheLurkingMod @ 36

SnarKassandra @ 23

Suzanne I left a “Please MOD” comment on the last thread. Please.

It is done, Cassie – please check and confirm.

Thank you. Do you mind grabbing 52 also. Thank you!

Goodness, did you track mud into the thread, Cassie?

TheLurkingMod @ 36

SnarKassandra @ 23

Suzanne I left a “Please MOD” comment on the last thread. Please.

It is done, Cassie – please check and confirm.

Psst- Cassie!

Subway Serenade @ 58

I was treated like visiting royalty by the Deaniacs in attendance . HOWARD DEAN SAID HE REALLY LIKED MY SHIRT! I think that’s an important admission, but hey, I’m just a street musician.

“…It was late in the evening, and I blew that room away…”

Ohhhh!!!! Hearty congrats! You’ve been through some tough times of late, so it must have made you feel good.

I’m proud of the research that was done a year ago for my Blog, which gives the REAL, ACTUAL, explanation for the existence of right-wing Conservatism.

It is very surprising, even shocking.

If you can handle the Truth, check this out:
(warning—If you CAN’T handle the Truth,
don’t go there!)

http://altair44.blogspot.com/2…..html#links

Cassie, lets take this off thread please so we don’t clutter up Pach’s blogwhoring.

I have to say that one person I read whenever she posts is moiv. She writes on reproductive choice issues and no one does it like she does. She tends to post on Kos and Talk2Action.

Here’s her latest.

I highly recommend anything she writes.

Also Fred Clarkson who was one of the founders of Talk2Action. He had a great post on the Mass Marriage triumph and the implications.

For those who care about the religious right wingnuts, that’s a great site for getting the inside scoop of what they are up to and what it means.

TRex @ 86

Goodness, did you track mud into the thread, Cassie?

Just said something I wasn’t supposed to.

TRex @ 80

I’m here, but I’m about to go take some laundry out of they dryer and start folding, and maybe iron a shirt to wear to church in the morning.

Watch out for the Head Usher, TRex.

Well, it’s not really blog-related, but we’ve had some nutcase posting incomprehensible rants on our IMC and I finally decided to call him out on it. (The IMC is down at the moment, but it’s here) I wrote a post with his name in the title and then when he didn’t pick up on it for a day, I had a buddy of mine write him “Yo. someone’s dissin’ you man!” and then had him give the guy the link. Very, very weird conversation. Guy has some really, really strange theory about the 1991 Gulf War. What it would mean even if it were true is not at all clear.
Anyway, I took the approach suggested by Miss Manners. When a kid wants to interrupt the party, ask the child to speak clearly. Listen to the child carefully and then react appropriately. It works quickly and if it was something important, you will have gotten the message. So far, the guy has dropped out of the conversation, but hasn’t tried to post any more rants. (Fingers crossed)

RevDeb @ 91

I have to say that one person I read whenever she posts is moiv. She writes on reproductive choice issues and no one does it like she does. She tends to post on Kos and Talk2Action.

Here’s her latest.

I highly recommend anything she writes.

Also Fred Clarkson who was one of the founders of Talk2Action. He had a great post on the Mass Marriage triumph and the implications.

For those who care about the religious right wingnuts, that’s a great site for getting the inside scoop of what they are up to and what it means.

That’s a good point. If you have, perchance, favorite dkos diarists, by all means, bring them in and swap their fluids.

Watch out for the Head Usher, TRex.

It’s MCC, so you may have a point.

Peterr @ 93

TRex @ 80

I’m here, but I’m about to go take some laundry out of they dryer and start folding, and maybe iron a shirt to wear to church in the morning.

Watch out for the Head Usher, TRex.

Er, watch out for TRex when he’s kneeling.

Must run, working tomorrow. Good night all!

How’s things going Cassie? Finding some new friends to hang out with —face to face?

g’nite LL. sleep well.

“Swap their fluids” Pach? Getting a little personal are we?

RevDeb @ 99

How’s things going Cassie? Finding some new friends to hang out with —face to face?

No but I am seeing old friends face to face.

Er, watch out for TRex when he’s kneeling.

In spite of the prevailing bordello atmosphere on this thread, I’m going to refrain from saying something vurrrrry tacky right now.

Night LL.

Rayne @ 81

oddmommy @ 68

as a long time Salon reader, may I ask which one there was yours?

These days, I like Steve Conason, Sidney Blumenthal, and Glenn Greenwald; Joan Walsh (most of the time); whoever does Broadsheet (most of the time). And the war room guys most of the time. And the how the world works dude…..(is Andrew Leonard his name?) though often he’s over my head.

Camille Paglia, though…….GOD! What f*******g rock did they dig her up out of?

Oh no, I wasn’t part of the magazine itself, which all those folks are. In 2002, Salon tried an experiment offering Salon-branded blogs to users who bought Radio Userland blogging app and hosted space on Salon servers. There was nice little community of individuals who gave it a shot for the 4 years they offered this package, but a redesign and a new approach to content blogged by professionals meant that the blogs by individuals had to take a powder.

My blog then and now was Rayne Today; I moved to Blogger after a crash with Radio from which I couldn’t recover. But I moved my blogging just about the time I burnt out on blogging, went dormant for quite a while and I’ve never really gotten the mojo back to blog as regularly as it takes to build traffic.

I also group-blogged at RadioFreeBlogistan, owned and operated by Christian Crumlish; unfortunately that blog is now on deathwatch, since Christian has moved on to new projects and my fellow co-bloggers are likewise preoccupied.

ooooh. Thanks for ’splainin. I didn’t know about any of that.

TRex @ 103

Er, watch out for TRex when he’s kneeling.

In spite of the prevailing bordello atmosphere on this thread, I’m going to refrain from saying something vurrrrry tacky right now.

Really?

What’s gotten into you?

Pachacutec @ 106

TRex @ 103

In spite of the prevailing bordello atmosphere on this thread, I’m going to refrain from saying something vurrrrry tacky right now.

Really?

What’s gotten into you?

Must of been something he ate.

Really?

What’s gotten into you?

Sigh.

Precious little lately.

A favorite site of mine . . . Angry Black Bitch.

Oh, can that girl snark!

Pach, perhaps TRex is behaving now to get in the proper mindset for church in the morning (and avoiding that whole guilty conscious about Saturday nite while in church Sunday morning).

Alright, it’s midnight. I need to get my laundry out of the dryer before it turns into a pumpkin. A wrinkly, impossible-to-fold pumpkin.

My two most recent blogposts are my favoriites

The first because it gave me a chance to get back at the creep who’ve been bugging me aboutmy “Obama the Magic Negro” op-ed I ran their letters without getting permission.

Don’t even THINK of fucking with me!!

My most recent allowed me to take smug breeders to task.

It’s a dirty job, and I’m the Big Ol’ Gay Homosexual to do it!

TRex @ 109

Really?

What’s gotten into you?

Sigh.

Precious little lately.

Ahem.

Watch out for the Head Usher.

LoudounLib @ 99

Must run, working tomorrow. Good night all!

Good heavens, dear neighbor….do you mind if I ask what you do? You seem to work all the time!

Oh, we’re blogwhoring tonight.

I did a good one today, but our Wordpress theme went wonky for awhile and hardly anyone saw it with its clothes on.

http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/6236.html

Well, I think I will call it an early night as well. Take care and enjoy the snark.

g’nite dr(pause)dick

good night.

Hi everyone.

RonD @ 119

Hi everyone.

HI RonD

g’nite, Cassie. sleep well

Hi RonD! So nice to see you.

G’night, sleepers.

Good evening all.

So many beds at this party.

And they all say they’re going to sleep, but I know better.

lolo! I have been worried about you! Everything okay?

Pachacutec @ 125

So many beds at this party.

And they all say they’re going to sleep, but I know better.

HA! Don’t we all…

lolo, where have you been? we have been so worried – you ok?

Pachacutec @ 125

So many beds at this party.

And they all say they’re going to sleep, but I know better.

Ah, so this is a slumber party? Who knew?

LoudounLib @ 83

That was very cool…Ta, LL.

I am Ok, but my bunny died last week and I was so sad I could only lurk.

Since they say we are here with our jammies on – a slumber party is such a natural idea.

I am so sorry, lolo. You were missed.

Very sorry, lolo.

Suzanne @ 133

I am so sorry, lolo. You were missed.

Thanks Suzanne that’s so sweet.

We missed you, lolo. Sorry about your bunny.

Oh jebus. I just checked the old Salon blogs list for old time’s sake, and I actually had 64-plus hits on my old site…for a picture of Bratz dolls.

Go figure.

Pretty amusing to trip through some of the older stuff, like World O’ Crap’s original home. Wonder whatever happened to the Reverse Cowgirl who was one of the first bloggers at Salon? Julie Powell of the Julie/Julia Project had her book published over a year ago after her project ended, think she’s got a number of freelance gigs. Birdie at Beauty Dish quit Avon. And RealLivePreacher went on hiatus after moving. All moved on.

But His Right Reverend Dr. Omed is still snipping away, and Robert Wilkison is still cross-posting his astrology reports from his Aquarius Papers…heck, there’s still a number of folks who are still pecking away at the keyboards at the Salon blogs. There are a lot of treats left to be had yet, might have to spend some time poking around in my old haunt.

Judge orders Surveillance docs to be made public.

http://thinkprogress.org/

lolo – glad you’re back. Condolences.

My blog is a bit different in that I post progressive jobs and not about my life or my opinions on things, but my favorite posting was an e-mail copywriter for the Obama campaign. I would have applied for it myself if I hadn’t just gotten a new job. I don’t know if it’s been filled yet, but give it a shot if you’re interested.

Loo Hoo. @ 138

Judge orders Surveillance docs to be made public.

http://thinkprogress.org/

woohoo, LooHoo.

Well, to do a little blogwhoring with a clear conscience! My site is concerned mostly with the intersection of history and politics, especially military history and what I think of as “secret history”. I’m on Blogger here:
Man in the Street.
Some of my favorite posts are:
Green Zone Tet
A History of Violence
The Phoenix Program
A Moment of Clarity

Hope you find something worthwhile-love hanging here with all of you.
Thank you, ‘Lake!

Will J. @ 140

My blog is a bit different in that I post progressive jobs and not about my life or my opinions on things, but my favorite posting was an e-mail copywriter for the Obama campaign. I would have applied for it myself if I hadn’t just gotten a new job. I don’t know if it’s been filled yet, but give it a shot if you’re interested.

Wow, this is a great idea for the progressive community. I’m not looking for a job but, dang, excellent idea.

Pachacutec @ 43

Twisted Martini @ 38

So Jane, can I make an appointment with you when I am in CT in July? Love to be able to chat with you…

I may be letting the cat out of the bag here, but Jane is moving to the DC area in a couple of weeks.

She’s gonna set up with an extra bedroom so Marcy can come in and cover congressional hearings, or Howie can come to town for Blue America stuff, etc.

So, Jane’s gonna be my neighbor. Soon.

Pach — my sister-in-law was in town this week so I couldn’t make it to my first Drinking Liberally. Hopefully next week. Think Jane can be convinced to join from time to time as well? I’m Jonesing for intelligent conversation after four days with my Indy-living, Quayle-loving, Tim LaHaye-reading sister-in-law. Sigh…

OK, I’ll push my recent post at my blog about the disingenuousness of Rep. Jane Harman and how even though she voted the right way on the Iraq supplemental (No), she still thinks the Republican way of thinking about it is still right (ie. that a No vote meant denying the troops armor to survive).

LooHoo! Interesting!

Permalink to the story here

There’s plenty of intelligent conversation at Arlington Drinking Liberally, with or without me or Jane there. But I’m sure once Jane settles in she’ll make appearances, at least once in a while.

She still has to recuperate, after all, once the chemo is done. Just one more round to go, but her body is sure feeling it.

Pachacutec @ 145

There’s plenty of intelligent conversation at Arlington Drinking Liberally, with or without me or Jane there. But I’m sure once Jane settles in she’ll make appearances, at least once in a while.

She still has to recuperate, after all, once the chemo is done. Just one more round to go, but her body is sure feeling it.

Since you’ve let the cat out of the bag, why is Jane moving to DC?

{{Loo Hoo}}! How are you?

Evening all.

Happy 40 year anniversary of Monterey Pop. It really rocked.

I mentioned the reason above: Plame house, the extended edition, only not for Plame stuff.

Except also, she wants to have my children.

Pachacutec @ 151

I mentioned the reason above: Plame house, the extended edition, only not for Plame stuff.

Except also, she wants to have my children.

She’s welcome to mine.

Pachacutec @ 147

She still has to recuperate, after all, once the chemo is done. Just one more round to go, but her body is sure feeling it.

I am in awe that she has been so active, including the TBA2007 conference next week. Amazing grit, that Jane.

Pachacutec @ 151

Except also, she wants to have my children.

She just wants your empanadas. ;-)

Rayne @ 153

Amazing grit, that Jane.

I never would have known.

Valley Girl @ 147

Pachacutec @ 145

There’s plenty of intelligent conversation at Arlington Drinking Liberally, with or without me or Jane there. But I’m sure once Jane settles in she’ll make appearances, at least once in a while.

She still has to recuperate, after all, once the chemo is done. Just one more round to go, but her body is sure feeling it.

Since you’ve let the cat out of the bag, why is Jane moving to DC?

I think Valerie Plame’s old job may be vacant. “Wanted: smart, attractive blond, with a passion for the constitution and all that it stands for . . .”

Or is it Monica’s old job at the DOJ? I hear there are a LOT of high level vacancies there.

Balrog @ 152

Pachacutec @ 151

I mentioned the reason above: Plame house, the extended edition, only not for Plame stuff.

Except also, she wants to have my children.

She’s welcome to mine.

That was fast!

(Joining late)

Interesting topic for the top post!
I’ve done enough blogging on MyDD and DailyKos to know how much work it can take to write a good blog, and even then its no guarantee that very many people will notice, or respond to it– even when I get a nice tip of the hat from Jane. So that gives me a lot of respect for you and Jane and Christy and the others who write so many dynamite blogs!

Bob in HI

Sorry for the drive-by, but good nite, all. Early day tomorrow-just couldn’t retire without checking in.
The best of all possible tomorrows to all of you.

I don’t blog. I poet. Here’s one.

Fishing on Sunday

The touch, the tactile nature of your big hands, mouth, self
has my over excited brain running to places I long ago left.
Hiding in the dark soul of my nemisis for a day
I wait for relief from intimacy and joy.
It doesn’t work.
You are still on the other end of the phone,
laughing,
and we make plans to go fishing on
Sunday.

Time for my remummification for the night, folks.

See you all with the sunrise!

nite Pach!

happy wrapping (or is it unwrapping), pach.

Peterr @ 156

Or is it Monica’s old job at the DOJ? I hear there are a LOT of high level vacancies there.

Can you just imagine what Jane would do in Goodling’s role, given the breadth of that Delegation of Authority. I would pay a fortune to see that.

David Ehrenstein at 113

Thanks for the link to your fablog. I really liked the post where you talked about the WILLful misreading of your column on Barak Obama. Also I enjoyed how you pointed out how the drug addict with a coast to coast radio program co-oped your column for his own racist means.

You said

A white drug addict with a coast-to-coast radio show has been using my op-ed as a platform from which to spew his racism.

It’s too bad you and Rush couldn’t go head to head on Katie Couric’s show. That would have been fun to see.

I’d like us to get Rush out in more events like that where he doesn’t control the box. When Rush had a studio audience that he didn’t control, he couldn’t handle it. He is as fragile as Bush when it comes to confrontation, when someone really questions Bush he shows how pissed he is. (remember the Irish Reporter who asked him some tough questions? He will show what a child he is when he doesn’t get his way.)

And I won’t blog whore http://www.spockosbrain.com, but something from my friend Kim
At Pet Food Tracker

Kim talks about how the FDA is saying that there is no threat to pets from acetaminophen in their food (even though we have hundreds of reports of sick and dying pets). They are trying to discredit the lab that found the acetaminophen in the food and claimed that it didn’t exist with out even doing a exact sample to sample comparison.

Kim also put together a list of all the recalled pet food that is readable and usable for people to take to the grocery store or give to non-computer savvy neighbors. Sen. Dick Durbin praised her list and told the FDA that they should use her work as a model.

(Of course she isn’t getting paid to do this, and the FDA is. It’s a crazy world, drop her some electronic coin if you find her list useful for your safe pet food shopping.)

Good evening dear friends. Cold sesame noodles for this evening’s snack. I ate mounds and mounds of these when i was pregnant with TexTeen. Not pregnant at the moment, but feeling a taste for my favorite Chinese dish.

oddmommy @69: Don’t get TRex started on Camilla. Just don’t. *g*

Spocko, always nice to have you drop by.

Hey, Tex, you got anything for those of us with a sweet tooth this fine Saturday nite?

Balrog I’ll take the baby. He sounds like a sweetie. :)

Suzanne @ 169

Hey, Tex, you got anything for those of us with a sweet tooth this fine Saturday nite?

With hugs and kisses!

Bob Schacht @ 158

(Joining late)

Interesting topic for the top post!
I’ve done enough blogging on MyDD and DailyKos to know how much work it can take to write a good blog, and even then its no guarantee that very many people will notice, or respond to it– even when I get a nice tip of the hat from Jane. So that gives me a lot of respect for you and Jane and Christy and the others who write so many dynamite blogs!

Bob in HI

I tend to blog photos, and even that was just so I could set up a Blogmad acct.

Did everyone else go to sleep? I think I just got a trifecta or a hat trick or perhaps just a triangle.

ohmystars, tex, i’ve never seen those. dibs on the bag, the rest of ya make do with those noodles.

TexB @ 173

Did everyone else go to sleep? I think I just got a trifecta or a hat trick or perhaps just a triangle.

I think everyone is on the main page doing a lot of refreshing. Tying to get the zed.

Nah, TexB, still here…just sitting here messing with code for a new website. Not doing very well either, disrupted by Glenn Close and Anne Archer screaming at each other in Fatal Attraction.

Helpless Dancer @ 175

TexB @ 173

Did everyone else go to sleep? I think I just got a trifecta or a hat trick or perhaps just a triangle.

I think everyone is on the main page doing a lot of refreshing. Tying to get the zed.

Go lolo!

Suzanne @ 174

ohmystars, tex, i’ve never seen those. dibs on the bag, the rest of ya make do with those noodles.

Those bags were on sale at CVS a few weeks back and I bought 3. Half of one is still in a little hidey-hole in the back of the fridge that the kids haven’t found yet. Yummmmm.

Someone ought to tell them that we’re under 200 and Pach has said good night. Not sure it’s time for a Late, Late.

Out here in the “red” high desert, I make an effort to keep up with The Grumpy Forester. Surprisingly astute and on point reading!

One more indulgence and I will quit.

Diamond

Early middle aged indiscretions
can be viewed as forthright creations
to get a jump on death.

I swung the bat and heard it connect.
As I rounded third base with home in view
I mooned the crowd
and screwed the ump.
All the while the ball
had left the park,
come unraveled
and spun to nothingness.
I ran with my underpants around my ankles
and
in the little distance
left I
could still see home.

Oh nuts, I wanted to pass this on to Jane, don’t know if she saw this one on Friday.

They are eating their young.

Better stock up on extra popcorn.

evening all – dont have a blog – just read lots – faves include cathy from canada, fdl natch, memorandum, americablog,blue jersey of course, the real news and a few others – but as i’m slow it hard to keep up…..

Pachacutec @ 151

I mentioned the reason above: Plame house, the extended edition, only not for Plame stuff. . . .

Ah! I didn’t really think of the connection until you named it. Plame House it should be, just like public buildings are named for some memorial event or person, but the business conducted in them continues in that tradition!

Is there a special fund for supporting Plame House II? I’m willing to contribute.

Bob in HI

Mary McCurnin @ 181

One more indulgence and I will quit.

Diamond

Early middle aged indiscretions
can be viewed as forthright creations
to get a jump on death.

I swung the bat and heard it connect.
As I rounded third base with home in view
I mooned the crowd
and screwed the ump.
All the while the ball
had left the park,
come unraveled
and spun to nothingness.
I ran with my underpants around my ankles
and
in the little distance
left I
could still see home.

Keep’em coming!

Back on the subject. One of my favorite blogs is Jeff Huber. A retired navy commander who has never a nice thing to say about the Bushies.

Balrog @ 152

Pachacutec @ 151

I mentioned the reason above: Plame house, the extended edition, only not for Plame stuff.

Except also, she wants to have my children.

She’s welcome to mine.

What?!?! Are you already tired of weerog?

Bob in HI

newtonusr @ 176

Helpless Dancer @ 175

I think everyone is on the main page doing a lot of refreshing. Tying to get the zed.

Go lolo!

I am still here.

Del McCoury N The Boys.

Just took the stage . . . *G*

Live West Coast. 89.5 From Grass Valley, CA.

http://www.kvmr.org

The CBA Father’s Day Bluegrass Fest.

http://www.cbaontheweb.org/cba…..ewsid=2699

Del rawhks!!! *G*

Grouchy Cowboy @ 180

Out here in the “red” high desert, I make an effort to keep up with The Grumpy Forester. Surprisingly astute and on point reading!

G’evening, Grouchy Cowboy. Is there a link to the Grumpy Forester?

Mary McCurnin @ 181

One more indulgence and I will quit.

Diamond

Early middle aged indiscretions
can be viewed as forthright creations
to get a jump on death.

I swung the bat and heard it connect.
As I rounded third base with home in view
I mooned the crowd
and screwed the ump.
All the while the ball
had left the park,
come unraveled
and spun to nothingness.
I ran with my underpants around my ankles
and
in the little distance
left I
could still see home.

Wonderful!!!!

Helpless Dancer @ 186

Back on the subject. One of my favorite blogs is Jeff Huber. A retired navy commander who has never a nice thing to say about the Bushies.

Jeff also posts at Larisa Alexandrovna’s blog, AtLargely.com, which I catch every day.

Uh, Del is live on the internet, in case I didn’t make that clear . . thru http://www.kvmr.org

And tomorrow has some good music, too, as they close out the fest. *G*

looking at nader on c-span – is he thinking of running again? hmmmmm – getting back in the public eye…….

Riding in my House

I have been riding in my house,
a ship among trees,
barking dogs,
and people coming and going.
I swear, when the night storms hit,
the house rolls from one side to another.
The pitch is so great that I run to the back porch
and lower the anchor.
The house strains when it hits bottom.
Windows bulge from the turbulence outside.
Furniture slides around the rooms
like a scene from a bad movie.
I pass through the kitchen on the way back to bed
and notice the sink is full of rocking dinner dishes.
I figure one of the benefits of the gail
is this washing action and
I can just rinse those suckers in the morning
and put them away.
When morning does come the walls are upright,
the trees are still holding up the sky,
the dogs bark at their canine phantoms,
and the dishes are put away.

larue, you know i’ve got the pig on. Is that the festival up near quincy?

juslin @ 194

looking at nader on c-span – is he thinking of running again? hmmmmm – getting back in the public eye…….

How come we only hear from this guy at election time?

Mary McCurnin @ 197

juslin @ 194

looking at nader on c-span – is he thinking of running again? hmmmmm – getting back in the public eye…….

How come we only hear from this guy at election time?

That would be the right question.

Mary McCurnin @ 195

Riding in my House

I have been riding in my house,
a ship among trees,
barking dogs,
and people coming and going.
I swear, when the night storms hit,
the house rolls from one side to another.
The pitch is so great that I run to the back porch
and lower the anchor.
The house strains when it hits bottom.
Windows bulge from the turbulence outside.
Furniture slides around the rooms
like a scene from a bad movie.
I pass through the kitchen on the way back to bed
and notice the sink is full of rocking dinner dishes.
I figure one of the benefits of the gail
is this washing action and
I can just rinse those suckers in the morning
and put them away.
When morning does come the walls are upright,
the trees are still holding up the sky,
the dogs bark at their canine phantoms,
and the dishes are put away.

blows me away.. that so speaks to me, mary mcc. thank you.

Thanks guys. I haven’t written in a long time. The urge
is creeping up on me. It makes me feel good that you like it.

Mary McCurnin @ 200

Thanks guys. I haven’t written in a long time. The urge
is creeping up on me. It makes me feel good that you like it.

Next…

Wow, a place where you’re invited to tout your blog? I’m new to this, and posted my address(only once!) on Huffington Post, before learning it was “bad form.” So far, no negative repercussions (whew!).

But, I have just recently started a new blog after reading them for years. I particularly like this one, AmericaBlog and Raw Story. I’m not up to those high standards, but check it out if you like. Thanks. Greenlee Gazette

Nader is all about Nader. I saw him on CPAN complaining about political bigotry. Think he’ll ever concede that it was his run for office that put us in the position we are in today?

Hearts and Diamonds

Playin with hearts and diamonds,
his mama sucked on death all day
and half the night,
giving him her sideways glance,
lettin’ him know she wanted only
to see her reflection and,
at the same time,
perfection.
His daddy caught babies
from the centers of other women and
never saw anything
except that his hands were full of life
and thought that was enough.
Spit polished by the skinny, angry maid,
he daily left the cavernous expectations
of the house and hopped the school bus.
Played little league.
His big, necessary glasses gettin’ in the way.
Ran over mossy green stones,
over small, slick streams
and
hid in the quiet spots of his lonely
awkward heart.
Played at being a sweet, wanted boy.
Pretended it to be true.
He walked into manhood
with the emptiness covered over by good mind
and healing hands like his daddy’s.
The years rolled over him workin’ him hard
like Jesus.
When death came for him early
he was so blind
that it took him two full years
to understand
he was gone.

larue @ 189

Del McCoury N The Boys.

Just took the stage . . . *G*

Live West Coast. 89.5 From Grass Valley, CA.

http://www.kvmr.org

The CBA Father’s Day Bluegrass Fest.

http://www.cbaontheweb.org/cba…..ewsid=2699

Del rawhks!!! *G*

Yes! I’ve seen them live, several times. Del raised his boys right!– musically, anyway.

Bob in HI

Suzanne @ 196

larue, you know i’ve got the pig on. Is that the festival up near quincy?

Grass Valley, m’deah, home of conservative flag wavin elders and bluegrass hounds of the first order!!

And it’s the 32′nd annual fest, and it’s a doozy . . first one I’ve missed in 5 years . . it’s a pickers camp jam dream . . .

Some folks never even SEE the main stage and don’t care, they pay the price of $100 or so for four days of HOT 100F camping just to jam 24/7.

About 7K total, I think, 5K easily for the campers . . . daily attendence not included.

It really is THE Premier BLUEGRASS Fest on the West Coast . . . *G* A bit conservative for my tastes at times, but, you get that many porch pickers together for four days and I GUARENTEE you’ll hear Peter Rowan/Jerry Garcia songs, DawgMusic, some gypsy swing, lots of old Stones Covers (acoustic/country) and tons of americana, folk and well, real people playin REAL instruments with strings and voices raised in 3-4 part harmonies singing ‘parts’ like only bluegrass styles of song allow . . . but I gush . . . ;-)

I prefer Strawberry Music Festival, and it’s twice a year! But this one, CBA’s Father’s Day Fest, is close to home and when the weather is cooler a bit, it’s a KILLER picker’s dream!!!! *G*

JLGreenlee @ 202

Wow, a place where you’re invited to tout your blog? I’m new to this, and posted my address(only once!) on Huffington Post, before learning it was “bad form.” So far, no negative repercussions (whew!).

But, I have just recently started a new blog after reading them for years. I particularly like this one, AmericaBlog and Raw Story. I’m not up to those high standards, but check it out if you like. Thanks. Greenlee Gazette

Welcome, JL. Yeap, doncha just blogwhore posts. I find great places as a result of these invitation to blogwhore posts.

Mary McCurnin @ 197

juslin @ 194

looking at nader on c-span – is he thinking of running again? hmmmmm – getting back in the public eye…….

How come we only hear from this guy at election time?

Because no one pays any attention in between?

Bob in HI

larue @ 206

Suzanne @ 196

larue, you know i’ve got the pig on. Is that the festival up near quincy?

Grass Valley, m’deah, home of conservative flag wavin elders and bluegrass hounds of the first order!!

And it’s the 32′nd annual fest, and it’s a doozy . . first one I’ve missin in 5 years . . it’s a pickers camp jam dream . . .

Some folks never even SEE the main stage and don’t care, they pay the price of $100 or so for four days of HOT 100F camping just to jam 24/7.

About 7K total, I think, 5K easily for the campers . . . daily attendence not included.

It really is THE Premier BLUEGRASS Fest on the West Coast . . . *G* A bit conservative for my tastes at times, but, you get that many porch pickers together for four days and I GUARENTEE you’ll hear Peter Rowan/Jerry Garcia songs, DawgMusic, some gypsy swing, lots of old Stones Covers (acoustic/country) and tons of americana, folk and well, real people playin REAL instruments with strings and voices raised in 3-4 part harmonies singing ‘parts’ like only bluegrass styles of song allow . . . but I gush . . . ;-)

Good to see another Bluegrass Festival hound on the list. Unfortunately, ain’t many here in HI.
When I lived east of the Mississippi, I went to lots of festivals, and even in Arizona there were 3-4 of them a year. I miss’em!

Bob in HI

larue, I think Strawberry is the name of the festival I was thinking of. Up in Laytonville iirc – maybe…

OK, I’m gonna be sick: C-Span – Nader opining on Gore’s committment to the environment. Move all throwable objects!

One recent non-political post I can brag about was my obligatory Sopranos prediction the day before the episode aired: I correctly predicted that Agent Harris would help Tony “defeat or destroy” Phil Leotardo. The post wasn’t political, but my thinking was: I figured the feds wouldn’t want chaos on the docks, and Tony would be seen as the more stable (and potentially helpful) of the bad guys. US foreign policy brought down to Jersey.

Another post I’m happy about is one calling attention to the interview Congressman John Lewis gave to Newsweek about the death of his old nemesis, Selma sheriff James Clark. I’d interviewed Congressman Lewis in the late 1990s, when his autobiography was published and I was an editor for Amazon.com. He stands out as one of the most impressive people I’ve ever spoken with. The only problem with the Newsweek interview is that you can’t hear him saying the words… listening to him is always a treat.

Also wrote about the bombing (again) of the mosque in Samarra, the bridge bombing campaign around Baghdad, the white elephant embassy, Rudy’s “commitments,” and also some news-pegged posts about James Joyce’s old moviehouse in Dublin, the whale with the century-old weapon in him, and an obligatory post about Angelina Jolie when she was under attack from the right wing noise machine. It was an interesting week between dinner at Holsten’s and Bloomsday.

Snaking the Drain

quick, change the channel, newton. pbs should be able to save your lamps.

OT: Did everyone catch Sy Hersh’s new article in the June 25 issue of The New Yorker? It’s a “must read” for everyone who cares.

Since we’re blog-whoring…
Dick Cheney is the most dangerous person on the fucking planet.

Back to the opening topic:
Besides FDL, my blogroll includes The Next Hurrah to check for posts by Marcy or Kagro X, TalkLeft, to see what Jeralyn has written, Salon for Greenwald, and of course DailyKos. It will be interesting to see how MyDD evolves now that Chris ant Matt are leaving; I’ll check in with them, too.

Bob in HI

thanks, wigwam, i had not know Sy had a new article up. always good reading – don’t any of the other reporters read him?

Why thank you Suzanne. The folk at FDL are so nice.

Keep an eye out for a story from the LA Times next week about people who had to act as the FDA and sent in their pet food to a private lab to have it tested.

I’ve been behind the scenes talking to reporters and trying to help some of the folks who are considering challenging the pet food companies who claim there is food is fine.

The FDA is trying to dismiss the labs claims even though they haven’t tested the same samples! I wonder how many pets have to die this time before they act?

Mary McCurnin @ 195

Riding in my House

I have been riding in my house,
a ship among trees,
barking dogs,
and people coming and going.
I swear, when the night storms hit,
the house rolls from one side to another.
The pitch is so great that I run to the back porch
and lower the anchor.
The house strains when it hits bottom.
Windows bulge from the turbulence outside.
Furniture slides around the rooms
like a scene from a bad movie.
I pass through the kitchen on the way back to bed
and notice the sink is full of rocking dinner dishes.
I figure one of the benefits of the gail
is this washing action and
I can just rinse those suckers in the morning
and put them away.
When morning does come the walls are upright,
the trees are still holding up the sky,
the dogs bark at their canine phantoms,
and the dishes are put away.

awesome!

I’m not a fast enough writer to have a blog of my own, but I highly recommend 3 Quarks Daily, a syndication of interesting articles and posts about science, literature, art, poetry, and just about everything.

spocko @ 218

Why thank you Suzanne. The folk at FDL are so nice.

Keep an eye out for a story from the LA Times next week about people who had to act as the FDA and sent in their pet food to a private lab to have it tested.

I’ve been behind the scenes talking to reporters and trying to help some of the folks who are considering challenging the pet food companies who claim there is food is fine.

The FDA is trying to dismiss the labs claims even though they haven’t tested the same samples! I wonder how many pets have to die this time before they act?

Are we living in the dark ages? And why did it take so little time to get here?

Okay, this bit I’m reading about human memetics and war is making me nod off…time to hit the hay.

Have a pleasant evening, gang, catch you in the morning.

Good nite Rayne.

cheney dangerous cuz he has no morals to worry about – pure evil imho….

Rayne @ 222

Okay, this bit I’m reading about human memetics and war is making me nod off…time to hit the hay.

Have a pleasant evening, gang, catch you in the morning.

It was rayning fire here today. Nite.

juslin @ 224

cheney dangerous cuz he has no morals to worry about – pure evil imho….

And he knows that each new day may be his last.

‘lo all,

i’m in sleep-drugged zombie mode this morning. just rebooted the ‘browser so i hope the synapses are firing to the fingers semi-accurately.

my blog is, as george used to say “like a pair of brown shoes in a room full of tuxedos.” i take it slow and easy. i just try to say something about what i see and hear around me now and then. haven’t fooled with the graphic side at all.

fahrender dot blogspot dot com

Rayne @ 154

Pachacutec @ 151

Except also, she wants to have my children.

She just wants your empanadas. ;-)

There are empanadas?!

mary@226 – ever notice how long evil people live……..cheney has worn out many “heart” transplants ;o}

Suzanne @ 217

thanks, wigwam, i had not know Sy had a new article up. always good reading – don’t any of the other reporters read him?

This is one of Sy’s best. He tracks responsibility for Gitmo and Abu Ghraib torture to Rumsfeld’s doorstep, and he shows how Rumsfeld and the military brass fucked-over General Taguba, a moral and wise patriot.

margaritas to go with them empanadas??? mmmmm

wigwam @ 230

Suzanne @ 217

thanks, wigwam, i had not know Sy had a new article up. always good reading – don’t any of the other reporters read him?

This is one of Sy’s best. He tracks responsibility for Gitmo and Abu Ghraib torture to Rumsfeld’s doorstep, and he shows how Rumsfeld and the military brass fucked-over General Taguba, a moral and wise patriot.

If Taguba gets in front of THIS Congress…

My daily must read includes the lake (of course), and of the lesser known blogs include the spy who bills me, spocko’s brain, the qc report and lance mannon.

spocko, i’ll look for it. if it is is the pet food, it could be in the people food was my worry from the getgo, not to mention my own pup and cat worries.

juslin @ 229

mary@226 – ever notice how long evil people live……..cheney has worn out many “heart” transplants ;o}

It is cause they don’t feel the burden of guilt. Guilt is a killer.

links were separated to avoid triggering the spam filter

spocko

lance

The sites I read most often are HuffPo, FDL, HORN News, and this one, mostly because I know I will be quizzed on its contents. LOL

Mary McC, more please, anytime.

Goddamn. Just looked at the Blue America-Angie Paccione post from today. Just wow. She needs to be running for a higher office someday!

What a clear and inspirational voice. Help out Angie today!

http://www.actblue.com/page/blueamerica08

Suzanne @ 210

larue, I think Strawberry is the name of the festival I was thinking of. Up in Laytonville iirc – maybe…

f

Nope. THAT one is in Camp Mather, just outside the gate of 120 into Yosemite.

Camp Mather is owned and operated by City Of San Francisco, as Hetch Hetchy is just across the rise so to speak . .

Teddy San Fran? You know of Camp Mather?

Anyhoots, here’s the link to The Berry Fest:

http://www.strawberrymusic.com/home.asp

It’s a good one, and sells out by March or April, every year now . . .

The Fig Tree

Mama sings her song of need and nurture.
Daddy goes on another out of town trip.
Around the corner,
I slip up the squat fig tree.
Hold at bay the heat of the high noon day.
Hidden by the thick, shapely leaves
and my secret knowledge,
I sing my own little tune.
It hums in me still, a mystery.
My brown legs wrap the branches.
Breaking open the fruit, I discover
fine red seeds and three or four tears.
After drinking the liquid,
I let the fruit drop and roll, wounded side down.

I stay as long as I like
and spin dreams of royalty
and importance in the wet air.
I do not know until I grow and leave
that I have had a hot and languid beginning.

“No more football” my mother says “because your bosom is
beginning to develop.”
It is all so unbearable.
I begin to feel the touch of boys in other ways.
The game becomes urgent, a need.
I am aware, in a day, of my presence.
The mystery is diminishing and I am left with my small,
self conscious breasts.

Sixteen and a boy touches my shoulder. I am his.
We take rides in his yellow, Falcon-V8.
My father follows at a distance.
A caravan of lust and incest.
My father never really loves me again
and I know it is because the boy does.
Years later I call when babies are born
and the newly made grandfather
takes the news like a call
from a second cousin.

Tattooed with the ink of wife,
I forget to include the stain of passion,
me up a tree,
shaded with broad leaves,
and the open, blood colored fruit of figs.

40 years ago this weekend was the Monterey International Pop Festival – for those in the Monterey area next weekend should try to go for this years event.

Good night lake pups. I’m off to sleep.

Mommybrain @ 237

Mary McC, more please, anytime.

I second that.

Volume

Volume spills from my fingertips.
Characters, spliced and renewed,
make new sounds heard only in the secrets of my mind.
With the conviction of the imprisoned
I build new words.
The sun moves east to west
across the diagonal of the roof and
half the day the sun is in my eyes.
It only seems to be a linear, electric dimension.
From the box, from the soup,
I can draw more sounds
and,
sometimes,
an occasional fish.

g’nite tex. pain free sleep wishes

Redshift @ 220

I’m not a fast enough writer to have a blog of my own, but I highly recommend 3 Quarks Daily, a syndication of interesting articles and posts about science, literature, art, poetry, and just about everything.

Thanks for the excellent link. I added it to my bookmarks because it talks to my inner geek.

Blog-pimping the Sparkle Pony madness, in this case her take on Lieberman banging the drums (of war).

I just freed a Mary McC poem. refresh to see (but refrain from quoting it please)

TeddySanFran @ 247

Blog-pimping the Sparkle Pony madness, in this case her take on Lieberman banging the drums (of war).

I beat Lieberman can’t hold a beat.

TSF! love sparkle pony. thanks

got to hit the sack lakers – got an early call this am – graduation ceremony to attend of niece who perservered thru many obstacles… night all.. and mary – loved your words!!

Thanks Juslin. Goodnight.

“If you think you understand Lebanese politics, it probably wasn’t explained to you properly.” I didn’t write that, and my blog doesn’t pretend to try to do that, but if you like Lebanese food along with an occasional observation about everyday life in Beirut, c’mon over!

Robert in Beirut http://www.toughtimesbeirut.blogspot.com

I’m afraid Mary is now a Saturday Late Nite institution now. We are blessed.

Bob@209 and others in this thread:

Yep, blue grass, new grass, old grass, and jam grass and many other musics acoustically applied are my treats du jour.

And glad also to know, there’s another in here who likes THAT KINE . . . of grass.

Appalachian Dulcimer for 35 years now.

Dobro for 5 years, mando for 2 years.

There’s just something about playing stringed instruments, and about singing with others, that’s SO totally communal and bitchenly kewl . . . I’m new to a lot of the playing and singing, dulcimer aside, so it’s a real treat to hit fests when I can . . . I’m a lucky guy to be able to follow a heart that knows that I shoulda been followin this long, long ago . . *G*

This blog whoring theme got me looking at bookmarks of mine that have sort of fell along the wayside. Just made a long overdue visit to Alternet and found this:http://www.alternet.org/story/54093/
God, I hate what the modern corporation has become. To them a free market means free to lie, cheat and steal.

One more. You all make me blush. This is an invitation to my now hubby to come live with me. I love him.

An Invitation

No more can I wake alone in the pink cast of dawn,
I entreat you, Ronald Thomas Bednar, to take leave of your landlord in San Rafaelias,
give no countenance to your deposit or
I will give force and wrent my own garments in despair.
Thirty days of note, thirty days of long wait, thirty days of notice to
the man who has taken your fortune in exchange for small spaces and noisy illumination.
Come again to my house in the little burg of Sonoma to live until
fate smiles upon us and the plot is sold for copious amounts of gold
or the tax man forges his name on the deed to this quaint property.
Come to Sonoma where the figs are open and tasty,
the green quince wait to be picked and cooked into pies unspeakable.
Come to Sonoma where wanders from afar and townsfolk alike revel
at the town square (some say it is a rectangle)
and we have to offer
Della Santina, The Swiss Hotel and that wayward Cafe Lahaye.
Do not dally in Marin, that place of stuffy, newage concoctions but
come to my abode, come into my heart and home. Make me
no more a widow but a new, sweet blushing bride.

larue @ 255

Bob@209 and others in this thread:

Yep, blue grass, new grass, old grass, and jam grass and many other musics acoustically applied are my treats du jour.

And glad also to know, there’s another in here who likes THAT KINE . . . of grass.

Appalachian Dulcimer for 35 years now.

Dobro for 5 years, mando for 2 years.

There’s just something about playing stringed instruments, and about singing with others, that’s SO totally communal and bitchenly kewl . . . I’m new to a lot of the playing and singing, dulcimer aside, so it’s a real treat to hit fests when I can . . . I’m a lucky guy to be able to follow a heart that knows that I shoulda been followin this long, long ago . . *G*

Ha! My husband plays a dobro and he designs lap steels and electric guitars.

Do you know Pete Grant in Auburn? Great teacher. Brilliant player. Guitar, lap steel, peddle steel. And a funny, kind man.

Suzanne @ 217

thanks, wigwam, i had not know Sy had a new article up. always good reading – don’t any of the other reporters read him?

Here’s how the article ends:

“From the moment a soldier enlists, we inculcate loyalty, duty, honor, integrity, and selfless service,” Taguba said. “And yet when we get to the senior-officer level we forget those values. I know that my peers in the Army will be mad at me for speaking out, but the fact is that we violated the laws of land warfare in Abu Ghraib. We violated the tenets of the Geneva Convention. We violated our own principles and we violated the core of our military values. The stress of combat is not an excuse, and I believe, even today, that those civilian and military leaders responsible should be held accountable.” ♦

Rumsfeld, Cambone & Wolfowitz should be put on trial for these crimes.

Bob in HI

Rayne @ 153

Pachacutec @ 147

She still has to recuperate, after all, once the chemo is done. Just one more round to go, but her body is sure feeling it.

I am in awe that she has been so active, including the TBA2007 conference next week. Amazing grit, that Jane.

God bless that woman.

I am off to bed. Thanks for reading my work. Has made my night. And yes, god bless Jane.

Mary Mc, I love it. Blush away!
The house and the volume ones are almost singable. Gospel and blues.

Got here late, so I’ll have to blogwhore first, then read. The posts I’m most proud of recently are A Way To Say Thank You, which was for Memorial Day, and Why We’re Not Winning In Iraq – The Illustrated Version, which is almost a month old, but thanks to our government’s continued folly, still as timeless as its subjects.

Unfortunately, I’m not able to write much lately. Real life is sort of intervening, though not in a bad way.

Helpless Dancer @ 256

This blog whoring theme got me looking at bookmarks of mine that have sort of fell along the wayside. Just made a long overdue visit to Alternet and found this:http://www.alternet.org/story/54093/
God, I hate what the modern corporation has become. To them a free market means free to lie, cheat and steal.

That’s what Georgie Boy means when he extols the virtues of “freedom”.

Bob in HI

Mary McCurnin @ 261

I am off to bed. Thanks for reading my work. Has made my night. And yes, god bless Jane.

Next time in, Mary, introduce yourself to SteveAudio and go guitar-nuts… if you haven’t already! Night.

I am always pimping my blog here and elsewhere. Here’s a link to an entry that I am especially proud of:

Fuck the Draft

Please visit the Schapira blog “What we know so far …”

… and tell ‘em Big Mitch sent ya!

Bob Schacht @ 258

Suzanne @ 217

thanks, wigwam, i had not know Sy had a new article up. always good reading – don’t any of the other reporters read him?

Here’s how the article ends:

“From the moment a soldier enlists, we inculcate loyalty, duty, honor, integrity, and selfless service,” Taguba said. “And yet when we get to the senior-officer level we forget those values. I know that my peers in the Army will be mad at me for speaking out, but the fact is that we violated the laws of land warfare in Abu Ghraib. We violated the tenets of the Geneva Convention. We violated our own principles and we violated the core of our military values. The stress of combat is not an excuse, and I believe, even today, that those civilian and military leaders responsible should be held accountable.” ♦

Rumsfeld, Cambone & Wolfowitz should be put on trial for these crimes.

Bob in HI

Agreed!! They should be on trial for war crimes, under the War-Crimes Act of 1996, which had not yet been gutted (via the MCA) at the time they did those things.

And Rummy has to option of giving up people further up the line, if he cares to save his own ass.

Big Mitch @ 266

I am always pimping my blog here and elsewhere. Here’s a link to an entry that I am especially proud of:

Fuck the Draft

Please visit the Schapira blog “What we know so far …”

… and tell ‘em Big Mitch sent ya!

Added to my BMarks!

Mary – you still here?

(tap tap) anyone still here besides us nite owls?

SnarKassandra @ 13

These are the titles of our latest posts on YouthINKLeft:

* Corporate Crime —- did they fool you too?

That’s a good article, SK. I like trying to make people look at things from a different perspective from the one they’re used to seeing. And your point that corporate crime can lead to violence is a good one, too.

Suzanne @ 270

(tap tap) anyone still here besides us nite owls?

I’m heading to bed. Good night, all.

Suzanne @ 270

(tap tap) anyone still here besides us nite owls?

I expect that a lot of us are reading ;)

g’nite wigwam

SnarKassandra @ 54

We are having a Central Texas FDL picnic soon.

SnarKassandra, I live in the DFW area and would be interested in knowing more about the Central Texas FDL picnic you mention. How can I get more details?

Perhaps a double dog dare is needed to get some of the readers to give us a link to their blog or their favorite blog.

Cujo, there sure is a week’s worth of reading to do just on the links from tonight’s thread.

sojourner, texb is here most nights – get ahold of her on a thread. she has gone to bed for the nite tonight.

Guilty pleasure – I pimp for
driftglass.

Just a quick driveby to say good evening/morning to all and a quicky goodnight too. Mr. Brat brought the flu home midweek and now we’re both pathetic. He likes the aptly named blog dailyscare dot com.

Nyquil, errr, nite dear pups.

newspaperbrat @ 278

Just a quick driveby to say good evening/morning to all and a quicky goodnight too. Mr. Brat brought the flu home midweek and now we’re both pathetic. He likes the aptly named blog dailyscare dot com.

Nyquil, errr, nite dear pups.

Fell better u 2!

Suzanne @ 275

Perhaps a double dog dare is needed to get some of the readers to give us a link to their blog or their favorite blog.

Cujo, there sure is a week’s worth of reading to do just on the links from tonight’s thread.

sojourner, texb is here most nights – get ahold of her on a thread. she has gone to bed for the nite tonight.

I would. But my blog is for the most part a lot of day in the life and anime related stuffage. I’m not much of a political blogger. I’m here to stay informned and becuase i like the people so much. If i could get away with exposing Big Insurance and Big Pharma without losing my job? I’d do it in a heartbeat. I just don’t have the resources to do it effectively. Not without losing a way to keep a roof over my head and food on my table.

hey, suzanne, it’s ready if/when you want

Big Mitch @ 266

I am always pimping my blog here and elsewhere. Here’s a link to an entry that I am especially proud of:

Fuck the Draft
Please visit the Schapira blog “What we know so far …”

… and tell ‘em Big Mitch sent ya!

Good point about the Cummins firing. I never quite knew the story, but it’s always struck me as more than just about Karl Rove wanting his buddy to be the chief prosecutor in Arkansas. As Scarecrow wrote here a couple of days ago, there are many different reasons why these guys were fired.

alias, i’ve proudly blogwhored my neglected blog, which is pretty much just day in my life stuff, some political but no where near jane quality – pictures of life in the temperate rain forest, etc.

there are lots of anime liking folks at the lake. wanna share?

go for it teddy

Mary McCurnin @ 226

juslin @ 224

cheney dangerous cuz he has no morals to worry about – pure evil imho….

And he knows that each new day may be his last.

Ain’t that the truth. It does seem like he’s become even more malevolent in the last decade or so, and for folks who are mean and arrogant to begin with mortality can have that effect.

Hi nightowls! I’m here quietly following links, etc.

Newtonusr, thanks for sending me to Colbert
at c-span2, just caught parts. Nice to see him sorta out of persona. Re-run tomorrow at 3pm EDT – I’ll try to catch it all then.

“Description: Stephen Colbert (”I Am America and So Can You”), Ken Burns (”The War”), Khaled Hosseini (”A Thousand Splendid Suns”), and Lisa See (”Peony in Love”)”

Looks like Teddy just went for it.

Suzanne @ 284

go for it teddy

done!

Alright Suzanne,

I’ll bite.

My blog is here
. MOst of it is the musing of a slightly older anime girlgeek with a penchant for slash fanfic and occiasional politics. *grins*

Suzanne @ 276

Perhaps a double dog dare is needed to get some of the readers to give us a link to their blog or their favorite blog. . . .

Well, I did earlier–you can get to my DailyKos blog through the link in my name. But I repeat myself only to note that after a long hiatus, I just tonight added a diary to my blog at MyDD.

I’ll be off to bed shortly!

Bob in HI

http://www.jasonconga.blogspot.com

“The name of this blog”
I had plans for a book approximately 5 years ago. It seemed to encompass the very idea of me trying to wrap up my life in America within 6-7 months, tie up loose ends and move to another country across the Atlantic for love (and adventure and life). The book was going to include some of the steps I had to take, things I had to consider and important prerequisites it became apparent that were necessary in order to get away scot free.

Well, needless to say I succeeded. I earned a teaching certificate in Brno, Czech Republic at the cheapest place I could find in Europe and then started my new life in Freiburg, Germany on March 18, 2003. It turns out we moved all of Assiyeah’s stuff in a small moving van from Berlin to Freiburg on the eve of the Iraq war. A strange time to become an “American in Europe”. I got work, started travelling, got more work and started travelling more. Repeat two more times and it culminates in 2005 with 126 days of vacation. I had my first photo exhibition that year. Then last year was my highest-earning year. I had 5 exhibitions in Freiburg, Amsterdam, Buenos Aires and Tilcara, Argentina and Cusco, Peru. I just got a new job. I just came back from my 3rd vacation of the year. I have today off. Really, things could not have gone any better if I had scripted it myself.

A Humorous Guide to Leaving the Country

Starting in March 2006, exactly 3 years after having begun this amazingly fantastic life (while having a tax number), I started to have troubles with my work permit. The foreign authorities of this country have almost tried to end my permission to live here in Germany as I do. They have been slow, occasionally so bull-headed in their obtuseness that I have been dumbfounded. Those troubles continue to this day but with other government agencies and with concrete amounts of money they want. I’m still here. The experience has changed but the name of the story won’t.

I can write a 150-page book in a month. I could pull it off but I would have to be disciplined. Which month would I do it? 5 pages a day. The story of me coming to germany, building my life and then being threatened from large, outside forces that make me appreciate my life just a bit more.

Suzanne @ 241

40 years ago this weekend was the Monterey International Pop Festival – for those in the Monterey area next weekend should try to go for this years event.

Well I’m in Borneo…so I’m going to the Rainforest Music Festival.

http://www.rainforestmusic-borneo.com

HUUN HUUR TU / MALERIJA (TUVA & RUSSIA)~The awesome mysterious throat singers of Central Asia with their traditional instruments, wonderful costumes and culture, juxtaposed with urban Russian contemporary musicians.
TARIKA BE (Madagascar)~Music with the soul of another tropical island using traditional melodies and instruments – led by the powerful vocals and charisma of Hanitra.
JERRY KAMIT (Sarawak) ~ The icon of the Rainforest World Music Festival – the sape – in the hands of a virtuostic Iban master of the instrument.
KHAC CHI (Vietnam)~Amazing instruments and sounds from this husband and wife duo.
SHANNON (Poland)~ Powerful Celtic music complete with bagpipes and whistles from big Polish men in kilts.
MAH MERI (Malaysia)~ Orang Asli aboriginies of Malaysia with their masks and music and secret rituals.
DOGHOUSE SKIFFLE GROUP (UK) Lovable, irresistible street fun with this irrepressible trio.
TABUH PAK AINAL (Sarawak)~Melanau, Bidayuh and Malay drum beats from this father and son duo.
ENSEMBLE KABOUL (Afghanistan)~Spiritual and intricate music of the Middle East that portrays a nation with poetry in their hearts.
INKA MARKA (Peru, Chile, Australia)~Music of South America from five men band residing in Australia.
KELAPANG KELABIT BAMBOO BAND (Sarawak)~ Big troupe of musicians with highland bamboo instruments from Northern Borneo
FOGHORN STRINGBAND (USA)~Old timey Mid-west and Appalachian mountain music mixed with Bluegrass – rousing and spirit-lifting string playing.
TAMMORRA (Italy) ~Joy of life music from Sicily – tarantellas and tammuriattas and gigantic tambourines called tammorras. SHOOGLENIFTY (Scotland)~Intoxicating blend of traditional melodies of the Highlands with contemporary dance rhythms.
BLACK UMFOLOSI (Zimbabwe) ~Sweet a capella harmonies and feel-good vibrations with captivating gum-boot dancing thrown in.
ANAK ADI’ RURUM (Sarawak)~ A group of young people with a passion to conserve and preserve the traditions of Sarawak. RANDY RAINE REUSCH(Canada)~Multi-instrumentalist with an appearance back at the festival having been one of the masterminds of the event.
MAS Y MAS (UK) Explosive Power Trio delivering a message of Unity, Sensuality and Fiesta.
ASEANA PERCUSSION UNIT (Malaysia)~ A powerhouse mix of Malay, Indian and Chinese percussion and rhythm.

cinnamonape @ 292

Suzanne @ 241

40 years ago this weekend was the Monterey International Pop Festival – for those in the Monterey area next weekend should try to go for this years event.

Well I’m in Borneo…so I’m going to the Rainforest Music Festival.

http://www.rainforestmusic-borneo.com

wish i was there.
borneo.
and monterey.
lots of monterey’67 on youTube.

(i should post something at my blog now.)

I didn’t see any comments on it, but just in case Rich @ 95 sparks any curiousity, the reference is here.

At wetmachine we blog about media policy (FCC, courts & legislatures), internet policy, random bullshit, publishing, technoparanoia, the wireless liberation front, open source software, self-publishing, biodigital convergence, the emergent overmind, the precog engineering front, and free creative-commons technoparanoid gonzo novels, notably my Acts of the Apostles and Cheap Complex Devices. Please come check us out.

A Blogwhoring it is! A brief take on a newer Republican meme about Those Evil, Liberal Privacy Laws. Oh yeah, and maru posts at my place too!!

Hi, I’m Bill, No. 297.

I hear blogs whore themselves here. I’d like to let you know about my blog, which is brilliant fantastic unbelievable so-so in English. Mostly.

I’ve also been known to blog elsewhere, as well, with equal amount of brilliance mediocrity.

Cheers,

–WKW

I’m a bit late, so no one will read this. A bit like my blog. It’s a nice blog though. I write about whatever strikes me: current affairs, music, my navel, soccer, love.