Okay, I’ve heard a country song written after 1970 that I actually like. The end of the world may well arrive before Monday morning, so synchronize your watches.
Hey that gives me an idea
Let’s get out of this bar
Drive out into the country
And find a place to park.
‘Cause I’d like to see you out in the moonlight I’d like to kiss you way back in the sticks
I’d like to walk you through a field of wildflowers
And I’d like to check you for ticks.
A friend of mine used to say that. We’d be out drinking and some handsome lad would happen by and she’d squint and say, “Hot damn, looka there. Ah’d sure like to check him for ticks.”
Ah-yup.
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evenin’ TRex!
Fitzalicious!!
TRex!
Love you, lolo.
TRex? I thought you were taking Friday nites off for book writing?
Those lyrics are not a joke! It’s the absolute worst song ever…and that’s saying something.
Suzanne @ 4
TRex!!! What no dive tonite, Ma Cheri?
Suzanne @ 4
Absolutely nobody wants to take the Friday night shift. I’m the only one, apparently who has no life enough that I’m consistently around on Friday night.
Near zed!
Hi TRex!
TRex @ 7
I don’t want to know what that makes us for reading it. What kind of fuckery is this?!?!
TRex @ 7
You hate us.
T- @ 5
Is it worse than “Drop Kick, Jesus, Through the Goal Post of Life?” Haven’t that one in a million years.
kirk murphy @ 8
Oh, just stroll in like you haven’t called or written in ages, why don’t you.
Where have you been, young man?
Hiya TRex! Hiya y’all!
That’s right, ya little brats, yer bleedin’ me dry!! BLEEDIN’ ME DRY!!
Now go fix Daddy another vodka stinger…
Hi Cassie, did you get your Harry Potter book yet?
SnarKassandra @ 13
Greetings and felicitations! Hip-hip! Tallyho!
This one’s for you pal… ;0)
…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2q8-DeT3dQ
LoudounLib @ 15
Nope. It comes in the mail or the UPS tomorrow.
Mr. Doodle is pickin’ out in the garage. He does Georgia real sweet.
Hi Snark. You having a good evening?
Dr. Dick, any relief on the weather?
SnarKassandra @ 18
I heard that everybody dies. Oh, wait, I’m thinking of Hamlet.
(((((((TRex!TRex!TRex!)))))))
Twain @ 11
I think so. I could only take a few seconds before my ears were bleeding and my cortex started imploding and separating from my skull.
The really bad thing about it was that the dude singing thought that the line about the ticks would help get him into the chicks pants. Gross.
I will tolerate absolutely no Harry Potter spoilers on this thread.
LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA!!!!
*shuts eyes and covers ears*
LA LA LA LA LAAAAAA!!
I want Snape and Voldemort to die, and maybe Draco. And I want everyone else to live.
TRex @ 14
no.
{{{{{Snarky!!}}}}}
EvilDrPuma @ 21
;-)
TRex @ 14
One for you, Trex, and one for me. Or two. It’s Friday, what the hell?
wangdangdoodle @ 27
wangie!!!
I must say I never got into the Harry Potter thing, but my best friend (late 40’s like me) can’t wait to get her hands on that last book.
SnarKassandra @ 30
HA!! I resemble that remark.
My copy of Harry Potter will be delivered tomorrow, so there had better NOT be any spoilers on this thread. Srsly.
SnarKassandra @ 30
That may not be the best nickname ever, Cassie.
Loo Hoo. @ 3
Love you too LooHoo! Evening Pups!
EvilDrPuma @ 34
Doodle-ey!
Twain @ 11
I kinda like that one.
Also like “I’m Proud to Be an Assh*le from El Paso.”
T- @ 23
Well, it’s gone. As AK says, *poof*!
lolo @ 35
Heya Lolo!
hey lolo :-)
Suzanne @ 25
Damn, Suzanne. You say that word with such authorita.
I think I’m the only person in the “free” world who has absolutely no interest in Harry Potter. Even my own family is planning on camping at Barnes and Noble tomorrow. >yawn
EvilDrPuma @ 34
It’s all good.
{{{GROUP HUG!}}}
TRex, I think you scared Kirk away!
There are real bad ticks on the little Potomac River islands. Canoe, lunch, gray blanket, nekkid girl and a billion ticks. That was ~40 years ago, maybe the tick situation is better now. We were picking ticks off of each other for days.
“Drop Kick Me Jeezus
Through the Goal Posts of Life
End over end
Neither left Nor to right
Straight through the Heart
Of them righteous uprights!
Just drop kick me Jeezus
Through the goal posts of life!”
GordonM @ 41
Comes from being in touch with my inner bitch, Gordon.
Shadow, see my 31.
Margot @ 38
Margot @ 38
Or “Take your tongue out of my mouth, I’m kissin’ you goodbye”?
Loo –
I haven’t been around these parts in many, many moons; and I don’t understand this,
Hey, anybody want some rain? We’ve just had another week of rain just about every day. Which means that it has rained about 75% of the days in south Central Texas since the first of May
Shadowstalker @ 42
Hello? Keith Olberman was on some kind of a Potter outback tonight. No intiendo.
So ….. I have been posting about impeachment the last few days. Did the third post today.
dakine01 @ 51
lord, yes — send it up this way. The weather guy was just on teevee talking about the drought here.
LoudounLib @ 48
Ah…thank goodness, another unbeliever!
Suzanne @ 47
Yeah, I did a few weeks of California therapy once. I was supposed to repeat an affirmation every morning. Something about “I love and accept my inner sociopath”. But I had to leave town before we got anywhere.
A little reward for loyal Late Niters who’ve tuned in this lazy summer evening:
I believe this information from commenter Kpete at DU, reporting on a visit to San Diego by John Conyers today, qualifies as “breaking news” in the Inherent Contempt (and perhaps something more?) department:
Http://www.democraticundergrou…..15;1390369
{{{DAKINE!!}}}
I love ya man! And no shit, mushrooms are growin’ out my toes.
hahahaha Ticks! Eeeewwww! Living in a city in California, I had forgotten what ticks were! But in Oklahoma, we had a lot of them. (I remember back then, you would have to hold fire near where they were because if you pulled them out, THE HEAD WOULD STAY IN THERE! OMG! Gee, thanks, TRex, for bringing back hideous memories! LOL
LoudounLib @ 54
Whenever someone tries to deny global warming to you just point them to global climate change as more accurate since that covers a summer of rain in Texas, after temps in the thirties on Easter and also covers New England having temps in the seventies in Dec.
I feel so safe and protected now. I’m outta here and in the pool. I hear Lahoma calling from out back, “kiddo, the water is fine”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LihcONch_7s
AP – President Bush breathed new life into the CIA’s terror interrogation program Friday in an executive order that would allow harsh questioning of suspects, limited in public only by a vaguely worded ban on cruel and inhuman treatment.
Oh, excuse me, there’s a honeymoon I haven’t quite finished…
G’night g’people!!!
:)
wangdangdoodle @ 62
I am sorry about the name. I didn’t know. (blushing!) yikes!
TRex, LOVE that line!!!!
T- @ 50
What’s Alfred’s address? My laptop died. Help?
SnarKassandra @ 63
“Florida?!?! But that’s America’s wang!”
-Homer Simpson
The rack monster is calling to me and I think I’m gonna say yes. C y’all on the morrow.
I hope everyone is having pleasanter weather than I’m experiencing tonite! A former named hurricane Cosme, has us under a flash flood alert, here’s a snap shot of it!
http://www.prh.noaa.gov/cphc/t…..d=EP062007
LooHoo, AK blogs here
Loo Hoo. @ 65
You mean his blog?
howdy pups!
good night and sleep well, dakine
hey fini!
One of the 4 horsemen was here in Southern CA. visiting the Los Angeles harbor trying to figure out how to check shipping containers. Took him long enough. Just thinking about him so close to my hood is scary.
lolo
Is anyone else as nervous as I am about the colonoscopy tomorrow? I never thought I would be praying for the continued good health of George W Bush.
All of our voices together are hard to ignore.
Hey Jude – The Beatles
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXG83p2nkHw
finifinito @ 75
It’s like the lesser of two evils…
finifinito @ 75
Hope they can pull McConnell out of there while there at it.
Seriously though, something is wrong enough that they have to ’scope his innards. This makes me overly nervous, especially since I didn’t know this was coming up until yesterday or today. Cheney only needs an hour or two of being in charge to bring this country to its knees.
Speaking of unexpected country music, on his new disc Teddy Thompson channels the ghost of Jim Reeves. Just weird.
LoudounLib @ 77
or the lesser of two weevils (like Master & Commander_)
burnspbesq @ 80
Didn’t know Teddy has a new one out — should I pass? I did like the last one.
wangdangdoodle @49
LOL!
My favorite is “Up Against the Wall Redneck Mother.”
finifinito @ 79
True, long enough to launch ‘Shock and Awe’ on Teheran!!!
TRex says:
Oh, just stroll in like you haven’t called or written in ages, why don’t you.
Where have you been, young man?
[hangs head]
well…the last half hour trying to respond to your comment without firefox refreshing the page…sigh
but the month before that I had a great time at witchcamp…yay…
and then came back to big ‘ol organizational problems in one of the groups I love (trusted couple could not be trusted with community funds…blergh)
now I am back at the Lake and happy (except for the browser thing)
sorry I didn’t write…..
[hangs head]
Hmmmm if anything happens during his procedure the last thing he did was to ratchet down his torture rules. Is that for his legacy in case something happens and he takes the next train to Clarksville?
EvilDrPuma @ 21
..or the State of the Union
Cheney couldn’t take the dummy’s slurred esses anymore.
The ‘routine operation’ is to temporarily remove Cheney’s arm for carpal tunnel treatment, and make sure the mouth and eyebrow linkages work smoother.
Maybe theyre installing new firmware.
Speaking of ticks, girls and blankets, I recall a similar combination involving chiggers. Ticks are visible: chiggers only manifest themselves later when you are trying to take a test, writing with your right hand and scratching with your left. And don’t eve ask where one might be scratching.
I thought he did it to protect himself from torture if Cheney formalizes the coup.
I was looking for a video of Redneck Mothers and found this one of Ray Wylie Hubbard telling the story about how he came to write it….he tells a great story:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..mp;search=
And Jerry Jeff Walker singing it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYQevzz3aRM
T- @ 5
In terms of country/folk, I feel these days one needs something blunter and more to the point.. like Eliza Gilkyson’s “Man of God” :).. even shrub might be smart enough to figure out he’s the subject.
Evening, everyone.
Thanks, Suzanne and Gordon.
Just got a call that my computer is fixed. I’ll see if it’s true tomorrow. I’m so excited at the possibility! What’s interesting is that I told the manager at Fry’s that I was going to YK2, and definitely needed by July 30th. He smiled big time, and now it’s possibly ready?!
The other employee said it would take two weeks.
I’m stoked!
howdy yawl……speakin’ of classic country tunes, check yerselves out my fay-vo-rite
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwuA555xZT4
it’s got everything any old wine sippin’ mortgage payin’ ex new yawkah ‘ginia momma needs…….
hey RonD
finifinito @ 75
They’re just replacing the programming chip in his brain.
Gang, I seem to be getting a bit of a headache.
The screen is kind of hurting my poor theropod eyes. I am going to go take some tylenol and come back in a bit.
707!!
oddmommy @ 96
oddmommy, it’s so *you* ;-)
aw (((TRex))), feel better
This is as country as I can get.
LoudounLib @ 101
ah always wuz a redneck at heart…….
I’m partial to Loretta Lynn myself
lolo @ 86
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3023HJR38k
LooHoo,
So happy you’re getting your computer tomorrow!
I’m holding out for video of Choctaw Bingo instead of the lyrics page I linked.
I have a new post on YouthInkLeft about Mountaintop Removal.
RonD @ 94
Hey, RonD! The most polite guy on the tubes. Love ya, Ron!
masaccio @ 90
Ah those messy little creatures — chiggers. My grandkids came home from camping with them all over every part of their body that was in water last week. Every. Part. Gruesome. There commenced a constant stream of oatmeal baths for 4 kids — with the resulting mess in the bathrooms.
Suzanne @ 108
Here’s video of James McMurtry from Austin City Limits where he performed Choctaw Bingo.
SnarKassandra @ 109
Cassie, you should send this to Christy.
thank you fini
Suzanne @ 114
I find tunes in the toobz, thats my gig.
Twain @ 11
Correction: “Drop kick me, Jesus, . . .”
Written by Paul Kraft. Of course it was a spoof, inspired by Christian fans of the Redskins, I think.
Bob in
HI WIAZfini, that site had every other song he played on ACL except for Choctaw.
LoudounLib @ 113
OK. she is on my facebook
bobschacht @ 116
I just left out “me” – preview !
Cassie, I should have expounded on what I said — I think she’d be very interested, and impressed, with your post. She is a West Virginian.
Shark bites Lawyer! Is that a ‘Man bites Dog’ story?
http://the.honoluluadvertiser……03479.html
I’m going to ask this again.
Why is Eric Edelman (the guy who slimed Hillary) still in a job? He was recess-appointed as Undersecretary of Defense in Aug. 2005 and his term should have ended with the last session of Congress, Dec. 2006. Did Bush slip something by us?
CTuttle @ 121
So much for professional courtesy….
Good work, Cassie!
Bless you.
SnarKassandra @ 13
Hi, Cassie! Great posts of yours over at Political Teen Tidbits on impeachment, arranging, editing, writing,… You’ve been a busy little beaver!
Bob in
HI WIAZI think I’m scarred for life.
bobschacht @ 125
It was raining and I couldn’t go swimming today.
SnarKassandra @ 25
Snape might surprise you.
Bob in
HI WIAZbobschacht @ 128
Shhhh! Don’t tell me!
pol @ 122
He is one of teh cabal.
bobschacht @ 128
Trex declared this a spoiler free zone.
Suzanne @ 117
Of course, it was in his set list though. Figures. I will try again.
I don’t think any true musician can excuse country music inspired by the sound of trains. Remember, we’re talking before tv, etc, TRex. Folks would put music to the beat of the train. And each train had it’s own particular whistle so they knew which train was coming into town. They named the trains, and here’s the Orange Blossom Special:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9f_QySKfsgI
pol @ 122
I am going to let the QueenOfIheToobz answer your question emptywheel
SnarKassandra @ 53
Good work! Would you add a link to Priming the Pump?
Bob in
HI WIAZpol @ 122
My question too.
Hillary sure scored on this one!
lolo @ 134
Well, I would really like to know as well.
Chris
bobschacht @ 135
yep
Well apparently he has never made a video for that song. Except on Austin City Limits. Which edited that song out. Bummer.
thanks for trying fini (sigh) if anyone cudda found it, it would have been you
Good for you, Snarkassandra!
Who could forget the king of honky tonk, Hank Williams?
Christine Edmonson @ 137
I e-mailed emptywheel, but haven’t received a response yet.
Hi.
This is my favorite country song evah!
Suzanne @ 140
Its not often I am defeated in a music related search. James McMurtry is sufficiently obscure enough to confound the toobz. But its not like he’s unknown or something that makes it one of those weird conundrums.
Bye y’all. Good night.
isn’t this just polly ticks as usual?
sleep well Cassie
finifinito @ 139
fini, You-tube has no Amazing Rhythm Aces vid’s would you know where any might be?
LoudounLib @ 148
u 2
local jargon for small-o-back tattoo: tramp stamp
Why thank you, LooHoo!
{{{{LooHoo}}}}
Congrats on the new machine, BTW.
punaise @ 151
heh — good one, hadn’t heard that ;-)
punaise @ 147
*Groan*
Good nite, Cassie. All the best to you and yours.
punaise @ 147
Oh help Punaise, didn’t the “two weevils” just slay me in the film Master and Commander. I love your work…
CTuttle @ 68
Thanks for the snap shot! I’m on the mainland, but y’all take care! Hunker down!
Bob
HI WIAZChristine Edmonson @ 156
what is this thing you call “work”? :~)
Bob, are you having a nice time on your trip to the mainland?
jacqrat @ 143
Here’s a picture of a decanter.
Amazing Rhythm Aces, now there is a name i hadnt heard in a while. Lemme see what I can find, if any. This is another challenge!
jacqrat @ 160
finifinito @ 161
Any would be greatly appreciated!!! 8-)
Sorry, I am just trying to be annoying tonight. How’s it workin’?
I got slammed for the first time at FDL this afternoon and I’m feeling pissy.
punaise @ 147
Suzanne, what does he have on you?
‘night all.
jacqrat @ 162
“Wilmaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!”
Not a huge country fan-Johnny Cash, of course, and a fair bit of country pre-1980 or so, but man, this stuff they call country now, I just hate it. It’s what used to be called Southern rock-which I have nothing against, but ‘taint country. I think the Dixie Chicks’ “Long Time Gone” was the best traditional country album I’ve heard in 20 years
Back in the day, this guy’s Grandad used to open this song with a harp blow that sounded just like the whistle of a
Train, Train – Blackfoot
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYttlOO1hQM
It seems not many Amazing Rhythm Aces fans online. I cant find any video for them either. But if you stick their name in Google a bunch of audio clips come up. AllMusic.com is a good place to hear short clips of their tunes.
finifinito @ 169
Thanx a bunch! Twasn’t meant to be!
Thee courts may have gotten it together!
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07…..ref=slogin
(channelling Suzanne)
[running to the end of the board] Kowab*nga!!!!
[jumping into the air, arms flailing madly, head going down, with feet maddly trying to catch up and swing ahead, so as to make a flip — but failing to quite make it all the way around before the water rushes up to meet me]
Ah, the Lake.
(MOD NOTE: *Edited to pass through filters)
It’s not country, but listen to the best singer you’ve never heard of: Eva Cassidy
Ealier today I posted that we were winning, and Bush is on the defensive. Here’s a little more evidence:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07…..ref=slogin
Joan Osborne has a cd out of covers and her version of “Please Don’t Tell Me How The Story Ends” is very old school country. Very pure.
boxer @ 173
Damn-it, I’m to slow.
Good evening dear friends.
Anyone hungry for peach cobbler?
Suzanne @ 174
I had heard she was recording a bunch of cover tunes. I’ll have to check that one out.
jacqrat @ 164
What happened?
jacqrat @ 164
((((jacqrat)))))
what happened? Hey I remembered to spell your name correctly!
hi TexB, thanks for the munchies :-)
151:
another name for lower back “tribal” tattoos:
ass antlers
I have just returned from the bookstore, and have the first-out-of-the box copy of the new Harry Potter book. Good night. See you on Sunday.
peterr, i freed your belly flop – not sure why it was caught in the filters
OK, I know I’ve been gone for a bit, but getting my first comment tossed into moderation upon returning is a bit harsh.
Either that, or I’m out of practice with regard to my use of asterisks and avoiding certain words.
Hi, all!
And what happened to my second-best friend, “edit this comment”?
Hello all. For all you Fitz Fanatics, here is a short (unfortunately very short) preview of his appearance in Wait, Wait tomorrow.
FITZ
cleter @ 182
Happy reading.
No spoilers!
Welcome home Pete**!
Oh hey jacqrat, you snuck in and I didnt see ya. I dont know what to make of what that dude (or dudette) that left that comment said. I’m not sure you got slammed there or not honestly. That happened right after I left the thread or I would have been all over their butt. I’m sorry I wasnt here.
TexB @ 177
Please, sir, may I have some more?
Peterr @ 172
Tis figured out now, Peterr and fixed.
Peterr @ 189
I am a ma’am. Was a miss until I got to Texas, where I was instantly turned into ma’am.
Yes, have another piece little Oliver.
LoudounLib @ 173
Sweet.
Loo Hoo, I so *heart* Eva…she was from right around here in the DC area.
punaise @ 158
hey!
Evenin all.
Went on a pine straw gathering adventure in college and became so infested with chiggers they were up my nose.. Inhaled Medi-Quik out of desperation. Not recommended, but it did the job.
boxer @ 174
Thank gawd!
TexB @ 192
You most certainly are a ma’am, ma’am — I should have used quotation marks. I can only plead that my grammar was distracted by the treats you offered.
As a child, my birthday always fell around the time that peaches were in season. Other kids drooled over what kind of cake to have for their birthday, but I always looked forward to peach pie, peach cobbler, or some other peachy delight.
Yum.
Great version of one of Jimi’s Blues Classics
Red House – Aerosmith
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8esoge_QUU
Suzanne @ 175
Got a link, Sunanne?
Peterr, that’s funny — for me, having a June birthday, I always wanted blueberry pie in lieu of a traditional cake. And I continue that to this day :-)
You don’t have to call me Merle Haggard – any more…
radio, that’s excellent!
no link, loohoo, its been getting a lot of play on KPIG and i heard it was a recent release
My brother and I are both Passover babies, meaning that every year we got an unleavened chocolate birthday cake. Not so yummy.
Patrick 4/4 @ 201
I aint even clickin that. No sir. No effin way. I know what kind of trouble that is.
speaking of dessert – Beck: Peaches & Cream
“keep your lamp light trimmed and burning”
(he may be a wacked out Scientologist, but dayam, the guy can put together a song)
Patrick 4/4 @ 202
I submitted that David Allen Coe song to a Howie contest of best country song ever and lost! I even included the lyrics.
TexB @ 205
finifinito @ 207
You’re missin’ somethin’
Patrick 4/4 @ 209
My brother is older.
Patrick 4/4 @ 202
Steve Goodman . . . man, how I miss the man. His songs and albums are great, but in person he was incredible.
TexB @ 211
My daughter holds it over her brother every year.
hey, P4/4!
Again, not country, but dig this:
The Allman Brothers — Dreams
Suzanne @ 208
I have to ask: what won?
punaise @ 214
Heya!
Suzanne @ 208
It’s a sick sad world.
Patrick 4/4 @ 209
Oh wow, youre right. Sorry I doubted you, this is awesome!
Peterr @ 216
i dunno – it was back before they listed what the winning entry was – i got an email saying i was a finalist and then didn’t hear a thing…
Country tunes, eh? Yeah, 1970’s about the cutoff period, as Johnny’s best stuff was before then. (Though if you count Townes Van Zandt’s “Pancho and Lefty” and Bob Dylan’s “Farewell Angelina” — but only as sung by Tim O’Brien — it can be stretched out a bit.)
House to Defy Bush With Defense Bill
ANNE FLAHERTY | July 20
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WASHINGTON — House Democrats next week will introduce a $460 billion military spending bill they will use to challenge the war in Iraq, try to close Guantanamo Bay prison and increase oversight of defense contractors.
The annual legislation is considered a must-pass bill to fund the military’s fleet of vehicles and aircraft, research efforts and servicemember payrolls. It covers the 2008 budget year that begins Oct. 1.
Overall, the bill is on track to give President Bush much of what he wants. The measure includes nearly $100 billion in procurement spending and would fund several of the Pentagon’s big-ticket items, including $3.2 billion to buy 20 F-22 Raptor aircraft.
It also would provide $1.6 billion more than Bush wanted for shipbuilding to buy five new Navy ships; $1.1 billion extra for an eighth Army brigade of Stryker vehicles; and $705 million more than requested for development of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.
Peterr @ 198
LoudounLib @ 215
oh, yeah….
TexB @ 222
Woo-hoo!
finifinito @ 219
Steve was a Chicago god in my much younger days. A heckuva singer, songwriter (co-wrote “City of New orleans”) and a funny, funny man
punaise @ 224
nodding, grooving and smiling :-)
LoudounLib – one of my faves!
Angry Black Bitch is in rare form today . . .
click through for the whole checklist to prepare for the event.
[Translation note: “Scooter B” is ABB’s shorthand for President Bush, not his loyal minion Irving.]
radio, mine too. IMHO the best Allmans song evah…
Peter, I read ABB every day – thank you for turning me onto her (blink)
Got to pack it in. Good night, everyone, and may the best of all possible tomorrows be yours.
LoudounLib @ 230
too many to choose from!
good night RonD, sweet dreams
I think im gonna crashish too. I’ll be back tomorrow after Cheney declares Martial Law.
punaise @ 233
well that’s true — that whole Fillmore East thing is stellar…
Since it’s a mellow night at the lake, here’s more Eva
y’all shoulda known better than to get me on a Friday night Beck jag.
Cellphone’s dead
(”one by one I’ll knock you out”)
Hell Yes
(”I like your face. your face is nice”)
Patrick 4/4 @ 226
At the Olde Towne School of Folk Music, Steve still *is* a god.
In addition to his humor, he was also one of the most open-hearted, help-out-a-struggling-musician kind of guy you’d ever see. When he died, the classical music station in Chicago broke into their programming to announce his death. The entire Chicago music scene stopped and cried that day, from opera to punk and everything in between.
How about Stevie Aishwarya Rai Vaughn?
Different country.
Good night RonD – Good night fini.
Sleep well!
Sleep well RonD
LoudounLib @ 82
I just listened to a few snippets on the iTunes Music Store and decided to pass. Bought the new Raul Malo album instead. What a voice!
Thanks for music sharing – I’ll say goodnight with this one!
Travellin’ Light – Widespread Panic
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52C1pOYDD7w
burns, haven’t heard of Raul Malo — writing it down for reference…
how’s so cal tonight, burns
Peterr @ 239
Oh man. Now I’m thinkin about The Earl of Old Towne, Kingston Mines – Clark Street here I come!
Anyone have any idea how many firepups will be at YKos? And if the Cubs will be in town?
Nite nite Ron D.
newspaperbrat @ 248
I wiah I could. I’ll be there in September.
looks like the Cubs are in town during YKos
npb, you can probably go to the cub’s web site and their playing schedule should be posted there
CTuttle @ 163
But I remember …
The way you held me, and all the sweet things you used to say,
When we were two young lovers,
Dancin’ the night away.
CTuttle @ 121
What ever happened to professional courtesy?
newspaperbrat @ 248
I still don’t have a registration, but I do have a hotel room and a plane ticket. Also some press credentials from HORN radio. Gonna play it by ear from that point on.
TexB, that is sooo cool that you are going :-)
LoudounLib @ 250
That was fast – thanks LL!
Phoenix Woman @ 221
Love Poncho and leftie!
Patrick 4/4 @ 247
Haven’t been there in ages, but I can see them now.
The Steve Goodman song that hits me hardest right now with laughter and with tears is The Dying Cub Fan’s Last Request:
Do they still play the blues in Chicago, when baseball season rolls around?
When the snow melts away, do the Cubbies still play in their ivy-covered burial ground?
When I was a boy, they were my pride and joy, but now they only bring fatigue
To the home of the brave, the land of the free, and the doormats of the National League . . .
LoudounLib @ 255
I am the official late night firepup photoblogger!
newspaperbrat @ 256
sure thing npb ;-)
Peterr @ 216
Might have been this one..
NPB you will be there?
Congrats on the Press credentials TexB! Late Nite sure is going up in the world!
TexB All is cool with the hotel..
That is a great song, burns. You ever hear Rodney Crowell singing Proz*c Made Me Stay?
Got to head to bed . . . I got back from a trip to Canada around midnight yesterday, and there was this little bump that woke me up a couple hours later, thus preventing a full night of beauty sleep.
Not a good thing.
G’nite, all!
persiflage @ 263
I made my new business cards today. It’s all just one big adventure.
persiflage @ 263
TexB, representin’!
Good night Peterr.
Thanks Loo Hoo.
I thought I didn’t like country music until some Firepup turned me on to Chris Knight. Can I say he’s “Americana” rather than country? Please?
good night Peterr, sleep well
Peterr @ 266
you too, huh?
Peterr, that was mother nature extending a welcome back.
Suzanne @ 246
Seismically stable for one more day, thank you very much. Same old, same old. Feel sorry for all the idiots who shelled out big coin for Galaxy vs. Chelsea tickets — Beckham’s not going to play. The ankle he messed up playing for England in early June is still messed up.
Suzanne @ 265
No — and I’m the biggest Rodney Crowell fan you know. Got a link?
Don’t know if any of the FDL lawyers are around, but if they are, they will be very impressed with the contract negotiating skills that went on in this house today.
Two teenagers. One copy of Harry Potter arriving tomorrow. Agreements about who reads when, for how long, what they can and can’t tell each other, etc. I am even on the schedule —- from 2-7AM.
TexB @ 267
You sure are organised, what do the business cards say? Teacher, Parent, Caregiver, photo-journalist, Cook, Firepup-herder?
burns, it gets played up here on KPIG quite often (along with the song you linked). let me look around
dayam, burns, sorry, that is by the trailer park troubadours… my error
persiflage @ 277
None of the above. For the radio network, I am a NEWS NINJA, scouring the web for stories that I think the hosts may be interested in, or stories that the network should post/link to on the blog.
TexB @ 205
Me, too.
Michael Wilbon on Becks from the WaPo
Suzanne @ 279
Damn … woman gets me all revved up and then … nada.
My life in microcosm.
Stoopid Question #3654: When doing a utube link how do you get the little undeline thingy from the keyboard to the screen?
I look forward to the day when I open my morning fishwrap and see a TREX column rather than a Ruben Navarette or Cal Thomas abomination. Congratulations on your press credential, TREX-you are 1000 times the journalist they are. Now I’ll stop sucking up to you and hit the hay, I have a sixteen hour workday facing me and the big light is just around the corner. ‘Night all, and be sure to check each other for ticks.
Felix Moronia @ 284
Highlight the part you want to link to and then click the link button. copy the link in there.
Time to fan the flames of super-duper secret Bush/Cheney conspiracy, courtesy of Congressman DeFazio.
Bush and company won’t let DeFazio, who’s on the Homeland Security Committee see the ‘continuity of governmen’ plans.
George W. and Dick-tater.
-GSD
…and don’t forget to erase the extra http:// part at the beginning
Felix, not a stoopid ? at all…
you type a word that you want the link to be…. say the name of the song.. then you go over to the utube page the song is on, then copy the URL (right click copy) and then come back over the submit comment box with the typed word
highlight the word, click on link and then, in the first pop up box paste the URL from the utube. click on and then a second box will pop up with the word you typed in that box for naming the link. click ok and (viola) link
Felix Moronia @ 284
Copy the link from YouTube. Click the little link button above the comment box. Paste the link. any underlines will be taken care of.
Unless you mean something else?
burnspbesq @ 283
sorry, burns, lingering side effect of the divorce from hell – i’m told that one day it too will disappear
Suz, it takes a while, but it does disappear :-)
None of the above. For the radio network, I am a NEWS NINJA, scouring the web for stories that I think the hosts may be interested in, or stories that the network should post/link to on the blog.
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I love News Ninja! What a great title. I just love the way everything has come together to send you to YK2. The community here is just the best.
Technicolouryawn @ 270
That may have been me, and the answer is, no! Embrace your inner redneck, it ain’t no bad thing after all.
Loo Hoo. @ 257
Same here, it kind of reminds me of home. And a land now lost when the west was still a bit of the old west, before the world was Disney nature and well this is not the place, and no one cares. The world of outlaws and wild places are gone, and eco-tourist and fat cats either turn the world into an amusement park or wall it off or pave it over.
Well friends, it is very late here in EDT-ville so I must split…good night all
BigMitch @ 281
I felt sorry for myself because I was born on Passover and had not birthday cake. Then, in the first year of my marriage, my wife’s birthday fell on Yom Kippur.
Tomorrow George W. Bush will have a colonoscopy, and for three hours Dick Cheney will be “acting president” of the United States of America. Don’t tell the kids.
How many pardons do you think he’ll issue? How many of them do you think will be made public immediately? Do you think he’ll give GWB a prophylactic pardon?
How many countries do you think he’ll attack?
TexB @ 262
I sure hope so – registered last Saturday just before the deadline. Had planned to fly out on Jet Blue but changed my mind when the CEO allowed Fox to beat up on Kos et al and found several United flights to choose from.
My uncertainty has to do more with our beloved ancient pooch Sophie whose health is failing but mr brat and friends are kindly encouraging me to go & assuring me they’ve got her covered 24/7. Haven’t even made a hotel reservation and will deal with that tomorrow.
If you or Loo Hoo have any suggestions I’m all ears.
BigMitch @ 297
is that a good thing or a bad thing, mitch?
Sleep well LL
DrDick @ 294
Well I was raised in Butte County, California which has been called the Missisippi of the olden state. Country is is!!!
Suzanne @ 300
Yom Kippur is a major fast day. Not a great day for a birthday.
thanks, tex
newspaperbrat @ 299
I certainly wouldn’t stay away because of Jet Blue. Do you feel like you need to stay with the pup? Or will you be OK entrusting her care to hubby and friends?
Well, I think this will be a hit and run. Went out to see some friends play some rocked out rockabilly tonight (great show as always) and had a couple more beers than I am used too. Take care and enjoy the snark.
NPB, revdeb may have a 2nd bed in her hotel room.
pow wow @ 57
This could be the biggest news I heard all day.
DrDick @ 306
Glad you had fun. Sleep well.
Good night kids. Gotta rest my eyes for Harry.
Here’s a little taste of Raul Malo for you, LL. With his old band, the Mavericks, covering an old Hollies song.
Patrick 4/4 @ 310
Sleep well.
pow wow @ 57
That was three hours ago. What has happened since?
I’m going to get some sleep. Here’s a fresh pot of coffee for those pulling an all-nighter here at the lake.
Here’s an interesting observation. Well, an observation: you decide if it is interesting.
When lefties like us want to compliment a public figure, someone who embodies the ideals we strive for, be it John Conyers or T I L L M A N the word we tend to use is “patriot.”
And it’s not cause we are playing to an audience. Nor is it code for something else. I believe the choice of words reflects the real values we have.
After years of being told — from Viet Nam days till now — that we are not really patriotic, I see evidence now of what I have always known. We are the real patriots.
wigwam @ 313
Jet Blue has been my airline of choice ever since they started flying out of Oakland and I’m not in a major snit with them but changing airlines in the wake of the Fox thing felt good and allowed me to be snarkier in my rant to the CEO. Also it spares me a stop in Long Beach. United has nonstop direct to O’Hare from SF.
Betsy – thanks for asking and she is a true daddy’s girl and likely won’t notice my absence. One of the joys of da lake is it rarely fails to snap me out of my mind grips and thank you all.
And Loo Hoo, if you’re still here, and if you still may need my extra powerbook just let me know.
fresh thread upstairs
new thread upstairs, folks!
ooooops, sorry.
I just think the idea that John Conyers intends to proceed with inherent contempt is big news. It had been my fear that Congress would be as deaf to that idea as generally it has been to impeachment.
In other non-breaking news, the House had a hearing today on FEMA and the Hurrican Katrina response. It is on C-Span2 now.
I just heard an environmental scientist for a contractor testify about how the testing of the trailers was rigged, to not show the health risks from formaldyhide. Trailers kept open, open windows for three weeks with fans, etc., and then changed the threshhold for dangerous levels to something absurd.
CTuttle @ 121
I don’tknow what better describes the term “mass confusion” than a shark biting a lawyer or hoping Bush’s surgery goes well. Yikes.