Late Nite FDL: I’d Like to Order Something Cool |
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| By: TRex Friday August 31, 2007 8:00 pm | |
Late Nite FDL: I’d Like to Order Something Cool |
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| By: TRex Friday August 31, 2007 8:00 pm | |
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T-Rex & Kitties!!
cool!
zed?
dang-nabbit!
it is desperately hot and humid here…anything that sounds cool sounds great
*goes off to find another ice cold beer*
Directed splash please, Suzanne. Hot as hell here and no rain for over 2 weeks!
Evening, TRex.
That is so nice.
I went with Leo Kottke for my Friday Night concert…
single digits
boing
C A N N O N B A L L (yelling its Friiiiiiday!) creating a drenching, soaking everything big ole splash for the simple joy of being in cool water after a hot day
woohoo, g’evening everyone
Hiya TREX !
madmommy @ 7
Ha! I’ll see you your two weeks and raise you “nothing discernable in nearly a year”.
madmommy @ 6
It’s raining here. Want some?
Suzanne @ 10
Again! Again! Do it again! :-)
Suzanne @ 9
SUZANNE !!!!!!! We missed you!
thirteen!
w007
welcome back Suz!
Suzanne @ 9
Evening, Ma Cheri! Aloha Ya’ll! TGIF!!!
TRex what video is that?
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Hi TRex.
Shoot, I was out in the gayrage and missed the zed.
peanutbutter @ 12
But in south Louisiana in the summer it usually rains nearly every day in the afternoon. For some bizarre reason it has rained all over except at MY house. Literally within 1/2 a mile but not here. I’m beginning to get a complex.
wangdangdoodle @ 22
Is you Gayrage gay or lesbian or bi?
hey TRex!
and thanks for the splash Suzanne!
Gay rage?
I just tonight saw Sicko. I alternated between tears and anger!! And they screened an “opposing” viewpoints short film after, lasted 15 minutes or so, I walked outside (I am a volunteer so couldn’t leave the venue). What can we do to counter this shit?!?! I know I am on a university campus, but why do we think we have to show a counterbalancing viewpoint to people who paid for their movie tickets and weren’t forced to sit through it.
AARRGGHH.
EPU’d from the last thread:
Evening, Peterr, Cassie, madmommy, OKK Suzanne, and all! It’s a lovely night up here–65 and the rain just stopped, supposed to be 70 or so and sunny for the w/e. How are you all?
madmommy @ 24
Hmmm….the reverse of a thundercloud hanging over your head, eh?
Yeah, and in so Cal, that’s not unheard of, nothing for a year. But it was fairly dry the year before that, and so the fire hazard is truly delightful now.
And it always amuses me, as a child of the desert, to hear something like “nothing for two weeks!” :-)
SnarKassandra @ 24
No, it’s where I would park the truck if there was room. ;)
Did Senator Notgay resign? I been busy and ain’t looked much at the internets.
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Today was a great day. John Warner will not run for his Senate seat in Virginia. Yahoo!
Red Sox and Mariners lost so the Yankees lose no ground.
msmolly @ 27
And what *was* the counterpoint” – “Greed is Good”?
wangdangdoodle @ 30
Nobody I know parks their vehicles in their garage — it’s all about storage!
PeterK @ 29
It’s just cruel to say such things :0)
Evening Suz. Thanks for the cool splash! And, TRex, thanks for the cool tunes. Really cool.
Big Mitch do you also watch the NY Giants? Aunt Betsy LOVES that team.
SnarKassandra @ 25
NOT gay? /snark
tw3k, that was cool!
cleter @ 31
Not yet but all the media (including KO) is reporting that he will tomorrow. Sniff!
I was talking to Baby Girl on my cellphone right after I lost power yesterday. I was whining and bitching and moaning it being 93 in the shade and no power and she informed me it was 101 in St George and raining. She won the bad weather story of the day award.
Evening all.
Welcome back Suzanne. I trust that you are not totally smoked out there. Unfortunately we are again, but they are predicting heavy rain tonight which would clear it out. It would also be the first significant rain we have had since the first of July. We are currently at about 2/3 normal rainfall for the year.
tw3k @ 32
tw3ked out!
cleter @ 32
Those in the know say it will be tomorrow. Stillw aiting for the same outrage over Vitter. I think I’ll be waiting a while.
SnarKassandra @ 12
I do! I do! I do!
tw3k, please don’t do that – it puts quite a load on the servers and folks will wanna quote it and that will add more of a load.
please :) thanks
Suzanne @ 9
YAY!!!
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madmommy @ 36
Oh just get on a plane and come visit. (Or, cheaper version, think about January).
sade
Well, Vitter is more notgay.
tw3k @ 32
I think you need to share whatever it is…
Did you make that yourself?
PeterK, where are you with that lovely weather? I’m envious ;-)
cleter @ 31
MSNBC and AP reporting that he will announce his resignation tomorrow.
Suzanne @ 47
rut roh!
NO MORE ARTWORK (hands on hips)
DrDick @ 43
ouch, that hurts. Sorry for you, DrDick
LoudounLib @ 54
Bangor, Maine. Summer is wonderful up here. My apologies :-) .
Suzanne – :) :) :) OK?
SnarKassandra @ 38
My favorite team in NY. Doesn’t matter what sport or which league.
PeterK @ 51
January is generally delightful, though sometimes a bit chilly in the evenings. We get 2 or 3 months a year when you do not become drenched in sweat upon walking out the front door.
Just kiddin’ there PeterK, but I do love cool weather and I can’t wait for fall here in the Old Dominion ;-)
Suzanne @ 57
Oops, sorry for quotting…
PeterK @ 59
That’s okay. We’ll snark in six months when you’re complaining about digging the snow out or whatever :-D
Did someone say C A N N O N B A L L???
tw3k, your comment quoting your artwork was pulled. you wanna try again without the artwork?
madmommy @ 62
I used to visit Baton Rouge in the fall or winter. Loved it down there, a really interesting place. The summer would be a bit much, tho, I’m not so good if it’s too hot and humid.
PeterK @ 59
On the Blue Hill Peninsula, myself. Ayup.
Suzanne @ 57
oops, sorry
GordonM @ 70
Even better. (Hint: it’s “ayuh”).
elliott, your artword comment was pulled
I MEAN IT – NO ARTWORK – YOUR COMMENT WILL BE MODERATED.
BigMitch @ 61
Warm weather makes you stupid. Really cold weather makes you crazy.
peanutbutter @ 65
;)
jayt @ 35
Well, since I went out and didn’t watch, I’m not sure, but it had to do with how people without insurance are treated (very fairly, by law). I probably should have watched, but it turned my stomach. I understand fairness and opposing points of view, but it wasn’t like the ticket-buying (full house, btw) audience was forced to be there, so why feel obligated to screen an “opposing” viewpoint??
Except that it’s a University cinema…
They are screening No End In Sight in a couple of weeks. I wonder if they will feel compelled to present an “opposing” viewpoint…
all normal again :)
Suzanne @ 73
I’m sorry Suzanne, I didn’t see your comment first
Gordon, nice cannonball there @66
Suzanne @ 73
Why? Could it contain a secret, coded rethug message??
PeterK @ 72
I’m not summer folk.
tw3k @ 78
thank you tw3k
tw3k @ 76
Problem is the ascii artwork looks like crap on a proportional font web page. Was it animated or just static ascii art?
GordonM @ 81
If you’re a Mainer, I defer (been here 30 years, but that doesn’t count). Which town are you in?
When I moved here from Colorado I drove across country in the middle of September. Took my time, visited my brother and got here at the end of the month. I called a friend to see how things were in the old neighborhood and she told me it was snowing. At the time I was sitting on the patio sweating like crazy drinking sweet tea like it was going out of style. She was not amused.
SALUDA, S.C. (AP) – The motorcade of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney exceeded speed limits and went through stop lights today as local law officers escorted him to campaign events in two South Carolina counties.
Booth declined further comment when asked whether it’s proper to use flashing police lights to escort a candidate.
No, really…
did anyone else catch Bill Moyers tonight?
PeterK @ 81
No. I already explained upthread.
Warm weather makes you stupid. Really cold weather makes you crazy.
Hmmm…. Indiana…Dan Burton… – By jove, I think I’ve got it!
Suzanne @ 83
:D
madmommy @ 85
She shoulda been. What’s the use of railing at the weather somewhere else?
Hey, gang. I’m here.
What’s going on?
Love Cannonball Adderly.
Hey, TRex, I got power!
wangdangdoodle @ 86
No, really…
did anyone else catch Bill Moyers tonight?
*When* we get Bill Moyers here – it’s always at 2:00 A.M. Got the DVR set, though.
wangdangdoodle @ 87
What did he do?
Suzanne @ 93
Oh, good. When did it come back on?
PeterK @ 90
It might have been because she had just gotten back from Hawaii. Quite the shock to the system.
wangdangdoodle @ 87
It hasn’t played yet in this time zone. Tell me what was so good about it, please.
wangdangdoodle @ 87
No. Give it up, WWD!
Is Cassie still around? Did she say whether or not she got the prezzie I sent her yet?
Hi TRex!!!!
TRex @ 91
Survived the first week of classes with flying colors. Looks like a pretty good group. On the other hand the smoke from the forest fires rolled back in yesterday and today. Could barely see the mountains a mile and a half away. Coughing & sneezing all the time and my eyes itch and burn constantly.
around 11pm last night TRex, after you left to go watch your movie.
ccmask @ 86
That’s all we need. Sounds just like Soviet Russia.
Autumn Leaves
PeterK @ 84
Sedgwick. Born in Boston, raised in NJ and DC, came here in 62, left again…. Came back in 96.
I earned “local” when I learned to heat my house with wood I cut and hauled and split myself, (which took a few years until I realized how much wood that really is). That and buying cars with over 100K on them…
wangdangdoodle @ 86
yep, that man scores every week
TRex @ 102
Not yet. I will check again tomorrow. A real present or just the autograph?
Margot @ 105
Sounds like Mr. Booth is fan of the Mittster….
no more art ;’(
Now, that would spoil the surprise.
Has any of you Late Nite pups ever hear of this group?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rVszk30tZA
Since a more serious note is creeping in, anyone see the Newshour tonight? The segment on soldiers in Iraq, which had some horrendous footage (fortunately I was in another room and only heard it) and then an interview with two shrinks who treat PTSD really freaked me out. What got to me, as well as the awful violence, was how clinical they sounded in the face of all that horrible stuff and what it was doing to the soldiers (and Iraqis too, of course). I really wonder what they (the shrinks) think about the war–a lot of what they described would never have happened if the Iraqis wanted us there (for ex, they are told to “trust no one”, one case involved killing an innocent taxi driver because he didn’t stop so might have been a suicide bomber). I’m thinking about sending a question to them asking about their attitude to the war–this can be done from the Newshour website.
Sorry to spoil the party, but this is eating at me.
Loo Hoo. @ 106
How ’bout Keith Jarrett. Sure looks like Jack DeJohnette on drums, too. Awesome.
CTuttle @ 114
ever hear my band-o-lin :D
jayt @ 94
*When* we get Bill Moyers here – it’s always at 2:00 A.M. Got the DVR set, though.
I’m lucky, I get it at 8:00 p.m. I promise you’ll be glad you recorded.
Robert Bly on Moyers reading Islamic poetry and anti-war poetry.
PeterK @ 115
:/ nope, missed that.
Margot @ 105
***
Ironically, another Mitt aide was busted this month for making fake police credentials for Romney staff to use. You can’t make this stuff up.
PeterK @ 95
Robert Bly and Grace Lee Boggs.
GordonM @ 107
That whole area is so beautiful. I took my grandsons to Blue Hill Falls last week–a very special place. It’s actually a salt water rapid, most unusual.
feels kinda strange reading LateNite at night – what am I gonna read with tomorrow’s coffee?
Bill Moyers hinky linky.
jayt @ 122
You’ll have to pull up a chair and find out.
HA! via TPM:
Tonight, Barry S. Edward, organizer of Rudy’s Reagan Day Dinner fundraiser in Pinellas County, stepped down from his position after his criminal record of extorting sex and trafficking in stolen state computers was revealed.
Edwards called the 1998 arrests “old news”, but decided to step down because “I’m not relevant and I shouldn’t be the story.”
jayt @ 122
Well, that’s what FDL’s pull up a chair (on Sat mornings I think) is for…*evil grin*
wangdangdoodle @ 126
nyuk nyuk nyuk
Loo Hoo. @ 125
He forgot to mention the “spending more time with family” excuse. Slacker.
jayt @ 124
holding out coffee cup – there is no such thing as too much coffee.
Loo Hoo. @ 125
Another one rides the bus.
HA!
jayt @ 122
The cereal box?
who’s got the jukebox?
How about a Zombee?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-s53IEAf4w
Suzanne @ 129
True, that.
HONK!
When is Trex airing his Poppy/kitten video?
CD @ 120
Yes you can! The Onion makes stuff up, we should make up the most outrageous stuff we can and then, THEN say, Look! We made s%^t up and you guys do even worse!
I’m on outrage overload…
ccmask @ 134
Next week I think.
madmommy @ 129
He probably did try that one, and the press, weeks later, caught the fact that he doesn’t have a family, and decided the lie wasn’t worth pursuing.
Rudy! picks one again.
PeterK @ 122
Yup. The alternate route home from the supermarket. Been meaning to get a kayak so I could play there.
(Drive a bit further down the road into Brooklin, you’ll pass Matt Yglesias’s summer house, the house where EB White wrote Charlotte’s Webb, the pond hockey rink, Wooden Boat…)
And he threatened his student with bad grades….
According to a Florida State University arrest affidavit: Edwards was first charged after a 19-year-old FSU political science intern claimed Edwards, then an adjunct professor, plied him with beers, trolled briefly for prostitutes, watched ”heterosexual” pornography and then exhorted him to masturbate in a game.
Margot @ 135
Actually I don’t find the Onion that funny anymore. It’s too hard to go over the top of what the current administration does.
tw3k @ 127
nyuk!
Suzanne @ 130
Founder of Peets died. A thread or two back. Punaise & I were heartbroken.
Suzanne @ 130
There is a coffee shop I go to whose logo is a sort of TV screen with legs, with the legend: “sleep is for the weak”
I saw that Gordon M – a sad day indeed in coffeeland.
wangdangdoodle @ 141
Is there anything NOT on YouTube? I do loves me some Stooges.
PeterK @ 143
They say when you get older, you need less sleep. I’m getting older. I’m still waiting.
wangdangdoodle @ 143
rofl!
more Stooges:
The Curly Shuffle
PeterK @ 144
Sort of a GenX version of Nighthawks at the Diner, eh?
wangdangdoodle @ 130
I am getting OD’d on popcorn..Did you see the piece that Howie did on Patrick McHenry?
wangdangdoodle @ 148
me too, wangdangdoodle – it hurts getting up at the crack of noon, i gotta say.
wangdangdoodle @ 147
I don’t sleep as much as when I was a teenager, but more than when I was 20, or 30, or 40, or 50…
Suzanne @ 151
Why would one want not to sleep? I NEED dreams and being still! Especially given current reality! Hi, everyone, btw.
Let me get a zig!
I’m fading fast, ya’ll. Didn’t get my customary afternoon nap. Don’t tell the hubby, he thinks I run around like a madwoman all day. I really do most days, but manage to carve out a siesta so I can stay up late to hang at the lake.
Goodnight all!!
montag @ 150
The sun came up like pepto-bismol… right?
Love that album.
Hi there Laura :-)
Laura Doty @ 154
Good point. Don’t big cats (lions, etc.) sleep most of the time? That’s what I seem to remember, in my dreamy state…
Night MM.
Steve-AR @ 150
A Beaut!
Hi LL. thanks for the beautiful apples.
g’night madmommy, sleep well.
Laura Doty @ 161
You’re very welcome!
madmommy @ 156
good thinking! ‘nite, madmommy!
(waving to laura doty across the hills and bay) its still forking hot down here – 76.
madmommy @ 145
I don’t think so. Thank you Al Gore for the toobz!!!
wangdangdoodle @ 146
I’m actually starting to see this. Six hours of sleep is fine for me. What’s happening is that I’m still very good at staying up too late, but I can’t stand to sleep in anymore, even on weekends. I used to always need 8-9, now it’s about 6-7. Very strange. Gradual. Not all of a sudden.
Suzanne @ 166
Where are you? I forget–Texas?
GordonM @ 157
Yeah, that’s one of the keepers (except I loaned mine out and never got it back, had to buy the CD, which cuts out some of the live cross-talk).
I still giggle every time I hear the line, “using parking meters like walking sticks….”
Hi Suzanne: Sorry to miss your dive. It’s 62 here….ah the microclimates of California. I wouldn’t have thought you’d be hotter than Sonoma County.
madmommy @ 155
Catch ya in the a.m. for coffee, mom!
or gram parsons and emmylou?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hk8bejZ16KU
peanutbutter @ 167
I’m just the opposite. Went on 6 hours from my teens to my late 40s, but for the last several years I have to have 8 hours.
PeterK @ 170
Boulder Creek – in the Santa Cruz mountains of CA between santa cruz and san jose – just south of the SF bay area but it is considered Central California.
DrDick @ 173
36 hour days are fun :D
jayt @ 172
ooohhh, that is killer…thanks!
Hello, hello. I was busily obsessing over a bit of lesson planning, so I am waaaaay late. Did I miss any really interesting fuckery?
PeterK @ 59
Interested to know if you read Maine blogs. Turn Maine Blue has been great about covering the Susie/ Lance story. Discovered that blog when I was trying to figure out how to publicize Tom Allen’s appearance here as a BA candidate. I read TMB often, and occasionally comment.
Laura Doty @ 172
13 miles from the ocean usually helps mitigate the heat up here at 627 elevation but there is no fog no where to cool us off – weather dood tonight said 100’s for the next few days, one day of cool off then its supposed to get hot again. dayam.
Suzanne @ 175
Oh, nice. Haven’t been there, but nearby (road from south of Palo Alto to SC, and also Santa Barbara area). Quite beautiful, but I guess a bit hot in summer. Don’t you get sea fog at times, tho?
peanutbutter @ 167
I got by on 5 last night. Not very well, though. And I hate to waste my weekends sleeping through them. Even the 3 day ones!
Valley Girl @ 179
wdd, app. update — it’s visible (to me, anyway) just to the left of the topmost post on your wall.
PeterK, that road south from Palo Alto to Santa Cruz took ya to highway 9, which takes ya down into santa cruz – i’m just across the san lorenzo river from highway 9.
Valley Girl @ 179
This is the only blog I follow regularly. Have to look at that one. You mean the Collins-getting-videoed thing?
Good evening dear friends. Anyone want some fresh fruit?
Suzanne @ 179
Sounds like where I am — close enough to the ocean that it’s not ridiculous like some places in the interior, but not close enough for the blessed maritime layer to put a moderating influence over everything. (Can you tell that I grew up a tad closer to the ocean than I am now.)
I’m about 12 miles from the ocean, give or take. Normally it’s pretty good here. But christ on a crutch, the last couple of weeks! The heat’s one thing but the humidity from AZ…stop it already…
hi Betsy, thanks — don’t mind if I do :-)
and for those who like to play with their food
TexBetsy @ 186
Hmmmmm, yummy. Goes well with the fresh local peaches I just finished off. Fortunately tomorrow is the farmer’s market and I can replenish.
for those sleepless nights:
Walkin’ The Floor Over You
TexBetsy @ 186
Wow that looks great. An interesting picture, looks like they’ve been put in a picture frame?
I found strawberry plants today! I’m sure it’s too late in the season really, but I’m going to be stubborn and plant them. I also debated getting some grapes to plant, and I may yet go back and pick them up. I want to plant a pomegranate, a plum tree, and maybe an avocado tree, if there are any dwarf varieties to be had…
Oh, anyway. Yes, I’ll have some berries!
nice odd news from Texas.
Officer accused of spanking woman’s rear is charged
from Star-Telegram.com: Fort Worth/Dallas News, Sports, Weather …
By MELODY McDONALD
FORT WORTH — A Fort Worth police officer arrested last week on accusations he spanked the rear of a woman he caught engaging in sexual conduct in a car in Oakhurst Park was charged with official oppression.
If convicted of that charge, a Class A misdemeanor, officer Craig Murrah faces up to one year in jail and a $4,000 fine.
Prosecutor Kurt Stallings confirmed Thursday that Murrah had been officially charged but said the case will also be presented to a grand jury.
Police have said that at about 1 a.m. on June 22, Murrah found a couple engaging in sexual conduct in a car at the park at 2300 Daisy Lane in north Fort Worth. The officer ordered the couple out of the car and placed the 18-year-old woman, nude from the waist down, in the back of a patrol car. At some point during the investigation, Murrah allegedly spanked the woman on the rear, police have said.
The woman said the officer let them go with only a warning.
When the woman told her boyfriend what the officer had done, he called 911. Police conducted an internal investigation, and a warrant was issued for Murrah’s arrest.
Wes Ball, Murrah’s defense attorney, said Thursday that they will wait to see all the details but said they intend to plead not guilty. He also pointed out that the couple, by their own admission, was breaking the law by having sexual contact in public.
“They were violating the law, and, as far as I understand it, officer Murrah has provided 6 1/2 years of good service,” Ball said. “This is a grave thing for him, his future and his career. He has asked me to help him, and that is what I intend to do.”
http://www.star-telegram.com/n…..20154.html
LoudounLib @ 183
Thanks, ((((((Lou)))))), I found it, and boy did I need it!!
Them Texas cops have a real kinky side to em is all I’m gonna say, Tex.
TexBetsy @ 189
I’ve always wanted to do that!
wangdangdoodle @ 194
:-)
TexBetsy @ 193
Disgusting. Glad to see the officer maybe getting his ass kicked and not just spanked for this.
Suzanne @ 196
More than kinky, Suzanne, more than kinky.
LoudounLib @ 191
Both kinds of music. Country AND Western!
OK pups, thanks for the opportunity to vent re the NewsHour (@ 115)–even if you didn’t read it! I sent them a question, basically “doesn’t this bother you, since a lot of it wouldn’t happen if the Iraqis wanted us there”. Both of the therapists are ex-military, it turns out, kind of “shrinkus ex machina”… See how they answer.
wangdangdoodle @ 200
707!
montag @ 199
Notice he only spanked the girl – and not her male counterpart who would be considered to be equally quilty of any offense.
Which, by the “two wrongs, one right” principle, does not make Murrah’s alleged conduct legal or acceptable. Nice try at a smokescreen, though.
British army chief attacks US as ‘intellectually bankrupt’ over Iraq
from Guardian Unlimited home | Guardian Unlimited by Peter Richards
Donald Rumsfeld “one of the most responsible for the current situation” says General Sir Mike Jackson.
Suzanne @ 204
Probably alone. More than one of `em, and they would have beat him.
C’mon, Jake, let’s go, it’s Texas.
Spanking? Well, that sure got my mind off a most horrible day.
Oh, I found something so awesome for you guys for Late Late Nite. The temptation to uncork it now is far too great.
And unfortunately, I must bid you all good night. I am one very tired Theropod.
So, good night. Enjoy Late Late Nite.
See you guys soon.
wangdangdoodle @ 207
And I’m sure there’s a YouTube to go with it.
Ooops, just looked at the time. Goodness, FDL is addictive! Time to turn in, even if I’m getting older. ‘Nite all!
g’night TRex, sleep well and have a great weekend :-)
TexBetsy @ 205
Intellectually and morally bankrupt. And not far from financially bankrupt, either. Bush may yet score another trifecta.
TRex @ 208
g’nite trex, sleep well and don’t forget to floss.
good grief!!!!
Sweet dreams, TRex!
g’night PeterK
‘Nite TRex!
night Peter & TRex
Think I will join the exodus. Night all, take care and enjoy the snark.
TexBetsy @ 214
Those are poor people’s kids. Why should Bush care?
g’night DrD, hope your weather improves
Sleep well Dr D
PeterK @ 185
OH YES, that is just what I mean. They have been great on this story. And, just the other eve there was a very interesting discussion about recycling in Maine. Huge # of comments. I threw in my 2 cents.
And, for you, and GordonM- Cape Rosier, Harborside. That’s where I go. Only for a few weeks during the summer, but for many years.
I was hoping this was a link to the fabulous June Christie, who has an album, Something Cool, the title song, which begins: “Oh waiter, I’d like to order something cool…” Can’t find it on the tubes, but here is something she did: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haeq-2c-axg
I love Loretta’s “drinkin’ and fightin’” songs:
Fist City
madmommy @ 155
I take a nap at my desk every day for 1 hour. Don’t tell on me either.
Sleep well madmom.
masaccio @ 224
I saw her with Stan Kenton when they did a show at my college. She was wonderful.
ccmask @ 226
Our little secret. The trick is to do it with your eyes open. (I know, defeats the purpose…)
Bush Admin Sides with Infant Formula Lobby
from Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall
This is deservedly getting a lot of attention this morning. From WaPo:
In an attempt to raise the nation’s historically low rate of breast-feeding, federal health officials commissioned an attention-grabbing advertising campaign a few years ago to convince mothers that their babies faced real health risks if they did not breast-feed. It featured striking photos of insulin syringes and asthma inhalers topped with rubber nipples.
Plans to run these blunt ads infuriated the politically powerful infant formula industry, which hired a former chairman of the Republican National Committee and a former top regulatory official to lobby the Health and Human Services Department. Not long afterward, department political appointees toned down the campaign. . . .
The ads ran instead with more friendly images of dandelions and cherry-topped ice cream scoops, to dramatize how breast-feeding could help avert respiratory problems and obesity.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r…..052036.php
This is interesting:
Newspapers could see a drop in traffic redirected to their websites from Google News after a redesign of the site that will mean newswire stories carried by other publishers no longer show up in search findings.
Google said its new approach, which will drive readers to the original source, “not only enhances the experience for users, [but] also gives proper recognition to journalists and publishers who work hard to break the news”.
LoudounLib @ 176
I had just pulled that one off the shelf..my original vinyl recording; Reprise records 1974..Probably before Howie Klein’s time..Was
Graham already dead when the Album was released?
(waving g’nite to all the leaving sleepy pups)
My mother was a fan of June Christie and Stan Kenton both; she used to sing along with the album while when was cooking, which is how I learned that song.
Valley Girl @ 224
Yeah, where Maine’s most famous Superfund cleanup site is! Right near the Nearings. Across from Castine.
good night all sleepers. Pleasant dreams!
wangdangdoodle @ 229
I’ve devised a trick perfected over 23 years of police and fire dispatching and odd shifts: get some reading material, doesn’t matter what kind, and prop your forehead up with one hand while appearing to be absorbed in said reading material. Works for me ;-)
That’s ok, I still got my guitar…
Look out, now!
Hi Laura!
Homophobia a $400m fundraiser
from RawStory.com Headlines
Homophobia has flourished in the Bush era, both as a potent political tool — many people believe George Bush would have lost Ohio in 2004, and thus a second term, if Karl Rove hadn’t made sure there was an anti-gay initiative on the state ballot — and as an industry unto itself. In just one year, the top 10 Christianist groups that promote homophobia raised over $400 million in tax-free dollar
LoudounLib @ 237
My hat is off to you. Doing graveyards just about did me in back in the day. I’m not a napper,.,,,oy the pain.
Steve-AR @ 232
Gram left us in 1973. Linky
Steve-AR @ 232
I used to live in the house Gram Parsons burned a few months before he died. I didn’t know it until I walked out the front door into a British camera crew filming a documentary in my driveway.
newtonusr @ 238
Red House rawks!
ccmask @ 231
Wow!! That’s very big, and I think I might like it. But, I have no idea how it’ll work out in practice.
LoudounLib @ 237
Laura, thankfully I don’t work the night shifts anymore — tenure helps a bit! ;-) It was ok in my younger days, but I sure couldn’t do it now.
well, what a surprise! /snark
LoudounLib @ 244
This is awesome. Just awesome.
And we are old. So old…
hi demi, I like your trick too! ;-)
Sorry, I inbedded.
Hey, if Trex is gone, do we still get a Late, Late Nite?
tex, they are only gonna help out the companies – and do nothing for the non-rich folks.
demi, yeup, and i know when it is gonna post for those wanting to caputure the zed.
LoudounLib @ 250
Tee Hee. I never tried it. I used to go take an hour long nap in my car and have someone come wake me up.
demi @ 246
Can I get a witness!? Hallelujah!
newtonusr @ 249
Jeeze, look at him with the unlined face and long, long hair…
LoudounLib @ 247
Glad to hear you have a reprieve. I don’t miss those lonnnngggg nights (at Psych Emergency). Our elder daughter was 6, 7, 8 during those years. Very hard times.
So, now is EVERYONE sitting around waiting for that whirlygiggy thingy?
not me
((((( wdd ))))) you have FB mail
LoudounLib @ 256
Ha, Lou! We (or me) may be that old, but we don’t look it. Of course, he had access to way more drugs…
LoudounLib @ 237
I sit in my chair (putting my back to my upstairs office door), and hold a report. As soon as my door opens, I am awake. It helps that everyone else is downstairs and I’m alone up there.
I’m not cause I know when it’s gonna happen (smirk)
I worked nights for so many years that I do my best sleeping once the sky starts to get lighter and everything turns grey.
Halleluja, Sisters.
Dayem, now that I’m a Working Woman, I’m just thankful to be able to be here for a l’il bit on a Friday night.
Just got home from goin’ Out To Dinner. Woo Hoo. I’m so tired, I had only one beer. Okay? Know what I’m talking about. I’m so tired, I’m not even gonna try to get Suzanne to clue me in on the zed timing. Just grateful to share with my g’friends a bit.
Anyone catch the eclipse Tues.? BE YOO TIFUL….
demi is a hard working woman – i think she needs a utube to celebrate her first friday with.
LoudounLib @ 256
When I saw they came out with the DVD and CD of that show, “Live At Massey Hall” from Jan 19, 1971, I freaked.
wangdangdoodle @ 261
True dat!
I’ll tell a tale on my younger sis (it’s safe, she doesn’t do the internets much) — I don’t have any wrinkles yet, and she does….
(preen)
laura, i stayed up and watched the lunar eclipse – that orange glow was spooky and made me think of halloween and fall – not hot summer nights. watching it, i could see how folks in times past would freak out – not knowing what was going on.
Late coming in, but are we talking about Gram Parsons? Has anyone else seen (or mentioned) that movie about his friend who took his dead body….Oh, Burying Gram Parsons? Something like that? Ended up burning him in a car or some such.
newtonusr @ 267
Emmylou has held up well; making albums for 36 years and still looks great.
It was ruby red my way. I’m lucky to have a west-facing window. All I had to do was wake myself up periodically and lift my head. So pretty. Of course, the next day I was a complete fool, but it was worth it.
demi @ 270
Grand Theft Parsons.
Patrick 4/4 @ 273
Took him out to Joshua Tree and did the deed, as legend has it.
Laura Doty @ 272
And I can be a complete fool with or without an eclipse.
demi @ 270
Haven’t seen the movie but I think “Boulder to Birmingham” describes the event.
demi @ 251
In wordpress, you can set a pre-written post to appear at a certain time. I assume that’s what he’s doing.
Dave Edmunds, Nick Lowe (Rockpile) doing chuck berry:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ed255XErQY
peanutbutter @ 277
Yes. And the default setting is ON the hour.
TexBetsy @ 275
Well, actually, me too. But an eclipse is such a nice excuse!
jayt @ 278
oooh, Rockpile!
figure ol’ Lar Craig’s career has …
… … … stalled?
TexBetsy @ 279
since when does trex do anything by way of the default setting?
For burnsy (damn, I missed Crowded House)
Weather With You (Acoustic)
yellowdog jim @ 282
That seems to be the current stance.
TexBetsy @ 240
This comment points to the real way that anti-gay initiatives get out the Rethug vote. It is not only that the homophobia motivates Christianists. It is that being an election not for a candidate, the churchs are free to use all of their resources to get out the vote, drive people to polls, and otherwise motivate their flock to vote.
newton, didn’t burns say last night that he was gonna be out some women’s vollyball game tonight?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..mp;search=
PMS BLUES
I love this song!
Suzanne @ 263
I’m not sure it would help anyway. I would still have to refresh to GET the new post, scroll down frantically to the comment thing, tap something in, hit the send button. I mean, if I over shoot, or my mouse acts up — there goes the zed…
hey mitch, did tfy win or lose today?
peanutbutter @ 289
You must relax, little grasshopper. Become one with the zed.
LoudounLib @ 281
Used to see them fairly often. One year it was Dave Edmunds and Rockpile – the next year it’d be billed as Nick Lowe and Rockpile. Great shows.
I’m inbedded too. I purchased an overbed tray (bed desk :))for my laptop and it was the best thing I have bought in awhile. Rather than trying to balance it and getting the cords all messed up, this works perfectly.
Suzanne @ 287
Yep – not for him so much, as in his honor…
I couldn’t make the volleyball game, either.
Suzanne @ 290
Everybody lost. The Yankees, the Red Sox, and the Mariners.
By the way, I apologize to anyone who missed me driving by last night, and crowing about the Yankees sweeping their series against Boston.
Margot, great tune!
newtonusr @ 294
whoops – in the immortal words of emily – never mind.
This one looks important:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r…..107S.shtml
EvilDrPuma @ 285
what are the best quotes from the transcript of his arrest?
“Embarrassing. Just embarrassing.”
others?
Mitch, I missed that – was without power for most of last night.
Today is an unlucky day for people with dyslexia.
Friday the 31.
Well, if we’re being silly….
ccmask @ 293
I looked at this. Omygosh, that looks convenient. Is that the one you got or just a similar item?
BigMitch @ 301
laughing….
Hey, thanks for the thought Suzanne. Just listened to Old Man. And, that did it for me. It took me back to a magical time. It was a song that my female writing partner and I listened to alot while we wrote this faboo chick flick screenplay. Never sold it. Got close tho. I was working full time with three kids in three different schools and wrote two nights a week and Saturday. You ladies would love it. Took place in the 60’s. Two women who would never have gotten along anywhere else, but were “bunking” together in an all women prison in Mexico. Kinda Thelma and Louise meets My Fair Lady. Drugs, Sex, Nixon, DEA agents. Amazing tale.
I posted that article earlier. I’m not sure if it was truthout but the comment section was full of smart people telling the author that collecting the data/emails can definitely be done and easily. I don’t know how true it is because I’m not a techie, per se.
TexBetsy @ 298
Saw that one on RawStory today. Thought I had maxed my fuckery level, but NOOOOOOOO!!!
demi @ 305
Sounds like it would be fun to do as radio theater.
Today was a very busy news day.
Suzanne @ 304
Oh, that’s corny.
But then, I love corny.
demi @ 305
Does that last bit describe the screenplay or the writing process?
Suzanne when did the ZED disappear from WordPress. It’s not the same without the 0.
BigMitch @ 301
You even got that on post 301! Not too shabby…
EvilDrPuma @ 285
seems a little wide to me.
Patrick 4/4 @ 311
Ha ha that was my question too…
peanutbutter @ 303
That is the exact one I got. At night, I just shut down and roll it off to the side. I have a 17 1/2″ laptop and it swims on it. Then, the other little tray holds a mousepad, drinks, ashtray, candle, popcorn, etc.
ya know that company has got to be owned by a someone who does not want that connection known about. so many republicrooks out there to think of – the fact that it is wh connected has to be of some weight i think. otherwise, the wh wouldn’t go to all this trouble to try to have us not find out.
Hey, it’s already September here in EDT land:
Big Star — September Gurls
the zed disappeared due to a wordpress upgrade about two upgrades ago iirc :(
BigMitch @ 301
Mitch, since you don’t blog-whore here, I have to pimp for you.
The beginning of the end to the myths of President Clinton’s pardon of Marc Rich.
Please Mitch, more details when available.
Laura Doty @ 308
Wow, I never thought of that.
I happen to be putting a radio theatre show together for a fundraiser for a mission charity. Did you read my mind?
(Suzanne, ready for me to name-drop? We had Lizbeth Rohm from Law and Order signed to play one of the leads… right B4 L&O. I went to her going away part in Topanga Canyon. Had more than one beer!)
wangdangdoodle @ 310
Well, then you will love the fact that my daughter’s Bat Mitzvah was celebrated on the day before Cinco de Mayo, which, as everyone knows, is National Star Wars Day.
May the Fourth be with you!
most excellent name dropping, demi :)
Patrick 4/4 @ 311
Pat – Both! Acually, some of our writing/actor friends told us we should have been writing That story.
And yeah, Grand Theft Parsons. Cool.
Suzanne @ 319
What I don’t understand is why “zed”? That’s the letter Z. If it’s the zero, then why not “nought”? Or is it the Z in zero? I think too much, I think.
peanutbutter @ 325
Cause us ‘mericans like to stay ignorant.
demi @ 321
When fall comes, I get in a dreamy groove. Can’t explain but love what happens.
peanutbutter, the zed arrived around the time FDL was supported Ned Lamont and it kinda morphed into a mix of Ned, zero, zil, etc. at least that is what i think i remember – i could be totally wrong :)
Suzanne @ 328
Before that it was Fitz, which used to piss off a lot of people.
ccmask @ 329
why?
I wonder if Trex had a date tonite?
ccmask @ 331
he said he was tired — wink wink ;-)
Laura Doty @ 327
Laura – me too. For me, it’s the lighting. Should be the similar to spring, but it’s better. And, all the star jasmine. Dreamy.
ccmask @ 329
yeup, i remember those and the folks complaining about it.
TexBetsy @ 330
who?
GordonM @ 235
GordonM- sorry I was off doing other stuff, so I didn’t read your reply in a timely way. I hope you are still up.
Oh yes, I know about the SuperFund site, indeed I do. Gotten to know many locals. One who was born and lived in house just overlooking the SuperFund site. Learned what it was like before and after the mining company came to Cape Rosier. I have learned quite a lot about local history.
TexBetsy @ 330
People thought we were being silly. I should have said “some” people. They thought it was very juvenile because the first 10 posts said Fitz!
BigMitch @ 322
appreciative grrrrrooooooooooooaaaaannnn.
(thx!)
tex, folks would accuse other folks of hero worshiping fitz.
demi @ 333
I find myself oddly in sync with things….very nice.
We need heroes.
( waving at the commish — didn’t see you come in! )
Suzanne @ 339
Yeah, that’s the ticket.
ccmask @ 337
So now the first ten posts say zed. We have matured.
ccmask @ 307
You mean this kind of shit? The NSA has unbelievable amounts of CPU and storage capacity. Of course they can (and I’m a techie). The real point is that without at least a couple percent of the population on their payroll, they can’t do anything about it.
Think E Germany. Over 2% of the population was on Stasi’s direct payroll. Just to lay low, and watch their neighbors. Without that, all the high tech in the world don’t mean squat.
zedless thread upstairs
yeup, i remember those and the folks complaining about it.
So much complaining during the day. Way more than at night. I like the silliness at Late Night. I do. And the profundity.
Evening, all.
Just got out of an absolutely fantastic women’s college volleyball match. Duke played brilliantly, but in the end USC’s size advantage was the difference.
Suzanne, I wrote a response to your email while I was standing in line to buy my ticket, but the iPhone is holding it hostage.
Time to put the top down for the drive home. Mother Nature must have read my homesick posts from late late night, because LA feels like NJ tonight.
See y’all in about 90 minutes.
Late Late Nite FDL: Cooler Still
LOOK!
There!
In the sky!
It’s a bird?
it’s a plane??
NO!!
it’s TRex posting upstairs.
be cool, ydj, be cool.
LoudounLib @ 342
came in trough the bathroom window.
I didn’t scroll all the way down to current comments, forgive me if redundant. This has been bothering me for awhile. Not the psychiatrists but the insanity that is Iraq and how it is damaging the psyches of the participants and victims. The Army Times reports on gangs in Iraq. Another soldier, sorry I don’t remember the citation, spoke about how soldiers were cutting themselves because they were feeling numb and needed to be in control somehow. I am sure there will be studies done, eventually, about just how psychologically devastating this endeavor will have been. The fact that the Services are lowering standards will exacerbate the damage. PeterK @ 113
I just stumbled across these comments while surfing and I was wondering if “zed” didn’t sprout from the last letter in the English alphabet in an ironic statement against the first/frister folk.