Zed

ZED2

less than zed

BT’s digg for his worst president ever post just made most popular and added another 15 diggs in 2 minutes

Done dugg it for ya Suz

Heh, nahant got the Digg zed…!

Dang! Up to 175.

Suz, I love the harmonica. And I can play “Oh Suzanna”!
The only thing I can play, and it’s sorry. My girls howl!

Suzanne!
Tunes!

thanks for the diggs on bt’s post, pups. we wanna have it on the front page of digg for the east coaster types when they wake up :)

Love the mouth harp, Suz!

thanks, nahant

just hit 193 keep it going guys

Little Charlie & The Nightcats are an SF band and they forking rock. Rick Estrin is a forking great harp player - if they ever play anywhere near ya, go.

Hey, Newt, one thing I noticed while in Safari I can’t login to my MSN e-mail account, it keeps shutting down the whole browser… I swear they’re allergic to one another…! ;-)

239 and taking the fast road up…

Room to move.
Harp!

Let me play with it a bit…

Mellow Down Easy

WOOHOO!!!

and, because i forgot to ask at the beginning of the thread:

how is everyone doing tonight?

Heh, Bitter? ;-)

I didn’t think they read the internets. Only elites do that, not ordinary people like the ones you see on TeeVee. TeeHee.

I used to listen to Little Charlie & The Nitecats fairly frequently at a local bar, all for the price of a beer, roughly 20 years ago. (Sigh!)

Love John Mayall! It reminds me of when I was a senior in HS and cleaning the house after a little fortification!

*sigh* lucky beer drinker you were

I finally got here and enuff’s enuff.
This poor old laptop can be handy but it’s slower than the second coming of Christ.
I’m going to get a keypad and set up my old PC, it runs circles around this thing. See ya all tomorrow.

When I was fortified, i watched teevee.

g’nite busted

back in the day when i was fortified, the teevee watched me.

Just what were you doing Suz??

707!

the digg brings us new pups - folks on the internet who see the article, click to read it, and then discover fdl. the more non fdl folk see bt’s post, the better. because not only do we maybe get new pups, we also are spreading the word to those who may not hear it otherwise.

This is great. Gotta be in my top ten favorite late late night music YouTubes.

tuttle - is it a “@ live dot com” addy?

*innocent look*
my juvenile record was sealed and is gonna stay that way

Shit I just checked BT’S Digg and it up to 350 already!

*blushing* thanks, margot

the awesome power of the pups in action before our very eyes. studies show only 1% of our readers comment so our readers are very active even when not commenting on the threads. way forking kewl

High octane fortification, sounds like!

*laughing* champagne tastes on a beer budget is what my dad used to say about me

That’d be correct!

homeDOTliveDotcom…

Fixed your link.
Hard refresh, pups.

We used to get a lot of good blues at local bars. Rod Piazza is a local who played locally a lot in those days. And a lot of Hollywood Blues and Jazz players would play local gigs on the weekends.

One night, I was at that same bar sitting with a friend who was a master custom-guitar maker for Fender. We were listening to a group from San Diego, The Paladins, when he turned to me and said (about the guitar one of the Paladins was playing), I just made that guitar last month and drop-shipped it to a guitar store in Texas, what the fuck? So he went up the guy at the next break and got the story on how he happened to get that guitar, being from San Diego.

Another time, that same friend told me of delivering a custom baritone guitar that he had made for Ry Couter. Apparently, Couter immediately started playing the guitar and raving about how it sounded exactly how he had been imaging for about the last 20 years. My friend got a bit choked up as he was descibing that encourter.

Over the years, I’ve had several friends who were professional musicians, but only two of them were able to support themselves without daytime jobs. One was a member of the Air Force band, which is the epitome of a steady gig, and the best place for a young musician to get big-band chops. The other was the sister of my friend who made guitars. She was Michael Jackson’s lead guitarist. I’ve drunk beer with her several times but never heard her play.

Thanks didn’t know I broke it!

OMG.

In Ciudad Juarez, 210 people have been killed this year.

A turf war among drug cartels has claimed more than 210 lives in the first three months of this year. Many of those killed were young gunmen from out of town. The number of homicides this year is more than twice the total number of homicides for the same period last year. Several mass graves hiding 36 bodies in all have been discovered in the backyards of two houses owned by drug dealers.

At the height of the violence, around Easter, bodies were turning up every morning, at a rate of almost 12 a week. Desperate, the mayor and the governor of Chihuahua State asked the federal government to intervene.

If you’re interested, notice how the military/police officers are dressed. At Christmastime, I saw this kind of dress (minus the face covering) in Cabo San Lucas. I wonder who’s paying for these uniforms?

Who knows what evil broken link lurks within the…um,
The Lurking Mod knows. lol

getting it ready to put in the news queue, loohoo

That’s right across the river from El Paso. When I was stationed there they always tried to discourage us from visiting there…

Ok. I’m having no problem jumping in and out of my newly-created “live” account, using Safari in XP Pro.

*wicked evil laugh*

why, it is amazing what a few chocolate and pecan cookies will do

Got milk?

That is so cool, wigwam! There used to be a little place here in Escondido called “The Alley” that had hot shot start-ups. Saw Kris Kristofferson, Kate Taylor (James’ sister) and Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks. The place couldn’t have held more than 100 people. I was on the cover of the Dan Hicks album, but nobody would know me cuz it was from behind and I was all unblowndry hair!

ohhhh, feisty TLM tonight

ok, i’m full of shit and a pain in the ass, but my main aim is this–we all belong, and are quite a force if we would realize that before we implode–elvis costello knew that, back in the 80’s it was a black hole, same as now, anybody remember that?-what a dark morass….everybody called him an annoying influence when he came out, now he’s right on all of the time……

i remember when he couldn’t get a club date, 50 people there, but i bought into what he was sayin’………

what’s so funny ’bout peace, love and understanding? that’s all i’m sayin’…….nite. the peeper frogs are singin’ me to sleep……….

ttp://youtube.com/watch?v=8BxEAudsb9c

or maybe this one would be better-has war video added to the song-couldn’t check it out fully, on dialup, but what i saw looked good….very good.

war version

http://youtube.com/watch?v=YbOVtcSUVjI

i know a lot of you here haven’t been in the threads that have gone under, but the ones that have, this is what it’s about……cut the shit out and let’s get on with it……..peace love and understanding, that’s what i’m fighting for. what about you?

nite

Who lurks about? GB?

?

Suz- I often try to imagine what outfit the lurking mod wears. Does he/she wear a black cape, black tights, and really cool shades? That’s my image, anyway!

loohoo’s drug war article is in the news box now

Would that be GWB??

Heh, it shut me down again…!

I would not say that Zorro but then again, not Zorro the Gay Blade either with all those fashionable colored outfits he wore.

When I was a wee child, we lived in El Paso. We went to Juarez all the time. Loved it. I have lots of fond memories. Things are a bit different now. Interesting that the NYT refers to Juarez as a dusty town. It has a population of 2 million!

I agree, I made a few trips there… Dusty it is, but, certainly no town!

Lurking Moderator minions.

dayam, i never got groupies…

Dang 541 for BT… I guess there are a lot of people who feel GWB is the most hated in History!!!

Heh, with minions like that, do you need some help…? ;-)

My windows is better than your windows?

572

Lurking Moderator fashion designer/masseuse.

Sumthing ain’t right, it keeps generating an error report to send, but, I don’t send it! Gates might not appreciate it…! ;-)

Per TPM:

According to Doug Schoen, estranged partner of Mark Penn and one-time pollster for Bill Clinton, says Hillary Clinton should abandon her purely positive campaign and instead go negative on Obama.

From tomorrow’ WaPo …

Hillary Clinton took an important step Monday toward winning the Democratic nomination by launching an ad targeting Barack Obama’s recent comments about working-class voters clinging to “guns or religion.” The ad is a marked change from her recent determination to use a positive message until the Democratic convention, but for Clinton to capture the nomination she needs to completely abandon her positive campaign and continue to hammer away at Obama.

The tactical equivalent of the Hail-Mary pass; it’ll hurt your chances to score, but it sure saves time.

Suz- I really wouldn’t worry… they look kinda like a New Age version of the Stepford Wives. You really don’t want that sort of groupies, do you?

Good Gawd. I just looked at the comments over at Digg. Do our poor mods have to keep those creeps out of our civilized comment thread? I’d be drink bitter(s) if I had to deal with that.

Yup? I have no clue, but I’ll say that one lurking mod helped me out big time one day before I understood that you can’t have clicked comments, and expect to see the news feed.

Some things are more *difficult* than others.

She was running a positive campaign? Who are these people?

uh… was that the link you meant? That is some ugly attack dog. REally, that was not appropriate for this conversation ;)

Hillary Clinton was running a positive campaign???

er… edit… not appropriate for …. this thread- FDL- ? — can’t remember that old FDL joke, but I trust you get my drift…

hey eg

I did enjoy this one, tho…

Don’t worry G.W., the public has a really short memory. Six months after you’re out of office, we’ll all remember you as the lovable chump, and we’ll be telling humorous stories about you while we’re standing in line for food stamps and Red Cross handouts.

i don’t believe that is an appropriate subject for this blog

Damn, those were the days. So, Kristopherson had hit it very big by 1970. Right?

I saw Bonnie Rait playing at a local movie theater when she started her comeback roughly 20 years ago.

Also, there was a local blues band, Buddy Reed and the Rocket 88s. I used to catch them around town, but I took my girlfriend to see them at a couple of places out of town. The first place was a somewhat rural dive. She turned to me and said, “No damn way.”

I protested, and she said, You can take me to a cowboy bar, and you can take me to a black bar. But when I see black cowboys, I just know there’s going to be trouble.”

My next effort was at a local university where Buddy and his crew were the band playing with Bo Didley. It looked like she’d be a lot happier in this venue until 50 Hell’s Angels marched in with their women heeling one pace to the right and one pace behind. Somehow that did not impress her.

Well, if it’s a positive campaign so far, I really interested to see what happens when it goes negative!

Thanks Suz- I knew I was close, but not very close!

There will be blood.

Is the lurking mod sure that this isn’t a more accurate picture of the lurking mod’s fashiondesigner/masseuse?

shame shame shame

Mother!

Sadly, more ammo for McInsane…!

You’re a Fonda? ;-)

Busted!

Jane Hanoi Jane…. not Hamsher!

Hiya, pups. Home from work. Scary driving through slush that was starting to freeze for 50 miles. You can tell who has taken their studded tires off already. They were in the ditch, on teir cell phones….

I get to participate in my first panel on blogging this Saturday, at the annual Alaska Press Club convention. I’m not going to make nice.

*rubbing hands together gleefully*

i like it when et’s not ready to make nice

I hope someone will be recording it. I’d like to see it, as would others here, I am sure.

That is interesting. No indication that it is a large city, except for the number of officers who have been trained.

Hey ET! Congrats! You just caught me on way off to slumberland, but thanks for the update!

g’nite vg

Okay, now I’m seriously worried about the Lurkster. Is s/he watching us with that eye?

It is the fourth or fifth largest city in Mexico - over twice the size of El Paso. Together they form one of the largest border communities in the world!

hahahaha the lurkster hahahaha

i like it loohoo, i like it

thanks Suz- you do great work at FDL.

701

If that’s true, and the ads come out, it will be the undoing of Hillary. She now has opportunity with perhaps the governorship of New York, or a hot shot spot in the senate. Why would she do this?

Big Tax Breaks for Businesses in Housing Bill Tomorrows headliner @ NYTimes

WTF what hell about all those family’s losing their homes… Lobbyist have to be banned from even be in Washington…. What the hell is congress thinking. And Obama gets crap for saying people are Bitter!!

*rummaging through pockets for that phaser…*

dayam, think we can hit 1,000 before midnight pacific?