suz!

ZED!
OR NOT!! Hi Spur how ya doing??

spurious!

nahant!

hi nahant, hi suz. did i miss anything?

Fire Lake
Dog

Suz Hi
Going how’s it?

depends on what you are looking for :) how’s the bay area tonight

I’m just now getting a premonition about the weeping and gnashing of teeth that will occur if it comes down to the final vote and the progressives scuttle a PO-less health-insurance reform bill. Wow, what a sight that’ll be.

hey newton – how ya doing?

hey wigwam – how goes?

I thought it was Free Dog Lake?

Hi Suz! how did your visit with Jin go?

seems as usual, warm but cooled off. can’t stand it that the days are getting shorter already.

Somehow I don’t imagine Jane with her dogs watching the Lakers (yuck) in front of the free. But I’m with the Warriors, so whaddaya gonna do…
nice tonight suz. how about up there?

hey emerson – i couldn’t find a free dog lake musical combo so had to go with fire lake dog

it went well with jin. over an hour’s worth of work but he saved the left bottom eye tooth. that is the good news.

the bad is that he has to refer me to an oral surgeon for the bottom right eye tooth. gonna need root canal and cap – the estimated price for r/c and cap is actually more than the estimated cost of the upper plate.

into the 90’s in the portland area but it was a comfy 70 today. if the wind hadn’t been so cold, it wudda been a nice day newton.

i’m enjoying it. now the sunset is moving back to my end of the bay – the skies are starting to color up again and i’m looking forward to the purple pink orange gold sunsets again.

Hola, Suz! Hi, Pups.
Whazzup?

FunnyWheelieDiva

hey funny – how’s seattle tonight?

Nope!

Still getting
L
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s
T
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So there will be delays in my attwention

Hah! You’d rather World B. Free.

what season are ya on now dood?

Even as GS fans, we called him Lloyd.
Back then, we still resented the self-congratulatory narcissists.

“folding laundry, washing dishes, packing lunches” — oh HI EVERYONE!

still season 3 disc 4…

Very well, thanks. It’s that the more I understand about the healthcare mess the angrier I get.

hey ce – i think you need a wife to do that for you. i sure as hell do :)

the more i understand about the way our government is run, i do likewise

Verrry clever tune selections! Didja see Mrs. Greenspan forkin up the pups name TWICE today?

Are you covered Suz?

season 4 disc 6 – 2 episodes away from the season finale and then i will be totally caught up. i’m saving em for right before lost returns this year.

We got kinda warm today, but I didn’t notice until I made/ate quesadillas for dinner. I think we got into the 80s. Cooling off nicely tonight, though.

I traded an old VCR to Comcast for a DVR at no charge for 6mo. I’m really liking it. Would be nice if the cable didn’t go out late at night when I’m trying to record, for heaven’s sake!

Anyway…now I’m not tied to the broadcast schedule.

Jane was awesome tonight, but Bill Maher was full of Sh*t. Oh well.

How’s by everybody?

Oh, and hugz and scritchez to all petz!

FWDiva

Hi Suz! Howdy peoples!

Hey Suzanne,
MrCE does so much of this — but I do fold laundry like a pro!

what coverage? i’m retired and lost all health coverage except medical – and was told to be thankful that i had medical coverage.

hey kelly – how’s denver?

We (Julie) is catching up…. Now she is totally hooked and loves to get LOST every evening!!

i’m solo so if i don’t do it it doesn’t get done

Well, its a dam good investment, *g*

When’s your trip east, nahant? This week, right?

Hey Suze and Newt and Nahant, new DELBERT today!

gotta love SF. Warriors were fun a couple years ago.

the more i understand about the way our government is run, i do likewise

BTW, the definition of “bribe” doesn’t mention “crime”. Per Merriam Webster:

* Main Entry: 1bribe
* Pronunciation: ˈbrīb
* Function: noun
* Etymology: Middle English, morsel given to a beggar, bribe, from Anglo-French, morsel
* Date: 15th century

1 : money or favor given or promised in order to influence the judgment or conduct of a person in a position of trust
2 : something that serves to induce or influence

So it is technically correct to refer to campaign contributions that are intended to influence officials as “bribes.” And I’m going to start using the word that way whenever I think that campaign contributions are having a corrupting effect.

had to move outta ca to be able to do it. medical health care co tells me i have to live in ca to be covered but i can’t afford to live in ca anymore much less make any investments (even if it was in me). hell – the last 18 months i was in ca my food budget was $100/month.

weirdly cool today. And I’m trying to figure out amongst the schedules me and the Mr. have if I can get away with going to a Polis healthcare thing on Saturday.

We’re juggling things a ton; I’ll have to post on the Seminal later, but we’re actually going through the DEATH PANEL thing with his parents and moving them to assisted care. With their limited means, it’s a total challenge, and fortunately, they’re SANE.

My partner’s mom was a Dem precinct captain for many years, so she’s savvy, but really, having to walk through all the paperwork and limited choices for assisted care is just, um, I dunno. I’m at a loss for words.

hey that guy – how kewl – i’m sure you will let us know when the videos are out :)

they are bribes wigwam just called something prettier.

Didja see Mrs. Greenspan forkin up the pups name TWICE today?

And, IIRC, KO mentioned FDL on Monday evening.

Agree wigwam. “Lobbying” sounds entirely too clean.

Attles. Clifford Ray. Mullins.

and jane on rachel today.

and it is only tuesday :)

bailing out early. nite suz. feel better.
nite pups

Hi, Suzanne. And a big hi to all the firepups. I’m pumped that netroots will be in Vegas next year. That’s close enough to drive to for me. Been wanting to go the last few times, but couldn’t get the time off and wasn’t thrilled about flying.

What are ya drinking, Suz?

g’nite newton

hey pastfedup – how ya been? haven’t seen ya in a while…

*sigh* coffee

nite newt, nite everyone–i’m bailing too.

Leaving Thursday at 1PM!! For 12 days of New England but mainly aroung the Boston Area and of course we will be going to Nahant!!
http://www.nahant.org/

It doesn’t get much better than this. Watch Barney Frank obliterate
a Town Hall crazy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..r_embedded

g’nite spur

hey oldgold – how ya been?

been lurking on and off, it’s been crazy busy at work lately with deadlines. Had some sinus and septum surgery today, so now I’ve got a few days off and can visit more.

Aw, Kelly
That’s rough, mon. My mom had to do that awhile back. Steep learning curve, and very little fun.

(((((KellyC)))))

FWDiva

Here;s a shot of Irish Whiskey for that. Bit of a chill tonight. (pouring).

ouch and ouch. but it is nice to see your fonts again even if while medicated.

[Dining Room Table] Snap!

I love that! Thanks for posting it.

Good nite, newt.

and jane on rachel today.

It looked to me as though Rachel gulped when Maher said, after Jane has just been on, that it would be a tragedy if the progressives stood their ground. She, probably wisely, chose not to call him on it, but there’s no doubt that she understood what was happening.

hey nahant – weather dood says there is a huge heat wave going on in boston. expected to remain high temps through the rest of the week.

Alright! Whats the weather like back there?

all i gotta do is add a dash of whipped cream to the mug and it will be perfect. thanks emerson

Suz – I hope your dental work goes well. Root canals are no fun.

yup and yup. i hope she has jane on again.

along those lines, Nirvana – Lake of Fire

I am in high spirits

I enjoy a good fight and it looks like we have an all timer on our hands.
I am up for it!

Jane was great and she didn’t say “blowjob” even once.

am gonna have to have all my upper teeth removed and get an upper plate. it sucks (and it is an expensive suck) but it is what it is – i just want to have my smile back again and the opportunity to wear makeup if i wanted to draw some attention to my face.

That’s why I’m down on Maher today. I still wish she hadn’t let that stupid comment pass. I let the show know that I noticed, though!
FWDiva

pun! was wondering when someone was gonna lay some nirvana on this thread. how ya doing?

[drive-by post] Jane has been just outstanding on the tube. First with Mrs. Greenspan and today with Rachel. I mean WoW. [/drive-by post]

I’m compelled to make another donation or something.

*sigh*

Good for you. We can let shit like that go by.

hey muzzy – stop back by and say howdy after ya do :)

:) Hey, Make me right or wrong on my impression of you; every time I see your moniker I think of this Streisand number.

Nope. But didn’t pull any factual punches, either.

Guess I need to watch it again! Cool!

FWDiva

Just a quick drive-by…I hope this makes your night a bit sweeter.

From dKos:

CNN reporting Dems going it ALONE on health care!

with CNN video here.

PEACE

Me. too. Anybody else?

hey Suz, just kinda bouncing along.

bummer ’bout your teefs.

It has been hot real first bit of summer they have had, hope that it stays that way so we can go swimming in the lake when we get to Liberty Maine on Sunday!!

hey louc – nice to see ya again

You’ve been posting some great dairies and comments, thanks for all your work.

I think you’ll get your wish nahant. That sounds like a magic trip. Do it up!

me too but i’m doing that which must be done :)

how’s the rest of the punsters pun?

hey larue – how’s sac tonight?

OK, that’s, like, craaaaazy.
I started humming “don’t rain on my parade” before youToob even started to load. Ha!

I have enough of a sense of humor to have a) cracked up my voice teacher regularly and b) worn my plastic Viking Helmet (=DivaDome) to final dress rehearsals of all four “Ring” operas 4 years ago in Seattle.

So, yeah, I’ve got a silly streak and a very wide music strek.

Thanks for the vid!

FWDiva

McClinton? That Delbert?

gearing up for back to school x2: last weekend we helped pun jr. move from one house to another in Santa Cruz; punaisette started H2O polo practice at Berkeley High this week.

I have to be at the SF building dept. at 8 a.m. manana, so I’d best bid bonne nuit a tous.

(something to ponder: how do you know if a period is italicized?)

Hi Larue. Thanks. I’m having a blast doing it. BTW, I’ve very much appreciated yours too.

2005 cycle – Wadsworth! Aaaahh, I have so much more of an appreciation for you now. Your Helmet is blessed among Helmets IMO.

bonne nuit a tous pun

You don’t know. The period has to WANT to be italicized. :)

*bowing*
Well, thanks very much!
You’ll have to get in touch if ya get out this way.

I think they’re running the same production as I type…
Yes, indeed. And ACT is running “Das Barbecu” on the non-Wagner nights.
Sigh…Concerts, etc, are what I really miss with this unemployment thing. And voice lessons…
Maybe I’ll phone one of my orchestra buddies tomorrow and see whazzup!

FWDiva

98F today, 73F now. Been in upper 90’s, ‘maters are suffering and not producing. ‘Sposed to be in mid to LOW 90’s as of W/Th for a while. We’ve not had a whole week of 100F thru 110F though, all summer. Yet. MOST unusual.

Lotta gooder nooze today from Progs. Mz. Hamsher was awesome! I don’t get what Bill Maher did, cuz I haven’t heard the whole story or seen HIS clip . . . . he’s a prog!!!

Bottom line, hope ticked up this week so far . . . maybe there IS a Chess Game being played out by Obama. ;-)

Change must come from within!
Said the Zen Master Hotdog Vendor…

FWDiva

*bows*

*blush*

Yes, another donation to FDL completed

Perro de Fuego !

What voice do you sing? I am armed and loaded for accompaniment for Arias and Art songs for both Sopranos and Altos.

And can transpose in an instant. Ya ever wanna sing “Im Wonderschonen Monat Mai” or “Der Erlkoenig” I got ya covered. Heh.

Well time to hit the rack…. nite
Pups (:>))

Hi Chris, Suz, Newton, every blessed person here.

Ouch!

[bows to Zen mistress of memory]

Speaking of transposing…I play mostly by ear, but did learn to read music so I could play some 2-part inventions. (My mother the piano teacher despaired of me ever learning, it’s just a brain thing; I learned eventually.)
But since I play these from memory I start out on the wrong piano key sometimes and notice it’s really tough, why is my fingering all messed up. Duh! Start on the right key really helps…

Have a kick ass trip, nahant!

after tonight – he is a pig and not a prog larue

i bet there is a video out there of it (if i wasn’t so medicated i could probably find it for ya)

g’nite nahant

hey margot – how’s ohio tonight?

Dood! Where ya been all my life?!
Oh, wait, yer attached. Nemmermine.

Haven’t sung in almost a year. When I’m in good shape, I’m a soprano. Upper register a work in progress, spent a lot of time working on mid- and low-register as a foundation. When I was still with the Symphony Chorale, I’d sing 2nd Sop if the sopranos divided, or high alto if we needed to split the women’s parts 3 ways (sometimes it’s better to balance numerically instead of clinging to labels…). Versatility, that’s the ticket. Inner parts are not for wimpy musicians…and the 2nd sop part in Bach’s B-minor Mass covers 2 full octaves!

Anyway…way cool on the accomp. I’ve worked outta 24 Italian Songs/Arias a lot…and used to have a couple volumes of Handel, which I’ve mislaid. Pity…Handel is so simpatico for singers, no? I think so, anyway!

FWDiva
Yeah…not enough music in my life right now…

Evenin’ Margot!
How’s Bayou?

FWDiva

A different Fire Dog Break:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ohep6mkhK40

Transposing is really an art.

If you look at the keyboard relatively, you’re good to go, but if you look at it absolutely, it’s very difficult.

Funny, but it’s easy to demonstrate live, but not in blogosphere. What’s that saying? Something like:

“Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.”

Die Forelle?
Heh.
I was a huge Bryn Terfel fan there for awhile. Lots of great English art songs…would be fun to learn…

FWDiva

It’ll be up at rachel.msnbc.com here pretty soon.
Thanks for the backup! I’z already bin schooled for hatin’ on da Maher.
Stickin’ to mah gunz, though!

FWDiva

hey auduboner – fire dog sings!

One of the best things about NOT having “perfect” pitch: I can sing anything in whatever key I want…just establish the tonic, and awaaaaay I go. Very useful for warming up the voice without a piano (also because I can’t get scared of high notes if I don’t see the keyboard). Also for singing a difficult passage up a half- or whole tone. Nice to have a keybord to check things sometimes, though.

FWDiva

ZOMG – do you sing “Ombra Mai Fu” ?

I can do that one in any key!

Ok, that’s funny. Poor puppy. I know how he feels.
I was just watching a documentary on PBS with that kind of monotone as a soundtrack. I’m sure the filmmaker was trying to say something profound, but it was just annoying.

FWDiva

my meds have kicked in and i’ve got the woozies. time for me to head out before i say something terrible embarrassing

g’nite pups. thank you for making fire lake dog a fun thread tonight.

A “Trout” by any other name.

Heh.

I’m really hopin so Larue. It’s seems it’s one end of the spectrum or the other. Nothing in between. But yeah, things have really turned around since Rachel’s smackdown of Armey.

Hey, sorry about that. Hopin’ ya fell better right quick!

Sleep late, Suzanne!

am sorry i am bailing so early – feel like i am letting everyone down or something. on the other hand, i tend to get blabby…. tis a balancing act and tonight, i am being prudent

*poof*

evening all.

Suz, so sorry it’s gonna be the hard way. But excellent both eye teeth can be saved.

Good night Suzanne. We have your back.

I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE
Ombra mai fu. One of my favorites. Used it as an audition piece for Chorale. Can’t for the life of me remember what key, though. It’s in the high-voice book–Kalmus, or International.
There’s even a tree near where I used to live that I decided was THE tree in question. Big and perfectly, symmetrically branched. Beautiful even leafless, against a leaden sky.
I like Verdi Prati, too.

What else have I auditioned with…
Caro Mio Ben (took me a looooong time to appreciate that one)
Ombra Mai Fu
Signore Ascolta (Puccini is another simpatico composer for singers. Challenging as HELL, but simpatico.)
Se tu ma mi, se tu sospiri.

Sigh…I had to quit chorale last fall because of my (temp) work schedule. And now I want to take some lessons to get back in shape, but the shekels are a bit sparse.

Oh! I DID get a call from a temp agency today. They’ve got a short-term postition, and I’m probably over-qualified, but….Fingers crossed. The money sux, but it would be earned, and I’d be wedging my foot in the door at another company in my field.

FWDiva

Night night! Sleep tight! Don’t let da critterz bite!
FWDiva

Hey, now! Who ya calling TROUT?!!
Actually, it’s the string quintet I love most. Never had the talent to attempt it (viola), but glorious to listen to.

FWDiva

What tonight?

Yah. On the Rachel Maddow Show. A segment or two after Jane.
FWDiva

Oh. Well, I’m bailin, so I guess I won’t get to it tomorrow.

I’m such a big fan of Maher it’s hard to understand he’d piss of progs . . . musta been REAL bad.

Sorry to hear of this . . .

*poof*

Stop! You got me at Signore Ascolta

For people that don’t know, the woman “(Liu) is singing, “Hey, Listen to me! I know what I’m frikking talking about!” But of course, men do not listen to women; fools.

And I have this dumb mashup from 2007 with some Puccini in it, but it’s still relevant I think.

Per Joe Sestak:

[…]

Now is a time for leadership – particularly in the Senate, where for too long needed legislation has gone nowhere. Not this time. Health Care coverage is a necessity for Americans – Health Care reform is a requirement for America, and its economy. Reform means bending the steep curve of Health Care costs – and fair competition for the insurance companies by the public health care option does that!

I therefore call on the Senate, but particularly Senator Harry Reid, for leadership now, when it is needed most for America. After all, Senator Reid is the Majority Leader – and right now, we need leadership, not political calculation. This is the time for principle to triumph over politics – and to be concerned about the needs of Americans, not our own jobs.

Standing for principle does have an effect. This has already happened because of our campaign. My opponent in the Pennsylvania Senate primary first opposed a public option, but then came out in support of one when he had to face me.

Therefore, it is one thing to say you are in favor of a public option – and it is another thing to roll up your sleeves and make it happen. It takes leadership, and it is time for the Senate to complete this mission!

Emphasis mine. I hope Obama is paying attention to this.

It’s clear that Liu was where the composer really put his heart in that opera.
And, no. Listen to a woman, and a servant? Unthinkable. But…Puccini only wrote one non-tragedy, and that’s only a one-act.
Also…the Prince seems to be a typical, shallow and callow youth…unable to appreciate the depth of Liu’s love until it’s too late. I hope Princess Turandot gave him hell in “ever after”.

Night, LaRue. Night all sleepy Pups.
I’m off to watch some Da Vinci’s Inquest…last online epi. available.

Kelly…we should “chat” sometime! funnydiva2002 [at] that Yahoo place…

Night, all, thanks for the great company.

FWDiva

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlbhADzHJyA

I’m only a minute in, but I do believe this is the Maher episode FW Diva is referencing

My favorite Diva! I’m fine. I just went to a Beach Boys concert and I’m all jazzed up and exhausted at the same time. Kind of like taking speed for 3 days straight. Not that I would know about that…
Would you mind some concentrated good thoughts/prayers going to you for your job search?

Hi Larue. That Bill Maher segment is at 9:18 into this video.

Out! Night night, fine people.

Glad you had fun with the Beach Boys.
Concentrated good thoughts/prayers for the job search would be much appreciated and gratefully accepted. Thanks and bless you, Margot!

FWDiva

Time for me to turn in, too.

G’nite, all.

Good nite, and sweet dreams, Suzanne. Hope you feel better tomorrow.

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Name your own cabinet & Congressional leadership. I did. It’s more fun that way.
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