No, I won’t!

good evening, Suzanne

hey neuro – how ya been?

great song for today
Suz!!

Hey, Suzanne! Finally, a tune I have on my computer already.

is what i was thinking nahant. you all recovered from your trip?

hey cujo – how ya doing?

oregon pbs has a new stevie ray vaughan special on now – clips of live shows throughout his career. i’ve got the tv blasting and am letting srv try to chase away my blues tonight.

Oh, here y’all are!
Hi, Pups!

FunnyWheelieDiva

Almost.. but wouldn’t ya know it I have come down with a damn cold… will try and make it for a bit till the meds kick in..

doing well, Suzanne

we’re in the monsoon season–I didn’t know NE KS had one, at least in September…

Nice choice Suze, my personal outlook agrees with this.

Getting by. Barely seem to be able to keep a thought in my head today, but that’s probably not as unusual as I’d like to believe.

why so blue, Suzanne?

hey funny d – how’s seattle tonight?

nahant, i’m fighting one myself.

i wrote in a post the other day about how between storms seems to be a metaphor for my life — and my day today has became stormier as it has progressed.

Don’t play us, don’t patronize us, don’t dismiss us; we put you there, we gave you 60, we worked our asses off.

Don’t fuck this up.

never fun… steals all your energy!

exactly calminginfluence! i won’t back down

damn right, I’ve got the blues

Liquor store raised their prices again. Now we need 80. Thnx, by.

srv is cranking out texas flood and i’m gonna blow my tv speakers before the hour is up

i don’t care. tonight is a night for loud blues and the don’t fuck with me attitude starts again in the morning.

Feels like fall. Lots of rain showers, then it gets sunny.
FWDiva

Me either.
No backing down.
Lawrence O’Donnell was a real ass on KO tonight.
FWDiva

same here funny – chance of rain tomorrow but i hear most of it is headed up to you.

Still can’t post at La Figa. Can’t Figa out why..

Aloha, Suz and Ya’ll…!

buddy is so forking good

dang sunny :( i don’t understand it at all

ct! how’s the mt tonight?

Yes he was! Geez Funny, Lawrence is usually so encouraging, but not tonight. He said defeat on health care is promised.

hey ce – how’s ohio tonight?

hey CT how goes it?

Actually, I’m down the mtn tonite… I’m basking down at the Bay…! ;-)

Nicely done.

If Obama caves on the public option in his speech tomorrow, it’s time for a collective primal scream so fearsome that every politician from Michele Bachmann to Dennis Kucinich will shit their pants.

sweet ct – no having to jam off to work in mid thread and come back an hour later.

(((suz)))

hey busted – how’s your side of the river tonight?

Doing alright… Work seems to be picking up and I just applied to be a Ranger up top the mtn… A state job…! 8-)

works for me

Been busy honey, hate to see ya ain’t feelin’ good but Stevie Ray will make it allllllllllll better.

woohoo – and all the benefits that come with it! fingers and toes crossed for ya dood

dood i so wish you had a tv – this is a balm for the soul.

*sigh* lately I’ve not had even that opportunity… Gemini had me arriving at the summit midnite my time so I’ve had to associate with them FDL Early Birds… Horrors…! ;-)

hows the house coming CT? Making progress I
hope?

Cool, humid, and after three days in Philly area, little traffic and much quiet, which I do love …

the special is called SRV: live play hard and floor it i hope it will be available online – its part of pbs’ pledge drive.

MoveOn and REM did a video on the subject. Just caught up to this in my e-mail.

philly had its pluses – like family :) still, nice to be home where it is quiet

I think we have that in common. Just. Don’t. It won’t be pretty. Ha!
Even with people I’d consider friends, I just don’t like being fucked with.
How it is.

Next time I’ll try posting something truly obscene. That might work *g*

But he was so blase and matter-of-fact about it…like it didn’t affect him at all…not worth getting upset about.
I think Keith was actually getting a little peeved with him.
Wonder if GlennZilla will bother with this example of inappropriate journalistic detatchment.

FWDiva

Not nearly enough to please me… My mother decided to buy the better half a condo in town and leave me with no viable material funding… Pissed me and the better half off, but, dems da breaks…! 8-(

So, what channel? I could use some of that right now.

hey demi – how’s socal tonight?

It’s cool. But, there’s a lot outside of me and mine that pisses me off. Where’s Stevie?

there is always this

pbs – its part of the pledge drive – showing now on oregon pbs station

Well at least it is a roof over the families head… You will get the house finished CT, just might take a bit longer than you had planned..

oh crap ct :(

Did anybody catch the Ed Show today… Awesome with Conyers, Waters, Wyden, and Markos all drawing lines in the sand over the Public Option….!

What did you do to Piss Her Off This Time?

That’s exactly what we said…! Sometimes I just can’t figure her out…??? I guess some things never change, eh…? ;-)

Apparently it’s been a long time a’brewing, unbeknownst to moi…! ;-)

This depressed the hell out of me.

Now dats the truth buddy!! I have 4 sisters three daughters and I still can’t figure out the other half… oh well I guess we just have to keep loving them!!

Here’s a little SRV with another great guitarist, Dick Dale, playing “Pipeline”. It’s in HQ audio, too, so it might sound better than an AM radio if you play it through your stereo.

Suz, sometimes the blues is the only thing that makes me feel halfway better.
A little help from my friends

thanks cujo

hey margot – how ya doing – thanks for the joe

I just shouted at the TV machine.
I was already depressed reading and reading here at FDL

FWDiva

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBUBs4HRcSY

Obama had best tell the Repugs you’re either with me or you’re against me in the well of the House, and in no uncertain terms… A ‘Robust’ Public Option is a must and ‘pre-existing conditions’ are a thing of the past… That is my fervent hope….!

Ah, so nice! I did not go to Woodstock, my parents wouldn’t let me as I was not out of HS until 1970.

You must to pay attention, dear.

Me too. I had been kind of thinking it, but really didn’t like to hear him say it in such a matter-of-fact way.

HR676 or Bust!!

oh yeah – reminded me of this

Really Suzanne, how am I supposed to stir up righteous anger when you’re posting links like that? I mean shit, and fuck….

Too funny, lol lol – dowloading now.

Hope it doesn’t shock the cat.

Fuck. Me, too.

did I hear Woodstock?? I just got the directors cut special edition with lots of never seen performances!!
Oh and I WAS there… While back east I met up with my cousins who were also there!!!

*laughing wicked evil laugh*

fork i’m trying to get an innocent look on my face but i start laughing again

*sigh* You and your ‘Blues Bros’ allusions…! ;-)

ll sent me that link today – and what is forking wrong with the forking blues brothers ct?

Oh, new to me. That’s funny. Hit it!

I’m OK. Just the fall dark days are here, and I have to deal with that.

Yes, nahant, we all wanted to be there. My parents still had reign over me, and I couldn’t go. But I wanted to! We saw the movie Taking Woodstock last week, and we loved it.

Well, at least I was in diapers way back then…! ;-)

CE, watch it. Change the punctuation…Fuck me, too.

there is also this one demi

Hey, me too, bay-bee!

FWDiva

Nothing wrong with ‘em at all…! (ducking)

oh crap – what can you do about that? are there special light bulbs you can get?

really?? You are the first to say they enjoyed it!!

There’s an awful lot of fucking going on in here tonight.
But I am just here to watch.

Dean-Trumka in 2012.

putting the safety back on my lQQk

fucking a newton – how ya doing dood

hey eagleye how ya doing tonight?

You would ya perv…! ;-)

Long time no see, newt…!

nahant, we did like it! Did everyone hate it?

You too? I have to get up Early. School starts tomorrow. Bus driver called us yesterday, on Labor Day, to say she doesn’t know when she’ll get here to pick up sonny boy. Said she’s call at 5:15, yes, am, to tell us. Can you believe that?

Everybody get serious, I MEAN it! [stamps foot]
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Awww, fuck it…I’ll get serious tomorrow ;)

I’m pretty pissed. Dumped a portion of it on an innocent diarist a while ago, feels better but by no means good.
We need a win, and I mean a big one, and I cannot see it yet.

Other than all that, I am swell.
How about you, Suz?

*ouch* that bites…!

just read reviews and they weren’t very good.. but if you say it is worth while I will have to see it!!

Is there one with pugs? No, I don’t have one, but my daughter does.

Heh, heh!

Ah, appreciate it, tuttle. Nice to see you, too.

We need a win, and I mean a big one, and I cannot see it yet.

Amen, Bro, Amen….!

See how you are.

there are lotsa pugs at hotdog… click on their homepage and then start scrolling down the pages.

There are, I have one in a shop light but the real light boxes are too expensive. I’ll survive. (Knock on crushed velvet.)

Yes, and so, why am I here? Shouldn’t I be horizontal? Without Newt watching?

i’m eh tonight — and keep telling myself that this time tomorrow night we will have a better idea of what’s what and where things stand.

I did not love it, but for the actors (who are wonderful) and the time period for me, I had to see it. Good? Maybe. Great, oh, fuck no.

Have no fear, demi.

LOL
Hi, nice to meet you.

Will do. Thanks. Gawd, she loves that little bitty nasty dog, named Dangerous. Even had stamps with his face on them. Oh, you can see him. My photo on facebood is me and him. My grandpug, I call him.

fuck

Ssshhh…! You’ll provoke the LQQK from Suz…! ;-)

lol – i have two granddoggies – a boston terrier named dublin and a puggle (pug-beagle cross) named dodger blue.

Hiya, pups – Hiya, Suzanne.

I just set up my new computer for my studio. First new one for work in nine years. I got a 24″ iMac. The keyboard is pretty sensitive.

Been way too busy to visit here much. I miss my fellow pups!

I rarely do. I won’t back down.

grrr

woohoo! that’s a big one et. i loved your garden veggie pictures this year.

No, sweetie. That’s for you. I visited her. She lets me get away with stuff. Well, you too. She just enjoys replaying her glory days with you.

Whatever happens tomorrow night, Thursday is going to be a shitstorm.
I am all for it. If we get screwed, there will be Hall to pay, and if we get a lift, the lobbying will kick into overdrive.

We are nowhere near rest. As much as I hate being cranky, it will put some tobasco in your day.

Oh my gosh, HELLO Edward Teller!!!
It is wonderful to see you.

Aloha, ET! Didya place a bid on Ebay for Miz Palin’s company…? ;-)

Now we’re talking.

Puggle! loving that. And, speaking of dogs…I just stepped on something wet and squisy. What? Not that. It was a half chewed piece of cucumber. Someone must have given the Brindle Dog the last bite of my sandwich. Why does he spit out the cucumber?

Hey, ET!
You bid on the Dinner with the Palin’s e-Bay auction yet?
KO tried to, but bidders have to be pre-authorized.

FWDiva

Best year for carrots ever. The tomatoes were so big I almost bought a pig for making BLT’s. It was so nice to have a decent growing summer after 2008.

newton – i’m not gonna be able to pick the music for my thursday night post until after we see the lay of the land wed night and what happens thursday.

as bette would say, its gonna be a bumpy ride

I won’t believe you hate to be cranky.

Ya owe me a frothy quaff, ma’am…! ;-)

Fuck the Shit – Hit It!!

dual-purpose

If I wanted to have dinner with a crazy woman, I’d dine with one that I might want to help and get to know. I already know this one, and she wants no help.

hehehehe dayam i wish i had that as a bumper sticker

its 106 miles to fuck the shit – hit it

It’s veggie, of course!
Veggies? Yuk! (/doggie)

FWDiva

Well time to hit the hay and get LOST!!!
Nite Pups!!

As you should not.
It is my secret conceit.

lmao – if only i dared…

That’s kind of unusual, no? And way too damn early.
How is the gym job?

If you hate fall, come sit by me.

g’nite nahant

Guiness? Black and Tan?
I’ve got Widmer Brewmaster’s special ‘09…Belgian Style.

FWDiva

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..eature=fvw

But, but, she needs the most help…! ;-)

Aloha, nahant…

*sigh* even virtually that sounds wonderful…! *g*

dire straits – i haven’t heard that in ages thanks ce

We have this little tradition, where I give him the last bite of whatever I’m eating. Unfortunately for him, there’s usually veggies involved.

Are you kidding me, I couldn’t stop laughing at that one. It was a perfect image for the caption.

AW, crap.
Swine (um, H2N1) Flu is breaking out all over WA. No vaccine til mid-October.
Maybe I’ll stay unemployed awhile longer.

FWDiva

She does need help, but there are a lot of other more important issues facing Alaskans – and Alaska bloggers.

Sliding a big, frothy pint glass down the bar to ya…
FWDiva

heh, at least it’s good for him…! ;-)

Comes to sit by Sunny.;) Even if I don’t really hate fall…just need more sun.

My Aunt had a dog like that. The last bite of ice cream cone, especially.
Her dogs also do the pre-rinse of the dinner dishes…

FWDiva

didja see chris in paris’ post over at americablog

Eh..I liked the gym more before I started working there. Still, I was there at 6 am this morning. Not to work. But, to work out. Eh. The owners. A couple, don’t get along, so I get two different stories, no matter what. Eh. It’s a tiny stupid paycheck. Just like the pt bookstore job. Maybe I’m just too hard to please.
But, thanks for asking. You’re just too nice. *g* Prolly, too late to ask about your ankle? Did it ever fully heal?

She’s outta the picture now, count your blessings where you can find ‘em, eh…? ;-)

I’s joining your party, too, OK?
Dark, sad. And my condo faces NE.
I do have a full-spectrum reading lamp here by the ‘puter, though.

FWDiva

token pre-washes my plates and bowls for me (except for those that had chocolate on them)

its good for a dog to have a job

No. Thanks, checking it out.
FWDiva

Oh, yes. Pre-rinse. Always. Closest thing I have to a dish washer. Besides myself, of course.

I’m going to start a fundraising drive later this week to pay Max Blumenthal’s way from Seattle to Anchorage and back, when he’s passing through Seattle and Portland, on his book tour for Republican Gomorrah. I helped Max learn how to speak in tongues last year about this time, so he could infiltrate the crazy woman’s church in Wasilla. We’re hoping that if Max gives a talk up here, it will clear the air after Jonah Goldberg speaks in Anchorage next week.

Well, I’m still hurting from last nite’s run up the mtn. and looking at a run tomorrow nite…! I shall bid ya’ll a fond adieu… Aloha Oe…!!!

oh demi – my rental has a brand new dishwasher – my landlord put a smack dab new one in a few months ago.

i love my dishwasher almost as much as i love my coffee pot.

aloha ct – nice to see your fonts again

Yep. I love to say to him, Sorry, dood. S’got chocolate. Not for puppy.
And, damn, I hate to leave such a nice party, but, 5 am is going to be here too soon.
I. Must. Hit it!

Yes ma’am, all well, man you have a good memory. I hope the jobs bring you in contact with really nice customers…a friend in NM used to work at a bookstore and had the best time talking to interesting customers.

Night, Demi!

Yep, choccie is poison for dogz.

FWDiva

g’nite demi

Same reason my beloved golden lined up the corn kernals after she got into brunswick stew.

Loved veggies, hated niblets – except as an artistic vehicle.

Maybe I could fed ex my dirties to you?

That’s funny.
Gotsta go, now.
Big Hugs and kisses, without veggies, to all.

washed by hand for 5 years living at the cabin. tis a nice little luxury now.

And, well deserved.
Now…really.

I’m not sure I know the correct protocol for name changes! Since I started looking in on FDL, I’ve been commenting as “jexter” (my original Dkos handle). After a brief and tiresome stint at blogging, I’ve become the wandering comment monk known as “Calming Influence”, and I’m slowly changing all my logins to reflect that.

Hello? Paper plates?
A mans best friend.

I did have to do the pots and pans finally, I swear I saw one move.

G’nite y’all.

the lake likes for folks to pick one name and stick with it. when one does a name change, letting folks know, like you just did, helps the readers make that transition to the new name.

hello calminginfluence formerly known as jexter

g’nite busted – *lmao*

Um, these days we could use you around here more.
Keep the gnome de Blog, please.

evening, suz

yup – we are gonna need all the calming influences we can get. our troll numbers are way up – i figure the powers that be are afraid that we dfh’s may just pull it off – and that scares the crap outta them.

hey ppd – how ya doing tonight?

Pardon my netiquette, but fuck that.
It is all-hands on deck from here through the holidays.

good thanks – how’re yu?

it is going to be a bumpy ride for sure – i sure as hell hope bo comes out tomorrow night with a clear as a bell statement that doesn’t fuck us. now is the time for him to lead.

Here’s to hoping that Larry O’Donnell is the most dumb-struck man on the planet tomorrow night.

i’m eh tonight. i’m hoping tomorrow will be a better day (dayam i’m sounding like katie scarlet o’hara now – how forking maudlin – geez)

i wanna see him eating those fucking words next time he is on ko.

Hmmm. Stepped away to write something. Goodnight Busted and CTuttle, and whoever else I missed.

Ever since he called John Edwards a racist for not instantly dropping out of the race, I’ve held the man’s opinions in something less than awestruck respect. Frankly, people who fling words like that around so easily should be mistrusted.

nicely written cujo

You could see, feel O’Donnell employing his hard-won legislative CW, trying to gently bring Olbermann down.
Egotistical – in the extreme. Bloviating, to be sure.
But you can tell that Keith cares about this one, and he looks like I feel.

i do use a lotta salt with his words cujo

brought to mind that old adage with friends like these…

Thanks. I feel like Congress should be dreading going back, knowing they face mountains of faxes and hard disks full of e-mail. And, um …, Twitter-things full of twitters. And yet, I really don’t think they are. Plus, I really don’t know what to write that someone hasn’t written already.

I saw that as well. odonnell seems confused these days, like hes pissed that the gentile world of the senate has become a debased and vulgar snake pit, like seneca during the reign of nero…i found this PDF for any other slacker on here(like me) that just isnt up to speed;its HR3200 in “a bill even you can understand” format.

http://www.kff.org/healthreform/upload/7952.pdf

This is an excellent post.

I appreciate it.

hey solerso – how ya doing tonight?

Yes, so do I. Odd how near the title of that post comes to newtonusr’s estimation of him @ 201 …

I’d forgotten just how annoyed I was.

Oh tired…= / Up late. My parents drove up to my brothers house in Vt. and they didnt bother to call when they got there! im sure they are tired but i still worry. its weird how the roles reverse!

I hand it to you all who write. Especially now, this is so very important, it’s nerve-racking.

O’Donnell is a Lefty to be sure, but recall his tenure as a legislative assistant – if you worked for Democrats in Congress in the last, oh 35 years, you probably wouldn’t be able to cough up an optimistic estimate.

Never, ever, underestimate the Democrats gleeful willingness to fold a royal flush.

oh dear – i still insist my girls call when they are ’safe’. they have started doing the same to me. does feel sorta strange and, thankfully, i’ve not forgotten so they can’t hold that over my head and crow.

Thanks, I added it to my article.

After a while, you get used to the idea that life can be so freakish that things like that worry you. If you’re the one driving, it’s “big deal, so I drove for six hours”. But if you’re just waiting, it’s different.

heading out pups
but…
And later, when you want to drift off, know this:
Linda Ronstadt and Joan Baez were in-studio with Michael Krasny this morning.

This year’s San Jose Mariachi and Mexican Heritage Festival is dedicated to the legacy of Cesar Chavez and other social justice advocates. The festival’s artistic director Linda Ronstadt and Joan Baez, who worked with Chavez, join us in the studio.

mmmmmmmm

nite you guys

holy moly – thanks newton – g’nite dood

Kicks in here the minute days start getting shorter. Big psych component I guess – like anticipatory depression. But sun is key.

My dear sister is skeptical – one of her favorite pranks is to suggest a lovely autumn leaf trip in the mountains… just to see if I’ll cry. I’m none too cool with precipices either *g*

Goodnight, newtonusr. Think I’m going to head out, too, before I fall over. Goodnight, everyone.

g’nite cujo

I tell people who move up here that the trick is to get all the sun you can in the late fall and winter. There’s so little of it. It really does help, whether it’s only psychological or not.

Anyway, I’m really not here, and you didn’t just read this. Goodnight.

sunsets accelerate as we approach the equinox

yup – starting to get some color back into my sunsets as the sunset moves back into view again. i get the most glorious winter sunsets here.

time to turn in – night, suz – be well

nite ppd – time for me to head out also.

thanks everyone for the music and conversations tonight. g’nite ya’ll.

good nite suz. Thanks for all you do.

Suz, I am sorry to say this song represents the Republican party far more than its kindred species, the one without a spine, Democratis maximus. George Bush would have never wavered, parsed his words, or insisted on
some phony bipartisanship. No matter how bad his policies, he rammed them through intact, no changes allowed. Too Bad that Barack Obama is either so
weak, or what I think is the real truth, a right wing caretaker who infiltrated the Democratic party, and is continuing just about all of the
Bush doctrine.