Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Well, whatever it is, it’s better than being a Republican.

And now I have baud making fun of me. this day can’t get worse.

How any woman could possibly vote for this smug smarmy piece of misogynistic crap is beyond understanding.

Our messy unity will be our strength.

Second rate reporter says what?

Accused of treason; bitches about the ratings. I am in awe.

Good lord, these people are nuts.

“woke” is the new caravan.

Conservatism: there are people the law protects but does not bind and others who the law binds but does not protect.

If you voted for Trump, you don’t get to speak about ethics, morals, or rule of law.

Seems like a complicated subject, have you tried yelling at it?

Jack Smith: “Why did you start campaigning in the middle of my investigation?!”

Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.

Since we are repeating ourselves, let me just say fuck that.

Putting aside our relentless self-interest because the moral imperative is crystal clear.

One way or another, he’s a liar.

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

The gop is a fucking disgrace.

Republicans want to make it harder to vote and easier for them to cheat.

Welcome to day five of every-bit-as-bad-as-you-thought-it-would-be.

Do we throw up our hands or do we roll up our sleeves? (hint, door #2)

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

This isn’t Democrats spending madly. This is government catching up.

Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.

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  5. 5.

    J.

    Are they wearing their Steelers’ collars? I can’t tell. Regardless, great pics.

    Will watch the game but am really looking forward to Sunday. Go Giants! Go Jets!

  13. 13.

    Punchy

    Need Worthlessbergs to have 2 or more passing TDs, Johnson to have 67 or more rushing yrds, and someone to hit a pick-6 or kick return.

    Should be a great game. Go…….um…..fantasy points?

  14. 14.

    J.W. Hamner

    It looks like they’re showing it on the web for free for anybody interested. The NFL is the only thing I wish I had TV for, but if they get their act together with web broadcasts I’ll be set.

    I hate both teams with the fire of a thousand suns, but it should be a good game… and I’m so ready for the season to start.

  15. 15.

    mai naem

    How come Lily’s has cataract looking eyes and the other dog has normal doggie eyes? Wouldn’t the camera make both of them look wacky?

  18. 18.

    arguingwithsignposts

    @J.W. Hamner:

    It looks like they’re showing it on the web for free for anybody interested. The NFL is the only thing I wish I had TV for, but if they get their act together with web broadcasts I’ll be set.

    You and me both (well, also college football). I’d pay for a package that allowed me to stream NFL games, like Sunday Ticket, but you have to pay for the regular service to get it on the ‘net with DirecTV. Fuck that.

  19. 19.

    James K. Polk, Esq.

    My first year watching football without fantasy making me root for strange things in 4 years.

    I feel liberated!

  20. 20.

    JenJen

    Mmmmmmm…. Mexican food. My absolute favorite.

    I can’t believe football is really for serious honestly and for true here. Pinch me!!

  21. 21.

    arguingwithsignposts

    Okay, so since this is an open thread, I’ll throw this out there: I’m trying to figure out a topic to blog about other than media and politics to occupy my spare time. Something that would be a niche that’s not overpopulated like, for instance, technology or sports. Any thoughts?

  24. 24.

    JK

    @NobodySpecial:

    The music you linked to is a little too militaristic for my taste.

    Football is a violent game and I have no wish to make it less violent, but I’m a little tired of the view among tv execs that because football is violent, the only music to introduce it or accompany highlight reels is military style music.

    That NBC theme from the early 1970’s was cool because it stood out in stark contrast to bombastic military music.

  25. 25.

    Annie

    Where is Tunch? I am thinking that he is thinking that ALL of the dogs have overstayed their welcome….

    Go Stillers. “Yens” better win…….

  29. 29.

    General Winfield Stuck

    it stood out in stark contrast to bombastic military music.

    God yes. I was at a base in a barracks with a bunk that was about 12 feet away out a window from a huge loudspeaker. Every morning, noon and night they would blare that shit. Especially Reveille, to start the day as pissed off as possible.

  32. 32.

    Jacy

    Since I don’t care for teh football, and even if I did, my hometown Broncos are supposed to suck massively….

    I throw all my rooting mojo behind your team, John.

    Go Steelers!

    [still waiting for hockey]

  38. 38.

    bernini

    Tried the Mexican pre-game meal before a certain futbol match last evening. Here’s hoping that the Stillers don’t leave you in suspense so long that you develop the ass water.

  42. 42.

    Awesom0

    THANK GOD FOR FOOTBALL!!!

    Living overseas makes me appreciate the small things…football being one of them.

    I love being abroad, but often I miss home. Meeting friends for Sunday football makes me miss home.

    I’m taking tomorrow (today for me) off just so I can watch the game.

    I miss America….

  48. 48.

    JenJen

    @Awesom0: Ohhh! I remember living in Germany during American Football season. It’s rough.

    Christmas not so much, because Christmas overseas can be pretty awesome. But I always got homesick, without fail, when football season started, and on Thanksgiving.

  49. 49.

    ellaesther

    … and if I were to out myself as actively disliking football — for reasons that are more sociopolitical than anything to do with the actual sport — will I be allowed to hang out between now and the Superbowl…?

  50. 50.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @General Winfield Stuck: There used to be an analogy we used a lot during the Vietnam War:

    Military justice : Justice :: Military music : Music

  53. 53.

    arguingwithsignposts

    @ellaesther:

    … and if I were to out myself as actively disliking football—for reasons that are more sociopolitical than anything to do with the actual sport—will I be allowed to hang out between now and the Superbowl…?

    as long as you can put up with all the football smack talking, I’m sure Cole has a place for you. :)

  55. 55.

    arguingwithsignposts

    @freelancer:

    Did you catch the Jonas Brothers last Thanksgiving or was it Bowl Season?

    Thankfully, no. I’m assuming the game was on ABC or ESPN, though, since they are a Disney property, which means my kids watch their weak sauce TV show.

    And so now I’ve got Tim McGraw too? At least he’s not a wingnut.

  60. 60.

    Awesom0

    @JenJen

    Yup, it’s tough. This is my second stint overseas, but now I went prepared. I set up a Slingbox at my buddy’s place, so now I cable TV on my computer.

    When I lived in Korea, I relied on the Armed Forces Network for football. It’s a great service, but the games were broadcast the next day, so often, I’d end up seeing the scores online before seeing the games live (see Steelers VS Seahawks Superbowl XL).

    I’m looking forward to Christmas in Geneva!

    PS – I could live without the Tim McGraw, “Jesus is my friend” bullshit…

  61. 61.

    CynDee

    John: Thanks for the CritterPics! Longing for them, and you’re so busy tonight. Today I was wondering about Ginny and Guesley. I still run the vacuum video now and then. It’s just part of life. Your Dad’s “Oh My God” is still the best line uttered in performance theatre since Charlton Heston said, “Hell” when he turned over his last job chance to a needier cowboy and so had no place to go for the winter. Oh, and Elsa Lanchester as the stepmother saying to Leslie Caron as Cinderella, “Now you go right out and start digging the potatoes!” That’s how good your Dad is. Off to take my meds.

  62. 62.

    JK

    @freelancer: @arguingwithsignposts:

    When it comes to musical performances and the NFL, it strikes me that the NFL has been about 25 years behind the curve.

    I love the Rolling Stones, Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen, and Tom Petty, but I sure as hell would have preferred seeing all of them play halftime shows while they were still in the prime of their performing years.

  63. 63.

    MK

    @arguingwithsignposts:

    Something I’ve been interested in lately is how mobile tech is being used to solve some of the world’s intractable problems.

    Like, for instance, the idea of using mobile phones that are given to kids, free of charge, and they can use it however they want. The catch? They gotta recharge their minutes/text usage by solving problems. Math quizzes, history questions, whatever else to help educate kids. Who pays for the minutes? Non-profits or government agencies. An intriguing model and one that has some seriously interesting potential for third world countries. Putting up something like this would also be relatively low cost as compared to more traditional methods of training teachers and sending them out to places that are highly inaccessible, dangerous, or both.

    There’s actually a whole bunch of other stuff in this space (how about teachings farmers best techniques, giving weather updates, etc) that I’ve recently been researching and trying to figure out how to get involved.

    Errr…hope that was somewhat useful.

  64. 64.

    Awesom0

    Btw: I’m a diehard Broncos fan, but they’re going to suck this year (I hope to be proved wrong), so I’m with Cole: Go Steelers!

    The Rooneys are great owners; a model for the NFL. Great fans too.

  65. 65.

    JK

    FYI

    I still love Al Michaels as a play by play announcer, but was disappointed to learn last year from Keith Olbermann during a Countdown show that Michaels is far right wing politically speaking.

  68. 68.

    Corner Stone

    @JenJen: I always wonder what people mean when they say “Mexican food”. Being from TX it means a whole realm of tasty vittles to me, that I’ve just never seen anywhere else I’ve visited.
    And I will hunt down and kill the first person here who says NY has good Mexican food. May be the only time I’ve walked out of a restaurant mid-meal. It’s the Jackie Chan Movie of horrible cuisine.

  69. 69.

    arguingwithsignposts

    I also think the fireworks crap is overproduced. It’s like the NFL has been getting tips from professional wrestling. I guess since all these seatholders are paying outrageous prices for seats/beer/hot dogs, etc., they’ve got to spruce up the action on the field a bit.

  72. 72.

    JackieBinAZ

    Did you catch the Jonas Brothers. last Thanksgiving or was it Bowl Season? That was a “fire a gun at your mu’fuckin’ TV” moment.

    Like a disease.

  73. 73.

    arguingwithsignposts

    OK, one more point and I’ll sit down for a while. Watching on the web really brings home how many commercials these folks air prior to the kickoff. They don’t play the commercials on the web, so it’s nothing but silence while their in a break. So far I don’t think I’ve heard more than three minutes of uninterrupted content yet.

  75. 75.

    General Winfield Stuck

    If Al Michaels is calling the game, I won’t be watching. Can’t stand that prissy little fucker.

  76. 76.

    arguingwithsignposts

    @Corner Stone:

    I always wonder what people mean when they say “Mexican food”. Being from TX it means a whole realm of tasty vittles to me, that I’ve just never seen anywhere else I’ve visited.

    “Mexican Food” to me (also a Texan) means Tex-Mex. I once went on a trip to central Mexico and made the mistake of trying to order chile con queso. REAL Mexican food is a LOT diff. than Tex-Mex! But I love me some tex-mex.

  77. 77.

    Corner Stone

    Anyone seen bago here recently? I have a vaguely technical question I’m looking for insight on.
    I need to be able to use skype, or a skype like tool between Kuwait and USA. Kuwait blocks these kind of protocols.
    Any ideas?

  79. 79.

    Corner Stone

    @arguingwithsignposts: Yeah, if you order in Mexico look for anything that starts with “Norte”. That’s usually cheesed down for American palettes.
    I’ve eaten Mexican food in the Mountain West, West Coast, FL, Northern East Coast and a few places in between. Just never found anything too great. That’s why I asked.

  80. 80.

    arguingwithsignposts

    @Corner Stone:

    I’ve had some luck in finding carnacerias (sp?) in South Carolina or Virginia on occasion, but you have to go to the Hispanic part of town to get decent quality. A lot of times, there are ppl *trying* to approximate tex-mex, but dumbing it down for the local palate.

  85. 85.

    arguingwithsignposts

    @jwb:

    What activities do you enjoy (besides politics, media, technology and sports)?

    See, that’s part of the problem. Most of my waking life is spent in three of those spheres (sports on weekends). I’m learning to cook, and I like to read sometimes and watch TV. Music is big.

  86. 86.

    smiley

    @arguingwithsignposts:

    You’re exactly right. I’ve said this here before but the Mexican food that I experienced in central, southern, and Yucatan Mexico was way different from what we get here (and I generally like some of what we get here). Here’s a challenge: next time you have overnight guests, serve them two fried eggs over white rice for breakfast. Common in Mexico and damn good. And don’t forget the pork.

  88. 88.

    Linkmeister

    @arguingwithsignposts: Was it you who asked about Michele Catalano the other day?

    What’s she’s decided to do is review every album/CD she owns. She accompanies the review with memories of where her life was when she first heard/acquired it.

    Not a bad idea, but if I did that my vinyl would all be described as: “In Japan, went to A-33 Exchange on payday and bought this along with those. Took it home, put it on turntable, opened can of Oly, listened to it.”

  93. 93.

    arguingwithsignposts

    @Linkmeister:

    Yes, I mentioned Michele. I read some of her music memories. I’m like you, though. My memories would not be nearly as interesting as the wild child Catalano.

    Re: literature … I haven’t been reading many books lately. Mostly blogs and academic research (ugh!). I kind of like the “interesting sites on teh Internets” idea. Might have legs. I used to do lyrics of the day back in 2003 on aws. could bring that back too.

  95. 95.

    jwb

    @arguingwithsignposts: Learning to cook—that sounds like it has potential, especially if you could find a couple of like-minded souls who write well to join you. Regular blogging is exhausting, especially if you are doing it on your own, and starting with a couple of other people gives you a built-in community.

  96. 96.

    IndyLib

    @Awesom0:
    Yep, it sucks. I watched my Broncos win back to back Superbowls from Japan, in an empty food court, at 4:00 AM in the morning. Memorable, I will admit, but not nearly as much fun as it would have been back home in Colorado.

  98. 98.

    General Winfield Stuck

    It is amazing to me how tenaciously the right wing clings to a meme once it’s been fed into the Mighty Wurlitzer. This whole thing about the HCR bill allowing illegal immigrants to get in on a PO. Besides the fact that there is explicit language in the bills that forbid this, it is mind boggling even if there wasn’t/

    First off, illegals have been able to purchase private insurance forever, and there is no outcry to ban this, even though the insurance industry gets government subsidies all the time, including with the recent stim bill.

    And now, the wingnut plan to fix healthcare would give insurance industry oodles more tax payer subsidies for about everything under the sun, including to help the uninsured get covered. No outcry to ban illegal immigrant dollars from going to Aetna. Just good bidness.

    And why the outcry only with the dems govment PO? That Obama and dems have said WILL NOT get subsidies from the gov, except maybe some startup seed money.

    Pure ideology, nothing more, nothing less. Mindless tribalism that is soaked thru with hypocracy, lies, distortions and general skullfuckery. The right wing is going to bring down this country, if we let them.

  101. 101.

    Comrade Jake

    I love the new Mac commercials responding to the PC ads.

    “When you’re ready to compromise, call me.”

    Brilliant.

  102. 102.

    Svensker

    @Corner Stone:

    And I will hunt down and kill the first person here who says NY has good Mexican food. May be the only time I’ve walked out of a restaurant mid-meal. It’s the Jackie Chan Movie of horrible cuisine.

    Major shock when I moved to NY area from L.A. Most of the low-end food in NY stinks. Not all, but you gotta work to find decent cheap food. A lotta places use grease that a mastodon would consider old. There are good places in NY, but generally they are the pricy joints.

    I was used to Hollywood, where the taqueria around the corner made their own fresh corn tortillas a couple times a day, and the hamburger place down the street fried their own hand cut potato chips right when you ordered them, and there were 3 Thai restaurants that were all completely fab hole in the walls with fresh Thai food to die for, or if you were feeling LA-holistic, you could go to the health food place and have a mashed fresh avocado on homemade bread just out of the oven. Everything cheap, everything amazingly delicious. NY was a shock — really dead food.

  103. 103.

    Anne Laurie

    @Zuzu’s Petals:

    Maybe a niche food, like Twinkies. Or knishes.

    Ah, knishes… how about a blog devoted to the ten thousand ways thrifty humans have invented to turn meat scraps & leftovers plus the cheapest local carb variety into DELICIOUSNESS?

    Srlsy, Arguing, from what I can tell the winning blog recipe is “write what you love”. That’s why pr0n, sports, gadgets, cuteness, celebrities & politics are such popular topics. Of course, there’s not much of human endeavor that’s not pr0n, sports, gadgets, cuteness, celebrities and/or politics…

  104. 104.

    IndyLib

    @Awesom0:
    God I wish you were going to be wrong about the Broncs, but I don’t think so. New infant coach, new quarterback with a rep for whininess, and an offense that is used to playing Shanahan’s complex offense having to switch to a new one. This is not a pretty picture.

  107. 107.

    MK

    @Laura W:

    I stand corrected. My original point, however, still remains. I’m already feeling sorry for Lily should the Steelers win the championship.

    On a completely unrelated note, you know what surprises me? How come right wing sites aren’t holding a tribute of Lehman’s collapse as the death knell for capitalism, which is of course sockalist Obama’s fault? Since all the major market indices have been rising since March, surely this would be a prime target for them.

  109. 109.

    freelancer

    @Comrade Jake:

    My friend just bought a MacBook Pro. That bitch.

    /jealousy

    I’m impressed with what NBC did with their player, auto-bookmarking big plays and stuff like that, but they could use a little better quality. If Netflix can stream in HD, NBC should be able to do so, also.

  112. 112.

    Anne Laurie

    @ellaesther:

    … and if I were to out myself as actively disliking football—for reasons that are more sociopolitical than anything to do with the actual sport—will I be allowed to hang out between now and the Superbowl…?

    Wanna talk about knishes, instead? Empanadas? Wontons? Pastys?

  113. 113.

    Corner Stone

    @Anne Laurie: To be fair, I’ve prolly spent maybe a month total in NY. Two weeks in NYC, a week or so in Rochester with a friend at RIT and a week or so with a friend playing pro baseball in Watertown. So there’s that. But I have to agree with you about the dead food. I tried seafood, Mexican, and a bunch of things besides pizza (which was freakin awesome down by the water in NYC at some little place by the David Letterman studio. Don’t remember the name but it rocked). Maybe it’s like you say and I just didn’t spend enough in the city to find the good stuff. Otherwise…meh.

  118. 118.

    CynDee

    RE #116. Sure miss the Edit.

    I thought it was a kerchief or a bandana. Anyway, maybe she could wear it for Halloween.

  119. 119.

    Corner Stone

    @Anne Laurie:

    Of course, there’s not much of human endeavor that’s not pr0n, sports, gadgets, cuteness, celebrities and/or politics…

    Actually, I’d argue that pr0n pretty much covers all the other subsequent topics you happen to mention in that bit.

  122. 122.

    Punchy

    Ok, their penalty game is rocking.

    Just a matter of time before they’re (not) flagged for spearing. Natch.

  125. 125.

    Corner Stone

    @Anne Laurie:

    Wanna talk about knishes, instead? Empanadas? Wontons? Pastys?

    Maybe you can make an FP post on this topic at some point? I love all things dim sum, tapas, highly available food, etc.
    Alton Brown did a show a while back on essentially meat pockets, with some fruit/pastry aspect thrown in. Fascinating.

  126. 126.

    freelancer

    OT – Cole you’ve been plagiarized by C&L (ie no h/t)

    It just strikes me as really weird that someone arrived at the same post with a linear thought process with the same youtube posted as you, considering it took your readers to suggest, look it up, and then post.

  129. 129.

    J.W. Hamner

    @arguingwithsignposts:

    I just got ludicrous speed internet last month (22 Mbs) and the game looks and sounds great, but when they did this last year and I had DSL it was a slide show.

    Supposedly their new player is supposed to buffer to allow HD on a wider range, but I guess they haven’t worked out the kinks.

    I imagine their servers are getting hammered though… Netflix would probably have problems too if everybody decided to watch the same movie at the same time. The internet is a series of tubes after all.

  130. 130.

    asiangrrlMN

    Troy Polamalu is so fucking hot. My my my. So is Mike Tomlin, and so is Hines Ward.

    @JK: Yo! I listened to some Dylan, and I like some songs such as Shelter from the Storm and Visions of Johanna, but I really dislike his voice.

    @Cole! I thought you said you had a pregnancy meal. Heh.

    Gooooo, Troy P.!

  137. 137.

    Betsy

    @Anne Laurie:
    I had the most amazing dumplings in Provincetown last weekend. They were filled with edamame and potato and fried to perfection with sesame seeds on the outside. I’m getting hungry just thinking about them. And it’s killing me that I can’t remember the name of the damn restaurant!

  138. 138.

    madmommy

    @asiangrrlMN:

    Indeed. Troy is smokin’ hot, and he’s not so bad with this football thingy, either. The hubby suggested once that the only reason I watch so much football is because of the tight pants.

    I wonder, though, how much of his hair gets pulled out every game.

    Oh, that replay of the hit he just took to the knee doesn’t look so good. Not Joe Theismann gruesome, but still.

  148. 148.

    IndyLib

    @Corner Stone:
    I think what tastes like good Mexican food is dependent on where you first started eating it. I grew up in southern Colorado, and all of the Mexican food in all the different homes and restaurants was slightly different, but was usually prepared in similar ways and only used a certain palette of spices and flavors. Mexican food in northern and central New Mexico was very close, with minimal differences. I didn’t even know what cilantro was until I moved to Arizona in 1985 because I had never tasted it in anything.
    So in other words, nothing ever tastes as good as what you grew up with.

  151. 151.

    asiangrrlMN

    @madmommy: I would pull his hair if he asked me…crap. He’s going into the locker room! I hope Troy’s ok!

    @freelancer: Ok, you just cracked me the fuck up with the Jennifer Aniston/Harvey Dent comment. Saw the commercial. Blech.

    Woot! Woot! TD Steelers!

  152. 152.

    Xanthippas

    Nice drive.

    Anybody else watching this game online? Not bad at all. Pretty decent quality, and I don’t have to watch some idiots stuttering low-rez illegal stream of the broadcast.

  153. 153.

    Anne Laurie

    @Svensker:

    Most of the low-end food in NY stinks. Not all, but you gotta work to find decent cheap food. A lotta places use grease that a mastodon would consider old. There are good places in NY, but generally they are the pricy joints.

    When I was growing up in NYC, the good cheap eats came from tiny hole-in-the-wall joints, many of them takeout only, because the combination of outrageous rents and labyrinthian ‘health code’ regulation made it impossible to serve decent food at sit-down prices. My late dad was a foodie 30 years before the term was invented, so he had a roster of “secret finds” all over Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx where the food would make you sing with happiness, but they all seemed to involve walking six blocks from the subway to an unmarked alley and threading your way past the idling delivery trucks to the worn steps leading to a dark basement (or sometimes a second-floor walk-up). And, of course, if there was a menu, it was usually chalked on a blackboard and not written in English, or even in Roman script. So you ordered by pointing & nodding, and then took your foil-wrapped booty back home (or to the nearest park, or even a convenient stoop when the savory odors overpowered your fastidiousness)…

    (pause to find drool bib). Anyways! Things may have changed in the past quarter-century, but from what I’ve heard the rents are still high and the health codes have only gotten more elaborate. But the good news is, the interwebz have gifted us with sites like Chowhounds and the million NYC-based blogs, so surely there’s some way you can research the neighborhood(s) where you do most of your noshing and see where the best delis, taqueritas, and samosa joints are?

  155. 155.

    asiangrrlMN

    A word of warning: Troy P. is MINE!

    That is all.

    Oh, and–

    @JK: I am really digging the song. Dylan’s voice doesn’t even grate that much.

    Crap. Without Troy P., Titans score a TD.

  161. 161.

    Linkmeister

    @Anne Laurie: That’s my memory of food in Yokosuka, Japan, too. Little holes-in-the-wall where the gyoza was just right, the fried rice was better than you’d ever find in the fancy places, and if there was seating it was at a counter.

  163. 163.

    Anne Laurie

    @Betsy:

    I had the most amazing dumplings in Provincetown last weekend. They were filled with edamame and potato and fried to perfection with sesame seeds on the outside. I’m getting hungry just thinking about them. And it’s killing me that I can’t remember the name of the damn restaurant!

    Well, as long as you can remember the location, that gives you a good excuse to go back there, at least!

  164. 164.

    freelancer

    @gnomedad:

    Science … warns me to be careful how I adopt a view which jumps with my preconceptions, and to require stronger evidence for such belief than for one to which I was previously hostile. My business is to teach my aspirations to conform themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.

  166. 166.

    Left Coast Tom

    @General Winfield Stuck:

    It is amazing to me how tenaciously the right wing clings to a meme once it’s been fed into the Mighty Wurlitzer. This whole thing about the HCR bill allowing illegal immigrants to get in on a PO.

    They have to find some excuse for claiming that Wilson’s (Kook-SC) “you lie” wasn’t a lie. After all, Lord Cheney told them they shouldn’t Leave Any Wingnut On The Battlefield.

    Living in CA, I’ve long thought that I’d take the illegal immigration caterwauling seriously the day that the INS starts spending it’s time in the Central Valley going after farmers, rather than further south going after motorists. And I live in northern CA where our freeways don’t have warning signs depicting a family running from the INS. I’ve yet to see anything to change my mind.

  169. 169.

    Corner Stone

    @Betsy: I’ve tried a couple times now to ask you, “Houseguests welcome?” but for some reason WordPress is enjoying boning me.
    On the bright side, I guess I’m happy someone has some interest in boning me.

  171. 171.

    arguingwithsignposts

    OK, during halftime I switch to msnbc for ko, and I get to hear John Boehner spouting bullshit. I sometimes wonder if the founders would reconsider that whole first amendment thing if they heard what these assholes were spouting.

  173. 173.

    PanAmerican

    Tortas De Milanesa tonight.

    Breaded, deep fried steak cutlet, lettuce, tomato, avocado. Maybe a bit of cheese. Spread mayo on the top bun and re-fried beans on the other.

    Re-fries as a condiment…. I thought: My God… the genius of that. The genius. The will to do that. Perfect, genuine, complete, crystalline, pure.

  175. 175.

    IndyLib

    @Linkmeister:
    Food in the Honch was inedible, but there was a Yakitori place in an alley to the east of Route 26, that we used to hit when we were walking home from the base. Best yakitori eveh. We had a great ramen house right outside the gates of the housing at Ikego, too.

  179. 179.

    Corner Stone

    @freelancer: Mmmm. Guess I dropped in on something that had nothing to with me.
    Actually, don’t care who you’re quoting or what the truth actually is. Just gonna fall back on the time tested – You Lie!!

  182. 182.

    DanR2

    So what’s up with Cris Collinsworth? I hated that pompous asshole for years, but ever since the Beijing olympics that guy has been one damn fine color guy.

    Go Tit’n’s!

  183. 183.

    Litlebritdifrnt

    @asiangrrlMN:

    You and me both, I still prefer the original, but Tony has such an incredible voice. I have been trying to find his version of “She’s gone” on youtube but no luck so far, it is absolutely stellar. What is your favorite Duran song ever? Mine is “Lonely in your Nightmare” when I saw them (well half the band) several years ago, they actually played it I was beside myself. I have heard rumours that Duran Duran and Spandau are going to do a US tour together. I would kill to get tickets to that.

  184. 184.

    MMM

    I wouldn’t ever set out to hurt anyone deliberately unless it was, you know, important -like a league game or something.
    – Dick Butkus

  185. 185.

    Corner Stone

    @freelancer: As Angela Petrelli recently taught me in Heroes S:3 – unconditional love really isn’t love at all.
    Kinda makes one think about it a little, really.

  186. 186.

    Betsy

    @Corner Stone:
    If only it were my house!! (Assuming you mean in p-town.) One of my college housemates rents a place in the next town over every summer, and we all descend to take advantage of his generous hospitality (and the corporate salary that makes possible said hospitality). It was an awesome weekend.

  188. 188.

    Awesom0

    @IndyLib:

    God I wish you were going to be wrong about the Broncs, but I don’t think so…

    Unfortunately, I think you’re right. Bowlen (for whatever reason), decided to blow up the team. Shanahan, despite all his recent faults, kept the temp comptetive. At the very least, he know how to maintain team harmony.

    All that said; I will happy to be proven wrong later in the season.

  189. 189.

    JK

    @freelancer:

    In fairness to Jay Leno, David Letterman deleted an entire segment with Bill Hicks from one of his broadcasts and Harvey Pekar was banned from Letterman’s show for criticizing General Electric. It was good to hear Bill Hicks again. Thanks for that link.

  192. 192.

    madmommy

    @JK:

    If I recall correctly, that wanker Cantor was quite busy with his Blackberry during the speech so he really wasn’t paying much attention, was he?

    Isn’t Polamalu on the cover of Madden NFL this year? The curse strikes again!

  193. 193.

    Steeplejack

    @JK:

    Heh. That brought back some memories. Sort of like The Rockford Files meets Harry O while colliding with Hawaii Five-O. You’re right, though–kick-ass song.

  195. 195.

    freelancer

    @JK:

    Not sure if you caught this then earlier this year, but even as someone who doesn’t watch Letterman, and doesn’t particularly find him funny (and don’t get me started on Paul Schaffer), I think he paid his penance.

    I recently found my favorite Hicks clip above, he’s onstage in Chicago and there’s a deaf person in the audience with a woman also onstage signing his act.

  196. 196.

    josefina

    @Anne Laurie:

    Thank dog for Chowhound and the subway! When I moved to NY, back when velociraptors climbed streetlamps to drop down on the unaware, there were still a few of those tiny dives in Manhattan. No more. But it’s an easy shot into Queens on the F and V and there’s TONS of fabulous food there.

    Corner Stone: Don’t know when you were looking for Mexican food but things have improved. As recently as 20 years ago, there just weren’t that many Mexicans living here. Now there are hundreds of thousands, mainly from Puebla. There’s a tiny store in my neighborhood where I can buy mole, and Herdéz ranchero salsa, and amazing tacos. They also have avocados, perfectly ripe, all year round. I don’t know how they do it but I’m damn glad they do.

    Ten or fifteen years ago, in early December, I was waiting at a corner and in the park across the avenue a church group had gathered for a procession in honor of Our Lady of Guadalupe. Nothing remotely like San Gennaro; just a group of people in white surplice-type things and one big banner, the Mexican flag with her image imprinted on it. The woman standing next to me, also waiting to cross, said, “Huh. What’s that about?” Being an editor and an oldest child and generally insufferable like that, I answered her: patron saint of Mexico, feast day, blah blah. And—this is what I love/hate about New York—she started arguing with me. “No, it’s not. It’s some Christmas thing. Look, red. And. Green.” She rolled her eyes and the light changed and we stomped off, swathed in disdain, each for the other.

    Anne Laurie, I am so envious of you for growing up with a foodie. I have a deep and intimate appreciation of all forms of barbecue but I was in my 20s before I learned that parmesan cheese didn’t always come in green cardboard cans.

    And let me put in a good word for Houston as a food town. International port of entry and all that. Literally insufferable climate but great food.

    And GO STILLERS!

  202. 202.

    Punchy

    Come on Johnson, show me just 144 more inches.

    And if Big Ben could show me another touch(down), I’d be giddy….

    heh.

  203. 203.

    IndyLib

    @Linkmeister:
    LOL, so true.
    By the time we were in Japan I had quit drinking, but back in the day my favorite after bar food was tacos from Jack in the Box, which tasted horrible when sober, but damned good on the way home from Houlihan’s.

  204. 204.

    freelancer

    @Morbo:

    Watching this game is making me want to pour molten steel into my eyes…

    Oh, I didn’t know the lions were having their first game tonight, too. What channel is that on?

  209. 209.

    Steeplejack

    @arguingwithsignposts:

    Dude, you’ve got to go with something that you’re actually interested in, not a “niche.” If you really like woodworking, you could make a very interesting blog out of that, but if you arbitrarily decide that “heuristic barbecue” is the next big thing you’re not going to be able to sustain it over the long haul if you don’t find it really interesting in itself.

    Semi-related anecdote. I can’t remember the (British) author’s name, but back in the ’70s or ’80s there was a humorist who was putting out a collection of his pieces and he wanted a title that would really pull people in. His agent or somebody in publishing told him that the evergreen subjects were World War II, pets and sports. So he titled his book Golfing for Cats.

    . . . Okay, as usual, I looked it up. It was Alan Coren. What about World War II, you say? Check the jacket art.

    P.S. I have dibs on “heuristic barbecue.” That is an awesome blog topic.

  212. 212.

    Awesom0

    In other, non-football related, news, a jackass Swiss bartender at the English pub we were watching the game at just called my wife a “chink” (she’s originally from Taiwan).

    We’re back at home now.

    Bastard…

  215. 215.

    JK

    freelancer: I hadn’t seen that Letterman clip before. You’re right he’s paid his penance regarding Bill Hicks. I don’t know if he ever made a similar mea culpa regarding Havey Pekar. For full disclosure purposes, I’m actually a fan of both Leno and Letterman

    madmommy: Eric Cantor is a world class wanker. He blew off an Obama press conference to hold a fundraiser at a Britney Spears concert.

    Steeplejack: If NBC sports execs weren’t totally clueless, they’d bring back that incredible theme music to replace that garbage music they currently use.

  219. 219.

    Steeplejack

    @JK:

    Al Michaels is a blowhard douchebag. He talks too much, especially if there is a penalty or a weird situation; then he goes into hypertronic mode and won’t let anyone else get a word in edgewise, even when he is demonstrably wrong on the facts of the case. Cris Collinsworth–meh, but he takes the edge of Michaels.

    I got home from work early and fast-forwarded through the first half of the game off the DVR. Looks pretty good so far. I did go WTF?! when Roethslisberger went all Fran Tarkenton on that scrambling mega-sack.

  220. 220.

    JK

    @asiangrrlMN:

    As much as I love much of Bob Dylan’s music, I can’t think of another rock musician whose voice has aged so horribly over the years. I can’t listen to anything Dylan has recorded after the mid 1980’s, his singing from that point forward is close to unbearable for me.

  229. 229.

    Svensker

    @Anne Laurie:

    Anyways! Things may have changed in the past quarter-century, but from what I’ve heard the rents are still high and the health codes have only gotten more elaborate. But the good news is, the interwebz have gifted us with sites like Chowhounds and the million NYC-based blogs, so surely there’s some way you can research the neighborhood(s) where you do most of your noshing and see where the best delis, taqueritas, and samosa joints are?

    Oh, I know there ARE good cheapo places in NYC, but you have to search them out. Whereas in L.A., you could pretty much count on the corner joints being fresh and authentic whatever they were. It was a surprise to me.

    Would love to have gone ally crawling with your dad. :)

  230. 230.

    Steeplejack

    @Corner Stone, @arguingwithsignposts:

    Yeah, I think Texican when I think Mexican food. “Non-border” Mexican food is very different.

    Here is the D.C. area, at least on my side (Arlington-Alexandria), the problem is that all the “Mexican” restaurants are bait-and-switch operations for Salvadorans, Peruvians, Bolivians, etc. They have “Mexican” names and a few Mexican items on the menu, but then everything else is from where they’re really from. Not complaining–a lot of it is very good–but I often find myself jonesin’ for straight-ahead Tex-Mex. Something like Karam’s in San Antonio. Haven’t made a pilgrimage there in years.

  231. 231.

    Svensker

    And, dang, I love football. Sweaty buff men in tights, playing a great game. And then they are the huddles….

  232. 232.

    asiangrrlMN

    Mission District in San Francisco was the place to go for good cheap eats when I lived in the Bay Area. Dunno about now.

    Fucking Brett Favre is on my teevee doing a Sears commercial. Jerkface.

  233. 233.

    MikeJ

    Uh, this vampire diaries show that’s starting now… extreme close ups make the leading lady look 37 years old, which isn’t old unless she’s supposed to be in high school fucking vampires.

  234. 234.

    Steeplejack

    @arguingwithsignposts:

    Lots of very good Tex-Mex in Atlanta: El Torero (near Emory), El Toro (Buford Highway), El Jinete (Snellville), Jalisco (Peachtree Hills), Nuevo Laredo (west of Georgia Tech). And others. Those are just my favorites.

  236. 236.

    Awesom0

    @asiangrrl:

    Yeah, I was in the bathroom and she was at the bar when some jackass tried to grab her ass. She slapped him (good on her) and he started shrieking about some “drunk girl”. When I came out and she told me, I freaked. Of course, they threw us out.

    My wife (who has waaaaaaay more sense than I do) asked me to drop it, telling me the Swiss police are not going to take kindly to an American, so I let it drop. I’m still shaking with rage…

    She’s from Taipei (we met while she was in grad school in DC) and we’re going back there in January. I can’t wait! I’m really looking forward to all the great food at the night markets she keeps talking about.

    BTW: She’s read your blog and thinks you’re hot!

  237. 237.

    ellaesther

    @JK: Okee dokee then, as I’ve already outed myself as an active non-enjoyer of football on this thread, I might as well go all out.

    (ahem)

    I do not like Bob Dylan, either.

  242. 242.

    Comrade Kevin

    @asiangrrlMN: I’m not real familiar with the Mission district, but there are some pretty good places in South San Francisco and this unincorporated part of Redwood City called North Fair Oaks. “Ranchero”, as my brother’s girlfriend calls them.

  243. 243.

    peach flavored shampoo

    Parker/Moore has as much leg and hip action as Jenna Jameson. I’ve seen better running from my nose.

    Seriously, this offense won a SB?

  244. 244.

    JK

    @ellaesther:

    We’re not quite in the same camp. I draw a distinction.

    Everything from Dylan’s debut album up to and including Desire is brilliant. Much of what came after Desire is pretty forgetable.

  245. 245.

    Jason Bylinowski

    Evenin’ all. Cole, you and your raging zoophilia are as cute as ever….really makes we want out of this no-pets-allowed apartment building, except that the rent control is so good.

    So, like, anybody ever try to use a CPAP machine? I got prescribed one today after many months of avoiding the doctor for my sleeping problems. He seems to think that after one crumby sleep study session suddenly I’m all nearly brain-dead from lack of blood-oxygen saturation or some such. But anyway, I put the thing on this evening and immediately felt like I was drowning in air. I shortly did figure out how to “breathe” while wearing the contraption, but there’s nothing now but wondering how in Hades my panicky-ass self is going to let me go to sleep with all that racket going on in my throat. The upside to all this is I get to play out some Darth Vader fantasies while trying to get my shit all unretarded. Does that make any sense to anyone else? No? Well then, I guess that there doctor was right.

  249. 249.

    asiangrrlMN

    @Awesom0: Good for her for slapping the creep. Bad on the bar for throwing you guys out. I’m sorry to hear that.

    I’m going to Taiwan late December/early January to visit my family! Taipei, mostly. When are you going specifically?

    Heh. Tell your wife that’s Margaret Cho, not me.

  250. 250.

    Laura W

    @Jason Bylinowski:

    The upside to all this is I get to play out some Darth Vader fantasies while trying to get my shit all unretarded. Does that make any sense to anyone else? No? Well then, I guess that there doctor was right.

    Don’t rush off, and if you do, check back. This is a very popular topic on this blog.
    I suspect you’ll find much support and comfort (once the football game is over.)

  251. 251.

    4jkb4ia

    OK, the new NFL GameCenter is spiffy. I will enjoy “watching” the Jets and Houston on it.

    (Rain Delay)

  252. 252.

    gogiggs

    Game-losing punt?
    Titans kicking game has been the big difference this game.

    That and the fact that Ben Roethlisberger is some sort of magician when the clock is running out.

  257. 257.

    Corner Stone

    @IndyLib: Yeah, I of course agree with you. I grew up in a huge Tex-Mex environment, and love all that. But one of my best friends when I was young was also from MX, at least his family was. Su abuela no habla Ingles y su madre hable un poco. So I remember lots of traditional MX meals at his house – and let me tell you that breakfast on Sat was legendary. Real old school chorizo with scrambled eggs and potatos. Damn.
    They made meals that had no connection to the Tex-Mex places around us. Yet they were tasty and well done, yet different. Different textures, spices, etc.
    I’ve been all through MX and seen what some tiny bit of their cuisine comes to. It’s different from TX-MX and that’s cool. But no where else have I been in this country that came close to anything I could decently call “Mexican food”.
    But maybe that’s just me.

  259. 259.

    Steeplejack

    @asiangrrlMN:

    All of Nashville Skyline is pretty much Dylan at his most vocally accessible. My favorite: “Lay, Lady, Lay.”

    I much prefer Dylan as a composer than a performer. With almost all of his songs, my favorite version is done by someone other than Dylan. The opposite is true with the Beatles. I almost always ultimately prefer their version to someone else’s, even though I think there are hundreds–probably thousands–of great Beatles covers. For example, José Feliciano, “In My Life.”

  266. 266.

    Awesom0

    @asiangrrl:

    Ha! She just commented that even Asians can’t tell different nationalities apart!

    Yeah, she doesn’t take shit from anybody. That’s what I love about her. It’s also what sustained her when she first came to the US and studied in Eastern Texas.

    We’re going to Taipei and Tainan (sp?) and Shei-Pa national park – where her parents volunteer now that they’re retired.

    I think we’re also going to visit the mainland (Shanghai and Hong Kong).

  267. 267.

    Steeplejack

    @JK:

    Does anyone know why Stewart and Colbert have taken such a long break? Hasn’t it been like two-three weeks now?

  268. 268.

    ellaesther

    @JK: I will grant him his songwriting chops, but as a singer, oh my great God in heaven, he is not one! He hurts my ears and always has.

    Ok, I’m going to go for broke here.

    I also do not like:

    1) LOTR (the books. Loooooooved the movies).
    2) Going to the beach (all that sand! Sticking to my sunscreen! Ish!)
    3) The movie Brazil.
    4) Beer.

    Can I still hang out?

  270. 270.

    ninerdave

    Free football! Great way to start the season, unless your last name is Cole.

    In that case I’ve called 911 and they are on their way with a defibrillator.

  271. 271.

    MikeJ

    Does anyone know why Stewart and Colbert have taken such a long break? Hasn’t it been like two-three weeks now?

    It was to be a three week break. They were supposed to be installing HD equipment at TDS studios, and I assume the same is true of Cobert’s.

  276. 276.

    MikeJ

    Beatles covers I like Sonic Youth- Within You Without You

    Sonic Youth could do 20 minutes of feedback and I’d like it.

    Oh wait. They did. I did. Never mind.

  277. 277.

    JK

    Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert are guilty of flagrant dereliction of duty by taking 3 weeks off for vacation.
    We have a national comedy emergency situation and these guys need to get the fuck back on the air immediately.

  278. 278.

    asiangrrlMN

    @Awesom0: Shut up! I’m going to those places, too. If you see a tall, heavy Asian chick with long black hair and ink, it just might be me! Yeah, I can’t tell some Asians apart, either–like East Asians. When I was in Japan, everyone spoke to me in Japanese and refused to believe I wasn’t Japanese.

    @ellaesther: I haven’t read LOTR or seen the movies. I haven’t seen Brazil. I hate beer. The beach? I could take or leave. So, if you go, then I go!

    @Third Eye Open: That deftone started out meh, and then got much better. I like. I REALLY like the second song you linked. Thanks!

  281. 281.

    JK

    I don’t care if it’s been in the rule books forever, but in overtime in the NFL, both teams should get to touch the football. The current system is bullshit.

  282. 282.

    IndyLib

    @Corner Stone:

    But no where else have I been in this country that came close to anything I could decently call “Mexican food”.

    LOL I feel the same way, it’s just that my decent Mexican food tastes like what I grew up with in Colorado.
    I did have one place in Mesa, Az, I liked, but it doesn’t count because I found out the family that ran it was from New Mexico.

    I really miss the smell of roasting green chilis in the grocery store parking lot in late August.

  288. 288.

    Spork

    woot! what a game! I’m a Hawks fan from way back, but go Stillers! Way to pull out the win! Cthulu, great game.

  292. 292.

    Steeplejack

    Okay, the Steelers win in O.T. I don’t have a problem with that, but this game reminds me of one little tweak I would like to see to the rules, i.e., overtime is sudden death after each team has had one possession.

    You win the coin toss and score on your first possession, fine. But the other team has one possession to try to tie it up. After that it’s sudden death.

    I think the way it is now it puts too much importance on calling the coin toss correctly. Don’t like that, especially after a hard-fought tie game.

  293. 293.

    Spork

    And after that fumble by Ward, I was scared. To come back with an important pass to him, and pull off the win, makes me think will to win is real.

  294. 294.

    Awesom0

    @asiangrrlMN

    Seriously? Perhaps we should send you our email address (via your blog) and perhaps we can all meet up!

    Otherwise, if we see a tall woman with ink, we’ll just assume you’re a Yakuza on vacation :-p

  296. 296.

    Mark S.

    @asiangrrlMN:

    When I was in Japan, everyone spoke to me in Japanese and refused to believe I wasn’t Japanese.

    Really? I am just surprised, because even to my white ass Japanese people look different from other Asians.

  297. 297.

    Jackie

    @Jason Bylinowski: It takes quite awhile to adjust to a cpap. Just hang in and keep trying. You’ll find in the beginning you’ll pull it off in the night. When you wake up just put it back on. Concentrate on how your brain and heart appreciate it if you keep breathing all night. The first two weeks you hate it and are sure it will never work. In 4 to 6 weeks you’ll be adjusted and find it hard to sleep without it. If you have a ramp feature it helps so you can fall asleep at a lower setting. Your nose will feel strange in the morning from the flow. Saline spray helps and in time your nose will adjust as well.

  298. 298.

    ninerdave

    @Steeplejack:

    I think the way it is now it puts too much importance on calling the coin toss correctly. Don’t like that, especially after a hard-fought tie game.

    Agreed.

  301. 301.

    Spork

    Speaking of football, I’m flying to SF on the 19th to watch the Hawks play the 9ers with my wife and 6 of our closest friends. Gonna try to live up the the 12th man reputation, face paint, and loud, loud noise. Gonna do everything we can to make the day suck for the natives. First time I”ve been out of state since I was in the Army in the late 90s, should be awesome.

  302. 302.

    JK

    @John Cole:

    I had no rooting interest in tonight’s game. As a neutral observer, I would like the NFL to change the overtime rule so that the Titans would have had a chance to get the ball after the Steelers scored in overtime. I don’t like the idea that a team wins the coin toss, scores, and then the game is over. I think the other team deserves one last shot.

    Are you satisfied with the NFL’s current overtime rule?

  305. 305.

    ninerdave

    @Spork:

    And after that fumble by Ward, I was scared. To come back with an important pass to him, and pull off the win, makes me think will to win is real.

    I always attributed that to the fact that the true pros have a short term memory for stuff like that.

    “Yeah I blew the last play, forget that, this is a brand new down.”

    Takes a ton of belief in yourself to put something like that aside.

  310. 310.

    anonevent

    @Steeplejack: I like a suggestion I read about somewhere: In overtime, the ref calls off yard lines starting from one. The ball is awarded to the team that accepts one of the numbers first. The ball is then placed on that teams side of the field at the accepted yard mark, and that is where the team tries to score from.

  311. 311.

    JK

    @Steeplejack:

    Exactly. I’ve always felt the current NFL overtime rule is extremely unfair.

    One possession for both teams in overtime is an eminently reasonable proposition and I don’t understand how any true football fan could oppose this idea.

  312. 312.

    ninerdave

    @Spork:

    Speaking of football, I’m flying to SF on the 19th to watch the Hawks play the 9ers with my wife and 6 of our closest friends. Gonna try to live up the the 12th man reputation, face paint, and loud, loud noise. Gonna do everything we can to make the day suck for the natives. First time I”ve been out of state since I was in the Army in the late 90s, should be awesome.

    Just a friendly tip for a life long bay area resident. Do NOT attempt that at a Raiders game. You’ll be dead before kickoff. Us Niners fans are a bit more laid back, just don’t spill our wine spritzers.

  316. 316.

    stibbert

    weepers, fellow stillers-fans, i don’t think i can take this kind of tense game every week ’til January. When’s our bye again?

  317. 317.

    Spork

    @ninerdave true, or a lot of weed.

    @jk I think the one possession each rule change would both be more fair, increase fan appreciation, and work with broadcast time requirements. However, it would cut down on the sense of getting robbed, which actually does increase fan motivation.

  318. 318.

    JK

    @John Cole:

    To take tonight’s game, I think the Titans should have gotten the ball after the Steelers scored in OT.

    I only favor 1 possession for both teams at the start of OT.

    If the Titans had responded with a FG to tie in OT, then I’d favor sudden death because both the Steelers and Titans would have each had 1 possession in OT.

  322. 322.

    Steeplejack

    @John Cole:

    Giving each team one possession would not lead to massively longer games. It would still be sudden death after each time had one shot.

    I think the college rules suck, and I don’t even remember exactly what they are. Don’t they forgo the kickoff and just put the ball on the 30 yard line or some bullshit like that? What the fuck. That is not football.

  323. 323.

    ellaesther

    @Steeplejack: Oh, many things, indeed!

    Let’s see…. I’ll come up with one thing to counter each on my list above.

    1) The Hobbit.
    2) The park next to the beach (you can see the water and read your book, but no sand!)
    3) Hot Fuzz.
    4) G & Ts (though I don’t drink them very much, it’s true).

    I also like chocolate a very great deal, and extremely loud music!

  324. 324.

    JK

    @ellaesther:

    I’m a strong believer in the notion of whatever floats your boat.

    When it comes to music, novels, movies, etc, it’s always interesting and informative to hear people confirm one’s personal preferences or to disparage them.

    If I recall, you like poetry. I share your interest in poetry.

  327. 327.

    Steeplejack

    @ellaesther:

    Okay, that’s fine. Just checking. For a minute I thought you might be a professional killjoy or something.

    Please tell me the G&T is Tanqueray or Bombay Sapphire, not Beefeater or [shudder] Scoresby.

  331. 331.

    asiangrrlMN

    @JK:

    @JK: Ok, Lay, Lay, Lay is brilliant, I have to admit. I am not as enamored of the other song, despite it having my favorite color in the title.

    This was me earlier up. I know, easy to miss amongst all the football stuff.
    @Awesom0: I will be there through January 8th. What about you? Yeah, comment on my blog, and then I will have your email addy. That would be cool.

    @Mark S.: Yes. It was really weird. I mean, I don’t look Japanese to me, but what do I know?

    General Winfield Stuck, four, in my case.

  333. 333.

    JK

    @ellaesther:

    One of the great benefits of this blog and the Internet in general is the opportunity to get music, movie, and literary recommendations from a huge, diverse group of people.
    It’s great to learn of a song, book, or movie you haven’t heard of, but I also enjoy it when I see I’m not the only person who likes bands like King Crimson or Television.

  334. 334.

    JK

    @asiangrrlMN:

    Yes, I missed your comment in an avalanche of comments about football. Thanks for pointing it out to me. Glad you liked the song.

    I was hoping I could find another song that hit your sweet spot in the same way that Father and Son did.

  339. 339.

    Steeplejack

    @asiangrrlMN:

    Good to know you’re drinking the good stuff. Now if I could ease you over to a Mount Gay and tonic or a Barbancourt and tonic, I think you would like it. (Both good rums, not Captain Morgan or Ron [something] crap.)

  341. 341.

    Jason Bylinowski

    @Jackie: Even though I know it’s probably too late, I feel compelled to reply anyway, thanks for the tips. I actually just tried to go to sleep with it on and had a weird experience, namely that I got this strange tingling in my arms and legs. Not like a loss of blood flow. Think tingling as in Chris Matthews after a two-segment McCain interview-tingling. It freaked me out and I had to go downstairs for a snack, and now here I am. Hopefully it’s not a bad sort of effect. It happened jut as the machine was starting to ramp up to level 10, and lasted about five minutes, only stopping because I turned off the machine. Strange, and hopefully it won’t happen again because I don’t want to be scared off from this thing.

  342. 342.

    Brachiator

    @Jason Bylinowski:

    I actually just tried to go to sleep with it on and had a weird experience, namely that I got this strange tingling in my arms and legs.

    Very odd. I have a number of family members diagnosed with sleep apnea, and all of them were able to sleep well once they got the cpap machine.

    Obviously, you want to check with your doctor for advice.

    Do you have a mask that just covers your nose or your nose and mouth? There are some varieties of headgear that might help. One relative had headgear that included a chin strap to keep his mouth closed. He ditched the chin strap because it seemed like overkill, and got a smaller, more comfortable nose mask.

    One tip that might help. One relative had lesser sleep apnea symptoms if he fell asleep in a recliner chair or a comfortable sofa. Sitting up rather than lying down seemed to put less pressure on his airway passages. As he was getting used to the cpap machine, he would use it while sitting in the recliner, and this helped him adjust.

    Good luck to you.

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    Chinn Romney

    Oh yay, another thread where I can bash the absolute worst sports fans on the planet. I speak, of course, of the hapless losers in the green and white jerseys from New York. Show us your Tits!

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    Ron

    @DanR2: I was amazed at him last night actually. I normally hated watching Steelers games with him in the booth because he had an anti-Pittsburgh bias that was bloody obvious. Last night that didn’t seem to be showing.

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