Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Consistently wrong since 2002

It’s all just conspiracy shit beamed down from the mothership.

Whatever happens next week, the fight doesn’t end.

Humiliatingly small and eclipsed by the derision of millions.

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

This has so much WTF written all over it that it is hard to comprehend.

These are not very smart people, and things got out of hand.

Republicans: The threats are dire, but my tickets are non-refundable!

They don’t have outfits that big. nor codpieces that small.

The arc of history bends toward the same old fuckery.

Washington Post Catch and Kill, not noticeably better than the Enquirer’s.

When you’re a Republican, they let you do it.

They were going to turn on one another at some point. It was inevitable.

Fight them, without becoming them!

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

Stamping your little feets and demanding that they see how important you are? Not working anymore.

Stop using mental illness to avoid talking about armed white supremacy.

I might just take the rest of the day off and do even more nothing than usual.

’Where will you hide, Roberts, the laws all being flat?’

Is it negotiation when the other party actually wants to shoot the hostage?

The next time the wall street journal editorial board speaks the truth will be the first.

Let’s not be the monsters we hate.

Boeing: repeatedly making the case for high speed rail.

Incompetence, fear, or corruption? why not all three?

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  4. 4.

    Anne Laurie

    @AhabTRuler: Well, this time I’m not gonna back down. Maybe we can start a techno-v-folkie warz, depending on how many bored people don’t have better things to do, or the strength with which to do them.

  5. 5.

    beltane

    I’ve been thinking of that song lately. Day and night, the geese have been flying south. The leaves are mostly gone and it’s 24 degrees out right now. The thought of six months of nasty weather is a little unbearable.

  6. 6.

    General Winfield Stuck

    Bravo Anne!! Highly excellent choice in music. That’s really early Joni, that I don’t believe I’ve before. Thank you!

  8. 8.

    General Winfield Stuck

    @Betsy:

    Packing to go spend a week with some family. Wish me the patience of a saint.

    Consider it done.

    Just smile a lot and carry a racquetball to squeeze as needed. Always works for me.

  11. 11.

    Notorious P.A.T.

    Here on the NC/SC border, we’re just about freezing our butts off this weekend.

    I’ll be thinking of you when doors in Michigan literally freeze shut.

  12. 12.

    J.A.F. Rusty Shackleford

    Aww yeah, Bound is on HD cable tonight.

    I so love Gina Gershon. It’s the curl of her upper lip. Jennifer Tilly and her breathleass cupie doll voice is a close second.

  16. 16.

    Comrade Mary

    I still have raspberries going red — and mostly flavourless — after a couple of frosty nights here, but I rescued the tomatoes and brought them inside, where they are now being gracious enough to ripen.

  17. 17.

    AkaDad

    If I had a pie script for B.O.B. it would say:

    I like to have warm apple pie every night and occasionally I’ll eat a piece.

  18. 18.

    Morbo

    @Notorious P.A.T.: Yes, come to Michigan. Visit the beautiful lake effect snow belt and ask yourself:… Why does that house have a door on the second floor? You’ll have your answer in about two months.

  20. 20.

    Ash Can

    PS: The “GRAB A MOP,” all in caps, links to a DKos diary that includes some kick-ass video.

    (Man, “grab a mop” is SO my new slogan. :) )

  21. 21.

    Anne Laurie

    @Morbo:

    Yes, come to Michigan. Visit the beautiful lake effect snow belt…

    The Spousal Unit grew up in the l.e.s.b. (inside tip of the little finger – Michigander joke). When I first arrived in the relatively clement south-central portion, my college roommate told me the local joke about the state motto: If you seek a pleasant pennisula, look around you… “and then move to Florida, ’cause you’re in the wrong state for ‘pleasant’!”

  24. 24.

    Martin

    C.C. Sabathia, bitches.

    Fuck the Fucking Yankees.

    Let’s hope the Angels got all their sucking out of the way in game 1 (Man did they bring the suck…)

  27. 27.

    South of I-10

    @madmommy:It was so nice to walk out this morning and not be instantly sweating – I know you know what I mean. The only reason I am still up is I can’t make myself go inside. My little alarm clock is going to be up by 7 at the latest.

  28. 28.

    madmommy

    @South of I-10:

    Yep! The walk to the end of the driveway to get the Picayune is no longer a sweat-fest at 5 freaking a.m.

    Yours sleeps till 7?? Lucky duck! We’ve got a karate tournament at 10 so I’ll be up with the chickens to get stuff done beforehand.

  29. 29.

    Legalize

    Martin, I was a little surprised at the suck the Angels brought tonight (happily of course ;)). I expect the Angels to shape up against the wilder A.J. Burnett tomorrow evening. Look for Bobby Abreu to be the offensive star for the Halos. However, Robby Cano, Hideki Matsui and the Yanks’ bullpen will be too much for the Angels of Southern California in game 2.

  30. 30.

    Ella in NM

    Ok, I’ve had it.

    In the “Best Dancing to Beyonce’s ‘Single Ladies” by Diapered Babies” Competition, I can’t make up my mind which of these videos is more Absolutely Cutist:

    This one

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikTxfIDYx6Q&feature=player_embedded

    Or, this one:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zkaqPHiIrE&feature

    I’m leaning towards number two, for excellent flexibilty and overall original dance move interpretation.

    However, You decide, I’ll report.

  32. 32.

    South of I-10

    @madmommy: Ha! She stayed up late a couple of weekends ago and slept past 8. I had to go check on her! Usually, she is up between 7 and 7:30. I used to be a night owl, but I need my sleep! Speaking of sleep . . .

  33. 33.

    Martin

    It’s the cold. SoCal folks aren’t used to seeing their breath!

    Eh, that’s bullshit. Half the players from both teams are Cuban and half the Yankees came from the Angels and half the Angels from the Yankees. No climate excuses for the Angels. They just played horribly tonight. It happens.

    But fuck the Yankees anyway.

    Oh, and who the hell scheduled the Dodgers game during the day? At least they won.

  34. 34.

    Punchy

    Mah Pops surely blew his load with this Dodgers win. Die hard fan. Just picture your own dad blowing his load. You’re welcome

    Puncah plus 6

  37. 37.

    ominira

    @Ella in NM: I have to go with video 2 – I’d seen (& liked) the first one before but baby number two’s interpretation, original moves, and um “singing” put her ahead in my book.

  38. 38.

    Tattoosydney

    @Anne Laurie:

    Lee Burridge & Andy Page – Do you smoke pot? (original mix)..

    I mentioned in a thread a week ago that I have been making glace peaches and nectarines, using dried fruit.

    It’s frighteningly easy and takes about an hour of actual work over a few weeks. Half a kilo of sugar, half a litre of water – bring to the boil and pour over a kilo of fruit in a heatproof container. Store in the fridge between treatments. On each of the next three nights, drain off the syrup into a saucepan, add another cup of sugar and bring back to the boil, then pour back over the fruit. On the fifth night, do the same thing, but this time put the fruit into the saucepan after the sugar has dissolved, and boil for about three minutes (at this point it goes all sticky and slightly caramelized). Store for 48 hours this time, then repeat the fifth night. (this is where I am up to). Then it has to be dried in the oven overnight at about 50 degrees C (120 F).

    It gets darker and stickier and the fruit goes clear and it’s truly delicious.

  45. 45.

    General Winfield Stuck

    @burnspbesq:

    I taught myself open D tuning specifically for this song.

    A lot of folks miss this pioneering greatness of Joni Mitchell as a singer songwriter. She was, and is a master of all sorts of tuning-fu.

  52. 52.

    Anne Laurie

    @burnspbesq:

    Great song. I associate it with Tom Rush.

    To be perfectly honest, so do I! Heard it for the first time from the man himself, my first cow-town college bar visit, back when the drinking age was 18 and I was still a couple weeks shy of legality. But I figured Ms. Mitchell deserved her due, and besides this version probably hadn’t been heard by enough people yet.

  55. 55.

    tc125231

    @General Winfield Stuck: ;Well she was, but it was all intuitive. When Tom Scott was working with her on “Court and Spark” he asked her if a song was in a certain key. There was a long pause –then her voice came over the headphones: “Ignorance is bliss.”

    jonimitchell.com/Library/pdf.cfm?id=1933

  59. 59.

    General Winfield Stuck

    @burnspbesq:

    Very excellent. Had not heard of her before.

    What would the world be without the female singing voice. Nothing else can top it in my book.

  60. 60.

    Jason Bylinowski

    Joni Mitchell, such a genius. Funny, isn’t it, how pure folk evolved over time, took on jazz and rock influence, while early rock took on jazz and folk influence, to eventually become what it did just five years later, eventually producing masterpieces like Court and Spark, Astral Weeks, etc. God what a time to be in the music scene! I used to think the early nineties were a great time to grow up musically, until I discovered the seventies in college. I seriously wonder sometimes, if, like Brian Wilson, maybe I just wasn’t made for these times….

    Hope everyone has a grand weekend, as I surely plan to do so myself.
    +1

  62. 62.

    Wile E. Quixote

    So I’m watching Flashforward and it’s very cool. It’s based upon a very good novel by a very good writer (Robert Sawyer), it’s a decent adaptation, it stars John Cho and Joseph Fiennes (who, might I say, in a completely and totally heterosexual fashion, are some tasty hunks of man-candy) and one of the characters just used the line. “I hope you get all Dick Cheney on her ass”.

  64. 64.

    burnspbesq

    Watching Episode 4 of Transatlantic Sessions 4, and it is just stunning. Allison Moorer, Dan Tyminski, and Karan Casey just singing the heck out of great songs, backed by Jerry Douglas, Russ Barenberg, and some fantastic Irish and Scottish musicians whose names mean nothing to me. Whoever it is in the UK who is uploading each episode within a couple of days after they are broadcast on BBC 4, thank you thank you thank you.

  65. 65.

    Fulcanelli

    @Jason Bylinowski: Ah grasshopper… You are learning.

    Of course there’s still great music coming out today, but IMO the 60’s, 70’s and very early 80’s were the creative peak for rock n’ roll, folk, jazz and even pop because the record companies loosened their grip on the creative and recording process (and the money) and turned it over to the musicians where it belongs. And of course psychoactive illegal substances had no influence on the creative process during this period.

    It was the period between the total control over everything they had before, and the music as ‘product to be churned out’, ‘sign the next big thing’ aspect which has afflicted the industry since. Musicians eventually began owning their own home studios and creativity went through the roof. The early days of stereo FM radio was an awesome time for a music lover as I remember.

    When I occasionally listen to the “oldies” stations and I hear the stuff I grew up listening to I wince and sigh, but I take comfort in knowing I won’t be hearing the lame product that’s on contemporary radio now played as golden oldies when I’m truly an old fart. Sorry, young ‘uns, I just don’t see it happening and I’ve been around a while.

    @burnspbesq: A little Friday Night open tuning magic for guitar geeks only:

    Water Song: Jorma Kaukonen

    Aerial Boundaries: Michael Hedges

    Crown: Justin King

  67. 67.

    Fulcanelli

    I can haz moderashun sinz forgiven in post #64 at 2:07AM prety pls? Anne-Laurie?

    This moderation filter can’t be that hard to figure out, guys.

  70. 70.

    Andy K

    @Anne Laurie:

    The Spousal Unit grew up in the l.e.s.b. (inside tip of the little finger – Michigander joke).

    The “l.e.” escapes me right now, but the “s.b.” is definitely Sutton’s Bay. That’s beautiful country, but as far as Michigan goes, it comes in second to the Garden Peninsula (which dangles off of the U.P. into Lake Michigan), imo.

    Fairport Convention

    Who Knows Where The Time Goes

  72. 72.

    Martin

    This moderation filter can’t be that hard to figure out, guys.

    Then why are you stuck in it?

  78. 78.

    Linkmeister

    @Andy K: You bet. I remember him playing it on Terry Gross’s show. She was astonished at the idea he’d even bother with a Britney Spears song, then she heard it.

    I only have one Fairport album, which surprises me. That must have been the period when I was buying Foghat and Bad Company.

  80. 80.

    Andy K

    @arguingwithsignposts:

    ROFLMFAO!1!1!1!one!

    I wasn’t before, but I love it! The man has a great sense of humor. Who else could write a song about love as a carnival thrill ride and get away with it? While his marriage was falling to pieces? While he was in the studio recording it with his wife?

    Wall Of Death

  81. 81.

    Andy K

    @Linkmeister:

    I keep scribbling notes to myself to pick some up, but every time I hit the record store the notes go missing.

    A high school buddies’ dad gad a lot of Fairport, Steeleye Span and Jethro Tull in his collection. I don’t think we ever listened to anything but the Tull LPs (this would have been in the early ’80s). A few years later I started hearing Fairport and kicked myself for not having listened earlier.

  82. 82.

    Linkmeister

    @Andy K: (Shock!) There still are record stores where you live?

    There are two or three used books/record places near me, but nobody sells new except Borders and Best Buy that I know of.

  84. 84.

    DougL (frmrly: Conservatively Liberal)

    Some of our best musicians over the decades largely played and wrote their music by ear.

    While I read music just fine I really enjoying hearing something I like, picking up the guitar and noodling it out by ear. Same with the music I make, just pick it up and start with something that catches my fancy and run with it. If I like it then I write it and stick it away. Our son digs through my material and it is pretty cool listening to someone noodling away at my tunes.

    My wife keeps bugging me to give names to my creations but I don’t write words, I just play music and there is no name for that. You just create it and know when it is right. Still, she has had me master her favorites and she listens to them on her mp3 player or on our stereo (cd). I gave them names like “Crunch 1, 2, etc”, “Twangy 1, 2, etc”, “Brain Damage 1, 2, etc”, “Medley 1, 2, etc” and such…lol

    When you know the instrument, how it works and you have an ear for music, it just comes to you naturally. It’s hard to explain but you just ‘zone’ in on what you want and work it until you are happy.

  87. 87.

    Anne Laurie

    @Fulcanelli: No more than two links per post, Fulcanelli. Next time you’re feeling musically chatty, remember you can always add another post!

    @Andy K: The l.e.s.b. was actually Morbo’s Lake Effect Snow Belt, including Grand Traverse Bay, where the tv weatherpeople actually differentiate between the several inches of lake-effect snow that will pile up between yesterday’s several inches of pressure-front-weather-system and tomorrow’s several more inches of the next fast-moving front. Because it somehow sounds better if viewers think of it as separate layers of atmospherics, rather than another foot-and-a-half of stuff that will have to be lifted off the driveway. It is beautiful country, but I’m just as glad to live in New England, where at least the constant geographical gradients provide some wind cover {grin}.

  92. 92.

    2th&nayle

    @South of I-10: A little bit late but hey, sue me. Funny you’d bring up gumbo. I’ve got two wood ducks thawing in the sink right now and some smoked sausage in the fridge. Oh yeah!
    Oh and GranPan, Fuck the Yankees! Guy I work with is a Yanks fan and I’ll have to listen to it all damn day! Go Halos!

  94. 94.

    DougL (frmrly: Conservatively Liberal)

    @Ruckus:

    My wife is a big Norah Jones fan. She plays her stuff all of the time. I like some of her material but it is a bit mellow for me. My wife plays violin, cello and upright bass and loves jazz and Norah’s material is right up her alley. I love to listen to my wife practice as it is very relaxing and pleasant to hear.

    Especially when she cranks out a bit of Crazy Train or Mr. Crowley just to see if I am listening. That just sounds so cool from a violin, like it was made for it.

  95. 95.

    Chuck Butcher

    @Anne Laurie:

    The Spousal Unit grew up in the l.e.s.b.

    Oh hell, try the Keewenaw, Houghton & Hancock MI – a balmy day in the winter is -5F high and somewhere around 300 inches of snow for a winter. No, that isn’t a typo. I loved the place back in the early 70s but no way to make a living and anyhow I was a college student…
    Alcohol and other recreational drugs and hockey helped to make up for the 10:1 M/F ratio. Fucking Engineers…and me one also.

  96. 96.

    MelodyMaker

    My fav youtube of Joni:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QZioxCg20I
    “A Case of You”
    Says something about my last six hours.
    In Canada, a case of beer is 12, so yeah I can still type. And I’m not even in Canada! Yeah. Crazy times.
    I’m hungry now, for some breakfast maybe. Fried green potatoes. :0. no prob if you spit it out. tastes like eewww, even with cheese, but not fatal.
    Sooo:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QZioxCg20I
    The Mighty Boosh: Soup Song
    Crazy days

  97. 97.

    2th&nayle

    @DougL (frmrly: Conservatively Liberal): That’s very interesting! For some reason, when I read about you wife playing “Crazy Train” I started hearing a violin version of “Sunshine of Your Love” in my mind. Dammit! That’ll probably whirling around in my head all day. Could be worse. Could be “Sugar, Sugar” by the Archies. Oh shit! What’d I say that for!

  98. 98.

    MelodyMaker

    2th, shit. don’t. do that. shit.

    Young and beautiful,
    but someday your looks will be gone
    When the others turn you off,
    Who’ll be turnin’ you on?
    I will, I will, I will I will.

  100. 100.

    2th&nayle

    Actually, I always had a lot of admiration for Neil Sedaka. Great song writer, IMO. “The Captain and Tennille”, not so much.

  101. 101.

    MelodyMaker

    uhh..

    catch a bright star and you place it on your forehead,
    say a few spells and baby there you go
    take a black cat and you sit it on your shoulder,
    and in the morning you’ll know all you know

    dada deedee dah

  103. 103.

    SiubhanDuinne

    I just set the table by putting Bitsy at 2999 votes. Who will tip her into 3000+ territory?

  107. 107.

    alien radio

    @Tattoosydney:

    Looks like you’re losing. that’s a tad too prog house for me, I have a limited tolerance for extended tribal drum workouts.

    I’m more of a techno head, and in that spirit I shall help you out with Lauent Garnier’s Pay TV, It’s a fantastic juxtoposition of emotional textures and aggressive drums.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHSFP9Qz3hw

  113. 113.

    Cheryl from Maryland

    Bitsy was at 3008 when I voted this morning. Go Halos! Win so we don’t need rally monkies!

  118. 118.

    2th&nayle

    @MelodyMaker: Well, ok. Just because I don’t usually d/l youtube (got dial-up. sooo damn slow), I’ll make an exception and d/l this one. Gotta check my ducks anyway! ha!

  120. 120.

    MelodyMaker

    now I’m listening to Showbizzy. damn that kid was a jazzy freak. Now Alexis. Someone gave me Private Eyes and I wore it out.

  122. 122.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Demo Woman 9:11 am

    Hope you’re right. I can’t wait to read his report!

    Hey, cold here this morning. 3efreshing!

  123. 123.

    2th&nayle

    @MelodyMaker: Ohh, me likee! Thx, MelMak! Is it just me, or does that song sound eerily like John Lennon (bless his heart, wherever he is) should have been in there somewhere? No shit, I like the sound of that. I’ll have to add that to my get-list.
    S>I-10. Gumbo should be ready about 2:00pm our time. Just cooking the ducks right now. Fix the roux later, got to go to work right now. Come on by, you can fix the rice. haha!
    Oh yeah, before I forget. Go Hawgs! Beat Gators!

  124. 124.

    Montysano

    @General Winfield Stuck:

    Bravo Anne!! Highly excellent choice in music. That’s really early Joni, that I don’t believe I’ve before. Thank you!

    It was a standard of Joni’s back in her early days, but didn’t get released until one of her recent compilation albums, Songs of a Prairie Girl. Lately I’ve been into her first album, Song to a Seagull, produced by David Crosby and with Stephen Stills on bass. However it happened, whoever helped her, she really invented a new way of playing guitar.

    Finally got around to watching Michael Clayton last night; what a fabulous movie! Clooney just gets better and better.

  125. 125.

    Montysano

    It’s in the low 40s here in north Alabama today, with yet more rain on the way. We’re in desperate need of sunshine.

  126. 126.

    Montysano

    @General Winfield Stuck:

    Bravo Anne!! Highly excellent choice in music. That’s really early Joni, that I don’t believe I’ve before. Thank you!

    “Urge for Going” was part of her early repertoire, but never got released until her compilation “Songs of a Prairie Girl”. Lately I’ve been into her first album “Song to a Seagull”, produced by David Crosby and with Stephen Stills on bass. Whatever the genesis, she really did invent a new way of playing guitar.

    Finally got around to watching Michael Clayton last night; it’s a great film. Clooney just gets better and better.

  127. 127.

    rachel

    Hubby and I had friends over for dinner, We ate: multigrain dinner rolls with butter, roast pork shoulder, gravy, steamed potatoes and fresh green beans with warm apple pie a la mode for desert, and the only thing we didn’t make ourselves was the ice cream and butter.

    B.O.B is free to envy us the pie.

  130. 130.

    MelodyMaker

    Carrie,
    I only know a couple of songs, I don’t even know what that show is about, and, but, ICE FLOW, no where to go. Check him out. beepebedeepeebed.. I am really going to bed so I can get up today.

  131. 131.

    WereBear

    Calling all cat persons: the Galkie Kitty Tease is available at last! This classic cat toy has been on hiatus for years. Now it’s back!

    Galkie Kitty Tease

    I have no affiliation with this company… I just know how much cats like it.

    Which is an understatement.

  133. 133.

    MelodyMaker

    l’m little johnie frostbite, movin around
    freezin you up, freezin you down, like an icicle.
    STOP!
    Hissing of Summer Lawns is going in.

  135. 135.

    alien radio

    @Carrie:

    The mighty boosh has rapidly declined in quality, Julian Barrett does all the heavy lifting on the show, most of the jokes are stolen from bill bailey and noel fielding is currently stinking up and being massively unfunny on never mind the buzzcocks.

    Psychoville is far superior.

  136. 136.

    Brick Oven Bill

    Hey, DougJ, get your ass out of bed. The Rochester Tea Party starts in twenty-one minutes.

  137. 137.

    asiangrrlMN

    @Yutsano: Fake-hubby #2, that was so sweet and beautiful. Thank you for sharing it.

    @Tattoosydney: Fake-hubby #1. that song fucking rocks.

    Ooooh, look! Both my fake hubbies were here last night, and I was night. Story of my life.

    I love grab a mop. I would just like to add one word: grab a mop, bitchez!

  139. 139.

    asiangrrlMN

    @WereBear: I just saw the link at first, and I thought it was a new sex toy. Sigh.

    @Andy K: This version of Oops I Did it Again is excellent.

    Cole! Where the fuck are ya? I miss your dulcet tones and the Tunch pics, of course. I hope you’re feeling better.

  142. 142.

    asiangrrlMN

    @asiangrrlMN:

    Ooooh, look! Both my fake hubbies were here last night, and I was night. Story of my life.

    I am properly appalled at the fact I didn’t catch my gaffe. “Both my fake hubbies were here last night, and I was not. Story of my fucking life.”

  145. 145.

    Ruckus

    @DougL (frmrly: Conservatively Liberal):
    In my younger days (crap that was a long time ago) I used to be a regular at a bar with live music. The regular group lead singer played amplified rock violin. Amazing stuff. Have tried to track him down, don’t remember the band or his name, so not easy. No luck on that. He’d have to be about 60-70 now.
    Point is he made the violin sing and opened me to appreciate many more types of music.

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