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Another Open Thread

by John Cole|  May 8, 201012:49 am| 91 Comments

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Sorry for the long pause- must have been radio silence for at least four or five hours- but I just got home. Had a great time- met a bunch of new people, had some good eats, and met some people who actually read the blog, which was cool. From what I gather, I need to run Tunch for office- this is how realignments happen. Music that sums up my mood:

Enjoy.

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  1. 1.

    de stijl

    May 8, 2010 at 12:52 am

    I need to run Tunch for office

    Dog Catcher!

  2. 2.

    Mike Kay

    May 8, 2010 at 12:54 am

    where’s the birth certificate, Tunch?

  3. 3.

    General Egali Tarian Stuck

    May 8, 2010 at 12:57 am

    It has always fascinated me how trumpet players blow up their cheeks like that. And Dizzy was the best of the lot on that instrument.

  4. 4.

    Corner Stone

    May 8, 2010 at 12:57 am

    met a nunch of new people

    Is that a new breed of people?

  5. 5.

    robertdsc

    May 8, 2010 at 1:01 am

    I don’t think Tunch would fit in the Oval Office.

  6. 6.

    Yutsano

    May 8, 2010 at 1:02 am

    @General Egali Tarian Stuck: The ironic part is blowing out your cheeks like that is actually considered bad form, if you ask a classically trained trumpet player. However, Dizzy learned on the mean streets of Nawlins, so he can do whatever makes Dizzy happy.

  7. 7.

    Corner Stone

    May 8, 2010 at 1:21 am

    @Corner Stone: I’m pretty sure this is how the DJI spiked down 1000 points.

  8. 8.

    ms badger

    May 8, 2010 at 1:23 am

    Yes, please run Tunch for elected office. In the high country of Colorado, several municipalities are governed by dogs, cats and other livestock. A cat in WV can only have a positive effect towards good governance. Plus, if there is an Animals Governing Small Municipalities conference, Tunch can eat the llama who is mayor and save Guffey, Colorado.

  9. 9.

    Punchy

    May 8, 2010 at 1:25 am

    7 days in Hawaii is da mostest tittiest place in da world to hang. Got sand in places I didn’t know sand cud reach. Didn’t know sea tuetles ate coral. Trumpetfish are fearless. Great times.

    Punchy + a lot

  10. 10.

    Corner Stone

    May 8, 2010 at 1:28 am

    @Punchy: Do you mean “the balls”, or do you mean “the tittiest”?
    It’s kinda important.

  11. 11.

    asiangrrlMN

    May 8, 2010 at 1:30 am

    Wooot! I would vote for Tunchie any day!

  12. 12.

    Punchy

    May 8, 2010 at 1:33 am

    I meant “tittiest”, but “tuetles” shud read “turtles”. 5+ drinx accentuated by a Blackhawks victory has left me too excited to spell correckly…..

  13. 13.

    Yutsano

    May 8, 2010 at 1:34 am

    @asiangrrlMN: You would have his kitteh babies if he asked you. Don’t think you’re fooling anyone here.

    Yay days off. At least I’ll have a very nice paycheck in a couple of weeks.

  14. 14.

    Martin

    May 8, 2010 at 1:36 am

    I wish I could inflate my neck. Not sure why, but I imagine I could somehow put it to good use on Halloween.

  15. 15.

    asiangrrlMN

    May 8, 2010 at 1:38 am

    @Yutsano: Luckily for all involved, he’s snipped. Glad you’re getting PAID. Someone has to keep me covered in chocolate and diamonds. And, as I’ve told you many times, I’m easy, but not cheap. P.S. I have a cat permanently glued to my crotch tonight, anyway, so no multiplying for me.

    @Martin: I gotta ask…Halloween? Bobbing for apples? Eating candy? Scaring the kids?

  16. 16.

    eemom

    May 8, 2010 at 1:38 am

    you mean you’re not —

    oh. Yeah, never mind that thread down below. We’ll have it cleaned up before you can say “fuckhead nobody.” You just relax, and listen to your jazz……

  17. 17.

    Martin

    May 8, 2010 at 1:52 am

    @asiangrrlMN: I’m thinking scaring the kids – something along those lines.

  18. 18.

    Yutsano

    May 8, 2010 at 1:52 am

    @asiangrrlMN: I’m glad to see the rulers of your little kingdom are managing to keep a handle on you. Mine are around here somewhere. Hard to say what will happen. I think they’re plotting against me.

  19. 19.

    asiangrrlMN

    May 8, 2010 at 1:56 am

    @Martin: I was imagining many improbable things, so thanks for the clarification.

    @Yutsano: Well, earlier, the other one tried to kill me by thumping down on my chest and stiff-legging his back paws into my throat. He keupt them jammed there for ten minutes. This was after he turned on my chest three times. I keep telling him he’s not a dog, but does he listen to me? No.

  20. 20.

    Yutsano

    May 8, 2010 at 2:03 am

    @asiangrrlMN: I think you’ve been shown your place inferior being. At least he was merciful upon you and allowed you to draw breath another day. I recommend Italian tuna as penance.

    I’m in the mood for a milkshake randomly.

  21. 21.

    jnfr

    May 8, 2010 at 2:04 am

    I was actually in a Chicago jazz club (do not recall the name +several) while Dizzy played on his 60th birthday. One of the more amazing nights I’ve ever had.

  22. 22.

    asiangrrlMN

    May 8, 2010 at 2:08 am

    BREAKING NEWS! It’s SNOWING here! YAY! Happy snow dance.

    @Yutsano: He did leave after ten minutes, so you may be right. I just gave them a bite each of organic hot dog. They love it.

  23. 23.

    Yutsano

    May 8, 2010 at 2:10 am

    @asiangrrlMN: I actually freaked out when I saw they had Italian tuna at my local grocery store. I almost did a happy dance.

    The weather has been very strange I agree. Usually by this time my winter clothes are retired for the spring/summer, but it only broke 70 today, and just barely.

  24. 24.

    asiangrrlMN

    May 8, 2010 at 2:12 am

    @Yutsano: How is Italian tuna different? And now I want a milkshake, damn you. It was predicted we’d get snow tonight, but then we didn’t, and I had a sad, but now we are, and I haz a happy!

  25. 25.

    Steeplejack

    May 8, 2010 at 2:14 am

    Okay, I get it–this is the newer “cool” thread. Will bring my maudlin along with me. I think every Cat Stevens song should be covered like this.

    N.B. This song is not maudlin per se, but when you are sitting at your computer in the middle of the night sucking down rum and trolling through the lower depths of YouTube it definitely adds to the vibe. And, sue me, I just like go-go dancers.

    Steep + some.

  26. 26.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    May 8, 2010 at 2:14 am

    @eemom: Is that your juvenile attempt at tattling? Do you think he gives a damn about a couple of traded insults by pseudonymous commenters? There is something seriously wrong with you.

  27. 27.

    Yutsano

    May 8, 2010 at 2:15 am

    @asiangrrlMN: Jack in the Box is sooo calling out to me right now. If I’m gonna get a milkshake it will be a decent one at least. Of course last time I tried this their machine was down for cleaning. I was not a happy camper.

    Italian tunas use different fish and are usually packed in olive oil. Different taste, a necessity for a nicoise salad.

    @Steeplejack: Mmm. Me likey Yusuf Islam.

  28. 28.

    asiangrrlMN

    May 8, 2010 at 2:17 am

    @Steeplejack: A friend sent me that link when I got into Cat Stevens. The cover blew me away (the original is excellent, too). I really like when a band takes a song and makes it their own while remaining true to the intent.

    It was JK on this very site who got me hooked on Cat Stevens’ Father and Son.

    @Yutsano: We don’t have Jack-in-the-Box. However, there is a DQ on my way to tai chi tomorrow, and I do love me some Blizzards, lactose-intolerance be damned.

  29. 29.

    Corner Stone

    May 8, 2010 at 2:21 am

    @Yutsano:

    Of course last time I tried this their machine was down for cleaning. I was not a happy camper.

    Well, I could teach you. But I’d have to charge.

  30. 30.

    JGabriel

    May 8, 2010 at 2:25 am

    @asiangrrlMN:

    It’s SNOWING here! YAY!

    In May? Are you sure that’s not apocalypse ash?

    .

  31. 31.

    asiangrrlMN

    May 8, 2010 at 2:27 am

    @JGabriel: We’ve had snow in every month in MN, but yeah, snow in May is pretty rare. I’ll take it, though! I had given up hope it would come, and then it did!

  32. 32.

    Yutsano

    May 8, 2010 at 2:28 am

    @JGabriel: Most likely not in Minnesota. They don’t really do that spring thing up there. From what I understand North Dakota is even worse.

    @asiangrrlMN: I would kill for a 24 hour DQ here. I bet it would do gangbusters, especially considering how busy that place gets right before it closes. I am, however, limited to 24 hour places. JitB isn’t bad for milkshakes though.

  33. 33.

    Mark S.

    May 8, 2010 at 2:31 am

    Watched The Happening.

    What? Nooooo!

    Here’s Mark Wahlberg in a much better performance.

  34. 34.

    asiangrrlMN

    May 8, 2010 at 2:32 am

    @Yutsano: ‘Scuse me, we do have spring, thankyewverymuch. It just happens to be very short. We also have a real summer. It, too, is just truncated.

  35. 35.

    Yutsano

    May 8, 2010 at 2:33 am

    @asiangrrlMN: Uh-huh. Sure dear. You just keep telling yourself that. I know why you are where you are. Well maybe not all the juicy details, but still…

  36. 36.

    Steeplejack

    May 8, 2010 at 2:35 am

    @Yutsano:

    Me likey Yusuf Islam.

    I just did a spit-take at the conjunction of

    “Here Comes My Baby” | the Mavericks | Yusuf Islam

    On the other hand, Yusef Lateef . . . “Love Theme from ‘Spartacus.'” Bringing it home to Cole’s jazz theme at the top.

  37. 37.

    asiangrrlMN

    May 8, 2010 at 2:35 am

    @Yutsano: We hit the nineties in the summer! Which really sucks for me, but it does happen. It’s just that spring and summer are three months (together), tops, autumn is two to three months, and the rest is winter. It’s just the way I like it.

  38. 38.

    Mike Kay

    May 8, 2010 at 2:36 am

    underage Bristol Palin caught partying in the Devil’s Den

    Ironcially, she was clubbing a location ARod hangs out. Guess, David Letterman was on to something.

    http://snipurl.com/w2gtg

    Says she only fucked Levi because he had a cool truck.

    what’s with conservatives and their truck fetish. I mean, I think a foot fetish is freaky, but this ridiculous.

  39. 39.

    JGabriel

    May 8, 2010 at 2:38 am

    @asiangrrlMN:

    ‘Scuse me, we do have spring, thankyewverymuch.

    It’s so sweet how you ‘sotans call a two week mosquito season “spring”. I just love that midwestern north optimism.

    .

  40. 40.

    Yutsano

    May 8, 2010 at 2:38 am

    @asiangrrlMN: I’m still of the opinion you should do some checking out of Whitehorse. For the middle of nowhere Canada it really does have a smidge of civilization. And sociaIist health care to boot!

  41. 41.

    Steeplejack

    May 8, 2010 at 2:44 am

    @asiangrrlMN:

    Here’s the version that originally conquered the charts back in the ’60s–the Tremeloes.

    . . . Good, this video is awful. Almost like something out of This Is Spinal Tap. Let me at least link to the original version. Much tighter. Ooh, Grace Kelly.

    And I will always like Cat Stevens’s version, too, which I now associate irrevocably with The Royal Tenenbaums.

    Steep + some more

  42. 42.

    JGabriel

    May 8, 2010 at 2:44 am

    via Mike Kay:

    Bristol was honored again that evening by the likes of … Dr. Drew at the Candie’s Event to Prevent. “She has handled her situation with such dignity. She has such substance,” says the good doctor …

    Ha! The kind of substance that’ll get you 5 to 10 in a meth bust.

    .

  43. 43.

    asiangrrlMN

    May 8, 2010 at 2:44 am

    @Mike Kay: OK, appalling stance on sex and whatnot aside (and yeah, the truck thing, ugh), I am not gonna get on her for going to a club, especially as she did not drink.

    @JGabriel: Mumble mumble flashes you the bird.

    @Yutsano: Gorgeous! I’m checking it out now. Hm. Not quite cold enough, but it still intrigues me.

  44. 44.

    eemom

    May 8, 2010 at 2:46 am

    @Just Some Fuckhead:

    damn you is fucked up. Every time I think you can’t get any fucked-up-er, you surpass. An achievement of sorts I suppose. Congrats, Fuckie.

  45. 45.

    Yutsano

    May 8, 2010 at 2:48 am

    @asiangrrlMN: Sneaking into a nightclub in NYC at 19 is called a typical Saturday night for the kids there. It’s nowhere near unusual, especially if you’re anywhere close to having a famous name. A mumble of the name Palin plus a Benjamin and she was in like Flynn. Double entendre fully intended.

    I’m a little bit biased, as Whitehorse is my ex’s hometown.

    @eemom: The nom de Internet is accurate with that one.

  46. 46.

    fucen tarmal

    May 8, 2010 at 2:48 am

    @Corner Stone:

    don’t be kellis.

  47. 47.

    asiangrrlMN

    May 8, 2010 at 2:54 am

    @Steeplejack: That version rocks, too. I have to say, it’s just an excellent song all-around.

    @Yutsano: Yeah, I don’t see her having much problem getting in anywhere she wants. No double entendre there!

  48. 48.

    JGabriel

    May 8, 2010 at 2:55 am

    @asiangrrlMN:

    I am not gonna get on her for going to a club, especially as she did not drink.

    No one gets carded in NYC, unless the bar is selling drugs or you look under 13. Trust me, Bristol drank.

    .

  49. 49.

    JGabriel

    May 8, 2010 at 2:59 am

    @Steeplejack: I love Yo La Tengo’s version from Facebook. Unfortunately, the only video I can find is a live version with audio quality too low for it to be worth linking.

    .

  50. 50.

    asiangrrlMN

    May 8, 2010 at 2:59 am

    @JGabriel: Yeah, OK. That was naive of me. I wish she would just go away, frankly, and take the rest of her messed-up family with her.

  51. 51.

    BethanyAnne

    May 8, 2010 at 3:07 am

    ok, looked like the “glassware” thread was all full and sleepy, so I’ma drop this in here.

    Glassware? Seems lot of folk mentioned IKEA, but I didn’t see anyone link this.

  52. 52.

    Steeplejack

    May 8, 2010 at 3:10 am

    @JGabriel:

    I’ve got that album! Momentarily forgot about their version in the heated blaze of the Mavericks’ go-go dancers. Now I’m on multiple replay of the Tremeloes’ version (album, not live). Good beat, easy to dance to–I give it an 85, Dick.

  53. 53.

    Steeplejack

    May 8, 2010 at 3:15 am

    @JGabriel:

    Just dug out the Yo La Tengo version. Love the brushes on the drums. Excellent touch. God, this could keep me going for another three or four hours.

  54. 54.

    asiangrrlMN

    May 8, 2010 at 3:17 am

    @Steeplejack: I listened to it on YouTube. Not great audio quality, but still a a good version. Again, that’s just a great song. Thanks for breaking it out.

  55. 55.

    Steeplejack

    May 8, 2010 at 3:23 am

    @asiangrrlMN:

    It is amazing how some songs are just so great and so sturdy that they can be done all sorts of ways and still retain their immutable essence.

    To bring it full circle, here’s Cat Stevens’s original version of “Here Comes My Baby.” Like I said, now it always makes me flash on The Royal Tenenbaums.

  56. 56.

    asiangrrlMN

    May 8, 2010 at 3:27 am

    @Steeplejack: No kidding! Each version is different and yet, complementary to the others. Unlike, cough, the Dwight Yoakam cover you sprang on me in the other thread. I don’t remember this from The Royal Tenenbaums, though. Which scene?

    P.S. I read Cat Stevens wrote it when he was eighteen! Brilliance.

  57. 57.

    Yutsano

    May 8, 2010 at 3:35 am

    @asiangrrlMN: It’s always fun to freak wingnuts by mentioning Cat Stevens is a Muslim now. In fact he wrote an op-ed column (or something along those lines) not long after 9/11 trying to keep Americans from freaking out about Islam. Somehow it resulted in his being banned from US travel.

  58. 58.

    Steeplejack

    May 8, 2010 at 3:40 am

    @asiangrrlMN:

    I don’t remember this from The Royal Tenenbaums, though. Which scene?

    Man, haven’t seen that movie in a while–and I should–but I think it is associated with one of the scenes involving the tent in the middle of the room. Either when Luke Wilson is remembering how he and Gwyneth Paltrow used to go to the museum, or later, after he has cut his wrists and has come home.

    Damn it, now I’m probably going to have to buy that movie tomorrow. (Which I have been meaning to do anyway.)

    ETA: Damn you, Wes Anderson, for your musical taste that almost perfectly matches mine. Now I’m thinking about the bossa nova Bowie stuff from The Life Aquatic.

  59. 59.

    asiangrrlMN

    May 8, 2010 at 3:42 am

    @Yutsano: Is that what got him banned? Sheesh.

    @Steeplejack: You buy. Then you tell me. I really liked that movie, which surprised me.

  60. 60.

    Steeplejack

    May 8, 2010 at 3:43 am

    @Yutsano:

    Somehow it resulted in his being banned from U.S. travel.

    Because, yeah, he’s a Muslim, and he’s also a (former?) rock star who probably smoked marijuana at some point. Why do you hate America?

  61. 61.

    Steeplejack

    May 8, 2010 at 3:46 am

    @asiangrrlMN:

    I really liked that movie, which surprised me.

    To me, it is the closest thing to the best J.D. Salinger movie that will (n)ever get made. Really holds up, which surprised me, because initially I was a little disappointed in it. My expectations/hopes were so high after Rushmore, and it felt like a bit of a letdown. But time has vindicated it.

  62. 62.

    Yutsano

    May 8, 2010 at 3:54 am

    @Steeplejack:

    Why do you hate America?

    Probably has something to do with me fancying Canadian hockey players and Marines. I’m undermining the social fabric of America one sex partner at a time. I think I deserve some kind of medal.

  63. 63.

    Steeplejack

    May 8, 2010 at 4:05 am

    @Yutsano:

    I’m undermining the social fabric of America one sex partner at a time.

    And you’re undermining my narrative. Although that doesn’t have to be done one partner at a time. It appears to collapse all at once.

  64. 64.

    asiangrrlMN

    May 8, 2010 at 4:07 am

    @Steeplejack: I don’t usually like screwball comedies (which was my impression before I went to see it), and I was pleasantly surprised by the darkness that was seeded throughout it.

    @Yutsano: Homosexual agenda!

    I guess I need a narrative now. Hm….

  65. 65.

    Yutsano

    May 8, 2010 at 4:08 am

    @Steeplejack: I’ll get on feeling bad about that right away. Yes sir, that I will. Any minute now. I promise you, it’s gonna happen.

    @asiangrrlMN: Does this make me a full-fledged homosexualist now? FH #1 would be so proud!

    BTW remind me to stop yelling at idiot blog commenters. I don’t need the aggravation.

  66. 66.

    Steeplejack

    May 8, 2010 at 4:09 am

    Two good covers that occur to me tonight, both from Buddy Miles’s great 1970 album Them Changes: Neil Young’s “Down by the River” and the Allman Brothers’ “Dreams.”

  67. 67.

    Steeplejack

    May 8, 2010 at 4:14 am

    @asiangrrlMN:

    Yeah, Tenenbaums is not light. Great ensemble acting is the other thing I remember. Gene Hackman is great, and Gwyneth Paltrow with her raccoon-eyes makeup.

  68. 68.

    asiangrrlMN

    May 8, 2010 at 4:16 am

    @Yutsano: Heh. I just read and shake my head. If there is no room for debate, why respond? Where is FH#1, come to think of it?

    Ooooh! I have a narrative! Chocolate, pizza, sex, and Alan Rickman! And cats!

    @Steeplejack: OK, that first cover would have me out of my panties (if i weren’t going commando, as it were), and the second one? I won’t tell you what that makes me want to do!

  69. 69.

    Yutsano

    May 8, 2010 at 4:20 am

    @asiangrrlMN: What the fuck is the point of constantly saying the same thing about a front pager over and over again? Talk about neuroses I’d rather not grok. And dammit how am I supposed to undermine a narrative that so closely parallels my own?

    If FH #1 took his hubby and Pedro to the beach with no prior warning I reserve the right to fly down there and spank him.

  70. 70.

    asiangrrlMN

    May 8, 2010 at 4:24 am

    @Yutsano: Yeah, I would rather not go there, thankyewverymuch.

    Our narratives are similar? Who woulda thunk it?

    Ooooh, I’ll hold him down for you!

  71. 71.

    Steeplejack

    May 8, 2010 at 4:28 am

    @asiangrrlMN:

    Add them to your stripper dance repertoire. Slow and sweaty is good too.

  72. 72.

    Yutsano

    May 8, 2010 at 4:31 am

    @asiangrrlMN: Okay, when I’m officially out of witty or pithy things to say that means I need to go re-kindle my relationship with my pillow. I’ll find y’all again when I go conscious.

  73. 73.

    asiangrrlMN

    May 8, 2010 at 4:33 am

    @Steeplejack: Oh yeah, baby. Is it hot in here, or is it just me?

    @Yutsano: I hear you. I need to hit the hay myself. That leaves Steep Man to hold down the fort!

  74. 74.

    Steeplejack

    May 8, 2010 at 4:36 am

    @asiangrrlMN:

    Continuing in the same mood, here’s the Electric Flag (with Buddy Miles) doing that old chestnut “Sunny.”

    And, just because it’s a motherfucking great song, Buddy Miles doing his one (semi-)hit, “Them Changes.”

  75. 75.

    Steeplejack

    May 8, 2010 at 4:41 am

    @Steeplejack:

    P.S. And how many people can say, “Oh, yeah, I got to play my song with Hendrix”?

  76. 76.

    Steeplejack

    May 8, 2010 at 4:47 am

    @asiangrrlMN:

    You kids go on to bed. I got this.

  77. 77.

    Steeplejack

    May 8, 2010 at 5:00 am

    For any remaining night owls, my final foray into awesome cover-osity: “Mad World” by Tears for Fears and then by Gary Jules.

    That video is a nice coda to the evening. Steep out.

  78. 78.

    stuckinred

    May 8, 2010 at 5:29 am

    @asiangrrlMN: yoo hoo

  79. 79.

    Steeplejack

    May 8, 2010 at 5:36 am

    @stuckinred:

    Give it up, dude. You are not late for the late shift. You are early for the early shift.

    Now I’m really out. Zzzz . . .

  80. 80.

    stuckinred

    May 8, 2010 at 5:42 am

    @Steeplejack: There it is, I can’t swim until 7am and the farmers market doesn’t open until 8! Stuck inside of nowhere with the Athens blues again!

  81. 81.

    demo woman

    May 8, 2010 at 7:31 am

    The United States Postal Service is picking up non-perishable foods today for local pantries. If you have extra can goods please leave a few in your mailbox. Apartment dwellers could check with the management to see if they have a pick-up center. Food pantries have seen a rise in demand but a fall in donations, so help out if you can.

  82. 82.

    bago

    May 8, 2010 at 7:36 am

    How to work on mothers day.

  83. 83.

    Violet

    May 8, 2010 at 8:26 am

    Up early on a Saturday, not by choice. Bah. Just woke up. No idea why.

    Trying to motivate myself to go for a run since I’m up anyway, but failing miserably at it. It will be too hot to run in a few hours when I feel like running, and if I wait until it’s cooler later in the day, that means at least 7:00 p.m., which really eats into Saturday night.

    I really dread summer. Ugh.

  84. 84.

    jeffreyw

    May 8, 2010 at 8:37 am

    Creeps me out.

  85. 85.

    jeffreyw

    May 8, 2010 at 8:38 am

    Mmmm…breakfast.

  86. 86.

    jurassicpork

    May 8, 2010 at 8:50 am

    Another of my patented photo essays, with a little help from Disturbed, dedicated to all those destroyed by coal mining and oil companies. You’ll be glad you saw this.

  87. 87.

    kommrade reproductive vigor

    May 8, 2010 at 9:00 am

    Tunch iz in ur base. Stealin’ ur groupies.

  88. 88.

    RedKitten

    May 8, 2010 at 9:03 am

    Today’s a good day. My mom is visiting this weekend, and made a kickass Coquille St. Jacques last night for supper. Sam didn’t wake up at all in the night last night. This morning, I got to sleep in until 7am, and woke up to the smell of fresh muffins that my husband had baked (he had also changed Sam’s diaper and prepped his breakfast.) Sam’s been a happy doll-baby today, and is now napping. The sun is shining, and later today we’re going here to pick something out to have for supper.

  89. 89.

    Linda Featheringill

    May 8, 2010 at 9:06 am

    @jurassicpork:
    Very nice.

    I would like to say your pessimism was unwarranted but I am afraid that you’re just realistic.

  90. 90.

    Linda Featheringill

    May 8, 2010 at 9:15 am

    Gulf oil:

    Skytruth says the flow of oil is about a million barrels a day, regardless of what the official statements are.

    Times-Picayune says that the cofferdams are expected to corral about 85% of the oil flow.

    Therefore 150,000 gallons of crude oil will probably be spitting into the Gulf each and every day until the other wells are up and running. That will be at least two more months, maybe three.

    I guess we can expect an additional 9 to 13.5 million gallons of crude oil.

    Skytruth also says that this event has already dumped more oil into the ocean than the Exxon Valdez.

    Sigh.

  91. 91.

    Linda Featheringill

    May 8, 2010 at 9:45 am

    More on Gulf oil:

    I understand that BP and other companies are exploring an oil deposit that amounts to about 300 million gallons. I read somewhere that the US alone uses about 20 million a day, but I don’t have a good source for that.

    So if these numbers are correct, all of this grief and destruction was brought on for 15 days of oil.

    Damn.

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