I was wondering why the HGTV channel features lots of homes, but no gardening. Is there no channel that discusses gardening?
Also, as I told someone last night, when the revolution comes, if I am in charge, first against the wall are the 20 something newlyweds on House Hunters who freak out that their first home might not have all stainless steel appliances or who summarily reject any house in which the bathrooms do not have two sinks.
Here are some pictures of the dogs today:
Having three dogs is exhausting. I have no idea how my parents dealt with four kids, a dog, two cats, a rabbit, and fish.
Figured you all would want an open thread to discuss the election results, so hear you go.
comrade scott's agenda of rage
That’s a great shot of Lily in the plants.
Don’t forget, when shooting the newlyweds, you hafta charge the families for the cost of the buwets.
AhabTRuler
Eh. Shallow people are shallow.
lamh32
is it bad that I’m willing to do a happy dance over this: Campbell Brown to Leave CNN
Martin
Well, yeah, I’ll let him stick his weiner in me, but you want my toothbrush to commingle with his? Ew!
Mudge
I cannot come to grips with the concept of two sinks in a bathroom. But hey, PBS has gardening shows..
Jules
Yeah, the young ones on house hunters annoy me.
Who cares about 2 sinks?
We never use ours except to store the blow dryer and misc sink top trash.
Those pooches are all pretty cute….
Chuck Butcher
My wife dislikes stainless on appliances, I don’t care as long as they work and don’t look wrecked.
I doubt that OR will produce any surprises though possibly some amusement if the GOP nominates the guy whose qualifications are basketball and not bothering to vote in a vote by mail state.
SIA
@lamh32: Too bad no one ever saw her true, untapped talent. Maybe Fox will – and take Candy Crowley with her. (Sorry, I’m being kind of snippy I know).
Re election results – are there some in yet? VERY interested in AR, also who wins Murtha’s seat.
ETA: My god those dogs are cute. What a trio! Like the paint color too.
Mark S.
Man I hate HGTV. I’m so glad my girlfriend no longer likes it. I did like it one time when some old guy said, “We don’t do any entertaining. We only have two friends.”
hg
I’m no expert, but isnt that collar on too tight?
HumboldtBlue
Man, Lily’s cousins are just two long-haired dirty fucking hippies, huh?
Shave and a haircut, two bits?
gypsy howell
I was amused to hear that Rendell says the rain is bad for Specter, because Democrats do well with high turnout, and rain depresses turnout. Who does he think is voting for Sestak — Republicans?
I don’t love Sestak, but I would be quite happy to see Mr Magic Bullet finally go.
That said, we’ll probably end up with Toomey {{{{shudder}}}}. This is a state that elected Santorum, after all.
Carrie
What gets me is when they bitch about the goddamn paint colour on the walls.
Grrrr…
MikeJ
@SIA: According to GOS, polls close at:
Kentucky: 6 pm
Pennsylvania: 8 pm
Arkansas: 8:30 pm
Oregon: 11 pm
(all times Eastern). they’ve already got early KY stuff up over there.
Egilsson
Man, I was just saying this other day. It blows my mind.
Where the hell do they get their money? I can’t afford to repair my garage roof or replace a door and they can’t accept anything other than an open layout with miles of granite and stainless steel appliances.
Kids is a big difference – someone has to cut work or they pay $750+ a month in childcare alone. A lot of people really don’t get that.
Violet
I always forget how small Lily is. That second photo is gorgeous. Beautiful garden.
I happened across a great gardening show on PBS one Saturday or Sunday afternoon. No idea what it’s called or if it’s even still on, but it was great.
Question: I was at someone’s house yesterday and their cat was being extremely friendly, rubbing all around my legs as I was standing. I moved to walk into another room and guess I startled the cat, who bit my leg. Didn’t draw blood as far as I could tell, but this I noticed a bit of blood in the same area on my leg and there two small but obvious fang marks.
Is this something I should worry about? I don’t know these people very well, but am guessing they take good care of their pets. The cat seems healthy, but a bit skittish when I’ve been around her before. They also have a dog, who is well cared for.
Roger Moore
It’s like asking why MTV no longer plays any music, or why ESPN is just sports and not entertainment. They found out what sells and stuck to that side of things, but they never bothered to change the name. I guess that house porn sells better than garden porn, or maybe that makers of home appliances are willing to pay a lot more for product placement than makers of gardening tools.
tavella
I saw a few episodes when I was home for Christmas, and they were all annoying, except for this one young couple who were happy to get a house within their budget at all and were okay with the fact it was little and they’d have to do a lot of work on it.
jeffreyw
Dealin with the fish is easy enough.
demo woman
Barry at the big picture has an interesting post up about Obama and the deficit if anyone has time to read while they wait for the demise of the Democratic Party. I’m kidding about the Democratic Party thing but one poster had a good comment.
DarrenG
Not a big gardener myself, but seems like PBS, DIY Network, and Planet Green show lots of houses with plants and grass whenever I surf through them :)
Just Some Fuckhead
@Carrie: They are prolly encouraged to be opinionated.
joe from Lowell
@lamh32:
I loathe Campbell Brown, ever since her performances during the 2008 primary debates (which, obviously, were all about her).
I remember her leading off one of them by asking Hillary Clinton, paraphrasing here, “Senator, what do you think about what Barack said about what you said about what John said about what you said?”
She followed up with, “Senator Obama, what do you think about what Hillary just said about what you said?”
Eventually, miraculously, the three candidates managed to turn the debate back into a discussion of their health care plans. At which point a chuckling Wolf Blitzer says, “Now, now, we’re going to have plenty of time this evening to talk about health care…” and proceeded to ask another inane question about what somebody thought about what somebody said about somebody’s ad.
At that point, I passed out.
DougJ
Both parties are engaged in purity purges. It is very sad.
Litlebritdifrnt
John – I was a regular poster on the HGTV gardening boards, we frequently bitched about the lack of a “G” in the HGTV thingy. Now it appears to be almost exclusively about selling and buying homes. I agree with you about the new buyers, “oh this master suite is just too small, it won’t fit a king size bed and the closet isn’t the size of a small country and I could never get all my clothes in there” Has it occurred to you that if you need a King Size bed then you don’t actually like your spouse that much? Has it occurred to you that if you need a closet the size of a New York apartment then perhaps you have too many fucking clothes? The latest series “Selling New York” just about does my head in.
When we complained to HGTV as a group about the lack of gardening shows we were told that “we do not air gardening shows in the winter, they will resume in the Spring” talk about a total lack of knowledge of your viewers. Gardeners want gardening shows in the winter, cause we can’t garden. You know what we are doing in the Spring? We are out in the garden, you know, gardening, we sure as hell are not sitting on the couch watching H(noG)TV.
Assholes.
Punchy
Watching the Royals/O’s game, and there’s like 4K peeps at Camden Yards. Sad shizzle.
cat48
@John Cole
Most gardening shows are on Sat. a.m. in my area. Don’t know why since I always go out early & work. Haven’t watched for a while but programming has been this way for yrs.
trollhattan
Yee-haw, Alabama geometry lesson, with a twist.
http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2010/05/jefferson_county_geometry_teac.html
Recommend you do NOT read the comments.
Also, too, Republicans (talking to you, Bobby Jindal) think volcano monitoring is teh funneh. 30 years ago, today…
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/94104494.html
Dork
Just make the pay in donuts, and she’s gone.
schrodinger's cat
@Violet:
If the area around the bite is swollen, it may be infected, in that case you should go to the doctor ASAP. This fall my kitteh bit me (don’t ask its a long story), I ignored it but a day later my whole hand was was swollen to three times its size and I had to get shots and a course of penicillin.
Martin
@Egilsson: I think the key thing to remember is that HGTV is targeted to the solid middle/middle upper class demographic. Who wants to sell ads to people that have no money?
Amanda in the South Bay
I’ve been reading Sullivan quite a bit lately (I know, I know) and have been fucking annoyed at his little series of posts about death and the afterlife. They are all so fucking pretentious! Especially the reader e-mails, regardless of how touching people’s stories are, they all make me want to vomit.
Its like Burkean Bells on steroids.
SIA
@MikeJ: Thanks MikeJ
On another topic, I’m in Alabama this week, and here’s the local headline (heard it made Drudge, woohoo)
http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2010/05/jefferson_county_teacher_who_u.html
The comments are loads of fun too. Loved the line in the Reese Witherspoon movie, “You need a passport to come down here”.
It is pretty scary in some areas around here. I get a little nervous if I have to go to the Piggly Wiggly after dark. :D
slag
Love the pics! Verdant and sweet. Very Little House on the Prairie.
There are a few episodes of a gardening show on Hulu: http://www.hulu.com/search?query=gardening&st=1.
And on pbs.org: http://video.pbs.org/subject/957382732/topic/957388329.
SIA
@trollhattan: Oh I see you’ve already discovered this absorbing story! Too late! I did read the comments. Gak.
Mike Kay
Anyone else scratching their head over how an ugly fat troll like Souder scored a hotter mistress than john edwards
Fitzwili
The bbc sometimes has good gardening shows but their website is a better bet.
Have you ever checked out http://davesgarden.com/
It is huge but very helpful for gardeners with any level of experience.
The bug /bird/ flower sections are always great – you can post a picture of something you can’t identify and you will usually get several responses telling you the proper ID.
comrade scott's agenda of rage
@Punchy:
Two sad-assed franchises…for decades now. It’s too bad really.
Martin
@DougJ: The Dems are? We’re half-assed purging one Dem that has only been a Dem for a year, so I think that’s somewhat understandable. And we’re purging one who has been pretty marginal on procedural votes. I don’t have a problem with Dems voting against Dem bills, but I have a HUGE problem with Dems going along with procedural obstruction against Dem bills.
Loneoak
Tour of California just blew past my house. Saw Lance Armstrong and Levi Leipheimer need the lead. I’m pretty close to the final peak in Bonny Doon before the descent into Santa Cruz. And my dog behaved terribly. Exciting afternoon!
cat48
Checked TV Guide/appears no more gardening shows on hgtv. Do you have DIY? They have some gardening listed daily. There is always The Victory Garden on Sat on PBS wkly.
MikeJ
@Mike Kay: No, because we don’t fucking care.
Zifnab
Polls closed?
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v260/rocker_00000/Polls_closed.jpg
Sorry, that just killed me the first time I saw it during the last election.
lamh32
Man I feel bad for the dude who’s job it is to clean the camera lense after Tweety finishes his preachin’ (i.e. spitting on it)!
Zifnab
@Loneoak: Christ, is Armstrong still going? That man will never retire.
Just Some Fuckhead
I like to watch P. Allen Smith on PBS. He is so relaxed and soothing, he makes Mister Rogers look like a gangbanger.
Jon H
Here’s something from Rortybomb:
Here’s the punch line:
He’s now a teabagger, complaining about government spending, after the government spent billions because of toxic-asset-generating morons like him.
David
Notice how often you hear the phrase “great for entertaining!” on House Hunters.
SIA
Exactly right. Any democrat who votes against cloture on a dem bill should be primaried. I’m not impressed with Bill Halter (reminds me of John Edwards), but I want Blanche OUT. Same with Ben Nelson, but we’d never get another dem in there.
Carrie
@Just Some Fuckhead: Well that’s exactly it.
They’re showed 3 houses and have to site negative points on all of them and then, walla! They chose house # whatever even though they hated the wallpaper/ cracked foundation/ small yard. Drives me crazy.
I love these shows.
Cacti
The Victory Garden on PBS is a good gardening show.
Violet
@schrodinger’s cat:
Yeesh, that sounds bad. The bite is on my inside calf, so pretty much on a muscle. There are two sort of obvious fang bites, one of which looks more like a scratch and the other is a tiny bit swollen and a little bit bruised. It’s not even as bad as the swelling you get from a mosquito or ant bite. I mostly noticed it was swollen when I ran my finger over it. That shouldn’t be anything to worry about, right?
It all happened so fast. The cat was rubbing around my legs and feet and wouldn’t leave me alone. I just moved a leg to walk to the next room and Whammo! She sank her fangs into me and then bolted off. Weird cat.
Litlebritdifrnt
HGTV was dead to me when they no longer aired “Gardening by the yard” I loved that show, that and “A gardener’s Journal” which was just delightful, and I loved the lady in the pretty frocks and straw hats. The thing that HGTV do not realize is that during the winter us gardeners are snuggled up in jammies, drinking coco and reading seed catalogues, we NEED gardening shows then to keep us from going SAD mad. But no they stop airing them and tell us how to improve our house in order to sell it. Or they give us a show where someone has just spent $150,000 on a backyard makeover (get out, way out) well yes I am sure the majority of your viewers can afford to spend the entire value of their house on a backyard makeover. Idiots.
Third Eye Open
Has anyone listened to the new Black Keys album? I picked it up today and its…different. There seems to be some stuff that was held from Attack and Release, but I haven’t cracked a beer yet and enjoyed it with headphones.
SIA
@Zifnab: Haha! My joke was that BO showed up at inauguration talkin’ trash and wearing a purple suit and lots of swag!
Mnemosyne
@Violet:
Cat bites get infected very easily, so it’s worth keeping an eye on it and heading over to urgent care and/or the ER if it starts to look wonky or you start to get feverish.
When my brother’s cat bit me, I had to take a very strong triple antibiotic to prevent infection — I think it was the first and only time I’ve been given Cipro, and it was in conjunction with two additional antibiotics. But that was a nasty and very gory bite.
lamh32
personally, I just need this night to be over, so people will shut up about it.
The big question though is if Arlen Spector loses, how will he vote for the remainder of his term?
He seems like a dude who holds grudges.
trollhattan
@Loneoak:
Yay, tour! I saw the final laps on Sunday, wrecks and all. Here’s a somewhat out of focus Lance:
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4015/4617324225_89244568df_o.jpg
And a paceline with the eventual winner, Cavendish, at the back.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3336/4617106367_e4586435b9_o.jpg
Violet
@Mnemosyne:
It’s been probably about 36 hours now since the bite. How long should I be worried about an infection?
Martin
Wow, 50K more Democrats turned out in KY than Republicans so far for the various primaries? I thought that was the big wildcard this November – the teabaggers driving angry Americans to the polls. Not seeing it in KY…
trollhattan
@SIA:
At least I now know that it’s just the same as teaching the religion of evolution.
Martin
@Violet: If you aren’t craving brains or dragging your right foot when you walk yet, you’re probably fine.
Just Some Fuckhead
I used to enjoy Gardening By The Yard but it came on television on the weekend when I was usually outside gardening in the yard. But HGTV didn’t renew the show after 2009. According to host Paul James (follow the link) not enough people watch gardening shows for them to sell ads.
Rosali
Curb Appeal has some gardening.
Violet
@Litlebritdifrnt:
They’re really missing a huge demographic. If they had halfway reasonable gardening shows with subjects like “Gardening on the Cheap!” or “Small Space Gardens” they’d really bring in viewers.
HGTV was playing at the gym a few weeks ago and they were still showing some house purchase where the woman bought a $500,000 house with zero down. Seriously. Do those kinds of deals even exist anymore? It all seemed seriously out of step and like they were showing reruns from three or four years ago at the height of the housing bubble.
SIA
@trollhattan: Yeah! and the libtards want to take away your guns! And they did it to Bush. So THERE.
Elisabeth
Because it’s her birthday…and it’s an open thread…and she’s cute!
http://i322.photobucket.com/albums/nn437/elisabeth1518/Picture007.jpg
Violet
@Martin:
Lolz. No craving for brains at this point. I have never had a cat and don’t know much about them, but have heard that cat bites and scratches can be really dangerous so didn’t quite know what I should do.
SIA
@Elisabeth: ZOMG! KITTEH IN A BASKIT! (Very lovely young lady!)
Litlebritdifrnt
@David:
Knowing that the people buying the house will probably do no entertaining whatsoever. It is the closet thing that gets me the most though. Have you ever gone to an antique store and checked out a wardrobe from the 40s or 50s. It is tiny. Does it seem strange to anyone else but me that people nowadays require an entire fucking room to accommodate their clothes? I mean come on? Have expectations got to be these days that everyone lives like a Hollywood Star and has to have an entire room to accommodate their clothes?
Mnemosyne
@Violet:
If you haven’t seen anything wonky after 36 hours, you’re probably fine, but I Am Not A Medical Doctor. I had to get to the ER right away because I was bleeding pretty profusely, so fortunately I managed to avoid infection. If something was going to go horribly wrong, I think you would have seen it by now.
Cats can bite pretty hard without breaking the skin, so I wouldn’t be surprised if the cat had scratched you at the same time since they tend to grab on with their claws when they bite.
malraux
@Violet: The best evidence is that cat bites on the hands should be treated prophylacticly, but bites elsewhere should be left alone unless an infection develops.
On the AR race, the three reasons I pulled the level (well filled in the dot) for Halter were: 1. Lincoln saying that the public option was a bad idea once the liberals compromised to that while her website had a detailed description of why she favored the public option. 2. Obstructionist voting against the democrats (a really big deal IMO) and 3. the absurd denial that she was going hardcore on FinReg just for this primary and yet yesterday the word leaked that after today she’d be open for compromise.
fucen tarmal
these electronic voting machines act like i stole something because i don’t vote “for” unopposed candidates, somehow i hope the number of fewer votes they get, than the number of people who actually voted, will register with someone as dissatisfaction….
other than that, never vote at a elementary school around dismissal time if you think you are just gonna cruise out of there….i mean seriously, doesn’t anyone let their kids walk home? i know some of these kids live two blocks or whatever away….
Elisabeth
@SIA:
Thanks! She’s eight. I keep telling myself that means she’s still young, but JHC, where do the years go?!
Maude
@Violet:
Go to the doctor. Don’t wait to see if it gets worse.
Better safe than sorry.
Also, you won’t be worrying about it.
Violet
@Mnemosyne:
At first I thought she just scratched me, but there are two puncture marks that seem to be the exact distance apart of kitty fangs. One mark definitely looks like a puncture mark. The other one could be a scratch.
Thanks for the advice everyone. I think given that it doesn’t look very bad and I feel just fine I will put this cat bite on the “nothing to worry about” list. I will keep an eye on it just in case, but given it’s been this long it’s probably fine.
jeffreyw
@Elisabeth: Yay for kittehs!
stuckinred
Deleted?
Litlebritdifrnt
@Violet:
That is why I have to scour the damn site to find “design on a dime” I really don’t need to watch a show where someone spent 90K on a basement makeover, or $40K on a kitchen makeover. I want to know how to turn two q-tips, a roll of duct tape and a popsicle stick into a great project. Does HGTV not know that we are in a recession?
Fern
Lotta cute in those pictures.
AhabTRuler
For people that care about this sort of thing, this past weekend I picked up a Wacom Bamboo Touch, after having owned other Wacom products previously.
The interface allows you to duplicate using a stylus with Pen Tools plus several other functions. The finger combination set is simple enough that I am able to use it in left-handed mode even though I am a righty (although I have used the stylus ambidextrously in past, so that might be cheating).
Overall, I am very pleased with the results so far, and I am considering picking up a Bamboo Pen & Touch as well.
Elisabeth
@jeffreyw:
:)
http://i322.photobucket.com/albums/nn437/elisabeth1518/Picture003.jpg
(It’s not his birthday until October but he’s still cute!)
Violet
@Maude:
I simply don’t have the time. Plus I really, really don’t want to take antibiotics if I don’t have to. They generally make me feel bad and I’ve got a trip with some friends coming up. The last time I had a vacation I was on antibiotics and it kind of ruined it. I really don’t want to do that again. If it seems like it’s worse tomorrow I’ll go to the doctor, but hopefully it’s just a scratch.
WereBear
@Litlebritdifrnt: I adored “Gardening by the yard”, that fellow loved gardening, and he integrated his family and dog into the show in a great way.
Mnemosyne
@Violet:
I had indentations on my arm for a good three or four weeks afterward because my brother’s cat gave me a warning (non-skin-breaking) bite before the big nasty bite. So you may have escaped getting a real bite and the blood could be from a scratch or tooth scratch instead. This would be good. :-)
slag
I wouldn’t be surprised if this situation didn’t change soon. It seems to me that gardening’s coming back. Especially urban gardening. Blame Michelle Obama.
Origuy
@Loneoak: The Tour goes about a mile away from my house every year. It’s on the way to the big climb at Sierra Road outside of San Jose. I think I’ll work from home tomorrow and go cheer them on.
I tried climbing Sierra Road once. I think I got about 100 feet.
stuckinred
I made a comment and it disappeared. I came back and it was here. . .then it was gone again?? WTF_K?
Mnemosyne
@Elisabeth:
Pretty girl! Our late Tashi was a tortoiseshell, but a short-haired one.
Daize
But, but, but Black Panthers!
http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2010/05/18/rand_paul_voters
Violet
@Mnemosyne:
Oh wow. No, it’s nothing like that. I think it was just a warning bite. But the cat is really strange. She’s super friendly and just wouldn’t leave me alone, but then I made a completely normal move, just a small step with one foot, and I guess it startled her and she bit me. I’d been walking around prior to that and she’d been a total pest, rubbing my legs and generally being underfoot, and my walking hadn’t bothered her at all. She’s either totally friendly or unpredictably skittish. Very strange.
SiubhanDuinne
@trollhattan #28:
And the school superintendent got totally carried away and called it “a poor choice of words.”
A. Poor. Choice. Of. *Words*?
The *FUH*??
jeffreyw
@Elizabeth: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeffreyww/4494332684/in/set-72157622612597526/
Just Some Fuckhead
@slag: I think they still have a programming problem they haven’t addressed They put them on television when the people who would be interested in watching them are actually outside working in the yard.
Here’s when I want to see a block of gardening shows: Friday night, to get me jacked up for Saturday.
AhabTRuler
For people that care about this sort of thing, Momo is still absolutely darling, and Henri is in fine, is somewhat larger, form.
Alice Blue
Love the cute doggie scrum in the upper picture. Is that your parents’ garden that Lily is standing in? It’s beautiful.
Cat Lady
Grammar nazi HERE, unless you’re talking about the dogs barking.
Hate on HGTV if it makes you happy, but there probably isn’t another media outlet that does more to normalize all kinds of mixed race, gender and ethnic relationships than that network, by using the common denominator of choosing wall colors and room accessories to arbitrate taste. I’ve seen lesbian couples, gay couples, black woman/asian man couples, asian man/black man couples, etc. etc., all portrayed as normal except for their need of a design intervention, usually by a gay man. Who wouldn’t love David Bromstad showing up at your door? Helllooooo, David Bromstad!
Calouste
@Litlebritdifrnt:
Having a King Size bed doesn’t have as much to do with liking your spouse much or not, as with getting a good night’s sleep in because you don’t bump into each other when you turn over in the middle of the night. When me and the other half moved in together (in Britain, so you know what the beds are like there), the first thing we did was upgrade from the standard double beds we had to the widest bed we could find.
SIA
@SiubhanDuinne: Oh, not to worry. They’re going to have a long talk with the teacher in question.
Elisabeth
@jeffreyw:
What a cutie!
My excuse for not making the bed…
http://i322.photobucket.com/albums/nn437/elisabeth1518/Picture010.jpg
WereBear
@Elisabeth: She’s wonderfully cute.
SIA
@AhabTRuler: Stunning cats. Love Momo’s markings. RE the little purple collar on Henri – did you use that to put him on a leash?
Martin
@Cat Lady: Yes, that’s a good point, and I agree 100%. Most other networks would make a point to tell the viewer that this is a gay couple, but HGTV doesn’t mention anything like that at all – it’s a couple like any other. Progress.
It should also be noted, however, that quite a few of their shows are produced out of Canada, which probably explains the attitude more than anything else.
Elisabeth
@SIA:
TPM’s reporting that the teacher has since been put on paid leave. Guess the principal or superintendent (can’t remember which) got some ticked off phone calls and decided something more needed to be done.
Wonder if either they guy won’t be back next year or they’re hoping things die down over the summer and he’ll slink back into his classroom.
JGabriel
And the PA results are coming in: Sestak leads Specter, 53%-47% or 131 votes to 114 votes.
Umm. Probably a little early to draw any conclusions?
.
Derek
@Just Some Fuckhead:
I don’t know who P. Allen Smith is, but this made me llol.
(Literally laugh out loud)
Libby
HGTV used to have a lot of good gardening shows, well more like landscaping really. And they used to have good decorating on the cheap shows too. Even how to build stuff shows that I liked. Used to joke that I learned enough from the sum of them that I could theoretically build my own house. They went downhill some time ago. Haven’t watched that station in years.
Thinking if you just want instruction, youtubes are the way to go. If you want garden prOn, there’s a lot of plush magazines out there. My folks get a great one that does birds and gardens. Forget the name of it.
slag
@Just Some Fuckhead:
Personally, I’d like to see more web shows. Information-heavy web shows. But I’m not holding my breath.
Martin
@JGabriel: Maybe just a touch.
Elisabeth
@AhabTRuler:
Is Momo standing in the water dish?
stuckinred
Great information on gardening from Walter Reeves.
Martin
Looks like Conway probably has this sewn up. He’s held a 24K vote lead for quite a while now. The % gap is closing but the vote gap isn’t.
WereBear
@Violet: What’s her background?
Semi-socialized ferals can be like that. They enjoy the affection, even invite it, but it can get to be too much in a nanosecond and they blame you for making them scared, when it’s just them getting startled by ordinary things.
Lack of trust, even though they crave it. It can be sad, scary, or both.
In any case, it’s the swelling you have to watch our for. Other wise, a dab of Neosporin or the like should do ya.
Derek
@Third Eye Open:
I found it extremely boring. Attack & Release was terrible and Magic Potion was pretty weak sauce. I’ve gotten ten times as much enjoyment watching Dan Auerbach solo performances on Youtube as I have from the last three Black Keys albums. Sad, because their first three albums (plus their two EPs) are some of my favorite albums ever.
(Auerbach’s solo album is kind of boring and poorly produced, though. But check out some live stuff on Youtube. It’s awesome.)
AhabTRuler
For people that care about this sort of thing, I may be whitebread, but I got nice buns.
SiubhanDuinne
@AhabTRuler: Momo and Henri are as gorgeous and lovable as ever. Wow, Henri has really grown fast, hasn’t he? It can’t have been that long since he was just a little black furball with huge golden eyes. And Momo has always been a beauty.
Speaking of beauties, (cough), is arguingwithsignposts anywhere nearby? I could use a Smudge sighting. (I imagine that Smudge and her rear leg have strong opinions on the day’s news and shenanigans.)
Just Some Fuckhead
@Derek: See this.
Cat Lady
@Martin:
Agreed, but when it comes to real estate and home decor, the only thing that matters more than skin color is the color gr$$n. Especially here in the good ol’ yew ess of ay. Good taste can be bought, and HGTV is just the one to sell it to you, no matter what configuration you choose to live in.
JGabriel
gypsy howell:
It’s not so surprising. Rain is likely to depress turnout amongst more moderate voters, and older voters. Both of which are more likely to vote for Specter than younger voters, and the more motivated progressive base.
So, yes, rain was probably good for Sestak – especially considering how close the race has been polling.
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Libby
@AhabTRuler: Yeah, finally figured out how to get the @ thingy back.
Was admiring the kittens when I noticed your bread prOn. Thinking this might be a good place to ask if anyone has a recipe for NY style hard rolls? It’s one of the things I miss the most about up north, and I’m having a ridiculously hard time finding one on the internets.
jeffreyw
@AhabTRuler: mm…you got nice buns!
Litlebritdifrnt
@Calouste:
Full disclosure DH and I have a Queen bed. I hate it when we stay in a motel with a King, he is so far away! Recently my boss was liquidating the contents of his father’s house, his father, a master furniture builder, had built the most beautiful bedroom sets for each room in the house, we had an appraiser come in to value them. Turns out they were worth less than nothing because the beds were Full, apparently absolutely no-one wants a full bed these days. Either people are getting too fat to sleep in a full bed or people are just getting too far away from each other in bed. From what the person told me full beds are equivalent to a twin these days. That is downright scary.
WereBear
I can’t watch the house selling shows any more. It’s a sad reminder of how many people have zero imagination. They just can’t figure out what their stuff might look like unless the house is half empty and everything is beige.
I really don’t like that bedspread.
What’s that got to do with anything? It’s going to be on the U-Haul after the closing!
Martin
@Cat Lady: True, and good taste can be bought for a short time. Just because you got help picking out the nifty front-load super-washer doesn’t prevent you from putting it on your front porch.
I see a LOT of homes very tastefully done right up to the second that the homeowners need to do something that isn’t hired out – trim the hedges, paint a room, etc and it instantly goes to shit. I don’t care how nice your kitchen remodel is if you went in to repaint the walls and painted over the outlet covers. When I walk in, the only thing I’ll be able to see is how you fucked it up.
PurpleGirl
Violet:
If you want to do something about the bite/scratch but don’t want to go to a doctor, this is what we did my friends’ parrot sunk his beak into my shoulder (slight open wound and no blood): washed it down with Betadine solution (OTC antiseptic wash) then applied some antiseptic cream and covered it with a gauze pad. This is similar to what the ER staff did to a dog bite on my hand. They too used Betadine to clean the wound and applied an antiseptic cream. The dog did puncture my hand very deeply but there was some blood.
It’s helpful to keep Betadine at home for cleaning cuts and such.
FoxinSocks
Love the photo of Lily, it’s like Lily surveying her domain on the Island of Lost.
Cat Lady
@Martin:
Painted over wallpaper is my biggest gripe about those 48 hour makeovers. There’s a special place in hell for people who paint over wallpaper and brick.
AhabTRuler
@SIA: Oh yes, he quite enjoys his walkies.
SiubhanDuinne
@SIA: Well, that’s reassuring !
And speaking of Alabama — how’s Alabama?
Evolutionary
Now that the voting is over, we are through with politcal ads on TV for a while :-)
But the best news is; Fresh Local Strawberries are in season here in SE Pennsylvania! We have been gorging on the lucious fruit of the staw for the last three days, YUM!
Martin
@WereBear: That’s our gripe as well. “Boy, that’s an ugly paint color!” My wife and I reply: “Shut up you lazy fuck! $50 and an afternoon will make that whatever color you want!”
Yeah, the people don’t seem to be able to differentiate between fixable and non-fixable features. Makes me want to punch them in the neck for not doing more to train future home buyers.
Martin
@Cat Lady: Oh, anyone who paints over brick without a really goddamn good reason should go straight to Gitmo. I’ve seen some wicked ugly, not redeemable brick, but I’ve seen some pretty nice stuff get a coat of beige.
KyCole
I’m going to have four dogs this weekend. Two of my daughter’s and my own two. Just got a puppy from my son. They just had to get a puppy, even though I told them not to and proclaimed that I wasn’t EVER going to take her off their hands when it didn’t work out. She came to live with me on Friday. Today she got into it with another puppy at the dog park and is now wearing the cone of shame to protect the puncture near her eye. God I’m such a sucker.
mcd410x
I, for one, welcome our Paultard overlords.
Mike Kay
Here’s a real interesting fact that the corporate media will ignore, as it doesn’t fit their prepackaged narrative, in redstate Kentucky, turnout in the democratic primary is 50% higher than the heavily contested teabagger republican primary (328K vs 212K).
jeffreyw
Ack! I’ve broken out in hives.
Mnemosyne
@Cat Lady:
Meh, “Trading Spaces” got there first. Discovery Channel has always been pretty good about stuff like that.
PurpleGirl
Re my description of the dog bite: I meant “it wasn’t very deep”. I didn’t catch it soon enough to edit and fix it.
AhabTRuler
@Elisabeth: No, we have a water dispenser (see the Henri photos), it’s just an empty dish.
stuckinred
@jeffreyw: Oatmeal bath!
oklahomo
It’s still early, but Halter is actually ahead of Lincoln, 1803 to 1679 . . . even if she pulls ahead, everyone is saying run-off on the local TV out of Fort Smith.
Alex
The KY Republican primary is where the phrase “lesser of two evils” really shines. Trey Grayson, lapdog of Moneybags McConnell and the Election-buying establishment, or Rand son of Ron and his paleocon Randroid boogaloo? And does Conway stand a chance against Paul?
Mnemosyne
@jeffreyw:
See, with the things you post, I was expecting a picture of bees.
My co-worker has a cook’s nightmare allergy: she’s allergic to garlic. And oatmeal, too.
Mnemosyne
@stuckinred:
My oatmeal-allergic co-worker’s doctor used to tell her to use Aveeno products when she had hives. Yeah, that was a clusterfuck.
jwb
@fucen tarmal: Actually, these days you’d probably get arrested for child endangerment if you let your kid walk home from school.
jeffreyw
@Mnemosyne: Hopin it ain’t a food allergy, haven’t had anything new, rackin my brain trying to think what it could be.
JGabriel
I see a LOT of homes very tastefully done …
I’m going to have four dogs this weekend. Two of my daughter’s and …
… my friends’ parrot sunk his beak into my shoulder …
Painted over wallpaper is my biggest gripe …
Oatmeal bath!
You know, I could have sworn this was a political blog. There are primaries tonight, people!
When did this place turn into “Home and Pet”?
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stuckinred
@Mnemosyne: If the thunder don’t get ya the lightning will.
JGabriel
Specter 58% Sestak 42%, only 7% reporting so far.
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stuckinred
@JGabriel: I made a comment about Kentucky and it was deleted. All I said was that Paul ripped Grayson from asshole to earlobe with a dull deer antler! People can’t take a joke.
schrodinger's cat
@Violet: A friend who is vet assistant, told me this quick rule of thumb, draw a circle
around the bite using a quarter, if the swelling exceeds the area of the circle go to the doctor ASAP.
Gus
@lamh32: Yes. I assume this means you watch CNN. Your time is better spent doing, well, pretty much anything.
PurpleGirl
@JGabriel: I’m burned out on politics right now. I read some things and just want to hit my head on my desk or a wall. It is less crazy-making to comment on other things like pets or answer questions about a cat scratch, etc.
Those pictures of the dogs are cute, especially Lily in the plants.
Mike Kay
Chuck Todd is now picking up on the SURGE in democratic turnout.
So much for the year long meme in the old and new media over lack of base “enthusiasm” and how the base wouldn’t turnout.
Once again, the silent majority of the base (who voted for Obama and Clinton) is more adult than the neurotic blogging counterpart (who supported Edwards).
Martin
@jeffreyw: Baby Jesus is punishing you for not sharing your food with us.
SIA
@SiubhanDuinne:
Well, have you seen that movie Deliverance?
I kid, I kid (kind of). All of those stereotypes of the scary southern native of a certain type are TRUE! However, it’s very lovely where we are on a small lake. I’m sleeping, reading, crusing the net, watching Netflix movies, and walking the dogs. Just your basic 7-day decompression. How’s things with you?
Gus
@KyCole: Pictures or it didn’t happen! My wife has declared that we will never get another puppy. We have a bet that I’m pretty sure I’ll win.
Lisa K.
@JGabriel:
If the good people of PA actually renominate fake Democrat Arlen Specter, then they absolutely deserve Pat Toomey.
AhabTRuler
@SIA: If there’s no ass-rapin’ of Ned Beatty, well, it’s just not real.
SIA
@JGabriel: Ha! That made me laugh!
“When did this place turn into “Home and Pet”?”
When John Cole got a 2nd pet and a house. Actually, besides the politics, I love the cozy pet and home chat.
Litlebritdifrnt
OT – wait this is an open thread so perhaps not OT, dh is now 160lbs and less than 15% body fat. My diet is working. Really well it would turn out.
FlipYrWhig
@Cat Lady:
That is absolutely my favorite aspect of HGTV, and I’ve always wondered why there has never been more outcry among the kinds of people who get off on, um, outcrying. They have a lot of pretty, pretty people partnering up in various ways–although they still don’t really show same-sex intimacy onscreen. I love that promo they used to air all the time:
Straight-looking couple watching House Hunters from the kitchen table.
Straight-looking dude: “I thought they were brothers.”
Straight-looking woman: [incredulous pause] “They’re not brothers.”
SLD: “Oh!”
AhabTRuler
@Litlebritdifrnt: That’s awesome! Congratulations to him.
Anne Laurie
@Violet:
Well-cared-for or not, cats’ teeth are notorious bacteria collectors. Keep a very close watch on those puncture wounds — treating them with hydrogen peroxide would be good — and if they get the least bit puffy, or you run even a low fever, call your doctor immediately. In fact, if you have a regular doctor & can afford it, you may want to call their office in the morning, tell them what happened, and see if they want you to take prophylactic antibiotics.
Don’t want to freak you out… odds are that you’ll be fine… but you DO want to self-monitor just in case.
FlipYrWhig
@SIA: I thought Deliverance took place in West Virginia… wait… now I’m not sure.
schrodinger's cat
@Litlebritdifrnt: Want to share your secret? What have you been doing?
Mike Kay
@Lisa K.: Just win, baby.
JGabriel
@Lisa K.: Ah, we’ll have to disagree there. I’m actually fine with either, though I’ve a slight preference for Specter.
Either one can beat Toomey. It’s too soon after the embarrassment that was Santorum for PA to elect another wingnut. Plus the state is, very slowwly, trending more Dem, as far as I can see. And my family is from Carney’s district, which is pretty wingnutty, so if it’s happening there …
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Comrade Tank Hueco
New thread upstairs. Wheeee!
SIA
@FlipYrWhig: Actually, I think it took place in my actual home state of Jawja. In AL, if it’s 2 humans it’s a step up.
PurpleGirl
Deliverance (book and movie) took place in Georgia and was filmed there.
Mike Kay
PENN STATION
19% reporting in PA now, and Specter’s lead over Sestak closes to 52-48.
burnspbesq
@Litlebritdifrnt:
Advantage of king size bed: nobody has to sleep on the wet spot unless they want to.
Lisa K.
@JGabriel:
I detest Arlen Specter, have since the Anita Hill hearings. The fact that he is now a “Democrat” hasn’t changed that. IMO If PA Dems want a real Dem, they’ll choose Sestak.
Cat Lady
@FlipYrWhig:
Everyone agrees about stainless steel appliances and granite countertops. Especially The Poutrage Queen.
JGabriel
@SIA:
I do too. I was just making a joke about it because it is a political night.
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SIA
@JGabriel: I know you were joking, and it sounded so funny and ludicrous when you pulled those quotes from different comments!
JGabriel
@Lisa K.: You’ll get no argument from me on that. I think he’s changed, and improved, since then, but it’s perfectly fair for you to still hold that against him. It was bad, and I’m not gonna defend it.
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Roger Moore
@Litlebritdifrnt:
The real price of clothes has gone down enormously since the 50s, so it makes sense that people would buy more of them. I’m not suggesting the people don’t have way more clothes than they need, but there’s a practical reason for it.
I suspect that another key factor is that the drop in prices has changed people’s buying habits. Most people used to buy clothes and wear them until they wore out, at which point they’d turn them into rags. That meant their closets only had the clothes they were likely to wear in the near future. When prices went down they started buying new clothes and stopped wearing the old ones before they reached the rag stage. Now the old clothes build up in the closet instead of the rag pile.
It seems to me that the need for bigger closets is a sign of a pathological approach to having too much stuff. Instead of getting rid of things we aren’t using anymore, we want more space so we can keep them all. Instead of having a garage sale, we build a bigger garage. Instead of giving old furniture to charity, we rent storage units. Instead of turning old clothes into rags, we buy houses with more closet space so we can keep them all.
Hob
What, you never took home ec? The kids take care of the dog; the dog takes care of the cats; the cats take care of the rabbit. The fish take care of themselves till you fry them up for dinner.
trollhattan
@Roger Moore:
I once walked through a spiffy model home at a spiffy subdivision. The master bedroom had a Very Large walk-in closet.
How large?
In the middle… was a walk-in closet.
JGabriel
@PurpleGirl: Yes, Lily in the plants is undeniably cute.
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Third Eye Open
@Derek: I couldn’t disagree more. I thought Magic Potion was amazing, with just the right mix of thoughtful sound architecture and some great soulful tunes. Attack and Release was somewhere completely different, but being partially written with Ike Turner in mind, I think they made an album that is going to get a lot of play in the coming years as revival-rock begins to seep into hip-hop subconsciousness. I need more time with this one. On first perusal at lunch, I thought everything ended up sounding like Oceans and Streams.
But then again I used to listen to ICP, so what do I know?
Anne Laurie
@Litlebritdifrnt:
To be fair, standards in the U.S. have changed enormously in the last 50 years… the explotation of Third-World workers made clothes so cheap that we are “required” to have more of them. Two suits or three dresses were enough for a respectable middle-class office worker in the Mad Men days, but now if you wear the same outfit twice in a two-week period your fellow workers will start wondering if you’ve got problems at home. Of course the 1950s outfits were better tailored & made from materials that held up a lot better, but that doesn’t change the paradigm: If ‘everybody’ can afford to own more outfits, everybody must own more outfits.
@jeffreyw:
Were you out in the back forty today? Apart from the obvious, like poison ivy, there’s a whole bunch of “invasive” plants whose sap “may cause irritation in some individuals” — things like milkweed, ailanthus (which we inaccurately called sumac back in Michigan), even daffodil stems. And this kind of “irritation” tends to be progressive, you pull milkweed bare-handed for years with no problems, then suddenly your immune system decides it’s been sufficiently ‘sensitized’ that you end up with a nasty rash. Also, don’t overlook the possibility that Jack, Buddy or Annie may have rolled around in a nice batch of poison ivy and passed the oils on to you later, because you don’t have a nice glossy fur coat to protect you.
SiubhanDuinne
@SIA: I once had a co-worker who always called Alabama “the Land of the Six-Toed Sisters.”
Then there’s the old joke, “What’s the best thing to come out of Alabama? — I-20.”
I actually like a lot of the state. And many of my ancestors were born there, so I guess I have more connections than I’d like to admit.
Stil, if anyone was offended by my poor choice of words, I’m deeply sorry that they were offended.
tesslibrarian
@Violet: Sometimes they just get wound up and excited, then bite.
When we came home from a vacation where he’d been kept home and inside, Jack would purr and head-butt my husband’s chin, then pause for a second and try to bite off his arm–he was overstimulated with conflicting emotions.
Keep the wound clean (alcohol is best), bandage it w/neosporin for a couple days, and it’ll be fine.
SIA
@SiubhanDuinne: Joking about AL is all in good fun! I love parts of the state and some of the people are really, really sweet. It’s just not very, er, progressive!
Some people here remind me of that old SNL gag, “This is Daryl, and my other brother Daryl”.
litbrit
Late to the party, as usual. I can’t resist saying to our host: THREE DOGS are wearing you out? Dude. Dude.
Try three teenage boys (well, the little one is ten, so not really teenage), plus three large (over 100 lb.) and rambunctious dogs, four cats (one in the city and three in the country) and the little car that could, but sometimes won’t, because it keeps cropping up with new problems that I can’t quite identify because the dashboard informs me of these things via a complicated set of pan-lingual symbols and odd German exclamations. (Perhaps I should e-mail Pat Buchanan?)
Hello exhaustion, my old friend.
SIA
@litbrit: Try the next thread – think the party’s moved over to “Results Thread” upstairs. :)
ruemara
@AhabTRuler:
You like? I may have free scratch for an upgrade. I’m still rocking my 1999 wacom grafire. I’m feeling…retro unchic.
Cain
@Chuck Butcher:
We’ve been having pretty good turnout here in portland. Line of cars at all ballot boxes all day. Not many did the ballot by mail.. I dind’t spend as much time as I would want on the nominees. I did pick Kitzhaber for governor. I had a bit of a problem choosing between him and bradbury. Mostly because I didn’t really like John’s kumbaya attitude towards the GOP. They’ll screw him. I trust him on getting green energy and that’s where I want to see Oregon go.
cain
Mnemosyne
@jeffreyw:
My mom got to spend Christmas Day in the ER one time because she switched laundry detergents and it turned out she was allergic to something in the new one.
Nothing more fun than watching your mom sit on a gurney getting intravenous Benadryl on Christmas Day.
2liberal
@Mike Kay: wingnut welfare in action for him. Good career move for her.
Splitting Image
@SIA:
That’s actually from Newhart. You make a Bob fan sad.
bob h
first against the wall are the 20 something newlyweds
After Rupert Murdoch, of course.
Dog is My Co-Pilot
Maybe this has been mentioned already, but does anyone remember “Gardening by the Yard” which was an offbeat, yet informative gardening show that used to air on HGTV? I used to love to watch it, but apparently HGTV chose to not renew it. I don’t like to watch Discovery channel anymore either, and even History has turned into Reality Show Central. Not a whole lot of quality programming on T.V. anymore, with the exception of PBS.
Stogoe
Gardening by the Yard was HGTV’s last gardening show holdout, and it was great. You can still catch a few landscaping shows early morning on the weekends. Even now, though, they’re transitioning from “Remodel an Existing Room” shows to “Buy a New House” shows. Blech.
pat kelly
Yes, all of the real people choosing designers, buying homes, etc. come across as extremely house-proud and seem to want their friends and neighbors to be envious.
Derek
@Anne Laurie:
My coworkers must be mighty worried about me!
twiffer
@Egilsson: i’d love to only pay 750 a month for childcare.