Just cracked #2, this time Nobilo. Think I may spend some time on the porch making love to a cigar I picked up in the People’s Republic of Madison (and I will rape it with my mouth like David Letterman would). Please don’t email me about oral cancer, folks, because I know you mean well, but I’m gonna ignore you and at this point we’re just talking about another torpedo in a sinking ship.
I might have enough of a wild hair up my ass that this blog could become CrankyKaplan’s twitter feed. His last tweet had me laughing out loud:
“MAKING A FEW CALLS TO FIND A FAT VEGAN TO COME BLOW ME WHILE I SIT IN MY BACKYARD IN REAL-LOOKING BUSH COSTUME TO KILL THIS FUCKING RACCOON.”
Gonna be a long morning. God damned dogs don’t understand hangover and have to piss at 6 am no matter what.
John +4
kdaug
C’mon, give me a little ray of sunshite. *(not really a misspelling)
Steve
Maybe everyone else has heard this already, but somehow I missed Robert Gibbs’ latest response to the whole “professional left” controversy.
The first rule of comedy is: be funny. That line was good enough that all is surely forgiven.
Violet
I could listen to the Talking Heads forever. Just love them.
Stuck in the Funhouse
Still my favorite TH tune. Nothing But Flowers
Just Some Fuckhead
Hooboy, someone is tying one on. We need an all-boys thread.
Litlebritdifrnt
Damn I hate that whole “wake up at 5am to pee” thing. I KNOW I can sleep for another hour at least but damn if my bladder doesn’t wake me at 5am. It sucks.
That's Master of Accountancy to You, Pal (JMN)
@Just Some Fuckhead: An all boys thread is no fun without dancing girls.
Then again, everything is improved with dancing girls.
Litlebritdifrnt
@Just Some Fuckhead: Huh? Are you implying that girlies can’t tie one on? Britty + whatever I can’t remember.
wag
Wanted to post this Talking Heads song on the morning thread, but I was at work and YT is blocked. Kinda how I’m feeling unless the Dems start pulling together and we get our s*** together.
wag
@Litlebritdifrnt:
Drink less beer the night before?
Nah!!! Wouldn’t be worth it.
eemom
dude, ya gotta get a fenced yard. It makes dog-life so much easier.
Or get an invisible fence, which is what we have.
tim
Alkie.
eemom
@Litlebritdifrnt:
I’m pretty sure I could drink most of the girly-boys on this blog under the proverbial table.
cleek
crosseyed and painless.
right there with ya.
that video is proof that any top 50 guitar players which doesn’t include Adrian Belew is a broken list. his little solo @ 3:50… OMG
arguingwithsignposts
I’m down. formerly known as the gf has abandoned me. the world is going to shit. there’s another round of kids who don’t know what the fuck they’re doing who are trying to get degrees coming down the pike. Sigh. I’d rather be producing pipe.
kdaug
@eemom: I’d take you up on that but the Doc says I’m hitting my quota…
sfinny
Gotta admit that snarky Gibbs makes me laugh. I take no offense at his comment as I am not the ‘professional left’ and while I get their pique, the whole thing seems rather ridiculous.
John Cole
@tim: Enjoy every sandwich, you miserable dry drunk.
jeffreyw
Keep yer eyes peeled for the shootin stars tonight.
MikeJ
@sfinny: What pique? He said they’d whine for three days no matter what they did. How did they respond? By whining.
If pique is your permanent condition, it’s no longer pique.
and
@cleek: Hey fucker, where the fuck are the fucking clues to your fucking contest, you fuck?
Svensker
You’re doing real good on the curmudgeon thing. And if you decided to swing that way, I think Tim would be ready to help you with the cigar yodeling.
Gonna try those whites you recommended. I’m not liking the stuff we’ve been drinking.
+2 (but any more than that, I pass out or thwow up — a total lightweight)
b-psycho
I had a political thought earlier…but I got drunk.
SIA
@arguingwithsignposts: As soon as this month’s over, everything will be better. August is just evil. Sorry about the gf.
Bella Q
@cleek: Adrian’s got a gift. I’ve never much enjoyed him in person, but I love to hear him play.
JGabriel
Ah, I love the contrasts here. On the one hand:
On the other hand:
Yep, that’s our Ballon Juice.
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Allison W.
@Steve:
that is hella funny.
seriously, I would love to be a fly on the wall watching Obama, Gibbs and Rahm. They must mock and rip people to shreds.
JGabriel
@cleek: Not to mention that Tina Weymouth was as hot as she’s ever looked at that concert.
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wag
@cleek:
“The name of this band is…” by the Heads has to be the greatest live album ever. Far better than “Stop Making Sense.”
Even better than “Waiting for Columbus”
mr. whipple
My favorite piece of Belew.
kommrade reproductive vigor
Maybe I’m just stressed out but this made me laugh so hard my chest hurts.
I <3 teh Intrawebs!
[Also2 When the hell will Byrne start to get old AND ugly? He’s starting to piss me off.]
AmIDreaming
Preach on, brother. Preach on.
JGabriel
@cleek: More evidence: The Great Curve.
The world moves on a woman’s hips!
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Zuzu's Petals
@Steve:
I have a suggestion for John’s rotating slogan machine:
Get two beers and jump.
mr. whipple
Adrian in a dress.
John Cole
+6
handy
Ooh fun. Open thread with lots of TH linkies. Here’s mine.
wag
This will put a smile on your face, especially if you’re a few sheets to the wind and don’t give a shit what the neighbors say when you blast a mash-up at high volume. New GHP.
Smells like Rockin’ Robin
mr. whipple
@John Cole:
Apple scrumping!
Vince CA
At least I have the decency while I’m piss drunk to not blog. John, get a friend. Friends don’t let friends blog while nineteen sheets to wind.
FYI, I need a cigar like nothing. Two cigars in three years. You’d think I had a kid or something.
wag
and here’s another great mash
freelancer (itouch)
Ebert’s on some kind of anti e-book kick.
http://mobile.twitter.com/EBERTCHICAGO
He sounds like the electronic snark equivalent of Abe Simpson.
sfinny
@wag: Interesting mashup. Fortunately I don’t have to worry about annoying my neighbors with sound as they are deaf. But my cat was not impressed with the high volume play and headed off for the under the bed position.
vheidi
best open thread evah
esp since dsl @ home is faster than work network – go IT
deaniac83
Hi, everyone. I have been lurking around Balloon Juice for a while now, since discovering it early this year, so I thought I’d say something on an open thread. Lol.
Did anyone catch the post on the big orange yesterday about liberal criticism of FDR by the way? I thought it was a brilliantly done essay. It inspired my piece on my blog today about the unique political challenges Obama faces that FDR even didn’t have to: the filibustering of everything, racism coupled with violent rhetoric and the right wing media empire.
wag
@John Cole:
..and for all the Who fans out there
mr. whipple
@sfinny:
My neighbors aren’t deaf, but I am old. When the cops come about my music I yell “WHAT?” and pretend to fiddle with my hearing aid.
Cops laugh and go away.
beltane
@John Cole: Quadrophenia?
beltane
@deaniac83: Welcome aboard, fellow sellout/shill/corporatist. Too many liberals see FDR’s presidency as 1)Stock market crash 2) A bunch of Dorothea Lange photographs and 3)The Grapes of Wrath and general bad stuff under Hoover 4)FDR elected 5)Happy Days are Here Again 6)Socialist paradise complete with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.
Yutsano
Hi y’all.
I got nothin’.
That is all.
Geeno
I haven’t read any of the comments, but …
MERLOT!!!! Merlots go soooo well with a good cigar. A merlot and a nice Jamaican or Cuban cigar — ooh, to die for.
Stuck in the Funhouse
@deaniac83: You big Obot. welcome:)
John Cole
BTW- settled on the magnepan 1.7’s as my next speakers. Just looking for the right amp and subwoofer now. I think I may go back to adcom, since I’m currently using a 20 year old adcom amp, I trust them.
Anyone?
Also, too:
+7
MikeJ
@John Cole: Weird. Just the other day I was perusing my music collection and noticed I’ve got every Yo La Tengo album and no Zeppelin. I don’t dislike them or anything, just one of those things I never got.
(currently listening to Mazzy Star’s So Tonight That I Might See)
Geeno
@John Cole: Could you even print that album cover today. KIDDIE PR0N!!!
Amok92
Bad news
Geeno
@Amok92: Dude, you’re harshing my mellow.
t jasper parnell
I went to the the Sugar Shack distillery in Madison and, it turns out, they base their booze on sugar beets. Odd tasting stuff but with some lime and crushed ice very refreshing and the bottle is aesthetically pleasing. Tomorrow, allegedly, they introduce the rum.
+ some Arabic number greater than 2, which may make me a terrorist. I mean, really, if I was a full scale supporter of Western Civilization in its existential war against whomever I would have written greater than II, but then it occurred to me that if I drank, say, IV prior to supper and then V after supper adding them up would require turning V in to X and subtracting, I think, I, and as I would be tipsy dealing with all the Vs, Xs, and Is would be difficult. Damn Arabic numbers and their Al-Gebra jihadism.
sfinny
When I worked at the record section of a department store in the early eighties, that Houses of the Holy record flew out of the house. We couldn’t keep it in stock no matter what. Hard to believe it has been so long.
Violet
A thread like this needs a little Mr. Wrong.
I was going to buy you flowers
But I didn’t
Heh.
Violet
@Amok92:
:(
Geeno
@t jasper parnell: HEY! I was a math major! Don’t be dissin’ al-Jebra!
** bows perpendicular to Mecca **
beltane
@Geeno: No kidding. I have the CD and I actually took out the insert because I thought my kids would freak out. It was very John Ashcroft of me.
The Moar You Know
@deaniac83: Nice to see another refugee from the Great Orange Satan. Welcome to the drunken brawl that is Balloon Juice.
Violet
@t jasper parnell:
Jesus doesn’t like Arabic numerals. They’re communist.
eemom
@deaniac83:
somebody linked to that a couple of threads ago. Maybe even two somebodies three threads ago.
Damn, I love these screw off caps.
deaniac83
@beltane:
Hahaha, that’s an awesome comment. And thanks for the welcome!
FDR certainly deserves his place in history. The problem is that too many people ostensibly on the “left” seem to never even consider the obstacles Obama is facing, or to give him any credit for anything.
Amok92
@Geeno @Violet
Sounds like a sad story, I’m reading he had liver cancer and lived in Canada without any health care. RIP Richie
eemom
@Amok92:
it is very sad. But how could he have lived in Canada without health care??
freelancer (itouch)
@MikeJ:
Dude…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_-k8A9aAlE&feature=youtube_gdata
Way down inside…
deaniac83
Thanks, @Stuck in the Funhouse and @The Moar You Know for the welcome! I feel right at home already!
@eemom: glad to know it was linked. Screw caps huh… I need to get me some more!
John Cole
John + WOWZERS.
Geeno
@Amok92: Man – it is hateful when you get to the age that all you looked up to are dying. :-(
Violet
@Amok92:
The article from the link in your post said he didn’t have health insurance when he was diagnosed but he’d established Canadian residency, so he should have been able to get their national health insurance at that point.
suzanne
@MikeJ: That’s a fabulous album.
Between my little tenant kickboxing until 2 in the morning, getting up to piss twice, then getting up at 6:30 to take the munchkin to school, I feel like shit, well-hammered. I don’t know how I’m gonna survive the next twenty weeks.
In good news, my six-year-old said tonight that she liked “All Along The Watchtower”. I’m doing my job.
Geeno
@deaniac83: Oh, deaniac83, since noone else has said it, allow me to give you your BJ christening …
FUCK YOU!
you may continue with your local programming ….
freelancer (itouch)
@John Cole:
Wow, hope the throne is clean. You weren’t kidding about that hangover, hope you drugged the pups.
Yutsano
@eemom: If he wasn’t a citizen or a permanent resident is the only scenario I can think of. And even then they will treat you. So either the comment is ironic or there’s an unknown big hole in Canadian health care we’re unaware of.
And my house smells like jasmine rice right now. Yes I’m bragging.
Violet
@deaniac83:
I saw the headline at GOS, but didn’t read it. Too busy yesterday. Plus there were so many people draped on fainting couches from Gibbs’ comments that the place looked like preschool at nap time. Gave it a miss.
MikeJ
@suzanne: Did the kid prefer Dylan or Jimi?
soonergrunt
This is hilarious.
From McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2010/8/12hague.html
freelancer (itouch)
@MikeJ:
Perhaps it was Battlestar Galactica:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ka_sHy9cVH0&feature=youtube_gdata
+5
Violet
@soonergrunt:
That’s excellent.
thalarctos
@Litlebritdifrnt: I regularly offer mr. thalarctos lots of money if he’ll just get up and pee for me. So far, he hasn’t done it–I must not have found his price yet.
Since this is an open thread, I’ll ask if anyone here knows how to arrange to visit Landstuhl Regional Medical Center. As a massage therapist, I would like to learn what they are doing for returning wounded veterans. And, of course, as a healthcare professional, I would stay out of the way of people working, and would respect the patients’ privacy.
I’ve filled out Web forms at EUCOM and at my senators’ (Murray and Cantwell) web sites without so much as a return form email. If anyone has any better, more direct ideas about channels, I’d love to hear them.
Yutsano
@soonergrunt: McMegan just swooned. And is taking furious notes for her future spawn as we speak.
suzanne
@MikeJ: Dylan. Come on now.
This is depressing the fuck out of me.
roshan
A short (24 mins, youtube) investigative report done by Al Jazeera on the pharmaceutical industry in the US.
Some highlights: Doctors all over US accepting payoffs from Big Pharma to the tune of $200 million/yr to promote drugs to patients. An adult anti-depressant drug prescribed to male kids (10-15 yr) has the side effect of kids growing ‘boobs’.
When a blockbuster drug is shown to have harmful side effects like heart attack, a fine of $2 billion seems to be a small price to pay on the total sales of $180 billion over the time the drug has been in the market.
Geeno
@Geeno: I hope deaniac just went to bed like normal people and wasn’t put off by my traditional BJ welcome
deaniac83
@Violet:
I have been watching Ed Schultz just fall all over himself about Gibbs. And of course the four corners of the Interwebs. Suddenly, “ZOMG Gibbs is hurting Democratic unity!” As if the professional left wasn’t already doing a great job of that.
Violet
@deaniac83:
I don’t understand why the so-called “professional left” (whoever that’s supposed to be) doesn’t just roll their eyes at comments like that and continue to hammer home substantive criticisms. Obama asked people to hold him accountable. He didn’t suggest they whine and roll around on the floor like toddlers who didn’t get their way. It’s a huge waste of energy and direction and doesn’t accomplish much but to get everyone riled up.
I don’t watch Ed Schultz unless it’s by accident. The few times I’ve seen him, he has seemed to be a lot more interested in his ego and career than anything else. At least that’s how he came across to me.
Welcome, btw. I forgot to say that earlier.
freelancer (itouch)
@deaniac83:
Schultz is a clown. Maddow devoting 70% of her show to the joke that is DADT policy on Wednesday night’s show was the perfect, mature liberal response to the Gibbs fiasco.
Norwegian Shooter
Head(s) lover here as well. Naive Melody is one of my favorite tunes, but unfortunately it is a rare one that the studio version is better than live. [ googling studio version video – for over five minutes ! – I can’t find it!]
I swear I linked to it before! Help!
Did anybody else notice that multiple ! marks are edited out? I mean, sure they are abused, but sometimes they are warranted! ! !
Yutsano
@freelancer (itouch): Lesbyterians have teh class. The fact that Maddow let it roll off her back like that is a complete credit to her and a massive fuck off to Ed. Me likey!
wobbly
You think the dogs are bad?
Wait until you have children!
You think you are too smart for that???
You are not! It’s written all over your posts.
You are a husband and father just waiting to happen. Some female will run into you and offer to straighten up your miserable life, put the dogs in their proper place, and cook.
You will totally fall for her.
I’ve seen it many a time.
I’ve done it a couple of times.
Second was the charm.
That's Master of Accountancy to You, Pal (JMN)
You know, I might like figure skating more if there was more of this sort of cleverness.
I was actually looking for Chris De Burgh’s version of “All Along the Watchtower,” from which I was fianlly able to make out the lyrics. Couldn’t find video, though.
deaniac83
@Violet:
Thank you. And absolutely – the people constantly whining about Gibbs’ comments are actually proving his point. There are professional whiners on the left (like, oh I dunno, Ed Schultz, David Sirota, Glenn Greenwald, Jane Hamsher, Adam Green) who want to dish it out but can’t take it. Yesterday, Adam Green was on Ed’s show saying this, and I quote:
I rest my case.
Yutsano
@deaniac83: There is only one response to this:
LOLWUT??
Oh and yokusou de Balloon Juice!
Geeno
@deaniac83: Dude, this site lives to criticize the critics that criticize the critics. God forbid we ever take a non-critical stand on any issue.
Oh – and I noticed that my “FUCK YOU” was not acknowledged, so fuck you for that, too. you have to use those kind of words here… you can’t just come in and be all polite and stuff
Kerry Reid
@deaniac83:
I’ve been reposting that diary ever since I saw it at Booman’s place. Reminds me as well of another Talking Heads lyric: “Same as it ever was/same as it ever was.”
Except I’d argue that Obama is in a tougher position than FDR. Not only is he a black man, rather than a scion of one of America’s oldest families, but he is also trying to govern in an era with a much more complex global economy, environmental disasters that FDR was largely spared, and with the knowledge that several countries (including Pakistan) have nuclear weapons that could blow the whole planet to hell.
But never mind all that — getting the weak version of the public option that the House passed was really the thing that would have proved his leftie cred.
MikeJ
Just opened the shutter for a 5 minute exposure, hoping to shoot meteors. Wish me luck.
deaniac83
@Kerry Reid:
I really believe that when all is said and done, history will judge Obama’s presidency to be a transformationally progressive one – one inline with those of FDR and LBJ.
I agree with you that the challenges of today are much more complex than any progressive president has ever faced in the past. And Obama is doing a masterful job of handling them. But there are professional detractors who will be satisfied with absolutely nothing he does.
asiangrrlMN
@Yutsano: Sure seems like you found something.
@deaniac83: Hiya. Welcome. We are a loud, rude, fractious bunch, but we also have some of the most generous and warm-hearted people on the webz, especially late at night.
I just got back from a Saints game. Despite the rain delay and the stupid idiots being very bad examples for their kids, it was a blast–and we won.
eemom
You may say to yourself: “This is not my beautiful car. This is not my beautiful wife.”
You may say to yourself: “My GOD. What have I DONE?”
Love that line. It seems to sum up, like, everything.
JGabriel
@asiangrrlMN:
No, we don’t. Don’t believe that shit, deaniac83. We’re all assholes.
(asiangrrl, shhh. Stop giving our fucking secrets away.)
.
asiangrrlMN
@JGabriel: Oh, sorry. Forgot that what happens on BJ stays on BJ. Fortunately, it’s the late-night crew so not many people around!
P.S. Anyone know when the showers are supposed to be?
TrishB
@MikeJ: @53 Tonight’s mood has better lent itself to She Hangs Brightly
asiangrrlMN
Update: No meteor showers, but lightning and a gorgeous purple sky.
Yutsano
@asiangrrlMN: I occasionally am good at making chicken salad out of chicken shit. Plus I sign my lease on Monday so I gots that going for me as well. Hell I may even take in a Seachickens game just to piss off my little brother. Hehehe, yes I iz that evul.
MikeJ
@asiangrrlMN: Purple lightning, that’s always a good sign.
asiangrrlMN
@Yutsano: Why would that piss him off?
@MikeJ: Funniest bit? Spraying of the coffee. You did the Chrome pie filter, yes? Any chance of including actual pics of jeffreyw’s pies?
Yutsano
@asiangrrlMN: Oh if I went to a game without him? There would indeed be much gnashing of teef. He’s an even bigger Seachicken nut than I am. It would be worth it don’t get me wrong, but the kvetching could be heard in Afghanistan.
twiffer
john, cigars are not bad. but, i will take a momemt to advocate coming over to the briar side. you have a plethora of tasty tobacco blends to choose from, as well as a beautiful piece of wood to smoke them in. pipe, book and beverage of choice…there is little more relaxing in life.
not to mention that all those tax increases on cigarettes and cigars did not apply to pipe tobacco. unless you get hooked on collecting high-end briar (like i have), it’s rather cheap to smoke a pipe.
Steeplejack
@That’s Master of Accountancy to You, Pal (JMN):
I know I post this so often it’s like a cliché, but this is a great video for
dancing girlsgo-go dancers.I probably need an intervention or something.
Yutsano
@Steeplejack: And cowbell. You forgot the cowbell. And here I thought I knew you…
Incidentally you may not be alone in needing intervention. I’ve been listening to songs from cartoons in French for the past few days. Methinks I may be going full-on sociaIist!
Something Fabulous
Good evening all! So funny to me that JC chose this song, with all the Madison references of late. In my brief and kind of unhappy time there a million and seven years ago, Stop Making Sense used to be the midnight movie at one of theaters there, replacing Rocky Horror. So this album always makes me think of Madison; one of the bright spots.
Anyone know if they still do that? So much fun.
twiffer
@Something Fabulous: evening? it’s quarter of 3 am in my neck of the woods.
i hate being on call.
Steeplejack
@Yutsano:
The cowbell is implied. I thought that was a given.
Steeplejack
@Yutsano:
Linky?
Xenos
Where did CrankyKaplan come from? It is like Hunter S. Thompson meets Ignatius J. Reilly with a lobotomy. It is either hilarious or very scary.
twiffer
hooray! batch is running again. time to try and shut the brain down and get some sleep.
Yutsano
@Steeplejack: This one comes from an American cartoon, but the French is much improved.
This one actually comes from France but was released and was quite popular in the US.
auntieeminaz
@suzanne: Best comment on that thread is “Quick, Canada, write “Don’t.”
asiangrrlMN
@Steeplejack: Hiya! Missed you. Can never have enough go-go dancers and cowbells. I have a new musical obsession, but I’m not sharing, so hahahahahahahha!
@Yutsano: Oh, I see. I thought you meant he hated them or something.
Tattoosydney
@asiangrrlMN:
Arched eyebrow. Pointed look. Foot tapping.
Yutsano
@Tattoosydney: As long as it’s not related to THAT. You know, THAT. You know what I mean. And I seriously will catch the next plane from LAX just to curse you out in person. I’ll do it. I’m unemployed right now after all, so I got the time.
Something Fabulous
@twiffer: Yikes! Good morning, then! I’m just hoping I don’t have more insomnia and end up still awake at 3am again (LA here– just past midnight)…
asiangrrlMN
@Tattoosydney: Squeee! FH#1! Good to see you. Still not sharing. #Smirks at you#
OK. I have to say it or I’m going to explode. The lead singer of the Mavericks looks like Rick Warren.
TooManyJens
@freelancer (itouch): Oh, Jesus Christ. Ebert is great and all, but between this and the month he spent bashing video games, I think we all really need to get the fuck off of his lawn.
Yutsano
@asiangrrlMN: Nah. Not tubby enough and not enough spittle flying out of the mouth. I do see where you would say that however.
asiangrrlMN
@Something Fabulous: When do you have to get up?
@Yutsano: Yeah, I’m not saying he’s a carbon copy, but they both have that certain something.
Yutsano
@asiangrrlMN: A je ne sais quoi?
I get the feeling the lead singer is better to have over for dinner however.
Steeplejack
@asiangrrlMN:
I thought you knew: the lead singer of the Mavericks is Rick Warren.
asiangrrlMN
@Yutsano: Yes and yes.
@Steeplejack: Gasp! Breaking news right here on BJ! Call Politico!
Steeplejack
@TooManyJens:
I can sort of see where Ebert is coming from. E-readers threaten to cut us off from those books-as-objects that have deep personal significance for us. I would always want to have a physical copy of Omar Khayyam’s Rubaiyat or Borges’s Ficciones somewhere around me.
Where I see an e-reader being useful is for (a) current events and pop culture ephemera and (b) less than immortal fiction–stuff like Stieg Larsson and Lee Child that I really want to read but don’t need to make sure that it will be on my (physical) bookshelf 20 years from now.
asiangrrlMN
@Steeplejack: I didn’t read the actual article by Ebert, but I am not a fan of e-books. I like the real thing in my hand, and I am loathe to give up the actual heft of a book–not to mention the sentimental associations I have with reading. So, get off my lawn, too, I guess.
However, I disagree with Ebert that video games cannot be art.
Steeplejack
@Steeplejack:
Other go-go dancers, along with great Farfisa chord organ and a great song in general. Ride the bass line on this one.
Actually, this looks sort of like David Lynch’s entry in Lumière et Cie. Whoa.
Steep + a lot [. . . falls face down in shag carpeting, reaching for nonexistent Rickenbacker guitar.]
Something Fabulous
@asiangrrlMN: No particular time, really– project is done! Yay!! Just don’t want to get into that time frame, which is so natural for me. It’s just too hard to have the rest of life meet up with that schedule– which it sounds like you know!
asiangrrlMN
@Steeplejack: Champers? Move up to the music thread!
asiangrrlMN
@Something Fabulous: Yeah, a little bit. Oh, who am I trying to kid? A lot.
Steeplejack
@asiangrrlMN:
No champers, just riding the natural anti-malarial high of quinine water leavened with Tanqueray gin. Having a bit of premature TGIF syndrome, I guess.
Will investigate moving to the music thread, but I’m lying face down in this shag carpeting, you see, and it’s really heavy . . . Gzork, snzzap!, zzz . . .
Something Fabulous
Oh, has the party moved upstairs…?
asiangrrlMN
@Steeplejack: Oh, man. You really are + infinity and beyond.
@Something Fabulous: YES!
deaniac83
@Geeno:
Haha I definitely wasn’t put off. I just had to do a bunch of stuff before checking back in here.
Michael
@deaniac83:
Love your material, and enjoyed interacting with you. I flamed out on the GOS sometime last year after my umpteenth go around over Jane Hamsher, slinkerwink and nyceve.
Michael
Hey, anybody want to tell me what is up with authoritarian fetishizing over the whole “Commander in Chief” bit? It is freaking bizarre to watch the tumescence over the phrase.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/08/12/bushes.welcome.troops/
cleek
@MikeJ:
oh, fuck off!
they’re up fucking now, fuckface!
JGabriel
@Michael: That’s not too bad. It’s a military story about returning troops. Bush really was their commander-in-chief, as opposed to all those civilian keyboard commandos on the winger blogs.
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cleek
@mr. whipple:
nice!
i’d never seen him with Zappa before.
matoko_chan
@eemom: here yah go, eemom.
fresh wikileaks.
try not to get punked by the warpimps this time, kk?
Steve M.
The arrangement took it in a different direction, and the lyrics are too weird, but I always thought this song was written to sound like an Al Green song. Try to imagine it with Al’s band and Al’s octave leaps.
Tone in DC
@suzanne:
Is your tenant an MMA fanatic? Or just REALLY hyper?
On an equally serious note…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNxUlKAHOSw&p=77B3A421B938BF1C&playnext=1&index=7
The Golux
@cleek:
By the way, that’s not Adrian Belew – it’s Alex Weir.
So sayeth IMDB – the clip is from Jonathan Demme’s Stop Making Sense.
Adrian Belew has sported a diverse number of looks over the years, but that isn’t one of them.
cleek
@The Golux:
i was referring to the “crosseyed and painless” clip i linked to.