Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Also, are you sure you want people to rate your comments?

A democracy can’t function when people can’t distinguish facts from lies.

The republican ‘Pastor’ of the House is an odious authoritarian little creep.

Too often we confuse noise with substance. too often we confuse setbacks with defeat.

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

The Giant Orange Man Baby is having a bad day.

My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.

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

Never entrust democracy to any process that requires republicans to act in good faith.

“The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.”

With all due respect and assumptions of good faith, please fuck off into the sun.

Lick the third rail, it tastes like chocolate!

Sometimes the world just tells you your cat is here.

Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.

Petty moves from a petty man.

We’re watching the self-immolation of the leading world power on a level unprecedented in human history.

A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.

We can show the world that autocracy can be defeated.

Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.

The gop is a fucking disgrace.

Never give a known liar the benefit of the doubt.

Speaker Mike Johnson is a vile traitor to the House and the Constitution.

You come for women, you’re gonna get your ass kicked.

I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

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Still feeling like death warmed over- I think this is the big one. I have a habit of ignoring minor coughs, colds, and letting them blow up, and mom is now convinced I have pneumonia. Feh. I’ll check with the doctor on Monday if I don’t feel better. I have spent 36 of the last 48 hours sleeping. Wake up, putz around, sleep for three hours. And I’m drinking a shitload of fluids. And Tussin.

All those things on my Netflix queue, and I am re-watching season one of Angel. I’m wondering what happened to a lot of the actors. Angel and Buffy and Willow and Darla and Lindsey all have recurring roles, but whatever happened to Spike, Drusilla (one of my favorite characters) and Xander. And the incredibly hot duo from Angel, Fred and Lilah?

/dork

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  2. 2.

    Ross Hershberger

    Last winter my wife talked me into watching all of Buffy and Angel on DVD. I’m not a TV fan but I really enjoyed both shows. Although I wanted to slap Connor (Angel’s son) every time he opened his pouty, simpering little mouth.

  3. 3.

    mcd410x

    James Marsters (Spike) has been on Smallville and Caprica.

    B: Spike, what are you doing, five words or less.
    S: Out for a walk … bitch.

  5. 5.

    LikeableInMyOwnWay

    What is your temperature? Pneumonia generally comes with a fever. If you have one, see a doctor tomorrow. Or tonight if you are having breathing difficulty.

  9. 9.

    Jules

    @mcd410x:

    That was an OMG! moment for me.
    No wonder Peter Campbell is so fucking annoying and familiar to me.

    (seriously I had no idea and I’ve watched all of Angel and all of Mad Men so far.)

  10. 10.

    fitzwili

    Hope you feel better!
    James Marsters is in tons of sci-fi stuff ( and sy-fy stuff!) like Torchwood etc. You probably don’t recognize him without the platinum hair. The girl who played Fred was on Alias, then Dollhouse. Nicholas Brendon, who played Xander, has has some problems with substance abuse but I believe he has a role on a police procedural waiting for him.

    I was feeling under the weather today as well and I just finished watching the pilot of Buffy! Check out the AV club at the Onion, they are doing a series of recaps on Buffy and Angel by a writer who had not seen them the first time around.

  11. 11.

    mcd410x

    Amy Acker (Fred) was on Dollhouse with Dushku, and later Alexis Denisoff (Wesley) and Summer Glau joined.

    Yeah, I may be a Joss fan.

  12. 12.

    Ross Hershberger

    @mcd410x:
    I don’t hate the actor, but Connor was such a little Emo crybaby I just couldn’t stand him. I got used to giving the TV the finger while holding the remote control and a beer.
    After Firefly/Serenity I wonder what projects Joss has had in development. Not that I’d tune in, TV being the evil haunted fishtank and all.

  14. 14.

    Mumphrey

    I hope you don’t have pneumonia. It’s rough. I got a bad cold my first time in Honduras. I was about to come home for Christmas and I came down with a bad cold and sore throat the night before I left. By the time I got home, after spending all day in airports and on planes, the cold was even worse and I could hardly swallow.

    But it was the next morning that it became pneumonia. I woke up and thought I was having a heart attack. That’s how bad it hurt. I could hardly breathe, and I was so weak I could barely walk. I was glad when t he doctor rold me it was pneumonia and that I hadn’t had a heart attack at 26.

  15. 15.

    cat48

    Sorry you still feel bad. Fever is a curious thing w/me. I rarely have one and I had pneumonia 2 yrs ago and still didn’t have one. I eventually could only stay awake 3 hrs. at the most which drove me to go the Dr. Call them if you’re not better by Mon.

  18. 18.

    General Stuck

    I’ve been time tripping a bit today back to my college days at Western Ky Univ. in the early and mid 70’s. As is usual, one of the great things about music is it’s timeless quality of marking eras in one’s life. For the country rock inclined.

    I had just gotten out of the Army, and was ready to party and love, more like lust, but no matter.

    Pure Prairie League Aime

    Ozark Mountain Daredevils – Road to Glory

    Nitty Gritty Dirt Band – Mr. Bojangles

    Good times they were. And good memories. What else do we have in the end, but good memories.

  19. 19.

    Josie

    @jeffreyw: Omg – that is so much cute, I am sitting here grinning like a doofus. Which dog is that with him? It looks like someone has adopted a kitten.

  20. 20.

    ruemara

    You sir, are a quite a nerd. A fail nerd if you didn’t recognize fred in dolhouse, xander in criminal minds and spike getting some serious snog on the captain in torchwood, in addition to some villainy in smallville, battlestar galactica and a few other things. Get better soon, your lungs on pneumonia can make for some very permanent damage.

    For the record, I wanted Conor to get eaten by something, preferably by being ripped apart or minced. Felt the same way about Dawn, so perhaps I’m not into emoteens.

  22. 22.

    Wiesman

    The actor who played Lorne (aka the Host, the karaoke demon) died a couple of years ago. Very sad, he was very talented.

  23. 23.

    The next to last samurai

    Holding beer, holding remote, flipping bird. In the old country the ninja call this skill foxjutsu. Australia has a large japanese population. Now you know why murdoch was so happy to leave.

  26. 26.

    merrinc

    If you have pneumonia you would not feel like death warmed over, you would feel like death was beating the shit out of you.

    But listen to your mom and go to the damn doctor.

  27. 27.

    Julie

    I’ve had pneumonia before. You should see a doctor if you are having difficulty breathing, and are coughing up nasty greenish mucous. Pneumonia tends to start with a flu and goes from there. To me it sounds like you have a flu of some sort, perhaps H1N1? That one was a really mean virus to me. If it is a flu virus, all you can do is go through it, and make sure you match your Tussin to your symptoms. Don’t take too much Sudafed. That stuff will make you crazy. I hope you feel well soon.

  28. 28.

    Woodrow "asim" Jarvis Hill

    @Ross Hershberger:

    After Firefly/Serenity I wonder what projects Joss has had in development.

    Aside from DOLLHOUSE, actually his projects have been, for a while, in comics — notably giving BUFFY another season in that medium. The other film activity was a Internet-only one-off, DOCTOR HORRIBLE’S SING-ALONG BLOG, which is…interesting, and ended up being pretty popular.

    His work on other comics is likely part of why he’ll be directing the AVENGERS movie, which I’m very much looking forward to. The general hope is that it’ll led to big money, and him breaking into the big leagues, able to greenlight projects by his name alone. We’ll see…

  29. 29.

    SIA

    I watched Surrogates with Bruce Willis on Netflix last night. I was surprised how much I liked it, and also how much more I like Willis now that he’s aged a bit.
    Anyone have any good (not too violent) sci-fi suggestions?

  30. 30.

    bogart

    James Marsters will also be the bad guy on the new Hawaii Five-O this season, which might just get me to watch it.

    Nah.

  31. 31.

    Ross Hershberger

    I forgot about Dollhouse. We watched all of those as well and liked it a lot. I think it ended just as it was getting very interesting.
    I’d love to see Joss do a film musical. His 1 hour+ Buffy musical episode Once More With Feeling was pretty brilliant, and very unusual TV.

  33. 33.

    Ross Hershberger

    I 4th the suggestion to Get Thee to a Physician. A lot of very serious diseases start out as respiratory ailments. Remember Legionnaire’s Disease? My bro-in-law had to be put in a coma to recover from that and had a long rehab in a facility before he could be on his own again. They thought he had a cold, until it was nearly too late.

  35. 35.

    SIA

    @jeffreyw: I LOVE HOMER!! DARLING HOMER!

    @ John Cole, I once stopped what felt like a bad respiratory infection by working the lung reflex points, located on the palm of your hand beneath the middle three fingers. If you massage the area, including between the knuckles, you may find some very sore spots. Work those gently, and it can really help the lung issues. Reflexology is incredibly effective, I don’t know why it’s not more mainstream. I’ve even convinced my very mainstream, right wing mama.
    http://www.dorlingkindersley-uk.co.uk/static/cs/uk/11/features/reflexology/handchart.html

    ETA: @jeffreyw: Hey that’s a good idea. I’ve never seen it!

  37. 37.

    Ross Hershberger

    Gattaca. Great Sci Fi, and not violent at all. Gore Vidal has a small part in it. Ethan Hawke and Jude Law are both excellent.

  39. 39.

    Corner Stone

    Still feeling like death warmed over- I think this is the big one.

    Man. That sounds like a tough situation.
    What does your OB/GYN have to say about it?

  40. 40.

    Kristine

    Spent a good part of the day in the kitchen making crab apple–cranberry chutney and milling a boatload of tomatoes into puree. Now my feet hurt, but the house smells like cooked apples and tomatoes. There are worse aromas.

    Adding my voice to the ‘see the doctor’ request. Pneumonia’s nasty.

  41. 41.

    LM

    Speaking of actors from the Whedonverse, did you notice that Jonathan from Buffy is now Danny on Mad Men? I kept thinking he looked familiar, but it didn’t click until he stood up, and I saw that Peggy dwarfed him.

    Remember the episode where Buffy kept Jonathan from killing himself, and in the course of it developed a soft spot for him? (This was before the ingrate joined Andrew and Warren, the guy Willow skinned.) Giles asks if that means Buffy will accept Jonathan’s invitation to the prom, and she says, “Please, what am I, Saint Buffy? He’s like four feet tall.”

  42. 42.

    TrishB

    Okay, to anyone who ever thinks they have pneumonia, all I can say is get your ass to a doctor pronto. I’ve lost months of my life to that stuff. My sister almost died from it as a healthy 33 year old, because the urgent care in town couldn’t read x-rays, and told her it was a pulled muscle causing the stabbing pain. That was Friday night. By Monday morning she was in an oxygen tent in ICU.

  43. 43.

    Nicole

    John, you’re a man after my own heart. We too have a Netflix cue in the hundreds and yet somehow end up watching Buffy reruns on Logo every Friday.

    Re: Angel. Always found Fred annoying (poor substitute for Willow) but loved Ilyria. Husband loved Ilyria, too, but I suspect for different reasons.

  44. 44.

    Mnemosyne

    Someone at my company actually died from the flu last year. She was feeling crappy, went on a planned trip to Las Vegas with her family anyway, and came home in a coffin. She was in her mid-40s, so it’s not like she was an old woman.

    Just sayin’.

  45. 45.

    Zuzu's Petals

    John –

    I posted this on an earlier thread. Have had the same symptoms for nearly a week, finally went in to see the doc.

    She diagnosed bronchitis. I am now on antibiotics, with occasional puffs on an inhaler and regular doses of Cheratussin (cough syrup w/codine). Feeling better already.

    The other big thing that has helped has been using a vaporizer with Mentholatum added to the well. My chest is much looser now, my cough much less hacking.

    Good luck!

  47. 47.

    stuckinred

    @WaterGirl: Amazing Rhythm Aces, just about all of it but this will do

    I used to watch you
    When I was little
    The games I played
    I learned from you
    I kept dreaming
    You kept playing
    When I woke you were 62

    Say goodbye to the
    King of the Cowboys
    First and last of a
    Dying breed
    Say goodbye to the
    King of the Cowboys
    Chained to a life
    He doesn’t lead

  49. 49.

    CaseyL

    Amy Acker also had a very small role (as a murderous wife) on The Good Wife. Her RL husband has a recurring role as a detective on the same show.

    Vincent Kartheiser is one hella actor. I couldn’t stand Connor, and and at first would cheerfully have set fire to Pete on Mad Men. But Pete is now one of the few who seems to be becoming a genuinely better person as the years go by: both the writers and Kartheiser should get major props for the subtle character development.

    Christian Kane, who played Lindsey, the evil lawyer from Wolf Ram & Hart (in Angel), is now Eliot on Leverage.

    James Callis, who was Gaius Baltar on BSG, just finished a recurring role on Eureka – and got me to watch, as I wasn’t impressed with the show when I checked it out in its first season, but decided to give it another chance, because I like Callis that much.

    Joe Morton, veteran of many a SciFi TV show and movie, and who I completely adore, is also a regular on Eureka.

    It’s been very amusing, watching actors who got their start in Sci Fi (and an amazing number of them Whedon alums) turning up again everywhere you look.

    Speaking of Whedon alums, if you haven’t checked out The Guild, with Felicia Day (and, in a special guest starring role, Wil Wheaton), I highly recommend it. It’s a web-only series, each episode about 7-8 minutes long, recounting the misadventures of a group of complete-nerd gamers. I don’t game, not at all, but that doesn’t keep me from getting a kick out of the show. And Felicia Day is, like, one of my heroes based on what she’s accomplished in RL. She started The Guild almost literally in her living room, financed it by credit card, and has made it a phenom by fierce act of will and non-stop work. (Even if you never heard of the show, you might have seen a music video a couple years ago, “Do You Want to Date My Avatar,” starring Day and the rest of the cast, as their game characters.)

  52. 52.

    WaterGirl

    @stuckinred: I found King of the Cowboys on youtube just now. I had never heard of them before. My favorite duo that no one else seems to have heard of is Aztec Two-Step.

  53. 53.

    Patty K

    But what about the dogs and Tunch? Are THEY all right. As for you, as I always told my children when they were small, remember, it’s not INTERESTING to be sick, as I think many people mistakenly think it is, and I think that as a result of that admonition they hardly ever were.

  57. 57.

    SIA

    @stuckinred: Ah memories. I once crashed a sports car belonging to, I think, the drummer. His mechanic very ill advisedly let me drive it, somewhat under the influence. Ruh-roh.

    Love OMD still.

  63. 63.

    stuckinred

    Anyone know Steve Forbert’s stuff?

    Live long enough and you’re older
    Then you’ll have come very far
    Then you’ll be someone’s gon’ prob’ly know something
    And no one will care what you are
    Make all of your rounds and keep rollng
    What good would breaking down do?
    You say you feel weird an’ your faith’s disappeared
    It’s prob’ly just some new strain of the flu

    Listen, ev’rything’s fine if you follow
    Then you don’t get in the way
    Give us your best and then get you some rest
    As tomorrow’s a new working day
    Give us your best and then get you some rest
    As tomorrow’s a new working day

  66. 66.

    General Stuck

    @stuckinred: FDL?, lol, negative. And I didn’t graduate from there. My desired major was in the party hardy department, and after two years they informed me there was no such department and maybe I should take my talents elsewhere. I finally graduated at Morehead State after getting my shit partially in order.

  69. 69.

    Ross Hershberger

    Listening to Cocteau Twins because it’s unintelligible and lyrics confuse me while I’m reading or writing.

  78. 78.

    jeffreyw

    @SIA: That’s a cast on his right rear leg. He was abandoned at the shelter in poor shape overall, and with a broken leg to boot. Should get the cast changed next week. Mrs J isn’t really sure how badly the leg was hurt. She says Wednesday or Thursday when she takes him back to get the leg looked at she’ll know more.

  79. 79.

    SIA

    @jeffreyw: OH poor baby! I was staring at the pictures trying to figure out what that was. I’ve never seen a cat’s leg in a cast before. I’m so glad you and Mrs W have taken him in. Bless his heart!

    I’ll be interested in how he does with Bea as time goes on. Hopefully, she’ll adopt him too!

  81. 81.

    2th&nayle

    @jeffreyw: Toooo Cute, JW! Amazing that Homer seems so oblivious to his cast. Love the pic where he seems to be stalking the scratchpole!. And that Annie! What a Sweetheart! Those pics are the highlight of my night! Thanks! (grinnin’ from ear to ear)

  83. 83.

    TheOtherWA

    Speaking of James Marsters, Caprica returns Oct. 5th. Yeah, it’s been moved to Tuesday night.

    John, I really hope you don’t have pneumonia, but a call to the doc on Monday sounds like an excellent idea.

  85. 85.

    SIA

    @TheOtherWA: I watched every episode and will watch this season. It’s weird, though, there isn’t a single character for which I feel any interest or sympathy. It’s just kind of null.

  88. 88.

    Steeplejack

    @Zuzu’s Petals:

    Where are you still finding Mentholatum?! That is one of the legendary ancestral nostrums of the Steeplejacks, and I haven’t seen it in a drugstore in ages. I have one half-empty container that I am using sparingly and hoarding like a miser.

    The next part of my crackro-American heritage to disappear will be when I can no longer find Clabber Girl baking powder.

  92. 92.

    WaterGirl

    @Steeplejack:

    The next part of my crackro-American heritage to disappear will be when I can no longer find Clabber Girl baking powder.

    I just bought some last week, so it looks like it will be awhile.

  93. 93.

    SIA

    @Steeplejack: Haven’t seen that – adding it to the list. I was thinking about your handle last night, in Surrogates, from Wikipedia:

    begins with Lt. Harvey Greer investigating the destruction of two surrogates. Greer soon discovers a mysterious figure, which he nicknames “Steeplejack”, plots to permanently disable all surrogates in an effort to eliminate people’s dependence on them.

  96. 96.

    Ann Marie

    Feel better, John, and do see the doctor. There’s something nasty going around. I have two friends who have been sick for weeks. The worst part seems to be the terrible fatigue and lassitude.

  97. 97.

    Steeplejack

    @WaterGirl:

    I know. I saw it on the shelf last week–I have a friend who looks like the Clabber Girl, and I always get a chuckle–but you never know when the Man is going to drop the hammer and do away with another little piece of your heritage.

  98. 98.

    burnspbesq

    @stuckinred:

    What a great songwriter Russell Smith was.

    Odd that we’ve gotten 5 or 6 posts into a discussion of 70s country-rock with no mention of Poco. God, they were good.

  99. 99.

    burnspbesq

    @stuckinred:

    I found a copy of the first Pousette-Dart Band album in a used record store a couple of weeks ago. “What Can I Say” is still a great, great song.

    Also too, Tom Rush made some great albums in the mid-70s. He was a great picker of songs – I discovered Bruce Cockburn because Tom Rush covered “One Day I Walk.”

  102. 102.

    Steeplejack

    @SIA:

    Interesting. When I picked that handle I had a strong visual image of a guy standing/hanging on a steeple and looking toward a rising sun. Wish I had enough any artistic ability to capture the sort of sociaIist-realism picture I saw in my head. Have no idea why it suggested itself as my handle, but I usually go with those impulses.

    . . . Heh. Just went to Google to see if I could find a sociaIist-realism picture of a steeplejack, and among all the other stuff up popped a few pictures of–Tunch! Presumably because they were on pages that contained the world “Steeplejack.”

    I take this as a sign from above. I am more of an adherent of Ceiling Cat than the FSM, and Tunch may well be Her prophet here on the Balloon Juice plane. Perhaps at some level I enjoy the favor of the Ceiling Cat, blessed be Her drywall. But I digress.

  103. 103.

    burnspbesq

    @SIA:

    Yeah, Poco was a great live act. “Deliverin'” is one of the best live albums evah.

    There are several clips of recent Richie Furay live performances on YouTube. He doesn’t come out and play secular music very often these days, but he can still bring it. The opening of the first track on his last album of secular music sends chills up my spine – whoever is singing the high harmony sounds a lot like Timmy Schmitt, and it just grabs you and throws you in the way-back machine.

  104. 104.

    SIA

    @Steeplejack: According to Wikipedia, a steeplejack is A steeplejack is a craftsman who scales buildings, chimneys and church steeples to carry out repairs or maintenance. I like the imagery of your description much better. :)

    re your Ceiling Cat reference, linky no worky.

  107. 107.

    Steeplejack

    @burnspbesq:

    I love Tom Rush’s “Wind on the Water.” Keep meaning to pick up the reissue of Merrimac County just for that one song (although I like his other stuff, too).

  116. 116.

    asiangrrlMN

    @Steeplejack: Don’t forget to spit over your left shoulder. Not that it will do you any good. Basement Cat will win in the end. Mark my words.

    Oh (to the general public), and Spike was on an episode of Numb3rs as well. I have the soundtrack to the musical ep of Buffy. It’s excellent.

  118. 118.

    Glocksman

    @General Stuck:

    WKU?

    Then at some point you probably visited my neck of the woods in Evansville (the *ahem* ‘big city’ *ahem* closest to Owensboro) , though at the time I was all of 8 years old in 1975. :)

    That said, I discovered Buffy while reading Marvel crossover fanfiction (after both Buffy and Angel had ended) and liked what I read so much that I borrowed all seven seasons of Buffy from a friend.

    Xander Harris became my favorite character despite some over the top portrayals such as this in fanfiction.

    IMHO, Joss gave the character a raw deal.

    Oh and if anyone has a Faithbot, I’d like to buy one. :)

  120. 120.

    Joey Maloney in paradise

    @Top, there definitely seems to be something pretty virulent going around. I’m pretty hardy, but last Monday I flew 16 hours overnight. Wednesday I had a bit of a scratchy throat. Thursday I woke up dead. I literally did not get out of bed until almost 5 in the afternoon. Only now, Sunday morning as I type, am I feeling close to human again.

  121. 121.

    wasabi gasp

    I hope you don’t croak, John. If I wasn’t such a Militant Annabarberaist, I’d be sending a prayer for you straight to The Great Gazoo.

  123. 123.

    Steeplejack

    @asiangrrlMN:

    [Colbert voice, shaking fist]: Noooooooo!

    (Damn it. FYWP. FYWP. FYWP. FYWP. FYWP. Still eating comments, not displaying them and then saying I am duplicating when I try to repost. Sorry if this comes out six or eight times.)

  127. 127.

    Steeplejack

    @Yutsano:

    Well, I vaya con la Ceiling Cat. Which may have pissed off the FSM. Why, oh, why is it so hard for us primitive earthlings to figure out which omnipotent sky god is the real deal?!

  142. 142.

    Steeplejack

    @asiangrrlMN:

    Eek. Stop. Stop. Stop. I not sleep tonight. (I not sleep anyway after tough week at work and now start of my weekend (yay!), but that not the point.)

  144. 144.

    meander

    Anya (Emma Caulfield) was possibly my favorite character in Buffy, partially because she was so funny, thanks to Caulfield’s comedic talents (her good looks didn’t hurt either). Caulfield did a low-profile (straight to DVD?) movie last year called “Timer” that has an interesting premise but flawed execution and not enough comedy.

  148. 148.

    asiangrrlMN

    @Steeplejack: Are you calling me impenetrable? I think I’m insulted.

    And, it’s Fuck You Word Press With A Very Rusty Pitchfork That Will Poke Your Eye Out In One Fell Swoop. DUH!

    @Yutsano: I r not a Trekkie so I haz to Google every time u sez sumfink like this.

  150. 150.

    Yutsano

    @asiangrrlMN: I r contributing to ur learning. I consider this a spousal duty. My work here is done. Now I really AM going to bed.

    P.S. Cyclone about to hit Taiwan. Hopefully this doesn’t affect the family back there too much.

    @Steeplejack: I’d suggest going there. A little knocking boots session might just do you both some good. Trust us we won’t mind.

  151. 151.

    Steeplejack

    @asiangrrlMN:

    Are you calling me impenetrable? I think I’m insulted.

    I really don’t know where to go from here.

    Fake hubbies? Little help, please . . .

  152. 152.

    asiangrrlMN

    @Yutsano: Night, hon. Sleep well. ETA: Shit. Did not know. Will Google the typhoon now. Thanks.

    @Steeplejack: Heh. Yeah, I thought I’d put you out of your misery. I mean, I don’t know what the hell I’m thinking half the time, so why should anyone else?

    @Steeplejack: You’re on your own, buddy!

  153. 153.

    Steeplejack

    @asiangrrlMN:

    Eek. (Seems to be my go-to comment tonight.)

    I’m about to pack it in. Really tired, and I have to get up (relatively) early to interact with the bro’ man. He doesn’t seem to get it when I tell him that noon on Sunday is like 6:00 a.m. to me after working the night shift all week. Self-absorption is a wonderful thing–if you’re the one who has it.

    Really enjoyed the Basement Cat stuff. I’ve got some pictures that I will revisit, and I will read up on the relevant theological sources. And I have to say that the Zen cat picture was a lucky find. I was looking for a specific B. Kliban picture but couldn’t find it, alas. But Zen cat is profound. And I found the “Do you have some time to talk about Ceiling Cat?” picture extremely funny. I’ll fax the credenza if you don’t agree.

  154. 154.

    Steeplejack

    @Steeplejack:

    Not to say I’m disappearing right away. Just like Cole, once I announce I’m tired and I’m leaving, I suddenly get a second wind and I’m ready to go until daylight. Maybe. Still catching up on some of the other threads. Just don’t know when I will suddenly keel over and conk out.

  155. 155.

    asiangrrlMN

    @Steeplejack: Cool that you and bro’ man can hang, but I hear you on the noon is way too early in the morning thing. Always glad to pass along the religion. I think I’m outie, though. Night. Have fun tomorrow/today.

  157. 157.

    bob h

    Watching the world’s oldest democracy slowly commit suicide could indeed take a toll on one’s immune system.

  158. 158.

    Thlayli

    @bogart:

    James Marsters will also be the bad guy on the new Hawaii Five-O this season, ….

    Speaking of which: one of the regulars on that show will be Daniel Dae Kim, who pre-Lost played W&H lawyer Gavin Park.

  159. 159.

    WereBear

    I wish to add, since John Cole is so helpfully illustrating the importance of a functioning immune system, that vitamin D is the vitamin of the moment, and heading into winter is when we should think about supplementing.

    At least, my winter weather doesn’t encourage sunbathing.

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    Redshirt

    I liked Connor! And it seems my role on the internet is to defend his character and his storyline. So, bring it, if you will.

    He was raised in hell, you’ll recall.

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    Remember November

    An x-ray will tell. Do you feel like there is a heaviness in your lungs, do you feel tenderness or soreness under your ribs? Get it checked out. I had pneumo 2 years ago, not fun. Took about two months after treatment for lungs to clear. Don’t screw around. OTC meds do jack. Was on Cipro for two weeks.

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    Lucrecia Foxwell

    Bugs do not have gills nor lungs…they’ve a central tube or tracheal system that divides into more compact and more compact tubes through which air is forced by muscular action with the insect. Both are perfectly adapted to their habitats.

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