• Menu
  • Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Before Header

  • About Us
  • Lexicon
  • Contact Us
  • Our Store
  • ↑
  • ↓
  • ←
  • →

Balloon Juice

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.

The fundamental promise of conservatism all over the world is a return to an idealized past that never existed.

I was promised a recession.

People are weird.

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

I’d try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.

If you’re pissed about Biden’s speech, he was talking about you.

He seems like a smart guy, but JFC, what a dick!

Teach a man to fish, and he’ll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.

Innocent people don’t delay justice.

We need to vote them all out and restore sane Democratic government.

The line between political reporting and fan fiction continues to blur.

If West Virginia and San Francisco had a love child.

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

The willow is too close to the house.

Don’t expect peaches from an apple tree.

Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

This year has been the longest three days of putin’s life.

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

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

This really is a full service blog.

The revolution will be supervised.

Be a traveling stable for those who can’t find room at the inn.

Books are my comfort food!

Mobile Menu

  • Four Directions Montana
  • Donate with Venmo, Zelle & PayPal
  • Site Feedback
  • War in Ukraine
  • Submit Photos to On the Road
  • Politics
  • On The Road
  • Open Threads
  • Topics
  • COVID-19 Coronavirus
  • Authors
  • About Us
  • Contact Us
  • Lexicon
  • Our Store
  • Politics
  • Open Threads
  • 2024 Elections
  • Garden Chats
  • On The Road
  • Targeted Fundraising!
You are here: Home / Music / Late Night Open Thread

Late Night Open Thread

by Anne Laurie|  March 14, 20112:35 am| 42 Comments

This post is in: Music, Open Threads

FacebookTweetEmail

If you have the opportunity to see a performance by Kodo, by all means take it. Amazing…

__
Anybody still awake on the left coast or elsewhere?

FacebookTweetEmail
Previous Post: « A tale of two narratives
Next Post: “How you can help victims of the Japan earthquake and tsunami” »

Reader Interactions

42Comments

  1. 1.

    Elia

    March 14, 2011 at 2:36 am

    Anonymous has just released its first batch of BofA emails.

    the site is down from all the traffic but here’s a rundown of what we’ve got so far: http://www.businessinsider.com/anonymous-hackers-bank-of-america-wikileaks-emails-documents-2011-3

    they say more’s coming

  2. 2.

    Mary G

    March 14, 2011 at 2:42 am

    I’m here but about to go to bed. I am just sick about Japan. I played music all evening to calm myself down but just read an article in the NYT that undid all that and more.

  3. 3.

    asiangrrlMN

    March 14, 2011 at 2:51 am

    I’m up. Having lunch. Moping around.

  4. 4.

    TheOtherWa

    March 14, 2011 at 2:54 am

    The B of A emails make me happy. After all the death and destruction in Japan, I needed something to cheer me up. Let’s hope they’re worth more than just a little embarrassment for them.

  5. 5.

    Ronc99

    March 14, 2011 at 3:25 am

    Amazing video — thanks for sharing, Anne.

  6. 6.

    Ruckus

    March 14, 2011 at 3:26 am

    Still here. Just feeling a little sorry for the human race and all those other beings we affect right now. We seem to be in era of major assholes being in charge or at least in the way in many places around the globe and mother nature is letting us know that she is still fully in charge.
    It’s sort of depressing actually.
    I asked on a prior thread what someone could do about politics if they had no extra money and very little free time. I didn’t get an answer but I would bet there are many in my position who would also like to help in some way.
    Anyone? Bueller?

  7. 7.

    Comrade Mary

    March 14, 2011 at 3:26 am

    Yep. Up. Tired. Deadlines. Not enough time to finish. ARGH!

  8. 8.

    catdevotee

    March 14, 2011 at 3:27 am

    I’m in southwestern Oregon. We had a small tsunami following the Japan earthquake. It destroyed most of the port in our harbor, which is the mainstay of area’s economy. What keeps the area alive economically is fishing – commercial, sustenance, and recreational (including the many fishing tourists).

    Thank the gods we had few fatalities, but we will have a terrible economic burden here for years to come. There is already a 17% unemployment rate in this county.

    Then today we had a big storm with unusually high winds. A giant fir branch was blown into our roof, with about 5 inches intruding into our living room ceiling. It is currently dripping rain-water into a pan I placed on the living room floor.

  9. 9.

    opie_jeanne

    March 14, 2011 at 3:33 am

    I’m still up, in SoCal near Lake Arrowhead in a tiny cabin we own. The snow from the big storm two weeks ago is nearly gone, but another may hit us next weekend. Just in time for us to head home to Seattle.

  10. 10.

    opie_jeanne

    March 14, 2011 at 3:35 am

    @catdevotee: That’s terrible. A leaky roof is really a miserable thing.

  11. 11.

    Wile E. Quixote

    March 14, 2011 at 3:35 am

    Still up here in Burien. My body clock thinks it’s 11:30.

  12. 12.

    opie_jeanne

    March 14, 2011 at 3:39 am

    You know that Tea Party protest scheduled for today? The one where they would drive to a highway and pull over and park for an hour? I have looked everywhere for coverage and even Fox didn’t bother so it must have been pitiful.

    Ran across several webpages urging their members (3 to 5 members on most of them) to participate, and mostly there were complaints that they hadn’t had enough time to get organized. They had this info for a month and they couldn’t figure out how to do this one little thing that wasn’t arranged for them by Fox or one of the other entities scheduling their nonsense for them. Some movement.

  13. 13.

    Joey Maloney

    March 14, 2011 at 3:41 am

    I’m awake on the left coast. Of the Mediterranean. It’s mid-morning and I just filed my taxes. Did you know if you live abroad your first fifty-some thousand dollars of income is excluded from Federal taxes? That’s regardless of whether it comes from a US or foreign company and whether or not you pay foreign taxes on it.

    I am pleased.

  14. 14.

    Tattoosydney

    March 14, 2011 at 4:03 am

    Cesar Milan is evil. I hadn’t realized just how awful he was because i have never watched him.

    In the episode I saw, he was “training” a sweet boxer that was aggressive to strangers. At no point did he give the poor doggy any positive affirmation – not a pat, not a “good boy”. Just “do what I say”.

    Then, he was trying to cure the dog of charging a gate if there was anyone on the other side. His training method was to poke and karate chop the dog in the neck, in between strong jerks on its chain.

    It made me very happy to imagine my poor, slightly fucked-in-the-head and overprotective, but perfectly behaved doggy who, if Cesar Milan poked him in his neck, would take a big bite out of Cesar Milan’s stomach.

    Dickhead

  15. 15.

    Anne Laurie

    March 14, 2011 at 4:06 am

    @Ronc99: Even more amazing in person. Here in Boston (Symphony Hall), a handful of people and a bunch of extremely acoustic instruments in an otherwise bare stage-box kept a couple thousand totebaggers & their kulcha-exposed offspring enthralled for two hours plus. Kodo even got us rhythmically-challenged white people clapping in harmony.

    Also, if one has ever desired the kind of gluteal definition that permits performing with one’s back turned to a roomful of strangers whilst wearing only a g-string… apparently taiko drumming is the way to achieve this goal.

    Were I to turn travelling groupie in my old age, this group is the one I would follow. If the future is going to require all of us to manage our communal lives with a whole lot of Less, it’s reassuring to know that joy can be achieved with a relatively low carbon footprint.

  16. 16.

    Xenos

    March 14, 2011 at 4:19 am

    Just sitting down to work here… it is 9:20 am!

  17. 17.

    Suffern ACE

    March 14, 2011 at 4:31 am

    @Tattoosydney: Cesar Milan is in part one of the reasons I can’t sleep tonight. Trying to figure out how to train a puppy for city life so that a friend doesn’t make a mistake and give up on his new pup too early. Puppy = happy. Owner = frazzled mess.

  18. 18.

    JenJen

    March 14, 2011 at 5:08 am

    Still awake. Watching NHK World TV (in English) on UStream. So much better than CNN.

    Although to CNN’s credit, they’re live at this hour with international coverage from their Hong Kong affiliate.

    @opie_jeanne: I had completely forgotten about that! Good money says the drive-n-stop protesters have forgotten all about it as well.

  19. 19.

    demkat620

    March 14, 2011 at 5:08 am

    I’m up. Having coffee then it’s off to work.

    I am taking a couple of days off this week. Taking the kids away for a few days. This Japan disaster is just awful. It just keeps getting worse. How does a society rebuild from something like this? Devastated isn’t even the word to describe it.

  20. 20.

    lostinube

    March 14, 2011 at 5:13 am

    NHK says that the No. 2 reactor at the Fukushima No. 1 Power Station has lost it’s cooling ability.
    http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/14_35.html

  21. 21.

    Sarah, Proud and Tall

    March 14, 2011 at 5:29 am

    @Suffern ACE:

    All I know is that strong leadership plus lots of patting and playing (plus in our case, anti anxiety drugs) = happy dog that wants to be obedient, while poking in the neck = dog that does what it is told because it is scared.

    Incidentally the boxer kept eyeing off the veins in Cesar’s neck when he had it leashed so close to him it couldn’t move away from him in a little interlude where it was supposed to be staring over his shoulder adoringly.

  22. 22.

    Phyllis

    March 14, 2011 at 5:31 am

    Been to bed, was up an hour earlier than usual. Thanks to DST, this will probably be my routine for the next few days. Sometimes I wish I could be one of those blissfully ignorant folks who are able to tune out the news, the real world and/or anything that doesn’t relate to their little piece of it.

  23. 23.

    SFAW

    March 14, 2011 at 5:49 am

    Apropos of nothing in particular, but since this is (theoretically) open: apparently, Owsley has died in car crash in Australia. Police have not confirmed it, but his family has. (Or so says one of the “news” feeds I read.)

    Normally, I might write “Boy, does that name bring back memories”, but I’m not sure I’d want those memories brung back.

  24. 24.

    deminoz

    March 14, 2011 at 6:19 am

    I am in aust — still working at 9:30pm on Monday. Partner is in thailand on business. I am desperate to do something to help japan….kicked the issue up to aust execs of my global company to pay attention. The whole world reached out to australia during floods ….we need to reciprocate. Sad that I have to ask/tell them to do something.

  25. 25.

    David Bangkoker

    March 14, 2011 at 6:27 am

    Awake in Thailand. Don’t have much to contribute (certainly I have nothing to say about Japan that’s not been said far, far better already).

  26. 26.

    stuckinred

    March 14, 2011 at 6:31 am

    Up in Georgia!

  27. 27.

    stuckinred

    March 14, 2011 at 6:32 am

    @SFAW: Wow,Kid Charlemagne.

  28. 28.

    El Cid

    March 14, 2011 at 6:58 am

    PBS’ Ombudsman is not too happy with NPR wetting its pants over yet another bullshit video from pimp-notpimp-boy:

    …[T]he top management of NPR, nee National Public Radio, in recent days and months has also delivered a series of egregious, self-inflicted wounds that not only helped feed the political push, mostly from conservatives, to cut funding from all of public broadcasting, including the PBS television service, but also unfairly damaged the reputation of one of the nation’s best and most important news-gathering organizations at NPR.
    __
    The irony of NPR’s latest management screw-up is that the reporting of the episode cast a shadow over NPR while the press has paid relatively little attention to the political activists and actors who lied about their identities.

  29. 29.

    Xenos

    March 14, 2011 at 7:24 am

    @stuckinred: This is making me feel very old. Just last week it took me about half an hour to explain that song to my 11 year old son. I might as well have been discussing the Mohegan-Narragansett war – no way for him to relate to it.

  30. 30.

    SFAW

    March 14, 2011 at 7:36 am

    have been discussing the Mohegan-Narragansett war

    Was that the war between tribes to see whose casino would go where?

    As far as explaining it to your son: “Learn by doing”. (No, I’m not serious, in case there was any doubt.)

  31. 31.

    SFAW

    March 14, 2011 at 7:37 am

    OK, WTF? Moderation? Now what?

  32. 32.

    Platonicspoof

    March 14, 2011 at 7:38 am

    A tweet from the Kyodo news agency on this Japan Times page says

    Fuel rods at No. 2 reactor of Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant fully exposed – Kyodo

    Thirty minutes ago.

    Looking for Kyodo site now.

  33. 33.

    Platonicspoof

    March 14, 2011 at 7:51 am

    This is the extent of the story at the Kyodo page:

    TOKYO, March 14, Kyodo
    Fuel rods at the No. 2 reactor of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant were fully exposed Monday, following Friday’s deadly earthquake, Tokyo Electric Power Co. said.
    The plant operator said water levels fell as fuel for pumps that are used for seawater injection operations ran out.
    Tokyo Electric earlier said the cooling functions of the reactor had been lost and began injecting seawater into the reactor to cool it down.

  34. 34.

    stuckinred

    March 14, 2011 at 7:54 am

    @Xenos: I guess sometimes it’s good not to have kids.

  35. 35.

    lostinube

    March 14, 2011 at 8:16 am

    NHK is talking about reactor No. 2.
    http://www.ustream.tv/channel/nhk-world-tv

  36. 36.

    DBrown

    March 14, 2011 at 9:51 am

    Also, other reactors unrelated to this plant have had problems and one is running on its back-up pump. Great.

    So two reactors at the troubled plant have partial melt downs and both have had very serious hydrogen explosions – so much for our safe american designed reactors. Who’d think that an earthquake would ever hit … wait, everyone has considered this and designed for “worst case”. Either we are all being lied to and no earthquake hit japan (probably just a terrorist attack) or we have been mislead by fools who have no fucking idea of what they are talking about who design, build and operate nuclear plants … I wonder which of these statements is true … must be terrorist because I and my fellow americans are not that stupid … .

    Sorry for the attitude but this is both the last thing these poor people need and we need to hear as we gear up to face AGW – so if we want nuke power, either we 1) take these risks which are 100% likely to occur if anything like an earthquake hits us or 2)Build the far, far ,far safer Candu reactor that doesn’t give a shit if it cracks open and spills all its cooling fluid; it won’t melt down (of course radioactive gases would be nasty … oh, well, can’t have everything!)

  37. 37.

    waldenpond

    March 14, 2011 at 12:25 pm

    I’ve seen Kodo. It’s a great show. The mass of medium and the large drums vibrate the building. Your clothes, arms, feet, knees vibrate. Very talented young people. The small bamboo drums are like listening to a rain storm…. each one has a slightly different sound and they perform very complicated pieces.

  38. 38.

    asiangrrlMN

    March 14, 2011 at 1:48 pm

    @SFAW: You said the place where there is gambling. That is very bad.

    @Ruckus: Gah. Wish I had a helpful answer. All I can think of is crap like making sure everyone you know votes and is well-informed and such.

    @opie_jeanne: Thanks for letting me know. I was looking for any coverage of the event, and I couldn’t find any. Idiots.

    TattooSydney, hi, hon. Good to see ya. Never have seen Cesar Milan, and I aim to keep it that way.

  39. 39.

    opie_jeanne

    March 14, 2011 at 2:53 pm

    @asiangrrlMN: I found one single site that claimed they had 50 people (can’t remember if that meant 50 vehicles) that was going to stop on I 90, but I had no idea where on I 90 because they gave no specific info. LOL. I 90 spans the US.

    We were on the freeways in SoCal yesterday and didn’t notice a single vehicle pulled over.

    They quite literally couldn’t organize a two-car parade.

  40. 40.

    opie_jeanne

    March 14, 2011 at 2:53 pm

    @asiangrrlMN: I found one single site that claimed they had 50 people (can’t remember if that meant 50 vehicles) that was going to stop on I 90, but I had no idea where on I 90 because they gave no specific info. LOL. I 90 spans the US.

    We were on the freeways in SoCal yesterday and didn’t notice a single vehicle pulled over.

    They quite literally couldn’t organize a two-car parade.

  41. 41.

    cckids

    March 14, 2011 at 4:30 pm

    Well, I ended up having to drive on the hiways all over Vegas/Henderson yesterday to kid’s functions (one more month, he’ll have his own license yay). Saw 2 separate episodes of 2 cars pulled over, but one was a fender-bender, one was a breakdown & good samaritan combo. No “protest” in Sin City. WTF?

  42. 42.

    Pavlov's Dog

    March 15, 2011 at 3:19 pm

    test

Comments are closed.

Primary Sidebar

Recent Comments

  • The Pale Scot on Tuesday Night Open Thread (Apr 17, 2024 @ 8:58am)
  • Chris on Cold Grey Pre-Dawn Open Thread: Fading Neom Dreams (Apr 17, 2024 @ 8:57am)
  • oldster on Distribution of Medical Spending in the US Population (Apr 17, 2024 @ 8:57am)
  • Baud on Cold Grey Pre-Dawn Open Thread: Fading Neom Dreams (Apr 17, 2024 @ 8:56am)
  • Starfish on Distribution of Medical Spending in the US Population (Apr 17, 2024 @ 8:54am)

🎈Keep Balloon Juice Ad Free

Become a Balloon Juice Patreon
Donate with Venmo, Zelle or PayPal

Balloon Juice Posts

View by Topic
View by Author
View by Month & Year
View by Past Author

Balloon Juice Meetups!

All Meetups
Talk of Meetups – Meetup Planning
Proposed BJ meetups list from frosty

Fundraising 2023-24

Wis*Dems Supreme Court + SD-8
Virginia House Races
Four Directions – Montana
Worker Power AZ
Four Directions – Arizona
Four Directions – Nevada

Featuring

Medium Cool
Artists in Our Midst
Authors in Our Midst
Positive Climate News
War in Ukraine
Cole’s “Stories from the Road”
Classified Documents Primer

Calling All Jackals

Site Feedback
Nominate a Rotating Tag
Submit Photos to On the Road
Balloon Juice Mailing List Signup
Balloon Juice Anniversary (All Links)
Balloon Juice Anniversary (All Posts)

Fix Nyms with Apostrophes

Balloon Juice for Ukraine

Donate

Twitter / Spoutible

Balloon Juice (Spoutible)
WaterGirl (Spoutible)
TaMara (Spoutible)
John Cole
DougJ (aka NYT Pitchbot)
Betty Cracker
Tom Levenson
David Anderson
Major Major Major Major
ActualCitizensUnited

Political Action 2024

Postcard Writing Information

Balloon Juice for Four Directions AZ

Donate

Balloon Juice for Four Directions NV

Donate

Site Footer

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

  • Facebook
  • RSS
  • Twitter
  • YouTube
  • Comment Policy
  • Our Authors
  • Blogroll
  • Our Artists
  • Privacy Policy

Copyright © 2024 Dev Balloon Juice · All Rights Reserved · Powered by BizBudding Inc

Share this ArticleLike this article? Email it to a friend!

Email sent!