Flipping between the Jets/Cowboys and Mahler’s Symphony #2 on PBS. Figured we could use an open thread.
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Flipping between the Jets/Cowboys and Mahler’s Symphony #2 on PBS. Figured we could use an open thread.
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Roger Moore
What, the previous open thread wasn’t good enough for you? Why not liven this one up with some Tunch pics?
Ron
I have a question. Should I be looking forward to draft day yet?
Linda Featheringill
Speaking of animals . . . .
John, is Rosie still alive?
Davis X. Machina
Take Mahler and give the points. Gustav always covers.
lamh32
OMG. Just watched the TrueBlood finale. My last words were NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
In one final episode, they may have made up for this whole wishy washy season.
Roger Moore
@Ron:
Only if the players burn their draft cards, hold a sit-in, and threaten to move to Canada if their demands aren’t met.
Violet
Went to go see The Interrupters tonight. Very good. So much admiration for the guys who do this work.
daveNYC
Jet’s o-line needs some help. Got a Cowboys fan ‘clapper’ at the bar. Ugh.
Comrade Kevin
@Ron:
Which league?
Yutsano
Never been much of a Mahler fan. And Jerry Jones just way overpaid for a player.
John Cole
@Linda Featheringill: Rosie is doing very well. People were shocked at how well she is behaving these days when they came to the party Friday night. Numerous people commented she was not the same dog as last year.
She even spent most of the day on my lap watching the NFL.
Comrade Kevin
I usually enjoy watching the 49ers, I’ve been doing it since, well, I can remember. There is something, in general, though, about the NFL and the coverage it gets on TV that really bugs the shit out of me. It’s the way they sort of imply, without actually saying, that they’re some extra branch of the US military.
Wow, there’s a whole bunch of commas in that paragraph.
Roger Moore
Thread needs more kitteh. Also some hummingbird.
Comrade Kevin
@Roger Moore: Nice photos!
BruceFromOhio
@John Cole: Could it be the fence, the crate? Animals need limits, boundaries, to know where “here” and “home” and “this is mine” begins and ends?
ETA: Every season there is some set of commercials that I come to loathe after the third or fourth time around, and right now its the DirecTV spots with the little floating fairy.
SiubhanDuinne
Hey, John! Check out the previous thread to read all aout the awesome, caloric, delicious dessert I had tonight which is called the JOHN COLE! Srsly.
SiubhanDuinne
Hey, John! Check out the previous thread to read all about the awesome, caloric, delicious dessert I had tonight which is called the JOHN COLE! Srsly.
SiubhanDuinne
@Roger Moore:
What a gorgeous sleek black cat!
Roger Moore
@Comrade Kevin:
Thank you. I figure that if Cole isn’t going to provide us with a daily dose of
kitty porncat pictures, somebody else needs to step up to the plate.Violet
@John Cole:
That’s great to hear. Sounds like the crate has really helped.
vtr
The 2nd is “The Ressurection” and is dedicated to the Stillers.
Roger Moore
@SiubhanDuinne:
Unfortunately, he’s lost the one cute white whisker since that picture was taken. And feeding him the fancy, expensive dry food seems to help with the sleek part.
andy
I visited a farm saturday to check out their sunflower oil operation- caught an image of a neat farm kitteh living there.
Roger Moore
Thread needs more Giant Sequoia.
Corner Stone
Plax.
Corner Stone
@Roger Moore: Agreed. That is full of awe.
AliceBlue
I’m loving the Mahler. Not so much in love with the bad ’80’s hair the soloist is sporting.
Corner Stone
Witten. What a white boy.
Wait, can I say that here any more?
Steeplejack
@Corner Stone:
Yeah, what’s up with that? Plax is my favorite mouthwash, but it has mysteriously disappeared from CVS, which is the only place around here that carries it.
Corner Stone
@Steeplejack: Jets ball. Does that answer your question?
Steeplejack
@Corner Stone:
Oh. Carry on, then.
Corner Stone
Plaxi.
Comrade Kevin
Flowering Pear tree
moonbat
Seriously, I know the Cubs and the Mets aren’t playing for anything but pride right now, but could we at least pretend to cover the game? There’s so much 9/11 remembering going on that I have no idea what’s going on on the field! If you want to have a 9/11 tribute show with Bobby Valentine and Mike Piazza telling their stories, fine. Do that. But don’t pretend to be covering a baseball game too.
/end rant of frustrated Cubs fan
different church-lady
Mahler’s #2 is the last thing I want to hear before I die.
Al Michaels is not.
jeffreyw
The origin of the kitten-string enmity is lost in the deep past. It has been so intense for so long that it is now in the DNA. Stay strong, Little Bit, be True.
Corner Stone
Freakin Nasty!!
4jkb4ia
A tie on a blocked punt! Awesome-sauce! Carry on.
Roger Moore
Thread needs more fossils.
Corner Stone
Dood. Jets tryin’ it on yo.
Corner Stone
Is no one else watching this game?
jeffreyw
Time for breakfast yet?
Short Bus Bully
This year (as in many others) being a Seahawks fan is going to be an exercise in self hatred.
jeffreyw
Thread needs moar hummingbirds.
Ash Can
@moonbat: If you live anywhere near the Chicago area, turn the sound on ESPN down and tune in to WGN radio (720 AM) for the play-by-play. If you don’t, try going to wgnradio.com; I think they stream the broadcasts on the web.
MariedeGournay
The Larch
Yutsano
@Short Bus Bully:
Adjusted for accuracy.
Roger Moore
Thread needs moar Tunch.
MariedeGournay
The Larch
BruceFromOhio
This is ending up almost as interesting as the Saints-Packers game. Glad I stayed up past bedtime for this one, too!
ETA: Jets t/o with :08… wtf? Please end it already.
eastriver
I’m watching the Jets do some damage against the Cowboys (on 9/11, how perfect is that?), and I can only think one thing…
…
…
…
My GOD the Steelers sucked today.
Steeplejack
@Corner Stone:
I’m watching the game. Why din’t you say Plax-i in the first place?! Of course that’s football. Plax, not so much.
ETA: Last chance for the ’Boys.
Anya
NY 09: Obama turns Weprin into Toast. Turner Leads 47-41. That’s the title of a Dailykos diary. It looks like a sizable number of the NY09 has a constituency is an Israel first crowd. What the hell is up with that?
suzanne
I am going to sound like the worst parent in the world after FourLoko_chan’s mom and dad, but I totally want a vacation from my kids. I don’t even want to go anywhere. I want THEM to go somewhere. Just for a few days. I want to sleep until noon every damn day and use profane language in every sentence and enjoy some peace and motherfucking quiet and not deal with anybody’s feces and just have lots of sex.
Anya
So are the “football” players naturally huge or are they all on steroids?
Comrade Mary
@jeffreyw: Good God, she’s gorgeous. (I’ve seen all the pictures you’ve posted of her, so this is an objective truth.) That black mask, broken by that streak of red and white, is incredibly fetching. She almost looks like a little superhero.
Alison
@suzanne: I am not a parent, but I see nothing whatsoever wrong with your comment, and I’d bet it’s echoed in the minds of maaaaaaany parents out there.
We need time apart from everyone in our lives – spouses/partners, friends, coworkers, etc…only natural one might need a break from their kids once in a while too. Especially since they come with, as you noted, poop and stuff. Gross.
Svensker
OMG. Somebody up there likes the Jets. Miracles do happen.
I need heart replacement surgery, however.
jeffreyw
@Comrade Mary: She is a comely lass…Homer seems smitten with her, tho he shows it in rather clumsy fashion.
Kristine
Just watched Jeff Samardzija pitch out of a mess of his own making. Unfortunately, not before he let the Mets tie it up. Damn Cubs. I should bag b-ball and wait for the Hawks to get going.
TooManyJens
@suzanne: I’m with Alison; that sounds totally normal to me.
Geoduck
@Yutsano:
I’m a lifetime Seattle-area resident, and I don’t understand it. Year after year after year, people keep going to the Seahawk/Mariner/
Sonicgames, knowing, knowing, that it’s all going to end in ashes, and probably sooner rather than later. But they keep coming back. I sort of half-watch ‘Hawk games, but.. actually buying tickets? Making that deep emotional investment? I realize that Americans are trained from birth that professional sports, unlike politics, are Vitally Crushingly Important, but still..And of course, everything’s so larded down with commercials any more, even if they did Win It All occasionally.. sigh.
JCT
J-E-T-S!
Now that was a football game!
Yutsano
@suzanne: Nope. Not unusual at all. There are reasons why kids get shipped off to the grandparents for a week or two. It’s to give Mom and Dad a break. And it’s hugely important too.
@Geoduck: I’m going to a Seahack game mostly because it’s on my birthday and it’s a good excuse to get my family to visit. That and I enjoy people watching. But folks have got to wonder if the tax raise for the two new places was worth it.
Svensker
@Roger Moore:
Really cool. What is it, where’d you find it?
We were just up at Lake Huron and found trilobite fossils which was SO exciting.
Also, Revis is the man.
Brian S
Just had a New Belgium Abbey. Gorgeous stuff from the moment you inhale it.
JCT
@suzanne: Hah! Been there done that! We had no relatives to help so it took awhile, but hang in– they’ll grow up fast and decide that hanging with you sucks (this is when you get date-nights back).
Just save the bucks to send them out of state for college…
suzanne
@Yutsano:
We tried having the baby stay with my mom for a sleepover. The first time, she did just fine, no anxiety at all. The second time, a couple of weeks ago, my mom called me at 10 pm to come pick her up because the baby was just freaking the fuck out and couldn’t deal with the disruption to her routine. Total cockblock. So we’re going to give it a few months before we try having another sleepover.
Argh.
Roger Moore
@jeffreyw:
Did somebody mention hummingbirds?
Corner Stone
@Yutsano: How would you know?
Roger Moore
@Svensker:
Which one? There’s a natural dinosaur footprint cast from the Johnson Farm Museum in St. George, UT, fossil oyster shells from beside the Notom-Bullfrog Road in Capitol Reef National Park, and a sauropod humerus from Dinosaur National Monument. Only the track was in a museum.
jeffreyw
@Roger Moore:
Why yes, I believe there was something said about hummingbirds.
FlipYrWhig
I realized today that Tony Romo is like the Tony Stewart of QBs. Doughy, lackadaisical, and error-prone. (Also, Mark Sanchez looks just like the star of Entourage, and I dislike both of them.) That whole game was just two different styles of ineptitude. Kind of like Romney vs. Perry.
jeffreyw
@Roger Moore: I’ve heard this was good place to find them. Lots of them.
Yutsano
@FlipYrWhig:
If Romo shows up in stupid commercials I’m blaming you. :)
handy
@FlipYrWhig:
Or like the Tony Roma’s of QBs: overpriced, underwhelming, and overrated.
Corner Stone
@handy: Agreed. That chain isn’t much to write home about.
Kristine
Soriano came through in the 11th. Hope they can hold it.
So many empty seats. If they were at Wrigley, it would probably be a sell-out.
4jkb4ia
I am sorry I missed the Mahler, especially since it was the Philharmonic, but I don’t know it well enough to listen during the commercials. I had to do the pots, also too.
That game was full of um, incident. Svensker put it well with “miraculous”. I guess TNC can take heart that the Cowboys aren’t going to be any worse this year. But Sanchez was seen doing things you would never have relied on him to do last year.
Upper West
@handy: Or maybe Tony Clifton?
Alan
@4jkb4ia and whoever else wants to hear the Mahler
You can listen to the concert or watch the concert online for at least the next week or so. Check the Great Performances website. Of course, you can also download a good recording of the piece for not much money.
FlipYrWhig
@handy: I see what you did there.
Jebediah
@John Cole:
Awwww! I knew there would be a happy ending for you two…
burnspbesq
@suzanne:
Umm, that’s what grandparents are for. Didn’t anyone tell you that?
Yutsano
@burnspbesq: We covered that. Hopefully the next go round won’t result in abject failure.
burnspbesq
@Kristine:
It’s after midnight on a school night. A sudden and unexpected outbreak of responsible parenting is the cause of those empty seats.
burnspbesq
@Alan:
I’m a fan of the San Francisco Symphony/Tilson Thomas Mahler cycle. You can definitely download them from http://www.hdtracks.com (CD-quality or hi-res), and probably also from http://www.sfs.org.
You can also buy the entire cycle on vinyl, but it’s appallingly expensive.
Arclite
Jesus, that’s pretty schizophrenic.
moonbat
@Ash Can: Don’t live in the Chicago area unfortunately but will try the internet work around next time. Thanks for the tip. We get to see so few Cubs games here on the left coast that it’s just frustrating when one is on basic cable and you don’t really get to see it.
jprfrog
I don’t have any love for the Cowboys but I HATE the Jets. Didn’t know about the alternative being Mahler but that’s just as well, as I tend to get over-emotional (just like the composer) and I had to sleep last night. Funny, never did that when I had to actually play the piece (which I did about 30 times). I suppose it’s like playing football: you never really feel the pain while you are playing but oh man the next day!
Tonight it matters: My Pats vs. the Fish. Not easy at all. Gone are the days when you could assume the Pats would win.
Southern Beale
So the latest poster child for Republican victimhood is Gibson Guitars. The only shocking thing about this story is how porrly the media has covered it.
Marc
Something going on over at dailykos…
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/09/11/1015546/-SistahSpeak?via=siderec
I think kos banned a bunch of people for fighting over Obama, and a lot of them were apparently AA posters. The latter group is organizing some sort of boycott because they feel singled out. I don’t hang out there much, so I don’t know about the right & wrong & the like. I do know that the diaries, especially the comments, are virtually unreadable to me right now.
FlipYrWhig
@Marc: Do you remember the original “pie fight,” where a lot of Kossacks (especially women) complained about a racy web ad and ended up getting a front-page harrumphing from Markos himself about the “sanctimonious women’s studies set” and identity politics? A lot of women who used to participate over there ended up elsewhere.
Marc
@FlipYrWhig:
Yes, vaguely. I guess it’s a progressive web site if you’re the proper sort of progressive?
Waterballoon
It’s ironic considering how often kos harangues single issue voters for not seeing the bigger picture, but will be actively rooting against senator Tester because he didn’t vote for the Dream Act. Everyone else’s priorities are identity politics, his priorities are bedrock principles everyone else must comply with.
Mary Jane Leach
Jets – Mahler? Well, Mahler was chief conductor with the NY Philharmonic near the end of his life, so there is a NY connection.