Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

I know this must be bad for Joe Biden, I just don’t know how.

Accountability, motherfuckers.

A last alliance of elves and men. also pet photos.

Come on, media. you have one job. start doing it.

We are aware of all internet traditions.

Their freedom requires your slavery.

It’s easy to sit in safety and prescribe what other people should be doing.

So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.

Second rate reporter says what?

I like you, you’re my kind of trouble.

When someone says they “love freedom”, rest assured they don’t mean yours.

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

fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)

Infrastructure week. at last.

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

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

The next time the wall street journal editorial board speaks the truth will be the first.

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

I really should read my own blog.

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

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

Putting aside our relentless self-interest because the moral imperative is crystal clear.

Republican obstruction dressed up as bipartisanship. Again.

The arc of history bends toward the same old fuckery.

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  2. 2.

    Punchy

    A margarita, a few diapers changed, fixing the baby’s eye boogers, and some greyhounds walked.

    Just thinking about what my Fridays used to be 15 years ago is wicked depressing.

  3. 3.

    Gordon, The Big Express Engine

    There’s been a lot of Charlie Pierce love around here lately. Here is an interesting piece from him on paying college athletes.

    Chard tonight. Chalone 2008.

  7. 7.

    Perfect Tommy

    In all the media frenzy surrounding the Lululemon murder trial, no one appears to be bothered by the testimony of the employees from the Apple store next door:

    “I heard noises coming from the right side of the store- something heavy sounding,” Apple employee Jana Svrzo said, reports CBS affiliate WUSA. “Like it was being hit or dragging, some grunting and some thudding.”

    “We approached the area of the store where the sound was the loudest. At that point we heard some screaming or yelling. It sounded hysterical,” Svrzo said, according to WUSA.

    Svrzo reportedly said she heard two female voices, one hysterically, “God help me, please help me.”

    Do iPhones not have 911 capability? It’s been almost fifty years since the Kitty Genovese slaying. Some things never change…

  10. 10.

    Gordon, The Big Express Engine

    @Punchy: I have three kids under 5 years old (and THREE X boxes beeyotches*) and my Friday nights are so far what they were even 6 years ago, it is like I am a different person, which I am…

    *not true – we only just got cable 2 years ago – we’re lame like that…

  13. 13.

    James Hare

    Beer for me here in America’s Socialist Paradise, Vermont.

    Just moved and I must say, all the crap I heard about yankees not being polite was completely off base. These folks are the nicest folks I’ve met in a long time. The drivers let you in when you need a space, complete strangers hold doors open for you and I don’t think I’ve met a single Republican.

    I don’t know what people are thinking moving South. New England has it going on.

  15. 15.

    Brian S

    Just spent two hours in the tap room of the Peacetree Brewery in Knoxville, IA. It’s easily the best beer I’ve tasted brewed in Iowa, and the folks who run it are awesome, They’ve only been around for a little over a year, but if they keep making beer this good, they’ll blow up as quickly as they want to. If you’re in Iowa and have the chance, check their beer out, especially if you like hops. Their Hop Wrangler and Hop Sutra are bad news in the best possible way.

  17. 17.

    srv

    Am trying to remember if 90 Minute is on tap at Lucky 13. My memory is always fuzzy about that place.

  18. 18.

    lamh34

    eating some pineapple slices. and watching Fringe.

    Oh, and as a self-acclaimed Michelle-Obot, I saw this and thought it was awesome. FLOTUS will be on ICarly for a special Military Family themed episode in January I believe. Here is sneak peek!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0cA6uJVcTs&feature=related

    I’m sorry, but I really do like this woman. Time will tell, but I would lay a bet that once the Obama presidency has ended (4 or 8 years) and history is written, Michelle O will be considered one of the more accessible and down to earth First Lady’s ever, IMHO.

  20. 20.

    RossInDetroit

    Mrs. inD just got home from three days away at work. Her dog, after dozing for 72 hours in a chair, is losing his mind now. We may have to net and sedate him. Speaking of sedation, Scotch for me. And soon.

  21. 21.

    Hill Dweller

    Issa is going to be on Maher’s show. I hope Maher has a competent staffer who prepared him for Issa’s bullshit.

  27. 27.

    gnomedad

    @smintheus:

    All over America this week, parents faced a very modern problem: how to explain the Kim Kardashian divorce to their children.

    The Bajoran occupation is a sticky subject, too.

  28. 28.

    schrodinger's cat

    Recovering from dental surgery and even with all the medications listed above (see comment 1), it still hurts like hell.

  29. 29.

    S. cerevisiae

    Damn Gopher women beat my Bulldogs today but the men are holding their own against Denver – I am lucky enough to get that one on TV. 2-1 Denver at the first break – they had better wake up because they are getting beat to the puck. During intermission I can watch the Gopher-Sue game – can I root for a meteor?

  32. 32.

    J. Michael Neal

    Jim Beam and a salami sub waiting at the Big 10 for friends to come out of the men’s hockey game. When both teams are at home, the women start an hour earlier and their games are about a half hour shorter thanks to not needing to push and shove each other after every whistle. (The men are playing North Dakota, so they need to take even more time for the 187 penalties that will be called. I hate the Fighting Sociopaths with an unholy passion.) So I snag a table when I’m done and watch the lastr period and a half there.

    Gopher women won 4-1. I just don’t understand all the love for Duluth. At all. Yes, they’re young, but that’s not why they play completely disorganized. They play that way because that’s the way Shannon Miller coaches them. They were undisciplined last year as a veteran team and they’re going to be undisciplined this year as a young team. The problem is behind the bench, not on it. The world of women’s hockey has changed, and you can’t win that way anymore. Minnesota and Wisconsin are just better teams, and the Bulldogs aren’t going to catch up under the current regime. Arlan Marttila may be getting paid to write about women’s college hockey, but that has to do with the relentless decline of USCHO as a hockey site.

    The men are up 2-0 on North Dakota with 7 minutes to go.

  33. 33.

    Gravenstone

    Diet Mt. Dew. Yeah, I live dangerously. Might break out the bourbon or Spotted Cow tomorrow night.

  36. 36.

    Reality Check

    So now even Democrat and former Jimmy Carter speechwriter Chris Matthews says that Obama faces an “uphill climb” and a “steep path” against Romney in the 2012 swing states for Obama, and how its “scary” for the White House.

  38. 38.

    Brian S

    @smintheus: I think it would have to start with the sentences “a man named P.T. Barnum once said ‘there’s a sucker born every minute.’ Some of them love watching stupid shit on television.” and just go from there.

  39. 39.

    a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)

    @Omnes Omnibus: Clearly. Hell, stuckinred’s combo wins compared to mine. But I had a fabulous beef bourgignon* for dinner, so I’m not complaining (much).

    *Carry out (fill the pot) from a fine tiny French joint down the road.

  43. 43.

    S. cerevisiae

    @J. Michael Neal: I never get a chance to see the women’s team to do any analysis, I can only get the written recaps. It would not surprise me that the game is evolving, that would be only natural. Miller has won them a boatload of championships and has a big contract so I doubt anything will change.

  45. 45.

    nitpicker

    Elijah Craig 12-year-old bourbon with a chaser of Flying Dog Raging Bitch Belgian-style India Pale Ale.

  46. 46.

    Linda Featheringill

    The daughter unit appeared in a community college production of Euripides’ The Trojan Women. I saw it tonight. Little theater, about 100 seats, really close to the action.

    Quite a play. I know it got him into trouble but don’t know if it was what resulted in his exile. Research time, I guess.

    They have a 3-night run with tickets sold out for all performances. I guess that means it’s a success.

  48. 48.

    Waynski

    I’ve figured out why we hate the French. They’re cooler than us. They went into the southern US and said, you can have it. They went into the wilds of the upper Midwest and said, you can have it. They went into Vietnam and said, you can have it. We went into Iraq and they said, non, merci. There’s no little France, or France town anywhere in the US. Why is that?

  52. 52.

    leinie

    God I hate the Gophers with more passion J Neal hates the Sioux. Credit though to the Gophers tonight, they played better. They’re gonna ride that goalie far. Now for some Fringe.

  53. 53.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Waynski: There are cities and towns with French names all over the upper Midwest. And, contra your point about the upper Midwest, the French fought like hell to keep control over it.

  55. 55.

    Linnaeus

    Molson Canadian right now. Probably a porter when I go to the pub.

    There’s no little France, or France town anywhere in the US. Why is that?

    New Orleans would like a word with you.

  57. 57.

    RossInDetroit

    @Waynski:

    Detroit has adopted English-like pronunciations for all of the French street names. This puzzles visiting Quebecois.

  61. 61.

    Linnaeus

    @RossInDetroit:

    I’ve long thought that it would be cool for Detroit to recover more of its French heritage and culture. I know the city’s got much bigger problems right now, but something to consider for the future.

  62. 62.

    J. Michael Neal

    @S. cerevisiae: Women’s hockey has reached the point that the players have been playing their whole lives. For a long time, the skill levels were such that the coaching challenge was just to get them playing individually at a high level. (There was also a long period where your freshmen were your best players, since they had started younger than your seniors. That’s over, too.)

    That’s not the case anymore. You can’t just throw the puck out and tell them to play. Miller’s coaching is to have her players go out and try to turn everything into a helter-skelter game. What happens now is that, when the Bulldogs succeed in getting the Gophers to play that way with them, it’s a very even and exciting game. Unfortunately for UMD, about half of the time, the Gophers manage to stay in their system, and that half of the game is a rout.

    I’m biased on this, of course. Not so much because I’m a Gopher fan; I think I’m pretty good at looking at these things objectively. It’s because there’s another part of Miller’s style that I can’t stand. The women Bulldogs hook and hold constantly, on the assumption that chickenshit refs (I’m looking at you, Elam) aren’t going to call even half of it. And I lost my temper tonight when the refs refused to call a delay of game penalty when she decided to argue over who should go to the box on a too many players penalty. Then there were the four times when the ref signaled no more changes, and then five Bulldogs wandered off of the bench to play and they never did anything about it. Start calling a couple of delay penalties, and her bullshit will vanish.

    I still root for UMD over North Dakota, of course.

  67. 67.

    RossInDetroit

    @Linnaeus:

    I’ve long thought that it would be cool for Detroit to recover more of its French heritage and culture. I know the city’s got much bigger problems right now, but something to consider for the future.

    In another decade you could probably buy it for couch cushion change and do what you like. If a number of news articles are to be believed, large vacant portions of it are being turned into productive community farms.
    Ironically, the name is originally French and means ‘the straits’. It referred to the river, but has never been more appropriate.

  71. 71.

    James Hare

    I have a feeling this is going to get kind of ugly:
    http://www.reddit.com/r/Libertarian/comments/m11eh/incestuous_marriage_and_child_pornography/
    I realize asking a bunch of teenage libertarians to defend the indefensible is kind of weak sauce — yet, I’m really surprised at how many will jump at the bait. I’ve already got one defending both child pornography and incestuous marriage and several who don’t have a problem with incestuous marriage.

    Glibertarian doesn’t even come close. Sociopaths is a better description.

  73. 73.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Linnaeus: Forts Duquesne, Niagara, Detroit, and, of course, Michilimackinac. The passage from Green Bay down the Fox River to Portage where, oddly, one portaged to the Wisconsin (originally Ouisconsin) and thence down river to Prairie du Chien to join the Mississippi on its way to NOLA. No French names at all. No DePeres, Marinettes, Allouezes, Langlades, or Marquettes around as place names either. I’ll stop now.

  74. 74.

    El Cid

    Bottled Guinness “draught”, maybe followed by a French Pinot Noir, tastefully poured from a 3L box.

  75. 75.

    Linnaeus

    @RossInDetroit:

    Ironically, the name is originally French and means ‘the straits’. It referred to the river, but has never been more appropriate.

    Grew up in the area, so that irony is not lost on me.

  78. 78.

    General Stuck

    When it rains it pours. I am having all kinds of computer problems and Firefox problems. Firefox, I suspect is moving to fucking fast and leaving a lot of loose ends and incompatibility issues in it’s wake. Especially with add ons and plug ins. And I can’t watch Netflix movies due some exotic error code and DRM permission. Anyone else having this problem? Then there is the Scribefire blog editor that has been upgraded to some kind of too complicated monster that doesn’t work with FF 7, or the beta 8.

  80. 80.

    PurpleGirl

    Going crazy from the noise from a dysfunctional ventilation fan motor. Wish I had some nice sedation so I could sleep.

  83. 83.

    MikeJ

    Cabernet for me. You?

    Started with Bullet Bourbon, switched to Full Sail wassail because it was here.

  88. 88.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Linnaeus: I went in 2009. Kenneth Roberts’ Northwest Passage was childhood favorite book, so it was rather cool to see the place. Also too, on my French-Canadian ancestral side, I have people who were in and around the place. This guy is a great, …, great uncle.

  94. 94.

    Gin & Tonic

    @smintheus: Of course there are. But this is the Internet, where me make gross generalizations based on personal biases. Or based on reading about the NH State legislature.

  97. 97.

    S. cerevisiae

    @wasabi gasp: “Dope will get you through times with no money better than money will get you through times with no dope” /Freewheelin’ Franklin.

    I assume the same is true with electricity.

  98. 98.

    binzinerator

    @RossInDetroit: Boblo is pretty close to the sound of the original. Although it’s not a street. On the other hand when the girl doing the narration on the boat to the island told the story of how the name Boblo came from the original French name for the island, Bois Blanc, she pronounced it “Boys Blank”.

    C’est la vie.

  99. 99.

    J. Michael Neal

    @S. cerevisiae: I think you mean Haula. I’ll have to ask my friends who go to the men’s game, but the really public knowledge is that Bjugstad won’t be back.

    All I know is that, barring career ending injury, the freshmen I root for will be here for four years.

  100. 100.

    Hill Dweller

    @Omnes Omnibus: Tonight’s show is awful.

    Issa said little during the show. Bill Engval is fucking clueless, which explains his ardent support for the Republican party. Patterson was actually good(especially during the ‘overtime’ segment), and his quip about Coulter was great.

  101. 101.

    Lojasmo

    8 pints of Surly Furious. The boy has spent the whole night, excluding dinner, with a beautiful young asian lady.

    I am lucky he has a great mom.

  102. 102.

    RossInDetroit

    Looks like some shit is going down at Occupy DC, or did.

    Tried to blockade attendees in a Koch event. Some people were hit by vehicles. Situation tense and agitated. Hope it didn’t/doesn’t turn uglier.

  103. 103.

    S. cerevisiae

    @J. Michael Neal: That’s the one. As a Bulldog fan I know all about losing promising freshmen to the NHL. Hell we lost our best D-man to the pros in the middle of last season then lost Faulk this summer. The young D is going to have to step up because I think offense will be OK.

  104. 104.

    James Hare

    @General Stuck:
    FIrefox is trying to change their release schedule to better match Chrome’s. They don’t seem to realize that Google has more money than God.

  105. 105.

    BGinCHI

    Busy day today and evening, so just home and watching the first 15 minutes of Rachel. Anybody else catch her piece on Herman Cain?

    I’m doubling down on calling him an Uncle Tom. Sorry, but there it is. His performance today for the Koch Brothers seals it.

    It’s sad but true.

    Anyone disagree?

  106. 106.

    binzinerator

    @Omnes Omnibus: A boy at Sault Ste. Marie
    Said, “To spell, I will not agree,
    Till they learn to spell ‘Soo’
    Without any ‘u’
    Or an ‘a’ or an ‘l’ or a ‘t'”.

  107. 107.

    MichaelF

    Moderately priced Bordeaux — Chateau Thebot. Ten years ago it might’ve been a poor man’s marguerita — rum & Fresca…

  109. 109.

    J. Michael Neal

    @S. cerevisiae: I really enjoy spending my time rooting for a team where I know they’ll all be here for four years. Amanda Kessel won the WCHA Freshman of the Year award just like her brother. Unlike Phil, she’ll be here on Senior Night, too.

    She got called for roughing towards the end of tonight’s game, which was ridiculous. I don’t think Amanda Kessel is physically capable of roughing anyone. The girl can fly, but if she weighs 100 lbs, I’d be kind of surprised.

  112. 112.

    BGinCHI

    @Omnes Omnibus: No, I think “that asshole is an Uncle Tom” works pretty well.

    I’m really starting to loathe what he’s doing and who he is. It’s more than shilling.

  113. 113.

    Origuy

    Correcting myself: It’s a 14-year-old Oban, not 12. Costco has Lavagulin now but I’m going to finish this bottle first. I ended up getting Gordon Biersh Fest Bier at the store; Oktoberfest only comes around once a year.

  114. 114.

    Waynski

    @Omnes Omnibus:@RossInDetroit: I’m sure the Quebecois pronunciations puzzle Parisians as well. I was honestly just throwing a little mischief into the open thread, but was heartened to see such a defense of the French influence in the US. I only visited France for two weeks on two separate occasions but was struck by the mostly live and let live attitude they seem to have adopted, which I believe is a consequence of having suffered so much in the last century’s wars. Anyone who makes a joke about the French Army surrendering should read about the first battle of the Marnes and the defense of Paris in 1914. When someone hands you a uniform while you’re walking down the street, throws you a gun and tells you to get in a cab to the front…well

  115. 115.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @BGinCHI: I think we have now successfully beaten Waynski’s point to death.

    ETA: @Waynski: It is one of those things that pushes my buttons. The “cheese-eating surrender monkeys” thing too.

  116. 116.

    Tom Levenson

    Ignoring the intervening thread: Chilean Syrah/Cabernet blend. Best $7.00 bottle I could find…;)

  125. 125.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Jeffro: Good lord, giant case of white privilege or obliviousness here, but I just noticed the possessives in Coulter’s “Our blacks are so much better than their blacks” comment. Unfuckingbelievable.

  128. 128.

    Tom Levenson

    @BGinCHI: Didn’t — I’m in (a) failed migration from an old computer hell and (b) administrative, hell is other people, especially colleagues hell. So no Ira for me. What was Sr. Flatow on about?

  129. 129.

    Tom Levenson

    @Omnes Omnibus: Yup. So much so that with my wine glass in the running dishwasher, I just grabbed a glass mug to have my last little bit before going to bed.

    Simple pleasures…;)

  130. 130.

    BGinCHI

    @Omnes Omnibus: Malbec is the obvious choice, terrific for the money. But also try a Bonarda (it’s a varietal) if you get a chance. Carmenere (a varietal) is also good, from Chile or Argentina.

    And for white, you gotta try a Torrontes from Argentina. Excellent stuff.

  131. 131.

    BGinCHI

    @Tom Levenson: Brain imaging, but to a degree I’d not heard of. Just amazing stuff.

    At one point the guy Ira had on said that they were going to image one square mm of brain to the extent that it would take something like a hundred thousand terabytes to store the info (I may be underestimating here). But then he said at this point, to do a whole human brain would be impossible because the data, for one brain, would be greater than all the information in the universe.

    That blew my mind.

    I wanted to call in and suggest they start with GW Bush’s brain, you know, for a smaller data set, but I didn’t think Ira would honk his laugh at that.

  133. 133.

    Larkspur

    Two buck Chuck.

    I once knew someone who claimed to have had a teacher who insisted that “jazz” was pronounced “jahz”, “blues” was “Blewz” and “Detroit” was “dehTwah”. In the end, she moved to Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, and changed her name to Guinevere Mortimer. Je jure c’est vrai.

  134. 134.

    suzanne

    Ethiopian food: So good going in, but on the way out… awww shit.

    Perhaps that’s why I embroiled myself in an internet fight with a bunch of Mormons who are insisting that they’re Christians, and that the LDS Church doesn’t get involved in political issues like global warming, but only in purely moral issues like hating da queerz.

    Maybe I need a glass of wine.

  137. 137.

    JCJ

    @BGinCHI:
    Having grown up in West Lafayette I have enjoyed this outpouring of French names. My favorites from Indiana are Versailles and DuBois County because of how they are pronounced. For non-Hoosiers don’t think French, pronounce them as “Versails” and “Due Boys” – no, I’m not kidding.

  138. 138.

    BGinCHI

    @JCJ: Good to see a fellow Tippecanoe county native here. Mispronouncing foreign names is an Indiana tradition. Tons of French names around the Chicago area, most of them pretty well pronounced.

  140. 140.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @JCJ: A long time ago, I dated a girl from Versailles, Ohio. She corrected me when I pronounced her hometown as Ver-sigh. Later, I realized that we might not be meant for one another when, in a letter to me, she described herself as a “reck.” Then I meat a cool South African girl…. But that’s another story.

  142. 142.

    JCJ

    @Omnes Omnibus:
    Looking forward to seeing my beloved Boilers tomorrow in Madison. Unless Bucky is moping from the last two games Purdue has no chance. Taking my nephew (a fellow Purdue grad) who just moved to Madtown and my daughter, a student at UW. Should be good!

  144. 144.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @JCJ: Just remember, in Wisconsin, Old Fashioneds and Manhattans are made with brandy. Also too, they have been doing utility related road work in places so give yourself plenty of time.

  145. 145.

    BGinCHI

    @JCJ: The beer and food will be good. The football will reek of slaughter.

    Do try the New Glarus. It eases the pain.

    There’s always basketball season.

  146. 146.

    Larkspur

    @Waynski: Etes-vous corriger mon français? Je ne sais pas, et vous remercie aussi. Tout ce que je connais parler français que j’ai appris de Google Translate. Hier stehe ich; ich kann nicht anders. Je suis pathétique.

  147. 147.

    suzanne

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    I dated a girl from Versailles, Ohio. She corrected me when I pronounced her hometown as Ver-sigh.

    When I lived in Tucson, I met a few people that lived on Medici Street. One time in conversation, I pronounced it “MED-uh-chee”. At least five people looked at me quizzically. UGH.

  148. 148.

    burnspbesq

    College football on Friday night is an abomination.

    Colorado was punished for its sins.

    Fight On!

  152. 152.

    Waynski

    @Larkspur: Waynski’s attempted response. Am I making fun of your French? Non. All I had was “c’est ca” perhaps used incorrectly. I’m not using Google translate, just spit-balling with French One. Then there’s something that appears German, and no, you’re not pathetic. How am I doing?

  153. 153.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Waynski: The German was a Martin Luther quote. “Here I stand; I can do not other.” MLK used it in his Letter from Birmingham Jail as well.

  154. 154.

    burnspbesq

    Here’s what I’m hoping to see over the remainder of the college football season.

    1. The winner of tomorrow’s LSU-Bama game (more likely to be LSU in my opinion) loses to South Carolina in the SEC championship game.

    2. South Carolina gets killed by Clemson in the cross-state rivalry game.

    3. K-State beats OKSt.

    4. OU beats OKSt in the Bedlam game.

    5. Stanford and Boise win out.

    6. The BCS decides to fuck the only remaining unbeaten teams, puts one-loss Bama against one-loss Oklahoma for the national championship, sends Stanford to the Rose Bowl and Boise to the Fiesta. Stanford kills Nebraska and Boise lights up LSU.

    7. The resulting uproar leads, finally, to the demise of the BCS.

  157. 157.

    Larkspur

    @Waynski: @Omnes Omnibus: I love y’all. Waynski: I have no French, nothing, nada. Your French One surpasses everything I know. Omnes Omnibus: Yup. It is the most significant religious statement in a bunch of centuries, so I have repurposed it into a BJ comment because I am just that pious.

  160. 160.

    burnspbesq

    If any of you have your DVR set to record the early Premier League game every Saturday, be advised that you have to reset it for tomorrow. Daylight time ended last Sunday in the UK, so the game starts an hour later in the US.

  165. 165.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Waynski: I am down with the 200 thing, but I have no dog in the Irish fight. Knock the WASPs out out Mass. or the Frog-Canucks and you got my attention; otherwise, not so much.

  166. 166.

    Larkspur

    When I first landed in California, I was not sure about how to pronounce “Vallejo” or “La Jolla” or other words that I cannot remember right now. Back then it really bothered me to risk a bad pronunciation. Now I am oldish and I realize that life is too short, so I just point and ask “How do ya say that?” followed by “What? Speak up, sonny!” if I’m uncertain.

    Okay, so, yes, good night, the rest of the road to 200 is out of my jurisdiction as of three, two, one….

  170. 170.

    Steeplejack

    Late shift checking in very late. Drinking a Yuengling Lager, from my brother’s miscellaneous collection of what he jokingly calls “artisanal beers.” Hell, he may be serious. He is a wine guy. My other choices of what was cold in the refrigerator were Corona and Michelob Ultra. I think he just collects stuff that people bring for parties and leave behind.

    Didn’t get off work until 11:15, thanks to the slowest of our store’s managers. But I am dogsitting this weekend, so I have the use of the bro-man’s Mini Cooper while he and his partner are out of town. Yee-haw! Gave a coworker a ride home, saving her an hour of bus transit and walking time, then came over to hang with the dogs: an exuberant two-year-old rescue greyhound and an ancient Italian greyhound, increasingly crotchety but still remarkably perky.

    I’m doing that night-owl thing, catching up on the Balloon Juice threads and thinking about something big or complicated to cook this weekend. Maybe chili, with some exotic twist. The weather is perfect for it.

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