The Lord Jesus Christ is the way to life and sealed. Mr. Riena.
That translation doesn’t seem quite right.
ETA: The Praça do Comércio looks nice in photos but it wasn’t all that nice to actually be in when I was there.
4.
wobblybits
@PeakVT: It reads: Jesus Christ is the way, truth and life. He reigns.
5.
wobblybits
@wobblybits: It won’t let me edit so I will say this here: Puppehs!
6.
Benjamin Franklin
Robert Parry gives some of the reasons why we should be thankful to Manning.
IAEA, Iraq and the push toward war with Iran is part of the reason he is in so much trouble.
I rather think it is “Jesus Christ is the way, the truth and the life. He reigns.”
But I do like your version better.
ETA: The Praça has recently been renovated, so it’s all nice and sparkly now. (Although I still got offered a baggie of dried parsley, so some things haven’t changed.)
Has anyone been following the French failed breast implant story? Now they have found out that a Dutch firm was sold about 1,000 of these because the company changed it’s name. The company owner is being looked for by the law.
@wobblybits: Lol. Looks like Google Translate needs a bit more work.
11.
wobblybits
@PeakVT: LOL, it reminds me of how inevitably one of my students will use a translator and how they are puzzled that I, the native speaker, can tell it was from a translator.
12.
Phylllis
98 days until Opening Day.
13.
Benjamin Franklin
The article is from 12/19…..I am perplexed as to why this is not being discussed more on the internet. Nothing about Kagan and Thomas, and their potential recusal. I find it odd, anyway.
“The Supreme Court announced today the oral argument calendar for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) challenge. The entire week of March 26 has been scheduled for the 5 ½ hours of ACA oral arguments.
On Monday, March 26, the Supreme Court will focus on whether the challenges to the individual mandate are barred by the federal Anti-Injunction Act. On Tuesday, March 27, oral arguments will center on the constitutionality of the insurance mandate in the ACA. Finally, on Wednesday, March 28, the oral arguments will address both whether the ACA can survive if the individual mandate is found unconstitutional as well as the constitutionality of the ACA Medicaid expansion.”
14.
Raven
@Phylllis: At least it’s an Olympics year to help get me through the boring ass baseball season!
15.
BGinCHI
@Raven: What sport are you entering? I’ll watch for you.
@BGinCHI: If this shoulder doesn’t get better my swim spot may be tenuous. Did you know that Jack Bauerle, the UGA Swim Coach, was the US Women’s Swim Team coach in Bejing?
@Sarah Proud and Tall: There were a ton of buses in the Praça when I was there, so it just looked like a fancy bus station. That might have been an anomaly. Up above them looked nice, though.
19.
Benjamin Franklin
See trailer for The Big Fix documentary on BP Oil spill.
@Raven: I didn’t, but I bet he hates it when he gets confused with the guy from 24.
How’s UGA basketball looking this year?
21.
Raven
@BGinCHI: They are OK, 7-5 right now, really young. I like Mark Fox, seems to be a level-headed dude. I used to play the hoop with Jack at Stegman back in the day. Had a wicked Philly fall away J.
22.
BGinCHI
@Raven: I can see you pulling your Mo Cheeks on the guys there.
I played intramural bball at Stegman for a couple winters. If memory serves our grad school team got smoked every time. And that’s even with my mad Hoosier skills.
23.
Raven
@BGinCHI: I ran that program in 84-86. Four courts for the entire university. It sucked.
eta I was also a high-school ref in those days and you haven’t lived until you work a boys and girls “b” team game at Nathanial Greene Academy in Silom, GA.
@Benjamin Franklin: I’m betting that there’s no way Thomas will recuse himself, and if he doesn’t, then Kagan shouldn’t either.
25.
Svensker
We had planned to stay home and watch football tonight in a post-Christmas torpor but some friends called to say that she just found out that two of her siblings have terminal cancer (she was told Christmas Eve) and they really really want to go out for dinner with us to talk and be with friends.
Life really does stink sometimes.
26.
Raven
The most bizzarist interception evah!
27.
BGinCHI
@Svensker: That’s a hard road, and it’s good you can be there for them.
28.
BGinCHI
@Raven: I assume you reffed that game armed, or at least in your best muay thai stance.
29.
BGinCHI
OK, since this is an open thread and I’ve got a little time, let’s hear your Best Novel of 2011.
That’s the best novel you read, not that you heard was good.
I’ll start: tie between The Sisters Brothers, by Patrick deWitt and The Instructions, by Adam Levin.
@BGinCHI: The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton. I’d never read it before.
32.
BGinCHI
@Maude: Friend of mine is a climber (of mtns, not social networks) and he’ll love that. Will recommend. Thanks.
See, I learned something already.
33.
BGinCHI
@Phylllis: Not much of a Wharton fan or of novels of manners generally, but she can sure write. And her books tend to be way better than the films of them. Low bar for me, though.
34.
Mark S.
I was curious if Sully had anything to say about the latest Ron Paul brouhaha, but there’s nothing but a little speculation about RAND PAUL 2016! HE’S NOT AFRAID TO USE A GAY MAN’S BATHROOM!
Fine. Write a letter to the Convening Authority and ask that what you perceive as Manning’s service to his country be given appropriate consideration at sentencing. None of that changes the fact that he committed a serious crime.
Doesn’t it just? Found out a few days ago that my much beloved ‘common-law-step-mother-in-law’ has cancer of the throat. The consultants are both in “Don’t worry, this is something we can actually fix pretty easily” mode, but she’s still going to have to go through a month or two of really unpleasant treatment to irridate it away, and at the end she’s going to feel thirsty all of the time for the rest of her life, because it’s right next to her saliva glands and the treatment will wreck them even if it works.
OTOH, on the same day we learn that, my significant other gets a letter from the tax people saying they’ve calculated how much she’s been over-taxed since 2004 and here’s a check for over £3000.
Yeah, life stinks sometimes. It’s something of a testament, though, that people hit with the kind of low punch your friends have been dealt would turn to you to help them right now.
People who have a clue about how this stuff works don’t find it odd. There are no grounds for Kagan to recuse herself, and Thomas isn’t going to, even though he probably should.
I reffed intramurals at USC while I was in law school. One night I got assigned a game between two teams full of football players. Scary how good some of those guys were. And jeez louise, that was one physical ballgame.
OK, since this is an open thread and I’ve got a little time, let’s hear your Best Novel of 2011.
When the Thrill Is Gone, by Walter Mosely. I’m not sure I’ll ever like Leonid McGill as much as I liked Easy Rawlins, but Mosely can write.
50.
YellowJournalism
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
I reread it once a year, at least. Excellent parts about Christmastime, too. Anyone ever read Joy in the Morning? I keep meaning to find it, but I’m worried I’ll be disappointed.
A typical year in this country features three or four weather disasters whose costs exceed $1 billion each. But this year, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has tallied a dozen such events, including wildfires in the Southwest, floods in multiple regions of the country and a deadly spring tornado season. And the agency has not finished counting. The final costs are certain to exceed $50 billion.
We should eliminate the capital gains tax, just to be on the safe side.
Listen, Marlmalard; It would be greatly appreciated if you would tender your
comments to those who give a shit about USC lawyers.
That institution is where ‘rat-fucking’ was conceived, and I’m not sure how far you are from Segretti’s ideology and temperament, but I would wager there’s not a dime’s worth of difference between you.
54.
BGinCHI
@Phylllis: Yeah, that’s not as easily found. A good public library might have it, or get it on request.
Lead the Jets for the No. 8 seed due to a better record in common games (4-1 vs. 3-2). Hold the same tiebreaker edge vs. the Raiders but lose a head-to-head tie with the Bengals. Would clinch the No. 6 seed with a win and a Bengals loss and either a Jets win or both a Broncos win and Raiders win (but not all three).
A service dog named Snickers was taken away from his owner, Jim Sak, a retired police officer and disabled Vietnam vet, because 36 residents of Aurelia, Iowa signed a petition. Snickers is a pitbull-type service dog.
Address me directly., again, and you will have your own face shoved into the igorance, lawyer……
89.
YellowJournalism
Hillary:
Seen it many times. The father may not fit the physical description from the book (sounds young Jude Law-like to me), but the performance is perfect. In fact, the entire cast is perfect, especially the mother and daughter. The girl who played the daughter did an excellent job in another favorite adaptation of another favorite novel, Jane Eyre (Welles version, want to see the newest one).
I would sincerely love to see a very gritty, super faithful adaptation of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn if cast right.
And House of Mirth is the best Wharton book, hands down.
90.
Bex
@YellowJournalism: Do you mean Joy Comes in the Morning by Jonathan Rosen? If so, read it. It’s excellent.
91.
Bex
@YellowJournalism: Sorry. Didn’t realize you were talking about another Betty Smith novel. I’d still recommend Joy Comes in the Morning, though.
92.
Raven
Hell of a football game.
93.
Anne Laurie
@BGinCHI: Off the top of my head, not looking at my diary? Best new discovery, for me, was Deborah Crombie’s Duncan Kincaid/Gemma James mystery series. I like “cozies”, and police procedurals, and the sort of series arc where it feels like the characters are dictating to the author where their lives should go. Crombie’s quite good, by those parameters.
Apart from that, Sir Terry Prachett’s latest, SNUFF, is as good as anything he’s ever written, which is a high standard indeed.
94.
YellowJournalism
Bex: Your suggestion is welcome all the same. Love getting recommendations, although I need to start writing them down. A long time ago I got a ton for books on film history and cinema, but I kick myself for not writing it somewhere. (I would welcome those kinds of recommendations, again, though!)
Right now I have Water for Elephants and The Memory Keepers Daughter sitting, waiting to be cracked open.
95.
BGinCHI
@Anne Laurie: Will check Crombie out. Always game for a well-written mystery series.
There’s nothing cozy about Jean-Claude Izzo’s Marseilles Trilogy, but if you haven’t read them I highly recommend.
MikeJ
I guess I haven’t kept up with news over xmas. didn’t hear about the guy that saved the airliner over Kansas City. Jabir Hazziez.
Brian S
Some days I think I’ve adjusted to winter, and then others I can’t get warm no matter how many space heaters I hang next to my face.
PeakVT
That translation doesn’t seem quite right.
ETA: The Praça do Comércio looks nice in photos but it wasn’t all that nice to actually be in when I was there.
wobblybits
@PeakVT: It reads: Jesus Christ is the way, truth and life. He reigns.
wobblybits
@wobblybits: It won’t let me edit so I will say this here: Puppehs!
Benjamin Franklin
Robert Parry gives some of the reasons why we should be thankful to Manning.
IAEA, Iraq and the push toward war with Iran is part of the reason he is in so much trouble.
http://consortiumnews.com/2011/12/24/americas-debt-to-bradley-manning/
Sarah Proud and Tall
@PeakVT:
I rather think it is “Jesus Christ is the way, the truth and the life. He reigns.”
But I do like your version better.
ETA: The Praça has recently been renovated, so it’s all nice and sparkly now. (Although I still got offered a baggie of dried parsley, so some things haven’t changed.)
Maude
Has anyone been following the French failed breast implant story? Now they have found out that a Dutch firm was sold about 1,000 of these because the company changed it’s name. The company owner is being looked for by the law.
Raven
Carolina and Mizzou in the Weedeater Bowl!
PeakVT
@wobblybits: Lol. Looks like Google Translate needs a bit more work.
wobblybits
@PeakVT: LOL, it reminds me of how inevitably one of my students will use a translator and how they are puzzled that I, the native speaker, can tell it was from a translator.
Phylllis
98 days until Opening Day.
Benjamin Franklin
The article is from 12/19…..I am perplexed as to why this is not being discussed more on the internet. Nothing about Kagan and Thomas, and their potential recusal. I find it odd, anyway.
http://www.natlawreview.com/article/supreme-court-announces-dates-oral-argument-aca-challenge
“The Supreme Court announced today the oral argument calendar for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) challenge. The entire week of March 26 has been scheduled for the 5 ½ hours of ACA oral arguments.
On Monday, March 26, the Supreme Court will focus on whether the challenges to the individual mandate are barred by the federal Anti-Injunction Act. On Tuesday, March 27, oral arguments will center on the constitutionality of the insurance mandate in the ACA. Finally, on Wednesday, March 28, the oral arguments will address both whether the ACA can survive if the individual mandate is found unconstitutional as well as the constitutionality of the ACA Medicaid expansion.”
Raven
@Phylllis: At least it’s an Olympics year to help get me through the boring ass baseball season!
BGinCHI
@Raven: What sport are you entering? I’ll watch for you.
Hint: start stretching now.
Phylllis
@BGinCHI: That made me giggle.
Raven
@BGinCHI: If this shoulder doesn’t get better my swim spot may be tenuous. Did you know that Jack Bauerle, the UGA Swim Coach, was the US Women’s Swim Team coach in Bejing?
PeakVT
@Sarah Proud and Tall: There were a ton of buses in the Praça when I was there, so it just looked like a fancy bus station. That might have been an anomaly. Up above them looked nice, though.
Benjamin Franklin
See trailer for The Big Fix documentary on BP Oil spill.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bg_fpr6XBFM&feature=youtu.be
BGinCHI
@Raven: I didn’t, but I bet he hates it when he gets confused with the guy from 24.
How’s UGA basketball looking this year?
Raven
@BGinCHI: They are OK, 7-5 right now, really young. I like Mark Fox, seems to be a level-headed dude. I used to play the hoop with Jack at Stegman back in the day. Had a wicked Philly fall away J.
BGinCHI
@Raven: I can see you pulling your Mo Cheeks on the guys there.
I played intramural bball at Stegman for a couple winters. If memory serves our grad school team got smoked every time. And that’s even with my mad Hoosier skills.
Raven
@BGinCHI: I ran that program in 84-86. Four courts for the entire university. It sucked.
eta I was also a high-school ref in those days and you haven’t lived until you work a boys and girls “b” team game at Nathanial Greene Academy in Silom, GA.
Brian S
@Benjamin Franklin: I’m betting that there’s no way Thomas will recuse himself, and if he doesn’t, then Kagan shouldn’t either.
Svensker
We had planned to stay home and watch football tonight in a post-Christmas torpor but some friends called to say that she just found out that two of her siblings have terminal cancer (she was told Christmas Eve) and they really really want to go out for dinner with us to talk and be with friends.
Life really does stink sometimes.
Raven
The most bizzarist interception evah!
BGinCHI
@Svensker: That’s a hard road, and it’s good you can be there for them.
BGinCHI
@Raven: I assume you reffed that game armed, or at least in your best muay thai stance.
BGinCHI
OK, since this is an open thread and I’ve got a little time, let’s hear your Best Novel of 2011.
That’s the best novel you read, not that you heard was good.
I’ll start: tie between The Sisters Brothers, by Patrick deWitt and The Instructions, by Adam Levin.
How bout you?
Maude
@BGinCHI:
Death in High Places by Jo Bannister.
Phylllis
@BGinCHI: The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton. I’d never read it before.
BGinCHI
@Maude: Friend of mine is a climber (of mtns, not social networks) and he’ll love that. Will recommend. Thanks.
See, I learned something already.
BGinCHI
@Phylllis: Not much of a Wharton fan or of novels of manners generally, but she can sure write. And her books tend to be way better than the films of them. Low bar for me, though.
Mark S.
I was curious if Sully had anything to say about the latest Ron Paul brouhaha, but there’s nothing but a little speculation about RAND PAUL 2016! HE’S NOT AFRAID TO USE A GAY MAN’S BATHROOM!
I will now return to ignoring all things Sully.
wrb
@BGinCHI:
The Collected Poems of Walt Whitman.
I’d only read a few before. I dilate.
SiubhanDuinne
@Svensker:
That’s a blow, I am so sorry to hear it and glad you can be there for your friend.
BGinCHI
@wrb: Not a novel.
Please spin the wheel again.
/I love Whitman, and highly recommend Ted Genoways’ book Walt Whitman and the Civil War. Great read.
soonergrunt (mobile)
At Daughter’s birthday dinner. She’s
soonergrunt (mobile)
At Daughter’s birthday dinner. She’s
Phylllis
@BGinCHI: Aargh. Not available for Kindle or at my library. Guess I know what January’s book budget is pledged to.
BGinCHI
@Phylllis: Which novel?
Phylllis
@BGinCHI: The Whitman book.
Sebastian Dangerfield
Sarah,
Hope you had a meal and some wine at Cafe Martinho (great food, former hangout of Fernando Pessoa) while you were in the neighborhood.
burnspbesq
@Benjamin Franklin:
Fine. Write a letter to the Convening Authority and ask that what you perceive as Manning’s service to his country be given appropriate consideration at sentencing. None of that changes the fact that he committed a serious crime.
Tony J
@Svensker:
Doesn’t it just? Found out a few days ago that my much beloved ‘common-law-step-mother-in-law’ has cancer of the throat. The consultants are both in “Don’t worry, this is something we can actually fix pretty easily” mode, but she’s still going to have to go through a month or two of really unpleasant treatment to irridate it away, and at the end she’s going to feel thirsty all of the time for the rest of her life, because it’s right next to her saliva glands and the treatment will wreck them even if it works.
OTOH, on the same day we learn that, my significant other gets a letter from the tax people saying they’ve calculated how much she’s been over-taxed since 2004 and here’s a check for over £3000.
Yeah, life stinks sometimes. It’s something of a testament, though, that people hit with the kind of low punch your friends have been dealt would turn to you to help them right now.
burnspbesq
@Benjamin Franklin:
People who have a clue about how this stuff works don’t find it odd. There are no grounds for Kagan to recuse herself, and Thomas isn’t going to, even though he probably should.
Paddy
Surprisingly good video evening distraction- Zach Braff & Donald Faison: “Baby Its Cold Outside”.
burnspbesq
@Raven:
I reffed intramurals at USC while I was in law school. One night I got assigned a game between two teams full of football players. Scary how good some of those guys were. And jeez louise, that was one physical ballgame.
burnspbesq
@BGinCHI:
When the Thrill Is Gone, by Walter Mosely. I’m not sure I’ll ever like Leonid McGill as much as I liked Easy Rawlins, but Mosely can write.
YellowJournalism
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
I reread it once a year, at least. Excellent parts about Christmastime, too. Anyone ever read Joy in the Morning? I keep meaning to find it, but I’m worried I’ll be disappointed.
Mark S.
No one could have predicted
We should eliminate the capital gains tax, just to be on the safe side.
burnspbesq
@Mark S.:
That’s not even good snark. Ever heard of reinsurance?
Benjamin Franklin
@burnspbesq:
Listen, Marlmalard; It would be greatly appreciated if you would tender your
comments to those who give a shit about USC lawyers.
That institution is where ‘rat-fucking’ was conceived, and I’m not sure how far you are from Segretti’s ideology and temperament, but I would wager there’s not a dime’s worth of difference between you.
BGinCHI
@Phylllis: Yeah, that’s not as easily found. A good public library might have it, or get it on request.
burnspbesq
@burnspbesq:
ETA: Easy Rawlins apparently survived the car wreck at the end of “Blonde Faith,” because there are two new Easy novels in the pipeline.
http://www.waltermosley.com/doubleday-acquires-three-books-including-two-new-easy-rawlins-mysteries-by-bestselling-author-walter-mosley/
Woo-hoo!
BGinCHI
@burnspbesq: To make a stupid pun, he really does make it look easy. Haven’t read him in a while.
I got all the boxing day matches on the dvr. You watch anything? Don’t spoil with results, as I haven’t watched anything yet. Love Boxing Day footie.
burnspbesq
@Benjamin Franklin:
Are you always an ignorant ass, or only on days that end in “y?”
burnspbesq
@BGinCHI:
Watched the first half of Liverpool, and saw highlights of ManU. Won’t spoil anything for ya.
BGinCHI
@Benjamin Franklin: Marmalarde….Dead!
Niedermeyer….Dead!
Mark S.
@burnspbesq:
Huh? Oh never mind, I don’t actually give a shit.
Benjamin Franklin
@burnspbesq:
If you want to have a ad hominem duel, I am more than ready.
My foots big, but it won’t stretch your ass, too much
Benjamin Franklin
Uinveristy of Spoiled Children
Benjamin Franklin
Online courage is like courage from a bottle of booze.
Don’t fuck with me again……….
Mark S.
Are NFL tiebreakers complicated? Here’s the Titans:
Clear as day.
Hillary Rettig
@YellowJournalism: I love A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. I haven’t read Joy in the Morning, for the same reason.
Have you see the movie ATGiB? The portrayal of Francie’s Dad is absolutely heartrending (and won an Oscar).
Southern Beale
So glad no one is racist anymore:
Anyone who says all of this anti-Obama hatred isn’t racially motivated is truly delusional.
wobblybits
@Benjamin Franklin: Why the USC hate? College football season is over.
Benjamin Franklin
@wobblybits:
Sorry. He brings out the best in me.
Mea Culpa.
Johnny's Mom
A service dog named Snickers was taken away from his owner, Jim Sak, a retired police officer and disabled Vietnam vet, because 36 residents of Aurelia, Iowa signed a petition. Snickers is a pitbull-type service dog.
burnspbesq
@Benjamin Franklin:
Can you hear me laughing?
Raven
Go Falcons!
Benjamin Franklin
@burnspbesq:
Can you see me giving you a facial?
Raven
@burnspbesq: No doubt. Most D1 football players can shoot the rock. Did you see the 30 on 30 about “Marijuanvich”?
Benjamin Franklin
@burnspbesq:
Can you smell the odor of de feet?
Benjamin Franklin
@burnspbesq:
Can you feel the disrespect?
Raven
@Benjamin Franklin: Ya’ll need to get a room!
Benjamin Franklin
@Raven:
I have plenty of room for honest discussion, but this asswipe….
burnspbesq
@Benjamin Franklin:
You should stop now. You’re embarrassing yourself.
Raven
@Benjamin Franklin: He’s a good guy, sports get many of us riled up. Like when some douche from UVA started on the Hokies!
burnspbesq
@Raven:
What can I say? Some people don’t know how to behave.
Raven
@burnspbesq: As the model of decorum I must agree!
Benjamin Franklin
@burnspbesq:
@Raven:
Sports doesn’t get me riled up, He thinks his shit don’t stink. I’m here to dispense the Fabreze.
Raven
@Benjamin Franklin: Aite Dawg, I ain’t gettin in the middle of a good fight.
Benjamin Franklin
@burnspbesq:
Hopefully, you will avoid me. It is best.
burnspbesq
@Raven:
This has nothing to do with sports. Someone got his ignorance shoved in his face and reacted badly. See comments 6, 44, 13, and 46.
Raven
@burnspbesq: Believe me, I don’t even give a fuck.
Raven
The case of the exploding churros!
Judges determined that the newspaper failed to fully test it before publication, and that if readers followed the recipe exactly, the churros had a good chance of exploding once the oil reached the suggested temperature.
Benjamin Franklin
@burnspbesq:
Address me directly., again, and you will have your own face shoved into the igorance, lawyer……
YellowJournalism
Hillary:
Seen it many times. The father may not fit the physical description from the book (sounds young Jude Law-like to me), but the performance is perfect. In fact, the entire cast is perfect, especially the mother and daughter. The girl who played the daughter did an excellent job in another favorite adaptation of another favorite novel, Jane Eyre (Welles version, want to see the newest one).
I would sincerely love to see a very gritty, super faithful adaptation of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn if cast right.
And House of Mirth is the best Wharton book, hands down.
Bex
@YellowJournalism: Do you mean Joy Comes in the Morning by Jonathan Rosen? If so, read it. It’s excellent.
Bex
@YellowJournalism: Sorry. Didn’t realize you were talking about another Betty Smith novel. I’d still recommend Joy Comes in the Morning, though.
Raven
Hell of a football game.
Anne Laurie
@BGinCHI: Off the top of my head, not looking at my diary? Best new discovery, for me, was Deborah Crombie’s Duncan Kincaid/Gemma James mystery series. I like “cozies”, and police procedurals, and the sort of series arc where it feels like the characters are dictating to the author where their lives should go. Crombie’s quite good, by those parameters.
Apart from that, Sir Terry Prachett’s latest, SNUFF, is as good as anything he’s ever written, which is a high standard indeed.
YellowJournalism
Bex: Your suggestion is welcome all the same. Love getting recommendations, although I need to start writing them down. A long time ago I got a ton for books on film history and cinema, but I kick myself for not writing it somewhere. (I would welcome those kinds of recommendations, again, though!)
Right now I have Water for Elephants and The Memory Keepers Daughter sitting, waiting to be cracked open.
BGinCHI
@Anne Laurie: Will check Crombie out. Always game for a well-written mystery series.
There’s nothing cozy about Jean-Claude Izzo’s Marseilles Trilogy, but if you haven’t read them I highly recommend.
Svensker
@Tony J:
Hope all goes well with your mom-in-law and that the doctors are right. Scary stuff but a good prognosis is a plus.
And yay for the extra money! Couldn’t hurt!
Svensker
Also, too, got home in time to watch Drew Brees break the record. That was very nice. Coolio to see it.
Bananas
@YellowJournalism:
Joy in the Morning – Betty Smith
Amazon has it and so does Alibris but best price seems to be at http://www.textbookx.com/book/9781568491691/
(no affiliation)
burnspbesq
@Benjamin Franklin:
I’m curious as to how you propose to carry out your threat of criminal violence.
The prophet Nostradumbass
@burnspbesq: You two deserve each other. Two condescending, egotistical goats, butting each other in the head.
Benjamin Franklin
@burnspbesq:
There’s no criminal violence in an adhom duel; except perhaps the violence it does to your hubris and personal pride after I’ve handed you your ass.
wrb
@BGinCHI:
Ok
Alice Hoffman’s The Red Garden
and John Burdett’s wild Sonchai Jitpleecheep detective series.
ttp://www.amazon.com/Godfather-Kathmandu-Vintage-Crime-Lizard/dp/140009707X/ref=pd_sim_b_2