To make up for the musical travesty I inflicted on you last time, I offer this, which I think is quite nice in several ways.
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by Sarah, Proud and Tall| 64 Comments
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To make up for the musical travesty I inflicted on you last time, I offer this, which I think is quite nice in several ways.
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Steeplejack
Was out driving in the unseasonably mild–and energizing!–NoVa weather today and heard this chestnut: Bobby Womack, “Harry Hippie.” Good sunny-day drivin’ tune.
MikeJ
@efgoldman: A border collie group that insists their dogs never go off leash? Talk about unclear on the concept.
Keith G
Just scanned your Ero-pop thread, Sarah. I really need get back to doing crunches.
Yutsano
@efgoldman:
They is that. But they do need a task to do and space to run or they will suffer big time. It’s why I won’t have one here.
Raven
@Steeplejack: He smoked “Across 110th Street” the opening of Jackie Brown and also a film of the same name with Anthony Quinn and Yaphet Kotto.
Raven
@Yutsano: Ever see the crazy Border Collie run the sheep off the cliff in Far From the Madding Crowd?
Maude
@Yutsano:
I saw a Border Collie pulling a woman down the street. It was almost scary.
khead
Did you say musical travesty?
I give you Oran Juice Jones.
Don’t make me come back in here with more crappy 80’s videos and/or cat pics – Cole may have to get involved…..
Khead +2
Violet
In other news, I had to drive up to Austin today. Drove via Bastrop. You might remember the huge Texas wildfires that made the news this summer. Holy cow, it was bad. I had only seen it on the news when it happened in the summer, but seeing the evidence and remains of the fire is something else entirely.
Charred trees are everywhere for miles. A bunch of them have been taken down and a huge area is cleared to be used as a dump to bring them in and mulch or chip them or something. There are parking lots full of big equipment–trucks, bulldozers, etc.–to use to deal with it. Charred buildings, bare foundations and lone fireplaces still dot the landscape. It’s jaw-dropping.
Definitely a disaster for the folks affected. And it was a massive fire that lasted a long time. No wonder the cleanup is such a big project.
eemom
This foofaraw between Tom Brokaw/NBC and Campaign Mitt is quite entertaining.
I particularly like Brokaw’s ref to the “extended use of his personal image.” Them’s fighting words.
Steeplejack
@Raven:
I got that. This is the best version I’ve found on YouTube.
And, for the trifecta, “Nobody Wants You When You’re Down and Out.”
Raven
@Steeplejack: Yea! I actually have the film on VHS. What’s funny is that Jackie Brown is set in an area of LA where my sis lives and she’s only a few blocks from 110th Street there.
khead
Who in the hell is Kate Snow and why is she behind the NBC anchor desk?
Just askin….
Violet
@khead:
She’s on that new Brian Williams news magazine show, “Rock Center”. Didn’t she used to work for CBS or something?
khead
@Violet:
Dunno. I also wondered what the hell Harry Smith was doing at the NBC desk awhile back too – so maybe it’s just me. Maybe I need to get out more. Or change the channel from the local NBC affiliate after the 5 PM news.
But…. I at least knew who the fuck Harry Smith is…. I’ve never heard of Kate Snow.
Violet
@khead:
Maybe it was ABC she worked for. I know I’ve seen her before, but can’t remember where. One of the “big three” networks, for sure. She’s not a dimbo blonde like the Fox bimbettes.
rikyrah
There was a poster named Jason asking about Michigan and Ohio with regards to Willard vs. the President.
Politicususa has a piece out saying that the President is up 8 in Michigan right now. As for Ohio, well, I believe that the President is in good shape there, mainly because they were able to not only get the ‘ Let Detroit Go Bankrupt’ around Willard’s neck, but also, they can hang around his neck the support of SB5. The ads write themselves.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@rikyrah:
and wasn’t there some uniquely Willardian flip-flopping on SB5, as well?
Yutsano
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
He spoke about it, did he not?
Martin
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Isn’t Willards flip-flopping alone unique? How can it be unique even within that?
smintheus
This from vile Canadian interloper Mark Steyn is amusing:
Who is this “we” you’re talking about, eh? Hoser.
geg6
Been a bad day around here, what with saying goodbye to our Henry and it all happening on the 11th anniversary of my mom’s passing. But it’s improving slightly after about a half a bottle of pinot noir, a second bottle of cabernet on deck, a roast beef that is almost done and smelling wonderful, a great man beside me, and an HBO film I’m really looking forward to.
If you love football and have HBO, watch Namath tonight. There are few football players that have a more compelling and interesting story than ol’ Broadway Joe or, as those of us who remember him when, Joe Willie. He’s a native of my Beaver County who started his legendary career at Beaver Falls High School (where he returned this fall to honor the 50th anniversary of their state championship and was escorted onto the field, not without trepidation on my part, by my niece, a BFHS cheerleader), went on to helm the Crimson Tide, and instantly gave credibility to the merger of the NFL and AFL when his Jets improbably won the Super Bowl. HBO always does a great job with sports docs and I expect this to be one of their most entertaining.
Raven
@geg6: How’s he doin on the sobriety?
khead
Sorry for your loss geg6. Did not get to that thread earlier.
But Joe Namath is an asshole. Really.
Chat Noir
@geg6: Thanks for the reminder about “Namath” on HBO. I saw the promos for it late in 2011 and put it on my to-watch list for the new year.
And I was sorry to read about Henry. We had to put my husband’s Wheaten Terrier down in early November so we understand your loss. When I picked up Danny’s ashes, the vet included the story of the Rainbow Bridge, which caused me to cry heavily. What a lovely story and one to help those get cope with losing a beloved pet.
Sending virtual hugs your way.
Southern Beale
Evening folks. We saw “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close” this afternoon. Dreadful movie.
That is all.
Raven
We who choose to surround ourselves
with lives even more temporary than our
own, live within a fragile circle;
easily and often breached.
Unable to accept its awful gaps,
we would still live no other way.
We cherish memory as the only
certain immortality, never fully
understanding the necessary plan.
— Irving Townsend
Violet
@geg6:
Sorry for your loss. Glad you are taking care of yourself today.
Calouste
Politifact has now completely descended into farce. They claim that Romney’s statement that he never voted for a Democrat when there was a Republican on the ballot was “Half True” because of course there were no Republicans on the Democratic ballot that he requested to vote for Tsongas.
Bonus points to them for using ‘We see two contrary interpretations as having merit.” instead of the old and tired “both sides do it”. It makes them so much more serious and believeable.
geg6
@Raven:
As far as I know, okay.
@khead:
No, he really isn’t. He has been a drunk and acted like one at times but he really is a good guy. He was very sweet to my niece this fall and I know that he’s been a wonderful son and a booster of his high school. He never forgot where he came from (a very small and close-knit town) and, I suppose if you don’t know him from anything else other than his drunken appearances on tv in the past, you might think he’s an asshole. But he’s not.
Raven
@geg6: Good, it will go a long way for him.
geg6
@Violet:
Thanks. We’re a bit numb right now, but that’s probably good.
Yutsano
@geg6: Numb is a stage of mourning. And completely understandable.
PanurgeATL
@khead:
I worked in a record store back then. EVERYBODY who asked for the record called him “Orange Juice Jones”.
khead
@geg6:
It’s not just the drunken TV appearances, it’s the cluelessness that accompanies a dumbass athlete who can’t quite understand that winning the Super Bowl in 1969 doesn’t really give you a pass when you want to talk shit about the Jets in 2011.
I’m glad your niece thinks he’s sweet though.
Mike in NC
@geg6:
All B-J pet lovers are thinking of you tonight.
WereBear (itouch)
@geg6: So sorry tobhesr. But the sad eyes must be answered. Glad you are feeling a bit better.
khead
@PanurgeATL: Don’t make me break out the Cameo.
Raven
@khead: Might be nice if you just let it go, ya think?
khead
@Raven:
Maybe. But to be honest I suspect I’d feel much more chastised if this criticism didn’t come from someone who talked ridiculous shit to everyone that had the nerve to badmouth Georgia between Sept and Dec.
Raven
@khead: Well, just go fuck yourself then.
geg6
khead @37:
Don’t have the heart to follow your link, but if criticizing the Jets is enough to make you an asshole forever more, then there are a whole LOT of assholes who Joe Willie is going to have to line up behind. He’s a transformative player in the the history of the NFL. Don’t think any if the current Jets can or ever will be able to make that claim.
Raven
@geg6: Somewhere,someone would argue with you that kdaug is NOT being an asshole.
SiubhanDuinne
@Raven:
That’s very nice. Never seen it before. A keeper.
khead
@Raven:
Amazingly, Georgia isn’t playing today.
That’s your usual excuse.
Raven
@SiubhanDuinne: Good, I was afraid I post it too much but it just seems to make sense.
SiubhanDuinne
@Southern Beale:
Grateful for the heads-up. I will avoid.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
anybody wanna speculate irresponsibly about this?
Raven
@khead: Yea schmuck. the Illini are.
RossInDetroit
@MikeJ:
Some in-laws just got a Border Collie puppy for their 12 year old daughter. She’s active and at home now, but when she goes to college the dog will still be young. A pet like that is like being in a relationship with a needy genius.
SiubhanDuinne
@Raven: I guess I’ve missed it in the past, then. And I suspect it stays fresh for those whose losses are fresh.
khead
@Raven:
Well, that certainly makes it better. Maybe one of the teams you root for will eventually win.
Maybe.
Southern Beale
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Obama making sure they still have their deal that Jeb will stay out of the race or he’ll reveal that secret intel and make sure Bush The Lesser is tried for war crimes.
becca
@Raven:
That reminds me of a short passage in A Short History of a Small Place by T R Pearson-
A boy and his father leave their house for a walk. It’s getting dusky outside. A little distance down the country road the boy chances to look back at his house just as his mother switches on the farmhouse porch light. Along with a surge of warmth and love, he is overcome with the realization that that moment in time is gone forever and the porch light was ” shot through with melancholy”.
Beautiful.
Raven
@becca: Nice
Mark S.
@Calouste:
That shit cracks me up. I can’t believe anybody would give a shit if someone voted for Paul Tsongas twenty years ago, but this somehow goes to prove whether one is A TRUE CONSERVATIVE!
Anne Laurie
@RossInDetroit:
By all means, encourage them to find a local dog-training / agility / flyball club. If they’re in MI, I should be able to scrounge for some names — depending on where they are, the 4H and FFA may even have groups specifically for kids. Getting the puppy off to the right start, giving the dog & the new family a common ‘language’ while they’re still upbeat & dazzled with their new living toy, will make a huge difference in the quality of the dog’s life later. Even a qualified individual trainer, someone who can get through to them what kind of a commitment they’re taking on, is better than nothing; but a group of people who are committed to enjoying the drive and intelligence of their dogs sets the best example!
smintheus
@becca: The concluding sentence is especially striking. For some reason it makes me think of James Agee.
rikyrah
yes. in true Willard fashion, when it first came out, he came out in support of it. but, in the final week before the actual vote, he came to a GOP Call Center, where they were trying to drum up support for SB5, and then stepped outside of it and tried to say that he didn’t know what SB5 was. He was taken to the woodshed by the Tea Partiers, and whaddya know, next day, he’s out in full support of SB5, which went down to a rousing defeat about a week later.
like I said, the ads write themselves.
RossInDetroit
@Anne Laurie:
Thanks for the suggestions. that’s the direction we were thinking in. The girl is a tomboy so something like utility dog training would probably make them both happy. Otherwise I guarantee stress and consternation in the house for all.
They do have a large yard that backs up to a very large park, so space isn’t an issue thank Bob.
Anne Laurie
@RossInDetroit: Excellent! — if they’ve got the space, maybe you can even help them out…
middlewest
This is kind of old, but I saw it going around the net today:
Real headlines vs. Fox News headlines.
Schlemizel
I was looking for the Gopher hockey game because the GD squeakball game was on. That means I was wading in the fetid swamp that is AM radio when I came across a real piece of shit I had never heard of before. This assclown was so over the top paranoid screaming loony that I had to stay and find out who he was. Any of you heard Alex Jones before – I had not & wish I could still say I had never heard of him.
nastybrutishntall
ElectroPop: you’re doing it wrong.
http://www.gorillavsbear.net/2012/01/24/video-phedre-in-decay/