I’m going off the grid til Sunday. The outskirts of Apsen is a great place for camping but there’s hardly any 3G coverage on AT&T.
In the meantime, continue to give it up for metrosexual black Abe Lincoln vampire hunter. We raised 2500 bucks yesterday.
Big, big win today.
the Conster
But it don’t feel like rain.
Best.song.ever.
ETA: Wireless just doesn’t inspire great lyrics does it?
Poopyman
I don’t know where Apsen is, but it sounds like a nice place, assuming it hasn’t been overwhelmed by wildfire (which was another song from that general era that sucked a lot worse.)
General Stuck
But does it look like rain?
DougJ
@Poopyman:
I’m not really in Apsen, that was a joke.
Omnes Omnibus
@the Conster:
Golden Earring, Radar Love.
Valdivia
Have a good trip!
General Stuck
I got an Aspen true story. In the late 70’s I was helping a high school buddy drive from Kentucky to FT Lewis Washington, for his new army duty station. We spent the night in Denver, and I had made some Alice B Toklas brownies, pouring a bag of weed into a couple of pot pie containers with a little brownie mix, cooked before we had started out. So we decided to slam them down, and the next thing I remember was waking up on a park bench, without a clue where we were. Had to walk around a bit to read something that said it was Aspen.
robertdsc-PowerBook
I’m glad Obamacare survived today. It was like one of my teams winning the championship.
Giving the GOP a Johnny Cash middle finger is always a good thing.
TooManyJens
Oops, just gave in response to an Obama email. Oh well. I heard Mitt Romney raised a million dollars in three hours today from people who think we’re living in Communist China now. I hope sane people can top that.
pragmatism
asssssssssspen. california. where the beer flows like wine.
some guy
lobster rolls. boiled lobster. fried clams. steamers. red sox on the radio, and lots of swimming and surfing.
let the vacation begin
MikeJ
I can hear you through the whine.
I can’t believe I don’t have the Glen Campbell version. I have both REM and the Troggs, but I’m missing that. Have to pick it up.
beltane
@TooManyJens: You’ve got to admire the mindset of people who donate to Mitt Romney because they are afraid of Mitt Romney’s health care bill. If Romney is the etch-a-sketch candidate the GOP is the etch-a-sketch party.
Poopyman
Come to think of it, Mrs. P and I drove through Aspen once on a trip to CO, coming through Independence Pass on 82. It probably is a nice place to camp, but I’d bet the local 1%ers would take a dim view of you camping too close to downtown Aspen.
And this weekend would be a great time to be up there around 11,000 feet. IIRC we were there in June and it was threatening to snow.
Oh well, hope you’re at least fleeing the big city on the Genesee…
kdaug
@General Stuck: Last time I had pot brownies was February 1988 – we were watching the Winter Olympics in Calgary, and right as the brownies kicked in, the Jamaica bobsledding team won.
One of the weirdest, most reggae-filled nights of my life – bunch of white college kids dancing around doing horrible renditions of Bob Marley and giggling uncontrollably.
Remember waking up about 9:00am, thinking “Yep, still stoned”, and going back to sleep.
AA+ Bonds
Here’s my true story about Aspen:
The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb:
And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night . . .
David Koch
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AA+ Bonds
@David Koch:
close thread
jl
@David Koch: Did you know your company posted on Balloon Juice earlier today? Nice home page.
Strontium 90
Colbert on fire right now:
“And who stabbed us in the back and then provided coverage for the stab hole? Chief Justice John Roberts…”
shortstop
@kdaug: You were really high– they not only didn’t win; they didn’t finish. Crashed and walked to the finish line. They were great, though!
Mark S.
Does anyone know what happened to the buttons? If I have to start typing out href= (how does it go again?)
General Stuck
@Mark S.:
Don’t know, but was thinking it was unplugged to speed up the loadtimes during today’s excitement. But if you Firefox, here is a neat little formatting toolbar I use in such situations. running FF12, I think I am.
Steeplejack
@Mark S.:
Just discovered that myself. Save this:
<a href="URL INCLUDING HTTP://">Text you want to be displayed</a>
ETA: Weird but true–the URL requires quotation marks around it, the displayed text doesn’t. Go figure.
General Stuck
They’re back
Jerzy Russian
@General Stuck: Aspen is quite a long ways from Denver. Do you know how you got there?
Was it Harry Reems who once started in New York, and woke up on Los Angeles with no idea of how he got there?
Steeplejack
@General Stuck:
Not for me (Firefox 13.0.1, Windows XP).
Silver
@kdaug: The Jamaican Bobsled team didn’t win, they crashed out, didn’t they?
Or am I thinking of Cool Runnings, the John Candy movie?