Here’s another open thread. Have at it. Also, I’ve gotten a couple of emails from some of you guys who think I’m actually somebody important, rather than merely the slow kid who got the keys so he could sweep up. As you all know, for some reason or other, FYWP has started to behave as if it’s not actually posting your witty and erudite comments. Desperate for your fellows in the commentariat to see just how witty and erudite you are, some of you have taken to hitting the “submit comment” button over and over until you’ve actually posted the same thing eight times in a row. I don’t know how to fix FYWP, and I couldn’t anyway. I just don’t have that power. In the future, please, hit the button ONCE, and wait about a half a minute. Whatever you have to say will simmer that long. Hell, refresh the page and see if it shows up. And if you do multipost, have the generosity of spirit to clean up after yourself, please.
I clean the threads up when I find this stuff, but as I noted earlier, I’m the slow kid of the Front Pagers and I can’t police all the threads.
Thanks.
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raven
Thank you.
cathyx
We’ve hit the submit comment more than once because we are prompted to try again. I have learned not to. Just open a new window and start all over. Refresh often and eventually it will show up.
SiubhanDuinne
What do you mean, wait about half a minute? Nothing’s funny or pertinent after 30 seconds.
I will post this multiple times until I’m assured it’s showing up.
cathyx
@SiubhanDuinne: I agree. Some comment are meaningless or not funny unless posted promptly.
cathyx
@SiubhanDuinne: I agree. Some comment are meaningless or not funny unless posted promptly.
You see what I did there?
amk
on twitter
cathyx
@efgoldman: What does FYWP mean?
MaximusNYC
A fun little thing I made today — feel free to repost:
Paul Ryan, Deficit Fauxhawk
amk
All said & done, is ryan as much of a racist rabble rouser as tundra twit ?
raven
@amk: Yes
amk
How ? FYWP is a PITA as it is.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)
I want a bumper sticker:
Romney/Ryan 2012
Because Rich White Guys Are Supposed to Be in Charge of Everything
dead existentialist
@amk: Do young bucks like to take their welfare queens out for steak dinners?
Nah, I can’t see Ryan going down the road that The Ice Grifter did. He’s a more polished turd than she. His whistle will be soft and low like his intellect.
cathyx
@efgoldman: I’ll have to remember that because that happens to me fairly often. I hate when that happens too.
arguingwithsignposts
It might be worth cole thinking about getting one of those new-fangled comment systems like disqus or intensedebate or somesuch.
Omnes Omnibus
@MaximusNYC: Eek!
amk
@efgoldman: @dead existentialist: But will that be enough to arouse the base ? They are only used to direct unvarnished viciousness (and fuck-me pumps).
danah gaz (fka gaz)
” In the future, please, hit the button ONCE, and wait about a half a minute.”
FTR, I hit the button ONCE (there’s been the very rare occasion when I had an old mouse that the button would click twice, but I’ve got a new mouse)
Here’s what I’ve actually experienced (pretty much several times a day):
I submit a comment (almost always in a non-top-of-the-page thread)
The site times out. [ chrome error shows on the submit php page and says something like NO_POST_DATA ]
I go back to the thread and I refresh.
I wait 2 minutes, I refresh again.
I wait 2 minutes, I refresh again.
(rinse and repeat until I get sick of it not showing up)
Finally, in frustration, I repost.
10 full minutes later both of my comments show up.
Omnes Omnibus
@amk: I would pay good money to Ryan in those shoes.
dead existentialist
@arguingwithsignposts: OH gawd no! Wonkette went to hell when Ken went with Disqus. FYWP is fine. It’s like the Democrats; fairly consistent most of the time with only the occasional lapse into incoherency.
Do want a ratings war to break out here instead of the flamey-type ones that we are used to?
Stay the course, John.
amk
@danah gaz (fka gaz): Ha. I once had my one comment show up seven times. Eat that.
raven
@Omnes Omnibus:
I said you must be jokin son
where did you get those shoes. . .
dead existentialist
@Omnes Omnibus: Romney all ready paid him. Why do you think he got the gig?
amk
@dead existentialist: Agree. disqus sux. (And of course, so does cole’s vista moment.)
danah gaz (fka gaz)
@amk: My favorite is when you post once, and everything appears to work, but your comment is duplicated one or more times for absolutely no reason at all.
Or when you go to edit, and edit denies you for no reason at all.
Or when you go to edit and it reposts your comment under the screenname “Unknown” and then breaks your edit – although in this case it tends to correct itself after a minute and a refresh.
lamh35
I just came across this video and I don’t know why, but I kinda love it.
Russian Swimmers Do A Michael Jackson Tribute Routine Olympics 2012
raven
@danah gaz (fka gaz): White people problems.
dead existentialist
@danah gaz (fka gaz): Maybe you should comment less. You may have broken something over the last two days or so with your incessant jabbering.
That said, I’ve over-commented here enough. Out.
Omnes Omnibus
@raven: Here.
@dead existentialist: Cool. Free show for us.
cathyx
@amk: I say we have a contest to see who can have their comment show up the most times without rewriting it.
raven
@Omnes Omnibus: This version is really good.
SiubhanDuinne
@cathyx: LOL, I rest my case.
danah gaz (fka gaz)
@raven: LOL
@dead existentialist: Best tech support non-solution ever. “The system is unreliable!” “Don’t use it as much!” – I’m pretty sure this is par for the course WRT to the MySQL team. Maybe PHP too. Fucking monkeys.
Omnes Omnibus
@efgoldman: I said nothing of the kind, sir.
ETA: You fixed it.
cathyx
@danah gaz (fka gaz): Why did you change your name? It’s not like there was another gaz before.
MikeJ
@Omnes Omnibus: How long until Ryan shows up dressed like this?
raven
@Omnes Omnibus:
Try this
lamh35
@lamh35:
Speaking of the Olympics, I saw the segment this afternoon on Castor Semenya where Mary Carillo interviewed Castor her old coach, her mother and her pro-bono attorney. It was a sad story and hard to hear and not feel outraged for the treatment she received. You could tell that Mary Carillon was really affected by Castor’s story.
Downpuppy
While R & R have been rejecting reality, in the last week we’ve had the sinkhole, the pipeline & the Beaufort Gyre.
Lousiana falling into the earth (& maybe blowing up), Mississippi setting new standards in mass child abuse, & another huge leap towards an ice-free Arctic.
It was a pretty amazing storm, even though nobody ws there with cell phones.
raven
Farah!
Omnes Omnibus
@MikeJ: Which one? ::shudder::
I suppose this is inevitable.
danah gaz (fka gaz)
@cathyx: because some sites want first and last when you register, and at one point I wanted to unify everything across all the sites I used – this is until I realized how much trouble it actually was and gave up.
danah is my first name, so I just went with that, and combined it with my nick.
ETA: While this had little to nothing to do with my decision, people here at BJ were inclined to mix up Gex and I, so it was better that I changed it anyway. I wouldn’t want anyone mis-attributing my poor manners to Gex. =)
Valdivia
@amk: (12)
I did see somewhere on the twitter machine that Ryan had sort of unleashed a really angry mood on the crowd. It’s only his first day so I am sure by October he will be just like Palin in those crowds.
amk
TP – radical ryan
raven
@Valdivia: Yea, I thought he was fucking nasty.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN): Remind me tomorrow, and I’ll see if I can get it together on cafe press. I’ll be damned if I’ll let this gift go bay without making a buck. Heh.
+ 3 restaurant owner/bartender margaritas (stout(
Omnes Omnibus
@Valdivia: Oh, lovely. I suppose that, when hate and anger is all one has, one needs to run with them.
raven
@Omnes Omnibus: What did you think this was going to be down the stretch?
Omnes Omnibus
@raven: Hate and anger. Of course.
raven
@Omnes Omnibus: Oh yea. The local paper comment section is off the deep end.
TaMara (BHF)
I hate to break it to you Soonergrunt, but the last several times this has happened, not only have I only hit SUBMIT once, I actually closed the window when it is clear it is not going to post. Then I return to find it has posted itself several times.
I think the experienced commenters here actually know not to hit submit more than once and have had the same problem (Yutsano can probably verify this, since we were both caught in a Matrix thread together one night).
amk
@Omnes Omnibus: That and of course, shit load of pac money.
Smiling Mortician
@Valdivia: At first I read this as “really angry moon” and was inordinately grateful you did not link to a picture.
amk
@TaMara (BHF): fucking wp, like fucking god, works in fucking mysterious ways.
Omnes Omnibus
@Smiling Mortician: Paul Ryan is the Goatse dude?
HRA
Speaking of Ryan— This mid am while we were loading the vehicles to get on the roads home from our MD vacation, the landlord of the place came by and said “You may have not heard the news that Romney picked Ryan”. “I was hoping for Pawlenty.” Then on the way home we heard the oft repeated about Ryan’s creds as a family man from him and some others. I am already getting to sneer at it all. Bring it on!
I must say if there are any MD natives here, you have a wonderful state. Baltimore, Fells Harbor and Ocean City were awesome.
Just being home is great. Seeing those places in comparison to our big city is sad.
Smiling Mortician
@efgoldman: Thank you for the public service you have provided. That image is infinitely better than the one I was dangerously close to conjuring.
ETA: Dammit, Omnes! Ew.
amk
I will bring back my earlier 10000 dollar bet.
mittbot, being completely overshadowed by the blue eyed boy (and still being relentlessly hit by O campaign on the tax records and bain), sez ‘fuck you all, I quit’ before the convention.
Any takers ?
cathyx
I like to go to garage sales, and I saw the funniest thing yesterday. I have never seen this before. There were 2 opened boxes of cereal with the rest of the cereal in them. I guess they didn’t like them, saved them, and decided to put them in the garage sale to get rid of them instead of throwing them away.
cathyx
@amk: Not for $10,000. But maybe for $10.
TaMara (BHF)
@amk: I’ve kind of given into it and figure that the WP gods must feel my comment is so exceptionally funny/witty/articulate, it posts it 6 or 7 times so it is not missed.
Case in point: I posted a link to the handsome and awesome Bobak F from NASA and FYWP saw fit to add it 6x to the Mars thread. Proof that FSM loves me.
Omnes Omnibus
@Smiling Mortician: Sorry, but if that meme can take hold….
Steeplejack
@cathyx:
I counted 15 dupes in a thread earlier today. That’s the most I’ve seen. Schmitz? Schlitz? Short nym starting with S.
danielx
@Valdivia:
Well, somebody has to be the whipdick. Somehow I don’t see Willard filling that role, since the only thing he really seems to be passionate about is the capital gains rate. But on the best day he ever has, Ryan is never going to have Palin’s rabble-rousing abilities, nor yet will he look good in spike heels. He might make Rich Lowry and Bill Kristol see starbursts but they won’t be, er, you know, starbursts.
Omnes Omnibus
@TaMara (BHF): It usually duplicates my typos.
Smiling Mortician
@Omnes Omnibus: Well, he’s certainly an asshole.
Valdivia
@raven:
I refused to watch him and got my news from Twitter (first time I’ve done that since I don’t do twitter). From the comments it sounds he was whipping up the frenzy and journalists where thinking Romney was unleashing something he did not understand.
Sound familiar no?
@Omnes Omnibus:
It does sound like it is all they got. OT, very very late happy bday.
@danielx:
well, you never know, right? they could be getting starbursts.
karen marie
@arguingwithsignposts: Bite your tongue!
Citizen_X
Considering the proprieter can’t seem to handle tasks like that without ending up in the hospital, yes, that’s pretty important.
cathyx
@Steeplejack: Next time that it happens, I’m going to break that record. I feel confident that I can do it. The Olympics have inspired me.
Omnes Omnibus
@Valdivia: Thank you. I have a grandmother who was always late in getting birthday cards/presents out. Since my birthday is at the beginning of the month, I always figured she had done well as long as it got to me by Labor Day. Weirdly, since she reached her late 80s she has been on time. This year, I got a card from her a day early. Impressive.
karen marie
@dead existentialist: No, it’s the Koch Bros. who have both Mitt and ZEGS by the short hairs. In fact, David Kochs had himself anointed as a Romney delegate so he can go to the convention and make sure everyone there understands who’s paying the bills.
JustAnotherBob
The Tubz tells me that WP can be outfitted with a duplicate post preventer.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/duplicate-posts-erazer/
It claims that all you’ve got to do is install the plug-in and kick back.
danielx
@Valdivia:
Anything is possible, but I’d just as soon not pursue those particular images any further, thankyewverymuch.
NotMax
Just got back from voting in the primary. Real low turnout at my precinct.
amk
grey lady’s editorial
(pre-emptive FYWP blockquote. I am using my own)
“Mitt Romney’s safe and squishy campaign just took on a much harder edge. A candidate of no details — I’ll cut the budget but no need to explain just how — has named a vice-presidential running mate, Paul Ryan, whose vision is filled with endless columns of minus signs. Voters will now be able to see with painful clarity just what the Republican Party has in store for them.
As House Budget Committee chairman, Mr. Ryan has drawn a blueprint of a government that will be absent when people need it the most. It will not be there when the unemployed need job training, or when a struggling student needs help to get into college. It will not be there when a miner needs more than a hardhat for protection, or when a city is unable to replace a crumbling bridge.
And it will be silent when the elderly cannot keep up with the costs of M.R.I.’s or prescription medicines, or when the poor and uninsured become increasingly sick through lack of preventive care.
More than three-fifths of the cuts proposed by Mr. Ryan, and eagerly accepted by the Tea Party-driven House, come from programs for low-income Americans. That means billions of dollars lost for job training for the displaced, Pell grants for students and food stamps for the hungry. These cuts are so severe that the nation’s Catholic bishops raised their voices in protest at the shredding of the nation’s moral obligations.”
Valdivia
@Omnes Omnibus:
biggest grin. Love that story.
Valdivia
@Steeplejack:
hi! congrats on the new house and the cat. I have been lurking a lot so I didn’t get a chance to say that. :)
@efgoldman:
I think the tenor of the comments wasn’t so much that he was being an attack dog, but that he embodies everything the crazies love and his presence and tone could create some very unfortunate situations.
NotMax
I I never never click click submit submit more more than than once once and and yet yet sometimes sometimes my my comment comment duplicates duplicates all all on on its its own own.
danielx
And since it’s an open thread, we are celebrating RAIN! Thursday night and Friday we got somewhere in the neighborhood of three inches of rain and it’s in the 50s tonight for the first time in three months. Too late for the corn crop, unfortunately, and too late for the folks who are having to slaughter their herds. Stock up on beef and freeze it, y’all – it’s going to be right cheap for a while, then become very expensive.
Of course the downside to all this rain is that tomorrow I have to cut the grass for the third time in two months. The things I have to put up with, I tell ya…
Steeplejack
@Valdivia:
How you doin’? And how’s it going with The Moviegoer? I have been busy moving the last couple of weeks, and somehow my Nook got lost in the move. (But it resurfaced a couple of days ago.) So I’m about halfway through the book and starting up again.
You said you were at the hospital yesterday or the day before? Dad again?
raven
@efgoldman: no, really?
raven
@efgoldman: Romney also said gas prices had doubled.
Steeplejack
@amk:
Even the Vista upgrade version of blockquote works okay. Just remember to put two underscores on the blank lines between paragraphs.
danielx
If Catholic bishops are up in arms about a moral issue, you know it just has to truly suck. And from such a nice Catholic boy, too.
Hal
The more it sinks in, the more disgusted I am with this Paul Ryan choice, and with Romney in general. His father must be rolling in his grave right now.
I just don’t get how you are the son of a man who ended up being more a less a leper in his own party for not embracing the crazy and your decision is to do just the opposite, all because you are so fucking full of yourself that you believe being an massively wealthy makes you a the perfect candidate for President.
raven
Boudia!
NotMax
Fingers crossed that the Rolls-Royce legal staff is ready to jump on the Romney campaign if they try to use an intertwined double R design.
Valdivia
@Steeplejack:
Glad you found a good place. And thanks for asking. Been a couple of really hectic weeks–I am so ready not to go to the hospital on a daily or weekly basis–but hopefully once radiation is over in the next 10 days I can take a breather.
Good thing about the hospital is that when not coordinating doctors I can read. I am about half way through too. Had to put it down when things got very busy. Enjoying it a lot. :)
Omnes Omnibus
@efgoldman: For you.
amk
@efgoldman:
spiro who ? That was asked even in nixon days.
Steeplejack
@Steeplejack:
FYWP! Something really insidious is that its parsing rules for original entry of a comment are different than for editing a comment. Really plays havoc with the embedded HTML.
But I digress. Here’s how your comment should look to nail the blockquote thing:
amk
@efgoldman: obama is a protestant/muslin/catholic.
AHH onna Droid
@danah gaz (fka gaz): Somebody here mentioned NoScript this summer, so I downloaded it. Bj and wp work like a dream for me now.
amk
@Steeplejack: @Steeplejack:
Thanks. Will try it next time around.
NotMax
@danielx
Some info on the statements by bishops and nuns from this past spring:
Omnes Omnibus
@efgoldman: Man, you are style conscious.
Steeplejack
@Valdivia:
It is your dad, not you, right? My thoughts are with him.
Steeplejack
@Omnes Omnibus:
Hey, that’s my bit! Gimme five bees for a quarter!
Joseph Nobles
I just saw this on Twitter:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prl51vGORP0&feature=share
It’s a video “trailer” made by some guy who wants a date with Olympic athlete Lolo Jones. But I don’t get creepy from it at all, I just get “total goofball throwing caution to the wind.” YMMV, but I just laughed the whole way through.
NotMax
@amk
That sparked the memory of a cute riff on the Nixon campaign slogan that made the rounds back then.
Nixon’s the one.
And Agnew’s another one.
Steeplejack
@Steeplejack:
Damn you, FYWP!
Omnes Omnibus
@Steeplejack: For you then.
Steeplejack
@amk:
Non-FYWP’d version here.
Valdivia
@Steeplejack:
yes, sorry I was unclear, it’s my dad and his post-brain-surgery treatment (we were hoping no radiation but apparently what’s left of the tumor is eating his left eye). And thanks again.
Omnes Omnibus
@Valdivia: That is awful. Good thoughts from me as well.
dead existentialist
@efgoldman: Oy vey!
Steeplejack
@Omnes Omnibus:
Can’t find my signature “Matlock! Ooh, it’s on now!” clip.
And I say that as a Perry Mason marathon is on the TV behind me. Sigh.
Valdivia
@Omnes Omnibus:
thanks so much Omnes. Somehow I truly thought in that deluded way one does sometimes, that after the surgery it would all be over. Now I am to the point of–after radiation it will be over. I think this time it will at least be closer to how it should be since the tumor was benign but in a horridly complicated place. At least they got it all out without majorly inflicting damage to anything but the eye (and maybe a little his memory).
WaterGirl
@Valdivia: So sorry to hear about your dad, I had completely missed that this was going on.
Are you by any chance the baby of the family? Or a daddy’s girl? I plead guilty to both.
Valdivia
@WaterGirl:
Thank you, truly. I so get it, being one myself.
Not only am I the baby of the family but also now the only child left because my brother passed away a few years ago (I know totally TMI today, I guess it’s been one of those weeks!) So this whole brain tumor thing has been a hard lift. My mom and I though make a really good support team, she is the awesome, so that’s a huge blessing.
amk
paul fucking voucher ryan at a 71-year old protester – I hope he’s taken his blood-pressure medication.
What an asshole surrounded by other rich assholes.
The Other Bob
@efgoldman:
‘cept for the incumbent Muslim/Catholic ticket of course.
WaterGirl
@Valdivia: Not quite sure why I thought we might share that, but I am not surprised.
It’s hard for me to fathom a world in which I don’t have my two sisters, so I’m really sorry to hear you lost your brother. Glad you and your mom have each other while you support your dad.
I’m sure you are completely exhausted. Do you live nearby, at least? Traveling back and forth makes it even harder. Is there anything we can do?
WaterGirl
@amk: Note to ryan and all the other assholes laughing as the 71-year-old man is dragged out.: ha ha funny joke, you entitled pricks.
What is wrong with these people?
Omnes Omnibus
@WaterGirl: They are assholes. It really is that simple.
Valdivia
@WaterGirl:
thanks again, it really means a lot. And yes I am with them for the duration because I commuted from nyc to dc when my mom had breast cancer(she is doing great now) and that nearly killed me.
After this though I think I am going to go on a really long monastery-quiet kind of vacation. Or maybe just a beach with lots of drinking. :)
Valdivia
@WaterGirl: @Omnes Omnibus:
they are assholes. Also, kind of OT, but I hate that people go around saying Ryan is blue collar, he is trust fund kid from a rural district.
Violet
@Valdivia: So sorry to hear that. Sending good thoughts.
I know I’m the zillionth person to post on this subject, but I don’t press the Submit button more than once and it still posts a bunch of times. Also:
HOW? Did someone answer this question and I missed it? When FYWP is in the middle of a good borking, it’s impossible to edit any comment or press the “Request Deletion” button. They don’t work. What else can we do? Deluge Soonergrunt with emails saying, “Please delete Posts numbered 45, 46, 49, 50, 51, 55, and 63” or whatever. That would be fun.
WaterGirl
@Omnes Omnibus: It’s sick the way all these sociopaths are drawn to one another.
And if one more person says that Ryan is good-looking, like it’s a statement of fact that we all agree on, I think I will scream. Is there even one female or gay man who thinks Ryan is attractive?
I’ll give him well-groomed, though in a creepy way. But he’s about as good looking as a rattlesnake, and probably more dangerous.
(sorry for the rant)
Brian R.
@Valdivia:
Yeah, I don’t know many blue-collar people whose parents owned their own company.
Hill Dweller
@Omnes Omnibus: Insecure, ignorant and scared assholes. The people in that room know deep down the middle class has been gutted by stooges like Ryan, but they’d rather be told it’s the black/Mexican people that did it.
TS
@amk:
He wants it just too much amk – Only picked Ryan so the base wouldn’t oppose him at the convention.
Why he wants it so much is what I’ll never understand.
Yutsano
@TaMara (BHF): That was so bizarre. We kept trying to reference other points (I wanna say this was a recipe exchange thread) but we kepy having no clue what was showing up when. I think I just gave up on FYWP that night.
WaterGirl
@Violet: It’s true. When the site has the hiccups, there’s not a damn thing you can do about it.
skippy
vulture/voucher ’12!
wrb
@efgoldman:
Fortunately, Obama is a Protestant, and is going to win.
I’m not enthused about Scalia, etc.
Omnes Omnibus
@Valdivia: I am embarrassed that Ryan and I are members of the same fraternity. Different schools, but still…. Add in that we are from the same state, and the humiliation, it kills.
@Brian R.: Plumbers. Not Ryan.
Valdivia
@Violet:
thank you, you guys are making me feel I have a whole army behind me. :)
@WaterGirl:
oh oh raises hand in fervent agreement. Ryan is NOT good looking. not one bit.
@Brian R.:
exactly, why do people say he is blue collar?
amk
@Valdivia: Apparently he was called a brown-noser in his high school year book. He is an a$$ kissing tool for his rich enablers alright.
WaterGirl
@Valdivia: We went through a lot with my mom, including surgery and radiation, so I really feel for you and your mom. You’re a good daughter.
Valdivia
@Omnes Omnibus:
I am sure you represent the best of your state and the fraternity. Not your fault Ryan is from there :)
@amk:
I can so totally see that about him.
@WaterGirl:
it’s hard, I also think it’s harder for my dad who is trying to be himself but finds it hard with no sight on the left eye and balance problems and half his head shaved and scarred. Some of these will pass, others will have to cope with, but at least his prognosis is excellent and we were really lucky with a great team of doctors. Hope your Mom is ok now.
WaterGirl
@Valdivia: big hug
Belafon (formerly anonevent)
I was going through the list of sites that BJ pays attention to to see what was being said about Ryan. One of the sites was League of Ordinary Gentlemen. Obviously, the libertarianism there approaches Republicanism. For example, the pro-Obama PAC’s video about the worker losing his wife was a sleazy hit job and a lie because obviously Romney didn’t kill the woman with cancer. It was also interesting to see how much the Ryan pick is the thing that is going to save the Romney campaign because Ryan can attack Obama on the economy while Romney can look presidential.
But they also have this saving Democracy thing going. I could only make it through part of one post. This one was the obvious “property rights define this country” and “regulating a hot dog stand run by a 15 year old is killing business.” I am curious about what a libertarian thinks of Adam Smith’s argument that rentiers (property owners) also need to pay some penalty for their ownership so that they do not gain too much power. Not enough to weed through all of their Democracy articles, though.
Omnes Omnibus
@Valdivia: We also have Justice Brennan. The fraternity, that is.
I think the thing with Ryan being considered good looking is due to the fact that he has many of the individual characteristics that add up to someone being good looking. They just don’t gel with him. Many of the trees are there, but there is is no forest? Of course, what do I know as a straight guy? I just think he looks like an ass-kissing douche I would have blackballed on bid day. Apparently the Delts at Miami were less discerning.
Steeplejack
Almost lost the new cat again.
I went out to get dinner and go to Target, came home, puttered around on the computer by the TV in the living room for a while, then went to check on her in the bedroom. She seemed okay, so I thought I would let her out into the rest of the apartment under supervision. She was sort of checking things out, down in low skulk mode, very tentative, and then in the kitchen she suddenly dived for the corner by the sink. I barely got the kung fu grip on her ass before she disappeared into the building innards again.
Turns out (apparently) that she was never behind the washing machine. In the very bottom corner of the kitchen there is a little patch of black construction paper or cardboard covering a small hole in the kickboard (toe-kick?) that leads to a space between the cabinet and the wall (which has a hole in it) and thereby to the innards of the building, and that’s probably where she disappeared when she first got here yesterday. So she’s back in lockdown in the bedroom, and I’m off to Home Depot first thing in the morning to get something to block that hole.
I think she’s just a little crazy right now. She seems to really like me, likes to sit next to me and be petted, purring, even while she’s nervously eying everything—and looking at the ceiling at lot, for some reason. But she just seems completely freaked out by her environment. As I said before, she was in holding at a PetSmart for a couple of weeks, and before that she was alone in her previous owner’s house, with someone (allegedly) coming by every day to feed her. The previous owner is 92, and her house was severely damaged in the storm we had here at the end of June. She was going to be out of her house for quite a while in any case, and I think there was some question of whether the place could be adequately repaired, or whether it was worth it, so it turned out to be a good time for her to make the transition to assisted living. Hence Sketcher (the cat) needing a new home. She’s had a rough six weeks.
I’m sure it will all work out, but they are strange little creatures, aren’t they?
After looking at her in more detail, she’s a straight-up dark gray tabby with lots of black accents. All that tortie stuff was crazy talk. The end of her long tail looks like she’s got a black sock draped over it. She might have a few very faint bronze highlights around her face, but that’s it.
I took an empty microwave box, cut a mousehole entrance in it, put a couple of T-shirts in it and made a refuge for her. She hasn’t used it much–only after I grabbed her when she was diving for the hole in the kitchen–but she came right out when I came back into the bedroom a little later. But she does like to get under the bedcovers and lie next to me. I substituted a pillow against her back so I could come back out here to the living room. She’s dozing peacefully now, or at least resting quietly.
Violet
@WaterGirl:
I think he’s vaguely attractive. Good hair, nice smile, noticeable eyes, comes across as friendly in interviews. I can see how people just lump him into the “attractive” category.
But to me, he’s attractive in the same way Romney is attractive. In that he’s not. The pieces are there that could make him attractive, but something in his soul, his personality, the words that come out of his mouth, renders him not attractive at all.
patroclus
I’ve been looking for a blog that has posts that eviscerate Paul Ryan. Anyone have any suggestions on where to look?
NotMax
@efgoldman
Not really.
A number of presidents had no confirmed or regular affiliation with a specific church or sect. Among them were Jefferson, Lincoln, Van Buren, Andrew Johnson and Pierce (who was baptized after leaving office).
Valdivia
@WaterGirl:
thank you, again. hugs back. :)
@Omnes Omnibus:
he looks smarmy to me. Like a guy who thinks he is super hot and super smart. Very full of himself. Such a turn off. Yuck.
Justice Brennan on the other hand… ;)
amk
@Steeplejack: That’s a cute story. Give her time. She’ll kick you out of your own home.
Omnes Omnibus
@Steeplejack: Eventually she will feed you wallet to the dogs. Just beware.
Valdivia
ha ha ha
on twitter (from BWD)
ETA: @Steeplejack: she is a keeper! :)
ok gang, I am crashing. g’night.
Steeplejack
@amk, @Omnes Omnibus:
I know it’s coming. Just enjoying the crazy honeymoon phase.
Anne Laurie
@Steeplejack:
Sketcher may well have had more red accents when she was younger. The red gene, as Lily and I can attest, lacks staying power. If she’s got any ‘bronze highlights’ at all, she’s officially a torbie (tortoise/tabby). Although she may have the dilution color gene as well, which means her red patches would never have been darker than peach.
Prettiest cat I’ve ever “owned” was a blue cream (dilute tortie) who was banker-suit-grey with pale peach accents. Her litter-sister started out as a grey tabby, developed a black-with-some-red-hairs saddle blanket in middle age, and ended up as a paler grey tabby with a dark grey saddle. Toby lived till a couple weeks shy of her 19th birthday, just to let you know…
Steeplejack
@Anne Laurie:
My last two–a black stray I found as a tiny kitten near Emory University and a purebred Russian blue–lived to 18 and 20, respectively, so I’m pretty sure Sketcher doesn’t realize that she has probably won the lotto.
Soonergrunt
@JustAnotherBob: talk to John. I don’t have the authority to install anything.
Omnes Omnibus
@Soonergrunt: Chicken.
Omnes Omnibus
Oh my god. I just found a full Creed concert from 1999 on YouTube. Why would someone post something like that?
dance around in your bones
It has been my experience that ever since the ‘site re-do’ that multiple comments show up no matter what you do; not hitting submit several times or whatever.
This has happened to me and I think to many other people.
So FYWP, you dog. Why must you keep repeating on us poor commenters?
P.S. I refuse to comment on sites that use Disqus(t).
sfinny
@Anne Laurie: @Anne Laurie: Over my life I have had a lot of kitties including many pure breds. But my current resident is a wonderful brown tabby that looks different from every side. I swear that if people saw pictures of him from top, side, back, and belly they would think it is a different cat.
Prettiest cat I had though was Tiffany, a cream point Himilayan.
Lojasmo
1- FYWP users.
2- no problems in ios.
3- mostly lurker, so ymmv.
4-also, too, FYWPU.
Violet
First Read has a gushing story about how Romney kept the Ryan pick secret. This last bit caught my eye (Myers is the “chief vetter”):
Bobo’s gonna be seeing starbursts. I wonder if their takeout was from the salad bar?
ETA: Link: http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/08/12/13239042-how-did-they-do-it-romney-campaign-explains-how-it-kept-the-biggest-secret-in-politics?lite
Omnes Omnibus
@Omnes Omnibus: In an attempt to make up for making you contemplate the idea that a full Creed concert has been memorialized, here is the BBC audio recording of an Elvis Costello concert from the Hammersmith Palais in 1983.
ETA: Here is the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTfurBqOlP4
Steeplejack
@Omnes Omnibus:
Linky no work.No linky period. You fix.Corner Stone
@Omnes Omnibus: Something maybe you and Jennifer Love Hewitt can see?
Omnes Omnibus
@Steeplejack: I knew I forgot something.
@Corner Stone: Premature posting.
hhex65
@Omnes Omnibus: if tubgirl and Alex Jones need to be immortalized on youtube why not Creed?
Corner Stone
I sometimes wonder how much ass an Olympic medal winner scores who is from a not so prominent country.
ETA, it’s gotta be epic, right? Amirite?
Omnes Omnibus
@hhex65: Because Creed is evil.
Omnes Omnibus
@Corner Stone: Internationally or in his or her home country?
ETA: I would guess the sport matters as well.
Corner Stone
@Omnes Omnibus: I’m thinking the sport doesn’t matter a bit.
And definitely in the own home country.
If you took a medal in anything and you’re from Azerbaijan? You’re getting ass for the next 3 years. You probably can’t leave the house without getting some kind of action.
Yes, this is a Durex inspired perversion.
Omnes Omnibus
@Corner Stone: The sport would matter internationally, I think. At home, you are probably right.
Steeplejack
@Omnes Omnibus:
No way those team handball guys are getting any (extra) ass anywhere. I can even see a dressage fop getting the occasional frigid Talbots action before they hit anything.
Omnes Omnibus
@Steeplejack: Damn. Hater.
Corner Stone
@Steeplejack: Bullshit. I don’t care if you’re competing in the Grab Ass competition, if you earn a medal you are guaranteed to be making the Olympic O Face.
Omnes Omnibus
@Corner Stone: Of course, the question is with whom?
Steeplejack
@Omnes Omnibus:
Touché.
Corner Stone
@Omnes Omnibus: The question for whom?
Steeplejack
@Corner Stone:
Isn’t the Grab Ass competition pretty much defined by making the Olympic O-face?
Seriously, I’m asking, because I don’t get NBCinemax and didn’t see the event.
Omnes Omnibus
@Corner Stone: Some people care.
suzanne
@WaterGirl:
I don’t think he’s a bad-looking guy. This is because I think he looks EXACTLY like Ryan from “The Office” (BJ Novak).
However, he’s a demon from the planet Rand, so his looks are immaterial when confronted with his scary.
suzanne
@<a href="#comment-3583391Omnes Omnibus:
i think I’d rather listen to Paul Ryan talk about his awesome budget plan for two hours.