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Skylark

by @heymistermix.com|  August 30, 20129:06 am| 111 Comments

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This song has been stuck in my head all week. I like Ella’s treatment, though Aretha has an interesting take on it, as does KD Lang.

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  1. 1.

    Rex Everything

    August 30, 2012 at 9:09 am

    Freddie Hubbard played a real nice rendition on Art Blakey’s Caravan album.

  2. 2.

    jurassicpork

    August 30, 2012 at 9:09 am

    After four years of bitching for a byline at Pottersville, Mike Flannigan gets one and starts off by writing about the GOP clown show in Tampa.

  3. 3.

    TheMightyTrowel

    August 30, 2012 at 9:11 am

    You know that whole ‘even a stopped clock’ thing? CHeck this quote by one Sen Lindsay Graham (R-edneck) who has never previously struck me as incisive or reflexive:

    “The demographics race we’re losing badly,” said Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (S.C.). “We’re not generating enough angry white guys to stay in business for the long term.”

    Source

  4. 4.

    rikyrah

    August 30, 2012 at 9:12 am

    I’m dragging this morning, cause I stayed up late watching Casablanca. That movie pulls me in everytime.

    One of the most quotable movies – EVAH

  5. 5.

    sb

    August 30, 2012 at 9:15 am

    I’m seeing ads on this site for Atlas Shrugged II.

    “Real Heroes Don’t Need Capes.”

    Holy crap.

  6. 6.

    Z. Mulls

    August 30, 2012 at 9:17 am

    Damn you. This is one of the most perfectly beguiling songs of all time, and now I’m going to have to listen to it several times and hum it under my breath ALL DAMN DAY.

    Freaking Johnny Mercer…..Stupid freaking Carmichael…

  7. 7.

    Rosalita

    August 30, 2012 at 9:23 am

    Ella’s the awesomest…

  8. 8.

    Linda Featheringill

    August 30, 2012 at 9:25 am

    @TheMightyTrowel: #3

    “The demographics race we’re losing badly,” said Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (S.C.). “We’re not generating enough angry white guys to stay in business for the long term.”

    That’s actually one of the most encouraging statements I’ve heard in quite some time. Let us all hope that Lindsey’s right.

  9. 9.

    Kane

    August 30, 2012 at 9:26 am

    First Lady Michelle Obama was fantastic on Letterman last night. And the band The Chevin was awesome.

  10. 10.

    The Ancient Randonneur

    August 30, 2012 at 9:27 am

    If Heaven exists, and that is where the Angels reside, then what a treat it must have been to see their faces when they heard Ella’s voice for the first time. Divine. Absolutely, divine.

  11. 11.

    Linda Featheringill

    August 30, 2012 at 9:27 am

    OT:

    It looks like Isaac is slowly moving inland, tending to its task of making sure that the lower Mississippi floods like heck.

  12. 12.

    Z. Mulls

    August 30, 2012 at 9:29 am

    (One of my favorite versions of Skylark is one of my earliest exposures to the song — Linda Ronstadt’s version with a classic Nelson Riddle orchestration. It’s perfectly retro, a gorgeous phrasing of the song. This version is as much about the song as the singer)

  13. 13.

    Comrade Jake

    August 30, 2012 at 9:31 am

    twitter.com/KagroX/status/241147492220170240

    “Everybody who fact checked the Ryan Medicare comments came away unhappy. Politico, though, titles its video, “Ryan nails Obama on Medicare.””

    And… there you have it.

  14. 14.

    raven

    August 30, 2012 at 9:34 am

    Yo whatup?

  15. 15.

    raven

    August 30, 2012 at 9:35 am

    So this punk motherfuckers iPod has music from MY generation on it?

  16. 16.

    The Ancient Randonneur

    August 30, 2012 at 9:36 am

    I think a very warm place might be freezing over. This from … Fox News website (That’s right. Fox News.):

    On the other hand, to anyone paying the slightest bit of attention to facts, Ryan’s speech was an apparent attempt to set the world record for the greatest number of blatant lies and misrepresentations slipped into a single political speech. On this measure, while it was Romney who ran the Olympics, Ryan earned the gold.
    …
    The good news is that the Romney-Ryan campaign has likely created dozens of new jobs among the legions of additional fact checkers that media outlets are rushing to hire to sift through the mountain of cow dung that flowed from Ryan’s mouth. Said fact checkers have already condemned certain arguments that Ryan still irresponsibly repeated.

    Kohn shreds the Ryan’s speech in this piece. Granted, it is an opinion piece, but I can hardly believe they would allow this to be associated with their brand.

  17. 17.

    gene108

    August 30, 2012 at 9:40 am

    Learned a new song yesterday: Toby Keith’s Red Solo Cup.

    Great tune, though I’m not usually a fan of country music.

  18. 18.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    August 30, 2012 at 9:41 am

    @Linda Featheringill: @Comrade Jake: I’m solidly in the hard-fought-close-victory for Obama camp, but I’ll let my optimism run wild and say Obama’s convention bump will be bigger than Romney/Ryand’s, which will happen and which will get Politico Village in a lather. If even Senator Aunt Pittypat is indirectly commenting on the angry, race-baiting tone, I think Obtimbamism will play better on TeeVee.

  19. 19.

    Anne

    August 30, 2012 at 9:41 am

    Skylark…Cleo Lane has to be right up there.

  20. 20.

    jwb

    August 30, 2012 at 9:43 am

    @The Ancient Randonneur: That’s a good question to ask: why did Fox News decide it was a good idea to run this, especially as Murdoch was on Twitter last night singing Ryan’s praises? I have a hard time seeing the choice to run this as accidental, so really what’s the angle that’s being played?

  21. 21.

    Regnad Kcin

    August 30, 2012 at 9:45 am

    @Z. Mulls: @rikyrah: Carmichael + Bogey + Bacall = imdb.com/title/tt0037382/

    Case closed, Slim.

  22. 22.

    Rosalita

    August 30, 2012 at 9:47 am

    @raven:

    So this punk motherfuckers iPod has music from MY generation on it?

    a number of us punk motherfuckers have great music from previous generations our our iPods. :) I was lucky enough to actually see Ella sing at the Hollywood Bowl in 1989.

  23. 23.

    Ash Can

    August 30, 2012 at 9:48 am

    @gene108: Some friends of mine showed me that on YouTube. Cracked me right the hell up.

  24. 24.

    Litlebritdifrnt

    August 30, 2012 at 9:49 am

    Meanwhile we get this kind of bullshit from the AP

    Paul Ryan took some factual shortcuts Wednesday

    Gov. Chris Christie, bucked reality

    Rick Santorum stretched the truth in taking Obama to task over his administration supposedly waiving work requirements in the nation’s landmark welfare-to-work law.

    They must have looked up the word “lied” in their thesaurus and are scrambling to come up with ways not to use the actual word. I give up.

  25. 25.

    Davis X. Machina

    August 30, 2012 at 9:50 am

    When I did college radio back in the ’70’s we cued up 23 consecutive different versions of “Skylark”.

    It was awesome. Literally.

  26. 26.

    rlrr

    August 30, 2012 at 9:53 am

    @Litlebritdifrnt:

    That whirring sound you hear is George Orwell in his grave.

  27. 27.

    Ash Can

    August 30, 2012 at 9:58 am

    @sb:

    I’m seeing ads on this site for Atlas Shrugged II.

    And from now on, the poor shmoe whose mug takes up that entire ad is going to be hearing, “Oh, you’re the guy who was in that piece of shit.” How many actors begin and end their film careers with just one movie?

  28. 28.

    eric

    August 30, 2012 at 9:59 am

    @rikyrah: just talked to a colleague, both did the same…the whole script is quotable.

    “Do I really have brown eyes?” Love that line..

  29. 29.

    Todd

    August 30, 2012 at 10:00 am

    Query – has anybody here gone from having enjoyed the full lifespan (from milk teeth to death from old age) of a wonderful, polite, kind, super well-behaved large dog to taking in a rescue? From the time our big shepherd was a little over a year old until his death, his behavior was perfect. I rarely had to scold him. Hell, he was fully autonomous outside, locationally aware, roadwise, loved car rides and always came home. When he’d come up to the door with his idiot grin, he’d bark a couple of times to be let in, but would wait to be invited before crossing the threshhold.

    The house seems awfully empty now.

    I went to the vet check on the status of the box with the cremated remains, and asked about potentially available dogs. They told me about a 2 year old tiny beagle being fostered, nearly housebroken, good with cats, not mouthy but a little whiny, very shy and has that beagle tendency to wander off if outside. I just don’t know.

  30. 30.

    Steeplejack

    August 30, 2012 at 10:00 am

    Can’t find it on YouTube, but Cassandra Wilson does a killer version of “Skylark” with steel guitar. Snippet here.

    The whole album, New Moon Daughter, is very good. “Last Train to Clarksville”!

  31. 31.

    Steeplejack

    August 30, 2012 at 10:07 am

    @Todd:

    Beagles are barky, in my experience. And Cole hates them, for whatever that’s worth.

  32. 32.

    General Stuck

    August 30, 2012 at 10:08 am

    Gets my vote for dumbest thing Joe Klein has ever said.

    But let me afflict the comfortable. The Democrats have a serious problem. It is a problem that stems from the party’s greatest strength: its long-term support for inclusion and equal rights for all, its support of racial integration and equal rights for women and homosexuals and its humane stand on immigration reform. Those heroic positions, which I celebrate, cost the Democrats more than a few elections in the past. And they caused an understandable, if misguided, overreaction within the party–a drift toward identity politics, toward special pleading. Inclusion became exclusive. The Democratic National Committee officially recognizes 14 caucuses or “communities,” most having to do with race, gender, sexual orientation or ethnicity.

    So let us ditch our “party’s greatest strength” and go back for a little centrist hugathon of right wing xenophobe asswipes, that just need some liberal love and acceptance of their bigotry. Not to mention their epic stupidity. Joe needs to leave the 90’s cause those days are dead and gone, and he should just let them go. The reason we have identity politics is that when you lie down with some dogs, you get fleas. Best to identify that, if you don’t want fleas.

    or, maybe Klein is bucking for dibs on the David Brooks of the left.

  33. 33.

    Steeplejack

    August 30, 2012 at 10:08 am

    @Todd:

    Beagles are barky, in my experience. And Cole hates them, for whatever that’s worth.

  34. 34.

    General Stuck

    August 30, 2012 at 10:10 am

    Gets my vote for dumbest thing Joe Klein has ever said.

    But let me afflict the comfortable. The Democrats have a serious problem. It is a problem that stems from the party’s greatest strength: its long-term support for inclusion and equal rights for all, its support of racial integration and equal rights for women and homosexuals and its humane stand on immigration reform. Those heroic positions, which I celebrate, cost the Democrats more than a few elections in the past. And they caused an understandable, if misguided, overreaction within the party–a drift toward identity politics, toward special pleading. Inclusion became exclusive. The Democratic National Committee officially recognizes 14 caucuses or “communities,” most having to do with race, gender, sexual orientation or ethnicity.

    So let us ditch our “party’s greatest strength” and go back for a little centrist hugathon of right wing xenophobe asswipes, that just need some liberal love and acceptance of their bigotry. Not to mention their epic stupidity. Joe needs to leave the 90’s cause those days are dead and gone, and he should just let them go. The reason we have identity politics is that when you lie down with some dogs, you get fleas. Best to identify that, if you don’t want fleas.

    or, maybe Klein is bucking for dibs on the David Brooks of the left.

  35. 35.

    Older_Wiser

    August 30, 2012 at 10:14 am

    Harry James and Helen Forrest, 1942: youtube.com/watch?v=2EAIfdIM2TI

    Big Band fan here. But I do love Ella the most.

  36. 36.

    General Stuck

    August 30, 2012 at 10:15 am

    @General Stuck:

    Linky

  37. 37.

    Older_Wiser

    August 30, 2012 at 10:15 am

    Harry James and Helen Forrest, 1942: youtube.com/watch?v=2EAIfdIM2TI

    Big Band fan here. But I do love Ella the most.

  38. 38.

    Older_Wiser

    August 30, 2012 at 10:16 am

    Harry James and Helen Forrest, 1942: youtube.com/watch?v=2EAIfdIM2TI

    Big Band fan here. But I do love Ella the most.

  39. 39.

    Chris

    August 30, 2012 at 10:18 am

    @TheMightyTrowel:

    Every now and then they open their mouth and something honest spills out.

    Remember the line about how if we’d followed Strom Thurmond when he ran for president we wouldn’t have “all these problems” today?

  40. 40.

    Older_Wiser

    August 30, 2012 at 10:18 am

    Harry James and Helen Forrest, 1942: youtube.com/watch?v=2EAIfdIM2TI

    Still, Ella’s my fave.

  41. 41.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    August 30, 2012 at 10:18 am

    @General Stuck:

    Joe needs to leave the 90’s cause those days are dead and gone, and he should just let them go.

    A-freakin’-men. Though I would add that his good days are when he’s stuck in the nineties, the glorious, rosy-tinted days when he first fell in love with Bubba. A lot of the time he’s on a tour of the early 70s, using David Broder’s columns as a guide book. Also, too, Klein is not completely clear of certain racial anxieties of his own.

  42. 42.

    Anoniminous

    August 30, 2012 at 10:19 am

    @General Stuck:

    Shorter Joe Klein:

    Democrats need to return to the failed polices of an era when I was important so I’ll be important again.

  43. 43.

    Chris

    August 30, 2012 at 10:19 am

    @TheMightyTrowel:

    Every now and then they open their mouth and something honest spills out.

    Remember the line about how if we’d followed Strom Thurmond when he ran for president we wouldn’t have “all these problems” today?

  44. 44.

    Older_Wiser

    August 30, 2012 at 10:19 am

    Harry James and Helen Forrest, 1942: youtube.com/watch?v=2EAIfdIM2TI

    Still, Ella’s my fave.

  45. 45.

    Ann Rynd

    August 30, 2012 at 10:20 am

    I must have spent as much time listening to Ella as Paul Ryan has been alive. Did not waste my time on him last night. Ella does not lie.

  46. 46.

    Anoniminous

    August 30, 2012 at 10:20 am

    @General Stuck:

    Shorter Joe Klein:

    Democrats need to return to the failed polices of an era when I was important so I’ll be important again.

  47. 47.

    Ash Can

    August 30, 2012 at 10:20 am

    @Todd: Don’t rush yourself. You’ll know when it’s time, and when it’s right.

  48. 48.

    Todd

    August 30, 2012 at 10:20 am

    @Steeplejack:

    Beagles are barky, in my experience. And Cole hates them, for whatever that’s worth.

    That’s been my impression, too, hence my trepidation. And funny thing – the only dog I ever saw mine get irritated with was a 30 lb beagle who thought it would be a good idea to harass and annoy 115+ pounds of shepherd. I was fascinated – rather than snarling or biting, the big guy just knocked him down on the ground with his chest (beagle going belly up), then laid down on him like he wasn’t there.

  49. 49.

    Ann Rynd

    August 30, 2012 at 10:21 am

    I must have spent as much time listening to Ella as Paul Ryan has been alive. Did not waste my time on him last night. Ella does not lie.

  50. 50.

    Anoniminous

    August 30, 2012 at 10:21 am

    @General Stuck:

    Shorter Joe Klein:

    Democrats need to return to the failed polices of an era when I was important so I’ll be important again.

  51. 51.

    Ann Rynd

    August 30, 2012 at 10:21 am

    I must have spent as much time listening to Ella as Paul Ryan has been alive. Did not waste my time on him last night. Ella does not lie.

  52. 52.

    Todd

    August 30, 2012 at 10:22 am

    @Steeplejack:

    Beagles are barky, in my experience. And Cole hates them, for whatever that’s worth.

    That’s been my impression, too, hence my trepidation. And funny thing – the only dog I ever saw mine get irritated with was a 30 lb beagle who thought it would be a good idea to harass and annoy 115+ pounds of shepherd. I was fascinated – rather than snarling or biting, the big guy just knocked him down on the ground with his chest (beagle going belly up), then laid down on him like he wasn’t there.

  53. 53.

    Elizabelle

    August 30, 2012 at 10:22 am

    NYTimes invitation to Dialogue: for publication in Sunday roundup. Anyone want to weigh in? They’re taking responses through today.

    Letter from retired lawyer Jay Feldman on “The Corporate Citizen.”

    There was a time in the not so distant past when many, if not most, publicly held corporations, including the one for which I worked, embraced in their mission statements, codes of conduct and similar pronouncements a responsibility to serve multiple stakeholders: their stockholders, of course, but also their employees as well as customers, suppliers and the community in which they operated.
    __
    Today, all too many companies, in deed and often in word, articulate a single-minded obligation to serve only their investors by focusing exclusively on profitability.
    __
    As a result, we have witnessed corporate downsizings and outsourcing of jobs; restructuring of pension plans or their complete termination; reductions in health care benefits; and wage stagnation in spite of increased productivity. …

    I am sure the Juicitariat has lots to contribute.

  54. 54.

    Todd

    August 30, 2012 at 10:22 am

    @Steeplejack:

    Beagles are barky, in my experience. And Cole hates them, for whatever that’s worth.

    That’s been my impression, too, hence my trepidation. And funny thing – the only dog I ever saw mine get irritated with was a 30 lb beagle who thought it would be a good idea to harass and annoy 115+ pounds of shepherd. I was fascinated – rather than snarling or biting, the big guy just knocked him down on the ground with his chest (beagle going belly up), then laid down on him like he wasn’t there.

  55. 55.

    Ann Rynd

    August 30, 2012 at 10:22 am

    I must have spent as much time listening to Ella as Paul Ryan has been alive. Did not waste my time on him last night. Ella does not lie.

  56. 56.

    Todd

    August 30, 2012 at 10:23 am

    @Steeplejack:

    Beagles are barky, in my experience. And Cole hates them, for whatever that’s worth.

    That’s been my impression, too, hence my trepidation. And funny thing – the only dog I ever saw mine get irritated with was a 30 lb beagle who thought it would be a good idea to harass and annoy 115+ pounds of shepherd. I was fascinated – rather than snarling or biting, the big guy just knocked him down on the ground with his chest (beagle going belly up), then laid down on him like he wasn’t there.

  57. 57.

    Elizabelle

    August 30, 2012 at 10:23 am

    NYTimes invitation to Dialogue: for publication in Sunday roundup. Anyone want to weigh in? They’re taking responses through today.

    Letter from retired lawyer Jay Feldman on “The Corporate Citizen.”

    There was a time in the not so distant past when many, if not most, publicly held corporations, including the one for which I worked, embraced in their mission statements, codes of conduct and similar pronouncements a responsibility to serve multiple stakeholders: their stockholders, of course, but also their employees as well as customers, suppliers and the community in which they operated.
    __
    Today, all too many companies, in deed and often in word, articulate a single-minded obligation to serve only their investors by focusing exclusively on profitability.
    __
    As a result, we have witnessed corporate downsizings and outsourcing of jobs; restructuring of pension plans or their complete termination; reductions in health care benefits; and wage stagnation in spite of increased productivity. …

    I am sure the Juicitariat has lots to contribute.

  58. 58.

    Todd

    August 30, 2012 at 10:24 am

    @Steeplejack:

    Beagles are barky, in my experience. And Cole hates them, for whatever that’s worth.

    That’s been my impression, too, hence my trepidation. And funny thing – the only dog I ever saw mine get irritated with was a 30 lb beagle who thought it would be a good idea to harass and annoy 115+ pounds of shepherd. I was fascinated – rather than snarling or biting, the big guy just knocked him down on the ground with his chest (beagle going belly up), then laid down on him like he wasn’t there.

  59. 59.

    danah gaz (fka gaz)

    August 30, 2012 at 10:24 am

    meh. my nails are destroyed and my fingers are all cut up and the motor-bicycle thing still does not work

    =(

  60. 60.

    Elizabelle

    August 30, 2012 at 10:24 am

    NYTimes invitation to Dialogue: for publication in Sunday roundup. Anyone want to weigh in? They’re taking responses through today.

    Letter from retired lawyer Jay Feldman on “The Corporate Citizen.”

    There was a time in the not so distant past when many, if not most, publicly held corporations, including the one for which I worked, embraced in their mission statements, codes of conduct and similar pronouncements a responsibility to serve multiple stakeholders: their stockholders, of course, but also their employees as well as customers, suppliers and the community in which they operated.
    __
    Today, all too many companies, in deed and often in word, articulate a single-minded obligation to serve only their investors by focusing exclusively on profitability.
    __
    As a result, we have witnessed corporate downsizings and outsourcing of jobs; restructuring of pension plans or their complete termination; reductions in health care benefits; and wage stagnation in spite of increased productivity. …

    I am sure the Juicitariat has lots to contribute.

  61. 61.

    danah gaz (fka gaz)

    August 30, 2012 at 10:26 am

    and BJ is crapping itself again.

    why does it suck?

    #firstworldproblems

  62. 62.

    The Ancient Randonneur

    August 30, 2012 at 10:27 am

    @General Stuck:

    … Klein is bucking for dibs on the David Brooks of the left.

    Yes, one might say Klein has Brooksian tendencies. I do so love that “afflict the comfortable” line.

    Yes, Joe, we the comfortable, must be afflicted by our Village betters from time to time.

  63. 63.

    Elizabelle

    August 30, 2012 at 10:29 am

    So sorry for the triple post. Know WP is squirrelly when there’s such a long delay after hitting “submit.”

    Can a moderator remove the two duplicates? Many thanks.

    PS: watching an excellent TCM marathon of Warren William movies.

    Never heard of him. He’s a 30’s star; born attorney type, crusading DA or crooked one.

    Apparently an early Perry Mason, too.

  64. 64.

    Anoniminous

    August 30, 2012 at 10:30 am

    @Anoniminous:

    Apologies to all for the multiple posts.

    FYWP.

  65. 65.

    Elizabelle

    August 30, 2012 at 10:30 am

    So sorry for the triple post. Know WP is squirrelly when there’s such a long delay after hitting “submit.”

    Can a moderator remove the two duplicates? Many thanks.

    PS: watching an excellent TCM marathon of Warren William movies.

    Never heard of him. He’s a 30’s star; born attorney type, crusading DA or crooked one.

    Apparently an early Perry Mason, too.

  66. 66.

    Anoniminous

    August 30, 2012 at 10:31 am

    @Anoniminous:

    Apologies to all for the multiple posts.

    FYWP.

  67. 67.

    hep kitty

    August 30, 2012 at 10:33 am

    Is it just me or did the Bush video look like an ad for a retirement home?

  68. 68.

    danah gaz (fka gaz)

    August 30, 2012 at 10:34 am

    @Elizabelle: I love this blog, but I absolutely despise the platform.

    My guess is their MySQL setup isn’t up to the load.

    It craps itself several times a day. Occasionally I even find the whole site down due to a “database connection error”, although that’s rare.

    I really wish they’d get on top of the issues. Their server environment and platform needs an overhaul.

  69. 69.

    hep kitty

    August 30, 2012 at 10:34 am

    Is it just me or did the Bush video look like an ad for a retirement home?

  70. 70.

    Elizabelle

    August 30, 2012 at 10:35 am

    @Todd:

    I LOVE beagles. Had two of them.

    Very loveable. Great loyal little friends. Hear that some are harder to housetrain than the average dog.

    This beagle will likely come out of its shell once in your care.

  71. 71.

    kindness

    August 30, 2012 at 10:38 am

    Listening to NPR has been brutal this week. Don’t get me wrong, they’ve actually mentioned that Ryan, Romney and Republicans have lied some but this morning was a SERIOUS fluff session from NPR to their Republican Daddies.

    Not one more dime NPR, not one more.

  72. 72.

    Mark S.

    August 30, 2012 at 10:39 am

    Quote of the day:

    I know that if President Obama is elected in November, which I hope that he is, that he will be able to come together with all of us and come up with a solution and I believe he will secure our borders and therefore we can resolve all those other issues, it’s a simple matter.

    Jan Brewer

  73. 73.

    Original Lee

    August 30, 2012 at 10:51 am

    @Todd: After our wonderful Lab died, we thought about getting another one immediately. But somehow not one puppy or young dog (rescue or not) felt “right” for several years afterwards. Then a friend talked us into a brother-and-sister pair of border collie rescues, and we haven’t looked back since. Sometimes you need time to mourn, even though with all the rescues out there, you feel as if you need to help right away.

  74. 74.

    Anya

    August 30, 2012 at 10:51 am

    @rikyrah: A movie set in Africa and the only black person is a dude from Detroit. But you’re right about its appeal.

  75. 75.

    Suffern ACE

    August 30, 2012 at 10:56 am

    @Mark S.: Yikes. Did he just get the coveted Brewer endorsement?

  76. 76.

    Raven

    August 30, 2012 at 11:00 am

    @Todd: I’d give it a little time. Our tenants adopted a troubled little yapper and they really regret it.

  77. 77.

    danielx

    August 30, 2012 at 11:01 am

    “The demographics race we’re losing badly,” said Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (S.C.). “We’re not generating enough angry white guys to stay in business for the long term.”

    Gaffe: is when a politician accidentally blurts out the truth. See Kinsley, Michael.

    If you’re going to catch an earworm, lots of things could be worse than any Ella Fitzgerald tune. It could be the Oscar Mayer wiener song, just to name one.

    Oh, shit.

  78. 78.

    quannlace

    August 30, 2012 at 11:02 am

    Query – has anybody here gone from having enjoyed the full lifespan (from milk teeth to death from old age) of a wonderful, polite, kind, super well-behaved large dog to taking in a rescue?

    So sorry for your loss, Todd. I’ve been there.
    Sounds like you don’t think the breed is a good fit. Maybe throw out some more feelers. And if you do find what feels like your next companion, don’t feel ‘maybe I’m doing this too soon.’
    After I lost my Clemmie, I lasted a whole month before adopting Kate. I just couldn’t stand it.
    And I got a real gem!

  79. 79.

    Raven

    August 30, 2012 at 11:07 am

    @quannlace: When our vet called about our Lil Bit about a year after we lost Raven we had to ask ourselves “if we go look why would we NOT take her”. The only reason would have been if she didn’t get along with Bohdi. We’ve had the sweetest money pit on earth for 4 years and counting. This morning her doggie opthamologist detected an onset of glaucoma one of her eyes so here we go again!

  80. 80.

    wrb

    August 30, 2012 at 11:07 am

    @Todd:

    he big guy just knocked him down on the ground with his chest (beagle going belly up), then laid down on him like he wasn’t there.

    Sounds like my old shepherd/malamute . So confidently alpha that when other dogs would bark at him he’d just look at them pityingly.

  81. 81.

    DPB

    August 30, 2012 at 11:10 am

    25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m64qb7Nmau1rxt7jlo1_400.jpg

    I think I found the republican party, guys!

  82. 82.

    General Stuck

    August 30, 2012 at 11:10 am

    Another different extra bonus quote of the day. From weepy Erin Burnett.

    Burnett: That’s right. Certainly so. We were jotting down points. There will be issues with some of the facts. But it motivated people. He’s a man who says I care deeply about every single word. I want to do a good job. And he delivered on that. Precise, clear, and passionate.

    To be fair to Erin and Ryan, one could make a case for, if you are going to lie your ass off, might as well do a good job at lying your ass off, also too, care deeply about lying your ass off. Lying your ass off with precise, clear, and passionate lies.

  83. 83.

    wrb

    August 30, 2012 at 11:11 am

    @Todd:

    Query – has anybody here gone from having enjoyed the full lifespan (from milk teeth to death from old age) of a wonderful, polite, kind, super well-behaved large dog to taking in a rescue?

    Yes, and it was very good, even though the personalities were quite different. They were both big though and had the big dog calmness and happiness even though one was alpha and the other omega.

  84. 84.

    Omnes Omnibus

    August 30, 2012 at 11:13 am

    @Anya: The movie was set in North Africa. You know, in Casablanca, Morocco. A bit more Arab in population than other parts of the continent. Also too, the movie was about American and European expatriates. OTOH I always find it jarring when Bergman’s character refers to Sam as a “boy.”

  85. 85.

    Ivan Ivanovich Renko

    August 30, 2012 at 11:19 am

    I’m surprised that noone seems to have noticed Chris Christies Machiavellian reference in the midst of comparing his speech to Miss Ann’s.

    His focus on respect sent me straight to:

    In addressing the question of whether it is better to be loved or feared, Machiavelli writes, “The answer is that one would like to be both the one and the other; but because it is difficult to combine them, it is far safer to be feared than loved if you cannot be both.”

    Governor Christie, true to the white-male supremacist Confederate party, would rather be feared than loved.

  86. 86.

    Gloryb

    August 30, 2012 at 11:19 am

    @Mark S.: WHAT??

  87. 87.

    Steeplejack

    August 30, 2012 at 11:34 am

    @Elizabelle:

    I love Warren William. He was also the über-horndog in a lot of pre-Code movies. He could be counted on to be suave and smarmy.

  88. 88.

    gogol's wife

    August 30, 2012 at 11:36 am

    @Davis X. Machina:

    I love the Rosemary Clooney.

  89. 89.

    Amir Khalid

    August 30, 2012 at 11:37 am

    it’s almost midnight here, and then it will be August 31 — Merdeka (independence) Day in Malaysia. Here is out first prime minister Tunku Abdul Rahman leading the cheers at historic Merdeka Stadium.

    And here is our national flag. American Juicers will no doubt wonder where they’ve seen that design before.

  90. 90.

    Amir Khalid

    August 30, 2012 at 11:38 am

    it’s almost midnight here, and then it will be August 31 — Merdeka (independence) Day in Malaysia. Here is out first prime minister Tunku Abdul Rahman leading the cheers at historic Merdeka Stadium.

    And here is our national flag. American Juicers will no doubt wonder where they’ve seen that design before.

  91. 91.

    Amir Khalid

    August 30, 2012 at 11:39 am

    it’s almost midnight here, and then it will be August 31 — Merdeka (independence) Day in Malaysia. Here is out first prime minister Tunku Abdul Rahman leading the cheers at historic Merdeka Stadium.

    And here is our national flag. American Juicers will no doubt wonder where they’ve seen that design before.

  92. 92.

    Steeplejack

    August 30, 2012 at 11:43 am

    @danah gaz (fka gaz):

    But, hey, in the last site rebuild we got a new (worse) text font and “[Commenter] Says,” so there’s that.

  93. 93.

    Amir Khalid

    August 30, 2012 at 11:43 am

    Triple post. FFFYYYWWWPPP.

  94. 94.

    MattF

    August 30, 2012 at 11:44 am

    @Amir Khalid: Hm. Fourteen stripes.

  95. 95.

    Steeplejack

    August 30, 2012 at 11:48 am

    @Amir Khalid:

    What do the 14 bars represent?

  96. 96.

    scuffletuffle

    August 30, 2012 at 11:54 am

    @Todd: Keep looking and stay open to possibilities. You will know when it’s the right time…and dog.

  97. 97.

    ThresherK

    August 30, 2012 at 11:54 am

    @Davis X. Machina: I hope the Glenn Miller Orchestra (Ray Eberly doing the honors) was in there someplace.

    Yes, a bit restrained and “whitebread”, but as a teen, a couple of old Miller albums were my ‘gateway drug’ to both jazz and great American songwriting. (h/t to my Mom.)

  98. 98.

    Amir Khalid

    August 30, 2012 at 11:58 am

    it has been too many years since civics in primary school, so I must rely on Wikipedia:

    The 14 stripes, of equal width, represent the equal status in the federation of the 13 member states and the federal government, while the 14 points of the star represent the unity between these entities. The crescent represents Islam, the country’s official religion; the blue canton symbolizes the unity of the Malaysian people; the yellow of the star and crescent is the royal colour of the Malay rulers.

  99. 99.

    Shinobi

    August 30, 2012 at 11:58 am

    GAMING QUESTION: Any Juicers playing Guild Wars 2???

    It’s really fun so far. I’m on the Darkhaven server. Just sayin….

  100. 100.

    Elizabelle

    August 30, 2012 at 12:08 pm

    @Steeplejack:

    Loving the Warren William movies. Sparkling writing.

    Turned down by a potential mistress (cinematography makes him look like a slender vampire):

    “Stick to your illusions. I admire you for them.”

  101. 101.

    Elizabelle

    August 30, 2012 at 12:10 pm

    Amazing that Hollywood just wasted this guy’s talent, and he’s not remembered today.

    He’s charismatic. Died young though. (Blood cancer at 53.)

  102. 102.

    gogol's wife

    August 30, 2012 at 12:34 pm

    @Elizabelle:

    I am so excited about Warren William day! I had to miss Irene Dunne day, so this is a treat.

  103. 103.

    Elizabelle

    August 30, 2012 at 1:07 pm

    @gogol’s wife:

    Warren William reminds me a bit of David Straithairn.

    So you had heard of him before? Lucky.

  104. 104.

    SteveM

    August 30, 2012 at 1:09 pm

    Maybe I shouldn’t admit this, but I’m partial to Skylark the one-hit wonder ’70s group (that hit being “Wildflower”).

  105. 105.

    gogol's wife

    August 30, 2012 at 1:18 pm

    @Elizabelle:

    I mainline TCM every day.

  106. 106.

    PopeRatzo

    August 30, 2012 at 1:50 pm

    K.D. Lang’s transcendental version of this song is on an album of Johnny Mercer songs produced by Clint Eastwood for the movie “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil”. It’s a spectacular record. Alison Krause sings “This Time the Dream’s On Me” and she knocks it out of the park. Also, Tony Bennett, Kevin Mahogany, Cassandra Wilson, Ravi Coltrane and more. Even Kevin Spacey does a star turn singing “Old Black Magic”.

    I highly recommend this record.

  107. 107.

    Beauzeaux

    August 30, 2012 at 2:09 pm

    Her Johnny Mercer Songbook is one perfect song after another. Mercer was the lyricist for many many pop songs of his time with an interesting arc.

    I remember watching Juke Box Jury when he was a regular.

  108. 108.

    Another Bob

    August 30, 2012 at 2:41 pm

    Nobody sang these standards better than Ella. Such perfect pitch, and the way she silkily caresses the words. God I love Ella. Nice arrangement and backup by that fabulous band too. Undoubtedly Nelson Riddle, no?

  109. 109.

    mazareth

    August 30, 2012 at 4:09 pm

    Hey Doug J,

    I love Ella, but I have to go with Aretha on this one. A beautiful rendition from her Columbia years (I’m guessing…). Also, she looks GREAT in that dress.

    OT, I miss your more whimsical handles. I’m still hoping for “Ol’ Pasty White Metrosexual Dirty Doug J.”

    Apparently, variations of “Metrosexual Black Abe Lincoln” are evergreen for me. I chalk it up to arrested development.

    Peace Out from Mark with the zombie left knee.

    Edited only to say that kd lang’s version in nice too. I need to dust of my copy of Ingenue…

  110. 110.

    Elizabelle

    August 30, 2012 at 4:44 pm

    @PopeRatzo:

    I will keep Clint Eastwood’s many talents in mind as I gape at his being the GOP convention special guest, as is rumored.

    He was much cooler in the Super Bowl ad.

  111. 111.

    Tony the Wonderhorse

    August 30, 2012 at 6:10 pm

    The Buick Skylark is the one I love, from the early 70’s

    But only about 12 still exist, they were GM entry vehicles, after all.

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