Nope, not actual dialogue from Mitt’s wooing of Ann.
Rather, a change of pace. Caught this a few days ago, and it seems like a chaming way to amble into the weekend after what has been a grand few days for Team Donkey. Mostly, I think after all that we have and will parse between now and November 6, a bit of nonsense might not go amiss:
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And now I’m off to dance by the light of the moon. You?
cathyx
What a beautiful pussy you are. Now that could be taken several ways. 3 at least.
Catsy
I have an epic Lego project that I’ve been working on for ages, and I need to make a hardcore push to get it done in time for BrickCon. I think tomorrow’s going to be a very busy day.
cathyx
I just knew my first comment would put me in moderation.
Yutsano
Wow. When I saw the post title I immediately thought of “The Owl and the Pussycat”. True story.
I’m about halfway through my day and I’ve had several headdesk moments. Is it bad to hope for an earthquake right about now?
cathyx
So I quote a line in the song that is posted right above here, and I can’t even write it down in the comments. Egads.
Paula
Perused some of TruthDig.com and SocialistWorker.org following Pacifica Radio’s DNC coverage.
Why must people I agree with on principle insist on justifying their own marginalization from the political conversation?
joel hanes
Don’t forget your runcible spoon
(Isn’t that a more pleasing locution than “spork” ? I think it is.)
PurpleGirl
BrickCon = convention of Lego fans?
Sounds like great fun. Hope you get the construction done. Hope you have skads of fun at the con.
ETA: Fixed some typos.
Found the website. Looks good.
Frankensteinbeck
My editor is out of the hospital and I’m trying not to get impatient waiting for the second round of editing notes on my third book. I’m SO CLOSE to having my obligations finished so publishing can take off that it’s making me ankle-gnawingly tense.
Maude
Tom, just keep your clothes on. We have enough news right now.
Litlebritdifrnt
Thanks for that Tom, I absolutely adore Edward Lear and have done since I was a child.
Catsy
@PurpleGirl: Thanks, and yep that’s exactly what it is. I display my work there every year, and this year I’m going to be selling one of my products as well (hexagonal stands for minifigs that allow them to be used for tabletop gaming).
This epic project I mention is a 5′ diameter Halo Ringworld that has been languishing in a half-finished WIP state for more than two years. All I have left is continent-sculpting and figuring out how to properly display it, and really the building part itself shouldn’t be more than a day or two’s work. I just get intimidated every time I try to sit down and finish it.
Yutsano
Halp! I r modererated!!
Hill Dweller
There is a pic of a Willard campaign button floating around the Twitter machine, with the words ‘made in China’ clearly visible.
Willard’s campaign has been inept, but if this is legit, it’s now become performance art.
Sparrowgal
Thank you for that little bit of loveliness!! Brings back a slice of my childhood – used to love Lear’s Nonsense Limericks, and especially those fabulous illustrations.
arguingwithsignposts
You don’t *know* that.
homework tonight, travel tomorrow.
Litlebritdifrnt
While I am talking about it I would also like to pitch in the poetry of Spike Milligan.
PurpleGirl
@Catsy: Halo Ringworld looks good. Go for it, Catsy.
BGinCHI
I’m gonna try to get my vorpal sword to go snicker-snack this weekend.
Dennis SGMM
Going to a local place two blocks away to hear my friend of many years, Stan West, play Blues guitar. He’s gonna’ play Bo Diddely’s “Mona.” Should be fun.
cckids
Off to the movies with the family, minus the one off at college.
Maybe it is small of me, but given Eastwood’s remarks about President Obama today (“the greatest hoax ever perpetrated upon America”), I have no intention of ever seeing another of his movies. Fuck him.
Voting with my cash, the market at work, etc.
BTW, why is Obama a “hoax”, Clint? Are you a secret birther? Seems an odd choice of words if you are disagreeing with policy, however strongly.
Yutsano
@BGinCHI: Jabberwock meat is tough, usually needs a long simmer in a highly spiced broth.
Dennis SGMM
@BGinCHI:
Beware the Jabberwock, my son.
Edit; Also, too, don’t spend too much time in uffish thought.
? Martin
@cckids:
Eh. We watched Good, Bad, and the Ugly the Saturday after the speech on AMCs ‘Crazy for Clint’ marathon. My son cracked up every time they ran that.
gogol's wife
@cckids:
I’ve never paid a dime to see any Eastwood movie (except “Space Cowboys”), so it won’t hurt me to keep the same vow.
This has been a tough week — starting the semester and wanting to do nothing but read BJ comments about the convention but not having time to. I feel as if I’ve missed a huge amount of the fun.
Jeff Spender
Finally, some damn awesome news:
livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/gallup-obama-approval-jumps-after-dnc
joel hanes
@Catsy:
BrickCon
Dunno if Kevin Clague will be there this time (Kevin builds Lego walkers and creepers, some of them using the pneumatics, and wrote some of the software for documenting construction with flexible parts), but if he is, and you see him, tell him Joel Hanes says “Hi!”
(Kevin was my lab partner in digital design at ISU, and we worked together for many years)
BGinCHI
@Yutsano:
@Dennis SGMM:
I’m always amazed at how easily I remember parts of that poem. It’s fucking genius. He makes it look easy and it ain’t.
Every time I’m in the woods alone I think of the “tulgey wood.”
Dennis SGMM
@cckids:
One of the people with whom I served in the Navy was one of the most cool, understanding, officers I ever met. We kept in touch over the years and now he’s a full-blown wing nut. Time wounds some of us.
Catsy
@joel hanes: I don’t know Kevin well (we don’t build in any of the same genres), but I’m familiar with his work. If I see him I’ll do that!
RossInDetroit, Rational Subjectivist
I’m home. Apparently I was here last night but I don’t remember. It was a long week. My average velocity for the last 4 days, sleeping, waking, traveling and chilling in waiting rooms, was 26 MPH round the clock.
I wish I had seen more of the convention speeches. I hope to catch up on them on YT this weekend.
cckids
@Dennis SGMM:
Sigh. I know. My dad is one of them. Before Clinton & the FoxNews onslaught, he had Joe Biden-like sensibilities. Now, he’s a bitter, sick old man raving nonsense about anything Obama does. Makes me sick.
Dennis SGMM
@BGinCHI:
When I was over in that Vietnam the opposition hit us good and hard one night. One of the guys sharing our fire point asked me “What the fuck is ‘and burbled as it came?'” I didn’t even realize that I’d said it.
Gin & Tonic
@cckids: Kind of a shame, really, because some of his directorial work, beginning with, say, Bird, has been excellent.
Omnes Omnibus
I am trying to forget a crappy week and an especially shitty day. At some point, booze may be called into play.
Dennis SGMM
@cckids:
That must hurt. Realizing that we are looking at the end days of our lives can be incredibly painful. Some of us attempt to get out from under that pain by transmuting it into anger.
BGinCHI
@Dennis SGMM: It’s haunting that way.
Have you read Karl Marlantes’ novel Matterhorn? Not sure you were here when Raven and I were talking about it….
BGinCHI
@Omnes Omnibus: +1 with a New Holland Ichabod.
Best pumpkin beer in the world. Brook no substitutes.
Get your ass on your bike early tomorrow.
Linda Featheringill
Obama as a hoax:
I’ve often thought that in 2008 many people heard what they wanted to hear, not what Obama actually said. And yes, they would be disappointed in him but that’s not O’s fault.
And I sometimes wonder if Barack is disappointed in the American people.
quannlace
Always liked ’twas brilling’ and Humpty Dumpty’s explanation of it.
It’s the time of day when you start boiling and grilling things for dinner.
Omnes Omnibus
@BGinCHI: I intend to do so. I have a new route that I want to hit that gives me options of 25, 32 or 42 miles. I will see how it goes.
Mnemosyne
I get to do the third day of my first week of Cogmed, and it sucks. It was highly recommended by people I trust and it will probably help my memory quite a bit, but it is not fun to have to keep doing something that you are not good at in the hope that you will improve at it.
SiubhanDuinne
@Tom Levenson:
You elegant fowl! How charmingly sweet you sing!
Boudica
Here in Texas, it’s time for high school Friday Night Football!! Go Dragons! (In 100 degree temps, yet)
Dennis SGMM
@BGinCHI:
Haven’t even heard of it before your comment. I just loaded it onto the Kindle.
So far, the books that most conveyed the experience there are Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried and Michael Herr’s superb Dispatches.
I very much appreciate your suggestion regarding the book because there are, even at this late date, so many things about myself that I don’t understand.
SiubhanDuinne
@quannlace:
When I was a kid we had a cat named Dinah (after Alice’s cat).
Her first litter of two were named Jabberwocky and JubJub.
Her second litter of three were named Mimsey, Momerath, and Bandersnatch.
Her third litter of four were named Ambition, Distraction, Uglification and Derision.
At that point I moved away from home and lost track.
Jay in Oregon
@Linda Featheringill:
Obama Tells Nation He’s Going Out For Cigarettes
SiubhanDuinne
@Litlebritdifrnt:
I believe, apart from simple nursery rhymes, that “The Owl and the You-Know-What Cat” was the very first poem I ever committed to memory.
Jeffro
Christmas is coming, and I had no idea this was going to be at the top of my list:
etsy.com/listing/108444919/tiger-1-tank-panzer-crocheted-slippers
FAMILY ROOM COUCH POTATO WARFARE REPRESENT!!
Anoniminous
@Hill Dweller:
And here tis
Omnes Omnibus
@Litlebritdifrnt:
@SiubhanDuinne: Lear is fun, but I have always preferred Lewis Carroll. Personal taste, not a criticism.
raven
@Dennis SGMM: Karl Marlantes on What It’s Like to Go to War with Moyers.
SiubhanDuinne
@Frankensteinbeck:
Very very cool. Hope I don’t jinx it by saying “Congratulations!” now.
MonkeyBoy
I love the poem “the Owl and the Puzzycat”.
I thought that musical adaption stank – it was what you might find improvised at a Renaissance Fair by someone who was trying to sound Quaint English with little range within that style. On top of that the rhythm of the poem was forced to fit the music rather than the music fitting the poem.
SiubhanDuinne
@Omnes Omnibus:
There’s room for both. It’s not a contest.
raven
Dennis SGMM
Late Thoughts on an Old War: The Legacy of Vietnam Phil Beidler (English Prof at Bama)
Remembering Heaven’s Face: A Story of Rescue in Wartime Vietnam
John Balaban (NC State and Phil’s buddy)
John was a CO working with burned kids in Can Tho at roughly the same time we were in the Delta. It’s a wonderful book. Later he went back and walked around the country recording Vietnamese oral poetry and translated them in several books.
“I volunteered to go to Vietnam, but as a conscientious objector to war. . . . While most of these events took place in the midst of the war, this is not exactly a story about the war, but a story of rescue. Most of the children I helped save–scalped, burned, blasted, or shot when I found them–are now adults, parents or even grandparents themselves. . . . And while many of my funny, wise, reckless, young American friends of those days are dead, what they did and what they learned is not. It is as if all of us were being watched, all of us journeying under a brilliant blue sky that is the face of heaven.”
MonkeyBoy
I love that poem.
I thought that musical adaption stank – it was what you might find improvised at a Renaissance Fair by someone who was trying to sound Quaint English with little range within that style. On top of that the rhythm of the poem was forced to fit the music rather than the music fitting the poem.
Old Dan and Little Ann
@BGinCHI: I read Matterhorn last summer. It had me swearing out loud about the craziness of it all.
SiubhanDuinne
@Dennis SGMM:
AND…it can just as easily go the other way. During my father’s last days, he made his peace with my grandmother (my mom’s mother) with whom he had had a mutual loathing relationship since about 1945. And she had been dead for a decade by then. Nevertheless, he went through a kind of transformational thing and for me it was incredibly comforting. Nothing especially political about it, but shifts can and do happen.
Dennis SGMM
@raven:
Thank you for the suggestions. I added them to my reading list. Although I do have the estimable Kindle, turning the pages of an actual book is still a pleasure.
Here’s the short and not so sweet of it; Paul Hardcastle, 19.
raven
@SiubhanDuinne: Ya never know. I grew up in a coaches house that saw black and white kids hangin for Sunday breakfasts after games. When my old man retired and moved to Phoenix he went full blast wingnut. I trace it to the time when they denied Phoenix the superbowl because they voted down the King holiday. Apparently other states did similar things with no repercussions and it drove him nuts. It was a very sad thing to see.
BGinCHI
@Dennis SGMM: Shit Dennis, you’re gonna be blown away.
O’Brien’s book and Herr’s are both absolute classics, but Marlantes’ novel is epic. And as Raven suggests, there are several other books that are must-reads in that genre.
Shitty war; great literature. Art redeems a little.
raven
@Dennis SGMM: I made contact with both authors (I had a few belts with Tim O’Brian once upon a time too). Good people.
Pretty good vid but the “welcome home” whining just wears me out.
raven
@BGinCHI: I still haven’t found any grunts who ever heard of humping a record player in the bush.
raven
@BGinCHI:
burnspbesq
Dempsey scores after 36 seconds.
Jamaica 0-1 USA
Mnemosyne
@raven:
I still think the problem is Phoenix. My parents were ordinary moderate Republicans before they moved there, and now they’re full-metal wingnuts who tell me that fascism is really a form of communism because Mussolini was once a communist.
I wish I were joking about that conversation, but I just had it with my dad last month.
WereBear
@Catsy: You had posted some pics a while back, great stuff! Good luck.
raven
@Mnemosyne: Maybe so, he was a DuPage County Republican so he didn’t have far to go. He hated Tiger and I always wonder how he would have reacted to his downfall since he had what we might call a “complex” sexual life himself. Guess I’ll never know.
PurpleGirl
@Jeffro: I love them… I hope you get a pair. (I love anything odd made with crochet.)
Older
@Catsy: I’d love to attend a Brickcon. We love Lego; there is a family collection of blocks that has been circulating since Lego first became available in this country. Before that, I had American Bricks, and later my kids had three different brick sets, one for each of them. They jointly built an entire city, with an airport and a seaport. Took up a whole room in the house.
The best Lego constructions I have seen personally were built by a kid who lives on a huge hay ranch. He built working models of all of the ranch equipment, including the irrigation system. We saw it at the nearby huge Ag Expo.
I wish I could see your ringworld. The pictures are hard to make out the whole structure from.
SiubhanDuinne
@raven:
I’m afraid Phoenix will do that to ya. Not to everyone, but to many. Can’t say whether it was my influence or if it would have happened anyway, but my dad got noticeably more — not liberal, necessarily, but at least more tolerant and willing to consider other viewpoints — as he got older and feebler. And mind you, I am WAY more liberal now than I was 15-20 years ago, so I was still pretty conservative when my dad died in ’95.
Mnemosyne
@raven:
My dad is a Lake County (IL) Republican, so not too far away. And yet the man who I remember told me when I was in high school in the late 1980s that it was okay that one of my best friends was gay now watches Fox News 24/7.
I want my dad back!
Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism
@Jeffro: I am reliably informed that the front armor is wrong, and therfore I had better not even think about getting such a thing for my armor nut.
burnspbesq
halftime, Jamaica 1-1 USA.
If you want to hear the worst thing in the history of live sports on radio, check out the Jamaican broadcast on hitz92 fm.
BGinCHI
@raven: They probably never made it out….
Linnaeus
@Dennis SGMM:
My dad has gone in the other direction. He was never a really conservative guy, but if you would have told him 40 years ago that he’d be voting for a black president, he’d have said you were crazy.
Now? Dad loves President Obama. And when he hears people he knows say they won’t vote for a black man, he says, “I don’t get these people. What the fuck is wrong with them?”
So, time can heal, too.
raven
@Linnaeus: It goes to show you never can tell. . .
Catsy
@Older: I’m not sure where you live, but there are quite a few Lego conventions around the world at various times of the year if you do a little digging around. :D