….And for some reason that made me drift right back to this high point in the history of English oratory:
Perhaps in honor of the free association I should boil some vegetables to death.
More serious stuff to come…but I’ve been hip-deep in infectious diseases all day and needed a laugh. You should, of course, consider this an open thread.
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Image: Francisco de Goya, Still Life with a Plucked Chicken and a Pan of Fish, 1808-1812
lamh35
Ashley Judd: I Am ‘Unable’ To Run For Senate
ranchandsyrup
@lamh35: That will only embolden conservatives to troll wimmen candidates further about rape.
Ben Franklin
Dem chem-trails….not the tin-foil variety but real attempts to reverse climate.
Heh. We are diddling with matters beyond our understanding. Our biosphere may be on the verge of eviction from the premises.
“Geoengineering, like climate change itself, is a global issue that affects us all, and therefore governance of research, and international co-operation, will be crucial. The UN Convention on Biological Diversity has decided that small-scale and low-risk field trials are acceptable (and the proposed Spice experiment is certainly one of these), but it did not define the boundaries of what is considered “small scale”. Indeed there are, at present, no adequate international agreements to restrict or control many possible geoengineering activities, especially those in the atmosphere, and little experience of applying international legislation to this area.”
guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/sep/14/geoengineering-more-evidence
Um yes…
geoengineeringwatch.org/
WereBear
@lamh35: Aw, that’s disappointing.
PsiFighter37
So I think I’m pretty set on coming out to L.A. on the 2nd weekend of May (May 10-12). Any La-La-Land Juicers who would be down for a meetup one of those evenings?
Villago Delenda Est
In my case, it’s going to be Mexican/Salvadoran at a local restaurant.
A pity that Ensign Leffler isn’t going to give Yertl a run for his money. I wanted to see that vile shitstain squirm.
schrodinger's cat
One of my cheezfriends made this series:
Man imitates cat
It is awesome and full of win. Enjoy.
Schlemizel
@Ben Franklin:
I feel fairly confidant that we passed the point of almost no return a couple years back, IF we survive it will either be as a tiny remnant of the 7 billion currently infesting this lovely orb or there will be many extraordinary means taken that will allow a few more to squeeze through the extinction event.
In either case I expect the living to envy the dead. But then I’m an optimist
PsiFighter37
@efgoldman: Good, finally…next up, when does Joe Morgan retire?
Roger Moore
@PsiFighter37:
Darn tootin’.
raven
@efgoldman: Baseball. . . .zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
ranchandsyrup
@efgoldman: Thank the FSM that mccarver is leaving. I only wish that Bob Gibson would have kicked the crap out of him long ago.
Violet
@lamh35: Bummer. At least she’s made the decision early so if there’s another good candidate, they can get started.
It has finally started to warm up here. It’s been crazy cold and I’ve had to cover my tomato plants every night this week to keep them from getting frost bit. It never gets this cold this late in March. Crazy weather. I’ve been babying the tomato plants since mid-February. They’re about waist-high right now. I’d hate to see them get nipped by frost.
raven
@ranchandsyrup: Gibby! “He’d knock down his own mother”!
Schlemizel
@PsiFighter37:
I know its old age but I miss Vin Scully & Joe Garagiola. Vin simply described the game, Joe told great stories and insight. But more importantly they both knew when to shut the hell up!
lamh35
hmm, so I’m just realizing that I have a four day weekend coming up. Don’t know what to do with myself. I’m thinking it’s a good time to catch up on some movies in the theatre I wanted to see,a movie a day! So what movies should I see this weekend? 4 movies that I want to see: Olympus Has Fallen, The Croogs, G.I.Joe, and Temptation. Runner-ups: I’m kinda interested in seeing The Host, it looks interesting, 2nd runner-up: Oz…and Powerful, I was supposed to see it a few weeks ago, but no dice.
Roger Moore
@Schlemizel:
You don’t have to miss Vin; he’s still broadcasting the Dodgers.
Villago Delenda Est
@Schlemizel:
The IMPORTANT thing is that Monsanto’s profits are safe for the next fiscal quarter.
ranchandsyrup
@raven: I just love that story of McCarver trying to visit Gibson on the mound.
@Schlemizel: I listen to Scully whenever possible. We have (or at least had) Dick Enberg calling Padres games. He’s like an old friend.
@efgoldman: I miss the old Fire Joe Morgan blog. :(
Schlemizel
@raven:
reminds me of a couple of great lines from Major League:
“This guy beaned his own kid in a father son game!”
“He leads the league in most offensive categories, including most nose hairs. Seriously, when this guy sneezes he looks like a party favor.
Keith G
Okay, Tom if you need a break, there is always an image of two Seal Peeps carrying Bin Laden’s body out of the compound.
Schlemizel
@Roger Moore:
SERIOUSLY!?! The guy must be 120, thats great! What a nice voice & simple game calling.
Although he had one of those funny slips during a Vikings game many years ago: “All the remains now is for the Vikings to eat out the clock”
PsiFighter37
@Roger Moore: Is this a yes? Maybe I’ve been gone from SoCal too long to understand the lingo used nowadays in that part of the world…
@efgoldman: That’s great to hear. I hated him, mainly because my main memory as a young Yankees fan was hearing that asshole talk about how the Big Red Machine would run over the 1998 Yankees. Forget about what was going on between the Bombers and the Padres, he was hung up on proving that his team was better. I never took him seriously after that, and I was only 12 years old at the time.
Anoniminous
@Roger Moore:
Jesus Christ, the man was born in 1927!
Schlemizel
@ranchandsyrup:
Enberg too? CA must be a great place to be a ball fan. There was a guy here that did the Twins games from ’61 on. He had the perfect voice for a warm summer night. He never got in the way of the game. He started failing a few years back & they replaced him with a total assclown who “barfs” words like a 60s R&R dj. He will be telling some pointless story about some unrelated player and you can hear the game going on in the background but he won’t mention it.
Herb Carneal made the HoF for broadcaster but just died last year
wmd
FYWP has the Minecraft do the flop video on my front page. Winston Churchill shows up below the fold…
MattR
@PsiFighter37: So you are too young to really remember Phil Rizzuto? I always preferred listening to Rizzuto call a Yankee game rather than McCarver calling the Mets.
Roger Moore
@Schlemizel:
IIRC, he’s only 83 or 84. He started broadcasting the Dodgers when he was 20, which makes it a lot easier to rack up the years than the guys who started after their playing careers were over.
ranchandsyrup
@Schlemizel: It is a great place to be a ball fan. Going to start taking my daughter this year to a few Pads games and some Angels/Dodgers games.
Baseball, with its choppy flow and periods of inactivity, calls for a good narrator/guide. I started to watch without the sound whenever Joe Buck and McCarver were on but I missed the announcing. So I just stopped watching nationally televised with those two clowns.
PsiFighter37
@MattR: Yes, my memories growing up as a child in NY were listening to those two clowns John Sterling and Michael Kay announce games. They used to be decent, but they got markedly worse once YES came into existence. I hate McCarver from watching him on Fox baseball.
Schlemizel
@raven:
Baseball is the perfect summer spectator sport. Find a shady corner, open a cold beer and enjoy they pace of the ‘action’. Avoid the majors as they have decided the game requires 128 Db, mega-funnn BS force into it and nobody watches the game any more.
I like it on TV so I can mute the noise and enjoy a leisurely afternoon
Ben Franklin
@Schlemizel:
IF we survive it will either be as a tiny remnant of the 7 billion currently infesting this lovely orb or there will be many extraordinary means taken that will allow a few more to squeeze through the extinction event.
I’ve always thought it would take a perfect storm of 3 or more events to disrupt human activity, but GCC, with the methane hydrates, the salinity of ocean currents aplenty, is the BIG ONE.
Hill Dweller
Charlie Pierce figuratively punching McArdle in the ovaries.
Roger Moore
@PsiFighter37:
I don’t think “darn tootin'” is particularly Southern California. And it’s a yes.
@Anoniminous:
The best way of thinking about the length of Vin Scully’s broadcasting career is to realize that he was in the booth for Bobby Thomson’s “Shot Heard Round the World”, and he wasn’t a rookie, either. Either that, or that he’s been there for more than half the time the Dodgers have been in the National League.
Schlemizel
@ranchandsyrup:
I have never forgiven the Dodgers for ’65, couldn’t watch them. The Angles have good teams from time to time despite the best efforts of their owners. I know 0 about the Padres but remember those hideous brown uniforms. It would be nice to have both leagues to chose from within an hours drive or so.
ranchandsyrup
@efgoldman: I think that’s a much more fair assessment than i have been willing to grant. You’re a good man, Mr. Goldman.
My dislike may be irrational. Irrational enough that I cheered on Neon Deon Sanders back in the 90’s when he doused McCarver with water. That is the only thing that Deon has ever done that I have cheered.
MattR
@Schlemizel: I was at an Orioles game at the old Memorial Stadium where the heat was so bad that fans were moving up the stands away from the field in order to stay in the shade. Never seen that happen before or after.
lamh35
New Wolverine Trailer: youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=WEbzZP-_Ssc
Love Wolverine (my fav male X-man, Storm is my fav female X-man) love Hugh Jackman. So good or bad, I will probably be seeing this movie this summer.
JPL
If you had a post about Megan’s dogs, the pictures would be better. just sayin
ranchandsyrup
@Schlemizel: My grandfather’s second cousin was Pee Wee Reese (not a bad announcer by most accounts in his own right) so I should like the Dodgers more but I don’t really.
The Padres are awful. There is a significant portion of the fan base that wants the brown and yellow color scheme to come back, if you can believe that. They have a beautiful ballpark. That’s about it. Their best position players will start the season on the IR (Headley and Carlos Quentin).
Anoniminous
@Roger Moore:
Used to catch his broadcasts back in the late 70s and 80s when I was living in SoCal.
ETA: Do you now, or at any previous time, have been known to like Fig Newtons?
Schlemizel
@Ben Franklin:
Thats the thing. It really won’t be just one thing. There will be a big one, yes, but it will be pile caused by a lot of little things and will be piled on other crap like drug resistant diseases, empty oceans, GMOs wiping out the bees, the exhaustion of clean drinking water and about 6 other things.
How many people would actually be able to farm without artificial power? that means the survivors will have to be hunter-gatherers and who knows whats actually safe to eat? “Bushmen” will stand a much higher chance of making it through
cckids
@Schlemizel:
Very possibly. Has anyone read Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Colombus, by Orson Scott Card? Different from his Ender series, it is set far in the future; humanity has solved most of the war/poverty/famine issues we have today, but they find that, even though they’ve been reforesting & using clean energy for over a hundred years, a tipping point was passed & humans are doomed. So they go into the past (yes, time travel)to try to make a change that will make a big enough difference. It isn’t perfect, but I found it intriguing.
Ben Franklin
@Schlemizel:
“Bushmen” will stand a much higher chance of making it through
Small rodent-like mammals seem to be the Inheritors of the Earth, once again. They seem rather ‘meek’ to me.
Schlemizel
@efgoldman:
I used to travel a lot & listened to a lot of games in other cities. I think I heard the Boston guy & liked him. Too many places love the guy like the Twins hired – just awful.
@ranchandsyrup:
Heard Pee Wee and enjoyed what little I heard.
Anoniminous
The Wonkettes are going all snarky over Bill O’Reilly supporting Gay marriage:
When you’ve lost Bill O’Reilly & etc.
Schlemizel
@Anoniminous:
Not sure. May have to rethink position on gay marriage. OMG, head hurting. must never agree with bullshit bill. what wrong? help!
ranchandsyrup
Jane Hamsher of the left’s company is filing for BK. t.co/gHQFnv0jTm
Roger Moore
@Anoniminous:
No. And that’s an awfully random question, even around here.
Beauzeaux
@Schlemizel: Oh yes, the point of no return has passed and is rapidly diminishing in the rear view mirror.
The poorest nations will suffer first and most. In North America, we’ll stand on the growing piles of third-world bodies until there is no place left to stand.We’ll still be arguing about climate change while we drown.
When I was a child I couldn’t imagine dying because I was always so curious about what the future would bring. I’m still somewhat curious but feel that I know all too well what’s in store. Now I’m so very glad I won’t live to see it.
Not to be a party pooper or anything.
Melissa
Iamh 35:
Life of Pi is awesome (in the original sense). Don’t miss it.
Schlemizel
@Beauzeaux:
I feel bad for my kids and I have 2 grandkids. I think they will curse us all but not like we have curse them
joel hanes
the Twins games from ’61 on
Herb Carneal, with Ray Scott and Halsey Hall.
We’re gonna win, Twins! We’re gonna score.
We’re gonna win, Twins! Watch that baseball soar!
Crack out a home run, shout a “Hip Hurray!”
Cheer for the Minnesota Twins today.
From the Land of Sky-Blue Waters
From the lofty pines
Comes the beer refreshing
Hamm’s — the beer refreshing
Hamm’s
Scamp Dog
@Schlemizel: Blind squirrel, nut, etc. Let it go, he’ll be back to his usual before too long.