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Sunday Afternoon Open Thread: Songs of My People

by Anne Laurie|  May 12, 20134:19 pm| 61 Comments

This post is in: Open Threads, All we want is life beyond the thunderdome

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(via Ryan Cooper at Washington Monthly)
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PSA: It’s not too late to call your mom, assuming your mom is not late.

What’s on the agenda for the wrapup of the weekend?

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  1. 1.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    May 12, 2013 at 4:25 pm

    I got a bunch of shit done today. Still gotta call mom, gonna eat first.

  2. 2.

    Schlemizel

    May 12, 2013 at 4:26 pm

    Yeah, actually it is too late to call my mom – all I have to say is never miss an opportunity to let your mom know how much she means to you, say it out loud so she hears you.

    Because no matter how often you say it there will come a day you wish you had said it more.

  3. 3.

    Irish Steel

    May 12, 2013 at 4:27 pm

    Allmusic on Procol Harum:

    “Despite the group’s moderate sales in England and America, they remained among the more popular progressive rock bands, capable of reaching more middle-brow listeners who didn’t have the patience for Emerson, Lake & Palmer or King Crimson.”

    I see. So the excruciatingly pompous ELP and King Crimson attract a more patient, high-brow kind of listener. Got it.

  4. 4.

    PsiFighter37

    May 12, 2013 at 4:28 pm

    Back home from LA after a busy but very eventful weekend overall. Great to see the LA Juicers on Friday night!

    Rest of the day – probably something along the lines of exercising, cleaning up a little, and GoT at 9 PM.

  5. 5.

    Ultraviolet Thunder

    May 12, 2013 at 4:31 pm

    I just got back from Mom’s. A 140 mile round trip, thank you.
    I gave her a nice outdoor potted gardenia arrangement from the local garden center which looks great. We had tea and talked about the usual stuff; travel, weather, cars, foolish other people, pets, family. Always worth the trip.

  6. 6.

    Maude

    May 12, 2013 at 4:34 pm

    @Schlemizel:
    Exactly.
    You can always talk to her anyway, who knows, maybe she’ll hear you.

  7. 7.

    Irish Steel

    May 12, 2013 at 4:34 pm

    Pushing 70, my mother is too busy at dog agility trials to return my calls.

  8. 8.

    c u n d gulag

    May 12, 2013 at 4:36 pm

    Just having a drink, watching the Yankees, waiting for a pizza to be delivered – a large pie, with all fresh garlic, half-pepperoni, 2 plain, and two with sausage.
    YUM!!!

    From a really, really good local place, not some chain (crap) pizza!

  9. 9.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    May 12, 2013 at 4:38 pm

    I don’t want to alarm anyone but arguingwithsanity has been missing since yesterday.

  10. 10.

    scav

    May 12, 2013 at 4:39 pm

    @Irish Steel: Retirement put the afterburner on my mother too. Never know where she is anymore.

  11. 11.

    Xenos

    May 12, 2013 at 4:39 pm

    This is not a story that my people tell,
    but one that I know, for myself

    –Laurie Anderson

  12. 12.

    Calming Influence

    May 12, 2013 at 4:40 pm

    @Just Some Fuckhead: I’ll alert the press.

  13. 13.

    Irish Steel

    May 12, 2013 at 4:41 pm

    @Just Some Fuckhead: He’s just down IL 51 about 40 minutes from me. You want me to go get him?

    @scav: There are worse problems, I suppose!

  14. 14.

    schrodinger's cat

    May 12, 2013 at 4:41 pm

    Going out in the evening for a grocery run and get some gas. Stop by Chipotle’s for dinner.
    From an earlier thread:
    I made you a recipe, and you can eated it!

  15. 15.

    schrodinger's cat

    May 12, 2013 at 4:43 pm

    Question for all the garden experts:
    Will arugula or watercress grow in a container?

  16. 16.

    Riley's Enabler

    May 12, 2013 at 4:45 pm

    Just got back from Mom’s; made her a brunch around a cream-cheese filled French toast casserole and now I need a nap.

    Or maybe a cleansing, since my half-deaf mom had FoxSpews turned to 11.

    As an aside, my fundie Aunt was claiming that EVIL OBAMACARE will make everyone be vaccinated or else FINES AND TERRIBLENESS. I was unaware of this fact/nonfact so I couldn’t argue. Anyone know of what she was shrieking?

  17. 17.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    May 12, 2013 at 4:45 pm

    @Irish Steel: Can you just post his personal information so we can make sure he is alright? Do you have his bank account and routing information?

  18. 18.

    lojasmo

    May 12, 2013 at 4:46 pm

    Fell trail running yesterday, so gimping around. I may take a walk in the woods. Trolling Portland Craigslist for a cheap but clean NA Miata. If I find one, I will drive it home from vacation next month.

    Other than that: Wine.

    ETA: Derp, mom and grandmom both passed away in 2010.

  19. 19.

    Calming Influence

    May 12, 2013 at 4:47 pm

    I’ve got one of those late moms, but I never did the whole Mother’s Day thing other than a call usually. I loved doing little surprises; flowers on a random Wednesday, coming home on leave without letting her know before hand, weeding and composting her entire front garden while she and dad were away on vacation. I really thought it meant more than just a corny Hallmark Holiday.

    Then the left all their money to my sister.

  20. 20.

    elmo

    May 12, 2013 at 4:48 pm

    Mom’s been gone since Jan 1991 – age 53, lifetime smoker, lung cancer. I was 24; I envy my older brothers for their extra time with her.
    Dad just died in December (on my birthday) – Father’s Day is going to be exceptionally hard this year.
    So I’m +2 at a quarter to five in the afternoon.

  21. 21.

    Yatsuno

    May 12, 2013 at 4:51 pm

    @lojasmo: Watch the tax rules when you take it back to MN. OR has no sales tax and a lot of states get bitchy if you buy a car in a no sales tax state and register it back home. WA is especially nasty about this.

    @elmo: Hugz. They’ll always be a part of you.

  22. 22.

    Amir Khalid

    May 12, 2013 at 4:52 pm

    My mother passed away from a heart attack in October 2004, on the eve of the third of Ramadhan and just hours after meeting my sister’s newly adopted baby boy. I didn’t get her to the ER in time.

    This is a clip of the title song from Ibu (Mother), a 1953 film starring Malaysian legend P. Ramlee. The first line goes, ‘Mother, Mother, you are the queen of my heart’. It’s the Mother’s Day song here in Malaysia.

  23. 23.

    Calming Influence

    May 12, 2013 at 4:57 pm

    @Amir Khalid: That’s a cool 50’s movie clip, but is that woman he was sitting with supposed to be his MOM?!? Did she have him when she was nine?

    ETA: My mom passed away on Good Friday. As good a day to go as any, and I kind of like the randomness of it, not being a specific date. Weird, I guess, thinking that.

  24. 24.

    lojasmo

    May 12, 2013 at 4:59 pm

    @Yatsuno:

    : Watch the tax rules when you take it back to MN. OR has no sales tax and a lot of states get bitchy if you buy a car in a no sales tax state and register it back home. WA is especially nasty about this.

    Yup. They’ll gather the taxes when I register it in Minnesota.

  25. 25.

    Amir Khalid

    May 12, 2013 at 5:00 pm

    @Calming Influence:
    It’s been a while since I saw Ibu, but the woman with P. Ramlee (the singer) is his date, not his mother.

  26. 26.

    Irish Steel

    May 12, 2013 at 5:01 pm

    @Just Some Fuckhead: Oh, we’re not close. I only have his retina scan and SS#.

  27. 27.

    Calming Influence

    May 12, 2013 at 5:03 pm

    @Amir Khalid:

    It’s been a while since I saw Ibu, but the woman with P. Ramlee (the singer) is his date, not his mother.

    Alright then, I feel more comfortable saying she’s a hottie.

  28. 28.

    wmd

    May 12, 2013 at 5:04 pm

    I had a tradition of bringing manure to my mother for Mother’s Day. I would get a truck load or two of horse manure for my own gardens each spring, and come Mother’s day I’d fill up a couple of trash cans and wheel barrow it around for her gardens.

    We both were amused that I gave her shit for Mother’s Day. Her friends were appalled, but she knew that it would make her vegetables and flowers thrive.

    Tradition ended in 2008 with her death.

  29. 29.

    YellowJournalism

    May 12, 2013 at 5:06 pm

    Looks like someone decided to celebrate Mothers Day by shooting at a parade in New Orleans.

  30. 30.

    Calming Influence

    May 12, 2013 at 5:08 pm

    @Just Some Fuckhead:I thought my comment on a previous thread would get more of a response, but I guess I’m just a motherless loser.

  31. 31.

    Calming Influence

    May 12, 2013 at 5:10 pm

    @YellowJournalism: Probably some libtard yelling “Get off my Mosque lawn!”

  32. 32.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    May 12, 2013 at 5:11 pm

    @Calming Influence: I think there was some confusion since I didn’t participate in the pile-on of the new site design or developer lady. She’s a super nice lady and I slept through the changes.

  33. 33.

    jeffreyw

    May 12, 2013 at 5:11 pm

    The traditional Mother’s Day taco: Smoked and braised brisket.

  34. 34.

    Roger Moore

    May 12, 2013 at 5:12 pm

    My kitty just decided to reward me with the first hairball of the season. I was hoping to go through the shedding season without even one.

  35. 35.

    Ruckus

    May 12, 2013 at 5:13 pm

    @wmd:
    My mom probably would have thought that was hilarious. And perfectly normal. Don’t know what her roses would have thought.

  36. 36.

    NotMax

    May 12, 2013 at 5:17 pm

    It’s not too late to call your mom, assuming your mom is not late.

    Yeah, the roaming charges for the latter are really punitive.

    The serif font in the headlines smacks of the Police Gazette.

    Plus, the use of small caps rather than lower case impedes readability.

  37. 37.

    raven

    May 12, 2013 at 5:24 pm

    I bailed on New England. Woke up at 4:30 and it was raining like hell. It dawned on me that I had taken care of what I needed to and the thought of not getting home until midnight tomorrow night was less and less appealing. Killed my FF miles but what the hell.

  38. 38.

    Calming Influence

    May 12, 2013 at 5:26 pm

    @Just Some Fuckhead:

    “I think there was some confusion since I didn’t participate in the pile-on of the new site design or developer lady. She’s a super nice lady and I slept through the changes. “

    WTF dude, last night you were the one screaming that we should hunt down the web designer’s whole family! Do you go into some kind of fugue state?

  39. 39.

    cathyx

    May 12, 2013 at 5:27 pm

    I saw this video this morning on Firedoglake. So cute. Those smooshed faces just always look sad, even if they’re not.

  40. 40.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    May 12, 2013 at 5:29 pm

    @NotMax: I kinda like the new headline font including the small caps.

  41. 41.

    quannlace

    May 12, 2013 at 5:30 pm

    Gave my Mom a haircut. She’s 90, and not really able to get to a salon, so…..

    She thinks it looks great. I’m not so sure. A bit of tweaking.

  42. 42.

    Mnemosyne

    May 12, 2013 at 5:32 pm

    I just discovered that G ate the last piece of chocolate that I had in the house. I’m pretty sure this is grounds for divorce in California, and possibly justifiable homicide.

  43. 43.

    Redshirt

    May 12, 2013 at 5:34 pm

    @raven: Sorry for the weather, but we all really needed the rain up here.

  44. 44.

    Calming Influence

    May 12, 2013 at 5:36 pm

    “Shooting at Mother’s Day parade in New Orleans leaves a dozen injured”

    Oh really? Another mass shooting in America? I wonder if this is how the Israelis started to feel during the first Intifada.

  45. 45.

    Roger Moore

    May 12, 2013 at 5:36 pm

    @NotMax:

    Plus, the use of small caps rather than lower case impedes readability.

    Good thing it’s only used for headlines, then. It’s very common to use a more striking style for headlines even if it costs some readability, since the headline is not the kind of bulk text where a slight cost of reading speed is really significant.

  46. 46.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    May 12, 2013 at 5:38 pm

    @Mnemosyne: IANAL, but I believe that’s the case.

  47. 47.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    May 12, 2013 at 5:39 pm

    @Roger Moore: I just notice that it also seems to apply to the ‘Reply” button. That looks kinda funky.

  48. 48.

    red dog

    May 12, 2013 at 5:49 pm

    My Mom died 40 years ago and I can’t “see” or “hear” her any more. All the images are from photos. Sad. Dad died 10 years ago and he is fading too.

  49. 49.

    WereBear

    May 12, 2013 at 5:50 pm

    @Mnemosyne: I thought California was a mutual property state.

  50. 50.

    Mnemosyne

    May 12, 2013 at 5:51 pm

    @WereBear:

    There are certain exceptions, like inheritances and chocolate. Especially dark sea salt chocolate.

  51. 51.

    gogol's wife

    May 12, 2013 at 5:54 pm

    @wmd:

    A 96-ish-year-old lady at church this morning told me that her favorite present she got was some mulch for her garden. She’s really fierce, and gets mad at people in church who leave trash in the pews. My husband and I have a little joke that she’s a great argument for gun control, because if Thelma got her hands on a Bushmaster, it would be . . . .

  52. 52.

    raven

    May 12, 2013 at 5:56 pm

    @Redshirt: Ya pay’s yer money ya takes your chances. I had a great time but two more days didn’t make sense for me.

  53. 53.

    Anne Laurie

    May 12, 2013 at 5:58 pm

    @BillinGlendaleCA:

    I just notice that it also seems to apply to the ‘Reply” button. That looks kinda funky.

    Yeah, the new ‘REPLY’ seems kinda… challenging. Like you better make it worth the readers’ time. The old ‘reply’ button was more DFH, inviting you to share.

  54. 54.

    SiubhanDuinne

    May 12, 2013 at 5:59 pm

    @red dog:

    Similar here. My mom died in 1975 at age 58 (her own mother lived another 11 years and died at age 94; my other grandmother made it to age 99). Dad died age 80 in 1995. I miss them all.

  55. 55.

    Roger Moore

    May 12, 2013 at 6:01 pm

    @WereBear:

    I thought California was a mutual property state.

    That’s “community property” not “mutual property”. And, as Mnem says, it doesn’t apply to everything. Unfortunately, I don’t seem to remember chocolate being on the list of exceptions.

  56. 56.

    SiubhanDuinne

    May 12, 2013 at 6:02 pm

    @WereBear:

    WereBear, completely O/T, but have you seen the new font made entirely of cats??

  57. 57.

    PurpleGirl

    May 12, 2013 at 6:11 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: I think I’m spennding some time this evening playing with Neko Fonts… cat pictures, hey.

  58. 58.

    Yatsuno

    May 12, 2013 at 6:32 pm

    @Mnemosyne: Or you send his ass out to get more NAOW!! or Charlotte will sleep on his face tonight.

  59. 59.

    rikyrah

    May 12, 2013 at 7:29 pm

    the video is hilarious

  60. 60.

    Ruckus

    May 12, 2013 at 7:35 pm

    @Mnemosyne:
    My understanding was that the only way I could eat the last piece was if I was on my way to purchase more and would return in less than 2 minutes. If the last piece was consumed by the other party I still had only 2 minutes to get to the store and replenish the supply, even if I did not know about the lack of supply. This was a hard and fast rule. Every thing else was negotiable up to and including sex with a third person(OK, OK, that last part was just in my imagination)

  61. 61.

    tybee

    May 12, 2013 at 9:16 pm

    @raven:

    how is the redfish head? pics?

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