The Avengers movie just showed up on Netflix streaming, FYI.
Noticed that.
15.
geg6
Eating. Spaghetti and meatballs, salad and leftover blueberry pudding cake. And cheap box wine my sister left here.
16.
YellowJournalism
Took the boys to the park. Just finished reading them a few pages from “The Wizard of Oz.” They’re loving it. Plan on showing them the Judy Garland film when we finish the book next week. (One of my all-time fav movies. So much rich history to it, too.)
17.
Mike in NC
Tonight’s agenda: The Killing, Mad Men season finale, and nothing more depressing on my birthday.
Makes a good distraction pre Mad Men finale though.
20.
pokeyblow
@Botsplainer, fka Todd: I have the roku “Netflix search” app, which claims to catalog what gets added each week, and when something of decent quality and wide appeal comes on… well, that doesn’t happen often enough.
21.
raven
I made 7 trips to Lowes today to fix a shower in our rental. Cheap fuckers that owned it just fastened the fixture on to of 1/2″ cpvc pipe without mounting it to any kind of bracing. When I tried to get the cartridge out I snapped the pipes. I had to cut a hole in the wall behind it and redo the whole shebang. Then, when I got it back together I didn’t wait long enough for the glue to setup so, when I turned it on the fitting blew. My bride raced outside to turn the water off at the meter and I managed to hold the pipe so the water arched up and ran into the toilet.
eta So we’re watching Homeland and I’m already sick of the faces that woman makes.
I see that President Obama is scheduled to be in South Africa later in the week as part of his tour. Given Mandela’s rapidly deteriorating condition, I imagine the POTUS itinerary is fraught with all kinds of contingency plans.
As for Nelson Mandela himself, if it is to be, I hope it happens swiftly and comfortably. I would add “uneventfully,” but given the man’s status, that’s nigh well impossible.
23.
bill d
@Redshirt: Jesus has a lot riding on this tightrope walk.
I just hope that Wallenda guy Tebowed before starting his walk.
34.
Botsplainer, fka Todd
Where’s the “ta-DAH!!!?!”
35.
bill d
Blessed be teh stupid.
36.
Suffern ACE
I had the best fried chicken I have ever eaten last night and 24 hours later I am sad that I can’t have more any time soon. Everything tastes like so much blah today.
@Suffern ACE: So much blah? Santorum would call you 3/5 of a cannibal for saying that.
39.
RandomMonster
Replaced the collector/ignition on my gas grill, so that the rest of summer can be oh so grill-ful. Priorities!
40.
Yatsuno
At a jazz club in North Bend meeting old friends and trading drinks. Oh and didn’t get new kitteh.
41.
SiubhanDuinne
@Suffern ACE: When I think about it, I don’t believe I’ve had really reallyREALLY good fried chicken since about 1962. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve had good fried chicken but not, you know, G O O D fried chicken.
Custody trial tomorrow for the little two tiburons. If I win drinks on me!
47.
MomSense
We spent all day climbing around an old fort and then swimming in the cold, cold, cold ocean! Then we all came home, had dinner, and passed out watching tv. Then we woke up at 10 and the boys were hungry so I just made egg salad, turkey club sandwiches, and spicy popcorn.
This was only the first weekend of summer vacation. I don’t think I can keep up this schedule for the rest of the summer.
@Mike in NC: the Killing is really good this season! I’m one f the many who gave it up in disgust after the season one finale, but I’m so glad i decided to come back for the new case. (As long as they actually solve it in one season ;-)
57.
Anya
@Comrade Mary: One more reason to hate Reagan and Thatcher: They considered Neslon Mandela a terrorist. Yet he leaves this world better than he found it. I hope he’s not in pain.
58.
gogol's wife
We just watched Inspector Lewis. For some reason they sent Hathaway to Kosovo for the whole episode and gave Lewis a new partner. I am not happy. Oh well, only one more episode to go and the whole thing’s over anyway.
It was preceded by an hour of Prince Charles watching home movies and commenting on them. Strangely fascinating. No, I’m not a royalist. I just find it fascinating.
59.
Yatsuno
@SiubhanDuinne: My mom was in town so I was with her most of the day. The timing ended up not being good to go get him so I had to pass. Might be better anyway as I’m moving next month and might not be able to have kittehs in new place.
60.
John Revolta
Egg salad, turkey club sandwiches AND spicy popcorn in under 25 minutes?
That’s some pretty good Mommin’ there. If you need a rest………
well, don’t come over here.
61.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
Twitter’s #paulasBestDishes is having a lot of fun with her recipes:
Black beans and white rice, on separate but equal plates
Cotton Pickin’ Fried Chicken
Lynchables
Klan Chowder
Swing Low Sweet Cherry Pie
Barack of Lamb
Apple Brown Betty vs. Board of Education
Kabbage and Kale Kasserole
*****************
Time to walk Layla again – lots to sniff, and perhaps deer to ignore before last call (in which she enjoys the fenced backyard).
62.
pokeyblow
@SuperHrefna: If I understand correctly, there’s an acclaimed Scandinavian version of the Killing, popular in the UK, and an American remake, available on Netflix, which is 80% of what runs through my TV. Are you watching the original? If not, is it available?
63.
JWL
Cole: Not to get all paranoid on you, but I’ve been in a flame war of sorts on the Pelosi post (the 200-plus comment one). I just attempted to edit my last (and final) post, and for the first time ever received a message that I was not enabled to edit my own comment.
64.
Comrade Mary
@JWL: That happens to all of us fairly often. Honestly.
65.
jo6pac
day spent time in the garden food went into the freezer.
66.
SuperHrefna
@pokeyblow: I have the original – on a British DVD. It’s amazing. I’m not sure if its available on an American DVD. It has scary subtitles and everything, so maybe not, but if you have a multi region player you can order it from amazon.co.uk. Tonight I was watching season three of the American remake, which has really improved.
Mmmm, binging “Orphan Black” and waay impressed with the skills of lead actress Tatiana Maslany. Making the last ep available last a bit, that’s how much I don’t want it to end.
Cole: Not to get all paranoid on you, but I’ve been in a flame war of sorts on the Pelosi post (the 200-plus comment one). I just attempted to edit my last (and final) post, and for the first time ever received a message that I was not enabled to edit my own comment.
OMG! I can’t believe you went there.
70.
SuperHrefna
@Mike in NC: it does sound like your birthday celebrations are depressing, but happy birthday anyway! And at least your birthday is shaping up better than Holder’s girlfriend’s valentines day :-)
I don’t know if anybody else here grew up near Philadelphia in the 1980’s, but this post made me think of this. If you grew up when and where I did, you’ll rememeber these ads.
78.
lamh35
Probably the reason why Snowden “slipped through” the Chinese government’s fingers. I guessing they didn’t need him anymore.
@lamh35: Wow. Nothing at all changes when you add the first part of the sentence, does it?
“Two Western intelligence experts, who worked for major government spy agencies, said they believed that the Chinese government had managed to drain the contents of the four laptops”
80.
amk
@lamh35: So they milked this sucker and threw him out to the wolves?
81.
Hill Dweller
@Corner Stone: She linked the f’n article, which you obviously had no problem accessing.
82.
pokeyblow
@Corner Stone: Fifty terrorist attacks were stopped…
…someone with a vested interest in saying so said.
Deeply disappointed in Bill Maher’s black people say the n word so why can’t Paula Dean false equivalency.
Then again this is the guy who complained Obama wasn’t enough like shaft.
88.
Mnemosyne
Went to CicLAvia later than I hoped, but still had a good time with minimal sunburn. Put carnitas in the slow cooker before I went down and had those for dinner.
89.
Hill Dweller
@Corner Stone: Huh? You took a shot at her for the quote, as if she was trying to deceive people. But linking the actual article she quoted doesn’t seem like much of a ruse.
No one could have anticipated that of the countries most advanced in electronic espionage would drain his laptops. This guy is as sharp as a marble.
91.
Corner Stone
@Hill Dweller: The quote drops the entire, “Some say”. This is ridiculous.
I link articles all the time and blockquote pieces I think are relevant. But come the fuck on here. Those first few non-attributable words make all the difference.
92.
pokeyblow
@Corner Stone: Far be it from me to presume you need an explanation, but that’s how they roll.
Now watch your toenails grow while waiting for lamh35 to clear things up.
93.
burnspbesq
Ecuador, to participate in the Snowden Welcome Parade.
@Yatsuno: Aw, Yutsy. I’ve been mostly reading and not posting, but I wanted to let you know I’m sorry about you and NYD. I was hoping that getting a kitten would be a lift for your week, but you’re not even getting that. That sucks.
97.
pokeyblow
@Cacti: I hope you’re handy when Wolf Blitzer asks some rare survivor whether they “thank The Lord” they lived through some disaster which killed almost everyone else, children included.
“We’ll, Wolf, sometimes there’s justice in the universe, y’know?”
98.
GregB
Sunni militants in Lebanon attack an army checkpoint and kill several soldiers.
@Corner Stone: I thought the whole point of his going there was to give them a bunch of files anyway. I don’t get who’s supposed to have tricked whom. Snowden = Kraft, Chinese intelligence = Putin?
100.
pokeyblow
@FlipYrWhig: Can you cite the reliable reporting that he intended to give “them” a bunch of files?
I’m not saying that isn’t the case, but rather that I’d like to know my facts here.
I hope you’re handy when Wolf Blitzer asks some rare survivor whether they “thank The Lord” they lived through some disaster which killed almost everyone else, children included.
I’m sure you think you’re making some devastating point, but the causes of Mandela’s looming demise appear to be age-related.
And despite living years behind bars, he managed to outlive apartheid, as well as its greatest foreign champions.
Besides, shouldn’t you be busy telling us why Moscow Ed Snowden is the modern MLK, but better because blah blah Patriot Act.
…The Chinese government was pleased that Mr. Snowden disclosed the extent of American surveillance of Internet and telephone conversations around the world, giving the Chinese people a chance to talk about what they describe as American hypocrisy regarding surveillance practices, said Mr. Jin and the person familiar with the consultations between Hong Kong and China…
Two Western intelligence experts, who worked for major government spy agencies, said they believed that the Chinese government had managed to drain the contents of the four laptops that Mr. Snowden said he brought to Hong Kong, and that he said were with him during his stay at a Hong Kong hotel.
If that were the case, they said, China would no longer need or want to have Mr. Snowden remain in Hong Kong…
we used to get philly channel 17 or 57 in northern nj on cable so we got the betsons commercials. they were apparently very effective in their own way because 30 years later no matter what the context – important business call, serious conversation with family, police interrogation – when someone says “where is everyone” or “where did everybody go” i have to suppress the urge to yell “betsons!”
As for the actual article, if the NYT article cited government sources, would you find it credible? I doubt it. Unless the Chinese publicly admit to accessing Snowden’s computers, it’s all going to be based on sources and speculation.
Do you really think the Chinese government didn’t see Snowden’s computers(whether he knew it or not)?
108.
Kevin
@pokeyblow: Re. netflix and the Avengers movie -where is it? I’ve searched 3 different times for about half an hour, and keep getting told the Avengers is unavailable. I’m in Canada, but that’s never been a problem before.
109.
Anya
The CIA and the NSA come off like amateurs in the Snowden saga. How did this guy manage to lie to them about his education? WTF! Super spies can’t do a proper vetting of a potential employee. Also, too, if the NSA was spying on everyone, how do all those whistler-blowers and leakers manage to evade them? Why weren’t they listening to Snowden’s calls?
Second, your sophomoric and soporific theology nauseates me.
I congratulate the great Mandela on his accomplishments, which are virtually unparalleled, and hope he has enjoyed his relatively long life. Should he live for many more years, I hope they are happy ones.
But I won’t insult his intelligence by suggesting providence looked upon his worth and granted him more years.
As for your intelligence, Cacti, what you wrote is a just-right thing for you to believe.
111.
FlipYrWhig
@pokeyblow: “I thought,” I said. I don’t fucking know. But I was questioning the version of the story by which the hacker got hacked, hahaha, which you’d think you’d appreciate.
112.
Comrade Mary
@Kevin: Hoo-boy. There is a LOT that isn’t available on Netflix Canada.
I can’t search right now because for some reason, they keep redirecting me to the .com domain.
Don’t know what Corner Stone said, I’ve had him in the pie filter for months now. I briefly removed him from the list, but figured not much has changed, so I placed in back in and I’m the better for it.
BTW, I don’t actually have more than 3 people in the pie filter, I usually just page down and ignore.
114.
pokeyblow
@Kevin: I mentioned above that I have the Netflix search roku app. I saw it there, then searched Netflix to no avail, like you. I went back to the search app and added it to my queue from there.
Otherwise, I don’t know. You could try “the avengers”, or “marvel”, or ” Downey”
It is there…
115.
pokeyblow
@FlipYrWhig: I might appreciate, if written more clearly.
116.
FlipYrWhig
@pokeyblow: You think Cacti was saying that Mandela had divine protection? Do you need to borrow a sarcasm detector?
@pokeyblow: I’ve noticed that “tone” isn’t really your thing.
119.
scav
@FlipYrWhig: Nah, might get in the way of the spotlight.
120.
Cacti
Some highlights of the new media law passed by Ed Snowden’s future home of Ecuador:
It prohibits so called “media lynching” which is defined as “the dissemination of concerted and reiterative information, either directly or by third parties, through media outlets, with the purpose of undermining the prestige” of a person or legal entity or “reducing [their] credibility.” The provision would allow the authorities to order the media outlet to issue a public apology and states that they are also subject to criminal and civil sanctions, imposed by the courts.
It requires media outlets to issue their own codes of conduct to “improve their internal practices and their communications work” based on a series of requirements such as to “respect people’s honor and reputation.” Although self-regulation of this nature is not in itself problematic, the law provides that any citizen or organization can report that a media outlet violated the requirements, and government authorities can issue a written warning, or impose sanctions.
It says that journalists must “assume the subsequent administrative consequences of disseminating content through the media that undermines constitutional rights, in particular the right to communication, and the public security of the State.” Journalists deemed to violate this responsibility could be subject to civil, criminal or other sanctions.
121.
pokeyblow
@FlipYrWhig: I didn’t detect sarcasm, I detected treacly sentimentality and desperate bootlicking.
122.
amk
@pokeyblow: Basic common sense, does it ring any bells ? Guess not when blowhards can’t stop talking.
123.
Katie5
Public Holiday here, so out with friends drinking mojitos. Got a molecular cooking cocktail kit so made mojitos into spherical gel bubbles. Let’s just say that it’ll more an art than a science to get even the simplest molecular techniques down. Doesn’t matter the number of videos or manuals you have, it’s an art to get the gelling just right.
124.
lamh35
this may make the usual DOJ haters happy
Hong Kong let Snowden go “despite a direct plea from Attorney General Eric Holder.”
The CIA and the NSA come off like amateurs in the Snowden saga. How did this guy manage to lie to them about his education? WTF! Super spies can’t do a proper vetting of a potential employee. Also, too, if the NSA was spying on everyone, how do all those whistler-blowers and leakers manage to evade them? Why weren’t they listening to Snowden’s calls?
It’s a combination of the “small government” farce, explosive growth of the intelligence apparatus, and the use of private contracting to meet the demand for intelligence personnel.
The same thing is happening in other parts of the government.
Second, your sophomoric and soporific theology nauseates me.
Nonbeliever, so, barking up the wrong tree there, genius.
But I won’t insult his intelligence by suggesting providence looked upon his worth and granted him more years.
Nor was I. Just a happy coincidence that he outlived some truly vile people that a hand in his oppression.
So, not to put too fine a point on it, but kindly GFY.
127.
pokeyblow
@FlipYrWhig: Well, you could say “pokeyblow comments on the blog. He’s a bit strident, and not the most wonderful people person, but he means well and is sincere…” or you could say “pokeyblow is a racist troll republican moron.”
If you say the second, I won’t like you, but more importantly, you would be unreasonable (in my opinion).
128.
FlipYrWhig
@pokeyblow: Dancing on the graves of Reagan and Thatcher is “treacly sentiment”? You read words strangely.
129.
amk
@Hill Dweller: Didn’t Pelosi say at nutroots how shrub’s nsa head created nsa outsourcing and then walked out right into booz allen or whatever fuck the neocons subsidized mic it was ?
130.
FlipYrWhig
@pokeyblow: Or I could say “pokeyblow has trouble with what you and I call ‘jokes,’ so take it easy on the poor guy.”
this may make the usual DOJ haters happy. Hong Kong let Snowden go “despite a direct plea from Attorney General Eric Holder.
Holder’s DOJ has been extremely vigilant about protecting voting rights, but that hardly matters to the brogressives. It was never theirs that were under siege. So they worry themselves with the really important stuff, like smoking weed.
133.
Just Some Fuckhead
@lamh35: How do we know Holder isn’t having a gay relationship with Obama?
134.
max
@Cacti: Journalists deemed to violate this responsibility could be subject to civil, criminal or other sanctions.
So, basically it’s just like here then, is it?
Meanwhile, I told ya’ll – this week’s Bill Keller is all about how ‘important’ Syria is:
It’s hard to tell what has driven Obama even this far. Is it the prodding of critics like Bill Clinton, mocking the president’s poll-minded caution? Is there a belated revulsion at the humanitarian catastrophe? A recognition that diplomacy backed by nothing much — which has been the White House answer until recently — is a fool’s errand? Whether or not you agree with me that America has a big stake in the outcome, you are entitled to wonder: What, exactly, is the strategy?
Obama: Threat or Menace?
Over tea in a Reyhanli cafe with a view of the Syrian hills, I asked a rebel commander named Abu Jarah how he imagined Syria after Assad. “Maybe Somalia plus Afghanistan,” he replied. That, I allowed, was a pretty horrifying prospect. “Not our mistake,” he said. “It’s not what we want. It’s what you gave us, with two years standing and watching.”
Fuck you, you did that to yourselves. Also: whatever assistance we render, let us make sure not to render any to that guy.
Nobody, except perhaps our enemies, wants to see American troops in Syria. Our aim should be to make life so miserable for Assad and his friends that he agrees, or his sponsors agree, that it is time to stop the killing, send Assad and his circle into exile, and move from blood bath to diplomacy. Is that achievable? I honestly don’t know. But given the certain costs of doing nothing, I think it’s worth a try. I wish I knew whether President Obama felt the same.
Another words, we should take the current horrible situation in a Syria drenched in rivers of blood and turn it into an absolutely catastrophic one in which Syria drowns in an ocean of blood. AUSTERITY! SHARED SACRIFICE!
max
[‘Well, I’m convinced… that we should stop doing anything.’]
Just wondering, though, this justice in the universe… who/what/how?
See sentence #3 in post 130, followed by #4.
136.
lamh35
Good night Juicers.
I leave you with some sad news for Southern “Downhome Blues” fans.
Blues Legend Bobby Blue Bland has died. In truth, I thought Bobby B had passed a while ago. Here’s a link, so that certain people can’t say I’m making shit up…lol
And if celebrating Mandela’s longevity is dancing on Reagan’s grave, I guess pointing out Reagan’s span is dancing on the graves of each and every pediatric cancer fatality, right?
Since you’re changing the subject away from universal justice and all.
138.
lamh35
@Just Some Fuckhead: who says he isn’t. Michelle O and Holder’s lovely wives are just beards you see. ya know what they say about those bruthas on the DL….
139.
FlipYrWhig
@max: that whole screed looks like a copy-paste of an editorial from 2002. For Saddam read “Assad,” etc.
@pokeyblow: what the fuck are you even talking about? Good man outlives bad people. It is good, perhaps even fitting. Quips like this have been being made about life and death since the human brain developed the ability to process proto-language. If that needs more explanation, I’m going to have to assume that you’re actually an amoeba or something.
144.
pokeyblow
@Cacti: The Cacti Lemma: happy coincidence = some justice in the universe.
The Cacti Lemma: happy coincidence = some justice in the universe.
Zzzzzzzzz
146.
pokeyblow
@FlipYrWhig: Maybe Hallmark has a blog which would benefit from Cacti’s meditations. Or something linked from preciousmoments.com.
Trying to be constructive.
147.
lamh36
Oh I hear exactly what your saying and I think know what your making reference to with the involvement with Snowden and the gay thing (something about Zander & twitter if im right)
All I was just saying is that you are correct Obama and holder could be on the DL. ..ya just never know do you
what the fuck are you even talking about? Good man outlives bad people. It is good, perhaps even fitting. Quips like this have been being made about life and death since the human brain developed the ability to process proto-language. If that needs more explanation, I’m going to have to assume that you’re actually an amoeba or something.
Maybe English isn’t its first language and we’re being too hard on it.
Nah, I’m leaning towards just kind of dumb.
150.
jumpinjezebel
@mtmofo: Watching Wallenda cross that cable reminded me of Bernake walking the tightrope between the economy and Congress! LOL
They did- But he fooled them and spoke in Pig Latin.
Well, Snowden was born in the Year of the Pig.
152.
lamh36
Anyway. Again I say good night juicers. I gots to get up for work.
Also Fuck you Corner Stone, for no obvious reasin, just felt like saying it. Aint the first time commenter cuss each other out in BJ just because and surely won’t be the last.
153.
Steeplejack
Just did a double feature of Inspector Lewis on PBS. For some reason the station didn’t run the episode last week, so they ran both that one and then the new one tonight. Both pretty good. I have warmed to the Morse/Lewis continuum more than I used to, and Sergeant Hathaway has been a really good addition. I have been catching up on Inspector Morse reruns on another channel.
Dentist’s appointment in the morning, so I’m probably turning in early tonight. Tuned in to catch the end of the Rangers-Cardinals game, but it’s only in the sixth inning. Rain delay?
154.
The prophet Nostradumbass
@Steeplejack: I’m watching the new Inspector Lewis now. Hathaway doesn’t seem to be in this episode?
I think it has happened to me occasionally when I tried to edit a comment after refreshing the page. Could be wrong, and I’m not sure it happened every time. But your experience is not unusual or sinister.
156.
FlipYrWhig
@Steeplejack: I find that all my best comments are disappeared by WordPress. Feel like all you ever read under my name is for shit? Totally WordPress’s fault.
Maybe you missed the very first part of the episode; there was a brief setup bit about his going on vacation in Serbia and, of course, Lewis being mildly irritated at the inconvenience to himself.
161.
The prophet Nostradumbass
@Steeplejack: No, I saw it, it’s what made me say (erroneously, as it turns out) that he’s not in the episode.
Exam tomorrow. Root canal on Thursday. Heavy drinking on Saturday.
167.
lojasmo
Got home from Oregon at about 22:15. Realized I had locked myself out of the house by using the handset lock we never use (combination deadbolt)
Had to jimmy open a basement window by repeatedly hammering a chisel under the latch. Crawled in on some super-sketchy cheap-ass plastic shelves, and inched over to the chest freezer on my hands.
Could have dead. Now all jacked up on adrenaline.
168.
SarahT
SO late to the party- yet giving a rat’s ass. Must be the super moon. Maybe the booze. Whatev. Just thank you all for amusing me. You’re in my will, hahaha
169.
Yatsuno
@Suzanne: I get free Ethiopian food on Saturday. Nomz.
170.
Amir Khalid
@Yatsuno:
I’m a bad person, because this reminds me of Billy Crystal’s Ethiopian restaurant joke in When Harry Met Sally: “I’ll order two empty plates, and then we’ll leave.”
171.
MaryRC
@The prophet Nostradumbass: Hathaway will be back for next week’s episode according to pbs.org. I notice that one of the guest stars next week is Edward Fox who I think is the father or uncle of the actor who plays Hathaway.
@Comrade Mary: Yes, I am dreading when the announcement is made that he has passed. My hero. So glad that he lived into his 90s and seems really happy and contented.
176.
Patricia Kayden
@Hal: Funny that I’m Black and don’t know any Black people who use the “N” word.
Just Some Fuckhead
Watching Dodgeball with the boy.
Elizabelle
Waiting for Supermoon.
Baud
Ecuador
schrodinger's cat
How was the birthday celebration?
Comrade Mary
I’ve heard that the new King mini-series Under the Dome is good, so I’ll catch that at 10 PM.
Ted & Hellen
Get off that recliner, boy! MOVE!
Johannes
I’m plowing through the Game of Thrones novels like an addict on a spree. Happy belated birthday, John; hope the celebrations were just as you wanted.
Comrade Mary
OT: Nelson Mandela is now in critical condition. The world won’t be the same without him.
pokeyblow
The Avengers movie just showed up on Netflix streaming, FYI.
Sarah in Brooklyn
I’m watching Friday Night Lights again. And I hate football.
mtmofo
Wallenda crossing AZ canyon on Discovery channel right now. Live w/ 10 sec delay.
Redshirt
Will tightrope walker for Jesus die?
JWL
We all got together, J.C., and figured that since you were surely sleeping off your birthday celebration, we’d all be quiet.
Botsplainer, fka Todd
@pokeyblow:
Noticed that.
geg6
Eating. Spaghetti and meatballs, salad and leftover blueberry pudding cake. And cheap box wine my sister left here.
YellowJournalism
Took the boys to the park. Just finished reading them a few pages from “The Wizard of Oz.” They’re loving it. Plan on showing them the Judy Garland film when we finish the book next week. (One of my all-time fav movies. So much rich history to it, too.)
Mike in NC
Tonight’s agenda: The Killing, Mad Men season finale, and nothing more depressing on my birthday.
schrodinger's cat
@efgoldman: Not Tunch but SuperTunch
C.J.
@Redshirt:
Not on live television with that delay.
Makes a good distraction pre Mad Men finale though.
pokeyblow
@Botsplainer, fka Todd: I have the roku “Netflix search” app, which claims to catalog what gets added each week, and when something of decent quality and wide appeal comes on… well, that doesn’t happen often enough.
raven
I made 7 trips to Lowes today to fix a shower in our rental. Cheap fuckers that owned it just fastened the fixture on to of 1/2″ cpvc pipe without mounting it to any kind of bracing. When I tried to get the cartridge out I snapped the pipes. I had to cut a hole in the wall behind it and redo the whole shebang. Then, when I got it back together I didn’t wait long enough for the glue to setup so, when I turned it on the fitting blew. My bride raced outside to turn the water off at the meter and I managed to hold the pipe so the water arched up and ran into the toilet.
eta So we’re watching Homeland and I’m already sick of the faces that woman makes.
SiubhanDuinne
@Comrade Mary:
I see that President Obama is scheduled to be in South Africa later in the week as part of his tour. Given Mandela’s rapidly deteriorating condition, I imagine the POTUS itinerary is fraught with all kinds of contingency plans.
As for Nelson Mandela himself, if it is to be, I hope it happens swiftly and comfortably. I would add “uneventfully,” but given the man’s status, that’s nigh well impossible.
bill d
@Redshirt: Jesus has a lot riding on this tightrope walk.
His whole brand is at stake.
Botsplainer, fka Todd
@mtmofo:
Watching it now. Dude is off his nut.
pokeyblow
@raven: And so it goes in the holler.
The prophet Nostradumbass
@Comrade Mary: that’s not on until tomorrow night.
Redshirt
@bill d: Indeed. Everyone knows Tightrope Jesus is the most merciless of the Sports Jesus’s.
bill d
@bill d: I’m also curious to know if they even bothered putting anyone there at the bottom of that gorge?
raven
@efgoldman: Yea, homie don’t play dat.
Self-Righteous Little White Guy
Apparently you share a birthday with Cyndi Lauper, Elizabeth Warren, and my husband. No wonder I can’t quit you!
mtmofo
@bill d: Yes. EMS crew is down there, for all good that would do.
Redshirt
@bill d: There’s a paramedic on scene.
pokeyblow
I just hope that Wallenda guy Tebowed before starting his walk.
Botsplainer, fka Todd
Where’s the “ta-DAH!!!?!”
bill d
Blessed be teh stupid.
Suffern ACE
I had the best fried chicken I have ever eaten last night and 24 hours later I am sad that I can’t have more any time soon. Everything tastes like so much blah today.
Baud
@bill d:
For they shall win the Republican primary.
pokeyblow
@Suffern ACE: So much blah? Santorum would call you 3/5 of a cannibal for saying that.
RandomMonster
Replaced the collector/ignition on my gas grill, so that the rest of summer can be oh so grill-ful. Priorities!
Yatsuno
At a jazz club in North Bend meeting old friends and trading drinks. Oh and didn’t get new kitteh.
SiubhanDuinne
@Suffern ACE: When I think about it, I don’t believe I’ve had really really REALLY good fried chicken since about 1962. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve had good fried chicken but not, you know, G O O D fried chicken.
SiubhanDuinne
@Yatsuno: Oh noez! What happened?
Comrade Mary
@The prophet Nostradumbass: Yeah, I just ran downstairs and found out. Whew!
schrodinger's cat
@efgoldman: What? No love for Tunch? How can that be?
schrodinger's cat
@Self-Righteous Little White Guy: And Meryl Streep.
El Tiburon
Custody trial tomorrow for the little two tiburons. If I win drinks on me!
MomSense
We spent all day climbing around an old fort and then swimming in the cold, cold, cold ocean! Then we all came home, had dinner, and passed out watching tv. Then we woke up at 10 and the boys were hungry so I just made egg salad, turkey club sandwiches, and spicy popcorn.
This was only the first weekend of summer vacation. I don’t think I can keep up this schedule for the rest of the summer.
MomSense
@El Tiburon:
Fingers, toes, elbows, knees, and eyes crossed for you!
schrodinger's cat
@MomSense: Sounds like a lot of fun.
MomSense
@Mike in NC:
Happy birthday!
schrodinger's cat
@Mike in NC: Happy Birthday, hope you had a day without any cares like the Caturday Kittehs
Punchy
Planning my BLAXHAWX Cup party for tomorrow…
MomSense
@schrodinger’s cat:
So much fun! I wish I could quit my job and just play all summer.
Redshirt
@Punchy:
Quoted for Karma Jesus to deem “Jinxed”.
pokeyblow
@El Tiburon: Good luck.
SuperHrefna
@Mike in NC: the Killing is really good this season! I’m one f the many who gave it up in disgust after the season one finale, but I’m so glad i decided to come back for the new case. (As long as they actually solve it in one season ;-)
Anya
@Comrade Mary: One more reason to hate Reagan and Thatcher: They considered Neslon Mandela a terrorist. Yet he leaves this world better than he found it. I hope he’s not in pain.
gogol's wife
We just watched Inspector Lewis. For some reason they sent Hathaway to Kosovo for the whole episode and gave Lewis a new partner. I am not happy. Oh well, only one more episode to go and the whole thing’s over anyway.
It was preceded by an hour of Prince Charles watching home movies and commenting on them. Strangely fascinating. No, I’m not a royalist. I just find it fascinating.
Yatsuno
@SiubhanDuinne: My mom was in town so I was with her most of the day. The timing ended up not being good to go get him so I had to pass. Might be better anyway as I’m moving next month and might not be able to have kittehs in new place.
John Revolta
Egg salad, turkey club sandwiches AND spicy popcorn in under 25 minutes?
That’s some pretty good Mommin’ there. If you need a rest………
well, don’t come over here.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
Twitter’s #paulasBestDishes is having a lot of fun with her recipes:
Black beans and white rice, on separate but equal plates
Cotton Pickin’ Fried Chicken
Lynchables
Klan Chowder
Swing Low Sweet Cherry Pie
Barack of Lamb
Apple Brown Betty vs. Board of Education
Kabbage and Kale Kasserole
*****************
Time to walk Layla again – lots to sniff, and perhaps deer to ignore before last call (in which she enjoys the fenced backyard).
pokeyblow
@SuperHrefna: If I understand correctly, there’s an acclaimed Scandinavian version of the Killing, popular in the UK, and an American remake, available on Netflix, which is 80% of what runs through my TV. Are you watching the original? If not, is it available?
JWL
Cole: Not to get all paranoid on you, but I’ve been in a flame war of sorts on the Pelosi post (the 200-plus comment one). I just attempted to edit my last (and final) post, and for the first time ever received a message that I was not enabled to edit my own comment.
Comrade Mary
@JWL: That happens to all of us fairly often. Honestly.
jo6pac
day spent time in the garden food went into the freezer.
SuperHrefna
@pokeyblow: I have the original – on a British DVD. It’s amazing. I’m not sure if its available on an American DVD. It has scary subtitles and everything, so maybe not, but if you have a multi region player you can order it from amazon.co.uk. Tonight I was watching season three of the American remake, which has really improved.
Paddy
Mmmm, binging “Orphan Black” and waay impressed with the skills of lead actress Tatiana Maslany. Making the last ep available last a bit, that’s how much I don’t want it to end.
Yatsuno
@JWL: Yeah, that’s a FYWP moment.
Redshirt
@JWL:
OMG! I can’t believe you went there.
SuperHrefna
@Mike in NC: it does sound like your birthday celebrations are depressing, but happy birthday anyway! And at least your birthday is shaping up better than Holder’s girlfriend’s valentines day :-)
JWL
@Comrade Mary: I dunno, Mary.
It’s never happened before.
Leastwise, not while I was wearing my tin foil hat.
Which I was.
MomSense
@John Revolta:
I was a short order cook all through college–and I had some help. Boys were toasting the bread and prepping the lettuce and tomato.
Something about being outside all day that makes food taste sooo good. There was no talking just boys chowing down!
pokeyblow
@SuperHrefna: I’ve got a multi-region player. So you recommend the Scandinavian version. Glad I asked, you’ve seen both. Thanks.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@El Tiburon: Wishing you victory,
Comrade Mary
@JWL: Yeah, but was the tin oriented north-south or east-west? It makes a difference.
amk
jerking off to snowden pr0n show.
Zapruder F. Mashtots, D.D.S. (Mumphrey, et al.)
I don’t know if anybody else here grew up near Philadelphia in the 1980’s, but this post made me think of this. If you grew up when and where I did, you’ll rememeber these ads.
lamh35
Probably the reason why Snowden “slipped through” the Chinese government’s fingers. I guessing they didn’t need him anymore.
Corner Stone
@lamh35: Wow. Nothing at all changes when you add the first part of the sentence, does it?
“Two Western intelligence experts, who worked for major government spy agencies, said they believed that the Chinese government had managed to drain the contents of the four laptops”
amk
@lamh35: So they milked this sucker and threw him out to the wolves?
Hill Dweller
@Corner Stone: She linked the f’n article, which you obviously had no problem accessing.
pokeyblow
@Corner Stone: Fifty terrorist attacks were stopped…
…someone with a vested interest in saying so said.
Redshirt
Dang, so now the Chinese know everything about me too!
Corner Stone
@Hill Dweller: Hahahahahaha.
That’s where you’re going? Good one.
amk
@Hill Dweller: No, you don’t understand. Chinese just baby sat him and gave him ice cream and chocolates all the time the boy was there.
Higgs Boson's Mate
@El Tiburon:
Sending my best wishes your way tomorrow.
Hal
Deeply disappointed in Bill Maher’s black people say the n word so why can’t Paula Dean false equivalency.
Then again this is the guy who complained Obama wasn’t enough like shaft.
Mnemosyne
Went to CicLAvia later than I hoped, but still had a good time with minimal sunburn. Put carnitas in the slow cooker before I went down and had those for dinner.
Hill Dweller
@Corner Stone: Huh? You took a shot at her for the quote, as if she was trying to deceive people. But linking the actual article she quoted doesn’t seem like much of a ruse.
Higgs Boson's Mate
@lamh35:
No one could have anticipated that of the countries most advanced in electronic espionage would drain his laptops. This guy is as sharp as a marble.
Corner Stone
@Hill Dweller: The quote drops the entire, “Some say”. This is ridiculous.
I link articles all the time and blockquote pieces I think are relevant. But come the fuck on here. Those first few non-attributable words make all the difference.
pokeyblow
@Corner Stone: Far be it from me to presume you need an explanation, but that’s how they roll.
Now watch your toenails grow while waiting for lamh35 to clear things up.
burnspbesq
Ecuador, to participate in the Snowden Welcome Parade.
Cacti
@Comrade Mary:
The fact that he outlived Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher shows that sometimes there is justice in the universe.
thalarctos
@Yatsuno: Where’s Lexie? I hope all is well.
Comrade Mary
@Yatsuno: Aw, Yutsy. I’ve been mostly reading and not posting, but I wanted to let you know I’m sorry about you and NYD. I was hoping that getting a kitten would be a lift for your week, but you’re not even getting that. That sucks.
pokeyblow
@Cacti: I hope you’re handy when Wolf Blitzer asks some rare survivor whether they “thank The Lord” they lived through some disaster which killed almost everyone else, children included.
“We’ll, Wolf, sometimes there’s justice in the universe, y’know?”
GregB
Sunni militants in Lebanon attack an army checkpoint and kill several soldiers.
Start the Armageddon Clock for a regional war.
Link to BBC.
FlipYrWhig
@Corner Stone: I thought the whole point of his going there was to give them a bunch of files anyway. I don’t get who’s supposed to have tricked whom. Snowden = Kraft, Chinese intelligence = Putin?
pokeyblow
@FlipYrWhig: Can you cite the reliable reporting that he intended to give “them” a bunch of files?
I’m not saying that isn’t the case, but rather that I’d like to know my facts here.
Cacti
@pokeyblow:
I’m sure you think you’re making some devastating point, but the causes of Mandela’s looming demise appear to be age-related.
And despite living years behind bars, he managed to outlive apartheid, as well as its greatest foreign champions.
Besides, shouldn’t you be busy telling us why Moscow Ed Snowden is the modern MLK, but better because blah blah Patriot Act.
lamh35
@lamh35:
China Said to Have Made Call to Let Leaker Depart
Matt Smith
Cuba
lurker dean
@Zapruder F. Mashtots, D.D.S. (Mumphrey, et al.):
we used to get philly channel 17 or 57 in northern nj on cable so we got the betsons commercials. they were apparently very effective in their own way because 30 years later no matter what the context – important business call, serious conversation with family, police interrogation – when someone says “where is everyone” or “where did everybody go” i have to suppress the urge to yell “betsons!”
Cacti
@lamh35:
If they weren’t trying to get the sanctions against them lifted, I imagine Ed would have had a “layover” in Tehran as well.
Matt Smith
Cuba, where I’ll ride out all the SCOTUS marriage equality hoopla!
Hill Dweller
@Corner Stone: Again, she linked the article.
As for the actual article, if the NYT article cited government sources, would you find it credible? I doubt it. Unless the Chinese publicly admit to accessing Snowden’s computers, it’s all going to be based on sources and speculation.
Do you really think the Chinese government didn’t see Snowden’s computers(whether he knew it or not)?
Kevin
@pokeyblow: Re. netflix and the Avengers movie -where is it? I’ve searched 3 different times for about half an hour, and keep getting told the Avengers is unavailable. I’m in Canada, but that’s never been a problem before.
Anya
The CIA and the NSA come off like amateurs in the Snowden saga. How did this guy manage to lie to them about his education? WTF! Super spies can’t do a proper vetting of a potential employee. Also, too, if the NSA was spying on everyone, how do all those whistler-blowers and leakers manage to evade them? Why weren’t they listening to Snowden’s calls?
pokeyblow
@Cacti: First, I’ll talk about what I like.
Second, your sophomoric and soporific theology nauseates me.
I congratulate the great Mandela on his accomplishments, which are virtually unparalleled, and hope he has enjoyed his relatively long life. Should he live for many more years, I hope they are happy ones.
But I won’t insult his intelligence by suggesting providence looked upon his worth and granted him more years.
As for your intelligence, Cacti, what you wrote is a just-right thing for you to believe.
FlipYrWhig
@pokeyblow: “I thought,” I said. I don’t fucking know. But I was questioning the version of the story by which the hacker got hacked, hahaha, which you’d think you’d appreciate.
Comrade Mary
@Kevin: Hoo-boy. There is a LOT that isn’t available on Netflix Canada.
I can’t search right now because for some reason, they keep redirecting me to the .com domain.
lamh35
@Hill Dweller:
Don’t know what Corner Stone said, I’ve had him in the pie filter for months now. I briefly removed him from the list, but figured not much has changed, so I placed in back in and I’m the better for it.
BTW, I don’t actually have more than 3 people in the pie filter, I usually just page down and ignore.
pokeyblow
@Kevin: I mentioned above that I have the Netflix search roku app. I saw it there, then searched Netflix to no avail, like you. I went back to the search app and added it to my queue from there.
Otherwise, I don’t know. You could try “the avengers”, or “marvel”, or ” Downey”
It is there…
pokeyblow
@FlipYrWhig: I might appreciate, if written more clearly.
FlipYrWhig
@pokeyblow: You think Cacti was saying that Mandela had divine protection? Do you need to borrow a sarcasm detector?
pokeyblow
@Hill Dweller: Judith Miller. Ring any bells?
FlipYrWhig
@pokeyblow: I’ve noticed that “tone” isn’t really your thing.
scav
@FlipYrWhig: Nah, might get in the way of the spotlight.
Cacti
Some highlights of the new media law passed by Ed Snowden’s future home of Ecuador:
pokeyblow
@FlipYrWhig: I didn’t detect sarcasm, I detected treacly sentimentality and desperate bootlicking.
amk
@pokeyblow: Basic common sense, does it ring any bells ? Guess not when blowhards can’t stop talking.
Katie5
Public Holiday here, so out with friends drinking mojitos. Got a molecular cooking cocktail kit so made mojitos into spherical gel bubbles. Let’s just say that it’ll more an art than a science to get even the simplest molecular techniques down. Doesn’t matter the number of videos or manuals you have, it’s an art to get the gelling just right.
lamh35
this may make the usual DOJ haters happy
http://t.co/5SGQ5KlNFO
Hill Dweller
@Anya:
It’s a combination of the “small government” farce, explosive growth of the intelligence apparatus, and the use of private contracting to meet the demand for intelligence personnel.
The same thing is happening in other parts of the government.
Cacti
@pokeyblow:
Hey, me too. Funny how that works, eh sparky?
Nonbeliever, so, barking up the wrong tree there, genius.
Nor was I. Just a happy coincidence that he outlived some truly vile people that a hand in his oppression.
So, not to put too fine a point on it, but kindly GFY.
pokeyblow
@FlipYrWhig: Well, you could say “pokeyblow comments on the blog. He’s a bit strident, and not the most wonderful people person, but he means well and is sincere…” or you could say “pokeyblow is a racist troll republican moron.”
If you say the second, I won’t like you, but more importantly, you would be unreasonable (in my opinion).
FlipYrWhig
@pokeyblow: Dancing on the graves of Reagan and Thatcher is “treacly sentiment”? You read words strangely.
amk
@Hill Dweller: Didn’t Pelosi say at nutroots how shrub’s nsa head created nsa outsourcing and then walked out right into booz allen or whatever fuck the neocons subsidized mic it was ?
FlipYrWhig
@pokeyblow: Or I could say “pokeyblow has trouble with what you and I call ‘jokes,’ so take it easy on the poor guy.”
pokeyblow
@Cacti: Hey, your nonconformity is RAD!
Just wondering, though, this justice in the universe… who/what/how?
Just wondering.
Cacti
@lamh35:
Holder’s DOJ has been extremely vigilant about protecting voting rights, but that hardly matters to the brogressives. It was never theirs that were under siege. So they worry themselves with the really important stuff, like smoking weed.
Just Some Fuckhead
@lamh35: How do we know Holder isn’t having a gay relationship with Obama?
max
@Cacti: Journalists deemed to violate this responsibility could be subject to civil, criminal or other sanctions.
So, basically it’s just like here then, is it?
Meanwhile, I told ya’ll – this week’s Bill Keller is all about how ‘important’ Syria is:
Obama: Threat or Menace?
Fuck you, you did that to yourselves. Also: whatever assistance we render, let us make sure not to render any to that guy.
Another words, we should take the current horrible situation in a Syria drenched in rivers of blood and turn it into an absolutely catastrophic one in which Syria drowns in an ocean of blood. AUSTERITY! SHARED SACRIFICE!
max
[‘Well, I’m convinced… that we should stop doing anything.’]
Cacti
@pokeyblow: @pokeyblow:
See sentence #3 in post 130, followed by #4.
lamh35
Good night Juicers.
I leave you with some sad news for Southern “Downhome Blues” fans.
Blues Legend Bobby Blue Bland has died. In truth, I thought Bobby B had passed a while ago. Here’s a link, so that certain people can’t say I’m making shit up…lol
http://wreg.com/2013/06/23/blues-legend-bobby-blue-bland-dies/
pokeyblow
@FlipYrWhig: I like jokes plenty.
And if celebrating Mandela’s longevity is dancing on Reagan’s grave, I guess pointing out Reagan’s span is dancing on the graves of each and every pediatric cancer fatality, right?
Since you’re changing the subject away from universal justice and all.
lamh35
@Just Some Fuckhead: who says he isn’t. Michelle O and Holder’s lovely wives are just beards you see. ya know what they say about those bruthas on the DL….
FlipYrWhig
@max: that whole screed looks like a copy-paste of an editorial from 2002. For Saddam read “Assad,” etc.
Corner Stone
@lamh35: God bless your poor heart. Poor thing.
Just Some Fuckhead
@lamh35: I’m just saying they are both involved in this Snowden thing so they could be gay.
pokeyblow
@Corner Stone: That’s how they roll.
FlipYrWhig
@pokeyblow: what the fuck are you even talking about? Good man outlives bad people. It is good, perhaps even fitting. Quips like this have been being made about life and death since the human brain developed the ability to process proto-language. If that needs more explanation, I’m going to have to assume that you’re actually an amoeba or something.
pokeyblow
@Cacti: The Cacti Lemma: happy coincidence = some justice in the universe.
Cacti
@pokeyblow:
Zzzzzzzzz
pokeyblow
@FlipYrWhig: Maybe Hallmark has a blog which would benefit from Cacti’s meditations. Or something linked from preciousmoments.com.
Trying to be constructive.
lamh36
Oh I hear exactly what your saying and I think know what your making reference to with the involvement with Snowden and the gay thing (something about Zander & twitter if im right)
All I was just saying is that you are correct Obama and holder could be on the DL. ..ya just never know do you
Liberty60
@Anya:
They did- But he fooled them and spoke in Pig Latin.
Cacti
@FlipYrWhig:
Maybe English isn’t its first language and we’re being too hard on it.
Nah, I’m leaning towards just kind of dumb.
jumpinjezebel
@mtmofo: Watching Wallenda cross that cable reminded me of Bernake walking the tightrope between the economy and Congress! LOL
BillinGlendaleCA
@Liberty60:
Well, Snowden was born in the Year of the Pig.
lamh36
Anyway. Again I say good night juicers. I gots to get up for work.
Also Fuck you Corner Stone, for no obvious reasin, just felt like saying it. Aint the first time commenter cuss each other out in BJ just because and surely won’t be the last.
Steeplejack
Just did a double feature of Inspector Lewis on PBS. For some reason the station didn’t run the episode last week, so they ran both that one and then the new one tonight. Both pretty good. I have warmed to the Morse/Lewis continuum more than I used to, and Sergeant Hathaway has been a really good addition. I have been catching up on Inspector Morse reruns on another channel.
Dentist’s appointment in the morning, so I’m probably turning in early tonight. Tuned in to catch the end of the Rangers-Cardinals game, but it’s only in the sixth inning. Rain delay?
The prophet Nostradumbass
@Steeplejack: I’m watching the new Inspector Lewis now. Hathaway doesn’t seem to be in this episode?
Steeplejack
@JWL:
I think it has happened to me occasionally when I tried to edit a comment after refreshing the page. Could be wrong, and I’m not sure it happened every time. But your experience is not unusual or sinister.
FlipYrWhig
@Steeplejack: I find that all my best comments are disappeared by WordPress. Feel like all you ever read under my name is for shit? Totally WordPress’s fault.
Steeplejack
@The prophet Nostradumbass:
He is brought in in the second half, but he is mostly on vacation.
Steeplejack
@FlipYrWhig:
Pshaw, you’re being too hard on yourself.
. . . Eh, but that would explain a lot. LOL.
The prophet Nostradumbass
@Steeplejack: yeah, he just appeared for the first time about 30 seconds ago :-).
Steeplejack
@The prophet Nostradumbass:
Maybe you missed the very first part of the episode; there was a brief setup bit about his going on vacation in Serbia and, of course, Lewis being mildly irritated at the inconvenience to himself.
The prophet Nostradumbass
@Steeplejack: No, I saw it, it’s what made me say (erroneously, as it turns out) that he’s not in the episode.
“fancy a ride after work some time?” Heh heh.
Steeplejack
@The prophet Nostradumbass:
Yeah, Lewis—what a horndog!
Nice touch at the end when Detective Constable Gray tells the college kids why he became a cop.
Steeplejack
Off to bed. Will check back in the morning. Night-night, all.
The prophet Nostradumbass
@Steeplejack: yes, indeed. That was a good bit.
SarahT
@Elizabelle: And wasn’t it SO gorgeous ?
Suzanne
Exam tomorrow. Root canal on Thursday. Heavy drinking on Saturday.
lojasmo
Got home from Oregon at about 22:15. Realized I had locked myself out of the house by using the handset lock we never use (combination deadbolt)
Had to jimmy open a basement window by repeatedly hammering a chisel under the latch. Crawled in on some super-sketchy cheap-ass plastic shelves, and inched over to the chest freezer on my hands.
Could have dead. Now all jacked up on adrenaline.
SarahT
SO late to the party- yet giving a rat’s ass. Must be the super moon. Maybe the booze. Whatev. Just thank you all for amusing me. You’re in my will, hahaha
Yatsuno
@Suzanne: I get free Ethiopian food on Saturday. Nomz.
Amir Khalid
@Yatsuno:
I’m a bad person, because this reminds me of Billy Crystal’s Ethiopian restaurant joke in When Harry Met Sally: “I’ll order two empty plates, and then we’ll leave.”
MaryRC
@The prophet Nostradumbass: Hathaway will be back for next week’s episode according to pbs.org. I notice that one of the guest stars next week is Edward Fox who I think is the father or uncle of the actor who plays Hathaway.
JoyceH
Sunday Night Shows? Okay…
Does the return of Old Jane signify that Drop Dead Diva has jumped the shark?
BruceFromOhio
Kansas City Supermoon Part II.
Elizabelle
@SarahT:
@BruceFromOhio:
Supermoon did not disappoint.
I love beauty that you don’t have to pay for.
Patricia Kayden
@Comrade Mary: Yes, I am dreading when the announcement is made that he has passed. My hero. So glad that he lived into his 90s and seems really happy and contented.
Patricia Kayden
@Hal: Funny that I’m Black and don’t know any Black people who use the “N” word.
Elizabelle
@Patricia Kayden:
But they’re all over the place. Paula Deen’s enablers tell us so.
Here’s NYTimes story on her Savannah restaurant patrons.
With a great picture of your 21st century Southern white lardass, as found in the wild, waiting to tie on the feedbag.
Another Halocene Human
@Patricia Kayden: Count yourself lucky, then. Ignorance has made a comeback.