(Scott Meyer’s website)
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Mr. Charles P. Pierce also waxes nostalgic:
… Once, as part of an NPR quiz show on which I occasionally fool around, we had John McCain on as a celebrity guest. The only question he got right was about drive-thru strippers in Germany. So this does not surprise me at all.
The manager also astutely pointed out, “You can’t put a coin in a garter belt.”
You could outfit them all with those little change-makers that streetcar conductors used to use, but that would be a bit ungainly, I’m thinking…
What’s on the agenda for a lovely summer Saturday?
Yatsuno
Parents are in town, so I’ll be going to find them then off to get things settled on new place. After that though it’s a whole lotta nothin’.
Mudge
$2 bills..although the strip bars could sell scrip that the dancers could redeem. I am waiting for answers to the coin question from my Canadian friends, who have had the loonie for years.
But I like the underlying principle. Don’t get rid of the $1 bill because it may harm the strip bar industry.
scav
fed the LBBs some of the good seed and the chirpers are going nuts. So, basically what Yutsy has going, only with fewer parents and moving housegoods.
c u n d gulag
Watching the Yankees try not to lose – again – followed by a dinner of soup, salad, and (locally-grown) tomato sandwiches – my all time favorite summer meal!
Toasted pumpernickel or rye bread, slices of whatever cheese (it’s all good) is lying around, a sprinkle of salt, pepper, and Parmesan cheese, and a boat-load lot of mayo.
YUM!!!
scav
Oh, and as for the topic at hand, I vote for strategically placed little bags and then there’d be the jiggle-jingle effect that worked so well in Caberet’s Money Money Money Money song . . .
Granted, works best earlier in the routine . . .
Violet
Someone else standing his ground in Florida.
His big mistake was having too many witnesses.
piratedan
haircut time…. followed by an afternoon of US soccer and baisebol…. then some time with the latest book from Glen Cook Wicked Bronze Ambition
scav
@Violet: But but but, they were threatening him with an entire apartment complex and not just a sidewalk!
Violet
@scav: Why weren’t the victims carrying guns? Weren’t they just asking for it by not carrying? They’re the real murderers.
Mike in NC
Johnny Mac really has too much time on his hands. A shame that he doesn’t have some important public job that demands his attention.
CaseyL
No particular plans. Was signed up for a hike tomorrow but decided to un-RSVP: the trail was going to be a tough one for me, but I would’ve adventured it if the weather cooled off as predicted. But now the forecast is for temps in the mid-80s, which is way too hot for me to do a trail like that. Damn.
Might drop by the Bellevue Arts Fair. That’s always fun.
MattF
Since there’s been some back-and-forth here on the subject of names for cats, here’s info on what was done in days of old when knights were bold, et cetera and so forth:
http://www.medievalists.net/2013/06/23/medieval-pet-names/
Mandalay
Some bitter word salad for lunch…
She is going to become one crazy old lady.
MattF
@Mandalay: A bad person. Is that a surprise?
burnspbesq
@piratedan:
Umm … Gold Cup final is tomorrow.
Speaking of which, can someone light the Randinho-signal? We’re going to need an open thread for the final.
Mudge
@Mandalay: Virginia Foxx is my template for the elder-Palin, with a bigger megaphone.
red dog
@Mandalay: She already is crazy as a shit house rat and her mind operates as if it were the in the 1920s so that makes her a crazy old lady.
Yutsano
FYWP.
@Mudge: I’m all for her running for Senate now. Get DA TROOF!!! out there Sarah!
dmsilev
@Mandalay:
Impressive; she’s managed the Platonic Ideal of inanity.
YellowJournalism
@Mandalay: The best part of that was her “blackboard” list, written on an envelope.
Davis X. Machina
@Mandalay: What’s the political version of Wolfgang Pauli’s “It is not only not right, it is not even wrong”?
Mandalay
@Mudge:
Not so sure…their politics are probably closely aligned, and Foxx is certainly a nasty piece of work, but she is not stupid.
Palin just voices her whatever is in her head like a three year old. It comes out of her mouth without evaluation or filtering.
Violet
@Mandalay:
Become?
realbtl
Band practice for a gig Mon night, still transitioning from dobro to bass. I’m having to translate open G chords to regular guitar speak after 10 years of doing just the opposite. Fun times not helped by guitarist/singer playing in weird-ass keys like B flat and C sharp minor.
Mustang Bobby
Thunder, lightning, and rain here in Miami, so I’m catching up on TiVo while the cable is out: Red recorded off TNT a couple of days ago, Covert Affairs starring Peter Gallagher’s eyebrows, and waiting for Ice Station Zebra at 3:15 on TCM (if the cable is back) to enjoy Rock Hudson being all butch and Ernest Borgnine — and his eyebrows — do a Russian accent that would make Boris Badanov get out of the business.
Violet
@Mudge:
Virginia Foxx is apparently willing to do whatever work is necessary to run for office, win the office, and keep the office. Palin is just a shrieking harpy. She doesn’t do work, so she won’t run for office because that takes work and double the work if she wins. Instead she’s now relegated to showing up for events like the “Ag PhD Field Day” in Baltic, SD. Downward trajectory, much?
Tripod
Fuck John McCain. Fuck Mitt Romney. Their VP picks told you all you need to know about their complete lack of judgement and leadership skills.
Cassidy
@YellowJournalism: Heh. I was getting the impression they used a whiteboard but with misspelled words.
I love it when people use derogatory terms for smart people. It lets me know if they’re worth acknowledging.
Fred
Little silver change makers on a G-string. Ooooh man that’s sexy. Top it off with a lttle ice cream man cap. I’m in for a pitcher of maguritas. Come back here, stand on this chair. That’s right.
Ted & Hellen
Mick Jagger was 70 yesterday. Yikes.
He looks just like Queen Elizabeth 20 years ago.
piratedan
@burnspbesq: well I guess I can re-pencil in that scheduled debauchery with the Swedish Womens National Volleyball team then
jeffreyw
The tomato garden is really going now, we’ll be simmering a lot of juice down into Awesome Sauce.
WereBear
@Mustang Bobby: I never get tired of Ice Station Zebra!
All of my crew goes by their first names. Mine’s… Captain.
And of course the luscious Patrick McGoohan at the height of his lusciousness. (Other’s mileage may vary.)
srv
RIP JJ Cale: Wrote Clapton’s “After Midnight,” “Cocaine,” ”Travelin’ Light” and “I’ll Make Love To You Anytime” and Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Call Me The Breeze”
aimai
Working on my daughter’s Arangetram, the speech I need to make, snacks and cookies for the musicians, the posters, the guest book, the oh…fuck it… maybe we can sneak out and see either Wolverine or Reds2 tonight.
burnspbesq
@piratedan:
Opening act for tomorrow’s gold cup final is the final of the u-19 world championship in women’s basketball, between the US and France. 1:15 p.m. Eastern on espn2.
Chris
@Mandalay:
Her five minutes of glory are over and now she’s just mad. Couldn’t have happened to a nicer person.
Ruckus
Thinking about going to the Central Ave. Jazz festival. Located on Central Ave in front of the Dunbar hotel. Looks like it will be a hoot.
raven
Whippoorwill’s singing
Soft summer breeze
Makes me think of my baby
I left down in New Orleans
I left down in New Orleans
Magnolia, you sweet thing
You’re driving me mad
Got to get back to you, babe
You’re the best I ever had
You’re the best I ever had
You whisper “Good morning”
Ruckus
@efgoldman:
Was going to make the obvious next point of your comment but even thinking that made me want to stick an ice pick in my ear.
Omnes Omnibus
@ aimai: Is this different than a recital or gallery showing?
Also a big FYWP for taking me to the link when I hit the reply button.
realbtl
@srv:
(Re-posted from a dead thread) Damn, always one of my favorites, saw him twice. The first time was a small club in Crested Butte CO. Some guys on stage setting up the equipment, then they all sat down and started to play. I thought it was the roadies but nope, just a very laid back group.
geg6
Quiet day. John’s up at our camp in Titusville doing some weed whacking and mowing. Doggies are chillin’. Went and got a haircut and pedicure with my sister. I now have fuschia toenails, a very uncharacteristic color for me (I’m a metallic girl). But the sister, hair dresser, and nail tech all talked me into it. I guess they look nice, but wish I’d stuck with silver or gold or bronze. Oh well, it’s only for a month. Feeling lazy and haven’t given a thought to dinner.
Thoughtful David
Umm, “brainiac”? And they try to tell us she’s not channeling the 1950s?
raven
@geg6: I just got done mowing and weed eatin. I have to say there haven’t been many July Saturday’s in Georgia when I could do that at 2pm and not fall out from the heat and humidity.
Cassidy
@aimai: Good luck to her.
fuckwit
I haven’d had much to say on the demise of Tunch, other than to offer sympathy and now my relief that Cole has Steve, but I’m reminded of something I realized a while ago.
These things we call “pets” and who we think are so snuggly and cute are actually fucking ruthless killers.
It’s no great revelation to mention this with regard to dogs: people have guard dogs and hunting dogs, etc; owning a dog, depending on size and breed, can be a lot like owning a gun.
But we think cats are cute. Um, cats in particular, are deadly motherfuckers. If you’re a bird or a rat, there’s no terror like cat.
Cute little kittens, “playing”? They’re not playing, and they’re not adorable if you think about it, they’re practicing their murderous skillz of violence and death: stalking, pouncing, leaping, sneaking up, scratching, biting. Those are some sharp-ass kitty claws and sharp-ass kitty teeth they got there.
They can be snuggly and purring and all. But they’re carnivores and extremely efficient hunters and killers.
Sure, it’s great fun to bust out a laser pointer in any room with a cat in it. But if you were anything from the size of that red dot up to the size of the cat, it wouldn’t be funny at all, it’d be terrifying.
shelly matheis
@Chris:
Oh Palin, why dont you just save your bile to help finish your War On Christmas book. Should make a nice stocking stuffer
Roger Moore
I’m headed to LA MOCA to look at the Urs Fischer exhibit. Also expecting some birthday greetings by phone.
And I think McCain is on the right side of the issue. He’s not the one crying about how somebody needs to think of the strippers; he’s the one saying that the correct response is for people to tip better.
raven
@fuckwit: so what?
Amir Khalid
@Roger Moore:
Funny that John McCain should pick this issue to be on the right side of, innit?
Another Halocene Human
The late Tammy Faye, though she split with the church on homosexuality, used to be Americas face on the batshit backwoods.charismatic cousin humping Assemblies of God. Now Sarah Palin is their most famous adherent.
They deserve her, if the nasty, culty behavior of the north central Florida branch is any indication. (They wrexked the home lives of two people I was quite fond of. Perhaps I’m too close to this issue.)
Roger Moore
@fuckwit:
Hell yes, cats are predators. I’ll occasionally replace the “who’s a good boy” with “who’s a vicious little predator” when talking to my cat. They’ve been bred not just to be effective hunters but to continue killing even when they aren’t hungry. Cats, but not dogs, are on the list of the 100 worst invasive species. It’s a good argument for keeping your cat fixed and indoors.
Cassidy
Watching The Boy In the Striped Pajamas. This is not a happy movie at all.
And Sandusky & Ramirez is pining for attention in Betty’s thread. Just a warning before it comes up here to smear shit all over the place and pine for Cole’s attention.
Roger Moore
@Amir Khalid:
The issue is actually whether we should do away with the $1 bill and force people to use our underused $1 coin instead. People talk about it as being a stupid issue, but it has the potential to save the government on the order of $1 billion/year in printing costs. That’s money that that’s basically sitting on the table waiting to be taken, but we haven’t done it yet because people are making all kinds of stupid objections. McCain is right on the issue, and he’s right to be dismissive about this kind of stupid, stick-in-the-mud objection.
jeffreyw
bah
Mnemosyne
@fuckwit:
Then think for a minute about why it is that most humans’ favorite pets are all nasty predators of things smaller than themselves. We like that they mirror us.
jeffreyw
humbug
oldster
Yeah, another one taking his hat off for J. J. Cale.
DougJ, this is in your wheelhouse–you should put up a tribute thread.
Clapton may have played one or two of his songs, but Mark Knopfler (of Dire Straits) made essentially his entire career out of recycling Cale’s tone and sound. It was great when Cale did it, and great when Knopfler did it, too.
muddy
I’m painting exterior doors. 2 coats 2 sides 3 doors. I’m about to do 11/12. I used the battery string trimmer this morning until I ran out of line, not far from where I would have stopped anyway. The dogs are really brave about attacking the trimmer, it’s not a dragon like the mower.
Later it’s prepping large quantities of various flesh and staples and checking spice supplies and beverages etc, next week is a crowd of houseguests. I have to plan it out in advance as I’m easily distracted. Plus I’m just one of those people with the 3 page comprehensive cascading lists and labels on everything. As to which is chicken and which egg, dunno.
Today I didn’t get anything crossed off the list because I stupidly did things that weren’t on the list. So I re-wrote the list including those items so I could cross them off, and then I felt like I was getting somewhere.
debit
My bike club had a social ride that was supposed to be 20 miles. It ended up being 60. Fun, despite the cold, wind and rain, but now I am disinclined to do anything but veg.
Jay S
@efgoldman: She seems to be headed the Lyndon LaRouche route. Incomprehensible crazy. Can legal problems be far behind? Tax and/or money fraud seem to be the usual outcomes for the trajectory she seems to be on.
Amir Khalid
@Roger Moore:
I was making a joke about John McCain thinking of strippers’ welfare. (Yeah, it wasn’t that funny.) But seriously, Malaysia did try phasing out the one-ringgit bill back in the aughties, for the same reason (plus metal prices were spiking at the time, especially copper for some denominations). Unfortunately, it proved all too easy to trick vending machines and such into accepting metal blanks as one-ringgit coins. The ringgit coins were withdrawn around ’08 or ’09. So that’s one thing you got to watch out for in the US if you switch to dollar coins.
BillinGlendaleCA
Just picked up my car from the auto krunkenhaus, I’m about 1k poorer now. I had the clutch replaced and the guy told me the brakes are shot and the axle has problems(the car’s 28, so no surprise). Driving home I looked like someone who had never driven a stick before.
@Roger Moore: B-day greetings, today?
Ruckus
@Roger Moore:
I usually carry from 1-10 dollar bills in my wallet. Carrying 10 dollar coins in my pocket? I vote for the dollar bill. We could cut a billion out of the DOD or NSA budget a year and no one would even know it was gone.
I’d call this penny wise and pound foolish, for I could make the point that the 5, 10 or 20 bill could also be made into coins and save money. But we don’t have the infrastructure for a 1, 5, 10 or 20 dollar coin. We do for the dollar bill. So what is the cost we pay to convert over to a 1 dollar coin? Who pays for that?
Once again we are looking in the wrong place for savings, and being penny wise and pound foolish.
ETA Damn, Amir Khalid got there first.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Ruckus: Oh, they’ve also talked about eliminating the penny.
Amir Khalid
@BillinGlendaleCA:
We did that in Malaysia, about the same time we were trying out the ringgit coin, and the Malaysian penny has stayed gone. Supermarkets etc. still price items to the penny, but at the checkout counter we now round up/down to the nearest five cents. You won’t miss the penny.
Amir Khalid
@efgoldman:
Fucker. What about the kids he put in hospital with his spray can?
Ruckus
@BillinGlendaleCA:
Was just going to post about that.
Who here thinks anyone will round down if the penny goes away? Not me. I fully expect that if the penny was absolved all prices would go up 1 to 4 cents because we couldn’t make change.
I agree that the penny doesn’t have a lot of purchasing power but how many things do we buy that depend on it for change? Do you want to purchase everything on your debit card? What if you don’t have one? Is the government going to require it or are they going to give you one? Who pays(and who gets paid!) every time you use plastic? That is every time. Every transaction. You want to give a debit card to your kids instead of cash for their allowance?
Ruckus
@Amir Khalid:
Do you think anyone here will round down? I don’t. Do you think a bill requiring rounding down could pass here? Not me. And I don’t think it would even be close.
Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism
@Amir Khalid:
Except in Illinois.
Just got back from The Wolverine. I suspect that beginning my comics nerd career in my pre-teens made it easier for me to accept the last fifteen minutes or so than my husband, who picked up the comics bug from me in college. My tolerance limit for silly science seems to be higher than his.
We ended up discussing the in-credits scene more than the movie.
scav
@Amir Khalid: You might be surprized. Many of the tribe insist they confuse gold colored dollar coins with silver colored quarters while at the same time utterly refusing to contemplate a bill color other than sickly green for all denominations.
GregB
I have the suspicious belief that most Sarah Palin’s speeches are sketched out in lipstick on the back of a Blimpie’s wrapper.
Mnemosyne
There’s an Armenian wedding across the street that’s doing the big send-off of the bride and groom to the church. Music, dancing, cheering, the whole 9 yards. This has been going on for at least half an hour so far.
I would be more tolerant if I didn’t have a headache that won’t go away. Fortunately, it seems to be a stress-induced “oh shit my dad’s memorial is next weekend” headache, not another migraine. The second antibiotic doesn’t seem to have done jack shit for my sinus infection, so it’s another trip back to the doctor, probably for a referral to an ENT.
KS in MA
@MattF: Thanks for the link, MattF. Charming article, and it looks like a very fun site!
Ruckus
@GregB:
You’re not suggesting that she is the one pushing the lipstick around are you? Cause I’m not sure there is enough there there for that to be possible.
Anne Laurie
@efgoldman: Covered this already!
raven
@Ruckus: 100 singles wrapped inside a c-note, Kansas City Roll!
Anoniminous
@efgoldman:
Supermarkets make between one and two percent profit per product per sale BUT they turn that profit forty to three hundred and sixty-five times a year.
Shed no tear for supermarket chains. They are coining it.
The Snarxist Formerly Known as Kryptik
Blegh. I’m just about to give up on political discussion at this point just about anywhere but here. Between Zimmerman/Trayvon, the newest voter laws, Detroit, etc., it’s like a huge chunk of people up and decided that Black People were the biggest catastrophe to ever happen to this country ever and need to be put down before they destroy everything else. Add that on top of the already avowed racist fucks already up and about and….god, just fuck it.
MattR
@Mudge:
I have seen some strip clubs in the US already offer $2 bills to their patrons so they can tip more than a dollar. OTOH, in Canada it seems that the lack of dollar or two dollar bills has led to the girls not receiving any tips while on stage dancing and instead relying on money from individual dances. I have no idea if they end up making less or more as a result.
Amir Khalid
@efgoldman:
What the supermarkets here do is calculate to the cent when adding up, and then round the total amount due up/down to the nearest five cents. This is per the central bank rule..
Peter
@Ruckus: You rely on pennies for change but you then never use that change because pennies are worthless.
We just got done phasing out the penny up here in Canadia and I’m pleased to report to you that prices have not budged an iota. If your total requires change in amounts non-divisible by five, it’s at the store’s discretion which way they round, but the vast majority of businesses will follow basic rounding rules you learned in school: you’re out a few cents if the last digit is 1, 2, 6, or 7, and gain a few cents if it’s 3, 4, 8, or 9. Net effect on people: zip.
IowaOldLady
Mr IOL and I were driving along this morning, and he says, “Boy, this area has changed. This used to be a back road in the middle of nowhere.” I swear, there was a cornfield on our right and a soybean field on our left. The formerly gravel road had been paved, I’ll grant him that.
The thing that really hacks me off about that idiot Palin is that the Rs were so sure Hillary voters would flock to her because they were both women. How much do you have to look down on your voters to believe that?
tybee
@raven:
he seems to be unfamiliar with the primate species he’s a member of.
Ahh fywp deletor of infos
@The Snarxist Formerly Known as Kryptik: oddly, I am seeing less troll derp on newspaper comments. I know tgey are fighting that stuff but it is so across the board theyre either demotivated or kochs stopped paying for it. But gawker and guardian are trollfested noe, so who knows?
I hate these people pissing on Detroit. Nothing new though. Fifteen years ago ‘ those people don’t deserve tip govern themselves after Marion Barry Newt Gingrich tag teamed on assraping dc, five years ago it was all lower ninth ward needs to leave Nola to rich ppl, yuppies and Disney on the River.
Even my racist mom saw through that shit and she can be pretty obtuse.
Ahh fywp deletor of infos
Crunkenhouse would make a hervoragende band name. @BillinGlendaleCA:
raven
@IowaOldLady: I drove from Chicago down to Champaign on back roads 2 years ago. I hadn’t been on that run in 30 years, goddamn windmills everywhere!
raven
@tybee: knucklehead
Jay S
They weren’t looking down on their voters. They were looking down on Hillary’s voters.
ETA Who they thought would become their voters.
catclub
@Amir Khalid: Although in this case it is the coin vendors that will scream bloody murder because they will have to modernize their coin systems. PLus cash registers will need and extra coin slot.
Davis X. Machina
@efgoldman:
I remember Cheney had torn ligaments, and was on crutches, right after 9/11, before, or at least around the time of the anthrax letters. It looked possible that he was on cipro from the get-go.
I am not a kook
RIP JJ Cale.
Listening to some live stuff now. Damn, his playing is so tasty. He can say more with a single long held string bend than most guitarists do in a week of back to back gigs. It’s a cliche, but he really sounds like he’s thinking of every single note as he plays. And not playing a note is at least as important as playing it.
Ruckus
@Peter:
And you live in a country with a dab more common sense. Unless it was mandated it will not happen here. Most of our supermarkets are huge corps and their profit margins are small. Yes they move a lot of product and make good profits but that will not get them to round down. Rounding down would have to be passed as a law and at that time all the companies would up their prices to compensate for rounding down. I owned a small retail store, I wanted to price products fairly and reasonably but I needed to make a profit to stay in business. Everyone does. It is the nature of capitalism, you don’t make a profit, you fail. Which is why I no longer own a small retail store. With the low margins almost every type of store has, prices will not be lowered and taxes certainly won’t to compensate for rounding down. Our sales taxes are local not national and local/state governments rely on them, some states(TX for one) much more. The states will not lose revenue based on rounding down so that has to be done on the backs of the retailer. And it just will not be done. In another country(such as yours) I can see that happening. Not in the Good Ole USA.
Anoniminous
@efgoldman:
Ack.
I should have generalized.
aimai
@Omnes Omnibus: It is a huge recital, like your graduation and recital rolled into one. We and the other family (because its customary to do it together to share the cost) have to hire a musical troupe, an entire theater, and feed everyone. The two girls will dance for 2.5 hours–its quite a demanding performance schedule. And after that they can teach or join a professional troupe or just keep going. I think we are lucky, actually, because the Indian dance world does not include the quarterly competitions of Irish dance or the expensive annual recitals for tap/jazz and ballet that we used to face. Plus, as I tell my daughter, no shoes! We are saving all around.
Mnemosyne
@efgoldman:
The antibiotic I just finished is the one that causes tendon (and ligament?) tears — levofloxacin. It helped a little, I guess, but I still constantly feel like I have water in my right ear and can hear fluid rushing around when I tilt my head.
I have an HMO so my doctor has to refer me to an ENT, but I think that’s what I want her to do. I tend to have nasty reactions to antibiotics (like rashes and diarrhea), so I don’t want her to take another stab in the dark.
22over7
Last week we got the spare room cleared out, so today I took down the nasty old curtains and washed them. They disintegrated. Oops. So I braved the crowds and bought new ones.
Italian beef is simmering in the crockpot.
And to the juicer with the sinus infection from hell, do not wait to get to the ENT. The surgery is the best thing I ever did for my health.
ruemara
A busy morning. I finally found a roommate for next term and have to get the (h)ex off my sofa after 4 months of sponging. Since the deadline for him moving is August 17th and he’s done, um … nothing, I am clearing out the storage, sorting out my things and packing his things. Hell or high water, they and he will be outside my door on the date specified. Very excited.
Omnes Omnibus
@aimai: “Break a leg” for her and “good luck” for you.
raven
@ruemara: Here’s how Ellen Barkin did it with Waits in New Orleans!
Ruckus
@ruemara:
You seem like a very nice person. Most people I know in that situation would just throw all his stuff out in the street on the 16th and change the locks.
raven
@ruemara: And the greatest kick his ass out song
Later That Night
Reuben and the Jets!
RSA
I mowed (part of) the lawn today; too bad I’d turned off my brain in advance.
My old walk-behind lawnmower is hard to start, and if I stop it, I have to wait for a long time for it to cool down before it will start again. So I’m mowing, and mowing, and the bag of clippings is filling up, and then I realize I can’t finish unless I replace that bag with the big plastic plug that fits in the chute while the mower is still running. So I pull the bag off, still holding onto the lever that keeps the mower running, and I get blasted with all the clippings that had backed up under the mower and in the chute. In ten seconds I was a mess from head to toe. Front only, like a cartoon character in an explosion.
raven
@Ruckus: Donna!
aimai
@ruemara: Good luck with that. I hope it goes smoothly. Its weird that things that would cause ordinary people to die of shame and slink away just roll right off people like your H(ex) and that can make it very hard to get rid of them.
And thanks, OO, I’m enjoying seeing all my daughter’s “fruition come to pass” as some Chicago Bulls Sports anouncer put it, years ago. Indian Dance is very much an independent art form. You really have to be extremely self disciplined, from an early age, and you dance more or less alone all the time. What you lose in teamwork, as in a corps de ballet, you gain in self confidence and poise.
raven
@RSA: It could have been WAY worse. Get the damn thing fixed, proly a carb adjustment.
raven
@aimai: I assume we are talking about Indian in the Indian subcontinent context?
BillinGlendaleCA
@raven: I was thinking the same thing, what if Cole did this? I think we’d be talking about at least some missing toes and fingers
Violet
@Mnemosyne: I know I sound like a broken record, but since giving up gluten (and most grains), I’ve had much less congestion and very little sinus pressure.
Also, the side effects from the antibiotics could be a Herxheimer reaction, or “die off” where your body is reacting to the endotoxins released as the bad pathogens die off. Something to keep in mind. Of course you could also have a sensitivity to certain antibiotics. Make sure if you do take them to concurrently take a good quality probiotic to replace the gut flora and cut down on the negative reactions.
aimai
@debit: Wow! I’m incredibly impressed. I wish I could say the same and do the same.
Violet
@aimai: A friend’s mother (he’s Indian) did some Indian dance recital a few years ago. It was some huge thing–you might know what it is but I can’t remember it. She apparently had studied for years and years and finally decided to do this recital to get some official certification or recognition or something. It was a really huge deal and the family had to come in from all over to be there for it.
My friend’s daughter is now studying Indian dance at the family’s insistence. It is so involved.
aimai
@raven: Yes, sorry. I’m in so deep at the moment that I didn’t specify. Yes, the Arangetram is one of those neo-cultural traditions that families adopt in the US when they would never have done it at home. Like the dragon boat races here, which are a huge thing, which in China are extremely regional and limited. Here they’ve become symbolic of chinese heritage while remaining somewhat puzzling to Mainland Chinese from other parts of china. Ditto for Indian Dance which originated as a temple dance performed by professionals, not by ordinary middle class women or as some kind of rite de passage for teenagers. My d. dances in a huge Bharata Natyam school here and is one of just a few non-ethnic Indians. Absurdly enough all the other caucasians are also the daughters of anthropologists. Lots of ethnic indian women, from the subcontinent, take it up now when they come to the US in graduate school as a way of staking a claim to a cultural tradition that takes on new meaning in the new world. Its really interesting to watch.
aimai
@RSA: Good thing you weren’t covered in honey or something. Then the clippings would have stuck. I kind of wish you had a picture though.
Roger Moore
@catclub:
Not so much. The vending machine companies actually like the idea of dollar coins because it’s cheaper to add an extra coin slot to their existing coin handling systems than to add a bill scanner, especially one that’s sophisticated enough to recognize photocopied bills. And the need for an extra coin slot in cash registers could be handled by eliminating the penny at the same time, which would also save money.
ruemara
@aimai: I’m rather intrigued. Will there be pictures or video of this performance? It sounds very interesting and I adore dance.
Chris
@Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism:
Yeah, me too – especially once I got back and learned that it was supposed to set up the next X-Men prequel.
Mudge
@Roger Moore: Good reasons, but also everything is moving towards debit/credit anyway. The US public is so reactionary, losing the penny and paper dollar make sense in every way. I could buy a penny candy as a kid and a haircut was a quarter. I’m not sure anything costs even a quarter anymore. The US refuses to go metric, for example. I have not seen an economic evaluation lately of what we lose that way, but it must be substantial.
As we all know by observing the Republicans, doing something because it makes economic or just logistical sense is not enough for many folks as long as the FRENCH and/or OBAMA are in favor of it. I’m not sure the Canadians have yet reached that level of knee jerk rejection.
Randy P
What’s on the agenda for a lovely summer Saturday?
We’ve spent much of the week seeing brand-new plays at this workshop (staged readings open to the public). Outstanding stuff. Funny, heart-rending, brilliant dialog and fantastic acting too. And this is not the only new-play festival in Philly. There are some damned good new playwrights coming up in this country, and I can’t believe how rich the talent pool is right here in Philly.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Mudge: You’ve seen them on the House floor screaming about light bulbs and ceiling fans.
@Roger Moore: I asked if today was you b-day since it would have been my mom’s 87th today; as well as the day 7 years ago we said our goodbyes to our sainted Cocker Spaniel Wendy.
rikyrah
Poll Says White People Would Like To Drop Race Conversation
Jul 26, 2013
By Michael Arceneaux
The sky is blue, water is wet, and most White people would rather not engage in conversations about race that would address reality and subsequently make them uncomfortable.
I’m not alerting you to anything close to a new concept here, but the latest Pew Poll about reactions to the George Zimmerman case is nonetheless still intriguing: The majority of Whites found that the verdict was just, though 52% of Whites say race is getting more attention in this case than it deserves.
Of course they do.
More from the report:
A paltry twenty-eight percent understanding that this case raises lingering issues related to race and systematic racism. That’s why President Obama‘s remarks about Trayvon Martin and the plight of Black men who are victims of racial profiling were so important. Even if the timetable and ferocity of statements were not to Tavis Smiley’s liking, they mattered and need to continue. We need real dialogue about race and racism, and hopefully more high profile Blacks with large platforms will continue to speak out.
http://newsone.com/2642224/pew-poll-white-people-race-conversation/
rikyrah
Sharpton Fires Back At O’Reilly: Since When Are You The ‘Expert On What African-Americans Want?’
by Matt Wilstein | 7:10 pm, July 26th, 2013
MSNBC’s Al Sharpton took Bill O’Reilly’s recent comments about race head-on Friday evening, after the Fox anchor singled him out last night for being “in business with people who put out entertainment harmful to children.” Sharpton called it “ridiculous” that O’Reilly is somehow the “expert on what the vast majority of African-Americans want.”
“In the time since George Zimmerman’s acquittal,” Sharpton declared, “some right-wingers have gone into overdrive to push the most negative stereotypes of the African-American community for their own gain.” He lumped O’Reilly in with Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity as the “unholy triumvirate of right-wing reaction” that has “been desperate not to have a real conversation about the injustices of the justice system.”
Sharpton mocked O’Reilly and others for their sudden concern about gang violence in Chicago, something he said “many of us in African-American community” have been talking about for months. “Better late than never, I guess.” On O’Reilly’s focus on the breakdown of the African-American family, Sharpton asked, “Is Bill O’Reilly saying George Zimmerman shot Trayvon Martin because Trayvon was born out of wedlock, even though he wasn’t? That’s ridiculous, right?”
“All of this is an effort to avoid addressing the urgent topic that something is fundamentally flawed with our justice system if laws like Stand Your Ground allow a kid to be gunned down,” Sharpton continued. “But Rush, Hannity, O’Reilly don’t want to talk about that.”
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/sharpton-fires-back-at-oreilly-since-when-are-you-the-expert-on-what-african-americans-want/
RSA
@raven:
Yeah, I thought about that. A repair is in the plans.
@aimai:
Heh. How to become an Internet meme in one semi-dangerous lesson.
Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism
@Chris: Days of Future Past. The original was a terrific story. Here’s hoping they don’t munge it too badly.
But alas, this was more “What do you mean, there was a post-credits scene in X-Men 3? I don’t remember that!”
burnspbesq
@Anoniminous:
A two-percent margin is still a shit margin, whether it’s on a million or twenty billion.
Avery Greynold
So what is the possible gain from holding some stacks of uncirculated $1 bills? Deposits in bank accounts gets you zero-point-jack. Wall St. gets you a few percent at high risk. Dollars in circulation rapidly wear out, unlike coins. Until inflation surfaces, you maintain face value at zero risk. Ten years on, what kind of premium would there be for collectors or those who want it as a novelty gift?
SiubhanDuinne
I hope someone is still reading this thread, because the next one over is totally borked for me (I guess it has something to do with the video, dunno really, but it’s awful).
I’m trying to find the thing we used to have with all the front pagers’ email addresses. It seems to have disappeared. Does anyone know where it went (and why)? And how to get it back?
Omnes Omnibus
@SiubhanDuinne: I have a dropdown with the FP emails.
Cassidy
@rikyrah: Oh stop. Sandusky & Ramirez is a much better expert on this topic than you. We just need to wait for it to come in here and whitesplain race realtions and it’s all good.
lojasmo
@fuckwit:
When I let my cat out he will go no further than the nearest tuft of grass…which he promptly settles down to eat. Same is true of our former cat.
Ted & Hellen
@Cassidy:
I know you want me, Assidy.
It’s amusing how you kind of pretend to be black or whatever it is you think you do.
StringOnAStick
@rikyrah: I’m glad Sharpton said this; the degree of whitesplaining over that miscarriage of justice is disgusting. I’m more than a little disappointed that I’m in the measly 28% of whites who thought race played a role in that case. 28%? Seriously white ‘Murika?