Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

The worst democrat is better than the best republican.

A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires.

It’s easy to sit in safety and prescribe what other people should be doing.

Since we are repeating ourselves, let me just say fuck that.

They don’t have outfits that big. nor codpieces that small.

When do we start airlifting the women and children out of Texas?

Speaking of republicans, is there a way for a political party to declare intellectual bankruptcy?

Today’s gop: why go just far enough when too far is right there?

Let me file that under fuck it.

Seems like a complicated subject, have you tried yelling at it?

We’re watching the self-immolation of the leading world power on a level unprecedented in human history.

People are weird.

It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.

Usually wrong but never in doubt

Welcome to day five of every-bit-as-bad-as-you-thought-it-would-be.

🎶 Those boots were made for mockin’ 🎵

He really is that stupid.

rich, arrogant assholes who equate luck with genius

Tide comes in. Tide goes out. You can’t explain that.

This year has been the longest three days of putin’s life.

It’s the corruption, stupid.

Human rights are not a matter of opinion!

All hail the time of the bunny!

“woke” is the new caravan.

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  1. 1.

    Yatsuno

    So I got a cortisone shot in both hips. No big deal, had things like this before. Yet somehow I feel like a Mack truck ran me over. Tonight is pizza and lassitude.

  3. 3.

    lamh36

    Great minds think alike AL.

    I posted a link to Cher’s first song from her new album that was release 3month ago in one of the threads from yesterday.

    I’ma post it and say again. I’m beginning to believe what they said about Cher and cockroaches surviving the nuclear apocalypse.

    Da diva looks fan-freakin-tastic at almost 70! Even with the obvious plastic surgery, she looks good and on the surface happy and healthy.

    Cher – Woman’s World

  5. 5.

    srv

    Massive heaps of naan and rice and meats and saag followed by some Blind Pig and Pliny after 3&1/2 weeks on the road. And then some more naan.

    Then a month of BB I’ve missed.

  6. 6.

    lamh36

    Lordy, my friend Bryan’s head will explode. He actually went to one of Cher’s “fairwell” tours as a newly out lil gay boy (as he likes to tell it) in Jackson, Mississippi…lol.

    The adult Bryan actually paid top dollar to go to the last “farewell” tour Cher had and he LOVE Gaga.

    It’s basically the first sign of the “gay apocalypse” and he says we should “act accordingly”…lol. I love that boy

  8. 8.

    Josie

    Swedish meatballs over gluten free pasta. This is some really good comfort food. I haven’t had pasta, even gluten free, in months. I may eat it plain even after my son polishes off the meatballs.

  9. 9.

    lamh36

    @srv: man, I love naan (the best garlic naan I had was not surprisingly in India). I’ve made an Indian dish or two, but I’ve never made naan. I’m kinda afraid to even attempt to

  12. 12.

    srv

    @lamh36: Light the Tamara Signal! No one leaves the kitchen until a naan recipe is posted.

    Hmmm, Swedish meatballs and naan…

    RIPLEY!!!!!

  13. 13.

    the Conster

    I went to the Greenway Carousel today on my lunch hour. It was ground zero for happy smiles on a gorgeous late summer day. Check out the critters – peregrine falcon (my favorite), cod, lobster, butterflies, whale, rabbit, fox, etc. It’s beyond beautiful. Thanks Tiffany’s!

  14. 14.

    JPL

    I just watched the next to last episode of Burn Notice and now I’m going to bed and read a few more chapters in The Unwinding.. I’ll look at Tamara’s recipes in the morning.

  15. 15.

    Pogonip

    The greatest thing is The Final Descent will be in my greedy hands on Tuesday, and Doctor Sleep 2 Tuesdays later.

    Oh, yeah, my little boy turns 34 this month, also too.

  16. 16.

    Tommy

    @lamh36: Never heard of Luther. I was in this Chinese place the other day with my dad eating. I mentioned to my dad how much I liked Sherlock, on BBC America. The waiter stops and says to me you know that show. You watch BBC America? I am like yeah, I do.

  19. 19.

    JPL

    @Tommy: I’m on an antenna but a son lets me use his apps for some USA shows. Unfortunately, BBC America doesn’t have streaming. They had the first episode of Broadchurch and that’s it. ugh PBS will be showing the next season of Sherlock at some point but spoilers will be all over the net by then.

  20. 20.

    lamh36

    @Tommy: sacrilege…lol

    It’s one of the biggest word of mouth show on BBC America (even without Idris)…lol.

    Watch season 1 and 2 on netflix, you won’t regret it.

  22. 22.

    MikeJ

    @JPL:

    PBS will be showing the next season of Sherlock at some point but spoilers will be all over the net by then.

    Hasenpfeffer Crumblybottom said he wanted it to come out at the same time in the US and UK, but I doubt he has any say in the business matters.

    Which is why piratebay exists.

  23. 23.

    scav

    Oddly enough, dealing with an recipe-bomb stream of family recipes that errupted over the last two days. Bohunk-fest! But, if anyone is delivering naan, I’m in. Paratha too.

  24. 24.

    Steeplejack

    @lamh36:

    [. . .] the best garlic naan I had was not surprisingly in India [. . .].

    Trying to decide whether to read that as “was, not surprisingly, in India” or “was not, surprisingly, in India.”

  31. 31.

    lamh36

    Wait, Stevie Wonder won an Oscar for “”I Just Called to Say I Love You”! And it was an original song from that Gene Wilder movie “The Woman In Red”!!! Wow that was a strong year for Original Song too.

    “I Just Called to Say I Love You” — The Woman in Red • Music and lyrics: Stevie Wonder
    “Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)” — Against All Odds • Music and lyrics: Phil Collins
    “Footloose” — Footloose • Music and lyrics: Kenny Loggins and Dean Pitchford
    “Let’s Hear It for the Boy” — Footloose • Music and lyrics: Tom Snow and Dean Pitchford
    “Ghostbusters” — Ghostbusters • Music and lyrics: Ray Parker Jr.

    WTF! Love Stevie, love the song, but I never knew it won an Oscar. I Just Called To Say I Love You

    Well damn!

  39. 39.

    Steeplejack

    As I told lamh36, I just sat down to watch the third episode of the “new” Luther, although I got sidetracked into a Balloon Juice check-in when I paused the show for a few minutes. Intense opening sequence that I wasn’t prepared for.

    Dinner was the second half of the excellent Cuban sandwich I got for lunch at Banana Café in the District today. Took bro’ man in my car to get a load of big houseplants at a really jungle-y place off New York Avenue—basically the lot and building of a decommissioned gas station.

    Beautiful weather today, and I’m actually thinking about closing the windows tonight—at least the bedroom one—because it has gotten downright cool outside. Currently 60° in NoVa, and it’s supposed to go down to 53° overnight. Me likey! The high was only 77° today. Supposed to be about the same tomorrow.

  47. 47.

    Steeplejack

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    This is similar to the way that in current lore hippies are thought to have been ubiquitous in the ’60s, when in fact their numbers peaked at 140,000 in 1968.

  52. 52.

    Mnemosyne (iPhone)

    I thought I was taking a sewing class this weekend, but I got the dates mixed up. So instead I will be building new living room furniture and working on a presentation I was foolish enough to volunteer to do at work.

  54. 54.

    Mnemosyne (iPhone)

    @Steeplejack:

    While the banhammer was down, I watched Love Me Tonight, with Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald. Pre-Code, of course, and I hadn’t realized that Chevalier’s prime was quite so … prime. Yowza.

  57. 57.

    Just Some Fuckhead, Thought Leader

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  58. 58.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @beltane: I don’t know. Avoided both New Jersey and the Valley? My look was closer to Ordinary People and/or Risky Business than Fast Times at Ridgemont High.

  60. 60.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    @Botsplainer: Next time go with a duck, they can always put it on it’s bill.

    I’ll be here all week folks, enjoy your waitress and tip the veal.

  61. 61.

    ruemara

    What’s a position inventory for and can I curse the management for yet another consultant sucking up the dollars for something as stupid as a position inventory when we already paid for a culture assessment from yet another consultant.

  62. 62.

    a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)

    @BillinGlendaleCA: I wish I could actually recall the year I saw the Police in a small venue. It was slightly more than 30 years ago. I saw Stevie Ray Vaughn at the same place when he was just coming into touring.

  68. 68.

    Mike in NC

    Suffering through a Tom Cruise sci-fi movie called “Oblivion”, which is insanely bad and extremely boring to boot.

  71. 71.

    lojasmo

    Wife is thugging it up with her brothers and sisters in Los Angeles (the dude abides) and the kid is at a football game with his buddies. I am drinking wine. (green fin organic white from trader joe’s)

    My day was thus: Drive Lo to the airport, lunch, second lunch (beers) with sister, stop by dad’s house for a visit, drive home, pull faulty air conditioner condenser and drier from new (to me) subaru, and pour some wine.

  78. 78.

    Mike in NC

    @different-church-lady: I left active duty in the Navy about the same time “Top Gun” came out, and never had the stomach to watch that Reagan-era bullshit.

    There’s gotta be a reason he’s on his third or fourth wife…

  80. 80.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Dead Ernest: It’s from Songs for Drella, an album Reed and Cale did as a tribute to Warhol. If you aren’t familiar with it, you should check out the whole thing.

  81. 81.

    Gravenstone

    @lamh36: I’m always amused by my first encounter with the theme from “Ghostbusters”. Local radio station had a feature called “Smash or Trash” where callers rated new music. “Ghostbusters” was resoundngly “trashed”, which meant the station promised not to play it again. Then the movie opened like the next week, and of course the song was heard hourly from that point on.

  82. 82.

    Steeplejack

    @Mnemosyne (iPhone):

    I know what you mean. I think Chevalier was one of those actors who sort of got devoured by his own image, and by the ’50s he had been distilled down to “cheerful French lecher,” and all you could hear when he opened his mouth was “Thank Heaven for leetle girls.” It’s always interesting to see those actors in early films where they had the strong screen presence but hadn’t yet been submerged completely into it, and into predictable cliché roles. Joan Crawford comes to mind in the same way.

    And I had a similar reaction to Charles Boyer a few days ago. It was History Is Made at Night (1937), with Jean Arthur. Complete mess of a movie, but there is a early scene at night in which Boyer gets physical with a bad dude, and there’s this sudden close-up of Boyer’s face that hit me: “Boyer’s a bad-ass! Who knew?!” And not in his usual (later) weasely “poisoning his wife” way, but straight-up “I’ll kick your ass.” It was kind of amazing. And then of course the movie fell off a cliff. But that was very surprising.

    Maybe it’s French actors. No French actor could be a bad-ass in American eyes until Jean Reno. Maybe Alain Delon, but he was a little suspect.

    I’ve got Illicit waiting for me on the DVR. TCM had one of their pre-Code afternoons last week (which somehow always feel like a nooner at a cheap motel), and that was the only one I hadn’t seen. Don’t know how I’ve missed it this long. I loves me some early Barbara Stanwyck.

  85. 85.

    Dead Ernest

    @Omnes Omnibus:
    Thanks for that. Looking fwd to it. I think I’ll listen tomorrow morning – let it be the soundtrack to going through my contracts with the health ins companies.
    Thanks also for providing the opportunity to maintain my frequent role of posting the last comment on a thread.
    “Hey, where’d everyone go? Was it something I said?”

  86. 86.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Dead Ernest: Actually, it is hard (for me) to listen to this album while doing something else. It is definitely a concept album that tells a story. But give it a shot.

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