I’ve got some sort of stomach bug, so I’m just piled up on the sofa taking it easy. My youngster is cruelly forcing me to watch a Sasquatch hunter marathon on television.
The Sasquatch people have their own special vocabulary: for example, “squatching” means looking for yetis. I’m definitely going to have to wrest back control of the remote prior to football.
My mother-in-law gave me an ancient waffle iron that has cannoli plates. Have you ever heard of such a thing? I was going to attempt homemade cannoli, but I feel too queasy at the moment.
What are y’all up to? Have you ever made cannoli?
Chyron HR
The NSA is bugging our stomachs now?!
THANKS OBAMA
schrodinger's cat
No I have never made cannolis, yesterday I made some turnovers with a sweet coconut filling. They were awesome.
schrodinger's cat
@Chyron HR: NSA, in the belly of the beast!
ETA: Just kidding Betty Cracker, I hope you feel better soon!
aimai
Basically isn’t a cannoli just a pizzele minus the waffle weave? How had can it be? People used to have to make them with minimal machine help, just using hand held presses held over an open flame, didn’t they? I’m pretty sure you can do it.
Violet
Sorry you’re feeling ill. Take a lot of probiotics. That helps the good bugs begin to outnumber the bad bugs that are causing you the problems. Send someone to the drugstore to get some probiotics if you don’t have any. There’s research to support it working and a Canadian hospital is running a trial on it with kids who have stomach bugs. It worked for someone in my household who was as sick with a stomach bug as I’ve ever seen anyone. Best of luck and I hope you feel better soon!
Villago Delenda Est
Leave the gun, take the cannoli.
Betty Cracker
@aimai: This waffle iron came with the original manual and instructions (my in-laws are extraordinarily organized). There’s also directions for making pizzelles, which I’d never heard of until today.
BGinCHI
@Villago Delenda Est: Leave the Sasquatch, take he cannoli.
jeffreyw
We bought some stainless tubes made for wrapping the dough for frying. It was fun.
BGinCHI
@Betty Cracker: Make pizzelles, let them cool, then use to make ice cream sandwiches.
MomSense
@Betty Cracker:
@aimai:
Now I am craving both cannolis and pizzelles and there is not a decent place to get them anywhere near me.
Pizzelles are delicious, Betty. Try them! And if you come up with a good recipe–please share!
Suffern ACE
I can handle the Sasquatch scholars. It’s those ghost hunters that drive me batty.
schrodinger's cat
@jeffreyw: How is your new kitteh?
StringOnAStick
@Betty Cracker: Given your cookie making skills, you definitely need to become acquainted with pizzelles! They are wonderful.
I’m trying to decide if I need to exit the internet entirely in order to not spend the remaining years of my life in depression about, well, everything. The Guardian had a story last week about the recently retired BP oil reserves specialist and his presentation in Britain about oil being gone and economies collapsing because of it, starting in 2030, and the true end in 2050. Yay, I turn 72 in 2030! Followed by today’s long AP article about the world-wide retirement crisis that makes it clear the golden age of humanity is over and life is about to get a lot more poverty-stricken for anyone not in the 1% (as planned, I suppose). Toss in climate change and what that has to hold, and damn, I wonder why I bother to do anything other than stockpile an easy way to end it all when things get that ugly. Obviously it’s time to get back on the anti-depressants I used to take, but the knowledge that has been gained isn’t going away.
Suffern ACE
The birthday party I was supposed to go to has been cancelled. I got nothing to do and a bottle of bourbon that was supposed to be a present. Hmmmm.
? Martin
My daughter is fascinated by the bigfoot hunter shows as well. No idea why…
BGinCHI
@StringOnAStick: You left out the fresh water crisis.
Betty Cracker
@Suffern ACE: I’m finding them very similar: Both feature people bumbling around with a full camera crew and claiming to see and hear things that are miraculously never captured on camera.
schrodinger's cat
@? Martin: They look cuddly?
Old Dan and Little Ann
Here’s to the atom bomb
May everyone find a way to get on
-Smashing Pumpkins
In any event, Go Steelers!
Comrade Mary
@Betty Cracker: Pizzelles are tasty! Try using anise flavouring: it’s unusual and lovely. Here’s some other ideas.
But for now, my sympathies on your unruly stomach. Flat ginger ale might help.
noodler
the dough is easy, you can fry them or use the waffle iron, but need to mold them quickly after taking them off of the iron. if you fry them, then they are wrapped around a metal tube while frying. the filling, that’s where you really can experiment! i like mine with sambuca, ricotta, marscapone, pistaccio and fine chocolate.
schrodinger's cat
Open thread needs Vulcan Caturday Kittehs
Keith P
I’d be happy just to find a waffle iron with both regular and Belgian waffle plates. It’s like the manufacturers insist on either choosing one or the other, or buy two irons.
HRA
I made cannolis first with wooden tubes and later with stainless steel ones. I gave all the tubes to the daughter with the most love of baking and cooking a few decades ago. I still have my pizzelle iron. I make pizzelles each year for Christmas and for Easter. My recipe is with vanilla flavoring and a much different one than my late MIL’s recipe. Her recipe made them heavier. My recipe comes out with a lighter version.
gelfling545
I make pizelles & roll them into cannoli shells all the time & they are super easy.
Betty Cracker
@StringOnAStick: It is overwhelming if you think about all the shit that could happen. I keep despair at bay by remembering that most predictions are wildly inaccurate — there are just so many variables that can come into play. Plus, there’s no point in worrying about stuff you can’t control. But you know all of this. I hope you feel better. I’d send you a cannoli if I could. :-)
MBL
Fun fact: the famous “…take the cannoli” line from The Godfather was an ad-lib.
…yeah, I got nothing else over here.
Dead Ernest (Thought Wrangler)
Interesting. I think if someone told me they were Sasquatching …I would not think ‘Oh, they’re looking for Yetis.’
Now, however, if someone says, I have to stop for a haircut, I might think ‘Oh, they’re going to look for a Yeti.’
/everything I know I learned from Car Talk.
jeffreyw
@schrodinger’s cat: He’s learned some dirty jokes from Homer and is trying them out on Annie.
Mike E
@BGinCHI: FSM, pizelles are teh awesome! My adopted (appropriated is prolly moar accurate) Italian family had an iron and cranked them out every Xmas. Yum.
GHayduke (formerly lojasmo)
If anybody ever wondered how the fuck drug manufacturers come up with drug names
And this describes why manufacturers choose certain sounding brand names.
? Martin
@schrodinger’s cat: They don’t look like anything. It’s a bunch of guys wandering around hollering in the woods like idiots at 1AM.
Bill E Pilgrim
I thought Bigfoot was a large, hairless creature living in West Virginia who appears only occasionally to “bigfoot” someone’s post, thus the nickname. They say he keeps a collection of small animals to feed on. *Shiver*. Personally, I think he’s a myth.
Josie
@jeffreyw: Annie looks concerned.
MomSense
@BGinCHI:
And colony collapse.
schrodinger's cat
@jeffreyw: He is a handsome boy. How is Homer kitteh, up to no good, or is he behaving?
jeffreyw
@Josie: Scandalized!
Mike E
@HRA: @Comrade Mary: Anise is traditional, & the only way I remember them when my friend’s family made them.
Socoolsofresh
NSA secretly back dooring equipment from major tech companies:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/catalog-reveals-nsa-has-back-doors-for-numerous-devices-a-940994.html
So, almost all servers, computer equipment has been compromised. But you know, its just a dudebro problem. What about poverty?
jeffreyw
@schrodinger’s cat: He spends his time either pestering me to break out the laser pointer or stalking Ginger.
Mike E
@Bill E Pilgrim: Find Bigfoot, and you’ll find his mustard.
Botsplainer
Keep a superclean toilet, flush a couple of times each use, just to be sure.
You never know when you’re going to hit the double.
donnah
Aw, Betty, sorry to hear you’re sick. Our entire family has the flu. We’ve been sick since Thursday, with coughs, fevers, body aches, headaches, and snotty noses. No, we did not get flu shots this year. bummer.
GHayduke (formerly lojasmo)
@Socoolsofresh:
The most cogent thing you’ve ever written here. Good job!
Corner Stone
And Schaub completes another 6 yard slant pass! Who could’ve guessed?!
Corner Stone
Jonathan “Lundergan” Grimes for his first NFL rushing TD!
TaMara (BHF)
@jeffreyw: You beat me to it, I was going to tout your cannoli making skills.
Corner Stone
@Mike E:
Legend holds that it’s the lost mustard that drives his unceasing pursuit across the intertubes each night, wailing his pitiable screeching vocalizations.
TaMara (BHF)
@Comrade Mary: I think we may have our recipe thread for this Friday.
Corner Stone
I think the announcer just said that “3rd & 14” is the situation this Texans offense was built to capitalize on.
Say what now?
Jim, Foolish Literalist
THis week’s Michael Scott Self-Awareness Award goes to Fat Timmy Dolan, the Milwaukee Laundryman
schrodinger's cat
@Mike E: You mean BigPaw don’t you?
JPL
Atlanta is winning. Can we end the game now?
WereBear
Betty, my go-tos for fluttery tum are ginger tea (forget the ginger ale, there’s hardly any ginger in it!) or dill pickles.
Dill is what they used to give babies for colic. Just throw some on your tongue and wash it down, it does wonders. But most people don’t have the herb in the house.
Villago Delenda Est
@? Martin:
It’s all that fabulous Pacific NW scenery.
WereBear
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: You need some Father Ted:
Mnemosyne (iPhone)
I bought this hat pattern at a yarn store in San Luis Obispo while we were on our road trip last month and finished knitting it last night, so now I have to block it. I’m not usually a beret person, but something about it called to me. Next I’m going to try and make matching hats for my niece and her new American Girl doll. (She saved up for it for months and was SUPER excited to be able to get it at Christmas.)
Also, I was able to catch the Junipero Serra exhibition at the Huntington Library before it closes and it was pretty fascinating. I didn’t grow up in California, so I never learned about the missions or built one in the 4th grade. I thought they did a pretty balanced job of pointing out the pros and cons of the mission system (yes, there were some pros — the local Indians were generally better treated by the Franciscans than they were by the local soldiers, and the Franciscans were willing to stand up to the soldiers and insist that the Indians be paid a wage instead of being used as slave labor).
They also made a good point of showing that the local Indian tribes still exist and are not part of California’s long-dead past like the Franciscans are. I’m sure there are still critiques to be made that could help them do even better in the future, but what they had seemed pretty good.
Mike E
@schrodinger’s cat: BigPaw in the Sky, givin’ FSM a run for the money.
Elizabelle
Betty: sorry you’re not feeling great.
OTOH: thanks for reminding me to get my flu shot today.
rikyrah
Yesterday was 50 degrees.
Today?
My fingers nearly froze taking the groceries out of the car. It’s that bone chilling cold.
Tomorrow, I’m going to have to break out my Eskimo coat….sigh…
I’ve decided to make some beef stew.
Elizabelle
Turner Classic Movies: it’s remember Joan Fontaine and Peter O’Toole day:
Fontaine:
Ivanhoe now
2 p Eastern The Constant Nymph
4 p Suspicion
5:45 p Rebecca
O’Toole
8 p Eastern Lawrence of Arabia
midnight TCM special from 2012
1:00 a Goodbye Mr. Chips
3:45 a My Favorite Year
jayboat
I gain weight just thinking about sweet, sweet cannoli…
Thanks, Obama.
schrodinger's cat
@rikyrah: Is it floor length? My neighbor’s new winter coat is and she pairs it with a Mad Bomber type hat. I think she could hunt in the Tundra with that outfit.
WereBear
@Mnemosyne (iPhone): How lovely. It has a twenties look to it; they had such clever hats then.
schrodinger's cat
@Mike E: BigPaw wins Paws down! Not a fair competition, at all.
WereBear
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: And more Father Ted:
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@WereBear: Heh. I’ve heard of that show but never seen it. This line makes me a bit curious
max
@Corner Stone: Legend holds that it’s the lost mustard that drives his unceasing pursuit across the intertubes each night, wailing his pitiable screeching vocalizations.
Come summer time, some old farmer is gonna ask some guy to ‘get that goddamned wagon out of my field’ so the guy will go out there and look inside, take a big sniff and go, ‘Whoa. Smells like mustard in here.’
Then he will be attacked by a pit bull.
max
[‘Luckily, he’ll be saved by a Yeti.’]
Jim, Foolish Literalist
on topic, sort of, if there is one, Bigfeet and Yetis and Nessie, like witches and ghosts and other supernatural stuff, are things I wish I believed in, because the world would be more interesting with them in it, to paraphrase Dr Lecter. Zombies, now, flesh-eating throngs and herds of zombies, I’m content to not have around.
WereBear
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: It has the best absurdist British comedy flavors, only turned up to 11. If that sounds like your cuppa tea, go for it!
gene108
On a political note, we seem to be approaching something that should be considered significant but what it means about America, as a whole I do no know.
When I was growing up, Democrats controlled the House and the Republicans controlled the Presidency (Nixon, Ford, Reagan and Bush, Sr, with a four year interruption by Carter).
Now it seems to have flipped. Democrats control the Presidency, with Republicans only winning the popular vote in 2004, since Clinton took office, while Republicans have controlled the House for 14 of those 20 years.
I grew up with Democrats in charge of the House, so I still feel Republican control of the House is an aberration, but it doesn’t seem to be. They’ve been entrenched there for the better part of a generation.
Tommy
LOL about big foot show. I watched one and all I kept thinking was what executive greenlighted that show where adults were running around in the woods looking for something that they will never find.
ruemara
@Socoolsofresh: If you were ever really poor, you’d find your little jest quite repellent.
Doing a lot of camera work lately, don’t know why. Got the very annoying roommate kitty I am watching to be interesting for a bit. She’s not a bad kitty, she just doesn’t like: playing, feathers, string, balls, laps, chase, being alone, anyone besides her human. So she cries, mostly. And seeks comfort. But if you give her scritches, it’s 50/50 if her desire for comfort will stay true or if she’ll turn on a dime and claw you. Which means she and I are not buddies, which is odd, since I’m a pet magnet. In this case, I’d like to repel her to just leaving me aloooone. Tired of dodging her claws.
Other than that, the local wildlife are far more engaging than kitty. Unfortunately, the local water preserves are either dried up or way smaller. The waterbirds I’m used to seeing at this time are nearly non-existent. I think I’ll try to get out with our wildlife expert and start working on my world water day 2014 project. I did manage to find a few unwilling subjects, though. Still many songbirds active.
ruemara
Boo, in moderation! Dammit, up the link count to 4!
Jennie
Might be a krumkake iron: http://scandinavianfood.about.com/od/cookierecipes/r/krumkake.htm
Corner Stone
Antonio Smith just tried to knock Fitzpat into next season.
StringOnAStick
@Betty Cracker: Thanks, Betty. Time to go get some mood-improving sun….
WereBear
@Tommy: It’s the new “hot” in television; instead of scripting people making fools of themselves, they just seek out natural talent.
However, it seems like real television still lives on, with high-tier cable channels like HBO and on the net with Hulu and Amazon creating their own shows.
Broadcast and lower-tier channels don’t think much of their audience; so they don’t give them much. I can’t believe the commercial/show ratio lately. Soon, it will be half and half.
ThresherK
At The Grey Lady, it is noted that Tesla “provided endless drama as…Elon Mush swatted back” at nameless, sourceless, passive-voiced “naysayers”.
Cute stuff. Love the phrasing.
Now accepting nominations for “Professional automobile writer who doesn’t dream of reliving or rewriting his (or her) high-school days in a Mustang”. Really, the whole lot of them seem to be pretty damned inbred.
Tommy
@WereBear: Speaking of good TV, check out The Returned on the Sundance channel. I watched like all 12 hours of it last weekend. In French with subtitles, but well worth the effort.I find there are a lot of terrible shows on, but if you look and get like every cable channel there is also some pretty amazing stuff on.
cmorenc
@Suffern ACE:
Did you hear that? And what’s that shape over there in that shadow? See it? It’s really hard to get the camera to pick that up, even on infrared, but there’s something there…and did you feel something just a bit chilly pass by you a moment ago?
Mnemosyne (iPhone)
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
“That would be an ecumenical matter.”
It’s especially funny if you were raised Catholic, but people of all religious backgrounds can enjoy it.
MomSense
@Mnemosyne (iPhone):
I’ve been on a never not knitting kick lately.
Made these two this year for gifts.
https://botanicalknits.com/pattern.php?id=forest_floor
https://botanicalknits.com/pattern.php?id=pressed_leaves
Tommy
@cmorenc: They all seem to have the same format. A couple that are “true believers” and then the skeptic thrown in to make it “real.” That is the job I want. All I’d have to so is call somebody an idiot every few minutes, job done :).
WereBear
@cmorenc: SNL nailed it with this Hugh Laurie sketch:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GwWDZGKe9c
Cervantes
“Cannoli” is the plural form. “Cannolu” is singular in the original Sicilian.
“Cannolis” is ungrammatical but no less delicious for that.
Mnemosyne (iPhone)
@MomSense:
I bought the “Botanical Knits” hard copy book through her website, which also came with a free eBook version and two free patterns from her Ravelry collection, so it ended up being a really good deal.
I really like that so many knitting books and magazines are available as PDFs now since my shelf space is limited and I often end up making scans of the patterns anyway so I can carry them on my iPhone or iPad.
Mnemosyne (iPhone)
@Cervantes:
But who eats only one of a plate of cannoli? May as well pluralize it for
gluttonyhonesty.? Martin
300 college apps read:
15% parents went bankrupt, lost the home, were homeless/moved to some shitty neighborhood.
10% dad beats up mom/sibling/me/all of us, with traces of the above, and tales of how older brother’s job is to hide all of the kitchen knives and/or ammo so dad doesn’t kill mom/sibling/me/all of us.
10% mom/dad/both are alcoholics/drug abusers/gamblers, with traces of both of the above along with waking up to find dad dead and mom unconscious, foster homes, shuffling off to other relatives, and generally just hating the family they were born to.
I shudder to think of what’s going on with the students that didn’t bother applying to college.
MomSense
@Mnemosyne (iPhone):
I bought the ebook version of that book, too. Her patterns are well written. My ravelry shelf would be very heavy if not virtual.
IowaOldLady
Sorry about the vomity, Betty.
The thought of home-made cannoli is making me drool on my keyboard.
JGabriel
Betty Cracker @ Top:
It could be worse. You could be watching Ancient Aliens, the show that famously told us, “Ancient Egyptians did not have the wheel when they were building the pyramids, therefore they must have had anti-gravitation technology given to them by ancient aliens!”
WereBear
@? Martin: Most of them become the working poor and get reviled by Republicans?
Tommy
I am reading all the stuff related to NYT Benghazi Report. I can’t find the darn article from a few months ago, think it was in Outside Magazine, but one of Stevens bodyguards was with him the entire time, until they got separated in the fire. He lived and went on the record (not using his actual name). That yahoo on 60 Minutes got all this coverage but that one article is the only one I’ve seen this guy tell what happened. You know he was actually there. It was horrifying. He never said it directly, but clearly he doesn’t believe what Fox Nosie and the Republican believe.
Villago Delenda Est
Noisemax reports that Peter King feels a need to renew his “I’m a fetid sack of douchecanoe Rethuglican shit” license:
Peter King, House GOP Slam NYT Benghazi Story
Villago Delenda Est
@Tommy:
Well, you know, he was actually there. How could he possibly know the truth as reported by Darrel Issa and Faux Noise?
Cervantes
@? Martin: Yikes.
Tommy
@Villago Delenda Est: Actually three folks where there and got out alive, but I never hear anything from them. The guy I mentioned plus two others, that went to a more secure area and watched most of it on the security cameras.They feel pretty guilty they couldn’t do anything. But as I read the story I thought this wasn’t a Rambo movie, and they felt they needed to try and get help. Running out and getting killed in a few second didn’t make a lot of sense.
Baud
Make or break for the Saints this afternoon after what had started out as a promising season.
I won’t be watching.
Comrade Mary
@TaMara (BHF): Flat ginger ale? Um, OK …
? Martin
Someone needs to check if Cole died. No Steelers thread? Maybe he just doesn’t consider playing against the Browns ‘sporting’.
opiejeanne
On our way to visit Yutsano In the hospital; taking along a picnic basket with sliced standing rib and various mustards, and some Christmas cookies. Watching the Seahawks game with him and whoever shows up. Not sure how much they will tolerate from the 12th Man. Probably get thrown out by the nurses for noise.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
I flipped over to an MSNBC rerun of Meet The Press during halftime, where for some reason Elliot Abrams, a man whose criminality is eclipsed by his deadly stupidity, was being given a platform to comment on Obama’s foreign policy. I made a phone call and when I next looked up at the muted TV screen, I was for some unknown reason being shown a video about Billy Graham and his vile racist son Franklin. I’ve been a political junkie in various levels of addiction for about twenty years now, and I can recall no occasion in which Billy Graham wasn’t already a slightly embarrassing anachronism. I wonder if David Gregory had even been born the last time Billy Graham actually mattered.
WereBear
Bribe them with goodies. Hi to Yutsy!
drkrick
The Giants are pretty lucky to be playing the only team in the League who wouldn’t be at least three touchdowns ahead of them by now.
schrodinger's cat
@? Martin: Never seen that. No has cable. Guess I am not missing much!
Tommy
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: It shouldn’t stun me the folks they have on these shows but it still does. I mean I am some random dude in Southern IL and I can seem to fact check their guests better then they can, and they have dozens of staffers and basically unlimited resources.
Maybe I am “old school” but if I had a TV show and folks came on it and lied, well they wouldn’t be invited back.
jeffreyw
@opiejeanne: Behave!
cckids
Hey, Betty, I feel your pain/nausea. That bug hit me Christmas Eve, it was thoroughly miserable. The worst part is that there was/is all these fabulous goodies around, and they still make me queasy. Dammit.
Gretchen
I got a waffle/pizzelle/cannoli iron for a wedding present 36 years ago. Never made anything but waffles on it, and have long since lost the box and instructions. Let me guess: Is it avocado green like mine is? Or is it harvest gold?
SarahT
@WereBear: Drink ! Feck ! Arse ! Girls !
Mike in NC
@Tommy:
But then what would John McCain have to do for a living?
cckids
@Violet:
Yes! I’ve been wanting to thank you via comment for this advice, I’ve seen it from you several times. My son had the same bug & was horribly sick for 48 hours. I started taking the PB’s within 4 hours & stopped with the puking & (as my mom delicately puts it ) “other symptoms” within 8 hours. I had to watch what I ate for several days, but wow, the difference those pills made. Thanks!
ruemara
@opiejeanne: Tell Yutsy we said hi!
And, Betty, get me out of moderation and … well, I really have no bargaining chips here. somethingsomethingsomething.
SarahT
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Go on, go on, go on, go on, go on…
nancy graham
Betty, I have made cannoli. It is sorta like making a crêpe. Not a big mystery.
Someone mentioned taking probiotics. I now have a source for farm-fresh milk and cream. I made butter yesterday and the buttermilk is supposed to be rich in probiotics. Buttermilk from churning is not like the store bought cultured buttermilk. It is a little tart for my taste so I have decided to use it to make béchamel sauce and freeze it for later. Any better ideas for using it out there?
Karen in GA
@WereBear: Women’s knickers!
max
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: I flipped over to an MSNBC rerun of Meet The Press during halftime, where for some reason Elliot Abrams, a man whose criminality is eclipsed by his deadly stupidity, was being given a platform to comment on Obama’s foreign policy.
Well, Elliot Abrams probably is the smartest neo-con (which is a lot like telling a basketball recruiter that you’re the tallest midget on an island of dwarfs), so there is that.
But that definitely seems like symptom on the checklist that indicates that our elites, as a group, are basically horrible and stupid.
max
[‘srv linked a FoxNews vid of Ralph Peters last night, and I was, ‘Oh. That moron! Boy, not gonna watch that.”]
Mr Stagger Lee
@? Martin: Well I had enough of the Browns stinking up the joint, at least the Bengals-Ravens are entertaining. Big what will I do for streaming? 49ers vs Cardinals, Bears-Packers or Seahawks-Rams? (I gave up cable and doing Serious Sports TV streaming)
Corner Stone
3rd & goal from the 5, you can not throw a 3 yard post.
FlipYrWhig
@Corner Stone: local boy done good!
cckids
@nancy graham: Fresh buttermilk makes amazing pancakes, also chocolate cake or Irish Soda bread.
Yatsuno
@opiejeanne: They’ve had kids running all over the place and don’t seem to mind them. You will have to watch me do a few stupid human tricks, but I might finagle it so that I don’t have to leave the room for some of them. In fact, I might drag youse guys up to the parallel bars just so I can have independent verification of the walking skillz.
Corner Stone
Wow. Matt Schaub. Really?
opiejeanne
@Yatsuno: ok.
We are heading south on 5 near the 520 off ramp. Should be there soon.
Gene108
@max:
Eliot Abrams broke the law to help expand the fight against and thus hasten the end of the Global Communist threat, much like MLK, Jr hastening the end of segregation.
Which I guess is why Bush 43 appointed him to the National Security Council office of Democracy and Human Rights.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
Feel better Betty.
Betty Cracker
I’m feeling better. Made the canolli, and they turned out well.
@ruemara: Looks like WP ate your comment — nothing’s in moderation. Sorry!
rikyrah
@? Martin:
So sad, Martin.
So sad.
opiejeanne
We are with Yutsano now, game’s about to start, picnic basket in hand.
(He looks pretty good)
Betty Cracker
@opiejeanne: Yutsano! I’m rooting for the Seachickens in his honor!
Chris
@? Martin: Damn Martin..just sent off my son’s common app to a couple schools…and I read his essay in it and thought he overshared abit about being bullied. I feel much better now…LOL
tybee
@JPL:
and it was a “perfect” ending to a perfectly horrible season.
just wait til next year….
Comrade Mary
/waves madly at Yutsy
opiejeanne
@Betty Cracker: get well soon. I fighting an allergy that’s making me cough and wheeze, but nothing serious.
Yutsano was a charming host despite being in some pain, and we watched the first half of the game with him. He had a little PT while we were there. I think he’s doing very well but was getting a little tired so we left him to get some rest.
Violet
@cckids: You are so welcome! I’m so glad it worked! I’ve seen research on it, but the fact it’s in clinical trials with kids is really exciting. I think it’s a great new discovery that can really help people, doesn’t have terrible side effects and isn’t that expensive. So glad it worked for you!
Ruckus
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
There were no living creatures the last time, or the first time, Billy Graham mattered.
? Martin
@Chris: I’ll add that about 5% of kids had a parent deported during elementary school. Not many during middle/HS – so either the policy change is real, or they just aren’t sharing that bit. The kids weren’t deported – our DREAM pool is larger than ever.
Lots of nice stories about heading down the gang path in middle school and getting turned around. Lots of refugees too – more than I ever remember – most from Africa. Their test scores are so-so, but they landed in the US and started getting A’s from day one, while homeless or in shelters. Makes the white kids from 6 figure households with B’s look like complete slackers.
Most of America is invisible.
Betsy
@nancy graham: cornbread, spoon bread