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Late Night Movie Open Thread: Team Lion

by Anne Laurie|  March 6, 20152:33 am| 51 Comments

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  1. 1.

    NotMax

    March 6, 2015 at 2:56 am

    Dank, gray, wet and chilly for the second day in a row.

    These old bones are a-creakin’.

  2. 2.

    John O

    March 6, 2015 at 3:01 am

    I always root for the critters in these situations. One day, this attitude will get my hand chewed off.

    Just to follow up on NotMax’s non-sequitur, it was March 5 and 0 degrees in Chicagoland this morning. Record-nearing.

  3. 3.

    opiejeanne

    March 6, 2015 at 3:20 am

    @John O: It’s about 73F here at 10:20pm in Ka’anapali, HI.

    That lion’s face, looming up in the corner of the window just before she opens the door, that gave me goosebumps.

  4. 4.

    NotMax

    March 6, 2015 at 3:24 am

    @opiejeanne

    It’s about 73F here at 10:20pm in Ka’anapali, HI.

    Under 55 degrees right now upcountry and temp still plummeting.

  5. 5.

    mdblanche

    March 6, 2015 at 3:34 am

    Clever girl.

  6. 6.

    John Revolta

    March 6, 2015 at 3:47 am

    Niiiice kitty……………

  7. 7.

    opiejeanne

    March 6, 2015 at 4:17 am

    @NotMax: Are you in Washington state? I can’t remember.

    the high at my house just outside Seattle will be 58F tomorrow. That’s pretty nice for March.

  8. 8.

    NotMax

    March 6, 2015 at 4:18 am

    @opiejeanne

    Maui.

  9. 9.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    March 6, 2015 at 4:25 am

    @NotMax: Opiejeanne run!

  10. 10.

    NotMax

    March 6, 2015 at 4:28 am

    @opiejeanne

    As you mentioned Kaanapali. presume you’re visiting or vacationing. I’m up on the slopes of Haleakala.

  11. 11.

    NotMax

    March 6, 2015 at 4:30 am

    @BillinGlendaleCA

    Heh. Opiejeanne is perfectly safe. Haven’t been over to the west side in like 15 years. :)

  12. 12.

    Mustang Bobby

    March 6, 2015 at 4:34 am

    “Here, kitty!”

    67 and partly cloudy under the full moon here in Miami.

  13. 13.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    March 6, 2015 at 4:38 am

    @NotMax: That beats me, haven’t been there in almost 25 years.

  14. 14.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    March 6, 2015 at 4:40 am

    @Mustang Bobby: 47.5 here in LALAland, though it should get up into the low 80’s tomorrow and throughout the weekend. So it’s too cold at night to kill the pilot light on the furnace.

  15. 15.

    NotMax

    March 6, 2015 at 4:41 am

    @Mustang Bobby

             Moon Over Miami

  16. 16.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    March 6, 2015 at 4:45 am

    I’m going though some old pictures; 3 years in Seattle and I think I have a total of 3 pictures with Mt. Rainier in them.

    ETA: Regrets not taking my OM-1 to Seattle.

  17. 17.

    qwerty42

    March 6, 2015 at 6:15 am

    I’d put outside temps in low 50’s, maybe high 40’s in Athens. Cold drizzly rain is back. It was like Spring! Wed afternoon. Downhill since.

  18. 18.

    PurpleGirl

    March 6, 2015 at 6:15 am

    It’s 12 F in NYC right now (0611). Too cold.

    I can hear the maintenance staff clearing sidewalks in the development. They had cleaned snow yesterday but with snow falling into the night, they stopped cleaning at some point to leave it for this morning.

  19. 19.

    raven

    March 6, 2015 at 6:20 am

    @qwerty42: Nice for our walk to Big City!

  20. 20.

    bemused

    March 6, 2015 at 6:25 am

    All white MJ panel discussing Att. General report on Ferguson is so…enwhitening.

  21. 21.

    Phylllis

    March 6, 2015 at 7:01 am

    Hey y’all, watch this. Wait, hold my beer.

  22. 22.

    qwerty42

    March 6, 2015 at 7:16 am

    @raven:

    Nice for our walk to Big City!

    If only. I’m out in Jackson.

  23. 23.

    OzarkHillbilly

    March 6, 2015 at 7:19 am

    Happy Holi days everyone.

  24. 24.

    mai naem mobile

    March 6, 2015 at 7:20 am

    The lion must have thought there were some tasty looking morsels in the car.

  25. 25.

    Botsplainer

    March 6, 2015 at 7:36 am

    @mai naem mobile:

    She saw the car as a giant Russell Stovers box, and wanted to taste the fillings on the morsels nestled within…

  26. 26.

    WereBear

    March 6, 2015 at 7:47 am

    And once again, animals smarter than the humans…

  27. 27.

    Bobby Thomson

    March 6, 2015 at 7:50 am

    @mdblanche: funny, she doesn’t look raptorish.

  28. 28.

    debbie

    March 6, 2015 at 8:06 am

    “I’ll take this one.”

    Animals have so much more intelligence than most people realize. I read “The Tiger” a few years ago and the stories of the people who met up with them was terrifying.

  29. 29.

    Elizabelle

    March 6, 2015 at 8:33 am

    for FKA Bella Q, in event you check in:

    @a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): I think this is the NYTimes article. You can find it among the most emailed list for 30 days.

    How One Stupid Tweet Blew Up Justine Sacco’s Life

  30. 30.

    Elizabelle

    March 6, 2015 at 8:35 am

    Impressed with that family. Not a single f-bomb, and not shrill when hysterical either.

    Impressed with the lioness. She can wait. Some other human will leave a door unlocked. Although, it will be her life that pays.

  31. 31.

    Elizabelle

    March 6, 2015 at 8:36 am

    @debbie: Talk about being outmatched, should you encounter a tiger. Sharks of the land, and even more beautiful.

    I would feel like walking meat. Dinner on the hoof.

  32. 32.

    MattF

    March 6, 2015 at 8:38 am

    Met a cat once who had a thumb– she would tug at the edge of your garment. Cute, but… I asked the owner to make sure she was spayed.

  33. 33.

    C.V. Danes

    March 6, 2015 at 8:48 am

    Freak-out moment!

  34. 34.

    Tenar Darell

    March 6, 2015 at 8:53 am

    They reinforced the lesson of Dexter and Gizmo escaping the kitchen, cats can manipulate handles.

  35. 35.

    Gin & Tonic

    March 6, 2015 at 9:04 am

    Here’s a truly wonderful editorial about Chris Christie’s now-ex flack. This is a level of invective rarely seen in the mainstream press any more, and I think we are the poorer for it.

  36. 36.

    Mike E

    March 6, 2015 at 9:25 am

    @Phylllis: Darwin Award winner’s acceptance speech.

  37. 37.

    TaMara (BHF)

    March 6, 2015 at 9:55 am

    Love those easy open cans.

  38. 38.

    Paul in KY

    March 6, 2015 at 9:56 am

    Got 16 inches of snow in Central KY and it is 10 degrees right now. Come on Spring…

  39. 39.

    NCSteve

    March 6, 2015 at 10:06 am

    “Watch this, girls. They’re just like oysters! Reeeal easy to catch and filled with sweet delicious juicy goodness, but they’re bitch to get into unless you know what you’re doing . . .”

  40. 40.

    JaneE

    March 6, 2015 at 10:19 am

    And the lion looks as if she knows exactly what to do and how to do it. Can I swap her for my GOP congresscritter?

  41. 41.

    ellie

    March 6, 2015 at 10:46 am

    That is not at all alarming in the least. :(

  42. 42.

    David Hunt

    March 6, 2015 at 10:47 am

    @JaneE: If you promise to put her in a seaoled room with the rest of the GOP caucus…nah. I can’t bring myself to be that cruel to a lion.

  43. 43.

    schrodinger's cat

    March 6, 2015 at 10:50 am

    Meals on Wheels.

  44. 44.

    lurker dean

    March 6, 2015 at 10:51 am

    @BillinGlendaleCA: apparently she did, lol. the call is coming . . . from inside the house!

  45. 45.

    Origuy

    March 6, 2015 at 10:56 am

    @Paul in KY: I’m coming to Kentucky in three weeks for the Flying Pig orienteering event. It’s at Morehead State and Carter Caves. The organizers are saying that the long range forecast shows a warming period, but I’m wondering if I should pack snowshoes.

  46. 46.

    Amir Khalid

    March 6, 2015 at 11:23 am

    I once saw a wildlife show on the teevee where a cheetah decided to have some fun with the human tourists. She got on top of their truck, swung her butt over the sun roof, and took a dump on them.

  47. 47.

    gvg

    March 6, 2015 at 12:14 pm

    Sigh, its been a beautiful week in north Florida in the 80’s where it belongs but new cold front coming in and its colder now than this morning…in the 50’s and going down. I wanted to garden this weekend. Pollen is already bad. dogwoods should be pretty this weekend.

  48. 48.

    JustRuss

    March 6, 2015 at 12:29 pm

    Here in Oregon, frosty in the morning and sunny and 60s in the afternoon. We should be seeing gray, dreary skies and lots of rain. The woods will be a tinderbox this summer if this keeps up. They say every few hundred years we get a massive fire that scours the mountains clean of any vegetation. I’m getting worried.

  49. 49.

    Paul in KY

    March 6, 2015 at 12:34 pm

    @Origuy: The land around there is beautiful. You should have a great time. Hopefully most of the snow will have melted by then. Best of luck!

  50. 50.

    opiejeanne

    March 6, 2015 at 1:08 pm

    @NotMax: Oh, that explains so much. Someone yesterday told us that he went up to the top of Haleakala on Wednesday night to look at the moon and it snowed on him.

  51. 51.

    The Moar You Know

    March 6, 2015 at 4:55 pm

    Almost every cat I’ve ever had and more than half the dogs figured out how to open the house doors within a few weeks.

    The lions have obviously figured out that your car is a big can of cat food.

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