yearly town-wide arts fest going on outside my work, so of course we are getting hit by rain and actually have a tornado warning until 9 tonight. Trying to get around to writing something i don’t’ think anyone will care about
As of today, Grayson’s in the Dem primary for Florida Senator along with former Republican and centrist Democrat supported by the DSCC, Patrick Murphy.
9.
cmorenc
Late addition to “bad movies” list:
“The Man Who Fell to Earth”, starring David Bowie as an alien who gets more stuck on Earth than he wanted to. I went to this with a friend Joel, who was good friends back in college with one of the assistant producers or something at that level on the film. We went into the theater positively primed to like the movie, or at least to enjoy the good parts and forgive the faults. When the movie ended, I was really nervous about the inevitable discussion about the movie with Joel on the way to the car – because to me, it was a disastrously bad stinker, with embarrassingly amateurish, wooden acting and a boring-silly plot. Joel sparked off the conversation: “Man, that was so bad I want the money I paid for my ticket back” – much to my relief.
What am I up to? I am waiting for you to get Here with that “Beer and Salad”.
Enjoy your Rain and mail some to here in California.
w3ski
12.
donnah
Don’t step in a poodle!
It’s been raining a lot here in SW Ohio. I’m sick of it. Sorry to those in drought situations, and wishing I could send this saturation your way. We’ve bailed the basement three times already.
It’s a long walk to the church, and the roads are icy.
It’s a longer walk to the tavern, but I’ll be careful.
14.
Tommy
Just got a few more things from my garden. I know from the Sunday morning thread there are many, many here far better than myself. Just my fourth year doing it but the joy of food from my freaking yard will never stop amazing me.
15.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Ari Melber just got very snippy with Jon Stoltz of VoteVets about this
Shrub being rather tepidly defended by one of his father’s aides.
16.
Gimlet
More political news from Floida
TALLAHASSEE — In a precedent-setting ruling Thursday, the Florida Supreme Court overturned the state’s congressional districts drawn by the GOP-led Legislature and ordered a new map with eight districts redrawn in time for the 2016 election.
Writing for the majority, Justice Barbara Pariente said the court affirmed “the trial court’s factual findings and ultimate determination that the redistricting process and resulting map were tainted by unconstitutional intent to favor the Republican Party and incumbents.”
17.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@efgoldman: My favorite Norm-ism: “My ideal weight, if I were eleven feet tall”
18.
JPL
@Major Major Major Major: Most of the week was pretty easy, so I had loads of confidence when I did today’s puzzle. Even though I saw the glitch early on, I still struggled.
19.
Eric U.
it’s been raining so much here that our lawn is growing at a distressing pace. My wife asked me if I drove the lawn tractor, and I told her that I mowed the lawn the day before yesterday. She said she thought I might have, but she couldn’t tell for sure. On my way down the driveway, I saw what she meant, 36 hours later, it no longer looked freshly mowed. Usually this time of year it’s dead.
20.
JPL
@Gimlet: Maybe they will just ignore the ruling. Since states are refusing same sex couples who want to marry, why not.
21.
Dolly Llama
Glad to see people weighing in on bad movies still. Wanted to in the other threads, but they had so many comments I knew my comment would never be seen.
So. The Popeye movie with Robin Williams and Shelly Duvall. Surreally bad.
Been hanging out with these guys. Today is a good day.
26.
Elizabelle
Across from Ballston Common, in my seat awaiting Bernie Sanders speech. For all the talk of his constituency being old white peeps, I am sitting between 2 elegant people with dreadlocks. Youngs well represented too. Event begins at 7. Full up, w room for 150 to stand. Seats still available around perimeter of auditorium.
Muppet update (Mupdate?) — I hung potty bells off the doorknob a couple of weeks ago and had her hit them with her paw every time I took her outside. Sunday night she finally made the connection and hit them on her own to signal that she needed to go out. Now she smacks those bells like they owe her money, and there haven’t been any accidents in the house, at least that I know of. (Stupid dark-colored stain-camouflaging area rugs. No smell, though, so there’s that.)
Of course, now that I’ve said/written “no accidents,” just you watch…
28.
Gravenstone
Got an “official government survey” from my recently elected Teatard rep (Grothman). Sweet Jesus! I’ve seen push polls that were more honest than this thing.
@cmorenc: Many years ago I agreed to go with a friend to see “The Story of O” (some sort of softcore crap) at a midnight screening in Harvard Square. It was so lame I repeatedly fell asleep in the theater.
@JPL: given that court’s have redrawn district lines in the past, I’m guessing they won’t ignore the ruling. Interestingly, the decision requires redrawing districts 5, 13, 14, 21, 22, 25, 26, 27 and possibly bordering districts. the fifth district is a classic gerrymander that borders as many as 7 districts and includes cut outs of other districts. the rest appear to be smaller geographic districts in the Tampa and Miami metro areas, so this should be interesting.
Early polling suggests that women are inclined to back Clinton at a higher rate than men. The two most recent national polls, from CNN/ORC and Fox News, both showed Clinton running 13 points better among women voters than men, winning around 50% of men but over 60% of women nationally among Democrats. Early polling also shows Sanders doing considerably better with men than women.
The same pattern showed itself throughout the 2008 process. Clinton routinely won larger vote shares among women than men in her battles with Obama and, for a time, John Edwards. In 2016, if Clinton is winning a larger share of the vote among the larger gender portion of the Democratic Party, that probably bodes well for her chances. After all, Clinton offers the party another chance to make history.
Sanders cannot begin to match Clinton’s strong support among minorities; it’s no accident that his break-out states are heavily white Iowa and New Hampshire. Sanders is used to appealing to Vermont’s liberal and very white electorate.
38.
Pogonip
Been raining here since sometime in June, with occasional day-long breaks. Monday I saw an old guy with a beard loading animals two by two into the back of a minivan.
What about good movies with bad endings? I am thinking specifically of The Ninth Something-or-other, with Johnny Depp as a rare book dealer seeking a cursed volume written by Satan or autographed by Satan or read in the john by Satan or something like that. For two hours we’re told what horrendous consequences there will be if Depp, or anyone else, gets hold of this book. Finally he does get hold of it, and…and…the movie ends! What a cheat!
I also remember an old foreign film with Nakadai Tatsuya as the meanest samurai in town. Finally everyone else gets sick of him. They have him cornered, he starts to fight his way out-the end! There’s some excuse for this one, there was supposed to be a sequel starting with our unhero fighting his way out, but the financing fell through.
39.
MattF
Working on the CMYK color gamut jigsaw puzzle. A little over half-way finished, I think.
Hah! that’s what I was looking for. That was fun to read. Do we have data on how many times Pappy Trump dropped wee Donnie on his head? Is that why he needs to comb all that back hair up there?
And more polling that says Trump gaining in popularity with GOP primary base! I guess today should get him a few more points. First debate should be fun.
Trump-mentum Not Stopping Yet: The Donald Leads GOP Pack In New Poll
‘ Trump leads the GOP pack in this week’s Economist/YouGov poll, with 15 percent of registered Republican voters calling the billionaire-reality TV star their first-choice candidate for 2016. Another 12 percent said Trump was their second choice for the Republican nomination.
…Jeb[!] Bush and Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY)… 11 percent each…. Walker… Rubio… Huckabee,,,9 percent.
My weight is always perfect for my height, which varies.
48.
JPL
@Major Major Major Major: Crookneck gave me the glitch, so that helped but I had trouble with some clues, i.e. unoriginal work. . . I had to walk away to finish that section. I still want splashers for make waves.
49.
Baud
Unlike Jeb!, I believe America can achieve it’s true potential only if people spend longer hours on Balloon Juice. Baud! 2016!!!
50.
beltane
@jl: They’re going to have their hands full with Trump. He has staying power, and a life spent in the tabloids has made him scandal-proof.
As I understand it, the Midwest is getting all of the rain that would normally be hitting Washington, Oregon, and northern California this time of year in addition to the Midwest’s normal allotment. It’s because of a pressure ridge near Alaska that they’ve dubbed the Ridiculously Resilient Ridge. (Seriously, that’s the official name. You can Google it.)
52.
WaterGirl
@Karen in GA: Yeah, we went with the bell here, too. My little Henry will ring the bell, and if I don’t jump up immediately he runs back to me as if it say “didn’t you hear me ring the bell?????”.
@Mnemosyne (iPhone): I am going to have to go research that. I don’t think you are wrong, I just want to know more. I live in southern Illinois. The amount of rain we’ve got is hard to put to words. We got four inches in an hour a few days ago. It just keeps raining. I had water in my house because my sump pump could not keep up. My garden and yard seems to love it. But not sure this is right.
I just picked another half dozen half-ripe tomatoes. This is probably the 5th time I’ve had to do that in the past week.
The top ripens but the bottoms are black/rotten. I assume it’s too much rain. I know that with peppers they color/ripen earlier if they have a flaw or injury. Anybody know why that is?
64.
WaterGirl
@Baud!: What? Your reply didn’t include a link to your donation site. Clearly you are new at this.
65.
JPL
@Elizabelle: That’s okay.. Enjoy while you can because I’m hoping you cover the Fox debate so we don’t have to.
66.
beltane
@efgoldman: He’s always been a laughing stock. He doesn’t care, and the type of people who vote in the Republican primaries don’t care. What do you do with someone like that?
67.
beer time somewhere
@MattF:Yikes!
Being colour blind in Red-Green and Blue, I would probably take 1-2 months to do this puzzle.
68.
beltane
We’ve had huge amounts of rain here in New England, too. The sun sometimes manages to appear for a few hours, but a downpour always follows. Somehow, the strawberry crop managed to be outstanding.
If you missed it on the other thread, its Alien Invasion night at TCM. Thank God, you can see the original The Day The Earth Stood Still and not….****shudder**** the Keanu Reeves version thats been haunting cable this past week.
@WaterGirl: Ha! Muppet’s going through the phase where she hits the bells to go outside for any reason at all — squirrel, neighbor’s kids, etc. And she pounds the bells against the door, so every few minutes, all day, every day, we hear the Call of the Bored Poodle Mix: “jingle-jingle-BANG!”
72.
ET
The OPM data breach just keeps getting worse. Encryption issues, the contractor access, and contractors in foreign countries and being foreign nationals. What’s next?
I think the notion that contracting out government functions especially when it deals with PII and other secret/sensitibe information is a good idea. I blame Republicans for this.
73.
jibeaux
Beer and salad. Huh.
Since it’s open, I’m in NYC temporarily for work — self employed contract work. As of Tuesday I need to bounce to a new place for a week and a half (have a great catsitting gig at the present). If you have any inexpensive leads — I have minimal needs and will hardly be there except to sleep– or want to have a mini-nyc meetup, get in touch. Is it kosher to put my email on BJ?
74.
MattF
@ET: It’s really bad. You’re trying get security, bureaucracy, and networking to unite and work together– and I just think that trying to satisfy all three is impossible.
@Karen in GA: Oh yes! Henry rings the bell all the time because he wants to go out and steal a green cherry tomato from the tomato plants on the deck. I may never see a ripe tomato from that plant!
And he’s a blueberry thief, too! I have chicken wire around 5 of the blueberry bushes – we have bunnies – and he finds a way to burrow his head under the chicken wire to steal the blueberries. Thank goodness the raspberry bush is in a pot that’s too tall for him to reach!
77.
jibeaux
@WaterGirl: it’s blossom end rot. Can be a calcium deficiency. Tomatoes are heartbreakers.
78.
shell
@WaterGirl: its blosoom end rot. Common early in the season,Should ease up as the summer goes along
79.
Tommy
@beltane: For the first time nothing has been planted in front of my house. Less than the throw of a baseball there is a 5,000 acre field. That is not accurate. If you look to the left it runs more than the eye can see. We plant food. Nothing is planedt this year. I asked why. Water.Too much water.
80.
WaterGirl
@jibeaux: Yeah, this may be why I have always stuck with cherry tomatoes before. They seem much more reliable!
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Wow, all these years later Shrub is still actively screwing vets? Sticking with his knitting, as it were.
82.
jibeaux
@WaterGirl: there’s a calcium spray you can buy, it might work. Next year, start saving your eggshells in advance (rinse them) and when you plant the seedlings amend the soil with crumbled eggshell mixed in. Cherries are much less prone to problems, I always plant several of them but hope for the good heirlooms too.
83.
Germy Shoemangler
Just watched the Key and Peele season premiere. Obama (and Luther) meet Hillary (and Savannah).
Even Luther is shocked at Hillary’s anger translator.
84.
beltane
@Tommy: This is the first time in 15 years I haven’t planted a substantial vegetable garden. Other than the strawberries which were planted last year, the only thing I’ve got is a bed of lettuce and Swiss chard. I’d like to claim superior weather forecasting abilities, but the real reason is that we’re selling the house. The past couple of winters have been so brutal that my beloved roses haven’t bloomed much, and I just don’t have the heart for this kind of rural living anymore.
@BGinCHI: sounds like a nice summer indeed. Lots of tropical drinks this summer. Took some friends that are in town for comic con to Bali Hai and had too many the other night.
I rather liked the next sentence for its subtlety.
A Florida man with an extensive history of domestic battery was arrested after he allegedly flew into a fit of jealous rage and broke his ex-wife’s sex toy.
88.
JustRuss
@cmorenc: I saw TMWFTE as a very young man, I figured the problem was I just wasn’t seasoned enough to get it. With Bowie and Buck Henry, I figured it couldn’t be as bad as I thought. Glad to hear it wasn’t just me.
89.
Mike J
@JustRuss: I saw it on a midnight double bill with Liquid Sky at the (sadly defunct) Orson Welles in Cambridge.
90.
Elizabelle
Bernie. Bernie. Crowd on feet as he is sighted.
91.
raven
The framers finished today. They worked their asses of for 10 hrs a day and then seemed surprised when I thanked them.
92.
sacrablue
@WaterGirl: It is a calcium deficiency. Try a product called Rot Stop. It is working for us this year on tomatoes, peppers and eggplant.
@dedc79: You just know that ‘news’ item will end up on Stephanie Miller’s Friday show, especially if Frangela are on the show.
97.
ms_canadada
@raven: Looking forward to seeing some pics. Keep us posted.
98.
Tree With Water
We had a rare July rain last night, with overcast and light sprinkles throughout the day. It’s the second, very light rainfall we’ve enjoyed in the past six weeks here in west Sonoma, and it’s like taking a mini-vacation from the drought… very soothing.
Eric U.
yearly town-wide arts fest going on outside my work, so of course we are getting hit by rain and actually have a tornado warning until 9 tonight. Trying to get around to writing something i don’t’ think anyone will care about
Mnemosyne (iPhone)
Still at work, for another three hours. Paranoid that I’m going to catch the flu from my boss, who’s been at home the last two days.
NotMax
Should they be out of salad, get more beer.
If they’re out of beer, crisply do an about face and head to another store.
;)
jl
Thanks for another beautiful tropical paradise/hellhole pic.
I assume we will get a banana report as soon as they are ready.
Edit: is the chicken control going well? You aren’t resorting to salad and beer to keep them in line are you? Or are those for the humans?
BGinCHI
If you can only afford one or the other, get the beer. No way is salad going to help you forget money problems.
/from “BG’s Pearls of Wisdom” calendar
BGinCHI
@NotMax: I see we have the same calendar….
different-church-lady
Irony: it’s raining beer and salad here.
Gimlet
As of today, Grayson’s in the Dem primary for Florida Senator along with former Republican and centrist Democrat supported by the DSCC, Patrick Murphy.
cmorenc
Late addition to “bad movies” list:
“The Man Who Fell to Earth”, starring David Bowie as an alien who gets more stuck on Earth than he wanted to. I went to this with a friend Joel, who was good friends back in college with one of the assistant producers or something at that level on the film. We went into the theater positively primed to like the movie, or at least to enjoy the good parts and forgive the faults. When the movie ended, I was really nervous about the inevitable discussion about the movie with Joel on the way to the car – because to me, it was a disastrously bad stinker, with embarrassingly amateurish, wooden acting and a boring-silly plot. Joel sparked off the conversation: “Man, that was so bad I want the money I paid for my ticket back” – much to my relief.
Major Major Major Major
Just doin’ the crossword.
17-across is “lunch money”.
Henry
What am I up to? I am waiting for you to get Here with that “Beer and Salad”.
Enjoy your Rain and mail some to here in California.
w3ski
donnah
Don’t step in a poodle!
It’s been raining a lot here in SW Ohio. I’m sick of it. Sorry to those in drought situations, and wishing I could send this saturation your way. We’ve bailed the basement three times already.
NotMax
@BGinCHI
A very long-time favorite Russian proverb:
It’s a long walk to the church, and the roads are icy.
It’s a longer walk to the tavern, but I’ll be careful.
Tommy
Just got a few more things from my garden. I know from the Sunday morning thread there are many, many here far better than myself. Just my fourth year doing it but the joy of food from my freaking yard will never stop amazing me.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Ari Melber just got very snippy with Jon Stoltz of VoteVets about this
Shrub being rather tepidly defended by one of his father’s aides.
Gimlet
More political news from Floida
TALLAHASSEE — In a precedent-setting ruling Thursday, the Florida Supreme Court overturned the state’s congressional districts drawn by the GOP-led Legislature and ordered a new map with eight districts redrawn in time for the 2016 election.
Writing for the majority, Justice Barbara Pariente said the court affirmed “the trial court’s factual findings and ultimate determination that the redistricting process and resulting map were tainted by unconstitutional intent to favor the Republican Party and incumbents.”
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@efgoldman: My favorite Norm-ism: “My ideal weight, if I were eleven feet tall”
JPL
@Major Major Major Major: Most of the week was pretty easy, so I had loads of confidence when I did today’s puzzle. Even though I saw the glitch early on, I still struggled.
Eric U.
it’s been raining so much here that our lawn is growing at a distressing pace. My wife asked me if I drove the lawn tractor, and I told her that I mowed the lawn the day before yesterday. She said she thought I might have, but she couldn’t tell for sure. On my way down the driveway, I saw what she meant, 36 hours later, it no longer looked freshly mowed. Usually this time of year it’s dead.
JPL
@Gimlet: Maybe they will just ignore the ruling. Since states are refusing same sex couples who want to marry, why not.
Dolly Llama
Glad to see people weighing in on bad movies still. Wanted to in the other threads, but they had so many comments I knew my comment would never be seen.
So. The Popeye movie with Robin Williams and Shelly Duvall. Surreally bad.
Tommy
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: I like to joke I am 5’4 if I stand on my tippy toes :)!
Major Major Major Major
@JPL: Yeah it was a little shocking for me too. I think I’m stuck after about one third.
$*&# Thursday.
Gimlet
@JPL:
The same folks still control the legislature that will redraw the districts.
ranchandsyrup
Been hanging out with these guys. Today is a good day.
Elizabelle
Across from Ballston Common, in my seat awaiting Bernie Sanders speech. For all the talk of his constituency being old white peeps, I am sitting between 2 elegant people with dreadlocks. Youngs well represented too. Event begins at 7. Full up, w room for 150 to stand. Seats still available around perimeter of auditorium.
Karen in GA
Muppet update (Mupdate?) — I hung potty bells off the doorknob a couple of weeks ago and had her hit them with her paw every time I took her outside. Sunday night she finally made the connection and hit them on her own to signal that she needed to go out. Now she smacks those bells like they owe her money, and there haven’t been any accidents in the house, at least that I know of. (Stupid dark-colored stain-camouflaging area rugs. No smell, though, so there’s that.)
Of course, now that I’ve said/written “no accidents,” just you watch…
Gravenstone
Got an “official government survey” from my recently elected Teatard rep (Grothman). Sweet Jesus! I’ve seen push polls that were more honest than this thing.
Tommy
@Elizabelle: Wish I could be sitting next to you!
Major Major Major Major
@JPL: Oh just got the trick. Cute!
Germy Shoemangler
I posted this in the below thread. Maybe it’s old news; I don’t know.
Twitter battle between Trump and Modern Family creator
He ended up being blocked by Trump.
Germy Shoemangler
@Elizabelle: Looking forward to your analysis
Mike in NC
@cmorenc: Many years ago I agreed to go with a friend to see “The Story of O” (some sort of softcore crap) at a midnight screening in Harvard Square. It was so lame I repeatedly fell asleep in the theater.
MomSense
@ranchandsyrup:
Awwww, such sweethearts.
Gravenstone
@Germy Shoemangler: Only because Trump couldn’t fire him.
KG
@JPL: given that court’s have redrawn district lines in the past, I’m guessing they won’t ignore the ruling. Interestingly, the decision requires redrawing districts 5, 13, 14, 21, 22, 25, 26, 27 and possibly bordering districts. the fifth district is a classic gerrymander that borders as many as 7 districts and includes cut outs of other districts. the rest appear to be smaller geographic districts in the Tampa and Miami metro areas, so this should be interesting.
Gimlet
@Elizabelle:
Sabato
Early polling suggests that women are inclined to back Clinton at a higher rate than men. The two most recent national polls, from CNN/ORC and Fox News, both showed Clinton running 13 points better among women voters than men, winning around 50% of men but over 60% of women nationally among Democrats. Early polling also shows Sanders doing considerably better with men than women.
The same pattern showed itself throughout the 2008 process. Clinton routinely won larger vote shares among women than men in her battles with Obama and, for a time, John Edwards. In 2016, if Clinton is winning a larger share of the vote among the larger gender portion of the Democratic Party, that probably bodes well for her chances. After all, Clinton offers the party another chance to make history.
Sanders cannot begin to match Clinton’s strong support among minorities; it’s no accident that his break-out states are heavily white Iowa and New Hampshire. Sanders is used to appealing to Vermont’s liberal and very white electorate.
Pogonip
Been raining here since sometime in June, with occasional day-long breaks. Monday I saw an old guy with a beard loading animals two by two into the back of a minivan.
What about good movies with bad endings? I am thinking specifically of The Ninth Something-or-other, with Johnny Depp as a rare book dealer seeking a cursed volume written by Satan or autographed by Satan or read in the john by Satan or something like that. For two hours we’re told what horrendous consequences there will be if Depp, or anyone else, gets hold of this book. Finally he does get hold of it, and…and…the movie ends! What a cheat!
I also remember an old foreign film with Nakadai Tatsuya as the meanest samurai in town. Finally everyone else gets sick of him. They have him cornered, he starts to fight his way out-the end! There’s some excuse for this one, there was supposed to be a sequel starting with our unhero fighting his way out, but the financing fell through.
MattF
Working on the CMYK color gamut jigsaw puzzle. A little over half-way finished, I think.
dedc79
Reading up on another of Florida’s shining stars. Can’t wait for her explanation of how she’s not actually a racist.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Hah! that’s what I was looking for. That was fun to read. Do we have data on how many times Pappy Trump dropped wee Donnie on his head? Is that why he needs to comb all that back hair up there?
Iowa Old Lady
@MattF: I love jigsaws. I find them meditative.
Onion and bacon pizza for dinner.
Tommy
@Germy Shoemangler: I saw this the other day. I love the tweet where Trump says he watched Modern Family and didn’t like it.
The response, well we never tested well with the racist, dumb, multi-bankruptcy demo.
That is just brutal.
Major Major Major Major
@JPL: Oh my god these puns are THE WORST.
MattF
@Iowa Old Lady: This one is actually sort of edifying. I’ve learned a lot about ‘color space’.
jl
@Tommy:
And more polling that says Trump gaining in popularity with GOP primary base! I guess today should get him a few more points. First debate should be fun.
Trump-mentum Not Stopping Yet: The Donald Leads GOP Pack In New Poll
‘ Trump leads the GOP pack in this week’s Economist/YouGov poll, with 15 percent of registered Republican voters calling the billionaire-reality TV star their first-choice candidate for 2016. Another 12 percent said Trump was their second choice for the Republican nomination.
…Jeb[!] Bush and Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY)… 11 percent each…. Walker… Rubio… Huckabee,,,9 percent.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/donald-trump-poll-leads-gop-field
WaterGirl
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Sounds similar to a comment in a cartoon I read once:
My weight is always perfect for my height, which varies.
JPL
@Major Major Major Major: Crookneck gave me the glitch, so that helped but I had trouble with some clues, i.e. unoriginal work. . . I had to walk away to finish that section. I still want splashers for make waves.
Baud
Unlike Jeb!, I believe America can achieve it’s true potential only if people spend longer hours on Balloon Juice. Baud! 2016!!!
beltane
@jl: They’re going to have their hands full with Trump. He has staying power, and a life spent in the tabloids has made him scandal-proof.
Mnemosyne (iPhone)
@donnah:
As I understand it, the Midwest is getting all of the rain that would normally be hitting Washington, Oregon, and northern California this time of year in addition to the Midwest’s normal allotment. It’s because of a pressure ridge near Alaska that they’ve dubbed the Ridiculously Resilient Ridge. (Seriously, that’s the official name. You can Google it.)
WaterGirl
@Karen in GA: Yeah, we went with the bell here, too. My little Henry will ring the bell, and if I don’t jump up immediately he runs back to me as if it say “didn’t you hear me ring the bell?????”.
dedc79
@efgoldman: Perhaps you’ve already seen this, but Florida Man has been busy as well
Elizabelle
Will give you a recap tonight. The Foo Fighters and Bernie!, same week. Embarrassment of riches.
Plus alien invasion night on TCM.
BGinCHI
@ranchandsyrup: Nice. How’s the summer going? Mine has been shy on the cocktails but solid in craft beer and cider.
Mnemosyne (iPhone)
@WaterGirl:
Nicole Hollander’s Sylvia. I used to love that strip and still have several of her books.
Hollander also had a classic strip with the “sounds of two cats upchucking” alarm clock, guaranteed to have you up and out of bed in seconds.
Baud
@Elizabelle:
No live blog?
WaterGirl
@Baud!: I will take the pledge.
ms_canadada
@beltane: Exactly! And he doesn’t give a shit about what anyone thinks about him. What an odious man.
Baud
@WaterGirl:
My first
marksupporter!Tommy
@Mnemosyne (iPhone): I am going to have to go research that. I don’t think you are wrong, I just want to know more. I live in southern Illinois. The amount of rain we’ve got is hard to put to words. We got four inches in an hour a few days ago. It just keeps raining. I had water in my house because my sump pump could not keep up. My garden and yard seems to love it. But not sure this is right.
Major Major Major Major
@JPL: Haha me too.
I groaned out loud at Vehicle that rolls over.
WaterGirl
I just picked another half dozen half-ripe tomatoes. This is probably the 5th time I’ve had to do that in the past week.
The top ripens but the bottoms are black/rotten. I assume it’s too much rain. I know that with peppers they color/ripen earlier if they have a flaw or injury. Anybody know why that is?
WaterGirl
@Baud!: What? Your reply didn’t include a link to your donation site. Clearly you are new at this.
JPL
@Elizabelle: That’s okay.. Enjoy while you can because I’m hoping you cover the Fox debate so we don’t have to.
beltane
@efgoldman: He’s always been a laughing stock. He doesn’t care, and the type of people who vote in the Republican primaries don’t care. What do you do with someone like that?
beer time somewhere
@MattF:Yikes!
Being colour blind in Red-Green and Blue, I would probably take 1-2 months to do this puzzle.
beltane
We’ve had huge amounts of rain here in New England, too. The sun sometimes manages to appear for a few hours, but a downpour always follows. Somehow, the strawberry crop managed to be outstanding.
jeffreyw
Mmm… pizza!
shell
If you missed it on the other thread, its Alien Invasion night at TCM. Thank God, you can see the original The Day The Earth Stood Still and not….****shudder**** the Keanu Reeves version thats been haunting cable this past week.
Karen in GA
@WaterGirl: Ha! Muppet’s going through the phase where she hits the bells to go outside for any reason at all — squirrel, neighbor’s kids, etc. And she pounds the bells against the door, so every few minutes, all day, every day, we hear the Call of the Bored Poodle Mix: “jingle-jingle-BANG!”
ET
The OPM data breach just keeps getting worse. Encryption issues, the contractor access, and contractors in foreign countries and being foreign nationals. What’s next?
I think the notion that contracting out government functions especially when it deals with PII and other secret/sensitibe information is a good idea. I blame Republicans for this.
jibeaux
Beer and salad. Huh.
Since it’s open, I’m in NYC temporarily for work — self employed contract work. As of Tuesday I need to bounce to a new place for a week and a half (have a great catsitting gig at the present). If you have any inexpensive leads — I have minimal needs and will hardly be there except to sleep– or want to have a mini-nyc meetup, get in touch. Is it kosher to put my email on BJ?
MattF
@ET: It’s really bad. You’re trying get security, bureaucracy, and networking to unite and work together– and I just think that trying to satisfy all three is impossible.
Pogonip
@Baud: Words to live by!
WaterGirl
@Karen in GA: Oh yes! Henry rings the bell all the time because he wants to go out and steal a green cherry tomato from the tomato plants on the deck. I may never see a ripe tomato from that plant!
And he’s a blueberry thief, too! I have chicken wire around 5 of the blueberry bushes – we have bunnies – and he finds a way to burrow his head under the chicken wire to steal the blueberries. Thank goodness the raspberry bush is in a pot that’s too tall for him to reach!
jibeaux
@WaterGirl: it’s blossom end rot. Can be a calcium deficiency. Tomatoes are heartbreakers.
shell
@WaterGirl: its blosoom end rot. Common early in the season,Should ease up as the summer goes along
Tommy
@beltane: For the first time nothing has been planted in front of my house. Less than the throw of a baseball there is a 5,000 acre field. That is not accurate. If you look to the left it runs more than the eye can see. We plant food. Nothing is planedt this year. I asked why. Water.Too much water.
WaterGirl
@jibeaux: Yeah, this may be why I have always stuck with cherry tomatoes before. They seem much more reliable!
@shell:
What do I treat them with?
trollhattan
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Wow, all these years later Shrub is still actively screwing vets? Sticking with his knitting, as it were.
jibeaux
@WaterGirl: there’s a calcium spray you can buy, it might work. Next year, start saving your eggshells in advance (rinse them) and when you plant the seedlings amend the soil with crumbled eggshell mixed in. Cherries are much less prone to problems, I always plant several of them but hope for the good heirlooms too.
Germy Shoemangler
Just watched the Key and Peele season premiere. Obama (and Luther) meet Hillary (and Savannah).
Even Luther is shocked at Hillary’s anger translator.
beltane
@Tommy: This is the first time in 15 years I haven’t planted a substantial vegetable garden. Other than the strawberries which were planted last year, the only thing I’ve got is a bed of lettuce and Swiss chard. I’d like to claim superior weather forecasting abilities, but the real reason is that we’re selling the house. The past couple of winters have been so brutal that my beloved roses haven’t bloomed much, and I just don’t have the heart for this kind of rural living anymore.
ranchandsyrup
@BGinCHI: sounds like a nice summer indeed. Lots of tropical drinks this summer. Took some friends that are in town for comic con to Bali Hai and had too many the other night.
ranchandsyrup
@MomSense: :) thanks
SiubhanDuinne
@efgoldman:
I rather liked the next sentence for its subtlety.
JustRuss
@cmorenc: I saw TMWFTE as a very young man, I figured the problem was I just wasn’t seasoned enough to get it. With Bowie and Buck Henry, I figured it couldn’t be as bad as I thought. Glad to hear it wasn’t just me.
Mike J
@JustRuss: I saw it on a midnight double bill with Liquid Sky at the (sadly defunct) Orson Welles in Cambridge.
Elizabelle
Bernie. Bernie. Crowd on feet as he is sighted.
raven
The framers finished today. They worked their asses of for 10 hrs a day and then seemed surprised when I thanked them.
sacrablue
@WaterGirl: It is a calcium deficiency. Try a product called Rot Stop. It is working for us this year on tomatoes, peppers and eggplant.
piratedan
@efgoldman: yeah, but he’s everybody’s tool
WaterGirl
@sacrablue: thanks!
ms_canadada
@ranchandsyrup: Awww…sweetness!
ms_canadada
@dedc79: You just know that ‘news’ item will end up on Stephanie Miller’s Friday show, especially if Frangela are on the show.
ms_canadada
@raven: Looking forward to seeing some pics. Keep us posted.
Tree With Water
We had a rare July rain last night, with overcast and light sprinkles throughout the day. It’s the second, very light rainfall we’ve enjoyed in the past six weeks here in west Sonoma, and it’s like taking a mini-vacation from the drought… very soothing.
PaulW
I’m messing with my Wittylibrarian blog because I just saw a tweet about books with blue covers.
J R in WV
@dedc79: The bitch has no chance for anyone but other stone racists to believe she isn’t a racist.
Who tells kids they’re gonna lynch their parents? A Racist!! Cruel bad joke, except real.
Assault at a minimum, terroristic threats if I had my way!!