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Come on, man.

I was confident that someone would point it out and thought why not me.

They love authoritarianism, but only when they get to be the authoritarians.

You can’t love your country only when you win.

Republican speaker of the house Mike Johnson is the bland and smiling face of evil.

… gradually, and then suddenly.

When you’re a Republican, they let you do it.

They’re not red states to be hated; they are voter suppression states to be fixed.

The republican caucus is covering themselves with something, and it’s not glory.

fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)

If you are in line to indict donald trump, stay in line.

Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.

I’m sure you banged some questionable people yourself. We’re allowed to grow past that.

Let me file that under fuck it.

Republicans: slavery is when you own me. freedom is when I own you.

Republicans firmly believe having an abortion is a very personal, very private decision between a woman and J.D. Vance.

If you thought you’d already seen people saying the stupidest things possible on the internet, prepare yourselves.

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Israel is using food as a weapon of war. Unforgivable.

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I wonder if trump will be tried as an adult.

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  1. 1.

    Benw

    On my way up to VT with the kids for two weeks at the grandparents. Planning on flooding you all with pro-Bernie comments!

    SANDERS 2016 WOO

  2. 2.

    scav

    Saint Jerome often had a lion, but this one seems to have a menagerie in addition — peacocks?!

  3. 3.

    Mustang Bobby

    Just back from seeing Mr. Holmes with Ian McKellen as an aging Sherlock Holmes. I highly recommend it, but if you go see it, call the theatre and find out what time the feature actually starts. We bought tickets for the 1:10 showing and by the time we go through the ads, the previews of coming attractions which are so long why bother to see the actual film, and the warnings about what do to “in case of an emergency,” which is a polite way to tell you to duck and cover when the guy behind you with the AK-47 goes off, they finally got around to showing the film at 1:31.

    Why don’t movie theatres come with a Mute button?

  5. 5.

    scav

    @jacel: Well, I’m pretty sure it’s Saint Jerome, cardinal’s hat, lion, study (yes, he’s one that pulled a thorn out of a lion’s paw, etc). This site also mentions peacocks, but I’m still unclear how exactly they wandered in.

  6. 6.

    divF

    @Mustang Bobby:

    Why don’t movie theatres come with a Mute button?

    The fact that they don’t is why Madame divF won’t go to the movies anymore. However, she is willing to make an exception to see Mr. Holmes.

  9. 9.

    raven

    After a nice morning it got hot as hell again. I’m tying to figure out Sunday dinner with nothing but the microwave and the grill. I found a site that reviewed Trader Joe’s stuff and the Penne Arrabbiata with grilled turkey cutlets may be what I “prepare”. The kitchen is gutted and the wall is down. We hope two more weeks is all this takes but nothing else has been on schedule.

    Oh, and if shortstop doesn’t like this post let me say. . . tough shit.

  14. 14.

    Amir Khalid

    @Mustang Bobby:
    A mute button for all the commercials and trailers would be nice. You know what else would be nice? A kill switch for all the smartphones and tablets in the theatre, to be activated right before the main feature starts.

  15. 15.

    Germy Shoemangler

    This is why we can’t have nice things.

    Remember the hitchhiking robot? It was supposed to hitchhike across the U.S. It didn’t even make it out of Philadelphia.

    PHILADELPHIA — A hitchhiking robot that captured the hearts of fans worldwide met its demise in the U.S.

    The Canadian researchers who created hitchBOT as a social experiment told The Associated Press that someone in Philadelphia damaged the robot beyond repair early Saturday, ending its first American tour after about two weeks.

    “Sadly, sadly it’s come to an end,” said Frauke Zeller, one of its co-creators.

    The kid-size robot set out to travel cross-country after successfully hitchhiking across Canada in 26 days last year and parts of Europe. It’s immobile on its own, relying on the kindness of strangers. Those who picked it up often passed it to other travelers or left it where others might notice it.

    It started in Marblehead, Massachusetts, on July 17 with its thumb raised skyward, a grin on its digital face and tape wrapped around its cylindrical head that read “San Francisco or bust.”

    The robot bounced around the Boston area and was briefly taken to sea. One day, it took in a Red Sox game, checking off one of the items on the bucket list created for it. But hitchBOT never made it off the East Coast.

    The creators were sent an image of the vandalized robot Saturday but couldn’t track its location because the battery is dead. They said they don’t know who destroyed it or why.

    The robot was designed to be a talking travel companion and could toss out factoids and carry limited conversation. A GPS in the robot tracked its location, and a camera randomly snapped photos about every 20 minutes to document its travels.

    During past travels, the robot attended a comic convention and a wedding, and it had its portrait painted in the Netherlands. It once spent a week with a heavy metal band.

    With the robot destroyed, Zeller said, she was most concerned about children who loved hitchBOT and followed it on social media. Her team doesn’t plan to release the last photo of it to protect young fans who might be distraught.

    “I hope that people won’t be too disappointed, too sad,” she said.

    his last tweet:
    https://twitter.com/hitchbot

  17. 17.

    I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet

    @shell: There’s an “interactive” thingy at the link for the painting above. (It’s baby Jesus, indicating how wonderful he is.)

    Cheers,
    Scott.
    (“Lions were much smaller in those days.”)

  18. 18.

    scav

    @shell: according to the site I linked to, that thing is made of antlers, which re-enforces Albrecht’s piety (something to do with stags), it’s furthermore hung medallions with griffons (part lion and part eagle, associated with the Savior) and then there does just seem to be yet another random cherub in there, because they must have run out of space on top of the bookcase.

  20. 20.

    Right to Rise

    Why Donald Trump’s rise is a great sign for Jeb:

    But among Trump’s potential beneficiaries, the man most likely to be indebted is Jeb Bush. A few months ago, Jeb looked like the weakest of front-runners: The field was deep, his own poll numbers were lackluster, and he was facing two candidates in particular – Marco Rubio and Scott Walker – who seemed just as capable of uniting the party, more appealing to the average Republican voter, and more compelling as general election candidates than another Bush dynast.

    Walker and Rubio are still there, and Jeb’s weaknesses remain. But Trump has come bearing the former Florida governor several gifts.

    First, his sudden prominence sets up exactly the kind of stylistic contrast that Jeb needed: He and the Donald are now the two most famous names in the race, they’re occupying opposing poles (populist/establishment, raffish/respectable) in a way that makes Jeb look like the safest harbor for anyone freaked out by Trump’s success, and the longer Trump polls well the less attention (and, perhaps, fund-raising dollars) there will be for more plausible challengers.

    At the same time, Trump’s deliberately-outrageous shtick, his camera-hogging instincts, are providing cover for Jeb to run the kind of primary campaign he clearly wants to run – conceding a human role in climate change here, doing minority outreach there – without having controversy dogging his every centrist foray

    Jeb Bush’s stock is rising, Quietly, but rising.

  23. 23.

    divF

    @Right to Rise:

    Jeb Bush’s stock is rising, Quietly, but rising.

    But his stock is rising in the GOP. He and Trump are vying to be King of the Frog People.

  24. 24.

    cmorenc

    @Mustang Bobby:

    Why don’t movie theatres come with a Mute button?

    I went to see the new Mission Impossible movie Friday night – but only after seeing that it got sufficiently near-consensu high praise from across the spectrum of reviewers (e.g. 93% from Rotten Tomatoes) to overcome my dislike of Tom Cruise as a person, and appreciate his chops as an actor who performs all his own stunts – that preview clip of him hanging off the outside of the closed door to an Airbus A400 cargo plane as it takes off and ascends to over 1000 feet? He really performed that stunt; it’s neither CGI nor is the scene of the background receding under him as the plane climbs added in post-production). And the movie is one of the best nonstop tense action-spy thrillers I’ve seen in years, and wouldn’t have been nearly so good if Cruise wasn’t surrounded by such an excellent cast of co-stars who are spot-on perfect for their roles.

    ANYHOW, the Carmike theater I saw it in unfortunately had the volume turned up deafeningly loud, much in excess of what was needed to impressively convey the stunts or hear the dialogue – at several points I almost walked out of a movie I was otherwise enjoying very much because at times, the volume was but a small fraction of a decibel away from crossing the threshold from disturbingly loud to literally painful. GEEZ, CARMIKE MOVIE THEATERS, IS MOST OF YOUR FREAKING AUDIENCE AS DEAF AS MY 93-YEAR OLD MOM? Or was it in the distribution contract for the movie that you had to play the movie at the same sound level as standing on the deck of an aircraft carrier without ear protection as an F-15 as it passes just 30 feet from your head while taking off?

  29. 29.

    MattF

    We need a new tag: ‘Good News for Jeb!’

    ETA: Or, should I say, “Good News for Jeb!!”

  30. 30.

    Mnemosyne (tablet)

    Also, since this is a museum-y thread and there are So Cal locals who comment here, I’ll put in another pitch for the Autry’s Civil War exhibition that runs until January:

    http://civilwar.theautry.org

    Really well done, and brings in a lot of fresh perspectives (Native American, Mexican citizens, etc.) It’s not a large museum, so you may want to budget in a trip to the LA Zoo across the street if it’s a longish drive for you.

  32. 32.

    trollhattan

    @cmorenc:
    “We have surround-sound so we will surround you with all the sound you can eat, and then some, golldarnit.” seems as typical as seven-buck popcorn. Especially painful in theaters with crappy sound systems so all you get is clipping. I feel your pain.

    Last movie I saw in the MI franchise had a meaningless motorcycle chase/joust that Would Not End so I threw in the towel on the lot.

  33. 33.

    Brachiator

    From the write-up on the painting, “Cardinal Albrecht of Brandenburg as Saint Jerome.”

    The squirrel symbolizes the Holy Spirit

    Rocky and Bullwinkle takes on an entirely new metaphysical significance.

  35. 35.

    Right to Rise

    A new poll with yet another batch of bad news for Clinton:

    Clinton trails former Gov. Jeb Bush of Florida (R) 42-41. She led Bush by 10 points in May. Biden, on the other hand, leads Bush by 1 point.
    Clinton leads Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin (R) 44-43. She led Walker by 8 points in May. Biden is tied with Walker.

  36. 36.

    Mnemosyne (tablet)

    @cmorenc:

    Oddly, it’s thanks to CGI that they can do much more thrilling stunts now, because they can CGI out the safety equipment and not have to hope that the fishing line and wires small enough to be invisible to the camera will also be strong enough to hold during the stunt.

    I’m not a Cruise fan, either, so I was surprised at how much I liked “Edge of Tomorrow.” It’s basically “Groundhog Day” as a war movie, which means you get to see Cruise’s character be tormented until he stops being an asshole. Definitely worth a watch.

  37. 37.

    low-tech cyclist

    @Benw:

    Planning on flooding you all with pro-Bernie comments!

    Can you use some other term? Just landed in central Florida, where ‘flooding’ is a dirty word right now. (Hi Betty!)

  40. 40.

    low-tech cyclist

    @Brachiator:

    Rocky and Bullwinkle takes on an entirely new metaphysical significance.

    And when Boris says, “Moose and Squirrel must die!” he’s expressing atheistic Russian Communism’s desire to stamp out religion. It all fits together!

  43. 43.

    elmo

    @raven: When my wife and I moved from California to Tennessee, we made an adventure of it. I bought a brokedown RV and we drove across country with ourselves and our seven dogs. It was supposed to be a weeklong lark, so I didn’t care much that the stove didn’t work and I was terrified of the propane system in any event.

    This was in October. Our new house had been vacant since July. As it happened, the seller had taken his fridge with him and neglected to turn off the icemaker hose. It ran constantly through July, August, and September, in a tiny Tennessee bungalow. We discovered the flood and consequent destruction when we arrived. The house had to be completely gutted down to the studs, and even some of those had to be replaced because of mold.

    So we ended up living in a 27-foot RV with no working kitchen for six weeks. All our money had to go to fixing the house, so we couldn’t afford to eat out. It was microwaveable instant meals and nothing else. For six solid weeks.

    For years afterward, my wife wouldn’t even go down the supermarket aisle where they keep the Dinty Moore.

  44. 44.

    Brachiator

    @cmorenc:

    And the movie is one of the best nonstop tense action-spy thrillers I’ve seen in years, and wouldn’t have been nearly so good if Cruise wasn’t surrounded by such an excellent cast of co-stars who are spot-on perfect for their roles.

    Agree with you that the movie is largely enjoyable. Cruise is good, but is so hardworking, especially in some of the more strenuous stunts, that he seems almost desperate to please the audience.

    The standout for me though, is Rebecca Ferguson, as an agent with her own agenda. Cruise, who is a producer as well as the star of the film, generously gives her plenty of room to do her thing, adding to the fun.

    Alec Baldwin lends a little weight to this movie, as does Michael Douglas to Ant-Man. The supporting cast is pretty good, and Sean Harris gives off Jeremy Irons vibes as a baddie.

    A little thing I picked up from the opening credits is how much Chinese money is backing this film. But since the movie was number one at the box office with a $56 million take, it appears to have been a wise investment.

  45. 45.

    ruemara

    Trying to get a plan together for the next year. I really don’t want to stay where I’m at, and it’s not a given this company can survive that long. I got 20 more years before I can collect medicaid and what ever SS. That’s not going to help the situation at all. My friends say I should stick with the job because at least I’m working; I think it’s not worth it to earn what a senior shift supervisor at McD’s might earn at part time at a company that has no path up for me & forward for itself. The safer corp jobs are rejecting me left & right. Despite years in a government job, I can’t even get an interview 98% of the time. Creative stuff that I do simply does not pay & I’m nonexistent too. Does it sound sane to collect funds and maybe stay a month or two in an area to see if I can land work; if not, move on to the next? I figure I’m long past the time to do more than sensible things. But my comfy pals are all “you should be thankful to have a job”, which really grates on my nerves. It just seems stupid to keep doing what hasn’t worked for a decade.

    @TaMara (BHF): yech. I can’t be the only person that just prefers a straight shot, if I’m gonna drink.

  46. 46.

    Germy Shoemangler

    @Brachiator:

    A little thing I picked up from the opening credits is how much Chinese money is backing this film.

    Chinese venture capitalists from a communist country. What a wonderful time to be alive!

  50. 50.

    Germy Shoemangler

    It’s not the previews that bother me so much (or the “coming attractions” as we used to call them) but the car/insurance/soda commercials.

  51. 51.

    MattF

    @ruemara: I used to frequent a bar that had a ‘No Blenders’ rule. And if management put a blender behind the bar, it would always, somehow, be broken by the end of the day– some piece of tableware would find its demise.

  53. 53.

    Brachiator

    @Right to Rise:

    A new poll with yet another batch of bad news for Clinton

    Holy Mother of God, and Saint Bernie! You know what this means?

    Absolutely nothing.

    Stuff like this is not even trolling. It’s just mindless jibber jabber. Or a lame attempt to incite comments, I don’t know.

  55. 55.

    Brachiator

    @ruemara:

    Trying to get a plan together for the next year. I really don’t want to stay where I’m at, and it’s not a given this company can survive that long.

    For what it’s worth, if your analysis of the company’s prospects are accurate, then you do want to develop an exit plan. I’ve been in a similar situation in the past, and the only reason I stayed was because I knew that there would be a generous layoff package, and I ended up getting paid extra to delay my final leave. But I worked hard to line up a new job once I knew my final work date.

    But I have seen companies cut back big time on severance arrangements recently, so you want to be careful here.

    If interviews are not working well for you, can you work networking channels, former co-workers, etc. any harder?

  56. 56.

    I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet

    @ruemara: I’m sorry you’re in a tough situation.

    I’ve been extremely lucky to be in a good job that I like for more than 25 years. Consequently, I haven’t looked for a job in a long time.

    My personality is to value stability. When my mom left a good job in Chicago that was driving her nuts for the promise of a job in Atlanta, I had a very bad feeling about it. The promise didn’t work out. She never worked consistently after that… :-(

    Rather than cutting the cord completely, can you make some long weekend trips to do searching and interviews? E.g. scope out places over the weekend, do interviews on Monday, then be back at work on Tuesday?

    The job market is picking up, but very slowly. That should help in general, but you’re in a field that is likely to always be difficult (a few superstars, lots of driven youngsters who are willing to suffer for their art and earn almost nothing in the process, and lots of people in the middle who just need to have a satisfying job with reasonable pay).

    Is there any way you can network with artists/creative types in your area? Maybe go to gallery shows and try to talk with like-minded people? IIRC, you do animation and computery-type things, right? Are you able to network at trade shows in your area?

    The online comics I follow, like Wondermark, seem to have creators that are always working, always scraping and struggling to try to get people to notice their work, always trying new things, always traveling to trade shows, comicons, etc. It must be exhausting and disheartening most of the time. Are you driven that way too? Have you thought about something like that?

    I honestly don’t know what I’d do in your situation. Having a job that is annoying and seems to be a dead end sucks. Not getting paid sucks. I hope any decision you make at least gets you on a path where things get better sooner.

    I hope this helps a little in your decision making, or at least isn’t annoying! :-)

    Best of luck.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  57. 57.

    Brachiator

    @Mnemosyne (tablet):

    I’m not a Cruise fan, either, so I was surprised at how much I liked “Edge of Tomorrow.” It’s basically “Groundhog Day” as a war movie, which means you get to see Cruise’s character be tormented until he stops being an asshole. Definitely worth a watch.

    Cruise has been doing good work since his earliest days in moves like Taps and The Outsiders. In more current work, he was surprisingly effective in Magnolia. But I guess his odd persona gets in the way of appreciating his skills.

    I keep hearing good things about Edge of Tomorrow, but still haven’t seen it. I kept confusing it with Oblivion and Elysium, the latter a film that did not feature Cruise, but which was a total stinker.

  58. 58.

    Elmo

    @RaflW: Ha! No. It’s complicated as to why, but he didnt have any and mine hadn’t kicked in yet. $15,000 cash out of pocket.

    He didn’t have a pot to piss in – he was selling because of a divorce, and there were broken windows etc that he took a price deduction rather than fix. Just unfortunate and a good lesson to me.

  59. 59.

    ruemara

    @Brachiator: No. I get recommendations, but it never turns into anything. I know workers, not “job creators” and when I do things for job creators, they forget me. My powers are being the invisible storm of excellence, where people say “why are you here?” but don’t actually offer a paying gig. But for free, oh they love me.

    @I’mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet: sans money or family, it’s exponentially tougher. Think of me as someone who’s more paid like a waitress, yet runs a marketing department. So I’m hand to mouth and the reserves for travel are not that big. I’ve considered some long distance jobs but the few I’ve gotten interviews for have been gov jobs. Where they call me with a day & time of their choosing and if I can’t make it, tough tittles.

    I’ve been networking, even did some good stuff at SDCC, but it won’t lead to work for a long time and it will take more work and money for it to potentially bear fruit. Locally, the network is once again, more interested in me working for free than anything else.

    Trust me, if I had some sort of gift for actuarial tables, I’d at least feel more successful.

  60. 60.

    Mnemosyne (tablet)

    @ruemara:

    Since I’m one of the ones who’s been telling you to get the hell out of Dodge, I am obviously very much in favor of this plan. :-) I like Brachiator’s idea of applying for jobs out of the area and taking 3-day weekends for interviews. Most companies want you to apply online now, so you should be able to send your resume to places in, say, Los Angeles, without having to leave your area. There may also be some online networking you can do at places like Reddit.

    Keep in mind that July/August are fallow times for job searches because everyone takes vacation during those times. You may want to consider banking your paycheck and vacation days for the next month and start making trips after Labor Day when there will be more jobs posted.

  61. 61.

    Mnemosyne (tablet)

    @ruemara:

    Also, too, make it very clear in your cover letter and/or application that you WANT to relocate and are not looking for jobs in your area. See if you can connect with a recruiter/headhunter in the geographic area you’re interested in.

    Even though she’s in a totally different field, lamh36 may have some good advice about simultaneously relocating and finding a job. I think she’s done it a couple of times now.

  62. 62.

    Mnemosyne (tablet)

    @ruemara:

    Okay, last thing: it is quite possible that if you move down here to La-La Land and try for a studio job, you will have to start off at the assistant level. At the Giant Evil, the title you want to search for is “coordinator” — it usually has some assistant duties, but is really meant as a stepping stone to other positions. Jobs with “secretary” or “assistant” in the title are more likely to get you stuck on the assistant track. (Though an assistant job at a studio will usually start around $18/hr plus overtime, so it’s not that bad.)

    If you’re willing to temp for a while, there are usually a lot of temp to permanent studio jobs available. AppleOne in Glendale is the one to sign up with for studio/entertainment jobs in the SF Valley. If there’s a particular company you’re interested in, you can contact their HR department and find out which temp agency they use.

  63. 63.

    Brachiator

    @efgoldman: Tried to post this, weird stuff happened. One more attempt then I’m off to dinner:

    Actually, it is. I (and others) think it’s Reality Check, the UNLIMITED CORPORATE CA$H guy from the last cycle.

    Other people think its DougJ having a goof.

    The weird thing is, that here and elsewhere some of the stuff that people react to as trolling is so easily refuted or contradicted that I wonder if the poster is just having sick fun or is someone who craves attention.

    I wish that there would be more people who have opposing views who seriously challenge positions, and who are willing to listen and to engage in debate, not just hit and run BS.

    But then again, I also wish that there were unicorns.

  65. 65.

    ThresherK

    @Mustang Bobby: A StateSen here in CT introduced a bill afew years ago requiring movie theaters to provide that actual information in listings and ads. He was belittled as a nanny-state big-gummint liberal.

    The fellow is a Democrat. I don’t know if he did it jokingly*, but it sounds like both a good joke, and plausibly good legislation. In a world where the theater chains ask me to plonk down my $GawdKnowsWhat, then watch fucking ads…well, that’s a marketplace which ain’t gonna solution itself.

    PS It’s interesting how when the right does things like this they’re both bad jokes and bad ideas of actual legislation.

    *This may have begun as an exercise in the kind of thing suburban CT parents thought of when shepherding their kiddies to a movie, or calculating the babysitter $$ on a rare evening out.

  67. 67.

    RSA

    @Germy Shoemangler:

    Remember the hitchhiking robot? It was supposed to hitchhike across the U.S. It didn’t even make it out of Philadelphia.

    Aw, that’s too bad. I wonder what the creators hoped to make of the project, on the research side; the art side is clearer, I think.

    (Pedant alert: hitchBOT is no more a robot than my mobile phone is.)

  68. 68.

    ruemara

    @Mnemosyne (tablet): That’s an idea. The key thing is working out the details. I’ll have to figure out the place to stay part. That’s the big obstacle here. That place to land thing is where the bulk of the planning has to be focused on. Maybe a hostel for a month or so?

  69. 69.

    Benw

    @low-tech cyclist: of all the stupid stuff I’ve said on BJ, that people have rightfully jumped on me for, taking offense at “flooding” is definitely the weirdest. :)

    Will you PC police ever leave me ALONE!?

  70. 70.

    RSA

    @Benw:

    taking offense at “flooding” is definitely the weirdest.

    Don’t worry; tomorrow it will just be water under the bridge.

  74. 74.

    Elmo

    @ruemara:
    Hoping you haven’t left BC the thread is dead. What is the creative stuff you do? Any of it related to writing? Can you do tech or grant writing?
    Asking for a friend. ;-)

  75. 75.

    shell

    The squirrel symbolizes the Holy Spirit

    I think my dog would have something to say about that.
    *****************
    So the Holy Spriit is stripping all the fruit off my apple tree.

  76. 76.

    Mnemosyne (tablet)

    @ruemara:

    Another thought I missed the edit window for — Anne Laurie may be willing to give MaryG your contact information. IIRC, she’s more down San Diego way, but at least you’d be in So Cal. She was at the Story Tavern meetup, so she knows you’re not a serial killer.

  78. 78.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    @Mnemosyne (tablet): OT: I just went on a nice hike in your little burg. Stough Canyon. They have a nature center at the end of Walnut, past Castaways. I hiked to Verdugo Peak, but there are lost of shorter routes.

  80. 80.

    Mnemosyne (tablet)

    @BillinGlendaleCA:

    I’ll have to let G know — now that the nieces are gone, he’ll have more time for hiking.

    If you know of local (up to Ventura County) hikes that will wear out a 17-year-old boy, let me know. My nephew will be living in Thousand Oaks and has a lot of energy to burn off.

  81. 81.

    ruemara

    @Elmo: Sorry. Scriptwriting, marketing copy, social media, & articles. Grant/tech writing is the one thing I’ve never done.

    @Mnemosyne (tablet): Yes, but she’s a nice lady who’s already met me. Nothing can overcome that.

  85. 85.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @ruemara: I’ve mentioned on this blog that I used to play rugby. Sheep are pretty much an open secret at that point.

  86. 86.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    @Mnemosyne (tablet): Oh and the hikes in Stough Canyon can be just the loop from the nature center to the old youth campground to the saddle atop the hill and back or to the radio towers at the top of the Verdugos(that’s what I did today).

  87. 87.

    Mnemosyne (tablet)

    @BillinGlendaleCA:

    Thanks! We took him and his sisters to Charmlee on Saturday (because the 15YO has a busted-up knee and the 9YO has short legs) and I think he was a little disappointed in how easy it was. I think he wants to try a “real” mountain hike.

  88. 88.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    @Mnemosyne (tablet): Hah! There’s always Booney Peak(Sandstone Peak), that’s the highest mountain in the Santa Monica’s(I’ve not climbed it). My dad and I used to hike though Mugu State Park, starting in Newberry Park and going down to the ocean and back with maybe a stop in La Jolla valley(though that area got f’ed up in the springs fire).

    Mt. Cleff is a good mountain hike, nice cliffs too. We used to hike Wildwood alot, but that was (gulp) 40 years ago.

    There’s also Malibu Creek State Park, if he has trasportation. It’s off Las Virginies(sp).

  89. 89.

    Smiling Mortician

    @ruemara: For the right job, it’s pretty inexpensive to move by putting your stuff in self-storage in your new hometown and staying in a motel with weekly rates for a week or two until you find an apartment. And also, when you find interesting jobs in various locations that you want to check out, tell folks here about it. We live all over the damn place and will likely have suggestions. Good luck.

  91. 91.

    Elmo

    @ruemara: Still, it’s writing. Subject-verb agreement, consistency in tenses, rough approximation of correct punctuation.
    Shoot me a resume at:
    LMHAGAN
    (That’s where Elmo comes from, L.maureen)
    At
    Att
    Dot net
    Ok?

  92. 92.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Elmo:

    (That’s where Elmo comes from, L.maureen)

    I do sometimes wonder how people choose their ‘nyms.

  93. 93.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    @Omnes Omnibus: There was a thread about that recently(in the past few months). Mine is my first name “in”(which seems to confuse some) and the city I live in.

  95. 95.

    Glidwrith

    @ruemara: If you are still around, we could host you for a day or two while you interview. I’m completely in the wrong field to offer any advice on how the market is down here, though. The hatchlings would love to see you again.

  96. 96.

    Bjacques

    The thread’s probably dead and buried, but the simple painting of the Virgin & Child on the Cardinal’s wall looks like it could have been by Ambrosius Benson (1495/1500-1550 Antwerp), because he tended to give Mary lumpy hair and a fat neck. It also looks like Baby Jesus wears a shirt. The Darmstadt Museum, which has this painting, dates it to 1526, so the dates match.

  98. 98.

    Paul in KY

    @elmo: You should have sued the previous owner. That mistake would run afoul of any normal house contract.

  99. 99.

    Procopius

    @divF:

    But his stock is rising in the GOP. He and Trump are vying to be King of the Frog Mole People.

    There, fixed that for ya.

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