This Day of Thor came quickly! Here are some bromeliads to celebrate:
I’m going on vacation fairly soon, so I’ve been scrambling to get everything squared away before I leave. Makes the time pass quickly.
What are you up to this evening?
by Betty Cracker| 179 Comments
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David Koch
a stunning silhouette of the leaders of the free world
redshirt
That is one crazy looking plant! Looks like it belongs underwater, eating small fish.
David Koch
the shared warmth and connection is causing wingnut heads to explode.
Obama introduces a 87 year old widow to Francis
David Koch
here’s one for Burnsy (trigger alert: Duke)
Baud
I just found out they are making a movie about LBJ.
I want to go see it with raven.
redshirt
@David Koch: Those dudes got ear game.
Betty Cracker
@Baud: Ha! He’d stand up and say, ” FUCK LBJ!” Can’t blame him a bit either.
Schlemazel
@Baud:
I’d rather see a movie about raven with LBJ
Morzer
@Betty Cracker:
He’d basically be the complimentary (or uncomplimentary) soundtrack.
Baud
@Schlemazel:
True dat.
redshirt
LBJ is maybe the most conflicted/controversial President. He accomplished an enormous amount of good, on purpose. He did a lot of bad, I feel like despite his best intentions.
If LBJ did bad to you or yours, I could see how you’d never forgive him. But if you’re one of the many people LBJ helped, well, he was a pretty good President.
Mnemosyne (iPhone)
G has an informational meeting about becoming a literacy volunteer tonight, so I’m going to sneak off to the craft store and see if there’s anything I can’t live without. I’m taking on extra holiday knitting this year since we’re in contact with more relatives, so I have to start my holiday crafting ridiculously early.
Mike J
@Mnemosyne (iPhone):
Would you pick me up some snoo?
redshirt
@efgoldman: And I read LBJ was trying to wind down the war and it was Nixon actively fucking up negotiations which prolonged the war for years, costing many hundred thousands of lives.
Mnemosyne (iPhone)
@David Koch:
People magazine, of all places, had a really interesting cover story about Rosemary Kennedy (apparently there’s a new book out about her). She was lobotomized, but retained enough awareness of what had been done to her that she was still angry with her mother years later.
Once asshole patriarch Joe died, they were able to do a lot more for Rosemary, but the worst of the damage had already been done.
Anoniminous
Every thing is ready and I’m running around trying to find where I misplaced Mjölnir.
Anoniminous
@efgoldman:
tl;dr version: In 1980 IBM was run by idiots.
rikyrah
The Pope is sending greetings to Muslims. Prayers to them for the heartache and tragedy in Mecca.
raven
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rikyrah
WHAT.DA.PHUQ?
Washington Post ✔ @washingtonpost
Mayor of Lewiston, Maine, wants to publicize who’s on welfare and where they live http://wapo.st/1L8Znyw
2:19 PM – 24 Sep 2015
jeffreyw
@efgoldman: I finally got win 10 to stick the 4th try on an old Dell. Not sure why it refused to activate all those other times. Now that I’m thinking about it, I’m not sure that it has activated itself this time, I haven’t gone to settings yet but the on screen nag isn’t there. I’m pretty sure you can upgrade sans a network connection once the data you need has downloaded but it will be wanting you to go online a soon as you can for updates.
WaterGirl
@Mnemosyne (iPhone):
Wow, she was a better person than me. If my family gave me a lobotomy, I am pretty sure I would still be angry even after I was dead.
Morzer
@rikyrah:
Clearly a warm, loving, Christian kinda town.
rikyrah
@Baud:
are you talking about the one with Bryan Cranston playing LBJ?
Woodrowfan
Thor? Hell I can barely walk! (rimshot)
Baud
@rikyrah:
According to Reddit, Woody Harrelson will play LBJ.
Elizabelle
@raven: It was predicted that would be your response.
For the open thread: in Yahoo news feed:
It was freelancing. Thought of Betty at once.
WaterGirl
@raven: No bold? No caps?
Baud
It may be an HBO film.
Baud
I wonder who’ll play me in the future biopic.
Mnemosyne (iPhone)
@WaterGirl:
It sounds like she (understandably) did not blame her siblings, most of whom were under 18 when she was operated on. She was angry with her parents. Joe was even more of a monster than people realized — he knew the “doctor” was a quack, and he didn’t care as long as it meant he could lock her away afterwards and she couldn’t resist.
She was sent to live at a convent where the nuns doted on her and took really good care of her, so at least she wasn’t subjected to further abuse by her parents.
JPL
How many of us are upset that LBJ was responsible for Southern Dems becoming Republicans?
redshirt
@Morzer:
Lewiston voted Obama both 2008 and 2012.
The Mayor is a wingnut. Our Governor is a wingnut. 60% of Maine is progressive and yet we’ve been taken over by wingnuts. It’s alarming.
Anoniminous
@Baud:
According to this, no. There is one in the works by Spielberg for HBO.
Here’s a picture of Harrelson.
redshirt
@Baud: Morzer
Mnemosyne (iPhone)
@WaterGirl:
Also, quite frankly it sounds like the family kept it a secret because they knew Joe and Rose had behaved very badly, not because they were embarrassed by their sister. Hopefully Rosemary is kicking Joe’s ass in an afterlife somewhere.
dexwood
My plans for the evening include a warm welcome to great local beers and grilling green chile cheeseburgers. I’m rewarding myself for a pretty good job of installing new security doors, front and back, on my house. It took all day working by myself, but easier than anticipated.
Elizabelle
@rikyrah: In happier news: The New Yorker did a story on the Pope’s Fiat. He’s using one up in NYC too.
Pope Francis and his little Fiat
[article has links to Pope’s encyclicals on global capitalism, which Rush Limbaugh assured his ditto-heads was “pure Marxism”, and on climate change]
BillinGlendaleCA
Did the hike in the Verdugos with the kid yesterday; it was pretty hazy so there wasn’t much to see towards the south or west(Downtown LA and the Valley). We didn’t take many pics: we got a couple of both of us taken with her fruity phone and a selfie stick and some of her with my camera. It was still a nice hike except for a small spill I took close to the end(skinned up my right knee a bit). I think I’ve planted a joy of hiking in the kid.
Elizabelle
@Anoniminous: Rob Reiner is directing the Woody Harrelson movie.
WH’s a very good actor. Good makeup for LBJ role. Could be good.
WaterGirl
@JPL: Not me. There was a huge cost to the democratic party, but the civil rights gains were worth it.
Morzer
@Baud:
Steve Buscemi
JPL
@WaterGirl: It was worth it.
Steeplejack (phone)
@Anoniminous:
Can’t you just hold out your arm and it will fly to you? Maybe check the owner’s manual.
WaterGirl
@Morzer: NO! I cannot say that strongly enough. (imagine bold)
Morzer
An amazing story out of Cracker country:
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/janet-adkins-corinne-brown-prisoners-gerrymandering
Betty Cracker
@WaterGirl: Yep. Assholes were assholes regardless of the label anyway.
Elizabelle
@David Koch: Ethel Kennedy looks good. I liked all your pictures.
Morzer
@WaterGirl:
Ian McShane?
WaterGirl
@Morzer: Wow, you and I apparently picture baud very differently!
Baud
@Morzer:
I’ve always liked Danny Trejo.
Morzer
@WaterGirl:
Who is your pick for the role?
rikyrah
here’s a clip of FLOTUS on Doc McStuffins
https://twitter.com/metaquest/status/647130329992421376?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
BillinGlendaleCA
@efgoldman: I’ve installed Win10 6 times. At which point in the upgrade are you having the problem?
WaterGirl
@Betty Cracker: Good riddance to bad rubbish, as we used to say as kids. My slightly more grown-up version is Ugly is as ugly does.
shell
Betty, where are you going for your recreating?
Omnes Omnibus
@Morzer: Natalie Dormer.
Baud
@Omnes Omnibus:
I would like it if she played me.
WaterGirl
@Morzer: I will have to ponder that. I don’t have a ready answer for baud but if you asked me who would play the role of Omnes in a movie, I would have to say the guy from Suits.
“My” baud does have brown hair, I think, but I will have to consider the rest. I will obviously know more once baud gets the nomination and I am his Valerie Jarrett.
Baud! 2016!
Morzer
@Omnes Omnibus:
I thought we were casting her as Mnemosyne? Or am I mixing her up with Natalie Portman?
Gian
@efgoldman:
And sabotaging the Paris Peace Talks. There is a not insignificant probability that Nixon’s screwing with the peace talks was a part and parcel of another 5 years of needless slaughter
WaterGirl
@shell: Wow, I need to clean my glasses. I read that as “procreating” and i thought that was a rather personal question!
Morzer
@WaterGirl:
I just think Ian McShane is more baudy. I can just see our presidential candidate leaning over the podium and growling “Cocksuckers!” at the media.
raven
@efgoldman: you can’t be serious
WaterGirl
@Morzer: He would surely be shouting something more clever than that.
Mnemosyne (iPhone)
@rikyrah:
My coworkers and I once sat outside our office for over an hour hoping we could catch a glimpse of FLOTUS when she visited Imagineering with the girls. Sadly, she drove out through another (more secure) gate. I think both POTUS and FLOTUS have visited the studio. Rumor has it that our CEO prominently displays a photo of himself with the current POTUS in his office.
Omnes Omnibus
@WaterGirl: Which one?
Elizabelle
@Baud: Machete!
Baud
@WaterGirl:
I might not care about clever once I’m a lame duck like Obama is now.
Until then, however, it’ll be pure psychological warfare.
Anoniminous
@Steeplejack (phone):
Got the cheap one in the clearance bin from GodMart.
Mnemosyne (iPhone)
@Morzer:
Awww, you’re sweet, but Lena Dunham with glasses and red hair would be more like it.
Elizabelle
@Baud: That’s lithe duck.
Someone here came up with that. I like it. It fits.
Morzer
@WaterGirl:
Now, for raven, I think Ben Kingsley, with Derek Jacobi as Cole..
schrodinger's cat
@Baud: Martin Freeman.
Baud
@Elizabelle:
I know, right.
Sound like someone who you want to be on a ticket with?
Anoniminous
@Elizabelle:
I like Harrelson but I saw the original. My feelings towards LBJ are … complicated. I’ll take a pass
the Conster
hahahaha amoral pill gouging Pharma douchebro is being investigated by the feds for securities fraud, defrauding investors, insider trading, and all the other kinds of things that asshole douchebros think don’t apply to them.
Baud
@Elizabelle:
I like it.
Betty Cracker
@shell: Hiking the Appalachian Trail. No, really! A piece of it, anyway.
raven
@Morzer: KInglsey in Sexy Beast maybe, not Gandhi
schrodinger's cat
@Betty Cracker: If you are going to climb Katahdin, don’t forget to bring some booze to celebrate your ascent. The Baxter State Park authorities love celebrations!
raven
Strange day in Athens. Two women were killed on a Harley and another female friend of mine was killed when her scooter crossed the center line.
Elizabelle
@Baud: I’d feel safe.
Although I’d probably get subjected to some death-defying shit in the meantime. The man has the courage of his convictions.
Baud
@raven:
I’m sorry to hear that.
Elizabelle
@raven: Horrible. I am so sorry. What a shock.
Baud
@Elizabelle:
I think I found my campaign slogan.
raven
@Elizabelle: It’s strange, the person I knew seemed to be on a downward slide for quite sometime. What she was doing on one of those little things on the busiest streets in town at night I don’t know.
They haven’t released the names of the women on the Harley.
RaflW
Breaking news: China to Announce Cap-and-Trade Program to Limit Emissions
Between this and the Pope, conservatives heads are exploding. Plus the Commies are using cap-and-trade, a market mechanism. Horrors!
raven
@efgoldman: And just how in the fuck do you know what I think of that shit eatin dog fucker? When we get someone on here that starts with that “oh look what he accomplished” I’ll be here.
Mnemosyne (iPhone)
@Betty Cracker:
Did you see Wild, with Reese Witherspoon? I ended up liking it more than I thought I would.
Trigger alert: it’s her mother’s death that sends her into her tailspin, so make sure you have your Kleenex ready.
JPL
@raven: No one knows.. take a breath. It’s been a long, sad day.
Elizabelle
@RaflW: Saw that. It took a moment to compute.
Are cats typing?
Steeplejack (phone)
@efgoldman:
I second the recommendation to try it in wired mode. Also, start it before you go to bed and let it run overnight. Watched pot, etc.
Morzer
@raven:
I am sensing a somewhat critical attitude towards President Nixon here.
Elizabelle
@efgoldman: Oh no. Wishing him a complete and full recovery. Worrying.
Elizabelle
@Morzer: You won’t believe this, but it’s possible raven is not a member of the silent majority.
Thoughtful Today
“This Day of Thor came quickly!”
Like lightning this week.
Last Thor’sDay crept up like thunder.
raven
@efgoldman: They just showed it, don’t know how they didn’t call it targeting. Gunner Keil btw, he started at Notre Dame.
srv
The Tides. They Don’t Turn for Jebito.
Morzer
@Elizabelle:
He just doesn’t like to wear his heart on his sleeve, that’s all.
raven
@Morzer: Way worse than LBJ, way worse.
Baud
@Morzer:
Our last liberal president. Did you know he created the EPA? #FrequentBlogComments
rikyrah
The motorcade with Pope Francis is hilarious. All these big SUV’s, then here comes the little Fiat…LOL
Morzer
@Baud:
And he whipped the Southerners at Gettysburg, which I don’t frankly think he gets enough credit for.
Elizabelle
@rikyrah: I am loving that Fiat.
Baud
How fortunate it is that they didn’t use a Volkswagen.
Steeplejack (phone)
@srv:
Link?
You don’t even say what poll it is. How is this supposed to be helpful or informative?
redshirt
@efgoldman:
And I believe the reason people bring it up now is to show how even the craziest (R’s) then were somewhat sane and sensible people and could actually govern, and even if by mistake, do good.
Any Republican now will burn down Washington and then laugh from the Plutocrat’s orbital killer satellite.
Elizabelle
@raven: Out of curiosity: what is your take on JFK?
The whole Viet Nam saga is such a tragedy. And today: bicycle tours. Past fighter jets fallen into in fields, still there.
Baud
@redshirt:
No. I’ve mostly seen it to attack modern Democrats.
Elizabelle
@redshirt: Romneycare.
People might think Mitt brought it to Massachusetts, but it was (I am told) to head off a more liberal version.
And Mittster gets the credit (or infamy; how times change).
Mnemosyne (iPhone)
@Baud:
Some of the stories are saying that he always chooses a Fiat because it’s an Italian car. When he visited Brazil, sales of the model he rode in shot up.
raven
@Elizabelle: Halberstam has a great statement in “The Coldest Winter”. He says JFK created the “greatest lying machine in history” and quotes Kennedy as saying “I’ll just let the next sucker deal with this” (paraphrase).
Carolinus
What passes for journalism these days ~ USA Today covering that poorly photoshopped @POTUS twitter blocking “story”:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2015/09/24/white-house-conservative-teen-critic-blocked-twitter/72726004/
The article includes as some kind of evidence another conservative on twitter claiming she was blocked too. The article fails to include her follow-up tweet taking it back (she now claims to have been blocked by the OFA owned/controlled @barackobama, not the white house run @potus):
https://twitter.com/TracyJeffords/status/646844256200601601
Doug R
@Anoniminous: don’t worry it’ll come to you
Baud
@Mnemosyne (iPhone):
Well then it’s a good thing Ratzinger still isn’t pope.
Elizabelle
@Baud:
LOL. Just saw the VW quip. Oy vey.
Winterkorn (former CEO) has to be so happy we’re all watching Pope Francis, 24/7. Cuz that’s the way our media rolls.
raven
@Elizabelle: Hell, I have a buddy who is just next to being a T Bagger that moved back there three years ago an loves it. When he comes home I ask him, “you do know you live in a GODDAMN COMMUNIST COUNTRY”! You see no conflict there? He doesn’t.
Roger Moore
@WaterGirl:
Another way of thinking of it is that the Democratic party of today is what it is because we got rid of those guys. I think you can understand Bill Clinton’s triangulation as an attempt to keep the last of those guys from leaving the party. I think the Democrats are ultimately stronger for not having to do that anymore.
Elizabelle
@raven: Wow. On the reading list. Was JFK that cynical? Or he thought he could disengage later (use “tough on Communists” for the ’64 election) and history overtook him?
My dad was over there in early 60s. They thought that was a winnable war. For a while.
redshirt
@Elizabelle:
That’s what I mean of course. They’ll use the “reasonable Republican” myth of yore – and it is dead and gone. There’s no reasonable New England Republicans anymore, like the type that used to rule this region (and there used to be reasonable Republicans here not too long ago – 20 years give or take). Never forget Vermont of all places never voted for FDR and the reason is he wasn’t progressive enough.
Roger Moore
@RaflW:
You’re looking at that backward. It’s just more proof that limiting CO2 emissions through cap and trade is a Communist plot, and Obummer must be a commie for suggesting it.
raven
@Elizabelle: I think he was pragmatic. The right wing was just as nuts as it is now and he was doing what he thought he needed to “draw a line”.
Pick this up, it was the basis for the film “Go Tell the Spartans”
The Only War We’ve Got: Early Days in South Vietnam Daniel Ford
raven
@Elizabelle: RE “The Coldest Winter”. IMHO it is a great book with incredible insights into both Korea and Vietnam.
ThresherK
@efgoldman: Is Windows 10 what I want right now?
Win 8.1 has posed no headaches to me, but I’m the geek friends call about these things, and have heard too many things funny-strange (not funny-haha) about 10 to trust it to a computer I need to have running every day.
rikyrah
@Baud:
Huh?
HUH?
gene108
Saw a commercial for the latest Rocky movie Creed and for some reason listening to the plot narrative I thought it would have been Apollo’s grandson helped by Rocky, but the promo has it as Apollo’s troubled youngish (probably twenty something) son.
Drago killed Apollo in Rocky IV, which came out in 1985.
So this troubled kid is 30 years old?
I’m not sure how they are managing the timeline problems here.
Mike in NC
“Path to War” starred Michael Gabon as LBJ and was an excellent overview of the Vietnam debacle. Highly unlikely they’ll ever do a movie about the Iraq clusterfuck orchestrated by Cheney/Bush/Rumsfeld.
rikyrah
@Morzer:
Because, this is who they are .
period.
Mnemosyne (iPhone)
@raven:
Grahame Greene wrote “The Quiet American,” about US meddling in Vietnam going horribly wrong, way back in 1955. The poor guy lived more than long enough to see just how right he’d been long before the “real” war began.
raven
@Mnemosyne (iPhone): As did Bernard Fall.
Mnemosyne (iPhone)
@gene108:
Michael B. Jordan is 28, but he may be playing a little younger. Let’s face it, they’re not expecting anyone to do the math.
IMO, it’s really smart from a storytelling POV to move Rocky into the Mickey/mentor role. We’ll see if Stallone can pull it off.
Patricia Kayden
@raven: lol. Say it like you mean it!
Debbie
@WaterGirl: @WaterGirl: @Mnemosyne (iPhone):
Pretty much the same story for France’s Framer. Bitch of a mother.
Roger Moore
@gene108:
My guess is that they aren’t. They’re hoping nobody will notice or care.
Betty Cracker
@Mnemosyne (iPhone): Read it and saw the movie. My sister and I are hiking, and we’re taking some of our mom’s ashes with us to spread on the trail. Mom loved the mountains.
NotMax
@Mnemosyne
If it involves acting in any capacity other than sweating while throwing punches, no.
Betty Cracker
@rikyrah: I can see Harrelson pulling that part off. He’s a damn good actor, IMO.
@NotMax: My sentiments exactly!
gene108
@Mnemosyne (iPhone):
He does have an Academy Award nomination for best actor for playing Rocky, so who knows.
Elizabelle
@raven: OMG. My dad (in Viet Nam) had a Hermes typewriter. Same vintage. Will check out the link.
Debbie
@WaterGirl:
Don Draper?
Elizabelle
@Patricia Kayden: I still have the Google doodle with the squirrel up. Protecting it.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@raven: I’m sorry for your loss. Sudden is hard, sometimes especially when there’s been a downward spiral.
Mingobat f/k/a Karen in GA
@raven: My condolences.
JPL
@Betty Cracker: Good.
My exes family would take ashes for the garden. They didn’t quite fight over them but it was close and odd. My sons have been told to take my ashes and spread them on a windy day on a mountaintop. I don’t want them to have a place to mourn or celebrate.
raven
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): Thanks
Elizabelle
@Mnemosyne (iPhone): I need to read “The Quiet American.” So much out there, to horrify us, since we live in the future.
Schlemazel
@raven:
Truth is Ike got us in these in the first place when he sent Marines in in 57 to disrupt the unification elections. Truman gets an honorable mention for supporting the French there in the post war.
Kennedy was fighting against the pressure to escalate. Then in 64 some people in DoD set up LBJ who knew the Gulf of Tonkin deal was fake but felt he couldn’t not escalate because he couldn’t prove the attack was faked. Then it was simply throwing good money after bad by a guy who often thought with his little head instead of his big one.
He was stupid but it was Dulles Nixon and those bastards in the Pentagon that did evil.
raven
@JPL: We mixed my dad’s ashes with his beloved back lab, Molly. They are both in the Phoenix Veterans Cemetery (except the small bag I scattered at Huff Gym on the U of I campus.
raven
@Elizabelle: Read the Ugly American too.
Baud
@raven:
Spread my mom’s in the lake.
Baud
Sigh
JPL
@Schlemazel: During the early sixties, two recon planes got shot down. One of the pilots died and if memory serves me, he was the father of six. Vietnam started a long time before the Raven years.
They flew out of Misawa, I think… haha I never saw the classify stuff
Schlemazel
@efgoldman:
That was the hot spot early. I remember Mad magazine doing a cartoon of “guerillas attacking across the Plain of Jars” In the early 60s.
gelfling545
Very excited that our apartment reservation in Paris (AirB&B) has been confirmed. It’s on the 5e & is equipped with a resident cat.
Schlemazel
@JPL:
I have an older cousin who brags his unit was in Vietnam in 57 and he spent a year there in 58-59. He said that there were fire fights he was involved in but no details. The funny thing is he isn’t classified as a Vietnam vet.
Betty Cracker
@JPL: The good thing about a loved one’s ashes, I’ve learned, is that there are a fairly substantial amount, so it doesn’t have to be all one thing or another.
My sister and I spread a small amount of Mom’s ashes in the Strawberry Fields area of Central Park. Mom never made it to NYC while alive, but she and I had already made plans to go up there for my sister’s wedding (July 2014), and she loved the Beatles, so we thought it was appropriate that she made it to NYC after all.
We also spread some of her ashes at a spot she loved on a river that’s special to us all, so that spot is sort of a memorial place to us. The mountains are the last place we’re planning on spreading her ashes, but each of us kids have kept a small amount for ourselves.
I think she’d approve. She was spread pretty thin when she was alive — poor thing! — and always up for a road trip!
raven
@JPL: I went in Nov, 1966. My cousin was already the and had been since early 66.
Betty Cracker
@efgoldman: I’m watching the beisbol — didn’t even realize football was on! Now I gotta channel switch, damn it!
JPL
@Schlemazel: My brother was the other pilot that lived. He’s still alive and as right as they come because he wants to refight that war. Maybe this time they will win.. A Boston radio station released the names early on, without stating the status. Since my dad was retired, they received info that they never shared with me.
JPL
@Betty Cracker: You are doing the right thing. I went back to visit my dad’s grave a few decades ago and could not find it. My dad died in 1972 and who would have thought that folks would die in between. I was going up and down rows until the point that I started laughing while tears were streaming down my face . I never found it. It was okay though.
Schlemazel
@JPL:
Wow!
Having heard grandma’s storey of getting a visit I can’t imagine the stress. I bawled like a baby at the end of that movie about the Sullivan brothers.
JPL
@Schlemazel: My father was on the Nevada. I actually have the post card she received that he was alive. The story goes, that the mailman delivered it Xmas eve.
Morzer
@JPL:
I just hope they don’t stick you in a Folger’s coffee tin.
JPL
@efgoldman: For me, don’t have a place to mourn because life is not about that.
PurpleGirl
@Mnemosyne (iPhone): Didn’t read “The Quiet American” but have read “The Comedians” which takes place in the Haiti of Papa Doc. It engendered a life-long sympathy for Haiti and great dislike for people who supported Papa Doc. I once met a group of upper middle-class women who were doing charity work through a church in Manhattan with low income teenagers. Most of them had families which had spent some time in Haiti and earned wealth from drug manufacturing there. I had to hold my tongue for most of an evening’s party, lest I exploded at them about Haiti.
NotMax
@Morzer
Flashing on the ashes scene in the final episode of Rescue Me.
Schlemazel
@JPL:
Jesus that’s harsh. Given the numbers it was bound to happen. It pisses me off that some people can take war so casually.
Schlemazel
@efgoldman:I asked to be buried head down with an acorn in my butt. At least this pos body would be good fertilizer.
Failing that I would like to have my ashes melted into glass and blown into Christmas ornaments. I love Christmas trees.
Edit: my family finds both those requests unnerving and are refusing.
JPL
@Schlemazel: I don’t think they did. I never understood why, but after WWII, my father never voted for a Republican. He never felt they were concerned about people. Blacks at the time were assigned kitchen work and such. He saw the bravery of them carrying out injured and as a young child I remembered those stories.
These are the other stories I remembered.. My dad retired when I was in second grade.. but I didn’t know the sailors were buying me treats cuz my dad was a boss until I was in my thirties. My sister told me. I still hate her for that. I thought they thought I was cute.
gelfling545
@efgoldman: I think we’re on our own for that.
NotMax
@efgoldman
Also too Lillian Gish, James Earl Jones and the highly underrated Roscoe Lee Browne.
Steeplejack (tablet)
@Elizabelle:
My first typewriter (1969) was a Hermes 3000. Awesome machine.
seaboogie
@efgoldman: I’m going with Samuel L. Jackson for Baud. Tarantino directing. Ileana Douglas for WaterGirl – let’s keep it zesty!
seaboogie
@JPL: I spread my portion* of my husband’s ashes at the beach on the west coast of Vancouver Island at Tofino where we had vacationed a year prior. I climbed up on the same giant tree stump that I took a photo of him on when he was alive, our 1 year old pup pawing at it wondering what game we were playing.
Y’all saw the end of The Big Lebowski, right? Spent the next little while trying to brush his ashes off my anorak.
* MIL was steadfast on putting his ashes in the family plot – which I knew he would not like. But while we were having that convo (and she was adamant), it suddenly dawned on me that we could divvy him up, and so we did.
redshirt
@seaboogie: lol. Funny story out of a death.
seaboogie
@redshirt: Oh, it gets funnier….
So my hubby had been estranged from his parents for many years (and understandably so), but I got them back together in Toronto where we all lived. Then Ed and I moved to Vancouver and were there for 7 years, which was hard on his parents because mom especially felt kind of like she was losing him again.
On our last visit back to Toronto we were driving out to dinner, his parents in the back seat, and they asked us if we ever considered moving back to Toronto. We shared a glance, and said “No, we are really happy in Vancouver.” Then Mom piped up that they had a family burial plot for four – the two of them, and since MIL’s mother was already buried in one spot, there was one open. To which we replied “Oh, you mean moving back PERMANENTLY!”. Even they got that joke.
So on the evening when my husband had passed away suddenly of a heart attack, I phoned his brother with whom he was pretty close to give him the news and ask him to phone the parents. Brother asked if I thought I wanted Ed buried in the family plot, and I just burst out laughing – this a couple of hours after finding my husband dead on the bedroom floor. BIL probably thought I was nuts in the moment, but appreciated it later when I could explain it more fully. BTW, they had offered the spot to the BIL well before approaching my hubby, but he said that he wanted to be buried next to his wife, to which they replied “Oh, we thought that Anne would want to be buried with HER people! Yep.
David Koch
@efgoldman: Here’s some interesting documents on the issue.
Plus a comprehensive historical examination:
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@seaboogie: I like your stories seaboogie.
They suck – for you, for the family involved. Death sucks.
But you tell the tale with elan.