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You are here: Home / Open Threads / The Truth, I Won’t Fight It

The Truth, I Won’t Fight It

by TaMara|  March 30, 20169:56 pm| 171 Comments

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One of my favorite bands in one of my favorite places.

Looked like we could use an open thread, so here you go. How are you wrapping up your evening?

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  1. 1.

    TaMara (BHF)

    March 30, 2016 at 10:00 pm

    If you like them, here is that full concert.

  2. 2.

    Omnes Omnibus

    March 30, 2016 at 10:00 pm

    It’s been a long time since I even thought of that band. Cool.

  3. 3.

    Mike J

    March 30, 2016 at 10:13 pm

    I am the mayonnaise king of Stardew Valley. Now do I go for Abigail, Penny or Maru?

  4. 4.

    Gin & Tonic

    March 30, 2016 at 10:13 pm

    Looks like I will be faced with the painful but inevitable task of disowning my son. As an almost life-long Knickerbockers fan I tried to bring him up right. It lasted for a while, but eventually he became, I shutter to admit, a Celtics fan. I guess I could cut him some slack – growing up in New England, being in high school and rooting not just for a NY team, but one which seldom made it to .500, would be a tall order. Youthful fling, I thought.

    But I was talking with him the other day, and he compared the Knicks to the Cleveland Browns. I was crushed. I was appalled. Any right-thinking person can see I have no choice now.

    Where have I gone wrong?

  5. 5.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    March 30, 2016 at 10:15 pm

    I haven’t heard this song in too long! One to add to my playlist. Thanks Tamara

  6. 6.

    billb

    March 30, 2016 at 10:16 pm

    TaMara, awesome band! Also love your book review idea, like to see more. possibly even mine…..

    https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/billBAD

  7. 7.

    redshirt

    March 30, 2016 at 10:16 pm

    @Gin & Tonic: Join us. Bask in the glow of Title Town. :)

  8. 8.

    Punchy

    March 30, 2016 at 10:16 pm

    The spawn’s in REM, the better half in Facebook, the greyhounds in awe of my cheese, and Im getting my BJ on. Woulda meant something completely diff 10 years ago….sigh.

  9. 9.

    redshirt

    March 30, 2016 at 10:22 pm

    @Punchy: BOXCAR!

  10. 10.

    Mike J

    March 30, 2016 at 10:28 pm

    @redshirt: Wolves, lower.

  11. 11.

    Gin & Tonic

    March 30, 2016 at 10:28 pm

    @redshirt: Long-time ABC guy here (anyone but the Celtics.) There’s a less-than-zero chance I’m getting on your bandwagon.

  12. 12.

    Omnes Omnibus

    March 30, 2016 at 10:29 pm

    @Mike J: Stipe with hair!

  13. 13.

    Dork

    March 30, 2016 at 10:29 pm

    @Punchy: You mean your kid would have taken Stipe’s position as frontman?

  14. 14.

    Adam L Silverman

    March 30, 2016 at 10:29 pm

    @Punchy: I’m trying to figure out what “in awe of my cheese” is a euphemism for.

  15. 15.

    Omnes Omnibus

    March 30, 2016 at 10:32 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: Some things, once learned, cannot be unlearned.

  16. 16.

    Gin & Tonic

    March 30, 2016 at 10:32 pm

    @efgoldman: I predate the Dolans by decades.

  17. 17.

    ? Martin

    March 30, 2016 at 10:34 pm

    @Gin & Tonic:

    Where have I gone wrong?

    Being a Knicks fan, apparently.

  18. 18.

    Mike J

    March 30, 2016 at 10:35 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: But not as much as he had on So. Central Rain. The first time I saw them was on Reckoning, and they did the whole thing with the paper screens on stage too.

    I had seen local bands cover Radio Free Europe at least a year before I ever saw them though. My friend Davis told me Michael saw them do it and said, “I liked your lyrics better.” Which he probably said to every local band he saw.

  19. 19.

    benw

    March 30, 2016 at 10:35 pm

    @redshirt: Boxcar?

  20. 20.

    redshirt

    March 30, 2016 at 10:36 pm

    @Mike J: Thanks for getting the reference that fast.

    I forget which live recording it is, but there’s a fan yelling “BOXCAR!” and for some reason I’ve never forgotten.

  21. 21.

    lamh36

    March 30, 2016 at 10:37 pm

    Gonna be going to bed early today. Had a long day at work so I’m still hella tired..

    Anyhoo, before I go, wanted to share this….

    Question: What would you do if you came home or was leaving the house and saw this?

    @NBCNewYork
    Endangered panther takes rest on family porch http://4.nbcny.com/kywyVTo

  22. 22.

    redshirt

    March 30, 2016 at 10:37 pm

    @Gin & Tonic: Never say never. When Carmello signs with the Celts…. errr, never mind.

  23. 23.

    redshirt

    March 30, 2016 at 10:39 pm

    @Mike J: What was Reckoning like in concert? Its a rather dour album.

  24. 24.

    Adam L Silverman

    March 30, 2016 at 10:40 pm

    @lamh36: That’s just a Florida putty-tat.

  25. 25.

    Tissue Thin Pseudonym

    March 30, 2016 at 10:40 pm

    He, Twin Cities Juicers! This Sunday, April 3rd, I’ll be at the Har Mar Barnes & Noble in Roseville, signing copies of Becoming Phoebe. Come get yours autographed, for surely once this thing becomes bigger than The Hunger Games, your signed first edition will be VALUABLE!

  26. 26.

    Omnes Omnibus

    March 30, 2016 at 10:42 pm

    @Tissue Thin Pseudonym: A book signing. Awesome.

  27. 27.

    SFAW

    March 30, 2016 at 10:43 pm

    @Gin & Tonic:

    As an almost life-long Knickerbockers fan I tried to bring him up right. It lasted for a while, but eventually he became, I shutter to admit, a Celtics fan.

    You poor bastard. I sympathize. I also pre-date the Dolans — may they burn in Hell — and have tried to keep my hoop spirits up over the last 5 10 15 20 fuckload of years.

    On the other hand: Bill Russell was a great player and was/is a great man, and — Celtic ‘tho he was — I cannot feel anything but admiration for him. And Bird was OK, I guess, as a 6th man. But fuck Danny Ainge, that racist fuck.

  28. 28.

    Mike J

    March 30, 2016 at 10:43 pm

    @redshirt: It was an event for people who had spent half a semester sitting in a dorm room figuring out lyrics while high. dB’s opening, and Holsapple taught Buck the chords to See No Evil during the encore.

  29. 29.

    redshirt

    March 30, 2016 at 10:43 pm

    @benw: Boxcars

  30. 30.

    Gin & Tonic

    March 30, 2016 at 10:44 pm

    @redshirt: I can confidently say “never.”

  31. 31.

    lamh36

    March 30, 2016 at 10:44 pm

    Hm…alot of folks I work with and on my twitter TL, seem to all be watching that show on WGN called “Underground”….Its been 4 eps I think, might have to binge watch it? Does anyone know if WGN is on HULU?

    Anyhoo, I’m off to bed early I guess. I’ve got a student tech shadowing me tomorrow, so I guess it’d be unprofessional if I’m yawning the entire time.

  32. 32.

    Mnemosyne

    March 30, 2016 at 10:44 pm

    @lamh36:

    We get all kinds of wild animals in urban LA, because there are a lot of hills that are too steep to be built on. This part of the San Fernando Valley has mountain lions, bears, and coyotes, plus deer and the usual urban critters (raccoons, opossums, rabbits, etc).

    I don’t have the link at the moment, but a koala was recently killed at the Los Angeles Zoo, and they’re pretty sure it was done by a mountain lion that lives in the same park. They’re making sure all of their animals are locked up at night now.

  33. 33.

    TaMara (BHF)

    March 30, 2016 at 10:44 pm

    @lamh36: I would have probably scooted a bowl of water and food out for it. It’s a cat right? It likes tuna fish, right?

  34. 34.

    redshirt

    March 30, 2016 at 10:44 pm

    @Mike J: Wow. Awesome. Yeah, REM lyric interpretation should have been a class.

  35. 35.

    SFAW

    March 30, 2016 at 10:44 pm

    @redshirt:

    When Carmello signs with the Celts…. errr, never mind.

    Oh, please please PLEASE let it be so!

  36. 36.

    redshirt

    March 30, 2016 at 10:45 pm

    @Gin & Tonic: I’m sure, but there’s a lot of examples of people having head injuries and then becoming very different people thereafter. Just sayin’.

  37. 37.

    Mnemosyne

    March 30, 2016 at 10:46 pm

    @Tissue Thin Pseudonym:

    Email Anne Laurie and/or TaMara and have them put it on the front page. Congrats!

  38. 38.

    lamh36

    March 30, 2016 at 10:46 pm

    @JoyAnnReid 17m17 minutes ago
    Sanders to #maddow on whether he will eventually start fundraising for the Democratic Party and down ticket candidates: “we’ll see.”

    Too cute by half Bernie…too cute. I hope he followed that up with of course I will?

  39. 39.

    Dork

    March 30, 2016 at 10:47 pm

    What percentage of an average day does a German Shepherd bark incessently? 83% ? 91% ? Friggin neighbor’s dog is killing me.

  40. 40.

    TaMara (BHF)

    March 30, 2016 at 10:47 pm

    @Tissue Thin Pseudonym: Send me deets and I’ll include it in the author thread on Saturday.

  41. 41.

    SiubhanDuinne

    March 30, 2016 at 10:48 pm

    @Gin & Tonic:

    Ungrateful little bastard. Kick him out and never look back.

  42. 42.

    TaMara (BHF)

    March 30, 2016 at 10:50 pm

    @Dork: We actually had a sonic thing we hung on the fence – worked like a charm on the neighbors dogs.

  43. 43.

    Gin & Tonic

    March 30, 2016 at 10:50 pm

    @redshirt: You want me to have a head injury *and* become a Celtics fan? Hope you get a cell next to Radovan Karadzic.

  44. 44.

    lamh36

    March 30, 2016 at 10:50 pm

    Can we get a 3rd term? This letter to/from Obama kill me everytime

    Asked and Answered: An 11-Year-Old Daughter of An Incarcerated Individual Shares Her Story

    In a letter, an 11-year-old asked the President to help make it easier for her father to get a job and find the support he needs after he is released from prison.

    Among the 2.2 million people incarcerated in state and federal prisons, more than half are parents of children below the age of 18.
    It’s a staggering statistic, with real consequences for the children who live with a parent in prison — many of whom are serving out a punishment that does not fit their crime.
    When 11-year-old Madison’s dad was sent to prison, Madison looked for books to help her cope with her sadness and disappointment. When she couldn’t find any that could help her, she wrote her own.
    Now, her father is set to be released this August. Madison’s greatest worry is that he won’t have the support he needs to find a job, a home, and a new life that will give them both an opportunity to see each other. So she wrote President Obama to see if there’s anything he can do to help ensure her father and other convicted felons get that support — and President Obama responded.
    Read their letters below…

  45. 45.

    Omnes Omnibus

    March 30, 2016 at 10:50 pm

    @Dork: What percentage of the day is the dog awake?

  46. 46.

    SFAW

    March 30, 2016 at 10:51 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    Ungrateful little bastard. Kick him out and never look back.

    It may be that the brat kid is just going through the standard rebellious phase, and will come to his senses. Or that he’s just trolling.

    At least, I hope it’s one of those.

  47. 47.

    Gin & Tonic

    March 30, 2016 at 10:51 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: At least somebody understands.

  48. 48.

    SiubhanDuinne

    March 30, 2016 at 10:52 pm

    @lamh36:

    Question: What would you do if you came home or was leaving the house and saw this?

    Answer: I would hug him and squeeze him and take him home with me and name him George.

    Duh.

  49. 49.

    Renie

    March 30, 2016 at 10:52 pm

    @redshirt: just saw Daredevil finale and was upset someone was killed until I saw the ending. ….. wow

  50. 50.

    SiubhanDuinne

    March 30, 2016 at 10:53 pm

    @Tissue Thin Pseudonym:

    That is very cool, TTP! Please have someone take pictures and share them with us.

  51. 51.

    SFAW

    March 30, 2016 at 10:53 pm

    @Gin & Tonic:

    You want me to have a head injury *and* become a Celtics fan?

    I think the point was that you need the first one to get the second one.

  52. 52.

    redshirt

    March 30, 2016 at 10:53 pm

    @Gin & Tonic: I’m just saying stuff happens.

    And really, are the Knicks even a Celtics rival? I mean sure, from the Knicks perspective, but in reality?

  53. 53.

    Gin & Tonic

    March 30, 2016 at 10:53 pm

    @SFAW: He’s a man now, unfortunately, so I can’t kick him out.

  54. 54.

    a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)

    March 30, 2016 at 10:53 pm

    @Tissue Thin Pseudonym: Yay you!

    @Omnes Omnibus: I’m getting ready to listen to a TVZ concert from 1990 in AUS. Link, in case you’re interested. I heard the beginning a few weeks ago and then got busy.

  55. 55.

    Old Dan and Little Anne

    March 30, 2016 at 10:53 pm

    I had my first fb experience with a berniebro earlier. A lawyer from Yale no less. My Canadian friend who started it all off with Sarah Silverman’s video deleted everything already. I went on fb political hiatus for a few years and I need to go back. While watching The Americans.

  56. 56.

    Tissue Thin Pseudonym

    March 30, 2016 at 10:53 pm

    @TaMara (BHF): I don’t see you as one of the options under Contact on the front page.

  57. 57.

    Omnes Omnibus

    March 30, 2016 at 10:53 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: I love that. I do so love that.

  58. 58.

    trollhattan

    March 30, 2016 at 10:54 pm

    @Mnemosyne:
    First coyote I saw was in an LA apartment parking lot. Nature is full of surprises.

  59. 59.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    March 30, 2016 at 10:54 pm

    @lamh36: Jesus, is that more dickish or stupid

    I don’t want to start the latest edition of The Fight, so I haven’t mentioned how stupid and counterproductive his hand-waving* about Trump’s abortion statement is.

    *I didn’t see it, I’m going by what Rachel Maddow says Sadners told her, that this was just one more stupid statement by Trump that will distract from more important issues. I’m an em-pen*sed-American and I tend to think abortion rights are pretty fucking important.

  60. 60.

    Omnes Omnibus

    March 30, 2016 at 10:55 pm

    @a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): Bookmarked.

  61. 61.

    redshirt

    March 30, 2016 at 10:56 pm

    @Renie: No spoilers but vague allusions: I was mildly disappointed in that final episode, only because they put Chekhov’s mini gun on the mantle and didn’t use it. But it was a fantastic season and they obviously left a lot to be continued in a future season.

  62. 62.

    Gin & Tonic

    March 30, 2016 at 10:58 pm

    @redshirt: Well, they’re not the worst team in New York, anyway.

  63. 63.

    SFAW

    March 30, 2016 at 10:59 pm

    @Gin & Tonic:

    He’s a man now, unfortunately, so I can’t kick him out.

    The only excuse for not doing so is that he doesn’t live with you. If he does, then kneecap him first, and he will become much more … um, compliant, after that.

    And if you’re too squeamish to do it yourself, wot wif him being yer offspring and all, perhaps Siubhan will do it for you? She might not even charge you for the job. (You didn’t know she used to be a mob enforcer, did you?)

  64. 64.

    a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)

    March 30, 2016 at 10:59 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: Excellent!

    @SiubhanDuinne: I would name him Townes, if he’d stay with me after I bribed him with food and water. And I’d love him regardless of his decision.

  65. 65.

    SiubhanDuinne

    March 30, 2016 at 10:59 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    ;-)

  66. 66.

    Mnemosyne

    March 30, 2016 at 11:00 pm

    @trollhattan:

    They’ve gotten pretty aggressive in beautiful downtown Burbank. Some people and their dogs have been chased by groups of coyotes (3 or 4 at a time, which I think doesn’t quite qualify as a pack).

  67. 67.

    Omnes Omnibus

    March 30, 2016 at 11:00 pm

    @SFAW:

    (You didn’t know she used to be a mob enforcer, did you?)

    Everyone knows that, you fucking cudlip.

  68. 68.

    Tissue Thin Pseudonym

    March 30, 2016 at 11:00 pm

    @redshirt: I’m pondering the same question. When you’ve won four championships in five years, and lost that fifth title game by one goal, do you really have rivals anymore?

  69. 69.

    Yutsano

    March 30, 2016 at 11:01 pm

    @lamh36: Paging Betty Cracker!

  70. 70.

    redshirt

    March 30, 2016 at 11:01 pm

    @Gin & Tonic: Hmm, Nets, right? Or, AKA, Celtics lottery pick bloodbag.

  71. 71.

    SiubhanDuinne

    March 30, 2016 at 11:04 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    Everyone knows that, you fucking cudlip.

    I love that. I do so love that.

    Backatcha!

  72. 72.

    lamh36

    March 30, 2016 at 11:07 pm

    Southern University is one of the largest HBCU in the country, and just happen to be my first college (and if life choices had been made differently, it would have been my alma mater).

    Here’s another reason to thank Bobby Jindal…da bastard!

    The shame of Southern University’s shocking physical decline

  73. 73.

    SFAW

    March 30, 2016 at 11:08 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    Why am I always the last to know the important shit? God DAMMIT!

    But what’s a “cudlip”?

    @redshirt:

    Hmm, Nets, right?

    Buncha gorram Commies. Or at least owned by one. One can only hope that Prokhorov is one of Putin’s nemeses.

  74. 74.

    Mnemosyne

    March 30, 2016 at 11:09 pm

    @lamh36:

    I’ve only seen the ads for “Underground,” but telling that story has a lot of great potential for a series — talk about your high stakes! I hope they’re able to pull it off.

  75. 75.

    Omnes Omnibus

    March 30, 2016 at 11:09 pm

    @lamh36: Southern is a public university? I never knew.

  76. 76.

    Punchy

    March 30, 2016 at 11:10 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: Oh noez. You went cudlip. Oh my, pecan pie.

  77. 77.

    Gin & Tonic

    March 30, 2016 at 11:11 pm

    @SFAW: I didn’t know that about her, no. But I live in RI – plenty of underemployed muscle here these days.

  78. 78.

    Mnemosyne

    March 30, 2016 at 11:12 pm

    I hate when you get caught up on a book series and discover that the next one hasn’t been published yet. That’s happened to me three times now, and all I can do is pre-order the next book. Damn it.

  79. 79.

    Renie

    March 30, 2016 at 11:13 pm

    @redshirt: already anticipating the next season….there will be a 3rd season, won’t there?

  80. 80.

    Omnes Omnibus

    March 30, 2016 at 11:13 pm

    @Gin & Tonic: There’s muscle and there’s muscle. If you know what I mean.

  81. 81.

    Frankensteinbeck

    March 30, 2016 at 11:13 pm

    @SFAW:
    ‘Cudlip’ is a reference to a former local troll, who among many other obnoxious behaviors would make up his/her own jargon and then mock us for not being up to date on it. ‘Cudlip’ was this troll’s most common insult.

  82. 82.

    lamh36

    March 30, 2016 at 11:14 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: yes, the Southern University system has always been a public system. Out of the oh, 107 HBCU, SU systme is one of only 40 public HBCUs in the country, I believe. It’s def one of the biggest if not used to be the biggest in terms of enrollment.

    Also 1 of 4 Law Schools in the state and 1 of 2 public law schools along with LSU I think

  83. 83.

    SFAW

    March 30, 2016 at 11:14 pm

    @Gin & Tonic:

    I didn’t know that about her, no.

    You shouldn’t have admitted that. Now Omnes will go all-Cheesehead-like on your butt.

    But I live in RI – plenty of underemployed muscle here these days.

    If you mean efgoldman, I think he is retired, which is not necessarily the same as “underemployed.”

  84. 84.

    p.a.

    March 30, 2016 at 11:15 pm

    @redshirt:

    Boxcars

    love it. still have the vinyl.

  85. 85.

    Omnes Omnibus

    March 30, 2016 at 11:16 pm

    @lamh36: The photos are horrifying.

  86. 86.

    SFAW

    March 30, 2016 at 11:16 pm

    @Frankensteinbeck:

    Which troll? I mean, I remember the term being used, just don’t recall who it was.

  87. 87.

    a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)

    March 30, 2016 at 11:17 pm

    @Frankensteinbeck: Except for the one she reserved for our Malaysian correspondent. Which I now can’t quite recall.

  88. 88.

    rikyrah

    March 30, 2016 at 11:17 pm

    @lamh36:
    You should binge watch it. I watched it last weekend. Well written, well acted. So many times you will have to remind yourself…we were PROPERTY. We had no right to say no…EVER.

  89. 89.

    Omnes Omnibus

    March 30, 2016 at 11:18 pm

    @SFAW: The girl of many names. m_c? The Sufi of the horsey set?

  90. 90.

    Omnes Omnibus

    March 30, 2016 at 11:18 pm

    @a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): Maftoon. Which, I believe, meant “Uncle Tom.”

  91. 91.

    Gin & Tonic

    March 30, 2016 at 11:19 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: First story on the 11:00 news tonight was about the FBI and the Medical Examiner’s office with a backhoe behind an old factory in Providence.

  92. 92.

    p.a.

    March 30, 2016 at 11:19 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: As the child of a mixed marriage- Yankee father Red Sox mother- you just have to let nature take its course.

  93. 93.

    SFAW

    March 30, 2016 at 11:20 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    Ah.

    Never paid much attention to her.

  94. 94.

    redshirt

    March 30, 2016 at 11:21 pm

    @Renie: Nothing confirmed, but there has to be. Are you familiar with the next set of shows that are coming out, all related and interconnected?

  95. 95.

    rikyrah

    March 30, 2016 at 11:21 pm

    @lamh36:
    That is pitiful

  96. 96.

    danielx

    March 30, 2016 at 11:22 pm

    New definition of LOUD purr: when you are sitting at the kitchen table and the cat is down the hall and up the stairs and you still hear a noise resembling a chain saw.

  97. 97.

    lamh36

    March 30, 2016 at 11:22 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: one of my younger sisters currently attends SUBR. She’s graduating in December.

    I’ve forwarded the article to her, but its nothing she doesn’t already know since she goes there daily.

    It’s just sad to see, I remember way back in ’94 when I got on the yard, and it was like a whole new adult life…on this big beautiful campus. To see the decline is just sas.

  98. 98.

    redshirt

    March 30, 2016 at 11:22 pm

    @Gin & Tonic: I’m starting a business that could use some under-employed larger fellows desperate for cash. Let me know if you’ve got leads.

  99. 99.

    Frankensteinbeck

    March 30, 2016 at 11:22 pm

    @SFAW:
    I’m worried it’ll get blocked. I’ll try to code disguise it. Matoko-chan. Favorite hobby horses included how Islam could not be proselytized, the genetically based intellectual inferiority of Christians, and Julian Assange as the great hero who rendered government security systems obsolete. Oh, and lecturing us about the demographic timer as if we’d never heard of it.

  100. 100.

    danielx

    March 30, 2016 at 11:24 pm

    Also, too: Donald Trump open to nuclear retaliation after Brussels attack.

    Because why not?

  101. 101.

    redshirt

    March 30, 2016 at 11:25 pm

    @Frankensteinbeck: She was also an Avatar zealot and told us, repeatedly, how that movie would change everything.

  102. 102.

    Omnes Omnibus

    March 30, 2016 at 11:26 pm

    @redshirt: Do you need large people or effective people? Think of SD as Helen Mirren’s character in Red.

  103. 103.

    Frankensteinbeck

    March 30, 2016 at 11:27 pm

    @redshirt:
    I missed that one. Maybe I slept through it, like I did half the movie.

  104. 104.

    Steeplejack

    March 30, 2016 at 11:27 pm

    @lamh36:

    If you’ve got cable, check your “on demand” section. On my system (Cox) the episodes so far are all available.

  105. 105.

    redshirt

    March 30, 2016 at 11:28 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: Both, but large people have a very specific role. AKA why Patrick Swayze would never be considered a legendary bouncer, even if he was.

  106. 106.

    Omnes Omnibus

    March 30, 2016 at 11:30 pm

    @redshirt: On your head be it. Go hire the dumb muscle from RI. Then call someone in to fix it.

  107. 107.

    Renie

    March 30, 2016 at 11:30 pm

    @redshirt: I know Jessica Jones is related but I only saw a few episodes and really couldn’t get into it but I have heard good stuff about it so I may have to try it again. Is there another show?

  108. 108.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    March 30, 2016 at 11:30 pm

    Daniel Aubry ‏@ Aubs89 2h2 hours ago Manhattan, NY
    If Sanders was the nominee he’d ask President Obama to withdraw SCOTUS nomination. Hillary “not comfortable with this”

    Huh.

  109. 109.

    SFAW

    March 30, 2016 at 11:30 pm

    @redshirt:

    and told us, repeatedly, how that movie would change everything.

    You mean it didn’t? Didn’t all the Oscar noms for Best Picture this year feature blue 10-footers with tails?

  110. 110.

    Steeplejack

    March 30, 2016 at 11:31 pm

    @Mnemosyne:

    Happens to me all too often with mysteries and crime novels. Especially bad when I discover a new series and binge-read them all, then run into the wait for the next one.

  111. 111.

    Lamh36

    March 30, 2016 at 11:33 pm

    @Steeplejack: I’ve got Cox as well but I downgraded my cable package so I no longer pay for On Demand…just regular ole min box…so I get most lower channels and upper big name channels but no On Demand capability

  112. 112.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    March 30, 2016 at 11:33 pm

    @Steeplejack: or your author dies (PD James), or your favorite protagonist (would it be a spoiler if the last novel is probably fifteen years old?) I’m glad Ian Rankin can’t seem to quite give up on Rebus.

  113. 113.

    redshirt

    March 30, 2016 at 11:34 pm

    @Renie: Well, a character that appeared in Jessica Jones will have his own show this September – Luke Cage. I’m very excited. And then sometime early next year Luke Cage’s crimefighting buddy will get a show – Iron Fist. Iron Fist, by the way, delves into a lot of the same ninja stuff this season of DD did. Left undetermined at this time is if JJ will get a second season (most likely) and DD will get a third (most likely), leading into the already announced but yet to be scheduled show called “Defenders”, which is when all these individual people will team up, like in the Avengers.

  114. 114.

    Disgruntled former Baud supporter

    March 30, 2016 at 11:34 pm

    Chronic Town all the way!

    — “Make my sh!t the Chronic Town” —

    Fables might be my favorite REM, though.

  115. 115.

    SFAW

    March 30, 2016 at 11:34 pm

    @efgoldman:

    Walt Frazier’s not walking thru that door… Willis Reed’s not limping thru that door…

    Fucking Pitino, that chump.

  116. 116.

    Mnemosyne

    March 30, 2016 at 11:34 pm

    @Steeplejack:

    I had kind of gotten away from reading new fiction for a bit, so I had forgotten how annoying it is to get to the stopping point of a series. At least I can pre-order them on Kindle and have them magically appear on the release day (and usually for slightly less than list price, too).

  117. 117.

    redshirt

    March 30, 2016 at 11:35 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: That’s close to a quote, isn’t it? I re-watched Roadhouse late last year and it’s a hoot. So 80’s.

  118. 118.

    Mnemosyne

    March 30, 2016 at 11:36 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    Kate Ross wrote four great mysteries set in the Regency era I love and then died. I still haven’t forgiven her.

  119. 119.

    Omnes Omnibus

    March 30, 2016 at 11:37 pm

    @redshirt: Original.

  120. 120.

    redshirt

    March 30, 2016 at 11:38 pm

    @SFAW: It was going to radically change the consciousness center of the majority of people and usher in an age of trans-humanism and tribal recognition. Or something.

  121. 121.

    redshirt

    March 30, 2016 at 11:40 pm

    @Disgruntled former Baud supporter: I LOVED that the album title could be read both as “Fables of the Reconstruction” and “Reconstruction of the Fables”.

    Peak REM was so good.

  122. 122.

    chopper

    March 30, 2016 at 11:41 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    toco loco y’all.

  123. 123.

    Renie

    March 30, 2016 at 11:41 pm

    @redshirt: I didn’t know any of this, thanks for telling me.

  124. 124.

    Lamh36

    March 30, 2016 at 11:42 pm

    @Steeplejack: looks like I can watch it online with my laptop, so when I decide to binge I’ll know where to go

  125. 125.

    SFAW

    March 30, 2016 at 11:44 pm

    @redshirt:

    Or something.

    “Now who can argue with THAT?”

  126. 126.

    Omnes Omnibus

    March 30, 2016 at 11:46 pm

    @SFAW: Moi.

  127. 127.

    redshirt

    March 30, 2016 at 11:47 pm

    @Renie: It’s quite remarkable that Marvel has created a single film franchise that will encompass some 20+ movies when done, all telling an overall tale, and that most of these movies are gigantic blockbusters, but now they’re doing the same thing on Netflix with original TV shows.

    Nothing even remotely like this has ever been done before, and it will change Hollywood. The change is already underway – see DC’s efforts, see a Star Wars movie coming out each year for the next several years.

  128. 128.

    redshirt

    March 30, 2016 at 11:48 pm

    @efgoldman: The Jets are no longer that bad since they dumped Sexy Rexy.

  129. 129.

    SFAW

    March 30, 2016 at 11:51 pm

    @efgoldman:

    The Jets were not total losers this year. (Well, last year.) And, although I can’t stand Fitzpatrick, he was part of the reason they finished 10-6. Of course, he was also part of the reason they didn’t do better.

  130. 130.

    redshirt

    March 30, 2016 at 11:55 pm

    @Gin & Tonic: Wait, you live in RI – in New England – and are upset with your son for rooting for the team an hour away? The New England team?

    Maybe you should re-evaluate your New York City fandom. I mean, why? What has NYC ever done for RI?

  131. 131.

    SFAW

    March 30, 2016 at 11:55 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    Moi.

    Well, yeah, but that’s what lawyers are supposed to do.

  132. 132.

    Steeplejack

    March 30, 2016 at 11:55 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    It doesn’t bother me (as much) when an author dies. At least then you know there aren’t going to be any more books. But when the series is active all I can picture is the author dicking around when he or she should be finishing that next book, damn it. And then I get mad if the next book finally comes out and it’s a phone-it-in job. (Looking at you, Lee Child.) Sigh.

    And your mention of Rebus reminds me of my other problem, i.e., if I read a series up to a point and then leave it for a while—for whatever reason (including that the author is taking a long time or is on hiatus)—sometimes I forget about it, and then when I want to come back to it I can’t remember where I left off. Did that with the Rebus novels, also with Peter Robinson’s Inspector Banks series. There’s a DCI Banks TV series that got me thinking about getting back into the novels, but I’d have no idea where to start.

  133. 133.

    redshirt

    March 30, 2016 at 11:58 pm

    @Steeplejack: Hello! Game of Thrones AKA A Song of Fire and Ice.

    The author has been dicking around, reveling in his new found celebrity. And it’s created a unique moment in human art – when the same story is told in two mediums, and one medium outpaces the author’s original story. Never happened before that I know of.

  134. 134.

    SFAW

    March 31, 2016 at 12:00 am

    @redshirt:

    You might not realize that there used to be a fairly large contingent of non-New-Yorkers living in New England and rooting for the Giants. Mostly older fans – from the days before the AFL existed. My dear, late, mother-in-law (may she RIP) was among them. She was born in Maine, lived there almost her entire life.

    The Celtics – that’s a different story, of course.

  135. 135.

    Steeplejack

    March 31, 2016 at 12:01 am

    @Lamh36:

    Cool. Where’d you find it?

  136. 136.

    redshirt

    March 31, 2016 at 12:03 am

    @SFAW: I know them well. To my shame, my father and uncle (his brother) are still Giants fans even though both were born and mostly lived in Maine, as was their father. All three are/were also Yankees fans for related reasons.

    Shameful.

  137. 137.

    p.a.

    March 31, 2016 at 12:03 am

    @efgoldman: Can’t shake a stick in this state… met this guy when I answered a c list ad for old tlr cameras. Besides the link ‘issues’, turns out he was living 2 blocks from me when he was buster with a couple pounds of dope.

  138. 138.

    Mnemosyne

    March 31, 2016 at 12:17 am

    G is a fan of this movie review show out of Wis-CAHN-sin “Half in the Bag” where they drink beer and review movies. I can always tell when he’s watching it in the other room because one of the guys has the most piercing laugh outside of Charlie Day from “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.” I seriously can hear just that laugh from two rooms away.

  139. 139.

    KS in MA

    March 31, 2016 at 12:20 am

    @Punchy: lol

  140. 140.

    SiubhanDuinne

    March 31, 2016 at 12:21 am

    @SFAW:

    And if you’re too squeamish to do it yourself, wot wif him being yer offspring and all, perhaps Siubhan will do it for you? She might not even charge you for the job. (You didn’t know she used to be a mob enforcer, did you?)

    From now on, only other people get to write my résumé. I’m simply not up to the task.

  141. 141.

    Prescott Cactus

    March 31, 2016 at 12:22 am

    @Mnemosyne:

    “I hate when you get caught up on a book series. . . “

    Diana Gabaldon: Outlander ? Awaiting book #9 ?

  142. 142.

    SiubhanDuinne, Mob Enforcer

    March 31, 2016 at 12:22 am

    Test with new nym.

  143. 143.

    Tissue Thin Pseudonym

    March 31, 2016 at 12:23 am

    @redshirt:

    Peak REM was so good.

    REM was better when I couldn’t understand what Michael Stipe was singing.

  144. 144.

    Tissue Thin Pseudonym

    March 31, 2016 at 12:25 am

    @Mnemosyne:

    I hate when you get caught up on a book series and discover that the next one hasn’t been published yet.

    I’m almost caught up on the Buffy comic books, which means I’ll get to experience that feeling every month.

  145. 145.

    Mnemosyne

    March 31, 2016 at 12:25 am

    @Prescott Cactus:

    Nah, three romance series — Mary Balogh, Lisa Kleypas, and Mary Jo Putney.

    It does crack me up that Ronald Moore is such a fan of “Outlander” that he made it into a TV series. Does he not realize it’s a romance series, or does he just not care?

  146. 146.

    redshirt

    March 31, 2016 at 12:27 am

    @efgoldman: Can you explain this accent? Did it somehow skip over CT?

  147. 147.

    redshirt

    March 31, 2016 at 12:27 am

    @Tissue Thin Pseudonym: LENNY BRUCE!

  148. 148.

    SFAW

    March 31, 2016 at 12:34 am

    @redshirt:

    To my shame, my father and uncle (his brother) are still Giants fans even though both were born and mostly lived in Maine, as was their father.

    And yet, somehow you managed to survive that traumatic experience.

    Yes, it’s always good fun when (ungrateful) offspring are ashamed of their progenitors.

  149. 149.

    Lamh36

    March 31, 2016 at 12:34 am

    @Steeplejack: WGN has full episodes online

  150. 150.

    SFAW

    March 31, 2016 at 12:35 am

    @redshirt:

    Did it somehow skip over CT?

    Wouldn’t you?

  151. 151.

    redshirt

    March 31, 2016 at 12:36 am

    @SFAW: The children are the future. Treat them well and let them lead the way.

  152. 152.

    SFAW

    March 31, 2016 at 12:37 am

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    From now on, only other people get to write my résumé.

    It’s one of my grifts gifts.

  153. 153.

    SFAW

    March 31, 2016 at 12:39 am

    @redshirt:

    The children are the future. Treat them well and let them lead the way.

    Or drown them in a bucket before they can turn into ungrateful snots.

  154. 154.

    redshirt

    March 31, 2016 at 12:39 am

    @SFAW: To go to RI? Umm, Sophie’s Choice here brah.

    Tangentially, can I tell you I consider CT borderline tropical, climate wise?

  155. 155.

    redshirt

    March 31, 2016 at 12:45 am

    @efgoldman: Not even an attempt? I’m sincerely curious how RI could be more influenced by NY than CT. My first assumption would just be difference in population – RI’s pretty small and so the NY effect has more impact. But CT is so close to and part of NY in so many ways, yet no one thinks they’ve got NY influenced accents.

    Is it an Italian thing, perhaps?

  156. 156.

    SFAW

    March 31, 2016 at 12:48 am

    @redshirt:

    Where are you, Fort Kent?

  157. 157.

    redshirt

    March 31, 2016 at 12:52 am

    @SFAW: They’ve even got it worse. I truly pity the County folk. But even the Portland area of Maine can be like 6-8 weeks behind Southern CT when it comes to Spring blooms.

    The dirt and trees are different too.

  158. 158.

    SFAW

    March 31, 2016 at 12:56 am

    @efgoldman:

    mooses.

    Meese

  159. 159.

    SFAW

    March 31, 2016 at 12:57 am

    @redshirt:

    But even the Portland area of Maine can be like 6-8 weeks behind Southern CT when it comes to Spring blooms.

    Was there this weekend, but didn’t think to check the flora.

    But I saw one big honkin’ rabbit.

  160. 160.

    redshirt

    March 31, 2016 at 12:58 am

    @efgoldman: I’ve yet to see a bear, though I’ve seen bear scat on my very own trails. And I found a bear-bait spot hidden in the woods about a mile from here (which I destroyed). I did come face to face with a totally awkward moose – he was missing an antler and looked ridiculous. He turned and ran.

  161. 161.

    J R in WV

    March 31, 2016 at 12:59 am

    @Adam L Silverman:

    I was once stalked by a cougar in Arizona, in my cousin’s back yard. I ate dinner with her and left the house about 9:30 to go to the little RV we had in her backyard while we worked to build out little winter camp. When I went around the back corner of her house, the wind direction changed and I smelled it.

    They were driven down out of the mountains into the ranch valley by a major forest fire in the Chiracahua mountains. Then I saw it a couple of days later on. I love me some painters, but they make me carry a pistol, as my momma didn’t raise me to be no lion kibble!!

    Painters are the WV holler talk for big cats in the woods. The DNR claims they are all gone, but I worked with strip mine inspectors who were in the back or beyond parts of the state every day, and they all knew there were still lions in the hills.

  162. 162.

    redshirt

    March 31, 2016 at 1:00 am

    @SFAW: This spring is a weird one as Boston and Portland are mostly identical in terms of flora. Usually Boston’s a good 3-4 weeks ahead, but the mildness of this past winter extended up here too. I’ve even got buds ready to bloom, and that’s a a good 6-8 weeks ahead of last year.

  163. 163.

    SFAW

    March 31, 2016 at 1:02 am

    @J R in WV:

    I was once stalked by a cougar in Arizona

    For a second, I thought you were going to tell us that you once shot an elephant in your pajamas.

  164. 164.

    SFAW

    March 31, 2016 at 1:06 am

    @redshirt:

    I’ve even got buds ready to bloom

    Whaddya got – Michoacan? Sinse? Maui wowie?

  165. 165.

    redshirt

    March 31, 2016 at 1:10 am

    @SFAW: Maple, actually. Sap season is even already over, again, about 4 weeks early.

    This weekend promises to be some kind of armageddon for Northern New England though, as temps in the 60’s-70’s for Thu-Fri-Sat will lead directly into temps in the low 20’s -10’s throughout the region, which might cause many plants to bud then get frozen and die. Could seriously effect the apple crop.

  166. 166.

    Frankensteinbeck

    March 31, 2016 at 1:16 am

    @redshirt:
    It’s happened several times in manga/anime adaptations. Rozen Maiden and Soul Eater leap to mind, because the TV shows had to come up with their own endings, which were better than the originals!

  167. 167.

    SFAW

    March 31, 2016 at 1:17 am

    @redshirt:

    I’ll keep my fingers crossed that the worst does not occur.

  168. 168.

    redshirt

    March 31, 2016 at 1:21 am

    @SFAW: I’m no apple farmer so I’m right there with you. It’s an interesting dynamic and I assume global warming will bring about many more situations like this – subtle climate imbalances that can wreck a local area’s plants that aren’t adapted to such extremes.

  169. 169.

    redshirt

    March 31, 2016 at 1:22 am

    @Frankensteinbeck: The books were still being written while the TV show was being aired?

  170. 170.

    NotoriousJRT

    March 31, 2016 at 4:33 am

    Thanks for that. Heard a country cover of this last week and all I could think was how pale it was next to Sonia Dada.

  171. 171.

    Uncle Cosmo

    March 31, 2016 at 6:50 am

    Dead thread, but FTR I just ran into the term “cudlip” in the last 48 hours, in Richard K. Morgan’s 2008 novel Thirteen (titled Black Man in original UK release). Cudlip = ruminant = cattle = slang term used by the atavistic genetically-modified “variant thirteen” humans for the rest of humanity in the early 2100s. FWIW you’re a fan of Bladerunner-dark SF, RKM is definitely worth a read–start with this one or his debut, Altered Carbon, which is the intro to the Takeshi Kovacs series,

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