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Mid Evening Open Thread

by Adam L Silverman|  December 10, 20169:33 pm| 192 Comments

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Looks like its about time for a clean thread. So here’s CW McCall’s Convoy in both its original and movie versions.

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  1. 1.

    Baud

    December 10, 2016 at 9:35 pm

    Mid-evening? You guys are party animals.

    ETA:Or on the west coast.

  2. 2.

    khead

    December 10, 2016 at 9:36 pm

    The older I get the more I realize that Rudolph should have held out on Santa until he got Floyd Mayweather money. At the very least. Maybe for a few wishes or something. I hope Rudolph at least got Santa to sign him to a multiyear contract on the sleigh team.

    Also, I used to watch Convoy on HBO back when HBO was a test pattern until 3PM. The young whippersnappers here at BJ can feel free to look up “test pattern”.

  3. 3.

    Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (Formerly Mumphrey, et al.)

    December 10, 2016 at 9:41 pm

    Still waiting for my mother to go. It sounds grisly, like we’re cheering for her to die, but it isn’t like that. We just want it to be over for her. She’s struggling, and we (my sister and I) don’t want to see her go through that. Her mind is long gone, but she still seems to be feeling pain or something sometimes. This is rough. I’ve never been through anything like this. It looks like it’ll all be over within a day or two, but that’s a mighty long time for somebody to struggle to breathe and be on morphine and all kinds of other shit.

  4. 4.

    Adam L Silverman

    December 10, 2016 at 9:41 pm

    @khead: We did the same thing when we first got cable back in 1979.

  5. 5.

    Baud

    December 10, 2016 at 9:42 pm

    They should remake Convoy with driverless trucks.

  6. 6.

    Adam L Silverman

    December 10, 2016 at 9:42 pm

    @Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (Formerly Mumphrey, et al.): Are the doctors providing palliative care?

    We’re keeping good thoughts for as easy a passing as possible.

  7. 7.

    Adam L Silverman

    December 10, 2016 at 9:43 pm

    @Baud: That’s coming and no one seems to be planning for the employment dislocation that it will cause within the next five to ten years.

  8. 8.

    Baud

    December 10, 2016 at 9:43 pm

    @Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (Formerly Mumphrey, et al.):. So sorry.

  9. 9.

    Major Major Major Major

    December 10, 2016 at 9:44 pm

    I used to have a signed copy of Convoy on vinyl.

    @Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (Formerly Mumphrey, et al.): hang in there. Sorry to hear that it’s still going on.

  10. 10.

    Iowa Old Lady

    December 10, 2016 at 9:44 pm

    @Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (Formerly Mumphrey, et al.): I’m sorry. Strength to you all.

  11. 11.

    mai naem mobile

    December 10, 2016 at 9:44 pm

    @khead: when I was a kid in the mid 70s the music they played during the test pattern was Procol Harum’s Whiter Shade of Pale. I had no idea who Provo Harum was or what the song was, I just knew it as the test pattern music.

  12. 12.

    bluehill

    December 10, 2016 at 9:45 pm

    More speculation on Russian hacking of RNC.

    Nevertheless, Kalugin allowed that if the FSB and GRU were responsible and Putin was now sitting on crucial information about various GOP officials, it would be reckless and dangerous to try and blackmail the White House directly. High-level officials, such as cabinet secretaries, have rarely been cultivated as spies or informants of Moscow, owing to what Kalugin characterizes as “potential repercussions.”

    Middle and lower-cadre officials in the State Department or military-industrial complex are deemed easier and better marks for the spooks.

    In this hypothetical, a heretofore semi-anonymous RNC staffer who may have written something professionally or personally damaging to himself is likelier to find himself approached by a Russian operative and offered a chance to switch sides than a member of the National Security Council.

    “Just one man can destroy everything,” Kalugin said. “He doesn’t have to be the president.”

  13. 13.

    Yarrow

    December 10, 2016 at 9:45 pm

    @Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (Formerly Mumphrey, et al.): So sorry you are all having to through this. Can they not find something to ease things for her?

  14. 14.

    delk

    December 10, 2016 at 9:45 pm

    Convoy is why I never forget my anniversary, October 4th—10-4, good buddy!

  15. 15.

    Baud

    December 10, 2016 at 9:45 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: My plan is to wear a red cap and tell unemployed truckers that I’ll make America Great Again.

  16. 16.

    EZSmirkzz

    December 10, 2016 at 9:45 pm

    You may like Hippies and Cowboys by Cody Jinks, Adam.

    Found it while listening to the Drive By Truckers new songs on the YouTubes.

  17. 17.

    Adam L Silverman

    December 10, 2016 at 9:47 pm

    @bluehill: Dead link/page not found.

  18. 18.

    Yarrow

    December 10, 2016 at 9:48 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: It’s got something at the end of the code. Here’s the link.

  19. 19.

    Adam L Silverman

    December 10, 2016 at 9:49 pm

    @Baud: Why does that not surprise me.

  20. 20.

    bluehill

    December 10, 2016 at 9:49 pm

    @Adam L Silverman:

    http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/12/10/how-russian-hackers-can-blackmail-donald-trump-and-the-gop.html

    Sorry, trying to figure out how to use the tags correctly.

  21. 21.

    Adam L Silverman

    December 10, 2016 at 9:49 pm

    @EZSmirkzz: Thanks!

  22. 22.

    p.a.

    December 10, 2016 at 9:50 pm

    @Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (Formerly Mumphrey, et al.): Know the feeling; deepest sympathy. If you’re not there every time the phone rings it’s a gut punch: is this the call?

  23. 23.

    Adam L Silverman

    December 10, 2016 at 9:50 pm

    @Yarrow: Thanks.

  24. 24.

    Baud

    December 10, 2016 at 9:50 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: Because it works better than good policy in getting votes?

  25. 25.

    Adam L Silverman

    December 10, 2016 at 9:51 pm

    @bluehill: No worries, these things happen.

  26. 26.

    jacy

    December 10, 2016 at 9:51 pm

    Did my bit for democracy, or what’s left of it, and voted for Foster Campbell and Sharon Weston Broome (mayor of BR). Rearranged my living room and put up the Christmas tree. Picked up two six-packs of variety seasonal craft beers and going to head over to The Boyfriend’s house, where we are not going to talk about politics, but instead are going to watch racing movies and drink until we get tired of drinking. Yahtzee!

  27. 27.

    JPL

    December 10, 2016 at 9:51 pm

    @Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (Formerly Mumphrey, et al.): I’m so sorry.

  28. 28.

    Adam L Silverman

    December 10, 2016 at 9:51 pm

    @Baud: Sure, sure.

  29. 29.

    a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)

    December 10, 2016 at 9:52 pm

    @Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (Formerly Mumphrey, et al.): My hope for your family is that she can be kept comfortable. I know how fortunate my parents and I were that they both died in their own bed, without apparent pain. My thoughts are with you.

  30. 30.

    Baud

    December 10, 2016 at 9:53 pm

    @jacy: When will they announce the results?

  31. 31.

    Miss Bianca

    December 10, 2016 at 9:53 pm

    “Convoy”, Adam? Geez, how old were *you* when this came out? A bitty wee thing, I imagine. I was 11 or 12, and I still remember *way* more of this than I should!

  32. 32.

    EZSmirkzz

    December 10, 2016 at 9:54 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: Well if you feel that way about it you might enjoy Arlo Guthrie’s Pause for the Clause. It’s not you average Christmas tune, but it’ll do.

  33. 33.

    Ronnie Pudding

    December 10, 2016 at 9:54 pm

    That song is about authentically country as George W Bush.

  34. 34.

    bluehill

    December 10, 2016 at 9:55 pm

    @jacy: Interesting times. I’m freaking out about the future of U.S. democracy while online shopping for X-mas gifts. I guess you can only do what you can do until the time and circumstance says otherwise.

  35. 35.

    khead

    December 10, 2016 at 9:57 pm

    @Adam L Silverman:

    So, it’s kind of amazing that I even had cable in McDowell Co, WV in the early 80’s. I mean, that sort of thing was reserved for city folks. Even more amazing…..

    I only had cable because a nice guy with some vision – a friend of my Dad even! – had the idea to put a satellite dish on top of the mountains surrounding my hometown and then pipe the signal to other folks. That same nice guy offered my Dad the chance to invest in that satellite dish. My Dad, of course, thought the nice satellite dish guy was nuts and now I am NOT RICH because of that decision.

  36. 36.

    JPL

    December 10, 2016 at 9:57 pm

    @Baud: Kennedy won.. the senate is now 52-48

  37. 37.

    Baud

    December 10, 2016 at 9:57 pm

    @JPL: Thanks. Not really surprised.

  38. 38.

    SiubhanDuinne

    December 10, 2016 at 9:57 pm

    As always on MET Opera Live in HD days, I was doing my Ambassador duties today and enjoying the extraordinary performance of “L’Amour de Loin” by the Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho. I know there are a few other Juicers who attend the HD transmissions — did anyone else see it?

    The opera is highly regarded and this production (by Robert LePage) has been garnering terrific reviews. The “distant lovers” were performed by two of my top favorite singers, Susanna Phillips and Eric Owens. This was a memorable afternoon. The music was haunting, mesmerizing. The production was designed by Robert LePage, and it was really cool. Rows and rows and rows of LED lights which twinkled and shifted to represent the vast Mediterranean Sea. About time, too, for the MET to have an opera composed by a woman (last time was 1903, and then it was on a double bill with a male-composed opera) and conducted by a woman (only the fourth or fifth in MET history). But this is not a matter of “Good opera, for a woman.” It was Good Opera, PERIOD.

  39. 39.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    December 10, 2016 at 9:58 pm

    @Baud: Hey, it worked for one guy.

  40. 40.

    jacy

    December 10, 2016 at 9:59 pm

    @Baud:

    I’m looking at the WBRZ page — they’ve got about a third of precincts reporting. Campbell 37% to Kennedy’s 63%. Neck and neck for mayor — which will all come down to turnout. Baton Rouge is a majority black city, and is a pool of blue in a sea of red, so I’m hoping we end up with the black Democratic woman for mayor as opposed to the old white asshole.

  41. 41.

    Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (Formerly Mumphrey, et al.)

    December 10, 2016 at 9:59 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: @Yarrow:

    She’s on morphine, so I guess that helps the pain, if there is any. It’s hard to tell what she can feel. I don’t think she can think at all now, and I have no clue whether she’s dreaming. She’s been asleep for days. It’s weird seeing her this way.

  42. 42.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    December 10, 2016 at 9:59 pm

    @Adam L Silverman:

    within the next five to ten years.

    I think it’ll take longer than that. The tech will be there, getting the public used to the idea will take longer.

  43. 43.

    MomSense

    December 10, 2016 at 10:00 pm

    @Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (Formerly Mumphrey, et al.):

    So sorry. I will keep your mom, you, and your sister in my thoughts. Hoping for a peaceful passing for your mom.

  44. 44.

    Laura on Kaua'i

    December 10, 2016 at 10:00 pm

    @Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (Formerly Mumphrey, et al.): We are also going through the same situation with our mother right now. She is on the mainland, and my siblings are there with her. I have children arriving home from college tomorrow and later this week, so am staying home to help them. Three of our children were adopted, and things like this hit them very hard – they’ve all already lost someone close to them once in their lives, so they are processing their grandmother’s death differently than their cousins are (which my siblings and their children refuse to acknowledge). I saw Mom a little over three months ago, and we were able to say everything we needed to each other before saying good-bye.

    All good thoughts and wishes for you and yours.

  45. 45.

    Inmourning

    December 10, 2016 at 10:00 pm

    Smedley, is hospice there? They are about palliative care, and are very helpful. If they are there, then you are doing all you can do. Just mark her passing, and respect the process.

  46. 46.

    Adam L Silverman

    December 10, 2016 at 10:00 pm

    @Miss Bianca: I was five when the song came out and eight when the movie came out.

  47. 47.

    Another Scott

    December 10, 2016 at 10:00 pm

    @jacy: Thank you. It’s important to put up a fight even when it seems the battle is lost.

    Enjoy your evening!

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  48. 48.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    December 10, 2016 at 10:00 pm

    @mai naem mobile:

    Provo Harum

    Mormon group?

  49. 49.

    Adam L Silverman

    December 10, 2016 at 10:01 pm

    @EZSmirkzz: I will check it out.

  50. 50.

    Adam L Silverman

    December 10, 2016 at 10:02 pm

    @Ronnie Pudding: I never said it was authentically country. I just posted it.

  51. 51.

    ruemara

    December 10, 2016 at 10:02 pm

    @Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (Formerly Mumphrey, et al.): My deepest condolences.

    My question is related to the below thread. Explicitly, are there conditions laid out for a candidate & a party accepting foreign aid in an election and can a PEOTUS be impeached? Do we even have a procedure for overturning an election? It really feels as if you can cheat, win and the basic legal aspect is, well, you did reach the vote threshold so I guess we just have to give you the keys to the country.

  52. 52.

    Baud

    December 10, 2016 at 10:02 pm

    @BillinGlendaleCA: Make America Great Again, Again!

  53. 53.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    December 10, 2016 at 10:02 pm

    @Miss Bianca:

    I still remember *way* more of this than I should!

    No worries, that’ll pass in time.

  54. 54.

    schrodinger's cat

    December 10, 2016 at 10:03 pm

    @MomSense: How have you been? Did you send me an email? I don’t think I ever got it.

  55. 55.

    SiubhanDuinne

    December 10, 2016 at 10:04 pm

    @Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (Formerly Mumphrey, et al.):

    I hope this doesn’t sound too “woo,” but if it seems right for you to do so, let your mother know that it’s okay for her to move on. There is some compelling anecdotal evidence that dying people are often reluctant to pass because they don’t want to upset their loved ones. Let her know that you’re there for her and you love her and you support her whatever she chooses about the timing.

    It is a sad time but can also be a powerful and very beautiful time. I’ve been privileged to be at the bedside of several deaths. Much love to you and to your mother and all who love her. I wish her a peaceful and painless transition, and I wish you happiness in your memories of her.

  56. 56.

    Adam L Silverman

    December 10, 2016 at 10:04 pm

    @khead: Remind me to one day regale you with how my grandfather, who was in the meat business (and had been in the cattle side before that), ignored my Dad’s suggestions and did not attempt to get the McDonald’s franchise license for Denver back in the mid 60s. Because “who was going to pay a nickel for a hamburger if they had to get out of their car, walk up to a window, and then go on about their way…”

  57. 57.

    Mnemosyne

    December 10, 2016 at 10:04 pm

    One of my all-time favorite guilty pleasures is about to start on TCM: Clash of the Titans.

  58. 58.

    Another Scott

    December 10, 2016 at 10:04 pm

    @Laura on Kaua’i: Condolences to you and your family. It’s never easy.

    Peace to you also, Smedley. I’m sorry.

    Hang in there, everyone.

    Best wishes,
    Scott.

  59. 59.

    Baud

    December 10, 2016 at 10:05 pm

    @Mnemosyne: Good movie.

  60. 60.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    December 10, 2016 at 10:05 pm

    @Baud: I’m pretty Colbert has a copyright on that one.

  61. 61.

    Baud

    December 10, 2016 at 10:06 pm

    @BillinGlendaleCA: Did he use that? I haven’t seen his new show.

  62. 62.

    Mnemosyne

    December 10, 2016 at 10:06 pm

    Weekend Movie Club poll winner is up — with the announcement of an upcoming special bonus movie for Christmas.

  63. 63.

    Mj_Oregon

    December 10, 2016 at 10:07 pm

    @Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (Formerly Mumphrey, et al.): Keeping your family in my thoughts tonight. I’ve been where you are and know the feeling of helplessness that descends towards the end phase.

  64. 64.

    Another Scott

    December 10, 2016 at 10:07 pm

    The kids in “Mary Poppins” just caused a bank run. It’s kinda interesting how subversive the film is. (Earlier the wife was talking about taking rotten eggs downtown to throw at the Prime Minister.)

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  65. 65.

    J R in WV

    December 10, 2016 at 10:08 pm

    @Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (Formerly Mumphrey, et al.):

    I was there with my grand-dad. He had a stroke, got good treatment, great care, lived for years, but there was no one home. He was physically strong, but was personally gone from the get go.

    Finally (years later, actually!) they closed the older hospital he had been in and moved him to the brand spanking new one, and he got pneumonia. Family instructed no treatment. Hard, though.

    Best wishes for you and yours. Take care of yourself.

  66. 66.

    Jeffro

    December 10, 2016 at 10:08 pm

    Listening to a mix of Kathleen Edwards’ albums here tonight while catching up on the news and a bit of online shopping. Her album “Voyageur” is just outstanding but the earlier stuff is great too – Good Things from “Back To Me” on right now.

  67. 67.

    Pogonip

    December 10, 2016 at 10:08 pm

    @Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (Formerly Mumphrey, et al.): Oh, I understand. My mom had vascular dementia and everyone was relieved when she died, because she had been walking dead for three years. The final heart attack made it official.

  68. 68.

    Adam L Silverman

    December 10, 2016 at 10:09 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: I was very upset when I realized I missed Die Zauberflöte last week.

  69. 69.

    raven

    December 10, 2016 at 10:09 pm

    @Another Scott: God, we watched the last 2 episodes of season 1 of Fargo and I ran across Poppins by accident. It the favorite movie of my bride so I’m stuck!

  70. 70.

    Jeffro

    December 10, 2016 at 10:09 pm

    PS I had to set a phone alarm…don’t want to get too into music and shopping that I miss SNL’s open tonight. What do y’all think, will it have Russian subtitles?

  71. 71.

    Adam L Silverman

    December 10, 2016 at 10:10 pm

    @Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (Formerly Mumphrey, et al.): I’m sure. Again: we’re keeping good thoughts for her and you (and your family). Take care of yourself and be good to yourself.

  72. 72.

    Lizzy L

    December 10, 2016 at 10:10 pm

    @Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (Formerly Mumphrey, et al.): Been right there. It’s tough. You and your sister have all my sympathy.

  73. 73.

    Adam L Silverman

    December 10, 2016 at 10:11 pm

    @BillinGlendaleCA: That’s a possibility. I think it could break either way. Either quick implementation with huge dislocation shock all at once or prolonged roll out with small, continuous dislocation shocks along the way.

  74. 74.

    Major Major Major Major

    December 10, 2016 at 10:11 pm

    I’ll bet Ken Bone voted for Johnson.

  75. 75.

    SiubhanDuinne

    December 10, 2016 at 10:12 pm

    @Laura on Kaua’i:

    I’m so sorry. Everything I said to Smedley I say to you. I’ve been there and it is tough.

    To bring two disparate threads together, C. W. McCall’s “Convoy” was at its height of popularity in October 1975 when my mother died. I cannot separate those two phenomena. (Also too, that brand new weekend program Saturday Night Live.)

  76. 76.

    tobie

    December 10, 2016 at 10:12 pm

    The Washington Post has an interesting article up about the differences between what the FBI and the CIA had to say to Senators last week. Evidently the FBI was willing to admit that Russia meddled in the election but unwilling to say it did so with the aim of helping Trump win–a connection the CIA didn’t hesitate to make. According to the article this may have something to do with the culture of the FBI as a law enforcement agency, which generally thinks about what it can prove in a court of law. Given everything that’s transpired in the last two months, I take that interpretation with a grain of salt.

    It does look like some of the intelligence will be made public before Obama leaves office:

    The president wants the report to be completed before he leaves office next month. Officials said Obama intends to declassify as much of the report as possible. Lawmakers, in turn, want the review to be accompanied by a joint congressional investigation.

  77. 77.

    Adam L Silverman

    December 10, 2016 at 10:12 pm

    @Laura on Kaua’i: We’ll keep good thought’s for an easing passing for your mother too.

  78. 78.

    Pogonip

    December 10, 2016 at 10:13 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: If Grandpa coykd see drive-thru everything today!

    I have a question from a previous topic. Suppose all the Russian-hack stuff was reported honestly–But how do we know it, or anything else, isn’t planted? In Future Crimes, Marc Goodman talks about a rapidly developing problem of people who know reality only as ” something I see on a screen”

  79. 79.

    Baud

    December 10, 2016 at 10:13 pm

    @Major Major Major Major: Agree.

  80. 80.

    tobie

    December 10, 2016 at 10:14 pm

    Sorry…forgot to post a link to the full article in the Post.

  81. 81.

    JPL

    December 10, 2016 at 10:14 pm

    @raven: That’s what I’m watching, although I occasionally switch to GPB to see how the local team is doing in the playoff. Finch is just glad that we don’t hear them anymore.

  82. 82.

    SiubhanDuinne

    December 10, 2016 at 10:14 pm

    @Adam L Silverman:

    I didn’t see it last week, but I’ve seen that production probably half a dozen times at least. They seem to do it as a Christmas-season extra every year, so you’ll have another chance in 2017.

    Assuming there is a 2017.

  83. 83.

    West of the Rockies (been a while)

    December 10, 2016 at 10:14 pm

    @Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (Formerly Mumphrey, et al.):

    Genuine sympathies, Smedley…I recall the utter fog my sibs and I were in when our parents passed, two days to the very minute apart from each other. Dad was in hospice. Mom went at home (of a broken heart the doctor suggested, something called Romeo and Juliet Syndrome).

    Smile when you can.

  84. 84.

    InternetDragons

    December 10, 2016 at 10:15 pm

    Patti Smith sang “A Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Fall” on behalf of Bob Dylan at the Nobel ceremony today.

    It was a perfect, spare, and Dylanesque arrangement for a song that seems very fitting for our current reality. She was a little overwhelmed and asked if she could re-do the second part, but somehow that felt just fine to me regardless.

    I probably screwed up trying to embed this, so if someone can help I’d be grateful.

    EDIT: Yeah. Total fail. My apologies. Hopefully someone can embed it. It’s worth watching.

  85. 85.

    Mnemosyne

    December 10, 2016 at 10:15 pm

    @Baud:

    Better than its remake, at least. And it probably has the best script and cast of any Ray Harryhausen epic.

    Release the Kraken!

  86. 86.

    Baud

    December 10, 2016 at 10:15 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: It’ll be all Wagner all the time.

  87. 87.

    Another Scott

    December 10, 2016 at 10:16 pm

    @raven: :-) It’s a magical film.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  88. 88.

    trollhattan

    December 10, 2016 at 10:17 pm

    Listening to the new (to me) Sarah Jarosz record and recalling what a wonderful tonic good music is. Rained like a demon today which, given our last five years in Calif is a welcome thing but to be honest, I’m trending towards being sick of it. And speaking of water, officially wish Boxer were still in office and DiFi had retired. She totally capitulated with the Republicans on a shitty, shitty water deal for Central Valley farmers. Grrrrr, retire already.

  89. 89.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    December 10, 2016 at 10:17 pm

    @Jeffro: I’m gonna make a note to play Voyageur later. I like Kathleen Edwards a lot. Between podcasts and a (IMHO) general decline in radio playlists, and I guess aging, my exposure to new music has rapidly diminished in the last couple years.

  90. 90.

    Adam L Silverman

    December 10, 2016 at 10:17 pm

    @tobie: From the reporting I’ve seen the CIA, or more likely ODNI, was not sharing the counterintelligence with the FBI because its a law enforcement organization, not an intelligence agency, and it leaks like a sieve.

  91. 91.

    raven

    December 10, 2016 at 10:18 pm

    @Another Scott: ugh

  92. 92.

    Baud

    December 10, 2016 at 10:19 pm

    @raven: Have you tried a spoonful of sugar to help the movie go down?

  93. 93.

    Jeffro

    December 10, 2016 at 10:19 pm

    @Baud:

    It’ll be all Wagner all the time.

    I love the smell of napalm burning away all evidence of 2016…

  94. 94.

    SiubhanDuinne

    December 10, 2016 at 10:19 pm

    @Baud:

    You can’t scare me. I’m a huge Wagner fan.

    Try again.

  95. 95.

    SiubhanDuinne

    December 10, 2016 at 10:20 pm

    @Baud:

    Feed the derps, tuppence a bag.

  96. 96.

    FlipYrWhig

    December 10, 2016 at 10:20 pm

    @tobie: The FBI only wants to go as far as what is provable in a court of law? I think the ionosphere just heard Hillary Clinton bellowing with laughter.

  97. 97.

    mike in dc

    December 10, 2016 at 10:21 pm

    @Adam L Silverman:

    Amazon is testing supermarkets where amazon members can walk in, grab what they want, and then a scanner bills their amazon account on their departure. No cashiers needed. People warn that half our jobs will be taken by robots in 30 years. The number of politicians seriously discussing this asymptotically approaches zero.

  98. 98.

    Adam L Silverman

    December 10, 2016 at 10:22 pm

    @Pogonip: To the end of his life, if we went into a restaurant and a hamburger cost more than $2, he’d want to leave…

    I’m not sure I understand your question.

  99. 99.

    Jeffro

    December 10, 2016 at 10:22 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: Now’s the best time to catch up…everyone and their uncle has a “best albums of 2016” list up. I have some lookin’-into to do, myself!

    Back to Me from the album “Back to Me” raunchier than I remember…some of the fairer sex really do have our number…

  100. 100.

    Major Major Major Major

    December 10, 2016 at 10:23 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: you know who else loved Wagner.

  101. 101.

    Tenar Arha (same Tenar, more Nameless Ones)

    December 10, 2016 at 10:23 pm

    @Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (Formerly Mumphrey, et al.): I’m so sorry. I sympathize & empathize with your wait.

  102. 102.

    Adam L Silverman

    December 10, 2016 at 10:24 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: I’ve got it on an LP from the 30s. I’ve got it on digital. So I’m good.

  103. 103.

    JPL

    December 10, 2016 at 10:24 pm

    @mike in dc: If Bezos takes down Trump, I’m not sure what else he does matters.

  104. 104.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    December 10, 2016 at 10:25 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: I can see it for truck that aren’t on the open road, on the open road all it takes is one accident and it gets set back 10 years or so.

  105. 105.

    Adam L Silverman

    December 10, 2016 at 10:26 pm

    @mike in dc: Yep and yep.

  106. 106.

    Major Major Major Major

    December 10, 2016 at 10:27 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: I think the latter personally.

  107. 107.

    Adam L Silverman

    December 10, 2016 at 10:27 pm

    @BillinGlendaleCA: Yeah, I’ve never really understood how this is supposed to work.

  108. 108.

    Baud

    December 10, 2016 at 10:27 pm

    In all honesty, a robot would probably be better at being Baud than I am.

  109. 109.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    December 10, 2016 at 10:27 pm

    @Jeffro: I like Cheapest Key, kind of like Aretha taking over Respect, a woman artist complaining about a deadbeat, gold digging boyfriend

  110. 110.

    debbie

    December 10, 2016 at 10:28 pm

    @Mnemosyne:

    Can’t top Jason and the Argonauts. Poseidon rising from the sea!

  111. 111.

    Adam L Silverman

    December 10, 2016 at 10:28 pm

    @Major Major Major Major: Not my specialty, so I have no way of handicapping which way it’ll go. The latter would not surprise me.

  112. 112.

    Gin & Tonic

    December 10, 2016 at 10:29 pm

    Since the thread started with music, here’s a musical interlude. Some of you may be familiar with “The Carol of the Bells,” which is based on a song (not technically a carol) called “Shchedryk” by the Ukrainian composer Leontovych. Here’s a different and more modern arrangement by two dudes from Kyiv. It’s a Facebook video, but you don’t actually need a Facebook account to view it, I don’t think.

    Anyway, the “carol” is, as I said, called “Shchedryk”, coming from the religious “schedry vechir”, or Epiphany Eve, which is 13 days after Christmas Eve. So it may be a Christmas season song, but it’s not a Christmas carol.

  113. 113.

    InternetDragons

    December 10, 2016 at 10:30 pm

    Joe “grab your muskets if Hillary wins” Walsh has been blocked on Twitter by Trump because Walsh has been calling him out on the Russian interference with the election…

  114. 114.

    EZSmirkzz

    December 10, 2016 at 10:30 pm

    JSYK it’s 6:30 AM in Moscow and Vlad just spit out a mouth full of Cocoa Puffs because of you.

  115. 115.

    Baud

    December 10, 2016 at 10:31 pm

    @InternetDragons: He wants to out-Trump Trump.

  116. 116.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    December 10, 2016 at 10:31 pm

    @Major Major Major Major: Mad King Ludwig II of Bavaria?

  117. 117.

    Lizzy L

    December 10, 2016 at 10:32 pm

    @trollhattan: Totally agree. It was a bad deal. I’m hoping she did it as a trade for something important, possibly having to do with intelligence, since that’s DiFi’s arena: she’s the Vice Chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.

  118. 118.

    dp

    December 10, 2016 at 10:32 pm

    @jacy: Same on voting. Went and saw silly “Office Christmas Party,” and drinking wine. Here’s to hoping for the best!

  119. 119.

    Baud

    December 10, 2016 at 10:33 pm

    Bombing in Turkey.

  120. 120.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    December 10, 2016 at 10:34 pm

    @Baud: I have my doubts about that.

  121. 121.

    Major Major Major Major

    December 10, 2016 at 10:36 pm

    @BillinGlendaleCA: oh man, that guy was awesome.

    @Baud: Give me a couple days and we can find out.

  122. 122.

    SFBayAreaGal

    December 10, 2016 at 10:39 pm

    @Gin & Tonic: This is one of my favorite Christmas songs.

  123. 123.

    PJ

    December 10, 2016 at 10:39 pm

    @Gin & Tonic: I don’t know how this fits in, but “štědrý den” in the Czech Republic is Christmas Eve, štědrý being a likely cognate of schedry (in Czech, it means bountiful or generous). Perhaps there was some confusion along the way because a similar word is used to describe two days related to the birth of Christ.

  124. 124.

    Another Scott

    December 10, 2016 at 10:40 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: I think the argument is that highway driving between warehouses is much, much simpler problem than driving from UPS facility to a home for delivery, or navigating city streets, or the like.

    E.g. Ottomotto.

    Cheers,
    Scott.
    (Who figures if robots replace everyone in “mindless jobs”, then there’s going to be a boom in robot repair and install people…)

  125. 125.

    Major Major Major Major

    December 10, 2016 at 10:40 pm

    @PJ: I love Steely Dan!

  126. 126.

    SiubhanDuinne

    December 10, 2016 at 10:41 pm

    @Adam L Silverman:

    Have you ever seen the Ingmar Bergman film?

    Link: https://youtu.be/l17SQeytHN8

  127. 127.

    Laura on Kaua'i

    December 10, 2016 at 10:42 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: The only comfort I take from Mom’s passing is that after she is gone neither I, my husband nor my children ever need to have any further contact with my siblings, their spouses or their children.

  128. 128.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    December 10, 2016 at 10:42 pm

    @Baud: Somebody bombed a turkey, I guess that counts as a new preparation.

  129. 129.

    Omnes Omnibus

    December 10, 2016 at 10:43 pm

    In the same vein, Uneasy Rider.

  130. 130.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    December 10, 2016 at 10:44 pm

    @Another Scott: But they’re still sharing the road with, ya know, human drivers. You’ve have to build up a layer of trust among the humans, I don’t see that as an instant sell.

  131. 131.

    SiubhanDuinne

    December 10, 2016 at 10:45 pm

    @Laura on Kaua’i:

    I’m very sorry. Estrangement is very painful, but sometimes it’s the only rational decision.

    Peace to you and yours.

  132. 132.

    Gin & Tonic

    December 10, 2016 at 10:48 pm

    @PJ: “Shchedry” (in Ukrainian, “щедрий”) also means generous. But Christmas Eve is called “Святий Вечір” or “Sviaty Vechir” – meaning holy eve.

  133. 133.

    Major Major Major Major

    December 10, 2016 at 10:48 pm

    @BillinGlendaleCA: people love robots! They’re your plastic pal that’s fun to be with!

  134. 134.

    Yarrow

    December 10, 2016 at 10:52 pm

    @POTUS must appoint special prosecutor with all resources necessary & access to all intelligence to investigate Russian involvement. Period.— John Weaver (@JWGOP) December 10, 2016

    He’s Kasich’s chief strategist.

  135. 135.

    Adam L Silverman

    December 10, 2016 at 10:55 pm

    @Gin & Tonic: Wouldn’t 13 days after Christmas in the West, still be a week or two before Christmas in the East? So it would make sense for Ukrainians time wise.

  136. 136.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    December 10, 2016 at 10:55 pm

    @Yarrow: And IIRC one of the McCain’s sidekicks from the 2000 McCain run

    this guy is from McCain’s ’08 run

    Mark Salter ‏@ MarkSalter55 Dec 9
    Tillerson would sell out NATO for Sakhalin oil and his pal, Vlad. Should be a rough confirmation hearing, and a no vote on the Senate floor.

    You know who stop Tillerson with one speech…?

  137. 137.

    Elizabelle

    December 10, 2016 at 10:56 pm

    @Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (Formerly Mumphrey, et al.): I am so sorry. Wishing your mom a more peaceful transition.

    My own mom pretty much slipped away. I feel for you, watching and waiting and worrying about pain or discomfort.

    Best to you. We’ll do a meet up in DC on the other side.

  138. 138.

    Adam L Silverman

    December 10, 2016 at 10:59 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: Yes and the Kenneth Brannagh one.

  139. 139.

    Another Scott

    December 10, 2016 at 10:59 pm

    @BillinGlendaleCA: I don’t think that will be much of a problem, myself. People will get used to it pretty quickly. Presumably automated trucks won’t speed, they won’t jump lights, they won’t tailgate, they won’t turn without signaling, they won’t be driven by drivers trying to work on 4 hours of sleep, etc., etc.

    But, agreed, it needs to be nearly bullet-proof, considering things like glare, white vehicles, etc., etc.. :-(

    Of course, when Donnie destroys the economy and eliminates pesky rules like minimum wages, then plenty of cheap workers will be available and the days of automatic vehicles will be pushed off a bit more… :-/

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  140. 140.

    Gin & Tonic

    December 10, 2016 at 11:05 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: No, the difference between the Julian and Gregorian is exactly 13 days now, but that’s unrelated. Epiphany is after Christmas regardless of calendar. So while the Orthodox and the Eastern-rite Catholics celebrate Christmas on January 7, Epiphany is January 19 (I just looked it up). So 12 days, not 13, sorry.

  141. 141.

    Mary G

    December 10, 2016 at 11:06 pm

    @Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (Formerly Mumphrey, et al.): I don’t think I’ve ever actually told anyone this, but one night about three weeks into my mom’s home hospice care, I told her to die already. It was supposed to take a week, and somebody stayed with us for the first two weeks, and there was plenty of visiting and help during the days, but by this point that was tapering off and I was alone at night in between caregiver visits at 1 a.m. and 6 a.m. I was so tired. I had been telling her it was OK to let go and all that, but that night I just snapped at her. I felt so bad, but then I had a dream that she told me it was OK.

    I don’t know if it’s true, but the hospice nurse told me when she started moaning that she was not in pain, but that it was just caused by some mechanical thing that happens in the lungs that comes with them shutting down.

    Anyway, I know it’s hard for you, even though she isn’t really in there anymore.

  142. 142.

    Adam L Silverman

    December 10, 2016 at 11:08 pm

    @Gin & Tonic: Fine, be that way… It seemed logical when I typed it.

  143. 143.

    Elizabelle

    December 10, 2016 at 11:08 pm

    In HoosierLand, watching the snow come down. It’s enchanting.

    Had a good surprise visit with my aunt. Dementia; her short term memory is not good, but she remembered me and we had a nice hour or two. Gonna visit her again, snow permitting tomorrow, or Monday for sure.

    FWIW, tomorrow is Indiana’s bicentennial.

  144. 144.

    opiejeanne

    December 10, 2016 at 11:10 pm

    @Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (Formerly Mumphrey, et al.): I’m so sorry she’s still struggling. I know how difficult this is and I do understand the wishing it to be over. We went through this with Mom in 2003 and with Dad in 2012, although he never had dementia.
    Good thoughts and prayers for peace, for all of you and of course for her.

  145. 145.

    Mnemosyne

    December 10, 2016 at 11:12 pm

    @Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (Formerly Mumphrey, et al.):
    @SiubhanDuinne:

    Siubhan said exactly what I was going to say — even if your mom is unconscious, even if you think she’s too far into dementia to understand, you and your sister should both tell her that you love her and it’s okay for her to go. And then, if you can, you should have a nurse or other non-family member watch her and both leave the room. I’ve heard of it working more often than not, weird as it sounds, including with my dad and my father-in-law.

  146. 146.

    InternetDragons

    December 10, 2016 at 11:13 pm

    FYI for anyone interested: If you happen to have Amazon Prime, you can get a free six-month subscription to the Washington Post. After the free six months, your monthly subscription will just be $3.99.

    A lot of you probably already knew about this, but it was a happy and timely discovery for me, as after the election I had decided to support a couple of newspapers (I had given up on mainstream papers a few years ago). I also subscribed to the Guardian thanks to recommendations here – and have been really pleased with it.

    Anyway, I wanted to pass along the info about the Amazon Prime opportunity with WaPo just in case it is helpful for someone.

  147. 147.

    Gin & Tonic

    December 10, 2016 at 11:15 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: Regardless of the date, in most Easter-rite and Orthodox countries it makes the ritual commemoration of Jesus’ baptism by immersing yourself in water a fairly uncomfortable event.

  148. 148.

    Omnes Omnibus

    December 10, 2016 at 11:16 pm

    @InternetDragons: Hi, Troll. Fuck off. And go blow a goat.

  149. 149.

    Adam L Silverman

    December 10, 2016 at 11:17 pm

    @Gin & Tonic: Polar bear plunge for everyone!

  150. 150.

    Major Major Major Major

    December 10, 2016 at 11:18 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: ID is a troll?

  151. 151.

    SiubhanDuinne

    December 10, 2016 at 11:18 pm

    @Mnemosyne:

    Thanks, Mnem.

  152. 152.

    SiubhanDuinne

    December 10, 2016 at 11:19 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    ??

  153. 153.

    Omnes Omnibus

    December 10, 2016 at 11:19 pm

    I am sorry that I fixed it for you.

  154. 154.

    SiubhanDuinne

    December 10, 2016 at 11:21 pm

    @InternetDragons:

    Thanks for the AP heads-up. I’ve subscribed to WaPo for several months and have been thinking hard about supporting the Guardian as well. If I can do it through Amazon Prime, all the better.

  155. 155.

    Gin & Tonic

    December 10, 2016 at 11:24 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: The faithful take it seriously. This looks inviting, no?

  156. 156.

    Adam L Silverman

    December 10, 2016 at 11:25 pm

    @Gin & Tonic: I’m sure they do. I wasn’t trying to be disrespectful. And it looks positively welcoming, inviting, and festive.

  157. 157.

    amygdala

    December 10, 2016 at 11:49 pm

    @InternetDragons: Thanks so much for this!

  158. 158.

    InternetDragons

    December 10, 2016 at 11:51 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    Are you mistaking me for someone, or ? I don’t understand at all.

  159. 159.

    Millard Filmore

    December 10, 2016 at 11:52 pm

    @EZSmirkzz: Sorry to be so late to the thread, but here is another nice Christmas tune:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grvZsPK6AU4
    Even Squeaky Fromme Loves Christmas – Reverend Glen Armstrong

  160. 160.

    Adam L Silverman

    December 10, 2016 at 11:55 pm

    @InternetDragons: Its possible, he’s heavily medicated because of an injury right now.

  161. 161.

    Mnemosyne

    December 10, 2016 at 11:59 pm

    @Adam L Silverman:

    Other way around — he’s heavily medicated because he injured himself coughing. Really, it’s almost Cole-like.

  162. 162.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    December 11, 2016 at 12:01 am

    @Mnemosyne: Only if he injured himself while nakid.

  163. 163.

    Millard Filmore

    December 11, 2016 at 12:01 am

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    (Also too, that brand new weekend program Saturday Night Live.)

    A trivia question for you. Who was the first host of Saturday Night Live? (Its a trick question)

    A: Howard Cosell. He was its only host. That other program you are thing of was called “Saturday Night”, and they always announced it as “Live From New York, Its Saturday Night”

  164. 164.

    InternetDragons

    December 11, 2016 at 12:03 am

    @Adam L Silverman:

    Thanks, Adam. I hope that’s the case. Not that I want anyone to have to be heavily medicated because of an injury – but that reply blindsided me. I’ve been mostly a lurker here for a long time. But since the election I am trying to reach out as much as I can to folks of like mind. I know there are spats here, but bottom line is that this is a really good group of people, and I love hanging out here.

    I still feel sort of tentative, though I have always looked to BJ as one of the places I can rely on when I want a sanity check and a little dark humor. So the thought of being categorized as a troll has me a little freaked out =P. I think I’ll just slink away and read for awhile and hope everything sorts itself out.

  165. 165.

    Mnemosyne

    December 11, 2016 at 12:04 am

    @BillinGlendaleCA:

    I don’t ask those questions.

  166. 166.

    Adam L Silverman

    December 11, 2016 at 12:05 am

    @BillinGlendaleCA: And looking for mustard while standing on an icy driveway and being tripped by his dog.

  167. 167.

    SiubhanDuinne

    December 11, 2016 at 12:07 am

    @Millard Filmore:

    Did not know that about Howatd Cosell. I’m pretty sure the first SNL I ever saw was October 25, 1975, probably only the second or third show ever. My mother died the next morning. Needless to say, I remember very few details.

  168. 168.

    Adam L Silverman

    December 11, 2016 at 12:07 am

    @InternetDragons: I wouldn’t worry too much. I didn’t think the post was out of line and I’m probably the only person on here right now with the ability to do something if it was, so you’re good.

    O2 can be abrupt at times – as can I and a number of others. In this case he either clicked on the wrong reply button or confused you with someone else.

  169. 169.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    December 11, 2016 at 12:09 am

    @Mnemosyne: That’s probably a good thing.

    @Adam L Silverman: He should try to snuggle with the dogs more, it’s much less dangerous. I just finished snuggle time with my girls.

  170. 170.

    SiubhanDuinne

    December 11, 2016 at 12:10 am

    @InternetDragons:

    I like and admire Omnes and consider him a friend, but his response to you was really out of left field.

    I hope it really was the meds talking, and I hope OO can be as forgiving of some other commenters as you are willing to be of him.

    We have some major shit going on in this country. We don’t need to be all slagging on each other on a blog.

  171. 171.

    Adam L Silverman

    December 11, 2016 at 12:11 am

    @EZSmirkzz: What in anyone’s Deity’s name are you doing? Every time I turn around you’ve got a comment or four in moderation.

  172. 172.

    Adam L Silverman

    December 11, 2016 at 12:12 am

    @SiubhanDuinne: I’m betting either hit the wrong reply button or was confused on who he was yelling at.

  173. 173.

    Jacel

    December 11, 2016 at 12:19 am

    Time to point out that “Convoy” being a hit enabled the songwriter to afford to create the Mannheim Steamroller / Fresh Aire recordings.

  174. 174.

    SiubhanDuinne

    December 11, 2016 at 12:21 am

    @Adam L Silverman:

    Probably. Be nice to apologize.

  175. 175.

    Mnemosyne

    December 11, 2016 at 12:22 am

    @Adam L Silverman:

    I’m pretty sure he clicked the wrong “reply” button.

  176. 176.

    Adam L Silverman

    December 11, 2016 at 12:36 am

    @SiubhanDuinne: I’m sorry.

  177. 177.

    divF

    December 11, 2016 at 12:43 am

    The only trucking song that sticks in my memory from the 70’s is C.W. McCall’s “Wolf Creek Pass”, if only for the lyric, “Well, we commenced to truckin’ and them hens commenced to cluckin’ “.

  178. 178.

    Sentient AI from the Future

    December 11, 2016 at 12:51 am

    I’m just going to leave this here.

  179. 179.

    SiubhanDuinne

    December 11, 2016 at 12:57 am

    @Adam L Silverman:

    NOT YOU!

  180. 180.

    EZSmirkzz

    December 11, 2016 at 12:58 am

    @Adam L Silverman: Apologies aforehand, Emptywheel has an interesting summary of the Russian hack you might enjoy. Usual detailed summary.

  181. 181.

    Adam L Silverman

    December 11, 2016 at 1:04 am

    @EZSmirkzz: Thanks, I’ve seen a lot of her tweets on this. And no apologies necessary, just can never figure out what sets WP off.

  182. 182.

    Mnemosyne

    December 11, 2016 at 1:24 am

    @EZSmirkzz:

    And yet, even with all of the context in her post, there are still fools in her comments section spluttering, But-but-but HILLARY!

  183. 183.

    seaboogie

    December 11, 2016 at 1:31 am

    @Adam L Silverman: I ruv this place.

  184. 184.

    Major Major Major Major

    December 11, 2016 at 1:44 am

    @Mnemosyne: well, in their defense, she does have lady parts.

  185. 185.

    J R in WV

    December 11, 2016 at 2:37 am

    @khead:

    I think cable TV was invented in WV, really. Had a neighbor who wired little coal camps for cable, his kids helped maintain things. they were moving from doing well to being well off, had another big white van, then the kids started to go to college.

    They had 3 or 4 of their own, then adopted 3 or 4 more, we could never tell which were which. Great people, obvs.

    Now we live 20 minutes past WalMart into the country, and Suddenlink won’t run a cable in here, too expensive for just 30 or 40 people. So FU hjllbillies. We’re connected to the internet via ethernet to neighbors on the hill, where the dishes can see the sats.

  186. 186.

    Ryan

    December 11, 2016 at 3:37 am

    I guess it’s all okay if you’re white. I’ve never seen Convoy, but will make it a point to do so. Of course, we’ll assume, because the protagonist is white, that the sheriff was abusive or something.

  187. 187.

    Elizabelle

    December 11, 2016 at 6:19 am

    @Laura on Kaua’i: Best wishes to you, too. Losing a parent is hard.

  188. 188.

    EZSmirkzz

    December 11, 2016 at 9:08 am

    @Adam L Silverman: Good morning Adam.

    It’s been my experience that with no effort whatsoever I tend to chap peoples asses. With a little effort I can piss them off. If I try I can enrage them and hope they storm out of the room and bang their heads on the door jamb. (All said with tongue in cheek for the culturally challenged.)

    So how’s your ass anyway?

  189. 189.

    laura

    December 11, 2016 at 9:32 am

    @Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (Formerly Mumphrey, et al.): I’m offering you my hand and my thoughts. Blessings of peace and grace

  190. 190.

    StringOnAStick

    December 11, 2016 at 12:49 pm

    @divF: Having driven Wolf Creek Pass many times, that thing is steep and with some snow on it, terrifying. Lots of long, long drops if you leave the road.

  191. 191.

    WVm

    December 11, 2016 at 1:35 pm

    Khead:

    I’m a little late to the thread, but can’t resist.

    That friend of your dad’s was likely John Hendricks from Matewan, who went on to found the Discovery Channel.
    And that is exactly how he described it, except it was an antenna.

    A WV upbringing can lead to amazing things.

  192. 192.

    Wrye

    December 11, 2016 at 3:56 pm

    McCall remade Wolf Creek Pass and I like the new version a lot. I was legitimately shocked to learn it is a real place-surely he’d invented such a terrifying descent.

    I like the new version so much that I had it cued up for when I needed to drive my partner to the hospital to deliver our first born, on the principle that wacky music of some sort would need to be involved.

    And I was right.

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