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You are here: Home / Politics / Domestic Politics / I Am Left Panda (Open Thread)

I Am Left Panda (Open Thread)

by Betty Cracker|  April 22, 20184:12 pm| 66 Comments

This post is in: Domestic Politics, Nature, Open Threads

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Left Red Panda here exemplifies my approach to life these days:

"panda1: Don't creep up on me like that!! — panda2: Jesus dude relax it's the food delivery monster" pic.twitter.com/9QRQMZDiLU

— Fluff Society (@FluffSociety) April 21, 2018

“OMFG, what fresh hell is thiiiiiis?!?”

Just expecting the worst all the time. That’s no good. I’ve got to get back to being more like chill Right Red Panda.

Got a wretched spring cold, so I’ve been piled up on the sofa watching baseball and cooking shows all weekend. Hope you’re having a more active and productive Sunday.

Open thread!

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  1. 1.

    Nicole

    April 22, 2018 at 4:15 pm

    Productive, yes. Active, no. I’m reading a chapter in a textbook about the environment as it relates to sociology. So, I’m also getting really, really depressed. Though I look forward to learning about how environmental issues became so partisan in the USA.

    On the bright side, Westworld is back on tonight.

  2. 2.

    Dorothy A. Winsor (formerly Iowa Old Lady)

    April 22, 2018 at 4:19 pm

    I drafted a couple of blog posts and my April newsletter. I started reading a series about book marketing, got overwhelmed, and played spider solitaire on my computer instead. Now I’m reading Fonda Lee’s JADE CITY, which is fabulous but violent, so I have to take breaks.

    All of this is in service of not looking at a book draft I finished this week. I can’t. I’ll throw up.

  3. 3.

    Comrade Colette Collaboratrice

    April 22, 2018 at 4:21 pm

    Sorry about your cold, Betty. I got it three weeks ago and I’m still snotty, although the misery went away after a week. Hope you feel better quickly.

    In theory, I’m attending a conference in New Orleans. In practice, I’m lying on a purple velvet chaise longue in my hotel room, drinking icewater and admiring the view and the skull-patterned wallpaper. This town is fabulous (first visit ever, why did I wait so long?!), and I need to keep my head and my feet in good shape for another evening of wandering from bar to restaurant to bar to nightclub. I could live like this. Not for long, but for a while.

  4. 4.

    Major Major Major Major

    April 22, 2018 at 4:22 pm

    Lol.

    Back home now. Samwise is wearing his souvenir collar.

  5. 5.

    Dorothy A. Winsor (formerly Iowa Old Lady)

    April 22, 2018 at 4:25 pm

    @Major Major Major Major: I like the bow tie. LOL

  6. 6.

    HinTN

    April 22, 2018 at 4:26 pm

    It’s a big Earth Day rainy day here. My FB (and since childhood) friend ACB posted something about gin and tonic being the cure for seasonal allergies. Perhaps also for the common cold?

  7. 7.

    satby

    April 22, 2018 at 4:26 pm

    Got home from clean-up day at the market, where a whole 8 of us showed up (there are about 80 booths). Our small crowd got quite a lot done anyway, and they made us lunch. But it went on an hour longer than scheduled, so my plans for getting stuff done around the house have been derailed. I did water all my new my planted apple trees though.

  8. 8.

    JCJ

    April 22, 2018 at 4:27 pm

    @Major Major Major Major:
    Very nice! That is one fancy looking cat!

  9. 9.

    satby

    April 22, 2018 at 4:27 pm

    @Major Major Major Major: nice!

  10. 10.

    Scuffletuffle

    April 22, 2018 at 4:29 pm

    OMG that made me laugh…I know exactly how left panda feels!

  11. 11.

    JPL

    April 22, 2018 at 4:30 pm

    @Major Major Major Major: lol You know that fancy cat is gonna attack you at midnight. Welcome home.

  12. 12.

    HinTN

    April 22, 2018 at 4:30 pm

    @Comrade Colette Collaboratrice: I declined an offer for an engineering job in the NOLA area at 1.5 x what I started for in Chattanooga because I damn sure knew I’d be fat and dead quick living there. Love to visit!!! Let the good times roll.

  13. 13.

    Comrade Colette Collaboratrice

    April 22, 2018 at 4:31 pm

    There’s no cure for congenital gunshitery: Waffle House shooting: 4 dead in Antioch shooting; suspect could be at large with two guns

    “Four of Reinking’s guns, including the AR-15 rifle police said he used Sunday, were seized after he was arrested by the U.S. Secret Service in July 2017 on charges that he was in an authorized area outside the White House.

    Following the arrest, Reinking was interviewed by local and federal authorities and his Illinois firearms authorization was revoked.

    Reinking’s four guns were given to his father, who has said he gave them back to his son, according to the authorities.”

  14. 14.

    Major Major Major Major

    April 22, 2018 at 4:31 pm

    @JPL: good thing I sleep with the door closed!

  15. 15.

    MattF

    April 22, 2018 at 4:34 pm

    I’ve been trying out my new rice cooker. It’s ‘version 2.0’ of my old rice cooker (which I had for six years)– it includes menu settings for steel-cut oatmeal and quinoa, and has a somewhat different display interface. I suspect it’s at least partly a ‘give the Americans what they want’ design.

    Works very nicely. The quinoa setting uses very little water, fwiw.

  16. 16.

    HinTN

    April 22, 2018 at 4:35 pm

    @Comrade Colette Collaboratrice: And … it was an unarmed black kid that stopped the mayhem. Take that NRA and all your enablers.

    ETA: correcting unnamed to unarmed

  17. 17.

    zhena gogolia

    April 22, 2018 at 4:38 pm

    I just watched that ten times in a row. Yes, that is me every time I look at the WaPo.

  18. 18.

    Mandalay

    April 22, 2018 at 4:38 pm

    A Bill Maher joke from his show last Friday:

    What happened was two African American gentlemen were at Starbucks meeting a white guy….waiting on HIM!

    That’s the first interesting thing here: the WHITE GUY was running late! …eh-heh-heh

    It’s 2018 and Maher is still pushing negative stereotypes about women, gays and people of color. He clutches his pearls over Trump normalizing bad behavior, yet feels entitled to keep spewing his bile to demonstrate that he is proudly defending the First Amendment against “fucking liberals”.

  19. 19.

    Major Major Major Major

    April 22, 2018 at 4:39 pm

    @MattF: oooh I’ll have to see if mine can do quinoa. I forget. Friggin 30-page manual. I know it has a cake setting because it’s right on the front…

  20. 20.

    schrodingers_cat

    April 22, 2018 at 4:42 pm

    @Major Major Major Major: Dashing, handsome kitteh.

  21. 21.

    seaboogie

    April 22, 2018 at 4:46 pm

    In other animal/Twitter news, I discovered that I am blocked by Paul Bronks @BoringEnormous, the discovery of which was much like left panda. Damn shame – was one of my favorite Twitter accounts (present company notwithstanding). Checked my tweets, and I don’t get it.

  22. 22.

    Phylllis

    April 22, 2018 at 4:48 pm

    @Comrade Colette Collaboratrice: I was there for a conference in 2005 (about 3 weeks before Katrina). I knew I was in trouble when our waiter at breakfast the first morning asked if I wanted a Bourbon Milk Punch with my meal. Yes please. My late husband swore it took me two weeks to sober up after coming home.

  23. 23.

    Mnemosyne

    April 22, 2018 at 4:49 pm

    At the LA Times Festival of Books. It is over 80 degrees, as always. I am grumpy because this year they decided not to have a romance panel at all, because who reads romance novels, amirite? I mean, romance being 1/3rd of the genre market — bigger than mystery and sci-fi combined, both of which have multiple author panels — must be some kind of weird fluke.

    So I’m here with an attitude.

  24. 24.

    bystander

    April 22, 2018 at 4:52 pm

    I accidentally read some of the trailing comments. I was sad cursive writing isn’t being taught anymore. Evidently, English isn’t either.

  25. 25.

    Gin & Tonic

    April 22, 2018 at 4:52 pm

    Since it is a gorgeous day here in southern New England, I just went for a nice long bike ride (as in bicycle, Ms Cracker.) Because, this spring, I can. Active, yes. Productive, well, the jury’s out.

  26. 26.

    Gin & Tonic

    April 22, 2018 at 4:54 pm

    @HinTN: Can’t hurt to try out the theory.

  27. 27.

    bystander

    April 22, 2018 at 4:54 pm

    @Major Major Major Major: Adorable!

  28. 28.

    Dorothy A. Winsor (formerly Iowa Old Lady)

    April 22, 2018 at 4:57 pm

    @Mnemosyne: I loathe that kind of genre bigotry. I think it reflects disdain for the genre’s readers.

  29. 29.

    Yutsano

    April 22, 2018 at 4:57 pm

    @Major Major Major Major: Your kitteh is the Fourteenth Doctor?
    Also: bowties are cool.

  30. 30.

    trollhattan

    April 22, 2018 at 4:58 pm

    @seaboogie:
    You know what you did.

    –Paul Bronks

    Perfect spring Sunday. Took the kid to a work gig with the ‘vert top down then back home to deploy some of Monsanto’s finest to drive away the Bermuda grass probing the new lawnless landscape for the best invasion routes. Die Bermuda grass, die!

  31. 31.

    raven

    April 22, 2018 at 4:59 pm

    We just finished moving my new (habitat) desk into our old bedroom downstairs as the march toward retirement continues on. I’ve been in the upstairs space for almost 14 years so this is going to be a big change. I told her a minute ago that it was a small price to pay for not having to have been in a cube farm all these years.

  32. 32.

    bystander

    April 22, 2018 at 5:04 pm

    I always wanted enough money to blow on a Goyard badger-trimmed French bulldog collar. The next Frenchie doesn’t have to worry about having to wear one, either.

  33. 33.

    Mingobat (f/k/a Karen in GA)

    April 22, 2018 at 5:08 pm

    Picked up three new chew toys for Iggy and Muppet — one to give to Muppet, one to give Iggy, then one more to sneak to Iggy when Muppet steals the first one I gave him.

    I should be editing 25 images and creating a slide show for a photography class final project that’s due Tuesday, but, well, I don’t wanna.

  34. 34.

    Mingobat (f/k/a Karen in GA)

    April 22, 2018 at 5:11 pm

    @Major Major Major Major: Very dapper.

  35. 35.

    Major Major Major Major

    April 22, 2018 at 5:13 pm

    @Mnemosyne: boooo! How lame.

    @Dorothy A. Winsor (formerly Iowa Old Lady): sounds about right.

    The festival of books, is that more event for readers or trade show (a la Book Expo)?

  36. 36.

    dmsilev

    April 22, 2018 at 5:31 pm

    @Mnemosyne: I just got back from the Festival, with a bag full of books. Some for me, some for gifts for family. It was a good way to spend a day.

  37. 37.

    dmsilev

    April 22, 2018 at 5:32 pm

    @Major Major Major Major: Some of each, but more for readers.

  38. 38.

    seaboogie

    April 22, 2018 at 5:32 pm

    @trollhattan: heh.

  39. 39.

    cain

    April 22, 2018 at 5:43 pm

    So no thread on the shooting in Tennessee and how a brave young man tackled the racist asshole with the AR-15 and saved everyone?

    Also, I got a insta-pot, I’m figuring out a lot of things, including how to make pulao which is my first foray into cooking with this thing.

    Next week, I’m going back to Portland, and get to stay with my ex-wife and her boyfriend.. fun fun.

  40. 40.

    WaterGirl

    April 22, 2018 at 5:46 pm

    @Major Major Major Major: I would title that: Gentleman cat wears a bow tie.

    edit: Welcome home! Seemed like you were gone a really long time.

  41. 41.

    Brachiator

    April 22, 2018 at 5:48 pm

    @Nicole:

    On the bright side, Westworld is back on tonight.

    I never watched season one. If I jump into season 2, will it make any sense?

  42. 42.

    WaterGirl

    April 22, 2018 at 5:50 pm

    @seaboogie: You can still read it, though, right? You just can’t post?

  43. 43.

    WaterGirl

    April 22, 2018 at 5:53 pm

    @Mingobat (f/k/a Karen in GA): We used to tell my dad he looked dapper when he put on his fedora. Thanks for tickling that memory. We thought he was dapper just like Cary Grant.

  44. 44.

    Brachiator

    April 22, 2018 at 5:59 pm

    @HinTN:

    And … it was an unarmed black kid that stopped the mayhem. Take that NRA and all your enablers.

    Had the black kid been armed, the NRA and white conservatives would have lost their shit. They would not know how to process it.

  45. 45.

    efgoldman

    April 22, 2018 at 5:59 pm

    @Comrade Colette Collaboratrice:

    Reinking’s four guns were given to his father, who has said he gave them back to his son,

    No cure for idiocy, not now. not ever.

  46. 46.

    Major Major Major Major

    April 22, 2018 at 6:04 pm

    @WaterGirl: Thanks! I was! I am far too jet lagged to appreciate anything right now.

  47. 47.

    WaterGirl

    April 22, 2018 at 6:10 pm

    @Major Major Major Major: Hopefully you don’t have to go back to work right away?

  48. 48.

    Major Major Major Major

    April 22, 2018 at 6:18 pm

    @WaterGirl: I do! :(

    I have a number of sick days to spend before Q3 though…

  49. 49.

    cain

    April 22, 2018 at 6:19 pm

    @Comrade Colette Collaboratrice:

    What kind of fool would give guns back to someone who was stupid enough to parade them at the White House? That too 4 of them!

  50. 50.

    Calouste

    April 22, 2018 at 6:29 pm

    @Nicole:

    Though I look forward to learning about how environmental issues became so partisan in the USA.

    Cleek’s law: Republicans are against anything and everything Democrats are for.

  51. 51.

    evodevo

    April 22, 2018 at 6:34 pm

    @Brachiator: NO! it doesn’t even make sense if you saw Season One lol – going to have to binge watch or find a synopsis, ’cause I don’t recall all the plot points …

  52. 52.

    Gin & Tonic

    April 22, 2018 at 6:39 pm

    @cain: I hope he’s charged as an accessory.

  53. 53.

    Brachiator

    April 22, 2018 at 6:43 pm

    @evodevo:

    NO! it doesn’t even make sense if you saw Season One lol – going to have to binge watch or find a synopsis, ’cause I don’t recall all the plot points

    I think there is a video synopsis, had an email from HBO about it. Maybe I’ll check to see if it is still available.

  54. 54.

    Central Planning

    April 22, 2018 at 6:50 pm

    @Major Major Major Major: that’s the look of “I will cut you”

  55. 55.

    seaboogie

    April 22, 2018 at 7:07 pm

    @WaterGirl: Nope.

  56. 56.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    April 22, 2018 at 7:24 pm

    @Brachiator:

    On many cable systems (including mine, Cox), all the Season 1 episodes are available for free in the “on demand” section. (There is also a two-minute “Season 1 Recap,” I notice.)

  57. 57.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    April 22, 2018 at 7:30 pm

    @seaboogie:

    You don’t have to sign up for Twitter to read Twitter stuff. Don’t log in, just go to this link and read away.

    Same holds true for any Twitter nym or hashtag.

  58. 58.

    seaboogie

    April 22, 2018 at 7:34 pm

    @Steeplejack (phone): Thank you. It just feels so absurd to have been blocked by this account that I think I’ll give it a miss.

    ETA: the link takes me to the “you’ve been blocked by this account” screen.

  59. 59.

    Major Major Major Major

    April 22, 2018 at 7:38 pm

    @seaboogie: because you’re logged in.

    I also don’t bother reading people who blocked me for no good reason, their loss.

  60. 60.

    seaboogie

    April 22, 2018 at 7:41 pm

    @Major Major Major Major: Aha! And agreed on the second point.

  61. 61.

    Aleta

    April 22, 2018 at 7:41 pm

    @seaboogie:
    He is clearly misguided. His loss.

    Could it be that if someone is getting bombarded by trools they don’t take time to look at individuals? Block lots of followers indiscriminately, just to save time, make fewer decisions?

  62. 62.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    April 22, 2018 at 8:00 pm

    @seaboogie:

    There are some auto-blocking extensions on Twitter that allow you (BoringEnormous, say) to block everyone blocked by some other (presumably trusted) person or everyone who follows some (presumably malevolent) person, etc. It’s a perhaps crude way to deal with armies of bots and nuts. You probably got snagged by something like that.

    I doubt that BoringEnormous has some personal grudge against you.

  63. 63.

    seaboogie

    April 22, 2018 at 8:08 pm

    @Aleta: @Steeplejack (phone): Thanks y’all – that makes sense.

  64. 64.

    WaterGirl

    April 22, 2018 at 8:20 pm

    @seaboogie: Then surely you can go to the web page and see it all, as I do, without even having a twitter account.

    https://twitter.com/boringenormous?lang=en

    edit: I see that Steep got there before me.

  65. 65.

    workworkwork

    April 23, 2018 at 12:23 am

    This thread might be dead already but….

    With the warm weather coming on, I decided to make a concerted effort to not use my oven. So I’m trying three new Instant Pot recipes this week:
    – Chicken Marinara
    – Sesame Chicken
    – Glazed Carrots

    I’ll be adjusting the recipes to be low-carb as well.

    Wish me luck!

  66. 66.

    mainmata

    April 23, 2018 at 9:18 pm

    Just back from a 26 hour journey back to MD and am now fighting a cold probably from the plane. Hope you get well quickly, Betty, we need your deadly wit, political commentary and your local nature observations. Are you still keeping chickens?

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