The Mountain Goats (who you may remember from such posts as this one) played a free show in East River Park yesterday. This was great for me, since none of the other tour dates worked out. It was a beautiful day with lovely weather. The concert was very good, as well.
Really just a perfect evening. This was the first time I’d seen them at a venue that had seats, which is important since Millennial fans can no longer stand for three hours straight.
Anybody else been doing outdoor summer activities?
A couple of songs they played below the fold. Studio versions, of course. Open thread!
(Second video is louder!)
Speculations On The Nenoksa Explosion
mrmoshpotato
I saw the title and was expecting actual mountain goats.
Pretty good music though.
debbie
Nice to see SummerStage is still going strong and has moved beyond the Bandshell. I attended a few concerts, but the one I really remember is Bo Diddley.
ola azul
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Obligatory Sinclair quote (paraphrase): Hard to make a person unnerstand a point when their salary [entire fucking bidness model] depends upon them NOT unnerstanding it.
NotMax
Heck, while prefer not to, I can stand for three hours straight – and am most assuredly not a Millennial. Even with the one dodgy leg, stood in line for two hours and forty-three minutes to get to the airline customer service counter at LaGuardia just this past week after my original flight ended up being cancelled some four hours after boarding for original take-off time, waiting while the plane meandered along or sat stock still on different taxiways, returned to gate for refueling and then being instructed to unboard.
Now, if it came down to walking for three hours straight, that’s an equine of a different hue.
ola azul
@NotMax:
Huh. Surprising. (To me, anyways.)
Allus found standing in place *far* more fatiguing than walking for commensurate time.
zhena gogolia
@ola azul:
Me too.
NotMax
@ola azul
The knees and feet ain’t what they used to be (but then what is?) and the protracted movement takes a toll. Back when was working in Manhattan had a job at a place which included two hours for lunch (a perq of being employed by a hoity-toity ad agency). As I don’t eat lunch, used to spend the time walking and exploring without a second thought about doing so. Contemplating attempting that today is alone enough to make the knees throb.
Frankensteinbeck
I finished writing You Can Be A Cyborg When You’re Older two days ago, and have just now sent out what will proooobably be all the beta reader copies? It’s not like there’s a defined limit. I am hoping this will help give my career a boost back up after the predatory publisher nightmare crashed it. This book should have a lot of the same appeal as Supervillain, but I can’t be sure. The biggest difference I can see is that anyone would want to live in Penny Akk’s world. Vanity Rose’s world is an awesome place to have adventures, but boy you would not want to live there.
Major Major Major Major
@Frankensteinbeck: May you get super helpful feedback!
Chyron HR
@ola azul:
Uhhhhhh I’m rich and live on the east coast, and I think Haberman and Baquet should be publicly executed along with Trump and his adult children.
Major Major Major Major
@NotMax:
???
NotMax
@Major Major Major Major
Nor breakfast either, for that matter. Not since about 1964.
ola azul
@Chyron HR:
Fair enough. Nothing personal.
But you are an exception. Such persons (you) exist.
However: Fundamental point appertains.
Major Major Major Major
@NotMax: I have a very light breakfast usually, just enough to keep down medication. Then a big lunch and medium dinner. Other schedules wreak havoc on my mood ??♂️
satby
My foster kittens have trashed my one and only bathroom. They still haven’t gotten immunized, so they have to be kept in isolation. They have a litter box, but someone thinks the bathtub is the litter box.
I’m trying to get up the strength to go clean the disaster.
And my old girl Rosie has been throwing up a lot today. She doesn’t act otherwise sick, so not really worried yet even though she’s ancient by dog standards. Day of rest my ass.
Major Major Major Major
@satby: Ah jeez!
Dorothy A. Winsor
@mrmoshpotato: I thought it would be Sab with pics of the goats that trimmed his yard this week.
ola azul
@NotMax:
Please tell me you’ve eaten *something* since Meet the Beatles came out.
NotMax
@satby
Imagine it’s a sight to see them getting out of the bathtub.
;)
Mnemosyne
I need to clear some of the clutter from the bedroom so I have enough space to get a new bedside table from Ikea that will have a shelf for my impending CPAP machine, but Charlotte decided that she needs a nap. On me. Silly kitty. ?
@satby:
Did they get a dose of dewormer? That can cause some sudden pooping issues. Or some cats just seem to like the nice, smooth porcelain, which is why we have to keep our shower door closed lest Keaton revert to form.
NotMax
@ola azul
Well, maybe a nosh now and again.
:)
I refer to my regimen as the vampire diet. Dinner after dark (some days skip even that). Otherwise water or black coffee (no sugar) during daylight hours. Not suggesting it’s for everyone, but works for me. Have always found eating a meal – any meal – enervating and it takes a conscious act of will to not stretch out and nap right after.
satby
@NotMax: they’re kittens. They can seemingly scale vertical walls with ease.
J R in WV
@ola azul:
The link as supplied takes me to a home improvement . com advertisement site. When I remove the somewhat hosed up https and just submit the link beginning with newrepublic… it appears to go to the actual FTFNYT article.
Perhaps someone could fix that link so it isn’t an ad ? M^4 ?
Otherwise a good comment, ola!
satby
@Mnemosyne: no dewormer yet. Kinda was waiting for reliable litter box use.
Did I mention the fleas? And too little for the topical treatments?
Seriously people, the next person you meet who won’t spay or neuter their pet? Punch them for me.
satby
Ok, into the breach I go. Pray for me.
ola azul
@J R in WV:
Whoopsie! Lo siento. Lemme try again:
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Got a coupla tons a ice n been dithering on goin to get more poly-whatever-the-fuck-it’s-callt resin to finish a quick-n-dirty f/g job before second king opener. so tx. for headsup. Creative destruction construction awaits!
(Do so despise f/g work. Ain’t nuttin nice about ‘cept — possibly! — the result.)
Mnemosyne
@satby:
When we found Charlotte and her sister at about 6 or 7 weeks old, the vet was able to give them about 1/3rd or 1/2 of a dose of the topical flea stuff based on their weights, but I wouldn’t try it at home unless I was a DVM.
Also, as you may know, litterbox use is often a learned behavior. My kitty Natasha was someone’s yard kitty before she was given to me and she had to watch Boris to figure out the whole indoor litterbox thing.
chris
I don’t know if this has been mentioned here but some of you might want to sharpen your walking and standing skills in the next six weeks. The We, The People March is Saturday 21 September in Washington, DC. There will be solidarity marches too.
O. Felix Culpa
@satby: Gaaah. Sending you thoughts and prayers. ;)
Hope the kitties settle down and doggie feels better right quick.
Jay
NotMax
@satby
(Picturing satby donning full hazmat gear.)
ola azul
@NotMax:
Was just havin a bit a sport, as you well know. Your schedz reminds me of my own, must say, ‘cept once I trippt over the half-century mark here recent, hadda alter my regimen somewhat. Fishing in summer entails lotta long-hour days (as much as 20 on first king opener round early July just after summer solstice when days is long, but lotta 16-hour days subsequent to that). Coffee is, course, as essential as breathing.
But while my corporeal husk usedtawas fine with massive coffee consumption onna empty stomach, them days is over. Now find that the natural diarrhetic qualities of coffee onna empty estomago is like the differnce betwixt being regular and bein unstoppable. No bueno.
Ergo, the BLAND diet. Toast, oatmeal, ‘nanners and the like in morn gives the acidic coffee sumpin to chew on stead a my guts.
Sometimes get so busy I forget to eat later in day. Come 7 bells at night or so, and I start to get light-headed n wonder why and gotta remind self: “You damn fool, you ain’t et yet!”
But: The consolations of eating prodigious quantities of fresh fish all summer long are, will say, an off-set for which am ever grateful.
Jay
Raven
@ola azul: You get prepped on the Blue House Raid?
ola azul
@Raven:
Ozark lined me out (if mem’ry serves). Tx.!
(There’re many reasons I enjoy this community, not least of which is allus learnin inneresting shit I din’t know!)
Jay
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RAVEN
@ola azul: Hardly anyone knows about it.
Jay
@ola azul:
My favorite part of summer on the Coast, was being anchored in an out harbour, and tradeing the excess. Swapping coho for prawns, oysters, mussels, crabs, red rock fish, halibut, then eating to excess.
RAVEN
@Jay: It looks like part of the tuna fishing I’m doing next month is to get cull from the shrimpers and use it for chum.
ola azul
@Jay:
Hear ya. Barter mos def a way of life here. There’sa little bay down Revillagigedo Is. way callt Pirates Cove that’s THICK with dungies in 6 to 10 fa. of water. Drop a pot with a humpie innit in morn before fishing keta, check it that night or next morn, fillt with keepers. Keep only what can eat, liberate rest, trade any excess for spot prawns (which require fishing much, much deeper, oft 80 fa. or so).
Fond mem’ry: ‘Member when my wife was alive, we’s in Maine, and I traded a striped bass I had caught for a lobster. That night Rose and I got naked, and made a buttery/lobstery mess of ourselves, then enjoyed the voluptuous fruits of matrimony.
Jay
NotMax
@Jay
Impressive, honorable and brave. Three extra-robust cheers.
chopper
love the mountain goats. love em.