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Wednesday Evening Leftovers Open Thread

by Anne Laurie|  January 1, 20205:55 pm| 97 Comments

This post is in: Open Threads, Proud to Be A Democrat

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An Otter with his new Teddy pic.twitter.com/sFdQ7IbFhZ

— 41 Strange (@41Strange) December 25, 2019

A YERESGIFT is a present given at New Year.

— Haggard Hawks ???? (@HaggardHawks) December 31, 2019

Cat with Alien plush toy
(Photo: NocensAstrum) pic.twitter.com/F4FPDclPeZ

— 41 Strange (@41Strange) December 31, 2019

This made me laugh, remembering. How looong it took for the @nytimes to just call lies, lies. Whew. https://t.co/gCURavPNt0

— Soledad O'Brien (@soledadobrien) December 27, 2019

Optimism is not exactly something that’s just lying around on the floor, waiting to be picked up. It’s something we have to work for again. It’s a heavy lift, but a necessary one. All we have as we enter 2020 is, well, us. https://t.co/dBQl2faBtJ

— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) December 31, 2019

Wishing everyone a Happy New Year — thankful for everyone who has been in the trenches this year, marching, calling, protesting for our democracy.
I believe 2020 is the most important year for our country in decades. We need be active the entire year.

— Neera Tanden (@neeratanden) December 31, 2019

Thank God for Speaker Pelosi. #2019in5words pic.twitter.com/gnghB5DyB0

— ???????? Only4RM ???????? (@Only4RM) December 21, 2019

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  1. 1.

    Raven

    January 1, 2020 at 6:00 pm

    It just dawned on me that I probably won’t find collards and black eyed peas in Schaumburg! I made them in LA 2 years ago and we had them at our little tailgate between the parade and the game!

  2. 2.

    subcommandante yakbreath

    January 1, 2020 at 6:04 pm

    Just a short delurk to express my ongoing gratitude for this blog, and to wish everyone a Happy (and hopeful) New Year.

  3. 3.

    debbie

    January 1, 2020 at 6:05 pm

    @Raven:

    I’m sitting here eating collard greens and wishing I’d remembered to get some parmesean cheese to go with it.

  4. 4.

    debbie

    January 1, 2020 at 6:06 pm

    I think in that top tweet, the teddy bear actually owns the otter.

  5. 5.

    Nicole

    January 1, 2020 at 6:07 pm

    In honor of my late father, who always watched the Twilight Zone marathon on New Year’s Day, the spouse and I watched several episodes, including the still excellent “It’s a Good Life.” I realized Little Anthony is Trump and all of the adults around him are the GOP. In particular, the guy who plays piano is Lindsey Graham and the guy who, at the climax, tries to get someone to do something about Little Anthony (and gets turned into a jack-in-the-box) is Michael Cohen, and the woman who briefly considers hitting Little Anthony with the andiron but then decides to just look concerned instead is Susan Collins.

    (The guy at the very end who’s upset Little Anthony is making it snow on the crops is the Midwest Family Farmer, but he sucks it up and gets back with the program within seconds.)

  6. 6.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    January 1, 2020 at 6:11 pm

    @Raven: Just got back from taking pics of the Rose Bowl from the hills just west of it.  Got some good shots of the B-2 flyby

    ETA: Speaking of the B-2 flyby, I never realized until this year that they send 2 B-2’s(makes sense), but I saw both this morning and this afternoon.

  7. 7.

    Anne Laurie

    January 1, 2020 at 6:17 pm

    @debbie: I think in that top tweet, the teddy bear actually owns the otter.

    But the little guy is so happy about it, whichever!

  8. 8.

    germy

    January 1, 2020 at 6:17 pm

    ‘Rocky’ producer Gene Kirkwood has acquired life and some music rights to make a film about Judy Holliday titled ‘Smart Blonde.’

    The actress was a 22-year-old day player at Fox when she stood up to mogul Darryl F. Zanuck’s aggressive sexual overtures. “Her agent scheduled her for the notorious ‘4 o’clock meeting’ and ordered her to stuff her bra,” says Pulitzer-nominated playwright Willy Holtzman, who is writing the screenplay.

    At the meeting, Zanuck locked the door, unzipped his pants and pushed Holliday onto the couch as he grabbed her breasts. “He said, ‘You belong to me.’ Judy reached into her blouse, removed the pads from her bra, threw them at him and shouted, ‘These belong to you. I don’t,’ ” adds Holtzman.

    A tough New Yorker with an IQ of 172, Holliday returned home and went to Broadway. In 1946, she starred in Born Yesterday and won a best actress Oscar for the 1950 big-screen adaptation. Still, she paid the price for being outspoken and was eventually blacklisted in Hollywood as a communist.

    https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/oscar-winner-judy-holliday-who-fought-sexual-harassment-get-biopic-treatment-1062207

  9. 9.

    Raven

    January 1, 2020 at 6:21 pm

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: Have you seen the shot from above it over the stadium? We saw both the parade and the game but I didn’t know there were 2 ships.

  10. 10.

    Raven

    January 1, 2020 at 6:24 pm

    Here’s a vid of it and you can see it on the scoreboard too!

    https://flic.kr/p/22KtBsy

  11. 11.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    January 1, 2020 at 6:27 pm

    @Raven: Yeah, I was looking at that shot and others since I didn’t know which direction the plane would be flying.  There are two and we could see both of them flying over the San Gabriels about 20 minutes before the flyover(I have a really poor pic of both of them this morning).  Only one lines up for the flyover.  This year the pilot was female for the first time.

  12. 12.

    Ruckus

    January 1, 2020 at 6:27 pm

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:

    The afternoon run flew over my place on their way out of town. Kind of hard to miss that sound.

  13. 13.

    PST

    January 1, 2020 at 6:27 pm

    @Raven:

    It just dawned on me that I probably won’t find collards and black eyed peas in Schaumburg!

    A friend is coming over with those to go with our pork roast and sauerkraut. We figure we need all the good luck traditions we can assemble for 2020. I just wish someone was bringing bacalao.

  14. 14.

    Raven

    January 1, 2020 at 6:29 pm

    @Ruckus: yea, they are stealth until they are on your ass!

  15. 15.

    Raven

    January 1, 2020 at 6:30 pm

    @PST: rotsa ruk!

  16. 16.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    January 1, 2020 at 6:31 pm

    @Ruckus: The morning run flew over my place.

  17. 17.

    Raven

    January 1, 2020 at 6:36 pm

    Here’s what I got at the parade.

     

    https://flic.kr/p/FGiFeo

  18. 18.

    JPL

    January 1, 2020 at 6:36 pm

    @Raven: All you need is greens and beans.   Collards and black eye peas came about because they were plentiful in the south.

  19. 19.

    Raven

    January 1, 2020 at 6:37 pm

    @JPL: I’m in a fricking Hyatt.

  20. 20.

    Tdjr

    January 1, 2020 at 6:47 pm

    Does anyone have a good recipe for collard greens? I love them with a little bacon flavor.

  21. 21.

    WaterGirl

    January 1, 2020 at 6:48 pm

    @Raven: I shouldn’t be laughing, but I am.

  22. 22.

    mad citizen

    January 1, 2020 at 6:49 pm

    @Nicole: Excellent neo-analysis of this Twilight Zone episode, one of the greatest.  I’m pretty sure Rod Serling would approve, based on a recent story I watched on him.    I miss the marathon since ditching cable 3 or so years ago.  I need to re-watch them.  I started watching one on netflix or something one night…

     

    As for the Rose Parade, I missed it and missed having Cord and Tish’s excellent commentaries.

  23. 23.

    MomSense

    January 1, 2020 at 6:52 pm

    @JPL:

    Do pinto beans count?

  24. 24.

    JPL

    January 1, 2020 at 6:55 pm

    @Tdjr: Cook a few slices of bacon and use the grease to cook the greens.   The older the greens the longer it takes to cook them.  If they are young you can add a little vinegar and sugar cover and steam a few minutes.   Older greens take longer but I would still steam them but add water.  Others will chime in but I have never been a fan favorite of cooking greens for hours.

  25. 25.

    JPL

    January 1, 2020 at 6:57 pm

    @MomSense: Yup..   Beans are like coins so a symbol of wealth.

  26. 26.

    MagdaInBlack

    January 1, 2020 at 6:57 pm

    @Raven:

    if you mean the ingredients to make, this should not be a problem. Valley Produce on Roselle Rd.

    if you mean a restaurant that serves…..Maywood. But you know that, Isnt Villa Park hometown?

  27. 27.

    debbie

    January 1, 2020 at 6:58 pm

    @mad citizen:

    Check to see if you can get the broadcast channel named Decades. They’ve been running a Twilight Zone since yesterday.

  28. 28.

    Immanentize

    January 1, 2020 at 6:58 pm

    @Raven: some guy is bitching about taking hats off for the canned Anthem, but it’s all woo hoo and boo yah and Ooh Ahh for fireworks and planes.

    Was that you about the hats?

    God bless America!

  29. 29.

    debbie

    January 1, 2020 at 6:59 pm

    @JPL:

    I ate lentils last night and collards tonight. If this doesn’t bring me luck, nothing will.

  30. 30.

    David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch

    January 1, 2020 at 7:02 pm

    @Nicole: Bravo!  Bravo!

    What great insight to this allegory.

  31. 31.

    Immanentize

    January 1, 2020 at 7:02 pm

    @debbie: try scratch tickets?

  32. 32.

    mad citizen

    January 1, 2020 at 7:03 pm

    @debbie: Thanks for the suggestion–alas, we don’t have that in our area.  My wife is probably thankful–all too often on a Sat. night I get sucked into a Columbo episode (on MEtv).

  33. 33.

    Immanentize

    January 1, 2020 at 7:04 pm

    @Nicole: but that makes Billy Mumy, Donald Trump.  He was a good actor. But no.

  34. 34.

    debbie

    January 1, 2020 at 7:06 pm

    @mad citizen:

    I’m bummed because they moved Heroes & Icons to a station I can’t pick up. It ran an episode from each Star Trek series every week night.

  35. 35.

    japa21

    January 1, 2020 at 7:07 pm

    @Raven:

    The one by Woodfield?

  36. 36.

    JPL

    January 1, 2020 at 7:08 pm

    @debbie: Sorry but there’s a lot of eating to do for real good luck according to google.   Noodles, pomegranate, grapes, fish, etc but there is also cake so that’s good.

  37. 37.

    delk

    January 1, 2020 at 7:09 pm

    @Raven: head East

  38. 38.

    Citizen Alan

    January 1, 2020 at 7:09 pm

    @Tdjr:  Here’s mine: Step 1. Open the can. Step 2: Drain. Step 3: Drop into frying pan. Step 4: Add enough Lousiana hot sauce so that it doesn’t taste like collard greens anymore.

  39. 39.

    debbie

    January 1, 2020 at 7:10 pm

    @Immanentize:

    Too small.

  40. 40.

    MagdaInBlack

    January 1, 2020 at 7:11 pm

    @Raven:

    so scratch the cook from scratch. ?

    (There’s a Harolds Chicken)

  41. 41.

    dexwood

    January 1, 2020 at 7:11 pm

    @MomSense:  They do in New Mexico. Roasted green chile and/or a fantastic red chile paste are ready to go with the porkloin.

  42. 42.

    debbie

    January 1, 2020 at 7:12 pm

    @JPL:

    Maybe that’s what I’ll do next year: Twelve Days of Lucky Foods or whatever. As it is, I’ve got leftovers till next week. :(

  43. 43.

    Immanentize

    January 1, 2020 at 7:12 pm

    So on this New Year’s Day I miss Schlemazel and Scotian, for sure.

    But I also miss Eric (and thinking about his daughter). And even wonder about Teng Phul (sp) and Corner Stone.

    And where is Steve in WTF?

    Others too, I am sure….

  44. 44.

    Jay

    January 1, 2020 at 7:13 pm

    In the past decade I lost my dad, returned to the Bronx, fought off foreclosure w my family, struggled w/ student loans, & worked shifts in restaurants for years.

    At my lowest, I struggled w/ the thought that I’d never amount to anything.

    To those going through it: Keep going. https://t.co/G6QubqH9Ec— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) January 1, 2020

  45. 45.

    Immanentize

    January 1, 2020 at 7:14 pm

    @debbie: Come here!  I’ve got desserts to last past epiphany!

  46. 46.

    Baud

    January 1, 2020 at 7:16 pm

    @Immanentize: I remarked last week about Steve’s absence. His wife has had medical issues. I hope she’s ok

  47. 47.

    Jay

    January 1, 2020 at 7:17 pm

    US State Dept Secretary Pompeo is on Putin’s State TV: “I was the CIA director. We lied, we cheated, we stole”. How patriotic! pic.twitter.com/zIzlajhkTf— Max Howroute▫️ (@howroute) December 31, 2019

  48. 48.

    debbie

    January 1, 2020 at 7:18 pm

    @Tdjr:

    Collards with Bacon and Apple Cider Vinegar is really very good. I can’t find the web page I used to go by (some hippie-type place), but this is the exact same recipe.

  49. 49.

    germy

    January 1, 2020 at 7:19 pm

    Jack Sheldon has died.

  50. 50.

    trollhattan

    January 1, 2020 at 7:19 pm

    David Stern has passed. He’s the reason we still have an NBA team (and cannot be blamed for said team’s relative quality) and is held in high esteem in these parts. R.I.P. Commissioner Stern.

  51. 51.

    trollhattan

    January 1, 2020 at 7:22 pm

    @germy:

    Stuff a bra and get branded a commie. Great country, or greatest country?

  52. 52.

    JPL

    January 1, 2020 at 7:23 pm

    @Immanentize: Me too.

  53. 53.

    trollhattan

    January 1, 2020 at 7:25 pm

    @Citizen Alan:

    A beer and smokehouse joint in town makes greens that I love, but they have so much shredded pork and (I presume) pork fat in them I can’t honestly claim they represent a vegetable by the time I eat them. Guessing they are cooked many hours. I do wish kale could be similarly transformed.

  54. 54.

    germy

    January 1, 2020 at 7:26 pm

    @trollhattan:

    “She had problems because she signed petitions in the ’40s and ’30s. She was brought before a committee, but I think that she was like a Stevenson Democrat. She loved Stevenson and suffered through Eisenhower,” Oppenheim says. “Her politics were sort of ‘humane and humanitarian,’ not extreme, and definitely in a liberal vein. The socialist thing was her father, that world. She came out of the socialist world and she came out of the Roosevelt ’30s.”

    https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/gay-south-florida/article139669203.html

  55. 55.

    trollhattan

    January 1, 2020 at 7:29 pm

    @germy:

    We’re one McCarthy away from resurrecting HUAC investigations. Gym Jordan or Matt Gaetz are my top choices for New Joe.

  56. 56.

    germy

    January 1, 2020 at 7:33 pm

    @trollhattan:

    “Meet the New Joe, same as the old one.

  57. 57.

    trollhattan

    January 1, 2020 at 7:33 pm

    @Jay:

    Jayzuz, what was his door prize? Somebody named Olga? STFU Pompeo, you traitor.

    Kiddo and I got a kick out of watching a pair of central casting Russian Mafia types poring over their black Mercedes S-class sedan today, and poking at something in the trunk. Checking for a pulse? If only I could have translated….

  58. 58.

    Immanentize

    January 1, 2020 at 7:33 pm

    @trollhattan: neither are war heroes or drunks enough to fill Tail Gunner Joe’s shoes.

  59. 59.

    mad citizen

    January 1, 2020 at 7:33 pm

    @germy: I watched quite a bit of Merv Griffin in my youth/formative years in the 1970s.  I remember Jack Sheldon.  If I recall correctly, they were quick to make band/pot/drug jokes, same as Carson sometimes did with Doc.

    Coincidentally I just looked at a School House Rock DVD sitting on my desk I picked up at a library sale recently.  “I’m Just a Bill”

    Seem to remember a Colbert show parody of that one

    Via the wonderful WFMU blog, 2010 entry, a link to an album about the history of jazz from Jack Sheldon: https://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2010/03/oooo-but-its-good-the-jack-sheldon-comedy-lp.html

  60. 60.

    germy

    January 1, 2020 at 7:35 pm

    @mad citizen:  Yes, I remember him on the old Merv show as well.  He was weird and funny.

    Back in the ’70s I read the Albert Goldman book on Lenny Bruce, and apparently Jack was friends with Lenny and Honey.  Lenny blamed Jack for getting Honey back on heroin after she’d successfully kicked it.

  61. 61.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    January 1, 2020 at 7:37 pm

    @trollhattan: My vote is for Gaetz, he’s a drunk just like ol’ Joe.

  62. 62.

    Nicole

    January 1, 2020 at 7:39 pm

    @mad citizen:

    I’m pretty sure Rod Serling would approve, based on a recent story I watched on him.

    I think you’re right; he was pretty progressive for his era, and it certainly showed in the stories,  Maybe not in terms of what women got to do on the show (lotta passive characters), but a lot of the themes are still timely.

    Slate had a piece on how one of the episodes, “Long Live Walter Jameson” holds up pretty well in the #metoo era, and I was curious (and missing my dad today, who adored the show) so it started off the mini-marathon (my husband, bless him, owns the entire series on DVD so we could skip around).  And it does hold up well- also, Kevin McCarthy is fantastic in it.  I really only ever knew him from the original Invasion of the Body Snatchers (another of my dad’s favorites) and it was great fun to see him playing the gaslighter this time around.

  63. 63.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    January 1, 2020 at 7:40 pm

    @Immanentize: Matt Gaetz says hold my beer.  That’s a lie, he won’t let anyone hold his beer.

  64. 64.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    January 1, 2020 at 7:44 pm

    @germy: Merv’s headstone says: “I will NOT be right back after this message.

  65. 65.

    Jay

    January 1, 2020 at 7:44 pm

    Lmao in 2020 we’re bringing back indentured servitude!! https://t.co/gNVRRZbbkx— Will?‍♂️Menaker (@willmenaker) December 31, 2019

  66. 66.

    germy

    January 1, 2020 at 7:45 pm

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:  I thought you were joking at first but… it does!

  67. 67.

    Mike in NC

    January 1, 2020 at 7:46 pm

    @Jay: Putin has many Useful Idiots in the Trump Administration. “Collect the entire set”.

  68. 68.

    Jay

    January 1, 2020 at 7:46 pm

    Beginning of End ofthe decade the decade pic.twitter.com/UMnm6hyA7P— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) December 31, 2019

  69. 69.

    Nicole

    January 1, 2020 at 7:46 pm

    @Immanentize:

    but that makes Billy Mumy, Donald Trump.  He was a good actor. But no.

    Little Anthony hates dogs, takes children away from their parents, and turns adults, who should know better, into sniveling sycophants who praise his every cruel move.  And you don’t think it’s a fit?

    I agree Billy Mumy was wonderful playing him.  What a gifted actor he was (still is), and at such a young age.  We sat our 9-year-old down to watch the episode with us and he loved it.  I was today years old when I learned Mumy was the original first choice to play Eddie Munster!

  70. 70.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    January 1, 2020 at 7:47 pm

    @germy: I’ve been to his grave site, Rodney Dangerfield’s is right by Merv’s, his headstone says: “There Goes the Neighborhood”.

  71. 71.

    mad citizen

    January 1, 2020 at 7:48 pm

    OK, the parody “I’m Just a Bill” was a Stewart Daily Show thing, 23 seconds long.  Interesting web articles comparing Jack Sheldon and Chet Baker.  I had no idea Jack Sheldon was such a great jazzman, I haven’t listened to many of the L.A. artists.

  72. 72.

    WaterGirl

    January 1, 2020 at 7:49 pm

    @Immanentize: I was wondering about CornerStone when I was pulling together the info on General Stuck.  Man, could those two get into it.

    There was no GBCW with CornerStone, it’s like he faded away.

  73. 73.

    Jay

    January 1, 2020 at 7:49 pm

    @trollhattan:

    @Mike in NC:

    it’s a natural progression down the path once the CIA embraced torture, to torturer in charge of CIA to Russian asset in charge of the CIA.

  74. 74.

    Jay

    January 1, 2020 at 7:51 pm

    I love to get lectures on the importance of democracy from the dude that invalidated most of the Voting Rights Act https://t.co/jik8D8TliK— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) January 1, 2020

  75. 75.

    Immanentize

    January 1, 2020 at 7:56 pm

    @WaterGirl:
    He was not always a nice person. But who is? Struck me as one with his own off line demons. Still, he could make with the banter when not fuming….

  76. 76.

    Dan B

    January 1, 2020 at 8:03 pm

    @trollhattan:   Pompeo has established a Natural Law Council (commission?).  The members are extreme anti-LGBT and anti-abortion.  That and pulling out of the UN’s Declaration on Human Rights would make HUAC 2.0 unnecessary, except for show.

  77. 77.

    Immanentize

    January 1, 2020 at 8:05 pm

    I also think that 2019 was remarkable for the following, which I nominate as greatestt comment contributions:
    “BLECH!” — Ozark Hillbilly
    “what’s your problem, got crabs?” — Raven
    “Just stop! It’s ‘Ukraine,’ no ‘the!'” — Gin&Tonic
    “The New York Times is garbage.” — Baud
    “Low quality hires…” — Kay.
    “It’s virtually literally.” — Stevein….

  78. 78.

    Omnes Omnibus

    January 1, 2020 at 8:07 pm

    @Dan B: HUAC and its Senate counterpart were official legislative committees.  Pompeo’s thing is not.  That makes a difference.

  79. 79.

    WaterGirl

    January 1, 2020 at 8:11 pm

    @Immanentize: Laughing.  I missed Raven’s!

  80. 80.

    Gin & Tonic

    January 1, 2020 at 8:12 pm

    @Immanentize: I could be wrong, but I don’t think I said it in those words.

    Barely related, but I’m seeing that Pompeo has postponed his planned trip to Ukraine. Now that he’s already ruined people’s New Year’s-Christmas vacation, he pulls out, and everyone who was to support that meeting is stuck in Kyiv.

  81. 81.

    WaterGirl

    January 1, 2020 at 8:13 pm

    @Immanentize: Yeah, definitely more confrontational than I would be personally comfortable with, but I did hate to see him go.

  82. 82.

    Gin & Tonic

    January 1, 2020 at 8:14 pm

    @Immanentize: Totally OT, but The Economist has a long piece about a guy you might know from a previous life, Richard Reyna

    ETA: Sorry, appears it may be paywalled on-line. I’m a dead-tree-format subscriber.

  83. 83.

    Immanentize

    January 1, 2020 at 8:28 pm

    @Gin & Tonic: I do know him.  Gonna read the whole article … Tomorrow.

    (and sometimes the gestalt of a thing is more true than the fact.)

  84. 84.

    Mo MacArbie

    January 1, 2020 at 8:29 pm

    I seem to recall CornerStone returning for the span of one college football season after a previous absence. I guess that scene has dried up here. Hell, I remember NASCAR posts here. Not my idea of entertainment, but there I was, lurking liveblogged races. Don’t why I got so sucked in. Y’all are like my Real Housewives of Blogistan, or something.

  85. 85.

    Immanentize

    January 1, 2020 at 8:35 pm

    @Mo MacArbie:

    Real Housewives of Blogistan,

    Ha! But I don’t do tight sweaters….

  86. 86.

    Omnes Omnibus

    January 1, 2020 at 8:39 pm

    @Immanentize: Baud does.

  87. 87.

    WaterGirl

    January 1, 2020 at 8:45 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: Is this “do” as in wear, like, or “do”?

  88. 88.

    Omnes Omnibus

    January 1, 2020 at 8:47 pm

    @WaterGirl: Some questions are better unasked and, if asked, unanswered.

  89. 89.

    WaterGirl

    January 1, 2020 at 8:52 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: Discretion is the better part of valor?

    I am not a fan of Christmas or other holidays on Wednesdays.  Earlier today I thought it was Tuesday, and moved my car so I could take my garbage and recycling down to the street. Then I realized it was Thursday and they pick up my stuff on Wednesday, so I said “oh, well” and moved the car back.

    As I made the comment about Wednesdays I looked at the calendar on my laptop and realized this is Wednesday, not Thursday, but garbage pickup is always a day late after a holiday, so I can put my garbage out after all.

    Why does everything seem so complicated when you are a bit under the weather?

  90. 90.

    Aleta

    January 1, 2020 at 8:57 pm

    @Immanentize:   Finding nominations by Siubhan Duinne is like feeding fish in a barrel:

    WHOA HOLY FUCK IF TRUE!  —SiubhanDuinne

    LO to the fuckin’ L!   —-SiubhanDuinne

    Coup d’état, d’état,

    Whatever will be, will be,

    With Times anonymity,

    Coup d’état, d’état.

    —-SiubhanDuinne

    Chris Cillizza can GFH and then FOAD and the GFH again and then DIAF and then GFH one more time.  —SiubhanDuinne

    Attention all rats: please don your life jackets. — danielx

    If you brought along Siubhan Duinne in her Mob Enforcer aspect, at least the blood wouldn’t be yours. — SFAW

    Moving to Fox & Fiends in order to exert more influence  —NotMax   (out of context)

  91. 91.

    WaterGirl

    January 1, 2020 at 8:59 pm

    @Aleta:  We should have had nominations for best comments of the year, like we used to have.

  92. 92.

    Jay

    January 1, 2020 at 8:59 pm

    If you are a Google employee and want to share your thoughts about Google's 5K contribution to Devin Nunes you can contact me securely at [email protected]. My DMs are also open. https://t.co/HjMYFla6MI— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) December 30, 2019

    2. My guess is very fewAnd this is part of a much larger problemA new Harvard study found employees are almost completely unaware of their company's political activityAnd this activity is often at odds to the company's stated valueshttps://t.co/HjMYFla6MI— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) December 30, 2019

  93. 93.

    Laura Too

    January 1, 2020 at 9:15 pm

    @WaterGirl: Still feeling crummy? Hoping you are well soon. You still are so quick & funny even sick.

  94. 94.

    WaterGirl

    January 1, 2020 at 9:17 pm

    @Laura Too: Not downright sick anymore, but definitely puny and low energy. I’ve been getting up around 9 – really late for me – then ready for a nap at 11. :-)

    One more day of antibiotics left!

  95. 95.

    Laura Too

    January 1, 2020 at 9:19 pm

    @WaterGirl: Ug, yeah I picked up a bug on a plane and was out of it for over a week, still have the cough. Winter doesn’t help.

  96. 96.

    Tdjr

    January 1, 2020 at 9:44 pm

    @JPL:  Thank you!

  97. 97.

    Tdjr

    January 1, 2020 at 9:48 pm

    @debbie:  This sounds perfect! The first time I had greens was in a restaurant on Amsterdam in NYC which I’m sure Is defunct. They were crisp and not too moist and had that bacony flavor! I will try this.

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