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  1. 1.

    Raven

    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!

  3. 3.

    debbie

    @Raven:

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

  5. 5.

    Nicole

    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

    @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

    @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

    ‘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

  11. 11.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    @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.

  13. 13.

    PST

    @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.

  18. 18.

    JPL

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

  22. 22.

    mad citizen

    @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.

  24. 24.

    JPL

    @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.

  26. 26.

    MagdaInBlack

    @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?

  28. 28.

    Immanentize

    @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!

  32. 32.

    mad citizen

    @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).

  34. 34.

    debbie

    @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.

  36. 36.

    JPL

    @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.

  38. 38.

    Citizen Alan

    @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.

  42. 42.

    debbie

    @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

    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

    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

  50. 50.

    trollhattan

    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.

  53. 53.

    trollhattan

    @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

    @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

    @germy:

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

  57. 57.

    trollhattan

    @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….

  59. 59.

    mad citizen

    @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

    @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.

  62. 62.

    Nicole

    @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.

  69. 69.

    Nicole

    @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!

  71. 71.

    mad citizen

    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

    @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.

  75. 75.

    Immanentize

    @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

    @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

    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

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

  80. 80.

    Gin & Tonic

    @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.

  82. 82.

    Gin & Tonic

    @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.

  84. 84.

    Mo MacArbie

    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.

  89. 89.

    WaterGirl

    @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

    @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)

  92. 92.

    Jay

    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

  94. 94.

    WaterGirl

    @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!

  97. 97.

    Tdjr

    @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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