Just in time for Dr. Seuss’ birthday. Gabe takes advantage of a hat that has escaped the donation pile:
Been an insteresting day.
Respite open thread.
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Just in time for Dr. Seuss’ birthday. Gabe takes advantage of a hat that has escaped the donation pile:
Been an insteresting day.
Respite open thread.
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C Stars
Our kids are pretending to be just about ready to board a flight to Slovakia. They disappeared for about 20 minutes while my spouse and I washed dishes and then one of them popped back in the kitchen to have some chocolate raisins and let us know that their flight had actually been delayed. Then they popped back up about 15 minutes later to have some more chocolate raisins and mentioned that their group hadn’t been called yet. It was cute.
Elizabelle
I just love Gabe’s calm little face.
He needs a scarf too.
TaMara (HFG)
@C Stars: OMG, that’s adorable.
eclare
Your pets have been quite fashionable lately, first scarves, now a hat!
BruceFromOhio
Hiding under a rock with The Pretty Reckless blasting in my ears has worked well these last few days. These last few weeks, actually. Okay, since 2016.
But still. Working well.
lamh36
No pets, but since it’s a respite thread I’ll talk about my respite activity…watching tv
So I made the mistake of putting on that show Fleabag on Amazon Prime to watch in the background while I tried to study for a class. Ya’ll, I binged both seasons of that show! I have NEVER been more invested in Catholic priest falling in love since the Thornbirds!!!!
I mean…yeah, I’m hooked
HumboldtBlue
Here’s a beautiful dog and a funny gif.
TaMara (HFG)
@lamh36: My new obsession is Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist
And I loved Fleabag.
Gravenstone
Hopefully Gabe is a good boy. Just got done doing an emergency load of laundry after discovering one of my monsters did something foul on a pile of (formerly) clean clothes – including my work t-shirts. It’s fortunate that they’re so cute.
opiejeanne
Gabe has such a great face.
BruceFromOhio
Of course you’ve seen it! It is respite, no?
Nicole
My 9-year-old was expressing quite a bit of anxiety about Covid-19 this weekend. I showed him The Daily Show with Trevor Noah‘s piece about it, “Is This How We Die?” and, fortunately, seeing it presented with humor took away his fears. I was really pleased with myself, until I remembered that one of the things about being 9 years old is that you like to watch the same things over and over again and now I’ve had to sit through “Is This How We Die?” 5 times in 48 hours. Though, I guess it beats those effing videos of guys loudly speculating theories about Fortnite, which he also likes to watch over and over again. At least Trevor Noah is both funny and cute.
Ken
Clearly I need to pay more attention. What’s the backstory here?
O. Felix Culpa
Pedant here. It’s S-E-U-S-S.
Also, cute kitty is cute.
TaMara (HFG)
@Elizabelle:
@opiejeanne:
I always feel like he looks into my soul and declares…you are not worthy.
So much judgment. LOL
Steeplejack
@lamh36:
Hey, can you give me a quick recap of the new job? I missed it when you first announced it.
TaMara (HFG)
@O. Felix Culpa: Fix’d. My bad for being lazy and expecting spellcheck to do the heavy lifting
BruceFromOhio
@TaMara (HFG): It could also be, when are you going to empty the litter box?
Amir Khalid
Going over a Phrygian-mode scale diagram in my notes today, I found errors that had been screwing up my attempt to learn the scale. Fixed.
I’ve been listening to Springsteen’s cover of Dylan’s Chimes of Freedom. I don’t know why, but it moves me to tears.
lamh36
@lamh36:
Anyone else remember the Thorn Birds!
I was OBSESSED when i was a young girl. I saw it again a couple of years ago and I was STILL all in like when I was a girl.
I’m def gonna have to live-tweet that one if I can ever find it on streaming!
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/6781f94ba47e8eb018c7ec4ad5ef45be7149651524fd8b27438eca0e144615cc.gif
Amir Khalid
Gabe has more gravitas in his expression than many humans.
Redshift
I met a cute cat while canvassing this evening. She was pretty timid, though; didn’t run away, but wouldn’t get quite close enough to sniff my hand.
Her person appreciated that I had kept her from getting out, but actually the storm door wasn’t closed when I got there (open about a foot wide), and she didn’t seem included to go out.
I also saw through a window a very waggy dog (pit bull mix, I’d guess). I didn’t get to meet him, though, because his person told him to lie down before opening the door, and he was very well trained.
schrodingers_cat
Gabe is not impressed. I made my first Twitter poll. Don’t forget to vote.
Nicole
@lamh36: Big props for the Thornbirds reference. And 10/10 would follow your live tweet of it.
I never saw it (I was too young; my mom wouldn’t let me. She also wouldn’t let me watch Roots or Shogun or ANY of the great 1970s miniseries). I read the book, though.
O. Felix Culpa
@TaMara (HFG): Ah, my work here is done. :)
Gravenstone
And to add to the evening’s excitement, the little one just let out an unearthly noise. I found him in full alarm posture up against the back window. Guessing he saw one of the neighborhood ferals that like to wander around.
zhena gogolia
@lamh36:
I certainly remember it, and that priest had Barbara Stanwyck lusting for him, so I think that beats Fleabag!!!!!
Gravenstone
@Nicole: The 70s miniseries were often such guilty pleasures. I was actually reminding myself this morning about a few of them.
Steeplejack
@lamh36:
There was a group salivating over Rachel Ward in the noir thread yesterday.
Adam L Silverman
@C Stars: You’re gonna be really surprised when they’re not in the house tomorrow morning and you get a post card from Bratislava next week.
lamh36
@Steeplejack: No new job yet actually. I been applying for thigs as much as possible, but so far no bites.
Just finishing up this grad degree this semester
John Revolta
“Hat? What hat? You must mean my pillow, which is mine.”
Gravenstone
@Steeplejack: I did not partake of the thread in question, but she definitely had my attention back in the day…
HumboldtBlue
Yesterday I spent 45 minutes on a text thread with four nieces and nephews who are aghast their mother and her husband have decided to go through with their six-week travel trip to Morocco and Spain.
Comfort food is called for. De Mir Rancho a Tu Cocina: Carnitas de Puerco Enchilada
lamh36
@Nicole: I was like 7 when the original came out. But when I was younger, I may have told this story before, my family didn’t have cable or tv in each room, but we did have a VCR and so I used to check out movies and stuff from my local library alot. So by the time I was a teenager, I was obsesses with trashy romance novels already, and so I’m sure that’s how I got hip to the Thorn birds miniseries.
And like I said, I was OBSESSES as a teen…LOL
BC in Illinois
@C Stars:
I like the parts about flights being delayed and groups not being called up yet. Kids’ imaginations can have a great attention to detail.
I was once in a room down the hall from a group of kids playing “school.” A lot of it was standard “stay in your seat,” “raise your hand,” “who knows the answer to . . .” — that kind of stuff. But they also wrote kids’ names on the board (for acting up) and sent other kids to the counselor’s office. Details.
Another Scott
@schrodingers_cat: Can’t vote, but you could push button #4 for me. ;-)
Cheers,
Scott.
Mary G
Poe Larity
Since it will be an open convention, who do we really want?
Imagine someone younger than Chris Matthews.
Steeplejack (phone)
@lamh36:
Huh, my bad. I coulda sworn . . .
Steeplejack (phone)
@Another Scott:
Button #4 here, too (and also not on Twitter).
Nicole
@lamh36: Ha! That’s great. I also was a trashy romance reader by my teen years, although I have to blame my grandmother for that one. She read lots of romance novels, and when I was about 11 or 12, gave me two she’d read, telling me they both had strong women characters and there wasn’t “too much sex” in them. Judging from some of the ones I read later, she was correct, there wasn’t, but for a kid who’d never read a romance novel before- WHHHOOOOOWEEEEEEEE!
I found the one, This Cherished Dream, in a drawer at my parents’ house a few years back, and reread it for the lulz. It… held up better than one would expect an early 1980s romance novel to. Grandma clearly chose it with care when she gave it to me. ;)
Lyrebird
@HumboldtBlue: Thank you for linking to that channel before; she is awesome and so at home in her home-style kitchen. Cheered me up to watch a couple of her videos even if I haven’t tried the recipes.
@Nicole: …and thanks to you for the Trevor Noah recommendation, my eldest might need and relate to that. I just today watched his interview (Trevor Noah’s that is) with his grandmother, which is really sweet and also really real (about growing up under apartheid etc).
BTW I know this is the non-politics thread, I just wanna say that I peeked at some clips of the Dallas rally, and even if my fave candidates weren’t there, it was SO NICE, definite respite, to see folks lifting each other up and lifting up the local races into the limelight. Also, Beto’s little girl dancing around was for me almost as cute as one of the Twitter-famous otters.
geg6
Sorry to go OT on the respite but Brian Williams just said Obama is saying privately that the signal is going out that Joe is the guy. Shit is getting real.
MisterForkbeard
@geg6: That’s interesting. I wonder what that actually means – just people giving endorsements?
dmsilev
One of these turtles is not like the others.
Nicole
@Lyrebird: It really is a funny segment. And Trevor Noah does a frighteningly good and hilarious impersonation of Trump. Much better than Alec Baldwin’s.
Yutsano
@schrodingers_cat: U haz retweet and vote. :)
hilts
h/t https://www.businessinsider.com/bloomberg-news-al-hunt-accused-unsolicited-massages-verbally-berating-employees-2020-3?op=1
TaMara (HFG)
@schrodingers_cat: #4 for me, too.
Brachiator
@lamh36:
Glad to hear that you enjoyed it. I am anticipating the new James Bond film even more than I normally would because I’ve read that Phoebe Walter-Bridge contributed to the screenplay.
I think I watched Season 1 over a number of days. But I zoomed through Season 2.
TaMara (HFG)
@geg6: Was hearing that earlier, too. Tomorrow is going to be interesting. See if Joe-mentum holds up.
We’ll probably need another duck-in-a-scarf relief thread tomorrow.
Martin
@Nicole: My daughter was also worried and she’s 19. She’s taking Intro Stats this quarter, so we dug into the math. So, there’s a decent chance she’ll catch it, and an incredibly small chance she’ll die from it. Far more likely to be killed driving to stats class. Even her parents don’t need to worry about much. Her grandparents, however, we need to take good care of them.
I said the changes we need to make to get this under control will affect her much more. Just today we put the first concrete steps in place (finally) in anticipation of a campus closure in 2 weeks or later. Don’t know if it’ll come but we’ll be slightly better prepared for it.
But this is a good moment for people to pay attention to – the selfish assholes are going to glow in a way they never have before. It’s been not even one day and I already have a few colleagues that I want to deliberately infect.
burnspbesq
I got out of February only having acquired two new guitars, a Guild D-40E and a Fender Acoustisonic Telecaster.
There may be a “real” Tele in my future, the new variation with a humbucking pickup in the neck position (the Robbie Robertson variation). Or not.
Martin
@TaMara (HFG): I’m sorry. I am normally incredibly dismissive of thread topics but I do try and respect the respite ones. People shouldn’t marinade in shit 24/7.
chris
We had a holiday Monday a couple of weeks ago and I was visiting in Halifax and spotted these guys patiently waiting for their human who just had to stop by the office. So cute and completely unfazed by the stranger pointing a phone at them.
Lyrebird
@TaMara (HFG):
Thanks for putting up the respite threads!
Do your ducks ever try to hop on your giant doggies?
The scarves are beautiful, the ducks are beautiful , and so are your Bixby and Scout photos (hope I got names right).
TaMara (HFG)
@Martin: I do not envy all you parents who have to reassure your kids. Parenthood is not for the squeamish.
Hard enough reassuring my parents…
TaMara (HFG)
@Martin: My comment was not directed at you. And I’ve deleted it, because it was unnecessary. Sometimes, I’m just tired and cranky.
C Stars
Yeah, I know those videos. Although my kiddos tend more toward the “Minecraft Prank” genre. I don’t really understand what any of it means, but shouting guy in the corner with a headset seems to be a common theme.
I might check out the Trevor Noah clip. So far our 6 and 9 year old don’t seem too worried, for whatever reason. They joke about it whenever one of us sneezes.
Yutsano
You want respite? I’ll give you respite!
Kent
Speaking of parenthood. It doesn’t end when they leave the home
I just found out that my wife was worried about the oldest daughter, senior in college, so she ordered on of these on amazon and sent it to her to keep in her purse: https://www.amazon.com/BACtrack-Breathalyzer-Professional-Grade-Accuracy-Professional/dp/B0026IBZSK/
Apparently the kid actually uses it when out with friends before getting behind the wheel. Good for her. I didn’t even know but my wife talks to her more than I do.
Martin
@MisterForkbeard: I think Obama threatened to endorse Biden and told everyone to get on board because they wouldn’t want to be on the outside of that decision. If they dropped out and endorsed Biden, he’d stay out of things for now and they’d stay in good standing with the next Dem administration.
I don’t think he was intent on cutting everyone off, just those candidates out of cash needed to get out and endorse before tomorrow so Biden could get some momentum. I’m guessing Obama saw the potential for Bernie to be the candidate, and since Bernie already rejected Bloombergs money (and Bloomberg took it off the table for Bernie as a result), that’s a real problem for Dems.
Notably, Warren is now viable in CA per the polls. She wasn’t a week ago. She’s going to have to pick up a solid bit of Pete and Amy votes to get over 15% in a number of other states though. She’s in the 12% range in a lot of places, so maybe. If she doesn’t get there in TX and NC, or win some other states then I think she’s gotta drop after tomorrow. And she’ll immediately endorse Biden.
I wouldn’t worry about a contested convention with how things look now. If it’s Biden/Bernie tied up around 40%, all of the other delegates will get pledged to Biden, and the superdelegates will honor that.
Brachiator
@Steeplejack:
Well, she was lovely in the mini-series and in films like “Against All Odds.” And many women salivated over Richard Chamberlain in “The Thorn Birds” back in the day.
A visit to the Wayback Machine circa 2013 reveals just how great an impact the mini-series had on pop culture.
Amir Khalid
@burnspbesq:
When it comes to Teles — and Strats — I must confess I’m a single-coil purist. Speaking of Teles, I just this minute broke the high E string on Queen with a particularly hard strum while practising chord changes.
C Stars
@Adam L Silverman: I mean, I would definitely be surprised. But with these kids….maybe not 100% surprised. They were being cute tonight but can definitely get up to some big trouble. Maybe not transatlantic flight trouble, but certainly hacking into mom’s Amazon account trouble.
@BC in Illinois: It’s amazing, isn’t it? Things we barely hear or think about resonate and mean something interesting to them.
C Stars
@Kent: Sounds like a good kid.
Kent
@C Stars: She’s gotten through 4 years of college without getting pregnant, into drugs, or dropping out so that’s something! At age 17 we weren’t quite so sure about any of that.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@geg6: which is all the Berners need to go full-on Let It All Bern!
Lyrebird
I find Zebra Gamer the least annoying of the corner dudes we’ve followed thus far, but he doesn’t cover as many pranks. Just all of the games we’re not buying but think it’s okay for little ones to watch. They’re so deprived (j/k).
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@lamh36: Olivia Coleman is so low-key, every-day evil in that show that I’m going to catch up on The Queen just so I can watch her play Betty. I hope that’s the same season where Bellatrix Lestrange plays Princess Margaret
My very Catholic grandmothers were furious that the network aired The Thornbirds during Holy Week. They weren’t alone
Brachiator
Something for the cooks. The world’s best and easy to prepare pasta sauce:
Enjoy.
Jackie
@Yutsano: I just forwarded to my daughter. Her favorite movie – and, yes, a great respite. Thank you!?
HumboldtBlue
@Brachiator:
As a victim of garlic-bomber-Harris-types (I get garlic but sweet mother of allium sativum back the hell up with the 12 cloves an’ shit) butter, tomatoes and onion go well on a pasta.
smike
@Brachiator: I’ve got to see what the result is. Simple enough to find out.
After finding most retail options underwhelming, I decided to do my own pasta sauce and meatballs from the ground up. I grow rosemary, thyme, basil, and oregano in the yard and use that with canned tomatoes, store bought onion and garlic, etc. I flavor meatballs with the a lot of the same ingredients. It works for me.
Anyway (as Uncle Joe would say), my time is – ummm – well, I’ll try it.
noname
@Brachiator: Throw out the onion??? NO. Mash up as much as you want into the sauce or eat it on buttered crusty bread!