Samwise thinks it’s time for a fresh open thread.
We’re watching Kim’s Convenience. How about you all?
Also, I like this ‘diptych’ I ‘made’ of the United Nations headquarters.
Been enjoying going south instead of north on my walks lately pic.twitter.com/Fz0jHx4AUE
— ☕️ Tynan ? (@TynanPants) February 6, 2021
Talk amongst yourselves.
frosty
I’m drinking wine and making plans on what to see in the Everglades this week.
WHOA! Frist! I guess that’s a thing we’re doing now. But I seem to have missed cain’s coveted #2 slot. ?
mrmoshpotato
Late night nachos? Oh yes!
Time for more Animaniacs 2020.
ETA – #blah don’t care.
TEL
Samwise doing his best “legless kitty” pose!
Major Major Major Major
@frosty: oh fun! I’ve never been to the Everglades, I don’t know the first thing.
And er, second! Are we doing second?
ETA: dang, just missed it! Although I could just edit this comment’s timestamp ?
Major Major Major Major
@TEL: eh, he can do better.
NotMax
Turtle Bay!
mrmoshpotato
@TEL: Cat Loaf! ?
Mary G
mrmoshpotato
@Major Major Major Major: Samwise the Slacking Cat Loaf
Chetan Murthy
@Mary G: That boy is a walkin’ Dad joke!
frosty
@Major Major Major Major: I was at the Everglades last when I was Jr High age. This is the first time when I can appreciate what I’m seeing.
After retirement, time isn’t too limited but miles of walking is, after accumulated years. So it’s drives, pulloffs, overlooks, nature trails, short trails. And figuring out if we want to do an 80 mile round trip for an hour or two at Shark Valley (answer is no).
MagdaInBlack
I found a vintage music channel on youtube, so its currently Benny Goodman and Duke Ellington as I turn leftover pork roast into something to go over rice. Gordita is sacked out next to me on the couch
Eta: 5 degrees with windchill – 19 in Arlington Heights, IL oh boy
Current song is ” When I Get Low, I Get High” so yeah.
Major Major Major Major
@mrmoshpotato: love it.
catclub
@NotMax:
Shouldn’t Turtle bay be in the Everglades?
NotMax
@catclub
Gator Bay. Downstream from Progress Pond.
:)
The Oracle of Solace
The Barbarian and I are just tearing through season four of Big Mouth. Later on we’ll get into The Queen’s Gambit and Dispatches From Elsewhere.
NotMax
Was in the Everglades in maybe ’59 or ’60. All I remember is that those airboats are LOUD.
Major Major Major Major
@catclub: We have plenty of turtles here! However, Turtle Bay is named after a corruption of deutal, the Dutch word for ‘knife’. The bay that used to be here was shaped like some sort of knife, before they filled it in.
Comrade Colette
@TEL: @Major Major Major Major:
I think of it as the “frigate” pose. Scoot is a champion, in no small part because he’s plump enough for the fat and fur to roll down like waters and hide all traces of the feline underparts.
mrmoshpotato
@MagdaInBlack: 9 feels like -6 on Chicago’s north side.
Also, vintage music?
“I Like Bananas Because They have No Bones” (George Elrick, 1936)
Major Major Major Major
@Comrade Colette: catloaf, we call it.
NotMax
@mrmoshpotato
Vintage?
“When Movies Talk”
“The Flies Crawled Up the Window”
“The Strip Polka“
MagdaInBlack
@mrmoshpotato: ? At the weather and ? at the music ?
Steeplejack (phone)
B. Kliban: “Cat vs. Meat Loaf.”
oclib
My first thought on seeing Samwise with the collar was Pyewacket in Bell, Book and Candle. Different types of cats, but had that look.
sab
@frosty: Amber Share’s subpar parks Everglades poster: “miles and miles of nothing”
I wish I knew how to link.
MagdaInBlack
@NotMax: Weirdness about this “vintage music ” I’m listening to is how it all seems so familiar, yet I know my parents never listened to it at home and I’ve never been a fan. Maybe from watching old movies? It’s a weird deja vu kinda thing.
Chetan Murthy
@MagdaInBlack: I was listening to a bunch of jazz standards today (came up in random rotation) and it was surprising how many of them have bits taken and made into new songs. I mean, The Manhattan Transfer does that with entire songs, but even besides that, artists take phrase, or bits, from these old songs and make new songs out of them. They’re the background music of our lives.
Steeplejack (phone)
@sab:
Everglades.
NotMax
@MagdaInBlack
Not exactly vintage, maybe (1958), but rousing.
sab
@Steeplejack (phone): Thank you.
prostratedragon
Vintage Jerome Kern:
Repatriated
@sab: I’d forgotten about that series. Thanks for the reminder, and the laughs.
https://subparparks.com/
MagdaInBlack
@NotMax: The year I was born, so a fine “vintage” =-)
frosty
@sab: Those posters are great.
NotMax
@MagdaInBlack
Oops. Fixed linky.
Attention somewhat split with a Zoom RPG game underway on the other monitor.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@frosty: At Joshua Tree, “all you do is walk around the desert”.
CaseyL
So I go on Twitter to see what’s new, and there’s a whole thread devoted to an SNL skit about “Sex is good. Zillow is better” showing people swooning over house browsing on Zillow. Evidently this is a huge thing now: people using Zillow to look at houses all over the country.
I feel seen.
mrmoshpotato
@CaseyL:
For fun? Bored? Browsing? Casing?
NotMax
@CaseyL
10 bedrooms, 19 bathrooms. In … Montana?
TomatoQueen
I haven’t been in the Everglades since 1983, but I do follow several nature groups concerned with the area. The thing to do was drive across the swamp at midnight from Fort Lauderdale to Naples, stopping at the one roadside wide place to get out and look at all the fucking stars. Then near the end of the road (state road 84) there’s a curve so remember to wake up just before. Go to the motel in Naples for the night, next day go to the little zoo that had a lovely panther and two big llamas, then down to the Naples pier to fish and not catch nuthin’, then drive back. Along the way you would see a lot of sawgrass, slash pine, white egrets, and turkey vultures. You could if you wanted turn off at the four corners marked Immokalee. “Harvest of Shame” was filmed here, and things are not much different. Those odd mechanical looking things every so often are the attempts by the South Florida Management District (may they be fired into the Sun) to regulate the river of grass. Things that I hear are different are the ecological balance, as the gators recover and the panthers show signs of coming back too, but the racoons are a question and so are the snakes. Because Florida is populated by Floriduh men, non-native pythons of implausible size now abound and are doing serious damage, thanks assholes. I get a little het up about my swampy place & then remember I left it in 1991.
Am still awake because of my asshole downstairs neighbor, fourth Saturday night in a row of noise from his music machine from 8 pm and it’s now 2 am and it’s still going on. I am an old lady who can’t use stairs, so am very very close to calling upon Alexandria’s Finest. A first complaint to the property management office got no response.
NotMax
@CaseyL
If seasickness not a problem….
;)
Phylllis
@NotMax: Well that ended up being a deep dive into ‘what white nonsense is this?’.
Major Major Major Major
@mrmoshpotato: it’s the closest most millennials can get to owning a home.
mrmoshpotato
@NotMax: 10 bedrooms, 19? bathrooms, a moat?, but no sex dungeon? Weirdos.
CaseyL
@mrmoshpotato: Well, I do actually look at houses; and I look all over the country because after I retire I may move, possibly to a different part of the country. But I also like looking at oddball properties, and Twitter helps there, too. “The Best of Zillow” showcases the most ridiculously expensive, huge, tasteless homes for all from coast to coast.
@NotMax: Much worse than that. How about this vulva-fronted thing in Virginia?
sab
@Repatriated: I especially liked ” didn’t even get to touch lava”
mrmoshpotato
@CaseyL: I see.
Hehe
Yutsano
@CaseyL: Well that was the last thing I needed to see. A three bedroom house for only $950? I’mma gonna cry now.
sab
@CaseyL: Is there such a thing as a brick fetish?
mrmoshpotato
@sab: Kiln-fired you say? Oh baby!
TomatoQueen
@Yutsano:
No dishwasher tho
mrmoshpotato
@Yutsano:
Look at that exhaust hood! <3
NotMax
@mrmoshpotato
Mushroom?
“Too lazy to go to the kitchen for a midnight snack. I’ll just much on the wall.”
:)
TomatoQueen
@sab:
In Virginia and Maryland yes, it’s the most common building material, DC has a little more variety, but VA and MD are one vast brickyard. That thing tho, that’s just bizarre.
NotMax
@mrmoshpotato
Looks like the same one I installed in landlady’s kitchen to replace her broken antique. Two halogen bulbs; dark glasses suggested when they’re switched on.
mrmoshpotato
@TomatoQueen: And a one-basin sink!
sab
@mrmoshpotato: Washer and dryer right next to the stove? That doesn’t seem very sanitary.
CaseyL
@sab: All signs point to “yes.”
It’s just amazing what people with a lot of money to burn decide what their Dream House should be.
mrmoshpotato
@sab:
The washer’s away from the stove though.
NotMax
@mrmoshpotato
“This omelet smells like Bounce.”
:)
mrmoshpotato
@NotMax: One of the softest omelets ever.
NotMax
@mrmoshpotato
“Ya want it fluffy or ya want it tasty?”
CaseyL
@mrmoshpotato: I know, I just KNOW, that one day I’d put the baking sheet of chicken into that dryer.
NotMax
@CaseyL
Tumble
drythigh.mrmoshpotato
@CaseyL: Just remember to preheat the dryer.
CaseyL
In the UK, apparently putting the washer in the kitchen is the standard. (They rarely have driers, preferring to line dry.) It’s here in the States that looks weird.
NotMax
@CaseyL
Isn’t the kitchen the traditional place in the U.K. for the geyser?
David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch
Aaron Rodgers announces he’s engaged to Shailene Woodley (photo), who’s an actress (The Descendants), environmental activist, and Bernie-phile (photo)
Rodgers has always been a good guy:
mrmoshpotato
@David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch:
The November 2015 attack?
opiejeanne
@CaseyL: That place in Virginia is truly hideous, inside and out.
David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch
@mrmoshpotato: yes
opiejeanne
@CaseyL: We rented apartments in Paris when we went, and they put an appliance in the kitchen that is both a washer and a dryer. It only takes 6 hours to dry your undies after you wash them. No dishwasher, though.
CarolDuhart2
I just know I would put the pan of chicken on the dryer-and leave it there until it went into the fridge-just have to remind myself to wipe off the top before using the dryer top to fold clothes, or I would have clothes that smelled like garlic or whatever else I was baking.
NotMax
@CarolDuhart2
Silicone mat. Roll it up when doing laundry.
mrmoshpotato
Delicious, delicious smelling clothes. ?
a thousand flouncing lurkers was fidelio
@sab:
You mean this one?
Images of all the park posters are there, and Amber is now looking into parks in other countries. I don’t know if it’s reassuring or appalling that so many people everywhere are such idiots.
MomSense
@frosty:
My dad took me to the Rod and Gun Club in Everglades City for lunch. It’s like going back in time. Lots of old photos of famous people hunting and fishing; presidents, Hemingway, Mick Jagger. The seafood was really fresh.
My dad can’t walk far now, but we did some nice driving loops with lots of stops to see birds and gators.
We did spend a day walking at Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary (Audubon) s and it was beautiful. Boardwalks with lots of places to rest made it perfect. I think it’s one of the largest stands of old growth cypress. Definitely worth visiting.
Mary G
I need this on one of those inspirational posters:
Mousebumples
@David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch: I’m a fan of Rodgers, though living in Wisconsin, I guess I’m predisposed to like him! ?
It was amusing, watching the reaction on Twitter last night. Eg confirming his MVP win, and then, “.Did he say engaged?”
One of the local reporters who knows Rodgers well often says that he doesn’t say anything on accident. Idk know why last night was the time to break the news but… *shrugs* Hope they are happy together, at least.
tybee
@sab:
https://ambersharedesign.com/collections/frontpage/products/subpar-parks-postcard-singles
just click on the pic and it runs through all of them
Just One More Canuck
@CaseyL: Christ is that ugly. And it would probably go for $3 million here
Miss Bianca
@CaseyL: Me too! Only for us it’s Realtor.com. Had no idea this was a national trend or fad – for us, it’s been the realization that house prices are going up like fucking CRAZY in our region (and all over the country, apparently) and wondering what D might get for the Mountain Hacienda if he sold it, so we’re kind of looking at “comps” in other states.
Man, a good real estate photographer makes the difference between house porn and house erotica, is the principal thing I’ve found out.
@NotMax: Montana being one of the states we were looking at. “Hmmm, 364 acres! Do they have water rights? They definitely have a nice set of barns and outbuildings!” You know. That sort of thing.
Formerly disgruntled in Oregon
With more and more office workers looking at a remote work future, a whole new world of possible living situations and communities has opened up. Hence the Zillow browsing?
Original Lee
A little good news! One of my daughter’s besties, who is a COVID-19 long hauler, has started to recover some of the scrambled tastes and smells lost since May of last year. The doctors were saying that if they were still scrambled after 6 months, it might be permanent, so we’re all really happy.
SteverinoCT
@MagdaInBlack: @MagdaInBlack:
Way late to this, but:
In the background of a lot of cartoons are classical snippets and standards– I heard Tchaikovsky in the Smurfs, and of course WB / Bugs Bunny is riddled with them: I have a CD of Strauss waltzes, and I can picture the Bugs cartoon that goes with each. Puppy Dog Pals (and other afflictions upon our children) outright steal a lot of show tunes.