It’s another way-too-freaking-hot afternoon here in Champaign. I’m on the porch and the thermostat says 95.
Anyway, that seems like a good day to stay inside and get caught up on some reading. Like these guys are!
h/t Subaru Dianne for the image
Henry and I spent a couple of hours at the Vet School this afternoon for his last visit with the dermatologist who is moving to Michigan. Best vet I have ever had, and she adores Henry. She said she took some photos when she had Henry upstairs for his exam. Henry adores her and the feeling is mutual. I got to meet the 3rd year resident who will be looking after Henry now the Dr. Brame is leaving.
Open thread.
Maxim
Frist!
scav
Trump Presidential Library’s Summer Reading Program.
Old School
They are just looking for Trump’s golf pants.
rikyrah
Yes, THAT DURHAM 😡
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8JPvADe/
Steeplejack
Pleasantly gray and gloomy here in NoVA. Only 63°!
twbrandt
I am on vacation and currently in Stockholm, Sweden; a city I can’t say enough good things about. It’s a beautiful city, very safe, very walkable, with an excellent public transport system.
My vacation read is A Better Man, by Canadian author Louise Penny. She’s one of my favorite mystery writers. This one is really good.
Baud
@scav:
Reading is Fundamental
@twbrandt:
As if all that makes up for the Socialism!
WaterGirl
When you’re moving , there’s always that last pile in the middle of the living room. You have packed up everything else, or thrown it away, or given it away, but there is just that last pile of odds and ends that you just can’t decide what to do with.
I haven’t moved in decades, but I have never forgotten that I always got to that point in the process, and I would say fuck it, and I would throw it all in a bag or a box to deal with later.
Even that box would not have contained a mix of papers and clothing.
Ken
Ridiculous picture. Both of them have people to do their espionage for them.
Speaking of spying, I recently thought of a Medium Cool topic. I was watching a Mission: Impossible re-run, “The Carriers“. The team has infiltrated a Soviet* training facility where Russian* agents are being trained to pass as Americans. In one scene the team is confronted by policemen. One member demands a warrant, at which point the trainer congratulates him on responding as an American would.
He then turns to the other trainees, played by George Takei and Greg Morris, and tells them “You were too passive. Americans have nothing to fear from their police.” So my Medium Cool topic would be, “Scenes that play totally differently, now that we know actors’ biographies that the studios weren’t willing to publicize back then.”
* Not named as such, but obviously meant that way.
Kelly
Here in the Western Cascade Foothills summer is back after after several days of nice rain. Forecast highs for the week ahead in the 70s and 80. I’m heading outside :-)
scav
@Baud: They do so love the stickers though, you must admit.
WaterGirl
Where is Amir? He wanted a new thread. :-)
twbrandt
@Baud: speaking of socialism, I’ve seen very few obviously unhoused people in Stockholm, or in Oslo, Norway, where I was last week. The Swedes and Norwegians treat homelessness as a systemic issue and provide housing for those who need it, rather than a moral failing as we do in the US.
Kristine
A little cooler here by the lake. 80F, and if the pattern holds a cool breeze will drift in later in the afternoon. The only problems are the air quality alerts and the lack of rainfall.
WaterGirl
@Ken: You rang?
scav
@Ken: But is it really spying when the info comes with the en suite and the mints on the pillow? During a golf vacation?
trollhattan
First day of summer and Sacramento is [checks] 81 and not 101; in fact we’ve not hit three digits once this year. It’s crazy, I tells ya!
trollhattan
@WaterGirl: Busy playing guitar at a cat.
NotMax
If it’s truly a thermostat, just dial it down to 80.
;)
Ken
@WaterGirl: If you mean the Medium Cool topic, I added the note to get the edit time, and have now added the rest.
If you mean that you’re volunteering to spy for me, I must say that I have absolutely no (wink wink nudge nudge) need for such services.
WaterGirl
@NotMax: Yeah, i hesitated as I was typing – thermometer or thermostat, I went with the wrong choice.
It’s actually built into the fan that I have oscillating and blow on me at top speed.
Baud
@twbrandt:
You fool! They’re eating the homeless for food!
WaterGirl
@Ken: Ha!
I had not seen your edit, only your statement that you had an idea. I will go back and read it now.
UncleEbeneezer
@twbrandt: Author Bill Bryson wrote that Stockholm was possibly his favorite of all European cities that he visited in his novel Neither Here nor There. His description of the parks and bridges and waterways was absolutely delightful and has always made me want to visit.
catclub
@NotMax:
I approve of your pedantry.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@twbrandt: I like Penny’s books too
JPL
It’s 69 in my area. Yup I live just north of hotlanta ha. My air conditioner is loving this year so far, but we’ll see what happens next year.
I just read that the TX power grid is struggling again, so I hope it doesn’t fail again.
Dan B
@Steeplejack: The Jet Stream is extremely contorted. It’s heading south down the very cool west coast, turns rapidly north along the Rockies all the way a few hundred miles into Canada, then south again near the Appalachians. So Texas and the Midwest into Canada is roasting (Watergirl) while the coasts are quite cool. The Jet Stream gets this loopy when the Arctic warms dramatically. There’s little temperature difference between the poles and the subtropics so the Jet Stream slows like the Mississippi does from Arkansas to the Gulf. There’s little elevation change so the river gets loopy.
Betty Cracker
It’s only 80 F here because we’ve had tons of much-needed rain. I braved the mucky roads earlier to have lunch with some family members, and one dining companion was a toddler. My kiddo is nearly 25, so I’d almost forgotten what is was like to dine publicly with toddlers. One star — would not recommend! ;-)
WaterGirl
@Ken: I am intrigued, but I am not sure I understand exactly.
George Takei was in a Japanese internment camp. I have no idea who Greg Morris is. I imagine knowing who he is would help me understand.
Can you give me another example of another scene that plays differently?
Like I said, intuited but uncertain.
JPL
@Dorothy A. Winsor: I even liked the series on Amazon, and wished that they had renewed it. Sometimes it takes a more time to build an audience.
Dorothy A. Winsor
Had lunch today with a friend who’s a retired FBI agent and friend brought up the topic of the FBI dragging on its investigation of Jan 6. Friend knows the guy in charge of that and said he’s a nice guy but would hesitate to confront powerful people, so friend wasn’t surprised by the foot-dragging
WaterGirl
@Betty Cracker: Laughing. The last time I had dinner with a toddler in a restaurant, he politely asked his father to take him to the bathroom, and when they returned to the table afterwards, he loudly proclaimed to the entire restaurant:
raven
Ah the U 0f I vet school, one of the best.
gwangung
@WaterGirl: Greg Morris is black. Which introduces all sorts of irony and undercurrents with Uncle George.
Dan B
@WaterGirl: Reminds me of the ski area near Akron, Boston Mills. They rented a lot of skis with their monogram. My cousins skied there and laughed.
Ken
@WaterGirl: Greg Morris was an African-American actor. I recall reading that he had some problems with the government and police over the civil rights movement, as so many did, but I’m not seeing that in his Wikipedia biography so perhaps I’ve mixed him up with another actor.
I guess another example would the careers of homosexual actors, where the studio kept that secret (though often with the actor’s consent and approval). Watching Rock Hudson in any of his romantic lead roles today, we have a different reaction than did the audiences of the 1960s.
UncleEbeneezer
Since this is OT, my rant: when horrible people like Pat Robertson, Rush Limbaugh etc., die I freaking hate when people do that performative thing of announcing how THEY aren’t gonna celebrate or say bad things about these monsters. Like, you wanna not speak ill of the dead? Cool. Nobody cares. But the minute you start acting like that somehow makes you superior to those who do, that’s bullshit. If my LGBTQ friends want to dance on his grave or wish for Pat Robertson to rot in hell, it’s really not anyone’s place to scold them for doing so.
Betty Cracker
@WaterGirl: LOL!
My kid embarrassed me like that once at the grocery store approximately 23 years ago. Trying to model grown-up potty behavior, I casually remarked to the tyke that I had to poop but was waiting until we got home (unspoken corollary: “instead of just pooping whenever like YOU do, kid!”). It backfired on me at the checkout line when the kid loudly said, “Please hurry — my mom needs to POOP!”
trollhattan
@UncleEbeneezer: Apparently their subway stations are works of art, as well. Or so I’ve heard, never been. The won’t let you in without an allen wrench in hand.
Roger Moore
@twbrandt:
I think the biggest problem with homelessness in the US isn’t that we treat it as a moral failing but that we don’t even treat them as human. They are treated as an inconvenience for the housed who need to be gotten rid of. Almost all the “solutions” to homelessness I see are about making sure the existence of homeless people doesn’t bother anyone else.
lowtechcyclist
@twbrandt:
And mani interesting furry animals
mrmoshpotato
@twbrandt:
They got universal healthcare too?! The commies!
Joy in FL
That image is great! I have a Zoom meeting later this afternoon and I made that graphic into my Zoom background. My friends are going to love it.
Thank you Subaru Diane!
Jim, Foolish Literalist
D’Antuono? Even while reading that article I couldn’t really keep track of who was who and which office they worked in and when. Marcy Wheeler and Allison Gill had a lot to say about him, but I couldn’t even follow Gill into those weeds on this, much less Wheeler. This was interesting though:
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Yeah, him.
gwangung
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Yeah, that’s a BIG factor on the perceived “slowness” of Garland. He has to work with who’s in the DOJ, and a lot of them are far more partisan than professional. (And add to that is the natural reluctance of even the most hardcore investigators to overly pressure the powerful and well connected and all the complaints about the slowness seems a tin eared).
Delk
Five years ago today I said goodbye to my sweet Gav.
lowtechcyclist
@Steeplejack:
Unpleasantly rainy, windy, and unseasonably chilly across a river or two here in Calvert County. We needed a little rain, but not this badly!
Suzanne
@WaterGirl: Kids talk about poop all the time. I hope mine grow out of it someday.
japa21
@gwangung:
Actually, it doesn’t bother me that they slow tracked it. Gave the higher ups a chance to see who may or may not have tried to sabotage the efforts. And I am sure some of them would have been super happy to warn certain people of what was happening.
karen marie
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: I was confused about Sherwin. First he was in favor of delay but – unless I misunderstood – he then made comments in an interview that forced the DOJ to move forward?
twbrandt
@Roger Moore: I think it’s both. The prevailing attitude is that if you are poor it’s your fault. And that leads to treating the poor as subhuman.
mrmoshpotato
@WaterGirl: LOL! Down in Florida, visiting my aunt and uncle, my 2-year-old nephew proclaimed, “I pooped!” when coming back to the table with his dad at a restaurant.
Steve in the ATL
@Baud: “lutefisk is people!!!”
Scout211
Hmmm, I wonder if this is similar to a case we’ve been hearing about in the news lately?
The DOJ apparently does prosecute violations of the Espionage Act.
Former FBI Analyst Sentenced for Retaining Classified Documents
WaterGirl
@Ken: That helps a lot!
I may use your idea for Medium Cool this Sunday., :-)
Nelle
@twbrandt: Yesterday, someone who is moving, gave me a complete set of Louise Penny books. I’m rich! I’m rich!
WaterGirl
@Dan B: I would laugh, too.
I always wonder why they named Dick’s (Sporting Goods) that.
Dan B
@mrmoshpotato: I bet it’s toilet training that praises the kid for pooping in the terlet. Praise is then expected.
WaterGirl
@Betty Cracker: I can’t stop laughing.
That’s worse than mine. :-) But so funny!
Having said that, your approach was sound, it just didn’t go exactly as you had pictured. But you clearly raised a thoughtful kid!
bbleh
@WaterGirl: @Ken: I’m pretty sure Greg Morris was a regular on the original M.I.
And as to Putin and Salman, first there’s no need for espionage among friends, and second they do wanna see the really good stuff for themselves.
Baud
@Scout211:
Like a country club bathroom.
Scout211
Kari lake and Trump? Jezebel has the gossip.
So, Kari Lake Has Basically Moved In With Donald Trump
Ewwwwww! 🤣
Omnes Omnibus
@Steve in the ATL: If only.
WaterGirl
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Well now we have the answer to the question from yesterday.
We knew the timing was interesting, and that there was a reason this was coming out NOW, but we just didn’t know what it was.
Now we do.
WaterGirl
@Delk: I’m sorry.
I never know what to call those days. Anniversary sounds like it should be happy!
NotMax
@WaterGirl
Because Schlong’s wouldn’t fit on the sign?
;)
bbleh
@Dan B: It’s been unusually cool and breezy in the western foothills of the Appalachians, and we’ve got several days of rain coming up from the south (probably lots of moisture running into the cool air), which we need kinda badly.
@lowtechcyclist: yeah, that
WaterGirl
@Suzanne: Everybody poops.
Scout211
WG. I forgot to unlink all the links, but I just did that. Can you free me from moderation jail?
Thanks!
Baud
If Schrodinger’s Cat is around, this came across my feed.
bbleh
@Baud: but it was stored with a Shower Curtain In Front (SCIF)
Baud
@bbleh:
Ha.
mrmoshpotato
@UncleEbeneezer: Yup. I like this take too.
Gotta click through to read the text.
Steeplejack
@Ken:
Huh. Where I thought you were going to go was “scenes that play totally differently, now that we know how American police actually work.”
WaterGirl
@bbleh:
I just googled for a photos, and yes he was one of the stars of that show. I just didn’t know him by name.
Timill
@Nelle: Pennys from Heaven :-)
bbleh
@WaterGirl: It may or may not be a good thing that I remembered that from watching the show when it was originally broadcast.
WaterGirl
@Scout211: I do not know what BDE is, no do I want to google it. If someone here wanted to explain, I would be grateful.
zhena gogolia
@mrmoshpotato: That’s beautiful.
WaterGirl
@Scout211: Yeah, even if you take out the links, WordPress doesn’t automatically free you.
If you’re copying from somewhere with a lot of links, you can chose “Paste and match style” or whatever your browser calls it – that removes the links.
Steeplejack
@JPL:
A large part of Tulsa, OK, has been without power (as of late last night) since Saturday. Governor and lieutenant governor both MIA, so the secretary of state (not sure of title) had to issue the disaster proclamation.
bbleh
@WaterGirl: the key is the ‘D’. The ‘B’ is for ‘big.’
WaterGirl
@bbleh: Ha!
Dangerman
What? They didn’t want to sit (spelled carefully) on the same toilet Donald uses?
Scout211
@WaterGirl: it’s another way of saying “manly” “macho” etc.
Big D*ck Energy
mrmoshpotato
@Dan B: Probably. It was still funny. :)
Omnes Omnibus
@WaterGirl: Big Dick Energy. Please be sick in an appropriate receptacle.
The Lodger
@NotMax: Well, there are four balls* in front of some of the stores, so Dick’s has to be plural…
*Football, basketball, baseball and golf ball. Relax.
zhena gogolia
@WaterGirl: Something that Stephanie Clifford begs to differ with Kari Lake about.
mrmoshpotato
@NotMax: Cock’s?
karen marie
@Scout211: Given Trump isn’t in Florida during the summer, camping out at MaL isn’t going to do Lake any good. Has she been spotted at Bedminster?
mrmoshpotato
@zhena gogolia: I agree. And it would totally annoy Pat Robertson.
Ken
@Steeplejack: That could work too. The Untouchables, Dragnet and Adam-12 have all been called “copaganda” for good reasons.
It’s also interesting to compare the portrayals in movie and TV of standard police procedure in the 1960s and today. Back then, cops on a domestic disturbance call were expected to knock politely on the door and talk to the people; nowadays they kick down the door with guns drawn and take someone away in handcuffs. And that’s portrayed as the right thing to do.
WaterGirl
@mrmoshpotato: Hard to read when the words are all blurry like that. :: tears ::
What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?
I can’t believe I hadn’t known before that you’re in Champaign. I lived there for a couple of years. Does the Courier Cafe still have good milk shakes? Used to hang out at The Brass Rail some, the Esquire. Also went to Papa Dells for pizza on occasion.
WaterGirl
@Steeplejack: That, too!
WaterGirl
@bbleh: Speaking of Dicks’ Sporting Goods…
Dangerman
@Omnes Omnibus: For Donald, TMI (Tiny Manhood something or other; “E” woulda been better, but, in this case, there is an I in TMI)
Martin
@Baud: Unfortunately the bargain seems to be that India presents an opportunity to reduce our economic dependency on China, and Modi > Xi, both in terms of aspiration and current state, and I think objectively that’s a fair assessment.
In theory it’s a false choice, but if the US is going to be anti-immigration and generally anti-labor, that leaves us with a labor problem that will need to be satisfied overseas and as the 3rd most populated country on the planet, that workforce is generally going to have to come from #1 or #2, so that’s the choice we’ve forced ourselves into.
Suzanne
@Scout211: Dude, do you think Melania regrets that piece of shit?!
Jim, Foolish Literalist
jackmac
While WaterGirl is coping with high temps in downstate Hotter Than Hell, Illinois and it’s almost 90 in my patch of Chicago suburbia, my daughter is bound for the city and tonight’s Fall Out Boy concert at Wrigley Field. I encouraged her to bring a jacket because winds blowing in off Lake Michigan (15 MPH from the north-northeast at the moment) will cause temps to plummet as much as 25-30 degrees after sunset in and around the Friendly Confines.
WaterGirl
@mrmoshpotato: I have already made an Open Thread will the full text of that. Just waiting until we need an open thread.
rekoob
@WaterGirl: Urban Dictionary is your friend. Big (name of sporting goods store) Energy.
I believe Inigo Montoya in The Princess Bride would say to Kari Lake, “You keep using that phrase. I do not think it means what you think it means”.
Rainy all day here in coastal Delaware. More rain tomorrow.
Suzanne
Can they find the missing sub already?! Not just because I want them to find everyone alive and in good health…. I also want to click on the news pages without seeing headlines about it on the screen. It freaks me out.
WaterGirl
@What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?: I haven’t been too the Courier Cafe since Covid, but I agree, they used to make great milkshakes.
They probably still do! Papa Dels is my favorite pizza. Only went to the Brass Rail once – I’m not sure it’s even there anymore. I recently passed that location and I think it was something else.
Scout211
Not until the money stops flowing.
WaterGirl
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: That may be the only true thing Marge has said in the past 3 years.
karen marie
Apparently George Soros’ father was a big proponent of Esperanto. Interesting.
Martin
@trollhattan: We’ve yet to hit 80 here in SoCal. Hell, we’ve had maybe 10 days crack 72. The most overcast city in the US last month was San Diego. People are fucking depressed down here.
WaterGirl
@rekoob:
Did you not see the part where I said I did not want to google that?
lowtechcyclist
@Scout211:
I’ve been keeping a file of them in my email. If I’m ever talking with anyone who gives me that bullshit about how only Trump got prosecuted for these offenses, I’ll be able to pull out a few emails with links in them. (I’ve just added this one to the collection.)
Suzanne
@Scout211: You don’t think she could have married some other old, rich d-bag who wasn’t such an embarrassment?!
What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?
@twbrandt: I was there in summer 2019. Stockholm is everything you said (I read down thread). We also hit Mora on Lak Siljan, then from there drove down the Fryken Lakes to Bengstfors where we stayed in a cabin in the woods on some lake I can’t recall the name of. It’s apparently a Swedish summer tradition to do that. Then we hit Lidköping on Lake Vänern, which is Sweden’s largest lake. Then to Stockholm for a week followed by a couple days in Vadstena staying in an old monestary or nunnery that had been converted into a hotel. That’s on Lake Vättern which is Sweden’s second largest lake. So it was a bit of a tour of lakes. Vadstena has a great old castle and there’s one in the Lidkoping area too. Lidkoping is a nice little city, Vadstena a very pleasant little town. Mora and surroundings were nice too. Very very nice trip all in all.
mrmoshpotato
@WaterGirl: :) It’s a wonderful piece. Apparently, the person who wrote it is semi-anonymous according to reply tweets.
Maxim
@JPL: They didn’t renew it? Dammit, that makes me mad.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
I’m guessing the addenda to that pre-nup (2017 and ’20, at least) won’t be available by FOIA request
Brachiator
@Ken:
I think you are confusing Morris with someone else. As an aside, I don’t think that Mission Impossible ever dealt with American domestic issues, apart from organized crime. George Takei’s biography is tremendously important to him as a human being, but irrelevant to the future world depicted in Star Trek or to the character Sulu.
It’s acting. Hudson was a great romantic lead, especially in comedies. I recall some British actor noting that coming out was problematic because some producers and some audiences could not accept him as a heterosexual romantic lead, and this limited the roles he was offered.
rekoob
@WaterGirl: Yes, I did. I suppose I consider Urban Dictionary its own destination, not a search engine. As you wish!
karen marie
@Steeplejack: Stitt is in Paris at a weapons manufacturers convention, interviewing for some no-show board positions for when he’s no longer governor.
mrmoshpotato
@jackmac: Hope she enjoys the show. I don’t know their music, but Wrigley is a nice concert venue. At least Rogers Waters and The Boss sounded great in 2012.
Almost Retired
70 degrees and sunny here in Coastal Los Angeles County.
Ordinarily, that would not be noteworthy, BUT FOR THE LAST THREE MONTHS WE’VE HAD THE F%*&ING CLIMATE OF BELFAST OR SOME SUCH PLACE…..
Sorry to shout. I’m going to go play outside now.
Steeplejack
@karen marie:
That can’t be! I read that he is promoting foreign investment in Oklahoma. 🙄
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@Brachiator: As I recall, Ellen DeGeneres had much the same problem when she came out. And that was much more recent.
I’d like to believe that in 2023 we’ve finally gotten to a point where producers understand that straight actors can play gay, and gay actors can portray straight. You know, that actors can act.
As for Rock Hudson, I don’t look at the acting any differently. Ice Station Zebra is still one of my all-time favorite thrillers, and watching Hudson and Patrick McGoohan bristly manfully at each other is a big part of the fun.
Martin
@The Lodger: But that’s wrong. Dick’s isn’t plural, it’s possessive, so it implies that Dick is claiming ownership of those 4 balls, which implies any number of things.
Maxim
@Roger Moore: The other day, something reminded me of a restaurant in Sacramento that we ate at a few times over the years. I looked it up and found an article that said the restaurant had closed, and the building was being demolished, possibly to make way for new housing, since there were going to be new jobs nearby.
Then there was a quote from the would-be developer, to the effect that “homeless don’t like to stay near new housing, so it moves it along to a different area.”
Not homeless people (let alone unhoused persons). Just “homeless,” who then become an “it” that is moved along to be somebody else’s problem.
It was sickening.
Martin
@Almost Retired: It has been permanent March here.
narya
@WaterGirl: OTOH, where I worked, the D was for Dyke, at least for some of us.
Geminid
@karen marie: I was thinking that hanging out in Florida so much won’t help Kari Lake’s projected Senate run. But on second thought, maybe making personal appearances in the Grand Canyon state will hurt her prospects. A February OH Predictive poll showed that Lake’s net-negative approval ratings are second only to Blake Masters’.
That was an encouraging poll. It found that Ruben Gallego was the only potential Senate candidate with a net-positive approval number. Five Republicans and Kysten Sinema were underwater. Gallego had a significant lead in all 2-way and 3-way matches.
Phoenix-based OH Predictives does a lot of Arizona polling.
karen marie
@Steeplejack: Then you heard the same as me. He is “promoting foreign investment in Oklahoma.” He’s promoting it right into his bank account that’s in a bank in Oklahoma.
kalakal
@WaterGirl:
Rejected first title for an REM hit record
Everybody
SteveinPHX
@Suzanne: Kids talk about poop all the time because it’s the first thing they make. They are proud.
zhena gogolia
@Suzanne: He was the one she was assigned to.
mrmoshpotato
@Almost Retired: Are you a lizard? (h/t Bill Hicks) 😁
karen marie
@Geminid: I think you’d be hard pressed to find anyone in AZ not overtaken by the MAGA disease who has anything nice to say about Lake.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@kalakal: Hmm. Is this an opportune moment for me to try to garner sympathy by saying I’m in the middle of colonoscopy prep and feeling sorry for myself?
The procedure and instructions seem different every time. They were really, really insistent this time on cutting out fiber a week in advance. Neither of us ever heard of that before, and my wife just went through this a few months ago.
persistentillusion
@jackmac: Oh Goddess, the coldest I’ve nearly ever been was Comiskey Park when that happened. Line for the booth that sold hoodies was long.
zhena gogolia
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: Haha, the same thing is going on around here. I heard about the fiber thing here on BJ, but our doctors don’t seem to have gotten the memo.
mrmoshpotato
@kalakal: LOL!
The Lodger
@Martin: Sorry, I was using farmer’s market punctuation.
BTW, it’s great that you’re back.
WaterGirl
@Martin: So glad to see you here!
Mousebumples
Saw that earlier on Twitter and thought I’d share. More evidence that the GOP is not pro-life in any way approximating reality.
kalakal
@Ceci n est pas mon nym:
You most certainly have my sympathy.
A procedure guaranteed to make you miserable and reduce your dignity.
Never heard about the fiber bit before either
schrodingers_cat
@Baud: I am quite unhappy with the symbolism of this visit. Right now after a major electoral debacle the BJP was on the backfoot. This is good publicity for the BJP
Biden has earned the benefit of the doubt from me. So I will be hearing his remarks closely before I say something
I need to restart my blog, one post here is not going to cut it. I need to bear witness. 2024 is going to be pivotal to whether India survives in its current form.
Brachiator
@Ceci n est pas mon nym:
Yep. And Hudson was magnificent in the 1956 film Giant, along side Elizabeth Taylor and James Dean.
Steeplejack
I am suddenly hungering for autumn. Had a pleasant siesta this afternoon with the bedroom window open, and now I’ve cracked the window by the desk in the front room. It’s gray and intermittently rainy here in Threadkill Lane, 62° and even a bit windy. I’m an “I like all four seasons” guy, but I’m getting an urge. I feel energized.
kalakal
Temp a cool 70 down here in Pinellas, Fl. We have been having a ton of rain since Saturday and every gardner is grateful
Steeplejack
@Delk:
RIP, Gav.
Roger Moore
@WaterGirl:
I assume she means Big Dick Energy. Honestly, I think it would be more fair to call it SDE, because it seems like it happens more often in men who are overcompensating for their anatomical inadequacy.
Brachiator
@bbleh:
Yep. And he was a regular for the entire run of the series. Supposedly, he did not like the movies, but they are their own thing.
mrmoshpotato
@zhena gogolia: Haha! Back to Meltrashania being Dipshit Donnie’s Kremlin handler. Yeah.
Maxim
It’s been cooler than normal here in the desert outside LA, also too. Highs in the 80s. No rain, though.
Scout211
Sending oodles of sympathy your way.
The low-fiber diet made a huge difference for me this time around. Added: highly recommend.
Plus, drink the prep through a straw and stick a popsicle in your mouth (or suck on a lemon) immediately after drinking the prep.
Roger Moore
@Martin:
The US doesn’t need so much labor that we need to import it from countries bigger than us. We seem to have no trouble attracting plenty of people eager to work from Latin America. The bigger problem is that there are a lot of people who don’t like the idea of solving our labor problems by letting non-Whites into the country. Of course those people seem to be generally opposed to trying to solve problems at all.
mrmoshpotato
@Mousebumples: Wait. Kids who are able to eat on a regular basis are happier?
What crazy talk is this?
BeautifulPlumage
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: I had the same thing recently. Plus all the meds were over-the-counter laxatives. My guess is this is easier on the body than the procedure used 12 years ago for my last one. I remember being very uncomfortable for that last 18 hours of that prep.
Roger Moore
@WaterGirl:
Don’t google it. Go to Urban Dictionary and search for it with their site search. It’s a text-only site, so you’ll be protected from needing to gouge your eyes out from the stuff you’ll see on Google with an inappropriate search term.
Mousebumples
Haha, mind blown, right?
Next they’ll tell us that women are happier when given bodily autonomy…
Ceci n est pas mon nym
Why?
When I first went through this, there was a special lemon-ginger drink which was just awful. The taste of that stuff was the worst part of the prep.
Now it’s just Gatorade laced with, well, you can guess what. Which I don’t ordinarily drink, and I have to get through 64 ounces of it tonight. But still, it’s not that much of an ordeal.
I’m also surprised that the medications didn’t start till 4 pm, i.e., a couple of hours ago. I remember it as starting much earlier. I’m actually kind of anxious that there’s enough time for the things to happen that need to happen, but I guess they know what they’re doing.
schrodingers_cat
@Martin: There are flaws in your analysis. India and China are not fungible. India is nowhere near China as a manufacturing hub for starters.
Modi and BJP are bullies they are not going to stand up to China. They haven’t so far.
Roger Moore
@Ceci n est pas mon nym:
Kaiser was insistent on that when I had to do a colonoscopy last year. They also made a big point about cutting back on red and purple colored food a few days ahead.
Kelly
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: Had my colonoscopy in November. Bidet toilet seat made the prep more tolerable. A bit late for you but I highly recommend. Easy to install.
Scout211
You may not need the straw if you mix yours with flavored Gatorade. My instructions were to only mix it with water, no other liquid. And the taste makes me gag. The straw sends the liquid to the back of your mouth, missing many of your tastebuds. But again, since you were able to mix yours with a flavored drink, it probably isn’t necessary.
It is interesting about all the different instructions.
Jeffro
I am watching Matt Gaetz absolutely ROAST John Durham, calling him “The Washington Generals” (ie, paid to show up and lose to the Harlem Globetrotters) and my. night. is made.
Holy cow, GOP. You’re swirling down the drain much, much faster than y’all realize!
That and the Boebert/Greene catfight…I think I may just have to call it a week. =)
Jay
@Roger Moore:
there is “unskilled labour”, eg construction workers, farm workers, etc, that really isn’t unskilled labour,
the US and Canada get that from “down south”,
then there is “skilled labour”, programmers, doctors, nurses, admin, engineers, etc, most of whom come from China, India, Pakistan, etc.
Uncle Cosmo
@The Lodger:
** The “t” is silent. Sco’lan’, Lan’ o’ th’ glo’al stop!
*** Bri’ish usage, donchaknow.
:^D
prostratedragon
@Brachiator: I think a little mystery is an advantage for an actor; explains part of the motivation for stage names and other kayfabe. I’d be reluctant to give it up.
bbleh
@Scout211: @Ceci n est pas mon nym: I’ve also had materially different instructions each time, and from various remarks made the last time, I have the suspicion that it’s up to the doc, and different docs have different things they want done and not done, and that’s what you get told to do.
Some similarities across all of them, of course, and the anesthesia prep is separate (btw make sure your anesthesiologist is in-network or will accept network rates).
WaterGirl
@Jeffro: I went to the link someone provided upthread, and I did not find a fight between Marge and the gun-toting-former-bar-owner.
I did, however, find a bunch of fun videos where various Dems were roasting the GOP for their attacks on Adam Schiff and roasting John Durham mercilessly.
S Cerevisiae
@Dan B: I read Dr. Jennifer Francis papers predicting this very same jet stream behavior over a decade ago, she was at Rutgers then but she was absolutely right.
raven
@Martin: Good to have you back.
Uncle Cosmo
@mrmoshpotato: Schlong’s? Schwanz’s?? Cazzo’s???
According to Italian folk legend, the four things most essential to life are
Fica is Italian for “fig,” and yes, it has exactly the same figurative meaning you thought it did… (As for the rest, In the immortal patter of Tom Lehrer, The rest of you can look it up when you get home. 8^D)
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: Choking the drink down is the worst. Everything else is tolerable. My two words to people doing it for the first time are “baby wipes.”
James E Powell
@Brachiator:
Greg Morris was Barney. He was the electronics & gadget guy. He would be in a crawlspace or inside a wall or on top of the elevator or some other hiding place, operating whatever electronics or gadgets the team needed to succeed.
NotMax
@Uncle Cosmo
Usually heard it with an Italian relation visiting rather than a Scot, anxious to attend a game to see Joe DiMaggio.
‘Walk-a with pride, Joe! Walk-a with pride!”
The Thin Black Duke
@Brachiator: Don’t forget Seconds. John Frankenheimer’s masterpiece.
Dan B
@S Cerevisiae: I read reports like Jennifer Francis’ years ago as well. It led me to predict that Sea level rise would nit be the first serious problem that would be extreme weather and serious problems with agriculture.
Uncle Cosmo
@NotMax: Never once heard it that way. You are cordially invited to note that yerstruly is by ancestry cento per cento italiano.
Also, for your particular reading enjoyment: Fa in culo!
Brachiator
@prostratedragon:
Often a stage name is used because another actor already has that name. It’s funny when an actor can’t use their birth name.
NotMax
@The Thin Black Duke
Film doesn’t come close to holding a candle to the terse original novel by David Ely. IMHO.
Remember (having read the book some years before the movie was released) going into the theater with high anticipation and exiting disappointed.
jackmac
@persistentillusion: Same here. Except at Wrigley. The day started in the lower 80s, sunny and just a perfect summer baseball day. I knew better, but still went to the park with a short-sleeved shirt. Our seats were in the high upper deck along a fence and brisk winds off the lake blew right through us and the fence as temps dropped. I fled to the concourse for a (surprisingly inexpensive) Wrigley Field hoodie. Lesson relearned and I still have the hoodie!
TriassicSands
WaterGirl, when I read that, I pictured you sitting, up to your neck, in a very large glass of Champaign — an excellent way to cool off on a hot day. Question: Do different brands and years have greater and lesser cooling abilities?
Does an $820 bottle of Dom Pérignon Cuvée Champagne 2003 cool better than a $80 bottle of Bollinger Brut Special Cuvee?
I had a cat with pemphigus foliaceus, an uncommon to rare autoimmune disease where the immune system attacks the skin and forms extremely fragile blisters. I had to take her to an animal dermatologist for a diagnosis and treatment. (There are three types of pemphigus — foliaceus, erythamatosis, and vulgaris — humans also get pemphigus.)
It’s a horrible disease. In my cat’s case the main problems were with her ears and dew claws. The blisters break very easily exposing the skin to infection. And, of course, where do cats take their dew claws every day — yep, into the litter box, where a bacterium or two have been known to hang out.
There aren’t very many animal dermatologists, or there weren’t in the early 2000s — only two in WA State (a couple of hundred in the entire country at that time). The dermatologist was wonderful. The best vet I’ve ever seen. Pemphigus was no mystery to him — that’s where most cats (and dogs) with the disease end up. For the next 14 years, I gave Nootka gold injections. First once a week, and ultimately four times a year. She never had another outbreak.
Most cats and dogs are treated with corticosteroids (either prednisone or dexamethasone), which taken long term have potentially really bad side effects (as they do in humans). The vet had bought up every ounce of gold salts he could get his hands on, because they had stop making it after it was no longer used as a treatment for rheumatoid arthritis in people. Eventually, he ran out and for the last year and a half, I had to give her dexamethasone. Nootka never outwardly showed any side effects of the medication, but it is known to be hard on kidneys and she eventually died of kidney disease. However, kidney disease is the most common cause of death in cats over the age of 14 and she was 17, so I figured, even if it had hastened her death, she had a full life, free of potentially fatal infections. Not a bad deal.
I don’t know if they are now using some of the many immunosuppressants that are now available for humans. The cost of monoclonal antibodies has to be prohibitive for most people.
Note: photographs of severe cases of pemphigus are pretty horrifying. Foliaceus is less severe than vulgaris which causes deeper blisters but it, pemphigus, really is a horrible disease. Untreated, Nootka would undoubtedly have succumbed to infections.
Brachiator
@The Thin Black Duke:
When I first saw the film as a preteen, it was confusing, and also too downbeat for my tastes. But with later viewings I understood its sad beauty.
Amir Khalid
@WaterGirl:
I got all sleepy waiting for the new thread and had to go to bed. Sorry.
Roger Moore
@Brachiator:
They’re also very common because the actor’s given name is considered problematic for some reason. Maybe their given name isn’t colorful enough or manly enough (e.g. Marion Morrison aka John Wayne), or they’re afraid their name is too “ethnic” (e.g. Krishna Pandit Bhanji aka Ben Kingsley).
Brachiator
@Roger Moore:
Dick Van Dyke is a ridiculous name, but Richard Wayne Van Dyke was fine with it.
NotMax
@Roger Moore
Caused a minor tremor within the bowels of the industry at the time when Carrie Snodgress’ real name first appeared on marquees.
MagdaInBlack
I finally broke down and turned on the ac and now ComEd will own me, again.
NotMax
@Brachiator
Rimshot punch line at the time was “He changed it from Dick Goatee.”
The Lodger
@Brachiator: Sometimes, the actor’s birth name doesn’t belong to another actor. Comedian Albert Brooks was born Albert Einstein. (On the other hand, his brother Bob also went into show business and kept his original last name.)
kalakal
Diana Dors real name was Diana Fluck.
In later life she did a lot of civic opening ceremonies, fetes etc leading to elevated stress levels amongst town mayors & assorted local dignitories, hoping against hope they wouldn’t screw up introducing her
WaterGirl
@Amir Khalid: I put one up as soon as I saw your plea. :-)
You haven’t sent me photos of your new kitty yet. I missed the original announcement, not even sure if your kitty is a girl (guessing) or a boy kitty.
What was the story of your meeting? Surely seems like photos and a story would make a great Celebrating Jackals post. :-)
Brachiator
@NotMax:
Or, as Mary Tyler Moore once joked with David Letterman, “Penis Van Lesbian.”
NotMax
@The Lodger
And both were sons of the screen character actor billed as Parkyakarkus.
Brachiator
OT: this wild story recently popped up in my news feed. The ridiculous lives of the rich and famous.
And this is also after paying $3.7 million in back pay to the crew.
prostratedragon
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: You can practice your JSmith Executioner Stare™ looking at the last couple of glasses of that stuff. But yeah, once that’s done the procedure should be no big deal.
zhena gogolia
@NotMax: Who appears in a song sung by Shirley Temple in Stowaway!
Cheryl from Maryland
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: Sorry for you. I went through this last week. Several days of soup. I was clean, so it went well. Had an Italian Beef Sandwich afterward.
Maxim
@kalakal:
My dad went to school growing up with a kid named Bud Fluck.
prostratedragon
That Tula Finkel is really some dancer. But then consider how useful it could be for Dana Owens to be able to move around with minimal fuss.
phein64
@WaterGirl: They have cut the number of biscuits in a medium order of biscuits and gravy, which is their best breakfast IMHO.
We’ve been going there since 1987, and my four kids still think of it as the special breakfast place.
phein64
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: Cologuard, if you are eligible. Then you only have to crap into a box. My wife’s family are polyp producers, so she cannot avail herself; I do not envy her.
jackmac
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: Had a colonoscopy three weeks ago and nobody ever wants to have one of these. The prep was lengthy (a colonoscopy attempt in February failed so my gastroenterologist added an extra day to prep). I’ve had a few of these over the years and the prep beverage tastes less odious each time. The actual procedure went very well and they found some polyps which were later examined and benign plus they noted scars from my previous bouts with ulcerative colitus (in remission for 15 years). I have to go back in three years for another, partly based on my age (65-plus). But am quite relieved things were okay. I was also starving so my first stop post-procedure was Portillo’s for one of everything (actually just a drippy beef and fries).
Best wishes and I hope your procedure goes well.
beckya57
You’re reminding me why I left Champaign. In the 60’s here in Tacoma, ha ha 😈😈😈
StringOnAStick
Talk about crazy weather, we had a light frost Monday night. I covered all the tender veggies. Central Oregon being high desert means a clear night with a strong cold front can do that. The same system caused 5 waterspouts in the waters around Portland.
Chris T.
@Uncle Cosmo:
I had no idea what you thought I should think it meant, but I put the whole “vino fresca, aqua pura, fica stresa, cazzo duro” phrase into Google Translate, and, huh, did not expect quite such an explicit translation.
Chris T.
@TriassicSands:
I have no idea if they are doing that either, but I now give one of our cats frunevetmab (brand name Solencia) for osteoarthritis. It makes a big difference for her, but it’s $80/mo… Tried in in the other cats, didn’t seem to make that much difference for them: all are old-ish and likely suffering from some arthritis pain, but only Alice shows an obvious effect.
She just got her monthly shot today (the vet lets me take it home with an ice pack, it’s a simple subcutaneous injection in the same location where one would give a kidney cat her fluids). She hates the shot itself, because the frunevetmab has to be kept cold, but at least she doesn’t have to go in to the vet office for it.
SWMBO
@WaterGirl:
Rememberance Day?