One way or another, it sees like cake might be in order tomorrow!
Either to celebrate or to drown our sorrows.
It feels to me like sentencing for these crimes is the only consequences Trump is likely to experience before the election. Is that crazy or wrong-headed thinking?
NEW: Judge Merchan, in Trump’s NY election interference case, will issue a decision TOMORROW (9/6) as to whether he will agree to delay his sentencing. pic.twitter.com/G74ongpjKv
— Katie Phang (@KatiePhang) September 5, 2024
I think Justice Merchan will NOT delay sentencing.
Anyone want to stake out a position on this?
Somewhat related:
BREAKING: Judge Chutkan sets a schedule for Jack Smith and Trump to make immunity-related filings.
Smith: Sept. 26
Trump: Oct. 17
Smith reply: Oct. 29. https://t.co/8kXMaUWsX6— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) September 5, 2024
I guess we already knew that this trial wouldn’t be happening before the election. Any attorneys out there who want o share your thoughts on this?
Okay, here’s what Andrew Weissman had to say about this. It seems like a long delay to me, but he thinks this is fast! “in short order”. Okay, Andrew, I will take your word for it. Especially if Omnes agrees.
Judge Chutkan treats Trump like any other defendant, and orders simultaneous briefing on three issues: immunity, statutory grounds (meaning the new S Ct Fischer decision on the obstruction statute) and on appointment of the Special Counsel. All to be done in short order,…
— Andrew Weissmann (weissmann11 on Threads/Insta)🌻 (@AWeissmann_) September 5, 2024
Speaking of the dumpster fire, how is it that two staffers are being identified as participants in the assault “that never happened”? So were TWO men pushing around the woman who had the audacity to tell them the rules? What is wrong with these people? Did they not have parents to teach them values?
Justin Caporale. Named as one of the assaulters of the woman at Arlington Cemetery by NPR. Was also Jan 6 organizer. pic.twitter.com/aSQQI5nBHS
— BevMarie 🪷 (@evenbev) September 5, 2024
And totally unrelated, this is a great photograph.
a picture of the guy who says shootings are a "fact of life" https://t.co/sMMf9Ms3tT pic.twitter.com/3nfb68R2Kt
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 6, 2024
Is this guy TRYING TO LOSE?
I just looked up from the laptop. Henry is standing on his back legs in front of me, demanding to be fed again. Miss Willow is glaring at me from above, and when I laughed at them, Miss Willow was. not. amused.
Open thread.
Albatrossity
Feed those critters! And then feed yourself some cake!
WaterGirl
@Albatrossity: Does tiramisu count? We have a new Italian restaurant here that makes their tiramisu fresh every morning. I am tempted to pick up a piece to go tomorrow just in case.
edit: yes, everyone got their “midnight snack” before bed. Henry has a sensitive stomach and will puke in the wee hours if he doesn’t have anything in his tummy at bedtime. So everyone gets what I now call the midnight snack at bedtime
edit 2 “everyone” does not include me.
hells littlest angel
JD Vance telling his kids the facts of life: “When a boy hates his teachers and classmates very very much, he puts his bullets inside their bodies …”
Nancy
Tiramisu absolutely counts. Although if you live anywhere a Wegmans, their ultimate white cake (or chocolate, if that’s your preference) is completely celebratory.
WaterGirl
@Nancy: Wegmans is not a midwest thing. I know they are in PA, but they are not in Illinois, at least.
Leto
@WaterGirl: it is always the perfect time for tiramisu.
@Nancyw: we’ll be near one on Sunday, I’ll have to remember that.
WaterGirl
@Leto: I made tiramisu from scratch once. It was delicious, but I will never do it again. So much time and effort!
WaterGirl
Do we know what time the sentencing will be? I will happily set my alarm for 3am for this, if that’s when all will be revealed.
None of these judges can be happy about all the delays, right? Justice delayed is justice denied.
Leto
@WaterGirl: I always make it from scratch. It’s too easy not to! Thats also how you justify it: I did all this work, burned all these cals, I get to have a bit more. 😀
Plus I’ve been disappointed by basically every Italian place here so…
dmsilev
Cake, maybe this weekend, sounds great. Been an immensely frustrating week dealing with infrastructure issues at work. The roughly 1000 degree outside temperature didn’t help; all of our temporary ac workarounds went ‘splat’ trying to keep up. A colleague tried feeding sacks of ice into one of her systems but quickly gave up once she realized that it was eating a one pound bag every five to ten minutes…
Maybe an icebox cake.
Jeffro
It all kind of has that…that…”the BIG guns are about to start pounding” feeling, doesn’t it?
MAGAworld in a panic over these RT/influencer indictments…
NeverTrump endorsements getting more specific: “you can’t just not vote for trumpov…you have to vote FOR Harris”
Everyone suddenly discovering that the phrase “sane-washing” was right there for the taking re: the snooze media’s normalizing of trumpov’s babbling gibberish
Rate cuts coming…Goldman Sachs on board with a Harris presidency…it all just feels like it’s coming to a head. And in a good way, for once!
matt
My feeling is that the intimidation factor (or what you might call ‘the implication’) makes the gun humper minority into an effective majority by chilling opposition.
WaterGirl
@dmsilev: Is anything getting seriously sorted re: the clusterfuck at work? or is it still in the trying to plug the hole in the boat stage?
Jay
@WaterGirl:
Always get the whole cake, not just a slice.
You can eat the whole thing in either misery, or celebration, and maybe have some left over for the sugar/coffee “hang over”.
WaterGirl
@Jay: Maybe I’ll have to get 2 pieces. :-)
catclub
Because it is NPR identifying them. They are not (yet) being under-bussed by the trump campaign.
VFX Lurker
I like this idea. Southern California is an oven right now, so cooler treats have more appeal right now.
WaterGirl
@catclub: That seems out of character for NPR, which has gotten so Republican in the last decade or so.
catclub
@Jeffro:
Those seem serious, and the protesting ‘it ain’t so’ sounds more like squealing.
WaterGirl
@VFX Lurker: It just feels like 1,000 degrees – that’s with the heat index. It’s really only 985 actual degrees, without the heat index.
catclub
@WaterGirl:
NPR is a washington DC news org, they may feel more proprietary about the ANC than other news media.
WaterGirl
@dmsilev: @VFX Lurker:
I don’t actually know what an icebox cake is. Does it involve cool whip? (shudder)
WaterGirl
@catclub: Interesting thought.
dmsilev
@WaterGirl: It’s Complicated. There are various interim solutions, short term and medium term, while the permanent solution is being built. The short term solution involved a big trailer-mounted ac unit, roughly speaking about forty or fifty times the capacity of a typical home central ac unit. That worked, mostly, but it was hugely expensive to run (rental, sucks down vast amounts of diesel fuel for its generator). Yesterday we switched to the regular campus water system, but connected via fire hoses running across the ground instead of proper insulated pipes. That, so far, has been a failure; not enough capacity to keep up with both the outside heat and the waste heat of the equipment. Whether we bring back the loud expensive somewhat unreliable rental unit or work to improve the fire hose solution is TBD.
In the meantime, I’m juggling my instrumentation scheduling, trying to balance our limited cooling capacity with the various research needs. I am not happy.
laura
@WaterGirl: Life is uncertain- get the tiramisu.
WaterGirl
@dmsilev:
Yes, I can see how that would be the case. Perhaps more like this?
I. AM. NOT. HAPPY.
Jackie
@catclub: I posted this on the earlier thread. It’s the full story via the NPR:
https://www.npr.org/2024/09/05/nx-s1-5101991/trump-campaign-arlington-national-cemetery-staff-debate
dmsilev
@WaterGirl: No. Doing it right, it’s real from-scratch whipped cream as the base. Here’s one example of many: https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/berry-icebox-cake/
Anonymous At Work
sixthdoctor
This one speaks to me…
dmsilev
@WaterGirl: Queen Victoria’s ‘We Are Not Amused’ definitely came to mind this week.
catclub
@laura: agreed. Motto of The Famous Pacific Dessert Company: ‘Eat dessert first, life is uncertain.’
sab
@WaterGirl: Not necessarily. Usually graham crackers and actual whipping cream. My favorite is chocolate wafers and whipped cream, but other versions are also good.
Instead of baking it you refrigerate, and the more damp ingredients soften the crunchier ingredients until it has the texture of cake.
Lovely on a hot day.
Anonymous At Work
@catclub: I think they heard the three little letters at the end of every sentence.
“yet”
No indictments on the content creators…”yet”
No other organizations indicted…”yet”
No other evidence to unseal…”yet”
Because a lot of them know they were broadcasting the same message and getting paid to do so and wondering if their lawyer/accountant/driver/pedicurist/home-chef did enough due diligence on the source of their money for it to be clean, or not.
Jackie
@WaterGirl: I have individual slices of white chocolate raspberry cheese cake with dark chocolate crust in my freezer so I can grab a slice of celebration at a moment’s notice!🥳
Jay
@WaterGirl:
Icebox cake is an icecream cake, usually a oreo or cookie crust, a thick layer of icecream, and a whipped cream icing, often piped on.
Another Scott
@dmsilev: There must be something going around.
The big air-cooled chiller we depend on at work decided to throw a fault. “E-17” – an error not listed in the manual. :-/ I’ve been trying to do trouble shooting and rig up some smaller ones to get by while waiting/hoping for a response from the manufacturer’s service group…
[ sigh ]
Good luck!
Cheers,
Scott.
laura
@catclub: I have no doubt I was subconsciously fondly repeating that sound motto. Many Gracias for the remembery.
Joy in FL
@sixthdoctor: Oh, thank you for the Geeks for Harris info. I just signed up. (comment #30)
comrade scotts agenda of rage
Cake or Death:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMMHUzm22oE
Never gets old.
WaterGirl
@dmsilev: Oh, my. Yum. I do not do cool whip. shudder.
WaterGirl
@Anonymous At Work: Thank you for that!
WaterGirl
@sab: ooh, chocolate wafers.
WaterGirl
@Jackie: Do you find yourself pulling out a pice whenever there’s anything even celebration-adjacent? :-)
NanaR
I’m making plum tort tomorrow (the classic from NYT) I divorced the NYT few years ago but kept subscription to cooking app. Too many favorites stored there to give it up.
Will bring cake to Saturday evening gathering with friends. Here’s hoping there will be much to celebrate.
WaterGirl
@Joy in FL: @sixthdoctor: You guys need to report back on Geeks for Harris.
Albatrossity
@WaterGirl: Tiramisu absolutely counts! If you were closer I would offer you a slice of the cake my daughter made for my birthday this week. Chocolate caramel. It was divine, although it definitely is best in homeopathic doses if you want to sleep later!
sab
@WaterGirl: NPR is only Republican during the commute hours (Morning Edition and All Things Considered.) The rest of the time they are just public radio.
They have stations all accross the country so they need to think about their rural listeners as well as their urban listeners. But I have found them to be often interesting and informative as no other network or whatever they are manages.
For example A1 with Jen White is really good on trans issues (mostly from supportive parents’ and doctors’ points of view.) But she is also good on young musicians and other visual and theater artists, mostly black, that this elderly white music lover in Ohio might never have heard otherwise. Like current jazz music.
wjca
@hells littlest angel:
When the OP asked: “What is wrong with these people? Did they not have parents to teach them values?” my immediate thought was of Colin Grey (the father of the latest school shooter). But your JD Vance suggestion might have merit as well.
What it comes down to is that some parents, and their values, are part of the problem. Their values are just sick, and that is what their children absorb. Others absorbed their noxious views elsewhere, of course. But parent (and grandparents, and on back generations) are IMHO a significant part of the problem.
WaterGirl
@Albatrossity: Well, it’s beautiful!
edit: I laughed at homeopathic doses.
Joy in FL
@WaterGirl: It’s not until Sept. 24. If I remember and there’s something to share, I will surely comment about the Geeks for Harris zoom call : )
Sept. 24 seems like centuries from now. My next big marker is a major craft supply delivery on Saturday and then the Debate is the next big thing after that.
I do like that these group things are happening over many weeks. The Black Women one was practically immediate, and then so many have followed with so many groups adding their voices and $$$. It’s one of the many positive things about our democratic party and our Democracy.
Eolirin
@Jay: Ice cream is not an ingredient in authentic icebox cakes.
Jackie
@WaterGirl: Nope! I love this cheese cake, but it’s so rich, it’s truly a special occasion cake. I usually only eat half a slice at a time. LOL
Jackie
Did anyone catch Chris Hayes tonight? He put a video together showing TCFG’s mental decline in just the past month!
https://youtu.be/tPYktDoJE_w?si=3O8-Y_-I-WXCKMUd
Jay
@Eolirin:
North of the border it is.
The ice cream needs to be warmed up enough to be spread, then refrozen.
And it needs to be icecream, not iced milk.
sab
@wjca: Vox has an article on school mass shooters. Scary because we ignore it all. Often abusive homelife. Suicidal. Depression. Months if not years of warning. Then sometimes parents allowing or introducing guns.
CaseyL
I have two lovely roasts in my freezer, and for a long time have wanted to make Just a Plain Old Pot Roast, with carrots and potatoes.
So I take one of them out to thaw it. Only it’s not a raw piece of meat: it’s a pre-cooked roast. Forgot I had one. So I follow the directions to heat it up, and roast the carrots and potatoes separately.
Came out great. Of course I can’t take credit for the beef, but the veg came out really well, too. (Had to cook them a LOT longer than the recipe said, until they were soft enough.)
I took some over to my neighbor who had minor hand surgery today and simply can’t do much cooking. He loved it.
And I have enough leftovers for another two or three meals.
sab
@wjca: There are parents who think that anti-bullying teaching in school is depriving their own kids of useful life skills.
Regnad Kcin
@Leto: And when you discover that your tiramisu can be ‘educated’ with many things other than marsala…
wjca
@sab: Just one of multiple reasons they object to public education. God forbid (phrase used deliberately) their children grow up to be decent human beings!
Villago Delenda Est
@Anonymous At Work:
I wish I was “victimized” to the tune of $400 large. Hurt me, hurt me!
Jackie
TCFG is having a GREAT WEEK!
danielx
Been at the lakeshore in Grand Haven MI all week. Been gorgeous, highs in the upper 70s all week cloudless skies, etc etc. High of 75 at home tomorrow, 68 Saturday so getting home just in time for fall weather. Hopefully reason to celebrate when we get home.
Note: Grand Haven is county seat for Ottawa County, where the board of county commissioners was taken over by Trumpista culture warriors in 2023. “Family values”, “election integrity”, ad nauseam. They are slowly but surely being kicked out by local voters, who for some strange reason are more interested in mundane issues like keeping the streets in good repair.
BR
Walz did a great rally in Erie PA. His speeches these days keep building and building up until he goes full coach at the end:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VLfzYv9CVM
TS
Went out to the grocery store and there are 4 new posts when I get back. No-one wants me to do any useful work today.
Kelly
Smokey and hot here in Oregon. I’m glad our AC works well and our house is tight. But we should be out splashing around in the rivers not sheltering in the house. Mrs Kelly and I discussed how these hot smokey days have just been a fact of summer to our 9 grandchildren. Shifting baselines. My best recollection the summer of 2003 with the B&B fire was the first time Smoke ran me indoors for several summer days. Oldest grandkid is 24.
Redshift
We have Medovyk (Ukrainian honey cake) waiting in the fridge for a friend’s birthday this weekend! Try some if you can find it – light and sweet but not too sweet.
rikyrah
Come on Judge…sentence him
Redshift
Weather is gorgeous here in NoVa. We’re having early fall weather while most of the country is broiling. We suffered with record triple digits at the end of August.
Villago Delenda Est
@Kelly: Where in Oregon? Smokey days were guaranteed in 1970’s Eugene, from field burning down the valley (to the north of Eugene) around Albany. Finally, a huge pileup on I-5 put an end to that practice.
scott alloway
@Jay:
We have an ice cream machine that lets me make nice, clean, smooth ice cream – everything from Vanilla (with real Madagascar extract) to peach (fresh slightly steamed peaches) to Pumpkin (NOT pumpkin spice, dammit). It comes out soft when completed and I stick it in our commercial freezer (-20 F) to keep it solid. The soft output would work well for the dessert.
trnc
@Jackie:
During the childcare question and “book report by kid who definitely hasn’t read the book” answer segment, I see 5 people cringing and one who wants to subscribe to his newsletter. That one is Larry Kudlow, back row center.
wjca
And then collect. Every penny. And fast.
Sure Lurkalot
The media makes delicious icebox cake out of the graham cracker crumbs and cool whip that is Trump’s brain (on a good day). Read the whole thread…it will make you mad enough to unsubscribe from a number of publications, if you haven’t yet.
Edited with better link.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1831771918346940459.html
Jackie
@trnc: It was creepy listening him for sure.
How the race is so close is mind boggling.
Kayla Rudbek
@Redshift: yeah, it was pretty good weather to ride the C&O towpath over Labor Day weekend (except for the thunderstorm on Saturday)
Ruckus
@dmsilev:
I know it FEELS like 1000 degrees but it was only 109 where I live in SoCal today. It’s expected to be the same tomorrow and then cool off to 104 the next couple of days. So, a comfy weekend…….
Kayla Rudbek
Open thread and off-topic rant: Facebook needs to bring back the thumbs down button on videos. I have been watching furniture flipping videos and some of them truly need a thumbs down button. Also need a “WTF are you thinking” button. I must have enough of my carpenter maternal grandfather in me to have very strong opinions about letting the natural wood grain shine through whenever possible. And I really dislike the trend for making the wood look pale and whiter as well. It’s antique/vintage wood, of course it’s going to look orange or dark. If I wanted to look at sun-bleached driftwood all day, I would go buy a piece of driftwood.
I say this knowing that I would probably pick lighter colors for my own home as I buy furniture, but that’s because I live in a townhouse and I don’t have windows on all four walls. And I would like to have some color choices besides white, ash/bleached wood/greige, and black for my furniture. I want light golden oak back as an option, dammit. We don’t have to go back to the 1970s avocado or the 1980s neon and/or chintz, but I don’t want to be cooped up in a colorless box all the time.
West of the Rockies
@Jackie:
Polls be damned… I’m not sure the race is that close. The media adores its race horse model: clicks and eyeballs, baby!
Cash, enthusiasm, state-level DNC vs RNC infrastructure, volunteer numbers all suggest a big blue November.
Kelly
@Villago Delenda Est: East of Salem in or near the foothills. Back in peak field burning days the smoke only hung around for a few hours, then blew south to Eugene
Jackie
@Ruckus: In southeastern WA we’re expecting 100 tomorrow thru Sunday… then upper 90’s slowly tapering down to mid 80’s next week. Who knows after that. It’ll fluctuate another week or so. We’re in desert country, after all.
Kelly
@Villago Delenda Est: By the way grass seed field burning is still allowed from roughly Scio to Silverton. 15,000 acres. They schedule it on days the wind blows it towards me here on the N Santiam
Jackie
@West of the Rockies: I WANT a Blue Nov. But I’m holding my breath. I assume NOTHING!
Never forget 2016!
West of the Rockies
@West of the Rockies:
Horse race, not race horse.
frosty
@comrade scotts agenda of rage: First time I saw it – very funny. “You’re lucky we’re Church of England. OK, you can have cake.”
frosty
@Kayla Rudbek:
Greige. Perfect description. We’ve been looking at 55+ condos on line today and they’re all identical decor. White walls, greige furniture, light colored fake wood floors. What, we can’t do hardwood floors any more? Or paint the walls with color? Ugh.
Mai Naem mobile
@Jackie: the walls are closing in on TFG and he’s not handling it well. His kids and wife don’t give a crap about him, just what they can use him for. He doesn’t appear to have any real friends. All relationships are transactional. I’m kind of concerned about what he might do. You have to wonder if he’s got some documents or whatever he can use to get out of a jam. The Secret Service just seem like they follow his orders. I find it hard to believe that the Secret Service knew nothing about the docs at MarALago.
Chet Murthy
@Mai Naem mobile: I’ve read that his SS detail’s -only- job is protect him. No other law enforcement function. But I could be mistaken.
Mai Naem mobile
@West of the Rockies: unless TFG does truly awful and Harris has a flawless performance, I fully expect the media to say that Harris lost. They really want to keep the horse race going for eyeballs. I have no idea what to believe. I’ve got PTSD from 2016. Nate Silver says TFG is winning right now. Too many polls within the margin of error. I don’t want to be like the 2012 Romney idiot who was unskewing polls living in his bubble.
Jay
@frosty:
Colour is very subjective. One buyer/renter might love your paint choice, another might hate it. Think of white/off white as a canvas for their own choices.
Actual “hardwood” is expensive to buy and install, (time and tools). Click fake hardwoods are fast and cheap.
Chet Murthy
@Mai Naem mobile: I remember around this time in 2016, the Hillary campaign was talking about expanding the map, talking about Texas, Florida, maybe other places. I think -at best- the race is a tossup, and if the vote were held today, he’d win. Yes, the momentum is moving in Harris’ direction. But she’s still too close in too many swing states for it to be in her favor.
Mai Naem mobile
@Chet Murthy: that makes no sense to me. I don’t care about SS ignoring some teenage presidential kid who goes and does some underage drinking but this is national security stuff.
Chet Murthy
@Mai Naem mobile: If his SS detail had the additional duty of reporting and stopping national security crimes, then you can see how that might make the “protected” reluctant to trust them completely, right? And since obviously their -first- duty has to be the safety of the protected, it follows naturally that other duties are always secondary, and for somebody like TCFG, they fall away completely.
I don’t like it any more than you.
frosty
@Jay: Color. This is why all cars are white, black, or silver. With the occasional red or blue. It’s more important to not do something someone might not like than to do something everyone can sort of live with. We’re back to Henry Ford. “You can have any color you want as long as it’s black.”
I get that hardwood is expensive. How about hardwood colored fake wood floors then?
ETA: In the 50s and 60s Fender guitars used GM Duco (misspelled?) colors – Dakota Red, Seafoam Green, Daphne Blue, Lake Placid Blue. Cars used to be as colorful as guitars!
Mai Naem mobile
@Chet Murthy: i think Biden needs to sit his ass down in PA till election day. Walz needs to be running between Wisconsin, Michigan and PA 3xwk till election and Harris needs to run between GA, NC, AZ and Nevada. 3xwk till election. Leftover days in FL.
Mike E
Merchanukah is gonna be lit! Let the appeals fly!
Chet Murthy
After Fitzmas, Mueller Time, Fani’s whatever-you-wanna-call-it, I’m not gonna hold my breath. Maybe something good comes tomorrow: personally I doubt it.
A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan)
@CaseyL: I learned quite a few years ago now to always microwave my potatoes (I use small ones) until they are soft, then put them in and cook them with the roast. Poke a few holes through the potato skin with a fork first for the steam to escape. My husband likes his potatoes SOFT, the better to mash up on his plate with butter and the gravy. Yum.
Steve in the ATL
@frosty: I have a sea foam green one from 1957!
ETA: Stratocaster, not GM car
Jay
@frosty:
I see lot’s of car colour here, maybe because winters are dark and grey for 6 months.
At the Maple Ridge place, we had yellow oak click floors, Navaho White, ( a tan) walls everywhere but the kitchen, laundry room and the bathrooms. The bathrooms were white with white appliances, stone countertops, (grey-ish), white appliances, terrazo marble floors, real in the bathroom, dense vinyl fake in the laundry room, (possible flooding issues).
Kitchen had dark cherry cabinets, jade green floors and counters, matched the view into the back yard.
Half the viewers reacted with “uuuggh”, the buyers loved the colours.
Kinda reminds me of “the hedge” We had a hedge, (on our side) of mature 6 ft junipers running from the back yard fence to the curb, that were “neglected” when we moved in. Pulling out of the driveway was risky. Weeding, water and groundscaping brought the hedge back, but,……..
I started ripping it back from the curb to the edge of the house, and the neighbors freaked out. It got heated.
Anyway, replaced that stretch of the hedge with a Star Magnolia, several ornamental maples, a couple vine maples, an ornamental crabapple, with a groundcover of alliums, various bulbs, anemones, Lilly of the Valley and a large, sculptural rock by the curb. So pulling out, I could see the street.
The neighbors fumed, all winter, until the spring, when they grudgingly admitted it was much better than the old hedge.
Most of the “real-ish” wood floors are either particle board with a veneer of real wood, or plywood with a veneer of real wood. They are “click” lock floors, 1/4″ thick, so are between cheap, (don’t get the particle board floors wet at all) and inexpensive. They are fast and easy to install.
First house I had, (Clinton Street) had Douglas Fir flooring under the carpet. I pulled the carpet, cleaned the floors and left them as is. That dark mahogany colour comes from age. Sanding and refinishing them is a crime.
frosty
@Steve in the ATL: I have a 2011 Gibson SG in Pelham Blue! Which was Gibson’s version of Lake Placid Blue. It was a Sam Ash special, I found it on eBay, then put the Lyre vibrola on it to make it look bitchin’ and make sure it would never be in tune. Although the wound G helped a little with that.
Do you know how hard it is to find an SG that’s not cherry red??
frosty
@Jay: First house I had was a Baltimore rowhouse, hardwood floors. The second was just over the line in Bo County, hardwood floors, recently refinished. We had dogs so we put down wall-to-wall carpet. When we got ready to sell it we told the handyman to rip up the carpet. He said “do you know what kind of nightmare is under there?” so we told him we were the ones who put the carpet down and why.
Our current house is a foursquare from 1923. We pulled up the mauve (ick) WTW. No hardwood under it though. It’s the Southern Yellow Pine subfloor, in good shape, except for the foyer that our dog tore up. We refinished that and it’s good enough.
Bottom line. I hate those light-colored click fake wood floors. If we actually move to one of these places there will be a lot of painting and other renovations to be done.
ETA: Dark and grey for months – this is why I’ll never move to western PA. Nothing but brown and grey. Hey, those trees are different shades of brown! Oh, look, the slush in the street is a lighter grey than the asphalt, but it’s darker than the sky!!
ETA2: I understand your reluctance but we had to refinish the foyer – a German Shepherd is hell on softwood. It looks fine now.
Steve in the ATL
@frosty: ha—I can imagine! I’ve always heard that SGs were hard to keep in tune even without the added hardware. Has that been your experience?
frosty
@Steve in the ATL: It hasn’t been too bad. The G string helped (it’s Balloon Juice After Dark, right?) I rarely play electric any more. A lot of the Open Mics I go to are acoustic, so I’m playing one of my resonators. Been playing slide since my 20s when I figured out I was incapable of bending notes the way I wanted. Plus, after hearing Bonnie Raitt on a National I was hooked on the sound. Acoustic version of reverb!!!
Sally
@BR: Gosh, the writers have really lifted their game with Walz. You could not have designed a better candidate for Harris’ VP. That was a great presentation. I called him a great talker, rather than, speaker or orator. He talks to people. To everyone, and sounds the same whether he’s talking with ten people in a donut shop or a thousand at a rally. A real talent.
TKH
Currently “swimming” the Pyrenees where it’s cold and rainy every damn day. Looking longingly at hot weather in CA. Will admit though that temps> 100 is overdoing it a bit. That’s not hiking weather either. Can’t anybody do moderation anymore?
Layer8Problem
@TKH: “Currently ‘swimming’ the Pyrenees . . . ”
Where at, if I might ask?
TKH
@Layer8Problem: I started at Hendaye, across the border from San Sebastian, where the Iberian peninsula juts out into the Atlantic.
I had intended to go all the way to the Med (Banyuls-sur-Mer), East of Barcelona. I folded in Gavarnie when I saw a forecast of anther week + of rain and thunderstorms.
I am on my way to Corsica where the sun is shining and where it is warm and the hiking of the GR 20 is really good as well.
Layer8Problem
@TKH: Damn. Well, Corsica should be nice.
kalakal
@Steve in the ATL: Used to have an SG. Was a real pain to keep in tune
Barry
@catclub: “NPR is a washington DC news org, they may feel more proprietary about the ANC than other news media.”
More like “It’s our village ; we can desecrate it whenever we want.”
VOR
Re: Car color. There is a graph floating around showing car colors over time. According to the article, the data was sourced from Poland so may not represent US colors. But you do see car makers charging extra for bright colors while white, black, silver, and grey are less expensive. There is a newer trend towards non-metallic colors.
RaflW
Welp. Justice delayed is absolutely justice denied.
Fuck this fucking broken ass ‘system.’ I’m enraged. It’s all a god dammed farce.
Kayla Rudbek
@frosty: also a popular yarn color although to be fair some sheep have wool that’s that color, and if you like undyed yarn you can find that greige color pretty easily. Easy to see fancy cables and easy on the eyes, but so so BORING if it’s done throughout the house. And you can always dye the yarn darker yourself.