Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Not rolling over. fuck you, make me.

… gradually, and then suddenly.

The revolution will be supervised.

Well, whatever it is, it’s better than being a Republican.

The only way through is to slog through the muck one step at at time.

🎶 Those boots were made for mockin’ 🎵

Lick the third rail, it tastes like chocolate!

Is it negotiation when the other party actually wants to shoot the hostage?

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

We know you aren’t a Democrat but since you seem confused let me help you.

In my day, never was longer.

Fundamental belief of white supremacy: white people are presumed innocent, minorities are presumed guilty.

America is going up in flames. The NYTimes fawns over MAGA celebrities. No longer a real newspaper.

Disappointing to see gov. newsom with his finger to the wind.

Do not shrug your shoulders and accept the normalization of untruths.

Everything is totally normal and fine!!!

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

Dear Washington Post, you are the darkness now.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

Fight for a just cause, love your fellow man, live a good life.

They want us to be overwhelmed and exhausted. Focus. Resist. Oppose.

Tick tock motherfuckers!

Celebrate the fucking wins.

I see no possible difficulties whatsoever with this fool-proof plan.

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  3. 3.

    TurnItOffAndOnAgain

    It’s Wednesday my dude. Just in case there was something you needed to do Wednesday or something.

  4. 4.

    pat

    Watching msnbc and it’s all about MIlton and for pete’s sake, why would anyone want to live in Florida?

    (sorry, Betty)

  6. 6.

    Trivia Man

    @Poe Larity: we always enjoyed our exchange students. Even the one who broke a window to get in when he forgot his key.  Then later brought n a homeless guy he ran into. 🙄

  7. 7.

    Nukular Biskits

    Just chilling after finally getting enough energy to do some outside chores today.

    Being off a week sick sucks twice.  First, you’re sick. Second, nothing gets down so when you finally feel halfway human again, you get double the workload.

    Good news was this afternoon was beautiful here.

  9. 9.

    There go two miscreants

    I was definitely intrigued when I saw that the recent comments were for “Tuesday Night Open Thread”.

  12. 12.

    billcoop4

    Glad you checked in.  Off to spend I hope 72 hours presiding at and celebrating the union of two fine genderqueer non-binary 25ishes I’ve known forever — they asked me to preside even before they were “officially engaged”.

    Lord of the Rings theme, too, so this will be fun.

     

    BC

  14. 14.

    Ceci n est pas mon nym

    Apropos of nothing in particular: We haven’t been regular SNL watchers for years, but last night we watched the VP debate cold open, and a Weekend Update featuring Bowen Yang as Moo Deng the baby hippo. We were cracking up. The Moo Deng skit included several instances of Yang turning to the side to drink from a hose spraying full force at his face. Afterward I said to my wife, “that is a guy who is committed to the bit.”

    Is Yang coming into his own as a standout star of SNL?

    Also on the VP Debate, I kept saying about the guy playing Walz, “who is that guy?” Apparently it was Jim Gaffigan. He has Walz down absolutely cold. As does Maya Rudolph as Kamala.

  15. 15.

    3Sice

    Local EMAs need to stop disseminating emergency management information behind login required sites like Facebook & X.

  16. 16.

    bbleh

    Finished “The Umbrella Academy” and sorry but I’m REALLY over this alternate-timeline stuff right now…

  18. 18.

    billcoop4

    @Sure Lurkalot: That’s the plan!  Going with a play on the word “play” which is in the top-300 in page count in the OED (which covers 600k words so … “play” is special) and we’ll be in kilts or hobbit habits or … Ren Fair cos play and just have fun.

     

    Jake and Wes will enter to “Concerning Hobbits”.

  20. 20.

    Gloria DryGarden

    @Ceci n est pas mon nym: did you see on the view, they showed part of Maya Rudolph’s skit to Kamala, and she just dropped her jaw and laughed when Maya said I’m going to protect your Va-Georgia?!

  21. 21.

    lowtechcyclist

    @billcoop4:

    Congrats to the happy couple! May the celebration be filled with music, games, dancing, and much joy, and may it be just the beginning of a happy lifetime together!

  23. 23.

    Scout211

    @There go two miscreants: I was definitely intrigued when I saw that the recent comments were for “Tuesday Night Open Thread”.

    LOL.  I didn’t even notice that.  I sure hope Joelle hasn’t been waiting at the airport since the real Tuesday night.

  24. 24.

    Lily

    I’ve been trying to leave town for weeks, as my sweetheart sends near daily pictures of frolicking with dogs on the beach at sunset.  Car problems, health stuff, house repair, exhaustion.

  27. 27.

    Sure Lurkalot

    @billcoop4: I have the OED with the miniaturized print and magnifying glass,  It was gifted to me in college so I bet my version is missing quite a few words…

  28. 28.

    frosty

    @Nukular Biskits: ​A beautiful afternoon in Mississippi is a treat. Years ago I read this line in a John D. MacDonald novel:

    Character 1: Florida is beautiful in May and October.
    Character 2: Everywhere in North America is beautiful in May and October.

  33. 33.

    Sure Lurkalot

    Yea Mets, the team of my youth.

    I’ll be dead before the Colorado Rockies field a team in the playoffs again. I had season tickets for 17 years before I realized I was spending more proportionate to my wealth than the Monforts (owners). I did get to go to an All Star and World Series game at Coors Field, so bucket list checked.

  34. 34.

    SatanicPanic

    About to watch game four of the division series Padres vs the Dodgers . Padres are playing so well this might be our year 🤞🏼. Last night was a crazy nail biter tho, not sure I can take another one of those.

  35. 35.

    HumboldtBlue

    Fuck the Mets and fuck the spineless, gutless Phillies. Rolled over like a beaten dog.

  38. 38.

    persistentillusion

    @Sure Lurkalot: I feel ya.  We had season tix to the White Sox when they were so terrible that games were viewed by us, a couple of off-duty Chicago cops and about 1500 other people. (The cops came to my daughter’s christening.)

    Yet, I went to an All-Star game (albeit at that other Chicago ballpark) and a WS game.

  41. 41.

    Sallycat

    In St. Petersburg with Milton.  High enough so there is no flooding.  Still have electricity.  The bad news is that the three bedrooms on the east side of my house have water from the wind on the floor.  Apparently it blew in where the floor meets the wall?  Have no idea who to call to fix.  However, if that’s the worst thing that happens, I’m ok.

  43. 43.

    opiejeanne

    @pat: My daughter and her husband bought a house in April, in Sarasota. It’s an investment property, for a rental. It’s a mile from the water and 23 feet above sea level. They’ve been working on the place ever since, replacing the roof and making sure it’s clamped down correctly, installing hurricane-rated windows, painting, and this week cleaning up after Helene.

    They evacuated early yesterday morning, took them 10 hours to get to Savannah. Today they continued on to Maryland to stay with his sister, just a wearying two days.

    Helene brought down a huge tree next door that took out their fence but missed both houses.  We’re all wondering if that place will even be there when it’s safe to come back.

    And this morning UPS delivered a package to the house. What the heck? The neighborhood was mostly evacuated and with the storm bearing down why was UPS out doing deliveries to private residences at all?

  45. 45.

    Ceci n est pas mon nym

    @zhena gogolia: That was annoying, and the only thing they did with the Biden character, but that was not the bulk of the skit. To be honest it wasn’t that funny, there weren’t any real ha-ha moments. But I did enjoy how well they captured Kamala and Tim. Looking forward to more of both in the future. Say 4-8 years of the future.

    Most likely it was the YouTube algorithm that then showed me the Moo Deng skit and then that took us down a bit of an SNL rabbit hole.

  46. 46.

    Bill Arnold

    @Lily:
    NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center: 3-DAY FORECAST
    It’s not been super-accurate. Here’s the current table. G4 is a severe storm, G5 is worst. Subtract 5 from UT for Eastern DST.
    Oct 10 Oct 11 Oct 12
    00-03UT 1.67 8.33 (G4) 5.33 (G1)
    03-06UT 1.33 8.00 (G4) 5.00 (G1)
    06-09UT 1.33 7.00 (G3) 4.67 (G1)
    09-12UT 1.33 6.67 (G3) 4.33
    12-15UT 5.00 (G1) 6.33 (G2) 4.33
    15-18UT 7.33 (G3) 6.33 (G2) 5.33 (G1)
    18-21UT 7.67 (G4) 6.00 (G2) 4.67 (G1)
    21-00UT 8.33 (G4) 5.33 (G1) 4.33

  47. 47.

    Matt McIrvin

    @Nukular Biskits: I’m working AND sick. Stuck at home! Not able to think nearly as well as when not sick! Maybe I’ll go to bed early, probably should. Not sleeping well makes me cranky, guilt-filled and paranoid. But late at night there’s always the temptation to soothe myself with dumb stuff on the computer (flight simulators, fiddling around with math, YouTube).

  48. 48.

    kalakal

    Here in Clearwater, lot’s of flickering, still have power amazingly. Am 70 ft up, not in flood zone.  2 1/2 long extreme wind warning ( the eyewall saying hi ) just expired. Flash flood, flood warnings everywhere apparently 10 – 16 inches of rain so far, maybe 6 inches to come

  50. 50.

    Lyrebird

    @kalakal: Glad to hear it!  I heard the Clearwater Marine Aquarium was able to evacuate some of their resident animals but that their facility was seriously damaged by Helene.  I hope Milton is milder.

  52. 52.

    Sure Lurkalot

    I’m not much of a sports fan but baseball love goes back a couple of generations in my family, back to radio days.

    I can see why people find it boring.

  53. 53.

    frosty

    @Jackie: Yes!!! My favorite teams are the Orioles and whoever beats the Yankees.
    I was a Dodger fan when I lived in SoCal, my dad was a (Brooklyn) Dodger fan when he grew up in Nassau County, but now… Go Padres!!!!​

  54. 54.

    frosty

    @JMG: It’s been a long time since I read them, but I’m sure it was a Travis McGee one, no idea which. My favorite was Pale Gray For Guilt. His accountant friend Meyer was great in that one.

  56. 56.

    kalakal

    We now have a 50ft Queen Palm in the swimming pool, and another one leaning against a 3rd at 45 degrees. I think the back garden is going to look very different tomorrow.

  61. 61.

    Melancholy Jaques

    I go for the Guardians (original home town) and Dodgers (adopted home town). Got jerseys for both teams. They are each down 2-1. I try to take these things in stride, but I was hoping at least one would make it to the World Series.

  64. 64.

    Anotherlurker

    Got my CA mail in ballot today. All filled out. Dropping off at Walnut Creek City Hall tomorrow.  It feels so good to vote against any and republicans on my ballot.

  66. 66.

    CaseyL

    I’m so happy to hear Joelle is coming! That will, hopefully, brighten your days and your mood.

    I did think the plan was to spend winters in Arizona… but it’s not winter yet. And there are family holiday get-togethers coming in the next couple of months, so the seasonal relocation may not happen until January.

    Nothing much happening here in Seattle. I’m going to see The Wild Robot this weekend. I didn’t know anything about it, and wasn’t inclined to go, but then I heard a few people (maybe here?) rave about the movie. So I watched the trailer, and then texted my friend:

    Me: It sounds like a great movie; it also sounds like the kind of movie that will have me sobbing quietly in my seat.

    My Friend: I hear people start crying within the first 10 minutes.

    Me:

    My friend:

    My friend: So! When shall we go? I’ll bring the Kleenex.​

  68. 68.

    Gvg

    @kalakal: yeah, that’s one of the problems with queen and royal palms. They get too tall. People don’t care how tall something will be in 50 years because they assume they won’t be there….most trees grow pretty fast and the years go by way to fast.

    I have a book on landscaping for hurricanes. The author checked with all the dumps to see which species produced the most debris after major hurricanes and also checked with insurance companies.

    In South Florida most of the damage was by ficus trees. The author wants people to quit replanting them. Australian pines are also not recommended. Iron wood is though. It has strong wood and roots.

    Sable palms, Pygmy date palms and canary island date palms are better for around homes. Queen palms go down, apparently royal palms are better, but still pretty big near houses.

  71. 71.

    Jackie

    @frosty: I’m a poor M’s fan, so I get to just have fun rooting against the Astros, Yankees and Dodgers. I want to see new(ish) teams in the WS!😊

  74. 74.

    Gloria DryGarden

    @Ceci n est pas mon nym: cool. YouTube follows your interests. Sometimes it gives me temptations in all of my most recent and varied Interests. So many rabbit holes to go down!

    Anyone making jokes about Biden being old has pissed me off. It’s not funny.

    He has been an amazing and effective president, not much into ego, all in on getting things handled. I really admire and appreciate him, coming in on the heels of such a political and national mess of terror, lies, ineffective governance, and ruined international relations. Stupid jokes. Plus, my parents made it up to 88, and were perfectly functional, and intelligent, and effective, until their health got to them.

    There’s nothing funny about it. Growing older is not for sissies.

    Joe Biden is strong and good! What a troubling and difficult job he’s had.

  76. 76.

    wjca

    @Sure Lurkalot: baseball love goes back a couple of generations in my family, back to radio days.

    I can see why people find it boring.

    They find it boring because they don’t understand.   Baseball is a radio game** — you listen to it while doing something else.

    In college, I listened to games while doing engineering problem sets.  Do a problem.  Stop to listen as something happens.  Do the next problem.  Listen as the next thing happens.

    ** For contrast, football is a TV game.  You can’t understand what’s really happening otherwise.  Basketball, on the other hand, is impossible to follow except in person.  On TV, or on the radio, basketball is basically incomprehensible.

  79. 79.

    Gvg

    @Timill: we don’t have many and they don’t get that big here. They are not strong, but do regrow from the roots in wet areas as a kind of shrubbery not really a tree.

  80. 80.

    Gloria DryGarden

    @Matt McIrvin: I wonder if David Attenborough narrating pretty ocean or nature shows would help you sleep. Engaging enough, but not much brain power required. Often, if I can tear myself away from more engaging things, his videos on YouTube take me right to sleep quickly. Or dolphin videos.

    Next time I go to the rain or ocean sounds on YouTube, I really need to forward the slider so there’s only a half hour left of it. No need, usually, for 3 hours of it.

    I understand rain and ocean might be happy only in 4 corners region, where we miss and crave those things. They do have babbling creeks videos, and GENTLE rain in the forest audios for people who are not happy about ocean.

  81. 81.

    wjca

    @Anotherlurker: Dropping off at Walnut Creek City Hall tomorrow.  It feels so good to vote against any and republicans on my ballot.

    Really need to rethink your Assembly vote.  The incumbant has demonstrated that she has a devotion to truth worthy of Trump.  If it takes temporarily electing a RWNJ to get rid of her, so be it.  The Democratic Party will be better for it.

  82. 82.

    Gloria DryGarden

    @prostratedragon: oh! that was beautiful! I love academy of ancient music. People in the comments asking about that giant lute, the theorbo, favorite instruments of mine.

    This is the music for me.

  83. 83.

    Lily

    @Bill Arnold: thanks.  we figured it would get strong around 9 am on the 10th on East coast — does that sound right?  Actually I just turned off the circuit the heat pump is on, prob low possibility of damage but that’s easier than fixing.  (Had one damaged last year by supposedly voltage surge.)  And figured it stays strong through the 11th.  ? Figured Aurora possible on the east coast starting 2:30 pm tomorrow.

     

    @Bill Arnold:

  89. 89.

    thruppence

    Saw Kamala on Colbert, all well and good, but when they got to a segment on would you like to have a beer with Kamala, her team chose canned Miller High Life. Huh. How big was the committee that came up with that choice? I suppose they remember too well Obama getting slagged for his elitist food choices, like dijon mustard.

  93. 93.

    cain

    @CaseyL:

    She’s gonna enjoy all the weight her man has lost! I believe he’s quite a bit. There has been no photos. But he’s been hitting the gym quite a bit.

    Joelle’s gonna be delighted.

  94. 94.

    frosty

    @thruppence: ​OTOH, it might be her favorite beer. Obviously can’t pick Yuengleng, the company owner is a Trump fan. Can’t pick a craft brewery, you’ll piss off all the others. God knows you can’t go for Heineken or anything foreign. Well, sort of foreign. Miller is now owned by Molson-Coors, so it’s at least North American.
    Or maybe it’s her (or Doug’s) favorite beer (ptui Rheinheitsgebot for me!)
    Most everything is owned by Belgium now.​

  95. 95.

    opiejeanne

    @prostratedragon: It’s delightful. I played a dance suite by Handel as part of my senior recital. Everything went well until I got to the Giga. (drat). My teacher had me playing it too fast, not realizing that Handel did not typically write Italian-speed gigas/gigues.

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