Looks like we could use a non-sports open thread. I just realized the Tony Awards were on – they just started here, so I don’t know if they are tape-delayed or if is the official start. Anyway, I’m recording it – I’ll watch the performances later.
What’s on your agenda tonight?
Open thread.
ETA: Trollhattan’s puppeh, because, aaawww, that’s why.
Corner Stone
How do you get a good air draw in that pit?
ETA, linky no work. You Steeplejack.
TaMara (HFG)
@Corner Stone: Link fixed. It’s filled with pea gravel and I made a grate. Also, paving stones are loosely stacked.
efgoldman
Today (June 11) would have been my Dad’s 102nd birthday.
Suzanne
@efgoldman: Today is my mom’s 67th birthday.
Spawn the Elder, in true anxious and angsty-teen fashion, is in love with “Dear Evan Hansen” and hopes it wins the Best Musical Tony award tonight.
Corner Stone
@TaMara (HFG):
I’ve heard that about you.
schrodingers_cat
Looks like a sacrificial altar, who are you going to sacrifice to appease the gods?
Doug R
Heard that “Come From Away” a musical based on travelers stranded in Newfoundland right after 9/11 is up for what, 5 Tonys?
trollhattan
I will not note it’s halftime at FIFA US-Mexico men’s soccer, as some would consider that “sports”; hopefully not like some consider golf “sport.” Because that’s just wrong. I know someone named Tony; he’s Swiss.
zhena gogolia
Needz moar Hamilton.
Who was the guy who introduced the Come From Away production number?
dmsilev
Spent a good chunk of the morning and basically all afternoon fixing the language on a manuscript that I’m a coauthor on. Russian-English is a very special variant of English…
I think my favorite was finding the phrase “blow the graph inside out” in close proximity with “the curve thrusting vertically upwards”. I don’t believe that scientific writing should be bloodless, but I also believe that a distinction should be made between “not bloodless” and “engorged and throbbing”.
Omnes Omnibus
@trollhattan: I knew someone named Tony who was an Austrian bartender in Kitzbühel. I hope that helps.
schrodingers_cat
@dmsilev: Your paper sounds like a romance novel, don’t make the changes, you may get more citations this way!
Corner Stone
@dmsilev: I didn’t know you worked for the Trump administration.
trollhattan
@Omnes Omnibus:
That’s a mere two umlauts from paradise. Here’s a portrait of our puppeh, because puppehs. Not as serious as he may look here.
Iowa Old Lady
@dmsilev: @schrodingers_cat: Schrodingers_cat is right. Give the academic readers a break.
schrodingers_cat
@Omnes Omnibus: My friend Tony is originally from California and now lives in Maine.
TaMara (HFG)
@schrodingers_cat: Well, there seems to be an entire corner of my yard dedicated to three types of sage – that will probably be happily offered to the gods. (Although I am thinking of putting some of each in containers – to keep under control – and drying for my very own smudge sticks).
James Powell
I may be coming to this late, but my twitter feed is telling me that Senator Feinstein is calling for an investigation into whether Lynch ordered Comey to give Clinton’s emails a break.
I have never liked Senator Feinstein. I’ve always seen her as the west coast version of Holy Joe in that she is a corporate Democrat, pro-war, and an insufferably reliable critic of Democrats. So I’ve never liked her but I’ve never hated her. This, though, this is just. too. much.
dmsilev
@schrodingers_cat: The thought has occurred. It would be an interesting experiment to rewrite a paper following the style of the most over-the-top bodice-ripper you can imagine, just to see what the editors and/or referees would say. Only, I’m pretty sure they’d say “reject, and stop wasting our time”.
Mingobat f/k/a Karen in GA
In honor of Tony night, I have to sell two of my Hamilton tickets. I hate to be a greedy scalper, but the fact is it I could use some help with tuition, fees and supplies for school in August, so there it is.
So, does anyone want to see the matinee performance of Hamilton on Broadway on Wednesday, July 12th?
TaMara (HFG)
@trollhattan: I added him to the post because we all need that face to help us cope.
NotMax
Nice that James Earl Jones will be handed a Lifetime Achievement award.
Living acting legend.
trollhattan
@TaMara (HFG): Merci, ooh sorry, dankeschön!
Aleta
Looks so nice!
Are those smooth rounded rocks (piled at the near end, and on the sides) river rocks? This may be just for the rocks in my area, but I’ve been told that river rocks shouldn’t be heated by a fire or on a stove. (They may crack or might explode.) Yours aren’t in the fire though.
zhena gogolia
@NotMax:
They didn’t televise it — just a pre-recorded clip.
normal liberal
@Doug R:
I think seven, including the director who just won.
I’m just a simple midwestern girl, but is this not the weirdest premise ever for a musical? Makes Hamilton seem obvious.
Bill E Pilgrim
@dmsilev: When I spent a good deal of time editing the English of non-native speakers one of my favorites from an Italian was “it all depends on your point of you”.
Made a certain sense, as they often do.
NotMax
@zhena goglia
PBS carries (used to, at least) the award presentations not scheduled for the CBS telecast. May be available on the PBS site.
Because of the time difference, won’t air here for hours yet. Shall be checking it out then.
Saw Mr. Jones on stage a few years ago and he’s just as mesmerizing as one would expect.
geg6
Awwww, trollhattan’s puppeh looks like Koda when she was a puppeh. So adorable. Chocolate Labs are the bestest!?
Bill E Pilgrim
If you want an umlaut you have to break some kegs
Omnes Omnibus
@Bill E Pilgrim: That was unnecessary, man.
Oatler.
@Bill E Pilgrim: Speaking of horrible hamburger puns, “Bob’s Burgers” season finale is tonight.
trollhattan
@geg6:
Thanks! Actually a German shorthair pointer but an oddball liver-colored model. Entire dog is too scrawny to be a stately Lab.
Bill E Pilgrim
@Omnes Omnibus: I think the proper form is “Was that really necessary?”
And, no.
Someone mentioned umlauts and a bartender, but I was too lazy to go back and reply to the right place. If there even was one.
NotMax
Seeded rye just taken out of the bread machine.
Having a Pavlovian response from the aroma.
TaMara (HFG)
If anyone has a kitteh photo, I believe they deserve equal time.
Gin & Tonic
@Mingobat f/k/a Karen in GA:
Somebody made a Broadway play about Alexander Hamilton? Really? And it’s popular?
Gin & Tonic
@schrodingers_cat: Lots of guys named Tony here in RI.
Corner Stone
@Gin & Tonic: That genocidal racist? WTH?
Bill E Pilgrim
@Gin & Tonic: Yes but unfortunately it supports lazy and destructive historical myths.
NotMax
As it’s an official open thread, came across this item (many be old news to you cell phone owners) and think it neat-o, in a nouveau retro kind of way.
zhena gogolia
@NotMax:
I just gave up. Everything’s too noisy. I’ll catch Miranda tomorrow on YouTube, I guess. Pierre, Natasha looks horrible. It’s like a bad Fiddler on the Roof.
NotMax
@zhena goglia
I watch it for the play excerpts. Other than that, the mute button is right at hand.
Omnes Omnibus
@Bill E Pilgrim: Yes, and “Becket” protrays Becket as a Saxon rather than a member of the Norman ascendancy. And, mon dieu, what Dumas did with the history of the real D’Artagnan.
NotMax
@NotMax
Blockquote fail, but bet y’all can figure it out anyway.
satby
@trollhattan: beautiful boy!
jharp
Those are some nice rocks.
What I try to do is add a rock to my garden from every place I visit in my travels.
schrodingers_cat
@TaMara (HFG): If that altar/fire pit was square shaped you could host a traditional Hindu wedding in your back yard! Where the bride and groom circle the sacrificial altar 7 times, making 7 vows to each other in front of gods (represented by the fire), brahmins (officiating the wedding) and their loved ones (friends and family present).
Gin & Tonic
@jharp: My wife likes to pick up rocks and shells (mostly rocks) when we’re on the beach. One time we mailed a box of rocks home. I’m not joking.
satby
@jharp: I do that too, though they’re small rocks. Only I know what they are, but I enjoy the flash of memory when I come across them as I putter around.
Yes, I admit it: I’m a putterer.
efgoldman
@Gin & Tonic:
You mailed a Texas congresscritter to your house?
Gin & Tonic
@efgoldman: Just his head. Priority Mail boxes have size limits.
MoxieM
@trollhattan: Darned gorgeous dog of any persuasion. (I’d have thought Vizsla from the face, but I’d have been wrong!) My cousins always had German Wirehaired Pointers, (great doggos) yet they always named the dog Bruni…over and over. Multiples of Bruni. I never quite got when people do that.
(ETA I gorge on pix of the lovely Danes when they are offered. I am between Newfies, and crave my Giant Dog Fix like a cigarette.)
Mingobat f/k/a Karen in GA
@Gin & Tonic: So popular it’s also playing in Chicago and London, with a touring company or two about to be thrown into the mix. Hence the specifics re where the performance is.
Gin & Tonic
Proof the universe is cruel and unjust. At this point my neighborhood has been almost completely defoliated by gypsy moth caterpillars. They do not, however, eat poison ivy.
NotMax
@MoxieM
George Foreman syndrome.
Corner Stone
Harris county, in which Houston resides, is larger than the state of Rhode Island.
Major Major Major Major
To whoever recommended Horizon Zero Dawn in yesterday’s M4-wants-a-video-game thread, wow! Thanks! Got it on sale, and damn!
I did the intro and first couple quests, looks great. Then the sun got too bright behind the tv, as happens in a west-facing room, so I went over to the shady computer area and made a digital watercolor.
Successful solo afternoon!
NotMax
@Gin & Tonic
When lived in the Poconos, during years when they were prolific one could walk through the woods and quite clearly (and not softly by any means) hear them munching.
eclare
That puppeh has soulful eyes….
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Gin & Tonic: Nah, can’t be.
Suzanne
@MoxieM:
My grandparents did that. They had multiple Heidis (Keeshonds) and then multiple Kotzies (Siberian Huskies). I asked why they did it, and they said because they would mess up and call the new dog by the old dog’s name out of habit, and the dog would get confused, so this kept it simpler. Considering how many times the children in the family accidentally got called the dogs’ names, I have zero doubt that this would have been much worse with the dogs.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Gin & Tonic:
At least it was light.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Corner Stone: That’s a rather low bar, just sayin’.
Major Major Major Major
@jharp: I do that too, except I don’t have a garden so the rocks go on my shelf.
Gin & Tonic
@Corner Stone: It’s not about size, it’s about skill.
SectionH
OT, Congratulations John, PENUINS WIN!
Gin & Tonic
@NotMax: That sound was/is not the sound of them eating.
NoraLenderbee
@Suzanne: @efgoldman: Happy birthday to parents both here and gone.
My grandmothers would both be 117 this month. My dad would be 91, and his sister (last of the family) just turned . . . 86? 87? A whole family of Geminis. And my great-nephew turns one. And the seasons, they go round and round . . .
NotMax
@Corner Stone
Rhode Island as a Unit of Measure
efgoldman
@NotMax: Different from Smoots?
O. Felix Culpa
Speaking of drama, WaPo reports that the D.C. and Maryland attorneys general will sue Trump for violating the emoluments clause.
jharp
@Gin & Tonic:
You and your wife need to check out the south shore of Lake Superior.
Some awesome rock collecting. Agates.
J R in WV
Well, the puppeh is great. Worth commenting on. Well worth commenting on! Thanks.
Fire pit’s OK, take a picture when you have a fire some evening.
As a rock collector, I have shipped multiple boxes of crystals and fossils home from all over the nation. Now I have too big a shitload of collectible rock, minerals, crystals, and fossils. I even built another building – shop/garage for the overflow.
Remember, Trump is just President of the Electoral College, NOT the President of the people of the USA!!! He persists on a mere technicality!!
I stole that from Vicente Fox, former president of the proud nation of Mexico! Steal from the best, as famous artists and writers have often said.
Doug R
@Gin & Tonic: Reminds me of Lucy Ball in The Big Trailer. Which was on TCM in the last couple of days, BTW.
Cheryl Rofer
So NBC has gone full Fox. Or maybe worse.
efgoldman
@jharp:
When I was a kid in the 50s, my dad was stationed in Idar-Oberstein, Germany. It had been a semi-precious stone mining and processing center. Everybody picked up agate and amethyst geodes and loose quartz right from the side of the road.
NotMax
@efgoldman
The smoot’s a hoot but a garn be darned.
Major Major Major Major
@Cheryl Rofer: her interviews so far are Putin and Alex Jones…?
NotMax
@Doug R
The Long, Long Trailer.
/cinepedant.
;)
Juju
@Cheryl Rofer: Does anyone actually watch the Megyn Kelly show? I think I’m usually washing my hair when her show is on.
efgoldman
@NotMax:
The bridge actually has the Smoots marked off with bronze markers.
The bridge has been under reconstruction for several years (decaying infrastructure, especially underneath). The state has promised to retain/restore the markers.
Lyrebird
@O. Felix Culpa: YAY!
And congrats @TaMara (HFG): I’m not sure if you hoist your giant puppies to practice for hauling rocks or vice versa. Impressive construction either way!
Cheryl Rofer
@Juju: We need to encourage everyone to wash their hair at that time. Put their ratings in the cellar.
@Major Major Major Major: And she did a terrible job with Putin.
efgoldman
@Major Major Major Major:
Erin what’s her name this week. All I remember is she was one of the first to win a lawsuit because someone posted nudes of her on the intartoobz.
jharp
@efgoldman:
I would have liked that a lot.
My big thing for the past few decades is walking the plowed fields of the Great Lakes states finding native American flint pieces. And I have have found some really cool shit.
Some pieces that are estimated to be 5 to 7 thousand years old. Would love to meet up withe the dudes that lost them.
DesertFriar
@Corner Stone:
Song by Bill Harley: The Size Of The State of Rhode Island
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAjSLM6_sis
opiejeanne
@jharp: That’s pretty cool, finding those things. I’ve found obsidian arrowheads in the Eastern Sierras, mostly unfinished or broken.
I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t want to meet the dudes who lost those flints. In fact, I’m pretty sure that any ancestors/random people from just 100 years ago would be shocked by the way we dress and talk and live, and would strongly disapprove.
Tom Q
@zhena gogolia: Only just seeing this, but in case it’s nagging at you: it was Ron Duguay, who played for the NY Rangers back in the 80s, and had a small bit of a career as an actor after. The fact he’s Canadian is the only reason I can think of for them dredging him up for this (to introduce the Canada-set show).
Major Major Major Major
@opiejeanne: people from 100 years ago might be shocked and disapprove, but I imagine people from 5000 years ago would be a little more open minded on account of basically nothing being recognizable except, like, dogs.
opiejeanne
@Major Major Major Major: I think the ones from 5000 years back would be hostile as heck if we appeared in their environment. If they were transported to ours they’d just melt down from the shock, after killing a couple of us.
opiejeanne
@Major Major Major Major: I was a member of a blog years ago that was about people who lived in Camden County, MO about 100 years ago. One of the old biddies opined that she’d be proud to meet any one of her ancestors, after I’d mentioned the possibility that some of our family might not have been very nice. I knew enough family gossip about this 80 year old fossil’s family that it made me laugh out loud when I read her retort. I did not tell her what I knew about her beloved aunt who had married my grandfather’s brother, but she was a hussy.
seaboogie
@Major Major Major Major: I’m still fizzing and popping over the Jones interview. I’m just super pissed off at the mere fact that it happened, because of Sandy Hook. She treats it all as a game for the furtherance of her career, and NBC absolutely owns this too.
If Walter Cronkite were alive today, he’d take off his glasses, pause for a moment, and then punch Kelly and Noah Oppenheimer in the throat.
Bruuuuce
@MoxieM:
Here you go, then. The Service Dog Project, run at a farm in Massachusetts, breeds and trains Danes as service dogs. They maintain several livecams, and it’s always fun to watch the pups. Here’s one of the cams, from which the others are easily accessible.
Enjoy!
MisterForkbeard
@Cheryl Rofer: Jesus H. Christ, they’re not even trying to pretend they’re doing journalism anymore. Sigh.
Major Major Major Major
@opiejeanne: I think if somebody was transported forward they’d basically just have some sort of existential crisis followed by, more or less, a hard moral reboot. It would all depend on the context of their transportation, though. If it was just walking through a doorway and then pop!, hmm, I don’t know.
Eljai
I love Bette Midler, but Patty LuPone was robbed. Just catching the delayed broadcast of the Tonys on the west coast.
divF
@Corner Stone:
Big deal. Los Angeles County is larger than the states of Rhode Island and Delaware combined.
ETA: and has a larger population than 42 states.
seaboogie
@Cheryl Rofer: Her hot blonde *whaddya mean..?.* schtick makes me want to slap her. I miss Mike Wallace. It’s no longer journalism, just clicks and celebrity, and whatever they have to do on that platform to keep the cameras on and the money coming. I am truly sickened in this moment.
Major Major Major Major
@divF: Which is more powerful, Hollywood or four senators?
divF
@Major Major Major Major: I would say Hollywood, except for the following from G.B. Shaw:
(BTW: the current size of the House of Commons is 650).
ruemara
I am sick of watching the little darlings dance. There’s nothing more annoying than syncing up chunked video data except doing that after a full day of cooking, cleaning, etc. and still needing to put in your 3 or 4 hours of work.
zhena gogolia
@Omnes Omnibus:
Didn’t see this last night, but thank you!
zhena gogolia
@Tom Q:
Thank you! I thought he must be a rock star, but couldn’t track him with any rock stars I was aware of.