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by @heymistermix.com|  August 5, 201012:07 pm| 18 Comments

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The video is for E.D. and the open thread is for the rest of you Juicers.

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  1. 1.

    asdf

    August 5, 2010 at 12:16 pm

    Crowded House – Something So Strong

    youtube.com/watch?v=jXArBZItqGc

  2. 2.

    blahblahgurgleblegblah

    August 5, 2010 at 12:23 pm

    My cat is in the animal hospital. She’s been vomiting bile for days, won’t eat, and doesn’t appear to have a bowel obstruction. I adopted her from a shelter back in ’02. She was between six and eight then, so is between fourteen to sixteen now. The vet just told me that they are going to do an ultrasound, but she believes the cat likely has pancreatic cancer.

    I think I’m going to have to go to the hospital and put her down tonight. I know she’s had a long life and has been treated well for the last eight years. But I’m still in emotional turmoil. I really love this cat.

    Fuck.

  3. 3.

    N M

    August 5, 2010 at 12:24 pm

    Didn’t have a chance to say this in your intro thread E.D., but thanks for posting and braving what will probably be some snark and commentary. But its all in good spirit – we can be snarky but we don’t want you gone. Unless you start letting BOB guest post when you are on vaca sully-style!

  4. 4.

    jurassicpork

    August 5, 2010 at 12:26 pm

    Let us speak of Pheasants and Peasants.

  5. 5.

    Punchy

    August 5, 2010 at 12:38 pm

    Surprise! Fucking shitbag hypocrites.

    Yes, teh language is appropriate for such patently blantant hypocrisy.

  6. 6.

    Dr. Morpheus

    August 5, 2010 at 12:51 pm

    I thought there was something wrong with the speakers on my laptop because I kept turning the volume up and couldn’t hear anything.

    Yeah, it’s sad and pretty and sleep inducing.

    Got anything with a beat and some RAWKIN’ guitars?

  7. 7.

    Mnemosyne

    August 5, 2010 at 12:56 pm

    @Punchy:

    But, see, they were defending real religions like Christianity and Judiasm, not these fakey scam “religions” like Islam and Hinduism that everyone knows the First Amendment doesn’t apply to. So therefore no hypocrisy at all, QED.
    /wingnut

  8. 8.

    JenJen

    August 5, 2010 at 1:09 pm

    Gorgeous song.

  9. 9.

    Gina

    August 5, 2010 at 1:12 pm

    @Punchy: The comments following the article are seriously disturbing.

  10. 10.

    Corner Stone

    August 5, 2010 at 1:12 pm

    Dumerville out for the Broncos, torn pec muscle.
    Looks like God really isn’t on the side of the Godboy team this season.

  11. 11.

    Bella Q

    August 5, 2010 at 1:19 pm

    Nice video.

  12. 12.

    Gina

    August 5, 2010 at 1:21 pm

    Okay, on to fun stuff. I recently knuckled down and bought a Scooba (robot mopping machine from iRobot) and have been trying it out this week. Went through Hammacher Schlemmer since they offer a lifetime warranty well beyond iRobot’s one-year version.

    White tile floors in the kitchen are now actually white, and non-sticky, again. The first day I tried it I had it run 3 times in the kitchen and nook to get all the YUCK. The dirty water tank was a revelation – in a much-worse-than-expected way. We’ll run it every couple of days to maintain things. Just did today’s session and found the dirty tank water was much less, um, thick and zesty. WOOHOO! What’s nice is it always puts clean water on the floor, and sucks up the dirty – unlike mopping with a bucket, you get no sloshing of already crappy slop.

    I’m recharging it now to tackle the hardwood floors in the dining room and hallway. For cleaning, we just use vinegar, the enclosed samples of floor cleaner weren’t all that impressive. I have to figure out which of their vacuums will work out best for us, there are so many models to choose from it’s hard to keep it straight, I really like the concept of cleaning more often via robot. It never seems to work out to “often enough” when it’s just down to me alone.

  13. 13.

    Mnemosyne

    August 5, 2010 at 1:39 pm

    @Gina:

    I’m always tempted by a Roomba, but I know for a fact that this would happen, and one of our cats is a 13-pound Maine Coon mix. Not a good combination. He already broke our printer/scanner by jumping on it.

  14. 14.

    Gina

    August 5, 2010 at 1:43 pm

    @Mnemosyne: Nice! So far my 3 cats just flounce off in a huff when Scooba’s going. Of course, that involves some water, so I don’t know if they’d find the dry version more interesting. Mostly they just scoff and stalk off to their favorite windowsill whenever annoying “new things” show up in the house.

    I do make sure the Rotties are all cordoned off, since bouncing on and chomping disk-shaped objects is considered super fun by all of mine.

  15. 15.

    Steve L.

    August 5, 2010 at 1:43 pm

    I’ve seen the National live three times. They were really good all three times. That drummer is fantastic.

  16. 16.

    KRK

    August 5, 2010 at 4:08 pm

    @blahblahgurgleblegblah:

    My condolences. That sucks. But it sounds like she’s pretty miserable right now without a promise of improvement, so you’re doing the right thing.

  17. 17.

    thalarctos

    August 5, 2010 at 4:11 pm

    @blahblahgurgleblegblah: I’m sorry. I wish there were something to say that would make it better, but there isn’t. I’ve been where you are, and I’m really sorry.

  18. 18.

    E.D. Kain

    August 6, 2010 at 3:56 am

    This is a great song. Thanks for posting it.

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