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We’re all full of jitters as we wait for Fitzmas to arrive, but its just like an unfolding rosebud:
you can’t rush the opening.
It has to happen on its own; and when it does,
it’s PARTY TIME!
Photo courtesy of Bootribber olivia
I’m with e, it’s time to let hope shine. Besides, the champagne is chilling nicely for the indictment parties.
Let’s see, that would be Champagne for 2800?
Well, this will be a starter
Or if there are those not inclined to the bubbly. . .
And plenty of non-alcohol offerings for those who prefer them. . .
LET’S GET FROGGY !!
You know how to throw a fiesta, shirl! I can’t wait for the Fitzmas Sleigh to make its delivery!
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Party for just 2,800 invitees, I believe you will be overrun by a larger number of friends alone shirl.
Save the fine champagne for a bit later, just let it splash today!!
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Bis – destination Italy
“Treason doth never prosper: what’s the reason?
For if it prosper, none dare call it treason.”
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Is that bar shot by any chance from a Mexican restaurant in San Antonio? It looks awfully familiar.
I think you may be right – or there’s one there that’s similar. San Antonio is a great city, except when the weather’s too hot.
Yummy – Mimosa’s set up for the West Coast crowd…
A few Croissants and some baked Brie….and oops….must stop patronising the French stuff…(just kidding Oui!)
Once at a big sailboat race, one half of the fleet had a technical problem with a qualifier race that needed to be re-run after the other half of us had completed our preliminary round. Although those sure are festive pix!
This left us with a morning of idle time, so many of us piled onto big boats to watch. I was young & had a couple of beers with brunch. It was fun for about an hour.
Then, what a downer! The whole afternoon and evening I was emotionally as flat as billiard table, and although my crewing work was ok, it sure wasn’t enjoyable.
So if there’s news one of these mornings, I’ll hoist a teacup to your glasses (especially youse back east later in your day) & save the pints till after sundown.
indictment parties. I’ve still got all the fireworks that I’d saved for use on Nov 3, 2004. I think I’ll light one per indictment.
ABSOLUTELY!
The handcuffs were hung by the chimney with care
In hopes that St Fitz soon would be there. . .
Then out on the lawn there arose such a clatter
Reporters were shouting “Hey Scottie, What’s the matter”
McClellan was stuttering and shuffling his feet
We will have no comment until Trials are complete. . .
But I heard Fitz exclaim as he drove out of sight,
Merry Fitzmas to all and to all a good night!
Oh, Shirl! That is an awesome bedtime story for anyone. It just warms my cold little heart right up.
No one woke me up yesterday morning, so I can only guess you didn’t indict me or any of my buddies yet.
Again, if you see this in the morning then call me and tell me it is time to wake up for the indictments!
The phone number is:
202-456-1111
Just tell whoever answers to wake up “George”, they’ll know who you are talking about, because the indictments should be here soon. Remind me about the impeachment party too! I don’t want to miss that.
A round of “Pink Ladies” for all of you!
Let’s party!!!
HA HA HA HA HA! That totally made my day CM1, and it’s only 12:38am here. HA HA HA HA HA!
How does bush keeping hacking into my Booman Tribune account and posting these things?
Oh well! See ya in the morning.
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I’ve got your number, don’t you ever sleep?
I just finished reading 34 pages of Supreme Court ruling, and I’m impressed in so far I can grasp the Judicial rights and merits of the case. It’s certainly worth the effort, the case has been meticulously presented and Matthew Cooper, TIME Inc. and Judith Miller didn’t have a chance in the case.
PF is the Man of the Week with his staff of 100+ persons in Chicago and Washington D.C.
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JUST DON’T KEEP US IN SUSPENSE ANY LONGER
Karl Rove – Tactics and Lies
“Treason doth never prosper: what’s the reason?
For if it prosper, none dare call it treason.”
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I sleep in between clicking the refresh button these days… And YES! I am just like a restless kid that can’t wait until the day we get to open our presents.
writes a 90 page Indictment by ha[n]d
Somebody buy that man an iBook!
Off topic. Thanks for assistance, Manny.
Now that woke me right up! Too funny!
With an outfit like that, he’ll be very welcome at any Federal Prison. 🙂
This week could not get any better. Indictments, Cheney as the leak, and on a personal matter, I am investigating a guy in the district where I teach. It seems that he has set up an anti-millage committee, mailed literature, and failed to register with the state. I have a little more digging to do, but if I can nail this guy, I will be soooooooo happy!
Good work, Toni! First we nail the little guys and then…
We recalled this guy’s wife as school board president last summer. He really hates the teachers. He is claiming that the millage is new, but it is a renewal, so as usual, he is using lies to further his agenda.
I don’t understand people like that who don’t understand that quality teachers lead to quality schools lead to higher property values…whether or not you personally have a child in school. Voters are lazy and someone claiming that the millage is new instead of a renewal will have a chance at defeating it unless voters either do their homework, or people like you call out the lies or bust them on legal technicalities.
We aren’t a great district, high poverty, 70% of the students don’t speak English at home, etc. But the leadership in the district has been abyssmal, including his wife. That is what has kept us so weak.
If this millage goes down, I could be out of a job, even though I have been there 10 years. Even if I don’t lose my job, enough people could be laid off that class size could go up to 40 students/class. I would have to consider a serious change in career. Last November, we laid off 30 teachers and I saw an increase in all of my classes (high school American Literature) of 3-5 students.
The Dems decide there’s too much of a cloud over this admin to allow further Court appointments.
Has the medical world perfected the spine transplant? Perhaps a kahones transplant? It might take a medical procedure for the Dems to do something like that.
chairing the party and it’s not enough.
We need them to have a brain transplant.
in hopes that St. Fitz would soon be there!
Anyone else besides PhillyGal and me frequent the diary yesterday over at KOS that said to knock off of the Fitzmas talk…”it’s not appropriate to gloat…”
Well things got testy…someone even said that their asses were so tight that only dogs could hear them fart! (Oh yeah, that was me!…)
Merry Fitzmas and Happy Earl Year!
I’m taking advantage of Fitzmas Season like any good capitalist would. I’m going to hype my book at dKos at around 12:00 p.m. EST, 9:00 a.m. PST. The tenative title: Fitsmas Present: A Novel with a Rovian Tale. I won’s shill anymore here at the pond (thanks to all for being so patient with me). But I have to take one crack at the massive audience in the orange place. Be wonderful to have any Boo Trib cross-posters to keep the atmosphere friendly.
Merry Fitzmas everyone. Merry Fitzmas.
Tell us when you post, so we can all run over and show you some support there…
Will do. You would really come to the orange place? Just for me. Aww.
Hell we’ll give recommends and I’ll (shudder) post a comment to help move it up the list!
A comment. Too much. You guys are good.
Let the shilling begin. Fitzmas Present: A Novel with a Rovian Tale
What SallyCat said: for you, I’ll even post a comment!
What I said above, again. Too good to a broken down blogger like myself. Thanks.
Here it is. Ought to last five minutes and be subject to much ridicule: Fitzmas Present: A Novel with a Rovian Tale
Sent a pimping email to a Yahoo group ;^D
Recommended and commented and just love dropping those little ol’ 4’s over there!
Thanks CG. 🙂
Well, I hope I get a big Ol’ orange 4 and a reply from the diarist over there…
Jumps up and down like a Lemming.. (do they jump or is more of a hop??) me too me too me toooooo
I’ll second the notion of giving us a heads up. The those of us who are still willing to wander over to Kos can go recommend or play shill. Also, post it in cheers and jeers as early in the thread as possible. When I posted that I’d sold my first book I got a couple of dozen people asking me to post again when it hit the market. It’s a good bet, and if you pre-prep the post you can get it high up, or attached to something high up.
Thanks.
Thanks again Kelly. There has to be a better way. I want to write science fiction and have a gigantic publisher. 🙂
Give it time. Keep writing. Keep submitting. This was book four for me. The first three are all on a shelf in the basement awaiting an opportune moment for massive rewrite. The four that followed are all out looking for homes. I’ve got a lot of friends in the F&SF industry and publication history tends to track how much you write pretty closely. I think the average number of attempts before getting a big publisher in F&SF is somewhere between book four and book seven.
BJoe, on the BooBooks diary yesterday where we talked about what book to read next, I said I hope we can have a separate diary to talk about your book, once we’ve had a chance to read it, and that you will lead the discussion. That wouldn’t be shilling! That would be letting us have our way, a kindness, really. 🙂 Would you be willing to do that? One of us could “introduce” the diary and you, so you didn’t have to feel quite so self-promotionish. Brinn said yesterday she’s going to do a review of it, and we could also wait for that, if you’d rather.
The reason I’m suggesting a separate diary instead of BooBooks is partly because of the Powell’s thing, partly because of the library thing, but also because we have so many authors on this site that “we” could easily take over BooBooks. We need a BooBooks Authors Annex.
I will talk about it with anyone. Anytime. Love to talk. I just hate selling. Particularly here, among friends. dKos. Well. That’s what that place is for. Hell. Saw Paul Hackett’s picture in the New York Times today. Didn’t he get his start on dKos.
I’m available through Powells now. And Amazon. And that Italian place. I want a book stop in Milan, dang it.
Great! Okay, let’s put on a show!
But first comes the best part–actually reading your book.
Here it is. 🙂
Fitzmas Present: A Novel with a Rovian Tale
hadn’t noticed this post, but hopefully I’ll catch the skimmers who overlook this one…
Hey, I suggested over at the Orange Empire that if you make a Fargo ND stop, you should see if you can get on “The Ed Schulz Show”…I think Ed would be interested in talking about the book…
Yeah. I think penetrating to that level of media would be a major coup. Not likely. But I’ll give it a shot. I’ve got our local alternative to review it, and I’m planning on giving a huge plug to the Booman Tribune and the blogosphere in general.
Fitzmas Present: A Novel with a Rovian Tale
It was kind of an FBC-type comment, I’m afraid. I do have a really low user number over there, which seems to matter to the orange crew. . .
is the title of a particularly nasty sounding bagpipe classical music piece (‘pibroch’). I can’t find it in ABC and I don’t know it to try writing it out.
I haven’t seen Fitz squinting, but somehow given everyone’s mood the title comes to my mind, along with a very appropriate tune title for DeLay for a jig I do know and need to write up for later. I’ve already shared “The Stool of Repentance” in an open mike cafe.
And thanks for moving people to move mountains, Rosa Parks. I’ll stand for Rosa.
Hello everyone….west coast waking up and reporting for duty…I see the party has already started and some were up real late last night preparing the cafe for today, it looks loverly….
I’ll be back when I wake up more and check around the site…
From the Repugs on Clinton’s Blowjob perjury problem HERE
We need to throw those back in their collective faces when the indictments come down!
As hard as it might be to believe. . .
ABC NEWS last night was doing the “What the Republicans said during the Clinton investigation” vs what they are saying now about perjury and obstruction. I could hardly believe my eyes and ears. YES, REALLY. . .ABC NEWS. . .
amazing.
speaking of nervous conservatives… did y’all see Bill Kristol on the daily show last night? He really had nothing to defend. John was able to knock down all of his arguments with snarky jokes. He had nothing. He looked nervous. They know it’s all coming crashing down and, other than the diehards, people just ain’t that stupid to keep buying it.
If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck… it’s a fucking duck already.
Yeah, he said (whined) “we had to make sure Saddam didn’t come up with WMD’s!” and Jon said “hmm, maybe some weapons inpectors would have been a good idea.” (both paraphrased from memory)
And all Billy K could say about Bush is that he has been a “pretty good” president. THat is all he could manage to squeeze out and it made him queasy.
Off topic. Thanks for assistance. 🙂
In an FBC? I don’t think that’s possible . . .
another hypocrisy is this:
Remember how many zealots said Cindy was BAD for smiling as they lifted her up to be arrested??? She said she smiled because she thought the world would see her undies. Boy, did the right wingers go apeshit over that smile.
What the fuck are they saying now about Delays damn mugshot??
I thought of that today when I saw Rosa Parks mugshot. Not a smile. Just quiet grace.
right here:
Jim Marshall ©
Johnny Cash, San Quentin Concert, 2.24.69
Works for me…gotta get back to the millstone…later
Peace
Raven from Buy Blue posted a great diary last night on Wal-Mart the Movie from the same folks that brought you Outfoxed…
Buy Blue is getting for our 2nd Blue Christmas campaign in mid-November and is doing some fund raising along with it….come see what we’ve been doing….
SallyCat
Treasurer/Board Member
I’ll bring the slip and slide 🙂 err… maybe not 🙂
Hmmm I’m thinking of getting some hostess ding dongs.
Ding dong the beast is dead.
Which old beast.. the Red Regime
Plus ding dongs kinda sorta look like hockey pucks. 🙂
Just about to get dressed and head out for the day; need to get down to HP Pavilion to see if I can get tickets for this Saturday’s Sharks home game. 🙂
Back in a while…
I will be using this sig for the next three days, in memory of the 2000 Americans men and women who have “officially” died in hostile action in Bush’s Folly…
Making a stop at St. Joseph’s Cathedral today…and I’m not even Catholic…
This is my dream birthday cake – has been for a long time.
Today we are dreaming again.
Today is a new day for America. A re-birth of decency, humanity, dignity, justice. …. Democracy.
You all can have LIBERAL sized pieces. 🙂
Hey cool! It’s like Van Gogh meets Cindy Loo Who.
And all the Who’s down in Whoville…
But of course it does. That’s how all things in my world look.
🙂
Love the cake.
BostonJoe’s diary on dKos plugging his book is up…now hold your nose and get over there to slap a “recommend” on it! We don’t want it scrolling off into oblivion in the midst of the “Fitzmas Is A Crock Of Shit” diaries…
You guys are the coolest bloggers ever!!! [On card with puppies — addressed to the following].
katiebird
EmmaAnne
Cali Scribe
dsb
SallyCat
Baldwiny
getmeoutofdixie
KMc
Damnit Janet
CabinGirl
Man Eegee
NorthDakotaDemocrat
deepintheheartoftx
town
poco
(I think almost everyone was a Boo Tribber). Very funny. Laughed my ass of for a while there. Had bad images. Can’t thank you enough. I don’t really do Internet hugs like Janet. (I don’t even really do real hugs — my family was Cheney-esque I think). But if I did them, I would give out a group one. You guys are too kind.
Hugs back. Now try and guess which one of those is me. Ha ha ha ha ha.
I’m stumped. Baldwiny?
Baldwiny is a dear and wonderful man. He’s from cheers and jeers. SallyCat pimped your diary on an elist. 🙂
Pimped my diary on an elist. Man. I feel like I need a shower. Am I beholden to her now. Like my daddy. 🙂
and TeachToni too. Time for some indictments now, huh?
Sorry that I got there a little late. I had to take the little guy to an appointment. It was very strange being back there.
You’re in Michigan aren’t you?
Yeah. Michigan here.
That’s what I was wondering when I saw that your book is set in Detroit. I lived in the Detroit area my whole life until I got married and moved all the way to Windsor.
Lucky you. I want to be on that side of the border.
RED WINGS!!!!
ducks from possible Octopi attacks.
I do love the Wings. Not the wing-nuts. But the Wings. The Red Army team as Papa Joe Chevalier used to call us. Right up my political philosophy.
Ruby Slippered Primadonnas…
🙂
But…. (butt) at least you like hockey. That is the priority.
I can’t say much because the Sharks are sucking hind titty. Gawd they suck!
I haven’t seen a game. Guess I they haven’t overcome the strike in my eyes yet. But I’ll be there come playoff time. As will the wings. Don’t know about the Left-Coast Fish though. Might be some early golf in their future.
is a four letter word.
I’m looking forward to seeing some minor league action up in Oregon. The Winterhawks play there 🙂 You can get good season tix seats without having to donate a kidney. 🙂
and other appendages crossed for Saturday; the spouse and I will be in Section 215 hoping for an actual victory… (please please please)
Not to brag, but, I have literally sipped from the Stanley Cup. I have a Polaroid picture to prove it! As soon as I figure out how to put that on this site, I will.
Yummmmmm, what a sweet sip of beer that was!!!
Too. Damn. Cool!!!!
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Guess who?
katiebird
EmmaAnne
Cali Scribe
dsb
SallyCat
Baldwiny
getmeoutofdixie
Agathena
ask
KMc
Damnit Janet
CabinGirl
Man Eegee
SanDiegoDem
NorthDakotaDemocrat
deepintheheartoftx
town
Teacher Toni
Eidothea
poco
total 20x
IT’S TIME TO CLEAN-UP CONGRESS IN 2006!
~ Posted earlier in diary by RubDMC :: Iraq War Grief Daily Witness (photo) Day 153 ~
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LEAVE Iraq to the Iraqis
“Treason doth never prosper: what’s the reason?
For if it prosper, none dare call it treason.”
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I have no clue. But I’m sure I’d love any and all reincarnations of you 😉
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I’m lousy staying under cover – don’t want to be banned again!
I’m walking near cliff’s edge …
But I need an account to be able to recommend diaries.
It’s something about expression, opinion and the 1st Amendment.
A reason for war, no??
Anyone have a clue to Fitzgerald’s agenda this week – please fill me in – the suspense. A Hitchcock surprise ending, could be bloody!
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LEAVE Iraq to the Iraqis
“Treason doth never prosper: what’s the reason?
For if it prosper, none dare call it treason.”
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One of the last 4 on the list?
Since I was around for I while over there – I’ll take an ewag and say ask
cute kitties back at ya from dsb.
I was wondering who that was…
I posted an action alert, a bit personalized but not a typical Damnit Janet entry. 🙂
Hey I’m “huggy” remember?? 🙂
I’ll go up and hug strangers. Perfect strangers as well as imperfect strangers.
(((((((((((Huggles))))))))))))
What we need more – is more hugging. AKA pressing one’s boobage up against another. 🙂
aren’t we all.
I have perfected imperfection 🙂
Our Marco relatives checked in. The good news is that damage was light. The bad news, not bad at all in light of Katrina, is that phone & power aren’t expected to resume for a week.
We now return you to your vigil to see if we’ll have Fitzmas or just a routine visit from the Misdemeanor Fairy.
Ummmm should put my last “heartfelt” diary up on the Big Orange… I’m kinda thinking of doing it… if nothing else it will plug Steven D’s great diary, damnit.
http://www.democracycellproject.net/blog/archives/2005/10/white_house_rep.html#comments
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For all guesses – it’s getting a bit hot underneath the collar!
Thank you …
“Treason doth never prosper: what’s the reason?
For if it prosper, none dare call it treason.”
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New cafe here Sorry for the DeLay…er delay. 🙂