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Froggy Bottom Lounge
Welcome newcomers! Please introduce yourself
Glad you made it!
Forget about the shopping and wrapping for a few, and come help me with my new Chrismukah Goose! I’m thinking it will taste mighty fine Cosmopolitan-style…
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CDs are in their regular spot next to the stereo
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Please recommend (and unrecommend the Cafe/Lounge from yesterday)
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:::crickets chirping:::
White Lines – Grandmaster Flash & Melle Mel (stop laughing)
Summertime Girls – Y&T (did I not just say to stop laughing?)
Computer Blue – Prince & The Revolution(oh god, I give up, go ahead and laugh)
Armageddon It – Def Leppard
Kids In America – Kim Wilde
Listen To Her Heart – Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
I Am A Rock (Live) – Simon & Garfunkel
Anger Anger – Blue Stockings
Blinded By The Light (Long Version) – Manfred Mann’s Earth Band
Sweet Transvestite – Rocky Horror Picture Show (ha, my mp3 player knows Damnit Janet’s back!)
Don’t get strung out by the way I look
Don’t judge a book by its cover
I’m not much of a man by the light of day
But by night I’m one hell of a lover…
Whatchoo guys got?
Okay, just remember you asked for it…
House Carpenter- Nickel Creek
I Feel Merely Marvelous- Esquivel
Leaving Las Vegas- Sheryl Crow
Red Light Fever- Liz Phair
Freak Like Me- Macy Gray
Ari’s Eye- Victor Wooten
Humble Me- Norah Jones
Don’t Come Around- Macy Gray
On and On- Old and In the Way
Goodbye- Alien Ant Farm
You’re the only one who always plays this game with me, Cabin Girl, I’m starting to think of it as “our thing”. 🙂 And Macy Gray goes on the list to pick up with my holiday gift certificates!
One of my dogs is named Gracie Mae…for obvious reasons.
I’d play but the minute someone wants a list my mind just goes blank(some people say that’s a good thing). Right now I can only think of favorite singers or albums(In Gadda Da Vida)
I seldom know songs by name. I also have a theory that there are 2 types of people in the world and they are categorized this way: Someone asks “Do you like that new song [fill in the name]” and if the person doesn’t recognize it and says “how does it go” — do they want the first person to (1) hum the tune or (2) say the words. I need the tune — it takes me YEARS to know the words to a song I like. But I’m always surprised when I ask “how does it go” and at least 50% of the people start telling me the words.
We don’t play from memory, it’s from mp3 files. If you have Windows Media Player (or any other mp3 player software, you can download some for free I think), compact discs and a CD player on your computer, it’s really easy to rip your CDs up so you have mp3 files on your hard drive. Then you can use your computer like a stereo. The players have a random play feature, which is what we use to generate the lists. (Other people play with their iPods but I’m not personally a fan of the Fruit Cult. I get my computer sound equipment from Creative Labs.)
Fruit cult, LOL.
I Got a Line on You – Spirit
St. James Hospital – Kate & Anna McGarrigle
Come In From the Cold – Joni Mitchell
Girl from Ipanema – Getz/Gilberto
Woman Left Lonely – Janis Joplin
Wild Wild Woman – Shemekia Copeland
Marathon – Jacques Brel Cast Album
Anyone for Tennis – Cream
Blue Rondo a la Turk – Dave Brubeck Quartet
Black Friday – Steely Dan
Shemekia Copeland? You come on over and sit by me, AndiF!
She rocks (as did her father).
I love the blues, though I lean much more toward blues piano (with a strong side love for the harmonica).
Nice. Guess I’m an old fart, too. And funny, if you look on my list you see Blue Stockings, which is a now-defunct girlband out of Athens GA formerly made up of some people I know personally, and one of the Blue Stockings women is a huge fan of Jacques Brel.
Random iTunes:
Ludella-Big Bad Smitty
Little Blue Bird-Tutu Jones
Goin’ Up the Country-Taj
The Kind-The Amazing Rhythm Aces
Country Boy-Michael Powers
Oh Baby-Canned Heat
John Henry’s Blues-Tangle Eye:remix
Too Damn Long-Louise Grasmere
The Pusher-Nina Simone
Heartbreak Gumbo-Bugs Henderson
Mostly unknowns w/ a couple exceptions.
Peace
Oooh Nina Simone. I knew dada had good taste.
Here are the last ten songs iListened to on my iPod while iSkated today.
song / artist / album
Swimming To The Other Side / Pat Humphries / Hands
Mr. Tambourine Man / Gregory Isaacs / Is It Rolling Bob?
Security / Susan Tedeschi / Hope And Desire
Estrela Miuda / João Do Vale / Brazil Classics 3: Forro etc
Cuttin’ Out / John Lee Hooker & Canned Heat / The Healer
Pili Me Ka’u Manu / Israel Kamakawiwo’ole / Facing Future
Open Arms / Tracy Chapman / Matters Of The Heart
Love Sneakin’ Up On You / Bonnie Raitt / Limited Edition Bonus CD
I’ll Fly Away / John Medeski, The North Mississippi Allstars, Robert Randlph / The Word
Every Time You Say Goodbye / Alison Krauss & Union Station / Every Time You Say Goodbye
jf
Susan Tedeschi, John Lee Hooker, The Word, Gregory Isaacs AND Alison Krauss…nice.
Nice diverse list! I’ll have to track down that John Lee Hooker & Canned Heat cut.
Hope you didn’t bust your iAss doing any figure i8s. (Okay, so I’m not as clever as you Fruit Cult iPeople, score one for your side.) 😉
the first-time posting skater is my husband but he doesn’t want anybody to know (too much pressure to perform I guess).
Okay, I won’t tell anyone. And don’t tell him I said you guys are the cutest couple on earth. Or that you take awesome photos.
We are actually the second most boring couple on earth but nobody knows who the most boring couple is because no one is interested in finding them.
lol I emailed you like 90 seconds ago to ask that very question. You two really are a very cute couple, and he’s just as witty as I’d imagined.
I wouldn’t want you to get too carried with his cleverness — this is a man who teaches six-graders because they get his jokes.
Hello, did we just meet? I’m IndyLib and my sense of humor is 12. I’m also booking a date with your husband — don’t worry, I will return him only gently used.
How many of those jokes don’t involve the word fart?
joke that don’t involve farts? Who knew.
Please reassure him that SallyCat DOESN’T expect to him to bake cookies.
SallyCat, might not. But what about the rest of us?
but he does cook.
nt
God’s married?
What else could possibly explain the simmering hostility beneath the overlapping design of our genitals and our waste elimination networks? That had to come after a three week fight over who was going to pick up the dirty socks on the bathroom floor.
Are you an evolutionary biologist?
jf
Not intentionally. 😉
More seriously, I’m into science but only in an armchair kind of way. Nothing formal, but I love it from an amateur’s standpoint. I occasionally read theoretical physics for fun and that always makes me want to go back to school and just hang out in the labs for a few years, learning random stuff. (I’m disabled so this isn’t going to happen, but the desire is there.) I think evolutionary theories are fascinating, but once the genetics moves past simple Punnett Squares I get headaches.
I am not the Blue Dot. The Blue Dot just chooses on occasion to use me as a physical manifestation through which she can impart her wisdom to the lumpenproletariat. The rest of the time I’m just another ordinary schlub, somewhere well above a fucking, lying sociopathic president and well below a well-known, stylish mystery-writer.
Not so fast there, little miss John the Baptist, aren’t you omnipresent??
Watch out, us teachers will take over and suck the air out of the Lounge if you let us.
That’s funny that spouses are starting to sign up. My husband wants me to help him sign up, too.
they just get jealous when we have fun.
Wait til they see Sally Cat’s kitchen help down thread.
and what does your cookie-baking kitchen help look like?
Only when i am truly depressed do I think it is 2009.
jf
From my “Holiday Music” playlist:
What Child Is This? — Dave Brubeck
Je Me Suis Leve — Choeur des Rhapsodes
What Child Is This? — Vince Guaraldi Trio (from A Charlie Brown Christmas soundtrack)
Jingle Bell Rock — Canadian Brass
What Child Is This?/O Come O Come Emmanuel — John Michael Talbot
Light One Candle — Peter, Paul & Mary
O Come All Ye Faithful — Mormon Tabernacle Choir
White Christmas — George Shearing Quintet
O Come O Come Emmanuel — Charles Hammer (guitar soloist)
Sleigh Ride — Boston Pops
Was really hoping “Christmas Wrapping” by the Waitresses, “Green Chri$tma$” by Stan Freberg, or Adam Sandler’s “Chanukah Song” might pop up…
I love that you have the Charlie Brown Christmas soundtrack, Cali. That’s awesome. I have both Heat Miser and Snow Miser from A Year Without Santa Claus.
I also have “Welcome Christmas” and “You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch” from How The Grinch Stole Christmas (the latter an absolute favorite of the spouse), as well as the ENTIRE Grinch as performed by the inimitable Boris Karloff — a surprise Christmas gift one year from the spouse, who once in a great while makes me very glad he’s around in my life… 🙂
I can do this one (the rest of my music is Waay to old farty to share):
Christmas Island – Jimmy Buffett
White Christmas – Bing Crosby
Il est ne/Ca Berger – The Chieftains
Buon Natale – Gene Autry
Snowfall – The Manhattan Transfer
Away in a Manger – Nat King Cole
Joy to the World – Wynton Marsalis
Coventry Carol – Chanticleer
Christmas Child in Green – Liberace (WHERE did that come from?)
O Christmas Tree – Aretha Franklin
Put a little cranberry in the vodka and I’m good. Although I’m starting to get a complex — I come into the cafe and the party moves to a new cafe. I DID bathe today.
and we know it’s party time.
How about a lemonberry martini? Lemon vodka, splash of chambord and sour mix, and a twist?
That sounds wonderful. I’m going to have to try that one in real life. (Although the real me doesn’t drink nearly as much as the virtual me.) Thanks! Salud!
That’s looks quite yummy, I’ll take one..or two…or three.
I love Chambord. I always mix a shot of it with a flute of Moet White Star and drop a raspberry in there for garnish, tasty & pretty.
That’s another one of my favorite drinks, but I like a lemon twist in mine!
So Indy, when are we making up our Froggy Bottom Trivia Quiz?
There’s a line in that stupid movie Blast From The Past about how only hookers drink champagne cocktails, to which Brendan Fraser responds with something like, “I wouldn’t know about that, but Mom always loved ’em.” Cracks me up every time.
It’s been a while since I prepped a quiz, maybe we should recruit Teacher Toni for that cause.
You’re supposed to drink the cranberry and vodka, not bathe in it.
OH? Ohhhhhhh. That’s not a blush — its the cranberry.
You can have the vodka I’ll take what’s behind it.
I’m trying to keep this clean today…
I have a great cookie man photo…but Booman might want to delete it after I post! ;^D
I heard that the real Booman is in charge tonight and he’s much more liberal.
Turn down the heat…what do you mean…the oven isn’t even turned on yet!!
“oh my” (said like Susan Sarandan in Bull Durham).
If this picture offends anyone let me know and I’ll ‘de-link’ it at photobucket.
I’m zipping home from work finally so I’ll be away from the computer for 10-15 minutes.
that you are worried even for a moment that someone would be offended by that picture? Whoever it is, my advice is to stop the hanging around part forthwith.
I agree and besides what’s to be offended by? It’s not like his cookies are hanging out.
Maybe it was because I did the online Supervisors Sexual Harassment Training while I was at work today…
Okay…which of our group wants to be harassed…want a back rub? a foot massage? want to go out for drinks? come over to my place to talk about work?
wink, wink
Ah, work; that would be different. It’s nearly impossible at work to avoid people who will be offended by just about anything (even when you work at home like me — sometimes I offend myself).
OK. whew. Sorry — the picture didn’t render me speechless. It just reminded me that I needed to check in with Atrios. I’m back.
sooo snickering! That was really a quickie. Nobody else may remember what we’re laughing about, maryb, but you can count on me to sharpen my claws every time you sneak over there!
Whelll! as Jack Benny used to say.
Next thing you know you’ll be showin’ us how he makes doughnuts!!!
<lascivious grin!>
Well… I appropriated a line from an old joke.
In the greasy spoon cafe, the customer sees the cook making hamburger patties by throwing them up under his arm pit, so he complains to the waitress.
She says, “That’s nothin’, you ought to see how he makes doughnuts.”
So there I am in Borders today, where I ran into katiebird, and the line to the cashiers is a mile long. And a guy says to us, “psst, you can pay at the coffee bar.” So I go to the coffee bar to get my gift certificate and I’m the only one in line!
(Honest, I usually frequent the indie bookstores!)
WhoopS! This is weird. Very, very weird!
I go to Borders and who do I see browsing in the Mystery section, but world famous mystery author, Nancy Pickard!
She’s as nice as can be, not stand-offish at all. In fact, she gave me a big hug, right there in the store. And invited me to lunch on Monday! Can you believe that? How many other authors would be so nice to a fan?
Then, just as I was whining about having to stand in a horrible, horrible line just to buy one thing (a miniature photo album) a guy turns around and says, “You can pay for that at the coffee shop”.
So I did & I was the only one in line (even though the other horrible long line stretched almost as far back as the coffee shop).
lol! Why do we even bother to write separate posts? But that mystery author? I hear she hasn’t got a clue!
I wish I could type a decent Subject without bashing the punchline!
It really was fun to run into you today. Really the best part of the whole afternoon.
And, I can’t wait for lunch on Monday.
the cool kids are showing off again.
Andi, come out for a quick visit. Have lunch with us. We’ll take you to the Mall & get Make-Overs at Nordstroms.
(ducking and running)
(and yelling from a safe distance)
I’m kidding. I think you’d like the place we’re going to for lunch. Please come. We’ll be good.
they’re mean and they pick on me.
That’s what you’re for, dear.
Hey, I love being a “Weird Celebrity”!
It was the most fun seeing you, too. After that, I bought something at Jones and their computer tried to charge me $26 for an item that as on sale for $15! So it was fun getting that money back, too.
I was trying to type: Weird: A Celebrity Sighting!
But, I totally mangled it. Of course, that’s what usually happens when I meet a celebrity, so I shouldn’t be surprised.
I took Florida Mom to the airport today through springlike drizzly Seattle. It was a happy but thoughtful farewell, because she’s winding down to the extent that I may well never see her again as the mom I’ve known all my life. She herself said this’d probably be the last time she’d be strong enough to visit.
The trip gave me a chance to pick up end of year supplies for business, and of course there was the obligatory grilled salmon sandwich on the waterfront garnished with the scent of salt water and dock pilings.
So Puget4 and One-Eyed Toto and Adopt-a-Toto will have our Christmas tomorrow night, in our family tradition of toys and books.
{{{Gooserock}}}
It must have been tough to send her off this time. Has she ever thought about moving west?
And she certainly got a representative taste of the ‘off season’ right up to solstice.
She’s been having microstrokes and is losing sharpness enough to be within sight of needing assisted care. She did seem more positive about the idea of coming up here.
With her faith she’s actually very comfortable about her longterm future, and she’s said she doesn’t much care about her surroundings if she’s ever dopey & out of it. But like all of us she’s most concerned about that dicey middle ground, being uncomfortable and helpless. That’s the framework we’ll have as we explore around our area.
I’m off to join the throngs at the moofie theater. The Family Stone. See youse later, with popcorn on my breath.
I suspect know where you’re REALLY going. I’m off as well to see family who are arriving tonight. Bye everyone.
I stopped there on my way to the movie. And I wasn’t late.
Back from my family celebration at my sister’s — relatively painless, all things considered.
My third niece and her husband came up from SoCal, which was wonderful; they’re good people. And my youngest niece brought her boyfriend du jour, which in our family is the equivalent of the Charge of the Light Brigade: “Into the valley of death rode the six hundred…” Really nice guy, I have to admit…but she’s only 20, for crying out loud! (Though my oldest niece married her high school sweetheart, but at least they waited till they were done with college…)
Had several outside family members and friends along too (the “out-laws” as opposed to the “in-laws”) — so overall a good crowd. Good to be home though, with that social obligation over with. And actually, I missed Mom a lot less than expected; I missed the spouse (who was working) a lot more.
Okay, need to decide what to do about dinner; I didn’t eat a whole lot at the buffet because I was too busy chatting, and I’m in the mood for something warm like soup…
I’m glad you’re back — we missed you!
I know what you mean about being too busy chatting to eat much at those family things. That happened to me at the wedding functions. The food was great, but the talk — better.
Just checking in before I start baking the shortbread cookies. It’s going to be a long night of cleaning, baking, and decorating. A local reporter is coming over tomorrow to do a story on Andrew’s first Christmas.
I’m so proud of myself… ’cause this afternoon I figured out that I could vacuum the upstairs carpet whilst dail-up at 31.2KB was loading BT stuff. Worked pretty well, actually.
When I finished, I had myself a snack – hot chocolate and two honey-oat toasts with chokecherry jelly.
Coming back upstairs, I stumbled somewhat on the next to last step. A little of the drink spilled on the step, but the real disaster was the two toasts, belly up on the carpet. But then I thought, hey, I just vacuumed, so they should be all right… ha ha.
So far, for supper (yes, we say supper when not in the city) I’ve had one Pacifico Cerveza… might need to enhance that with some pickled fish and goteburg sausage.
Is that guy done making cookies yet?
mmm pickled fish. Are we talking commercial pickled herring or are we talking pickled pike — caught over the summer and pickled by hand?
commerciall pickled herring, ELF brand, which is OK. I used to be able to find a local brand of pickled pike, but I didn’t see that this year. Guess I’ll have to enquire about that as it was better quality than the commercial.
I had some pickled fish in Norway years (decades) ago… now that was something to write home about.
Here’s the new lounge!