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Don’t forget to pick up your
State of the Union
Picket Signs
to warm you up:
Mornin’, folks. Puget4’s finally got her replacement Booman mug, and has converted the original cracked one to a pencil holder for her new Command Central desk. We’re getting our morning tea and coffee even as I write.
We can tell our grandchildren that when we went to school in the winter, we had to drive through snow. We can explain that snow is a fluffier form of the ice we put into drinks.
The picture is the very photogenic Deception Pass Bridge in N. Puget Sound, which I’ve also shown with fog streaming over it.
is an awesome picture, Gooserock. I wish we had four seasons here!!!
We have 10 months of Sprautumn, 5-6 weeks of Summer, and some years we get a week or two of Winter. We haven’t really had much Winter this year.
Yet another beautiful image, Gooserock. That’s a truly lovely place. Thank you!
Don’t forget the State of the Union Drinking Game.
does that mean I have to actually listen to it? I was planning to get arrested on the steps of the Capitol with Damnit Janet, supersoling, Tracy, tampopo and the rest of the rabble-rousers 🙂
that if they really wanted to punish you, instead of sending you to jail they’d make you listen to the address…
they do have a long-standing policy of supporting torture.
How was Phoenix?
Phoenix was great. It’s nice and warm there…at least during the day 🙂 It was fun to run around outside in shorts and a t-shirt.
Not much sleep though…maybe 5 hours total from Friday through Monday. Last night I made up for it though, and got about 11.5 hours.
Picket sign made me smile – then I got to this and laughed out loud – (((Man E)))
If we picket, then we won’t have to hear it. 🙂
Just wait till later, I have tomatoes and ear plugs for the Special Forces Team that will be positioned in the gallery. 😀
Raspberries too, I hope 😉
I’d be honored to march along side you and company 🙂
Marmot Man March!
No, you don’t have to listen to it, just lip read. 😉
SOTU. I can’t watch the f*cking f*ckity f*ck. But I will have another cup of coffee.
I second that. No way in hell I’m watching.
Never considered watching it.
Not watching it either. I feel so much rage with I see that muthafucker and to sit and listen to him give some “optimistic, confident” crap while I and others sit here in so much sadness….
What will become of my daughter if she is raped? Abused by her spouse? Intimidated by a teacher or boss?
They just GANG RAPED our children’s future.
They just said it was okay to bash gays!
They just killed America.
Fuck you Bush and Sam Brownback and Alito and all your supporters. May you all choke on the blood of the innocents you have harmed.
Y’know, with their ‘accomplishments’ these people have broken the laws of every spiritual discipline human beings adhere to. These laws exist & have endured for centuries because they allow us to continue to exist on this earth as individual members of a sustained species — they’re very practical.
Would any one of us choose to live as they do? Of course not. Imagine living with the type of spirit & mind that allows them to give their lives to perpetuating tragedy, horror & bloodshed. What kind of life is that?
Suffer they will, for certain. Suffering they are — despite every effort to appear otherwise. It can only be so long before spiritual & mental poisons engulf & kill the individual. That’s just the way it goes. When their time arrives, do you think they’ll meet their ends peacefully, without fear? I’d guess not.
That’s why Cheney travels with his own private hospital, after all. Woe to the demon who meets his maker!
Not to worry: it all plays out.
Oops, wrong president…
Just back from early morning shopping, now about to get some work done and have breakfast.
Hope everyone has a great day…
I think that should be “mourning”
And our Sharks LOST to the Phallus Scars. I couldn’t even really watch the game. Had it on – made me feel worse.
completely sucked. I almost caved in my no-drinking commitment, but I held fast and abstained. The biggest reason was due to a card I received from a friend that was exactly what I needed to hear at the time:
The inside read:
and just the right timing… 🙂
I was tempted to go out and get very, very drunk, but I abstained and went to Sweet Tomatoes…I even was a good spud and limited myself to one bowl of mushroom soup (a huge effort for yours truly).
Taking a break from working, about to resume shortly — a lot of bending and lifting, good exercise. 🙂
I know what I’m going to do today — What about you?
(We’ve had 100 articles at Eat4Today!!)
Just got my copy of Rolling Stone delivered (change of address crap) and holy sheet.
Sam Brownback!!!! and his merry bad of Zealots find Bush “too liberal” and are happy with Alito. OMFG.
Btw, Manny, I need something stiffer… to drink.
grouchy woman who argued with her spouse and then walked outside for an hour last night. ACK
chilling all night for you:
I think I might be able to de-lurk for that…
a huge word image to creep into my “brain”
De-Lurk
you’re a woman
She-Lurk
She-Lurk Holmes 🙂
it’s elementary my dear CabinGirl 🙂
Mind if I join you in that drinkie? I’ll bring the rubber duckie.
Well, its a little early in the day for me
usually
but on the other hand
with Alito it looks like we’re heading back, back back
to the 50’s, 40’s, 30’s …. who knows how far?
So we might as well take the good with the bad and resurrect the three martini lunch. 🙂
while the facsist red-folk still “allow” it.
Oh, they’ll ALWAYS allow alcohol: the most dangerous drugs are the legal ones.
Alcohol is good for them.
I don’t know. Janet has a point. They might decide that WOMEN can’t drink. Potential harm to the fetus.
You say you aren’t carryiing a fetus?
Well you SHOULD be.
We should be lady like and not speak up or act “wild”.
I get loud and … funny. So not Laura Bush like
I wonder when they’re going to insist on wearing skirts and staying home?
Really.. I feel like chattel.
I’m not so sure Stark,
Tobacco is the biggie Republica Drug. (helpes to stay away from the smokes to think that, but I think it might based from some fact)
Didn’t they prohibit alcohol once before and weren’t women to be “lady like” and not imbibe?
The only truly great drug that has redeeming qualities is Mother Nature. But that would take money away from the Republican Big Pharm so they have to criminalize for medical and recreational.
“Tobacco is the biggie Republica Drug.”
I thought it was Oxycontin (cf. Rush). lol.
Anyway, I was just being flip.
For my way of thinking, LIES are the big drug that keeps this whole fucking machine running, and truth would be the anti-dote.
At any rate, my drug of choice is indeed “the Truth”–funny thing, in the American Indian universe tobacco represents truth. The fact that both the truth and tobacco are subject to so much abuse in this society…well, telling, ain’t it?
Sigh.
LOL Stark! Very true – all of it 🙂
Extremists don’t understand moderation especially when it comes to recreational fun.
Damn they just spoil things for everyone else because they themselves have issues.
My motto: decadence in moderation. ;^)
LOL
I love Rush jokes.
Imho, the main drug they’re pushin’ is fear (it’s an excellent stimulant!) — for which the antidote is also truth.
I’m always following you around saying “what she said”. I just need to give you my power of attorney and log in and you can post for me.
Heh. And with both of you, I’ll never have to log in ever again.
Don’t you dare!
🙂
No way, darlin’. I could never replace you!
Btw, here’s a Rush joke for you:
Q. What’s the difference between Rush Limbaugh & the average street junkie?
A: About $300,000 a year.
Damn! That was right on!!!!
Fearmongers!
well, yeah, the fear factor, too. That’s why they need the Oxycontin b/c w/o it, they’d scare the shit out of themselves just as much as they scare the shit out of us:
imagine, you get up in the morning, look in the mirror and you’ve got GWB staring back at you.
Yikes. Where’s that Oxycontin man?
😉
Unfortunately for us all, ‘everyone there’ takes Ambien (according to Sanofi spokesman Colin Powell).
Possible side effects include hallucinations, abnormal behavior, severe confusion, vivid or abnormal dreams & memory loss.
Not mentioned in the relevant literature, however, are duck hunting, mangling cedar trees or an attraction to red ties.
maybe — a dirty marmotini.
There ya are, been trolling for you. Wanted to point out to you that I recently posted on my blog an old piece of writing from back in the day when I was still calling myself a “feminist”–you may want to check it out (the link is in the sig)–basically a feminist take on films from the year Good Will Hunting came out (with focus on that movie and Titanic).
Thought you might enjoy it (and I might be redeemed in your eyes, secretly, I’m still a feminist at heart, you know, but pls don’t tell anyone, now that I’ve lost most of my friends [they were all lesbians!], I’d probably start losing my enemies, too. lol).
Hey there, DJ. I can sympathize — sometimes one simply has to vacate. I once ‘walked outside’ for about a year 😉
Glad you found it within your heart to return.
Thanks for the drinks and the kind words and the continued support and friendship.
You guys and my kids right now are what are keeping me afloat today.
I let it rip it Tracy’s diary. I think the fighting Bush and his fascist regime and this apparent loss… festered other personal wounds…
At least I’m not spiraling now. I’ll be okay, I ALWAYS am. LOL
Hey, all — greetings from our rainy, foggy, chilly Eastern mountains. Highly appropriate weather for the state of our union, if you ask me.
Yes, the Imbecile in Chief has his Justice Alito; Bush has served his highest purpose & is at his presidential pinnacle. Woe to those who witness tonight’s spectacle of an imbecile at his pinnacle! (Dare you to say it 3x fast .)
As for a true SOTU address, I’ll take Gore Vidal’s.
Hope everyone’s doing well.
one could easily bite off the end of their tongue attempting such a wordy feat!
But.. it would completely baffle Bush and possibly cause his empty pea brain to implode! We can only hope it’s in his SOTU tonight 🙂
Might be hard to tell, DJ 😉
Just went over to Militarytracy’s diary to read what you’ve shared. You’ve got courage, dear J. It still amazes me how much utter pain this life can dish out — but we keep standing, keep pressin’ on. The strongest trees do bend — & no doubt, you’ve got that kind of strength.
Thanks for allowing me to get to know you a bit better.
I won’t call it a good one. Not with the SOTU coming up and yesterday’s cloture vote. But hey the sun’s up–or at least I think it is somewhere above all the clouds–and I’m still alive and still ready to fight. Cold tea today, Darjeeling, and a big heap of promotional work. Bleah. Oh well. Better get to it. Hope y’all are as well as can be expected and at least some of you have a more entertaining day than mine planned.
I’ve got a great excuse to miss Bush’s gloat-fest — getting together with the in-laws to make final plans for dad-in-law’s surgery. Will they need me to come assist? Not sure…we shall see. Part of me is hoping not…since I made the offer, I’ve come to appreciate my own time and my own bed; I would miss both, along with all you folks (my online time would be drastically curtailed).
Anyway, time to get back to work…just taking a break to say “hi”…
Good Luck Cali!!
Make some pre-picks in the hockey pool. Up to three games. If you need more, let me know. I’ll see what I can do 🙂 xoxo
if I’m going to be needed and for how long, so I can make my picks when I get home. And I can sneak on dad-in-law’s computer when he’s taking a rest (and he’s not supposed to sit for more than half-hour at a time, so when he’s up and moving can be my on-line time). Got to make my picks for tomorrow at least; the spouse and I have our first ballroom dance class (cross your fingers for not too many smushed toes)…
G-d told me again to have a green chili burrito.
Yesterday I bought those nasty frozen kind. So today I popped it in the microwave (I’m still “getting around” to finishing the oven cleaning)
So I guess this means G-d wanted me to havea Nuhk lee yur Burrito 🙂
If God wanted you to clean the oven you would have done it by now. I will let you in on a secret. I wipe up gross stains but I’ve never cleaned my oven. I figure it will all burn off eventually. Hey, anyone want to come over for dinner?
We’re soul sisters. My self cleaning oven’s self cleaning ability broke 5 years ago. Like you, I just figure, no problem, it will all burn off eventually.
I figure between that confession, and the pictures of my cat sleeping on the table, no one would ever want to eat dinner here. But hey, if anyone’s down this way I promise I’ll wipe the ass off the table, and cook on the stovetop.
I ususally do that too Second, but with this move – I’ve just been getting meals on the table and cleaning up the dishes (kids chore mostly but I have be the Threatener) which takes some energy..
so now the damn thing smokes any time I cook. Which sets off the apt fire alarms, I think it was the free range chicken that did it in the end… and that alarm… totally fuhhhhreaks out my son.. then I am too spent to clean up the mess… and now I’m “getting to it”.
DJ, are your fire alarms the circular type you can pop the batteries out of?
They’re notorious for going off at the slightest disturbance & making our lives hell (not unlike many of our elected representatives).
Trust me there’s alot of smoke when they go off LOL
We used to have a fireplace and that would happen… but having had two friends lose their house to fires and a dear hockey friend was a firefighter.. I know not to remove those batteries or they will … well they’d do something nasty to me 🙂
I have been trying to figure out where I saw those posters, so thanks for the website!
I think it would be a lovely poster on my office wall, now that you mention it…and maybe a good gift for some of my favorite clients? 😉
Tempting.
Very tempting.
in the record books.
Don’t tell us — you’re in your speedo right now slathering on the suntan lotion?
ha ha I’d figured out who sent that one before the author line scrolled into view.
Photos soon…
binge today, who’s with me! (sorry katiebird, I’ll spend extra time on the elliptical machine as penance)
Martinis at noon; cheesecake at three? It really is the Mourning After.
But hey, I’m in. Slice me off a piece. And a cup of coffee too, please.
I’m having the hardest time concentrating today. I’ve been working on a long, looong document that just never seems to get finished.
Oh, maybe because I’m trying to work in the cafe?
Thanks. Sorry I left it cooling on the counter — duty called.
Not me, I had oreo cookies and red wine for dinner last night…
that’s the first time I’ve heard that combination before, sounds like a double-wammy comfort food fest.
It satisfied several nutritional needs at once…sugar, chocolate, and alcohol…
A long time ago some friends and I did a taste test to see what foods went best with champagne and oreos won hands down.
I’m not sure if the fact that it was cheap champagne had anything to do with it. But it was good!
That looks quite wonderful, Man E — but I’m afraid I’m off to my daily (mutter mutter) chores, now that it’s stopped raining ice-balls.
See y’all soon.
of the Oscar noms 🙂
My friend is in the film industry and I love him to pieces.
Cliffhanger post: I’ll share it in the next Manny Lounge 🙂
(runs away with the chocolate and cheesecake- whoo hoo!)
Ever hear of
NETeSCAPE? 🙂
Wow I came back and couldn’t find you. You fell off the rec. list and there’s so much diary activity today.
My day is done. Happy hour?
My friend said
Pre-Oscar Tuneup Dept.
The Top 9 Scientific Laws of Movies (Part 1)
9. Uzis can shoot 600 bullets in a minute, yet will
miss any running humans.
8. The mass of a person drops substantially during a free fall,
making it easy to grab onto a ledge or bar.
7. Bond’s Third Law: For every hero there is an unequal
and poorly trained number of evil henchmen.
6. D=T/t, where D is the degree of time dilation, T is the dramatic
tension, and t is the time remaining before the bomb explodes.
5. If anyone shoots a gun at a car, the car must explode
in a fiery rage.
4. Supporting characters can contract a disease via any vector,
show symptoms in half a day, and die from the malady at any
time convenient to the director.
and the Number 1 Scientific Law of Movies…
1. There is no gravity in China.
So my other friend said..
Especially those trained in the martial arts, who are seemingly bound by the Rule of One. That is, only one may attack at a time. The others must stand around and wait their turn!
So I said
You guys left out the one main rule: The Evil genius always lays out his plan in details to the good guy before leaving him/her in the inept, incapable hands of lower minions who will botch up the slow, torturous kill (usually involving an easily escapable bondage device)
Head on over to the new thread.