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What are you doing this weekend?
Got your random 10s ready for happy hour?
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What are you doing this weekend?
Got your random 10s ready for happy hour?
Kindly recommend this cafe and
unrecommend the previous one.
I’m slacking in Vegas, how about you?
I’m so jealous I could spit. There is one upside of you being in my time zone, tho: the afternoon and happy hour threads won’t be hopping when I’m still working on my second cup of morning coffee 🙂
Sounds like you guys are having a great, informative time out there! And yes, do dish on all the ‘sin’ goin on out there, that is, if you get the chance…!
The Vegas part, I don’t so much care about. The slacking and the Yearly Kos parts, well, I know this story about a fox and a bunch of grapes . . .
Hey CG and Manny.
CG I still want to hear about the sin in sin city, and don’t leave out a thing. 🙂
Manny do some slacking, you deserve it.
May I have permission to slack as well? Sure wish I could, but I’m actually busy here at work today.
Nice post on your B this morning, FM. I enjoy those little nostalgia trips you write, since they’re imbued with such a rich sense of family history.
Hey IVG. You can slack as much as you want.
Thanks for reading the B. I just write them as they come up. Pretty mundane really. 🙂
Not so much.
Hi SN. How’re ya doing today?
Meh. Headache, sore throat, tired…the usual. 🙂
Your latest entry is a beauty.
I’m sorry to hear you feel bad. I must had passed that cold onto you. I wonder if that’s possible over the net?
Thanks for reading the b. I was going over the little list you had put down in a previous entry and trying to think of something. I guess I have to write them as they come.
BTW I heard that headache, sore throat, tired and nagging go hand in hand. 😛
I’m resting up the nagging lobes of my brain so that I can come at you extra strong when you least expect it.
Just got back. George had to go outside.
When I least expect it huh? Why SN what little credit you give yourself. I expect it all the time. 😉
Damn – I’m so predictable. Can’t I ever be mysterious like Courtney Beauregard?
What predictable? Anyone who talks with me knows I’m going to say slack in one sentence and nap in another.
BTW to be more mysterious you need to talk more southern. It uncanny, but the slower you speak the less they understand. 🙂
Mr. Nature takes so long to answer a question that I often forget what I asked him.
Thus he is using his uncanny ability to not answer a question. Very smart fellow. 🙂
I am cutting out of here early today. My granddaughter is doing a play tonight and I want to be in attendance. It’s some kind of rewrite of the myth of Perseus, but somehow or other they are bypassing the part about the snakes. She and her friend are the Greek chorus. Having seen Disney’s movie “Hercules” more times than I can count, she knows what a Greek chorus is. (They messed seriously with the story of Hercules, as they often do, but using the Muses as a chorus was a good touch. Actually, once you get past the part that the story doesn’t have much to do with the original Herakles myths, it’s a pretty entertaining movie.)
That was just on Disney the other night. I really haven’t see it, but I might watch next time.
Some of the jokes that have to be explained to the kids are pretty funny. My granddaughter had to ask me to explain “I haven’t seen this much love in a room since Narcissus discovered himself.” So I got to tell her the story about Narcissus and Echo. And James Woods is the best part of the movie, playing a schmoozing-dealing-oily Hollywood-ish Hades, with two bumbling assistants Pain (Bobcat Goldthwaite) and Panic (Matt Frewer). “Memo, to me: Remind me to maim you two after my meeting.” The voice list is fairly impressive, including Hal Holbrook, Danny De Vito, Samantha Eggar, Rip Torn and Paul Schaffer among others.
Sounds like something I would probably enjoy. Still enough of the kid in me where I enjoy watching some of the kids stuff. I used to love taking my kids to the movies to see the newest releases. I think I enjoyed them as much as they did.
I like kids’ movies that don’t treat every single kid in the audience like they had the intelligence of a puppy. Talking down to them, in other words. I like a movie that will “talk up” to the kids. Give them something to ask about or learn without being hit over the head with it, like the bit about Narcissus.
Speaking of kids’ movies, I recommend “Nanny McPhee.” It’s an Emma Thompson vehicle, which she wrote and starred in. Somewhat reminiscent of Mary Poppins but very, very different. Brief synopsis: Mr. Brown is a widower with seven uncontrollable children. They’ve run off all the local nannies, and his search for number 18 leads him to a mysterious crone named Nanny McPhee. The kids figure they got rid of the other seventeen, and they can get rid of this one too . . . but they find out that she has ways of teaching them the lessons they need to learn.
They probably left out the snakes to get the FM seal of approval. I’ll bet they left out the Perseus and Ariadne not living happily ever after part too.
Right after I hit “post” I got to thinking: Maybe I shouldn’t have mentioned the snakes.
Talking snakes is not the same as see snakes. 🙂
Snakes don’t bother me. These guys on the other hand…
Insane person holding slimy slugs
Damn SN, I thought you were kidding on how big they were. BTW what do slugs do?
I’m not sure they do much of anything. I can tell you they squish up between your toes when you step on them, and they look really gross while mating.
They’ve got to have some purpose. I mean bees pollinate and others do different things for the ecosystem. I wonder what slug do?
They control those pesky vegetable and ornamental plants that threaten to beautify your yard.
Eat grass and leave slime trails, I think. Sort of like snails with no shells. They love it here in Seattle where the weather is wet and cool. A friend of mine used to have a T-shirt that said ISN’T IT A PITY YOU DON’T LIVE IN SLUG CITY? featuring several of the little critters. You can buy hand-carved wooden slugs in tourist shops around town, and there’s a store in the Pike Place Market that sells little slug puppets you can take for a walk.
Shhh, we better be careful of Andi will quote from the slug sex manual again.
Either that or we’ll be hearing about bonobo’s again. 🙂
You’ve been wishing you were a bonobo again, weren’t you?
Actually never stopped wishing it. 😛
Well, if that happens, I know how to stick my fingers in my ears and go LA LA LA LA LA I CAN’T HEAR YOU! Some things I figure I don’t really need to know about.
All I remember is “…waving their majestic penises over their heads…”
Why does this not surpirse me. 🙂
Only you know for sure.
except temption.
Slug sex.
You must have that bookmarked.
And apparently I got it wrong – ‘they solemnly wave their oversized penises…’
when you google slug sex.
Is the second hit to a Brazilian porn site featuring George and Laura.
Damn, that reads like something out of The Hitchhiker’s Guide.
It’s not that easy unless you have a computer that talks to you. Once you get to reading it’s like a magnet holding your eyes.
LOL . . . one of my favorite short stories in the world is “Hog Belly Honey” by R. A. Lafferty. The protagonist/narrator is a big galoot of a lout with a knack for inventing stuff. He first meets his future partner-in-invention in a bar. The partner looks up at him and says, “You, sir, are a troglodyte. They always appear after the snakes. It’s the only time I wish the snakes would come back.”
Love that, “You say lazy like it’s a bad thing.”
I finished a bike ride a little bit ago, and now I’m at the library with high speed downloading a bunch of files. I wonder why no one wants to sit near me?
You’ve been riding all day? This isn’t in keeping with the new sig line.
I only rode for about an hour and a half, and the wind was at my back and it was down hill in both directions.
In that case I think you did very well today. Only a true slacker can make exertion look easy, or either someone in really good shape.
Obviously I go with the slacker part myself. 🙂
Somehow my neighborhood walks are always uphill in both directions.
That’s because you have kids. That way they’ll be able to tell their kids and grandkids that they had to walk 10 miles to school, uphill in both directions, barefoot, through 10 foot high snow drifts.
Gettting off the internet superhighway now. Heading back to the internet one lane dirt road with mud holes that can swallow a packet.
You both try to hard. I find when taking a nap, I’m usually level, so there no stress.
Naps that the key.
it’s enough I have to talk to him IRL.
Somebody else needs to post a comment.
I’m around but I’m about to go to the mall (ack!) to try to find something to wear to graduation tomorrow. and who are George and Laura?
that would be you and our favorite bartender, wouldn’t it?
I’m…flattered?
The Bushes.
Wow, that didn’t even register with me. I thought they were some Brazilian porn stars that I didn’t know about.
There is a huge billboard for Telemundo in downtown Raleigh with a boobalicious babe named Laura on it. Makes me feel very inferior.
You’ve got a mall near you? How lucky can a person be.
as painfully redundant.
I just got back. It’s slow today. Where is everybody, Vegas?
Andi and I are in the woods not the meadows.
Blogging from the woods, isn’t it great.
And since I don’t see any yet, I’ll fire off a FRT for your perusal… and since I’m at home finally, I have my music collection in front of me, which makes it much easier to go random! So here goes…
Nature Boy Primus
Plenty More Squirrel Nut Zippers
Ultra Funk Los Amigos Invisibles
Jesus Thinks You’re a Jerk Frank Zappa
God is God Juno Reactor
Bathtub Gin Phish
Red Shoes by the Drugstore Tom Waits
Welcome to Planet Motherf***er White Zombie
There’s More to Life Than This Björk
Sisters are Doin it For Themselves Eurythmics
How’s everyone durrin? Who’s bartending tonight?
Hey IVG. What’ll have?
I wonder if CG is sinning in sin city?
to be around. Think I should go ahead and open up an FRT Lounge?
Might be an idea. If you want me to, I’ll look for one to open up.
Speaking of colds… have you gotten over yours yet, FM?
No clue what CG is up to, but she appears to have left this particular ‘building.’ She, Boran2 and BooMan are making me jealous with their little reports, but I still side with Andi, and would rather view vicariously from afar. Besides, we’ve got Oct. 7 to plan for anyway…
Yes it’s much better. Still didn’t do a damn thing today, but I’m feeling better. Maybe tomorrow I’ll do something. Maybe.
I agree I’d rather be seeing it from afar. Although the stuff on cspan II today was pretty good.
Hmm, I wonder if Cspan is showing any of that tonight? I’d love to see some of those forums BooMan was talking about attending!
I just looked and as usual it give no description. So to answer you question, I don’t know. 🙂
you never have a freakin clue what they cover and no descriptions available (at least on my DirecTV). Maybe I’ll check their website and see if there’s more info, since streaming video is an impossibility here with my dial up connection….
I have the middle version of DSL and I shudder to think of dail up again. 🙁
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Read a story up that the ministers that embedded with the Haditha Marines “noticed no stress”….the ministers have a radio station called K-Love and I went to check out the radio station. I was reading some comments and this one cracked me up pertaining to abusing the Christian religion by using it as a vehicle to justify abuse and murder.
I’m constantly amazed that people argue against gay marriage by extending the argument to pedophilia and bestiality. It doesn’t even deserve a response.
As for the bible, lets definitely follow it. I’m going to get my congressman to propose a ban on the following:
Captain D’s: “Whatever in the water does not have fins or scales; that shall be an abomination to you.” (Leviticus 11:12)
SuperCuts: “Do not cut the hair at the sides of your head or clip off the edges of your beard.” (Leviticus 19:27)
NFL and Chili’s Babyback Ribs: “…and the swine, though it divides the hoof, having cloven hooves, yet does not chew the cud, is unclean to you.” (Leviticus 11:7)
Wal-Mart Polyester Blends: “Do not plant your field with two kinds of seed. Do not wear material woven of two kinds of material.” (Leviticus 19:19)
And lastly, we need the NCSA (Neighboring Country Slavery Act)so we will be able to own Canadians and Mexicans: “Your male and female slaves are to come from the nations around you; from them you may buy slaves. You may also buy some of the temporary residents living among you and members of their clans born in your country, and they will become your property.” (Leviticus 25:44-45) Once we get the NCSA passed, we can stop worrying about this whole immigration issue.
Don’t selectively use the bible to build your case. Use it all!
I’ll be the one picketing Long John Silvers this weekend.. won’t you join me? Bring your slaves… see you there.
I always thought that one about pork, cloven hooves and such was a real head scratcher… but I grew up in the land-o-pork, so the thought of not eating it was very strange to me. Oh and btw, if anyone’s interested, the World Pork Expo is going on this weekend in Des Moines… lots and lots of BBQ and tasty pork-o-rama treats. And if you fly over the right part of town you might just see this new local attraction!
It appears Des Moines has everything. The World Pork Expo and flood control that appears to be more bragging than anything. 🙂
Isn’t that a hoot? And to think I had to see it on KO last night before I went to the Register’s site to look for the pic… hate to admit I hardly read the local paper, and usually only the opinion pages when I do.
I thought folks might get a chuckle out of that one!
I think it’s great a local paper would have that. At first I just glanced at the picture and started reading, then I took a look at the picture and thought WTF. 🙂
Open containers allowed. Come on over here.