Here’s a view from a bridge we crossed during today’s hike:
The water looks low, but we’ve had plenty of rain. We didn’t see any wildlife aside from a little black snake, assorted wading birds and a swallow-tailed kite.
I guess all the other critters had enough sense to stay in a cool spot during the heat of the day. The sun kicked my ass, and I’m happy to be home with my feet up.
What are you up to this Sunday? Any plans for tomorrow, or do you have to work? We’re off and playing it by ear. Definitely avoiding the beach and waterways, which will be overrun.
srv
It sucks that we have to wait until August for the Republican debates to begin. Another 18 months before a new and bolder generation can take over – if we’re lucky to get that far.
In the meantime, we can watch Hillary’s death spiral:
RobertDSC (Quad Intel Mac)
Last night’s Orphan Black episode was off the charts in terms of emotion. It’s by far my favorite show,
donnah
I finished hooking this rug. It is about 34″ by 44″ and I’m excited to have it done. The next one is going to be a dragon of some sort. It’s an original design, created by pulling strips of hand-dyed wool through a linen backing to form loops.
Phew!
http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d27/Rughooker/image.jpg1_34.jpg
gene108
@donnah:
Amazing rug!
Valdivia
@donnah:
wow! that’s amazing.
I am still plodding along with my syllabus: too much material not enough sessions, usually at this point I feel I am in a maze I can’t get out of. And the Rolling Thunder is still making a racket outside my window.
srv
A proud Governor:
Belafon
We’re watching the flood of 2015 here in Texas.
TaMara (BHF)
@donnah: Wow, that’s amazing. But must confess I’m excited to see your dragon when it’s done.
Valdivia
@Belafon:
stay safe out there.
Ultraviolet Thunder
@Belafon:
I was in College Station 2 weeks ago and it just flat poured for 6 days. Pools over the roads, impassable highways, etc. I’d swear I saw a roadrunner in galoshes. Holy crap the rain!
donnah
Thanks, everyone! I love making hooked rugs.
TaMara, I can’t wait to work on the dragon design! I teach workshops all over the country and I’m booked for most of the rest of the year, but I would like to work on it now!
Ultraviolet Thunder
Well, I did ‘gardening’: dug up rocks and piled them. Dug up sod and put in rocks. Dug up soil and filled the rock trench. It wasn’t too bad, though. A good friend stopped by to chat and ended up helping me finish. That’s a good friend: sees you sweating and asks if you have a second shovel.
Corner Stone
@Belafon: Thank goodness Austin is at least getting some of this. And I talked to an ex-in law near Corpus the other day and she said they went from drought to doused.
Corner Stone
@Ultraviolet Thunder: I think you mean that’s the “son of a good friend”, or maybe “grandson of a good friend”.
Corner Stone
@donnah:
So, wait…you get paid to teach hooking?
Corner Stone
@srv:
She can continue death spiraling down to the abysmal number of 49% as much as she wants to.
Corner Stone
Speaking of Texas, I wonder where Violet has been.
MattF
Quiet day, running errands, doing household chores. Started reading Ted Lewis’ GBH— not sure if I’ll finish it. Every character in the novel is evil or worse, and the author is clearly intent on sucking you into their world and their desires.
PurpleGirl
This weekend I am trying to get things done, i.e., run errands and stuff. Yesterday I got to a yarn store that is closing after 45 years. (I’ve only been shopping there for 15 years, since I moved to Woodside.) I’ve done a little malling — walking around just to see things. Did the same today so far. Forget which day it was — Thursday or Friday — but I also paid a bunch of monthly bills. I’m thinking about going out again. It feels good to get things done.
JPL
@donnah: It’s beautiful.
donnah
@Corner Stone:
Sure! Hookers gotta learn somewhere!
Here’s a Steampunk rug I hooked last year:
http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d27/Rughooker/imagejpg3.jpg
Ultraviolet Thunder
@Corner Stone:
The friend is 62 and I’m 55 so between us we can accomplish as much as a 26 year old.
Ultraviolet Thunder
@donnah:
That is fantastic. I’ve literally never seen anything like it, and needlework is alive and well in my generation of the family. Gorgeous work.
PurpleGirl
@donnah: Echoing other comments — It’s beautiful. Will want to see the dragon once it’s done (or even during the process of hooking it).
Germy Shoemangler
Champagne and beer found in a sunken ship from 1843.
PurpleGirl
@donnah: Oh, I remember when you posted pictures of that rug. You do incredible work.
Germy Shoemangler
@Valdivia: Still?? It’s been hours.
Southern Beale
Planning a vacation for September … best day trips from Seattle? Anyone?
Belafon
@Corner Stone: Lakes here in the DFW area have gone from 10 ft or more low to well above full. Lake Grapevine was 13ft below and is now 15ft over. And we’re not getting the worst of it. While we’ve had some roads under water (and sadly, a few deaths from cars losing control), San Antonio, Austin, and the surrounding areas are being submerged.
Southern Beale
@Belafon:
Be safe. Looks like you guys are getting hammered.
Karen in GA
@donnah: Wow! I used to do hook rugs from, was it kits, I guess? Back when I was a kid. I don’t know if it’s the same thing you do — sort of a paint-by-numbers* version of what you do. And it took patience and skill** to even do that.
* You, OTOH, are Picasso.
**Neither of which I had.
In other news, Iggy got a surprise.
Germy Shoemangler
Valdivia
@Germy Shoemangler:
I know. It’s actually been days now. It’s a comparative class so it’s tricky to get the themes and readings aligned so the few sessions we have cover 500 years of history in two countries and make sense intellectually to the students. I also confess to being a tinkerer and perfectionist. I should be done tomorrow.
Germy Shoemangler
@Valdivia: Sorry, I should have been more clear. I was expressing astonishment at rolling thunder still rolling past your window.
Karen in GA
@Belafon: Damn. Echoing everyone’s hopes that you stay safe.
Valdivia
@Germy Shoemangler:
seems my brain is totally focused on work I missed that.
They started in the morning. Then there was another group early in the afternoon. It’s nice and quiet now so I can enjoy the fresh air through the open window.
@Karen in GA:
that picture is precious.
jeffreyw
Thread needs moar butterfly!
Denali
@donnah:
Germy Shoemangler
All weekend long we’ve been enjoying the Pennies From Heaven soundtrack (the Bob Hoskins TV version), just loving the music and the lyrics. Sweet music and outrageous lyrics.
One of my favorites: “I’ll Be Glad When You’re Dead You Rascal You”
Bob Hoskins was great in that series.
Denali
@Donnah,
Wow, beautiful rug! My china-painting cousin is so talented also.
@JeffreyW
Beautiful butterfly photo. I am trying to figure out how to save monarchs, as we don’t have enough sun for milkweed.
Karen in GA
@jeffreyw: Stunning.
Baud
@donnah:
I can’t tell how much I loathe people with talent.
Belafon
@Karen in GA: As long as I don’t succumb to the tendency of people around here to think my car will be the one to make it across the raging river that used to be a street, I will be ok (not any particular street where I am, to clarify, just a comment about the rescues I read about). Luckily, I don’t live in San Marcos: http://www.wfaa.com/story/news/local/2015/05/24/severe-storms-cause-blanco-river-to-reach-record-high/27876661/. The article states that the National Weather Service level for the Blanco River is 40ft because the sensor doesn’t measure any higher.
Baud
@Belafon:
Has the governor blamed Obama yet?
Be safe.
F
Right now I’m enjoying the fact that Huckabee’s presidential campaign is crashing around his ears.
jeffreyw
Pot Pie Pr0n
Baud
@F:
If you had told me last week that vouching for a sexual predator would be politically toxic, I wouldn’t have believed you.
Strange times.
Another Holocene Human
@Germy Shoemangler: That waterfront park is an amazing bit of urban infrastructure. It makes Burlington special.
Germy Shoemangler
@Baud:
“Boys will be boys” didn’t work as a campaign slogan?
Belafon
@Baud: I’m pretty sure Fox has to get the wording correct first.
princess leia
Protest music on NPR- marvelous! http://www.npr.org/2015/05/20/408015650/someday-we-ll-all-be-free-100-hours-of-soulful-protest-music?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=nprmusic&utm_term=music&utm_content=20150520
Baud
@Germy Shoemangler:
“Who among us hasn’t felt the lure of temptation? — Huckabee 2016!”
Corner Stone
@F:
I think you mean, “Crashing around his ankles.” Because it was never a much higher realistic hope than that.
Corner Stone
Hey, people! I’m in Texas, too!
Baud
@Corner Stone:
You really wanna go there?
:-)
Ultraviolet Thunder
@Belafon:
I drove from Austin to College Park about 10 days ago on roads that had numerous deep pools. No warning signs. You’d come to a little dip in the pavement a WHOOSH suddenly waves of water. Never saw it coming. That’s dangerous. A lot of that route is 75 MPH 2-laners so there’s opportunity for accidents.
Corner Stone
@jeffreyw: Oddly, Sam’s Club used to sell about the best dang frozen Chicken Pot Pie I have ever had. It’s way too large for me now, but it came in family size and was amazingly good, for pre-made.
I like CPP but it’s too much food for me to make for just me, as my son doesn’t eat it. I’ve had to really scale back my King Ranch Chicken recipe in recent years.
Valdivia
@Corner Stone:
of course we want you to be safe.
Roger Moore
@F:
And he may not even mange to last long enough to get any serious grifting in. That’s unusually pathetic, even for a GOP candidate.
Pogonip
@donnah: Wow! That’s astounding!
Hal
@Baud: I had briefly forgotten just why Huckabee would have a soft spot for pathological teens:
http://crooksandliars.com/2007/12/16/huckabee-squashed-charges-against-his-son-for-stoning-hanging-dog
MattF
@F: Huckabee is an interesting case. Somehow, he signals– nonverbally– that he’s a nice guy. But then he opens his mouth and turns out to be something else. The Duggar business is just fatal for him, because it forces people to look at him without illusions.
Baud
@Hal:
Ugh.
Corner Stone
@jeffreyw: Remind me again what your essential gear is for macro, please?
jeffreyw
@Corner Stone: Mmm… King Ranch Chicken…
Thread needz moar kitteh!
Corner Stone
@Belafon:
Son’s going to Blanco River middle of next month. Hope it calms the F down between now and then or he may not be going.
Corner Stone
@jeffreyw: I think that kitteh stoled my eyebrows!
gene108
Anybody else notice the Liberty Mutual Insurance ads, with people standing in front of New York harbor and the Statue of Liberty in the back ground, all have women totaling their cars to promote “Accident Forgiveness”.
I do not know who in marketing decided only women total their cars or if they are trying to appeal to women to buy their insurance, but I just find it odd only women are crashing their cars.
The one guy I’ve seen on these ads has his car “T-boned” by another driver.
Amir Khalid
@F:
Oh noes! Who shall be the wowsers’ candidate now?
ruemara
@donnah: That’s so amazing! you have quite the talent. I’m off to shake my booty in an attempt to have fitness. Then it’s the attempt to kickbox my way into being a superhero. Laters.
Corner Stone
@gene108:
Probably a woman driver. They stink at driving!
Corner Stone
@Valdivia: *sniffs* Nuh-uh!
jeffreyw
@Corner Stone: I don’t have anything particularly for macro although I have been lusting after a nice lens. I do all my food pics with a 35mm prime these days, mounted on a Nikon D7000. The butterfly was with a zoom, a 70-300, set at 200mm, f/8 iso200, 1/800, on a D90.
Germy Shoemangler
@gene108: I’ve noticed those ads. I always find myself deeply analyzing commercials like that, because a crapload of thought goes into them.
I’ve seen a few commercials altered. For example, the walmart cell phone. The one where the black guy brings home the walmart phone. His young daughter says “we can tweet, snap, post” etc. And then he says “why don’t you do all that… on your own phone.” She lets out a delighted squeal and hugs him.
In the original ad, she hugs him so hard he chokes. Then, after the Eric Garner case, they re-edited it. Now he simply laughs and gets a gentle hug. But if you look close, in the graphics at the bottom of the screen, they kept the old version. His tongue is out and his eyes are bugged.
There’s another commercial for TWC. A woman is in a mall with her daughter in front of a wishing well. “I want a puppy!” the little girl yells. The mother is wishing she could have cheap cable. Janitor tells her all about the sweet deal with TWC.
In the original version, after learning about the deal the mother says “Let’s go to the pet store!” In the re-edited version, she just gives an awkward little laugh. I think they got complaints from viewers, saying that puppies should be rescued from shelters rather than mall pet stores.
WereBear
@gene108: Yes, I did. And I was offended.
srv
Hillary’s War Room is up and running:
The Mysterious Columba Bush
Belafon
I went to look up the Blanco River to see if it was the one I’d heard about a few weeks ago on TV, and someone’s already updated wikipedia with today’s information:
Valdivia
@Corner Stone:
we do, we do. I promise.
Corner Stone
@jeffreyw: Go ahead and pick one or two up. It can’t hurt, amirite?
I’m evaluating a few choices for landscape/wide angle for a Canon DSLR setup.
Corner Stone
@Valdivia:
Sounds like you’ve been watching a lot of Mel Brooks movies.
Baud
@gene108:
Yeah. I’ve also noticed that Viagra ads feature only sexy, middle-aged women. It’s like they don’t even know who buys their product.
;-)
Valdivia
@Corner Stone:
nah, it comes natural.
rikyrah
hey, for those who watched it:
Season 2 of Tyrant begins June 16th on FX.
Here’s the trailer:
https://youtu.be/iCGuKOB39jo
srv
One of the Presidents is out of touch:
Belafon
@Germy Shoemangler: I thought it was interesting that Time Warner edited their bundle commercial. The guy’s being interrogated by a detective about where he’s been, and he describes the deal he got and how it keeps him at home. At the end, when she holds up his phone and says “Ooh, I like this show” he used to say “I could binge on that all weekend.” Now he says, “I like that one too.” Can’t figure out why; I like the first line a little better.
Germy Shoemangler
@Baud:
Lush Rimbaugh would be a good celebrity spokesperson. Perhaps as he boards a plane.
Germy Shoemangler
@Belafon: I noticed that! They’re always tweaking commercials. That one was more subtle.
gene108
@Baud:
It’s like the old beer ads featuring the Swedish bikini team, as if the Swedish bikini team has enough members to spur beer sales :-)
Corner Stone
@srv: I was disgusted with the assholes that were sledgehammering ancient art in Palmyra.
Just heartbreaking.
But someone may want to point out to President McCain that those guys have a way to go before they gain the capability to en-droughten our Western states, or flood cities in America’s Wang.
Germy Shoemangler
@Belafon:
Is it possible they thought the line was too suggestive?
They can’t be against binge-watching tv; it’s what they’re selling.
Karen in GA
@Hal: Could not read. Don’t have it in me.
Pogonip
Most of you probably remember the Alfred Hitchcock movie Rebecca, about a young wife obsessed with her deceased predecessor. I read the book. It’s terrible! I always thought Hitchcock was overrated, but to make a good movie out of that book, he must indeed have been a genius.
Rebecca, the book, would have worked as a novelette, but several hundred pages of the second Mrs. de Winter creeping around terrified of the servants is just exasperating. All she has to do is yell “Mrs. Danvers, you’re fired!” and send Rebecca’s clothes to the consignment shop. Save your $2.99 and watch the movie instead.
Baud
@gene108:
Blast from the past! I can’t believe they are no longer a thing.
Germy Shoemangler
@Baud:
I went into moderation after suggesting Lush Rimbaugh as a celebrity spokesperson. He board a plane as he praises the product.
Pogonip
@gene108: They’re probably trying to boost their sales with women.
Baud
@Belafon:
He’s whipped. In reality, he hates that show.
WereBear
@Pogonip: I read it as a young female, and had the opposite reaction. I recognized the iron chains of socialization working on the young heroine. She was psychologically incapable of acting as you describe.
gene108
Are you guys aware there’s a Palmyra, New Jersey, which has a major bridge, the the Tacony-Palmyra Bridge connecting it to Tacony, PA?
By the transitive power of cities having the same name, ISIS could just transport it self here through a wormhole or something and murder us all in our beds!!!
Why hasn’t Don Lemon figured this out? He’s usually on the ball about this sort of thing.
**************************
Sigh…I wish there was an easy solution to what is happening in the Middle East…there’s a lot of pointless suffering being inflicted on people…
Baud
@Karen in GA: Smart move.
Germy Shoemangler
Wow! One thousand two hundred eighty six out of 319 million!
To war!
Karen in GA
@Baud: I was already aware of it. Sickening. I can’t look at Huckabee without thinking of his miserable rat bastard spawn.
(And now the Duggar molester also, too.)
Baud
@Karen in GA: I wasn’t. Sadly, I am now.
@Germy Shoemangler: This will put Jeb! over the top. It’s in his DNA.
Steeplejack (phone)
@Corner Stone:
When I get my quarterly urge for chicken pot pie, I find that Marie Callender does well for frozen.
SiubhanDuinne
Those of a certain age may be saddened to learn that Anne Meara (the female, Irish half of comedy team Stiller and Meara) has died.
Younger folks will know her better as Ben Stiller’s mother.
I used to love seeing Stiller and Meara (I started to write “S&M” but that didn’t work out so well) on the old Tonight Show. RIP, funny lady.
Germy Shoemangler
@SiubhanDuinne: She was a funny woman, and quick with an ad lib.
I remember seeing them on the old Mike Douglas show. They were doing a cooking segment. Douglas asked Anne about her husband “Does he like to fool around in the kitchen?”
She looked exasperated and replied “Are you kidding?? Every room in the house!”
gogol's wife
@Pogonip:
I love that novel and have read it several times.
gogol's wife
@Pogonip:
OMG you said Hitchcock is overrated! You are out of your mind!
SiubhanDuinne
@Corner Stone:
@Steeplejack (phone):
Best chicken pot pie I’ve ever had in my life, bar none, was in the restaurants (Walnut Room, Narcissus Room) of the State Street Marshall Field & Co. in downtown Chicago.
I think I’ve mentioned that I’m heading back there this fall for a family reunion, and we are planning a trip to the store and the restaurant, specifically so we can have CPP. Yes, sadly it’s a Macy’s now, but evidently they still have the classic restaurants and tea rooms, with menus almost identical to those they had 50 and 60 years ago. We shall see.
gogol's wife
@SiubhanDuinne:
I’m sorry. She was cool.
Amir Khalid
@srv:
“President” McCain needs to learn that you can’t win other people’s fights — not on their behalf, and not on your own behalf either. The itch to get in there and do something has consistently led America into the thickets of somebody else’s quarrels, and America has had the very devil of a time finding its way out again. It might not look tough or decisive, but keeping America out of these fights as much as possible is the best thing Obama can do to expedite their resolution.
gogol's wife
In case anyone’s interested, Lin-Manuel Miranda gave a great commencement address today:
http://video.wesleyan.edu/videos/video/4254270586001
GHayduke (formerly lojasmo)
We’ve started watching Daredevil. It’s awesome!
Tiled and grouted the bathroom floor this weekend. What a mess. Looks pretty good though. Certainly better than the vinyl over vinyl over rotten cedar that we had for fifteen years.
Germy Shoemangler
@Amir Khalid: Imagine “President” McCain with John Bolton as Secretary of State?
We’d have boots on the ground in every last corner of the earth.
Mike in NC
@Baud: Waiting for the first Villager to declare Columba Bush to be JEB!’s secret weapon, just as Ann Romney was Mitt’s.
Valdivia
@gogol’s wife:
thanks for that link. The bits of his hip hop musical Hamilton I have seen are amazing.
@Mike in NC: I am sure the article about how she will bring all Latinos to his corner is being written as we write this. Also, too. His son is so dreamy, that will help too. Secret weapons squared.
@Steeplejack (phone): Trader Joes also has some in the freezer section which are pretty good.
gogol's wife
@Valdivia:
I’m hoping to get to see it.
ETA: He does some bits from it in the speech.
Germy Shoemangler
@Mike in NC: Waiting for the first Villager to declare Columba Bush to be JEB!’s secret weapon, just as Ann Romney was Mitt’s.
That should work out just fine:
Amir Khalid
@Germy Shoemangler:
I was just talking the other day about “the party of Rufus T. Firefly”.
Denali
There is a Palmyra, New York too. Its claim to fame is that Joseph Smith found his golden tablets there.
Germy Shoemangler
@gogol’s wife: Did you read his long New Yawker profile?
Germy Shoemangler
@Amir Khalid: To war! One thousand people out of 319 million demand it!
gogol's wife
@Germy Shoemangler:
No, it’s in my queue, right after I read Wolf Hall and Bring up the Bodies for a second time!
Valdivia
@gogol’s wife:
oh even better. Can’t wait to see the clip.
The play opens on Broadway soon, when it was at the Public there were no tickets it was sold out.
Corner Stone
@Mike in NC:
Just like they’ve already done for Mrs. Rand Paul.
Pogonip
@WereBear: That was the problem. Not that she was a doormat–that she was an unbelievable doormat. Maybe more background was needed on her. I had no problem believing that in her youthful naivete she’d marry someone impotent, but I did have a problem believing that she wouldn’t yell “Mrs. Danvers, you’re fired!” especially after Mrs. D. tries to talk her into jumping out the window.
Pogonip
@Denali: I’ve been there. The Mormons have a gold statue on top of Hill Cumorah, and if I remember right they also have a big festival there every summer.
SiubhanDuinne
@Corner Stone:
There’s a Mrs. Rand Paul? I honestly had no idea, and am finding it difficult to wrap my head around the concept.
debbie
@Germy Shoemangler:
I’ve also seen a few ads that were edited after their release (A plastic surgeon: “My husband tells me how beautiful I am. [snip] He never used to say that.” ). Can no one be bothered to run focus groups any more?
Southern Beale
@Corner Stone:
I don’t know a damn thing about Mrs. Rand Paul. But today I learned that Rand Paul doesn’t have an undergraduate degree. How do you get into medical school without an undergrad degree?
Tommy
I am going to finish watching Doc Martin on Netfix this holiday weekend. About the best thing I did a year or so ago was get rid of cable TV. In that time I’ve found British TV. The Brits have some shit going on.
gogol's wife
@Tommy:
Check out Midsomer Murders. The chief inspector played by John Nettles is really cool.
Southern Beale
@gogol’s wife:
We were in NY in March and tried to get tickets. Completely sold out.
SiubhanDuinne
@Germy Shoemangler:
LOL. Never heard that particular line, but it sounds just like her.
Mike in NC
@Germy Shoemangler: Wonder how many of those 1000 people are elderly FOX News addicts who never served in the military? No matter, any day now spontaneous protests will be breaking out across the country to put boots on the ground in Syria and Iraq, while we prudently set aside a suitable force to occupy Tehran.
debbie
@Germy Shoemangler:
I think it was the guy’s tone of voice that needed tweaking. It was the kind of voice that would say, “Want to see my little friend?”
debbie
@SiubhanDuinne:
I remember their phone calls, I think on Ed Sullivan. Hilarious!
raven
McCafferty, the General who slaughtered thousands of Iraqi’s after their leaders surrendered, thinks we’d have to send hundreds of thousands of troops back and we still wouldn’t “win”.
Valdivia
@Tommy:
They’re the best no? I would recommend you check out some of the French (Spiral and Witnesses), Scandinavian (Dicte) and Belgian (Salamander) shows on Netflix they’re worth it.
Southern Beale
@Valdivia:
At what point does Jeb’s drug-addict daughter negate one of these secret weapons, or is she a secret weapon too because she shows what a “normal American family” they are struggling with normal American issues? #RepublicanRules
Corner Stone
@SiubhanDuinne:
pssssttt*** That’s because she’s his.secret.weapon. To humanize him and make women everywhere totes fall for him!
shell
@gene108: And who the hell names their car?
Corner Stone
@Southern Beale: Kelley Paul Has a Task: To Make Rand Paul More Approachable
“What would stop you from running?
His answer was always the same: Kelley, his wife of almost 25 years.
“I’m like, really? ‘Do you have to keep saying that?’ ” Mrs. Paul said on Monday with a playful shrug.
But she gave her blessing. And now she is bracing to assume a vital role in the Paul campaign: making her sometimes-huffy husband seem a little more approachable.
But she makes clear that if you’re looking for a candidate who’s going to always tell you what you want to hear, he is not your guy.”
Tommy
@Southern Beale: Yeah. I have a MA. Dad and grandfather both have PhDs. “Learning” and getting a degree is just something we do. Maybe the happiest day was when my niece was born. Parents who have some financial means said they had set up a trust where she will always have access to the best of the best with education. She will never want to for education.
Valdivia
@Southern Beale:
oh, you know, IOKIYAR. Always and forever.
It will be give her the privacy, youthful indiscretion, Obama was a druggie etc etc ad infinitum.
JPL
@Southern Beale: The republicans will say children should not be mentioned.
Rush will tsk tsk anyone who mentions her, even though he has been quite crass calling out the democrats children.
Personally, I think her problems should not be mentioned, unless he thinks it’s okay to lock up drug abusers.
Karen in GA
@Southern Beale: Bristol Palin’s teen pregnancy made her mother more relatable to a lot of people. There are a lot of Americans who want someone just like them in the White House. And a lot of those Americans are pretty fucked up. As you know.
(See, I don’t want someone just like me to be President, because I’m perfectly aware that I’d suck at the job — and that’s without the added handicap of hating the vast majority of the population of the country I’d be governing.)
Southern Beale
IIRC Jeb’s son Prescott had a little stalking incident involving an ex-girlfriend, too.
sharl
@donnah: Your work is beautiful. And steampunk?!! OMG, I am smitten.
MattF
@raven: You’re suggesting that Republican talking points may not be reality-based? Bad commenter.
Southern Beale
Ran across this 2012 NY Mag piece on Jeb:
Teanuts hate hate hate Bloomberg. Wonder if this will become an issue?
Germy Shoemangler
@Southern Beale: That didn’t get much press.
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/george-p-bush/george-p-bush-stalking-758409
They just don’t believe in taking “NO” for an answer, I guess.
Germy Shoemangler
@Southern Beale: Teanuts don’t read NYMag. It won’t be on their radar.
MattF
@Southern Beale: You’re assuming that Jeb!’s positions won’t change as his audience changes. I wouldn’t rely on that.
Valdivia
@Southern Beale:
He has run all the way back to the fringe on most issues. Maybe immigration is the only one where he’s still somewhat not to the right of Genghis Khan. The whole ‘moderate’ thing is an illusion promoted by the Village
It might become an issue if he’s winning but since he is losing I don’t think they will bring it up.
Major Major Major Major
@Southern Beale:
I’m trying to think of something witty but I’ll just leave this here.
Tommy
@Karen in GA: WTF. My parents are not like Palin. I was taught by them to put a condom on my penis. Learned this in sex ed. I never got a 17-year-old pregnant. I am stunned they don’t get this.
This is a failure on their point. A kid of theirs with a kid. Sex is fun but you have to use methods not to ensure you reproduce.
Germy Shoemangler
@Major Major Major Major:
I reminded of the old Sesame Street song: “One of these things is not like the other, one of these things doesn’t belong…”
The Pale Scot
Anyone else notice BBC America is binge playing Battlestar Galactica;
and they’re showing commercials while running an episode an hour.
Which means what, a quarter to a third of the program is being cut?
Who would watch that?
Major Major Major Major
@Germy Shoemangler: That’s what I was thinking of typing actually, but it’s hard when you’re busy weeping into your own hands
Major Major Major Major
@The Pale Scot: Erm, the episodes are 44 minutes…
The Pale Scot
@Major Major Major Major: I thought they were from HBO?
Major Major Major Major
@The Pale Scot: Sci-Fi. The original miniseries was British, but that’s only the first four episodes or so.
PurpleGirl
@Baud: Ah, But if you are truly a practicing Christian you do not give in to temptation for whatever form it takes — didling your younger sister or killing a stray dog. I remember the storm of protests and comments when President Carter made a comment about committing adultery in your heart.
divF
@Pogonip:
Both the book and movie are favorites around our house. DuMaurier’s vivid and loving descriptions of the house, the physical setting, and daily life on the southern coast of England are outstanding – she even makes the food sound good. She wrote Rebecca in 1937-1938 while she was living with in Egypt (she had accompanied her Grenadier Guards husband while he was was stationed there), and the contrast with the environment there might have sharpened her memory and descriptive powers.
However, I suspect that, if confronted with a real-life Mrs. Danvers, Madame divF would drop her down a well within 50 pages.
PurpleGirl
@MattF: And it’s bringing his son and the dog incident back to mind. Of course, to me, the kid should have been in jail for a while and then banned from ever owning a dog or cat.
Svensker
@donnah:
Wow, that is fantastic! Also, I want that car. Wowzer.
Pogonip
@divF: Dame Judith Anderson makes that movie!
Svensker
@Pogonip:
Are you serious? One of the best gothics ever. Plus, the book doesn’t have the namby pamby ending the movie was forced to use because of the Hayes code. In the book, you KNOW that our unnamed heroine is in love with a murderer. Classic de Maurier moral ambivalence, very unsettling.
PurpleGirl
@Southern Beale: I don’t know how he managed to get into medical school without the undergraduate degree. I do know that at one time you did not need an undergraduate degree to do law school. You read the law with an established lawyer and took the bar exam. One of the more eccentric of the classics professors at NYU was Bluma Trell. Professor Trell read law, took the bar exam and practiced law for a few years (in her early 20s). Then she decided to take a B.A., learned ancient Greek (the language and literature) and eventually received her Ph.D. And taught in the Classics Department for years. I never took a class with her but I saw her regularly around the Vice Dean’s office. I loved her home-made dresses and her silver hair piled up on top of her head. (She made her own patterns, too.)
rikyrah
@SiubhanDuinne:
you bring back memories.
My mother used to take my sisters and I down to the Walnut Room, every Christmas, and of course, we’d have the pot pie.
Now that Peanut is here, we take her every year, and after she goes to see Santa, we go to the Walnut Room. It’s so strange sometimes, doing things with her that I did as a child.
rikyrah
@GHayduke (formerly lojasmo):
I loved Daredevil.
Vincent D’Onofrio was made for his role as the villain.
rikyrah
@Valdivia:
She wasn’t just a druggie, she stole prescriptions to get her fix
Pogonip
OK, OK, when I have some more free time I’ll give Rebecca-the-book another try.
The only book I refuse to re-try is Stephen King’s Doctor Sleep. That is the literary equivalent of Spock’s Brain.
As long as we’re on old books, does anyone remember the bit in The Haunting of Hill House where the women are walking a path in twilight and suddenly viewpoint character Eleanor sees a picnic on a sunny day, complete with a cute puppy. Theodora flees in terror, screaming to run and not look back, but we never get a clear explanation of what she saw, although if I remember right she does mention the puppy. What was that scene all about?
Valdivia
@rikyrah:
I didn’t know the details but I am sure the media and GOP will find a way to excuse something they would crucify anyone else for.
raven
Pat Lang wrote a Memorial Day story about an officer who ignored his warnings that the NVA was setting a trap for the Lt’s unit. He led them into it and got decimated. For the first time since Sandy Hook I posted a famous quote on his blog. “The unwilling led by the unqualified doing the unnecessary for the ungrateful.”! He writes about a jackass that gets 52 kids killed and banned me for disrespecting the dead!
donnah
@Svensker:
Thanks. I’m getting the car later this summer, and I can hardly wait!
sharl
@raven: So you’ve now been banned by both FDL and Lang? You might be one-of-a-kind in this regard. In a way it’s kind of bad ass, though I can see why the banning by Lang would come as a surprise, what with you being a veteran of The Nam and all (does he know that, fwiw?). Maybe he’s planning to get back into the TV commenter game in a big way, in which case he don’t need no troublemakers on his blog offering non-vanilla opinions. Which would suck, but that sort of thing has been known to happen.
J R in WV
Just got home from small dinner gathering next door. Host returned from state folk music festival, won a blue ribbon for best old time banjo! Woot!!
So we had dinner, drinks and all the old time folk music playing you wanted to hear.
Or there was a small camp fire in the back yard fire pit, or rocking chairs on the front porch. Feet up now, dogs fed, cats fed, quiet time.
More quiet time tomorrow. Then back to work, around the place.
fuckwit
@Belafon: it’s flooding down in texas. all of the telephone lines are down.
fuckwit
@Karen in GA: president obama was the result of an unplanned teen pregnancy. during the 2008 campaign, he sent memo to his entire staff reminding them of this fact, and informing them that anyone remarking on the palin family would be fired from the campaign immediately.