On the Road is a weekday feature spotlighting reader photo submissions.
From the exotic to the familiar, whether you’re traveling or in your own backyard, we would love to see the world through your eyes.
nffcnnr, Window Washer.
Grumpy Code Monkey, Calling The Game.
Email me a link to your one or two favorite pics on a photo site like Flickr (do not send the image itself please) and I will put up favorites in open threads. Send a short caption if you want one.
Click on the photos for a link to the photographer’s website. To see all photo threads, click on ‘photo blogging’ at the bottom of the post.
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r€nato
more great photography. Thanks, once again.
Napoleon
By the way, the pictures have been great.
freeulysses
Why is President Obama washing windows?
Bad Horse's Filly
Calling all bakers. I’m going to attempt to make a Lane Cake today and if anyone has any experience with making one, I’d sure love to hear about it. I’m intimidated. Thank you, that is all.
SiubhanDuinne
I really *really* *REALLY* like b/w photography. These are wonderful, thank you.
Where was the window-washer one taken? Curious about the city springing up in the background.
slag
@SiubhanDuinne: Looks like some hellhole in Texas to me. Houston? Dallas?
slag
Ahhh…Dallas.
Sentient Puddle
Window Washer almost looks like it could have been taken from where I work. Weird.
slag
And I didn’t mean to call it a hellhole. At least not out loud.
Sentient Puddle
I wouldn’t know if Dallas is a hellhole. Now if you said that about Austin…!
SiubhanDuinne
Thanks, Slag. I was kind of thinking somewhere in Texas but don’t know the scenery — if I may use that word — all that well.
@BHF: God knows *I’ve* never made a Lane Cake (and likely never will) but I can remember my ex-husband’s Alabama-born grandmother once making what I’m pretty sure was a Lane Cake. IIRC, it took her all day (I got bored and didn’t pay much attention) and was not only labour-intensive but very detailed and painstaking. Too rich and complicated for me, but a stunning dessert for a big celebration. Good luck to you. I envy your guests.
Reagan was a RINO!!!
The RNC comedy club is now writing Saturday Night Live routines. Is NOTING sacred??? When Newt Gingrich and even Saint Ronnie are no longer conservative enough for your tent, what’s left?
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/11/25/report-gop-purity/#comments
Maude
@Bad Horse’s Filly: I don’t know what’s in a Lane cake, but, here’s my take. Heavy cakes cook more slowly, I’d have oven at 325. After you pour the batter into a pan, slam the pan down on the counter. It settles the batter and makes it more even. Light cakes (thin batter) bake at 350. You do have to use a toothpick near the center to see if it’s done. I have a feeling this is not help at all.
Bad Horse's Filly
@SiubhanDuinne: Oh great, now I’m really intimidated.
General Winfield Stuck
Great black and whites, Grumpy and nffcnnr. B and W was my first passion in photography and about all I took in the 70′ and 80’s. This winter I plan to set my Rebel dslr on it when we get some cloudy weather, and shoot some historic western sites out in the countryside.
The window washer is way cool.
The talent on this blog is awesome indeed.
r€nato
why didn’t any of you tell me that Lou Dobbs has taken up a career in stand-up comedy???
Bad Horse's Filly
@Maude: Don’t tell, but I’m going to cheat a bit and use a white mix, because it seems this cake is all about the filling and frosting. The cake seems to only be a foundation for nuts, fruit, booze and butter. You bake it in 4 pie tins, so you have 4 thin layers which you then pile high with the rest of the shi…..stuff.
Bad Horse's Filly
@General Winfield Stuck: I mourned the death of film because I so loved doing B&W photos. Technology has caught up and I hear you can do decent B&W with digital now, but haven’t tried yet.
These pix, along with all the ones Tim has posted, are stunning. Always a favorite stop each day to see more of B-J crews talents.
Cat Lady
That pressbox is for high school games! I know everything is bigger in Texas, but holy fucking shit, really?
Comrade Jake
Ta-Nehisi Coates on the way the right views Palin. The dude is fucking lethal with words.
Maude
@Bad Horse’s Filly: If the batter is thick and it has all that stuff, slow cook it. It is going to be wonderful. Rule of thumb, high heat dries things out. If the cakes are going to bake for a longish time, put a pan of water on the bottom of the oven. It adds moisture. If the directions call for over 50 minutes baking time, I’d set the oven at 325. It will come out fine. I promise. I used to try all kinds of b aking and stuff came out edible…most of the time. Please let us know how it came out. If it comes out like a rock, send it to John.
General Winfield Stuck
This is good news and if it continues the recent trend of less weekly unemployment claims, it will be the biggest factor for the 010 elections, and 012. When the weekly unemployment claims drop below 400,000 a week, it is standard acceptance that the economy is starting to add jobs rather than lose them net. But it will still take several months for the monthly job loss numbers to turn positive for net jobs created.
Tale of Two Pardons
I’d like to offer Thanksgiving for what we have:
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/news/2009/11/obamas_first_pardon_a_turkey_named_courage.php?ref=fpa
But I’m especially thankful for what we DON’T have:
http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/sarahpalinvideos/youtube/palin-turkey.htm
asiangrrlMN
@freeulysses: Snort. I thought the same thought.
I really admire how elegant, classy, and simple B&W pics look.
shortstop
The window washer photo, though contemporary, has kind of a WPA art feel to it.
I love this recurring photo feature.
MikeJ
Hear the latest on the coma guy? Turns out he may just be a giant ouija board. The way he’s “communicating” is a nurse picks up his hand and moves it to a letter board that s/he can see and presses the letter for him.
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/11/24/conscious-coma-mans.html
valdivia
Must see graphs of the day via Ezra.
slag
@General Winfield Stuck: Link broken. But it’s good news. For now.
Also, I’m enjoying listening to this talk about Obama’s education in science and technology initiatives in the background. It’s like these guys have broken into my mind and stolen all of the thoughts I had throughout my formative educational years. Must be some universal appeal in wanting kids to be able to think critically.
Just Some Fuckhead
@MikeJ: Damn, they coulda saved Teri Schiavo that way.
And look! She’s also asking America to please vote Republican..
Third Eye Open
Submitted without comment.
The Moar You Know
@r€nato: That’s very interesting. It’s an Editor’s Pick over at the WSJ as well.
I wonder why the media is all of the sudden in such a hurry to throw Dobbs under the bus?
Couldn’t possibly have anything to do with this:
“Mr. Dobbs, who left the network last week, has said in recent days that he is considering a third-party run for a New Jersey Senate seat in 2012, or possibly for president.”
*magic words highlighted
Grumpy Code Monkey
@Cat Lady:
Even by Texas standards it’s pretty damned spiffy for a high school venue. And it’s in frickin’ Buda, no less.
licensed to kill time
@Third Eye Open: Ok, clicked on that link, and……I want a big “O” my god……! can I get a big OMG here?!
Third Eye Open
@licensed to kill time: I particularly enjoyed this review: “I can stimulate the economy and myself!”
Sentient Puddle
@Grumpy Code Monkey: Buda? Dear bloody lord.
But let me guess…football, right? Then it would make perfect sense.
licensed to kill time
@Third Eye Open: and “you love your President, let him love you back!”
Third Eye Open
@licensed to kill time: Seriously, I think I am going to buy one just to glue it to the podium in the room that our chapter of the College Republicans use. Can the matching double wetsuit be far behind?
Paul L.
More feminist brilliance from Amanda Marcotte
Men have no right to complain and stop paying child support when they discover that a child is not their biological offspring.
DNA Isn’t All There Is To Reproducing
Bad Horse's Filly
@Maude: Oh, the pan of water is great advice – at this altitude everything is dry.
licensed to kill time
@Third Eye Open: Ok, that made me seriously snort – take a pic if you do it!
Mario Piperni
Crazier by the day…
Beck on God, Gold, Guns…and Fruit Cellars
Grumpy Code Monkey
@Sentient Puddle:
There are no sports in Texas but football. Oh, yeah, there are other activities that involve balls and sweating, but those are just things you do when it’s not football season.
You think they’d have made “Friday Night Lights” about baseball? Basketball? Please. You can get maybe 20 people to show up to a baseball game, a little more than that for basketball. Football’s what brings the town out on a Friday night.
General Winfield Stuck
@Grumpy Code Monkey:
Kentucky is like that with basketball. Football and baseball are for lesser beings that can’t hit a three pointer.
Hawes
the question isn’t “Why is President Obama washing windows?” But “Why is Blackazoid El Muslim Kenyan taking a job from a hard working ‘real American’?”
Remember, we are a Center Right country and questions must be framed in a way that flatters Matt Drudge.