I can’t help myself; I was born to a tribe that cherishes a good grievance as an heirloom to be passed down for generations.
Apart from football, what’s on the agenda for The Last Official Summer Weekend?
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JustPeachyAndYou
If you’re in Northern Colorado the weekend after Labor Day with nothing better to do, you could go to the TriMedia Film Festival in Fort Collins. It’s a fun, pleasant town, and the festival has independent film, TV, and theatre.
(Full disclosure: I know the festival co-directors pretty well.)
Ruckus
Work
jeffreyw
Mrs J is baking an apple pie. I am trying to turn some grape tomatoes, green peppers, garlic,and sweet corn into a cohesive dinner with marinated chicken thighs and nothing is clicking for me.
Warren Terra
There’s a great passage in one of Molly Ivins’s early books of collected essays where she says that her it’s not enough for the other side to lose, she wants them all to have flat tires on their way home from the polls, and that her momma may have raised a mean baby, but she didn’t raise any hypocrites.
Violet
I’m tearing out caulk and grout from the bathroom tub/shower and will re-grout/caulk over the next few days. Do not envy me. This job was supposed to be easy — take out caulk, add new caulk. But the grouting decided it wanted to come out too. I have to take it all our or I’ll end up with cracks and leaks. What a mess.
Linda Featheringill
Nothing like a good dose of resentment . . . .
PIGL
a good dose of resentment….while waiting for someone else to die.
Linda Featheringill
The plan for this weekend was gardening and yard work. Then, after 10 cool days in a row, it got hot again! What the hey?
So now the plan is to try to get some of that done after sundown and before 10 o’clock in the morning. Yuck!
Steeplejack
Night shift checking in. Worked a day shift, got home about half an hour ago. Fluid replacement therapy, followed by pizza. Then later watching something on what RossInDetroit memorably called “the haunted fish tank.” Nothing planned for tomorrow, and I mean nothing. My arm is sore and still looks like a Damien Hirst installation.
Roger Moore
I’ve been trying to photograph the hummingbirds visiting my feeder, without notable success. I guess that it will require some practice to get anywhere close to perfect. Also planning to do plenty of cooking and baking. I’m going to start some bread/pizza dough and some 48 hour sous vide chuck roast as soon as the cat decides he’s had enough lap time.
Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason
Well, I mowed the lawn. That’s one thing off my list for the weekend. No SuperFunTime stuff planned. Next up is balancing the checkbook and figuring out how to pay the bills. Maybe get back to painting the garage tomorrow if it doesn’t rain.
Will cook some dinner for the family in a little bit, see if there’s anything good on the tube, then probably read a Carl Hiaissen that I missed a couple of years ago.
R-Jud
My cast is now so loose that when I clump around on crutches it slides down, crushes my ankle, and makes my foot turn blue.
So I’m not doing much. I haven’t been off my property in ten days and I’m fucking murderous as a result.
I’ve spent most of today trying to find a way to watch the freshly released Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles here in the UK. I want to give the filmmakers some cash money.
I distinctly remember seeing one of those things in Philly around ’95-’96 while I was touring colleges with my Dad, who noticed it and said “Lots of weirdoes in big cities, huh?”
JimPortlandOR
One of the documents found in Libya’s Interior Min by the rebels spells out how Bushie’s minions sent ‘terrorists’ to Libya to be Cheney’d. Since it was ‘enhanced interrogration’ (not torture!), only The Heartless Dick could revel in the thought of a red-hot iron rod being shoved up some hapless guys ass.
Hey, The Dick was/is animatronic, it takes a special thrill to get him off.
imonlylurking
Finishing my roommate’s Christmas present, now that I have my sewing room organized enough to work in.
PurpleGirl
Watching Land of the Pharaohs with Howard Hawkes. A big screen melodrama — tacky as hell and great fun.
Have plans to do some cleaning around the apartment. I’ve been researching the crafts events coming up in the next 4 months — yarn crawls, bead shows, crafts sales. Every weekend in October has something to do.
I’ve put on the living room AC for the time in more than a week. Came back from a little food shopping and the room seemed warm.
Steeplejack
@PurpleGirl, @efgoldman:
Only in the low 80s when I came home, but the man-cave felt a little stuffy, so I put the A.C. on for a while, mostly to cut the humidity.
Roger Moore
@imonlylurking:
That’s a terrible name for a poster.
Omnes Omnibus
@Steeplejack: I opened the windows here and made the mistake of letting in the humidity. I will probably have to put on the AC before bed tonight.
Jules
Making pizza and then later it will be watching Doctor Who.
PurpleGirl
My living room’s orientation is south/southwest and right now, even though the sun is shifting a bit, I still get heat build up during the afternoon year round. This part of the day is when I need the AC the most.
Dee Loralei
Waiting for my beloved Sooners to kick off in 2 hours. Watching football all day. Plan on making it most of the night, and then the new Dr Who. Am making a fresh ricotta and grilled plum crostini with balsamic syrup as an appetizer.
More football tomorrow and then on Monday. I love me some college football! But Monday will also have ribs, slaw, baked beans, homemade bread, and maybe a peach and wine granita.
Mustang Bobby
Well, since my landlord told me he’s hiking my rent $100 a month to pay for the insurance increase, I’ll be balancing my checkbook and hoping that Chef Boy-Ar-Dee still sells ravioli in a can.
On the upside, I found the perfect antique license plate for my antique car… if you can call a 1988 Pontiac station wagon an antique. (By the rules of the Antique Auto Club of America, it will be old enough next year. But why wait?)
Roger Moore
@PurpleGirl:
Yeah, I put on the AC for the cat. I assure you, it’s only for the cat, it’s not for me at all. No, I’m not using the cat as an excuse to turn the AC on, no way, no how. And my willingness to use the AC has nothing to do with my building having a central chilled water system that only requires me to run a fan, rather than have to pay the cost of cooling the air directly.
srv
I thought manual labor, but that isn’t happening until next week. So catch up on Dexter @ amazon.
I could study for my BFR…
Corner Stone
I’m giving serious consideration to slapping a little Azzarenka.
I’m not sure there’s anything more annoying in pro sports than the moaning done by female tennis players every time they hit a ground stroke.
BDeevDad
Just brought home a rescue dog. An 8 month old Labrador-Basset Hound mix named Padfoot.
Omnes Omnibus
@Corner Stone: Tim Tebow.
Corner Stone
And Anne Laurie, I’ll put my maternal grandmother against anyone in the grudge holding category. Part Scots/Irish and part Apache.
That old lady knew what it meant to settle a long held score.
Roger Moore
May I just ask what bizarre computer algorithm has decided to give me ads for the Ala Moana Center’s 4th of July fireworks spectacular? I thought these things were supposed to have some kind of intelligence that would provide vaguely reasonable ads. I can understand the stupid right wing ads- they’re apparently too dumb to realize this is a left wing blog- but why advertise a past event in another state?
Corner Stone
@Omnes Omnibus: I like Tim Tebow. I hope Denver starts him every game this season.
Roger Moore
@BDeevDad:
A much better name for him than Moony, Wormtail, or Prongs.
JGabriel
Speaking of the Irish and grudge-holding:
Oh yeah. Rebuking the Irish over your own priestly child sexual abuse. That’s really gonna help your image with the Irish, O Papal Seat.
Having grown up with an Irish Catholic family on the maternal side, I didn’t think anything could ever turn the Irish against the Vatican. But, hey, if the Papal Seat thinks rebukes will work better than pacification … well, more power to ’em!
Let us know how that works out for ya, Bennie.
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Omnes Omnibus
@Roger Moore: It thinks you are a Time Lord?
eemom
@JGabriel:
with any luck, that will trigger a new Catholic-bashers vs. Catholic-bashees flame war.
Things have been entirely too tranquil around here.
BDeevDad
@Roger Moore: With the dark black coat and big basset hound feet, it fits.
Corner Stone
@efgoldman: It reminded me of a Mourning Dove or something.
Just brutal.
PurpleGirl
@BDeevDad: Awesome name. Much luck and love with the critter.
Svensker
@BDeevDad:
Awwww. Congrats. Pics or it never happened!
eemom
…..buuuuut, just in case that doesn’t work:
here toko! here toko-loko! heeeeere, little freakazoid.
READ this POST by a LIBERTARIAN who possesses all the sophistication and wit you lack, snookums:
http://www.tnr.com/article/94477/ron-paul-distorted-libertarian-ideology
Omnes Omnibus
@eemom: Bored, are you?
Roger Moore
@eemom:
It should make a nice break from the usual Obot vs. Firebagger stuff. I’ll just say I wish the Vatican treated the child rape as a matter of doctrine, so it would give it as much attention as contraception or abortion.
Corner Stone
Good God. A 4 pound chimichanga? WTF?
PurpleGirl
@efgoldman: IIRC, from the ancient middle east classes I took, several cultures featured women ululating during funeral and grief rituals. (Too lazy to go get the books from the shelf to check their names.)
robertdsc-PowerBook
Preparing to crack my shed open and organize the 1950+ books I own tomorrow and Monday. Good times.
Kristine
Making strawberry/blueberry/Chambord preserves. First-time jammer. Waiting for the stuff to set.
Tomatoes are finally ripening. Picked close to 7 pounds worth. I’ll be blanching those for freezing as soon as the preserves are done.
Phylllis
@efgoldman: I think he gave her five minutes, actually.
lamh32
Watching a movie on HBO. I’m laughing at this character saying she “don’t eat in public”! Please, I love to eat. I’m from NOLA where food is a heavenly delight meant to be savored. Alright ladies question of the day: When you go out on a first date, do you eat less than you usually do?
Guys, what do ya’ll think of a girl who “doesn’t eat” on your first date?
Corner Stone
@lamh32: I actually eat about a third of the amount I used to just a few years ago. So if someone orders a small meal, or just eats a small amount, I don’t think much of it.
ETA, and WTS, I love food and think it’s awesome to share time with someone else who does too.
lamh32
@Corner Stone:
I here ya, honestly, when I go out to eat, I go for the company, but also for the food. There is nothing I hate more than going to a restaurant and not enjoying my meal, even if I do have a good time with my friends.
Phylllis
Waiting on the Gamecock/ECU game to start. We’re forecast to get rain from Lee on Monday, so we’re gonna do ribs and all the accoutrements tomorrow. I may do red beans and rice in the slow cooker Monday.
JGabriel
@efgoldman:
Jeepers. To an agnostic Catholic New Yorker like me, that is so bizarre. I mean, when I hear the word Nuns, I think The Catholic Worker.
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Corner Stone
@Phylllis: Go Cocks!
lamh32
Ok, so I’m watching the same movie and this dude is of course dating this hot chick, who underneath is a conniving beeyotch, and ole dude just dont’ see it. Of course he’s best girlfriend while not as attractive as the crazy hot chick but still attractive stands along the sideline and loves him from afar.
Anyway, it got me to thinking. It’s amazing what a pretty girl can do a man. Maybe I’m wrong, but we women aren’t the same when it comes to a hot guy. Guys see a hot chick and their brains get discombobulated? So fellas, what’s the craziest thing you’ve accepted from a chick which you wouldn’t normally have done just cause she was way HOT? And what did it take for ya to get over the crazy pretty chick?
arguingwithsignposts
@Corner Stone: I saw what you did there.
Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason
@lamh32: Don’t know where I read it but talk of food and NOLA always brings this quote to mind:
Corner Stone
@lamh32: First, I disagree with your premise.
Women go bugnuts for tight buns and a hint of badboy just as bad as guys do for a top shelf and a pretty face.
Steeplejack
@Omnes Omnibus:
Yeah. I had the windows open since last night, when it was cool, but there was a bit of a heat/humidity buildup while I was gone today. My two big windows face directly south, so they get heavy morning sun.
Corner Stone
@arguingwithsignposts: What? I like being able to use my great grandpa’s old pocketwatch to time the throwing motion of QB’s who aren’t on my team.
Brings a tear of sentimentality to my eye, it does.
Maude
@efgoldman:
You saw the summer cottages. The Breakers with the hot and cold fresh and salt water was freaky.
Newport used to be a nice small town and they have changed it.
lamh32
@Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason:
ha. I do know some Cajuns and ain’t a truer statement was evah made.
Alligator, mudbacks, catfish, boudin, parts of a pig you’d never think anyone should eat…you name is…lol
PurpleGirl
@efgoldman: LOL. I don’t think so.
Corner Stone
We’re having major power surges/rolling outages here in the Greater Houston Area.
Wind + drought + heat plus Schweddy Balls is causing AC compressor overloads all across the region.
According to my AC guy when I called him.
lamh32
@Corner Stone: oh, you’re right, us ladies do love our “beefcakes”, but still, you guys do tend to take it a lot farther than us ladies.
Men are just the “dumber sex”…they more inclined to manipulation by a pretty face…case in point: Sarah Palin…
I kid, I kid…lol
Anne Laurie
@efgoldman: The Bulgarian Women’s Choir were the first to bring this to modern American attention, but the style only works as a choral project:
Corner Stone
@lamh32: Palin does have a rocking body, but time is not being kind to her facialur region.
I’ll probably still vote for her, all things considered.
Mike in NC
Waiting for all the frigging tourists from places like Ohio and NJ to go home after Labor Day so we get some semblance of normalcy here.
lamh32
@Anne Laurie:
OH.MY.GOD! My ears!!!
Lovely tribal dress though…lol.
demz taters
@efgoldman: Does this mean we can look forward to Romney’s “beach house” being a museum to excess 100 years from now?
lamh32
@Corner Stone:
Seriously though, I think for women, it’s more of a power thing. Yes we love our beefcakes, but for whatever reason, a man with some type of power by either, money, status or both and some women act just like men with a pretty woman.
Case in point: Bill Clinton & Donald Trump. Two of the most “average” looking me ever, but still some stupid girl decided it was a good idea to give him head in the oval office, and don’t get me started on the women post-Ivana that Donald Trump’s had on his arm.
arguingwithsignposts
@Corner Stone: suck it up, Texas boy. (as a native of the gulf coast, I can say that). :P
jeffreyw
It ain’t pretty, but it tasted pretty good.
Corner Stone
@arguingwithsignposts: I just wanted an excuse to link to the greatest SNL skit ever.
Chad N Freude
@Omnes Omnibus: Did you actually read the article? And the comments? Try it, you might like it.
Anne Laurie
@Corner Stone:
An excellent genetic heritage. My grandmothers were Galway-Orange on one side (Scottish refugees from the Cromwell interregnum) and Donegal-Irish on the other (economic refugees from the Elizabethan border wars). They both had the Viking red hair, ski-jump nose & nordic eyelid folds (which the Vikings inherited from the nomadic ex-Siberians they conquered). Not so global as your grannie, but distilled spirits of memory & vengeance…
mike in dc
Hey, what if “Spring” came to Israel, and American media almost completely ignored it?
460,000 today, 300,000 in Tel Aviv alone. Wow.
Corner Stone
@Anne Laurie:
Ha. 90 pounds soaking wet, and whiskey fueled fury. As wrinkled as tossed out paper. She’d rather cut a strangers neck than allow him to spit on an enemy if they were on fire.
Just some crazy shit. I was about 7 when I realized I’d prefer to never spend time around her again.
Roger Moore
@efgoldman:
Yes, rape is a mortal sin, so it’s not as if the Church treats it lightly. But a mortal sin can still be absolved through the normal process of confession, repentance, and penance. In contrast, getting an abortion, or helping somebody else to get one, is not just a mortal sin but results in automatic excommunication. So does violating the secrecy of confession or using the confessional to cover for adultery (i.e. committing adultery and then immediately accepting confession from the adulteress). If abusing the priesthood to commit adultery is worthy of automatic excommunication, why should abusing it to rape children be treated more leniently?
Omnes Omnibus
@Chad N Freude: I read it when eemom posted it earlier today.
Roger Moore
@Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason:
Hah, that’s nothing. I know a family with a Cajun husband and a Cantonese wife. Now there’s a family that will eat anything that’s edible.
Phylllis
@arguingwithsignposts: They don’t let us play Ball U anymore.
Mnemosyne
@Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason:
Given that they’re descended from people who served up frog legs and snails for dinner in the home country, are you really surprised?
Chad N Freude
Sorry. Your comment at @Omnes Omnibus looked to me like snarking at eemom for reading an article by a Libertarian. Profound apologies. I thought the article and the comments (like those here at BJ only not really) were very good.
ETA: I subscribe to TNR.
Mnemosyne
We’re in the midst of a huge home decluttering project and we’re at the point where you’re surrounded by stuff you don’t want anymore but don’t have room in your car to take away.
Also, too, for some reason I’ve become obsessed with the idea of papercrafting my own gift tags even though I suck at papercrafting, so I keep buying pretty cardstock. Gotta try and get that back under control.
Mnemosyne
@efgoldman:
It’s only quite recently that abortion has become an absolute no-no — IIRC, it was within the last 50 years or so that it became the worstest sin evah. Historically, abortion was okay up until “quickening” (ie the mother could feel the fetus’ movements) and even then it didn’t mean instant excommunication like it does now.
So they can’t even claim that it’s some kind of ancient belief that the Church has held since the beginning. It’s more of a reaction to the popularity of the Pill than a historical religious conviction.
Omnes Omnibus
@Chad N Freude: I was snarking at her, but it was for trying attract m_c.
ETA: I also have no problems with people reading whatever they want for pleasure or edification.
Chad N Freude
@Omnes Omnibus: I missed the trajectory of your RPC*.
Rocket Propelled Comment.
eemom
@Chad N Freude:
I reposted the link here in order to lure the idiot child into cavorting for my amusement. Regret any misunderstanding amongst two of my favorite fellow
inmatescommenters.eemom
@Omnes Omnibus:
and yes, I AM bored. With the work I’m supposed to be doing while sitting here at the computer, to be exact.
Omnes Omnibus
@eemom: Sad, the lengths to which some will go to avoid work.
JGabriel
@efgoldman:
Of course it is. But Roger Moore’s point is still valid, in that the Vatican doesn’t make a political issue of it, or a matter for excommunication and/or denial of the sacrament of communion, the way they do abortion.
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Anne Laurie
@Mnemosyne:
Historically, pre-quickening, there was no reliable way to tell an early pregnancy from a missed period — and of course breastfeeding / overexertion / starvation diets caused ‘failed courses’ in Aquinas’ day, too.
Historically, the Catholic hierarchy decided that abortion was a serious mortal sin along the curve as it moved from ‘risky attempts that posed as much danger to the mother as to the fetus’ to ‘safe medical procedure available to even women with very little social sophistication or money’. When a woman had to be very, very desperate — so determined to end a pregnancy that they’d drink poison, throw themselves down a flight of stairs, or risk getting punched hard in the abdomen — extra-special campaigning from the bishops and scholars wasn’t necessary.
If you read Catholic anti-abortion literature starting from approximately the Victorian period, the emphasis shifts very noticibly from the consequences of damaging the woman’s health and/or fertility (“it may even become the sin of suicide”) to today’s every-sperm-is-sacred dogma.
It’s never been about the baby, except in the loosest one-more-footsoldier sense. It’s about control — making sure that the bishops have it, and the individual women don’t.
Bruce S
The GOP’s cult of total crazy, from someone who’s been there…
Chad N Freude
@eemom: I am flattered by your compliment [blushes becomingly]. I’m glad you posted that link. I am generally weeks behind in reading TNR and the New Yorker because I have a very demanding job and a very disorganized mind. Speaking of the New Yorker, I just got to Ryan Lizza’s recent excellent and frightening article about the Dominionista Who Would be
QueenPresident. Long, but definitely worth the time.SiubhanDuinne
@eemom:
Too bad it didn’t work; I would have enjoyed some of that myself.
I can’t do a convincing m_c or I’d post a nice parody for you. Maybe Suzanne is around? She does it very well!
Omnes Omnibus
@SiubhanDuinne: I created this template the other day, if you would find it helpful: WEC cudlips don’t unnerstand [insert Ke$ha song lyric] [insert Snow Crash reference] Julian’s system killer [insert religious/racial bigotry] IQ!
SiubhanDuinne
@Omnes Omnibus:
You are too awesome for your hat. I love that.
BDeevDad
@Svensker: Padfoot pic
Jebediah
@BDeevDad:
Super cute! He just looks like he is going to be a great and fun companion.