Great Dane tomorrow at seven. We’ll meet, hang for a while, and bar crawl around the area. Anyone who will be later, email me and I will give you my cell number so you can call and I can tell you where we are if we are not at the Dane .
Logistics- need a roll call in this thread so we know how many are coming. Also need someone to reserve a table or two depending on possible turnout. If we find an outdoor locale after we meet , so be it.
Tunch has spoken. I’ll be the fat guy with a plaid shirt and khaki shorts, because i am a middle aged WASP and that is how us styleless pricks roll.
Corner Stone
No kilt? You’ve dishonored the lineage.
Gin & Tonic
So you packed the pants this time.
Suzanne
If you wear a socks-and-sandals combo with that, I might think you’re my father-in-law.
Corner Stone
@Gin & Tonic: There are times, and this is one, when you should lay off the performance art and pay attention to people who actually know the subject matter.
Gin & Tonic
@Corner Stone: The subject matter being … ?
Kristine
I’ll be there @ 7.
zombie rotten mcdonald
hmpf. You wanna do a bar crawl, visit Milwaukee. Madison is for college students who barf Bud Light.
Rafer Janders
WASP? John, I thought that, like me, you were German? Wasn’t the family originally Kohl?
Corner Stone
@Gin & Tonic: That’s rich. I knew I should not have bothered with a troll like you.
Oh well, trollitude tagged.
tofubo
when in rome do as the romans do; when in wisconsin, do as an illinite ex-ohio jersey-boy pennsylvanian-raised upstate-new yorker tells you to do and please listen to this:
http://www.wpr.org/wcast/download-mp3-request.cfm?mp3file=dun130806j.mp3&iNoteID=164413
you want lauren green to do a 5 minute hit job ?? go waste time on fox ,, you want 1 hour of in-depth honest to god real conversation on a subject at hand ?? go to wisc pub radio
if the people you are with up there beyond the cheddar curtain do not know what wpr is or of whom kathleeen dunn be, you should question your hosts bona fides
** 7 pm tomorrow ?? you better keep the door open and the keg tapped, it’ll take me a bit to get there
John Cole
@Rafer Janders: I look like a misdle aged wasp
Little Boots
wow, just throwing it out there.
gwangung
@John Cole:
Ought to be scared, if an insect’s that big.
Uncle Cholmondeley
@Rafer Janders: Angeln and Saxony are both in Germany.
kideni
I’ll be at the Dane at 7. I got arrested for singing in the Capitol for the second time today, and I could use a night on the town.
Little Boots
@kideni:
damn, are those dicks still doing that?
BillinGlendaleCA
@kideni:
You sound that bad? Sorry couldn’t resist.
John Cole
@kideni: when does that happen? Would love to come film and take pics and post
GxB
@John Cole: Noon – BTW you mean the downtown Dane correct?
Little Boots
@John Cole:
you should.
this state is so fucked up these days.
pseudonymous in nc
I don’t object to adult men wearing shorts in non-sporting situations, but I do make judgements based on that choice.
gbear
This is Madison. You need to specify if that’s AM or PM.
rda909
This is so strange. Even though I live thousands of miles away, I’m currently staying a couple blocks from the Great Dane all this week. Just walked in front of the place today. The universe is telling me something. I’m a maybe depending on when I get done working though…cosmic.
gbear
@Corner Stone: Do you have that comment on speed dial? You (or someone) used the exact same comment to Just Some Fuckhead a few weeks back.
kideni
@John Cole: The Solidarity Sing Along happens every weekday between noon and 1. It’s a nonbusiness hour. It moves outside on Fridays and on days when there’s a permitted event inside. It’s been happening every week day, including holidays, since March 11, 2011. For the past 11 months they’ve been trying to get rid of it, and two weeks ago they started calling unlawful assemblies (the situation does not qualify as an unlawful assembly), and since July 24, 168 citations have been issued to I can’t remember how many people. The Sing Along was almost dead a month ago. Now we get over 100 people. Today they were actually threatening tourists and a Democratic legislator.
If you have a camera and aren’t a known person, you’ll probably be pretty safe. They should warn you and give you the option of leaving. I’ll be there tomorrow, but I’m going to try not to get arrested.
Little Boots
@gbear:
heh.
Little Boots
i wonder if this country can turn it around.
we are so fucking stupid right now. we need a new plan.
GxB
@gbear:
Heh! We got a winner.
I hear Bennett’s on Park is closed, no “Smut ‘n’ Eggs” for JC. Now that would have been something to photo-document.
kideni
@BillinGlendaleCA: Ha! I considered asking about that.
Little Boots
@kideni:
one of the most progressive sttates in history decided to become Alabama recently.
it’s pretty sad.
kideni
@Little Boots: It’s perhaps even more sinister than that. It’s pretty stunning how quickly it happened, too.
Little Boots
@kideni:
it really is. Koch brothers and ALEC.
damn.
gbear
@kideni: Can I suggest that you work up a nice three part harmony version of this Soft Boys song? It’s got a strong enough melody to be done acappella and already has the chorus harmonies. Just don’t turn up the guitars so loud. A quiet version of it would be devastating.
gbear
@kideni: Can you undo it like we did in MN? The politicians we kicked to the curb were pikers compared to what’s going on with WI republicans.
Little Boots
@gbear:
the contrast is kind of amazing.
Minnesota is not like a different world, but damn, what the hell? it seems like it sometimes.
kideni
@gbear: We should work on that! Inside it’s always a cappella, since instruments aren’t allowed (for the outside Sing Alongs, people can play instruments). Some of the people who come have amazing voices and could probably do this really well. I just fill the background myself.
Jay
Cole, have you ever been in the presence of an actual Great Dane? Apparently, the Biggest Dog on Record is a Dane. According to this video, he is “43 inches from paw to neck” and weighs 245 pounds.
I mean, really, why get a gun when you can have a massive dog? I imagine the only weapon that could take that thing down would be a Bazooka.
Little Boots
oh good goddess.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Little Boots: It’s only bad if Walker gets re-elected, everybody make a mistake once in a while.
Little Boots
@BillinGlendaleCA:
we sort of made that mistake twice.
honestly, we used to be cool.
we did.
Suffern ACE
@rda909: sure. The universe is telling you to be social. I just returned from Wisconsin yesterday. The universe is telling me dodder off to the corner.
gbear
@Little Boots: If we would have elected Tom Emmer (the election was a squeaker), we’d be in the same boat as Wisconsin. We dodged a bullet and then got sick of what the republicans were doing behind everyone’s back.
Minnesota is also lucky in that our high-profile republican candidates tend to get caught in a pool full of yound teens, or having an affair with a staffer at just the wrong time.
Corner Stone
@gbear: I dasn’t say, sir. The plantation house master AL is on patrol now.
FlipYrWhig
I forgot that earlier thread and thought John decided to adopt another dog.
srv
Elvis and I will not be attending as we do not exist in MN.
I will be in MKE and Chicago next week and can sing along there.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Little Boots: I get it, remember who our previous governor was here in CA.
Little Boots
@BillinGlendaleCA:
a celebrity?
we get, uhhhhh ….
Suzanne
@Jay: My mother used to have four Danes, including one almost that size. She says they were the best, sweetest dogs she’s ever had, and if she still lived in a place with a large yard, she’d have more.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Little Boots: Rick Perry of the north?
Little Boots
@Suzanne:
don’t encourage the johncole.
wait, do encourage the johncole.
he has to save wisconsin.
Little Boots
as does cornerstone.
Little Boots
@BillinGlendaleCA:
pretty close, and like that goober, reeelected.
what the hell is wrong with all of us?
gbear
@kideni: If you do it, let me know and I’ll try to play hookie and drive to Madison to hear it. Madison is a really scenic drive from St.. Paul.
The Fat Kate Middleton
I have my vurry, vurry RepublicanBornAgain sister-in-law here in Iowa with us for ten (yes, ten) days until Saturday. I have my vurry, vurry Democratic liberal cousins arriving Thursday morning. I cannot tell you how much I want to be there tomorrow night. And I really want to be arrested at the Solidarity Singalong. It would cause such pleasurable excitement among my family. I’ll try to be there.
ETA for typos
Little Boots
@The Fat Kate Middleton:
could you please ask her to explain … everything about the past six years?
Violet
@Suzanne: One of my neighbors has a Great Dane. It’s the biggest Great Dane I’ve ever seen. The first time I saw her walking it, I thought it was a small horse.
Little Boots
he’s kinda handsome. I mean he’s no doug, but he’s kinda handsome.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4KUmm0XsLY
kideni
@The Fat Kate Middleton: Come Thursday! There’s a Vets for Peace convention in town, and a bunch of them may show up, seeing as how two of their own have been handled particularly badly during the crackdown (they let a 70-year-old man fall down the marble stairs while handcuffed, and going against all medical advice when dealing with a potential back injury, they not only made him stand up again, they never took off the goddam cuffs!).
Suzanne
@Violet: They’re lovely. But oh my lord the poop.
My mom said a neighbor kid put fireworks in the dog turds one time before she had gone out to poopscoop, and the whole afternoon was just, literally, a shit show.
Johnny Coelacanth
@gbear: Oh, all of Corner Stain’s best retorts are copied and pasted from a text file, most likely saved as “best cumbaks.do not delete” or some such.
Johnny Coelacanth
@Suzanne: I can relate. At one point in my childhood, we owned three Great Danes. Every Saturday my brother and I got to clean the yard. I can still smell the dog crap.
Little Boots
there is thread. is that a thing, here?
johnny aquitard
Alas, wife has the evening for going out with her girlfriends. As a result my Wednesday evening will involve picking up the kids from summer camp and then making dinner and wrapping up with healthy, family type acivities like reading a bedtime story, while studiously avoiding a pub full of a bunch of people whose conversation is bound to include phrases like ‘skull fucking a kitten’ and ‘two wetsuits and a dildo’.
Didn’t know for sure Wednesday was the B-j meet-up, and the wife got her night out confirmed first. C’est la vie, as the fucking frogs say.
Omnes Omnibus
@kideni: Congrats. You guys are doing good work. FWIW the trial in January should end up vindicating people First Amendment rights.
Also too, I should be at the Dane around 7pm.
gogol's wife
Is the post title an homage to the great film with Clark Gable, Walter Pidgeon, and John Hodiak, based on the brilliant play by William Wister Haines (which I highly recommend everyone read if you can get a copy)?
Embir
Sign me up.
Ukko
Re: large dog poop
I still chuckle when I remember the breeder we got or Newfie from saying, “This dog will weigh as much as an adult man, now imagine that man crapping in your yard. You good with that?”
Best. Dog. Ever.
Rafer Janders
@Uncle Cholmondeley:
Well, duh. But Germans aren’t WASPS. Germans aren’t “Anglo-Saxons”, even the Germans who come from Saxony or Angeln. As used in both the English and German languages, the term Anglo-Saxons refers to the English from the country of England, or to those peoples in the US, Canada, etc. directly descended from them.
People who aren’t WASPS, therefore? Germans, Dutch, Scots, Welsh, Danes, Swedes, Norwegians, etc. White, sure. Protestant, yes. But WASPy? No.
Singing Truth to Power
I have three arrests so far – going for #4 this noon. It’s amazing – for the equivalent of a traffic ticket, they handcuff you (while wearing black gloves so they don’t get any democracy cooties on them), and march you down to the basement command post. Unless you are a 70 year old Viet veteran, in which case, they may drop you on your back on the marble steps, haul you to your feet, and make you walk back up to the top backwards. No exaggeration. Do join us at 12-1:00 at the Capitol if you can. I will be at the Great Dane tonight.
Singing Truth to Power
Oh, and the other Vet for Peace they arrested, they dropped his flag on the floor and walked on it, and his “Vets for Peace” vest mysteriously disappeared with his political pins. They are also targeting photographers this week, and warning spectators, tourists, and lawmakers with arrest for watching. Watching is participating, they say.
zombie rotten mcdonald
@gbear:
I would think “Uncorrected Personality Traits” would be better, and it’s already a cappella.
gbear
Why not both?
gbear
@Singing Truth to Power: This sounds unreal and unhinged. Hope you always have more people present than they can arrest and that it all gets documented somehow. Is there a website covering this?
Jude
Count me in, you disappointing hillbilly. I was looking forward to seeing a guy in overalls with a ceramic jug with three x’s on it.
gbear
@Suzanne: I had a roommate who owned a dog but didn’t feel the need to keep the yard clean, so I went out and scooped up poops with an empty charcoal briquettes bag that was handy in the garage. I wound up putting the bag back in the garage instead of throwing it away (it was only partially filled).
Later that week, my roommate had one of his rich Lake Minnetonka friends over for dinner and they were grilling in the back yard. My roommate decided that the grill needed more briquettes, so he went into the garage and grabbed a bag and dumped it onto the fire.
This is a true story. I heard it happening through an open window but didn’t realize what had happened until after it was done. Fortunately for me, I managed to not laugh out loud. I actually felt pretty guilty, but only for a little while.
kideni
@gbear: There are a number of independent journalists who have been covering this every day – it’s impressive to watch them weave around to document everything. They post a lot of photos on Facebook (look for Jenna Pope and Leslie Amsterdam) and Flickr, videos on YouTube, and website articles. The Wisconsin Citizens Media Cooperative has posted a lot, including video and photos and links. The CPOs are now starting to target them – one got shoved off his feet on Monday, and yesterday the CPOs were threatening to arrest videographers for following them down the hall (if photographers and videographers didn’t follow them down the hall, probably more than one person would have fallen down the stairs). One of the videographers noted that she had a press pass, and the CPO said to tell it to her lawyer.
Just Some Fuckhead, Thought Leader
Not going to be able to make it. :(
Make a toast in my honor.
Singing Truth to Power
@kideni: The mainstream media has pretty much ignored it all, except for those who write about how easy it is to get a permit. They ignore the fact that by applying for a permit, you agree to liability for damages and law enforcement costs. Keep in mind that after the initial stages of the rebellion, the Department of Administration said that we protesters had done $7.5 million in damages to the Capitol. They apparently did their calculations on cocktail napkins, because that was revised down to about $200,000 primarily for maintenance costs. Then our bonehead governor fired union custodians, and hired an IL company, which did a bunch of damage to the marble floors in the Capitol. Re the law enforcement costs we would be liable for, in the first week of this crime wave, they had probably 40-50 law enforcement types making arrests – Capitol Police, State Patrol, and Conservation Wardens from the DNR, at an average cost of $#50/hour. We should just get a permit? Fat chance. So that’s what mainstream media is ignoring, along with 1st and 4th amendment rights. It is unbelievable.
Singing Truth to Power
AND our Wisconsin State Fair world-famous cream puffs this year had cream from Illinois dairies.
gbear
@kideni: THANKS for the link to the Wisconsin Citizens Media Coop. I’ve been watching videos there for almost an hour. I wish you luck today. Kick Walker’s ass.
gbear
@Singing Truth to Power: How did that happen? You don’t mess that way with State Fair food.
burnspbesq
Plaid shirt and khaki shorts is a style. Classic American Style. It’s not Tommy Hilfiger’s fault that you don’t look like one of his models (for the record, neither do I).
Singing Truth to Power
@gbear: When you are Emperor Bonehead, you do. And today we had a group of Vets for Peace join us from a convention in town. Toward the end of the Sing Along, six cops stormed the guy carrying the Vets for Peace flag, wrenched it away from him, and arrested him. Great PR move, palace guard.
gbear
@Singing Truth to Power: I’ll look for the video at WCMC. Wow.
kideni
@gbear: It’ll probably be a few hours before good video is available, but you can see it happen on this Ustream video, starting at about 5:15. It was appalling.
edit: this is a better video: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=406714749434273
Lee
I’ll be there ! Looking forward to seeing our leerless feeder again (met in Austin a while back).