Just an absolutely gorgeous day today- 75 with blue skies, and Shawn and I took the new and improved family truckster to Lowe’s to pick up some stuff for home repairs, and rocked the Allman Brothers Live at Ludlow Garage with windows down and the sun roof open, just straightening the curves and marveling at how green everything has become in just the last week. Love that version of Dreams, btw:
I am so thrilled with my car. It’s just a great ride, and I can pick good lines and it hugs the road so much that I never have to brake. Plus, just the way it powers out of turns and hugs the road is enough for me. My first big boy car.
Came home, grilled some ribeyes on the grill, soaked some zucchini and yellow squash in soy and ground pepper that I then grilled, tomatoes basil and buffalo mozz with some olive oil and salt and pepper, and some coleslaw.
Oh, had an embarrassing atheist moment at Kroger today. Before I left Bethany to hit the big city, I stopped at the general store for some teas for the ride, and on the door the Sportsman’s club had an ad up for an Easter ham shoot on the 13th. So, I thought to myself, I guess Sunday is Easter, and I will have all the frat boys down who did not go home and make them a big dinner (I used to do the same thing every Easter for all the MA and Doc students who could not make it home when I lived in Motown). Got to Kroger, picked up a ham, and was in the checkout line and said gotta have the ham for Easter dinner tomorrow, and she looked at me funny and said tomorrow is Palm Sunday.
Oops. Guess the boys are getting a ham dinner tomorrow. Got some green beans I’ll cook up with bacon and onions and mushrooms, some knob onions to make creamed onions, some twice baked tomatoes and a garden salad, and a fruit salad.
I really have not felt that stupid in a while. I mean, I’m an atheist, but I should probably be more aware of when the oppressed Christian majority hold their Druidic rituals.
Watching Sons again, because Shawn had never seen it.
*** Update ***
Reminds me of the time I saw the sign on Chambers General Store that said ham or turkey shoot at the Brooke County Sportsman club, and I approached Harry Chambers and said “That doesn’t sound very sporting. You’re just going to release some pigs and/or turkeys (I forget which it was) and then shoot them? How is that even sporting? They all got hysterical and I was a running joke for months when I discovered they were target shooting and the winner got a ham or turkey.
Little Boots
look at you with the awesome music.
Jane2
Good Lord, Costco is closed Easter Sunday. That should be a good enough reminder.
ulee
Just got home after several days. Work is done for few days and my girlfriend is slowly recovering from surgery. Upon returning home I saw that someone had decided to spin out on my soggy lawn They left their tiretracks and in tomorrow’s light I’ll see if there a match for Cole’s car. Also, a letter from Superior Court asking me to fill out a jury duty form. Then the bath is clogged. I thought it was draining awfully slow when I left on thursday morning. What, did I say something to piss you all off?
Little Boots
and the embarrassing moment was “teas for the ride.” just FYI
? Martin
Ham will keep until next sunday.
? Martin
@ulee:
Actually, yeah.
But sorry about the troubles. Hope the girlfriend is okay. Tell her the intarwebs wishes her a speedy recovery.
Omnes Omnibus
The cook for my fraternity used to come in on Easter Sunday – even though she didn’t work weekends at all – in order to cook lamb for all the stay on campus brothers ( the vast majority of us). She also made a fantastic crab salad with a vinaigrette dressing – I really should have gotten the recipe.
OTOH, she once got the opportunity of getting a bunch a raccoons and she made us a stew. We made her our honorary house mother.
Little Boots
@Omnes Omnibus:
I don’t know how many kinds of show-off this is, but I’m going to say seven.
ulee
@? Martin: Yeah, I know. When I’m drunk I’ll take a side and spoil for a fight. But I hate everyone equally. And my computer just crapped out for ten minutes. I am hated.
ulee
And thank you for the good wishes for my girlfriend. I will pass it along.
Fuzzy
Mr Cole, you really are a city boy living in a small town thinking that the pig and turkey will die by the winners hand. They are shooting for dead stuff not shooting stuff dead. sheeesh.
Omnes Omnibus
@Little Boots: I thought we were sharing Easter/food/college stories. That was mine. Also, that lady was a goddess. The easiest way for a fraternity pledge to not become any active member was to disrespect her in any way. She had spent her life in the restaurant business and retired. She found retirement boring, so a 2/3 time job cooking at a fraternity sounded like fun for her. She knew everyone in food in the area and always got great deals. We ate like kings. She could drink like a sailor, but abhorred bad language. Simply put, she was awesome.
Little Boots
@Omnes Omnibus:
she sounds awesome.
Steeplejack
Buddy Miles did a good take on “Dreams.”
I’m taking a brief break from Pacific Rim on HBO. I’m 45 minutes in, and it is underwhelming me.
I also saw that new Nicolas Cage movie, Joe, tonight. Mixed review; details later.
Little Boots
@Omnes Omnibus:
and I’m sorry. you know how I get, this time of night.
Omnes Omnibus
@Steeplejack: I watched the comedy classic, Ruthless People earlier tonight.
@Little Boots: Yeah. BTW aangus was looking around for you last night.
Little Boots
@Omnes Omnibus:
wait, to kill me? or just looking?
Ash Can
This could actually be ideal for the kids who are going home for (real) Easter. They get to celebrate with the bros on Palm Sunday, then go home and celebrate with the family on Easter. It’s all good.
Steeplejack
@Little Boots:
He was looking to throw down musically, as per usual. Plus he seems to think you are Caligula from some other blogs that he frequents.
Omnes Omnibus
@Little Boots: That is something I couldn’t possibly say.
@Steeplejack: Little boots = Caligula in Latin. But you probably knew that already.
Little Boots
@Steeplejack:
um, okay, now I think I understand.
stalker.
Steeplejack
The other great cover from that Buddy Miles album is “Down by the River.”
And the title song is awesome, straight-ahead Texas blues/funk: “Them Changes.”
Jane2
@Little Boots: I have some music for you…a North Dakota guy. It doesn’t get any more heartland than that.
Little Boots
@Omnes Omnibus:
don’t encourage.
and post music.
Steeplejack
@Little Boots:
Heh, yes, you would understand that. Yes, you would.
Ruckus
Two of a kind.
Steeplejack
@Omnes Omnibus:
Yeah, but the vibe I got was that Aangus was intimating that L.B. uses that nym on other blogs.
Omnes Omnibus
@Steeplejack: I truly laughed at that one.
@Little Boots: I’ll go Klaus Nomi on you in a second if you provoke me.
Little Boots
@Steeplejack:
hey, you bastard.
but yeah. you bastard.
Violet
It’s windy here tonight. It was warm today–in the 80’s–but it’s cooled down below 70 now. I’ve got the doors and windows open to try to cool the house down enough so I don’t have to put the a/c on to sleep. I think I just may get it cool enough.
Little Boots
@Steeplejack:
I use the same nym. that’s his issue?
Steeplejack
I was going to go back to the Allman Brothers with a version of “In Memory of Elizabeth Reed,” my favorite of their songs, but Buddy Miles got me thinking about other music from that time, and I went for this slightly weird one—the James Gang, “Midnight Man.” An odd outlier even at the time.
Little Boots
@Steeplejack:
why I love steeplejack (okay everyone knows I love Omnes), but this is why I love steeplejack.
Omnes Omnibus
@Violet: We just had some hail. I stood at the window looking at my car and wondering if I should go out and cover it with blankets.* Luckily, the hail was small and didn’t last long.
*Come on, from recent car posts, does anyone not know that I love my car?
Steeplejack
@Omnes Omnibus:
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. No one wants that. Can’t we all get along? And it’s a little early in the evening to be throwing out the nuclear option.
Omnes Omnibus
@Steeplejack: MAD.
ETA: To stay with the college fraternity theme* and as a peace offering: there is is this.
*Typical of our dance music at parties.
Yatsuno
@Omnes Omnibus: I figure that has more to do with your car being (temporarily) irreplaceable. I’ve owned my Chevy three years now and still luv that damn beast.
Steeplejack
@Little Boots:
I don’t know what his issue is, if any. Jee-sus. Jus relaying information. You can pore over last night’s thread, if you want.
Howard Beale IV
Remember for all you Coca-Cola aficionandos-the Coke for Passover has real sugar and has yellow caps.
Steeplejack
@Omnes Omnibus:
Yeah, I didn’t want to mention the name of that other song, because he’ll do it. He’ll do it, man.
Nicole
My son’s preschool is doing metamorphosis for this month’s concept, and got tadpoles and painted lady caterpillars. I volunteered to take the caterpillars during spring break, figuring they’d sit in their cup for a week and I’d take them back. No, as luck would have it, NOW is when they are forming their chrysalises. So it was two cups and one butterfly dome, with five little chrysalises hanging from the top. Two of which fell off on the trip home. Visions of weeping preschoolers dancing in my head, I set out to hot glue them back into proper position (I’m not a sadist; I looked it up on the internet and it’s what is recommended and I read it on the internet so it must be true). I’ve handled snakes, I’ve handled Madagascar hissing cockroaches, and yet I shrieked like a leetle gurl when I picked up the first chrysalis to stick it back in position and it started wriggling in my hand. Ew. My son is already terrified of bugs; I did not help that situation one whit.
But the damn things are hanging upside down again, like they’re supposed to. And it’s kind of cool to watch the other ones that haven’t changed quite yet curl up into a J shape and then form the chrysalis. I just don’t look forward to moving them from the cup to the dome.
Little Boots
@Steeplejack:
no I’m okay. no need.
I like this thread.
Omnes Omnibus
@Yatsuno: Nah, if a new one were available, I would not want to replace this one. She’s lovely.
Jane2
@Nicole: “Hot glue them them back into proper position”….that is hilarious.
Omnes Omnibus
The Dazz Band?
Steeplejack
@Omnes Omnibus:
Awesome! In Atlanta we used to go to this bowling alley that had “Rock ’n’ Bowl” at midnight on Friday night. They turned off all the lights except the ones over the pins, the service counter and the bar, and they had a DJ who played all that ’80s funk: Cameo, Gap Band, Dazz Band, Rick James, a little James Brown. Even Teena Marie.
ETA: And incredibly cheap pitchers. Yoinks!
Omnes Omnibus
@Steeplejack: Like Henry Fonda, I am willing to do it first if necessary.
ETA: TeenaMarie? F-ing awesome
Little Boots
@Omnes Omnibus:
nice.
CaseyL
@Little Boots: IIRC, there used to be a Little Boots on this very blog, years ago, who was a really nasty bit of RW trollishness. I admit, the first couple times I saw your nym, I thought “Oh, God, no; he’s back” – but you appear to be an entirely different person.
It’s possible that that “Little Boots” is still active on other blogs.
trollhattan
@Steeplejack:
Peter Boyle is Joe, and that’s how it should remain.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065916/
Also, too, about the youngest Susan Sarandon you’ll ever see.
Nicole
@Jane2: Truth. I read it and was like, “Seriously?” And then I worried they were wiggling because they were screaming in fiery agony in the glue (even though I let it set and tested the temperature with my finger before I stuck them in it).
Apparently, the wiggling is a way to scare off predators. In my sample size of one, I can report that it is extremely effective.
Jane2
@Nicole: I’m laughing, but with a tinge of empathetic horror.
Little Boots
@CaseyL:
really, I have been around for many years. theres are right wing troll? damn, sucks.
Yatsuno
@CaseyL: Speaking of…I saw a troll trying to gain traction here today. Per thang didn’t get very far, but it was a pretty weak effort.
Have I mentioned I hate morning shifts yet?
Omnes Omnibus
Yum Yum.
Steeplejack
@trollhattan:
The friend I went with and I joked about that. We’re both old enough that we saw Joe in the theater when it first came out.
Little Boots
I dunno.
it’s all, something.
Little Boots
can I do a throwback:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKpISNtgJMs
Little Boots
and steeplejack, what the hell was angus talking about?
Omnes Omnibus
@trollhattan: Peter Boyle is the Monster.
Also, I should offer this message.
Steeplejack
Cameo, “Word Up.”
SectionH
@Yatsuno: Hey hey hey Hi HI!!! How are you? Show me the way to the next Cider Bar… (only one I know for sure is in your town! Mr S and I kept doing the SAN-SEA run when Delta was doing +a gazillion miles or something, but we were always stuck at the airport.).
No, srsly, how are you doing? We’ll be through SEA a couple of times this summer anyway (I like Anchorage, but doubting my stamina) – meet up somewhere near SEA, or I could always get a car.
Steeplejack
Jesse Johnson, “(I Wanna) Be Your Man.”
Steeplejack
@Little Boots:
Read the thread. I have moved on. As the great Peggy Noonan once said, “Some things in life need to be mysterious. Sometimes you need to just keep walking.”
Steeplejack
Jody Watley, “Don’t You Want Me.”
Omnes Omnibus
@Steeplejack: Ah, the Prince factory in the 80s. I have been trying to find “The Walk” by The Time, but Prince’s lawyers scour the internet too frequently.
ETA: I can offer some Dee-lite.
Little Boots
@Steeplejack:
oh, great, when we’re down to peggy all hope is lost.
James E. Powell
@Steeplejack:
When I was in junior high the James Gang used to play teen dances in NE Ohio where I grew up. They’d do stuff like Expressway to Your Heart and other covers like Lost Woman including -OMG- a bass solo AND a drum solo. It was, after all, the 60s.
NotMax
So will be cooking for a dozen next Saturday, (only a dozen – the people who shun seafood won’t be there, so can go that route).
Haven’t cooked seafood in ages and am contemplating making a dish I like but it calls for flounder, which is essentially unobtainable here unless one owns a restaurant. Ditto (usually) as far as getting cod. Stumped about a substitute filet that can roll up over a slab of salmon for the dish. Need a mild white fish that won’t clash with the creamy mushroom sauce it’ll be cooked in.
Any non-snarky suggestions?
Leaning to using ono, if can find it thin enough to roll up rather than in a thicker steak cut. Or maybe halibut, which does show up at the fish market.
No weekly gathering tonight. Using the time to create a recipe for curried Japanese eggplant and carrot pancakes to go with the fish dish and saffron rice with peppers and green olives already planned.
Steeplejack
Neneh Cherry, “Buffalo Stance.”
John Revolta
This is the second time I randomly encountered this song tonight.
I love it. Dunno why, but it does something to me waaaaayy down inside.
Like, makes me totally despondent. But in a good way.
Steeplejack
Sheila E., “The Glamorous Life.”
Shannon, “Let the Music Play.”
Omnes Omnibus
@Steeplejack: Nice. She was/is so much more talented than her brother.
Little Boots
because now I’m obsessed, and a bit bitter:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_izvAbhExY
Violet
@NotMax: How about tilapia? It’s pretty mild and should be available most places.
Steeplejack
Pretty Poison, “Catch Me (I’m Falling).”
Pebbles, “Mercedes Boy.”
Omnes Omnibus
At Army OCS, we sometimes got a bit tired and we would get sleepy in class. One of our NCO instructors would play this song VERY loud as a temporary break to wake us up,
Steeplejack
Freeez, “AEIOU.”
ETA: I think I rolled a career high while this was playing one night.
Did you know bowling is one of the few sports where you can actually gain weight while doing it? True fact.
SectionH
@NotMax: Tilapia, of course. From Ecuador.
Or Swai. Source also South America. Both very flavorful but mild white fish. My 87 yro aunt ate them both happily almost as long as she could eat anything.
I recognize I’m not sure where you are (I’m in San Diego), so maybe kind of standard fish aren’t standard for you.
Steeplejack
@Omnes Omnibus:
I love Deee-Lite.
Yatsuno
@SectionH: I moved out of the area for work. HOWEVER…if the day is on a Saturday or a Sunday I could make the trip over for a meet-up and just crash at a Best Western since my brother works at one and can get me a sweet rate. I moved about four hours away but it’s not a bad drive plus I have a bit of a leadfoot. Let us know! I can always get CaseyL, MikeJ, or opiejeane to do some organising.
@NotMax: Mahi mahi will fit that bill, plus it’s readily available where you are.
Little Boots
@Steeplejack:
oh, fun.
Steeplejack
Sagat, “Funk Dat.”
Little Boots
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ud6sU3AclT4
Omnes Omnibus
@Steeplejack: The beginning of the Pretty Poison song put this song into my mind.
My brain is odd.
SatanicPanic
Watching the Kathleen Hanna documentary on Netflix, glad they got that one
NotMax
@Violet – @SectionH
Thanks. Local tilapia available. Trouble is there is a long-standing aversion to tilapia here as it is considered a garbage fish, suitable only for being thrown back. There ‘s an annual kids’ fishing contest for tilapia in Honolulu, but no one other than tourists eats it.
Steeplejack
@James E. Powell:
Hey, that was how you did it back in the day. Now you put together a demo CD with a drum machine and iStudio or something and you get a major label deal in two weeks.
I went to college in Missouri. I might have seen the James Gang a time or two.
Steeplejack
@Omnes Omnibus:
Amen to that. And easier on the eyes.
Little Boots
steeplejack, you are awesome.
and you always come up with the best music.
Little Boots
but everyone should do this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6R-LZ25Te0
Omnes Omnibus
More Sheila E.
Steeplejack
Rick James, “Seventeen.”
“I’m Rick James, bitch!” I can only see Dave Chapelle now.
Oh, hell: “Super Freak.”
Little Boots
you know what would be nice? johnny stopping this three minute rule.
ruemara
Met some King Pigeons today. So cute and tame. You know, they’re very much domesticated and people buy them and release them at weddings-getting their domestic asses killed. The agility dogs are kinda cool, but that’s a lot of energy. There were so many cool things to see today. Some of them macabre, but strangely beautiful. BTW, tarantulas are really dainty.
NotMax
@Yatsuno
Mahi. Might work, if I adjust the recipe (probably adding a very quick pre-cooking poach in vodka) as it is less flaky. Thanks. And yes, readily available, even right off the boats.
Thinking on also making salmon, crab and spinach with dill cream en croute as well.
Steeplejack
The bowling-alley DJ would bring down the house when he went old school with this: James Brown, “There Was a Time.”
SectionH
@Yatsuno: Leadfoot? *looks innocent* Ok, well, then. Meet up? what else is 13 Coins for? Well… I was so stoked last November when we walked out of SEA and I made it to the Coins, and then back to whichever Hilton-owned property it was (probably the DT).
Mr S has our itins. This could be fun!
Steeplejack
@Omnes Omnibus: As with Prince, hard to find good Morris Day clips on YouTube. I’ve been looking.
And, yes, I have given up on Pacific Rim. I’ll catch it one of the other 438 times it will be on this month.
Little Boots
changing every day.
every possible way
Steeplejack
@Omnes Omnibus:
Linky no work. You fix.
Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam, “I Wonder if I Take You Home.”
Yatsuno
@SectionH: I’m totally down with 13 Coins, as it is right near the airport & open 24 hours. Might take convincing of the other Seattle folk as it is VERY pricey. We can talk though. If it’s over the July 4th weekend I’m there for a couple days anyway! Plus any federal holiday weekend I could do.
Steeplejack
Patrice Rushen, “Forget-Me-Nots.”
NotMax
@Steeplejack</a.
Disco Godfather is on TCM at the top of the hour.. Not recommending, just sayin’.
Disco. PCP. Kung-fu. Blaxploitation to da max.
Little Boots
something a bit modern:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yam5uK6e-bQ
Steeplejack
@Omnes Omnibus:
To your point: This song—Pieces of a Dream, “Fo Fi Fo”—always leads me to Fleetwood Mac’s (Bob Welch) “Hypnotized.”
Omnes Omnibus
@Steeplejack: Okay. let’s move from Sheila to her uncle Alejandro.
ruemara
@Steeplejack: You guys sound like my last year of high school dances.
Little Boots
@Steeplejack:
pretentious, but nice.
eemom
@Omnes Omnibus:
@Steeplejack:
@Little Boots:
Y’all three are approaching the day when you will become entirely incomprehensible to anyone else. Jussayinzall.
Steeplejack
@NotMax:
LOL. I might have actually seen Disco Godfather in the theater back in the day, God help me. I loved me some blaxploitation flix.
I even interviewed Pam Grier in her prime when I worked on the newspaper. Mercy.
Bobby Womack, “Across 110th Street.”
Little Boots
@eemom:
are you saying you’re hypnotized?
Omnes Omnibus
@ruemara: We do our best.
@eemom: See above. Once late night threads go into music, it is probably best for all but the “High Fidelity” types to ignore what is going on.
SectionH
@Yatsuno: True, it’s srsly not cheap, it was kind of a Gasp!-Srsly? thing, because we hadn’t been there in a few years. (It actually seemed more expensive, relatively, in the ’90s to me.)
Also too, if we can schedule, Mr S would love to train into town. I’d be happy to find the Cider Bar, at least once.
Steeplejack
@eemom:
Hon, at least with my stuff, just lie back and listen to the beat.
Omnes Omnibus
@Steeplejack: Fixed link here.
Radio One
decent album for people interested in listening to more women singer songwriters https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8kp_4ZITqg
particularly like “Cabin Fever”
Little Boots
@Steeplejack:
smooth.
a bit rapey. but smooth.
Steeplejack
@ruemara:
Hey, I thought I was part black in the ’70s until they told me I was white because I could get credit and the cops weren’t shooting at me.
I used to hang with this guy who was in a touring funk band and would work on the newspaper when things were slow in between tours. For some reason we called him “Trouble Man” Odom.
Steeplejack
@Omnes Omnibus:
Cool! And she reminds me of Lisa Stansfield.
? Martin
@ulee: I don’t hate you. You were just getting your asshole on. We all do it.
And Bermuda Tentacles was awesome. Terrible, as expected, but at least something novel. Linda Hamilton has not aged well.
Big Ass Spider (yes, that’s the actual title) next Saturday. That’s got to be a winner as well.
Steeplejack
@Little Boots:
Hey, Steep is nothing if not a gentleman. I keep one foot on the floor at all times.
Now where’s my Courvoisier?
Little Boots
@Little Boots:
actually, that’s not funny, that’s just stupid.
Omnes Omnibus
@Steeplejack: Damn, long time no hear. But Alison could kick Lisa’s ass any day of the week.
Steeplejack
I’ve held off as long as I can: obligatory Commodores, “Brick House.”
Oh, yeah, she’s also a “Bad Mama Jama.”
Omnes Omnibus
@Steeplejack: Brick House is Lionel Ritchie’s only excuse for continued existence.
Steeplejack
@Omnes Omnibus:
I don’t judge. But Alison is good.
Little Boots
@Steeplejack:
again, nice
Omnes Omnibus
@Steeplejack: I am close to going to bed so I offer this: Night Shift.
Steeplejack
@Omnes Omnibus:
Triangulation: take those two, dial it back a bit and put a late-night Manhattan gloss on it. Nicky Holland, “Lady Killer.”
Little Boots
@Omnes Omnibus:
wow, that seems almost too sweet for you.
Steeplejack
@Omnes Omnibus:
True dat.
Little Boots
my favorite late night, too sweet song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTQbiNvZqaY
Omnes Omnibus
@Steeplejack: Okay, let’s do EBTG.
Steeplejack
Man! A long buried gem finally surfaces on YouTube: Jenny Burton, “Bad Habits.”
NotMax
Think your neighbor is a world-class a-hole? Think again.
Steeplejack
@Omnes Omnibus:
I knew what it was going to be! How ’bout some Swing Out Sister?
mai naem
Did somebody just mention Super Freak without mentioning Little Miss Sunshine?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VI2JRZWyE-M
One of the funniest scenes from a comedy evah!
Little Boots
damn, big damn storm tonight.
Steeplejack
@NotMax:
Okay, that’s a bad neighbor. Sheesh.
Little Boots
I blame omnes. he brings the devil.
Omnes Omnibus
@Steeplejack: Not too many hipster songs reference Wisconsin. Not since the time of the Violent Femmes.
ruemara
@? Martin: I was pleased with Bermuda Tentacles. Higher quality than usual. But I can’t wait for Big Ass Spider.
Steeplejack
Well, we didn’t end up where I thought the Allman Brothers would take us. But it turned out all right.
I’m going to try to cross the streams of the funky beat with Southern-fried rock: Wet Willie, “Everything That ’Cha Do (Will Come Back to You).”
Steeplejack
@Omnes Omnibus:
Not to many songs of any kind reference Wisconsin. Except “On, Wisconsin,” I guess.
Little Boots
@Steeplejack:
very nice, stepping it up.
ulee
@? Martin: Oh, well. I’ll just add it to my credentials…ulee-doglover,democrat,hater, troll,etc.
Omnes Omnibus
@Steeplejack: You would be surprised.
ETA: Another EBTG.
Steeplejack
@Little Boots:
And especially for you.
My favorite line.
Little Boots
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcqauC49Xmc
Steeplejack
@? Martin:
Nice upgrade on the glyph.
Little Boots
@Steeplejack:
so funny.
I’ve been loving that song lately.
Steeplejack
@Omnes Omnibus:
I keed, I keed.
But do you have anything at the level of “It took us four days to hitchhike from Saginaw”?
Steeplejack
@Little Boots:
I’ve always loved that song.
Little Boots
okay this too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-LVXR6rjXs
Steeplejack
@Omnes Omnibus:
Okay, that’s really nice. Haven’t heard that in forever. Love the little intermittent organ squibs in the background.
I’m gonna go maudlin and non-edgy with Ms. Merchant.
? Martin
@Steeplejack: Thank you. Ms Martin loves tulips. not sure why it took me this long.
ulee
Linda Ronstadt covering Warren Zevon’s Mohammed’s Radio.
Omnes Omnibus
Since I am going to bed now, I will leave this evil behind me. Good night.
Little Boots
@Steeplejack:
I would say that sums up the internet, if I were going deep think.
Omnes Omnibus
@ulee: Links help.
Little Boots
@Omnes Omnibus:
oh it’s just getting fun now. and philosophical.
ulee
@Omnes Omnibus: Don’t know how to do it. I’m isolated and stupid.
Steeplejack
Okay, breaking the theme a bit here, but the organ squibs sent me down a Floyd hole to the ultimate in organ squibbage: Timmy Thomas, “Why Can’t We Live Together.”
Bonus: go-go dancers! Okay, maybe second-tier strippers. But they’re working it.
Okay, let’s class up the organ squibbage: William De Vaughn, “Be Thankful for What You Got.”
Steeplejack
@Omnes Omnibus:
Nooooo! You bastard!
Little Boots
too gay? you can just say it, but it’s a great late night song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udyNr0pY6ak
ulee
And Linda singing Blue Bayou with the Muppets. Impossible not to love.
Omnes Omnibus
@ulee:
I believe that. There are several simple mechanical processes that would produce a link here, including a simple copy and paste. OTOH, one doesn’t really want racist links if one can avoid them.
Omnes Omnibus
@Little Boots: Cool song.
Little Boots
@Omnes Omnibus:
thanks.
don’t know what the hell I’m being paranoid about. Or who I’m arguing with.
but thanks.
Omnes Omnibus
@Little Boots: I really am going to bed now, but this fits the night and the leaving.
Little Boots
favorite neil young:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hn1BapsppXM
Little Boots
@Omnes Omnibus:
very nice. I’m stuck in the 80s
ulee
@Omnes Omnibus: I grew up outside Washington DC. I was just relaying my experiences.
Steeplejack
@Little Boots:
Great song. And slightly unexpected from you. So you have facets.
Steeplejack
@Omnes Omnibus:
Okay, you can leave on that.
Little Boots
@Steeplejack:
see? enigma.
Omnes Omnibus
@ulee: Dude, call it what you want. I don’t really care. I have no interest in revisiting that the previous thread and I have no real interest in further engaging you.
Omnes Omnibus
Just tear the roof off the mother sucker And now I really will go.
ulee
@Omnes Omnibus: Where did you grow up?
Little Boots
@Omnes Omnibus:
you can’t quit us.
ulee
Just curious. It might help me to know where you’re coming from.
Steeplejack
I just saw a wrecker come trolling by and yoink a car parked across the street. This street is permit-only parking, but here in NoVa they apparently have über-stringent laws that have resulted in nocturnal packs of wreckers that prowl the streets and will pull cars out of apartment and condo parking lots for lack of parking stickers or even a license tag expired by a few days. (That happened to a friend of mine.) I’ve never seen the like anywhere else.
Plus this guy tonight bumped the car parked ahead of his prey as he was pulling it out (parallel parking). I’m going to check the car tomorrow morning and, if there’s any damage, leave a note for the owner that I saw what happened.
Weirdness on the night shift.
Little Boots
@Steeplejack:
damn.
Omnes Omnibus
@ulee: A lot of places. I just don’t buy your argument that there is a black culture that is broken. And I am not going to go into it again tonight.
Omnes Omnibus
@Steeplejack: A relevant song.
Little Boots
@Omnes Omnibus:
have you been reading ta-nehisi coates? and you too, ulee? he’s all about this question.
Steeplejack
I’m out too. I keep listening to Jenny Burton over and over. That song is one that has not been on YouTube in years, and it was nice to find it again tonight.
Resisting the urge to go downstairs and hug my Kia.
ETA: If anyone is still up, the original Shaft just started on TCM. It will assuage the pain of the really, really, really bad fight choreography just seen in Disco Godfather.
Little Boots
@Steeplejack:
okay, but seriously everybody, TNC. good stuff.
Little Boots
and this too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hn1BapsppXM
Steeplejack
@Omnes Omnibus:
Thanks, I couldn’t think of one.
For some reason this sort of pisses me off, in that “Fight the power! The Man is downin’ me!” way. What are you supposed to do if, say, you’ve started dating someone and you have that first unexpected sleepover?
I feel bad for the person who’s going to come out tomorrow and find that car gone. Plus I think it’s like a C-note at least to reclaim the car.
Little Boots
it’s so late. we should sleep. but I hope you guys stay up all damn night.
Steeplejack
@Little Boots:
Old Neil. Okay, not even sung by him, but he wrote it.
Then how about Neil’s first single?
NotMax
@Steeplejack
Disco Godfather exceeded the recommended daily exposure to pastel clothing by about 5000%.
Steeplejack
@Little Boots:
No, seriously, I’m out. Unless someone says something really inflammatory in the next five minutes. I’ve got to turn off all the devices and roust the housecat.
Little Boots
@Steeplejack:
that is really funny, somehow.
Steeplejack
@NotMax:
And polyester! Someone should do a study to see how many of those actors have since died of skin cancer.
ETA: Got some nice cashmere going in Shaft.
Steeplejack
@Little Boots:
You mean you don’t think flying on the ground is wrong? Good night to you, sir. I said good night!
Steeplejack (tablet)
Okay, one last scan on the Nexus. All is well. Blog can be safely handed off to the morning shift.
I will now lie here and wait for the housecat to come knead on her faux sheepskin throw, get her claws hung up in it and then get pissed at me when I untangle her. The small routines of daily life.
ETA: And I hit the century! Bazinga!
bago
I did not know there was a 13 coins in SeaTac until reading this thread. Huh.
13 coins is expensive as hell, and open all night, so naturally the strippers who have a good night like to eat dinner there, accordingly.
A Humble Lurker
@Steeplejack:
Don’t tempt the trolls.
kc
Even an atheist should know when the Easter Bunny is coming, for Christ’s sake.