I promised you a recipe thread and puppy picture for tonight, but I didn’t expect my one and only client today to take all day. So I must delay. Tomorrow is another day!
Ever since John posted about Rescuing Fish from a Flood, this song has been running through my head – I kept hearing “rescuing fish from a flood” to a tune that I suspected was a Squeeze song, but until I starting running through their library (not difficult, I love Squeeze) I wasn’t quite sure which one. Now you may have my earworm:
Open thread…
JPL
OMG and OT I am watching a CBS Miami feed and Trump is having all the first responders thank him. omg .. it is sick
HuCat
“I’ll get you for that, my pretty, and your little dog too!”
Garbo
Thank you for the Squeeze!
HuCat
…for the earworm, that is.
TaMara (HFG)
@HuCat: Ain’t nothing little about my dogs. LOL
FlyingToaster
@JPL: I’m with Effin’ Birds on this: What time is the fucking apocalypse?
efgoldman
More very jarring crossover in L&O (I just notice it more, now).
Isabel Gillies, actress who played a homicidal maniac cop killer defendant on a season 8 L&O. ended up in a regular role as Kathy, Stabler’s wife (eventually ex) on SVU, 1999-2011
Baud
@efgoldman: Same actress or same character?
SiubhanDuinne
@JPL:
Thank HIM? For what?
Aleta
@JPL: Hard to believe this reality this slug is forcing on people.
Baud
@SiubhanDuinne: Not being Obama.
No Drought No More
Ex- House rep Nadler is schooling Chris Hayes as I type. I’m genuinely amazed that Hayes is amazed at what Nadler is telling him..
Gin & Tonic
And I just had Shake Your Groove Thing as musical accompaniment on my visit to the men’s room at this rest stop. Shake it high, shake it low.
Baud
@No Drought No More: Ex?
JPL
@SiubhanDuinne: Showing up. He went to the hospital to visit the victims and that took fifteen minutes and then went to visit the first responders. He even pointed to Melania to say something but I didn’t understand what she said.
By visiting tonight he can also golf tomorrow.
smintheus
@JPL: The shootings will continue until morale improves.
SiubhanDuinne
@JPL:
I understand she arrived at the airport (in D.C.) separately before the flight to Florida, just like her separate-cars SOTU arrival. Her spox is doing a valiant job of ascribing all these things to “scheduling conflicts,” but she clearly wants to spend minimal time in the same space with him. Whatever it was she said, I’m sure she was thinking something quite different. In street Slovenian.
geg6
SQUEEZE!!!! My favorites!
Scout pics soon please.
geg6
@SiubhanDuinne:
Watching that toxic marriage between two horrible people fall to pieces before our eyes is a balm to my soul. Karma is a bitch.
SiubhanDuinne
@geg6:
Did you see the nice little gossipy tidbit Steeplejack posted last night?
ETA: I do feel sorry for Barron, though.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@geg6: I’m not sure, but I think fucking an escort a month after your wife gives birth to your son would indicate the marriage is just in a bit of trouble.
Wag
I’m sure Trump wants to again meet behind the chalet with Stormy Daniels to make his holiday complete.
JPL
I found Melania’s statement and it’s quite lovely. She didn’t thank her husband though
@?BillinGlendaleCA: She knew what she signed up for.
Elizabelle
@SiubhanDuinne: OK, SD. You cannot allude to that and not link to it. Research, please. What’s the tidbit?
Aleta
@?BillinGlendaleCA: I doubt he ever gave up the habit. (I’d be surprised if she was surprised.)
Baud
@Elizabelle: Are you home?
WaterGirl
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
If only that were short enough to be a tagline.
Elizabelle
@Baud: Yes. Back in the US of cray cray.
efgoldman
@Baud:
Actress. Very different characters.
Elizabelle
@WaterGirl: I’m happy enough with the proposed new tagline about rescuing fish from a flood.
What a metaphor.
Immanentize
@Elizabelle: Welcome back. It is crazy here but not yet lost.
Baud
@Elizabelle: What do you mean? Everything seems perfectly normal to me.
WaterGirl
@Elizabelle: Here’s your welcome back gift:
Shana
@SiubhanDuinne: Someone over at Democratic Underground posted a tweet saying the reporters were ushered off Air Force One because they (Cheeto and Melanoma) were screaming at each other. Haven’t seen it anywhere else so take it with a grain of salt, but fun to think about anyway.
MoxieM
To reach back to an earlier thread about Tillerson not using a vetted translator in Turkey. I live in rural western MA. And, I just saw a job notice for a Turkish translator, in an even more rural nearby town. Well well.
Here’s the bulk of it:
“Translator in Turkish – Part Time Position – Qualifications: Verbal and written fluency in Turkish; at least one year of relevant experience preferred; Bachelors Degree preferred; Reports to: Director of Curriculum Job Performance Responsibilities: Assist Turkish-speaking student(s) in content courses and/or translate documents or serve as interpreter, as needed …”
Mike J
Mussels can filter as much as 50 gallons of water per day. Studying what they pick up is a great way to study what’s in the water.
Did you know that Salmon bay near the railroad bridge has hugely elevated levels of all the bad stuff in coal because cola flies off trains? A few years ago Puget Soundkeeper discovered how bad it gets by putting out mussels and testing them.
Elizabelle
@WaterGirl: Ah, thank you. I did see that one. It’s quite the believable tidbit, is it not?
Baud
@WaterGirl:
So a major publication is sitting on that story? You know they would have blasted it all over the news if Hillary and Bill so much as had a silent meal together.
NotMax
Nothing whatsoever wrong with mussels, although also not a dish that entices the taste buds when it’s on the menu. Eight times out of ten they’re prepared okay but nothing to warrant ordering them.
Except for the heaping bowlsful served at a funky Japanese eatery way downtown in Manhattan, a hop and skip south of Astor Place. Galactically garlicky, spectacularly superb. Doubt the place is there any longer as that was 40 years ago.
What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?
Here’s one of my favorite mussels recipes since we’re on the subject. My mod is to sub in celery or fennel for the onion, as shallots are basically onions, so more onion seems redundant. http://thebeerchicks.com/2010/02/23/beerfood-classic-moules-maribiere/
WaterGirl
OT, but I just saw this on Lawyers, Guns and Money:
That seems to fit with the attorney who said he “facilitated” the $130,000 payment to Storny Daniels.
Jeffro
Hmm…FL Gov Rick Scott is calling on the FBI Director to resign over the non-handling of threat complaints made about the FL shooter prior to the shooting. How convenient of him. Say, Rick, there isn’t anything else about the director that’s been bugging you lately, has there?
SiubhanDuinne
@Elizabelle:
From last night’s Russiagate Late Night thread. Nothing really new or different; just some (almost) horse’s-mouth (almost) confirmation:
WaterGirl
@Baud: The major media outlets appear to be wholly owned subsidiaries of, if not Trump-world, then the Republican Party. It’s not exactly Party over Country, it’s Access over Country. Same difference.
It’s appalling.
lamh36
@WaterGirl: I know any prenup would favor him…but now I’m wondering if there was some sort of infidelity clause that would allow Melania a way out, if/when Chump cheated or if she cheated first…or at least custody of Baron if/when he cheated?
efgoldman
@NotMax:
I will devour piles of nice fresh (but cooked) scallops or shrimp, but you can have all the clams and mussels
Mike in NC
@MoxieM: Is there much of a Turkish exchange student population in North Adams?
SiubhanDuinne
@Shana:
It is delicious to contemplate. I’m enjoying the hell out of thinking about the terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad week he’s having.
Immanentize
@Jeffro: I thought that was odd too. The Director is brand spanking new AND the line/field Special Agents are about far away on the org chart as you can get…. Also, why is this an FBI problem, and not a Florida LE issue? Did the Florida Staties maybe also get the same call?
WaterGirl
@lamh36: I think that would be standard, from what I see on TV. :-)
But Trump knows he has always been a serial adulterer (if you can call it that when you pay for sex) so I think there’s no way he would ever put that in a prenup, not for himself. Now for he spouse, I’m sure it’s in there a hundred times over.
OT, saw how much you loved Black Panther. I can’t see it this week, but I plan to try for next week.
efgoldman
@lamh36:
Based on what we’ve seen so far, Orangina doesn’t hire the most creative or competent lawyers
Amir Khalid
@SiubhanDuinne:
If I may say it again: Donald and Melania treat their marriage like the dead body in Weekend at Bernie’s.
Omnes Omnibus
@NotMax: Why do you hate the Belgians?
efgoldman
@Immanentize:
Florida leg, playing “that Ni[clang] president ain’t the boss of us” card, passed several laws making penis substitute ownership almost mandatory.
p.a.
@Jeffro: Well if Gov. Nosferatu is that worked up about the non-handling of threats, he can aim higher in the D.C. food chain for sure. Hey Paulie, hey Mitchie, hey Donnie…
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Amir Khalid: Bernie would have totally won!
lamh36
Alright, alright, I posted my review of Black Panther…it’s light on spoilery, I didn’t discuss any big plot ponits that you didn’t see in the trailer, but if even the SLIGHTEST spoiler bothers you…I’d say skip it until you actually see the film, but if spoilers don’t bother you…then here ya go!
I WANT TO LIVE IN WAKANDA!!!! (My MOSTLY Spoiler Free Black Panther Review)
efgoldman
@Amir Khalid:
No, they treated the body better
SiubhanDuinne
@No Drought No More:
Ex? Where’d that come from?
Omnes Omnibus
@lamh36: Not reading it….
WaterGirl
@lamh36: Warning: I’m not sure that announcing a character that was killed in the movie counts as a light spoiler.
NotMax
@efgoldman
Paella ain’t paella without ’em.
@Omnes Omnibus
No capiche, amigo.
Omnes Omnibus
@WaterGirl: Gah!
p.a.
@efgoldman: His lawyers wouldn’t have to be creative or even competent to know Donnie would need protection from adulterous adventures, would they?
Jeffro
Also intriguing: Fox News dot com is ‘reporting’ that the Russians staged anti-Trumpov rallies (i.e., pro-Wilmer events). Nothing at all about how Putin tried to help Trumpov out.
So there you go: it was all Putin trying to sow discord by…helping Wilmer. That’s all, nothing else to see here folks…
ETA oh, also two articles on how Obama failed the U.S. by neglecting to see Russia as a threat, and one article on how these indictments “don’t prove collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia”. Oooo-kay…
Gravenstone
So tonight Mueller is also moving against Manafort, specifying the fraudulent basis for several properties he’s trying to use for bail. Speculation is he might actually seek to revoke bond and have Manafort remanded tie custody until trial.
Fascinating.
/Spock
Omnes Omnibus
@NotMax: A disdain for mussels is positively anti-Belgian.
Amir Khalid
@WaterGirl:
When a man habitually paid for sex, it used to be called whoring. Is the term still acceptable?
Mike in NC
The secret to steaming mussels is to use plenty of white wine, butter, and garlic.
rikyrah
Bobby Three Sticks dropped MORE charges on Manafort tonight!
BWA HA H AH HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
WaterGirl
@Omnes Omnibus: You clearly made the right choice!
WaterGirl
@rikyrah: What? Where? That’s awesome. Link please.
p.a.
@efgoldman: how ‘bout ersters?
Bill
May I ask, as a Squeeze fan, that anyone who has enjoyed, (as I have), Singles-45 and under, their greatest hits album- please go and buy their more recent album Spot The Difference.
They got utterly boned on Singles, the record label took all the money. Cheekily, they re-recorded the entire album, years later, and released it as Spot The Difference. I think you will enjoy it.
Also, Glenn Tilbrook’s solo stuff is great. He’s a wonderful guy, from all accounts, playing tiny gigs in little joints all over the place, and staying late into the night to sing songs with his fans and admirers. I’m going to get to one of those shows, one of these days.
rikyrah
@Gravenstone:
We are both watching Maddow..LOL
JPL
@Immanentize: They received twenty calls. I’m curious what they could do within the framework of the law though. Locally two teens were killed by a person known to authorities because his parents told them he was danger. The local police hands were tied because he had not committed a crime. And then he did.
WaterGirl
@Amir Khalid: I never knew that term was used in that way, so I have no idea if it’s still acceptable. Whoring is shorter than total fucking pig, I’ll give it that. :-)
Dorothy A. Winsor (formerly Iowa Old Lady)
@Amir Khalid: That is hilarious and apt.
SiubhanDuinne
@lamh36:
Sad thing is, I don’t think he cares two hoots about Barron. The only reason he’d fight for custody would be to needle Melania. That poor kid. He’s not even 12 yet. Hope they can shield him from the worst of the fights, but he must know something about his parents’ relationship, and it can’t be happy for him.
Jeffro
@rikyrah: That’s awesome! Hey Manafort, you probably wish you had squealed earlier now that Papadapolous and Gates have gotten better deals, but this is it, pal. Give up what you know and we’ll see what we can do about putting you into witness protection!
LOL
And the walls…came crumbling down…
NotMax
@Amir Khalid
A term which has gone out of fashion: whoremongering.
GregB
Analysis on Maddow speculates that Mueller may want to jail Paulie Walnuts Manafort pending trial.
WaterGirl
@JPL: Surely they could have a conversation with him and with the adults he was living with. Notify the school? Try to get him some counseling? Something!
Miss Bianca
@lamh36: woot! Can’t wait to see it! Those stills you posted are gorgeous!
Omnes Omnibus
@p.a.: Oblig.
SiubhanDuinne
@Amir Khalid:
LOL! Perfect! ?
Immanentize
@rikyrah: I guess flipping his running buddy in the campaign, Gates, proved valuable. And to think Manafort could have gotten the deal first…. Idiot and idiot attorneys.
GregB
@Amir Khalid:
The term is now called Trumping.
WaterGirl
@SiubhanDuinne: I don’t see how he can not be screwed up, so sad to think about passing down that legacy to a kid.
Immanentize
@JPL: Is “they” the FBI or Florida LE?
p.a.
@Bill: Singles is a great compilation. I had a vinyl where they had to call themselves U K Squeeze because of bands called Squeeze in US & Australia. Saw them as 1st act of Elvis C tour. EC gave them plenty of time on stage.
David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch
@SiubhanDuinne: to thank him for the smashing success of Infrastructure Week.
Amir Khalid
@Gravenstone:
@rikyrah:
Der Müller Gottes mahlt langsam, doch er mahlt außerordentlich fein …
efgoldman
@Omnes Omnibus:
I am neutral on Belgium.
Plus, the chocolate way overbalances the mussels
Belgian wheat also too
Shana
@p.a.: I seem to recall reading that it was in their agreement/prenup that Melania would be allowed to have one child.
Bill
@p.a.: Elvis C sang backup on ‘Tempted”
rikyrah
@WaterGirl:
watching Maddow.
When the former US Attorney said don’t be surprised if Bobby Three Sticks tries to get bail REVOKED…I smiled…
Omnes Omnibus
@efgoldman:
Ha!
David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch
@rikyrah:
Future historians will right books about the tremendous, bigly events of Infrastructure Week.
efgoldman
@p.a.:
I don’t eat anything that can look back at me
JPL
@WaterGirl: At the time of the murder he was twenty and no longer living at home. His parents kept a gun because they were afraid of him, and he returned to their home and stole the gun. Two teens met behind a local supermarket the day before school started and he happened to see them.
http://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/north-fulton-county/suspect-in-roswell-teens-deaths-expected-in-court/523437205
He was adopted by his grandparents who did all they could do within the framework of the law including health care.
His grandparents/parents home, her home and the store are all within walking distance of my house.
Shana
@Bill: I saw one of those shows several years ago where he led the entire audience out onto the street, down to the corner, around the back where there was a loading dock of some sort and did a couple of songs there. A truly wonderful and magical evening.
Immanentize
@Bill: I love Singles. I have the vinyl and the CD. I didn’t know that backstory, so I will by a copy of the “rerelease” too. Thank you!
All the songs are great — white boy R&B…. But my fave?:
Black Coffee in Bed.
Another Scott
Dunno if this has been mentioned (no time to keep up with the jackals earlier today): Five Dollar Feminist at Wonkette – Donnie and the Playmates:
Yup. There’s no need to imagine that Pecker (and the people holding the Apprentice tapes) are Donnie’s friends. Just imagine what that keeping that story out of the press is worth to Twitler, and thus to Pecker and Vlad and the rest…
It’s grifters all the way down.
Cheers,
Scott.
SiubhanDuinne
@Omnes Omnibus:
I was sure you were going to post this. Since you didn’t, I will.
Shana
@SiubhanDuinne: Didn’t Ivana do that when he was making noises about custody of Ivanka, Don Jr., and Eric? She dropped the kids off with him for a week or so and he told her to take them back.
NotMax
As it’s open thread –
Have watched a number of shows and movies from Finland over the past few months and noticed something.
The front doors of houses open outwards. Dunno if that’s intrinsically Finnish (for whatever reason) or not, but it was a small detail which stood out and haven’t particularly observed as universal in other Nordic fare. One would initially suppose in a country with a significant snowfall season that the configuration would make it more difficult to exit when it comes time to wield the snow shovel.
Amir Khalid
@Another Scott:
From now on, it should be “the aptly named David Pecker”.
lamh36
@WaterGirl:damn…I just realized that big…damn…well, I did say ‘MOSTLY” spoiler free…but I went ahaed and changed the titile and made sure to put a “***SPOILER ALERT*** tag before and after that…cause ur right…that was kinda big but after seeing the film was fairly insignificant.
Sorry bout that, otherwise tho…I did try to stay away from any other MAJOR plot points, that was def a spoiler, but not MAJOR.
Immanentize
@p.a.: That’s like The Specials versus The Specials AKA. Saw both. The Selector too. Yes, I was a big ska fan….
Shana
@Immanentize: @Immanentize: Nothing wrong with that.
SiubhanDuinne
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
Applause!
rikyrah
‘Black Panther’ Is Marvel’s First Genuine Masterpiece
Ryan Coogler’s highly anticipated
superhero movie is even better and richer than could have been imagined,thanks to a fantastical world that evokes real questions about history
By K. Austin Collins
Feb 14, 2018, 11:00am EST
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That’s not the sole reason Black Panther seems poised to trounce box office records this weekend, to say nothing of its other benchmarks, like exceeding
the Fandango presales of every other Marvel movie to date, or being one of Twitter’s most talked-about movies of 2017—despite not coming out until 2018. But it helps. If we’re going to have a conversation about what makes Black Panther feel so essential, we may as well start there. We can do the whole song and dance of spelling out the basic reasons for the movie’s importance: what it means for Hollywood that a project of this size, with this budget, and with a nearly all-black cast, can finally seem like a worthwhile risk for a major studio and the timely impact of a movie about a mythical African kingdom, a so-called “shithole country,” to be released at this moment in our political history. The movie is a symbolic solution to issues that, when Black Panther was just a rumor, a dream getting tossed to and fro in a Marvel Studios boardroom, we didn’t think could grow so much more dire.
…………………….
On the other hand, it has to work as a movie, too. It has to be a banger. The clapbacks have to be good. The fights have to be great.I’m trying to imagine being Ryan Coogler, the movie’s 31-year-old superstar director, at the start of this project, tasked with a job as monumental as this, burdened by a keen sense of the inherent inability to please everyone, and still having to make the movie. The central triumph of Black Panther, though it’s merely one of many, is
that the story Coogler and his cowriter, Joe Robert Cole, have devised is even better and richer than could have been imagined—not only because it owes so much to racial questions of the kind the Marvel Universe hasn’t encountered before, but also because we’re 17 movies deep into said universe and well versed in its foibles and missed opportunities.
Black Panther is a feat in its own right. It is
very much the Black Panther tale dreamed up by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby in the 1960s, a retelling of the origin story in which Wakanda becomes the sole possessor of vibranium, an indestructible alien element from a fallen meteorite, and over time becomes the most technologically advanced society in the world, in part by cutting itself off from said world, hiding under the cloak of unassuming third-world poverty.
……………………
It’s a complicated plot centered on the question of what Wakanda is
and—most urgently—what it means, not only to the Wakandans themselves nor even to Africans broadly, but to blacks everywhere. Imagine knowing there was a black utopia, a place at the root of all blackness, self-sufficient and untouched by slavery or colonialism. It’s a fantasy:a reversal of history. “Wakanda itself is a dream state,” says director Ava DuVernay to The New York Times, “a
place that’s been in the hearts and minds and spirits of black people
since we were brought here in chains.” The question that envelops Black Panther, in other words, is a question baked, poignantly and also fraughtly, into its script. What Wakanda—a booming black metropolis that mixes technological Afro-futurity with the spiritual and ancestral past—means to the black people within the movie is analogous to what it means to us outside of it.
https://www.theringer.com/movies/2018/2/14/17011910/black-panther-film-review-marvel-ryan-coogler-michael-b-jordan-chadwick-boseman
Omnes Omnibus
@Immanentize:
WAS?
Just One More Canuck
@WaterGirl: And how about that surprise Jar Jar crossover!
p.a.
@efgoldman: @Omnes Omnibus:
You know where that got them…
NotMax
@efgoldman
So when it comes to Belgians you’re a waffler?
;)
/couldn’t resist
Aleta
Of all the stories I saw today about the kids and the schools, and “what can we do?” none dared mention this.
They help sponsor rifle clubs and shooting competitions (in connection with JROTC), which Cruz would go to. I wonder if the “non-cash assistance” goes for equipment? coaches? judges? competition space?
Lots of places have rifle clubs. But no mention of the NRA latelly.
Steve in the ATL
@efgoldman:
Word to your mother. May she Rest In Peace.
Another Scott
@Shana: IIRC, Donnie insisted his wife(s) give birth and take care of the kids and he didn’t want anything to do with them until they were 18, when he could turn them into “titans of industry” or something.
I assume he’s treating Barron the same way, or actually worse (since Trump is obviously brain damaged now).
Cheers,
Scott.
chris
@NotMax: If there’s six feet of snow you’re stuck inside. If the door opened inward you’re still stuck inside with the door open and all the snow.
Immanentize
@Omnes Omnibus: Still am! But not so much clubbing these days….
Steve in the ATL
@Omnes Omnibus: @Immanentize: it’s moon stomper night at B-J!
Omnes Omnibus
@Immanentize: @Steve in the ATL: Here you go.
Doug R
@WaterGirl:
They’re both grown adults. FFS.
Steve in the ATL
@Omnes Omnibus: see also https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xrjgyl5I8o4
Which sounds like an anthem but is actually about teenagers taking public transit to hear bands. There’s nothing more punk than name checking two different bus routes in one song!
Immanentize
@Steve in the ATL: @Omnes Omnibus:
And the appropriate reply!
WaterGirl
@rikyrah: Maybe Manafort really believes that Trump will stand by him and will give him a pardon. I predict that isn’t going to work out well for him, which makes me quite happy.
Steve in the ATL
@WaterGirl: this is a punk/ska thread. Don’t ruin it with politics!
p.a.
@Immanentize: Think The English Beat still tours. Don’t know the personnel. Save it for Later one of my favorite songs.
Omnes Omnibus
@Steve in the ATL: I saw them live during that tour. Walked out of my Corporate Finance evening class to go; I told the professor that I needed to go see Rancid. Left him confused.
NotMax
@chris
Also coffee. Lots and lots of coffee. Turns out Finland far and away leads the world in coffee consumption.
Sort of humorous video – how to make Finnish coffee
Steve in the ATL
@Omnes Omnibus: nice! As a call back to the song you posted a couple of weeks ago, I spent the week a short distance from Blackhawk
WaterGirl
@JPL: Sorry, I am apparently totally confused. I thought we were talking about the kid who just killed the people at the school yesterday.
Omnes Omnibus
@p.a.: One of my faves
Aleta
@rikyrah: Can’t wait. Saw a mention that it’s in IMAX some places. (Not here though. The 3D around here isn’t too great either.)
WaterGirl
@lamh36: Not to worry about me, I don’t know anything about the story or the characters, other than a quick summary someone here was kind enough to provide for me a couple days ago. I just sorta skimmed it to get a feel for the movie. I just wanted to say something before anyone else would read that and be disappointed. I didn’t even notice the title, either!
Jeffro
@rikyrah: Seeing it tomorrow night w/ the 12-year-old…guess who’s more excited? BOTH OF US!!!
cckids
@SiubhanDuinne:
I’ve read, (maybe in the WaPo?), that she’s been staying in hotels at least part of the time she’s in DC. As always, imagine the outcry if really ANY other First Lady did that. Even Nancy! Special rules for Trump, always.
SiubhanDuinne
@Shana:
I remember reading that in one of the bios. Also recall seeing that Don Junior went a full year without talking to his father. (Pity he didn’t stick with it; he might be marginally less horrible today. Naaaah, probably not.)
Immanentize
@p.a.: there s another group — The Beat or the English Beat? Yes I love Save it for Later, but I Confess is still my fave there.
But I have to share Specials AKA Racist Friend — because of Trump
Omnes Omnibus
@Immanentize: I drop that one here every time people post the TMBG song.
ETA: Way cooler song.
efgoldman
@Immanentize:
I hope somebody flips on Stone, the ratfucker di tutti ratfuckers
WaterGirl
@Just One More Canuck: hahaha
Bill
@Shana: I understand that he’s impossible to dislike. It comes through in the music. I love that earnest and meaningful still draws an audience.
Immanentize
@efgoldman: If this was a horror film, I would like to see zombie Nixon pull Stone into his grave and onto hell.
TaMara (HFG)
@Bill: Done!
Gin & Tonic
@Gravenstone: That could not make me happier.
WaterGirl
@Doug R: I don’t think Donald Trump resembles that remark. I have no idea about Melania.
Immanentize
@Omnes Omnibus: The Giants song is poor.
Redshift
@Shana: I was at one of those, too, though in our case he just led us out into the bar/second stage party of the club. Probably because there was just parking lot all around, not streets, so the outdoor atmosphere was lacking. But a very good show all around.
Omnes Omnibus
Also for the ska people, this is a good ska documentary narrated by Tim Armstrong.
NotMax
@Immanentize
Believe there is an 18½ inch gap between Nixon’s grave and Hell.
;)
Mary G
Can’t believe we’re this far into a Squeeze thread and nobody has mentioned my favorite Another Nail in My Heart.
Immanentize
@NotMax: Yeah, it was always a local call between the two.
efgoldman
@Aleta:
I have no problem with clubs and competitions. For one thing, the weapons stay at the club. And as much as we (properly) hate on the NRA, their safety/education arm does good work.
WaterGirl
@Steve in the ATL: mea culpa
Immanentize
@Mary G: shit they are all great!
Take Me I’m Yours
Up the Junction
Annie Get Your Gun….
I wore a groove in that groove.
ETA I forgot what a great guitar solo was in Another Nail ….
SiubhanDuinne
@cckids:
I read the same, not long ago.
The Secret Service must love this gig!
efgoldman
@Steve in the ATL:
My mom’s father, brothers, grandfather and uncles were in the wholesale seafood business back to the 19th century. They bought directly off the fleet at 300am and distributed to markets and restaurants. Then vame the depression and A&P supermarkets, which skipped the middleman. Goodbye fish business.
Family legend: My grandfather, a large and strong man, supposedly grabbed a supersize lobster off the pier and took it home. over his shoulder, on the trolley.
Steve in the ATL
@Mary G: that is their best song, though it troubles me that the title is “another nail IN my heart” but the lyric is “another nail FOR my heart”.
Sometimes it’s difficult being an OCD pedant.
p.a.
@Immanentize: Formed in 1978 The Beat, in US The English Beat, Down Under The British Beat. Same band. For a while now, 2 bands called The Beat. Ranking Roger fronts one, Dave Wakeling the other. Think they’re amicable; one based in US, the other in UK.
Also too, let’s not forget One Step Beyond. Guess there were rights issues, the iTunes version I bought is house/techno. But acceptable.
efgoldman
@Steve in the ATL: @efgoldman: Wrong blockquote
Immanentize
@p.a.: For a short while there were two, definitely not amiable, bands called the Clash. Then, thankfully, Big Audio Dynamite.
Immanentize
@p.a.: I really don’t like One Step Beyond too much, I guess because it was so overplayed. Did you ever hear the instrumental, Papa’s Got a New Pigbag by Pigbag? Fabulous. I have the 45 somewhere….
Gin & Tonic
From CNN:
Hope it all comes down around your ears, motherfucker.
Shana
Slightly OT, but Belle & Sebastian are thinking of having a cruise sometime next year. 4 days leaving from Barcelona. Go to the band’s web site to let them know if you’re interested. We’re seriously considering it. We did go to London last year to see two 20th anniversary shows for Tigermilk and If You’re Feeling Sinister at the Royal Albert Hall. Daughters made it on stage the 2nd night during Boy With the Arab Strap.
p.a.
@Immanentize: ??. so gonna download that!
chris
@NotMax: Now that’s a double double!
The Lodger
@NotMax: That pun is so old I can hear it kriek.
Doug R
@Aleta:
Like most blockbusters not Avatar or Jackass or Transformers or X-Men or a cartoon, the 3D is a post conversion. I’m sure it looks pretty good, but I saved a few bucks and saw the colors in fuller saturation.
Sm*t Cl*de
@NotMax:
Just saying, that is also the recipe for Danish Coffee and Norwegian coffee. Maybe Swedish coffee, who knows with those humourless baskets.
recurvata
Song is ‘Pulling Mussels From The Shell, not Muscles. Just saying…
MoxieM
@Mike in NC: Dunno–the job was in Ludlow (more like north of Springfield). At least, it makes me feel good that the school systems here are trying to live up to the rules about accommodating students etc etc.
My kid (who grew up in a swanky Boston area suburb) had kids with 10 different mother-tongues–out of a class of 22 or 24 or something. I thought it was fantastic! The school had a big International day celebration with food–yum!, and people all had an opportunity to order a flag from their country of origin. They hung along the hallways. It was lovely.