Like everybody else, I’m still trying to plug away here. It would be great if I could really get my shit together, and finish up early. Later.
Posted by pjsauter on December 14, 2006
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Like everybody else, I’m still trying to plug away here. It would be great if I could really get my shit together, and finish up early. Later.
May There Always Be A Dance In Your Step :banana:
And A Twinkle In Your Eye 💡 :santacool:
And :yippee: PJ Be Brilliant as You Are on Your Papers 😎 💡
Good morning Druid! Everyone . . . Druid is #1. Yea!!!!! :dancers:
:banana: AVI :nod::pup::pup::banana::banana::banana::love:
:joe::joe::joe::joe::joe::joe::eek::eek::joe::joe::eek::eek::shock::shock::smack:
:?:maybe :sheep:le
:doh::doh::doh:Its Thursday again :fustrate::fustrate::fustrate:
Morning Cnick, Druid whats up??
CNickThomas 😎 :rofl2: :yippee: 😉 :KISS: is #2
Fred :pirate: 😎 :yippee: is #3
Tea:joe: is Brew’n :omg: 😉 To Be Infuse in minutes :banana:
AIV
Dem Sen. Tim Johnson undergoes surgery
The Associated Press is reporting that Sen. Tim Johnson (D-SD) “did not suffer a stroke or heart attack, contrary to initial reports.” Political Wire’s “Insider” blog additionally reported that Johnson “is speaking and is expected to be fine.”
However, a late report at CBS notes the following:
Johnson underwent surgery late Wednesday. There has been no word on the nature of the surgery, which lasted past midnight, or on Johnson’s condition.
Sources close to the situation, speaking before the surgery was made public, tell CBS News the situation is definitely not good.
http://tinyurl.com/ydmoee
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😮 If any one else get sick under mysterious circumstances I would say we have been transported to the Soviet Union of the 1970s
All of the MSM newscasts last night were speculating on the possibility of the Senate going back under Repig control if Johnson falls into such ill health that he has to resign. Timmy Kartoffelkopf was practically drooling. Nice.
So much for “liberal” media.
PJ, thanks for posting the clip in tribute to Peter Boyle. One of my all-time fave movies. Not to mention that I had a huge crush on Teri Garr back in the day. Still kinda do. :hubba:
Economic Report: Job Creation In Five year Recovery Worst Ever
Economic Report
By Jesse Russell
Employment data through the first five years of the recovery, in comparison with four other recoveries of this length, shows job growth this time around to be the slowest on record. The Economic Policy Institute crunched the numbers and and found that payrolls in both the private and public sector are down. The slow growth means it will take longer for working families to see gains.
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Job loses also have to be nearly the worse ever too ..:gate::omg::jason::jason:
Or America of the 2000’s.
Fred, re 6, I think we are there :Silent Scream:
I have been listening for hours, seeing all the different “Spins” and stories.:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:::omg::omg::omg: :eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:
Unless or plus other ideas:idea: Pray in however one does, even if to your Atman. One Thought, One Focus.
ALL :knit: Pray in Eveyway for this Man, Dem Sen. Tim Johnson ❗ :gate: We (OUR Nation) can not be given away again to the rethugs….We Just Can’t:!:
AIV BY YOUR Actions 👿 bush and your 👿 ADM, YOU ARE DAMNED ❗ By Your Actions :nod:
AIV
Severe space storm headed for Earth
Satellites and power grids could face potential interruptions
Space weather forecasters revised their predictions for storminess after a major solar flare erupted overnight, threatening damage to communication systems and power grids.
“We’re looking for very strong, severe geomagnetic storming” to begin probably around midday Thursday, Joe Kunches, lead forecaster at the NOAA Space Environment Center, told Space.com Wednesday afternoon.
The storm is expected to generate aurorae or northern lights as far south as the northern United States on Thursday night. Astronauts aboard the international space station are not expected to be put at additional risk, Kunches said.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16187534/
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re 11, But of course, 😐 more STRESS in the Ether.
AIV
Congratulations, Alpha Druid :pup:
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stereotyping women? shameful, ignominious
I saw this in the NYT magazine Sunday and then learn this:
:banana::banana: Morning Andy :banana::banana:
I hope the citizenry is noticing how poorly this political system works so that they might support things if some people were to :gate::omg:
Good Morning :joe:
:yippee::yippee: Hey Kat :yippee::yippee:
and
:banana::banana::banana: Krita :banana::banana::banana:
:joe: KP! At work, can you consolidate two of your breaks or would that muck things up?
Howdy, Fred!
EEE! It’s foggy here this morn.
The guy on WJ said it was foggy in DC too..Better look for Rod Sterling standing under that streetlight . :eek::eek:
No, FK, you have to take the 15 minute break at 9 and 1 and if you don’t do it then you don’t get it. They go by the law.:roll: I could give a shit about those breaks, they cut up the day too much and make it longer. Plus, I hate stopping in the middle of something just to sit there and twiddle my thumbs for 15 minutes.
are you a union shop, kp?
I have to go to get ready to explain why the “plan” that was revised two days before it was to start hasn’t become a plan yet and add my input as to why the production run that was susposed to happen over the weekend started yesterday 😮 take care
OMG! :omg: I want this to be released as an anthology :rofl2: I think. :doh:
The worst Christmas specials and TV movies ever
Christmas Comes to Pac-Land
This 1982 cartoon special starring Pac-Man and his family was a crass attempt to cash in on the video-game craze. It was named the second worst holiday programming ever, after the Star Wars fiasco, in Television Without Pity’s 752 Things We Love to Hate (and Hate to Love) About TV. “This holiday special’s across-the-board suckitude remains seared into our memories like a brand,” the authors wrote. Trying to capitalize on Pac-Man fever is one thing, they noted, but not when the poorly animated characters look nothing like the original. “How hard is it to animate a circle with a pie piece cut out of it?”
snip
‘The Star Wars Holiday Special’
If you thought Jar Jar Binks was bad, check out this 1978 CBS holiday special spinoff of the original Star Wars film. Better yet, don’t. “This is some of the most painful television ever created,” said a review on the Web site, Oh, the Humanity! Most notable for introducing the cult character Boba Fett, this special featured the film’s cast, plus such guest stars as Harvey Korman and Bea Arthur. Carrie Fisher, deep into her hard-partying days, sang a “Life Day” carol based on the Star Wars theme. “If this isn’t an argument for getting people off drugs, I don’t know what is,” the reviewer wrote. Bootleg clips can be found online at YouTube.com.
Arizona is a right to work state. That’s why Hollywoood likes to film here. 🙄
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hey cnick!
Good luck at the meeting, Fred.
GA is also a right to exploit state, KP
take care, all.
Ciao!
Hey Krista!! 😀
Hey Fred!!
Hey Druid!!
NNIICCKK!!
Hey Andy! :bong:
Farmerkat, I was doing chores (mostly animal related:eek:) 😮
:doh:But I get it now :nod: that I am sitting drinking tea 3cup:joe: :doh: :rofl2::cool:
And I MISSED YOU again. My hours are so “Weird”. :omg:
Be Well. :knit::gate :Merry Journeys awake or asleep
AIV:nod:
Ok Druid -rest up…I hear that Evanescence will be on David Letterman tonight:yippee::dancers::pup:
Kristapea you could:knit::knit2:
:yawn:
Apparently Johnson had an AVM:
Hi Bye…more from the road…..1.5 more days of school,,,,2 more days of running round…then vacation!
Kat…Today show has adoptable small farm animals…reallybeautiful…on their website…Lovely little mini pony with bright blue eyes!
OH AND: 😎 andy aka Aquaman :yippee: How’s the Water? 😉
Kristapea :banana: hmmm 😮 And I’m in the Emerald TRI. Oh My.
:bong: :rofl2: 😉 😎
:fist: AIV
… And Melina 😎 too.:wink: :dancers:
AIV:nod:
Yeah, imagine having John Lennon as the best man at your wedding.
That episode of Star Trek with her in it is one of my favorites.
pj.
….hows the countdown?
sblueheron CHEERS are You There? I just saw you. I am up now for most of day BUT :yippee::yippee::yippee: :KISS:
BUT :KISS: to YOU cuz of YOU. HOW are You. I saw you “landed” in the dark.
AND THANK YOU :yippee: for even remembering :love:
re 30 :cat::knit::cat: Purrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
AIV
But I do :love::bow: Songs of the Woods :banana:
also, besides Evanescence :rofl2: :wink::bow:
Thank You SBlueHeron :knit: :gate: :love: Great Journeys
AIV
It’s counting down. One way or the other, I need to be done by noon on Sunday. Ideally, I’ll get this done by tomorrow night and look it over Saturday. Then it’ll be down to just one semester to go. Now, if I can only figure out a way to not have to get a job….
Pj how is the back today after all the help yesterday?
Be well…
i hate getting “restless legs ” while I’m driving.
Not good.:???:
PJSauter, WOW 😥 … Yeah, imagine having John Lennon as the best man at your wedding. 🙂
and … “Assignment: Earth” one of the best ❗
Have Fun 😉 … WORK > WORK > WORK > :tongue: 😎
The back has quieted down quite a bit. Just need to get less chair time.
PJ, “You’re a better Man than I (Woman) Gunga Din.”
A Grad Student … WOW … AND YOU ARE DOING THIS SITE 😮 … There is no TIME in this world. How do you do it? (More of a rhetorical Q — since I am just impressed.)
No Response is needed, please. :knit: :gate: Great Works, Great Time
Not much needs to be done with this site, really. It isn’t about me, it’s about everybody else who comes and contributes. This isn’t so much of a blog as it is a community. As for school, my method seems to be to procrastinate as much as possible while being totally uninspired, and then allowing deadlines to force me into action. There is virtually no creativity required for most of it, unless you consider having no idea what it you’re supposed to do, but doing something anyway, to be creative. At this point, it’s just doing it to get it over with, not because I particularly enjoy or am interested in it – or even feel that it’s doing me any good. I guess I just figure that, after having been a college dropout for so many years, it might be nice to be able to say I have a Masters. It sounds pretty good, if you don’t know any better. Maybe I’ll go to Law School next. I have a friend who teaches there, so maybe I can see about getting a free ride. Or maybe a masters in International Relations. Another friend runs the graduate program there. Has to be free, though, and I don’t know if I can keep up with all that reading.
SBlueHeron, Where are you? Are you Bored in a hotel room ?(what no porn? :rofl2: :hubba:)
or are you at home warm and (meow) fuzzy?
(I am still in denial regarding being up on these bright, cloudy “morns” :eek::omg: SNIFF)
AIV
pjsauter, 😮 that is how I went to school. :rofl2: It’s only natural for some. When I also worked as student/staff member I was in charge of all Grad checks and other Grad “stuff”. You are still intensely working. I do not care what you say. 😉 :rofl2:
No Big Deal … I just want you to be done so we can talk
The M Theory (a joke :no: — really :nod:)
AIV
pjsauter, my 2 cents you would be “a natural” in all which you mentioned, BUT you would be extremely exquisite as a lawyer, if that is what you wish? But Computer/Radio is not done with you yet :smile:. … AIV
does anyone have access to a number 800 or otherwise for the mexico tourist board…..?
I m having some trouble with my trial version of lookup
How about 1-800-44-MEXICO (1-800-44 639426)
I don’t know if anyone has linked to this yet, but it certainly has Billo in a tizzy.
Poor bill. If only someone had intervened and taken him away from his abusive father, he might have turned out to be a decent human being, instead of a loudmouth meathead and falafel abuser.
Hey Everybody!
I posted a tribute podcast to Morning Sedition this week. I wanted to thank PJ, Sue P, Painting Girl, GUSS and all the seditionists for keeping this community and spirit alive. I hope you enjoy it.
You can find it at my website by clicking the name below or go directly to http://www.indirectdemocracy.podomatic.com
Thanks
:sammy:
Male seals are reaping the benefits of climate change by having more sex, scientists have discovered.
Subordinate grey seals are taking advantage of rising temperatures and falling rainfall to mate more often.
Due to climate change female grey seals are being forced to travel further for drinking water – removing them from the watchful eye of the dominant males and allowing the subordinate males to take advantage.
http://tinyurl.com/szjwn
Hot weather and rainfall equals more sex? That’s what they told me when I moved down here. I think I was lied to. 🙂
Hard to believe it’s mid-December, and I’ve been outside raking leaves, wearing a t-shirt.
thanks for the number pj
…….I got all my answers….
Never bored…with the blog though lately kinda slow. :knit:
Had to call on a :bong: shop today! :rofl2:
It was a quick visit. Then on up the blustery road.
Feeling:barf: from the H&D moose munch. And stressful driving.
I miss my:cat:,:cat: and:knit2:
Only four more nights.
I wonder if the shrub lost his mittens :knit:
Hey, Sean, Malloy is gonna be on Sirius starting next Monday, I think he said.
Hello everyone,
So I’m finally able to locate my podcasts by running a search in the Apple iTunes Store. But for some damn dumb reason the numbering system of the podcasts is not correct! And one of the podcasts inexplicably disappeared from iTunes. 😕 Maybe this will all just magically correct itself so I don’t have to worry about it anymore cause I’ve got a headache. 😐 On a positive note my new HD Camcorder arrived this afternoon. But you have to charge the battery before using it. It’s still charging! 😕 I doubt I’ll have time to play with it tonight. Prolly just skim over the instruction manual. I’m excited about this new camcorder and plan on uploading a video podcast to my podcast page this weekend. Perhaps even tomorrow night if I can figure it all out and there are no more clitches. I’ve been sending positive vibes out Senator Johnson’s way! We just cannot afford to lose the Senate. Someone have a backup plan? Ok, well my newest podcast is up. A short one. Go here to listen to or download. Later.
Via Rachel according to the Japanese “O” blood types = “warrior” :growl: :pirate::hubba: :fist: HaaaYaaa 😉 :rofl2:
AIV
CNick new camcorder is “pretty handsome”
AIV
JibJab 2006 year end review Flash cartoon
http://www.jibjab.com/nuckin_futs
fred not only :rofl2: 😆 :rofl2: but that woman with a Bow and Arrow. Awesome:!: WOW:!: I never looked like that when I “pulled”. What a Dance. :dancers: :bow:
I am impressed. I have to “see” again.
AIV
maron mail!
pj, go international relations way or…law school for intellectual property – with your technical skills you’d be scooped up by a patent firm tout suite!
great blog links today, thanks!
heron, hope your tummy feels better.
Marc on Letterman next tuesday :love: He’s going to be in New York to do Sam’s show,,, no Jim Earl 😮 but Dan Pashman!!!! :hot: and many many others from the old MS :dancers::yippee::yippee::rofl2::rofl2::doh::doh::omg::40::bong::banana::banana::santacool:
Awwwwww SBlueHeron, DITTO what Farmerkat said, I hope :knit: your tummy is better.
sblueheron 😎 re Marc’s new site you posted. 😎
AIV
This (I’m told) is a 1954 recording of a song written by Irving Berlin in 1942 done by
the Drifters
artnorton, THX 😉 … and Evanescence on Letterman tonight
THX to SBlueHeron :yippee: for telling me. The odds were that I wouldn’t have watched shows like that unless “something special”.
AIV
Here we go, folks-
I have been told that I will be appearing on The Late Show with David Letterman on Tuesday Dec. 19th. If that changes I will let you know. We know what happened last time.
Since I will be in NYC I will be guest hosting Sam Seder’s show for the week from the Air America Radio headquarters. I haven’t been there since they sent me away. I’m looking forward to it. Jim Earl will not be joining me in NYC. Maybe we’ll call him at home. PW McDonald, Bruce Cherry, Pashman, Lawton, Jeff DiCarlo, Svetlana, David Poland, Janeane Garofalo, Robert Reich, Army. Lt. Ronnie Rudolph and more are scheduled so far.
ALSO, the brand spanking new http://www.marcmaron.com is up a mostly there. Check it out.
Talk to you next week in your car, on your desk or in your living room.
Maron
farmerKat that was cool!
or as Druid says: 😎
Evanescence on Letterman tonight :banana:
Great Maron stuff! Thanks, heron. Now I have to figure out how to podcast seder for the week without spending big bucks..hmmmm, will have to visit the aar web site where I have not been in ages.
It’s good not to burn your bridges; maron can return with head held high. (I think malloy may have burnt his bridge…I’m just sayin’) :sammy:
alton brown is making chocolate truffles :bow:
Hey, FK, you can download the Sam shows via that link over there under multimedia. They split it into segments, unfortunately, but it’s free and sans commercials.
Link to seditionist radio on Marc’s new site. That ought to max things out.
Hey Everybody!
I posted a tribute podcast to Morning Sedition this week. I wanted to thank PJ, Sue P, Painting Girl, GUSS and all the seditionists for keeping this community and spirit alive. I hope you enjoy it.
You can find it at my website by clicking the name below or go directly to http://www.indirectdemocracy.podomatic.com
Also, if you want to read the text for the What A Weinie Award that was given to Danny Goldberg – you can read it at the blog section of the MySpace page for Indirect Democracy at:
http://www.myspace.com/indirectdemocracy
Thanks
:sammy:
Woah PJ!! There’s a link to Seditionist Radio on Maron’s new site!
Farmerkat, but when I said he too could have success anywhere, but staying with AAR he could be like a “god” and run everything. Many on AAR site could not here that then – He left, was a success (although he is a bit pensive) as you know re his feelings. He was “pissed” but then he heard they just couldn’t (now) afford him. But you know his “heart”. When he heard what came down, he was “there to help” Sam and AAR (probably after Goldie left). (I hope this is not a dream.)
Cuz he, like SOME, are “all that and then some.”
The Funny is slowly arising again. 😎 :nod:
AIV
WOW re Marc and #80 andy aka Aquaman 😎 and
pjsauter :yippee: 😎
MSists 😎
AIV
Ah, reminds me of Claude Bolling. Got to see him with Jean-Pierre Rampal and Alexandre Lagoya from about the second row once. Outstanding. Guy Pedersen played a fretless double bass.
yes, druid, it is rising!
Jean-Pierre Rampal
long ago, my brother had given me boxed sets of his ALBUMS and my college roommate (who was overweight so for some reason ate red jello all the time while keeping the kitchen covered in red sticky goo) STOLE them. I’m still mad about that.
Hey, anybody who wants to play with a software pbx, this is free:
http://www.3cx.com/
I’ll have to play with it when I get a chance.
Yeah he’s no Ian Anderson, but still…. Lagoya was pretty impressive. I’d never seen classical guitar played in person before, and being so close was truly amazing. But Guy Pedersen, man. I’ll never forget that huge bass and the way his fingers flew on it. Had a rag stuffed into the bottom, too. Got to see Ron Carter up close at the gazebo at the Jazzfest at SPAC one year, too, and he was pretty darned amazing himself.
I should have written: tout de suite :spank:
sounds like you’ve witnesseed some fine playing, pj.
thanks for the finger point, btw =>
tout de suite mes amis!
bien sûr!
andy aka Aquaman, 😉 pourquoi? (:eek:memories)
off to exercise 😮 😉
AIV
Druid? marc’s getting closer to you!:no:
http://www.cobbscomedyclub.com/calendar.html
PJ- I didn’t know you were a jazz fan. If you ever get a chance to see Dave Holland live….go! He’s got a small group and a big band. Either one is great. He’s played with everyone- Miles, Chick Corea…
Many years ago he was with Stan Getz. I was in a band with Getz’s son, Steve. We opened for Stan and we got to hang out. He was such a nice mellow buddhist guy. I think he’s the best bass player around.
howdy doo everyone…what a long day but I think Im finally sort of on top of things…and just exhausted….but have alot to do still….
Im so happy that Marc is coming east for this week though sad that I wont be around for it…not that he does much when he is doing the radio machine thing……but maybe he will book some weekend gigs round x-mas….
Any word on his other supposed fill in slot thing? Maybe the guy meant an different week?
I dont know if anyone has brought this up because IM behind in reading here, but Ive been wondering why Sam would suddenly go on vacation unless he has to do his vacation days before the end of the year, or he has to use them now or lose them forever….
The holiday starts next Friday, so I would think that he would take the following week off….
Im so happy to have Marc on but I have a nagging fear about Sam’s contract. I hope they dont screw him.
At the same time, its clear that Marc is in good standing with this new management situation…and they are flying him here (or letterman is anyway) and he is assembling the crew….for the anniversary of the last day….
No Riley I hope!!…very doubtful….
PJ did you finish, or is tomorrow night the deadline?
I actually took some advanced class run by Jean Pierre Rampal when I was a kid and played classical flute….he is fantastic.
PJ, remember that Doug went from RN to Lawyer and he really hated it….the corporate thing was not for him and full of very young people. Now that he is working with the archdioses he loves it, but not making much $$ as an in house lawyer for the catholics….
Are you really considering law school?
:yippee:malloy on sirius!!!!!
damn it malloys lines are all busy!
Sean, post if you get on the show.
I remember seeing Stan Getz in 1972 in Seattle:tongue:
Maynard Ferguson used to do a concert at our High School once a year. He was a friend of the school’s band director, whose name escapes me at the moment.
Irv Jacobson
nite all….
:yippee::dancers::banana::banana::banana::dancers::yippee:
Heron coming to pdx anytime soon?
Everyone be well and travel safely
sblue- That was about the same time. Richie Birack on piano, Holland on bass- don’t remember the rhthym section. We opened for Stan at Colorado College in the Springs and the legendary “Turn of the Century” club in Denver. :banana:
Evanescence is next 😎 ( :dancers: )
AIV
:yawn: I just got up t:joe: after Evanescence :cool:.
Will Smith was just on. Handsome, pretty, handsome Lib
(I needed role models.: STING, Willl, Susan S., YoYo Ma,
Susan Joy, FarmerKat and … I’ll never tell Mwah HaHa.)
John Lennon *** , F.Scott Fitsgerald ,T.S. Elliot – Poet, William Faulkner , Desmond Tutu , Friedrich Nietzsche ,Gore Vidal, Lee A. Iacocca , Oscar Wilde – Writer, Bela Lugosi – Actor, Lenny Bruce , Margaret Thacher – Prime Minister, Luciano Pavarotti – Singer, Eleanor Roosevelt , Aleister Crowley – Occultist, Juan Peron , Juliet Prowse – Dancer , Michael Douglas , Greer Garson , Truman Copote , Madeline Kahn , Bryant Gumbel, Mahatma Gandhi , Groucho Marx, Julie Andrews , Richard Harris
Bobby Seale – Activist, Timothy Leary – Professor, Bridgette Bardot 😎 and she likes animals :cool:,. Aimee S. McPherson – Religious Leader
AND so many more 😎 :yippee: :pretty. handsome, pretty: , and brilliant folk.I had no role models growing up. : – D
AIV
:nana:na na na na!
SeanMS :pirate::dancers: :omg: 😉
AIV
So *SeanMS* did you get on Mike’s (Malloy):?:
AIV
BTW, SBlueHeron … THX:!::!:Thank You:!: :KISS:
AIV