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Overnight Open Thread (1-11-2016)
Never underestimate the coercive power of a central state in the service of good and wisdom.
-- Governor Jerry Brown, December 7, 2015
There's actually nothing very "civil" about "enforcing civility". Indeed, if civility (which derives from "civis" - citizen) has to be enforced, it is by definition no longer civility at all.
-- Mark Steyn on the German government's clamp-down on anti-immigrant comments on Facebook and Twitter
Sad news. I've always loved his classic hits but because of the sheer variety and volume of his music over the decades, I was still discovering obscure but new-to-me songs of his even up to the last few years. I was always curious to see what he was going to come up with next. Sadly we'll never get to be surprised by him again.
Here's one of my favorite classic Bowie songs:
As Ace has noted one of the nice things about Bowie was that he never become preachy or a celebrity scold and always seemed to have a certain lack of super-star ego to him. In particular he didn't seem to mind people making fun of him or even playing caricatures of himself in other people's works. Here are some clips of him from Zoolander and Ricky Gervais' Extras (thanks to Sonny Bunch):
Age of Miracles and Wonder: Man With a Bionic Penis Will Lose his Virginity to a Dominatrix Who Ran for Parliament
Powerline on Why The Democrats Have Made Gun Control the Top Priority at This Moment
I find this extremely puzzling. We have seen this movie before, and we know how it ends. The Democrats have died on the gun control hill a couple of times already. I understand demagoguing an issue, but don't politicians generally try to demagogue issues that are popular?
...I can think of only two explanations for the Democrats' gun obsession. The first is that they perceive a danger of losing their base, and therefore are pushing an issue that their base believes in, even though it alienates most voters in the middle. If that's right, it is a sign of desperation. The second is that their agenda is so exhausted that they literally can't think of anything better to talk about. I think that might be it: what are Obama and Clinton going to give speeches about to fire up the troops, Obamacare? Immigration? The Iran deal? Unpopular as it is, gun control may be as good as they've got.
Did North Korea Really Set Off a Hydrogen Bomb?
Nate Hale thinks not based on its blast signature and the fact that its estimated yield was less than half of the US Hiroshima bomb. What is disturbing though is the pace that the Norks are improving their technology and the fact that their test caught the US off guard.
Related: Modeling North Korean Negotiators
The North Koreans may know a lot about the outside world, but they don't know everything, even about the United States, their main adversary. In one meeting, an official asked, "Why do the president and secretary of state keep saying that the United States will not allow North Korea to have nuclear weapons when in fact you are not doing much to stop us?" He deduced that there must be a hidden agenda. "It's because you want us to have nuclear weapons as an excuse to tighten your grip on South Korea and Japan, your two allies." We responded that there was no hidden agenda and that the United States really did not want the North to have those weapons. I'm not sure we convinced him.
To recap, China's total debt is about $28 trillion, or roughly half the world's entire debt
Debunking 5 Phony Statistics Liberals Love To Toss Around
One in five college women will still be raped on Superbowl Sunday though.
Swedish Police Accused of Covering Up Sexual Assaults by Immigrants at a Music Festival Last Summer
There were 38 reports of rape and sexual assault filed after the We Are Sthlm festival, which uses the postal abbreviation for Stockholm, in 2014 and 2015, according to police....Police would not say how many men had been linked to the alleged assaults, but DN reported that as many as 50 Afghan refugees who had come to Sweden without their parents were suspected to be involved.
Officers had, however, avoided informing the public that they had made this connection, DN said.
Remembering the Boy in the Bubble
The epitaph on David Phillip Vetter's gravestone observes correctly that "he never touched the world." How could he have? From a few seconds after his birth until two weeks before his death at age 12, David lived life entirely in one plastic bubble or another. Touching the world would have killed him in fairly short order. Even his two weeks outside a plastic cocoon were spent in a hospital trying, futilely, to stave off the inevitable....But over time, his life came to be fraught with ethical dilemmas. For instance, what if a mature David at some point demanded freedom from his hermetic environment, regardless of the risk? A psychologist who worked with him has recounted how the boy, always cheerful in televised images, sometimes raged off-camera at the terrible hand fate had dealt him.
In October 1983, his doctors tried a new bone marrow technique, one that did not require a perfect blood match. As had originally been planned, Katherine Vetter was the donor. At first, the procedure seemed to work. But dormant and undetected in Katherine's marrow was a virus, Epstein-Barr. It proved to be a killer, the trigger of cancerous tumors that overwhelmed David's body.
At long last, he was taken out of the bubble and treated in a sterile hospital room. For the first time in his life, he was able to receive that most primal of human contacts: a mother's kiss. But the end was at hand. On Feb. 22, 1984, two weeks after leaving the bubble - with a wink to his doctor, William T. Shearer, as a final gesture - David died.
The Future Is Now: Replicant Roy Batty's Incept Date Was 8 January 2016
Interestingly Rutger Hauer basically wrote the tears in the rain speech at the end since he didn't care for what Ridley Scott originally had in the script.
The Literal 'Hole in the Wall' Restaurant in Brooklyn
It serves whatever Caribbean dish the owner has cooked that day and is open whenever there's food and closed when there's not.
Couple Get Engaged at Wal-Mart, Then Get Accused of Theft
New Jersey Rejects Request For Dolphin Necropsy Results, Cites "Medical Privacy"
No Pascal, not a SNOBOL's chance. Go Forth!
I've always had a certain fondness for SNOBOL since the very first online forum/BBS program I was ever exposed to - circa 1980-81 - was written in SNOBOL and running on a local university Dec-10. And because the source code for it was available students and users could easily make tweaks and add extra features.
The Yahoo AoSHQ group - it's got electrolytes and shit.
And my twitter thang.
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Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Sixkiller at January 11, 2016 10:23 PM (szEUw)
Posted by: Sixkiller at January 11, 2016 10:23 PM (szEUw)
Posted by: AltonJackson at January 11, 2016 10:23 PM (KCxzN)
Posted by: Sixkiller at January 11, 2016 10:23 PM (szEUw)
Any SE Michigan morons out there?
Jinx the Cat will be visiting the Washtenaw / Livingston county area this weekend; Jinx & I are going to have a mini mo-me either Friday night or Sunday afternoon, probably in the Brighton area.
Sorry for the short notice, I meant to pimp this over the past weekend but real life interviened.
If you're interested, e-mail me at "heywoodblogger" on the yahooo thingie, or contact me through Teh Group
Posted by: AltonJackson at January 11, 2016 10:24 PM (KCxzN)
Posted by: Grump928(C) pollutes you thread with football at January 11, 2016 10:25 PM (rwI+c)
Posted by: AltonJackson at January 11, 2016 10:26 PM (KCxzN)
Posted by: Grump928(C) pollutes you thread with football at January 11, 2016 10:26 PM (rwI+c)
Posted by: Sixkiller at January 11, 2016 10:26 PM (szEUw)
Posted by: Farmer at January 11, 2016 10:26 PM (o/90i)
Posted by: Blanco Basura at January 11, 2016 10:26 PM (YJmuy)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 11, 2016 10:26 PM (ODxAs)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at January 11, 2016 10:27 PM (6FqZa)
Roll Tide.
Posted by: Sixkiller at January 11, 2016 10:28 PM (szEUw)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 11, 2016 10:28 PM (011nl)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 11, 2016 10:29 PM (voOPb)
Posted by: otho at January 11, 2016 10:30 PM (EWg9n)
Posted by: Grump928(C) pollutes you thread with football at January 11, 2016 10:30 PM (rwI+c)
Posted by: Grump928(C) pollutes you thread with football at January 11, 2016 10:31 PM (rwI+c)
My observation for the day is that I've been surprised to see how pretty some of the women are here. I'm not sure what I expected. I certainly was expecting a country full of black Hillarys but I've seen a lot attractive women.
A young women who has worked as an interpreter for our group could be described as stunning, with a flawless complexion and smile and much grace and style. If she was taller she could be a model.
Posted by: Northernlurker, muzungo at January 11, 2016 10:32 PM (3Erz4)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 11, 2016 10:32 PM (voOPb)
Posted by: otho at January 11, 2016 10:32 PM (EWg9n)
Now it's time to leave the capsule if you dare -
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at January 11, 2016 10:33 PM (6FqZa)
Mine is Ashes to ashes.
Posted by: CaliGirl at January 11, 2016 10:33 PM (egOGm)
Posted by: Northernlurker, muzungo at January 11, 2016 10:34 PM (3Erz4)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at January 11, 2016 10:34 PM (6FqZa)
People pointing and saying "Here's where David Bowie is going" were always wrong. And it was great how he proved them wrong, because it was a window we didn't even notice was open.
There's always something in his music for everyone, even your grandma or your great-grandson.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at January 11, 2016 10:34 PM (B8JRQ)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 11, 2016 10:34 PM (ODxAs)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at January 11, 2016 10:35 PM (6FqZa)
Posted by: Grump928(C) pollutes you thread with football at January 11, 2016 10:35 PM (rwI+c)
As I mentioned earlier, went and saw The Big Short this afternoon. I should do a review. I thought it a good HQ movie, full of people with complete disdain for what has gone on/is going on in this country.
Somebody's son here thought it was awful, but I thought it was great. Held to the book well with one notable exception.
Posted by: Blano at January 11, 2016 10:36 PM (C3E0x)
Posted by: Grump928(C) pollutes you thread with football at January 11, 2016 10:36 PM (rwI+c)
Swedish Police Accused of Covering Up Sexual Assaults by Immigrants at a Music Festival Last Summer
So muslim immigrants are superbowl fans? I did not know that.
Posted by: nerdygirl at January 11, 2016 10:36 PM (kGrwF)
Posted by: AmeriDan at January 11, 2016 10:36 PM (cq3QL)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at January 11, 2016 10:34 PM
Oh yeah... Iggy! That LP is fantastic. I'm a sucker for "Soldier" one of his somewhat overlooked gems, also.
Posted by: otho at January 11, 2016 10:37 PM (EWg9n)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 11, 2016 10:37 PM (voOPb)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 11, 2016 10:37 PM (ODxAs)
RIP, Dave; I presume Davey Jones's Locker will be kind to you, since you yourself were born a Davey Jones.
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler... Trump/Camacho 2016! at January 11, 2016 10:37 PM (0OG8D)
Posted by: cthulhu at January 11, 2016 10:38 PM (EzgxV)
Posted by: tu3031 at January 11, 2016 10:38 PM (EDYaR)
And you, you will be Queen
Though nothing, will drive them away
We can beat them, just for one day
We can be heroes just for one day
Posted by: anti-socialist Heroes at January 11, 2016 10:38 PM (o9lmn)
The old girl squawks like a broken car alarm though, just to keep you on your toes.
Posted by: Fritz at January 11, 2016 10:38 PM (BngQR)
huh, so China has even more debt than us????
sooo...
if China has our debt,
and we have China's debt,
why not just call it "even-steven"?
Posted by: chemjeff at January 11, 2016 10:39 PM (uZNvH)
Mine is Ashes to ashes.
Posted by: CaliGirl at January 11, 2016 10:33 PM (egOGm)
Rebel Rebel.
Posted by: Blano at January 11, 2016 10:39 PM (C3E0x)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ebh21wC2inU
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at January 11, 2016 10:39 PM (6FqZa)
Posted by: The Goose at January 11, 2016 10:39 PM (8aOqE)
Posted by: Duncanthrax the Bellicose at January 11, 2016 10:40 PM (sOhww)
Posted by: chemjeff at January 11, 2016 10:40 PM (uZNvH)
Mine is Ashes to ashes.
Posted by: CaliGirl at January 11, 2016 10:33 PM
Probably "Queen Bitch". But, "John I'm only Dancing", "Sound and Vision" and "Heroes" often shakes that spot. "Heroes" in particular is a monumental track.
Posted by: otho at January 11, 2016 10:40 PM (EWg9n)
Posted by: All Teh Meh at January 11, 2016 10:41 PM (wEq+O)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 11, 2016 10:41 PM (ODxAs)
Posted by: tu3031 at January 11, 2016 10:38 PM (EDYaR)
But I find him funny
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 11, 2016 10:41 PM (voOPb)
Posted by: tu3031 at January 11, 2016 10:38 PM (EDYaR)
At least he's still not doing Tivo commercials.
https://youtu.be/0qs7QfqYXl0
Posted by: buzzion at January 11, 2016 10:41 PM (zt+N6)
Posted by: tu3031 at January 11, 2016 10:41 PM (EDYaR)
Posted by: chemjeff at January 11, 2016 10:41 PM (uZNvH)
Posted by: otho at January 11, 2016 10:30 PM
I was never a huge Bowie fan, but it's amazing that people are acknowledging his influence so widely.
What age groups appreciate Bowie?
1-20
21-40
41-60
1
61-80
Posted by: Farmer at January 11, 2016 10:42 PM (o/90i)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 11, 2016 10:42 PM (ODxAs)
https://youtu.be/0qs7QfqYXl0
Posted by: buzzion at January 11, 2016 10:41 PM (zt+N6)
oh wow that was bad
Posted by: chemjeff at January 11, 2016 10:42 PM (uZNvH)
Wow, did Bowie get the great guitar players? Check out Carlos Alomar and Earl Slick on "Stay" (from Station to Station).
Robert Fripp, Mick Ronson, Stevie Ray, Tom Verlaine, and so on.
Bowie's guitar playing on Rebel Rebel is pretty fine, too
Posted by: anti-socialist Heroes at January 11, 2016 10:43 PM (o9lmn)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 11, 2016 10:43 PM (voOPb)
Posted by: tu3031 at January 11, 2016 10:38 PM (EDYaR)<<<
What's wrong with doing a lot of commercials?!
Posted by: Peyton Manning and his massive marketing melon at January 11, 2016 10:43 PM (H9MG5)
That thing about Keep Austin Weird? They mean it.
Death Metal Pizza?
Posted by: blaster at January 11, 2016 10:43 PM (mMMjw)
Posted by: tu3031
Read somewhere that former players, actors, etc. do this to ensure a larger estate for generations later. Grandkids grandkids.
Posted by: AmeriDan at January 11, 2016 10:44 PM (cq3QL)
Glad to see no one ran you over on the street
Posted by: chemjeff at January 11, 2016 10:40 PM (uZNvH)
The traffic is chaotic but local residents seem able to handle it.
I haven't seen a mosquito yet, touch wood. I find mosquito nets irritating to sleep in but rather that than malaria or any of the other nasty things you can catch.
Posted by: Northernlurker, muzungo at January 11, 2016 10:45 PM (3Erz4)
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler... Trump/Camacho 2016! at January 11, 2016 10:45 PM (0OG8D)
Posted by: jake at January 11, 2016 10:46 PM (HLUeE)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 11, 2016 10:43 PM (voOPb)
Mission trip with powers of observation intact.
Posted by: Northernlurker, muzungo at January 11, 2016 10:46 PM (3Erz4)
Posted by: jake at January 11, 2016 10:46 PM (HLUeE)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at January 11, 2016 10:47 PM (6FqZa)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 11, 2016 10:47 PM (voOPb)
Posted by: jake at January 11, 2016 10:46 PM (HLUeE)
I don't know about Sweden, but you definitely can't in Wales.
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at January 11, 2016 10:48 PM (HalrA)
Well, you didn't think hard enough. The Left understands, with good reason, that if they push something long enough and hard enough, they win. They really believe they can win on this, that is, establish a national registry and confiscate guns. Whether this is politically deranged or not doesn't matter. They WANT it and BELIEVE they can achieve it.
Posted by: rrpjr at January 11, 2016 10:48 PM (s/yC1)
Reminded me of the Pointy Haired Boss from Dilbert.
Posted by: ReactionaryMonster at January 11, 2016 10:48 PM (0NdlF)
Posted by: Yip at January 11, 2016 10:48 PM (e7T6D)
1-20
21-40
41-60
1
61-80
Posted by: Farmer at January 11, 2016 10:42 PM (o/90i)
Farmer,Age 60. Appreciate Bowie? Not so much. A couple of songs, yeah, but overall, nope.
Posted by: Sixkiller at January 11, 2016 10:48 PM (szEUw)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 11, 2016 10:48 PM (voOPb)
What age groups appreciate Bowie?
1-20
21-40
41-60
1
61-80
Posted by: Farmer at January 11, 2016 10:42 PM
Well, me neither (not that admitted that, I lied coz I was in awe), but the dude was massively influential. I can't say about the age groups thing... but, what I can say for sure is that Bowie was a musician's musician. Influenced everybody in pop/rock, whether you were a huge fan, or just a regular "I like his stuff" fan.
Posted by: otho at January 11, 2016 10:48 PM (EWg9n)
About the only Bowie song I know. The lead singer of "Dead or Alive" re-did it a few years ago.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 11, 2016 10:49 PM (011nl)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 11, 2016 10:49 PM (EZebt)
So muslim immigrants are superbowl fans? I did not know that.
....
that is some tape delayed game right there.
Posted by: jake at January 11, 2016 10:50 PM (HLUeE)
Posted by: Burn the Witch at January 11, 2016 10:50 PM (Wckf4)
Posted by: Grump928(C) pollutes you thread with football at January 11, 2016 10:51 PM (rwI+c)
Posted by: garrett at January 11, 2016 10:51 PM (b99VK)
Posted by: Lauren at January 11, 2016 10:51 PM (GZ6Pf)
Posted by: Yip at January 11, 2016 10:51 PM (e7T6D)
Posted by: Sixkiller at January 11, 2016 10:51 PM (szEUw)
Posted by: Grump928(C) pollutes you thread with football at January 11, 2016 10:51 PM (rwI+c)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rog8ou-ZepE
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at January 11, 2016 10:52 PM (6FqZa)
Posted by: Lauren at January 11, 2016 10:52 PM (GZ6Pf)
The current Secretary of Navy wants to purge every "man" in the Navy and Marine corps he can... the word "man," that is.
More: http://politicalhat.com/?p=10863
Posted by: The Politi at January 11, 2016 10:52 PM (vBeA5)
Heroes is great, Bowie's vocals are amazing on that track. Panic in Detroit is another good one.
I liked Bowie, still do
Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at January 11, 2016 10:53 PM (7RXcs)
Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at January 11, 2016 10:53 PM (kpqmD)
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler... Trump/Camacho 2016! at January 11, 2016 10:45 PM
I'm going w/ Major Tom. Is that the real title?
Posted by: Farmer at January 11, 2016 10:53 PM (o/90i)
Posted by: Grump928(C) pollutes you thread with football at January 11, 2016 10:54 PM (rwI+c)
Posted by: tu3031 at January 11, 2016 10:54 PM (EDYaR)
Queen Bitch
Suffragette City
The Man who Sold the World
Ashes to Ashes
Life on Mars
And Supermen, of course.
Posted by: Kindltot at January 11, 2016 10:54 PM (q2o38)
Posted by: the goat at January 11, 2016 10:54 PM (HLUeE)
Posted by: Lauren at January 11, 2016 10:55 PM (GZ6Pf)
Sometimes it seems to me he is a snotty, sneering, empty-headed, soulless and worthless man. But maybe I'm wrong.
Posted by: Northernlurker, muzungo at January 11, 2016 10:55 PM (3Erz4)
Fame, suffragette city, young American, changes.
Posted by: CaliGirl at January 11, 2016 10:55 PM (egOGm)
Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at January 11, 2016 10:55 PM (7RXcs)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 11, 2016 10:55 PM (voOPb)
Posted by: Farmer at January 11, 2016 10:53 PM (o/90i)
I believe that was Space Oddity.
Posted by: Sixkiller at January 11, 2016 10:55 PM (szEUw)
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at January 11, 2016 10:55 PM (HalrA)
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler... Trump/Camacho 2016! at January 11, 2016 10:55 PM (0OG8D)
Posted by: JEM at January 11, 2016 10:55 PM (o+SC1)
It must be so much better to cover them up and pretend that they didn't happen as oppose to acknowledge them and who is guilty and being called a racist for it.
Posted by: TheQuietMan at January 11, 2016 10:55 PM (45oDG)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 11, 2016 10:56 PM (kTF2Z)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at January 11, 2016 10:56 PM (6FqZa)
I like "Heroes," but I really dig all the instrumental stuff on side 2.
Posted by: RKae at January 11, 2016 10:57 PM (Wt4BP)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 11, 2016 10:57 PM (voOPb)
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler... Trump/Camacho 2016! at January 11, 2016 10:57 PM (0OG8D)
I love Suffragette City and also the satire of Fashion ("Turn to the left! We are the goon squad and we're coming to town! Beep! Beep!") And "China Girl."
He really was my favorite solo rock artist. It's very hard to pick just one song.
Posted by: Donna&&&&V (a white) (whitely brandishing ampersand privilege ) at January 11, 2016 10:57 PM (P8951)
20 Good morning from Uganda.
My observation for the day is that I've been surprised to see how pretty some of the women are here. I'm not sure what I expected. I certainly was expecting a country full of black Hillarys but I've seen a lot attractive women.
A young women who has worked as an interpreter for our group could be described as stunning, with a flawless complexion and smile and much grace and style. If she was taller she could be a model.
Posted by: Northernlurker, muzungo at January 11, 2016 10:32 PM (3Erz4)
Enjoying the scenery?
Got pics?
Posted by: eman at January 11, 2016 10:57 PM (MQEz6)
The current Secretary of Navy wants to purge every "man" in the Navy and Marine corps he can... the word "man," that is.
More: http://politicalhat.com/?p=10863
Posted by: The Politi at January 11, 2016 10:52 PM (vBeA5)
They can purge all the men too then have only queers, trannies and womyn who can't actually do what's required of them. But hey at least they'll check all the diversity boxes.
Posted by: TheQuietMan at January 11, 2016 10:57 PM (45oDG)
So...my feelings towards Bowie may skew just a bit towards the fan girl.
Favorite song?
Probably The Man Who Sold The World.
Of course, that happens to also be the only good song Nirvana ever did.
Posted by: Lauren at January 11, 2016 10:58 PM (GZ6Pf)
Milady and I both thought we'd seen it before, decades ago, but none of it was familiar. Then again, that would've been in the '70s. Lots of brain cells under the bridge since then.
Paused to make some dinner and saw that we had seen about 30 minutes of ... a 47-hour file. ?!? I think Media Player Classic may have trouble calculating M4V file length.
MWFtE was a little intense, and looked like it was about to start turning bad for Bowie, so we watched some YouTubes, including Bowie's Lazarus video. Yeah, I want to go out still creative on my deathbed... but I'd like to make it older than 69, seven years from now. As we say, F cancer.
Then, we ended up watching the last half of Day the Earth Stood Still we'd started last night It was as stupid as the first half. Funny how I never noticed that so much before.
Oh, yeah.. guess I'll go read the post now.
Posted by: mindful webworker - spaced, maan! at January 11, 2016 10:59 PM (ACs58)
The current Secretary of Navy wants to purge every "man" in the Navy and Marine corps he can... the word "man," that is.
More: http://politicalhat.com/?p=10863
Posted by: The Politi at January 11, 2016 10:52 PM (vBeA5)
And one more thing on this. If a Republican becomes president he needs to hire R Lee Ermy to clean out all of the PC assholes who infest the top brass.
Posted by: TheQuietMan at January 11, 2016 10:59 PM (45oDG)
He achieved that vocal effect by singing into 3 microphones placed in series at various distances from where he was singing.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 11, 2016 10:59 PM (EZebt)
Have you seen Flight of The Conchords Fashion parody? Also their whole Bowie episode?
Posted by: Lauren at January 11, 2016 10:59 PM (GZ6Pf)
Posted by: All Teh Meh at January 11, 2016 11:00 PM (wEq+O)
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler
"This is Major Tom to ground control" was Space oddity?
Posted by: AmeriDan at January 11, 2016 11:00 PM (cq3QL)
If you have never been bitten by a full grown goose, you have no idea. They will leave a mark on you and they don't quit.
Posted by: Chinwendu Whitecrest at January 11, 2016 11:00 PM (j6Mlw)
Posted by: Caitlyn! at January 11, 2016 11:00 PM (7RXcs)
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler... Trump/Camacho 2016! at January 11, 2016 10:57 PM (0OG8D)
Amen to that.
HEY MAN!!
Posted by: Blano at January 11, 2016 11:00 PM (C3E0x)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 11, 2016 11:00 PM (voOPb)
Posted by: Grump928(C) pollutes you thread with football at January 11, 2016 11:00 PM (rwI+c)
So...my feelings towards Bowie may skew just a bit towards the fan girl.
Pretty sure JeffB spent most of his teenage years dressed up as the Thin White Duke.
Posted by: garrett at January 11, 2016 11:00 PM (b99VK)
I've always been partial to Young Americans and Suffragette City. Obvious, I know, but what are you gonna do?
If I could ask the Big Guy one question, it'd be: why him and not George Soros?
Posted by: ChicagoRefugee at January 11, 2016 11:00 PM (b/PFG)
Posted by: Fox2! at January 11, 2016 11:00 PM (brIR5)
someone should Tweet that to Trump
Posted by: jake at January 11, 2016 11:00 PM (HLUeE)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at January 11, 2016 11:01 PM (ucDmr)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 11, 2016 11:01 PM (voOPb)
Posted by: RKae at January 11, 2016 11:02 PM (Wt4BP)
Don't underestimate them...
Posted by: Last at January 11, 2016 11:02 PM (8HiDF)
Nope. Haven't even heard of it before now.
Posted by: Donna&&&&V (a white) (whitely brandishing ampersand privilege ) at January 11, 2016 11:02 PM (P8951)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at January 11, 2016 11:02 PM (6FqZa)
Posted by: Northernlurker, muzungo at January 11, 2016 11:02 PM (3Erz4)
93: Space Oddity. Major Tom was an entirely different song by Peter Schilling of Austria.
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler
"This is Major Tom to ground control" was Space oddity?
Posted by: AmeriDan at January 11, 2016 11:00 PM (cq3QL)
Yes. Schilling's song was an homage to Bowie and about the same character, and it's a worth a listen IMHO.
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at January 11, 2016 11:02 PM (HalrA)
Both amazing shows. Guy knew how to work a stage.
Posted by: garrett at January 11, 2016 11:03 PM (b99VK)
someone should Tweet that to Trump
Posted by: jake at January 11, 2016 11:00 PM (HLUeE)
Who's he? Ermy I mean.
Posted by: Blano at January 11, 2016 11:03 PM (C3E0x)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 11, 2016 11:03 PM (voOPb)
He wants the serfs disarmed, especially the white oppressors. He wants the white devils driven off the farms, and the plantations turned over to his people.
He is a tyrant who wants to rule, and to do that, he needs to disarm his political opponents. It's as simple as that.
Posted by: Chinwendu Whitecrest at January 11, 2016 11:03 PM (j6Mlw)
Posted by: Lauren at January 11, 2016 11:03 PM (LzzEz)
Posted by: jake at January 11, 2016 11:04 PM (HLUeE)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at January 11, 2016 11:04 PM (6FqZa)
-- Governor Jerry Brown, December 7, 2015
Also never underestimate the coercive power of a central state in the service of evil and stupidity.
I'm a Californian, and loyal American. Pray for us.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at January 11, 2016 11:04 PM (oKE6c)
Posted by: ghost of hallelujahs at January 11, 2016 11:04 PM (7RXcs)
Sir, I stand in awe.
I didn't even use e-mail until the late 90s.
Posted by: AD at January 11, 2016 11:04 PM (QWY55)
Posted by: Cato the Rebel
Roger that. Will check out Shilling's song next time I'm at Youtube.
Posted by: AmeriDan at January 11, 2016 11:05 PM (cq3QL)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VppuD1St8Ec
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at January 11, 2016 11:05 PM (6FqZa)
The drill seargent in "Full Metal Jacket." Had a show on History called "Mail Call."
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 11, 2016 11:05 PM (011nl)
.................
a real life drill instructor that played a drill instructor in Full Metal Jacket
Posted by: jake at January 11, 2016 11:06 PM (HLUeE)
Posted by: eman at January 11, 2016 11:06 PM (MQEz6)
I heard she also had a part in the capture of El Chapo.
Posted by: tu3031 at January 11, 2016 11:06 PM (EDYaR)
Which is totes why he made an album in English.
Hey, and I didn't say I disagreed with his take on buying Gold!
Posted by: Kindltot at January 11, 2016 11:06 PM (q2o38)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 11, 2016 11:06 PM (voOPb)
Posted by: Lauren at January 11, 2016 11:06 PM (LzzEz)
-- Governor Jerry Brown, December 7, 2015
Also never underestimate the coercive power of a central state in the service of evil and stupidity.
I'm a Californian, and loyal American. Pray for us.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at January 11, 2016 11:04 PM (oKE6c)
A little mood music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIqESwzCGg4
Posted by: Hat Über Alles at January 11, 2016 11:08 PM (vBeA5)
Posted by: Grump928(C) pollutes you thread with football at January 11, 2016 11:08 PM (rwI+c)
http://bit.ly/1ZXDkhL
(People's Cube)
Posted by: mindful webworker - served on a bed of rice at January 11, 2016 11:08 PM (ACs58)
Posted by: rickl at January 11, 2016 11:08 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: eman at January 11, 2016 11:08 PM (MQEz6)
Don't underestimate them...
Posted by: Last at January 11, 2016 11:02 PM (8HiDF)
^^^^THIS.
The liberal scum will use the power of Leviathan to take our guns whether anybody agrees or not.
They will have enough traitors pulling the levers of power to where they will attempt it even if it has less than 10% support.
They will identify their targets, go after them and have some success. By this they hope to intimidate the rest into giving up.
It's this point where things will get violent. I just hope it happens in my lifetime.
Posted by: Blano at January 11, 2016 11:09 PM (C3E0x)
>>My observation for the day is that I've been surprised to >>see how pretty some of the women are here.
This comment is worthless without elbows.
Posted by: JEM at January 11, 2016 11:09 PM (o+SC1)
Posted by: rrpjr at January 11, 2016 10:48 PM (s/yC1)
-------------
BINGO.
As you say, they'll push and push and push at every opportunity and from all angles.
Obama is using the bully pulpit and staging little dramas. Schools with "zero tolerance" are teaching kids that just saying "bang" is a mortal sin. The CDC declares "gun violence" a national health problem. The EPA frets about all of that lead poisoning the world.
And on and on and on and on.
They play the long game.
Posted by: Margarita insufferable suffering Redskin fan at January 11, 2016 11:09 PM (T/5A0)
http://bit.ly/1ZXDkhL
(People's Cube)
Posted by: mindful webworker - served on a bed of rice at January 11, 2016 11:08 PM (ACs5
Obama must have gotten the munchies...
Posted by: The Tripodal Hat at January 11, 2016 11:09 PM (vBeA5)
Posted by: Jay Guevara at January 11, 2016 11:09 PM (oKE6c)
Posted by: bill-o at January 11, 2016 11:09 PM (rysJw)
This time of year when you look out any window on the first floor there is some goose standing on one leg pooping
Posted by: jake at January 11, 2016 11:09 PM (HLUeE)
http://bit.ly/1ZXDkhL
(People's Cube)
Posted by: mindful webworker - served on a bed of rice at January 11, 2016 11:08 PM (ACs5
Will this be when Obama breaks out the epaulets and goes mad?
Posted by: Northernlurker, muzungo at January 11, 2016 11:10 PM (3Erz4)
http://bit.ly/1ZXDkhL
(People's Cube)
Posted by: mindful webworker - served on a bed of rice at January 11, 2016 11:08 PM (ACs5
Obama must have gotten the munchies...
Posted by: The Tripodal Hat at January 11, 2016 11:09 PM (vBeA5)
Only three drumsticks.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at January 11, 2016 11:10 PM (oKE6c)
Posted by: tu3031 at January 11, 2016 11:11 PM (EDYaR)
Posted by: Jean at January 11, 2016 11:11 PM (eug7P)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYYRH4apXDo
...and here's Major Tom...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1Hs2AQwDgA
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler... Trump/Camacho 2016! at January 11, 2016 11:11 PM (0OG8D)
You could get a whole FORTH development system (compiler, debugger, editor, everything you need) on a lame slow computer with 4K of memory and still have 2K left over to run your actual programs.
These days we have CPU chips with megabytes of cache, and we expect gigabytes of RAM, so it makes sense to use higher-level languages that do let a developer do more work in fewer lines of code. Even little embedded devices can be usefully programmed in C++ or whatever because you don't need to run the compiler on the device itself.
But I solved real problems and got real work done using FORTH, and I enjoyed it.
SNOBOL, on the other hand, I pretty much hate! Its flow control is based on GOTO. It has GOTO logic really baked in to the language. You'd be better off rewriting old SNOBOL programs into AWK, or better still something modern and powerful like Python.
Posted by: steveha at January 11, 2016 11:11 PM (M59SC)
Posted by: Grump928(
Hang in there...Tide will row in the 4th.
Posted by: AmeriDan at January 11, 2016 11:11 PM (cq3QL)
Posted by: Jay Guevara at January 11, 2016 11:12 PM (oKE6c)
He did. However, thanks to his sacrifices, they are now able to treat his condition.
Posted by: Lauren at January 11, 2016 11:12 PM (LzzEz)
Posted by: mindful webworker - served on a bed of rice at January 11, 2016 11:08 PM (ACs5
Mine Gott. Those degenerates have not yet gotten to the joke, "Well you don't eat a dog like that in one go!"
Posted by: Kindltot at January 11, 2016 11:12 PM (q2o38)
Uhh...I thought China held our debt. Who holds China's debt?
Posted by: t-bird at January 11, 2016 11:12 PM (yddCj)
Posted by: JEM at January 11, 2016 11:12 PM (o+SC1)
"Rebel Rebel."
About the only Bowie song I know. The lead singer of "Dead or Alive" re-did it a few years ago.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 11, 2016 10:49 PM (011nl)
yeah that is the only one I know too, except I didn't even know it was David Bowie, I just knew it as "that one song that's overplayed a lot"
Posted by: chemjeff at January 11, 2016 11:13 PM (uZNvH)
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler... Trump/Camacho 2016! at January 11, 2016 10:57 PM
I'm getting cornfused. I remember Montrose doing that song.
Posted by: Farmer at January 11, 2016 11:13 PM (o/90i)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at January 11, 2016 11:02 PM (6FqZa)
Come to think of it, have we ever SEEN both JeffB and DavidBowie in the same place, at the same time?
Posted by: BurtTC at January 11, 2016 11:13 PM (Dj0WE)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 11, 2016 11:13 PM (011nl)
Posted by: garrett at January 11, 2016 11:13 PM (b99VK)
Hey, maybe we should have the next CO Morondezvous at a karaoke bar! That'd be a lot of fun!
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler... Trump/Camacho 2016! at January 11, 2016 11:13 PM (0OG8D)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at January 11, 2016 11:13 PM (6FqZa)
181 To recap, China's total debt is about $28 trillion, or roughly half the world's entire debt
Uhh...I thought China held our debt. Who holds China's debt?
Posted by: t-bird at January 11, 2016 11:12 PM (yddCj)
Peruvia.
Posted by: eman at January 11, 2016 11:13 PM (MQEz6)
Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at January 11, 2016 11:14 PM (7RXcs)
...And here we are.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 11, 2016 11:14 PM (Dj0WE)
Posted by: redc1c4 at January 11, 2016 11:14 PM (G1F7B)
Posted by: t-bird at January 11, 2016 11:12 PM (yddCj)
For the most part? They do. A lot of it is internal debt caused by corrupt local politicians buying votes... backed by the full faith and credit of the central government. It's going to be a mess when it breaks.
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at January 11, 2016 11:14 PM (HalrA)
.....
intimidating legal gun owners won't work.
you'll just turn them into illegal gun owners because in the USA if they take all the guns, the next step is people in camps
Posted by: jake at January 11, 2016 11:14 PM (HLUeE)
Posted by: BurtTC at January 11, 2016 11:13 PM (Dj0WE)
So JeffB is dead now too?
Been a rough week for the Horde.
Posted by: Blano at January 11, 2016 11:15 PM (C3E0x)
Posted by: bill-o at January 11, 2016 11:15 PM (rysJw)
Posted by: garrett at January 11, 2016 11:15 PM (b99VK)
Posted by: Bruce Dickinson at January 11, 2016 11:15 PM (5zyvn)
My wife always talks about grabbing Bowie's butt at a concert.
I, on the other hand, can't sing.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 11, 2016 11:15 PM (ODxAs)
Posted by: BraineaterBob at January 11, 2016 11:15 PM (N25Er)
Posted by: Lauren at January 11, 2016 11:15 PM (LzzEz)
My thing has usually been Tears For Fears. Although I've done some Iggy and Bowie before.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at January 11, 2016 11:16 PM (6FqZa)
As for the head scratcher, of liberals and gun control, I would have
said the same thing about liberals and socialized medicine, and
liberals and gay marriage.....
...And here we are.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 11, 2016 11:14 PM (Dj0WE)
They've been emboldened by their recent successes and think they can put the keystone that will hold their edifice of evil in place now. They also know it's now or never, because a lot of people have started to see what's taking shape and don't like it.
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at January 11, 2016 11:16 PM (HalrA)
Posted by: t-bird at January 11, 2016 11:12 PM (yddCj)
yo mama...
;-)
Posted by: redc1c4 at January 11, 2016 11:16 PM (G1F7B)
you'll just turn them into illegal gun owners because in the USA if they take all the guns, the next step is people in camps
Posted by: jake at January 11, 2016 11:14 PM (HLUeE)
Didn't mean to imply they'd be successful. I just think they'll try it, then the war begins.
Posted by: Blano at January 11, 2016 11:16 PM (C3E0x)
Posted by: garrett at January 11, 2016 11:16 PM (b99VK)
The old Romans used geese as guard animals for the Capitoline Hill. And the geese saved early Rome from an invasion. Dangerous animals.
Posted by: rabidfox at January 11, 2016 11:16 PM (EW9tX)
Posted by: eman at January 11, 2016 11:08 PM (MQEz6)
This.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at January 11, 2016 11:17 PM (oKE6c)
They will ransack the NRA offices, confiscate membership lists. It will be a starting point. Game on
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 11, 2016 11:17 PM (voOPb)
internal debt caused by corrupt local politicians buying votes... backed
by the full faith and credit of the central government. It's going to
be a mess when it breaks.
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at January 11, 2016 11:14 PM (HalrA)
Wait - are you talking about China, or us?
Posted by: Jay Guevara at January 11, 2016 11:18 PM (oKE6c)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 11, 2016 11:18 PM (voOPb)
I admit to tearing up a bit. You had to be there.
Posted by: rickl at January 11, 2016 11:19 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 11, 2016 11:17 PM (voOPb)
Then it's time to start buying memberships for your local prog city council and education board members, yes?
Posted by: Kindltot at January 11, 2016 11:19 PM (q2o38)
https://twitter.com/MickJagger
Kind of got my allergies going
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at January 11, 2016 11:20 PM (6FqZa)
Posted by: the littl shyning man at January 11, 2016 11:20 PM (U6f54)
Stageflash mob Nativity scenes on public property.
(Forbringing out the "Apoplectic" in "ACLU".)
Notes: Be tasteful; Be memorable; Getting a "wink, wink" from local cops is a plus ;-)
Posted by: the sometimer at January 11, 2016 11:20 PM (T8WfQ)
Posted by: eman at January 11, 2016 11:08 PM (MQEz6)
This.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at January 11, 2016 11:17 PM (oKE6c)
Most street thugs will NOT poop all over your parking lot.
Most...
Posted by: BurtTC at January 11, 2016 11:20 PM (Dj0WE)
what do you think will happen if the gov'ment is the only group to have guns, anthe the left is in power?
??
Posted by: jake at January 11, 2016 11:20 PM (HLUeE)
;-)"
You know that classic really doesn't get used as much as it should.
Kudos, sir, kudos.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 11, 2016 11:21 PM (011nl)
Posted by: Jay Guevara at January 11, 2016 11:18 PM (oKE6c)
Yes.
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at January 11, 2016 11:21 PM (HalrA)
Posted by: eman at January 11, 2016 11:08 PM (MQEz6)
They also poop twice their weight every single day. I fully expect the earth to collapse into a black hole one day due to the sheer mass of goose poop.
Posted by: Michael the Hobbit at January 11, 2016 11:21 PM (dPpmC)
But, I would refer you to the modern maxim of, "If you owe the bank $100,000, the bank owns you. If you owe the bank $100,000,000, you own the bank."
China's economy is teetering on the brink of collapse even with our big debt to them. If we suddenly decide we might have trouble making good on that debt, well, China will have to make some concessions.
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler... Trump/Camacho 2016! at January 11, 2016 11:21 PM (0OG8D)
Posted by: garrett at January 11, 2016 11:21 PM (b99VK)
Like a stud pile a stallion leaves to brag to the other horses about how well fed he is.
Posted by: Chinwendu Whitecrest at January 11, 2016 11:22 PM (j6Mlw)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 11, 2016 11:22 PM (voOPb)
Posted by: rickl at January 11, 2016 11:08 PM
"Heroes" live about 15 years ago. Probably the best version, IMHO.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaTooNm6BX4
Posted by: otho at January 11, 2016 11:22 PM (EWg9n)
Posted by: jake at January 11, 2016 11:20 PM (HLUeE)
"I saw a movie where only the army and the police had guns. It was called Schindler's List"
Posted by: Kindltot at January 11, 2016 11:22 PM (q2o38)
You will be legally forced to scuk c*ck under penalty of law.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 11, 2016 11:22 PM (011nl)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 11, 2016 11:23 PM (kTF2Z)
you'll just turn them into illegal gun owners because in the USA if they take all the guns, the next step is people in camps
....
the city of Lost Angels recently banned all magazines over 10 rounds, even if they were legal under state law, as being grandfathered.
exactly zero were turned in, last news report i saw. LAPD is reduced to begging for turn-ins no questions asked, as if the cops wouldn't steal them as they came in.
similar situation with the mandatory assault weapons registration many moons ago: only a small fraction of the estimated total were signed up.
of course, it didn't help that certain SKS owners who were told their rifles were legal were later informed some months later that, "Ooops, you can't have those, and we know you do, so turn them in for free or move them out of state..."
F Moonbeam and all the other fascists in this Third World Shithole with (relatively) drinkable water.
Posted by: redc1c4 at January 11, 2016 11:23 PM (G1F7B)
??
Posted by: jake at January 11, 2016 11:20 PM (HLUeE)
Same thing that always happens when a motivated zealot with a particular brand of morality (or anti-morality in their case, but I digress) gains power. Those who do not share their belief system will be persecuted.
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at January 11, 2016 11:23 PM (HalrA)
Posted by: jake at January 11, 2016 11:23 PM (HLUeE)
Posted by: Grump928(C) pollutes you thread with football at January 11, 2016 11:23 PM (rwI+c)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 11, 2016 11:23 PM (011nl)
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler... Trump/Camacho 2016! at January 11, 2016 11:24 PM (0OG8D)
Saw a $1.49 cash price tonight for gas.
$1.25 on deck.
Posted by: Blano at January 11, 2016 11:24 PM (C3E0x)
Posted by: tu3031 at January 11, 2016 11:24 PM (EDYaR)
Posted by: Mccool at January 11, 2016 11:24 PM (PhpHA)
Posted by: All Teh Meh at January 11, 2016 11:24 PM (wEq+O)
Ha! They are funny guys. i watched a few other clips of theirs - "You don't have to be a prostitute, you don't have to be a man 'ho" sung to a reggae beat is hilarious.
Posted by: Donna&&&&V (a white) (whitely brandishing ampersand privilege ) at January 11, 2016 11:24 PM (P8951)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 11, 2016 11:25 PM (ODxAs)
Posted by: chemjeff at January 11, 2016 11:25 PM (uZNvH)
Good game.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 11, 2016 11:23 PM (011nl)
Ahem.....the Horde is about 9 minutes ahead of the ESPN app. Just now saw the kick.
Posted by: Blano at January 11, 2016 11:25 PM (C3E0x)
Posted by: jake
---
"Hey, Earl! You want some of your daughter's panties? They come in four flavors: banana, peach, mint, and of course cherry!"
Posted by: RKae at January 11, 2016 11:26 PM (Wt4BP)
$1.25 on deck.
Posted by: Blano at January 11, 2016 11:24 PM (C3E0x)
Filled up for 1.57 this morning. Never thought I'd see it get this low again, but it's only happening because OPEC is trying to put Texas out of business by flooding the market.
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at January 11, 2016 11:27 PM (HalrA)
Posted by: Burn the Witch at January 11, 2016 11:27 PM (Wckf4)
Posted by: garrett at January 11, 2016 11:27 PM (b99VK)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 11, 2016 11:27 PM (011nl)
Posted by: tu3031 at January 11, 2016 11:27 PM (EDYaR)
https://youtu.be/poZCINzxzrQ
Semi-interesting comicbook.com article
David Bowie's Lasting Influence on Geek Media
http://bit.ly/1SL8bMF
Posted by: mindful webworker - living in a tin can at January 11, 2016 11:28 PM (ACs58)
I have not pondered the term 'butt-hole surfers' since the 80's
I assumed they were rude surfers, now in the age of Big Homo ....they didn't seem gay, who knows
Posted by: jake at January 11, 2016 11:28 PM (HLUeE)
Posted by: t-bird at January 11, 2016 11:12 PM (yddCj)
For the most part? They do. A lot of it is internal debt caused by corrupt local politicians buying votes... backed by the full faith and credit of the central government. It's going to be a mess when it breaks.
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at January 11, 2016 11:14 PM (HalrA)
So the world's economy is just one great big Ponzi scheme.
And who is Ponzi?
Posted by: BurtTC at January 11, 2016 11:28 PM (Dj0WE)
Posted by: tu3031 at January 11, 2016 11:27 PM (EDYaR)
Dammit!!! Stop that!!! lol
Posted by: Blano at January 11, 2016 11:28 PM (C3E0x)
The Clemson Lady Trainer's knees are rather nice...
The Overlord saying Goddammit repeatedly...
Tankersley is putting together good tape....
Good call with the onside.....
Posted by: Hillbillyking at January 11, 2016 11:28 PM (tW3yD)
Ms Sarandon's skin was quite nice, likewise Ms Deneuve's.
That old theater in Oakland, you know, the one that did the Rocky Horror show every weekend. Went to see that once and took an umbrella.
Posted by: the littl shyning man at January 11, 2016 11:28 PM (U6f54)
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at January 11, 2016 11:29 PM (HalrA)
Posted by: All Teh Meh at January 11, 2016 11:29 PM (wEq+O)
There are many more for you to discover and enjoy.
Posted by: CaliGirl at January 11, 2016 11:29 PM (egOGm)
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler... Trump/Camacho 2016! at January 11, 2016 11:29 PM (0OG8D)
Posted by: Grump928(C) pollutes you thread with football at January 11, 2016 11:29 PM (rwI+c)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 11, 2016 11:29 PM (011nl)
Posted by: tu3031 at January 11, 2016 11:30 PM (EDYaR)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 11, 2016 11:30 PM (voOPb)
Posted by: Edmund Burkes Shade at January 11, 2016 11:30 PM (cmBvC)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 11, 2016 11:30 PM (ODxAs)
---
Texas, or Iran. Saudis are driving down the price of crude to force Iran to sell at a loss.
Posted by: Chinwendu Whitecrest at January 11, 2016 11:30 PM (j6Mlw)
I only saw him live once -- 1987 Glass Spider tour. I'm glad I did -- he didn't really tour much.
He was more a performance artist than merely a singer/songwriter, IMO and his life was the performance. A true genius -- watch the Lazarus video from his just released album Blackstar (he timed the release to coincide with this 69th birthday Jan. 8th) -- first line of the song is "Look up here, I'm in heaven." He even made his own death -- his last act on earth -- art.
There will never be another like him.
I'm surprised at how sad I feel about his passing -- it's like a part of my childhood died with him.
RIP Thin White Duke.
Posted by: Dancing Queen at January 11, 2016 11:31 PM (aNrvT)
.....
Russia should be in this mix also
Posted by: jake at January 11, 2016 11:31 PM (HLUeE)
Posted by: CaliGirl at January 11, 2016 11:31 PM (egOGm)
The Overlord hires people who know football....
Posted by: Hillbillyking at January 11, 2016 11:31 PM (tW3yD)
The guy who left town with all the money and left you holding an empty bag when the music stops.
Posted by: Chinwendu Whitecrest at January 11, 2016 11:32 PM (j6Mlw)
Posted by: jake at January 11, 2016 11:32 PM (HLUeE)
And who is Ponzi?
Posted by: BurtTC
****
Arthur Ponzirelli?
Posted by: Tilikum Moderately Nefarious Killer Whale at January 11, 2016 11:32 PM (hVdx9)
Posted by: torquewrench at January 11, 2016 11:32 PM (noWW6)
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler... Trump/Camacho 2016! at January 11, 2016 11:32 PM (0OG8D)
Huh I didn't know "Let's Dance" was a David Bowie song
https://youtu.be/N4d7Wp9kKjA
Posted by: chemjeff at January 11, 2016 11:25 PM (uZNvH)
That's the thing about his work -- he "Zigged" one way to set-up or popularize a scene, then zagged another way and let everyone else own that scene. He didn't create songs or albums so much as he created genres.
Posted by: cthulhu at January 11, 2016 11:33 PM (EzgxV)
Bowie was everything Warhol wanted to be, but you know, an actual artist.
Posted by: garrett at January 11, 2016 11:33 PM (b99VK)
Haha yeah that's a great one.
Brett, I don't think we are going to get paid to have sex?
Why not?
Because we never get paid or have sex...
Another great one is Part Time Model
Posted by: Lauren at January 11, 2016 11:33 PM (LzzEz)
---
Texas, or Iran. Saudis are driving down the price of crude to force Iran to sell at a loss.
Posted by: Chinwendu Whitecrest at January 11, 2016 11:30 PM (j6Mlw)
Methinks the Saudis have bigger fish to fry than Texas.
Posted by: Blano at January 11, 2016 11:33 PM (C3E0x)
It's Monday night, 20 minutes or so to midnight on the east coast and most of the 4th quarter is yet to be played. Yes, I know ESPN has to get in a metric tonne of commercials. But you know what? The lawn I want you to get off of is the one I'm looking at in the morning after being thankful I got a decent night's sleep.
Move this game to a better night, and for Heaven's sake, the poor guys on the SEC Network who looked miserable taking calls from random people during the game looked miserable.
Posted by: Vendette at January 11, 2016 11:33 PM (v3nFE)
Posted by: Grump928(C) pollutes you thread with football at January 11, 2016 11:34 PM (rwI+c)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKRMNUm9fcY
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at January 11, 2016 11:34 PM (6FqZa)
But not that damned Laughing Gnome.
https://youtu.be/5SQdBxVjZx4
Posted by: VKI at January 11, 2016 11:34 PM (qySNZ)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 11, 2016 11:34 PM (011nl)
Posted by: Grump928(C) pollutes you thread with football at January 11, 2016 11:34 PM (rwI+c)
Posted by: Burn the Witch at January 11, 2016 11:34 PM (Wckf4)
Posted by: garrett at January 11, 2016 11:35 PM (b99VK)
I feel the same way. I'm an 80's kid myself, so that time period is where I first really paid attention to Bowie. My favorite song of his, though, is Young Americans...I should say favorite solo, because Under Pressure is one song I still turn up when it comes on the radio...even if I'm playing it on the radio myself.
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at January 11, 2016 11:35 PM (rJUlF)
Canadian ones, no less.
Posted by: torquewrench at January 11, 2016 11:32 PM (noWW6)
It's almost as though they know they're protected. We need to off a few, just to teach 'em respect.
Rather like Muslims in that respect.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at January 11, 2016 11:35 PM (oKE6c)
Yeah, I thought that was pretty remarkable. He had basically stopped making music for 10 years and just lived quietly with his family, but when he was diagnosed he wanted to leave one last message.
Posted by: Lauren at January 11, 2016 11:36 PM (LzzEz)
Posted by: Grump928(C) pollutes you thread with football at January 11, 2016 11:36 PM (rwI+c)
Posted by: Dancing Queen at January 11, 2016 11:31 PM (aNrvT)
Probably my favorite Bowie music was his funky period in the late 70s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRD0ghlFSgk
Posted by: rickl at January 11, 2016 11:36 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 11, 2016 11:36 PM (voOPb)
Posted by: Grump928(C) pollutes you thread with football at January 11, 2016 11:36 PM (rwI+c)
Exactly what I said: "Hands of a D back."
Kinda like "a face for radio."
Posted by: Jay Guevara at January 11, 2016 11:37 PM (oKE6c)
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PDP-10, I assume.
My first contact with DEC was a PDP-5.
Then, there was the time spent with a couple of PDP-8S's. The 'S' suffix denotes 'Serial'. The ALU handled things two bits at a time. Fetch a bit, add a bit, etc.
It was slow as Christmas. The upside was that the machines were located on the Agnes Scott campus, so surrounded by lovely Southern Belles.
Also, the article didn't bother to mention Pl/1. I do so here, because I can. Also, it gives me props among the Obscure Language User crowd.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 11, 2016 11:37 PM (n22zQ)
Had Al Gore not been tagged with Bill's Assault Weapon Ban he wouldn't have lost both West Virginia and his home state of Tennessee in 2000, either of which, had he won, would have made the Florida recount moot.
This cycle it will rule up the base in the ten or so Deep Blue states that already have strict gun control laws and be a loser everywhere else.
Posted by: Ignoramus at January 11, 2016 11:37 PM (rs5De)
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at January 11, 2016 11:38 PM (rJUlF)
Posted by: Lauren at January 11, 2016 11:38 PM (LzzEz)
imagine, a 20 year old rock star taking the time with this articulate letter.
Posted by: musical jolly chimp at January 11, 2016 11:38 PM (WTSFk)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 11, 2016 11:38 PM (011nl)
Posted by: Jay Guevara at January 11, 2016 11:37 PM (oKE6c)
Hey! I resemble that remark!
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at January 11, 2016 11:38 PM (rJUlF)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQzWNemeUw0
Always loved this cover.
And it was how I knew Bowie was alright.
Posted by: garrett at January 11, 2016 11:39 PM (b99VK)
Posted by: tu3031 at January 11, 2016 11:40 PM (EDYaR)
Those geese knew where the boundaries were, knew where the shooting stations were, knew the range of a 12ga shotgun, and would do that stay high and then do that steep, circling descent like the military does into hot airstrips.
Posted by: Chinwendu Whitecrest at January 11, 2016 11:40 PM (j6Mlw)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 11, 2016 11:40 PM (011nl)
Posted by: Burn the Witch at January 11, 2016 11:40 PM (Wckf4)
Posted by: musical jolly chimp at January 11, 2016 11:40 PM (WTSFk)
Posted by: Hillbillyking at January 11, 2016 11:40 PM (tW3yD)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 11, 2016 11:40 PM (voOPb)
Posted by: Jay Guevara at January 11, 2016 11:40 PM (oKE6c)
Posted by: andycanuck at January 11, 2016 11:40 PM (DLIIY)
I hope fervently that things don't get bad enough to resort to shooting. Much rather see a political solution to our problem.
Already seen enough combat to not care to repeat the experience.
BUT if such comes to pass, I mean to show somebody what "their worst nightmare" REALLY means.
Posted by: irongrampa at January 11, 2016 11:40 PM (jeCnD)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 11, 2016 11:41 PM (ODxAs)
Posted by: Fox2! at January 11, 2016 11:41 PM (brIR5)
Posted by: redc1c4 at January 11, 2016 11:41 PM (G1F7B)
Posted by: All Teh Meh at January 11, 2016 11:41 PM (wEq+O)
Posted by: Grump928(C) pollutes you thread with football at January 11, 2016 11:42 PM (rwI+c)
Posted by: Hillbillyking at January 11, 2016 11:42 PM (tW3yD)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 11, 2016 11:42 PM (voOPb)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 11, 2016 11:42 PM (n22zQ)
Posted by: musical jolly chimp at January 11, 2016 11:42 PM (WTSFk)
Definitly an intersting... and naughty... way to transfer data between cyborgs (one of whom has nekomimi)...
Posted by: The Pandora Hat at January 11, 2016 11:42 PM (vBeA5)
Posted by: Aviator at January 11, 2016 11:43 PM (c7vUv)
Posted by: Grump928(C) pollutes you thread with football at January 11, 2016 11:43 PM (rwI+c)
Posted by: Misanthropic
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I'll only be surprised if Sean Penn isn't an honored guest.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 11, 2016 11:43 PM (n22zQ)
Posted by: musical jolly chimp at January 11, 2016 11:43 PM (WTSFk)
Posted by: Burn the Witch at January 11, 2016 11:44 PM (Wckf4)
Thanks for the tip. I'll have to go back and watch more of their stuff.
But not tonight. I'll have to get up earlier than usual tomorrow. I spent a full half hour this morning trying to get my frozen car door open. I sprayed a half a can of WD-40 on it (which has worked in the past) - it didn't work. I was pulling on the stupid door and it wasn't budging and then I asked this guy walking past for help. Bless him, he opened it - but he had to tug on it for a half minute or so and he was a big dude, so I know it wasn't just me being a wimp.
So I have to budget extra time in the morning until it's not so bitterly cold.
Posted by: Donna&&&&V (a white) (whitely brandishing ampersand privilege ) at January 11, 2016 11:44 PM (P8951)
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler... Trump/Camacho 2016! at January 11, 2016 11:44 PM (0OG8D)
Posted by: All Teh Meh at January 11, 2016 11:45 PM (wEq+O)
Posted by: musical jolly chimp at January 11, 2016 11:43 PM (WTSFk)
You.
I will meet you in the mosh pit!
Posted by: The Hat of Spades at January 11, 2016 11:45 PM (vBeA5)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 11, 2016 11:42 PM (voOPb)
Probably only a couple people with two heads. Other than that...
Posted by: Jay Guevara at January 11, 2016 11:45 PM (oKE6c)
Remember how they kept failing on socialized health care? (Like, Hillary?) Then, suddenly, here we are.
Speaking of which, Stilton Jarlsberg's daughter's horror story, on Hope 'n Change today:
http://bit.ly/1Rjdwv5
Posted by: mindful webworker - stay healthy! at January 11, 2016 11:45 PM (ACs58)
Posted by: Jay Guevara at January 11, 2016 11:46 PM (oKE6c)
Ya know I hadn't either. I had heard of "Motorhead" but didn't know any of their stuff or him. Just completely outside my window of conscience.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 11, 2016 11:46 PM (011nl)
Posted by: Burn the Witch at January 11, 2016 11:46 PM (Wckf4)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 11, 2016 11:47 PM (ODxAs)
Posted by: musical jolly chimp at January 11, 2016 11:43 PM (WTSFk)
Me either 'til the Horde started crying over his demise.
Posted by: Blano at January 11, 2016 11:47 PM (C3E0x)
Well, Michelle is sitting it out, so we're spared the scary monsters
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at January 11, 2016 11:47 PM (6FqZa)
Posted by: Jean at January 11, 2016 11:48 PM (eug7P)
May be about right. The real Murphy went to Columbia pretty late in the Escobar story. Ruger brought out the SP in 1989.
I may get one before Obumbo decides I shouldn't.
Posted by: the littl shyning man at January 11, 2016 11:48 PM (U6f54)
hmmmm
I have not pondered the term 'butt-hole surfers' since the 80's
I assumed they were rude surfers, now in the age of Big Homo ....they didn't seem gay, who knows
Posted by: jake at January 11, 2016 11:28 PM (HLUeE)
IIRC, the reference was to a noteworthy practice of the Vietnamese 'boat people' who were flooding into the US at the time. They were used to more primitive "hole-in-the-ground" toilets [ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKkryfdtMNQ ], but were ending up in supermarkets and office buildings where there were American-style raised toilets.
Not knowing what to do, and not having the time to ask, they would use these new devices as they had used their previous ones.....standing on the seat. Got the job done, and away they went. Problem is, a lot of those toilet seats weren't as steady as the concrete whatzit in the video and might shift a bit.
This created the phenomenon of "toilet-surfing" with the occasional "wipeout". From there to "butthole surfing" is a minor semantic shift.
Posted by: cthulhu at January 11, 2016 11:48 PM (EzgxV)
Posted by: Donna&&&&V
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Coat the door seals with a *very* light coat of plumber's grease, or lard.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 11, 2016 11:48 PM (n22zQ)
Posted by: Burn the Witch at January 11, 2016 11:46 PM (Wckf4)
I bet the phrase "titty tackling" passed Saban's lips. I can hear my late coach now. "Wrap up his legs! Don't titty tackle!!"
Posted by: Jay Guevara at January 11, 2016 11:48 PM (oKE6c)
Posted by: Burn the Witch at January 11, 2016 11:48 PM (Wckf4)
Posted by: Al Gore at January 11, 2016 11:48 PM (b99VK)
Posted by: musical jolly chimp at January 11, 2016 11:43 PM (WTSFk)
Here you go.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBIa0o36pPo
Posted by: rickl at January 11, 2016 11:49 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 11, 2016 11:49 PM (011nl)
Posted by: tu3031 at January 11, 2016 11:49 PM (EDYaR)
Only the ones with good taste in music.
Posted by: garrett at January 11, 2016 11:50 PM (b99VK)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at January 11, 2016 11:50 PM (6FqZa)
So, young David Jones decided to take the name Bowie, after James Bowie and his famous knife.
His son Christopher Zowie Bowie grew up to become an acclaimed artsy-fartsy independent filmmaker, and he took back the name Jones to become Christopher Jones.
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler... Trump/Camacho 2016! at January 11, 2016 11:51 PM (0OG8D)
Probably dates to around 1938.
Posted by: the littl shyning man at January 11, 2016 11:51 PM (U6f54)
Posted by: American Buff Goose. at January 11, 2016 11:51 PM (MgcKq)
I've watched the video, posted here and elsewhere since he died, and I can't place it. The song is not familiar.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 11, 2016 11:51 PM (011nl)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at January 11, 2016 11:52 PM (89T5c)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 11, 2016 11:52 PM (ODxAs)
Posted by: musical jolly chimp at January 11, 2016 11:52 PM (WTSFk)
It's about stone sculpted busts of Mars, Hermes, St. George, and Midici... whoa re pop idols... in Japan...
The busts aren't the only ones in Japan who are stoned...
Posted by: The Stoned Hat at January 11, 2016 11:54 PM (vBeA5)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVoZhTP-GOQ
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at January 11, 2016 11:54 PM (6FqZa)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 11, 2016 11:54 PM (011nl)
Posted by: Burn the Witch at January 11, 2016 11:54 PM (Wckf4)
The immigrants still do that. My friend used to work in a toothpaste plant and she told me the Asians left feet marks on the toilet and would put the used toilet paper on the ground. It was gross. They put up signs in Laotian or Vietnamese to stop doing it.
Posted by: CaliGirl at January 11, 2016 11:54 PM (egOGm)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 11, 2016 11:54 PM (voOPb)
Posted by: tu3031 at January 11, 2016 11:55 PM (EDYaR)
Posted by: musical jolly chimp at January 11, 2016 11:52 PM (WTSFk)
The late Jack Bruce was the best of the trio. Clapton was the worst.
Posted by: Disraeli's Hat at January 11, 2016 11:56 PM (vBeA5)
Labyrinth Soundtrack - As The World Falls Down
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VppuD1St8Ec
Posted by: kbdabear at January 11, 2016 11:57 PM (GHeql)
(Christ smiles: Dig my world!)
Young Americans, Life on Mars, Heroes - finished listening. Not all that familiar with Bowie's catalog, so, thanks for the suggestions, Horde.
Time to sail home.
Good night, Gracies!
Posted by: mindful webworker - tomorrow beckons at January 11, 2016 11:58 PM (ACs58)
Cheers to the Horde!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 11, 2016 11:58 PM (L2co/)
The immigrants still do that. My friend used to work in a toothpaste plant and she told me the Asians left feet marks on the toilet and would put the used toilet paper on the ground. It was gross. They put up signs in Laotian or Vietnamese to stop doing it.
Posted by: CaliGirl at January 11, 2016 11:54 PM (egOGm)
It was worse in the late unlamented USSR, where even in nominally four-star hotels they had the hole in the ground, but ... let's say the Reds could have used a bombsight.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at January 11, 2016 11:59 PM (oKE6c)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 12, 2016 12:00 AM (ODxAs)
See, now you're just trolling us.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 12, 2016 12:00 AM (011nl)
He ends up befriending a nice girl who jumps in front of a bus to save his life and finds herself sort of stuck in a limbo state between life and death as a result.
It's on Netflix, so check it out! It's really good!
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler... Trump/Camacho 2016! at January 12, 2016 12:00 AM (0OG8D)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 12, 2016 12:00 AM (ODxAs)
Posted by: musical jolly chimp at January 12, 2016 12:01 AM (WTSFk)
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/686608167493603328
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/686608368698523648
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/686608531173277696
Posted by: kbdabear at January 12, 2016 12:01 AM (GHeql)
Posted by: Captain Whitebread
Ice Ice Baby.
Posted by: Vanilla Wafer at January 12, 2016 12:01 AM (cq3QL)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 12, 2016 12:02 AM (011nl)
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/686608697401950208
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/686608849420349441
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/686608990424416256
Posted by: kbdabear at January 12, 2016 12:03 AM (GHeql)
Posted by: eman at January 12, 2016 12:03 AM (MQEz6)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 12, 2016 12:03 AM (011nl)
Posted by: redc1c4 at January 12, 2016 12:03 AM (G1F7B)
Posted by: Burn the Witch at January 12, 2016 12:04 AM (Wckf4)
Posted by: Grump928(C) pollutes you thread with football at January 12, 2016 12:05 AM (rwI+c)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 12, 2016 12:05 AM (ODxAs)
Yea, Alabama! Drown 'em Tide!
Every 'Bama man's behind you,
Hit your stride.
Go teach the Bulldogs to behave,
Send the Yellow Jackets to a watery grave.
And if a man starts to weaken,
That's a shame!
For Bama's pluck and grit have
Writ her name in Crimson flame.
Fight on, fight on, fight on men!
Remember the Rose Bowl, we'll win then.
Go, roll to victory,
Hit your stride,
You're Dixie's football pride,
Crimson Tide, Roll Tide, Roll Tide!!
Posted by: Grump928(C) pollutes you thread with football at January 12, 2016 12:05 AM (rwI+c)
plant and she told me the Asians left feet marks on the toilet and would
put the used toilet paper on the ground. It was gross. They put up
signs in Laotian or Vietnamese to stop doing it."
A friend in Silicon Valley sent me a smartphone snapshot of an onsite gym changing room at Cisco Systems, with a xeroxed message from Cisco security taped to the wall, reminding the H-1B coolie-coder employees to not drop deuces on the floor of the shower.
Posted by: torquewrench at January 12, 2016 12:06 AM (noWW6)
Use the other door and watch out for the goose.
Posted by: Jinx the Cat at January 12, 2016 12:06 AM (l3vZN)
Posted by: andycanuck at January 12, 2016 12:06 AM (DLIIY)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVoZhTP-GOQ
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at January 11, 2016 11:54 PM (6FqZa)
Wow, that is cool.
Posted by: rickl at January 12, 2016 12:07 AM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Grump928(C) pollutes you thread with football at January 12, 2016 12:05 AM (rwI+c)
WOOT!
Posted by: AmeriDan at January 12, 2016 12:07 AM (cq3QL)
Posted by: Grump928(C) pollutes you thread with football at January 12, 2016 12:05 AM (rwI+c)
It was. Good strategic decision: nobody expected an onside kick that early in the game.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at January 12, 2016 12:08 AM (oKE6c)
Posted by: chemjeff at January 12, 2016 12:08 AM (uZNvH)
Posted by: Jay Guevara at January 12, 2016 12:08 AM (oKE6c)
Posted by: Blanco Basura at January 12, 2016 12:09 AM (YJmuy)
Posted by: tu3031 at January 12, 2016 12:09 AM (EDYaR)
Posted by: Jay Guevara at January 12, 2016 12:09 AM (oKE6c)
Posted by: Grump928(C) pollutes you thread with football at January 12, 2016 12:10 AM (rwI+c)
Posted by: Del Griffith at January 12, 2016 12:10 AM (c7vUv)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 12, 2016 12:10 AM (oFSUK)
I'll eat my hat.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 12, 2016 12:10 AM (011nl)
Posted by: Grump928(C) pollutes you thread with football at January 12, 2016 12:11 AM (rwI+c)
Posted by: eman at January 12, 2016 12:11 AM (MQEz6)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 12, 2016 12:11 AM (oFSUK)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 12, 2016 12:11 AM (011nl)
Posted by: Grump928(C) pollutes you thread with football at January 12, 2016 12:11 AM (rwI+c)
Posted by: Lauren at January 12, 2016 12:11 AM (LzzEz)
Posted by: Blano at January 12, 2016 12:11 AM (C3E0x)
Posted by: All Teh Meh at January 12, 2016 12:12 AM (wEq+O)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 12, 2016 12:12 AM (voOPb)
Posted by: Ignoramus at January 12, 2016 12:12 AM (rs5De)
Posted by: Grump928(C) pollutes you thread with football at January 12, 2016 12:13 AM (rwI+c)
Posted by: eman at January 12, 2016 12:13 AM (MQEz6)
imagine, a 20 year old rock star taking the time with this articulate letter.
Posted by: musical jolly chimp at January 11, 2016 11:38 PM (WTSFk)
Yes I think that letter may have been featured on an ONT at some point.
It really is a very nice, personal letter that gives you a bit of insight into Bowie as a young man. And the typos and corrections show that Bowie typed it himself.
http://www.lettersofnote.com/2009/12/my-real-name-is-david-jones.html
Posted by: Maetenloch at January 12, 2016 12:13 AM (wqVD1)
Posted by: Burn the Witch at January 12, 2016 12:14 AM (Wckf4)
Posted by: Grump928(C) pollutes you thread with football at January 12, 2016 12:13 AM (rwI+c)
Yep. An amazing high. Still, it must be weird to peak at age 21, and know the rest of your life will be downhill.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at January 12, 2016 12:14 AM (oKE6c)
I'm as wrung out as a sponge.
Posted by: Grump928(C) pollutes you thread with football at January 12, 2016 12:14 AM (rwI+c)
Last nite NFL network reran Vikings choke. I went to bed with a
onmynface Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 12, 2016 12:14 AM (voOPb)
Posted by: Grump928(C) pollutes you thread with football at January 12, 2016 12:15 AM (rwI+c)
Posted by: Ginger Baker at January 12, 2016 12:15 AM (ntObR)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 12, 2016 12:15 AM (011nl)
Hat, just kidding. :-)
(I have in my movie collection a documentary, "Beware of Mr. Baker." Not a nice guy from what I've seen and read.)
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 12, 2016 12:16 AM (ntObR)
Posted by: Grump928(C) pollutes you thread with football at January 12, 2016 12:16 AM (rwI+c)
Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2016 12:16 AM (b99VK)
Posted by: Burn the Witch at January 12, 2016 12:14 AM (Wckf4)
I love to see good sportsmanship between opponents.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at January 12, 2016 12:16 AM (oKE6c)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 12, 2016 12:16 AM (011nl)
LOL.. we has a 10 gauge 3.5 inch chambered AYA SxS...
some oil guy in Texas bought it custom, took it hunting once, and then put it away.
we bought it from dawsonsdoubles.com he has neat shit, and is a good guy to do business with.
Posted by: redc1c4 at January 12, 2016 12:16 AM (G1F7B)
Who's next I wonder?????
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 12, 2016 12:17 AM (ntObR)
.................
a real life drill instructor that played a drill instructor in Full Metal Jacket
Posted by: jake at January 11, 2016 11:06 PM (HLUeE)
And a Gunnery Sergeant in Hamburger Hill, AND a helo pilot in Apocalypse Now
did a lot of movie consulting, too. Was brought in to FMJ to help add realism for the Boot Camp scenes. Decided he could to a better job and convinced Kubrick to give him the role after he swore like a DI for 15 full minutes without repeating himself. The actor originally slated for Hartmann ended up as the Door Gunner. You know - "If they run, they're Vc. If they stand still, they're a well-disciplined VC. What a bout women and children? "Easy, you don't lead 'em as much"
Posted by: Jeff Weimer at January 12, 2016 12:17 AM (E1IKf)
Who's next I wonder?????
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 12, 2016 12:17 AM (ntObR) "***
Phrasing!
Posted by: Stevie Wonder at January 12, 2016 12:18 AM (Wckf4)
Clemson and Watson are the real deal. Probably see them back next year.
...
with a Polish squib kicker
Posted by: redc1c4 at January 12, 2016 12:18 AM (G1F7B)
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at January 12, 2016 12:18 AM (hlMPp)
Yep. An amazing high. Still, it must be weird to peak at age 21, and know the rest of your life will be downhill.
Posted by: Jay Guevara
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You learn to live with it.
Posted by: Lindsay Lohan at January 12, 2016 12:18 AM (gQfxF)
Posted by: Dickie Betts fan at January 12, 2016 12:19 AM (aUQgu)
- Peter Sellers.
- R. Lee Ermey.
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 12, 2016 12:19 AM (ntObR)
add realism for the Boot Camp scenes. Decided he could to a better job
and convinced Kubrick to give him the role after he swore like a DI for
15 full minutes without repeating himself.
I've read that onlookers were throwing oranges (IIRC) at Ermey when he was reciting his rant audtioning for the part - and he didn't bat an eyelash, or repeat himself.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at January 12, 2016 12:19 AM (oKE6c)
Posted by: eleven at January 12, 2016 12:20 AM (qUNWi)
The laundromat had a public restroom forexactly two days after I bought it.
Gotta lotta Indios and folks from Central America in the area. They wipe their asses and throw the maculature either in a trash can or on the floor.
I asked a Tex-Mex neighbor about putting up a sign in Spanish.
"Shit," he told me, "If they don't know how to use a fuckin' toilet, there's no hope. Illiterate peasants, anyway."
Ended up closing the whole thing off completely.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at January 12, 2016 12:21 AM (lutOX)
I'll say this. Spent a year in Alabama one time. Great state and people. Never saw a sister get humped.
Just sayin'.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 12, 2016 12:21 AM (011nl)
429 Well, so far 2016 has been absolutely sucky for music. First Natalie Cole, now Bowie.
Who's next I wonder?????
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 12, 2016 12:17 AM (ntObR)
Ringo?
Elton?
Paul?
Mick?
Keith Richards is too pickled and smoked to actually die.
Posted by: eman at January 12, 2016 12:21 AM (MQEz6)
Posted by: Jeff Weimer at January 12, 2016 12:17 AM (E1IKf)
Really? Totally missed that. Guess I'll have to rematch those parts.
Oh, he also took a shit out front on the lawn by the mailbox while reading a newspaper.
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at January 12, 2016 12:21 AM (hlMPp)
Posted by: Jay Guevara
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You learn to live with it.
Posted by: Lindsay Lohan at January 12, 2016 12:18 AM (gQfxF)
Let's hope Jack copes with it better than you.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at January 12, 2016 12:21 AM (oKE6c)
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at January 12, 2016 12:22 AM (dvuhZ)
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 12, 2016 12:22 AM (ntObR)
Onside kicks can work when they're least expected. Remember New Orleans opening the second half in that Super Bowl
Posted by: Ignoramus at January 12, 2016 12:22 AM (rs5De)
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at January 12, 2016 12:21 AM (hlMPp)
Would that be the White House lawn, by any chance?
Posted by: Jay Guevara at January 12, 2016 12:22 AM (oKE6c)
Posted by: Grump928(C) pollutes you thread with football at January 12, 2016 12:22 AM (rwI+c)
Posted by: Stevie Wonder at January 12, 2016 12:22 AM (Wckf4)
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at January 12, 2016 12:23 AM (hlMPp)
Posted by: eleven at January 12, 2016 12:23 AM (qUNWi)
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 12, 2016 12:23 AM (ntObR)
Haha. That's where my sister and brother in law live. Should I expect a new niece or nephew?
Posted by: Lauren at January 12, 2016 12:23 AM (bYGAR)
Posted by: eleven at January 12, 2016 12:24 AM (qUNWi)
And not that I'm looking forward to Paul kicking off, but I'd like to see the movie "Let It Be" eventually. Supposedly McCartney won't let it ever be re-released in any format, because he's embarrassed at how it depicts him.
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 12, 2016 12:24 AM (ntObR)
I saw some study once where the spread between "surprise" onside kicks and the other was huge, something like 75% to 10% success rate. (not actual numbers)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 12, 2016 12:25 AM (ODxAs)
Just sayin'.
...
shot down in flames, eh?
Posted by: redc1c4 at January 12, 2016 12:25 AM (G1F7B)
All is right with the world tonight. Tomorrow, not so much I'm sure.
Posted by: Grump928(C) pollutes you thread with football at January 12, 2016 12:25 AM (rwI+c)
Hat, was just kidding around/being an asshole earlier with my sock comment. I'll apologize if need be. Come on back bud!!!!!!
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 12, 2016 12:25 AM (ntObR)
Would that be the White House lawn, by any chance?
Posted by: Jay Guevara at January 12, 2016 12:22 AM (oKE6c
Wishful thinking. And I wouldn't put it past him.
The scene is in Saving Silverman.
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at January 12, 2016 12:26 AM (hlMPp)
Reagan was Pres in 1987.
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 12, 2016 12:23 AM (ntObR)
Ah. I was hoping that this could have been filed under "current events."
Posted by: Jay Guevara at January 12, 2016 12:26 AM (oKE6c)
I want a name when I lose.
They call Alabama the Crimson Tide
Call me Deacon Blue.
Posted by: eleven at January 12, 2016 12:26 AM (qUNWi)
Well, you should always act surprised. Good taste and all.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 12, 2016 12:26 AM (011nl)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 12, 2016 12:26 AM (ODxAs)
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 12, 2016 12:27 AM (ntObR)
Posted by: Blano at January 12, 2016 12:28 AM (C3E0x)
Posted by: Lauren at January 12, 2016 12:28 AM (bYGAR)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 12, 2016 12:28 AM (011nl)
Posted by: eleven at January 12, 2016 12:28 AM (qUNWi)
Posted by: Grump928(C) pollutes you thread with football at January 12, 2016 12:28 AM (rwI+c)
**Top 5 Businesses to Invest In Post-SMOD**
5. Zombie Lobby
4. Femurs R Us
3. Amazon (the river not the online store)
2. Lena Dunham's Dildo World
1. We'llBuryEmCheap.com
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 12, 2016 12:28 AM (ntObR)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at January 12, 2016 12:29 AM (lutOX)
I agree with the many above who said Bowie kept changing, being unique. That says a lot about a musician in this day and aqe of milquetoast musicians and formulaic music. I also agree that he wasn't preachy like so many airhead artistes (looking at you Bono, et.al.).
Thanks for the memories, David.
Posted by: RickZ at January 12, 2016 12:30 AM (Ix+HS)
couldn't recall where i read that bowie letter. here? well, that makes sense, source of many interesting oddments.
many thanks!
Posted by: musical jolly chimp at January 12, 2016 12:30 AM (WTSFk)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 12, 2016 12:30 AM (011nl)
Who's next I wonder?????
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 12, 2016 12:17 AM (ntObR)
Stevie?
Most of the musicians/bands I like are getting up there. For example bill woman just released a solo LP. He's 79'
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 12, 2016 12:31 AM (voOPb)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 12, 2016 12:31 AM (011nl)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 12, 2016 12:32 AM (voOPb)
I also like "Ashes to Ashes" and "Fashion" a lot, both from the "Scary Monsters" album. Also, both IMHO were ahead of their time; recorded in 1979, but sound like they could have come out in 1985.
There's a brand new dance, but I don't know its name
The people from bad homes do again and again
It's big and it's bad, full of tension and fear
They're doing it over there, but they don't do it here...
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 12, 2016 12:33 AM (ntObR)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 12, 2016 12:33 AM (voOPb)
Posted by: Grump928(C) pollutes you thread with football at January 12, 2016 12:34 AM (rwI+c)
And not that I'm looking forward to Paul kicking off, but I'd like
to see the movie "Let It Be" eventually. Supposedly McCartney won't let
it ever be re-released in any format, because he's embarrassed at how it
depicts him.
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 12, 2016 12:24 AM
You've not seen Let It Be????!!!
Posted by: otho at January 12, 2016 12:34 AM (EWg9n)
Posted by: Jeff Weimer at January 12, 2016 12:17 AM (E1IKf)
Really? Totally missed that. Guess I'll have to rematch those parts.
Oh, he also took a shit out front on the lawn by the mailbox while reading a newspaper.
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at January 12, 2016 12:21 AM (hlMPp)
I'm sorry, it was The Boys in Company C, not Hamburger Hill. It get the two mixed up sometimes.
Posted by: Jeff Weimer at January 12, 2016 12:34 AM (E1IKf)
Old, *bad* condition VHS copies of it are going for a king's ransom at Amazon, so I've seen.
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 12, 2016 12:35 AM (ntObR)
Posted by: buzzion at January 12, 2016 12:35 AM (zt+N6)
**Top 5 Businesses to Invest In Post-SMOD**
5. Zombie Lobby
4. Femurs R Us
3. Amazon (the river not the online store)
2. Lena Dunham's Dildo World
1. We'llBuryEmCheap.com
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 12, 2016 12:28 AM (ntObR)
***
Fuck that noise.
I'm trying to figure out how to set up Bartertown.
It'll be like a flea market before SMOD - La Pulcha Malo Gringo.
And afterward? I'll be a cross between Master-Blaster and the Collector.....
And the first Warrior from the Wastelands, the first "Raggedy Man," who comes along, gets snuffed, but quick.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at January 12, 2016 12:35 AM (lutOX)
Posted by: redc1c4 at January 12, 2016 12:35 AM (G1F7B)
429 Well, so far 2016 has been absolutely sucky for music. First Natalie Cole, now Bowie.
Who's next I wonder?????
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 12, 2016 12:17 AM (ntObR)
Ringo?
441
429 Well, so far 2016 has been absolutely sucky for music. First Natalie Cole, now Bowie.
Who's next I wonder?????
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 12, 2016 12:17 AM (ntObR)
Ringo?
Elton?
Paul?
Mick?
Keith Richards is too pickled and smoked to actually die.
Posted by: eman at January 12, 2016 12:21 AM (MQEz6)
441
429 Well, so far 2016 has been absolutely sucky for music. First Natalie Cole, now Bowie.
Who's next I wonder?????
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 12, 2016 12:17 AM (ntObR)
Ringo?
Elton?
Paul?
Mick?
Keith Richards is too pickled and smoked to actually die.
Posted by: eman at January 12, 2016 12:21 AM (MQEz6)
There are some who say that Keith actually did die in the early 70s, but managed to reanimate his corpse as a lich.
Elton?
Paul?
Mick?
Keith Richards is too pickled and smoked to actually die.
Posted by: eman at January 12, 2016 12:21 AM (MQEz6)
Posted by: cthulhu at January 12, 2016 12:35 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: Blano at January 12, 2016 12:35 AM (C3E0x)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 12, 2016 12:36 AM (ODxAs)
Looking up businesses/prices.
What fuckery is still going on that has 7.62x54r steel case ar .44 per round.
(Yes, I know all the BS going on but dammit these prices are stupid.)
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at January 12, 2016 12:36 AM (hlMPp)
And not that I'm looking forward to Paul kicking off, but I'd like to see the movie "Let It Be" eventually. Supposedly McCartney won't let it ever be re-released in any format, because he's embarrassed at how it depicts him.
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 12, 2016 12:24 AM (ntObR)
Pete Best will outlive them all.
Posted by: buzzion at January 12, 2016 12:36 AM (zt+N6)
Posted by: Jeff Weimer at January 12, 2016 12:36 AM (E1IKf)
Posted by: Jack Bruck at January 12, 2016 12:37 AM (V+C3K)
"Shit," he told me, "If they don't know how to use a fuckin' toilet, there's no hope. Illiterate peasants, anyway."
Ended up closing the whole thing off completely.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at January 12, 2016 12:21 AM (lutOX)
It's very common in Central America, even in high-class homes, to have both undersize waste pipes, compared to North American standards, and also septic tanks that cannot handle TP very well. So a basket, lined with a plastic bag, is provided for the used TP. Most new construction, and hotels/resorts catering to Norteamericanos, have adopted better plumbing, but it can be very expensive to retrofit an older home, with waste pipes in the concrete slab, with both larger waste pipes, and larger-capacity septic tanks.
I am in Nicaragua right now, and that is the norm here, but I also saw it in Costa Rica decades ago. Takes a little getting used to, but it doesn't have to be gross. Most of the Nicas I have met are pretty fastidious about personal cleanliness. And dress well, if they can afford to.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 12, 2016 12:37 AM (L2co/)
Just sayin'.
...
shot down in flames, eh?
Posted by: redc1c4 at January 12, 2016 12:25 AM (G1F7B)
Been to Alabama once, for a scientific conference at the University of Alabama.
I was shocked at how quickly I drove through the counties there...
Posted by: The Drivin' hat at January 12, 2016 12:38 AM (vBeA5)
Damn straight.
And no, I won't put out my fuckin' cigarette. I don't care what the doctor said.
Posted by: Ginger Baker at January 12, 2016 12:38 AM (ntObR)
$30.60
And with that, I bid you all goodnight.
Posted by: Blano at January 12, 2016 12:35 AM (C3E0x)
***
Four years ago, I came within a hair's breadth of selling everything, buying a travel trailer, and taking a gig in the shale patch down here.
Glad as Hell I didn't.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at January 12, 2016 12:39 AM (lutOX)
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 12, 2016 12:39 AM (ntObR)
Hat, was just kidding around/being an asshole earlier with my sock comment. I'll apologize if need be. Come on back bud!!!!!!
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 12, 2016 12:25 AM (ntObR)
This is the ONT. While one can be serious, one should never treat the ONT as serious.
Posted by: Why so serious... at January 12, 2016 12:39 AM (vBeA5)
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 12, 2016 12:41 AM (ntObR)
Posted by: The Candy Hat at January 12, 2016 12:41 AM (vBeA5)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at January 12, 2016 12:42 AM (VdICR)
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 12, 2016 12:42 AM (ntObR)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 12, 2016 12:37 AM (L2co/)
***
Yes.
Emma Lazarus had it right - "the wretched refuse."
Sorry, but I moved to Texas and I've seen that there's a world of difference between Tex-Mex, or even Mexicanos mojados, and folks from a bit farther south.
Even the illegal Mexicans don't like the Central Americans.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at January 12, 2016 12:42 AM (lutOX)
i'm tired of all the wonderful additions to our culture that the illegal immigrants bring us.
if you can't figure out basic human hygiene, how plumbing w*rks, and that things are different in different places, keep your ignorant third world ass home, and i'll stay my gringo ass here, so i don't pollute your glorious culture with silly notions of sanitation and disease prevention.
(them, not your Canuckistanian self)
Posted by: redc1c4 at January 12, 2016 12:42 AM (G1F7B)
In a 20 mile radius there are approximately 6 frac sand processing plants. Lot of mining going on in 50 mile radius. There were dump trucks rolling 24/7. Trains travelling all throughout the night. It's all but rolled up & lights shut off.
Oil has to be about $64 barrel for frac to be profitable
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 12, 2016 12:43 AM (voOPb)
"Young Americans"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Y7i_3Fgu3E
"Let's Dance"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktdQiODWt84
"Modern Love"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwrTlUWvo3c
Posted by: exdem13 at January 12, 2016 12:43 AM (ry4ab)
He says you don't want to ask the light-skinned Mexis what they think of their darker-skinned brethren down south.
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 12, 2016 12:43 AM (ntObR)
Worst roads in America. Like Zimbabwe roads.
No lights at night.
Birmingham is huge and the roads were even worse there.
Was glad to leave Bama.
Posted by: eleven at January 12, 2016 12:45 AM (qUNWi)
Just finished watching the first episode of "Dagashi Kashi". A son of a
candymaker want to draw manga, but the heiress of a candy company wants
his father to join her company... but he will only do so on the
condition that the son agrees to inheret the candy store. Also, love
triangles are being hinted at.
--------------
I watched that one myself earlier tonight. It's a bit thin, but the laughs come early and often, and one can learn many things about Japanese snack food. I understand the boy's desire to go to the city and become a mangaka. His home town hardly has room for a single horse.
Posted by: exdem13 at January 12, 2016 12:46 AM (ry4ab)
Posted by: Sasquatch the Original trans-Wookie at January 12, 2016 12:47 AM (HsR2j)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at January 12, 2016 12:42 AM (lutOX)
And Central Americans despise Mexicans.
Posted by: The Central Hat at January 12, 2016 12:47 AM (vBeA5)
scariest part was Baton Rouge, on the I-10, Caturday night...
born raised in Lost Angels, used to drive repo, and i was a tad worried.
Bama boy, who's car i was driving at the time, about shit himself...
he wanted off the road: i wanted to get away from them.
obviously, we made it.
Posted by: redc1c4 at January 12, 2016 12:48 AM (G1F7B)
Posted by: eleven at January 12, 2016 12:49 AM (qUNWi)
scariest part was Baton Rouge, on the I-10, Caturday night...
born raised in Lost Angels, used to drive repo, and i was a tad worried.
Bama boy, who's car i was driving at the time, about shit himself...
he wanted off the road: i wanted to get away from them.
obviously, we made it.
Posted by: redc1c4 at January 12, 2016 12:48 AM (G1F7B)
Bad area?
Never, ever get off the main road.
Posted by: The South-Central Hat at January 12, 2016 12:49 AM (vBeA5)
Old, *bad* condition VHS copies of it are going for a king's ransom at Amazon, so I've seen.
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 12, 2016 12:35 AM
Hmmmm... never released on dvd? That's odd. I don't know why McCartney would get his knickers in a twist over the film, though there is the public perception that he's a martinet in it and he does seem precious about the subject. In the film, he's the one trying to hold it all together and get shit done while the others are fading away. The key moments are between McCartney and Harrison. Harrison is at least trying and working and McCartney has some *exchanges* with him over arrangements and whatnot. But, he's the only one that seems like McCartney could discuss stuff with, so it gets a bit testy. He has a bit of a rant at Lennon IIRC, but Lennon is barely listening. Lennon is mostly disinterested in the proceedings and Ringo obviously couldn't give a shit anymore and it shows.
Posted by: otho at January 12, 2016 12:51 AM (EWg9n)
Birdy num-num.
Posted by: andycanuck at January 12, 2016 12:52 AM (DLIIY)
...
we've got counties here in #Failifornia bigger than some so-called states.
Posted by: redc1c4 at January 12, 2016 12:52 AM (G1F7B)
We have a new cycle low in WTI oil tonight.
$30.60
And with that, I bid you all goodnight.
------------------
Saudis are trying to get us to like them again.
That and half of Ohio has no job or has one and is getting punished by taxes and cost of living, so no one drives anywhere if they can help it. It's the Obummer economic miracle, lowering the cost of gas by making sure everyone fills up three times a month.
Posted by: exdem13 at January 12, 2016 12:52 AM (ry4ab)
Posted by: Silvester at January 12, 2016 12:53 AM (V+C3K)
Like Beatles music, some of the guys first solo works. Not so much after that.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 12, 2016 12:54 AM (voOPb)
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler... Trump/Camacho 2016! at January 12, 2016 12:54 AM (0OG8D)
the most exciting part was crossing the river.
i thought he was going to give birth.
;-)
Posted by: redc1c4 at January 12, 2016 12:54 AM (G1F7B)
Posted by: eleven at January 12, 2016 12:55 AM (qUNWi)
Posted by: All Teh Meh at January 12, 2016 12:56 AM (wEq+O)
What does la pulcha mean? The mal gringo I comprende.
Posted by: CaliGirl at January 12, 2016 12:56 AM (egOGm)
Protip: even Mexicans don't like other Mexicans much.
NorCal sees horrific bouts of violence between groups of Mexican illegals who originated in different parts of MX. Most of this never makes the news. Bodies just disappear. Cops find parking lots full of huge puddles of human blood at four in the morning.
Posted by: torquewrench at January 12, 2016 12:56 AM (noWW6)
WI has 72 counties. Poorest one is Menomnie County. Of course it's an Indian Rez
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 12, 2016 12:57 AM (voOPb)
I know the supposedly (in)famous scene in Let It Be, besides the January 1969 Apple rooftop concert, is McCartney saying to Harrison words to the effect of "let me show you how to play this thing..."
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 12, 2016 12:57 AM (ntObR)
Absolutely incredible quality re-pressings.
Cleanest sounding and quietest Beatles LPs I have ever owned.
Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2016 12:58 AM (b99VK)
there's a world of difference between Tex-Mex, or even Mexicanos
mojados, and folks from a bit farther south.
Even the illegal Mexicans don't like the Central Americans.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at January 12, 2016 12:42 AM (lutOX)
I don't think there are many Nicaraguans or Costa Ricans amongst the flood of illegals entering the USA, are there? Nicas going to Costa Rica to work as unskilled labor has been a thing since the 1980's at least. Aren't the worst dregs coming into the USA the MS13 crowd from El Salvador?
Saw a billboard today in Managua advertising Winchester arms in a gun shop on the Masaya highway. And there was a murder nearby today or yesterday. Some guy got beaten to death and thrown in a ditch near Diriomo, which is about 20 km from me as the buzzard flies, and about 40 km by road. Right on the Pan-American Highway it is. TV showed his beaten corpse in living color, too; nothing pixellated. Commentary said it was probably drug-related; gang-banger vendetta. I feel pretty safe where I am; it's not "on the way" from Point A to Point B, so no transients, and enough miles of bad road to discourage casual snoopers.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 12, 2016 12:59 AM (L2co/)
Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2016 01:00 AM (b99VK)
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 12, 2016 01:00 AM (ntObR)
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 12, 2016 01:01 AM (ntObR)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at January 12, 2016 12:42 AM (lutOX)
And Central Americans despise Mexicans.
Posted by: The Central Hat at January 12, 2016 12:47 AM (vBeA5)
***
It's funny - people think the native Redneck (i.e., Anglo-Saxon/German) population here are racists. But they're not. There's been a blending here in Texas, in the best cases, of cultures and peoples and families with the Mexicans and the Nortenos and them. As such, we "anglos" end up adopting the prejudices of our neighbors and friend and relatives - I've no doubt my two daughters and sons - half Polish Jew from yours truly, half Louisiana gator-bait from their mother - will end up marrying people with quite a few doubled consonants and an unhealthy profusion of vowels in their family names. But this is Texas, this is how it works. This is how we end up with families named "Friesenhahn" with first names like "Eduardo" and "Maria."
Everybody, but everybody, hates the folks from Central America. A lot of it is the whole self-hating Mestizo thing, I'm sure.... But still, there's a difference.
Remember that "surge" of "unaccompanied minors" here in Texas? Yeah, still going on. And almost all of them are just about the most worthless lot we've seen yet.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at January 12, 2016 01:01 AM (lutOX)
in fact, when i enter a restaurant, i go check out the latrine before i ask for a seat...
if there are shit catchers in the stalls, i leave, no matter how great their reputation.
if the hired help can't follow basic sanitary hygiene, or management won't enforce it, i figure their food handling is just as shoddy, not to mention they likely don't wash their hands, or anything else.
Hep A, Hep C, worms, food poisoning, ulcerative colitis, etc....
yeah, i'll pass
Posted by: redc1c4 at January 12, 2016 01:01 AM (G1F7B)
A couple of days ago I noted that the price of oil originally started falling because of oversupply, and that's okay, but what's scary is that now it's falling further because of slack demand.
And that's not okay, because a degree of oil use is implicitly built into just about everything that's bought or sold. So when oil demand slumps, that's a great big flashing red recession warning indicator.
Posted by: torquewrench at January 12, 2016 01:02 AM (noWW6)
In fact, I believe the cops set up command in the house directly behind me.
I never knew a thing until today.
Accounts differ on the ending, but dude ended up shot at least once in the leg, and a K9 dog is dead. Turns out, the guy is the Sig Sauer specialist at a local gun shop.
Long article at pilot online dot com if you care to read about it.
Posted by: Lindsay Lohan at January 12, 2016 01:02 AM (gQfxF)
Posted by: Chi at January 12, 2016 01:03 AM (gQfxF)
What does la pulcha mean? The mal gringo I comprende.
Posted by: CaliGirl at January 12, 2016 12:56 AM (egOGm)
Tex-Mex for "flea market."
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at January 12, 2016 01:03 AM (lutOX)
otho, interesting. But yeah, I've read that around 2010 McCartney wanted
to have it released on blu-ray... then he watched it again, and
suddenly completely changed his mind and nixed the whole thing.
I know the supposedly (in)famous scene in Let It Be, besides the
January 1969 Apple rooftop concert, is McCartney saying to Harrison
words to the effect of "let me show you how to play this thing..."
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 12, 2016 12:57 AM
Yeah, I suspect that he's being overly self concious and precious about what people think of him. I think he comes off pretty good in the film, really... knowing the process. SOMEBODY has to make sure shit gets done. You can't all be like... "Meh, whatever" and pick your noses. Also, the stuff McCartney was advising Harrison about was not fundamentally different to what they'd always done, when arranging their own songs. It's just that it was caught on camera for the first time and looks terribly awkward.
Posted by: otho at January 12, 2016 01:04 AM (EWg9n)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 12, 2016 01:05 AM (voOPb)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 12, 2016 01:05 AM (voOPb)
...
we've got counties here in #Failifornia bigger than some so-called states.
Posted by: redc1c4 at January 12, 2016 12:52 AM (G1F7B)
There is one spot on the highway between Whitehall and Twin Bridges, Montana, where you are in three counties in under a mile. Road crosses the point of a wedge, I guess. Silver Star county gets about a quarter-miles of highway. You can see the one country sign from the other.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 12, 2016 01:05 AM (L2co/)
Posted by: chemjeff at January 12, 2016 01:07 AM (uZNvH)
they declared a sanctuary city here, and invited in all sorts of illegals/refugees.
the kids took to the streets, aped the local mexican and black gangs, then took it to eleven.
the rest is history.
Posted by: redc1c4 at January 12, 2016 01:07 AM (G1F7B)
The difference? Money and class. They've got money and education, or are at least "decent" by local, largely Baptist standards? They're "Spanish."
They get drunk every day and live in run-down colonias? "Mexican," even to the Gutierrez's.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at January 12, 2016 01:08 AM (lutOX)
Posted by: SMFH at January 12, 2016 01:09 AM (ahx2/)
Posted by: CaliGirl at January 12, 2016 01:10 AM (egOGm)
Posted by: chemjeff at January 12, 2016 01:10 AM (uZNvH)
Posted by: CaliGirl at January 12, 2016 01:11 AM (egOGm)
she remembers "pig privies." Look it up sometime if you're not planning to eat for a while, and are curious why Asia accounts for such nasty strains of influenza.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at January 12, 2016 01:11 AM (lutOX)
Posted by: Steck at January 12, 2016 01:12 AM (ht/89)
Posted by: CaliGirl at January 12, 2016 01:11 AM (egOGm)
***
you have my condolences and sympathy. Austin had a near-riot when the Salvadorenos started getting pushy at the Home Depot.
Mexicans beat the shit out of them....
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at January 12, 2016 01:13 AM (lutOX)
Posted by: All Teh Meh at January 12, 2016 12:56 AM (wEq+O)
Yeah I was wondering the same thing when it came out. You had all these pre-release rants about it being all "GIRL POWER!" and Mad Max is just a secondary character. But then I'm seeing people here that actually went and saw it saying that it was really good.
Its to the point that those that bitch and moan about some "GIRL POWER!" in a movie where some chick is able to beat up men is far more annoying to me than it being in the movie itself.
Posted by: buzzion at January 12, 2016 01:14 AM (zt+N6)
Posted by: Steck at January 12, 2016 01:12 AM (ht/89)
***
Was in Seguin - don't judge me. It was a nasty divorce......
In Austin, more or less. Got my field HQ in Elgin.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at January 12, 2016 01:16 AM (lutOX)
When I saw that movie in the theaters, at the end I was clapping and rooting out loud for the execution drugs. I don't think the Manhattan crowd was too pleased as that was the 'serious' moment of the movie, full of the poignancy of 'Poncelot's' remorse. All I got out of that movie is that death row inmates lie right up until they're in the hot seat or on the gurney, and sometimes, not even then. I also thought the Christ-like crucifixion on the tilted gurney was way over the top, and totally a Hollywood 'lethal injection' to tug at one's heartstrings, which failed in my case (gurneys are not tilted up for those last words).
Posted by: RickZ at January 12, 2016 01:16 AM (Ix+HS)
Posted by: SMFH
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Not a thing. Of course this played out a good 1000 feet from me.
I even hear the occasional gunshots in the distance, but nothing last night. Would've been about this time of morning, too, I think.
Posted by: Chi at January 12, 2016 01:17 AM (gQfxF)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0YLiDG2a44
Posted by: MikeD at January 12, 2016 01:19 AM (uKJIC)
Posted by: otho at January 12, 2016 01:19 AM (EWg9n)
Posted by: SMFH at January 12, 2016 01:19 AM (ahx2/)
I once got in trouble during a screening of the original 1976 "Carrie" when I started rooting out loud for the... 'treatment' her mom (Piper Laurie) gets at the end of the film.
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 12, 2016 01:20 AM (ntObR)
Met my first-ever "Beaner-Schnitzel" - half-Tex-Mex, half Texas German - a towering giant of a guy named for a Persian Emperor and who is commonly mistaken for an Arab.
He speaks standard Texas English, but, get him liquored up, and he holds forth in the most amazing dialect of Low German.
Only in Texas.....
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at January 12, 2016 01:20 AM (lutOX)
Nicas do love their beef, and there are many good restaurants that serve steaks and filets that are fine.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 12, 2016 01:22 AM (L2co/)
Posted by: Northernlurker, muzungo at January 12, 2016 01:23 AM (3Erz4)
As for Third-Worlder-ism...the future Empress was a child when she left Vietnam....
she remembers "pig privies." Look it up sometime if you're not
planning to eat for a while, and are curious why Asia accounts for such
nasty strains of influenza.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at January 12, 2016 01:11 AM (lutOX)
553
As for Third-Worlder-ism...the future Empress was a child when she left Vietnam....
she remembers "pig privies." Look it up sometime if you're not
planning to eat for a while, and are curious why Asia accounts for such
nasty strains of influenza.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at January 12, 2016 01:11 AM (lutOX)
I suspect this is something like a friend of an ex experienced doing missionary work. Staying at a place, being called to dinner, hitting the bathroom first and being mildly amused by the fish chasing his poop in the running water of the latrine.....then coming in and being served a grilled example of the same species of fish.....
Posted by: cthulhu at January 12, 2016 01:24 AM (EzgxV)
The $4 a gallon gasoline, the $11 per gallon milk, the sunburns, the hobos.
It's all bad, just stay home.
Posted by: navybrat at January 12, 2016 01:25 AM (8QGte)
malaria tablets. Probably inside a dirty sock but I'm tempted to get a
little worried.
Posted by: Northernlurker, muzungo at January 12, 2016 01:23 AM (3Erz4)
Well, if all else fails, drink lots of gin and tonic. Quinine in tonic water wards off the parasite.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 12, 2016 01:26 AM (L2co/)
Think Mecha... during an alien invasion... from the POV of East Germany in the 1980's....
Posted by: Schwarzehatten at January 12, 2016 01:27 AM (vBeA5)
Packing to change locations and I can't find my
malaria tablets. Probably inside a dirty sock but I'm tempted to get a
little worried.
Posted by: Northernlurker, muzungo at January 12, 2016 01:23 AM (3Erz4)
Well, if all else fails, drink lots of gin and tonic. Quinine in tonic water wards off the parasite.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 12, 2016 01:26 AM (L2co/)
Gin helps you forget to worry about it.
Posted by: cthulhu at January 12, 2016 01:27 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: cthulhu at January 12, 2016 01:27 AM (EzgxV)
Synergy!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 12, 2016 01:28 AM (L2co/)
About Southern California being basically walled off and colonized... by space aliens no one can see.
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 12, 2016 01:30 AM (ntObR)
Gin helps you forget to worry about it.
Posted by: cthulhu at January 12, 2016 01:27 AM (EzgxV)
Synergy!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 12, 2016 01:28 AM (L2co/)
You betcher ass....
I've never been to Nicaragua, but I've been to Honduras. Interesting area. Nice people. Government isn't worth a bucket of runny shit....like most places.
Are you staying near anything interesting? Will you have any free time to check it out?
Posted by: cthulhu at January 12, 2016 01:34 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 12, 2016 01:30 AM (ntObR)
BFD, it's already full of aliens that Democrats can't see.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 12, 2016 01:35 AM (L2co/)
Posted by: biancaneve at January 12, 2016 01:36 AM (e98eb)
The category of things George Lucas did better than JJ Abrams is tiny. But the sense of wildness and maximum exotic weirdness was a button he pushed pretty well. I used John Carter as an example of that, but that is an unpopular movie.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at January 12, 2016 01:36 AM (VdICR)
Posted by: Alana at January 12, 2016 01:37 AM (EL2nq)
Question for the techie types - I have two co-axial cable outlets in my
house and want to have somebody snake the cable into a few more rooms so
I can move the router to a different room and install a tv in another
bedroom. Should I upgrade to something better than co-axial? What are
the cool kids doing these days?
Posted by: biancaneve at January 12, 2016 01:36 AM (e98eb)
CAT6. Coax cable stuff is more rare each passing day.
Posted by: cthulhu at January 12, 2016 01:39 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: cthulhu at January 12, 2016 01:39 AM (EzgxV)
Chulhu's got a point here. CAT5 is the current industry standard, but CAT6 will ensure that you're ahead of the curve as technology keeps improving. It's a bit more expensive, but if you're going to stay where you are for a while, I'd go with it.
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at January 12, 2016 01:41 AM (J+mig)
Posted by: goon at January 12, 2016 01:44 AM (gy5kE)
Posted by: biancaneve at January 12, 2016 01:46 AM (e98eb)
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 12, 2016 01:50 AM (ntObR)
Honduras. Interesting area. Nice people. Government isn't worth a bucket
of runny shit....like most places.
Are you staying near anything interesting? Will you have any free time to check it out?
Posted by: cthulhu at January 12, 2016 01:34 AM (EzgxV)
The lake that I am on, Laguna de Apoyo, is a volcanic crater lake, and most of it is an ecological preserve. The few private properties, like this one, and grandfathered. It is a tourism destination site. Within an hour or two by road: Volcan Masaya National Park, where you can peer into a smoking crater; Granada, the old colonial capital, dating to the 1500's; the Isletas de Granada, where an old lava flow ran into the big lake, and explosively broke up into blocks, creating hundreds of small islands, all covered by forest, and most now with (expensive) homes on them; Pacific coast beaches, and Chocoyero (sp?) which is a cliff in a lava flow, full of holes, occupied by thousands of green parakeets, which return every day at sundown. Much squawking ensues. Quite something to see. And hear! A famous surfing beach, Playa Gigantes, is about 2-3 hours distant.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 12, 2016 01:51 AM (L2co/)
About Southern California being basically walled off and colonized... by space aliens no one can see.
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 12, 2016 01:30 AM (ntObR)
I'll check it out. But woe to the alien that has to deal with modern L.A.
Posted by: The Angeleno Hat at January 12, 2016 01:54 AM (vBeA5)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 12, 2016 02:00 AM (L2co/)
Thanks, Cthulhu and Cato - I'll look into upgrading the cable.
Depending on cost I may stick with what I have, but I'm glad to know
what's coming next. I've always wondered what's the point of having
fiber-optic up to my house, then the same-old same-old in my walls.
Posted by: biancaneve at January 12, 2016 01:46 AM (e98eb)
Gigabit ethernet will run on CAT5, CAT5e, CAT6, and CAT7 (which I've never seen). I had CAT5 run throughout our house when we bought it 1997, and it's still chuggin' away.
Posted by: cthulhu at January 12, 2016 02:02 AM (EzgxV)
It is : The Absolutely True Story of a Real Programmer Who Never Learned C
http://tinyurl.com/hymrn29
Posted by: goon at January 12, 2016 02:04 AM (gy5kE)
Posted by: Gem at January 12, 2016 02:09 AM (c+gwp)
Posted by: All Teh Meh at January 12, 2016 02:12 AM (wEq+O)
...but I ain't never touched SNOBOL.
Posted by: JEM at January 12, 2016 02:17 AM (o+SC1)
I've never been to Nicaragua, but I've been to
Honduras. Interesting area. Nice people. Government isn't worth a bucket
of runny shit....like most places.
Are you staying near anything interesting? Will you have any free time to check it out?
Posted by: cthulhu at January 12, 2016 01:34 AM (EzgxV)
The
lake that I am on, Laguna de Apoyo, is a volcanic crater lake, and most
of it is an ecological preserve. The few private properties, like this
one, and grandfathered. It is a tourism destination site. Within an hour
or two by road: Volcan Masaya National Park, where you can peer into a
smoking crater; Granada, the old colonial capital, dating to the 1500's;
the Isletas de Granada, where an old lava flow ran into the big lake,
and explosively broke up into blocks, creating hundreds of small
islands, all covered by forest, and most now with (expensive) homes on
them; Pacific coast beaches, and Chocoyero (sp?) which is a cliff in a
lava flow, full of holes, occupied by thousands of green parakeets,
which return every day at sundown. Much squawking ensues. Quite
something to see. And hear! A famous surfing beach, Playa Gigantes, is
about 2-3 hours distant.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 12, 2016 01:51 AM (L2co/)
I think I've actually seen a presentation about Laguna de Apoyo.....and, IIRC, two other lakes nearby, as having a great number of endemic (found nowhere else) cichlid species -- mainly in the genus Amphilophus.
[Looking a bit further, this would make sense, as one of the endemic species -- Amphilophus zaliosus -- was described and named by George Barlow, an ichthyologist associated with my local fish club.]
[Looking further, the other lakes may have been Masaya and Jiloa, with Nicaragua used as a baseline.]
Posted by: cthulhu at January 12, 2016 02:17 AM (EzgxV)
>> time ... now that's news, boys!
It sure as hell is to the guy who's got it.
Posted by: JEM at January 12, 2016 02:20 AM (o+SC1)
Democrats have mastered incrementalism. They are content to move the needle an inch and in ten years see it move a mile.
Republicans don't understand or employ incrementalism. And they will excoriate anyone in their midst (Cruz) who doesn't practice laisse fairre.
Posted by: mikulin at January 12, 2016 02:23 AM (S9isj)
Posted by: Adriane the Chronological Critic ... at January 12, 2016 02:24 AM (AoK0a)
{Looks at candle next to steering wheel, hoping to see it flicker}
Where are the blowhards when you need 'em?
Posted by: RickZ at January 12, 2016 03:23 AM (Ix+HS)
Posted by: cthulhu at January 12, 2016 03:34 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: chemjeff at January 12, 2016 03:36 AM (uZNvH)
Posted by: The Honorable Gov at January 12, 2016 03:41 AM (AoK0a)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVoZhTP-GOQ
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at January 11, 2016 11:54 PM (6FqZa)
Wow, that is cool.
Yes that is good!
Posted by: bill-o at January 12, 2016 03:45 AM (nE/OV)
pretty sure i have to go north of the 14 to find that
Posted by: redc1c4 at January 12, 2016 03:57 AM (G1F7B)
Posted by: redc1c4 at January 12, 2016 04:00 AM (G1F7B)
Here is "Night Eternal" by Moonspell
comlete with bellydance...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7QQKQyVAUg
Posted by: The Belly Hat at January 12, 2016 04:09 AM (vBeA5)
why is that?
Posted by: chemjeff at January 12, 2016 03:36 AM (uZNvH)
Because, even in California, the great American outfitter (whose board is totes proggy-infested)....sells ammo. And even in hoity-toity Silicon Valley, I can slum it there to find stuff cheap.
Posted by: cthulhu at January 12, 2016 04:13 AM (EzgxV)
Can't say I'm a Bowie fan, don't hate him either
Hope that other goose doesn't get rapey
Good morning horde
Posted by: Skip at January 12, 2016 04:16 AM (3ZgzE)
I'm really surprised at how hard Bowie's death hit me. I mean, he's had tons of great songs and I have and enjoy many of his albums (The Berlin Trilogy being my favorites) but celebrity deaths usually don't affect me like this. I wasn't a mega-fan or anything.
But very nice to see the tributes here. And our "local Rush Limbaugh" conservative radio talk-show host did a great show on Bowie yesterday.
But commenters on some righty sites (Breitbart, Gateway Pundit) just disgusted the hell out of me, pissing away on his grave. Some vile, horrible stuff was being posted. For all our vaunted Moron-ishness, AoS has more class than that, and that's a nice thing.
I've always known that he was a hero to a lot of "outsider" kids in the 70s and I've read some touching tributes on the 'nets. Seems he kept more than a few kids from the noose. There's a terrific scene in the movie The Runaways where soon-to-be Runaways lead singer Cherie Currie, a misfit outsider, screws up her courage and dresses up like Bowie to sing "Lady Grinning Soul" at her high school talent show. I think that scene hit pretty close to home for a lot of people.
He was one of a kind all right. Listening to LOW right now. The instrumental "A New Career in a New Town." He didn't even have to sing to be cool.
Posted by: WhatWhatWhat! at January 12, 2016 04:22 AM (HMt16)
Posted by: Skip at January 12, 2016 04:16 AM (3ZgzE)
More like a bullet and 6 oz. of moldy bread.
Posted by: RickZ at January 12, 2016 05:00 AM (Ix+HS)
Posted by: @votermom at January 12, 2016 05:50 AM (pXINW)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GoA_zY6tqQw
Posted by: fluffy at January 12, 2016 05:53 AM (AfsKp)
There's sex and there's when your partner gets pregnant. Those are the two stages. Bill Clinton said so (just kidding).
Posted by: bruce at January 12, 2016 05:54 AM (E7GGp)
Posted by: bruce at January 12, 2016 05:56 AM (E7GGp)
Posted by: Sean Penn at January 12, 2016 06:13 AM (HSmrB)
Posted by: Hillary Clinton at January 12, 2016 06:15 AM (HSmrB)
Posted by: first of 100000 Syrian immigrants at January 12, 2016 06:27 AM (I9EDo)
Posted by: Sean Penn
Ay caramba! When my banditos get you, they grind you into burrito for my herd of chupacabras! El gringo pudenda treacheroso!
Posted by: El Chapo at January 12, 2016 06:33 AM (I9EDo)
Posted by: teapartydoc at January 12, 2016 06:36 AM (hWHqx)
Posted by: El Chapo at January 12, 2016 06:41 AM (I9EDo)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 12, 2016 06:42 AM (ptqRm)
Posted by: CaliGirl
Now it's ziggy stardust to ziggy stardust.
Posted by: Cranmer 1662 Book of Common Prayer at January 12, 2016 06:45 AM (I9EDo)
Well said.
Posted by: otho at January 11, 2016 10:30 PM (EWg9n)
I think it was the Nirvana cover where Bowie said he couldn't believe Nirvana was playing him, like he was incredibly flattered. That's a good dude, who looks at rockers 20 or 30 years behind his astronomical success and says "They're really talented and it's an honor that they'd credit me with influence."
Fav song? Off the top of my head, on the downside I'll say Life on Mars?, on the upside Modern Love, and for the wildcard TVC15.
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