Can't even shout, Can't even cry. The Gentlemen are coming by. Looking in windows, knocking on doors. They need to take seven, and they might take yours. Can't call to mom, can't say a word. You're gonna die screaming but you won't be heard.

Dream Girl ,'Bring On The Night'


Natter 61*  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


DavidS - Sep 25, 2008 11:47:44 am PDT #584 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

I'd love to lunch with y'all, and I promise it wouldn't all be Wire chat.

Actually, I've been meaning to recommend the latest issue of Oxford American to you. It's a return to New Orleans post-Katrina issue and there's a fantastic piece in it by a buy who's teaching in the 9th Ward post-flood. It goes into great detail on Li'l Wayne and the whole thing is so very Wire S4. But NOLA-style.


tommyrot - Sep 25, 2008 11:48:37 am PDT #585 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

$1,800 power cord costs about $1,795 too much

Well, if you've got any sense in your head whatsoever you don't need little old me to tell you that there's absolutely nothing that could make a simple power cord worth $1,800. But let's face it: the Furutech Powerflux power cord clearly isn't aimed at people with sense in their head. It's aimed at people so rich that they've given up thinking, allowing their almost limitless supply of money to go to any snake oil salesman with a good enough pitch. And what a pitch!


DavidS - Sep 25, 2008 11:48:48 am PDT #586 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Leif and I might have brats instead of chicken though, we both like brats and we have two that need to get used soon.

Beat on the Brats!


amych - Sep 25, 2008 11:49:06 am PDT #587 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

Gah! I fuckeded up! Something that I thought was an "is this possible" turned to be a, you know, actual plan on the other person's part, and now boss is all "but why didn't I hear anything about this" and Gah!! Gah!! Gah!!


erikaj - Sep 25, 2008 11:52:02 am PDT #588 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!

Cool...there's going to be a show like that. Which I'm mad excited about, even considering having to wait for the discs to come out. DS got Wendell Pierce and Clarke Peters back for it. It's gonna be about musicians,iirc.


DavidS - Sep 25, 2008 11:53:16 am PDT #589 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Your boss didn't hear about it because of their passive and ambiguous phrasing?

Why Baseball Is Fun, Part 983:

Rookie hazing isn't quite the same when a team loses - the atmosphere is a little less fun and some of the more veteran players always look miffed that there are hijinx going on after a loss, especially like the 14-4 drubbing Oakland absorbed on Wednesday.

There are so many first-year players, though, that they outnumbered the veterans. Alan Embree, one of the suspected costume providers, said that 17 of the A's dressed up in various items of women's clothing on Wednesday.

I'll try to link to some AP photos (see below) when they're available. I know AP's photographer was in the hallway outside the clubhouse, so perhaps there will be visuals of Greg Smith in a skimpy candy-striped nurses outfit (which he wore with great poise) or Dana Eveland in a tight police woman's costume, complete with handcuffs. Carlos Gonzalez got a sailor dress with ribbons on his stockings, and Gio Gonzalez had a Swiss-miss style dress, with ribbons in his hair. Sean Gallagher: French maid. Ryan Sweeney: devil girl. (He ditched the wig, though.)

My personal favorite, however, has to be beanpole reliever Jerry Blevins as Harry Potter's Hermione Granger. So wrong it's right.

The team's youngsters must wear the costumes on the plane to Seattle and into the team hotel. In some years, they're then paraded elsewhere in public.

I asked Aaron Cunningham, who is from Washington state, if he might have friends or relatives meeting him in the hotel lobby, and while wearing a very small cocktail dress of some sort and a blue wig, he said, "Oh, I hope so!'' And he meant it, which is probably the right attitude to have. They don't have much choice in the matter: Their regular clothes were all hidden during the game.

Pictures


lisah - Sep 25, 2008 11:54:56 am PDT #590 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate

For real?

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I can't remember, is the Examiner the conservative paper in town? We have an Examiner here and it is run by a total nutjob.


DavidS - Sep 25, 2008 11:56:52 am PDT #591 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

I can't remember, is the Examiner the conservative paper in town?

Yeah, it's always had conservative endorsements. It's (what's left of) Wm. Randolph Hearst's politics.


Steph L. - Sep 25, 2008 11:57:27 am PDT #592 of 10001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

Leif and I might have brats instead of chicken though, we both like brats and we have two that need to get used soon.

Mmmm. The place we're going to dinner tonight has an Oktoberfest menu, and one of the items is a choice of wurst (brat-, mett-, or bier-) on a pretzel roll. I might have to get it.

Except I'm starving and they also have kick-ass bourbon-glazed salmon, which is really appealing right now. t edit Oh, and tonight's special is a 1/2 rack of ribs. Great. Now I can't decide. It is SO hard being me, y'all!


lisah - Sep 25, 2008 11:57:33 am PDT #593 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate

Yeah, it's always had conservative endorsements. It's (what's left of) Wm. Randolph Hearst's politics.

Ah. Okay. I couldn't remember.