January 13, 2005
Memo To The Makers Of The O.C.
Please tell the talent to stop chewing while talking. It doesn't project casual coolness, it's just gross. It doesn't matter how attractive the speaker/chewer is. Mouth sounds are gross, especially when amplified by a 5.1 home theater system.
Also, everybody in the real O.C. is Republican. Even the kids. So have a clue, and stop inserting those snide liberal one-liners into the dialogue.
On the other hand: Peter Gallagher singing? Not bad. Surprisingly good, actually.
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You have to stop watching that show!
Posted by: Scof at January 14, 2005 08:30 AM (+OiAc)
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Peter Gallagher rocks my world!
Posted by: ginger at January 14, 2005 03:09 PM (aTgkr)
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But you keep watching don't you?
Mwa ha ha ha!
T.H.E.
Posted by: the hollywood elitist at January 14, 2005 07:15 PM (cxC7g)
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You are higher than a kite if you enjoyed Gallagher's singing. I like the guy but the singing - yow. Super bad. I thought Allie McBeal was going to show up.
You are dead on about the mumbling talking, particularly with Seth and Ryan.
I know a few millionaires who aren't Republican, but that's NorCal... maybe you're right.
Posted by: Jason Shellen at January 16, 2005 04:52 PM (aV1r0)
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Oh come on, the singing was a riot. He was, actually, the dean-martin-esque guy singing "Memories are made of this" in the Hudsucker Proxy, all those many years ago. Ahh, how far he has come.
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Random New Year's Resolution
via Ginger.
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Bookshelf Meme
Here's a new meme, which i stumbled across at
The Cheese Stands Alone.
"Copy the list from the last person in the chain, delete the names of the authors you don't have on your home library shelves and replace them with names of authors you do have. Bold the replacements."
Not sure if it's a rule, but i'm going to limit my list to fiction authors only.- Ayn Rand
- William Gibson
- Mark Helprin
- Jacqueline Carey
- Jennifer Weiner
- J.R.R. Tolkien
- Jack McDevitt
- Tom Wolfe
- Stephen King
- William Shakespeare
You can check out some other lists at A Likely Story, Llama Butchers, Jenspeaks, and Fire Ant Gazette.
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What? William Gibson writes
fiction?!
;-)
Posted by: Eric at January 13, 2005 08:02 PM (7/FpX)
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What, no Alfred Bester? Shocking...
Posted by: Bob at January 15, 2005 11:52 AM (CzckL)
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Hate Mail
i get hate mail every once in a while. Not too often, thankfully, since i'm a relatively little known blogger. But Michelle Malkin, because she's a published author, television pundit and columnist, who also happens to be beautiful and a filipina American, must get a ton of it. i was shocked to see the number of haters who defaulted to the "w" word, which seems to be the insult of choice whenever an attractive woman gets "uppity."
The letters are pretty disgusting, and i don't know how Michelle deals with all that abuse, but God bless her, she does.
And (if i may be allowed a bit of hypocrisy by doing some name calling of my own): Disgusting Lard Ass Ollie Wills shows his true colors yet again by condoning these racist and mysogynist attacks and even adding a racist slant of his own. i won't link to the fatbody because he is probably the biggest asshole in the blogosphere.
There's a culture of hatred on the fringes of the left that is seldom recognized or denounced. It exists on the right too, but today most conservatives reject that type of extremism vehemently when it appears in our own ranks. i know of examples of such rejection in the blogosphere in the form of public "de-linking." Kevin's criticism of Michael Savage, with which i agree, is another example. But on the left, where Bush hatred and anti-Christian bigotry are so encouraged and mainstream, it must be hard for some people to avoid giving in completely to their own hatred. In the end, the rhetoric of these types becomes as vile as the worst Nazi or Klansman.
B. Preston of JunkYardBlog summarizes the problem best, i think:
It's clear to me that the left has a problem. It is a political movement full of bigots. Anti-Americans at the core, anti-Christians over here, race bludgeons and hucksters over there, leftists who hate everything that isn't absolutely sterilized of all traces of faith over there, a death cult that pushes what amounts to eugenics through unfettered abortion over there, and all ably led by a bunch of potty-mouthed Hollywood elites who wouldn't give a nickel for the country that made them rich. The rank-and-file, the types who send Michelle Malkin racist emails her way on a daily basis and they types who never lift a finger to purge the movement of the racists, are just as bad as the elites. If you weren't, they wouldn't be elites, would they? You make them 'elite' by listening to them and voting for them.
While it's certainly unfair to paint everyone on the left of the political spectrum as a hater, i do wish there were more opprobrium directed at this type of bigotry and hatred from within the left.
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Not to mention the dumbest. He is living proof that there is no link between talent, and the desire to perform.
Posted by: Casca at January 13, 2005 04:15 PM (cdv3B)
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I'm not sure I've ever agreed with Michelle Malkin. On the other hand, I'm just speechless after reading what has been sent her way. It's vile garbage, and I shudder to think that I might share the politics of those who sent it her way.
I'm a white Christian heterosexual male who happens to love country music, Jesus -- and socialist politics. But you see, no one ever calls me a traitor to my people, even though I should be solidly Republican according to those who insist that there is a link between our origins and our worldviews. I'm so sorry that Michelle has to put up with this crap, but I imagine she has developed a remarkably thick skin over the years...
And I cannot imagine anyone sending dear sweet Annika anything other than verbal bouquets.
Posted by: Hugo at January 13, 2005 04:27 PM (VqTF3)
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The Internet is heaven to passive-aggressive types who can blast away at someone without face-to-face confrontation.
When you open your email, scan it for an abusive sentence. If you see one, imediately delete the email without reading it. Life is too short to put up with abusive emails or comments.
Posted by: Jake at January 13, 2005 04:31 PM (r/5D/)
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The more extreme the viewpoint, Annika, the more extreme the rhetoric. Regardless, there ought to be decorum in the Blogosphere, just as in everyday life. Having said that, and having read your post, I find myself recalling John Kerry jumping up on stage to declare Whoopie Goldberg's toilet-mouth diatribe against President Bush during a Democratic Party fund-raiser as being the epitomy of "Family Values" in this country. He unabashedly embraced her and her antics. If he can endorse her egregious public vulgarity and garner 50 million votes, than I suspect Michelle Malkin will continue to be the subject of nasty, off-color emails and "Comments" to her posts. It's a shame, its reprehensible, but it's a commentary on how much some people like to roll around in the pig trough.
Posted by: B.A. Higgins at January 13, 2005 06:41 PM (J5ESh)
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Pretty disgusting. And all this time I thought Malkin was an American. Guess there is different classes of American that Liberals haven't kept me updated on. Who knew?
Posted by: Pursuit at January 13, 2005 06:56 PM (VqIuy)
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No one is more condescending to minorities than liberals, & no one is more enraged by minority conservatives. If Dems aren't the ONLY plantation for po' oppressed darkies, then ... what's left?
Posted by: jeff at January 15, 2005 02:56 PM (GwylJ)
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Michelle Maulkin has written quit a few outstanding articals I have had the pleasure to read. As for the slime that writes such emails- are just what they are slime.
It has come light in the last few years just how tolerant the left is- zilch.
They claim to be teh Black man or womans best friends - but yet they keep them in welfare projects and low income housing.
They cliam to be the womans best friend by aloowing them to kill their babies all in the name of a "RIGHT".
They claim to be "the working mans " party (potty)
but yet increase his taxes so that the elite pay little....
As for the potty mouth morons of Hollywood, as time will go on we will continue to see more and more trash shows and movies come out of it. Already we are seeing the decay in "free" TV with very suggestive secenes in shows and more suggestive commercials all the time.
But look at the bright side of things, they are scared now because they can no longer feed us PROGRAMED NEWS anymore....
Posted by: ikw3804 at January 16, 2005 07:07 AM (SVrtY)
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I'm a white Christian heterosexual male who happens to love country music, Jesus -- and socialist politics.
C'mon Hugo, every time I start to like you you've got to throw a tsumani of frigid water on me! This will give you nightmares but here's the truth:
HILLARY CLINTON WILL NEVER BE PRESIDENT!
;-)
Posted by: Radical Redneck at January 17, 2005 12:48 PM (K44zK)
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Oh, I'll take Obama as president, Gavin Newsom as veep anytime. Hillary can have Health and Human Services.
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January 12, 2005
More Fun With Brad And Jen
You've probably already heard
the rumor that it was Angelina, not Brittany, who allegedly played a role in the first big breakup of 2005.
Sultry Angelina Jolie 'got under' Brad Pitt's skin while they shot a movie together last year, in a sexless but too-tight relationship that 'bothered' Jennifer Aniston, pals say.
. . .
'They did not sleep with each other,' but Pitt 'was obviously taken by Angelina.'
. . .
'He changed,' the source told the mag. 'It might have been slight, but it's noticeable. And Jennifer knew it.'
But Pitt's pals poured water on a steamy report in a British tabloid that Aniston caught the 'Ocean's Twelve' star and Jolie having phone sex, and they insisted he has always been loyal to his 'Friends' wife of 4-1/2 years.
Well, i don't know if anyone should believe those denials. Not with the exclusive evidence i just uncovered. i mean, she's obviously pissed about something.
Seriously, i don't really give a shit why they broke up and i couldn't care less who they're fucking. But i can't pass up the opportunity to work on my photoshopping skills.
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You'll have to teach me how you do that funky speech balloon stuff.
Kevin
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Sex in Kalifornika
Annika did panika
They smoked their marijuanika
and had their erotica
and then their orgasmica
On that beach with Tom Cruzika
and maybe even Veronica
Drinking gin and tonica
Posted by: d-rod at January 13, 2005 03:56 PM (CSRmO)
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d, that is fucking funny.
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D-Rod, that's hilarious.
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Wednesday Is Poetry Day
Here's something a little lighter, for this week. Plus it'll fit within two of my rubrics.
A quick google search revealed that Brittany Spears, besides being a fascinating singer/actress/entertainer/essayist/dancer/amateur physicist/skank, is also a poet. Brittany apparently contacted the proprietors of Tastes Like Chicken, and they agreed to publish some of her very own poetry. Here's a sample:
MOMMY, CAN YOU READ ME A BOOK?
Mommy, will you please read me this book?
It made no sense to me when I gave it a look
It's confusing and weird and it is very scary
I can't make out what it is saying to me... ah, Barry
Oh. I was trying to read a book of stamps.
Never mind.
That's beautiful. i think it, like, really gives us an insight into the close relationship between Brittany and her mom.
Go here to read some even better poems by Brittany.
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There once was a hosehead named Spears,
Who studied Seuss, Rod McKuen, & King Lear,
Her quarter hour done
Before it'd even begun,
Now she opens for Carrot Top at Frontiers
Posted by: jeff at January 12, 2005 03:15 PM (J7J8H)
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Opening for Carrot-Top, one couldn't get any lower than that. Unless one opened for Pauly Shore, i guess.
Posted by: annika at January 12, 2005 04:01 PM (zAOEU)
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Many,
many years ago, I flipped thru a book of gawd-awful poetry in a book store:
Touch Me by Suzanne Somers. It's like comparing crap to shit, but I'd have to say Brittney's are a bit bitter. But 20+ years of trauma might have something to do with that.
Posted by: Victor and his seventeen pet rats at January 13, 2005 06:33 AM (L3qPK)
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A coquettish young harlot named Spears
wrote out her dreams and her fears
though it isn't quite verse,
what is clearly far worse
is that the memory will linger for years....
Posted by: Hugo at January 13, 2005 09:43 AM (VqTF3)
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She fancied herself a new Bard;
I say, it is not in the cards!
The young skank called Brit
Has curiously changing tits,
And viagra won't get her husband hard!
Posted by: Victor at January 13, 2005 10:59 AM (L3qPK)
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• teaches school kids how to promote ecological awareness on television
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There is also an intriguing interview with Captain Ozone at www.captainozone.com
Thank you,
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Exc. Director
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Carnival Of The Poetries
Shakespeare I ain't (a rebellion against talented writing) by Ginger of
Candied Ginger, complete with mysterious picture.
Celebrate the King's birthday with The Thing About Elvis Movies by gcotharn of The End Zone.
Scorebard of Humbug comments on the recent blockbuster baseball moves with I Read the News Today, Oh Boy.
Blog O'DOB lyricizes the CBS fiasco in Joe Lockhart to Barnes to Mapes.
And from a blogger whose every post is like poetry anyway, Tony Pierce, we have "no one home but the stove and thats fixin to go out." Cool.
Anyone know of some others?
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A link! You are a comfort, girl. I found this while unsuccessfully speed-browsing for a poem:
A message from the Thornburgh-Boccardi Report to itself:
'Tell your facts to shut up.'
Posted by Jeff Goldstein(of Protein Wisdom)
Posted by: gcotharn at January 12, 2005 11:14 PM (8LeNF)
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any day i get a link from annika is a great day.
and a compliment on top of it! nice.
hey thank your townsfolk for sending us Vlade. hes been amazing.
Posted by: tony at January 13, 2005 12:49 PM (taWQW)
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i'm a total Laker fan too, Tony. i hate the Kings. Did you see that Sac traded another former Laker and Pepperdine standout Doug Christie? an all around good guy and hugely popular with Kings fans and teammates. People are still grumbling about it up here. Kings fan didn't seem to mind as much about Vlade because i think some folks never forgave him for that infamous "pass" to Horry in the playoffs a few years back.
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January 11, 2005
annieconversations: The Desperate Housewives Chat
Desperate Housewives has become a cultural phenomenon of sorts. So i decided to enlist frequent commenter Casca to help me
goof on analyze last Sunday's episode via IM, since we're both in the same time zone. What follows are the results of that analysis:
more...
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And you said that you wouldn't be able to do anything with our convo. I think it's quite good. Even funnier the second time. But I don't know if I could bring myself to watch another episode.
I thought you'd include the Boston Legal stuff too. What could be better than dissing that nasty old ass, Candy Burgen? It's been all down hill since, The Sand Pebbles.
Posted by: Casca at January 11, 2005 04:38 PM (cdv3B)
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i'd like to compile a running list of Alan Shore's greatest lines. From the season premiere's "And I'm such a slut for authority," to last night's "I keep an exceptionally clean penis."
Posted by: annika at January 11, 2005 04:54 PM (zAOEU)
Posted by: Susanfan1 at May 13, 2005 04:25 PM (ywZa8)
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I just saw a screening of Footballers Wives. It's big in the UK and was done years ago before Desperate Housewives.
It's a new show airing on cable. On bbc america on sunday 7/17! Very addicting and better since it's more steamier than desperate housewives.
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January 10, 2005
Four Fired At CBS
Hallelujah!Asked to resign were Senior Vice President Betsy West, who supervised CBS News primetime programs; 60 Minutes Wednesday Executive Producer Josh Howard; and HowardÂ’s deputy, Senior Broadcast Producer Mary Murphy. The producer of the piece, Mary Mapes, was terminated. [emphasis mine]
Bravo to CBS for investigating itself and releasing the report publicly. Here's an except - something that was obvious the moment Rather opened his trap a few days after the forgeries hit air:
. . . once serious questions were raised, the defense of the segment became more rigid and emphatic, and . . . virtually no attempt was made to determine whether the questions raised had merit
Apparently, CBS News president Andrew Heyward (who should have been fired too) ordered senior VP Betsy West to investigate the authenticity of the forgeries, but for some reason she never got around to it!
'Had this directive been followed promptly, the panel does not believe that 60 Minutes Wednesday would have publicly defended the segment for another 10 days,' the report said.
Here's a link to
the 234 page report, if anyone's interested.
i wonder if the words "blog" or "Powerline" appear anywhere.
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4 more victems of the facist, illigitimate, selected chimpy regime!
Posted by: Um Yeah at January 10, 2005 08:45 AM (95YOf)
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There's actually a rather quaint definition of a "blog" in a footnote on the second page.
Posted by: Anon at January 10, 2005 08:59 AM (yqkDJ)
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Both Powerline and Little Green Footballs were mentioned on page 153.
Posted by: LCVRWC at January 10, 2005 09:08 AM (L3qPK)
Posted by: annika at January 10, 2005 09:17 AM (zAOEU)
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There was no political bias - just the illusion of political bias.
Posted by: d-rod at January 10, 2005 12:27 PM (CSRmO)
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Here's something I find hugely entertaining: if you scoot over to www.cbsmarketwatch.com, their sub-headline to the Memogate story reads "Four staffers and execs lose jobs over story based on faked memo."
Huh? "Faked memos?" That is a CBS website, is it not? And they're calling them "faked?" Uh oh.
In case they decide to change it, I saved a screenshot - just for the record!
Posted by: Dan-O at January 10, 2005 12:53 PM (yMnY4)
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Mary Mapes has been getting away with this crap for a very long time; Rather has as well.
That they both go out in a cloud of distrust and chicanery is fitting and proper.
Betsy West's response to Heyward is classic: "Just hardball the assholes and they'll go away."
Well, guess what? The Blogsphere doesn't go away. To those determined and motivated bloggers who sunk their teeth into Mapes' and Rather's fat asses, a huge tip of the hat. They will cheat no more, and CBS, as it fades into the past, will always bear the weight ot their nefarious deeds.
As Bill Clinton's name will be linked to Monica Lewinsky for all time, so will CBS's demise always bear the sobriquet of Mary Mapes and Dan Rather, R.I.P.
Posted by: shelly at January 11, 2005 12:30 AM (+7VNs)
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Sigh..not properly terminated..
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January 08, 2005
America's Sweetheart Couple Is Kaput
Brad and Jen
have finally split.
i called it months ago. Didn't i call it?
Hollywood's dream couple, Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston, are breaking up after just 4-1/2 years of marriage.
The hunky star of 'Troy' and the most popular of television's 'Friends' now say they'll remain - you guessed it -'friends.'
. . .
'We would like to announce that after seven years together we have decided to formally separate,' they said in a joint statement issued to People Magazine.
'For those who follow these sorts of things, we would like to explain that our separation is not the result of any of the speculation reported by the tabloid media.["]
My own speculation was centered on
a possible Pitt-Spears merger. Of course that was before the Spears-Federline merger, but maybe now that Brad is free, we'll see cracks developing in that "storybook" marriage next.
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You don't mention the possibility of a Spears-Aniston merger. Britney DID kiss Madonna, after all...
Posted by: Ontario Emperor at January 08, 2005 10:14 PM (QcVcB)
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all i can say is goodness...
Posted by: maizzy at January 08, 2005 11:07 PM (NgODS)
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I thought that those two kids would be in it for the long haul. Well, not really - but they did last longer than most Hollywood marriages.
Posted by: Micah at January 09, 2005 10:10 AM (v/oTo)
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I am speculating on the possible Annika-Brad merger.
Posted by: Jake at January 09, 2005 11:22 AM (r/5D/)
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Will Brad Pitt replace grilled cheese and tomato soup as Annika's ultimate comfort food?
The world waits with bated breasts, but I think Annika will quickly discover that Pitt's sweaty nut sac doesn't taste anywhere
near as good as grilled cheese.
(Then again, if I had to choose between my favorite sandwich and a chance to lick perspriation off Jennifer Aniston's mighty cleavage, I might have to forgo the sandwich.)
Kevin
Posted by: Kevin Kim at January 09, 2005 12:34 PM (4uHYC)
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And DAMN if I didn't misspell "perspiration." My three buttocks tremble in humiliation.
Shit.
Kevin
Posted by: Kevin Kim at January 09, 2005 12:36 PM (4uHYC)
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Rumor has it she's barren!
Posted by: Scof at January 09, 2005 04:57 PM (9lWXc)
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Seems Angelina Jolie took time out from her busy schedule of give the Palestinians talking points to talk dirty with the Bradster, with Jen on the other line eavesdropping. And that put Brad-o in the dog house.
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The Comfort Lunch
If today isn't a day for
the comfort lunch, i don't know what is. Dark clouds, cold rain, wind, hangovers, and the unspoken subtext of impending grade announcements have quieted our little house of mirth here in the Big Valley. Times like this call for - no
require - a grilled cheese and tomato soup lunch.
i still remember the afternoon my grandmother (on the German side, the midwestern side) disclosed to me to the secrets of her famous grilled cheese sandwich. She had a big house in the country, with chickens, ducks and bunnies in the back yard, and a big pyramid-shaped strawberry planter in the front.
(A short aside. My grandmother had a vegetable garden too. Besides the usual carrots, cabbage, potatoes, green onions, tomatoes and broccoli, she grew a thing called kohlrabi. It's a relative of the brussels sprout and cabbage family, with a fine German heritage. i must have been about six or seven when she cooked it for me and my brother during one of our weeklong rustic summer holidays (our parents would drop us off to get us out of their hair). i've never had or seen kohlrabi since, but the memory of it is bound tightly with my memories of Grandma and that garden. Now that's a comfort food.)
She also made the best italian salad dressing. But my grandmother's take on the classic grilled cheese was simple, which is as it should be. i've tinkered with it over the years, but the essentials are still there. Assemble these items:
- two slices of sharp cheddar or muenster cheese
- two slices of bread, wheat or white or my favorite: dill rye
- dash of fresh ground pepper
- dash of cayenne pepper
- margarine or butter
- about four thin slices of ham, or bacon
(In a pinch, mayo can be substituted for margarine or butter. Mrs. Dash or another season salt can be substituted for cayenne, if you like.)
It's not about the ingredients, it's about technique.
First spread a thin coat of margarine over one side of each slice of bread. (Grandma always used real butter, of course.) Make sure to spread the margarine out to the edges of the crust. There should be no bare spots. You want the entire side of the bread covered because this will be the side of the bread that gets grilled.
Next lay the bread out, margarine side down, and cover each piece of bread with enough cheese that you can't see any bread underneath. If you're slicing the cheese, it should be medium thickness. Not too thick, but thick enough so some of it will melt out of the sandwich. the cheese will be doing two things here: enveloping the meat, and occasionally dripping onto the grill to create bits of fried cheesy crusty goodness.
Arrange whatever meat you're using on top of one piece of bread. The proper technique at this step is to create air pockets in the meat (if you're using thin sliced ham) for the cheese to melt into. i bunch up the ham into little flowerets to achieve this purpose. The ham should never be laid flat, because that just makes for a boring sandwich.
Now heat a nonstick pan until little drops of water splashed from your fingertips dance happily for a moment before evaporating. Keep the pan on medium heat. This recipe is not recommended for electric stovetops, because temperature control is the key to a perfect grilled cheese sandwich.
You might want to start the soup now. Campbell's tomato soup should be heated to a simmer, but never boiled. i like to add a half can of water only, although the instructions call for a whole can. Sometimes i'll mix in a dash of white pepper, and i garnish it with a sprinkle of dried oregano.
Back to the sandwich: sprinkle fresh ground pepper and cayenne pepper over the slice of bread with cheese on it, then carefully flip that slice over onto the slice with the ham. When the pan is ready, slap the sandwich down onto it making a "thwump" sound. It should immediately start to sizzle. The "thwump" and the sizzle are important; it's part of the whole comfort thing.
Do not leave the stove, while cooking. You need to peek under the sandwich and check its color constantly. A side is done when it's golden brown and speckled, never black. The pan should be hot enough to melt the cheese thoroughly, but not burn the bread. Too low, and you get a soggy sandwich. Too hot and it gets black on the outside before the cheese in the middle melts. Adjust the flame as needed.
Grilling the sandwich right is a slow and loving process. The perfect medium temperature is achieved with practice, when the globs of cheese reach down and begin frying on the pan at the exact moment that the first side is the perfect color, you have mastered the art of the grilled cheese.
After flipping, grill the other side until it's golden color matches the first side. Now for the fun part. Slide that baby onto a plate and, before eating, spread a thin coat of real horseradish (not cream sauce) over one side. Slice diagonally, park yourself on your favorite couch near your favorite coffee table, cuddling in your favorite comfort blanket, flip on the TV tuned to HGTV or some other favorite comfort program, and enjoy with soup.
Update: Here's a switch; i post a recipe, while the multi-talented Candace posts a poem!
Update 2: SWG brings us another grilled comfort food, for Elvis Day.
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Sweet.
I can't really think of a specific comfort food I pull out for official occasions, but I can think of a specific comfort food instance:
5th grade. Football game on a cold, wet, windy, miserable day. We got beat pretty good, and I got into a fight just after the final whistle(totally wasn't my fault!). The opposing coach ran out and body slammed me away from his kid(who I was fighting), and I rolled onto the wet ground(again, for about the 50th time that day).
As I lay in the mud, I was completely cold, wet, muddied, grass-stained, miserable, defeated, adrenalized from the fight, and generally rattled from being body slammed by a full-grown adult-- to the point where the tears were freely flowing.
First, my Mom charged off the sidelines and gave that Coach the what-for. This was notable, as this was not her usual behavior.
Second, when we got home, by the time I got showered and into some dry clothes, she had cooked me a steak(such a treat!), which I enjoyed at the table in our toasy warm kitchen. That was a COMFORTING meal. She was my hero for that day.
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One more thing-- which is the fun thing about memory:
If you've every paid attention to a football fight, you know its hard for either participant to really hurt the other guy, due to the equipment each is wearing.
As I wrote the above, I thought about the brief fight after that 5th grade game. Whether its true or not, in my memory: I WAS KICKING THAT GUY'S ASS!
Posted by: gcotharn at January 08, 2005 11:53 AM (+7VNs)
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Fuck, that's an entire cooking channel episode. My variations are slight. I love Orowheat's Rosemary and Garlic bread. There are real chunks of garlic in it. And, NOTHING, NOTHING, can be substituted for butter.
Kohlrabi? Visit the vegtable section of almost any grocery store.
Posted by: Casca at January 08, 2005 12:43 PM (cdv3B)
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MAN. I just finished dinner and was feeling completely sated 'till I read this. Now I really want a grilled cheese sandwich. THANKS A LOT!
No, seriously, maybe that'll be lunch tomorrow. This recipe looks really good.
Posted by: lorie at January 08, 2005 06:02 PM (kH2V3)
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Are you competing for best food blog?
Posted by: Ontario Emperor at January 08, 2005 10:16 PM (QcVcB)
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That is just perfect!
You've got me salivating for a grilled cheese sandwich and Campbells tomato soup in a big way.
I have to try that sometime. That's the fanciest grilled cheese sandwich I've heard of.
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Oh, even with my cold, I am hungry now...
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January 07, 2005
People Don't Like Her
My hits have more than tripled from people googling for information about Ashley Simpson getting booed at the Orange Bowl. People really don't like her. Of course, her career will go on; the powers that be will continue to force her product on an unwilling public. Just like the WNBA.
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Digs at Ashlee Simpson AND the WNBA in the same post? You get double points for that.
Posted by: Micah at January 07, 2005 08:38 AM (v/oTo)
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She makes me want to scream.
Posted by: Scof at January 07, 2005 08:53 AM (oqUpG)
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HA! I commented about that too! And let's not forget her belching powers! Another case of someone riding the coattails of their famous family members although they should never have been allowed within 100 miles of a recording studio.
Posted by: Serenity at January 07, 2005 10:15 AM (qoFsi)
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Hey, don't dis the WNBA! I happen to like WNBA ball, and in Washington, people actually go to the games!
Posted by: Victor at January 07, 2005 10:35 AM (L3qPK)
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Hey, I was there, booing both Ashley and OU.
Good thing the Trojans upheld the dignity of the Pac 10...UCLA and Cal were nothing to write home about.
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Yes Victor, they're called lesbians.
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January 06, 2005
Watermelon Man Sets Sniper Record
From
USMC.mil:
Sgt. Herbert B. Hancock, chief scout sniper, sniper platoon, 1st Battalion, 23rd Marine Regiment, is credited with the longest confirmed kill in Iraq, hitting enemy terrorists from 1,050 yards in Fallujah Nov. 11, 2004. Hancock, a 35-year-old activated reservist and police officer from Bryan, Texas, has been a Marine Corps sniper since 1992.
Read
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Fashion Disaster Alert
Jennifer skewers haute-couture over at
Demure Thoughts. Good stuff.
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Give It A Rest
Matt Laueur is interviewing Amber Frey...
again?! Dude, if she's worth a half dozen interviews, do ya think you could have mixed in at least one swiftboat veteran interview last year?
For cryin out loud, Laouer just teased yet another segment with Frey and Allred later on in the show. After Kiki interviews Michael More, of course.
This is why i never watch the Today Show.
Update: My God, he's huuuuuge! They're avoiding any long shots that expose the gigantic-ness of his body, but i think his seat is about to collapse.
Update 2: First he explains the Democratic loss by admitting that the Republicans got out the vote better. Then later he complains that Congressional debate about alleged Ohio vote irregularities will be stifled today. Inconsistency? If so, Kiki didn't notice.
Update 3: Tim Graham at The Corner watched it too.
Leftist filmmaker Michael Moore was awarded seven and a half minutes of air time in the 7:30 half hour of ThursdayÂ’s 'Today' show to offer his political analysis of why the Democrats failed to oust Bush. Katie Couric felt that wasnÂ’t enough, so she invited him back an hour later for another eight minutes and forty seconds of air time, or 16 minutes, 10 seconds overall. While Couric tried to suggest that maybe Hollywood liberalism hurt the Democrats (and even noted the 'vitriol...you seem to embody'), she also inaccurately promoted MooreÂ’s latest book as 'new' and 'currently on many bestseller lists' when it came out in October and is ranked #1,547 on Amazon.com.
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God, that man disgusts me. I desperately want to be there when he detonates like Mr. Creosote in
The Meaning of Life.
Posted by: Matt at January 06, 2005 11:56 AM (SIlfx)
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i actually tolerate Moor better than i do Kiki Couric. More has the redeeming qualities of being up front about his partisan bullshit, plus he's occasionally funny and self-effacing. Kiki bugs me because she tries to hide her obvious Democratic bias.
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I think Laueur is trying to get into her pants.
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Kiki,
Just wanting to see how how you are doing since the days of YHS.
Bob Knight
YHS Class of '67
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January 05, 2005
Useless Alias Trivia Blogging
The exterior shot of the tunnel in Rio De Janeiro, where Sidney went to meet Tomazaki with the samurai sword, is actually the tunnel underneath Grand Avenue between the Los Angeles Music Center and the Los Angeles County Courthouse.
Bonus trivia: i think the mausoleum in Moscow, where Sidney's mother is buried, is actually the Westwood Cemetery, where Marilyn Monroe and Natalie Wood are buried.
Can you believe i only lived in LA for one year?
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I hope they tone down the soap-opera type stuff this season. generally a good episode...though when her dad picked her up after stealing the sword there were like a bunch of cops standing 20 ft away...
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Damn, now I wish that I'd have been paying close attention!
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oh my god, how did i miss the part where you're not in LA anymore? my world is so rocked!
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The Smartest President We Ever Had Poll
Here's the final results for the poll. Not much i can say except that there is something wrong with the way we teach American history in this country.
The reason i came up with this poll was because i've heard more than once from Clinton admirers that he's "the smartest president we ever had." That's just silly.
Sure, Bill Clinton is a smart guy. But i was trying to make a point by putting him on the list just above Thomas Jefferson. Besides having written the most important founding document in the history of the world, TJ was also an architect, naturalist, founder of the University of Virginia and designer of its campus and curriculum, Latin and Greek literate, etc. etc. etc.
Yet, inexplicably, 15% of voters thought Thomas Jefferson was not as smart as Bill Clinton. How is that possible? And what about the other presidents whom those 15% also rank lower?
Theodore Roosevelt wrote a four volume history of the American West, a history of the Naval War of 1812, biographies of two American statesmen, and many other books. What has Clinton written? A memoir.
Woodrow Wilson wrote a five volume history of the American people, a biography of George Washington, and an important work on congressional government among many other books. Besides his law degree, he had a Ph.D. in history and political science.
James Madison? Father of the Constitution. Abraham Lincoln? Self-taught, and have you ever read the Lincoln-Douglas debates? Could you imagine language like that coming out of Clinton's mouth?
Who's the smartest president? That's a subject for legitimate debate. But given the competition, Clinton shouldn't make anyone's cut.
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I am really surprized that Richard Nixion is consided smarter than Kennedy considering the intellectual Aurora spread by the MSM.
Posted by: Chuck at January 05, 2005 10:30 PM (R/J3m)
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Unclench your buttocks my dear. Perhaps the results were skewed by an improper question? Should it not have been, "Who was the most intellectually bankrupt"? You've got too many smart guys there who dilute the vote, with only a couple bonafide shitheads.
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Excellent points, annika. If I'm not mistaken, wasn't Clinton a Rhodes Scholar? If so--I think those who voted for The Impeached One were swayed by that.
Posted by: Victor at January 06, 2005 04:42 AM (L3qPK)
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People could watch Clinton on TV, but could perceive Jefferson et al onl through their writings. For those who are not particularly reading-oriented, the more direct experience of TV probably makes a difference.
Herbert Hoover translated books from Latin to English for fun.
Posted by: David Foster at January 06, 2005 06:17 AM (cosES)
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These types of polls become name recognition polls because of the way US history is taught in schools today-not.
Posted by: Jake at January 06, 2005 07:20 AM (r/5D/)
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I think "smart" is very hard to judge. Raw intelligence is not the same thing as being well-educated, nor is it the same thing as having a huge diversity of interests. Jefferson was surely a titan of the enlightenment, a renaissance man; Lincoln a master of rhetoric and of the law (and, if some of his hagiography can be believed, of construction work.)
Did Jefferson have a wider range of interests than Clinton? Undoubtably. Did he have a more original mind? Probably. But was he smarter? I don't know if I can go there.
On the other hand, I've always been partial to Woodrow Wilson myself -- I was one of the five who voted for him. After all, who could be smarter than the only history prof ever to be president?
Posted by: Hugo at January 06, 2005 09:04 AM (VqTF3)
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Polls about Presidents never include James K. Polk. I find that so depressing.
Oh, and I have absolutely no idea who the smartest President was.
Posted by: other Annika at January 06, 2005 09:16 AM (R7iJR)
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I respect Jefferson for his ideas. His actions didn't always live up to them but his ability to reason is something I admire. However in general terms I had to go with JQA as "smartest".
Some of the others - well wilson may have been learned in a sense, but his actions in regards to foreign policy & domestic race relations lead me ot think that his emotions clouded his judgement too much for him to win any intellectual prizes. The idea of picking lincoln is difficult as for someone who was supposed to be intelligent he was damn near constitutionally illiterate. But my fav of all the rejects for the title - clinton.
I don't care what his i.q. is or how many degrees he has there's a word to describe any man who tries to claim that a blowjob isn't sex - asshat. I've seen what happens to people (in my old neighborhood) that tried that. It wasn't pretty. Most women in the south could possibly forgive cheating, but using such a weak ass excuse to try to weasel your way out of it? No, that alone disqualifies him from winning any intelligence contests.
That clinton got almost 5 times the votes that JQA did boggles the mind. I can see some of the other picks getting as many or more votes but clinton the superior of JQA? Only in a twillight zone created by government schools is this possible.
Still; interesting poll. Thanks for posting about it miss Annika.
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During a visit of an esteemed group (Nobel laureates, I think), John F. Kennedy
said the following:
"I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House-with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone."
I don't know that we've necessarily had any dumb Presidents of late. Even the Presidents that are reputed as "dumb" - Gerald Ford and George W Bush - are Ivy League graduates who have been able to admirably respond to adversity.
How does one define "smart" when dealing with a 200+ year period in which the educational system has changed dramatically? My 13 year old daughter has more formal education than Abraham Lincoln, but he was apparently able to function in society and make a living. Lincoln did not have the leisure to pursue a "wide range of interests," but I don't believe he was a dunce.
Clinton is not the only "smart" President to have made a dumb mistake. Nixon neglected to burn the tapes. Wilson was too obstinate to compromise on the League of Nations - perhaps the loss of millions of lives could have been prevented if he had been more flexible. Jefferson himself suffered financial losses late in life.
Posted by: Ontario Emperor at January 06, 2005 12:45 PM (c6rOB)
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Actually Kennedy said that it was the greatest collection of intellect since John Quincy Adams dined alone.
& Other Annika - I'm a Tarheel & I feel your pain.
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Annie:
Are you aware that the state of California requires that ballots randomly mix up the names so that each candidate has his or her name at the top of the ballot on an equal number of ballots?
Now, why do you suppose that is done? Perhaps this might explain why enough folks picked the top name to skew the result.
For me, a guy too stupid to know that you can't get away with that stuff in the White House doesn't even deserve to be on the list.
If you had used the yardstick of "best candidate" or "most clever bullshitter" maybe I'd have voted for the guy, but "smartest", in light of the competition, is insulting to the others, all of whom deserved to be there, including Nixon, who, although demented, was a brilliant scholar, especially in foreign relations. He just had the Kerry disease of not being very likeable.
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Publicola - no, it was TJ.
I read the first few paragraphs of Clinton's autobiography somewhere, I think on Amazon. It was so poorly written - a collection of run-on sentences and unrelated thoughts. It felt like it was dictated.
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If I am correct, James A. Garfield was able to use both his hands and write in two languages at once. His only downfall was that he was assasignated early in his presidency, therefore, it is unknown on what he may have been able to achieve. Also, my own commentary, a President may be intelligent, but if he is in active or allows to be controlled by his emotions, then he will be a poor leader. Futhermore, a great leader does what is right for the country even though he may disagree with it.
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In my personal opinion, it would be a tie between TJ and JQA. I can't believe JQA only received 5%, obviously not enough people have read any biographies about him. BC might have had the best formal education so far, and I can understand why BC received 15% votes.
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Actually, Gwayneb, it was Thomas Jefferson who was able to write in two different languages with two different hands, at the same time.
And Kennedy's quote was concerning Thomas Jefferson.
However, I feel that JQA was the smartest president.
A lot of what we consider intelligence in the presidency is gathered by how their term went, and how their education measures up to our education system of today. In terms of Bill Clinton, more people lived in his administration as compared to JQA's or TJ's. It is more of a poll of recognition. However, when people claim that TJ had so many great accomplishments in his term, it not only due to his intelligence but also because Congress was in support of him. When JQA served as president twenty years later, the Congress was not very supportive of his ideas and therefore he got little done.
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Wednesday Is Poetry Day
Still thinking about the tsunami, the victims, the incomprehensible destruction. So many missing. So many broken lives.
These are the words of Bob Dylan.
Oh, where have you been, my blue-eyed son?
Oh, where have you been, my darling young one?
I've stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains,
I've walked and I've crawled on six crooked highways,
I've stepped in the middle of seven sad forests,
I've been out in front of a dozen dead oceans,
I've been ten thousand miles in the mouth of a graveyard,
And it's a hard, and it's a hard, it's a hard, and it's a hard,
And it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.
Oh, what did you see, my blue-eyed son?
Oh, what did you see, my darling young one?
I saw a newborn baby with wild wolves all around it
I saw a highway of diamonds with nobody on it,
I saw a black branch with blood that kept drippin',
I saw a room full of men with their hammers a-bleedin',
I saw a white ladder all covered with water,
I saw ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken,
I saw guns and sharp swords in the hands of young children,
And it's a hard, and it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard,
And it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.
And what did you hear, my blue-eyed son?
And what did you hear, my darling young one?
I heard the sound of a thunder, it roared out a warnin',
Heard the roar of a wave that could drown the whole world,
Heard one hundred drummers whose hands were a-blazin',
Heard ten thousand whisperin' and nobody listenin',
Heard one person starve, I heard many people laughin',
Heard the song of a poet who died in the gutter,
Heard the sound of a clown who cried in the alley,
And it's a hard, and it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard,
And it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.
Oh, who did you meet, my blue-eyed son?
Who did you meet, my darling young one?
I met a young child beside a dead pony,
I met a white man who walked a black dog,
I met a young woman whose body was burning,
I met a young girl, she gave me a rainbow,
I met one man who was wounded in love,
I met another man who was wounded with hatred,
And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard,
It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.
Oh, what'll you do now, my blue-eyed son?
Oh, what'll you do now, my darling young one?
I'm a-goin' back out 'fore the rain starts a-fallin',
I'll walk to the depths of the deepest black forest,
Where the people are many and their hands are all empty,
Where the pellets of poison are flooding their waters,
Where the home in the valley meets the damp dirty prison,
Where the executioner's face is always well hidden,
Where hunger is ugly, where souls are forgotten,
Where black is the color, where none is the number,
And I'll tell it and think it and speak it and breathe it,
And reflect it from the mountain so all souls can see it,
Then I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinkin',
But I'll know my song well before I start singin',
And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard,
It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.
i found this one difficult to get through, it's so powerful. Though
A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall is from 1963, it seems as if it might have been written today.
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Few can rival the master when it comes to lyrics.
Thanks.
Kevin
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Indeed -- I grew up with the Joan Baez cover of this song... superb.
Thanks.
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Completely off-topic, I know, but where are you getting your art?
Posted by: Matt at January 05, 2005 12:47 PM (SIlfx)
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That is my favorite Dylan song.
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A bit of free advice; do not, I repeat, do not go see Dylan perform in person.
If you do, you will lose the illusion you now have, and never again be able to appreciate the huge talent that he once had.
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I Hear The Law Firm Of Gypsy, Rose & Lee Is Hiring
And in the "aren't there too many lawyers already?" department, we have
this story:
An assistant Broward County public defender who was forced to quit after charges of sexual misbehavior was cleared, reinstated and promoted on Monday.
Promoted!
Jayme Cassidy, who was forced to quit Nov. 28 by former Public Defender Alan Schreiber, was rehired on the first workday of new Public Defender Howard Finkelstein.
. . .
She was accused by Schreiber of harassing two male lawyers in the office, slapping a private lawyer at a Halloween party and dancing nude at a conference on sex cases in Orlando.
Well if a lawyer's gonna dance nude, where better to do it than at a conference on sex cases?
Finkelstein said Cassidy never danced nude but may have acted inappropriately on other occasions. He said any incidents happened outside the office and did not meet the definition of sexual harassment or creating a hostile workplace.
He blamed Cassidy's misbehavior on the breakup of her marriage.
Or could it be that her marriage broke up because of her behavior? Just a thought.
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Hey, it was outside the workplace! Give her a break! Sheesh! It's not like law is a f***ing
profession or something!
Posted by: Matt at January 05, 2005 06:31 AM (SIlfx)
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There's sexual antics AND a lack of professionalism going on in Broward County?! I'm shocked, SHOCKED! ;-)
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Damn, words fail me. I may not sleep well tonight, not even with all my guns loaded.
Posted by: Casca at January 05, 2005 07:26 PM (cdv3B)
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Yeesh is right, but then again, it does make Chris Rock's point: it's only sexual harassment if an ugly guy/girl does it.
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