I’m not sure we need a new lounge, but this is going to be my last one for a couple of months, so I’m putting a new one up…lounge away if you wish.
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Why’s this your last one for the next couple of months?
I’ve got too much to do before we head for Hawaii and then I have two projects I have to finish in January…I’ll be back right around the time pitchers and catchers report…so don’t worry…you’ll get all my baseball expertise.
That’s cool. As long as it’s good times and TCBing, I ain’t gonna worry too hard about you.
I am of course sad that you’ll be hitting the road for a spell, but the drive-by Bediness which will signal your return later is such a delightful prospect that it will carry me through.
are you guys gonna overlap in hawai’i?
I’m going in February.
Do we have any full time Hawaii FK’ers?
Not unless one of our angry FK ex-pats has fled there Don Nelson-style.
Well, this summer when I’m over there for a couple of months I’ll try to check in from time to time…last year I was gone from FK for most of the summer.
Check in on Nellie while you’re there. One of these days he’s going to drink one too many cold ones and walk right into a volcano.
Will do…I imagine he must have a pretty nice place over there.
I’m betting he spends most nights passed out drunk on the beach wearing nothing but his tighty whities.
Tagline? :) I dunno, but it cracked me up multiple times.
Once I convert this into a Warriors blog it can be one.
Good luck with that.
I’m looking forward to the season…I actually plan to watch some games this year so I’ll be in the game threads whenever I can.
Can I email you questions?
Of course you can Ed…I’ll answer any questions about VORP or The Jeffersons.
What was Florence’s VORH?
Off the charts…really only Mrs. Garrett was in her league.
Oh please. Without Alice, the Bradys would’ve been reduced to whimpering fools.
Mary Poppins is the top drawer!
Flying with an umbrella is sorta unbeatable.
Plus, she has that awesome carpetbag!
I wanna be a carpetbagger when I grow up!
You go, girl!
I’ve never actually seen the movie. Did she move from the north to run for office in the south?
Hmm…Mike Brady’s white boy fro would have saved the day.
Ooh, good call.
she had an empy cleaning average, and he joke to funny ratio was really bad
Her cleaning average isn’t house-adjusted, and her joke to funny ratio isn’t audience- or era-adjusted.
Yeah, sad to see you go but looking forward to your return. Have fun in Hawaii, and if the missus has a sister you can give her my number.
Heh…sorry, no sister. My girls are headed to Hawaii on the 12th so they get to stay there for a nice long stretch.
How long till you follow? I know, too long, but you know what I mean.
It depends on Dad…I’m hopping to spend 7-8 days on Oahu but we’ll just have to see with his health…he’s doing a lot better but he still needs help.
They need parent boarding places.
Oh, and happy Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanzaa/Fesivus…and happy new year!
Crap, it’s almost time for my Facebook feed to get filled up with “Happy Birthday Baby Jesus” statuses.
I had maybe one of the greatest two hour stretches of my life today…life is pretty great.
Towards the end of (as you said) the best year of your life. Good for you, man.
you mean being physically stretched, or a unit of time?
When he said Miss Hawaii has a great rack, he wasn’t talking about her body.
Two hours… so unless it was a nap, it must not have been in the bedroom.
Right on! That’s frickin’ awesome.
It’s great that you can recognize it now, too, instead of in retrospect five years from now.
Yes, that’s a good point. Often we don’t realize the special moments until much later on.
Hello, Bed!♥
Hey, Tutu…how have you been doing?
Just fine. The recover is slow but steady. I’m hoping to get to ST and some games this season.
That’s good to hear. I’m hoping to stay a few days in Sacramento and Napa in late May and see an A’s game…maybe some of us can get together finally?
Just let me know! I be there!
I’m in.
Well, that’s good to hear…it wouldn’t be the same if you weren’t there.
We’ll get to the specifics when I’m back in February.
and of course any of you can reach me at…
ascramblingpar@yahoo.com
We’ll get Jean Quan to declare it Bed Day in Oakland.
Heh…hasn’t the city suffered enough?
This is precisely why Bed Day is needed.
The rest of us get together all the time. You’re not invited because we don’t like screaming babies. Your daughter is welcome to join us, though.
Heh…that seems fair.
That was kinda a perfect football play.
Three things I don’t care about….tatoos on quarterbacks, whether or not Chris Brown and Rihanna are dating again and (redacted by management)
I don’t like Chris Brown or Rihanna or (redacted by management)
As for quarterbacks, they all get the mandatory lip tattoos, like horses.
I know I’ve never heard one of his songs…I think I’ve heard a few of hers…mainly I just don’t see why anyone cares about celeb’s love lives?
Huh. I thought for sure Snooki would make that list.
REDACTED!!!!!
We watched The Campaign tonight…it was okay but not as funny as it could have been.
I had a pretty good joke for the redacted by management part but…I’m in a good mood and it’s a little mean.
Now you have to tell it.
Nah…I’ll do again some other time when I’m feeling a bit more snarky.
I’d like to say hi to attijah and Bloom just in case they still read the site…I miss you both.
Well, at least I got one tagline up my first year on FK…next year I’m shooting for two…or to be the second person ever banned from the site.
Oh…and if we switch from .net to .org or .xxx…I’d really appreciate it if someone could send me an email this time….also the dirt on why it happened would be fun too.
And can you fix the comment update thingy tuu?
Yeah…of course with this system it is nice that anyone can put up a lounge.
Dueling lounges? How Deliverance of FK!
I think we had three go up at the same time once…a lot of good posts lost their lives that day.
How do I put up a lounge?
have you never posted anything here?
Nope.
Well, you really should…you’re a big part of this site…the lounge would be nothing without you.
I don’t really have anything of substance to say.
Your pics are worth a thousand words!
Thanks. :) I’ve shot a ton this semester, but nothing I’m terribly proud of.
You can still post a lounge…hell, when have I ever had anything to say and I post these things all the time.
Hey, are we there yet?
We have arrived…now go give your Aunt Melba a kiss and try not to stare at her hairy mole.
I hope she doesn’t still give tongue.
I think we’ll be switching to .bed next
If we do that we’ll be unstoppable.
But..for how long before its changed again?
Once you go .bed everything else is .dead.
Ha! More likely, we’ll be .sirbed within a month.
bed@bed.bed
Perfection.
The Mayans were right.
It’s the end of the world as we know it…and that bed@bed.bed thing feels fine.
I’m trying to hear that sung in a Randy Savage voice.
Ohhhh yeeeeah!
Why would we believe the “advanced” civilization that could come up with a solution?
*couldn’t*
Conspiracy theories rarely withstand rational thought. Stop it.
Silly me…sorry for the lapse.
Luckily, you can’t get banhammered around here.
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those are the people that were in front of the train one day
So batgirl had it sussed out right.
she did. She must be pretty happy right now.
If football was like that every game I might enjoy it more
I’m over the MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It was so rainy and nerve-wracking and fun!!! We went down on the field after the game–it was a blast. And I have to say, the band can be a bit goofy, but they were pretty good last night. Particularly after the game when everyone was down on the field celebrating.
One of my best friends from Stanford is turning 40 in three weeks, so about 10 of us are going to the Rose Bowl to have a Rosebowl/40th party. I’m sooooooo excited!!
that sounds like fun. plus you get to be there sunday December 29th for the PCC swap meet, which is one of the best swap meets in the state
It was exciting. esp that last stanford TD.
Congrats! Your new years plans sound like a ton of fun. Beat those corn fed midwesterners!
That’s awesome that you get to go to the Rose Bowl!
I know! I’ve never been to a bowl game, but I promised myself that if they ever made it to the Rose Bowl I would go. And it works out perfectly with my friend’s birthday. Two of her sisters also went to Stanford, so we’re making a huge party out of it! I cannot wait!
Best Christmas gift you ever got?
atari-2600
Good choice….Millennium Falcon for me when I was 7.
I always wanted one of those but never got one.
I played with that thing all the time…I really wanted to be Han Solo when I was 7…hmm…sometimes I still do.
Well, you are a scruffy nerf-herder.
and a dead sexy one at that.
That’s a given.
Hard to beat.
we got a commodore 64 a few years later, but nothing beat the magick of the 2600.
Yep…I played that baseball game for hours and it was just a bunch of blocks basically…I also loved the one with the tanks.
My Wilson/Denny McClain 31 win baseball glove. I still have it around here somewhere….
My first skateboard.
I always wanted a skateboard, but it was pointless since we lived on a dirt road..
I know what that’s like, summers in P.R. were very hard, my grandmother lived on a gravel road… I would roll around the kitchen when she was out.
Europe ’72
Yeah, that changed a few people’s lives.
Going to Disneyland.
I’ve been to both Disneyland and Disneyworld…the former when I was five the latter when I was thiry five.
Last time I went to Land was when I was 12, I think. Went to World when I was 15. I like Land better.
I don’t remember much about Disneyland…Disneyworld was okay…my ex liked it more than I did.
Another reason to dislike it. Ozz(ex)wife has never been to either one.
I love disneyland. Had a year round pass when I live in socal
I want to go back.
When you move back here, we’ll do one of the Anaheim Stadium/Disneyland road trips.
Yay! I’m holding you to that. Assuming I have a job.
For about 5 years, when my sons were in the 8-12 range, I got them all of the things I’d ever wanted at that age but never got. Awesome Christmases.
Unrelated, but I asked my parents for a desklamp for my 16th birthday. My friends thought I was crazy, but I still use that desklamp a decade and a half later.
I think that’s kinda cool. You knew what you wanted/needed, and you went for it, cronies be damned.
Reminds me of my folks, too. One of my treasured possessions.
This.
I got Legos from an aunt and uncle when I was 3. One of the best gifts ever. It was before they had specific themes. They just had pictures of a hundred different things you could make, and it was up to you to figure out how. Or to make your own creations. I managed to figure out how to make Buck Rogers’ fighter from the TV show, as well as something that vaguely resembled a star destroyer.
I tried to get my legos for an art project in college and my folks said they were for the grandkids that didn’t exist yet, MY FKIN LEGOS, I was so pissed!
My parents gave mine away to some kid or another, I don’t even know who. But apparently that kid decided that building stuff was less fun than dropping the Legos down the heater register. I wonder if a 35 year old Lego set, if it were still intact (and mine still had the original packaging) would have much monetary value. I know that the sentimental value for me would be off the charts.
My mom saved mine (mostly space Legos) in her basement for years then handed them over when I finally seemed to be settling down. I handed them over to Spawn1 last year. He’s asked me a few times to build the original designs, but the instructions are long since gone.
Nice. I had various pirate legos, but never that one.
I think it took me like two solid days to build the first time (I was young and not as detail oriented, and it’s a BIG set), and it came with actual projectile shooting cannons.
Sweet. I had a “Forbidden Island” pirate set and, my pride and joy, a Fortress-level knights-and-horses set.
Forbidden Island sounds like a Fox reality show.
There’s also a board game called Forbidden Island that my family loves. It’s an interesting concept: the players are a team, with different roles assigned. The Island starts to sink, and you all either work cooperatively to survive and win, or you all drown/lose.
Does it sink, or is it flooded by this crazy made up global warming thing?
No you have to go to the bottom of the cave and kick some donkeys to turn a wheel and make the island disappear.
So it’s just like real life, then.
cool.
As long as no one is suicidal.
shrapnel removal
Yeah, that wins.
I didn’t really get too far with my South Pole photos post, because I’m not much of a photographer and my camera kind of sucks. But one of the cooks down here does a lot of photography and he spent a couple of afternoons hanging out in our lab and taking literally thousands of photos. He just posted his highlights here.
I am sure you science guys know a lot about a lot of stuff, but I think you gotta rethink the design on that octagonal half-pipe
It would make an awesome bowl except that you keep running into that FKing telescope that’s sitting right in the middle!
nice
Someone tell me a good album to stream right now. No punk though.
Crass – Penis Envy
wait, nevermind
More seriously, I liked Frankie Rose – Interstellar a lot this year.
Listening now…
I like it so far.
Really good album. I shall henceforth trust your recommendations for albums without “penis” in the title.
Slint/Spiderland
That album counts as religious music in my home.
If I ever do help create a BDSM church, “Washer” will be one of our holy anthems.
I was intrigued by its categorization as “Math Rock” and I’ve been listening to it about once a week, late at night, while I work on simulations.
If you want Math Rock, I recommend the band Battles. The track they did with Gary Numan last year was super fun.
Slint had some odd time changes, but in retrospect, they were more proto-emo.
Yeah they slay, I think the first 2 EPs and album w/ Tyondai are the best but I’m a huge fan of his solo stuff which is really worth checking out, the new one Central Market is really out there though and I oscillate between loving it and hating it in a Mike Patton/ Frank Zappa sort of way.
Do you remember Ent?
I seem to remember they might have been from Sac, great band.
Sad thing about Slint is apparently they are all total assholes now, my buddy worshipped them and had the chance to open for them a couple years back on their re-union tour and was crushed to find it out the hard way- being totally shit on after sharing how much the band meant to him ( gods pretty much ) while he was first getting into music.
I know it’s tough to judge them on one nights experience but they really hurt the feelings one of the nicest guys I know.
David Pajo has done some really great stuff post Slint, I think his Papa M stuff is my fav.
Whoa, this son “My Machines” is awesome.
You’re welcome.
Isn’t it funny that what we think of as emo is totally different than what it means today.
My description might have been slightly off, but Spiderland is an emotional album of sadness and loss, so maybe not.
Totally agree, you could easily say they are the godfathers, generically it was moody stuff w/ screaming and singing style/ call and response ( became ‘screamo’ ) that wasn’t quite punk and not quite hardcore.
Now its means goth-lite, asymmetrical dyed black haircuts, and men wearing nail polish.
Yeah, thanks!
Sweet, I’ve been listening to Battles non-stop for a few days. Really good stuff.
Awesome. They aren’t for everybody, so it’s good to meet another fan. After this discussion the other day, I subjected the grad students on my project to a play through Gloss Drop out at the lab and they weren’t enthusiastic.
I decided to put the Battles on Pandora due to this conversation. Between them and the Radiohead that played, they don’t work for me for work music, especially during the dreariest part of the fall.
Battles + Radiohead is not a Black And Tan. I dunno what it is, but I wouldn’t order it.
and I very much like both bands… but they’re like mint and pepperoni.
Pandora’s associations are sometimes spot on and sometimes leave my head scratching. The thumbs up/thumbs down thing can work, but I worry that if I thumbs down two particular songs from a certain artist, Pandora will extend that to “you must not like artist.” And never play them again, even if I just don’t like that particular song.
It made really good coding music. Once I had sketched out the algorithm I put the Battles on just powered through the MATLAB. Grandaddy is my current preferred algorithm-sketching-out band.
Hmm… Grandaddy for me has always been for when Modest Mouse just isn’t depressing enough to fit the bill.
For me, Grandaddy evokes tragic heroism, which I don’t find depressing because I’m a sucker for schmaltz.
Huh. I love Battles, but My Machines is pretty much the low point for me.
#needsmorebraxton
For some reason, when you mentioned Central Market above, I was thinking it was a new Battles album that I hadn’t heard yet. But then I looked up the Tyondai solo album on my iPod and realized that is it. My reaction to that album has been more middling — not the love/hate that you mention — but I also haven’t listened to it a ton.
I was initially drawn to Battles because I love that Ian Williams guitar tone, also prominently featured on the later-but-still-pre-breakup Don Cab albums. Battles drifted away from that after the first couple of EPs, which is a bummer, but I still like pretty much all of their stuff, My Machines excepted.
First time I heard CM I hated it and thought it was hystrionic and A.D.D., then about a few months later I was somewhat randomly lucky to see it performed live on a work trip (!), I really took to it a few songs in.
I guess it may be one of those instances where the recorded version is only a fractional portion of the performance, or possibly that its so clean and studio, the live performance had some mistakes and miscues, the performers gave each other winks and smiling smirks which may have brought to earth some.
My old roomie introduced me to Don Cab, big fan of What Burns… and the one w/ the crosswalk on it.
American Don is my fav, especially The Peter Crisis Jazz.
Isn’t the album with the crosswalk “Singles Breaking Up”, a best-of album with a title spoofing on the Buzzcocks?
Yeah but at the time I didn’t have any singles so it felt like an album.
Yeah, but it’s the second highest point for Gary Numan, and I heart Gary Numan.
Highest is that first Tubeway Army album, right???
Not “Replicas”?
Waiting for Kay to weigh in…
I have to admit that I was bullshitting for the most part. I’m into Gary Numan as a cultural icon out of time and context, as opposed to actually being a big fan of his music. I’ve only heard the first Tubeway Army album a couple of times, and I don’t own it anymore.
Fear Factory did a song called “Replica” that I like quite a bit.
I went to the Pitchfork Fest/All Tomorrow’s Parties where Slint played that album straight through. I’ve never really gotten into them all that much though. I was really there for Sonic Youth/Daydream Nation, which was sick.
Is there anything wrong with eating ~2 lbs of grapes in a single sitting?
othing. As long as by “sitting” you mean on a potty
Depends.
Then I think you’ve got it covered
Well, Cesar Chavez might not like it.
I’ll tell him they were little black tomatoes.
We haven”t done this in a while…last five songs on my mp3 player.
Sailing to Philadelphia – Mark Knopfler
The Chain – Fleetwood Mac
Smoking Gun – Robert Cray
No Son of Mine – Genesis
Skyfall – Adele
Your Phil Collins fetish is so endearing.
Heh…yeah, what can I say? He’s my all time favorite.
I have been using iheartradio for litening to the radio on my train rides to work. A feature they have is “stations” for artists. you name an artist and they play stuff they think is related. They are pretty bad at it and don’t have a huge sample of songs it seems.
Anyway I can’t tell you. I don’t use mp3s.
There is a Gorilla record near my kitchen turntable after I mentioned them last week, my living room turntable has Huevos rancheros, I am not sure why.
the other records that are out are Specials, groovie ghoolies and a compilation of mexican garage rock from the 60s
I use Pandora sometimes…it’s okay and it’s given me some new bands to try out.
What’s the name of the garage rock compilation?
Arpa y Ritmo voll.II
Thanks — imma dig around for this.
oh, I just popped it on, because I could not remember it. its not a garage comp at all. try this one.
I’m still looking for the other thing for the hell of it, but this comp is kind of awesome. Thank you.
and now that I look at it, its from Paraguay
it also appears that the other living room turntable has a 10″ on it, but the dust cover and record are buried under housing documents. So safe to say I haven’t listened to that in a while
Crass – Berkertex Bride
Crass – Where Next Columbus?
Crass – What the Fuck?
Crass – Poison in a Pretty Pill
Crass – Systematic Death
I pretty much always listen to full albums, so my response is kind of lame. Mostly I just wanted to back up my “suggestion” for GM.
nice.
Systematic Death is such a great title.
ps: the AV/Colin bait I posted the other day about record run out groove writing? I posted it on FB and av made a comment within a few minutes
I was listening to the Jesus & Mary Chain, and before that The Hold Steady, and before that the Decemberists, and before that R.E.M.
I’ve listened to a few of their records now, and I’m starting to get the sense that the lead singer might have had a drug problem at some point.
I really liked the Hold Steady for a while and then I got really sick of them.
I could see that happening. I’m still sort of infatuated with Boys and Girls in America.
I was just listening to one of my all time favs today
The Merry Minuet by The Kingston Trio, You would think it was written today, instead of the 50s
The Drum Thing – John Coltrane
Ain’t No Telling – Jimi Hendrix
Lonesome Susie – The Band
Roll On – Son Volt
Blues for Prez and Bird – Sonny Stitt
Rainbow Connection – Me First & The Gimme Gimmes
One Way Out – The Allman Brothers Band
Since I’ve Been Loving You – Led Zeppelin
You’re No Good – Van Halen
Oh! Sweet Nothing – The Velvet Underground
China Crisis – Red Sails
Jo Lemaire – La memoire en exil
Harold Budd – Children on the Hill
Piscine & Charles – Empire
Wim Merten – The Fosse
This is where Mr. Uncool Bed says he’s never heard of any of those songs.
It’s basically sleepytime music. I don’t think the last track has anything to do with Ray.
When I want to relax I listen to James Taylor…it always calms me…well, him and Motorhead.
Motorhead is oddly peaceful.
I almost fell asleep when I saw Merzbow a few years ago.
I’m kinda falling asleep right now.
I FKing love Motorhead.
I FKing have never heard any of their songs.
I don’t think you’d like them.
Please. There is no one less cool than me when it comes to this stuff.
I’m still an album person, which makes me white and old. Ran across some old Pearl Jam albums the other day from their “mature” stage. One of them, “Yield,” is actually quite good.
The Pearl Jam saga is really interesting, when you realize how weird their rise and “fall” from superstardom happened to be. While they have made some good music (no, really), I think people like me like the idea of Pearl Jam as much as the actual group. They’re an old-fashioned rock band, despite all the grunge hype, and have tried to stick to principles even when it just irritated people, and were compelling live performers.
In a way, they were the last of their kind.
their trying to break tickrtron was cool
Maybe not the last – Soundgarden’s new album is getting some good press. It’s tempting to see them when they come back around.
It’s hard to recapture moments in time, although Soundgarden was still making interesting music on its pre-breakup album. I haven’t listened to the new one.
As for Pearl Jam, their anti-Ticketron campaign was noble but naive, setting them up in the ridiculous situation of trying to arrange their own tour without any support from anyone. I saw two of those 1995 shows, including the famously aborted San Francisco show that Neil Young finished up because Eddie Vedder was sick, and a later one in San Jose.
It was probably one of the few times I saw a top-selling mainstream band at the peak of its popularity (I tend to be early or late), but the whole saga seemed to weigh heavily on the whole band. I respected them for it, but there was something crazy about a band whose claim to fame was its great live shows not performing because of a business dispute. Still, bands have undermined their careers over much less noble goals.
it’s hard to call such a popular band underrated, but they were unfairly lumped in with the rest of the Seattle bands of the time when they really had a much harder sound that was very different than Nirvana, Pearl Jam, AiC, etc.
Good to see ya, stranger.
Just home from a Christmas party. I got this present:
And we had steak.
Sounds like a pretty good night.
If it was a hospital party you might want to make sure that wasn’t retrieved from someone’s rectum.
Rectum! Hell it killed ‘um!
Speaking of which, what would we do if we traded with the Royals and ended up with twu colons?
Bartolo will probably eat the new one.
ew…That means he really WOULD eat anything!
He’s like Mikey from those old Life cereal commercials.
I was jealous of that little brat…I coulda’ been a contender…I coulda’ been somebody….I coulda’ done a national ad about cereal.
You could’a been in a syndicated sitcom.
It’s never too late.
Well…yeah, I think it is…hey look that bald, middle aged guy really loves this cereal.
Because it’s full of fiber and lowers cholesterol.
I am Iron Man.
I play with irons, man.
Goes with Hulk, Batman, and Bane heads.
bwadda bwadda bwada-an
And I’m running on two hours of sleep. Night.
Goodnight, to the coolest lady in Missouri.
Rest well, lady!
welcome to my world
Seriously…are you just busy or do you not need much sleep?
I have been getting up at 330 and going to bed between 10 and 1
I’ve done those hours before…I make sure to get at least 6 hours now of sleep now…it was hurting my health.
So far no ill effects. I do nap sometimes for about 20 minutes
Well, I’m glad you can do it. There’s so many things I want to do that sometimes I feel like I’m missing out when I’m sleeping.
Good night!
Does it make me a bad person that I watched The Expendables 2 earlier in the week and I really liked it?
You know…DFA and I both like to dance, we both like women, we both like Coldplay, we both like politics, we both like baseball, we both like mysteries and we’re both Democrats…we should like each other more. If he comes back I hope we can get along better.
Whoa, I’m pretty impressed, she’d be a goddess in the Oakland metal scene.
I just love how she says thanks afterwards.
fantastic
I want to marry her.
OMG
Thanks, and go As.
They’re all so squeaky clean looking!
It’s so endearing she’s just ‘Rachel’.
Vid needs more Rachel.
We need more Rachel.
Crap…I let the restraining order against Bridget the Midget lapse…yep, and here she comes.
Heh…I’ve always wanted to post the same thing in two different lounges and now I’ve done it…I can die now.
No kidding! I thought my reply disappeared!
You know…Oz and I don’t fucking agree on anything…if that guy comes back around…well, let’s just say he’s going down and he’s going down hard.
Like a Raider QB?
Sorry, couldn’t resist.
I’ll give Palmer credit…that guy has taken a beating but he shows up each week.
If he doesn’t, they won’t give him his check.
Well, I have no desire to see Matt Leinart so I hope he can make it through the season….I wouldn’t mind seeing Pryor get a look or two however during the game.
Dude, Richard Pryor is dead.
So he’d fit right it…our team is dead too.
It could be worse. You could be KC.
Heh…only Ed would pull up the KC Jones picture that fast.
He was ridin’ that train.
The season isn’t over yet…we could still be just as bad.
And 12 hours later, being KC is really much worse.
they may need to ask a few new questions on the wonderlic
Looks like I picked a bad week to stop doing the same post in two different lounges.
And remember Free Kraut…we’ll alway have Paris.
Philip K. Dick will always have Valis.
But never need Viagra.
Trying to ensure my friend Diana’s 7-year-old daughter grows up on the side of justice. I am being proactive because I’ll be damned if I hear one day she came come from school with a Giants hat on, FORGET IT. LARRY BAER CANNOT HAVE HER.
Upon further inspection of the back of Aubrey’s new hat, we see that what we have suspected all along is in fact true: that Stomper was the left-handed power bat we’ve needed to win the World Series all along. Look at that finish, he is clearly watching the ball go 560 feet through a Luxury Suite window with a finish like that.
Listening, Billy Beane? Bet THAT would put people in the seats, having the mascot hit cleanup.
Beane is no Veeck.
I know you’re all on pins and needles about who I’m going to pick as my new NBA team to root for as I miss hoops….I’m going back to my past and picking the Boston Celtics…now I’ll care about all of Bill Simmons columns again.
You should be rooting for Memphis based on proximity. They’re good too.
I’m closer to OKC really and they’re better…I was a Celtics fan before the Kings moved to Sacramento so it just feels right…and I still get to hate the Lakers.
No one cares about your fantasy team.
Ok, I’m hitting the hay. Take care, Bed. I will be furiously compiling the Best of Bed desk calendar while you’re gone.
ooo good idea
Sleep well, beebo. As I said that thing should sell in the dozens.
I’m tired..Goodnight, all! I’ll be back.
good night Tutu
Bye-Bye Tu-Tu
Good night! You better be!
I should go to sleep too, but I’m waiting for a phone call and Bedfordley’s only here for a limited time, so I’m doing what I can with garbage time.
Now for a limited time only…Bedford and Bedettes. Watch as they sing all the greatest country hits like that one from that dude that smokes a lot of pot and that one from the guy who is named strait but is he really?
Other things I’m sure you care about….Coke…Briefs…Ray-Bans… yes, but only when I watch the later made Natalie Portman movies… Regular irons over hybrids…Ford…Nic Cage or Jason Statham movies, The North…Phil over Peter…Urnaus…Star Wars…Biden…full arm motion…VORP.
Sure, that’s what you want us to believe. I’m not buying it, not for a minute.
Well, I haven’t been very silly or random tonight. I’m just happy and if I could I’d give you all a hug…or at least a good, firm handshake.
eye contact?
That wasn’t my hand.
I hope you have a wonderful couple of months…you’re all a great group of folks…thank you for all the fun this year on Free Kraut.
Take care of yourself, Baby Bed, Mrs. Bed, and Poppa Bed. Have a great holiday. I’m sure it’s one you’ll never forget. I’ll sure miss you.
The Bed rests…
I wish the Bed would stop snoring.
You are a poster bed yes?
lonely
Thanks, and go As.
OH. MY. GOD.
http://vibedeck.com/richardcheese/back-in-black-tie-2012-explicit
RICHARD CHEESE “BACK IN BLACK TIE” (2012)
TRACK LIST:
01 T.N.T. (originally by AC/DC)
02 GIMMIE THAT NUTT* (originally by Eazy-E)
03 NEED YOU TONIGHT (originally by INXS)
04 BILLIE JEAN* (LIVE IN SEATTLE) (originally by Michael Jackson)
05 ONE LOVE (originally by Bob Marley)
06 SUPER FREAK (originally by Rick James)
07 DIFF’RENT STROKES (LIVE IN DC) (TV Theme)
08 SMELLS LIKE TEEN SPIRIT (INSTRUMENTAL) (originally by Nirvana)
09 CUM ON FEEL THE NOIZE (originally by Slade/Quiet Riot)
10 I AM THE WALRUS (originally by The Beatles)
11 THE IMPERIAL MARCH (LIVE IN DC)* (Darth Vader’s Theme from “Star Wars”)
12 PEOPLE = SHIT* (REHEARSAL DEMO) (originally by Slipknot)
13 STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN (originally by Led Zeppelin)
14 DOIN’ TIME* (LIVE IN SEATTLE) (originally by Sublime)
15 TOO SOON*
Thanks, and go As.
Of all the things I wanted to do today, “watch my landlord and his henchman install a new water heater” was not high on the list. However, I do like hot water.
Is the henchman cute at all? Probably not. Henchmen rarely are.
Mario is pretty cute, actually, and the landlord isn’t half bad.
He must be cute if you remember his name.
I love my life right now. I feel like gushing and blabbing, but I won’t, other than to say I have a date with a very intelligent and beautiful woman tonight, and I’m super excited. My wife is excited for me too. She was invited, but she’s in more of a bathrobe and sci-fi and bottle of wine mood, and my wife gets what my wife wants.
Good on you. And feel free to gush and blab. I’m listening even if it is hours later.
I just got home. It was an amazing time. We went to a play party, and saw lots of fun kinky stuff happen, and then before you know it, WE were the happening, and everybody was watching us. Then there was lots of cake and conversation. Good times.
It’s not a party without cake! Glad you enjoyed yourself.
Yay! Good for you, Kay.
Early indications are, my complaints about conference championship games may be realized in the Big Ten. Wisconsin isn’t a bad team, they had some tough losses, but bottom line is they went 4-4 in conference and should be getting ready for the Preparation H Bowl in Lubbock. They have no business sniffing Roses. Nebraska was the only bowl-eligible team with one conference loss and they shouldn’t have to get through this game to get to Pasadena.
The Preparation H Bowl in Lubbock? That would be awesome if it was full of campy in-on-the-joke promos.
The Tidy Toilet Bowl?
It should have the two worst teams to go 0 – 12 playing in it.
Only if they have a burning desire not to sit.
Faux sky-diving in a vertical wind tunnel is a whole lot of fun.
Oh, man, that looks like so much fun!
The second flight in the set, when the instructor takes off too and together you shoot 30 feet up the tower, is crazy fun.
It’s not cheap ($50/session) but it might be a fun FK-up.
Do they have an adults only night? Is the wind tunnel easy to clean? Inquiring minds want to know!
Heh
oh.my.god. that looks awesome
Easily the best part of the Union Landing.
Wow, where is this?
Union City.
It looks incredible, pretty great how adult and child have the same expression – FK YEAH!
FKing A. Have you ever had one of those phone calls where the phone rings, and you know before you even pick it up that whatever it is it’s going to be bad? I’m still shaking and it all ended up just being a big mistake.
For those that don’t know I currently share a home with my brother who is a Sacramento police officer. We have a house phone for emergancies but no one ever calls that number. But at 9:40pm it rings. I glance at the clock and then the phone and my heart hits the floor – somehow KNOWING it was bad. The woman on the other end of the phone says “Hi, this is R***** from the police department, is D**** there?” Thinking maybe it was the Fairfield PD I said he’d left for work. There was a long pause and then “Do you know what time he left? He hasn’t checked in yet, and we can’t get ahold of him on his cell phone”. As far as I had known he’d left around 4-5pm – figuring he was heading into work, and told her that. A couple more questions and then me getting her name and number to call her back after checking in with the rest of my family hoping someone would have heard something, she says “hang on my cell is ringing, maybe it’s him”.
Thankfully yes it was him and apparently he had gotten the night off and his Sgt just forgot to take him off the roster. Holy FK I always figured if I was going to get “that phone call” it would have been during my marriage (I was an Army wife for 8 years).
End result? Me sitting at my table shaking horribly (now that the crisis has passed) & very thankful my baby brother is just fine.
One of my friends has a brother who’s a Marine. A few years ago, when he got home from a tour in Iraq, she went to the airbase to meet him. He had a huge bandage on his neck. Come to find out that a few weeks before, his Humvee had hit an IUD, flipped over, and was subsequently attacked by insurgents. He was shot through the neck and left for dead. He was the only person in the convoy to survive. He neglected to mention any of this to his family before returning home. Of course, she and her mom (a retired Marine) were more than a little shaken. She (my friend) absolutely lost it when he went back for another tour.
I have many friends and family that are military, so I understand the sentiments.
One of my best friends in the world just FINALLY got out.
Happy thanksgiving to me.
Yay!
Another Yay!
(Not to undermine the thread, but I think they’re IEDs. Doubt a Humvee would suffer much damage if it hit an IUD.)
Oh, you’d be surprised…
BWHAHAHAHA!
Doesn’t it depend on where they are placed?
Indeed.
HA
If it hits just right, it could pop a tire and flip the hummer.
Haha, good point. Not even sure if a Humvee would be worthy.
Obviously you’ve never had an IUD in….Bahahaha
Oh, that sounds like a horrific emotional rollercoster. Are you ok?
Yea I’m fine. Being raised the way I was and also being married to a soldier who deployed many times I got very good at making it through crisis just fine. Its after that everything sets in & then shuts down. And he’s fine – so the aftermath was short. :)
I’m glad to hear it. No point in meaningless suffering.
Glad he’s OK.
Thanks, and go As.
Yikes! Glad he’s OK, hope you are soon too.
Might need some pie… ;)
oh that sucks. or is a relief.
you need pie
I DO need pie!! :)
oh gosh–I’m so glad he’s OK!
Here’s that rainy day.
Nice.
One nice thing about being short and brown: no one ever asks you to dress as Santa.
or to go to lunch. :runsawaycrying:
Thanks, and go As.
Monday or Thursday this week.
Which works better for you? Also, on or offsite?
Absolutely nothing creepier than a black mustache creeping out from under a white ‘Santa’ facial wig, my folks have the pics to prove it.
Its surprising how difficult to reach into a bag whilst sitting w/ a huge pillow strapped to your abdomen.
My biggest mistake was walking across the room and stealing Uncle Brian’s beer.
For two Christmases, I dressed up as Santa at the St. Anthony’s Soup Kitchen in SF, where my sister worked, notwithstanding that I was 16/17, skinny, dark-haired, beardless, and Jewish. I fooled nobody, but the kids were happy to get presents.
Just like Jesus
Santa’s mortal enemy.
I bet he totally sported a peach fuzz ‘stache during adolescence.
According to the Shroud of Turin, Jesus had a beard.
Is today the day Upgrade is taking his son to the game? I hope they have seats under an overhang.
They’re dry. I hope they’re still awake. That first half was uninspiring.
Yes, this was Segundo’s first ever Raiders game. Won’t be his last; he had a lot of fun. All from reasons outside the play of the game itself (ugh). Like meeting some fellow fans:
And getting a good spot to watch warmups:
Much fun. Even though the Raiders truly do suck. I may not even be able to bear watching Thursday.
That’s excellent.
I was babysitting the great-nieces yesterday — they’re on their first return to their birthplace, SF, since their move back to Minnesota last spring — and, once we’d exhausted the sticker books and got bored with the game on the iPad, I fired up YouTube and taught them how to Bernie Lean. The 3.75-year-old was minimally interested but the 6.5-year-old watched the video with Coco getting bonked on the head twice. Then she decided to set up an infield, using the sticker books as bases, and demonstrated her home-run skills.
hello!
Hi, LadyJ! ♥ How are you?
wow, yay, hi sweetheart!!! :D
i’m happy my team won today, even though i thought it looked ugly. am enjoying this tiny bit of sun right now on the lanai and have a cup of coffee with bailey’s.
how are you? how is your surgery recovery going?
I’m doing well. The new joints are ok, but its taking the muscles a while to re-grow themselves. I still can’t kneel down, and the first step is an adventure. The Dr said it could take a year to come around. I am rebuilding a bike I bought so that I can start losing the 30-40 lbs I gained during the recoveries this year. What happened to Mankins? Is he hurt, or was he traded from the Patriots?
my logan has been hurt; i think this is his third game out with calf and ankle stuff. argh. i don’t see us trading him.
wow, a year?!?! how are you holding up, emotionally? i can see how it would be easy to gain weight when you are waiting around for things to heal up. HUGS.
Yeah, the depression thingy is tough. giggs, BerryJo, lynn, and Deb have given me a lot of support. Deb is still going through the recovery of knee replacement a couple of years ago. The Mrs was able to take twu weeks off after each surgery, to help me get around. The forecast of getting to go to ST and some games at the Coliseum this year makes it all worthwhile!
yes!!! things to look forward to are KEY. i am happy you have had support. we are here for you, too, i hope you know that.
I do!♥ I’ll try to get around here more often.
please do. <3
I should explain the muscle issue. In order to get to the knee joint itself, they had to split my quad and move them out of the way to attach the metal pieces. That’s why it takes the muscles a while to recoup.
argh, that just sounds so…HORRIBLE. i’m so sorry you are having to experience this, and am so glad you are with us.
It all still better than the old, worn out knees I had!
TRUTH! you will be running around with the little ones in the lot this season! :D
Thomas isn’t little anymore! He is 5′-8″ at 13 years old! Maria is now a young lady, instead of my little girl.
they grow so fast!!!
but there will be plenty of little ones you can run around with! ;)
Yeah, that’s true
Hello to you, Powerful One!
hello, beautiful. miss you!
I miss you too.
It looks like I’ll be going to sslinger’s Solstice party this year, but I’m guessing you’ll be in ritual space with your Sisters that night.
nope, i will be in ritual space with YOU! woot!!!! <3
Yay! FK yes!
we shall do MAGICK together.
Wazzup!
woooooo! miss you, babe. looking forward to seeing you on the 21st. it’s been forever.
Feelings mutual!
Woo-oo, Witchy Woman!
hello sweetheart!
Happy for you and your team. Disappointed in my team, though.
my team looked so shitty today, but we got the W. your team really disappointed me today.
So, how many Niners fans here still like the Kaepernick/Smith move?
It’s fine. If Akers can kick or Delanie Walker can catch, it’s not even an issue.
Thanks, and go As.
Kaep sucked today, but over the course of a full season I think he’s still better than Smith. And there were other issues today as well, such as play-calling and poor OL play.
Kaep has a ton more upside, but can also lose you a football game in a way Alex never does. At this point I’m just blindly trusting Harbaugh, but also scared that Seattle might come back in the division.
I have to get this off my chest:
Tiny Dancer is best understood as a country song, and it’s a crime against pop music that the string arrangements overwhelm the twang-y guitar for last half of the song.
Tell me I’m wrong.
i can’t help you. that song makes me feel nauseous, no matter who sings or arranges it. :(
You’re wrong: you don’t have to get it off your chest.
Keep in mind that he’s so small that it might well have crushed him.
“More Weight”
I’m OK with the strings. The real problem is Elton John’s voice. He never had much vocal range, so he has to switch into that screechy voice in the middle of the “hold me closer tiny dancer line” which turns the moment the whole song has been building to into an anticlimax.
Girl Talk conclusively demonstrated that Tiny Dancer was meant to be pitch-shifted and then have Biggie rapping over the top of it.
#trueofallsongs
Correction: “meant to be pitch-shifted and then have Rickey rapping over the top of it.”
“and then made into a mashup with Oppa Gangnam Style”
Rickey doesn’t rap over songs. Songs play under him.
The screechy voice would be better without the faux-grandeur of the strings
I heard TD in the car this morning. The combination of the strings and the lap steel now sounds completely ridiculous, thanks to you.
ik,r? If they let the pedal steel dominate the song, it turns into an awesome country ballad.
I just found this excellent podcast that breaks down great songs in a really fun and intelligent way, with lots of talk about music theory, arranging, production techniques etc.
He did an episode on Tiny Dancer (and Goodbye Yellow Brick Road), and the only negative thing he had to say about it was…you guessed it.
time machines?
Did you do a lot of acid GM? Back in the hippy days?
do we have any professional counselors here? i need some advice around a situation beyond what i can do as a pastoral counselor, legally and knowledge-wise.
My advice: eat a cookie.
not helpful.
How can cookies not be helpful? That does not compute.
Many of us are semi-professional snark dealers, but I’m guessing that doesn’t help.
unfortunately…
in this case, it doesn’t help.
For Christmas I asked for an Avengers fleece blanket and some melty beads. I’m 28.
Nothing wrong with that at all.
Last year I got a bunch of Magic:The Gathering cards for Christmas. I was 34.
Ah, but did you get into it early enough to have all the really cool old cards?
I didn’t.
No. I was too much into my punk rock I don’t give a fuck about anything stage at that time.
My huge Magic days ran from approximately 1996 to 2000. I still have all my decks, but I wonder how much I would recognize things in the current state of the game.
Yeah, the new stuff is (imo) gimmicky and awful. Some friends got into booster drafts recently, and it just doesn’t have the… err… magic the old stuff did.
What separated MtG from other similar games for me was that essentially everything was general use to some degree, unlike say Star Wars where 50% of the cards only impacted a specific other card.
There’s a lot of recycling ad infinitum and reveling in brokenness.
My MtG years were probably 1992-1994 or so. So I didn’t get the original black border cards (though they were still in common circulation), but I started out with the second edition of the basic set and there weren’t any named expansions yet.
I’m trying to get back into it, but it just seems like a totally different game. :(
I bought the Xbox Arcade game of it to try and get used to things in a safer, cheaper setting.
I’ve been messing around with an online card game called Elements and I’ve been enjoying it a lot. It’s very clearly MtG-inspired, and it does a great job offering a range of strategies and builds from straightforward and simple to tricky and convoluted while making a huge range of decks viable. Plus the online aspect allows them to implement randomness into certain cards effectively, which keeps every game different.
It’s worth playing around with (it’s all free) if you’re itching for a good online CCG in the MtG vein.
What are melty beads?
Perler beads. You put beads on a board with pegs on it. You make shapes or animals or whatever. Then you iron them and made coasters or magnets.
Crafty.
I remember those!
I played with them last week at the mental hospital. I was sad I didn’t get to finish.
Craft class ended early? ☺
Is that what you get paid to do?
No, I worked for free.
Playing with melty beads is now considered work?
sutures are expensive. alternatives had to be developed.
The problem is labor cost. We need to stop paying nurses.
The problem is labor cost. We need to stop paying
nurseshumans.Fixed.
Well that won’t piss off Gertie nearly as much as the original.
They color and make face masks too.
Oh. Carry on, then.
One of the cool things about being a parent…I get to do the beads and play with Legos and make cool crafty stuff that Spawn1 dreams up on a daily basis.
Babysitting my god daughter was a great way for me to learn my shapes and colors.
Both those things are awesome, what’s the problem?
Are there any FKers that live out of the area or even ones that live in the area that did not get a Gold rally towel from the playoffs this year and would like one? I have several of them here and I am willing to send them out if anyone wants one!
I never thought that I’d ever say this, but I am totally interested in a gold rally towel. I’m still kicking myself for not coming out to Oakland during the playoffs.
*obviously, I would be more than happy to cover postage to the East Coast
You can email your address and I will get out to you…..my email is bryancauwels@yahoo.com
Hope I’m not too late.
Email sent – thanks!
Is it like this?
If so, and if it’s not much trouble to send overseas (I’ll pick up the costs, of course), I’d like to have one
The one on the left or the right? Also, shipping humans is probably expensive.
I think you can get a bulk rate.
As I lean to the political left…
It is exactly like that….email me your address and I will get it to you!
Thanks! E-mail on the way!
Those are the ones.
I would love to get one, if you wouldn’t mind, wacc. I wanted so much to go to the playoffs, but the knee surgeries prevented me from the trip. If you have enough, just let me know where to send the shipping cost.
And you also, please email me your address and I will get it to you…
I would love one, as well. I totally would have been waving it from my couch if I had had one.
Also, send me your address and I will get one to you…
You get a Gold Rally Towel! And you get a Gold Rally Towel and YOUUUU get a Gold Rally Towel!!! YOU ALLLL get a GOLDRALLYTOWEL!!!!!!
Sent.
Would love one as well if you have any left. And if you are ever headed back down to the ‘no you could just drop it off and payment of 1+ drinks will be ready…
Some others of us might also have an extra or two, so please, everyone keep posting your requests!
Yeah, I’ve got an extra or three if we have more requests than Bry has towels.
Also, we’ll be getting more on Opening Day, according to the promo schedule.
I WANT ONE! PLEASE! I sent Bryan my address.
I will be down sometime around Christmas and I will bring one with me…..
I just unpacked mine the other day and got some serious warm fuzzys!
They were made of some rather flimsy material….
has anyone washed one?
I would also love one if you still have extras. Thanks so much!
Ok, send me your address and I will get one off to you….
I returned home from eight good, but challenging days in the Denver area, to find the rally towel waiting. Thanks much! It’s the one physical connection I have to this magical season!
I returned home from
eightten good, but challenging days in theDenverSan Sebastian area, to find the rally towel waiting.Thanks a ton, Bryan, you are awesome
I just got mine too! Much to Partner in Crime’s chagrin, it’s now on the wall of my office here at home.
I’m looking forward to actually using it at the next postseason home game soon. Thanks so much.
I am glad that they made it to all of you!!!