A post-feast lounge/grill kinda thing. You can even rosterbate; there’s no judgment here.
The kids and I are eating apple pie for breakfast. The most important meal of the day, bitches!
Crazy hodge-podge of sporting events today, most of questionable value. I didn’t even attend the annual UNC-Duke football season finale when I went to school there, though it’d be nice to see the Heels drop a turd in the punchbowl of Duke’s uncharacteristically successful season. Alabama-Auburn promises great drama, which it will almost certainly not deliver. Stanford seems to have scheduled an easy home patsy to end the schedule on the Farm…is Notre Dame even a Division I program anymore?
Not much to like on today’s college hoops slate, though you Harvard folks get a rare chance to see your earnest chaps on TV (9:30 PM vs TCU).
Early risers and the DVR-enabled can catch the Sunday 4:00 AM start time of Manchester United at Tottenham Hotspur, Billy Beane’s favorite team. Tomorrow seems like a great day to skip the horrible slate of NFL games on TV altogether, in favor of this EPL game and the 3:00 PM Tar Heels at UAB game, which promises to be frenetic.
Speaking of which: Crazy finish to the Warriors game in OKC last night. That’s twice this year their games have been decided at the buzzer. If those teams meet up in the playoffs it could be epic.
I’ve written the first sentence of the fourth chapter of my book (which should not suggest that I’ve written any other sentences in any other chapters). It’s a comedy:
The whores get cheaper and uglier as you drive down San Pablo Avenue, from the girls working the mostly safe Golden Bear Inn at Cedar to the desperate junkies on Skid Row approaching Grand Ave to where San Pablo dead ends and the whores are the cheapest and ugliest of all, at Oakland City Hall.
Gotta go, we’re off on our annual trip to the Castro Valley Christmas Tree Farm to pick out and cut down our own tree. After decorating it, then I’ll drag the extension ladder out and swaddle the outside of the house in blinking colorful lights. Little-known truth: no one has as much fun with Christmas as the atheists. All of the whimsy and none of the dogma. Consider signing up; it’s almost like a religion!
"Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
I love christmas too.
SA got a bunch of quick wickets last night, but then was slow to score their own runs on the chase. they ended up beating pakistan by 4 wickets
the turkey turned out a little dry the first round, so the second round became turkey pot pie. ie, NO SAMMY FOR ME! (now what to do with all that full-calorie mayo i brought.)
You’re supposed to smear the mayo all over the pot pie.
my, the euphemisms you come up with. i am blushing.
A nursey BFF of mine said “There’s still plenty of parking at Wal-Mart.”
I asked if that was an euphemism. No one thought it was funny. THAT is why I love you guys.
in the back lot AMIRITE
Thanks, and go As.
If you’re lucky.
or skilled.
Thanks, and go As.
You ARE a pro at parking cars.
Talk about having sex in an uncomfortable place.
btw, the prostitutes around SP/west grand area, additionally in that stretch of west between SP and west grand, they’re trannies and i’m not sure they fit into the hooker-mayor beauty spectrum. (but i get your overall metaphor.)
also, OMG thanks for reminding me, last summer with the window rolled down, i was leisurely driving back from the little market to my house, down that stretch of west, and this one lady planned it perfectly, what at first i thought was going to be a slow-motion mid-street dump as she lifted part of her tee-shirt/dress and bent her knees slightly, which confused me into an illusion of self invisibility (since she was gonna take a crap right there surely she didn’t even see me), but turned out to be a window-high, full-on, bare-bottom, side-to-side, talking-cheeks private showing and advertisement of ev-uh-ry-thing she had, including xmas and new years, RIGHT when i drove by just “barely” on the other side of the double yellows from my face. gotta give it to the hookers… good sense of vehicular timing. when i figured out what was happening, i laughed. then i sped off.
My metaphor doesn’t exclude trannies…cheap ugly desperate and venal transcends gender identity.
(also by no means only or even mostly the mayor; the story will suggest that almost every elected and appointed official in the whole place is for sale. Cheap!)
Everyone is a whore. It’s just a matter of what you’ll sell and how much you want for it.
i was thinking the scales measure different things even if they use the same name. but yes, they can all be beautiful or ugly in their own way.
but more importantly, i didn’t realize this was a real book you’re writing. congratulations! the world needs more like what i imagine you’re writing. or… more of what you’re writing even if i can’t yet imagine it until i read it? you know what i mean. i mean, good luck and don’t stop.
First holiday party of the season tonight. Ugh.
I’ve also planned my 30th birthday party already. Fondue and the casino!
LOL no, it’s crabtree’s first game back.
Thanks, and go As.
Fucla vs. U$C is usually good for a bench-clearing brawl, with the accompanying knife wounds in the stands. That will be my game of choice this evening.
Does UCLA now wear the home
whitesblues when at the Colosseum?Yes, because that rule requiring the visiting team to wear white jerseys has been modified though not completely eliminated. For those watching on your 19-inch Sears black-and-white set, tough. The current rule is:
The Beavers used this rule in yesterday’s Civil War to wear hideous, eye-burning head-to-toe orange at Autzen Stadium; the Ducks were dressed in remarkably tasteful throwback pale green and yellow.
Those Beaver unis are hideous.
Go Wildcats!
Good point! The Northwestern Wildcats need a win at Illinois today to avoid an 0-8 conference record. The Illini sit at 1-6 in the Big 10, so this stoppable force vs movable object matchup could really deliver!
Sure!
I hope Furd wins the next two and Ohio State wins next week so we have a traditional marquee Rose Bowl. I would be a little concerned, though, that today’s game is just an exhibition for Furd as they look ahead to Arizona State.
T…OSU would now need to lose for that to happen.
Yeah, my quick and dirty analysis of the new BCS standings suggests Baylor is the likely replacement for Ohio State, and Stanford-Baylor (or, worse, Arizona State-Baylor) just doesn’t have much of a ring to it.
(correction…the “experts” seem to think Michigan State will go to the Rose Bowl, win or lose against Ohio State, which just seems lame. I guess I’d now like to see: Ohio State barely beats Michigan State, Auburn crushes Mizzou, Auburn jumps tOSU for the #2 slot in the NCG, and Urban Meyer’s head explodes. All this crap is why I’m glad to see the BCS going out the door after this year.)
Yay! NU is not winless in the conference.
And with Cal opening next season with the reciprocal visit to Evanston, a two-game streak is in the offing.
So, soccer folks: Is there any chance FIFA decides to completely pull the plug on Brazil as host and hastily relocates the World Cup to a place with established venues, like the U.S.? The recent news about stadium and infrastructure prep from Brazil sounds pretty bad. Though that opinion could certainly be being fed by Northern Hemisphere bias confirmation on my part.
There’s often talk of that happening. There were rumors that South Africa could have been moved to the U.S.. The 1986 cup was supposed to be in Colombia, but they couldn’t pull it off and it got moved to Mexico a few years ahead of time. I still think it’s pretty unlikely to happen this time around…too close to the date now and too much money already spent by the organizers and fans.
Yeah – I don’t see it happening, and doubly so not to the US.
brasil has plenty established venues. the problem is the new ones being built special, which happen to be remote and smaller and i think fall off use after a load of just 4 games each in the group stage. so they could relocate to existing ones if necessary. redundancy failsafe, it takes 8 venues to pull off a WC and brasil decided to have 12. i think there are 3 +sao paulo that are unfinished (SP is the crane collapse). 6 of the other stadiums already served in the confederations cup. i’m assuming the ones not mentioned are OK or on schedule. so it looks fairly covered even if it takes a jogo de cintura with dates or expectations or something. also, tradition (and where it says “final month” there, legend has it you can substitute “night before opening ceremonies”). bottom line: you cannot run from the world cup because even running is a kind of dance!
That cracking sound you just heard was the Dogfather’s heart breaking.
That’s what happens when a Tar Heel football fan writes a front-page post.
Holy shit, even I wasn’t expecting that!!
That was amazing. Still, I stand by my prediction; 9 out of 10 times these highly touted college football game disappoint. But damn, helluva finish.
I assume Alabama still gets a BCS championship game slot, no?
For Alabama to get in I’m pretty sure two of Auburn, Florida State and Ohio State would have to lose. Florida State seems a shoo-in with their conference championship game vs. the Dukies, though the Jameis Winston issue is in flux. Auburn and Ohio State both have tough conference championship games next week and it’s possible both could lose.
anybody else think its weird that my facebook news feed, which usually has more than a smattering of “fight ons” on fall saturdays is dead quiet?
Even weirder that mine is quiet, what with South Carolina beating Clemson.
Ed, I broke a toilet tonight.
You guys have a weird code.
don’t want you people knowing our business
So apparently Paul Walker died in a fiery crash while in a speeding car. How ironic.
Rumor is he was the passenger.
Thanks, and go As.
I think they confirmed that part. A race car driver was driving his new porshe or whatever you’d call that hunk of metal it transformed into.
Porsche GT2. Essentially a street legal race car.
My guess is race car guy was driving the race car like a race car… on the street.
Thanks, and go As.
Having seen photos of the car afterward, yes. Definitely.
Ever seen photos of the wrecked, stolen Ferrari Enzo?
Ever seen photos of Nancy Pelosi dressed as Gino Torretta?
Seen ’em? Who do you think shot ’em?
It really is your best work.
It’s a concept I’d been kicking around for years. It started out as a concept of dressing John Candy as a llama, and you can imagine where it went from there.
I have to say…John Candy’s recent work hasn’t been all that great.
That man’s career is all but dead at this point.
Yeah, his movie career is six feet under right now.
I think he might be able to resurrect it by starring in the next Weekend At Bernie’s.
I’ll get in line to see that right now.
It’s gonna be killer, I hear.
This is particular incident does not sadden me any more than if a “normal” John Doe died in a car accident (an event which I always consider to be quite tragic), but it did get me thinking, that despite believing that Walker is a terrible, terrible actor, I enjoyed almost every movie in which he starred.
I think I agree with every part of that.
I saw most of the first FF and thoroughly disliked it. What else has be been in, asks the guy too lazy to check imdb? Never mind, I’ll look it up. I need some exercise.
Don’t strain yourself…it’s not worth the risk.
I had to, and thank God I did! It turns out he was on an episode of Charles In Charge. I knew he looked familiar.
No one here (my home, that is) gives a shit about decorating for Christmas, so we don’t do it. At all. Bah humbug.
I’ll keep festooning the house with Xmas lights every year until the inevitable day that I fall off the ladder and break an arm leg or head.
Happy Sunday and Happy Birthday to the Capo Di Tutti Capi of the modern electric bass! Hidden within this tribute is a burning 1983 set with axe-meister Mike Stern.
by some coincidence, it’s the capo of (free) base’s 20th deathniversary. by way of musical tribute, i offer these misheard (possibly just misplaced) lyrics that always ring in my head and that, FSU style, maybe someone here can help me sort out:
something something pablo like escobar
and if i wasn’t, then why would i say i are?
did my mental jukebox just play tiddlywinks and flipped eric b’s “R to the A to the K I M, and if i wasn’t then why would i say i am?” to suit its purposes? or maybe someone else did, like maybe nas, in one of his various escobar-worshipping flows? meh. F it. rap’s as dead as pablo. here, watch some socially pertinent soccer…
I don’t know the original, but Sage Francis has a line referencing that lyric:
I’m a G to the R-E-M-L-I-N
If I wasn’t, then why would I say I am?
Not that this helps at all, since he’s probably referencing Eric B & Rakim there.
fascinating.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/internet/10468112/The-internet-mystery-that-has-the-world-baffled.html
http://mentalfloss.com/article/31932/chasing-cicada-exploring-darkest-corridors-internet
Neat, thanks for linking that. I certainly don’t want to be left out of any plan “to transform humanity into the Nietzschen Ãœbermensch.”
FreeNietzscheÃœbergrade.
That’s awesome. I love puzzles like that. The fact that this particular one has mysterious ends and is likely much more complex than other easily available ones just makes it more interesting.
Not going to spoil ANYTHING about it, but those getting the West Coast feed for the Walking Dead: DO. NOT. MISS. TONIGHT’S. EPISODE.
OMG. It was so tense, my back actually hurt after watching it.
I know…and that twist ending…the whole thing is just a nightmare Bob Newhart is having.
Dude, don’t mess it up for everyone. It was actually the imagination of an autistic kid with a snow globe.
Yep…and his dad, Bruce Willis, was dead the whole time.
And his mother murdered him and his sister and killed herself, and their servants died 50 years ago.
Is that the plot from Patch Adams?
No, Anchorman 2.
I knew that movie was going to be EPIC.
I can’t sleep so I thought I’d come to the quietest place I could think of.
For those keeping score at home we traded in the Mustang and bought a new Ford Escape which means we now have two SUV’s …yes, we hate the environment.
For those keeping score at home, I ate a grilled cheese sandwich with 3 sliced of cheese… yes, I hate my arteries.
3 slices of cheese? Well, aren’t we a fancy boy?
I’m so fancy, my socks match.
My socks are almost as white as I am…actually that’s not possible.
Have you ever been listening to the radio, and a man comes on and tells you how wgite your socks can be?
I don’t listen to the radio…I’m a Republican.
Then how do you get your Limbaugh fix?
I just make up the craziest shit I can think of in my head and then add a racist twist to it.
Solid logic.
heh
I didn’t watch a snap of football today…and now I can’t sleep…I need those Raiders games to put me to sleep.
Things I pretend never happened…
1. Game 1 of the 1988 World Series
2. New Coke
3. Jaws 2
4. Jaws 3
5. Jaws 4
6. Bill Romanowski as a Raider
7. Brian29
8. That night I spent in Vegas with the lady who had surprising upper body strength.
9. My off-Broadway one man show about the life and times of Jerry Reed
10. Getting a Masters Degree in American Studies
My parents have a similar kind of list, but it only has one thing on it: my birth.
They’ve focused their list on only the important stuff it would seem.
The upside: they’ve learned that it’s worth spending a couple bucks on birth control.
Birth control…never heard of it.
I noticed. Your wife is apparently a Fertile Myrtle.
I think she got pregnant with the second one on just firm handshake.
Saves you money on Viagra.
Which is good…I can put that savings towards betting away their college funds.
Gambling is always a sure thing. No reason not to do it.
Well, I’ve done all my Christmas shopping…I just got everyone I know the new Mike + the Mechanics Greatest Hits Box Set…this should ensure that no one will want me to buy them anything next Christmas.
Speaking of Mike + the Mechanics…I had a Reuben sandwich for lunch today.
That’s so weird that you had a Reuben, because I had leftover dal.
I don’t eat leftovers…I’m a Republican.
Oh, you let them trickle down to the riff raff?
Nope…I just throw them in the tire fire I have going on in my backyard.
BTW, I don’t think the Escape is as bad for the Earth as you’re hoping. It’s reasonably full efficient for a vehicle of it’s type, and I think Ford uses a lot of recyclable materials.
What?…Fuck that…I’m taking it back.
That’s probably for the best.
I like the car…we’ll see how long it is before Miss Hawaii takes it from me.
It’s bound to happen. This is what we get for letting women vote.
pfft…chicks, man…what are you gonna do?
Play golf?
That’s a valid answer for almost any question.
Speaking of Reuben Sandwiches…I listened to a Mike + the Mechanics CD while eating lunch today.
The over/under of how many times I’d mention Mike + the Mechanics in this lounge was 2 so I hope you bet the over.
Gosh…I have to be at work fairly soon…good thing my job is really easy.
My posts in this lounge make more sense if you read them as a dialogue between Kirk Douglas and Michael Douglas.
I’m not cool enough to watch The Mentalist.
Where are the posts about Bruno Sammartino?
I’ve decided this off-season to get all my baseball news from FK…I should go into the new season very informed about Jennifer’s nursing career.
I like to ask questions at 2:34 in the morning so here we go…
Favorite Christmas movie?
Die Hard for me.
Gigli
Hmm…the movie in my mind where Jennifer Lopez plays a lesbian is much better.
Speaking of lesbian Jennifer Lopez…I like to eat Ruben sandwiches for lunch while I listen to Mike + the Mechanics.
I’ve never actually seen Gigli. Or the movie you’re referencing.
My movie is called J-Lo on the Down-Low.
I’ll look it up on Netflix right now.
It’s about J-Lo’s journey of self discovery in a women’s prison…a very classy picture.
Bad Santa
yentl.
no wait.
das boot?
roger and me?
three days of the condor?
american psycho? “just think of it as snow. expensive christmas snow.”
though, i suppose i should pick one that reflects my own feelings for the holiday. how ’bout this one?
In three years Matt McGloin will be…
1. Starting QB for the Raiders
2. Starting QB somewhere else in the NFL
3. On an NFL roster as a back up
4. Buried with Jimmy Hoffa
5. Living in a 2 bedroom apartment with JaMarcus Russell, Donald Hollas and Todd Marinovich.
6. President of Bolivia.
7. Totally forgotten
I haven’t seen him play yet. Based on that, I’ll got with #3.
Sadly, I’ve seen him play.
Oh, wait he’s a little gritty white guy so I have to like him…it’s the law or something. I think it’s called the Gradkowski Rule.
That good, huh?
I’m not a fan…I prefer players who have talent.
There are only so many good QB’s to go around.
Well, one of these decades/centuries the Raiders should be able to get one.
Fine…I have a poster of John Travolta in my garage…HOW DARE YOU THINK OF JUDGING ME!
Welcome to Golden Corral…Come for the under cooked chicken stay for the projectile vomiting.
…and now I’d like to play you a tune about the plight of the Dutch and their battle to overcome the hatred they faced from a certain bastard in Arkansas.
My kid is going to be two years old here this week…I already got her a carton of Marlboro Reds for a gift.
Wow, time flies! Is she cussing yet?
Her first words were Broncos Suck Ass…I was so proud.
So I should return the Elway jersey I got her for Xmas?
I’d just burn it to be safe.
I’ll get her Montana, Young, and Rice jerseys. I want this child to be raised right.
Those names will be from the distant past for her…besides only Raiders gear is allowed in our home.
In an effort to drive traffic to Free Kraut I suggest we start actually handing out free kraut to anyone who posts.
Well, I guess Oz quit…what a puppy.
I think this is how I’ll be on FK now…every few weeks I’ll stop by early in the morning and do a couple hundred posts about VORP and BABIP and then be off.
So, Oz…how are things going back in California?
It’s going, I guess. Nothing to report at the moment. Just working on getting a viable business going.
What kind of business are you looking to start?
Photography. Food, product, fashion.
I figured it would be something involving photography or drug running.
If only I could combine both of those passions.
I would imagine taking pictures of someone drug running would be a lose/lose for everybody involved.
Can’t I just take landscape photos as I run drugs?
Hmm…you’ve got a mind for business.
And a face for radio.
Wow…we actually have a good MNF game this week. Seattle vs New Orleans could be a fun game.
I don’t like NO’s chances on the road against Seattle.
Didn’t half of the Seahawks defensive backfield get busted for drugs? I doesn’t matter…clearly the Jaguars are the hottest team in football and will likely win it all.
Nothing really seems to slow the Seahawks down.
Must be all the Adderall.
Probably. Or their shared love of cheap shots.
(shakes fist) THOSE SEAHAWK BASTARDS!
Pretty much. I love that I hate them so much. It’s great the 49ers have a strong and hateable rival.
Rivalries are fun.
Yeah. And the 49ers don’t really have any others right now.
It hurt when the Rams moved to St. Louis…when they were in LA that was a good long term rivalry.
Where are the posts about Norman Rockwell?
Gosh…I must be getting old…my third nipple has some white hairs on it.
Nah…those aren’t mine…they’re just from my hookup last night with The General…I tell you what the diabetes isn’t slowing down Wilford Brimley at all.
Once I heard that Star Trek Voyager was coming out on Blu-Ray I knew that I was lucky to be alive at this exact moment.
actually, you’re not. it’s a time anomaly.
If I knew what this meant I’m sure my mind would be blown.
if you knew what i meant i’m sure your mind would have been melded.
A Winnebago stole my baby!
that’s what i love about the dead kennedy’s. they left no easy target unturned. including retired people…
Speaking of lesbian Jennifer Lopez eating Reuben sandwiches while listening to Mike + the Mechanics…I like to run with scissors.
This is less a lounge and more a Oz/Bed chat room.
Isn’t it always? Just that sometimes it’s cluttered up by these other losers chiming in.
I do wish we could lounge more…I miss it.
Me too. I don’t even have an excuse for not being here. I mostly just curl up naked in a ball and cry all day.
Hmm…I thought that only happened with women who dated me?
Well, there’s something I need to tell you. I used to be a girl. We dated in high school.
So the greatest moment of your life happened in High School then.
The greatest moment of my life was birth. It’s been all downhill since then.
At least you have aging and aches and pains to look forward to.
I knew it immediately when I loaded up FK this morning and saw 196 new comments.
yup
I was like 7 comments before I went to sleep all of yesterday, I wonder why there are 196 this morning. Oh wait bed or oz are back
I’m sorry but I’m just not willing to do full frontal for a Klondike Bar.
Yeah, I won’t make that mistake again.
You live you learn.
It wasn’t satisfying the first 27 times, so I’m done.
Well, at least you gave it an honest effort.
its ok, we were looking for the rear anyway
I like to look at my DVR and see all the things I’m never going to watch.
Apparently PBS is begging for money this year by using Barbara Streisand’s cleavage.
Combined with a time machine, that might work.
Yeah,she might be the only lady who ever slept with both Roosevelts and both Clintons…well, her and J-Lo.
Bridget the Midget hasn’t done that?
Nope…she and Hilary just didn’t hit it off.
Shocking. Maybe she should go after Chelsea.
Hmm…that’s a movie I won’t be making in my head.
… again.
Once would have driven me to a new form of cinema.
If it’ll help drive meta traffic to FK I’m always willing to make some sexist comments. I’m a giver.
Actually we shouldn’t have any more meta wars…if one more person quits FK this place will be as empty as an A’s home game.
It’s too bad you couldn’t make it out to any games this year. I only went to 5, but even the smaller crowds were loud and fun.
My next A’s game in Oakland/San Jose/Mars will be sometime in 2033.
Who has a lower approval rating?
President Obama in Arkansas or Nico with livestock?
Obama. You’re the only A’s fan in AR, hence the only person there who knows of N***’s existence.
Well, that and livestock lovin’ was invented in Arkansas.
Nah, I’ve always associated Arkansas with incest. Everybody knows bestiality originated in Scotland.
So that’s how they flavor Haggis.
Only the fancy version.
Where are the posts about Sherilyn Fenn?
I’m witty and I can prove it…
You’re so dumb it takes you an hour and a half to watch 60 Minutes.
J-Lo on the Down-Low Part II…J-Lo goes on a journey of self discovery at an all girls private school in 1950’s New England
Little known fact…The Salvation Army won the War of 1812 against the British.
In his next role Harrison Ford will be…
1. Gruff
2. Sour
3. Grim
4. Dead
5. All the above
Well, I guess it’s time I talked baseball.
Baseball is a game played in indoor arenas all across Canada. It was invented by Paul Hogan of Crocodile Dundee fame and the object of the game is to make your opponent tap out by using your finishing hold.
I’m smart and I can prove it…
I voted for Pete Wilson…twice!
Did you really?
{crickets}
I don’t think he is old enough. adn he moved to Kansas for college
Yeah, Wilson was probably anchoring the Channel 7 news around then…
If PBS really wants to make money next year they’ll show Barbara Boxer’s cleavage.
B-Bo on the Down-Low…this film will likely have a smaller market share.
The last few times I’ve been here I haven’t seen Kay around…all the people I like quit but Future Ed never fucking leaves.
Up next a 43,000 word post reviewing The Bangles last studio record.
They reformed and released new material in 2003 and 2011. So now their last studio record is Sweetheart of the Sun.
Hmm…I would have guessed their last album came out in 1992 or so…it appears I’m not as up to date on my Bangles knowledge as I should be.
I keep trying to post my crotch shot selfie but I just can’t get it to work.
Well…Oz, it was fun talking baseball with you. I think we all learned something tonight.
To avoid this place when you and I are around?
That would be the logical conclusion.
WFB->Mariners
naturally
Talk about a conservative move.
As bench coach? Not as a player, certainly.
Who?
wells fargo bank. (i had to google it too.)
Actually I’m pretty sure it stands for Wilford Fucking Brimley.
Willie FKing Bloomquist… last hit a HR on August 10, 2011
just like daric barton, amirite!
Take that, Shairon Martis!
William F. Buckley, Jr. Seems like a good fit.
A team that stands athwart sabermetrics, yelling “Stop!”
Well played, sir.
I should sooner play for a team managed by the first two thousand names in the Seattle phone directory than by Bob Melvin.
*cough*
Clearly too subtle for us.
Yeah, that was a big *whoosh* here.
To paraphrase Poppy, it was a joke so subtle as to be indistinguishable from humorlessness.
That’s what I go for.
And succeed more often than not!
Damn you and your subtle, quick wit.
Dear every website I have registered on since 1997:
You can stop sending me your Cyber Monday e-mails. Right now. Please. I am not buying anything online today.
We bought a car on Black Friday so I’ve done my bit for Mother Capitalism this month.
Are you still driving around with the big red bow on the top?
Yep…I got the staple gun out so that damn thing will stay on for months.
Those new Escapes are nice. Last time I was new car shopping the Escape was still on the previous generation and wasn’t competitive. The RAV4 is utilitarian but serves my needs well. Last winter was so dry I didn’t get to put it through its paces much in snow and ice, plus I was still living in a desert valley. It looks like that changes starting tomorrow morning.
“Cyber Monday” has to be the most outdated, vaguely creepy sounding marketing term currently in wide use.
Cyber Monday brought to you by the NSA
fuck. that’s exactly under my office (and around the corner). so convenient. yet, my friend’s band is opening for my other friend’s band in YOUR hood same night.
what to do what to do.
I always like close. but I am going to need to set up a sitter if I want to go.
the tree is up and the lights are working. there are three ornaments on the tree right now.
we got a new light up snowman for the front yard.
i miss baseball.
I’m already horribly sick of x-mas music. Ugh. That shit is awful.
agreed
We have three stations blasting Christmas music full time…two of them started on November 1st. Anything more than a couple of weeks of that stuff should be against the Geneva Convention.
I’m sick of horrible Christmas music. Unfortunately, that’s mostly what’s heard nowadays.
I need to find a bagel shop whose Muzak doesn’t subject me to Alvin and the Chipmunks’ “O Christmas Tree” and “Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer” while I’m trying to enjoy a breakfast bagel and coffee. Grrrrrrr.
If I hear “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” in public one more time, someone may end up dead (probably me).
If I could just hear “Baby It’s Cold Outside” 2 or 3 times between Thanksgiving and Christmas, and none of the rest, I’d be happy.
Baby. It’s cold outside.
the rapiest of all christmas music
…until eazy-e came along.
All he wanted for christmas was HIV?
(too soon?)
We’re waiting for my sister to get into town, so no tree for us for another two weeks.
We have the tree up, and the first batch of lights on the house. Also lights strung inside the house. Really, I can’t get enough colorful blinking lights.
In another couple weeks I’ll do the second round of exterior decor, in which I extend the house lights over the sidewalk to our street tree, and load that up with lights and also big colorful ornaments.
I’ve got both trees up and this year on the main tree I’m using blinking lights for the first time. Very sparkly!
I put my tree up on Saturday. I’m a scrooge when it comes to Christmas, but my wife more than compensates.
Our tree is up since Saturday. Completely bereft of lights/ornaments still, but we’ll get there. Half of that is fear that between Yoenessa and the cat we might have to stop halfway down.
Oh yes–all my decor is a good 6″ above tail-wagging height.
I put our tree up on Saturday…we’re kind of decorating a bit each day. I love the smell of the tree in the house.
It’s been a several hours since I’ve read an Ed post about cricket…this just feels wrong.
So I guess all we need to drive traffic to FK is for Beane to make a trade every six hours.
proposal. not that i absolutely hate toggle buttons or anything (i do hate them*) but… let’s get rid of the toggle that asks for what credit card type i’m using whenever i buy something online.
if the number starts with a 3, it’s AMEX.
if the number starts with a 4, it’s a visa.
if the number starts with a 5, it’s MC.
if the number starts with a 6, 1987 called your landline and wants to know when you’re gonna return that discover card you borrowed.
do websites really not know this? i’m sure CC abusers do…
i honestly can’t see what security measure this adds. maybe back in the day, if i handed a shopkeeper an MC and they could confirm i hadn’t filed down the starting 5 into a 3 or something. but now we have CRV instead.
* hate for toggles being quickly surpassed by predictive fill-ins that give you a dropdown menu with the same word you just typed, but if you just hit enter it doesn’t find the word, so you have to fill in most of it and then click on the menu word supplied. (hello netflix, how ya doing?)
I’ve seen a number of websites actually not ask for the type and figure it out for you by the number. So it does actually exist. It seemed weird to me initially but once I knew they could figure it out for themselves I didn’t give a shit.
Also, you’re drop down hate isn’t the website, it’s the browser. It’s “relatively” new within the next few years. I suspect they’ll eventually improve on it in the future, but overall, I like it, I just wish it worked a little better sometimes.
i’m not sure that’s true that it’s browser related.
both on safari and firefox, i go to netflix. i type in, say, adam curtis. i hit enter. that should be enough for a search, right? my results are: adam-12, molly and roni’s dance party, curious george, and several pages of other non-results that a google algorithm would pee its pants laffing at.
i have to either click or arrow to the suggested adam curtis (which takes just enough time to pop out that i’ve already blown past it by hitting enter) before it takes me to the correct results.
Hmm… some are and some aren’t. For search fields it’s the website. But that part of your problem is the “focus.” If it’s still in the box, it’s going to assume what’s in there is what you want. If it’s on the auto-fill portion, it’ll add that to the box and then search it for you.
1987 never calls my landline, it beeps me on my pager.
Or pages me on my beeper.
oakland skeezo, how do i know?
’cause 415 was the area code.
but seriously, fax me.
You all need to stop. Every time you call you mess up my Compuserve connection. Im trying to play MegaWars over here…
SHUT UP, Y’ALL! Star Trek: The Next Generation is on!
I smell late 80’s nerd.
Your olfactory sense is quite keen.
SHUT UP WESLEY!
WHEATON!