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C’mon Cleveland don’t blow this one.
They’re Cleveland…and they did.
***BREAKING NEWS***
Gerald Ford is still dead and the Oakland Raiders still suck.
Not muggy, not muggy at all.
Some flat out crazy finishes in the early games.
Unless they’re playing the New York Giants the Patriots must have four leaf clovers up their asses…what a crazy win.
Half way through brewing Beer of the Beast. Hoppy, worty goodness abounds.
mmmmm beer
Russell Wilson gives me a football chubby.
My posts in this lounge make more sense if you read them in the voice of Doug McClure.
gronkenstein. :( :( :(
Good win for the 49ers. I’d be fine with seeing these two teams play again in the playoffs.
It would be in Seattle. We’d lose.
Well, I don’t care who wins I’d just be hoping for a good game.
So, the Raiders started last year 3-4 and ended up 4-12. This year they started 3-4 and it’s looking likely they’ll end up 4-12.
Raiders 2012
Offense 26th in points/ 18th in yards
Defense 28th in points allowed/ 18th in yards
Raiders 2013
Offense 26th in points/ 19th in yards
Defense 22 in points/ 22 in yards
Same as it ever was, same as it ever was.
One big difference:
Raiders 2012
Really bad, really expensive.
Raiders 2013
Really bad, really cheap.
There’s a crazy amount of cap room for next year. At least we’re not financially wrecked like before.
I don’t consider that a big difference…results are results. I have little to no faith that McKenzie will spend well in the off-season.
Winning hurts their draft.
Not a problem…the odds of them winning any of their remaining games is slim.
I suppose. I’m just happy we’re hopefully at the end of the WTF? contracts Al gave to guys like Tommy Kelly and Javon Walker.
I agree that it’s good we have cap space…I sincerely hope I’m wrong about McKenzie.
In a bold move PBS is re-running the John Denver concert in effort to raise even more straight cash, homey.
Where are the posts about the internal combustion engine?
Edward Norton went from dating Courtney Love to Salma Hayek…has anyone ever improved their dating status more in the history of dating?
Hey great…more snow is on the way tomorrow. This is starting to get stupid.
My two previous winters at Tahoe, within a mile of the lake, I never saw a temperature below +9F. It was +1F this morning. The airport, maybe 4 or 5 miles from the lake, had -17F today. Supposedly the HOA removes snow from your driveway. It stopped snowing about 8 a.m. yesterday, and they do clear the private roads quickly, but driveways weren’t done until this morning. If you need a driveway done on a schedule, it looks like that goes to the guy in the mirror. I’m committed to this place for several years so I guess I’ll be shopping for snowblowers.
They haven’t even salted and sanded most of the streets here…they just don’t know how to handle snow and ice. I’ll be attempting to go to work tomorrow, thankfully I have 4WD.
Getting streets cleared to at least “passable” is something we do very well. I do laugh at the people who are driving around on chains on plowed, bare pavement because they paid some dude by the side of the road 30 bucks to put them on Friday afternoon to get over the pass and dammit, they are NOT paying another 30 bucks for that same thing on Sunday.
I’m glad for your sake that they do a good job of making the roads passable.
But do you have WD 40?
I should have put on a thicker jacket to ride around the block several times with Milo.
I KNOW from cold
You’re one tough bastard, Ed.
[spits. looks 1000 yards into the distance]
Heh
You can always go sledding
Dead sexiest hill EVER!
J-Lo on the Down-Low Part V: Seducing Miss Daisy
Where J-Lo goes on a journey of self discovery at an all women’s summer camp in 1930’s upstate New York.
Southwest Airlines: Where we toe tag you before you get on board.
Pisses me off that the Maui trip is on Alaska and I have to pay both ways for a suitcase.
Flying gets more unpleasant each year.
The “flying” part is pretty much unchanged over the last 15-20 years or so. I’d argue that the “going through security” part is probably easier now than it was immediately after 9/11, and that doesn’t scare me away as much now. Now the nuisance fees, if you’re flying Spirit Airlines or Allegiant Air or one of those totally chickenshit carriers…
Planes are much fuller than they were 10 years ago, and now you have to pay for food on domestic flights, alcohol on international flights, and – increasingly – entertainment on both.
Flying twice a year, I don’t mind not having food on board. I prefer getting the crappy snacks in the terminal.
Fullness i get, but since they are practically forcing you to use the hub system, full flights and tight connections are the biggest irritant for me.
Remembering some of the horrible TV dinner stuff that was thrown at me on domestic flights, I’m delighted that “food” is no longer served except as a paid option. I can live for 5 or 6 hours on peanuts and $5 Heinekens.
I still get free beer on Qantas, which is pretty much mandatory for a 12+ hour flight.
Free beer is why I joined the Mormon church.
Green jello is why I quit the Mormon church.
Yeah – I was exclusively thinking of US carriers. All the Europeans still provide free booze, but I’m forbidden from taking them (and how do you end up on Qantas, assuming that’s for getting to/from the pole?)
You are forbidden from taking European carriers or their booze?
Yup – the Fly America act dictates that any flight paid for with money of federal origin (NASA, NSF and DOE in my case) must be on a US carrier, regardless of cost.
Ticket is purchased from American Airlines, but the route is operated by Qantas. I think that there might occasionally be an AA-operated flight on that route and will be very sad if I ever end up on it.
That’s the one work-around – I can likewise fly on a Lufthansa plane if I buy a United ticket. However, United has stopped counting those miles in lifetime totals and I’m within 100K of reaching million-mile status, which gives permanent premier and star alliance gold status for both me and a family member, so till I’ve got that one under my belt I’ll be suffering United metal.
ruh rhoh seattle. (follow up to soakers link)
I thought this was going to be about condom size again.
I don’t consider the Mariners a threat in any way. Cano is a fine player but that contract is insane.
Oh Mariners.
Well, since Jennifer is here…best superhero movie ever?
Trick question. There’s no wrong answer.
So Electra?
Batman and Robin?
catwoman
Honestly, I haven’t seen any of those.
Actually Catwoman with the sound off isn’t half bad.
All superheroes. All okay.
I’m not sure it’s the best but the superhero movie I enjoyed the most was Batman Begins.
I send my friends awesome injury pictures I find on the internet. That’s how I show I care.
I send my friends pictures to blackmail them. That’s how I show I care…and how I get paid, bitches.
Sure, sure it’s all fun and games until someone gets a spastic colon.
Where are the posts about Jimmy “Superfly” Snuka?
I have to give Bill Simmons credit…he called the Kings trading for Rudy Gay earlier in the year and they just did.
It almost makes up for the two part Kennedy assassination podcast…almost.
The face that launched a generation into celibacy.
when SLF was a reporter in Seattle, she did a story about a pornography website asking their performers to use a “Dildo Cam.” Kennedy had a radio show at the time and interviewed SLF on the radio. it was quite funny to realize that she still had a job. (this was the late 90s).
She still has a job, this time as a crypto-rightwing Fox News host!
Did you catch Part 2 of that thing? Bill James sounded a little crazy.
I’m a little worried about an upcoming drug test…I’ve been hitting The Flintstones vitamins pretty hard lately.
This lounge is brought to you by these fine sponsors…Datsun, Montgomery Wards and Walter Mondale’s 1984 Presidential Campaign.
I’m not cool enough to shop at Sears.
Due to my busy schedule I’ve had to cut the time I spend looking at myself in the mirror down to five hours a day.
Little known fact…the original Declaration of Independence went as follows…You gotta to fight for your right to party.
Can we at least all agree that Colonel Mustard did it with a candlestick in the study?
Old perve that he was.
You get Colonel Mustard and Colonel Sanders in the same room and it was just a big time perv show.
I like lounges when they’re empty…it reminds me of my tour of nightclubs where it was just me, my banjo and the music I wanted to share with the world.
Fine…I have a poster of John Wayne Bobbitt in my garage…HOW DARE YOU JUDGE ME OR COME NEAR ME WITH A KNIFE!
You come gunning for the Bed…you best not miss.
Where are the posts about Proposition 13?
deep inside you know the answer
Deep inside in those places I’m too afraid to talk about the answer is clear.
Locked in a chest in the basement of the Capitol building.
smoking cigars on the lawn with AH NOLD
You know I’m starting to think that Wookies might not be real.
Speaking of not real. Croatian friend’s little daughter came all upset from school the other day, because the teacher in religious education made the point of insisting that Santa Claus is not real and that it is dressed up actors who give out the gifts. I mean, what the fuck, really. Out of all people YOU are the one who feels invited to talk about made up things? My country seems to be on the fast track to hell…
Wait?…what?…Santa’s not real?…(Bed goes off for a good cry)
I think I put on a little weight…my pleather body suit is snug in all the wrong places if you know what I mean.
Just remember it could be worse…well, not really…I’ve seen how you live and frankly that’s about as bad as it gets.
I’m almost old enough to watch CBS Sunday Morning.
Speaking of old people…the Dutch really suck at basketball.
I feel the need…the need to drive at a sensible speed preferably about 5 miles bellow the speed limit.
I think we all can agree that Dan Aykroyd rapping as Joe Friday is the high water mark for culture in all of Western Civilization.
I’m not cool enough to watch Mike & Molly.
…and remember kids, always use full arm motion to prevent wrist injuries.
Hello friends…won’t you please join me as I bring freedom to children everywhere by getting rid of all child labor laws. Now, these little tykes can know the joy that comes with full employment.
So you’re saying sir, that you shooting your mistress in her downtown loft was a hunting accident?
Speaking of hunting accidents…the Dutch really suck at volleyball.
ELECTRIC ORGAN SOLO!
and
Pardon me…but would you happen to have any Grey Matter?
Fine!…I can take a hint.
6. Eight letter word across…A type of bird that mostly lives in Fresno.
Aangry
Fig Eagle. Duh.
You haven’t lived until you’ve heard Shakespeare in it’s original Braille.
…and the Bed rests.
The bed abides.
Where the FK are all the cricket comments? FKin’ bastards.
I miss The Walking Dead already.
It’s always fun when you have a real passion for a show…I can’t wait until Justified and Mad Men come back.
Vikings on History is good too. Both are on Sunday. DVR to the rescue.
You and a couple other people have told me that Vikings is a good show…when I get a chance I’ll give it a look.
Where are the posts about Gordon Lightfoot?
I went to work today…and I was the only one in my office there…so I planted my flag and took control…well, not really but I did steal the stapler from my bosses office.
Speaking of planting my flag…the Dutch really suck at Racquetball.
I was such boob man growing up I always made sure to get two D’s on each report card.
You and MikeDD, I mean MikeV.
14. Eleven letter word down…This movie starred both John Wayne and Adam Sandler.
Congrats to Tony La Russa on making the Hall of Fame…he’ll always be my favorite baseball manager.
and game designer
I played those games…I think it was one of the first baseball video games that you had to warm up you relief pitchers before you brought them in.
On the news they showed a town that’s on the Missouri border…on the Missouri side the roads have been treated and the ice is mostly gone. On the Arkansas side the roads haven’t been touched and are slick as hell. This is called going from the Midwest to the South.
Probably my career highlight is the Oscar nomination I got for Best Costume Design on a Animated Short.
Sal is NOT animated
not till he starts talking about science and stuff
Best cracker and cheese combination?
The expensive cheese my parents buy for parties on the expensive crackers my parents buy for parties.
Sounds expensive.
Checking in from Disneyland. I think I saw DFA in a Woody the Cowboy suit. I’ve logged a good five miles walk/jogging for Fast Passes today. My feet ache. Having so much fun. Total joy infusion. Hope it sticks. See ya later.
FSU sounds like the happiest guy in the happiest place on Earth…except for his feet.
21. Nineteen letter word across…This song title was on Don Henley’s third rap album, Henlez Hitz Thatz.
Where are the posts about Bodega Bay houses for sale?
So my car has been difficult to steer lately. Dad looked at it and there was no power steering fluid. Additionally, the rack and pinion and the power steering pump were dead. Dad said I was driving a death trap. I thought I was getting weak.
Sounds like you might have a car payment heading your way soon.
Like hell. I’ll drive one of dad’s work trucks. It has our name and phone number written down the and everything!
I’m at the point in my life where I’ve been spoiled so I need to have new shinny vehicles to drive. Luckily I’ve been able to buy them outright as of late.
I have eye surgery Thursday. Different priorities. Definitely no Oakland next year.
Eye surgery?!?! Is it LASIK time?
Yep!
When my vision starts to go I’m getting Harry Caray glasses.
Say goodbye to these!
http://tinypic.com/r/2zdorbk/5
I’m still limping along with bifocals. Upper part for distance, lower part for reading something like a book or the monitor. I can’t read something like the small print on a label with the glasses; need to take them off and hold the label a few inches from my eyes. Any further deterioration, I’ll probably go for LASIK.
I am glasses bound soon
youll look good in glasses.
I think I’m headed for bifocals soon. I’ve always used glasses for distance, and taken them off to read up close, but the range of distances for reading seems to be narrowing (and is different for each eye).
That sounds like where I was several years ago. I definitely can’t read the monitor with the distance portion, but to read it without glasses at all my nose has to be about 6 inches from the screen.
Psht… Ive had bifocals since before I was old enough to remember. All the cool kids have them.
I hope your surgery is successful. You’re in a good profession so you’ll be able to build a nice life for yourself as you advance through it.
I thought we had that all covered – flight and accommodation at lest.
We did?
Apparently spelling and hot water are off the list, but otherwise … right Ed?
hot water is a go! just had a shower
I have a bunch of United miles I’m never using. Or is it Delta?
Are you asking yourself which you have or me which I was planning on using?
I’m asking myself. I’m reminding myself to look it up.
It’s usually absurdly expensive to transfer miles to an individual. Last time I had some Delta miles that were about to expire I just donated them; Delta’s site gives you several options for recipients. I gather ptbnl has transferable flight certificates, or some other mechanism to bypass the expense.
I was going to use United miles, which don’t need to be transferred to Jennifer to put the ticket in her name.
If EM’s are United we’ll figure out the best way to mix ‘n’ match.
I don’t know about Delta, but American lets you do the same thing that ptbnl describes — just use your miles yourself to buy a ticket for someone else. I once looked into actually transferring miles and it was a ripoff similar to what you describe.
I’ve transferred miles once, when I was 2000 miles short of an award flight, and yes it’s a rip-off ($15/1000 miles + $30/transaction = $60) but it was still way cheaper than paying for a transatlantic ticket.
How many united miles? B/C if you’re really not going to use them you should check out their merch section. I had a bunch that proved to be totally useless for flights, but I did get an ipad.
I’m not worthy.
think of it this way then: Its not costing us anything to fly you out and put you up. See? you are valueless
respond jennifer. Its making me nervous.
How do you want me to respond?
I called you valuless. as a joke, you were supposed to say Oh, ed you are funny. of course I will come out for the clinching weekend.”
or something.
Would you like Bacon with that?
I’d def. sign him to a minor league deal.
Why is Family Feud always a white family against a black family?
Because Richard Dawson’s ghost is a well known racist.
Who’s you favorite Secretary of the Interior ever?
james watt. I’m a republican
He had a very diverse staff.
lots of crackers and cheese?
You ever open up your Hungry Man Meatloaf TV dinner and think to yourself I should have gotten the Salisbury Steak instead?
I demand tribute…bring me your finest meats and cheeses.
Bologna and Velveeta!
That would be paradise for my dad…for me…it’s a version of Hell on Earth.
Like the rest of you all I’ve been thinking about the last four hours is…what is the best cracker and cheese combination?
My answer is not meant to shock or surprise but it may be so controversial that friendships will be lost and warrants for my arrest may be sought.
I’m going Triscuts with some sharp cheddar.
Speaking of sharp cheddar…the Dutch really suck at Wiffleball.
Ooh, so close! The answer we were looking for was water crackers and Boursin.
I don’t even know what Boursin is…I’m a Republican.
gene wilder and gorganzola
Ed’s gone Stir Crazy.
aw man, I shoulda said tom hanks and Paul lynde
Wheat Thins and smoked gouda.
27. One letter word down…Name of Thomas Jefferson’s lucky pair of breeches.
I’m not cool enough to have an AOL email address.
Our great Mayor said the roads will be cleared when the sun comes out…what a dipshit.
At some point either Papa John’s or Papa Murphy’s must die…there can be only one.
Progressive Rock … fusion before 1975 … neo-Marxist revolution to bring down the billionaires … other shit no one could care less about
OK, there’s the full extent of my personality, consider it Lounged.
I like your focus and how you got down to business in an effective and economical fashion.
Top 5 John Cusack movies
1. Grosse Pointe Blank
2. High Fidelity
3. Say Anything
4. The Grifters
5. Eight Men Out
Better Off Dead.
of his early period, i prefer the ones without a horrible claymation break, such as the sure thing (it seems between underrated romcoms, people are more likely to forget the one where nobody holds a boombox over their head, but we should remember it was his first lead and without him nailing it nothing else follows) and tapeheads (though i guess early video production effects can be as bad as claymation).
So Oz…why do you think Jimmy Carter hates you so much?
he has oz
lusthate in his heartA friend of mine started to sing a Bon Jovi song in my presence…so I shot him, and now I’m wanted dead or alive.
Almost. I almost hate you. Half way there.
…and I-I-I-I-I…have always hated you-u-u-u
I am a dolly parton fan
Speaking of Double D’s
So Ed…why do you think Jimmy Carter knocked out your water heater?
he has lust in his heart for un showered people. (I now wish I showered on the weekends)
I shower everyday of the week…I’m a preppy…it’s the law.
if I run on the weekend I will, but not if its just regular. Although i did a fair amount of biking sunday (GGPark and back)
A shower in the morning is how I wake up. I don’t drink coffee so I need something to get me going.
my shower attempt this morning was not a way to wake up.
I only take cold showers after seeing Joe Biden give a speech.
I know I’m hard on the Dutch but they brought on themselves for starting the Korean War.
So Jennifer…why do you think Jimmy Carter drained all the power steering fluid out of your car?
Signs you’re over 40…your new cologne smells a lot like Ben-Gay.
Just got a text from Bridget the Midget…it turns out she’s up in Canada. Apparently she’s Toronto Mayor Rob Ford’s new girlfriend/drug dealer. It warms my heart to see a couple that just seems so right.
Where are the posts about Neve Campbell?
Wld Things with Denise Richards and her is a cinematic classic
Anytime I’m asked to say something about myself the answer is always the same…five inches but it’s thick.
Hey…it’s snowing…great…(Bed goes off for a good cry)
jimmy carter don’t like it
It’s true but Billy Carter loves it.
Top 5 Tom Cochrane songs
1. Life is a Highway
2. Life is a Highway
3. Life is a Highway
4. Life is a Highway
5. Life is a Highway
coincidentally, Milo is a fan of cars.
Coincidentally, Sara is a fan of The Cars.
you might think that’s foolish
say?
Ed…who’s gonna drive you home, tonight?
that is just what I needed
Hmm…damn, I’m out of Cars songs.
And poof! I thought of one. Its magic.
anybody else watching the highlights of Australia destroying England? two days man. delared after 3 wickets.
Daymn
Yes, yes that’s what I’m watching right now on The Cricket Channel.
When the A’s play the Red Sox next year I would like to see Bob Melvin declare after 5 innings.
Colin bait
Lol. This is ridiculous:
I’d like to announce my new play…Waiting for Paul Gigot.
Tom Cochrane would have had a long and successful career filled with big hit songs if it wasn’t for Jimmy Carter.
Every time I see a Vienna Sausage it seems oddly familiar.
All this bad weather has been bad for me but great for you…it’s allowed my to be here on Free Kraut…speaking truth to power.
truth to powter
(oz, follow it. you will like)
pfft…heart disease…I don’t get heart attacks, I get even.
I think it was Mark Twain who said it best…Dennis Allen is a football coach who coaches football to football players who play football.
With his 8-21 record, Allen may well be looking for a football coaching job with a different football team after 3 more football games.
Well, the Raiders fire their coaches every two years…it’s the law.
Bring Charlie Weis back to the NFL!
I think it’s time…he’s clearly done all he can do at KU so he needs a new challenge.
When a lounge gets into it’s second night all the herbs and spices become more pronounced with each bite.
It was 1978…I was doing some hash with David Soul at Bette Midler’s place in Malibu. The air was electric and it seemed like anything was possible.
I’m not cool enough to read James Patterson novels.
I believe I have irrefutable evidence that proves Puff The Magic Dragon does not in fact live by the sea.
do you have anyone that would testify UNDER OATH about frolicking in autumn mist?
I do…my witness goes by the name Joe Isuzu.
Like most people when I find that I’m a point where I have to make a major life decision I ask myself…what would Matt Millen do?
The answer is always the same…draft a wide receiver in the 1st round.
People just don’t use the word whoopee enough anymore.
the view fans do
…and 5Aces wins the lounge.
Well, the Brett Anderson era is over in Oakland…I’d say thanks for the memories Brett but I’ll likely forget who he was by Friday.
Dude was supposed to be an “ace” but threw a total of 450 innings in his 5-year Oakland career. Seems like there aren’t any chronically-injured Athletics at the moment so it’s left to Darren McFadden to carry on that tradition at the Coliseum.
He only threw 450 innings total? Wow, I didn’t know that. You often come up with posts that actually provide information, Soaker…it provides balance to all my nonsense.
As far as McFadden he’ll soon be following Brett out the door I think.
Bedward, how is Mrs. Bed? Still pregnant? When is the little guy due?
She’s doing good…it’s a little bit easier the second time around since you know what to expect. He’s due in about 10 days or so but she was over a week late last time so we’ll see.
We had a preggo lady come in this weekend. I got to do Leopold’s maneuvers and fetal heart tones. It had been a while since I’ve gotten to do that stuff. It was fun.
I’m looking forward to the big day and everyone being healthy and safe. The last couple of years have been interesting and often amazing. Not all that long ago I wasn’t sure I’d even ever have kids and now I can’t imagine my life without having them.
Leopold’s maneuvers made me think of Bloom.
It’ll pass.
You made a pass?
Sounds right
I’ve been working my way through all the “A Football Life” shows from the NFL Network and I recently watched the Al Davis episode. One of my favorite parts was this…
Raiders Rules
Rule #1 Cheating is encouraged
Rule #2 See rule number one.
Many of the roads are finally cleared of ice…not due to anything our road crews did…the sun came out today and did the job instead.
Hopefully this will start getting things back to normal and there’s real upside in that for you…it means a lot of the stuff I was scheduled to do last week will happen now, this week and next, and I’ll be too busy to pester Free Kraut again for a while.
A little piece of me dies when you leave.
That’s awfully sweet of you to say.
the roads bootstrapped themselves. didn’t need no gummit handout
Lounge: Day 3
Most of our supplies are gone now but spirits remain high. Ed has put together a makeshift water heater made out of Popsicle sticks and duct tape. Oz is keeping everyone loose with his nude rhythmic gymnastics. After her recent eye surgery Jennifer can shoot laser beams from her eyes, so she’s been able to keep the zombies, lead by Jimmy Carter, at bay. Bridger the Midget and Rob Ford spend most of their time spooning on the dirty floor while I watch, intently. I don’t know how much longer we’ll last, but no matter what…we’ll go down swinging like Rob Deer.
mmmphfffbwaaaaahahaha… (!)
most hilarious ever.
I don’t want to get all political here but…you’re a nice group of folks.
When you come to a fork in the road…take it…to the limit…one more time.
What’s up with chain coffee places always asking whether I want room for cream in my coffee? I only put in a splash of cream, so I don’t need a ton of “room,” but yeah, I want some air in there. Surely even people who drink their coffee black don’t want those gigantic cups filled to the brim, making it impossible to even put the lid on without burning your fingers. Let’s dispense with this charade, baristas of America, and just normalize the fact that a 16-oz cup of coffee will only contain 15.5 oz.
right. I don’t put anything in, but if I say “no”, I get it filled to the top, which I dump out in their trash can. with the plastic lining. You know, my scalding hot beverage, in plastic.
If its a beer, fine to the top, coffee? presume I am going to walk with it for a while before I actually take a sip.
dude! not that i condone take-out soup (it needs to be slurped hot, and soon) but there’s gotta be a better way than pouring boiling water into a plastic tub that is visibly melting into your food.
soup. sure.
but if you don’t want a coffee mess in your coffee shop don’t fill shit up too high
no, i went tangential. jumped to carcinogens.
The proper takeout soup receptacle is a thick paper container with one of those really thick paper lids (I think there is some other material inside the layers of paper on the lid. Those things keep soup hot and don’t leak.
i hate to give whole foods credit (or cash for that matter), but that’s what they use. with lid technology so steam can escape but not the broth. the city or state’s gonna have to ban plastic before my pho shop starts paying for those though.
way to fucking go uruguay!
now you are just throwing random letters together.
es because i am so el stoned-o.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/12/11/us-uruguay-marijuana-vote-idUSBRE9BA01520131211
there is another country in south america besides mexico?
mexico? in south america?
I TOLD YOU WE NEEDED A STRONGER BORDER!!!
I couldn’t care less that some people use the phrase I could care less.
***ACTUAL BED TWEETS***
Bed Lounge posts are so petty and silly. I can’t believe we pay so much attention to them. Anyway…I’m really lazy and apparently my computer doesn’t have a search engine so update me on today’s real world fiasco.
Where are the posts about Juice Newton?
Well, where are they?
i want to say something about the queen of hearts. is that the right reference?
I’ll Twitter up Brandon McCarthy to find out.
What’s the first cool thing you bought using money you earned yourself?
For me it was when I purchased the services of Lodi’s finest lady of the night…she took my virginity and my pancreas.
my first paycheck was in 1984. So I am guessing either an adam ant cassette, or a donation to the committee to re elect Mondale
True or false…Adam Ant won as many Electoral College votes as Walter Mondale in the 1984 Presidential Election
And, he would’ve been a better choice.
than Reagan.
I have to say I’m really enjoying watching Ratboy Shanahan implode as the head coach of the Washington NFL team. I’m sure Al is also having a blast in Hell watching it happen too.
J-Lo on the Down-Low Part VI: The Undiscovered C*ntry
Where J-Lo goes on a journey of self discovery with an all female mountain climbing expedition in 1970’s Nepal.
Damn…it’s good to be a hamster.
One of my favorite Stones songs too. Keith Richards is so freaking cool.
Apropos of nothing, aside from AV bait.
nice jump! unfortunately it was 100% the goalie who scored on that one.
Wow. Terrible.
Huh, so that wasn’t Goycochea. I hadn’t realized he wasn’t the first choice at the start of the tourny. If that other guy hadn’t gotten injured, maybe Italy hoists the cup that year.
THAT’S what was so wonderful about goyco’s WC. pumpido was name brand. he gets hurt and then everybody’s all, “cup over, goyco who???” but he saved all those penalties.
I had to go back and watch the shootout, for the first time since seeing it live in a bar in Northern Italy when I was a kid. Maradona’s penalty is hilarious.
JFC. i can’t be watching this right now. gotta save my tears of joy.
now watching finals highlights. germany fucking DOVE. TWICE!
What? But Germany never cheats!
ach!
You mean all both of them?
no. i meant all 4 of them. (my generation has the ability to remember things from 1990.)
the video above only had two saves, which is why I thought the construction was interesting.
He really should have saved Baggio’s lousy penalty too. I guess the soccer gods were saving Roberto’s punishment for later.
which shows the soccer gods must have a lousy bureaucracy because i’m petty sure the next penalty exit AND exit to s korea were meant for baggio but got tuttle/buttle’d to di biagio.
Don’t even get me started on 2002. The soccer gods unleashed a plague of locusts on Italy in that one.
you go for italy? i missed that somewhere. i thought you were usa/brazil/portugal, kinda in that order.
Brazil and Portugal are political allegiances. The Azzurri are my first soccer love (Paolo Rossi 4eva), even if we’ve grown apart a bit over the years.
i’d wish you a final like 1994’s but that goes against my primary interests.
Man, that game sucked though, didn’t it? Let’s hope for more entertainment at least.
i honestly can’t remember the game. i probably watched it. just can’t mentally picture the exact moment. i was in argentina at the time. the national mood toward soccer in general had taken a… nose dive.
aaaaaaaaaiiiiiiighghghghghgh!!!!!!
!!!!!
SIX. MONTHS. FROM. NOW.
!!!!
(from 1pm for actual game time.)
It was a classic display of Italian soccer ingenuity. They know when the other team is considerably better than them, and they know what to do about it, namely murder the game and bury it in the woods somewhere.
allegedly.
Some dumbass is having eye surgery in the morning and forgot to pick up her presence eye drops before the pharmacy closed.
I heard you could substitute your own urine and it works just as well.
Post-op care would be so much easier if I had a penis.
The Penis: Making post-op care easier since day one.
Also, I was at the pharmacy yesterday.
I just remembered I was supposed to pick up a pre-op PO sedative too. I fail.
It’s okay you’re gritty…you’ll be fine.
I got tge Valium because I had an eye surgery as a kid that was scary as hell. I can’t even wear contacts without freaking out.
I have to be held down just to put eye drops in my eyes…no way in hell I’m putting in contacts. Luckily I have near perfect vision.
Happiness is: Jerry the Blev coming into FB chat to personally thank you for your friendship and support. Gonna miss that guy.
Me too, Jerry was a great Athletic, seemed to genuinely like the fans and enjoyed being part of our team.
Was he the tall one?
http://www.fangraphs.com/wins.aspx?date=2012-09-11&team=Angels&dh=0&season=2012
I have no idea what that link went to…I’ll assume it had something to do with cricket.
He was at one point simultaneously the tallest and the lightest player on the A’s roster.
Hmm…I thought Bartolo held that honor.
Blevins had MLB’s lowest BMI. Colon had its highest.
I loved that he went from guy no one ever wanted to see in the game to the guy who saved 2012.
I’d like baseball more if they wore pads and hit each other.
More of a hockey man, eh?
Yep, I do love the power play.
I slipped on some ice today and went down and I went down hard.
why were you in the freezer at dominos?
Because I moved to Arkansas to follow my true love…cheap nasty pizza.
Re the snow and ice discussion above, I just picked out my holiday present to myself. It’s a lightweight as snowblowers go, but I don’t have to clear that much, plus I like the low-maintenance electric machine compared to that gas-powered dinosaur with the corded start the landlord let me use at the previous place. I’ve found that desperate neighbors who see me using a snowblower will quickly hand me a $20 if I can get them out of their garage in 15 minutes so it’ll pay for itself that way in addition to my own use. Those frickin’ 12-gauge extension cords are expensive though.
Many of the roads here still aren’t clear of ice…it’s pathetic and people are starting to get pissed off.
More of a hockey man, eh?
My ability to mimic 1980’s era WWF wrestlers really hasn’t helped my career as much as I thought it would.
Have you listed it on your LinkedIn profile? Maybe that’s the problem.
I’ll do that right after I have an FB chat about it…in related news what’s an FB chat?
It’s a hockey thing.
What’s your favorite social media platform?
…and yes, I’m not entirely sure I understand the question I’m asking.
You’ve probably never heard of it. Everyone but one guy talks about almost nothing but the A’s, and you can’t even find it with Google.
Well, I use Bing (not really) so I should be able to find this place. Finally I’ll get to talk about my passion for the Arizona Fall League.
Look. I like the social media. I like facebook. I can see other people’s pictures. I have stayed in contact with people that were at one time very close friends that I would have otherwise lost touch with.
I like twitter. can read jokes, get baseball news, and real news in a nice headline format
I don’t know about instagram. My picture needs are met by facebook. Linked in I don’t understand. Do people get jobs through it? It seems weird.
So which do you like more…Facebook or Twitter or Juice Newton?
that’s like asking what do I like better apples, a notebook or juice newton
I have to be honest. Until just now I kind of thought Juice Newton and Olivia Newton-John were the same person, or at least related.
See…people do learn things in the lounge.
People do get jobs through linkedin. Basically the idea is it is your professional facebook.
One of my reasons for avoiding all this shit is that I want to keep my professional relationships as far apart from my internet and brick-and-mortar friend relationships as possible.
Every job I’ve gotten has been in person…I wouldn’t even know how to do it through the net.
Basically its the same as in person except linkedin tells you that someone that you did business with that one time that would recommend your work but you don’t really talk to after you did business actually knows someone who is in the department that is hiring at that company where your dream job is and can put in a good word for you.
In real life you probably wouldn’t ask that person for help.
a solid policy. I don’t really worry about jobs. Sure, I would like to get another one sometime, but the hiring people in my line of work don’t mind swear words and stuff
Having finally capitulated to FB in order to keep up with the grandkids, I’ve just made sure not to add any professional contacts.
ONE OF US ONE OF US ONE OF US
(but yeah, its good for long distant family stuff)
yeah, FB’s value for me is in messaging. self-updating contact book.
I’m in touch by phone and email with all the family and friends that I still want to be in touch with so Facebook doesn’t appeal to me.
Twitter I kind of get as a place to be goofy but I prefer to do that on A’s related baseball blogs.
I rarely make comments on twitter. just passively read other peoples jokes and news
If I ever join I’ll ask you for some people to read on it.
good luck with that. eventually it all bleeds together. first its coworkers who are your friends. then they are promoted out of the bargaining unit and are in MGMT.
yup. i think g-socialmedia has circles that lets you control this kind of thing, but i don’t want to have to think about preferences and settings just to make sure my mom, client, formal acquaintance, or, especially my nice, don’t see a pic of me, that i didn’t put up, dressed like al czervic smoking a cigarette.
My fb friends are all people I know socially, not professionally.
My linkedin contacts are a mix of personal and professional, but it’s not like people post photos or embarrassing public messages there, so it’s not really an issue.
I got my current job after a recruiter found my resume (not sure if it was on linkedin or dice) and contacted me. That seems to be pretty common in the tech world. Lots of jobs either aren’t really advertised at all, or at least there is no central place where you can assume every job in your area will be listed.
I would say that most good jobs aren’t advertised, unless you work for an organization with a policy of posting everything.
i have formally linked out. hate that site.
But I just endorsed you for “Al Czervik impressions”!
explains that job i got making $14 the hard way.
LinkedIn is great for being contacted by recruiters (if you’re in the job market).
I see the film Top Gun as a subtle morality play about the interplay of man and machine and what it means to see the face of God in every day volleyball games.
It’s too small for me to tell who that is.
duke cunningham
A corrupt congressman…I just never thought anything like that was possible.
Top 5 Charlotte Bobcats
1. Uh
2. Um
3. Ah
4. Er
5. N/A
Tonight on Kojak…
Kojak stops a group of street thugs from terrorizing a local piano recital.
Hey, hey LBJ how many Ding Dongs did you eat today?
Trick question, the Ding Dong was not produced until 1967 and thus available for less than half of LBJ’s term in office! You history buffs all think you’re so damn smart…
Hey! History majors are the coolest people ever and that degree has helped dozens of us get jobs at McDonalds.
Tonight on Airwolf…
Airwolf stops a group of street thugs from terrorizing a local performance of The Nutcracker.
Who watches Airwolf? Blue Thunder is where I get all of my hit 80’s super helicopter action thankyouverymuch.
(Ernest Borgnine reads 5Aces post and goes off for a good cry)
(Jan-Michael Vincent tries to read 5Aces post but is too damn drunk to do so)
Speaking of Jan-Michael Vincent…the Dutch really suck at Foosball.
When it comes to super helicopters I was bi…I loved both of them..or I guess technically all three of them since I saw both the Blue Thunder movie and the Blue Thunder TV show to go along with Airwolf…I also enjoyed Knight Rider and Street Hawk so basically any super form of transportation really got me going as a little kid.
..and just remember you can go to my personal website at http://www.bedbathandbeyond.com
Someone asked what I thought of Taylor Swift today. I don’t have a joke here I just thought I’d share a little bit about my day.
This lounge is four days old…I better light some candles to cover the dead body smell.
My new Kindle Fire came in the mail today…now I just need someone to tell me what it is.
get a twitter account.
I thought you people were taking care of that for me. I knew I should have gotten Juice Newton to do it for me.
I am hoping to on my stay cation. after christmas.
Hopefully you will stick around.
I’m going to be off after tonight for a while…this weather has me behind on several things I wanted to do before the new kid shows up.
I will email the link and it will have to be a “greatest” hits from the archive
As I’ve said…people should just take the posts they like and make them their own. I do this for fun and I’ll always appreciate that you folks let me be silly here.
You and Miss Hawaii will be busy but give us a quick update when Bed Jr. makes his debut.
I promise to do so…it could be any day now.
hit the mayday button… the commercials say youll be fine.
So SLF and I are walking the kids home from school. They are on scooters. We get to the street crossing right next to our house(its a shortcut for people to get to 101). A guy i a audi looks at me and I begin to cross. I stop in front of his car and turn to the kids who hadn’t started yet. SLF prods them and they begin to leave the curb.
As they do, I notice teh audi lurch forward a bit ( I had my back to it). I turned an looked at the 30 year old. he raised both hands in the air and either mouthed or yelled “come on” at me.
Now, I know my kids were now in the crosswalk, but I could not help squaring up to his car and leaning slightly over flying the finger from both hand.
the guy from the liquor store on the corner was outside on the street as was one of the regulars who then yelled at teh auidi guy and copied my double barrels at him.
Hey! He drives an AUDI! That means people need to get the fuck out of his way.
I am guessing he just thought I absent mindedly stopped in the cross walk and did not see the kids. but I mean 1) we made eye contact before I left the curb 2) i was standing next to the kids and 3) it was one second since I stepped in teh street before he lurched
I find that a lot of people totally change their personality when they get behind the wheel.
i got yelled at yesterday for making a 3-pt turn and making a woman have to slow down and wait slightly. after i parked, she rolled down her window and said a bunch of crap (while waiting at that red light that i guess was my fault she had to stop for). after i crossed the street in front of her she rolled the other side down and yelled some more. i turned around, made a thumb/pinkie sign, winked, and said, “call me.” she stopped yelling, looked at me kinda perplexed. the perfect pause for a “who knows? maybe i’ll give a fuck over the phone.”
I love it when people hank at me when I am parking IN A CITY!
I often invite them tp move to walnut creek if they don’t like parallel parking (no offence Mike)
Hmm…the last time I parallel parked was my driving test.
Audi: For the person who can’t afford a BMW
not counting robin masters, of course.
Oh…a Magnum PI related post…I just got all tingly inside.
it might have been the mustache.
It’s 12 year old Brian’s favorite show.
Audi: Hitler approved.
Audi: Not even the Dutch like these cars.
i kinda always did. mainly 80s and 90s models. real boxy ‘n stuff.
Where are the posts about Patty Hearst?
They’re all in Symbionese.
historic
musical.
I should quit my job and just go back and find all the posts I like from the last five years on AN and FK and put them in a book called…
Bed Hates The Dutch, Not Sure If That Helps?
Audi: Four letters all of them bad.
Audi: Didn’t we fight two wars not to have put up with the crap?
69. Four letter word across…Type of car only driven by snapper heads.
Heh…heh…heh…you said 69.
aude?
Close…the actual answer is Pontiac.
Bed: President of the Durrty Gertie Fan Club
I have it on good authority that Jolly Ranchers actually aren’t all that happy.
Well, my shoulder hurts from falling on ice, I’m a little dehydrated and my wife has quite the beer belly going on…Damn…it’s good to be a Bedster.
The moment that changed my life forever?
It was 1987…I watched as Robin Leach interviewed Brigitte Nielsen on Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous…I knew right there and then that I wanted to grow up to be an education bureaucrat in Arkansas.
Is there anything sexier than shoulder hair? I mean besides back hair?
This lounge cannot be reproduced without written consent from Major League Baseball.
Once again Time Magazine screws me over from being Person of the Year.
you won in 2006
Yeah, but they took back the award due to those nude photos I took with Vanessa Williams.
I got my mind on Eddie Money and Eddie Money on my mind.
This site would taste better if it was called Free Steak!
While I’m on break, Oz…I expect you to defend my honor in the only way that it can be done…nude rhythmic gymnastics.
Where are the posts about Ed’s water heater?
I totally took a shower
Is anyone here able to drive me from 8th & B’way in Oakland to El Cerrito tomorrow afternoon at 5:30? I have 4 hours of oral surgery I will be put under anaesthesia for and they are telling me I have to have a ride home or they won’t let me leave.
Thank you and good night.
jockin’ mike d to my dismay. (i think we’ve all heard this one. apart from the new developments, our favorite camper van beethoven singer emerged as somewhat of a champion/scholar of the digital rights.)
curtains for the cock sauce. (that’s also old news. just had to link it for the quote. the new news is that it may stop shipping.)
“you got a boner (erection)!” (oh lizzie. i so would too. best love scene, nay, best anything scene in the last 20 years of TV. and you were drunk? pure talent. pure, pure gorgeous, intelligently selfconscious talent.)
*lizzy!!! (dammit. now she won’t call me, will she?)
Prof Lowery has been on that tip for a while.
Those musicians just need to stop being so materialistic.
Its an interesting article.
I rarely buy music these days, mostly choosing ad suported desktop spotify, especially since my girlfriend is such a music all the time person that I kind of appreciate the quiet when she isn’t around. The last CD I bought was Robert DeLong. It is one of my favorite albums.
Id argue a couple of things.
First, there had never been a generation that has effectively stuck it to the man.
Second, they should charge more for live shows. If shows went from 12 to 20 bucks, I wouldn’t reduce my consumption of them.
Third, if spotify or rdio isn’t a viable business model to compensate artists, like the author claims, then they really should figure out how to make it work or kill the service, because thats how pretty much everyone I know listens to music these days. Just like how everyone watches hulu.
Ridesahes (again)
I want to go on record again, saying that yes taxi are corrupt in SF, but the rideshares (and zipcars) piss me off because of lack of regulation forced on similar services.
I agree with this. Taxis are corrupt as fuck, but there is a reason why you don’t let just anyone drive people around.
Also taxis are exacting ologopolistic economic profit where as the music industry isn’t, which makes it more palatable for me to accept “disruption”.
The real problem with Rideshares is more that they aren’t really sharing rides, they are taxi services with more cars and less cost to the user.
MB links to this, like he is reading this.
I remember we got in a dust up in the OC because I made that point and you objected pretty strongly
The comments on that blog post Ed links are pretty dumb. Atrios says (paraphrasing) “lots of people tell me that you have to buy a car when you have kids, but I think that in some circumstances you can get by without one” and then half of the comments are like “but I NEED my car!!1!”
I think that people are just generally unwilling to be incovienced even slightly, for broad societal improvements thats benefits are less tangible.
I just thought it was funny because the post was totally not about telling people what they should do, and then everyone took offense at being told what to do.
it even expressly said that
I remember that.
This actually does tie in to DFA’s comment about the generational shift from caring about ownership to caring about access though. The expectation of access (and much greater ease of access than ever before) is the cause of a lot of the problems the article points out.
I appreciate the educational aspect to the post (one that’s definitely needed if the reader is unaware of the realities of piracy), but ultimately, shaming is a futile effort to enact this kind of change on a mass scale. The article works on a speaking to an individual level for passionate music fans, but not on a broader audience level. When faced with the stats he shares, the absolute wrong response is to scold the end user rather than to look into changing the business model and industry. All the grumpy “back in my day” and “kids are thieves” comments are just bluster. You can’t change the fact that music access is so instantaneous today. What needs to happen is a business model that recognizes and caters to that. Like a music Netflix. Even with free access out there, people are willing to pay, but only if it actually suits their demands.
Anyway, long story short, all the moral superiority (mostly in the comments) irks me.
Spotify is music netflix.
And the artist poo poos it
Also, I would like to point out that hella people made mix tapes back in the day and gave them to folks. They only object now because of scale, not morality.
From the consumer’s perspective I suppose. From the artist’s perspective the economics are very different.
how so?
some of that is in my camper v b singer link above. from “Let’s talk about Spotify, Pandora, etc., for a minute.” through a few questions following that one.
I didn’t see that part. I thought it was more about the fair use/copywrite infringement debate on Goldiblocks. I do think that the parody should trumps the commercial use.
Basically it seems that they need to lobby for a higher per play rate from the government.
Also I have no idea why they can’t form a union or guild. The Screen Writers have a guild.
oh shit, steve wanted me to talk to some people
am I one of those people? I liked him when I got to meet him.
no. some of my friends here. he is thinking of jumping into what you just suggested.
Lowery talks about those issues a bit here. Evidently session musicians can unionize, because they are like laborers, but songwriters can’t. One of his suggestions is to amend the Nelson Act, to give songwriters the same ability to negotiate prices that farmers have.
Also, it’s pretty depressing to tell someone that their business model should be “lobby the government for a higher pay rate”.
why? thats a ton of industry.
I read the part about the Nelson Act, but I don’t understand why they cant form a guild or trade association, like writers can. Writers make a product. I think that the whole thing abou how they can’t have an effective trade association is unlikely to be true.
There are plenty of things where it makes sense for government to set prices. It is hard see why music royalties should be one of them.
It would obviously be a terrible system if every musician and every radio station had to negotiate separate contracts, but I don’t think that would be the situation.
I don’t know from anything,i think we will see something in the next 10 years.
Why wouldn’t that be the alternative, that musicians would have to negotiate with lables and lables with radio and streaming entities seperately.
the FCC already is involved. I don’t think its too much of a stretch
The creative folks behind TV shows and movies have deals with studios and such that pay them the bulk of their earnings. They may get some royalties from Netflix viewings or not (I’m not sure how the contracts work), but I think it’s safe to say that any income they get from Netflix viewing is pretty minor in the overall picture. Spotify, on the other hand, has basically become the dominant way in which people consume the recorded output of musicians, and it pays artists very little per play (although I imagine that certain powerful artists who held out like Led Zeppelin will do better).
My understanding is that Spotify gives the record company the royalties which is why the artists get screwed.
I think it’s the rights agencies (i.e. BMI and ASCAP).
and one assumes BMI and ASCAP have negotiated a price. I think different companies pay different rates
My understanding is that part of the problem is that there essentially isn’t anyone besides BMI and ASCAP.
there is the artist. (i know you know this because you probably read the link you linked which is the same link i linked this morning though i’m not sure if anybody read it…) though lowery says it’s a pain to collect your own royalties, but i wonder how, say, MBV’s record last year worked, being an artist release, and maybe that’s the model that’s going to take this somewhere else?
friends that get royalties agree its inconsistent. there is bad accounting and there is a very confusing pay scale. basically, if you are not madona you get a check everyonce in a while for taco money.
I don’t totally understand whether “m b v” is still published through BMI or whatever. Discogs says that both Copyright and “Phonographic copyright” (I guess these are the rights to the performance?) are held by My Bloody Valentine Records.
I do know that the album charted for a while at my former radio station (and lots of other college radio, I’m sure), so they should be getting some royalties from somewhere.
I read it but i think the problem is that the dude makes a lot of assertions that aren’t backed up with anything, like why songwriters can’t have an effective trade group etc that doesnt provide clarity on the level we would like.
I thought BMI and ASCAP were for the songwriter/publisher, and that royalties for the performer were separate, though of course in many cases the writer and performer are the same.
This makes the situation complicated.
Some do pay royalties. I was pointed to that article by someone who gets royalties, but I never got the answer to teh question “who pays more/ the best/ at all.”
I think all of the big streaming services pay some level of royalties. It would be illegal not to. It’s just that the royalties are very small and nobody is buying records to supplement that.
“home taping is recording music.”
We had a garth brooks “display” at one of the sotres I worked for after he became ASCAP/BMI’s spokes monkey against used
recordsCDsI don’t remember this campaign. Were they trying to get the first sale doctrine repealed, or just pushing a moral agenda?
I don’t recall the specifics. At the time the warehouse was implementing a used cd section. I think the AE(?) group was saying they were going to stop distributing to warehoue? maybe, don’t recall as it didn’t really effect us and we sold punk rock and related stuff.
So you were more of a Chris Gaines shop than a Garth Brooks shop.
(googles) heh
WEA (Warner Atlantic Electra)
wiki:
our generation is just better at ripping people off than other generations, and now others are complaining as if everyone else wasn’t doing it either.
I’m with you. The scale of it has increased so much thanks to the Internet, and the effects are more pronounced as a result. It is a crappy state of affairs, but the morals aren’t any different than they’ve ever been.
It’s not just scale. With digital file sharing you can grab an essentially perfect copy from a total stranger with virtually no effort. With tape dubbing, you could make a degraded copy from someone you knew at significant expense (the tapes). The two aren’t veryg comparable to me.
The act is the same, the technology is different. There was a higher barrier to it before, but that doesn’t change the intent behind the action.
how do you shove tapes in your pants like you are 14 at tower records on the internet?
I didn’t shoplift when I was 14 so clearly i need to make it up with interest.
via webcam?
It was stealing then, just like it is stealing now, even if your copy was degraded.
Lots of people split cable back in the day.
Also tapes were reusable, you could re record things on them
I’m not suggesting that my generation was morally pure in any respect. I do think that a lot people in your generation rationalize away a lot of this stuff, though, by basically coming up with a political ethos that everything should be free or at least extremely cheap. On some level, as Dial C points out, the technology is what it is and we have to deal with it. I just don’t see any value in saying this is just like tape dubbing. There are similarities, but one completely changes the economics of the industry, while the other has basically no noticeable negative effect on the industry and artists at all.
I guess what I am saying is this
is the kind of rationalization that you are complaining about our generation making, as if there were noticable negative effects your generation wouldn’t have done it.
Oh, we totally would have done it.
then we are in principal agreement on all points i think.
see, that’s the thing about generation generalizing… the people who are stealing more because it’s easier nowadays is… EVERYFUCKINGBODY!
ask some retired dude who rips images off the internet. ask me watching streams of sporting events from around the world. ask my niece who doesn’t even know there are laws against it. ask established publishers who don’t even consider buying fonts for each user, if at all. the only now/then about it isn’t about age, it’s about how easy it is to click/drag a file over instead of sitting there in front of a tape player having to press record at the same time you put the needle down over and over for 90 minutes (and you better time that last song right or it’s gonna get cut).
bah! in addition to the known short songs I used sound track music at the end. You knew one of my tapes was ready to flip when you heard the theme to Ben Casey or some such nonsense.
ah yes, the standardized repertoire of short songs.
Some go-to instrumental tracks plus a fader knob on my tape deck. I got really FKing anal with my mix tapes.
I disagree with that. Previous generations have ripped us off on a way, way, WAY bigger scale. We’ll be paying for it for a couple more generations.
Thanks, and go As.
oh i agree with this. my point was that everyone rips eachother off. Milenials have found a way to bypass paying for somethings at a rate that comparatively is impressive, but we haven’t had enough time to really fuck things up like the baby boomers for example.
oh? either bernie madoff is way younger than i thought, or you look really good for your age.
(can we please stop it with the “my genera-lization” stuff? i tried to say it the other day. generalizing about 20 million people without a single nuance about that group is actually quite useless toward understanding anything other than guessing roughly they were born.)
I think it is silly to not think that people who were born at a certain time have shared experiences. People my age grew up at a time when the internet was just becoming accessable and are the first to grow up with access for large portions of our lives. We also came of adult age at the start of the great recession which has Does this apply to everyone in my age group? No of course not.
Not everyone in the 70s wore bell bottoms and got perms, but on the whole people living then did more than at other times. That doesn’t mean that observing comonalities frequencies and trends isn’t relevant.
You can argue that my generalizations aren’t accurate, but I think it is hard to disagree with the idea that people my age are creating a lot of things with the internet that are upending the way system worked and a lot of people are getting screwed by that.
i’m saying, break it down to a significant slice. “my generation buys fewer cars” is meaningless when it’s a drop of 2% over 20million and when really it’s “urban members of my generation buy fewer cars while rural ones have maintained the same pace” because then you’re not measuring something about simply about the person’s age, but adding elements that are universal for our times, such as cities having better and better public transpo.
further, it’s not like it cuts off at the generation gap; 45-yr-olds steal music too. i’m simply saying it is not all that significant to say my generation does this or that in the way you’ve been saying it. a stat guy like you should be able to see that.
take your last sentence “people my age are creating a lot of things with the internet that are upending the way system worked and a lot of people are getting screwed by that.” the only thing significant there is “using the internet.” because a) people not your age are also creating a lot of what you said. b) younger people have historically upended the way the system works. c) sometimes older people too. d) that’s what people do. e) and they’ll always screw someone else up. so basically your sentence might as well be about the paris commune or about the sexual revolution, except for the part about “the internet,” and there’s your relevant, useful split.
The internet is the important part because of the sheer scale of the ramifications.
It only works if you stutter, Roger Daltry style.
i hope i die before i’m as old as him.
One presumes you paid royalties for that joke.
is townsend dead yet?
I loved that when I first read it
Yeah, I was blown away when I read the Emily White post (linked to it via the Lowery piece). I’m about 10 years older than her and I ripped plenty of cds during my ~5 year stint at a college radio station, but being a dj led me to buy way *more* music than I did before.
Anyway, I mostly chalk that one up to 21-year-olds being 21 years old.
oops, i meant to link the trichordist on that one.
Corey Brown just got DFAed
Didn’t turn out to be anything that was missed when we gave him to the Nats for the Compliant Pig, but would like to see him brough back on a minor league deal and get to play at Sac.