Wow, this is fancy. Will download to listen at the gym.
Tommmcatt_Interrupted
· 1 year ago
You got purty voices there, boys.
Greg
· 1 year ago
you're going to pretty disappointed in the next week or two...
FlyingChainSaw
· 1 year ago
We can do better for a theme song. I say we ought to completely burlesque the quasi-martial cadences of the news shows with a furied militarized rave-up. The first 50 seconds of this piece - the 4/4 entrance, before the 5/8 - would make for the perfect CP Podcast lead-in music.
@Tommmcatt- Thanks. Just don't request for me to start squealing like a pig, I might get a little nervous.
@FCS- wasn't intending for this to be a theme song, just liked the "down in the hole" line going with the wall street situation. i plan on doing different tunes every time.
@JNOV- Sorry if you don't feel I do enough to entertain you. When we started this site my goal was to have a location where I could do what I love to do (politics coverage) in my spare time. I already have to write for deadlines and churn stuff out all day @ work. I only want to write when I have the energy to stay inside and on my computer longer than I have to for work, and when there's something I really feel excited about discussing.
I can understand that not satisfying your personal entertainment needs, but I can't understand why you'd need to come in here criticizing something we made for free and put out here for those who might enjoy it because you don't feel we do enough stuff for you.
Also, Greg isn't "plugging his brother's piece a second time" we recorded this on Wednesday the day that article came out, but the back end work that needed to be done to get this online delayed it being posted.
In the future, we hope to have these up each week around Friday, but we might not be able to do that as much as we/you'd like. For example next week I'm going on a business trip out of the country. I'm not sure I'll be able to do one of these before my flight and I probably won't post much while I'm there like I did the last time I had a vacation. Sorry if that doesn't work for you JNOV. Oh, wait. No, I'm actually not sorry at all.
JNOV
· 1 year ago
I believe Nojo has a job, too.
ADD: And I just remember when no one was posting at all until Nojo was given the keys. I guess I'm trying to give Nojo his due -- he's the glue that keeps this place together, and if I had a choice, I'd rather hear him yappin away. He busts his ass trying to fix shit around here, and y'all swoop in when the mood hits and post some podcast like it's the newest thing ever. Meh. Don't worry about pleasing me, because you don't, and I don't expect it. I know better.
FIX THE COMMENTS
· 1 year ago
@JNOV: Let's you and me go somewhere and diddle until this comments shit gets taken care of. It's slower than dialup and has none of the features we've become accustomed to. And there is no history. It's broken and NOJO and FCS are apparently the only Uncle-Daddies who seem to care about that, and they don't have the juice to force the Uncle-Daddies-Grande to get it fixed. OK, Grand Poobah Uncle-Daddies-Grande, just what the fuck do you need from the CP Faithful to get this situation fixed? Money? Boycott? What?
JNOV
· 1 year ago
@Trotsky: Lead the way. I'm frustrated because the comments iz broke, and Nojo (who has a job and other things to do like most folks around here) has done his damnedest to give us some semblance of community; like I said, he was the only one posting anything for a while, and had it not been for him, this site would have died. There was nothing to read and no reason to visit until Nojo and FCS started posting.
So, Nojo (who has a job) and FCS (who probs has one too, but I don't know -- he's kind of violent), do what they can to keep this refuge from Wonkette going. And they are doing a fine job of it. The posts are interesting; they comment themselves; they start discussions. They make this place a fun place to visit.
But some other people think they're investment bankers who can just piss on our heads and tell us it's lemonade and think they are owed some sort of fidelity or respect because of what, exactly? *crickets*
Nojo hit it on the head when he said that sometimes communities spring up from these things, and quite honestly, if you're too good to even post on your own blog or to fix the fucked up comments, or too busy to say, "Sorry, I know things have been kind of shitty around here recently -- I'm working on it," then don't be surprised if some rude person calls you out.
Once again, I call bullshit. The comments have been broken for going on a week, and Nojo hasn't received the support he needs to try to fix comments that aren't even on his blog. (Nojo does have a blog, BTW, that mirrors the posts he makes here. It's The Unbearable Hamster of Being at http://nojorising.blogspot.com, I believe - so we could always go over there and comment on the same shit that he's posting over here, if we ever wanted to.)
What started out as a protest turned into a decent blog no thanks to you.
prommy
· 1 year ago
Hey, can't we all just get along? Hunter and them put this site up there, and they have a fucking amazingly loyal following (or are we just following each other?) but there's only about 30 of us, its not like they're making advertising money.
I'd gladly contribute some cash, pass the hat around, overlords, we don't expect you to go out of pocket, much, anyway.
Leave JNOV alone. The podcast was nice, you let us sit around the table with you while you bullshitted, very nice. Thank you. Script it just a bit, have some prepared comments and a format, like McLaughlin, here's the issue, what do you say, what do you say, what do you say, OK, next issue, would make for maintaining the listners interest, but hey, I am not a choosy begger, its free, you took time from your busy life and did this for us, thank you. JNOV is just used to the wildly entertaining posts from Nojo and Chainsaw that get us yakking at our best, is all.
JNOV
· 1 year ago
@Trotsky: You're RagingMonk, aren't you?
JNOV
· 1 year ago
Thank you, Prommy. I will gladly man the below deck oar room on the Molly Ivins if we can get Cheap Boy to wear a loin cloth and beat a drum. I need a beat, you know.
homofascist
· 1 year ago
I would love to sit down with Nojo and discuss the final Bryant Park collections of Project Runway. Although I hate my voice on tape...
Cynica
· 1 year ago
@HF:oooh, that sounds like fun! I'd love to play, but like you, hat my voice on tape. I know you'll find this hard to believe, but some people think I sound "affected"! Moi?!?!
nojo
· 1 year ago
Nojo: Is the Daily Show on yet?
HF: No.
Nojo: Is the Daily Show on yet?
HF: No.
Nojo: Is the Daily Show on yet?
HF: No.
Cynica
· 1 year ago
@nojo: Throw in a few "what the hell is thats?" and shhhh!s and you have PR chez Cynica.
JNOV
· 1 year ago
Heeee!
@FCS: Fuck you for making me listen to that marching band music. I kept waiting for something. I don't know what, but I waited for it, and it never came.
Yeah, yeah. I know some of you ran around the football field with cylindrical hats with chin straps and feathers while tooting on horns or some such. I'm not dissing you, really.
@Prommy: And this site gets a lot more traffic than I realized. Go click on the Sitemeter link in the left margin, and then click on "by location." Some of us are responsible for several visits/page views a day, but there's a silent majority of the best kind out there checking you out.
And as an afterthought, cuz that's about all I have, fealty can suck it.
FlyingChainSaw
· 1 year ago
HEY, Polish Falcon Cadets ain't no marching band and they practiced mostly in an industrial hell by the refineries in Elizabeth NJ. Perfect theme music for an end-of-empire meltdown commentary site.
mellbell
· 1 year ago
Peter sounds so much like David Cross. I kept on expecting him to close a remark with, "I'm a dumb motherfucker, and I vote."
FlyingChainSaw
· 1 year ago
Greg, Hunter, how to you make the recording. If I record Father Andrew Greeley interviewing Palin, can you put it up on the site? Can you just take a wave file and convert it into the right format if I send it to you?
FCS: Ruin is a strong word, but let's just say that song will never be the same for me anymore. (Note: Nothing to do with Miss Peggy Lee; I just can't listen to it without hearing echoes of "beavaaaah.")
redmanlaw
· 1 year ago
Theme song? Pantera, "Strength Beyond Strength"
There is nothing. No education. No family life to open my Arms to. You'd say that my job is today, yet gone tomorrow. I'll be broke in a gutter. I know the opinion. A broken record. Fuck you and your College dream. Fact is, we're stronger than all. You're working for perfect bodies, perfect minds and perfect Neighbors. But I'm helping to legalize dope on Your pristine streets and I'm making a fortune. You're muscle and gall. Naive at best. I'm bone, brain and Cock. Deep down stronger than all.
A sad state of affairs. A crippled America. A pipe dream Buttfucked. Immune. Stronger than all.
We've grown into a monster. An arrogant, explosive motherfuck. Hard as a rock. Shut like a lock. (Finally,)
Hey Hunter, interesting piece on that other blog re: last Yankees game. Sad but true they kicked out that guy for yelling shit. @JNOV - at the end of the day, this isn't a paying thing for the uncle-daddies and mommies, so their first focus has to be on the blogs that pay. I still don't quite understand how anyone can make money from having blogging be their day job, but there you go. I definitely appreciate Nojo and FCS keeping the wheels on the hooptie Caddy go round and round day-to-day, and am always happy to see the original uncle-daddies Greg and Hunter come by to say hey. So can't we all just get along?
sfl
prommy
· 1 year ago
SFL, Hunter, see the guy on Colbert Report last week who was kicked out of yankee stadium for trying to go to the mens room during "God Bless America?" Cop yelled at him for not honoring the national anthem. They p[lay it during the 7th inning or something, I don't know, I motherfucking hate baseball, I have ever since I learned George Will loves it.
hunterw
· 1 year ago
@Prommy: The God Bless America thing was ridiculous. It gets very weird in there when they do the patriotic shit. I imagine it's a little bit like it was in Nuremberg in '35. I still love my team though no matter how fucked up that organization gets.
I actually managed to track down the fan who got kicked out so we should be doing more on that soon.
JNOV
· 1 year ago
@SFL: I appreciate that no one is getting rich off this site. My point is that the ones who have the least to gain are the ones doing the most work while holding their day jobs, and they don't come here and insult us or offer excuses for their absence due to busy lives or tell us how damned lucky we are that they are doing stuff for free. But like Hunter pointed out, they did that podcast for free, so for that I'm thankful. Everyone loves free shit, except when it comes in a bag.
And I love you, and I know you're doing your best to keep the peace.
ADD: This site is self-destructing anyway, so someone just let me know where y'all end up when the dust settles. You know how to reach me.
redmanlaw
· 1 year ago
@ jnov - It's just like Battlestar Galactica for us all over again. Hamster Cylons are hot on our tails and we gotta run. I've been to the nojodome and thought it was fine.
nabisco
· 1 year ago
I love everything and everybody that has anything to do with this site. You complete me.
oth, I have no real life.
Srsly, I appreciate everything that goes on in the name of the CP. Markets, campaigns, love (or lack thereof) life and bedbugs are some of the things keeping us on edge these days. We'll only get through it all if we keep the hopey out front of the mopey.
In the meantime, don't forget our long march out of the wilderness behind the HFA banner, and the comfy resting place we found here. It's really a damn fine place.
Tommmcatt_Interrupted
· 1 year ago
Ack. I get busy for a while and I come back to hang with my peeps and everybodys all freaking out. Chill! Chill! Chill!
I'm just thankful I don't have to read anything written by Ken Layne anymore.
flippin
· 1 year ago
FCS: DCI, yeah! Is there anything else on PBS more entertaining? (Full disclosure: Former HS band geek here--every fall we competed in marching band shows across the state and even went to nationals. We called the Friday night football game a "dress rehearsal.")
FlyingChainSaw
· 1 year ago
Flippin, Falcon Cadets was very pre-DCI in history and approach, a typically ethnically, community based drum corps that had achieved in some moments, stunning technical capabilities on almost no budget. (They practiced in parking lots near the nation's largest petroleum plant.) They always did well in the New Jersey circuits but when Blessed Sacrament of Newark broke up in 72/73, Falcons got a shot of very seasoned instrumentalists, many of which followed a BS alum who was writing some amazing charts for the Falcons. The hemiola section with the staccato soprano motifs before the reprise is one of those moments of just plain old 'oh, fuck!' amazing shit. The horns were G-pitched instruments with one valve and a rotary, you have to remember. And they marched this in 4, which resolved the beginning of the bars on a 8:13 ratio, something like that because, after the introduction, the remainder of the piece is in 5/8. That gives it a lot of inherent rhythmic velocity but you wouldn't want to march to it, much less through meter manipulations. If something like this showed up at a DCI show, half the crowd woudln;t know what to make of it and the other half would tear their clothes off.
How stupid are these people? Not just for thinking like that, but for putting bullshit like that out in public and thinking that nobody's going to pick up on it. And then, once that is done, to commit the full strength of your local political organization to defend this shit-racism is the icing on the gateaux stupide.
How these people are ever elected to run anything more complicted than a church social is beyond me.
flippin
· 1 year ago
FCS: Obviously I am addressing a zen master of marching band knowledge...I did that shit for years and I had to read your post 3 times through before I understood half of it. I will say that our HS band's stategy was average musical ability combined with lots of distracting bells and whistles: costumes and 2-3 different flags per piece for the color guard, sets (including a Swan Lake castle on which the brass line could march up onto the ramparts), strange moving, rotating boxes one year, even a kid in a Mickey Mouse suit at the end of the show the year we did Fantasia. Cheesy stuff, to be sure. We did have some tough marching and playing mixed in, but it was mostly a big circus.
FlyingChainSaw
· 1 year ago
Wow, sounds like a lot of stage work and a lot of money. My era was urban D&B, the last years of it, anyway, and the emphasis was maximizing exposure to error against performance quality. (When we played orchestral; or operatic stuff, for instance, the sopranos ended up with transcriptions of fucking violin parts.) Falcons was the epitome of that genre. Their OTL (which Gregg should still use as lead in music to his Podcast!) was considered really high end concert band literature, for a professional sit-down ensemble. Their redraft for a fielded D&B brass line kicked up the tempo on an already insanely difficult piece. I know a guy who recovered the chart and the soprano and mellophone parts look like clarinet etudes. Running sixteenth notes splashed across pages of manuscript. They came in 13th but, still, any time you mention Falcons around anyone who marched D&B in NJ around that time, they all squint and go, "oh, fuck; insane fucking show.'
prommy
· 1 year ago
Flippin, your strategy should have been to shut up and play the fight song, and "da da da Da Da Da "charge"" when the team nears the endzone. Noone cares about Band but Band. This new phenomonen of bandfags having grueling, boot-camp-like practice and performance schedules and basically pretending to be the gay marines in polyester and competing in the band special olympics, where every band gets a juicebox, is just too fucking silly. When did it start? Kids should spend their time getting high and doing a lackadaisical job, it prepares you for life. Enthusiasm? How uncool.
hunterw
· 1 year ago
@FIX THE COMMENTS: I personally can't take credit/blame for any of the tech problems on this site. Nojo and Greg are the people who keep this thing afloat on the internets. They would be the ones who could tell you why this is going on and what needs to be done to fix it.
I have so little tech expertise that I originally suggested to Greg and Megan that we do something on Blogger or Wordpress. As far as I know, Nojo has been making a lot of improvements/rescues lately and there are some kinks to be worked out.
hunterw
· 1 year ago
@SFL, thankfully i hear he got back into the game, but the cops did steal his ticket stub and the ones for that game are worth a pretty penny
TROTSKY
· 1 year ago
Oh, Prommy. you would think differently if you sat at the 50 yard line and experienced the rush when the Blue Devils brass suddenly pivots en masse and lets fly with a volley of pure thrilling sound, while their incomparable drumline unleashes thunderous cadence in perfect unison, and the percussion in the pit runs its fingers up and down your spine. All this while the color guard sprints and whirls. DCI is the shit, Prommy.
FlyingChainSaw
· 1 year ago
I think he is confusing marching bands with competitive drum and bugle corps. Actually, since they dropped the G instrumentation, I haven't been able to tune in. I remember Bayonne actually kept their old valve-rotor horns into 1978 and lacquered them. The sound of field bugles with (2- and then 3-valve) clusters could be OK but it was still not as broad as the old valve-rotor instruments. Now that they've switched to band/orchestra instruments, you don't get any of the sonic shock of the field instruments when you have twisted, haunted, enraged kids on them. It's amazing to listen to Anaheim's 1972 show - they won DCI - and realize they fielded 44 guys on the horns and turned the stadium to fucking talcum powder. This summer I saw 70+ man horn lines that placed in DCI but sounded like wind symphonies with dance companies. Prommy would have liked 1975 Chicago. He'd be one of those guys who stood and screamed all the way through Russian Christmas Music and spilled beer on people and gotten beaten up by alumni from the Toronto Optimists or something.
hunterw
· 1 year ago
PETER IS ON FOX RIGHT NOW
(i know it's fox but yay!)
flippin
· 1 year ago
Too true, Trotsky! Besides, Prom, our football team sucked ass. They couldn't even make it into district playoffs, while our band was winning state. Band-geek scorn is ignorant jock talk.
FIX THE COMMENTS
· 1 year ago
@hunterw, et. al: So, what is needed? Money? Blow Jobs? Ass Fucking? What?????
Trotsky
· 1 year ago
@flippin: In HS, I was on both the varsity football team (cornerback) and was band preznit (trumpet). I only got on the field wearing a football helmet, thank FSM. Wind Ensemble concerts in a suit and tie were better than those friggin marching uniforms on the field, anyday. The only time I had to wear the band uniforms was for parades and shit like that. Our unis were so lame that they were gold Eisenhower jackets and dark green high-waisted pants, with a peaked service cap. Oh, and they further humiliated us by making us wear white bucks. We only had one uni, and it was wool. That meant that in the summer, when you were marching in your third 4th of July parade of the day and it was 100 degrees out, about a third of the band members who had bothered to show up collapsed from heat exhaustion. Good times.....
hunterw
· 1 year ago
@JNOV- I think you're assuming a lot about what we all want to do with this site. I didn't get involved here to start some huge blog or to compete with the constant coverage on Wonkette. All I wanted orignally was an outlet to do what I love (political writing) with some good writers. I'm very happy that this has grown beyond my wildest dreams and appreciate everyone who reads That's why I try to post as much as possible and have publicly regretted not being able to do more.
I've never asked for any type of loyalty or even respect. I also don't recall ever insult anyone or peeing on your heads (although I am pretty careless with my urine when I've had too much to drink, so someone may prove me wrong on that one.
I don't even care if people like or agree with what I write. Part of the reason I want a public outlet for my writing instead of some journal is that it allows for debate and feedback. What I don't like at all is getting shit for not being able to post more regularly. Believe me, I'd post all the time if I could.
I'm very glad that Nojo, FCS, Blogenfreude, and Marcell have been able to post as much as they have. But, I won't be mad at them if they are ever unable to do so much and I won't be pissed at Jason, Megan, or Kaila whenever they decide to drop by.
If you only want to read threads by certain writers, by all means, use RSS and do that. As you pointed out, Nojo also has all his stuff on another blog. Just don't come around spreading unnecessary negativity in other people's posts. Maybe you disagree with what I want this site to be for myself, but that type of thing is certainly not what it's about. Anyways, I'm not going to add to it anymore myself, I think I made my point fairly clearly. If you have any further questions or comments about my efforts here that aren't related to discussing what's in the post please e-mail me.
hunterw
· 1 year ago
@FIX THE COMMENTS- Like I said, I have 0 tech expertise so I have no idea what needs to be done. I know Greg and Nojo have been working on it (especially Nojo). I'll ask them if you guys can help @ all, but I'm sure if they need anything they will promptly bug you guys.
hunterw
· 1 year ago
@Prommy, Tommmcatt, and SFL- you guys are sweethearts, thanks
@Prommy- we did have a bit of a scripted format, but i think we figured out a few tricks with this maiden effort. i've got a business trip coming up so i'm not sure when the next one will be up, but we're definitely trying to make this better every time
prommy
· 1 year ago
Flippin, FCS, I love marching bands, just not white ones. Give me FAMU. And I black church drum and dance corp came to my office, it was our charity that year, and performed for us, and I was transported.
I was, however, reacting a bit to my stepdaugheters experience with band (flag person, she was) and it was absurd. 18 hour days, travelling to competitions, the director or whatever you call the flit in charge, he was trying to out-macho the football team. Miss a practice, no excuses, no excuses, even real legitimate excuses, you sat out. Absurd. The band kids when I was in high school were the kids you could score pot from, thats more like it. I am the furthest thing from a jock.
prommy
· 1 year ago
Hunter, I really do appreciate your coming and responding, thanks. You are overreacting to JNOV, gotta tell ya, JNOV is one of my favorite posters here because she has no regulator, she says what she thinks and is all out on top, when it gets boring she will come and stream of consciousness into fun discussions of the sexual coming-out of ex-mormons, the best meds for various psychological maladies we all have, penise size, all sorts of great random topics, and all honest and real. The greatest value of her openness and fearlessness is it encourages others to open up their id and be what their mood is at that minute, its a good thing.
JNOV
· 1 year ago
@hunter: Wait. Whoa. We've got censorship attempts in the comments now? Get out of town! I'll keep yakking as long as you keep giving me something to yak about or until you outright ban me. You are trying to shut me down because you don't like what I'm writing, and that's pathetic. Put on your big-boy boxers, Hunter, and learn to deal with criticism. The funny thing is that I was done bitching. Guess not. (Apologies to the Cynic that came up with big-girl panties Pelosi.)
@prommy: Once again, thank you.
JNOV
· 1 year ago
@FCS: I know Elizabeth well. Marching bands, not so much. Except for the ones Prommy was talking about. Well, and the Stanford Band, but we all know how that last trip down The Farm's memory lane went. We screwed up a convention thread.
FlyingChainSaw
· 1 year ago
Oh, Falcon Cadets wasn't a marching band; it was a competitive drum and bugle corps. Sonically, the difference between a cherry bomb and a Mt St Helens eruption.
Ewalda
· 1 year ago
@JNOV: Where would we be without you? Love you, JNOV.
JNOV
· 1 year ago
@Ewalda: God, I love you, too.
Ewalda
· 1 year ago
Had a dream about a high school girlfriend last night. She was the best friend anyone could hope for after that. For many years thereafter while we lived thousands of miles apart and had spouses and families and whatnot.. We never really broke up, just became lifelong friends. The last time I saw her was at our 30th HS reunion nine years ago. She died of breast cancer 3 years ago, but last night, in my dreams, she was as alive, funny, and wonderful as she was all those years ago. Life is a mystery. Why and how we are here, and what comes after, is unknowable. All I know is that none of us ever becomes all that we wish ro be. For Paula: Forever friends.
JNOV
· 1 year ago
@Ewalda: Oh, Paula. Those kinds of dreams are lovely and sad -- it's like you wake up thinking the dream is true and that the past x years and past x experiences were the real dream, but they were real.When you realize the dream was a dream, you're crestfallen at first but still happy that you had it because of the wash of emotions you felt while you were sleeping. If you're lucky, those feelings linger for awhile.
@FCS: Yes, a competitive drum and bugle corps. Yes. I have never seen one of those, but I have seen marching bands, so the idea of a marching band is what sticks to the grey matter. I will give them their due from now on -- they were a kick ass drum and bugle corps. From Elizabeth, NJ. They probs have cancer now from the pollution. Anyone who thinks environmental racism is bs need only to go Elizabeth or anywhere in Union County to see the truth.
redmanlaw
· 1 year ago
@ ewalda - bleedover bewteen multiverses. Perhaps she dreams of you where she's at.
@ jnov - perhaps they are real, just not here and now.
The ones from the past keep coming up, don't they? Hunters also have the same thoughts of shots not taken (sometimes to our benefit, such as the time I didn't shoot at a pair of strutting toms because it was 7 mins past legal light; we got back to the place we were staying and found out that friend of a friend's kid had no permission to be on the land we were on which could have made me a poacher PLUS shooting past 30 mins after sunset), poor tactics, etc. When I was a really obsessed fly fisher I used to get crazy reviewing summer trips months later and trying to figure out what I did wrong and what I would do better next time.
When we think of people from our past, lost loves, extraordinary hookups, we always think only of how great it could have been had such things could have been had we made different decisions along the way. We tend to gloss over the time(s) we had to fire the ejection seat as an act of self-preservation, and in my rig, it's the passenger that gets blown out.
prommy
· 1 year ago
Ewalda, we're all bozos on this bus, and its going off a cliff, only thing to do is love your fellow passengers.
Your fucking OLD. You make me feel young. My 30th reunion won't be for 2 years.
hunterw
· 1 year ago
@JNOV- Did I ban you or delete/edit any of your comments? We don't censor comments here and it's not something I ever plan on doing.
I just responded and said that I didn't like what you said and it's the type of thing I'd rather see handled via email. Would you prefer I didn't respond at all? I can't do that cause I do care about what goes on here and doing my best to keep folks happy.
@Prommy- I appreciate JNOV and all the other regulars here. In fact, I don't want to ban anyone and I hope we all hang around here for a long time. I'm not overreacting, there are no hard feelings here. I just felt the comment merited and honest response.
Anyways, I can't/won't force anyone to do this, but I'd prefer if we kept any further discussion of this stuff to email and kept posts on topic. As you said earlier, "Can't we all just get along?" If we can't, feel free to tell me your beefs via email. I will respond and I do care. I want to keep this kind of stuff off the posts to keep the comments and content enjoyable for people who don't hate it here. I'm really not going to continue this here, but I did feel the need to speak on this one more time because of the false suggestion that there was censorship going on here.
redmanlaw
· 1 year ago
The Promeranian gets the Rodney King Award for the week.
hunterw
· 1 year ago
@RML- but who gets to be reginald denny?
prommy
· 1 year ago
JNOV was playing "Dennis" from Holy Grail.
redmanlaw
· 1 year ago
@ hunter - that chick singer on "Battle of Evermore"?
hunterw
· 1 year ago
@rml- no the white trucker who got brutally beaten during the la riots and was memorably played by jim carrey on "in living color"
@Ewalda: Wow. Not in any way to minimize your experience, but I keep having dreams about my dead dog where she's in some sort of danger. I try to save her and wake up agitated because I can't quite save her - and then I wake up and don't know if I'm relieved or more upset to remember that she's in the great St. Francis-supervised dog park in the sky.
redmanlaw
· 1 year ago
@ martianmanhunter - I had the 1960s Batman movie 'til the burglers got it a while back I saw a special edition rerelease for thirty bucks at Target the other day - and I think I paid about eight for the one I had.
JNOV
· 1 year ago
I tried. I really did. But I got bored after Greg plugged his brother's piece again. I mean, Nojo and FCS are the only ones consistently keeping this place up and running, acting like they give a flying fuck about the people who visit this site, and the other folks on the masthead make the occasional appearance just about as often as Caligutard is sober enough to pop his head out of the White House for a brief word about Wall Street. I'd probably listen to Nojo and FCS discuss something maybe. And the theme to The Wire? Seriously?
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FCS
@FCS- wasn't intending for this to be a theme song, just liked the "down in the hole" line going with the wall street situation. i plan on doing different tunes every time.
@JNOV- Sorry if you don't feel I do enough to entertain you. When we started this site my goal was to have a location where I could do what I love to do (politics coverage) in my spare time. I already have to write for deadlines and churn stuff out all day @ work. I only want to write when I have the energy to stay inside and on my computer longer than I have to for work, and when there's something I really feel excited about discussing.
I can understand that not satisfying your personal entertainment needs, but I can't understand why you'd need to come in here criticizing something we made for free and put out here for those who might enjoy it because you don't feel we do enough stuff for you.
Also, Greg isn't "plugging his brother's piece a second time" we recorded this on Wednesday the day that article came out, but the back end work that needed to be done to get this online delayed it being posted.
In the future, we hope to have these up each week around Friday, but we might not be able to do that as much as we/you'd like. For example next week I'm going on a business trip out of the country. I'm not sure I'll be able to do one of these before my flight and I probably won't post much while I'm there like I did the last time I had a vacation. Sorry if that doesn't work for you JNOV. Oh, wait. No, I'm actually not sorry at all.
ADD: And I just remember when no one was posting at all until Nojo was given the keys. I guess I'm trying to give Nojo his due -- he's the glue that keeps this place together, and if I had a choice, I'd rather hear him yappin away. He busts his ass trying to fix shit around here, and y'all swoop in when the mood hits and post some podcast like it's the newest thing ever. Meh. Don't worry about pleasing me, because you don't, and I don't expect it. I know better.
OK, Grand Poobah Uncle-Daddies-Grande, just what the fuck do you need from the CP Faithful to get this situation fixed? Money? Boycott? What?
So, Nojo (who has a job) and FCS (who probs has one too, but I don't know -- he's kind of violent), do what they can to keep this refuge from Wonkette going. And they are doing a fine job of it. The posts are interesting; they comment themselves; they start discussions. They make this place a fun place to visit.
But some other people think they're investment bankers who can just piss on our heads and tell us it's lemonade and think they are owed some sort of fidelity or respect because of what, exactly? *crickets*
Nojo hit it on the head when he said that sometimes communities spring up from these things, and quite honestly, if you're too good to even post on your own blog or to fix the fucked up comments, or too busy to say, "Sorry, I know things have been kind of shitty around here recently -- I'm working on it," then don't be surprised if some rude person calls you out.
Once again, I call bullshit. The comments have been broken for going on a week, and Nojo hasn't received the support he needs to try to fix comments that aren't even on his blog. (Nojo does have a blog, BTW, that mirrors the posts he makes here. It's The Unbearable Hamster of Being at http://nojorising.blogspot.com, I believe - so we could always go over there and comment on the same shit that he's posting over here, if we ever wanted to.)
What started out as a protest turned into a decent blog no thanks to you.
I'd gladly contribute some cash, pass the hat around, overlords, we don't expect you to go out of pocket, much, anyway.
Leave JNOV alone. The podcast was nice, you let us sit around the table with you while you bullshitted, very nice. Thank you. Script it just a bit, have some prepared comments and a format, like McLaughlin, here's the issue, what do you say, what do you say, what do you say, OK, next issue, would make for maintaining the listners interest, but hey, I am not a choosy begger, its free, you took time from your busy life and did this for us, thank you. JNOV is just used to the wildly entertaining posts from Nojo and Chainsaw that get us yakking at our best, is all.
HF: No.
Nojo: Is the Daily Show on yet?
HF: No.
Nojo: Is the Daily Show on yet?
HF: No.
@FCS: Fuck you for making me listen to that marching band music. I kept waiting for something. I don't know what, but I waited for it, and it never came.
Yeah, yeah. I know some of you ran around the football field with cylindrical hats with chin straps and feathers while tooting on horns or some such. I'm not dissing you, really.
@Prommy: And this site gets a lot more traffic than I realized. Go click on the Sitemeter link in the left margin, and then click on "by location." Some of us are responsible for several visits/page views a day, but there's a silent majority of the best kind out there checking you out.
And as an afterthought, cuz that's about all I have, fealty can suck it.
BEE-VAAAAAAAAAH !
There is nothing. No education. No family life to open my
Arms to. You'd say that my job is today, yet gone tomorrow.
I'll be broke in a gutter.
I know the opinion. A broken record. Fuck you and your
College dream. Fact is, we're stronger than all.
You're working for perfect bodies, perfect minds and perfect
Neighbors. But I'm helping to legalize dope on
Your pristine streets and I'm making a fortune.
You're muscle and gall. Naive at best. I'm bone, brain and
Cock. Deep down stronger than all.
A sad state of affairs. A crippled America. A pipe dream
Buttfucked. Immune. Stronger than all.
We've grown into a monster. An arrogant, explosive motherfuck.
Hard as a rock. Shut like a lock.
(Finally,)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3muY3xMgi4&feat...
the president in submission. He holds out his hand on
Your television and draws back a stump. It's too late for some.
Far too late.
Hail Kings. The new Kings. Stronger than all.
@JNOV - at the end of the day, this isn't a paying thing for the uncle-daddies and mommies, so their first focus has to be on the blogs that pay. I still don't quite understand how anyone can make money from having blogging be their day job, but there you go.
I definitely appreciate Nojo and FCS keeping the wheels on the hooptie Caddy go round and round day-to-day, and am always happy to see the original uncle-daddies Greg and Hunter come by to say hey.
So can't we all just get along?
sfl
I actually managed to track down the fan who got kicked out so we should be doing more on that soon.
And I love you, and I know you're doing your best to keep the peace.
ADD: This site is self-destructing anyway, so someone just let me know where y'all end up when the dust settles. You know how to reach me.
oth, I have no real life.
Srsly, I appreciate everything that goes on in the name of the CP. Markets, campaigns, love (or lack thereof) life and bedbugs are some of the things keeping us on edge these days. We'll only get through it all if we keep the hopey out front of the mopey.
In the meantime, don't forget our long march out of the wilderness behind the HFA banner, and the comfy resting place we found here. It's really a damn fine place.
I'm just thankful I don't have to read anything written by Ken Layne anymore.
http://www.abqjournal.com/abqnews/index.php?opt...
How stupid are these people? Not just for thinking like that, but for putting bullshit like that out in public and thinking that nobody's going to pick up on it. And then, once that is done, to commit the full strength of your local political organization to defend this shit-racism is the icing on the gateaux stupide.
How these people are ever elected to run anything more complicted than a church social is beyond me.
I have so little tech expertise that I originally suggested to Greg and Megan that we do something on Blogger or Wordpress. As far as I know, Nojo has been making a lot of improvements/rescues lately and there are some kinks to be worked out.
(i know it's fox but yay!)
So, what is needed? Money? Blow Jobs? Ass Fucking? What?????
In HS, I was on both the varsity football team (cornerback) and was band preznit (trumpet). I only got on the field wearing a football helmet, thank FSM. Wind Ensemble concerts in a suit and tie were better than those friggin marching uniforms on the field, anyday. The only time I had to wear the band uniforms was for parades and shit like that. Our unis were so lame that they were gold Eisenhower jackets and dark green high-waisted pants, with a peaked service cap. Oh, and they further humiliated us by making us wear white bucks. We only had one uni, and it was wool. That meant that in the summer, when you were marching in your third 4th of July parade of the day and it was 100 degrees out, about a third of the band members who had bothered to show up collapsed from heat exhaustion. Good times.....
I've never asked for any type of loyalty or even respect. I also don't recall ever insult anyone or peeing on your heads (although I am pretty careless with my urine when I've had too much to drink, so someone may prove me wrong on that one.
I don't even care if people like or agree with what I write. Part of the reason I want a public outlet for my writing instead of some journal is that it allows for debate and feedback. What I don't like at all is getting shit for not being able to post more regularly. Believe me, I'd post all the time if I could.
I'm very glad that Nojo, FCS, Blogenfreude, and Marcell have been able to post as much as they have. But, I won't be mad at them if they are ever unable to do so much and I won't be pissed at Jason, Megan, or Kaila whenever they decide to drop by.
If you only want to read threads by certain writers, by all means, use RSS and do that. As you pointed out, Nojo also has all his stuff on another blog. Just don't come around spreading unnecessary negativity in other people's posts. Maybe you disagree with what I want this site to be for myself, but that type of thing is certainly not what it's about. Anyways, I'm not going to add to it anymore myself, I think I made my point fairly clearly. If you have any further questions or comments about my efforts here that aren't related to discussing what's in the post please e-mail me.
@Prommy- we did have a bit of a scripted format, but i think we figured out a few tricks with this maiden effort. i've got a business trip coming up so i'm not sure when the next one will be up, but we're definitely trying to make this better every time
I was, however, reacting a bit to my stepdaugheters experience with band (flag person, she was) and it was absurd. 18 hour days, travelling to competitions, the director or whatever you call the flit in charge, he was trying to out-macho the football team. Miss a practice, no excuses, no excuses, even real legitimate excuses, you sat out. Absurd. The band kids when I was in high school were the kids you could score pot from, thats more like it. I am the furthest thing from a jock.
@prommy: Once again, thank you.
She was the best friend anyone could hope for after that. For many years thereafter while we lived thousands of miles apart and had spouses and families and whatnot.. We never really broke up, just became lifelong friends. The last time I saw her was at our 30th HS reunion nine years ago.
She died of breast cancer 3 years ago, but last night, in my dreams, she was as alive, funny, and wonderful as she was all those years ago.
Life is a mystery. Why and how we are here, and what comes after, is unknowable.
All I know is that none of us ever becomes all that we wish ro be.
For Paula: Forever friends.
@FCS: Yes, a competitive drum and bugle corps. Yes. I have never seen one of those, but I have seen marching bands, so the idea of a marching band is what sticks to the grey matter. I will give them their due from now on -- they were a kick ass drum and bugle corps. From Elizabeth, NJ. They probs have cancer now from the pollution. Anyone who thinks environmental racism is bs need only to go Elizabeth or anywhere in Union County to see the truth.
@ jnov - perhaps they are real, just not here and now.
The ones from the past keep coming up, don't they? Hunters also have the same thoughts of shots not taken (sometimes to our benefit, such as the time I didn't shoot at a pair of strutting toms because it was 7 mins past legal light; we got back to the place we were staying and found out that friend of a friend's kid had no permission to be on the land we were on which could have made me a poacher PLUS shooting past 30 mins after sunset), poor tactics, etc. When I was a really obsessed fly fisher I used to get crazy reviewing summer trips months later and trying to figure out what I did wrong and what I would do better next time.
When we think of people from our past, lost loves, extraordinary hookups, we always think only of how great it could have been had such things could have been had we made different decisions along the way. We tend to gloss over the time(s) we had to fire the ejection seat as an act of self-preservation, and in my rig, it's the passenger that gets blown out.
Your fucking OLD. You make me feel young. My 30th reunion won't be for 2 years.
I just responded and said that I didn't like what you said and it's the type of thing I'd rather see handled via email. Would you prefer I didn't respond at all? I can't do that cause I do care about what goes on here and doing my best to keep folks happy.
@Prommy- I appreciate JNOV and all the other regulars here. In fact, I don't want to ban anyone and I hope we all hang around here for a long time. I'm not overreacting, there are no hard feelings here. I just felt the comment merited and honest response.
Anyways, I can't/won't force anyone to do this, but I'd prefer if we kept any further discussion of this stuff to email and kept posts on topic. As you said earlier, "Can't we all just get along?" If we can't, feel free to tell me your beefs via email. I will respond and I do care. I want to keep this kind of stuff off the posts to keep the comments and content enjoyable for people who don't hate it here. I'm really not going to continue this here, but I did feel the need to speak on this one more time because of the false suggestion that there was censorship going on here.
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ADD: And Marcel has been showing up lately.