payback's a bitch

eh, Scooter?

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UPDATE 10/28/2005 1:48 PM: Scooter has resigned and I'm whistling the melody to Dance Of The Flutes from The Nutcracker Suite for some reason. MERRY FITZMAS!

all I want for Fitz-mas

All I want for Fitz-mas
is the deputy chief,
the deputy chief,
the deputy chief!

Gee, if I could only
have the deputy chief,
then I could wish you
"Merry Fitz-mas."

It seems so long since I could say,
"Slimy sycophant suffers in the slammer!”
Gosh oh gee, how happy I'd be,
if I could only whistle (thhhh, thhhh)

All I want for Fitz-mas
is the deputy chief,
the deputy chief,
the deputy chief.

Gee, if I could only
have the deputy chief,
then I could wish you
"Merry Fitz-mas!"

Update 10/19/2005 2:19 AM: All I Want For Christmas (Is My Two Front Teeth) as sung by Alvin & the Chipmunks.

Update 10/19/2005 9:39 PM: Prison Cell Rock is the only Fitzmas carol you need to know.

sprucing up the ol' blog

I'm gonna try to add this header/banner thingy.

compassion

mediamatters.org (emphasis mine):

On the October 14 broadcast of his daily radio show, right-wing radio host Neal Boortz stated that if the country is faced with an impending national disaster, it should make it a higher priority to save rich Americans rather than poor Americans.

[...]

From the October 13 broadcast of Cox Radio Syndication's The Neal Boortz Show:

[...]

Now, if you have time, save as many people as you can. But if you have to set some priorities, where do you go? The rich or the poor? OK? Who is a drag on society? The rich or the poor? Who provide the jobs out there? The rich or the poor? Who fuels -- you know, which group fuels our economy? Drives industry? The rich or the poor? Now if you -- all of a sudden, somebody walks up to you and says, "Hey, Boortz listener. You're gonna have a -- you have to make a choice. You're going to -- we're gonna move you to another country. And you're just gonna have to make your way in this other country. We have a choice of two countries for you. In this country, people achieve a lot and they are wealthy because of their hard work. In this country, people don't achieve squat. They sit around all the time waiting for somebody else to take care of them. They have children they can't afford. They're uneducated. They can barely read. And the high point of their day is Entertainment Tonight on TV.

Wow. I think I found my dog (who hates me) a new dogsitter. I mean, really, I suddenly feel all warm and fuzzy inside. not.

At the risk of sounding like a doofus by saying something akin to 'I personally recommend air-breathing and food-eating ', let me just say go read Eschaton like I did here.

Update 10/14/2005 9:44 PM: fixed mediamatters link.

Four Times A Lady

Rove testifies fourth time on CIA leak
Can I just say, I feel like singing? ::ahem::

There are many many crazy things
That will keep me loving you
And with your permission
May I list a few

The way you wear your manacles
The way you make your plea
The memory is just hysterical
No they can’t take that away from me

The way your smile just leaves
The way you sing off key
The way you haunted my dreams
No they can’t take that away from me

We may never never meet again, on that bumpy road to love
But I’ll always, always keep the memory of

The way you fell on your knife
The way we watched you bleed
The way you changed my life
No they can’t take that away from me

Update 10/14/2005 1:22 PM: BTW the picture is a fake - a nice bit of photoshop work. Kudos to whoever made it. Perhaps KR will pose for a photo op like this soon - for reals.

Update 10/14/2005 2:25 PM: flight risk?

Update: 10/14/2005 10:24 PM: added link to 'Classic Sinatra'

Update 10/17/2005 2:12 AM: Karl Rove would immediately resign or go on unpaid leave if indicted in the CIA leak case, sources familiar with the strategy tell time. - The Raw Story via Desi at Jesus' General

cuz opposites attract

http://www.antibloomberg.com/ ----> http://www.bloomberg.com/

What is the Bloomberg 600?

Update 10/18/2005 1:16 PM: I checked the antibloomberg URL and it doesn't work anymore. But if you 'google' antibloomberg.com you get this -

Showing web page information for antibloomberg.com Bloomberg.com
Bloomberg.com is among the top five most-trafficked financial sites on the Web. It is regarded as a premier site for news and financial information. www.thebloombergtraveler.net/

Pardon me,

would you happen to have any Orange Alert?

NY Daily News - Terror tip for rich:

Terror tip for rich
By ALISON GENDAR
DAILY NEWS POLICE BUREAU CHIEF
Thursday, October 13th, 2005

The city's rich and well-connected were tipped off to last week's subway terror threat days before average New Yorkers, the Daily News has learned.

At least two E-mails revealing the purported plot were sent to a select crowd of business and arts executives early last week by New Yorkers who claimed to have close connections to Homeland Security and other federal officials, authorities said.

I didn't get this email. My sloppy dress and offshore accounts must have everyone fooled. What a sly fox I am! Huzzah! Anyhoo, since I gave the entire staff off today I must run home now and walk the dog. She poops when I put her harness on - have I mentioned that before? Dreadful. I don't think I've met someone who made me poop when they try to grab me. I've had coffee that does something similar. Ta!

Update 10/13/2005 11:45 PM: Snopes.com: NY Subway Warning

Update 10/14/2005 8:39 PM: Somebody named 'Boortz' (Borat?) sez "we should save the rich people first"

paper or plastic?

"...CLEAN-UP IN AISLE FOUR...CLEAN-UP IN AISLE FOUR..."

Update 10/13/2005 3:19 AM: check out Church Sign Generator if you go for that sort of thing.

an epiphany

I have been touched by His Noodly Appendage
rAmen!

L ’ O R É A L Pure ZoneTM

I found Lori while looking for info on EBN who apparently created this at oddcast.com.

Lori creeps me out - sounds a little like Shelly.

Update 10/10/2005 7:46 PM: Turn up the speakers and open the Lori link above multiple times to recreate a scene from Being John Malkovich - the one where JM has just crawled through his own little door. heh.

Update 10/10/2005 8:46 PM:

"What's-sshhh up with all this-ssshhh pre-ssshhh-ipita-ssshhh-tion you nimbus-shhh?"

crab/not-crab

Update 10/10/2005 5:02 PM: The not-crab half of the image above is explained here. I have no explanation for the other half. Team Terramax finished the 132-mile course but only after the 10 hour deadline had passed. Since the $2,000,000 prize money is your tax dollars at work we must ask - what does the Pentagon want with robotic vehicles?

Stanford Wins Pentagon Robot Race (emphasis mine):

"This car, to me, is really a piece of history," Stanford computer scientist Sebastian Thrun said after receiving an oversize check for the $2 million prize, funded by taxpayers.

[...]

A fifth vehicle, a 16-ton truck named TerraMax, was the last to finish Sunday, though not within the contest's 10-hour deadline. Its operators paused it Saturday night so it would not have to race in darkness.

It is unclear how the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency plans to harness the technology used in the race for military applications. But Thrun said he wanted to design automated systems to make next-generation cars safer for everyone, not just the military.

"If it was only for the military, I wouldn't be here today," Thrun said.

[...]

The robotic vehicles had to navigate a course designed to mimic driving conditions in Iraq and Afghanistan.

I don't mean to be a pest, but I think there's a lot more to driving in Iraq these days than just bumpy desert roads. Well, if the robo-trucks don't work out we've still got this guy right?

CUYAHOGA FALLS -- A member of Ohio's 5694th National Guard Unit in Mansfield legally changed his name to a Transformers toy. Optimus Prime is heading out to the Middle East with his guard unit on Wednesday to provide fire protection for airfields under combat.

wikipedia: Optimus_Prime_(person)

I'm gonna change my name to, um, ah, I don't know, does this car have a name?

Columbus Day* beer blogging

*as of eighteen minutes ago.

mmm... nummy!

Update 10/10/2005 1:09 AM: I don't see what private road construction has to do with mdhm, so I will continue to delete these comments - I am trying to keep this place orderly. Oh, and on your way out please notice the nicely framed comment hanging on the wall in the post below - woohoo! my first *real* comment!

oops

It looks like either I have to become a premium member of Yahoo! Briefcase or you have to sign in with your Yahoo! ID in order for you to hear this and this.
D'oh!

Update 10/9/2005 1:48 AM: This is not working. This blows. If you're reading this and you know of some good FREE online storage solution that my wine-soaked brain isn't coming up with please let me know in the comments. Ideally it would allow 30MB or more of storage with public access, all file types, hotlinking, does my laundry, etc. etc.

::crickets::

hello? anyone?

Update 10/9/2005 3:24 AM: Alreet! I gives up. It's after 3AM - I need to stop! Listen to Joe Liggins 'Rag Mop' here and check out Astoveboat 'Oh Apparition' here

Update 10/14/2005 3:35 PM: Fixed the Astoveboat audio link. Thanks putfile.com !

m-o-r-e-m-p-3-3

OK, my first music post was a little weak, so here's another attempt - a nice coda to my recent trip to ex-whaling town Nantucket via Providence -

loadrecords.com:

Although the band is no longer active, this CD stands as a monument to our whaling heritage...and rocks your boat out of the water.

Astoveboat - 'Oh Apparition'

Oh, so now this is a blog about whaling? I dunno, let's ask Whiskey Johnnie -

'Twas whiskey made me pawn my clo'es.
Whis-key! John-nie!
An' whiskey got me a broken nose.
Oh, whis-key for my John-nie!

Well, Johnnie, that wasn't much of an answer - now go put some pants on.

How 'bout we ask a Bantam Classic -

Call me Ishmael. Some years ago- never mind how long precisely- having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen and regulating the circulation. Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off- then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can. This is my substitute for pistol and ball.

--Herman Melville's Moby Dick

Indeed. This is my substitute for pistol and ball. ;-)

PS, more music to come - perhaps even a *current* artist!

Update 10/14/2005 3:30 PM: Fixed the audio link. Thanks putfile.com !

Update 2/12/2006 12:32 AM: WTF? Now the audio link is no good. I get no respect, no respect I tells ya.

r-a-g-g-m-o-p-p

Joe Liggins - Rag Mop (sample)

my cats love me

Brooklyn, NY - October 8, 2005
pretty kitty wants to help me mop the floor.

Brooklyn, NY - October 8, 2005
tuxedo kitty recommends 'Jacob's Ladder' for my Netflix rental queue.

nothing says lovin' like sticking my head in the oven

Brooklyn, NY - October 8, 2005
C'mon, c'mon, c'mon, c'mon now
touch me, babe.
Can't you see that I am not afraid?

mut(t)iny

Nantucket Sound - October 3, 2005
Love, exciting and new
Come Aboard. We're expecting you.
Love, life's sweetest reward.
Let it flow, it floats back to you.