Saturday is the best day of the week, ‘cuz I don’t have to work today, and I don’t have to work tomorrow. Now, if only I could manage to sleep in a little bit.
Posted by pjsauter on August 16, 2008
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Saturday is the best day of the week, ‘cuz I don’t have to work today, and I don’t have to work tomorrow. Now, if only I could manage to sleep in a little bit.
Let’s see if this works:
Nope.
Oh well Rest in Peace Elvis.
This Saturday is getting too close to Labor Day, which spells the end of my summer. I don’t hate my job, in fact sometimes I have a lot of fun with the kids, but I hate working.
Hubby is doing better every day. His eyesight in the affected eye is also improving and the time between doctor visits is lengthening, but it hasn’t added up to a great summer and Labor Day is just too soon.
I see we had a visit from NR in the wee hours of the morning.
The Bulwer-Lytton contest awards prize for the worst opening sentence of an fantasy novel. It’s named after the author who penned the opening line
“It was a dark and stormy night.”
The winning entry this year:
“Theirs was a New York love, a checkered taxi ride burning rubber, and like the city their passion was open 24/7, steam rising from their bodies like slick streets exhaling warm, moist, white breath through manhole covers stamped ‘Forged by DeLaney Bros., Piscataway, N.J.’ ”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/14/AR2008081403452.html?hpid=moreheadlines
it was a dark ans stormy morning,
the whole blog holding it’s collective breath
and waiting, waiting tor that explosive moment of release.
:bong:
Sue, that’s actually a line from a published novel?
Women’s water polo results:
USA 12
Russia 7
:yippee:
USA not only advances to the medal round, but gets a bye! They play the winner of Australia vs. China on Monday night in Beijing (Tuesday morning for us Westerners). If they win that one, they play for the gold two days later.
Are you masturbating on the blog, SJ? 😉 :hubba:
Thanks, aaA. Maybe an oral obit on the voicemail later?
EAP 1935-1977
🙁 :gate: :crap:
I tried to embed the vid but no joy.
Oral obit from me or you?
Liberal talk radio hires ex-con Ney
From you, andy.You are the voice talent here.
Why doesn’t this work?
OK one last one.
It’s as grey as grey can get here- 51 degrees, endless rain for the last 24 hr. Snow at Eisenhower Tunnel. Coldest two days on record :cold:
I don’t think I can do another winter like the last one.
Blam! Blam! Blam! The .38 spat lead into my gut as I tripped over the body of the naked blond and fell off the balcony into the swimming pool below.
Andy, from wikipedia:
The phrase “It was a dark and stormy night”, made famous by comic strip artist Charles M. Schulz, was originally penned by Victorian novelist Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton as the beginning of his 1830 novel Paul Clifford.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_was_a_dark_and_stormy_night
Hard to believe it’s Saturday again. Seems like just yesterday it was Friday. Before you know it, it’ll be Sunday.
Republican presidential candidate John McCain’s divorce was amicable enough that he and his ex-wife jointly brought a lawsuit 10 years later to recover damages for lost mementos, but it wasn’t amicable enough to prevent McCain’s mother from suing his ex-wife to get back some personal property.
Both lawsuits were settled out of court decades ago and before they went to trial, but records of them are kept in the archives of the city courthouse in Alexandria.
Curiously, although the records clearly list the plaintiffs, McCain’s campaign says that the Arizona senator didn’t know about or authorize the 1990 lawsuit with his ex-wife, Carol, and that his mother’s 1980 lawsuit was filed “unintentionally.” And McCain’s 96-year-old mother, Roberta, says she never sued Carol.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/08/16/roberta-mccain-denies-lawsuit-against-sons-ex-wife/
Needless to say, lawyers and the ex-wife dispute the “I know nothing” line.
A politicl ad created by a Dailykos contributor :
http://www.dailykos.com/user/uid:41370
HaHa Travis re 18 … :rofl2: Cheers …
Sue. P Tea Cheers …
:pirate: A!I!V!
Druid! :bong: Hempfest
Rats :bong: 8) … :pirate: A!I!V!
…and I left a bit of a message for a few in the wee hours… of today or last hours of the eve…
…and I wanted to say:
CANDLES in the WINDOW
calling you to give a quick *fly by* — You do not have to stay long…
>>>>> FRED You Are Missed but I kinda Understand <<<<<
I just wanted to say Tea Cheers. (And when I have a 1 or 2 cup of tea (and not in my Tankard) I think of you … :rofl2: :hubba: LOL 😉 other times too. :pirate: 8) :hubba: …
…and give a coffee, OJ, and Doughnut Cheers 2 U…
Just a *fly* by — Sea-Ya 😉 *Poof*
:pirate: A!I!V! Evanescence
Hildegard von Bingen performed by Oxford Camerata, directed by Jeremy Summerly
Posted by: Kelly in New Releases
http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/album.jsp?album_id=192013
Hildegard von Bingen has enjoyed cult status since her ‘rediscovery’ 25 years ago. The tenth child of an aristocratic family, she entered a convent at the age of eight and spent the remainder of her eighty years as a nun and mystic, the latter half as abbess of her own convent.
Hildegard completed her great musico-poetic collection around the year 1150. Symphonia armonie celestium revelationum (Symphony of the Harmony of Heavenly Revelations) is a collection of 77 songs and one music drama. The subjects of these songs are an idiosyncratic collection of individuals and groups – the pieces included on this recording are variously addressed to the Creator, the Redeemer, the Blessed Virgin Mary, St. John the Evangelist, Apostles, Confessors, and Martyrs.
This music is performed by the celebrated Oxford Camerata, directed by Jeremy Summerly, whom Gramophone praised for his “fine judgment for tonal blending†and “excellent sense of pace.â€
Oxford Camerata made its debut at the Maison Française in Oxford on May 22, 1984. The core group comprises 12 singers with or without keyboard accompaniment, but certain projects have involved as few as four singers and as many as 40. After hearing their performance of Bach’s St. Matthew Passion in the Snape Maltings on Good Friday in 1986, Sir Peter Pears agreed to become the Oxford Camerata’s first patron. While Oxford Camerata was initially recognized specifically as an early music group, since the early 1990s it has expanded its repertory to include music from Gregorian chant to the present day. The Oxford Camerata Instrumental Ensemble, which uses modern instruments, was formed in 1992; the Oxford Camerata Baroque Orchestra was founded in 2007.
Jeremy Summerly has given concert tours throughout Europe and the United States as well as in Israel, Indonesia, Hong Kong, South Africa, and Botswana. He has conducted at the BBC Proms, the Berlin Philharmonie, and the Palestine Mozart Festival, and has performed Ligeti for Ligeti, Pärt for Pärt, and Kagel for Kagel. In 1995, he received a European Cultural Prize from the European Association for the Encouragement of the Arts in Basel, Switzerland, and in 2007 he was made an honorary associate of the Royal Academy of Music in London.
:jesus:
Heavenly Revelations:
http://www.cduniverse.com/search/xx/music/pid/1042630/a/Early+Music+-+Heavenly+Revelations+-+Hildegard+Von+Bingen.htm
:priest:
Plainchant, or chant, is the music of the medieval Christian church. Its origin lies partly in Jewish liturgy, and in the early Christian church’s efforts to devise a liturgy radically different from pagan rivals (no clapping, no dancing, no instruments, texts mostly from the Bible sung homophonically). For an exploration of the possible links between the Jewish and Christian liturgies, see:
:menorah:
I saw all of about 4 minutes of the Olympics but this is kind of cool.
EIGHT FOR PHELPS
especially since I never cared for Mark Spitz but I always liked Mr. Phelps in MI.
:banana: :yippee: :pup:
Hildie is always 8) 8) and calms The Beast within… :rofl2: … :pirate: A!I!V! :dancers: :rofl2: :nixon:
WOLVES … and … “dramatis personae”
If Anyone Cared… by Nickleback
a pix I keep trying to Enbed…
JFI Intense Quake at 10:57pm 5.4 ish near hear (Northern CA…)
I was trying to tell you that there is a new Hildegard recording by Jeremy Summerly. I saw a short review in the NYT. (I probably mailed it to you.)
JB Cool…it must have been right under me darn near… gosh …
Submitted by WiccanDruid on Sun, 08/17/2008 – 3:38am.
It usually NEVER “rocks” this much here upstairs in my office unless above 5.0…gosh only a 4.6
Thanks…a wee lil one (4.6) tsk tsk
…HaHaHa I usually only respond when above 5.0 eek
I hope you are doing better…with all
Again Thanks (a wee lil 4.6 Q.) LOL 😉
last time it was a 5.4 and it was close by (in water)– I felt a .3 or .4 maybe surely a 5.1 —
but a 4.6 Bloody L. “Well I Never…” WTF :smack: :doh:
Where was it centered?
OK. How do you embed a youtube? :tap:
:omg:
NR, Submitted by jbenet on Sun, 08/17/2008 – 2:23am.
http://quake.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Maps/124-41.htm
http://quake.usgs.gov/waveforms/helicorder/index.html
~`~`~`~`~`~
Jamesbennett
:pirate: :billcat: & :pup:
NR, ya just did (embeded)… :rofl2: … :pirate: 8) A!I!V!
Usually somebody has to be there for me to do it right. I went out anb bought the original Cars CD today because I was thinking of that song. I had it on cassett “”back in the day”.
:hot: There is a heatwave where I am.
I am not getting access to the new comments. :pirate:
There is something screwy going on. :yinyang:
Beatrice Wyatt’s Yard:
http://e4.video.blip.tv/2060000139275/Chuck-WeirdAmericaBeatriceWyattsYard959.mov
I’m bad. I am watching (a lil bit) female tennis :spank: … :pirate: A!I!V!
What or where comments?
:fire: :priest: :omg:
I can’t access posts that are beyond #35. :bee:
I can’t hear “anything” on my speakers to hear the Cars (but I know the song :pup: ) … so have to “restart” but can’t…now
sniff… :pirate: A!I!V! 😉
What did I screw up ❓
:40:
:penguin: :hot:
:jason:
Ya ask’n me? :rofl2: :omg: :alc: …
when my computer acts like that I usually have to reboot, before I assume an error … cuz weird things just appear and disappear on Computers :omg: :reaper: :nod: :no:
😉 …. :pirate: A!I!V!
After #35, the thread went to a backup one. I wonder, did I do something wrong when I embedded the video?
:hot: 8) cool (i luv :hot: evenings — I have to run out and see how it is here 8) ) I need to get more Tea (so boring I am 🙄 :rofl2: ) A!I!V!
NR, I do not think so Just refresh until it looks normal. It happens to me too… :rofl2: … I use to give up and just scream or cry or threaten the Computer with throwing it out the Window… :rofl2:
Comments on: Saturday Open Thread :parrot:
Fucking nuts! Comment 35 doesn’t have the name of who posted it.
NEW THREAD! :omg:
:pirate: :jason: :sheep: :sheep: :sheep:
invisible posts
broken blog
It looks like NR did something to it at 35. He may have embedded a bad tag in the video. However, I am having no problem viewing everything via Firefox.
8) Blue , :dancers: :knit:
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