Crap, this OT shit is gonna kill me (in beer alone). Sorry about WV, Vernon, but I sure am glad it was only one OT last night. Busy day today here in da ‘Cuse.
First up, the largest St Patrick’s Day Parade (per capita; yeah, I know that doesn’t mean too much) in the country. Then, in lacrosse, #6 Johns Hopkins comes to the Dome to play #2 Syracuse. And, of course, we have the Big East Championship game at Madison Square Garden, as former SU assitant Rick Pitino takes on his old boss, Jim Boeheim. Hard enough to beat Louisville, which has been on a hell of a run though the BE this season, losing only two games (which is pretty amazing, given the competition), but after the last couple of nights, it’s hard to see how these kids can even make it though the first half. Thank goodness the game starts at a more reasonable 7:00 tonight. Crap! Read the teevee guide wrong; it’s at 9:00 again. Well, at least we don’t have to wait for the first game to end.
Have a good one.
You go take a nap now. :yawn:
I don’t have much invested in WVU, just a family thing, so I hope the Orange has another breath or two for one more night.
I finally got to watch an clean stream of the Thursday Break Room Live with guests Dick Gregory and Janeane Garofalo and recommend it. There were a lot of people on the chat who didn’t get Gregory at all but I thoroughly enjoyed it. I don’t think BRL is attracting the same quality of viewer/listener that I am used to.
Word is that Peter B Collins is putting his show on ‘hiatus’ in a week or so. I guess that means he didn’t get the Randi slot on Green 960. That seems to mean we are might get Frangela although I think we are really in a holding pattern for the return of Rhodes early in April. I don’t see them running replays of Montel.
There is a Jorma Kaukonen interview on NPR’s Weekend Edition with Scott Simon today. If you don’t catch it there will be an audio link here at around 9 AM PDT.
I haven’t gotten myself in the habit of watching/listening to BRL. The times I’ve watched live, the quality of the chat (or chatters) didn’t do much for me.
I guess when you get more than a handful of people, you’re bound to get a few meatheads.
I haven’t posted much about Akron this season, but the Zips are still hanging tough too. Not as many overtimes (they only needed one to beat Toledo Tuesday night), but they’re still alive in the MAC tournament. They whipped Bowling Green last night, and play Buffalo tonight for the league championship and a berth in the NCAAs.
So much for watching Will Ferrell on HBO tonight, unless I stay up and catch it at midnight on West. Of course, if Akron wins, I’ll probably still be up celebrating, so what the hell.
GO ZIPS!!!
Hubby has Lola on a leash for the first time. He’s walking her around the backyard. It’s seems to be a lot like walking a big yoyo. Clifford is outside too, watching in what looks like disbelief.
For the winners
KP, I listened to Hartman’s talk about worms. He was suggesting that many auto-immune diseases, such as allergies and lupus, have increased since we eliminated worms in both humans and our pets, the reason being that worms secrete something that lowers the immune response which in turn lowers the incidence of auto-immune disease.
The Times had a long article about this in their science section awhile ago and I read it then too. Interesting but squirm producing.
Somehow, even if I were convinced that hosting a worm colony would not only be benign but beneficial, I would not really like having them as tenants.
I think I’d rather sneeze my way through hay fever season with the help of a few benedril instead of a wiggly, secreting worm.
I’ve heard that women once purposely ingested tapeworms to help them stay slim. I think I’d rather be plump, or watch my diet.
I am very prejudiced, I admit it. Of all the fauna in this world worms, especially parasitic ones, are on the top of my yuck list.
The great American drilling boom is over.
Drilling for natural gas near Decatur. Lower prices have ended the frantic push to find and exploit new sources of natural gas.
The number of oil and gas rigs deployed to tap new energy supplies across the country has plunged to less than 1,200 from 2,400 last summer, and energy executives say the drop is accelerating further.
Lower prices are bringing to an end an ambitious effort to squeeze more oil from aging fields and to tap new sources of natural gas. For the last four years, companies here drilled below airports, golf courses, churches and playgrounds in a frantic search for energy. They scoured the Rocky Mountains, the Great Plains, the Gulf of Mexico and Appalachia.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/15/business/15drilling.html
So much for “Drill baby, drill.”
But the economic downturn has cut into demand. Global oil prices and American natural gas prices have plummeted two-thirds since last summer. Not even an unseasonably cold winter drove down unusually high inventories of natural gas.
We had a campaign meeting today and everyone involved seems to be getting really stoked and there seems to be more people in the community wanting to get involved.
I finally got to watch an clean stream of the Thursday Break Room Live with guests Dick Gregory and Janeane Garofalo and recommend it.
I can’t keep up with the chat room for BRL, it goes way too fast and I either pay attention to the chat or to the show and I would rather pay attention to the show.
Oh, I totally agree, Sue. I can’t imagine drinking a hook worm cocktail. But my friend just came back from Costa Rica and he says that his allergies haven’t bothered him at all since he got back. He swam in some rivers while he was down there. He used to have horrible allergies that, pretty much incapacitated him for anything useful. After hearing that show, I got that probiotic stuff called Good Belly and have noticed much less digestion problems.
Yeah, I had that stream problem but last night I got it to run all of the way through. I agree about the chat. I tend to ignore it and not participate but usually my video sputters and lags behind the audio so I occasionally read. I have to say there are some pretty obnoxious regulars there.
Dick Gregory is a comedy and social activist icon who possibly does not resonate or register with younger people. He may not be as well known as Pryor or Carlin but he was a trailblazer who led the way for them. He got a little out there at times but was a very important figure in the civil rights and anti-war movements.
You could tell that Sam and Marc and Janeane were a bit awestruck that they were sitting in the break room with him.
Yeah, Vern, the guy knew King, Malcolm X and others personally. Maybe has met Obama or will meet him.
A very irate aide to Gov. Sarah Palin contacted ABC News today to explain why his boss’s 31 requests for earmarks in the fiscal year 2009 budget, totaling $197 million, represent a victory for fiscally conservative values.
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/03/palin-v-politic.html
Kp, I hope you didn’t take that the wrong way.
He was a hell of a lot more than who he knew. He is an important part of history on a number of levels. He may seem like a rambling old guy to some now but when I was watching the 4 of them sitting there I had the feeling that the ‘kids’ were sitting there thinking that this dude had done and achieved everything that they dream of and more.
He certainly was a hero to me when I was young and still is. He shaped the way that I and many others looked at things. He put himself on the line and made a difference.
Dailykos thought this was a good reference for Stewart’s take-down of Kramer:
No Vern, I was totally impressed by him. And the fact that he talked to those people and can relate that experience to us makes him valuable. I wanna know what those people felt like and thought while they were risking their life for their ideals and for humanity. What is it that makes those people do what they do? And would I ever have the courage to do the same if the time came?
Sue, I am so happy you posted that. I haven’t watched it in a long time but it was a truly fine moment. Pretty interesting to see Tucker act so high and mighty while being cut down. He didn’t even see it. I think Cramer did.
🙁
Tomorrow is another day.
One day there won’t be a tomorrow.
I’ve been hearing a lot about the theory of infinite regression of the Universe, sort of like the Hindu myths and shit.
The big bang being the end of one universe and the beginning of another in the infinite oscillations of the continuum of matter, space and time.
I met someone at a bus stop on Thursday that really put a spark in my world. I’ll probably never speak to this person again, though, but her peculiar nature was a real jolt. Turned my head around. I was sitting in the little shelter adjacent to the street there for bus goers for maybe a half-hour before we started chatting. I’m not sure of the time because I try not to carry a watch, as absurd as that may be. We carried our flickering exchange of ideas onto bus 72 North bound, only briefly ebbing when I would periodically daze in and out of half contemplation and half exhaustion. Our common contemplation ranged from astronomy, cosmology, basic human needs and to art. She’s an artist. A musician specifically. We both, earlier on that same evening possibly, were in separate libraries exploring. She had with her a book on contemporary artists that we both thumbed through. Her explanation of the greatness of The Action Paintings of Pollock shed light on the subject that I didn’t even consider looking for.
http://www.cameliajade.com/official_site/balance.html
Oh, and I also met some guy that asked for spare change and offered me a swig of his beer at another bus stop. On the surface that isn’t as enthralling as the former post, I don’t think.