The Openest of Threads

Having just finished a buttload of editing on your Chicago appearance, I must say the painkillers from your recent injury have not hampered your sense of humor….much. I do wish I could have seen your realistic portrayal of JC; I’m told it was quite good. Hope the finger is healing well and that your appetite for cheese returns before the next public radio reception.

I have scads of things to do, too, but I’m managing to avoid them quite nicely. The grass needs cutting, but that will get done tomorrow after WWDTM and before rehearsal. Did I mention I’m going to Provence in June with a high school singing group that needed a few “mature altos”?

Well, I am.

but who doesn’t need “a few mature altos . . . ?”

dee, Provence, huh? Need any roadies? Any groupies? I’m just 90 minutes down the highway; don’t forget about me, if you need some help with all that luggage - over there in Europe.

Why don’t you just make Cooper and me, among others, try to get through the weekend engulfed in envy?

Looks like my work here is done.

A butt is a huge cask of beer at 126 gallons. A load of butts would be a haul indeed.

I think the most entertaining thing I heard this week–and I haven’t listened to WWDTM yet–was this quote from GWB concerning the Spanish-language interpretation of the Star Spangled Banner.

“I think the national anthem ought to be sung in English, and I think people who want to be a citizen of this country ought to learn English and they ought to learn to sing the national anthem in English.”

(1) This is coming from a presumably native speaker, who can’t say the word “nuclear.”
(2) No one, outside of a very few professional singers, can sing the SSB, native-speaker or not.

Can we require that our former colonial masters stop using those alternate lyrics to “My Country, ‘Tis Of Thee”? You know, the ones about God saving the Queen or something like that.

Well, ginny, now we know how Mr. Limbaugh got his nickname, heh? “Rush Limbaugh Arrested” - you’re right, that is fun to type.

Paid-for hookers? GOP? Hmm.Maybe I should reconsider my party affilation.

Poor Rush Limbaugh Arrested. What a terrible choice for a moniker. His parents must have hated him very, very much. Almost as much as the other little chaps in short pants, who entertained themselves endlessly with jokes like “This is no fun, let’s get Arrested.”

On a completely unrelated note, my husband david and I have had a brainstorm concerning what to do with those extremely generous gas rebates if and when the GOP rams them through Congress.

We’ll just endorse them over to someone or something more deserving, to wit:

1. Give to local Meals on Wheels, or to a group that shuttles the homeless to shelters.
2. Donate to an alternative-fuels or hybrid cars pilot project, or to the National Park Service for the shuttle buses they run in the parks to cut down on traffic and pollution.
3. Sign it over to local police, fire, or emergency rescue.
4. Forward it to an agency that helps the working poor or Katrina refugees with gas money or bus/transit fare cards.
5. Endorse it over to a Democrat running against an incumbent Republican, and fax a copy to Sen. Bill Frist’s office as a big THANK YOU.

Definitely most excellent ideas. #5 really appeals. I will also send a copy to my senators.

#5 is actually #1, but we wanted a Top 5 list that went out with a “bang.”

Also, 5 X 5 on the Lobster love for Neil Young. With drawn butter and Holy Sacramental Bibs.

When you write that “Bush got hammered,” are you suggesting that maybe he went home and knocked back a few? Maybe washed down a few pretzels?

Glenn Greenwald, author of the forthcoming book “How Would a Patriot Act?” says that the MSM is finally starting to print the unvarnished truth about the disregard for the law and the Constitution displayed by this administration. In this case, the “media” is only the Boston Globe, hardly a bastion of conservatism, but it’s a start.

Thanks for the link,Link.It is an amazing piece and very funny.Because we have a Mac,perhaps,the quality of the video wasn’t great and we missed the reaction shots.But,damn that Colbert was great,and speaking truth to power.Thanks,again.

hedera,

Thanks for the link.

poorly, “but with great confidence” — screw English and Spanish; that pretty well wraps up how he does EVERYthing.

Julia

Yikes!! I took the weekend off to celebrate my natal anniversary and missed a lot of fun here.

dee- do they need any mature 2nd sopranos/1st altos?

ginny- #5 it is. Can’t wait to send that to friends.

I don’t have cable, thus can’t join in on the Colbert stuff

Great WWDTM this week, Adam. I *loved* the bit on the military. I’m *still* chuckling over the “Goodnight Moon”.

I liked the Colbert roasty part, but the sample video for the press secretary position was painfully tedious.

David, I didn’t know that “gob” was a standard unit for that particular commodity. Thanks for the horrible image!

Ann,

What can I say? Down here on the edge…
of the Green Swamp, galore (Pussy Galore) becomes gobs, in a kind of fast and loose puta populism. The most common unit in the South is, of course, mess, as in a mess of fish or a mess of greens, but a mess of pussy just somehow doesn’t work, unless, of course, it’s dinner time. (Wonder just how far down I can dig myself.)

Just a reasonably fast internet connection will do. No need of cable.Can watch Colbret.I like the lyrics, they r really very touchy. Can’t overcome my emotions.