Adam, you’re thinking, how come you don’t update your links more often? What’s going on with your friends? Is that really Finnegan?
There’s a lot of activity in the world of Friends of Felber. Here are a couple of examples.
Bob Powers has a book coming out in a couple of months. It’s called
It’s a collection of long-overlooked holidays, just like Bob’s celebrated “Girls Are Pretty.” You can click on the picture for more news and to become the book’s friend (I concept which I barely understand and yet heartily endorse).
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And yes, that IS Christian Finnegan. Christian has both lost an large amount of weight and figured out a way to put said pounds on me. That’s impressive. More impressive, however, is Christian’s first comedy album, “Two for Flinching,” which comes out in three weeks. Though you can’t be the CD’s friend (yet), you can befriend Christian, which is almost as good.
And then there are two new and vastly entertaining blogs out there. Remember our friend Julius Sharpe? He’s returned to the internets with a blog entitled “News as Gossip.” You will love it. I do.
And finally there’s Chris DeLuca, a vastly talented writer/comedian who has apparently gotten his steam -and-pedal-powered “computational contraption” working well enough to finally join the “worldwide webbing” (as he calls it). What sucks… is a handy daily guide to things that shouldn’t exist. Very deinitely not on that list is the blog itself.
Fanny Roborat
52 comments
Roadstergal
October 7, 2006 at 3:22 pm
1become the book’s friend
Hey, some of my best friends are books. But would you really want your daughter to marry one?
dee
October 7, 2006 at 5:47 pm
2Excuse me, I just have to go off topic for a moment.
THE TIGERS BEAT THE YANKEES!
THE TIGERS BEAT THE YANKEES!
THE TIGERS BEAT THE YANKEES!
Carry on.
Dale
October 7, 2006 at 6:13 pm
3Excuse me, I just have to go off topic for a moment.
THE TIGERS BEAT THE YANKEES!
THE TIGERS BEAT THE YANKEES!
THE TIGERS BEAT THE YANKEES!
Carry on.
Sheriff Lugar Axehandle
October 7, 2006 at 6:42 pm
4Anyone know how the playoffs went today?
George
October 7, 2006 at 6:49 pm
5I heard that the Yankees swept the Tigers and Rep. Foley is a Democrat.
David
October 7, 2006 at 7:04 pm
6Pretty damned awesome bunch of Comeback Kids. Now you gotta take care of the As and the Mets gotta get the job done in the NLCS.
Meanwhile, Gators 23 - Bayou Bengals 10.
Yeah, Foley is a Democrat and GWB is an intellectual giant. I thought everyone knew.
Adam, I did check out the other sites, and even posted on one. I couldn’t let the idea that Tony Roma’s was a place for ribs stand.
SeattleDan
October 7, 2006 at 7:09 pm
7As a bookseller who thinks girls are pretty, too, I guess I’ll have to stock Bob’s books. Thanks for the tips.
Go Tigers!
dee
October 7, 2006 at 7:27 pm
8Hey!! Looks like my local Fox station has moved Talk Show to 11:00 instead of midnight. I may actually be able to stay up for this.
dee
October 7, 2006 at 8:00 pm
9Um…never mind. Mets - Dodgers still on.
SeattleDan
October 7, 2006 at 8:04 pm
10If it prempts the Fox “News”, consider yourself lucky, dee.
K. V., Jr.
October 7, 2006 at 8:42 pm
11…”I’m forced to suffer leaders with names like Bush and Dick and, up until recently, Colon.”
K. V., Jr.
October 7, 2006 at 9:05 pm
12Anna Politikovskaya, a prominent journalist and critic of Vladimir Putin, was found murdered in the elevator of her apartment building today. Maybe Mr. Bush would like to have another look into Vladimir’s soul, but be forewarned, it’s a lot darker in there than it used to be.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15172854/
David
October 8, 2006 at 5:34 am
13Putin and Bush are soulmates. It’s just that Putin is smarter and Bush is jealous. And instead of old-fashioned gangster style execution, our team, going back at least to what was done to people like Jean Seberg (sp?), prefers psychological assassination. That way there’s no uproar. Did anyone pay a price, besides Jean Seberg and her family and other loved ones, for what was done to her?
And W is most certainly spawn of those bastards, as are the people around him. I do admit I haven’t a clue how to categorize Laura politically. She just strikes me as an essentially naive enabler.
Harold
October 8, 2006 at 6:26 am
14Last night’s Spike Feresten featured Pluto AND the Giant Iguana!!!!!
Unfortunately, there was some sort of baseball game on that ran late, and after that there was a weekly High School Sports Show that went from 12:10 to 12:40, and I wound up picking up on Spike Feresten at 12:48…hope I didn’t miss too much in those first eight minutes!
Did I hear that the Tigers beat the Yankees?
cooper
October 8, 2006 at 7:04 am
15David, W is the spawn of war profiteer Prescott Bush (bad enough), a former Senator from CT, who had to be legally restrained by the federal government to cease trading with the Nazis. Filthy lucre and privilege certainly opened a number of doors for our Mr. Bush.
cooper
October 8, 2006 at 7:08 am
16Here’s an interesting little aside, Prescott Bush was the president of Planned Parenthood in 1947. That must make for interesting conversation around the Bush Family table at Thanksgiving. One would hope, anyway. http://www.nndb.com/org/115/000048968/
Rabbi Askotzky
October 8, 2006 at 10:18 am
17Enough mit dem “Prescott Bush”, goy. That he was a gelt nafka surprises you?
cooper
October 8, 2006 at 12:35 pm
18Looks like it’s only me and the kibbitzing Askotzky on the forum today, so to avoid rabbinical wrath, I’ll take up a new subject, which is - check out Crooks and Liars, there’s lots of play about Cheney’s fearmongering, Cheney’s potty mouth and Raum Emanuel kicking Republican butt on Foleygate coverups. http://www.crooksandliars.com/
SeattleDan
October 8, 2006 at 2:33 pm
19Thanks for the link, coop. Crooksandliars is always an interesting site, though sometimes I wish they’d use spellcheck.
Sunday afternoon. Finished the crossword puzzle. Now time to clean the kitchen.
cooper
October 8, 2006 at 4:10 pm
20Oh good, Dan, there for a while I thought the Rabbi & I were the only ones to survive the weekend. (Between you and me, he’s a bit of a bore.) Your afternoon sounds remarkably like my afternoon. Interesting that we are separated by a continent and yet have devolved in the same pattern. Well, interesting or appalling, take your pick.
Harold
October 8, 2006 at 6:15 pm
21I scraped 20 years of rust off some wrought-iron railing and painted it today. Yesterday too. I still have more of that to look forward to.
At some point I need to get a list of recommended political links to add to my site. Crooksandliars? The Huffington Post? What else?
SeattleDan
October 8, 2006 at 7:18 pm
22Harold, coop, we lead such fascinating lives (as I’m sure the good Rabbi does as well). No wonder the masses want to speak to us here!
cooper
October 8, 2006 at 7:58 pm
23Harold, here’s a couple I frequent - http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/
http://www.davidcorn.com/
& of course, http://mythstory.net/
David
October 8, 2006 at 8:14 pm
24cooper,
An interesting comparison between the Bushes and the Rockefellers: with each successive generation, the Rockefellers have become more socially responsible, whereas the Bushes have become less so, and as a consequence the Republicans have embraced the Bushes and marginalized the Rockefellers, one of whom is now a Democrat. With Prescott, business came first. I’ve never read anything regarding the nature of his attitude toward the politics of Henry Ford or Charles Lindbergh.
Rabbi Askotzky
October 9, 2006 at 5:00 am
25Another Farstinkinah Birthday to Fyvush Finkel 83 (or 84, who knows?) years old. Where will it all end, bubchik? We attended school together many, many years ago. He went by Phillip back then - assimilation was big in the old days, too! Oy, the years.
Siobhan
October 9, 2006 at 8:53 am
26Hi guys, thanks for keeping things going over the weekend.
I spent two perfect San Francisco autumn days getting my hands torn apart by hawks and listening to the sky get torn apart by the @%%$$ Blue Angels. For some reason, they like the hills around our blinds, so we get an up-close-and-personal experience like no other.
Landis
October 9, 2006 at 9:24 am
27And I spent the weekend trying to get back home on Muni/BART from said Air Show. What a hassle. It would be quicker to drive in, double-park, get my car towed, pick it up at impound and drive home. It might also be cheaper.
The Blue Angels are certainly loud. And you probably didn’t see it since they don’t need all of the air space of Northern California to perform one show, but the Red Bull Air Race was far more exciting to watch. I hear it will be broadcast on Fox Sports Network on 15 October in case anyone wants to watch a motorsport that is far more interesting than NASCAR.
Siobhan
October 9, 2006 at 10:31 am
28Landis, next year watch it from the Marin Headlands. Hawk Hill is a great vantage point, plus you can spend the downtime between events looking at all the birds zooming by. There were about 170 people at my banding talk on Sunday; a large crowd by our standards, but a lot less of a mob than down on the SF waterfront.
waterfowler
October 9, 2006 at 3:16 pm
29ABTY!! anybody but the yankees! Go Tigers!
And Geaux Tigers, but next time beat the green swamp rats, please. I hate to see David gloat.
Hook ‘em Horns!
benihana
October 9, 2006 at 4:34 pm
30OMG has anyone seen how bush is “rephrasing” statutory rape into a problem with illegal immigrants? “The question we need to be asking ourselves is not if Mark Foley behaved improperly,” Mr. Bush said. “The question we need to ask is, were these congressional pages in our country legally?” “What we may be seeing is an orchestrated attempt by 16-year-old boys with hot bodies to swarm into our country and tempt our lawmakers.”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/uc/20061009/cm_uc_crabox/andy_borowitz20061009
Speaker of the House
Dennis Hastert praised the president for “pointing the finger at the true culprits in this case.”
“It’s not hard for a bunch of scheming young men with hot bodies to corrupt an older man through no fault of his own,” Mr. Hastert says. “As a former high school wrestling coach, I speak from experience.”
If only I was 16 again…. I could rule the WORLD!! Theres not a politician in the world who can resist the myriad charms of a predatory, underage, illegal immegrant, with dreams of global domination!! My first order as “His Horizontal Highness” would be to change the drinking age to 15, so my buddies could toast me with something besides mountain dew!
Adam, you want to take it from here?
Just Jay
October 9, 2006 at 5:52 pm
31Slightly off topic, but I wish to express my sincere sympathy to anyone out there who makes a living with ironic humor. With stuff like the following in the news, the competition from the real world is brutal. The U.S. is holding an unsavory character by the name of Luis Posada Carriles on immigration charges. Venezuela and Cuba would both like to have him and put him on trial for participation in the blowing up a Cubana Airlines airplane in 1976. The immigration judge, however, won’t allow him to be deported to either country because…
…wait for it…
…he might be subject to torture.
So I guess it’s OK if we do when we’re attacked, but no one else can do it when they’re attacked.
I laugh to keep from crying, but it doesn’t seem all that funny any more.
Jay
piglet
October 9, 2006 at 6:45 pm
32Oh boy. What with drinking the Red Bull and reading the newly recommended blogs and practicing ducking under my desk (a tried and true nuclear survival skill), my day is really starting to bulge at the ends…
Harold
October 9, 2006 at 7:16 pm
33Yes. I have had an urge to drink Red Bull for over a week now. I wonder if Red Bull mixes with cough syrup? Oh, the things we learn from late-night TV…
Scooby
October 9, 2006 at 7:32 pm
34That’s nucular… say it right, or you’re an enemy of the state.
You can run but you can’t hide.
David
October 9, 2006 at 8:03 pm
35Waterfowler,
It’s too soon for this Gator of 55 years (since I was 9 - and rabid from the gitgo) to be gloating. We still have Auburn, Georgia, our beloved Old Ball Coach, and an admittedly schizophrenic FSU all waiting to burst our bubble. None of them is invincible at this point, but neither are we. I’ll gloat when we take down Michigan for the national championship - in a gentlemanly manner, of course, out of respect for Murray - but meanwhile I’ll content myself with St. Pauli Girl-assisted delirium.
Gators are also fond of a good flank steak, of course.
SeattleTammy
October 9, 2006 at 10:23 pm
36siobhan, the blue angels used to fly right over our house on the first flight pattern. I could count the pimples on the pilot! They can wave as they dip! made for 3 long afternoons during “Seafair Week”. It culminated with the hydroplane races, just over the hill from here and the parking overflow would force us to drag out No Parking signs stolen earlier in the year to keep a parking place during a grocery run.
It used to be a quaint tradition, but it’s become a nucular nightmare, what with the subs we get to keep as pets. And they always bring in a couple Navy cruisers to show off.
JustJ- didn’t ya see that one comin’?
cooper
October 10, 2006 at 7:22 am
37Just Jay, I heard that the Bush Administration was balking at labelling him as a terrorist, assumedly because it was a Cuban airliner that he blew up.
dee
October 10, 2006 at 7:34 am
38Everybody’s favorite democrat running for the 9th district of Pennsylvania has a recommended diary up at DailyKos.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/10/10/84044/488
If you’re registered, add your recommendation so we can keep Tony Barr’s name on the front page.
And where Is Murray these days, anyway?
Veronica
October 10, 2006 at 11:19 am
39And didn’t Carriles use stuff in a toothpaste tube to burn/blow up the airplane? So we’ve known about the possibility of liquid or gel explosives for all this time, but TSA did nothing about it until some ridiculous plot was uncovered—one that was basically a thoughtcrime, since no steps had been taken.
Murray
October 10, 2006 at 12:29 pm
40Dee, thank you, Tony with his staggering war chest of $30,000 needs all the help he can get. If he is elected he will have done so with the least expensive campaign in America and he will be by far the least wealthy congressman. American politics are not designed for such things.
(I had a busy weekend with bike tours. Believe it or not, we do get good weather occasionally and when we do, we get business. Besides, when the sky is dark blue the leaves gold and red, the sun bright, and the weather warm and dry, this boy wants to be riding his bike, not sitting at a computer, as I’m doing now, but it’s my day at the Arts Center.)
Siobhan
October 10, 2006 at 2:59 pm
41Does Tony have an “Act Blue” page? This year, for the first time in many many years, I’ve been making political contributions again, and Act Blue is a big reason for it… made it so easy to open my wallet that, well, I did.
dee
October 10, 2006 at 4:27 pm
42He does indeed
http://www.actblue.com/entity/fundraisers/10212
My local Democrat running against the incumbent Virginia Foxx (R-Some Other Planet Where “Everything’s Going Well In Iraq And I Know Because I Visited There and Spent Two Hours in The Green Zone”) is a man of money himself, so I feel better giving money to Tony.
David
October 11, 2006 at 7:05 pm
43I sent my very modest donation to the Friends of Tony Barr via snail mail, but it is my second donation, and it felt good both times.
dee,
Who is the Democratic challenger to Virginia “What is she on and can I have some, please” Foxx? I’m pulling like hell for Heath
Shuler to unseat Charles Taylor, although Hendersonville is my second home, so I still have primary residency and vote in FL 24, which means I get to vote against Tom “The Delay Protege” Feeney. I just happen to spend a lot of time at my sweetie’s on the Edge of the Green Swamp. How’s that for info overload?
dee
October 11, 2006 at 7:18 pm
44Roger Sharpe is taking on Virginia Foxx. He had a very nice write-up at firedoglake:
Now we’re taking on an even tougher race in North Carolina than Larry’s. In fact, Roger Sharpe is probably Blue America’s longest shot of the election year.
And he’s running against the only woman in the House of Representatives with a more extremist voting record than Mean Jean Schmidt, Rep. Virginia Foxx. Please click that link and look at the Foxx voting record. You will gasp! Every horrible thing you have heard about the Bush Regime involving itself in sounded like a great idea to Virginia Foxx. Far right Republicans like Tom DeLay, Steve King (the male Ann Coulter), Colbert’s friend Lynn Westmoreland, Roy Blunt, Barbara Cubin and John Doolittle almost look semi-sane compared to Foxx.
Talking with Roger on the phone a few days ago made me feel I was in the Old South. He reminded me of the kind of guy who would welcome a stranger with a tall glass of ice cold lemonade on a hot day. He seemed to be a real gentleman with old school values straight from Sunday School — but from the Sunday schools that teach about Jesus’ love, not about Pat Robertson’s and James Dobson’s hate, Sundays schools that teach about lending a hand to your neighbor, not about using the middle finger salute to celebrate your bigotry and human failings.
And Roger has committed himself to a life of community service, having served as a state senator when he was still in his 20s and as an educator and seminarian. During President Carter’s Administration, he worked as a special assistant to the Director of the U.S. Office for Civil Rights (negotiating higher education desegregation plans) and under President Reagan, he was appointed executive liaison to the White House for the National School Boards Association.
Siobhan
October 11, 2006 at 8:10 pm
45DEE! How can you be talking politics when it’s 7-5 going into the 9th?!?!?!
Oh, right. The future of the country is at stake.
Still.
Siobhan
October 11, 2006 at 8:36 pm
46Okay. Talk politics.
(but: YEA!!!!)
Dale
October 11, 2006 at 10:07 pm
47Jim Leyland for President!
David
October 12, 2006 at 7:17 pm
48Roger Sharpe, my kind of Southerner.
What towns/cities does NC 05 comprise?
Ann
October 13, 2006 at 10:57 am
49David,
Thanks ever so much for using “comprise” correctly!
David
October 13, 2006 at 8:26 pm
50It’s a thing with me, too, Ann. I hate seeing it be wasted as a synonym for “compose” in “comprised of.” Did you ever see the English teachers’ coffee mug that said “Linger over language”? I’m not so much a stickler in the pejorative sense as I am someone who just loves language and hates to see a word misused in a way that wastes a member of our wonderful lexicon.
dee
October 13, 2006 at 9:12 pm
51The NC 5th is half of Winston-Salem (the white half) and the northwest piedmont into Yadkin county. Lots of Old Money Republicans and rural voters.
But more importantly, the Detroit Tigers are one game away from going to the World Series. Perhaps that should be more appropriately noted in the “October Surprise” comments.
David
October 14, 2006 at 10:41 am
52Those baseball Tigers are pretty damned awesome. My Mets took a hit yesterday. Hoping they rally. I want Tigers-Mets in the World Series.
No wonder NC 5 is represented by one Foxxed up wingnut. Be wonderful if enough whiteys, especially Yadkin County (I’ve always loved that distinctive name) folk, would come to their senses November 7th. But Old Money Republicans…ouch!