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(Seriously, it's great stuff.)
Also, I assume, game tickets--I usually get some of those--beer and indie music.
A simple acknowledgment from a woman who is not our mother bringing us more Hot Pockets?
Fatheads to decorate the basement. My wish is for more time to read and write. I've been reading the Power Broker since September and am only halfway through it. I'm also juggling three or four writing assignments and have an idea for another.
My other wish is that folks see this.
I have no idea where you live, but pretty much any Humane Society/SPCA office in North America will be happy to help you with that. A lot of them will even help with the costs for vaccinations and spaying/neutering. Also, if you aren't set on a kitten, most of them also have plenty of slightly older cats who could also use good homes, and they're willing to take a reduced price for these animals to help them into a good home.
Hee hee -- 2 weeks and more than halfway through. Of course, I'm not trying to write anything more draining than an occasional snarky comment here. :) My wife is giving me s*** because I'm trying to finish it in a month and am tracking my progress.
Even if Caro is totally slanting the story, Moses comes off as one of the most bastard-y bastards who ever lived.
I have a couple of books on my wish list:
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Slavery By Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II by Douglas A. Blackmon
(I saw Blackmon interviewed by Bill Moyers about this book and is sounded very interesting)
I also have a bunch of CDs on my list, mostly from my youth:
Chicago I and II (how could they be so great and turn into the pablum machine that they've been for the last 30-odd years?)
Byrds, Kinks, Spirit, Donovan, Quicksilver Messenger Service, several Moody Blues
Living Black! Earland, Charles (I heard this guy by chance on the radio and want to give him a shot)
A couple of those MacFarlane baseball things; preferably the Pujols one.
You should also look into some of Ray Davies solo stuff. Everything that I've heard of it has been excellent.
We had to do a similar thing, in order to train the kitten to be used to the concept of baths - allergens are a bit of a concern in our house, and neither of us wanted to introduce an adult cat to the concept of baths. We've also been working on the outdoor training using a leash/harness, so that the kitten learns that she's not allowed outside unless she's on one. It's worked so far, although it's helped by her being a bit of a chicken. Not having coyotes in our area also makes that training a bit easier.
the complete box set of Monty Python's Flying Circus!
By coincidence, Amazon is running it at a 46% discount (only $53.49). It's well worth the money.
Do they still sell Baseball Think Factory thongs?
Trust me, they'll be back, if only for a couple of days at a time. I've got a feral cat that lives near my house that comes to the house for a couple days and disappears for about a month, then shows up again for a few more days, then disappears again, and so forth. We've probably assumed him dead 3 or 4 times and he always comes back.
I want to read something by McCullough next, or the Alexander Hamilton bio by Chernow. Essentially, I hope that some of these writers rub off on me.
Possibly a clan leader who's been to the Moonstone.
A backhoe...because I still strongly believe that two or possibly three bodies are buried in my back yard.
May I recommend the John Adams bio. Really, really fascinating -- the love story, the friendship/enemyship/friendship with Jefferson plus all the amazing history stuff. And Abigail is even more amazing than John.
I was taklking to some guys over the weekend who are 15 years or so older than me and they told me that the Centennial of the CIvil War had a similar effect on them.
If I think of big busts (not the Jayne Mansfield/Pamela Anderson type) in my lifetime, the Bicentennial and Comet Kahoutek are tied. Philly, of course, was to be the hub of the Bicentennial, but Mayor Frank Rizzo, the ex-police chief ("I will make Attila the Hun look like a faggot" is attributed to him) made such a fuss about locking down the city to prevent so-called revolutionaries from disrupting the celebration that "no one came" to Philadelphia. This was only a couple of years after the Patty Hearst thing, William Ayers and friends were still at large, so there was some reason to be concerned. But Rizzo went way overboard.
My Dad had recently gotten his flying license -- he had been a WWII B-24 pilot but decided to have 6 kids post-war and kind of had no time or money for keeping active. He had the brainstorm that he could make some bucks (or get his flying expenses covered, knowing my Dad) by starting his own aviation company. He put a separate phone line in the basement. Hoelker Aviation got all of one phone call -- it was a wrong number. :(
I don't believe you.
Edmundo, IIRC, Boston started the Freedom Trail in '76. We went there and Lexington and Concord.
Now that I think about it, of the three times when I give my Dad a gift (Christmas, birthday, Father's Day) that Brooklyn Bridge book is about the only time in maybe 3 years I didn't give him Yankee tickets.
Maybe my local bias is showing through on the Bicentennial. Was it a big deal in Boston? Boston did have more than a little bit of involvement in the Rev. War. :)
Link to SI piece
Some great quotes from old Dr Z articles:
Great read. Hamilton is in my 5 most interesting people in American History list, and Chernow does a thorough job.
My Christmas list is comprised mostly of Phillies championship stuff.
That sucks. He's my favorite football writer. In fact, he's the only one I read anymore. His knowledge in encyclopedic and, disagree with him or not, I sincerely doubt anyone researches his writing more or is more accountable for what he writes. I think Joe Pos comes closest in the world of baseball.
It's hard to imagine they wouldn't at least gamble on Abreu, especially given that they've already decided not to offer arbitation to fellow free agents Andy Pettitte, Jason Giambi, Ivan Rodriguez, Sidney Ponson, Carl Pavano and Chad Moeller. The two draft picks they'd get if Abreu leaves would be their only extra selections, and they're probably going to lose their own first-round pick when they sign a starting pitcher.
From rotoworld. Teams seem to be getting more and more concerned about offering arbitration this offseason. I was thinking that all the talk of a sluggish market was BS, but now I'm not so sure. It's hard to believe that the Yanks might come out of this offseason with no extra picks. On top of that, I think they're a better team with Abreu next year than without him so even if they get "stuck" with him for a year, they're all right. I suspected they may not offer Abreu arb, but I'm surprised to read that they are REALLY comtemplating not offering him arb. Weird.
On a twist from other entrants in this thread, for Christmas, I want a painless, easy cure for a cat with lymphoma of the skin. I just got the diagnosis today. I don't think I'm going to get my wish.
Sorry about your cat, JMN.
I'm also sorry to hear about your cat. Last year we had to put our cat with CRF down after a year and a half long fight. One of the hardest things I ever had to do. Trust your cat. In the end, he/she will know what's best.
Eddie's the one that took 18 months to learn his name. I don't trust him to know anything.
Don't mistake wisdom and intelligence. My cats are dumb as posts but I'm the one getting up at 6 am every morning to sit in a cubicle all day.
i've never seen an indoor cat that didn't have serious issues. what folks need to understand about cats is that they are one step from the wild, much more so than dogs. they are made to roam territory.
Mine seem ok. I live in Manhattan, so letting them roam isn't really possible anyway. The cat we rescued from the street won't go outside if you put a gun to his head. He won't even go near a window or a door in case you get ideas.
Here it is. Good replay right around the :33 mark, wild stuff. Evidently should have been a dead play though.
I found it in a bargain bin for a couple of bucks a couple of years ago. I wonder if history books that aren't about the wars (Rev, Civ, WW2, maybe VN) or their participants lack lasting power. Anyway it's worth reading, especially since I was "hearing" McCullough speak the text and he's got a fantastic voice.
Fixed.
Cats are less domesticated then dogs, and more domesticated than they think they are.
Why should it have been dead?
I hear that The Power Broker still sells, but that might be a special case. IIRC, it's mandatory reading in some Poli Sci courses.
I saw the highlight for that several times in bars and had no idea where it was from. The argument was that it was a deadball because the placekicker moved too early and it was no longer a kicking play.
Is that a call that demands stopping the play? Either way, I wouldn't say it should have been a dead play in the same way I wouldn't say a touchdown shouldn't have counted because of holding. If I'm reading your explanation correctly, it sounds like the referees missed an illegal procedure call, rather than misintepreted the rules.
I think this would be true at any level of football. You can't just have a running back run back and forth, then take a handoff and punt the ball.
That is #1 on my Christmas List. Seriously. I realize I could buy it online or at a store, but I'm conducting an experiment - it's been on my list for three years running, unfulfilled.
Well, apart from the fact that our indoor cat is foul-mouthed and politically savvy, nothing is too unusual with him.
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