Wow, there really is a S. Bumblefuck, Vermont?

Notwithstanding the creepy "is this an Internet stalker" moment you must have had, this is really cool.

Fly

Very cool. It was sort of thrilling when I mentioned another of my father's cousins, early in the conversation, and the guy said “Oh! That must be Aunt Hattie's son!”. I used to love hearing people talk about Aunt Hattie when I was a kid. Apparently she was a gifted cook.

The coolest part is that this man is going to give me a copy of the tree when he's done.

ran into someone I went to high school at TJ the other day. When I graduated from HS I figured I'd never see him again (he was a year younger). A year later he showed up at my college. Now it turns out we both go to the same graduate school (different programs). And we figured out that during the interem we both worked for the same company, albeit in different cities. It's getting a little creepy.

What a wild story. Did he tell you what if any plans your cousin has with the information compiled once the family tree is completed? Will there be an attempt to gather the cousins?

Reading a case about 2 Live Crew's remake of "pretty woman" (copyright issues). The footnote says



Could these people be any more white, old and square?

You are too young to remember Peter Cook's analysis of "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag". It considered the type of bag in question - probably plastic - the manner of making grooves in it, and why the apparently straightforward process should take all night.

though somewhat cringe-inducing now: "the harlem mama has her new bag" etc.

Your memory is fresher than mine. I am delving back thirty years or more. Wasn't the cringe intended? Cook et al had explored similar cringes in depth as far back as Beyond the Fringe.

perhaps. i'm trying to remember if dud was in blackface.

I am pretty sure not, for the James Brown sketch. He just belted it out at the piano line by line while Cook analysed it.

I have a vague memory of a deliberately cringe-inducing African politician sketch in Beyond the F. That may have been in black face - but was it Cook? I think it might have been Miller.

there's only one thing to do: whip out the old "not only...but also" tape. i may not return for a few hours.

Of course. They could be me.

oh, but it just gets better. The appeals court came to the conclusion that the 2 live crew version "reminds us that sexual congress with nameless streetwalker is not necessarily the stuff of romance and is not necessarily without its consequences."

I can just pictures the members of 2 live crew reading this stuff and howling. To give you an idea, here are some of the 2LC lyrics:

Would have been better.

What are the chances of riding in two separate vehicles in one day and both of them getting flat right front tires? This happened to my husband yesterday: first in his car and then in a friend's.

Was the same person riding in the right front each time?

NY Times article

Title: Salmon Find Ally in Russia’s Far East

But judging from the photo, I suspect the salmon might disagree.

in a liquor store recently

me: can you recommend a decent chianti in the $10-15 range? nothing too tannic
rooster of a man: sure (points at 3 or 4)
me: which of these would you pick if you had to pick just one
rooster: this one (points to most expensive of the lot, a few dollars outside my range)
me: hmmmm
rooster: this is from the area where the mona lisa was born
me (out loud): really?
me (interior monologue): fuck off, you stupid bastard, i'm not taking any recommendations from you

edit: i ended up with the 2004 falchini chianti colli senesi. $13.99 minus 20% because i bought a (mixed) case of wine. we drank most of it tonight with a spicy tomato sauce tossed pasta. very nice match indeed.

Yahoo's headline:
Marijuana-like compound may fight Alzheimer's


NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - In rats with brain inflammation due to natural aging or in response to an artificial inflammatory stimulus, treatment with a synthetic compound akin to marijuana markedly reduced brain inflammation and slowed memory loss.


"It will be important to find a drug that reduces brain inflammation, but that does not produce the classic 'high"' that marijuana does, Dr. Gary L. Wenk from Ohio State University in Columbus told Reuters Health.

What a spoilsport....

Can they do something about the munchies?

Last night I was making some coffee and found my swiss army pocketknife at the bottom of the water reservoir of my coffeemaker. What the fuck?

Poltergeists?

Driving behind a pickup with a bumpersticker "Don't Mess With Texas". The driver flicks a cigarette butt out the window.

Had a neighbor once who had some similar things happen in his second floor apartment: for example, tooth brush in the toilet. Turned out a squirrel was crawling in thru his window and arranging things.
Has your coffee taken on a sharp taste lately?

In the old days, it was empty Pearl Beer cans getting tossed out the window. The tosser was LBJ.

Victorinox or Wenger?

The former and did not improve the taste of my coffee over the last six months. Shame on the swiss.

Did it taste like paint? Swiss Coffee is a very popular interior color.

I used this particular knife mainly to trim my fingernails, so it didn't impart a particularly good flavor to my coffee.

I'm not sure about this, but calling LBJ a “tosser” might be construed as a political provocation.

There's a mohel joke in here somewhere.

Are your nails back to par?

The other day at work I was dumping a bag of coffee (which I had just cut open) into the grinder, and a green Magic Marker fell out.

Other things I have found in coffee beans: small sticks, dead ladybugs, a hair tie.

My surrealism for the day is that my university decided to remove the senior thesis requirement. Now, suddenly, I don't have to write one.

i really wanted to read it

We all did.

i didn't.

A tie. Was it made of human hair? You didn't tell The Times?


Well, bless you. Why isn't that emoticon a laughing-out-loud one? On the other hand, some thesis examining committee is missing a sure treat.

Nah, that was a throwaway line.

And some of us would have paid good money to read it, too.

Fly

Well, I wouldn't go quite that far.

I was assuming she could make it as interesting as she makes everything else. And assuming her advisors would not make her remove all the juicy bits.

Fly

Now that you mention it, could you just send us all the juicy bits, Nero?

Oh, of course I was assuming it would be as interesting. I just hate to lay of $$$. So I like hollywood's suggestion.

the local mega booze mart is advertising a single malt bottle signing.

Say what?

We go into a large A&P supermarket in Arthursburg, NY - on the way up to the house yesterday. Huge poster in the produce section,right above the lettuce, etc. section, featuring Earthbound Farms. Picture of the nice people, text describing their natural processes, etc. Earthbound is the company that produced the death spinach. Didn't somebody think to take the poster down?

from the tv room come sounds of mrs. jones trying to get alu to bark "go trojans".

Boy, you sure frequent a hipper class of waiting room than I do! The best I generally muster is a 10 month old "Parenting" or "Dermatology Today" or, most recently, an obscenely upscale rag called "Diversions", as I remember, touting 6 digit cars, 4 digit a night resorts and upper 3 digit wines that was aimed at physicians who don't have time to plan how to spend all that money they rake in!

I was walking along Washington Square North on Saturday when I came across a line of at least 15 cars in various states of burned-out wreckage--they were props for a movie shoot. I would post the pictures I took, but I have no idea how to transfer them from my cell phone to my computer.

NYTs condescending #1 emailed article.

This sounds like my idea of hell.


But hey, at least it wasn't dumped in the sunday styles section like any other article about women tends to be in the NYTs.

That would be the filming of the new Will Smith movie. According to the cabdriver we had last night, anyway. He said downtown traffic was screwed up all weekend by it.