I’ll have you know I’ve never paid for the pleasure of a woman’s company…wait, that’s not true. I have two sets of legal documents that prove otherwise.
There’s more to the story. That same night, the house maid kept pounding on his hotel room door. It went on for hours. He couldn’t sleep. He finally got up and let her out.
Been reading a bio of the artist by Andrew Graham-Dixon.The author has a wonderful eye for the details of each painting.Worthwhile book.(I saw this one at the National Gallery in London).
I saw Lincoln last night. Passing the 13th Amendment was sausage making. Depicting it a movie is a challenge that Spielberg didn’t meet, IMHO. It is tedious and does have jabs against our side. When the credits revealed it is based on Doris Kearns Goodwin’s writing, it was an “ah ha” moment. I love Day-Lewis’s acting, but it isn’t enough to win me on this one.
In Goodwin’s book(about 600 pages),the bit about the 13th Amendment takes about 6 pages.The most touching part is about Seward and his near death experience,and how he surmised that Lincoln was dead.Did the film show that?
Haven’t seen Lincoln yet, but Doris’ book is a great read and fairly balanced. She even digressed to explain the difference between a conservative position antebellum versus the 21st century definition. And she poked holes in the Lincoln/gay lunacy that was all the rage right before the book came out.
I would lay any slams against modern conservatives at the feet of the screenwriter
Amusing point,Floyd.She mentions the circuit riding in Illinois and how the lawyers had to sleep two or three to a bed…except David Davis,whose 300 pounds got him his own bed.
There was one scene that showed Lincoln’s son in a bed adjacent to another soldier’s. It clearly depicts the close proximity of the two men (they might even have been in the same bed), but was also clear that the situation has to do with logistics, convenience, practicality for the times, not homosexuality.
I haven’t read her book (and it’s not likely that I will), so I can’t defend against it. I reject her because she has lost her credibility in my world.
As with that other Civil War movie, Robert Redford’s The Conspirator, I see, hear, and smell the rats. I’ll be in my bunker.
The illustrious Jesse Jackson was quoted as saying the other day, that automatic weapons can blow up railroads! With my railroad experience, I would have to answer that with a resounding, “Not bloody f-ing likely!”
It was just awful, awful, but led to multiple regulation changes to prevent its happening again. The poor tugboat captain surely suffered. It was fair that he was found to have no criminal culpability.
“There are plenty of reasons Texas has been named the best state for doing business for eight years running,” Perry says in the radio spot, crediting its low taxes, pro-industry regulations and limits on lawsuits.
“Brown rejected that. He told reporters that everyone “with half a brain” is coming to California, home of Apple, Google and Hollywood studios.”
Didn’t Apple recently expand in Texas and isn’t Hollywood beating feet to other states and countries to produce their films and television shows? Just askin’
I will (I am giving very serious thought to moving to South Texas in the next few months), but then again I’ve been living in the South since April 2010.
My sister lives in Sunny California. She sends me pictures of palm trees and beautiful beaches. I send her pictures of fall leaves and winter snow – both are beautiful, but we have to work harder.
That work pays off in character. A Floridian told me how odd it was for us New Englanders down here to sit out on our porches in the heat of summer, and cold of winter, while they retreat to AC and heat indoors. We’re used to both extremes up there, and can function in either one.
Thank you TCL. My husband, who calls himself a carpenter (I call him a very talented craftsman), built our house from cellar to roof by himself at the age of twenty-eight. The only work he didn’t do was plumbing and wiring. He built all our beautiful kitchen cabinetry from walnut trees which he had cleared from the property and had milled. He built all our casework. Fortunately, for our five kids and I, we were able to build a business together (hear me Obama) where he designed and built custom cabinets, bars etc. and I took care of the home and the book keeping and billing. We lived the American dream.
Without meaning to create a huge “huzz factor”…I can always get naked enough to stay cool in summer, but can never put on enough clothes to stay warm in the winter!
First from stormy Denton!
I had hoped to be asleep before the storms arrive, however, the burgeoning cold/flu/strep whatever the frak this is has kept me awake and angry.
Stormy Denton sounds like a Playmate name from the 1960s
Famous Texas stripper.
She’s a hooker I tossed out of the hotel back in 1987. Must be “cougaring” in Texas these days!
I’ll have you know I’ve never paid for the pleasure of a woman’s company…wait, that’s not true. I have two sets of legal documents that prove otherwise.
What room,what hotel,Fritz?
There’s more to the story. That same night, the house maid kept pounding on his hotel room door. It went on for hours. He couldn’t sleep. He finally got up and let her out.
House maid named Dulce…”Senor Freetz,ju so loud een dere…ju hurt?”
Second. And I slept in.
Slept in what,Viking pajamas?
Och,dem silly Svedes!
http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/02/09/six-winners-in-swedish-ice-pole-sitting-contest/
“Sitting on the ice pole”- thought they were going in a whole other direction with that one.
That’s part of Stormy Denton’s act.
Usually the guy gets ice,but not a pole…
Caravaggio,”The Supper at Emmaus”
http://www.paintinghere.org/uploadpic/CARAVAGGIO/big/The%20Supper%20at%20Emmaus.jpg
Been reading a bio of the artist by Andrew Graham-Dixon.The author has a wonderful eye for the details of each painting.Worthwhile book.(I saw this one at the National Gallery in London).
If I were to see a Caravaggio with my own eyes, I would faint.
Plenty still in Rome.
Then I would faint in Rome.
“Les Mis” and the Civil War
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/09/in-camp-reading-les-miserables/
Very interesting. Lee’s Miserables.
I saw Lincoln last night. Passing the 13th Amendment was sausage making. Depicting it a movie is a challenge that Spielberg didn’t meet, IMHO. It is tedious and does have jabs against our side. When the credits revealed it is based on Doris Kearns Goodwin’s writing, it was an “ah ha” moment. I love Day-Lewis’s acting, but it isn’t enough to win me on this one.
Hated it.
One of his worst movies was Amistad…dry and legalistic.Sounds like the same thing here.
In Goodwin’s book(about 600 pages),the bit about the 13th Amendment takes about 6 pages.The most touching part is about Seward and his near death experience,and how he surmised that Lincoln was dead.Did the film show that?
The whole film was the power struggle re: 13th Amendment power struggle.
Haven’t seen Lincoln yet, but Doris’ book is a great read and fairly balanced. She even digressed to explain the difference between a conservative position antebellum versus the 21st century definition. And she poked holes in the Lincoln/gay lunacy that was all the rage right before the book came out.
I would lay any slams against modern conservatives at the feet of the screenwriter
Amusing point,Floyd.She mentions the circuit riding in Illinois and how the lawyers had to sleep two or three to a bed…except David Davis,whose 300 pounds got him his own bed.
I had in mind the Three Stooges’ schtick where they’re all bunking down and the snoring, tossing and turning, etc.
Snore … Phew … EEEEBBBBBBBBBB
There was one scene that showed Lincoln’s son in a bed adjacent to another soldier’s. It clearly depicts the close proximity of the two men (they might even have been in the same bed), but was also clear that the situation has to do with logistics, convenience, practicality for the times, not homosexuality.
I haven’t read her book (and it’s not likely that I will), so I can’t defend against it. I reject her because she has lost her credibility in my world.
As with that other Civil War movie, Robert Redford’s The Conspirator, I see, hear, and smell the rats. I’ll be in my bunker.
More than likely Mary Surratt was a conspiritor.
This ma agrees.
The illustrious Jesse Jackson was quoted as saying the other day, that automatic weapons can blow up railroads! With my railroad experience, I would have to answer that with a resounding, “Not bloody f-ing likely!”
Coffee, krullers, and, as you can see above, quotes! Hey…it’s poetry! I didn’t say it was pretty!
Speaking of trains!
http://www.adweek.com/video/advertising-branding/india-ministry-railways-train-132919
BART, every week day.
“I love the smell of curry in the morning.”
-Colonel Kilgore
Memphis to SF roundtrip…$287.Any good places to stay?No gay bath houses,please…
A place to hang your hat.
Reports of queens in the bathrooms of this palace.
Stay away from 6th Street.
If you do any sight-seeing, hang on.
Good luck.
You can stop off here on the way. Half price for Libertarians!
http://cdn.inquisitr.com/wp-content/2012/01/r-MOONLITE-BUNNY-RANCH-600×275.jpg
Free spirits, every one. “Keep your hands off my body [unless you've hit the paypal button]”
They will take VISA, Mastercard and ATM…No Diner’s Club!
Do they take Dominican Pesos? Senator Menendez wants to know.
Dominican Putas
I watched a special on the Sunset Limited 1993 Big Bayou Canot train wreck yesterday.
It takes more than an automatic weapon to blow up railroads.
But an automatic weapon could blow someone’s brains out … if he had any.
I saw that too TCR. Horrible set of circumstances leading to disaster!
It was just awful, awful, but led to multiple regulation changes to prevent its happening again. The poor tugboat captain surely suffered. It was fair that he was found to have no criminal culpability.
I agree. He was a victim as well, and has to live with his unknowing mistake the rest of his life!
http://www.nyctrainstore.com/files/3552372/uploaded/6-30178_2485.jpg
My father and brother have a houseful of these things, each. They are train nuts.
What basements are for.
They ain’t got no basements in El Paso.
The theme song of my girlhood home.
Try this one.
(Who knows what the heck I did.
)
Basements are also made for these guys:
http://markc1.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451bb2969e20120a545ddc8970c-800wi
Thanks for sending the picture of Julio. (This ginger-chaser will pass on that one, thank you very much).
I do like his head gear, however; he could warn me when the Martians are near.
Jessie and ilk, Molon Labe
Where my sister is
http://www.reformer.com/localnews/ci_22555998/windham-county-winter-wonderland
Great pic. And those parking meters will survive the Apocalypse.
One quarter at a time.
Sunday’s Daily Mail
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2276139/David-Petraeus-CIA-directors-bodyguards-exposed-affair-Paula-Broadwell-claims-Benghazi-The-Definitive-Report.html#axzz2KQZt3B2C
Interesting questions
It’s an old story. Even Caesar knew that his surroundings “must be above suspicion.”
Good that the swine general is disgraced. His wife is now qualified to be president after a stint as senator in some state, wherever.
Gov. Jerry “Moon-beam” Brown has no idea how right he is:
“There are plenty of reasons Texas has been named the best state for doing business for eight years running,” Perry says in the radio spot, crediting its low taxes, pro-industry regulations and limits on lawsuits.
“Brown rejected that. He told reporters that everyone “with half a brain” is coming to California, home of Apple, Google and Hollywood studios.”
Didn’t Apple recently expand in Texas and isn’t Hollywood beating feet to other states and countries to produce their films and television shows? Just askin’
Brilliant, Crandall!!
I’m waiting for my scheduled lobotomy to be covered by ubamacare so that I can stay here.
Half a bladder,maybe.
http://venturebeat.com/2012/03/09/apple-texas-headquarters/
Yep. I hope those California transplants don’t ruin the state though.
There are those of us here who worry about the same thing.
With all due respect to GOV Perry stay where you are and fix yourselves.
True… Californians that leave do not bring with them conservative values by and large.
I will (I am giving very serious thought to moving to South Texas in the next few months), but then again I’ve been living in the South since April 2010.
True that, Floyd. Nevada is living proof of what you said!
For INJF
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXr4N51RsHA
Thank you, Scott, jolly good show, eh what? I rather liked that. I hope he played it for the fellows at the Drone’s Club.
We didn’t get hit too badly here in lower Fairfield County. Eighteen inches of snow, no damage, but lots of clean up work.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/93061907@N05/
It’s so beautiful to look at from sunny California, but I know it can be a dread for those within it. I hope you are “shovel ready” & safe.
The roads are plowed, the driveway’s clear, the stores are all open, so we can’t complain.
My sister lives in Sunny California. She sends me pictures of palm trees and beautiful beaches. I send her pictures of fall leaves and winter snow – both are beautiful, but we have to work harder.
That work pays off in character. A Floridian told me how odd it was for us New Englanders down here to sit out on our porches in the heat of summer, and cold of winter, while they retreat to AC and heat indoors. We’re used to both extremes up there, and can function in either one.
I think you’re right Matt.
Your home looks idyllic.
Thank you TCL. My husband, who calls himself a carpenter (I call him a very talented craftsman), built our house from cellar to roof by himself at the age of twenty-eight. The only work he didn’t do was plumbing and wiring. He built all our beautiful kitchen cabinetry from walnut trees which he had cleared from the property and had milled. He built all our casework. Fortunately, for our five kids and I, we were able to build a business together (hear me Obama) where he designed and built custom cabinets, bars etc. and I took care of the home and the book keeping and billing. We lived the American dream.
All that and five kids? I praise you!!
Meanwhile, we’re sitting here in “Rancho Nevada” freezing our tookuses off burning the fireplace to stay warm. C’mon 110 and summer!!!
I’ll remind you of this next August, luv.
Without meaning to create a huge “huzz factor”…I can always get naked enough to stay cool in summer, but can never put on enough clothes to stay warm in the winter!
Nice
Sorry if you have an unerasable visual over that!
Uh oh. I’m watching FNC and Ms. Molina says it’s windy in the South. I hope those people are used to wind.
A friend of mine reports that the tornado sirens are active at Fort Rucker, AL…so the latina weather guesser is correct in that regard.
Uh oh. I hope those people at Fort Rucker are used to sirens.