We do have some little cities here in Montana. They have electricity and everything.
Speaking of Montana ... and Montana ... Joe Montana's son, Nate, who is the QB for the Montana Grizzlies, just got arrested in one of those cities, Missoula. He was speeding and when pulled over refused a breathalyzer. He pleaded down to reckless driving.
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542Do you ever see someone jogging alone on a country road and think,"Hasn't that person ever seen Criminal Minds? "
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543Donna, my wife and daughter do similar often since their somewhat recent addiction to Criminal Minds.
I must say I nearly always enjoy an episode an evening with my wife.
I must say I nearly always enjoy an episode an evening with my wife.
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544Woman keeps captured burglar as sex slave
3:21 pm July 13, 2011, by George Mathis
Crime and punishment has been turned on its head in Russia, where a burglar was tied up and used as a sex slave by his intended victim.
She owns a hair salon, but could use some help with her makeup.
She owns a hair salon, but could use some help with her makeup.
The Daily Mail reports Viktor Jasinski, 32, admitted to police he entered the hair salon of Olga Zajac, 28, and received a single debilitating blow to the head by the blonde black belt karate expert.
Zajac dragged her semi-conscious prey to a back room, stripped him, tied him up with hair dryer cable, force fed him nothing but water and Viagra while using him as a sex slave for three days.
She released him after he “learned his lesson,” the Daily Mail writes.
“Yes, we had sex a couple of times. But I bought him new jeans, gave him food and even gave him 1,000 roubles when he left,” Zajac said of her captive.
Both now face charges in Meshchovsk, Russia.
Something tells me this man will burgle again.
http://blogs.ajc.com/news-to-me/2011/07 ... _cntnt_rss
3:21 pm July 13, 2011, by George Mathis
Crime and punishment has been turned on its head in Russia, where a burglar was tied up and used as a sex slave by his intended victim.
She owns a hair salon, but could use some help with her makeup.
The Daily Mail reports Viktor Jasinski, 32, admitted to police he entered the hair salon of Olga Zajac, 28, and received a single debilitating blow to the head by the blonde black belt karate expert.
Zajac dragged her semi-conscious prey to a back room, stripped him, tied him up with hair dryer cable, force fed him nothing but water and Viagra while using him as a sex slave for three days.
She released him after he “learned his lesson,” the Daily Mail writes.
“Yes, we had sex a couple of times. But I bought him new jeans, gave him food and even gave him 1,000 roubles when he left,” Zajac said of her captive.
Both now face charges in Meshchovsk, Russia.
Something tells me this man will burgle again.
http://blogs.ajc.com/news-to-me/2011/07 ... _cntnt_rss
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545Our high temp tomorrow here might reach 70 degrees. Maybe.
We've had about two weeks of "summer temps" thus far in 2011.
Football season in most years would be about four weeks away. Well, screw the NFL, College Football Season is about 7 weeks away.
I almost built a fire in the living room this evening as the temp hovered in a misty low 50'ish range, but swore to myself I would not.
Maybe tomorrow.
We've had about two weeks of "summer temps" thus far in 2011.
Football season in most years would be about four weeks away. Well, screw the NFL, College Football Season is about 7 weeks away.
I almost built a fire in the living room this evening as the temp hovered in a misty low 50'ish range, but swore to myself I would not.
Maybe tomorrow.
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546I almost built a fire in the living room this evening as the temp hovered in a misty low 50'ish range, but swore to myself I would not.
I hope you have a fireplace in your living room!
I hope you have a fireplace in your living room!
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547I still have not shut off the gas fireplace in my basement. First year that has happened. It is, of course, always a little cooler in the basement, but this year it's been too cold down there so I've had to leave the heat on.
We had a storm blow through here yesterday & this morning and it's cooled things off. Really super nice this evening. Low 70's and sunny. I've been playing poker on Thursday's lately but not tonight. I just got a new book on Custer so think I will spend the evening on the patio.
We had a storm blow through here yesterday & this morning and it's cooled things off. Really super nice this evening. Low 70's and sunny. I've been playing poker on Thursday's lately but not tonight. I just got a new book on Custer so think I will spend the evening on the patio.
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548J.R. wrote:I almost built a fire in the living room this evening as the temp hovered in a misty low 50'ish range, but swore to myself I would not.
I hope you have a fireplace in your living room!
LOL!
Yep, real fireplace in the living room.....plus the potentially tacky one here in the TGIF sports viewing/library/PC room. And a patio fire pit just out the door to my left. It's cool enough for an outdoor fire now...but a bit too breezy.
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549Hillbilly wrote:I still have not shut off the gas fireplace in my basement. First year that has happened. It is, of course, always a little cooler in the basement, but this year it's been too cold down there so I've had to leave the heat on.
We had a storm blow through here yesterday & this morning and it's cooled things off. Really super nice this evening. Low 70's and sunny. I've been playing poker on Thursday's lately but not tonight. I just got a new book on Custer so think I will spend the evening on the patio.
Just stop before you get to the chapter on Little Big Horn and I'm sure it will be a great read, HB....
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550http://www.insidebayarea.com/top-stories/ci_18479841
Summer of '76 was the year I had a summer gig funded by the EPA. I inspected the sanitary sewer system in the county looking for places where storm water might breach the system. The importance was that during rains, the sanitary sewer system could be overwhelmed resulting in the discharge of raw sewage into rivers and other bodies of water at the sewage treatment plants.
It's an issue that continues in many metroplexes today.
I loved that job.
Summer of '76 was also the time of the Chowchilla school bus hijack and kidnapping. I'm not sure why it seared in my memory at the time. That must have been one of the weeks I watched the evening national news.
The site where the kids and driver were buried alive is a five minute drive from our home. I go by it at least twice a week, and will be later today.
When I share the story with others here, I have yet to meet a person who recalls more than a wisp of the event.....and no one who has realized the hostage site was right here in our current back yard. That includes my wife and mother in law, who are both pretty sharp.
The kids were buried alive at the gateway to what is now one of the most prolific wine regions of California.
http://www.insidebayarea.com/trivalleyh ... i_18479841
Here's the current story of one of the kidnapped kids, who is now 41. He was 6 on the day of the kidnapping. He has penned an account of the event which I will be buying soon.
Pics are included at the above link.
Summer of '76 was the year I had a summer gig funded by the EPA. I inspected the sanitary sewer system in the county looking for places where storm water might breach the system. The importance was that during rains, the sanitary sewer system could be overwhelmed resulting in the discharge of raw sewage into rivers and other bodies of water at the sewage treatment plants.
It's an issue that continues in many metroplexes today.
I loved that job.
Summer of '76 was also the time of the Chowchilla school bus hijack and kidnapping. I'm not sure why it seared in my memory at the time. That must have been one of the weeks I watched the evening national news.
The site where the kids and driver were buried alive is a five minute drive from our home. I go by it at least twice a week, and will be later today.
When I share the story with others here, I have yet to meet a person who recalls more than a wisp of the event.....and no one who has realized the hostage site was right here in our current back yard. That includes my wife and mother in law, who are both pretty sharp.
The kids were buried alive at the gateway to what is now one of the most prolific wine regions of California.
http://www.insidebayarea.com/trivalleyh ... i_18479841
Here's the current story of one of the kidnapped kids, who is now 41. He was 6 on the day of the kidnapping. He has penned an account of the event which I will be buying soon.
Pics are included at the above link.
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551A Gentle Reminder of Paul McCartney’s Survival and Vitality
By JON PARELES
Published: July 16, 2011
The cheerful, childlike doggerel of “Hello Goodbye” — ”I don’t know why you say goodbye/I say hello” — struck an unexpected note as Paul McCartney sang it on Friday night to start his two-night stand at Yankee Stadium. “Who is this Derek Jeter guy?” Mr. McCartney joshed. “Somebody said he’s got more hits than me.”
At 69, Mr. McCartney is not saying goodbye but touring stadiums and playing marathon concerts. Friday’s set ran two-and-a-half hours, with Mr. McCartney constantly onstage, and it had 35 songs, not counting a few additional excerpts. He played half a dozen instruments (though he didn’t show off his drumming), sang with only a few scrapes in the voice that’s familiar worldwide, and looked like he was having a boyish romp as he navigated what endure as some of rock’s oddest hits. His hair grew more tousled with every song.
The set drew on Mr. McCartney’s various outlets from the 1960’s on: the Beatles, Wings, his solo albums and his once-pseudonymous project The Fireman.
His concerts now are a gentle reminder of his survival and vitality. He paid tribute to John Lennon — with his lovely, imagined afterlife conversation, “Here Today” — and to George Harrison, starting out Mr. Harrison’s “Something” by playing it on a ukulele Mr. Harrison gave him. The exultant “Back in the U.S.S.R.” has outlasted not only the corporate name B.O.A.C., the airline mentioned in the lyrics, but the U.S.S.R., as well.
As always, melody let Mr. McCartney put across musical and verbal non sequiturs few other songwriters could get away with: songs such as “Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Five,” with its sudden interlude of Beach Boys harmony, or “Let ‘Em In,” which switches from piano bounce to military tattoo, with whistling, and has lyrics that juxtapose Martin Luther and Phil and Don (the Everly Brothers?). Melody easily carried Mr. McCartney through idiom after idiom: toe-tapping country in “I’ve Just Seen a Face,” hard rock in “Helter Skelter,” lilting ballad in “I Will,” something like ska in “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da” and the quasi-Slavic oompah in “Mrs. Vandebilt” (Mr. McCartney announced that they loved it in Ukraine).
There was more than a little familiarity to the concert for anyone who attended Mr. McCartney’s 2009 shows at that other new ballpark, the Mets’ Citi Field, or listened to and watched the resulting live album of CDs and DVD, “Good Evening New York City” (Hear Music). Once again, he wore suspenders over his white shirt. Two-thirds of the songs were the same, often in similar groupings and with the same arrangements and first-time surprises, like appending Jimi Hendrix’s “Foxy Lady” to “Let Me Roll It,” or segueing “A Day in the Life” into “Give Peace a Chance” — a V-sign waving epiphany for the crowd — or explaining that the civil-rights movement inspired “Blackbird.”
But through his career, Mr. McCartney has been reluctant to tamper much with arrangements from his albums. And it’s unlikely he’d want to deprive a full stadium of the chance to sing along with the “na-na”s of “Hey Jude,” or that he’d skip the pyrotechnics and fireworks display for “Live and Let Die,” or that he’d omit songs like “Yesterday,” “Let It Be” and “Band on the Run” (performed with video footage from the photo session for the album cover).
For freshness, Mr. McCartney tossed off a Beatles song that, he announced, he had never performed live: “The Night Before,” with its skiffle bounce and barbershop harmonies. And some of the songs that weren’t on the Citi Field set lists were the most vital ones: particularly “Maybe I’m Amazed,” from his newly reissued 1970 solo debut album “McCartney” (MPL/Hear Music), with its startling harmonic swerves and a vocal that fervently illuminated the song’s affection, happy incredulity and deep need.
Mr. McCartney has a trouper’s ability to make the routine look and sound spontaneous. His voice reveled in the songs, hinting at little improvisatory variations; after them, he raised his instruments overhead in a mixture of exuberance and pride in musical craftsmanship. (When he sang “I’ve Got a Feeling,” the video screen didn’t show a heart — it showed pulsating speakers.) He perseveres, and entertains, by directly reconnecting to his songs across the decades and still having fun.
By JON PARELES
Published: July 16, 2011
The cheerful, childlike doggerel of “Hello Goodbye” — ”I don’t know why you say goodbye/I say hello” — struck an unexpected note as Paul McCartney sang it on Friday night to start his two-night stand at Yankee Stadium. “Who is this Derek Jeter guy?” Mr. McCartney joshed. “Somebody said he’s got more hits than me.”
At 69, Mr. McCartney is not saying goodbye but touring stadiums and playing marathon concerts. Friday’s set ran two-and-a-half hours, with Mr. McCartney constantly onstage, and it had 35 songs, not counting a few additional excerpts. He played half a dozen instruments (though he didn’t show off his drumming), sang with only a few scrapes in the voice that’s familiar worldwide, and looked like he was having a boyish romp as he navigated what endure as some of rock’s oddest hits. His hair grew more tousled with every song.
The set drew on Mr. McCartney’s various outlets from the 1960’s on: the Beatles, Wings, his solo albums and his once-pseudonymous project The Fireman.
His concerts now are a gentle reminder of his survival and vitality. He paid tribute to John Lennon — with his lovely, imagined afterlife conversation, “Here Today” — and to George Harrison, starting out Mr. Harrison’s “Something” by playing it on a ukulele Mr. Harrison gave him. The exultant “Back in the U.S.S.R.” has outlasted not only the corporate name B.O.A.C., the airline mentioned in the lyrics, but the U.S.S.R., as well.
As always, melody let Mr. McCartney put across musical and verbal non sequiturs few other songwriters could get away with: songs such as “Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Five,” with its sudden interlude of Beach Boys harmony, or “Let ‘Em In,” which switches from piano bounce to military tattoo, with whistling, and has lyrics that juxtapose Martin Luther and Phil and Don (the Everly Brothers?). Melody easily carried Mr. McCartney through idiom after idiom: toe-tapping country in “I’ve Just Seen a Face,” hard rock in “Helter Skelter,” lilting ballad in “I Will,” something like ska in “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da” and the quasi-Slavic oompah in “Mrs. Vandebilt” (Mr. McCartney announced that they loved it in Ukraine).
There was more than a little familiarity to the concert for anyone who attended Mr. McCartney’s 2009 shows at that other new ballpark, the Mets’ Citi Field, or listened to and watched the resulting live album of CDs and DVD, “Good Evening New York City” (Hear Music). Once again, he wore suspenders over his white shirt. Two-thirds of the songs were the same, often in similar groupings and with the same arrangements and first-time surprises, like appending Jimi Hendrix’s “Foxy Lady” to “Let Me Roll It,” or segueing “A Day in the Life” into “Give Peace a Chance” — a V-sign waving epiphany for the crowd — or explaining that the civil-rights movement inspired “Blackbird.”
But through his career, Mr. McCartney has been reluctant to tamper much with arrangements from his albums. And it’s unlikely he’d want to deprive a full stadium of the chance to sing along with the “na-na”s of “Hey Jude,” or that he’d skip the pyrotechnics and fireworks display for “Live and Let Die,” or that he’d omit songs like “Yesterday,” “Let It Be” and “Band on the Run” (performed with video footage from the photo session for the album cover).
For freshness, Mr. McCartney tossed off a Beatles song that, he announced, he had never performed live: “The Night Before,” with its skiffle bounce and barbershop harmonies. And some of the songs that weren’t on the Citi Field set lists were the most vital ones: particularly “Maybe I’m Amazed,” from his newly reissued 1970 solo debut album “McCartney” (MPL/Hear Music), with its startling harmonic swerves and a vocal that fervently illuminated the song’s affection, happy incredulity and deep need.
Mr. McCartney has a trouper’s ability to make the routine look and sound spontaneous. His voice reveled in the songs, hinting at little improvisatory variations; after them, he raised his instruments overhead in a mixture of exuberance and pride in musical craftsmanship. (When he sang “I’ve Got a Feeling,” the video screen didn’t show a heart — it showed pulsating speakers.) He perseveres, and entertains, by directly reconnecting to his songs across the decades and still having fun.
" I am not young enough to know everything."
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552I was in a used book store today with a couple of small boxes of books we are parting with as we thin our stuff. They buy at maybe 10% to 20% of what they will sell the book for, but at least it's a way to hope the books stay vital.
(not that Gossip Girl has any reason to be vital......it's a good thing I did not know before today that we had about a dozen of those "works" in our home)
They buy vinyl, CD's and movies, too.
The Beatles were just a tick before my musical appreciation time.
I certainly caught the full pop culture of The Beatles "head on," real time. I did own a Beatle wig in 1964/1965 in grade school, and begged for and received "Beatle boots." I saw the 1964 Ed Sullivan shows, and really wanted them.
On the playground at our elementary school I'd keep a pocket full of "Beatle Cards" I picked up as I bought baseball cards in the neighborhood corner grocery. We had large ceramic pipes on the school playground to play on....and in.
I'd go in the pipes with my Beatle Cards and exchange them for kisses with the pretty girls. My first Charlie Sheen moments....
I'd go down to our local "Y" for gymnastics and swimming and would try to impress my peers by punching the Beatle numbers on the lobby jukebox and "rocking out" to Beatle songs like "Revolution" when I was turning 12 in '68.
Ironically, the first two times I sampled ganja involved that "Y" and The Beatles.
I was at a Friday night "Fun Fest" at the "Y" as a 9th grader when a 10th grade girl I had a distant crush on motioned to me to join her behind the building with her and her friend. Cherry flavored papers. That was the first time.
Second time was not long after at a midnight theater showing of "Yellow Submarine."
I sure as heck knew who The Beatles were, but did not at all appreciate their music.....real time.
Today I could and should have purchased "Abbey Road" on CD for $7.98.
Maybe I'll go back tomorrow. I could be amazed.
(not that Gossip Girl has any reason to be vital......it's a good thing I did not know before today that we had about a dozen of those "works" in our home)
They buy vinyl, CD's and movies, too.
The Beatles were just a tick before my musical appreciation time.
I certainly caught the full pop culture of The Beatles "head on," real time. I did own a Beatle wig in 1964/1965 in grade school, and begged for and received "Beatle boots." I saw the 1964 Ed Sullivan shows, and really wanted them.
On the playground at our elementary school I'd keep a pocket full of "Beatle Cards" I picked up as I bought baseball cards in the neighborhood corner grocery. We had large ceramic pipes on the school playground to play on....and in.
I'd go in the pipes with my Beatle Cards and exchange them for kisses with the pretty girls. My first Charlie Sheen moments....
I'd go down to our local "Y" for gymnastics and swimming and would try to impress my peers by punching the Beatle numbers on the lobby jukebox and "rocking out" to Beatle songs like "Revolution" when I was turning 12 in '68.
Ironically, the first two times I sampled ganja involved that "Y" and The Beatles.
I was at a Friday night "Fun Fest" at the "Y" as a 9th grader when a 10th grade girl I had a distant crush on motioned to me to join her behind the building with her and her friend. Cherry flavored papers. That was the first time.
Second time was not long after at a midnight theater showing of "Yellow Submarine."
I sure as heck knew who The Beatles were, but did not at all appreciate their music.....real time.
Today I could and should have purchased "Abbey Road" on CD for $7.98.
Maybe I'll go back tomorrow. I could be amazed.
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553Uncle Dennis and others who have been to "The City".....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zftcZYdOl3Y
There is some scenery in this music video that you're likely to recognize. It's a catchy tune, too. It's been awhile since I've seen a "pop/rock" music video I could more than tolerate.
Maybe this song has been out for awhile, but I just heard it for the first time today on the radio.
Train: Save Me, San Francisco.
I liked the wink to "The Graduate."
EDIT, I guess the song has been out since late 2009. I'm thinking the sound just does not fit neatly into many radio station formats todayl
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zftcZYdOl3Y
There is some scenery in this music video that you're likely to recognize. It's a catchy tune, too. It's been awhile since I've seen a "pop/rock" music video I could more than tolerate.
Maybe this song has been out for awhile, but I just heard it for the first time today on the radio.
Train: Save Me, San Francisco.
I liked the wink to "The Graduate."
EDIT, I guess the song has been out since late 2009. I'm thinking the sound just does not fit neatly into many radio station formats todayl
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554And yet another viewing of Four Weddings And A Funeral reminds me of how much I like it and remember that it is a great work in my book.
Oh, and Andie McDowell is from Gaffney SC.
Oh, and Andie McDowell is from Gaffney SC.
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555Bingo Cali! Great find,Tribe Fan in SC/Cali wrote:Uncle Dennis and others who have been to "The City".....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zftcZYdOl3Y
There is some scenery in this music video that you're likely to recognize. It's a catchy tune, too. It's been awhile since I've seen a "pop/rock" music video I could more than tolerate.
Maybe this song has been out for awhile, but I just heard it for the first time today on the radio.
Train: Save Me, San Francisco.
I liked the wink to "The Graduate."
EDIT, I guess the song has been out since late 2009. I'm thinking the sound just does not fit neatly into many radio station formats todayl
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