I saw Fogerty in concert a number of years back, and he sang the last line, "There's a bathroom on the right . . ." It was awesome!
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I worked summers and Christmas breaks at the Duke Textbook Store. We were forced to deal with the god-awful Musak playing 24/7. We had to get creative. Paul McCartney's My Brave Face became My Shaved Face, then My Thick Shake, then My Bald Head. Anything goes when you're bored.
I worked in a movie theater for awhile when I was in grad school. Old style theater that they converted to two screens (it had a balcony when it was built), so, upstairs/downstairs. The soundtrack for the downstairs movie starts to become a part of the fabric of your life. We showed Hannah and Her Sisters for three months.
This theater also showed Rocky Horror every Friday and Saturday night while I worked there, the theater set a record for the longest continuous run of a movie in the US. We had a big birthday party for Rocky and the staff all dressed in costume, so yeah, I had a French maid's outfit for one night. I went to grad school at SMU in Dallas. Sexism in Texas was something I struggled with, but, occasionally I appreciated some of the attitudes. I was the only female employee and the manager thought it wouldn't be safe for me to close on Fridays or Saturdays because of the Rocky Horror crowd, so, he didn't have me close on Fridays or Saturdays. I didn't complain. We shut concessions down about 10 minutes after the movie started and everybody working would clean up, but only the box office manager and one more staff member had to stay until the movie was over.
That's a pretty cool job. What theater was it (I'm from the DFW area)?
Meanwhile:
1. Changed spikes at a golf course and clean the restroom
2. Sold ice cream at a Marble Slab Creamery (don't eat anywhere teenagers work)
3. Sold shoes at a mall shoe store (don't buy shoes from a place teenagers work)
4. Worked the cater side of a restaurant business (see 2)
I did have a cool research assistant job at Duke. Worked out in one of the forests helping the PhD students collect data.
I was more of a Street Fighter kid myself.
I feel like this is how my eventual first meeting with Aimo is going to go.
Good night, all! Watch out for falling rockets this weekend!
I want to say it was called the Village Theater. It was an independent theater and it was in Highland Park in an older shopping center that I think was called the Highland Park Village Shopping Center. It was a cool place to work. It was haunted. Yeah, right, but I saw some unexplained stuff so I decided to just roll with the ghost story. We weren't teenagers, it was mostly college kids so the popcorn was safe.
Just googled it and it's still there (although closed for now due to covid). They've made themselves over as theater that serves beer which was probably necessary. I had heard a rumor that it had ceased being a movie theater awhile back but it looks like those rumors were either wrong or somebody decided to reopen it as a movie theater.
DUDE! Don't erase our posts that aren't actually doing anything wrong! Are you working for Yum Beer? I knew they felt threatened!
fuse just wanted a free holiday.
Don't victim shame. On another note it is chilly in the Old North State this morning on my morning walk. It feels really good. Headed to watch the State High School 1A football championships in a bit. I am only obliquely interested, I have friends I grew up with who have children playing in the game. I'm ecstatic about eating at one of my favorite restaurants in Chapel Hill and seeing my first live sports since the pandemic hit. Plus I will get to feel smug because Kenan Stadium has a really problematic name.
Nah. But apparently we discovered a structural flaw in the wanker filter. It’s a monstrosity but it’s got a small opening for destruction. I don’t want to brag but I nailed it. Then again, I used to bullseye womp rats in my T-16 back home so, you know, maybe I’ll just kiss my sister later.
buying a standby (automatic start) generator is more complex than one might imagine.
Did my Monty Python reference get deleted?!? Man, it was perfffffect situational humor!
You'll delete this post, but ham is the best sandwich meat...but not even close to the best derivation of pork. The pig is a wonderous animal.
14Kw...more than enough to keep everything going if we're gone for a week.. What the (very capable) generator guy does not dwell on is the issue of the required propane tank(s), which is VERY complicated, one must make many assumptions...and the smart solutions are not inexpensive.
Sitting in car, protected from steady drizzle.
Awaiting the start of my first live road-race since pre-pandemic.
...sort of figured. Makes your assertion more defensible.
I uncharacteristically slept until 10:45 this morning. As a teacher in May, I deserve it and regret nothing.
I am currently watching cartoons, which I also deserve and do not regret.
I am late into the office today. Went to pick up plants this morning, visited with my first delivery spot, unloaded the rest at home, watered them, and then hung out for a bit. Finally dragged myself in.
I'm already thinking about what time to head home.
My daughter wore her "I Still Love Laettner" short to Chapel Hill.
Time to go to Charlotte and hug my Momma for Mother's Day! Very excited.
Yes - correct assessment on my communications blackout. Was a running race along the Erie canal.
Was called a Progressive 16k which is a new format to me. 1 mi to begin; followed by a 5k starting at the 11 min mark; followed by a 10k starting at the 46min mark. If you aren't there in time, you aren't allowed to continue.
Crappy weather - but a wonderful morning nonetheless.
I killed about fifty dandelions today
I don’t want to care but a weedy lawn does annoy. Talk about programming. Sheesh.
Thanks suburbs for making me care about some plants but not others.
My back acre is untreated so it’s transitioned to a mix over time. I want my next house to be rural enough to not care about manicured lawns or a completely different landscape design.
I envy westerners with rock lawns
Going Thai tonight. Spicy carrot coconut soup and sticky chili garlic prawns.
Korean-style beef fajitas for dinner tonight.
Lol! I could be more accurately described as treadmill-tolerant. Since the weather changed, I haven't used it once.
I hung a TV and binged on Sunderland 'til I Die and Peaky Blinders. Mixed in a couple rows per week.
ClemmonsDevil - you've helped inspire me to add more upper body. For which I'm grateful.
Probably not going to catch it tonight but I'm pretty curious about this Elon Musk on SNL business. I mean, there's 0 chance he's not awful, right?
Happy Mother's day everyone!
2-minute chocolate lava cake in a cup for my resident momma.
Late risers?
We’ve already stared out the window and pondered existential questions like where we want to be in 5, 10 years and what our lifestyle should be like and whether either of us actually would take a promotion if we were offered one on account of not wanting to deal with more poo. We are both very anti-poo dealing.
In fairness, her executive director has talked to her about succession specifically so if she were promoted she would have to deal with a LOT more poo as the head of a non-profit. I have already been shocked about the sheer number of HR issues leaders have to deal with on the regular. It is crazy sauce.
My kids are 19 and 17 and they won't get up until I get them up. My wife can somehow sleep late as well. Also, my wife deals with tons of poo (much more than I do) and I just took on more poo. She is almost high enough up in management that she will have less day to day poo. I am not concerned about the poo I have to deal with. This was easily the most stressful week of my professional career, and it was a pretty good week.
uh oh, could a suburban dandelion war be brewing? Glad I live in hick country.
Every Spring we have lots and lots of melted snow runoff, which often brings lots of seeds with it...so the driveway area close to our garage finds itself chock full of violets and other colorful flowers..it looks nice all summer...
I don’t get the serious Sunday dreads but by the time late afternoon rolls around it’s like, well, guess we gotta do this thing again.
I’ve crossed over. It’s May. This is the last week of regular class before our year-end enrichment program starts (I’m teaching a course on the history of American cartoons…seriously). I’ll be there tomorrow. Everyone else will be there. We will do things. It will be fine. It will be sunny outside and everyone will be distracted and I will wear a Hawaiian shirt to work.
From one neighbor, I took over care of the grass between our two houses. Half was mine anyways, but we share some bushes and he manages those. The other yard is a lost cause, the other homeowner is rarely outside and never in the grassy part. Every once in a while I will kill the weeds that are creeping into my yard.
Bath night!
It’s our annual mini-mester…everyone teaches an enrichment course within some area of their expertise, and the kids get a more easygoing change of pace in the last couple of weeks before summer.
I’ll be starting with WB and Disney shorts beginning in the 1930s, tracing some design evolutions and character growth in those works over the decades. Next we’ll hit some Tex Avery and probably Fantasia, to look at the heights of mid-century animation.
I want to touch on Hanna-Barbera characters and franchises, so will probably do Flinstones, Scooby Doo, and Wacky Races, with maybe a Huckleberry Hound/Yogi/Magilla Gorilla short thrown in there.
A look at Japanese arts will probably include a Miyazaki film and an episode of 1980s Voltron as an example of some of the earliest animé to hit the United States on a broadly popular basis.
We’ll take a look at some Pixar shorts in order to cover the advent of digital animation and its evolution over the years, and close with some time with “modern” animation influence by some of the greats: Animaniacs, Spongebob, and the Simpsons.
…that was indeed Throaty who did the Wire course, which was likely rather more highbrow than what I’ll be doing, though I do plan to examine the evolution of these cartoons’ design, production, and characterizations over time.
I'm highly caffeinated this evening.
Anybody remembers Antonino Rocca, Buddy Rogers, Johnny Valentine or Ricki Starr?
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I am the Astro-Creep a demolition style hell American freak yeah
I am the crawling dead a phantom in a box shadow in your head
Say acid suicide freedom of the blast read the I'm a real wanker for saying this.I'm a real wanker for saying this.I'm a real wanker for saying this.I'm a real wanker for saying this.er lies
Make me do it again, yeah
More human than human.
I posted before about Paddies application to Boston College, yes? Kudos to BC for coming up with what I think is the best question any school asks on their applications. Not a direct quote but close enough "If you were tasked with designing a new course to teach at BC, what would the course entail?" Paddies described the course he would teach on medieval economic history with specific emphasis on medieval guilds. After his description, I wanted to take the course. He wound up wait-listed at BC, which is rather hard to get into these days, so I was surprised that he did well enough to be wait-listed given his somewhat checkered past at the time. I'm convinced it was that answer to that question. Well that and the fact that the transfer admissions councilor in charge of his application reached out to him directly with questions about the bizarre transcript he had to submit from Michigan State. (He got a medical withdrawal so his transcript lists four courses with no grades, not even incompletes, it's just the courses listed but it doesn't say that he medically withdrew.) He was able to directly communicate about his anxiety disorder and the work he had been doing to get himself ready to return to being a full time student.
I didn't start watching until the Bob Backlund era of the WWF. Bruno Sammartino, Gorilla Monsoon and some others come to mind. I watched for 4-5 years regularly then kinda moved on.
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At the risk of repeating myself, again, I spoke with T-Bone about a week ago and I could tell he was upset about something. Turns out he is probably going to get a C in one of the computer science classes he is taking this semester. I said, "Dude, you're a Classics major, who cares how you do in computer science? Getting one C in college is nothing to worry about." He then confessed that he is not enjoying computer science anymore and I told him not to take any more classes in it. He then said that he wouldn't be able to complete a minor if he didn't and I said, "What do you need a minor in computer science for?" He thought he had to minor in something. I told him that no, he didn't. I think my reaction worked wonders. I talked to him a few days later, different kid. He sounded super excited about the courses he's going to take in the fall: Greek Art and Archaeology, Greek Epic Poetry, Pre-Columbian Archaeology, an English class in Arthurian literature, and Old English (finally!). That's my kid. Forget the computer science. I told him he has learned to code well enough to have that skill in his toolbox - for a different career. He's not a software engineer and he'd be miserable if he tried to become one.
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Thank you. ;) This was from 3 years ago when he was applying as transfer student. He is about to graduate from UVM. In the end, he didn't even choose to stay on the waitlist. BC was the most expensive of all the transfer options where he was either accepted or waitlisted. Add to that the costs of an apartment in the Boston area and we decided to just be flattered by the offer. At the time, we really couldn't afford BC for him and it would not have been good for him to live at home even though we live less than 2 miles from the campus. He applied because we live so close but after thinking about it more, the reality of living at home and going to school did not appeal to any of us.
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I was chatting with him a few days ago and I remarked that UVM turned out to be the perfect school for him. He disagreed. Then I said, "Yeah, the perfect school for you would have been Harvard but you never would have been able to get in." So, we settled on the truth, UVM was the best choice among the schools where it was both reasonable for him to apply and where he was accepted. I have known a lot of Harvard students in my time working there. Paddies would have been a hot knife through butter over there. Given his history, I told him to put a pin in Boston and he could apply anywhere that I could drive to in 4 hours. Burlington takes me 4 1/2 but that's because I need to make a stop. It fits within the radius. BC was his "reach" school as a transfer student, well, that and Duke because I made him apply. I genuinely thought he had a chance but it's probably for the best that he didn't get in because I probably would have insisted that he go and it wouldn't have been the best choice. Yeah, yeah, it doesn't fit in the radius but my parents are still in Durham. My brother is there too. And aimo. I needed to know somebody could go pick him up at the drop of a hat in case he had another episode like he did at Michigan State. He didn't. But it has still been a good idea to have him go somewhere I can get to in a car in an emergency.
Harvard has no students like Paddies and it's their loss. From what I can tell, neither does Duke. It's a shame.
One of them is. Very much so. I literally hated it but watched hundreds of hours with my friends. So I do know who all the guys are and all of their moves. I have seen Hulk Hogan and Ric Flair in different airports over the years. And I flashed Flair the "4 Horsemen" sign and received a PIERCING "WHOOOOOOOOOOOO" in return. That really was cool.
And I am the worst person in Surry County history. Hated wrestling, I have never been hunting, I have never seen a Nascar race. And politically I am...ummm...different than most of the natives.
OK - not super conversant. We did not have TV growing up.
However, saw some weekend bouts when visiting relatives - Chief Jay Strongbow was my youthful fan interest. Seem to also recall Ivan Putztki(sp?) aka the Polish Hammer.
He is staying in Burlington for the summer, working as a TA for one of his professors in summer school, and going to all the Vermont Lake Monster home games.
Eventually he wants to go to business school.
In August, he is moving to Maryland and working at a small science tech incubator. He was bemoaning the fact that he would be job hunting during a pandemic. He showed me this joke Ted talk that featured a guy talking about job hunting strategies who said that after you've tried everything, ask yourself, have you really tried everything, then ask your rich dad for a job. We had a good laugh over it, then I asked him, "Wait. Have you tried that? Why don't you ask your rich dad for a job?" As part of what the hubby is doing at Maryland, he's helped set up an incubator for science tech start-ups that is UMD adjacent, they have an entry level position. Paddies knows that what he wants to do is be a financial analyst for a scientific tech company (not computer tech) but the kinds of jobs he really wants require experience. He's going to be one of only 4 employees and he has been told that he will get to do some things that he really wants to do but he's also going to be asked to do all the stuff that nobody else wants to do cause he'll be the only entry level employee. He's fine with that. He'll be fantastic.
And here we go again.
mulching is done, though I have about a cubic yard in reserve for future plant acquisitions by Mrs Womble.
Hoping to be able to mow in the Central Park District this year, the site of some of the Great Tree Catastrophe of Halloween, 2017...tried weed whacking it last year, but it's too big for that, so I've put mulch over some exposed
roots, hoping this allows for mowing, without running into nasty woody protrusions. Too much info, I know...
Category: Pop songs about Mondays. Go!
Manic Monday by The Bangles.
My strongest media memories of Monday were of course Monday, Monday back in the day.
https://youtu.be/ek4k6rZfFsk
Problematic because this is about a school shooting. But first song I ever heard about Mondays.
yeah, the Boomtown Rats take the Monday cake.
"Come Monday" is a personal favorite.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKGw_hrlaOY
https://youtu.be/A4B0pLDqYqI
This is how I feel. It's absolutely nuts but I have worked since I was 16 and I have loved every job I have ever had. I was a stock boy at a Hallmark store, worked construction building Hallmark stores after the guys who renovated our store asked me to come work for them. Did that all through college and then managed American Eagle Outfitters and that was just a wonderful job. I loved it and I stay in contact with so many of those kids who worked for me. Then I worked in the NICU and PICU at Wake Forest and did ECMO for 5 years before moving to the NICU at Forsyth Medical Center. Both of those were great jobs and I learned so much. I got signed as a consultant by a large ventilator company and got to travel all over the country for them and then got my current job. So 31 years of just absolutely fantastic jobs. And just got promoted to my dream job. I have been very fortunate.
Not my favorite Duran Duran song, but the only one that is about Monday.
New Moon on Monday
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3a4OTh2Y8w
Sometimes I enjoy watching men of a certain age get their dander up by telling them Duran Duran is a much better band than The Police. ;)
“The Clash is the only band that matters.”
I would say they found a sound and a formula and they absolutely crushed it. But the singular genius of "Y'all Come Back Saloon" and "Elvira" coming from the Oak Ridge Boys is something that escaped Alabama. They are undeniably great, just not particularly complicated.
Note: I do not think The Police are bad. I do think Duran Duran is better. Duran Duran is still together and were recording their 15th studio album las(t I heard. Their '80s synth pop stuff holds up. They evolved and their 90s stuff is not just retreads of their '80s stuff. (I will admit I have not listened to their 21st century stuff.)
“ Come Monday” - Jimmy Buffet. One of my all time favorites songs.
I love the Police.
I like Duran Duran better now than I did when I was in Jr High, when they first hit it big.
I like New Moon on Monday, actually one of my favorites.
I can't get the Boomtown Rats out of my head. Thanks, CDevil, for today's earworm.
the great mulching/mowing experiment in Central Park has been declared a success, so you guys can all relax, and thanks for your support!
I really want to start a “Playas you couldn’t help but like” thread on the main board and then list a bunch of under appreciated Mexican beaches.
I have never seen an episode of House, which I know is weird. I can't make myself watch medical shows, plus they take care of adults. And no one cares about adult. They are gross and have nasty toenails. Taking care of children is where it's at. Dave Matthews is the band I have seen most in my life however.
I'm trying to figure out which band I've seen the most in my life. I never really liked rock concerts so almost every "big" act I ever saw, it was a one time deal. The only band I can remember seeing multiple times was the Blood Oranges (as has been discussed here before.)
I did see Duran Duran in the '80s. I never saw The Police.
Probably Jimmy Buffett for me. Four times, but I only paid for tickets once. The others ended up free. Two of them were box seats at Walnut Creek. Once, Buffett got hold of the t-shirt cannon and I was hit in the . . . umm . . . upper chest area with a t-shirt. Really tacky one, too.
Grateful Dead, by a wide margin.
Bands I’ve seen (I think there was a separate thread on this):
The Who (multiple)
The Rolling Stones (multiple)
Pink Floyd (multiple — no Roger Waters)
B.B. King (multiple)
James Brown (multiple)
Grateful Dead (many multiple) (and post-Jerry spin-offs including with John Mayer)
Jerry Garcia (acoustic and electric on Broadway)
Jorma/Hot Tuna (multiple)
John Prine (multiple)
Little Feat (multiple but not with Lowell George)
Todd Snider (multiple)
Jonathan Richman (multiple)
Michael Hedges (multiple)
Allman Bros. (multiple)
Dylan (multiple)
R.E.M. (multiple)
Phish (multiple, small clubs)
Robert Earl Keene (multiple)
Lyle Lovett (multiple)
Santana (multiple)
John Hammond (multiple)
Camper Van Beethoven (multiple)
Col. Bruce Hampton and ARU (many multiple)
Johnny Lee Hooker
The Clash
Elvis Costello
Living Colour
Neville Bros.
John Hiatt
Roy Bookbinder
Atlanta Rhythm Section
Al Dimeola
Shadowfax
Blue Öyster Cult (@Radio City Music Hall of all places)
Steely Dan
Rick Danko
Drive-By Truckers
David Byrne (Broadway)
Avett Brothers
Alison Krauss and Union Station
Old Crow Medicine Show
Dead Kennedys
Black Flag
Arlo Guthrie
Gaelic Storm
The Tams
Willie Nelson
Leo Kottke
Eric Clapton
Joan Jett
Marshall Tucker Band
Barrence Whitfield and the Savages
Marshall Crenshaw
Psychedelic Furs
Billy Idol
Cindi Lauper and the Bangles
Blues Travelers
Clarence Gatemouth Brown
Matt Guitar Murphy
Taj Mahal
Delbert McClinton
Traffic
Bruce Hornsby
Bruce Springsteen (Acoustic)
CSN
Pat Benatar
Styx
Def Leppard and Billy Squier
Village People
Adam Ant
The Police
Yes
Moody Blues
Dr. John
Albert King
Ben E. King
Bobby Blue Bland
Ray Charles
John Mayall
U2 with Public Enemy as opener
Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets
Black Crowes
Dash Rip Rock
Edie Brickell and the New Bohemians
Widespread Panic (small party on Emory’s campus — less than 50 people I am sure)
Kenny Wayne Shepherd (young teenager)
Butch Trucks (young teenager)
Elizabeth Cook
Flaming Lips
The Jody Grind (multiple — if you know, you know)
Junior Brown (multiple)
Keller Williams
Marcus King (the next big thing)
Eddie Arnold
Sha-Na-Na
Robert Hunter
Steel Pulse
Tower of Power
Warren Zevon
I’m sure I’m forgetting a lot.
…hell of a list though. I’m impressed and jealous.
Shakespeare Plays I've Seen On Stage (not film):
Romeo & Juliet (multiple)
12th Night (multiple)
As You Like It (multiple)
Hamlet (multiple)
Macbeth (multiple)
King Lear
Cymbelline
Henry IV, Part 1
Henry IV, Part 2
Henry V
A Midsummer Night's Dream (multiple)
Julius Caesar (multiple)
Antony & Cleopatra
Troilus and Cressida
The Taming of the Shrew
The Merchant of Venice
Richard III
The Winter's Tale
The Tempest (multiple)
Love's Labors Lost (multiple)
Much Ado About Nothing (multiple)
Measure for Measure (multiple)
I have acted in Pericles and Othello without having seen other productions of them on stage. I will defer to the LTE to decide if they count.
I do not claim that the designation of multiple is comprehensive. I listed multiple if I could immediately remember having seen it more than once.
It's Tuesday eve. Blech.
We should really rethink this 7 day week thing and drop Tuesday. It can be the Golden Globes of days of the week.