What I do is type the text I want in the spoiler tag, highlight it, then click on the spoiler button. The text string should look like:
(square bracket)spoiler(square bracket) Spoiler Text (square bracket)/spoiler(square bracket)
Or, you can hit the spoiler button, type your text, and hit the spoiler button again.
what rpz said. i don't believe you closed out the code on yours.
I'll be watching the Breaking Bad finale later today.
Dido
i've got an extended streak of bachelorhood coming up. that seems like a great time to start watching breaking bad.
RE: Breaking Bad. I don't know if this qualifies as a spoiler or not, but...Holy Moly!
I wouldn't say that anything specific surprised me, exactly, but the way it was delivered was still brilliant. Gus was my original pick to be the main death, though Don Salamanca being at the heart of it was something I didn't see coming, and the fact that Walt had already left and Don was on a kamikaze mission was another great touch I didn't see coming. The show will suffer for their lack of screen time, but this was a fantastic ending for the season.
Walt poisoning Brock certainly wasn't a surprise (to me, anyway) but once ricin was off the table, the show had done enough to misdirect that there was still some weight to the scene he had with Jesse on the hospital roof. I really didn't need the final long shot of the Lily in the Valley at the end; the actors did their job to get me that information. That's the one tiny black mark on the episode.
As I at least half-expected, this season ender would be a very believable series ender. Walt is thoroughly wretched now, there were big deaths, Walt "won." I would say that doesn't bode well for his chances at the true end of the series. Given how completely Walt laid a beatdown here, I expect he's going to get a lot of people killed - including himself - when the series is over. Either that, or life imprisonment. It's a good thing we're near the end because as fascinating as these characters are, there isn't much sympathy left for Walt.
This finale solidified this show as top five, ever, in my eyes. It would take a lot for season five to screw that up, and since Vince Gilligan will still be running the show, that ain't gonna happen.
I could have done without the CGI shot of him leaving the room, I think, although his character was important and engaging enough to get a little wiggle room on that sort of thing. The shot with Hector tapping the bell with the muffled sound as the camera followed down to the bomb, though, and Gus's final reaction, was fantastic.
To date, I think my favorite death scene is Sonny's in The Godfather. On TV, the ones that have carried the most weight for me are Adriana's in The Sopranos and Wallace's in The Wire.
I didn't like the scene with Gus adjusting his tie with half a face. Too sensational and far-fetched for me.
Having Saul come back also bugged me. Why would he come back? I thought he was out of there?
Both things are pretty nit-picky as I thought the episode was great. Yes, we could conclude that Walt was the one to poison the kid but I liked the close-up of the plant at the end. I thought it was a nice exclamation point for anyone with any doubts.
Were there doubts left there? It was very clear from the Walt/Jesse scene what had happened. I feel like anyone who didn't get it probably should be watching a different show.
Agreed on straightening the tie after the explosion (which was apparently makeup and not CGI; I was wrong about that one). It was in the script that way, and I know Gilligan figured it was a nice touch, but it was a little silly. Even having Gus walk out of the room at all was a little strong, although shows tend to treat the death scenes of their most important characters with a little more of an "event" feel even if it isn't strictly believable.
And yeah, I think Saul came back solely so he could say some funny stuff. It didn't make sense for him to be around.
But don't you think they needed some type of "event" shot to put an exclamation on it? I thought at first that it was going to be a close up of the missing cigarette.
I'm definitely not opposed to an event shot, but they used one with no new information. If it had been the missing cigarette, it would have been awesome.
I really hope they're planning on paying that off. After the amount of attention given to that storyline, I'd be bummed (and surprised) if they let that dangle.
My first thought with the cigarette was the Brock had just gotten into Jesse's cigarettes and smoked one. I was a little surprised that idea wasn't considered or explored by any of the characters. TBH, this made the whole thing with Brock's poisoning not make a whole lot of sense to me. Why would Walt try to poison Brock when that would be Jesse's initial reaction? I'm not sure what I missed that I (or Jesse) shouldn't have jumped to that conclusion immediately.
No problem at all with the end shot. Sure, you knew it was Walt by that point, but it was a "pool shot" that finally paid off, unlike all the red herrings that were centered around the cement pond in season 2. Plus, not everyone has your Spidey Spooky sense, spoons.
re: the ricin cig: No less a master than Hitchcock knew the value of a McGuffin.
I'll admit that, since I came out of "End Times" with my own suspicion that Brock's poisoning (whether by ricin or not) would turn out to be an accidental coincidence that Walt took advantage of, I had some confirmation bias going on when Jesse found out and later described what the poison was. Therefore, I didn't read the scene on the rooftop as confirming anything about Walt inflicting the poison, and I didn't realize it until the final shot. Sorry if that means I'm not allowed to watch the show any more.
It became apparent at some point during this season that the season had to end with Gus dying. Once he died, I didn't really know where the show would go. Once he walked out of the room, my first thought was "Holy shit, he survived!". And for a few seconds, I started wondering what kind of stuff would go down in the next season. Then, they panned over to the other side of his face which was both awesome and horrifying.
Now that Gus is dead, I have no idea what's going down during the next season. I could speculate, but I really have no idea what direction they'll go. It's quite the contrast to the end of last season, which could have really only gone one of two ways.
Well, the show will certainly have to go in a wildly different direction, but I think there's still the obvious jumping point that Hank strongly believes Heisenberg is still active. Sure, he might think Fring was Heisenberg, but in any case, Hank's unfinished business might propel the story forward. I expect Hank to be heavily featured in the final season - probably more than ever.
Is anyone watching Homeland (brought to you by the folks behind 24)? I watched the pilot late last night, and I understand the second episode aired yesterday evening (we don't have cable anymore, so I'll have to wait until it hits the web). I'm attempting to withhold judgment, but the show seems to possess great potential to piss me off.
I watched every episode of 24, and it routinely pissed me off, so I wouldn't be surprised.
The précis: A recently rescued American POW (captured during the invasion of Iraq), played by Damian Lewis, may have been turned by his captors into an America-hating terrorist. Only Claire Danes, a Starbuck-esque CIA operative, is onto him. Alternatively, the American POW may merely be a plot device to explore the apparent psychosis of the Danes character (she takes anti-psychotics, which she has hidden from her bosses in Langley) and her paranoia-fueled desire not to let another 9/11 occur on her watch.
Funny you mention Starbuck...that actor played 24's final "surprise" evil character. 24 had more illogical plot twists and turns from good to bad or vice versa than pro wrestling has in any given year. Everything was broadly good and evil, except for the couple of seasons where the show was at its best (and I guess it sorta was then, too, it was just better-written).
IIRC, David Bianculli suggested, in his review on Fresh Air, that Homeland gets much more interesting after the second episode, but I could be making that up.
Speaking of Bianculli, I loved Dan Castalanetta's role as the Pawnee NPR guy on "Parks and Rec"
Yes, the NPR stuff was amusing. It's awful, but they're lesbians.
Good for Netflix. They were able to avoid a complete meltdown.
This was the week that Dr. Chop and I were going to cancel. This will probably change that.
The email was waiting for me this morning. They've always been so good with customer service that I expected them to come through with something, but backing up from Qwikster entirely is a pleasant surprise.
Am I the only one that really didn't have an issue with the Qwikster idea (aside from the name)? I had thought the price would remain the same for either the streaming only, DVD only, or combined service with the intent to simply keep the two services separate for ease of use. Personally, I liked the idea of having two areas to go, which would have made searching for streaming movies much easier. Plus, that would have reduced traffic on the streaming site so movies would load faster, even though I don't have any issues with that right now. Honestly, I think people are just getting worked up over this because they like to bitch and moan, and for those falling into this category:
Members bashed the idea on Internet message boards, complaining it would be difficult to visit two separate websites to rent and watch movies.
are just kinda incompetent in an internet sense.
To boil it down, I think Netflix just flubbed the PR of the price increase and now nothing they do will be met with anything but hostility.
I'm with cheaptoy - didn't seem to me like the worst thing in the world. Sure it was a stupid name, but oh well.
I'm also angry that I randomly bought a few shares of Netflix stock in 2004 and watched what happen to their value in the past 3 months.
Well, I think customers were also under the impression that what they had would increase dramatically in price once the split came. Those who thought it would be "confusing," though? I don't get that.
(And yes, "Qwikster" was a stupid name. I could have lived with it, but ugh)
And yes, "Qwikster" was a stupid name. I could have lived with it, but ugh
A handful of years ago I realized there was another "spookymilk" out there...he occasionally posted on skiing message boards, and he had a limited vocabulary, about 25% of which was hate speech. He seems to have disappeared.
My cousin has a very, very unusual last name. He was a sports writer for the Nebraska student paper in the mid-90s. At the same time, some other nut in Nebraska was writing weekly letters to the editor to the Omaha World Heraldbasically calling for God Tom Osborne's head. Then, people would read his name and start calling for the school paper to oust him. Good times.
He seems to have disappeared.
Remind me never to piss you off...
Don't worry...now that spookymilk is taken care of, there's a Kelly Wells that needs fixing.
I wouldn't be surprised if she's already fixed
Thinking about this a little further, very Dudish.
spoons is a Nihilist?
It's exhausting.
@qwikster's twitter account really tied the whole story together.
This.
As a consumer I don't want to have to navigate two sites, and pay two bills, for the service that netflix is providing. The breaking point for me was the convenience factor, and the absolutely brain dead way they rolled out their changes.
One problem with the proposed split was that now you can search for a movie title and then decide whether or not to stream it or to have it mailed. Under the proposed system you'd have to basically search for the same movie twice, then decide what means it should be delivered. The other stuff was minor inconveniences but inconveniences nonetheless. The great thing about Netflix is how easy it is to use, that would have been lost or at least diminished.
I wonder if to some degree this is a matter of Netflix misinterpreting their customer data. They seem very data-driven, and my presumption is that the data show their users to generally either stream a lot (and use few DVD rentals) or stream very little (and use many DVD rentals.) And it probably also shows those who do both regularly are avid users, which they might expect to value the service more highly. Under this presumption, they probably figured that with the price increase, their customers would "pick a side," and having picked their side, would only really want to know whether they could get something on DVD or whether they could get it on streaming, or they did both so much that they'd still (grudgingly) pay for both services.
What they could have been undervaluing is that people who, say, stream infrequently may still really value that they can stream when they want, even if they're not doing it as often as they rent a DVD.
I wonder if one of their motivations behind the split was just to get more data on what the streamers want most. Currently if a DVD isn't in stock (or released or whatever), you can still add it to your queue so you can get if it does come in stock. They don't seem to have that option for streaming. I don't know if there's some marketing or technical reason why you wouldn't have that option for streaming, but if they allowed users to have some kind of streaming wish list, they would have a better idea how to allocate their money when purchasing streaming rights.
I never noticed that non-feature until I attempted to mess with my BIL's streaming-only subscription. It was strange that they wouldn't allow such lists to be created. Although the studios are the ones who make the decisions as to what should be allowable for streaming, I assume Netflix goes to them with specific queries.
Hey Beau, weren't you educating us about #5 recently?
scroll down in that link to see a notice that All Things Considered will be profiling Omar Ansari of Surly Brewing today.
If it's not one thing, it's another. I got my replacement HD from Lenovo today. Does it work? Can't say. The bracket they sent it to me in doesn't fit in my machine. But they've put the screws in so tightly I've only gotten 2 of the 4 out and one of those I had to get out with the needlenose grabbing the head. I've completely snipped away the bracket to get to the screws and they're still not coming out. It's like they used a NASCAR air-wrench to put these in, which it always the way to go with delicate electronics.
Things are looking up. I got a third screw out, enough to rig the bracket together. BIOS recognizes the HD now and the OS install is progressing nicely. Another 30 minutes or so and I should be good*.
*Assuming I've not jinxed myself by saying that
That's a bugger. And since you're working on a hard drive, you probably don't want to use any of three best methods for loosening stuck screws - impact driver, penetrating oil, and heat.
Old farmer method: "Bolt's rusted? Just piss on it!"
oh, you said best methods
I know I've said this before, but the state of job applications is ridiculous.
300 questions, all of them clearly with a certain answer in mind. The only people weeded out from this process are the illiterate. What a waste of time. I should ask the companies that write these application questions to reimburse me for the time I didn't spend writing.
ATTN bS: day game alert.
I thought the season was over last week when the Yanquis lost?
Quiz on demographics:
Rate the following states in percentage of men married three or more times from most to least (original list in alphabetical order):
Arizona, California, New York, Rhode Island, Texas, Wyoming
I'll have to let my 30 year-old, twice-married brother in Wyoming know that there's a lot of guys in his state that are an ex-wife up on him.
Doesn't mean they're marrying different women.
Went to a wedding this weekend on my wife's side. Got to talking to my wife afterwards and found out that so and so had been divorced for a while, only to remarry. (All before I joined the family.) On the other side of her family, she knows that her uncle X had been married to Y, the mother of his children twice, but my wife can't remember if Y is his first and third wife or second and third wife.
I wonder if age of first marriage is highly correlated with this statistic. The younger you are for the first marriage, the more time you have to get to your third.
New York, Rhode Island, Arizona, Texas, Wyoming, California.
I'm figuring that California ranks low on share of serially married men for several reasons: (1) a young population; (2) lots of hispanics and Asians, both of whom are relatively conservative culturally; and (3) gays.
New York also has lots of gays and lots of hispanics (Chicanos) and Asians, buuuut. Rhode Island is rich; Arizona and Texas are retirement destinations, so lots of older men with more opportunities to marry/re-marry. Wyoming -- I got nothing.
Also, divorce settlements in California tend to discourage serial marriages, or so I heard when I was in the Corps, which has a worryingly high divorce rate.
The Milkmaid has an uncle who just got married for the seventh time. Amusingly, he still says "this time it's going to stick" every time, and thus far doesn't appear to realize that he's the problem.
Good grief. Who marries a six-time loser (I mean, besides Larry Fortensky)?
That's actually something I'd love to know. This uncle has some money, but not "I need to marry that guy" gold digger-type money. It seems he's forthcoming about this stuff with his women, so I have no idea what the deal is.
As far as it goes on his end, he lives in Alaska, but I've been around him twice - both times, unsurprisingly, he was about to get married again. Hearing him go on and gush about these women, my theory is that he finds being in love boring, but the act of falling in love is what he craves.
It's hard for there to be that many thrice married men when more than 40% have never married.
2010 ACS Data, percent of Men never married.
Arkansas 29.5%
Wyoming 29.0%
Arizona 31.3%
Texas 34.6%
California 39.8%
Rhode Island 39.8%
New York 40.5%
National 35.4%
Looks to be well-correlated.
However, percent of people that are unmarried partners of head-of-household (at least that's how I read the data), (both sexes):
Arkansas 1.9%
Wyoming 2.5%
Arizona 2.6%
Texas 1.9%
California 2.3%
Rhode Island 2.8%
New York 2.4%
(Forgot to run national)
So that seems to tear apart a bit of my rationale for the negative correlation between percent never married and percent thrice married.
I'm annoyed with the interface for these data sets, so I'm not going to go back and get all states to run regression.
I wonder what share of those Wyoming three-timers live in Jackson Hole?
Fun Wyoming story- me and the wife'n'kids went to a water park in Casper last summer with my brother and his wife. I'm pretty sure we were the only four adults there without tattoos.
Hey, same thing in Eagan, MN. Not my thing, but if it was, I'd go somewhere other than where these people were getting them. Lots of really bad tats.
Quality over quantity would be the way I'd go with something that permanent, too.
CC to '-6 - Your print is in the mail. Let me know when it gets there. I threw in a bonus that I'll explain later.
Excellent. I need to call my framer.
I heard a "Gimme Shelter" cover on the way home tonight. IT was more of a facsimile than a new adaptation, and one that I don't think captured the original very well. I got to thinking "Who would I like to see do 'Gimme Shelter'?" I came up with Adele for the female accompanist, but I couldn't think of the band to do the Stones' parts.
This one's pretty cool.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJtq6OmD-_Y&feature=player_embedded#!
Parliament covered the song at one point (with Ruth Copeland singing?), but I thought the instrumentals blew the vocalist out of the water, and that's not really what you want with this song.
Of the current crop of artists, I'll see your Adele and raise you Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings.
How does the spoiler work?
Does this work?
What I do is type the text I want in the spoiler tag, highlight it, then click on the spoiler button. The text string should look like:
(square bracket)spoiler(square bracket) Spoiler Text (square bracket)/spoiler(square bracket)
Or, you can hit the spoiler button, type your text, and hit the spoiler button again.
what rpz said. i don't believe you closed out the code on yours.
I'll be watching the Breaking Bad finale later today.
Dido
i've got an extended streak of bachelorhood coming up. that seems like a great time to start watching breaking bad.
RE: Breaking Bad. I don't know if this qualifies as a spoiler or not, but...Holy Moly!
These spoilers are major, all y'all.
Also contains a season five spoiler for The Sopranos, and a season one spoiler for The Wire.
Two things bothered me in this episode.[/spoiler]
Ok. I'm off the phone so I think I can do this.
I'll spoiler you!
I would be most pleased with that.
I agree.
Is anyone watching Homeland (brought to you by the folks behind 24)? I watched the pilot late last night, and I understand the second episode aired yesterday evening (we don't have cable anymore, so I'll have to wait until it hits the web). I'm attempting to withhold judgment, but the show seems to possess great potential to piss me off.
I watched every episode of 24, and it routinely pissed me off, so I wouldn't be surprised.
The précis: A recently rescued American POW (captured during the invasion of Iraq), played by Damian Lewis, may have been turned by his captors into an America-hating terrorist. Only Claire Danes, a Starbuck-esque CIA operative, is onto him. Alternatively, the American POW may merely be a plot device to explore the apparent psychosis of the Danes character (she takes anti-psychotics, which she has hidden from her bosses in Langley) and her paranoia-fueled desire not to let another 9/11 occur on her watch.
Funny you mention Starbuck...that actor played 24's final "surprise" evil character. 24 had more illogical plot twists and turns from good to bad or vice versa than pro wrestling has in any given year. Everything was broadly good and evil, except for the couple of seasons where the show was at its best (and I guess it sorta was then, too, it was just better-written).
IIRC, David Bianculli suggested, in his review on Fresh Air, that Homeland gets much more interesting after the second episode, but I could be making that up.
Speaking of Bianculli, I loved Dan Castalanetta's role as the Pawnee NPR guy on "Parks and Rec"
Yes, the NPR stuff was amusing. It's awful, but they're lesbians.
Netflix abandons qwickster. Fans of not paying double for same service cheer.
Good for Netflix. They were able to avoid a complete meltdown.
This was the week that Dr. Chop and I were going to cancel. This will probably change that.
The email was waiting for me this morning. They've always been so good with customer service that I expected them to come through with something, but backing up from Qwikster entirely is a pleasant surprise.
Am I the only one that really didn't have an issue with the Qwikster idea (aside from the name)? I had thought the price would remain the same for either the streaming only, DVD only, or combined service with the intent to simply keep the two services separate for ease of use. Personally, I liked the idea of having two areas to go, which would have made searching for streaming movies much easier. Plus, that would have reduced traffic on the streaming site so movies would load faster, even though I don't have any issues with that right now. Honestly, I think people are just getting worked up over this because they like to bitch and moan, and for those falling into this category:
are just kinda incompetent in an internet sense.
To boil it down, I think Netflix just flubbed the PR of the price increase and now nothing they do will be met with anything but hostility.
I'm with cheaptoy - didn't seem to me like the worst thing in the world. Sure it was a stupid name, but oh well.
I'm also angry that I randomly bought a few shares of Netflix stock in 2004 and watched what happen to their value in the past 3 months.
Well, I think customers were also under the impression that what they had would increase dramatically in price once the split came. Those who thought it would be "confusing," though? I don't get that.
(And yes, "Qwikster" was a stupid name. I could have lived with it, but ugh)
And yes, "Qwikster" was a stupid name. I could have lived with it, but ugh
worked fine for this guy.
That's awesum.
It takes all kinds.
A handful of years ago I realized there was another "spookymilk" out there...he occasionally posted on skiing message boards, and he had a limited vocabulary, about 25% of which was hate speech. He seems to have disappeared.
My cousin has a very, very unusual last name. He was a sports writer for the Nebraska student paper in the mid-90s. At the same time, some other nut in Nebraska was writing weekly letters to the editor to the Omaha World Heraldbasically calling for
GodTom Osborne's head. Then, people would read his name and start calling for the school paper to oust him. Good times.Remind me never to piss you off...
Don't worry...now that spookymilk is taken care of, there's a Kelly Wells that needs fixing.
I wouldn't be surprised if she's already fixed
Thinking about this a little further, very Dudish.
spoons is a Nihilist?
It's exhausting.
@qwikster's twitter account really tied the whole story together.
This.
As a consumer I don't want to have to navigate two sites, and pay two bills, for the service that netflix is providing. The breaking point for me was the convenience factor, and the absolutely brain dead way they rolled out their changes.
One problem with the proposed split was that now you can search for a movie title and then decide whether or not to stream it or to have it mailed. Under the proposed system you'd have to basically search for the same movie twice, then decide what means it should be delivered. The other stuff was minor inconveniences but inconveniences nonetheless. The great thing about Netflix is how easy it is to use, that would have been lost or at least diminished.
I wonder if to some degree this is a matter of Netflix misinterpreting their customer data. They seem very data-driven, and my presumption is that the data show their users to generally either stream a lot (and use few DVD rentals) or stream very little (and use many DVD rentals.) And it probably also shows those who do both regularly are avid users, which they might expect to value the service more highly. Under this presumption, they probably figured that with the price increase, their customers would "pick a side," and having picked their side, would only really want to know whether they could get something on DVD or whether they could get it on streaming, or they did both so much that they'd still (grudgingly) pay for both services.
What they could have been undervaluing is that people who, say, stream infrequently may still really value that they can stream when they want, even if they're not doing it as often as they rent a DVD.
I wonder if one of their motivations behind the split was just to get more data on what the streamers want most. Currently if a DVD isn't in stock (or released or whatever), you can still add it to your queue so you can get if it does come in stock. They don't seem to have that option for streaming. I don't know if there's some marketing or technical reason why you wouldn't have that option for streaming, but if they allowed users to have some kind of streaming wish list, they would have a better idea how to allocate their money when purchasing streaming rights.
I never noticed that non-feature until I attempted to mess with my BIL's streaming-only subscription. It was strange that they wouldn't allow such lists to be created. Although the studios are the ones who make the decisions as to what should be allowable for streaming, I assume Netflix goes to them with specific queries.
Hey Beau, weren't you educating us about #5 recently?
scroll down in that link to see a notice that All Things Considered will be profiling Omar Ansari of Surly Brewing today.
indeed I was, in a Werewolf game.
As a result of my insensitive comment.
I have to say that if I'm the dad here, I might counsel this woman differently.
If it's not one thing, it's another. I got my replacement HD from Lenovo today. Does it work? Can't say. The bracket they sent it to me in doesn't fit in my machine. But they've put the screws in so tightly I've only gotten 2 of the 4 out and one of those I had to get out with the needlenose grabbing the head. I've completely snipped away the bracket to get to the screws and they're still not coming out. It's like they used a NASCAR air-wrench to put these in, which it always the way to go with delicate electronics.
Things are looking up. I got a third screw out, enough to rig the bracket together. BIOS recognizes the HD now and the OS install is progressing nicely. Another 30 minutes or so and I should be good*.
*Assuming I've not jinxed myself by saying that
That's a bugger. And since you're working on a hard drive, you probably don't want to use any of three best methods for loosening stuck screws - impact driver, penetrating oil, and heat.
Old farmer method: "Bolt's rusted? Just piss on it!"
oh, you said best methods
I know I've said this before, but the state of job applications is ridiculous.
300 questions, all of them clearly with a certain answer in mind. The only people weeded out from this process are the illiterate. What a waste of time. I should ask the companies that write these application questions to reimburse me for the time I didn't spend writing.
ATTN bS: day game alert.
I thought the season was over last week when the Yanquis lost?
Quiz on demographics:
Rate the following states in percentage of men married three or more times from most to least (original list in alphabetical order):
Arizona, California, New York, Rhode Island, Texas, Wyoming
Doesn't mean they're marrying different women.
Went to a wedding this weekend on my wife's side. Got to talking to my wife afterwards and found out that so and so had been divorced for a while, only to remarry. (All before I joined the family.) On the other side of her family, she knows that her uncle X had been married to Y, the mother of his children twice, but my wife can't remember if Y is his first and third wife or second and third wife.
Also, divorce settlements in California tend to discourage serial marriages, or so I heard when I was in the Corps, which has a worryingly high divorce rate.
The Milkmaid has an uncle who just got married for the seventh time. Amusingly, he still says "this time it's going to stick" every time, and thus far doesn't appear to realize that he's the problem.
Good grief. Who marries a six-time loser (I mean, besides Larry Fortensky)?
That's actually something I'd love to know. This uncle has some money, but not "I need to marry that guy" gold digger-type money. It seems he's forthcoming about this stuff with his women, so I have no idea what the deal is.
As far as it goes on his end, he lives in Alaska, but I've been around him twice - both times, unsurprisingly, he was about to get married again. Hearing him go on and gush about these women, my theory is that he finds being in love boring, but the act of falling in love is what he craves.
Fun Wyoming story- me and the wife'n'kids went to a water park in Casper last summer with my brother and his wife. I'm pretty sure we were the only four adults there without tattoos.
Hey, same thing in Eagan, MN. Not my thing, but if it was, I'd go somewhere other than where these people were getting them. Lots of really bad tats.
Quality over quantity would be the way I'd go with something that permanent, too.
CC to '-6 - Your print is in the mail. Let me know when it gets there. I threw in a bonus that I'll explain later.
Excellent. I need to call my framer.
I heard a "Gimme Shelter" cover on the way home tonight. IT was more of a facsimile than a new adaptation, and one that I don't think captured the original very well. I got to thinking "Who would I like to see do 'Gimme Shelter'?" I came up with Adele for the female accompanist, but I couldn't think of the band to do the Stones' parts.
This one's pretty cool.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJtq6OmD-_Y&feature=player_embedded#!
Parliament covered the song at one point (with Ruth Copeland singing?), but I thought the instrumentals blew the vocalist out of the water, and that's not really what you want with this song.
Of the current crop of artists, I'll see your Adele and raise you Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings.