Well, I got to take the family and our German exchange student to Friendly’s.  Aidan, who loves that place, was remarkably solicitous of my health leading up to that excursion, but I was still unwell enough that I collapsed on my return home. Anyway, my present was being able to see They Might Be Giants last night at Higher Ground hereabouts in Burlington (excellent show).  So imagine my delight at finding them linked  at IMAO today.
h/t Insty
Have I missed something? I certainly hope otherwise, but is this a serious illness?
Sorry to hear you’re still ailing a bit. OTOH, I have never seen a bad TMBG show.
Collapsed? Dude, you need some fresh air and some rest. Have you been getting enough free porn lately? Take care of yourself.
That’s kind of weird. I had TMBG in my head this morning. It just kind of sat there. I was wondering maybe if they maybe weren’t all that well known. I remember Particle Man coming up before though. Them and the Femmes I think are very important.
Also I’m a little concerned if Karl is ok. Not that he hasn’t earned a break.
Wow, sorry you’re feeling, well,,, sorry, But get well and sincere wishes for your health and recovery. TMBG is entirely and appropriately unconventional, healthy and intelligent which fits! The health of this place is due much to you and so keep healthy and enjoy a good rest.
Ironic I was just at Friendly’s at Taft’s corners last night after doing solo trail maintainence and ski/hiking off and on the Long Trail just below Mt. Mansfield via Stevensville in Underhill. Had to ski and hike down in the near dark and needed a burger and drink badly (after the usual badly planned adventure). I guess you were just at the one on Shelburne Rd if you were walking…and collapsing.. yikes!
Best of luck and health for you and your family. and Happy B-day and .
‘make a birdhouse in your soul’
Oh. And also dicentra has lapsed into silence, while I’m thinking on it.
What is solo trail maintenance exactly? Also did you know if you use Firefox it automatically spellchecks? It’s neat. Maybe the new IE does that too. I don’t have SP2 on here so I don’t know.
oh yeah, happy birthday!
Ack. Exactly. Happy Birthday! is what I meant.
hf, I sent you an email.
Lonely hand sawyering of arboreal blockages to wintry bipedal travelers
alas hf, even firefox can’t make me as smart and concise as Dan.
None of this collapsing crap is allowed. You’ve got to keep as least one leg stable at all times.
Happy birthday. Carry on.
– Yeh well, the whole concept of “Tripodal Man” is simply bragging. I just went through some sort of respiratory onslaught, but am now on the downward slope of the meds corriculum. Not so much I’m still not delirious enough to tempt feets with copious portions of choclaty creamy double chocolated chocolate iced triple-fudgecake cupcakes. Now would I do that?
– Dan. Get well quick.
I will put this here. It’s important I think.
That’s how your National Public Radio is framing the Iraq story these days. Muqtada is their new hero. I don’t think I need to really comment. Notice how they use AP propaganda to shore up their bias though. Synergy.
I could so go for one of those, BBH. JD mentioned something about triple-layer dark German chocolate cake and it’s been in my head ever since.
then what the hell is this?
I guess Sadr just thought they needed a vacation….
You should listen, really. The NPR guy comes right out and says the Iraqi government “has just been handed a defeat at the hands of the Mahdi Army.” Good fucking Christ.
Happy birthday, Dan!
The NPR guy comes right out and says the Iraqi government “has just been handed a defeat at the hands of the Mahdi Army.â€Â
These are the same people who managed to spin the Tet Offensive as a loss for the United States, remember.
oh, I just noticed it stripped my link out. here: http://tinyurl.com/2rv8xr
Oh. Instapundit has something of a roundup here. This one he links gets right to the point.
hf,
I’m okay.
But thanks for asking.
thanks for the other links, happyfeet.
That is good news I think.
oh, it’s lies! all lies. not sure about the source there, but it seems believable. ;D
Jeez. I kept rechecking the date on it as I read that, maggie.
Also, congratulations Dan and Karl a lot and also Darleen and Craig and TSI and the people I’m forgetting for what was really a great month. It was consistently good stuff but mostly I’m talking about the amazing stats you guys generated. That’s really notable, and I figure y’all are probably too modest to point at that, so I’m just pointing that out even if it sounds really kiss-ass. Cause it’s really notable.
Putting the link might be pushing it though. Here is what I mean.
Happy Birthday Dan. Fingertips!
I have been to lots of concerts
and acted perfectly disgraceful
but I never actually collapsed
oh Dan Collins we love you get up
– Ummmmmm….Okkkkkkay…..I’ll just wait over here about 500 feet…..
Hey Dan, for your birthday I wrote you a poem.
Dan just a white nigger who love the internets
He’s got a sound Colonial education
And Irish, English and American genetics
He’s either nothing, or a Dalmatian
Arf!
I lifted and twisted it from Walcott’s Schooner poem.
“I’m just a red nigger who love the sea,
I had a sound colonial education
I have Dutch, nigger, and in English in me,
and either I’m nobody, or I’m a nation.”
Just in case you didn’t already know that. How ya feeling? Luche? That means better in Russian.
Have a great day.
Sorry you’re poorly Dan. Hope you feel better soon. Mostly because it’s impossible to collapse and be cool at the same time. I hope you didn’t make any sort of girly sound on your way down.
I hope you had a happy and carbon-neutral birthday. I’m a parent. I look toward the future.
Happy Birthday Brother. Dad convinced me yours was in late April… I knew it was right about now. Anyway, what gives? what are you collapsing about? inquiring family wishes to know.
Happy Birthday, Dan. Hope you are better.
Thanks for your well-wishes. I just had a very nasty flu that’s been going around these parts: chills, fever, headache, sore throat, impacted sinus. I slept a lot and pushed fluids, and now I am better.
I have to say, though, that I got some entertainingly wack dreams out of it. Not mescaline vivid, but vivid enough.
Happy birthday, Dan!
My child was sick with a flu thing a few weeks ago, and we found the perfect medicine to be Smoothies.
Happy belated birthday as I was traveling to West Virginia on business and out of the intertubes for a couple of days.
It’s quite the kismet that during my drive through MD on I-68 Sunday evening Mountain Stage was playing and the featured band was … Ta Da! … They Might be Giants! While I knew of them, I had never heard them perform and was delighted. They are a sort of geographical and scientific Devo, wonderously random and energetic and I’m now a big fan.
There will be copious downloading this evening!
Just so I understand, Maliki’s forces are penned up in Basra. The US Army Stryker brigades take a lead role in fighting the Mahdi Army in Baghdad. Maliki’s forces defect in some Southern cities. The Iranians call the Al-Badr brigades and al-Sadr to Iran and call for an an end to the fighting. To that end, Sadr tells his forces to stop fighting if the nine conditions (cessation of raids on his forces and release of all men) he submitted to Maliki are accepted “as is”. Maliki accepts the terms presented, stops shooting at the Sadr folks, and releases his prisoners, but
Happyfeet and Maggie think Maliki won and NPR is biased because they reflect the consensus of every oberserver of the conflict? Except, well, the two of you and Irving Kristol…
Yeah, there’s bias here.
Perhaps in happy’s next post, he can explain how Israel won in Lebanon!
Simply put, much like Tet (alluded to above), the recent government offensive is a political failure for both Maliki and us. First, it showed the year we spent training the Iraqi Army was largely for nil (they can’t even beat Sadr’s forces without our armor), the Southern provinces will be voting for Sadr in this fall’s elections, and Iran largely runs Maliki’s govt (and especially his Al-Badr militia).
In sum, we spilled US blood and trreasure to create an Iranian client state. We just used our soldiers to prop up the government of Iran’s client, and I got to tell you, Al-Sadr looks smarter than Maliki.
Oh, and TMBG? Huge libs. Ask Sarah Vowell. Fine music, though.
Happy birthday, racist!
Dalmations can’t be racists. That’s why Dan is particularly homophobic.
Did they tase you, bro? Hope you feel better – my wife was very sick yesterday but getting better today. Happy Birthday, and KUTGW.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, belatedly, DAN COLLINS, you magnificent bastage !!!
Why is it when a left-lib or their fellow travelers start off a comment with “So what you are saying”, or in Senor Doyle’s case, “Just so I understand”, it is almost invariably followed by a pack of lies, distortions, half truths, and in general, completely full of BS?
Translating “Just so I understand…”
Just so I can point out with half truths and skewed reports what a bunch of retarded, thuggish, racist, sexist, chicken hawking, AGW denying, brown people hating, poor people ignoring homophobes you all are…”
This has been your leftist translation of the day, brought to you by NPR… WA WA WA WA WA WA WA!
“Just so I understandâ€Â, it is almost invariably followed by a pack of lies, distortions, half truths, and in general, completely full of BS?
Sometimes it’s followed by “….you’re going to put that in my butt and it’s only going to hurt for a second, but then it will feel good. Sounds plausible.”
Sorry about that. Doyle sounded like a chick. I don’t want to come off all homophobic and shit.
good one, Doyle…come back will ya? But be nice we want to break them into dreaming slowly: “Oh, and TMBG? Huge libs. ”
music is the balm.
and thanks hf for encouragement for upping NPR’s donations.
dalmatians make great donations. (nooooo, don’t send ’em that!)
dd has found another dataless soul to cling to. They sing from the same hymnal, though dataless seems to be stuck in a different decade.
I always enjoyed TMBG. Also, Crash Test Dummies. And, BoDeans.
BoDeans and Violent Femmes are both from Enoch’s part of Wisconsin.
Uh, I really don’t care about TMBG’s politics, because they don’t push them. Oh, I’m sure it’s there, but it’s hard to pick among the rest of the insanity and the musical talent.
I mean, they improvised a set of songs about the Planet of the Apes movies. How can you not love that?!
Doyle (aka Muhammed Saeed al-Sahaf): “There are no American troops at the Baghdad Airport. If there are, we will beat them with shoes!”
If I were a carpenter I’d hammer on my piglet,
I’d collect the seven dollars and I’d buy a big prosthetic forehead
And wear it on my real head
Everybody wants prosthetic foreheads on their real heads
“They sing from the same hymnal, though dataless seems to be stuck in a different decade.”
Maybe stuck in an endless Doo-Doo Loop.
because surrendering? totally not losing.
losing hundreds of your people for every one or two of theirs? success!
Dateless’ problem is he has taken too much umbrage and not enough fiber.
And THC, but no Blackwater.
ATTICA!
Why does RTO post under his wife’s name?
um, no he doesn’t, but thanks for showing your ass again timmah.
maggie – IJS is an idjit.
Wouldn’t it be great if I’m Just Saying changed his name to I’ll be Going?
Wouldn’t it?
timmah just can’t quit us.
I know, I know. I just don’t want to link to pictures of my cats and dog and cupcakes. plus, I occasionally post on RTO’s blog. not so much when he’s home, but you can find posts with my name on them there. I’m just sayin’….
okay, actually, I’m an elaborate hoax. Just as many people I work with have never seen RTO in person, nobody has seen me either. it’s manly to knit, right? ;D
I don’t want the whole cake — I just want your half.
Happy belated birthday, mate!
“Here’s the scenario: Some educated spearchucker buggers a baboonâ€â€as a part of a cultural rite of passage, let’s sayâ€â€and then he comes to America, to civilization, and because he feels guilty about what he’s doneâ€â€about what to him at the time was simply a natural cultural impulseâ€â€he writes an academic book about the implications of monkey fucking. He blames imperialism. He blames the British. He blames the goddamned baboon for luring him with the shiny red ass of his. This is, after all, the age of the testimonial. Well, the next thing you know he’s bayside on an Affirmative Action fellowship, teaching cultural anthropology by day, fucking men by night, spreading disease like a Kike spreads cream cheese. You just have to follow the narrative chain, man. Map the clues.”
“The narrative chain‗
“The narrative chain, yes. The real story always lies in the links of the narrative chain. The government knows this. That’s why they’re always listening. To everything. The only problem is, the government is more dangerous than all the dicksuckers and the snatchlickers and the rectum-pirates rolled into one. They messed it up, you can bet your lily white ass on that‗
Happy Birthday, DAN (belated)
Happy Birthday! I’m hoping that rather than being carbon-neutral, you sequestered enough birthday cake to save a couple polar bears. But if not, get well too!
Thanks, guys. You’re sweet.
You haven’t learned the differences yet? Maggie is the polite one. She won’t tell you you’re a fucking crapweasel.
Feel free to keep posting here. Someday you might, unintentionally and as matter of random chance, say something intelligent, but I’ll have to rely on the others to let me know about it because I’m returning you to your regularly scheduled ignore.
Oh, hey; Happy Birthday, Dan.
Sorry about that.