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Wow, that's the first time I've ever heard that.

Anyway, the Stones vs. Beatles question is kind of like asking which is better, coffee or pistachio ice cream? They're both great. Or at least the...

Talking Heads early on were celebrated as cerebral punks and their 1st 2 albums were their best, to my mind

Graham Parker (and the Rumour), a real poet who rocks like crazy

Patti Smith, while...

I've had this gnawing notion for months: that the Republicans don't really want to win this election. With the mess to clean up after the past 8 years who would? It'll be a crummy job the next 4...

Chad's cars aren't the only cool stuff on CL. Stumbled across "best of CL" and wow, there's some funny, weird stuff there. To wit [NB: some will surely take offense at the language in/content of some...

Steven,
Thanks for the tip about Thursday, but we won't arrive until Friday. We'll stop by anyway at some point during the weekend; Brooklin/WB is one of the places we always check out when in the...

Thanks, everyone, for all the info. I'll be back there next week and I'll bring my tree book to ID the tree it came from. Like I said, my guess is honey locust: there's a black locust (that I know...

I know it's not a spectator event like the WBS is, but is there any spectator potential for the SRR?

We'll be not far away in Stonington that weekend and it'd be interesting to see what people...

Speaking of nice bikes, check the Ducatti (#2)

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2008/07/27/automobiles/0727-handle_index.html

It really is everything a bike should be, to my eye. But costs...

And the 12 people who did show would be treated to some awful, botched attempt at humor -- one shudders to thinks what McCain could do trying to joke with German history.

I just heard a clip of...

Like this?

http://www.yachtcouncil.com/yacht-info.asp?vessel=66185&Currency=6&mode=4

Must have been quite a sight. Those black windows do look odd.

We missed out on a sail on Adele, a...

straight from the bottle you might like a carafe like this:

http://album5et6.blogspot.com/

I can't picture it getting very clean in the dishwasher, though. ;)

Tim

I'm guessing this is honey locust, based on some googling.
A customer gave it to me, just said he had some "locust" for firewood. Doesn't look like black locust to me, but I
haven't seen all that...

Geez, the last time the Dow hit 1,000 everybody was thrilled. What gives? ;)
Tim

Now that's what I call "damning with faint praise".

Tim

So is "Beetle Bailey" but I'll wager that you are discerning enough not to use that to inform your view of Army life.

Tim

John, yes, I've read that vespid (wasps, hornets) venom and hymenoptera (bee) venom are acidic, and that ammonia works, too. When I get stung (seems like at least one event per summer) it's usually...

Was cutting up a pine I'd just felled 2 summers ago when 5 or 6 hot jabs got me in the leg. Started running, left the chainsaw pinched in the trunk still running. A paste of baking soda and water...

"But the builders will have to overcome extreme technical difficulties such as how to connect the plumbing."

Yep, that was my first reaction. Talk about function following form.

Tim

I'm betting that the people who buy that sink let other people worry about cleaning it.;)

The company (there's a link the the maker in the photo caption) has some other cool but practical sinks,...

First time I've ever been wowed by a sink:

http://www.trendir.com/archives/001991.html

Tim

Looks like no one's got an ankle on this story yet.

Tim

We were there in Oct 2006 and it was the HOTTEST place we ever hope to go, and unbearbly humid. Going to the Cayes was just as hot, but with a hot, humid breeze. The ocean offered no relief: a swim...

Amazing: a pinch of art nouveau, some day-glo ink, a gifted eye for composition, voila! A whole new genre that's still popular 40+ years later. In junior high school every notebook I had was...

Got rained out of a job today so I stopped at Davis Museum at Wellesey (MA) College to see "Grand Scale: Monumental Prints in the Age of Dürer and Titian." Lo and behold a few of the prints were...

I have a blues station and I always get some SRV! Pandora's terrific; I've gotten turned on to lots of music I never would have heard otherwise.

Tim

Yeah! I was just checking his web site to see if Sleepy LaBeef is playing around here this summer. Guess I have to get invited to a private party in Falmouth, ME, 'cuiz that's the nearest gig listed....

Back about 1986: Her name was Randi and she wasn't a temp for long. We hired her after a few days: Really Beautiful, smart, fun, creative, and a hard worker, too.
Tim

Calls to mind The Four Yorkshiremen:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSQeMBzHR0o&feature=related
[snip]
TG: But you know, we were happy in those days, though we were poor.
MP: Aye. BECAUSE we were...

Yeah, non-pro chef guys in the kitchen is a real 'merikan thing, it seems. Last month we had a friend stay with us for a week, a journalist from Mexico who's a pretty worldly guy, and he marvelled at...

That is a good thing to see. I've seen only bumble bees so far this spring and I've been wondering if the local population of honey bees has been affected much. I'm assuming that it has. Seems like...

I cut it myself about a month ago and she thought I did a pretty good job; her opinion may have been influenced by the fact that she didn't have to do it. She didn't have time to cut it before she...

Mickey,
I hear ya, I'm batching too. My wife's in Cuernavaca, Mexico, for 2 weeks. She's goes every year this time with a group of about 25 college students, so I'm used to it and I never get done...

I think people want meaningful connections with other people, such as with Ishmael's amigos. I've had several similar experiences in 3rd world countries and really treasure the memories; but only a...

These guys have an interesting idea, too, a Ford Zetec swap:
http://www.bostig.com/

I looked for and at used Eurovans for my work vehicle and decided they're too expensive and too prone to...

I wish the The Star Strangled Banner would be played more up-tempo more often. Usually it's played and sung like a dirge. Tom Montgomery's right about America the Beautiful, it'd be a much nicer...

abut > tuba
slams > masts
trivet > verity
wreaths > strewth (no wait, that's only a Dingo-ism) > threats

At dinner last night a friend told about a visit to the US embassy in Paris last year. She went with her Croation husband (she's a US citizen) who had to fill out some sort of visa form before coming...

But, heck, what fun is a Bible when ya cain't read?

Tim

JD,

A buddy keeps his boat at Dutch Wharf; I'll have to ask him if he's seen any. Didn't realize they'd expanded their territory up that way.

Are they as noisy as tropical ones? Was at Tikal...

No swap needed, you've got parrots nearby, in Norwalk, Conn.

Legend has it that they escaped from a pet-shop-bound shipment at JFK in the '60s and have settled in nicely, enduring winters and...

Here on the RI/MA/CT line heirloom Brandywines did really well 2 summers ago. Kind of an unattractive red but really tasty, great in sandwiches and salads.

Last summer we got beat out by...

From NYTimes:

The National Cancer Institute says that malignant glioma is the most common form of brain cancer, accounting for about 9,000 cases diagnosed each year in the United States. The...

No, but I just googled it; looks interesting. Did they all have Vuitton sea chests?
Tim

"What a golden opportunity... Ride the publicity tiger"

Yeah, and in doing so maybe make up for this horrid ad campaign (which has been running several weeks Sundays in the NYTimes and...

Clever: Brit band got CCTV cams to shoot their footage, then through FOI they got the imagery and edited it into video. It's a music video, no it's political statement....
...

Don't be so sure that lots of rock musicians weren't/aren't equally capable. Dig into their bios and you'll find scads of 'em who've trained at Julliard, Berkeley, etc., in classical and jazz, then...

The Stones, Led Zep, Beatles all got their start playing American blues/r&b/rock 'n' roll. To the legendary American bands already listed I'd add:

Velvet Underground
Talking Heads
The Byrds...

No salmon?!? What's the shad festival gonna do?

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/30/dining/30shad.html?scp=1&sq=shad&st=nyt

Hudson river shad festival plans to serve salmon in order to protect...

skip > lisp
swear > wares
tropes > poster
roasted > toaster

Chad,
Thanx for the Toots and the Maytals "Take Me Home" link. Kind of a cool thing about covers: I'd sooner drive into an oncoming semi while changing the station than listen to John Denver but I...