Just watched the Assassination of Jesse James and it was pretty good. Do any of you watch something historic and immediately google it? I use WIKI for bios on important people.

I was going to say I just take the Bio word for it, but that would be a lie.

Instead, I just make crap up, and post it on WIKI

I think WIKI is great even if it isn't 100% accurate. Nice post today on your site Pooper.

Thanks Joe,

By the way, I hope you know I was kidding about making crap up on WIKI. Just couldn't resist

Well, I gotta go eat. Be back later

Heello Teh Joe-- Did you also catch Pooper's article on health care? I thought it was excellent. The spouse & I had decent coverage through his employer until last Nov. then we were sold out. My main pain Rx went from $30/mo to $426, plus everything went to an astronomical $7500 deductible. How does it go for you in the military?

Minx

Minx, that was the post that got me screaming bloody murder. Fuck yes healthcare is a basic human right just like shelter and food and I will say that until I die.

What pissed me off the most was that the policy switched over on 11/1 & we had no time at all to try to find something else. I was lucky to get drug coverage thru Medicare but we had to eat the drug costs until 1/2009!
Minx

I think I need a drink. Hard Cider is a favorite of mine, it reminds me of the apple soda I loved as a kid. How about you, what's the bevvy of choice?
Minx

Apple soda? Really?
sounds vaguely Boone's Farmish.

Coffee...(or coffee milk in the summer)

Minx,

Sorry, I responded before I read your whole post. The US Military has socialized medicine. I pay for nothing. NOTHING! This is one of the biggest reasons why I am still in the Army. I refuse to pay for something that should be free for everyone in the world not just America.

Boone's Farm the drink of choice for American teenagers. Without it we wouldn't have Abstinence First Programs.

As far as alcoholic beverages:
1. Jameson's, neat.
2. Guinness.

Joe- I myself never experienced Boone's Farm back when I was a fetus. I'm not sure it was the drink of choice for all the rich kids in my town in CO. (I, for reasons passing understanding, didn't start drinking til college) However, all my friends from upstate New York seem to have fond memories. All I can say is I tried it once and um... dear lord.

In case you're wondering, it was part of a Halloween costume. See, a couple of friends went as Batman & Robin, and my roommate and I went as Bizarro Batman and Robin. I figured since Bizarro Batman was drinking a 40, his bizarro ward should have a bottle of Boone's. I managed to drink about a third of the bottle before I upgraded to PBR.

Not sure why I felt the need to share that actually...

Hey Packerino, Jameson's is whisky, yes? What is the attraction? I never liked the taste. And, yes, when I do have the one drink I'm allowed, I love the girly frou-frou stuff.

GI--Do you get concerned about going to a hot zone, shooting-wise? How do you deal with it (at risk of being a thread killer!)?

Minx

>> tried it once and um... dear lord.

Oh, yeah. That's everyone's reaction to it. But it's really cheap.

alcoholic is gin

Yikes, Mystico! PBR was an upgrade??

I dig the caffeine also, ceu, although I go for iced tea pretty much all year.

Minx

Minx, there is no thread to kill. We are kind of slow tonight. I have been to a "Hot Zone" twice and have used my socialized medicine a lot.

What the hell can I mix blue cheese with to make it spread-on-a-cracker friendly? And why hasn't someone else made it yet?

Jane, try cement.

I'm a wino (not the kind who requires nipple stars though). I usually drink reds such as merlot or cabernet, but one of my favorite wines is a chardonnay by Fat Bastard.

When I go out however, I'm all about the Absolut cranberry.

And Boone's Farm is some nasty, nasty stuff. Of course, this is from the girl who once chugged a 40 of 8-Ball on a dare.

Try a little cream cheese, Jane.

I am a pinot grigio guy. I love all types of beer and crown royal.

Minx,
Jameson's is fine Irish Whiskey, triple distilled. It's closely followed by Bushmills, John Powers, and Tullamore Dew - in that order.
The only way to drink any of them is to sip them, straight up (although a tiny splash of water is acceptable). You may have a glass of water or soda water on the side... or even chase it with a Guinness.
Such beverages are NOT for tossing back as in "doing shots." If you are going to do that, drink the cheapest bar whiskey, it will have the desired effect and save you money.
ALL American whiskeys are swill by comparison (and that includes Canadian).

Joe - When I was in HS we drank Boone's Farm Apple Wine. It was very cheap (about $1 a bottle) and got you drunk. More imprtantly, it got your date drunk.
Thankfully, that was long, long ago.

Jane, how about some cream cheese? Or Boone's Farm?
Minx

I think everyone here has had a good(male) or a bad(female) experience with Boone's in High School. I for one should write Boone's a thank you letter.

Yikes! Katerini & I is thinking alike, and also.
Minx

Jane-a-palooza -
Mix with some cream cheese, a bit of garlic, and some sun-dried tomatoes. Mix well, salt/pepper to tase, spread on cracker of your choice.
Enjoy.

That's taste, NOT tase.

I like the taste of taste. You people are making me hungry.

Armageddon Week on the History Channel this week!

Guiness is great in lamb stew. :)

The goal is to keep the blue cheese the dominant, if not the only, flavor. Besides, Packy, that sounds like cooking, i.e. work.

I just watched Blade Runner. Remind me who isn't in that movie? Still stands up, even production-value wise.

Jane - A little oil might loosen it up and not add additional flavor. Perhaps just a touch of safflower oil?

Hey old hippies with cable: Garcia/Grisman on Ovation for 1/2 hour more.

Not really, Jane. Throw all ingredients in the Cuisinart & set it to "annihilate."

Hey, where's Redmond?

Oh, I dunno, maybe hopelessly re-addicted to My Face poker.

Dammit, Kat!

Okay, Packy, that sounds like it would require cleaning, which is, again, work.

I'm a lazy bastard.

Jane,
My fricking cable is still out. I thought it came back on last night, but it turned out instead that one of my offspring was watching DVD. Irked, I went to bed.
The cable company said they'd get someone right out to fix it. I'm waiting with bated breath.

You need a friend who likes to cook, Janerita.

You are welcome, Redmond. I'll consider it retribution for taking so much of my money last night.

Speaking of booze: I'm with Packy. Guinness. Though I am guilty of helping a friend kill a Jameson gift set doing shots one New Year's Eve. In my defense, I had just chugged a bottle of Brut's champagne on a dare. Forgive me.

As for 40 oz. anyone ever drink Crazy Horse? Think the taste of rust with a hint of blood that takes you on a magical spirit quest called "Why did I wake up in the bath tub?"

You need to move closer to me, Jane. I adore cooking. I made a kick-ass Creme Brulee Cheesecake today for my neighbor downstairs who helped me hook up my new tv.

Kat, I think you would fatten me up...for the kill.

I realized that the Bob-on-Bob show is infringing upon the Rock of Love: Tour Bus premiere. I don't think I can concentrate on both. Watching all those strippers takes more of my mental faculties than I can give up at the moment.

Hell, I need to move closer to you, Kat.
It's warm where you live, and I like to cook, too.

Kudos to VH1 for managing to find an any even skankier collection for Bret than last season. And a Daisy clone. Yes, America really need that.

In the meantime, I find it funny he's turned off by a chick with VD considering the dude lost his hair to herpes. True story.

We could both fatten up Jane, Packy. For something anyways....

I refuse to twitter. I am already Facespacing against my better judgment. I will not twitter.

Facespacing? Is the treatment for that similar to braces for teeth?

I will be soooo happy when Rachel comes back.

Hell, I'll move closer to YOU, Packerini, I despise cooking.
BTW, I've noticed no, count 'em, no, nicknames for me. Just saying-- *sniff*
Minx

Minx,

Would you like it if we called you Shagger"

So Redmond, does this mean we get to make requests?

Kat,

I'll move closer to you. I adore eating.

I'll be happy, too, Ms. Kat. Any chance that she could be won away from her current girlfriend? I'll be willing to share!
Minx

I just visited the Newsmax blog to see what the Righty Tighty's are saying about Gaza. Headline: Israel: "Hamas may be using Chinese Rockets"

Chinese rockets? As in fireworks?

"Shagger"? I'm confused, P-cubed.

Minx

Let's not get carried away, Kat ;)

But since I know you're watching Rock of Love, that Ashley chick's gotta go. Marcia just wants to drink her tequila and give Bret vomity kisses. Why does Ashley gotta hate and spill beer on her?

Minx,

Your name here is "Minx". Think Austin Powers, and what he said about Allotta Fagina.

But I like getting carried away!!

I know what you mean about Ashley, nasty blonde bitch. I'm thinking the porn star is outta there too...Bret doesn't like clingy.

I can't believe I'm watching this show. And discussing it. I'm going to go bang my head against my wall now.

I'm not even pretending anymore with this season.

I WATCH ROCK OF LOVE! ME! REDMOND!
MUAHAHAHAHA!

psst...my roommate is watching Girls Next Door...someone call the authorities...

"watching Girls Next Door.'

There's nothing wrong with that. I find turning the sound off makes that show way better

Don't mean to be fussy, Poopski, but it just doesn't seem to fit. When I chose "The Minx", I was thinking in terms of old Cary Grant movies when he hugs the heroine at the end and says with a smile: "You Little Minx!". Then he proposes. Just like Bret Michaels would.

Minx

Minx,

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/minx

I think Austin Powers said, "I bet she shags like a minx!", and I think he had definition #2 in mind.

No offense meant. If Shagger doesn't work for you, I'm sure we can think of something.

Am so sad about the Gals Next Door--our happy group has broken up & I was so hoping for a happy ending for the 4, or 5, or 6 of them. And the twins?? Yechh!
Although I could say it in a much bigger way regarding Chriss Angel--YECHH!! Holly could do so much better.

Minx

Cary Grant just did a somersault in his grave. If Bret Michaels is the standard for romance, we are all doomed.

from my quick scan of comments i see nobody has had the pleasure of "mad dog 20 20"...ahhh...lighter fluid and koolaid! i seriously feel sick thinking about it!

ann coulter is one of two people i would walk up to and with no words just begin opening up some "whoop ass"...the other is omarosa that blankity bleepity piece of beep with a side of honk honk!

ooooooo confessions of a teen idol!

Uuuh, Gypsy? Guilty of the Mad Dog.

Minx,

Their happy ending comes the second they meet me.

Or, not

Gypsy, MD 20-20 was another staple when I was young... but I always hated the taste of it. I had a more discriminating palate even then I guess.

Kat, If Bret Michaels is the standard for anything other than bad taste, we are all doomed.

man, i missed the bret. i will try to catch it one of the other 385 times it comes on before next episode

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Blue Cheese spread without cooking:

In the bowl you're going to serve it from (or one you can throw away if you don't want to clean) crumble up your blue cheese. Add sour cream, a bit at a time, and mush it up real good with a fork. (You can throw the fork away later too - just replace it with one from a diner next time you go out - pockets or purse, you know.) Stop adding the sour cream when it's the right consitency. Probably shouldn't take any more than a half a cup or so. If you don't have sour cream, try mayonaise, but use less.

Nope never had the Mad Dog 20 20. However the smell of cheap vodka will make me puke on contact.

Let me recap for you Gyps:

Big Tits
Drunk Strippers
Bret Tongue
More Big Tits

with me it's any kind of gin. had sort of a bad night twenty-some years ago. gimlets with gin.

Maybe it was just the lime juice.

Kat,

At least they know how to start and end a show right

Alan, you know me too well.

That's the way I like my shrimp & grits, by the way- blue cheese, sour cream, onions, peppers, mushrooms. Fuck that gravy shit.

For me, it's Captain Morgan Spiced Rum. My first really shitfaced drunk experience was with Captain Morgan and Coke. I get a little queasy just thinking about it.

thanks kat! sounds like groundhog day!

Gyps, I've wrestled with the Mad Dog myself.

Stuff happened.

Good lord Kat, I would dehydrate without my Capt n Coke. I am so sorry that happen to you.

Stop the blue cheese madness I am hungry again.

Jane you could always use plastic silverware. I know this is a liberal blog so you don't have to throw the fork away, you could recycle it.

can i just say this just changed my life! and not "that" way potty dwellers!

http://www.brookstone.com/store/product.asp?product_code=406819&wid=17&cid=1702&sid=170203&search_type=subcategory&prodtemp=t2

Mmm, shrimp and grits. Butter and tabasco for me please.

But gravy is a near religious experience, if it's made right. I loves me some sausage gravy on bisquits for breakfast - with grits on the side.

Thought-puke: Rumpleminz.

Shrimp sounds good, but I've never had grits. Are they good?

Aw I love Rumpleminz!

Biscuits and Gravy Yes. WTF are grits?

24 hours until Jon Stewart! Withdrawals here.

Grits are only good (to me) with aforementioned shrimp, blue cheese, etc...+ red wine.

See, I thought grits were something you smoked. But these guys here are trying to tell us you eat them, Joe.

grits are ground corn...

do you guys know grits are native american and were the first food given to the whiteys by us

I headed to bed guys. Last night kicked my ass, and I need to go to work tomorrow. Which is a horrifically depressing thought. Life will be better tomorrow with the return of KO & Rachel! Be prepared for lots of gushing from me.

Redmond, I hope it's a boob extravaganza for you. ;)

I think we call it cream of wheat up here.

Jane, shrimp and blue cheese? You should start a cooking show.

nite kitty..

It's not as sweet as Cream of Wheat, Joe, but the consistency is similar. Grits are a bit thicker, though. Southerners will eat them with butter & salt & pepper, although my redneck ex used to eat them all mixed up with fried sunny side up eggs. It looked revolting, but he thought it was the most amazing breakfast ever.

Hey gang, mostly lurking tonight. Nothing to add to the food and drink discussion except that I polished off a bottle of Chardonnay with dinner (with a little help from the wife).

no gi...wheat is wheat! hehe...

nite kat. I was wondering how many employed GDABers there were on the PTT. I am on winter break but I won't call being a college student employment.

jane you are making me want to eat a salad loded with blue cheese and now i want to try these yankee cream of wheat thingies!

I'm employed, and I am one of the lucky ones who loves his job.

i am self employed my boss is the shiznit.

Don't do it gypsy. We feed that shit to southerns when they ask for grits in our restaurants. It is a joke not food. I am going to cover my entire body with blue cheese in a few minutes just to set the mood for Jane. Then you will have your blue cheese on a cracker. OOOHHHH!!!

oh snap gi brought the funny!

So on the rare occasions I eat out, I see an ingredient and order everything based on that dish...

Blue cheese, gorgonzola (fancy blue cheese), goat cheese, pine nuts, sundried tomato, etc...

Head cheese, tongue, brain etc?

Obama has been under 10 times as much scrutiny in the last 8 weeks, then Bush was under in the last 8 DISASTROUS years--unbelievable--librul media.

Oh, shit, Joe. On the way. With crackers and wine.

Oh, P-Cubed, you're such a romantic!

i am with you jane! pine nuts make me happy...more than a pine nut really should!

PTT lesson: Blue Cheese is an afrodisiac for intelligent, liberal, non breeding, non cleaning, non cooking women.

Minx,

I don't think anyone has ever said anything like that about me. But maybe what I am really does pass for romantic in Wisconsin

There's a rumbly in my tumbly, and it has nothing to do with being hungry

And why the fuck am I not in the British Virgin Islands drinking mushroom tea and sleeping on a boat??

Mushroom tea?

I'm watching an ad for Strap Perfect.
it's time to go to bed.

shroom tea? Yes, sounds awesome.

sounds like a laxative

wow. bush only gets 10 years of secret service protection! karma is a bitch! and by that i mean "that "foreign" pizza delivery guy has a gun in that box mr. pres!"

Watching Clay Pigeons, it is a surprisingly weird movie. I like it.

I'm not a tea aficionado, but I've never heard of mushroom tea.

Off to bed, all, the kitteh (not Kat) is harassing me, looking for a cuddle...
Anyone else who is looking for a cuddle (or whatever), you know where to find me. I have the Pinot Grigio right here.

The Minx

Confirming Minx Identity....

I've had Mushroom tea.

Stuff happened.

Oh, Carlos. You have lived a (relatively) sheltered life. Some uuuhhh mushrooms have a not-so-good taste, and tea is a way to enjoy them. Or so I hear.

gi, how did the sex advice work last night?

Fuck Yeah Jane!!!! Now I am pouring the blue cheese. Bring some tea. That way the purple hippos can enjoy too.

Well, I'm not really a tea person... or a mushroom person. I guess I'm just a sheltered person. Thanks for revealing my sham of a life for what it is, Jane. No tea. No mushrooms. I'll be in the kitchen with my head in the oven if anyone needs me.

gypsy, not so well. I was a lot more drunk than I thought. However, we did have the TIME talk and apparently anytime except bedtime is good.

Bake at 350 for 20 minutes carl.

Thanks, Joe. I'll baste after 10.

I had sex advice once.

Stuff happened.

Oh Carlos. Maybe it's a Southern thing? A less urban thing?

I hear you can use peanut butter as well.

But Red, what have you had twice?

Hey Gypsy, Could you just describe your life-changing product from Brookstone? The address for the site was cut off.

Signed,
Need A Life Changing Product

one step at a time joe, one step at a time...

i am putting myself to bed now. i have commited to an early morning workout.

night all

a massager with 15 speeds and three positions! i feel loosey goosey and stress free!

Goodnight, Gypsy.

Damn, that's a good question, Jane...

I'm hitting the hay, too, folks. If you can't tell, I am a little fried from working the ol' boob mine and prepping tomorrow's shenanigans. Looking forward to some Stewart though. Night!

I worked a boob mine once.

Stuff happened. Goodnight, Redmond.

Carlos. NICE!

It is just you and me now jane. Where the hell is elvis?

I'm still here. Guess I forgot to pay my gas bill this month.

I imagine Elvis won't be back anytime soon. Fickle bitch.

Goodnight, gang. Until tomorrow.

Looks like I am calling it quits too. Nite team. I need some Stewart, KO and Rachel tomorrow. I have no idea what the hell Bush has been doing for the last couple weeks and it scares me a lot.

Yikes Carl! You live in the best city ever, where you can have anything delivered to your door & you're sheltered?

It's overused as a quote but: "Life is a banquet and most of those poor suckers are starving to death!". Love Auntie Mame (Rosalind Russell version, not that awful thing with Lucille Ball).
'Night, my friends....

Bob, you and Lee seem as if you are good people, but I must write that the radio show that you guys did a few hours ago was worse than worthless to me.

MG, I'm reasonably certain that you didn't need to write that unless there was some actual constructive criticism there.

I thought it was interesting, and helpful - it certainly helps to think about financing a creative career by having diverse income sources - preferably all within your sphere of interest... and it is helpful to think that one isn't doing something wrong (or failing) if one isn't making all their money in one particular avenue of creativity.

My question to Lee and Bob, in light of their discourse is - how DO you measure success in creative fields if revenue is not necessarily the measure?

QT