Lt. Mike Stone: This video came in the mail. I don't know how this new fangled gadget works.
Can you set it up Steve?
Inspector Steve Keller: Sure Mike. Where did it come from?
Lt. Mike Stone: I don't know. A concerned citizen mailed it in. The note says it looks like a hostage tape.
Inspector Stever Keller: Is it Patty Hearst?
Lt. Mike Stone: I don't think so. The note said it was an elderly shut-in.
(The Lonely Hearts Murders, The Streets of San Francisco 1973)
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Clever
Steve: Funny, but even after his stroke my father speaks more clearly and makes more sense.
Mike: I hear that, my homie. Good thing Obamacare is about to kick in - she is pure death panel fodder.
What a potato nose on Karl Malden. And he wasn't even a Mick!
Shuddup about his nose. It's a goddam sunburn.
You insect.
LOL!
I stand corrected. Chastened even.
I've got a friend in the SFPD who tells me that they've been able to recover most of the outtakes from that hostage vid.
It's mostly the sunburned lady swatting at empty air shouting stuff like: "The buzzing! Stop that buzzing! Gaah! Insecticide! Insecticide! My kingdom for insecticide!"
After today's screeds over at TOP, I'm done being charitable to those two. Basically stated: We're happy that all the garbage is over there, and we'll throw the poor bastard some money for shits and grins. Ugh.
THe worst part is the weasel wording. It is intended to inflame but also to give deniability later: "Well, I meant it's good all the BAD commenters are over there. We carefully didn't say EVERYONE over there was a bad commenter."
And of course she didn't. She used nuance to imply one thing while giving herself an out. Grrr. Nuance can be useful, but when dealing with people on an interpersonal level about basic human stuff, be clear.
Grrr.
If she would have just shut up and kept her blog moving none of the meltdown would have happened. Move off the contentious topics for a week, do a lot of dog posts, hiking posts, let's-take-a-drive posts, some Penelope Trunk stuff and so on.
You know, like a real newspaper would do. Or dern near any other topical blog. Do you think Kos or Ace get sucked into small-ball pissing contests? Or does the NYT fold up if it gets some angry letters to the editors? Of course not.
Nope. They just couldn't step back an look at the big picture. It was all about her feelings, her wanting to have supplicants at her throne.
Too bad.
Mad Magazine.
The leader set the tone, as they always do no matter the blog, business, platoon, team, etc. It's a basic concept.
Streets of SF was one of my bride's favorite shows, never missed it.
Sounds like the tone is starting to change over at Lem's with more and more commenters showing up and speaking up. Something new is most definitely forming. Rh, the old rooster, is positively loquacious!
Can't think of a better fit for this song, when it comes to runny frosting and SADS "I"s
Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don't think that I can take it
'Cause it took so long to bake it
And I'll never have that recipe again
Oh no, oh no, no, no, oh no
*SADS "i"s*, would be a better fit.
SADS or SIDS?
Perhaps we've been observing the Patient Zero of Sudden Internet Death Syndrome.
When I step back from the
Sorrow, Anger Disappointment & Sighing,
it looks more like
Screw Internet Dogs Syndrome in effect.
The loyal neighborhood pooches who faithfully showed up at the door day after day to sit and chew whatever was offered, were shafted along with the junkyard dogs and strays who pissed on the porch posts and dumped on the treelawn.
Whatever the case, the cake is toast.
Oh no, no, no, Oh, No...it goes back further to this:
The Cake is a Lie
They'll never have that recipe again.
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