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Eve of the Big Day [message #35796]

Mon, 01 November 2010 21:39

b_twin_1
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The Big Day approaches....

I've got a plan so cunning you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel ~ Blackadder

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Re: Eve of the Big Day [message #35801 is a reply to message #35796 ]

Mon, 01 November 2010 22:29

mgw1979
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My sympathies on the indoors downpour - BTDT, don't ever want to do it again.

But if having a cold made me sound like Paul Robeson, it would be worth feeling lousy!

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Mon, 01 November 2010 23:03

Maren
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Go look at some pictures from yesterday's rally. Guaranteed to make you feel better. (Even though it won't change the outcome of the election.) They are admittedly chock full of internet memes and Stewart/Colbert-centric jokes, so if there's something you don't get, that's probably why. Anything about bears is a Colbert reference--he's afraid of them, OK?

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Re: Eve of the Big Day [message #35804 is a reply to message #35803 ]

Mon, 01 November 2010 23:08

mgw1979
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And it's worth listening to Jon Stewart's serious message at the end. Everyone I know who was at the Rally for Sanity said it was an amazing event. I was impressed by the range of people there - ages ranging from friends of my son to friends of my mother, people from both parties (fewer Republicans, but there were some there), people from far away... local friends weren't able to make it because the lines for the subways were too long!

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Re: Eve of the Big Day [message #35808 is a reply to message #35796 ]

Tue, 02 November 2010 00:00

librarykat
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Indoors downpour - yecchh, it happened to us, Christmas of 2002. In a rented home. Not our fault, but the landlord never returned our deposit, probably because of this. The kitchen ceiling was ruined. Christmas Day. The day of the snowstorm that piled the white stuff up the four steps to the top of the back porch and 18 inches up the door. The day I had to shovel the ungleblarging stuff by myself so we could get out of our driveway and creep our way to church so my Vicar hubby could preach. Counts as one of the worst days of my life so far. Plumbing disasters tend to be horrendous anyway.

And my beautiful copy of Pegasus showed up on my doorstep a day early, thanks to Amazon. Yay!

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Re: Eve of the Big Day [message #35810 is a reply to message #35796 ]

Tue, 02 November 2010 00:12

EMoon
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Politics...yes. Words, words, words (edited for polite consumption.) I was so proud...and proud of my little central Texas Dem precinct caucus which sent a majority of reps to the county for Obama. And then...Tea-baggers.

Publication date...yes, it's unfair to have your book coming out the same day as an election that's been heralded with all the wrong kind of excitement. I'm hoping that many many people choose to buy a good book after voting (AFTER voting) and that the good book is PEGASUS.

Leaks...sympathy on leaks.

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Re: Eve of the Big Day [message #35815 is a reply to message #35796 ]

Tue, 02 November 2010 03:06

CathyR
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I did get to ring the six to bob minor, which is a first, and I get to preen about it a little ... my pace-setting authority as biggest bell.

Smile

Glad this went well - but shame on the bellringing gods for denying you the Stedman and the Abbey ...

Thank goodness for Jon Stewart; are there *enough* sane Americans out there do you think?

Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly.

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Re: Eve of the Big Day [message #35816 is a reply to message #35796 ]

Tue, 02 November 2010 03:50

L.R.K.
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Jon Stewart. I watched a video of the Moment of Sincerity:

http://www.deadline.com/2010/10/video-highlights-from-stewar t-and-colberts-rally-to-restore-sanity-andor-fear/

I thought it was absolutely lovely. I know it is about Americans for Americans primarily, but I thought it was a universal message that everyone can take to heart. It made me feel good about the human race, it was so (to me) moving and filled with wisdom.

(And then I read the comments. Hint: if you want to retain the warm, fuzzy feelings that fill you after having heard the speech: don't.)

[Updated on: Tue, 02 November 2010 03:51]

Why, I feel all thin, sort of stretched, if you know what I mean, like butter that has been scraped over too much bread.

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Re: Eve of the Big Day [message #35818 is a reply to message #35796 ]

Tue, 02 November 2010 06:24

Inkwell
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Plumbing leaks, and their aftermath, are awful. My sympathies.

What can one say about the Tea Party without completely failing to channel the spirit of Pollyanna?

I am failing to channel Pollyanna in any case, whenever I think about the recent developments in British politics, which is to say: often. In terms of the changes to our social contract, we now seem to be heading towards America more rapidly than at any time in the last 30 years. I'm having to think what I may have to do about this at a personal level, because I am one of the many losers. I feel awful even thinking this, but emigration beckons...

Bright spot on the horizon...Pegasus!

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Re: Eve of the Big Day [message #35819 is a reply to message #35796 ]

Tue, 02 November 2010 06:32

jmeadows
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OMC OMC OMC IT'S PEGASUS DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Smooshes!

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Re: Eve of the Big Day [message #35821 is a reply to message #35796 ]

Tue, 02 November 2010 07:03

tassiegal
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If Colin is in Tasmania if you tell me North or South I can hunt him down for you......

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Tue, 02 November 2010 07:09

CathyR
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jmeadows wrote on Tue, 02 November 2010 10:32

OMC OMC OMC IT'S PEGASUS DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh, is it? I hadn't noticed. Wink

Something you've been looking forward to, then .....

Very Happy

Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly.

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Tue, 02 November 2010 07:10

jmeadows
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CathyR wrote on Tue, 02 November 2010 07:09

Oh, is it? I hadn't noticed. Wink

Something you've been looking forward to, then .....

Very Happy

Well I heard something about it...

Smooshes!

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Re: Eve of the Big Day [message #35824 is a reply to message #35796 ]

Tue, 02 November 2010 07:12

tassiegal
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Oh, and my sympathies about the flood. Done it 3 times in the last couple of years, each time from the bathtub. I was jet lagged each time. Once meant I had to get the back wall of the kitchen repainted. Another time was the ceiling in the dining room. The first time the lino in the bathroom had to be replaced. I am just waiting for the bath tub to fall through the floor into the kitchen as the joists have rotted....

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Re: Eve of the Big Day [message #35826 is a reply to message #35796 ]

Tue, 02 November 2010 08:10

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I wish I could have been at the Sanity Rally. Apparently it destroyed public transit efficiency in some areas for hours, and beat attendance for Glenn Beck's rally by many thousands. I love Jon Stewart.

Well, I'm off to vote. Wish me luck, kids!

_{"The time is always right to do what's right."--MLK Jr.}

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Re: Eve of the Big Day [message #35827 is a reply to message #35826 ]

Tue, 02 November 2010 08:54

anne_d
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Congratulations, it's Pegasus Day!!!

Today, I vote, and then... I haunt the mailbox for my package containing Pegasus and that Eliza Carthy & Norma Waterson CD.

Robin, at least Christine O'Donnell is not a witch. She said so herself. *eyeroll* Perhaps she's a vampire. She certainly had the pallid with black dress thing going in that video. *eyeroll again*

I am, however, sorry to note that there are even worse candidates out there. Seriously.

I'd better go slay the usefuls, once I figure out what to do first.

[Updated on: Tue, 02 November 2010 08:54]

"The creative urge can come out in any form: in embroidery, in... cooking, in painting, drawing and sculpture, in composing music, as well as in writing books and stories... the artist's inner satisfaction was probably much the same." ~ Agatha Christie

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Re: Eve of the Big Day [message #35828 is a reply to message #35827 ]

Tue, 02 November 2010 09:22

CathyR
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anne_d wrote on Tue, 02 November 2010 12:54

I am, however, sorry to note that there are even worse candidates out there. Seriously.

Including the one who believes that scientists have bred mice with fully functioning human brains! Or is that her as well? How on earth do people "believe" all this stuff!? That's what boggles my mind.

Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly.

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Re: Eve of the Big Day [message #35829 is a reply to message #35828 ]

Tue, 02 November 2010 09:54

anne_d
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CathyR wrote on Tue, 02 November 2010 06:22

anne_d wrote on Tue, 02 November 2010 12:54

I am, however, sorry to note that there are even worse candidates out there. Seriously.

Actually, yes, that's O'Donnell.

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Re: Eve of the Big Day [message #35830 is a reply to message #35828 ]

Tue, 02 November 2010 10:09

Maren
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CathyR wrote on Tue, 02 November 2010 09:22

anne_d wrote on Tue, 02 November 2010 12:54

I am, however, sorry to note that there are even worse candidates out there. Seriously.

That was indeed her. Smile

anne_d, did you see this?

ETA: Oops, should have refreshed before replying.

[Updated on: Tue, 02 November 2010 10:10]

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Re: Eve of the Big Day [message #35833 is a reply to message #35824 ]

Tue, 02 November 2010 11:13

mgw1979
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tassiegal wrote on Tue, 02 November 2010 07:12

Oh, and my sympathies about the flood. Done it 3 times in the last couple of years, each time from the bathtub.

My year of floods were due to the upstairs toilet - yech!

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Re: Eve of the Big Day [message #35835 is a reply to message #35796 ]

Tue, 02 November 2010 11:23

Honey_Bee
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I got my vote in early because I can't leave work till 5 and I know the polls are going to packed at that time. I am thankfully (as far as I know) not in a state that has issues with early voting tampering.
I wish I could have gone to the rally as well. I just fear that as inspiring as it may have been, it won't be enough to swing any major elections back to the sanity side.
Though I may not mind standing in those poll lines today if I had Pegasus to keep me company! Yay Pegasus day!

_{"All knowledge is worth having."}

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Re: Eve of the Big Day [message #35841 is a reply to message #35796 ]

Tue, 02 November 2010 12:28

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It's PEGASUS Day, Calloo Callay!!!

Very Happy

_{"Never let a computer know you're in a hurry."}

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Re: Eve of the Big Day [message #35842 is a reply to message #35796 ]

Tue, 02 November 2010 12:33

Ford of Rivendell
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Yay. Pegasus Day. I really wish my "local" bookstore wasn't 40 miles away!! I can't wait to get a copy and being the read. I'm telling everybody, even told some people at my art show this past weekend.

Tonight there might be a meteor shower from passing Comet Hartley 2. They are calling them the Hartley-ids, puhlease....I think they should be called something to do with Pegasus release; like the Pegasus-ids or Pegasi or something for more interesting.

Try to see some, it'll be a wonderful way to end this important day. It's how I started the day actually. Took pics of comet, Adromeda Galaxy, Orion, Orion Nebula, and of course constellation Pegasus.

http://spaceweather.com/

http://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/comet-hartley-2-mig ht-be-2010s-brightest-comet

http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2010/15 oct_epoxi/

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Re: Eve of the Big Day [message #35896 is a reply to message #35796 ]

Wed, 03 November 2010 02:21

Diane in MN
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Hurrah for PEGASUS DAY!

A much happier thing to think about than the election. It is neck and neck for governor in my state, after eight years of a Republican governor that's left us in an expurgated mess, and apparently the Republicans have the House and we'll now have the expurgated Boehner shooting off his mouth as Speaker. But O'Donnell lost in Delaware and Fiorina and Whitman have both apparently lost in California, so it's not entirely bad news. Not entirely.

I hope whatever bad fairy has been visiting Peter bombs off to afflict someone else. I can think of a few folks who could use a visit.

_{"The point of books is to have way too many but to always feel you never have enough . . . " Louise Erdrich}

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Re: Eve of the Big Day [message #36090 is a reply to message #35801 ]

Sat, 06 November 2010 02:03

Marina
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At point in my life where I had either a chest cold or bronchitis, my lower singing range deepened to the point where I could reproduce Edith Piaf singing the French words of the theme to Exodus.

Can't get there any more, and I seldom get chest colds or bronchitis--just URIs.

A. Marina Fournier
❦If you want a golden rule that will fit everything, this is it: Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful ❧ William Morris❦

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Sat, 06 November 2010 02:16

Marina
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LOVED that video! Thanks for sharing it here. My husband will love it, too.

Christine O'Donnell wouldn't recognize a witch that wasn't dressed in Goth attire. She managed to make an utter fool of herself, with or without Palin's assistance.

There were several pagans (and a few heathens) running for office across the US. None of them had the sterotypical "look".

I'm a Wiccan-style witch, but rarely wear a tall, pointy hat, not being the Emperor of a Dyin' Race. I do like hats, but only two of them are tall & pointy.

A. Marina Fournier
❦If you want a golden rule that will fit everything, this is it: Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful ❧ William Morris❦

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Re: Eve of the Big Day [message #36180 is a reply to message #35796 ]

Mon, 08 November 2010 01:47

Marina
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Robin said:

** I tweeted about driving around for fifty minutes last Wednesday in the dark, looking for Brocéliande, where Wild Robert had taken a whim to have his monthly upper-level bell practise.

In 1987, when I had 3 days in Brittany (aka Lesser Britain) by myself, I drove through Paimpont Forest, the small remains of the formerly much larger Brocéliande. I stopped at the village of Paimpont to refesh myself, and then drove towards the town of Elven (I had seen it on a map, and just *had* to go there. I stopped at the sign for the town (I think I took a photo from inside the car), on the way to Vannes via the N166. With the help of some Belgian hitch-hikers I picked up (they worked in a BOOKSTORE!), I found Merlin's Well, aka la Fontaine de Barenton, from which it is said one could blow up great storms, possibly by blowing on/over it. Memory is silent. This was the fault of my Survey of French Literature prof in college (who was also active in Kabuki. In 1970, he was the first non-Japanese to study at the Kabuki Training Program at the National Theatre of Japan). His theatrical training made him wonderful to watch and hear during lectures.

Back to Brittany and Merlin's Well. I admit, I was expecting something fenced and designated a historical landmark. Nope, not in Brittany. It was in a farmer's field, and we walked up a dusty road to find it. Small little bit of a well--rock lined, it was only 3' across. I stayed 10-20 minutes, and then we walked back to the car.

I also visited the alignments of Carnac--likewise, no sign, no fence, no special attention paid to the site. Nearby, I bought petrol at (I kid you not) the Supermarché des Druides. It's a little food&c mart with petrol pumps. If I'd known there was a det of dolmens nearby, I'd have visted there, too.

This is a long way round to saying all of my desktop and laptop computers have been named Brocéliande or Paimpont. The former is all Alan Stivell's fault.

A. Marina Fournier
❦If you want a golden rule that will fit everything, this is it: Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful ❧ William Morris❦

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