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Hows about music instead. Curtis Mayfield - Curtis Live Cut in 1971, this is one of finest live R&B albums ever recorded IMO. Organically funky, gritty, smug. With a Motown legend - the former head of the Impresssions and innovative guitarist Curtis Mayfield, leading the crew. No version of Pusherman on this one, but killer rendetions of Mighty Mighty Spade and Whitey, Stone Junkie, Superfly, Check Out Your Mind, Gypsy Woman, We the People who are Darker than Blue, People Get Ready, If there's a Hell Below We all gonna Go. This is a must in any serious music collection. Get some Curtis into your life baby, you won't regret it.

"Working late blows: The Oval Office After Dark" "Working late blows: My time in the Whitehouse" by M.L. "Working late blows: The Tripp Files"

Is you crazy? We have a big ass pipeline full of oil (BAPFOO) running through town, and a refinery 9 miles down the road (R9MDTR). BAP! Foo, cheap diesel. Nah, Diesel is running about $2.45 now. We're getting screwed. That pic is from Jan '04, when I had no back window in my car and enjoyed my commute with the windows down so the car didn't fill with exhaust. Invigorating. I have a shot of the same sign in June 04 showing temps at 95 or 96.

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Horsehit, son. You might wanna check that again. Scroll down to Fri, Jan 20: http://www.weather.com/weather/monthly/99701?from=tenDay_topnav_undeclared In fact, it was -42F. The HIGH on Fri was only -30F.

Ever changed a flat in those temps? I did. Yesterday. At -40C/-40F. Nice way to start your weekend on a Friday after work.

Campmor had some Nikes on blowout for a long time. About a hundred bucks if they still have em. They work pretty well.

You'll run whatever your Microsuck overlords say you'll run, and you'll learn to like it. Beyotch.

The man is wise beyond his years. Internalize that one chaps, truer words have seldom been spoken.

Modern pharmacology can help.

Glorified paper shuffling masquerading as a career. Negative real wage growth. Countdown to ejection, T-Minus 337.

Deal. Or drink.

He's prolly a See Eye Aye instigator or sumpin.

You might try a search on ID vs bibler or similar. I recall at least one lengthy thread comparing the pro/con of the two.

When I lived in Bicknell, Utah one of the two restaurants in this burg of 300 souls was called the Sunglow . World famous for some pie recipes that sound a little odd at first: Pinto bean pie Pickle pie Buttermilk pie Being one of only two restaurants, and about 300 yards from my couch, I ate there often and while their food was nothing to remember, that pie was amazing. Here's the place: http://www.sunglowpies.com/rest.html

We gots no snow in the SquareBanks. It's extremely thin here and historically the Oct-Jan half of the winter is when we get most of the precip. XC trail conditions are the ultra suck...no new precip in a month and around -20. The Yukon Quest sled dog race (~1000mi) is not far off and the Yukon river hasn't frozen over at the crossing, there is virtually no snow on the leg into Whitehorse nor on the leg out of North Pole. And aren't Texas and OK burning down? What climate change?

Chuck Norris wears Old Spice. For the ladies.

In 2006: The 8'6" Sage XP 5wt with a Ross Evolution and RioGrand WF floating line. In 2007: The pink shoes.

Ya'll sound very stressed out. I recommend taking a deep breath...

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The photo is in New Orleans proper, somewhere on the north end of town around the industrial canal levy, not far south of Lake Ponchatrain. The Lakeview neighborhood, which is a few miles west of this picture looks about the same. Downtown and the Quarter didn't have too much damage (although many high rises were missing lots of glass), I was staying basically next door to the Convention Center, which had been completely cleaned up and transformed into a temporary medical facility. Thanks for heaing down OlyMtnboy. Yes, lots of people working hard, but it seems like there is a serious lack of leadership at the top levels, IMO. Our specific mission was very narrowly defined (temporary roofing) and ran well enough all things considered. All the contractors we were dealing with were living in travel trailers in parking lots of malls, stadiums, etc and many construction workers were living in backpacking tents under the interstates, in parking lots, anywhere they could find really. Jay, yes most buildings in NO suffered mainly wind (and associated fallen trees) and water damage, rather than knock-down destruction like Biloxi/Gulfport. Especially in the western burbs like Kenner, the west bank (Gretna/Algiers etc). However, there are plenty of neighborhoods in NO proper that look like the photo above... Lakeview, the lower 9th, parts of the Garden district are pretty well destroyed. There were lots of bizarre scenes...80ft fishing trawlers in the middle of the highway, barge on top of a school bus, boats impaled on top of wrought iron fences miles from any waterbody, highway on-ramp and overpass completely missing, houses that had floated half way down their block and crashed through the walls of other houses, tons of stray animals, cars that had floated around and come to rest piled on top of each other at weird angles, and a million horrendously stinking refrigerators lining the streets.

Just returned from a month of hurricane relief duty in the Big Easy. It gave a deeper meaning to the Thanksgiving holiday. I can't really convey how dire the situation remains down there. While there is a tremendous amount of work being done every day, the truth is that it will be a very long time before anything is even close to "normal" in the crescent city. And it is truly one of our great unique American cities. Sorry about the pic dimensions, I can't edit them from here.

A White-wino? A rare specimen indeed. In fact, isn't it the native africans who believe the white rhino is an omen of....wait a minute, never mind. Seriously, tighten that fucker up. Get him about three sheets drunk, take him to the rotten porch, smack him around a bit, then toss him under the porch, board it up with new floor planks, voila problem solved. New porch floor and no more jerkoff stepdad. Althought it might start to smell a bit while he decomposes, just toss some lime between the floor boards every now and again.

Here's was a prescient article from last Oct. http://hurricane.lsu.edu/_in_the_news/phillyinquirer100804.htm Alot of our refinery, port, and offshore drilling are right there as well. http://www.theoildrum.com/story/2005/8/26/22637/7757 They are using the Superdome as an emergency shelter. Who knows if that holds up. The NOAA forecast is like the apocalpyse...check this out: MOST OF THE AREA WILL BE UNINHABITABLE FOR WEEKS...PERHAPS LONGER. AT LEAST ONE HALF OF WELL CONSTRUCTED HOMES WILL HAVE ROOF AND WALL FAILURE. ALL GABLED ROOFS WILL FAIL...LEAVING THOSE HOMES SEVERELY DAMAGED OR DESTROYED. THE MAJORITY OF INDUSTRIAL BUILDINGS WILL BECOME NON FUNCTIONAL. PARTIAL TO COMPLETE WALL AND ROOF FAILURE IS EXPECTED. ALL WOOD FRAMED LOW RISING APARTMENT BUILDINGS WILL BE DESTROYED. CONCRETE BLOCK LOW RISE APARTMENTS WILL SUSTAIN MAJOR DAMAGE...INCLUDING SOME WALL AND ROOF FAILURE. HIGH RISE OFFICE AND APARTMENT BUILDINGS WILL SWAY DANGEROUSLY...A FEW TO THE POINT OF TOTAL COLLAPSE. ALL WINDOWS WILL BLOW OUT. AIRBORNE DEBRIS WILL BE WIDESPREAD...AND MAY INCLUDE HEAVY ITEMS SUCH AS HOUSEHOLD APPLIANCES AND EVEN LIGHT VEHICLES. SPORT UTILITY VEHICLES AND LIGHT TRUCKS WILL BE MOVED. THE BLOWN DEBRIS WILL CREATE ADDITIONAL DESTRUCTION. PERSONS...PETS...AND LIVESTOCK EXPOSED TO THE WINDS WILL FACE CERTAIN DEATH IF STRUCK. POWER OUTAGES WILL LAST FOR WEEKS...AS MOST POWER POLES WILL BE DOWN AND TRANSFORMERS DESTROYED. WATER SHORTAGES WILL MAKE HUMAN SUFFERING INCREDIBLE BY MODERN STANDARDS. THE VAST MAJORITY OF NATIVE TREES WILL BE SNAPPED OR UPROOTED. ONLY THE HEARTIEST WILL REMAIN STANDING...BUT BE TOTALLY DEFOLIATED. FEW CROPS WILL REMAIN. LIVESTOCK LEFT EXPOSED TO THE WINDS WILL BE KILLED.