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ryan adams has a new (at least on spotify) this week - "no shadow" - 3 songs, could be from 3 different artists.(and, googling for a link tells me - b. Jan 15, 20:25 1
- while I'm at it, I quite like the ludacris/jason aldean "burning bridges" but it's on my list of songs I can't bring myself to listen to when driving. - b. Jan 15, 20:38
Whoa. Week 2 of Empire went up 500k viewers and up .2 demo. How rare is that nowadays. -- nm - MDH Jan 15, 20:23 7
- Huh. Co-created by Lee Daniels -- nm - con_carne Jan 15, 20:35 1
  - you must not watch anything on fox? so.many.ads. -- nm - b. Jan 15, 20:41
- Is the second ep better? First ep was promising but too soapy, whatever, I gave up 20 minures in. Loved the music. -- nm - tobor.2 Jan 15, 20:32 4
  - The commercials looked like an amazing soap opera drama, I'd totally be in. -- nm - ty97 Jan 15, 20:37
  - Hah. On Wikipedia, the genre actually says "Soap opera, Musical" -- nm - con_carne Jan 15, 20:36 1
    - Ah, they went a little overboard in the pilot on the soap. -- nm - tobor.2 Jan 15, 20:38
  - I don't watch it. -- nm - MDH Jan 15, 20:34
the Green Bay Packers' locker room is way into Settlers of Catan. -- (link) - Reagen Jan 15, 20:19
I don't use it enough to justify keeping SiriusXM after the free preview ends, but I must admit I will miss First Wave. -- nm - Dano Jan 15, 20:14 2
- Kim put you up to this, didn't she? -- nm - David, Level 31 Warlock Jan 15, 20:39
- you may want to check out some playlists with similar songs. nm but: -- (link) - b. Jan 15, 20:18
I think I found just the right self portrait to replace my fishing one ... -- (link) - Beryllium Jan 15, 20:12
Wisconsin radio station bans music by seattle bands, local radio stations want to do the same but can't think of any POLL. name a wisconsin band - zeitgeist Jan 15, 19:53 12
- Paul Cebar and the Milwaukeeans -- nm - tobor.2 Jan 15, 20:33
- Seattle banned cheese -- nm - budice Jan 15, 20:00
- garbage, violent femmes. -- nm - b. Jan 15, 19:56 1
  - (I should say I only know those because I had a friend from there and this came up.) -- nm - b. Jan 15, 20:01
- Wiki list -- (link) - TWuG Jan 15, 19:56 7
  - I don't know how, but I had forgotten the origin of bon iver's naming. -- nm - b. Jan 15, 20:00 2
    - I want to make a fantasy basketball team just so I can name it Bon Iverson. -- nm - Tim Jan 15, 20:01 1
      - I always think of him when I see this website, and it gives me pause. nm but: -- (link) - b. Jan 15, 20:04
  - Names I recognize: Bon Iver, Garbage, Timbuk3, Violent Femmes -- nm - TWuG Jan 15, 19:59 3
    - You know the BoDeans if you ever watched Party of Five. -- nm - Reagen Jan 15, 20:00 2
      - Never watched it. -- nm - TWuG Jan 15, 20:03 1
        
        they wrote the theme song, which was also pretty unavoidable -- (link) - Reagen Jan 15, 20:05 [youtube]
Adventures of Nick in Vegas: - ralph wiggum Jan 15, 19:21 13
- *snork* he gets points for honesty. - Mel Profit Jan 15, 20:19
- He's gonna marry the first woman... -- nm - budice Jan 15, 19:26
- so he falls on the Upton side of the debate, not the Kardashian. good for him. -- nm - Reagen Jan 15, 19:25 9
  - Heh. Maybe that was the distinction. Boobies are pretty magic. nm - ralph wiggum Jan 15, 19:30 7
    - as an aside, you reminded me of how much I'm amused by how often we're getting "but I *want* to [x]" as an excuse lately - Reagen Jan 15, 19:34 4
      - It's particularly great when "I want to" concerns something you have no control over. "I know you want Sprite, but the airplane doesn't have any. - ralph wiggum Jan 15, 19:37 3
        
        further moments in child irrationality - Reagen Jan 15, 19:43 2
        
        WHY DO YOU HATE CHRISTMAS??? -- nm - David, Level 31 Warlock Jan 15, 19:50
        
        yep, Santa's going to be out on the streets. -- nm - Max Jan 15, 19:44
    - Boobs man for sure. -- nm - budice Jan 15, 19:34
    - agreed. -- nm - mafic Jan 15, 19:32
  - Lol -- nm - Epiphany Jan 15, 19:27
- ha! -- nm - b. Jan 15, 19:24
Great googily moogily, Aubrey Plaza -- nm - prayformojo Jan 15, 19:20 1
- I'm sayin'. -- nm - Reagen Jan 15, 19:21
Kingsman is just an odd movie. I don't know what to rate it right now... -- nm - Andie Jan 15, 19:13 2
- That's the spy one, right? -- nm - Beryllium Jan 15, 19:19 1
  - Yes. When you remember it is based on a graphic novel, it makes more sense. -- nm - Andie Jan 15, 19:20
The Guest was not what I was expecting at all but it was pretty great. -- nm - Dano Jan 15, 19:13
hmmm... so I'm going to Ethiopia next month, and I'm looking at going to a lava lake in a fairly remote part. - mafic Jan 15, 19:06 16
- you have to buy a chocolate opal or 3. they come from there and are as beautiful as scarce -- (link) - Peglegpete Jan 15, 19:23 6
  - Pretty -- nm - Epiphany Jan 15, 19:26 2
    - the Travel Channel had a show on last year called Gem Hunters. that is where I saw the stones. some of the eps. are on youtube. -- nm - Peglegpete Jan 15, 19:43 1
      - here it is. they run it too fast and everyone talks like minnie mouse :) -- (link) - Peglegpete Jan 15, 19:49 [youtube]
  - that's really cool. I've never heard of those. I wonder if they're actually opal (like chemically). -- nm - mafic Jan 15, 19:26 2
    - yes, and only found in Etheopia -- nm - Peglegpete Jan 15, 19:27 1
      - (also cool because most opal is sedimentary, and these are apparently volcanic) -- nm - mafic Jan 15, 19:32
- If I had a dollar for every friend that went to a lava lake in remote Ethiopia..... -- nm - ty97 Jan 15, 19:14 8
  - It is just so commercial now. -- nm - Andie Jan 15, 19:15 7
    - well, it used to be helicopter only, but there's a road that goes kind of not too far away now. -- nm - mafic Jan 15, 19:34 1
      - (though apparently getting there still involves camels). -- nm - mafic Jan 15, 19:35
    - it used to be about the *lava*. -- nm - Reagen Jan 15, 19:21
    - Actually, the direct flights that have started from Toronto are pretty cheap. -- nm - Roger More Jan 15, 19:18 1
      - Andie does seem like someone who likes scouts, hmm. -- nm - b. Jan 15, 19:19
    - Ever since the Starbucks opened. -- nm - Dano Jan 15, 19:16
    - and so 2014! -- nm - b. Jan 15, 19:16
PSA: Critics Choice Awards on A&E now...spoils.. - budice Jan 15, 18:30
So my ex just gave me a lice check. So yeah. That happened. - Mop Jan 15, 18:06 30
- so wait...she checked you for lice or she gave you a check for lice so you can buy medicine? -- nm - Remlik Jan 15, 19:50 2
  - See? It's necessary. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 15, 20:26
  - I can't bring myself to link to what I want to, so I'll let you choose one. nm but: -- (link) - b. Jan 15, 19:54
- I don't think I mentioned this here, but we had that in the fall. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 15, 19:38
- she is an awful parent for giving lice to your kids :) -- nm - Peglegpete Jan 15, 18:39
- they're a scourge over here. my friends with primary school-aged children are constantly dealing with it. -- nm - mafic Jan 15, 18:28 4
  - I got an email from Mr Wigs after he and Nick got to the US: "You may want to check your hair. The Boy has lice." - ralph wiggum Jan 15, 18:57 3
    - yeah, some dirty French backpackers at my first house in Australia imported some bedbugs. - mafic Jan 15, 19:03 2
      - Bed bugs are making a huge come back in the hotel industry -- nm - Epiphany Jan 15, 19:35 1
        
        so gross. -- nm - mafic Jan 15, 19:36
- Butch up, Mop. -- nm - David, Level 31 Warlock Jan 15, 18:25
- This is why I rarely wash my hair. Lice love clean hair, they hate natural oil -- nm - CQ Jan 15, 18:24 15
  - Yes. This is why. -- nm - Mop Jan 15, 20:46
  - ancient times they didn't bathe much...why English judges wear the wigs, that's what they wore when they invented the courts -- nm - zeitgeist roaming the s5 galaxy Jan 15, 18:45 1
    - CQ in a barrister wig redeems this entire thread -- nm - con_carne Jan 15, 18:46
  - sorry for the increase in your shampoo budget, but that's a myth. they don't prefer or not prefer either way. -- nm - b. Jan 15, 18:28 11
    - Who shampoos their hair every day? I use conditioner every time I bathe, but I shampoo maybe once - CQ Jan 15, 18:39 10
      - Every day. Anti dandruff. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 15, 19:39
      - maybe 4 times/week for me. the girl is maybe once every 4-8 weeks. -- nm - mafic Jan 15, 18:52
      - I and many, many others do; but I know not everyone does. (I was teasing, I trusted you're clean. I mean, c'mon, outdoor showers!) -- nm - b. Jan 15, 18:44
      - You condition every day but wash every two weeks? You must have some... unusual hair. - Ultron Jan 15, 18:42 6
        
        it's a thing for some people - conditioner only/ "no 'poo"/etc. - b. Jan 15, 18:47
        
        I condition every time I bathe, not every day. jeez -- nm - CQ Jan 15, 18:46 4
        
        "twice a year, whether I need it or not!" -- nm - mafic Jan 15, 19:04 1
        
        who are you, the Queen? -- nm - Reagen Jan 15, 19:26
        
        ::suppresses first world thoughts:: -- nm - b. Jan 15, 18:48 1
        
        Heh -- nm - Epiphany Jan 15, 18:57
- yikes! -- nm - Remlik Jan 15, 18:20
- shared brush vs. comb, maybe? in any case, ick and poor y'all. suds away! -- nm - b. Jan 15, 18:13
- Girls have cooties? -- nm - Ultron Jan 15, 18:11
Question: Is this a cool photo? -- (link) - Beryllium Jan 15, 17:51 [flickr] 8
- Heh. Just updated the white balance (literally cooling it down ...) -- nm - Beryllium Jan 15, 17:55 7
  - cool? notsomuch. kind of interesting? sure. -- nm - b. Jan 15, 18:00 6
    - ah, fair enough. I just liked the blueness of the interior light against the dark/yellow outside - Beryllium Jan 15, 18:02 5
      - before reading your im, I was going to suggest it might have been a good idea. :) - - b. Jan 15, 18:08
      - Yeah the colors are good (classic teal and orange!) but there's too much uninteresting things in the frame IMO -- (link) - Guigue Jan 15, 18:08 3
        
        OK, I replaced it with an edit. The filename is literally "overprocessed.jpg". :-) -- nm - Beryllium Jan 15, 18:35 1
        
        :P -- nm - Guigue Jan 15, 19:04
        
        this -- nm - Ultron Jan 15, 18:13
Joni Ernst will deliver the GOP response to the State of the Union -- (link) - amoxy Jan 15, 17:50 1
- Don't blame me, I voted for Kang! -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Jan 15, 18:04
NFL coolness -- (link) - Ultron Jan 15, 17:41 6
- sigh. -- nm - b. Jan 15, 17:49 5
  - b! -- (link) - budice Jan 15, 17:53 4
    - :D! - b. Jan 15, 17:58 3
      - And now the Niners have Ron Jeremy as a coach! -- nm - Ultron Jan 15, 18:12 2
        
        Funny cause it's true -- nm - Epiphany Jan 15, 18:58
        
        not cool, man, planting that image! *pause* oo, interesting thought - dear broncos, please pick the best possible coach, but also consider the - b. Jan 15, 18:15
The entire principal cast of Zombieland now has Oscar noms. -- nm - Ultron Jan 15, 17:34 4
- And yet not for their best movie... - Cuzzin Todd Jan 15, 17:38 3
  - Agreed with the IM -- nm - Beryllium Jan 15, 17:51 2
    - spoils . . . - call me Ishmael Jan 15, 18:03 1
      - oops . . . correction . . . - call me Ishmael Jan 15, 18:04
Kartemquin got snubbed again. -- nm - tobor.2 Jan 15, 17:24
Surprising nobody, "Fantastic Four Movie “A Mess”, Goes To Reshoot, Louisiana Sets Being Rebuilt?" -- (link) - Ultron Jan 15, 17:20
WWE was expecting to hold SummerSlam in the Izod Center and, uh, whoops. -- (link) - Tim Jan 15, 16:52 12
- "In addition, a multibillion-dollar megamall and entertainment center, American Dream, is being constructed" Yeah...... - ty97 Jan 15, 18:07 1
  - Building a Dusty Rhoads takes times. -- nm - Qale Jan 15, 23:20
- nets mets jets ... new york could have so many more *ets teams. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 15, 16:57 9
  - OTBETS -- nm - zeitgeist roaming the s5 galaxy Jan 15, 17:43
  - (For those who didn't follow that gear shift - Izod hosted the NY Nets until they became the Brooklyn Nets) -- nm - Beryllium Jan 15, 17:12 2
    - *NJ Nets* - Krusty Jan 15, 22:28 1
      - :) -- nm - Beryllium Jan 15, 23:46
  - "Here are some words that rhyme with Cory" -- nm - Reagen Jan 15, 17:00 4
    - hoary, glory, perfunctory -- nm - Beryllium Jan 15, 17:02 3
      - wary, gory, oratory -- nm - Beryllium Jan 15, 17:03 2
        
        dory, tory, memento mori -- nm - Beryllium Jan 15, 17:06 1
        
        llama llama duck - Beryllium Jan 15, 17:10
Speaking of cooking, I just used a food processor for the first time - con_carne Jan 15, 16:46 1
- yum! -- nm - b. Jan 15, 16:52
Crash Davis News: Bigfoot spotted in Russia -- (link) - Remlik Jan 15, 16:45 2
- by Sarah Palin? -- nm - DaneDukeNuuk Jan 15, 17:20 1
  - I doubt it, not even Putin gets that drunk -- nm - zeitgeist roaming the s5 galaxy Jan 15, 18:05
Maybe the Lego Movie was too "commercial"? -- nm - tobor.2 Jan 15, 16:45 2
- best product placement ever -- nm - zeitgeist roaming the s5 galaxy Jan 15, 18:06 1
  - Transformers was robbed! -- nm - Mop Jan 15, 18:07
This next test may involve trace amounts of time travel. - Tim Jan 15, 16:29 10
- Tim, [depending on the spice levels] you made a spaghetti sauce on B2 -- nm - Peglegpete Jan 15, 16:39 8
  - or it could be a goulash or other very similar things with different names. - b. Jan 15, 16:51 7
    - It was decent, I tried some on a bun like a sloppy joe and it was just fine. - Tim Jan 15, 17:01 2
      - ^5! :) - -- nm - b. Jan 15, 17:02
      - It's a Sloppier Joe, ;) -- nm - tobor.2 Jan 15, 17:01
    - a goulash would be more soup like - Reagen Jan 15, 16:53 3
      - It can be a soup of a stew. Depending on how thick you make it. -- nm - tobor.2 Jan 15, 17:01
      - maybe traditionally; but I've seen tv-made versions and photos accompanying recipes, esp. with ground meat, where they're much thicker.. - b. Jan 15, 17:00 1
        
        And something like that can be served over anything - potato, rice, pasta, quinoa, toast...whatever -- nm - Meg Jan 15, 17:03
- You could also try it with shallots next time. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 15, 16:30
Follow up on the story of the Canadian man looking for a travel companion with a very specific name. -- (link) - Mop Jan 15, 16:27
Judging from the posts on B2, congratulations Slacker men... and women! -- nm - Mop Jan 15, 16:25
Raw footage from the Belgium raids. Fire and gunshots. -- (link) - Mop Jan 15, 16:24

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