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[The Lone Liberal]

This summer has worn out its welcome. Everything is tired of the hot, dry monotonous weather. Time for cool and wet.

I have been to Maine and as of yet have not seen a puffin.

Did anyone else every go to the Hungry I in San Francisco? I saw the Smother Brothers. Before we leave Frisco, I wonder if good jazz is still played at the Top of the Mark? Or, is there still a Top of the Mark?

Trout fishing, something I have not done in awhile and just now thinking about it would like to be on a stream in the high country. Flies only. I have never fished the Keys would like to do that someday.

Why doesn’t the rest of the world love grits and red-eye gravy?

Best Book read in awhile: Fiction --- Idiots in the Machine. Non-Fiction --- The Big Lies.

Call me a purist but it should be the Baltimore Colts, LA Rams, Oakland Raiders, St. Louis Cardinals. And, most of all it should be the Brooklyn Dodgers.

The desert outside of Taos in the moonlight is super.

Wouldn’t you know Mars is the closest to the earth than it has been in 60,000 and its cloudy outside. Not going to rain, but overcast, shit.

Why is it that about the time a pair of Levis gets broken in just right, that hole appears at the upper inside edge of the rear pocket.

While thinking about clothing, where to hell are all those mates to the unmatched socks I have? I am pretty sure they can not leave the house under their own steam. Is there such a thing a cat burglar that specializes in just one sock.

What is best music to listen to while watching the white nighttime breakers ride in out of the darkness.

More thoughts but this will do.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

1. Wow. You been reading my mind or something?

Damn.

[Fixated]

2. ...

Screw you, this summer has been terribly short. I don't WANNA go to school!

[greatauntoftriplets]

3. My answers.

This summer has worn out its welcome. Everything is tired of the hot, dry monotonous weather. Time for cool and wet.

Answer: Chicago has been mostly cool, though dry. I dread the end of summer.

I have been to Maine and as of yet have not seen a puffin.

Answer: I have been to Maine and other parts north, and never have seen a puffin either.

Did anyone else every go to the Hungry I in San Francisco? I saw the Smother Brothers. Before we leave Frisco, I wonder if good jazz is still played at the Top of the Mark? Or, is there still a Top of the Mark?

Answer: Nope.

Trout fishing, something I have not done in awhile and just now thinking about it would like to be on a stream in the high country. Flies only. I have never fished the Keys would like to do that someday.

Answer: Fish are slimy. Yecchh.

Why doesn’t the rest of the world love grits and red-eye gravy?

I am a nawtherner. Do not like grits and what ta hell is red-eye gravy? Does it have red eyes in it? EEEKKK!

Best Book read in awhile: Fiction --- Idiots in the Machine. Non-Fiction --- The Big Lies.

Answer: Best fiction = the Chicago Tribune. Non fiction is a book I am reading called Black '47.

Call me a purist but it should be the Baltimore Colts, LA Rams, Oakland Raiders, St. Louis Cardinals. And, most of all it should be the Brooklyn Dodgers.

Dodgers left Brooklyn? When?????

The desert outside of Taos in the moonlight is super.

I love the ocean, need water. Not big on desert, and I have been to the Sahara.

Wouldn’t you know Mars is the closest to the earth than it has been in 60,000 and its cloudy outside. Not going to rain, but overcast, shit.

Answer: Chicago is clear, but too many city lights.

Why is it that about the time a pair of Levis gets broken in just right, that hole appears at the upper inside edge of the rear pocket.

Answer: My jeans tend to go in the crotch before the upper inside edge of the rear pocket. How DO you sit???

While thinking about clothing, where to hell are all those mates to the unmatched socks I have? I am pretty sure they can not leave the house under their own steam. Is there such a thing a cat burglar that specializes in just one sock.

Answer: Doesn't happen to mine. :shrug:

What is best music to listen to while watching the white nighttime breakers ride in out of the darkness.

Answer: Ravel's Bolero goes with anything and everything. Also La Mer.

More thoughts but this will do.

[The Lone Liberal]

5. Answer: Fish are slimy. Yecchh.

It isn’t so much landing a trout, which is fun, it is being on a cold stream and trying to fathom where that trout is waiting and then presenting the fly in such a way that you can get him or her to rise up and take it. I have started at day break and find myself noticing the lengthening shadows as the sun goes down and wonder where the day went.

[greatauntoftriplets]

7. Ah, a sort of pissing contest....

...between you and a fish. LOL. I am much averse to cold water, living in what is essentially a cold climate on the shores of a great lake that doesn't warm up enough to let me put my bod in it. LOL.

[ScreamingMeemie]

4. ...and lest we forget, the Milwaukee Braves.

I love grits...

Way of the Peaceful Warrior does it for me every time.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

6. Or for that matter, the Philadelphia/Kansas City A's

[northofdenali]

8. My summers are way too short to wear out their welcome.

Some leaves are starting to turn, and the mornings are cool and occasionally frosty.

I've never been to Maine, but I've seen hundreds of puffins. They are comical, and somewhat awesome. Got pretty cold doing it, too, even though Southwest is generally warmer than the Interior.

I was in San Francisco once, in 1969. I never ate out anywhere, was there for summer stock theater, and was awed by the residents.

Fishing for Dolly Varden and Rainbows is a local obsession. I go very rarely, because it's mostly catch-and-release and during the summer, when I'm on the bike.

The mates to your socks are in my dryer. And vice versa.

And I LOVE grits and red-eye gravy but you can't get Smithfield ham here so why bother?

The Northern Lights are supposed to be very active this weekend, and it's completely cloudy and raining. Shit. Double shit.

Thanks for the thought-links, LL - fun!

[Interrobang]

9. If red-eye gravy is anything like my mom's red-eye stew...

I'm not sure I would want to put it on grits... Then again, I rank grits as being right up there along with mock kishkes and pho with tripe and tendon in it as Something Other People Eat and Enjoy, for Unfathomable Reasons. :)

I have the same problem with my socks. Do you ever have spare socks that you can't trace and don't remember buying or getting from someone just *show up* amongst your socks? If so, you probably have some of mine, and I probably have some of yours. Or didn't you know there's a Pocket Universe somewhere between here and 90 degrees from here where all the Bad Socks go... Then they can just pop out again any time they feel like causing trouble. I have a bag of singleton socks that I keep in my closet. Mates for some of them (not always the same few pairs, either) seem to show up at random and various intervals...

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

10. That all depends on the space-time contiunium and the

wrinkles in time that occur in a curved-space model of the universe. I have missing socks that should be showing any time now. Some have been missing for 30 years or so. Some departed last week, it appears. I eagerly await their arrival.

[Don_G]

11. Grits?

Ugghhh....

Why did Fried Green Tomatoes disappear off the menu of every restaurant I used to frequent?

Why did Levi's go the way of Wal-Mart and decide to sell cheap, thin work jeans?

Why do washing machines and/or clothes dryers isolate one sock from a load of landury and throw it into a paralell universe---never to be found again?

How come you can't buy decent Buttermilk anywhere in the United States anymore?

On Edit: You think Skinner has a missing sock avatar?