SwampD
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The album "Take Five" changed me as a musician. Some of the songs definitely got stuck in my head, often. They still do. Joe Morello was the drummer on that record and he passed away this weekend at 82.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNJbJAjM5Ho
Seriously, can't get it out of my head now.
EDIT: I *KNEW* I had heard that song before:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKUGROEGAX0
The album version on Loch'd and Loaded is obviously a lot cleaner.
Some rockers should really just leave their shirts on.
I do like the song more and more every time I hear it, though.
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NOTICE: These are just observations.
I remember back in the 90's when Clinton decided to tap the strategic oil reserves to ease rising gas prices back then. Republicans balked at it. Then, when gas prices were on the rise again in the last decade, Bush 43 tapped into the same reserves.
They're skyrocketing now, and Obama hasn't done a thing about it.
Thoughts, anyone?
My complaint is your answer. It's just a the news cycle. The price of gas goes up every year at this time to take advantage of the spring breakers traveling. Then it comes back down for a little while. Then it goes back up just before Memorial day all the way past the fourth of July to take advantage of those travelers.
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OK I know I'm basically a bleeding heart liberal at this point, but... I am really bothered by the lobster tanks in the grocery store. All stacked up, filthy water, claws banded together. How cruel and sickening.
Yes, I eat chicken.
Just remember, if you were on the bottom of the ocean, they wouldn't think twice about eating you.
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it's thursday again, already.
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Dammit, just as I figured out how NOT to make the vid title appear automatically, you just had to reply, didn't you, ice-lover?
How's that?
This is actually more entertaining than this Sabres (Sabres'?,Sabre's?) game.
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I hate this winter. In the words of
:EDIT: I didn't want that embedded, necessarily!
:D ..!..
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People who complain about winter. Shut up already. I F#####G love winter. I love every snowflake. I love the short days. I love the slow driving to work. I even like shoveling. The more snow the better. I'm even going to Alaska in two weeks for a hockey tournament. That's right, Alaska in the Wintertime. Summer sucks (not complaining, just stating a fact). If you don't like winter, then move south and enjoy the riveting conversations you will have about granite counter-tops and what kind of wax you use when you get your car detailed.
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Why is there no GD Sabres game tonight? I don't know why but I just don't give a flying fig about the ownership change.
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Schools that close the night before. What happened to waking up at 6AM to the radio alarm and listening for your school's name? My kid misses enough school because she's sick, she doesn't need to miss any more because there might be some snow.
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api twitter asking for my username and password all the time. How do I get rid of this thing? :wallbash:
Stop using twitter.
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Well, IMHO you don't deserve either the snow or the nine reporters. We here in the "Blizzard Capital of the Northeast" can certainly sympathize. Whenever the ol' lake effect machine cranks up, you can bet Jim Cantore will be standing on top of an 18 foot snow pile telling the rest of the country how bad it sucks to be in Buffalo. My condolences...
You just gave me another complaint - The Weather Channel. It has become unwatchable. They've turned it into one of those horrible morning shows filled with a bunch of cackling hags yelling the weather at me. Then they toss to Jim Cantfindastory making a huge deal about a slush-puddle at the corner of Main and 1st, Yourtown, U.S.A. I miss the days when it was just a guy in a flannel shirt in front of a weather map.
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What, did it snow out here or something? I had no idea.
:lol:
Did we get a lot of snow? Absolutely, but did it really deserve NINE reporters out on the street for the local TEAM COVERAGE? They looked like the freakin' Brady Bunch.
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I tried to replicate Bison French Onion Dip. It was not close.
Sour cream, onion powder, garlic powder, chives, salt, pepper, a little sugar, some smoked paprika for the heluvit. What am I missing, besides the onions? :oops:
Also Mike Schopp keeps saying, "So-ewwww." "So-ewwwww, Bulldog, did you watch the game last night?" Really annoying.
Parsley. And swap out cayenne pepper for paprika.
EDIT: Actually, that smoked paprika sounds pretty interesting.
Sorry, I was working so I couldn't elaborate before. I've been perfecting my homemade Bison dip for a few years now. All I use is sour cream, onion powder, onion flakes, onion salt, and parsley. That's it. I don't really know the amounts because I just do it by feel now. Once I got that down I started adding cayenne pepper. I haven't tried it yet, but I'm working on a theory that using a light or lower fat sour cream might make it even better. I'll let you know.
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I tried to replicate Bison French Onion Dip. It was not close.
Sour cream, onion powder, garlic powder, chives, salt, pepper, a little sugar, some smoked paprika for the heluvit. What am I missing, besides the onions? :oops:
Also Mike Schopp keeps saying, "So-ewwww." "So-ewwwww, Bulldog, did you watch the game last night?" Really annoying.
Parsley. And swap out cayenne pepper for paprika.
EDIT: Actually, that smoked paprika sounds pretty interesting.
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:thumbsup: I'll have to try that, I've only made the standard black and/or white, but orange sounds tasty. And you win -- sorry to hear about your daughter.
It happened by accident. All I had was orange Smirnoff. Turns out it's a thing.
And thanks.
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nice rant.
It really does make you feel better,.. oh,.. wait,.. that could be the Orange/Black Russian I'm drinking.
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I hate it when people play Devil's advocate all the time. It's one thing to disagree with someone's opinion or try to present a different point of view, but when you do it at every single flippin' conversation, you're just talking so that everyone knows you're speaking.
Maybe they are actually the Devil and not just his advocate.
I have a complaint -- hardly anyone is complaining today! :nana: Must be d4rksabre is finally healthy again.
You want some complainin', I'll give you some complainin'.
My daughter is sick,.. again,.. I should say still. Only this time it's strep which caused her to have a seizure on Tuesday, then another on Wednesday. Now she's on antibiotics that makes her so crazy that my wife and I just sit and watch her tear our house apart, literally.
Here's another. Because of her health issues, we usually burn through the deductible and max copay of our health insurance by the end of January (after which we pay nothing). Well, this year, my company is being sold. The sale was supposed to take in December, which would have been great; one plan ends, another begins January 1st. Because the sale isn't going through until January (possibly February) I will probably reach my max copay, then start a new plan and start all over again.
I'm guessing that because their lawyers couldn't get their ###### together, it's going to cost me an extra 5 or 6 grand next year.
Oh well, I guess I should just be happy I have a job and health insurance. (did I really just say that? I feel like Winston Smith right before the bullet enters the back of his skull)
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What no one complaining there's no Complaint Thursday thread?
Com'on people STEP UP!! :D
Most of us are married so therefore used to waiting for women.
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I don't mind people for liking cats, but I question anybody's judgement that favors cats over dogs.
Something tells me Darcy owns a cat.
There are only two kinds of cats, Kicking and Throwing.
My complaint, I hate MP3s. It's the first time in the history of recorded music where the predominant medium is worse than the one it took the place of: CDs were better than cassettes were better than albums were better than wax cylinders... Even as a broadcast media they're not as good as what they replaced. FM radio sounds better.
Every time a new device comes out, all they talk about is how many songs it holds. You never hear anything about the quality of those songs. I spend hundreds of hours making sure a CD sounds as good as it possibly can before saying it is finished. It's a little disheartening to know that the only way most people will hear it is as a downloaded MP3 on crappy computer speakers.
I know I've complained about this before, sorry, it won't be the last time.
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Mike Milbury. Why are we subjected to this jackass. He's everywhere. He's on NESN. He's on Versus. He's on TSN. He's on NBC. I don't get it. As someone once said about Carson Daly, "He's one man, who's got the talent of half a man, doing the job of four men." Get him off my TV.
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Where do I get that minute of my life back?
What did I miss?
I'm guessing it was MJ in the background.
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And the Gaustad line needed to be out there as much as possible with the way they played last night. I thought there last shift with Niemi still in net was just about perfect. They worked the puck down low and then just kept it there. They didn't even attempt to move the puck back out beyond the faceoff dot. They were out there to control the puck and bleed the clock, and they did it perfectly.
Yep. It's funny you wrote this because I was just watching that very part of the game probably while you were typing it.
I have to bring up that post game press conference shower curtain again. It seems like such a minor thing but it's not. It's huge. It's the image fans see. It's the image other team's fans/coaches/players see, and it looks like Lindy is talking in an unmade bed. I understand if they were on the road and have to just throw something up, but at home that is unacceptable. The least they could do is buy a level for the guy who has to put in those thumbtacks.
Complaint Thursdays
in The Aud Club
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Here is my yearly complaint.
I. Hate. March. Madness.
I hate the myriad of tournaments leading up to March Madness.
I hate "bracketology".
I hate when some announcer screams "Unbelievable!!!" when there is a buzzer beater. What's not to believe? We just saw that same play 4 times yesterday.
I hate the sneaker squeaks.
I hate that obnoxious substitution buzzer.
Boy, that's a lot of hate. Let's just say I really don't like it.
Oh, and my kid's sick again.