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Other than teenagers wanting to make out, who wants to sit in their car watching a movie? That's the real problem.
Posted by: Zombie John Gotti

Bucket seats killed the drive-in.

"25 acres sinkhole in LA is growing."

Oh, the Louisiana sinkhole. Yeah.

I thought you meant L. A. :/

"...the drive-in is about to become all gone."

Down in Tulsa, the venerable Admiral Twin drive-in's old screens burned to the ground. The natural presumption would be, it's all over for the big twin screens.

Apparently, a lot of folks remember the good ol days at the drive in. There was amazing support for them to rebuild, which they have done. It will be there for a while.

"On this day in 1883 Standard Time was put into use in the United States."

Repeal Standard Time!
Return to Natural time!

(my AoS rants on ST. & DST, from fallback weekend, collected & ammended:
mindfulwebworks.com/radical/repeal-daylight-savings-time-tyranny
)

"Self-awareness FAIL"

Well put, Gabe. But, one only has to be more aware than the target audience, to whom such contrary catchphrases are dogma.

1 First
Posted by: Boone at November 18, 2013 06:50 AM (tIyK2)

Glad you noted you were first. The "1" was not enough clue.

And now, like the rest of us who have been there, you realize what a hollow, meaningless achievement it really is.

Still, more exciting than a bowl of Obamakaboom.

what's with all those words above the comments?

oh! Gabe, not Andy. I see.

Morning, all. Hi, Vic. Refreshed from your trip?

When all you have is Thor's hammer, everything looks like a skull.

I am not in either top 10 list.

I can pretend I have a life.

Thank you, variable IP!

oops. sigh

As the morning thread heads for its burial... a radically-inclined webwork:

Fine Print
Before you sign on the dotted line, make sure you've checked all the details. Mr. President delivers the big lie. Mr. Carney delivers the rapid legalese.

21-sec vid. It might take you longer to load the page and hit play then it will to watch it.

The revived Dr Who, other than the bisex and the atheism and the relentless negativity and the manic sensory overload... how was I going to end this sentence?

I really don't like the "Christmas" eps. Snowmen, father Christmas, red nose, even star in the sky symbol (shot down)... just seems like something's missing. Christmas... Christmas... something...

Ahhh. Shirt-sleeve weather. Tee-shirt, but for a slight breeze and it's getting warmer by the hour.

18℉ a few nights ago, maybe freezy a few nights from now, but 70s today.

Oklahomans and Kansans, like cockroaches, will be the only ones strong enough to survive this awful onslaught of anthropodemocratic climate chaos. We own climate chaos!

Not going to fix typos in my last message - you can figure it out. sigh!

Lazarus. not Methuselah; right.

When SyFy channel replayed the original series with interviews that made them an hour and a half long, for that episode, Shatner introduced it by saying, "What would you do if you had all eternity? Would you this, would you that, would you watch every Trek episode ever made? It was kind of scary to realize the hours of my life that have been consumed with trick, even when I didn't get much past NextGen.

Our daughter isn't caught up on Doctor Who, speaking of wasted hours, so we've been barreling through watching the new ones. But we're not even up to the current Doctor yet, & I don't think we're going to make it by the 25th. Not that I care. The whole point of tape delay has always been to have the freedom to have our own schedules, not be bound by the broadcasters. Just have to avoid the spoilers.

Ben Franklin, Jefferson, et al would not recognize this as America. - Chi-Town Jerry

Lovers of liberty and wise self-rule versus creeping tyranny? I think they'd recognize that the revolution is never finished!

Here, have a patriotic reinforcement:
"This is America, right here!"
http://mindfulwebworks.com/radical/2013-oct-13-washington-dc

Gran - always fun to see your comments.

Robert Brown (fought himself for eternity) -- without Ixquicking, I figure that's the Methuselah Trek TOS episode?

What could possibly go wrong with permitting our good friends the Russians to put electronic monitoring and missile-guidance stations across the United States? President Perfectcrease thinks it's a good idea, so why are the CIA guys so concerned?

NYT, lead on Drudge

Oh, and, good morning.

Chicago... When my wife moved here from New York, at first she was thrown for a loop when people would say, "You want to come with?" -Brown Line

My West Side-raised wife still lapses into the dangling "with" sometimes. I've even been known to use it. Glad that peculiar idiom got mentioned in this thread... at last!

"I'm only stomping because there hasn't been news content since Purp's post at 9:30am."

Oh, its a big umbrella, this blog; room for more than one hot post at a time.

In fact, I think someone recently tried implementing a strict simultaneous topical / open topic policy. Crazy, huh?

What? That was who?

Yeah, as I was saying, brilliant, top-notch blog management.