Are You There, Peter Coyote? It's Me, Ooma . . . And I've Got The Facial Hair To Prove It
September 23, 2014
Things Ken Burns cares about, in order of importance: Baseball, The Civil War, National Parks, Jazz, The Roosevelts. cc: Peter Coyote
— Bridge + Tunnel Club (@batclub) September 23, 2014
And then you're like, "How many hours long is this thing?"
Gary & Ooma make me want to fucking hurt myself.
— Bridge + Tunnel Club (@batclub) September 23, 2014
What he said; also, I don't like living in a world where commercials make flirty banter between man and machine look "cute."
A territorial group with an inflated self-concept and unruly facial hair.
— Bridge + Tunnel Club (@batclub) September 23, 2014
It was archival images of TR during his days in the Badlands, but it could have been 20-somethings in Bushwick. Or ISIS along the Euphrates.
No Pinch. No Stink. No Sweat.
— Bridge + Tunnel Club (@batclub) September 23, 2014
These dagnamit Buck Naked Underwear ads are starting to get into Slanket territory; you can't — just can't — use "stink" and "sweat" in the same sentence when talking about anything remotely related to a man's crotch.
September 24, 2014
If you wonder, as I often do, why I'm always up so late, it's midnight . . .
— Bridge + Tunnel Club (@batclub) September 24, 2014
Midnight is somehow both late enough and early enough to make a mess of things.
Great big thing crawling all over me.
— Bridge + Tunnel Club (@batclub) September 24, 2014
Big Black's "Steelworker" came on the shuffle while I was doing some wild goose chase housework (sometimes there's a good reason for a drop ceiling, and that's when there is none) and it stuck in my head. Mr. Baby, Too is more than 20 pounds and is nowhere near crawling, so when he's in the Ergo, it gives new meaning to "great big thing crawling all over me," a line I never really understood to begin with. Also, while doing dishes it occurred to me that "I kill what I eat" is sort of backwards, right? You eat what you kill, like Ted Nugent, not the opposite — that is, unless you're into certain Asian dishes . . .
Abso-bucking-lutely!
— Bridge + Tunnel Club (@batclub) September 24, 2014
The night the Pirates clinched; I initially misheard, probably because I'm not really following the Pirates.
September 25, 2014
So much about dogs is so fucking disgusting: http://t.co/uySb77OWAn
— Bridge + Tunnel Club (@batclub) September 25, 2014
I'm sorry, I really am, but this is one of my biggest, uh, pet peeves. I will never, ever understand why dog owners feel like it's OK to let their animals urinate on people's property. A while back it occurred to me how gross it must be for sanitation workers; indeed, apparently it is. It took me down a rabbit hole of memories about dog waste: I remember friends' backyards where dogs used doggie doors to go outside to relieve themselves. A weekly chore was cleaning up the dog shit; which is to say, that for 6 3/4 days a week the backyard was full of dog shit. I sometimes get a little squeamish sitting on any grassy area. All of which is to say, What the fuck, man?
Took abt 50 Googles to get "Fred Friendly." Winner: "television executive philosophical issues moderator round discussion question format."
— Bridge + Tunnel Club (@batclub) September 26, 2014
Giving Mama unsolicited advice. Amazing how hard it can be to jog your memory and how satisfying it is when you bust through years of Google plaque to figure out whatever it was you couldn't remember in the first place.
September 26, 2014
Also, ASU's helmets look like bowling balls from the 1970s.
— Bridge + Tunnel Club (@batclub) September 26, 2014
If they hadn't excised Sparky, the bowling ball helmets may have been kind of interesting. If they hadn't been so shitty against UCLA, they might have been "bold," or whatever. But both contingencies failed to materialize.
"Award-winning" is one of the most overused, meaningless compound adjectives in the history of bios.
— Bridge + Tunnel Club (@batclub) September 26, 2014
Jen's observation. It's true — and I've absolutely used, or overused, "award-winning" in things. Try to remember, then be willing to forget.
Also, if only I could get UCLA's defense on my fantasy team . . .
— Bridge + Tunnel Club (@batclub) September 26, 2014
They would have scored [tallying . . .]
- Sack: 1 (1 point)
- Interception: 2 (4 points)
- Fumble Recovery: 2 (4 points)
- Touchdown: 1 (6 points)
- Kickoff and Punt Return Touchdowns: 1 (6 points)
- Points Allowed 21-27 points: 0
21 points. Christ.
Cousins grooved it to him. MT @YetiVedder: Kirk Cousins just threw another pick. It was intercepted by Derek Jeter. cc @tigerteam
— Bridge + Tunnel Club (@batclub) September 26, 2014
I watched part of the beginning of the game but missed the game-winner.
It's OK not to participate in Gilmore Girls revisionism.
— Bridge + Tunnel Club (@batclub) September 26, 2014
I feel like I've seen a lot of articles about this show recently, not all of which nymag.com Twitter spam. I watched this show. I liked this show. I wanted Luke and Lorelai to find love. I wanted Rory to succeed. And yet I think it's OK to leave it behind, even if it is available on Netflix. Perhaps it's something rotten I notice in myself, but the full-bore banter Nick-and-Noraism of the scripts is kind of fatiguing after a while.
And . . . I'm breaking my promise to myself not to stay up past 1.
— Bridge + Tunnel Club (@batclub) September 26, 2014
Well, so there's that.
And . . . given that I'm breaking my promise to myself not to stay up past 1, I'm opening another beer.
— Bridge + Tunnel Club (@batclub) September 26, 2014
And then that happened . . .
(Main Page Image) Lincoln Tunnel Approach, New Jersey, September 14, 2014, 7:07 p.m.: http://t.co/c2QBtZt9Hj
— Bridge + Tunnel Club (@batclub) September 26, 2014
Actual content; what a concept.
September 27, 2014
Smell Mop.
— Bridge + Tunnel Club (@batclub) September 27, 2014
God, it was in this episode of Inside the Eagles, which I think they edited out! Anyway, it's a knock-knock joke, where the knock-knock goes, "Knock Knock? Who's there? Smell mop. Smell mop . . ." you get the idea . . .