This weekend, the ‘honey-do’ list beckons
Fall has come. And with the cooler weather, my wife has put together a long list of things I need to get accomplished this weekend. Rotting wood to replace. Shrubs to plant. A slow-draining kitchen sink. Alas, a handyman’s work is never finished.
On the other hand, as the lovely Alberta Hunter slyly points out, there are compensations.
– Jay Bookman
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Tommy Maddox
September 30th, 2011
3:42 pm
My wife didn’t ask, but I’ve cranked up the smoker.
Good food tomorrow!!
Peadawg
September 30th, 2011
3:44 pm
Hope she pays your back well *wink wink*
.
Sorry to put that picture in everyone’s head…..
stands for decibels
September 30th, 2011
3:46 pm
Grease the griddle? check…
oldguy
September 30th, 2011
3:48 pm
Condos Jay Condos
I love my condo, and my cats never pester me to work in the yard!!
have a “fun” weekend!
Jm
September 30th, 2011
3:48 pm
Gay marriage an aberration?
Sinatra thinks not
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeDEWKLNppM&feature=youtube_gdata_player
moonbat betty
September 30th, 2011
3:50 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xchoR5upVwo
Granny Godzilla
September 30th, 2011
3:51 pm
One does the carpentry and plumbing and one does the cooking and cleaning so in the end we have a very very very nice house
Thanks to my own handy man.
Kamchak
September 30th, 2011
3:57 pm
Candy man.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYihDAhVPko
Mudfoot
September 30th, 2011
3:58 pm
… can’t live without ‘em
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZbiZxA9b5k
moonbat betty
September 30th, 2011
4:00 pm
Mama don’t dance and Daddy don’t rock and roll
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hlMi6PvUDE
Good little liberal
September 30th, 2011
4:01 pm
oldguy
I have about 10 square feet of lawn. The rest is woods. I cut it with a weed eater.
Jay
September 30th, 2011
4:02 pm
Great tune, Mud.
thewindwhistler
September 30th, 2011
4:09 pm
Hard to keep a handle on the columns, they change sooooooo fast.
AmVet - Read my lips. No new Texans!
September 30th, 2011
4:15 pm
Jay, got lots around here to catch up on as well. But as the old saying goes, the road to hell is paved with good intentions!
Maybe after Nebraska beats Wisconsin…(eye roll)
Part of me is still in Colorado.
For Braves and Red Sox fans, it’s hard to go down easy…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvnO43MRgeA
Mudfoot
September 30th, 2011
4:24 pm
Thx Jay
Hopefully be back later to see what goes on here Fri nights. I’ve heard stories. Gotta go restore cell service to some of you folk downtown first… If you’re one of those effected I’m on the way…
moonbat betty
September 30th, 2011
4:29 pm
Jay has the working man blues
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbEstJ98TcM
moonbat betty
September 30th, 2011
4:38 pm
One more:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqIndOEE00c
1811/0311
September 30th, 2011
4:44 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGIHaKCeVYk&feature=related
Practical Matti
September 30th, 2011
4:45 pm
Why don’t you do right?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yy5THitqPBw
AmVet - Read my lips. No new Texans!
September 30th, 2011
4:46 pm
betty, back in 1972, though overplayed on FM radio, this was still the ____.
It’s late September
And I really should be back at school
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqxgTryyYoA
1811/0311
September 30th, 2011
4:47 pm
…………… and just when you thought it was over !
“With homosexuals now able to serve openly in the military, the gay rights movement’s next battleground is to persuade the Obama administration to end the armed forces’ ban on “transgenders,” a group that includes transsexuals and cross-dressers.
“Our position is that the military should re-examine the policy, the medical regulations, so as to allow open service for transgender people,” said Vincent Paolo Villano, spokesman for the 6,000-member Center for Transgender Equality.”
Reminds me of a tune :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpNk860pTO4&feature=related
Granny Godzilla
September 30th, 2011
4:48 pm
Matti
I love that!
She’s not bad….she’s just drawn that way.
Sadly somebody used crayons in my design…..
Granny Godzilla
September 30th, 2011
4:51 pm
Honeymoon to Honey do
Keep Up the Good Fight!
September 30th, 2011
4:52 pm
I thought this one appropriate from this morning: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GH_StQ6KdW0
1811/0311
September 30th, 2011
4:55 pm
http://www.obamacounter.com/
Kamchak
September 30th, 2011
4:57 pm
Don’t call us, we’ll call you.
Soothsayer
September 30th, 2011
5:12 pm
Don’t ask me why I love this song, I just do!
Practical Matti
September 30th, 2011
5:12 pm
Granny G @ 3:51: You’ve got it made! Lucky woman.
I have a house too. How can I tempt someone to come deal with 18 tons of pinestraw? Hmmm…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oS5jvIG9xIo
Keep Up the Good Fight!
September 30th, 2011
5:15 pm
Sooth…Journey is always great. Have you seen them in concert lately…. the new Japanese(?) front man is amazing as a sound-a-like.
Soothsayer
September 30th, 2011
5:19 pm
Keep, of all the Journey songs, that was always my fav. I didn’t know that Journey had a new front man. I guess, then, that Steve Perry is no longer with them.
Soothsayer
September 30th, 2011
5:21 pm
Scout: I know how you feel. I had the same counter (at least in my mind) in W’s last days.
Kamchak
September 30th, 2011
5:23 pm
Another honeymoon to honey do song.
Soothsayer
September 30th, 2011
5:25 pm
“My wife didn’t ask, but I’ve cranked up the smoker.”
Tommy, tomorrow is the “bar-b-que” day. Half Boston Butts and half “picnics.” Ought to last a while. Got a nice load of seasoned hickory ready to go. I pity anyone downwind from me. They’re gonna be hungry!
Can’t wait. Been waiting for this cool weekend for a long time!
Keep Up the Good Fight!
September 30th, 2011
5:25 pm
Sooth: Before the Trial By Fire tour could begin, Perry suffered a hip injury while hiking in Hawaii and was unable to perform. Perry was diagnosed with a degenerative bone condition and a hip replacement would be required. Reluctant to rush into surgery, Perry wished to postpone the tour. Due to the long wait between the album’s release and the tour’s postponed kick-off date, as well as the absence of Journey’s iconic frontman, Journey fans were losing hope for the band’s future.
Meanwhile, long-time Journey drummer Steve Smith resigned, reportedly saying “Journey without Steve Perry was like Jack without his box.” (Smith had rejoined, along with original Journey member Ross Valory, to complete what Perry has referred to as the band’s wedding band line-up.)[6]
The remaining members waited until 1998, nearly 17 months after Perry’s injury, before making a decision on Journey’s future. Growing impatient and realizing the window of opportunity was closing to follow up the success of the Platinum-selling Trial By Fire LP with a world tour, Journey members Jonathan Cain and Neal Schon met with Perry and presented an ultimatum that he either undergo hip replacement surgery so the tour could proceed upon his recovery or a replacement singer would be hired.[6] Perry, still hesitant to undergo surgery and now apparently upset at his bandmates’ intractability and their perceived meddling in personal health decisions, decided to part ways with Journey. Perry’s vocal duties were later taken over by Steve Augeri of Tall Stories, and nearly two years after the album’s initial release, Journey began its long-postponed tour.
I just looked it up because I had been told it was a voice injury.
Here’s the new guy…judge for yourself. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWC9MHgpL8U&feature=related
I saw them in Alpharetta a year or so ago….great concert
1811/0311
September 30th, 2011
5:26 pm
Sooth:
LOL !
Soothsayer
September 30th, 2011
5:33 pm
Those who remember “Jerry Maguire will recall this song from the very end. It was “perfect” for the end of that movie.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
September 30th, 2011
5:37 pm
Hey Kam…. was at the Home Show this past weekend, thought of you. Are you still doing work in the Decatur area or just the mountains?
Kamchak
September 30th, 2011
5:43 pm
Keep
I’m a part-time resident in both places. I just got some turnip greens, mustard greens and kale in the ground up here in the Mtns about a week or so ago.
That Home Show had to have been pretty dead compared to other years. I believe we’ve lost a generation of craftsmen, so I wonder who’ll be around to construct the next housing boom.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
September 30th, 2011
5:46 pm
Had a good crowd and the Gobb Galleria area was filled. Hometalk.com was one of sponsors and they offered tickets to their members.
Redneck Convert (R--and proud of it)
September 30th, 2011
6:01 pm
Well, I figured Bookman was hen-pecked. Pushed around by a woman. He’s going to spend a entire weekend doing jobs for her like some kid.
Us real he-men don’t take none of that. We do what we want to do. And what I want to do is go up to Billy Bob’s. Just as soon as the missus says it’s OK.
Kamchak
September 30th, 2011
6:04 pm
RC (R–apoi)
For you and Mrs. RC:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5vggxjLpL8
Soothsayer
September 30th, 2011
6:11 pm
Ah! Innocence!
1811/0311
September 30th, 2011
6:24 pm
Sooth:
Fast forward ………….. how about this one with James Taylor ?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1O_0ibqzUg
pogo
September 30th, 2011
6:29 pm
The AJC prints that Michelle shops at Target. Yea, right. I don’t think that they sell $40,000 dollar party bracelets at Target do they? My God, how stupid do her and her husband (and apparently their desperate supporters in the liberal press) think the American people are? Of course, the fact that Obama got elected in the first place proves that they may be right but it won’t carry him next year. Perhaps one day Michelle may just HAVE to shop at Target like the rest of us average Americans. Of course they do have their millions, so I doubt it.
Adios.
AmVet - Read my lips. No new Texans!
September 30th, 2011
6:30 pm
Sooth and scout, Mud Slide Slim and the Blue Horizon was one of those early amazing albums that I just adored everything about.
And as as often as not, it was always the sad songs that really hit me…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46JhiNkZ6as
Jay
September 30th, 2011
6:33 pm
Poor pogo. All et up like that.
Practical Matti
September 30th, 2011
6:37 pm
Mr. Bookman,
My thoughts exactly! I’m dedicating this song to Pogo’s wealth envy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMwZsFKIXa8
Soothsayer
September 30th, 2011
6:47 pm
Scout: thanks for posting that one! Went straight to the bookmarks! Jam-man, that was always one of my favorite JT songs!
Pogo: give it a rest, will ya? You won’t have anything left for tomorrow morning!
Soothsayer
September 30th, 2011
6:54 pm
This may be the most beautiful song ever written. But before you click on it, right click and the left click my next post for the German and English translation. You’ll love it! Have a wonderful evening everyone!
Soothsayer
September 30th, 2011
6:54 pm
http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Texts/Chorale071-Eng3.htm
Soothsayer
September 30th, 2011
6:56 pm
Oops! Left click and then right click “Open in a new tab.” Sorry!
1811/0311
September 30th, 2011
7:01 pm
AmVet – Read my lips. No new Texans! :
Wrist slitting music ………………..
Sooth:
You’re welcome.
JamVet
September 30th, 2011
7:04 pm
Scout, LOL. (It wasn’t Black Sabbath or Pink Floyd!)
OK, time for a very important public service announcement.
For all of the Todd Rundgren/Utopia fans out there, that legendary band is coming to the Center Stage Theater on November 9.
Their very first track of their very first record was recorded live at the Fox Theater.
So for all those who appreciate some of the most innovative progressive music around, this is as good as it gets.
City in my head, Utopia
Heaven in my body, Utopia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46JhiNkZ6as
.
theyeshaveit
September 30th, 2011
7:12 pm
Well, if Jay can post that kind of stuff on a G-Rated site, I’m going to put this one up for all of you…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQZuBF3YEhY
Kamchak
September 30th, 2011
7:15 pm
For our host and his Mrs. — http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ib0DI8jjm8E
theyeshaveit
September 30th, 2011
7:21 pm
I love it when politicians just shut up and play.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMIUGzaqm-4
getalife
September 30th, 2011
7:30 pm
Our President will drone you :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17lkdqoLt44
JamVet
September 30th, 2011
7:46 pm
I was thinking of Ringo’s Honey Don’t as my theme song contribution tonight, but instead, and in honor of the greatest September collapse ever, I send this one out to the 5 – 20 (Including a 1 – 9 skid to end the season.) Red Sox fans everywhere.
(Sorry, JB… But another great choice to start us off.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZfAik7wP8U
Kamchak
September 30th, 2011
7:57 pm
Geez brother AmVet.
You didn’t hafta go all salty wounds on ‘em.
Mick
September 30th, 2011
8:02 pm
Pogo really your hypocrisy astounds, take a deep breathe, here’s one about your honey-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xqfu1cvdVZs
Jay
September 30th, 2011
8:18 pm
Jamvet, that is C-O-L-D ….
Mick
September 30th, 2011
8:23 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbCJSVTfess&feature=fvst
JamVet
September 30th, 2011
8:24 pm
Jay, I left out the sad irony that they bailed out the Braves for that distinction. (Sort of.)
Baseball is a cruel game.
Mick
September 30th, 2011
8:28 pm
jamvet
It may be cruel but it is the greatest game ever!! IMHO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pafY6sZt0FE
Jay
September 30th, 2011
8:30 pm
All I know, Jamvet, is that all of a sudden I have become a huge Detroit Tigers fan.
FrankLeeDarling
September 30th, 2011
8:35 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGnijAnlW0c&feature=related
Mick
September 30th, 2011
8:36 pm
Justin biebers grand – dad-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJOuTr0BXb4
Kamchak
September 30th, 2011
8:41 pm
All I know, Jamvet, is that all of a sudden I have become a huge Detroit Tigers fan.
Just how “huge?”
Never mind — 1-800-597-JENNY
Mick
September 30th, 2011
8:48 pm
Jay – here’s one that is highly bose worthy-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngwgep97g3s&feature=results_main&playnext=1&list=PLBA05B9B81C8C2237
JamVet
September 30th, 2011
8:49 pm
Jay, I’d damn near demand it from you had the shoe been on the other foot!
Besides,
http://tinyurl.com/6y3movg
FrankLee, great cover of a great Alice ditty.
Utopian Jeff Lynne…
In this life I’ve seen everything I can see woman,
I’ve seen lovers flying through the air hand in hand
I’ve seen babies dancing in the midnight sun,
And I’ve seen dreams that came from the heavenly skies above
I’ve seen old men crying at their own grave site
And I’ve seen pigs all sitting watching, picture slides
But I never seen nothing like you.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNQoSinjMio&feature=related
Normal
September 30th, 2011
9:01 pm
In the midst of all the waiting for death in my life, The Great Spirit has given us a new life to cherish. World, please meet my third Great Grand Child; my second Great Grand Daughter, Emory Lynn. Born today. Please grant her great happiness.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
September 30th, 2011
9:09 pm
Congrats Normal.! But why are you waiting for death, go chase life for awhile…. make death chase you down.
Kamchak
September 30th, 2011
9:09 pm
Greetings and salutations, Normal.
And CONGRATULATIONS!
Normal
September 30th, 2011
9:10 pm
Emory Lynn…all I can think of…for you…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xz32I_GbpeU&feature=related
Normal
September 30th, 2011
9:11 pm
Keep,
Sadly, we are waiting for my Mother to pass. She won’t live out the year.
JamVet
September 30th, 2011
9:12 pm
Mozel Tov, Normal!
You are a blessed man.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2WzocbSd2w
Keep Up the Good Fight!
September 30th, 2011
9:15 pm
Normal, I am sorry to hear that. I completely understand. Sometimes passing is a hoped for blessing. I had the same with my grandmother years ago. Be well and celebrate those new lives.
Practical Matti
September 30th, 2011
9:20 pm
Normal,
HUGS!!! This is a pretty one I’ll bet you don’t know. Hit the “show more” arrows to read the lyrics below. It describes what you’re witnessing in your life right now. Bless you!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ke-r2K0ymWc
Mick
September 30th, 2011
9:22 pm
Normal
Congrats – a miracle we can witness….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pYux5-d1Es
JamVet
September 30th, 2011
9:27 pm
Hang onto her and never forget, even in the face of tragedy…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdCVlmmnOzA
out of the blue
September 30th, 2011
9:32 pm
Congrats Normal (third grand child!) Perhaps you should change your nom de plume to “GRAMPS”
Would anyone here tonight including GRAMPS like to hear Honey by Goldsboro. Did I just hear a resounding NNNNNNooooooooooooo frigging way….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9BXbl_EN_g
Normal
September 30th, 2011
9:34 pm
Thanks All y’all…Tanks so much.
Matti,
You made me cry…I don’t cry much and I needed that.
Gotta take the GrandSon home….Good night y’all.
Kamchak
September 30th, 2011
9:47 pm
Circle of life
My Da’s nearly three years gone and I’m glad things got better between us.
For you, Pop and again — godspeed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGDA0Hecw1k
Jm
September 30th, 2011
10:46 pm
Perry on cspan
Ug
Mick
September 30th, 2011
10:49 pm
Roger waters at 70 and still kickin it with the foo fighters two nights ago-
http://www.latenightwithjimmyfallon.com/video/foo-fighters-with-roger-waters-in-the-flesh-92711/1358842/?__cid=thefilter
moonbat betty
September 30th, 2011
11:21 pm
Amvet from way earlier. Haven’t listened to Stewart in a long time. Thanks for the reminder.
Kamchack- godspeed to your dad, and good song.
I wonder if there were many first dances to this in the 70’s?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1qxJPzjObI
And to Mick…Pink Floyd will never die.
bman
September 30th, 2011
11:22 pm
My father, a retired UAW worker from GM has been a democrat his entire life. Still is…
I was in shock when he mentioned that he would “strongly” consider voting for Romney or Huntsman were either of them to get the nomination.
moonbat betty
September 30th, 2011
11:25 pm
bman- did he say why he was turn-coating on the party?
Mick
September 30th, 2011
11:26 pm
Thanks betty, a little floyd on a friday night can only be a good thing
I’m closing it down, here’s one for bruno – a worthy repost……nite-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzGhK52itBY
bman
September 30th, 2011
11:34 pm
moon…no, and I didn’t ask. He didn’t say much else about it. He knows a lot of people who have hit hard times.
moonbat betty
September 30th, 2011
11:39 pm
Understood, bman.
Now, the rule is: If you post a comment, you post a song.
So, now you must post a song.
moonbat betty
September 30th, 2011
11:41 pm
pretty please?
moonbat betty
October 1st, 2011
12:05 am
nite nite all
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ql_OKdExgic&feature=fvst
JamVet
October 1st, 2011
12:05 am
Nice Rod selection, betty.
Rip off the mask and let’ see
But that’s not right – oh no, what’s the story?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jon3q6me5Sg
moonbat betty
October 1st, 2011
12:28 am
I love the 80’s too:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iug0X6cJDDM
Normal
October 1st, 2011
8:47 am
Good morning all y’all…goin’ to Gay, Ga today…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg0-a4zlwNM
Peter
October 1st, 2011
8:53 am
Brain Ferry tonight at Chastain..Should be great ! I saw him once long ago there, and the show was fantastic !