Again, because it was deleted by C&L censors, the great Canadian jazz pianist Oscar Peterson had died. Is it because he isn’t American that his death wasn’t noted on this site? Or is it because John Amato doesn’t understand Jazz?

Yeah, the cool kids scared me away from another blog…..meanies…

…but I have sung / read / played music on exactly ONE commercial, and I still get / love this. Pay was equal to about 10 coffeehouse gigs, though….

Oscar Peterson -RIP-The Quartet Live feat.Joe Pas-Soft Winds
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnrmFMnrxAU

Canuknotusa @ 1:

Again, because it was deleted by C&L censors, the great Canadian jazz pianist Oscar Peterson had died. Is it because he isn’t American that his death wasn’t noted on this site? Or is it because John Amato doesn’t understand Jazz?

You funny!

There’s somethin’ odd goin’ on with the site. I’ve got a feelin’ it’s related to WordPress. I keep gettin’ the “Error 404: Requested page not found” message. There are 228 comments on last night’s Pelosi Open thread, yet everything after comment 212 comes and goes(I’m tryin’ to have a conversation w/someone there, so I know there are 16 more comments there!).

And, Canuknotusa, I don’t think the site monitors are around tonight. They probably took the holiday off. But, hey, they deserve some rest.

Oh, yeah, and when I hit “Refresh Comments” all of the comments disappear. And when I send this comment there’s a 50/50 chance the internet will stop. All of it.

Andy K @ 5:

Oh, yeah, and when I hit “Refresh Comments” all of the comments disappear. And when I send this comment there’s a 50/50 chance the internet will stop. All of it.

Glad someone else is havin the same problem, I thought the NSA was playin with me! :-)

suckerforpuns @ 6:

Andy K @ 5:

Oh, yeah, and when I hit “Refresh Comments” all of the comments disappear. And when I send this comment there’s a 50/50 chance the internet will stop. All of it.

Glad someone else is havin the same problem, I thought the NSA was playin with me! :-)

Honestly, my best guess is that Amato’s go-to tech person is gone.

And when I posted that last one every comment disappeared. I had to backdoor through a thread that wasn’t givin’ me that “404 Error” message.

I dunno if you were here in the HaloScan days, suckerforpuns, but this type of thing happened at least once a week back then, for about 2 months, before Amato went to WordPress. I miss one thing about HaloScan- you could use Gravatars. That made it easier to find people you were conversin’ with.

I can’t take this anymore! Merry Christmas/belated Winter Solstice(damned moder calendars!), everyone!

GNA!

Since I’m rather certain that John runs the WordPress software from his own server, I highly doubt it’s a WordPress problem.

Andy K @ 7:

suckerforpuns @ 6:

Andy K @ 5:

Oh, yeah, and when I hit “Refresh Comments” all of the comments disappear. And when I send this comment there’s a 50/50 chance the internet will stop. All of it.

Glad someone else is havin the same problem, I thought the NSA was playin with me! :-)

Honestly, my best guess is that Amato’s go-to tech person is gone.

And when I posted that last one every comment disappeared. I had to backdoor through a thread that wasn’t givin’ me that “404 Error” message.

I dunno if you were here in the HaloScan days, suckerforpuns, but this type of thing happened at least once a week back then, for about 2 months, before Amato went to WordPress. I miss one thing about HaloScan- you could use Gravatars. That made it easier to find people you were conversin’ with.

IT’s Me! lafin gas!

> I miss one thing about HaloScan- you could use Gravatars.

He could bring the back now, just a simple line of code in ‘The Loop’ and a simple plug-in.

Jesus, lafin’, wtf? Never mind, save it for the next time. It’s after midnight, and I worked my ass off today! Then I wrapped the few presents I could afford- fuckin’ economy….I’m frazzled.

And Stanley, I don’t wanna know how you know what you know, but I’m sure you know of what ya speak.

Good to be here at the same time as the two of ya! :D

That said…goodnight!

classic video

I didn’t come here tonight to blogwhore tonight, so I won’t tell you Andy. GN to U2!

Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer by Dr. Elmo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPaGQEskSKM

Give the Jew Girl Toys
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40qTXlNJj9s

This is NOT for kids!!!!!!!!
Alvin and the Chipmunks Christmas(HA!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....re=related

For all of the true Christians out there:

Merry Christmas to all.
Peace on Earth. Good will towards men.

And we all know who the only peace candidate is.

Dennis Kucinich 08

Canuknotusa @ 1:

Again, because it was deleted by C&L censors, the great Canadian jazz pianist Oscar Peterson had died. Is it because he isn’t American that his death wasn’t noted on this site? Or is it because John Amato doesn’t understand Jazz?

As a frequent if not constant visitor to C&L i find this statement insulting. Not because a Canadian said it, but because anyone said it.

I had a hell of a hard time trying to comment on this site today. I removed my cookies, my history, i emptied my cache. I just wrote an entire four paragraphs on another thread only to lose it because my name was not in wordpress because of what i had done earlier.

Technical difficulties happen and it is frustrating. You want to jump to the conclusion that it is censorship, go ahead. If you want to jump to the conclusion people here hate Canadians well that’s just wierd, eh?

Glad to see the site is back up, what i wrote before and lost was much more interesting and impassioned. Such is cyberspace.

OliverDreams @ 18:

For all of the true Christians out there:

Merry Christmas to all.
Peace on Earth. Good will towards men.

And we all know who the only peace candidate is.

Dennis Kucinich 08

Ron Paul is also a peace candidate.

Stern plays a clip of Shatner turning a board-op into quivering pile of goo during a record session. It’s priceless.

The cocaine/crack apartheid debate continues.
The Pentagon flip-flops on our progress in Iraq. Another case of too little, too late for Bush. An Iowa voter tells it like it is.

i left a comment on the oscar peterson thread w/mucho blogwhoring, and it got eaten somewheres between “submit” and actual pixels on your screen.

but i’m not blaming c&l.

i want now to wish all c&l er’s a merry xmas, happy kwazanukkahsolstice day or whatever you celebrate, and if you don’t celebrate, just have a good time.

Did anyone hear? Is it true that G.W. put Santa on the no fly list?

Does anyone know if its true that G.W. put Santa on the no fly list.

Yes and on top of that Santa was just black-bagged and sent to gitmo.

And for you all, Left Toon Lane Gives you an assortment of left wing Christmas Chuckles.

This session was funny, but you should try to get the tape with Pepe (what’s his name?). the guy who can fart on cue, in different tones, actually play a tune you can recognize with his ass. Anyway, they had him in session for some nitwit’s idea of a background tape for a bit of animation, and they went over it, and over it, etc.

By the 50th time you hear the producer say, ‘Can you fart like…..?’. or ‘Could you fart a little higher?’, even though it’s not funny in itself, you end up on the floor.

Happy ‘Just A Normal Day’, skippy!

PassedPawn @ 26:

Yes and on top of that Santa was just black-bagged and sent to gitmo.

They’re waterboarding him to get the location of his workshop and the names of the elves.

skippy @ 23:

i left a comment on the oscar peterson thread w/mucho blogwhoring, and it got eaten somewheres between “submit” and actual pixels on your screen.

but i’m not blaming c&l.

i want now to wish all c&l er’s a merry xmas, happy kwazanukkahsolstice day or whatever you celebrate, and if you don’t celebrate, just have a good time.

You forgot Festivus, the holiday for the rest of us.

>> Does anyone know if its true that G.W. put Santa on the no fly list.
>
> Yes and on top of that Santa was just black-bagged and sent to gitmo.

Yeah he got busted for importing snow from the North Pole -

http://tbsn.thesequencers.us/?p=51

Here’s what happened to him once they captured him -

http://achorn.blogspot.com/200.....ay_21.html

Q: Why is Santa so Jolly?

A: He knows where all the naughty girls live.

It is now Christmas on the west coast of the US (never seen it, made it to Nevada thus far but i share the time zone.)

This is the one time of the year we all get to say nice things to each other in this country and i will be Goddamned if i am going to let the moment pass without having my say.

This blog is a community of shitheads, idealists, revolutionaries, naysayers, antagonists, status quo seekers, pot heads, alcoholics, poets, writers, cretins and geniouses. We have Trolls, High School Students, Scientists, Musicians, an occasional politician, Lawyers, geeks, freeks and housewives.

Are we the “Left?” Or are we a smattering of people too frustrated to sit in front of television and attempt to digest the crap they try to shove down our throats? I have no fucking idea, so don’t ask me.

I do know this: I love fighting here. I love arguing here. Without this community of people i would be isolated, alone and i would feel powerless.

To the Trolls who attempt to disway us and to the learned who stear us back i want to thank you all for what you bring and wish you the best today and always.

Merry Christmas. The holiday is not a bad idea even though using a man who died over 2000 years ago (if he ever existed at all) to control us and send us into battles and wars is a really really bad idea.

> A: He knows where all the naughty girls live.

Ahh!!!! So that answers Y he was importing snow from the North Pole. :-)

Merry Christmas Stan Rosenthal, you Christian, you! :)

xoites defends Constitution @ 34:

It is now Christmas on the west coast of the US (never seen it, made it to Nevada thus far but i share the time zone.)

This is the one time of the year we all get to say nice things to each other in this country and i will be Goddamned if i am going to let the moment pass without having my say.

This blog is a community of shitheads, idealists, revolutionaries, naysayers, antagonists, status quo seekers, pot heads, alcoholics, poets, writers, cretins and geniouses. We have Trolls, High School Students, Scientists, Musicians, an occasional politician, Lawyers, geeks, freeks and housewives.

Are we the “Left?” Or are we a smattering of people too frustrated to sit in front of television and attempt to digest the crap they try to shove down our throats? I have no fucking idea, so don’t ask me.

I do know this: I love fighting here. I love arguing here. Without this community of people i would be isolated, alone and i would feel powerless.

To the Trolls who attempt to disway us and to the learned who stear us back i want to thank you all for what you bring and wish you the best today and always.

Merry Christmas. The holiday is not a bad idea even though using a man who died over 2000 years ago (if he ever existed at all) to control us and send us into battles and wars is a really really bad idea.

Some trolls are just idiots who are looking for trouble. Others think they know it all, which is really annoying to those of us who do.

But some are just playing the Devil’s Advocate in order to stimulate debate. One of the problems with authoritarians and many on the so-called “Christian” right is that they stifle dissent and refuse to listen to any alternative points of view.

No liberal should be afraid to engage in debate. Use it to refine and improve your arguments. In the marketplace of ideas, truth will win out. It’s conservatives that want to monopolize thought.

Oh yeah, Merry Christmas to one and all!

Well, I’m probably more Christian than those that claim that they’re Christians these days …

ThanX broe, and Merry Christmas to all that celebrate it!

I mean, I *LOVE* folk that worship the first long-haired hippie!!!!

That was pretty much my point, myiq2xu.

But you knew that. :)

Yes, Stan. You are.

You know what the best thing about Christmas Day is?? December 26th is right around the corner. THEN maybe I can stop seeing those insipid Jared Jewelers commercials as well as commercials about giving Mercedes Benzes for Christmas. Happy friggin’ Holidays everybody!

gene, it reminds me of the Saturday Night fake commercial, about the Christmas bows. Shows all the bows, then the husband gives the wife like a brand new Lexus and it doesn’t have a bow and she’s going like: Where’s the bow?

Stanley Rosenthal @ 44:

gene, it reminds me of the Saturday Night fake commercial, about the Christmas bows. Shows all the bows, then the husband gives the wife like a brand new Lexus and it doesn’t have a bow and she’s going like: Where’s the bow?

Nancy Reagan is making commercials now?

for LG -

Cledus T. Judd: Grandpa Got Run Over By A John Deere -

http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?r.....riant=play

“You may say there’s no such thing as Santa
But after sueing John Deere, I believe” - Cledus T. Judd

http://www.rhapsody.com/player.....&from=

GN xoites (and everyone else), may the force be with you.

Good night, Stan. May the force stop pushing us around.

Did that sound forced?

May force become a thing of the past.

May the force stop beating prisoners…

Another “frivolous” lawsuit settled.