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Oct 23 2008
Singin’ the Blues(grass) Pony Party
Bessie Smith, a personal favorite (sorry about the static in the first vid):
The Pony Party is an Open Thread. Please do not REC the Party!
Oct 22 2008
Pony Party
This Pony Party is to be treated as an open thread. Please do not rec the Pony Party.
What’s up?
Oct 18 2008
Pony Party: Dog Statues
I heard the local Humane Society had a display of unique dog statues at the mall for a fund raiser. So off I went. But “the man” hassled me. This being the south it was done politely but the mall security insisted that I only take pictures in certain areas because that was the “pubic” part of the mall ( near a fountain ) and even though I assured him I would not include any store signs in the picture. I tried negotiating and he sighed and at some point walked away and I of course stretched the limit of our agreement which I know he expected I would do. Later I stopped at the customer service desk to ask about the rationale behind being able to only take certain pictures and she repeated the caveat about not including store front and their signs. She agreed to call a Manager who was in a meeting and I had enough of the mall and left.
I still am not sure how a middle aged woman taking pictures threatens mall security, the future of capitalism, the crucial “mall integrity” or might interfere with other customers right to shop. Don’t know. I might just go back one day and take some more and use the “play stupid” tactic.
Oct 17 2008
Pony Party: Crabby
I’m still in Mexico – staying at a place with no Internet access (unexpectedly) and no TV. So last night my husband and I amused ourselves by capturing the little crabs that wandered into our condo and returning them to the beach. Three crabs were successfully trapped and relocated.
In a few days we return to the US. We’ll be happier than clams when we get our Internets back.
Oct 16 2008
Pony Party: Nobel Laureate & Wile E. Coyote
A long time ago, in an economic universe far, far away, people cared about the trade balance. When the U.S. trade deficit passed $100 billion for the first time, there was much wailing and gnashing of teeth. Doomsayers warned of an imminent ”hard landing” in which a crashing dollar would precipitate economic crisis. Even calmer types regarded the unprecedented red ink as a warning sign.
But a funny thing happened on the way to the 21st century: people lost interest in the trade balance. In January, the Commerce Department announced last week, the United States set a new world record: the biggest monthly trade deficit ever. (Is this a great country, or what?) Measured as a share of G.D.P., last year’s current account deficit (the broadest measure of the trade gap) was wider than ever before. But the markets couldn’t have cared less. They were more interested in the accounts of MicroStrategy (a high-flying tech stock that lost two-thirds of its value in one day when it adopted a new accounting standard) than in those of the United States.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/f…
The Pony Party is an Open Thread. Please do not REC the party!
Oct 11 2008
Pony Party: Morning
I am not too creative today so I am going to leave you with a couple of cartoon clips…
Oh Happy National Coming Out Day! Do they have cards for that? If they did I would have sent some out.
I like getting cards so that requires sending them out.
A special hello to Edger who is still in quarantine to the best of my knowledge. We can have a coming out party for him when he gets released.
Please don’t recommend pony party. Hang out, chit chat and then go read some of the excellent diaries on our recent and rec’d list.
Oct 09 2008