Newcomers welcome
Self-serve food and drinks.
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Petitions are in their regular spot next to the door
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Please recommend (and unrecommend the Cafe/Lounge from earlier)
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May the 4’s be with you
Froggy Bottom Cafe — CLOSED for repairs
And not a moment too soon. I’ve just finally stopped working for the day and settled in with a hard lemonade and a video game. Long live leisure.
Hard lemonade. Hmm. I think I have some of that in the fridge. I’ve been drinking Woodchuck cider. But I think that was the last bottle. I could switch to Hard Lemonade. Apples to Lemons.
Laura’s drinking the Woodchuck here tonight, and cider to lemonade’s definitely the way to go. I find that if I go the other way I end with a big old involuntary pucker.
Much cleaner than that last cafe — but so quiet. We didn’t bring the juke box.
So here’s a new random 10 from my itunes:
Rain on the Scarecrow – John Mellencamp
Straighten up and Fly Right – Natalie Cole
Give Him the Ooh La La – Kim Criswell
Lucky Town – Bruce Springsteen
A Piece of the Action – (From the Broadway show “the Life”)
Please Come out Tonight – Phil Collins
Giant Steps – John Coltrane
Prologue from Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Secret Love – Judy Kaye
Strange – Patsy Cline
Wow I’m on a roll tonight with the FRT lists — I only don’t know Kim Criswell and Judy Kaye.
However, I am still licking my wounds from the last cafe where there was a 13 year difference betweeen my first concert and the next nearest one (which was yours I think).
They’re two Cabaret/Broadway singers.
Just because you started going to concerts at the age of 5 is no reason to feel bad.
Here’s my round 2:
Over The Edge – Little Feat
Strange Brew – Cream
Laura – Ella Fitzgerald
City Girls – Cale J.J.
One Night – Etta James
The Humours of Whiskey;Hardiman the Fiddler – The Chieftains
Linin’ – Taj Mahal
My Mamma Said It’s True – Carrie Newcomer
Now Or Anywhere – Spirit
To Love Is To Bury – Cowboy Junkies
OH this is a good one! Little Feat, Ella, Etta James, the Chieftains, Taj Mahal. Love them all. Especially Ella.
Never heard of Cale J.J. or Spirit or Carrie Newcomer.
J.J. Cale is probably better known as a songwriter and best known for writing “After Midnight” (made famous by Eric Clapton). He has a wonderfully laid-back style.
Spirit was a rock-jazz band in the 60’s and 70’s. They were imaginative, fun, and completely original. Great, great group.
Carrie Newcomer is a “local” singer-songwriter who has had some decent success on a larger level. She has a gorgeous voice.
I’ve got Little Feat and J.J. Cale, but not the others. Here one I bet you don’t have Chris de Burgh.
Andi — we need to take a fieldtrip up to the Midwest Thread. There’s somebody there who plays guitar for Etta James. I’m going to go invite whoever it is to the cafe.
but don’t invite whoever it is to this one because we heading toward 100 and I’m just about to open a new one.
I forgot to buy the Drambuie again!! And I’m already in my pajamas.
Do I get dressed to go out for the booze? Or do I just stretch out on the couch?
Decisions, Decisions!
Or do you cozy up to mister and whisper in his ear just what you’d do for a sweetie who would go to the liquor store and get your some booze.
Sigh. I forget that some women have men who will do that for them.
Jim is SO nice.
Actually Jim is much more likely to do that for himself. But he is very good about running errands on his way home for work. And he does almost all the grocery shopping which is as far as I’m concerned should get him a lot of hall of fame votes.
Ooh I forgot to tell you that I took the plunge and ordered groceries on line. They are being delivered tomorrow. I’ll let you know how it goes. I ordered all the heavy stuff that you have to do every six months — stocking up on canned goods, etc. Plus the usual milk, etc.
How do you do that? How does it work?
You must have missed the “I hate grocery shopping” discussion. One of the grocery chains here has on-line shopping. You log into their site, and go through lists checking off what you want. You pay by credit card and they show up and deliver your groceries. I decided to check it out. The only problem is that they give you a time range — tomorrow between 11 and 2. That’s not so bad tomorrow because I have lots to do at home, but ordinarily I don’t like to be tied to the house on weekends.
I was hoping that you didn’t have to be in St. Louis! Oh, well. Was it very expensive?
It was $12.50 delivery fee. So I wouldn’t do it for a small order. But the order was over $100 so I figured it was worth it. I hate the “stock up” shopping when you have to lug all the canned goods and frozen foods around. I don’t have an attached garage so I have to carry everything from street parking. Not so bad except when other people are parked in front of my house, which happens often. There’s a church across the street. This way THEY do all the carrying.
It’s Schnucks Markets — They are a chain but I don’t think they are in KC.
There were a bunch of them for a couple of years 10 or so years ago. But, they left as fast as they came.
Check the websites for whatever chains you have. There probably is one that does it near you.
I’d love to see mister’s face if I told him we were going to have groceries delivered!
(picking myself up off the floor)
And it’s not the expenditure of $$$$. He would be upset to miss “date night”.
I’m getting bruised from crashing out of my chair! Not the money (giggling) right.
(Safeway and Albertson’s) offer on-line shopping around here; one of these days I’ll get up the courage to give it a try.
And I remember back in the day a small cooperative chain (Co-op Markets) experimented with an early version; you could fax them your shopping list, and they would pull the groceries and have them ready for you to pick up by a specific time (so you could fax your grocery list at lunch time, then stop by on the way home).
You might want to check with your local market(s) and see if they offer any specialized services…
I hope it works out. I think it could turn out to be a singular advance for civilization — of course, it will never show up where I am because we have no civilization.
The same here. One small grocery store that overcharges for everything because they’re the only one. A 35 mile drive to a city that has chain grocery stores. So it’s get only what you need here and then stock up when you go to the city.
We have decent groceries store within 15 miles and over in Bloomington (home of Indiana University) which is 24 miles away there are really good grocery stores.
BTW, nope we don’t have any Chris de Burgh.
My near city is 30,000. If I want to drive for over an hour I can get to Tuscaloosa (home of University of AL). Way to far though.
Chris de Burgh was one I came up with just flipping through old CD’s. He’s not to well remembered except for the Lady in Red song.
Gee, that sure sounds familiar, FM. It’s a shame our general store sells practically nothing I can use but dairy & my own special brand of tobacco. It’s mainly a popsicles & Pepsi kind of place. The husband bakes pies that can take you to heaven, though — & they let me watch the Weather Channel on their tv.
I have to admit I love living in the country, but the city does have its advantages.
Not wanting to get into any big discussion on this, but our little town just lost our Wal-Mart. I know before anybody starts to say anything about Wal-Mart. But here it was the only place there was for anything, except groceries. They came in 20 years ago and closed out ever other little business here. So now we don’t really have anything and it’s the 35 miles for just essentials. I wish I had the money and a large garage, because I sure as hell would stock up on everything.
I didn’t think Walmart ever closed stores. Did your town try to unionize?
Nope, but there is a new interstate planned for where they moved. So instead of opening a new super wal-mart and having a small one that near, they close ours. The thing that got to me though was no warning. It was announced in November they were closing it and it just closed Tuesday.
I have 5 or 6 large grocery stores within about 3 miles of my house. I have gotten so spoiled, and I lack the ability to plan more than one day at a time, so I basically go to one of them almost every single day for that day’s meals.
I’ve always done all the grocery shopping and for some reason, I’m one of those people who enjoy it. I don’t like lugging all the stuff in, but when I get to a grocery store, any budget I’m thinking of going in is usually gone by the time I get through the door.
(snort)
I confess that I did nothing with the 3 column layout today. Work kept me really busy and when I took a break I worked on Marmotdude’s Groundhog Day appearance.
::hangs head::
OO, that sounds great! I can’t wait. 3 columns can wait. I’ve got 20 pages of content for another page that I’m trying to get caught up on.
Hey – no shop talk on a Friday night. No guilty feelings about what didn’t get accomplished. Just good feelings for all that DID get accomplished and relief that the weekend is here.
I vote for the couch.
I say you go out and get your booze in your panjamas. Who will notice and if the police stop you..say your going to the pharmacy to get an emergency refill.
Is everybody pleasantly inebriated yet? I’ve heard of a few people down here that could get you some white lighting if so desired.
Does it involve going into the woods to meet people who look and sound like the Clampetts?
You must know the people I’m talking about.
I think they are distant relatives on my mother’s side.
I actually did drink some of that one time. We had the little paper wax cups. I got a couple of sips down and a little later when I looked at my cup it had eaten the bottom out. That was enough for me.
My grandparents lived through prohibition and were big partiers — speak-easies and everything. (My grandfather was from Chicago and lived up to the 1920’s Chicago reputation.) He must have drunk a lot of that prohibition rot gut though because he “died of drink” when my mom was in highschool. After that my grandma seldom drank. But when she did, it was straight shots of Kentucky bourbon.
My Grandparents were teatotallers. My dad drank and it was always burbon and coke. Wouldn’t touch any other type of hard stuff. Right now I would love to get hold of some of the German beer I used to drink.
Are thier names Bo and Luke..and is Enis always chasing them?
My God it sounds like ya’ll have been to my county.
No I think they moved next door to me when I was a kid in another town. Paps aka Uncle Jesse would go get a case of Coors..and sit around in the twilight of Saturday night fixin the motor of the General Lee. And a few times “daisy” would have a few Cooors too. Next morn’n the sober one would go bail out Bo,Luke y et al.
Greetings, everyone. Nice to see you!
Hope everyone’s set for a lovely weekend.
That’s a fun picture.
How are you this evening? Is your weather any better?
Speaking of pictures where is one from NorthDakotaDemocrat??
Last I saw he was still playing with Manee’s troll.
Manee’s troll is still there? I was at work when I saw him first. I think.
just cornered him under the bridge. LMAO!
and so not a nerd. I was hoping to fool everybody. 😛
Then you’ll just have to stop having such a DuctapeFatwah sense of humor:
America is at war with an enemy that lurks, that sells fries and plans to stay.
Thanks for asking, dear. We’re doing fairly well, though I’ve got to admit I’m a bit beat this evening after today’s busyness. (Talk about grocery delivery! I’d certainly be very pleased to have someone carry my groceries a half-mile through the snow for me — though I’m afraid the necessary tip would be frightful).
The weather was certainly pleasant enough — temperatures hit about 50, with sunshine. ‘Tis true that miracles do occur. Of course, it does feel a bit chilly now that we’re well into the evening.
I basically expect the weather to be generally volatile ’til, oh, about June 5 – 10.
How’s your climate been?
I think you need to get a sled and a dog cart and some dogs. Then snow or not, you’ll have transport that you can snuggle with when it get cold.
We’re having an unusual January — much, much warmer and much, much wetter.
I’d certainly go for the dogs & sled before the usual suggestion, which is a snowmobile. Please! The noise from upland weekenders’ snow races tends to rattle my teacups — & the exhaust seems to hang in the air for the entire week after they’ve gone home.
Of course, any pups in my home would definitely distress my feline family members immensely — let alone, of course, that we really haven’t the proper space & will have even less space in future!
Some day, perhaps. There are certainly times when I’d like pups around — as in, thieving bands of bears & their messy leavings.
Same here on our wet winter (as I’m sure I’ve mentioned). After 20 years up here, I don’t remember so much rain in Jan.
Things are definitely changing.
Song — Artist — Album
Here On Earth (I’ll Have My Cake) — Crash Test Dummies — The Ghosts That Haunt Me
Sea Of Love — Katie Webster — The Swamp Boogie Queen
Skylark — Ella Fitzgerald — The Songbooks
Gold Mine — Take 6 — Take 6
32/20 Blues — Roy Rogers — Chops Not Chaps
Doin’ It — Professor Longhair — Mardi Gras In Baton Rouge
Ko Ko — Charlie Parker — BIRD -The Savoy Master Takes
Lord Protect My Child — Susan Tedeschi — Hope And Desire
(I’ll Never Be) Your Maggie May — Suzanne Vega — Songs In Red And Gray
Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright — Joan Baez — Ring Them Bells
I really like the FRT. Its a kick to see what other folks are listening to. But then, I think its fun to go to iTunes Music Store and look at the Celebrity Playlists.
Roy Rogers — what a hoot! mmm Ella and charlie parker. And Joan Baez.
Don’t know Professor Longhair or Katie Webster?
but it’s not that Roy Rogers. It’s this Roy Rogers who plays an incredible slide guitar.
Darn. I was picturing Roy and Dale sitting around on a hay bale singing some cowboy love songs.
Me too. But now that I remember the slide guitar Roy Rogers — he’s probably better than Roy and Dale.
I see Andi already told you that this Roy Rogers doesn’t have a Dale, but he does have a sidekick named Norton Buffalo who plays a mean harmonica.
Professor Longhair and Alan Toussaint are major figures in New Orleans music.
One of Katie Webster’s albums was called Two Fisted Mama. That about sums up her boogie-woogie piano style.
Why yes, but the way You told me was so much NICER. (Tell her that.)
Very cool. Roy & Norton are both dear old friends. Incredible musicians and great guys to boot. Regarding the other Roy Rogers…Did you know that Dale Evan’s recorded Percy Mayfield’s classic “Please Send Me Someone To Love?”
I’ve had the privilege of working with several fine New Orleans artists/musicians…Irma Thomas, Johnny Adams, Leo Nocentelli and Zig Modeliste, and the one and only Herman Ernest. Hung a little with Allen Toussaint at JazzFest. I am so glad I got to show my wife New Orleans.
Hey, I just went to the Midwest thread and asked you to come over here! And here you are already. Do you really play guitar for Etta James?
Norton is in the Bette Midler movie “The Rose”
‘Fess was one of a kind, RIP. Big Chief!!
I’m also nuts about the late great James Booker. Katie was also in Otis Redding’s road band.
Ooh, Crash Test Dummies are one of my faves. I love God Shuffled His Feet.
Just for you I had trail mix and a woodchuck cider for dinner. (And I mostly ate the m&m’s out of the trail mix.)
That’s more like it, Mary. You need to balance out the nutritious lunch with some swill for dinner. M&Ms work for me.
Please educate your pond-mate, maryb: what’s a woodchuck cider?
Obviously they put woodchucks through a press.
I think I’ve heard enough already ..
No there are no woodchucks harmed in the making of the cider. It’s a brand name for a draft cider out of Vermont. But you can buy it in bottles too.
just decided not to go over to your place and egg your car after all.
This reminds me of the time my ditzy sister and I were driving through a slightly woodsy area of Cleveland when we noticed a critter nibbling on something at the side of the road. My sister excitedly said “Oh look! A Ground Chuck!” We laughed so hard that we actually had to pull over to recover.
I’m still giggling at the literalism of your answer. And so deadpan. Perfect delivery.
O M G
I’m still catching my breath from that one!
I’m thinking we need to write to the cidery and tell them to put disclaimer on their product. Or they might get the PETA people picketing them.
Try saying that fast. Right after you recite How much Wood Coulda Woodchuck chuck …
Is that a very subtle joke? : )
Hey, give your wife a big sloppy kiss for me. Or, you know, a chaste little one, your choice.
Oh goody. He opted for the sloppy one.
The number of things he could do to elicit that response are nearly limitless.
What are you doing here? I sent you to bed 20 minutes ago!
She’s waiting to hear about Etta James.
I move very, very slowly (and I had to go mess with the woodstove).
Night, really.
Are you asking about the trail mix and cider? SN was telling us about her non-nutritious lunch earlier and I later said I had had soup and a sandwhich. So I was trying to make her feel better — I’m non-nutritious too.
Nope. I was just making a silly reference to the lyrics of “God Shuffled His Feet.”
Well, since everyone else is doing one…
Jesus Is Just Alright — Doobie Brothers
Tom Sawyer — Rush
The Last Worthless Evening — Don Henley
Something’s Happening — Herman’s Hermits
Where Have All the Flowers Gone — Peter, Paul & Mary
Michael from Mountains — Judy Collins
Lord, Every Nation On Earth Shall Adore You — John Michael Talbot
Fantasia 1 (Mudarra) — Terry Muska (album: Vihuela Fantasies – Roots of the Classical Guitar Series)
What Can I Say? — Boz Scaggs
Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood — Leroy Gomez
Was going to make pizza tonight, but (gasp!) couldn’t find the damn rolling pin. 🙁 That’ll go on the list for tomorrow along with getting mom-in-law’s birthday gift; I’m getting her a slow-cooker like the one I have — you set the time and temperature, then when it’s done it goes to “warm” mode so the food doesn’t overcook. It’s very awesome… 🙂 So, spouse is going out to get pizza; we’re having chicken, mushrooms and black olives as the topping, on the extra-thin “skinny crust”.
Going to stay home tomorrow night so I don’t give my cold germs to my dad-in-law who’s having back surgery next week…they’ve promised to send a piece of medicinal birthday cake home with the spouse… 🙂
Hope everyone has a good night…I’m turning in early after we eat…
Oh good,some of my favorites. Love the Doobies and Don Henley and P, P & M, AND Judy Collins. Oh my AND Boz Scaggs. and Herman’s Hermits.
I don’t know Leroy Gomez or John Michael Talbot.
Enjoy your pizza and I hope you feel better.
I vaguely remember medicinal brownies, but I don’t believe I’ve heard of medicinal cake 😉
Hope you’re back to full health soon, Cali.
I’m sorry, I’ve gotta shut this place down. It just ain’t fit any more!