TGIF open thread

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Yay!

Yay!

It’s FRIDAY!!!

Sadly, it took me four tries to type “FRIDAY.”  :|

Who has big plans for the weekend?  Little plans?  No plans…?

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107 thoughts on “TGIF open thread”

  1. Here in Wisconsin it’s Fryday, as in fish fry. It is sort of a state tradition, a holdover from the old Catholic meatless Fridays in Lent.

    Plans for the weekend…clear out the old growth from last year in the weed and flower beds. Then treat myself by digging out my motorcycle and going for a spin.

    Then meatloaf on the grill and a batch of my world famous coleslaw with jicama and horseradish. Followed by a movie, leaning towards the Dustin Hoffman/Emme Thompson one or a dip in the cesspool.

    Sunday is too far away to even think about, let alone plan.

    • Happy Fryday, Med!

      Sounds like a nice Saturday. Is that movie the one that was out recently? It was named something funny, and I can’t remember it. I wanted to see it, but it never came here, and I wasn’t driving to Spokane to see a movie.

      I’m dying to get my pots filled with tomato plants, but it’s still too cold at night. I’m not hauling the things inside every night!

  2. And to you as well, Zooey.

    ‘Last Chance Harvey’ (I had to look up the name). It looks like what would probably be called a chick flick but with the way things are going these days, I’m not in the mood for action or drama. A few laughs and a nice story sounds about right. Besides, the new Wolverine movie is coming for that kind of excitement.

    I hear you on hauling plants around. We had snow here this past week and they’re talking 80 and humid today. Isn’t the north country fun?

    • That’s the name of it. I should put that in my Netflix queue. I love Emma Thompson.

      We’re having the opposite weather here. We were up to 77 degrees on Tuesday, and we had heavy frost this morning. No snow, thank goodness.

  3. You are on the other side of the world, probably a two day lag between your weather and mine.

    I’m also an Emma fan but even more of a Dustin fan. He hasn’t made too many bad movies and his good-great movies are always entertaining. I was glad I had kids when Hook came out. He and Robin were a hoot in that one.

    • Well, brace yourself for some colder weather. :)

      Dustin Hoffman kind of annoys me. I think it’s his voice. I loved him in Rainman, but couldn’t stand to watch the movie more than once because I can’t stand Tom Cruise. Hoffman was just SO spot on with his portrayal of a man with autism.

  4. I still haven’t figured out why anyone thinks Cruise can act. The only movie he ever made I could tolerate was Top Gun and then only because he was playing an obnoxious character with a good supporting cast. The music was pretty good too.

  5. May L Ron enjoy his front seat in hell.

    If a scifi writer had to be taken seriously why couldn’t have been Asimov or Clarke or Heinlein?

  6. Sadly, whatever the beginnings, he really did come to believe it. Belief is a scary thing.

    He also got a shitpot full of money which seems to consolidate belief.

  7. I don’t know, I had no problem with her caterpillars. When she sings, she could be a quad amputee dwarf from the planet Arcturus raised by lizards.

    I actually find it sad they feel she needed a makeover to be socially acceptable.

    • You’re right about that voice. She’s amazing.

      I found the caterpillars distracting, and most girls like to look their best. I’m glad she did it. She doesn’t seem like the kind of woman that would change her looks if she didn’t want to.

  8. Dustin Hoffman? Ishtar – that’s all you need to know.

    Now, James Woods, there’s a dude who has *never* made a bad film…

  9. my wife and i are going to have screaming, sweaty “jungle sex”, then build a homemade pizza and sit on the patio and dine.

    tomorrow the gardening starts in earnest. a plot for us and a large plot for donation to the local food pantry.

  10. bless you fatherbob for your gardening and TYVM for reminding us poor unfortunates about the lack of ‘jungle sex’ in our lives. :)

  12. “”TYVM for reminding us poor unfortunates about the lack of ‘jungle sex’ in our lives.”"

    all you have to do is MAKE it happen! life is short, grab that woman/man/goat and have some fun!!

  14. Tedesco concedes! Democrat Scott Murphy wins in New York, replacing Kathleen Gillibrand, who replaced Hilary Clinton as Senator from New York.

  15. Music night? Some Moody Blues, maybe? Or Pink Floyd? Or maybe a Parrot party with Buffet?

  16. Hi all,

    We hoped to go hiking this weekend but we got more snow on Wednesday. This will make the trails muddy and slippery. We hoped to start some yard work but we got more snow on Wednesday. This makes the grass and flower beds inaccessible.

    Jungle sex! Ok now that’s a distinct possibility. So that takes care of 10 minutes!

    Likely to happen, hang out this evening with some beer and wine. Saturday, clean the house, get groceries, visit the in-laws, watch the Flames game. Sunday, go out for lunch with some other people (not sure who yet) then, with crappy weather in the forecast, watch some TiVo’d programs. Disperse numerous walks with the dogs and that’s it, what we live for!

  18. We could meet halfway, say Great Falls, Zooey. Oh wait, my wife is raising some objections. Besides, long drive for 10 minutes!

  22. Which one of y’all is Vituperation Toxicity?
    I need a list of all these aliases being used at TP!

    • Sorry, Med. I missed your question about the music. Anytime you like, my dear. Your wish is my command…in terms of music. ;)

  24. Must mean she wants to get down and nasty. Is there a market for fillet o’troll?

    • Oh, if I only had time. ;)

      As a Christmas gift, I gave a friend one dinner a month for a year — tonight is April’s dinner. Yummy pot roast, with onions, garlic, carrots, potatoes, and topping it off, sauteed mushrooms. I just threw it in the oven, so it’s on it’s own for a while. Now I have to clean this dump.

  25. In re: Tom Cruise. The only films in which he is tolerable (other than Minority Report) are those in which he plays opposite real actors. For some reason, they get the best out of him. By this I mean Paul Newman in The Color of Money, Hoffman in Rain Man, and um, er. That’s it.

    In re: Dustin Hoffman. He’s done. He’s been done since 1988; he just hasn’t realized it. One of the finest actors of the 60s, 70s and 80s, now he’s just pathetic.

    In re: James Woods. TerryTheTurtle is 100% correct. Even truly stupid movies gain cred because Woods is in them. As far as I’m concerned, though, if the only movie he’d ever made was John Carpenter’s Vampires, he’d be a god.

    • Are you serious, gummitch? I think James Woods sucks — especially in the vampire movie.

      You know who’s good? Edward Norton.

  26. Ok, Woods is awesome. And incredibly entertaining.
    Even if he couldn’t quit staring at Dolly Parton’s tits.

    Writing Hoffman off as done is sort of like saying Alec Guinness was a hack for Star Wars.

    Why is it Cruise starred across from two of the best actors of the modern age and both movies barely got reviews?

  27. Zooey, it is moose, not dear. And we can discuss the rest when ND joins Texas. ;)

  28. John Carpenter’s Vampire, great film, loved the score, it was hammed up enough to be very entertaining. In the same way Kurt Russell slays them all in Big Trouble… Come on Zoo, James Woods – Ghosts of Mississippi, Diggstown, the Hard Way and the film where he plays McCarthy’s toady… James Woods rocks.

    Back to Cruise – ‘Born on the 4th of July’, an island of acting pathos is a career of frat-boy self-portrayal…..

    Like some Edward Norton though…

  30. “an island of acting pathos is a career of frat-boy self-portrayal…..”

    “an island of acting pathos *in* a career of frat-boy self-portrayal…..

    fuckety-fuck typo

  31. I’m still sitting here in shock. How could anyone hate Woods? and hate Vampires?

    Zooey probably hates Big Trouble in Little China! Oh, the shame of it.

  38. Gum, I see him as something of a character actor. He supports very well just like Tom Mitchell.

  39. Jack Burton: When some wild-eyed, eight-foot-tall maniac grabs your neck, taps the back of your favorite head up against the barroom wall, and he looks you crooked in the eye and he asks you if ya paid your dues, you just stare that big sucker right back in the eye, and you remember what ol’ Jack Burton always says at a time like that: “Have ya paid your dues, Jack?” “Yessir, the check is in the mail.”

  40. Or Ed Norton.

    Why would an actor choose a name from the most famous sewer rat in American history?

  42. “Sit tight, hold the fort and keep the home fires burning, if I’m not back by morning, call the President!”

    So Zooey, sweaty jungle sex with James Woods is not happening this weekend then huh?

  46. i’ll have to post the picture of the sex swing i adapted to the ceiling fan…….you’ll all have to have one!!…….aiiIiiiiiiiaaaaaahhhiiiaaaahhhhhh (Tarzan yell)

    • Heh. We’re all looking forward to those pictures, fatherbob. :D

      Srsly, I’m leaving now…but I’ll be back. Fair warning.

  47. Med, James Woods led from the front in Diggstown and his Roy Cohn in Citizen Cohn was awesome, and for a 4ft ferret, astounding !

  48. Role-play huh FB. Maybe my weekend can be dedicated to seeing if a 4ft ferret can git some….

  49. Don’t get me wrong, I like Woods. A lot. He is a talented actor. He could be a first tier star if Hollywood wasn’t so fascinated with pretty. Which he ain’t.

  50. Fatherbob, back in my day their were urban legends about something called a basket….something to do with a ceiling fan and a suspended basket.

    Urban legend, mind you.

  51. Whoo hoo! Thanks to Walt I can hit youtube for tunes. Don’t know how to share though…big bummer.

    • Med, if you’d like to chose several songs, I’ll be back in 30-45 minutes to post them.

      FSM, that pot roast is smelling yummy…

  63. Well, The Dead are in town this weekend (for the first time in 5 years) and we’re heading to MSG in NY tomorrow to see Bobby, Phil, Mickey, Billy, Warren and the rest of the band. To get ready for the show, have 11.11.73 (Winterland) cranking. It helps to take my mind off torture.

  64. What’s your pint TerryHusseinTurtle? Mine is from a growler, fresh Weyerbacher Hops Infusion.

  65. T storms rolling through so time to sign off. Thanks again for the music and the company all.

  66. I’m watching Keith Olbermann. My brother is yelling at me about how “if you don’t fucking prosecute these torturers, then there’s no rule of law and it will fucking happen a-fucking-gain! Fuck it! “—like this is my fault ! :D
    ( It’s how we discuss politics, we yell at each other as though we were on different sides. It reduce the risk of heart attacks. :D ).

  68. My plans for this weekend? Tonight I’m just drained from this past week, and wasn’t in the mood for more political news. Watched some of the Mets game, Santana got the win. I need baseball to focus on: it helps, even though it’s my break-your-heart Mets, to know that one thing hasn’t changed so drastically in the last eight years.

    Tomorrow I hope to do some weeding and plant some dahlias that a friend gave me. Probably watch baseball. Sunday Wayne and I may be going to a local brunch where our Congressman, John Hall, is supposed to be in attendance.

    It’s supposed to be a hot weekend here, 80s and sunny both days. Today was perfect for me, upper-60s/low 70s, sunny with a light breeze. The apple orchards next to our office are juuust starting to bloom. Soon there’ll be an entire hillside of apple blossoms, so I’ll try to get some pictures.

    I’m off to enjoy an episode of Stargate: Atlantis – this one has Dave Foley (Kids In The Hall), along with Bill Nye the Science Guy, and Neil DeGrasse-Tyson (sp?) guest-starring as themselves. Fun!

    See y’all tomorrow.

  69. Damn it I couldn’t come up with anything good to freegan tonight and I have sort of a dinner date that I have to cook for tomorrow and she knows I know how to cook…

  71. Hmmm…

    Got the place ALLLLL to myself…

    Well well well…

    Let’s see what’s in the ole frig…

    Tee hee…

  72. Huh?

    Ooops…

    ***guilty glances at all the empty dishes and jars strewn about…***

    Heh… didn’t think anyone was here.

    Hey… stale or not, there’s no such thing as a BAD blubber bit… just means they’ve been ***aged**…

  73. Dust?

    That’s the least of my concerns…

    Remember… I’m a polar bear.

    We’re EXPERTS on carrion…

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