Random stupid things on your mind. Post them.

[Camazotz Automat]

Wow... I hope not.  I watched the TCM interview of her after they telecast "Vertigo," not too long ago.  She sounded pretty good but, very sadly, she hasn't aged well due to some unfortunate plastic surgery.  Her interview was quite interesting.  It's too bad she pretty much hung it up as a major screen actress at a fairly early age.   Both her and Grace Kelly, very classy ladies on the screen.

Thanks for the secret Woodmen Of the World handshake greeting, ItsOver.

Fortunately, I've never believed myself a reincarnation of Nostradamus (unlike the what's his name Nostradamusblowhard that got pissed at Art recently.)

I had a gut feeling and I'm going on record with it so I can be called out later as a charlatan - said gut feeling almost certainly induced by the recent viewing of the amazingly underrated and relatively unknown Satan's Triangle.

[aldousburbank]

170,707 Posts in 3,216 Topics by 2,406 Members
That's a lot.

[Juan]

blabberfingers

[stevesh]

Who else but Omar Epps in the title role of The Mike Tomlin Story ?

[lonevoice]

A variety of wildlife likes to look in my windows.   There’s a deck on the second floor with sliding glass doors that open from the family room onto the deck.  There’s about a 10-foot staircase, fairly steep, with 15 steps going down from the deck to the ground below.   Squirrels and chipmunks find their way up the stairs and onto the deck every day, and often spend time looking into the windows during their visits.  A variety of larger birds, such as magpies, crows and the occasional horned owl, like to land on the deck and sometimes look through the sliding glass windows into the family room as well. 

The last few weeks there have been some unusual wildlife visitors on the deck spying through the windows.  The first oddball was a turkey.  There are large flocks of turkeys around the house almost every day, so that’s not unusual.    But, in the years I’ve lived here, there has never been a turkey that climbed the stairs to get onto the deck before.  This guy was just standing there on the deck staring in the window until my dog launched from his bed and went nose-to-beak with him through the glass.   As long as I live I will regret not having a video camera handy to film a turkey walking down a flight of steps.  I've never seen anything like it.  It was the most awkward-looking Ichabod Crane-like thing I could have imagined, and my stomach hurt from laughing so hard. 

Last week it was a marmot peering at me through the slider, another new visitor to the deck.  This guy seemed rather determined to get in the house.  He spent a good 15-20 minutes pacing the length of the deck looking for a way in.  Each time he returned to the slider he’d stop, press his front paws against the glass and stare at me. 

Last night there was a raccoon voyeur standing on the deck with his nose pressed against the glass slider who looked for all the world like he was watching the television in the family room.  He only watched for 5 or 10 minutes before looking bored and climbing back down the stairs and making his way off into the woods.   

I’m thinking this recent parade of unusual critters going to some trouble to climb the stairs and stare into the windows might be predicting a freakishly cold winter.  Either that, or my family room is a portal. 

[ItsOver]

...I’m thinking this recent parade of unusual critters going to some trouble to climb the stairs and stare into the windows.....

Have you seen one of these unusual critters yet?

[lonevoice]

Have you seen one of these unusual critters yet?

Haha.  If Peeping Tommy finds his way onto the deck to stare at me through the windows, I swear, as much as I love living here, I will move.  Be warned, Peeping Tommy!

Edited to Add:  This is almost as creepy...

Gnoory
Date Registered: August 12, 2013, 08:43:27 PM
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[Heather Wade]

Last week it was a marmot peering at me through the slider, another new visitor to the deck.  This guy seemed rather determined to get in the house.  He spent a good 15-20 minutes pacing the length of the deck looking for a way in.  Each time he returned to the slider he’d stop, press his front paws against the glass and stare at me. 

I'm guessing you've got some wonderful food they can smell, ha haa.

Marmots.  They are real.  I had a boyfriend leave me over marmots.  Saw one run away in the woods, and exclaimed, "Chase that marmot!"  Just joking, because a Miwok I knew as a kid used to say that if we saw one during hunting or whatever.
Well, b/f at the time was a city-boy.  Did not realize how much until I said that word.  He swore I made it up, there's no such thing as a marmot, you're showing your hillbilly roots, omg I have a hillbilly g/f, etc.  He actually got angry about it.  Most bizarre thing, really.

Random.  And stupid.  For the record, I am half Chinese and half Okie.  lol, Hillbillies are from Appalachia.  Total idiot weirdo; who doesn't know about marmots??   :

[lonevoice]

If your b/f didn't know what a marmot was, he wasn't smart enough to be with you anyway.  I'd have taken him hiking into the woods and yelled, "Chase that wolf!" and left him there.   

[Heather Wade]

If your b/f didn't know what a marmot was, he wasn't smart enough to be with you anyway.  I'd have taken him hiking into the woods and yelled, "Chase that wolf!" and left him there.   

My thinking exactly.     (See?  I knew this was the forum for me.)

Your deck sounds like a cool place to hang out.

[UnscreenedCaller]

...  And I promise you will never see Olivia in an eggshell. 

Bless you for that. Bless you.

[UnscreenedCaller]

The last few weeks there have been some unusual wildlife visitors on the deck spying through the windows.  The first oddball was a turkey.  There are large flocks of turkeys around the house almost every day, so that’s not unusual.    But, in the years I’ve lived here, there has never been a turkey that climbed the stairs to get onto the deck before.  This guy was just standing there on the deck staring in the window until my dog launched from his bed and went nose-to-beak with him through the glass.   As long as I live I will regret not having a video camera handy to film a turkey walking down a flight of steps.  I've never seen anything like it.  It was the most awkward-looking Ichabod Crane-like thing I could have imagined, and my stomach hurt from laughing so hard. 

There is something not too bright about a turkey who is trying to get in the house before Thanksgiving. Turkey: you is doing it wrong!

[Chine]

There is something not too bright about a turkey who is trying to get in the house before Thanksgiving. Turkey: you is doing it wrong!

Was just thinking the same... LV, too funny!

[ChewMouse]

My son emailed me an interesting link, "The Box Of Crazy."

I don't think it's crazy, exactly, but it is interesting.

Wait. It is kind of crazy.

Take a look if you have some time.

[bateman]

This Irish coffee is strongggggggggg.

[West of the Rockies]

Oh, dreadful news, BGers... Doug Hutchison and Courtney Stodden are calling it quits.  If those two crazy kids can't make it work, what chance do the rest of us have?  Man, I sure didn't see this coming....

[ChewMouse]

  If those two crazy kids can't make it work, what chance do the rest of us have?

Once in awhile, a post just hits me right. That sentence is priceless, I'm still laughing as I type this. I nominate it for the BellGab banner.

[Treading Water]

Once in awhile, a post just hits me right. That sentence is priceless, I'm still laughing as I type this. I nominate it for the BellGab banner.

I'll second that.

Oh, no!  What else can go wrong?? 

[bateman]

A divorcee at 19. Wow.



Also: that is some serious body dysmorphic disorder going on there. I can only imagine what she's gonna look like at 40. Hint: Google Jocelyn Wildenstein.

[West of the Rockies]

Once in awhile, a post just hits me right. That sentence is priceless, I'm still laughing as I type this. I nominate it for the BellGab banner.

Thank you, Chew Mouse (and Treading Water) for your kind remark.  Pop culture is so strange; I guess a mature man making a fool of himself over some young thing is nothing new though.

[Chine]

I miss sleeplessinca! 

[TumbleWeed]

A divorcee at 19. Wow.



Also: that is some serious body dysmorphic disorder going on there. I can only imagine what she's gonna look like at 40. Hint: Google Jocelyn Wildenstein.

She's going to die in a dumpster someday. Serious mental illness there.

[Camazotz Automat]

Odometer reading on cross country ski machine: 296 miles

[Chine]

Worked my ass off today and it feels good. I fookin love what I do. A painting almost lost on route to a client in Norway. Thank God she got it. Buying a new car and stoked about that. I pop into BellGab, both Art and George posting on separate threads? Can't keep up on posts, but never a dull moment. Organic gluten free veggie lasagna for dinner. Nice chilly early evening.

[aldousburbank]

Word to the weird. Shit happens. Shit happens more and stranger during mercury retrograde. It furthers one to take extra care in keeping one's balance through the 10th day.

[West of the Rockies]

Worked my ass off today and it feels good. I fookin love what I do. A painting almost lost on route to a client in Norway. Thank God she got it. Buying a new car and stoked about that. I pop into BellGab, both Art and George posting on separate threads? Can't keep up on posts, but never a dull moment. Organic gluten free veggie lasagna for dinner. Nice chilly early evening.

Oh, here's to good lasagne on a cool autumn evening!  Now, throw in a glass of red, a stick of Nag Champa and some good sci-fi, and I'm very happy.

[UnscreenedCaller]

Waitin' for the dust to settle and all the recent dust bunnies to blow out the front door, speaking metaphorically.

[Eddie Coyle]

Waitin' for the dust to settle and all the recent dust bunnies to blow out the front door, speaking metaphorically.

       My allergies are acting up.

[aldousburbank]

       My allergies are acting up.

Fuckin Eddie. I was just getting used to keep on truckin'.

[Eddie Coyle]

Fuckin Eddie. I was just getting used to keep on truckin'.

      Me too...but for some odd reason, blind loyalty to a cult like figure has crept to me muddled head.