What are you doing today?

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That would have gone well with the photo I enlarged and stuck out on my porch with a carved and battery-lit pumpkin one year. My cat Tevvi had earlier (and inadvertently) revealed herself in the process of gettin' her Halloween on:

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DT said:
Punch him in the neck, and when he hits the ground say: "Consider my feelings fucked ... how are you YOU feeling?"
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I’mma go out on a limb and suggest assaulting minors is perhaps 2nd or third best in the list of things you could do. Over a shirt. When they might be wearing it ironically.
 
DT said:
Engineering props but also listening - and continuously adding to on-the-fly - our Halloween music playlist:

The Toadies - Tyler
The Toadies - Possum Kingdom
Scissor Sisters – I Can’t Decide
Concrete Blonde - Bloodletting (The Vampire Song)
Rob Zombie - Pussy Liquor
Rob Zombie - Dragula
Rob Zombie - Living Deal Girl
Type O Negative - Black No. 1


Hmm ....

Maybe I'll just share my ongoing Apple Music playlist :D
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Thumbs up for Black No 1 - a classic! (Off a Classic TON Album).
 
Finally we got to ride to a fireworks show. we have been waiting for that since we bought our tandem. nothing like fireworks on halloween. it was a local amusement park. only 5 miles away. went trick or treating with our granddaughter for the first time. she was so excited I had forgotten how much kids like it. she scored a 4oz Hershey base on her first trick or treat.
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Got my flu shot, for some reason it really stung going in this time but of all the vaccines this year it was the easiest.
 
Eric said:
Got my flu shot, for some reason it really stung going in this time but of all the vaccines this year it was the easiest.
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Liteweight.

Real idiots go for a flu shot in one arm, and the covid booster in ‘tother…
 
fooferdoggie said:
Finally we got to ride to a fireworks show. we have been waiting for that since we bought our tandem. nothing like fireworks on halloween. it was a local amusement park. only 5 miles away. went trick or treating with our granddaughter for the first time. she was so excited I had forgotten how much kids like it. she scored a 4oz Hershey base on her first trick or treat.
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Bit early for bonfire night fireworks
 
Thomas Veil said:
I got a notification on my medical app that they want me to get a flu vaccine and a pneumonia vaccine. They also want blood work.

I know I said I don't mind, but I'm starting to feel like a pin cushion.
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I hear you! I'm 4 in so far this year, the pneumonia should last you a few years though.
 
I usually would have gotten 4/5 hours of sleep and been up no later than 5 a.m. to report for Election Day work. But I haven't stepped inside a polling place since the Pandemic. The first few weeks in they tried placing me away from my usual polling place, inside a nursing home for a Special Election. There was no way that I was putting myself in harm's way when the BOE couldn't tell us how they were going to install protection protocols and there were expected staffing shortfalls.

So I'm spending most of the day relaxing, reading books. Enjoyed a nice long lunch of Ziti with broccoli and grilled chicken, and some garlic bread. I've been salivating about it for a couple days after I was reminded the local joint makes it fresh for me as they know how picky I am about my pasta. Lots of fresh sliced garlic, olive oil and the pasta done al dente, not cooked beyond recognition.

About to burn off all those calories with a long-ish speed walk around the park.

Then later tonight I'll probably begin the post-mortem on the Virginia and NJ elections. A few think the GOP will win back VA (governorship and legislature) and pick up seats in New Jersey. I'm optimistic about VA* all around, and think NJ is a safe bet for Dems to retain their current leadership/lead. Murphy will probably win by close to double digits according to some internal forecasts. I'm hoping that there aren't any large-scale voter suppression of the Black vote. But it wouldn't surprise me none.

Here in NYC, I expect no surprises. I think Curtis Sliwa will do better than expected, but Adams will be only the 2nd Black mayor of Gotham and will have a tough time turning around the city in the face of the Pandemic and the mess De Blasio is leaving to clean up.

* a couple people predicted GOP shenanigans if it's close, especially if it boils down to mail-in ballots and/or contested ballots.
 
Sliwa, geez. I remember him from days of readiness to do vigilante justice in the trains.

"He's still out on the street?"​
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"Nah, he has a studio apartment now, with a (fourth) wife and 17 cats."​

This is the best the Rs could come up with? Gotta love it how all the Wall St millionaires living on the upper East Side, Soho or wherever else has by now been gentrified seem too busy minding their tax-sheltered profits to run for public office as a Republican, no matter how loudly they complain about the state of the city.

Well but voter reggies in the city do run something like 7 to 1 Dem. Hope at least half of them turn out.
 
lizkat said:
Sliwa, geez. I remember him from days of readiness to do vigilante justice in the trains.

"He's still out on the street?"​
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"Nah, he has a studio apartment now, with a (fourth) wife and 17 cats."​

This is the best the Rs could come up with? Gotta love it how all the Wall St millionaires living on the upper East Side, Soho or wherever else has by now been gentrified seem too busy minding their tax-sheltered profits to run for public office as a Republican, no matter how loudly they complain about the state of the city.

Well but voter reggies in the city do run something like 7 to 1 Dem. Hope at least half of them turn out.
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The Rs had the choice between two criminal bums. I'm sure Sliwa will parley this huge loss into some opportunity elsewhere. Oy!
 
ronntaylor said:
Here in NYC, I expect no surprises. I think Curtis Sliwa will do better than expected,
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lizkat said:
Sliwa, geez. I remember him from days of readiness to do vigilante justice in the trains.

"He's still out on the street?""Nah, he has a studio apartment now, with a (fourth) wife and 17 cats."
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My reaction when I first heard his name yesterday. I’ve been out of NY for many years now, but who could forget Sliwa and the Guardian Angels. Looks like he really fell on hard times if he went R.
 
Alli said:
My reaction when I first heard his name yesterday. I’ve been out of NY for many years now, but who could forget Sliwa and the Guardian Angels. Looks like he really fell on hard times if he went R.
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He was always a bum chasing the limelight. His infamous fake assaults and his beret wearing gang making homophobic and racist comments (not to mention assaults) should haunt him the rest of his miserable, cat piss-filled life.
 
ronntaylor said:
He was always a bum chasing the limelight. His infamous fake assaults and his beret wearing gang making homophobic and racist comments (not to mention assaults) should haunt him the rest of his miserable, cat piss-filled life.
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If I lived in NYC, I would have voted for Adams.
 
ronntaylor said:
He was always a bum chasing the limelight. His infamous fake assaults and his beret wearing gang making homophobic and racist comments (not to mention assaults) should haunt him the rest of his miserable, cat piss-filled life.
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He has an absurd character. I've been having a difficult time deciphering what's a joke and what's serious about him.
 
P_X said:
He has an absurd character. I've been having a difficult time deciphering what's a joke and what's serious about him.
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Could say the same thing about the GOP in NYC politics at this point. That Sliwa ended up the Rs' choice for this ballot is incomprehensible to me even given the strong Dem lean of the city.

On the other hand, half-a-Clintonista but now "Republican" and pro-Trump fat cat Catsimatidis was no prize either, and might even have drawn more votes against Adams than Sliwa if he'd won the primary, who knows.

All so weird. Adams a good pick for the Dems, hope he can ride steady in a really challenging job.
 
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