Althouse: At the Green Grass Café...

October 10, 2011

At the Green Grass Café...

... I need a break!

46 comments:

rhhardin said...: Raining cats and dogs; 10/10/11, 12:53 PM
sakredkow said...: That looks rejuvenating.; 10/10/11, 12:58 PM
Curious George said...: Ha! I'd prefer a hammock but yeah.; 10/10/11, 1:00 PM
traditionalguy said...: You look marvelous, dahling.; 10/10/11, 1:00 PM
Wince said...: "Christ, seven years of blogging down the drain.

I might as well join the fucking Peace Corp."; 10/10/11, 1:02 PM
MadisonMan said...: For some reason, I thought of snow angels, and the fact that they'll be make-able in 2 short months.; 10/10/11, 1:02 PM
Joe said...: (The Uncredentialed, Crypto Jew)

Zombie Althouse?; 10/10/11, 1:02 PM
Anonymous said...: Just came back from a fantastic break with the POTUS re-election team. We had a barbecue and we talked about the 100-days of the 2nd term. The draft version 7 was what we discussed. The GOP has no clue how fast, ahead, and dedicated we are to WINNING. Even Charlie Sheen cannot imagine this, even if he took one-too-many drugs. We are ahead of the GOP.; 10/10/11, 1:03 PM
Anonymous said...: Dirty lazy good for nothing Madison hippie taking a break from protesting.; 10/10/11, 1:05 PM
AlanKH said...: Is it too early for leaf angels?; 10/10/11, 1:05 PM
Anonymous said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 10/10/11, 1:12 PM
Anonymous said...: For now I guess you can relax in enjoyment with your green grass like that. Expect our Regime to outlaw it soon, using the blunt bludgeon of the Commerce Clause.

Soon you will lay back on your lawn, only to be met by an iconic American SWAT team ready to imprison your lazy Professorial ass.

Taking a break is un-American. You need to get up and make money so the Regime can take it and give it to Bank of America.; 10/10/11, 1:14 PM
edutcher said...: You had a rough night last night.

It's not easy being house mother, I guess.

But - is it really that warm up there, to be laying on the ground?

(my mother would have freaked if she saw me laying on the ground in the middle of Oxtober); 10/10/11, 1:22 PM
Peter V. Bella said...: A break from what?; 10/10/11, 1:24 PM
Triangle Man said...: Soon you will lay back on your lawn, only to be met by an iconic American SWAT team ready to imprison your lazy Professorial ass.

What a quaint notion of personal property to maintain! Kelo baby! That grass will be needed for a greater purpose.; 10/10/11, 1:25 PM
Triangle Man said...: But - is it really that warm up there, to be laying on the ground?

It is 75 F right now. We're going on two weeks of unbelievably nice weather.; 10/10/11, 1:26 PM
Triangle Man said...: It is 75 F right now. We're going on two weeks of unbelievably nice weather.

Governor Walker should really get the credit for the weather. We never had anything this nice before he was elected.; 10/10/11, 1:28 PM
Anonymous said...: Oh is that Althouse? She looks so young and thin, mistaken identity.; 10/10/11, 1:29 PM
chickelit said...: Being less prone to pro-state positions, the supine Althouse opines lying down.; 10/10/11, 1:34 PM
Ann Althouse said...: "But - is it really that warm up there, to be laying on the ground?"

I don't know about laying on the ground, but it was fine for lying on the ground -- about 70°.; 10/10/11, 1:36 PM
Meade said...: You are excused for your gratuitously insulting honest mistake, Mitochondri-Allie. Most of the 2011 Madison protesters have been neither young nor thin.; 10/10/11, 1:41 PM
Curious George said...: "Ann Althouse said...

I don't know about laying on the ground..."

Call Meade and find out ;-); 10/10/11, 1:42 PM
Fred4Pres said...: You do look marvelous!; 10/10/11, 1:43 PM
chickelit said...: Plenty of pop lyricists have confused "to lie" and "to lay" -- Bob Dylan, Pet Townshend among others.; 10/10/11, 1:48 PM
chickelit said...: "Pete" Townshend. lol; 10/10/11, 1:49 PM
MadisonMan said...: Governor Walker should really get the credit for the weather. We never had anything this nice before he was elected.

We had weather just like this a year ago.; 10/10/11, 1:51 PM
Ron said...: "Althouse named co-blogging czar....with Andrew Sullivan"; 10/10/11, 1:52 PM
Leland said...: Are you starting a grassroots movement, or just taking a crack at those of us suffering a Texas drought?

Happy to know you were just lying on the ground. Too bad for Meade.; 10/10/11, 1:59 PM
edutcher said...: Ann Althouse said...

"But - is it really that warm up there, to be laying on the ground?"

I don't know about laying on the ground, but it was fine for lying on the ground -- about 70°.

So it's basically what we have here.

PS Any way you want it, Madame.

I guess I was just being intransitive.; 10/10/11, 2:37 PM
Meade said...: "We had weather just like *this* a year ago. "

Before Walker, we had too many days with unbearably high temperatures. Before Walker, it had been unbearably long since the Packers won the Super Bowl, the Brewers played for the pennant, and the Badgers went to Pasadena.

Before Walker, Wisconsin was barely even on.; 10/10/11, 2:37 PM
David said...: Censored.; 10/10/11, 2:40 PM
Mark O said...: "Girls Lean Back Everywhere."; 10/10/11, 2:44 PM
BJM said...: Want to know where folks are migrating to & from? Some of the data is surprising, here's the US:

MigrationMap

[Click on a country to change focus & data sets.]

h/t Metafilter; 10/10/11, 2:46 PM
MadisonMan said...: Meade, July 2011 (with Gov Walker) was the 7th warmest July on record in Madison, far warmer than July 2010 (pre-Walker).; 10/10/11, 2:46 PM
I'm Full of Soup said...: Mad Man is struggling mightily to beat back even the faintest praise of Gov. Walker.; 10/10/11, 2:54 PM
edutcher said...: BJM said...

Want to know where folks are migrating to & from? Some of the data is surprising, here's the US:

MigrationMap

Interesting, but they should have used a second color for departures in the interests of contrast.; 10/10/11, 2:55 PM
Meade said...: MadisonMan, July in Madison is supposed to be warm. The Good Lord made it that way so we can grow (if only barely) ripe tomatoes. I shouldn't have to explain this to you - you're a weather expert.

October, is suppose to be perfect.

And it is.

Thanks to Governor Walker!; 10/10/11, 3:10 PM
MadisonMan said...: Meade, this October, so far, is a carbon copy of last October, shifted about 2 days (2 days later this year vs. last).

Except for the Brewers. The Brewers post-season October run definitely reflects poorly on Gov. Doyle and well on Gov. Walker.; 10/10/11, 3:14 PM
Meade said...: Yes.; 10/10/11, 3:33 PM
Dust Bunny Queen said...: Until today the weather has been fabulous for mid October. Mid 60's and low 70's. Usually we are freeze protecting properties by now. But, still it is just a light drizzle and in the low60's

Still have some tomatoes that are getting ripening. Tons of apples to pick, pears and quinces. Still working on the last of the Italian Prune Plums.

Since it is an inside day: I've been baking all day and making a GIANT pot of marinara sauce from the tomatoes in the garden.

Life is pretty good right now. Enjoy the beautiful weather and gorgeous world we have been given.

Rejoice in what you have and do not dwell on what you don't have.

:-D; 10/10/11, 5:04 PM
deborah said...: "Rejoice in what you have and do not dwell on what you don't have."

Thank you, Louisa May Alcott :)

(I just re-read An Old-fashioned Girl.); 10/10/11, 5:07 PM
Titus said...: You look Fantastic Helen. You have definitely lost weight, not that you needed to.

But lets face it you can never bee too thin and gorgeous.

What have you been doing?

Have you found your Lotus Notes Position/; 10/10/11, 6:40 PM
Titus said...: It was 85 here today.

I was at the beach at Nahant and Swampscott, totally fab.

Dog's are allowed on the beach now!

I saw tons of Muzzies. Almost everyone that walked by spoke a different language.

Boston is so International.

So many hot guys with amazing bodies.

The rare clumber was very popular, natch.

Tits.; 10/10/11, 6:43 PM
chickelit said...: Mad Man is struggling mightily to beat back even the faintest praise of Gov. Walker.

I imagine that it's very hard to support someone orthogonal to the selfish interests of the University.; 10/10/11, 7:57 PM
Blair said...: Just lie back and think of Wisconsin... :-P; 10/10/11, 9:50 PM
ken in tx said...: Hey Titus, how about those Russian Mafia guys. Did you know the Boston library has one whole floor devoted to Russian language books? If you say 'dos vedanya' when you step off the subway, half the people on the car will look to see if they know you.; 10/11/11, 12:44 PM