As far as dogs are concerned(well, from the looks of it...)?

Those "Junior..." sized soccer balls from Target.

losthighway wrote: Sun Apr 14, 2024 10:25 pm

Wood Goblin wrote: Sun Apr 14, 2024 7:46 pm

penningtron wrote: Sun Apr 14, 2024 7:05 pm Libraries, especially checking out music from the library.

Good answer!

Amen. Every time I walk out of my local library with books for my kids, a novel for myself and a DVD of a film I wanted to see and the cool ass, friendly security guard guy gives me a wave. The people at the desk are these awesome dorks who just love knowing shit and helping people find things. That's what I pay my fucking taxes for!

A couple of years ago, just before Christmas, I went to the library to check out some books to read while I was with family for the holidays. I think the books were:
- the Road, Cormac McCarthy
- Collected short fiction of Flannery O'Connor
- Johnny Got His Gun, Dalton Trumbo
- In Cold Blood, Truman Capote
- The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers

The bespectacled young woman behind the counter spread the books out across the counter, so that all of the titles were facing me like an accusation, peered over her glasses and said to me "A little light holiday reading, then?"

Library workers are the nation's conscience, honestly.

numberthirty wrote: Wed Apr 17, 2024 10:28 pm Anne Marie Griffin as a backing vocalist.

Verbena.

This right here.

penningtron wrote: Sun Apr 14, 2024 7:05 pm Libraries, especially checking out music from the library.

And you can get things from other branches so easily, and quickly, and wait lists and... people took the inherent organization and built on it without making it stupid. To libraries!

The first eight Rush albums on this forum.

Dave N. wrote: Sat Apr 27, 2024 2:29 am The first eight Rush albums on this forum.

I'll vouch for this. Also, I love the cover.

[Rush - Fly by Night - "Anthem"]

Genuinely think the second 8 Rush albums are better than the first 8.

Dave N. wrote: Sat Apr 27, 2024 2:29 am The first eight Rush albums on this forum.

kmc wrote: Sat Apr 27, 2024 4:20 pm Genuinely think the second 8 Rush albums are better than the first 8.

Dave N. wrote: Sat Apr 27, 2024 2:29 am The first eight Rush albums on this forum.

The only Rush albums I still own and listen to are Signals and Grace Under Pressure.

enframed wrote: Sat Apr 27, 2024 4:52 pm Signals

I like this one, too.

"First eight" is probably too sharp of a cutoff. In fact, I would agree that there is a case that the second eight are more underrated than the first eight.

Anyway, I like Rush.

At some point in the early/mid aughts I was able to come out of the closet as a Rush fan. It was very liberating no longer having to pretend I came out of the womb listening to velvet underground and the stooges or whatever nonsense people do.