From Patrick Stewart’s twitter machine doohickey thingamabob.
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From Patrick Stewart’s twitter machine doohickey thingamabob.
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LanceThruster
I love these guys so much. Makes me smile, it does.
Comrade Mary
And they’re wearing all my fave colours. LOVE!
(BTW, John, that if your knee is any of those colours, maybe see a doc today?)
cleek
the new palantíri aren’t as cool as the old-timey ones. too flashy.
BettyPageisaBlonde
Their Waiting for Godot was a thing of beauty. Go, it’s still on Broadway!
Served
Reposting from the below open thread, because it’s great to watch them eat their own.
Well, the Illinois Republican gubernatorial primary is blowing up nicely today:http://www.suntimes.com/25299488-418/treasurer-dan-rutherford-alleges-bruce-rauner-behind-false-claims-against-him.html
Bruce Rauner is our local bajillionaire now playing the common man with a fresh crisp Carhartt an an $18 watch (who of course made his money off investing public employee pensions, and is now campaign to destroy said pensions).
And now this tweet from Rich Miller, who runs CapitolFax.com, the best IL politics blog:
Rich Miller @capitolfax 12m
As I chase this story, there could be some really bad stuff coming out. And not necessarily on Rauner, either. Oy.
schrodinger's cat
How is your knee now?
Betty Cracker
Broncos are gonna win: Gandalf trumps Captain Picard.
schrodinger's cat
Review of Downton Abbey, fourth episode here
schrodinger's cat
@Betty Cracker: How are you and your mom? I am keeping my paws crossed!
Mr. Longform
@cleek: damn – palantir joke already taken; but Gandalf looks like he just saw something that really freaked him out, like playing a Feb. 2 football game on fking New Jersey, maybe.
NonyNony
@Betty Cracker:
Ah, but the relevant question is actully “is Gandalf > (Picard + Charles Xavier) ?”
R-Jud
@NonyNony: Isn’t that “(Gandalf + Magneto)”?
schrodinger's cat
@NonyNony: Is Gandalf > Karla
TaMara (BHF)
@Betty Cracker: Just caught up that your mom is unwell. I hope things are looking better. Keeping you both in my thoughts.
Roger Moore
@NonyNony:
ITYM (Gandalf + Magneto) > (Picard + Charles Xavier)./geek
ETA: and let’s be clear (Gandalf + Magneto) >> (Picard + Xavier).
Smiling Mortician
@schrodinger’s cat: Note that your review is of Episode 5, not 4. Just in case anyone doesn’t want spoilers (too late for me).
WaterGirl
@Served: Rutherford is the best reason to vote for Quinn, the governor who presided over our screwing on pensions.
Richard Fox
Mr. Stewart apparently is a new neighbor of mine, in Park Slope Brooklyn. No sightings as of yet, but I’m keeping watch. :-)
Served
@WaterGirl: I would have entertained a vote for him over Quinn in the general, to be honest.
I also will bet money that this is Rauner using subterfuge to out Rutherford as gay. It is, at least, pinging the undertones in shades of W in South Carolina circa 2000.
schrodinger's cat
@Smiling Mortician: Sorry about that. I will put in the spoiler warning now. I thought it was unnecessary for an episode that aired almost a week ago. ( I am counting the first two hours as one episode).
Warren Terra
If you want your Friday moment of d’aww, an accurately titled post: Here’s Your Heart Melter for the Week
Villago Delenda Est
@Betty Cracker:
Someone has been smoking something.
MikeJ
@Betty Cracker:
Seahawks win. Science trumps magic.
Villago Delenda Est
@Roger Moore:
Um, no. Picard > Gandalf any day of the week that ends with y.
Betty Cracker
@schrodinger’s cat & @TaMara (BHF): Better news today, so we’re happy about that! Thanks!
@NonyNony: Good point, but does anyone really trump Gandalf? He survived death and can summon giant eagles!
Kristine
@Warren Terra: That was sweet–thanks for the link!
grape_crush
Both being Brits, what’s funny to me – besides the look on McKellen’s face – is that on American Football Superbowl Weekend, they’re holding a real football, not the funny oblong one used here in the States.
Petorado
“Captain, permission to go into Beast Mode.”
“Make it so number 24.”
WaterGirl
@Served: Rutherford is gay? Did not see that one coming, and I normally have excellent gaydar.
Mary G
@Warren Terra: That is awesome indeed.
Gex
@Betty Cracker: I missed original reports on your mother’s situation. But sending my best wishes for you both nonetheless.
grape_crush
@Roger Moore: > ETA: and let’s be clear (Gandalf + Magneto) >> (Picard + Xavier).
What about Picard + Xavier + Leondegrance + Gurney Halleck? /geeksquared
burnspbesq
@Betty Cracker:
Sir Ian was the creepiest, evilest Richard III evah. That’s how I think of him, not Gandalf.
different-church-lady
Hang on, I gotta jot this down in my “headlines I never thought I’d see” notebook:
Napoleon
@different-church-lady:
Does this mean some guys are calling “it” their parrot now?
LanceThruster
@Betty Cracker:
But Picard is real, whereas Gandalf is a Fig Newtown of Tolkien’s imagination.
Amir Khalid
@cleek:
It’s one of them newfangled German Palantiri, as you can see from the manufacturer’s three-striped logo.
Ash Can
@Warren Terra: Damn, it got dusty in here all of a sudden. And it all seems to be going in my eyes…
different-church-lady
I really love the Sprint ads they do together.
Schlemizel
Judging by the look on that face I am glad I can see all four hands in this picture!
Anoniminous
The warp drive dilithium crystals have cracked, Scotty is no longer around to fix them. Gandalf’s wizard staff was broken so he’s out of the running as well.
Prediction: Mordor by 7.
Francis
umm, any update on the cat and the car?
(also, Ezra no longer blogs at the Ezra Klein link.)
catclub
@grape_crush: Patrick Stewart was also the Sargeant at Arms
for Caligula in “I, Claudius”.
He had to pass on the daily password: “Give us a Kiss”
He later helped murder Caligula and installed Claudius as Emperor, If I recall.
Amir Khalid
Patrick Stewart with a football looks kind of like Fabien Barthez.
Hungry Joe
I interviewed Stewart years ago, on a press junket for a “Star Trek” movie. Got a one-on-one for about 20 minutes, and just HAD to ask about his character Sejanus, the cheerful assassin in “I, Claudius.” As I remember it, Stewart thought for a few seconds, then smiled and said, “He was a man who loved his work.”
burnspbesq
@Amir Khalid:
I’ll be he deals with crosses better than Barthez ever did.
p.a.
@grape_crush: Picard + Xavier + Leondegrance + Gurney Halleck + Sejanus
Suffern ACE
@Francis: The cat came back the very next day. Thought he was a goner, but he wouldn’t stay away.
me
David Wildstein just took a big dump on Chris Christie.
Petorado
@Napoleon: It was very special parrot – a Norwegian Blue.
Amir Khalid
@burnspbesq:
Barthez has now taken up another sport, and is apparently doing quite well at it.
scav
That does somehow make things much better.
Scamp Dog
@Warren Terra: that was cool! It’s better than a “d’aww” though. Thank for posting the link!
Roger Moore
@Petorado:
It looks more like a Yellow Crowned Amazon to me.
Kylroy
@grape_crush: I’m sorry, but “real” and “association” are not synonyms.
Warren Terra
If you want a truly wonderful (if quite possibly embellished to the point of near-complete falsehood) story about one man’s multi-decade relationship with Ian McKellen, there’s an episode of Believe It, the fictionalized radio memoirs of the British Actor Richard Wilson, as ghost-written by Douglas Adams’s one-time flatmate Jon Canter. You can download the Ian McKellen episode here, and learn about Greek islands, Los Angeles muggers, knitting, financial advisors, and Bleak House.
Amir Khalid
@me:
News to which many will react with no small sense of Schadenfreude.
Mr. Longform
@Petorado:
Are you sure it wasn’t an African swallow?
FlyingToaster
@catclub: Naw, he played Sejanus, who Tiberius first betrothed to his niece Livilla then recommended the Senate kill him.
Caligula’s guy was Cassius Chaerea, who had carried him on campaigns with this father’s legions.
Patrick Stewart’s wig in I Claudius was the worst hairdo I’ve ever seen.
jl
So, this being Friday, I was hoping not one damn thing happens at all, and was reading up on some health reform stuff at TPM, when…
BREAKING….
Official Who Ordered Lane Closures Says Christie Knew About Them
” The former Port Authority of New York and New Jersey executive [Wildstein] who directed the George Washington Bridge lane closures said in a letter Friday that New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) knew about the closures when they were happening, according to The New York Times. ”
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/christie-knew-wildstein
Is this good or is this bad, should we be happy or should we be sad.
Let us anatomize these brass balls of Chrisie…
But then, if Wildstein and some of Christie’s staff were wildcatting in a play or some payola off the Ft. Lee development project, they would have the ‘entrepreneurial spirit’ needed to take down the Big Man, regardless of the truth, to help themselves.
But, something did happen this Friday.
scav
Well, MacBeth ≅ MacBeth but John of Gaunt > Edward II so there might be a slight Seattle edge on my DVD shelf at the moment . . .
raven
It’s a new world of God’s and Monsters.
kbuttle
Also pleasant viewing on a Friday evening, from Pierce:
“Reince Priebus is a not very convincing marionette who couldn’t even get elected to the Wisconsin state senate. What he knows about politics you could put up his ass and have room for a change of clothes.”
That’s just good prose.
BillinGlendaleCA
@jl: Friday, aka “Take Out the Trash Day”. Especially before the Superb Owl.
jl
@me:
Oh yes indeed. I thought someone would beat me while I was typing. News likes this spreads fast.
Gosh darn it, whether that weasel Wildstein’s charges are true or not, the story just might maybe spread fast enough to hurt poor little Christie before the 2016 elections.
That would be sad, huh? But then, Christie decided himself to surround himself with, hire, adn appoint, thugs, sleazy operators, and grifters. I sure didn’t give him any advice.
scav
@scav: Ah, there is Sejanus and not one but two Claudius the Danes. Seattle is pulling ahead.
Trinity
So much awesome.
Roger Moore
@jl:
I’ve been saying for a while that the sign on Christie’s back says “insert knife here” rather than “kick me”. It’s just a surprise that Brutus struck first instead of last.
Comrade Mary
@scav: In addition, Rob Ford is rooting for the Broncos. I knew there was a reason why my colour preference was shifting from orange to lime lately.
Go SirPatStew!
different-church-lady
@Petorado: Beautiful plumage…
different-church-lady
OK, what are the odds of two Papal entries in the notebook in one day?
sdstarr
I always figured that Gandalf would be a fan of the Seahawks! Didn’t he (much like Richard Sherman) say “YOU SHALL NOT PASS!”
Bill in Section 147
@Warren Terra: Nice! Thanks for that.
Mnemosyne
Speaking of Richard Sherman, the LA Times had a human interest piece about his dad recently since Sherman is a hometown boy. His dad still works for the LA sanitation department and (for obvious reasons) is very proud of his son.
Tripod
“Real football”??? A real football is a black and white truncated icosahedron, or a brown prolate spheroid. I’m not sure what that thing is. Also, get off my lawn.
poptartacus
fuck a bunch of weed bowl
PUPPY BOWL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
BruceFromOhio
That ball is the wrong shape. Or something.