I’m watching the Pens get systematically dismantled by the Rangers, so I won’t be watching. I’ll catch POTUS and Cecily Strong on youtube later. I hate the whole concept, but at the same time, I think Obama is normally pretty funny.
Gonna really go out on a limb and predict President Obama won’t be making any drone strike jokes this year.
*** Update ***
The nerd prom is tomorrow. I’m not really on top of things with the Pens facing elimination.
Baud
Agreed.
Jay S
Wait a minute, isn’t the dinner tomorrow?
Baud
@Jay S:
You don’t expect another new thread between now and then, do you?
dww44
Heard John Oliver on Terry Gross yesterday ( a replay from one some months ago) and when asked about things like the Correspondents Dinner, his response (and I paraphrase) was that there was really something unseemly about reporters and politicians being chummy with each other. That the both of them should be wary of each other and a certain amount of tension ought to be in the air whenever they’re in the same room. He remarked that the only folks that reporters should be friendly with are their families and other reporters. Said the same thing about comedians. He’s right.
Omnes Omnibus
@Baud: Sure, an AL late night auto-post that is immediately big-footed.
Villago Delenda Est
It’s not a “nerd prom”. It’s a “hack prom”.
Omnes Omnibus
@dww44:
Wasn’t that I.F. Stone’s operating principle as well?
Mike J
I believe even Politico called for getting rid of it.
Baud
@Mike J:
If Clinton wins, she should get rid of it. It would make liberals happy, and I don’t see her as a good stand-up comedienne.
jl
Hey wait a minute, wasn’t there one of these nerd prom things a few weeks ago?
Who is more disoriented here, Cole or me?
Or did I see some BS for the ‘build up’ a couple of weeks ago?
Baud
@jl:
I think I know what you’re talking about. It was a nerd-prom like event, but it was different. Not televised.
jl
@Villago Delenda Est:
‘ It’s not a “nerd prom”. It’s a “hack prom”. ‘
Hack promo?
jl
@Baud: I feel like Ebeneezer Scrooge having to deal with two Christmases. Bah humbug!
Baud
@jl:
Hack porno?
Mike J
@Baud:
And then it will be proof that she’s too snooty and doesn’t know how to laugh at herself and gross girls just take the fun out of everything!
Baud
@Mike J: That would be the best press she receives during her term!
muddy
I adopted a kitten/cat (kind of borderline) this week. I was afraid my younger dog would have a prey issue, but her maternal side came out instead. It was remarkable, I have never seen crazy Gracie so calm and sweet. Then the big dog barked at the kitty and Gracie ran him off, unnecessarily protecting the wee one.
Pogonip
@Jay S: What dinner?
No sooner di you turn your back on the Internet than something interesting finally happens.
dww44
@Omnes Omnibus: I believe you may be right.
I also remember seeing a Brian Lamb C Span interview with a young female journalist whose name I forget. It was probably 8 or 10 years ago when he had that regular Sunday night interview series. She had the same view of the role of journalists in their relationships with the powerful and privileged. What stood out to me was how critical and almost disrespectful of her he came across when she asserted those opinions. She also proffered that it wasn’t good for journalists to become more famous than those they covered. I wish I remembered her name and I still remember how almost cavalier with her Lamb was in that interview. She didn’t take offense, although I would have.
Linnaeus
Dunno, looks like a very exciting game right now.
ETA: Wow, Rangers were pressing in the offensive zone and missed a WIDE OPEN net.
geg6
I just sent Cole a photo of Lovey and Koda laying side by side, gnawing on a couple of deer antlers. Koda and Lovey are getting along like gangbusters.
Howard Beale IV
Bruce Jenner finally says he’s a she-film at 11.
Linnaeus
@efgoldman:
I think the Rangers can hang with any of those teams, though I think they’d still be an underdog.
Peale
@Mike J: yeah…but…look, There are people meant to tell jokes and people meant to laugh at thosr jokes and those who can do neither. Hillary falls into that middle group. She looks good laughing, but Phyllis Diller she is not.
Pogonip
@geg6: If he doesn’t post it I will call his cat and say, “Steve, your owner has a razor in his pocket and is just waiting for you to fall asleep…”
Omnes Omnibus
@Pogonip: Wow, the nuclear option.
Howard Beale IV
@dww44: The only place where I hear real journalism (and even there it’s pretty rare) is on BBC World Service.
David Koch
@Mike J:: yet they’re there every year, buying up the largest lot of tickets.
Pogonip
@Omnes Omnibus: It ain’t easy to get Cole’s attention! His own cat has been trolling his site for a month and he still hasn’t noticed.
Omnes Omnibus
@Pogonip: How are you doing? If I may ask?
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@Pogonip: A giant cat.
Omnes Omnibus
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): That wasn’t a cat. It was more like some feline form of queen bee.
Howard Beale IV
Richard Corliss, longtime Time movie reviewer, died yesterday, age 71, from stroke.
Howard Beale IV
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): I call bullshit on that link: that picture is of a Pallas Cat-and when you click on the pic, it cleraly says pallas-cat-300×257.jpg. No way are you gonna domesticate that round-pupiled Felid (the only one, BTW.)
Pogonip
@Omnes Omnibus: Tired. It was a long day. It was nice to see the relatives but we are all pooped out.
How you?
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@Howard Beale IV: It was on the Caddell Williams catalog cover and was funny. That’s the only purpose in posting; sort of a Steve joke…
Omnes Omnibus
@Pogonip: I am fine. I didn’t have a funeral to deal with. I don’t know if I would deal more poorly with the loss of my father or my mother. I wouldn’t handle either well. That is why I asked. Good thoughts headed your way.
Pogonip
@Omnes Omnibus: Thank you!
Tenar Darell
@Pogonip: My condolences on your loss. I was sorry to realize that this was why you stepped away.
@Pogonip: I have missed your requests for pupdates for chez Cole and friends.
David Koch
@Howard Beale IV: I blame Adam Sandler. His latest idiocy must have killed him off.
Omnes Omnibus
@David Koch: Your idiocies don’t. Why should his?
David Koch
@Omnes Omnibus: http://i.imgur.com/Z3XUz0U.jpg
Omnes Omnibus
@David Koch: My just desserts for responding to a troll. Thanks for reminding me.
BD of MN
Back to hockey, Wild now up 4-1 over the Blues with 3 min left in the third….
S. cerevisiae
@BD of MN: Yep, I love that everyone is dismissing them. GO WILD!
David Koch
@Omnes Omnibus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owzhYNcd4OM
Amir Khalid
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q):
A Pallas’ cat at 630lbs? No way. It’s a small cat in the same genus as the house cat. Most tigers don’t grow that big.
Howard Beale IV
@Amir Khalid: The article is obiously fake.
J R in WV
@Howard Beale IV:
What is the date of the article? We are in the month of April, after all.