Since our WaPo chat field reporter is vacationing in Stockholm, it is up to me to do the heavy lifting around here. Via email, this gem of an exchange at today’s WaPo chat with Philip Rucker:
Louisville, Ky.: Good morning, Philip. Thanks for taking questions. I’m very interested in Palin’s decision to step down from power and return to her work as a family commercial fisherwoman. In my mind this seriously ranks her with Cincinnatus, the Roman general who gave up his dictatorship to return to his plowing, and with George Washington, who was a hero in the American Revolution, but gave up his presidential command over the young nation to return to his farm. Do you agree with my assessment? Don’t you think that this brilliant move places Sarah Palin in the same league as George Washington and Cincinnatus?
Philip Rucker: There are lots of Palin questions, so let’s start with this one. You raise an interesting point. I’m not sure I ever thought of Sarah Palin as a modern day George Washington or Cincinnatus.
Oddly enough, I never thought of Palin as a modern day Washington or Cincinnatus.
I still don’t.
If you read the whole chat, Rucker spends most of it saying “interesting point” or “good point” or “that’s a fair point.” I think I have already cracked the Rucker code, and “that is an interesting point” is shorthand for “You are a moron, and they never told me I would have to do this crap in J. School.”
KCinDC
But why did you say you were in Louisville, John?
Death By Mosquito Truck
lolz
Keith
The shapes some people will bend themselves just so they can avoid saying “I backed the wrong horse.”
Comrade Stuck
I was thinking more like General McClellan in a skirt/
john
Check out “Yes, Minister” and “Yes, Prime Minister” (I have the book to the first, it’s even funnier than the show) for a decoding of this sort of speech – IIRC,
“With all due respect” -> an insult
“Interesting idea” -> stupid idea
“Novel idea” -> incredibly stupid and dangerous idea
“Courageous” -> career ending idea
(“How did that dreadful word get into this conversation?”)
“Frank discussion” -> the cleaners had to mop the blood off of the floor.
And so on.
The Grand Panjandrum
Washington? Cincinnatus? More like Roberto Duran … no mas …
Stooleo
I don’t know about Cincinnatus, but didn’t Washington serve 2 terms, you know, to completion.
Comrade Stuck
The real Dougj would have tagged it Burkean Bells. I, for one, am disappointed by the oversight.
TJ
I’m beginning to entertain the notion that Palin may have some sense. I’m looking at Paterson here in NY, and Ahnold in CA, and thinking that both of them are on a short ride into oblivion. If everybody’s going down, and she actually realizes the Presidency is out of reach, bailing out now might make some sense. It certainly won’t be any fun being Captain Smith on the Titanic and going down with the ship. Better to get in a lifeboat with the first class passengers.
Lesley
That has got to be snark, right? I mean it has to be a joke. I only doubt because of the depth of weirdness I’ve witnessed on the right.
Ash Can
@Stooleo:
How ’bout it. Along with a few other accomplishments, some while getting his ass shot at. Palin wouldn’t even survive the wooden-teeth part.
Brick Oven Bill
Sarah Palin is not comparable with Washington or Cincinnatus. She is, however, orders of magnitude more qualified than Al Frankin, who goes around touching strangers as they are trying to get lunch.
Sarah Palin does not go around touching strangers as they are trying to get lunch to my knowledge, but even if she did, it would not be as bad as Al Frankin going around touching strangers.
This is because Sarah Palin is hot, and Al Frankin is creepy.
Dennis-SGMM
Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus gave up his dictatorship after defeating the Aequins. That was the task for which he was made dictator.
Washington returned to his plantation after defeating the British and presiding over a peaceful transfer of presidential power to his successor.
Palin returned to whatever-it-is after finding out that she was no longer The Most Popular Girl in High School.
Historical parallel FAIL.
Brian J
Didn’t Washington give up power for the same reason a parent eventually lets go of a kid riding a bike–so that the nation could stand on its own? Wasn’t there also something about him not wanting the nation to resemble an aristocracy and/or monarchy influencing this decision, or is that merely the reason he refused to be a king? If I’m right, and I think I am, then I’m simply baffled by the comparison.
If I am butchering history, by the way, please feel free to make fun of me.
Rob
My read of that question is that it was completely facetious, and is only made funnier by the fact that Phillip Rucker actually considered it a serious question. Do we really think Palin sycophants really know who Cincinnatus is? Or, George Washington, for that matter?
ET
I am sure Rucker was rolling his eyes while typing the response to Louisville but after “interesting point” he should have just typed “No.” an ended it there. Taking the idiot too seriously is playing into their mania in a way that is not too helpful even if you just trying to be polite.
Comrade Mary
Louisville, Ky., my eye. That entire question stinks of Stockholm.
blogenfreude
TBogg nails it:
Xenos
BOB- adult men who pause to pour themselves a glass of chocolate milk while chatting up a cute babe should not go around accusing other people of being creepy.
Al Franken touching you in the queue is the coolest thing that ever happened to you. And I say that as a man who once sold cigarettes to John Malkovich.
SiubhanDuinne
@john: John, I’m so glad you mentioned “Yes, Minister” and “Yes, Prime Minister” — I, too, have both series complete on DVD and both books. They are quite simply THE best guide evah to bureaucratic double-speak and political power-plays (not to mention the funniest). YM and YPM have pride of place on the shelf next to my complete “West Wing” collection.
And for a rather different take on (British-style) politics, have you seen the “House of Cards” trilogy? Wonderful, creepy stuff. “You may very well think so . . . I couldn’t possibly comment.”
BenA
I really, really, really can’t figure out anymore what is a spoof wingnut and what is a real wingnut. I’m not sure it matters anymore.
GregB
Sarah Palin is a latter day Molly Hatchett, a Joan of Arc Welding, a Rosa Parks on a snowmachine.
She’s just like one of us.
-The Faithful
Death By Mosquito Truck
What Rucker should have replied with: lolwut?
Ruckers.
gbear
@TJ:
I’d add Tim Pawlenty to that list except for the fact that Tim actively set course of the S.S. Grover Nordquist straight for the iceberg and defended the bridge from attack until he was sure that he’d hit it full force straight on. Now he’s going to make sure that the poor and the sick don’t get onto the lifeboats no way no how. People are honestly going to die on the streets after the way he finished up the legislative session here. TPaw would rather stay and watch than bail out.
SGEW
I’m glad to see that the Cincinnatus meme is sticking around.
Keith G
@Brick Oven Bill:
Qualified for what? Mr. Frankin meets the qualifications for holding the position of Senator from Minn. His background and experience is not all the different from many elected to represent their communities in Congress.
So…..what the hell are you talking about?
Death By Mosquito Truck
@Xenos: I got yelled at by Ralph Waite once.
Ann B. Nonymous
BOB, since that was obviously the last time you were touched by another human being, I would think that you would cherish the memory of Franken’s damp loving caress.
Maybe you could get Glenn Beck to shake your hand, maybe pat you on the fanny. It’s good for the male ego to be acknowledged like that, right?
Trollhattan
Yeppers, it’s just like Al Franken. Nice non sequitur there; how about bringing up “hoot-Smalley” for good measure before schlepping off to the next Glenn Beck super fanclub meeting?
Greater wingnuttery has projected so much success and accomplishment upon saint Sarah she’s starting to resemble an Imax theater screen. They conveniently forget that before the wicked em ess em can tear her down she has to first build something up. Reality does indeed bite, but here is a small, petty woman with the attention span of a gnat who’s now magically going to deliver the party to the promised land, like zombie Reagan in a purloined designer suit.
Good luck with all that folks, you’re going to need a metric buttload of it.
jl
It is an unsubstantiated and defamatory rumor that Palin is not Washington, or Cincinnatus , or Catherine the Great, Elizabeth I, or Grover Cleveland, or other notable figures of history, so I would watch it or you might get sued.
gnomedad
@Brick Oven Bill:
Sarah Palin is hot. In a creepy way.
bayville
Actually it’s the WaPo’s not-so-new marketing strategy of ignoring and insulting your readers while peddling its remaining influence to the poor, multi billion-dollar, multi-national corporations. (see: High Broderism, Froomkin Firing, Howie Malkin, Whores).
e.c.
i could certainly buy the notion that someone might want out of the dogfight that has become politics.
but the whole, “she’s moving on to greener pastures/back to her roots/shucking the world’s oyster” stuff just doesn’t jibe with the suprise presser where she came off more like some desperate huckster trying to unload the last bottles of snake oil before fleeing in the night than someone looking at a bright new future.
Comrade Stuck
Maybe she’ll become a wingnut cult leader who serves a wicked cup of Kool-Aid, when the Mothership doesn’t show /
SiubhanDuinne
@Death By Mosquito Truck: I once bought Mitch Miller a canteloupe.
Morbo
Cokie Roberts has taught him well.
zzyzx
Wait? Palin is quitting to be a DJ for WKRP?
Da Bomb
Wow, I feel like I am in the middle of an episode of HeeHaw. No maybe more like Benny Hill. You know where he starts to run after the women frantically and they all have those cheesy ass smiles. This is so surreal.
I think from all this craziness, I have lost a few IQ points.
I mean it. Really.
Ben JB
In my comments to students, “interesting” usually means “you’re wrong, but at least you’re trying.”
And I agree with the earlier comments on this historical analogy fail: Cincinnatus and Washington, you know, did stuff before “retiring” from the field.
As Karen Tumulty over at Swampland pointed out, Palin has a history of quitting before accomplishing stuff.
LD50
That is an interesting point.
Punchy
Reading that blockquote, my spoofometer exploded. Your’s should have, too.
Patrick
Rob:
But knowledge of Cincinnatus, and then calling returning to her family fishing business “brilliant” does give it away.
I agree. And even funnier that most of the people here seem to agree with Rucker. Although in defense:
Persia
@LD50: I just want to know who this “Al Frankin” guy is.
Skullduggery
The Roman tradition was for dictators to resign as soon as their task was accomplished. Cincinnatus did his thing/served his term and then resigned.
Which is in no way similar to quitting halfway through a four-year governorship.
Face
@SiubhanDuinne: I once chatted with a cocaine-less Michael Irvin.
slag
@Rob:
Seconded.
Also: Note the adequate spelling and grammar in the question. Not to mention the shocking lack of ALLCAPS.
SGEW
I keep forgetting that B.O.B. claims that he once met Al Franken, and Franken touched him, on the shoulder, and that it was “creepy.” So B.O.B.’s principle objection to Senator Elect Franken is literally “he touched me, and it made me feel icky.”
It’s an odd reason to object to a Senator, but, hey, there are worse ones.
gocart mozart
The best question is the last.
ninerdave
@Brick Oven Bill:
No she just winks at that camera during nationally televised debates.
TenguPhule
The fact that this sentence ever came to pass makes History Textbooks weep.
ChrisB
Thank you Rob, Comrade Mary and Patrick. What a hilarious question.
gocart mozart
Oh and just for your information Brick Headed Bill, Franken has about 50 I.Q. points on your Sarah.
Joshua Norton
The only thing the wingnuttia has left is their magical thinking. The truth of a situation sucks so they have to create conclusions that are based on the desire of what their warped reality should be. There’s not even a casual acknowledgment of what that reality actually is.
BDeevDad
@gocart mozart: That made my day much better.
JK
@john:
In addition to its use on Yes Minister, it was also used on The Sopranos Jon Stewart has kind of beaten it into the ground. Whenever I hear or read the expression, I immediately think of Stewart saying the words in an overly exaggerated thick New York accent.
TenguPhule
That’s because you’re not rich enough or able to do her political favors, BOB.
slag
@gocart mozart: I thought you were kidding. But was pleased to see that you were not.
Sarcastro
I wish Sarah Palin was, like Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus, mythical.
SGEW
@Rob, @slag:
My read was that it might not have been facetious, but rather disingenuous. I almost suspect the question was written by a political hack who knew full well who Cincinnatus was and how absurd the comparison is, but wanted to float a trial balloon for a new spin.
It’s a pretty good spin, actually. If Glenn Beck can get away with calling himself Thomas motherfucking Paine and Jonah Goldberg is the new George Orwell, why can’t Palin be Washington and Cincinnatus? Or better yet, more awesome than either!? Why the fuck not? Nobody in America knows who any of those people were, or what views they held.
Those who don’t learn from the past are doomed to be lied to about it.
ninerdave
@Joshua Norton:
A thoughtful book. Lolz!!
(h/t) sully.
RememberNovember
The PalinPAC ads on the left hand side make me lol. And make me wonder about her intentions for 2012. WIll she be the harbinger of the apocalypse?
jl
Krugman, Nobel prize winner in economics, says that in his experience with Congress critters, Frankin is the second wonkiest, next to Rush Holt, who is a physicist.
UnitedStatsians should be careful in judging the potential of people from their previous backgrounds, what with Benjamin Franklin and all, who started out getting rich as a printer and newspaper magnate known for spoofs, eponymous sock-puppetry, vulgar japes, and satire before he did the high class stuff.
That applies to Palin too. So let us reserve judgment, and see what Frankin and Palin say over the next year, and compare notes.
My bet is on Frankin, though. As some one who spent time growing up in Alaska, I would have been resentful if people said she was unqualified just on the basis of her residence. But, I think she has earned her reputation so far. I remember when even Kos said she might turn out to be a good moderate reasonable Republican -people where open minded. She said what she said, and is responsible for that. Let’s see what she does now. I think she will earn more justified dismissals again, but I will listen to what she says and Frankin says and judge on that basis.
JK
Philip Rucker gives no meaning to the expression “mailing it in”. How much is the Washington Post paying this guy? I’ve never read an online chat transcript where the respondent seemed more breathtakingly disinterested than Rucker.
Mike G
Will she flap her arms and fly to the moon?
Move to Jupiter and mine bauxite?
Solve Fermat’s Last Theorem?
All equally likely.
Svensker
@SiubhanDuinne:
????
!!!!
flukebucket
I would definitely let Sarah touch my stranger.
RememberNovember
@ninerdave: She can make a hat, or a terrdactyl…..
JGabriel
Anon. WaPo Chatter:
That’s gotta be a troll or parodist taking the piss outta WaPo with a Hoekstra.
.
Svensker
@SiubhanDuinne:
????
!!!!
jibeaux
1. I definitely think that’s spoof, and
2. There are still banner ads for SarahPAC on this very website. She alternates with the Filipina bride. What the he-yell?
Xanthippas
This bozo has probably only ever heard of Cincinnatus because he read about him on some right-wing blog.
JK
@gocart mozart:
Agreed.
Love your screen name. That’s one of my favorite Springsteen songs.
kay
@jl:
I saw a little bit of video of Franken walking around the Senate. He looks really happy to be there. I mean, suppressing-an involuntary-grin happy. That must be something, taking that seat, after such a close race. I don’t know anything about him, but I hope the reality matches his dream.
Compared to the complaining Palin, he’s a breath of fresh air. He’s grateful. She’s sending angry Twitter missives. I’d rather be him.
Legalize
Gotta be a spoof. Then again, it doesn’t matter if it is. Plenty of drooling wingnuts will dutifully nod their heads in agreement, spoof or no spoof.
JK
@kay:
Did Franken get to shake hands with Big Bad John Cornyn?
Phoenix Woman
Totally off-topic, but is Tunch (the cat, not the former football player) a Turkish Van? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_Van
zmulls
Wait….did Franklin touch you too?
Or was that Frankin….
…or Franken….
JK
Weekly Standard douchebag Matthew Continetti is writing a book titled The Persecution of Sarah Palin.
h/t http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-07-05/defending-sarah-palin/2/
kay
@JK:
I don’t know. I saw him walking around the hall. He looks like everyone looks on their first day. You know, when you think the job is GREAT.
Well, almost everyone feels like that. Palin was probably composing an enemies list, on her first day.
Remember how Sanford not resigning was self-sacrifice? Turns out Palin resigning is also self-sacrifice. They’re just breathtaking, these people. Never miss a chance to tell us how wonderful they are.
One of her nitwit spokespeople:
“She laid out exactly the reasons she had for stepping down and it was really a form of self-sacrifice.”
gbear
@Phoenix Woman:
Oh now that’s just being cruel. Tunch isn’t any bigger than a small Japanese sedan.
JenJen
As a Cincinnatian, allow me to say that comparing Palin to Cincinnatus is so money.
SixStringFanatic
@Face:
I once shared a hot tub with Mark Chmura but, since I wasn’t an underage girl, he did not appreciate my presence.
Cyrus
As a college newspaper editor put it to me,
“Thank you for your comments” -> fuck you
Joshua Norton
I’m guessing Tunch is whatever he damned well wants to be.
LD50
@kay:
He just started a promising new career. She just killed her career. I think I’d rather be him, too.
numbskull
Reserve judgement on Palin???!!! Wait to see what her actions are??
Geeze, wait for what? How much data do you need?
We have PLENTY of Sarah(!) actions to assess her on. She’s had two adult jobs. In the first, she bankrupted a small town to build a sports complex. In the second, she quit about half way through after it was clear that she was incompetent.
This is a very, very simple call: She sucks.
JGabriel
Ben JB:
Which she did to her political advantage – alleging corruption in Alaska (I’m shocked, shocked!), then running as a reformer.
It’s hard to see where the angle is in leaving the governor’s office the way she did though – quitting about ethics complaints, the media, and mean comedians ulitimately makes you look weak and unfit for leadership.
That said, we’re still waiting for the other shoe to drop, and if it hasn’t done so by end of day tomorrow, we’ll have to assume that Sarah! really thought this was a brilliant political gambit like her last resignation – even though that doesn’t quite line up with the panicked and harried performance she gave at her announcement.
Weird.
.
lawnorder
The guy confused roman figures. Sarah is not like Cincinatus but a lot like Incitatus which mad McCain Caligula almost made a consul.
fastandsloppy
@JK:
Actually Jon Stewart (or his writers) “borrowed” that “All Due Respect” thing from stand up comic Dom Irrera.
Trollhattan
gbear #77 beat me to it. I was going to say Tunch was more like a Turkish kitchen appliance, but yours is best-er.
slag
@SGEW: I don’t think so. I think this part:
in particular gives it away. Does anyone really think Palin’s going to do this?
JK
@kay:
I mentioned Cornyn because he made the most extreme statements against Franken being seated. I expected him to stand in the doorway to block Franken from entering the chamber.
The best self-sacrifice Sarah Palin could perform would be to duct tape her mouth shut so the country could be spared her barrage of criminally stupid comments.
South Carolina voters should initiate a general strike to force that scumbag Sanford to resign.
Jim-Bob
Didn’t Coach Finstock warn us about playing cards with a guy whose name is a city?
JK
@fastandsloppy:
Wherever Stewart picked it up from, he should just drop it. The first 2-3 times I heard him use it, it was funny, now it’s just lame.
HRA
From gocart mozart:
“Arlington, Va.: Given that President Obama is in Russia at the moment, I wonder if he can see Sarah Palin’s house from there?”
WIN!!!!!!
Face
@SixStringFanatic: A Chmura chimera?
The Moar You Know
@Phoenix Woman: Former Van owner here. Tunch is not a Turkish Van. A Van has a tail that looks like a bottlebrush or a squirrel’s tail, and they’re usually a bit smaller than the Tunchinator.
They also love water. From what I’ve gathered from John’s postings, Tunch does not.
Jim-Bob
DBMS@
“G’night, Skeetertruck!”
memory bank
I like the line in HBO’s Rome, in which a Roman Senator said, “I’d love to retire to my country estate and enjoy my slaves, like Cincinnatus.”
gbear
@JK:
Cornyn was probably too busy licking his wounds from the tea party he attended on the fourth. He stirred it up and now it’s out of his control. Ha.
According to TPM:
JK
@numbskull: @JGabriel:
On Friday and Saturday, I thought Palin resigned because of a pending scandal.
Today, I think Palin resigned simply because she’s actually stupid enough to believe this is a logical strategy to lay the groundwork for her 2012 presidential run.
Roger Moore
@SixStringFanatic: Jeez. The best I can offer is serving lunch to Stephen Hawking and Kip Thorne.
JK
@gbear:
It serves Cornyn right.
Comrade Stuck
She’s the next John Paul Jones.
We have not begun to spite
Keith G
As in bedding most of the courtisans in Paris?
Punchy
As is almost every non-horse household pet….
John Cole
You. People. Will. Bitch. About. Anything.
Let the wingnuts waste their money on her. Let Sarahpac waste resources putting money into my pocket.
Or donate a grand everymonth via paypal and I’ll take down every damned ad and put pictures of Tunch licking himself in their place.
gbear
@Comrade Stuck:
If she shows up on a Led Zeppelin reunion tour, I’m checking out.
Death By Mosquito Truck
@John Cole:
How much do I have to pony up to get a Tunch-free version of the site?
kay
@JK:
I don’t think Al Franken cares, today, what the other Senators think.
He has that great grinning look of the person who won the job lottery.
Palin and her husband intervened in her sister’s contentious child custody case. They weren’t named parties. The judge eventually lectured Todd and Sarah, told them that destroying the father’s reputation and ability to earn a living was probably not in the children’s best interest.
I spend a good part of every week in family court. I would suggest that people should run, not walk, from relatives like Todd and Sarah who intervene in child custody cases, where they are not the parents. They’re never, ever operating from anything other than vengeance.
It’s my personal measure of “unfit for office”.
She’s one of ‘them”. “Nuff said.
JGabriel
John Cole:
Exactly. I’ve been clicking on the Sarah!PAC ads everytime I see them. Can’t think of a better way to transfer GOP money to saner hands.
.
Comrade Mary
How much do I have to pony up to get pictures of DBMT licking himself?
Comrade Stuck
Here Here. Having Sarah Serendipity on the sidebar of this blog, is a monument to snarkish paradoxity. It is the smell of delicious irony in the morning. Victory!
Comrade Sock Puppet of the Great Satan
“what with Benjamin Franklin and all, who started out getting rich as a printer and newspaper magnate known for spoofs, eponymous sock-puppetry, vulgar japes, and satire before he did the high class stuff.”
Hey, Benjamin F.’s Fart Proudly is not only a great diatribe, it anticipated the level of political discourse on teh internets more than two centuries ahead of its birth.
Zuzu's Petals
@Death By Mosquito Truck:
I lived across the way from Johnny Mercer when I was little. I was impressed because I thought he said he was Johnny Mathis.
Comrade Stuck
Marlon Brando spilled a beer on me once, several beers actually.
Demo Woman
@LD50: lol BOB will forever be known as the one who makes interesting points.
demimondian
@John Cole:
Yes.
SATSQ, Vol TUNCH.
demimondian
@Ben JB: Oh, for heaven’s sake.
Sarah is not like Washington; she’s more like Lincoln, who did nothing of note himself prior to quitting office barely a few months into his second term.
Zuzu's Petals
@John Cole:
Just curious, John. If we click on the ad, do you make money?
Joshua Norton
Actually she’s most like Lincoln is currently. A brain dead Republican with a hole in her head.
Wile E. Quixote
@Brick Oven Bill
You’re just pissed because it was Al Franken touching you. If it had been Sully Sullenberger you’d have dropped trou and bent and spread for him right then and there, ya big poof.
Wile E. Quixote
@Xenos
Please tell me that it was a really cool and existential brand that was chock full of ennui and not something like Kool Lights.
Cris
Because they are exactly not what you expect on a “liberal” blog, I love the SarahPAC ads, the mail-order-bride ads, the Ann Coulter ads, and I loved the late Pajamas Media campaign. The incongruity of editorial vs. advertising content provides a faint flavor of uncertainty, reminding us of John’s own political journey. Balloon-juice will not be pigeonholed!
gbear
Styx was having an after concert dinner at a Duluth restaurant where I was playing my first gig with a new band in the lounge upstairs (this was in about 1976 or 77). We got to join in the ‘festivities’ after our gig, and I made the mistake of mentioning a gig they played in St. Paul where they fled the stage after their equipment broke down. It probably wasn’t the best thing to do. Their guitarist was a jerk at any rate…
instarx
numbskull: This is a very, very simple call: She sucks.
No doubt, but how has she done in her jobs?
Buddy Hackett once threw a poster at me.
Wile E. Quixote
@BenA
I’m kind of thinking that this is a spoof, I mean read it again, despite the insanity there are no grammatical errors and the way the author phrases the last part of the question makes it look as if he’s trying to prank Rucker into buying into this ridiculous comparison.
Cris
The one who looks like David Spade or the one who looks like a Wookie?
Wile E. Quixote
@jibeaux
SarahPAC and Asian mail order brides, I really don’t think that Google is doing a lot of research into the demographics of this site.
gbear
@Cris:
The one who’s not Tommy (I don’t think Tommy was there). He just sat in his chair looking forward. I was sitting to the side and he’d just look at you out of the corner of his eye if he was talking to you.
We were just a bunch of local yokels (and all guys) getting invited in at the end of a dinner. The other Styx were nice enough, but it wasn’t much of a party.
I just remember it as being an awful week because I had just joined my first band that played a lot of disco music. I was making more money (enough to actually live on) but felt kind of awful about some of the tunes.
DougJ
I just hope WaPo doesn’t get sued for that.
Thanks to the person who recommended Olivet Twist in Sodermalm to me. Good beer selection!
Pasquinade
Louisville probably got the idea the same place that the FReepers* got it:
http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/2009/07/05/sarah-palin-a-modern-cincinnatus/2/
* http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286559/posts
jacy
@Death By Mosquito Truck:
I once got hit in the face by beads thrown by Whoopi Goldberg at an Orpheus Mardi Gras parade. Broke my glasses. I don’t think she meant it though.
Chinn Romney
I took it as a prank too, for the same reason. It was just too perfect. The guy who stuck the last question in was pretty good too. I’m sure Rucker is in on it.
Wile E. Quixote
@jacy
Please, please tell us that you weren’t yelling “show us your tits!” at her when this happened.
Wile E. Quixote
@jibeaux
I wonder if SarahPAC and the Asian mail order bride place offer up a steamy hot BJ discount like Laura W. does.
P.S. Has that been ridden into the ground yet?
jacy
@Wile E. Quixote:
We have a place in the French Quarter, we see enough tits walking to the corner market….
Funny thing though celebrity-wise: my mother-in-law shares a courtyard wall with Laurence Fishburne. Every time we go over there I’m tempted to throw something over the wall and then go knock on the door and blame it on the kids. “Hi, Mr. Fishburne, can we have our ball back?”
Laura W
@Wile E. Quixote:
Rode hard and put away wet, you betcha.
Chuck Butcher
@Xenos:
Does a politician sitting in your saddle count?
Xenos
@Chuck Butcher: Woah – I am definitely bested there. Malkovich was in a crappy mood and it was three o’clock in the morning. Wyden seems much cooler and lacks the hipster attitude.