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Omnes Omnibus
Seconded.
liberal
Anyone have a link to the final vote in the House on the debt ceiling deal? Yglesias alluded to a lot of House Dems voting against it, but I haven’t been able to find a record of who voted yes/no.
scav
Thirded (or n+1ed) and extended to all that would welcome it.
JPL
@liberal: If you click on msnbc.com and link to msnbctv you should be able to find it.
SiubhanDuinne
Ramadan Kareem to all who observe.
JPL
Raven, If you are around, I want to thank you again for letting us know about Gabby. I am so glad I watched.
(re-posted from below)
kestral
I need some advice on good pick-me-up music, since the old standby of Touhou covers isn’t working. (“Bad Apple!!” in particular, given that its lyrics can be construed as a “fuck you”.) Any advice, Balloon Juicers?
Maude
What SiubhanDuinne said.
MikeJ
Ramadan in the summertime is much more of a pain.
At least maybe there will be more people up when I am in the middle of the night, but they’ll be too busy with dinner.
Omnes Omnibus
@kestral: Original 1960s ska. Toots and the Maytals, Desmond Dekker, Jimmy Cliff. Here’s some Desmond for you (worth watching for DD’s suit alone.
MikeJ
@liberal: 174 Republicans, 95 Democrats, but I don’t have the breakdown.
Rumproast does have a nice picture of Gabby Giffords voting for it though.
Just Some Fuckhead
Worst movie ever.
jeffreyw
mmm…hot wings
Omnes Omnibus
@Just Some Fuckhead: Gigli.
Corner Stone
@Just Some Fuckhead:
Ahh, it wasn’t that bad. I loved it when Chevy Chase said, “Tent! You guys got a tent?”
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@JPL: Sorry, I’ve been busy over at the lake expressing my loathing.
Violet
Tropical Storm Emily has formed in the Caribbean. South Florida is now in the cone for the five day forecast.
Danny
Some people in an earlier thread referred to Brad DeLongs estimate of – 0.4% GDP Fiscal 2012 on account of the debt ceiling deal (unclear how he arrived at that, he doesn’t account for it).
I thought I’d offer this second opinion (via Nate Silver, a Reuters piece):
From the same piece.
This guy is really estimating possible impact of the as of yet unknown “second round” of deficit reduction that the committee is tasked to look at. But in the process he says 25-30B$ would mean a drag on the economy of about .1% of GDP, and what is decided for now is 22B$ in the first round so thats (according to this guy) .1% of GDP – not .4% as DeLong claimed. I’m prone to trust this guy more since his agenda is making money off of the predictions and not please emo-proggers. But YMMV….
Yutsano
@MikeJ: Sheesh. I take a nap to sleep off the cold and Gabby comes back in triumph. Wish it was for a better vote, but oh man what a Fuck You to those calling for her to quit.
@Omnes Omnibus: Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. Most pretentious piece of crap I’ve ever seen. Not even the voodoo priestess could resurrect it.
Omnes Omnibus
@Yutsano: Liked the book, never saw the movie.
miwome
Ramadan kareem!
lamh34
Oh Gawd! I’m watching Burlesque…AGAIN!!! Oh well, I’ve decided I wan to marry Stanley Tucci, if he’ll have me…LOL
lamh34
@Yutsano, & @Omnes Omnibus:
I didn’t like the movie either. Before Katrina, any movie that “starred” NOLA, I hated! Nothing quite seemed to give my city the due it deserved. After Katrina, I find myself getting very happy whenever I see a movie filmed in NOLA. That movie with Bruce Willis and Helen Mirren called “REDS” was partly filmed in NOLA and I was more excited because I had been on the exact street, at the exact place way before Katrina.
Not many movies can do my city justice…in this native N’awlinians P.O.V.
Yutsano
@lamh34:
Well he is a widower so the hijink possibilities could ensue.
jeff
So that’s why a certain someone was so bizarrely out of character in being nice to me today? (Wikipedia notes that charity worth 70 times more during this month than the rest of the year.)
I guess Congress doesn’t observe?
MikeJ
@miwome: I refuse to honor Lew Alcindor.
Omnes Omnibus
Weird… after the music question, I started following links on YouTube and have managed to go from Desmond Dekker to Mink Deville (by way of Toots and the Maytals, the Clash, and Johnny Thunders).
scav
@lamh34: Seen him in a Midsummer Night’s Dream? You’ll have to work past his little horns maybe but it’s probably well worth it.
fleeting expletive
I have always thought Showgirls was supposed to be one of those stinker movies. And I really have never seen it, even. Ishtar and Gigli, yeah, right up there.
Yutsano
@fleeting expletive: Worst. Orgasm. Ever. Other than that Showgirls is just boring.
Omnes Omnibus
@fleeting expletive: I saw Showgirls in a second run cinema that served beer and I still wanted to leave. It somehow made beautiful, naked women boring. A difficult task.
Corner Stone
@lamh34: It’s, ummm, set in Savannah, GA.
If you’re referring to Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Corner Stone
ramadan hakeem!
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@Corner Stone: It is unreal how that film and SCAD has revived Savannah. We went twice this year and the streets are full of folks, they even have a trolley tour that takes dogs!
Just Some Fuckhead
AIDIAIDIAIDIAIDIAIDAIDI!
chopper
alright, now that the debt ceiling tomfoolery is over we can get back to the job of crashing our economy the slow way. kids these days and their impatience.
lamh34
@Corner Stone: If I’m not mistaken, parts of it was filmed in NOLA. I though It was a big to-do here if I recall correctly. Or maybe some of the actors stayed in NOLA.
Either way, the rest of my comment about movies filmed in NOLA stands if that’s ok with ya.
scav
@Just Some Fuckhead: Candidate for worst orgasm ever or dyslexic opera lover that stutters?
Corner Stone
Speaking of Ramadan, when I move overseas my muslim name will be Saleh al-Salaam, and I’m thinking my son’s name will be Mahmoud ibn Saleh al-Salaam.
But I may be way off base there.
harlana
@kestral: Kumbaya
((ducks))
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@lamh34: You are
Filming locations for
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Churchill’s – 9 West Drayton Street, Savannah, Georgia, USA
Savannah, Georgia, USA
Stage 21, Warner Brothers Burbank Studios – 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, USA
Stage 22, Warner Brothers Burbank Studios – 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, USA
Corner Stone
@lamh34:
Of course. Not like I’m going to cry crocodile tears about filming locations or anything.
harlana
well done on the wings- food pr0novision, jeffreyw
lamh34
@Corner Stone: & @Raven (formerly stuckinred):
I stand corrected.
burnspbesq
@kestral:
Little Feat, “Waiting for Columbus.” The greatest live rock & roll album ever recorded.
Just Some Fuckhead
@Corner Stone:
Those are very pretty names. Sounds like fun, but you may want to stay near a base.
jeffreyw
@harlana:
[nods to the lady] Ma’am
jeffreyw
Bah…leftover hash
miwome
@kestral: I don’t know what kind of music you’re into, but I consider Go, by Jonsi, one of the most singularly joyful albums I’ve ever heard.
Corner Stone
@Just Some Fuckhead:
Shouldn’t be a problem. I hear they are very easy to deal with. And if I get in any tight spots I’ll just use the negotiating strategies and tactics I learned from this WH.
I got this.
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@jeffreyw: Looks a lot like regular hash!
Just Some Fuckhead
@Corner Stone: If they threaten to kill you, threaten to kill yourself twice. They’ll be confused for a little while, then you can let them kill you. Works every time!
RossInDetroit
I just ducked over to Dr. Shrill’s blog to see what he has to say.
He’s posted a Portishead video without comment.
I guess that means he’s not happy about the ‘deal’.
harlana
who’s going to be on this bi-partisan commission?
MikeJ
@RossInDetroit: He knows a lot about econ and very, very little about politics.
Baud
@harlana: Don’t think they’ve announced it yet. I think they have 14 days.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@harlana:
Booman has some names. It ain’t pretty.
Corner Stone
@MikeJ:
Does he know less about politics than you? Or just very, very little against a blank slate of judgement?
Just Some Fuckhead
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: At the end of his post:
Isn’t that cute how we need the progressives to come and save us now?
harlana
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Thanks but dare I look?
Chad N Freude
@Omnes Omnibus: OMG! I am the only Desmond Dekker fan in my entire minuscule circle of friends, acquaintances, and passersby. Actually, I’m the only one I know who has even heard of Desmond Dekker. I feel alone no longer.
harlana
And, yay, the reply button has been resurrected!
MikeJ
@Corner Stone: I’ve cashed more checks from campaigns than he, but I don’t really know anything about it either. I’ve worked in the HQ gladly taking orders and never a decision maker.
However, he’s shown time and time again that while he may be right on the economics (and I don’t deny that he is) he seems to use the green lantern theory of bill passage (force of will accomplishes anything.) Or what the emos would call a “clap louder” belief system.
Omnes Omnibus
@Chad N Freude: We exist. Hell, in some ways it is hard to find someone who understands that ska existed before the 90s.
lamh34
@scav: I’ll look for that. I’m gonna seriously need somebody to greenlight Stanley Tucci in a rom-com or dramedy as the lead love interest. He deserves it and I would so pay to see that.
Does he have one that I missed?
Jim, Foolish Literalist
seems to me having Baucus and Conrad is redundant. Orrin Hatch is desperate to prove his cred to the Tea Party. I have a good impression of Sandy Levin, though I don’t know a lot about him.
Chad N Freude
@Omnes Omnibus: Some of the songs in the film score are good, especially K D Lang singing “Skylark”.
Jewish Steel
@Omnes Omnibus: I’m getting married next year. I think you just found my suit for me.
Baud
Re: the Super Commission, Pelosi, Reid, Boehner, and McConnell will each pick 3 members.
General Stuck
Here is some happy news. I think.
Omnes Omnibus
@harlana: Yes, it has and I just used it to reply to you. I bet this kind of random replying is what broke the thing in the first place so I should quit messing about. This is, of course, why we can’t have nice things.
Chad N Freude
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Well, let’s all do a Jonestown before the committee does what it’s going to do so we don’t have to live through it.
eemom
@Chad N Freude:
@Omnes Omnibus:
I like The Israelites.
RossInDetroit
@Chad N Freude:
I have only one of his records, Black and Dekker, on vinyl. All hail Flat, Black and Circular Used Records in East Lansing MI.
I should look for more. It’s pretty good.
Lawguy
So I guess everyone who told me I was silly to think that Obama would gut SS, Medicare, and Medicaid will now I’m sure explain to me how he could do no differently.
Jewish Steel
@Chad N Freude: Me too. Big DD fan. All things reggae/dancehall in fact. That tiny little island has cranked out so much good music.
Omnes Omnibus
@Lawguy: Where exactly is the gutting?
@eemom: Please stop me from making an inappropriate Israeli/Palestinian conflict joke here.
Baud
Question for the group: I just notice on the right that there is a log-in for this site. Any benefits to doing that?
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Chad N Freude: Meh. There’s a new seasson of that zombie show on AMC I wanna watch
Omnes Omnibus
Cadillac Walk. Willy Deville. Damn.
Corner Stone
@liberal:
I’m sure you found it, but for others who have not:
Clerk of the House
Chad N Freude
@eemom and @all the other Dekker fanpoisons*: iTunes has at least two versions of The Israelites (there may be more, haven’t looked yet). My favorite Dekker song.
*Politically correct gender-neutral equivalent of “fanbois”.
Chad N Freude
@RossInDetroit: I have some unremembered number of his albums on cassette.
Elliecat
@eemom et al.: can’t claim Dekker fandom but “Israelites” has been a favorite of mine since I was a kid in the 60s.
Chad N Freude
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Right, there can never be too many zombie TV shows, zombie movies, zombie novels, or zombie parodies of 19th century classics.*
*I lie.
ETA: … or zombie comic books.
Uncle Clarence Thomas
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I don’t understand how President Obama pulled this one out, when everyone said he was powerless to exert his fierce will.
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Omnes Omnibus
@Chad N Freude: Zombie puppet shows? Anyway, I blame the Thriller video.
Chad N Freude
@Omnes Omnibus: Wasn’t that werewolves? I really don’t remember, maybe because I never liked the video.
Omnes Omnibus
@Chad N Freude: Fuck if I know. I was a Prince, not an MJ, fan.
Chad N Freude
@Omnes Omnibus:
That put so many hilarious Muppet skit possibilities in my head …
Jewish Steel
@Chad N Freude: @eemom:
And RossinD:
Of course you guys remember this commercial, right?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEe0qqPAC6E
Dee Loralei
@lamh34: Did you ever see Big Night? Stanley was the romantic lead in that, I think he wrote the movie too. Some great food pr0n also. Tony Shaloub is brilliant as an angry chef.
Chad N Freude
@Omnes Omnibus:
Were you overthrown? Slain? Disinherited by the King? What happened?
Yes, I know, you used some of your precious commas there, but it still reads funny.
Corner Stone
@Uncle Clarence Thomas:
Uncle Clarence Thomas, that is just not true. We here know damn good and well that he fiercely pushed for 75 : 25 “cuts / revenue”. Then with a seldom seen level of ferocity he pushed for 85 : 15. And in the end this fierce deal to save the nation held a record level of fierceness set to 100 : 0.
Chad N Freude
@Jewish Steel: Never seen before. I love this. How did you find it?
Omnes Omnibus
@Chad N Freude: Nothing bad. My country made us all Archdukes instead. For tax purposes.
Chad N Freude
@Omnes Omnibus: Aha! So that’s how you managed to hold on to your commas. Speaking of punctuation …
harlana
deficit kool-aid . . . deficit kool-aid, both parties drinking from the punch bowl, it seems
gwangung
On the artistic front, at tech rehearsal for this show.
Striving mightily with the technical equipment. Want to take sledgehammer to it.
Jewish Steel
@Chad N Freude: I…don’t…remember.
Hmm. It’s British so I suspect I saw it on some roundup of funny commercials back in the 80s or 90s. It stuck in my head.
My ears are alight!
lamh34
@Dee Loralei: yeah, I did see Big Night. It’s been a long time though. I’m gonna see if it’s on Netflix.
ETA: Big Night’s only on DVD. Unfortunately, I’m giving up DVD mail by Netflix. Damn too bad. I’m sticking with just streaming due to the stupid fee changes
Corner Stone
@harlana:
Don’t fret. If you’ll take some advice from the toobz, I suggest you get a good solid footing wherever you’re standing.
Because we’re about to PIVOT like all hell to the subject of jobs, jobs, jobs!
Omnes Omnibus
They just shot Sonny on AMC.
Chad N Freude
@Corner Stone: Yes. The Republican spokesdroids have said — on camera — that they can now concentrate on job creation. I reiterate my Jonestown snark upthread.
Chad N Freude
@Omnes Omnibus: Are you watching The Godfather?
ETA: I stopped watching AMC when they started inserting commercial breaks into the films.
lamh34
Don’t ask me why, but somehow I’m watching a documentary called “Striptease: The Worlds Greatest Exotic Dancers” and they are showing the “history” of exotic dance. Looking at some of the lady’s from the past and realizing that these women would actually be considered out of shape and kinda flabby compared to today’s strippers, forget about the fact a that they all seem to actually never take much clothing off.
It’s actually a very interesting documentary. Oh and they were actually pretty bad dancers. No technique at all!
Fucen Pneumatic Fuck Wrench Tarmal
this song should make anyone smile.
frenzal rhomb-russell crowe’s band is a fucking pile of shit
Fucen Pneumatic Fuck Wrench Tarmal
this song should make anyone smile.
frenzal rhomb-russell crowe’s band is a fucking pile of shit
Mark S.
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Wow, that’s quite a murderers’ row. I’m sure they’ll come up with a balanced plan that won’t be 100% spending cuts and 0% tax increases.
eemom
@Omnes Omnibus:
Do you suppose I did not foresee that outcome when I said it?
O ye of little faith.
‘Course, I DID kinda think it would be one of my standard asshole nemeses who would seize the low hanging fruit……and not my fine distinguished honorable Brother of the Bar, Omnes Omnibus. [sniff]
joel hanes
@Chad N Freude:
Oh, c’mon.
They may not remember who did it, but everyone who was between the ages of 10 and 25 in 1968 can recognize “Israelites”.
‘Course, if you’re not older than Cole, that group may not include any of your friends. It includes all of mine.
eemom
@Chad N Freude:
here’s my cup. Commence pouring kool-aid.
Uncle Clarence Thomas
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@Corner Stone:
Corner Stone, I was assured by ABL that this would not happen, so I must now switch my undying allegiance to you and your prognostications forevermore, as well as to your nachos, which I must note here reign as Supreme in their milieu as I do in the Super Supreme Court. Also too, I will recalibrate the Fierceometer so that President Obama never approaches 100 again, for the good of the People of the United States and this star system.
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Omnes Omnibus
@Chad N Freude: Just noticed that it is on and then they shot Sonny. It’s gonna have to be Michael now for the rest of his life.*
*Robyn Hitchcock paraphrase.
Chad N Freude
@lamh34: Have you ever seen any of Gypsy Rose Lee’s material? (Sorry, no links at the moment). She became a major cultural icon by no-strip stripteases. The movie “Gypsy” illustrates her technique (and is more than worth whatever the DVD rental price is).
Chad N Freude
@eemom: I no longer feel alone. Are you popular here at the moment? I can’t keep up. But I welcome the company.
Bruce S
This is horrible:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/02/world/middleeast/02syria.html
Omnes Omnibus
@eemom: For the record, I did not make a comment. I asked to be stopped from doing such a thing. Just because the jury cannot unhear it…
John O
@burnspbesq:
Sorry, Live at Leeds is #1. :-)
lamh34
@Chad N Freude: yeah, they mentioned her. never saw the movie about her though is that the one with Bette Midler?
Seriously, none of these lady (well aside from Josephine Baker) are showing an real musicality at all.
One this I do notice is that that Detta von Tease women literally seem to have taken every bit of her act from these women.
Omnes Omnibus
@John O: Last Waltz has to be in the mix.
Chad N Freude
@Bruce S: I’ve been trying to avoid anything that resembles actual news about what is actually happening in the real world, but this quote from the article you linked to gives me hope.
Martin
@Chad N Freude:
Oh, so what, they’re going to cut spending and lower taxes? Can anyone tell me a Republican jobs plan proposed in the last decade that didn’t entirely consist of cutting spending and lowering taxes? Honestly, these guys need to write a second joke. This one is getting stale.
John O
A wonderful show, OO, but it enjoys the advantage of being on film, and isn’t the crazed rock-fest of four musicians at their peak just jamming as one that I dig so much. There is a remarkable amount of sound on Leeds considering there are only three guys making it for a whole bunch of it.
In other news, Shark Week! I have a definite fascination/fear thing about Great Whites. Guess I saw Jaws at just the right time in my life.
Corner Stone
You all here at BJ have now forced me to watch The Day the Earth Stood Still remake on Fx.
May FSM have mercy on your souls for this, because I shan’t.
Keith G
@Corner Stone:
So you when bad guys demand your money, you will give them your family as well?
Corner Stone
@John O:
I pop in and out of it. My agreement with sharks is pretty simple. Don’t show the fuck up in my kitchen and I won’t start stabbing you in the eye socket in the ocean.
John O
@Corner Stone:
My worst death fantasy is by Great White.
I was checking bathtubs for sharks as a kid after I saw Jaws. You just know there’s one that big out there someplace, so the horror was peculiarly real to me. Now I just think they’re cool, and would go down in a cage where they were if I had the chance.
Corner Stone
@Keith G:
Well, they start by demanding most of my money. And I tell them to come back with a reasonable proposal.
So they come back and demand 90% of my money. And I tell them to come back with a reasonable proposal.
Then they come back and demand 100% of my money and anything that can be sold for scrap. And I tell them, “Finally! How long were you fuckers gonna make me wait for a deal I could sign on to!”
Chad N Freude
@lamh34: Gypsy is a classic Broadway musical. The film was an adaptation with Natalie Wood as Gypsy Rose Lee and Rosalind Russell as her mother Rose, who set the standard for “stage mother”. Check the link — google the actresses if you’re too young to remember them. You might really enjoy the movie.
Corner Stone
Skinny Jennifer Connelly just does absolutely nothing for me.
RareSanity
Don’t ask me why I did it, but I saw a headline on Google News, and I just clicked it. I should have know better because, right under the link it “Wall Street Journal – Opinion” but alas, the deed was done.
Here’s how Nooners ended a commentary on Obama and how, “nobody loves him” (seriously, that’s what the article is about):
Well, at least she finally admitted he’s not a soshallist…
Good grief, if I was Obama, I would hold a press conference, tell everyone to kiss my hindquarters, then drop the mic (a la Chris Rock) and walk off.
Chad N Freude
Shark fans, wouldn’t it be more politically correct to refer to Great Caucasian Sharks?
Martin
Have the ‘Obama’s caving will only empower the economic terrorists’ crowd turned on Gabby yet for her heroic effort to get to DC to vote for this bill?
John O
@Corner Stone:
Jennifer Connelly makes me want to drink her bathwater.
John O
@RareSanity:
Obama should do Black Bush from Chappelle. THAT would be entertainment.
Martin
@John O: Gotta agree with that. Live at Leeds was the first CD I gave my son. Start them out right…
Chad N Freude
@Martin: I think we’re talking liberal cognitive dissonance here.
RareSanity
@John O:
The fact that he is able to get verbally assaulted, daily, by “both sides”, and still maintain his cool is absolutely astounding to me.
It’s the only thing that people can honestly say, “both sides do it”.
eastvanhalen
@RossInDetroit: I think it means he’s having listless sex with someone he picked up at the after hours, or that I’m having bad 90s flashbacks. Not sure.
Corner Stone
@John O:
A Beautiful Mind Jennifer Connelly, or Career Opportunities / The Hot Spot Jennifer Connelly ?
John O
@RareSanity:
Yeah, it must be a drag not to be able to ever get angry, not just out of respect for the office, but for fear of being labeled more uppity than he already has been. I have a bunch of wingnut acquaintances who think he’s “arrogant.” Arrogant? He’s a pussy from my angle.
Just Some Fuckhead
@Martin:
The folks who constantly complain about FDL and yet weirdly check on it every few minutes reliably inform me that such an action occurred over there.
John O
@Corner Stone:
Hmmm, definitely ABM JC, because I haven’t seen the other two. But it’s mostly her face that appeals to me, and I have to figure that’s mostly the same throughout.
Omnes Omnibus
@eastvanhalen: Wouldn’t that require a Mazzy Star vid?
hildebrand
@RareSanity: Yep.
My guess is that he and Michelle have some very interesting breakfast conversations. ‘So, what are you up to today, Barack?’ ‘Hoping to feed Cantor piece by piece to Chuck Todd….Seems like the right thing to do for the good of the country.’
Anya
Another terrorist enabling Senator is voting for the Debt Ceiling Bill
Omnes Omnibus
@Corner Stone: The Hot Spot? Was that the one with Don Johnson as a car salesman? And Connelly as the temptress/ingenue?
Corner Stone
@John O: Holy Christ!
Corner Stone
@Omnes Omnibus: Hells yeah! With a smokin’ hot Virgina Madsen as well.
Chad N Freude
@Just Some Fuckhead: FDL point of view —
If she were a true progressive, she would have died.
OK, I’m disgusted with myself for having thought of that, but getting it onto the blog helps get it out of my head.
ETA to mitigate possible misreading.
Keith G
So, now that Obama has twice underestimated the power of the teabag types to fuck with his programs, will there be a third time?
Omnes Omnibus
@Corner Stone: How could I have forgotten Virginia Madsen? Maybe I am suppressing memories of good looking blonds.
John O
@Corner Stone:
An invocation of the Baby Jeebus for…?
Being a brunette guy?
Chad N Freude
@Keith G: By the process of mathematical induction, we conclude the result is “Yes”. Class dismissed, and don’t worry about the final.
ETA: I meant the final exam, not The Last Days that are almost upon us.
Omnes Omnibus
@John O: Connelly in The Hot Spot was… damn. Just, damn. I think that was CS’s point.
Yutsano
@Omnes Omnibus: You have been through a recent status change. Such happenings are not at all unexpected.
Just Some Fuckhead
@Chad N Freude: So you thought of something really fucking hideous and want to attribute it to someone else unfairly?
Omnes Omnibus
@Yutsano: Yeah, I think my future is in brunettes. Tall, busty ones with straight hair. Perhaps French this time, n’est-ce pas?
Corner Stone
@Omnes Omnibus: Well yeah, and not to put too fine of a pervy point on it:
Career Opportunities
Corner Stone
This 30 foot robot dude just ain’t happy.
eastvanhalen
@Omnes Omnibus: That video hates Canadians: I can’t see it. But I’ll offer the 80s counterpart in return http://youtu.be/kOnde5c7OG8 (bonus: it doesn’t suck, though I don’t recall it making the sex any better).
Chad N Freude
@Just Some Fuckhead: I didn’t intend that to be read as an attribution, although I see how it’s possible, but it was just snark against people who attack Giffords for voting “wrong”. I can’t think of very many things worse than attacking Giffords for not voting the Right Way. I don’t think the topic should be addressed in any forum.
ETA: I thought hard about posting that, maybe I decided wrong. But the thought occurred. I apologize to readers of this blog who were offended.
Omnes Omnibus
@eastvanhalen: Oddly, I was listening to that album earlier today.
Yutsano
@Omnes Omnibus: You certainly have my permission to go lose yourself in Paris for a month. Or Montreal. We just anticipate frequent postcards home. Whenever you come up for air that is.
John O
@Omnes Omnibus:
I checked out the Netflix summary, and I think I see your point. Added to queue.
moderately
Anyone see this awesomeness?
In case they’ve changed it, they had Obama’s last day in office as January 20, 2017. So much win.
Can’t wait to get me a bumpersticker.
Corner Stone
@Omnes Omnibus:
I can tell you they ain’t any damn different.
Omnes Omnibus
@Corner Stone: Italian is too close culturally to Romanian, or rather vice versa.
Yutsano
@moderately: Oops. Nope. Still there. Ya think they’re throwing in the towel already?
Chad N Freude
@moderately: So they’re aiming their propaganda at 4-year-olds? Is this zero-dimensional chess?
Omnes Omnibus
@moderately: I was only able to stomach about 10 seconds of it. Did it get better?
Just Some Fuckhead
@Chad N Freude:
Meh, they prolly loved it.
robertdsc-PowerBook
@Corner Stone:
Either one would work for me. Jen and I go way back. ::swoon::
Anya
@moderately: RNC chair Reince Priebus turned out to be as incompetent as Michael Steele.
Mnemosyne
@lamh34:
They did do a TV remake of “Gypsy” with Bette Midler, but IIRC the feature film with Rosalind Russell and Natalie Wood is better.
ETA: Also, too, the lyrics are by the brilliant Stephen Sondheim.
Chad N Freude
@Mnemosyne: Infinitely. One of the truly great film musicals.
And Sondheim is
Godthe FSM. No, wait, FSM worships Sondheim. We should have a thread about Sondheim.moderately
@Anya: The internet is a series of tubes! (Too soon?)
Uncle Clarence Thomas
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Unfortunately, I’ve heard that the optics of President Obama’s debt ceiling victory don’t compare that favorably with the optics of his Bush tax cut expiration victory. However, I believe this situation can be repaired with another historic speech, don’t you?
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OzoneR
For those who like to talk abut how Americans want jobs…Democratic-leaning Nassau County, New York just voted by a 14 point margin to reject $400 million in public funding toward building a new hockey arena and commercial center that would have provided thousands of jobs. They weren’t willing to pay an extra $38 a year in taxes for it.
Earlier they voted against allowing PRIVATE MONEY to do it,
Steeplejack
Night shift checking in (belatedly). Not much to say. Just wanted to be here with my Juice peeps.
Exhausting day of bus rides and walking around in 97° heat. Left the man-cave at 7:20 a.m. and didn’t get home until 5:00 p.m. Dentist (couple of crowns and ongoing major work to realign my bite after jaw being broken a few years ago), then dermatologist (skin cancer biopsies–small bits of me flying off to the lab, yay!).
Bright spot was that I stopped at Fahrney’s, a high-end pen store that I have long wanted to visit, which happens to be close to the dermatologist’s office, and browsed for a while in their cool, cool air conditioning. I got a handful of Mont Blanc pens that I inherited from my father rehabbed, restored and refilled. It made me happy to think of them being used again.
Wasn’t able to follow too much of the debt ceiling debacle, for which I am grateful. I guess we will see tomorrow (Tuesday) what exactly hits the fan.
Steeplejack
@lamh34:
Have you seen Big Night (1996)? That comes close. Trailer here.
Steeplejack
@Chad N Freude:
For a modern take on “Skylark,” give me Cassandra Wilson.
trollhattan
This pretty much sums up the day.
http://view.stern.de/de/picture/Bartgeier-Knochen-bricht-Animal-2078883.html?k%5B%5D=43864&r=2
Carry on.
Steeplejack
@trollhattan:
Thanks for saving me from killing the thread.
Amir_Khalid
Late commenting on this thread because my net connection went on the fritz. (Curse you, Celcom Broadband!)
When AL asked me yesterday about saying “Ramadan Mubarak”, i wasn’t aware yet that Egyptians had soured on hearing his name in any context. Me, I don’t mind. After all, I’m not Egyptian.