Looks like everyone is getting ready for Thanksgiving, so open thread.
Open Thread
by $8 blue check mistermix| 36 Comments
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Looks like everyone is getting ready for Thanksgiving, so open thread.
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j
Jesse Jr. resigned.
NotMax
Have a great-looking slab of London Broil in the fridge to be cooked tomorrow (barbecue) as a special holiday treat for my solo meal.
Schlemizel
@j:
I hope he gets the help he needs. I also wish he had done this 8 months ago so we wouldn’t have to go through a special election.
ET
Of no value other than a laugh – Cats in sinks….
James E. Powell
Another sign that the Republicans intend to moderate their positions on issues important to women, like birth control, the person who destroyed the public image of Susan G. Komen For the Cure is considering running for the U.S. Senate from Georgia.
I, for one, encourage her to enter the race. I hope she gets the nomination.
MikeJ
@James E. Powell: If it wasn’t GA, I might agree. Sadly, the nuttier candidate will win the general there.
Violet
Was just in the car. While waiting at a stoplight noticed that the SUV next to me had a “Nope” bumper sticker (with Obama logo) on it. It was driven by a young-ish, white, frat boy looking guy. Car in front of me had a “Women will remember in November” bumper sticker. Ha! Take that douchey looking guy.
I have to make pumpkin pies. I am not in the mood.
fuddmain
We head to the wife’s parents for Thanksgiving. My folks come too, along with other relatives. I’m responsible for baking a cheesecake. I’m going with cheesecake cupcakes this year. In the oven at this moment are a dozen nutella cheesecupcakes, a dozen chocolate chip cheesecupcakes, and a half dozen mixed with more chocolate chips on top. In the bottom of each cheesecupcake is either a chocolate Oreo or a Nilla Wafer to serve as a crust.
A few of these may make it into mah belly before tomorrow. I need to make sure they’re okay.
Brachiator
I’ve been away from the most of the media and the InterTubes for a while. Did any Balloon Juicers remark on the latest in kink going mainstream? Jillian Keenan writing in the NY Times on her spanking fetish.
But like a good little American Puritan, spanking really isn’t about sex, somehow, kinda.
Next up, while we are waiting for the movie version of 50 Shades of Grey, the inevitable crap psychology book about the finding empowerment through spanking.
ETA: the best wry description of the Petraeus mess, from the New Yorker, “50 Shades of Khaki.”
Meanwhile, San Francisco goes vanilla, bans most public nudity, excepting for parades with permits.
Oh, yeah, happy Turkey Day to all. No funny business.
? Martin
The end is nigh…
Hard to imagine a company that has leveraged more branding power out of less actual substance than Rovio has. All of this from a cute, fun, but entirely derivative $.99 game. Rovio is expected to IPO next year with a value around $9B. That puts them in the same ballpark as Nokia, and a bit less than half the value of HP.
Xantar
Slate sez Obama denies science just like Rubio so both sides do it.
Next time I see David Plotz I may just have to publicly embarrass him.
Suffern ACE
@James E. Powell: I’m all in favor of free speech and free press. But could we just pass a law that people need to wait 180 days after one election before they mention out loud that they are a candidate for office? Punishments? I don’t know. Exile to the Bikini Atoll sounds about right.
NotMax
6-5 vote. It barely passed.
Possible ruling later that genitalia are speech?
gogol's wife
@ET:
I’ve seen a lot of those in my time!
Pecan pie comes out of oven in 17 minutes!
gogol's wife
@fuddmain:
Oh God, nutella cheesecake, that sounds so good.
gogol's wife
@Brachiator:
I was just thinking while brushing my teeth this morning that no one here had discussed that. The Times really is getting more jokelike by the minute.
burnspbesq
@James E. Powell:
The idea that it’s possible to primary Saxby Chambliss from the right is going to take some time to assimilate.
scav
Cheese to (from?)
newcastle — Guardian: pumpkin cheesecake with pecan crust and whiskey-caramel topping recipe
here
The Red Pen
Fifth episode of wingnut road rage in two weeks. Sorry I’m not taking the Obama stickers off, douchebags.
James E. Powell
@burnspbesq:
The idea that it’s possible to primary Saxby Chambliss from the right is going to take some time to assimilate.
That’s what makes it such an attractive idea. Also too the Republicans will be forced to continue their “Kill Planned Parenthood” out in the open.
Brachiator
@NotMax:
San Franciso Supervisor Scott Wiener thought long and hard about the issue before pursuing the ban.
Definitely the new battleground: “This legislation is really about genitals,” Wiener said. “I’m not looking to get anyone arrested because they are showing a plumber’s crack or wearing a bikini.”
If corporations can be people with rights, why not genitals?
Stand up, or out, for genital rights.
Brachiator
@? Martin:
The recent tie-in with Star Wars really worked for them, but it is hard to see them going much further with this. Then again, I’ve heard some geeks opine that the idea is not to have a thriving company or make profits, but to get somebody to give you a big payday on the basis of past performance and hype.
Like Zynga, a company whose shares have been declining steadily since its IPO.
scav
@Brachiator: Genitals have fetus fetuses in them. If fetuses outrank both actual women and actual children, wouldn’t fetus fetuses rank higher still?
j
@Brachiator: There are two musicals based on ’50 Shades’ opening this week in Chicago.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/19/fifty-shades-of-grey-the-_n_2159924.html?utm_hp_ref=chicago
I guess they have to sing “OUCH, Dammit!” a lot.
Brachiator
@gogol’s wife:
The writer of the piece is making the rounds. Has a conversation on the Savage Love podcast.
@j:
I have some friends in Chicago who were going to go see it, but they got tied up.
I’ll be here all week. Try the veal.
? Martin
@Brachiator: I’d agree with you, but I never would have guessed they’d get even this far, so who knows.
It’s a smart strategy, though. Hitting the app store jackpot is a pretty low-yield effort. Even proven studios struggle to repeat success. But building a brand that turns money out in meatspace off of one of those successes – that’s much more reliable.
I was trying to help my dad understand the video game industry (as we were walking past Blizzard HQ at the time) and mentioned that I’d expect to see movie tie-ins (happy meal toys, etc) largely replaced by game tie-ins as the games are doing a better job now of capturing the popular culture buzz, and are much better at extracting money from consumers.
I suppose Nintendo has been the one doing this for a while, but I think it’s interesting how Rovio is going further and from a position where the branded merchandise overtook the primary property in terms of revenue very quickly.
Punchy
@James E. Powell: From your link:
Reaching across the aisle (he did?) and “compromise” (he did?) now get you booted from the Republican party. Good luck with those purity purges.
fuddmain
@gogol’s wife:
Yeah. I’ve made it before and it’s damn good. I took a cheesecake recipe that called for sour cream and replaced it with Nutella. Win!
? Martin
@fuddmain: Nutella smores are quite good too. Solves the problem of trying to melt the chocolate in the smore. And you can get little single-serving nutella things that you take and just dispose of.
Corner Stone
@fuddmain: That cheesecake is a lie straight from the pit of hell!
Svensker
@scav:
Hmmmmm, that’s sounds really good. And Lebovitz is pretty reliable. I’m already doing straight pumpkin pie, but what about making that topping…. Nom nom.
fuddmain
@Corner Stone:
I’m not a pâtissier, man.
Brachiator
I will probably try to do more catching up with some of the recent movie releases.
I may have missed commentary here on Lincoln. Some of it is a little slow, and Spielberg could not avoid the dilemma of other writers and directors: how to avoid turning Lincoln into a secular saint.
But damns, it’s a hell of a political drama. I knew a lot of the history, but I was surprised at a number of little things. Daniel Day Lewis is great, Tommy Lee Jones steals the show, and I noticed at the end of the film that the person responsible for the “facial hair” got a screen credit. Yeah, it was probably quite a job.
Sadly, some hipster critics don’t get the film at all, and a number of teens who went with their parents just dismiss the film as dull and stupid.
But a lot of the film resonates. And a New Yorker blog piece rightly sees connections with some of the current political scene.
Got no interest in seeing the remake of Red Dawn. I didn’t realize that the movie has been on the shelf for almost 2 years, a victim of the credit crunch that kept MGM from being able to make and market films. This had an impact on Skyfall as well. So far, critics have crapped all over Red Dawn as one of the more unnecessary movies of the year.
Wolverines.
j
@Brachiator: Never saw the original Red Dawn, but from what I gather it was about the Russian Red Army parachuting into Nebraska in order to take over the USA, because Nebraska is the vital cog, or something; and a bunch of pimply faced kids fend them off by cheering for the University of Michigan football team. In Nebraska.
It sounded stupid.
The new one has Portland Oregon being invaded by the North Koreans and fail because Oregon has good weed and micro brews, and the pimply faced kids keep yelling about Ducks, or something.
I don’t get that plot either.
NotMax
@j
Just point the North Koreans in the direction of an all-you-can-eat buffet and BOOM – invasion extinguished.
Brachiator
50 Shades of Sling Shot Rides
Don’t let the fundies find out about this one
One more thing to do other the holidays, I guess.