From constant commentor Yatsuno (aka Yutsano):
Yatsuno says:
December 17, 2013 at 7:04 pm (Edit)For those interested: I am not dead. Pretty much stoned out of my gourd though.
Explanation here, for those who missed it this morning.
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If that is insufficient for your entertainment needs, genuis snarkster Alex Pareene is doing this year’s Hack list awards in the channeled voices of the recipients. And while all entries so far have been excellent, my personal favorite is #6 — Erick Erickson:
Erick Erickson has gravely betrayed conservatives everywhere.
I wish I could say that I am surprised. I prayed I wouldn’t have to write this, but here we are.
How can it be that Obamacare remains in effect despite Erickson’s so-called opposition? Did he do anything to halt its advance beyond writing ineffectual blog posts “demanding” that Republicans repeal the ACA? Did Erickson take advantage of the stunning political success that was the recent government shutdown to finally write the blog post that could have crippled the liberty-killing advance of Obamacare? No. He did not. This is, as I said, a grave betrayal, and a shocking dereliction of duty…
Erickson should know that conservatives like myself will now devote themselves to doing everything in their power to remove him from his blog, unless and until he starts showing some results, or my bosses tell me to lay off of him…
Violet
Enjoy the good stuff while they’re giving it out, Yutsy! Glad everything went well. Don’t be a hero–take enough medication to keep the pain down. Keeps you out of the pain loop.
Linked the Hack list Number 8 down below–Nooners. A bit I enjoyed:
Could it be possible, that Peggy Noonan will retire? FSM be praised.
Comrade Mary
Yutsy’s not dead! W00t!
/jumps around, blows horn
Litlebritdiftrnt
@Violet:
That Noonan hack piece was a thing of beauty, it truly was.
lamh36
Posted late in last thread, so posting in new thread.
Glad Yats is okay
Obama sends message by naming Sochi Olympic delegation
Violet
@Litlebritdiftrnt: Yeah, I loved it. The links to her hackitude throughout were excellent.
Violet
@lamh36: Big fat diplomatic FU.
Bill E Pilgrim
Actually I believe the formal mode of address is “Yahtzee”.
Bon courage, Yatz! er Yuts…er, bon courage!
Mark S.
Erickson is starting to look like Jonah Goldberg.
I see Richard Cohen is only #5 this year. I’m surprised the shithead still has a job after that “gag reflex” column.
NotMax
@Violet
Old columnists never die, they just degrade away.
A holiday tune, just because.
Knight of Nothing
Glad to hear the news about Yatsuno.
Violet
@Mark S.: You made me go look. When did he get hipster glasses? He looks like a middle manager at an insurance company. An unhappy one whose wife expects him to parent the kids and he wishes it was 1954 and he could tell her it isn’t his job.
dmsilev
@Violet: Wonder how wingnuttia will react. For some reason, they love them some Putin.
(repressed homosexuality is probably the reason in some cases. Wishing for his policies to be implemented here probably explains most of the rest.)
YellowJournalism
Reliving the good old days at Wazzu, Yutsy?
Glad to hear you’re okay!
scav
The really scary thing about the state of American health care is that Yatsy had to have his vowel transplant without the good drugs. At least he’s got better coverage for this, his next
trick trip….. oh, decisions, decisions. . . .Mnemosyne
@lamh36:
I thought Brian Boitano was out, but apparently not — at least, it’s not in Wikipedia and I’m too lazy to do further research.
Felonius Monk
Wishing you a speedy recovery, Yatsuno. Waking up semi-lucid on the other side of surgery is usually a good sign.
Betty Cracker
I knew Yatsuno would be okay. If he didn’t exist, we would have to invent him. Plus, all seven chickens and myself paused this mornng, made a slight bow to the Northwest and sent healing vibes his way. Speedy recovery, my friend.
Aji
Yay, Yatsy/Yutsy! Great news. But seriously, enjoy the good stuff while they’re willing to give it to you.
Aji
@Betty Cracker: The seven chickens bowed? Seriously? I’m envious. Mine wouldn’t all bow on command if you paid them in scratch and fresh mice.
raven
Hang tough bubba.
Just Some Fuckhead, Thought Leader
@Betty Cracker:
Why? Do we really need someone yelling out the number of comments on every thread?
Omnes Omnibus
@Aji: When she says bowed, she probably means the chickens did that thing with their heads.
lamh36
@Mnemosyne: i thought Brian Boitano was Canadian?
Anyway along the same line:
Pat Buchanan: Putin’s Contempt For Gay People Shows He’s “One Of Us”
gogol's wife
I’m glad Yutsano is doing well. Looking forward to him being back in the conversation.
Mnemosyne
@lamh36:
I thought so, too, but Wikipedia says he was born and raised in California. I think we were both mixing him up with Kurt Browning.
YellowJournalism
@lamh36: I’d rather be “one of us” with the carnie folk from Freaks.
Baud
@Just Some Fuckhead, Thought Leader:
You know, it’s helpful to those of us who can’t read.
NotMax
@lamh36
Even more despicable:
Russian Sitcom Star Wants to Burn All Gay People Alive in Ovens
Aji
@Omnes Omnibus: LOL – with ours, that could never be mistaken for a bow. Overcaffeination, maybe.
lamh36
@Mnemosyne: Ah…yes… Kurt Browning…yes.
Boitano or Rudy Galindo woulda been awesome
Anne Laurie
@Betty Cracker: Nah, I take karmic credit for this good outcome. I should be watching the simulcast of the Royal Ballet Nutcracker right now, but instead we’re waiting for the snow to stop so we can shovel the new five to eight inches off the walk/driveway, adding to the previous ten inches from Sunday’s storm. Obviously, all the good fortune I shipped off to Seattle during the wee hours made the difference… (/snark)
Mnemosyne
@lamh36:
I remember the Olympics where Kurt Browning wore shiny pants and no dance belt. That was WAY more than I ever wanted to see of any athlete.
ETA: For the uninitiated, a dance belt is what male dancers and figure skaters wear so spectators don’t get a too-detailed view of their anatomy in tight pants. Women wear a similar one to avoid camel toe during performances.
Just Some Fuckhead, Thought Leader
@Baud:
Then get rid of the message numbers. He should at least have to work for it.
Yatsuno
Just had my first PT session and it went great! They have me standing up but no steps yet. I’m also on liquids right now as a just in case thing. All in all not feeling too bad.
raven
@Yatsuno:Amazing when I harken back to the days when I had to convince the orthopd to LET me go to PT after I broke my back.
Citizen_X
@Yatsuno: Hooray hoorah!
Mnemosyne
@Yatsuno:
Lucky! I inaugurated my post-op PT session by puking all over the poor physical therapist. Good times, good times.
JPL
double post
JPL
@Yatsuno: Oh my! No steps yet, you gotta be kiddin me. Actually, you’re like the bionic man.
Baud
@Just Some Fuckhead, Thought Leader:
Wouldn’t happen. He is a taker, not a maker.
Poopyman
@Yatsuno:
Those are the drugs talkin’. Hope things are still looking up in the AM.
Glad to read yer OK and following therapists’ orders! (You are, aren’t you?)
schrodinger's cat
@Yatsuno: That’s good! I hope you have a speedy recovery!
trollhattan
Feel the grift? Do you?
http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitolalertlatest/2013/12/michelle-rhee-pushing-california-ballot-measure-to-change-teacher-laws.html#storylink=cpy
Now you’re feeling it, yes?
Roger Moore
@Yatsuno:
That’s the meds talking.
schrodinger's cat
Don’t forget to take the snow line when it is snowing!
NotMax
@Anne Laurie
Ever see the Mark Morris dance troupe’s “The Hard Nut” (sample)?
Might be on Netflix.
WaterGIrl
@Yatsuno: Wow, that’s just amazing!
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
Keep feeling good Yutsy! Enjoy being loopy; it beats post op pain, as I recall.
@raven – how did your lovely bride’s MRI interpretation go?
trollhattan
@NotMax:
Mark Morris was two years behind me in HS. Nope, didn’t know him but anyway….
Mnemosyne
@NotMax:
I have a taped copy of Guy Maddin’s Dracula: Pages from a Virgin’s Diary, but I haven’t gotten around to watching it. He filmed it with the Royal Winnipeg Ballet.
eemom
Very glad to hear you are doing well, Yats/Yuts.
Post-surgery drugs rule, also too.
raven
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): Pretty well, the neuro feels that the stenosis is very mild and the problem is in the shoulder as opposed to a nerve issue. She’ll see the bone and joint folks Friday and chart a non-surgical course. I also decided to go to my GP and get a referral for my shoulder since it is not getting better. I’m also hoping for the non-surgical route. thanks
Bill Arnold
This from AP channeling T. Friedman was perfect:
LAC
@NotMax: I loved it! It was a fun take on the nutcracker.
WaterGIrl
@raven: Hi Raven. You wrote: “the problem is in the shoulder as opposed to a nerve issue”, but I think you said earlier that it was in the joint. Did you just type shoulder by mistake because you were thinking of your shoulder?
(Not trying to nitpick, just hoping to prevent confusion.)
Edit: Or maybe I flunked reading comprehension in the earlier thread.
schrodinger's cat
Has anybody else been reading Roger Cohen’s pieces about India recently, he seems to be channeling Tom Friedman.
Anne Laurie
@Bill Arnold: …A cockroach made of stone. A cockroach made of stone that lives in The Cloud….
I may be biased by my conviction that Friedman doesn’t read Pareene, and wouldn’t be bothered by the mockery even if someone read it to him. Erickson, on the other hand, I’m sure is suffering from a severe case of the Irks right now.
TaMara (BHF)
Yuts, you’re stoned, Lie down. Just kidding, big, gentle hug to you buddy.
So I have a problem with the new cat. He has bed head…on his entire body. Nothing I do tames his hair. Time for a good conditioner? /jest
Also, too, cookies.
I’ll post photos of the new boy once I’ve got some time, next week-ish. He has been a true joy and really helping in the healing process.
Citizen_X
@Bill Arnold: Even better are the lines that follow:
ETA: Damn you AL!
Mike in NC
@dmsilev:
It’s the man boobs.
Mike E
@Yatsuno: Glad you made it through the procedure with good spirits intact…PT is a plot hatched by therapists to see how creative your curse words can be. Try not to disappoint!
Aji
@TaMara (BHF): Dryer sheet. I’m serious.
Pogonip
Tell the chickens that their great god Yutzy, to whom they bow their heads in solemn worship, is feeling pretty durn good! Go tell it in the henhouse, over the hills and everywhere!
GHayduke (formerly lojasmo)
@Yatsuno:
It’s when the bipuvicaine wears off that the pain starts. Muahaha.
Make good use of the old narcotic button. Set a timer or something so you don’t forget to push it.
raven
@WaterGIrl: The shoulder has several joints:
GHayduke (formerly lojasmo)
@raven:
That’s great news!
raven
@GHayduke (formerly lojasmo): Yea, the thought of a second spinal surgery within 6 months of the first one wasn’t too great. I’ve been putting off dealing with mine for a couple of years and the thought of not being able to swim is a stone bummer.
A Humble Lurker
@Just Some Fuckhead, Thought Leader: Yatsuno has to do that for those NSA type threads or there’d be nothing intelligible in them. Besides, even if that were all he contributed, it’d still be more than quite a few others who post here.
Just Some Fuckhead, Thought Leader
@A Humble Lurker: That’s a typical dudebro response.
mclaren
@Betty Cracker:
Because it’s so useful have a crank who describes people quoting from the constitution as “off their meds.”
Judging by Yatsuno’s typical post, he was stoned long before the surgery.
Jebediah, RBG
@Yatsuno:
The fuck? Wasn’t your surgery earlier today?
Very glad it went well – Juno is willing to curl up on your lap for as long as it takes if it will speed healing.
Jebediah, RBG
@Jebediah, RBG:
Which looks like this.
Yatsuno
@GHayduke (formerly lojasmo): I don’t have a pump. They do the meds all oral unless I need something stronger. So far I haven’t.
My left leg just twitched. Ouch.
coin operated
@Yatsuno: If you can, make sure you have good pain meds on board for your next PT session. Anywhere between 30-90 minutes prior is just about right. The torture that a PT specialist can dream up would make the last administration blush with envy.
/former nurse
seaboogie
@mclaren: Your empathy and compassion for the human condition has touched a deep chord within me.
SiubhanDuinne
@lamh36:
@Mnemosyne:
I think you’re both mixing him up with Brian Orser. Don’t you remember the “Battle of the Brians” in the 1988 Calgary Games?
Larv
@Bill Arnold:
The Friedman one is perfect. My favorite:
slippy
Just finished the Noonan piece. Epic takedown of a vastly puffed-up ego.
I found a real Nooners piece on the new Pope and it was composed of the exact same pretentious, Literary Masterpiece tone of voice, where she clearly believes she’s channeling some great 20th century author, instead of fapping in front of a mirror. I would never deny that I’m fairly narcissistic, but Jesus Christ, she thinks she’s the second coming of fucking Hemingway or something.
dollared
Speedy recovery, Yatsuno! Keep pushing that button.
And my two friends with new hips report that after the first month, it hurts a lot less than the old one, pretty much forever.