I was looking for something non-political, but then, the end of that clip seems vaguely CPAC-related…
Political or not, what’s on the agenda for the evening?
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I was looking for something non-political, but then, the end of that clip seems vaguely CPAC-related…
Political or not, what’s on the agenda for the evening?
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Misha
Volunteered at a cat shelter for a few hours this evening; now catching up on back episodes of Fallon’s Tonight and Meyers’ Late Night. Keeping it low-key tonight.
JPL
Chevy has a new ad that will bring tears, even if you hate animals. (okay why would anyone who hates animals be on this site).. Anyway I already looked up a local adopt a golden site, although I’m not sure that is what Chevy intended. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t6bLugtJkQv
lamh36
WH.GOV livestreaming WH in concert Ladies of Soul.
You’ve already missed the Queen and Patti Labelle, although I believe they both will be back
Here’s the link: http://www.whitehouse.gov/live
lamh36
Also too, they’ve released a trailer for the new Annie remake with Jamie Foxx as “Daddy Warbucks”, Cameron Diaz as “Miss Hannigan” and Quevanzhe Wallis as “Annie”.
ANNIE – Official Trailer – In Theaters Christmas 2014!
I don’t know about youse guys, but my baby Maddie was watching it and she now wants to see Annie…right now. I had to tell her it doesn’t come out until Christmas and she was like…”that’s a long time”…LOL.
NotMax
Non-political? How about some refreshing scientific candor?
Glidwrith
I think I’ve been too deep in the ‘Thug world. I’m listening to morning bird song the other day and decided what he was really saying was “Fuck! Fuck you! I’ve got mine over here and fuck you!”. Somehow, Mr. Glidwrith wasn’t quite as amused.
Litlebritdiftrnt
@JPL:
Thanks for that. Not! It is obvious that she is saying goodbye at the beginning of the ad, which took me a few times of watching to figure out. Once I figured out the backwards version it totally killed me. It is gut wrenching.
JPL
@Litlebritdiftrnt: I owned two goldens and although I love my latest rescue I still miss them. My last Golden died when he was sixteen.
also.. I sent it to my sons who both responded that we had really good dogs growing up
it’s a two hankie commercial
Omnes Omnibus
@lamh36:
She’s the kid from Beasts of the Southern Wild, right?
lamh36
@Omnes Omnibus: yep.
BTW, Areatha Franklin currently on WH Livestream singing Amazing Grace and having a revival at the White House.
There’s a reason why they call her the Queen!
Omnes Omnibus
@lamh36: Youtube?
ETA: I am there. Thanks.
lamh36
@Omnes Omnibus: White.gov. it should be at the link above.
If not, then if will be on PBS for their White House In Concert series…eventually
Omnes Omnibus
@lamh36: I found it via the White House YouTube stream.
ETA: I am going to need to catch the full thing when it hits PBS. I just got the tail end of Aretha’s performance.
lamh36
@Omnes Omnibus: ah..ok. sorry.
yeah, it started at 7pm I think. It’s over now though. Can wait to see the full show on PBS
PaulW
If you kindly, please read Mardi Gras Murder and please leave some reviews for it on Goodreads, danke.
The earlier anthology I had a story in, Strangely Funny, got some decent reviews but needs more love. Thanks.
Also, the six kittehs that Ocean gave birth to are now 5 1/2 weeks old and are running all over the place. They’re also pissing all over the place, which is a good excuse to refloor the sunroom once they all grow up and move out…
Mnemosyne
@lamh36:
Well, it’s gotta be better than the 1980s version, which was the first movie I remember watching and thinking, Well, that sucked.
And if anyone complains about her having natural hair, this is the traditional look for the stage play, so they can STFU.
lamh36
@Omnes Omnibus: Hopefully the edited version keeps the same vibe, cause man, Aretha was having a revival right ther in the White House
Cassidy
Time to get something off my chest. The Heist was better than good kid, m.A.A.d city.
Mnemosyne
@PaulW:
They should be using the litter box. If they aren’t, it may be too tall for them to get into — try something with low sides, like a cookie sheet, filled with litter.
Also, make sure you have more than one — some cats don’t like having to share, or having to wait, and there can be conflict over the box.
ETA: And an enzymatic cleaner like Nature’s Miracle should get the smell out of the floor so they stop thinking it’s a good spot to pee.
Omnes Omnibus
@Cassidy: Just trying to start a fight?
lamh36
@Omnes Omnibus: I believe it airs on PBS in April
Omnes Omnibus
@lamh36: Cool. I’ll keep an eye out. I love the series.
gogol's wife
@lamh36:
Another reason I’m dreading the end of the Obama presidency — the concerts will go back to being lame.
Bob In Portland
Of course, it can’t be true!
http://rt.com/news/ashton-maidan-snipers-estonia-946/
Cassidy
@Omnes Omnibus: Nah. I really didn’t like it as much. I liked it, okay, but I’m not a fan of Lamar’s style of rapping. The Heist is just more fun to listen to.
raven
Just watched the last Breaking Bad and it was good but we’re really looking forward to the final True Detective.
Omnes Omnibus
@Cassidy: Now I am dying here. I heard something the other day following a Kendrick Lamar song. I was in the car so I didn’t write it down to chase after later. I was the coolest hip-hop song I had heard for a while – it used some samples of MLK speeches. Now I cannot recall the artist or title.
Pogonip
Agenda: preparing for my Mom’s 85th birthday this weekend. Also, in a mood of cautious optimism, putting away some of the long underwear (I’m keeping a couple of sets out of storage just in case).
Also, my little boy was on a committee at his program for the handicapped.
Me: What’s the committee about?
He: I don’t know.
Me: have you had any meetings?
He: Three.
Me: so what conclusions did the committee reach?
He: No conclusions.
Sounds like every committee I’VE ever encountered. Mainstreaming at its best!
Mike E
@Glidwrith: Gary Larson of The Far Side agrees with you.
Mike E
FYWP
lamh36
Ok, let’s talk about the new Annie movie. I’m def here for it, but ain’t no way Cameron Diaz can ever compare to Carol Burnett as Miss Hanngan!!!
But good luck to Cameron Diaz!
Carrol Burnett – Litte Girls (Annie Soundtrack
ETA: Ok, not for nothing but am I the ONLY one who just realized Hannigan was making moonshine in the tub…lol. I swear I never noticed as a kid.
GHayduke (formerly lojasmo)
Somebody here in treatment shovelled out the charcoal grill and suggested a cookout, so I went to the grocery (with a more senior buddy) and bought $250 worth of brats, steak, ground beef, chicken, and various chips, salads, and such so we could all feel like people for a bit.
It reminds me of One Flew Over the Cukoo’s nest.
GHayduke (formerly lojasmo)
@gogol’s wife:
Yeah…not really looking forward to the presidential Fleetwood Mac concert. #PukeInMyMouthALittle
NotMax
That the strip Little Orphan Annie was a pre-Ayn Rand proto-libertarian, avidly for unregulated markets, pro-vigilante justice vehicle, bashing unions and the New Deal and even having “Daddy” Warbucks die of heartache upon the election of FDR (to be resurrected only after FDR’s death) is forgotten.
fleeting expletive
At the risk of being condemned (again) for bringing up True Detective matters, here’s something I wonder about: At one point in either 3 or 4 or 5, Marty yells at the two interviewers something about you keep going until you get “ass cancer”. That was kind of random.
Then, in 7, he buys a ridiculous quantity of tampons, packaged in much larger packaging than I’ve ever seen tampons for sale. Does he have “ass cancer”? Is he using tampons to stanch the blood from it? Maybe he’s the one who has little to lose?
Suffern ACE
@lamh36: Please don’t tell me Cameron Diaz is as old as Carol Burnette was when the original Annie Movie came out – like that awful fact that Mark Hamil is now as old as Alec Guiness was when Star Wars was released.
I know, I know, Carol was not really all that old when the movie came out. Probably as old as I am now. BUT I was not yet 10 then and Carol seemed old-like 25 year olds seemed old.
Mnemosyne
@Suffern ACE:
Diaz is younger — Burnett was 49 and Diaz is 42.
But it may still frighten you to know that Diaz is only 7 years younger than Burnett was.
Omnes Omnibus
@lamh36: Ahem, Cameron Diaz vs Carol Burnett is not a battle that Ms. Burnett will win on all fronts.
Gin & Tonic
@Mnemosyne: I know it’s not really your department, but an opportunity here to toss it out to the commentariat, since pre-pubescent girls are the subject. I’ve not seen either “Lolita” — so, Kubrick or Lyne? In my mind’s eye I’ve got to imagine Jeremy Irons as better than James Mason, but…?
Mnemosyne
@Gin & Tonic:
I haven’t seen the Lyne one, so I vote for Kubrick. Peter Sellers and James Mason in a duel of wits is hard to beat.
From what I’ve heard, the Lyne version is more faithful to the book, but he’s Adrian Lyne, fer chrissakes.
Omnes Omnibus
@Mnemosyne: Lyne’s version is so much closer to being illegal.
trollhattan
@NotMax:
Sokkalizm stoled their eyez!!!
trollhattan
@Mnemosyne:
Kubrick. Let’s not forget Shelly Winters. And also, too, ponder the year in which it was released with amazement.
Mnemosyne
@fleeting expletive:
He has a wife and two teenage daughters, all of whom are still of menstruating age. I don’t think the quantity was ridiculous at all.
(Also, I think it was supposed to show us that Marty was feeling boring and domestic, which is why he was susceptible to flirtation from the girl. There are many cultural jokes about how only the most pu$$y-whipped of men buy tampons.)
trollhattan
@fleeting expletive:
Confess that one skittered past me, but the parting with the ex-wife seemed to hang heavy with finality. For further speculatin’, see this.
http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2014/03/one-last-wild-true-detective-theory-before-the-fin.html
Watching Ep 7 right after seeing McConahoweveryouspellit win the Oscar added a little something extra to the evening.
Mnemosyne
@Omnes Omnibus:
Not at all — Sue Lyon was only 14 (Dominique Swain was 15). But the filmmakers deliberately chose a more “developed” girl during casting because the censors told them they would run into less trouble that way.
NotMax
@trollhattan
Harold Gray (the creator) inserted some pretty vile screeds into it, even unto advocating lynching.
Trivia: The name of the orphanage matron in the strip was Miss Asthma.
Mrs. Warbucks was Annie’s long-time nemesis, time after time scheming to pin blame on her, boot her back to the orphanage, make her life miserable, etc.
Omnes Omnibus
@Mnemosyne:
When I have been in a relationship where that came up – tampon/pad buying (marriage/long term thing/etc.), I just looked at the guys who were giggling in a way that conveyed “I am having frequent and interesting sex, and you are not.” It works – if you can do the right look.
trollhattan
@NotMax:
LOA subtext is all new to me. As a wee lad reading the “funnies” the strip was still around, and I spent my energy wondering why all those mean people were always after her.
Sometimes imagine what it must have been like in the era of the finely crafted strips like “Little Nemo in Dreamland.” To see the artistry and fantastical storytelling today is to wonder how they even existed.
gogol's wife
@Gin & Tonic:
Jeremy Irons better than James Mason? As Humbert Humbert? You’re kidding, right? Tell me you’re kidding.
gogol's wife
@trollhattan:
Shelley Winters is brilliant in it. Her scene with James Mason in the living room after the dance — I could watch it every day.
NotMax
@trollhattan
After WW2, there was still flack about the strip advocating child labor (really!) and continuing Gray’s ‘shoot first, let God sort them out’ philosophy. Eventually it settled into being primarily a villain-of-the-month adventure-type strip.
Pogonip
@fleeting expletive: I can’t imagine sending a guy to buy tampons or pads, unless I had the empty box left over for him to take along as a reference. There are so many different kinds these days, and packaging is New! and Improved! so often these days, that sometimes even I got confused and I had a general idea of what I was looking for, “overnight” pads with wings. (Towards the tail end of my menstrual career, “overnight” meant “about 4 hours”–you younger ladies out there, take note!)
Omnes Omnibus
@Pogonip: I have never had a problem buying the correct item.
fleeting expletive
Pogo, right you are. But Mnosomosnome, wasn’t this after he was ensconced in his apartment with his microwave dinner? And Omnes, if true, you rock.
Omnes Omnibus
@fleeting expletive: I was usually given a list with the item/s clearly named. I just wasn’t embarrassed about buying them.
SiubhanDuinne
@Omnes Omnibus:
I now keep a little inexpensive digital voice recorder in the car for those moments. I always think I can remember a title or composer, or an especially winsome performance, until I get someplace where I can safely write it down, but it rarely happens. I’ve been using the recorder for about a month, and it is very freeing. Simple button operations and BIG buttons, so I don’t even need to take my eyes off the road for the few seconds it takes to identify the piece.
poptartacus
True detective finale dinner menu
crab cakes
jambalya
cornbread
lone star beer
chocolate cake vanillia ice cream
Awesome