(Sort of) Queen Elsa to the rescue!
This man was dressed as Elsa from "Frozen" when he spotted a police vehicle stranded in the Boston blizzard — and just couldn't "Let It Go" ?❄️ pic.twitter.com/bXMIheArml
— BuzzFeed News (@BuzzFeedNews) March 14, 2018
You’d expect to see this type of thing in Florida, not Boston, if Florida had blizzards.
Also, Crossdressing Attorneys would be the name of my neo-punk cover band if I had any musical aptitude whatsoever.
Obligatory:
Stay frosty!
Open thread.
Baud
His friends are assholes for not helping.
PhoenixRising
I will play bass. And pick up the pizzas.
NotMax
Resisting the temptation to set that headline to the tune of The Cockeyed Mayor of Kaunakakai.
PhoenixRising
@Baud: Nah, he asked his friends to let him be the hero we’ve waited for. Not the hero we deserve, you understand, but…no one can deserve Princess Elsa pushing out a paddy wagon in the pre-St Pat’s Day blizzard.
Davis X. Machina
Well, we New Englanders are just notoriously tight-assed, undemonstrative and taciturn.
TenguPhule
Just when I thought the day couldn’t possibly get any weirder.
raven
@NotMax: From the broken neck capitol of the world!
Baud
@Davis X. Machina: I’ve got it on good authority that I need to be more uptight and humorless.
Jeffro
“Crossdressing Attorneys” is kinda tepid for a punk band, old chap.
Amir Khalid
Well, he’s a change from the usual parade of Area Man mean/stupid/nuts.
lollipopguild
@Baud: Let Baud be Baud. Unleash His Baudness!
efgoldman
@PhoenixRising:
I thought Daddy played bass.
Adam L Silverman
@NotMax: Say that five times fast!
JPL
I love Queen Elsa.
Jeffro
Does Bolton require confirmation if appointed to replace McMaster?
Just asking for a friend…who has a good bomb-shelter company on hold at the moment…
beef
The cold never bothered her anyways.
schrodingers_cat
@Baud: We like you just the way you are!
schrodingers_cat
@Jeffro: Nope. If we let the lolrus have his bucket back, may be then he will leave us alone
NotMax
@Adam L. Silverman
That that that that that.
:)
Gin & Tonic
@Jeffro: No.
Shana
@Jeffro: But not for a Jimmy Buffett cover band.
Mary G
I have never heard that song and don’t intend to start now.
Jeffro
@schrodingers_cat: Good to know, thanks!
“…so…sorry for the delay there…so you have a special on shelters 30′ or more deep? Do those come with their own generat…wait…yes…I know you have a lot of calls cominginDON’TPUTMEONHOLDDAMMIT…”
Shit.
efgoldman
@PhoenixRising:
Granddaughter (five in August) has been Elsa crazy since age two.
Parents have arranged for a character meet when they go to The Magic at the beginning of May. Child doesn’t know. They’ll tell her when they wake her up the morning of. As it is, she’s bouncing off the walls and ceilings pending the arrival of a new sibling. She’s got to sleep some time.
raven
Grey from Houston has ice water in his veins.
Adam L Silverman
@Jeffro: No. Assistants to the President, which is what the National Security Advisor is, do not need Senate confirmation.
FlyingToaster
This seems entirely normal to me. But of course, I’ve just lived in one of the inner ‘burbs for the past 30 years.
[15 years in Somerville; 15+ years in Watertown, which is technically MetroWest but looking at the increased density, not to mention the “Assembly-Row-ing” of the Arsenal, not for long)
Adam L Silverman
@Shana: That would be The Crossdressing Land Sharks.
schrodingers_cat
I has a bucket. For the two people that don’t know about the lolrus and his bucket.
raven
McMaster gone.
Waratah
That was fun to watch thanks Adam
NotMax
@raven
Once saw a woman who had been a well-known Hawaiian entertainer in the 20s and 30s perform that number as a specialty act during a fund-raising show. Must have been in her late eighties, possibly in her nineties. Wheeled in a chair into the wings, hobbled out onto the stage with the aid of two burly stagehands.
Once the spotlight hit her the years instantly melted away and she sang and danced as if she was 25 again. Magical moment.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Gin & Tonic
So tomorrow is the one-year anniversary of my arm incident. I’m going to commemorate it by going skiing. If things go badly, Mrs. G&T is going to be mighty pissed off.
Jon Marcus
The snow never bothered her anyway
Waratah
I know this off topic but we are going to Rome and the information I am reading is confusing on we need to safely charge our phones pads and cameras. I thought you well travelled commenters could help me.
Adam L Silverman
Beinvinidos a Miami!
I lived in Miami for two years in grad school. This is about what I was expecting:
FlyingToaster
@efgoldman: I recommend dance parties. It’s what we did all through Preschool and Kindergarten.
Albums we used back in the day:
“Kids in Motion” by Greg and Steve
“Music from the TV Show” and “Volume 2” by the Fresh Beat Band
“Music is Awesome, vols 1,2,3” by Yo Gabba Gabba.
And whatever HerrDoktor put together from They Might be Giants.
Every night, about 15-20 minutes before bathtime, we had a dance party. It meant I could get Warrior
BabyGirl to go the fuck to sleep.These days, at age 10, it involves confiscating the electronics from WarriorGirl and sending her upstairs, with required reading a book before bedtime.
Ohio Mom
@schrodingers_cat: I was one of those two people so thanks.
Shana
@Adam L Silverman: You’re right. I bow to your superior knowledge in all things.
Gin & Tonic
@Waratah: All you need is the converter for the shape of the plug. All of the charging adapters (known sometimes as “bricks”) that come with your devices will be fine. Everything charges over mini-USB, micro-USB or Lighting these days.
ETA: If you really want to play safe, just get one of these. https://www.miniinthebox.com/universal-travel-usb-charger-adapter-wall-portable-eu-plug-mobile-phone-smart-fast-charger-for-iphone-samsung-huawei-xiaomi-5v-3-1a_p5359706.html?currency=USD&litb_from=paid_adwords_shopping&sku=1_45&country_code=us&utm_source=google_shopping&utm_medium=cpc&adword_mt=&adword_ct=202569733657&adword_kw=&adword_pos=1o2&adword_pl=&adword_net=g&adword_tar=&adw_src_id=33249133621_866657477_43349667763_pla-323333425346&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIuYqnh-Lv2QIVRVcNCh2wkApUEAQYAiABEgL1DfD_BwE (sorry about the sloopy URL, I’m in the edit window.)
raven
@NotMax: At Makapu?
Adam L Silverman
@raven:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/politics/trump-decides-to-remove-national-security-adviser-and-others-may-follow/2018/03/15/fea2ebae-285c-11e8-bc72-077aa4dab9ef_story.html?utm_term=.1b53c43df467&__twitter_impression=true
More at the link.
Adam L Silverman
@Waratah: You’re welcome.
Amir Khalid
@Adam L Silverman:
John Bolton is mean, stupid and inept. He will be a good fit for the Trump administration.
Adam L Silverman
@Shana: Fins to the left, fins to the right…
NotMax
@raven
Nope, on Maui.
Doug R
@Waratah:
Never been to Europe myself but I hear cell phone rates are WAY better over there. It might be cheaper to buy a prepaid phone there, it would probably come with a charger that with any luck would be the same as one of your phones.
Everywhere around here it’s USB chargers with a wall plug in adapter, I’m thinking Europe would have their voltage adapters -> USB available.
A large drug store here like London Drugs or Rite Aid probably has adapters if you look hard enough.
Gin & Tonic
@Doug R: As long as you have a US cellphone that’s not carrier-locked, it’s best to just buy a local SIM card. I only use a second phone in certain special circumstances.
Adam L Silverman
@Amir Khalid: Kiss up, kick down.
He will enable all of the President’s worst instincts. If Kelly is still there I could see them getting in a fist fight. And I don’t expect he’ll survive the first time he tries to give Secretary Mattis a stupid order.
Brachiator
Who are these people?
schrodingers_cat
@Adam L Silverman: Can we televise it? Ratings gold.
NotMax
@Adam L. Silverman
There was a story maybe a month or so ago that the Pentagon (Marines?) was frantically searching for a four-star position to lay on McMaster. Presume he would have to unretire first?
schrodingers_cat
@Ohio Mom: Lolrus and monorail cat were the thing, back in the day when blogs were young.
Jeffro
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Twitter Richard Nixon was especially incensed at this turn of events…
Waratah
@Gin & Tonic: Thank you so much we did not want to go and not be able to charge or damage anything. I thought about you today as you said you were a foody while we were researching places to eat and food. We will have to do some major walking.
What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?
Looks like he’s heading your catch phrase and staying frosty!
Jeffro
@Adam L Silverman: (from the reporting)
Um, I believe the horse done already left the barn on that one, folks…it’s nothing but shittier appointees all the way down at this point…
Jeffro
@Adam L Silverman:
From your lips to the FSM’s noodly appendages…
Gin & Tonic
@Waratah: Haven’t been to Rome in eons, so can’t help you there.
Waratah
@Doug R: we have not decided on telephone charges but we might check out the phones there. We do not plan to have a lot of calling but would like for emergency’s.
Adam L Silverman
@NotMax: Not the Marines. LTG McMaster is in the Army. You are correct that that was reported, that they were looking for an appropriate billet for him. Otherwise he retires from service when he steps down as National Security Advisor as he was scheduled to retire in early 2017 with his last assignment being Deputy Commanding General Training and Doctrine Command and Director Army Capability Integration Center.
The problem is finding a billet for him. They could promote him on retirement, what is referred to as a tomb stone, but he wouldn’t draw 4 star retirement pay because he never served in grade. This leaves finding him an actual billet. Unfortunately they’re either filled or they have a bunch of 3 star generals already lined up to be promoted in to them. So they either sidetrack someone’s career or end someone else’s career early. A good number of McMaster’s peers never wanted him to make 1 star, let alone 3. So there’s a lot of general officer politics that also has to be negotiated around here too.
EBT
Dear open thread: I now have 405 or the 809 backgrounds I need to draw for the first arc of my interactive fiction.
NotMax
@Adam L. Silverman
Commander of Laundry and Morale.
:)
(Yeah, aware the Mister Roberts was Navy.)
Steeplejack
@EBT:
Congratulations! (Assuming “or the 809” is really “of the 809.”)
Adam L Silverman
@NotMax: Actually there’s a cottage industry in stories of staffers bumping into Secretary Mattis on his way to the Pentagon basement after hours. He does is laundry in the machines there.
Anne Laurie
But can somebody help “Queen Elsa” meet Adam Ripon? From Boston.com:
lgerard
From the Wapo
That’s certainly reassuring
frosty
@Gin & Tonic: Congrats, glad you healed well enough to ski again. If it was me I wouldn’t ever leave the fireplace in the lodge again.
NotMax
@Adam L. Silverman
“Smart” machines connected to the internet?
Russia: “More bleach!”
:)
SiubhanDuinne
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
FFS
EBT
@Steeplejack: It is, Been riding half a pot of coffee a day for the last week when I spent the last fifteen years avoiding it.
Adam L Silverman
@NotMax: If there like every set of laundry machines I’ve ever seen on a military base, then they take quarters. And they plug into an outlet. That’s about it.
SiubhanDuinne
@Gin & Tonic:
Wow, a year already! Happy anniversary, I guess. Stay safe on those mean slopes tomorrow.
Omnes Omnibus
Channing Tatum?
@Adam L Silverman: I would not be surprised if HR retires at his present rank.
SiubhanDuinne
@Waratah:
Be sure to take pictures and send them to Alain for the morning “On the Road” feature. Bon voyage!
Adam L Silverman
@Omnes Omnibus: I wouldn’t either. I know the White House is trying to get Mattis to get the Sec Army and CSA to do something here, but I don’t see how they do it without screwing someone else over who is already in the chute for their 4th star and the billet that goes with it.
Origuy
@Waratah: Might be worth buying a small surge protector. Belkin makes one which I think comes with multiple plugs. I bought it after frying a PC power brick in a Stalin-era apartment in Moscow.
SiubhanDuinne
@lgerard:
WaPo could’ve stopped right there.
MoxieM
The South End rocks… of course, it’s changed a lot. When I first started working, I had a friend who lived there because it was cheap–maybe $200 bucks a month? Him and hookers & junkies on his street. Then, people realized the buildings are beautiful, and gentrification happened. It’s got a decent historical society (well, it’s Boston after all…)
Omnes Omnibus
@Adam L Silverman: And HR, as you noted, is not an army establishment darling. It is how he earned his rep.
Adam L Silverman
@Omnes Omnibus: Yep. I suppose they could try to offer him as the backfill for GEN Nichols in Afghanistan. That would give him about 24 to 32 months at the 4 star level. But that would depend on whether there was someone in the chute to take over that assignment.
J. Adams Jefferson
Haven’t properly introduced myself. Joined a recent thread & added some thoughts, no one seemed to notice. I usually only get to read these interesting discussions a few days later, when I’m offline, in my wonderful Appalachian wilderness. Happen to be checking in tonite. Hi, all.
I don’t know how to paste an image here: google search shows it’s a common troll meme/false profile pic used worldwide.
Patriot Lady
I think it ought to be the header of this account:
Up about $16,000 since I checked a few hours ago.
Omnes Omnibus
@Adam L Silverman: I am still upset that my Channing Tatum link got nothing. I am losing my touch.
Lyrebird
@Adam L Silverman: You’ve probably seen this, but just in case:
So maybe Haspel is more of a Mattis pick than we thought. Something useful actually came from Ayn Paul Rand’s complaints! Fact checking, that is. Credit to ProPublica for not just acknowledging that they were wrong but giving their correction a headline, not just teeny print at the bottom of the “About Us” page or something.
Adam L Silverman
@Lyrebird: I’ve seen some of the pushback on this. Apparently the Chief of Station (facility) at that time was not Haspel. She didn’t get there till later that year. The two questions that are now going to come up are:
1) Were the reports that she was the Chief of (that) Station (facility) that destroyed the surveillance recordings/evidence under orders from higher also incorrect and it was her predecessor?
2) How do Senators McCain and Feinstein respond to this revelation?
Adam L Silverman
@Omnes Omnibus: I’m not sure those sneakers go with his gown.
Also, the expressions on Chrissy Teigen’s face are amazing!
Omnes Omnibus
@Adam L Silverman: Thank you.
Omnes Omnibus
@Omnes Omnibus: Why do my comments now go to moderation?
Adam L Silverman
@Omnes Omnibus: Good question, let me look.
Adam L Silverman
@Omnes Omnibus: I have no idea, but I’ve freed it.
Lyrebird
@Omnes Omnibus: I don’t know, but I didn’t click before bc I don’t know who Channing Tatum is. Whoever he is, he’s a good dancer, and that was hilarious, thank you!
I would like to know if I could find his version of the dress available in a smaller size. My kid would be so amused, and most of what I have found is sized for tweens who aren’t planning to do rolls on the stage either.
Omnes Omnibus
@Adam L Silverman: Weird.
Mnemosyne
I can’t believe I missed this thread. Oh well.
Adam L Silverman
@Omnes Omnibus: It’s possible WP got confused because it was a very polite reply. If you’d just said “Fuck you!” there might not have been an issue at all.//
Adam L Silverman
@Mnemosyne: FOCUS!!!!!