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Kiss My Black Ass

Surprise, Bitches!

by ruemara|  November 14, 20191:15 pm| 110 Comments

This post is in: Kiss My Black Ass, Open Threads

Well, that’s how I was planning to make an entrance. Thanks for ruining it for me, John! *packs away the feather boa*
Some of you know me (in the internet way), some of you don’t (that’s fine). I’ve been a scurrilous member of the Balloonitariat for an unreasonably long amount of time that it’s best I don’t mention for fear of wondering what the heck was I thinking, loitering on internet corners that much instead of becoming a rich tech sociopath and undermining democracy for funsies.

That, by the way, is what I’m wondering about beloved blog host, JC, who must have been on some industrial grade crack to let me have the keys to this place. Ah, well. Too late now! On to the briefest of synopsis on me, your newest blog chew toy.

I am a Kingstonian, born in Jamaica, raised in the wilds of the Queens suburbs of NYC. Which makes me fussy and cynical. Skip ahead a couple of decades – whoa, the things you guys are missing out on. Like, wtf, Georgia? I studied photography & printmaking, becoming one of the first people using computer art, process cameras and silkscreening/photolitho and multiplate monoprints way back in the 1800’s or whenever. I put myself through college by working overnights in print shops and started up as a designer.

Things fall apart, as they do and suddenly I wind up in San Francisco. I was not granted a bikini and blond hair upon landing, which was surprise 1 & it was fucking cold, surprise 2. Started the design and production thing and that went on very well for a while until the economy went ass over teakettle under George “I only seem less horrible now, but I’m still horrible” W. Bush. So tits up everything went and hello, here I am in northernly NorCal that’s not quite so north I have snow, but northern enough that I wear sweaters.

I’m in a relationship with 2 weird cats who were rescued from a local parking lot as little feral kittens. They’re very pretty, a touch headstrong, but loving. Fun fact, I’m convinced all cats are really Japanese so mine tend to have Japanese names.

I woke up like this
Good morning to Hime fans & Hime fans only!
Odo is severely unimpressed
The handsome, majestically floofy Odoriki demonstrates floof in repose for his students.

I’m under/unemployed at the moment, which means I spend a lot of time either looking for voiceover work, or hunting for design or video work. I’m the lead in a sci-fi audiodrama podcast, Ostium and seem to be accruing more podcast roles at a fast clip.

Right now, I’m participating in Script Dash, the screenwriter version of NaNoWriMo. So I won’t be very visible here unless I’m mad, bored while televising a local gov meeting or avoiding writing my script. Mostly, I’ll try to keep threads from getting musty, maybe say something useful or amusing and be boringly analytical. That’s all I got for now because I’m determined to log 10 pages tonight so I’m caught up auditioning for next month’s work while applying for work. Here’s an open thread, have at it. No nudity in the comments please. But if your boss says it’s ok at work, go for it.

Surprise, Bitches!Post + Comments (110)

Tuesday Morning Open Thread: Readership Capture

by Anne Laurie|  August 27, 20195:35 am| 131 Comments

This post is in: Don't Agonize - Organize, Kiss My Black Ass, Open Threads, Proud to Be A Democrat

Obama announces new effort in fight against gerrymandering https://t.co/wtG5maDdnR

— Ramon E Garcia (@RamonEGarcia2) August 26, 2019


Vanity Fair:

… Obama announced his intention to tackle the issue earlier this year, combining his Organizing for America organization with former Attorney General Eric Holder’s redistricting efforts to create the organization All On The Line, which describes itself as a “national campaign to restore fairness to our democracy and ensure every American has an equal say in our government” by fighting against gerrymandering and advocating for fair maps nationwide. On Monday, Obama went one step further by announcing Redistricting U, a new extension of All On The Line which will provide free, in-person training for redistricting activists…

… While All On The Line’s activism will take place nationwide, the organization says that its efforts will particularly be targeting Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Michigan, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Wisconsin…

 

.@violadavis is set to portray former First Lady Michelle Obama in #FirstLadies on @Showtime https://t.co/3haqglymR9

— Deadline Hollywood (@DEADLINE) August 26, 2019

Viola Davis is set to portray Michelle Obama in First Ladies, a one-hour White House drama that has been put on fast-track development at Showtime with a three-script commitment. Davis will executive produce the project, which hails from writer Aaron Cooley (novels Four Seats: A Thriller of the Supreme Court, The Guns of Ridgewood), Davis and Julius Tennon’s JuVee Productions, Cathy Schulman’s Welle Entertainment (Otherhood), Jeff Gaspin’s Gaspin Media (LA’s Finest) and Brad Kaplan (The Intruder). Showtime and Lionsgate TV co-produce…

Davis stars in How to Get Away with Murder, which begins its sixth and final season this fall on ABC. She and Tennon most recently executive produced with Steph Curry the documentary Emanuel, about the mass shooting at Emanuel AME Church on June 17, 2015. JuVee’s Davis and Tennon also are executive producing Fast Color, a TV series based on the 2018 sci-fi film, for Amazon.

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Who is “us”, Kimosabe? https://t.co/y3BZj7oxG8

— Soledad O'Brien (@soledadobrien) August 27, 2019


 
And to follow up on Cole’s latest post, Bret Stephens is now getting pigbladdered by The Best:

Today you called me a “bedbug.” I would welcome the opportunity for you to come to my home, meet my wife and kids, and have them teach you how to insult me more effectively.

— SeductiveReasoningHat (@Popehat) August 27, 2019

Subject line: From Bret Stephens, New York Times
Dear Merriam-Webster twitter account,
It was brought to my attention that you subtweeting me. Would you dare do this in front of my wife & kids? Put up your dukes, dictionary!
Bret Stephens
cc: Your manager. https://t.co/D021TA7lLG

— Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) August 27, 2019

WTF. You had this your feed 10 days ago, and now you've narced on some college professor because he called you..checks notes..a "bedbug." Motherfucker, any day I don't get addressed here as a libtard, cuck, Hollywood Jew and (((David Simon)))? I'm not even trying. You hypocrite. https://t.co/vQlKUV8ieU

— David Simon (@AoDespair) August 27, 2019

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Friday the 13th “Rhymes with Bucket” Open Thread

by Anne Laurie|  May 13, 20163:58 pm| 224 Comments

This post is in: Activist Judges!, Kiss My Black Ass, Open Threads

Senate leaders should listen to the American people. #DoYourJob pic.twitter.com/vArMxcZh5W

— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) May 13, 2016

A little gift to all the GOP senators now “home for the weekend” with their constituents, already faced with the delicate task of explaining why a megalomaniac reality tv star / real estate developer is the new voice of their party, not that there’s anything wrong with that. Nice one, President Obama!
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Apart from no longer giving a rat’s arse, what’s on the agenda for the weekend?

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Thursday Morning Open Thread: Some Folks Don’t Learn

by Anne Laurie|  March 17, 20166:49 am| 129 Comments

This post is in: Activist Judges!, Election 2016, Kiss My Black Ass, Open Threads, Republican Stupidity, Flash Mob of Hate

scotus refusal burns gop eagan

No question in my mind that Sen. McConnell will cave, and President Obama will fill this vacancy this year. pic.twitter.com/p2KBysDJTj

— Senator Harry Reid (@SenatorReid) March 16, 2016

Timothy Eagan via GoComics.com

Odd to base SCOTUS obstruction on "giving American people a say" when they oppose obstruction by a 2-to-1 margin. https://t.co/rAk1M2Vwl3

— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) March 16, 2016

Yet Dana Milbank is fretting…

… In his introduction of Garland, Obama quoted past praise for the nominee by Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), the longest-serving Republican on the Judiciary Committee. Hatch supported Garland’s nomination to the circuit court two decades ago. He has since said that Garland would be a “consensus nominee” to the high court and that there’s “no question” he would be confirmed. Just last week, Hatch predicted Obama wouldn’t nominate Garland, because he’s too moderate.

But minutes after Obama nominated Garland, Hatch told reporters that he would continue opposing consideration of any nominee until after the election. And McConnell said Obama “made this nomination not with the intent of seeing the nominee confirmed but in order to politicize for purposes of the election.”

Obama had done just the opposite: He picked an old white guy whose centrist views do not excite the Democratic base — an olive branch to conservatives in (vain) hopes that they would relax their lock-step objections. In the process, he antagonized allies on the left, raising the possibility that Democrats won’t get a political benefit from the standoff — and that Obama still won’t get his nominee confirmed…

I have not always been serene in my faith regarding the Eleventh-Dimensional Chess Master, but let’s give President “Rhymes with Bucket” Obama some credit here, okay? There are already ads on my tv (Boston being what passes for a NH media market) attacking Kelly “Handmaiden of Gilead, also of McCain/Graham” Ayotte for ‘refusing to perform her Constitutional duty’ when it comes to scheduling a hearing for Judge Garland. I’m sure Grassley and the other GOP senators running this year are watching similar ads and popping antacids. Either they stand on their principles, such as they are, and give both-sides! voters another reason to sit on their hands come Election Day… or they break down, let President Kenyan Muslim have his lousy “hearings”, and risk getting primaried by an even further-right purist next time. Not to mention the rich pickings any such hearing is liable to provide for future attack ads, per the last eleven hours of Benghazi-gate.
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Apart from rolling our eyes, what’s on the agenda for the day?
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So for this to work Obama should pledge to withdraw his nominee and replace them with a more liberal choice every month until confirmed

— Benjy Sarlin (@BenjySarlin) March 16, 2016

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Saturday Morning Open Thread

by Anne Laurie|  March 12, 20165:10 am| 184 Comments

This post is in: Kiss My Black Ass, Open Threads, Daydream Believers

best pic.twitter.com/goIhpBwAwz

— laura olin (@lauraolin) March 11, 2016

I think I’m old and staid enough to get away with saying that the Obama sisters are growing up into lovely young ladies, and their parents can be very proud.

But not so staid that I can’t enjoy the President’s Rhymes-with-Bucket Tour in progress, per Politico:

Speaking at a Democratic Party fundraiser in Austin, Texas, on Friday evening, President Barack Obama lit into Donald Trump, by turns mocking him for “selling steaks” and ripping his rhetoric— while urging the GOP to take responsibility for creating him.

“So here’s the truth,” Obama began as he defended his economic record against Trump’s criticism. “Look it up. America is pretty darn great right now.”…

Then the president launched into a lengthy series of taunts of his own, blistering the Republican establishment for being “shocked that somebody is fanning anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-Muslim sentiment.”

“How can you be shocked?” he asked. “This is the guy, remember, who was sure that I was born in Kenya. Who just wouldn’t let it go. And all this same Republican establishment, they weren’t saying nothing. As long as it was directed at me, they were fine with it. They thought it was a hoot. Wanted to get his endorsement. And then now, suddenly, we’re shocked that there’s gambling going on in this establishment.”

“What is happening in this primary is just a distillation of what’s been happening inside their party for more than a decade,” Obama said, accusing Republicans of denying “evidence of science” and viewing Democrats as “destroying the country, or treasonous.”…

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Apart from enjoying the vision of Media Village Idiots groping for their individual custom-crafted hand-finished fainting couches, what’s on the agenda for the day?

8 short years… what a beautiful family! Thank you @POTUS & @FLOTUS pic.twitter.com/oFKVoQlgUT

— diane (@SaysSheToday) March 12, 2016

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Saturday Night Open Thread: Thank You, Mr. President

by Anne Laurie|  January 16, 201610:04 pm| 119 Comments

This post is in: Kiss My Black Ass, Open Threads, #notintendedtobeafactualstatement

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… and also Balloon Juice’s own 2016 presidential candidate, Baud, for the link.

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Open Thread: You’d ‘Check Out’, Too

by Anne Laurie|  August 25, 20149:52 pm| 42 Comments

This post is in: Kiss My Black Ass, Open Threads

Let the shrieking commence, but I kinda agree with Paul Waldman, in the Washington Post, on those who critique President Obama’s “stagecraft”:

… The criticism in a case like this tends to be of the third-person variety: whoever’s doing the criticizing says, “I understand why substantively this doesn’t make any difference, but other people are going to look at it and be upset.” But I’m not sure who’s sincerely upset about it.

It isn’t that these accumulated critiques are inaccurate. In many ways it appears that he has indeed stopped bothering with a lot of the things that contemporary presidents spend their time worrying about. Barack Obama isn’t Bill Clinton — working a room, whether it’s full of donors or full of senators, isn’t his idea of a good time. So he’ll go to the fundraisers, because that’s still something with practical importance for his party. But he isn’t going to massage Congressional egos, because at this point it won’t make a bit of difference. He’s enjoyed almost perfect support on legislation from congressional Democrats (and almost perfect opposition from Republicans), and there isn’t going to be any major legislation in his last two years anyway, not with the GOP controlling one and possibly two houses of Congress…

Back when he first ran for president, Obama and his team prided themselves on their ability to see beyond the fury of that day’s news cycle, avoid the distraction of whatever was in Politico that morning, and keep their focus on their long-term goals. That was a central part of the “No Drama Obama” ethos. What’s happening now is in some ways an extension of that perspective. It may be that Obama has decided that it’s no longer possible to affect how most Americans think about him — after nearly six years in office, there’s no clever press strategy that will revive his approval ratings. The only thing that will make a difference is results...

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Apart from armchair quarterbacking (and throwing peanuts at those who do), what’s on the agenda for the evening?

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