Scenes from a mall post office
Posted on January 7th, 2011 by
Let’s call this a slow newsday and give everyone a recap of a conversation I overheard at the post office (in Germany you can have a bank account there since the post office also runs a bank business).
Customer: I’d like to withdraw 1,400 euros.
Employee: OK.
Customer: Can I have it in 500 euro bills? [Maximum is 500 –S,N!]
Employee: I don’t have enough for the whole amount.
Customer: How many do you have?
Employee: Two.
Customer: Oh, two is ok.
You don’t say.
In other news, I think this would be a good plugin for this blog.
In other news, I think this would be a good plugin for this blog.
Heheheheh. It is evil. I love it.
So in Germany you can go Postal and Bankal at the same time.
So in Germany you can go Postal and Bankal at the same time.
Or postal on the bankstah, but yea.
In other news, I think this would be a good plugin for this blog.
Comic Sans: the font that would not die.
That plugin should be a W3C requirement.
Also, I left you a present in the previous thread, T&U.
Not a bad idea, really. The Post Office could use the money, and backed by the Fed Gov you’d know it was reasonably safe.
Boehner wept!
Also, I left you a present in the previous thread, T&U.
If by “present,” you mean “steaming turd,” thanks.
I swear, people here are getting crazier and crazier.
Boehner wept!
Which reminds me, I thought the GOP was supposed to be all manly-men and shit, so what up with all the crybabies all of a sudden?
Which reminds me, I thought the GOP was supposed to be all manly-men and shit, so what up with all the crybabies all of a sudden?
They’re stealing Glenn Beck’s schtick?
They’re stealing Glenn Beck’s schtick?
Of all the people I would have sworn led the pack of faux-testicled, he’s the one I would have put book on.
so what up with all the crybabies all of a sudden?
They actually came face to face with all the Tea Partiers that got elected.
They actually came face to face with all the Tea Partiers that got elected.
See, there’s an explanation that makes sense.
Hmmm, how well do we know our host?
Maybe the orange paint got in Boehner’s eyes? Or he forgot the lyrics to the Oompa song?
Hmmm, how well do we know our host?
You found the illustrated version of his autobiography? The one that takes out the “n-word”?
so what up with all the crybabies all of a sudden?
Boehner is an emotionally unstable alcoholic?
Which reminds me, I thought the GOP was supposed to be all manly-men and shit, so what up with all the crybabies all of a sudden?
Given the way they peed their pants over terrorism, I think this has been going on for quite some time.
Given the way they peed their pants over terrorism
You call it peeing their pants.
They call it marking their territory to scare Al Qaeda off.
what up with all the crybabies all of a sudden?
They just love America so much…
They call it marking their territory to scare Al Qaeda off.
I suppose the pants-crapping was to make things so stinky that the terrorists would leave us alone. They were defending us!
They were defending us!
Precisely!
And the flop sweat? To make terrorists slip before they can board planes.
David Brent: In fact, a postage stamp is legal tender. A bus driver would have to accept that as currency.
Tim: Yeah, that’d happen.
Gareth: Well, if he doesn’t, report him.
Tim: Yeah, I’ll report him while I’m walking home.
Gareth: Get a taxi, if you’ve got enough stamps.
Dawn: Or cash ’em in at the Post Office.
David Brent: Shouldn’t have to. Shouldn’t have to.
Postage stamps may not be legal tender in the US, but they may be a Great Investment
Looks like the teabaggers aren’t pullimg their weight already. The House deleted the Territories, Protectorates and District of Columbia’s voting priveledges. ‘No taxation without Representation!’ Bullshit.
The House deleted the Territories, Protectorates and District of Columbia’s voting priveledges
Say goodbye to the Latino vote, Boehner, as well as Florida and Texas.
Hey, thanks for all the names/poems/silliness in the last thread, everyone. I’ve been kinda tired and busy all day, but I’ve been lurking and giggling.
Also, too, I’m not done handing out pressies.
Larkspur, this is for you because you write SO prettily, and you seem like such a gentle soul.
Also also too, I KNEW you’d be a Patton Oswalt fan, T&U. Knew it in my bones. 😀
Say, got change for a twenty?
The customer was frightened because their banking is linked with the socialist post office and if he or she didn’t go along with it, the Stalinist Kenyonesians would leap out and death panel him or her.
Funny from the Washington Poop.
Crap. New thread and I can’t play! Just put up a barrage of posts on the old one.
Happens to us all, Snidely
New thread and I can’t play!
You gotta know when to hold ’em, know when to fold ’em.
Correct change is the Euro of German banking.
Um … that made a lot more sense before I typed it.
Anyway, our web guys are enjoying that plugin … especially since they have to design our sites to be IE6 compatible thanks to the special, seven-figure software we have that can only be viewed in IE6.
Since I work at a bank, the guy who made that decision got a promotion.
M. Bouffant: Excellent link! The S,N! Constitutional scholars who gave us such earnest conversation recently should weigh in on the Conservative Constitution….
Since I work at a bank, the guy who made that decision got a promotion.
He’s in charge of the parcel post window now?
He’s in charge of the parcel post window now?
Or the marcel proust window.
This is way too much fun. I GOTTA tear myself away now. Looking foreward to reading it later.
The American equivalent — and for the whole company, even!
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The Conservative Constitution bit at the Post is brilliant, but not nearly as tasty as the comments. The rightwing hordes are proving they have the same ability for humor as they do for facts, logic, reason, charity, kindness, intelligence, reality, and honesty with their sexual proclivities.
Some gems in there, I tells ya!
Damn it’s cold. I’m ready to hole up with the Ho and Bagoas with a nice fire. I’ll stock up on whisky and well go into Hiberniation.
POOP. I can’t get the comments at WaPoop to load -i s it the iPad maybe?
I can’t get the comments at WaPoop to load -i s it the iPad maybe?
Shouldn’t be. Not much scripting and no flash on the comments pages. Try this for grins:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/06/AR2011010602485_Comments.html#
The very thought of a government-run post-office/bank makes Repubs’ heads get all splodey. Combine it with a health clinic, school, union hall and tatoo parlor, and stand back and watch the fireworks!
WC, they won’t load for me either. It’s some iPad fascism.
Clearly the Post is a WindowsFascist organization. BURN IT DOWN!
” Try this for grins:”
No worky. Broke. Thanx, I’ll read them later.
Discretionary link, NSFW or, possibly, for epileptics. And may be ancient news the terminally hip have seen.
North Koreans and their heavy artillery.
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I’m sorry. I wasn’t paying attention. What was the question?
Boehner is an emotionally unstable alcoholic?
Hurumph. Who asked you for reality? Hurumph.
Holy shiz. Slow much?
OK, since I have a bit before Mr. S. gets home and I have to finish making fish tacos (your joke here_______), how’s about I ask some deeply personal questions you can ignore?
1.) Cake or pie?
2.) What’s a movie you watch over and over again because it’s so awesome or so funny or so whatever?
3.) What is your current obsession song-wise?
4.) What is a song you never get tired of hearing?
5.) What’s your favorite book?
6.) Have you never been mellow?
7.) Have you tried a new food/recipe lately? Discuss.
8.) Answering random questions on the internet: great idea? Or greatest idea?
9.) Do you like surveys that end in odd numbers?
Yes, you will be graded. Bonus points, if you can start a fight between the various NERD factions here. If you can bring on the zombiepocalypse, you win.
First the crying, now this: Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act. Really. That’s the actual name of the House bill. Next up, teh Democrats are Poopy-heads Neener Neener Act.
1. Black Forest or Key Lime. I’m bi.
2. In this group, saying “Young Frankenstein is passé, so let me give my sentimental favorite: [the original] Rollerball.
3. Surrender.
4. Surrender.
5. No idea.
6. No, actually.
7. I had Mike & Ikes for the first time ever about a month ago.
8. Better than having someone putting chattering teeth on your night-table when you have the DTs.
9. Judgmental, aren’t we?
Pretend I closed that quote.
I left a €500 note in the last thread. Has anybody seen it?
Did it have your name on it?
N_B, the “Young Frankenstein” answer would be popular for a reason. That movie is drowning in awesome sauce, though my fave Brooks is “The Producers.”
What is Mike and Ikes?
1.) Pie, if it’s Boston Cream
2.) Whispers of the Heart — animated Studio Ghibli thing, possibly the most good-feeling feel-good movie of all time. It’s like a stanky pacifier blankie to me.
3.) I just scored 3500 Bollywood songs in one vast pile (take heed, pirates) and am playing them on random.
4.) I’m learning ‘What a wonderful World’ on the ol’ banjolele, so hav heard it 1600 times in the last week, each time played worse than the last.
5.) The Enderby Trilogy (Anthony Burgess)
6.) By ‘mellow’ do you mean ‘stoned?’
7.) Vegetarian ‘sausage’* sweet potato shepherd’s pie. Awesome. My lady friend made it.
8.) 23
9.) What are you wearing?
*etc
BONUS QUESTION: How many times have I, a person who is allegedly not clinically-retarded, rubbed her eye or nose after chopping up chili peppers?
10. Pussy
I know you have a bun in the oven, but the only real cure for what doctors call “pepper in the eye” is vodka, taken orally.
I’ve done it many times but your restriction invalidates my answer.
Never heard of it! Have to Google.
Banjo? Neat-o!
I want your lady friend to cook for me. Make her.
A low-cut sweater, with a not low-cut t-shirt underneath and bootcut jeans.
Pupenius, you’re not retarded, your eyes are just too far apart.
I intend to.
TOTAL THREAD DOMINANCE!!! ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US!!!!11!
What is Mike and Ikes?
This.
Did it have your name on it?
Oui, m’sieur.
1) Pie. Nice.
2) Alien.
3) Dears – Heartless Romantic
4)Augie March’s Pennywhistle. Rare positive song for them. ‘Out of the mouth of the black dog!’
5) Saul Bellow’s ‘The Adventures of Augie March’ – (where the band got their name)
6) Yep
7) Pork in cider. Girlfriend made it with my homebrewed cider.
8) It’s pretty good
9) No. Yes.
1.) Le tarte Tatin.
2.) Freaks.
3.) Puff the Magic Dragon
4.) Puff the Magic Dragon
5.) Structured Stochastic Matrices of M/G/1 Type and Their Applications.
6.) No. You can’t make me.
7.) I don’t do recipes, dear.
8.) Can’t be better than sliced bread.
9.) Only if it’s prime.
Can’t believe I’m doing this, but an M. Night Shyamalan movie is on, and the dog is sitting next to me and farting, so it seems appropriate.
1.) Oh heck, why choose?
2.) Since it was just on, I’m going to say “Arsenic And Old Lace”. Or maybe “Evil Dead.”
3.) “Long Way Home” by Jay Banerjee. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=np0Ciq6Y68s
4.) Memphis, Egypt by the Mekons.
5.) I find myself unable to answer this question. Maybe Mother Night.
6.) Never. Zombie yanno.
7.) Before seeing The Figgs and Soul Asylum at First Avenue, I had a steak that had bone marrow on the side. And head cheese as an appetizer.
8.) This is the Internet? I picked the wrong day to quit drinking.
9.) This is a survey? I picked the wrong week to quit meth.
1.) PIe – rhubarb or pumpkin.
2.) Caddyshack.
3.) Blue Oyster Cult – On Your Feet or On Your Knees. Uncompressed from my vinyl.
4.) Led Zeppelin – Ten Years Gone.
5.) My complete H.P Lovecraft.
6.) heh.
7.) Chile Rellenos.
8.) it’s only a series of tubes.
9.) I plead the fifth.
yeah Spengler, Studio Ghibli. Porco Rosso is good.
I love me some hand-digitized, uncompressed music off the vinyl.
Porco Rosso also dynamite, and Nausicaa, and hell, pretty much all Ghibli’s stuff. “My Neighbors the Yamamotos” is fantastic slice-of life minimalism — watch with subs, the dub is terrible.
O/T: So getting laid tonight.
1.) Cake or pie? Gingerbread
2.) What’s a movie you watch over and over again because it’s so awesome or so funny or so whatever? Oh man, I have a list. Maybe Babette’s Feast or Roan Inish would top it though. At least in the mood in which I currently find myself
3.) What is your current obsession song-wise? “Hand Me Ups”
4.) What is a song you never get tired of hearing? Con che soavità, labbra odorate
5.) What’s your favorite book? If someone ever publishes a complete works of Hoffmann that will be it.
6.) Have you never been mellow? Yes
7.) Have you tried a new food/recipe lately? Discuss. Coffee oreo fudge. Also the new gingerbread recipe from Cook’s Illustrated
8.) Answering random questions on the internet: great idea? Or greatest idea? BOTH
9.) Do you like surveys that end in odd numbers? Some right bastard stole my prime joke.
wha?
Is hunchback addressing question number 6?
Much too fickle/jaded to have any favorites. And no patience for any I had..
“7) Pork in cider. Girlfriend made it with my homebrewed cider.”
Another ladyfriend who should be cooking for me.
We need a new banjo player.
http://www.myphl17.com/videobeta/e29f3985-50ee-4df2-b692-a8e934387a2b/Entertainment/Mummers-2011-Greater-Kensington-String-Band
Oh, and bring that &euro 500 note you have laying around with you.
Damn you preview!
Zombie, do you think you’re too cool for school or something?
How was the bone marrow?
“2.) Caddyshack.”
True story: I have never seen this movie.
I KNOW!!!
Friday night food blogging:
+1 for Babette’s Feast. I like the subtitled version better then the dubbed English. I’ve wanted, for many years, to DO a Babette’s Fest dinner. Somewhere I’ve got the wine list and everything. I did make cailles en sarcophage one time and they were fucking AWESOME but I just have to make the whole dinner sometime.
I also just remembered … I never roasted beef marrow bones before, except to make stock. Tonight, we’re having roasted marrow bones. I’ll make a tart salad of cress and parsley with shallots and capers with a lemon vinaigrette. Some crostini to shmear the marrow on then top with the greens. I sous vide’ed some duck breasts which will be be served with a sweet, tart cherry sauce and wild mushroom
Edith Paifrice pilaf. I do have some honeycrisp apples so I could even make a tarte Tatin if I don’t have too much gin first.Tigris, how GREAT is Cook’s Illustrated? They have a recipe for chicken pot pie you can make in around an hour that’s A-MAZING.
aaaaaaaand as usual Pup makes my tongue horny with his foodporn.
“Much too fickle/jaded to have any favorites. And no patience for any I had..”
Well, poop.
Huh. I totes missed the earlier bone marrow mention. I suppose I either didn’t care a rat’s ass what zrm had to say OR I sunconsciously and mercifully skipped over his “recipe” response. I mean, brains are okay, especially with eggs, but uncooked branes just don’t have a place in my cuisine.
“1.) Oh heck”
I don’t appreciate this kind of language.
So what you’re trying to say is that everyone’s eating bones?
Horny tongue … lesbian hardon … just can’t get the image out of head. AIAIAIYYEEEE
They dubbed it? EW.
Yes, CI is good. Their gingerbread recipe really was perfect. It is now my permanent request for my birthday cake.
I don’t have marrow spoons. I was thinking my fondue forks would work. Damn, I hope I don’t wind up wanting/needing yet another ridiculously arcane culinary thingy.
>how GREAT is Cook’s Illustrated?
Pfft. Piffle, even. Strictly for nØØbs. You want great kitchen stuff just ASK ME. K?
*sniff* I need to be needed *waaaah*
So, the Structured Stochastic Matrices is the bone marrow?
1. Pie. Good pie ~= good cake but great pie >> great cake. (Also, too, crappy pie << crappy cake but I'm not going to be eating either of these.)
2. Probably Princess Bride, but the last movie I rewatched again was Six String Samurai
3. I'm listening to Symphonic right now.
4. Hungarian Rhapsody #2
5. How does someone answer this question? It’s like asking about yout favourite orgasm.
6. Maybe.
7. The nearby Korean sushi place does a bulgogi roll that’s pretty damn good.
8. Yes. Maybe.
I hate questionnaires that end in odd #’s enough that I’m stopping at eight.
Horny tongue … lesbian hardon … just can’t get the image out of head.
Me either.
“2. Probably Princess Bride, ”
YES!!
I make beef bulgogi on a semi-regular basis. Uh, yum.
Imagine that bulgogi in a sushi roll with shredded cucumber and some fancy lettuce thing and the nori wrap, with some sesame seeds sprinkled onnit.
You would not have to twist my arm to try that. Yum.
ZRM will eat your arm.
”
ZRM will eat your arm.”
I thought zombies only wanted ONE THING from a girl–branes.
If ZRM eats your arm you could go do this
Beef bulkogi tacos. Or beef ribs. Served in fresh corn tortillas with lime, cilantro and kimchee. Yummmmmmmmmm.
1.) Cake or pie? Gots da diabeetus – I’d kill to have either!
2.) What’s a movie you watch over and over again because it’s so awesome or so funny or so whatever? Local Hero
3.) What is your current obsession song-wise? re: Your Brains, Jonathan Coulton
4.) What is a song you never get tired of hearing? Microorganism, Boiled in Lead
5.) What’s your favorite book? Good Omens
6.) Have you never been mellow? Been 20 years, makes me a born again virgin non-mellower stuff
7.) Have you tried a new food/recipe lately? Discuss. Sweetie und I are on South Beach, their recipe book is hit or miss, but the best is an eggs benedict on a large portabella cap, sauteed
8.) Answering random questions on the internet: great idea? Or greatest idea? Not my idea, so meh. But I was wondering, I have this great idea about answering questions on the internet! Anyone, anyone?
9.) Do you like surveys that end in odd numbers? Oddly, yes!
The thing about questions regarding music or books is that my answers really depend on the mood I am in. Food too for that matter.
(1) Key Lime!
(2) Blade Runner ((Build another survey sometime with multiple genre categories?))
(3) Won’t Get Fooled Again — The Who. Channels current political rage.
(4) Tangled Up in Blue — Dylan
(5) The Lord of The Rings ((Unleash the snarks! Remember, VS awards bonus points…))
(6) I’ve always enjoyed the sweet smoke.
(7) No new recipes. No old recipes either. I can’t / don’t / won’t cook. Basically, I pretty much think of food as fuel. But I enjoy the food pr0n here! I admire those who have the skill and make the effort to turn cooking into an art form. I’m an appreciative guest at a dinner table.
(8) Surveys: The Greatest when you’re among funny, intelligent people with interesting lives. I’ve always been curious about other lives and choices and Twists of Fate (simple or otherwise).
(9) Odd numbers are fine. So are even numbers. (See answer to 6. And Urban Dictionary if necessary.)
(Bonus question) I don’t chop chili peppers (or even onions). I’ve heard you can get relief by rubbing your eyes and nose with butter.
Thanks, VS. You’re a sweet person; I felt pretty bad after the Game Fail. (Also, I loved the image you put up for Larkspur earlier.)
I wish I could do more than spot-engagement at SN right now. I may be sparse for a while longer, too. Even though I can’t participate in real time, I love reading the Comments. Addictive. I start jonesing. Looking forward to my next fix… Have fun.
Fuck. I was hoping you were kidding.
They’ve out-stupided the stupidest wad of fucking stupid ever to stupid down the stupid trail.
Brilliantly evocative though. Amazing how you can make eight words actually wear the foot-stomping pout of a three-year-old who’s two hours past a Snickers bar.
The next two years are going to make my brain hurt.
Brilliantly evocative though. Amazing how you can make eight words actually wear the foot-stomping pout of a three-year-old who’s two hours past a Snickers bar.
Yup. They’ve managed to out-hamfist even the USAPATRIOT act.
exford legs said,
January 8, 2011 at 5:22
If ZRM eats your arm you could go do this
Ahhh Haha!
That is the lamest thing on Lame Planet in the Lame Galaxy that time forgot.
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Test. My post isn’t getting thru. WP screwy?
The phrase is “FYWP.”
I hate surveys that start with an odd number.
That is the lamest thing on Lame Planet in the Lame Galaxy that time forgot.
No, silly, it’s the arm that’s supposed to be missing.
Can’t get through with the Survey answers. Re-keyed four times in the Comments box. Tried cut-and-paste from word processing. I’ll try again later.
1.) Cake or pie? Pie, preferably steak and kidney, washed down with a couple of pints of brown ale.
2.) What’s a movie you watch over and over again because it’s so awesome or so funny or so whatever? Kiss Me Deadly is one of my favorites
3.) What is your current obsession song-wise? Guys Are Not Proud The little intra-chorus bit with the “horns” knocks it out of the park.
4.) What is a song you never get tired of hearing? Tuuli, even though the first few seconds sound like they come from a Stryper song.
5.) What’s your favorite book? Who could choose one? I can read Thomas Kinsella’s translation of The Tain over and over again. Charles Portis’ Masters of Atlantis is one of the funniest things I’ve ever read, with the Mu-obsessed Cezar Golescu being one of the greatest characters in the history of comic fiction. Don Quixote is one of the greatest things ever put on paper.
6.) Have you never been mellow? Once in a while.
7.) Have you tried a new food/recipe lately? Discuss. I am like a shark, I’ll eat just about anything (although, sadly, I don’t have a frickin’ laser on my head). I punked out recently, though- a local supermarket had a gazillion packets of hog maws on sale, lacking a recipe, I didn’t buy any- although I do love buche tacos
8.) Answering random questions on the internet: great idea? Or greatest idea? It’s okely dokely.
9.) Do you like surveys that end in odd numbers? Yes, as long as they aren’t primes.
Still not getting through. My aborted post is about as long as B4’s. The short ones work, but the long ones don’t. Sux.
Truth is an odd number.
I had some problems embedding links, Snidely. WP was done eating all kinds of text, hypertext too!
Three is a magic number.
I tried reducing it straight-up text…no links, no mark-ups, nothin’. I’ve been tenacious, but I gotta bail for some other stuff. I’ll try again later in a few hours.
Snidely, one of your survey answers came through. Over the next few days the rest will probably show up too.
At which point, you can let loose with a hearty FYWP and really be a member of the Kool Kids Klub.
Wow! So it did! Alas, I fear I will never be a Kool Kid. But here’s a hearty and heartfelt Fuck You WordPress!
Alas, I fear I will never be a Kool Kid.
I hate to say it, but Kool Kids typically are out clubbing, rather than posting at Snark Central.
**SOB**
1.) Got to be cake
2.) Armageddon
3.) ‘Supergirl’, Raemon
4.) ‘Closing Time’, L.Cohen
5.) Oryx & Crake, M.Adwood
6.) Am right now…
7.) Virginia Ham,with cloves & maple syrup…. Mrs Lobbey’s home spun Ontario recipe
8.) great idea?
9.) Only in leap years….
Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act. No Child Left Behind Act. Clear Skies Act. Healthy Forests Act. Patriot Act. (Or for that matter, Operation Iraqi Freedom; Operation Enduring Freedom.) File them all under the Rancid Distortion of Language Act.
Okay, here’s my solution: Number the bills when they go into the hopper. No names at all. The losing side gets to supply the name after the bill passes. This would be enormously fun for election commercials. “My opponent voted for the Slaughter the Baby Seals Act! Why does he want to indiscriminately murder seal pups?” With visuals of adorable little critters with wide, innocent eyes.
In unrelated news, I regret to inform you that the Museum of German Cookbooks is closed until 2012 while it shifts to a new location.
Crap, I really had a hankering for Kartoffelkloesse.
1.) Cake or pie? Steak and bacon pie from the bakery nearby. YEAH BABY!
2.) What’s a movie you watch over and over again because it’s so awesome or so funny or so whatever? Blues Brothers for teh funny. Ran for teh OARSOME
3.) What is your current obsession song-wise? Pictish Song- Billy Bragg.
4.) What is a song you never get tired of hearing? Ziggy Stardust
5.) What’s your favorite book? “Riddley Walker”. SO??
6.) Have you never been mellow? I’m just mad about saffron
7.) Have you tried a new food/recipe lately? Discuss.<a href="http://www.reallygood.co.nz/really-good-peanut-butter
"Pics Peanut Butter You would not believe how good it is
8.) Answering random questions on the internet: great idea? Or greatest idea? I get paid in VS dollars?
9.) Do you like surveys that end in odd numbers? They are sooo freaky.
Something made form cart horses BBBB? Riddled Enterprises can fix that for you
hah hah WP!! You got me, Pics Peanut Butter
Snidely, I really like your list. Those are some of my favorites as well.
I’ve only seen it once, but felt this movie was kind of clunky as far its story, but so visually gorgeous, you can totally forgive it.
Flaming June is the best! Also, I seem to recall trying to ask some questions of S,Ners when I first de-lurked and finding people guard their privacy pretty jealously, which is understandable.
Savory! I’ve never had either.
“Guys are disgusting/They’re always lusting” made me laugh out loud.
Re: the Stryper sound…An acquaintance of mine said “Zira(Call Out My Name)” by Redd Kross sounded just like something they’d play on cheesy hair band rock stations. Which it absolutely does. And I love it anyway.
…WHAT?
Sadly, this is the one thing that makes me rule you out as a possible mating partner. *sad frown*
This talk of steak pie is officially making me hungry for steak pie.
You get paid in ANGRY DANCES.
Nobody cares what vs likes? Nobody likes me! Everybody hates me! I’m gonna eat some worms!
1.) Um, cake–DUH. Until they start making pies in such flavors as Red Velvet and German Chocolate.
2.) What about Bob and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels never get old. Oh, I laugh.
3.) Tighten Up–The Black Keys
4.) Love and Communication–Cat Power
5.) Oh gosh. Probably “The Mists of Avalon”
6.) Only when I drink.
7.) Just tried rutabagas; they were delicious.
8.) It was my idea. So of course it’s the best fucking thing in the universe.
9.) See #8.
VS – Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is great. Have you ever seen Fierce Creatures?
Also rutabagas are absolutely needed for pot roast, they give the gravy a wonderful flavor.
S.–I count “A Fish Called Wanda” as one of the funniest movies ever made. And “Fierce Creatures” was a disappointment for me. But perhaps I need to give it another chance.
Doing a pot roast with rutabagas sounds amazing.
Rutabagas? Gack. Those things taste like dirt. Then again, I like cilantro.
People say cilantro smells/tastes like soap. They don’t understand that’s precisely its appeal.
You’ve been making pot roasts _with no_ rutabagas all along?!
There were several versions of Blade Runner (a film I loved and hated from the start), some vast improvements over the others. The final director’s cut (there were, I think, 2) is the one to watch. The theatrical release was horrid in several ways not least oh which was omitting the fucking key dream sequence that had the unicorn. Gawd, without it, the film completely misses the whole point of the book.
Jennifer said,
January 8, 2011 at 19:03
Rutabagas? Gack. Those things taste like dirt. Then again, I like cilantro.
I like Brussels sprouts and cilantro. I guess I’m a commie.
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“I like Brussels sprouts and cilantro.”
If you mean you like them together then you’re not a commie, just a disgusting sick fuck.
Ahhhhhhhhhh, shitfuck!!!!!!!!!!!
Yo, I got sprung from the hospital yesterday. No IV – the oral anti-beeotics did kick in. Cellulitis appears to be on the run. It’ll be 10 days or so before I can resume my manly pursuits of pushups, pullups, swimming, etc. Until then, I’ll just pursue my slovenly pursuits, like reading the internet!
Goddamn you people, I haven’t been to work since Monday morning and I can still barely keep up with you! Forgot to take a charger for my iPh to the hosp, had to rely on cable TV and old-timey books.
(Note: “The Marine”, with John Cena, on FX, co-produced by Vince McMahon, is a very stupid movie.)
Last night, went to see “The Fighter.” Much better than I expected, and I expected good-but-grim. Grim, yes, but lots of heart! That kid’s got moxie! That other kid smokes crack!
Melissa Leo, outstanding, of course, Amy Adams very good and ver-ry purdy, Wahlberg does his usual, solid, low-key job, and Christian Bale is, dammit, he’s bordering on D.D. Lewis territory, I dare say. (I smoke your crack! I smoke it up!
I think the box office would be much lower if it had been entitled, “The Really Fucked Up Family”, or, “The Irish: Will They Ever Learn?”
Congrats on gettin’ sprung, Bilo.
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Oh dear God.
http://www.npr.org/2011/01/08/132764367/congresswoman-shot-in-arizona
I’m glad this is dated yesterday, so that “slow news day” thing won’t end up looking ironic in the future. Assuming there is a future after the Revolution. I’m just surprised it took this long.
Bilo, I’m glad you’re feeling better.
Reading the internet=nerdier
Nerdier=hotter
I LOVE Christian Bale…and I think Amy Adams is adorable and gifted comedienne. She was shockingly funny in “Enchanted.”
People, I just took a wade through Swamp Freeper, and I come back to shit upon you with MANGO DIARRHEA!!!!1!!!!
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I think we all know who the MSM will blame for this.
Has La Raza declared open war?
God help us if this shooter can be tied to TPM. [ <– Tea Party Movement, I later figured out from context. Bilo ]
Kristalknacht.
The left is pissed at this Rep. for defecting and voting against Pelousy and some of her stupid ideas.
whoever it was, this will result in a call for ‘more gun control’.
Wheeler. Now Giffords. I think it’s a hit. Point blank – that’s a hit imo. Prayers up.
She’s a Democrat. Guess who will get the blame.
Blue dog. I’m hazard a guess that the left sacrificed her to forward their agenda. But that’s just me and my tinfoil.
or they need a martyr.
When Hairy said the Tea Party will die, is this what he was talking about. Some sort of tragic event to blame on TPM?
I also worry the gunman may be tied to the Mexican drug gangs; remember the Mexican border at Nogales is only a few short hours’ drive south from Tuscon.
Giffords is known as a strong proponent of solar energy as well as for (bolded starting here) her work to secure the border with Mexico. (end bold)
Anything is possible and I don’t discount the tin foil yet. Generally, acts of political violence are more associated with the left than the right. These people just go bat shit crazy and can’t hold it in anymore.
Thoughts and prayers for Rep. Giffords and her staff. Unfortunately, the MSM and lefty pols will use this as a call to re-examine the less than restrictive gun laws in AZ. It would be an added bonus to the left if the shooter were somehow linked to the tea party. If the shooter ends up being a left wing nutjob, the story will be buried.
Did she vote for or against Nanzi for minority chief? What are her stands on immigration?
Gunman’s name will not be released if they are “undocumented” or one of those criminals, I mean terrorists. If gunman’s a typical American, the name will be released asap. If it was a hit, we may never know the i.d. and gunman will end up in witness protection program. Seriesly. Giffords is married to an ASTRONAUT. This is really bad.
or they need a martyr.
Or that.
It's a bit early to speculate, but very hard not to…
My first thought on motive? The updated Weather Underground/SDS/assorted other bomb-throwing radicals aiming to pin it on the tea party.
It won’t be. TPMers have SELF CONTROL. They are angry but they have RESEPCT for the rule of law and this wouldn’t be right.
As for feeling bad for a baby killing adovcate and other vile things … one less doesn’t upset me. If I had lived during HItler’s time, I would also not be upset when he took his own life. I just can’t FEEL BAD for vile people. I won’t physically harm them but again, I don’t FEEL BAD for vile people when BAD things happen to them.
Wouldn’t be the first time. Wonder which DU [Democratic Underground? Bilo] user name the assailant used?
I don’t think so. This sounds like a deranged lunatic that is in love with Pelosi.
Waiting on 0bambi for a statement….clock ticking….crickets…..sounds of silence….
Frances Piven has called for violent revolution. Who listens to her?
Her husband's an astronaut. Do the dems have anything against NASA? NASA is under DHS now, I believe. [No it isn't! – Bilo]
'"I'm hazard a guess that the left sacrificed her to forward their agenda."
Seems likely.
Does Obama have an alibi?
Those Marxists never fail to show their scumbag hatred.
re. shooter:
Since no ethnicity is given I assume that in all likelihood he didn’t appear to be very anglo.
Better hope the shooter wasn’t hispanic. Heck, I might be on the border by Tuesday or so…
Me and a few of my friends!
The DemocRATS are loving this. Their dreams and wishes have come true. They’ve got something to beat Americans over the head with again.
Dirty hairy stole his election. “unknown” gunman tells me that his identity is being changed. Why trust this govt at this point?
More like Kristalnoche.
Only because we don't know how to say Krystalnacht in arabic.
Please. Let’s not pretend that she was some kind of conservative. She was a willing participant in any radical leftist proposal that Pelosi put forward. She talked tough on border security but supported ‘comprehensive’ reform. She’s a big abortion advocate. It is terrible that she was killed, but we should remember people for what they actually were, not some sanitized version of the truth. She is/was a phony The last several years have proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that there is no such thing as a ‘Blue Dog Democrat’. Gabrielle Giffords was no exception to that.
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That's just culled from the first 100 comments.
Jeebus, Bilo, that’s just fucking depressing.
OT–Glad you’re out and slothful.
But fuck, “unknown” gunman tells me that his identity is being changed. Why trust this govt at this point?”
Wha?
if gunman’s a typical American *eyeroll*
This is terrible news. Really sorry for you all
Not to give this gent any more attention than is warranted, but this is the best repro of Mama Grizzly’s Shoot-‘Em-Up map that I’ve seen:
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2011/01/an-assassination.html
This is the third violent act committed against a Democratic member of the government in three days. Giffords’ office was vandalized after the vote on the health care bill.
Oh. Sarah-boo the Caribou has offered her “sincere condolences.”
Ah. Well. That’s all right, then.
The most shameless one’s gotta be this;
Iffen people had been able to carry, concealed this wouldn’t have happened…oh, wait…
Funny, just like the Unitarian shooting, for all of the ARGLE BARGLE!! I WOULDA GUNNED HIM DOWN IF I WUZ THERE! type talk, it’s just regular folks tackling/pummeling that stops some of these guys. Sirhan Sirhan, UU church shooter, now this new nut.
(I only recently found out that one of the people grabbing and sitting on Sirhan Sirhan was Roosevelt Grier. Ouch!)
Creeper comment:”The DemocRATS are loving this. Their dreams and wishes have come true. They’ve got something to beat Americans over the head with again.”
Always with the fucking projection. 18 injured, 1 dead, A CHILD. Gabrielle Giffords in surgery in critical condition. We here in Tucson have had the breath knocked out of us and anyone who thinks Democracts here or anywhere else “love” this is a sub-human moron.
And unlike some of them, we would hate it no matter what party the victim belonged to because everytime something like this happens, our democracy slides further into the abyss.
Those comments are truly vile. I hope she pulls through, along with everyone else struggling to live after being shot by this nut. And condolences to the families of those who didn’t make it.
I saw a couple reports that the shooter is a 21 year old clean cut white kid, I’ll go look for a link.
http://gawker.com/5728501/arizona-congresswoman-shot-outside-grocery-store
OK, mid twenties.
Terrible what happened in Tucson.
Not saying that Super Sarah’s followers had anything to do with it but it’s an uncomfortable coincidence that her SarahPac website used gunsights to target opponents, including Giffords.
Stay classy, Sarah!
Jared is 22, say the latest reports.
Always with the fucking projection. 18 injured, 1 dead, A CHILD.
Shit, AP’s got it up to “at least 5 dead” now. The child’s been mentioned and a Federal judge was also confirmed dead.
How about that. I haven’t seen a single MSM ussage of the word “terrorist” in connection with this. Must be a white guy.
Stay classy, Sarah!
And don’t forget this tasteful little tweet.
[BTW, anyone know why WordPress is a bit schizo about putting URLs in quotes?]
CNN just updated to 6 dead.
How about that. I haven’t seen a single MSM ussage of the word “terrorist” in connection with this. Must be a white guy.
Yep. 22-year-old white male with a very weird YouTube channel.
Introductory video, if it isn’t down.
Of course, even if this fuckwitted little terrorist never saw Sooper Sarah’s targets, this really ought to drive home the reasons that you don’t do shit like that.
Not that it will.
It looks like the kid’s a straight-up nutter, regardless of political persuasion. There are some disjointed text-only youtube vids out there that fairly scream “time bomb.” His myspace page was taken down shortly after his name was leaked, but bits and pieces are out there. There was a pic of a U.S. history textbook with a pistol lying on top. Whodathunk the kid might do something crazy? Yeesh.
Of course, unless he was wrapped in a Don’t Tread On Me flag with teabags stapled to it when he committed the act, the whingetards will crow that he’s a Lefty-Loony Alinsky disciple and Soros minion. If he was wearing such bag encrusted fare, they’ll scream about him being a Lefty-Loony Alinsky disciple and Soros minion plant.
Sigh.
Hinckley or McVeigh?
I mean, there’s a vague chance that this is just some random lunatic with no political motivations whatsoever. If not…those prominent figures who use violent rhetoric know exactly what they’re doing, and they shouldn’t be treated like naive children who made a booboo.
Now it all makes sense! Caribou Barbie goaded people into assassination because she knew she would have missed, had she tried it.
The standard response to the last few mass shootings has been two-part:
(1) Rightwing blogs blame it on gun control weapons, call for more guns; and
(2) Rightwing blogs complain that some unspecified left-wingers somewhere are exploiting the tragedy for political gain, or are planning to do so, thereby forcing rightwingers to exploit the tragedy for political gain in a pre-emptive response.
I don’t know how (1) is going to work here.
Carrying guns is not mandatory yet. I think they will work on that
When the first case occurs of a political assassination with a guillotine, I shall be blaming Jennifer for her reckless rhetoric.
My Colorado freshman tea party congressman was just on the radio lamenting this senseless act of violence. Somehow I think they’d be able to see the political aspect if it was a Republican.
Despicable and amatuerish message control failure. They’re supposed to still be saying ” tragic, wait for the facts” not claiming the motive was no motive or insinuating he was a liberal plant yet.
Btw, is there any more clear sign of Otto-esque illiteracy than putting both Mein Kampf &
I’ll save my outrage at the right-wing fucktards for later – IPU knows that this is going to dominate news cycles for the foreseeable future.
If that truly is this guy’s YouTube channel, WTH? Didn’t anyone notice his paranoid delusional behaviour? If paranoid behaviour wasn’t being taken out of DSM-V, they could use those videos to showcase a grandiose-persecutory mixed type paranoid profile.
… The communist manifesto in your list of favorite books? Anyone who would do that clearly didn’t understand them.
Looked at his vids – bordering on time cube crazy. He has a couple anti-government bits and he rails against the unconstitutional laws &c. While I wouldn’t think he was a teabagger type he’s definitely more right wing than left. Mostly just a whacko.
My first thought on motive? The updated Weather Underground/SDS/assorted other bomb-throwing radicals aiming to pin it on the tea party.
I’m ready to sign up! Just one question: Where exactly are the “updated Weather Underground/SDS?” Are they hanging out w/ the reconstituted SLA?
But shit like this couldn’t have anything at all to do with it.
My first thoughts on motive – Judge Roll has found Barack Obama’s real birth certificate and this is all part of a plot… fuck, I ain’t got the lack of heart to do this. A little girl? Fucker shot a nine year old girl? What. The. Fuck.
Bilo: Props for wading into the cesspool to bring back the turd comments. (Also, glad you’ve been released into the wild again!)
Desert rat: The damage is worse closer to the epicenter. Here’s hoping that sane people in Arizona rebuild quickly.
Another Kiwi (and citizens of other sane, non-dysfunctional countries): I truly envy you. I’m too poor to escape from this psychotic nation. If I could, I surely would. I dream of liberty, but I’m trapped in the United States. This country teetered on the edge of insanity for decades, then slid off the cliff at the turn of the millenium.
Our institutions and politics are too deeply poisoned to resuscitate . The sooner the American Empire collapses, the better for the rest of the world.
I’m probably going into full lurker mode today. Right now, I’m too sad and too bitter and too consumed with rage to contribute to the discussion.
Also, from my earlier link,
It takes police in a major American city 20 minutes to respond to a mass shooting?!?!?
Way to go, AZ.
Whacko’s can have political motives. That’s why the supposedly sane people like the congressman from CO jumping to the conclusion that all the violent rhetoric had nothing to do with this “senseless act of violence” is so depressing.
I’m not talking about an anonymous message board guy, but a real, live on the record congressman talking smack through crocodile tears about how it’s really sad that a baby-killer got shot. It’s disgusting. How do they justify why the child deserved it?
Fucker shot a nine year old girl? What. The. Fuck.
How do they justify why the child deserved it?
Does the phrase “collateral damage” ring a bell?
It takes police in a major American city 20 minutes to respond to a mass shooting?!?!?
Reputedly hospitals don’t let EMTs on a scene until it’s declared safe, since it’s entirely possible gunmen of this type will happily shoot them too.
Traffic is probably also a factor but I don’t know a damn thing about AZ traffic.
I don’t recognise one name on this thread. Admittedly, I just scrolled through fairly quickly, but it looks like mostly sockpuppets to me.
Hi Brad! Ever sublet your apartment??
Smut Clyde said,
January 9, 2011 at 0:04
When the first case occurs of a political assassination with a guillotine, I shall be blaming Jennifer for her reckless rhetoric.
This made me smile, in spite of the grim news.
Thank you Smut, it’s good to be appreciated!
Spent all day in class tying rigger’s knots, came home played with Mini__B for an hour, turned to the news, and now I’m going to drown a barrel of rage in a bottle of beer.
It’s good to see that having manly men with guns everywhere in AZ prevents violence from taking place.
Generally, acts of political violence are more associated with the left than the right.
Apparently the internet doesn’t deliver information to this person, it only allows his or her words to escape. The poor little dears.
played with Mini__B for an hour
Stop! You’re spoiling the child.
In a way it’s good, tigris because if they didn’t escape, the resultant shitsplosion could damage property.
N__B, you will need quite a few bottles for that barrelfull. You knew that, didn’t you. Clever boy.
It takes police in a major American city 20 minutes to respond to a mass shooting?!?!?
But but but they get to save on their taxes!
N__B, you will need quite a few bottles for that barrelfull. You knew that, didn’t you. Clever boy.
Because my wife is both a wonderful person and a clever shopper, the beer is Brooklyn Black Ops. Best beer I’ve ever had.
Scv:I first discovered the news on Sadly,No! I was catching up on the thread, reading from the top down, often chuckling, and laughing my fool head off more than once.
Then I hit your Comment. With a go-to link. Many thanks, S.cv.
You’re spoiling the child.
Nah. He just smells that way.
Oh my, that black ops sounds good. Expensive?
$25/bottle. We just bought 12, gonna have one per week until spring.
Liter bottles, at least.
S.cv: I first discovered the news from your post at 20:57. With a go-to link. I’ll bet I wasn’t the only one, either. Many thanks from us all.
I’m totally with shifting the mood and tone on the thread. In one way or another, so many of the posts have expressed almost all that can be said, at least in short form. I hope that some of the eloquent S,N! bloggers may use longer forms on their sites.
So I’m going to do my bit to bend the thread. Gonna make some coffee, slip out of lurker mode, and engage with Comments before the news.
I’ll be back. (*mustache twirl*)
PS: FYWP !!! It eated two earlier attempts.
I think it’s odd that so much attention is being paid to the shooter’s reading list. If you look at it, it’s pretty much a list of books that people tend to read in their school years. If someone told me that their favorite books included Siddhartha, Brave New World, The Odyssey, To Kill A Mockingbird, and Animal Farm, I would think “this person is not a reader.” There’s next to nothing on that list which wouldn’t show up on a middle school, high school, or community college reading assignment.
So, the presence of Mein Kampf, We The Living, and The Communist Manifesto on the list doesn’t shed any more light on the shooter’s ideology than The Republic being on there too.
Looks like Subway is gonna need a new ad campaign.
So, the presence of Mein Kampf, We The Living, and The Communist Manifesto on the list doesn’t shed any more light on the shooter’s ideology than The Republic being on there too.
Going Rogue with some of the pages stuck together, however…
Yeah, I kid (and probably not very well at that) because I don’t know what the fuck else to say.
Actually, I do have a question which maybe you guys could answer. In another forum I read, someone asked “How many ‘patriotic’ items do you own?”, partly as a springboard to wondering if anyone who didn’t self-identify as conservative/libertarian owned and proudly displayed such things, and during the conversation someone mentioned having a copy of the US Constitution. I remember how Dennis Kucinich had a pocket copy, and thought “That might be nice to have”…
and online Googling showed me that the quickest place to get one is The Heritage Foundation.
Has anyone seen the Heritage pocket Constitution? I find myself wondering if it bothers including any amendments past the first 10, among other things. For that matter, if anyone knows of a good way to pick up a pocket Constitution without being put on a wingnut mailing list, I’d like to hear about it.
For that matter, if anyone knows of a good way to pick up a pocket Constitution without being put on a wingnut mailing list, I’d like to hear about it.
Support your local bookstore. I’m sure they have one.
…And if they don’t, you could probably make ton of money whining to Fox about how they didn’t…
Probably the same dude, same crazy currency rants, same crazy faux-logic. But at this channel you can enjoy the stump-dumb commentary of random youtube users:
http://www.youtube.com/user/Starhitshnaz
I’m going to cope with my usual way: massive denial! So I’ll pick at some trivial issues, now that I’ve caught up with things.
Place names for the baby:
Somebody mentioned Tijuana?
I once saw a claim go through my office, claimant was claiming a dependent, a daughter, name of Tijuana. Some of my coworkers (people of the land, common clay of the New South…) thought that was funny strange, or funny furrin. One of the ladies said, Ooh, maybe that’s where they conceived her! Another, Ooh, maybe that’s where she was born!
So I said, “Uh, maybe that’s where they bought her?”
And the gears in their head didn’t quite turn properly for a few seconds.
I feel like anything I say re: this afternoon’s events would be redundant. It’s sad and horrible. What more is there to say? Except that…apparently the FBI thinks someone else was involved. Which to me cancels out the “oh, he’s just some lone mental patient” theory. Oh…and have you seen the remarks by the sherriff? They’re pretty eyebrow-raising and I mean that as a compliment to him.
Re: baby names, I’m sure I’ve made it abundanrtly clear how much I loooooooooove attention…but I was kinda hoping to shine the spotlight on other folks with my BEE-RILLYANT survey. I’m just bummed it kind of fizzled out instead of causing the zombiepocalypse or at least an epic NERDfight.
Cripes Sheriff Clarence Dupnik in Arizona is not holding back on what he thinks caused the guy to start shooting
…And if they don’t, you could probably make ton of money whining to Fox about how they didn’t…
If I had that few ethics I’d either be a wingnut columnist or a televangelist by now.
Oof. If I had the power to smite, I’d have smote beyond anyone’s wildest dreams about now. People ought to be able to go to the fucking Safeway and live to tell about it. I hate Sarah Palin, I hate whoever was nattering away about some modern-day SDS (oh, for godsake, who on earth could think that up? Jesus fucking Christ. Ooh! Let’s waterboard Bill Fucking Ayres!), I hate guns, I hate the idea of collateral damage, I hate the idea of nine year olds being dead. Especially from bullets. Whether it happens in Baghdad or Tucson. I am glad I am not in charge of the world, because I’d be reaching for Control Alt Delete right the fuck now.
Also – vs, thank you for the beautiful Flaming June. It is one of my favorites, and is exempt for being smote.
Cripes Sheriff Clarence Dupnik in Arizona is not holding back on what he thinks caused the guy to start shooting
He essentially all but says, “FUCK YOU FOX AND FUCK YOU SARAH PALIN.”
1.) Cake or pie? Yes, please! Apple pie lately is good.
2.) What’s a movie you watch over and over again because it’s so awesome or so funny or so whatever? Royal Tenenbaums, or High Fidelity. Used to be: Where the Buffalo Roam.
3.) What is your current obsession song-wise? Dunno. Can’t think of a current one. Earlier this year, “Pistol Grip Pump” as covered by Rage Against the Machine, even though the lyrics didn’t please me a bit, the hook, OMG, the hook…
4.) What is a song you never get tired of hearing? The entire first Clash album (UK version), over and over again.
5.) What’s your favorite book? Uh, too many to choose.
6.) Have you never been mellow? I have not even tried. Okay, I took a meditation class every week about two winters ago, but there’s still a circus in my head. Okay, I just went and glanced at the lyrics of that Olivia Newton-John song, which I was just thinking about the other day, and boy oh boy, that song really was like, the opposite of anything done by Minor Threat. ; ) Who I love. But as a boy, uh, yeah, I luuuuved me some ONJ. Still do. Wowza. I have a thing for her. It is my penis.
7.) Have you tried a new food/recipe lately? Discuss. I’m rediscovering/experimenting with corned beef hash/more taters/fried egg.
8.) Answering random questions on the internet: great idea? Or greatest idea? Meh. Beats contemplating schizophrenics with modern pistols.
9.) Do you like surveys that end in odd numbers? This one ended in a question mark, so I don’t know yet.
From w-a-a-a-y back in the thread, on Blade Runner:
I’ve only seen it once, but felt this movie was kind of clunky as far its story, but so visually gorgeous, you can totally forgive it. — VS
There were several versions of Blade Runner (a film I loved and hated from the start), some vast improvements over the others. The final director’s cut (there were, I think, 2) is the one to watch. The theatrical release was horrid in several ways not least oh which was omitting the fucking key dream sequence that had the unicorn. Gawd, without it, the film completely misses the whole point of the book. — Pupienus
Pup is right! I was thinking of Ridley Scott’s final cut. The theatrical release was inferior: the absence of the Unicorn Dream cuts the knees from under Philip K. Dick’s story; ‘Clunky’ is a good descriptor for the theatrical release (VS: Definitely put Scott’s final version into your movie queue! Blade Runner richly rewards multiple viewings.)
I resonate to every dimension of the film: premise, story, & script … score (!!!) & sound design … visual design (in all its components) … photography … editing … casting … and superb performances from M. Emmet Walsh, Sean Young, William Sanderson, Daryl Hannah, and Rutger Hauer. Harrison Ford’s portrayal of Decker is the best work of his career.
I noticed that many folks in the Survey tended toward the ‘funny’ side of VS’s question. (No surprise; this is funny place!) My favorite re-watch comedy is Doctor Strangelove (Stanley Kubrick). Outstanding performances from George C. Scott and Slim Pickens…and a career performance from Peter Sellers in multiple roles.
Maybe this was too windy, but I love film. I get a strong sense that other people here do, too. Sometime, I’d like to see a Survey where we can get into genres. (Then I could go nuts about John Frankenheimer’s The Train….)
This is distressing me greatly. Does anyone else feel like they’re seeing this country crumble more and more every day?
vs: you got upstaged by events. Also, remember what we said to snidely whiplash: sometimes these things happen, sometimes they fizzle, and neither outcome says anything essential about your character.
1.) Cake or pie? Key Lime Pie
2.) What’s a movie you watch over and over again because it’s so awesome or so funny or so whatever? Adventures in Babysitting
3.) What is your current obsession song-wise? None presently
4.) What is a song you never get tired of hearing? Roxy Music, Avalon
5.) What’s your favorite book? My kitchen table
6.) Have you never been mellow? Could you repeat the question what?
7.) Have you tried a new food/recipe lately? Discuss. No, and what’s the point
8.) Answering random questions on the internet: great idea? Or greatest idea? Yes and no
9.) Do you like surveys that end in odd numbers? Ask me again.
T&U, I’d be more concerned about the fate of our nation if this wasn’t a schizophrenic. If it was just a half-wit dumb angry who really had been convinced by Bill O’Reilly & gang that Libruhls Must Die. But this is a Time Cube-level type, as somebody put it, who can drive his own bus to Crazytown at top speed. Could it have happened any year, any decade? Well, kinda. Not exactly. I think some things, the tenor of the times, don’t help.
I mean, when they put the crosshairs on the political map, they weren’t thinking, Hoo boy, I hope somebody kills these 20 congressmen. No, they were thinking like normal, sane people, thinking of a world where nobody would take that that way.
But they never think about the notable % of people with serious mental health issues. Which is why our firepower free-for-all is such a goddamned menace. As Greg Palast puts it, we’re an armed madhouse.
But it could have been over a credit card billing dispute or a parking space, and, if only 6 dead, been forgotten in a few weeks’ time. This is America. We kill each other here. Have for a long time. Jesus said we could!
I wasn’t the least bit put out that the subject changed abruptly. It was appropriate. Besides which, it’s not exactly unusual for several convos in the same thread.
to take place
What is a song you never get tired of hearing? Roxy Music, Avalon
I love that song so much.
Snidely, YES! Dr. Strangelove! I rewatch that every couple of years. It’s so perfect.
I mean, when they put the crosshairs on the political map, they weren’t thinking, Hoo boy, I hope somebody kills these 20 congressmen. No, they were thinking like normal, sane people, thinking of a world where nobody would take that that way.
I think you’re giving them far, far too much credit.
Weird. “Avalon” is a big fave of mine too. is it time to start a club?!
VS wrote:
Reading the internet=nerdier
Nerdier=hotter
VS, what if one of the things I keep fit for is the slightly occasionaly manly, but mostly nerdy, outdoors pursuit of… ze bigfoot?
http://www.bfro.net/news/roundup/west_virginia_2006_expedition_notes.asp
I’m in one of these pics.
Well, duh, Bilo. It goes without saying that searching for Bigfoot is extremely hot. You’re the attractive blond, right?
Heh heh, nope, wrong gendah.
Ooh ooh I know! The hairy guy at the bottom of the page!
Yeah, T&U, too much credit perhaps. But you want to know what they also don’t think about? That someday the bullets might fly their way.
Actually, come to think of it, the odds aren’t good, given American politics in the past 35 years, but… they may be dumb enough to assume that, as a given.
One of my earnest liberal friends tonight sent me an email using the unsurprising language, “fostering the sort of dialogue we need to address the problems we’re facing”, and I was instantly reminded of a theme of Perlstein’s Nixonland: They don’t want that! They want victory! The last thing they want is to sit down and natter on about nuance with Adlai Stevenson or Al Gore. They know what they want (or, they have a Time Cube theory, in some cases…), and they will try most anything, use any language, no matter how irresponsible or provocative.
I wonder if this will lead to Broder urging the President to reach across the aisle and trim his sails more to the right in the name of bipartisanship, civility, and healing?
Oh, and I just realized, just because he’s nutz doesn’t mean all hell won’t break loose in his wake. Gavrillo Princip… John Brown…
Bilo: I’m with you on avoidance, at least for now. I guess I need time to process it. Plus it depresses the hell out me, and that’s not good. (Anyway, you’ve already done yeoman work at 21:40.)
I loved the 3:48 Tijuana story! Big thumbs up on Royal Tenenbaums! (I don’t know the others.) corned beef hash/more taters/fried egg. I loves da breakfast! My favorite an main meal of the day. B-i-g Omlets with three or four toppings. I’m a taters gourmand. I don’t cook; diners and truck-stops are my favorite places to eat. Also great places to strike up night-owl conversations.
I was kinda hoping to shine the spotlight on other folks with my BEE-RILLYANT survey. I’m just bummed it kind of fizzled out instead of causing the zombiepocalypse or at least an epic NERDfight.
VS: Totes Brilliant Survey! I’m saving this thread because of it. I like learning about other people.
Nobody cares what vs likes? Nobody likes me! Everybody hates me! I’m gonna eat some worms!
Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. Don’t.
Well, the nipples and pecs, maybe, but not those abs!
I’m bummed I’m so tired and can’t attend to the survey-takers now. It’s fun as hell reading about everybody’s likes.
Oh, and I love “pistol grip pump” too. Major thumbs up.
7.) Have you tried a new food/recipe lately? Discuss.
No, and what’s the point
Solidarity!
VS: For the Survey (and for all you do here):
Quel Frommage
I carry one everywhere. I have an ipod touch and there’s an app for that. The Declaration, too.
Not to mention a half decent dictionary, a Bible and the complete works of Shakespeare.
Y’know, all that kinda stuff that’s almost as important as Angry Birds.
Snidely,
http://www.amazon.com/Where-Buffalo-Roam-Peter-Boyle/dp/B0006H32EI
Where the Buffalo Roam – Bill Murray as Hunter S. Thompson, Peter Boyle as Lazlo “the attorney.”
Do NOT get the mod-ren/DVD type version. They had all sorts of licensing problems (or cheapness problems) with the classic rawk soundtrack, and dubbed in a bunch of vile CRAP that makes no fucking sense AND doesn’t evoke shit about the times.
“It never got weird enough for me.”
There’s a laptop joke in there somewhere.
Dr. Strangelove! Oh hell yeah! Peter Sellers was incredible, along with everyone else in that movie.
I also gotta say he was awsomely ridiculous in that second or third Pink Panther (the one where he is the telephone repairman). “I hev com tu fix yure phune”.
A used legal dictionary can get you a US Const in the back, maybe even DOI and US Const amendments:
http://www.amazon.com/Blacks-Law-Dictionary-Second-Pocket/dp/0314257918
I loved how the Panther movies just got sillier and sillier, more and more shameless. To the point of nose putty drooling off Clouseau’s fake nose while they all laughed their asses off on laughing gas and a giant frickin’ laa-zer beam was about to destroy the world. I think that’s the one where Clouseau picks up a big medieval mace to brain the bad guy with, but as he tries to lift it overhead, its weight just pulls him back down a set of castle stairs. Heh, that may also be the one with the “swine moat.”
I’m so glad Slim Pickens got the role in Dr. S., though. That was originally meant for Sellers, too. But Sellers fell off a prop during filming and sprained an ankle. Forgive me if I told this story here recently, but when Kubrick/casting people brought Pickens over to England, he showed up at the hangar/soundstage in a cowboy shirt, maybe hat. All the Englishers there were thrilled, Oh, a character actor! You’ve shown up in costume!
And Slim Pickens had to explain, uh, no, I actually dress this way. (He worked his way up from rodeo clown.)
Wikip says:
“Pickens credited Dr. Strangelove as a turning point in his career. Previously he was “Hey you” on sets and afterward he was addressed as “Mr. Pickens.” He has been quoted as commenting, “After Dr. Strangelove the roles, the dressing rooms, and the checks all started gettin’ bigger.” Pickens said he was amazed at the difference a single movie could make. ”
So, no Strangelove, no Taggart in Blazing Saddles?
Oh, and Sellers made all those PP movies to get the clout and money to finally make “Being There”, so thank gawd for over-the-top silliness!
I’m not sure George C. Scott’s work in Dr. S. wasn’t better than in Patton.
Bilo: I was unaware of serious and systematic investigation into the Sasquatch. Your [plural] effort reminds me strongly of the work of 19th naturalists, searching for ‘nondescript species’. I think it is wise not to reveal specific locations or prematurely release findings.
Is there a tenative taxonomic classification? (I’m guessing great apes?) Any proposed Latin descriptor for the species? This is very nifty!
Wait. Sasquatch ISREAL?
Where the Buffalo Roam
Looks like a killer soundrack! Thanks for link. Once I got there, I immediately recognized the movie. I just couldn’t go see it when it was released> I enjoyed Thompson’s writing enormously. (My favorite: Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail, which I re-read during the 2008 campaign.) I’m not a Bill Murray fan, however. Stayed away to avoid being disappointed by his shtick. Call it a casting objection.
I might have to shove my preconceptions aside and try Buffalo sometime, if only for the soundtrack and Peter Boyle. (Did Boyle ever turn in a weak film performance? I can’t remember any.)
I loved Being Therewhen it was released. Sellers was excellent of course–and Shirley MacClaine was a blast–yet I don’t think the film has held up as well as some others. Still enjoyable, still fun to watch, but slipped out of my Comic Pantheon. Same thing with The Great Race
George C. Scott: Strangelove = best comedic performance. Patton = maybe best dramatic performance. (I’m torn between that and his work in The Hustler, even though it wasn’t a top-of-the-marquee role.)
I’ve got to exit soon. Still have lots going on, and I need to tear myself away. I’m off to check the news. I hope to be back in the wee hours of the morning.
Can’t sign off with my usual tag. Today has been dark, and grim, and shitty.
And thanks for the background on Slim Pickens!
The government-is-evil shitheads have really upped the ante.
When will these bastards take responsibility for the viciousness of their rhetoric?
VS: For the Survey (and for all you do here):
Quel Frommage
Stinky foot cheese?
Pardon my french…
I pray everyday to whom/whatever that we come to our senses.
I think I still have hope, but today was stupid.
Right after this happens.
According to those who have the stomach to wade through wingnut sites right now (which I don’t), the assholes are trying hard to convince themselves that the shooter was a leftist. Avoidance of responsibility is absolutely essential to these maggots, and they’ll go to any lengths to achieve it.
1.) Cake or pie? Both, but probably not at the same time. I’m not an irredeemable glutton.
2.) What’s a movie you watch over and over again because it’s so awesome or so funny or so whatever? Sheesh… there’s quite a few. Among them are Fantasia, Blazing Saddles, the Hammer Studios Dracula, Metropolis, and The Ladykillers
3.) What is your current obsession song-wise? “Accidents Never Happen” (Blondie)
4.) What is a song you never get tired of hearing? Gah. These “narrow it down to one” questions always trip me up. Candidates include “Once in a Lifetime” (Talking Heads), “Solsbury Hill” (Peter Gabriel), “Gray Matter” (Oingo Boingo), Girl U Want (Devo)…
5.) What’s your favorite book? I really cannot pick. I love to read.
6.) Have you never been mellow? If by “mellow” you mean “high”, no not really.
7.) Have you tried a new food/recipe lately? Discuss. I found a recipe for miniature fruitcakes that uses, instead of candied fruit and rum: dried figs, bittersweet chocolate, orange zest, candied ginger, chopped almonds, and hazelnut liqueur (though I accidentally used a citrus liqueur, Tuaca, ’cause I don’t know much about booze). It was AMAZINGLY DELICIOUS
8.) Answering random questions on the internet: great idea? Or greatest idea? Pretty common idea, really. This is like the memes that sweep LJ and Facebook and their ilk. I just felt like answering this one for once.
9.) Do you like surveys that end in odd numbers? Why not?
Snorg,
Like I said above, unless he was caught live on camera while shooting the joint up yelling “Death to Liberals! Tea Time, motherfuckers!” or some such, They’re going to try to paint him as a lefty. If he had been caught like that, they’d be painting him as a lefty plant.
It ain’t just a river in Egypt.
Snidely,
Yeah, IMHO, Sasquatch ISreal. I’m more intellectually convinced lately than I am emotionally convinced. I’d like a broad daylight, close range sighting. What I’ve had is a whole bunch of other things going on, and various qualities of night sightings, one with infrared at about 75-100 yards, and trusted friends who’ve had similar, or much better encounters. Best we’ve got recently is infrared footage at about 45 feet, BUT, not so much in focus. That’s an ongoing, repeated contact situation, though, and it might turn out better next time the stars align.
I was unaware that the subject was anything but goofy oogy boogy paranormal until about either years ago, myself. I’m not a believer in anything, UFO’s, sky god, anything. Bumped into this subject and kept reading, and kept being suprised that there’s more to it than you’d think, and basically, it’s just an ape. Another mammal to add to the roster. A big damned one that we’d feel foolish having to add to the roster this late in the game, of course.
Pretty much an amateur’s game right now, for good and ill.
Possible ancestor, if not the animal, would be gigantopithecus, a 10-foot tall, arguably bipedal ape, a small number of fossils for this have been found in China, northern VN, 200,000? to 300,000 years ago.
Prof. Krantz was a respected anthropologist, spent several decades working on the subject, got into it at first to debunk it as hooey when he moved to the PacNW, then saw enough of footprints in the wild to begrudgingly join the cause, so to speak, he saw no other choice but to follow the truth as he saw it. Never saw one in real life, he was convinced based on the quality of the footprint evidence alone.
His book can put you to sleep, it is academic:
http://www.amazon.com/Bigfoot-Sasquatch-Evidence-Grover-Krantz/dp/0888394470
With the death of Krantz, Prof. Meldrum has taken up the torch as the academic willing to fuck up his career with this, and has also taken on Krantz’s collection of foot castings. Meldrums’ book is a much more readable, but not at all dumbed down, overview of the whole subject:
http://www.amazon.com/Sasquatch-Legend-Science-Jeff-Meldrum/dp/0765312166
The TV hour/DVD by the same title is just a verrry fast overview of the basics of why we believe there’s something worth studying here.
Both books are readily found in pub libs.
George Schaller is quite receptive to this, and so is Jane Goodall.
From where I stand (or sit around in the woods in the dark), this really is a fascinating interplay between science and society, science and democracy, experts and lay people, the inability for people to discuss it openly, a lot of sociology to that.
It’s just a big damned, adaptable ape. (No more adaptable than, say, the widely-ranging black bear.) A big ape which also happens to be bipedal and pretty sharp in the noodle dept. If youse guys think I’m nutz for saying that, well, then I won’t even try to convince you where in the Lower 48 you might find them, but…
http://www.bfro.net/gdb/
And yes, Peter Boyle, rock solid quality actor.
Also, SEDAGIVE!!!
Sarah Palin is NOT “Super Sarah”.
This is Super Sarah.
Also, this happens most every winter. I know that sign well.
What’s a movie you watch over and over again because it’s so awesome or so funny or so whatever?
Watching movies more than once is for people whose memories DID NOT WORK THE FIRST TIME.
That said, in the early-morning hours when my body is asleep, I tend to re-wind memories of Repo Man.
Stinky foot cheese?
Pardon my french…
Paleo: I dunno French. I thought it meant “What cheese?” Whatever it really means, ‘Quel Frommage’ sounds like a grand award, does it not? As an appeciator of military decorations–I’ve even been awarded some–I wanted to create a nifty and demented medal for Distinguished Achievement at Sadly,No! So I did.
From, like, five days ago:
I award the Quel Frommage for Epic comments. No standards, merely my whim and caprice. Don’t like it? Invent your own damn medal!
However, I’m thinking about modifying the design of the Quel Frommage. It needs to have something about Teh Mexicans, to more fully exemplify another key wingnut fantasy about the Left. I will probably add a border inscription around the facing device.
See what I did there?
VS: You are the first recipient. I’m looking forward to putting the Quel Frommage on your proud and oh-so-worthy chest. Meet me underneath the reviewing stand later for the very special private ceremony. ((Wuups! Typo. Make that “privates” ceremony.))
This was in a diary at the GOS. It made me snarfl.
What kind of Space Alien would you be?
Bilo:
Thanks for taking to time to clue me in! I think what you (pl) are doing is very cool.
I probably can’t drill down too far, but here are some questions that pop into my mind. It seems clear that Sasquatch is a social animal. Have encounters produced any vocalizations? (That should be easier to capture than images, I imagine.) Are there plans to place remote unattended cameras (perhaps triggered by motion sensors)? I once saw a nature documentary about using such devices to learn more about snow leopards…extremely elusive and secretive critters.
The populations must be very small to have avoided detection. I’m guessing they must also have large ranges? Omnivores? I’ve also wondered why no bones or carcasses have been recovered. Here’s a supposition: Some analog to elephant graveyards? )There’s plenty of curious mammalian collective behavior, after all: If I remember correctly, there is a llama-like species in the Andes that always shit in the same place: Large sites of dung made by many individuals,)
I don’t mean to bombard you with questions, but this is fascinating stuff. Reply if you’ve got time; if not, don’t sweat it. I’m going to go to the site you linked and bookmark it. Again, thanks.
— Snidely
Dating Service: Some type of gigantic glyptodont–a really big armadillo capable of inter-galactic travel. Also with Super Mental Powers!
I meant the metaphorical freezing over, not the freezing over that occurs in the material world.
I hope you mean that you’re familiar with a sign indicating an actual real-world location with that name and not a sign indicating an afterlife condition of eternal torment.
Gotta get back to work. Must sign off. I hope Sunday is better than Saturday was….
justme: Made me larf too! Now I absolutely, positively MUST bail out!
Bilo, yer not nutz…
I haven’t been as lucky as it sounds like you have, but MN/WI is no stranger to the skunk ape/windego/squatch/etc. I ‘d love to spend more time on the hunt, but its a solitary pursuit, and with less time as I age and gain responsibilities – most of my friends/acquaintances already think I’m round the bend with always reading/watching this stuff, if they knew I keep hairspray and POP in my trunk they’d probably have me committed. This is one secret only for Sweetie at home, and the goddam red squirrels in the woods. Good luck sir! ( I also have podcasts from Meldrum, guy is pretty cool!)
You described the whole rotten phenomenon earlier than I did and better than I did, but the wingnuts’ frantic need to deny reality fills me with such disgust that I had to toss in my two cents as well.
Paleo, it need not be a solitary pursuit. You can meet goofy new friends on the internet, you know. ; )
I’ve been doing it with an informal, loose bunch of amateurs (in various senses of the word, for good or bad) and it’s been a blast. We’re almost like family (for good and bad…) and the past year it has turned into more of a dining and social/campfire club, at least in my little neck of the woods. One of our group has gotten a job in the small rural city in the area we’d been having a lot of luck in, and as he and his wife have lived there and gotten to know a lot of people, the local grapevine has trickled in with a lot of stories.
Which gets me back to the sociological angle. It’s not at all clear to me that these are exceedingly, painfully rare. What we seem to have on our hands is a situation where people are seeing them once in a while, but completely scared to death about talking to anybody about it. Like, say, if you grew up in a real-life Mayberry, NC, and the Sheriff wasn’t, say, Andy Griffith, a generation or three back, or last week, what children grew up knowing who in town was a homosexual? Totally undiscussable, that is, for many folks.
Up until the past 15 or so years, I used to get the impression that for a lot of conservatives/uptight people, homosexuality = nobody I ever knew!/all those zillions of guys in SF & NYC/152 guys in the Navy/39 lesbians in Boston. But not in MY little town. And any homosexual who knew those people in real life knows better than to say a word.
So, just like it’s taking a few generations to get people to grasp the existence of homosexuality (Where are the boners?! Ha! Beat you to it, Actor!), we’re embarking on slow movement towards a non-kook/oogy-boogy discussion of this as a legitimate debate about zoology. Press coverage is improving.
Unlike some UFO people, no, I do not want to believe. It’s just got too much to it, even on paper/intellectually. Now that newspaper archives are digitized and searchable online? Yep, the same stories/themes are popping up in the 19th century news items on this. “Hairy wildmen” stealing pigs, screaming in the night, footprints, etc etc. Consistent across time and continent. 18th and 19th century incidents were already in the historical record, but now more are being found, thanks to this.
More about sounds, after I take another nap.
Very briefly, sounds. More later.
http://www.bfro.net/avevid/sierrasounds/911.asp
I’ve got no willpower or else my brain is overheating. Cuz this occurred to me in the shower. Just above I was blithering about Teh Mexican reference on the QF. It needs to be a Border inscription, of course. The text needs to be long enough for the complete circumferance around the Hammer-and-Sickle.
For maximum irritation, the inscription should be Spanish–yet another language I don’t know.* So what the QF needs is a suitable inscription about Teh Mexicans. I took a stab: Forcible annexation for Greater Mexico! Also anchor babies.
Ideas?
Also, too, and moreover, after the QF final design is in place, it would be a fun photoshop project for someone to noodle around with. (I think my brain is overheating…)
* Okay, my only language is English. (Well, I can also manipulate morphemes of Tolkien’s languages reasonably well. Let the Snark begin!)
I wonder how the wingnuts claimed that the shooting was a “hit”, because obviously any decent hitman would shoot only one bullet into the target, and empty rest of the magazine into the bystanders, leaving him standing there without ammo to be tackled down. You know, as opposed to firing more then one round into the target, ignoring by standers unless they got into way and actually trying to get out of there.
Forget to close the blockquote: My text begins with the 2nd para.
I bailing now. That’s right. Sure am. Gonna go work instead of having fun here. Fortunately, my work is fun too.
Sure Snidely…
See you in a few!
Late to the party…AGAIN. Sheeze. If I paid attention I’d be dangerous, ya know?
I hope you mean that you’re familiar with a sign indicating an actual real-world location with that name and not a sign indicating an afterlife condition of eternal torment.
I am not yet familiar with eternal torment. However, I am consistently told that it’s likely I will be. It’s usually phrased as “Well, you were probably going to hell anyway…” I could reply “BEEN THERE!! Big deal!” because
I lived
innear Hell, MI for a few years. Like, 10. I’m actually not certain that there is still a town designator sign at the outskirts of Hell, but if there is, it looks just like the picture. I am astonished that there is not an additional sign saying something like “You are now entering Hell. Good luck.”IIRC, the only businesses in Hell are a general store with a post office and the Dam Site Inn, a biker bar on the site of a dam. Hell gets a lot of mail through the post office around Halloween so it’ll be postmarked in Hell (with the extra-special singed edges), and purt near every year the newsies show up around the first snow so they can have film of Hell freezing over. Dunno why they need to re-shoot every year, probably could run the footage from 1962 and there wouldn’t be a whole fuck of a lot of difference.
The more the merrier.
Yeah, it’s fucking awful to watch. Ain’t it?