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I'MMA LET YOU FINISH

No! You can't make us!
kei & yuri | Homepage | 12.03.04 - 11:02 pm | #

Cat a Tonic
Chauncy Gardner | 12.03.04 - 11:03 pm | #

Okay, since I was busy pimping someone else's work downthread -- just for fun,
Pencilman. Most excellent animations. Best ones are the original Pencilman, and Pencilman Meets Pencilgirl.
Silleigh | Homepage | 12.03.04 - 11:07 pm | #

Just wanna say that everytime I see footage of the Ukraine protests, I feel a little bit ashamed for me and my country...
grr | 12.03.04 - 11:10 pm | #

Anti-terrorism funds sharply cut for NJ. They voted the wrong way, and they don't have a Kerik or a Giuliani.
mike in pr | 12.03.04 - 11:10 pm | #

Just finished reading the Washington Monthly article on Robert Novak and all I can say is Wow. Sure makes me view him is a diferent and even less favorable light.
SLThorne | 12.03.04 - 11:10 pm | #

Just got a stray in tonight, not 15 minutes ago,brought to the door, with a big abscess on his neck. I'll take him to a vet in the AM. He looks like my pete's big brother.
mena | 12.03.04 - 11:12 pm | #

Anti-terrorism funds sharply cut for NJ. They voted the wrong way, and they don't have a Kerik or a Giuliani.

News flash, Mike: New York never got theirs, neither (and I doubt Kerik will fight for it). Go Rudy, you philandering, harelipped tool.
watertiger | 12.03.04 - 11:12 pm | #

We are living in a new world: the world of the Moronic Shitstorm.

Heard tonight that Pittsburgh Steelers rookie QB will be fined $5000 for writing "PFJ" and Pat Tillman's number on his shoes. "PFJ" of course stands for Play for Jesus.

Hark! Soon the savage snark of self-righteous loonball dumbass wingnuts will be a-whining about this in every corner of the Internets.

It is but the latest roll of fartlike thunder in the... Moronic Shitstorm.
Thersites | Homepage | 12.03.04 - 11:12 pm | #

So, Rummy's staying. Yay. Or something.
BGK | 12.03.04 - 11:14 pm | #

Man, you guys are certainly upping the ante. First it was just photos; now you have to direct kitty porn? Too much pressure!

Glad all I have is a philodendron.
watertiger | 12.03.04 - 11:14 pm | #

It's so nice to see Keric and Condi moving up after the fine work they did in Iraq.
mike in pr | 12.03.04 - 11:16 pm | #

I can't think of anything less erotic
than watching cats get it on.

And I say this as somebody who
watched his favorite cat be conceived
during an otherwise sedate dinner
party.
steve simels | 12.03.04 - 11:16 pm | #

The unreality coupe is complete. I was flipping around the cable channels and came across a talkshow with Alf as the host and Ed McMahon as his side kick.

In all honesty, I just finished a shot of Maker's Mark. I could be mistaken.
jimmiraybob | 12.03.04 - 11:16 pm | #

It is but the latest roll of fartlike thunder in the... Moronic Shitstorm.

And here we all are, without our shitty slickers.

ba. da. bing.
watertiger | 12.03.04 - 11:17 pm | #

Philodendron blogging! ...Does that make you a philophiliac?
Silleigh | Homepage | 12.03.04 - 11:17 pm | #

The unreality coupe is complete. I was flipping around the cable channels and
came across a talkshow with Alf as the host and Ed McMahon as his side kick.

In all honesty, I just finished a shot of Maker's Mark. I could be mistaken.
jimmiraybob | Email | Homepage

Dude -- tell me you didn't make this
up. I need to see it.
steve simels | 12.03.04 - 11:20 pm | #

I can't think of anything less erotic
than watching cats get it on.

Condi and Wolfie.

or

Wolfie and Condi.
BGK | 12.03.04 - 11:20 pm | #

I posted this earlier today, but in case you missed it, I think it bears repeating:

...Funny thing is, many right-wing neocons consider the act of displaying (photographs of Iraqi war deaths) unpatriotic, even traitorous. As if revealing the true horrors of war somehow disrespects our long-suffering soldiers, somehow harms them by depicting the full violence of what they must endure for Bush's snide and viciously isolationist policies. You think soldiers don't want the folks back home to know what they have to deal with? You think they want you numb to the truth of war and pain and death? Guess again.

Maybe this should be the rule: If you can't handle seeing what really goes on in a war, maybe you don't deserve to support it. If you can't stomach the truths of what our soldiers are doing and how brutally and bloodily they're dying and in just what manner they have to kill those innocent Iraqi civilians in the name of BushCo's desperate lurch toward greed and power and Iraqi oil fields and empire, maybe you don't have the right to stick that little flag on your oil-sucking SUV.

Clear enough?
dave | Homepage | 12.03.04 - 11:21 pm | #

And I say this as somebody who
watched his favorite cat be conceived
during an otherwise sedate dinner
party.

Well, except for Liddy Dole's bizarre interpretive dance version of "Moneyline with Lou Dobbs" between the second and third courses.
watertiger | 12.03.04 - 11:21 pm | #

Yeah, Rummy did a bang up job in Iraq too. I'm sure things will just keep getting better and better now.
mike in pr | 12.03.04 - 11:22 pm | #

BGK:

As Tom Petty famously said when
Letterman asked him if he'd seen
Michael Jackson kiss Lisa Marie
on the MTV awards:

"Yuk."
steve simels | 12.03.04 - 11:22 pm | #

Yo, Steve - here ya go!
dave | Homepage | 12.03.04 - 11:22 pm | #

Alf was interviewing the lovely Doris Roberts (Everybody Loves Raymond's mother). They were discussing interspecies dating.

Back in the day they said that there'd eventually be flashbacks.

My apologies to anyone with discerniung taste as well as the cats in the house.
jimmiraybob | 12.03.04 - 11:23 pm | #

Its bright around here, I thought it said it was a late night thread.

Where is the dimmer for the overheads?
EkCenTriK | 12.03.04 - 11:24 pm | #

Morford should be required reading.

I loved the old newsletter, when he'd print the redneck-haiku and the winger mail he got. Wonder why they stopped that.
Silleigh | Homepage | 12.03.04 - 11:25 pm | #

Heard tonight that Pittsburgh Steelers rookie QB will be fined $5000 for writing "PFJ" and Pat Tillman's number on his shoes. "PFJ" of course stands for Play for Jesus............................................. ....If it was good enough for the prophet Daniel,its good enough for an overpaid nitwit who still thinks that scratching his balls in public is a cool thing....
notch | 12.03.04 - 11:25 pm | #

Ah, the wit and wisdom of Gordon
Shumway.
Thanks, Dave!
steve simels | 12.03.04 - 11:25 pm | #

Yeah, Rummy did a bang up job in Iraq too. I'm sure things will just keep getting better and better now.

Sure. And Bernie Kerik who trained up them there Iraqi police to the fine-tuned precision terror-fighting instrument they currently are will soon be pitching in make America just as safe as Iraq is.

So we're cool.
Thersites | Homepage | 12.03.04 - 11:26 pm | #

I was flipping around the cable channels and came across a talkshow with Alf as the host and Ed McMahon as his side kick.

Wouldn't Joe Lieberman be a more appropriate sidekick?
watertiger | 12.03.04 - 11:27 pm | #

Ed McMahon and Alf. That is some wild, weird stuff.

Weirdest things I *know* I saw: Reagan suddenly looking right at the camera and saying "Hello. My name is Ron." in the middle of his farewell address; Bay Area weatherman giving manic prediction of "Rain. RAIN. RAIN!!!!", Diamond Store, Tom Vu ("Come to my seminar!"), and Ramm's French Gallery commercials.

Weirdest thing I *thought* I saw (or, rather heard): Someone saying "Vibrator cunt whistle" in the middle of The Conqueror. Am pretty sure I raelly *did* hear "Wahl, leave me ta deal with thuh Tartars," and "Saddle up, Jimooga."
Eli | 12.03.04 - 11:27 pm | #

EkCenTriK -- Maybe we should chip in and buy a rheostat for this place.
Silleigh | Homepage | 12.03.04 - 11:27 pm | #

Depends on what night you're talking about.
Tom S | 12.03.04 - 11:28 pm | #

Thersites

I was just watching the news and caught the fact that Kerik had been over there training. To those folks Irony is simply what you get when you drop an iron on your knee.
EkCenTriK | 12.03.04 - 11:28 pm | #

HELP WANTED

For Cabinet-level positions in George Bush administration. No previous fuckup too egregious! EAE (Equal Atrocity Employer).
Thersites | Homepage | 12.03.04 - 11:29 pm | #

Eli,

I know for certain that I once heard Tony Curtis intone, "yonda lies da castle of my fadda."
watertiger | 12.03.04 - 11:30 pm | #

So glad to see that Shrimp picked the most incompetent of the incompetent to stay on the sinking ship. Rummy is the face of destruction in *our* Mid-East Adventure.

Yep, that's our Bu$h! Reward incompetence. Kick upstairs the most fucked up members of the team.
bigvic | 12.03.04 - 11:30 pm | #

Silleigh

It might be a good idea, but then look around at the wiring in the joint. I am not sure it could take something fancy like that. Maybe we should just unscrew a few bulbs from the lamps.
EkCenTriK | 12.03.04 - 11:30 pm | #

Vibrator cunt whistle"

Now if THAT isn't a band name, i don't know what is.
watertiger | 12.03.04 - 11:31 pm | #

Wish you hadn't told me about the rookie Steeler QB, Thersites. (I can't remember his name either and couldn't spell it if I did.)
I was planning on watching the Steelers beat up on the hated Cowboys o Monday night, but now I'd like to see both teams lose.
mike in pr | 12.03.04 - 11:31 pm | #

Anybody know if there's been any
fallout from Chris Hitchens' Jet
Rink meltdown on the Daily Show
the other night?

I noticed Andy Sullivan was silent on
the subject.....
steve simels | 12.03.04 - 11:31 pm | #

Bush said we need a full and fair accounting of the oil for food program because the american people demand accountability of organizations that their tax dollars support.
Anonymous | 12.03.04 - 11:31 pm | #

Weirdest things I *know* I saw

West Coast; Bay Area; KTVU Channel 2: A children's program host, who used sock puppets and a sad little cardboard stage, having a breakdown and acting out through the puppets. Hoo-hoo, boy (Mommy? Why is Uncle Bob making the puppet talk funny? What's "dee-vurce" and "alley-money"?)
Tom S | 12.03.04 - 11:32 pm | #

Who is Norm Coleman?
Anonymous | 12.03.04 - 11:32 pm | #

"PFJ" of course stands for Play for Jesus.

It amazes me that these idiots think Jesus gives a damn about you playing a stupid game for him. Don't get me wrong. I'm a huge Philadelphia Eagles (don't hate us because we're 10-1) fan, but I do find it a tad bit ironic that players are falling to one knee thanking God for a good play. Don't they think God has something better to do on a Sunday afternoon?
Monica A | 12.03.04 - 11:32 pm | #

Yep, that's our Bu$h! Reward incompetence. Kick upstairs the most fucked up members of the team.

Hey, Shrub is just employing the same tactics he used in the companies he "ran."

into the ground.
watertiger | 12.03.04 - 11:32 pm | #

Actually, my #1 pick for band name is Tantric Pinata, although that might really work better as an album title.
Eli | 12.03.04 - 11:33 pm | #

"Bush said we need a full and fair accounting of the oil for food program because the american people demand accountability of organizations that their tax dollars support."

Don't make me use my Irony joke again.
EkCenTriK | 12.03.04 - 11:33 pm | #

Yeah, Kerik was in Iraq training Iraqi police. He came home early from his six month stint and there was no public explanation.
George Johnston | Homepage | 12.03.04 - 11:34 pm | #

Saw a clip of Kerik tonight saying something to the effect that, when his guys screw up, they have to answer to him. "That's command accountability." I thought command accountability was when the guy at the top took responsibility for failure when one of "his guys" screwed up, and not trying to pass the buck downwards?
BGK | 12.03.04 - 11:34 pm | #

Monica A.,

I say that every time I hear an athlete praising Jesus for a play.

C'mon. The Lord has a busy schedule. And he's probably a soccer fan, anyway.
watertiger | 12.03.04 - 11:35 pm | #

Weirdest things I *know* I saw

During the first week Stephanopolous was hosting This Week, he appeared in front of a bank of televisions.

And on one of the televisions was a hand puppet. Playing the accordion.

I was sober at the time, I swear. I can't speak for the puppet, though.

A.
Athenae | Homepage | 12.03.04 - 11:35 pm | #

Norm Coleman.....Charles Duelfer came to the conclusion that the oil for food program allowed Hussein to rebuild his weapons of mass destruction.
Anonymous | 12.03.04 - 11:35 pm | #

Oh dear. That sounds like a sketch, Tom S.

I was in The Bay Area (the newspeople always managed to pronounce the capital letters; it was off-putting) for college - didn't really care for it much, but they sure did have some groovy stuff on telly. And they showed Sesame Street during dinnertime, so my friends & I always ate in the TV room.
Eli | 12.03.04 - 11:35 pm | #

I played a good one on Karl. I told him, here, smell my pen. He said why I said just do it. He did and then he said OOOOH! That STINKS! That pen smells like shit! I starts to laughin and says No kiddin, I just stuck it up my BUTT!

SUCKA!!!
George W. Bush | 12.03.04 - 11:35 pm | #

...Chris Hitchens' Jet Rink meltdown...

LOL!

Did Nick Adams dub his voice?
dave | Homepage | 12.03.04 - 11:37 pm | #

Visit my blog!

/desperation
The Kenosha Kid | Homepage | 12.03.04 - 11:37 pm | #

...Chris Hitchens' Jet Rink meltdown...

LOL!

Did Nick Adams dub his voice?
dave | Homepage | 12.03.04 - 11:37 pm | #

Visit my blog!

/desperation
The Kenosha Kid | Homepage | 12.03.04 - 11:37 pm | #

I would question whether Snuffalupagus's, er, Stephanopolous's *producer* was sober.
Eli | 12.03.04 - 11:37 pm | #

Norm Coleman........The fraud and abuse from the oil for food program is responsible for arming the insurgents who are killing our soldiers.
Anonymous | 12.03.04 - 11:37 pm | #

Tantric Pinata sounds like a really wicked drink concoction.
EkCenTriK | 12.03.04 - 11:38 pm | #

West Coast; Bay Area; KTVU Channel 2: A children's program host, who used sock puppets and a sad little cardboard stage, having a breakdown and acting out through the puppets.

Pat McCormack?
dave | Homepage | 12.03.04 - 11:38 pm | #

Did Nick Adams dub his voice?
dave | Email | Homepage | 12.03.04 - 11:37 pm | #

Dave -- I didn't know that. In that
scene?
steve simels | 12.03.04 - 11:38 pm | #

Um, yeah - the high explosives we couldn't be bothered to secure have nothing to do with it...
Eli | 12.03.04 - 11:39 pm | #

So what are Bernie Kerik's qualifications for the job? High school drop-out whose mother was a drug addicted prostitute? Yeah, Bernie. We're all real sorry about that, but how does that explain the fact that police and rescue workers couldn't communicate with each other on 9/11 due to a foul up in the system? Also, how do you account for not having any emergency procedures in place in case of such events as 9/11. And why is it that you haven't done crap for the fire and rescue workers who have become sick working at Ground Zero? Wrap yourself up in the failure of 9/11 all you want, Bernie.
Monica A | 12.03.04 - 11:39 pm | #

Norm Coleman on Rose....Paul Volcker is going to issue his report to Kofi Annan. Wouldn't it be better to release the report to someone who wasn't tainted. The report needs to be issued to a new UN secretary.
Anonymous | 12.03.04 - 11:40 pm | #

Kenosha,

just did, and your comment box told me to go screw myself.

harumph.
watertiger | 12.03.04 - 11:41 pm | #

I know for certain that I once heard Tony Curtis intone, "yonda lies da castle of my fadda."

I once saw Christopher Walken as Iago in Othello in Shakespeare in the Park, with Raul Julia as Othello.

Walken was as much of a freak as usual. He deliberately exaggerated a Noo Yawk accent for reasons best known to himself, which meant that one of the most famous Shakespearean speeches came out as "But put money in dy poise."

Fucking awesome.
Thersites | Homepage | 12.03.04 - 11:41 pm | #

I may have asked this before, but
does anybody remember a really
bizarre televangelist on cable
during the 80s named Gene something?
He used to play really bad saxophone
and he broadcast from an old theater
somewhere in LA. The thing was, you
could watch him for hours at a time
before realizing he was a preacher.
Very strange. SNL did a takeoff on
him once.

God, I'd pay good money for a DVD
best=of from the guy.
steve simels | 12.03.04 - 11:41 pm | #

Don't these guys think God may want to catch up on correspondence?
Monica A | 12.03.04 - 11:42 pm | #

Does anyone remember who championed the oil for food program when it first started? I'll give you a hint: his first name begins with a G.
Monica A | 12.03.04 - 11:43 pm | #

The Jefferson Airplane

Jefferson Starship

Yep, the 'the' test seems to hold.
jimmiraybob | 12.03.04 - 11:43 pm | #

Is Anonymous quoting Norm Coleman or talking to him?
Eli | 12.03.04 - 11:44 pm | #

Monica,

No, no, no, don't you understand? Kerik was at every press briefing, every photo op, every funeral. That's all that matters.

It's all about appearance.

Remember: there is no spoon.
watertiger | 12.03.04 - 11:44 pm | #

shit ... is atrios going cubist on us ... that would put my blog outta business for chrissakes
syntallic | Homepage | 12.03.04 - 11:44 pm | #

Guernica.
JLFinch | 12.03.04 - 11:44 pm | #

Thersites:
IMHO, Walken's most wonderfully odd
performances are in that bunch of
crappy horror movies where he's a
fallen angel killing other angels.
He's like Snoopy in a long black
leather coat.
steve simels | 12.03.04 - 11:44 pm | #

Spooooon!!!!
Eli | 12.03.04 - 11:45 pm | #

I may have asked this before, but
does anybody remember a really
bizarre televangelist on cable
during the 80s named Gene something?

Dr. Gene Scott! A visionary! Of sorts.

There's a guy I haven't thought about in a while...
Philalethes | Homepage | 12.03.04 - 11:45 pm | #

jimmiraybob:

your hearts in the right place, but
Jefferson Airplane didn't have a
the either.

Wait a minute -- I liked them anyway.

Nevermind!
steve simels | 12.03.04 - 11:47 pm | #

syntallic

That is just an artist's impression of the first cabinet meeting after GWB is re-instated in January.
EkCenTriK | 12.03.04 - 11:47 pm | #

kerik reminds me a little bit of that petulant little douchebag Bo Dietl, who sneaks into the imus in the morning set sounding like serpico but as crooked as harvey keitel in the bad lieutenant

i can imagine kerik pulling aside a coupla high school girls under the patriot act just so he can frisk them for thongs
syntallic | Homepage | 12.03.04 - 11:47 pm | #

What do Brenner, Condi, and Kerik have in common? They all failed miserably in Iraq, snuck out of of the country in the middle of the night when nobody was watching, and were generously rewarded by the Shrub for their failures.
mike in pr | 12.03.04 - 11:47 pm | #

Is Anonymous quoting Norm Coleman or talking to him?
Norm Coleman is on Charlie Rose. Did you miss that part smart ass?
Anonymous | 12.03.04 - 11:48 pm | #

I may have asked this before, but
does anybody remember a really
bizarre televangelist on cable
during the 80s named Gene something?

Dr. Gene Scott? With the interesting Aramaic/Greek/Hebrew translations and multiple sunglasses?

PS watertiger, I don't know what's up with that, try again!
The Kenosha Kid | Homepage | 12.03.04 - 11:48 pm | #

Who is Norm Coleman?

He is the most vile pig alive. This pig switched parties to run against the late, GREAT Paul Wellstone, who died just days before his re-election.

The former Dem jumped upon the funeral hijacking of Wellstone to defeat last minute candidate Mondale.

He is one of many odious opportunists playing the Terra card and the "Oil for Food" anti UN cards.

A real dick with arms.
bigvic | 12.03.04 - 11:48 pm | #

West Coast; Bay Area; KTVU Channel 2: A children's program host...

Pat McCormack?

Wow, what a flashback. I can taste a specific brand of cooked cereal at the mention of 'ol Pat.

No; I can't remember who this was. He had one puppet who was a little girl, and another who was a Beatnick/Hippie, who was using some bad language before the station went to an unplanned commercial break. And these were badly made puppets, man. Crudity cubed.
Tom S | 12.03.04 - 11:48 pm | #

Off topic, but if anyone remembers, it would be much appreciated: A couple of weeks ago someone filling in for Atrios (Hectate?) posted about an author that wrote a book about different emotions that were treated as individuals with personality traits etc. Thanks
20lbsofcheese | 12.03.04 - 11:48 pm | #

Speaking of Norm Coleman...

As a Minnesotan I'd like to apologise for Normie. He's a Jersey boy though (no offense to the Garden State), and a Hofstra grad.

The man is an opportunist of the worst kind. I believe he was an activist of some kind in school. I remember seeing a photo of him with a megaphone or something during his college days.

He was a Democrat until a few years ago. One of the many shills who saw their oily future with the elephant heads and switched parties. He is a bland, pandering, ambitious, amoral ninny. The fact that he took Paul Wellstone's seat in the Senate galls me more than I could possibly express. He does not represent us, folks. Though Wellstone grew up on the southeastern seaboard, his progressive politics are more in line with the modern legacy of the land of 10,000 lakes.

Normie, you suck!
noodge | 12.03.04 - 11:49 pm | #

Wow, what a flashback. I can taste a specific brand of cooked cereal at the mention of 'ol Pat.

Don't forget "Dialing for Dollars"!
Philalethes | Homepage | 12.03.04 - 11:49 pm | #

Thersites,

you might want to warn NYMary that this thread is about to veer directly into her territory...

Hmm. The REO Speedwagon.

That doesn't work.
watertiger | 12.03.04 - 11:49 pm | #

"Don't they think God has something better to do on a Sunday afternoon?"

Yea like smiting the entire bushCo regime.
Jack | Homepage | 12.03.04 - 11:49 pm | #

I was planning on watching the Steelers beat up on the hated Cowboys o Monday night, but now I'd like to see both teams lose.

Ben Roethlisberger.

Watching the Cowboys get beat is always worthwhile, in any event... hating the Cowboys is one of the last lingering elements of my boyhood Catholicism. (Well, maybe the Vatican has not come out against the Dallas Cowboys, dammit they should, as it would make as much sense as some of their other recent crap and would please me a lot more).

Who was the patron saint of the two-point conversion again?
Thersites | Homepage | 12.03.04 - 11:49 pm | #

Well, you didn't seem to be talking to anyone *here*...
Eli | 12.03.04 - 11:49 pm | #

White House officials described Kerik, who campaigned aggressively for Bush's reelection, as a proven crisis manager who can straighten out the lines of authority in the infant department and work to prevent a catastrophic attack or cope with its aftermath. Other Republicans said Kerik would provide a telegenic presence, and one presidential adviser pointed out that Kerik "brings 9/11 symbolism into the Cabinet."

9-11 Shampoo because everything is about marketting fear.

Blogwhore. Feel free to skip it.
The Big O | Homepage | 12.03.04 - 11:49 pm | #

All of you scum hate America.
Free Market Firefighter | 12.03.04 - 11:51 pm | #

Walken's most wonderfully odd
performances are in that bunch of
crappy horror movies where he's a
fallen angel killing other angels.

The Prophecy! LOVE that movie, just for Walken. "You get to eat all the ice cream you want, and KILL!"

I'm sorry, I love almost everything Walken does.
watertiger | 12.03.04 - 11:52 pm | #

Don't forget "Dialing for Dollars"!

Wow. The walls are really turning purple and magenta, now.

Uh-oh. Snap to, Slothrop...
Tom S | 12.03.04 - 11:52 pm | #

steve simels

IMHO, Walken's most wonderfully odd
performances are in that bunch of
crappy horror movies where he's a
fallen angel killing other angels.
He's like Snoopy in a long black
leather coat.

The Prophecy - a strangely watchable movie. It's been almost ten years, but as I recall Adam Goldberg almost stole the movie in a great comedic role.

It Affects You
up2date | Homepage | 12.03.04 - 11:52 pm | #

Norm Coleman...

...is a Republican, and thus has no hesitation whatsoever about lying.
Seraphiel | 12.03.04 - 11:53 pm | #

All of you scum hate America.
Free Market Firefighter | Email | Homepage

Oh c'mon -- who is this, really?
steve simels | 12.03.04 - 11:53 pm | #

Ditto.

Best. SNL. Host. Ever.
Eli | 12.03.04 - 11:53 pm | #

Weirdest things I *know* I saw

Once, I was driving behind a truck pulling a trailer with a dozen or so cattle in it, traveling about 60 mph. The gate on the trailer slowly swung open, and one by one, the cattle started stepping out the back.

It was the most horrifying/comical thing I've ever seen in my life. As they stepped down, they were dragged out onto the road, and subsequently bounced repeatedly off the road surface, with what seemed like slow motion mid air flips and cartwheels. 5 or 6 of them made it out before the driver noticed (A highway patrolman coming towards us alerted him), but amazingly, all the cattle ended up grazing in a pasture on the side of the road, apparently unharmed except for spots of road rash.
Central Scrutinizer | 12.03.04 - 11:53 pm | #

Um, I mean Walken, not Norm Coleman.
Eli | 12.03.04 - 11:54 pm | #

I assume all of you already saw this departing quote from Tommy Thompson already?

"For the life of me, I cannot understand why the terrorists have not attacked our food supply because it is so easy to do," Thompson said as announced his departure. "We are importing a lot of food from the Middle East, and it would be easy to tamper with that."

WTF?!
Philalethes | Homepage | 12.03.04 - 11:54 pm | #

Dr. Gene Scott! A visionary! Of sorts.

someone else actually remembers that tinfoil hat fundie? shoulda known it was you, Philalethes

that little sleazebag has his own website now: He teaches on subjects ranging from Basic Christianity, to Atlantis, to the Pyramids

Dr. Scott's magazine, "The University Cathedral Pulpit." is available free by calling: (800) 338-3030 (Toll Free in the USA & Canada)

ya gotta check this nutball out ... it's really funny crap
syntallic | Homepage | 12.03.04 - 11:54 pm | #

The Continental. Best SNL recurring
bit ever.
steve simels | 12.03.04 - 11:54 pm | #

Oh, not the livestock, Scrutinizer!
Eli | 12.03.04 - 11:55 pm | #

"I gotta have some more cowbell!"
The Kenosha Kid | Homepage | 12.03.04 - 11:55 pm | #

Yeah, I remember Dr. Gene Scott. I used to pick him up way back in the days when I had a dish and everything on TV was for free. I wonder what ever happened to him
mike in pr | 12.03.04 - 11:55 pm | #

Free Market Firefighter

You're not a firefighter, and you don't know the first thing about markets, free or otherwise.

Get bent.
Philalethes | Homepage | 12.03.04 - 11:55 pm | #

White House officials described Kerik, who campaigned aggressively for Bush's reelection, as a proven crisis manager who can straighten out the lines of authority in the infant department and work to prevent a catastrophic attack or cope with its aftermath. Other Republicans said Kerik would provide a telegenic presence, and one presidential adviser pointed out that Kerik "brings 9/11 symbolism into the Cabinet."

hammina hammina...

Kerik manages by bullying, threatening, and kneecapping. He's a street thug. And thanks, but if that's telegenic, I'm sticking with my radio.

"We would never capitalize on 9/11."

I HATE THESE PEOPLE!! (sorry, I just had to scream.)
watertiger | 12.03.04 - 11:56 pm | #

you might want to warn NYMary that this thread is about to veer directly into her territory...

She went to sleep with the baby.

If you like, I could quickly drink a quart of spiked egg nog and start Hitchensly screaming "wake the feck up, honey, you're wanted on the feckin' blog!"

be happy to. No problem, really.
Thersites | Homepage | 12.03.04 - 11:56 pm | #

Dr. Gene Scott! A visionary! Of sorts.

Dr. Gene appeared on a local cable station on the Penninsula (that's south of SF), alternately wearing a cowboy hat and/or dark glasses, and going on these endless rants aginst the goberment and the IRS. His favorite guest was the 'Minister Of Information' of the Church of Scientology, Heber Jentsch.

When Wackos Collide.
Tom S | 12.03.04 - 11:56 pm | #

I have two theories on the Middle Eastern food:

1) This is preparatory to some kind of embargo on Middle Eastern goods that are not oil; or...

2) He was justifiably alarmed by Bill O'Reilly's interesting and original ideas on how Middle Eastern food might be tampered with (I'm wondering if falafellatio should be a word).
Eli | 12.03.04 - 11:57 pm | #

I didn't know that. In that
scene?

Yeah, apparently after Dean died, they needed to rework some of his drunken tirade when he was alone in the ballroom, so they got Nick Adams to imitate Dean's voice. Not sure what part exactly, but I suspect it was the bit where he's yelling about Liz Taylor being "the kinda girl a man wants!" Sounds a little different, and clearer, than the rest of the speech...
dave | Homepage | 12.03.04 - 11:58 pm | #

someone else actually remembers that tinfoil hat fundie? shoulda known it was you, Philalethes

Yeah, he was kind of an icon for a while there...especially in the UG music scene. My room-mate actually used to tape his shows, if you can believe that.
Philalethes | Homepage | 12.03.04 - 11:58 pm | #

Tantric Pinata:
Great name, Eli, but I've been
meaning to confess this here for
some time --
I'm a purist who thinks band names
should begin with The.
It's been all downhill since Cream.
steve simels

My friend's band's name was "The Bulimic Cannibals"... they played on Playskool™ instruments.

What a hoot.
MisterX | Homepage | 12.03.04 - 11:58 pm | #

I'm sorry, I love almost everything Walken does.

Likewise. Especially the Weapon of Choice video. Love to watch him hoof!

I'm dead. Remember, brush your teeth before hitting the sack, kiddoes!
Silleigh | Homepage | 12.03.04 - 11:58 pm | #

falafellatio

Talk about your great band names...
noodge | 12.03.04 - 11:59 pm | #

http://americaneconomicalert.org...asp? NID=1313156

depressing stuff on how China will eat us alive
little alex | 12.03.04 - 11:59 pm | #

falafellatio should be a word

And to think I called Gene Scott a visionary! Eli, move to the head of the class.
Philalethes | Homepage | 12.03.04 - 11:59 pm | #

And yeah, I remember Gene Scott. TV to do bong hits to. Great stuff!

Now, who remembers Jim Gabbart's Sleazy Arms all-night movie show?
dave | Homepage | 12.04.04 - 12:00 am | #

I'm sorry, I love almost everything Walken does.

What would Christopher Walken do?

Rebuttal to the radical charge: "I'm an angel. I kill newborns while their mamas watch. I turn cities into salt. And occasionally, when I feel like it, I tear little girls apart. And from now till kingdom come ... the only thing you can count on ... in your existence ... is never understanding why."

About his long senatorial relationship with Senator John McCain: "Five long years, he wore this watch up his ass. Then when he died of dysentery, he gave me the watch. I hid this uncomfortable piece of metal up my ass for two years. Then, after seven years, I was sent home to my family. And now, little man, I give the watch to you."
syntallic | Homepage | 12.04.04 - 12:00 am | #

Sorry,

The Falafellatio
noodge | 12.04.04 - 12:00 am | #

Um, Thersites, she didn't think it was funny when you told her to run out and get you a six-pack when she was "hugely pregnant."

Best to stay away from the eggnog. For now.
watertiger | 12.04.04 - 12:00 am | #

Visit my blog!

/desperation

Funny. I just blogrolled you earlier this evening, Kenosha Kid, actually.

Not that anyone reads my blog either *sniff*...
Thersites | Homepage | 12.04.04 - 12:00 am | #

"We are importing a lot of food from the Middle East, and it would be easy to tamper with that."

WTF?!
Philalethes"

Yeah and people keep whining that showing the truth of the war is unpatriotic. but government officials giving guidance on our weak spots?

Has Bush made his "Superb" remarks for Thompson yet?
EkCenTriK | 12.04.04 - 12:00 am | #

Thanks for the info about Dr. Gene Scott, syntallic. (Do you have the name of his website handy?)
mike in pr | 12.04.04 - 12:00 am | #

I assume all of you already saw this departing quote from Tommy Thompson already?

What is up with that? If anything, it shows how pathetic and clueless the people Chip hired into various Cabinet positions were. The whole fucking lot of them.

Maybe Thompson was the kid's program host I can't quite remember. Did anyone see his Goodbye Conference? Did he use sock puppets and a beat-up cardboard proscenium stage?
Tom S | 12.04.04 - 12:01 am | #

Wow. The walls are really turning purple and magenta, now.

Uh-oh. Snap to, Slothrop...
Tom S

I'm signing off, but before I do...

Peter Wilkins.
Philalethes | Homepage | 12.04.04 - 12:01 am | #

There appear to be quite a few Gene Scott MP3s out there if you have a P2P client. Also a video comprised of a bunch of Robert Tilton clips with lots of flatulence edited in at strategic moments.

How did we ever survive without the internet?
Eli | 12.04.04 - 12:01 am | #

Now, who remembers Jim Gabbart's Sleazy Arms all-night movie show?

"Okay, who here knows what a burgee is? Anyone here? Anyone?"
The Kenosha Kid | Homepage | 12.04.04 - 12:01 am | #

Thersites, she didn't think it was funny when you told her to run out and get you a six-pack when she was "hugely pregnant."

She is a slanderous liar!

(It was a 12 pack.)
Thersites | Homepage | 12.04.04 - 12:02 am | #

I remember once when Dr. Gene Scott got pissed and wouldn't allow music to be played until people started donating money. He sat there for 20 or 30 minutes and just stared at the camera without saying a word.

Bizarre.

My girlfriend and I used to smoke tons of weed and watch Dr. Gene and Jim and Tammy for entertainment, and they never failed to make us howl with laughter.

Good times.
Central Scrutinizer | 12.04.04 - 12:02 am | #

Hmmmmm, I thought I remembered Jefferson Airplane as a 'the' band. Maybe I was thinking of referring to them as 'The Airplane.' I'll have to take a trip to the vinyl to see what I was thinking.

My ammends:

The Jimi Hendrix Experience

The Doors
jimmiraybob | 12.04.04 - 12:02 am | #

Yeah, he was kind of an icon for a while there...especially in the UG music scene. My room-mate actually used to tape his shows, if you can believe that.
Philalethes

musta been an indie musik thaang then --- cuz we used to sit up all night watching gene scott tapes after a lot of weed smoking in the recording studio ... fucked up shit ... "if you count the centimeters on a pyramid, it spells the lord's name" kinda freakish rationale
syntallic | Homepage | 12.04.04 - 12:02 am | #

I just got into a shouting match with someone about Bernard Kerik.

How do we convince people that Guiliani, Bush and Kerik are more to blame for 9/11 than Clinton.

This guy went from 9/11 to Monica Lewinsky in 8 seconds flat

Arrggghhhhhhh.................
SWR | 12.04.04 - 12:02 am | #

What kind of food do we import from the middle east? I thought the middle east was undeveloped wasteland that breeds nothing but oil and terrorists.
Anonymous | 12.04.04 - 12:03 am | #

He had one puppet who was a little girl, and another who was a Beatnick/Hippie, who was using some bad language before the station went to an unplanned commercial break.

Nah, McCormack was doing the dog and the horse - Charley and Humphrey. Wonder if it was Bob Wilkins?
dave | Homepage | 12.04.04 - 12:03 am | #

Now, who remembers Jim Gabbart's Sleazy Arms all-night movie show?
dave

Jesus...he showed a movie called "The Cremators" that was beyond belief. As far as I could tell, it wasn't even edited into sequence. Half of it was overexposed, half of it was underexposed, and the "sexy" female lead was hideously scarred. What a mess...
Philalethes | Homepage | 12.04.04 - 12:03 am | #

We must not waver in a liberal fashion, you don't get it or see the big picture....... stupid liberals. We are at war. Shut up. You lost the lection, double shut up. Stop the bias, stop the hating of religious people and the good they do. Stop the envy and hatred of the wealthy and powerful and taklented. They make it possible for you to whine through their hard work. Be for America!
Free Market Firefighter | 12.04.04 - 12:03 am | #

Eli,

That is sheer genius. I was going to say "felafellatio" flows trippingly off the tongue, but...

Aiight, i gotta git up early and teach the young whippersnappers who's boss of the boxing ring in the a.m.

peace and loofahs.
watertiger | 12.04.04 - 12:04 am | #

My husband and I were listening to NPR's take on the Tommy Thompson resignation. When Thompson said that he was surprised that our food supply hadn't been tainted since it is so easy to do, my husband screamed "thanks for the helpful hints, douchebag!" God, I love that man of mine.
Monica A | 12.04.04 - 12:04 am | #

Roger Noriega just announced that Bush is going to liberate Cuba.
nur al cubicle | Homepage | 12.04.04 - 12:04 am | #

Bob Wilkins, not Peter. The mind plays starnge tricks!
Philalethes | Homepage | 12.04.04 - 12:04 am | #

Thersites:
Are you sure it wasn't Richard Dreyfuss as Iago? At least he was Iago when I saw Raoul Julia-rest his soul-do "Othello" in Central Park.
Mass Media | 12.04.04 - 12:04 am | #

How about non-the bands often mistaken for the bands? The classic example:
Cream
noodge | 12.04.04 - 12:05 am | #

Free Market Fighter,

Is the Free Republic site down or are you looking someone to make you cry?
Monica A | 12.04.04 - 12:05 am | #

Sorry, one more thing:

I hate the taklented. I really do. Taklented people make me want to vomit.

good night and god bless.
watertiger | 12.04.04 - 12:06 am | #

only because somebody asked for it --- http://www.drgenescott.com/

it's a freakin howl
syntallic | Homepage | 12.04.04 - 12:06 am | #

Peter Wilkins. Fright Night. James "I am heterosexual!" Gabbert and the Sleazy Arms; Channel 20.

The mind boggles, does it not? "Schitt ja, Herr Bummer!"
Tom S | 12.04.04 - 12:06 am | #

Are you sure it wasn't Richard Dreyfuss as Iago? At least he was Iago when I saw Raoul Julia-rest his soul-do "Othello" in Central Park.

I saw that same performance. God did Raoul Julia suck as Othello.
SWR | 12.04.04 - 12:06 am | #

more walken?: On the field conditions in Iraq: "Tell me, Dubya, if a piss drunk sergeant has a loaded .45 pointed at the head of a piece of dung that the piss drunk sergeant hates and despises, how would you describe the situation?"

Impressions of the first Bush Administration: "I know nothing of this birthrite thing you are seeking, but, uh, let's go up north and have some chowda."

Comments on how Dubya has used the military: "No, son. You've got a problem because you don't know Army terminology. The place where a U.S. soldier goes to defecate, relieve himself, open his bowel, shit, fart, dump, crap, and unload, is called the latrine. The la-trine, from the French."

When Dubya uses "mixed messages" in a debate point: "I suppose now we have a conversation where you enlighten me. How many more of you are out there? Enlighten me. Where are the rest of your compadres? Enlighten me!"
syntallic | Homepage | 12.04.04 - 12:07 am | #

We must not waver in a liberal fashion, you don't get it or see the big
picture....... stupid liberals. We are at war. Shut up. You lost the lection, double
shut up. Stop the bias, stop the hating of religious people and the good they
do. Stop the envy and hatred of the wealthy and powerful and taklented. They
make it possible for you to whine through their hard work. Be for America!
Free Market Firefighter | Email | Homepage

No, really....c'mon -- who is this?
steve simels | 12.04.04 - 12:07 am | #

like a laser, atrios paints a picture of today's upside down repukelican violent, viscious Bushworld. to hell with us, everyone.
.
justfred | 12.04.04 - 12:08 am | #

CS used to do the same thing when I lived in Tulsa early 80s g. scott was a blast when you were high
little alex | 12.04.04 - 12:08 am | #

There's more putzes for Jesus on the Cowboys than any other team, so you can still root for the steelers.

I really think it is vanity of the worst sort that athletes point to the sky (god I suppose) when they do something good. One athlete I admire has stopped thanking God for letting him win, which makes me happy. When I was growing up, it was considered gauche to discuss god like that, but times are different.
Eric U. | 12.04.04 - 12:08 am | #

norm coleman on rose.

norm coleman is a total whack job.

How could somebody like be an elected official?
hadenough | 12.04.04 - 12:09 am | #

What kind of food do we import from the middle east? I thought the middle east was undeveloped wasteland that breeds nothing but oil and terrorists.
Anonymous

i guess we should be grateful that the hummus wasn't radioactive ... thank you, tommy .... don't let the door hit you on the ass on the way out
syntallic | Homepage | 12.04.04 - 12:09 am | #

Ladies and gents, Dr. Gene Scott.

Now I see him, I remember him. My favorite part of his show was when he would just stare at the screen silently, every few minutes or so yelling angrily that pledge money wasn't coming in fast enough. Bizarrely riveting television.
Thersites | Homepage | 12.04.04 - 12:09 am | #

Thersites,

I've made my husband go and get me cheese so I could have a grilled cheese sandwich at 1:30 AM. Don't apologize for making her go get beer. She might have been able to get a discount. (Please don't show this post to her.)
Monica A | 12.04.04 - 12:09 am | #

I'm feeling just a little bit taklempt. I'm just going to go off and be for America for a little while.

But first, let me blogwhore for Timecube, one of the maddest sites of all times (click my homepage, although it isn't).
Eli | Homepage | 12.04.04 - 12:09 am | #

Anybody listen to Janeane Garafolo's
show on Air America?
Thursday she had a band on called
The Eagles of Death Metal.
They were really good, to my surprise.
steve simels | 12.04.04 - 12:09 am | #

How about non-the bands often mistaken for the bands? The classic example:
Cream
noodge

The thing is, a lot of labels did that automatically back then. Venues, mags and DJs too. The first Can LP, for instance, was credited to "The Can."
Philalethes | Homepage | 12.04.04 - 12:10 am | #

stop the hating of religious people.............................I hate you people,and I would exterminate all of you if I were not a free thinking liberal.Get on your knees and thank your god that people like me have compassion,understanding and a tolerance for diverse views.
notch | 12.04.04 - 12:10 am | #

I was planning on watching the Steelers beat up on the hated Cowboys o Monday night, but now I'd like to see both teams lose.

you are in luck. the cowboys play the seahawks, not the steelers. the steelers have already beaten the cowboys this year.
danelectro | 12.04.04 - 12:10 am | #

norm coleman is a total whack job.

normie reminds me of the slum kids who used to throw household pets of the top of the projects, and have his friends hold down the geeks while he teabagged them

i'm sure the guy has a bug zapper in his closet to kill the moths feeding off his decaying flesh, talk about scumbags
syntallic | Homepage | 12.04.04 - 12:11 am | #

I remember that guy. For years I thought that was an SCTV skit.
Monica A | 12.04.04 - 12:11 am | #

Philalethes,
Makes sense.
the noodge | 12.04.04 - 12:12 am | #

Notch, it is obvious that liberals have ZERO tolerance for views opposed to theirs. Witness the mocery you make of my reasoned points and facts. You have no facts or logic, you just shout and scream. You will not brainwash our children with your secular garbage anymore. We have triumped and have a mandate to clean this country up from all the scum of the past 40 years.
Free Market Firefighter | 12.04.04 - 12:12 am | #

Guernica + riot at the Detroit vs. Indiana game = Aubernica.
superdude | 12.04.04 - 12:12 am | #

Ladies and gents, Dr. Gene Scott.

between gene scott and the old howard stern show on WOR Seacaucus ... there was no better TV until the sopranos showed up on Home Breast Office
syntallic | Homepage | 12.04.04 - 12:12 am | #

The beauty of America is you can hate it if you want to.
Hatriot | 12.04.04 - 12:13 am | #

Are you sure it wasn't Richard Dreyfuss as Iago? At least he was Iago when I saw Raoul Julia-rest his soul-do "Othello" in Central Park.

Oh it was Walken all right. He had henna hair and played the role in a leather biker jacket, while if I remember right everyone else was in period costume.

Richard Dreyfuss is not easily mistaken for Walken...
Thersites | Homepage | 12.04.04 - 12:13 am | #

Oh, liberals hate good news, hate success, envy those with it, wish everything
was going down the toilet so they can "save us" with their social engineering. I
got news for you elitists. Things are going GREAT! Life is great! At least, for
those of us who work hard and maintain a good attitude. You pukes try to ruin
things, but we will ruin you.
Free Market Firefighter | Email | Homepage

Okay, you really are an idiot and not
a parody of one -- I'll concede that.

But about that THINGS ARE GOING GREAT
bizness -- what are you gonna say when]
we get attacked again, catastrophically,
on Bush's watch?
steve simels | 12.04.04 - 12:13 am | #

Bob Wilkins, not Peter. The mind plays starnge tricks!

Well, I'm having a flashback from my child-time, so I have an excuse.

Channel 2's news -- still being done by the same people -- followed this weird format forever: Robbery, Oakland homicide; gang violence; war (somewhere); death; fraud; more death and mayhem.

Then, after twenty-five minutes (minus commercials), their closer was always some little human interest story about some old guy losing his dentifrice on BART and having it found by little Shawan Miller of Mountain View; "and tonight Mr. Jones and his upper plate are reunited." Like it somehow made up for the concentration of violence and tension in the rest of their news format.
Tom S | 12.04.04 - 12:13 am | #

What kind of food do we import from the middle east? I thought the middle east was undeveloped wasteland that breeds nothing but oil and terrorists.
Anonymous

Two things that pop into my mind immediately. I'm sure there are more.

Israeli Kibbutz's oddly enough export a lot of soyburgers, stuff like that.

Palestinians grow olives. I don't know if they export them though since they don't have much in the way of a seaport.
SWR | 12.04.04 - 12:13 am | #

Ohmigod -- I remember that!

Dude, you must be old too.

(If haloscan eats this one, I'll have no choice but to shake my naked fist to the sky, shouting "Curse you Haloscan!")

Goddamn "connection refused" my ass.
Central Scrutinizer | 12.04.04 - 12:14 am | #

Oh it was Walken all right. He had henna hair and played the role in a leather biker jacket, while if I remember right everyone else was in period costume.

This was in the early 90s, right?
SWR | 12.04.04 - 12:14 am | #

the more i hear it, the more i think 'intellectuial elitest' one of the stupidest things i've ever heard.

conservatives are:

intolerent egotists...or
invasive corpratists...can't decide.
-
gak | Homepage | 12.04.04 - 12:15 am | #

i had the vegetarian platter at an Arab restaurant in east Dearborn tonight.
marion | 12.04.04 - 12:16 am | #

20lbs of cheese:
The book you are wanting is by an author called Ruth Gendler.
Echidne | Homepage | 12.04.04 - 12:16 am | #

OH SHIT!!

you can get Gene Scott on the internets!!!

Doktor Freak on Demand
syntallic | Homepage | 12.04.04 - 12:16 am | #

I'm Sweet Sue not Mass Media-forgot to change my "name."
Good night sweet Princes and Princesses.
Raoul Julia was not great as Othello, but he was better than James Earl Jones on Broadway. Jones's Iago was Christopher Plummer-brilliant, one of the best performances I ever saw.
Sweet Sue | 12.04.04 - 12:17 am | #

Dates. The Middle East imports dates to the United States of America. The sticky fruit kind of dates.
Echidne | Homepage | 12.04.04 - 12:17 am | #

corpratist = corporatist
gak | 12.04.04 - 12:17 am | #

As (unfortunately) a Norm Coleman observer for many years, he seems to me to be the classic bland smiling lecherous, treacherous villian - like Hamlet's Uncle Claudius.

Interesting to see him making his slimy way onto the national scene. Folks here have him pegged for what he is.
noodge | 12.04.04 - 12:18 am | #

Free Market Firefighter | Email | Homepage | 12.04.04 - 12:12 am | #.........................25 years ago I lost a good wife to the sickness of religion,and if it was'nt for my open mind,a respect for the law and fear of jail,I would cut your fucking throat.Am I making myself clear?
notch | 12.04.04 - 12:18 am | #

I think Russia leads the world in exporting the other kind...
Eli | 12.04.04 - 12:18 am | #

Central Scrutinizer:

Hell, yeah. I'm older than my
parents.
steve simels | 12.04.04 - 12:19 am | #

Things are going great... unless those things are in Iraq!!!
Zach | Homepage | 12.04.04 - 12:19 am | #

My girlfriend lost her best friend from childhood to it. Sad.
Eli | 12.04.04 - 12:20 am | #

Monica A

I sure hope you thoroughly examined the grilled cheese sandwich for religeous images before chomping down.
jimmiraybob | 12.04.04 - 12:20 am | #

My girlfriend lost her best friend from childhood to it. Sad.
Eli | 12.04.04 - 12:20 am | #

Monica A

I sure hope you thoroughly examined the grilled cheese sandwich for religeous images before chomping down.
jimmiraybob | 12.04.04 - 12:20 am | #

Dates. The Middle East imports dates to the United States of America. The sticky fruit kind of dates.

Does Ashcroft know about this?
Central Scrutinizer | 12.04.04 - 12:20 am | #

What kind of food do we import from the middle east?

Well, we've been eating a lot of crow from there in the last couple of years...
Thersites | Homepage | 12.04.04 - 12:20 am | #

hey freemarket guy what do you think of Elliot Spitzer?
little alex | 12.04.04 - 12:21 am | #

Oh it was Walken all right. He had henna hair and played the role in a leather biker jacket, while if I remember right everyone else was in period costume.

This was in the early 90s, right?

Yes, or very possibly late 1980s.
Thersites | Homepage | 12.04.04 - 12:21 am | #

Oh, liberals hate good news, hate success, envy those with it, wish everything was going down the toilet so they can "save us" with their social engineering.

Free Market Fuckwad: When the economy crashes (-- and it will, because the mentality of scum-sucking pig-dogs like you are letting it happen --) we'll see you in the soup line. And cheerfully boot your patoot.

Enjoy it while it lasts, dickhead. I'll cheer when you jump out of a window on the twentieth floor of any building that'll let you in. And if you don't think the Chimp is creating this scenario, that it'll never happen, go ahead. You'll land that much harder.

Remember this, you Troll sweetie, you.
Tom S | 12.04.04 - 12:21 am | #

shit .. dr gene scott's cathedral is only 20 minutes from my house ... i gotta check this place out .. better yet, meet some of the yahoos who believe in his crap ... what a great subject to blog
syntallic | Homepage | 12.04.04 - 12:22 am | #

Reminiscing about 9/11, Giulani said: "At the time, we believed that we would be attacked many more times that day and in the days that followed. Without really thinking, based on just emotion, spontaneous, I grabbed the arm of then-Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik, and I said to him, "Bernie, thank God George Bush is our president?"

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLIT...ani.transcript/
H Walsh | 12.04.04 - 12:23 am | #

Weirdest thing on tv: Baby Rae, The Naked Preacher Lady on Sacramento's cable access channel. It's indescribable. Click on homepage if you're the curious sort.

NSFW!
jus' sayin' | Homepage | 12.04.04 - 12:23 am | #

Don't apologize for making her go get beer. She might have been able to get a discount. (Please don't show this post to her.)

Well, she didn't actually go. It was all "I can't get you beer, I'm having contractions."
Thersites | Homepage | 12.04.04 - 12:24 am | #

The CIA actually has a pretty good database of various countries and their exports.
SWR | 12.04.04 - 12:24 am | #

Forgot hte link. Exports.
SWR | 12.04.04 - 12:25 am | #

sytallic,

Infiltrate!
jimmiraybob | 12.04.04 - 12:25 am | #

Eep. I remember the naked talk show on the Naughty Channel in NYC (Channel J, or, uh, so I've been told). Everyone told me it wasn't nearly as cool as it sounded. I didn't believe 'em, but damn if they weren't absolutely right.
Eli | 12.04.04 - 12:25 am | #

Not to name drop, but I met Walken
once in 1975. A friend of mine worked
for his agent -- this is when he was
still basically an up and coming
theater guy.
Anyway, we were at a press party for
something or other, and my pal introduced
me to him. He was really cool. We talked
about the Rolling Stones who were
touring at the time -- he was a huge
fan.
steve simels | 12.04.04 - 12:26 am | #

Reminiscing about 9/11, Giulani said: "At the time, we believed that we would be attacked many more times that day and in the days that followed. Without really thinking, based on just emotion, spontaneous, I grabbed the arm of then-Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik, and I said to him, "Bernie, thank God George Bush is our president?"

great recalll on the link ... been looking for that one ... with this perverted logic it's like saying, "welcome to the morgue, thank god, Bernard Goetz was afraid of screwdrivers"
syntallic | Homepage | 12.04.04 - 12:26 am | #

Thersites, couldn't she have grabbed it on the way to the hospital? Jesus, man, you let that woman just walk all over you - it makes me weep.
Eli | 12.04.04 - 12:27 am | #

I remember Dr. Gene Scott's bizarre use of the blackboard. Diagrams and notes all over the place.
mike in pr | 12.04.04 - 12:29 am | #

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Downtown Lad | Homepage | 12.04.04 - 12:29 am | #

Click on homepage if you're the curious sort.

That's me!

(BTW, those boobies look fake.)
Central Scrutinizer | 12.04.04 - 12:29 am | #

steve-o,

walken is a really strange dude -- you ever hear jay mohr do an impression of him? freakin dead on balls copy of the guy -- did him on opie and anthony one time and I almost got in a car crash it was so funny
syntallic | Homepage | 12.04.04 - 12:29 am | #

I mean, seriously, it's bad form to go out and not ask if you need anything.
Eli | 12.04.04 - 12:30 am | #

The most disturbing thing about Norm Coleman (aside from his rodent-esque features) is that he exemplifies a disturbing tendency for those in the legislative branch to serve as proxies for the administration to do its dirty work.

Norm is not bashing the UN-bashing on his own . . . his obtuse and factless rhetoric bears a great resemblence to something that John Bolton would vomit forth.
Eyes of Jellied Fire | 12.04.04 - 12:30 am | #

i have an office in sacramento ... i guess i gotta make another trip north to check out the nekkid preacher chick .. .she looks like a truck stop hooker version of tammy wynette for chrissakes ... HA
syntallic | Homepage | 12.04.04 - 12:30 am | #

Kevin Spacey is a surprisingly good mimic - his SNL impression of Walken auditioning for the part of Han Solo was just brilliant.
Eli | 12.04.04 - 12:31 am | #

I got to attend the Ashland Shakespeare Festival right before my senior year in college - it was very excellent. There was this one actor who was the lead in at least 3 or 4 plays, and was very good in all of them. Years later, he had a bit part on an episode of Ally McBeal. That's just so not right.

At the other end of the spectrum, I remember seeing an ACT production of "Taming of the Shrew" around 1974-75. The actor that played Petruccio's mainservant was an absolute riot and clearly stole the show. A few years later, I saw a videotape from the same run of that show. I immediately recognized the actor that had played the hilarious manservant: Robin Williams.
dave | Homepage | 12.04.04 - 12:31 am | #

I'm going to paraphrase my favorite line from "Cat On A Hot Tin Roof" to answer all of the religious zealots who ask why liberals don't wear on our sleeves.

"Not everybody makes as much noise praising the Lord like you do!"
Monica A | 12.04.04 - 12:31 am | #

Has this been posted?

Olbermann's latest:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6210240/
pol | 12.04.04 - 12:31 am | #

"Thersites, couldn't she have grabbed it on the way to the hospital? Jesus, man, you let that woman just walk all over you - it makes me weep."

Eli 12.04.04 - 12:27 am

Of course, if she really loved you she would have stocked up ahead of time.
jimmiraybob | 12.04.04 - 12:32 am | #

Put Up or Shut Up!
Steve | 12.04.04 - 12:33 am | #

Monica at 12:31

Right on!
noodge | 12.04.04 - 12:33 am | #

Actually, I think Christopher Walken
impressions are intrinsically funny.
Kind of like gorilla suits.

They just make me laugh, no matter
how well they're done.

Spacey and Jay Mohr are particularly
good, though.
steve simels | 12.04.04 - 12:35 am | #

Hi guys.

Did you miss me?

I'm just here to remind you all about what an asshole I am.

I also like to pick my nose and eat my boogers.
Avestus | 12.04.04 - 12:35 am | #

noodge,

"classic bland smiling lecherous, treacherous villian - like Hamlet's Uncle Claudius"

That's the guy. coleman wasn't kidding. He mouthed one absurdity after another with a straight face.

Even though the UN security council was in charge of oil for food, coleman says Anon has to step down because you can't go after the nameless, faceless UN security council. As head of the UN Anon has to take responsibility and step down.

That nameless faceless UN security council!

Of course the US and British members of the council OK'ed every contract.

I wonder what coleman said to bush after 911. Maybe something about stepping down?
hadenough | 12.04.04 - 12:36 am | #

Weirdest thing on tv: Baby Rae, The Naked Preacher Lady on Sacramento's cable access channel. It's indescribable. Click on homepage if you're the curious sort.

Looks like a younger version of Phyllis Diller...with implants.

Yes, this is a warning to others.
Mango | 12.04.04 - 12:36 am | #

Monica A

I sure hope you thoroughly examined the grilled cheese sandwich for religeous images before chomping down.

I don't think the Virgin Mary would try to communicate with me through dairy products. It sickens me what people will do in the name of religion.
Monica A | 12.04.04 - 12:36 am | #

Thersites, couldn't she have grabbed it on the way to the hospital? Jesus, man, you let that woman just walk all over you - it makes me weep.

Eli,

It's so hard to find good women these days.... (Scratches balls)
Central Scrutinizer | 12.04.04 - 12:36 am | #

Again, not to name drop, but I was in
theater school with the guy from the
Police Academy movies who did a comedy
act with birds. Bruce somebody.
No kidding.

Top that, bitches!
steve simels | 12.04.04 - 12:37 am | #

*Finding* them is easy.
Eli | 12.04.04 - 12:38 am | #

Kick upstairs the most fucked up members of the team.

I guess they really take that peter principle to, er, heart.
LJ | 12.04.04 - 12:38 am | #

*Finding* them is easy.
Eli | 12.04.04 - 12:38 am | #

Kick upstairs the most fucked up members of the team.

I guess they really take that peter principle to, er, heart.
LJ | 12.04.04 - 12:38 am | #

Noodge,

glad you enjoyed it. Best line of the movie.
Monica A | 12.04.04 - 12:38 am | #

Who is Norm Coleman?

He's that fat stupid alcoholic on Cheers who only cares about beer. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
Another Bruce | 12.04.04 - 12:38 am | #

Not to name drop, but I met Walken
once in 1975.

I went to elementary school with his nephew. Probably (cough) in the same time period. The poor kid used to try to convince us he had a famous uncle, and he would show off a picture of Christopher with Carrie Fisher as proof. Of course we were all like "yeah, like you know Princess Leia, fatass." Cruel. We were cruel.

The other memorable thing about this kid was he fell hook line and sinker for the bizarre 1970s fad-terror of being afraid of killer bees. You'd be at recess and see a bee, and he would go into paroxysms of ecstatic terror. To this day, I see a bee, and I think of Christopher Walken's nephew. I'm sure I'm not alone in this.
Thersites | Homepage | 12.04.04 - 12:38 am | #

I'd believe Norm's sincerity if he started at home and went after the US firms that profited off of Iraq oil sales . . . but I think we all know were that would lead . . . a certain home on the grounds of a Naval observatory perhaps.
Eyes of Jellied Fire | 12.04.04 - 12:40 am | #

Notch, it is obvious that liberals have ZERO tolerance for views opposed to theirs. Witness the mocery you make of my reasoned points and facts.

WHAT FUCKING FACTS HAVE YOU PRESENTED? NOTHING...

You're Just TOO FUCKING STUPID to understand what your fucking monkey boy president has done to this country!

I KNOW you have no clue what HARD WORK really is. How about getting you're whiny punk ass to IRAQ NOW!

Party Line | 12.04.04 - 12:40 am | #

To this day, I
see a bee, and I think of Christopher Walken's nephew. I'm sure I'm not alone
in this.
Thersites | Email | Homepage | 12.04.04 - 12:38 am | #

Oh sweet jesus, that's funny.
steve simels | 12.04.04 - 12:40 am | #

Again, not to name drop, but I was in
theater school with the guy from the
Police Academy movies who did a comedy
act with birds. Bruce somebody.
No kidding.

Top that, bitches!

I once saw all three of the Fat Boys on the A Train -- at what would have been the Height of Their Fame.

I sniff at your bird-man.
Thersites | Homepage | 12.04.04 - 12:41 am | #

I thought the kid in my high school who said his dad was dating Maud "Octopussy" Adams was pulling our legs... until graduation day.
Eli | 12.04.04 - 12:41 am | #

did the bass player from the talking heads ... top that one bitches!!!
syntallic | Homepage | 12.04.04 - 12:42 am | #

Wow, guys. You've humbled me.

BTW: does anybody think that firefighter
guy is somebody goofing? For the life
of me, I can't make up my mind...
steve simels | 12.04.04 - 12:44 am | #

I knew them when: Christian Slater, Martha Plimpton, Messy Marvin, Serena Altschul.

There were some notables at my college, but I don't think I actually interacted with them, other than once high-fiving Jennifer Azzi and being in one or two film classes with Janet Evans...

And I have a cousin married to Dennis Potvin.

And yet, my life is considerably less glamorous than you might expect...
Eli | 12.04.04 - 12:45 am | #

falafellatio

Maybe this is what Tommy Thompson meant by tampering with the food supply. Be careful not to mix your hummus with your hummer.
Another Bruce | 12.04.04 - 12:46 am | #

To this day, I see a bee, and I think of Christopher Walken's nephew. I'm sure I'm not alone in this.

Are you an INTP, by chance?

I've been curious as to where others here are on the Meyers/Briggs inventory.
Central Scrutinizer | 12.04.04 - 12:47 am | #

okay ... we going down the list Monica? LOL

I've met:
Joe Pesci
James Woods
Jack Nicholson
Tom Brokaw
Anna Nicole
Samuel Jackson
Larry Bird
John Kerry (yup, i voted for him too)
Ted Kennedy
Sting
U2 (when they were kids at 17)
Kurt Cobain
Trent Reznor

you want some more, bitches!!!!
syntallic | Homepage | 12.04.04 - 12:47 am | #

My girlfriend had coffee with Rollins, a most excellent chat. At the other end of the spectrum, one of my college friends wrote him a long heartfelt letter about what jerks people were, and got back the following response, in its entirety: "Jim: They don't like their brains!"
Eli | 12.04.04 - 12:47 am | #

The only people I actually enjoyed meeting were Willie Mays and Willie Nelson (it's a Willie thing, you wouldn't understand.)Willie Nelson saved me from taking a spill on my ass. When I saw him a day later he asked if I was okay. Really nice man.
Monica A | 12.04.04 - 12:48 am | #

ROFL CS ... what a riot
syntallic | Homepage | 12.04.04 - 12:48 am | #

did the bass player from the talking heads ... top that one bitches!!!
syntallic | Email | Homepage | 12.04.04 - 12:42 am | #

I'm hyperventilating....you slept
with Tina Weymouth?

Oh dear god!!!!

I have to kill myself now.

Saw her at a party once (seriously)
where she sat alone the whole time
and there wasn't a single guy in the
room (myself included) who was ballsy
enough to go talk to her.

God, she was gorgeous -- like Marianne
Faithful in a trash compactor.
steve simels | 12.04.04 - 12:48 am | #

I have a cousin married to Dennis Potvin.

Man, that would be awesome...

... to go to Denis Potvin's house on like Thanksgiving, and when he's trying to pass the gravy, chant "Potvin sucks! Potvin sucks!"

I grew up an Islanders fan, but I still think that would be funny.
Thersites | Homepage | 12.04.04 - 12:48 am | #

Walken on SNL, the census taker came to his apartment to see how many people lived there. His parting shot (if I remember correctly) was keep your politics to yourself?
oldwhitelady | 12.04.04 - 12:49 am | #

I'm a bit disappointed in Atrios commenters. Like, 100 comments before anyone said something about the Guernica image...
renato | Homepage | 12.04.04 - 12:49 am | #

Well, if I use my photographer sister as a proxy, I can kick all y'all's asses, but I'm pretty sure that would be cheating.
Eli | 12.04.04 - 12:49 am | #

.
Anybody do THIS guy?
A SCREW LOOSE IN HOMELAND SECURITY
.
cosa nostradamus | Homepage | 12.04.04 - 12:49 am | #

Renato, I don't think the image was up there when the thread started. I didn't see it until I refreshed the main page to see if there were any new postings.
Eli | 12.04.04 - 12:50 am | #

Three Words:

Joe Willie Namath!

Your move my little bitches!
Monica A | 12.04.04 - 12:50 am | #

yupperz steve-o ... truth ... a nicer lady than she looked ... really kewl woman ... because she was with the heads a lot of the guys were intimidated ... just struck up a conversation and the rest went from there ... drank about four bottles of Dom and some other assorted party favors ... it's hazy now, but I was king for a week ... ha
syntallic | Homepage | 12.04.04 - 12:51 am | #

I think I shot my wad. I was so sure that knowing Messy Marvin and Serena Altschul would make me a god.

That's... a really bad poem right there.
Eli | 12.04.04 - 12:52 am | #

Ooo! My turn:

I went to school with the prepubescent Daryl Hannah and Jenny Beals.
Also met Bob Dylan and briefly and inconsequentially, Robert Redford.
AND got to witness Lillian Hellman's aide secretly pouring a substance from a flask into her coffee cup backstage during a CIA symposium of which she was a panelmember.

So there.
noodge | 12.04.04 - 12:52 am | #

Gene Scott?

Peter Wilkins.

James "I am heterosexual!" Gabbert

I'm not sure who any of these people are, but I have the feeling I can still be grateful to my stepfather for introducing me to the concept of no TV. And he smoked a lot of weed. Side note: we always knew when he was really, really high, because he'd ask us, "Did you know that the Doobie Brothers have a sister named Ruby Doobie?"

For the record, I am drug-free today. Honest. Not even tequila or Vicodin (the latter's not working for me anymore!).
LJ | 12.04.04 - 12:53 am | #

Monica A .... two more words for you

Bobby Orr - greatest hockey player to ever walk the earth ... came out on a pond with us to skate when I was 9 years old ... wish I had the stick he had autographed for me ... the entire 1972 Stanley Cup team ... i went and played with it and broke it ... i can't imagine what it would go for on eBay now
syntallic | Homepage | 12.04.04 - 12:53 am | #

Okay,

Paul Sorvino!
Monica A | 12.04.04 - 12:53 am | #

This just in Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead.

On another note, not to drop names or anything but I once walked past Jerry Jeff Walker in the Spokane airport.
jimmiraybob | 12.04.04 - 12:55 am | #

syntallic:
wow.
that's all I can say, so I'll say it
again.
wow.
steve simels | 12.04.04 - 12:56 am | #

Two More Words for You, Syntallic

Bernie Parent, one of the greatest goalies in NHL history. I spoke with him on the telephone for a half hour. I don't know what we talked about, but damned if I didn't live off of that for a few weeks.
Monica A | 12.04.04 - 12:56 am | #

Has anyone here heard from Zul?
Dana Barrett | 12.04.04 - 12:57 am | #

Will there be any... up in Heaven...
Eli | 12.04.04 - 12:57 am | #

okay,

Robert DeNiro on the lower east side ... he knew a friend and we ran into him over linguini with clam sauce

Want more?
syntallic | Homepage | 12.04.04 - 12:57 am | #

I saw Raoul Julia and Kevin Kline in Two Gentlemen of Verona in Central Park when they were mere unknowns with Joseph Papp's troupe. Met Yoko Ono before John did...she 'happened' me over by the Fillmore East and slapped a yellow dayglo polka dot on my forehead.

And, top this name drop, I met Haile Selassi when I was a second grader. Heh.

Roger Moore and I near collided on a Venice bridge once. He was wearing a cream colored suit and stepped aside and bowed...and let me pass.

And JK Galbraith autographed a copy of 'Triumph' for me.

That's it, I'm done, dropped it all like a front loader.
nur al cubicle | Homepage | 12.04.04 - 12:57 am | #

I met John Smith.

Twice.

Good night all.
mike in pr | 12.04.04 - 12:57 am | #

I once didn't have sex with Margot
Kidder.
steve simels | 12.04.04 - 12:58 am | #

I saw Terence Stamp in shorts at La Guardia. That was... incongruous.

I think I also saw the Spinal Tap manager (whose daughter later accused him of molesting her) at an outdoor cafe in NYC.
Eli | 12.04.04 - 12:58 am | #

I always think of Tina Weymouth doing the spider dance in Stop Making Sense
rrrrrrowrr
noodge | 12.04.04 - 12:59 am | #

Big deal, Steve. I don't have sex with Margot Kidder *every* night.
Eli | 12.04.04 - 12:59 am | #

Are you an INTP, by chance?

I've been curious as to where others here are on the Meyers/Briggs inventory.

I have arguments with my wife all the time about M/B. The last time I took the test I angrily scrawled a spontaneous essay instead from the perspective of Bourdieuian sociology, and it never got scored... granted, had she bought me beer, I might have had a different response.

My memory of the Walken nephew's fear of bees however is very vivid. This kid really did look exactly like his uncle, except much heavier. Talked like him, too. Now, open your mind's eye to, say, 1977. A playground in a Queens schoolyard. Envision a very pale, very young, very fat Christopher Walken on the top of a slide, screaming "it's the killer bees! From Mexico! I knew it!"

Try ro erase that image from your consciousness.
Thersites | Homepage | 12.04.04 - 1:00 am | #

True: I got an autograph from Salvador
Dali.

At a Sears in New Jersey, no less.
steve simels | 12.04.04 - 1:00 am | #

From the "Let Them Argue About Baseball Division of Providing Bread and Circque D'ecume D'etang, Inc.

"As Major League Baseball's steroid scandal widened to include the sport's most prolific active home run hitter, Senate Commerce Committee Chairman John McCain (R-Ariz.) said yesterday that he will introduce legislation imposing drug-testing standards on professional athletes if baseball players and owners do not adopt a stringent crackdown on steroids by January." http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp...2- 2004Dec3.html
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...super -- McCain plays kissyface on stage with a schmuck who calls him brainwashed and the father of "one of those" children during the South Carolina primary -- gives the same asshat a pass on more warcrimes than we the people alleged against the EvilSaddam in ramping up to attack his sovereign nation for no great reason -- but but but -- we'll get tough on baseball...
+
Must be a harbinger of spring.
+
Must mean it's time to ban Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon again?
+
Move along,

Fritz
Fritz LeChat | 12.04.04 - 1:00 am | #

And my piece de resistance:

Shirley Jones and Marty Engles. She's not a warm as you might think. Good night you princes and princesses of America.
Monica A | 12.04.04 - 1:00 am | #

Um, my best friend slept with Al Franken's brother in college? I had an incredibly long conversation with Leonard Bernstein the night he taped "Mass" at the Kennedy Center as we waited to be picked up by the Concert Hall stage door. And didn't even realize it was him until his driver called him by name. I spent an entire summer hanging out with Isaac Stone and didn't realize who he was (he was just "Izzy" a friend of a friend). Lovely, charming, funny, dear man. Damn, I'm clueless.
eto | 12.04.04 - 1:00 am | #

What kind of food do we import from the middle east?

In Europe? Citrus fruit from Israel. Turkish dates. Figs. Spices. (Get some ras al-hamout for couscous. Amazing.) Pistachios -- from Iran, so you can't get them in the US, and they're fucking marvellous.

Israel also supplies lots of dehydrated soup, for some reason.
pseudonymous in nc | 12.04.04 - 1:01 am | #

I remember hearing a blooper about "Emperor Hailie Selassie of Ethiopia made an eloquent pee for peace."
Eli | 12.04.04 - 1:01 am | #

Also went to guest lecture/seminar thingies with Edward Teller, Freeman Dyson, and Jello Biafra (but not all at the same time, I'm afraid).
Eli | 12.04.04 - 1:02 am | #

nice one steve-o ... dali was a true strange genius ... i just met Cedric Hardman and Marcus Allen at a strange department store where they were signing shit ... got to put on their superbowl rings .. got some autographed shit too
syntallic | Homepage | 12.04.04 - 1:03 am | #

My best friend's wife once dated Mike Eruzione. And possibly Matt Suhey, or else it was a friend of hers.
Eli | 12.04.04 - 1:04 am | #

Syntallic,

I bow down to you. I accept my defeat. My piece de resistance just turned out to be a piece of shit. You win hands down. I shall retire to my bed and cry the night through. I bid you adieu.
Monica A | 12.04.04 - 1:05 am | #

also met the entire cast of the original "Lost in Space" sans Guy Robinson who had already died ... Dr Smith was a crazy ass trip and the Major West dude was the biggest prick I ever met

the coolest was June Lockhart and Judy still looks hot ... either she's got more plastic than mattel or she is just a freak of nature -- man, was she gorgeous

PS: angela cartwright is a blimp and she couldn't stop eating the whole time
syntallic | Homepage | 12.04.04 - 1:06 am | #

And I asked Isaac Asimov a smart-assed question when I was 12!
Eli | 12.04.04 - 1:06 am | #

True: I got an autograph from Salvador
Dali.

I've got one of his autographed perfume bottles. Paid two bucks at a flea market years ago.
Central Scrutinizer | 12.04.04 - 1:06 am | #

I can't even remotely top syntallic, but it is kinda interesting to try to recollect all the bizarre & random "brushes with greatness" (or at least famousness).
Eli | 12.04.04 - 1:07 am | #

"Never turn down a chance to have
sex or be on television."
-- Gore Vidal
steve simels | 12.04.04 - 1:08 am | #

Oh, and I once got dragged up on stage at Cirque De Soleil, and was dressed so bizarrely that everyone thought I was actually part of the troupe (people were congratulating me on a great show afterwards...).
Eli | 12.04.04 - 1:09 am | #

Eli ... asking Issac Asminov a smart-assed question sounds like Ali G asking Dick Cheney about Iraq .. that is funny
syntallic | Homepage | 12.04.04 - 1:10 am | #

One more. That Nick Cannon guy from some movies (not a big fan) once chased my 15 year old cousin around the MCI center trying to get her phone number. I know what's on Mr. Cannon's agenda and it won't be my cousin. So he can just take his pimp-mobile having self and ride on into the next town.
Monica A | 12.04.04 - 1:10 am | #

Here's one "brush with greatness" I'd like to scrub from my mind: I was given a tour of the White House by Pat Buchanan when he was a speech writer for Nixon. Ew.
eto | 12.04.04 - 1:11 am | #

Don't know if this counts, but...

My uncle died in the Ia Drang Valley in Vietnam under Gen. Hal Moore's command (We Were Soldiers...Once, and Young). Gen. Moore phoned me once, and I have met him personally. He's very sweet. I have also met Joe Galloway-- great guy -- and he answers my e-mails.

Recently, I met Bruce Crandall ("Snake Shit") the helicopter pilot. I held out my hand to shake his, and asked him to sign my book. He clutched my hand and wouldn't let go, and said, "Sure,if you'd let go of my hand!"
pol | 12.04.04 - 1:11 am | #

Actually, I was on television before I had sex...

Anyone remember an SNL parody commercial from the early 80s, set to the tune of various soft-drink theme songs, beginning with, "Come on out, America, America is turning gay!", and ending with "Be a homo, act like a homo..."? With various happy and presumably gay people smiling and waving at the camera? One of them is a kid and an old man playing chess - I was the kid. Sweartagod.
Eli | 12.04.04 - 1:11 am | #

Eto ... Crazy Pat? that is waaaay cool -- woulda loved to ask him about Elvis ... HA
syntallic | Homepage | 12.04.04 - 1:12 am | #

I met the old guy from the first Survivor, and had no clue who he was - not surprising since I don't usually watch shit. It pissed him off, too. Other than that, my only "brush with greatness" was with a lame local TV weatherman who just happened to be close by in the crowd when we were drunkenly celebrating Clinton's re-election in 96. He got all "huffy celebrity" on us and we all busted out laughing right in his face.
Jennifer | 12.04.04 - 1:13 am | #

My mother used to do massage and reflexology. Sigourney Weaver was one of her regular customers, as was the author of "Leo The Late Bloomer." She also did (ahem, *massaged*) General Westmoreland before he was to testify about something or other. Said he was very tense - imagine that.
Eli | 12.04.04 - 1:13 am | #

My dream meeting would be with Lena Horne. There's so much I want to know about her life (all the good stuff she left out the books.)
Monica A | 12.04.04 - 1:14 am | #

Oh, I forgot.
When I was a kid I worked for Hubert Humphrey for Senate - 1970. He was running against Clark McGregor, who later headed up Nixon's Committee to Reelect the President (appropriate acronym). I was handing out HHH material at a Golden Gopher football game when I noticed McGregor, marched over to him and said "Here's your Humphrey button Mr. McGregor!" He said heh heh with a "why you little..." overtone and marched off.
I was full of myself for days (prob'ly hasn't worn off yet).

Also, one of my closest friends told me yesterday that he's been threatened with a lawsuit by Tom Cruise.
noodge | 12.04.04 - 1:15 am | #

Oh yeah, and I have an autographed copy of David Byrne's book, Strange Ritual.
Jennifer | 12.04.04 - 1:15 am | #

Pat Moynihan spoke at my high school's 50th anniversary (this was before I went there; my dad was an alum) - he was drunk as a skunk.
Eli | 12.04.04 - 1:15 am | #

Yep. Crazy Pat. His family was friendly with the family of friends of mine. He's been a pompous asshole since birth--I think he was born wearing a suit--but I think he gets crazier every year.
eto | 12.04.04 - 1:16 am | #

Hal Moore is a god for sure ... heard he was great guy to serve with ... my uncle mentioned him to me many years before the movie came out, and if he was anything close to what Mel Gibson did on the screen, what a dude ...

I did forget my ace in the hole, but Monica surrendered .. Hunter S Thompson ... he came to a party really late all drunk and shit, and starting mumbling about having to find an ammo store in Boston (and there aren't any) .. signed my book and then lit the insert page with his lighter ... guy was a freakin trip
syntallic | Homepage | 12.04.04 - 1:16 am | #

I know Jack Schitt
Party Line | 12.04.04 - 1:16 am | #

Funny, this is starting to resemble the "Who would make a cool blogger?" thread on Political Animal...
(Hunter S. got a lotta votes, including mine)
Eli | 12.04.04 - 1:17 am | #

I bowled once with Barney Rubble.
Wildebeest | 12.04.04 - 1:18 am | #

(Surrender Monica!)
Eli | 12.04.04 - 1:18 am | #

I once heard Dan Blocker tell a pillow/marshmallow joke at a rodeo.
jimmiraybob | 12.04.04 - 1:18 am | #

My uncle was Dean Martin. I've met all the members of the rat pack. Steubenville, Ohio was a happening place in the late 30's, early 40's. Lots of famous big bands came through.
Anonymous | 12.04.04 - 1:19 am | #

eto ... crazy pat is a particular favorite of mine because he's such a treacherous little weasel from the Nixon days and never suffered so much as a scratch

i had an old friend who worked in radio who was told by G. Gordon Liddy that Crazy Pat would screw your grandma for a vote without taking his suit off and would pray that she liked it ... a really delusional character that crazy pat
syntallic | Homepage | 12.04.04 - 1:19 am | #

Patrick Moynihan passed away last year.
The Big O | Homepage | 12.04.04 - 1:19 am | #

Wait! I forgot my evening with Year-of-the-Cat Al Stewart. I was crazee about that song. I went to get his autograph backstage and he invited me to a party at a swank restaurant reserved for the entourage. I was in heaven, I tell you. But then he hooked up with this 15 year old chick and asked me if I'd remembered where he'd left his coat.
nur al cubicle | Homepage | 12.04.04 - 1:20 am | #

I know he did, and I'm not happy about it. He was still drunk as a skunk that night, though.
Eli | 12.04.04 - 1:21 am | #

Anonymous,

You win .. the rat pack goes beyond the normal parameters of "brush with greatness" in my book .. just to hang with Deano and Sammy, never mind the pope of new jersey (frank) would be a gift ... but partying with those guys would have been a dream ...
syntallic | Homepage | 12.04.04 - 1:21 am | #

Syntallic--he's got a really weird affect--very unctuous--that almost reads as sincere, until you look him in the eye. I repeat: EW.
eto | 12.04.04 - 1:22 am | #

Funny, this is starting to resemble the "Who would make a cool blogger?" thread on Political Animal...
(Hunter S. got a lotta votes, including mine)
Eli

for sure .. hunter needs to put down his young wife for a while and get relevant again ... and drop the ESPN gig ... it's killing him ... he should be a modern day Henry Miller and now he sounds like Sunday Morning on CBS .... it's too bad, genius like that getting lazy
syntallic | Homepage | 12.04.04 - 1:24 am | #

eto .. i believe it ... crazy pat is a diseased animal, but can you imagine the stories that guy has filed away from the watergate days, just start with the real stuff and work your way back to the rumors that remained in the inner sanctum ... there were some really degenerate people in that administration and the paint musta been peeling off the walls
syntallic | Homepage | 12.04.04 - 1:26 am | #

I surrended to Anonymous...still Haile Selassie...and he was wearing a pith helmet and epaulettes, too.
nur al cubicle | Homepage | 12.04.04 - 1:26 am | #

So famous people now?

Um...

That weaselly divorce attorney on L.A. Law. Short little blonde thing. His mother's on Young and the Restless. What is his name...?

I was, er, present when Richard Gere tried to pick up a gay friend of mine. (Gosh, I hope I didn't out the man...)

Jane Fonda. For some reason, she was a lot taller than I expected.

Jane Curtain was ahead of me once in line at Disneyland. Very classy lady.

One of my cousins was a Miss Texas and was a semi-finalist at Miss America.

Various Dallas Cowboys, circa 1978-1982. I know--everybody hates the Cowboys. But I lived in Dallas for a while. They were everywhere. Won't discuss what happened at that one charity event...but...mmmmmm. Some memories are really great.

Speaking of Dallas...

If there was one thing that always pissed me off, it was seeing people from the TV show, Dallas, filming scenes at a restaurant. That meant that an otherwise groovy little eatery was about to become famous and ergo completely uninhabitable for the next year or two. Yeah, I ran into all those losers. The one who played Bobby was actually kinda nice. Ever notice how often the "nice" characters are played by assholes?
LJ | 12.04.04 - 1:26 am | #

I was, er, present when Richard Gere tried to pick up a gay friend of mine. (Gosh, I hope I didn't out the man...)

and the pope shits in the vatican? LOL
syntallic | Homepage | 12.04.04 - 1:29 am | #

My girlfriend claims to have kicked Miss Spartanburg's ass at basketball - almost literally.
Eli | 12.04.04 - 1:29 am | #

Night, all--I can't keep up with you
guys (meant as a compliment).
steve simels | 12.04.04 - 1:30 am | #

yep. me too. 'night.
eto | 12.04.04 - 1:36 am | #

I'm gone.

Sick of haloscan eating my words.

G'night y'all.
Central Scrutinizer | 12.04.04 - 1:40 am | #

Sigh... the thread is ending, and I stil have anecdotes about

Ricky "The Dragon" Steamboat
Mario Cuomo
Hillary!
George Pataki
Bob Pollard
Jeff McDonald
Nuala Ni Dhomnaill
Thersites | Homepage | 12.04.04 - 1:40 am | #

Ooh! Fun topic!

I haven't met too many famous ppl...

Michael Moore (nice fella - I liked him even more after meeting him!)
Paul Gross (from Due South - signed my mom's bank book)

...but I've heard some great tangental stories (Rod Stewart hitting on my husband's cousin, Rodney Dangerfield trying to pick up my cousin at an airport, a friend telling off Paul Schaeffer after he refused to pay to get into the Royal Ontario Museum...)

Thanks for all the great stories everyone!
Charlotte Smith (nee Beavers) | 12.04.04 - 1:43 am | #

ricky the dragon would be tops on my list too
syntallic | Homepage | 12.04.04 - 1:46 am | #

I think Kerry Collins hit on my girlfriend (before she was my girlfriend - otherwise I would have had to kick his ass!), but ended up hooking up with her slutty friend.
Eli | 12.04.04 - 1:46 am | #

I haven't met any celebrities, but I play someone who's met celebrities on TV.
Another Bruce | 12.04.04 - 1:47 am | #

Yeah, dude, I can't top that. Maybe Sergeant Slaughter, or Jimmy "Superfly" Snooka, or Koko B. Ware.

Jesus, I don't even *like* wrestling...
Eli | 12.04.04 - 1:47 am | #

syntallic, Hal Moore is a wonderful person. He loved his "boys" and holds them and their families is the utmost respect. My uncle is buried at Ft. Benning Cemetery, with most of the men who died in the Ia Drang, and once Gen. Moore told me he visits my uncle's grave often, and he cited the exact location of the grave. In fact, Mrs. Moore died last spring and she was buried with her boys.
pol | 12.04.04 - 1:50 am | #

When I was 6 I met Jimi Hendrix after a show and got his autograph. I still have the autograph. It is my prize possession.
squid696 | Homepage | 12.04.04 - 1:54 am | #

When I was 6 I met Jimi Hendrix after a show and got his autograph. I still have the autograph. It is my prize possession.
squid696 | Homepage | 12.04.04 - 1:56 am | #

"A man goes to a psychiatrist. The doctor says 'You're crazy' The man says 'I want a second opinion!' 'Okay, you're ugly too!'"

Henny

I once met this guy.
jimmiraybob | 12.04.04 - 2:14 am | #

Who, the doctor or the patient?
Eli | 12.04.04 - 2:26 am | #

i thank you for airing pic's masterpiece, gernika.

most of the posts on this thread that i have read are quite silly - as if many want to ignore the horror that the amerikan condor legions are imposing on iraq.

for reasons unknown to me, there seems to be no oppositon to this amerikan falange. even when it utilizes a latter day version of napalm against the civilian population of iraq.

this nation has become the nations we fought in ww2. fallujah, our nanjing, our warsaw.

on that cheery note, i do recommend the book GUERNICA: THE BIOGRAPHY OF A TWENTIETH-CENTURY ICON. ISBN#1582341249.

sic semper tyrannis
albertchampion | 12.04.04 - 3:17 am | #

I read an interview with Christopher Walken where he explained his unique delivery. In his early acting days, when he was learning lines, he would cross out all the punctuation in the script and then memorize it. He said that it's so ingrained in him now that he does it naturally.

Walken also talked about his role in Pulp fiction. He said that every time he came to the part about sticking the watch up his ass, that he would crack up and he could barely get through the scene.

Brushes with fame: I had lunch with Tom Paxton once at my best bud's Dad's house. His dad and Paxton were roommates in college. (Tom who? Yeah, I'm fucking old).

I made George Bush (the old one) wave at me after a campaign speech. I was in a Hooters next to where he gave the speech and there were these sliding glass doors he had to walk past to get back to the limo. As he came by, I continuously screamed hey George at him through the glass until he turned and waved at me so I would shut up. The secret service was seriously pissed, I guess I should have shown respect by screaming hey Mr. President or your holiness or whatever. I suppose they didn't appreciate that I did stifle my urge to scream hey asshole at him.
jollo | 12.04.04 - 3:23 am | #

Eli, were you that smart-ass twelve-year-old that Isaac Asimov wrote about in one of his columns?! I could probably pull the column, but it'd take me all night, because I'd have to go through an extensive collection of pulp magazines looking for it. E-mail me if you'd like...

I once talked to Harlan Ellison on the phone for god knows how long...I barely got a word in edgewise, and I couldn't think of a damn thing to say, other than, "Yes, sir," and so on. He called me. I was (then) a 22 year old fourth-year university student. Woah.

Other than that, all the famous people I know (or know of) aren't that famous. I have met Winston Smith, who used to be Jello Biafra's roommate years ago. Megan Ward, Chas. Balun, and Leif Junker used to have e-mail correspondences going with me, and Dario Argento gave me a compliment on one of my stories once, but he misconstrued the story itself slightly. Oh, well, it was ambiguous anyway. :D
Interrobang | Homepage | 12.04.04 - 3:30 am | #

Ive seen Guernica in Madrid, its amazing. The size of it almost overwhelms you before you notice all the details of it.
Steve | 12.04.04 - 3:39 am | #

And the award for "Islamic Organization with the most unfortunate acronym" goes to
Sarah Tonin | 12.04.04 - 6:03 am | #

Guernica. Nice Atrios.
baba durag | 12.04.04 - 6:17 am | #

Is David Brooks trying to tell us something?
Attaturk | Homepage | 12.04.04 - 7:19 am | #

Has anyone here heard from Zul?
Dana Barrett

isn't that spelled Zule? He was the nasty spirit coming back to get everyone in Ghost Busters I.
.
shazzam | 12.04.04 - 7:25 am | #

Artblogging

Keep it up....
brucds | 12.04.04 - 8:16 am | #

When Colin Powell (?) spoke at the UN prior to the invasion of Iraq, the US made them cover the Guernica reproduction that is the usual backdrop for speakers. They argument was that it was offensive to the speaker and would send the wrong message to the world. Oy.
Lima | 12.04.04 - 9:06 am | #

Norm Colemman's always been jealous of the fact that Kofi went to Macalester and he didn't
moe | Homepage | 12.04.04 - 9:29 am | #

I saw "Guernica" when it was still at MOMA-sometime in the seventies. The museum had it set up so you entered a fairly large room, and then had to turn around to see the painting.
Unforgettable-you "hear" the horse scream. No wonder they covered up the tapestry when Powell came to the UN to lie.
BTW, I waitressed with Julianne Moore-she was Julie Smith, then- at the Cafe Bonelle on thirty fourth street in the early eighties-nah, nah, nah.
Sweet Sue | 12.04.04 - 10:09 am | #

"Who, the doctor or the patient?"

Eli 12.04.04 - 2:26 am

Let's just say I was tempted to go for a third opinion but decided to stop and cut my losses.
jimmiraybob | 12.04.04 - 10:55 am | #

I heard that aWol couldn't get anyone
to replace Rumsfeld. No one wants to
be "the one who lost iWaq."
"Dr" Hedley Lamarr | 12.04.04 - 11:30 am | #

I too love Guernica - really says a lot about war.

Steve Simels - you mentioned Cream. Are they in fact going to have those reunion concerts next year in London? This calls for a Simels Report.
Ed Tracey | 12.04.04 - 12:05 pm | #

I did stand up comedy for 11 years

8 years on the road

worked with Paul Reiser, Robert Wuhl, Sam Kinison, Bill Hicks ( three weeks), Dave Chappelle ( believe it or not, he opened for me!!!!!) Patton Oswald, Dom Irrera, Gilbert Gottfreid and even Tony Perkins who a major network weatherman.

i could go on and folks, seriously.

Oh yes, Once I played music with Chevy Chase
Maccabee | Homepage | 12.04.04 - 1:12 pm | #

btw

as you know Picasso painted Guernica in response to Franco's bombing of the town using Nazi planes and pilots.

Picasso was living in Paris under German occupation and they wouldn't mess with him.

Once he was visited by the SS and they barged into his apartment. On the table there was photograph of the painting.

One of the Officers said "I know that. You did that didn't you?"

Picasso responded: "No sir, you did that."

true story
Maccabee | Homepage | 12.04.04 - 1:14 pm | #

"Take that, Guernica!"
Franklin from "The Critic"
S. | 12.04.04 - 1:32 pm | #

Ah yes, Guernica. Remember when Bush faulted foreign fighters in Iraq? Other than us I mean? That was lost on him, but what about Hemingway fighting against fascism in the Spanish Civil War that this famous painting portrays?

Remember the Israelis in Jenin? Jenin=Fallujah
erickh | Homepage | 12.04.04 - 1:40 pm | #

When I first saw pictures of Guernica I wondered how come they never showed it in color. I learned later ....

Upthread, Dr. Gene Scott: I enjoyed his antics in the day, but one day he revealed himself. He told the story of how he got people to contribute money to build a glorious golden fountain with the contributor's names inscribed on the base. It solved his money crisis but the fountain was never built and the feds took notice. He said those government people were so stupid, they were stupid, stupid, that they didn't realize he was talking about a CONCEPTUAL fountain, not a real one. I quit watching after that.
parsec | 12.04.04 - 2:32 pm | #

Scott should have gotten an NEA grant...
brucds | 12.04.04 - 2:48 pm | #

People here still talking about Jenin???

UN says no massacre in Jenin

someone didnt get the memo
har har | 12.04.04 - 9:15 pm | #

Atrios,
Looking at, well more knowing inside the Guernica picture and how it depicts my feelings about the state of "civilization" an my own inner state these days, I'm not sure whether to thank you or be concerned about you, your inner state.

It's like everything, all the illusions we've had of the underlying goodness or best intentions of idiots have been proved simply illusions. There's no institutions we can look to anticipating some way to prop up our hopes for all that is good.

Guernica, an ugly awful picture says it all. I understand this painting so much more from the indside than I did 10 years ago, or even 5 years ago. And I can't help but feel a bitter sadness that I do now understand it so well.

And then I think of the poor souls of Fallujah, Baghdad, Sammara...and I feel ashamed of myself.

Very late posting, probably to be read by no one. Still I put my thoughts down here, for some archaeologist, measuring the brain waves and electric impulses of 2004.

Very sad. Very dark.
Speechless | Homepage | 12.05.04 - 11:20 pm | #

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