I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
Whoa
2 Too?
3 rd
Ok dammit what's the joke?
Ok, how long will this thread exist?
Oh and.... well.. Fuck Bush
Oh, we still have that problem. Ah Well it was good while it lasted. And I was just warming up my New Deal Rant.
Hello moonbats. Please stop flickering in and out of existence, it's making me woozy.
Welcome back!
It's ALIVE!!!!!!!
Evening, all.
Have I missed tech difficulties
or am I just....on dialup?
This is getting curiouser and curiouser.
HUZZAH!
Well that was fun.
Super Bowl Prediction:
Stones Halftime show:
1-Start Me Up
2-Some lame song of their most recent album that no one has heard
3-Satisfaction
Hawks - 27
Steelers -17
Hooray...
Save a short-cut to this page--who knows how long blogspot will be up.
WHoa!
.
Helen Thomas rocks! ...too honest for our own good.
hi?!
...is "blogger" been having problems these past few days?
Eli: Hooray...
Heh! I'd just sent you and NTodd the key to the room, too.
.
Are we there yet?
Stones Halftime show:
1-Start Me Up
2-Some lame song of their most recent album that no one has heard
3-Satisfaction
Hawks - 27
Steelers -17
daveinseattle | Email | 02.04.06 - 10:42 pm | #
Believe it or not -- their "new"
album is really, really good.
First good one in well over a
decade.
Not that it matters in the grand
scale of things, but true nonetheless.
my god...i feel like shelley winters climbing out the bottom of that fucking boat
I think I'll stay downstairs and listen to Moon's tales of Roman porn.
I predict a defensive battle:
Hawks - 4
Steelers - 2
Must have taken the NSA folks longer than expected to install all that spyware here.
It has been hours--missed you guys.
Darryl Pearce: Helen Thomas rocks! ...too honest for our own good.
What's her most recent? Do you know, or was that just a general statement?
.
Our mini-MichiEschaCon was great!
Filkertom, Sister of Ye, Nim, Jen, Pie, Chicago Dyke...we all got together in Ann Arbor this afternoon. I have a photo, but since I'm still on dial-up, it's hopeless to load.
Anyway, what a great three hours!
More magic in Michigan.
OT RIOT
SYRIANS TORCH EMBASSIES
evening, people. vicki is the sexiest woman alive, all you male fools who aren't doing her should be ashamed.
the new deboeuf is good. twas really nice meeting you all this afternoon, MI atriots. let's do it again.
Eh, it ain't so great up here. I'm going with Hecate.
Stones Halftime show
I don't wanna see anyone showing us Keith's nipple.
ooh a new thread?
The first one to say "blastocyst" gets a poke in the eye!
[OWWW!]
Okay, I apologize to everybody
I previously e-mailed to find out
if there was something screwed up
about the site tonite.
¡Hola!
I'm listening to Helen Thomas on the SFGate podcast... I'll get the link.
i can move tales of Roman porn up here?
but i don't want to make this nice fresh thread filthy yet 
CHI DYKE! WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?
Help, a bunch of us are being held captive on a dead thread. Can anyone throw them a lifeline (Like give me an address for this Haloscam thingie.)
Helen Thomas at SFGate...
I predict a defensive battle:
Hawks - 4
Steelers - 2
WalterNeff | 02.04.06 - 10:46 pm | #
Nothing but safeties? I think ABC execs would slash their wrist. Hmm, may be that'd be a good thing.
WalterNeff: Hawks - 4
Steelers - 2
I'll be damned if I'm gonna watch a 3-safety Super Bowl (touted as XL, no less!) without beer!
.
So what's up?? I've been trying to get on for the last hour, and finally got the site to load...
vicki is the sexiest woman alive, all you male fools who aren't doing her should be ashamed.
chicago dyke
Sorry. 
Vicki:
C'mon-- we want the photos!
"[OWWW!]
Uncle Smokes "
Sort of a self defeating comment.
evening, people. vicki is the sexiest woman alive, all you male fools who aren't doing her should be ashamed.
You are too kind. You are teh gorgeous.
You're photo, as beautiful as it is, doesn't do you justice, sister.
Loved your eyes.
Yay!
I couldn't care less about the Stupor Bowl.
Haven't cared about it in years.
i shall take this opportunity to wish you all good morning (its 3:44am here).
hope blogger has sorted itself out later today heh
Well, THAT was fucking annoying!
my god...i feel like shelley winters climbing out the bottom of that fucking boat
I was starting to feel like Shelley Winters in Robert Mitchum's Model T.
I don't wanna see anyone showing us Keith's nipple.
Thers, Insolent Partisan (F)
Have a little respect for the dead now, wontcha?
my god...i feel like shelley winters climbing out the bottom of that fucking boat
WoodyGuthrie'sGuitar (aka | Email | 02.04.06 - 10:46 pm | #
um, woody- she dies, in that scene. right? saves the day and then expires? i'm not sure what your association with an overweight swimming princess (movie role not woman) is at this point...
vicki is the sexiest woman alive, all you male fools who aren't doing her should be
ashamed.
chicago dyke
Agreed, but how the hell am I
supposed to do her from here
in NYC?
I mean....I'm big, but I'm not
that big....
Was that fetus fetishist on the last thread for real?
I don't even believe that it was a woman.
Sure the damned thing is fixt and I feel like sleeping. . . .
Tell me again how that creep's young daughter prevents him from joining up
I don't even believe that it was a woman.
Terry C, Coldplayer
It wasn't. I think it claimed to be a middle-aged man.
"Was that fetus fetishist on the last thread for real?
I don't even believe that it was a woman
Terry, he were very very real, but he were a man. Named Robert Kline. not the comedian, I don't really think.
Creep!
Teen Wanted in Gay Bar Rampage Is Caught
By NOAH TRISTER, Associated Press Writer
36 minutes ago
GASSVILLE, Ark. - A teenager suspected of a hatchet-and-gun attack in a Massachusetts gay bar shot and killed a small-town police officer and the teen's female passenger before he was critically wounded in a gun battle with police Saturday, authorities said.
Jacob D. Robida, 18, was shot twice in the head, and "it doesn't look good right now," said Massachusetts prosecutor Paul Walsh Jr.
Walsh said the teen shot Officer Jim Sell, 56, twice during a traffic stop in this northern Arkansas town.
About 25 miles away, Robida sped over spike strips set out by state troopers but continued to drive with two punctured tires into downtown Norfork. Robida's car then careened into several parked vehicles to avoid a police barricade.
"When he wrecked he started firing at our officer and a state police officer, and the officers returned fire," said Baxter County Sheriff John Montgomery.
The teen shot his unidentified female passenger before he was wounded in the shootout with police, Walsh said. State police wouldn't confirm Walsh's account and said ballistics tests would determine how the woman died.
Robida was taken to a Springfield, Mo., hospital, according to Arkansas State Police spokesman Bill Sadler.
Investigators had searched for Robida since Thursday's attack at Puzzles Lounge in New Bedford, Mass., that left three men wounded, one critically.
The hatchet used in the attack was found outside the bar, but detectives believed Robida still had the gun.
Police have labeled the incident a hate crime and said Robida would be charged with attempted murder, assault and civil rights violations.
One victim, who had a black eye, a five-inch gash on his right cheek and a bullet hole in his back, was released from the hospital Friday. Another victim remained hospitalized, and officials would not disclose the location of the third.
Robida was a high school dropout who friends say glorified Naziism but never expressed any specific prejudice against gays.
"This is insane," said Heather Volton, 22, of Fall River, Mass., who had known Robida for more than a year. "That kid never so much as raised his voice at me ... This is all pretty much a shock to me, like everyone else."
You're photo, as beautiful as it is, doesn't do you justice, sister.
Loved your eyes.
Vicki | Email | 02.04.06 - 10:49 pm | #
Oh great....Vicki has another
girl crush.
I don't even believe that it was a woman.
I think it was a man.
I don't even believe that it was a woman.
Terry C, Coldplayer
It wasn't. I think it claimed to be a middle-aged man.
Marcia Brady ∞
Well, whatever it was, it was clueless!
Pat Robertson told me that god struck blogspot down to punish atriots for their sins.
You have nobody to blame for the downtime but yourselves, fornicators.
Here. Enjoy some pictures.
vicki is the sexiest woman alive
And one hell of a dancer....
"So what's up?? I've been trying to get on for the last hour, and finally got the site to load...
FeralLiberal "
Well the NSA had to put the new enhanced routers and switches in place. That should have gone pretty quick, but then someone realized they forgot the cable crimps and they didn't have enough patch cords. So we have been waiting was the uber intelligence agency sent someone down to Depot for a set of crimps. When he got back, well, then they found out they didn't have enough RJ-45 connectors. So off he goes again. It jsut works out that way some days.
I hope after the invasion of Iran begins , you will all settle down and shut up and support the troops and our President. That's the least you can do for the war on terror effort. The invasion of Iran is coming so get used to it and stop bitching.
no, vicki. i mean it. you're obviously a really good lay in bed. you just exude it.
CHI DYKE! WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?
kei & yuri | Homepage | 02.04.06 - 10:47 pm | #
hey sickies: can you say "manual labor?" how about "heavy lifting" or "construction?"
it sucks to have to work for a living. someone tell me who i have to /xxx/ to blog for pay instead...
Have you noticed that the wingers aren't flogging Oil for Food any longer? Would that be because the conversation would inevitably move toward the present corruption hurricane going on in Iraq?
Terry, he were very very real, but he were a man. Named Robert Kline. not the comedian, I don't really think.
DemByDefault
Not much of a man.
No REAL man wants women to be kept barefoot and pregnant!
Hey safetys are cool.
The first ever NFL game I attended had a safety (Chiefs at Browns).
My prdiction for The Big Game Extra Large:
Steelers 47
Squawks 13
Ditka 198
I've had to watch Jason and the Argonauts and no liveblogging. Anyone else have issues getting into the site?
Has anyone else ever noticed the physical resemblance between Robertson and JoMo? Same shit-eating grin, same weird kind of whiny voice, same eyes...
firefighter ollie | 02.04.06 - 10:53 pm |
That's nice, dear.
Now run along and play in traffic.
Oh great....Vicki has another
girl crush.
steve simels
===
Don't listen to him girls. He (and every other man here) loves it.
It seems as if being a movie star awards presenter entitles you to lots of free stuff (if Hillary Swank doesn't want the NZ trip I'll take it):
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/
pri...77a1860,00.html
I've had to watch Jason and the Argonauts and no liveblogging. Anyone else have issues getting into the site?
Sallyh, Madame Poissonniere
For a couple of hours.
So I watched "Citizen Kane" and "Mildred Pierce" on demand and then went out to have my Saturday night dinner with my daughter.
firefighter ollie, I sure as hell wish the crew in charge was fucking competent enough to do it....
...but they're not.
And for those going into Curly withdrawal, go to homepage... my last post is gone, though.
.
Sallyh, all of us did.
Watertiger--don't you wish you'd stayed?
Don't you wish you had the means to stay?
Have you noticed that the wingers aren't flogging Oil for Food any longer?
wrapper
Too busy flogging their logs?
Anyone else have issues getting into the site?
Sallyh, Madame Poissonniere
It's been punky for a couple of days at least.
Oh great....Vicki has another
girl crush.
steve simels
It truly was a pleasure meeting you, Chicago Dyke. You are amazingly well spoken, and just as articulate and insightful in person as you are on the blog.
But the fun was drinking wine with you and getting to meet you in person.
What a treat! It was a great time!
And pie is as beautiful and as passionate as I'd imagined. Very, very cool experience.
I feel like I've bonded again with another set of people I've met here at Eschaton!
It really was awesome! Sister of Ye and filkertom are, as you know, awesome, intelligent folks as well. G
It was great.
sallyh,
yes and yes.
btw, our catamaran was called "Sally Forth"!
I've had to watch Jason and the Argonauts and no liveblogging. Anyone else
have issues getting into the site?
Sallyh, Madame Poissonniere
Didn't it suck?
And not just the issues....
Chi Dy!
Where you been?
Here. Enjoy some pictures.
watertiger
==
That's it. If I turn up missing, you know where to look first.
Jeffraham--if you're not watching Scifi right now, you're missing the girl that played the Vulcan chick in 'Enterprise.'
"support the troops and our President."
Those are two mutually exclusive positions. But I wish you and your unit good luck (as I'm sure a big brave troo-beleever like you has signed up already), cause you'll be doing this pretty much on your own. The rest of the army is still trying to clean up that Halfwit's mess in Iraq and the business the Little Fucking Moron left unfinished in Afgahnistan.
Blogger's been down all freaking day!! And not just no posting, but no access to any blogspot sites!
What the hell?
btw, our catamaran was called "Sally Forth"!
Shouldn't there have been some Friday Catamaranblogging? Or did I miss it?
Terry C--they don't have logs, they've got twigs.
Don't listen to him girls. He (and every other man here) loves it.
Not me...
And what the hell is up with my wife redoing the settings on my computer?
"I've had to watch Jason and the Argonaut"
"had to"? I clicked through it. That was quite a mullet the ancient Greek was sporting.
And one hell of a dancer....
FeralLiberal
he jests, you all! He should know, he danced with me in Philadelphia.
Iran = Losing the War on Turra, Part II
"And what the hell is up with my wife redoing the settings on my computer?
rorschach"
Who is tech support in your household?
"had to"? I clicked through it. That was quite a mullet the ancient Greek was sporting.
I appreciated the additional versimilitude provided by having an actor *named* Jason playing the title role.
Great pics watertiger
Hey! I love Jason and the Argonauts... the 1963 version.
RIP Betty Friedan, by the way.
May her mystique live on long beyond her!
Eli--are you Scifi'g it?
Lotsa bad wigs, for certain.
New thread on State level proclomations on impeachment: States don't have the baggage the Congress does -- Getting around the RNC controlled Congress, giving voters 9 months to digest the results: Does Congress support the President's rebellion or do they Assert the rule of law?
http://dakotatoday.typepad.com/
d...itutional_.html
State level debates -- in all 50 states -- shifts the debate from whether Congress does or does not act; to whether the voters will believe their elected officials will assert the rule of law.
What the hell?
Well, the blogger status page helpfully explains thusly:
Blogspot is again experiencing problems - we are investigating.
I guess doubleplus superduper major apologies will be offered tomorrow.
Don't listen to him girls. He (and every other man here) loves it.
mena
Ahem.
Sallyh: Jeffraham--if you're not watching Scifi right now, you're missing the girl that played the Vulcan chick in 'Enterprise.'
Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jo-LEEEEEEENE!
Alas, the ears of a rabbit do not grok the SciFi.
.
It is February 4th. I have the windows open. The end times are upon us.
Hi Chicago, long time. What kind of construction are you working on?
fuck boosh. and fuck blogger. same half dozen and six of the other as far as i'm concerned.
i'm so sorry i've been away so much. really. i suppose i'm not the first person here to say, "fuck, i'm really too tired to blog this...month." cause that's what it's been. i went to A2 miniescachon for the break. thank the goddess i had that. hopefully, a couple more weeks will do it. but really: working for a living- hard core.
Is Jason *supposed* to look half-asleep throughout his entire adventure?
Terry C--they don't have logs, they've got twigs.
Sallyh, Madame Poissonniere
That's probably why they hate us ladies so much.
(Hey, the smiley thing is working again!)
Evening 'bats.
Blogger down bad.
Was so afraid.
Was like a virtual blackout: I lit all my candles and ate all my ice cream before it all melted.
Well Jason did have the Doctor from BSG in it.
Rorschach--I was sad when I heard that today. Her influence lives on, and I'm sure it saddens her that so much has yet to be won.
I appreciated the additional versimilitude provided by having an actor *named* Jason playing the title role.
Maybe it was like changing Tony Danza's character's name to Tony on Taxi. They were afraid he was too dumb to respond to "Phil" on camera.
"And what the hell is up with my wife redoing the settings on my computer?
rorschach"
Who is tech support in your household?
EkCenTriK | 02.04.06 - 10:59 pm | #
Gramsci.
I need to dock his wages.
Hey! I love Jason and the Argonauts... the 1963 version.
Darryl Pearce | Email | Homepage | 02.04.06 - 11:00 pm | #
Ray Harryhausen rules!!!!!
Seriously...
And so we are now going to fight with Iran. Why don't we just fight with Texas and Alabama and forget it?
Eli--are you Scifi'g it?
Well, I'm watching it, but it's a little late for liveblogging, probably.
INQUIRING MINDS WANT TO KNOW:
Since both Tweety and Timmeh have fat heads, is there a relationship between fat heads and people that are republican stooge, incompetent pundits?
.
chicago dyke | Email | Homepage | 02.04.06 - 10:50 pm
trapped seemingly forever in a capsized thread, crawling endlessly upward in the wrong direction...
mebbbee it was ernest borgnine?
Do *not* let Dennis Hopper hug you!
he jests, you all!
Jests Nothing! A good time was had by all...that's what counts!
Ahem.
Uncle Smokes
==
D'oh!!
*slinking away*
Hi ChiDyke.
The last bit of "North by Northwest" on PBS.
Mmmm.
DWD--only if we can get our good friends in those places out first.
Hey! I love Jason and the Argonauts... the 1963 version.
Darryl Pearce
One of my all-time favorites. Ray Harryhausen special effects.
=============================
RIP Betty Friedan, by the way.
May her mystique live on long beyond her!
rorschach
The Feminine Mystique was my bible back in the 1970s.
We will NOT be dragged back!
Okay..., popcorn is done. I'm watching "The Third Man."
G'night!
Driftglass--Monsieur and I actually had to sit down and drink wine...without our laptops!
Lending new meaning to being boarded.
Cool, just posted on Rorschach's site and saw my gravatar for the first time this year.
Do *not* let Dennis Hopper hug you!
Well that message got to me just in time. He's at my front door, collecting money for that right wing movie fest.
BTW, I was very disappointed to learn that Gary Sinise has gone to the Dark Side. Harry Truman would smack him stupid.
The Sci-Fi Jason
is one of their worst ever.
Does Frank Langella really need
the work?
Sheesh.
Since both Tweety and Timmeh have fat heads, is there a relationship between fat heads and people that are republican stooge, incompetent pundits?
.
IQMWTK
There has to be.
Look at Rush Limpdick - who Howard Stern refers to as a "big pumpkin-headed mother fucker."
I'm so jealous of you watertiger. I went on a trip like that years ago and it was one of the best vacations ever.
Terry C, Coldplayer,
That whole thing is just so disturbing in so many ways.
Just remembered. Looked up Al Lewis on IMDB. according to his entry, he had a PHD in Child Psych and taught school, wrote a couple of kids books before going into acting. And that was after he worked in the Circus.
Watertiger--aww!
Okay..., popcorn is done. I'm watching "The Third Man."
G'night!
Darryl Pearce
That zither score will stay in your head for days.
Does Frank Langella really need
the work?
Sheesh.
Did he play Zeus?
It is February 4th
It's 2/4/6.
btw, our catamaran was called "Sally Forth"!
watertiger | Email | Homepage | 02.04.06 - 10:57 pm | #
I think I'd prefer the catamaran "calvin and hobbes"
Driftglass--Monsieur and I actually had to sit down and drink wine...without our laptops!
I took the opportunity to *finally* finish processing my NYC photos and play a little Madden on the PSP...
And boy did that Hera-Zeus plotline really not add anything to that movie...
And so we are now going to fight with Iran. Why don't we just fight with Texas and Alabama and forget it?
DWD - Challenged
Well, the Pentagon wants to have secret troops in place in dozens of nations, so our options will be open...
I'm sure you all have heard by now that the pentagon is renaming this whole thing The Long War (!?!?!?!?!?)
Jests Nothing! A good time was had by all...that's what counts!
FeralLiberal
It was a wonderful night. Yes, it was!
This afternoon was warm like that, too.
Can we find some way to keep this
thread going for the next few
days?
Because I'm terribly afraid Atrios
(or threadbot) will put a new
one up and I won't be able to
access it until March.
Sallyh, they are welcome at my place - we sort of have a nice night tonight. Blowing snow with high winds. But I guess Detroit is being hammered. (God, I am a radical enough to laugh like hell at that.)
Does Frank Langella really need
the work?
Sheesh.
Did he play Zeus?
DemByDefault
He's playing Perry White in the new Superman movie.
Kevin Spacey's playing Lex Luthor.
Now on Sci Fi "Riverworld". I hope this has nothing to do with Phillip Jose Farmer?
Ray Harryhausen rules!!!!!
I've got an Ymir model sitting on my desk at work...
http://www.linkandpinhobbies.com...ics/
x_8ymir.jpg
So what's the word on SciFi's "Riverworld"?
Worth it? A travesty of the book?
Now on Sci Fi "Riverworld". I hope this has nothing to do with Phillip Jose Farmer?
Learn to live with disappointment.
Damn.
Blogger: FIERY WRECK!
"Why don't we just fight with Texas and Alabama and forget it?
DWD - Challenged"
Um hey, it is tough enough being behind enemy lines, let's not push the active combat thing too far eh?
Rorschach, That bit of news greeted my day. . . .
At least it wasn't the Family Circus.
(just pic)
Terry C, Coldplayer,
That whole thing is just so disturbing in so many ways.
joycamp, half man, half bonobo
Which one?
I'm sure you all have heard by now that the pentagon is renaming this whole thing The Long War (!?!?!?!?!?)
rorschach
==
Christ. I hadn't heard. They really do think it's a done deal, their permanence, don't they? Shit.
DWD--I have a guest room with a comfy bed, a sofa, three sleeping bags, lots of food and drinks, and a widescreen TV. We'd manage.
The Feminine Mystique was my bible back in the 1970s.
We will NOT be dragged back!
Terry C, Coldplayer | 02.04.06 - 11:02 pm | #
Obviously you're an optimist.
back up and running I see, this is good.
Sallyh,
It was sad. I curled up under my kitchen tables and cried and cried and waited for the end to come.
Then I realised the lights were on, and my cat was biting my toe, so I poured myself an Oban and watched Hitchcock instead.
Blogger: FIERY WRECK!
Heeheehee, piece o'crap...
So how long before the cretins begin howling about "Feminazi" Betty Friedan?
Driftglass--Monsieur and I had to make fun of the movie all by ourselves!
Learn to live with disappointment.
To quote Ozzy Osbourne:
"Oh God please no!"
We will NOT be dragged back!
Terry C, Coldplayer | 02.04.06 - 11:02 pm | #
Obviously you're an optimist.
steve simels
I'm someone who plans to fight tooth and nail.
Isn't it a shame that they're going to interrupt the commercials and the half time show with the superbowl? WTF?
I've got an Ymir model sitting on my desk at work...
http://www.linkandpinhobbies.com...ics/ x_8ymir.jpg
Richard | Email | 02.04.06 - 11:06 pm | #
Way cool.
That's my favorite of his creatures.
Especially when it's small...it
seems so totally real....
Hmmm...
It's either "Riverworld"
or "But I'm a Cheerleader."
Tough call... Suggestions?
Rorschach--they really think they're never leaving office, don't they?
So how long before the cretins begin howling about "Feminazi" Betty Friedan?
res ipsa loquitur
Don't give the cunts any ideas.
Blogger appears to have been megafucked today
So how long before the cretins begin howling about "Feminazi" Betty Friedan?
First thing Monday morning I'm sure. And someone will say something offensive on the Sunday shows.
So how long before the cretins begin howling about "Feminazi" Betty Friedan?
I am sure Kate O'Beirne has already sharpened her crayons.
Gramsci.
I need to dock his wages.
rorschach | Homepage | 02.04.06 - 11:01 pm | #
No catnip for you!
Rorschach--you'll enjoy 'But I'm a Cheerleader.'
Meanwhile the cost of the overall "war on terror" - relabelled The Long War in the Pentagon - is already close to half a trillion dollars, and will soon equal that of the 13-year Vietnam war.
New graphics for all the wargasming petrosexual television shows!
It was sad. I curled up under my kitchen tables and cried and cried and waited for the end to come.
It could have been worse, some of us were trapped in a threat with a fetus fetishist for 4 hours.
So what's the word on SciFi's "Riverworld"?
Worth it? A travesty of the book?
Mediocre TV movie. Pretty much par for the Sci-Fi course - in terms of respectable TV movies, not the Sci-Fi Saturday hilarity.
I just watched "Crash."
It was a ripoff of "Magnolia."
It was ohhhhhh so earnest.
Learn to live with disappointment.
Pickles Bush's lifelong mantra.
They did a PBS special about the old Coney Island and Al Lewis was one of the people who used to lure people into the sideshows. He was quite funny and talked about the techniques they would use to get people's attention.
Mike--I think if you go to Adbusters, you can see the commercials without worrying about the plays (membership required).
I am sure Kate O'Beirne has already sharpened her crayons.
That Nazi harpy isn't fit to wipe Betty Friedan's boots.
wow, i'm tired.
So what's the word on SciFi's "Riverworld"?
Worth it? A travesty of the book?
rorschach | Homepage | 02.04.06 - 11:06 pm | #
sci-fi channel version? crap. total crap. read wolfe, vinge, simmons, or butler instead of watching that tripe. and it was...utter tripe.
sorry. i love hpf. to see his good work mangled like that...it made me shudder.
i think i have to sleep now kids. g'nite.
I'm sure you all have heard by now that the pentagon is renaming this whole thing The Long War (!?!?!?!?!?)
Sounds familiar...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nin...ty-
Four#The_war
The world of Nineteen Eighty-Four is built around an endless war involving the three global superstates, with two allied powers fighting against the third. The allied states occasionally split with each other and new alliances are formed, but as Goldstein's book explains, this does not matter, as each superstate is so strong it cannot be defeated even when faced with the combined forces of the other two powers. The war rarely takes place on the territory of the three powers, and actual fighting is conducted in the disputed zone stretching from Morocco to Australia, and in the unpopulated Arctic wastes. Throughout the first half of the novel, Oceania is allied with Eastasia, and Oceania's forces are engaged with fighting Eurasian troops in northern Africa. Mid-way through the novel, the alliance breaks apart and Oceania, newly allied with Eurasia, begins a campaign against Eastasian forces in India. During "Hate Week" (a week of extreme focus on the evilness of Oceania's enemies), Oceania and Eurasia are enemies once again. The public is quite blind to the change, and when a speaker, mid-sentence, changes the enemy from Eurasia to Eastasia (speaking as if nothing had changed) the people are shocked as they notice all the flags and banners are wrong (they blame Goldstein and the Brotherhood) and quite effectively tear them down.
The book which Winston receives explains that the war cannot be won, and that its only purpose is to destroy the produce of human labour and maintain a constant death toll, thus keeping the totalitarian society intact. The book also details an Oceanian strategy to attack enemy cities with atomic-tipped rocket bombs prior to a full-scale invasion, but quickly dismisses this plan as both infeasible and contrary to the purpose of the war. Although, according to Goldstein's book, hundreds of atomic bombs were dropped on cities during the 1950s, they are no longer used by the three powers as they would upset the balance of power. Conventional military technology is little different from that used in the Second World War. Some advances have been made, such as replacing bomber aircraft with "rocket bombs", and using immense "floating fortresses" instead of battleships, but such advances appear to be few and far between. As the purpose of the war is to destroy manufactured products and thus keep the workers busy, obsolete and wasteful technology is deliberately used in order to perpetuate useless fighting.
Blogger: FIERY WRECK!
Hah!
Old Man--glad to hear you didn't slit your throat. Or probably his.
It could have been worse, some of us were trapped in a threat with a fetus fetishist for 4 hours.
Like being trapped in an elevator with him, wasn't it.
We will NOT be dragged back!
Terry C, Coldplayer | 02.04.06 - 11:02 pm | #
Obviously you're an optimist.
steve simels
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Nah, that's just a fact. The primitives may think they can lock us all back up, but they are in for a very rude awakening when they come for us.
So how long before the cretins begin howling about "Feminazi" Betty Friedan?
res ipsa loquitur | 02.04.06 - 11:09 pm | #
What is it, Saturday? A little
after eleven....
So how long before the cretins begin howling about "Feminazi" Betty Friedan?
I'm sure her death brought a lump to Ann Colter's throat...
Curly if feeling quite squirrely, at the mo'. Excuse me while I break out the light sabre (er, laser pointer)...
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So how long before the cretins begin howling about "Feminazi" Betty Friedan?
First thing Monday morning I'm sure. And someone will say something offensive on the Sunday shows.
DemByDefault
So how long before the cretins begin howling about "Feminazi" Betty Friedan?
I am sure Kate O'Beirne has already sharpened her crayons.
spinoza
They can all rot in hell.
Why not just get it over with & call it the "The Eternal War" and declare Marshal Law?
Rorschach--they really think they're never leaving office, don't they?
Sallyh, Madame Poissonniere
True, that.
And I have seen "Cheerleader" a few times, and LOVE it!
Haven't seen "Riverworld" though, and liked the books years ago, so I guess I'll give it a whirl.
Oh, the travails of the sci-fi-bi.
I'm sure you all have heard by now that the pentagon is renaming this whole thing The Long War (!?!?!?!?!?)
rorschach
I guess The Hundred Years War was taken.
On a more positive note, I made some guacamole this evening. Ate it with lightly salted blue corn chips. It was very good if I do say so myself.
And yes: I use cilantro.
I'm sure her death brought a lump to Ann Colter's throat...
Don't worry. She will get that one shaved too.
Nah, that's just a fact. The primitives may think they can lock us all back up, but they are in for a very rude awakening when they come for us.
mena
Word! 
Rorschach--seriously, Riverworld's a timewaster, and not in a good way. And this is me, someone who really isn't confined by such limiting factors as taste.
It was sad. I curled up under my kitchen tables and cried and cried and waited for the end to come.
Okay, now it's ...
Haloscan: FIERY WRECK!
It was sad. I curled up under my kitchen tables and cried and cried and waited for the end to come.
Don't be skeert, drifty.
I'm sure her death brought a lump to Ann Coulter's throat...
I thought that was that Adam's Apple of hers.
I'm sure her death brought a lump to Ann Colter's throat...
Don't worry. She will get that one shaved too.
Spinoza
many many of the laughing smiley faces that I don't know how to make...
That Nazi harpy isn't fit to wipe Betty Friedan's boots.
res ipsa loquitur | 02.04.06 - 11:12 pm | #
She isn't fit to wipe the you
know what off my you know what.
I actually hate her more than
Our Lady of the Dolphins.
sci-fi channel version? crap. total crap. read wolfe, vinge, simmons, or butler instead of watching that tripe. and it was...utter tripe.
Also Dick, Ellison, Bradbury and Bester.
Just sayin'.
It was sad. I curled up under my kitchen tables and cried and cried and waited for the end to come.
res ipsa loquitur
You DIDN'T read "My Pet Goat", did you?
It could have been worse, some of us were trapped in a threat with a fetus fetishist for 4 hours.
The Old Man From Scene 24
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Ding dang dong dung, ding dang dong dung.
Unka Smokes, help me out here.
Res--that does sound quite nice and tasty. I'm about to bake a carrot cake.
I actually hate her more than
Our Lady of the Dolphins
That's cause Kate's just nasty, none of the delusional dreamy comedy you get from The Nooner.
It could have been worse, some of us were trapped in a threat with a fetus fetishist for 4 hours.
What a loser THAT one was!
this is me, someone who really isn't confined by such limiting factors as taste
I beg to differ, o thou of the marvelous desserts...
Thanks, Sallyh.
Res--that does sound quite nice and tasty. I'm about to bake a carrot cake.
That's my fave, sallyh. Cream cheese frosting?
Prince is on Saturday Night Live? Where the heck has Prince been?
Old Man--glad to hear you didn't slit your throat. Or probably his.
It was made bearable by Moonbootica telling us Roman Porn Stories.
Ditka: 72
Manimals: 6 (only because a call got reversed on appeal)
Too bad the ref wasn't named Ditka.
Unka Smokes, help me out here.
mena
Here ya go.
Oil for food got dropped like a Danish cartoon once it was realized that the richest payoffs were coming from an Aussie firm, awkward for Chimpy's Antipodean GWOT allies.
Prince is on Saturday Night Live? Where the heck has Prince been?
Lake Minnetonka.
MARTIAL Law.
And, Ursula K LeGuin was so unhappy with the SciFi version of her Earthsea cycle that she wrote hate pieces on her site. Miyazaki is doing a much more promising version, though!
Heck! Is hard to understand Mr. Dubya. No? Anyone know what 'Curage' is? It's something to eat no?
Well? Me? I'm not that smart and it's hard for me to tell when De Bossman is breaking the law. So how can The Plantation Owner Who Knows Jesus on a first name basis ever be wrong? I don't get it. What's the russ, I mean fuss, all about?
Oh shitte! I better enjoy de Stupor Bowl! That pinche gringo Dubya has got me in some fix! I gotta take on both Snarlin Arlene and The Cheesehead come early on monday morning!
A little dab a do me! The one thing I need is a good hair day!
MURICA'S TOP COP
Res--it wouldn't be carrot cake without it.
Don't be skeert, drifty.
I weren't skeert, darlin', once the wise words of the Beatles came back to me:
What do you see when you turn out the light?
I can't tell you but I know its mine.
hehehe
I'm sure you all have heard by now that the pentagon is renaming this whole thing The Long War (!?!?!?!?!?)
rorschach
Whatever happened to the Global Struggle Against Violent Extremism or whatever the fuck it was?
Ahhh, why do I even ask? They can all blow me.
Seriously.
I'm sure you all have heard by now that the pentagon is renaming this whole thing The Long War (!?!?!?!?!?)
rorschach
I guess The Hundred Years War was taken.
"The Long War" is taken too. That was the name of the stategy the IRA adopted in the 1970s for their "war" of attrition.
Great name to pick now for a war "on" terrorism. Deft as usual, these administration dingbats.
sci-fi channel version? crap. total crap. read wolfe, vinge, simmons, or butler instead of watching that tripe. and it was...utter tripe.
Also Dick, Ellison, Bradbury and Bester.
I always read while watching TV anyway (Damon Knight just at the moment).
Anyway, "But I'm a Cheerleader" it is.
So how long before the cretins begin howling about "Feminazi" Betty Friedan?
res ipsa loquitur | 02.04.06 - 11:09 pm | #
What is it, Saturday? A little
after eleven....
steve simels | Email | 02.04.06 - 11:12 pm | #
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So how long before the cretins begin howling about "Feminazi" Betty Friedan?
I'm sure her death brought a lump to Ann Colter's throat...
FeralLiberal | Email | 02.04.06 - 11:13 pm | #
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I love you guys.
"Mr. Wild declined to be interviewed. Mr. Deutsch did not respond to e-mail or phone messages. On Friday evening, repeated queries were made to the White House about how a young presidential appointee with no science background came to be supervising Web presentations on cosmology and interview requests to senior NASA scientists."
In another time in our history, say less than a decade ago, this would actually be a big deal, but alas, it is not nutty enough.
The Republican outrages are so outrageous on a near daily basis that things like this don't measure up.
Where the heck has Prince been?
He has a new album with a video directed by Salma Hayek. But: not fucking underage boys, that's where.
MARTIAL Law.
No I meant Law according to people named "Marshal".
Betty Friedan dead-the owls cry.
Michelle Malkin was selected to the Pro Blog.
as a Defensive Whiner.
Syd--I'm spitting nails over this one. The entire regime seems determined to dump us back in the 14th century. Who knows, we'll open alchemy shops and have astrologers talking about how everything revolves around the earth! We can bleed people when they're ill! We should accept diseases because they're 'God's will'!
Okay, I'll shut up now. If I keep going, my fury will get the worst of me and I'll never stop.
BTW, George Deutch is an even bigger wanker than we originally thought.
What about Marital Law?
"Mr. Wild declined to be interviewed. Mr. Deutsch did not respond to e-mail or phone messages. On Friday evening, repeated queries were made to the White House about how a young presidential appointee with no science background came to be supervising Web presentations on cosmology and interview requests to senior NASA scientists."
Nice catch Syd Barrett. This is an update from this am?
"But: not fucking underage boys, that's where."
Huh?
The radio is playing Michelle Shocked's Anchored down in Anchorage. Beautiful song. She 'found Christ' and she hates Bush. Makes for some explosive rhetoric.
I love you guys.
Back at ya mena
{{{}}}!!!
I for one will welcome Martian law.
What about Marital Law?
Thers, Insolent Partisan (F)
Draconian.
Why does the "Roman Citizen" speak perfect English with an upper class British accent?
Rorschach--they really think they're never leaving office, don't they?
Sallyh, Madame Poissonniere
i'm beginning to think they may be right.
long war my ass.
this never was a war until asshole invaded iraq.
it's a holy war now.
"The Long War" is taken too. That was the name of the stategy the IRA adopted in the 1970s for their "war" of attrition.
Great name to pick now for a war "on" terrorism. Deft as usual, these administration dingbats.
Thers
Wow.
Can they get nothing right?
It's like "Operation Enduring Freedom," for which Chomsky pointed out the ambiguity: To "endure" also means to "suffer," and there's plenty of people around the world who've endured our freedom for quite a while.
[Don't forget that after Bush referred to a "crusade," the PR people freaked, and so the professional namers tried "Infinite Justice." The PR people were quick to point out that it made us sound like divinity.]
"I want to get a job as someone who names kitchen appliances. Toaster, refrigerator, blender....all you do is say what the shit does, and add 'er.' I wanna work for the Kitchen Appliance Naming Institute. Hey, what does that do? It keeps shit fresh. Well that's a 'Fresher.' I'm going on break."
-- Mitch Hedberg
From Chapter 2 of the Feminine Mystique
In the early 1960's McCall'shas been the fastest growing of the women's magazines. Its contents are a fairly accurate representation of the image of the American woman presented, and in part created, by the large-circulation magazines. Here are the complete editorial contents of a typical issue of McCall's(July 1960):
1. A lead article on "increasing baldness in women." caused by too much brushing and dyeing.
2. A long poem in primer-size type about a child, called "A Boy Is A Boy."
3. A short story about how a teenager who doesn't go to college gets a man away from a bright college girl.
4. A short story about the minute sensations of a baby throwing his bottle out of the crib.
5. The first of a two-part intimate "up-to-date" account by the Duke of Windsor on "How the Duchess and I now live and spend our time. The influence of clothes on me and vice versa."
6. A short story about a nineteen-year-old girl sent to a charm school to learn how to bat her eyelashes and lose at tennis. ("You're nineteen, and by normal American standards, I now am entitled to have you taken off my hands, legally and financially, by some beardless youth who will spirit you away to a one-and-a-half-room apartment in the Village while he learns the chicanery of selling bonds. And no beardless youth is going to do that as long as you volley to his backhand.")
7. The story of a honeymoon couple commuting between separate bedrooms after an argument over gambling at Las Vegas.
8. An article on "how to overcome an inferiority complex."
9. A story called "Wedding Day."
10. The story of a teenager's mother who leerns how to dance rock-and-roll.
11. Six pages of glamorous pictures of models in maternity clothes.
12. Four glamorous pages on "reduce the way the models do."
13. An article on airline delays.
14. Patterns for home sewing.
15. Patterns with which to make "Folding Screens--Bewitching Magic."
16. An article called "An Encyclopedic Approach to Finding a Second Husband."
17. A "barbecue bonanza," dedicated "to the Great American Mister who stands, chef's cap on head, fork in hand, on terrace or back porch, in patio or backyard anywhere in the land, watching his roast turning on the spit. And to his wife wit without whom (sometimes) the barbecue could never be the smashing summer success it undoubtedly is . . ."
Okay, I'll shut up now. If I keep going, my fury will get the worst of me and I'll never stop.
Sallyh, Madame Poissonniere
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We'll have to get a physician to prescribe a course of leeches.
It's an unholy occupation. And will Iraq implode in time for the U.S. to move its troops over into Iran, or does the regime just "plan" to blow Iran the fuck up with nukes?
Wasn't one of the Chinese programs called the Long March or such?
The Long War sounds similar.
When do we get our USA certified volks clothing?
Who knows, we'll open alchemy shops and have astrologers talking about how everything revolves around the earth! We can bleed people when they're ill!
Sallyh
that seems kinda cool, like visiting Ye Olde Williamsburg. maybe fascism won't be so bad after all.
Washington Post reports new Bush budget will shrink most parts of the government unrelated to the nation's security while slowing spending on Medicare by $36 billion during the next five years. This will make you liberals apoplectic but it's the right thing to do.
I for one will welcome Martian law.
Sallyh, Madame Poissonniere | Email | Homepage | 02.04.06 - 11:23 pm | #
The TV version with Rock Hudson
totally sucked.
Just saying.
Ollie
When and where does your unit deploy?
(I'm talking about your military career, not what you do with the doll when your mom's at the neighbors' playing canasta)
"The TV version with Rock Hudson
totally sucked."
Oh comon, I liked that, it was retro.
or does the regime just "plan" to blow Iran the fuck up with nukes?
masculine_monica_nyc
i think that's the plan.
heard it on Fox. they aren't too good on news, but when you want to know the next move...
This will make you liberals apoplectic but it's the right thing to do.
Yeah got to pay for the tax-cuts for "firefighters" somehow. Of course money spent on higher education is wasted. Faith based engineering and medicine is so much more effective than the expensive kind.
Ray Bradbury hates Martian Law
The owls wear orange jumpsuits.
What is it with owls? I missed that segment somewhere.
Ray Bradbury hates Martian Law
WalterNeff
But Martians love Marshall Crenshaw.
MOre on George Deutch, Christo-fascist wanker.
MOre on George Deutch, Christo-fascist wanker.
One thing we couldn't get past in To Your Scattered Bodies Go is the really, really painfully clumsy Jewying. It was written during the coming out period, a time when even Europeans dug the Zionist story line of the picked-on kid finally beating off the cowardly bullies, and when American Jews enthusiastically applied all kinds of stereotypes and caricatures as impenetrable as Zero Mostel imself. So TYSBG has this "new" Israeli Aryan explained to CaptSirRFB how the "old" Diaspora Jew nebbish is an imbicile who can't do anything because of his Separation from Heimat, it has that really tiresome "everyone's an anti-semite, especially anyone who tires to defend himself in any way from the charge" garbage, it was like that Rugrats treatment of the Passover story if anyone's seen that. So we're not crazy about seeing how SciFi dealt with that.
You know, while Atrios is so busy throwing up posts, he could take the time to give us some Wiley and Gizmo...
EkCenTrik--Harry Potter reference.
This will make you liberals apoplectic but it's the right thing to do.
firefighter ollie
Allen, what pleasure does it give you to post things you don't even believe?
I could understand if you were actually trying to being funny, but trolling for the sake of trolling just seems psychotic to me.
all of blogspot seems to be back up except for my site.
I blogged this just before the whole thing went kablooey. Trying to not be paranoid here, but....
http://www.presstelegram.com/sea...arch/
ci_3470080
Please pass the link along before more websites crash. It is a story on how Haliburton has received funding to begin building detention camps. Thank you.
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