HULK SMASHED
(Take THAT, Kenosha Kid!)
Damn you, pie!
/shakes fist at pie
Very satisfying.
Off to work. Have a good one.
Whoops. Sorry, res. 
I still think goopers will prefer him to Eddie Haskell Romney and Major Kong McCain
as for the plunger...no way
and that leaves them with Hucksterbee the used government salesman
they like Bob Dole and they will like Fred too
It's not like he was fucking Laurence Olivier on teevee, either. It was stunt casting, like when they cast Fran Lebowitz as a judge on "L&O." Thompson must be buddies with Dick Wolfe or something.
Bears repeating because it's on point (for once):
Give me back my turkey baster, you little brat!
Damn, deadthreaded again!
Repost from earlier this morning:
JK Rowling Outs Dumbledore As Gay
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/enter...ent/ 7053982.stm
(as plantsman said, no surprise there.)
and actors are not writers.
ProfWombat,
That Robbins thing is funny, right? Or am I just in a silly mood. "His way of going Gentile into the good night ..."
and actors are not writers.
Take THAT, Zach Braff!
and actors are not writers.
And "To" is not "From" (as the res siblings like to say).
Not like Thompson was making promises about prosecuting the offenders (like the Baby Bells illegally assisting the Busheviks)
thompson?
whiskey tango foxtrot
he gets more fucking press than clinton's blowjob and still manages to shoot himself in the foot by opening his mouth
TIGER
LOOKING VERY CUTE
**********
Speaking of writers, I picked up a new client yesterday who used to write for WKRP.
He didn't write the turkey drop scene, though. I asked him - he said that's the first thing everyone asks him.
"He didn't look good," said Ronald Sell, 63, a musician from New York City.
What do musicians know who play in NYC subways?
Some of the dialogue on "L&O" is terrible. There are points where they ought to put a caption up that says, "EXPOSITION" or "BOTH SIDES OF CONTROVERSY EXPLAINED".
Fucking Thompson and co-wingnut Angie Harmon on that show. Blech.
i have to say - dressing your kids like they're characters from Laura Ingalls Wilder novels is a dead giveaway that something's not right.
res: the author was thoroughly enjoying himself, and I did, too, as I read it. Not much sympathy for Robbins, who gave every appearance of having sold his soul to the marketplace and not given a shit. It's hard to make, say, Mickey Spillane look like Montaigne.
BTW, it wasn't long ago that Newsweek ran this story on Thompson, and put him on its cover, with the title, 'Lazy Like a Fox'; at that point, he was the Republicans' Great White Hope. There's no better evidence for Republican impoverishment than Thompson being an object of desire...
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bi...+2007,+11:
19+AM
The man is an avatar of a perfect GOP presidential candidate. He'll keep asking for 'line' through every cabinet meeting, and someone will be there to give it to him.
i have to say - dressing your kids like they're characters from Laura Ingalls Wilder novels is a dead giveaway that something's not right.
watertiger
Someone needs to tell the Duggars.
What do musicians know who play in NYC subways?
What "cacaphony" sounds like?
It was stunt casting.
"Hey wouldn't it be cool to cast a guy who could never be elected DA to as the Manhattan DA???"
"That will blow people's minds!!"
TIGER
LOOKING VERY CUTE
**********
Culture of TrÜth
Awwww! Got two tabbies myself.
Sam & Amelia. They're cute, too.
Did I mention it snowed here last night?
grrrrrr
thompson: you CAN be that fucking stupid and be elected senator...this is why we get such bad governance: elect those who 'feel' the best (read 'feel' as those who fool the most moron voters)
dressing your kids like they're characters from Laura Ingalls Wilder novels is a dead giveaway that something's not right.
The picture does have a sort of Gothic JonBenet Ramsay creepiness about it.
Well, you are in the Austrian Alps, no?
"Who will tell Fred Thomspson his campaign
is dead, and when will he tell it?"
Jennifer, Some day - though heaven knows the benefits of obscurity are so wonderful - I would love to escape being a small publishing house writer. Are you telling me that you are an agent? My last agent, the Dork from New York, finally quit me after doing nothing but praising me about eight years ago.
I am currently agentless but with two well-received books from a small house.
Someone needs to tell the Duggars.
Well, that's a whole 'nother bucket o' crazy.
I'm not an actor, I'm a movie star!
Are you telling me that you are an agent?
Heavens no. I'm a contractor. We're going to work on this guy's house - he's semi-retired here to Little Rock.
i have to say - dressing your kids like they're characters from Laura Ingalls Wilder novels is a dead giveaway that something's not right.
Did you see my comment?
What do musicians know who play in NYC subways?
Hey, some of them are excellent. In fact, you reminded me ... there are these brothers from etither Detroit or Chicago. Their dad is a famous jazz guy. They have a brass band that plays here sometimes and they are great. I am trying to find out who they are now. Not doing well on Google though.
The Ruling Class was Magnificent!
Did you see my comment?
Yup. That was my first thought - bobby socks and patent leather Mary Janes?
I'm not an actor, I'm a movie star
"I am not a number! I am a free man!"
Well, that's a whole 'nother quiver o' crazy.
Filleted your tuna.
plantsman - I saw that a few years ago. Mostly excellent, though it kind of falls apart at the end.
What do musicians know who play in NYC subways?
the peruvian pan-flute players are awesome: true yin to the city's yang
From The Guardian's report of how another WMD anti-proliferation analyst was burned--by several administrations--as the US worked behind to scenes to allow Pakistan to get The Bomb.
It was relief I read the following!
It was made clear to the new president, Bill Clinton, that US policy on Pakistan had failed. The US had provided Islamabad with a nuclear bomb and had no leverage to stop the country's leaders from using it. When he was contacted by lawyers for Barlow, Clinton was shocked both by the treatment Barlow had received, and the implications for US policy on Pakistan. He signed off $1m in compensation. But Barlow never received it as the deal had to be ratified by Congress and, falling foul of procedural hurdles, it was kicked into the Court of Federal Claims to be reviewed as Clinton left office.
When George Bush came to power, his administration quashed the case. CIA director George Tenet and Michael Hayden, director of the National Security Agency, asserted "state secrets privilege" over Barlow's entire legal claim. With no evidence to offer, the claim collapsed. Destroyed and penniless, the former CIA golden boy spent his last savings on a second-hand silver Avion trailer, packed up his life and drove off to Bear Canyon campground in Bozeman, Montana, where he still lives today.
Oh, Cheney, Wolfowitz, and some other well No surprise there.
IIRC, NPR covered this yesterday--but what about the MCM*?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
pakist...2188777,00.html
MCM--Mainstream Corporate Media
But Fred passes Tweety's "regular guy" test, even though you're unlikely to meet him in the local bar. That's gotta count for something.
What do musicians know who play in NYC subways?
Thers had a friend who quit a pretty good job to busk (I think he worked with watertiger, actually). Made more money.
ARRRRHHH, LADYBUGS!!!
In an effort to move away from chemical
insecticides, up to 720,000 ladybugs were released
at a 40-acre complex in New York City, to eat
the bugs that eat the greenery.
The Stuntman is a great film.
Swarms of ladybugs are disturbing.
the peruvian pan-flute players are awesome: true yin to the city's yang
The guys who drum on plastic buckets, on the other hand...
elect those who 'feel' the best (read 'feel' as those who fool the most moron voters)
This is what disturbs me the most about American politics. Charisma will get you places. Talent, brains, experience and common sense not necessarily.
Plantsman: yeah but it's normally no harsher as in the mid-Atlantic states, because we're protected by the mts and because of the gulf stream.
Well, that's a whole 'nother bowling alley o' crazy.
fixed yr fix
The Stuntman is a great film.
Is that the one with the guy who played Charles Manson? Steve Railsback or something?
ProfWombat:
Thomas Mann, André Gide, and Harold Robbins?
Makes sense to me.
He's just pouting because Brownbleek is more popular, and never went to acting school.
Err, pass out the free cigarettes.
Fred passes Tweety's "regular guy" test, even though you're unlikely to meet him in the local bar.
There's something about an Aqua-Velva Geezer.
Heh. Ladybugs must fly about a half-mile after release before they break dormancy and begin eating.
The Stuntman is a great film.
rootless-e
One of my all-time favorites! How tall is King Kong?
Fred passes Tweety's "regular guy" test, even though you're unlikely to meet him in the local bar.
since when are millionaires regular guys, tweety?
that's all ONE person has to publish or report to squash that corporate propaganda
I saw "The Stunt Man" recently as part of "O'Toole Fest." If the fucking temperature would ever drop below, say, seventy, I'll stay in one day and see "The Ruling Class."
since when are millionaires regular guys, tweety?
Well, he has to design the test to include himself, so....
I'll bet Tweety sends PA's to find out what cologne his guests are wearing so he can wear the same one.
Molly,
Yes, Steve Railsback plays the escaping criminal who happens onto the movie set and is enlisted as the new stunt man by the god-like director, Peter O'Toole. (Eli)
damn. I wish I could find that brass band 'o brothers. They are good. They were in Union Square the other day. Now I see other groups of black dudes trying to rip them off, but they're not as good.
Iran’s Chief Nuclear
Negotiator Resigns
Ali Larijani was to meet with a U.N. envoy Tuesday,
but a spokesman said his successor would go to Rome instead.
Well, who wouldn't??
Thanks, DWD. I remember liking that film a lot, too.
O'Toole's best line (IMHO) "If God could do what we do, he would be happy."
This is what disturbs me the most about American politics. Charisma will get you places. Talent, brains, experience and common sense not necessarily.
i'm in the wrong business
Ali Larijani was to meet with a U.N. envoy Tuesday, but a spokesman said his successor would go to Rome instead.
He needs shoes, so he's going to raid the pope's closet.
damn. I wish I could find that brass band 'o brothers. They are good.
They were in Union Square the other day.
they were there yesterday late afternoon.
This is what disturbs me the most about American politics. Charisma will get you places. Talent, brains, experience and common sense not necessarily.
If Fred had said he same thing with more style, they'd be fawning over him.
O'Toole's best line (IMHO) "If God could do what we do, he would be happy."
My favorite: "It's going to be fun."
they were there yesterday late afternoon.
Aren't they good? I was talking to one of them once in Columbus Circle. They went on a tour of Europe this summer and said they were coming back this fall. They are nice guys.
I was on the bus and theses 2 young guys were discussing street dancing. One was talking about how "pop and locking" and "breaking" are becoming passe. I thought, "Dood, I recall when break-dancers entertained President Raygun at the White House -- do you realize how long that shit has hung on?"
But did not say it.
Last night, Tweety was all atwitter about Rendell's "beefiness." Rendell looked kinda baffled and embarrassed.
It's the most wonderful time of the year
During National Character Counts Week and throughout the year, I urge all citizens to support the character development of our youth and make a difference in the lives of others. One way for all Americans to add to the character of our country is to volunteer to help a neighbor in need, and more information can be found at volunteer.gov. I encourage every American to serve a cause greater than themselves and set a positive example in their community.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim October 21 through October 27, 2007, as National Character Counts Week. I call upon public officials, educators, librarians, parents, students, and all Americans to observe this week with appropriate ceremonies, activities, and programs.
Aren't they good? I was talking to one of them once in Columbus Circle.
They went on a tour of Europe this summer and said they were coming
back this fall. They are nice guys.
They do make me smile!
OTOH, the guys on the plastic drums make me want to take a hostage.
I recall when break-dancers entertained President Raygun at the White House -- do you realize how long that shit has hung on?"
Jesus, Don Ameche (or a stunt double) was break dancing in Cocoon, and when did that movie come out?
Tweety needs to take a walk on the sproing side.
So on your wetsuits and turn your neighbors in to the police for thought crimes!
During National Character Counts Week and throughout the year, I
urge all citizens to support the character development of our youth and
make a difference in the lives of others.
"National Character Counts Week"
Oh lordy, lord. 
wt, Do you remember Sean C, who preceded our buddy Bill at your borg? He busked for a while, though I think he has a straight job now. He played the banjo.
The plastic drum guys should be renditioned to GITMO. Playing those things will make the terriss' confess STAT!
chimpy likes wood
During National Forest Products Week, we celebrate the rich blessings of our Nation's forests, and we recognize the important resources they provide to our communities and our economy.
....
NOW, THEREFORE, I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim October 21 through October 27, 2007, as National Forest Products Week. I call upon all Americans to observe this week with appropriate ceremonies and activities.
Tweety needs to take a walk on the sproing side.
It would do him a world of good, which is why he won't.
There are these twin Messican brothers who play guitar at 42nd Street a lot. They are handsome and wear leather pants. They make a LOT of dinero.
Ah, yes, how ReThugs watch out for world and US safety:
US aid to Pakistan tapered off when the Soviet Union withdrew from Afghanistan. Dejected and impoverished, in 1987 Pakistan's ruling military responded by selling its nuclear hardware and know-how for cash, something that would have been obvious to all if the intelligence had been properly analysed. "But the George HW Bush administration was not looking at Pakistan," Barlow says. "It had new crises to deal with in the Persian Gulf where Saddam Hussein had invaded Kuwait."
As the first Gulf war came to an end with no regime change in Iraq, a group of neoconservatives led by Paul Wolfowitz, Dick Cheney, Lewis "Scooter" Libby and Donald Rumsfeld were already lobbying to finish what that campaign had started and dislodge Saddam. Even as the CIA amassed evidence showing that Pakistan, a state that sponsored Islamist terrorism and made its money by selling proscribed WMD technology, was the number one threat, they earmarked Iraq as the chief target.
When these neocons came to power in 2001, under President George W Bush, Pakistan was indemnified again, this time in return for signing up to the "war on terror". Condoleezza Rice backed the line, as did Rumsfeld, too. Pakistan, although suspected by all of them to be at the epicentre of global instability, was hailed as a friend. All energies were devoted to building up the case against Iraq.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
pakist...2188777,00.html
wt, Do you remember Sean C, who preceded our buddy Bill at your borg?
I just missed him. Bill talked about him, though.
What's Bush going to do for Character Counts week?
Resign?
I was on the bus and theses 2 young guys were discussing street dancing.
kids do the robot these days: that's from the disco era of the 70's...it's all good, like fashion styles come and go. to me 'pop art' is artistic expression and rejection for the masses
National Forest Products Week.
The most important forest product is water.
What's Bush going to do for Character Counts week?
Resign?
I love you.
Oh lordy, lord.
attaturk and i need to get cracking.
this year's calendar will be a little higher quality, printwise.
we figured out the kinks.
so to speak.
JUDY: "Rudy! Harold Robbins bought his second wife a set of 14-karat gold fingernails!"
RUDY: "What, dear?"
JUDY: "Fourteen-fucking-carat gold fingernails, you putz! Think what I could do to that low-rent whore Jeri Thompson with those things!"
One of the saddest moments on film
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M...h?
v=Ml6uuLqG_B8
we figured out the kinks.
HELL-Oh!
Think what I could do to that low-rent whore Jeri Thompson with those things!"
Heh, Mr. QL used to sing on the street. We still have his guitar with a tin cup attached.
Why does Pickles hate Israeli breast cancer victims?
Q Thank you. I'd like to ask about two countries she is not visiting. First of all, why is she not going to Israel?
MS. McBRIDE: We were in Israel two years ago, Mrs. Bush did a visit.
Q Why isn't she going on this trip? I understand there's a lot of angst in Israel that she's going to all of these Arab countries and not coming there.
MS. McBRIDE: I'm not aware of the angst, and again --
Q It's in their media.
MS. McBRIDE: Because of the pillar of this trip, which we did say is breast cancer. Israel is not one of the countries that was in the breast cancer partnership. So there would have not been --
Heh. Ladybugs must fly about a half-mile after release before they break dormancy and begin eating.
plantsman, areligious | Homepage | 10.20.07 - 9:51 am
So, buying them to release in a small yard is just doing the neighbor's, somewhat distant neighbors, some good? Or do they fly around in circles, so some come back?
So Pickles is on breast cancer this week? Let's just hope she doesn't start wearing that hideous bubble-gum pink.
"Israel is a tiny little country, and AIPAC runs the US basically, so we figured -- why bother?"
Molly Ivors,
Check yer email, lady.
So, buying them to release in a small yard is just doing the neighbor's, somewhat distant neighbors, some good?
Unless everyone is buying them, yes.
So Pickles is on breast cancer this week? Let's just hope she doesn't start wearing that hideous bubble-gum pink.
Molly Ivors, Vaginal-American
Even the schedule for her Middle East trip* was printed in pink.
*Offer not valid in Israel.
Nothing new from you, res. At least not since I answered the last one.
AIPAC runs the US? Does it do that in cooperation with the Masons or on its own?
Let's just hope she doesn't start wearing that hideous bubble-gum pink.
Thank you.
Pickles press secretary unclear on whether Israel in "Middle East"
Q So the stated reason that you're not going to Israel is that she's been there before, and then --
MS. McBRIDE: As I said at the beginning, the pillar of this trip is to show support and show accomplishments of the Middle East Partnership Initiative programs. So the breast cancer program is one Mrs. Bush specifically announced and launched in June of 2006. The idea to go to the region at this time is to show the accomplishments of that program and MEPI-related programs, which there are two in Kuwait that we will be seeing, the Micro Access Scholarship program, with teachers.
Q Given all of the medical research that goes on Israel, why isn't it part of this consortium?
MS. McBRIDE: It may be part of the consortium. It may be expanded. This is a brand new program, just started in June of last year with targeted countries where there were high incidences of cancer, particularly at a very early rate. The hope is that this gets expanded throughout the broader Middle East. That's the name of it -- Middle East Partnership Initiative. It's starting in one place and will continue to grow. I think there's great hopes that it is expanded throughout the region, no question.
Check it again.
buying them to release in a small yard is just doing the neighbor's, somewhat distant neighbors, some good?
Actually, ladybugs respond very well to "ladybug ladybug fly away home, your house is on fire, your children will burn!"
In cooperation with AEI and the Vaders.
I hate the pink frying pans
Just not right
Hey, res: Do you mean the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble?
Does it do that in cooperation with the Masons or on its own?
Gimmick infringement!!
One of our lame attempts to paint liberal mountain ended when a swarm of ladybugs came and stuck to the paint on one side of the house.
Went for some doctor's appts yesterday, and all the trees of my endo's office complex (the former Bell Labs! Alas!) had pink plastic stretchy tape tied around them. At first I thought they marking trees to be cut down, but, thankfully, only marking Breast Cancer Month.
Then, same think at the hospital nearby.
One of our lame attempts to paint liberal mountain ended when a swarm
of ladybugs came and stuck to the paint on one side of the house.
Errr...it's a feature!!!
One of our lame attempts to paint liberal mountain ended when a swarm of ladybugs came and stuck to the paint on one side of the house.
You shoulda called that a work of art and charged admission.
This is about the time of year when all the ladybugs try to come inside. I'll be finding them in the shower for the next month.
It was kind of interesting looking, but picking them off left little divots in the paint.
the ribbon thing is just kinda ridiculous.
Which brings us to that lovely German children's rhyme:
"Mai-kafer flieg!
Dein Vater starb im krieg
Dein Mutter ist in Pommernland
und Pommernland is abgebrand....
Mai-kafer Flieg!"
NOW, THEREFORE, I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim October 21 through October 27, 2007, as National Forest Products Week. I call upon all Americans to observe this week with appropriate ceremonies and activities.
P O'Neill
Let us now continue selling off these valuable resources at ten cents on the dollar to well-connected corporations that contribute large amounts of money to the Republican party.
Okay, all my children are finally dressed. NOW we can go buy a baseball-themed present for a kid we barely know.
I like ladybugs.
ladybugs eat aphids.
Gracious, plantsman, how do you know that?
Originally "Schlaf, Kindchen, schlaf..."
but your version has more Bite.
Pommerland is abgebrannt! Another example of the horror in children's rhymes.
There was a group of plants years ago on which waking ladybugs had stationed themselves in the damp morning. As the sun struck them and dried the dew, they left in swarms to begin their season of life. Thousands and thousands of them.
I sort of like spiders, too. The little cute ones, not the killer black hairy ones.
Be right back...
A German friend taught me, and was astonished at my reaction to the violence!
I was hiking in the Sierra once, at about 2,000 feet, on a bank along Butte Creek, when I came across an entire city of ladybugs. They were piled on top of each other for about a 20 foot stretch, and maybe three feet deep. I stuck my arm down in them, up to my armpit.
A German friend taught me, and was astonished at my reaction to the violence!
plantsman, areligious | Homepage | 10.20.07 - 10:15 am | #
Germany has a long horror history. In the 1400s, there was a popular cult in Thuringia that advocated baptizing babies in their own blood - obtained by beating them.
So what does the German translate to?
No shortage of violence in children's stuff, of course, even old children's stuff. Grimms' classic fairy tales, and the book of Russian folk tales we've read from, have lots and lofts of death and destruction...
Wet sheets.
In the 1400s, there was a popular cult in Thuringia that advocated baptizing babies in their own blood - obtained by beating them.
rootless-e
Their leader is now the patron saint of airplane passengers.
"Character actors are not lead actors, and screen actors are not stage actors."
Also, most acting jobs have nothing to do with the skills a politician needs. Screaming about his amputated legs in King's Row did nothing whatsoever to build Reagan's political chops; his long public speaking career for GE did quite a bit.
Being an actor and being a good actor are two different things.
I thought he was awful in Law and Order.
"tell me about Margaret Carlson's queefing"-Sam Waterston to Fred Thompson
In defense of actors, Fred Thompson is not one.
It reminds me of Peter O'Toole at the end of "My Favorite Year" when he discovers that it's live television and there won't be re-takes.
He makes a mess of it, but it's funny. Unlike Thompson. He's just really, really sad and pathetic.
But, but he's so macho on TV.
Alec Guinness excepted of course.
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