No idea what the good folks have on the agenda this morning.
BTW- Tunch is exceptionally ornery today. Woke up with him prodding my head at about 7 am, and since then he has been racing around the house like a crazed man. I walk into the kitchen, he tear asses into the kitchen. I walk into the living room, he comes streaking in like a laser guided missile. As I write this, I can tell I am being actively stalked.
Crazy cat.
Dan
Hi John. I’ve given you a shout out over here.
Montysano
Doesn’t look like the most exciting CBS SM: Guilt, Bush legacy, Glenn Close. But I’ll be there like I have for….yikes…. decades now.
BTW: the movie "The Visitor", w/Richard Jenkins, is not to be missed. Hiam Abbas, a Palestinian actor, is wonderful as well as being stunningly beautiful.
Laura W
Biggest and brightest full moon of 2009 last night, 10:28EST, as I recall. Tell Tunch to go watch the Conchords do Business Time. He’ll burn off some of that energy just snickering.
Sun. Morn looks promising. Glenn Close. ’nuff said.
Oooh, and Guilt.
Yum.
(Tunch may also be a tad resentful that Tyler stole his thunder last night. Perhaps a new Tunch photo for today’s thread?)
blogenfreude
JC – based on the antics of my cat, I’ve concluded that there is a cat satellite that passes overhead every once in a while and tells them to do crazy shit.
R-Jud
It’s the Wacky Half Hour. Every cat I’ve ever known has the Wacky Half Hour. Maybe they get instructions from the mothership via their whiskers. Our Zeno has his most nights after about 9:30. He’ll drop onto your head from a high place, run down your back, and then tear around the house, claws out, pupils dilated, swatting at things that aren’t there and savaging table legs.
Which reminds me: I need to set up an electrified perimeter for the baby’s crib.
harlana pepper
Watching CSPAN this morning and Steve Scully, introducing Byron York of Nat’l Review, explained that Ann Coulter was going to be on to discuss her newest new book(!) but then cancelled, no explanation – so they had to go with this puny NR guy instead. Is she afeared? What gives?
donnah
I’m watching David Gregory and his panel of talking heads. When Paul Gigot speaks, I want to race around the house like a crazed woman, tear ass into the kitchen, streak into the living room. As I write this, I can tell I am being actively stalked by brain-dead Conservatives.
harlana pepper
sUNDa talKing hEdz – do not want
Libby Spencer
Not watching bobbleheads this morning. I can get my daily dose of stupid simply by gazing at the ad for Joe the Plumber on the side bar.
Have you checked Tunch to see if he’s had a spy camera embedded somewhere? Redstate may have enlisted him to gather oppo.
woody
Winter full moons in the High ChiHuaHuan are ALWAYS spectacular in our high, cold air. Tonight’s was spectacular: nary a cloud in the sky, the moon utterly BRILLIANT. The moonlight turns the night a pale shade of blue-gray and etches the shadows on the dusty, beige-brown ground like intricate traceries meant for some enormous tapestry. If there’s any snow, it sparkles as though it were inhabited by glowing plankton…
When I was a kid (45-or-so years ago, before there were so many folks and so much traffic), on nights like this, I’d drive home from Santa Fe (15 miles) with the headlights off. I might not see another car going either way the whole time.
Libby Spencer
Oh, and if I may be forgiven for a shameless b/w, some may be interested in hearing that new evidence suggests cannabis cures Alzheimer’s.
redbeardjim
Clearly you have been fattened up enough, and he’s now waiting for the opportune moment to kill and eat you.
Laura W
@woody: I lived in SW CO for 10 years, 45 miles over the NM border. Never in my life have I seen such brilliant full moons. Especially in October. When I had my home there for 6 years it would come into the dining room window every Oct and it was like my own special holiday of anticipation.
This song was going thru my head last night. It’s from one of my fave Joni albums. Montysano led me to this version a while back.
Night Ride Home. If you like Joni, you’ll like this one (if you don’t already).
Michael D.
Tunch can run?
Michael D.
Punchy
@harlana pepper: I’m of the opinion that the shelf life for Annnie C is rapidly running out. When your party is in electoral shambles, the favoribility polls in the shitter, and peeps losing jobs and retirement scratch, there’s just very little audience for anorexic b#tches who write patently false shit for rednecks who cant read.
As Hawk would say….she gone.
Libby Spencer
Michael D. – I see your Dr. Horrible and raise you with a 1957 jukebox.
J.
I warned you this would happen if you insisted on continuing to post all those Jack Russell Terrier puppy picks!
Bill H
I grew up in Arizona, lived there until about 15 years ago, and made many trips to the Grand Canyon. Camping on the North Rim once in a while, but usually on the South Rim for convenience and because it’s a bit warmer. One night it was completely cloudless, full moon, and I went and sat on the rim of the Canyon for a good two hours. Just sitting being in the presence of the Grand Canyon in the moonlight. Memorable experience.
Balconespolitics
George Stephanopoulos just felt compelled to ask Obama the silliest question … no, not what kind of dog they’d be getting (that one made sense) … but when he was finally going to start going to church again.
Betsy
That’s funny; my cat Chompers was absolutely insane this morning too. At least 3x her normal morning crazy. Her pupils were so dilated you could barely see any iris around the outside. She was running and leaping and pouncing on anything that moved, including my feet under the covers.
ChrisB
Tunch is just getting psyched for the Steelers game.
Laura W
For all of you fabulous BJ chefs, you can download the Inaugural Luncheon recipes here.
I would very much enjoy reading your food porn if you try some of them next Tuesday.
Now that I know how to cook brussels (with an "s". Who knew?) sprouts to perfection, I am feeling a teeny bit more open-minded to
ruining perfectly good ingredientscooking.woody
Balconespolitics
You an Austinite? I used to know (40 years ago) some musicians from around there who called themselves Balcones Fault, iirc…
And you are quite correct about the shallowness of Steph’s interrogative style. Who really gives a flying fuque if Mr. O is going back to church…unless he were going back to Rev Wright’s ministry. That’d rock…As he’ s a one-termer, he’s really got nothing to lose…
woody
Bill H @ 19: Memorable experience.
One of the most memorable days on this continent begins with sunrise over Monument Valley, and ends with cocktails on the veranda of "El Tovar" as the sun sets…
Balconespolitics
@woody: Yep – my house sits in west Austin on a nice rim of a canyon that was created over the eons (if you believe in that kind of thing) by the balcones faultline dropping the ocean floor to the east, and raising it to the west, with the subsequent erosion of the limestone to the west creating the Texas hill country, like carving big cuts into a bar of soap and creating ridges where you don’t cut.
The balcones faultline actually makes a big arc, starting around Uvalde, swinging through San Antonio, Austin, and ending around Waco. Lots of nice springs all along the fault delivered water from the pourous limestone formations above to the settlers in those towns (and all the smaller ones inbetween, like New Braunsfels, San Marcos, Georgetown, etc).
Balcones Fault is also a pretty good beer.
Laura W
@Laura W:
A week from Tuesday.
Overeager in NC
Bob In Pacifica
Could be worse:
sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/01/11/MNI5151TQ0.DTL
Laura W
Staphylococcus has Tweety Syndrome this morning.
Could he interrupt Obama any more if he tried?
Probably.
Tim Fuller
Bush is in denial about his legacy on Fix News. He is so out of touch with reality that it would be comical if not for the trail of death, debt and destruction left in his wake.
Enjoy.
magisterludi
One of our three cats, Casper (guess what color!), is terrorizing one of the other cats on a daily basis. Satch is about to have a nervous breakdown. His cat Zen is totally blown. Untenable.
We also have three dogs which reminds me- never have more dogs than you have hands. Words to live by.
My life is ruled by furry creatures.
JL
@donnah: Mark Zandi was also on. He has written a book called Financial Shock that is suppose to be excellent. Unfortunately, he did not get to speak much.
@Laura W:
I sent the recipes on to a friend who is planning a brunch for inauguration day. She plans to make the apple sponge cake. I think that I’ll buy an apple, maybe buy some sponge cake and ice cream. That’s close enough for me.
Bad Horse's Filly
@Michael D.: Michael, if I had only known, I would have pushed the show here a long time ago. I just figured this place was populated by Whedon fans, you must’ve all known. (Check out my name, now it makes sense, right?!)
Birdzilla
I have never watch SUNDAY MORNING its too darn liberal and too fruadulent
's "TheHatOnMyCat
Wow, that’s a heap o’dissonance there bird. Right up there with Yogi Berra’s "Nobody goes there any more, it’s too crowded."
And "fruadulent?" Come on, you can do better than that.
I think somebody put something in your feeder this morning.
's "TheHatOnMyCat
Wow, that’s a heap o’dissonance there bird. Right up there with Yogi Berra’s "Nobody goes there any more, it’s too crowded."
And "fruadulent?" Come on, you can do better than that.
I think somebody put something in your feeder this morning.
(This comment was posted twice because your website doesn’t work. If it shows up twice, delete this one and then fix the website).
Just Some Fuckhead
@Punchy: I pretty much agree with you. If she was smart, and there’s no reason to suspect that, she would start her journey to the left, ala David Brock and turn the money machine back on again in a major way. Then she could die with a modicum of dignity.
magisterludi
Just took a squirrel out of above-mentioned cat’s (Casper) mouth. Luckily, no permanent damage done.
I don’t mind snakes and mice so much (or the occasional rat) deposited in pieces on my front door mat, but my heart breaks for birds and squirrels. Casper is forever getting out of his breakaway bell collar. Evil genius.
demimondian
@Birdzilla: Welcome back, dude!
Tell me, have you been writing Brick Oven Bill?
Montysano
@Birdzilla:
Yeah, that Charles Osgood is the White Mumia, ain’t he? And Bill Geist reporting on elephant polo? Totally radical.
Ash Can
Sounds like Tunch just has a case of the rips. (h/t Garfield)
redbeardjim
@magisterludi:
A squirrel is nothing but a rat with a good tailor.
bago
I always thought a squirrel was a rat with a better PR department.
AnneLaurie
Tunch BOOOORED. Tunch need kitten! (NOT for lunch; just for distraction / exercise partner.)
Actually the full moon probably has something to do with Tunch’s "zoomies". Obedience groups can always tell when the moon is full — even dogs with perfect manners & the title to prove it get a little freaky. And the beginners’ class with all the problem puppies turns into the canine version of Fox News, only with cuter protagonists.