Pareene at <A HREF=”http://gawker.com/5324026/sarah-palins-gradual-descent-into-incoherency”>Gawker</A> has a rather interesting (okay, fairly hilarious) essay, including a number of videos, concerning Sarah Palin’s Gradual Descent into Incoherency:
What was your favorite line from Sarah Palin’s second resignation speech? Was it:
“So, how ’bout in honor of the American soldier, ya quite makin’ things up?”
Or maybe this amazing bit:
“Let me tell you, Alaskans really need to stick together on this with new leadership in this area especially, encouraging new leadership… got to stiffen your spine to do what’s right for Alaska when the pressure mounts, because you’re going to see anti-hunting, anti-second amendment circuses from Hollywood and here’s how they do it. They use these delicate, tiny, very talented celebrity starlets, they use Alaska as a fundraising tool for their anti-second amendment causes.”
Actually, this is our favorite line:
“In the winter time it’s the frozen road that is competing with the view of ice fogged frigid beauty, the cold though, doesn’t it split the Cheechakos from the Sourdoughs?”
It’s like Peggy Noonan, Jack London, and William Faulkner wandered into the woods with three buttons of peyote and one typewriter, and only this speech emerged.
And she wrote this speech! In advance, on paper! What does any of it mean? It is amazing. Twenty years ago she could competently descibe a dog race, three years ago she could articulate a position on the abortion issue, and this weekend she composed a resignation speech by throwing culture war stock phrases into a hat and dumping it upside down on a copy of The Paranoid Style in American Politics.
Comrade Darkness
I saw it suppositioned by someone else, but I’m going to borrow it and go with: Lyme Disease.
General Winfield Stuck
I guess this is some kind of Alaskanese poetry, or something. It was at the beginning of her speech and my first thought was OH shit, she’s going full on crazy.
I guess it served a purpose, cause the rest of it didn’t seem so moon unit. (sorry Zappa)
Brachiator
Or if Richard Nixon did the David Frost interviews while on acid.
Wait a minute. This might have actually happened.
KG
I have to say, I am kind of looking forward to her running for president in 2012. Not because I want her to win, mind you, I want her to lose so badly that a hundred years from now people will still talk about how we stared stupidity in the eye and walked away laughing. But I am looking forward to it because at some point, during a town hall in Iowa or a pancake breakfast in New Hampshire, she’s going to say something so incredibly stupid that even the party infrastructure is going to start laughing at her. That is the moment I am waiting for.
Calouste
Funnily enough, when reading this post, Doctor Robert started playing.
What are the odds that Palin will “need some time out to recharge” and the recharging will take place in Rancho Mirage, California?
ruemara
Tossed word salad ala moron makes me throw up.
Zifnab
God the 2012 race is going to be fun to watch. I just want to know if it’s possible for the woman to make it all the way through the primary without dribbling all over herself in the middle of a debate.
Martin
I have to admire Palin for working so hard to improve Nixon’s legacy. He didn’t quit either, he was just the first to choose to not go along with politics as usual. Dick Nixon was no dead fish, donchano.
geg6
I read somewhere that she writes this gibberish with her assistant, some old high school buddy of hers who apparently speaks in this very same nonsensical manner in her everyday conversation. Maybe it was some sort of kinky girlfriend mindmeld thing.
CynDee
Maybe she IS actually ill. That could be; maybe it’s time to stop making fun of her and live and let live.
Martin
Obama’s most cost effective re-election strategy is to send every DNC dollar to Palin.
jl
Has any one ever featured Alaska in a pro gun control ad? Seriously, does anyone know? That would be so stupid. I can only imagine how stupid such an ad would sound:
Did you know…. people out in the wilderness…. in Alaska… hunt…. with guns…. !? (shriek-shriek-schriek!!!!). Did you know…. people in Nevada take their semi-automatic guns…. and go out to shooting ranges (or the nearest dump) …. and shoot stuff up… with guns….!? (shriek-shriek-shriek!!!!). Put a stop to the madness… NOW! We are depending… on you namby-pamby city slickers to oppress the rubes…. and ruin their fun.
Jon H
“the cold though, doesn’t it split the Borogoves from the Wabes”
Fixed.
calipygian
Someone correct me if I’m wrong, but there isn’t a peep about Palin’s resignation at the Corner, home of Rich “Starbursts” Lowry. Is it possible that even THEY are tired and embarrassed?
And the QOTT at Gawker: “She’s a walking Mad Lib”.
RedKitten
“Let me tell you, Alaskans really need to stick together on this with new leadership in this area especially, encouraging new leadership… got to stiffen your spine to do what’s right for Alaska when the pressure mounts, because you’re going to see anti-hunting, anti-second amendment circuses from Hollywood and here’s how they do it. They use these delicate, tiny, very talented celebrity starlets, they use Alaska as a fundraising tool for their anti-second amendment causes.”
I understand what all of those words mean separately, but together, they make absolutely no sense whatsoever. Mind you, I WAS dropped on my head as a child, but even notwithstanding that particular factor, this really does seem like gibberish.
Jon H
I don’t know how she got the idea that the complaints about shooting wolves from helicopters were a 2nd Amendment thing, rather than a “it’s cruel and sadistic” thing.
ricky
If Peggy Noonan, Jack London, and William Faulkner wandered into the woods with three buttons of peyote and one typewriter Peggy Noonan would emerge with the biggest smile on her face since the Gipper left the building.
geg6
Can someone tell me exactly why she was speaking into what looks like a ground hog? Are ground hogs wired for sound? Oh, and Larry O, filling in for KO, sounds in fine fettle tonight.
jl
“They use these delicate, tiny, very talented celebrity starlets”
And, who is that, I wonder?
I just a had a horrific flash in my head of a debate between Paula Abdul and Sarah Palin.
I don’t know what else would be so likely to drive some one mad, unless maybe ED! took on Scarborough in a knock-down drag out debate.
Jon H
@calipygian: “And the QOTT at Gawker: “She’s a walking Mad Lib”.”
She’s like Qbert.
geg6
jl: It’s Ashley Judd, who did an anti-helicopter wolf hunting ad.
Danton
A cheechako is a newcomer to Alaska. Usually spoken in derision. A sourdough is a long-time resident, typically someone born in the state. So what you got in that comment is Palin creating division right there in Alaska. As might be expected. What an idiot.
J. Michael Neal
That’s okay. We know it’s the hormones talking.
Tom Hilton
@Martin: that’s right, Nixon was definitely (in his own words) “not a quitter.”
And let’s not forget that Palin’s rambling is also not wholly unprecedented. Who can forget Nixon’s farewell:
angulimala
You Liberals hate Sara Palin (Peace Be Upon Her) because she is the main obstacle to your plan to set up government-run healthcare and then force doctors to put all our brains into robot bodies that will labor tirelessly in your service.
I want to be an Andrian Barbeau-Bot with Chainsaw hands. VVVVRRRRUUUUMMMMM!!!!
General Winfield Stuck
Sarah don’t want to mess with Ashley. she’d get her ass kicked.
gwangung
5’6, 5’7″ is tiny?
jenniebee
Mayor Quimby said of Springfield: “they’re like trained seals – throw them a fish and watch them to clap their fins together.” Watching Sarah Palin work a crowd, it’s like the seals have finally found a human who they could train to throw fish by clapping at her.
The politics of failure have failed. It is time to make them work again!
calipygian
Kind of like how the McCain campaign manager (from the rustic, traditional Mercedes ML SUV driving, real America Northern VA suburb of Oakton) called people like me and John McCain (who graduated down the street from me at Alexandria’s Episcopal High School) “fake Virginians” because we live in the People’s Republic of Northern Virginia and not a part of Virginia that still has statues of Confederate heroes in the courthouse square facing South so the North can kiss their ass.
“Us vs. Them” – it’s all they got. And there are a lot less of “us” than there are of “them”. And the “us” is getting older, whiter and fucking insane in a country where “they” is getting younger, darker and, dare I say it, smarter.
Tithonia
New girl group name: The Tiny Starlets
Martin
Apparently, everything in Alaska gets compared to a moose.
LD50
@geg6: So in Sarahland, telling people they can’t shoot anything they want means you’re “Anti-Second Amendment”. Gotcha.
jl
@Jon H: Actually, beside cruel and sadistic, Palin’s aerial wolf hunt policy was a corrupt favor to hunters in small towns who wanted to kill off wolves so they could continue to over hunt moose. Particularly around isolated communities like McGrath that had local population of moose all to itself.
Make more sense now?
Shannyn Moore
Elisabeth: The Tribe Has Spoken, Ashley Judd has the View
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/shannyn-moore/elisabeththe-tribe-has-sp_b_164511.html
Comrade Darkness
@Jon H: I don’t know how she got the idea that the complaints about shooting wolves from helicopters were a 2nd Amendment thing, rather than a “it’s cruel and sadistic” thing.
Given her penchant for victimhood, I’m guessing she’d call it a “fair fight”.
jl
@geg6: thanks, I am not familiar with all the details of the Palin gun/aerial wolf hunting battle. See my comment above for my opinion on what it was about: corrupt political favors.
I never thought of Ashley Judd as being ‘incredibly delicate’ though.
Montysano
Birthers all day, now The Moose. Bleh.
steve s
Indeed. The Southern Strategy was a brilliant move 40 years ago. Nixon won a higher % of the vote than anyone since. Problem is, if you graph the GOP pres vote since then, you see a general downward trend as the southern, white, uneducated, racist, christianist demographic shrinks. It is now too small to win. The GOP will have to radically reformulate in order to win big in the future. How this will happen I have no idea.
gwangung
Well, Judd is taller than Palin. But Palin is probably heavier.
geg6
LD50: Yes. And apparently that dead ground hog she was speaking into is just a warning of what can happen when we come to take their guns.
Comrade Darkness
@steve s: I thought they had the very socially conservative, and highly christian Hispanic vote locked in. It seemed inevitable, really. We can be thankful the teutonic nation branch of the party found their crazy-paranoid voice on that count.
jl
Maybe we need to check out the respective legs. Palin is a little on the heavy side in the leg department (not that I ever stared at the sports bunny spreads she did or nothing like that)
jenniebee
@calipygian:
and not a part of Virginia that still has statues of Confederate heroes in the courthouse square facing South so the North can kiss their ass.
Hey, they aren’t in the courthouse square, they’re running down Monument Avenue, and, ok, we haven’t dynamited them, but we do have a lot of hookers two blocks north of the statue of Lee. So that ought to be worth something.
Seriously, what I found amusing about that whole “Real Virginians” kerfluffle is that the rest of VA actually hasn’t considered NoVas “Real Virginians” for as long as I can remember, but it’s not because NoVas are driving mercedes. It’s because “real” Virginians are snobs and NoVas are nouveaus and transplants who don’t appreciate what a big deal it is to be an FFV (First Family of Virginia). NoVa is the sort of place where you can get into the Junior League just by asking to join – now what kind of place is that?
geg6
jl: Well, I’m a girl, so my opinion probably doesn’t count but, I’d switch hit for Ashley Judd, tiny(not), delicate thing that she is. She has lovely legs as I noticed when watching “Secrets of the YaYa Sisterhood” a few weeks ago. Sarah Palin? Not so much. I could never be attracted to a woman who wears pantyhose with running shorts.
Zifnab
@Jon H: I always heard that “The frost, sometimes it makes the blade stick…”
WereBear
Yet there’s all this rapturous applause when she finished a sentence those like above.
Perhaps… it only works in a certain range. Wouldn’t that be terrible? That you go to a Palin rally… and it all makes sense.
Then you have to redecorate.
dmsilev
@Martin:
Not only that, in Alaska, the moose are everywhere
(saw this picture in a presentation of Things That Can Go Wrong With the Power Grid, and it’s far too amusing not to share).
-dms
jl
@geg6: thank you. I will remember to pay attention to exactly what Ashley Judd looks like in detail, in the future (I have been stuck at the ‘gwarsh, that Miss Judd is do durn pertty, I’m in wuv with her’ stage)
Agreed on the pantyhose and gym shorts. I am sure some ad person made Palin do it, even though I am not a Palin fan.
I remember reading, before Palin was nominated for VP, that she was a considered to be a *moderate* conservative governor. I heard today that she swung far to the right after she was nominated. Maybe she is almost entirely a fame and money junky, and the ideology comes and goes, as needed.
ominira
OT: The resolution proclaiming Hawaii as Obama’s birthplace has passed the house unanimously (i.e., even the birther congressmen voted for it). Orly Taitz is not going to like this.
ETA: Oops spoke too soon. Michele Bachmann blocked it.
Somehow I see the birther issue as one Palin will stay far, far away from.
me
Apparently, her hovercraft is full of eels.
Jay in Oregon
@Danton:
I was born and grew up in Alaska (but left the state to go to college and moved out full-time about 15 years ago); my parents have lived there for over forty years.
To the best of my recollection, I have never, ever, ever heard the term “cheechako” until just now. Granted, I grew up in rural Alaska, not in some fancy big city like Anchorage or Juneau.
DRD 1812
Sarah Palin is not one of us. She pals around with errorists.
DonkeyKong
Well, at least she did’nt poop her pants, look into her drawers and proclaim “Trig has a new baby brother.”
So there’s that………..
DonkeyKong
THAT!, would be crazy………… She’s still viable in 2012 so look out libtards!
bob h
There are some similarities with George W. here. Video of him in debates for his first House race shows a relatively articulate man, as one would expect from a Yale-Harvard graduate. By the time he had gotten to the Presidency, he was similarly inarticulate and incoherent. Some speculated about alcohol damage to his brain, but the likely cause was a psychological reaction to his realization he was totally out of his depth.
The higher people like George W. and Sarah rise, the more they sense their own inadequacy, and the more incoherent they sound.
gwangung
Been at that stage since she was a foil for Wil Wheaton.
demkat620
No matter what she says, nothing will ever beat that turkey video.
Best. Palin. Moment. Ever.
YellowJournalism
Sarah Palin is a walking, talking version of those fridge magnet sets with random words that you scatter all over your freezer door. To hear her speeches is confounding enough, to read them even more so.
Another great part to the speech is where she reminds the media that the next governor has children and a family, too. I bet you, though, the next governor keeps the trotting the kids out at every event to a low compared to Palin dragging her daughter Willow around like a sociallite running around with a little chihauhau in her purse.
geg6
demkat620: Can’t argue with that. But all the winking at the debate comes close.
Mike
More Dylan Thomas than Faulkner.
MikeJ
She was trying to tell us about the torture of POWs in code.
JGabriel
Anne Laurie @ Top:
Pareene screwed up the allusion. It’s supposed to be Sarah Palin’s SLOW Descent Into Incoherency, ala The New Pornographers. Not gradual.
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Chris Johnson
Tiny celebrity starlets! They’re crawling up my leeegggs!
geg6
MikeJ: Thanks a lot. Now I have banana all over my CrackBerry.
mcd
I’ve got it: she employs manatees to pick idea balls, therefore, to write her speeches for her!!
cleek
i didn’t see a link to any official textual version of that speech – but let’s be fair; changing that middle comma to a period turns it into a pair of fairly grammatically-correct sentences:
JGabriel
Chris Johnson:
Delicate tiny celebrity starlets! And they’re all unique and falling out of sky, like beautiful snowflakes!
.
lamh31
Wow, so without McCain campaign speech writers, lil Ole Sarah can’t talk write a decent sentence let alone talk with any sense.
Huh…Who’d a thunk it?
Evinfuilt
@me:
Thank you for that. Good to know which translation book to use.
Joshua Norton
Oh, I dunno. What part of “Glooble noppa twik vibble” smile, wink, wink don’t they understand?
jl
I googled ‘Ashley Judd’ and clicked on the IMDb site, and… I swear, the first picture I saw of her WINKED at me.
That’s what I thought I saw. I reloaded because I thought it might have been a trick picture. And also besides, I wanted to see her wink at me again. But she didn’t. Boohoo.
I think I better lay off the Palinology for awhile. It might be getting to me.
Excuse me now, I have to go study the arcane differences between ‘certified’ and ‘vault’ and ‘original’ copies of birth certificates. Of Obama. Who I just read a wingnut claimed, was aborted. We have an aborted President, my friends. Think about that. I’m gong birfer, cause it sounds kind of fun. You get to play pretend games all day long.
bago
@Jay in Oregon: I grew up in anchorage. Never heard the term or the accent either.
John O
A classic indeed, AL.
Comforting, seriously and sarcastically, depending on your POV at the moment, isn’t it?
Danton
Jay in Oregon:
It may be an archaicism now.
geg6
jl: Dude, you’re killing me. I keep trying to eat and you and MikeJ keep making me spit it out.
Joshua Norton
D’ya think that there were any parts of yesterday’s speech that were also in the concession speech that the McCain people wouldn’t let her give? Or maybe even all of it.
jl
@bago: Since it has come up twice, I will add my two cents. I lived in Alaska a few years, and Cheechako only came up once, when a few of the long time Alaska branch was teasing me about how I would never be a real Alaskan, always a ‘Cheechako’. I guess it is kind of joke term up there. We were driving near a ghost town called Chickaloon, so I was dubbed the ‘Chickaloon Cheechako.’ And I like it, has such a real olde timey Alaskan sound to it, it almost makes me feel like a real Alasakan.
Are there still those ‘historic Alaskan vehicles’ running around, with special license plates, I wunner?
geg6
Joshua Norton: OMG, I never thought of that. OMG, I’ll bet you’re right. Wonder if Steve Schmidt will have anything to say about that?
Davis X. Machina
D’ya think that there were any parts of yesterday’s speech that were also in the concession speech that the McCain people wouldn’t let her give? Or maybe even all of it.
No. Her concession speech was taken from the National Review Online edition of Refrigerator Poetry Magnets™
jl
This may offend some real Alaskans here (so I apologize in advance) but I think the real criterion for being a Sourdough is staying long enough to qualify for a permanent fund dividend.
You want suspense, go up to Alaska right before they announce next year’s dividend.
And, IMHO, it is not the cold, it is the dark. Which drives people mad, unless you are sensible and like winter sports and camping (which is the only way to survive the winter up there, IMHO). Also.
Tunch.
kth
More Coulter than Noonan, and more Burroughs than Faulkner. Though Jack London is perfect.
Comrade Kevin
@jl: “Chickaloon”, sounds like an apt description of Sarah Palin.
freelancer
“Let me tell you, Alaskans really need to stick together on this with new leadership in this area especially, encouraging new leadership… got to stiffen your spine to do what’s right for Alaska when the pressure mounts, because you’re going to see anti-hunting, anti-second amendment circuses from Hollywood and here’s how they do it. They use these delicate, tiny, very talented celebrity starlets, they use Alaska as a fundraising tool for their anti-second amendment causes.”
Two of the current Top 10 movies in the US strongly feature guns as a plot tool, or instrument of problem solving. 15 of the current Top 20 on IMDb’s Top 250 of all time heavily feature guns.
“I hate liberal Hollywood”-FAIL.
Gus
This is the same disease Dubya suffered from. I’ve seen a piece of a debate he had with Ann Richards, and he doesn’t sound like an inarticulate wingnut dumbass.
bwono
Sarah! Ain’t she somthin?
cleek
cheechako, cheechako
my kinda town
HRA
I am glad someone brought up the speech she was not allowed to give on election night. It was in my mind as I read your comments. I think it may not have been the same one. Yet, I’ll bet it was as close as it could get to being the same and that is why the McCain campaign said “no speech” to her.
I would think if there was something medically wrong with her, someone within her family would get her some help unless this is normal and/or it’s known to be a new shtick towards her higher aspirations.
All I know is that I cannot listen to her or even read her speeches without having to turn her off or stop reading. I once read where a TV actress named Mary something caused people unusual problems when they watched her or listened to her. This must be the same thing.
coffeeyogurt
“In the winter time it’s the frozen road that is competing with the view of ice fogged frigid beauty, the cold though, doesn’t it split the Cheechakos from the Sourdoughs?”
I think instead of Cheechakos, she meant ChiChiBoBo’s. Try it and see if it doesn’t all come together.
Anne Laurie
Truly, the moose are everywhere, and not just in Alaska. So far this summer, we’ve had one show up at our local NTB, located at the intersection of Rtes 93 & 128 (one of the busiest, most dangerous traffic areas here in the Boston area, original home of the crazy driver) and another moose damaged a couple of cars at an auto-body shop in Worcester. Both of these were delicate, tiny, very talented
celebrity starletsgirl moose, however (estimated 300-350lb range), and being unburdened with testosterone, they were able to escape before the guys with guns showed up.Debbie(aussie)
This was absolutely wonderful. Haven’t laughed so much in ages.
Betsy
@Anne Laurie:
What?! There were moose in Worcester?! And at 128 + 93? That’s crazy! I hadn’t heard about that! (Some of my folks live in Worcester, and I’m in Somerville.)
gypsy howell
This is the same disease Dubya suffered from. I’ve seen a piece of a debate he had with Ann Richards, and he doesn’t sound like an inarticulate wingnut dumbass.
Maybe there really IS something in the kool-aid they’re drinking.
Brick Oven Bill
Mock Sarah all you want, but all mocking aside, she is a credit to her gender. She stepped up to the plate to represent those guys from The Deadliest Catch, because they had better things to do than go into politics. Alaska will be fine.
Then we have New Jersey. I hope Sarah becomes a President.
jl
@Brick Oven Bill: Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins are credits not only to their gender, but all normal and above humans as well. Both would have made credible and far superior VP candidates.
If McCain has chosen one of them for his ticket, why heck, he might be pres now, and I might be a serious Panama Canal birfer conspiracy theorist, working on my Definitive Panama Canal Zone Birfer Treatise. I would be looking for ‘vault copies’ of something or other… I dunno… some sleazy BS to throw at the imposter Latin American Manchurian Candidate McCain.
Brick Oven Bill
I have met Susan Collins. Twice. Susan is no Sarah.
PurpleGirl
jl — I think in McCain’s case it would have been being born in a Panamanian hospital (i.e., off base) as opposed to in a military hospital in the Canal Zone proper.
Kineslaw
jl, that is one scary thought. I’d pay money to see Abdul v. Palin, but I probably would mute it about 15 seconds in.
George Will, Broder, Brooks, Todd and Kristol should have to be handcuffed to the front row. Afterwards they could write about the advantages of bipartisanship and how awesome it was that Palin came close to being one heartbeat away from the presidency.
Common Sense
William Shatner just flayed Palin on Conan. Repeated her speech verbatim to a beatnik bongo beat.
Ash Can
@Brick Oven Bill:
For the sake of the great state of Maine, let’s hope not.
gwangung
Paula would take Sarah apart, but Sarah would think she won all the time.
Sorry, but I respect someone who built themselves from a Laker girl to a musical pop star and reinvented herself AGAIN as an American Idol judge waaaayyyyyy more than an ex-newscasters who could barely manage to reinvent herself as a politician…and botched the job
Brick Oven Bill
Give up hope Ash Can. At least for now.
Fulcanelli
BOB, I’m amazed you haven’t entered republican politics, as you are eminently qualified by today’s standards. I’d send you a few bucks to see how you roll. I’ll be steering clear of that ‘exploratory committee’ though. Not my dance.
Also.
Now if you’ll excuse me I need to finish taping this hose onto the exhaust pipe of the running vehicle in my garage…
Seanly
Candy Crowley is still fluffing Palin. They are both first class idiots. And anyone who claims to understand or like what Palin spouts is an even bigger idiot.
Palin is the combined Max Bialystock & Leo Bloom of politics.
Ash Can
@Brick Oven Bill: Give up hope? What, are you watching the Cubs game too?
Give up hope? With the bases loaded and none out in the bottom of the 13th? Are you on crack??
Fulcanelli
@Seanly: Girls fluff?
Who knew?
Whitey
William Shatner just read portions of Palin’s speech as a poem on the Tonight Show. Fucking hilarious. Watch for that video tomorrow.
Brick Oven Bill
Captain Sig Hansen would kick William Shatner’s ass.
Davis X. Machina
…we’ve had one show up at our local NTB, located at the intersection of Rtes 93 & 128
They’re getting as bad as whitetail deer. The Portland (ME) Police Department made an early start to the moose season this summer in the park between Stevens Ave and Forest Ave, basically on the McAuley HS campus. We think he came into town on the Number 3 bus….
Brick Oven Bill
So would Todd. And he might.
ChrisB
@RedKitten:
I’m way late to the party this evening but I would think that being dropped on your head could only help in understanding her.
I’m sure many other people have thought this earlier but when Sarah Palin speaks she sound like a character on Northern Exposure. No, on second thought, the characters on that show were far too normal and conventional.
Indylib
@ChrisB:
“I’m sure many other people have thought this earlier but when Sarah Palin speaks she sound like a character on Northern Exposure. No, on second thought, the characters on that show were far too normal and conventional.”
Thank you, I hate it when people insult Northern Exposure by putting Caribou Barbie in any context with them. Everyone in Northern Exposure may have been a bit eccentric, but they could speak in full coherent sentences and their craziness could be explained by the storylines they built for the characters. Though I suppose she could have substituted for Maurice if he’s been born with an idiot form of Tourette Syndrome that made him spout inane wingnutese instead of corporate/moneygrubbing-speak that was expressed in understandable English. Also.
Anne Laurie
Hand to goddess; there was cellphone footage on Channels 4 & 5. I’m just grateful that this corner of Woburn doesn’t have coyotes yet — unlike neighboring Stoneham, and Jamaica Plains, and probably parts of Somerville too. Foxes, yes (the neighbor whose backyard separates ours from the downramp has seen them), but foxes are unlikely to be a threat to our 15lb papillons, or our Maine Coon Demon Kishkan, who’s supposed to be an indoor cat but has been known to violate that rule. In a ‘World Without Us’ sense, I find it comforting that even a ridiculously industrialized multiple-Superfund-site city like ours supports a surprisingly healthy wildlife population in between the office buildings and the light-industrial parks.
jl
@gwangung: Point well taken on Abdul. She need to work on being more articulate, though.
BruceK
It’s shocking to realize that my homeland hasn’t had a major political party disintegrate since the Whigs fell apart in the ‘fifties … the eighteen-fifties, that is. Could be that we’re simply overdue for another seismic event.
zoe kentucky
I hope Sarah becomes a President.
I think you’re right. I think she will be president…although not of the US.
I predict that Sarah will spend the next few years cashing in on her fame as fast and as furious as possible– books, speaking engagements, etc. After her star fades she’ll retire and go buy an island somewhere and declare herself president/dictator/queen of Sarahland. Also.
White House Department of Law (fmrly Jim-Bob)
I hardly think you’re qualified to comment on OTHER people writing floridly or incoherently, Anne.
But, yes, Gov-emeritus Palin’s particular brand of word-salad is delicious.
White House Department of Law (fmrly Jim-Bob)
[email protected]:
Did she frot you, like Al Franken?
Little Dreamer
Okay, I have to know, when and where was the “buttons of peyote” line thought up, because I asked TZ about this speech last night and he mentioned that it sounded like the author was on buttons of peyote when I asked him about it last night.
Did I miss something that he caught and he’s pulling my leg, or was this some sort of lovely synergy going on here?