I think the blog, as a whole, needs this:
Why can’t we all just get along.
*** Update ***
BTW- went shopping with my mom today, and stopped by the liquor store to pick up a couple items for the bar I have been slowly stocking over the past few months (I’m basically done except for some liqueurs and odds and ends). When I got back in the car, mom asked what I got, and I told her a bottle of Grand Marnier, some Creme de Menthe, and some sherry, and she said “Sherry? Who drinks that? I thought the only people who drank sherry were old British women reading mystery novels with their nine cats.”
I’m so looking forward to putting her in a home.
Jay in Oregon
That rendition was, really, supremely bad.
One might even say “extraordinary”.
Alex S.
I’ll be listening to Miles Davis’ “In a Silent Way”.
thomas Levenson
Now that was just fucking cruel. You know how cruel?
This cruel.
Mike Kay (Hippie Hunter)
pass the weed, man….
morzer
@thomas Levenson:
You only used the German version to make Khan look bad. All he was doing was explaining how to smoke opium! You.. you liberal fascist you!
Cris
I can’t just get along because Michael D. said I’m a lot less smart than I think I am. Michael Fucking D! Damn I’m hurt.
Jay in Oregon
@thomas Levenson:
That… definitely brings to mind a new interpretation of “earworm”.
Linda Featheringill
Erased because I just give up.
What the hell. Sigh.
Mike Kay (Hippie Hunter)
What the HELL was that!
schrodinger's cat
Actually what the blog needs now is Zen Tunch.
Hunter Gathers
You’re no fun anymore.
This place isn’t exactly Wonkette, you know. Well, it might be, but without all the jokes about butt sex and Sarah Palin’s offspring.
MikeJ
I declare myself the most exalted potentate of love. But not for this blog. For some other one where I won’t let them know.
lamh32
OK, What’s going on? I can’t read the blogs until I get home from work (my company has “enhanced” the internet security, so darn near anything other than google is flagged), but I’ve seen references to “fee fees” all day, what’d I miss, I don’t feel like going back an reading the older threads! I’m lazy that way…lol!
Anyhoo, I really think this is cool. Can anyone imagine ANY Repub/Conserv pol recording an “It Gets Better Video”. Someone said, this is like a “tourist” video for LGBT.
UK PM David Cameron’s It Gets Better Video
Maody
now that, john cole, made me laugh like heck. it was magnificent in it’s madness and stupidity.
cathyx
If we all get along, then there is nothing to discuss.
Suck It Up!
You guys have to see this never aired ad from Sharon Angle:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..r_embedded
I posted it in the last thread.
dollared
Imagine – a guy as sweet-tempered as John Cole, always with a kind word and a patient expression on his face for the slightly dim-witted, never uttering a bad word about anyone, no matter how justified – imagine himself suddenly and inexplicably surrounded by a snarling bunch of sarcastic terriers gnawing on each other with sharp-edged inside jokes and ruthlessly exposing each other’s erroneous zones.
Really, it’s just inexplicable. And so unfair to our sainted John.
Tom Hilton
By “all” you do mean “everyone except the Firebaggers”, right? Because if so, I think we probably can get along.
demkat620
Needs more Tunch.
ErinSiobhan
@cathyx:
Hear hear
morzer
@Tom Hilton:
Don’t forget the Popular Front of Judaea!
kdaug
@dollared: I saw what you did there… but thread-jumping is a bitch. So if you HAVE actually seen JC’s face, and have the photos to prove it, do tell.
Richard Fox
I realize my own singing voice matches this beaming Lothario in both quality and timbre. (Rather I have been made to understand this very forcefully by those close to me.) No You tube moments as a result of this awareness, but heartening to see others plugging along for the sake of their art. Excelsior!
Mike Kay (Hippie Hunter)
@cathyx: with the elimination of DADT, I expect 35% of the blogosphere to fade away within a year.
Brian S (formerly Incertus)
@morzer: Splitters.
Fuck getting along.
lamh32
I know David Frum is a lying conniving Repub, but I do like his Sarah Palin takedowns. This one from today is pretty good:
Takedown of the day, from David Frum, on Sarah Palin’s Tweet asking whether the leaking of excerpts of her new book might be illegal:
handy
@lamh32:
Going by the kinds of comments posted on a daily basis, somebody’s always getting their “fee fees” hurt apparently. I’m certain mine are getting hurt as I type this. Which is a shame, because I’d much rather my knickers be in a bundle or my Cheerios soaked in piss. *shrug*
dollared
I have not seen his face, but his mom has, and she how she treats him….
and sorry about the jump. my erroneous zone is getting to threads too late.
John Cole
@dollared: Sometimes, after a few drinks, I’ve been known to ask the ladies to come home and show me their erroneous zones.
Gatsby
Your Mom is absolutely right on the mark.
Cris
I drink sherry.
Oh god, look how many cats I have
lamh32
I know, it’s not as important as the Black Panther/DOJ brouhaha, or the Shriley Sherrod brouhaha, or Obama is a racist brouhaha, but damn if I didn’t say “About Damn Time”
Happy Early Thanksgiving Black Farmers Assoc:
Senate approves long-delayed $1.15 billion black farmer settlement
John - A Motley Moose
I bought Sherry a bottle once. Boy, can that girl drink.
j low
I’m pretty much the Chief Executive over at GOS.
Suffern Ace
O.K. Now I love everybody, at least somewhat. I won’t even spoil the mood by naming those who I love the least.
Nethead Jay
Huh, is there any thread in particular that’s burning?
If it’s about Mike Kay’s raising himself from beneath the bridge… People, ignore the bleating. He’s a troll and as such is only interested in riling up people. It’s not worth the energy.
kdaug
@j low: Wow – I’m the Official Gatekeeper of the Commentariat at HuffPo!
We should do a meet-up!
schrodinger's cat
John [email protected] top
Well you are off to a good start, you already have one cat and the sherry.
CynDee
@Cris: Yeah! I would drink sherry if I could, AND have nine cats, too. And 10 dogs.
MikeL
Remember Michael D? He’s back.
Begun, this blog war has.
Anonymous At Work
Pwned by your own mom. Sad day, huh?
ruemara
Burned by your mom. Harsh. But effective. So, when’s the gender change and trans-atlantic move scheduled?
morzer
The manhood of Spain will rise in outrage when they learn of the views espoused by Cole’s maternal unit. Also too, one can cook with sherry. Mushrooms fried in butter and garlic, with a spritz of medium sherry, are the best.
John Cole
@ruemara: No need for that.
eemom
I have that problem with bloody marys — nobody except old WASPy ladies and hapless hung over-ers. I just like tomato and spice, ferfucksake.
As for sherry, it is evident that Mama Cole never watched “Frasier.”
morzer
@eemom:
She obviously missed House of Cards as well.
Mnemosyne
@morzer:
Wait, are we the Popular Front or the People’s Front?
morzer
@Mnemosyne:
I think we are Tunch’s Free Radicals. Or was that last week’s nom de guerre? I am sure it’s all in Chairman Cole’s Little Black Book.
sven
Did anyone ever really like Kumbiya? Really?
Simmer Down on the other hand…
shortstop
Cool Spaniards drink sherry. But they’re so much cooler than Cole that he lands squarely in the no man’s land between old sherry-drinking ladies and hip Spanish sherry drinkers, thus proving his mom’s point.
morzer
@shortstop:
So Cole is a sherry-drinking old woman’s hipster?
Elizabelle
Here’s a good problem to have: Mark Twain autobiography is flying off the shelves. Twain himself asked it not be published until 100 years after his death.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/20/books/20twain.html?hp=&pagewanted=all
Something to read with that sherry, and with or without the cat menagerie.
shortstop
@morzer: No, no, he falls into neither group, both of which have an excuse for drinking sherry. This makes him as big a dork as his mom says. Not that he doesn’t have other charms, but I’m just sayin’.
morzer
@shortstop:
I think I need another glass of sherry before embarking on extended contemplation of Cole’s charms. Anyway, I am sure Cole appeals mightily to the sherry-drinking old women of the world. They might even be his core demographic…
General Stuck
@John Cole:
That’s just wrong
Morbo
Before any drum circles form…
shortstop
@morzer: Understandable. You’ll never catch me recommending that anyone here engage in extended contemplation of anything on a Friday eve. I am making my grocery list for the non-perishables for Thanksgiving dinner, and then the third baseman and I will go buy them. On a Friday night. Don’t hate me ’cause I’m glamorous.
morzer
@shortstop:
I am thinking of how I need to go into town and buy some wrapping paper and a nice card and a bottle of something around 20% proof and complete my preparations for my wife’s birthday on Sunday.
Tunch
Did your mother just call me fat?
JenJen
Seriously, sherry? I’m with mom. What on earth is that for?
You shoulda picked up a bottle each of Bailey’s and Kahlua to go with that Grand Marnier. B-52 Party sounds like the best idea evuh!!
(Oh, and a bar spoon so you can float the layers properly)
Bruce (formerly Steve S.)
Four Loko?
SRW1
Your mom obviously senses what you’re up to. And that is because your mom always is the person you can fool none of the time.
shortstop
You know, JC’s taking a lot of flak on the sherry thing, and no one has pointed out that creme de menthe is generally only served in bowling alley bars and at Sun City card games.
dollared
@general Stuck,
That’s why despite my atheism I’ve kept the Catholic option alive. Under RC rules, you can ask all you want, and if they don’t say yes, it’s not a sin. And if (as they so often do), a woman shows you her erroneous zones when you didn’t ask, it’s only a sin if you acknowledge that it just happened.
morzer
Well, others may fall prey to this sherry-bigotry, but I intend to put on my Fighting Trousers!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iRTB-FTMdk
I don’t like your Tweet, Sir!
morzer
I wonder whether the erroneous zone is where pass interference is committed….?
SRW1
@dollared:
The Good Lords tells me that the shepherds of his RC flock don’t know that much about erroneous zones because they have a penchant for analog ones, or something. The connection was a bit poor towards the end.
parsimon
@General Stuck: Actually, it’s lovely.
justawriter
I cook with sherry often. I use it to make duxelles, a sort of preserved mushroom flavored with sherry. It’s a must ingredient for beef wellington and my sister says she’s never found anything that doesn’t taste better with duxelles and sour cream.
asiangrrlMN
Ah, Cole. You really ARE a crotchety old lady with ten cats in England, aren’t you? Funny.
@MikeL: Ha! That’s funny. Him more liberal, my ass. Why doesn’t he come here and say that?
Good lord. The mess in this house, Cole. Time for some nekkid mopping, methinks.
morzer
@asiangrrlMN:
You have to see this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iRTB-FTMdk
flukebucket
If your mother actually said that it explains a hell of a lot.
stickler
Justawriter is right. Sherry in a glass is usually pretty unimpressive. But sherry deglazed in the sauce you just cooked chanterelles/scallops/pork loin … well, that’s something else entirely.
The good stuff is OK to drink, I guess, though outside of the occasional “one glass for the pan, one for the cook,” I don’t know of anyone who actually drinks it intentionally.* But the right stuff? In the right sauce? Mmmm.
* (THIS BIT SHOULDN’T BE IN BOLD IT SHOULD JUST HAVE AN ASTERISK JUDAS FREAKING PRIEST FYWP) I don’t know any elderly English matrons. Yet.
morzer
@stickler:
Tapas, dear boy, tapas! Sherry is the nectar of the gods, and tapas their ambrosia.
I shall now put up a large border fence around myself and save the free world from my morally dubious Hispanic foodie tastes.
asiangrrlMN
@morzer: Holy shit. I’m digging that. How do you find these things?
morzer
@asiangrrlMN:
Literally, via a cricket thread on the Guardian. This one doesn’t have video, but is pretty fun too:
http://professorelemental.bandcamp.com/track/the-quest-for-the-golden-frog
The Mr B he refers to in Fighting Trousers is this fellow:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6t28COxEp2k&feature=related
asiangrrlMN
@morzer: That is too funny! I infinitely prefer Professor Elemental. I posted Fighting Trousers to my FB wall.
@morzer: Yeah. I am listening again. on Facebook, of course!
morzer
My wife says that Professor Elemental has “the wacky spirit of youth”. Seems about right to me. Where is your FB?
asiangrrlMN
@asiangrrlMN: On (capital O) Facebook. Sigh.
morzer
@asiangrrlMN:
Well, duh… do you identify yourself as MEH there?
asiangrrlMN
@morzer: RECLAIMING tea!
Nope. My real name. First and last. Which can be found you-know-where. But, crap. I have my thing set to private, so you may not be able to find me.
morzer
@asiangrrlMN:
Hmmm… you really are Lord Voldemort, aren’t you?
Ooops, I shouldna hae said that….
asiangrrlMN
@morzer: Now, you must die. Because you have spoken HIS name. By the way, the movie was excellent. The best of the lot. Though, not enough Snape, but there is never enough Snape. There was one hellacious scene with Bellatrix and a whip–I gasped out loud.
morzer
@asiangrrlMN:
Snape’s the old guy, right? The headmaster, yes?
asiangrrlMN
@morzer: Oh, HELL NO! Snape is Alan Rickman!
Yum. Yum. Yum.
shortstop
Love Snape and Rickman. The third baseman and I are attending the midnight show. When I asked him to do this and he said, to my total surprise, “Sure,” I felt much like Liz Lemon being addressed by Astronaut Mike Dexter: “See you later, Liz; hope you enjoyed the kissing and the genuine interest in the TV dance competition.”
asiangrrlMN
@shortstop: The movie is excellent. Enjoy it!
Cheri
I just had a flashback from younger years after reading the liqour store story:) My stepmom’s mother was joining our dinner one night…picture and old, crotchity, fiesty New Yorker..(no slight intended to Ny’ers..I love the ballsy-ness)After dinner, she was asked if she wanted some after dinner drink..creme de mint, sambuca, Harvey’s Bristol Cream? Her eyes lit up, she chose the Harvey’s..when my dad said, ” That looks pretty good, can I have some?” She shot back,” Sure, you can lick the cork!” That makes me laugh even now…hope you have THAT kind of fun with your new liqour assortment!