Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.

The next time the wall street journal editorial board speaks the truth will be the first.

Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.

Teach a man to fish, and he’ll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.

Imperialist aggressors must be defeated, or the whole world loses.

A consequence of cucumbers

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires

We still have time to mess this up!

Battle won, war still ongoing.

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

Putting aside our relentless self-interest because the moral imperative is crystal clear.

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

Within six months Twitter will be fully self-driving.

Consistently wrong since 2002

Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

This blog will pay for itself.

Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

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  3. 3.

    Yutsano

    Are they on Nemec yet?

    The meet-up was a fucking blast and a half. I’ll let others comment here but good booze good food and great company.

    And who put the quarter in UCT?

  11. 11.

    Yutsano

    @MikeJ: Methinks she’ll get a true taste of the weather up here while she’s up in Canuckistan. At least that’s the rumor. And dammit I have a must-have restaurant list for Vancouver too. I think I’ll drop that over at her place. Plus she has to go to the place where my wedding that will never happen will be. :)

  14. 14.

    CaseyL

    Seconding Yutsano and MikeJ on what a gas the Seattle BJ Meetup was. It was so much fun that SouthernBeale and Mr. SouthernBeale came all the way from Nashville (I kid: they happen to be vacationing here now, and the timing was fortuitous). We plied them with booze and food and way too many suggestions about where to eat and what to see while in Seattle.

    It was great fun, and something well worth doing again!

  15. 15.

    sfinny

    I’m jealous. Seattle is one of many places that I want to visit, but haven’t yet. Happy you all had a good time though.

  16. 16.

    MikeTheZ

    Because, according to the Internet Traditions it must be said…

    ITS OVER 9000!!!!!!

    We now return you to your regularly scheduled Open Thread.

  17. 17.

    hamletta

    Well, now, y’all Seattlites need to come to the Music City.

    And congratulate me, because I just bought a MacBook Pro! First new computer in yonks.

  18. 18.

    Yutsano

    @hamletta:

    Well, now, y’all Seattlites need to come to the Music City.

    I’d go. I’d love to see Nashville and experience all the music and the history there. Plus I’d take the opportunity to prove once and for all that Kenny Chesney is gay.

  22. 22.

    Yutsano

    @Violet: That would be the one. The mystery deepens since the marriage was annulled due to “fraud”. And hos public comments have been mushy at best and highly elusive at worst. And she won’t discuss it at all.

  23. 23.

    Valdivia

    Sia. Just saw her in concert at the 9:30 club in DC and she is awesomely cooky on stage and her music rocks.

  24. 24.

    Violet

    @Yutsano:
    I remember that “fraud” thing. It was very odd. Who annuls a marriage these days? I figured she was the gay one. You figure it’s him? He’s the one who always wears the hat, right? I don’t even know what he looks like. He’s a guy with a cowboy hat. LOL.

  32. 32.

    Yutsano

    @Steeplejack: Okay details.

    I was fashionably late (but not the last arrival) so when I walked into the bar the host knew right where to take me after I said I was looking for a group of people. We were split between two booths facing each other and introductions went around. We imbibed and laughed and griped and acted, well, like BJers. I can say that CaseyL is a fiery beautiful redhead and MikeJ is a delightful guy. Opie Jeanne is gonna end up being like my fourth or fifth mom, and SoBeale is very much the Southern lady we expected. Dollared came later and left early but he had plans.* Since the restaurant was literally right next door we hobbled right on over. MikeJ promptly got annoyed with me for taking the last pork tamale, but I’ll make it up to him later. The conversation and laughter continued as we ate outside and shared observations and stories and such. I meant to do more liveblogging but, well, we were all caught up in the company and fun.

    That’s the gist anyway.

    *(note to the BJers present: no I haven’t forgotten. I’m just waiting for the opportune moment to mention it.)

  33. 33.

    Dead Earnest

    What else to listen to? Well SP&T, only because I follow Maggie Koerth.Baker at BoingBoing, today I was introduced to Professor Elemental and his ChapRap tune ‘Fighting Trousers’; via Maggie/BoingBoing:

    http://boingboing.net/2011/08/19/fighting-trousers-quality-victorian-parody-rap-video.html

    Now I should also prePologize to any and all who have been aware of Chap Rap, the Professor and his rival, Mr B The Gentleman Rhymer Straight Outta Surrey, as it turns out this British Lords version of Hip Hop has been going on for several years. For me, who pretty well veered away from Pop culture around the time of The Guess Who and American Woman, it was a delightful find.
    Enjoy.

  36. 36.

    Anoniminous

    Doing some Civil War web surfing and ran across:

    Civil War food, logistics detailed:

    At the end of the event, Rice was presented with some actual Civil War hardtack. The wood from the crate that held it had rotted, leaving only the nails, but the hardtack endured in a Union trash pit in Fort Oglethorpe, Ga., part of the Chickamauga battlefield where it was found.

    The wood rotted but the hardtack survived!!

  38. 38.

    Bruuuuce

    @cleek: I saw Wye Oak open for The Decemberists back in January. I hope they’re better in the studio than onstage. They have talent, but all of their material seems to follow a distinct template, and all ran together into much of a muchness.

  39. 39.

    Bruuuuce

    @Sarah P&T (OP): This mashup (found via another of my fave blogs, Making Light) had me rolling with laughter, since it mashes two songs I play myself. I think I’ll have a go at it, the next time I’m performing.

  41. 41.

    Bruuuuce

    For those into SF/F, the Hugo Awards ceremony was streamed live from Renovation (Worldcon) this evening. There’s a recording of it still up, at http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/16783348 (Two caveats: (1) UStream plays a nonskippable commercial ad before the actual content and (2) the ceremony doesn’t start until about 35 minutes into the thing.)

    To avoid posting a long list of the winners, the list of winners can be found at http://renovationsf.org/ (for now). Congratulations are due to them all (although I would have voted differently in most cases where I knew the nominees!).

  42. 42.

    Christine Demos

    Anyone know Les Negresses Vertes? Love them, especially “L’homme Des Marais”. And “Voila L’ete”. Oldies but goodies.

  43. 43.

    Paul Ryan's Dirty Sockpuppet

    There is only the one thing for listening.

    PONPONPON

    (frightens my cats and is really bloody catchy so it’s worth it.)

  44. 44.

    AA+ Bonds

    That fateful night . . . Balloon Juice converged with 4chan . . . consequences will never be the same.

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