Some crazy black woman called me and woke me up, and now you are rewarded with an open thread.
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Some crazy black woman called me and woke me up, and now you are rewarded with an open thread.
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MikeJ
It’s worse when she just elbows you.
arguingwithsignposts
was she angry?
JGabriel
So when do the paternity results come in?
This what happens when you drink and park. Accidents cause people.
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MikeJ
Jesus fuck, 56-67.
amk
ABL ?
butler
Hahaha! Could have been game over, and they score again!
We’ll break the record yet!
joeyess
Anyone here object to my band naming ourselves after something in the Balloon Juice Lexicon?
We’re going for a polarized crowd.
Someone recently said to me “you don’t want to mix politics and religion with music and entertainment. You’ll lose half your crowd.”
I responded that half the crowd was precisely what I’m trying to avoid.
butler
Damn, big man with football ruins any chance of a comeback.
amk
@joeyess: veritas?
JGabriel
Krugman shoots for Greatest Number Of Enraged Wingnut Comments in the history of the New York Times, entitles latest column: Keynes Was Right.
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joeyess
We’re an overtly political/atheist band looking to fuse those topics with great music and deliberately polarize in the belief that the crowd we retain will be devoted followers. The rest of them? Feh.
opie jeanne
@MikeJ: Yeah, we agree.
joeyess
@amk: Something less pretentious. We were calling ourselves Poe’s Descent.
Also, too, we need to find something that won’t come up on a google search as already a band name.
Little Boots
we’re not done with sully are we?
cause now I’m obsessed.
and where is that crazy black woman, by the way?
MikeJ
@joeyess: You could bring me in to play guitar. You’d lose both halves of your crowd.
Gex
Was it Clarence Thomas’ wife?
Little Boots
@MikeJ:
well someone’s gotta do something. this is becoming a morgue.
Little Boots
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDqqi12SBGM
will mellencamp help?
joeyess
@MikeJ: Hahahahaha……
Gex
I was going to ask if it was Clarence Thomas’ wife, but then I remembered she’s white. She can definitely pull off the rest of the description: crazy lady calling people.
Little Boots
Big round of applause for Iowa. making everyone see the silliness of the Repubs. bless you neighbor!
joeyess
I plan on feeding this blog all kinds of original music, video, and live footage. I hope you’ll all receive it in the spirit intended.
We’re all old pros. This is the last band I’ll ever be in. I’m going to make this one count.
Frontpagers be warned. I’m going to fill your email with stuff in hopes you post it.
Since I consider this my go-to blog, I would like to share the music with you all.
Little Boots
@joeyess:
go nuts.
Little Boots
not that I’m a big mellencamp fan, but I always liked this too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmy4PbW0BKo&feature=related
YellowJournalism
Frontpagers Be Warned would be a good album name.
Dee Loralei
I look forward to hearing it Joey. But I don’t remember Poe’s Decent being a Balloonjuiceism. Too lazy to look it up tonight, LOL. Sorry. Football wore me out.
joeyess
@Little Boots: I’ve already arrived.
The prophet Nostradumbass
@amk: Ha, that’s what I was going to say!
Narcissus
Keynes was right. It blows me away that this is controversial.
Little Boots
@joeyess:
i believe it, but i still want to see it.
Violet
@joeyess:
I think a band called “Activist Judges” would be kind of cool. Is it already taken?
joeyess
BTW, I think this should be Balloon Juice’s definitive picture when talking about the D.C. Chattering/Cocktail/Villager/Bobo class.
YellowJournalism
Quick scan of the lexicon bring me Poutrage, Puke Funnel, and Iatropic Excitement as good band names, although I’m quite partial to Doughy Pantload.
sfinny
@Violet: Hey, I like that name.
joeyess
@Little Boots: You will.@Violet: No. There’s a song by “Cashew” entitled “Activist Judges” and it really blows.
taylormattd
@MikeJ: The more I stew on this, the more pissed I am. FOR CHRIST SAKE, WE SCORED 56 POINTS AND WE LOST. Ugh.
Dee Loralei
@joeyess: I just saw that movie a few weeks ago! Oh, and I looked in the lexicon and didn’t find Poe’s Decent, then went back and re-read what you wrote, you were called that and now you’re looking at the lexicon for better ideas. (I told ya I was just wore out, LOL.)
YellowJournalism
Katy: What about Naugahyde Windpipe?
Cecilia: Too metal.
Raji: Oedipus and the Mama’s Boys.
Cecilia: Too college radio.
Deeje: My Johnson Is 12 Inches Long.
Cecilia: Interesting, but it doesn’t really sound like a band name.
Sorry, I love the concept of band names, and that’s one of my fav scenes in that movie. I also adore the name they decide on: Everybody Gets Laid.
Little Boots
somehow, a terrible song called Activist Judges that everyone must still listen to seems right. I will try to find it.
Dee Loralei
@taylormattd: That was a wild game, taylor, sorry your team lost. And yea, normally 56 fucking points would be a blow-out! So that sucks for all Huskie fans.
Calouste
@joeyess:
What about “Wingnut Event Horizon”?
joeyess
@Dee Loralei: Yes.
Little Boots
I don’t know why I have to inflict this on balloon juice, but I do:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puVmKfCwb4M
Dee Loralei
OK, off to bed for me.
Little Boots
I blame joey.
joeyess
@Dee Loralei: I was thinking about C-Plus Augustus, Hoocoodanode, We’re Are All Mayans Now, Alito Grimace, and Green Shoots.
Possibly Lil Boots
Calouste
“Caribou Barbie and the Banana Republicans”
or if you have a male lead singer:
“Commander Codpiece and the Banana Republicans”
JGabriel
@Narcissus:
We’re talking about people who still think natural selection is the devil’s handiwork.
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joeyess
@Calouste: I like that. Maybe Peak Wingnut.
joeyess
@Little Boots: what did I do?
Little Boots
@joeyess:
You meddled with the Primal Forces of NAAAAAATURE
sfinny
@Little Boots: That just made my day. Although that song is sticking a bit in the ear.
Re band name: Fountainhead Revisited?
Jason
“If she phoned you, how did you know she was black? There you go, making assumptions about people just coz of how they sound. And why is her race relevant at all? Why mention it? You got something against crazy black people? You think craziness and black goes hand in hand?”
Yutsano
@taylormattd: The Coug will just stay silent. Especially since I have to go to UW Med tomorrow.
joeyess
@Little Boots: @Little Boots: Here ya go.
joeyess
@sfinny: Do I have to revisit it?
Calouste
@joeyess:
That was my first thought, but liked Wingnut Event Horizon better. Still, problem with that is that it sounds ok, but needs a lot of explanation. I assume you’d prefer a name that has the wingnuts protesting the moment you book a venue, free publicity is good publicity.
ETA: What about “The Bush Crime Syndicate”?
JGabriel
@joeyess: I’m partial to Squid Cloud of Butt-hurt.
sfinny
@joeyess: Considering that I never finished the book, I would say no.
Little Boots
@sfinny:
damn, I should know. I know they’re Romanian. but beyond that, I should totally know, since I’m a little obsessed with that song. but I will find out.
joeyess
@Calouste: yes
Little Boots
it’s joey’s fault, is all I know.
JGabriel
@joeyess: Wait, wait, here it is, the perfect band title from the lexicon:
Purity Spiral
(Filed Under Wingularity)
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Donut
Higgle-Dy – Piggle-Dy.
joeyess
@JGabriel: I like that.
Little Boots
@joeyess:
Okay, that’s horrible. that’s Scalia horrible.
make it go away.
sfinny
@JGabriel: It’s a better name than Epistemic Closure.
FlipYrWhig
@joeyess: Pink Himalayan Salt would be decent. Or just Pink Salt.
BonnyAnne
@Yutsano: Oddly, I have to *work* at UW Med tomorrow. Be well, whatever the cause for your visit, and fear not: we are very fond of Cougs! We hire a lot of them away from Pullman. They seem to like it here. :D
Little Boots
but now, adele:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYEDA3JcQqw&ob=av2e
joeyess
@Little Boots: Ha ha ha ha!!!! I told you it blew. hahahhahahahahahahahahaha………
joeyess
@FlipYrWhig: That’s not bad either.
Pink Salt.
Little Boots
@joeyess:
youre evil.
funny.
but evil.
JGabriel
@sfinny:
Well, yeah. Epistemic Closure sounds like a surgical measure to prevent Santorum.
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FlipYrWhig
@sfinny: “Epistemic Closure” would play a lot of Queensryche and Rush.
JGabriel
@joeyess: Pink Salt.
No no no!
Purity Spiral
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joeyess
@Little Boots: I know.
Yutsano
@BonnyAnne: WSU has a really good nursing program. The only other real medical thing we have is vets. And that is just…funny. :)
joeyess
@JGabriel: I sent Purity Spiral along to the boys.
I think that one’s got a shot.
JGabriel
I’m tellin’ ya man, Purity Spiral is the shit, dude. And I mean the GOOD shit.
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TuiMel
@taylormattd:
I still love Chris Polk.
Allan
Fuckin’ time zones, how do they work?
PeakVT
Wingnut Fail Parade? Or maybe Mittens and the Fail Parade.
joeyess
I’m going to bed. Thank you all.
Here’s a parting video just for you all.
FSM knows I love this place.
j.
sfinny
@FlipYrWhig: Funny, but I was thinking Quiet Riot.
Little Boots
@joeyess:
see, evil.
but I’ll miss you. good night.
MikeJ
@Yutsano: Not medical but I saw a coug on youtube who builds model farm machinery out of lego. Said he lived on a farm growing 600 acres of peppermint. You know that somebody somewhere grows it, but I never thought there were vast fields of peppermint so nearby.
Mnemosyne
@joeyess:
I’m partial to A Snarling Mass of Vitriolic Vicious Jackals myself. But that may be too heavy metal. Maybe just The Vitriolic Jackals?
PeakVT
@Allan: Don’t ask the Samoans.
BonnyAnne
@Yutsano: I have always marveled at the connection. But yes, your nursing school is excellent (better than ours IMHO, because it’s not so full of itself).
Perhaps smiling politely at angry men who call you “hun” and complain about parasite government workers while you clean up their poo is, if nothing else, a similar skill set to dealing with sick, miserable … never mind. I cherish all of my patients. Yes.
(I once had to hold a man’s head while he vomited all over himself, and in the background on TV Sean Hannity talked about how Obama was secretly friends with the head of NAMBLA. That was a challenging shift.)
Little Boots
and i just miss the eighties:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ST86JM1RPl0&feature=related
Crusty Dem
@BonnyAnne:
Hey, I have to work at UW Med tomorrow, too. Ann. The joys of the BB tower..
Redshift
I think a lot of the lexicon entries, like Wingnut Event Horizon and Epistemic Closure, make better album names than band names.
Discussions like this always remind me of a bit in Alan Moore’s DR & Quinch where they note that many bands have a limited amount of creativity (present company excepted, of course) and use it all up thinking of a name, so they present a long list of band names as a public service. Sadly, it’s not online, as far as I can tell.
kdaug
C’mon, kids, the answer is obvious:
“Joeyess and the Cudlips”
BonnyAnne
@Crusty Dem: haha I’ve never even been up there. Apparently there are other parts of the hospital? Cascade FTW!
Someone braver than me should propose a Seattle Balloon Juice meet-up. Might help if we had a front pager to lend us some rainy, shitty-football-filled support.
Gex
@JGabriel: And if you concede that they go back to arguing against plate tectonics. And if you concede that they start telling you how heliocentrism is a Jewish conspiracy.
No way they are going to understand Keynes.
MikeJ
@BonnyAnne: We discussed having another meetup back before xmas but not internet life intruded.
Yutsano
@BonnyAnne:
This has been done. But it was too much of a blast to not have a repeat performance sometime soon. :) Plus we need to celebrate CaseyL’s new gig anyway.
Fucen Pneumatic Fuck Wrench Tarmal
@joeyess:
dead eye dick and the turd blossom posse?
the most perfect band name i have seen in the last few years was
gasoline dion, and they sound like you would think they might.
Ian
@BonnyAnne:
I have endured some serious shit in my life, but that is the most traumatic thing I have ever heard.
BonnyAnne
@Yutsano: OH MY GOD AND IT WAS EVEN AT THE ZIG ZAG. That is my favoritest bar of all favorite bars. I hate myself so much right now.
Whatever CaseyL’s new gig is, I say yes and yes to a repeat. hopefully I will hear about this one.
BonnyAnne
@Ian: I have seen some pretty bad shit, too but it turns out that not much tops choosing between someone vomiting up bile and Hannity saying “NAMBLA” over and over and over. I think I chose the bile.
Bago
Wait, wait, wait, I missed an event at the zig zag? They had the BEST pizza before the remodel! I have been through New York, Vancouver, D.C. , San Francisco, Dallas, Amsterdam, Istanbul and several more cities too tedious to type out, but hot damn if they didn’t have the best pizza.
Omnes Omnibus
@Bago: Amsterdam is, of course, famous for its pizza.
Odie Hugh Manatee
Color me not surprised:
Don’t get no jism upon that SOPA, SOPA.
One rule for me and one for thee…
NobodySpecial
If it’s not too late, let me suggest Green Balloons would also be an excellent band name. Or if you want to get really red-staters unwelcome, The Seventythird Percentile.