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Maybe your friends think I’m just a stranger

by DougJ|  February 11, 20125:40 pm| 30 Comments

This post is in: Readership Capture, Blogospheric Navel-Gazing

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Okay, so we’re on for McGee’s tomorrow at 3 pm. I’ll wear my trapper hat so as to look recognizable. Hopefully, others will have balloons, stuffed cats, etc. to make us recognizable.

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  1. 1.

    Villago Delenda Est

    February 11, 2012 at 5:59 pm

    “Strangers in the night, exchanging glances…”

  2. 2.

    JoyfulA

    February 11, 2012 at 6:05 pm

    The rest of us expect live tweeting for the duration.

  3. 3.

    schrodinger's cat

    February 11, 2012 at 6:05 pm

    Are you going to pair the trapper hat with L L Bean duck shoes and fleece? We can has photos plz?

  4. 4.

    David Koch

    February 11, 2012 at 6:07 pm

    stuffed cats

    Tunch is coming?

  5. 5.

    Amir Khalid

    February 11, 2012 at 6:16 pm

    Are you a man of constant sorrow now?

  6. 6.

    Rafer Janders

    February 11, 2012 at 6:26 pm

    Damn, I really wish I could make this. But, alas, The Daily Dish get-together at the same time….

  7. 7.

    Nicole

    February 11, 2012 at 6:28 pm

    Looking forward to it!

  8. 8.

    La Caterina

    February 11, 2012 at 6:28 pm

    Johannes and I will be sorry to miss it. Mom in law’s birthday party out on the island tomorrow. Ditto on the live tweets.

  9. 9.

    Veritas

    February 11, 2012 at 6:30 pm

    ROMNEY WINS IN MAINE!

    IT’S OFFICIAL!

  10. 10.

    hamletta

    February 11, 2012 at 6:31 pm

    Weird. I’m watching O Brother right now, and the radio show scene was playing as this post came up in my reader.

    Have a great time, you guys! And do. Not. Seek. The traysure.

  11. 11.

    PurpleGirl

    February 11, 2012 at 6:37 pm

    Don’t have a stuffed cat but how about a transvestite bunny rabbit? (Its back story involves Rocky Horror Picture Show fandom.)

    ETA: I know it’s supposed to be a transvestite teddy bear but…

  12. 12.

    Sarah Proud and Tall

    February 11, 2012 at 6:39 pm

    @Veritas:

    Ah, well, I expect that little Ricky and Newt will just give up now that Mitt has won a whole 24 new delegates. They must be quaking in their boots.

  13. 13.

    Villago Delenda Est

    February 11, 2012 at 6:53 pm

    @Sarah Proud and Tall:

    According to the NYT, Miss Sarah, the results of the Maine caucuses are non-binding.

    Which, as was pointed out by beltane on another thread, means that the “ugly contest” in Maine is every bit as meaningful as the “beauty contest” in Missouri on Tuesday was.

  14. 14.

    MikeJ

    February 11, 2012 at 6:57 pm

    Pity Maine is meaningless. I still think Romney is the easiest to beat.

  15. 15.

    Sarah Proud and Tall

    February 11, 2012 at 7:01 pm

    @Villago Delenda Est:

    Heavens, it’s even funnier than I thought.

    In other news, Veritas is a laughable spoof troll with the IQ of sawdust, but I do find him amusing, particularly when he gets everything wrong and vanishes for three days to sulk.

  16. 16.

    hhex65

    February 11, 2012 at 7:10 pm

    @Veritas: Now he just needs to buy a vowel and he can solve this thing!

  17. 17.

    robertdsc-PowerBook

    February 11, 2012 at 7:36 pm

    I still think John should look into adding stuffed plush Tunch dolls to the store. He’d make millions.

  18. 18.

    David Koch

    February 11, 2012 at 7:48 pm

    @robertdsc-PowerBook: This.

  19. 19.

    JoyfulA

    February 11, 2012 at 8:04 pm

    @hhex65: You just read Friedman’s column, about the Republican Party as a Scrabble player with seven vowels that don’t spell anything?

  20. 20.

    ComradeOlaf

    February 11, 2012 at 8:27 pm

    When will one of these cool get-togethers happen in MN??

  21. 21.

    PurpleGirl

    February 11, 2012 at 8:32 pm

    @ComradeOlaf: well, you could pick a city and a date and ask if other MN people would like to join you for a meet-up. I don’t know it is required that a front-pager be there. Opinions, anyone?

  22. 22.

    MikeJ

    February 11, 2012 at 8:37 pm

    @PurpleGirl:

    I don’t know it is required that a front-pager be there. Opinions, anyone?

    We did a Seattle meetup with no front pagers present, but we did have a Nashvillite in town.

  23. 23.

    hhex65

    February 11, 2012 at 8:38 pm

    @JoyfulA: heh, just a coincidence

  24. 24.

    JoyfulA

    February 11, 2012 at 8:49 pm

    @hhex65: It was linked to elsewhere, and the first two paragraphs were pretty good. Then it turned into typical Friedman, and I fled. But the vowels—

  25. 25.

    SoINeedAName48

    February 11, 2012 at 8:55 pm

    Looking forward to viewing LOTS of photos!
    Have fun!

  26. 26.

    Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)

    February 11, 2012 at 9:20 pm

    @Sarah Proud and Tall: Oh, it’s even funnier than that. 16% of the precincts didn’t hold their straw poll until after the state GOP’s press release, so they just aren’t bothering to include them. So, contra Veritas, we don’t actually have any idea whether Romney won or not.

    This is the second of the nine states to hold a vote so far in which the GOP has failed to record the votes in all of the precincts. No wonder they’re so worried about voter fraud.

  27. 27.

    CaseyL

    February 11, 2012 at 11:48 pm

    @MikeJ: Speaking of which – Do you if you’ll be able to join us at the Seattle confab on the 18th?

  28. 28.

    Richard S

    February 12, 2012 at 1:35 am

    It’s been a long week. Where’s this place? I think I can walk it.

  29. 29.

    jayackroyd

    February 12, 2012 at 4:33 am

    I can’t make it to McGees. I hope the book group folks will check out digby’s discussion with Corey Robin on Sunday evening.

  30. 30.

    Suezboo

    February 12, 2012 at 7:54 am

    Discrimination against the Third World spotted. Bigotry. Prejudice.Classism. Nationalism. All the bad stuff.
    I want to come to a meetup in NYC too. Pout. Sulk. Mope.

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