Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

And now I have baud making fun of me. this day can’t get worse.

Hi god, it’s us. Thanks a heap, you’re having a great week and it’s only Thursday!

There are times when telling just part of the truth is effectively a lie.

Relentless negativity is not a sign that you are more realistic.

75% of people clapping liked the show!

When I was faster i was always behind.

Never entrust democracy to any process that requires republicans to act in good faith.

The gop is a fucking disgrace.

Republicans choose power over democracy, every day.

If you can’t control your emotions, someone else will.

There are consequences to being an arrogant, sullen prick.

A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.

’Where will you hide, Roberts, the laws all being flat?’

Jack Smith: “Why did you start campaigning in the middle of my investigation?!”

A democracy can’t function when people can’t distinguish facts from lies.

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

Republicans want to make it harder to vote and easier for them to cheat.

We still have time to mess this up!

Baby steps, because the Republican Party is full of angry babies.

You are so fucked. Still, I wish you the best of luck.

If you don’t believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love isn’t freedom, it is privilege.

Someone should tell Republicans that violence is the last refuge of the incompetent, or possibly the first.

The media handbook says “controversial” is the most negative description that can be used for a Republican.

No Kings: Americans standing in the way of bad history saying “Oh, Fuck No!”

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(Mike Luckovich via GoComics.com)

Well, the interested parties did kind of ask for this one.

Apart from pawky jokes, what’s on the agenda for the end of the weekend?

I plan to watch NYC 22 (CBS, 10pm EDT) — last weekend’s pilot was promising. It ain’t The Unusuals (sob), but Terry Kinney and Adam Goldberg pretty much recreate their Unusual characters, the rest of the cast hold up their end, and with Robert DeNiro as executive producer and Richard Price writing, I can hope for another Third Watch– style multi-season winner…

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  1. 1.

    eemom

    pawky?

    ETA: adj. pawk·i·er, pawk·i·est Chiefly British. Shrewd and cunning, often in a humorous manner. [From English dialectal pawk, a trick.] pawky [ˈpɔːkɪ].

    Oh.

  7. 7.

    JGabriel

    Apart from pawky jokes, what’s on the agenda for the end of the weekend?

    Sunday Night?

    Veep pilot, Game of Thrones, Mad Men, The Good Wife, Girls, maybe The Borgias.

    Also, I’m in the middle of rewatching The West Wing.

    Edited To Add: The Killing is on tonight too, for those who are interested. I love Mireille Enos, but having seen the Dutch version, I just can’t get into the American one.

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  8. 8.

    lamh35

    @lamh35:

    I’m in the process of trying to find work in NOLA so I can be back home, but before that I was thinking about moving somewhere else as long as I was out of DFW.

    It’s hard enough to find a state/city that seems “safe” enough for a single female to live alone, but then I also had to decided\ just how comfortable I would have been living in a city/state where there was a really small Black population in other words, would I be comfortable living somewhere where I might be the only Black person and I realized that I just wouldn’t be comfortable doing it. So that limited my search alot.

    It’s probably nice not having to worry about it, the idea of just being able to pick up my crap and move anywhere I could reasonably afford to go without thinking about being the only Black person there, but I’ve been Black since the day I was born, so you learn to deal with it or just ignore it, but sometimes it’s just aggravating.

  9. 9.

    lamh35

    Wait, hold up, so I’m watching a documentary about some ole timey Burlesque performers from 2010 and I’m seeing Alan Alda and thinking, why is Alan Alda on this doc and then I realize his mother was a showgirl and his father was a Burlesque performer.

    Never knew that.

    Oh and man some of these Burlesque performers’ lives ended sadly

  10. 10.

    BGinCHI

    @JGabriel: Sunday night has gotten ridiculous with good TV. It almost overwhelms the dvr.

    So many good shows. The “Girls” pilot last week was interesting, except I wanted to slap half of the characters. OK, maybe more than half. Are young people in NYC all that entitled and stupid (and vapid)? I thought that was an 80s thing. Getting old I guess….

  11. 11.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Litlebritdifrnt:

    I remember something from you about new tenants but didn’t realize it was a drunk-post :-)

    The birds are lovely; do keep posting about them, especially if there are babies (and they must be planning a family, why else go to all that nesting trouble?)

  15. 15.

    JGabriel

    BGinCHI:

    Sunday night has gotten ridiculous with good TV. It almost overwhelms the dvr.

    I know. I barely watch anything that comes on during the rest of the week (Justified and House pretty much covers it), and then Sunday is chock full of good stuff.

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  16. 16.

    Cacti

    I’m sure this has been covered, but, Mittens really said this during the past week…

    “If I’m President of the United States, with your help, I will tell the truth, I will live with integrity and provide honor in the White House.”

    Accidental truth in advertising, or punked by his speech writer?

  18. 18.

    BGinCHI

    @JGabriel: Same with us, apart from soccer and movies. And with the little guy watching movies doesn’t happen that often….

    Not sure who around here suggested The Survivors (BBC show streaming on Netflix), but thanks. Into the first season and it’s good.

    Also, did anyone else catch the Downton Abbey parody on Jimmy Fallon’s show Thursday night? Caught it accidentally and holy shit was it funny and smart. YouTube probably has it.

    It’s called Downton Sixby. Studio 6B, get it?

    You’ll never guess who plays the middle daughter….

  21. 21.

    TaMara (BHF)

    I started my riding lessons today. I can barely move, already, I hate to see what tomorrow will look like. I’m really going to try and go out and do a bit of cycling to see if I can’t keep everything moving.

    But what a great way to spend a Sunday morning, grooming and riding a lovely horse. Good Wife for me tonight.

  25. 25.

    Calouste

    @Cacti:

    Meh. Mitt lies about everything, so he lies about that as well. The man is just mentally and psychologically unable to tell the truth, because throughout his whole career it has always been better for him to lie. He is just unable to break his programming, he is pretty much the reverse Kryten.

  26. 26.

    rikyrah

    @lamh35:

    lamh,

    I understand. I was thinking about moving to a state where the Black population was under 5%. I’ve put it on hold, but still thinking about the possible change.

  27. 27.

    Phylllis

    Setting the dvr for NYC 22 and Veep as well. Other than that, just getting the brain pepared for work mode.

  28. 28.

    scav

    Notice of Freebie audio Shakespeare Twelfth Night for the next 7 days — two to follow, 2) Romeo + Julie and 3) The Really Bad Storm for those that like stuff lying about loose on the innertubz.

  29. 29.

    Anne Laurie

    @BGinCHI:

    The “Girls” pilot last week was interesting, except I wanted to slap half of the characters. OK, maybe more than half. Are young people in NYC all that entitled and stupid (and vapid)?

    The one recap I read — NYMag’s Vulture blog? Pareene at Salon? One of the Gawker crew? — pointed out that all four lead Girls are the offspring of media “royalty”. So, maybe it’s the scripts, but the actors have depth of experience when it comes to playing entitled & stupid.

  32. 32.

    Steeplejack

    Getting ready to go get something for dinner. Still haven’t decided what. Was lulled into a pleasant torpor this afternoon by the steady, peaceful rain outside.

    Probably will sort of half-watch the Yankees-Red Sox game, maybe interspersed with something from the DVR if the game is boring. I recorded what I hope is really, seriously the final–really, I mean it, final!–cut of Blade Runner a few days ago, so maybe that will be it. Haven’t watched it all the way through in years.

    And Montalbano is on MHz at 9:00. A good one: “The Terracotta Dog.”

    Late-night DVR alert: TCM is showing King Vidor’s (silent!) adaptation of La Bohème (1926), with Lillian Gish and John Gilbert, at midnight (EDT), followed by a couple of films by Robert Bresson–Diary of a Country Priest (1950) at 2:00 a.m. and A Man Escaped (1957) at 4:15. Then some palate-cleansing Laurel and Hardy shorts until 10:00 a.m. I haven’t seen Diary of a Country Priest since college about a hundred years ago, have never seen the other one. So maybe I’ll put those on the DVR, if there’s room. Need to do some pruning.

  34. 34.

    JGabriel

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    For those wondering about the enthusiasm over Veep, it’s created by Armando Iannucci, also responsible for the BBC show The Thick of It and the spin-off film In The Loop. This video should give you a little taste of Ianucci’s style:

    Malcom Tucker — A Tribute To Brilliant Swearing:

    You get sarcastic with me again, and I will stuff so much cotton wool down your fuckin’ throat it will come out of your ass like a wee tail on a Playboy bunny …

    Tucker is reportedly based on Alastair Campbell (Blair’s Communications Director) and/or Harvey Weinstein — and played by Peter Capaldi, previously known as Mac’s Scottish guide Danny in the movie Local Hero, among other roles.

    “Okay, fuckity-bye!”

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  37. 37.

    handsmile

    @Steeplejack:

    YOU MUST, YOU MUST DVR Bresson’s A Man Escaped! You’ll be doing yourself a great favor. (Diary of a Country Priest is certainly a work of heartbreaking genius, but is better known and more readily available.) It is a scrupulously detailed and incredibly suspenseful account of how one resourceful fellow attempts a prison break.

    Earlier this year here in NYC, the independent cinema Film Forum presented a retrospective of all Bresson’s films. Utter bliss! A Man Escaped, which I had not seen before, along with his L’Argent (seen many times) was perhaps my favorite.

    And ain’t it just like TCM, which has been subjecting its viewers to Doris Day and beach party movies during the past two weeks’ evening hours, to screen these masterpieces in the wee small hours. Many thanks for the heads-up!! Also too, hope you enjoyed the rib-eye or the chili this evening.

  38. 38.

    Anonymous this time

    @lamh35:

    Here’s the crazy (sad) thing about this one:

    Two of my coworkers recently spent four days in Atlanta entering foreclosed homes (in order to decide on purchase prices), and possibly even entered this one. In some cases they were climbing through open windows of vacant houses. They never got so much as questioned about it.

    White guys. Obviously.

  41. 41.

    General Stuck

    Thanks all, for nice words about my doggie. Charlie is the best pet I have ever had, full of cute and sweetness that sometimes takes my breath away. I just hope I measure up to that high bar as his owner and caretaker.

  42. 42.

    gene108

    Was visiting my brother in NYC and on the drive up, this afternoon, I was listening to Bloomberg radio and they were doing some political discussion.

    They had some lady on, who likened Obama’s re-election situation to Bush, Jr.’s in 2004. What struck me and caused me to swiftly shut off my radio was the fact she compared the Secret Service-hooker scandal to Abhu Grahib and the hooker scandal was Obama’s Abu Grahib.

    I’m wondering, if this sort of BS is going to be floating around the media.

    Her justification was the fact Obama didn’t order Secret Service agents to sleep with hookers and Bush, Jr. didn’t order folks to torture people at Abu Grahib.

    The interviewer did nothing to interject the fact that (a) no DoJ officials wrote legal briefs trying to justify Secret Service agents sleeping with hookers and (b) there was no chain of command involved in issuing orders to these agents to sleep with hookers, i.e. they truly did act alone.

    Also, too the gist of her comments is that Obama’s the same as Bush, Jr., with regards to his Presidency. A sad thing, when former Bush, Jr. and loyal Republican flunkies use drawing an association with their former boss as a club to bash the opposition with.

  43. 43.

    Steeplejack

    @handsmile:

    Okay, Bresson is going on the DVR. Thanks for the strong recommendation.

    My evening sort of went sideways. Had something come up that I needed to take care of, so I ended up getting Italian takeout for dinner. Then I find that the Yankees-Red Sox game is rained out, and there’s nothing else I really want to watch on TV. (Fox is having a self-congratulatory special on 25 years of television excellence.) And I’m starting to fade early, so maybe nothing from the DVR either. Jeez, is the king of the night owls looking at turning in early? Could be.

  46. 46.

    Frankensteinbeck

    @Steeplejack:
    Not sure what details are meaningful. I suppose the important part is that Curiosity Quills wants to (indeed, contracts are signed) publish Sweet Dreams Are Made Of Teeth and Quite Contrary, and they’re enthusiastic about anything else I have or am going to write. In terms of its effect on my life, this is ‘After losing my job at the beginning of the recession and being unable to get another, even one pathetically menial, I’m employed again and moving forward.’ It’s hard to say how big the opportunities are here, but as a writer this first official book contract is the biggest hurdle to jump, especially since the traditional publishing system went to Hell over the last 10-20 years. The irony is that self-publishing worked – I sold next to nothing, but it got me noticed.

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