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Late Night Open Thread: You Asked for This

by Anne Laurie|  September 29, 20123:21 am| 36 Comments

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Speaking of the 80s…

I want some twins, like Dolly has for her walk-on. The stagehands, you perverts!

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  1. 1.

    Yutsano

    September 29, 2012 at 3:39 am

    Dolly is a hoot and a half. And not a lot of folks know how wicked smaht she is.

  2. 2.

    Suffern ACE

    September 29, 2012 at 3:47 am

    But is it gritty?

    @Yutsano: I didn’t realize how tiny she is until I saw her in concert. She’s probably 5’2″ without heels and 4’6″ without her wig.

  3. 3.

    dance around in your bones

    September 29, 2012 at 3:52 am

    She’s a sweetie, and has a great voice (country-style) and a great sense of humor about her enormous boobs.

    Not everybody could carry those basketballs around with such grace.

  4. 4.

    Linda Featheringill

    September 29, 2012 at 4:02 am

    Hiya dance. Why are you and I up? We’re supposed to be daytime people.

  5. 5.

    Yutsano

    September 29, 2012 at 4:15 am

    @Linda Featheringill: Welcome to the night shift! Coffee and doughnuts are in the break room and there is also a nice assortment of teas. Sometimes there are cookies.

  6. 6.

    Or something like that.Suffern Ace

    September 29, 2012 at 4:18 am

    usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/opinion/forum/story/2012-09-23/jill-stein-green-party-presidential/5783…
    nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/if_the_greens_are_to_bam_right_lYxQvf2lAwcXWVACadtQuL

    Glenn Reynolds. New Dealer. Green promoter.

  7. 7.

    Linda Featheringill

    September 29, 2012 at 4:18 am

    @Yutsano:

    :-)

  8. 8.

    Linda Featheringill

    September 29, 2012 at 4:22 am

    Did you guys get in on the excitement? Somebody actually said that we have a chance in the House.

    Sam Wang, Princeton Election something-or-other:

    The Presidency and control of the Senate are nearly certain to go to the Democrats. The House is very much in play, but Democrats may have a slight advantage. This is why Nancy Pelosi and Bill Kristol are speaking as they are. This is also why much smart money is now flowing downticket – where it can make a difference.

    [This was a non-mathematical summation of his previously posted discussion with lots of math.]

  9. 9.

    Yutsano

    September 29, 2012 at 4:28 am

    @Linda Featheringill: We’re gonna have to work our tails off for it. Having said that, the teatard revolution has just about boo to show for their recent surge to power, and that has to be costing some of the freshmen Congresscritters to be rather unpopular in their districts.

  10. 10.

    wasabi gasp

    September 29, 2012 at 4:38 am

    @Or something like that.Suffern Ace: He’s open-minded to alternative methods of solving the Obama crisis.

  11. 11.

    wasabi gasp

    September 29, 2012 at 5:06 am

    If sleep were optional, I would never let waste the solitude of night.

  12. 12.

    divF

    September 29, 2012 at 5:16 am

    I’m on a plane about to depart London for DC. Otherwise I would not be up at this insane hour (for me 2:15 am pdt) to extend this thread.

    That is all.

  13. 13.

    raven

    September 29, 2012 at 5:24 am

    I can’t fucking breathe because of pollen.

  14. 14.

    TheMightyTrowel

    September 29, 2012 at 6:09 am

    I’ll continue the whining tone…

    I’m one day in to a rather laconic 3 day move – just to the next suburb over, but moving still sucks. Most annoyingly: I’ve borrowed a pickup from work to move my books/bookshelves and I reversed a little too enthusiastically and hit a fence with the edge of the bumper. The fence was aluminum and dented rather spectacularly, but the bumper is fine (aside from a few green streaks). Seeing as this is the fieldwork pickup I’m probably not going to say anything about the green streaks to them, but I’ve called up the business whose fence I hit and offered to pay for the damage.

  15. 15.

    raven

    September 29, 2012 at 6:25 am

    Grumpy cat video

  16. 16.

    TheMightyTrowel

    September 29, 2012 at 6:29 am

    @raven: OMG that kitteh looks like Brando!

  17. 17.

    Comrade Nimrod Humperdink

    September 29, 2012 at 6:29 am

    @TheMightyTrowel: Yeah wifey and I just scored a new place to live but gave ourselves basically a month to get it done (I paid for October here, she paid for October there) because it’s just not worth killing ourselves over. We find ourselves looking for new stuff to buy for the new place rather than packing up the shit we have. Motivation. We need some.

  18. 18.

    raven

    September 29, 2012 at 6:32 am

    @TheMightyTrowel: VIVA ZAPATA!

  19. 19.

    Geoduck

    September 29, 2012 at 6:35 am

    @raven:

    The cat’s name is “Tard”? Sigh…

  20. 20.

    TheMightyTrowel

    September 29, 2012 at 6:36 am

    @raven: Be careful or it’ll make you an offer you can’t refuse.

  21. 21.

    raven

    September 29, 2012 at 6:37 am

    @Geoduck: From the youtube comments:

    Dude first of all, he named his cat “Tardar Sauce” and only calls him “Tard” for short (besides, even if he did call it a retard, the cat won’t understand, much less care). Second, just because that cat was born with an unusual face that makes him look grumpy doesn’t mean he’s actually grumpy. So no, the cat is not getting harassed, it looks like he is clearly enjoying being scratched like that.

  22. 22.

    Comrade Nimrod Humperdink

    September 29, 2012 at 6:38 am

    By the way Anne, thanks for the family vacation flashbacks to 14 hour car rides with lots of Islands in the Stream on the car stereo. Ugh…

  23. 23.

    raven

    September 29, 2012 at 6:39 am

    Have you ever had Trader Joe’s Gingersnap cookies? They have real little bits of ginger in them and they will light you up in the morning!

  24. 24.

    raven

    September 29, 2012 at 6:41 am

    @Comrade Nimrod Humperdink: Have you heard her do Stairway?

  25. 25.

    Geoduck

    September 29, 2012 at 6:45 am

    @raven: Yeah, I read that. Not the crime of the century, but it’s still a jerkass name to have chosen.

  26. 26.

    arguingwithsignposts

    September 29, 2012 at 6:46 am

    @raven: I wonder what that cat will look like when it grows up? pretty cute vid.

  27. 27.

    arguingwithsignposts

    September 29, 2012 at 7:03 am

    I see FYWP comments are acting surly this am. grrrrrrr.

  28. 28.

    TheMightyTrowel

    September 29, 2012 at 7:09 am

    @arguingwithsignposts: WP probably had a few too many tequilas last night and is currently green and puking unnecessary comments into the blogosphere dorm toilet.

  29. 29.

    Nix

    September 29, 2012 at 7:18 am

    I have my own idiots

    I know that talking politics at work is a no no, but in my defense tea baggers paint targets on their own foreheads. Cornering you in the break room telling you how they have the golden bullet. They rant on about some non-issue that they just heard on Rush.

    Yesterday I was cornered by two of my idiots, they asked with a laugh about my Obama cell phone? I told them that I made far too much money for one. Though I never supported W I do think he did the right thing in expanding the program to cell phones that started in the 1930s and thanked them for the Rush update of stupid. Then to kick dirt in their face asked how Ron Paul was doing.

    The day before it was school lunches, and how they can’t wait for Ann Romney to be first lady. One stepped toward me to announce how good looking Ann is. I snickered and told him that was great, but I am not into mummified cunts.

    I never feel bad after. I know it is like picking on mentally handicapped people, but they are just so fucking evil.

  30. 30.

    dance around in your bones

    September 29, 2012 at 8:26 am

    @Linda Featheringill:

    Naturally just as you wrote that, I’d shut my laptop and gone to bed and literally started dreaming about Balloon Juice.

    I was dreaming about making a comment about not commenting in a totally meta kind of way :)

    Thanks for saying hi!

  31. 31.

    Schlemizel

    September 29, 2012 at 9:04 am

    If you want to hear a really great voice find Dolly when she was singing with Porter Wagoner. He sucks but her voice is so beautiful then and her style so much better.

    She changed when she got out from under him and became the middle of the road slush fountain we enjoy today. But back then the lady displayed some awesome pipes.

    I had the misfortune of working at a C&W radio station back about that time. While I love Blue Grass I was not, and still am not, a fan of that era country. But I bought every record Parton sang on (had to skip over the Wagoner only tracks – gad iPods are a blessing!).

    Bonus – if you see her then and can ignore the bizzaro hair she was a natural beauty pre-augmentation

  32. 32.

    Schlemizel

    September 29, 2012 at 9:11 am

    @raven:

    Since it is TARTAR sauce the short name should be TART not tard.

    Just sayin

  33. 33.

    PurpleGirl

    September 29, 2012 at 10:19 am

    The cat vid is cute; I especially liked how the cat’s eyes were focused on at the end.

  34. 34.

    JoyfulA

    September 29, 2012 at 2:16 pm

    @Schlemizel: They used to have a TV show together, and I never missed it, even though I hate, hate, hate country music. Her voice was so great, and she exuded “decent human being.”

  35. 35.

    Roger the Cabin Boy

    September 29, 2012 at 9:50 pm

    Perverts? I represent that remark!

  36. 36.

    fuckwit

    September 30, 2012 at 3:40 am

    She can also play the hell out of a guitar too. No mere singer here.

    And, has written super smash hit songs for Whitney Houston.

    So there’s that too.

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