Via Slate:
For what would have been his 85th birthday on Monday, Google has drawn up a wonderfully imagined Google Doodle as a tribute to the beloved illustrator and children’s book author Maurice Sendak….
For what it’s worth, various distractions over the weekend meant we were spared exhaustive dissections of a potential key foreign affairs crisis (/snark). Per Maureen O’Connor at NYMag, on Friday:
“Michelle Obama of China” Peng Liyuan will not be meeting real Michelle Obama during her weekend at “Camp David of the West” Rancho Mirage… This is either a thoughtless snub, a shrewdly calculated snub, or evidence that MObama “is just really busy” because Sasha and Malia are about to start summer vacation….
I will admit, the Side-Eye competition shots might’ve been worth the pixels, if the pics at the link are a fair sample.
What’s on the agenda for the start of another workweek?
Ultraviolet Thunder
Vacation. My first time off work since August, and boy do I need it.
Gonna finish a project for publication, entertain family house guests, wage war against weeds, listen to records and maybe go for a hike. Not an ambitious week, but I need a little down time to rest.
TriassicSands
Busy? No way. It’s proof that Mrs. Obama is a “monster.” I guess ace lunatic Glenn Beck is right, the lady is a monster. A monster.
First, she disses a heckler. And now this. What a monster. Monster, monster, monster, monster.
TheMightyTrowel
Off to England tomorrow for conferences and research. Psyching myself up for 26 hours in planes and airports. Mr Trowel is coming which is nice but we almost never fly together for a reason. Sigh.
NotMax
(Repeating for the daytime folks, with an edit after some reflection.)
Holy crap. If you didn’t catch it, check out the opening number to Sunday night’s Tony Awards with Neil Patrick Harris. (Watch it full screen, as they pulled out all the stops for stagecraft.)
Absolutely now firmly ensconced in the top 5 opening production numbers ever done for
the Tonysany awards show.Ultraviolet Thunder
Looks like it’s going to rain all day so I’m glad I got yard work done and a long walk for Doglius yesterday. Should be a good day to be down in the shop finishing some electronics projects.
Hal
I didn’t even realize the Tony’s were on last night. They might want to up their marketing budget. Also, one of the funnier lines from Will and Grace about the Tony awards:
raven
Greenwald is freaking out on Joe and insulting Mika!
BillinGlendaleCA
@raven: GG is talking over Mika, she’s not pleased.
raven
@BillinGlendaleCA: I guess we need people like this but I don’t like him.
Linda Featheringill
Looks like another overcast and occasionally rainy day. Geez! Philly is as rainy as Cleveland! Fortunately, my lungs seem to be fairly mold resistant, otherwise I’d just turn into a big, gooey clump of moss or something.
@raven:
Nah. We don’t really need people like him.
R-Jud
Ultrasound today, sigmoidoscopy tomorrow. I’m at the point where I WANT them to find something, so I have proof the last so months of feeling shitty aren’t all in my head.
Baud
ICYMI
Linda Featheringill
@NotMax:
I watched the video. Wow. Waaaay over the top. Delightful.
Kay
@Baud:
I think it’s hilarious. Issa accuses half his witnesses of lying under oath, and Issa was lying, but NOT under oath!
He’s just fiendishly clever.
Can the IRS story get any dumber? They need a special prosecutor, all right. Issa is incapable of running this.
Kay
@Baud:
What do you do when the House investigator makes shit up about the witnessses?
Investigate the House investigator?
JPL
@R-Jud: Good luck today and tomorrow with the tests.
R-Jud
@Kay: he’s a riddle, wrapped in an enigma, stuffed up a bastard.
Patricia Kayden
@Baud: So much for that scandal.
Nutella
@Kay:
I read that Cummings (2nd in command on Issa’s committee) demanded that Issa release the full transcript. Issa didn’t so Cummings went ahead and released it himself. Good work, Elijah.
Kay
@R-Jud:
I always imagine the regular people caught up in these things.
You’re an ordinary IRS employee, you get interviewed, then you hear Issa on 15 news shows completely distorting what you said. The investigator!
What do you do?
“I want a real hearing”?
Thank goodness there’s a transcript, right?
OzarkHillbilly
Heh. Where the Wild Things are Under Surveillance.
Baud
@Kay:
Agreed. The way things are going for him, the only thing future witnesses will reveal is that Issa stole their cars.
Roger Moore
I’m at a scientific conference all week. Going to be busy as hell.
Wally Ballou
It amazes me how elaborate the special Google Doodles have gotten compared with just a few years ago. Ever go back and look at some of the old ones?
Baud
Oh, poor, poor Booz Allen (via NYT):
Kay
@Nutella:
The WSJ has been incredibly bad on this. It’s shameful. Their entire body of work is based on taking two words, “targeting” and “Washington” out of context and stitching together a narrative.
It’s complete bullshit. Thousands of words grounded on two words with invented meaning and import.
debbie
@Nutella:
And then apparently, Issa said those calling for an end to the hearings were not interested in seeking justice. I feel tears coming on, Mr. Issa…
OzarkHillbilly
@Linda Featheringill:
Sure we do. With him around we get to point and laugh, and say “Silly little man.”
Egypt Steve
Saw “Star Trek” over the weekend in IMAX 3-d. Loved it. But here’s my question: Did T’Pring, Spock’s child bride in TOS, survive the destruction of Vulcan? Will Spock go into heat as scheduled in the next movie? Will we see a cat fight between T’Pring and Uhura? ‘Cause chances are Ston’s dead, baby. Ston’s dead.
gene108
Congrats to my NCSU Wolfpack baseball team! Ohama bound! Woooooooooooooo!
Paul in KY
Heading down to Bonnaroo Wed night. Hoping for no rain during festival.
rikyrah
@Nutella:
I had my doubts of Cummings being the head Dem of that Committee, but he’s done a good job of counterjabbing Issa.
Karen in GA (who really needs a better name)
A quick bitch about my neighbors.
But at least they’re not Darrell Issa, so my car is safe.
grandpa john
@OzarkHillbilly: The only place that people like him should be found is in a maximum security prison, indefinitely.
MobiusKlein
@Ultraviolet Thunder: WOO VACATION ME TOO!!!11!11
/gloat
actually, too much driving through the guts of Nevada and Idaho, but we’re almost there.
elisabeth
@Baud:
Do you have a link?
Mnemosyne
@NotMax:
I’ll need to ask my brother if his friend’s son got to be in the opening number again this year. The “Pippin” guy who held the hoop for NPH looked a little like him, but it’s hard to tell with the makeup.
vheidi
@NotMax: thanks for sharing- that was amazing!
ranchandsyrup
Just counting down the days until the Rand Paul/Glenn Greenwald ticket unanimously wins the Electoral College in 2016.
Older
@R-Jud: I hope you will let us know what the results are. I had a similar event recently. I’m not going to exchange horror stories with you before you even have one, but I do have a, let’s say, personal, interest in your situation.