Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Republican obstruction dressed up as bipartisanship. Again.

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

So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. let’s win this.

John Fetterman: Too Manly for Pennsylvania.  Paid for by the Oz for Senator campaign.

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

Accused of treason; bitches about the ratings. I am in awe.

In my day, never was longer.

A last alliance of elves and men. also pet photos.

Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?

Americans barely caring about Afghanistan is so last month.

You don’t get rid of your umbrella while it’s still raining.

Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.

I see no possible difficulties whatsoever with this fool-proof plan.

Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

This blog will pay for itself.

Tick tock motherfuckers!

Bark louder, little dog.

Being the leader of the world means to be the leader of peace.

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

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  8. 8.

    jl

    I like batches and cookies (and cream). Do that group have a newsletter, by chance?

    Edit and one of SPaT’s pieces is so over my head, as usual. I have no idea WTF it is.

  9. 9.

    Alison

    Just found out my 13 year old niece was arrested (or maybe just cited, not sure on details) for having alcohol at school. Oy vey.

    I guess I can be glad it wasn’t pot, so it was at least something that’s legal for *some* people, even if not her. But good lord.

  12. 12.

    Steeplejack

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    Speaking of which, at Christmas I found a nice little brandy glass (4" high, 7 ounces) at Crate & Barrel. I have never understood the need for a gigantic snifter. This glass is a good size for my two- or three-ounce dose of Rémy 1738, and it’s wide enough to get your nose in the bowl for sniffing purposes.

    /pedantic connoisseur mode off

  14. 14.

    Corner Stone

    @Alison:

    Just found out my 13 year old niece was arrested (or maybe just cited, not sure on details) for having alcohol at school. Oy vey.

    So she’s a bit of a late bloomer. Nothing to get too bunched up about.

  16. 16.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    @Yatsuno: Agreed; 13, wow.

    On a related note, I found the bar that I got drunk the first time ever, in London. Unfortunately, I did that much too much.

  18. 18.

    SarahT

    Feel better soon. Try chicken soup with a shot of vodka. Also: Easy Lover – http://easylovernyc.bandcamp.com/

    Drenge – http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5AdfZ2rhZmc

    Soul Rebels – rtsp://r3—sn-jc47eu7d.googlevideo.com/CjYLENy73wIaLQnjriq3gSHV0RMYJCAkFEIJbXYtZ29vZ2xlSARSBXdhdGNoYJH5meLGnIy0UQw=/0/0/0/video.3gp

    Puring Hiss – http://purlinghiss.bandcamp.com/

    Katey Red – rtsp://r7—sn-jc47eu7k.googlevideo.com/CjYLENy73wIaLQnYGFzJYl7GoxMYJCAkFEIJbXYtZ29vZ2xlSARSBXdhdGNoYJH5meLGnIy0UQw=/0/0/0/video.3gp

  22. 22.

    Alison

    @Yatsuno: Yeeeah. Sadly, probably not. Her family life is…difficult. Apparently she doesn’t want to live at home anymore and said she wants to live with Grandma…meaning my mom and dad…where I live. In our apartment. Sooooooo no. Besides, she’d hate living here, she just thinks it would be better because her parents aren’t there because they’re being awful by, you know, being parents.

    Sigh.

  24. 24.

    Hal

    Working another night shift with my new co-worker who drinks ginger ale all night and burps constantly. But since she says excuse me after every belch, it’s all good!

  25. 25.

    FlipYrWhig

    So… Is Drake supposed to be, you know, good at performing, singing, that general area? Because judging by the SNL showing, that was some tedious weak-ass shit.

  26. 26.

    Hal

    @FlipYrWhig: Personally I think Drake is a terrible performer. He can’t rap or sing, and he bears more than a passing resemblance to that sloth from Ice Age. My younger cousins love him though.

  27. 27.

    FlipYrWhig

    @Hal: Everything he spoke/sang was insanely repetitive. Started at the bottom, started at the bottom, started at the bottom, now we started at the bottom, started at the bottom, oh god write six more goddamn words to this stupid track.

  28. 28.

    FlipYrWhig

    @Hal: is he supposed to be a performer for young kids? Or was he once? I don’t get it. In a weird gray area with no sexiness and no grit and yet also no craft. So what’s left? Feh, off my lawn you whippersnappers.

  33. 33.

    burnspbesq

    Was in a small local record store today when the kid behind the counter put on “The Who Sell Out.” Looked around and it was obvious that I was the only person in the place who was alive when that record first came out.

    I am so damn old.

  35. 35.

    SarahT

    Heads-up to anyone still up who gets Turner Classics : Two awesonely craptastic acid-is-bad movies ! “Skidoo” is on right now, followed by “The Big Cube”. Both are batshit insane & feature washed-up stars who have LSD freak-outs- yay !

  36. 36.

    Elizabelle

    @SarahT: Just websurfed re Skiddoo, because what a clusterf*ck. Epic. What have we done to TCM?

    The one good line:

    You’re a hippie, right?

    If you’re into labeling, yeah.

  40. 40.

    SarahT

    @Elizabelle: I know, right ? Can you even believe people like Kirk Douglas and Burgess Meredith and Groucho agreed to be in this train wreck ? Poor groucho retired from movies afterwards – hard to blame him, really.

  41. 41.

    Glocksman

    Sharing a few of my favorite covers that IMHO are as good as if not better than the original:

    Matraca Berg’s cover of Jolene

    I always liked this song, but couldn’t stand Dolly Parton’s voice.
    Matraca Berg hit it squarely on the head.

    The Kentucky Headhunters cover of Walk Softly On This Heart Of Mine

    Not your standard country group. They also did a cover of ‘Skip a Rope’ that l like, but Youtube doesn’t have it.

    This isn’t a cover, but Steve Earle’s Snake Oil has a message that’s still relevant today.

  42. 42.

    NotMax

    @Sarah T

    re: Skidoo, gave the heads up this past Wednesday. That the film did not spontaneously leap from the camera and strangle the director, crew and cast is a wonderment.

    Marx, at 78, had to be insistently cajoled to return to movies for this one. Gleason, Channing, etc., however, were far, far from being has-beens when the mess was produced.

    So far as The Big Cube is concerned, Lana Turner attempting to play the Lana Turner she was in her 20s is not quite as discommoding as was, say, Mae West in Sextette, but a close second.

  43. 43.

    Punchy

    @burnspbesq: Pretty sure that the mere fact that you know what records were and was in a shop to purchase them is the very definition of “old”. Did you also seek out 8-tracks, phonograph cylinders, or 12″ laserdiscs?

  44. 44.

    Glocksman

    @burnspbesq:

    I was born that year. Does that count?

    @Punchy:

    I can’t speak for him, but I used to own an 8-track recorder* and a couple of Pioneer and Yamaha LD players.
    LD players and discs continued to be produced until DVD took off in the late 1990’s.
    Now you’re really showing your age if you remember the RCA SelectaVision CED Videodisc Player

    *the only place I could even find blank 8-track tapes was at Radio Shack.

  46. 46.

    Botsplainer

    @SarahT:

    Oh, God – Skidoo is back on rotation? Hippies and gangsters was the worst idea ever, and adding Carol Channing just made it unwatchable. Plus, Groucho was decidedly unfunny.

    Two wasted hours.

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