According to the NY Daily News, which understands how to attract the semi-literate market, “Ho, ho, ho! Sarah Palin wishes fans holiday cheer…”:
… The former vice presidential candidate devoted a huge chunk of a recent episode on her online Sarah Palin Channel to all things Christmas, including recipes, family traditions, and apparently, undressing.
In the episode, Palin demonstrates how to make her favorite iteration of blueberry pie, but as she delicately kneads the dough, her sweater falls down to her arms, revealing a whole lot of sun-kissed Alaskan skin and a sexy black undergarment…
There’s a YouTube clip at the link, if you’re curious — I’d call it oversold, but then, clickbait! is the modern Meaning of the Season…
Mnemosyne
She’ll never beat the Martha Stewart Topless Christmas Special.
Also, too, it would be nice to have a New Year’s Resolutions thread closer to that date. If nothing else, it could be an interesting argument between people who make resolutions and people who loathe the very idea of doing such a thing.
Wag
No thanks. Some things are best left to the imagination.
And others are best suppressed without further thought.
This is one of the latter
Mnemosyne
And it just wouldn’t be Christmas without some Schweddy balls, would it?
Villago Delenda Est
So, has Rich Lowery’s router melted down yet?
max
Gee, did she have well-turned ankles too?
max
[‘Ooo, pantyhose.’]
NotMax
Thanks a bunch. Threw up in my mouth a little.
But woo-hoo! My holiday present to me (I was so surprised), a brand new 51″ Samsung plasma TV, is now unboxed, set up and running. Not the easiest thing to manage solo, but with patience and caution it went without a hitch.
TCM looks (in broadest NY-ese) gawjus.
And first thing watching on it (just now starting) is Bringing Up Baby, a fave I can readily sit through again and again.
Now big storms moving in outdoors, with flash flood warnings already in force. Fingers and toesies crossed that power stays on.
PurpleGirl
@Mnemosyne: How did Alec Baldwin manage to keep a straight face doing that skit? I laughed so hard, my eyes began tearing up.
lamh36
Aww man I want to check out the new Night At Museum flick but I know it’ll be bittersweet. When I watched Hook a few weeks ago it was also bittersweet. I haven’t been able to watch Birdcage or Aladdin yet.
Damn.
PSA: 1-800-273-8255
National Suicide Prevention Hotline.
Just Some Fuckhead
Anyone know what trailer park this gmilf lives in??
JGabriel
Anne [email protected] Top:
I’m just gonna bookmark that link and save it for something to do on the day hell freezes over.
Alison
Music tech question: I know iTunes lets you change when a track in your library starts and stops, but is there a way, in some other kind of program, to excise a chunk from the middle of a track? Like…say, have a song start at the beginning, then skip right from 00:10 to 00:45. Or is there sorcery in place on commercially-sold music to prevent such a thing? Or would it just not be possible anyway?
lamh36
@psddluva4evah: Look what came in the mail for Maddie! Just in time for Christmas. stroller, play pen & high chair set comes tmrw http://t.co/UXQpNhBH9Q
BillinGlendaleCA
@Just Some Fuckhead: gmilf, ewww.
lamh36
ok, so last night I was talking about The South of Music. A FB friend sent me this link and I love it.
somebody actually wrote a “the wedding is cancelled” letter in the voice of the Baroness! I’m sure the other SOM fans will enjoy it too.
http://t.co/xRfOzPFIhD
Time Travelin'
I don’t enjoy the Palin. Thanks.
Mnemosyne
@PurpleGirl:
My only complaint with that sketch is that Molly Shannon mugs a little too much. Ana Gasteyer and Alec Baldwin know it’s funnier when they’re as deadpan as possible.
@lamh36:
Next year, it should be Doc McStuffins time. All of my nieces were too old for her by the time her show came on, so now I push her on everyone else who has a pre-school or younger girl in their life.
JGabriel
Just watched Gone Girl. I suspect that not a lot of people are going to agree with me on this, but the last 78 minutes before the credits are the funniest movie I’ve seen since Exit Through The Gift Shop.
And I don’t mean unintentionally funny either. Fincher, Pike, and Affleck all knew exactly what they were doing. The damn thing is even structured like a screwball comedy.
lamh36
@Mnemosyne: oh, doc mc stuffins is covered. my cousins bought one for Maddie and her own daughter. Maddie requested 2 babies, 2 bottles, and 2 strollers! she stuck on 2 for some reason
Mnemosyne
@lamh36:
Our youngest niece is 8 and announced last week that her favorite princess is now Merida. So of course Aunt Mnemo had to trek around to find a Merida doll, and also a little “Big Hero 6” stuff, and get it sent off to Chicago in time for Christmas. Hopefully I can continue to con her into liking Disney stuff for a few more years since I get a discount. ;-)
Mike E
@NotMax: Bringing Up Baby and To Be Or Not To Be were the two movies I couldn’t wait to show my daughter, once she had grown out of her Disney phase…she especially marveled at the close scenes with the leopard, and appreciated that the actors’ safety had to be achieved through illusion. Fun.
Mnemosyne
@Mike E:
I realize it makes me a heretic, but I don’t really like Bringing Up Baby. I find Katharine Hepburn incredibly irritating in that movie (I like her in others).
If I’m going to watch a Hawks screwball comedy with Cary Grant, I’ll take His Girl Friday every time.
Warren Terra
@Alison:
I haven’t tried it, but I hear good things about Audacity, and you can’t beat the price.
Tommy
@Mnemosyne: I don’t have any children. My only offspring is a little girl. My niece. Six. I actually dislike her princess thing. I will never buy her any of that stuff. I got no problem with her wanting to get dressed up. Be pretty. Heck I like to get dressed up. Look nice myself. But that princesses stuff irks me.
Tommy
@Alison: @Alison: I am a Pandora guy. I think I pay $4.95/month. Get the service on my phone, tablet, TV. It is a nice service. Something I enjoy.
gwangung
@Warren Terra: Audacity can indeed do the job.
I use Amadeus Pro, which is somewhat easier for me. Take your pick.
JGabriel
@Mnemosyne: I like’em both, but I’m with you in that if I had to choose between the two, it would definitely be His Girl Friday.
Mnemosyne (iPad Mini)
@Tommy:
Merida is the princess from “Brave” who refuses to get married (and doesn’t) and rides around the countryside shooting arrows. And Doc McStuffins is a veterinarian (of her stuffed animals). Disney Princesses aren’t what they were even in the days of “The Little Mermaid.”
mdblanche
I’m pretty sure the only market Palin has left is hate-watchers. I’ll stick with watching a different Palin, thank you.
jl
Thanks but no thanks. I don’t want to see Palin getting any raspberries mixed up in the pie. Don’t even want to think about it.
Alison
@Tommy: Um…Pandora is just Internet radio though, isn’t it?
@Warren Terra: @gwangung: Thanks, I’ll check both of these out!
Ripley
@JGabriel: Agreed, it was as much dark comedy as it was mystery/suspense (or social statement, for that matter). One of Fincher’s best. Good review from The A.V. Club.
Schlemazel
@BillinGlendaleCA:
Grand Mother I’d Like To Forget
Chet
@Mnemosyne:
She’s meant to be irritating. That’s the character.
mai naem mobile
Palin reminds.me of the daughter in law character in Mamas Family. It may have been the daughter. Anyhow, she was a slutty somewhat bimboish character who thought she was smart but would get busted by the mother in law. No,,I was not a regular watcher. My friend liked the MIL character.
debbie
@JGabriel:
Wow, then it must be very different from the book which I thought was very self-important.
gogol's wife
No time to read the thread, so maybe somebody answered this, but why is she kneading dough for blueberry pie?
kc
@gogol’s wife:
Nothing says “Christmas” like blueberry pie!
Elizabelle
@gogol’s wife:
Somebody told her blueberries were brainberries?
Shalimar
Alaskan skin? Didn’t she move to Arizona 4 or 5 years ago? I know the Palins have enough money to have multiple homes, just wondering if the Arizona thing has fallen down the memory hole or maybe they changed their minds and moved back.
shelley
Who sponsors this channel? Cause I can’t believe enough people subscribe to it to keep it going.
samiam
Jesus christ on a stick. Isn’t this a little tabloidish even for a backwater swamp blog like ball juice?
Seriously, you couldn’t find ANYTHING else to post 2 sentences about? Nothing?
I would have expected something this obsessed about all things Palin from “I’m convinced she is running in 2012” muckymux but not anyone else. Please let her go away and die from the public eye. I haven’t read anything about her in weeks and now you ruined that.
Shalimar
@samiam: Did scribbling through all the Mrs. Mistermixes in your notebook not make the pain go away?