Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

People really shouldn’t expect the government to help after they watched the GOP drown it in a bathtub.

Teach a man to fish, and he’ll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.

The rest of the comments were smacking Boebert like she was a piñata.

A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires.

Fear or fury? The choice is ours.

If you still can’t see these things even now, maybe politics isn’t your forte and you should stop writing about it.

Republicans: slavery is when you own me. freedom is when I own you.

The fundamental promise of conservatism all over the world is a return to an idealized past that never existed.

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

I’m starting to think Jesus may have made a mistake saving people with no questions asked.

The low info voters probably won’t even notice or remember by their next lap around the goldfish bowl.

They want us to be overwhelmed and exhausted. Focus. Resist. Oppose.

People are weird.

The willow is too close to the house.

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

Michigan is a great lesson for Dems everywhere: when you have power…use it!

“Loving your country does not mean lying about its history.”

I’m more christian than these people and i’m an atheist.

Welcome to day five of every-bit-as-bad-as-you-thought-it-would-be.

Their shamelessness is their super power.

if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

Oh FFS you might as well trust a 6-year-old with a flamethrower.

Today in our ongoing national embarrassment…

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I usually only read about ‘the awards chosen by 63 anonymous foreign journalists’, aka ‘why they don’t serve booze at the Oscars’ after the fact, but if you need to get your Mean Girl on more expeditiously, NYMag‘s ladyblog The Cut once again has liveblogging by the Fug Girls. And also a red carpet slide show, leading with a sad misuse of surgical tape & gauze, and the reliably unattractive Zosia Mamet dying her hair to match her dress…

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  4. 4.

    Corner Stone

    Peyton has been injured the last 3 regular season games and they didn’t tell anyone.
    I’m not sure he comes back for next season.

  5. 5.

    Suzanne

    I just looked at some of the slideshow, and I think Lena Dunham looks awesome. Maybe even Cole would approve.

  6. 6.

    Anne Laurie

    @Howard Beale IV: Because it’s an opportunity for show biz people to dress up & get drunk.

    And for the rest of us to make fun of how the show biz people look when they dress up & get drunk.

  7. 7.

    JPL

    I’ve only seen a few of the nominated films. “The Grand Budapest Hotel” was wonderful and I’m glad it was nominated. Benjamin Cumberbatch was Alan Turing in the “Imitation Game”. I have mixed feelings about “Boyhood”, though. I still want to see “Selma” and “Into the Woods”.

  11. 11.

    Elizabelle

    Anne: thank you again.

    I think the Globes disgraced themselves a few years ago (maybe tongue in cheek) with The Tourist with Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp. She was spectacular looking, but what a farce of a movie (that predated Venice paparazzi swarming for the George Clooney-Amal wedding …)

    But it’s such a low key and high octane evening.

  13. 13.

    Poopyman

    Late to the party, so I only scanned the tops of the threads down below. Am I the only one who, on reading

    Over 1 Million Regular People March in Paris“:

    , thought “thank FSM for high-fiber Mediterranean diets”.

    Do they have Port-o-Jacques in Paris?

  17. 17.

    Violet

    @Elizabelle: A friend was in Venice they were filming “The Tourist.” Went out to dinner one night and looked across the room and there was Johnny Depp having dinner. He was with someone, but I can’t remember who she said it was. She kind of geeked out but played it cool and didn’t go up to him and say anything or ask for an autograph.

  18. 18.

    Corner Stone

    @JPL: Pinched nerve in the neckular area from running into people more dedicated to hitting opponents than he was.
    Look at his stats and general decision making. Complete departure from the last couple dozen samples.

  20. 20.

    JPL

    @raven: Aah, That explains why he couldn’t throw deep. He is one of the greatest players in the history of the game, or so I heard.

  23. 23.

    SiubhanDuinne

    I have five films on my Must-See list in the next couple of weeks, in no particular order: Selma, The Imitation Game, Into the Woods, Mr Turner, and The Theory of Everything. I mostly don’t watch awards shows so have no idea which films or people have been nominated for what. But this seems like an exceptionally rich year for quality movies.

  25. 25.

    eemom

    I saw Boyhood yesterday and thought it was awesome.

    By cosmic coincidence, watched it with my firstborn child right before she left to go back to school.

    Haz a large sad today.

    @JPL:

    Why mixed feelings?

  26. 26.

    Anne Laurie

    @Suzanne:

    I think Lena Dunham looks awesome.

    Well, the color’s good on her — much better than last year’s daffodil-yellow. But if she got a $3million advance on her book, she should be able to afford a tailor who could alter that satin maquette so it would actually fit her at the neck & waist. Also — and I say this as someone with Dunham’s body type — her stylist needs to tell her that “the pee-pee stance” is not a good posing choice for short, plump people…

  27. 27.

    Shana

    @Suzanne: Nope, you’re wrong. It’s an ill-fitting dress. It could have been lovely if tailored to actually fit her body, but it wasn’t so it looks bad.

    Annie: missed your comment, agree about the stance.

  30. 30.

    JPL

    @eemom: I thought it was long.
    I did catch myself, though, wondering about the second husband’s children. It was as if I was watching a documentary. That was an achievement that would only occur by filming it over twelve years.

  31. 31.

    Elizabelle

    did everybody’s screen just freeze after “paranoid obnoxious billionaire? re Foxcatcher?

    Or is that just my beloved cable system?

  32. 32.

    Elizabelle

    My cable system is “off air — check back later.”

    Hello there Kim Jung Un! How’s it hanging?

  35. 35.

    Elizabelle

    Looking at a black screen.

    Is anyone else feeling pain that Tim Burton and Helena Bonham Carter split up?

    Did you have anything memorable for dinner? Reading anything good lately?

  39. 39.

    Elizabelle

    Dang it. Missing the opening jokes. Why can’t the cable freeze on a commercial break, or when they’re awarding some cable TV series I don’t subscribe to.

    Please describe.

  43. 43.

    Elizabelle

    @debbie: From you guys.

    Maybe the opening segment will be online later tonight? Hate to miss it. Love Tina and Amy’s sense of timing.

    The cable company’s? Not so much.

  44. 44.

    Elizabelle

    @Southern Beale: What did they say?

    You can tell me anything.

    I am looking at a black screen, pouring another glass of red wine, and about to pick up a junk novel to finish the last 70 pages.

  46. 46.

    JPL

    @Elizabelle: The best part was about Clooney. They spoke about Amal’s long list of accomplishments and said George gets a life time achievement award.

  49. 49.

    Elizabelle

    Thank you, lifelines.

    Cox Cable still out. I am not aware of high winds here. Keep me posted. Checking now to find the Globes online …

  56. 56.

    Comrade Mary

    I have to escape to The Good Wife at 9. The good stuff from GG will be all over the Net tomorrow.

  58. 58.

    Elizabelle

    Cable still off.

    They’re going to have some unhappy subscribers if that Colts-Broncos game is still on.

    Just happy to have wifi …

  61. 61.

    Violet

    I’m a bit behind. The Downton Abbey actress really didn’t expect to win and she was seated further from the stage so I don’t think they expected her to win either.

  62. 62.

    Violet

    Jeremy Renner looks like he’s never seen a teleprompter and would rather be anywhere else than on that stage.

  71. 71.

    Mnemosyne (iPad Mini)

    I have to finish reading a book to prep for a meeting at work, so no GG for me. I had no expectations for “Grand Budapest Hotel” when we watched it on cable and I ended up loving it. Ralph Fiennes was hysterical and the guy who played Zero was spot-on. I’ll have to catch the highlights on the web tomorrow.

    Also, too, people love to watch the GG because the guests get to drink at their tables while the show is going on, which creates some extra comedy. One year, a winner ran up to the mike and blurted out, “Sorry, I was in the ladies room when my name was called!”

  72. 72.

    JPL

    I definitely need to watch more TV because besides Joanne Froggatt, aka, Anna Bates, I don’t know anything about the other shows.

  73. 73.

    Violet

    @Mnemosyne (iPad Mini): I also like it because they include TV so there’s a better chance I’ve seen the nominees, given that many of the films are only released right at the end of the year and even then often only in NYC and L.A. I also appreciate them having a category for comedy/musicals and another for dramas. Gives more films a chance to win something.

  75. 75.

    MomSense

    I just sent a bunch of puppy photos to AL. Total and happy chaos chez moi. She is going out to pee and pooh already because she is the smartest bestest dog ever.

    I thought the opening was fantastic–especially the Amal Clooney bit.

  76. 76.

    Violet

    @JPL: “Jane the Virgin” is brand new this year. “Transformed” is on Amazon video, so not technically even TV.

  79. 79.

    Anne Laurie

    @Violet: I thought Pee-Wee Hermann had undergone failed plastic surgery! And the Guardian live-blog called him “a plaster wearing trainers”...

    (trans. for Americans: ‘a band-aid in high-tops’.)

  80. 80.

    beth

    @Violet: He always looks so sharp. Love his red carpet looks.

    If you get up on stage and say you didn’t expect to win and you’re not prepared with a speech then just take your statue and go. Why bother to show up if it’s such a burden to write 45 seconds of remarks?

  82. 82.

    beth

    @debbie: Yep. But Amy Adams didn’t. IIRC Pia Zadora once won a GG so if you’re nominated there’s a pretty good chance you might win so put together a few seconds of thanks.

  83. 83.

    Violet

    @Anne Laurie: I think he looks amazing. It’s not the usual sort of suit but I love it on him. Works perfectly for hm.

    Good Lord, Kevin Hart and Salma Hayek are awful.

  86. 86.

    Violet

    @beth: Yeah, at least make a short list. People to thank. Maybe a coherent theme. Rambling crap like that and thanking some woman “nurturing twins in her womb”–wtf was that? Is Amy Adams using a surrogate?

  87. 87.

    MomSense

    @Violet:

    Bomer, Common, and Legend are all looking fine tonight. Can you believe that Meryl Streep was considered not pretty enough to be in King Kong? She is a beautiful woman.

    ETA BoMer!!

  90. 90.

    Violet

    @MomSense: I love Jared Leto, even though the Guardian liveblog says he looks like a playing card. Still remember him as Jordan Catalano. Sigh.

    Keira Knightly’s dress is a horror.

  91. 91.

    Violet

    @Shana: Yeah he was supremely unlikeable with that presentation. All about him and his movie with a throwaway “compliment” to the fabulous Salma Hayek followed by calling her aggressive. Did not like.

  92. 92.

    lamh36

    Saw Selma tonight. it was amazing. I don’t have time to review it like I’d like to, but all I can say is, if you come from the movie and your thoughts are on LBJ, you were already in a mindset.

    Agree with Rolling Stone, Selma is truly an American story and every American should see to.

    @RealTalkNYnews: Video: Common And John Legend Won Golden Globe Awards For “Glory” http://t.co/U67ApPf35f http://t.co/VdvGh0QKUC

  93. 93.

    MomSense

    @Violet:

    Jared Leto has pretty eyes–seriously killer pretty eyes.

    I didn’t see her walk in but the color looked bad. I think she is expecting so maybe she wasn’t feeling the glamorous tonight.

    Jessica Chastain’s hair and makeup are flawless. How was the dress?

  95. 95.

    Corner Stone

    @Violet: I can’t actually watch the Globes because Taken 2 is like a fucking life revelation. It is way too damn good to turn away from.
    I mean, having your daughter toss live grenades willy nilly so you can somnolent-triangulate the distance between the two of you? Leaving your hot as hell ex-wife slowly dying with a carotid nick in a dank basement full of men who would kill to bone Famke?
    Can’t get no better.

  100. 100.

    Violet

    @Shana: I like Bill Hader. He’s fine unless he’s with her. Anyone is fine unless they’re with her. She’s why I haven’t seen “Bridesmaids.”

  102. 102.

    beth

    @Corner Stone: I see Taken 3 is coming out soon, if it’s not out already. I love those movies, they’re great late night watching. I hope they go on until Taken 50 (but only if Liam Neeson stays on).

  103. 103.

    Mike in NC

    @Corner Stone: I believe they’re already working on the screenplay for “Taken 9” and hope Liam Neeson will be able to handle the stunts when he’s 75.

  104. 104.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Violet: I’ve never got why she’s such a phenom. Her SNL characters were pretty weak, Bridesmaids had two or three funny moments that didn’t include Melissa McCarthy, and I don’t mean the bathroom scene. Maya Rudolph, OTOH, I always thought was great.

  106. 106.

    Violet

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: Yeah, Maya Rudolph is great. Love her in everything I’ve seen her in. So funny on SNL. So versatile. Kristen Wiig seems to play the same character all the time.

    SNL has had some great women in the cast and when they women are strong the show seems to be at its best, imho. The Kristen Wiig era they relied too much on her once Amy Poehler left and Kristen just isn’t that good.

  107. 107.

    gogol's wife

    Downton Abbey was great tonight. It feels as if Season 4 was just a slow buildup to the payoff that is Season 5.

    Not watching Golden Globes, but there’s no Downton thread (which is fine, since trolls always use them to give spoilers).

  110. 110.

    Anne Laurie

    @Violet:

    Keira Knightly’s dress is a horror.

    My first thought was “She’ll never get over playing Elizabeth Bennet.” But Ms. Bennet would have repudiated the Victorian lobster-bib and hemline dust-ruffle as ‘too fussy’!

  113. 113.

    Violet

    @Anne Laurie: Rosamund Pike was so much more gorgeous than her in that film. Messed with my head.

    Love George Clooney and good for the people who put his reel together for including the South Park clip. Heh.

    Harrison Ford truly is a grumpy old man.

    Michael Keaton talking about his son. Aww..

  115. 115.

    gogol's wife

    @Violet:

    Jane’s supposed to be much more beautiful than Elizabeth. Not defending that P&P, which I don’t particularly like, but that detail was correct.

  116. 116.

    Anne Laurie

    @Violet:

    Rosamund Pike was so much more gorgeous than her in that film.

    Oh, that’s where I’d seen here before! (Pike wore the dress I made the ‘surgical tape & gauze’ crack about. It may have looked better in motion, but from the stills, both their stylists hate them.)

  117. 117.

    Helen

    @debbie:

    I don’t think Edith is an idiot. She is a daughter – and the second daughter at that – in an aristocratic family at the turn of the century. She is useless and rudderless until she gets married.

    But the shit will hit the fan shortly. And when it does I hope she stands up for herself. I think she will.

  119. 119.

    gogol's wife

    On the red carpet slide show (before I got bored by it), I thought Emma Stone and Kate Hudson looked really good.

  120. 120.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Violet:

    Rosamund Pike was so much more gorgeous than her in that film.

    Rosamund Pike is simply one of the most beautiful women on the planet; she tends to outshine most other women.

  121. 121.

    Violet

    @gogol’s wife: Yes, I know but I hadn’t seen Rosamund Pike before that film and she was so absolutely stunning–and Keira Knightly is pretty good looking herself, so already it felt she was miscast because she wasn’t supposed to be have movie star looks–that I could not imagine how every man with knowledge of her wasn’t knocking on the door. She was just breathtaking. I know the story but within the movie she was so mesmerizing that it was almost blinding.

    I remember reading a review of the movie after I saw it that said something similar so I know it wasn’t just me. It just felt like the whole thing was kind of miscast somehow.

  123. 123.

    gogol's wife

    @Violet:

    For me it was the one thing that felt right in the film. She has no fortune, so it’s only her looks that make her even marginally acceptable to Mr. Bingley, but even so, Darcy feels he needs to intervene and stop it. I love the 1995 P&P (Colin Firth!), but in that one, Jane is not prettier than Elizabeth, so it feels off to me.

  126. 126.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Violet: The Bennett girls didn’t offer a fortune as a marriage settlement. They also weren’t catches in terms of social position – they were acceptable, but that was it. Jane was the hope of the family because of her beauty. Someone well off and in a high position might well find her beauty captivating enough that he may be interested in her despite the lack of financial or social advancement. Elizabeth was really destined for a nice clergyman or something like that (or spinsterhood) if Darcy hadn’t been who he was.

  127. 127.

    Violet

    @Omnes Omnibus: I understand the story. I just felt they overplayed it with the casting.

    Edit: And yes, Rosamund Pike is one of the most gorgeous women I’ve ever seen. Stunning and gorgeous don’t do her justice. Breathtaking.

  130. 130.

    Violet

    @Omnes Omnibus: There’s beautiful and then there’s Rosamund Pike. I think even with her social status what it was, word of her beauty would have gotten out and she would have had a few more suitors who could afford to have a wife who came without a fortune. I mean, Rosamund Pike!

  131. 131.

    Violet

    @gogol’s wife: Yeah, I remember the first shot of her in the film. I think she turned around to face the camera. I think my jaw dropped. Who was this stunning woman?

  132. 132.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Violet: Oh, I agree with that aspect. And more power to Bingley for seeing a beautiful and decent person and (eventually) seeking her out.

  133. 133.

    Violet

    @Omnes Omnibus: Yeah, it’s a really wonderful story on so many levels. I love the book.

    Well, I really enjoyed those Golden Globes and I’ll miss Tina and Amy. Tina doesn’t have a TV show anymore. Amy’s TV show is ending. I hope they do something so we get to see them. Love both of them so much.

  135. 135.

    Violet

    @Omnes Omnibus: She was in that? I saw that in the theater when it came out. I remember thinking it was weird. I went with some friends, one of whom was a massive Johnny Depp fan, so that’s why we went.

    Edit: Oh, no wait. I’m mixing it up with something else. I did like that film. Hmmm…for some reason I don’t remember her in it.

    Edit again: I think I was mixing it up with “From Hell,” which I thought was weird.

  138. 138.

    Elie

    I just saw Selma today… it was amazing and excellent. Totally got lo-balled in the Golden Globes today but let me recommend it highly for amazing acting, story and totally fucking amazing cinematography…

  139. 139.

    Violet

    @Omnes Omnibus: Yeah, I remember really enjoying “The Libertine.” Interesting film. “From Hell” was weird. It’s the one that the friend of a friend dragged us to–she loved horror films and Johnny Depp so it kind of ticked both boxes for her. Not really my cup of tea.

    Can’t believe I don’t remember Rosamund Pike in “The Libertine” but I remember being mesmerized by Johnny Depp. And I’m a John Malkovich fan, so I enjoyed him as well.

    I miss that Johnny Depp. He’s a good actor but he’s kind of drifted into parody or something with too many Jack Sparrow type roles.

  141. 141.

    Violet

    @Omnes Omnibus: I’m not worried about Johnny Depp. He’s rich and well connected in Hollywood and probably has his pick of roles for the most part. I just miss the actor. I always liked him as an actor, and I did like the first couple of Pirates movies, but I miss the good actor. I loved him in “Don Juan DeMarco,” for instance, to go back a few years.

  144. 144.

    Elizabelle

    Hello again.

    Cable TV was out for about 1 hour 10 minutes. It suddenly came back on in amid George Clooney’s acceptance speech. Bit of a buzzkill to miss so much of the GGlobes.

    Gave up the effort and fell asleep reading. Will read your thread now to find what was missed.

    Did wake briefly to hear Richard Linklater summoned forth, so thinking maybe Boyhood won best film …

  146. 146.

    Elizabelle

    @Violet: Thanks; will check out The Guardian. Good news about Grand Budapest. That’s gonna be a cult film too.

    Seeing Boyhood this Tuesday night.

    Let me know if you ever find a video link to the opening remarks and any highlights of tonight’s show. Would be up for it.

    They did have a lot of good movies this year. I wish Hollywood wouldn’t release their Oscar contenders so late in the season.

    Hope to see Selma sometime this week. And would like to see Whiplash too, and Birdman….

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