Someone gave this to my wife last night – she says that the creepiness is part of the appeal? I’ve never seen one before but the base says something about a 75 year history of Chuckie-like elves.
Open thread.
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From cat-rescuer and kitten-wrangler Marc:
Kittens and bathrooms… kinda like this.
Please note the hot pink ball under the toilet. I’m sure that was what caused this mess.
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It always seemed to me that bathrooms were one of the few human inventions cats approved of, whole-heartedly. “A whole room dedicated to sanitation and personal grooming! Now if we could just train them to use their nice hygienic tongues, instead of stinky rags and chemicals… “
Apart from cleaning up after yesterday’s festivities, what’s on the agenda?
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America's silliest political traditions
4. Turkey pardons
3. Candidate memoirs
2. Don Lemon
1. The electoral college https://t.co/nIeaoRVRSD
— Jonathan M. Katz (@KatzOnEarth) November 25, 2015
Speaking of overstuffed turkeys…
I'm watching Rambo III. The dedication at the end only appears in the VHS version for… reasons. pic.twitter.com/a6RKZRn5Xp
— a bulgy underpant (@buttdiamond) November 3, 2015
Dessert:
(Via io9)
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Anything else on the agenda, as we prepare to face the crushing hordes / go back to work / both?
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Watching the Man in the High Castle and relaxing with the dogs. Good day.
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Wait, if I don't have an obnoxious Thanksgiving uncle does that mean I AM the obnoxious Thanksgiving uncle?
— a. o. scott (@aoscott) November 25, 2015
Jeb Lund, in Rolling Stone:
… For much of the 2000s, you could enjoy a kind of generalized complaint about how much “Thanksgiving sucks,” which was hackneyed the moment it began. I went over this years ago, but this mostly took the form of assignment-padding pieces, penned 30 minutes before vacation time, saying “Why Having to Use a Rental Car and Go to a Suburb of 80,000 People to Eat 12 Pounds of Food With My Mom Is Basically a Trail of Tears.” Family, friends, food, free laundry. Spare us all.
The underlying tone was a great derisive snorting about the provincialism to which the writer was about to be subject. It conveyed the sense that the worst part of Thanksgiving was being forced to return to the thing that had been escaped and that could in no way define the writer, who was now a being from a brighter place. Going home was a retrograde process, some ignoble devolution that inevitably occasions departing the glittering New York-D.C. axis, which only spent 2002-2008 breaking the entire world.
But beating up hicks and yahoos and white trash — translation: poor people — eating starchy and inexpensive staple food is sort of a bad look in a think piece economy increasingly driven by identity politics and the latest Upworthy-styled headline about changing the conversation. That kind of punching down only problematizes the discourse when you’re humping the latest “[Celebrities/Behaviors/Tweets] Are Problematic” pitch. So the straw man has been refined from the more troublingly inclusive venue of suburbs, places with cars, ranch houses, lots of food, big TVs and football to the universal Racist Uncle…
I get it: In an election that promises to be as much of an unprecedented soulfucker as this one, it’s incredibly tempting to pivot away from the last decade’s think piece framing of Progressive Metropolitan vs. Atavistic Heartland and focus more on universal social divisions. The Racist Uncle is someone who can live anywhere, and negatively affect people in any setting, up or down the economic and social scale. He’s the perfect punching bag in a scripted Thanksgiving.
But if you want to pick a fight over a political issue, maybe pick one over something that is going to at least engage the rest of the audience on a topic they might not have considered instead of trying to deliver Pardon My Zinger burns at someone who still thinks that women shouldn’t be paid as much as men or that gay people aren’t normal or that non-whites are equally valuable despite every goddamn data point in the universe telling them they’re an asshole. That’s not to say that those aren’t all worthwhile arguments, but for Chrissakes, you could be watching football, a billion-dollar non-profit that turns people into vegetables….
Point and mock:
38% of Republicans disapprove of Obama’s executive action to pardon 2 Thanksgiving turkeys
https://t.co/vXqbdapntC pic.twitter.com/27n6ZyWpmu
— Frank Luntz (@FrankLuntz) November 25, 2015
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Dog Show at noon! Football all afternoon. It’s just me an Shawn so we said to hell with turkey and I’m going to make hot sausage sandwiches.
BTW- if you watch the dog show, my uncle’s dog that he and his wife co-own with several other owners is the award winning Papillon named Rhett.
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This was supposed to have posted three hours ago.
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We are ice and snowed in. Happily tomorrow is the day I spend with friends for Thanksgiving. Today we’ll just hang out and watch movies and stay warm. Although I am heading out to see if I can scrape a layer of ice off the car and sidewalks.
Open thread until Cole steps in with his post-in-waiting. Happy Thanksgiving!