We are here and doing it live. So far it is me, Conster, Turbulence, and Flying Toaster so far. I have my back against the wall so Anne Laurie can not stab me.
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We are here and doing it live. So far it is me, Conster, Turbulence, and Flying Toaster so far. I have my back against the wall so Anne Laurie can not stab me.
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TaMara (HFG)
LOL. I hope someone is taking photos of this once-in-a-lifetime event.
schrodingers_cat
Pictures or it didn’t happen. Freezing rain here, too timid to make an hour long drive in nasty weather.
Gin & Tonic
Enjoy. I am still under doctor’s orders not to go out.
Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (Formerly Mumphrey, et al.)
Fuck it! We’ll do it live! We’ll do it live!
bystander
Ask if you can get scrod, JC. Always good for a reference to the pluperfect subjunctive.
Mnemosyne
Don’t let AL have any forks — she can stab you from the front with one of those.
jeffreyw
Don’t let Cole take the photos!
Mary G
The curmudgeons congregate! @schrodingers_cat: So sorry the weather is bad. I read that link you posted yesterday about the two doctors in Houston who were told to leave the country because the government gave them documents with two different expiration dates and I am still pissed off. For fucks sakes, do these idiots think that there are excellent American neurologists who are sitting around sending out resumes because they can’t get a job? I have doctors from Mexico, Korea, and the Muslim part of what used to be Yugoslavia. Trump better leave them alone.
Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (Formerly Mumphrey, et al.)
Do it live! I never grow weary of that.
SiubhanDuinne
@Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (Formerly Mumphrey, et al.):
Heh. First thing I thought of. (Probably first thing John thought of, too.)
Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (Formerly Mumphrey, et al.)
Stewie does it live!
debit
@Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (Formerly Mumphrey, et al.): There’s no words on it!!
Mart
@bystander: Still upset I spent the time last night to look up the pluperfect subjunctive. Never heard of it. Obliviously an elite east coast liberal snob term.
Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (Formerly Mumphrey, et al.)
@debit: Fuckin’ thing sucks!
debit
@Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (Formerly Mumphrey, et al.): ‘Play us out?’ To end the show?
debbie
@Gin & Tonic:
Is the pain getting better?
zhena gogolia
@Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (Formerly Mumphrey, et al.):
Whenever I think I have a really clever comment, it’s already been done.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@debbie: I don’t think pain gets better, it goes away.
hovercraft
We need to hear from these other people who are supposedly there. I second @TaMara (HFG): ‘s request, this event must be photographed for posterity!
zhena gogolia
@Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (Formerly Mumphrey, et al.):
That really is evergreen, isn’t it?
zhena gogolia
How’s the restaurant?
debbie
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
I’m sure G&T knows what I meant.
O/T: Does anyone know anything about Trump stomping out of a signing ceremony after being asked a question he didn’t like? It showed up on my FB feed, but the source is not anything I’ve seen before.
WaterGirl
@Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (Formerly Mumphrey, et al.): That was unforgettable!
Gin & Tonic
@debbie: Bill is right. But it is generally more manageable. At this point the discomfort of the cast/splint is more of a factor than pain per se.
Kropadope
I’ll be able to arrive around 8 if u think you’ll still be there.
japa21
@debbie: He was asked a question about Flynn. Didn’t even sign the EO’s. He signed them later.
Baud
Like that is enough to stop her.
Aleta
@debbie: Video
https://mobile.twitter.com/politico/status/847922615960428544
(Bonus feature: Pence audition for Remains of the Day)
WaterGirl
Have we ever had 3 front-pagers in the same room at the same time? Not to mention our beloved blog host!
japa21
@Kropadope: If Conster is still there, I want more than photos, Sound please.
T S
But can she play you out? Wait..what the FUCK does that mean???
Mike J
@debbie: Bloomberg & Politico had it. Major Garrett of CBS asked about Flynn, Trump left without signing. Pence had to go back and get docs off desk.
https://twitter.com/markknoller/status/847906179082792962
Looks like he was doing it in the Oval so he could use his big desk. Earlier this week he complained the signing desk was too small.
Baud
@japa21: Five Juicers enter, only four leave.
bystander
@Mart:
And there you were using it all the time. The more you know…
Time spent learning about grammar is never wasted.
An Irish bar in Cambridge on a cold rainy night sounds great. Hope everyone has fun!
wmd
@Baud: watch your neck… It is a preferred stabbing location these days.
debbie
@Aleta:
Thanks. That was an odd walk he had walking out, like something lumbering. Bet he was fighting himself not to go back to the podium and say something stupid.
WaterGirl
@Kropadope: Go for it!
debbie
@Mike J:
The problem with his desk is that it’s empty and devoid of work.
Mike J
@Mike J: Hilarious for Trump to storm out of his own office. It’s like a scene in a bad sit-com. “Why am I leaving?! This is my house!” cue laughtrack
WaterGirl
@Baud: At first I assumed you were thinking of Cole & AL, but then I saw what you were replying to. What do you guys know about Conster that I don’t?
Patricia Kayden
@Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (Formerly Mumphrey, et al.): Not quite as funny as O’Really’s rendition.
debit
@wmd:
Also for punching.
Baud
@WaterGirl:
Look for yourself.
https://balloon-juice.com/2017/03/31/excellent-read-is-there-nothing-j-kush-cant-do/
WaterGirl
@wmd: It definitely is on TV, stabbing and shooting. If you see someone holding their neck on TV, well, it’s all but over.
West of the Rockies (been a while)
Shiv the fat bastard, Anne!
Wait…. can Cole see this? ;)
different-church-lady
Alas, were I not so private and paraniod, I would unquestionably be availing myself of the opportunity to meet our fine and fabled blogmaster. Someone please do raise a toast to him on my behalf.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@WaterGirl: I think TL is also supposed to be there.
WaterGirl
@Baud: Looking now. I saw that thread title earlier and decided to skip it. Perhaps that was a bad decision.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@West of the Rockies (been a while):
Everyone knows that Cole doesn’t read his blog.
Though his mom sometimes does.
Baud
@different-church-lady: I would be paranoid around Cole too. He might try to shave my ass.
Donna K
Rats! I moved to Upstate NY from Gloucester a year ago. Are there ever any meetups up here? I’m in the Syracuse area so Albany and Buffalo are both fairly convenient.
Mike J
@Mart:
Had you not looked it you wouldn’t recognize when people used it.
WaterGirl
@Baud:
I would buy a ticket to that!I would defend your honor.West of the Rockies (been a while)
@Baud
Waxing works so much better… uh, or so I am told.
debbie
@Baud:
Yikes. No one there should have their backs to the door.
Baud
@WaterGirl: Ha!
@West of the Rockies (been a while): I read that somewhere.
JPL
@Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (Formerly Mumphrey, et al.): hahaha
?BillinGlendaleCA
No further reports from the meetup and no pics, I’m concerned.
ETA: I’m sure they’re plotting against us, maybe planning on shaving Baud’s ass.
Gravenstone
@wmd: I thought that was a preferred punching location around this joint.
Mart
@Mike J: I was just trolling with the east coast snob stuff before I realized I “had used” a pluperfect subjunctive in the post. Now that my daughter is a correcting H.S. English teacher, my aversion to grammar rules is all the worse.
Steeplejack (phone)
@Aleta:
Love the GIF in the comments.
Steeplejack
@WaterGirl:
I hope there is a designated front-pager in a secure location in case Asgard is attacked (by, like, ice trolls or whatever, presumably).
WaterGirl
@Steeplejack: I thought that was Kiefer Sutherland?
khead
WrestleMania 33 – Boston?
Steeplejack
@WaterGirl:
Designated Blogger—that was the edgy show CBS passed on to do CSI: The Cyber. Bad choice.
WaterGirl
@Steeplejack: That made me laugh! CSI: The Cyborg. Is that awful show dead yet? I made it through 1.3 episodes. Could not believe when they renewed it.
Steeplejack
@WaterGirl:
Yes, it is long since dead. I am only recently getting over my embarrassment on behalf of Patricia Arquette, whom I really like.
WaterGirl
@Steeplejack: Maybe there should be a BJ lottery. Anyone interested could throw their hat in the ring and BJ could hold a drawing once a week and the winner would get to do a single blog post.
That could be fun!
WaterGirl
@Steeplejack: It really was an embarrassment! I would rather be part of an edgy show that just didn’t make it instead of a totally totally lame and embarrassingly awful show like that.
What were they thinking?
Aleta
@Steeplejack (phone): That’s perfect. Now for the spin off the track and the crash into the concrete wall.
Steeplejack
@WaterGirl:
I always feel sorry for the actors, because they are so much the visible “face” of the product, but I think it’s very hard for them to gauge ahead of time the worth of a project based on a concept pitch, maybe a sample script or two and some number of agents, managers, producers and studio weasels egging you on. Not to mention the perennial pressure on actors to keep working. How was Patricia Arquette to know that show would be the death knell of the whole CSI franchise?
On the other hand, if a really bad show becomes successful and the actors ride it all the way, then I have no problem blaming them. Looking at you, everyone on CSI: Miami and Criminal Minds.
WaterGirl
@Steeplejack: I take your point in paragraph one, for sure. But her acting in that show was an abomination. So lame. That was the first thing I had really seen her in and it wasn’t a good first impression.
Agree on CSI: Miami. As for Criminal Minds, I am really fond of some of the characters – even though I have to fast forward through all the creepy parts of the episodes. Why the hate for that show?
Steeplejack
@WaterGirl:
Arquette’s film work is very good. Check out True Romance (1993), written by Quentin Tarantino; The Hi-Lo Country (1998); Boyhood (2014; she won the Oscar for supporting actress!). Lost Highway (1997), if you’re a David Lynch fan. Even in the potboiler TV zone, her series Medium was pretty good, and she won an Emmy for that. She was supposed to be good in one season of Boardwalk Empire, but I didn’t see that.
I started out liking Criminal Minds somewhat, but it descended so far into relentless—and ridiculous—carnography that I just couldn’t get past that to anything else. It’s not just that we’re surrounded by serial killers all around us, but they’re all really elaborate and out-there serial killers. Every blue-collar misfit or transient “unsub” apparently has the resources to acquire and equip a rape dungeon, underground lair, exotic weapons or whatever else needed to further his nefarious schemes.
Also, something that is common to a lot of these shows but really gets a workout on Criminal Minds: apparently they’re the only fucking BAU team in the whole FBI, so they have to drop everything and go everywhere no matter what. Just once I’d like to see: “Well, your wife is still in critical care after that last revenge attack, so we’ll pick up someone from the B-team. Or, you know what, just send the fucking B-team. We all need a break.”
WaterGirl
@Steeplejack:
You are making me laugh tonight.
I have a friend who absolutely HATED the tv show JAG because he could do fucking everything. Fly a plane? No problem!
I will check out some of Arquette’s film work. Thanks for the titles.
Steeplejack (tablet)
@WaterGirl:
In retrospect, the tl;dr of my previous Arquette comment was that the tragedy of CSI: The Cyber was that not only was the show so bad, but she came across so badly in it because of the awful, awful writing. That show was like your grandparents’ concept of Internet security and, well, the cyber.
“I’ve got it! The killer is using emojis to cloak his messages.”
“That’s it! These emojis, or humorous icons, if you will, are being used to—” (Laughable explanation follows.)
WaterGirl
@Steeplejack (tablet): I know exactly what you mean about the technology – it was laughably ridiculous. I thought maybe that’s part of why I hated it so much – maybe someone with no technical knowledge might have seen it differently and been impressed?
I do wonder how you can put your heart into acting in a terrible role in a terrible show with terrible writing.
Steeplejack (tablet)
@WaterGirl:
That’s professionalism, I guess. You do the best you can with what you’re given. And you try to make sure that you never get into an awful situation like that again. At least she probably paid off the mortgage on the Malibu beach house.
J R in WV
@Donna K:
We would come up there for a meet if the timing was right. Mrs J wants to visit that waterfall up that way for some reason.
CB in Natick
I guess I’m the first person back from the meet up. I was paid by George Soros to attend. I think I should have asked for more money. We had the back room to ourselves, but the acoustics were so bad you had to shout to be heard. It was a good group of people. I wish I had more time to have met the people at the other end of the table. That’s me in the grey sweater. First person on the left. Of course, I’m on the left. Where else would I be?
Chris
WaterGirl
@CB in Natick: We are all jealous. Who all was at the meet up? Are there more photos?
CB in Natick
I was sitting too close to John so all of my memory cells were disintegrated. Mostly I got people’s first names rather than their user names. So I’m not much help. efgoldman did show up with his wife and sat across from me. Annie Laurie showed up without her knives. Tom Levenson was there but I only had a chance for a brief hello. All in all, I think there were about 25 people. No Republicans.
I will add that John is much more urbane and sophisticated than he likes to let on. Don’t be fool by the overalls and flip flops. There’s a reason the blog is as successful as it is.
Chris