Valued commenter opiejeanne and mister opiejeanne will be in the Los Angeles area from Friday October 27th until November 13 and are interested in a meetup. LA jackals, please feel free to hash out ideas about where and when in comments, and when you’ve reached consensus, let me know the details via the email form thingy so I can post particulars for all to see.
Meanwhile, here’s the fabulous Cate Blanchett, whose native Aussie accent always surprises me because she’s Streep-level good at American and British accents (IMO), and I expect her to sound like she does in the roles she’s played:
Cate Blanchett at tonight's #InStyleAwards: "We all like looking sexy, but it doesn't mean we want to f—k you." pic.twitter.com/3FKFjJJVzC
— Andrea Mandell (@AndreaMandell) October 24, 2017
Love how she links the “women wearing slut clothes are askin’ fer it” issue to Trump’s disheveled Svengali: “No one says to Steve Bannon, ‘You look like a bag of trash; do you want me to throw you out?’” ?
Open thread!
PS: Let’s go, Rastros! (Sorry, LA jackals.)
Mary G
And the Dodgers fall apart.
Wapiti
Cate Blanchett is a freaking chameleon. I think everything I ever saw her in, I almost totally forgot it was her, and just saw the role she was playing. I never made it thru the Dylan movie, but the Blanchett scenes were uncanny.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Mary G: Sigh.
khead
Can’t remember my fellow BJ jackal who lives in Cecil County, MD – and I am too lazy to look it up even though it was just in the last week or so – but they mentioned that there might be enough folks in the DE/MD/PA/NJ border area (AKA Wilmington) for a meet up. Curious to know if there’s any interest ’cause I might be willing to try and organize something. Maybe.
Mary G
Oh thank you Baby Jebus, five women accuse Mark Halperin of sexual harassment.
Bwah ha ha. That improves my mood quite a bit.
Betty Cracker
Goddamnit, Astros.
Feebog
And Puig makes it a one run game.
Betty Cracker
@Mary G: Just saw that on the Twitters. Utterly unsurprising; Halperin has always been a creepy, smarmy, entitled shit-stain.
Crusty Dem
NO. NOT MARK HALPERIN!!!!
Said no one.
Fuck that guy.
SFAW
@Mary G:
Here’s a suggestion on how to “deal with this situation” Halperin, you fucking Rethuglican knob-slobberer: seppuku. And if you find it doesn’t help, then we’ll think of something else for you to try.
?BillinGlendaleCA
Halperin will be away for a bit and be back on Morning Joe just like when he call President Obama an asshole on air.
Mary G
Whoever wins, this is a good ballgame. Come on Kiki!
Betty Cracker
Corner Stone
Is there a man anywhere who did not press his boner against someone and call it a relationship?
?BillinGlendaleCA
Here’s a panorama of Glendale and the San Gabriels(it’s large).
Look’s like the link above downloads the file.
Betty Cracker
Holy shit — tie game!
Corner Stone
@Betty Cracker: God dammit. I’ve been avoiding this fucking game all night. Fuck.
Matt McIrvin
I won’t be satisfied until Doocy goes down.
(Gretchen Carlson is apparently forbidden from talking about anything that happened at Fox News as a condition of her settlement. So I guess it’d have to be someone else.)
Major Major Major Major
@Mary G: Can we get the Chinchilla now?
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Corner Stone: Is that Halperin pressing his boner against Trump in the pic above your comment?
Omnes Omnibus
@Betty Cracker: I didn’t want nightmares. But you posted that, so nightmares so I dig.
Feebog
Wow, this is a game. Go Dodgers.
Mary G
So nerve wracking.
Betty Cracker
@Matt McIrvin: My guess is Kilmeade is the handsy sofa squatter. But hell — it’s Fox News; could be both!
catclub
@Feebog: great game!
jl
“No one says to Steve Bannon, ‘You look like a bag of trash; do you want me to throw you out?’”
Now that she’s given me the idea, if I ever cross his path, that line will be hard to resist. And for the Trumpster HImself too.
Betty Cracker
Rastros!
Mike J
Tralfaz!
Major Major Major Major
@jl: I feel like several people must have said it to him at some point.
Mike J
opiejeanne
@Corner Stone: Beginning to wonder.
I’ve been looking back at my college years and it makes me shudder, although at the time I just shrugged off most of it.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
And that’s the pity of it.
trollhattan
This Chait interview with quasi-reformed Republican Charlie Sykes is pretty interesting for delving into the genisis of the current Republican prion disease.
opiejeanne
@Major Major Major Major: Is he dirty? I’m sure he is, he’s such a misogynist.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@Betty Cracker: Trump can screw up a simple. WTF is that man’s problem?
Fair Economist
I’m interested in an LA meetup, but I’m in Orange County so it probably won’t be near me.
Major Major Major Major
@opiejeanne: Powerful man, seems to hate women, you do the math.
Mike J
@opiejeanne: Give him volcanic dust to roll around in. Cleans him and is fun to watch!
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Betty Cracker: and he once called Obama a “dick” on live TV
ETA Obama was “feisty” and “partisan” at a news conference
J
Look at me! I’m going to be edgy!
RinaX
@Mary G:
As soon as I saw this I came here for the comments. I knew you all would understand my glee.
opiejeanne
@Feebog: Did you say you might show up for a meet up somewhere in the LA area? Yay! I hope Mary G can make it this time, and I hope Mnemosyne can make it.
I’d be good with either the weekend of November 4/5 or Nov 11/12. This first weekend is probably too soon for us even though we’ll be here. I think my son might come up to the cabin. We are staying in Blue Jay, right next to Lake Arrowhead for the duration.
opiejeanne
This game is killing me. The fans got their money’s worth tonight.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Ah it was dick not asshole, my mistake.
Mike J
Mary G
@Fair Economist: I am in Orange County, too, but not sure I can get to a meetup.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Fair Economist: We should do one closer to that area, but most of the LA area jackals live up this way. So far, all of them have been in Burbank, Glendale, or Pasadena.
opiejeanne
@Fair Economist: Hey, I drove from Blue Jay to Burbank last time. It wasn’t so bad.
ThresherK
Foof, what a game.
I tuned in in the LA 10th when Houston had a 2 run lead and thought there was nothing left to see!
opiejeanne
@Major Major Major Major: I did the math, just waiting for it to be checked.
Mary G
Damn.
tobie
@khead: Just saw your post. I’m the other BJer from Ceciltucky. November is not a good month for me for a meetup, as I’m going in for surgery, but December should be swell. Anyone else in the Wilmington, DE environs? I bet we’re a small but feisty group.
lgerard
The players must be exhausted from all the home run celebrations
Major Major Major Major
Well, I think I’ll blow off some steam by pretending to be an elf in Azeroth for a bit.
catclub
@Mike J: which series of words?
going going gone
Mike J
@catclub: I just cut and paste, I don’t write ’em.
But to be fair, the poor guy had to update his stat twice in 20 minutes. Things usually don’t happen that fast in baseball.
The Lodger
@tobie: I’ve got relatives in northern DE but unfortunately no plans or budget to go back to the area for some time. When the situation changes I’d like to let you and khead know.
opiejeanne
@?BillinGlendaleCA: I’m game. I mean, we will have driven 1200 miles by the time we get to the cabin so a little more won’t hurt us.
Fair Economist
@?BillinGlendaleCA: I can do those on weekends. Weekdays (including Friday) it’s too much to go north of downtown.
Fair Economist
@opiejeanne: With the directions of traffic, Blue Jay to Burbank is only moderately scary in evening rush. OC to downtown, and then on to Burbank however – OMG.
tobie
@The Lodger: Cool. I think Jeffro may have roots in Delaware, too.
Ruckus
@Fair Economist:
People do it every day, How hard can it be?
Do understand that I’ve commuted from all areas of LA over the decades. Daily travels at one point of 70 miles/day. Also traveled a lot for a job once. Driven to or in 46 states. Lived in 4 of them. Most were nice, some I don’t care to return to.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Fair Economist: I usually take San Fernando from DTLA to Glendale. The 5 sucks.
jl
Halperin?
I guess we’ll see if there is anything to this, and if so, how serious it is. But in the meantime, Halperin gets the awkward copy he deserves.
Tim Dickinson
@71m
“Halperin denies grabbing a woman’s breasts and pressing his genitals against the three women.”
Edit: sorry, when I opened the thread it went to the pic with Trump, and I didn’t check above. So, Halperin…
Ruckus
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
A suggestion. If we do a weekend meet maybe it could be daytime? Might be better for travel, or maybe not, but finding a place might be easier than Sat/Sun night, most places are very busy Fri/Sat nights.
Ruckus
@jl:
He has to search with tweezers to find his pee pee? How do you know this stuff?
jl
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
” I usually take San Fernando from DTLA to Glendale. The 5 sucks. ”
That is some kind of Los Angeles code talk, ain’t it?
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Ruckus: I agree. Just need to avoid any sports games.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@jl: Yes it is jl.
Ruckus
@jl:
It’s perfectly clear.
hilts
Scott Brown alert
h/t https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/25/scott-brown-us-ambassador-to-new-zealand-investigated-over-inappropriate-comments
jl
@Ruckus: I’ve been away for a while. Took me a few secs to decipher.
?BillinGlendaleCA
I’m much less constrained on location since I have more reliable transportation.
jl
@hilts: “I was told by my people that you’re not Scott Brown from New Hampshire any more, you’re an ambassador, and you have to be culturally aware of different cultures and sensitivities,”
And now New Hampshire is offended, and Brown is not even from there.
Ruckus
@jl:
It’s OK, I’ve know people who’ve lived here for decades that wouldn’t know that. But then there is also a lot of other stuff they don’t know as well……..
Major Major Major Major
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Always makes me think of those SNL skits “The Californians“.
Get outta here, Devon!
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Major Major Major Major: Yes, I only some one of those; they got alot wrong.
Major Major Major Major
@?BillinGlendaleCA: I find that surprising, surely many of the writers were familiar with LA.
jl
@Ruckus: I am ashamed to admit that I have a few of the minor freeways completely mixed up in my head.
San Fernando starts out as the Ventura Freeway and then connects to Foothill Freeway?
They’re all mixed up now. I hang my head in shame.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@jl: San Fernando isn’t a freeway, it’s a surface street. You’re thinking of the 101 to 134 to 210. Silly jl.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Major Major Major Major:
It didn’t show if they were.
jl
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Damn you BillinGlendale!
Edit: you confused me by mixing up numbers and names. No fair.
Mnemosyne
@hilts:
Going just by what Brown says that he said, he told them that they could be successful prostitutes in the US and is now astounded that they would find that offensive?
Mnemosyne
@Ruckus:
There’s also less chance of live music on a weekend day. Maybe a Sunday and call it brunch?
You guys may have to plan around me, because I’m also busy most of next Saturday in addition to being fully booked up this weekend. Probably best to pick a time and I’ll see if I can move anything. Next Sunday 11/4 would be best for me, in general.
jl
@Mnemosyne: Still a goofus boorish thing to say even if Brown wasn’t thinking about prostitutes, though I would put a whole lot of money on that bet.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Mnemosyne: Mid day would probably be best for me, I’m not a morning person.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@jl: You seem easily confused, interesting.
Mnemosyne
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
Hence brunch and not breakfast. Brunch can happen anywhere between 10 and 2.
There’s a writing thing I’d like to show up for in Pasadena that Sunday, but it runs from 3 to 6 and I don’t have to be there at any specific time. Heck, if we meet at Dupar’s in Pasadena on Lake St., I can just walk from one room to the other.
GregB
Brown before uproar: Yous broads would make great who-was.
Brown after uproar: Who knew an ambassador was supposed to be diplomatic and sensitive to the mores and folkways of the locals?
jl
@?BillinGlendaleCA: I’m not a late evening person.
Mnemosyne
@jl:
Ummmmm ….
NotMax
@GregB
Guess he hasn’t gotten caught up on the memos, specifically the ones to discourage immigration by non-whites.
Anne Laurie
@jl:
I don’t think Granite Staters can be offended… except by a suggestion they spend money on public services, or such shibboleths.
Dumb bastid undoubtedly thought it was a compliment to suggest that female LEOs could make “hundreds of dollars in the entertainment industry”. Remember, he pimped his kid’s “American Idol” stint — and her single status, nudge-nudge guys! — while on the campaign trail here.
jl
@Mnemosyne: That’s some of that West Virginia stuff. Who knows what goes on back there?
And BillinGelndale did not use proper Los Angeles surface street and freeway grammar.
I don’t think BillinGlendale is from LA, I think he drives in from Moorpark for Simi Valley for sinister purposes.
and it’s all Baud’s fault.
Good night.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@jl: Kind of funny, I do live in Moorpark, the Glendale neighborhood called Moorpark.
Ruckus
@Anne Laurie:
With spelling like that it’s pretty obvious that 1. You hold nothing for SB as a human being, this of course is the proper decorum for someone of his stature. 2. Your upbringing is rather pegged, location wise.
scav
@GregB: Not to mention his baseline assumption that in his culture, it’s unproblematic to advise / complement women on how profitable they’d be as whores. The queer and unexpected oddities of these foreign cultures he’s now faced with!
Ruckus
@jl:
I’m starting to take some offense here. His dialect may be slightly more western than mine but it was perfectly understandable and used all the proper local words.
Amir Khalid
@hilts:
This foot-in-mouth moment sounds exactly like what you’d expect from an ambassador appointed by dem Scheißgibbon.
Ruckus
@Amir Khalid:
I used google translate and it came back the fucking gibbon.
I tried to get it to translate the shitgibbon and it comes back the same as your german.
What did you intend?
Amir Khalid
@Ruckus:
Depending on Google Translate’s mood, it translates “dem Scheißgibbon” as either “the fucking gibbon” or “the shit gibbon”; bu it reliably translates “dem Scheiße Gibbon” as the latter. GT can be erratic that way. I went with “Scheißgibbon” because it is closer in form to the English. If anyone’s curious, dem is the dative (indirect-object) case of the masculine definite article der.
hilts
@Amir Khalid:
Trump sure knows how to pick em. Every appointee that he’s chosen is either a kunckledragging neanderthal, a crook, or a combination of both.
Ruckus
@Amir Khalid:
Had a feeling that’s what it was.
@hilts:
Which one isn’t both? I can’t recall that there is anyone who doesn’t stink up the place both ways. I thought it was a requirement that one had to fall into both camps to even be considered.
M. Bouffant
@?BillinGlendaleCA: That’s Kraproom backward, you know. (Usually applied to the community next to the R. Reagan Liberry, of course.)
Francis Logan
Long Beach here. How about something in downtown?
Uncle Ebeneezer
@Francis Logan: I would be down with downtown because then I can take metro. Depends on the weekend and time as to whether I can make it.
Tehanu
@BillinGlendaleCA:
I live in the city (near West Side – La Brea & Olympic, approximately) but my kids are in Atwater just west of Glendale so no problem getting over there, or to downtown, either. I’m hard of hearing though, so if it’s a noisy venue it’s a real strain. And I am DEFINITELY not a morning person!!