The blog lord is wondering whether anyone would be interested in a Balloon Juice Zoom on Valentine’s Day.
What say you? If you would be interested in that, let me know in the comments. If it looks like there is enough interest, we’ll figure out the time and I’ll announce it. Then you can RSVP to me by email so you can get the zoom link.
Open thread. Talk about anything you want. Personal or political. You decide.
Update: oh, and totally unrelated, there is a new I Got the Shot! thread in the sidebar. It’s been 30 days since I put up the first ones, so comments on that one are closed. Have we really only been getting vaccinated for just over a month?
WaterGirl
Oh my god, did T****’s attorney just point out that a president is subject to criminal prosecution after he leaves office? (I am behind in watching the questions.)
He also states that there is no January exception.
In what way is that supposed to be good for T****?
Just Some Fuckhead
I did not know about the “I Got The Shot” posts or I would have commented there. My apologies to everyone.
Other Other Other John
Interested. Doesn’t mean I know I can, but, interested!
Brachiator
Cool science story from BBC News
You can hear a sample of the sound at the link.
Amir Khalid
@WaterGirl:
If he (Schoen? Van der Veen? Castor?) did point that out, let’s hope the DoJ was listening.
I have no objection to Trump’s own lawyers damaging his already weak case by admitting the truth.
Omnes Omnibus
No, thank you.
WaterGirl
@Just Some Fuckhead: Lots of people comment in the current threads and in the I Got the Shot! post in the sidebar. You get a sticker there. :-)
edit: I know you may be mocking me, but I don’t care. :-)
Just Some Fuckhead
@Brachiator: Seven notes: “Ne-ver gon-na give you up..”
WaterGirl
@Amir Khalid: I enjoyed the moment of imagining T**** seeing that and shouting at the screen.
Also, the Q & A finished early! I thought there was more than an hour left and then suddenly it was over. yay!
The Fat White Duchess
Yes to Zoom, preferably evening.
Just Some Fuckhead
@WaterGirl: Yeah, then they’ll say you can’t prosecute a president for something he did while he had the protection of the office of the presidency. This is Lucy-football stuff.
NotMax
Sure, por qué no?
BTW, if you’re having trouble finding Zoom hosts, keep in mind that someone with a Zoom account can arrange and open the meeting and then designate someone else in the meeting as host if he/she needs to duck out.
WaterGirl
@Just Some Fuckhead: Agree. But I did enjoy the moment of hearing his attorney suggest that T**** could be prosecuted for crimes committed while in office. Hope T**** puckered up when he heard that one.
laura
Missed the entire next door discussion this morning. I couldn’t hack the suspicious minds and deleted it. But I look at the BestOfNextDoor twitter feed and it is Hilarious! So worth a waste of your time.
WaterGirl
It feels like midnight. These impeachment trials wear me out. I am going to bed at 9pm on a Friday night. Sad.
Alison Rose
I’d be interested depending on the time. If I can make it, I’ll try to get my new kitty to put in an appearance too :)
Amir Khalid
@WaterGirl:
Various of the media’s analysts have noted that the House managers’ case is already strong enough to ensure Trump’s conviction in a criminal court.
laura
@Brachiator: https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ
mali muso
Maybe on the zoom, depending on time and childcare obligations, etc. TGIF and I’m already ready for bed.
SiubhanDuinne
I’d be up for a VDZ.
WaterGirl
@Amir Khalid: ooh, I have not seen that anywhere. That would be awesome.
SiubhanDuinne
@Alison Rose:
Yes, please ?
NotMax
5 hours waiting around the mechanic’s shop today with the landlady to get a diagnosis on the trouble lights. Not one, but two oxygen sensors glorked, apparently. So another trip to be made when they get the parts in. Meanwhile, system has been reset and the lights are off (for now, at least). Turns out the new guy working the desk at the mechanic’s was a long time regular customer of my store back when. Then ran into two other former regulars who came from different places in the complex to use the rest room, which is right next to the mechanic’s shop. Sort of a mini old home week; they all wanted to talk story.
Had the foresight to bring along a folding chair so I could sit outside and enjoy see-gars while reading on the Kindle. Plus a travel mug of coffee, which the repair shop gladly refilled. Also, friends have a shop right across the street so was able to pop in and schmooze with them for a bit.
Followed with a swing by Kaiser because landlady’s doctor wanted her get a walk-in blood test. So a full day.
Just Some Fuckhead
@WaterGirl: I wasn’t mocking. I’m actually a little sorry I said anything at all that would set off the emotional vampires of Balloon Juice.
WaterGirl
@Just Some Fuckhead: Funny, I just left this comment on a previous thread:
Go add your vaccine comment in the I Got the Shot! thread, and tell me which sticker you want. I’ll add it in the morning.
Just Some Fuckhead
@WaterGirl: Yeah, there’s too many people on Balloon Juice who just sit here all day like they’re in prison, looking for a fight. It’s what drives the interesting people away.
Benw
OT huh? Anyone else watching WandaVision? I’m digging it, but I’m already all in on the MCU.
gwangung
@Benw: Comics fanboy here. And I’ve been loving it. I think I can guess the twist they’ll probably make…but there’s three episodes to go, so anything can happen.
One thing I’m sure of….we’re getting another black superhero….
VeniceRiley
@Benw: I watched and I’m sure I’ll catch up at some point. But I find the whole 50’s so traumatizing that I never watch more than 2 episodes of Mad Men. I feel like I can’t breathe when I see it. Even a winking knowing stylized version of it.
Just Some Fuckhead
@WaterGirl: Do you have a middle finger sticker?
Lapassionara
@VeniceRiley: my thoughts exactly. Too much like when I lived in NYC after college.
Lapassionara
@WaterGirl: hey. I think the Valentine’s Day idea seems good.
phdesmond
i’d be interested. i could read the pandemic valentine’s day poem i just sent to my girlfriend.
:-)
Benw
@gwangung: It’s so good! Olsen and Bettany are killing it. I’ve seen so much speculation, I’m not sure what’s going to happen
Benw
@VeniceRiley: the 50’s aesthetic was done after the first episode. That sucks it was tough to watch, but by the second ep it was in the 60/70s.
Delk
Everybody could wear the cat filter!
RedDirtGirl
@Alison Rose: I’ll pop in. And will have a dog to show off. No, I haven’t adopted one yet, but will be watching Bruna for a week while her parent is in warmer climes.
gwangung
@VeniceRiley: Third episode is the 70s and the current one is the 00s, so that may help. The first three episodes are designed to set you on edge with a subliminal creepiness; fourth episode gets you into standard blockbuster plotting
@Benw: This was the chemistry that was missing in the movies…most likely because there was no space for it. The weekly format allows room to breath and is kinda like the monthly comics format anyway..
JoyceH
I’m interested in zooming if we’ve got power here. Ice storm expected tonight, so fingers crossed.
CaseyL
I am always up for a BJ Zoom! Valentine’s Day is a perfect excuse.
ETA: Did the first grocery run for the new fridge. It’s so much fun putting food away in a brand new, spanking clean, not-yet-beat-up refrigerator. (My old one was in sad shape, even before the compressor went out.)
Also, it is snowing like mad here now in Seattle. Not big flakes, so it doesn’t look very dramatic, but the stuff is accumulating fast. Looking forward to seeing how deep it gets overnight.
zhena gogolia
@laura:
OHMYFFINGGOD THAT IS SO HILARIOUS
zhena gogolia
@laura:
I love this one:
zhena gogolia
@Delk:
Do you know how to do that? A friend of mine (78 years old) is nagging me to show her how to do it, and I don’t know.
Delk
@zhena gogolia: not sure but I think it’s an app. I have only zoomed a few times.
Benw
@gwangung: that’s a great way to put it. I’m enjoying the space to take a deep breath and wait for the next “issue”
Just Some Fuckhead
I get so disgusted seeing the phrase “capitol riot” on the crawler or voiced by the pundits. It was an insurrection, not a riot. It was a putsch, a failed coup. They weren’t protesters or rioters. They were seditionists and insurrectionists.
NotMax
@zhena gogolia
Doesn’t (yet) include the same kitty filter, but there’s tons of others. For example.
The Snap Camera app lets you use a bunch of wonderful filters
mvr
@Just Some Fuckhead:
Thanks! I guess that means that always being the last post (to which no one responds) on any thread is a good thing since it means I’m not one of those folks.
:-)
Just Some Fuckhead
@mvr: I’m not sure what your comment means but I only commented here because I was one post off from the most current post when I was scrolling through the last few threads.
The Oracle of Solace
I would be interested in that! Apart from a grocery pick-up and some filming, I don’t think I’ve got anything special planned for Valentine’s Day.
Middlelee
Valentine’s Day zoom sounds fun.
Mary G
I would like to try it now that I know about filters.
Johannes
@Benw: Yeah, I’m liking it too—the cast is great, and I love the. Sit-com/horror binary.
rose weiss
I’m up for a zoom on Sunday. My sometime BF is making himself scarce so company, even virtual company, would be nice.
WaterGirl
@Just Some Fuckhead: I have to admit, I did not look for one of those.
J R in WV
@Amir Khalid:
Yes, but in a criminal trial, jurors who met with the defense would be put off the jury, perhaps with criminal prosecution to follow. Here, jurors who have worked with the defense in the case will be able to vote for acquital in the end — not fair in my book, but those are the crumbles in this case.
Hoping for successful criminal prosecutions of Trump, his family, aides, Stone, etc following this show trial in the Senate. Jurors in the DC courts may not be as inclined to let Trump slide as Senators, or jurors in localities farther from the heated action at Capitol Hill.