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Programming Note (Open Thread)

by Betty Cracker|  August 23, 20233:44 pm| 182 Comments

This post is in: Food, Open Threads, TV & Movies

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Everyone who knows me in real life is aware that I worship Ina Garten as a goddess. And yet somehow, no one thought to inform me that she launched a new TV series called “Be My Guest With Ina Garten.” A couple of years ago! I had to stumble across it while scrolling through options on HBO Max when I woke up at stupid o’clock today and couldn’t get back to sleep!

The premise is Ina Garten invites people she admires (some folks she knows, some she’s never met) to her house in the Hamptons to cook, mix cocktails and shoot the shit about life. In the first episode, the lucky guest was actor Julianna Margulies. They made margaritas and a haddock recipe Margulies often cooks at home, with Ina Garten serving as sous-chef. Margulies was fan-girling out as hard as I would have!

Ina Garten and Julianna Margulies

That’s the only episode I’ve seen so far since I just discovered this treasure trove today in the wee hours, but there’s three seasons, and other guests include Stanley Tucci, Nathan Lane, Nora Jones, Faith Hill and Misty Copeland.

Anyway, now you know.

Open thread!

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  1. 1.

    Tony Jay

    August 23, 2023 at 3:48 pm

    Stanley Tucci, Nathan Lane, Nora Jones, Faith Hill and Misty Copeland

    Now that’s a dinner party.

  2. 2.

    BeautifulPlumage

    August 23, 2023 at 3:52 pm

    Noooo, no cooking posts, I’m already full from the heaping helping of shadenfreude this morning!

  3. 3.

    cain

    August 23, 2023 at 3:52 pm

    @Tony Jay: what would be your ideal dinner party of guests?

    ETA:

    My dinner party would be, Alex Lifeson, Geddy Lee, Neil Peart, Dave Grohl, Taylor Hawkins, Steven Wilson and Eric Johnson

  4. 4.

    catclub

    August 23, 2023 at 3:57 pm

    Don’t tell my wife about this.

  5. 5.

    Old School

    August 23, 2023 at 3:57 pm

    Looks like very short seasons: three seasons of four episodes each.

    I wasn’t aware of the show either.  Enjoy!

  6. 6.

    eclare

    August 23, 2023 at 4:03 pm

    Wow!  Looks great!  Thanks.

    I talked to my what I thought was my non nut job aunt this morning.  “So, who are the Democrats nominating?”  She only watches Bret, so not even the heavy crazies.

    Sigh.

  7. 7.

    Tony Jay

    August 23, 2023 at 4:05 pm

    @cain:

    Stephen Fry, Peter Ustinov, Dave Grohl, Kathy Burke, Peter Cushing, Peter Falk, David Attenborough, you know, the usual crowd.

    Ha! Grohl’s in demand.

    ETA – Need more funny people.

  8. 8.

    HumboldtBlue

    August 23, 2023 at 4:06 pm

    Ina Garten’s lemon chicken helped me get some smooches an’ stuff.

  9. 9.

    eclare

    August 23, 2023 at 4:06 pm

    @cain:

    George Clooney.  Only George.  Meow.

  10. 10.

    eclare

    August 23, 2023 at 4:08 pm

    @cain:

    Rush?  Really?

    How about Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, Keef?

  11. 11.

    Alison Rose

    August 23, 2023 at 4:08 pm

    @eclare: You and my mom would get along :)

  12. 12.

    eclare

    August 23, 2023 at 4:10 pm

    @Alison Rose:

    Ha!  Good taste.

  13. 13.

    piratedan

    August 23, 2023 at 4:14 pm

    if it was a dinner party/cookout…..

    Michael Palin, Drew Carey, Sandra Bullock, Gillian Anderson, John Scalzi and Lois McMaster Bujold and if allowed to expand the guest list, Joy Reid.

  14. 14.

    Jeffro

    August 23, 2023 at 4:24 pm

     

    @eclare:

    “So, who are the Democrats nominating?”  She only watches Bret, so not even the heavy crazies.  Sigh.

    Tell her we’re nominating Michelle and Jill.  =)

  15. 15.

    Jeffro

    August 23, 2023 at 4:25 pm

    I just want to host small dinner parties with cool people twice a week for the next thirty years, is that so much to ask?

    #LifeGoals, bigly!

  16. 16.

    Amy

    August 23, 2023 at 4:26 pm

    @eclare: Let me know what time, I’ll be right over😝

  17. 17.

    zhena gogolia

    August 23, 2023 at 4:27 pm

    That sounds good, thanks. Her turkey meatloaf is one of my standbys.

  18. 18.

    Origuy

    August 23, 2023 at 4:32 pm

    We should start a campaign to get Betty Cracker on the show.

  19. 19.

    Elizabelle

    August 23, 2023 at 4:35 pm

    Delighted that “programming note” has nothing to do with tonight’s parade of awful.  Which I shall not subject myself too.

    And:  thinking of Keef: makes me think of Amir and his guitar collection and his cat with the unusual name, and hope that he shows up again soonest.  He has scared us with his absence before …

  20. 20.

    JoyceH

    August 23, 2023 at 4:36 pm

    I just saw Margulies the other day in a rewatch of the mini-series The Lost Room. Anyone else seen that? I love it, so atmospheric and weird. Not sure why it’s not a Cult Classic.

  21. 21.

    zhena gogolia

    August 23, 2023 at 4:36 pm

    @Elizabelle: I worry about him too. I wonder if some front-pager could reach out to him. Maybe I’ll e-mail WaterGirl.

  22. 22.

    geg6

    August 23, 2023 at 4:38 pm

    Saw an episode of it with Rob Marshall (Chicago, Little Mermaid, etc.).  I saw he was going to be a guest and, since he’s a Pittsburgh guy, I made it a point to watch.  I, too, adore Ina and would kill to cook and have a meal and drink cocktails with her.  I don’t even like cocktails (just a wine girl), but I’d suck it up a drink some if it was with Ina.

  23. 23.

    Alison Rose

    August 23, 2023 at 4:39 pm

    I’ll go with an all-literary dinner party where death is no obstacle: Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Toni Morrison, Neil Gaiman, Seanan McGuire, Amy Tan, Charles Dickens, Carolina de Robertis…I’ll have to stop otherwise I’d need to rent a banquet hall.

  24. 24.

    SuzieC

    August 23, 2023 at 4:39 pm

    I’ve seen the one with Stanley Tucci.  Stanley makes Ina her first ever martini.

  25. 25.

    Elizabelle

    August 23, 2023 at 4:39 pm

    @geg6:  Ina might make you drink a cocktail out of a glass that could house a beta fish.

  26. 26.

    eclare

    August 23, 2023 at 4:39 pm

    @zhena gogolia:

    Oh yeah.  Please do.

    Someone with google-fu, when did he post last?

  27. 27.

    cope

    August 23, 2023 at 4:40 pm

    She is revered in our household as well. My wife is working her way through one of Ina’s cookbooks that came out before she was big on the TV.  Good stuff so far.

    We have seen most of the episodes of “Be My Guest…” and they are very soothing and enjoyable, a pleasant balm in our time of national suffering.

  28. 28.

    Alison Rose

    August 23, 2023 at 4:41 pm

    @SuzieC: I adore him.

  29. 29.

    Elizabelle

    August 23, 2023 at 4:44 pm

    Apropos of nothing, went to see Barbie last night.  It was fun.

  30. 30.

    eclare

    August 23, 2023 at 4:45 pm

    @Elizabelle:

    Ryan Gosling should be an Oscar nominee.

  31. 31.

    Tony Jay

    August 23, 2023 at 4:46 pm

    @Elizabelle:

    Hopefully he’s just too busy waiting by his phone on the off-chance Jurgen Klopp calls with the offer of a short-term contract to provide Liverpool FC with defensive-midfield cover.

    And on the off-chance he gets that call, I hope he accepts before Chelsea come running with a grossly inflated counter-offer.

  32. 32.

    trollhattan

    August 23, 2023 at 4:47 pm

    @Tony Jay: I’m there! And I don’t care who I have to run over to get to the head of the queue.

  33. 33.

    Raven

    August 23, 2023 at 4:48 pm

    Massive winds on the Outer Banks. I tried  fishing for a couple of hours but nothing will hold the bottom so it’s just cast and watch line race south. It’s pretty here even though it’s Trump country. The better news is the weather looks good for the hopefully epic offshore trip Friday.

  34. 34.

    opiejeanne

    August 23, 2023 at 4:49 pm

    OMG! Thankyuouthankyouthankyou!

    I didn’t think I could love you more, Betty Cracker but I was wrong.

  35. 35.

    Tony Jay

    August 23, 2023 at 4:50 pm

    @trollhattan:

    Bring white wine. No one ever thinks to bring white wine.

  36. 36.

    eclare

    August 23, 2023 at 4:52 pm

    @Raven:

    I wondered with all of the weird weather going on.  Hope you have calmer seas tomorrow!

  37. 37.

    opiejeanne

    August 23, 2023 at 4:52 pm

    @BeautifulPlumage: Now I have to go see what I missed while I was sewing this morning.

    P.S. Your 3-L lama joke was the worst pun I’ve ever seen. I had to say it out loud to get it, but I think it wins 3 groans.

  38. 38.

    Alison Rose

    August 23, 2023 at 4:53 pm

    Aaaaand we got a Rudy mugshot

    RICO prosecutor turned RICO defendant pic.twitter.com/V3jBeXixlT
    — Ari Melber (@AriMelber) August 23, 2023

  39. 39.

    Mike in NC

    August 23, 2023 at 4:54 pm

    We were in Charleston a few years ago and saw some schlock artwork featuring Fat Bastard and several of his Republican predecessors hanging out in a pool hall. Can you just imagine if Ike or Teddy Roosevelt were actually in the same room with him? His ass would have been whipped.

  40. 40.

    eclare

    August 23, 2023 at 4:55 pm

    @Alison Rose:

    Wow.  Thanks.

    So true.  ETTD.

  41. 41.

    Mike in NC

    August 23, 2023 at 4:58 pm

    @Alison Rose:  Disappointing without the hair dye running down his cheeks.

  42. 42.

    Downpuppy

    August 23, 2023 at 4:58 pm

    This response to Ina Garten has an epic image that I couldn’t copy

    @mariayagoda

    yesterday i did a blog on tips from ina garten that improved the quality of my life (https://foodandwine.com/cooking-techniques/ina-garten-cooking-tips…) and this morning i woke up to an email from a reader that may be the most beautiful poem i have read this year, titled “ina garten”

  43. 43.

    trollhattan

    August 23, 2023 at 4:59 pm

    Teevee notes:

    Wrapped “The Days” (Netflix) a Japanese miniseries on Fukushima Daiichi, from quake through finally taming the reactors and storage ponds using water. Lots and lots of water (itself in the news, right now).

    While it’s not the grasp-your-sofa-and-hang-on that is “Chernobyl” (what could be?), it’s riveting on its own terms and importantly, has no time-jumps, so you really feel as though you’re experiencing the suddenness of the disaster and then, the excruciatingly slow unfolding of the string of utter failures that follow.

    I’m partway through “Deadloch” (Prime) and the only reason I have not been able to finish binging is I require lengthy breaks to recover en route, sometimes in the middle of an episode. The things that especially come out of Madeleine Sami cannot be repeated by me, anywhere, ever.

    Aussie-Kiwi humour at it’s funniest and filthiest. Do not miss. ETA for Yanks, at least, turn on the captions. Trust me.

  44. 44.

    Elizabelle

    August 23, 2023 at 4:59 pm

    @Alison Rose:  Rudy is not amused.

  45. 45.

    Alison Rose

    August 23, 2023 at 5:01 pm

    @Elizabelle: Oh, but we are!

  46. 46.

    UncleEbeneezer

    August 23, 2023 at 5:01 pm

    @eclare: As should Greta Gerwig, Noah Baumbauch and Margot Robbie.  Not to mention people who did costumes, set design and casting.  Also Billie Eilish.

  47. 47.

    trollhattan

    August 23, 2023 at 5:02 pm

    @Mike in NC: Not playing cards with dogs? I am disappoint.

  48. 48.

    Scout211

    August 23, 2023 at 5:03 pm

    Fani Willis has words for Meadows.

    CNN
    Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis told a federal court that it should not interfere in any efforts to arrest Mark Meadows if the former White House chief of staff fails to surrender by Friday’s deadline to turn himself in.

    In a court filing Wednesday, Willis called Meadows’ request for the court’s intervention “improper” and “baseless.”

    “It should be noted the defendant’s former boss, the former president of the United States, voluntarily agreed to surrender himself to state authorities, while other defendants have already surrendered,” Willis’ office said.

     

    ETA:  And Clark:

    Willis took several swipes at the legal claims Clark is pushing, telling the federal court that “the theory the defendant advances could charitably be characterized as unusual.”

    Clark’s bid to move her case to federal court is more broadly framed than Meadows,’ and Clark argues that the federal court should follow the rules of federal removal in civil proceedings. Such rulings would require state court proceedings for entire case – for all the defendants – to automatically be paused and moved to federal court, Clark argued in court filings earlier this week.

    “Because any urgency in the defendant’s situation is entirely attributable to his own delay, he should not be rewarded with a stay that deprives the state of the opportunity to first oppose removal of his criminal case,” Willis wrote.

  49. 49.

    trollhattan

    August 23, 2023 at 5:04 pm

    @Alison Rose:

    “Rudy can’t failgot bail.”

  50. 50.

    eclare

    August 23, 2023 at 5:04 pm

    @UncleEbeneezer:

    Absolutely.

  51. 51.

    Wyatt Salamanca

    August 23, 2023 at 5:09 pm

    Mugshots of Powell and Ellis

    https://www.mediaite.com/trump/from-the-cover-of-time-to-a-mugshot-rudy-giuliani-americas-former-mayor-surrenders-in-georgia/

  52. 52.

    trollhattan

    August 23, 2023 at 5:09 pm

    @Tony Jay: Got yer back. It being summer and all. Heck, I’ll bring two: an Amador County, CA viognier and roussanne.

  53. 53.

    trollhattan

    August 23, 2023 at 5:10 pm

    @Wyatt Salamanca: Ellis bringing her happy face.

  54. 54.

    Scout211

    August 23, 2023 at 5:10 pm

    @Wyatt Salamanca: And also Sidney Powell at the link.  I think they must have practiced posing in front of a mirror. Those are actually nice photos.

  55. 55.

    RaflW

    August 23, 2023 at 5:11 pm

    OMG, I have been loving Stanley Tucci’s food tour of Italy (CNN produced, but all the episodes I’ve seen have been on airplane seat back TV), so I think he and Ina Garten in a kitchen together would be fabulous.

    I’ll have to bug a friend who has HBO Go when I hang out with him during ski season (please tell me Garten’s show is on Go).

  56. 56.

    Dangerman

    August 23, 2023 at 5:14 pm

    @eclare: If you are choosing George, I think ya gotta have Brad and Matt Damon there. Some awesome pranks from that group.

    The Jimmy Kimmel where Matt gets carried out by Ben is one of the funniest bits ever.

  57. 57.

    trollhattan

    August 23, 2023 at 5:15 pm

    @RaflW: My bride is utterly hooked on the Pasta Grannies. Think their videos are on Youtube.

  58. 58.

    Ceci n est pas mon nym

    August 23, 2023 at 5:16 pm

    Not sure if anyone on BJ has picked up on this, but it appears that Yevgeny Prigozhin’s plane has crashed. Total accident most likely. I’m sure Putin had absolutely nothing to do with it.This is the MSNBC report I saw.​

  59. 59.

    Tony Jay

    August 23, 2023 at 5:16 pm

    @trollhattan:

    Excellent. I’ll bring the pogo-sticks and the bags of pennies to throw at complaining neighbours. Party! Party! Party!!!

  60. 60.

    twbrandt

    August 23, 2023 at 5:17 pm

     
    A federal judge has denied Clark’s motion to avoid arrest.

  61. 61.

    UncleEbeneezer

    August 23, 2023 at 5:18 pm

    For any K-drama fans out there, Netflix’s new series, The Mask Girl is really good.  It’s a dark comedy, drama, thriller, verging-on-horror series about a woman becomes an internet sensation as a cam girl, by donning a blonde wig and a mask because she has lived her life always being ridiculed for being “ugly” (in the Hollywood/movies sense of the word).  It’s a quirky, weird, suspenseful and violent story so I won’t share too many spoilers.  But definitely worth a look if you like really twisted K-dramas.

    Second season of HBO’s Winning Time is also pretty great so far.  This season really gets into the Bird/Magic rivalry and the tension/conflict that Magic’s larger-than-life stardom brought to the Lakers locker room.

  62. 62.

    Raven

    August 23, 2023 at 5:18 pm

    @eclare: Thanks , the offshore trip is Friday, leave the dock at 5am sharp. The wind finder app predicts 3.1 ft swells with 9 second intervals. We should be ok.

  63. 63.

    Ceci n est pas mon nym

    August 23, 2023 at 5:19 pm

    @twbrandt: Wait, you mean if I commit a crime I can’t use “getting arrested will damage my reputation” as an argument for why I shouldn’t be arrested?

    Can I sue the police for defamation at least?

  64. 64.

    Alison Rose

    August 23, 2023 at 5:19 pm

    @Wyatt Salamanca: Ellis with that shit-eating grin, meanwhile she’s whining and crying about her bills not being paid.

  65. 65.

    Raven

    August 23, 2023 at 5:20 pm

    @RaflW: My buddy was studying at the CIA in NYC while Tucci was making Big Night and Stanley visited his class!

  66. 66.

    misterpuff

    August 23, 2023 at 5:20 pm

    Ina Garten Davita Honi!

     

     

    Sorry. Had to do it.

  67. 67.

    Alison Rose

    August 23, 2023 at 5:20 pm

    @Ceci n est pas mon nym: Not sure if you’re being snarky,  but the previous post is about this very topic :)

  68. 68.

    hilts

    August 23, 2023 at 5:21 pm

    My dinner party

    Groucho Marx, Noël Coward, Allen Ginsberg, Oscar Levant, Elaine May, Elaine Stritch, Fran Lebowitz, and Susan Sontag.

  69. 69.

    Miki

    August 23, 2023 at 5:21 pm

    @opiejeanne: “OMG! Thankyuouthankyouthankyou!”

    What she said.

    Added to Sling watchlist. Will watch S1E1 ASAHP

  70. 70.

    Dangerman

    August 23, 2023 at 5:22 pm

    My three dinner guests (Family and Religion excluded):

    John Wooden

    Vin Scully

    Richard Feynman

    Yeah, took a turn with that last one, huh?

    ETA: I think all 3 were educators to their core and master storytellers. I don’t know who talks the most. Probably Feyman.

    ETA2: Coach would insist on Nell and definitely need some more feminine presence. Let me ponder.

  71. 71.

    piratedan

    August 23, 2023 at 5:23 pm

    @UncleEbeneezer: I’ll check that out, currently been following Behind your touch that I will not spoil the premise of here because its own kind of awesome.

  72. 72.

    Ceci n est pas mon nym

    August 23, 2023 at 5:23 pm

    @Alison Rose: Nope, just too eager to break the news. Was doing other stuff till 5 minutes ago, saw this pop up on YouTube and thought it might actually be news.

    I glanced at the most recent open thread (this one), skimmed through it and didn’t see it mentioned, so dropped it in here.

    Now I feel like an idiot but that’s not a new experience for me.

    You guys are too well-informed for me to keep up with.

  73. 73.

    Scout211

    August 23, 2023 at 5:23 pm

    @twbrandt: 👍

    Okay, Judge, now do Meadows.

  74. 74.

    JPL

    August 23, 2023 at 5:24 pm

    I had no idea about the show, so thank you Betty.   Something to watch when I wake up at one.

  75. 75.

    zhena gogolia

    August 23, 2023 at 5:24 pm

    @eclare: WaterGirl says it was Aug. 1. He did disappear for a while once before when he had health issues, so we might not hear anything for a while. I hope he’s okay.

  76. 76.

    Frankensteinbeck

    August 23, 2023 at 5:25 pm

    @Wyatt Salamanca:

    My god, they think this is a media event.  No, maybe it’s just habit.  Get immersed in politics enough and you probably want to make sure every photo is one you’ll want to see in the paper.

    @UncleEbeneezer:

    I saw Nimona yesterday.  It was a lot of fun and had some clever twists.

  77. 77.

    JML

    August 23, 2023 at 5:25 pm

    Dang, Julianna Margulies. Rowr.

  78. 78.

    Alison Rose

    August 23, 2023 at 5:25 pm

    @Ceci n est pas mon nym: No no, not an idiot! Sometimes it’s hard to tell if something just happened or not. Hell, I almost shared something as “new” yesterday that turned out to be from April, LOL.

  79. 79.

    zhena gogolia

    August 23, 2023 at 5:25 pm

    @Alison Rose: He actually looks better than usual in that one.

  80. 80.

    Wyatt Salamanca

    August 23, 2023 at 5:26 pm

    @trollhattan:

    Long Live The Clash!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEK9oK02D1M

  81. 81.

    Betty Cracker

    August 23, 2023 at 5:26 pm

    Less pleasant programming note: Trump will be at tonight’s GOP debate in digital form:

    “If he’s not there, he’ll still be there,” Bret Baier, the debate’s co-moderator, told Politico last week. “There may be sound bites, there may be elements where ‘this is what the leader of the primary says about this issue.’ He’ll be there, even if he’s not there.”

    Indeed, multiple people familiar with the situation told The Daily Beast that the network has committed to a plan to “beam Trump in” by playing clips of him throughout the debate and having the candidates respond. The move partly satisfies the network’s need for an active, lively debate with the frontrunner somehow involved, as well as its post-2020 core operating principle to “respect the audience”—in particular, the MAGA base that craves all things Trump. But it would also satisfy Fox’s desire to effectively counter-program the Carlson interview.

    LOL! Imagine getting the assignment to pick those clips! Too bad they can’t create a hologram.

  82. 82.

    UncleEbeneezer

    August 23, 2023 at 5:26 pm

    @trollhattan: We love disaster movies/shows, so we enjoyed The Days okay, but yeah it is nowhere near the level of Chernobyl, which was true must-watch status, imo.  It was hard not to constantly compare the two in our heads while watching, leaving The Days feeling kinda dull by comparison.

  83. 83.

    bbleh

    August 23, 2023 at 5:27 pm

    @Scout211: @twbrandt: ooo, the abusive metaphor of consequences.

    (And srsly, I’d prefer not to be rushed when I book air travel? Really?)

    Re Meadows, won’t this be pretty much a copy of the Clark ruling, minus the “move the entire matter” bit?

    I suppose now they’ll appeal the denial?  And ask for a stay while the appeal is pending? (Ok joking.  Mostly.)

  84. 84.

    BeautifulPlumage

    August 23, 2023 at 5:27 pm

    @opiejeanne:

     

    P.S. Your 3-L lama joke was the worst pun I’ve ever seen. I had to say it out loud to get it, but I think it wins 3 groans.

    Wait, what?!? I don’t recall making a pun?

  85. 85.

    Baud

    August 23, 2023 at 5:29 pm

    @Betty Cracker:

    They should have a Disney world style animatronic Trump.

  86. 86.

    Wyatt Salamanca

    August 23, 2023 at 5:29 pm

    A dinner for members of the press hosted by the Trump campaign on Tuesday evening geared toward ribbing Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is being criticized by figures across the political spectrum.

    Politico led its Playbook newsletter on Wednesday morning — the day of the first Republican presidential primary debate of the 2024 cycle — with details about the dinner:

    SPOTTED IN MILWAUKEE — Team Trump wining and dining with a number of top reporters at a steakhouse called “Rare” — and passing out pudding snack packs (a swipe at RON DeSANTIS’ “pudding fingers” story) as well as debate bingo cards to troll the Florida governor. Squares included: “dismisses polls,” “wipes snot,” “red ears,” “Dee-Santis,” “Duh-Santis,” “flip flops on Social Security… again,” “woke” and “pudding mention.” See pictures here and here

    Who was there: Reporters Dana Bash, Shane Goldmacher, Kristen Welker, Bob Costa, Fin Gomez, Dasha Burns, Rachel Scott, Rick Klein, Josh Dawsey, Rob Crilly, Mario Parker and David Chalian along with Chris LaCivita, Jason Miller and Steven Cheung. And across the restaurant, feet away: members of Team DeSantis.

    h/t https://www.mediaite.com/politics/how-is-this-appropriate-trump-teams-lavish-anti-desantis-dinner-with-media-complete-with-pudding-cups-called-out-by-critics/

  87. 87.

    Jackie

    August 23, 2023 at 5:29 pm

    @Alison Rose: And, the info we really REALLY want to know:

    Daily Beast: (Rudy Guiliani)“He stands 5’ 11” and tips the scales at an imposing 230 pounds, according to booking records, which list his hair color as ‘gray or partially gray.’”

    Can’t wait for TIFG’s measurements AND what color(s) used to describe the rat’s nest on his head!

  88. 88.

    UncleEbeneezer

    August 23, 2023 at 5:30 pm

    @Betty Cracker:

    Indeed, multiple people familiar with the situation told The Daily Beast that the network has committed to a plan to “beam Trump in”

    Number One, destroy the holo-deck immediately!!!

  89. 89.

    BeautifulPlumage

    August 23, 2023 at 5:31 pm

    @twbrandt: I just read both of DA Willis’s replies and I believe Meadows will be denied as well.

  90. 90.

    Alison Rose

    August 23, 2023 at 5:33 pm

    @Betty Cracker: UGH. God damn, I really wish his parents had never met.

  91. 91.

    MazeDancer

    August 23, 2023 at 5:34 pm

    You can watch 3 minute clips of Ina and guest from each episode on Food Network

    You can also view the whole season on Discovery+ which starts at $4.99 a month. And has a free trial. At discoveryplus.com. Or click “start trial” on show on Amazon.

    You can pay for a month and cancel if you can’t watch all you want in 7 days.

    But I highly, highly recommend “For the Love of Kitchens” on discovery plus. Which is about DeVol kitchens who design and install these swoon worthy kitchens, mostly in the UK.

    Though they have a show room in Manhattan. And two of the best episodes are in the US.

  92. 92.

    Elizabelle

    August 23, 2023 at 5:34 pm

    @Wyatt Salamanca:  Media whores.

  93. 93.

    UncleEbeneezer

    August 23, 2023 at 5:35 pm

    And since my wife doesn’t return until Saturday, I’m still watching horror stuff (which she doesn’t love).  Last night I watched Things Seen And Heard on Netflix, starring James Norton and Amanda Seyfried (and F. Murray Abraham) in a haunted house/ghost story that takes place in Hudson Valley.  It was good but not great.  But it did have some really great Fall scenery and stunning landscapes etc.  I’s categorize it as: Scary Movie that isn’t really scary but is still enjoyable.  Much like the Hill House/Bly Manor films, which didn’t scare me at all, but I still liked them.  It’s a good one to bookmark for the Fall/Halloween.

  94. 94.

    JPL

    August 23, 2023 at 5:37 pm

    @Wyatt Salamanca: At the very least, they should be benched for two weeks.

  95. 95.

    Jackie

    August 23, 2023 at 5:39 pm

    @Alison Rose: That’s ‘cause she made just enough money to cover her bail with her Go Fund Me site.

  96. 96.

    Kelly

    August 23, 2023 at 5:39 pm

    @Betty Cracker: An animated CGI Trump based on that painter’s version of comic book hero Trump. Naughton? McNaughton?

  97. 97.

    bjacques

    August 23, 2023 at 5:41 pm

    @BeautifulPlumage: Meadows is welcome to his high justice as long as it ends with the finest swordsman from Calais

  98. 98.

    LAO

    August 23, 2023 at 5:42 pm

    Looks like Mark Meadows is having a very bad no good night.

    https://x.com/andrewfeinberg/status/1694464374071533591?s=46&t=X9PV5VKSwOZNT_u34CCUFQ

  99. 99.

    Wyatt Salamanca

    August 23, 2023 at 5:42 pm

    @Alison Rose:

    God damn, I really wish his parents had never met.

    If the WGA strike ever ends, I’d like to see a film in which the main character uses a time machine to travel back in time to prevent Trump’s parents from ever meeting each other thereby saving the nation from this lunatic.

  100. 100.

    LAO

    August 23, 2023 at 5:42 pm

    @BeautifulPlumage: you are correct

  101. 101.

    Baud

    August 23, 2023 at 5:43 pm

    @Wyatt Salamanca:

    Courtiers.

  102. 102.

    Baud

    August 23, 2023 at 5:44 pm

    @LAO:

    👍

  103. 103.

    VeniceRiley

    August 23, 2023 at 5:45 pm

    File under only in LA: David Grohl showed up fot  my cousin’s kid at a small album launch gig and backed her up on drums.

    I don’t want to host a dinner party, I just want to be invited!

  104. 104.

    Scout211

    August 23, 2023 at 5:45 pm

    @LAO: Yes! Denied. Link

    Jones wrote that “the clear statutory language for removing a criminal prosecution, does not support an injunction or temporary stay prohibiting District Attorney Willis’s enforcement or execution of the arrest warrant against Meadows.”

  105. 105.

    twbrandt

    August 23, 2023 at 5:45 pm

     

    @LAO: 😂

  106. 106.

    bbleh

    August 23, 2023 at 5:45 pm

    @LAO: oooowww, 0 for 2 now.

    I DO hope the poor dears don’t have trouble making reservations

    “In support of his motion to stay booking or arrest, the Defendant notes that accommodations at a hotel of suitable quality within close proximity to the jail are presently unavailable.”

  107. 107.

    twbrandt

    August 23, 2023 at 5:47 pm

      slow news day, eh?

  108. 108.

    Omnes Omnibus

    August 23, 2023 at 5:47 pm

    @Tony Jay: ​
      Keith Moon, Oliver Reed, Catherine Deneuve, Charles James Fox, Sinead O’Connor, Rodrigo Borgia, and Eleanor Roosevelt. It might be a short party, but it would be memorable.

  109. 109.

    BeautifulPlumage

    August 23, 2023 at 5:49 pm

    @LAO: Ahahahaha thanks for posting. Fed judge not fucking around!

  110. 110.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    August 23, 2023 at 5:49 pm

    LOL. The Washington Post and CNN both have Rudi’s mug shot on their front page Everybody in every airport is gonna look up and see that.

  111. 111.

    Alison Rose

    August 23, 2023 at 5:49 pm

    @Wyatt Salamanca: Seriously. Because even if both of them had kids with other people, the awfulness would be diluted, so we’d just have two pompous failed casino owners who maybe end up running for city council or something.

  112. 112.

    Elizabelle

    August 23, 2023 at 5:49 pm

    @Wyatt Salamanca:  Mrs. Greenspan was perhaps in the bathroom.  Or under the table.

  113. 113.

    LAO

    August 23, 2023 at 5:50 pm

    @twbrandt: my head is spinning!

    But, I will cherish Rudy’s mug shot, I only wish my father was alive to enjoy it as well.

  114. 114.

    Wyatt Salamanca

    August 23, 2023 at 5:52 pm

    @Elizabelle:

    99% of our chattering class have no fucking shame.

    If you polled the members of the White House Press Corps for their preference between Biden and Trump, Trump would win in a landslide in spite of January 6 and his avalanche of lies. They don’t care that he’s a fascist because he provides them with an endless stream of entertainment.

  115. 115.

    Jackie

    August 23, 2023 at 5:52 pm

    @Betty Cracker: And to add a positive note, President Biden will air his first national campaign ad on FAUX just before the debate!👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻😁

    “Fox News viewers tuning in to tonight’s Republican debate will also hear from an unexpected voice: Joe Biden.”

    “The president’s reelection campaign has purchased airtime on Fox News, Semafor has learned, and plans to run its first national television advertisement of the 2024 cycle during the time slot directly before Wednesday’s 9 p.m. ET debate. Titled “Fought Back,” the ad highlights Biden’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as the passage of infrastructure and semiconductor legislation.”

    https://www.semafor.com/article/08/23/2023/bidens-first-2024-national-tv-ad-will-run-on-fox-before-gop-debate

  116. 116.

    BeautifulPlumage

    August 23, 2023 at 5:52 pm

    @LAO: I see the fixed the lighting from yesterday. Wonder if the PAB saw Eastman’s and requested better lighting?

  117. 117.

    Suzanne

    August 23, 2023 at 5:54 pm

    Is anybody else having uproarious laffs on family group texts discussing the mug shots?! LAWL.

  118. 118.

    Baud

    August 23, 2023 at 5:54 pm

    @Jackie:

    the ad highlights Biden’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic,

     
    That’s cheeky for the Fox crowd. I like it.

  119. 119.

    twbrandt

    August 23, 2023 at 5:56 pm

    @Jackie: ​I guess I am a little surprised Fox would sell ad time to the Biden campaign.

  120. 120.

    Jackie

    August 23, 2023 at 5:56 pm

    @LAO: 🤭😂🤣

  121. 121.

    Omnes Omnibus

    August 23, 2023 at 5:57 pm

    @Wyatt Salamanca: ​
      I mentioned that in a morning thread. In addition to the inappropriateness of it, both Trump’s and DeSantis’s people chose a very standard, nice, but overpriced steakhouse. They could have done so much better in the same neighborhood. Very much a more money than taste choice.

  122. 122.

    Wyatt Salamanca

    August 23, 2023 at 5:57 pm

    @Alison Rose:

    If you buy into the concept of a multiverse, there may well be some parallel universe in which Trump is a permanent resident of a mental hospital.

  123. 123.

    Baud

    August 23, 2023 at 5:57 pm

    @twbrandt:

    They need the cash for the defamation lawsuits against them.

  124. 124.

    JPL

    August 23, 2023 at 5:57 pm

    Seems like this guy might have trouble making bail

    Defendant in Trump Georgia case was earlier charged with attacking FBI agent

    Harrison William Prescott Floyd is accused of assaulting an agent working on Justice Department’s probe of efforts to obstruct 2020 election

    Washington Post

  125. 125.

    Suzanne

    August 23, 2023 at 5:58 pm

    @BeautifulPlumage: The lighting still looks very bad! Must be a really high ceiling in that room.

  126. 126.

    LAO

    August 23, 2023 at 5:58 pm

    @BeautifulPlumage: IMO, the only good mugshots, I’ve seen are David Bowie’s and Frank Sinatra.

    I’m too lazy to look them up to link them.

  127. 127.

    Elizabelle

    August 23, 2023 at 5:59 pm

    @Wyatt Salamanca:  Too many of the buckrakers seem amoral, and deeply ignorant of history.

    I suspect some of the younger reporters bought, uncritically, into the “Saint Reagan” crap too.  No institutional memory.

    I wish William Shirer or Edward R. Murrow could come back and shame them all.

    The crowd at that dinner:  whores.  Plain and simple.

  128. 128.

    Jackie

    August 23, 2023 at 5:59 pm

    @twbrandt: It’s money FAUX can count on!

  129. 129.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    August 23, 2023 at 5:59 pm

    @twbrandt: Rupert both despises his audience and would probably sell one of his own hundred year old kidneys if he could find a buyer with enough cash.

  130. 130.

    JPL

    August 23, 2023 at 6:00 pm

    Washington Post on Fulton defendant 

  131. 131.

    cain

    August 23, 2023 at 6:00 pm

    @eclare: I’ve been a fan since I was a teen – I love Rush. :P

    I like Led Zeppelin – but not for a dinner party :-)

    I might add Loreena McKennit, Clannad, and The Corrs  and maybe the Chieftains just to round it out. :D

  132. 132.

    Jackie

    August 23, 2023 at 6:01 pm

    @Suzanne: Plus a naked light bulb💡

  133. 133.

    cain

    August 23, 2023 at 6:01 pm

    @Alison Rose: For some reason I just feel like Dickens would just fight with everyone. :D

  134. 134.

    Tony Jay

    August 23, 2023 at 6:04 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    Very. I don’t think even a Borgia has ever seen a bald Irishwoman kick a drunken Englishman in the balls quite that hard.

  135. 135.

    Wyatt Salamanca

    August 23, 2023 at 6:04 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    Dating back to election night of 2016, I’ve lost track of how many days I’ve woken up or gone to bed feeling like George Taylor in the final scene of Planet of the Apes or Jake Gittes in the final scene of Chinatown.

  136. 136.

    Jackie

    August 23, 2023 at 6:04 pm

    @JPL: He’s not the sharpest knife in the drawer!

  137. 137.

    Quiltingfool

    August 23, 2023 at 6:06 pm

    Late to the thread…Miss Betty, I wish you could cook with Ina!  I’m not a fan of cooking, but I do enjoy watching Ina cook.  My favorite thing is eating food other people have prepared, lol!

    Now my fan girl crush is for Deb Tucker, the Quilt Diva who developed the most marvelous quilting rulers; difficult quilt blocks (ones that make you tear your hair out) are made easy peasy with her rulers.

    I met her at a quilt show.  I begged her for a job.  I have no shame.

  138. 138.

    Elizabelle

    August 23, 2023 at 6:06 pm

    @Wyatt Salamanca:  In a different mediaite story, a “source” says Dana Bash and David Chalian “paid for their own dinner.”

    So it’s all alright, I guess.

    That is a type of Clarence Thomas defense, is it not?

  139. 139.

    Omnes Omnibus

    August 23, 2023 at 6:07 pm

    @Tony Jay: But which drunken Englishman?

  140. 140.

    Baud

    August 23, 2023 at 6:07 pm

    @Elizabelle:

    Clarence doesn’t pay for shit.

  141. 141.

    Alison Rose

    August 23, 2023 at 6:08 pm

    @Wyatt Salamanca: Truly it brings a tear to one’s eye…

  142. 142.

    Elizabelle

    August 23, 2023 at 6:08 pm

    @Baud:  Well, yes.  And that occurred as I typed.

    But it’s such a useless excuse.  They accepted the invite, and were there.

  143. 143.

    Alison Rose

    August 23, 2023 at 6:08 pm

    @cain: Loreena!!! Love her so much.

  144. 144.

    Sure Lurkalot

    August 23, 2023 at 6:09 pm

    So, Fox is going to insert existing clips of Trump spouting word salad answers to questions they plan to ask the elite eight on stage? Wouldn’t that mean they have to frame some of the debate questions around the clips? The guy disses you bigly and you still let him set the agenda, Fox? Sad!

  145. 145.

    UncleEbeneezer

    August 23, 2023 at 6:10 pm

    Dinner Parties are always disappointing because I feel like I never get to have any really deep conversation with anyone and nobody really gets to get deep into any topic before the subject is changed.  It would only be interesting to me if it was organized by topic.

    Politics/The World: Hillary, Obama, Pete Buttigieg, Kamala, Timothy Snyder, Rev. Barber

    Sports: Billie Jean King, Serena, Rafael Nadal, Federer, Iga Swiatek (Party has a strict Vaccine requirement, sorry Novax, lol)

    Music (we are definitely jamming):  Kamasi Washington, Brad Mehldau, Vernon Reid (Living Colour), Beyonce & Jay-Z, Chris Cornell (RIP), Jeff Tweedy

  146. 146.

    Dangerman

    August 23, 2023 at 6:10 pm

    @VeniceRiley: Grohl definitely marches to the beat of his own, well, you know. Earlier this year he did a massive BBQ for an LA homeless shelter; his BBQ rig is big enough to house a small Family.

    OK, women for the dinner party:

    Jackie Joyner Kersee (does she remember me from UCLA? no particular reason she should)

    Julie Hayek (same, but our paths only crossed once, but oh my goodness)

    Christa McCauliff (another twist for a last choice)

  147. 147.

    rikyrah

    August 23, 2023 at 6:12 pm

     

    I had the Carol Burnett 90th birthday celebration on my DVR and watched it today. Carol has led A rich life. She has worked with so many in Hollywood. How many folks could count Julie Andrews as their best friend. Those clips of her show, still making me laugh after all these years. If you missed it, they are replaying it tonight on NBC. So many😂😂😂

  148. 148.

    opiejeanne

    August 23, 2023 at 6:13 pm

    @BeautifulPlumage: The editor’s note that you added, that a 3-L  lama is a really big fire.

    Read it out loud.

  149. 149.

    Steve in the ATL

    August 23, 2023 at 6:13 pm

    @JPL: ​ my wife, a proud resident of Fulton County, Georgia, has received a jury duty summons–this could be fun!​

  150. 150.

    Elizabelle

    August 23, 2023 at 6:15 pm

    The Guardian, with a Reuters report, below. I rather like that Wagner concluded Hell was a likely destination.  The text has a certain roguish charm to it, admittedly for a Bad Person.
    And, who knows what is true on the internets?

    A Telegram channel associated with the Wagner group said Wednesday that Prigozhin has died, Reuters reported.

    From Reuters:

    Russian mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin is dead, a Telegram channel affiliated with his Wagner mercenary group reported on Wednesday.

    “The head of the Wagner Group, a Hero of Russia, a true patriot of his Motherland Yevgeny Viktorovich Prigozhin died as a result of the actions of traitors to Russia,” a post in the Grey Zone channel said.

    “But even in Hell, he will be the best! Glory to Russia!”

  151. 151.

    BeautifulPlumage

    August 23, 2023 at 6:16 pm

    @opiejeanne: either that wasn’t me or I had a fortunate typo! It is good, though.

  152. 152.

    Timill

    August 23, 2023 at 6:16 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: If you’re trying to get a large(ish) bunch of people to agree on a restaurant for dinner, you’re likely to wind up at a steakhouse as the LCD. And if you ask the concierge for a recommendation, it’ll be overpriced…

  153. 153.

    Baud

    August 23, 2023 at 6:18 pm

    @Steve in the ATL:

    Oh yeah.  I hope she remembers that she’s never heard of Donald Trump.

  154. 154.

    BeautifulPlumage

    August 23, 2023 at 6:19 pm

    @Steve in the ATL: what date?

  155. 155.

    trollhattan

    August 23, 2023 at 6:20 pm

    My dream was always to be invited to join Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner for their daily breakfast. Alas.

    Mel, hell yes I’d still come over!

  156. 156.

    JPL

    August 23, 2023 at 6:22 pm

    @Steve in the ATL: uh oh    Luckily we are having a murder wave so probably nothing political.   She’d be fortunate if it was a case before Fani because she is a master.

  157. 157.

    Omnes Omnibus

    August 23, 2023 at 6:22 pm

    @Timill: ​
      I was just looking at Google Maps. There are at least 10 places I would recommend over Rare within 0,6 miles of Rare. Also, that’s just using standard Euro/American food. If we go “ethnic,” the number goes up. Some might be a bit small for a group of Trumpies and media whores, but still.

  158. 158.

    Tony Jay

    August 23, 2023 at 6:23 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    Checks list

    Scratches chin

    Glances at mirror

    Checks list

    Double takes at mirror

    Gets it

    I’ll wear sturdy pants.

  159. 159.

    Sure Lurkalot

    August 23, 2023 at 6:23 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: I worked in the world of finance and steakhouses were the most common venue for business dinners. I attribute it to the pretentiousness and clubby decor. Where else to get a half head of iceberg lettuce smothered in blue cheese dressing or a baked potato the size of your head for $15 per? So impressive (not).

  160. 160.

    Steve in the ATL

    August 23, 2023 at 6:25 pm

    @BeautifulPlumage: 2026?

  161. 161.

    Wyatt Salamanca

    August 23, 2023 at 6:25 pm

    @Elizabelle:

    @Elizabelle:

    I wish William Shirer or Edward R. Murrow could come back and shame them all.

    Thanks for mentioning two of my favorite journalists! I wish we could also bring back Walter Cronkite, Eric Sevareid, Howard K. Smith, and Peter Jennings.

    With few exceptions, our current crop of journalists are not worth a warm bucket of urine.

  162. 162.

    Omnes Omnibus

    August 23, 2023 at 6:26 pm

    @Sure Lurkalot: Like I said, a more money than taste choice.

  163. 163.

    MomSense

    August 23, 2023 at 6:26 pm

    I like Ina except she came to Maine to host a fundraiser ( rich people paid big bucks for her to cook dinner) for her dear friend Eliot fucking Cutler.  Look up what he’s been up to lately. It’s ugly.

    Anyway I know it’s stupid but I’ve had a hard time with her ever since.

  164. 164.

    Elizabelle

    August 23, 2023 at 6:28 pm

    @Wyatt Salamanca:  Truth.

    We can include Martha Gellhorn.

  165. 165.

    Jackie

    August 23, 2023 at 6:28 pm

    @rikyrah: Oh THANK YOU! I would have missed it 😢

    I have it set to record, now!

  166. 166.

    JPL

    August 23, 2023 at 6:30 pm

    @MomSense: Yup   Gotta agree with you, but she probably is sickened also.

  167. 167.

    cain

    August 23, 2023 at 6:32 pm

    @Mike in NC: Shit – Teddy would have bloodied him and mocked him for his bone spurs. He would have hot trotted out there.

  168. 168.

    JPL

    August 23, 2023 at 6:33 pm

    @Steve in the ATL: hahaha

    Tell her to watch out for Ray Smith because he looks like a character out of a Dennis Lehane book.   Since you know all the local attorneys had you heard about him?

  169. 169.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    August 23, 2023 at 6:36 pm

    I know it’s petty and irrelevant but I really wanted the weigh in to happen

    Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski. 16m

    Since the Fulton Jail is allowing them to self-report their own height and weight, what numbers will Trump give them?

  170. 170.

    cain

    August 23, 2023 at 6:37 pm

    @VeniceRiley: David Grohl is the most amazing HUMAN not just a rock musician. Just fucking amazing man.

  171. 171.

    opiejeanne

    August 23, 2023 at 6:37 pm

    @BeautifulPlumage: Didn’t you post the Ogden Nash poem about the various lamas?

    The one-L lama, he’s a priest

    The two-L llama, he’s a beast

    But I’ll bet a silk pajama

    There isn’t any three-L lllama.

  172. 172.

    bbleh

    August 23, 2023 at 6:39 pm

    @Timill: or Cheesecake Factory, depending on the makeup of the group.

  173. 173.

    bbleh

    August 23, 2023 at 6:40 pm

    @Steve in the ATL: omg.

  174. 174.

    kalakal

    August 23, 2023 at 6:43 pm

    @Tony Jay: For the first few minutes Kenneth Williams, Clement Freud, Peter Jones, and Derek Nimmo. After that I wouldn’t care as I’d have died laughing

  175. 175.

    wjca

    August 23, 2023 at 6:43 pm

    @Baud:

    Clarence doesn’t pay for shit.

    Now that’s just silly.  Of course he pays.  Just not in cash, but in services.

  176. 176.

    Wyatt Salamanca

    August 23, 2023 at 6:43 pm

    @rikyrah:

    I love Carol Burnett!  Not only a brilliant comedian, but a genuinely decent person as well.  During the taping of one episode, Harvey Korman berated a crew member for a technical mistake.  After Burnett learned of the incident, she told Korman that if he ever publicly belittled a staffer again, she’d fire him immediately.

     

    Given Burnett’s incredible comedic talent, I never understood why she has not received an invitation to guest host Saturday Night Live.

     

    Also loved her appearances in Better Call Saul.  I’ve never seen the tv film Friendly Fire, but I’ve read that Burnett delivered a great performance in it.

     

    My favorite Carol Burnett Show highlight

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qqE_WmagjY

  177. 177.

    Sure Lurkalot

    August 23, 2023 at 6:50 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: Steakhouses are OK if someone else is paying (I’ve never had a bad steak even if the rest of the meal was ultra meh), otherwise as you mentioned, there are usually dozens of better choices nearby in most cities and metro areas.

  178. 178.

    Jackie

    August 23, 2023 at 6:51 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: That doesn’t make sense. The whole premise for actual stats is for those “Wanted – Dead or Alive” APBs and posters!

  179. 179.

    like a metaphor

    August 23, 2023 at 7:10 pm

    i like Jane Fonda’s 1970 mugshot with raised fist:

    https://www.vogue.com/article/jane-fonda-hair-mugshot-1970-klute-anniversary-vietnam-war

  180. 180.

    satby

    August 23, 2023 at 7:36 pm

    @Wyatt Salamanca: Absolutely the best clip from that show!

    Comedic geniuses.

  181. 181.

    Jager

    August 23, 2023 at 7:49 pm

    @eclare:

    Keef is a pretty good cook

  182. 182.

    Omnes Omnibus

    August 23, 2023 at 7:51 pm

    @Jager: ​
      I use his shepherd’s pie recipe.

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