Outside Donald Trump's rally in Asheville, NC: A "Deplorable Lives Matter" sign: pic.twitter.com/Fn1YbHFIm9
— Frank Thorp V (@frankthorp) September 12, 2016
Trump’s stand-in, I’m guessing.
I have talked to a lot of undecided voters in last day. Their reaction to Hillary's illness is that they have great compassion for her.
— Matthew Dowd (@matthewjdowd) September 13, 2016
Worth considering: Candidates' personal health getting way more attention than candidates' health policies/proposals.
— Charles Ornstein (@charlesornstein) September 12, 2016
All presidential candidates do have a body double: the vice presidential nominee. None of these dudes want to talk about @timkaine though.
— Al Giordano (@AlGiordano) September 12, 2016
Roger Stone really just wants to be a Batman villain, doesn't he? pic.twitter.com/K5hH4HkZfL
— Bob Schooley (@Rschooley) September 13, 2016
Betty Cracker
My poor, long-suffering husband works with a couple of Trump-supporting, Alex Jones-listening, conspiracy theory loons. They had tidbits to share Monday about the HRC “body double.” One displayed photos on his phone showing Clinton waving, saying Clinton’s index finger is longer than her ring finger (or vice versa) in the photos taken at the 9/11 memorial but the opposite when she came out of Chelsea’s apartment. Cray-cray!
magurakurin
Clinton’s body double will be fine as long as she doesn’t try to ride Clinton’s horse.
Clinton’s not dropping out. Dream on you fucking ghouls.
NickM
In positive anecdotal news, one of my most crazy Berner, anti-HRC friends has come almost all the way around. I was painful for me to bite, chew and swallow my tongue when she unironically and wholeheartedly agreed with me that many of the attacks on HRC over the past 25 years have roots in misogyny, but I did it for the cause.
Omnes Omnibus
@Betty Cracker: I pulled into the parking lot of my office the other day and saw a car with InfoWars. Audit the Fed, and 9/11 Was an Inside Job bumper stickers. Although I am agnostic, i quickly uttered a prayer that the loon had an appointment with anyone but me. I lucked out.
Patricia Kayden
@Betty Cracker: I’m trying to figure out the significance of a body double. I assume Stone and his ilk are just creating more fantasies for their silly audience. Otherwise yawn.
OT: Read on LGM that Asheville police have made at least 5 arrests in relation to Trump’s hate rally last night, including of a Trump Deplorable who sucker punched a 69-year old protester in her face.
danielx
Roger Stone is a Batman villain. He lacked only the trilby hat, and he’s remedied that omission.
Mnemosyne
@danielx:
That’s not a trilby, that’s a bowler. The trilby is the hipster fedora.
danielx
@Mnemosyne:
You are correct; couldn’t think of it and that was what came to mind. Bowler it is.
Adam L Silverman
@Patricia Kayden: They’ve got everyone but the guy who hit the woman on oxygen outside the event. They’ve identified him, he’s from SC, and there is a warrant out for his arrest.
A
Is the Asheville Dumpster rally the same one where another one of the Derplorable SA hit a 69-year old woman with a portable oxygen tank square in the face? That rally?
(Check TPM)
amk
where is assange/snowden when we need one on this body blow?
Adam L Silverman
@Mnemosyne: He has one of those too. He tweeted a pic of him in it as part of his Deplorable’s movie poster based on the Expendables movie poster (Trump in front, Pepe the Frog with Trump hair immediately to Trump’s left) over the weekend.
lamh36
Open Thread…yay!
So I got to go to a free screening of Bridget Jone’s Baby tonight. My sis had tickets and I decided to go at the last minute. I ya know me, then you know Bridget Jones’ Diary (the book that introduced me to Colin Firth. Real talk: Colin Firth is the Ivory to Idris Elba as Ebony, in my favorite Brit boys fantasy…) and BJ: Edge of Reason are two of my fav books (the less said about the 3rd book the better…ugh). I also like the movies, the first one more so than the sequel. So I was ALWAYS gonna go see the final film (they had me at Colin Firth…seriously).
So, I say this as a fan of the books and the movies, I fuqn LOVED Bridget Jones’ Baby! And if you’re a fan like me you’ll probably love it too! I won’t say much, but I LOL a lot and I said “aww” alot… and I even like Patrick Dempsey, (who’s NOT my fav actor). But the most important thing to know, if you are a fan of Colin Firth as Mark Darcy…YOU WILL LOVE THIS MOVIE!
It was a free screening, so alot of ladies many who brought along their men and I heard more than a few manly chuckles during the movie too, so hey…take ur S.O. to see it and she may compare you to Mark Darcy but all the endorphins from the romantic feelings make work in your favor…wink, wink..
Adam L Silverman
@A: Yes, that’s the 69 year old woman with COPD. They’ve identified her assailant, he’s from SC, and a warrant has been issued for his arrest.
jacy
MSNBC reporting Colin Powell’s private emails have been hacked and published. Basically called Trump a racist.
Marcion
So which flavor of deplorable is that dipshit claiming to be? Racist, sexist, homophobic, or all of the above?
I can’t believe they’re trying to take full-throated racism mainstream again. I think the country’s gag reflex is going to kick in sooner or later.
Adam L Silverman
@lamh36: The last post was an open thread too. Did what’s her name put on all the weight again, instead of going with prosthetics and a body suit, like she did in the previous two movies.
Omnes Omnibus
@Mnemosyne: @danielx: Aside from British cavalry officers at the Cavalry Memorial Parade , does anyone wear a bowler anymore (Roger Stone obviously excepted)?
Mnemosyne
@danielx:
And the villain he’s trying to be is one of my favorites from the 1966 show. I have the Blu-Ray of the whole series and Gorshin’s performance in particular holds up really well.
Adam L Silverman
@jacy: They were leaked to someone at Buzzfeed. They are correspondence with a former assistant.
scott (the other one)
As a middle-aged white guy, I have to say, middle-aged white guys really suck.
jacy
@Adam L Silverman: with the NY AG investigation just announced, and the Newsweek story for tomorrow morning, at least the talking heads will have something new to talk about tomorrow.
lamh36
@Adam L Silverman: nope…the story fast forwarded and Bridget is now at her goal weight. So no need for weight gain for Renee
Elie
@Adam L Silverman:
Think about that, now…. a full grown MAN who would hit a 60+ woman on oxygen and knock her down on the ground. Think about that. THESE are exactly who Hillary was talking about and the country needs to talk about it straight out. I believe that instead of being like the “47%” comment she made, this will be an important turning point for the themes of this election: Whose America is this anyway? White Power and 1950 or Diverse and part of the future? The people have to decide, but its past — way past sugar coating anymore.
Mnemosyne
@lamh36:
I love Colin Firth. He showed up at the very end of the Hallmark version of The Secret Garden way back in 1987 for about five minutes and I was like, “Whoever that is, he’s mine.”
Enhanced Voting Techniques
Oh why stop the crazy train now; has anyone noticed no ever sees the Abominable Snowman and Hilary TOGETHER??? It would be wrong not to speculate.
Marcion
@Adam L Silverman:
The other thing I can’t believe is how the Internet has begun infecting the discourse. Pepe, man, this is like the perfect dogwhistle for Trump. Internet racists knows what it means, but its’ way too convoluted to explain on TV to 65-year-olds (TV anchor: “So, there’s this site called “Four Chan”, which has “memes”, of which “Pepe the Frog” is one, and this “meme” used to just be floating out there like “lolcats” and “the Doge”, but it was taken over by people so dedicated to “trolling” they became “ironic” racists, then taken over by legit racists who see themselves as rebels against the PC Man, maaaan, and….)
I was reading about the alt-right before they got on TV. Where do I get my political hipster cred?
hovercraft
@lamh36:
I love Idris and Colin. I also love McDreamy, you can’t have been a Greys Anatomy fan, cause if you were you would love Dr. McDreamy.
Mnemosyne
@Omnes Omnibus:
G actually looks really good in a bowler but, sadly, nobody wears them anymore.
Peter H Desmond
hi, open chatters — i wanted to draw your attention to one of the good 9/11 poems to have followed the tragedy at the world trade center. it’s by western mass. poet martín espada:
https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/alabanza-praise-local-100
i’ve studied poetry with him.
Adam L Silverman
@lamh36: okay
Adam L Silverman
@jacy: That’s crazy talk!
TaMara (HFG)
@jacy: Especially since it’s becoming clear that people are not playing along with the MSMs Hillary health conspiracy nonsense.
hovercraft
@Mnemosyne:
I fell for him in Pride and Prejudice.
Mnemosyne
Gogol’s wife let me know earlier today that two (2) Hamilton stars made it onto this year’s Vanity Fair International Best Dressed List. The classically handsome Leslie Odom Jr. is listed under “Men” while my imaginary future ex-husband Daveed Diggs is listed under “Originals” because, as I have said many times, the man can wear outfits that would look ridiculous on a lesser man and still look like the picture of elegance.
No, Lin-Manuel is nowhere near that list, because his genius does not extend to dressing himself well. I’m still horrified by that electric blue blazer he wore to the White House.
dmsilev
@jacy:
Well, that’s just deplorable.
Adam L Silverman
@Elie: I am constantly amazed we have not had more violence and fully expect more of it – both between now and the election and after the election. And they type of post election violence will depend on who wins.
Gin & Tonic
@Omnes Omnibus:
No. And they shouldn’t.
Marcion
@jacy:
Over/under on how long it will take for Trump to pick a fight with Colin Powell? I give it no later than Tuesday morning.
Adam L Silverman
@Marcion: Alain’s working on a widget for your cred. It’ll be up on the right hand side when he makes the adjustments later in the week.
lamh36
@hovercraft: I wasn’t an avid fan, but I did lean more to McSteamy over McDreamy…plus Dempsey movies post his 80s heyday were, horrible IMHO.
So outside of Grey’s (I admit, I wasn’t a fan of McDreamy) I wasn’t expecting much from his acting, but I did enjoy him in this, but of course, it is all about the Firth for me…lol
Miss Bianca
@Omnes Omnibus: They’re not mounted! Dis-a-PPOINTED!
Lizzy L
@Adam L Silverman: Thinking about this… A Clinton win might bring out the Trump supporters’ rage. I would expect them to target African-American, Hispanic, or Muslim-identified (e.g. halal butchers) stores or neighborhoods. But in the alternate universe in which Trump wins (NOT gonna happen in this one) I can see celebratory violence aimed at the very same targets. I would be curious to know your thoughts.
Miss Bianca
@Mnemosyne: Who did CF play in “Secret Garden”? Fictional Colin’s father?
jacy
Trump is apparently pissed off that all amybody wants to talk about is Obama. Trump tweeting to tell the prez to get back to work. How can he run the country if he’s campaigning?
lamh36
@jacy: saw Buzzfeed tweet about it before I went dark for the screening. Apparently, Buzzfeed came across the emails thanks to a site, that allegedly with possible Russian ties.
Powell said Trump is a “disgrace” and that the whole birther thing was 99% “racist”. Saw Nicole Wallace talking about it and all she could do was talk about how it pretty much supports HRC’s “deplorables” argument. The Trump camp basically said…”oh well, Colin Powell has voted Dem last 2 elections”…but didn’t Trump also vote Dem in the past. She also said that HRC camp didn’t say much and chose not to engage due to their own history with Powell and emails.
Steve Schmidt at the very least said that this was NOT a good thing for Trump
lamh36
So, more non-political news…
Guess who’s making moves…
@psddluva4evah
Oh my goodness #NiecyZoe is on the move!!!???
Adam L Silverman
@Lizzy L: Similar to where I was going. A win gives them permission to act out. A loss will push them to lash out.
Adam L Silverman
@lamh36: Life as you all know it has now ended!
Mnemosyne
@Miss Bianca:
He played the grown-up Colin in an epilogue. He had, like, two lines of dialogue, but … day-um.
Marcion
@Lizzy L:
I expect that if Trump loses, he may call for violence against the people who “rigged” the election (ie Democratic officials). Then again Ia lso expcedt Cleveland to be on fire after his convention, so we may wind up lucky.
tweedledee
from the HuffPost today. Too much false equivalence happening here.
divF
@lamh36: Looking good!
Damien
@Gin & Tonic: Don’t be ridiculous, a bowler in the right hands can be an excellent top to an outfit. You won’t see them worn with jeans or anything, but they’re great hats to bring a leve of old-school class to the right kind of suit
lamh36
@hovercraft: I didn’t see Pride and Prejudice until after I’d read the first Bridget Jones Diary novel. Bridget (and most of English women it seems…lol) was obsessed with Colin Firth as Mark Darcy. One of the big storylines in the book (and one of the many comedic bits) involved Bridget obsessing over Colin Firth and trying to get an interview with the actor Colin Firth for her tv station.
As i you don’t know, the author Helen Fielding based the first book on Pride and Prejudice and indeed, she based the main guy Mark Darcy, after Colin Firth as Mr Darcy from Pride & Prejudiced! Apparently he was either friends with the author and of course he knew of the book…so having him as Mark Darcy was just icing on the cake for us book lovers
Suzanne
@Mnemosyne: I loved that version of The Secret Garden when I was a kid. That Nocturne by Chopin that is used in the score is still one of my favorite pieces ever.
Plug for Chad Lawson’s Chopin Variations, BTW. Just lovely.
Emma
@Enhanced Voting Techniques: Bat Boy. Is Hillary keeping him locked in the old server room so she can use his blood to keep herself alive? Inquiring minds!
Dog Dawg Damn
@Adam L Silverman: yup. It’s a lose lose. This is the new norm. We can hope for a humiliating defeat followed by a sore loser bringing down political establishment upon his orange head, with all the shame that would entail. Otherwise, it may be a new era in US politics. A reactionary backlash like we haven’t seen in a generation. Let’s hope not.
Mnemosyne
@lamh36:
OMG! And I love how she’s just casually strolling around like, Yeah, this is what I do now.
divF
@Damien: Jack Lemmon looked good in one in “The Apartment”.
Bobby Thomson
@jacy:
you funny.
Emma
@Mnemosyne: Oh my.
hellslittlestangel
Correction: Stone wants to be a 1960s Batman villain.
Miss Bianca
@Mnemosyne:Day-um indeed. I’m with lamh – he and Idris Elba are two of the smokiest-hot guys in the movies. And yes, his Fitzwilliam Darcy is to die for, tho’ I haven’t seen his Mark. ; )
ETA: Altho’ for dreamy movie crushes I’m also going to put in an argument for Toshiro Mifune, Martin Shaw and Alan Rickman. I have catholic tastes.
jacy
@Bobby Thomson: I know! But it COULD happen…maybe…
hovercraft
@jacy:
Aww, did lil Twumpy lose all the attention he thought he’d get with Hillary off the trail. Unfortunately for him tomorrow morning is going to be about the Newsweek story, NY AG’s investigation of the trump Foundation, and snarky references to him and Kellyann trumpeting Hillary’s lack of a child care policy, except it’s been on her website for over a year.
lamh36
@Adam L Silverman: lol..IKR…I told my sis…uh oh…watch out..once she starts walking soon it’s gonna be RUNNING…LOL
Mingobat f/k/a Karen in GA
@Mnemosyne: Who on earth would actually practice the rap from Guns and Ships with a stopwatch until they got it down to three-point-zero seconds? Seriously, who would do such a ridiculous thing?
Okay, me.
Lizzy L
@Dog Dawg Damn: Another reason to want a Clinton landslide. The closer the numbers, the more Trump can/will shriek about the election being rigged. Ugly doesn’t begin to cover it.
Bobby Thomson
@Lizzy L: since they are fundamentally cowards, there will be a lot more violence in the event of a Trump win.
Mnemosyne
@Miss Bianca:
We have Kingsman: The Secret Service on the DVR, but I haven’t sat down to watch it yet. I’m assuming this is how Omnes pictures himself in his head.
EllenH
@Mnemosyne: I love that version of The Secret Garden but had no idea that Colin Firth played Colin Craven all grown up end. I’ve probably watched that movie fifty times with my daughters when they were growing up. It was the best! I have home videos of my middle daughter at four coaching me through a “scene” where I am Martha telling her (Mary) “it was the wind you heard,the wind!” so many memories and now a reason to rewatch it!
jacy
True story: FEMA rep came to my door this week to give me a flyer in case I needed help from the flooding. He asked if there were any questions he could answer, and I was feeling goofy, so I asked him when they were going to finally get started on the Republican reeducation camps. He gave me an utterly blank look, so I offered him a cookie. This is why I shouldn’t answer the door….
Mnemosyne
@Mingobat f/k/a Karen in GA:
You have, of course, seen the #Ham4Ham where they do “Guns and Ships,” right?
Another thing Mr. Pulitzer Prize Winner is not good at — dancing. He’s adorkable.
Adam L Silverman
@lamh36: The Zoepacolypse is upon you!
Mnemosyne
@EllenH:
Even in those pre-internet days, I made it my business to find out who that guy was!
amk
clash of civilizations. west vs rest. huntington.
Hope the fucker isn’t proved right.
FlipYrWhig
@Marcion: I’m “only” 44 and I have no idea how any of that could possibly make sense to anyone.
Lizzy L
@Bobby Thomson: Trump is not going to win.
Aleta
@Betty Cracker: Can’t they see she that is a bionic shell draped over harvested organs?
Anne Laurie
@lamh36:
Good heavens, Patrick Dempsey is an actor? By the time I’d given up watching Grey’s Anatomy (during the punish-Izzy season) I’d decide he must be the best pool cleaner Shonda Rimes ever hired, because he certainly had no business getting paid to recite lines on camera.
Apart from his flat-affect problem, the man has only three expressions:
(a) Maybe I shouldn’t have eaten that second burrito for breakfast
(b) I wonder if anybody can tell I ate burritos for breakfast
(c) Ah, what the hell, they sure know now
I mean, Ellen Pompeo sure doesn’t have the skillz to stand up on the same stage with a good actor, but surely her assistants could’ve found a better Forever Dream Guy than that sad sack…
Omnes Omnibus
@Miss Bianca: I believe that horsies do appear in the parade. The former officers participate in pinstriped suits, regimental ties, bowlers, and brollies.
waysel
@Damien: John Steed in The Avengers TV series. And Magritte : The Son of Man apple faced guy.
Mike in NC
Drumpf’s Deplorables isn’t a bad band name. Skinheads, that is.
different-church-lady
@srv: That’s not how the basket works. That’s not how any of this works.
different-church-lady
@jacy:
What’s all this then?
Adam L Silverman
@amk: Huntington’s thesis, from the original journal article to the full length book, was critically flawed. Moreover, his operationalization of civilization was hilariously incorrect. The groups he lumps together into his different civilizational blocks don’t necessarily go together. Moreover, the attempts to operationalize his thesis for quantitative empirical verification all failed at anything beyond the diadic level (two states/societies). Once the groupings were opened up to include more than two states/societies from his opposing civilizations it failed. In fact there is far more empirical support for the arguments that states and societies that are more culturally similar tend to go to war more often, or have disputes that become violent more often, that those that are different from each other. Huntington is important because he is widely read and therefore you have to read him in order to be taken seriously. Also, he’s sort of a stalking horse for a number of interesting, if not empirically verified/verifiable, ideas. His work on failed transitions to democracy is theoretically very important. As is his work on CIV-MIL relations. But he cuts a lot of corners that has brought him a lot of official censure.
Mingobat f/k/a Karen in GA
@Mnemosyne: Why did I not know about that until now?
I had thought LMM looked familiar, then I remembered he was Alvy on House a few years ago. Loved him.
I know they’ll be staging Hamilton in London — and frankly, it might be cheaper for me to try to score tickets in London and fly there than it would be to go home to New York and see it there. I’m waiting for eventual news of the touring company coming to Atlanta, maybe in 2018 — but I must see this play.
Calouste
@srv: You need to be convicted to get a pardon. What Snowden wants is immunity from prosecution.
Omnes Omnibus
@Anne Laurie: Patrick Dempsey is also a respected race car driver.
The Lodger
@lamh36: looks like she’s about two weeks from having two speeds: stall and warp. After all, why walk when you can run?
lamh36
@Anne Laurie: OMG!!! Thank you…he is NOT great. The fact that I didn’t hate him in this and that I didn’t miss Hugh Grant as Daniel Cleaver, is surprising, but maybe it’s just cause I’m happy to have a real ending of the series, especially since I really didn’t like the 3rd and final book Fielding wrote for the series…
Anne Laurie
@Omnes Omnibus:
How nice for him that he has an actual talent to fall back on.
Mnemosyne
@Mingobat f/k/a Karen in GA:
We bought season tickets to the Pantages Theatre just so we would have guaranteed Hamilton tickets. I mean, we’re going to go see 5 more of the shows (Book of Mormon is coming back, but we’re skipping The Bodyguard), but the primary motivation was guaranteed Hamilton tickets.
If you have any connections in Chicago, they’re having an open-ended run there, so it might end up being easier to see it there than in NYC. Though presumably demand for NYC will die down a little now that most of the original cast is gone. Probably.
lamh36
@The Lodger: lol…IKR…I hope my sis is ready. I feel for my gran though, cause she is the one who watches Zoe when my sis is at school and my gran isn’t as fast as she used to be…so if Zoe gets away from her…then ZOOM she’s gone…lol
But my gran is married to a MUCH younger man, and he’s the one who runs around behind Zoe…lol
hovercraft
@different-church-lady:
NY AG is investigating the Trump Foundation, AG says the investigation has been going on for a while.
redshirt
Yes?
Omnes Omnibus
@Mnemosyne: How do I come into this? Also, I part my hair on the right, and I sure as fuck do not picture myself with glasses.
Betty Cracker
@Peter H Desmond: That is really good. Thanks for the link!
lamh36
@Anne Laurie: @Omnes Omnibus: I actually did know about the race car driving…saw some fluff piece on one of those entertainment shows after he was canned from Grey’s Anatomy.
They showed the usual stock footage and one of them was from a celebrity car race he was a part of.
The last movie I remember seeing with Dempsey I can barely remember the title without googling it, and to be honest I don’t even want to cause I’d rather not have to even think about how crappy the movie and he was…smh
He’s def been resting on pretty…
Peter H Desmond
@Betty Cracker: betty, glad you liked it! the neglected victims.
Mnemosyne
@Omnes Omnibus:
I assume you’d be in it for the suits.
(ETA: Swapped in another photo with a better view of all the suits.)
And the nerdy glasses are part of the disguise, of course.
BR
@Betty Cracker:
Why not convince them that Trump himself is in on the conspiracy? “Oh, you didn’t figure it out? I thought it was obvious.”
lamh36
@Mnemosyne: Have I talked about how much I LOVED Kingman (aside from the troublesome ending rescue scene with the “hostage” girl)? What’s not to like, Colin Firth in tailored suit, rimmed glasses (if you like that look on him, watch a Single Man…where he in glasses like those all the time!) kicking azz and taking names. That church massacre scene was AWESOME! So happy apparently, he’ll be back for the 2nd film in some small form..
I’m really shocked I don’t have it on BluRay. I need to work on that.
divF
@Calouste: Actually, no conviction is necessary. Ford pre-emptively pardoned Nixon for Watergate.
ETA: BiG- Ha!
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Calouste: Nope, Nixon got a pardon from Ford.
ETA: Damn you divF, missed it by that much…
Omnes Omnibus
@Anne Laurie: How well has his acting career gone? You don’t like him, but it appears that millions of others do/did. Tastes vary. There is a movie about Jackie Kennedy coming out. Do you want to take a swing at her again since you are going with random dislikes?
BR
@Lizzy L:
The assumption that Trump has no chance of winning terrifies me. That is really the only way he can win. An October surprise plus a bad media cycle can tip a 3 point Clinton win to a dead heat, and that could be the ball game. We need margin both for victory and to ensure that a surprise doesn’t tip the election.
That means signing up to volunteer. I just got home from a phone bank an hour back. Everyone needs to be doing it. Please. There wasn’t nearly enough diversity at the phone bank I was at — not at all reflective of the Dem diverse coalition. We need to change that.
Omnes Omnibus
@Mnemosyne: Never liked double-breasted suits. Even with dinner jackets.
rikyrah
@lamh36:
Thanks for the review. I LOVE Colin Firth. LOVE him. Can’t wait to see this movie.
Villago Delenda Est
@divF: Which was a crime in and of itself. Nixon should have done hard time, just like his minions.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym
I remember Colin Firth best for his role in The English Patient, where he’s cast as the guy who is solid and dependable, not the really sexy one.
lamh36
Alright…I’m off to bed.
Have a good one BJ!
rikyrah
@Lizzy L:
They think that someone is playing with them .
They wanna party like it’s 1948.
Not.going. to.happen.
Mingobat f/k/a Karen in GA
@Mnemosyne: No Chicago connections, I’m afraid.
It’ll happen somehow.
Mnemosyne
No, but seriously, Hamimaniacs — one of these things is not like the other. Who let LMM bring that jacket to the White House, fer chrissakes?
Mnemosyne
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym:
He’s actually pretty good at playing a stiff, unlikeable guy — he has a similar role in Shakespeare In Love. But we fans love him anyway.
One of the reasons he’s so great in The King’s Speech is that he plays off both of those personae at the same time.
ruemara
@lamh36: I just love Kingsman EXCEPT FOR THAT HOSTAGE RESCUE SCENE. Gah. Repulsive. Ruined nearly everything.
Mem, I thought you might be interested in a Hamilton-esque musical of California Native American history with Sutter of sutter all the things fame. It’s a friend’s traveling show and I think it’s in your area in October.
Mike J
@Mnemosyne: I think that’s a spare the white house had laying around and thrust upon him after he showed up in jeans and t shirt. “Here’s a jacket and tie, the president is out there!”
Mnemosyne
@ruemara:
I don’t see it anywhere near me in October, but I’ll keep an eye out for it. If they haven’t already, they should get in touch with the Autry to let them know when they’re coming to the LA area. They might be able to get a speaking slot and/or some extra publicity since the Autry does a lot of presentations and theater by and starring Native Americans.
ETA: Escondido is northern San Diego, so unfortunately pretty far for me. :-(
Suzanne
@Omnes Omnibus: What’s your problem with glasses? Glasses are sexy.
Omnes Omnibus
@Suzanne: I hate wearing glasses. Except sunglasses. Deal as you will.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym
@Mnemosyne: I don’t remember Shakespeare in Love well enough to comment, but, as Geoffrey Clifton, he’s stiff, and sometimes inarticulate, but he is not unlikable. Quite the opposite, really; Almásy is the one who can be really unlikable at times. The story wouldn’t work if Geoffrey were unlikable. What the Minghella and Firth manage is the tricky job of making him stodgy while letting his fundamental decency and love for Katherine come through. It’s what turns that half of the movie into a tragedy.
Princess (now General) Leia
Had to say goodbye to my cattle dog Maisie today. It is so hard- great to be on here with so many who understand what it is to love a dog or cat so much. I was inspired to adopt Maisie after reading about John’s finding and adopting of Lily. I am so grateful to him and you all here – the 6 years I had with her taught me so much about love.
Mnemosyne
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym:
I confess, I’m one of the people who didn’t like The English Patient. For some reason, Juliette Binoche drove me nuts and I could never get over how much she annoyed me.
eric
@Princess (now General) Leia: very sorry to hear that. I cherish every day i get with my pup and take nothing for granted. I hope your heart heals soon.
Suzanne
@Omnes Omnibus: I’m just saying. It’s s good look. There are quite a few dudes who would look decidedly less derpy if they embraced glasses.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Omnes Omnibus: I agree.
Suzanne
@Princess (now General) Leia: Ohhhh, I’m so sorry. Losing them is never easy. I’m glad you had six good years together.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Suzanne: Then they just look geeky.
Suzanne
@Mnemosyne: The English Patient bored me to tears. I usually like those kinds of movies, but that one literally put me to sleep.
Peale
@Adam L Silverman: yeah. I remember having to read him in a graduate course on the military, politics and society. I couldn’t figure out why the civilization clash idea was supposed to be valuable. he seemed to want to work rather too hard to pit a triumphant Protestant culture against everyone else.mGor instance, how long does Mexico have to be catholic and have a population debating modern ideas before they can be considered part of the “West”. 500 years not long enough? It’s like all of Latin America is stuck in “mañana” culture limbo, a mountain village that no one from the outside world has visited for a few hundred years.
Suzanne
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Mildly geeky is okay. Looking stupid (aka like a dudebro) is a real turnoff for me.
Think Robert Downey, Jr. He looks hot in glasses. I very much approve. As does James Spader. More approval.
Omnes Omnibus
@Suzanne: There are people who may find me more attractive if I wear glasses; that doesn’t mean I want to wear them. I don’t.
Tenar Darell
@Marcion: I don’t know, maybe we can both get some political hipster cred where we buy our chunky black framed glasses? 8-)
Suzanne
@Omnes Omnibus: I understand, I was highly glasses-ambivalent until I got iciBerlins. Best glasses EVAR, feels like wearing nothing. I have worn glasses for a long time, though, so I have gotten pretty into them.
eclare
@Princess (now General) Leia: I’m so sorry to hear that. Been there recently, still expect to see my dog walk in at times.
Tokyokie
@Mnemosyne: I don’t know which I hate worse, the cheap, narrow-brimmed Trilbies hipsters wear, and the smug bastards who put them on their heads. For fuck’s sake, could you at least get a goddamn hat that fits? And then learn how to wear the damn thing? Anything with a downturned brim isn’t supposed to ride on the top of your head like a porkpie. And if you really want to look cool rather than like a jerkoff, then pay more than $12 at Target for the damn thing. A Borsalino Trilby will set you back about $250, but hey, looking cool comes at a price. Or better still, ditch the goddamned Trilby altogether. Sinatra looked cool in one back in the ’50s, and you’re not fucking Frank Sinatra, or even Frank Sinatra Jr., asshole. But if you really want to look cool, get a fedora with like an 8 cm brim. (Of course, Borsalini of that style start at about $350.) And wear it at an angle and pull the front brim over one eye, for crissakes. Have you never seen a Robert Mitchum noir? Of course, if you’re not as nearly as cool as Frank Sinatra, then you’re way out of Mitchum’s league. Maybe you should just stick with wearing the gimme hat backward.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Tenar Darell: Worked for Rick Perry, oh wait…
David ?▶️Hillary's Body Double▶️? Koch
@Suzanne: U still find Spader hot even though he lost his hair and gained so much weight?
shomi
Oh noezzz. First Al Gore and now body doubles. We are totally going to lose.
nellcote
AKA pr for Oliver Stone’s soon to open movie.
also no love for Malcolm Mcdowell’s bowler in Clockwork Orange?
Suzanne
@David ?▶️Hillary’s Body Double▶️? Koch: In the recent pictures of him I’ve seen, I think he looks good. He did the thing that balding dudes should do to look good and that is OWN IT and shave it off.
He’s never been hotter than in “Secretary”, tho.
Anne Laurie
@Princess (now General) Leia: My condolences on your loss.
And thank you for letting us know that Lily inspired you to bring Maisie home — a win for both you & her, I’m sure!
Tenar Darell
@Princess (now General) Leia: My condolences on your loss.
ETA too.
David ?▶️Hillary's Body Double▶️? Koch
@Suzanne: Secretary was 15 years ago.
I saw him at the US Open last weekend. I didn’t even recognize him, he was wearing a suit-jacket and a thick fedora in 95 degree heat.
Tokyokie
@nellcote: I think Stone is probably wearing Oddjob’s bowler from Goldfinger.
piratedan
@nellcote: prefer MacNee in The Avengers… and Snowden can turn himself in, the naive bastard.
Steeplejack
@Princess (now General) Leia:
Sorry for your loss.
Steeplejack
@Mnemosyne:
Recommended Binoche for you (with Olivier Martinez): The Horseman on the Roof (1995). Right in your romance zone! Slightly overheated trailer here—it even says, “In a world . . .”!
NotoriousJRT
@Princess (now General) Leia:
My heart goes out to you & wishes you comfort.
shomi
@nellcote: Lol…and Obama basically told him to go pound sand.
Obama had a really good response. He said that if Snowden feels like there is something really wrong then he should get a lawyer and make his case in court because that is how the system works. You cannot have it both ways by saying stuff like “I won’t get a fair trial” or whatever and then ask for a pardon because of that. It doesn’t work that way.
Obama also said that there is was a whistleblower mechanism (that Obama put in place btw) that would have allowed Snowden to reveal what he did legally instead of the way he did. So he has nobody to blame but himself by going for the more dramatic route to catch headlines by willingly committing multiple felonies.
J R in WV
@Adam L Silverman:
Way more violence if the trump loses. They’ll need to show us that they really won, and there’s nothing we can do about it. I imagine the National Guard won’t take very much bullshit from those pieces of excrement.
Between the feds and the Southern Poverty Law Center they will know who to watch election night. Between the sovereign citizens – wait, is there any difference between the Sov Citz and the KKK? Just asking. All one big bundle of frayed nerves giving them goofy bad ideas if you ask me.
Dadadadadadada
@Calouste: Nixon was pardoned before he was even charged. Snowden, I’m pretty sure, has at least been charged.
J R in WV
@Calouste:
No dude, the President can pardon you in advance of any trial, and then there’s no offence to try you for. Remember, Ford pardoned Nixon the day after Nixon resigned. Huge scandal at the time, suspicion that Ford told Nixon he would pardon him if it became necessary, in order to get the VP nomination.
Barney
@nellcote: Yeah, I think Stone sees Alex as a hero, before the state unjustly arrests a Sovereign Citizen who was just enjoying himself.
Iowa Old Lady
@Mnemosyne: You know how we talk about making people’s heads explode? Keep it in mind as you watch Kingsmen.
blackcatsrule
@Peter H Desmond: Thank you for this. Have you read “The Falling Man” by Tom Junod?
Gelfling 545
@jacy: I wonder iff even Russian hackers are beginning to think that life in a world where Trump was able to see indulge his size xl ego with all the resources of the US government might not really be a good thing for anyone in any country.
Miss Bianca
@Peter H Desmond: Yeah, that’s pretty great, I have to say. I’m a little sniffly right now, and I don’t think it’s just allergies.
JDM
@Lizzy L:
What do you mean, “bring out”. It’s been out all along.
daddyj
@magurakurin: But what if the real Hillary, embalmed in full armor, is in a giant jar on the bottom of a lake somewhere?