You guys did such a good job with Sarahgeddon that I’d like to know why you think Karl Rove’s twitter got suspended.
Bonus non-funk 70s music footage. I don’t know why but I love this song.
by DougJ| 81 Comments
This post is in: Music, Blogospheric Navel-Gazing
You guys did such a good job with Sarahgeddon that I’d like to know why you think Karl Rove’s twitter got suspended.
Bonus non-funk 70s music footage. I don’t know why but I love this song.
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kommrade reproductive vigor
He got his Twitter account crossed up with a [ahem] private hobby list-serve and started Twatting links to his favorite goat pron sites.
General Winfield Stuck
Why does Superman need a cape?
Where have all the flowers gone?
Why does it never rain in southern Californy?
All lies
General Winfield Stuck
Does anyone else using firefox, when you refresh a comment page you just made a comment, briefly get an edit function that disappears when the page fully loads.. Messin’ with my head, it is.
SpotWeld
Simple… Rove’s right wing insanity got so dense that information itself could not escape. His twitter account simply collapse in on itself
beltane
Maybe Rove has been arrested and taken to an undisclosed location outside the United States.
jl
Rove got behind on his toxic twatic twit tweets twitter tax?
Which is a special surcharge levied by mysterious totalitarian social engineering overlords after the percentage of tweets consisting of pure garbage exceeds a critical threshold, explained last week by Beck. Or maybe it is part of the twitter terms of use, in which case, FREEDOM OF CONTRACT!
And Rove finally paid up? TPM blog says it is up again.
freelancer
Perhaps he was trying to infiltrate and ratfuck the Iranian Revolution and the regime got ahold of him.
ninerdave
God that’s fucking horrid. In fact that’s everything wrong with the 70s in 3.5 minutes.
denverjenpeninpdx
Sarahgeddon is inspired, but my fav is “apocalypse, also”. It is just beautific perfection. so bj, so snarktacular. Hello cruel world!!!!! I have been lurking for well over a year now (since those damned primaries) and had to register my preference on this one. You are a formidable bunch and I would love to become a regular around here! I am not sure I can keep up but, hey- I think I can survive the challenge.
DougJ
God that fucking horrid. In fact that’s everything wrong with the 70s in 3.5 minutes.
I guess I couldn’t expect someone who calls himself “ninerdave” to like anything to do with southern California.
Loneoak
Maybe the Sarahgeddon has happened and Rove got raptured up. We have all been, thankfully, left behind.
gbear
Give me a break. Give me a break.
Seriously.
BobbyK
Maybe this is why. And I thought this guy was a 1 hit wonder. Shows what I know. :-)
Something Fabulous
Wow, that’s totally one of those aural wallpaper songs! I don’t remember ever not knowing it, but I had no clue who sang it. If I had to guess, I’d have said 3 Dog Night, or something. Love how he is winking and nodding at folks in the audience while singing about what a wreck California has made of his life…
[Posted from LA.]
Bender
And Hammond’s son, as Doug prolly knows, is a key member of the most influential band of the ’00s, the Strokes. Albert Hammond, Jr.’s solo records are also unstoppably awesome.
A couple favorites to compare (favorably) to the dad.
BobbyK
And yeah I’m with DougJ on this one.
shecky
Fabulous song. The way it uses the cheery melody to sucker the listener into the hard luck lyrics is simply brilliant songwriting. It’s no wonder the tune has been aural wallpaper since it came out.
jl
This is off topic, but I have been thinking about one part of the purported Conservative Bible Wiki (which I think must be an elaborate hoax). The principle of ‘Accept the Logic of Hell’ sticks in my mind. Some one needs to think up a meaning for that so it can placed in the Lexicon.
Maybe that is cheating, but what the heck, we are all comunofascIslamutotalitarians here.
The healthcare debate suggests this definition:
Accept the Logic of Hell: Conservative status quo bias.
Chad N Freude
As a member of the My God That Song Is Awful conspiracy, would it be rude of me to point out that for the past few years it has not rained in southern California enough to prevent some truly horrendous wildfires? I suppose it would, this being nostalgia night for bell bottoms and all.
gbear
Fuzz base and cowbell antidote to It Never Rains:
The Rapper
dfd
Bell bottoms…check. Perm…check. Lame ass pop song…double check.
jl
About the song: the announcer says the song is ‘It neffer rainss in Sussen Califonia’ but the refrain is ‘It never rains in California’.
What gives with that?
I figure it is another sign that the Matrix needs a serious upgrade. Things aren’t making any sense anymore. Damn machines. We should have designed them better before they took over.
wasabi gasp
K-tel Spotlight: The 70’s Bubble Bath Toasters
jwb
@General Winfield Stuck: I now have edit function on FF. It’s appearance seemed to coincide with allowing BJ full access to scripts, so if you are using an ad blocker or something that might be interfering.
Chad N Freude
@jwb: Testing hypothesis.
Chad N Freude
@Chad N Freude: Mmmm … Nope.
Chad N Freude
@jwb: Opening up the script blocker did give me an opportunity to find a Christian Filipina friend, so I guess it wasn’t a complete failure.
General Winfield Stuck
@jwb:
I added BJ as exception to ad block. So here goes.
testing
General Winfield Stuck
nope. try again with ad block off.
General Winfield Stuck
@jwb:
doesn’t work for me. I’m using vista though.
wasabi gasp
I get an edit function on FF for my first BJ post, then nothing until I restart FF again.
Edit: Currently using Windows XP/Firefox 3.5
wasabi gasp
The editor worked, but it didn’t redirect me back to the tread.
Chad N Freude
Now trying from Chrome. If Google can’t do it, nobody can.
It woiks! Chrome!
wasabi gasp
BJ choked while testing for an edit function on a second post.
Chad N Freude
Now trying from FF again, after closing and restarting.
Fingers X’d.
wasabi gasp
FWIW, no edit function showed on my last (third since FF restart) post.
asiangrrlMN
@Chad N Freude: I said that ages ago. Chrome is awesome! Now, if only all websites were compatible with it, I would never touch IE again.
I would much rather discuss the edit function than talk about Rove and the twitterati.
Chad N Freude
@Chad N Freude: Alas, no edit.
Chad N Freude
@asiangrrlMN: So now I’ll use Chrome for posting and FF for the stuff that it allows me to do that Chrome doesn’t (yet?). I only use IE when forced to by my
evil grinder of the faces of the pooremployer.And I just edited the above to correct a typo.
Chad N Freude
@asiangrrlMN:
Can you produce a long form certificate to prove that?
wasabi gasp
I use an addon that tosses most of my cookies when starting FF. This comment was made without restarting FF, but after manually tossing a cookie.
wasabi gasp
No Edit Function.
Chad N Freude
@wasabi gasp:
Are you bulimic?
wasabi gasp
Test
wasabi gasp
No edit function. Previous comment was made after a cache dump.
wasabi gasp
FF restart test.
wasabi gasp
No edit function. Wacky.
Before restarting FF for the last comment I protected a couple of BJ cookies.
I just tossed all of them test.
wasabi gasp
No edit function on last comment.
wasabi gasp
I give up.
Edit: Restarting FF after unprotecting all BJ cookies gave me the edit function.
Edit 2: I’m gonna try once more.
Edit 3: I forgot what I was gonna say here.
Edit 4: Oh yeah, it still doesn’t redirect me back to the thread.
wasabi gasp
Second post after restarting FF test.
wasabi gasp
I got no edit function on that second post.
Edit: but this post was made after restarting FF with all BJ cookies unprotected. (They were tossed on restart.)
Edit: I believe the only other cookies that got tossed along with BJ’s is one youtube and one sitemeter cookie.
wasabi gasp
I have no idea if any of that was relevant to anything. But restarting FF while allowing all BJ cookies to get tossed seems to get me one editable comment.
wasabi gasp
I had to try once more after a FF restart, else it would haunt me.
Edit: I promise I’ll stop now.
hamletta
@General Winfield Stuck: Billy, don’t be a hero.
And there was no sound at all, but the clock upon the wall.
Daddy, please don’t! It wasn’t his fault! He means so much to me.
Daddy, don’t you walk so fast.
Cherokee Nation! Cherokee Pride!
Brandy lives in a silent town, and loves a man who’s not around.
She was black as the night. Louie was whiter than white.
You’re havin’ my baby.
Boring browser quirks are boring.
Something Fabulous
good lord, you’re killing me here.
General Winfield Stuck
@hamletta:
LOL
Robertdsc-iphone
A great thread title, Doug.
freelancer (itouch)
@jl:
infinite torture for finite transgressions against an all-powerful, all-loving creator/father. It’s like, the most logical thing ever!
Obama Death Panel Chairman (formerly glocksman)
@DougJ:
I’m a born and bred Hoosier from southwestern Indiana, and yet *I* love that song.
Then again, I’m an admitted ABBA addict and think that Rufus w/Chaka Khan’s Tell Me Something Good is a classic.
Though I have sworn off the adolescent crush I had for Olivia Newton John back in the late 70’s-early 80’s.
I must have seen Xanadu 20 times at the local dollar theater.
Obama Death Panel Chairman (formerly glocksman)
@hamletta:
It’s not a one liner, but these lyrics from ABBA’s On & On & On are somewhat appropriate even today.
bago
Please understand that your browsers all have local file caches, so if you’re no explicitly trying to pull a uri that is in the file cache, the cached version will be used. Given that all external scripts are referenced by URI, and that edit functionality would be enabled by a script you need to force a cache refresh. CTRL+F5 tends to do this in most browsers. If not, go to your options and clear your cache.
Obama Death Panel Chairman (formerly glocksman)
@hamletta:
That’s the night that they hung an innocent man.
Skepticat
@jwb: How has FF edit worked for you? I’m in D.O. (dumb operator) mode.
Perhaps Mr. Rove’s account had an irony or b.s. meter, which exploded into many, many, many pieces and put his account out of commission. Were that he would follow.
dr.hypercube
“it pours,
manticores”
Scorpion tail attack for plus elebenty-billion damage!
MysticalChick
I have always loved this song, too. Not sure why but it’s very catchy. (Must go back and read about how you all probably hate it. At least it’s not Justin Fucking Timberlake!)
MysticalChick
Damn, too late to edit:
See? I knew you all would hate that song. They don’t call me Mystical Chick for nuttin! Now, if only I could find my crystal ball to divine the reason for Turdboy’s Twitter difficulties!
And yes, I heard my momma cry the night Chicago died (and that tells me that momma wasn’t a winger, doesn’t it?).
tom
He also wrote “Air That I Breathe”, another song that sets my teeth on edge.
Shell
My most hated ’70’s song? “I’m not in love” by 10cc.
By the time it gets to the breathy chorus ‘big boys don’t cry……big boys don’t cry….” I’m ready to punch the radio.
bjacques
Wait, how does he do the choral part? Is that some Tuva ninja throat-singing trick?
Svensker
@ninerdave:
Yes. Thank you for watching so I don’t have to.
Svensker
Although it would be great if guys would start wearing fitted shirts open to the waist again, with gold chains and manly chest hair aplenty. I think John and DougJ should go first. With lotsa photos.
Chad N Freude
Good morning. Trying again to get the edit button in FF.
Chad N Freude
@Chad N Freude: No luck.
Chad N Freude
‘Nother try.
Chad N Freude
@Chad N Freude: More no luck. Giving up.
ricky
That song is terribly unsatisfying. We never learn how his friend found him.
Ivan Ivanovich Renko
@asiangrrlMN: Opera. Best featured fastest and most intuitive browser, period.
DougJ
think that Rufus w/Chaka Khan’s Tell Me Something Good is a classic.
How could anyone not think it is a classic? It’s the very definition of a classic.
MH
Apocalypse Now, Too: CHARLIE GIBSON DON’T SURF
mclaren
Why was Karl Rove’s twitter shut down? The underage boys were getting too frisky.
maya
Twitterdammerove! Can we look forward to a Kristolnacht?